The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
A Brief Review of Important Local
and General Happenings.


A Brief Review of Important Local
and General Happenings.
The count of the tickets polIed at the
Republican primaries not completed
nominations were made: District judge q.
7. Hazen; county attorney, Galen Nichols;
probate judge, w. E. Pagan; clerk of the
district court, A. NJ Callahan: county
commissioner, Silas Rain; superintendent
of public instruction, S. F. Wright; state
senator, John T. CLANCY: representative,
Thirty-seventh district, John B. Sims;
Representatives Thirty-eighth district, H
district, E. D. McKeever.
There is some talk of a contest for the
Republican nomination for county COM
missioner, as G. v. Wolf only lacked II
votes of receiving as many votes as were
charges of fraud and corruption effecting
the nomination for county attorney and
a contest is talked about, and it is sup
posed that the nomination of Mr.. Nichols
may pc repuddisated by the Republicans
E. J. Shakeshaft is promoted from the
position of chief clerk to that of assist
ant general passenger agent of the Santa
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the India
famine committee, sends 81, 900 to the dis
tr1buting agency at Boston.
Edward Wilder will write a history of
| the Santa Fe railway system.
Mrs. Eliza Chrismans will is opened
University of Topeka and remembers a
A lively dispute exists among the Re-
publicans as to chairman of the state
central committee.
Rock Island is making large round
house and track improvements in Topeka,
Active Preparations are going for the
sas,. to be held in Topeka during the
week beginning Monday May 2Sth
prominent ph ssie of Topeka. and Kan
| sas, died suddenly Thursday, of heart
failure.
W. A. L Thompson is elected presi-
| dent of Merchants National bank, to
succeed Cyrus K. Holiday, deceased
| the mass meeting of Republicans, indig-
nant over the frauds committed at Sat
| urdays primaries.
An organization to be known as the
| knights of the Soil" designed to take
place of the Farmers Alliance. is or
| gained at Abilene
| TELEGRAPHICN NEWS OF THE WEEK.
wilsey HoIenbeck was shot and killed
evening, in a quarrel.
Heavy SHOWS prevailed throughout
| Colorado. delaying trains.
| Rufus Wright the millionaire manu-
facturer of rubber tires, of the firm of
Morgan & Wright, wa sshot and killed
| Louisa Lottridge.
Hoks Smith Sells the Atlanta Journal
John Breidentha1 captures delegates
from Kiowas Dickinson, Lyon, Chase
his gubernatoria1 contest.
Helen Gould receives two thousand beg
gfng letters a week.
The Chicago milk trust was unable to
maintain its existence.
Perry Heath likely to be chairman of
the National Republican executive COM
| mittee.
Affairs in the Transvaa1 drag along
with Indifferent progress.
The Transmississippi Commercial Con-
gress at Houston opened on Tuesday with
| the largest attendance in its history. Hon.
| ] A. n. TOD6ka. one
of the speakers.
The United States circuit court is try
ing the Paul Swetlick case in an endea-
vor to ascertain whether he was killed
or committed suicide; $4,000 in life in
There is trouble brewing between the
United States and Turkey over the fail
; destruction of property belonging to the
American missionaries in the riots OF
1895.
The will of Thomas Buchanan, a well
. known Shawnee county farmer Is ad-
B. W. Howe. of the Atchison Globe
will sail for Europe May Sth.
, Senator Hoar makes a plea on behalf
The baseball season opened Thursday.
} The report of the Kansas board of ag-
| riculture shows that wheat in Kansas
is in prime condition, and the prospects
were never better. Over four and one
: half million acres have been sown.
The Santa Fe and other railroads are
laying plans to raise timber for ties and
bridges.
l Rev. Chas. H Parkhurst takes a pro-
, nounced position, and declares that the
Presbyterian confession Of faith should
preached nor believed. He says men are
staying out of the church because GER
men are going out because in the creed
} are things which can not be believed.
l On Wednesday Chester 1. Long was
nominated by exclamation by the Sew
} enth district Republicans, assembled al
Harry B. Wandall, city editor of the
: Globe-Democrat, falls heir to large for
Vermont Republicans send uninstruct-
ed delegates to the national convention
Fusion not accomplished at the Great
: Bend convention Of the Popul1sts ano
Democrats. They name two different
! candidates for congress. l. P. Campbell
l of Wichita, was chosen by the Populists
and Claud Duval was named by the
Carl Brown, of Coxey Army fame
makes a speech at the Kansas City con
. | vention of the middle-of-t he-road Popu.
: lists favoring Dewey for president bui
: the speech was greeted with silence
J. G. Groves, the wealthiest colored
/ potatoes, starting with 75c and is now
| worth over 100000 in eighteen years.
Presbyterfans are all worked up ovel
p the recent statements on the part OF
! | prominent ministers, about the comics
sion of faith
5 the SAINT aFe Ry. Co, Jas. A. Davis, com
| missioner, it is estimated that fifty new
5 towns have been opened along the west
l located at various points.
! The middle-of-the-road Populists, a
their Kansas City meeting. adopted a new
name: 1.-The Progressive Peoples Party.
The Cornelius Vanderbilt estate turni
out to be only a paltry sixty millions IN
estimated. The Inheritance tax paid un
= der the New York law amounted to $500,
Fridays news shows that "Uncle Sam
n and Turkey are still in a dispute over tn
affairs of the missionaries.
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