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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1895
Page
5
Local Topska resident Mrs W H Bannister recounts a dramatic recovery attributed to Prof Samuels at the Hotel Throop. She describes years of eye and head pain relieved after beginning treatment, urging others to seek the physician’s care and noting his availability daily from 9:0 to 5:30.
Washington May 24 Treasury officials consider new revenue steps to cover expenses after the income tax rulings cut about 30 million dollars. Extra session likely. beer tax favored, with whisky and tobacco as alternatives. Tea and coffee mentioned but not taxed unless needed. Gen Schofield's Houston visit fuels talk of a presidential bid to win soldier votes on a free silver platform.
Knights Templar of southern Kansas plan a chartered special train to attend the twenty sixth triennial conclave in Boston next August. Commanderies from Oswego Independence Cour de Lion Parsons Abd el Kader Fredonia Girard Pittsburg Muscogee and McAlester will participate.
Navy Secretary to deliver the Memorial Day address at the government Hospital for the Insane cemetery on observance day. John A Logan post of the G A R invites him. graves of Union soldiers and over 100 Confederate patients lie there. President and cabinet expected to attend.
Patents granted to Kansas citizens for the week ending May 21 1895 reported through J F Bonin patent solicitor. C E Bell Derby wire stretcher BY Boyd Wichita electrical instrument for medical purpose.
At the May 24 convention in Mewcorm Auditorium 4000 attendees heard Chairman W J Deanford open the gathering. Secretary Carlisle spoke on money, and a resolutions report urged maintaining a parity among money forms, opposing free silver coinage at unfavorable ratios, and endorsing a gold parity with silver. The body backed reform of currency and banking, and adjourned sine die.
At 12 10 this morning a gas explosion leveled a cottage at Twenty six and Mildwell streets Omaha Neb. Mrs GS Osharn died from severe burns soon after. Her husband a telegraph operator and two other occupants disappeared. Causes listed as a large quantity of gasoline or explosives.
New York dispatch notes London plans a larger Ferris wheel naming the Gigantic Wheel and Recreation Towers. It would reach 300 feet, surpassing Chicago’s 264-foot Ferris wheel, and feature 42 cars with 1,200 capacity. Ten cars are luxuriously outfitted for first class passengers plus five smokers and five non smokers. Two promenade saloons perch atop the towers as the wheel revolves.
In Catcace May 24 Mrs Anna Annabel shot and killed her husband then killed herself, reportedly over jealousy tied to a young woman in Davenport. The couple’s daughter Myrtle, 13, witnessed the aftermath before help arrived. The scene ended with both bodies on the kitchen floor.
The Scotch-Irish Society of America holds its seventh annual session at Washington and Lee University Lexicaos Virginia. June 6 opens with President Robert Booner of New York presiding. Notables to speak include Virginia governor Charles T. O’Ferrell Rev John Hall Col A K McClure and Gen L Purhugh Lee. An old-fashioned covenanters meeting led by Rev Hall occurs June 24.
In Laxsine Michigan on May 24 the House voted 75 to 17 to enact the Waite anti-treating bill with immediate effect. It bans giving or purchasing liquor for another as a treat and prohibits selling liquor to a person for that purpose. Also notes New Mexican cattle arrivals quarantined near Cottonwood Falls and a murder case in Missouri with escaping prisoner killed while resisting officers.
In Grrwam Oklahoma May 24 hundreds of women join a land rush at Kickapoo lands near Deep Fork river. By noon crowds race for claims as rival towns Kickapoo City and Olney rise near Chandler Guthrie and Tecumseh backed by local capital. Reports say horses wagons and bicycles surge across the line with many claimants and possible losses to treacherous river quicksands.
Big railway move launches to gain inlet to Kansas City for three eastern lines. Kansas City records filed for Kansas City and Northern Connecting Railway Co. Initial capital set at $1,000,000. Baltimore & Ohio and Chicago & Northwestern expected to participate. talks with Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul near finalization for bridge use.
Kansas City police disclose that Clarence Brayden Walter Davis and Osborne Graves confessed to railroad and streetcar robberies carried out since May 5 after secret arrests and isolation in central station cells.
In Rational League games Chicago beat Baltimore 8 to 6 while Cleveland defeated New York 10 to something with a forfeit in Louisville to Brooklyn. Pittsburgh edged Boston 5 to 4 and Philadelphia won 13 to Cincinnati. In the Western League Indianapolis beat Kansas City 17 to nothing and Detroit defeated Minneapolis 15 to something. The Holton Signal notes local bicycle riding and pasture work as a rural aside.
The World Medical Institute of Topeka and Kansas City claims personalized diagnosis and careful treatment cure most chronic diseases. It cites testimonials from Topeka citizens and advertises at 632 Quincy Street Topeka and 631 Quincy Street.
Prominent Santa Fe yards foreman G B Elliott testifies to dramatic relief from catarrh after two months of World Medical Institute treatment. Mary A Loux and James Tabor also report lasting improvement after sessions at 631 Quincy Street Topeka.
An OCR fragment lists World Medical Institute at 631 Quincy St Topeka Kas with a catalog of ailments including catarrh asthma bronchitis ragamatiom consumption nervous chronic diseases and more. It notes office hours from 9am to 8 39am Sundays and location near Kansas City Corner Missouri Avenue Ces and Main Street.
In a hard fought game at Athletic Park yesterday Topeka led 9 to 7 over Emporia. The contest featured heavy hitting and few errors with Charley McCabe umpiring and about 800 in attendance. Emporia's crowd included Bob Ruggles and Charley Barnes, alumni of the Emporia school of journalism. Tomorrow's rematch looms as a continuation of the lively series.
At the burial of Mr. Riddle of Goye county last week a shepherd dog, devoted to him, watched the coffin lowered and lay on the grave sod until 10 o'clock the next day. She had four puppies two weeks old at home and moaned through the night. People recall the dog’s attachment amid the crowd.
Two hundred young people and children will perform at the May carnival to aid the Baptist church. A 200-voice chorus, orchestra, and calcium lights will accompany acts including the Amazon warriors march, butterfly frolic, nations cradle songs, Brownies specialties, and historical tableau by young Indies. Also reports a fatal shootout in Choctaw City and a destructive Texas storm damaging hotels and churches with losses around 100000.
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