War of the Dams Fosters Topeka Rivalry and Work Plans
Topeka district reels over a fight between the Upper Dam and Lower Dam companies. Both sides pledge rapid construction with 200 teams, a raceway, dam, and power house to be started within days. Attorneys fees and contracts stir public debate as engineers and magnates rink to ready the site with bids, tools, and massive stone, lumber, and iron orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
David Fitzgerald
Tre Tr Day
Ciy
Starx Fotman
Fitegerald
A. M. Allen
Ka City
Tle
John W. Day
Upper Day Company
Judge Day
Epper Dlaw
T. W. Orbison
Appleton
Wisconsin
Orbison
Cirich
Manhattan
Fitzgerald
Oakland
Oakland Dam Company
Chicago-Topeke Light, Heat and Power Company
Ron
King
Stillwell-Bierce Company
A. Rive
John Norton
Etegerald W
Ppet
Iz Naz
Baz
Tower Dam Work Under Way Despite Legal Doubts
Ex Strait Commissioner Naylor oversees site work for the proposed tower dam as crews clear trees. If the council denies good faith, the company has a year to begin real construction. A contract for 609 horsepower at 40 per horse would yield 24 000 dollars annually, supporting ongoing investment and debt service on 400 000 dollars.
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Tress
Naylor
Tower Dam
Edity
Simpson Seeks Topeka Talk On Silver Policy
Special from Wichita reports Jerry Simpson passing through on his way to Topeka to address the free silver club. He says he is a practical farmer and urges unity against radicals and the gold standard, asserting extremists must be silenced and the Populist platform should unite with the silver party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Simpson
Bassas Crry
Wichita
Topeka
Wall Street
Widespread June Rain Deluges Across Plains States
Readings from Oklahoma to Kansas and Nebraska describe heavy Sunday night downpours. Cres cent City reports near water spouts, bridges washed away, and homes damaged in Orlando. Stillwater Merkins Chandler and other towns report two to five inches of rain, aiding crops. Floods also sweep Navarre and Pyrenees lowlands in Europe.
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Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Guthrie
Crescent City
Orlando
M. Harleman
John Dulatey
Stillwater
Merkins
Chandler
Osawa
Hays
Arkansas City
Ban
Enronta
Kan
Neosho
Lanxgo
Apting
Wichits
Thedewick
Europe
Navarre
Pyrenees
Basqns
Rainfall Reports From Topeka and Across Kansas
Rain measured at forty seven one hundredths of an inch in Topeka and Shawnee county this morning with continued rain likely tomorrow. Barometer mostly steady around 30.0 inches, slight temperature changes noted, light rains elsewhere along the Mississippi south of Debuque.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Shawnee County
Dodge City
Jennings
Montana
Huron
Mississippi
Debuyque
Three lynchings reported in Lafayette county Florida
Saturated with violence this dispatch describes Lafayette county Florida where three black men were hanged and mutilated after alleged assaults on white women. It notes fourteen lynchings in eight months, including Bill Collins implicated in the Jeanette Allen case, and cites earlier attacks in November and May.
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Live Oak
Fla
Lafayette County
Bill Collins
Jeanette Allen
Miss Allen
Collins
Misa Allen
Parsners
Mia
Sid Im
Suwanee
Lafayette
Alisa Armatrong
Used Lincoln to Defraud Adventurer Anos Bellah Case
The circuit court freed Anos D. Bellah, known as Adventuress, after a case accusing her of defrauding relatives of the late President Lincoln. She allegedly caused Col. Lem Lincoln of Excelsior Springs to endorse a forged check for $125. Other indictments against her appeared elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anos Bellah
Anosh D. Bellah
Adventuress
Lincoln
Col
Lem Lincoln
Excelsior
Patate
Diamonds Vanish as Allen Tries to Sell Stolen Jewelry
Miss Higgins reports missing diamond breast pin and earrings valued at 150 to 200 dollars and 100 dollars respectively. Second hand dealer T Allen, at 116 East Fourth Street, left town for Kansas City to sell the pieces after furniture was moved from Miss Higgins sister at 830 Tyler Street. Allen denies, but Carr and the express driver Davis name involvement. police pursue in Kansas City with Rev. Howard’s son assisting.
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Miss Higgins
T. Allen
East Fourth Street
Chestnut Street
Kansas City
Tyler Street
J. B. Hayden
G E. Bohra
Allen
Louisiana
Wilkerson
Captain Gardiner
Gardiner
Alison
Howard
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Shawnee County Teachers Institute Reunion at High School
The Shawnee county teachers institute at the high school continues halfway through its session and will host an informal reunion this evening in the assembly room. It starts at 7 and ends by 10, with a brief program and time for socializing. City Superintendent Davidson conducts the institute, with 152 teachers enrolled.
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Aswaim
Toulsht
Teachers' Institute of
Shawnee County
Davidson
Sunday Cycling Scored at Reformed Church Synod
A reform movement at Granb Ramos Mich June 11 reports a synod condemnation of Sunday bicycle riding among church members. The note notes referral to the committee on morals. Rev J W Scudder elected professor of theology at Orcutt College Indiana Catskill selected for 1896 synod meeting. Thackeray tribute to women quotes on virtue and sorrow.
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Reformed Church Synod
Granb Ramos
Mich
J. W. Scudder
Orcutt College
Indiana
Catskill
Treatment for Flabby Skin Mentioned In City Note
A suggested regimen for flabby skin includes avoiding hard water and using rain water or distilled water. It advises eating one day old whole meal bread and a mush with gluten and rich milk to shape the face and neck. Charles Hatton, police judge of Wichita, is in the city.
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Charles Hatton
Wichita
Silver men convene in Memph is for sound money at auditorium
Memphians report a large, nonpartisan gathering for the sound money convention. Delegates from about twenty five states arrive, with seven U S senators present or expected. The program, speakers, and permanent chair plan are still being set as crowds assemble in Memphi a Tenn June 11
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Memrats
Tenn
Wiherrow
Smi
Mississippi
Ohio
United States
Jones and Berry
Arkansas
Bates and Harris
Tennesse
Casey Young
Memphia
Harris
Senator Turple
Senator Jones
Turpie
Jones
Sibley
Pennsylvania
Alex Fein
California
Prince
New Mexico
Stewart
Shoup
Bryan
Nebraska
Silver Question Resisted By Leading Republicans At Cleveland Meeting
Washington June 11 There is a decided inclination among leading Republicans to dissuade any silver fight at the meeting of the Republican league in Cleveland Some from the extreme west and anti silver factions threaten to force expression while others warn against it Senator Quay urges going slow on the silver agitation and favors keeping league actions to legitimate work without pledging party policy The plan involves using league leaders to discuss daily political developments without linking to formal stances.
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Carlisle
PontLand
Ore
Wade Hampton
United States Railroad
Portland
Pacific
Chicago
Hampton
Democratic Party
Cleveland
Washterton
Ilague
Dubois
Quay
League
Proctor Optimistic on League Meeting Outcomes
Senator Proctor, in town briefly, asserts cool judgment will prevail at the league meeting. He says next year can address all questions and there is no urgent need to rush this year’s decisions to avoid embarrassment to the party or league.
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League
Proctor
IOWA POPULISTS MEET FOR FREE SILVER TICKET
Des Moines June 11 The Populist state convention opened with Gen J B Weaver aiming to sway the body to back any state ticket favoring free unlimited coinage of silver. Byron, a former Republican editor now in the Populist camp, opposes this and favors a full ticket nomination. The temporary chairman A R Starret spoke before committees were formed and funds raised to sustain the party. Sentiment favored nominating a ticket this afternoon with a platform calling for free silver and denunciation of national banks.
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Gen. Weaver
Des Morxia
J. B. Weaver
ILF
Byron
A. R. Starret
Lost Her Reason Hartwell Adjudged Insane and Committed
Mrs Amelia S and Hartwell, wife of a Jamestown doctor, was declared insane by the probate court and committed to the asylum after four weeks of sudden insanity during which she threw two of her three children into a well. Residing with her brother in Highland Park, Topeka hopes for recovery despite a strong Christian Science belief and glass breaking mania.
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Hartwell
Amelia S&s Hartwell
Mra Hartwell
Jamestown
Cloud County
Kanga
Topeka
H. L. Reising
Highland Park Addition
Harmon Is Presented The New Attorney General To Cabinet
Vasursavos June 11 The entire cabinet except Secretary Herbert and Postmaster General Wilson attended today's meeting President presented the new attorney general to the cabinet Olney accompanied Harmon from the state department where he was sworn in The session was lengthy as the president aimed to finish business before departing for Gray Gables
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Vasursavos
Herbert
Wilson
Harmon
State Olney
White House
State Department
Olney
State Department of Justice
Gray Gables
Judge Goff Reversed In South Carolina Registration Case
Ricwsonp Va June 1 The circuit court of appeals dissolved Judge Goff injunction in the South Carolina registration controversy Chief Justice Fuller expected but a full decision to follow Judge Hughes said the ruling issued promptly and that Fuller, Hughes and Seymour heard the argument In Atchison Preacher on the Board Hagensrows Md June 11 In the general Lutheran synod church extension group elected Rev W S Frees York Pa president J E R Carl York treasurer E H Weber York general secretary A L Yager Atchison Kan Held secretary
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Court of Appeals
South Carolina
Ricwsonp
Circuit Court of Appeals
Goff
Hughes
Fuller
Seymour
Atchison
Hagensrows
Theeneral Lutheran Synod
Rev. W. & Frees
J. D
York, Pa
J. E.R Carl
York
E. H. Weber
A. L. Yager
Kan
American Tillage Company Receiver Petition in Newark
A Newark hearing before Vice Chancellor Himary sought the appointment of a receiver for the American Tillage company, formed five years ago with 200000 capital to develop tilling machines, doing business in New York and Illinois under New Jersey laws. The report mentions ministerial and naval notices, Sunday school convention in Marshall, and a barber attack in Wellsville.
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American Tillage Company
Newark
N. J
Himary
New York
Illinois
Busin Incorporated
New Jersey
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