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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09

tion for q bridge over the Moshassuck at
Promenade street and moved it's indef-
mite postponement. He then presented q
substitute resolution for q bridge and
TO cost 5000, which was passed.
A petition OF tho Provideuce Telephone
Company for permission to erect poles in
Gardner, Williams, Chestnut and Gaspee
streets and Kingsley avenue was laid over
under the rule.
Mr.. Parkhurst reported back a resolu-
tion, which was passed, directing tho city
solicitor to apply to the General Assem-
bly, for amendment to Sec. z, Chap.
735 to provide that the assessors OF taxes
shall annually, on Sept. !, furnish the
board Of canvassers printed copy OF tax
assessments with a list OF property and
taxpayers.
The monthly report Of the city treasur-
er was received.
Mr.. Barney reported for the committee
on the purchase of lands adjoining Roger
Williams Park on lands corner Of Anthony
and Youlden streets. The matter was
made q special one for the next meeting.
The city engineer will be requested TO at
tend and give information as to the de-
sirability OF condemning the five lots in
question.
A report was received from the commit
tee on pending suits.
A communication, presented by Mr..
Angel, requesting further appropria-
lions, amounting TO sU,OUO, Tor the city
auditors department was referred TO the
committee on finance.
Mr.. Clarke presented resolution re-
questing the committee on highways 10
ascertain the cost OF procuring stone for
macadam purposes from Diamond Hill
and Hucklcberry Island. Passed.
Other Matters Referred.
petition OF tho board OF canvassers
relative to furnishing lists OF voters was
referred; also OF Peter McGowan, for
damages J. Il. q. German,
for remission of sewer assessme mt ;
q report directing the park commissioners
TO report relative TO the expediency Of
combining the Office OF park superinten-
dent and park engineer; William Me-
Laughlin, for remission of sewer tax; !;
of John NJ. Clarke, for reimbursement for
an overcoat stolen from the High School.
In Concurrence.
The Council concurred with the Board
OF Aldermen in the following matters:
The election OF appraisers OF damages
under the game and dog laws; the con
tract with franklin Brothers for hiring
carriages; the report of the city auditor
for March; the 66th quarterly report
OF the sinking fund commissioners; the
quarterly report of the weigher of the
Haymarket scales, showing the receipts 10
have been s179.10.
The Council adjourned to April % at
o ep. m.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09
A BIG SWINDLE.
Counterfeit StickIess Stamps Afloa
in the Country.
Thousands Of Dollars Worth Turned
Out by a Chicago Gang.

CHICAGO, April 9.-The Tribune says:
United States Secret Service operatives in
Chicago and Washington have unearthed
probably the most unique and at the same
time important swindle ever perpe-
believed that thousands upon thousands
OF dollars have been secured by gang OF
skilled counterfeiters, who have repro
duced " ith wonderful skill and accuracy,
the pink two-cent stamp OF commerce.
Whether the counterfeiters have ac-
completes in dishonest postmasters is not
known. 1t is thought the country
is flooded from New York to
San Francisco withs the spurious
stamps, and the United States had been
carrying millions OF letters from which
not one cent Of revenue was received.
Chicago apparently has been the head
quarters of the gang and last evening
Captain Stuart OF the postal inspectors
department and Captain Porter
OF the United States Secret
service bureau called at the Wells Fargo
office. They were taken to the storeroom
and there found an oblong
package. looking like big
roll of music. 1t contained
10000 of the counterfeit stamps. 1t was
impossible to get Inspector Stuart or
Captain Porter to say single
word regarding the case. No
one in the postoffice knew
anything about the case. 1t was said in
Washington, that while the gang has had
its headquarters in Chicago, 1t has opera
ted extensively in St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Buffalo, and as far west as San Francisco.
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BosToN April 9.-The senate refused to
admit the petition for an investigation OF
the Brookline Gas company. Leave to
withdraw was reported on the bill rola-
two to the debt limit and the sinking
funds of Boston. The committee on in
surance reported bill TO prevent the
issuing of life insurance policies without
previous medical examination. The
finance committee reports leave to with.
draw on the petition that the city Of
Worcester may be reimbursed from the
state treasury for portion of the expense
incurred in connection with Its sewerage
system. Tho house refused to reconsider
It's vote on the hotel barroom bill. The
house cencurred with tho senate in en-.
crossing the bill TO revise the charter Of
the city of Lawrence.
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TRAIN IN A RIVER.
Thrown by a Washout Into a
Raging Torrent.

BRADFORD, Pa, April "a west bound
freight train on the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg railroad, while run
ming at moderate rate OF speed
near Sykes, small station
between Duberse and Punxsutawney,
ran into a washout. The tracks run
alongside of the Clarion River at this
pbint for some distance.
Tho fog was dense at O'Clock this
morning SO that engineer Taylor did not
see the shou} until he ran into IL. The
entire train was dumped into the rag ing
torrent.
Engineer Taylor and fireman Chase, to-
gether with brakeman McClelland, are
buried under the wreck.
All wires are down and further details
unobtainable at this writing.
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Chicago Grain Market.
Chicago Grain Notes.

Chicago Grain Notes.
QUOTED BY A. p. wKBDEN.
Car Lots Today-Wheat, 10; corn, 143;
oats, 2i7 hogs, 1900.
Estimates heat, =; corn,
=; oats, =; hogs, 1900.
Heavy shipping hogs s4.75a5,40.
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literary meeting OF the Epworth
League of the Haven NJ. l.. Church was
held In the church last even
ing. Prayer was offered by
Brother Oakley. Singing by male
quartet, Phillips, Rounds, Reed and
White; chalk talk by Il. A. Corbett,
which was very interesting; singing by
male quartet, after which a social time
was enjoyed by all.
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WHITE STEAMER ASHORE.
Looked Like a Providence Liner But
Maybe She Isn't.

A dispatch received this morning from
Orient, l.. L., says that when the weather
cleared at daylight steamboat
painted .0,T White and .d.n having one
ly aground on Orient shoals, Long Island
sound. Her lines resembled those OF the
steamers of the Providence line.
Before any further particulars could
be obtained dense fog set
in and the steamer was lost sight of. The
agents OF the Providence Lire of steamers
have received no information that one of
their steamers is aground.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09
STRUCK A ROCK.

HALIFAX, April 9-Elevcn Of tho crew
of the Gloucester fishing schooner Bessie
M. Wells. which struck on rock of New
foundland March -, arrived here last
night by steamer st. Pierre The
schoonor's keel is gone and she Is badly
strained. The crew, with the exception Of
three, refused TO proceed any further In
her, and were sent here by the United
States consul. They will be forwarded TO
Glouccete~
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More Trouble For Malone.

WAsHINGToN, April 8. "A suit was filed
here yesterday involving the property
which William Malone has been trying
TO soil the government for a printing Office
site. 1t sets forth that ID. A. Windsor
was partner of Malone, and that Ma
hone became indebted to him for sl3, 500.
for which amount judgment has been OBJ
tained.
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A CovartlIy Act.

GLovERsvILLE, n. Y, April 9.--Archi.
bald Snyder and Levi Warner had a
wrestling match. Warner, who was
worsted, fired a shotgun at Snyder.
Thirty buckshot were removed from
Snyder's neck by physicians, who say that
his recovery Is doubtful
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09
Ch.use Of Program.

WASHINGTON, April 9.-Admlral Meade's
squadron sailed yesterday from Kingston
for Port-Au Prince. This movement is a
radical departure from the itinerary ar
ranged for the squadron, but IL is said
at tho navy department that no signiti-
cameo Is attached to tho change.
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Fast steamer Service wanted.

OTTAWA, April 9-One of the stipula'
tions which Newfoundland delegates Will
insist on, should union take place, will be
fast steamer service between tho nearest
Canadian point and the west shore of the
island there to connect With railway
now under construction across the island.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-04-09
FINANCIAL.
G.FRANKLN NUGENT Z CO

$4,000 Toledo, Ohio, AS
$f3, 900 Duluth, ARnn., AVS
$4,000 Salt Lake City. Utah, IS
$4,000 Wichita, Kan, 5's
$4,000 Superior, Wis, 8's
S14, 900 Cass County, Iowa, 5's
S11, 800 Anderson, Ind, 0s'
s. 1000 Kansas City, Kan, 6s
S17 1000 Findlay, Ohio, 6's
WE WILL BUY
Kansas g. Nebraska Municipal Bonds.
tues q fr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-02

up in the Ferris wheel on Quincy street
a man usually either under or over
rates his wife
It is harder to keep from doing one
foolish thing than to do dozen wise
ones.
When a man buys a new hat he gets
one like he had before, the initiative ami
NAL. Catch woman ordering q hat like
her old one.
A walk at six o'clock this morning
was an inspiration.
There can be no sense of obligation
between those who love each other
The man who wishes to be considered
bad is seldom worth Consideration at all
You will come nearer satisfying the
world in which you move by pleas ing
yourself than by wearing yourself out
trying to please others.
Don't wade beyond your depth to be in
the swim
The pain of wound is not relieved by
exposure to curious eyes.
The man with a burning desire to set
the world right usually knows nothing
at all of the world a large, and scarcely
knows even himself or his next door
neI9hbor.
W jaige a sea By the ships ina come
to port however thicklv the bottom may
be strewn with wrecks.
good many successful people ara
those who have known how 10 take ad-
vantage of accidents.
An incorrig bic cynic says Cupid is
always represented IS a baby because
love never lives to grow up
If you blow down the muzzie of pub
lie opinion you will find it loaded.
A new style nat is called a off hat,
because ones husband has to be struck
SO hard 10 get him 10 buy one.
A Topeka woman says she is afraid
that ciamorers for equal rights really
want TO be allowed to be wicked without
being scolded for it.
What does it profit one to be intensely
independent of he world at large and
intensely afraid of one perso4 in the
world
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TORTURED MORTALS.
Olive Harper Applies Puck's Re-
mark to the Fair Sex.
THE WOES OF WOMBH'S DRESS.

Shoes Pinch, Skirts Drag, HatpIns
Hurt. Wells Bother, but Some Corr
sets Are simply BarbarOus.
NEW YORK, July z6-It is no won
der thal : 49, uAclalmed, "What fools
these mortals bel'' when one seriously
thinks of the many devices human be-
ings invent for their own torture. The
fair sex has the renown for the most
heroic courage in the way of bearing
physical torture for the sake of being or
appearing more beautiful Shoes pinch,
and skirts drag heavily, and hatpins
hurt the head, and wells injure the eyes,
but all of these together weigh little be-
side the torture CT the corset, and the
corset we have had with us for thou
sands Of years. There have been found
some barbarous iron corsets dating back
to the palmy days of Rome and Greece,
and do not doubt that Eve managed to
provide herself with some crude form
of stays. The Flemish corset of the six
teenth century makes one think of the
horrors of the Inquisition. It was made
of wrought iron and must have been
torture most agoniziDg.
Those of the seventeenth century were
even worse, as there was no attempt to
conform them to the human figure at
all, and they were stiff and terrible and
had straps to go over the shoulders.
From the beginning until now the OBJ
ject has been to fence in the human
form and draw it into lines as ugly as
they are unnatural, and so necessary has
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NORTH TOPEKA.
Items of Interest From the North Side
the River.


the River.
J.E Crockett attended the Holton
races this week
j. Q A. Payton was a visitor to the
Hoiton races yesterday.
Mrs. Baker, 1922 Monroe street, left for
Missouri this morning to visit relatives.
Rev. and Mrs. w. l. Byers have gone
to Missouri to visit relatives for a month
Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Williams, living
just across Soldier creek, are the parents
of boy born this morning.
The camp meeting held by Jake Stitt
at the corner of Norris and Harrison
streets has been discontinued
Rev. Mrs. Davis, the colored evan gelist,
is still conducting meetings at the Afri-
can III. e. church. She has been here two
weeks.
A. M. Cross and family have removed
from 400 Quincy street to the house
formerly occupied by Geo. Stanstield, S12
Jackson street.
Andrew lie Fever, who has been visit
ing Fl. 4. Moulton on Kansas avenue the
past week, returned to his home IN Kan
sas City today.
The union services Sunday evening
will be held at the Baptist church. Van
Ness male choir Ill meet tonirot 10
practice some special MUSIC for the occa-
sion.
Lodge g Colvin, 119 and 121 West Nor :
ris street. proprieBors OF the Capital Liv-
airy, Feed and sale Stables. Horses board
ed at $40 per month Satisfaction guar
enteed.
For fly screen guaranteed against rust
for FIVE years, for new process gasoline
stoves, and for anything good in the
hardware line, go to Pratt Bros, North
Topeka.
Lukens Bros. North Topeka, is the
place to buy Stutz 8 Walker bugg;ea
and road wagons, surries, etc. They are
the best to be found and cheapest.
A. ]. Arnold s Son, S21 North Kansas
| avenue. Prescriptions. A complete stock
of druggists sundries Headquarters for
all of Munyon's Remedies.
J. II. Heller, 1902 N. Kan. Ave, grocery
and meat market Good treatment and
fine meats and groceries, you can do bet
er here than elsewhere.
The Magnet Restaurant and Short
Order house, A. j. Proudft, $40 n. Kan.
ave. Wholesale fruits and confectionery.
Carriage repairing, painting aud trim
ming; general blacks mithing and horse
shoeing. North Topeka Carriage works
115 and III West Laurent street
Free instructions in bicycle riding at
Lacey's to all patrons Agency for the
superb Remington, light easy running
Majestic, the ladies' favorite, aud the
popular Crawford bicycles, sundries, bells,
Cyclometers, lamps. enameis, etc Some
bargains in sweaters. Wheels repaired
and rented. 637 North Kansas avenue
The funeral of Jacob Wilder, who
died Wednesday was held today at D
IN. from the npme, 30 Madison street.
The members of Eugene lodge 50, l. O.
0. F., of which Mt W.d e. VAS a mem
Der, took charge of the funeral services.
eterv.
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the corset become that no gown can be
made that has 10 corset to first hold the
form in certain position. Today there
are hundreds Of new corsets, each bear
ing its own brand There are long
wasted ones, short wasted ones, high
and low hips and others to simulate
rOUndness where none exists. The va
riety of cOrsets differing in shape is as
tOnishing. Then there are girdles with
curious devices for holding the bust in
position while leaving the rest Of the
body free, and there are many others
adapted for certain physical deformities.
All these corsets are stiff and cast in the
same molds as far as may be, and none
but woman can tell of the agony Of
breaking i'll a new pair Of corsets. There
are also several styles Of corset waists
which are softer and 1ooser and health
ier, but they have comp aratively few dew
otees because they do not give that sa1na
stiff effect, and also one cannot lace them
tighter
1t is possible that men can feel a
slight portion of discomfort in high,
tight collars, particularly when the col
lar begins to grow bristly whiskers along
the edges under the hands of the laun-
dress, but that IS only tr1he compared
to the constant torture of corsets And
yet women once addicted to them never
leave them off
The new Louis XVI fashions that are
being prepared for US find by reference
to book of costumes will differ from
the present modes in having long waists
richly trimmed. The skirts will be ex-
tremeIy full and stiff, opening over
some differently colored underskirt.
And this viii also be founced or lavish
~ embroidered. There will be middling
full sleeves, with deep upturned cuffs
made Of linen and vandyked lace. There
will be stiff caps Of velvet to sleeves of
any kind, and often there viii be hang
ing sleeves falling loosely from the
shoulder, through which the arms are
not passed. Tie skirts may be pulled
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around the waists or have short double
skirts. Ruffs of muslin and edged with
lace should go with these other things
The cavalier hat with a high crown and
a tuft of plumes viii probably be modi-
fed. Short capes lined with ermine will
be shown. and nearly every waist will
show a heavy plastron stiff with gold
embroidery. The distinguishing traits
viii be tie long pointed waist, the deep
upturned linen cuffs, the open skirt and
the very full effect around the hips. The
materials will be thick and sumptuous
and the wooden ones very woQlly.
OLIVE HARPER.
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HEARD AND OVERHEARD.
Facts and FancIes Jotted Down in the
Daily Note Book.


Cigarette smokers who went to the Hol-
ton races were disappointed not to be
able to buy their favorite preparation of
the weed in town.
The girl who goes to the mountains or
the seashore probably enjoys it, but the
stay at-home girl is having her innings
in the way of an average of three or four
gentlemen callers an evening,
George R. Peck in letter to a Tope-
ka friend says; "They tell me- Kansas is
beautiful now; I wish I were there.
Chicago is big; that is ALL"
A Topeka man refers to the vacation
of the wife, whose husband must re-
main and work in hot, stuffy Office
while she goes away. as Temporary de-
sertion" aud thinks it ought to be grounds
for divorce.
A Topeka man, who is what fakirs call
sseasy." believes St Peter will accept him
because he has fallen into the habit of
being taken in"
A Topeka society young man gathered
all the children he could find in the vicin-
ity Wednesday evening and took them
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TRAVELLED BY LABELS.
Three Small Children Passengers Who
Crossed the Ocean Alone.

New YORK, Aug. 2.-The steamer
Venetia of the Hamburg American line,
which arrived today from Christiana,
brought three small passengers con-
signed by labels to relatives in the west
They were brother and sister,
Gustaf and Mary Lingonblad, IA
and years of age, with
tags upon their clothing, addressed to an
uncle, Alexander Anderson, of No 1862
Park Hiis avenue, Milwaukee,
the third traveller was il ristina Will
helmina Linguist, girl OF years, who
comes from hariskagA, Sweden, and is
going 70 her brother, Franz A Liuguist,
a farmer. OF Braddock, Pa. The immi-
grafton comm Isslonsrs put the Trio on a
train for the west.
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TOPEKA LIQUOR SALES.
Il List of the Sales of Alcoholic Liquids
for July.

for July.
The legal liquor sales in Topeka dur
ing the month of July numbered 4,753.
Twenty-four drug stores held permits
during the entire month and four, parts
of the month. These were A. J. Walt
mire and w F Lake, suspended, and A
Q. Rosser and E. I. Waggoner, new per
mits issued The list is as follows:
Geo W. Stausfield, 1873; L. S. Woolver-
ton, 233; Lee Jones, 1856; A j. Arnold &
Son, $40; A. Fl. Merrill, 80; w, II. Wilson,
goo; E. B. Walker, 296; A. B. Woolverton,
145; A. c. Klingaman, 1871; W. f. Kurtz,
81; B. A. Barrett, 145; F. B. Wallace. 1926;
A. o. Rosser, II; E. I. Sim. 1856; E. T.
Waggoner, 50; Frank Hobart, 1913; o. F.
Marcott, 1913; r. W. Sauires, 90; A. w.
Lacey, 212; Swift s. Holiday. 399; J. K.
Jones. 238; W. F. Lake, 40; Rowley
Bros, 250; 0, A. Keene, l41; L. d. Nc
Kinley, 1852; j. a. Waltmire 81 Co, SO; NJ.
VIZ Gilman. Jr., H.
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SAID TOPEKA WAS NICE.
4 Wichita Pap4r Thts Sac to Be Famii-
lar with Our Ssamy side.
IL, to 1
IFrom the Wichita Beacon

TFrom the Wichita Beacon.]
I A party of Wichita gentlemen return
ed from Topeka last night. While there
they wero apparently diligent in theil
search after some of the lrreg ularltlei
said to exist in that city, not for the pur'
| pose of becoming accessories in any wick
| edness. but solely to satisfy themselves
| by comparison of their own home with
| the superior moral cleanliness of the Holy
| city. They reported a nice, quiet little
| city, free from the damning influences,
| that have ruined, according 10 report.
| Wichita.
They did not visit lower Quincy street,
| where disting uished gentlemen have
| sought for lost children, and where
nightly from dozen to two dozen dis
re equitable women of all colors assem- BILE
on the streets in their search for victims.
Nor lower Jackson street, one of the
favorite resorts for streetwalkers of all
the shades.
Nor was a visit made to the Infamous
Battle Row on lower Kansas avenue, a
territory that figures daily IN the Topeka
papers
They overlooked B street on the north
side, q street which ends in the fogs and
mists of veritable hells cauldron.
None of the "cIubs" were visited,
places where key of beer and two mugs
constitute the attractions for the enllght-
ened denizens of that city.
The curtains at some of the drug
stores, behind which are bottles and
glasses, were not pulled aside.
Upstairs rooms In the blocks on Kan
sas avenue, between Ninth and Eighth,
Eighth and Seventh, Fifth and Fourth,
and Fourth and Third streets were not
visited.
The rooms on Jackson. between Sixth
and Seventh streets, were seemingly
missed.
Nor were visits made to the dens in
which Gambrinus reigns supreme on
Quincy, between Seventh and Fifth
streets.
Then, too, the side streets, those streets
which would by tOmb-IIke in their quiz
etness were it not for the young and old
men who seek refreshments in liquid
form, where rooms are set apart for the
intellectual diversion known to the in
itiated astronomy, gazing at the stars
along side the upturned mugs
The Wichita man saw only the good
people, for there are many such in T.
peka, strange as it may appear, and fai-
ed to see the wicked people. of WHOM
there are many. They failed to see the
things of which they have only such
knowledge as reading gives.
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ELLIS STOLE A BICYCLE.
a Young Cofored BOY Fined SIS fo1
Larceny.

There is colored young person who
did not celebrate emancipation day. He
is Frank Ellie, aged II. In the police
court today he was fued $15 for petty
larceny
Frank Ellis stole bicycle nearly a
month ago from Frank Stair, who lives
ia n urth Topeka Yesterday Patrolmen
WeIiman aud Lucas located the wheel
and by tracing it from one hand to an
other, or rather one foot to another,
fastened the offense on Frank Ellis
When he found there was no use to deny
it he repented and pleaded guilty.
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MAY BIZ NO STRIKE.
Miners viii Get What They Demand if
They VIII Wait.

PITrsBURG, Pa, Aug. 2.-The great
coal MINERS strike will probably be avert
ed and the miners will be granted the adj
vance demanded provided they consent
to wait until the LIST of DC ober
4 meeting OF The coal operators was
held this morning, at which the commit
tee was empowered to act at the confer
ence 10 take place this afternoon.
The operators agreed to grant the
miners demands in full on October 1st,
and promised TO see that the rates of
sixty-four and sixty nine cents were made
uniform in this district