The evening call. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1891-1893, 1893-06-27
The Gall.
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
TOPEKA,
KANSAS.

TOPEKA, KANSAS
Home rule seems stuck fast in the com
mons. 1t is in committee with no prospect o
getting back before the house before Christ
mas: and then will appear in such new form
as to be satisfactory to no element.
Three men placed dynamite bomb nea
The house of an ex-premier in Madrid, Spain
The explosion of the bomb tore one of the
men to pieces, his head and one hand beine
found seventy feet away. Another was badly
hurt and captured. The third disappeared
A colonel and ten other officers from a rail
way regiment of the German army have
started for the United States, where they vii
study the system of railways here. Each off
Ger will travel through an exclusive district
to which he will be assigned by the colonel
Eighty seven special examiners Of the pen
sion Office have been reappointed. The law
has always limited the appointment to one
year and the salary is reduced for the next
fiscal year from 81, 400 to $500.
The fremont house at Fort Scott, Kan,
collapsed. There we're 100 people in the no.
tel and in the stores under it. All were &C
counted for except five or six, Some were
taken out hurt Search for victims was pre-
vented until the walls still standing could be
braced.
Winfield, Kan, received the tornado at
half past eight o'clock. 1t completely de-
stroyed the Episcopal church and did severe
damage to two or three business blocks. The
west wing of the court house was blown away.
Many small houses we're destroyed and few
people hurt.
Until the Great Northern opened its line for
Puget Sound business the Canadian Pacific
had used its tracks from st. Paul to Gretna,
on the Canadian boundary line, but the Great
Northern now refuses to accept Canadian
Pacific tickets on any part of its line, and
thus the latter is shut completely out of its
Chicago business.
The United States circuit court at Seattle,
Wash, decides that: "The law Of the state
of Washington prohibiting the sale of ciga-
rettes is in contravention of article | section s
of the constitution of the United States, and
null and void insofar as it prohibits, or at
tempts to prohibit, selling, giving or furn-
lshing to anyone by an importer"
William D. Mccoy. of Indiana, United
States minister resident to the republic of
Liberia, West Africa. died at Monrovia. Mr..
Mccoy was appointed to succeed Alexander
Clark, of Iowa, who had died at his post soon
after reaching Liberia. Mr.. Mccoy was the
fourth United States minister resident to die
at Monrovia during the past twelve years.
A train on the Long Island railroad, upon
which were about 1000 persons returning
from Sheepshead Bay races was derailed in
tunnel a short distance from Parkville, l..
l., June ~. Seven persons were killed out |
right, two died soon after being removed to |
the hospital and about 100 were injured, |
many SO seriously that they will not recover. |
An 18-year-old daughter Of Rev. Langston,
living near Guthrie, O. IT,, attended we'd |
ding, the groom being young man to whom |
she had been engaged. When she returned |
home she sprang from the buggy and disap-
peared, and after three days search BY |
hundreds of people she was found wander
ing in the woods many miles from home a
raving maniac.
AT River Falls, Wis. June q. the circus
tent Of Ringing Bros was struck twice by
lightning while crowded with people, in
stantly killing eight and injuring more than
twenty. Fire started, but was extinguished |
Inc scene of CONSERVATION which followed |
surpasses description, and the rare presence
OF mind of the Messrs. Ringling averted
more serious stampede.
The decision Of the federal court Of appeals
opening the fair on Sunday has given de-
clded impetus to the excursion business and
some OF the roads are already pushed for cars
to supply the demand. 1t is expected by
several OF the eastern roads that they will be
overwhelmed by demands for Sunday excur-
sion trains, and the requests are already com
ing in at rate that justifies this belief.
In his Investigations in other cities. Sena-
Tor Petfer has found that there is more or
less dissatisfaction among the millers regard
ing the grading of wheat, and the millers Of |
Topeka complained because there is not a |
stringent law affecting this matter. Herbert
OF the Topeka mill and elevator |
sald II the wheat was graded improperly most
p 1t is done through careessness, and about
% per cent. by design.
Williamstown, village Of 100 inhabitants
IN the Union Paicfc railroad, in jefferson
county, twenty miles due east of Topeka, was
'lsited by destructive cyclone about six S
clock p. m, June p. Ittraveled southeast {
mo lalo low everything IN scope of cOun-
ry half mile wide and six miles long. 1t q
:, probable that twenty persons are killed. Z
sieVen oodles have already been recovered. !
hey were horribly mangled. AT least :
Swenty Others are seriously injured and about
hlrty houses were blown down. Mrs. Hutch 5
nson,s leg was found in tree one mile j
rom her residence. +
Secretary Morton has appointed live stock
Inspectors Tor Kansas without consulting
nth any Kansas politicians. The list has \
MY one Kansas man, Phillip H. Moore, of .
Pa who was made live stock inspector at {
.oHeyv1Ile. Alexander Lobb, Of Kansas I
NY, No, was appointed to serve at Argen- r
me. The rest of the inspectors are from :
ebraska, Secretary Morton's state. They
re w. +. Hall and w. I'll. Gibbs. of Nebraska S
Ivy, 70 be stationed at Parsons and Kansas ]
NY respectively; Edmund It. Hooker, Of 7
'maha. to be in service at Caldwell. and ". :
!. White Of Palmyra, who has not been AZ L
gned 70 place yet.
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