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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
AN UGLY CRISIS.
Trouble with Great Britain Concerning the
Seal Fishery.

Trouble with Great Britain Concerning the
Seal Fishery.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-An ugly crisis
has been reached in the negotiations
between the United States and Great
Britain looking to the adoption of
uniform relations for the government
of the seal fishery this season. The
British government positively refuses
to re-enact the regulations of last year,
which prohibits the carrying of firearms
by sealing vessels through the zone
north of the twenty-ffth parallel DUR
ing the closed season. United States
officials look upon this as disastrous
to the seal fisheries, holding that
the result will be to relieve the pelagic
sealers of the only restriction which
has operated to prevent an unlimited
slaughter of the herds. While killing
by firearms remains illegal it is re-
allied it will be impossible to enforce
this prohibition if arms can be freely
carried, for the sealers would kill Sc
cretly unless they should happen to
be under the very eye of revenue
cutter. Meanwhile the United States
cutters have gone out under the
old instructions to seize all vessels car
rying arms not under seal. These
must be modified speedily by orders
sent through the Alaska Commercial
Co.'S steamer, which leaves San Fran
cisco in a day or two, or else there may
be another big claim for damages on
account of Illegal seizures fled by the
British government. The attitude of
the latter is viewed with much dissat-
isfaction at the state department,
where it is regarded as an evidence
of the unwarrantable concession to the
Canadian pelagic sealers. It is also
held the effect of the British action is
to practically nullify all measures of
protection for the seals that were con-
ferred by the Paris arbitration, and it
would not be surprising if this course
is persisted in if it resulted in decla-
ration by the United States of the
abrogation of the treaty.
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FOUND TO BE TRUE
Awful Stories of Armenian Atrocitie
Proven by Investigation.

Awful Stories of Armenian Atrocities
Proven by Investigation.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 15.-The COM
mission which has been investigating
the atrocities in Armenia visited the
devastated villages and arrived at
Jellygoozan, where 100 houses have
been burned. The people were shell
tered in miserable houses.
Ample proof was found of the truth
of the stories told regarding the massa-
ere of the Armenians, and the fact that
their bodies were thrown in large num-
bers into a pit where the Turks en-
deavored to conceal their crime by pour
ing barrels of petroleum upon the bod
les and setting fire to the oil. The
flames, however, failed to consume the
mass and a stream was damned and di-
verified from its course in order to wash
away the half buried bodies. But even
this failed to obliterate the terrible
evidence against the Turks and the
local authorities were compelled to re-
move the remains piecemeal. The vii
layers had removed the bulk of the
bodies and inferred them in conse-
Grated ground before the arrival of the
commission.
As a result of the investigation and
the reports, the powers have submit
ted notes to the Turkish government,
impressing upon the porte the neces-
sity of promptly inaugurating scheme
for Armenian reforms which should in
clude the appointment of Christian Of
fcials in Armenia, the powers to have
the right to veto the appointments of
the governors
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SHIFTS THE BURDEN.
Mgr. SatOlli Refers the EndeaV-
Orers to Another.
The Case of Father Phelan
Doesn't Belong to. Him.
REGRETS THEMATTER.
The Endeavorers Will Pursue
the Question Further.

AsBURY PARK, N. J., May 15.-Mgr.
Satolli has made answer to the Chris
tian Endeavorers' memorial adopted
recently at meeting here, petitioning
him to unfrock Father Phelan, of ST.
Louis, for his utterances touching the
young people of the organization. The
letter is as follows:
Rev. J. P Dawson:
APOSTOLIC DELEGATION, UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, May IS, 1885,
Rev. and Dear Sir: received some days ago
your letter with which you sent me the protest
of the Christian Endeavorers against the at
taeks made by Rev. Father Phelan in
his paper on the practice of the asso-
citation, and I regret exceedingly that
arisen. But after a long and care
full consideration of the whole matter I feel
that it is one which belongs to the Most Rev.
Archbishop of st. Louis rather than to me.
With sentiments of sincerest esteem, I re-
main, most faithfully yours in Christ.
SATOLLI.
Mr.. Dawson says that following the
suggestion of his eminence, he will
Immediately forward the petition to
the archbishop of St. Louis. Mr. Daw-
son also said that it was Father Phe-
lan's official position and not the man
insulting the Endeavorers of America.
THE BODY OF SENATOR MoRRIssEY.
ST. LOUIS, May 15.-Rev. Father Eu-
gene Coyle, rector of the Catholic
cathedral, will not permit the body of
State Senator Peter Morrissey to be
brought into the church, on the ground
that he died in open public sin. The
family feel this decision very acutely
and are trying to get Father McErlane
to intercede with Father CoyIe and have
the services held at st. Francis Xavier's
church This cannot be done without
Father Coyle's permission. It is hardly
probable that this consent will be OBJ
tanned, and the present arrangements
are that the funeral will take place
from the dead mans late home on
Thursday afternoon. The interment
will be in Calvary.
TOWNSHIP BOARD SUSTAINED.
GUTHRIE, Ok, May 15.-News was
received here yesterday from Washing
ton that Secretary Smith had con-
frmed the decision of the townsite
board in awarding a corner lot with a
fine brick block on it to Allen Caruth-
ers on the ground that he was the first
legal settler. The Commercial bank
erected the block, which was pur-
chased at the bank receivers sale by
J. B. Beadles, who by this decision be-
comes a heavy loser, the property be-
ing valued at $40, 900.
THE REPORT ABOUT MR.. HARRISON.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 15.-Ex-
President Harrison says regarding the
report that he has permanently re-
tired from jury practice that it is a
mistake. He will not engage in any
more jury trials away from home and
will cOntine mainly his practice to
arguments before the courts.
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limb FROM LIMB.
Men Horribly Mangled in +;
Pennsylvania Explosion.
Remains We're Only Recogniza.
BILE by Their Clothing.
SEVEN WERE KILLED.
Parts of the Boiler Thrown
Hundreds of Feet.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May ia special
to the Associated press from West
Bingham, Pa, says: Yesterday after
noon the bodies of eight men, horribly
mang1ed, scalded and disfgured, were
picked out from the ruins of the Peck,
Haskell & Cobb's saw mill here, the
victims of the explosion of the boiler
in the mill. Five were dead and two
of the three others have since died.
The killed outright were: Claude Eng
lish, James Mowers, Eugene Merrick,
Lyman Perry, Charles Rover. Those
fatally injured were: Caleb Converse,
badly scalded about the head and
chest; he is dead; Albert DeGroat was
SO fearfully mang1ed by boiler iron
that he soon died; Bell Gridley was in
jured internally and sustained a broken
leg, but will recover.
The mill was run by steam, generated
in an old eighty-horse power boiler,
which it is reported had been con-
demned by an inspector a few days be-
fore because the steam gauge failed to
record accurately the amount of steam
pressure. Thirteen men were employed
in the mill. Yesterday morning they
were busy at work when belt broke,
shutting OOWu CH0 Op0rdOlOuS. w ull0
it was being repaired nobody paid
any attention to the boiler, which
was making steam at a prodigious
rate, for a hot fire had been kindled
under it. Suddenly there came a
boom, as of a cannon, followed by a
cloud of steam, dust and smoke which
rose high in the air. -Four of the vic
tins were torn limb from limb, their
remains scattered about the mill and
the immediate vicinity. The mill was
almost entirely demolished Parts of
the boiler were thrown hundreds of
feet. The victims were horribly
mangled, having their heads crushed
to jelly and being recognizable only
by their clothing. The dead workmen
were all married and had families.
BIG FIRE IN DETROIT.
DETROIT, Mich, May ia big fire
occurred in the yards of the Dwight
Lumber Co., which occupy about two
blocks square, at Scotch avenue and
the Michigan Central railroad tracks.
The loss thus far is estimated at $780,
600. The fire originated in the COM
pany's planning mill, and swept
through the entire yards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
COMPARATIVE AREAS.

The two Americas are, combined, al
most exactly ihe area of Asia.
Nicaragua and New York have the
same area-49, 900 square miles.
Bulgaria proper has $1,000 square
miles, about the size of Indiana.
Australia is about the size of the
United States. excluding Alaska.
Africa is three-fourths the size of
Asia, or IL, 900, 900 square miles
Japan is almost as large as California,
having lat, 900 square miles. while the
American state has 1853, 900.
The island of Haiti is as large as the
states of West Virginia and Connecti-
cut, or about %, 600 square miles.
Venezuela has an enormous territory,
claiming $50, 900 square miles of area.
1t is about as large as Alaska and Ari-
iona.
Madagascar and its dependencies have
an area Of 22S, 900 square miles. or as
large as Florida, Georgia and the Caro-
1inas.
The empire of Austria Hungary has
$40, 900 square miles It is about the
combined size of California and Col
orado.
Guiana, though so small on the map,
has an area of 201, 600 square miles. OF
about the combined area of Colorado
and Idaho.
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan and Wisconsin are nearly
equal in area-between $1,000 and so,
900 square miles.
The French own provinces in Asia
aggregating 1876, 600 square miles, 8
territory equivalent to the combined
area of Florida, the two Carolinas and
Georgia.
The Roman empire comprised the
present territory of Spain, Portugal
France, Italy, part of Germany, the
most of the Austrian empire, Turkey
in Europe. Asia Minor, Palestine, the
north of Arabia. Egypt and the north
coast of Africa, or about 1900, 00C
square lniIes.-St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
WANTS A pIvIpENp.
Suit Instituted for $4,000 Against
TtnrnnLra E2n.fntir, o- Eri,.r,nn

Suit Instituted for $4,000 Against Two
Topeka Printing Firms.
Topeka, Kan, May 15.-Charles F.
Sears. who is said to be the richest
populist in Kansas, by his attorney,
David Overmyer, yesterday brought
suit in the district court against the
Hamilton Printing Co. and State
Printer Snow for $4,000. Sears is
a stoclholder in the company to the
amount of forty shares. Sears de-
clares that during the past four years
the revenue from state printing has
been $3.50, 900, and from all other print
ing, $50, 900. He declares that he has
received no share of the dividends from
the profits, which if paid would en-
title him to So, 600.
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THE KICKAPOO REsERvATToN.
THE MEMPHIS DRILL.
Omahas Thurston Rifles Put Up the Best
Drill Yet Seen at the Park.

OmahaB ThurStOn Rifles Put VI the Best
Drill Yet Seen at the Park.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 15.-At Camp
Schofeld yesterday morning the regu-
lar troops gave an exhibition of guard
mount as it is practiced in the service
for the enlightenment of the citizen SOL
diers. Another delig htful day and the
fact that the Governors guards, the
first local company to drill, would ap-
pear in the afternoon attracted a crowd
of upward of 1000 to Montgomery
park.
The Thurston rifles, of Omaha, under
Capt. A. H. Scharf, put up the best
drill yet seen at Camp Schoield when
they competed in class G. Their
work was warmly appreciated
by the spectators. It is per-
haps only natural, however, that
the greatest enthusiasm should
have been aroused by the Governor
guards, of this city, who Immediately
followed them. The afternoons pro-
gramme ended with the appearance OF
the Calling gun detachment of the
Omaha guards, whose work compared
very favorably with their only rival
the Cincinnati detachment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
WHOLESALE KIDNAPPING.
CoIored People Are Driven Into LOuisi-
ana In Large Numbers.

CoIored People Are Driven Into LOuisi-
ana In Large Numbers.
LITTLK Rock, May 15.-Reports have
reached here from Ouachita county,
Ark, of the wholesale KIDNAPPING of
negroes by white men from Louisiana
for farmers living adjacent to Arkansas
line, who needed farm laborera When
Iaborers were needed, they crossed into
Arkansas, selected the negroes they
wanted, and took them to Louisiana by
force.
Similar reports have reached here
from Union and other counties on the
Louisiana border.
A dispatch from Eidorado says Judge
Smith, of Ouachita county, has convened
a special grand jury to investigate the
recent outrages of this character In
some cases the kidnapers have been seen
driving before them like so many sheep
bunch of negroes with their arms
pinioned and tied together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
KANSAS SIR KNIGHTS.
Two Thousand Present at the Opening. of
the Grand Commandery.

Two Thousand Present at the Opening of
the Grand Commandery.
WICHITA, Kan. May 15.-The Knights
Templar of Kansas met here yesterday
in annual conclave. The city was
deliberately decorated with the celors
and emblems of masonry. The reports
of the grand officers were read and
referred to the committees. In
the afternoon there was grand
parade, participated in by 1000
knights, and led by MarshalIs mill
tary band, of Topeka. In the COM
petitive drill the Wichita commandery
took first prize; Newton commandery,
second, and the Wellington, third. a
reception was given the visitors at the
Auditorium at night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

He was born in Shiloh, Va, SIS years
ago, and enjoyed few educational
advantages. AS a boy he became a
marble cutters apprentice, and when
the war broke out he promptly en-
listed, serving with gallantry under
the stars and bars throughout the re-
bellion. He arose to the rank of major
of artillery. After the war he studied
law. He has long been closely identi-
fed with the harness racing interests
and is president of the National Trot-
ting association and other organiza-
tions of the kind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
PHOTOGRAPH ON HIS FILES Il

Peculiar Marks on the Body of a Light
ming Victim.
PENSACOLA, Fla. May ia strange
freak of lightning occurred at Milligan
yesterday, John 7. Wilkinson, young
merchant, was struck and almost instant
ly killed
When undressed, perfect picture of a
clump Of trees. with each leaf delicately
shaded, was found indelibly photo
graphed on either side of the body.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
A. R. U. MAN WANTS $4,000
Says He Is BIacklisted and Asks Damages
That Amount.

TOLEDO, O., May 15.-W. ]. O'Shea of
this city has brought suit against the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, the
Toledo s. Ohio Central and Wabash
roads for $4,000, the outcome of which
will be watched with interest by railroad
men all over the land. O'Shea was an
assistant yardmaster for the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern up to the time of
the American Railway union strike and
went out with the remainder of the yard
men.
His petition sets forth that he was
blacklisted by the road. He secured en-
ployment with the Wabash, but was dis
charged, he claims by reason of the Lake
Shore notifying the Wabash of the
blacklisting. He then endeavored to se-
cure employment with the Toledo s.
Ohio Central, but he claims that he was
refused work solely on account of the
bad mark given him by the first named
road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
THE MILK GETS SOUR.

No Sweet Milk Along the Chicago Drain
age Canal.
LEMoNT. Ill, May 15.-The village of
Lemont is doomed to use sour milk until
the drainage canal is completed. The
milkmen and a number of careful, think
ing citizens unite in the theory that the
heavy blasting of the drainage canal
here acts on the same principle as heavy
thunder.
The fact that sweet milk cannot be
kept more than twelve hours verifies the
theory,
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NatnraI Gas at Monnd City.

MOUND CITY, Kan, May ia strong
flow of natural gas was struck at
depth of 200 feet on Henry Carbon's
farm, northeast of town. There are
several good producing gas wells in
this vicinity now and there is no doubt
but there is plenty of gas here for any
desired purpose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
Baseball Games.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

At St. Louis-St Louis, 6; Brooklyn, 4.
At Observation-Disclosures 6; Louisville, 4
At Chicago-New York, II; Chicago, 1.
At Cincinnati-Cincinnati, 5; Baltimore, 2
WESTERN LEAGUE.
At Milwaukee Kansas City, 4: Milwaukee, 1.
At Observation-Disclosures 8: Detroit, 4
WESTERN ASSOCIATION.
At st. Joseph-St. Joseph, 5; Peoria, g.
At Omaha-Rockford, II; Omaha, 6.
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= Chnrnl. Isantfnn

The Congregational church of PantIeg
Olivet township, Usage county, has been
fled with the secretary of state. The
trustees are D. W. Griffith and David
jenkins of Olivet township, and Thomas
Kimball, George r. Folsom and John T.
Davis OF Barclay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
order of Railway Conductors.

ATLANTA, Ga, May 15.-The first
session of the twenty-ifth convention
of the grand division of the Order of
Railway Conductors was called to
order at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon
by Grand Chief Conductor Clarke.
Three hundred and fifty delegates
were present, with some 600 other con-
ductors in attendance. The organiza-
ton was affected after which an adj
journment was taken until to-day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
Kansas Insurance Men Meet.

EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo-, May 15.-
The Sunfower club of Kansas, an in
surance organization, met here yester-
day. About fifty members from vari-
Gus parts of the state are present, the
majority of them being accompanied
by their wives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Formed to Encourage and Protect Amer
lean SpOrts-Its President.
New YORK, May 45.-Mai. Philip P.
Johnston is president of the American
league, which was recently formed, its
object being to encourage and protect
American sports. He is one of the best
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

The latest crop bulletin from Kansas
reports wheat, oats and fax in bad
condition. Corn is doing better than
other crops. Grass is in fine shape. In
many places fruit has dropped badly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
sman Post offioes ROBBED.

OTTAWA, Kan, May 15.-The post
offices at Pomona and Quenemo were
burglarized Monday night The
thieves obtained about $3.50 in money
and stamps from the former and some
5000 from the latter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

Mr.. and Mrs. P D. Turner of Omaha,
are visiting the family of Fl. l. Sturgis,
1857 Dillon street. Mr. Turner was at
one time q local news gatherer on the
Eskridge News, and later was railway
mail clerk between Manhattan and Bur-
lingame, or the N. A. s B. For two
years he has been practicing law in
Omaha, but when he returns to that city
he is to take position as reporter on the
World Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

ANY one who is suffering from Con-
stipstion or Indigestion, would do we'll
to try BegRs' Little Giant Pills. They
give perfect satisfaction. Sold and war
tented By all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

At the convention of chiefs of police
in Washin gton on the 18th the question
of receiving rewards for the capture
of criminals was discussed. The con-
sensus of opinion was that the whole
system was wrong and vicious in it's
effects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15
TREASURY DEFICIT GRO VS.
1t Passed the Fifty Million Dollar Mark
Yesterday.

| 1t Passed the Fifty Million Dollar Mark
Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Yesterday the
treasury department deficit passed the
$50, 600, 900 mark, the exact amount of
| the excess of expenditures over the re-
ceipts since July 1, 1894, being $50, 4o4,-
S87. The deficit for the thirteen DAYS
of the present month is SIS, $50, SIT. This
is the second year since 1865 that the
expenditures of the government have
exceeded its revenues Last wear
the deficit was 500, 500, 26O, making
the aggregate deficiency since July 1,
1898, $12O, 2Os, lat. The receipts from
customs SO far this year amount to
little over $133, 900, 900, which is
about $1,000, 900 excess of the custom
receipts during the whole of the last
fiscal year. The internal revenue re.
| ceipts this month to date aggregate
about 1925, 500, 900 as against S147,111,-
232 during the fiscal year 1894. The
best information obtainable as to the
net result of the years financial ope r
atoms is that even if the income tax
law is permitted to remain as it is, the
deficiency on July next will exceed
S55, ZOO, 900 and if the law is declared
unconstitutional it may reach $780,
| 900, 900.
THE KICKAPOO RESERVATION.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The president
has received very remarkable docu-
ment. 1t comes from Oklahoma and is,
first, statement in regard to the de-
lay in opening the Kiekapoo lands and
recalls the fact that the reservation
could have been opened to settlement
two years ago had an effort been made
by the secretary of the interior.
The second part consists of a
petition of over 600 names, ask
ing the president to take the matter in
hand and use his influence with the
secretary of the interior to get the
reservation opened to settlement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-15

Rev. D. Miller of Toledo, Iowa. and
Rev. j. B. Deever, of Green, Kas, United
Brethren ministers, have moved into the
city.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-02-03
HEALING The SICK
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The cures which have already been performed
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