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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
The Michigan Man Replies to
Mr.. Sherman.
Defends His Friends from
Charges Made.
DID NOT BUY VOTES.
Sherman a Record Brighter, y
Says Alger.
General W. T. Sherman Was
Alger's Friend.

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 22.-General
R. A. Alger has written a lengthy
letter to the Detroit Tribune in ply
to Senator John Sherman's charges
against the generals friends, as con-
tanned in the second volume of 'Sher-
mans Recollections."
The writer quotes Senator Sher-
mans language, in which Sherman, in
referring to the circumstances attend
ing the contest in the Republican ma
tional convention of 1888, charged
Alger's friends with buying Southern
votes for him.
General Alger says when the Sena-
tors charges were first made, imme-
diately after the convention, he was
especially distressed because of the
warm friendship existing between him
self and family and General w. I.
Sherman and family. In view OF this
he wrote to General Sherman, assur-
ing him that there was no foundation
for the charges and that he had not
replied to them on account, first, of
the age of the Senator; second of his
great name, and third, because of the
IN jury such talk would do the party.
General Sherman in reply wrote: II
assure you that l entertain for you the
same sentiment of respect and affec-
ton as always. If anything ever
shook my faith in you, it was that you
stopped to the level of a politician.
soldier of repute, a gentleman, and
one who has snch a family and bust
ness as General Alger, ought to hold
himself above that level But this is
eminently free country. and you had
as good right to enter the race as
had John Sherman. You made good
show of votes. and if you bought some,
according to universal usage, surely l
don't blame you. 1 laughed at John
for trying to throw off on anybody.
He was fairly beaten at the conven-
ton and 1 congratulated him on his
escape. I frankly answer your in
curry by saying that my friendship to
you has not been shaken in the least;
that 1 wish you all honor and happi-
ness, and that during my short re-
mainder we may often meet here or c.
the Pacific. With great respect, etc,
w. T. SHERMAN.
General Alger relates instances of
the friendship between himself and
the senator of late years and of as
surances given him by Sherman that
while his disappoin tment had been
great, he did not believe that Alger
had any part in the scramble for votes,
etc, in 1888. Alger also quotes an
autograph letter written him by Sher-
man in 1892, in which the senator re-
asserts: II cherish no prejudice or I'M
kindness for the incident of the ma
tional convention of 1885,"
I'm conclusion" writes General
Alger, 81 will only add that if Sen
ator Sherman is willing to leave
record made up largely of adverse
criticisms of the public men of his
day, many of whom have passed from
earth, he is welcome to the task I
am sure he stands alone among our
public men, who would be willing by
his own act to blight the honorable
record of the living and the dead"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
K. OF L. BOYCOTTS.

John Wsnamaker on the List-AIsy Boy
colt the LorlIlard Tobacco Company.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-The K. of L.
convention devoted yesterday to the
question of boycotts. A boycott of
the esta blishments of Wanamaker &
Brown and John Wanamal1er of Phil
adelphia was ordered: upon the repre-
sentation that those companies com
PEELED l, 800 women and girls employed
by them to become members of a ben
efcial association in which the mem
bers had no control. q A boycott asked
of six separate assemblies was IN
dorsed against the output of breweries
controlled by English syndicates in
st. Louis, Pittsburg, Omaha and Phil
adelphia. and also against breweries
which employ non-union men. The
question of boycotting the Lorillard
Tobacco Company will be decided
to-day.
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Cleveland Favors New York.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-Every eff ort
of the administration will be directed
towards securing the location of the
next Democratic national convention
in New York city. The announcement
that ex-Secretary Whitney has decided
to take up the fight for New York is
said to be specially significant. Mr.
Cleyeland's friends are said to feel
that the influence upon the Democratic
party of the convention held in New
York city would tend to advance the
cause of sound money inside the party
ranks.
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HOW COREA's QUEEN DIED.
Hung Up by the Hair. Soaked in OH and
Rnrned-Her Attendants Rntchered.

Hung Up by the Hair. Soaked in OH and
Burned-Her Attendants Rutchered.
VANCOUVER, B. c., Nov. 22.-Chinese
papers received by the steamer En-
press of China, are bitter in their at
tacks on the Japanese authorities in
Corea, whom they blame for the muir
der of the Queen. They assert that
Japan is a nation pretending to be
civilized, but the most barbarous on
the earth. The Queen was hung up
by her hair, and after being otherwise
abused, tied hand and foot, soaked in
oil and burned in the rear of the
palace, her remains being reduced to
ashes that ell trace might be lost.
Thirty attendants of the Queen, it is
alleged, were butchered, their corpes
being left about the palace. When
the palace was attacked, of some 1, 500
guards on duty, only six remained at
their posts, and they were quickly dis
patched. According to Chinese re-
ports there were fifteen women of
title in the court. the Queen, her
mother. and 100 ladies in waiting.
They were nearly all soaked in oil and
burned, while the mems threats were
cut
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THIRTEEN BURN.
Manufacturing Establishments
Burned in Chicago.
The Unlueky Number Was
Unlucky Again.
TWO BLOCKS ARE GONE
One Hundred Girls Escape With
Great Difficulty.
The Aggregate Loss is About
100000.
TWO BLOCKS ARE GONE

CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-The Excelsior
building, at Canal and Jackson streets,
and an eight story brick structure i'm
mediately adjoining 1t, at III and 173
South canal street, were completely
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon
Not less than thirteen valuable manu-
featuring plants located in the two
buildings were lost, including the
ShCber- Lithographing
company, the Charles Emerlch Feather
company and the large establishment
of Strauss, Eisendrath & Drom. The
total loss is not less than $500, 900.
The fire was a hard one to sub due
and attended with no little danger.
The escape of several hundred girls
from the Strauss, Eisendrath & Drom
factory was made possible only by
GOODNESS and decision. A number of
the girls suffered from fright and sus-
tanned slight bruises. Before the fight
with the fire was ended Fire Chief
Sweeney had exhausted the regular
calls for engines and had to specially
summon twenty more.
The fire started by a dust explosion
in the renovating room of Charles
Emerich & Co., on the fourth floor of
the Excelsior building, and spread so
rapidly that the worlmen in that part
of the establishment had barely time
to give the alarm and get outin safety.
By the time the first fire engine ar
rived the fire was raging furiously on
the fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
On the sixth floor a serious loss of
life was narrowly averted- Strauss.
Eisendrath & Drom, makers of shirt
waists, employed 400 girls and none of
them were aware of the fire until it
@ hi TO- a nd
the smoke came pouring into their
working room in thick clouds. A wild
rush was made for the three elevators,
which were kept running until the
last possible minute, and while many
of the girls escaped in this way, others
took to the stairs. When the main
floor was reached the jam be-
came frightful and but for the
efforts of Officers Brennan and Ma
lOney, who managed to keep the
frightened girls moving and, in some
instances by force. prevented them
from crOwding too violently, many
lives must have been lost. Several of
the girls tainted but soon revived
when taken to the open air.
The fremen made desperate efforts
to cOn6ne the flames to the Excelsior
building, but they were unsuccessful.
and the adjoining building, also owned
by Warren Springer, was soon ablaze
AS the other building had burned, so
this one went, the run of the flames
being so rapid that nothing could
stop them. The Wilson building, as
we'll as others in the Immediate neigh
bcrhOOd, caught several times, but
were quickly extinguished.
Nearly all the losses are covered by
insurance. Springer was fully pro-
tected, as were all the other heavy
losers
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omclals Want to Knom.

DEVILS LAKE, n. D., Nov 22.-The
superintendent and other officials of
the Great Northern were here yester-
day, and put all employees through an
examination as to whether they be-
longed to the American Railway I'm
ion. Very few men could be found
who would acknowledge they belonged
to the order. It is believed that the
company will request those who are
affiliated with the order to withdraw
from it or sever their connection with
the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

BRADFORD, Pa. Nov. a2.-The dis
content among the employees of the
Western New York and PENNSYLVANIA
railroad system does not abate, and it
is known that secret meetings have
been held to consider the advisa ability
of a general strike The employees
feel that the ten per cent reduction
should be restored. 1t is more than
probable that general tie-up will be
inaugurated on the whole system if
their demands are not granted.
The summer of 1885 was almost
without parallel in the number Of
Alpine climbers who were killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

EMPoRIA, Kan, Nov. 22.-Dave Hen
derson, the school teacher who chop
ped four people in the head with a
Ratchet the other evening at Dunlap,
had a hearing before justice of the
peace yesterday, and was released on
the evidence, his plea being self-de-
Tense. The parties whom he assaulted
are placed under bonds to keep the
peace. Henderson is now in Emporia,
but says he will go back to Dunlap
and teach school. Should he do so,
more trouble is liable to result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

ELINCoLN, Neb., Nov. 2.-Startling
developments were made yesterday in
the trial of Washington Davis, charged
with wrecking the Rock Island pas
senger train last year, and killing
fifteen people. Ed Craignead, new
witness, said Davis confessed the
crime TO him. He had asked Craig
head to help him remove a rail and
then flag the express to get reward.
He refused. Davis later told him he
removed the rail, but the train was
wrecked before it could be tagged.
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Killed by His Son.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Nov. 22-Brigham
F. Jeffries died yesterday at his home
near Providence, Mo-, from a wound
received by a shotgun in the hands of
his 1s-year-old son, Joseph Jeffries,
Wednesday the father and son quar-
relied and the tragedy is believed to
have been the result of this trouble,
though the son declares that the shot
which killed his parent was fired acci-
dentally, and his brother. who was in
the dining room of the JefFries house,
where the accident took place, cor
rOborates this statement. His sister,
however, who was also present says
the shot was fred with murderous in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
DEBS IS FREE.
The A. R. Q. Leader Has Finished His
Term of Imprisonment.

Term of imprisonment.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Eugene V. Debs
became free man again at 12 o'clock
last night. His term of six months
imprisonment in the Woodstock jail
came to an end while he snored bliss
fully in his cell. In no degree changed
in his convictions, in no wise repent
ant of his attitude in times past, and
with the same opinion that the Fed
eral courts have yet to learn how to
administer justice, Mr.. Debs finishes
his sentence in about the same condi-
ton, both mentally and physically, as
when Sheriff Eckert took him in
charge 1873 days ago.
Mr.. Debs has already laid plans
which will keep him very much before
the public. He said last night that he
had arranged to visit all the principal
cities in the country primarily in the
interest of the A. r. u, but com bining
his efforts also to bring organized
la Dor into defensive alliance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

Corn was steady, on moderate receipts,
but in sympathy with wheat declined II
opened unchanged, at 2915c, advanced to
29Lc, and then dropped TO 29c
Provisions were steady Pork opened
unchanged, at $3.50, as did lard. at 50 49,
Hogs~Receipts, $4,000; left over, H.
600. The market was fairly active and &c
lower than yesterdays average, Light,
S 335@36O; mixed, $3.40@a6o; heavy,
$3.3U@a GO; rough. So 30@a40. Official
receipts yesterday, 1896; official ship
ments, 5,467
0OO Texans and 800 westerns Market
quiet, but steady. Beeves, sS.15@4.9O;
cows and heifers s1.e0Gs-6o; stocks ea and and
feeders $2.25@370; Texas steers, $2;1o@
8. So; westerns. $29O@39O. Official re-
ceipts yesterday, 1854; shipments, 2,4S2.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
Official receipts yesterday 1851; ship
ments, 2,193.
Estimated hog receipts tomorrow 25,-
coo head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

MASON CITY, Iowa, Nov. 22.-Seven-
teen crews have been laid off on the
Iowa and Dakota disvision of the Mil
waukee, occasioned by farmers hold
ing their grain for a rise in prices.
They say the prevailing price of corn
does not pay for their work in husking
and marketing. 1t is now being quite
generally used for fuel in lieu Of coal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
HELD UPA TROLLEY CAR:
Two Masked Men stop a Car On the
Argentine Line.

Two Masked Men stop a Car On the
Argentine Line.
ARG ENT1NE, Kan, Nov. g. Two
masked men held up car No. 10, ON the
Argentine electric line, about 1890
o'clock last night The robbery took
place at the Union terminal crossing at
Twelfth street. About a in change
was taken from L C. Disdale, the con-
ductor, who had turned i'll $40 received
AS fares just before he started east with
his car. There was but one passenger
in the car when the robbers boarded it.
One of the robbers thrust large revol-
yer under his nose, but his com panion
told him to let the passenger alone. as
the money the conductor had was all
that was wanted. Disdaie offered the
robbers his watch if they would not take
the fares, but they refused.
Broken edge collars repaired by Peer
less Steam Laundry, 1l2 and ia ". Sth.
Little GEN." &C. Everybody smokes it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

BRYAN, Tex, Nov. 22-Rev. J. E.
Horne of Madison county brought
news of the lynching of a negro in a
remote part of that county last Tues
day night He was accused of riding
q horse over a little white girl in the
road, intlicting serious injuries upon
her. Later developments go to show
that the mob got hold of the wrong
eSeaDe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
More Gold Excitement.

GUTHRIE, Okla, Nov. 22.-The gold
excitement is growing daily in the
territory, and hundreds of prospectors
are at work. Samples of sandstone
bearing gold and silver, brought in
from the northeastern part of this
county, assay from $40 to $40 per ton,
and much richer specimens have been
found at the head of Saltwater creek
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
Iowa Coal Miners secede.

OrTUMwA, Iowa, Nov 2-The pro-
eeedings of the coal miners eonven-
ton here took an unexpected turn
yesterday and Mine Workers of Amer
lea, District No. u, broke away from
the national organization and re-or-
ganized the entire State under the
name of Iowa Mine Workers Protec
tive Association, leaving out of the
district the Missouri miners formerly
attached.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, Nov. 22.-Ex-Priest
Dominick Wagner won his first victory
last night when he was acquitted of
the charge of embezzlement of the
funds of st. Mary's parish, the one
over which he presided, until he in
duced his present wife, then Miss
Maud Steidel, to run off to Chicago
where he had arranged to join her
after the storm had blown over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
Child Burned to Death.

MILAN, Mo-, Nov. 22.-The little q
year-old daughter of Charles Punce,
of this city, was fatally burned last
evening. Mrs Punee was boiling
hoTniny in the yard. The child went
too near the fire and its clothing was
ignited. with the above result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

NEWTON, Kan, Nov. 22.-Thomas
Mcneil, switchman in the Newton
yards, was run over and killed by the
cars yesterday afternoon. He has
been railroader all his life and was
q man about so years old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
Kansas city Markets.

KANSAS CITY, Nov 22.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts $500; shipments 2,9oo; Market NJ r6es
s25; Texas cows, s1.75@265; beef
steers, So 50@4 50; stockers and feeders,
81 5o@S75; native COWS $1.25@S 80; bulls'
Hoes~Receipts, s,7OO; shipments, 500;
Market steady, DC lower. Bulk OF
sales, $S.S5@a40; heavies, $215@S As;
packers, S. 3O@345; mixed So 30@S 40;
lights. Sa2O@a35; workers., So s0@s55;
sHEEp-Receipts, 800; shipments, 500.
Marker steady. Lambs, $2.7504 20; NUT
WHEATSsiow, 16@1c lower No, 2
hard. 5705sc; No. red, nominally. GAG
Csc; No. : spring, 554@56c; No. sspring'
5318@54c; rejected, 4o@47c
CoRN-Siesdy; unchanged. No 2,
mixed, 221I0281lc; No. 2. white, 227S0
0Ars-Firm. No. mixed, 171z@1sc;
No. 2. white, 1824@1Sc
RYE-Steady. M. 2, $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
EX-GOv. PECK TO LECTURE.
Father of the "Bad Roy VIII Take the
Platform Next Year.

CHICAGO, Nov. % .-Ex-Governor Peck
of Wisconsin, was at the Great Northern
yesterday. For some time he has been
thinking of joining the ranks of profess
sional lecturers. He said he had decided
to go upon the platform next season if he
does not settle in some other business
in the meantime. The ex-governor will
eschew politics in his lectures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

BUTTEs, Col, Nov. %. - Francis
Schlatter, the healer" who left Dem
yer mysteriously and unexpectedly
last week, passed through this town
yesterday riding south on a gray
horse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
HOME MARKET BANQUET.
Protection and the Names of Reed and
Mckinley Are AppIauded.

Boston, Nov. 22.-The Home Market
club had its annual banquet at Music
hall last evening. H. Clay Evans of
Tennessee, Charles Emory Smith of
Philadelphia, ex-Minister to Russia
and editor of the Philadelphia Press,
and ex-senator Warner Miller of New
American wages for American work
men and protection to American mar
kets was the keynote of the remarks.
and every mention of Thomas B. Reed
or William Mckinley called forth great
applause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22
Boys Buried in Their Cave.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. 22.-Six boys,
who were digging cave at Twenty
eighth and Grayson streets were
buried by a cavern of the bank Two
were dead when reached, two others
were badly injured and two escaped
unhurt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-22

Get your Thanksgiving mince meat
and fruit cake at the French bakery, 815
Kansas avenue.
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TODAY,S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished hy the Associated Press to the
State journal

CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Wheat opened
easier, but not active. at sec. No lower
han the close, affected by lower cables.
1t sold down to $3.50, but reacted to 66c'
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HAY-Steady. Timothy $s.5001100;
prairie $600@7.50.
BUTrER-Slow. Creamery, 17G20c;
dairy, active, 14@15.
EGGs-Firm. 1Sc
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

c~-oSc-c>--c-~7~>-rS ]1-I,,<S ,,1S
L small, suitable for sleeping rooms. to gentle
men; will rent for Sc month. Reference re-
Quired. Meals if desired. 719 quincy.
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Little GEN." &C. Everybody smokes it
The eagle. (Silver City, N.M.) 1894-1???, 1895-12-25
Message of President Cleveland to
Congress on the Venezuelan
Question.
The Monroe Doctrine must be Maintained
and no Trucking to Great Brit
ain. even at the cost of
OF War.

Washington, Dec. 1.-THE president
sent the following message to congress
today:
"To Congress-ln my annual message
addressed to congress on the Sd instant,
| called attention totle pending bound
AIRY controversy between Great Britain
and the Republic OF Venezuela, and re-
cited the substance of the representation
made this government to her Brttanic
majesty's government, suggesting rea-
sons why such disputes should be sub
mitted to arbitration for settlement and
inQuiring whether it would be so sub
mitted.
''The answer of the British govern
ment, which was then awaited, has
since been received and together with
dispatch to which it is reply, is here
to appended. Such reply, is embodied
in two communications ADDRESSED by the
British prime minister to Sir Julian
Pauncefote. British ambassador ut this
capital. 1t will he seen that one oil
these communications is devoted ex,
clusively to observations upon the Mon.
roe doctrine and claims that in the pre-.
sent instance, new and strange exten.
sion and development OF this doctrine il
insisted on by the United States, thai
the reasons justifying an appeal to the
the doctrine enunciated by Presiden
Monroe are generally inapplicable tt
the state of things in which we live a
the present day, and especially inappli
cable to the controversy involving tn,
boundary line between Great Britain
and Venezuela.
"Without attempting extended argu
ments in reply to these positions it ma
not be amiss to suggest that the doc
trine upon which we stand is strong an
sound because its endorsement is impor
tant to our peace and safety as nation
and essential to the integrity OF our fire
institutions and the tranquil mainten
ance Of our distinctive form OF govern
ment. 1t was intended to apply to ever
stage OF our national life and can not bl
come obsolete while onr republic er