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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1895
Page
4
The Topeka State Journal announces daily edition delivery by carrier at ten cents per week to Topeka and suburbs and at the same price in Kansas towns with carrier systems. By mail rates quoted are three months for 900, one year for 369. Weekly edition 60 per year.
Weather forecast from Chicago for Kan ean is fair tonight and colder with northwest winds. The New York World’s strikers coverage posts 754,000 in circulation, up about 200,000 since the series began. Debates over stock yards and anti gambling laws hint at cross-border shifts. Cleveland’s fiscal stance and gold standard policy draw criticism. A California murder case shows eye-for-eye sensationalism, while Grover Cleveland’s debt plan faces opposition tied to gold bonds and currency contraction. wheat prices at 50 cents a bushel in Chicago could fall further if the plan passes.
The article questions who supports a constitutional convention, noting no mass demand or petitions from churches unions or parties. It cites voter rejections of past amendments in 1890 and the defeat of woman suffrage, arguing the public remains satisfied with the current constitution.
The piece argues legislators should let the people decide via votes on a new constitution and proposed changes. It warns against forcing a mass staff overhaul and accuses the same old group of backing a push to repeal the prohibitory law. It calls for direct resubmission of the prohibitory amendment rather than evasive tactics.
A collage of brief notes from Kansas papers records odd locals and social quips. Farmers, editors, and students appear in glimpses of life in Allen and Butler counties, Osage City, Iola, Beloit, Florence, Wellington, Ford, Eldorado, and more. Stories mix jokes, accidents, politics, irrigation talk, and school concerts with light satire and regional color.
The Pall Mall Gazette comments on President Cleveland's message to Congress, finding it unsatisfactory yet its remedy adequate for current emergencies. It doubts Democrats will back measures on finance and notes uncertainty in passage. Also notes an ad for Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder. A separate dispatch from St Louis reports Judge Thayer ruling federal courts cannot review a void state court judgment.
A Topeka crowd at police headquarters celebrates new appointments with songs and laughter. Names like Pete Gish Ed Woodruff Steele Gage and Captain Curtis are mentioned amid mixed feelings on leadership and retention talks. Chief Lindsey and Tim Donovan are noted, while the Populist faction stays quiet and rumors of moves to Arkansas and mining lands surface.
John W Norton manager of the Grand Opera House in St. Louis died after the Vandalia wreck near Coatesville. He was brought to Christias church in mangled condition and lingered in agony until morning. He was last seen in the parlor car as the train derailed. Local clergy and Dr. Rice attended him through the night.
The National Board of Trade begins its 25th annual session at the Shoreham hotel in this city with leaders from major mercantile bodies. Baltimore delegates press to endorse the Baltimore plan on currency as well as uniform state legislation, bankruptcy, and broader trade reforms. The roster lists officers and delegates from Philadelphia Cincinnati New York Baltimore Boston Chicago St Louis Detroit Buffalo New Orleans plus secretary treasurer Hamilton Andrews Hill.
A winter blizzard confines Miss Langtry to the Victoria hotel in New York as Mr and Mrs Kendal stay there. Langtry has been acting in Brooklyn recently and previously traveled in palace cars in this country. The Kendals have not announced notices or plans despite their stay.
In a Pittsburg Dispatch extract, Lily Langtry attracts attention as she returns nightly with a leading man and a French poodle. Mr Kendal and guests react with冷 indifference while Antonio Terry, the Cuban millionaire, shows interest. A clever child tests a peanut vendor, betting a cent on four cents worth.
A tale recounted by Tex as Sittings depicts Birtie McGinnis engaged to Charlie Bondelloper of Herlem. On sleigh rides he catered to a horse by holding Birdie in his lap, prompting her mother to remark on his kindness to dumb brutes and the persistence of such manners.
A bitter exchange quoted from the Boston Transcript shows Miss Singlewun vowing Lyddy White will not reach 46 while Miss Thingummy retorts with a cutting quip about looks leaving readers to ponder social jabs and age.
Jack Fora-I says he wishes to marry but finds girls extravagantly costly. Mrs Norris retorts that the subject of her daughter's gowns is not of interest to him, in a sharp exchange from Broskyn Life.
An immense audience welcomed Beerbohm Tree's English company on opening night in New York. After travel troubles and a hostile reception at the hotel, the troupe drew a fashionably crowded house. Tree performed in two very different plays, The Ballad Monger and The Red Lamp, delivering a fine portrayal of the half-awake detective in the latter.
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