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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1895
Page
5
A historic timetable note shows schedule times between Santa Fe and Chicago with a connection to Kansas City. The fragment references rail timing, routes, and transfer points in a period tone. Details on exact times or days are unclear in the legible portion.
The Santa Fe company considers cutting the Kansas City to Chicago schedule from fifteen to fourteen hours within weeks. Foremen note track and bridge upgrades and faster operation, with officials in Kansas City and Chicago discussing the move.
Empty state house showed near desertion as officers left to vote. Observers noted few faces, with only a stenographer and a couple clerks remaining. A steamer carried rails and plates for Alaska mining railroad construction, while a fire in a barn caused minor damage before firefighters arrived.
Kansas City’s W G Todd, longtime Populist figure and former chaplain, says he plans to stay out of politics for now and may return to teaching or ministry. He favors removing state institutions for the blind and deaf from charity control to a regents board within the state education system. He notes possible future involvement if reforms persist and discusses his typewriter invention and related business plans.
Secretary to Governor Morrill cannot vote due to residence change away from Salia. He claimed decades of loyalty to the Republican ticket, saying he never missed a deposit to the party. Reporters noted widespread travel homeward with state residents paying their own fares, no paid arrangements observed.
A fire partially destroyed the back of a house at Twenty first and Beacon street, with residents including Mrs Mary Cornelius evacuated. The blaze started in a rear shed and spread before discovery, causing smoke and water damage to the interior while the barn on nearby Kielu street was only lightly damaged.
Nov 5 There was a bank panic as the Bolingham Hey National Bank closed by directors order unable to meet the county treasurer’s demand for the county deposit. Liabilities about 100000 with deposits due and assets around 187000. The run on Bennett National Bank followed and managers decided not to reopen and to place the bank in examiner hands.
The piece notes Susan B Anthony remains active in the suffrage fight, with Topeka women receiving letters urging continued protest and tactics against male obstruction. A Topeka friend refutes claims that Anthony was training Mrs Catt to lead national suffrage efforts.
James K. Mackie, famed as Billy Grimes in Grimes Cellar Door, returns Monday with the musical farce. He previously starred in A Bunch of Keys and Grimesey, hailed as a standout comedian. Primrose West Minstrels Friday night promise a strong show with classic blackface acts.
Topeka residents are urged to attend a Trades Assembly discussion led by Roward Wilder on creating city parks. The group argues a park near the Kansas River would benefit the city, urging municipal action and affordable land purchases for future recreation. The meeting is set in the Trades Assembly hall on Seventh Street at the State Journal Building complex.
An account recounts a self styled divine scientist in Topeka who treats ailments by laying on of hands and mind over matter. Her asthma worsens despite therapies, critics mock the healer, and authorities intervene as colleagues fail to aid patients. The piece notes her peers face ridicule while a physician arrives to take control and treatment proceeds. Also advertised are Hackions Armtea salve and Evangelist Young’s Oak Grove talks at the Dunkard church.
Topeka police report fewer arrests this month as drinkers, disorderly conduct, and petty crimes appear down from earlier periods. October saw 113 total arrests with a peak day on the 5th, when 12 suspects were placed in confinement after Carnival events. Disturbing the peace, riding bicycles on the sidewalk, and gambling were among the offenses recorded with several convictions.
The article notes Lionel Dumas, a French hotel owner near the Rock Island depot, is facing foreclosure of two lots on lower Hansas avenue. He allegedly gave a mortgage to Northwestern Mutual Life for 4000 dollars, and the insurer has sued in the U S circuit court. Dumas has returned to France and may not respond.
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