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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1898
Page
5
Otto Kuehne leads a Topeka Commercial Club meeting where proposals for an auditorium fund raise with a subscription button scheme dominate discussion. Major T J Anderson resumes as president as subcommittees plan next steps and invite public input while forecasting adoption of the plan.
Columbus January 20 witnesses subpoenaed in the Hanna investigation refused to testify. The senate committee examined Samuel Pentland Frank Hosa W F Truesdale and Shepherd Dunlap who cited attorney guidance and declined to answer further questions. The session ended with executive talks on next steps as crowds reacted and witnesses blocked by legal counsel.
Walker Whitesiad, tragedian, appears at Crawford Theater next Saturday with The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Afternoon and evening prices range from 5 to 35 cents. General John B. Gordon, ex senator from Georgia, speaks on Last Days of the Confederacy next Tuesday. Fraulein Antoine Stolle lectures on European paintings at Grand Opera House with stereopticon views. Dr. Carl Swenson of Bethany College speaks Again In Sweden at Library Wall on Saturday, with Bethany conservatory concert beforehand. Subscribe for The State Journal.
The county commissioners still selling lumber from the old bridge owned by the city. Prof George W Jackson organizing a colored opera company to produce cantata. County commissioners awarded contract for blanks and blank books to Hall Lithographing Company. Ben Boam son of Dr S A Boam injured shoulder at M C A gym Tuesday evening. Fire alarm at 10 45 p m Wednesday sent firemen to 645 North Kansas Avenue chimney burning out. Mr H E SflcLeod Rock Island official moved family from Pittsburgh Pa to Topeka staying at Hotel Throop. Grand Junior Warden BE Wellington of Milaworth inspected Topeka commandery No 5 AF A M assisted by TL Bond of Salina. Executive committees of A M M A met at Nahon s hotel Andrew Baird reported fundraising progress. next committee meeting planned for April. Largest audience in Arion hall in years gathered Wednesday.
A community gathering discussed selling auditorium buttons and fundraising ideas to support a new auditorium. Major Anderson and others proposed public auctions and subscription schemes, while some opposed locating the project in city park. Debate touched on funding, site concerns, and citizen participation with a committee suggested to gather input and report back.
The Evening Post reports London views on Austria Hungary finances showing a harvest shortfall larger than expected. Imports of food worth ten pounds are likely, risking currency reform shifts and pressure on the German mark. Postwar trade and banking conditions could influence Austrian exchange rates and export dynamics.
Ratcliffe released and immediately rearrested on a perjury charge in the supreme court. The report details proceedings in Brooklyn with actor Roward Kitre and a discussion of witnesses, committee jurisdiction, and potential contempt actions as investigations proceed in the senate.
Leavenworth suit seeks 330,000 in damages over the death of Mrs. Brock who traveled by Pullman from Kansas City to Los Angeles. Her husband J W Brock claims failure to summon aid and delayed medical care caused her death after a hip fracture near Hollie Gay and Albuquerque. Her last words were “They murdered me.” The case goes to Leavenworth district court.
The seventh annual Texas Live Stock association convention ends in Galveston after two days of talks on cattle feeding for export. Debates favor feeding a mix of sorghum meal and corn meal with more corn toward the end. A committee will petition the state agricultural department for feeding experiments and a horn fly remedy. Officers named include President T. J. Little of San Antonio and VPs B. Lucas and J. F. Green. Fifteen delegates were chosen for the National Stock Raisers convention in Denver.
The Star Grocery advertises groceries fresh meats queensware and tinware at 112 East Sixth Street with a guarantee. It lists dozens of items including California sugar Colorado potatoes Navy beans buckwheat flour pancake flours canned tomatoes corn hominy oats lard salmon java coffee tea and soap and promises mail orders shipped promptly with a money back guarantee if not as good as Price's or Royal.
State board of railroad commissioners members missed a hearing in Brooks Wilson county as clerk J M Senter and stenographer Richard Coyle examined witnesses on pressuring Frisco to keep a depot. The article notes contingent Kansas quarantine changes and stock insurance pro rating, with Webb McNall urging insurers to pay per animal. Also mentions Cimarron debt settlement talks and school fund bond holdings.
The national fishery congress gathers at the Tampa Bay hotel auditorium. Mayor E. Gillett presides with temporary arrangements and Dr. Hugh M. Smith named as permanent secretary. News of propagating car and steamer from the United States fish commission. Excursion tickets for Bomeseekers offered via Union Pacific at special rates. Also a cold remedy ad mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Rumors claim the executive council plans a Monday meeting to recommend Turner for secretary of the state board of railroad commissioners. Citizens of Powell county have flooded officials with letters repudiating Turner, signaling a revival of last campaign disputes and a potential clash with allied forces already in play.
The case of Chet Merry and James Smith goes to the jury in Chicago with Merry predicting no mercy and Smith hopeful for acquittal. Merry denies seeing Polly or knowing who killed her while prosecutors urge cross examination and a decisive verdict.
London report says the Federation of Master Engineers resolved to reopen the works on Monday after ending a big strike. Also noted is a drastically garbled notice about a life insurance clearing company license revocation in Minnesota and unrelated archival snippets on literature, medicine, and Buckeye Pile Ointment.
A reader from Hardin County Iowa praises a German salve that cured terrible itching and burning from scrofula sores on ankles. The notice mentions a free mending and button repair service by Peerless Steam Laundry and the local drug store.
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