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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14

Mr.. ]. II. Wethereu will give dane
ing party at Vinewood on Friday even
ing, June o.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A Hodgins gave
fishing party at Wakarusa this afternoon,
for Mrs. John DOnahue of Ell Paso, Tex.
The guests included the company pres
ent at their wedding.
Misses Nellie Post and Lottie Bowes
went to Kansas City yesterday and the
latter has signed a six weeks engage
ment with the Kemper stock company,
now playing in Kansas City, 1t is a
trial engagement and an exhibition of
the required talent will insure her per-
manent one.
Mrs. NJ. c. Lewis of Kansas City is the
guest of Mrs. N. ]. Burdick, at 1928 Har-
risOn street
There will be a lawn social at the
home of Mr. o. Markley in Highland
park this evening.
Mrs. James Yates returned to her
home in Kansas City. She was accom-
panied by Miss Blossom Harding, who
will visit her couple of weeks.
DIR. Eva Harding gave dinner at Miss
Annie Blowers yesterday to the follow
ing persons: Susan B. Anthony, Anna
Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, Dr.
Agnes Haviland, and Messrs T. L. Van
degrift and Frank FARRELL.
Mrs. W. NJ Davidson has returned
from weeks visit in Kansas City.
Miss Blanche Dienst is visiting in
Kansas City.
High School Glass of a.
The High school class of '94 was
treated to a sumptuous banquet last
evening by Mr.. Clarence Evans at his
home, 1T Clay street During the earlier
part of the evening the company en-
gagged in having a social time on the
lawn, under the rays of the many Japan
csc lanterns, which were strung from tree
to tree. At a late hour the guests gath
cred about long table which had been
prepared for them in the dining room
Four courses were served. Between the
courses the following programme was
rendered, with Roy Millrie as toastmas :
ter:
Address by the president. Geo. P. Beck
lass history. $1,000. Bertha White
Class Poem John Mason
Olass PROPHECY .-----.- Bessie Maxwell
ne em1 ID SC - -----.- Chas. Titus
The I. H s. Assembly =. Marie Brooks
( The i. H. 3. SOrosis d. Ralph McEntire
Boys Winnie Vanderpool
Slrls ...---.-- Louis b. Smith
sept, 81 N ettIe Burdge
re MARKS VIII Reed
| -Aooress $4,000. Clarence Evans
Ou1 eacners d attic cooper
Love Anairs- 49,. Wilkie Clock
"Omnipotent Juniors" -. Lutte johnson
May, "a Earle Stiles
The other members of the class who
were present present were Misses Virgie
Payne, Lou Nash, Minnie Sieler, Mabel
Daisy Starr; Messrs. Frank Sheldon,
Oscar Charlson and Arthur Kane.
General social Notes.
| Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Givens have gone
to Emporia TO visit relatives and friends.
Miss Jessie Proctor gave a picnic at
| Garfield park last evening.
Miss Maggie Nesbaum will go to Grav-
vile, Ill, in few days to visit friends.
Messrs- Frank Mills and Albert Rosen
will go to Mexico on the goth
Mrs. Ashton of Warrensbnrg, No.. and
! Mrs Amos Parker of Logansport, o.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
SPIKES AND SPARKS.
Personal Notes Among the RaiIro ad
Shops Topeka.

Personal Notes Among the Railroad
Shops at Topeka.
Another one of the new Richmond en-
gines arrived at the Santa Fe shops this
mOrning-No. 915.
Santa Fee switch engine PA has been
transferred to Atchison.
Santa Fe Fireman Henry Rose is off
duty this week.
There are now twelve dead engines
standing in the Santa Fe yards awaiting
their turn to get into the shops and be
rebuilt.
Engineer Fred Lee of the Santa Fe is
laying off for few days.
Mail car 1856 went into the Santa Fe
shops today for repairs.
Rebuilt engines 597 and 523 are ready
to leave the Santa Fee shops.
Fireman n. ID. Lands of the Santa Fe
is laying off.
Charley Rigler, who was laid off at the
Santa Fe machine shops month ago, is
now working in the Union Pacific shops
at Cheyenne, Wyo., and writes that he is
doing we'll
John Fink of the Santa Fe car shops
has been laying off this week because of
the serious illness of his 13-year-oId
daughter.
Foreman W. r. Neal of the Santa Fe
car department is said TO be the best fish
erman in town with his new grab hook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
STARVING AT TOLEDO.
Six Hundred Polish Workmen Ask for
Work From the City.

Six Hundred Polish Workmen Ask for
Work From the City.
TOLEDO, O., June IA procession of
500 or 600 unemployed Polish workmen
marched down Lagrange street last eve
ming. Before the procession had reached
Cherry street the police authorities had
been notified and the riot alarm was
turned in.
There were no troops to respond to the
call and the night policemen were slow
to realize that they were wanted All the
available police were at once sent to the
corner of Superior and Adams street,
which was regarded as the objective
point of the marchers.
A delegation was appointed by the men
to call on the mayor and inquire of him
if the 100000 of park bonds could not
be sold and the money used to give the
men work. Mayor Major explained to
the committee that he was as pOwerless
as any other individual to help them in
the matter of furnishing work.
The report soon spread and the Poles
had decided upon an uprising and were
going to capture the city, because the
troops were absent The men are with
out work and their families are starving.
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THIRTY-rwo HOURS A WEEK.
Another Reduction in the Time at the
Santa Fe Shops.

Another Reduction in the Time at the
Santa Fe Shops.
A notice was posted this morning at
the Santa Fe shops announcing that the
shops will be closed all day tomorrow,
Friday, the 18th. This, the men fear, is
the forerunner of a regular layoff each
Friday, and the cutting down of their
hours to thirty-two per week.
Mr.. Frey, the general manager of the
road. said to a JOURNAL reporter at noon
today that the layoff had been ordered
for two Fridays this month, and that that
was all the additional layoff that had as
yet been decided on by the officials.
Today's order will give the employees
work for only four days each week and
days of only eight hours, making their
new week only two hours over half
regulation week.
The best paid of them at thirty cents
an hour, less II cents week hospital
assessment, have for their weeks work
$9.4S. The men who are working at ID
cents an hour, under this reduction of
time receive, after their hospital assess
ment of six cents is deducted, 1896 a
week. Some of the men who are getting
1896 a week have families.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14

will arrive next week to visit DIR. and
Mrs. @. p. Ashton
Miss Bessie Shelton of Kansas City is
the guest of Misses Lizzie and May
Davis.
Miss Nellie McCIintock went to Law
renee today to attend Miss Kate Dew
ereux's wedding, which occurred at noon
today instead of Tuesday.
Mrs. B. I. Lewis has gone to Chicago
for short visit
]. s. Kirk is spending a few days in
Usage City.
Miss Gertrude Roberts will leave Sat
urday for Columbus, o., to spend the
summer with her grandmother, Mrs.
Dent
Mrs. J. Clark, Miss Gertrude Miller
and Miss Mary Smith left today for
Ration. N. NJ, for visit.
Miss Florence Welcome is visiting in
Hiawatha-
Mrs. R. A. Mitchell and daughter of
Atchison are visiting the family of John
Mitchell
Mr. John Lowrie of 131 Tyler street
will sail the latter part of this week for
Scotland
o. o. OutcaIt of Burlington, Kas.. is
spending a few days in town.
Mrs. s. E Mansfield and daughter of
York, Neb., are visiting her mother, Mrs.
c. Trainor.
w. P Armel will go to Holton Satur-
day to spend couple of weeks.
Miss Emma Kelly of Lawrence is the
guest of Miss May Maxwell
Mrs. John Player has gone to Sara
toga, n. Y, to spend couple of weeks.
Misses Olivia and Florence Van Tassel
will go to Kansas City next week for a
three months visit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
BREIDENTHAL'S MEN.

Meeting of the PopuIist State Central
Committee Today.
All the state officers kept open house
today and received the congratulations
of their friends. The state house was
swarming with Populists all forenoon,
who were waiting for instructions from
the state central committee before re-
turning to their respective counties.
The state central committee met in the
Office of the superintendent of insurance
and held a conference with the chair
men of the central committees relative
to the condition of the Populist party in
their various counties.
The chairman, ]. w. Breidenthal, was
elected by the state convention. The
committee elected R III. Semple chief
clerk in the bank commissioners office,
as secretary. and assistant secretary of
state d. @. Zercher was reelected trea-
surer.
Mr.. Semple has resigned his position
in the bank commissioners office to take
the position on the committee
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SOCIAL AND Personal.
Items OF Interest About Topeka People
and vinitors in Town.

Items or Interest About Topeka People
and visitors in Town.
Mrs. Fred Freeman Miss Freeman
gave a reception yesterday afternoon for
Mrs. H. A. Davidson and Miss Waugh.
of Texas, and Miss Heron, of Kansas
City, and about one hundred smartly
gowned women gathered in the cool par
1ors, between the hours of two and six
o'clock.
The appointments of the affair gave
evidence of taste and culture. and each
apartment was a study in itself. Pink
and red roses were effectively com bined
I'm the first parlor, and in the second, jar
dinieres Overfiowed with yellow eyed
daisies Exquisite purple and white
clematis adorned the walls and mingled
with bric-a- brac on the cabinets in the
library. A punch bowl stood on dainti-
ly spread table, from which Miss Daisy
Starr in a white silk gown, and Miss
Zena Freeman in a red and white figured
challle, dispensed refreshing beverage.
The dining room was charming, with
sweet pease and ferns; in the center of
the table a bowl was filled with the deli
cate blossoms, and ferns were scattered
here and there on cloth Miss Margaret
BeaTand Lucille Mulvane in swiss mus
lin frocks presided here.
Mrs. h E Freeman, Mrs. s. J. Bear.
Mrs. Speed Hug hes and Mrs. Fred
Cole assisted, and in the receiving
party were Mrs. Freeman in a
white, figured silk gown with velvet
trimmings, Mrs. Davidson in pink crepe
and MORE, Miss Freeman in grey silk
and lace, Miss Waugh in satin stripped
gauze and white MORE, and Miss Her
ron. who wore tan silk with garniture of
ribbons and lace.
To Honor of Miss Peck.
Another entertainment in honor of
Miss Minnie Peck, was the card party
los h-v
The large parlors were thrown open
and the cool breeze of a lovely June
evening put in motion, the flowers ar
ranged in profusion everywhere.
Notwithstanding the indolent tendency
prevalent these days, the game was live
ly, and closely contested Miss Horner
and Miss O'Brien cut for first prize, and
as result the former was presented
with an exquisite after-dinner coffee
cup and saucer.
The hOnOrs were divided between four
gentlemen, Messrs. Furry, Dick, Hagan
and Dunlap, and as Mr.. Dunlap was
lucky he received a silver match box
The guests were: Misses Kate Gunther
Margaret Mulvane, Name Horton Ollie
O'Brien, Madge and Mabel Johnson,
Theresa Rossington. Myra Williams,
Sophia Leavitt, Edna Best, Mary Nc
Cabe, Lillian GemmeIl, Mary and Irene
Horner, Nirgie Mulvane, Carrie Barthol-
omew, Jennie and Cordelia Price, Julia
Walker, aud Miss Campbell; Messrs
farrell, Dana, Mulvane, Dick, Hagan
Black, Murphy, Snow, Pierce, Williams
Peterson, Frey, Robbins, Poston, Furry
Stevenson, Dunlop. Thomas and Walker.
Thimbls Party.
The Misses Kencerdine gave a very
pleasant thimble party this afternoon fol
Miss Heron of Kansas City and the
guests invited to meet her were: Mrs
Fred Freeman, Mrs H A Davidson oil
Texas, Mrs l. Stewart; Misses Waugh
OF Texas, Lille and Zena Freeman, Nina
and Ella Peacock, Achsah Brewer and
Belle Thompson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
NO WHEAT THERE.

Ben c. Rich Says the Crop West of Els
worth Has Persisted.
Ben G. Rich, who was secretary of the
Populist state convention, is more inter-
ested in the condition of crops in western
Kansas than he is in the success of the
Populist ticket "We haven't had any
rain this summer" he said. "There is
very little wheat west of the line of Els
worth county and thousands of acres will
not be harvested at all, and the rest
won't make as much as the seed sown.
Things are looking very dark for west
ern Kansas and great many people will
be forced to emigrate very soon."
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NEW CORPORATIONS.
Companies Chartered TO Do Business in
Kansas.

Companies Chartered Do Business in
Kansas.
The Burr Oak Athletic club of Burr
Oak. The club is organized to give
boxing exhibitions and practice athletic
sports. The trustees are Frank Myers
G. A. Jordan, L. F. Shreckurgoust, II. A.
Monbeck and c. A. Leidlatf.
The Fraternal Order of the Golden
Rule of Wichita. The directors are: j.
T. McMillen, Sam H. Glenn, j. r. Dut-
ton. John B. Glenn and G. G. Furley.
Star lodge No. IA. Free and Accepted
Ancient York Masons of Spring Hill,
Kas. Trustees: jeremiah McCause, Peter
Savers. w. Smell, A Robson and G.
Johnson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
DANIELS TURNING DOWN.
What the Lieutenant Governor Has to
About 1t.

What the Lieutenant Governor Has to
Say About 1t.
Lieutenant Governor Daniels said to-
day: Il am not surprised that the con-
vention turned me down. l expected it,
but do not see why they should have
turned down my resolution for a gradu-
ated property tax. 1t was passed by the
last senate and the DunsmOre house and
l supposed there would be no doubt
about its adoption.
81 had always intended to go before
the convention but I said that if l ac-
cepted the nomination it would be as an
independent The action of the conven-
ton does not change my position but l
have nothing to say about what L will do
in the futureo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
PRIVATE BILLS PASSED.

The Senate Transacts Some Routine Bush
ness Before Resuminc Tariff Debate.
WASHINGTON, June 14-Some routine
business, preceded the resumption of
the tariff debate in the senate today.
Bills were passed as follows: To pay
Joseph Redfern. one of the Ford theater
victims, 50, 1888; to authorize the appoint
ment of women as public school trustees
in the district of Columbia; for the de-
velopment and encouragement of silk
culture in the United States; to pay the
heirs of James Bridger $4,000; bill for
the relief of the heirs of John Weight
man. passed some time ago, was on mo-
ton of MIR. Quay, considered and recon-
mitted.
When the tariff bill was laid before
the senate Mr.. Lodge took the floor with
an argument against free wool.
Read the wants" Many of them are
as interesting as news items See if it
is not So
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r0TYTTHTTTTETIITTnITTIUU

partment, came back from Manchester
yesterday.
Superintendent of Telegraph Gemmell
is again able to be at his desk in the
Santa Fe offices regularly.
Missouri Pacific conductors have been
warned by the company to look out for a
band of commonwealers camped near
the tracks east of Independence and not
let them board trains.
The Santa Fe dispensary is now closed
on Saturdays.
Charley Golden. of the Santa Fe car
shops, is laying off, and his friends say
he has the marry look in his eyes.
Fred Goeth. of the Santa Fe car de-
partment, is smiling today. 1t is a girl,
and arrived last night
Conductor Weeks, of the Santa Fe,
who was stricken with paralysis at his
home at Kansas City Monday, is much
better.
Santa Fe Conductor George Ross, of
Kansas City. is laying off on account of
the serious illness of his wife, and R. II.
Stockton is taking his place.
Lewis Gremmels, brother-in-law of
Santa Fe brakeman VIM. Beales, and
once a brakeman himself, died of con-
sumption at his home in Parkdale last
night. His body shipped to Wiley,
Kansas, today for burial
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ICE AT HALF RATES.
Why Pay Two Prices for the Summer


why Ray Two Prices TOT the SUNNI er
Necessity.
Jones & Whitney are not in the ''ice
combine They are delivering the best
of manufactured ice at ten pounds for
five cents, about one-half the price
charged by other dealers this season.
The ice is no better this year than last,
and the pounds are no heavier, so Jones
s. Whitney, of 121 West Sixth street, be-
lieve the price should be no higher than
last season.
They should be encouraged in their
efforts to break an unreasonable price in
two, giving the people the same ice for
half the mOneV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
CROKER'S PULLING LOOSE
Resigns From the Manhattan Club Be- |
fore His Departure.

New YORK, June 14.-Just previous to
his departure, Richard Croker resigned
his membership in the Manhattan club.
No reason was given for this action.
Frederic r. Coudert, Manhattan's presi-
dent, said there was nothing for the club
to do but accept it. 1t was said that MIR.
Croker had also resigned from the Tam
many hall organization in the twenty
first assembly district
Politicians are at a loss to understand
the motive for the ex-Tammany leaders
severance of political ties.
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FORT MORGAN, Colo. June 1.-The
Coxey navy from Denver has been re-
duced to 100 men, most of those who
gone to Julesburg on trains. Gen. Car
ter started for Julesburg by rail today to
join the main body. The navy resumed
its voyage on the Platte with six Gays
rations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14
RAILROAD RUMBLINGs.

Personal Notes Among the Railroad Shops
and Offices.
VIM. A. Allison of the Santa Fe gem
eral offices, is at Glenwood visiting
Vice President D. B. Robinson of the
Santa Fe, went through Topeka this
afternoon on his way east.
The Rock Island shop men at Horton
were paid yesterday.
w. d. Gossett of the Santa Fe land de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14

d. I. Furbeck of this city, who was
yesterday nominated by the Populists for
lieutenant governor, is old Santa Fe
conductor and was nominated at the de-
mand of the organized railway employees
Of the state in general and of the Order
of Railway Conductors, of which he is an
honored mem Der. in particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-14

Meeting of the POpulist State Central
Committee Today.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-26
Lived a Lifetime in Twelve Years.

The most remarkable instance of
rapid growth was recorded by the
French academy in 1929. 1t was a boy
six years of age, five feet six inches in
height. At the age of five his voice
changed, at six his beard had grown,
and he appeared man of thirty. He
possessed great physical strength, and
could easily lift to his shoulders and
carry bags of grain that weighed two
hundred pounds. His decline was as
rapid as his growth. At eight his hair
and beard were gray; at ten he tot
tered in his walk, his teeth fell out
and his hands became palsied; at
twelve he died with every outward
sign of extreme old age.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-26
DEA1LIEsT KNOWN POISON.

Shophanthidin, from an African Plant,
an Atom of Which Is Dangerous.
To the best of our knowledge, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, the most deadly
poison is that which was discovered by
Prof. Frazer, of Edinburgh, Scotland,
and known as shophanthidin. He sep
arated it from the African poison
plant, shophanthus hispidus, by means
of ether and alcohol. AS little as one
Observation-Disclosures partsof an ounce of
crystallized shophanthidin produces a
distinctly injurious effect upon the
heart, and a very small quantity is
fatal Another deadly poison is cyano-
gen gas, the principal ingredients of
hydrocyanic or prussic acid.
At ordinary temperatures it is sim
ply gas, but can be condensed by cold
and pressure into thin, colorless
liquid and becomes solid at thirty
degrees Fahrenheit. The inhalation in
its gaseous state of most minute
quantity would cause instant death.
One of the. most deadly poisons
is arseniuretted hydrogen, or arsenic,
which is formed by decomposing
an alloy of arsenic and zinc with sui
phuric acid. 1t is colorless gas, pos
sessing fetid odor of garlic, and acts
as most deadly poison.
Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen, a chemist,
born about ITS at Butow, in Pomer-
ania, was the discoverer of it. While
experimenting with it at Munich. on
July Is, he inhaled a single bubble of
the pure gas and died in eight days
from the effects. The accident oc-
CURED through his smelling at the
joints of his apparatus to discover a
flaw. Others engaged in chemical
operations have died from the effects
of this poison in three days.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-26
EXTRA POLITE.
a French Count Who Could Not Be Out
done in Gallantry.

French Count Who Could Not Be Out
done in Ganantry.
Frenchmen of the old school did at
times tremendously polite things, such
as breaking their necks to pick up a
lady's fan, or setting fire to house to
dry her when caught in a shower of
rain, or running through the body any
one who should dare to say that her
foot was large or her nose red. In our
days Frenchmen are not such idiots,
and yet they sometimes do exceeding
ly foolish things in the polite line.
This story, for example, is related of a
Count de Lecouiteux-
In descending the staircase of the
opera one night a lady of his acquaint-
ance had lace dress of considerable
value torn by a man treading on it.
After an exclamation of impatience
she turned to the count and said:
''Have you pin?" Madame . he said,
81 don't carry pincushion, but here is
one," and he drew from his breast a
valuable diamond. Sir" said the
lady, nettled probably by his retort
about the pincushion, ST cannot accept
a diamond from YOU ''Well, then %
returned he, ''here is pin without a
diamond and breaking off the jewel
he threw it out of the window and pre-
sented the simple pin.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-26
COMEDY BY THE SEA.
The Forward FoIIr-GarruIous Mothers
The Conceited Dancer.

The Conceited Dancer.
It's good fun to sit apart and notice
the people at swell summer hotels,
though sometimes it's little sad, too,
says an eastern correspondent
The forward folk, who try to get ac-
quainted with each newcomer of pre-
tentious appearance, and who gets
dropped as frequently as they are taken
up, are amusing, as the newly rich, who
fancy the ready road to elegance is
gained by assuming a fierce haughti-
ness, the maintaining of which makes
them as uncomfortable as it does their
interiors.
The garrulous mothers who have to
talk all day long about the charms and
perfections of their daughters are pretty
trying.
Then there are the two or three
lonely creatures who have drifted in
somehow and are out of their element,
and are quite conscious of the fact.
They mournfully sit out the concerts
and eat their meals almost tearfully.
There are, as rule, so few men at
the summer resorts that the few who
linger longer than over Sunday get so
swelled with their own Importance that
they are unbearably saucy.
AT the hop the other night 1 noticed
that the manner of the dancing men
was as full of conceit as is a pudding
of pluns.
They lounged up to girl, held out
their arms, smiled a siclxly smile, as
who should say:
''I'n give you a turn or two, poor
thing"
I'd cling to the wall till took root
before I'd dance with them, but girls
aren't all alike, and the conceited chaps
had only to drop the handkerchief"