The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-15
CONDENSED TELEGR1MS.

Chief Justice Raney of Florida, has
| resigned.
Mrs Mary Lilly, wealthy old lady
of Atlanta, Ga. was found murdered
in her home.
The American Glucose company of
Eeoria has closed down, owing to the
inability to secure coal
The Irish Nationalist held q mon
ster meeting at Liverpool, and were
addressed by Justin Mccarthy.
The village of Palmyra, Neb., was
almost totally destroyed by fire. Loss
estimated at $50, 600; Insurance, SIS, 600.
Recruiting officer George Walsh of
found dead in bathtub at Indianap-
oils.
Harris division of Morrison's st.
Louis Coxey army has disbanded.
owing to the leader having skipped
with the funds.
Paul Ewing, aged Is, committed su-
icide at Findlay, Ohio, because a
young girl returned his affections to
him instead of her own.
In Lemars, Iowa, Annie Hansen,
aged 10, was shot and killed by her
uncle, Herman Peters, aged %. Peters
told the neighbors it was an accident
and then shot himself through the
head.
Senator Walsh has introduced a bill
making it crime punishable by inn
prisonment from one year to twenty
years to retard or obstruct the pas
sage of any train carrying the United
States mail
Joseph NJ. Click, a leading Schuyl-
kill, Pa, politician and Republican
candidate for sheriff, committed sui
eide by shooting himself with a re-
volver: The deed was prompted by
financial troubles.
Raw Tharn1p VUo1J.no II
pastor of the Eighth Presbyterian
church of Chicago, will deliver the
annual baccalaureate sermon at the
Kansas state university Sunday, June
3, at o'clock p M
F. r. Gearity, who died in Ell Paso
Sunday, was married last Saturday to
Miss Julia NJ Morriss of New York
city. Miss Morriss remained at home,
the bridegroom being there by proxy.
He died few hours after the cere-
mony.
At a Spanish cabinet meeting it was
decided to pay in gold the sum of ST.
600, equal to $23, 900 of Spanish cur
rency, as an indemnity to the Ameri-
can Methodist missionary, who was
unlawfully expelled from the Caroline
islands, when Spain annexed that ter
ritory.
The court of claims gave judg-
ment of $123, 62S in favor of the ex-
ecutOr of the estate of Donald Mckay,
contractor, for extras, enhanced COS &
of labor caused by the delays of the
government, etc, in the construction,
in 1865, of the light draft monitor
Manset.
The new tunnel through the Pali-
sades, built by the Susquehan and
Western railroad, costing So, 600, 900, is
compile ted The tunnel is nearly two
miles long. Work was begun on it
about eighteen months ago. Twelve
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ago by the falling of a part of the
trestle.
The officers of the Farmers National
congress were in session at the Palmer
house, Chicago, President B. Z. Clay
ton of Iowa presiding. The object Of
the meeting was the preparation OF
program for the fourteenth annual
convention of the organiza ton, to be
held in Parkersburg, w. Va, in
November.
The appeal to the United States SUI
preme court of the Arkansas CherO-
kee, Starr, convicted of the murder of
Deputy Marshal Floyd Wilson, has
been successful, a new trial being
granted Incidentally Chief Justice
Fuller commented severely on the
charge of the presiding Judge to the
jury
The Office of foreign mails has an
nounced that samples of articles COM
ial in unsealed packages will be adj
mitted in the mails between the
United States, Argentine Republic,
Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, British
India. Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovinia.
Canada, Chile, Denmark and Danish
West Indies, Egypt, France, Greece.
Hungary, Italy, Gutenberg, Nicara-
qua. Norway, the Netherlands and
the Netherland colonies, Paraguay,
Portugal. Russia, Servia, Spain,
Sweden. Switzerland and Tunis.