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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1894
Page
2
Speaker Crisp endorses free corn policy while rival Hoke Smith opposes it. The debate centers on agricultural relief and legislative stance on grain distribution and price support amid economic pressures. Crisp presents a pro free corn position contrasting Smith's opposition.
A Georgia mass meeting features Speaker Oriag praising congressional work and Secretary Hoke Smith opposing free silver coinage. Crisp blasts Western Populists, warns against single gold standard, cites economic dangers and currency decay while defending bimetallism.
A severe storm hit Denver and nearby areas after 6 PM, bringing torrential rain, hail, and lightning. A house was struck, street traffic halted by rushing waters and sand, and 23 inches of rain fell in five minutes, totaling 25 minutes of downpour and causing damage.
New York reports reveal Mrs Drayton’s readiness to accept service and pursue a cross petition claiming Mr Drayton’s unfaithfulness. She plans a bitter fight with testimony and custody actions, while co respondent Hallett Allsop Horrowe denies the diaries cited by the petition.
State Department receipt of consular reports shows exports to the United States for the June 30 1994 quarter. Figures by country reveal declines linked to tariff changes, with Austria-Hungary Canada England Switzerland and others posting decreases. Some regions show no year over year comparison.
Wealthy St Joseph resident Stephen J. Cavey vanished after White Caps threatened to whip and hang him over money hoarding. He took his 14 year old son and left the city, later sighted in Fort Wayne while believing threats came from his wife and children.
C A King & Co reports 4057 replies from rehab dealers and wills covering Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Kansas and Missouri. The surveys span many wheat and clover seed counties and indicate two thirds of the winter wheat crop and nearly half of US wheat may be fed to animals this crop year. The findings suggest more wheat will be fed than ever before.
Brief items report a wage dispute at Globe woolen mills in Utica New York where about seven hundred workers walk out. Other notes mention the Col ombis warship ordered to move American refugees from Port Simon to Bluefields, Mosquito territory and a state tax assessment totaling 99 203 243 40 for Utah.
R. G. Dun & Co reports a mixed business outlook with some improvements in branches and declines in others. A government crop report is awaited amid forecasts of a large corn loss, while strike activity continues impacting mills and garments. Failures in August totaled 10.1 million liabilities, with manufacturing and trading sectors most affected. Bradstreet’s table shows weekly clearing-house results for Sept 6, 1894, with year-over-year changes.
The comte de Paris Louis Albert Phillipe head of the Bourbon house dies in England after exile. Born August 23 1838 in Paris he served briefly in the US Civil War with General McClellan’s staff. He authored Civil War history and was regarded as Bourbon heir. Also reports on dancing professors convention and anarchist expulsions.
In a United States court in Oregon a decision by Wodge Bellinger clarifies wage change authority for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. The ruling says receivers may not be compelled to follow every minute change and may reduce wages without court consent, overturning Judge Caldwell’s Union Pacific approach. A hearing date was set, with defense arguing April reports show a large deficit potentially over 1 million dollars for the year, raising calls to abandon the road if deficits persist.
DexVon Col Sept The irrigation congress had a smaller attendance as delegates left for home Judge Emery of Kansas urged large scale irrigation of the arid West arguing a 75 000 000 population potential with new storage reservoirs and surveys He dismissed Secretary Morton's claim the meetings were not about practical irrigation The resolutions committee presented majority and minority reports and an address to the public Debate ran late with no decision and a likely adoption of the majority report.
Dispatch from Helsingfors Finland reports a terric gale that drove the Baltic fishing fleet to seek shelter. Fifteen boats were wrecked and fifteen men drowned as seas swept over the vessels. bodies not recovered.
Reports from Bluefields state department consular agent Seat say an American merchant ship was seized by Nicaraguan authorities and used to transport prisoners captured at this race to Colon for transport to Managua. Whisky peddler Edwards killed after shootout with marshal Little in Ind Ter. Naval Academy cadets admitted at Aswarotti. Gagno’s saw mill boiler blast kills one, injures nine.
A St Louis West Ender of mature years with a pleasant temper quarrels with his wife over dreams and omens. He tests her beliefs by unsettling events including a fall in a cellar, a car derailment, and a broken finger after a stumble with a baby carriage. He recovers and tells her he will ignore such signs.
A Philadelphia parrot named Polly mimics and insults guests causing a clergyman to grasp the bird by the neck and slam it back in its cage. The tale notes other stories of parrots causing mischief at meals as cats hiss and the bird seizes a cat’s tail while a matron offers a cracker.
A reader laments the decline of married curates in the Church of England. He laments bishops ordaining many young men, leaving older and married curates unable to find work. He, at thirty seven, fears being forced aside and signs as Out of Work.
A fragment quotes Lord Russell asking for the object of legislation and Mr Hume replying the greatest good to the greatest number, followed by a joke about the greatest number being number one. The passage captures a witty exchange on political philosophy in a concise historical style.
Dr George F Shrady once General Grant’s physician and comrade has become a very busy man in New York. He maintains a prominent private practice and serves as consulting physician at two hospitals. He edits a medical journal, lectures at Columbia, and is known for his simple democratic manner and kind heart.
A Philadelphia street car scene shows a young girl guiding her drunken father to alight safely, whispering lean on me papa as passengers watch with tears. The tale contrasts family love with hardship while a mountain of snakes near Manitoba fascinates observers. A Mexico education note calls for more liberal schooling and less sectarianism.
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