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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1895
Page
2
A New York safemaking firm nears completion of a vault claimed to be the strongest in the world for the New York clearing house. Weighing 66,000 pounds with doors of 20,000 pounds each, the design promises burglar and bomb resistance. The plan envisions a vault within a vault to store vast sums of gold. Also noted, Leavenworth census records a population of 2,523.
In Wasamisorox June 6 report says Attorney-General Olney will become secretary of state with a public announcement pending the successor choice. Likely candidates include Judge Peckham or Hornblower of New York, whose supreme bench rejection is still remembered. Senator Gray visited the White House, but retirement could trigger a Republican Senate win.
A party of seven was swept away while crossing a swollen stream near Fort Tuscan, four drowned. Mrs Elder and her baby, and Mrs Powell with her baby were lost, their bodies not yet recovered. Reported with other local notices involving a mob action against a man accused of assault, postmaster appointments, and a racing postponement.
A cryptic, fragments only note describes a chaos case involving an Oklahoma figure and a person named Sally. It hints at mental health or instability themes, with limited readable context and no clear event details or dates.
Eugene Busch, recently fasting forty days, was declared insane by county commissioners. Doctors disagree if he is truly insane or delirious from starvation, while rival scientist Dr. Tanner faces a challenge from an illiterate farmer as passions flare. Veterans favored in politics as Massachusetts veto override. Mississippi improvements assigned to engineer King. Wages jump in St Louis. timber fires rage in Maryland. Salvation Army Thanksgiving congress continues in New York.
The Missouri weather service bulletin for the week ended June 1 notes cool first days then warm conditions, with high winds harming fruit and grasses in some counties. Rains revived vegetation in western sections, wheat improving in central and western areas, but southeast counties show little progress. Rust persists in southern counties, corn and potatoes thrive generally, gardens improved where rain fell, but drought and worms still affect late corn and gardens.
Atlasta Ga June 5 A movement to capture a national political convention is organized with Piedmont park Agricultural building slated as a mammoth auditorium and nearby hotels and transit lines ready to accommodate crowds. In Martinsville Ind June 5 S G Seiders injured when a soda fountain exploded blowing him through a door breaking both legs and causing other injuries.
Nat Goodwin plans for next season include six American plays spanning farce to drama. Works include Henry Guy Carleton's Ambition a modern comedy Romusido Pacheco and Cherlea Henry Meltzer Don Roberto a romantic comedy Madeleine Lucette Richards Richard Savage a serious drama and a character study by Augustus Thomas with a Rosenfeld comedy. County growth reports show Liberty township excluded from county total. Junturton city population 2322. Eldorado population 3474 last year 5480.
Mrs. Ella Brainsrd, of Osawatomie Kansas, committed suicide by hanging in an unoccupied garret yesterday. She used a dress skirt rope tied to a rafter, kicked away the chair, and died by strangulation. Her husband is an inmate at the local insane asylum and she leaves eight children destitute.
Under the multi liquor law the county treasurer may seize saloon property for unpaid taxes. Bella real estate on which a saloon is located was listed for sale at auction but drew no bids. The county attorney plans to sue delinquents and seek injunctions against those who have not paid yet continue operations.
Mrs Bettie Jordan wife of Ben Jordan was arrested at her Railroad Street home in North Topeka between Kansas Avenue and Jackson Street on a liquor selling complaint. Whisky reportedly sold but none found. Her police court hearing is scheduled for tomorrow. The report includes various telegraph notices and unrelated disaster items.
In Tacoma Washington the New York Guaranty and Indemnity company pursues foreclosure of a 1 550 000 mortgage on the Tacoma Railway and Motor company. Armours of Chicago claim innocence as stockholders and allege Schulz used a dummy syndicate to issue 1 500 000 in bonds and dispose of 1 350 000 through the guarantor. Bond issue said to be excessive and unwar ranted.
June 5 report says U S authorities pursue cattle companies and private individuals who fence public lands. J B Lewis of Morgan County admitted appropriating 360 acres for personal use and was bonded for 5000 to face Judge Hallett. The case highlights wholesale fencing that blocks access for settlers and claims hundreds of thousands of acres in Colorado have been fenced off by cattle interests.
W Farris of Laclede County Mo says the Democratic State Committee refused to call a state convention on silver. He mailed circulars to county chairmen urging signatures to reach a majority to compel a convention. Thirty five counties already signed and more were asked to join for a July convention date.
Missouri Supreme Court rules insured must exercise due diligence and insurers must pay claims absent contrary evidence in Meadows v Mutual Life. Also reports a near wreck at Sheffield open switch, bishop Seidenbusch’s death in Maryland, ex representative Heard’s worsening health, rebels’ heads seized in Rabat, a blind woodman killed near Schell City, anarchists injure Count Ferrada in Rome, and a student demonstration in Mexico broken up by police. The Topeka Philosophical Society changes its meeting date to June 12.
Lawrence Kansas reports tell of Zaro the famed healer known as the wonder worker. He claims to cure rheumatism and other ailments with medicines and personal visits. Mrs Morris, crippled for six years, walked away crutch free after a single treatment. Zaro, with Dr. A Leslie Engle, claims thousands seek his care and says he can tell patrons’ conditions from letters sent to him.
A semi official Cuban report warns war expenditures have reached ruinous levels. It notes sugar and tobacco profits collapse, debt mounts, and a general uprising could follow, with 49 million in annual deficits and taxpayers strained by extra taxes and war costs.
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