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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1895
Page
1
Horr and Harvey clash at the Illinois Club in Chicago with a ten day, three hour daily duel over monetary policy. Horr argues against silver expansion and warns of economic ruin while Harvey defends bimetallism and the need to restore silver, gold, and the old monetary balance.
The ninth annual convention of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experimental Stations opened in Denver with Major Henry E Aivard of Washington presiding. About fifty delegates attended, with expected turnout around 120. The group includes presidents, department heads, and professors from agricultural colleges and stations to coordinate experimental work and avoid duplication.
General Superintendent Calvert visited Plattsmouth Neb to map shop work. The Burlington and Missouri River adds daily workers and raises hours from eight to nine per day seven days weekly. Over 1 000 lead order freight cars await repair amid strong grain movement prospects. The item also notes Helen Gould party arrival in Chicago and a heat record in Manassantrown Iowa at 96 noon and higher on other thermometers. A Kansas City domain traveler Walter Bonney is tied to a Lawrence boy story from South Bend.
Five hundred western delegates leave Chicago aboard the Big Four for the fifth international Baptist Young People convention in Baltimore from July 18 to 21. Delegations from South Dakota Nebraska and Illinois travel on a special car, with a second train following. Texans and southern Minnesotans join at Indianapolis and proceed east.
Leavenworth Kansas July 16 Judge Meyers settled six years of litigation over the defunct Missouri Valley life insurance company by confirming Charles HeydenHolton report and overruling new trial motions. About 1000 policy holders will receive at most 25 cents on the dollar.
Westbound Santa-Fe passenger train No 6 escaped a wreck near Emporia as heat expanded rails splitting ties. A section hand heard a gunshot like roar from the track and flagged the train three minutes before its arrival. The line delayed about ninety minutes for repairs while Osage county saw a similar heat related incident earlier.
Bolm, the receiver in charge of Security Loan Company No 2, reports assets only about 1000 dollars and claims against the firm for a like amount. Liability unknown. stockholders own most of the stock, with little in St Louis. Most stock held in Missouri, Texas, Louisiana. President Porter vanished. officers unavailable for explanations. he may be in New York or Chicago.
Gen W Vrooman president of the San Diego Pacific and Eastern R R visits Neb Neb Neb to tour railway centers in pursuit of investors for a new line. Ten thousand shares already subscribed with plans for 100000 shares of $10 each to fund a 670 mile route from San Diego southeast to the California border and Milford Utah with monthly payments of 5 percent and no single owner to exceed 500 shares.
Kansas governor Morrill returns to Topeka without announcing the new reformatory board or penitentiary director. Rumors center on Frank Bacon of Chanute as the Democratic pick, with T J O Neil from Osage County as an alternative. Potential Republican candidates include S R Peters of Newton and Benedict, while Wyandotte Senator Edwin Taylor offers acceptance if Peters or J W Parker of Olath is chosen. Cadet appointments at the naval academy announced for Kansas natives, and a note on music hall song publishing practices from the London Letter.
A mother beams as her daughter’s name appears on a piano solo programme, a moment described as life’s greatest pride. The snippet mentions travel by Santa Fe route at $29.25, hinting at a news brief or advertisement context.
Toronto reports reveal two Pietzel children found buried in a vacant house cellar. Detective Frank Geyer links the case from Detroit to Toronto and pins the murders on the insurance swindler Holmes. Exhumed bodies sent to morgue. inquest to resume as extradition efforts proceed.
Philadelphia officers express confidence that H. H. Holmes murdered the Pietzel children found in Toronto. Holmes, jailed here awaiting trial on a conspiracy to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. of 10000, faces a possible upgrade to murder. Authorities cite a New York corpse confession and a Burlington attempt on Mrs Pietzel as supporting circumstantial clues.
Mayor Charl A Fellows leaves for Cohoes New York to bid on the new city hall project designed by architect J G Hotland with an estimated cost of 65000 He also plans to visit New York City to negotiate plate glass purchases for the state house and hopes to return with the contract.
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