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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09

TIE government secret service gives
notice Of . dangerous counterfeit = sill
vcr certificate. series 1891.
THE southern corn crop will b near
" 500, ,0OO. 900 bushels, according to
tho United States agricultural depart
ment, IN increase Of 4S. .000. 900 bushels
THE state gas inspector Of Indiana In
his annual report to the Legislature
says that the natural gas supply is like
" to be entirely exhausted in less than
four years He estimates that since
the first gas we'll was sunk -. .ooo. 600
worth Of gns has been wasted.
RUSSIA has produced this year. -
cording 70 tho estimate Of the minister
Of agriculture, 27s.0oO, 600 bushels oi
wheat, - compared with 81. 6.0o0. 90
last year. Her rye crop = s.O0Q o0o
bushels againss 7s2. 2.0oo. 900 : year ago.
The barley yied = Ia. .000. 600 and tha1
d oats o53. .coQo oo0 There . N 3aD.
iesb theenss eGnDlEe ~ -
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09

Guppins- Billings, You look rs il you
had been losing sleep.
Billings Whose room is just above .
music-teacher'sHIh have. l suffer un-
told misery at night from chronic
guitar.-Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09
MM AaxlAa.

Il suppose observed the tramp, bit
terly, you would like to have me get
on the earth. But / can not"
Have you tried soft soap?' asked
the woman in the blue ginghxm dress,
dispassiOnately.-Puck.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09
Boring in vain for sympathy.

'sThis is the fourteenth time have
called here" said the man with the
bill, in an injured tone. II earn this
money in collecting it. Mr.. Ardup."
swell, why shouldn't you earn it,
same as anybody else?' demanded Mr..
Ardup, in surprise Chicago Tribune.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-03-09
SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS
Tells q Charming Story From
Backwoods Lifo.
4 Runaway "WeGtlin NIatch"-The ssdAE-
v,lsome'' Things That Ono Helpless
Little baby Can D0-NAture,
the Peacemaker. Wins.
Copyrighted 1855.

"She is the
onlyest girl in
the ia mily, but1
wCuldruther see
her dead and
buried - honest
to God, Rlfe, ]
would q blame
sight ruther see
her dead q n d
buried rig hit
now - than to
see her tied up
for life with
that tri fl i a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
WANTS A CONVENTION.

j. W. Farris, of Laclede County, Mo-, Hust.
ling to Get a Majority to Sign = Call.
LEBANON, Mo, June 5.-Chairman
Farris, of the Laclede county demo-
cratic committee, has mailed a circular
to chairmen of county committees,
stating that the democratic state COM
mittee, at it's meeting of the 1st inst,
refused to call state convention on
the silver question and that the chair
men of thirty-fve counties had signed
call and requesting other county
chairmen to sign it, SO that when a
majority was secured the necessary
convention could be called. The call
for the convention fixed the date for
July 4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
MISSOURI CROPS.

Rust Reported in Southern Counties
Wheat Beginning to Turn-COrn and
Potatoes Doing Well.
COLUMBIA, Mo-, June 5.--The follow
ing is summary of the weather-crop
bulletin issued by the Missouri
weather service for the week ended
June 1: The first two days were quite
cool but the balance of the week was
much warmer than the average, espe-
cially in the northern. High, hot winds
prevailed on the 27th, 28th and goth,
blowing off considerable fruit and ma
terially injuring grasses and grains in
some counties, but were followed in
the western sections by good rains
which revived all vegetation and made
the general outlook much more en-
couraging, although in some districts
wheat and meadows were too far gone
to be benefited to any great extent.
In the central and western and some
of the northern counties wheat has i'm
proved considerably and oats and
grasses have been greatly benefited by
the rains, but in the southeast sec
ton little improvement is noted and
in many counties the outlook is less
encouraging than last week Chinch
bugs have been checked by the rains
in some sections, but are still doing
much damage. Rust is reported in a
number of the southern counties.
Oats, as a rule, are heading short.
Wheat is beginning to turn in the
southern sections. Corn and potatoes
are doing well in nearly all counties
and cotton is reported as doing fairly
we'll Where rains have fallen gardens
are greatly improved but in the south
east are suffering from drought. Cut
worms are still doing damage to late
corn and gardens. Glover is generally
reported a light crop.
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BURIED UNDER DEBT.

Cubn's Load VIII Become So Insufferable
Soon As to Cause a General Uprising.
WASHINGTON, June ga semi official
statement has been received here from
one Of the leaders of the most influential
elements in Cuba, showing that the war
expenditures are becoming 30 enormous
and the sugar and tobacco industries so
unavoidable, that they believe general
uprising will result from the hard times
caused.
The portion of the statement concern
inc the desperate conditions prevailing
ia "a follows: The war expenses of 1868
'7S were paid by Cuba. Spain furnished
212. 367 men, but not a single dollar.
Cnba was loaded with nearly 100000
coo debt, besides yearly budget OF $685.
600 600 in those ten years. Gen. Loveliar
declared in the Spanish cortes that She
war expenses had been $780, 900, or
an average Of $7O,000,OOO year.
Sugar produced then with slave labor
was sold at 67s cents a pound. The to-
bacco industry was in such hourlshing
condition that the minister Of tbs colon
MES. Romero Baledo, called the build
ings of their factories palaces. Leaf
tobacco was sold 100 per cent above to-
days prices. Per contra, sugar sells to-
dav at SO cents a pound, or 30 per cent
below cost of production, and it is
pressed to its last ditch by German beet
sugar.
The tobacco industry Is ruined beyond.
REDEMPTION by a tariff war. Leaf does
not paw the cost of labor at today's prices.
The production of Cuba this year will
be: Sugar, $32,OOo,OOO; tobacco, $12,-
100000: fruits and sundries, $5, 200 OO0:
total $40 ,OO0, 900; deficit, 345, O0e,O00
Expenses, budget, $26.5OO,OOO; extra
octroi tax, $3,5OO,00O; i'm ports, $4,000
600; municipal budgets. $4,000. O00:
extra war expenses. at least 100000
total, $94,OOO,O00
A s45.OOo,oOO deficit is the last straw
on the csmePs back.
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ARMOURS TAKEN IN.
They Are Victfmized In Street Railway
Deal in Tacoma.

They Are Victimized In Street Railway
Deal in Tacoma.
TACOMA, Wash, June Sin attempt
ing to foreelose the 81. $780, 900 mortgage
against the Tacoma Railway and Motor
company, the New York Guarantee and
Indemnity company has encountered the
Armours of Chicago, who have set out,
according to the statements of the local
stockholders to either complete a COM
promise, or show up in the alleged street
railway the wrecking methods of the
General Electric company.
Incidentally the suit has brought out
a misappropriation of $756,OOO of the
local company's bonds by Paul Schulz.
who committed suicide when his credi-
tors pushed him to the wall The
Armours became interested in the local
street railway company several years
ago when it had $4,000 capital stock.
On this Schulz issued $500, 900 in
bonds and disposed of $1,35O,OOO
through the New York Guaranty s. In
demnity company. The Armours are
innocent stockholders and not being rep
resented in the issue of bonds claim that
bond issue was excessive and unwar-
ranted. In placing these bonds it is
alleged Schulz made use of dummy
syndicate.
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CUT IN 121 PLACES.
A Jealous Indiana Man Slashes
His Wife Horribly.
He Cuts Her All to Pieces With
a Razor.
HACKED HER BREAST
Mother Was Nursing Her Child
Both Will Die.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, June 5.-For some
months Valentine Wissman has been
jealous of his wife and has had frequent
Quarrels with her because of his suS-
picions that she was intimate with
other men. Monday night her brothers
spent the evening with them and after
they had gone he showed that he was
Jealous even of them. Mrs. Wissman
was nursing their 6-months-old in
FAINT, preparatory to putting it to
bed. Weissman went into the room
where his wife was and told her he
was going to kill her. He snatched
the baby from her arms and dashed it
to the floor. Then he got razor. His
wife ran for her life out of the house,
but was stopped by a high picket
fence and he caught her. He immedi-
ately began to slash her with the razor,
she fighting all the time for her life.
They tore up large patch of garden
in their struggles. He cut her in the
throat three times, several times in the
face and then began hacking at her
bosom. He cut the leaders and sew
cred the artery. In all he cut her in 121
places. The coming of neighbors
frightened him away and the poor
woman recovered sufficiently to get
her baby and flee to the neighbors.
She tainted on the way and was carried
into the house and the doctors were
called. The neighbors tied up the art
cry so as to prevent her from bleeding to
death. Weissman escaped and was
captured yesterday morning. He was
discovered on a fence stark naked, ex-
cept as to his shirt, which he had tied
around his neck, and to it he had
piece of wire that was fastened to the
limb of tree. He was in the act of
jumping from the fence when seen.
The wife and child will die.
GOVERNMENT SURVEYORS KILLED.
CADDo, L T., June 5.-Report
reached here from Doggy depot, 20
miles northwest of here, of the killing
of two United States surveyors by an
Indian. The surveyors were running
a line through the Indians yard and it
was necessary to cut some small trees
in the yard, at which the Indian be-
came enraged and fred upon them with
above result.
MAN AND WIFE THRASHED.
ELKHART, Ind. June 5.-Word was
received here that the man Seerby.
who brutally assaulted his 7-year-old
niece a few nights ago few miles
from here, and his wife, were stripped,
tied to a tree and whipped Monday
night by a mob and ordered to leave
the neighborhood. The child was
found in a ditch, where she had been
left by Seerby for dead. She will re-
cover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
ACCIDENT POLICIES.

The Missouri Supreme Court Renders an
Important Insurance Decision.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, June SIN the
supreme court to-day Judge CAN'T held
in the case of Meadows, of Chillicothe,
against the Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
of California, a suit for SIS, 600 acct
dent insurance, that the insured need
only use due diligence to prevent
accident or death, and that in the
absence of positive evidence to
the contrary the policy must be paid.
The court says that the multiplicity of
conditions exempting companies from
liability for accidents of almost every
conceivable character is contrary to
EQUITABLE insurance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
WIRE FENCES INHIBITED.
The Government is After CattIem men Who
Fence in Its Lands.

The Government is After Cattle men Who
Fence In It's Lands.
DENVER, June 5.-The United States
authorities are on the war path against
cattle companies and private individuals
guilty of fencing in public lands. J. E.
Lewis of Morgan county, who &C
knowledged that he appropriated g.
600 acres to his personal use and
surrounded the same with a wire fence,
has been placed under bond of $1,000
to answer before Judge Hallett.
1t is claimed that hundreds of thou
sands of acres of public land in Colorado
are shut off from bona fide settlers by
wire fences, some cattle companies COB
bling up whole townships and resistin z
every effort of settlers to enter.
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A wreck Narrowly Averted.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, June 5.-The Co
lumbar express passenger train from
Chicago, on the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad, narrowly escaped
disastrous wreck at the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf junction at Sheffield
yesterday afternoon, occasioned by an
open switch. The engineer did not see
the open switch until to late too stop
the train. The engine and mail and
baggage car left the track. No one
was hurt and the train was delayed
barely two hours in getting into the
union depot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
GONE INSANE.
The Oklahoma Faster Pronounced Mem
tally Unbalanced

SOUTH ENID, Ok, June 5.-Eugene
Busch, who recently tasted forty days,
was yesterday pronounced insane by
the county commissioners Physicians
differ, however, as to whether he is
really insane or delirious from over
eating at the close of his fast All
agree that DIR. Tanner, the scientist
who tasted forty days, has rival in an
illiterate farmer. His profanity now
equals his hitherto Jealous prayers.
VETERANS POLITICALLY FAVORED.
BOSTON, Mass, June 5.-Gov. Green
halge's veto of the bill giving union
veterans of the civil war absolute pref
erence in state employment was yes
terday overridden by the senate, the
vote being % to 2. The governor OBJ
lection to the bill was that it would
seriously impair the efficiency of the
civil service.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON, June 5.-Col. William
r. King, of the engineer corps, who
has been commandant at the engineer
school at Willett's point, has been as
signed by the secretary of war as en-
gineer in charge of the improvement
of the upper Mississippi, to succeed Col.
Mckenzie, ordered to Washington.
WAGES TAKE A JUMP.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-Owing to the in
crease in business the ST. Louis Shovel
Co. has notified it's employees that
wages will be increased 10 per cent.
About three years ago the wages of
some of the workmen were cut down
with the promise of an increase as soon
as times permitted it.
TIMBER FIRES.
OAKLAND, Md, June 5.-A severe
drought prevails here, and forest fires
are raging in every direction and thou
sands of acres of valuable timber are
being destroyed, as well as fencing
and other property. In some locali-
ties people have had great difficulty in
saving their homes from the flames.
SALVATION ARAIY's THANKSGIVING.
NEW YORK, June 5.-The thanksgiv-
ing congress, in connection with the
dedication and opening of the Memo
rial building and national headquar-
tiers of the Salvation army continued
yesterday. There was large attend
ance, representing every state and ter
ritory of the union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
WITH Her DRESS SKIRT.

q Dependent Woman at Osawatomie De-
HberateIy Commits suicide.
OsAwAToMIE, Kan, June 5.-Mrs.
Ella Brainard committed suicide yes
terday by hanging herself. She went
into an unoccupied garnet and took a
piece of a dress skirt and made a
rope of it, one end of which she
tied to rafter and the other around
her neck. Everything being ready
she kicked the chair from under her
and died by strangulation. Her hus-
band is an inmate of the insane asylum
at this place. She leaves eight chill
dren in destitute circumstances.
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BIGGEST IN THE WORLD.
An Enormous vanlt Being Built in New


An Enormous vanlt Being Built in New
York.
NEW YORK, June ga New York
firm of safemaksrs is putting the finish
ing touches on what is said to be the
strongest vault in the world.
It will be placed in the New York
clearing house in few days, and will be
both burglar and bomb proof. 1t will
weigh $4,000 pounds, the outer doors
weighing 10000 pounds each. Expert
safebreakers could not force an entrance
under eight days. even if allowed the use
of the highest explosives.
The plan of this great treasury box is
n series Of vaults within q vault More
than $500, 900, 900 in gold can be stored
in il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
Coated with Tar and Feathers.

TEKAMAH, Neb., June Sc. J. Tay-
Tor, young man of this place, who is
charged with running Miss Alice Scherr,
was treated to tar and feathers by
mob last night. The prisoner and sher-
if were lassoed while approaching this
city and masked men then took charge
of Taylor, who was left wandering in
the woods, with the threat that he
would be hanged if seen here again.
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Death of BISHOP seidenbusch.

RICHMOND, Va, June 5.-Right Rev.
Bishop Rupert Seidenbusch, of Min
nesota, died yesterday at ST. Mary's
Benedictine priory. The bishop said
mass at st. Mary's church Sunday
morning, but was weak and after mass
had to be assisted to the priests resi-
dence, adjoining the church. His death
was caused by apoplexy, superinduced
by extreme heat. He was visiting here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
ATLANTA is AMBITIOUS.
She Is Laying Plans to Capture a National
Political Convention.

She Is Laying Plans to Capture National
Political Convention.
ATLANTA, Ga, June 5.-A movement
has been set on foot here to capture
one of the national political conven-
tons With the great Agricultural
building at Piedmont park converted
into mammoth auditorium, as it will
be, with ample means of rapid transit
which the many lines of street cars
will afford, and the Kimball, the Ara
gon, the Markham and many other
hotels close around, the hordes can be
well housed and cared for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
GOODWIN'S NEW PLAYS.
He Has Six of Them From Pens of Ameri-
can Authors.

NEW YORK, June 5.-Nat Goodwin is
prepared for any contingency that may
arise next season He has secured six
plays by American dramatists, which
range from the purely farcical comedy to
a serious drama
These plays include a modern comedy
by Henry Guy Carleton called "Ambi-
tion;" a romantic comedy by Mrs. Rom
ueldo Pacheco and Charles Henry
Meltzer, entitled "Don Roberto;" seri-
Gus drama, Richard Savage" by Made
leine Lucette, who is also writing a
comedy with a pathetic interest for
Goodwin; a drama of character by Au-
gustus Thomas and farcicaI comedy by
Sidney Rossnfeld.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-05
INTO A SWOLLEN STREAM.
A Freshet Turns Over Wagon and browns
Four People.

A Freshet Turns Over a Wagon and DrOwns
-Four People.
FORT DOUGLASS, WyO., June 5.-A
party of seven persons was swept away
while crossing the swollen stream near
here, four of them being drowned
Bert Elder started from Tie Siding to
attend a circus here with his wife
and two children, Mrs. Powell
and a baby and Mrs. Sherwin.
The wagon overturned in Laprele
creek, all its occupants being thrown
into the water Mrs Elder and her
baby and Mrs. Powell and her baby
were carried away and drowned. The
bodies have not yet been recovered.
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Heard a Very Sick Man.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Ex-Represent-
alive Heard's condition begins to excite
uneasiness among his friends, not be-
cause of any acute manifestation of
his rheumatic disorder, but because of
the malignancy with which it retains
it hold upon him. He has not been
able to leave his room for weeks and
yesterday he was unable to receive
visitors
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A Soda Fountain ExpIodes,

MARTINsvILLE, Ind, June SIS. G.
Seiders was engaged in charging
large soda fountain when the thing ex-
ploded with a terrific crash. Seiders
was blown clear through a door, both
of his legs were broken and he was
otherwise injured.
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Survivors of the Colfma.

MAzArLAN, June ga telegram re-
ceived from Acapulco states that the
Barracuda arrived there. The Barra-
couta has aboard johnson, Peters, and
Crow. These three will proceed to San
Francisco on the Gallon. A telegram
direct from Coahuaya says that no
woman has been saved and no bodies are
coming ashore. The survivors from the
second life raft are J. ]. Noonan, Jose
HeRueros, A S. Martin, and two others.
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TANGIER, June 5.-Four carloads of
salted heads of rebel Tahamna tribes
men have arrived at Raba on their
way to Fee, but on arrival at Rabat
the heads were found to be in such bad
condition that the government officials
compelled number of Jews to resalt
them.
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New Fourth-CIass Postmasters.

WASHINGTON. June .-Fourth-class
postmasters appointed yesterday were:
Kansas-Pleasant View, Cherokee
county, c. o. Rawlings, vice Bette Gill
itand, resigned.
Missouri-Bounds, Wayne county, c.
G. Montgomery, vice 1. L. Montgom-
cry, resigned; Carr, Stone county, Will
liam Brown, vice T. H. REYNOLDS
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MRS. JORDAN, JOINTIsT.
She Was Arrested by the Police Last Even
ing in North Topeka.

1Is m -VOItIE AOPSAa'
On complaint of Belle Williams Mrs
Bette Jordan was arrested by the police
last evening at her home on Railroad
street, in North Topeka, between Kansas
avenue and jackson street, charged with
selling liquor. 1t is said she sold whisky,
but none was found on the premises.
She is the wife of Ben Jordan, the col
ored jointist who was recently released
from the county jail on account of i'll
health and is now at the Leavenworth
Soldiers home.
Her case will be heard in the police
court tomorrow.
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WIN Ride 1t over Next SATURDAY.

CHICAGO, June 5.-The authorities in
charge of the matter have decided that
the claimants for the time prize in the
cycling road race on Decoration dav
shall ride the race over again next
Saturday.
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corey County's Growth,

BURLINGTON, Kan. June 5.-The as
SCISSORS returns are all in except from
Liberty township, and the population of
the county, taking that of Liberty for last
year is 16,022. There has been a good
gain in nearly every township and town.
Burlington city has population of 1922.
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HOW LIQUOR LAW WORKS.
Iowa Officials Can't Collect Taxes From
Saloons.

SaIOOnBs
CLINTON Ia, June 5.-Under the mulct
liquor law of Iowa the county treasurer
sells real estate on which a saloon is To-
Gated if tax is not paid. County Trea-
surer Lubbers offered twenty-six such
properties for sale at auction today, some
of which are fine business blocks, but
there was not a bid received.
Ir is now the intention of the county
attorney to proceed against all the de-
linquents and get injunctions against
them and begin suits against those who
have not paid but have quit selling.
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Taylor G. Cook, in the Kansas pen
itentiary for numbering his wife in
Osborne county in 1888, has written a
letter to Gov. Morrill, praying the lat
ter to carry out the death sentence in
his case.
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students Dem0nstrafion Broken Up.

CITY OF MEXICO, June 0.-Ihe MIAMI
moth denomination of students, arranged
for at the tomb of General Campos as a
protest against the return of General
Leonardo Marquee, the imperial exile,
was broken up by the police, who dis
persed the procession before it had pro-
ceeded one block toward the Pantheon of
San Fernandino, whore lie the remains of
the dead hero.
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a BLIND Woodman Crushed 10 peatE.

NEVADA, Mo, June s. = Nathan
Plummer, a blind man, was killed near
Schel City this morning by tree fall
ing on him. He was saving the tree
down when he met his death. He
leaves wife and five or six children.
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Struck Down by Anarchists.

LONDON, June 5.-A special dispatch
received here from Rome announces
that Count Ferrada, formerly under
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
has been morta1ly wounded dy anarch-
lists at Ramini