21 Sep 1895
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Newspaper
Weekly Nevada State Journal
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1895
Page
1
Aul State Journal advertises a daily and weekly publication by Kelley and Webster. Includes a garbled line about a train of bonsculation and contact numbers with references to latest tele or attached events.
A tempest at a Hoyeth Ciera Grand Army campfire pit the Nebraska governor and supporters clashed with critics over immigration and labor policy. The crowd booed while Gov Chover faced interruptions as he touted veteran leadership and a pledge to preserve social reforms. The event touched on demagogic charges and historic coinage debates referencing the 1873 demonetization act in a broader political debate.
The Silver men of Stockton California held a large meeting at Pioneer Hall to form a permanent branch of the National Bimetallic League. Judge Budd chairs a committee of prominent San Joaquin County citizens. General A. J. Warner serves as president. The league plans lectures and distributed literature to educate voters on free coinage, aiming to win support for silver and oppose parties not for free coinage.
A heated discussion questions free coinage and silver re minting. It notes public belief that government action would buy and coin silver, the minting practices under Sherman and Dollar acts, and the impact on bullion owners if mints operate differently.
In San Francisco on September 16 the Theodore Durrant murder trial resumes as witnesses including Milas May Ganigan and Mrs Dorgan testify. Ganigan describes seeing Durrant with Blanche Lamont on Powell Street on April 3, while Vogel identifies Durrant from a window watching the Normal School.
London dispatch reports a fire on the steamer Iona from Edinburgh to London. Six passengers and the stewardess died in the blaze while three compartments burned enabling rescue efforts. Some passengers claim men acted cowardly, focusing on their own safety rather than aiding women and children. The vessel continued to London after the fire was controlled.
The fourth National Irrigation Congress opened in Albuquerque on September 16 with large attendance. Delegates from Kansas Nebraska Texas Oklahoma Colorado Utah California Arizona and participants from Mexico and Canada attended. Chairman Smythe praised a milestone year for irrigation as a moral and intellectual movement noting favorable state legislation and growing Eastern support.
The Virginia Enterprise accuses the Silver party of Nevada of being organized by C C Wallace a Southern Pacific agent while Colonel F C Lord helped organize and back it. Old Nevada citizens deny railroad influence and warn silver advocates to unite against gold control. The piece also notes Parker Tea advertising and a Boston Transcript jab at women’s fashion and courage.
An American resident of Monterey, Jones A. Randle, writes to Nashville attorney J. W. Gaines arguing that free silver coinage has prospered Mexico. He claims liberal governance, vast railroad growth, and no U.S. style panics or money controls, contrasting with calls for gold standards and U.S. policy.
John Howell, a longtime Nevada milling man, now presides as the Broken Hill mine manager. On a visit to San Francisco from Australia, Howell formerly ran Reno reduction works seven or eight years ago before moving abroad. He remains a notable figure in Nevada mining circles.
Brevities item list notes Parks Tea clearing the complexion and being sold to S J Hodgkinson. Various travelers and arrivals are mentioned including Fritz Frey returning from Mexico, Theo Winters westward bound, and Rev Dennis Healey departing for California. Several circus of trains and bank tickets tied to the State Fair also appear amid notices of new goods and university arrivals.
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