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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
A GIDDY YOUNG PAIR.
Mr.. Snodgrass. Aged 55, and Miss specIx,
Aged 20. EIope.

Aged 80 EIops.
The simple announcement that J.
Thomas Snodgrass and Miss Anna Speck
were married at 2 o'clock yesterday at the
home of DIR. j. W. Kessinger at lz9 Van
Buren, street might not interest the read
er. but when the intelligence IS added
that the groom is one OF the
wealthiest farmers of Pottawatomie,
worth $10O,OOO, and is fifty five
years old and that the bride is very
good locking young woman of twenty
nine, and that her folks are well fixed
residents of JACKSON county, the read
er is interested The additional inteili-
gence that ii is an eIopement does not in
the least detract from the interest
After life of careful economy j.
Thomas last December found himself a
wldower, and worth "a good deal of mon
ey and laud in the vicinity of his resi-
deuce, five miles south of HavensviIIe,
Kansas.
He had long admired Anna Speck,
whose sister was the wife of his brother,
and his smiles on her became noticeab e.
She was willing, and they dec ded to get
married But her sister found out the
status of affairs and told her iolks, aud
they regarded it scandalous that the
widOwer should marry so soon. Anna
lived at Soldier. An uprising against
Mr. SnOdgrass Immediately took place in
the family, but Anna was not to DO shaken
SO she simply allowed the old folks to
think she had given Mr.. Snodgrass up.
Saturday evening she left for Holton,
ostensibly to visit friends. Early Sunday
morning Mr.. Snodgrass appeared there
with horse aud buggy and arrange
ments were made for wedding. Hardly
had they become interested in the prepa-
rations, however, till people from older
and from HavensvilIe were noticed in
town aud the couple became alarmed.
The groom was we'll acquainted with
DR.. Kessinger, and he teiegraphed him
to meet hun at the train at l O'clock. He
did and received plain statement of the
case.
A little thing like that didn't hinder
long, and DR.. Kessinger Immediately
sent messenger for DR.. Anderson, who
married the couple at O'Clock. the H.
cense having been procured in Holton
by the bride Saturday.
/ A few neighbors were invited
in To witness the ceremony aud the com
pany consisted of Mr. aud Mrs. Frank
Oliver, Mr.. and Mrs. II. Gates, and Mr.
and Mrs. w. Il. Ream.
DR. Kessinger dad the right thing and
spread good table for the guests.
The couple is still at Dc. Kessinger'i
place and Will likely leave this evening
for a short wedding trip east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
MAY MAKEHIM EAT.
Charles Roe Starving Himself at the City
Prison.

Charles Roe Starving Himself at the City
Charles Roe is doing his best to starve
to death at the county jail
Roe is the young man who was recently
brought back from Missouri on the
charge of burning house near Wash
burn college last fall. During his
confinement in Missouri while waiting
for the Kansas officers he refused to eat
and kept up his determination after he
was brought here. 1t is now more than
d week since he began refusing food and
he is getting thin.
Only one time is known that he did
eat When he was first confined in the
city prison here Saturday he refused to
eat and Chief Wilkerson thought it was
because the prison food was not good
enough for him, so the chief sent po-
liceman up town with a dollar for food.
Soon Roe had before him a meal fit for
a member of a state investigating COM
mittee. There was iced tea, spring chick
en- on toast, eggs, breakfast rolls and
other nice things. Roe ate but a very
little and pushed the food away.
The young man seems determined to
starve himself to death and County Doc
tor McClintock Gays that if he still re-
fuses to take food tomorrow he will be
held and milk forced down him with a
tube and if necessary a pump.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
THREE GIRLS IN COURT.

One Was White and Two Were Black
Charged with Various Things.
There were three women in the police
court today--One white woman and two
colored
Della Reynolds is the name of the
white culprit She cooks at a Kansas
avenue restaurant She is also cham ber-
maid of the apartments connected
with little hotel. Sunday one of the
guests claimed he was robbed of So and
accused Miss Reynolds of stealing it. The
young woman said she dIdn't 1t could
not be proven that the girl had taken the
money and she was discharged
Fanny Wright was in court again. She
has become a confirmed morphine eater,
and she had been eating more of the
narcotic last night than was good
for her. She stationed herself at the
corner of Third and Quincy streets and
resisted when Officers Wellman and
Washburn arrested her. She was fined
$15.
Matte Ellison was the third woman
and her offense was street walking.
She protested that she wasn't street
walking and that she was on
her way home from Elder Barker's
church when arrested. This plea, how
ever, would have come more effectively
and with better grace from some other
woman. for the Ellison girl is known as
one of the boldest pick pockets in Top E.
ka- She once robbed a man of $3.50 but
the police got it back and the victim re-
fused to prosecute her
81 will let you off light this time,'
Judge Ferry said, and Matte looked
G adj II fine you 5 81 and the woman
left the court room trying to figure out
where the lightness came in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
HOTTEST DAY THIS YEAR.

U. S. Thermometer Indicates SO Degrees
TOday-May Be Cooler Tomorrow.
1t is hot today. This fact cannot be
disputed. Few persons if any however
appreciated the fact that it has been the
hottest day thus far this year according
to the government instruments. Such
is the case. & fairly stiff breeze has
tended to make the Holiness more bear
able, but nevertheless the air has been
charged with warm 10 the amount of
SO degrees, according to Mr. jennings
ms ruments at the weather observing
station. When the Jennings ther-
mometers say it is hot, it's so, and they
generally indicate several degrees less
than the Instruments on the streets In
this case, however. the two thermOme-
ters just about tailed at 3 p. N.
Yes erday .U7 of an inch of rain fell
Near noon today the wind began to shift
to the north, which may make slightly
cooler weather tomorrow.
Today's bulletin says: "The barometer
is below normal except in Arkansas, and
the states bordering the gulf. whore it is
about normal. 1t is low in Montana
but lowest over the lakes Clear
weather prevails at all stations this
morning except at ST. Paul where it is
cloudy. Good showers have fallen in
the states bordering the Mississippi riv-
er with light showers in Kansas during
the past twenty -four hours. These con-
ditiona favor fair weather and nearly
stationary temperature tonight and Tues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
LETTER OF CHAS. PARNELL
His Brothers Opponents Are Using It
Against Him in Ireland.

HIS 6rOEners Oppnns mrs are Using At
Against Him in Ireland.
NEW YORK, July ia dispatch TO
the W orld from London saws: The defeat
of Sir William Harcourt is very likely to
be followed by that of three other lead
ing members of the Rosebery cabi-
net. Herbert A-qu tn, Campbell Bale
herman and John Morley hold
their seats by small majorities
and all the present indications
are that closer seats will be uniformly
carried by the Unionlsts. 1t is like
Liberal Waterloo.
In Ireland the situation is deplorable.
OF course there WIS the Redmond split
to begin with, and now Timothy Healy
has fatally divided the McCarthyites
party. John Parnell is the Redmonites'
candidate in Meath:
At a meeting OF his McCarthyite op-
ponent an old letter concerning him from
his brother, Charles Stewart Parnell. was
read by priest. II was write n 1888
and began as follows: 81 co / not
recommend my brother John as @ndi-
date for county Barlow or an 9Th Irish
constituency, as do not thinh 20 would
make a suitable representative"
1t is a Kilkenny fight all around. It
has helped put the Tories in power
again for an Indefinite period and Ireland
will continue to be sacrificed to private
hatreds and ambitions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
CH1NCH BUGS ANNUALMEET
Like All Other Kansans They Hold a Con-
VentiOn at Topeka


ventiOn at Topeka
Topeka seems to be chinch bug head
quarters for Kansas today. 1t would be
hard to imagine a greater number of
chiuch bugs than Topeka people have
seen today.
There seems to be millions upon mill
lions of them. They were everywhere
When you went to dinner they met
you face to face as you turned each
corner and stayed with you.
People who patronize the street cars
had the worst experiences with the little
pests. The chinch bugs fairly swarmed
on the open cars, covering the
clothes of the passengers, going
into their ears mouths and every
place they were not wanted If
one lot was brushed off there was another
lot there to take the place of the first.
The public would like to know where
these bugs came from and where they
are going. If they are leaving
the state to get away from Prof. Shows q
exterminator no one will object or if
they are going to Lawrence to be treat
ed, they will still have clear right of
way. Or perhaps they are from Western
Kansas looking for dry country.
1t has been suggested by a man who
does not believe IN theories that the bugs
were blown in here by the high wind of
Sunday morning. Topeka visited in
this same way in July last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
Trouble over Child.

Policeman Bundy com planned to Judge
Hazen today that his divorced wife " ho
lives at Tenth and jackson streee was
keeping by furce their child when had
been awarded to Mr.. Bundy's mother for
custody. Judge Hazen sent Baliff Coyne
to bring the child into courf. The
mother at first refused 10 allow
the child to go, but after Coyne
had explained to the mother the dangers
of fooIing with the court she complied
Judge Hazen took the chId to one
corner of the court room aud after ask
ing him some questions ordered him
back to the custody of the chiId's grand
mother
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
ENDEAvORERs ABOUT DONE
John d. Rockefeller is Complimented
For His Charitable Giving.

BosToN, July 15.-Tonignt the 14th
International convention of the Y. P. 5.
c. E, one of the most successful meet
ings in the history of the society, will
close, and most of the delegates will de-
vote the rest of the week to sight seeing
in Boston and vicinity.
E. D " artield Of Easton, Pa, delivered
an address in Tent Wllliston on "The At
fractions of the Ministry to Educated
Men,"
Al Tent Endeavor an address by Rob-
ert E opeer of New York on the mis-
sionary service proved great drawing
card.
The address Of the Rev. William
G, Puddefoot in Mechanics hall, on
IN atlonal Needs and Perils." vas
one of the most interes ing of
the meeting. He said that during the
twelve years $4,000 people have been
killed by violence IN our own land and
not more than 8 per cent of the guilty
ones had suffered the extreme penalty
of the law. The record of homi-
eide has risen from 1.467 in 1892 to
$3.50 in '94 In twenty years over &c.
0UU children had been abandoned by
their mothers in NV York. He at
tributed the real cause of 80 much crime
to the scarcity of churches. "Of course"
said he, There are olher causes of crime.
The rapid growth of the city at the ex-
pense of the rural districts is one, and it
is as true in newer sections as the old,
and it works badly both ways.
So that today the two points of danger
lie on the frontier and in the great cities"
Rev. w. E. Parke of Gloversville, n.
Y, presented the banner for the best
work reported in promoting systematic
and proportionate giving The Cleve-
land local union was the recipient of the
reward
Mr.. Parke paid John D. Rockefeller a
high compliment for his many charitable
contributions.
Prof. Gates D. D. of Iowa college spoke
in Tent Williston on "The consecra alton of
an educated life"
The next speaker there was Dean AL
fred A. Wright, D. D.. of Auburndale,
Mass. whose topic was the Bible. ''Back
the Bible must go into the little red
school house and the Christian Endeav-
orers will keep it there" said the dean
in conclusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
TWIN BROTHERS FIGHT.

John and Sam MusseIman Had a Bloody
Quarrel at Meriden Sunday.
The Sunday quiet that is wont to pre-
vail at Merlden, was seriously disrupted
yesterday by a fight between twin
brothers. John Musselman is deputy
city marshal at Meriden, and Sam Mus
selman is noted chiefly for being Johns
twin brother. The people of Meriden
are much agitated over the agitution to
have the town corporation dissolved.
This is what John and Sam were argu-
ing about Sunday morning
John struck Sam on the eye, and in
ficted cut two inches long. Then Sam
picked up a stone and threw it at Johns
ribs with sure aim. Both of the twins
were arrested and have given bond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
SUNDAY SUNS BLUFF.

The Kansas City Obscene Paper Making
Trouble at Nashville, Tenn.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 15.-Damage
proceedings for $19,6J0 against Chief of
Police Hadley Clack have been instituted
by Henry L. Preston, editor and publish
er of the Kansas City Sunday Sun. The
declaration declares that CIack, as chief
of police of Nashville, mallcicusly and
unlawfully suppressed the circulation of
the plaintiffs newspaper at Nashville,
and that he has threatened to seize and
destroy all of plaintiffs papers that may
be sent to Nashville: that Clack falsely
claims that said newspaper is obscene,
thus damaging and destro\ .ng the circu-
lation in other cities and towns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
TO ARREST LYNCHERS
Warrants Out for 25 Prominent
Cottonwood Falls People.
They Are Charged With Lynch
ing George Rose in 1894.
DONE BY JOINTISTS.
Liquor Men Do It for Spite
it is Said.
Warrants Are Believed to be for
Temperance Men.

KANSAS CITY. July ia special to the
Star from Emporia, Kas., says: For sew
eraI weeks detectives have been at work
securing evidence against the men who
lynched George Rose at Cottonwood
Falls in May, 1894 There are twenty
five warrants in the hands of the
sheriff for prominent people in Cotton
wood Falls and Strong City and arrests
will probably be made this afternoon.
The trouble grows out of the recent
closing of Strong City joints and it is
said that the liquor crusaders are the
men for whom the warrants are
out and that the jointists and their
tectives.
Much excitement prevails in both
towns and the best people in Chase
county fear serious trouble before the
quarrel is settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
ONE MORE SUICIDE.

A young woman named Lawman, who
lives with her brother at the corner of
Fourth and Polk streets, made an attempt
on her life asst evening with chloroform.
She was about twenty years of age
and had been despondent for some time
because she had not the means to go to
her home in Illinois. When
a brother and his wife returned
from the cemetery last evening they
found her on bed and could
not arouse her. DI. Mitchell
was sent for and succeeded in
bringing her to consciousness in a few
hours. Her brother works for Kinley
s. Lannan This is the third suicide
or attempted suicide made yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
CHEERS FOR MRS. CURZON.
American Wives of English Men Create
Enthusiasm at the Elections.

American Wives of English Men Create
Enthusiasm at the Elections.
LONDON, July 15.-G. N. Curzon. Con-
servative, the new under secretary for
foreign affairs and Sir H. S. Naylor Ley
land, Bart, Liberal, were nominated
for the Southport division of
Lancashire today. In this constituency
both sides are contesting every inch of
ground, the American wives of the nom :
inees joining in the fray.
Mrs. Curzon generally gets more
cheers than her husband. while Lady
Naylor Leyland's beauty has excited en-
thusiasm wherever she has made her lit
tie speech.
Sir Naylor Ley1and has recently de-
veloped an interest in local sports.
He has become president of a cycling
club and drives about in gorgeous car
riage lined with red aud adorned with
red trappings drawn by four horses and
accompanied by two postillions, dressed
in red
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

Some important advantages are
claimed for a newly-devised loom picker
lately brought forward, which consists
of a light malleabIe iron shell or frame,
possessing the strength and durability
essential to this important feature Of
weaving machinery. The body being
one rigid piece of metal, there is no tear
ing out of rivets around the eye, or
bursting of the portion which slides
along the spindles; the rawhide bushing
in the sleeves cannot come loose, and it
wears very slowly, and, on its giving
out, can be renewed at small cost and
with slight trouble-so, too. with the
cushion With each replacement of any
bit of rawhide, one has picker as good
as new, while under the ole system
single defect necessitates the throwing
aside the whole picker. The additional
weight does not exceed two ounces, too
small to perceptibly affect the working
of the loom; and, in order to secure
ughtness, the eye of the picker is made
much larger than is required, ana
hridged with a rawhide strip, copper
riveted to the metal.
srb.criba for the Daily STATE JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

BUTTE, Mont. July 15.-W. A. Clark.
the millionaire mine owner, has disposed
of his vast mining interests in Montana
to the Anaconda company. Mr.. Clark
will remove to Arizona and devote his
energies to his mining interests there,
and will maintain an elaborate resi-
dence in New York city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

CINCINNATI, July 15.-Judges Lurton
and Taft today held the Nichols state
law valid and sustained the state auditor,
treasurer, and attorney general, the
board OF appraisers, in the assessment
for taxes made under the Nichols laws
on telegraph, telephone and express
companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
FAVOR THE UPPER DAM.
The Bond of the Upper Company to be
recommended.


The committee on ways and means of
the city council will tonight report the
bond of the upper dam company
and recommend its approval The
company only have until Wed
nesday evening to commence work
and nothing has yet been done
General Manager FITZGERALD has not yet
arrived, and the local members of the
company do not know when he Will
come.
The lower dam company was work
ing ten teams with wheel scrapers
this morning on the excavation for
the race wav. A great deal OF
work has been done but there is no ma
terial on the ground nor has switch to
tue site been built. The member of the
company say that a larger force will be
put to work suon,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
TOM REEDS BICYCLE.
VIII He Ride 1T in Washington is The

VIII He Ride it in Washington is The
Query.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Now that Tom
Reed has taken to the wheel there is a
great deal of gossip in Washington as to
whether he will have nerve to ride his
bicycle from mis- hotel to the capitol next
winter. So far the betting is in favor of
his doing it. Washington people do not
forget that while speaker of the Fifty
beholders and set new fashion bv
appearing in the chair clad in white fan
nels and with broad blue belt about his
waist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
HELEN GOULD LIBERAL.
She Visits COncO-dia and Gives $40 to a
Church social.

Church social.
CoNcoRDIA, Kas., July 15.-Miss Hell
en- Gould and her party arrived here at 6
p. N. oaturday. Tney we're driven over
the city by Mayor Marshall, Col Brown
and Judge Sturges They drove to a
height commanding the city
and Miss Gould was Informed
that the same party escorted her father
to the same place a short time before his
death she was much touched by the
inc dent
The party then visited church festi-
val to which Miss Gould donated 800
They then visited an opera for the bene-
tit of Charity to which she donated liber-
ally. The party remained all night in
the city and left Sunday morning for
Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

IsHPEMINa, Mich, July l5.-The min
ers of Ishpeming and Negauee held a
mass meeting today at Union park, mid
way between the two cities and decided
to strike for increased wages. Delegates
of striking miners headed by brass bands
visited the various mines to influence the
men. Five thousand men will be out by
nirhtfall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
RAMAPO BE SOLD.
The Gideon and DaIv Racing Stables Go
Under the Hammer Today.

New York, July 15.-At the Sleeps
head Bay race Irack at two o'clock today,
Auctioneer Easton will begin he disposal
of the greatest racing stable on the
American turf-Gldeon and Daly's.
The sale begins with Ramapo and
KInglet. Among the five that have not
yet started are two that John Ryland
speaks very highly -year-olds Too
Much johnson and Maximum They are
expected to bring big prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
Tailnr. MiII an atrike.

NEW YORK, July 15-Delegates of the
brotherhood of tailors from thirty five
shops, one from each shop, met last night
in VaihalIa hall All the delegates re-
ported that their employers had deter
mined to resist the new agreement, and
that the workers were in favor Of strik-
ing The meeting endorsed the strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

ST JOSEPH, July 15.-Jacob Raynor,
an old resident of this city shot himself
through the head this morning. causing
immediate death
Dependency was the cause He had
lived in St. Joseph for forty years and
for twenty years was agent of the .. s.
Express company, later employed as
route agent by the Pacific Express COM
pany. He leaves a wife but no children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15

CHICAGO, July 15.-The alleged bood
lers Aldermen Martin and Flnkler, fur
nished bail today. The chief surety for
Martin is James O'Leary. president of
the Roby race track association. O'Leary
is a son of Mrs Cathariue O'Leary, whose
lamp and COW are credited with starting
the great Chicago fire. He scheduled
$4,000 worth of property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
JUDICIAL SLAP AT WOMEN.
Judge Wilson Has Bad Opinion of Their

Judge Wilson Has a Bad Opinion of Their
Ideas of Money Values.
CINcINNATI, o., July 15.-For the first
tlme IN the history OF America the ''cOm-
ing woman received Judicial slap.
Ouoge wilson, after a-patient hearing of
Lhe Shubert alimony case, announced
from the bench that ANY man who gives
all his salary to his wife is a fool"
II Is the opinion of the court, gained
during his experience in the divorce tri-
bunal, that the average woman has no
idea of the value of money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
apain Extends the Copyrieht.

WASHINGTON, July 15-The pres ident
has issued a proclamation stating that as
Spain has extended to American citizens
plated by our copyright act, Spanish citi-
zens are granted the privileges of Ameri-
can copyright.
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WILL HOLD CONVENTION.

Missouri Democratic Committee Decides
to Have ~ Currency MEETING.
ST. Louis, July 15.-The Democratic
state central committee today unanimous
ly decided to hold convention
to consider the currency ques-
tion. The date and place of meeting
have not yet been set
Pertle Springs has been decided upon
as the place of meeting and the commit
tee is now discussing the time.