The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-17
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

1t is rumored that Ex-Governor
Hogg of Texas will start newspaper
at Dallas.
Water and light companies of Mis-
souri, and Kansas have formed an or
ganiza ton.
Fifty men have been summoned
from which to select jury in the
Harlan murder case in Fayette, Mo.
In Defiance, Ohio, the Clipper pillow
works were destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $50, 900 and the insurance
small.
The limita tions law of Illinois was
declared unconstitutional by the state
supreme court.
The trial of Representative c. H.
Harlan for the murder of C. W. Mon
roe was begun at Fayette, Mo.
A proposition has been submitted to
the Russian council of state that a
legation to the vatican be esta bIished.
The senate committee on naval af-
fairs has authorized senator Butler to
report favorably the bill for the re-
organization of the personnel of the
navy.
The senate committee on naval
affairs has decided upon the indefinite
pOstponement of the resolution pro-
viding for a balIistic test of the Car
negie plates.
While skating in the river at OF
tawa, Kan, Walter Sellers broke
through the ice and was rescued with
great difficulty. He is now in a fair
way to recover.
Reports from the New York sub
Treasury state $500, 900 in gold was
withdrawn Wednesday for export,
leaving the true amount of the gold
reserve S75, AGA, 0O3.
In the Hartley murder case, Judge
Cheney of Reno, New, admitted the
defendant to bail in the sum of $25,
600, pending a new trial. Citizens
promptly furnished $50. 900.
The new tariff of the Argentine Re-
public reported to the state depart
ment reduces the duty on products
imported from the United States in to
that country.
The strike in the MassilIon, Oh 10,
coal district has finally come to an
end, all the drivers and outside men
who have been on strike agreeing
to go back to work for 81. 90 day.
! Two men were killed an two others
/ injured by a boiler explosion at the
40-inch mill in the Carnegie stee |
works at Homestead. The boile r
/
! failing a loss of $4,000.
Governor Mcintyre of Colorado has
appointed c. NJ. Moses of Pueblo adj
/ iutant general and Mrs. John Routt,
wife of the ex-governor, and ex-Gov-
/ ernor Alva Adams mem bers of the
state agricultural board.
On account of slack trade the Amer
lean Wire company of Cleveland,
Ohio, has closed down its rod mills,
throwing 500 men out of employing a t.
The company believes that the sus-
pension will be of only temporary
duration.
Joseph Banigan, the founder of the
st. Maria Home for Working Girls at
Providence, R. l., has donated $50, 900
to endow chair in political econom y
in the Catholic unive rsity. The gift
was handed to Bishop Keane on the
occasion of banquet at the St Maria
Home.
The Kearney National bank Of
Kearney, Neb, which suspended pay
ment December ID, 1894, having fully
complied with the conditions imposed
by the comptroller of the currency.
and the capital stock now being un-
impaired. has been permitted to re-
open its doors for business. i.
In Little Rock, Ark, the conven-
ton of county judges called by Judge
w. A Compton to meet in that city
brought but eighteen of these Off
Gals together. The convention
adopted resolutions outlining certain
legislation which they desired en-
acted and will lay it before the legis-
lature.
Beloit. Wis. college trustees have
voted to admit women to the college
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a great change in the custom of the
institution, which for fifty years has
been for men only. It was announced
that Horace White of New York CITY,
has given $4,000 for needed library
improvement