The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-02
NEWS IN BRIEF

The next house of representatives,
being Republican, will choose a new
set of employees.
Too much rain is reported in Texas
for the cotton to prosper.
Henry Thomas of Hamilton, Ca, II
years old, killed his 1-year-old cousin.
The Illinois Steel company has ad-
vanced the wages of its employees ten
per cent.
In Towson county, Texas, Sallie
Harkins shot and killed a man who
had burned her house.
Vice President Stevenson will make
an address at the Chicago labor dem
onstration on July 4.
Rev. John B. Wilson of New York
said in his sermon that the United
States should free Cuba.
Edward Patton was sentenced to
two years imprisonment for killing
Godfrey Peterson at Maryville, Mo.
White men tried to prevent negroes
at Antlers, I. T., holding services, but
were driven off after battle with
guns
Ex-Congressman William PARROT of
Indiana fell down a fight of stairs in
his home at Evansville, Ind, and died
a few hours later.
The retiring Liberal ministers were
decorated by the queen, and honors
were conferred on Others
An internal machine was sent to the
Berlin chief of police through the
mail. An explosion was prevented.
NJ. Gaudaud, French minister of
agriculture, who resigned his portfolio
to fight duel, has resumed his office.
Increase in the price of suitable tim
Der is making the tie problem serious
one for the railways.
Statistics show that the transporta-
ton companies margin of profit is be-
coming smaller every year.
The economics now practiced by
| leading railroads in order to reduce OPP
Grating expenses are said to be entirely
without precedent.
'sTexas Jack, who had been run
ming a Wild West show in Germany,
abandoned his employees at Gratz.
| They seized and sold all the parapher-
MALTA.
The Cubans are expecting three tor
pedo boats from France. Not until
| their arrival will the Cuban forces be-
gin what is intended to be their most
| effective work.
n
mons in London Monday the. parties
| changed sides in the house, the minis
terialists going to the right of the
| speaker and the Liberals to the left.
The pope has invited Cardinal Glib
bons to surrender his diocese, that of
Baltimore, Md, and to reside in Rome
and take part in the politics Of the
| Vatican. The cardinal refused the
| offer of his holiness.
| Major Chabran, commanding a de-
tachment of 200 infantry, has met and
/ defeated the Cuban insurgents bands,
numbering about 800 men. commanded
by Castillo and Zayas. The fight took
place at Mount San Felipe near Arroyo
Blanso, province of Puerto Principe.
j. K. Pearson, the great patron OF
colleges and institutions. of Chicago.
is to give $50, 900 to the Whitman col
1ege, Wa1la WaIIa, Wash.
The house of Trotter Holiday, a
: prominent rancher living near Grid1ey,
Col, burned, and Holiday and his
niece persisted in the flames.
1t is understood that negotiations
have been set on foot by New York
bankers representing large interests in
Mexican railways with the view of re-
establishing the Mexican railway.
Leo Stevens of BeIleville, Ill. a
former Jewish rabbi and one of the
most prominent Hebrews of the state,
was run over by a cable car on Wabash
avenue, Chicago, and probably fatally
hurt He is 20 years old.
Immigration the past fiscal year was
255, 325, a decrease of &c, 3o4.
Frietsch & Co., pork packers at Gin
cinnati, assigned to Moses Ruslzin, who
estimates the assets at $11O, 600 and the
liabilities at S5s, 900.
]. L Sheldon is now here. Orders fol
piano tuning addressed postofice boz