The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-08
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

The cold weather still continues all
over the country, and M UGH suffering
is reported.
The threatened trouble between
the Southern Pacific company and it's
locomotive engineers has been
averted.
The lower house of the Arkansas
legislature by a vote of II to 20 passed
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette matter.
Horace A. White, division superin-
tendeut of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad company, died at
his home in Trenton, Mo.
The Withdrawals of gold from the
New York sub treasury Thursday
amounted to 1920, 900, which leaves
the gold reserve 81, TAB, 1876.
At Vineyard Haven, Mass. an un-
known lime schooner is ashore with
three dead bodies dashed to the deck
house and covered with ice.
Horsethieves are making wholesale
raids in Lincoln, Payne and Pawnee
counties. Over forty head of horses
have been stolen within the past
week.
The big gingham mills of Walker &
Bothmond, located at Power Mill
Lane and Frankfort Creek, Pa, were
totally destroyed by fire. The loss
was SO. OOO
Acting Secretary Sims has approved
thirteen cases of allotments of lands
IN the Pawnee reservation. Ok lahoma
in accordance with the act of Feb
ruary %, 1891.
Bethaven female college at jackson,
Miss, was burned Thursday morning.
The teachers and boarding pupils
saved most of their effects. Loss,
$50, 600; insurance, $37, 500.
j. A. R. Elliott and George Work
shot a match at Westminster grounds,
New York, for 500 a side, 100 birds,
twenty-one yards boundary. The
against SO.
from Venezuela at the port of Phila-
delphla, has been fined $500 in the
New York court of general sessions
by Recorder Golf, jury finding him
guilty of carrying concealed weapons
Count Gebacoa, a Spanish nobleman
from Havana, is in Fargo. N. D., to
obtain a divorce under the Ienient
North Dakota law. Sonora De Pedro,
also of Havana. an acquaintance of
the count, is there for the same pur-
pose.
A mandamus has been issued
against the commissioner of pensions
to enforce the restoration of pension
of $72 a month to Judge Long of
Michigan. The suit against the secre-
tary of the interior has been dis
missed.
The steamers Alpha and Barrico,
each five days out from New York
and Bermuda. respectively, have not
yet arrived at Halifax, and as both
are light it is thought that they have
been blown off their course by the
gales.
Phiadelph1a sugar refneries cut
the price of sue Rrs ne-sixteenth of a
cent Thursday. The reduction is said
to have been caused by Molenhauer,
the independent re6ner of New York,
and a subsequent reduction by Have
meyer.
A telegram signed by Cleveland,
Chicago and Detroit men, represent
ing SIS, 600, 900 worth of vessel prop
erty, was sent to President Cleveland
requesting him to sign the White bill,
which EN- bodies the sailing rules for
the great lakes
In New York Fl. Beerbohm Tree and
his company of players gave special
matinee performance at Abbey's thea
ter for the benefit of the sufferers of
Tue Etoc ulSdSbCE' a 4dHSS anu LASH
ionable audience witnessed the per-
Torrance of Captain Smith" The
proceeds of the benefit amounted to
81, 900.
The children of the late James E.
Fair have decided to contest their
fathers will One of the daughters
attorneys, Mrs Herman Oelrichs and
Miss Virginia Fair, made the state
ment in San Francisco court that
the probated will would be opposed
and the court allowed a continuance
of two weeks to inaugurate the con-
test.