The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fire destroyed the business portion
of Odell, Neb.
Jerry Simpson and ex-Congressman
Bryan addressed the Winfield Chau-
tauqua assembly.
David E. Steele, full cousin of Will
lam E. Gladstone, died on his farm
near Jefferson City, Mo-, aged So.
Eugenio Blanche, at one time a
famous operate tenor, died in San
Francisco.
The postal department has estab-
ished an espionage system over letter
carriers in large cities.
The Madrid press is stating that the
Mora claim demand means the seizure
of Havana by the United States
The last debt on the George R. Smith
college for negroes, at Sedalia, Mo-,
was paid.
The Pawnee county, Kan, Populists
have nominated a full county ticket
and declared for free silver at 16 to l.
Mrs. w ]. King, wife of. ex-Congress-
man King was fatally injured in a run
away accident at Jefferson City, Mo.
The arrangements for the marriage
of Princess Helene Of New Orleans and
the duke of Aosta are about completed.
1t is believed that Germany will
call an international monetary con-
ference before October Is.
The exertions of the German en-
press at Kiel were too much for her and
she is confined to her bed. @
Jerry Wallace of the Seneca nation
was sentenced at Fort Scott, Kan, to
be hanged on September 20.
There is colony of 500 people in
Oklahoma seeking for divorce on the
grounds of gross neglect of duty"
etc.
Foreign governments have offered
positions to ex-Chief of Police Byrnes
of New York
The advisability of calling a state
monetary convention is being discussed
by California Democrats.
Chicago beer war continues, and it
is now charged that st. Louis brewers
are pushing it along as a good thing.
A Washington woman has written to
the interior department for check for
1000 to lift mortgage on her farm.
Spain has got into another row with
Uncle Sam by holding up an American
pleasure yacht in the Philippine
islands.
At the Chinese legation it is said
Americans stand a good chance to
make Onlnd Inc S11F0E 1Oau 10 DdV DQ0
Jap indemnity.
The case of Charles Key, the con-
demned murderer who butted his head
against prison bars at Bonham, Texas,
is puzzling physicians.
The American warships at Kiel were
classed by naval experts as among the
best there.
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
Scott Nesbitt of st. Clair county, No,
appointment clerk of the treasury de-
partment. Nesbitt has been chief clerk
of the internal revenue bureau.
f. E. Burt and Mrs. j. C. Perkins,
an clipping couple, were arrested at
Nevada, Mo. They deserted their re-
spective partners in Bourbon county,
Kansas.
Through the purchase of a little
road, known as the SawmiQ Line, the
Vanderbilts have gained an entrance
into Pittsburg.
Great interest is taken in the ap-
preaching session of the International
Railway congress. The American del
egates have been warmly received in
London.
Experiments with electricity on the
| New York, New Haven and Hartford
continue to be most successful. A
speed of so miles an has been
developed. -,
Twelve or fourteen Democratic ora
tors will soon visit the West and
| Northwest on a stumping tour under
the direction of the Democratic con-
gressional committee.
The Emperor of China has conferred
the order of the Double Dragon on
John B. Henderson, Jr., son of ex-Sen-
ator Henderson of Missouri, in recog-
milton of his services in connection
with the negotiation of the peace
treaty between China and Japan.
A number of leases of government
lands in the territories have recently
1 been made.