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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal lists carrier delivery at 19 cents per week to Topeka and suburbs with same price in Kansas towns where the paper has a carrier. By mail, one year, weekly edition, per year.
The note forecasts warm and fair eastern Kansas and cooler western areas tonight and Friday with shifting northwest winds. It cites debates over Wardsa Chase’s removal, comments on Topeka and Leavenworth liquor laws, irrigation plans, and dam company tensions. A satirical aside questions a deputy’s drinking and hints at statewide policy tensions.
The Kansas items note a big mismatch between corn on hand 82723 bushels and 506460 bushels listed in assessor rolls in Union township, Jefferson County. The Times questions whether farmers broadly evade taxation, while the half million bushels figure stands out amid regional notes on taxes and public life.
Ernest J. Wylie, claiming to travel for a wholesale liquor house, was arrested by Officer Bundy in plain clothes for illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. Bond set at 500 dollars. case to be heard next police court session. Also notes related local arrests and the Congregational Home Missionary society events in Sanateca and South Australia developments.
Governor Morrill appoints J Bruce Lynch of Chanute as warden of the state penitentiary at Lansing to succeed W Chase who was served removal notice. Lynch is a Santa Fe engineer and former Republican candidate for state treasurer. The penitentiary board will meet at Lansing tomorrow to approve his bond and deputies.
Florence Italy June 6 a sharp earthquake shock at 1 86 this morning aroused people from bed. A series of subterranean disturbances followed causing panic in the streets. Police mobilized as families guarded possessions and prayed. Hotels' guests appeared least alarmed amid continued tremors.
Naval officers praise the ram Katahdin after private trials in Bath Maine where engineers refine engines and boilers. The vessel is expected to meet 17 knots but rough seas slow progress. next trial aimed to fix water resistance. Nearby North Loup Nebraska farmers report cornfield damage from catworms affecting portions of crops. Miss Mande L. Bubre Widaell Holman Co Millinery offers cut prices starting Saturday.
Hoke Smith approves the geological survey plan for the coming fiscal year with an appropriation of 915,490. The survey will fund 18 party assignments across New England Appalachian Atlantic coastal interior Mississippi and Rocky Mountain regions led by Shaler Emerson Dale Dobbs Van Hise Gilbert Hill and others with budgets ranging from 3,700 to 9,800 for field studies including coal beds artesian wells iron mines and Aspen mines explorations.
Clements and Chaltes donated clothing to the Orphan's Home this morning. Mr. Clements offered more items at the store if needed to seat out all children. A wagon load of goods damaged by fire was sent to Mrs. Thorpe to distribute to the poor, including overcoats and trousers, tied to the opening on Saturday.
The Missouri river runs bank full at Omaha for the first time in a year and sits within ten feet of the danger line. Nebraskan rivers are on the verge of overflowing with widespread flooding of bottom lands. A cloud burst southwest of Ord caused a burst in Harris creek and a washout in the North Loop Irrigation and Improvement ditch one mile north of Ord.
J B Bartholomew leaves a fifteen year tenancy at 609 Kansas Avenue to occupy the Kanass bank building at the northwest corner of Fifth and Kansas. A nearly ten ton safe was rolled down Kansas Avenue by six men to complete the relocation. Mr Isaiah Rigby, owner of the former building, has not decided whether to erect a new structure or install a new front.
Alf W. Smith, Harry L. Smith’s brother, arrived from Ottawa after the death by self destruction. He chose Topeka cemetery for burial, defying the plan to lay the body in Osawkie, with burial performed at two this afternoon. He denies family strife over the brother’s marriage. A Choking off Polley. Mapeio June 6. Republicans in the chamber of deputies proposed free discussion on Cuba and Spain, but the measure failed overwhelmingly.
At Frank Br Stahl's picnic near Auburn probate judge J G Wood and A H Vance spoke in the afternoon. Dick Justis was arrested on vagrancy charges and the case was continued as he fights it. Amos Brubaker was sentenced to the penitentiary but a stay of execution allowed bond pending supreme court trial. Alfred Page and Wm Ludington were arrested in Topeka on charges of stealing oats from Saylor near Perry and taken to Jefferson county. John M Laird, an agent of Prudential, was arrested for embezzlement and has a preliminary hearing this afternoon. Jane Jackson Watts began foreclosing a $10,300 mortgage on Kansas Avenue property of Theodore and Sarah Curran. O A Byington sues G F Miller and Fanny Miller for $4,536 over a prior judgment dodged via transfer to La Veta Cattle Co.
Miss Mary M. Dodge remains in about the same condition as yesterday while Representative Hitt shows a slight improvement. General Pleasanton suffers greatly, is weaker and breathes with difficulty. Col. D. Dodge of the Rio Grande Western hastily summoned to Salt Lake for a conference with Receiver Egan, amid rumors of an eastern outlet to Chicago through Denver. Repairs at Torzka Steam Lacan noted as free of charge.
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