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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
COMMENCED At LAST.
The II iIImOn Case Fairly Started in t1l
United States Circuit Court.

The H IIImOn Case Fairly Started in tho
United States Circuit Court.
The Hillmon case commenced in earn
est this morning in the United States
circuit court The time today was nearly
all taken up in securing jury. as the
insurance companies have nine per-
emptory challenges, and the plain
tiff three. Besides this some of
the jurors drawn will undoubtedly be dis
missed for cause, as there is hardly any
one in Kansas who has not heard more
or less about the case. and has formed an
opinion to some extent.
Hillmon's wife, who is now Mrs Sallie
E. Smith, is here with her husband and
ready to tell her story.
The attorneys for Mrs. Smith are S.
A. Riggs of Lawrence, L. B. Wheat of
Leavenworth, c. F. Hutchings of Kansas
City. assisted by A. b. Quinton. The at
torneys for the insurance companies are
Eugene F. Ware of Topeka, Geo. j.
Baker and J. w. Green of Lawrence, and
W. r. Smith of Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
MILITARY DEMONSTRATION.

Gov. LeweIiing's Opposition to Troops on
Inauguration Doesn't Deter Wichita.
Governor Lewelling is not overly anx-
ious that the big demonstration proposed
for the Inauguration of his successor,
Governor ELECT Morrill, should be a sue
cess, according to one of the members
of the inaugural committee on arrange
ments.
1t is charged that Governor Lewelling
at first agreed to call out the state
militia and a member of the inaugural
committee said to STATE JOURNAL re-
porter: sThe governor agreed that
if we would provide for the
transDOrta ton he would authorize the
djutant general to order out the entire
National Guards so that every company
in the state would be here to participate
in the inaugural ceremonies.
"The adjutant general is acting in
good faith and he has the governors
agreement in black and white, although
the governor has gone back on his word.
The Second Regiment band from
Wichita, is coming without orders and
we are preparing to feed the members Of
the band while they are here"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
ARREST ORDERED.

Judge Foster Orders the Detention of
The Union Terminal Officers.
Judge Foster issued an order this after
noon for the arrest OF E. L. Martin, presi-
dent of the Union Terminal company at
Kansas City, A A. Mosher, secretary, and
]. {. Pickering, superintendent The
order was given to United States Mar
shall Neeley and he has gone to Kansas
City to make the arrests. The hearing
is set for January Is, before Judge Fos-
ter.
The order is issued on the information
of the Union Pacific railroad company,
who allege that the officers of the Union
Terminal company have torn up the
I. 2. tracks to secure crossing.
The suit to settle the question of the
right of the Union Terminal company to
cross the Z. P. and other railroad tracks
at Kansas City was submitted to Judge
Riner last month, but has not yet been
decided
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
STATE PRINTER FIGHT.
Four Candidates in the Field With Major
Hudson in the Lead.

Four Candidates in the Field With Major
Hudson in the Lead.
The state printer contest will be set
tied in the Republican caucus tonight.
unless all the political guessers are mis-
taken.
AT the winding up of the fight it
seems t. be Major Hudson against the
field. Greorge w. Crane, Ed Greer and
A. L. Sponsler are in the field and each one
announces that he confidently expects to
be a winner in tonight's caucus, yet each
one admits that Hudson is the strongest
Of his opponents.
Major Hudson himself says Mr.. Spon-
sler is the closest to him in the race, but
that he expects to be nominated on the
first ballot.
Although Major Hudson has strongly
advocated an open ballot in the caucus,
it is generally understood and even ad-
mitted by his closest friends that the
voting will be by secret ballot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
SENATORIAL CONTEST.
1t viii Come to the Front immediately
After the Partnership.

1t viii Come to the Front immediately
After the Partnership.
If the state printer question is settled
tonight, as is now anticipated, the fight
for the United States senatorship will
from tomorrow morning take the entire
time and attention of the politicians un-
til senator is elected.
AS it now stands Major c. Hood seems
to be gradually gaining more than any
of the candidates in the race.
Mr.. Burton has been making some in
roads on MIR. Ady's territory, the Seventh
district
A state senator who usually knows
what is being done, said today that if
the senatorial caucus were to be held to-
night, the first ballot would stand: Bur
ton 81, Hood 30, Leland 10, Ady IA
Thacner II. Smith 6. Total 1O6. Neces-
sarY to choice 54.
These figures may not be just right,
but they are not much out of the way.
The Ingalls, talk still comes to the sur
face occasionally. Yesterday at Sedalia,
Mo-, the ex-senator said in an interview.
Il am not candidate for the United
States senatorship l will not raise my
hand 10 secure it, but what is to be will
be, and no man will throw away United
States senatorship"
Senator Ingalls, will come to Topeka
next Monday, but will not stay here as
he is billed to make an address at Col
umbia, Mo, uesday night
Representative Powers. who is re-
garded as one of the warmest friends of
the ex-senator on the floor said
today: ''If there should be a dead lock
in the caucus l look to see Ingalls, nom
mated, but there will hardly be a dead
lock as there is disposition to make q
senator out of some one of the
men who have been actively in
the field as candidates. If Ingalls, should
be nominated under such circumstances
l would vote for him. as l know that
would be as my constituents wish"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
ADDITION VACATED

Armstrong's Addition Is No Longer Part
of the City-Road Viewers.
The county commissioners vacated
part of Armstrong; addition to North
Topeka today. The part vacated is not
in the city limits but was plated during
the boom. 1t is on the Rochester road,
in Soldier township, and lays along what
was laid out as Waddell street. The ap-
plication for the vacation was made in
September.
The great part of the session this
morning was taken up in discussing pro-
posed roads in different parts of the
county. B. Coyne. Victor E. Custer and
Peter Erickson " ere appointed viewers
of the county line road in Monmouth
township, and John Dickey. Dr. A. ".
Carson and L ]. Atwood were appointed
viewers of the Anderson road in Auburn
township
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09

No. 2O-To amend the laws of 1891 in
relation to aliens.
No. Pertaining. to the duties of
township officers in taking census.
No. 22-Amending the Australian bal
lot law in relation to the distribution of
ballots.
No. 23-An act regulating stock yards.
No. 24-Describing penalties for TAX
ing bribes.
Senator Milton Brown provided bill
No. 20, which related to the preservation
of election returns.
Senator TaiIor's Bills.
Then Senator Taylor of Wyandotte
county saw his chance and turned in
batch of bills for the suppression of
lotteries, joints and other nuis ances.
There were six of them as follows:
No. 26-To prohibit lotteries and
schemes in the nature of lotteries.
No. 27-In relation to gambling and
repeating sections in conflict Herewith.
No. 2S-To prohibit gambling, etc.
No 29-To abate nuisances and pre-
vent the sale of intoxicating liquor.
No 30-To amend certain acts relat-
ing to punishment for bribery.
No 31-To prohibit book making and
pool-selling.
Senator Thacher of Lawrence came
next with an act relating TO the duties of
the clerk of the supreme court.
Senator Cook of Mitchell county fol-
lowed with four carefully prepared bills,
of which
No. 33 related to the distribution of
ballots.
No. 34-TO encourage the construction
of storage reservoirs for purposes of
irrigation, and creating the office of
pond commissioner. (fhere will be 4
scramble for thisl
No. 35-Maklng an appropriation for
the completion of Improvements at the
industrial school for girls at Beloit.
No 36-Appropriating to meet the
deficiency of the Beloit industrial school
for the fiscal year of 1895
Senator Lucien Baker, of Leavenworth,
has carried several bills in his pocket a
number of days relating to railroads, coal
mines and other things, and he introduc-
ed them in this order:
No. 37-An act relating to the accept
| ance of railroad passes by certain public
officers.
No. 3S-An act restricting the right of
railroad corporations to bond and mort
gage its stock.
No. 39-In relation to the coal mine at
the state penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas
Senator Morgan of Cottonwood Falls
introduced the last two bills, pertaining
| to mortgages.
The senate then adjourned until p. N.
Afternoon session.
The senate reassembled at 2 p. m, and
a few minutes later the governors mess
age was received and read.
Lieutenant Governor Percy Daniels
just before the reading of the message
to the senate, appointed committee of
five on rules, as provided in a resolution
| adopted yesterday The committee is
composed of Senators King and Denni-
son, Pepulists; billiard. Democrat, and
! Ihacher. Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
VERY SMALL POTATOES.

Abe Curtis, Once Suspected of Mrs. Mat
ions Murder, Given a Light Fine.
Abe Curtis the colored man arrested
for the murder of Mrs. Matson,
pleaded guilty to stealing the
watch which was thought to
to be Mrs. Matson's, and was fined SO
and costs by Justice Grover
He will work the fine out on the coun-
tv stone nile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
ONE EVERY DAY

Troughs the Latest Trust.
CINCINNATI. Jan. representatives.
of fifty American firms met today and
organized the National Association of
Manufacturers of Corrugated Pipe aud
Galvanized Fave Troughs. with Presi-
dent T. c. Snyder of Canton and James
A. Miller Of Chicago as temporary Off
GERS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
Wasn,t Thia One.

John Newman, who was fined in the
police court this morning for being drunk
and stealing a pair of boots, was not the
John Newman who is a carpenter and
resides at 1912 east Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
A GOOD WAY, TOO.
Dissatisfied Coal Miners Leave the Mines
a Royalty.

a Royalty.
ZANEsvILLE, Ohio. Jan. 9.-Miners at
Shawnee have leased the y X and Cos
lyn and Barber mines and will operate
them, paying the proprietors seven cents
a ton royalty and 10 per cent commission
for selling. This will net the miners 80
per ton. but they say it will place them
in position to compete with the Pitts
burg operators who have violated the
agreement with reference TO the diff
teEsntiaIs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09

A boom has been started at Atchison to
secure a place on the proposed appellate
court bench for Judge David Martin.
Judge Martin has lately retired from the
law firm of Waggener, Martin & Orr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09

WASHINGTON, Jan. president Cleve-
land today sent to the senate the nomi-
nation for postmaster of NJ. Fl. Anderson,
Wilson, Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.

The governors message of about four
teen thousand words appears in full in
this paper on pages and Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09
Not so Nauch For IndInna.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-The Indian
appropriation bill will be about S2O0.0O0
less than the appropriation of last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-09

criticism. She must have the favor
of some member in order 20 be passed, in
to the floor at the opening session of the
house. 1t is instances of this kind that
are the cause of all the trouble about
this matter.
If Mr. BalIinger's bill becomes law it
will not only straig ghten out the assistant
enrolling clerk matter, but will have
wholesome influence on some of the
members who are looking for committee
clerkships for women who shouldn't be
there.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05
CARE OF FUEL

Most servants, and, indeed, too many
housewives, burn great deal too much
fuel in cooking. 1t is simply waste to fill
up the CRATE with coal and then punch and
poke till it nearly melts the top off the
stove, only to go through the process again
when it is all burned out. When the fire
is burning, small shovelful at time will
keep the oven in prime condition and cook
everything on top of the stove just as fast
as though the vessels were dancing jib
from the intense heat. When thing is
cooking you can't make it cook any faster
without spelling it by turning or drying
it up too fast. So it is with heating stove.
If you let the coal in the latrobe all get on
fire at once it will drive you out of the
room with heat, but it all burns to white
ashes in an hour, when by feeding down
properly it would have sufficed for a whole
lav
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05
DISSERTATIONS IN GHOSTS.
BY JANE. MARSH PARKER.

1t has been said recently by popular
paragraphist-one of a distinct school in
our current literature, by the way-that
the two notable revivals of the hour are
ghosts and tories; that the essayists are
chiefly responsible for the first, and the
patriotic hereditary societies for the latter.
Be that as it many, we must admit that the
renaissance in ghosts is considerable. We
find the ghost in every issue of every popu-
lar magazine; but, alas! it is not plain that
it is degenerate that the fin de steele
ghost, at its best, makes a poor showing
besides those awful shades before which
our fOrefathers crouched and shivered,-
those ghosts that were not to tritied with?
Now, it can never be said of the eigh-
teenth century, with all its short -comings,
that it did not hand over to the nineteenth
first class thing in ghosts; nothing akin,
seemingly, to its Pickering survival, this
remnant that has been 'interviewed' and
tested" and exhibited almost out of ex-
istencc.
And surely the twentieth century will
have good cause for accusing thenineteenth
of defrauding it of what the human family
may yet be sorely inconvenienced to get
on without What have you done with
Niagara Falls, and the Palisades, and the
buffalo, and ghosts? Where are those
| Shades that were entrusted to you,-that
came down from Homer and Shakespeare,
and men who knew a good thing when they
saw it? And what have you done to civil
lied man that he can no longer believe in
ghosts.'
That last question we leave to the scien-
| fists. Cancellation of the offended Shades
will come from another quarter, if it is ever
offered Perhaps the time will come when
the ghosts of our forefathers will be missed
and longed for, and an effort will be made
to restore to the race those dear psyche
! logical faculties through which ghosts that
! are ghosts can be seen an appreciated.
| The majestic, gliding ghost of the far
away past, and that novel variation seen
by the Ancient Mariner when
Souls did from their bodies hy,
| And every soul, it passed me by,
Like the whiZ OF my cross bow
! show faint kinship, if any at all, with the
popular type of to-day, best described by
Lewis Carol: That merry ghost -. that
sat upon post and champed and
chawed his buttered toast -. and told
/ lust how he worked his tricks
/ And when you've learned to squeak. my nun.
And caught the double sob.
/ You've pretty much where you began:
| Just try and gbner, II you
! That's something of job.
Shakespeare, it is. | think who treats
| OF ghosts in days of old,
| Who gibbered in the Roman streets.
! Dressed, if you recollect in sheets
They must have found it cold.
Shades of Pairoclus and Banquo and
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05
THE STARS on GOOD FRIDAY.

The astronomers of the Paris Observa-
tory have been studying the heavens par
ticularly with reference to the position OF
the stars, and they say that the year 1896
will be remarkable one both from the
astronomical and religious point of view
On Good Friday next, april 12,) the
heavenly bodies which gravitate round the
sun will be in exactly the same position
they occupied in the armament the day
Christ died on the cross. 1t will be the
first time such a thing has occurred since
that great day, just 1862 years ago.
That was the thirty-third year of the
Christian era, which dates from the birth
of Jesus Christ.
At 4.20 in the morning, Paris time (about
II. 20 p. m. on April II, New York time,
the moon will pass before Virgin in (Spica,
and hide that constellation for an hour.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05

Us. --, but you need feel no concern
about your reputation" No" he replied
Il don't; I'm only concerned about the
reputation of the supreme court"
Sidney Willard was occupying chair in
the court room, and, having left it for Il
moment, William f. Parmenter, now chief
justice of the municipal court, came in and
took the seat Willard returned in Il few
minutes, and said to Parmenter: HCede
loco" Parmenter, being an old-fashioned
Democrat, who was called a loco -fOcO, re-
Piled ''This is too bad; thought | came
in here looking quite respectable, and here
I am called a seedy loco"
On one occasion after a jury was impan-
eled i'll the supreme judicious court, Judge
Shaw cast his eve around and found there
were only eleven men. He said: 'Mr. Off
Ger, find the twelfth man" Some time
elapsed, when the officer came in, and the
judge SAID, Have you found him. Mr.. Off
cer.' ''No, your honor" "Where is he??''
said the judge. II don't know, sir; he's
dead"
A woman plaintiff who had testified in
chief about a bargain she had made was
asked on cross examination: Now, who
was present when this bargain was made?''
"Now, on me honor, nobody but God
Mrs. O'Toole, and meself."
Colonel Edward G. Parker, who was
rather pedantic, wrote a life of Mr.. Choate
He was relating to some parties an Incl
dent which happened in the third century
B. c., about the time of the death of Ptol-
emy Ill, and he appealed to John s.
Holmes, who stood by, and said: Didn't
he die about that time, John?" "Who's
that that's dead?' asked Holmes. s'Ptol-
ems,l II, - s;.;' Parker. 'Good Lord
said Holmes, stretching out his hands, "you
don't say he's dead
A Mr.. E., who was practising at the Suf-
folk bar in 1853, was very pertinacious l
said one day to Mr.. Choate: "Mr. E. al
ways seems to maintain his grip" "Yes,"
said Mr. Choate hes bulldog with a
confusion of ideas"
When Judge who was not very
| Drllllant man, Qleu, some one SalQ TO
Holmes, in my office one day Holmes,
understand that they are going to put up a
monument to Judge --" Holiness re-
piled that it ought to be bas-relief.
Mr. Holmes was once discussing Irish
affairs with young Irish lawyer in my
Office, and the latter, seeming somewhat
surprised at Holmes remark, asked:
why, Holmes, don't you want the Irish
to have their freedom?" 'Yes," said
Holmes, con one condition" what is
that?' That wall is built around Ire
land, so high that no one of you can ever
get out
In the celebrated case or Burlen rs.
Shannon, Mr.. Durant was for the plaintiff,
and General Butler for the defence. After
long discussion of some point of law,
General Butler said: "All that am sorry
for is that | every indorsed my brother
Durant over to the court Mr.. Durant
for whose admission to the bar General
Butler moved, and who had been student
in his office replied: "All l am surprised
at is that the court ever took brother But
ler's Endorsement"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-04-05
APROPOS OF La GRIPPE.

An eminent English physician makes
some excellent observations and some sug-
gestive cautionary remarks upon that un-
relenting and destructive terror, la grippe,
or influenza. He states that a tendency
to sleep almost always appears as an early
| symptom of this much-to-be- dreaded dis
ease. This tendency should be INDUCED,
and the patient should at once go to bed
and encourage his disposition for repose,
taking care to promote perspiration and to
secure normal condition of all the func-
tions of his system. What are called
lowering medicines" are for the most
part ineffective. Indeed no general pre-
scriptiOns or remedies can be conf dently
recommended. Quiet and rest for mind
and body are of essential importance and
in ordinary attacks better battle the threat
ened disease than any drugs.
As to heating and stimulating drinks,
like brandy, he denounces them in the
most emphatic terms, and declares he
Knows Of nothing that more distinctly
conducts to fatal termination of this dis
ease than alcohol. Although it may calm
and soothe by its peculiar effect on brain
and nerve matter, it encourages and de-
velopes congestion of the lungs,-in 9TH
er words, induces pneumonia.
With regard to the contagious charac-
ter of influenza, he inclines to the mega
tive, and thinks the cause is atmospheric
instead. The malady seems too widespread
ing and sudden to be an Influence passing
from one person to the other. 1t is rath-
er difficult for the unscientific to draw
palpable line of demarcation between the
two. He expands his idea of the cause of
this unmanageable malady by saying that
"there are changes going on in the atmos-
phere which in the present state of chem
ical science we cannot discover. l have
found by experiment that the inhalation
of ozone will produce the symptoms that
characterize la grippe. Our planet may
be going through portion of space where
minute particles from other planets are
diffused in our atmosphere, and are in
some way affecting tor volcanic erup-
tions may have brought particles from the
central fires, which have mingled them
selves with baleful power among the ele
ments of our atmosphere"
MARIA j. B. BROWNE