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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1894
Page
1
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania 300 800 veterans and visitors gather as McKinley prepares to deliver an address tonight outlining policies and national issues.
Ex Confederate General Gordon arrives in the city amid a Veterans parade led by Rear Admiral Debora with 1 000s of Grand Army of the Republic members from Colorado Wyoming Minnesota Missouri and Michigan. Carrie Lowe carries Dupont naval banner. Miss Daisy Tithe, mascot, joins the march. Tomorrow’s 90 000 veteran parade to close with strong police presence and citywide holiday. Governor Pattison and Governor McKinley among visiting officials. local events include Women’s Relief Corps address and regimental reunions. Heavy showers later dampen crowds but spectators remain hopeful of the big event.
Carl Browne’s decorative wagons parody Coxey’s march with symbolic tableaux. Illustrations feature Liberty bonds, Wall Street, and a Coxey band wagon amid political satire. Browne and Mamie Coxey appear beside portraits of Washington Jefferson Lincoln Grant and a Capitol dome.
The Kansas Free Thinkers wrapped a day in Lincoln with three meetings at Se Speday Somers Hall. Lecturers included Mrs Lars Wuinker on motherhood and Prof. W. Bell on liberty and morality. Jule Bulford spoke on capitalization. officers elected were President Etra Semple and secretary Moses Harto. next meeting set for Ottawa in August 1895. membership around 250.
Mayor Harrison vetoes the council’s last meeting resolution calling for removal of skidwalk and sewer inspector Richard Hargraves and appointing a replacement. He argues temporary appointments cannot seek council confirmation and cites state statute requiring two year terms after confirmation. He says council chamber should not be used for political grievances or capital building.
Perry Ohio reports two waterspouts last night flooding streets waist deep. Residents evacuated, goods saved, and homes damaged as water filled low areas. Also notes interment with civic honors for H. C. Cross in Parsons and a crop bulletin showing a 0.9 point drop from August to September.
Senator Wi A Peffer condemns the Fifty third Congress as a stupendous failure with no public bene fits passed He defends a salt and wool duty as protective for Kansas farmers and railroads, calling the sugar schedule surrender a humiliation He criticizes Democratic defectors and notes a Kansas political shift during a Topeka visit.
Mrs. Stanford, as executrix, plans to settle debts and distribute the Stanford estate to gain personal control. Upon distribution, she will supervise a $500,000,000 building program, expand Palo Alto and related ranch holdings, and greatly enlarge the university with new apparatus, faculties, and departments including a music conservatory and major art school. The estate’s income is projected to soar to about $17,000,000 annually, exceeding Harvard and rivaling Berlin.
San Francisco, Sept. 10. A rumor spreads that a government survey party on the Rio Grande below El Paso has been massacred. Wire service lines report two geological survey parties active in Texas, with possible fatalities among topographer C. C. Hassett and geologists R. D. Bil and T. W. Vaughn, near El Paso, causing widespread fear.
In Chicago on September 10 a large ball of fire reportedly fell during a thunderstorm into a vacant lot near Austin, tearing a hole several feet in diameter and cracking earth up to twenty feet around, according to Rev Dr EC Town.
In Penn Ohio during a Republican primary the Perry mayor W A Brent and lawyer Hobston became involved in a quarrel over a Populist voting. The mayor drew his revolver and resisted a police attempt to arrest him as Officer Dick Plocket tried to intervene.
Dalwn Ohio suffered a major fire destroying over fifty houses in twenty acres. The blaze, reported between 2 am and dawn, exhausted water wells until rain began to fall, limiting losses to about twenty thousand dollars. external aid arrived from Massillon Orrville and Canton by special train.
Populist nominee Jeff Hudson withdraws from the Third district congressional race after Democrats decline endorsement. Hudson cites likely defeat and focuses on private business. a new Populist convention is set for September 27 in Cherryvale to nominate another candidate. Republican Senator Kirkpatrick enters limited campaign, while Parsons figures consider other names.
County Attorney H. Safford states principals in Sunday's prize fight will be prosecuted. He notes the event was arranged locally though fighters trained in Topeka and asserts sufficient evidence exists to secure a conviction, contingent on sheriff's information and proof of separate offenses.
Two major sheriff's sales raised cash above 3000 each. The Coolidge property on Harrison street sold for 3506 to HH shar um, once valued at 10000 but decayed with liens cleared. The Ragland property on Exst Tenth street near Santa Fe tracks sold for 8100. The case caption appears as Hiram Dunkel vs Henjamin Brockett et al.
A severe electrical storm spread across northeastern Iowa northern Illinois and Indiana on September 10 with high winds heavy rain and thunder. Reports from Marshalltown Clinton Des Moines Rochelle Spring Valley Bloomington Elgin and other towns, plus Fort Wayne and South Bend, Ind., describe flooded streets and toppled trees. In Cranton Pa, W F Colner Co storekeepers were robbed of 70000 in books notes and cash by thieves who entered the store. Aldace Walker bond and appointment as Santa Fe receiver were discussed in court.
Listed travelers departed yesterday for Pittsburg Pennsylvania to attend the Grand Army reunion including Captain John Sutherland and family Nasule Saddle and Jennie Porter J F Burris and wife Jacob Wagner Mrs Siebert and Margaretsy Robert Douglas and John 43. B Larimer, a First Presbyterian trustee, received a letter from Prof H Wilder about his organist and musical director position noting his study in New York and desire to stay in their area.
The article reports a sharp temperature drop from 95 to 64 degrees with a late night chill bringing a 36 degree reading today. It notes heavy rains across parts of the state and cites city readings such as Wichita 270 inches, Dodgy City 6, and Lebo 74, with forecast for mild weather for three or four days.
The mayor appoints A. W. Brows TW. Durdow and IT. Stewart as scavengers under the new ordinance. Me Brown and Mr Durham are not to participate in dead animal removal while Stewart has exclusive charge of removing deaf animals at set city rates. Prices include horses and mules 2.25, cows bulls steers 1.07, yearlings 0.90, calves 0.25, dogs 0.08, and eats 0.12 per head, all 10 percent below ordinance figures and below Lowe’s contract. Each appointee has signed the acceptance recap.
Government director of the Colom Pacific road convenes in New York to secure testimony tomorrow from Master in Chancery Coral 1 on continued operation of the Union Pacific line in Kansas Wyoming Colorado and Oregon known as the cripple roads.
A Bersemer Mich dispatch reports the city fire department and hundreds of residents battling a night fire threatening a dynamite stockpile near a mill. Explosions could devastate the city if the blaze reached the mill, with wind fanning the danger and the danger not yet over.
Non union workers at Swift and Coopers packing house in South Omaha face discharge as a strike spreads after the manager refused to discharge non union employees tied to a recent butcher strike. Strikers warn all coopers at other Omaha plants may strike if demands are not met by tomorrow.
A masked letter mailed to State Senator M. A. Householder accuses him of theft and bribery over a $7500 rail payoffs claim. Dispatch notes Ottawa claims about Canadian claims and unrelated clerical meetings, while other items list strikes, organizational hints, and local notices.
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