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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
THE Wichita Beacon says that the

The Wichita Beacon says that the
republican editors of the Seventh dis
trlct met at Pratt the other day to
talk about political education. Why
shouldn't they? Does the Beacon
know of anybody who needs political
education more than republican edi-
tors? Such meetings should be en-
coursged.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
THIS DECEPTION WILL NOT WIN.

The cry we hear every day about
the farmer police force" in this city
is becoming exceedingly nsuseating.
There were no better men ever en-
ployed upon the force than those
against whom these infamous criti-
clsms are directed, and none who
were more willing or able to do their
duty. Officer Campbell, who has been
singled out as a special mark for re-
publican abuse, is one of the best
and most efficient men ever upon the
force. He is a man who will do his
duty as far as he is permitted to do
it, and perhaps farther, even if it
costs hum his position. This hypo-
critical cry for partisan purposes Is 80
transparent as to deceive nobody. If
republican papers could divest them
selves of their craftsmanship long
enough to inject a little justice into
their criticisms, and direct them
where they are tnerited, they would
have more weight with the people
and accomplish more good in freeing
the city of the immortality now prsc-
ticed here.
The fact is, the joints, gambling
dives, bswdy houses and clubs that
are here to-day were here months
ago under republican administration.
One Of them run for two years Oh
West Fifth street within half a block
of the police station. and in plain
view of the front door, and no repub-
licsn policeman ever discovered it.
AS suggested by the Leavenworth
Times, this very recent republican
solicitude for the enforcement of law,
in view Of the hypocrisy practiced un-
der the Humphrey, Higgins, Hudson
regime, appears now under SO thin a
disguise as to deceive nobody respect
ing its real object. However, honesty
Is not expected from this crowd, and
people would be disappointed at the
smallest exhibition of it. If the en-
forcsment of law was the real object
in view, this abuse of efficient men
upon the police force would cease
and the criticisms would be directed
where they are merited.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
TOO LATE BEGINNING.

Union has discovered that there are joints
in the state and has determined TO make
vigorous war upon them. Now the query
naturally arises-Why has the union waited
80 long before opening hOstilitiesP Joints
are no new thing in the state. They have
existed in parts of the state ever since the
adoption Of the prohibitory law, and they
were made general by Gov. Humphrey, who,
though posing Ss a prohibitionist, was the
deadiest enemy prohibition ever had in the
state. For three years past joints have
hourished in nearly all parts of the state.
Why did not the State Temperance Union
put some such earnest man as d. G. Miner
at the head of affairs three years agO3 The
answer to the question is--beoause the men
who control the union are not sincere. They
are politicians, and, so long as the Hum
phreys and the Higginses held the offices,
the Kelleys and Campbells and Hudsons pre-
vented active work by the union, and Hum
phrey and Higgins were allowed to use the
joints to further their political ends. Now
chat they no longer hold the offices, the
union becomes active. But the suspicion
that there 10 greater desire on their part to
iDjure LewelllnR's administration than there
is to further the cause Of temperance will
greatly cripple DR.. Miners work. DR.. Mil
ner is an earnest man, a man whose SINGER
ity no man who knows him doubts. He has
kept up the fight through all these years,
and made war on Humphrey when he dis
covered Humphreys hypocrisy, but the men
back Of him only got their eyes open to the
prevalence of liquor selling in the state
after Humphrey went out of offioe.-Leaven-
worth Times, Mays.
We quote the above from the Times
because we believe it to be strictly
true. That the political shysters who
have run the republican party for
many years in this state have prac-
ticed just the kind of deception and
hypocrisy above indicated no intelli-
gent Kansan of any party will DIS
pute. Nor can it be doubted that
much of the energy displayed by re-
publican politicians just at this time
in the enforcement of the law is
prompted by the desire to make po-
liticsl capital for the republican
party. This is all clear enough, even
to the most casual observer.
But how are they to make political
capital in this work? Gov. Lewell-
ing has said, both publicly and pri-
vstely, that he intends that the law
shall be enforced by his adminlStrs-
tion. If he is sincere in this declsra-
tion, he will cooperate with all
citizens of all parties in their efforts
y to enforce the law; and if he does
this, it IS difficult to see how the
credit of his administration can suf-
fer because of the present republican
activity IN this matter. It can only
suffer from the practice by hlm Of
the same hypocrisy that characterized
the administration of Gov. Hum
phrey, and il he permits republicans
to make political capital in this man.
ner, he has only himself to blame for
it, and republicans will be entitled to
all the prestige which will accrue to
them in consequence of it.
The Topeks Democrat wants TO know
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
a Correction.

The statements of the correspondent of the
Washington Star in connection with the death
of Mrs. Janet Studs are SO inaccurate and
fictitious in every particular, that it is due to
the family to correct the statement made.
The late Mrs. Janet Studds was the widow of
Henry Studs mot Isaac as stated i'll the
Starr. Although owning a farnl in Fairfax
he was contractor and had the honor Of
Constructing the Alexandria aud Washington
q Iilroad for the French Company. He was
also extensively engaged in the construction
of the Orange and Aiexandria railroad and its
Warrenton branch. Just preceding the war
he was engaged in company with Mr. T. R..
Windsor, of Alexandria, in grading the In
pendent line Of the Manassas Gap road. At
the time of his death he was about complet-
ing the Alexandria and fredericksburg road
from Alexandria TO near Franconia, and other
work in and around Alexandria still stands
as his monument. =.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

CONCLUDED Nor TO DIE YET.-A
tall young man with black mustache
registered Monday night at the Occi-
dental Hotel, New York, as "Sam"
Davis, of Riverhead, L. l. He retired
soon after nine o'clock and an hour
later was found in his room writhing in
agony from a dose ofpoison, taken with
suicidal intent. He summoned the
clerk about ten o'clock by violently
ringing the bell, and when the bell boy
and clerk burst into his room he was
doubled up and groaning. "Send for
doctor quick !" he yelled between
groans. 1--WE taken an overdose Of ar
senic. thought l wanted to die, but /
don't" Within few minutes an am
bulance from St. Vincent's Hospital
dashed up to the hotel and the stomach
pump lightened the young mans trou-
bles so much that he was pronounced
out of danger and taken to the hospital
a prisoner. He said before he went
that his girl had Tilted him and that he
thought he had no further use for life,
but when the pain was growing unbear=
able he concluded that he did not want
to die ard that the services of physi
clan were necessary.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette,
WASHINGTON. March %, 1898.

w ASHINGTON. hlarch -, 1898.
The President to-day sent the follow
ing nominations TO the Senate: John S.
Seymour of Connecticut to be Commits
sioner of Patents; Silas w. Lamoreux
of Wisconsin to be Commissioner of the
General Land Office; VIM. II. Sims of
Mississippi to be First Assistant Secre-
tarv of the Interior; Edward A. Bow
ers of Washington, D. c., to be Assist
ant Commissioner OF the General Land
Office; Henry c. Bell to be Second Dep
utv Commissioners of Pensions; Horace
H. Lurton of Tennessee to be U. s. Cir
cult Judge for the Sixth judicial circuit :
Frank E. White of Nebraska to be mar
shall for the district of Nebraska, and
George Pfeiffer, jr., of New Jersey for
the district of New Jersey Max Judd
of Missouri to be Consul General at vi
emma; John J. Carter of Louisiana to be
Collector of Internal Revenue for the
district Of Louisiana Philip Zoercher to
be postmaster at Tel! City, Ind, Frank
D. HOY at Point Pleasant, w. Va, Miss
Leila Tyns at Groesbeck, Texas. VIM.
C. Hall at Sweet Springs, Mo-, Neri A.
Hanna at Cadiz, o., Charles F. Chase at
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
ALEX AN DRIA, V "A.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAR. 30, 1893

THE COMMITTEE on elections of the
L. s. Senate has, by Il majority of one,
reported in favor of admitting to the
Senate the three men appointed by the
Governors of the States of Wyoming,
Montana and Washington. The two
from Wyoming and Montana should
undoubtedly be admitted, because the
legislatures of those States had adj
journed prior to the occurrence Of the
vacancies in their Senatorial representa-
ton, that is, during the recess of the
legislature" and therefore the Cover
nors had the constitutional right to ap-
point men to fill them. But, just as
certainly, the one from Washington
should OF be admitted, because the va
cancy from that State occurred during
the session of the legislature, and
therefore must be filled by that body,
and not by the Governor, who, by the
Constitution, can only appoint Senators
to fill vacancies that have occurred dur
ing legislative recesses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

HANDWRITING BY TELEGRAPH.-A
number of newspaper men and invited
guests witnessed an exhibition of Prof.
Elisha Gray's telautograph in the Home
Insurance building in Chicago yester-
day. The telautograph, as its name i'm
plies, enables one to transmit instanta-
neously by wire fac-simile ofhis hand
writing to distance. An ordinary pen
or pencil is employed. AS it moves a
pen at the other end of the line moves
simultaneously and forms the words
and letters in precisely the same way.
Whatever is written at one end OF the
line is reproduced in fac-simile at the
other end. The tests yesterday were
entirely satisfactory, many of them be-
ing made by the guests. Writing,
sketches, musical notation and steno-
graphic characters were transmitted
with equal fidelity. The tests were
made through artificial resistances rep
resenting many hundreds of miles of
wires. It is said that the telautograph
will be generally used as an adjunct to
the telephone and for business purposes
generally where private wires are en-
ployed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
Mrs. Hooper.
ALEXANDRIA, Mar. q,

ALEXANDRIA, MAR. Il, 1875.
TO the Editor Of the AIerondria Gdsette:
1t was with feelings of great pleas
ure, read in your issue Of yesterday
the commendable tribute to Mrs
Kate Hooper, on estimable and gener.
Gus hearted Alexandria lady, who re.
moved from our midst about twenty,
five years ago. This tribute is well de,
served. / know the lady well, and the
Boys in Grey never found warmer
heart, more sympathetic SOUL or more
liberal hand in ministering to their
needs and comfort, when the fortunes
of the war cast them into hostile hands
than Mrs. Hooper, who was untiring
in her efforts in their behalf. This
lady now lives in Ratesville, Arkansas,
where she has resided for the last twen:
ty.fye years.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

The DEMOCRATIC members OF the U.
S. Senate yesterday determined to do
what they have a perfect right to do,
what they should do, and what they
will be derelct in their duty if they
shall not dc, and that is TO give the offices
at their disposal to members of their
own party, to men who will naturally
be disposed to be vigilant in the observ-
ance and preservation of the respect
and dignity of the Senate under demo
cratic control, and to see that all its OF
fees are conducted properly, rather
than to men whose partisan bias would
incline them to be content with the
simple discharge of their own oihclaa
duties. If the administration would
strengthen the party by which it was
elected, it will follow the wise example
set by the democratic majority OF the
Senate.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

The CORPSE STOOD UP.-An upset
hearse, a coffin flying through the air,
an undertaken with his neck broken
and the sbrouded remains of an aged
negro, despatched with mire, sticking
bolt upright from mudhole in the mid
die Of the road, was the startling and
somewhat weird climax of Il funeral
yesterday afternoon at Bridgeville, Del.
The dilapidated hcarse, that had set out
for the cemetery with one corpse with
in crawed back to town with two in
side. The colored corpse, which turn
ed somersault out of the casket and
struck such dramatic and uncanny at
titude in the roadside, was that of So
year-old Isaac Rigein. Undertaken S.
p. Short was seated upon the hearse seat
when the procession moved toward the
cemetery. Hardly had it reached the
outskirts of the town when the horse he
was driving took fright and ran away,
Suddenly the horse swerved from the
road ard the hearse crashed into tree.
The coffin was sent flying into mud
hole 10 or - feet away, off burst the lid
and the dusky corpse in gruesome ap-
pArel tumbled out in upright posture
before the Mortified eyes of the mourn
ers. Undertaken Short was hurled
upon his head upon the ground. his
neck being instantly broken. 1t was
fully 10 minutes before those in the car
riagcs, who had driven helter-skelter
after the runaway hearse, could recover
sufficiently to pick up the old and the
new dead and extricate the coffin from
the miro. The undcrtaker's body was
placed alongside the negro's. the quieted
horse reharnessed to the broken hearse
and tho little procession retraced its
way sorrowfully. Short leaves wild
ow and several children. Higgins bu-
rial has been postponed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

A Kiss AND FoRTUSE.-A report COMES
from Sydney, Australia, that man named
George Winch has inst come into consider
able amount of property in somewhat re-
markable manner. he has been following
the occupation of a butcher for some time
and it appears he recently took the liberty OF
kissing one of his customers-a good. looking
girl who dealt at his shop. She resented the
atfront. and had Winch prosecuted for assault
He was fined heavily By the local magistrates,
aud the case attracted much attention from
the press Phe publicity given 10 the pro-
ceedings happened to arrest the notice Of $
firm of solicitors in Sydney who had been ap-
pointed trustees Of certain property which
had been left to Winch by distant relative
some 10 years ago, and the solicitors were I'M
able to find any trace of the heir. Winch
was communicated with by the firm, and he
has now furnished the history of his antece-
dents, and established his identity beyond a
doubt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

RECEIVERS APPoINTED.-Applica-
ton was made yesterday to Judge Nc
Laughin, of the Augusta Circuit Court,
for the appointment of receiver for
the Grottoes Company, owning several
hundred thousand acres of land on the
edge of Augusta and Rockingha
counties. This is the old Weyer's Cave
property, purchased during the boom
period of 1890 by syndicate known as
the Grottoes Company and the embryo
city christened Shendun. The nomi-
nal assets are said to be about 1856, 900,
and its liabilities about s125,000. The
bill of application for receivership
acknowledges insolvency and prays
that parties who have heretofore
brought suit be enjoined from further
prosecution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

SENATOR ROACH of North Dakota is
publicly charged with embezzling a
large sum of the money of bank III
Washington city some years ago. tie
was not prosecuted, but left that city
soon after the embezzlcment was dis
covered, and did not return until ne
came back as the duly elected and ac-
credited representative of one of the
States of the Union in the Senate OF the
United States. He is either guilty OF
innocent; but he has not demanded
either legal or any other kind of an
investigation. As the people OF his
State think he is good enough to repre-
sent them in the Senate, the other
members of that body can not deprive
him of his seat so long as he conducts
himself with propriety. If he is guilty
of the charge referred to his gall is OF
stupendous proportions; ifinnocent, MS
self-sacrifice is beyond compare.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

If THE latest reports from Washing
ton on the subject be correct, a great
change has come over the spirit OF the
dreams of the President and his Score,
tarv of the Treasury in respect of an
extra session of Congress, for, accord
ing to those reports, it has now been
determined that such session shall be
convened early next fall. But if it be
called to remedy an existing evil, why
not call it at once, rather than six
months off? The sooner the remedy is
applied, the sooner the disease is cured.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

Mr.. JOSEPH CHoAT, prominent
New York republican lawyer and poll
tician, advises all the Irishmen in this
country to emigrate at once to their
native land, where, he sarcastically tells
them, the experience they have gained
here in the art of attaining office, will
soon enable them to secure home-ruie
in the Emearld Isle. The natural lrisL-
man wants home rule; he is therefore
democrat, and for the latter reason Is
Objectionable to republicans; and though
IT,, latter, as in the case of Mr.. Egan,
occasionally give 4 professional" Irish
man an office rs pay for deserving his
natural party, their dislike for the
whole Irish race crops ont and mani
tests itself on every occasion, opportune
or otherwise. But, though all this is
patent, there are Irish republicans, and,
stranger still, some, though not many,
in the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22
NEWS OF TIE DAY.

David S. Baker, jr., was yesterday
nominated by the democrats of Rhode
Island for Governor.
The Navy Department will strength
en- the patrol in Behring sea by the adj
dition of two vessels from the Asiatlc
squadron.
Samuel Wesley DeCobain, formerly
conservative member of parliament for
Belfast, was yesterday convicted of
unnatural crimes and sentenced to one
year at hard labor.
DIR. Frederick A. Levy, prominent
member of the dental profession, died
Yesterday at Est Orange, n. j., OF
Bright's disease. He was born in Rich
mond, Va, in 1851.
Jake Schaefer, the great billiardist,
slipped on the icy sidewalk in Chicago
V, sterday and falling broke the bones
Of his right wrist. The injury is OF
so serious nature that it is thought he
may never play again.
Heavy rains have caused the San
Joaquin river to overflow its banks in
many places. Stockton and Mercer,
Cal, ale under water, and other
lows are threatened. The Sacramento
and tributary rivers are also rising rap
idly.
Lizzie Ensor, the girl who has been
in trance in Baltimore for nearly two
weeks, startled her mother yesterday
by opening her eyes and asking: why,
mother, is that you?'' After this she
remained awake and conversed in ra-
tional manner. She knows nothing OF
her long sleep.
The consolidation bill, to permit the
voters of New York, Kings, Richmond,
and parts Of Queens and Westchester
counties to express their view on the
question of consolidation with New
York city, came up before the cities
committee of the New York legislature
late last night and consideration was
postponed till to-day.
President Cleveland told Representa-
tive Springer yesterday that an extra
session of Congress will be called to
meet early in September to pass q new
tariff law. Secretary Carlisle will
spend great deal of time this summer
in preparing what is known as an adj
ministration tariff bill for submission
to Congress as soon as it is called to-
gether.
Judge Golf, sitting in Baltimore in
chambers as of the United States Cir
cult Court for the Western district OF
Virginia, commenced the hearing yes
terday of the case ofthe Bonsack Ma
chine Company, of Virginia, and the
American Tobacco Company, of New
Jersey, against the International Ci'
gazette Machine Company, of Roanoke
Va, and Robert H. Woodruff and Ed
ward r. Pollard, of Roanoke, in which
the complaintants sue for alleged. in
fringement of a patent cigarette-mak-
ing machine.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

SARAH SIAloNDs' SCHoLARs.-A lit
girl who resides OF Long Island sent
the following story not long ago to
the 81. Nicholas. She explained that
she composed the story with the assist
ance of her mother, without using a
dictionary, with words beginning only
with S:
Sarah Simonds sought some Sunday
school scholars. Scholars seldom sit
STILL" said she; so she selected six
straightforward, sober, steady, Sc.
ious, save Stella Stark's small sister
Susan. Susan seemed stubborn, sullen.
Stella started scolding. Seeing she
seemed sorry, she soon stopped-said
sweet soothing sentences.
Soon she seemed satisfied. serene.
So Stella spun some startling stories.
She said she saw seven ships sailing
southwark Sunday.
Suddenly she saw some ships slowly
sinking. She screamed several sec
onds. Strangely she saw six sailors
swim swiftly shoreward, seeking sue,
cor. Sad scene! Six sole survivors
She simply said, notwithstanding !"
Susan sighed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

The best he has ever tried. E. G.
Bowling, Esq. Aquasco, P. O., Md.
one the largest planters in that section
of the State writes: Il take pleasure
in recommending DR.. Bulls Cough
syrup as the best remedy for coughs
ana colds have ever tried. Both my
self and family hageFqsed it with most
satisfactory results"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-03-22

A HORRIBLE Observation-Disclosures oil
the horrible death of VIM. G. Pease,
general manager of the West Point,
Va, City Electric Lighting Works, fol-
lowed by the supposed hopeless insanity
of Mrs. Peasc, the unfortunate mans
wife, were yesterday taken to Balti-
more by Captain Bennett, of the steam
err Danville, of the York river line. Mr..
Pease was killed about two O'Clock Sun
day morning. He was alone in the
works at the time, the fireman having
gone into another room. The machine
nv in the works is of new and i'm
proved pattern, and on the engine is n
governor, each arm of which will weigh
at least % pounds. 1t is supposed that
Mr.. Pease thought something was
wrong with the machinery, and placed
his head near the governor to see if he
could locate 1t. The governor and the
flywheel of the engine, which
was but u very short distance
away, were both revolving very
rapidly, and the former struck the I'M
fortunate man just above the back of
the neck, knocking the back and top
of the skull off and throwing the
detached portion into the hywheel,
where it was found by the tiremen,
who came in some time afterward.
The brains of the man were scattered
about the floor, and his body was
thrown in heap to one side. One
of Dir. Pease's Deighhors broke the sad
news to his widow as gently as posi-
BILE, but the shock was too great for her,
and she at once became raying ma
MAC. 1t is stated that the parents of
Mrs. Pease and one of her children
died within a short period not long
since, and the triple bereavement near
ly unsettled her reason then. She,
however, rallied from the successive
blows, but the tragic death of her hus-
band proved too great for her mental
strength. Mr.. bease was about thirty
five years of age, and, besides his
widow, leaves two children. The fun
eral took PLACE on Monday, and was
one of the largest ever seen in that
section.