The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-22
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

certain LnaL EreSlOG0L HeDa Will re-
sign.
H. Clay Arnold has been appointed
recorder of voters of Kansas City, NJ O..
to succeed S. c. Owsley. term expired.
The senate has reconhrmed the
nomination of Judge Clark to be judge
of the Eastern and Middle district of
Tennessee.
Mondays statement of the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance. 1852, 621, 724; gold re-
serve, $40, 763, IT,
A cyclone struck near Iiggott.
Ark, fatally injuring two persons
and seriously wounding nine others.
Much property was destroyed.
Engelbert J. Frey, secretary of the
Kansas City, Mo-, German American
Savings and Loan association, is short
in his accounts the sum of 81, 500.
Share of the Scotch oil company
have advanced on the Standard oil
company agreeing to stop sending
Amer can burning oil to Scotland.
In Shanghai it is announced that
the delay of the departure of the Chi
nese peace ENJOYS is due to disagree
ment among the ministers at Pekin.
Elk Corporation Counsel Ed S.
Meyer, of Cleveland. Ohio, has volun-
teered his service without .compensa-
ton in the prosecution of the Kicks
case.
Rube carp, farmer living near
Marietta, Ind. Ter, was called to
his door by three mounted men and
instantly shot down. The murderers
escaped. No clue.
Secretary Gresham has received
two cablegrams from United States
Minister DENLY at Pekin confirming
the reports of the landing of the Jap
anese troops near Che Foo.
Governor Morrill, has received
draft for $500 from the proprie tors of
the New Era, published at Lancaster,
Pa, for distribution among the ''suf-'
ferers'' of Western Kansas.
Bob Fitzsimmons, who is playing in
st. Louis, has cancelled all of his
dates for next week and Will go back
to Syracuse, n: Y, to answer the
indictment for killing Con Riordan.
The Nebraska legislature adopted
a resolution strongly comdemnatory
of the assassination of Barrett Scott
and requesting the governor to offer
a reward for the capture of the muir
derers.
Louis Klopsch has started from New
York to Lincoln, Neb, where he wi Ii
cooperate with the state relief COM
Inittee in relieving the destitute
farmers in the Western counties of
that state
The vote for United States senator
at Olympia, Wash, at the end of the
sixteenth ballot stood: Ankeny 16,
Wilson 81, Allen II, Jones 1, McMiI-
Ian l2. Ankeny gains Z, Wilson loses
since the first ballot.
The daily receipts at the United
States mint IN Denver are not as
heavy now as they have been during
the past year, owing to the with
drawal of the deposits from the
Omaha and Grant smeIter.
Several of the Oklahoma statehood
boomers have become tired out, and
have gone home. They were told
that a bill would be reported last
week, but it is yet in committee, and
now even some expect an unfavora BILE
report.
A second dividend of so per cent
was declared by the comptroller of
the currency in favor of the creditors
of the American National bank of
Springfield, Mo-, making in all 65 per
cent on all claims proved, amounting
to SIS, 1927.
In Middles boro, KY, in a shooting
affray over a woman, James Gillen-
water emptied both barrels of dou-
| BILE barreled shotgun INTO the body of
| Dan Cochran, mining boss at the Fork
Ridge mines. Cochran died instan tly.
! Gillenwater escaped.
Report of the bureau of animal in
| dustry just published shows the total
| cost of meat inspection during the
! fiscal year 1894, 1912, 754. OF this sum
| there was disbursed in Kansas City
| for salaries and miscellaneous ex-
! penses SIS, 40. 50.
The president has approved the fol.
1 lowing acts: To amend the act au-
| thorizing the Texarkana and Fort
| Smith railroad to bridge Little river,
/ Arkansas, and for the relief of home
| stead settlers in Wisconsin. Mime
sofa and Michigan.
The California lie gislature will vote
| separately for a United States sena-
| tor. The NEST prominent candidates
before the legislature, which is
| strongly Republican, are Perkins, the
| present incumb bent, and NJ. a. De-
| Young, proprietor of the San Francis
/ co Chronicle.
The situation in the senatorial
! deadlock at Dover, Del, remains un-
| changed. But one ballot was taken
/ Monday, which resulted as follows:
! Higgins, 10; Addieks, .; Massey, 81;
/ Wolcott, 8; Tunnel l. Records and
Fennimore, two Wolcott supporters,
were absent.
The leading trans Atlantic steam
/ ship companies are making working
agreement to take effect in the
spring which will lead eventually to
an amalgamation. The present OBJ
! ject of the agreement is to offer
severe competition to the lines run
ming from Southampton.
In the house Monday Mr.. Coombs of
New York offered a preamble and
resolution which was referred to the
committee on foreign affairs, request
ing the president to take steps toward
cooperating with the plan of settling
by arbitration all disputes between
the United States and Great Britain.
In the county court at Fort Worth,