The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-23
BRIEFS BE WIRE.

Governor Pattison has accepted trh
Democratic nomination for mayor O!
Philadelphia.
| Hope for the ultimate recovery OF
Whitelaw Reid has been given up by
his friends.
A dispatch from Paris says that the
| income tax, which is the pet measure
of M. Peytra1, cannot be introduced
in the budget for 1895.
The state department has been in
formed that the South American Re
public of Colombia is redeeming its
paper currency in silver coin
Della Stuf1e bean, formerly of Milan,
Mo-. committed suicide by taking
laudanum at Quincy, Ill
Rufe Stone of Camden county, Mis-
souri,, while attempting to stop a
fight, was shot and killed by Charles
Farmer.
President Debs of the A. R. u, and
his associates have been released n
81, 600 bail each, in accordance with
the recent order of the supreme court
Chief Justice Fuller decided the
John Sherman anti trust law was in
applicable to Sugar Trust cases.
Justice Harlan dissented.
The president has sent to the sem
ate the nomination of George Steele
of Montana, to be agent for the In
dians of the Blackfoot agency in Mon
tana.
The Western chair manufacturers
held a secret session at Chicago for
the purpose of revising price lists and
discussing plans in reference to the
spring trade.
Herman Meyers, one of the city's
most prominent Jewish merchants
and bankers, was elected Mayor of
Savannah after the hottest municipal
contest ever held.
In the Oregon senate house con-
current resolution for the election of
United States senator by direct vote
of the people was referred to the
committee on revision of laws
In Brussels bomb was exploded in
a crowded cafe at Jumet, near Char
leroi Much damage was done to the
building and a panic followed the eX-
plosion. Nobody was seriously injured
The entire Greek ministry has re-
signed. A panic on the bourse fol-
lowed the announcement. 1t is be
lieved that colorless cabinet will be
formed and that the cham Der will be
dissolved.
In O'Neill, Neb., George Millihan
and Nose Elliott were held without
first degree for the lynching of Bar
rett Scott, the defaulting ex-treasurer
of Holt county.
Up to late hour this morning the
steamer Chicora, which left Milwau-
kee at $50 Monday morning for Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, had not been
sighted, nor have any tidings been
received regarding her.
About 500 hay dealers from all parts
of the country, met in convention at
Cleveland, Ohio. The object of the
meeting was to form national asso-
citation and to arrange some uniform
method of grading hay
The failure of the retail dry goods
firm of D. H. Doughertv & Co, one
of the largest and longest established
in Atlanta, was announced, creating
a sensation in commercial circles and
arousing universal regret
The inquest on the bodies of the
men who met death in the great ex-
plosion in Butte a week ago is now
in progress and promises to be long
and rigid inves LEGATION as to who IS
responsible for the terrible disaster.
In St. Louis the convention of the
Custom Foremen Tailors' association
of Anne RIGA convened at the Planters
hotel President John O'Neill of
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order About 100 mem bers were in
attendance
In Winchester, Mass, Dr. Arthur
G. Webster of Clark university has
been awarded a prize of 81, 900 for the
best treatise on electricity. The pre-
MUM is known as the Elihu Thomp-
son prize. 1t was an international
competition and the prize was
awarded by committee in Paris
The Nebraska legislature has
adopted a resolution to appoint a
committee to Investigate the state re-
lief commissioner. It is alleged bus
| mess has not been expedited and that
aid contributed by other states re-
mains in cars when it is badly needed.
! The New jersey house accepted AS
| semblyman Codden's concurrent res
| olution providing for the submission
to the people of the state of an
amendment to the constitution pro-
| hibiting race tracks and other gam
! bling. There was not single mega
| tive vote.
Senator Butler of South Carolina,
! presented a memorial from Hon.
| Sampson Pope, late Dem ocratic can
didate for governor of South Caro-
lima, asking the appointment of a
senate committee to investigate the
| Novem Der election in that state.
The secret service officials have dis
covered new Photographic counter
felt $40 silver certificate of the series
of 1891, check letter 3. j. Fount Till
man, register; D. n. Morgan, treas
urer; portrait of Hendricks; small
scalloped carmine seal
The interior department has called
for bids, to be opened February Is.
for furnishing a sheet metal ceiling
and new copper roof for the pension
bureau building. The present APP
| preparation is S2s, 900. but congress
has been asked for an additional ap-
preparation.
Martin Costello, known as Buffalo
Costello and Bill Slavin of Australia
fought ten-round contest with