The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-09-11
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To family at New Orleans has
been born a babe weighing only nine
ounces
The search for the missing DIR.
Conkling at Stone Lake, Ind, has
been given up.
Ed Shuey of Logansport. Ind.
e1oped with his sweetheart and took
her mother along.
The steamer Aurania will take out
1000 ounces of silver and 40, 900 Mex
lean dollars
An anti-crime vigilance committee
has been organized in the Sand Hills
country of Ne braslxa.
Secre tary ]. Sterling Morton is be-
ing talked of as a Democratic candi-
date senator from Nebraska.
Professor Heinrich Karl Brugsen,
the distin guished philolOgist and
Psychologist, is dead, aged IS years.
A dispatch from Genoa announces
the death that city of Baron Err
LANCER. the well known German
banker.
It is said that Japan has agreed
upon $3.50, 600 as the sum sufficient to
pay for blowing up the KOw- Shing.
In an attempt to wreck a saloon at
ElmwOOd, Ind, the barkeeper, James
A1cDermott shot and killed one man
and wounded another.
In Piedmont, Ala, two members of
the family of Ed 5. Downs have died
from drinking water out of a poisoned
well, while two more are not expect
ed to recover.
In New Bedford, Mass, the City
mills have started up at the old rate
of wages About 250 operatives re-
sumed work. There is no other
change in the strike situation.
Emma Aumann. the common-law
wife of Billy PIimmer, the champion
bantam weight pugilist, committed
suicide at the COney Island hotel.
Colonel w E. Haynes has declined
the nominrtion for congress from the
Thirteenth Ohio district, rendered
him by the Democratic conven ii on
held at Sandusky Septem Der 4.
Link Waggoner a noted desperate
of North Louisiana and Eastern
Texas, was shot to death in the parish
Jail at Minden, La, by a mob. In
Vulnerable murders are laid at his
door.
Forest fires are raging in Morrison
and the northern part of Benton
counties, Minnesota. Much timber is
being destroyed, and large crews of
men are fighting to protect the lum-
Der interests.
In Pittsburg, Pa, the Prison War
dens' association of the United States
is IN session, with Wardens from all
the country in attendance. Prison
discipline was the principal topic Of
discussion
An explosion of gas occurred in No.
4 slope of the Pennsylvania Coal com
pany at Pittston. Pa One hundred
miners at work had a narrow escape.
All got out, however, with the excep-
ton Of Superintendent Dryden
The pope is said to have expressed
a wish to arrange the trouble be-
tween China and Japan, but was pre-
vented by France. who feared that
the interven ton of the church would
undo the work France was carrying on
IN the East.
The disaster to the Paris and
Cologne express train at ApilIy he
tween Noyon and Chauny Sunday was
more serious than at first suppOs ed.
From 40 to 60 were killed or injure d.
Twelve dead bodies have been ia ken
from the wreck
In Chicago Colonel Thomas JeHer-
son Dolan, the we1-known Demo
cratic politician, was found wander
ing about the streets in a dazed con-
ditiOn, and was taken into custody by
the police. Dolan had forgotten his
own name, and will be examined by
the insane court
The New York Constitutional con-
ventiOn, in committee of the whole,
adopted a resolution changing the
term of governor and lieutenant gov
ernor from three years to two years,
and providing that in all cases the
state engineer shall be a practical
civil engineer.
In Newark, n. J., 500 cloakmalers
belonging to the order of United Gar
ment Makers of America quit work.
and twenty-five shops were compelled
to close. The men assert that they
are compelled to work eighteen hours
a day, and the strike is to Secure a
reduction to ten hours.
The American Society Of Irrigation
Engineers is holding It's second an
nual convention in Denver. The fol-
lowing officers have been elected:
President, James p. MAXWELL; vice
president, e. M. Boggs; secretary and
treasurer. John s. Titcomb; directors,
G. W. Anderson, Samuel FOrtier and
James D. Schuyler.
Ex-Governor Zulic of Arizona is in
Washington, and has written letter
to the president vigorously opposing
the removal of Chief Geronimo ana
his Apaches from Mount Vernon Bar
racks in Alabama, where they are
now confined, to their former reser-
walton in Arizona
Just as the congregation was 1eav-
ing the Mount Pleasant church at
Foxtown, KY, William Sixsmith
stepped up to the organist, Mrs
Jones, and fired two shots at her from
a pistol Only one bullet struck her,
but her corset stays saved her life
and she was only badly frightened.
escaped No cause is known
for the attempted murder.