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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1895
Page
4
The notice outlines delivery by carrier to Topeka and nearby towns at ten cents a week, or the same rate in Kansas towns with carrier service. It lists mail options of three months and a weekly edition at 60 cents per year. The text reflects old spelling and phrasing from a historical newspaper page.
A Chicago weather note forecasts local rains and warmer conditions tonight with a southerly wind. The piece then shifts to opinions on the 1896 presidential race, currency debates, and financial matters, citing New York bank deposits, a British boot and shoe strike, and the political contest over money policy and constitutional questions with mentions of Cameron and Oates.
A concurrent resolution has passed both houses to submit suffrage sentiment to voters in California. The measure, defeated in the senate earlier, passed on reconsideration. Other notes mention Kansas, Lawrence tea, Salina, and various local events, with brief social and cultural items from multiple towns. The collection includes remarks on religion, theater, poetry, and local curiosities with a satirical, light tone.
Charisse A Dana editor of the New York Sun faced a criminal libel charge filed by Frank B Noyes. Commissioner Shields ordered commitment to Judge Brown and Dana was placed in custody of his lawyers. Judge Brown set hearing for April 2 at 2 pm on the motion for a removal warrant to Washington.
The Kansas activist Mary Elizabeth Lease, dubbed the Kansas Demosthenes, was reportedly a candidate for Wichita mayor. She has been in Topeka and is currently at an asylum, ill with a severe headache, and her son Charley conveyed a message that she had not heard of the candidacy and regarded herself as a winning card.
Mrs Chamberlain denies knowledge of blackmail letters sent to the pair in San Francisco. She alleges a former husband wrote the threats to seek revenge for desertion. She claims she has never been in California and had planned a trip for June six. Local report notes a $15 000 demand for the return of a stolen wire.
An advertisement item lists over 100 dozen ladies hosiery including Onyx fast black cotton hose with spliced heels and toes at 35c per pair or 3 for $1.00, 75 dozen Lisle hose Onyx dyed with spliced heels, and fancy Lisle hose with black boots and top, plain or drop stitch, price to follow.
Mrs. W. E Holton of Keya Paha county was found dead in her home by neighbors. Autopsy shows strangulation and assault. She lived alone since her husband’s confinement. Authorities believe cattle rustlers motive for silencing her as a witness. Evidence indicates a brutal struggle.
Henry Cherry his wife and two sons Raymond and Henry were poisoned by arsenic in water from a well near a vacant house on north Fifth avenue. The family, now swollen and blackened, fights for life as doctors tend them. suspicion falls on an Indian named Summit who had threatened to poison them over a house sale. The incident contrasts with a separate rail-wreck attempt near Marcus, Iowa.
A Park Avenue Methodist church mass meeting in New Yoak condemned Sunday saloon openings. Speakers included Rev Dr John Hail ex Judge Noah Davis Dr James King A J Palmer and Rev Ferdinand Englehart. Davis linked crime to saloons and urged virtue justice and truth against Sunday liquor trade.
In New York on March 18 two steamers arrived with large gold consignments. The Lucania from Liverpool delivered 1,010,000 dollars in gold to August Belmont & Co. The La Gascogne from Havre brought 4,000,000 francs in gold.
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