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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
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forever comparing the red earth Of that
section with the fat black soil Of the
Wabash country and wondering how any
one could extract living from "such
IN old brickyard. - Now every one Of
those little c0ves III the Cumberland
mountains is like garden of Eden for
IoveliEess, and the wonderful ''blue
springs" from which we hauled water
for our camp-springs a rcd square. in
which the longest plumnlet line could
find no bottom-are fashionable resorts
for health or pleasure. Through what
was then a wooded wilderness between
The mountains and the river long trains
of cars pass almost hourly, bearing coal
and iron ore from the Cumberland pla-
teau, and from the site of our camp,
then so solitary, che can see the smoke
of seven furnaces. So far so good, but
along with this goes the usual evil,
which is thus forcibly set forth by MIR.
T. e. Martin Of The Dixie Magazine IN
a recent talk with me:
''They have run the thing into the
ground and made the south ridiculous
by wholesale and reckless exaggeratioa.
There are two papers of influence in the
south which have a system Of counting
that practically multiplies from five TO
ten fold. They count an enterprise when
it is first projected, then when the COM
pany is organized, again when work is
begun, and so on till, without exactly
saying SO, they convey the impression
that the south is thickset from river to
sea with manufactures. It is Just now
impossible to get exact statistics, but
within my own knowledge there are at
least eight very large cotton mills near
y completed, of which the four most
| noted are at Atlanta and Rome, Ca. !;
Gadsden, Ala. and Pelzer, S. G. You
speak of seeing new mills in process Of
construction at every important place
along the Southern railroad. Well, those
are all additions and enlarge1nents, good
in their way, but not new enterprises.
It's the same with mines and furnaces
and iron works generally. have been
/ fighting that sort CT thing, and they call
me pessimist, but exaggeration is La
| Bile to do us great harm.
It is difficult to get the exact figures
down to date, but it is not impossible,
as ''Dixie" Martin thinks, for there are
many gentlemen now at the exposition
who are too deeply interested to be mis-
1SQ anu WIZ Keep ldD OA tL0It pdI t1GU-
lar lines down to every Saturday night.
Nj. William A. Knowles of the Rome
(Ga.) Tribune gives me the exact pres
ent situation in his bailiwick and mod
estly claims that the new cotton mill
there will be the greatest in the south.
1t is constructed by the Massachusetts
Cotton company and is to be III opera
ton by Jan. 1. The village in which
the operatives are to live will add at
least 1000 to the population of Rome.
General Willard Warner, senator from
Alabama in 1870 and thereabout, keeps
the exact figures to date on iron and its
related products. These gentlemen and
many others make heavy deductions
from recently published statistics and
still the residue is wonderful. Taking
the general statements published at the
beginning Of this year III the hurrah
editions Of the boomer papers and add
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

ST. LOUIS may be slow. but when she
IS thoroughly convinced that she has
discovered a good thing she SEXES it
and clings to it with a tenacity that is
rarely equaled. Apropos of this charac.
teristic, ST. Louis has organized civic
federation. She has beheld the work CT
the Chicago organization, that it is
good. and possessing q broad field of her
own to cultivate. she will set about it in
her usual sedate way of doing things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
WORLDS FAIR MODEL.
A Costly Model Showing in Detail all
the Beauties of the White City


CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-Eagineers G. W.
G. Ferris. Andrew Onderdonk and
Architect Charles Schneider have just
completed a $4,000 model of the
Worlds fair "White City" which was
begun two years ago
The model will be shipped in sections
to Atlanta this week. where it will be
placed. in a pavilion within the Exposi-
ton grounds between Machinery hall
and the Mining and Manufactures build
ing The fair over, the model will be
brought back to this city, and then taken
to the principal cities of the world as a
sample of Chicago enterprise and in
genuity. It will be placed on exhibit
ton at the Paris exhibition in 1900.
Everything is mathe matically proper.
tional on the scale of one-twelfth inch to
he foot and every detail is reproduced
$4,000 pieces entering into the repro
6uced machinery hall alone. There are
trees and sidewalks, the intramurRI rail
way, with running cars, sesrch1ights,
Krupp guns and the Illinois battleship,
capable of brilliant illumination.
There are 1000 arc lights and 5000
minute lamps in the court of honor and
300 in the administration building. In
the model are over 100000 openings
through which electric lights CLEAN in
the transformation scene. The lamps arc
the smallest ever used for commercial
purposes.
The aurora" pure Havana, best 10c
cigar in tho citv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
Recklese Exaegeration.

Now, in all this there is a deal OF
truth, but lest we blow the southern
trumpet a little too loud it is we'll to
begin with some cautionary statements
of fact. 1t is first to be noted that the
boys Of 1865 saw all this country at
its worst, not only because Of war desc
lation, but Of their Ignorance of the soil
and its capacities. To a newcomer from
the central northwest an old field in this
middle south looks like desert. IL
1864 our regiment passed the summer
at Bridgeport, Ala, and the boys were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
THE SOUTH OF TODAY.
Facts Concerning Its Recent
Growth and Prosperity.
CHANGES SINCE THE WAR.

ReckiessExagger ation-Its New Man
ufactures-An indigenous School of
Literature-NOtes OF tho Atlanta Ex-
position.
ATLANTA, Oct. 10-Veterans of the
Army of the Cumberland who On their
way here attended the G. A. R. encamp-
ment at Louisville and the dedication
at Chickamauga park tell me that all
their other enjoyments are second to
the interest they take in the amazing
changes in the country. Among them
is an unusually large proportion Of pri
vate soldiers and men of moderate
means-men who have Travelled but lit
tie since the war-and to these men it
is just as if great panorama were IN
rolled before their eyes, the general
view Of 1864 giving place with enc
turn of the crank to the general view Of
1895. They grow fierceIy enthusiastic
in talking of the great stock farms and
lovely peach orchards on the line of the
Bragg and Ruell races i'll 1862, of the
great iron furnaces northwest of Chat
tanooga and the manufactures in that
city, of the finely equipped railways and
pretty passenger stations, and, most Of
all. of the bewildering stir and action
of Atlanta, which was, aside from the
military, but a dull place when they
first saw it and mostly ruins when they
left il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
Daily Average 9, $50.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR-
NAL has ever been able to make for period OF
any six months in its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached by
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894.
The American Newspaper Directory, issued in
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894, gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only s.744. These
figures were furnished by the publishers OF the
Capital, to the Directory, and are guaranteed to
be correct by a forfeit of 500. which will be
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following figures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
first six months in 1888. 1891 and 1895. shows tbs
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

FRANCE will probably send Waller
home now since she has possessed her
self of all his belongings When she
does, just watch the Democratic press
iaudation of Growers vigorous foreign
policy, and all the Democratic orators
will go about telling the people how
their master wouldn't let an American
citizen, even though black, remain in a
foreign prison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
PAID $1,000 FOR 1T.
AIr. Bristow's Purchase of a 2apsr at OF
tawR, Kan.

AIr. Bristow's Purctase ola Paper at OF
tawa, Kan.
J. Z. Bristow, Governor Morrill's pri-
vate secretary, has gone to Ottawa to
stake charge of his new paper, the Otta-
wa Herald.
" ord comes from Ottawa that Mr..
Bristow paid 81 500 for his new paper
Curly Harrison, adjutant general Of the
q. A. r., made the purchasing deal for
MIR. Bristow.
ar. Bristow does not mean to resign
his official position.
The Advance OF 51rdTcInc.
The evolution of knowledge has
brou4 ht forth the complete revolution OF
medicine Daniel blcSwegan, N. D.
who holds the medal of the intern atiouaI
medical congress, and is ex president of
the Medical society, has returned to this
country after visiting the principal hos
pitfalls of the world, and is now following
the new science method of diagnosis and
treatment. In this way he has cured
many eminent people OF Europe and
America of diseases that resisted all
other methods. The new treatment for
lung, liver, kidney. skin and private dis
eases is far in advance of the old style,
and nervous and functional diseases are
cured in from one to three treatments.
DR.. McSwegan is now in this city, and
during his stay will give free examine
ton and advice to all who are in any
way all cted. Call from 10 d. m. to D.
N. at room 10, Keith block, S16 Kansas
avenue, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

IT is reported that this country bought
100000 pounds of foreign wool last
week. This is all paid for in gold,
when it might as well be paid for in sill
yer, if silver were not discredited by our
own government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

THE national conference of colored
men which has been called to meet ia
Detroit in December is probably the mi
tial step in another colored colonization
soho1o
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

WHEN governor has both the legis-
lature and the courts on his side he can
nearly have his own way. The United
States circuit court has sustained South
Caroiiua's dispensary law. 1t was con-
tested on the ground that it established
q mononoIv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

THE story that a boy at Bridgeport,
Conn, has grown fourteen inches taller
in two months is not so remarkable when
it is considered that Bridgeport was the
home of Phinsas T. Barnum during his
life time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

IT must be very discouraging to the
board of health to have its efforts to stop
the diphtheria epidemic upset by the
children staying out of school.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

CHICAGO. Oct 12-For kanaes: Fair
weather; warmer in eastern portion to-
night cooler in west portion Sunday:
southwest winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

DR.. PARKHURsT affects to be very
much shocked at discovering that Thos.
c. Plat cares nothing about the citizens
of New York city and their interests
What delightful old innocent Dr.. Park
burst isl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

IT is already being limited that Joe
Waters wrote that letter of acce ptance
which Charlie Holiday has given to the
public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

WICHITA has two chiefs of police, and
still it is said that the prohibitory law is
violated continually in that town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
Wonderful Growth.

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka daihea
combined. only proves the meagerness Of its
local circulation as compared with that Of che
STATE Jot RNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead Of the combined circulation OF
all the other Topeka Gatles.
The circulation Of the Topeka Daily STATE
Journal in The towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large. IS the evening trains In
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL.
giving its readers the first and latest associated
Press and state news CT the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
Dnn,t RnnA This

Unless you wish to know that Beggs'
Diarrhoea Balsam is the best medicine
on earth for Summer Complaint. Never
ais. Cures every time. Equally good
for children. Sold and warranted by all
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

Subscribe for the Daily sTA7EJoURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown to
have a circulation. during the first six months
as stated. of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

The Aurora" pure Havana, best 10c
cigar in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-12

ing CT diseourting to date according to
tire experts, men themselves in the bust
ness, think the following facts certain:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-21
A GREAT RECORD.
extraordinary Feat of the st. Louis
I'm the English Channel.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 20. = The steam
trials OF the American line steamer st.
Louis over a measured course in the Brit
ish channel, to-day, were complete sue
cess. The course was from Portland Hill,
to Start Point and back, which is a distance
of 104 knots. The time In which the course
was covered was four hours. forty-one min
utes and osie second, which gives mean
speed Of twenty-five and three-tenths
knots There was smooth sea and bright
sunshine. with little wind.
The trial was made to ascertain whether
the steamship comes up to the requirements
of the government under the contract for
carrying the mail. Naval Constructor Fer
nald said that he had thoroughly examined
the hull structure of the steamship while
she Tas in dry dock and found that she
was in excellent condition. hardly rivet
being loose or seam started.
This morning at O'Clock Messrs. Griscom
and Wright, Commander Bradford, Lieut..
Milligan. United States Consul Kincaid,
Lieutenant Cowles, naval attache TO the
United States embassy; Naval Instructor
Fernald and a select party boarded the St.
Louis, after which she started Immediately.
flying the stars and stripes. AT Portland
Hill the St. Louis crossed an imaginary
distance of fifty-two miles. She was going
with the tide, and she passed every vessel
en- route. She reached Start point In two
hours, twelve minutes and thirteen sec
onds. which was at a rate Of % 3-l0 knots an
hour The vessel turned smartly, pointing
homeward, and fifteen minutes later she
passed Start lighthouse. and commenced her
return trip against the tide. She reached
Portland Hill in two hours, twenty-eight
minutes, forty-eght seconds, which is at a
rate of twenty-one knots an hour.
Mr.. Griscom stated after the trial that he
was greatly pleased, as he had hardly hoped
to achieve such a grand result. The ma
chinery could not have worked better. There
was no heating of the bearings, and not a
single hitch throughout No special coal was
used, but only the same as usually used in
ordinary trips. and they packed the bunkers
in the usual manner and had the same fire.
men as when they brought the ship over.
The revolutions of the engines averaged 80.
and ii is an interesting fact that, without
taking account. of the tide, the St. Louis
went faster during the last hour than during
the first. Mr. Griscom thought 1t was the
first time the American flag or any other
had been taken at that speed up and down
the English coast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-21
Brakeman Wounded. the Trainmen
Robbed, hut None of the Forty
Two Passengers MoIested.
WESTERN BANDITS AT WORK
UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COVER
LAND FLYER" ALSO HELD Up.
Engine Detached and the Train Left
I'm Possession Of Highwaymen,
Who Robbed Ii at Leisure.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Aug. 3O.-The
the Chicago & West Michigan road. leav-
ing Chicago at O'Clock and arriving here
at lo:40. was held up by FIVE men in a piece
OF woods just before crossing the Kalama-
zoo river. at 9 o'clock tonight. The train
was tagged by swinging a white light
across the track. and when IL stopped con-
ductor e. H. Rice, of this city. stepped out
on the platform OF the baggage car and.
seeing two of the robbers. asked: What's
the matter?' The reply was two shots
from their revolvers AT the same time
cab. and moment later two men climbed
on the engine and ordered the engineer
and fireman TO set the brakes and keep
quiet. When the train stopped the brake
man. Timothy Murphy. OF this city. jumped
eff the rear platform and started back with
a lantern. as required by the rules. The
fifth robber standing alongside the coach
fred three shots at him. one OF which
struck Murphy in the side. hitting a rib
and glancing, making a serious flesh
wound. He dropped into the ditch. where
he remained until the robbers had gone.
Conductor Rice. after a bullet whizzed
past his head. retreated to the baggage
ca- and threw his pocketbook over be-
hind the trunks.
ha n
bers placed dynamite under the side door,
blew 1t off and sprang into the car with
the remark: I'VE want all you've got
here
They ordered the conductor, baggage
man and express messenger TO throw up
their hands and went through their pock-
cts. taking $50 in change from the con-
ductor but finding nothing except watches
on the others. They then tackled the safe
and blew 1t open in less than thirty sec
onds. 1t contained no valuables. the mes
senger having gone out in the afternoon.
was returning on dead trip They
took the watches from the engineer and
fireman. but when the conductor said that
he would need his watch IL was handed
back TO him. and. saying good night the
robbers took to the woods. The passen-
gers. forty-two in number. were not mo-
Tested.
To make sure OF halt ties had been
placed on the track half length ahead
of where the engine stopped. The baggage
car was not disabled and the train pro-
ceeded.
The trainmen cannot give a good de-
scription of the robbers. The leader was
heavy man who wore full beard ana
another was dressed like a farmer. None
of them wore masks, but those who
BEARDED the engine concealed their features
as much as possible. Ailegan. Ottawa
Van Bursn, Kent and Kalamazoo sherinA
have been notified and officers here say
that unless the robbers have boat and
escaped across Lake Michigan they viii
be caught
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-21
SAYS SHE is ALIVE
ONE OF II. III. HOLINESS ALLEGED
VICTIMS AT PROVIDENCE, R. l.
Minnie II. Williams Wires a Philadel-
phia Attorney that She Was Not
Murdered as Reported.

: PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2O-W A. Shoe
maker. the attorney for H. H. Holmes,
accused of score of murders received a
telegram to-day, purporting to come from
Minnie r.. Williams. one of Holiness
alleged victims. 1t reads as follows:
Providence, r. l., Aug 49,
w. A. Shoemaker, attorney, Philadelphia,
Pa:
Report that was murdered is absurd.
MINNIE r. WILLIAMS"
When the message was shown to Holmes
he said excitedly: II knew my story tha.
did not kill the girl would be condrmed!''
He brushed tears from his eyes. al am
sorry, however, trat she has made herself
SO public by telegraphing. She might as
well have written" Then Holmes reiter-
ated the statement that he has made so
often that the last time he saw Minnie
Williams was when ne left her at Toronto
with the Pie.zel children. The prisoner
has every confidence that Minnie Williams
is the best fri md ne las and feAls assured
that the telegram that was recs'ved TO
Cay was sent b.. her for the purpose of
showing loyalty to him
Attorney w. A. Capps. the Fort Worth
attorney who has been here in the in
terest of Texas people who are trying to
prosecute Holmes. was on his way to take
a train for New York when told that
Minnie williams had been reported alive.
He said: II never thought she was dead.
The Fort Worth people think she is alive,
but it seems mighty hard to locate her.
She may be somewhere near Boston. She
has many friends there. / would not be
surprised If the telegram you say has
been received from her is correct" There
the conversation was abruptly terminated
by AR. Capps having to rush off to catch
the New York express.
Assistant District Attorney Barlow would
not say whether he thought the telegram
was genuine false. He admitted, how
ever, that he would not be astonished IL
Minnie Williams appeared on the scene a,
any time
Lawyer Shoemaker Is investigating the
Western Union Telegraph Company Asked
as to his belief In its genuineness he re-
piled: 1T may, may not be. My opin-
.on, however. is that II vas sent by Minnie
Williams. Holmes told this afternoon
that he supposed the girl had just ar
rived from London. and perhaps was in
duced to send the message to some of his
friends. IT Is more than likely that Minnie
Williams sent the message from Providence
and then hurriedly left the town. She has
always. you know had a particular fond
ness for Boston, and besides she has many
friends In that city. She may have been
on her way there when she telegraphei
me-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-21
CONRAD II. BEYER MISSING.
President of the Chicago Looking
Glass Company Disappears.

CHICAGO. Aug. 2o.-Conrad II. Boyer.
president OF the Chicago Looking Glass
Company. has disappeared and IL is the
general belief of his creditors that he has
gon 10 Frankfort -on-the- Main. 1t is alleged
that he has with him a large amount of
cash which the creditors claim should be
divided among them.
The looking glass company failed Aug l
and the creditors at once began proceed
ings to learn the state Of Beyer's finances
and TO bring him within Jurisdiction OF
the county court. The National Bank of
Illinois is said 10 have claim against
Boyer for $500 and the First National
Bank one for $500. The allegation is
that Boyer Obtained the money which he
took with him by purchasing goods from
dealers ostensibiy for use by the looking
glass company, but the goods were sent
10 warehouses. and the receipts taken aud
pledged for cash. Between Aug / and
Aug Is. the creditors claim Boyer secured
betwse.s $4,000 and $4,000 worth OF goods,
which ne disposed OF In this manner Tn
less ae Ger Sc brought back the creditorp
VIII rsaiiss zothing on their claims.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-21

NORTH PLATTE. Neb-. Aug 9o--Ban-
dts captured the east-bouni Overland
flyer about midnight. The engine was
cut off and sent forward in the regulation
Jesse James order. while the outlaws looted
the train at their pleasure. No particulars
as to the amount of booty obtained are
obtainable tonight. The engine was sent
on to Gothenburg for relief ana officers
are in pursuit OF the higawaymen.
The train held up was No. s. IL left
North Platte at II o'clock. II carried
full complement OF coaches. sleepers and
express cars. The robbery occurred an
hour later. The country in the vicinity
OF the hold-up is fairly well settled and
the authorities anticipate no trouble in fol-
lowing the outlaws. All were heavily
armed and a conflict is quite probable.
The train is due in Omaha st lo:2s a. N.
"Wednesday