Ada State Journal Brief Item
Local newspaper snippet from Ada State Journal notes a brief dispatch with figures 198 00 600 200 100. no clear event or names specified.
25 Apr 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1896
Page
1
Local newspaper snippet from Ada State Journal notes a brief dispatch with figures 198 00 600 200 100. no clear event or names specified.
A House committees briefing on the Nicaragua Canal considers the project costly and uncertain. The commission cites field work in Nicaragua and estimates of completion costs well above $475 million, with doubts about military utility and water depths, while noting potential long term benefits if government owned and operated.
The Populist State Convention of Maryland urged delegates to unite against the money power and form a broad front even if under different banners. Reports from Republican conventions show Reed or McKinley backed as presidential choices and silver opposition framed as straddle resolutions. Nevada Republican leaders insist their party remains silver’s only ally despite broader progress.
The piece argues that prosperity rests on free silver at 16 to 1 and targeted protection for wool and related interests. It attacks Republican protectors as hypocritical elites and urges restoring silver to its proper sphere to aid professionals, merchants, miners, farmers, and workers, while benefiting corporations and politicians.
In San Francisco on April 18 Dick McDonald former vice president of the Pacific Bank was released on his own recognizance by Superior Judge Babrs. Three indictments remain, including perjury, but prosecution seems unlikely. Officials believe his troubles linked to the bank's failure are over.
A long running dispute between San Francisco mayor Susie Sutro and Governor Budd centers on the contested site for California’s affiliated colleges. Both men trade accusations of improper appointments and anti funding actions while critics say their quarrel harms the public and city.
The piece critiques the Republican party stance as a mixed and puzzling mix of pro silver and pro McKinley positions across regions. It questions the party line amid conflicting resolutions and anticipates Nevada’s stance in St Louis as potentially decisive.
Supreme Court rules the State of Nevada may tax railroad lands including unpatented and surveyed lands without surveying costs paid. The long dispatch outlines debates on Indian schools funding and various appropriation measures in Congress, plus local weather and distant events.
In U S District Court a second trial of John T. Jones for larceny and embezzlement opens with jurors from the old venire discharged. Judge Hawley presides as Woodburn objects to the indictment, and a new jury is ordered from five counties with Marshal Humphrey to select fifty talesmen. Concurrent items note Electric Bitters praise and local Justice Court pleas for three men charged with petit larceny.
Nevada proposition aims to establish an Elko plant to kill horses for hides and oil. W. W. Bowers, agent for D. H. McDonald Son, seeks 1,000 horses with J. J. Hylton and Thomas Hunter committing half the supply. If funded, Bowers plans a summer visit for evaluation. Elko Independent notes ranges hold many worthless horses that harm stock interests.
Telegraphic notice reports Sterling Sauvage hanged by moonshiners at Irving College Tennessee early yesterday. Suspected spotter for U S drivers. Lavina Jones, 12, of Suffolk Virginia, jailed for second attempt at poisoning F L Holland family of Elwood. She drugged coffee with arsenic and later poison in milk. one died. Augusta Karasch, 11, strangled in Hoboken New Jersey Friday by trap door accident in barn loft while feeding pigeons. parents away, she died when door and ladder failed.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claims to ease teething pain for children and calm illness with fast relief. The ad promises stomach regulation, reduced colic, gum softening, and energy for the system, claiming a long history and noting price and wide availability. An unrelated line mentions J UG Overton changing cars for San Francisco last night.
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