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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
AN ODD DEFENSE.
w. A. Willis Made Explanation of His
Conduct that Didn'o Go Down.

w. A. Willis Made an Explanation of His
Conduct that Didn'o Go Down.
Last night officers Foulks and Pinks-
ton found w. A Willis and Mary Strong
in a room on Kansas avenue near First
street and arrested them for disOrderly
conduct. In the police court today
Willis made a great defense.
sit was this way, yer honor"
he said. 81 met Mrs. Strong and
asked her to go to church with me, and
she said all right and we went"
"What church did you attend?"
ave went to the Christian church"
GLOW do you account for being in her
room at o'clock in the morning."
''You see, judge, Mrs. Strong told me
on the way to church what jealous man
her husband was, SO when we got home
l STAYED for while, so that if he came
in l could protect her."
Willis conducted his own defense and
when the evidence was all in he offered
a demurrer to the evidence on the ground
that it didn't constitute a sufficient cause
for action. The judge overruied this and
fined him $15. He may appeal the case.
The Judge allowed the woman to 60 free
because she has a child to take care OF
and was never in the police court before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
SCARED THE TURKS.
q. s. Admiral Kirkland Scored tho Turk
ish Pasha and Saved "a Massacre.

q. s. Admiral Kirkland Scored the Turk
ish PashA and saved "a Massacre.
PEORIA, Ills, June "a private letter
received in this city from Beyroot, Syria,
under date of May Z, contains the follow.
ing important statement:
The two United States men of war
that came here created quite stir. Only
one, the Marblehead, came to Beyroot,
but she met the San Francisco at AIex-
andretto aud the admiral on board
the San Francisco sent for the Turkish
Pasha to come down from Adana to Mer-
sine to meet him, and gave him a very
plain talking to about respect for
American citizens.
The admiral (Kirkland) is big. bluff
old fellow, just the one to bulldoze the
Turk, and he did it in style The Turks
have been quite nasty up there of late.
great impression was created in Bey-
root too. The people here had fears of a
massacre by the Moslems, and thought
that the arrival of the frigate prevented
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
REV. DIR. R. HEBER NEwroN.

phia. He was ordained priest in St.
Paul's church, Philadelphia, in 1865,
and in 1869 removed to New York as
rector of the Anthem Memorial church,
which is now called All Souls church
During his pastorate of a quarter of a
century he has battled for advanced
thought, and his forcible, erudite and
eloquent sermons have drawn about him
a congregation numbering among it's
members many of the most prominent
and wealthy residents of New York. He
has become widely known on account Of
his radical and somewhat unortho
views on religion and has been sew
~ censured by his brother clergym Il
Two years ago a heresy investigation
committee was appointed to examine his
utterances, and this committee will now
consider his statement that he does not
believe in the actual resurrection of
Christ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03

Strengthened out and the relief commit
tee has been reUrganlz3d, with Mayor
Nixon as it's chairman
The mayor is miner him self, and h.
fully understands the needs OF the pei
pie of his town.
The ladies ask for clothing for men,
women and children, particularly fer
children, as almost every family visited
had Gve or more children.
A Topeka shoemaker has agreed 10
patch any old shoes which may be do
mated and if possible make them suit
able for wear.
The ladies have made arra1 gements
to divide the donated clothing into bun
dies. as NAV be suitable Tor the different
families. Each bundle will be marked
for whom it is intended and then packed
into large box for shipment to Mayor
Nixon. The mayor has agreed to de-
liver the bundles to the families as
directed by the name on the bundles,
without opening them.
The need is urgent and the first box
will be shipped not later than Wednes-
day noon.
/ The charitable people of Topeka are
asked to send their donations of clothing
| to 629 Kansas avenue up stairs, room 2.
The ladies and gentlemen who are ar
ranging for the entertainment for the
benefit of the Scranton miners will hold
a meeting at the National hotel parlors
at o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
SABBATH WELL OBSERVED.

Three Topeka Women Spend the Entire
Day Looking Afrer Scranton Sufferers.
Three Topeka women representing
the Topeka Suffrage association spent
Sunday visiting the families OF the
Scranton miners, and they have today is
sued an appeal for clothing for the des-
titute mon, women and children of
Scranton.
Mrs. N. E. Goodwin, Mrs. ]. NJ. Hart,
and DR.. Eva Harding, who are co-operat-
ing with Labor Commissioner W. G.
Bird, visited forty-one families at Scran-
ton yesterday and they found destitution
on every hand
The wants of the miners and their
families as far as food is concerned have
been supplied for the present, but they
are in many cases almost entirely desti-
tute of clothing.
The ladies took the names, number of
children and the age of each child in
every household visited, and also took
notes as to the particular needs of the
several cases.
They found the miners and the people
of Scranton ready to cooperate with
them in every way possible, and all the
provisions hereafter sent to Scranton are
to be forwarded direct to Mayor Nixon.
There has been some petty trouble be-
tween some of the local business men
and the miners, but that has all been
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
OSCAR WILDISR RAMPANT.

FrightfuI Condition OF Famous Old Brit
fsh Schools Where Tagging Prevails.
LONDON, June 3.-The Daily Chronicle
prints a letter nearly a column long from
"a Mother" to which it editorialIy calls
attention with extreme seriousness. and
and which, for the first time, gives utter
ance through the public press to fright
full accusations which have been talked
of for years in private here. 1t is
voice raised against practices alleged
to be now rife and of long standing in
the great public schools of England in
Eaton and in Harrow.
When mum Der of the most prominent
young men fed from England few
years ago after the Cleveland street ex-
posture it was current talk that vice was
learned at those schools and was an in
cident of the tagging" system-that is,
the system under which lower class stu
dents do mental work for those in upper
classes. The fact that names of many
men of high position have been connect
ed with the present scandal has revived
these charges. This mother to whose
sad letter the Chronicle gives such
prominence. commenting upon the pub
lie criticism of Wilde and Taylor, writes:
"Do these gentlemen Chose who cen
sure) know of the moral condition of
proportion, at least, of the two big pub
lie schools to which they SO light heart
eddy confine their little sons? Do they
know that in sending their children into
these training establishments they may
be placing them in a hotbsd of vice,
most certainly ordering for them an or
deal as by fire, out of which the children
may or may MOI come forth unscathed?
'''If you will bring me any proof
said not 30 long ago the head master of
an important school, with barely yelled
scorn and very evident distaste, to
mother who had come to entreat his as
sistance, Il will take the matter up.
Without such proof must decline to in
terfere'
"'You then expect me, living many
miles away, to do your work for your
she Indignantly made answer.
at ended in the house in question be-
ing cleared of the worst of it's inmates,
but not until the persistent mother, at
bay, badgered, browbeaten though she
was, had declared that if this step was
not taken, she would remove her boy.
and put the public press in possession of
the story.
THE reason for this reluctance is not
far to seek. Open inquiry in house
must mean scandal more or less widely
known. 1t may have to result in a clean
! sweep of many of the inmates of that
house. A clean sweep not only involves
an injury to the whole school and there
by loss of its prestige, but it further
entails dead loss to the house master,
whose profits would be thereby consider
ably iuterfered with"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
INDUSTRIAL UNION.
Aims and Expectations of the America,
Industrial Union.

Aims and Expectations of the American
Industrial Union.
The American Industrial union is
the latest candidate for favor as an or
garilzation among the laboring men Of
the United States, Canada and Mexico
It was recently launched in Chicago
and will endeavor to better the condi-
ton OF all classes of toilers. The union
starts with a membership of 5000,
most OF whom are telegraphers, and ex-
poets to be SO powerful in September,
1897, that its effort to establish a gen.
eral eight hour day throughout the coun-
try will be successful All differences
with employers are to be settled by ar
bitration, employment bureaus are to
be established throughout the United
States that idle men may be given work
or directed to places where labor is in
demand, postal savings banks will be
started as repositories for the savings Of
laborers, and with the immense fund
thus obtained the union will establish
industries where the unemployed may
earn their bread. The union believes
that when the eight hour day is in oper-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
NO ACTUAL RESURRECTION.
Rev. DR.. Newton's Unorthodox Statement
May Cause His Trial For Heresy.

Rev. DR.. Eewton's Unorthodox Statement
May Cause His Trial For Heresy.
81 believe in the resurrection of the
body says the creed of the Protestant
Episcopal church. 81 do not believe
the resurrection of Jesus Christ means
the rising again from the tomb of the
actual body laid away there, . says Rev.
DR.. r. Heber Newton, one of the best
known clergy1nen of the church, and
heresy trial is among the possible con-
sequences of that declaration In thus
discarding the accepted Christian belief
in the actual resurrection of the body Of
Jesus, DR.. Newton caused widespread
comment among the clergy of his
church, and Bishop Potter of New York
will be called upon to decide whether OF
not there is enough evidence of unca-
nonical practices to justify arraigning
DR.. Newton before the proper tribunal
on the charge of heresy.
DR.. Newton was born in Philadelphia
Oct. 81, 1910, and was educated at the
university of Pennsylvania and at the
Episcopal Divinity school in Philadel-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
ZERBY'S BRUTAL CRIME.
Outraged His Year Old Niece aud Beat
Her and Left Her to Die.

outraged HIS HSar Ola Niece and Beat
Her and Left Her to Die.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, June 3.-One of
.4he most dastardly crimes ever commit
Ted in this locality has come to light A
Imam named Zerby and his wife live three
miles north of Bristol, Elkhark county,
over the Michigan line. With them
lived his sisters orphaned daughter aged
seven.
The story is that the child had been
outraged by the brute Zerby then beaten
kinto insensibility and by the husband
and wife carried one mile north of their
home and thrown into a deep ditch to
die. The fiends then returned home not
caring what became of the little BODY.
During the night the child recovered
consciousness and crawled out of the
ditch into the road and from there thirty
or forty rods to the home of Mr., and Mrs.
James Wheat, who found her in the
morning seated on the doorstep. Her
condition is horrible and she is now IN
der the charge of two doctors. She is
cared for by MI aud Mrs Wheat, who
propose to adopt her. Up to the last re-
ports the brutal couple had not been ar
rested
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
WALKED 1900 MILES.
The Men Who Walked from Buenos Ayrel
Rsach Chicago.


CHICAGO, June 3.-Anton BEN and
Louis Budinich reached Chicago last
evening after making the longest tramp
on record. Their last place of residence
or that of Ant. BEN was Buenos Ayres,
Argentine Republic, and he has been
walking away from it ever since Aug. l,
1892.
In the two years and ten months Benz
has walked 1900 miles. His partner,
Louis Budinich, joined him at Lima,
Peru. From the day of the start the OBJ
jective point of these two champion
walkers of the world has been Chicago.
These travellers were met by 500 fell
low countrymen living in Chicago.
Headed by band, and with banners fly
ing, the pedestrians were marched to the
City hall. There the tramp, with the
southern cross ever at their backs and
the polar star as their guide, was ended.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
RUSSIA'S GIFT TO FRANCE.
It viii Be q "Bel OF Peace" Presented by
the People.

NEW YORK, June 3.-The Columbian
Liberty Bell committee is in receipt of
letter under date of May IS. from c. R.
Breckenridge, United States minister to
Russia, in which he aska for full de-
scription and photograph of the great
Colum bian liberty and peace bell
for Mr.. Berthauld, the Russian
artist, who is charged with
making a design of the "Bell of Peace"
that is to be presented as the result of
popular movement of the people of Rus
STA to the people of France.
The Liberty Bell committee has in
course OF manufacture two souvenir
liberty bells made from the overflow of
historical metal from which the great
bell was cast. These two bells are to be
exact duplicates and are to be presented
through the president to the people of
Russia and the United States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
browns INA CISTERN.
Little Willie McDade Meets Death
in the Water.
/ HAN PLUEGES BOLDLY IN

But is Seized With Cramps and Has
tOBe Pulled Out-The ChfId's Body
Under Water Half An Hour.
Willie McDade. the 3-year-old son of
Nra Mrs. Henry McDade, was drowned
In cistern at the homo OF D. II. Lane,
400 Elm street at 10 o'clock Sunday morn
ing.
No one will ever know just how the
ehild happened to fall into the cistern for
the only witness was his little brother
who is one year older and he tells con-
hicting stories
The McDades live at 1913 North Bran
ner and the father is a Santa Fe switch
man Mrs. McDade and the children
went yesterday morning to spend the
day with Mrs. Lane. Willie and his older
brother, Henry, were playing in the yard
and 20 one thought of their being in any
danger.
The family and Mrs. McDade were
sitting in the house when Henry came
to the door. He seemed greatly fright
ened
willie is looking into the cistern,"
said he
Mrs Lane ran at once to the cistern
but Willie was not there.
The cistern was open but the water
was as placid as II 1t had not been dis
turbed Floating on top of the water
was child's hat, and the cover OF the
cistern was also in the water.
In a moment the truth flashed on Mrs.
Lane, and her cries brought the family
and several neighbOrs to the scene.
An unknown man plunged into the
cistern, but he took the cramps and had
to be hauled out to prevent his drown
ing.
Then Mr.. Lane secured a ladder and
this WAS lowered into the cistern. He
secured garden rake and after hunting
for some time in the eight feet of water,
the body of the unfortunate child was
brought to the surface and taken from
the water
There wss no signs of life but willing
hands worked long and earnestly with
the little body to restore life. 1t was too
late. He had evidently been in the
water half an hour before the body was
recovered. The frantic cries of the
mother though heart rending could not
be quieted
1t is supposed that the children took
sthe cover off the cistern and did not re-
iplace it properly, and that the child at
tempted to walk across the cover and
was thrown into the water
The funeral took place at o. m today
from the Church of the Assumption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03

An ordinary Kansas avenue store room
would scarcely hold the stock of book
cases we show in our Quincy street
room. They count up into the hun
dreds. That means a grand opportunity
to exercise your choice, to pick out
something that just suits your taste and
pocketbook. This holds true of side
boards, chamber suits, parlor tables and
chairs Never before was there exhibit
ted in this city go large. SO bewildering
an array of furniture. Small wonder,
with so ample a stock, that we do the
furniture business of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
LOTS OFPUBLIC WORK.

More VIII Be Done in Cities This Year
Than Ever Before.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 3.-"Paving and
municipal engineering" has gathered
statistics from the city engineers of 3UO
cities of more than 10000 population,
which show that more public work Will
be done during the summer OF 1875 than
ever before, the expenditures for paving,
Sewerage. waterworks and bridges APP
proximating 2OO,O0O,OO0 while last year
Less than one fourth of this amount was
onondad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
SUICIDE CLUB DIsGUsTED.
A Member was to Commit Suicide But He
Didn't and Was Expelled.


New York, June 3.-Frank Smith.
who has had the office of treasurer of
the Jersey City Suicide club since it was
organized last winter, has been expelled
from membership in the society for hav-
ing violated rule of the order.
The club held picnic on Decoration
Day, and during the evening q gathering
was held The members drew to decide
who was to commit suicide before mid
night.
The drawing was done silently, and as
each member drew a blank he sighed.
Smith drew the fatal slip and
at once disappeared while the
more fortunate members resumed
their Publication. Smith did not return
to his home that night, and it was thought
he had killed himself, but later he made
his appearance and was in high spirits.
He said he had decided that life was
still worth the living. His club associates
were Disguised at his weakness and unan-
imously voted to expel him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
A PRICE DROP.

Come and see the new Chamber Suit
at ST. There's a glad surprise await
ing you. The wonder will be how suits
so beautiful, SO finely finished, so full of
character, can bear so little price. The
query will naturally arise in your mind:
Who loses money on this suit? Never
mind another's loss, yours is the rich
gain. This opportunity will not be for
long. $50 for this chamber suit would
be a proper price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
WON'T MEET MICHIGAN.
The California Team of Athletes Says
H.. Esla,- e.

The California Team of Athletes Says
They Play Professionals.
CHICAGO, June 3.-The CaIifornians
will not compete with the University of
Michigan athletes in a dual meet this
spring. After the legislation against
Leroy and Halls Saturday night, Man
ager North of the athletic company
from the Golden Gate, said that the dual
tourney would probably be called of.
It is announced that a dual competi-
ton has been arranged with the Univer-
sity of Illinois for June 8. and tomorrow
the Californians leave for Champaign to
put in a week of quiet training in the
university town. Firsts will count five
points and seconds two points
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03

GEORGE W. HOWARD, GENERAL SECRETARY.
alton at least 20 per cent more will be
required, and that all men will have
places to work. The union Endorses
woman s plea for suffrage, but all other
political matters are tabooed, each mem
Der Of the organization being at liberty
to vote with any party he desires.
The union evidently believes in tenn
perance, for no man who drinks or gam
bles may hold Office, and any officer who
drinks or CANDLES may be expelled upon
proper proof. Another of the union s
declarations favors equal pay for women
when they do the work of men The
first national convention will be held in
Chicago in January, 1895. The union is
open to every one except the representa-
tives Of monopolistic corporations, and
no one will be barred on account Of re-
hgion, race, color or sex.
George w. Howard, the general Sec
rotary, was vice president Of the Amer
lean Railway union and is 46 years old
He began life as newsboy on the
Evansville and Charlottesville railway
and has held number of important pO-
sitions in the railway service. During
the war he served two years in Sher-
man S army as a member of Company
+, Fifty eighth Indiana infantry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03

Influence is as powerful in the furni-
ture factory as in the parlor of the
modiste. 1t is seen in the change from
the sombre heaviness Of not long ago to
the lighter woods and graceful, airy
effects now in vogue. The satin soft
ness of Curly Birch and the exquisite
sheen of Maplewood, now SO common in
cabinet work, are welcome opponents of
the trend in furniture towards sweet
ness and light In contrast is the state :
ly Mehogany-a wood fast becoming the
style again in higher grade furniture.
and deservedly so, for surely there is
nothing in timber susceptible of such
beautiful finish. Oak is a staple article
and will always hold a high place in
furniture finishing. Our exposition of
all these various woods is pronounced
by those who have seen the quantities
of beautiful articles on our floors I'M
excelled by any stock of furniture this
side of Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
MARTI IS ALIVE.
Cubans Rejoice Greatly Over the News
That He is Well.

That He is Well.
KEY WEST, Fla, June 3-There was
great rejoicing here last night among
the Cubans when telegram from BENZ.
Guerra, stating that Jose Marti is alive,
was received, and in order to
celebrate the event a meeting of
Cubans was called for mid-n light
at the San Carlos theater. The
news that Marti was we'll was received
with loud cheering and addresses were
made by a number of prominent Cubans.
Later the Cubans formed a line and
with band at their head paraded the
streets until daylight cheering for Marti
and indulging in old manifestations of
JOY. In addition the Cubans have de-
cided to take holiday today, and as
cigar factories viii be closed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
GROUND BURNING UP.
Not . Drop of Rain for Weeks in Some
Parts of Indiana.

Not q Drop OF Rain ToF " eeKs IN sOIll9
Parts of Indiana.
ANDERSON, Ind, June 5.-Havoc has
been wrought by the two extremes Of
temperature to which this section of the
state has been subjected during the last
two weeks, and farmers are very despOn-
dent. Not drop of rain has fallen and
the ground is burning.
It is thought there is not to exceed
IL. goo bushels of wheat visible in this,
the largest wheat growing county of
the state. Thousands of acres of wheat
land have been plowed up in the last
ten DAYS and corn is being planted. All
small fruits are injured more than at
first believed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
TOPEKA WON AGAIN.

Notes Giants Win from Troy by Heavy
BattinS-Thrse Home Runs,
Topeka won the last of the series with
score was 10 TO T. Topeka won bv beavv
batting and Troy's errors, of which the
visitors made IA. The batteries were
Bruner and True, Redmond and Faux
ner.
The feature of the game was Closets
two home runs and one by Dunn.
The score:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-03
ENGLISH CROPS POOR.
Grain is Set Back by DrOuth-France Has
Favorable Prospect

LONDON, June 3.-The Times prints to-
day a gloomy review of the English crop
prospects. 1t says that much of the
spring grain is no further advanced than
generally at the middle of April. The
fruit crop in Kent it appears has also
suffered from drouth.
The situation in France is favorable.
The outlook for the hay crop is salts
factory. In rye there is generally a
light crop and the average yield of
wheat is expected.