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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
FIREBUGS X In.
Arrested by Detectives Upon Arriving from
Europe.

New YORK. June 2T.-When the
steamer Rhvnland. of the Red Star
line, landed, shortly before : o'clock
yesterday morning, she was boarded
by detectives who had warrants for
the arrest of two men who came over
in her. The men they were after were
Max Glucllman, the mechanic of the
tircbug gang, and AdOlph Herf, whose
confession has led to the arrest of sew
eral members of the gang. Both were
Identified last March and disappeared
at the time. They were traced to Eu-
rope and Russia, and it was learned
ten days ago that they had started
back for this country on the steamer
Rhynland. The detectives took their
men off the steamer and brought them
to police headquarters.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
SUGGESTIVE FLOTSAM.
Two Miles of Floating Cargo and Wreck
age.

LONDON, June 2s.-The tug Albert
Victor, returning to Weymouth, re
ports that twelve miles southwest of
Portlandville. in the English channel,
she passed through two miles of float
ing barrels, boxes and loose wreckage.
A carved mahogany table our feet
long and a quantity of wreckage have
come ashore at Godnor. 1t is pre-
sumed that the vessel to which the
w~reckage and floating cargo, etc, be-
longed, was sunk in collision with
some other ship.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
VICTORIES

Claimed by the Government Troops In ths
Vicinity of Santiago DE Cuba.
New YORK, June 29.-The Herald's
special dispatch from Havana, Cuba,
says:
A band of 300 insurgents made an
attack on Tiarriba, lear Santiago,
June "a. They were repulsed and
afterward pursued by the Spanish
troops.
Gen. Maceo has been forced out of
Camaguey by Spanish troops, who
claim to have achieved many victories
over the rebels in that vicinity.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
SERIOUS CHARGES
Against the Managers of Gas Light Com
panies-A Receiver Wanted.

MILWAUKEE, June 27.-Edward n.
Andrews, of Seattle, Wash, in his ap.
plication in the United States court
for n receiver for the Racine Gas Light
Co., makes a number Of very serious
charges against the managers of that
corporation and of the Fond du Lac and
Oshkosh companies, alleging conspiracy
and misrepresentation of funds in order
to make the stock which he holds in the
Fond du Lac, Racine and Hamilton
(OhIo) gas companies worthless.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06

AN Indiana jury recently returned Il YER
dict of '.Blode to pieces by Il biier busting.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-07-06
WILL NOT BE BULLIED.

dungeons is past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
KANSAS PARAGRAPHR

Sensational news item from the Bur
lington Jeffersonian; 6. T. ShotWell has
a new pair Of pants.
Bountiful rains have made life so in
teresting in western Kansas that even
wells have ceased to be bored.
Mr.. Maudin of Mound Valley, might
very naturally be suspected of writing
the prohibition stuff in the Wichita
papers
The editor of the Hiawatha World
offers to buy ice cream for all the young
ladies who will appear on the streets in
bloomers.
The Lawrence man who had to take
musk to get rid of the hiccoughs, is uu-
decided which is worse, the remedy or
the disease.
The independence ball club was de-
feated by Coffeyville and the Independ-
ence band Immediately gave band con-
cert No. IS.
The Beloit band played "The Country
Dance" at Atchison, and when the call
ing off could be heard the audience sim
ply went wild.
There is a man at Goodland who is
going to have the Horn Harvey debate
printed and bound into the same volume
with his Bible.
Twenty five Atchison men who count
ed on the saloons furnishing the city
with revenue, are about to be arrested for
not paying their poll tax.
No one would suppose SaIina BIZ
yet after a hard road race every one of
them comes in rider, haggard.
It has been so long since there was
knock down fight in Burlington's poker
room that it is thought the practice of
dealing from the bottom has fallen into
desuetude.
Emporia has arranged for a series of
ball games with Independence and the
Emporia batters are practicing with
cannon so as to be in shape for "Dum-
ney's" curves.
A Newton young man who received
an invitation to party at the house of
his employer, after a great deal of hard
thought, concluded that r s. Y. P.
meant Reduced salaries very prob
able"
Fit Scott may be sleepy but when it
comes to playing checkers she doesn't
ask odds of anybody A Fit Scott man
| blindfolded beat a Hutchinson man so
badly in a dozen moves that he threw up
the game.
A Hiawatha baby took the prize at a
| Missouri baby show and then was dis
! qualified because it was from Kansas.
That was proper enough; Kansas
baby has sure thing when entered with
/ Missouri babies.
Atchison Globe: Two Atchison school
| teachers in Colorado are said to have
made arrangements whereby there will
be two vacancies on the teachers force
to be filed by Christmas. Men are as
plentiful as cactus in Colorado.
Scranton Gazette: well, child" said
a Scranton mother the other day to her
| little one who was giving party to her
young friends, "you aud your visitors
are doing nothing but sitting around aud
looking miserable. Why don't you play
something's "We are playing some
thing, mamma: we're playing we's
groWed up" said the young Innocent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
ITALIAN FUNCTIoNARIEs.
they Manage to Ruin the Tax-Paying
E,,t,

they Manage to Ruin the Tax-Paying
Public.
In Italy any unfortunate who owes
10 per cent finds his little debt run up
by sheriffs' officers, tribunal expenses
and all the manifold charges of nota-
lies, attorneys and advocates to zoo per
sent before he has time to breathe or
realize his situation and the forced
sales are so conducted that the prop
srty sold produces nothing for any one
except the state and the auctiOneers,
says Ouida in the Fortnightly Review.
The state takes it percentage first, be-
fore even the creditors, and thus is
| caused the avidity with which all state
officials and myrmidons drag to ruin,
| by intrigue and extortion, a large ma
iority of the Italian tax-paying public.
| Note the salaries paid to the officials
| of the tribunals in Italy and judge if
such officials are not invited and forced
to ruin the mass of the people. Where
a County court judge in England has
FL, 900 to $4,000 a year he receives here
the equivalent of f40, or perhaps ESQ
per annum. All the lesser functionaries
/ are paid in proportion. The Giudice
conciliatore, who answers to the JUICE
de la paix in France and the police
magistrate in England, is paid some
times at the rate of E20 per annum,
| sometimes not at all; the pockets of the
appellants at his court must maintain
! him. 1t can readily be understood that
all these hungry funtionaries of the
law, big and little, live on the public
perforce, and that almost any iniquity
or injustice may be obtained under
their rule if money be largely enough
and secretly enough expended. Your
splendor is my dishonor," said Bacon
to his magnificent liveried serving men
who rose to meet him when he entered
court to stand upon his trial.
The Italian functionaries may say to
the Italian Themis: THAT we have
coats to our backs and rings on our
fingers is your dishonor, for you do not
pay US enough to enable US to get either
honestly" notwithstanding this mis-
cradle pay which they receive, Italy
spends on the administration of law
1876, 600, 900 francs-i. e., 100000 francs
more than France lin comparison tc
the population and 100000 francs
more than England. The public which
contributes all these millions gets little
Or nothing for its money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

Mr.. SIDNEY HAYDEN's method of
closing the Holton saloons is worthy of
more than passing notice. He brought
the United States government to his aid
by causing the jointists to surrender
their government licenses. Mr.. Hayden
reasoned rightly that few men dare to
brave the authority of the United States.
Why is this? 1t is largely because the
government has for administrative Off
GERS men who are paid a salary and are
not dependent upon fees or an election
by the people. They have no incentive
to do other than their duty and their
whole duty. This case shows what could
be done if the national government
would take up the suppression of the
liquor traffic. In the mean time, while
we are waiting for that, why should not
the same methods be applied by the
state and the municipality? It is pretty
safe to say that an officer can find some
way to enforce any law if he desires to
do it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

The Atchison Globe is all "put out"
because it is proposed to enforce the
law there and says: Three weeks ago,
before the row commenced, Atchison
people we're good natured, and greatly
encouraged to go ahead and push the
town. Now they are as quarrelsome and
iIl-tempered as an old bear with a trap
on its foot, There is no doing anything
with them, and enterprises that were
very promising three weeks ago have
been given up, or are waiting. If
such a thing is possible the row
should be disposed Of" Well, go
ahead and dispose of it in the right way.
Let everybody agree to obey the law
and abide by the agreement then there
won't be any row. Neither Atchison nor
any other town has any right to license
joints in violation of a state law and it
ought not to be allowed to do it. Get
right with the law and stop the row.
Burlington Republican.
Atchison is all right; it is only the
Globe that has the whines and snarls.
The most unpleasant thing about living
in Atchison is that outside people may
think the Globe really represents the
feelings of the Atchison folks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
WHO ARE THEYa

The presumption of the citizens of
Wichita, who in a set of resolutions de-
mand that they may be permitted to
violate the law, strikes the people of
Kansas today as a little beyond all
previous exhibitions of insolence
Most of the people who live in Wichita
came to this state after the prohibitory
Law was established. So doing, they
came with at least the implied intention
of obeying all our laws. If they did not,
they should not have come.
If it suits the people of Wichita to dis
obey one law it may suit them to disobey
another. They should not be allowed to
disobey any. The fact that such a large
proportion of the people of Wichita are
Iawbreakers, or aiders or abettors of
law breakers, should not give them Ii
cense to continue their notification of the
law.
Who are they that they should be al
lowed privileges that are denied other
cities and citizens2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
OUR STREET TROUBLES.
Every Rain Makes Great Expense to the
City.

Every Rain Makes Great Expense to the
City.
The city's street cleaning and grading
force is just now reduced to two men and
a team. This is not permanent, however.
and is done nearly every month along
toward the last for the reason that the
city street work must not go beyond a
certain sum per month. This is impera-
tive on account of the condition of the
city's finances. The city has about twen-
ty men employed on it's street force.
This rule is of course very trying to
the street commissioner and his ass ist-
ants
There is a great deal more work to do
on the streets of Topeka" he says, "than
you would imagine. 1 believe that if
all the work was done as it should be it
would require force three times as big
as the present one at work all the time.
We work under a great disadvantage
now.
''While the rain is undoubtedly great
thing for other people it is mighty hard
at times on the street force, for after each
heavy rain the sareet must be cleaned
and the weeds dug out Of the sink holes.
Rain undoes lots of work for Us.
sit was a terrible blow to the city
street department when the poll tax was
cut of. Every year we are short over
$4,000 by it. When the poll tax was
collectable it meant about $4,000 more in
cash and $4,000 in labor each year ap-
piled on the streets and it made big
differauoa1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
THE FINING SYSTEM.
We Have It in Topeka for Sup
pressing Joints,
BUT DON'T USE IT AS 4 LICENSE

AS Many Other Cities DO-JOseph
Waters Says Our Ordinance is I'm
constitutional Because 1t Provides
for No Jail sentence.
The question is not exactly a new one
but there seems to be good grounds for
doubt regarding the validity of the city
ordinance providing for punishment
for liquor selling
The city ordinance provides for fine
of 800 without Imprisonment in case of
a conviction for selling liquor. On the
other hand the state law provides for not
only a tine of 800 but Jail sentence of
thirty days as well.
A great many people have been fined
500 by the police court, paid their fines
and gone their way, but the question
now arises, has the city the right to i'm
pose a punishment for any otfense that
is not at least equal to that required by
the state?
Captain Joseph G. Waters says decid-
edly it has not. and sustains his position
with several citations on the subject from
Kansas statutes and from "DillOn on Mu-
nicipal Corporation"
Certainly" he says, "the city ordi-
nance relating to the sale of liquors in
-
the same shbject, and is therefore not
valid. If the city had the right to make
a penalty less than the state provides 1t
would thereby enter into an agreement
to protect the criminal, for he could not
| be tried twice for the same oHense."
City Attorney Bird taxes an opposite
| position and holds that the ordinance is
all right
THE supreme court of the state so
holds" he says. 81 know because of
two instances in which was the at
torney. In the case of city against
Myers, "a Kansas 500, was Myers at
torney, and in the case of the city
against Zufall was the city attorney.
In both of those the supreme court held
that the city ordinance of Topeka re-
garding the sale of intoxicating liquors
was all right"
1t has been discovered also that the
city has no ordinance by which man
can be punished for soliciting busin es'
for disorderly woman unless It can bt
proved that he is connected with dis
| orderly house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

THE position of the gold bugs on the
money question is based on theory; the
position of the free silver men is based
on historical facts An expanding cur
rency has always been followed by pros
perity which has continued until con-
traction set in. a contraction of the
currency, such as the destruction of the
greenbacks and the disuse of silver is
always followed by panics and hard
times. No amount of theorizing can
overcome these facts,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
re council Bradford, Stephenson, Fulton

are council Bradford, Stephenson, Fulton
and Pattison.
Z The committee will look over the list
of judgment-which is not yet made out
and will decide what rate to recommend
to the council, Among the yet unpaid
claims that will be included in this list
is the sewer judgment of $4,000 and
costs $500. There are several small
judgments. that will bring the footing up
to about $4,000 or more
Mr.. stephenson said last evening that
he thought the assessment would be one
half or three fourths of mill but City
Attorney Bird declares it will have to be
at least two mills. to meet the exigency
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
THE SPECIAL AssEssMENT.

The Ways and Means Committee Meets
Tonight to Consider 1T.
The ways and means committee of the
city council will hole a meeting at the
council room this evening to talk over
the levy of an assessment the council
will make,at its meeting on the evening of
Monday, August 9th looking to the
liquidation of the many damage judg-
ments now held against the city.
Councilman Burgess is chairman of
the committee and the other members
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

The county attorney of sedgwick
county says that people are leaving the
Methodist and Presbyterian churches
of Wichita because of the anti-liquor
agitation. There are no doubt many
Wichitans who would rather give up
Christianity than beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

HAMILTON, the colored burglar, who
has served three terms in the peniten-
tiary without any apparent effect, should
be sent to the Hutchinson institution
next, where he would be subjected to the
reforming influence of the piano, and the
incu bator with which the officials have
provided that prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

Nor since the government was found
ed has any administration had such try
ing times as this administration has had
to contend with, says Secretary Carlisle.
He might have truthfully added that no
administration has undertaken so gigan-
tic scheme of robbery of the people as
this one has, and this fact accounts large
" for the increased difficulties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

THE manner in which General Marti-
nez de Campos insists that the Cuban in
surgents are routed and disbanded, marks
him as a man who would be a valuable
addition to the ranks of sound money"
He could take up the cry that 'the silver
craze is dying out" and work it to a
finish
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

GRENoLA Chief: Wonders will never
cease. A Kansas man has actually re-
fused a $1,000 clerkship in the Office OF
secretary of state. And he was a colored
man, too, of Leavenworth. Bring out the
soothsayers, the astrologers, and astron-
omical prognosticators, and have his case
d an.nnsn6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

In arranging for the encampment of
the national guard the suggestion has
sion fee. Topeka already has the repu-
tation of charging an admission to every
kind of entertainment that has ever &C.
Cured in the city. Couldn't it be man
aged to give the people a free show
Onca2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

THE arrest of the man Hamilton for
burglary affords an interesting common
tary on our system of dealing with crime.
Here is man % years of age who has
served three terms in a penitentiary and
is on the road to a fourth. Yet convicLs
are being pardoned continually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

E BILL has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature to license betting and
pool selling on horse races, but the Kan
sas limit of ten days is enlarged to sixty
days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

SINCE arrangements have finally been
completed for keeping the Wichita sa-
looms closed the governor and the attor-
ney general might now turn their atten-
ton to Leavenworth and Kansas City,
Ka0aaq
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

IT is suggested that the law against
gambling bs amended so as to permit
betting on elections during ten days in
each Eaar-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
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suburbs, or at the same price in any
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26
Wenther Indications.

CHICAGO. July 26.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight; Saturday fair, with probably
cooler in west portion by evening; south
erly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

MAYOR STRONG is reported as declar-
ing that he will never hold office again,
and to be still in very unforgiving
frame of mind toward his friends who
persuaded him to accept the mayoralty
of New York. 1t is all on account of
being worried almost to death by office
seekers. The need of civil service regu-
lations in all affairs of government from
municipal to national is becoming more
urgent every day. It would be the
means of setting an army of office seek
ers to work at something useful
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

THE tinshop of A. A. Woodson would
make a MckinIeyite sick. Twenty-Five
gross of quart and half-gallon tin cans
are stacked up ready for use and two
workmen are busy as they can be solder
ing more. Mr.. Woodson is selling the
quart cans at forty cents per dozen.
While the Mckinley tariff was in oper-
alton the same grade was sold at sixty
five cents per dozen. Protection to
American labor in this instance worked
something of hardship on the farmers
ketbook.-Burlingto Courier.
The Wilson bill reduced the tariff on
tin about so per cent, and from the above
quotation it seems that the price of tin
cans has fallen in nearly the same pro-
portion. The question naturally arises,
what would have been the effect if the
duty had been entirely removed. Would
there have been a still further proper
tionate decline in the cost to the con-
sumner of the manufactured article 1t is
experiences like this that put theories
TO fight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

J. L. Sheldon is now here. Orders for
piano tuning addressed postofice box
% will be attended to promptly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-26

Come out and see the New Woman
beat the Coming Man tomorrow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-08-03
IN COOLING JELLY.
Always Cover II to Keep Out Mallgaans

Always cover Ie 20 Aeep Out Mol1G0AAo
Germs.
MY husband" said a physicians
wife not long ago, ''chanced too see
one day, standing on . shelf outside
our kitchen window. some moulds OF
jelly cooling for the nights dinner.
They were uncovered, as they were
out Of reach of cats, and in full view
Of cooks watchful eye; but he qnes
toned me about them, and asked if il
was our usual custom to leave jelly
thus unprotected. was obliged to
reply that, SO far as ] knew. it was
'Then,' he said. don't you know that
when we medical men want to Sc.
cure minute organisms for inves.
tigstion. we expose gelatine t.
the air or in places where
we have confined malignant germsa
The gelatine speedily attracts and
holds them. I'm afraid your favored
gelatine does the same. Cool the jelly
If you must, but cover it with . piece
Of close muslin And we have always
done that since then"
1t is to be feared that kitchen
processes are sources of illness more
often then is imagined. In many city
houses the little kitchen annex where
stands the refrigerator. and where
various eatables are kept, is directly
against . drain. Yet here stand daily
milk, butter, often custards
and puddinRs. and various other ab
sorbents. The average cook is abso.
lutely ignorant of sanitary cause and
effect. and the eternal vigilance of the
house mother is the famfly's chief
mercc.