11 May 1895
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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1895
Page
1
Fragmentary text appears to describe a Daily Telegraph weekly publication schedule, noting markets of the week and a Saturday release. Several garbled names and terms obscure specifics, but the piece references a weekly issue and a continuing telegraphic news service.
A garbled report outlines alleged theft at a mint involving a man named Heney, with claims of gold movement and a missing arrest, plus political tension as the Emperor of Ciuta signs a Japan peace treaty and Russia objects, seeking harsher terms and potential war. The piece notes officials’ hesitance to arrest Heney and hints at broader diplomatic strains in Asia and Europe.
The notice states Mrs Nellie Great Sartoriaita will wed General Ceary IX Douglass. Sartoriaita is daughter of General Chant. Douglass, a noted Confederate commander, served with distinction. The commentary notes Union and Confederate ties suggesting a postwar reconciliation and hints at political futures. A golf syndicate pursues 61 million in gold bonds, influencing Western deposits to gain control of American gold stocks and lift prices, amid talk of free coinage.
The next electoral college will be 444 votes with 223 needed. The Eureka Sentinel notes possible party-line collapse if gold standard is the issue, listing states likely for silver and against it. It argues education and agitation are needed and calls for free coinage of gold and silver at 16 to 1.
Johnson sues Dr. Leslie Keeley in Leavenworth for 100000 damages claiming injury from bi-chloride of gold treatment at Keeley Institute. Court orders Keeley to reveal all ingredients and formulas under oath in Illinois. Wisconsin injunction blocks full disclosure while London papers discuss alliances as gold shipments from Carson Mint arrive.
Terrible cyclone reported near Sioux Center Iowa on May 4 citing destruction across several towns. Widespread schoolhouse and residence losses, multiple deaths including teachers and children, and extensive telegraph outages amid a long, dark storm path northeast toward Perkins and Doon. Death toll estimated around two hundred with bodies recovered and uncertain final count.
Adolph Oppenheim, key witness, said he is positive the ring offered for sale belonged to Miss Lamont and linked to the Durrant case. He stated the ring has distinctive jeweler's features and he could identify Durrant. Police Judge Conn signed commitment moving Durrant to the county jail. Chief Crowley allowed barber services for the prisoner.
The County Democratic Convention in Chicago denounced President Cleveland and endorsed free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver. Delegates aim to push the platform at the State Convention. Also noted: appointments for national and silver conventions and a mining-investment fugitive linked to a Carson Mint theft case.
In San Francisco on May 6 the executors of James G. Fair's first will won priority for probate over the later pencil will presented by Mrs. Nettie Craven. Judge Slack ruled the first will must be probated first, a decision seen as a major victory for Fair's executors and a setback for his children linked to the Craven will.
William E B Smythe editor of the Irrigation Age arrives in Carson Nevada to assess suitable eastern immigrant sites for western colonization. He envisions villages with forty to eighty acre plots, funded by settlers able to invest 500 to 1600 dollars, sharing schools and churches as irrigation makes lands productive. He will lecture on colonization and development of the arid West. The May Forum discusses criminal crowding in public schools, citing Brooklyn and Detroit as examples of overcrowded classrooms and inadequate facilities and noting the strain on teachers and students.
A Lincoln Nebraska letter from State Commander I W Stevens touts Dr King’s New Discovery as effective after other medicines failed for a stubborn cough in two children. Free trial bottles are offered at Hodgkinson’s Drug Store with regular sizes 60 cents and 1.00 dollars. Alphonse Nadon, a Reno resident, died from typhoid pneumonia yesterday afternoon. He leaves a wife and four children. burial is scheduled from his home Wednesday at 2 PM.
An 8 J Hodgkinson advertises a universal salve claiming to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all eruptions with a money back guarantee if not satisfied priced at 25 cents per box.
A weekly list from Reno Nevada notes uncalled for letters ending May 7 includes Amos Brush Mrs Daly John N Daulton P Goth Fred Jorgi N Lindsay G Olmsted F Stum Nat Sapp George Thoms WW M and several names such as Krady Clarence Cote Bert Dedmon J Dim Carlo Howard James Raehn Mes Lola B Lindsay Albert G Parsons Scott Jack Tong FS among others.
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