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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1895
Page
3
A set of six Albar type views of Rocky Mountain scenery offered on 11 by 14 inch paper suitable for framing. Price requested is fifty reuta money order.
In Leavenworth on Saturday the city treasurer refused a reduced circus license payment. The contracting agent for Lemen Brothers' circus sought $50, half the legal fee, with council backing. Treasurer Fenn stood firm, insisting on the full license amount of $100, citing legal responsibility and warning officials about lax enforcement.
The Wichita police commissioners ousted Judge Hatton and named radical prohibitionist M. Tucker as police judge. The action aligns with a plan to impose heavy bonds on saloon keepers arrested, possibly sending some to jail. Hatton led the Republican ticket for district court. The Republican committee plans to seek talks with Gov. Morrill in Topeka.
A Japanese missionary named Tomiye Komai Om, educated in Osaka, visited Union Depot with Miss Rena Risner to attend the Kansas synod in Round Prairie. She aims to stir enthusiasm for missionary work in Japan, hoping to redeem her country from idolatry. her English is Americanized in accent and dress.
The fragmentary report notes Judge James Humphrey was renominated at the eighth district judicist convention. It mentions nonpartisan judiciary support and candidates from Populist and Republican sides. Also references Ann.six Kus and Sept. 2 with unclear context.
Gen James B Weaver reports from Denver that Texas voters will back the Populist ticket in 1896 as the fusion party dissolves, old leaders renounce the Democrats, and the Lone Star state signals a strong Populist majority.
Passengers riding from Colebrook near Wisstep report seeing a large gorilla cross the highway and stand on its hind legs before fleeing into the woods. The animal, once miscalled a wild man, is believed to have escaped from a circus years ago. Recent sightings place the gorilla in South Norfolk woods during last winter.
Zelia Nicolaus Robhmann sues George J Gould alleging assault in his Western Union office on Broadway in April 1893. Judge Lippincott grants 30 days to answer the amended complaint. trial slated for October term. Gould denies charges and accuses blackmail.
The Stanford family sets aside a vast fortune valued at millions for a new university named after their 13 year old son who died in Rome. The boy’s room and toys remain untouched on the Stanford estate as trustees plan a lasting memorial with mausoleum, museum and expansive holdings to educate future generations.
Tom Wilkerson returned from Kansas City with M Talles, sought for selling liquor, a former member of Talles & Stakehake drug firm near Second street. Talles was elusive until located by Wilkerson and is now in the county jail. Much panting and popular suiting offered at 713 Kansas avenue Mayberry Tailoring Co.
A Chicago reporter once created a fake interview to spark the bicycle sulky craze for harness racing. The device with bicycle wheels and ball bearings proved controversial, costly, and popular, transforming racing and yielding millions in profit.
A 1750 letter in Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale proposes billiards began in England mid‑1500s with a pawnbroker Bill Kew who played with three brass balls on his counter using a yard measure as a cue. It suggests “Bill yard” evolved into billiards and notes Skeat would doubt the claim while acknowledging the French etymology.
New York merchants employ attention grabbing devices including ear splitting electrical signs and kinetic displays. An uptown dealer shows a circular case over a sidewalk with flexible white arms moving to piano keys, swirling in time with the tune to fascinate pedestrians reading the moving message about goods.
In Hopkins Kansas a hen persistently visits the tall cottonwood to lay each day. Children stand beneath with aprons to catch the falling “precious missile” in a quaint local scene. A Maine man fought a mobster mud turtle, its thirty two pound heft finally yielding to him and a fence stake. A fox trap in the state, set sixty years prior, remained well preserved amid Maine’s drg state.
Belle Boyd, famed as a rebel spy, travels the south in dramatic style. The article notes her expressive eyes and light auburn hair, claiming she remains piquant and vivacious at fifty one as she was at Sweet Sixteen when she entered military service.
A passerby asks about a large building hosting over two hundred wheel users. The local resident clarifies it is not a summer retreat but a lunatic asylum, implying a surprising or ironic use of the facility by cyclists.
Charles Richsecker of Canton Ohio took his own life last week at the same spot and hour Mrs Richsecker used months earlier. He believed deeply in his wife and chose the same route and method to end his life, following her in death.
Gen Catlin, a New York port official and army veteran, hails Munyon's Catarrh Remedies after long catarrh battles. He credits rapid relief and full recovery to Munyon's treatment and endorses the 225 cent vial offered by Munyon's Homeopathic Remedy Company of Philadelphia. He invites others to seek Professor Munyon's free diagnostic advice and promises refunds if not benefited.
Dr. David Henry Dickason of 404 Locust Street was brought before the probate judge at 1 20 this afternoon to determine his sanity. Mrs. Dickason filed the complaint alleging threats to kill her and himself and other demented behavior. His condition is attributed to heavy drinking. he has been a practicing physician but recently gave up his practice.
A recent powder called thorite, a chlorate sugar mix from South Africa, is tested in coal mines at Nereeniging with results near dynamite strength yet cheaper to produce and with fewer fumes. Experts plan Cape Town labs for further study while noting safety issues from friction, heat, and moisture in handling.
Mrs Hervey Donagher of Fostoria Ohio reports a strange accident when lighting a gasoline stove with gas-filled sleeves causing her to rise to the ceiling. Alone and remote, she screamed for help but coworkers heard none. She descended once the gas escaped with only a slight forehead bruise.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a long used teething aid for children. It promises soothing effects, gum softening, pain relief, wind colic cure, and relief from diarrhoea, priced at twenty five cents per bottle. The note also mentions "Little Gem" and implies broad availability.
The Topeka Daily State Journal publishes its sworn detailed circulation statement for the first half of 1895, showing a six month circulation figure as stated.
The Topeka Starz Journal claims its daily average circulation for six months surpasses any Topeka daily paper in 1894 and exceeds figures in the Amer ican Newspaper Directory for 1894. Publishers furnish sworn statements and offer a $100 for disproof.
The Topeka Capital boasts higher postage payments than any other Topeka daily, a claim used to imply its smaller local circulation compared with the Stars. The State Journal leads in local reach, with large circulation in Topeka’s towns and tributaries, aided by evening trains that deliver the latest Associated Press and state news.
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