The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-16
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

President Diaz has ordered the Mex
lean flags to be lowered in honor of
Minister Gray.
DIR. George w. Rogers, Baptist
preacher well known in Missouri,
died suddenly in Emporia-
At Townsville, Ga, the great win
ter resort sleighs are out for the first
time in the history of the city.
AT Dallas, Texas, Waters Pierce Oil
| company's warehouse, containing
500, 900 gallons of oil, was destroyed
by fire.
At Hamilton, Ont, Clara K broke
the worlds ice trotting record for the
distance. She made five miles in
12:461S.
Fridays statement of the condition
| of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance. $I46, 57s, 093; gold re-
serve, $4s s79, 301.
The president has appointed Rt
| Rev. Bishop Henry B. Whipple of
Minnesota, a member of the board of
Indian commissioners.
The committee on woman suffrage
of the Massachusetts legislature de-
cided, 8 to 3, to report bill in favor
of municipal suffrage for women.
Judge Bradley, late presiding judge
of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania dis
triet, died, aged 3d. Judge Bradley
leaves an estate valued at several
million dollars.
A large boiler exploded in Cobb's
saw mill two miles west of ToWanda
Pa. Theodore Pencil fireman, and
John Mack, teamster, were instant
~ killed, and Frank Myers, a mill
hand, fatally injured.
The loss by the burning of the
Doherty and Wadsworth silk mills at
Patterson, N. J., is $3.50, 600 on build
ing, machinery and stock. One
thousand hands are thrown out of
employment by the fire.
The British steamer Topaz Captain
Gray, at Havre from Savannah, re-
ports that'when in latitude 49. longi-
tude II west she sighted vessel
about $50 feet long on fire. There
was no sign of life on board the burn
ing vessel.
The Lady of the Lake, one of the
Oldest steamers on the Potomac,
burned to the waters edge at her
wharf in Washington. The vessel
was the property of the People
Transportat on company, a negro ex-
cursion organization.
Jose Carabajai and his son, Juan,
have been found frozen to death OF
the mesa east of Albuquerque, N. M.
They left Wednesday night with
some supplies during the binding
Storm, and went into camp where the
bodies were frozen stiff.
Judge Arthur joint Judge of the su-
perior court for Spokane, Wash, is
accused of perjury, of having ac-
cepted bribes, of malfeasance in Office,
of drunkenness, of being a slave to
the morphine habit and of general
and wilfull neglect of his judicial
duties.
Commanding officer of the Atlanta,
Captain Cromwell, reports from Colon
under date of February IA that the
rebellion in Colombia is considered
at an end, thus confirming the ad-
vices received by the state depart
ment from Minister Mckinney.
An application for a referee in
the suit of the heirs of the late jaw
Gould to obtain exemption from
taxation of certain personal proper ty
inherited under the will of the la te
millionaire has been granted by Jus
tice Barrett in the special term O.
the supreme court.
Count Won Mirbach, German con
servative, introduced a resolution il
the reichstag instructing the fedora
government of Germany to issue in
vitations for an international mono
tary congress to take measures tc
bring about the Utilization o.
silver as a circulating medium.
Frank B. Woodruff, president of the
Pacific Commercial compa nv, Tacoma
, Wash, who has returned from bus
mess trip to Japan, says that country
| is destined to become the creates 81
manufacturing and exporting country
in the world on account of Japanese
ingenuity and their cheap labor.
Samoa has been visited by plague
in the form of the dengue fever
which has laid up almost every for
| eign resident and most of the natives
| At present Consul General Mulligar
is severely attacked. Many death
have resulted and although the feve
has nearly abated in Upo1u. it is rag
ing fercely in the other islands
; President Cleve1 and has signed tn
bills granting a pension of S12
month to Mrs. Harriet Clayton of Pike
county, Missouri, widow of a Mexican
a war veteran; placing on the pension
q roll the name of Nancy Gabrilla An
a derson of Kansas. wholly and perma
y nertly helpless, daughter of Paytol
e w. Anderson, and granting S25
n month to Marcus D. Box, Company D
: First Missouri volunteer infantry
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