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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
THE SLATE.
Republicans Have Agreed Upon
Senate Committees.
Democrats Get Eleven Chair
manships, Populists Some.
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
PETER is Chairman ON Civil
Service Committee.
Baker is Chairman on Indian
Lands TresSpassers.
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Repub-
ican catcus committee of the Senate
completed it's work of assigning the
majority membership of the Senate
committees yesterday. The assign
ment of chairmanships is as follows:
Agriculture, Proctor; appropriations,
Allison; audit contingent expenses,
Jones of Nevada; census, Chandler;
civil service, Pritchard; claims, Teller;
coast defense, Squire; commerce, Frye;
District of Columbia, Mcmillan; edu-
cation and labor, Shoup; enrolled
bills, Sewell: examination of branches
of the civil service, PETER; finance,
Morrill,; fisheries, Perkins; foreign re-
lations, Sherman; immigration, Lodge;
Improvement Mississippi river, Nelson;
Indian affairs, Pettigrew; Indian dep
relations, Wilson; Interstate com
merce, Cu1lom; irrigation, Warren;
judiciary, Hoar; library, Hansbrongh;
manufactures, Wetmore; military
affairs, Hawley; mines and mining,
Stewart; naval affairs, Cameron; or
ganization executive department,
Butler; Pacific railroads, Gear; patents,
Platt; pensions, Gallinger; postoffices,
Wolcott; printing, Hale; privileges
lands, Dubois; railroads, Clarke; rela-
tions with Canada, Carter; revision of
the laws, Burrows; rules, Aldrich;
Territories, Davis; transporta ton
routes to seaboard, Mcbride; Universi-
ty of the United States, Kyle; interna-
tional expositions, Thurston; to inves-
tigate the geological survey, Elkins;
national banks, Mantle; forest reser-
vations, Allen; trespassers upon In
dian lands, Baker; Ford theater disas-
ter, to be filed when the Utah SEN
ators come in.
This disposes of the chairmanships
of all but eleven committees. The
committees undisposed of are known
as the minority committees. The Re-
publicans now control them, and they
will fall to the Democrats under the
new organization The caucus COM
mite has made provision for the Pop
ulist senate as the Democrats did in
the last congress, and have given each
of them a craftsmanship. giving each
the same position held under the
Democrats, except Senator Kyle, who
is promoted from the craftsmanship of
the committee on education and labor
to that of the University of the United
| States. The committee will recon-
mend the enlargement of all the
| larger committees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Quarantine Established.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Secretary
Morton has directed rigid quarantine
for all cattle, sheep and other rumin
ants, and swine, entering this country
from any part of South America. The
action is the result of the existence of
foot and mouth disease. contagious
pleuro-pneumonia and other con-
tagious diseases IN South America.
All meat cattle imported from there
hereafter will be quarantined for
ninety days. All sheep and other
tined for fifteen days. Persons con-
templating importation of animals
will be required to secure a permit
from the secretary of agriculture.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
MRS. HEARNE WEEPS.
Description of the wound in Her Forme

Description of the Wound in Her Former
Husbands Head Moves Her to Sobs.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE
feature of the Hearne murder trial
yesterday was the collapse of Mrs
Hearne, who, unable to longer main
tain the remarka bic self-control which
she has shown throughout the trial,
covered her face and sobbed hyster-
ically. The first indica ton of Mrs
Hearne's break down came as witness
John Stillwell, nephew of the muir
dered man. was picturing to the jury
the CHASTITY wound in his uncle's head,
and the climax was reached when the
witness said DIR. Hearne had told him
that the murder could only be ex-
planned in two ways. 1T was either
done by a burglar" DIR. Hearne had
said, ''or Mrs. Stillwell knows all
about it.
At this point Mrs. Hearne's self-con-
troll gave way, and she moaned be-
tween her sobs, "Oh, don't want to
hear that. don't want to hear that. :"
While on the stand. during the di-
rect examination, Mr.. Stillwell was
cool and collected. His testimony was
at first directed to describing events
at the Munger party. The witness
was then called upon to describe the
position of the body of his uncle and
the condition of the room in which it
lay on the night of the murder. It
agreed to the story already told by
Richard Stil1well, even to the small
est details
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Among the
bills introduced in the house yester-
day was one by Mr.. Tracey of Mis-
souri, to grant a pension to all persons
who served ninety days or more in the
United States naval or military service
during the war of the rebellion. or
who were enrolled in any state mill
tary organization and served ninety
days or more; also assistant surgeons
and scouts who served ninety days;
also one directing the accounting Off
GERS of the treasury to examine GER
tain papers in regard to moneys ex-
pended by the state of Missouri to
ascertain what sum is due officers and
enlisted men of the militia of that
state on account of military service in
the suppression of the rebellion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
This is the Resolution That
Stirred Up Congress,
When Mr.. Flynn of Oklahoma
introduced It Yesterday.
HARD ON HOKE SMITH
And His Friends Took it Up
Making it Interesting.
First Notable "Spat" in the
Present Congress.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Following is
the resolution introduced by Delegate
Flynn of Oklahoma regarding secretary
of the interior, Hoks Smiths conn ection
with the allotment of Wichita Indian
lands and which provoked such a heated
discussion between Flynn, Mr.. Cooper of
Florida and Mr.. McMillin of Tennessee:
Whereas, BY act OF Congress, sP-
proved March 2, 1895, an agreement
between the Wichita and affiliated
bands of Indians in Oklahoma and
United States Commissioners was duly
ratified and provision made for the
allotment of lands therein to the
Wichita Indians, and providing for
the opening of the surplus lands after
allotment to homestead settlement;
and,
Whereas, The secretary of the in
terror has wholly failed to appoint
agents to allot said lands, as provided
in said act; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Interior is hereby directed, if not in
compatible with the public interest,
to report to the House: First, the rea-
sons and causes operating, if any, to
delay the appointment of allotting
agents, and the allotment OF said
lands; second. whether any of his con-
nections or relations by blood or mar
riage are acting as attorneys for said
Indians, or any party or parties inter-
ested in delaying the opening of the
reservation to settlement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

It is reported that Barney sBarnato,
the Kaffir gold king. will soon leave
England for visit to Cripple Creek,
Colo, to invest in mines.
Curtis, the bigamous editor of Ana
mosa, Iowa, who has four wives to his
credit, was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary.
The body of Alexander Kre11 was
found IN the flooded cellar of his piano
factory at Cincinnati, which was
burned Sunday. He had been drowned.
Twelve persons were seriously and
twenty-five others more or less pain
fully injured by the collision of a
freight and passenger train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton Sc Dayton rail-
road near Milton, Ohio. No one was
killed.
James Thompson. an employee of the
East Indian pavilion, lost his life in a
fire which occurred IL the Midway at
the Atlanta exposition.
The Mexican customs collections in
November were very large, being
So, 313, 097. Vera Cruz collected $685.
O02. Importations are heavy and trade
is brisk.
Chief Crowley, of San Francisco,
has decided to close all of the pool
rooms in the city if possible, directing
that all of the proprietors shall be ar
rested.
Seymour Van Zantvoord and Dan
forth A. Geer have been appointed re-
ceivers for the Walter A. Wood Now
ing and Reaping Machine Company OF
Hoosac Falls. n. Y. They gave bonds
to the amount of 81, 225, 900. The OBJ
ject of the appointment of receivers is
| to reorganize the company and con-
solidate claims
Moonshiner Hall was found dead by
Federal officers while raiding Illicit
stills in Ala bama.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Two Kinds.

They were two ordinary looking young
men, who looked as though they wished to
look extraordinary. They sat silently side
by side, each telling the other all that he
had in his mind, when suddenly one Of
them asked the other:
"Gawdge, what makes the knees of your
twousers bag so?''
Constant prayer" answered the Sec
ond Thereafter there was a silence of
some moments, until the second young
man asked the first:
II say, Cholly, what makes the knees of
your twousers bag sop
Proposing to rich young girls" an
swered Cholly.
And the real reason was that neither of
them had more than one pair of pants, and
each had to wear his one pair all the time
Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
REEDS PLANS TO SETTLE CONTESTS.
Democrats Object to Increasing the
Election Committee His Way.

Democrats Object to Increasing the
Election Committee His Way.
WASHINGTON, Dec. i7.-There was
conference of Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders in the speakers room
yesterday afternoon to discuss the
Republican plan for increasing the
number of committees to deal with
election contests. MIR. Reed invited
Messrs. Dingley, Daniels, Henderson,
Cannon, Payne and DalzelI of
the Republicans, and Crisp, McMil-
Ian and Bailey, Democrats, to
the discussion. The plan outlined
by the Republicans was for three
committees of nine members each; six
Repu blicans and three Democrats, each
committee to be divided into three
subcommittee, each composed of two
Republicans and one Democrat.
Difference of opinion was developed
among the Democrats. Messrs. Crisp
and McMillin declined to assent to the
proposition. The other Democrats
were inclined to the opinion that She
scheme was one to unseat Democrats
with greater facility. No understand
ing was reached and it is by courtesy
that the Democrats were consulted as
the Repu blicans intend to carry out
their plan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-R. f. Walker,
of Missouri, appeared before the Su-
preme court and asked that the court
hear a petition asking that a commits
sion be appointed to survey the boun-
Diary lines between the states of
Missouri and Iowa The court will
hear Walker on the petition, in behalf
of Missouri, to-day, and also Milton
Remley, attorney general of Iowa
1t is expected that the court will au
thorize the appointment of a commits
sion to correct the boundary survey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
YVETTE SHOCKED PARIS.
And as a Result She Has Become Both Fa-
nous and Rich.

New YORK, Dec. 17.-Yvette Guilbert
began four weeks engagement at the
Olympia last night at salary of 81, 900
per week.
Yvette is charmingly frank in some
respects, perhaps it would be better to
say in most respects. She is a woman
who does not care to be called pretty, an
actress who does not care for dress, and
who does not wear bit of jewelry off
the stage, and a singer who does not
think herself prima donna. And. too,
she does not think her songs are shock
ing"
"What is that l hear?'' she said, with
shrug of her high shoulders. "Shocking!
certainly noti Phose who say SO are very
stupid. They do not understand. They
only guess at the meaning in the French
say Shocking, oh, shockingP 1t is not
so. On the contrary. sir. the songs which
l sing are the life of all the people.
They tell stories. They are of all
kinds-sad, humoristic, childish and SEN
timental. Shockingl 1 have but kept
pace with the modern literature. What
do you call it-realism, is it not? You
see such things as those of which / sing
on the stage. Do you call them shock
ing?
II have spent much hard work upon
these songs. I have studied the types Of
persons whom they portray. They are
songs of every day life, of the street, of
the life of the students. the grsettes, the
soldiers and of all classes. am not
ashamed to sing them anywh here. Some
of them are so Partisan, though, that
they would not be thoroughly under
stood here, but shocking, never!
Here l shall sing only songs whose
meaning I can make plain to those who
! do, Il
| sing some English songs-negro songs.
That's only for the gallery, though. Most
English songs are empty-oh, SO empty.
| They have no significancen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
MRS. WARNER OF FLORIDA.
Why She Has Been Denied the Privileges
of the Mails.

WASHINGTON Dec. 17.-Postmaster
General Wilson today denied the priv
ileges of the mails to Mrs. F. A Warner
of Jacksonville. Fla, for conducting
fraudulent business.
Mrs. Warner advertised in newspapers
throughout the country glowing oescrip-
tions of flowers and shells to be obtained
in Florida during the winter months, and
said that Oh receipt of certain amount
in postage stamps she would send these
articles She failed to keep the con
tract.
The postmaster at Jack onville report.
ed to the department that her mails av-
eraged thousand letters day. each con-
tanning probably from 10 to 20 cents in
stamps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Dec. II to ".
PARTIAL LIST OF GOODS Nfn m
SOLD FOR y 4sUV
Sterling Silver Goods.

Cream Ladies', Pickle Forks, Sugar
longs, BOuilion Spoons, F1ustard
Spoons, Sugar Shells, Olive Forks,
Butter Picks, Dessert Forks, Tea
spoons, CoFsage Pins, Dress Sets,
Dress Buckles, Tie Clasps, Stamp
Box, Watch Pocket. Key Rings, Hat
Marks, SatcIel Checks, ButGonf1ooks,
Napkin Rings, MustaChe Combs, Hair
pins, COIareftes, BOnbOn Spoons, Silk
Belts (steriing frlmmed), Gard Cases
lsterlifig trimned}, ChiId's Bib Hold
ers, Napkin Holders, TOothbrushes
Pocket Knives, Ice Cream Spoons,
Pocket Toothpick Holders, Side Combs,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 17.-Yesterday
afternoon the Lincoln Savings Bank
refused to receive deposits and gave
notice that it would avail itself of the
sixty-day notification law against
Withdrawals. This is considered to
indicate that the bank merely desires
to protect itself against a run incident
to the failure of the German National
Bank. The Lincoln Savings Bank has
a safety deposit vault and will not, of
course, close its doors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

NEW YORK. Dec. 17.-Last night
about Is, 700 tailors in this city, Brook
Ign and Jersey City, were locked out
There are los shops in the Employers
Association, and of this number
eighty-three have posted the new
card, and the rest are expected to
follow within few days. Twenty
thousand workmen may be involved,
for that is the number controlled by
the Brotherhood of Tailors in the
three cities named.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Fitzsimmons VIII Fight.

Houston, Texas, Dec. 17.-Articles
of agreement were signed on board a
tug outside of Galveston harbor for a
finish fight between Bob Fitzsimmons
and Peter Maher. Both men will
train at or near Ell Paso. They will
battle with fve-ounce gloves, Marquis
of Queensbury rules, to decide the
heavy weight championship of the
world, purse of $l0,o and cham
pionship belt on FEBRUARY IA.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 17.-Maud
Crowther, x-postmistress of Fort
Riley, Kan, was arrested in this city
last Saturday on charge of robbing
the United States Government. She
was not a prisoner long, but is under
bond to answer to the United States
District court for the State of Kansas.
She is alleged to have made away with
about ST., 800 of Uncle Sans money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Her Only Hope.

''Did you ever see Miss Winchwether?'
''No; what of herr"
"She was married the other day to a
blind man."
"How very oddv'
f'No; you wouldn't say SO If you'd ever
seen her. "-Chicago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
INSANITY PLEAS.
Justice Harlan's Ruling in the Murder
Case of Dennis Davis.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Justice Har-
Ian handed down the opinion
of the Supreme Court yesterday
in the case of Dennis Davis,
charged with murder, and tried and
sentenced in the United States court
for the Western district of Arkansas,
in which the defense had been that of
insanity. The court below had in
strueted the jury that it was incumbent
upon the defense to esta blish the fact
of insanity to secure acquittal on this
charge, but this ruling was
reversed. the court laying down the
principle that the burden of the proof
of guilt rests in all criminal cases upon
the prosecution. In delivering this
opinion Justice Harlan cautioned the
courts against giving too much heed
to popular clamor against pleas of in
sanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
street Car strilze in philadelphla.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17.-At4 o'clock
this morning the street ear lines of
this city were tied up in a general
strike The conductors and motor
men are waging war for an increase
of wages, shorter hours, and the priv
ilege of belonging to the Amalgam-
ated Association of Street Railway
EMPLOYEES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

ELDoRADo, Kan, Dec. 1.-THE re-
port sent out from Wichita that the
grave of Edgar Pratt. the ossifed
man, who died and was buried at
Douglas, this county, last January,
had been robbed, is a fake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Kansas Pens I'm ST. LoutS

s. II. Snider, w. D. Vincent. and J.
W. Laybourn. the Kansas mem bers of
the Populist national committee, have
gone to St. Louis to attend a meeting of
the committee. The committee is ex
pected to fix the time and place and
issue the call for the Populist national
convention. Chairman Breidenthal thinks
the convention will not be held earlier
than April
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
A Conspiracy Against the Gar.

BERLIN, Dec. IA special dispatch
received here from Moscow says that
a conspiracy against the life of the
car has been uneRrthed there. The
dispatch adds that a number of bombs
have been seized and that several men
and women, including a prominent
nihilist leader, have been arrested in
connection with the plot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

SEDALIA, No., Dec. 17.-Mrs. Bette
Mcclure, wife of the late George w.
Mcclure, and the last of the early res
idents of Georgetown, died yesterday
morning at her home in that village.
She was IS years old, and went with
her husband to Georgetown when the
site of the present Sedalia was bleak
prairie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
John r. Gentry to Be Sold.

RALEIGH. N. c., Dec. Ill. Banks
Holt and James f. Scott, proprietors
of the noted Alamance stock farm at
Graham, N. c., announced that they
will sell at Fasig's auction sale in
New York next February, John r.
Gentry, Baronet, Governor Holt and
the entire string of thoroughbred
stock belonging to the farm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
On the Threshold of statehood.

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. - Governor
West of Utah yesterday escorted to
the White house and presented to the
President Messrs. Letcher and Sher-
man, the commissioners appointed to
deliver to him a certified copy of the
constitution adopted by the new State
and statement of the vote by which
the constitution was adopted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children teething. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie, and is the best
remedy for diarrhoeS twenty-five cents
a bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
SCHLATTER'S FIANCEE.
Indiana Woman at One Time Engaged &c
Marry the Healer.

GREENsBURe, Dec. 17.-Mrs. Angela
Swinburn of Osgood claims to have let
ter from Francis Schlatter, the healer,
announcing that he will pay her visit
about Christmas
Mrs. Swinburn says she was engaged to
marry Schlatter years ago, but the en-
gagement was broken off to please her
father. He completely cured her of il
fiammatory rheumatism several years
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

WASHINGTON, Dec 17.-Representa-
tive Curtis succeeded yesterday in Sc
curing a temporary appointment for
Paul Bray in the house postoffice.
The promise is made to take care of
Bray somewhere in the house organ
ization, by way of aiding the Waller
family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

Details OF the horrible massacre OF
Armenians at Harpoot were received
at Boston. Missions were burned, and
lives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. ia meeting
was held at the Office of the Business
Mems League yesterday, at which it
was finally determined to make a
special effort to obtain the Democratic
National convention in 1896.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Appearanees Deeeiving.

Teacher-And now, Tommy, why
should we never jeer at the man who
wears ragged clothes?
Tommy-'Cause he may have money in
the pockets of 'em.-Indtanapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

The newspapers at Rome declare
that the government will demand a
credit of Is, Oe0, 600 to 20, 900, 900 francs
for the campaign in Abvssinia. The
Italie says 10, 900 men will be present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
Don,t fail to sec our lina of lamn

Don't fail to see our line of lamps and
their different trimmings. Just received
some new silk shades which we think
are Beauties and these with our COM
plete line of globes make fine trim
ming for any lamp.
FARNswoRTH & AsHBY,
sos Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

The twenty-eighth annual conven-
ton of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association meets at Wash
ington, d. c., January Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
The price of good plain white granite

Inc price OF good plain white granite
ware was never SO low. This is A.
Meakin's celebrated ware and will not
check or craze. You can buy one piece
or more. The more you buy the
better We are pleased aud you will be
too. FARNswoRTH & AsHBY,
500 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

Chamber sets ara cheaper now than
ever. A good ssrv able set for 81 20,
and from that c. 20. Have YOU seen
themf FARM WORTH s. ASHLEY,
SOB Kansas ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17
= 4 n % AAS II .
sos Kansas avenue.
Beggs' German Salve.
Beggs' German Salve.
Beggs' German SaIye,

The greatest pile ointment in the
world. II cures where all others fail
A positive guarantee with every box.
Call for sample box. Sold by all drug
gists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

Soft! Soft! Soft! feel the weoIens wash
ed by the Peerless, 112 and ia west Sth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker
Beggs' Blood Purifier aud Blood Maker
Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker
for all diseases of the blood. A positive
guarantee with every bottle. Call for
and be sure you get Beggs' and take no
othera Sold by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-17

We aim please our trade-Peerless
Steam Laundry, liz and ia West sth-