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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1895
Page
1
Leader Sibley plans a Free Silver Coinage Party and will speak at Hamilton Hall tomorrow night. The silver conference is anticipated to draw a large crowd, with strong interest in currency policy and political alignment in Topeka.
Ex congressman Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania, a leading silver advocate, plans to speak at a Topeka silver conference after arriving Tuesday morning. A. A. Shinn of Ottawa and W. M. Stewart relay dispatches and letters from supporters urging free coinage at 16 to 1 and urging Republican and independent backers to attend.
In a candid talk Shinn warns against party splits hindering free coinage. He argues unity is essential and urges electing officials committed to bimetallic policy. Silver advocates plan a Throop meeting and tomorrow’s conference featuring Hon. Joseph C. Sibley at Hamilton hall.
A Cuban colony in New York reports Captain General Martines Campos was shot by rebels while aboard a yacht at Guantanamo port. No confirmation from Santiago de Cuba has been received.
D W Thomas of Concordia began work on the state irrigation project at Plainville. Crane & Company of Kankus City hold the contract for 550 dollars. Plan includes an 80 by 125 foot reservoir and a well dug to 80 feet. A 14 foot windmill on a 40 foot galvanized steel tower will be erected. Thomas notes the bearing apple tree analogy for profitable irrigation.
Ex Minister W J Scruggs, Venezuela’s legal representative, urged President Cleveland to declare vigorously for the Monroe doctrine in the Venezuelan boundary dispute. Scruggs pressed that the people may again seek a third term, but Cleveland insisted he is not seeking it.
A June 17 order from the local board of education bans teachers from bringing bicycles to school. A board member claims bicycle use retards progress by encouraging immorality among young female teachers, and asserts riding is acceptable but wheels at school are not.
Topeka couples, Mr. and Mrs. J Adams, arrived in Yokohama Japan after a twenty day voyage. Mr Adams, a former Washburn College teacher, is the son of Mrs. N G Adams of 1300 Topeka Avenue Nellie Dick Adams. They plan to go to Corea to engage in missionary work under the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board. Death from diphtheria.
A brief notice notes the creation of a special department aimed at achieving a specified result within a ten year horizon. It outlines the governmental move and hints at long term planning processes without detailing personnel or exact actions. The item emphasizes administrative reform and strategic planning over immediate measures.
London hosts the ninth annual British WCTU meeting with Lady Somerset delivering the keynote on prohibition and women’s suffrage. American delegates present with a Polyglot petition calling for abolishing alcohol and opium trade and equal purity standards for men and women. The movement links enfranchisement and coeducation to municipal reform and temperance.
A June 4 meeting in Grace House near Grace Church formed the League of Catholic Unity to discuss shared faith principles. Prof Charles Shields of Princeton was elected president with Rev Chauncey Landon as secretary treasurer pro tem.
The Second Baptist Church trustees filed a tele petition in district court seeking to curb Rev. G. D. Olden. They accuse him and allies of conspiring to seize church property and expelling members opposed to their plans. Named defendants include Olden and W. A. Sizemore among others. expelled members listed by names.
Today reached a record heat peak in the morning with temperatures near ninety seven by afternoon before a local shower and hail cooled the day. The heat dome moved from the northwest toward Texas Oklahoma Kansas Iowa and Wisconsin, followed by a high lowering temperatures across Colorado Wyoming and the Dakotas with northwest winds.
Fifty dollars and a car load of provisions were collected in Wichita Viehra at a Holiness meeting for Oklahoma relief. Governor Clough said grasshopper reports were exaggerated and pledged a proclamation. A German report claimed anarchists may attempt an outrage at Kiel as Cleveland beat Boston 10 to 9 in a morning game.
A dozen armed men attacked the Shufeldt distillery in Calumet at 1 am. Deputy U S marshals opened fire after a volley, the attackers fled downriver. The plant, part of the whisky trust, was guarded since Illinois court rulings. Thomas Lynch Jr. was linked to regaining control. Troops at Port Sheridan were on standby. Deputy marshals to return to Chicago by noon.
J B Wise Clay county free thinker faced trial after a motion to quash his indictment for sending obscene Bible content to Rev H R Veenum. Wise’s attorney Adolph Bierck argued if any part of the Bible is obscene the whole book is, but Judge Foster overruled the motion and the case proceeds.
At the Nebraska University board of regents meeting, Canfield's resignation was accepted and Professor George McLean of the University of Minnesota was asked to consider the job, which pays five thousand dollars annually. Also reported, three Colima survivors travel toward San Francisco on the City of Sydney, while other survivors live near a ranch south of Manzanillo. Oscar Wilde's request for release for a new trial was denied.
In Minocqua Wisconsin on June 1 local brewers Gustave Pabst and Secretary Henning rejected United States labor department charges that Pabst’s brewery employed children under fourteen in bottling and tolerated drunkenness and immorality. They said no such children worked there and blame rested on pasted labels and vigilant oversight with departments open to inspection.
The Kansas delegation to the Republican League Convention at Cleveland departed from Topeka with a small local contingent. Key Kansans include CR Gault, KR Wharton, A L Brooke, and Eric Nystrom, joined by notable figures Lucien Baker, W Calderhead, and others. Governor McKinley’s Kansas visit may keep several politicians home.
The board of trade finds the Crathie mate responsible for the Elbe sinking. After examining reports, he is suspended for the January disaster that cost seventy lives.
County Attorney Hopkins investigates the Russian thistle law in western Sheridan County Kansas. He has written to the attorney general seeking an opinion on constitutionality before calling the county commissioners to a meeting. The western part of the county is overrun by thistles.
Ottawa Chautauqua opens with higher attendance than prior years at Kansas City on June 17. Notables arrive including lecturer Frank G. Carpenter of Washington, instructors Miss Eva Whitmore and Miss Mary Ely from Chicago, Miss Dora T. Bishop of Chautauqua in physical culture, and Prof. C. G. Cage as musical director, all taking charge of their departments this afternoon.
Agel sod EL Walker begins action to recover debtors of Hamilton Printing Co. A suit seeks $1,102 from 5 M Scott on a bill for 15 000 circulars under the sub treasury plan. Ex United States Marshal Richard L Walker and bondsmen George R Peck Lyman A Humphrey C E Walker sued for blanks and other printed matter. The bill is $60. Irvin g Black treasurer of school district No 25 arrested for embezzling $1,100 bound over in $300 bonds.
Infant son of Charles Conrad died at Fourteenth and Lake street and was buried Saturday. Wm Grant, seventy five, an old settler, died at Grant and Topeka avenue and was buried this afternoon from North Topeka Baptist church in Topeka cemetery. Mrs Hattie Reeves, elderly resident of Topeka township, will be tried for insanity in probate court tomorrow morning. She is charged with unsound mind.
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