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

On East Indian railroads the greatest
difficulty is encountered from ants who
eat the wooden ties and telegraph poles.
The Baltimore and Ohio has decided
to erect handsome station at Benwood
Junction, w. Va, which is the termi-
nus Of three divisions of that road.
It requires /, ,O35 locomotives to op-
crate the New York, Lake Erie and
Western road and S91 cars of various
kinds exclusive of freight equipment.
Private and special cars must hereaft-
er be fitted with all standard Northwest
ern conveniences in the-way of brakes
and couplers, or that road will refuse to
haul them
The departure recently made by the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western in
the introduction of vestfbuled suburban
trains will, it is said, be followed by
two other trunk lines.
In order to beautify country stations
an English lady sends presents of seeds
and cuttings from her conservatory to
all the station masters on the line over
which she travels from her country
home.
1t is said that the Duluth, Mississippi
River and Northern road will carry this
summer some 80, 900, 900 feet of logs,
and the other standard gauge logging
roads in the Duluth and upper Missis-
sippi region about So, 900, 600 feet
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SKINNED ALIVE.
Black Man F1aysd BY n Mob In Geor-
Eia.

A Black Man F1aysd BY n Mob In Geor-
gia.
ATLANTA, Ga, June 14.-Telegrams
received in this city tell of a sensational
and most horrible affair which is said to
have occurred near Blackshear, in Pierce
county, southeastern county.
Early Monday morning a negro as
sauIted Miss Herring, a young lady of
highly respectable family, the daughter
of Nose Herring, whose home is four
teen miles southeast of BlaclSshear. The
negro escaped to the woods, but the
young lady recovered sufficiently to
raise an alarm. A posse Of twenty men
captured him, took him to Miss Herring,
who fully identified him as her assailant
After hanging the brute to tree they
let him down and then literally skinned
him alive. The negro lived SIX hours
after he had been subjected to this treat
ment and was conscious part of the time.
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FIFTY DROWNED.
A Passenger Boat Loaded With
Harvesters,
Capsizes Off the Coast of
Ireland.
A II ANNA G. ILL I'll E A I'D
TwO-Thirds of Those ON Board
Drown.
Eighteen Bodies Have Been
Recovered.

CASTLE BAR ISLAND, Ireland, June IA
dispatch from Westport quay. about
II miles from this city, announces ter
rible disaster to party of harvesters
who were on their way to Scotland.
passenger boat returning to West
port quay from Achn island having on
board eighty harvesters, who were to be
shipped to Scotland from Westport, cap
sized.
According to the first report of the dis
aster "a of the 80 passengers were
drowned but later advices say that it is
believed that fifty harvesters lost their
lives. The boat capsized off Armagh
Head. Eighteen bodies have been al
ready recovered, but the exact number
of persons saved is not known.
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L. E. DEAN IN TOWN.
The NsW York AfIiancs Leader Tall
About POpuiism.

The Nsw York AiIiance Leader Talks
About POpuiism.
The executive committee of the Ma
tionaI Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union was to have met in this city today.
Only one member. 1. E. Dean of New
York, is present, SO the meeting was in
definitely postponed
In speaking of the Alliance Mr.. Dean
said: 81 do not know much about the
condition of the Alliance in the west,
but in New York and Pennsylvania we
are increasing in numbers. In New
York we have increased our member
ship 1,700 since the meeting of the Ma
tionaI Alliance in February. In Penn
sylvania 1000 members have been taken
into the organization in three months.
81 consider the alliance stronger than
ever because it has passed through the
period of a boom membership and large
receipts and we now have the most de-
sirable members and we are down to
hardpan."
How does the Populisr cause stand in
the east?"
1T is all right. The people are get
ting their eyes open and we will get
100000 votes in New York this year.
We have more reason to be Populists in
New York than the people in any other
state because we owe more. Our in
debtedness is 800 more per capita than
yours mere in Kansas"
"From which party will you draw your
Strength"
"W will draw more from the Republi-
cans because they are the most intelli-
gent and we have to depend upon the
thinking men for our votes-I say this
as former Democrat There is no dis
guising the fact that the heavy Demo
cratic vote comes from the slum districts
of New York. Our vote formerly has
come from the farmers, but we will now
draw largely from the intelligent classes
in the cities, because the merchants and
business men have been feeling the eff
feet of the depression.
''Senators Stewart and Jones will both
make campaign of New York in the
interests of the Populists.
"Our party will adopt suffrage plank
but l doubt if the measure will ever be
submitted by the constitutional conven-
ton which is now in session. A majority
of the convention are Republicans and
the Republicans don't want women to
vote"
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GEN. ARTZ ONCE MORE.
He Says Posts Have Been Established to
Forward COxeyites.

Forward CoxeyItes.
Ex-Adjuiant General Ii. Ii. Artz ar
rived in Topeka at noon today to say good
bye to his wife before leaving for Wash
ington.
TO a STATE JOURNAL reporter General
Artz said: I'VE expect TO pull out OF
Kansas City by Saturday morning for
the east; but we have established per-
manent post at Kansas City, and some
officer will be left in command to send
other wealers along who come into the
post.
During the past eight or ten days reg
ular posts have been esta blished at Kan
sas City, St. Louis and Cincinnati and
they will be maintained as long as they
can be used to advantage. 1t works this
way, seventy-tive or hundred men
come into Kansas City from the west and
northwest every day and we send them
on to St Louis where they are cared for
until they can be sent on to Cincinnati
from where they are TO go direct TO.
Washington.
"We don't have any trouble in sending
our men ON now. OF course we don't
send them as a regular army or as regu-
lar passengers, but they get there just
the same The railroads don't object to
hauling them and the train hands assist
our men all they can.
1--WE can send one hundred men from
Kansas City to St Louis in one night
without any trouble. We can send ten
or twenty men on most any train by the
men slowing away in box cars and obey
ing the train hands.
1--WE get plenty to eat, and we will now
be able to start our whole crowd through
in a bunch"
General Artz said he stayed with the
men in camp part of the time, and stayed
at a hotel up town when he gets tired of
camp life.
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PROTECTION POPS.
Allen, PETER, Kyle ami Stewart Confer on


Allen, PETER, Kyle ami Stewart Confer on
Free Wool
WASHINGTON, June 14.-The Populists
of the Senator Allen, PETER, Kyle and
Stewart have held several conferences
on the subject of free wool and the four
have decided to vote for the PETER
amendment giving wool five or six cents
a pound protection.
Ii all the Republicans should vote the
same way, two Democratic votes will be
necessary to carry. 1t is not probable
these could be found. Five or six Dem
ocrats would be probably willing to vote
for duty on wool, but for fear that such
act might upset the entire agreement to
stand by the bill of the finance commit
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THE NEWSPAPER MEN
Who Exposed the Sugar Trust Are Not
Yet Indicted.

Yet Indicted.
WASHINGTON. June 14-The grand
jury of this district has not yet formally
declared correspondents Edwards and
Shriver guilty of contempt of the SEN
ate." The grand jury made its regular
report today, but it contained no mention
OF the cases of the two correspondents.
1t IS probable the delay is due to in
tention to bunch the cases of the news
paper men with that of Broker Chap
man of New York.
The certificate of President Ste
venson, reciting the refusal of Chapman
to reply to the committees questions
and requesting that steps be taken for
his prosecution, reached the attorney
and will probably be presented to the
jury within two or three days.
The sugar trust investigation commit
tee will begin to question senators to-
morrow, and it is understood will have
every member of the senate before them
before ceasing this line of their inquiry.
The idea of the committee is to have
every senator answer for himself, as to
whether he has bought, or sold sugar
stock. furnished information concerning
tariff Legislation on sugar, or has been in
any way Improperly Influenced in mis-
official actions by the trust. 1t is not
known yet what senators will be called
first
There is but one witness before the
committee and his examination did
not consume more than fifteen min
utes time. The witness was Charles
Coster of the firm of Dire xel,
Morgan & Co., of New York, and he was
summoned because of reports that his
firm had bought large quantities of
sugar stocks.
Mr.. Coster said that he knew of no
such speculation in the stock by senators,
nor of any effort to influence legislation
in any manner by the sugar trust, and
with this statement, he was excused
Before the committee adjourned
YESTERDAY. while Mr.. Searles was
testifying, Senator Allen said: '.As
a member of the committee l in
sist that this witness and also the witness
Mr.. Havemeyer, shall be required to
state the amount of funds cOntri buted by
the American Sugar Refining company
for political purposes in the 1892 and
1898. and that upon failure to testify up
on that subject they shall be reported to
the senate as other Witnesses have been
reported
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BOODLEISM IN MEXICO.
Fifty Employees of the Treasury Depa
meat Under q Cloud.

Fifty Employees of the Treasury Depart
meat Under a Cloud.
CITY OF Mexico, June IA pro-
found sensation has been created in gov
ernment and social circles of this city by
the secretary of the treasury preferring
charges against fifty of the prominent
officials of his department
The charges are of a criminal nature,
it being alleged that the employees will
fully destroyed certain documents be-
longing to the department, with view
of concealing a serious offense, the ma
ture of which has not been made public.
Many of those accused have been in
the employ of the government for seve-
raj years. and were never before suspect
ed of wrong doing.
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TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
The City Sanitary Committee Holds an
Important Meeting Tonight

Important Meeting Tonight.
There will be meeting tonight at 8
o'clock of the health and sanitary COM
mittee of the city council at the council
chamber to consider and report on two
ordinances that have been referred to 1t
by the council at the meeting of Monday
evening, June 4.
The first ordinance to be considered
will be the scavenger ordinance which IS
entitled "An ordinance to provide for the
appointment of city scavenRers, present
ing the duties and regulations governing
the same, providing license and fixing
the fee to be charged, penalties for vio-
lating, etc, and repeating certain ordi-
nances heretofore passed that conflict
with this one.
Heretofore the sanitary system OF the
city has been under the supervision of
the health board. the health committee .
or the city physician, with 40 tangi, lie
head to pounce upon in case
of violation or neglect of duties
Under this ordinance il is pro-
posed to establish responsible head or
heads to the sanitary system. The COM
mittee will probably report favorably
with the possible exception of some miu
or changes that have not been decided
on.
The other is the ''cigarette ordinance
which if made a law will prohibit the
sale of tobacco, opium, narcotics TO min
ors under sixteen years of age in the
city of Topeka, except on physical 5
subscription, and will undoubtedly =
favorab bly, reported with the other by the
committee at the meeting of the council
fOmOrroyy evening
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EPPS FOR GOVERNOR.

New HRmpshire POpulists Make NomI-
nations and Adopt a Platform
MANCHESTER, n. H., June 14-The
Peoples party state convention today
nominated George P. Epps for governor
and for congressman Josiah III. Whittier
and E. n. BIodgett.
The platform declares for the i'm
mediate adoption of the initiative and
referendum; annual state elections: the
eight hour working day; against interest
bearing bonds of the government; for
state control of the liquor traffic and
against trusts.
The Omaha platform is endorsed.
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Cnrmen,s Union.

CHICAGO. June 14-Members of the
Railway Garments union elected officers
here today and adjourned their annual
session. The election resulted in the
election of Grand Chief Carmen ]. d.
Stevenson, East St Louis; secretary and
treasurer, f. l. Romemus, Estherville,
Iowa The convention will meet in June,
1896, at Chattanooga. General offices
will be removed to Kansas CITY
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OMAHA, June 14.-One hundred and
fifty United States United States deputy
marshals, recruited at Omaha this morn
ing, are now on board a Union Pacific
train at the Union depot, and will leave
with the wealers. They expect to meet
the captured train between Jules burg,
Colo, and Ogallala, Neb., as the latest
information at Union Pacific headquar-
ters is that the Coxeyites have succeeded
in getting the captured train that was
derailed by the accidental turning of a
switch back on the track and started cast
at high rate Of speed.
All authorities agree that a desperate
fight is almost certain when the COxey-
ties and the deputies collide, as the Union
Pacific officials here have information
that the men who captured the train are
armed miners from Cripple Creek, who
are trying to get out of the country to
avoid arrest for crimes committed there.
In anticipation of hot work the depu-
ties are armed each with two Colts re-
volvers and Z Winchester, being supplied
with two belts of ammunition and large
extra supply in the baggage Car. The
train consists of three day coaches and
baggage car.
An effort is to be made to surround the
COxeyites and take them some pace
where the authorities can prevent -depre-
,datiOns, as reports from the scene are
that the men have created a reign of
terror by raiding farms in the vicinity
for food. They are on the point of star
vafiur.
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HomeODathI.ts, Tubtlaa

DENVER, June 14.-DeIegates to the
jubilee meeting of the American Insti-
tute of Homeopathy are arriving today
on every train. They represent all parts
of the country. When the meeting is
called to order at 3 o'clock there will be
from three to five hundred delegates
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PROF. yAIL'S LECTURES.
At Representative Hail Friday and sa
urdRy Nights.

At Representative Hail friday anu ~ =
urdRy Nights.
He will give the Worlds Philosophy
in a nutshell. He is the author of the
Vailian theory and is highly endorsed
by authorities on mythology, philosophf
and geology. He will speak on the sui
jects already announced in the JOURNAL
A well known Topeka man who has
been acquainted with Prof. Vail for
fourteen years, says: "He is wri. .er
of the richest thought, and is know
throughout the world as the abiest stu
dent aud speaker on his themes. III
lectures in California attracted no larger
audiences, however, than the large num-
bers who have heard him in Concordia
and other Kansas towns" Prof. Vail 5
endorsed by Professors Davidson. Viii
liams and Ayres, County Superintendent
Wright and State Superintendent Gaines
of this city and Hon. K. Stanley of Law
renee Admission % cents.
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ARMS WERE ORDERED.
| COxsyftes Have Control of a Freight Train
| in Southern Illinois.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 14-United
States Marshal Brinton. having been un-
able to control the Mt. Olive strikers,
who had side-tracked twelve cars of coal
of the Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis rail-
road company, today secured fifty stands
of arms and ammunition from the state
and had them sent to Mount Olive to
arm special deputy marshals.
This move was successful and the
trains are now moving as usual. The
arms were then ordered sent from Mount
Olive to Fairfield, where Coxeyites have
control of a freight train of the Louisville
Evansville s. st. Louis consolidated rail :
road
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National Retail butchers.

WHEELING, ". Va, June 14-fhe
National Retail Butchers association of
the United States elected the following
officers here today: President, D. ].
Shaw. Fort Wayne, Ind; first vice presi-
dent, Conrad K. Linghoewer. Evansville,
Ind; second vice president, Fred c. Lob,
Buffalo, N Y; secretary, Christopher
Brokat, st Louis; treasurer, Charles
Noll St. Louis Mo-
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MIDvALE, O., June 14-The new
L. s. w. bridge to replace the one burned
by strikers, will be completed late today.
AS soon as the last spike is driven, 400
cars of coal now side-tracked here will
be started for Cleveland. The strikers
are in no pleasant mood, and a crisis may
be reached when coal trains are started.
Every bridge is heavily guarded. and
pickets cover the roadway for twenty
five miles,
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NOT A DOLLAR
To Pay on the s2-OOO,OOO Burst Up of
ChamberInIn InvesIment Co.

Chamberlain Anvestnaen1 Co.
DENVER, June al G. Ellsworth as
signee of Humphrey b. Cham berlain and
the Chamberlain Investment company is
quoted by the Republican today as say
ing that he has not one dollar to pay sew
eral millions of debts. Mr.. Cham berlain's
assets aggregating in face value $2,OOO,
OOO brought 500 at public sale.
The Investment company has about
$6,OOO,OOO of shares in mining corpora
tions to offset proved claims of 81, 500,
600, but these assets, which are to be sold
next Monday are not expected to realize
any more than did those of Mr.. Chamber
lain. A full list of the creditors WHO are
in all parts of the world would fill an
eight page newspaper.
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COLON, june 14-The stories circulat-
ed in connection with the conflagration
at Panama, have been grossly exagger-
ated Instead of 20 buildings being de-
stroyed, only $50 small, cheap dwellings
have been burned; instead of loss of
$1.5OO,OOO. it is estimated that the amount
OF property destroyed will not under any
circumstances exceed $35O,0OO.
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JULEsBURG, Col, June 14.-Six hun
dred COxeyites have been encamped
here since yesterday morning. Last
night they took a Union Pacific engine
from the round house and started east
ward. The engine and one car were
ditched, and the army is still here await
ing another opportunity to capture a
train. The yards have been closed and
trains are running through without stop
ping. A raid on the town is feared if
their provisions run short
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A ReIic OF Johnstovn FIood

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June 14.-While dig
ging a trench through a cellar that had
been excavated and then filed up by the
flood of 1889, workmen unearthed par
lor car which was lost from the Inflated
day express at Conemaugh. 1t is be-
lieved that further search viii unearth
bodies of persons lost on that train
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yafnsourI Town burned Tn

MoNETT, Mo, June 14-The town of
Purdy, eight miles south Of this city,
was gutted by fire at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. Twelve business buildings and a
number of residences are in ashes. Loss
$4,000: insurance about $4,000.
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JOINED THE POPULISTS.

The Wisconsin Federation OF Labor to
Send Delegates to the Convention.
OSHKOSH. Wis, June 14-Action waa
taken by the Wisconsin state federation
of labor at its session here, which Will
have an important bearing on the next
election.
A resolution was passed by unanimous
vote for the election of delegates to the
Populist state convention to be held at
Milwaukee, July 4th, and asking the CO
operation Of the socialist societies in the
movement The federation claims to
represent 10000 voters.
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Reported That 500 COxeyites
Seize a Union Pacific Train
And Are Flying Eastward at
High Speed.
DEPUTIES AFTER THEM
Armed With Two Colts RevOl
vers and WinchesterS,
They Leave Omaha to Try to
Capture Them.

DENVER, June 14.-The 500 Coxeyites
who seized a Union Pacific engine at
Julesburg, last night, and attempted to
make up train to carry them east were
thwarted by the accidental ditching OF
their engine in switching.
They then determined to seize the reg
ular east bound passenger train from this
city.
Fifty deputy United States marshals
have been sent from this city to arrest
the Coxeyites should they seize train.
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RoME, June 14-It is reported that the
pope has refused to sanction the election
of Canon Keller to the bishopric of
Cloyne, Ireland, owing to the prominence
with which that prelate took in the plan
of campaign. 1t Is added that the pope
has appointed Canon Browne, who was
second on the list for the appointment.
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state bank congress here a consolidation
has been affected between the state
bankers and the private bankers assO-
Citations The new organization was
christened the Bankers of Illinois.
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Post once n1etho0s.

In the early part of the century the
British postmaster general received
suggestions of several methods
for conveying the royal mails besides
steam locomotives. Among others was
one made by royal engineer, who
advised that the mails should be en-
closed in shells and fired from one
stage to another. A good bonn bardier
would be able to drop a shell within n
few feet of mortar or cannon. which
would be required to pass it o11 to the
next stage.
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CHICAGO, June IA The election of
committees occupied the morning ses-
sion of the American Railway Union
convention today. During the afternoon
reports of committees were heard and
the matter of the Pullman strike was
referred to a special committee for i'm
rrnaHiafa
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The Populist state central committee
has elected ]. w. Breidenthal, ID. c. Ter
cher, r H Semple, o. L. Smith and
Rufe Cone as the executive committee.
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CLEVELAND, o., June 14-GeneraI
Manager Woodford, of Cleveland, Lo-
raine & Wheeling road, has wired to John
Mcbride that rumors that the company
will start its mines with non- union men
are false. Mr.. Woodford expressed the
hope that the strikers would go to work
Monday
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MoNoNGAHELA CITY, Pa, June IA
The railway trestIe at Old Eagle mines
on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie road, two
and half miles below here, was burned
about daylight and all traffic has been
temporarily suspended. The fire was the
work of incendiaries. Everything is re-
ported quiet at ManOWn.