The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-18
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The whisky trust will be reorgan-
ized.
The Brooklyn trolley strike has
been officially declared off.
Fort Scott, Kan, saloons and gam
bling houses have been closed.
Eugene V. Debs says that his con-
spiracy trial will never be resumed.
Frank Evans stabbed Ed Martin to
the heart at Hot Springs, Ark, over
trivial matter.
Great preparations are being made
at Lawrence, Kan, for the state G.
A. K. encampment.
Sevellon A. Brown, for a great
many years chief clerk of the state
department, is dead.
It is not likely that congress will
do anything with the Pacific road
question this session
The Florence and Cripple Creek
railroad has been sold to Boston
syndicate for 81, 600, 900.
The United States is prosecuting
George Lydick at Duluth for the theft
of 2, 300, 600 feet of lumber.
Congressman Bland will go on
silver lecture tour in Colorado and
other Western states in April.
0OLAOGA d 10 III JIG SCAdGO arc dDRE6"
hensive that some of the appropria-
ton bills will not get through.
Chief Justice Horton of Kansas de-
clares that he has no intention of re-
signing his place oG the bench.
A new dynamite gun has been
tested which throws a projectile of
1000 pounds nearly nine miles.
The Republicans of Moberly, Mo
=. &,rl - I'll g.
the first time in the city's history.
Dominick Mccartney, the once we'll
known pugilist, is in a New York hos b.
pital suffering from blood poisoning.
Charles Fair of San Francisco has
received an anonymous letter offering
to restore his father S will for SIS, 600.
John L. Sullivan was intervie wed
by Georgia society belle acting as
sporting editor for the Atlanta Jour
nal.
hon. C. N. Clark, who defeated
Congressman Hatch, thinks Missouri
can be safely counted as Republican
state.
Admiral Ting, Commodore Liu and
General Chang Chinese, killed them
selves because of the defeat at Wei
Hal Wei.
Two Covington. KY. boys, Charles
Ansory, aged 9, and Louis Bosom,
aged 10, skating on the Licking, fell
in and drowned
William Godfrey. Dyas, one of Chi.
cago's pioneer physicians, was killed
by Lake Shore passenger train al
the Sixty-ninth street crossing.
The house passed a resolution in
viting the maritime nations to Join
Uncle Sam in looking after the Beh-
ring sea seals in a fatherly way.
The cold SPELLS effect on cattle in
Texas is SAID by stockmen to be very
severe and disastrous. Texas live
stock men estimate the loss above %
per cent.
Wilson has been rendered by the re-
gents the position of president of the
University of Texas which offer he
has now under consideration.
A dispatch from Rome says that the
pope has sent protest to the Russian
minister at the arrest of thirty
Catholic priests in Poland, who are
accused of anti-dynastic tendencies
AS result of the grand jury inves
tigation, Isaiah 81. Bradbury, a negro
| politician and fxer. has left Kansa:
| City, and his wherea bouts are I'm.
known He is wanted by the authori
| ties.
David Wetze1. one of the mo st dis
tinguished ministers of the Chris ii al
| church, died in San Francisco. He
| had been pastor at several points il
| Illinois, al Hutchinson, Kan, anc
! Oakland, Cal
Receivers of the Des Moines, Iowa
| Union Building and Loan associa tiol
| have reported to the court tn at tn,
| liabilities of the defu net concern ar,
/ $19Q, 334 and the assets 500, 419. It i.
asserted that the ass ociation wa:
| wrecked by Encouragement