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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1895
Page
5
A newly enacted federal law addresses freight car handling and worker safeguards. It outlines employer duties for safe supplies, training, and hazard prevention, with penalties for noncompliance and timelines for implementation across rail firms and related workers.
The July 1 enforcement changes apply to interstate railways under federal car coupling standards. Section 4 mandates handholds on freight cars, while Section 3 fixes standard car weights and dimensions. Penalties of $100 per offense apply. district attorneys will pursue noncompliance. The article also recounts a Lincoln Branch incident and notes union activities and a shop repaint project in Emporia.
A couple plans to return to Las Vegas where the man is employed by the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe intends major changes including widening the guard, removing curves, straightening lines, and creating more space. The freight department will move to a new depot, causing nearby changes.
Students and faculty at Washburn prepare for a busy week with commencement exercises for the senior academy, a baccalaureate by Rev S W Naylor, and upcoming music department recitals. Notable graduates from multiple classes are listed among attendees and speakers.
Nearly all great planets Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn and Cranks appear in twilight skies, with Uranus borderline and requiring telescope. Western sky shows Yonua with Mars, and Jupiter near Venus. Saturn lies west and north of the Moon. Keeler of Allegheny notes Saturn’s rings consist of many small solid bodies spinning at 10 to 15 miles per second.
Topeka fans saw a satisfying win Saturday as Topeka defeated Emporia with a strong display of pitching by Mackey and solid catching by Paulkner. Manager Mote had secured Mackey, the Indian pitcher, and Troy’s star catcher Paulkner was set to play here.
A Downs Times account describes two applicants for Annapolis and West Point exams. One Kansas University student flaunts wealth, discarding coins as beneath him, while another frugal country youth travels seventy miles, borrows cents, but earns the success. The piece extols ambition over privilege. Also notes a Rock Island Homeseekers Excursion with June 11 1895 departure and July 1 1895 ticket limit.
Secretary Hoke Smith orders a $5,000 annual cut in pension office expenses. Clerks face pay reductions from 800 to 1500 yearly to as low as 100 to 300, with 38 clerks affected. Chief Clerk Howe, E E Miller, H G Donenon, and W I Butner cited as top earners facing large cuts. Pension Agent Glick absent. Howe deflects comment as a private matter.
Col August B Sweeney of Silver Lake was adjudged insane by the probate court after a formal examination for pension eligibility. An ex civil war officer noted for bravery, he resides with his brother in law Dr Magill and faces back pay exceeding 6000 dollars.
Dr Eva Harding Mrs J M Mart and Mrs M S Goodwin led Topeka Equal SuffrageAssociation workers to Scranton to distribute clothing to 35 miner families, with six more to aid. They began Saturday night and worked Sunday morning, finding many needy families reluctant to accept help while food supplies dwindle and treasury holds under $20.
New York June 10 Ex postmaster general Thomas L Tames, former Tenafly mayor and Lincoln National Bank president, calls Robert Lincoln the likeliest dark horse for the Republican nomination. He notes Lincoln’s strength in the south and potential for a southern delegation split while favoring Lincoln over Morrison and Allison.
In the supreme court tomorrow morning the case of Bruce Lynch seeking to oust W. Chase from the wardenship of the state penitentiary will be argued. The decision will settle the wardenship for at least two years. Attys for Lynch and for Chase present their arguments. Warden Chase attends. Also prize musicians of Topeka perform at Hamilton Hall for Scranton unemployed relief. admission 25 cents. Professor Vincent Graham sings the prize song.
A broad collage of notes from Topeka and nearby: council plans lower dam completion in seven months. rain disrupts park events and concerts. political address by Senator Peffer at the Farmers Alliance. baseball and pool venues near ready. Topeka Telephone project links Manhattan with 100 phones. tragedy, travel, and curiosities fill the day in local life and reports from Vinewood to Garfield park.
Thompson Brothers presents a carload of costly richly radiant furniture as the latest and best in furniture. The display is positioned for inspection and invites interest beyond dry goods.
The advertisement promotes Japanese and China mattings with Imperial Art at 60 cents a yard and 4 rolls of 40 yards at $20. It highlights varied prices from 12 to 35 cents a yard and urges buying a fine baby carriage as the proper choice, claiming sunshine and summer breeze as the best medicine for health and praising the store for attentive service and quality goods.
About twenty upholstered rockers with silk apats and ornate wooden backs are discounted from former prices of 18 to 25 dollars to 15 dollars each. The large models are noted as especially appealing and available while supplies last.
Cool and pleasant seating ideal for hot weather. A few rockers available at five dollars each, nearly half price though not exactly. Makers announce semi annual style revisions with many patterns dropped and prices reduced. Only a few pieces reached the discounted lot through our stock.
A store named Chaka advertises leather dining chairs with curved backs priced at five seven five eleven dollars and extension tables ranging from fourteen to eighty dollars. It promotes cultivating a stock of elegant furniture to secure desirable articles for a fine dining room.
George Young Tweed, son of ex-New York boss Tweed, has been missing for eleven days from his West 44th street residence. He left with little money, no note of his plans, and searches at his haunts and morgue have yielded no results. He had a strong education and was raised in Paris until adulthood under a guardian after his father's death.
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