The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-22
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Mrs Ramey, wife of Rev. Mr.. Ramey
of Newport, Mo-, was terribly gored
by vicious COW.
For the first time in ten years every
coal mine in the Salineville, Ohio dis
trict is working with full force of
men.
Thursdays statement of the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, s167, ss1, 554; gold re-
serve, SOS, 7Os, s23.
At Brooklyn fire in the eight-story
building owned by Arbuck1e Bros,
and known as the Arbuckle coffee
mills, caused $500, 900 damages
Eighty-five per cent of the window
glass production of the country is
represented in Colum bus, Ohio, for
the purpose of bracing up business.
In Chicago, Minnie Dingat, a do
mestic. 81 years old, was shot and in
stantly killed by Joseph Wyman,
tailor. Wyman then attempted sui
eide.
In Detroit, Mich, Mrs Horace Pope
and William Brosseau, her accomplish,
were both held for trial for the MUIR
der of DR.. Pope, the husband of the
former.
William c. Murphy, the last of
General Sam Houston's army in the
war for Independence for Texas,
died at his home in Philadelphia,
aged rs years.
A. J. Balfour, the earl of Dunraven,
the marquis of Gran by Sir Herbert
Maxwell and a number of other
prominent British politicians are
suffering from influenza.
The Lawson flag bill forbidding the
- HI liz
buildings passed the New York SEN
ate after some debate by vote of 30
to 6. 1t now goes to the governor.
The bill submitting to the people
the question of bonding the state for
! SO OOO 600 for canal improvements has
| prssed the New York senate, yeas 90,
nays 4. It now goes to the governor.
John Geiger, a pioneer resident of
! Norfolk, Neb, has received notice
from New York city that his brother,
who recently died there, left his en-
tire estate. valued at 81, 500, 600 to
| him.
The case of Captain Henry How
gate. for several weeks on trial for
embezzlement and forgery while dis
bursting and property clerk of the
signal service has been given to the
jury
| resolution earnestly recommending
to Great Britain and Venezuela the
presidents suggestion that their
boundary dispute be settled by arbi-
tration.
John McBride's illness seems to be
| growing more serious. He has been
unable to leave the house since his
arrival at Massilon. Ohio, and the
doctors state that he will lose the
nails from toes and hands.
Harry C. Stillvell, young clerk in
| the employ of the Bank of California,
shot himself through the heart. He
had been caught in the act of alb
stracting a $50 treasury note off a
bundle OF notes in the bank.
The silvermen have determined to
fight the proposition for certificates
of Indebtedness in the sundry civil
bill and will carry their opposition to
such lengths as will prevent the bill
becoming a law If it is retained.
The deported Hawaiian royalists,
Cranstoun. Johnston and Muller, are
still at Vancouver. Muller, who was
a prosperous merchant in Honolulu,
has been given work by the city,
shoveling dirt on the streets to enable
him to live.
D. G. Mount, a prominent Mason
and Odd Fellow of Guthrie Center,
Iowa, who has been living on a ranch
near Barela, n. NJ, for the benefit of
his health. was attacked and robbed
by four Mexicans. His injuries will
prove fatal
At conference of whisky men in
Chicago it was decided to fix the price
of whisky at IA cents a gallon, or 2
cents advance of the present rate.
This rate will go into effect Monday
morning. and with a tax of S1.1O will
raise the price of spirits to S1.24 a
!, gallon.
In San Francisco Reuben H. LLOYD,
attorney for Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs
and Miss Virginia Fair, announces
positively that his clients would not
be a party to any contest of the will
of their father, the late James G..
Fair Charles Fair will contest the
will. however.
In Judge Ferguson's court in New
Orleans, Charles D. Leeper was fined
$500 and sent to the parish prison for
two months for carrying concealed
weapons. with the additional penalty
of one months imprisonment in the
event that the fine is not paid. This
is the heaviest sentence for carrying
concealed weapon ever i imposed il
the criminal court of that city.
SS2 calla up the Peerless.