The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-25
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Central Missouri Baptists are in ses-
sion at Sedalia.
It is decided that the material for
new custom house at Kansas City will
be granite,
In Dover, Delaware one more bal
lot was taken for United States sena-
tor without result.
E d. Sill, railroad conductor, was
instantly killed at Olathe, Kan, by
falling from the cars.
The trial of Sheriff Harry Troll of
st. Louis on charge of bribery at the
recent election ended in acquittaL
At Olympia, Wash, seven more
joint ballots for United States sena-
tor were taken without resulting in a
choice.
Some serious charges have been
preferred against Judge McAtee of
Oklahoma and fled with the attorney
general.
In Boise, Idaho, Shoup gained two
votes on the ballot Thursday. Re-
suit: Shoup, 20; Sweet 10; Claggett,
Populist, Is.
Mining companies in Macon. Mo-,
have discharged all farmers and sim
gle men who have been mining coal
in that region
In Binghampton, New York. Bank
Examiner Prescott has closed the
Chenago Valley Savings bank pend
ing an investigation.
Dispatches definitely confirm previ-
Gus reports that at least three lives
were lost by the sinking of the
steamer State of Missouri last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Maggie Gill was arraign ed in
Jefferson Market police court, New
York. and confessed to the murder of
her mother. She was held without
bail
has received the welcome news that
he is one of four heirs to an estate in
Ireland valued at $4,000, 900.
Secretary Smith has Apr owed the
applications made by Colonel Cody
and the manager of Barnum & Bal
leys circus for permission to employ
Indians in their performances
A general snow storm of generous
proportions pre- walls in Nebraska.
| The weather is warm and no suffer
ing will result 1t is much needed to
put wheat in safer condition.
Bank Examiner Backus has taken
charge of the Broome county, New
York. National bank The bank had
an authorized circulation of $50. 900,
and was capitalized at 500, O0o
Mr.. Pritchard, the new Republican
senator from North Carolina, who was
sworn in Thursday. is tall and of
athletic build. He is one of the
youngest members of she senate.
Consul General j. Diaxduran of
| Guatemala has been recalled from
San Francisco by President Barrios to
take command of a military force in
the war which he believes to be i'm
pending with Mexico. +
Mrs. Margaret McVerney of Boston,
| drowned two of her children at her
home and after laying them out for
burial, went to the police station and
told the police. The woman is be-
.ieved to be demented.
John A. Harvey, who was formerly
a waiter in a restaurant in San Fran
cisco and has worked as cable con-
ductor, eloped with his 17-year-old
| step-daughter, leaving his wife in
destitute circumstances
Two 15-year-o1d boys, Dock Dukes
and Lee Day of Ooen, ILL.,, while re-
turning from school at that place en-
gagged in fight. Dukes fatally
stabbed Day. The parents of the
lads are highly est eemed people.
1t is now settled that the state has
been furnished with the names of
every man who assisted in hanging
Barrett Scott. One of the lynchers
has confessed. However, memb ers of
the vigiIantes do not appear dis
! turb ed.
A free home league for the Chero-
| kee strip containing 6, O00 900 acres of
land which cost the settlers an aver
age of s. per acre has been organized
I in, fn
| Washington to assist in work for free
homes to settlers
Colonel j. d. Hopkins, on behalf of
Dan Creedon, has accepted the chal-
lenge of Frank Craig. the ''Harlem
Coffee Cooler for fight before the
| National Sporting club of London.
The club offers purse of SO, 900 and
allows $500 expenses.
Mrs. DIR. Saunders, wife of a promin-
ent citizen of Marietta, Ga, who re-
moved to that state from the North
! several years ago, com mitted suicide
by shooting herself. Her husband is
handsome and popular and jealousy
is supposed to have induced the deed
Tapachula, State of Chiapas, Mexico,
on the Southern border is in a fer
rnent over the impending hostilities
between Mexico and Guatemala.
More troops are being conferred about
the frontier and heavy movemen t
of people is noticeable on every hand
The Mend ota, Mo, coal and mining
company, its miners and employees
sent to the Nebraska sufferers on the
22d inst, train of coal consisting of
thirteen cars IN all, or 1875 tons of
clean lump coal Mendota's coal out
put is perhaps the greatest in North
Missouri.
The attorney general has sent a
recomme ndation to the house favor
ing an appropriation to cover travel
ing expenses of the justices of Okla
homa. He says the salary of the just
ices is low, and that many times they
are compelled to make long overland
trips which are expensive.
Bookmaking in the District of Co
lum bia is forbidden by decision rem
dered by Judge Cole in the criminal