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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-10
NEWS NOTES.


It is said that Maj. McClaughrey, OF
Illinois, will be warden of the new
United States prison at Leavenwort tn,
Kan.
Three boys, Emmett Swinney, Patrick
Morris and Michael Sheridan, were
drowned while bathing in Lake Erie
at Cleveland, O., Sunday.
At Omaha, Neb., Sunday evening w
H. Chappe1, a sewing machine agent,
was killed in the home of James Ish,
who is in custody charged with the
crime.
The rains of Sunday and Sunday
night were general throughout the
north and west. In Minnesota the
storm was particularly severe, wind
and electricity destroying property in
many places
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KEEP FRISCO FROM HARM.
The Great Pneumatic Guns at Fort Win
fia1d Sontf.

The Great Pneumatic Guns at Fort Win
field SCOTT.
WASHINGTON, June 1O.-By next fall,
If all goes well, the new battery of pneu-
matte guns located at fort Winfield Scott
on the Presidio reservation intended for
the protection of San Francisco will be
turned over to the war department
powerful steam pumping outfit is
necessary to compress the air which
throws the projectiles laden with half a
ton of dynamite. When good progress
had been made in putting up the battery
and machinery the contractors found to
their dismay that not a drop of water
was to be found on the site. To obtain
water they were obliged to run pipes
half mile to tap the conduit to the
Preside.
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sMOTHERED IN A TUNNEL

An Engine Crew Expires Trying to Save q
Comrade Near Pitkin. Col
PITKIN, Col, June 10-News reached
here that four men were suffocated in
the Alpine tunnel yesterday afternoon.
An engine had run into the tunnel,
which is 1,776 feet long, with crew
of several men to syphon out an ac-
emulation of water held in by a dirt
cave. The ventilation of the tunnel is
poor and the smoke and gas from
the engine made the air so sitting
that the men soon prepared to leave.
AS the engine was backing out a man
was discovered lying across the track
and the engineer reversed, running
further into the tunnel, where all the
men were quickly overcome by suffoca-
fiOn
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Missouri Bank Inspectors Named.

tary of State Lesueur has appointed
Gordon Jones, of Odessa, and c. O.
Austin, of Palmyra, state bank inspect
ors Ben NJ. Seward will act as clerk
for the inspectors. Both men are ex-
perienced bankers and were highly
recommended. The law under which
they will act will go into effect June g.
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A Horse Trader Tortured.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, June 1O.-George R.
Morris, horse trader, whose home is
at Red Oak, Ia, was frightfully tor
tured by two masked men at an early
hour Saturday morning a short dis.
lance from this city, and after being
robbed of S63, his watch, chain and
revolver, was tied to a tree and left.
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HOWARD PICKS A JAIL.

A. r. z. Vice President WOn't Associate
With DebS.
CHICAGO, June 1o.-George W. How
ard has an application with Judge
Woods for q transfer of imprisonment to
some county Jail in Indiana aud the
others are anxious that the judge should
grant Towards request. Since Howard
and the others have separated and he
has established rival organization there
is not a strong bond of friendship be-
tween than
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CHURCH WORK IN KANSAS.
Shown by Report of Lutheran Evangelical
Report at Hagsrstown, Md.

Shown by Report of Lutheran Evangelical
Report at HAgsrstown, Nd.
HAeERsTowN, Md, June 10-In the
fourteenth biennial report of the board
of extension, Lutheran Evangelical
church of America, read at the Ragers-
town convention today, occurs this para
graph:
On February 8. 1895, Rev. H. L Var
ger, Braddock, Pa, was elected field Sec
rotary to succeed Rev. DR.. Lenker, re :
signed He performed noble missionary
work in our western field, having organ
lied the congregations at Ellsworth and
Kanopolis, Kan, and at both places built
churches. From here he was called to
Lawrence. then in debt to the board of
church extension for 81, 500.
The total receipts, including balance
of $1O,636. 70 on hand from the last bien-
mum, amounts to 500, 291.79.
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IS WRITING A BOOK.

That is What Mary Anderson is Said to Be
Doing in England.
NEW YORK. June 1O-From across the
sea comes the news that "Our Mary" ia
writing a book This cannot fail to in
terest every American, for the statuesque
Mary Anderson was one of the seven
wonders of America, which England, as
usual, claimed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Navarro have been living
quietly at Tunbridge Wells for the past
year or two Since Mrs. Anderson y a
varro recovered from her illness. she has
been, it is said, constructing novel or
autobiography-it ia not made clear
which.
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HARRIS0N'S EPIGRAM.

The Newspapers Started the Rabbits and
viii Have to Chase Them.
INDIANAPOLIs, Ind, June 10-Al-
though ex-president Harrison would not
talk about silver or the next presidential
campaign, he had a very kind word for
Clevelsnds new attorney general He
said:
Il have known Judge Harmon for a
long time. and l regard him as q good
man, q man entirely capable of filing
the position of attorney general"
He said in regard to politics that he
had nothing to say; that "the New York
newspaper men had started the rabbits
and now they will have TO chase them"
He goes East again July 20 to the
Adirondacka
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WASHINGTON, June O.-Postmaster-
General Wilson will leave to-day for
Fayette, Mo-, where he is to deliver
an address at the Central college COM
mencement exercises He will arrive
at Fayette at 1913 o'clock Wednesday
morning, leave there at 4:o7 o'clock
that afternoon, reach st. Louis at $50
o'clock Thursday morning and leaving
at $40 o'clock the same morning will
reach Washington again Friday.
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MOUND CITY, Kan, June 1O.-Linn
county lays claim to a FLY that is yet
to astonish the world as a goer. The
flly is owned by I. B. BAIL, of Pleas
anton, and is but IA months old. At a
trial of speed on the half mile track at
this place Saturday, the little wonder
made the first quarter in O:37, and
the second quarter in OBS, and the half
uoi1a in 1.12
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WEEDS MILLIONS.
Young Mccormick VIII Go Into His
Fathers Reaper Works.

Young Mccormick VIII Go Into His
Fathers Reaper Works.
NEW YORK, June 1O-The entire
Rockefeller family. Mr.. and Mrs, John
D. Rockefeller, their daughters, Misses
Alta and Edith and their son, John D.,
went to Princeton to attend the class ex-
ercises. Harold Mccormick is of the
graduating class. Young Mccormick is
engaged to marry Miss Edith Rookie
Teller.
Mr.. Mccormick has an inherited me-
chanical taste and he intends to pursue
mechanics, beginning at the foot of the
ladder in his fathers reaper plant in
Grand Rapids. After two years there he
will GO to the Chicago plant The wed.
ding is set for October.
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WEIGH, w. Va, June 1o.-Striking
miners in the Pocahontas region of
Virginia are being evicted from the
houses they occupy in large numbers
and the excitement there has been in
tense. The officers chop their way
through the barricaded doors and re-
moved the furniture to the street. It
is thought that serious results may be
the outcome
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GUTHRIE, Ok. June 10. AT David, I.
T., Yesterday, Col A J. Blackwell, the
eccentric and wealthy Cherokee who
founded the town of Blackwell, in the
Cherokee strip, laid the corner stone
of Solomon's temple, structure he is
going to build to perpetuate the Indian
religion. Col. Blackwell preached the
sermon and announced that the
structure would be completed within
two years, at cost of $13O, O0O
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OLDENBURG, June 10. = 1t is now
known that forty persons persisted in
the flood at Koberdsdorf and at least
thirty persons are missing. Koberds-
dorf is a Hungarian watering place
near here and the floods, resulting
from mountain freshets, were SO sud
den that in many instances all avenues
of escape were cut off.
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An Angry Alderman.

DALLAS, Tex, June 1o-Alderman
D. H. Webster has begun a war upon
the proposed physical culture meeting
of Corbett and Fitzsimmons He has
called an Indignation meeting at the
city hall for men of all religions to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-10

Boston, Mass. June 1O.-Dan Creedon,
the Australian middleweight, and
Billy Hennessy, of Clinton, Ia, were
matched to meet at the Suffolk club on
June IS. The men signed to fight
twenty-five rounds at 15S pounds.
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Gov. Brarmaduke's Body to Be Moved.

SEDAL1A, Mo, June 1O.-Col Leslie
Marmaduke, of Sweet Springs, said
yesterday that the body of his brother,
the late Gov. John S. Marmaduze,
would in short time be removed from
jefferson City to the family burial
ground near Marshall and a monument
BETTING his career would be erected
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NO JUNE RACES.

Race Meeting at Wichita Abandoned Ow-
ing to Lack of Entries.
WICHITA, Kan, June 10-Ths state
fair board of directors have decided to
cancel the date of the June races on &C
count of the scarcity of entries.
This does not injure The prospects for
the fall meet however. as the entries
already made insure good races on all
the state events.
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SPOILS MUTTON TRADE.
Anthrax Has Broken Out Among the
Sheep of Australia.

sheep of Australia.
VANCOUVER, B. c., June 1O.-Mail adj
vices by the steamer Warrimoo are as
follows:
Anthrax, a disease of sheep is pre-
valeut in some parts of Australia in a
most fatal form.
A number of bullocks shipped from
Victoria colony to England have died
from pleuro pneumonia on ship board.
cited fearing that England will stop all
shipments. Experts have been engaged
to examine all cattle hereafter shipped
to Europe.
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Two Young Ladies KilIed.

GUTHRIE, Ok, June 1o--Two daugh-
ters of Rev. Eckels, riding near Chan
dler, were thrown from a buggy Satur-
day night One was killed outright
and the other fatally injured
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sanator Gardnn TO Retire.

ATLANTA, Ga, June 1O.-United
States Senator John B. Gordon has an
nounced in a card his permanent re-
tiremeRt from politics at the end of his
present term of office.
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international Boat Race.

New HAVEN, Conn, June 1O.-The
managers of the Yale. Harvard and
Columbia nsvies have decided upon
wednesday, June 90, as the date for the
annual triangular freshmen race at New
London
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Christian Sunday school Convention.

MARSHALL, Mo-, June 1o.-The state
Christian Sunday school convention
begins here tonight. 1t is estimated
that there will be 500 delegates, minis
tiers and visitors present. Elaborate
preparations have been made for their
reception by the pastor, Elder H. D.
Smith, and others.
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BASEBALL GAMES.
National League.

SATURDAYS GAMES.
At New York-Pittsburgh, 4 New York, {.
At Boston-Boston, II; Louisville, 8.
At Philadelphia - Cleveland, 8; Philade1-
phia, T.
At MISUNDERSTANDING IA; ST Louis,
At Baltimore Baltimore, 2; Cincinnati, h
At Brooklyn-Brooklyn, 7, Chicago.
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The republicans of Cowley county,
Kan, met at Winfield Saturday and
nominated a county ticket and declared
for free coinage of silver.
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Fire at Wellington, Kan, Saturday
destroyed business houses owned by
Hackney & Coeherd, J. o. Daven-
port, Mrs. M. E. Brunson, c. F. Lue-
ming and others. Loss, about 90. 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-10

William R. Castle has been appointed
minister to Washington from Hawaii
tO succeed L. A Thurston.
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Western League,

SATURDAYS GAMES
At Kansas City-Kansas City. IA; Grand
Rapids, II.
At st. Paul-St Paul, 9: Indianapolis, 5.
At Observation-Disclosures IL; Toledo, T.
At apolis-Minneapolis %; Detroit,
SUNDAYS GAMES.
At Kansas City-Grand Rapids, 6; Kansas
City, s.
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LOADED BANANAS.

Topers in n Michigan Town Get Their
'Bitters' at Fruit Stands.
BEssEMER, Mich, June 10-Ths sa-
looms are kept closely barred on Sunday,
even the back doors being closed. Liquor
sellers complain that the money that
might otherwise be spent with them goes
to neighboring cities or drug stores.
It is said several were intoxicated
from the use of loaded "bananas" bought
At fruit stores Sunday.
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Letter Carriers Strike.

BUDA PEsTH, June 1O.-Twe1ve hun
dred postmen have struck for an in
crease in wages. No letters were de-
livered to-day on the right side of the
river Danube, and only a few on the
left side.
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Special pains taken in doing up Ia
dies waists Peerless Steam Laundry.
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Western Association.

SATURDAYS GAMES
At Peeria-Peoria, 2; Quincy 8.
At sonVille-Jacksonvile, 10; Rockford
s.
At Lincoln-Lincoln II; Des Meines, &
At Omaha-Omaha, II; st. Joseph, 5.
SUNDAYS GAMES.
At ksonviile-JackSOnville, 10; Rockford
10
At Peoria Quincy. 5; Peoria, 8
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Phone 332-our wagon will call for
your laundry-the Peerless
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Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless
Steam Laundry
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If you want ALL the news subscribe
for the JOURNAL
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Everybody takes the JoURNAk
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REED & TOML|NSON
High Art, Medium and Cheap
FURNITURE

Think of selfa Oak high back & 4 m
cane seat Dining Chairs for. q Il aVV
Come and see our stock-the
largest in the state-as much Fur
niture in our store as all the other
stores in Topeka combined.
Folding Chairs and Tables to
rent for parties.
A full complete line of Office
Desks and Office Chairs.
REED & TOML|NSON
$40 KANSAS AVE. PHONE $50.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-05
CYCLONE IN ILLINOIS.
st. Charles Visited. but Only
Five Persons Killed.
FIFTEEN SLAIN IN IOWA.
Inc Sform's Path Nearly as Clear
Cut as a Wagon Road.
len or the Dead and Most of the In
tnred at Sioux Center-A BABY saved
In Its Dead Mothers Arms-The
Prairie strewn With Carcasses OF
Stock.

Aurora III. May 4-The town o. 81
'haffss was visited by a cyclone today
Win fatal results. The old stone post
once building. standing on the ca 81 SIDE
o. Main street. occupied by Mrs Church
as a millinery store. was blown down
ana Mrs. Church was killed Two Young
iaGles had apartments IN the building.
ana ore OF them SIS missing and Is sup
Pcsea 70 Os 10 the RUNS. the other. Hiss
augusta Anderson. was killed by the fall
ing walls, which also killed a passing
morse. the driver Of which was seriously
injured. Two other men were struck BY
nysns tinzoers and badly hurt Il Is re-
pored that several other persons about
town received injuries more or Jess serf-
Gus Il man named Luther McCauslarli
had an arm and leg broken. Andrew
Johnson had his hack broken. The killed
are; Miss Hattie Church. Miss August
Anderson. Charles Johnson, Joseph
Thompson. Luke Coster.
Luke Coster died tonight The women
who were killed had apartments Ia the
Osgood building. The men who were
killed stopped at the side OF the Osgood
building and were crouched in a group
10 escape the fury OF the passing storm
when the wall toppled over on them. 1t
is thought another corpse is in the ruins
The Osgood building was a substantial
structure, but the force OF the falling wall
utterly demolished IT
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coorn,,ent SURVEYOR Lost

South Bend. May .-Special.-Wordw was
brought in this evening that Capt. q. C..
Bnophy was lost in the woods in the Ne
ma river country. Capt. Brophy Is the
government surveyor who arrived shis
week % make a special examina ton OF
the surveys in this county. At II o'clock
yesterday morning he complained of not
feeling well. He told the crew 70 keep
on work until evening, and started for
camp following the line with a compass
ne carried. When the crew returned to
camp IN the evening the captain was not
there and there were no signs of his hay-
ing been there. Search was made on the
line and at considera ble distance 20 each
side, but 10 trace of him was found.
Search has been kept up for him since
that time up TO noon today, at which
time our messenger left there. Great IN
easiness Is felt for his safety. Capt.
Brophy's home is in Salt Lake City. Utah
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Dlckin.on and McCabe to Go.

Tacoma. May 4-SpeciaL--In a private
letter received here from New York II
is said that Assistant General Superin-
tendent g ". Dickinson and Division
Superintendent Joseph McCabe are the
next two officials whose heads are 10 fall
under the ak OF reform ia the manage
ment. These two officials are among the
most popular OF the road and have
served il faithfully. Way they should be
selected 10 suffer is a matter of surrnise.
Dickinson has always attended carefully
to the affairs Of the company, and is not
known 10 have violated the rule in Tela-
ton TO interesting himself in other con-
Germs. Joe McCaoe has an interest tn
stone quarry. but is regarded among rail-
road men as one of the hardest working
division superintendents In the United
States.
Ii is reported that an Eastern director
has Il in for these Two officials. and
by the cry OF new blood" is seeking 10
have them decapitated-
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nnrrant Didn't Get This Girl.

San Francisco. May f-Another Efri has
s4isar,peared from che Mission district
and ike Minnie Williams and Blanche La
mont. she js = girl of good character. Sne
IS Stella Hughes Of 1915 Stevenson street
Sire was last seen on Thursday lea wing
her home. osteu usihly for a VISIT % Bakers
tsaa~h Detective Anthony has been work
ing or the ease. buf 50 far his efforts
have heea avalling. not single clew
having turned up 90 explain the mystery
Miss Hughes has been very nervous and
fvRterl~ai of tate and has burst into tears
on several occasions az ne dinner 1abl~
The cssAse of fhis sxestabitsy has not
been explained Rs get Whether she ever
reached tae beach has never been found
or. bar ehe theory of tbe polIce s. ta@t
- %as become deruented and wandered
oT. or was drowned IA The waters Of the
ez-aaa
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Vienna. May 4-grhe FremdenlHatt an
nouncea mat Count Kainoky. imperial
minister OF foreign. affairs. has resigned.
The resignation, n is presumed. grew ous
Of the recent utterances Of the papal mum
clio against The ecelesiastical bills during =
visit 10 various towns OF Hungary.
Baron Banny Hungarian prime minister.
replying 10 an Interpretation on the sub
iect IN the lower house of the Hungarian
s4iet yesterday, said the Naiican's Unfit
ence IN church matters was exereie ef
only through The prirtat" Of Hungary.
and the imperial government held this
view and had requested the Vatican TO
exulatu the conduct Of the nuueio. This
statement. 81 appears. created great sur
prise in the foreign once. and ~ was said
could 30 Only aEcrihed 20 Baron BAnffy's
Ignorance ~ diplomatic usage"
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Exporting CluInp's Books.

Port Angeles. May 4.-Special.-The
question OF enjoiRing the county school
districts from paying Douglas Young. OF
Seattle. $40 for exporting the ex-county
treasurer's books Is now a question of
discussion among those who are inter
ested in the matter. and IL will proba bly,
end In another injunction being filed.
This is the second attempt that has been
made to expert Defaulter Clump's books,
that experts from abroad have been en-
ployd instead OF selecting Port Angeles
accountants. The school board has en-
gagged Mr.. Young 70 do the work and un-
lesss prevented by an INDUCTION he Will
commence May Is and must complete
his task by July Is In order to comply
with his contract.
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MAYOR oRR's SHORT NOTE.
Cause= CONSERVATION i'm Taeoma's
Council appointments Withdrawn.

Cause= CONSERVATION in Taeorna'S :
Council appointments Withdrawn.
Tacoma, May 4-SpecsaI-A bret Iittle
note sent BY .he mayor % the city coun-
csl today carried with Il CONSERVATION
20 many. The note was as follows.
Gentlemen: / herewith withdraw all
appointments before your honorable
body for confirmation. Very respectfully.
ED :. ORR. Mayor"
What this means the large crowd that
was present could not grasp. Il is saii
10 mean that pressure has been brought
20 bear on Mayor Orr 70 r1ake him ahan-
don his arpoin tments OF TIckershan for
city attorney and r. .. Smith for chief
% paIice It - reported On The inside thst
II the appointments had been taken Up
today they would have been rejected.
Isaac w. Anderson. of the land com
uany. has gone 70 Smith and denied 10
him that he IS against him Anderson
told Smith he was working for him Be
that as Il may. there IS a subtle influence
a. work 70 down both Wickersham aud
Smith. and the mayors movement today
looks as II s. were beginning ~ succeed.
Some OF the councilmen are inclined 10
force appointments In a hurry Thomp-
son gave notice in the ceancil today that
there was likely TO be objections made
10 paying salaries should there be 10
appointments before the next meeting
He saws that under his reading Of the
charter the offices are now vacant
The salary reduction ordinance was
passed. today after considerable discus
sion by the council. II makes saving
OF about s9s9 a year. The cut IN sal
aries Is about n per cent all around
The salaries Of the chiefs Of the fire and
police departments are placed at $50
a year. Patrolmen on the police force
draw $40 year.