The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-13
ABOUT"LAWLESS Topeka"
Reputation That the Sensational Cap
itaI'' Gives Our Town.
SOME OF THE CHICAGO HEADLINES

That Are Due 30 the Highly COIOred
and Untrue Bulletin Sent Out By the
ssMOrninS Fake Factory"
Topeka has been again and again mis-
represented by stories sent out from here
to eastern newspapers and the following
IN Chicago paper yesterday morning is
only another instance of the manufacture
of highly colored falsehoods which are
gotten up to sell.
The morning paper here is responsible
in this case at least, for the ap-
pearance of the same kind of story in
every metropolitan paper in the United
States yesterday morning.
The Capital started the sensational
story about the violence in Topeka,
which had hardly any foundation in fact
An Associated Press dispatch was sent
out of the Capital office Wednesday
night, announcing that mob had gath
cred in the streets of Topeka, and was
marching on the Medical college for the
purpose of destroying it, that state troops
were fortified in the college, etc.
The Topeka correspondents of eastern
newspapers were surprised later in the
evening to receive from night editors
who had received the Capital bulletin
orders for unlimited stories about the
such orders they were promptly filed
The correspondent of the paper which
printed the following story said: "When
l got an order for the details of the mob
at the Medical college,, looked out of
my window, saw the Medical college but
failed to see any signs of mob, but
the Capitals Associated Press bulletin
said there was a mob and my paper
wanted story SO gave them what they
wanted"
The following is what appeared under
black headlines on the front page of the
Chicago paper represented by this cor
respondent:
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 11.-Mob spirit
held sway for an hour after shutdown
here this evening. All plans were laid
to burn the Kansas Medical college and
deal out summary vengeance to the To-
peka grave robbers. Nothing but quick
use of the militia and the city's police
averted the riot and quelled the rising
spirit of the community, three times
| outraged.
Word was passed about during the
| afternoon, especially among North To-
peka people, that the mob would assem-
BILE in the vicinity of Twelfth and Taylor
streets, south of the river and proceed at
once to fire the college building, in
which during the last three days two
men have found the bodies of their dead
wives and one man the body of his dead
mother This half-whispered summons
to work of vengeance reached the ear of
| Governor Morrill, just before dark. His
action was decisive. He at once ordered
all the medical teachers and students
to leave the college building and
seek places of safety. Then he
| lodged more than half of the police
force Of the city in the vacated building,
after arming them with Winchester
rifles. A few policemen likewise armed,
he deployed about the building. The
governor considered this force sufficient
to guard the property against the attack
| of the mob. Then he ordered Battery B
| of the state militia into service at its
arsenal, prepared to resist a mob at five
minutes notice, and also to prevent the
capture of the arms stored there.
1t was these measures for public peace
| that quelled the violent mob spirit, but
| in the face of the governors action a
thousand people gathered in the streets
and surged about on Kansas avenue, de-
claring against his precautions and VOW
| ing Vengence on the faculty and
employees of the Medical college.
An indication of how the Capitals
| bulletin worked is shown by the follow
ing headlines from few of the Chicago
papersi
IChicago Times-Herald.J
DEATH TO GHOULS.
INFATUATED CITIZENS OF TOPEKA ATHEIST
FOR VENGEANCE.
MILITIA CHECKS THE MOB.
PLAN TO BURN KANSAS MEDICAL COL
LEGE IS FRUSTRATED.
RIOT DUE TO GRAVE ROBBERS.
THREE CITIZENS FIND MUTILATED RE-
MAINS OF THEIR DEAD IN THE
DIss EcTIEe-RooMs.
| Ichicago Inter- ocean1
| TOPEKA IS IN REVOLT
MoBs THREATEN TO BURN KANSAS MED
ICAL COLLEGE,
DEFEND THE DEAD.
aHoULs HAVE BEEN RoBBINe THE
CEMETERY GRAVES.
MILITIA CALLED ON TO PROTECT ARMS
FROM FALLING INTO THE HANDS
OF CITIZENS
[Chicago Chronicle,l
IS THREATENED BY A MOB
KANSAS MEDICAL COLLEGE NARROWLY
| ESCAPES TOTAL DESTRUCTION.
BODIES OF TOPEKA PEOPLE FOUND IN
THE DIssECTING ROOMS
| WHOLESALE ROBBERIEs OF GRAVES FOF
STUDENTS BENEFIT.
FACULTY AND OFFICIALS DESERT THE
| INSTITUTION.
[Chicago Record.l
GHOULS GET A SCARE