The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

secretary OlneY is said to be ready
to recognize Cuban be1Iigerency as
soon as Cleveland gives the word.
Preparations are being made to have
the fish commission placed under con-
troll of the agricultural department.
1t is said to be doubtful if the senate
would confirm Horn blower. to a seat
on the supreme bench even if Hill sup
ports.
President Cleveland is said to have
determined to repudiate the third
term idea in a speech at the Atlanta
exposition.
Naval officers say that the reason
American whites do not enlist in the
navy more is because they have to
meet negroes on an equality.
The jefferson Davis monument will
be erected in Monroe Park, Richmond,
Va.
Senator German has taken the stump
in Maryland for the state Democratic
ticket.
Lewis Thurman, a farmer, shot and
killed Albert Walker, colored, near
Fayette, Mo.
Frank Dyer and Buz Lucky were
convicted of the Blackstone, I. T.,
train robbery.
Mexicans deny that any of their re-
tired army officers have recruited in
the Cuban service.
The loss of Mrs. Langtry's diamonds
will, it is said, seriously affect her ca
reer upon the stage.
Martha Dalton, who escaped from
Jail at Salem, ILL.,, was captured at
Sumner and committed suicide.
In Chicago and Altonfreight wreck
near Joliet, Ill, two tramps were
Ill II i,-1 mi
B No indictments against legislative
boodlers have been returned by the
Sangamon county, Illinois, grand jury.
Newspaper men in the East are gem
orally roasting Henry NJ. Stanley, who
was once a reporter, for his stuck-up
ways.
G. A. Raum, charged with embez-
cling 81, lO0 from a Boone county. Mis-
souri,, loan association, was released,
no witnesses appearing against him.
DR.. H. S. Town of San Antonio, was
arrested at Hot Springs, Ark, and
confessed 10 drugging and robbing
prominent lady of Louisiana.
The Turkish government is prepar-
ing to lay torpedoes in the Darda-
neIles.
Japan will build four ironclads, ten
coast defense vessels and fifty torpedo
boats.
Its believed that Emperor William
will soon remove Chancellor Hohen-
lobe and other members of his ca binet.
The government bond syndicate has
dissolved. 1t made a profit of almost
per cent on its investment.
Judge Shackelford of Boonville,
Mo-, has announced himself Demo-
cratic candidate for congress IN BANDS
| district For twenty years no Demo
crat has had the temerity to enter the
lists against ''SiIver Dick" for the
nomination.
The most costly fire in the history of
Chillicothe, Mo-, occurred Saturday.
Loss, $4,000
Mayor Davis has appointed j. II.
Harris as the Republican member of
| the Kansas City election board. Harris
is a Finley lieutenant and politicians
construe the appointment to mean
that T ley is for Davis as the next Re-
.ppblican nominee for Governor of Mis-
souri,
1t is said that the New York Demo-
cratic state convention will indorse
Senator Hill for President.
Dr. Parkhurst is to stump New York
state in the interest of reform and
good government.
Editor c. Il. Jones of the St Louis
! Post Dispatch has applied for an in
| junction to prevent he Pulitzer Pub
! fishing company from deposing him
| from the control of the paper. The
papers silver advocacy is the cause OF
| the trouble.
General Justus McKinstry, aged 81,
who was provost marshal Of St. Louis
! during the war, was on Saturday mar
ried to Miss Adelaide Dickinson,
aged SO.
Corbett and Fitzsimmons have not
yet been able to agree upon referee
for the Dallas fight.
The American athletes won every
! one of the contests in the international
athletic games between the London
and New York Athletic clubs at New
York.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to burglarize the safe of the bank Of
Baldwin, Kan
The Democrats of Iowa opened the
campaign at Cedar Rapids with
speeches by Judge Baab, candidate
! for governor, and others.
The Rev. S. Simms, Baptist, was ar
| rested near Gilmore, No, on a charge
of threatening to kill the Rev. George
Wallace, another Baptist minister. :.
Colonel Breckinsidge addressed 5000
| people at a Democratic barbecue in
johnson county, Kentucky, and was
given an ovation. He Endorsed the
State ticket and the financial policy of
the administra ton.
Receivers have been appointed for
the ST. Joseph Stock Yards and Ter
ninal company. The plant is APP
praised at ST, coo 600 and will be oper-
| .ted the sauna as uSuaI
The Atchison, Stockton and Denver
Railway company of AtchisoD has filed
articles of Incorporation with a cap
ital stock of 81. 100000. It is a Mis-
souri, Pacific scheme to build the road
from Stockton. Rocks -sunty, to Dem
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