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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
4
Daily edition rate details and weather forecast for Kansas with storm news. Observations span political opinions on Quay Allison and Dennis Donnybrook style commentary. The piece discusses temperate shifts, beer saloons in Saline, and questions about insurance and counterfeiting rewards.
A Chicago report details a settlement between the Santa Fe Railway and General Joseph Torrence and the Chicago Elevated Terminal Co. The Santa Fe pays Torrence for the use of its own property, reclaiming control as the deal values the terminals near 13 million in a complex mortgage arrangement.
Milton Bart Edward J Clifford and Cliff B Ruhmer of Company G First Regiment of N San Francisco began a cross country wagon trek from Oakland toward Atlanta. They plan a soldier life on the road camping nightly cooking for themselves and charting a path across the continent.
The steamer Schoener Stuel, bound for Oregon ports, returned to port for repairs after after colliding with a 60 foot whale. The whale’s tail tangled with the propeller, breaking blades and leaving the vessel nearly inoperable. Smoke Little Gem best So cigar made.
In San Francisco on September 20 the ship Lord Templemore reported by Captain Sewall of the Benjamin Sewall, sighted Beinheip near Huca in the Pacific. The vessel, now in port, had all sails torn and no signs of life found. Captain Williams insists his ship is the Lord Templemore, which narrowly avoided an iceberg and endured a perilous voyage.
Fire destroyed the Rockefeller estate barn at Pocantico Hills near Tarrytown on a Saturday night. Police and Superintendent F B Bdge thwarted the ignition of powder and dynamite. laborers recently laid off are suspected, with the superintendent risking his life to carry out the explosive.
San Peanersca Sept 20. In the Durrant trial George B King testified on two points after earlier denials. Kings’s sworn statement to police followed reports of his observation in Emanuel church where Durrant appeared agitated and a bloodstain was seen near a mirror. Kings refused to alter his story despite family pressure. Durrant continues to receive letters from women across the country insisting on his innocence and praying for his speedy release. One letter from a woman signing Pangborn Aurora states her belief in his innocence.
A group of men jailed during the Hawaii rebellion seek U S and international support for damages from the Hawaiian government. George Lycurgus, jailed for treason then released, passed through San Francisco en route to Washington to present the matter to the State Department and then proceed to London Paris and Athens.
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