02 Jun 1894
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1894
Page
1
A sprawling collage of wartime and political notes from Washington and Kansas City outlines party platform debates, legislative maneuvers, and labor strife. It references Senator Gorman, tariff, currency, rail control, suffrage, and public notices amid a dense mix of campaign rhetoric and unsettled industrial tensions.
A chaotic week in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek ends with clashes between miners and deputies. In Topeka the Christian Endeavor state convention features church railings and large attendance as delegates meet across several churches and adopt resolutions urging temperance and suffrage support.
A 19th century telegraphic dispatch surveys arbitration efforts amid Cripple Creek labor strife and banking reform. It notes Governor Waite backing arbitration, militia mobilization, and miners versus mine owners tension, with talk of federal treaty actions and Russia relations. Reports on national notes backed by gold and bonds, and the role of currency series in stabilizing finance.
State news recounts Hartnett mill fire with $3000 loss, a Wichita bank failure at $6000 to $87,000, Lawrence Santa Fe freight agent residence fire with $4500 loss, and Atchison county court house plans. Mentions Topeka court cases, Kenyon oil tests near Pleasanton, berries market impacts, and new desk tablet manufacture plans at Medicine Lodge. Lawrence strawberry king B F Smith faces frost losses. corn contracts and rail developments also noted.
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