The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-30
BRIEFS By WIRE.

coal sold for 50 a ton, the lowest price
ever known in Chicago.
A wave of righteousness is about to
descend upon st. Joseph, Mo-, in the
shape of a temperance crusade which
begins next week.
Mrs Mary E. Lease has common d
to write another book. 1t is a ST
of political life in Kansas emit Led
''Among the Wolves
While attempting to rescue an en-
p1oye. John H. Walsh. proprietor of
Gaynor's hotel, Chicago. was killed by
an explosion of sewer gas.
In Boise. Idaho, the joint conven-
ton of the legislature Tuesday took
two ballots for United States senator
without showing any change.
There was much excitement on the
Chicago board of trade caused by
gold exports and a panic was nearly
precipitated. Cash wheat sold at 49c.
The work of the special examiners
of the pension bureau has fallen into
owing to the recent lack of appropri-
ations.
Fire broke out in the drug store of
DIR. John White at Cen tralia, Mo-, and
before the flames could be checked
the entire block was destroyed. Loss,
SIS, 900; insurance, $1S, 900.
The St Louis and Chicago boards
of trade have endorsed President
Cleveland's financial message and
wired their representatives. in con-
gress to support the president
In Olympia, Wash, BY a vote 80 to
"a the house decided to abolish the
Office of lieutenant governor, the sal
airy of which is 81, 900 per year. The
senate will undoubtedly kill the bill
In Cleveland, Ohio, J. S. Coxey of
keep off the grass" fame was sued
in the common pleas court for SIS, AGA
alleged to be due Harmon & Fraw-
ley on thirty nine promissory notes.
An important meeting of railway
passenger agents is being held in Hot
Springs, Ark. The purpose of this
| meeting, it is understood, is to re-
arrange the rates over their respec-
tive lines in the Southwest.
Information from Townsville, Ga,
is to the effect that the condition of
Judge Howell E. Jackson of the SUI
preme court of the United States is
no worse and that he has decided to
leave there for his home near Nash
vile.
L. NJ. Ferris, secre tary of the sugar
republic of Louisiana, and president
of the Burton refinery, was shot
through the arm by Henry PAYNE of
New Orleans The trouble between
the gentlemen grew out of a conten-
ton over business matters.
| Frank Stade1, a we'll known young
farmer residing near Hoyt. north Of
Topeka, was found dead in the woods
with a bullet in his head and a revol-
yer by his side. 1t is supposed that
| he committed suicide
Secretary Gresham is still in tele-
graphic correspondence with the Mex
| lean authorities, as we'll as those of
Guatemala. touching the settlement
of the dispute between the two ma
tions, and has not yet abandoned
hope of a peaceful outcome.
The Gray amendment to the sundry
civil bill. providing for the purchase
of the Blaine house, on the site of
! which theater is a bout to be built, for
use of the government, was favorably
reported from the senate public build
| ing committee.
in church work at Niles, Ohio. stood
| before mirror and blew her brains
out with a revolver. The woman
held her young child in her arms
while she committed the deed. Poor
health probably led to the act.
First Grand Chief Thomas A. In
! graham of he Brotherhood of Loco
! motive Engineers states there is no
foundation for the report telegraphed
! from Oakland, Cal, to the effect that
the engineers were preparing for a
| general strike on the Pacific coast.
The Merchants and Cotton Oil mills
of Memphis, Tenn, has memoriallzed
the Tennessee representatives in con-
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the bill to pay the sugar planters the
bounty on the crop of 1894
Representa- tive Sping has intro
duced bill in the Texas house fixing
sleeping car fare at 81 night regard
| less of berths. A violation of the law
is to be punished by fine of not less
than $25 or more than 81, 900.
The third assistant postmaster gem
seral will soon issue a call for bids for
furnishing envelopes to the postoffice
department during the next fiscal
year. The contract is yearly one
and the bids will be opened early in
May.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to the house a statement show
ing that claims aggregating $50, $50
for bounty on domestic beet sugar
manufactured while the late bounty
law was in force are on file in the de-
partment- The greater portion of
this amount claimed is by California
| companies
The secretary of the treasury has
directed the assay officials at New
York to exchange gold bars for legal
| tenders at an advance of one-tenth
of one per cent, instead of one-eighth-
This reduction was made for the rea-
son that nearly all of the gold coin
now on hand is new and therefore has
lost nothing by abrasions.