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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1897
Page
4
The State Journal discusses pranks and issues about a proposed national currency plan. It notes dangers of a bankers' trust and control by a few, with fears of state and municipal securities backing a currency and potential monopolistic outcomes. The piece references President Cleveland and legislative action.
A scanned patchwork of era snippets describes cloudy warmer weather in Kansas and a publican seeking guidance for an unseen plan. It notes New York coverage on Boston culture, a claim Emporia has more cultured residents, and a peculiar anecdote about a man living in Pleasantiva. Headlines mention Otto Seichtfer and other quirky items. Marsh Murdock’s Wichita Eagle devotion is affirmed, denying a Washington consulship.
Washington reports that Secretary Gage advocates retiring greenbacks and treasury notes for national bank notes backed by bonds. The proposal, likely approved by the president, seeks to gain banking and merchant support through tax relief and valuation schemes. The circular invites 1000 members of banks and merchants to suggest changes.
Readable scraps reveal humor about time, politeness, amateur art, public life, and social manners in Atchison. Vivid snippets mention a barber who cuts his own hair, a painter of world renown, and scenes from weddings and daily toil.
Unpaid claims from a Bryan visit to Topeka in February fall on D. McKeever and Republican committee members. Populists refused to pay about 24 dollars for chairs and related costs charged to Mayor Fellows, Motiever, and Breidenthal. Governor Liesy declined to use the contingent fund but offered to cover his share. Local business owners protested delays and a dinner was held. Fellows and McKeever agreed to settle the bills by July 1.
St Louis June 3 Michael Fortin, who hanged Walter Lennox Maxwell the singer of Arthur Prieller, has been taken to the Insane asylum his mind ruined by brooding over a notable case. Fortin is well known in St Louis and the county having held various positions before the city county split.
In New York and Boston a clash looms between Independent telephone firms and the American Bell company. Courts may rule on whether users can operate a phone without Bell arrangements. Lawsuits threaten independents, with conventions and funds to thwart Bell monopoly as talks of a general rival company advance. Boston likely HQ for the anti Bell move as Mossie Whitman & Couch call for a Boston meeting to organize.
President Cleveland on the Cleveland veranda welcomed Princeton students amid drums and cheers after a game against Harvard. He asked for the score and, learning Princeton led two to nothing, expressed delight and support for Princeton spirit and achievements.
Denver reports describe a party of seven or eight men from Kensie pursuing antelope, capturing two towns and approaching a sharper crime scene. McLean, who is recovering, says a delegation of local men prepared to deploy deputies led by J. Murph at Wit Carson to handle the matter.
Tsuacs, leader of the Baron de Hirsch land, reports a 240000 draft as the first installment of 31960000 from the Hirsch fund for the city’s poor. Trustees have not yet decided how to apply the money. The aim is to improve conditions for New York’s poor, extend current work, and uplift tenement dwellers while ensuring aid goes to worthy recipients via charitable schools and related efforts.
Buenos Aires reports an American expedition has found gold in Terra Del Fuego, with quantities promising large profits for the working. A syndicate with substantial capital formed to export wheat. Farmers likely to raise a wide crop with government aid. Baltimore & Ohio travel book highlights summer resort routes and coastal waters. Mystic Cure promises rapid rheumatism relief, with testimonials from Iowa and Topeka. Crescent Bicycles advertised by Kitchell & Marburg.
Plainfield New Jersey June bride Louise Augusin Lewis and James Everett Kimball married in Seventh Day Baptist church. Guests planned a grand departure with a ladder gift and tokens of good luck. Langworthy staged a ladder escape to a second story, and the couple slid to the ground amid surprised friends. The celebration continued as they departed for a honeymoon in Massachusetts as the ruse came to light.
The grand officers of the Kanens Odd Fellows were nominated in October and elected by mail for the ensuing year. Ballots show W. L. Brown named Grand Master with 1973 votes, J A Colaw 314, J W Haughey 672, and others including A B Kemper, L G Beal, and J A Campbell securing various positions across Kansas.
Reports from Grenrotle in Igete detail a cloudburst causing landslides that wiped out riverside factories, destroyed bridges and roads, and left villagers homeless. Cattle, crops, and farms were ruined as debris clogged streets and gas works were destroyed. Many villages show widespread ruin and evacuees fled with little remaining.
Pittsburg June. Mrs. Stephen Mercer of Bellevue and Mrs. W. T. Hurst of Allegheny claim rights to graves in Bellevue Cemetery. A dispute arose when Mercer ordered the Hursts to desist from tending a grave she says is her child’s. The sexton confirmed the grave belonged to Mrs. Hurst’s child, buried between two others due to an error. Mercer later returned with two men, three graves were opened, and she identified the corpses by their shoes and departed satisfied. The Hursts seek an investigation by the trustees.
Elberton Georgia June 8 By formal act today the mulatto family of the late ex Governor George W Dye was recognized as sole heirs to a large estate valued at about 500000 Dye a cotton planter left 39300 in gold under a pillow and other funds from his white kin contested the will in a dramatic inheritance dispute In the same dispatch attention notes cattle releases on Pine Ridge reservations and a future contest over a McLean Sorg Senate bid in Cincinnati with Sorg declaring his candidacy if Democrats control the next legislature
The city auditor reports funded debt has grown steadily to 49,293,025 with annual interest of 2,092,000. The notice also promotes fundraising and travel arrangements, urging readers to prepare and inquire with T. & SF for particulars.
Adjutant General Tarsney writes to Westinghouse workers discharged from Wilmerding MA about support for unemployed and criticizes poster tearing incident. He defends the company’s discharge, urges reason over passion, links labor, money changers, and bimetallism, and hopes the milling of prosperity resumes.
Governor Culberson vetoed four more bills after a record 16 vetoes this session. The key measure, a general occupation tax, would tax all in state, yet he blocked it citing provisions that would sanction obscene material, gambling by pool selling, and favoring fire insurance companies under prosecution. He also vetoed a felony theft bill for cotton worth $50 or more. The remaining two vetoes were less significant.
Supreme Court Justice John M Barian faced a conductor after spitting on a street car floor in Washington June. The conductor warned about a ten cent fine and urged better behavior. The event underscores public carriage rules and decorum in early 20th century transit.
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