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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
PORTERS SELL WHISKY.

Two Colored Employees of the Union Pa
cific Hotel Arrested for Selling Liquor.
Bayless Bigby and Dick Mason, two
colored porter5 ut the Union Pacific hotel
in North Topeka were arrested yester-
day charged with selling liquor 1t is
alleged that the porters were in the habit
of supplying not only the hotel guests
but all other applicants with both beer
and whisky at drug store prices plus a
tip.
If allsof the witnesses which the state
has ordered subpoenaed know anything
about the case, the porters must have
done land office business The wit
snesses summoned are, Rough" Ready,
Harry HibboH. Frank Edison, Dennis
Burgen, Club" johnson, Dee Wilkerson,
John Jenkins, ]. G. Going, Frank Hay
den and William Elliott
There are two counts each against
Bigby and Mason. They were unable
to give the necessary $500 bond each
and thew are in iail.
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TURF TOPICS.

Trainer James Mclaughlin thinks
his colt Weinberg will develop into q
rare good sprinter the coming season.
Pierre Loril1ard viii probably send a
short string of horses to England this
spring to compete for some of the Eng
lish plums.
It is a somewhat remarkable coinci-
dence that Tristan and two of his broth
ers have all died within a few months
of one another.
Potsdam 10 3-year-old maiden in the
Swigert stable that is expected to cap
ture the Kentucky Derby. He is a black
colt, standing fully 16 hands.
Appomattox, Trainer J. B. Dyer's
SO, 900 colt, was so seriously injured
in a railway accident near Wilmington,
Del, that he can never race again.
f. w Smith, Haverhill, Mass, will
have the trio, Paul, 2:U915; Judge Aus
tin, 2:1214, and Brinhild, 2:194, on
the grand circuit the coming season.
Three hundred and twenty horses
have been named for the nine purses of
the Fleetwood Driving club. In 1894
only 1914 were named for the same
events.
Articles Of incorporation have been
fled in New Y York state by the National
Steeplechase association by August
Belmont, H De Courcey Forbes, Sam
uel S. Rowland, Frederick Gebhard and
James 0. Green. Horseman.
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\ STRICT QUARANTINE.
Secretary Morton Orders Cattle Held Til
Thoroughly Investigated.

Secretary Morton Orders Cattle Held Til
Thoroughly Investigated.
Governor Morrill, this afternoon re-
ceived a telegram from J. Sterling Nor
ton, secretary of the United States de-
partment of agriculture relative to the
pleuro- pneumonia said to exist in Geary
and Morris counties.
DR.. Deroe, the government expert
who is called to make a scientific exam
ination of the disease, called at the gov
ernor's office today and went to Manhat-5
tan this afternoon and from there will go
with Prof. Mayo TO where the cattle are
quarantined The telegram from Secre-
tary Morton is as follows:
WASHINGTON. D c.. March 20, 1895
Hon. E N Morrill,, Topeka. Kansas:
l regret to see in advance of investi-
cation the statement in newspapers of
yesterday on authority of Prof n. s.
May, that contagious plureo pneumonia
exists in Kansas. This publication will
do the cattle industry untold damage
1t is now extremely important to deter
mine the nature of the disease. | request
therefore that cattle be held in strict
quarantine and not killed until this de-
partment receives DR. Deroe's report
and until thorough, scientific investi-
CATION can be made, if necessary.
j. STERLING MORTON. Sec'v
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
LOCAL MENTION.

County Jailer John Burdge is at home
sick with fever to-day.
August Glaubanski, aged 9 months,
died in North Topeka and was buried
yesterday.
Young Orville Brown is being tried in
Justice Furry's court this afternoon
charged with stealing Mira. Casson's
horse.
The Woodmen will have an open meet
ing at Granville Wednesday evening.
John w. Breidenthal and d. c. Tillotson
will address them
John Tannyhin and Tom Davis were
taken from the county jail to Holton to-
day for their trial for obtaining money
under false pretenses
Susan McNeilly, aged 40, died at the
college to-day of consumption. She will
be buried to- morrow afternoon.
Mrs Frank McNeilly died March "a
at the home of her sister, Mrs. james
Hayes, Euclid and Strong streets. The
funeral will take place at o'clock Tues
day afternoon.
If Governor Morrill, is not made of
cast iron, it is no wonder he is weary.
The pressure of office seekers and their
| friends is simply disgraceful. 1t has
| prevented the governor from giving at
tention to important matters of state and
| legislation. It is we'll that most of the
places are now filed, and that Governor
| Morrill, may soon have d respite, aud de-
vote himself to the duties required of
him by the people aside from the place
| hunters.
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ROBBED The TRUST.
Receivership of the Whisky
Trust is Explained.
1t Had Been Stolen Blind by It's
Own Officers.
A LARGE SHORTAGE.
Officials Sold Stock to Them
selves at As Cents.
Nearly Two Million Dollars Was
Thus Purloined.

CHICAGO, March 25.-A most sensa-
tional report was submitted to Receiver
McNulta of the whisky trust to-day by
the experts who for month have been
examining the books of the Greenhut
management of the concern. Charges of
juggling accounts, ''doctoring" books and
similar work are made and the report as
serts that the former directors and officers
by disposing of stock to themselves
have left a discrepancy of $1,92412O.
The report states that "a, 984 shares of
stock were sold by the officers and direc-
tors to themselves at As cents on the dol
lar, and that consequently almost two
million is due from them to the stock
holders of the distiIling and cattle COM
pany
Whether or not any action to recover
this large amount thus said to be due
will be taken is as yet undecided. Gen.
McNulta has called conference of in
terested parties to consider the matter,
and what the decision will be is a ques-
ton, but there is little doubt that the
experts report will result in a hot fight
between the present management and
the Greenhut people.
The charges of the alteration of the
books to cover the alleged discrepancies
arising from the sale of stock is elabor-
ated in a portion of the experts report
as follows:
balance sheet March 81, 1891: Origi-
nal construction account, $30,07S. .510. 81;
treasury stock, SIS, ,498,4 400.
balance sheet March 81, 1892: Origi-
nal construction account, $50, 786, $40 90;
treasury stock, sale Of 34,984 shares at
$40 per share, $1,547, ,28O; difference on
"a 1884 shares of stock as stated on the
books to have been sold at $45 per share,
being 500 per share, $1,924, 100. r----~~
"The first two items on this balance
sheet, viz. Original construction account
and treasury stock, agree with the
companys books as they were on
of the treasury stock at $40 in June, 1891
the said two items were changed on the
books in the following manner. viz.
First. the figures So, 496, 400 opposite
treasury stock were scratched out and
the words Entry void written opposite.
Second, the figures $30,O7S, ,510.6O, oppo-
| site original construction account, were
also scratched out and the figures $34,
! 284, ,91062 were written in their place
| the new figures being the sum of both
| items"
The experts thus charge that the rec
ord of the stock sale was destroyed by
| consolidating it in the book entries witt
/ the original construction account com
pletely oblitering the stock item, bu
maintaining the balance of the books
Receiver McNulta said today that he
believed that more sensational discover
les would follow the further investiga
tions of the experts They have muct
work to do, he declared, before the af
fairs of the old management are untan
gled. Gen. McNulta refused to say
! what action if any would be taker
! against ex-President Greenhut and The
] eX- directors of the trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
LIVING WITHOUT BRAINS.
a Man Survives the Loss of the Top of His
Head.

Head.
CHICAGO, March 25.-A special from
Grand Rapids, Mich, says:
The case of a man living with the top
of his head cut off and the brain cavity
almost empty is agitating the surgeons of
Grand Rapids and vicinity. A week ago
Chas. Olson attempted to board NOV
ing train, but missed his footing and fell
under the wheels. His head was crushed
SO that over half of the brain fell out,
and when the injured man was picked
up it was supposed he was dead
Arrangements were made for the fun
eral, but just before the coffin was
closed, the undertaken noticed the move
ment of the supposed dead mans eye
lids, and he was taken out of the casket
Surgeons were called, and they declared
that Olson was not dead, but simply in a
state of coma.
By the use of electricity, the surgeons
managed to rouse him to d considera Bile
extent 1t was supposed that he could
last but moment or two as there was
nothing in the brain cavity except a few
shreds of gray matter, but in d short
time the patient began to improve.
He seemed to comprehend all that was
going on around him. His recovery was
rapid, and today he can sit up in bed and
say q few words
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
KELLY FOR WARDEN.
It Is Reported He May Be Given tho
Penitentiary Job.

Penitentiary job.
The very latest story in Republican
circles is that Bernard Kelly is to be ap-
pointed warden of the penitentiary.
Mr.. Kelly was candidate for railroad
commissioner, but was disappointed. He
was then an applicant for the position of
insurance commissioner, but when that
place went to ex-Gov. George T. Anthony
his friends almost gave up hope.
Mr.. Kelly is at Burlington attending
the South Kansas Methodist conference,
but it is said that he had a conference
with Governor Morrill, few DAYS ago in
which he told the governor he had ex-
pected something at the hands of this
administration aud reminded the chief
executive of his disappointment in his
candidacy for the railroad and insurance
ommissouerships.
The governor asked him what he would
like to have, and Mr.. Kelly is reported
to have replied that there were only two
places left that he would have: one was
bank commissioner and the other was
warden of the penitentiarv.
The governor has since appointed Mr..
Jooes OF Harper county bank commits
sioner and the only place left for Mr..
Kelly Is the penitentiary wardenship.
One OF the other candidates for war
den is inclined to believe that Mr.. Kelly's
chances are good for that appointment.
1t is not expected that the governor
VIII appoint warden until the Dick
chase investigation is concluded
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NIL. Rabbit GOT THERE.
Now Mr. Miller Would Like to Get the
Office Away From Him.

Office Away From Him.
Henry S. Miller, who was the Repub-
lican candidate for clerk of the district
court in Crawford county last fall, has
brought suit in the supreme court to get
the office of clerk of the court away from
Mr.. P. II. Rabbit, who was the Populist
candidate and who was declared elected.
Mr.. Miller in his petition says that the
returns on which the county commits
siouers declared MIR. Rabbit elected by
plurality of 81 votes were wrong
He says 81 persons voted for Mr..
Rabbit who have never taken out their
naturalization papers as citizens of the
United States. and that in one township
over 100 soiled and rnutilated ballots were
counted which did not conform to the re-
quirements of the law.
Mr.. Miller also charges that in one
precinct 90 unofficial ballots printed on
colored paper were voted, and that A of
those votes were for Mr.. Rabbit and 8
for himself He thinks on this showing
the supreme court ought to take the Of
flee away from Mir. Rabbit and give it to
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
WANTS WORK, NOT MUSIC.
a Minister Says Singing Hymns Doesn's
Close Saloons

a Minister Says Singing Hymns Doesn't
Close Saloons.
CHICAGO, March 25.-The International
Sunday Observance league held a mass
meeting last night at the Millard avenue
Baptist church. There was a large
crowd present Rev. William B. Mill
ard, in speaking of the Sunday closing
said:
1--WE have the law on our side
and all the good thinking people
with US. The thing is we must
wake up and not sit idly in church
and sing Nearer my God to Thee but
we must gather up our arms and begin
war with the breakers of the Sabbath.
The question with us is not what's to be
done with the saloon. say the question
is how can we arouse the citizens and
let them know that it is a shame to let
saloon-keepers break the laws in the way
they are doing. We must be up in arms
and fighting"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
DEATH OF BENZ. ROBY.
The Father of DIR. HI. w. Roby Died Sud-
denly Last Evening.

The Father of DR.. II. w. Rgby Died sud-
denly Last Evening.
Benjamin Roby, father of DR.. Henry
w. Roby of Topeka, died suddenly of
heart disease last evening at 7:80, at his
home on Kansas avenue near Twenty
second street Mr.. Roby- was 70 years of
age, and had lived in Topeka nine years.
During the past five years Mr.. Roby
had suffered several attacks of heart dis
ease, and his last attack had been of
about ten days duration. Notwithstand-
ing the heart trouble Mr.. RUbY was able
yesterday TO walk about his house and
lawn. Shortly after supper he COM
planned of weakness and sat down on the
side of the bed. In few seconds
he fell over dead. His son,
Dr. Roby, had left the house only few
moments before.
Beside DR.. Roby the deceased left
four other children, as follows: R I.
Roby of Sioux City. Ia; ]. II. Roby of
Sac City, Ia; Mrs. o. E. Ferguson Of
Washita. I. T.; Mrs. NJ. P. Furnish of
Phillipsburg, Kas.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon, but at his request it will be
private, as he had an adherence of pub
lie funerals.
His pastor, Rev. Mr.. Thoburn of the
Walnut Grove Methodist church, will
otficiate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
LELAND DENIES 1T.
He Says He Never Had Any Talk With
Senator Rogers.

He says he Never HAD ANY Talk with
Senator Rogers.
Chairman Cy Leland of the Repub-
lican state central committee, who has
filed charges against Senator Rogers, in Il
telegram to theSTATE JOURNAL deniesthat
he had any conversation with Senator
Rogers in reference to the board of pub
lie works appropriations
The story published in the JOURNAL
was told by Senator Rogers friends at
the time the incident was said to have
occurred and was repeated by them on
Saturday. The telegram from MIR.
Leland is as follows:
Troy. Kas., March 20, 1895.
Editor State Journal. Topeka:
The article in Saturdays JOURNAL re-
latlng to conversation between Senator
Rogers aud myself is not true l was
not in his committee room nor did we
have talk upon any subject whatever
this year. c. LELAND, JR.
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FOUGHT IN THE STREETS.
Chicago Youths Engage In Pitched
Battle Over Base Ball.

Chicago Youths Engage In Pitched
Battle Over Base Ball.
CHICAGO, March 25.-One of the most
bloody battles ever fought between fac
tions of youth in Chicago was waged
all the afternoon over the cob
bic stoned streets and vocant
lots of Lawndale. From noon until
darkness came on 125 boys of all ages
battled with sticks and stones and mis-
siles of every kind.
The opposing factions in the engage
ment were rs young Bohemians and
fifty boys, of nearly all the other Euro
pean races more or less removed
The number OF casualties are
nearly 100, but in nearly all
cases are nothing more than
minor bruises. The boys were playing
baseball when the trouble began, but
what the cause is no one seemed to be
able to tell. The Bohemians claimed to
De the ViCtOr5
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CAUGHT FROM SCOT.
Rev. NJ F. McKirahan's Residence Badly
Damaged by Fire.


At noon to- day the residence at 514
West Eighth street occupied by Rev. NJ.
+. McKirahan was badly damaged by
fire.
The fire is supposed to have caught
from SCOT falling on the roof and was
burning fercely before the alarm was
sent in. The conductor on the West
Eighth street car noticed that the roof
OF the house was on fire when the car
passed going west He did not give
the alarm and the car went to Clay street
and returned before the alarm was given
Then almost the entire roof was blazing
and it looked as if the building was
doomed.
The fire department confined the fire
to the upper story of the building, but
the roof was entirely burned off and the
furniture in the upper rooms badly dam
aged by fire and water. The damage to
the building and furniture is estimated
at 5000.
The building is the property of Will
liam Sterne, father of Senator Sterne,
and was formerly occupied by him. He
now lives in San Diego. Cal. The house
was insured for 1900
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FORGOT HE WAS MARRIED.
A Man MarrIes a Second Wife While the
First Is Living.


First Is Living.
JAMESTOWN. n. D., March 25.-A curl
Gus matrimonial tangle is now in pro-
cess OF unravelment here. II. T. Ham
blin, builder and contractor, publishes
a statement which he says is designed
to set Mrs. Coan right before the world.
He declares that he has deeply wronged
Mrs. Coan unwittingly\ \ by marrying her
when he had another wife living.
The wrong ne declares was unwilling
ly committed as owing to fall which in
jured his brain, he had completely for
gotten his previous marriage. After
ward having become convinced that he
was already married, he acknowledged
the facts in writing to Nrs. Coan and has
since been endeayoring to have the first
marriage annulled in order to perfect
that with Mrs. Coan.
HamliD lives in California, but Mrs.
Coan is with his relatives here He met
her at Los Angeles and in the Hawaiian
Islands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
A Prophetic Fox.

Believers in ''signs'' down Waldo
county have had their faith strength
ened by the story of William E. Ma
honey of Northport, who was killed in
the woods recently. The preceding day.
as be was busily at work, fox ap-
preached him, stopped and gave three
very sharp, shrill barks. On his return
home he mentioned this to his wife, and
she was so much impressed by it that
she tried to dissuade him from return
ing to the woods in the morning He
smiled at what appeared to hl1n to be
a hallucination and departed for the
woods and in very short time was
brought home mortally wounded by the
falling of a tree only a short distance
from where, the day before. the fox
sent forth its warming Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
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J.P. DOLLIvER+TO COME.

The Well Known Orator VIII Address the
Republican League.
j. P. Dolliver, of FIT Dodge, Iowa, and
at one time congressman from that state.
will address the Republican league
meeting which will be held here next
month.
Chas E. Gault, secretary of
the league, yesterday received a
telegram from Mr.. Dolliver say
ing the twentieth of April would be a
suitable date for him, and the meeting
will probably be called for that time.
Mr.. Dolliver is considered one of the
best speakers in the country, and his
eloquence earned for him the title of
''the boy orator" when he first entered
Iowa politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
TORNADO IN OHIO.

l. Did Much Damage to Property,
But No Lives Were Lost.
CINCINNATI, March 25.-The Times
Stars special from Delaware, o., says:
A tornado visited this city and surround
ing section last midnight unroofing
houses, uprooting trees, and demolishing
fences.
The business block of w. E. Kruck, on
Sandusky street, suffered most in the
city. Several people were injured, but
no fatalities are vet reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-25
CARSON ACQUITTED.
He Was Charged With Killing His Wife
at Nickerson.

HUTCHINSON, Kas, March 25-The
jury in the murder case of the State VS..
Charles Carson of Nickerson, returned a
verdict this morning of not guilty.
Carson was charged with murder in
the first degree for killing his wife on
last Christmas evening at the Colorado
hotel in Nickerson.
Mr. Carson was almost carried out of
the room by his friends who felt that he
was innocent, although the circumstances
and many things surrounding them were
against him.
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WASHINGTON, March 25.-The presi-
dent has granted a pardon to John R.
Miller, alias Dick Miller, sentenced in
Arkansas to three years Imprisonment
and 5000 fine for Illicit distilling and un-
licensed liquor selling, and Anto Gaba,
sentenced in Kansas to two years i'm
pEiRonmsnt for perjury.
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Rlew Onen the s.re

KANSAS CTTy March o. s,,ao;,1 =,
the Star from Wichita Kaa ~ go. y
Sedgwick last niobt BURGLARS antorad
the postoffice and bIew o6an the 80
but failed to pet tbo oasb ~ a7 s"lo'
Altes taklng everything of value they
buggy and escaped. ' "10
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An EIectionIn sighf.

DOVER, Del, March 25.-Strenuous
efforts are being made to effect COM
promise between the Higgins and Ad-
dicks factions, and it is confidently ex-
pected that q. S. senator will be chosen
this week. A ballot was taken today re-
sulting Higgins, s; Addicks 8; Massey,
3; Ridgely, 10; Tunnel, l.
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Joel Huntoon. Jr.. Dead.

Joel Huntoon, Jr., son of Colonel Joel
Huntoon of Topeka died yesterday at
Sreator, Illinois, of lung trouble. He
formerly lived here and married a niece
of Colonel Tweeddale. The body will
be brought to Topeka at II o'clock to-
morrow and the funeral will be held
from the residence of Col. Huntoon at
PIG Huntoon street at 4 D N.
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FOR WIFE-BEATING $40.
Judge Hazen is Light on r. U. Hughes
Because the Costs Are Heavy.

q Cudge Hazen Is AISh5 on n. U. Hughes
Because the Costs Are Heavy.
R Q. Hughes, man just past middle
age, was fined $40 and costs by Judge
Hazen today for wife beating. Hughes
was convicted early in the present term
of court, but had never been sentenced.
Judge Hazen explained that he would
have made the fine much heavier were
it not for the fact that the costs are al
ready quite large, having passed the $40
mark The case was an aggravated one,
the evidence showing that he knocked
his wife down and Jumped on her, be-
cause she wanted the custody of their
child
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Ouida Pnmner

LONDON, March 25-The en-, ,-- A.
all the property in Italy of O,1ida = .iiel'
De Laramel the EnpIish .rtb.r : ~ 1'i-S ouis d
sold to pay her debts and sbo - l1a.1:I lI.o
cd ss being almost penniIess 0oSoAA ~
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AFTER A THIEF.

day Aftcr John Rush's Partner.
John Rush. the man whom Sheriff
Burdge brought from Cowley county
last week for stealing Councilman Griggs'
buggy and harness, has confessed and
turned states evidence. The result is
that Sheriff Burdge will leave tonight for
Arkansas City to bring Rush's partner to
Topeka to keep Rush company. Rush
made a complete confession and told all
about it. 1t is said that the partner" in
question is safe in the Jail at Arkansas
(,itv
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PROMINENT MASON DEAD.
j. II. Alley, Commander-in-Ch Chief of Wich-
ita ConsistOry, Expires.

KANSAS CITY, March 25-A special to
the Star from Wichita says: ]. II.
Alley, one of the most prominent
Masons of the state, died at 7 o'clock
last night He was commander-in-chief
of Wichita consissory No. 2 and past
officer in all of the bodies of York Rite
and Scottish rite Masonry. Knight Kadosh
funeral ceremonies will be held at the
Cathedral Tuesday at midnight.