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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11
Guardships Allowed to Pass
Through the Dardanelles.
The Sultan Comes Down from
His Perch at Last.
BUT IT'S TOO LATE
There is Nothing for Them to
Go For at This Time.
Half a Million Armenians Are
Said to be Homeless Now.

CoNsTANT1NoPLE, Dec. 1.-THE long
drawn out controversy between the
Ambassadors of the powers and the
Sultan over the question of admission
of additional guardships for the pro-
lection of the embassies was settled at
s:lO o'clock last evening by the is
suance of an trade granting the neces-
sary frmans to permit the guardships
to pass the Dardanelles.
The demand was first made upon the
Sultan on November 10, and scarcely
a day has passed since then without
its being renewed in more or less
peremptory manner The ingenuity
displayed by the Turkish Government
in evading a direct answer to the de-
mand, or, when forced to answer, the
effective pleadings put forth for de-
lay, had almost brought the mind OF
Europe to the conviction that the de-
manu would never be complied with.
Meantime days and weeks passed by
without any action, and the condition
of things in Constantinople, that
brought out the demand, has almost
passed. The final triumph of the
powers in forcing compliance with
their demands seems a barren one,
and the long sought permission tic
double the regular guardships for the
embassies, now that it is obtained,
seems hardly worth taking advan'
tage of.
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Protest Against High Taxes.

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. IA dispatch
from Shawnee. Ok, says that a great
deal of excitement is prevailing among
the settlers of Lincoln county, and
that a committee of farmers is in the
court house investigating the books to
ascertain the cause of high taxes ard
seeming extravaganza. Saturday last,
according to agreement, 400 farmers
went to the court house in body and
demanded the resignat of the coun-
ty officers. The treasurer, it is al
legged, responded bitterly to their re-
quest ard the farmers became SO vio-
lent that the cool heads had all they
could do to restrain the others from
vengeance. Lincoln is an interior
county and news is hard to get from
there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Senate
was in session less than two hours
yesterday. The proceedings con-
sisted of the introduction of about
a hundred bills and a speech on the
Monroe doctrine by Senator Cullom.
Mr.. Cullom's speech was read from
manuscript, and was attentively re-
ceived by the Senate. He took strong
grounds for an affirmative policy in
order to convince other nations of
their error in supposing this doctrine
to be impotent for our guidance, and
contended for the propriety of con-
gressional action, saying that diplo-
macy had been sufficiently tried and
had been found wanting.
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BOSTON DEMOCRATIC.
Republicans Turned Down by 476 Plural
itx-Heavy Vote PoIIed.

BosToN, Dec. 1.-THE Republican
administration which has been in con-
troll of municipal affairs for the past
eleven months. was overthrow at the
polls yesterday after one of the most
spirited and hotly contested campaigns
in the history of local politics, and
Boston once more returns to its old
position in the Democratic column
The Republican mayor, Edward Up
ton Curtis, was defeated by 47o plural
ity, and all branahesAof the city gov
eminent are Democratic, the Repub..
hcans losing control of the board OF
aldermen and school committee.
Hon. Josiah Quincy, the successful
Democratic mayoraIty candidate,
showed greater strength than even his
own party expected and made heavy
gains in nearly every section of the
city. Over 10, 900 voters went to the
polls, the largest number ever record
ed in an election in Boston. and repre-
senting over fve-sixths of the total
registration.
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DECEMBER CROP REPORT
Wheat Higher and Corn Lower Than
Last Year-Greater Wheat Area.

Wheat Higher and Corn Lower Than
Last Year-Greater Wheat Area.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The Deem
Der returns to the statistical division
of the department of agriculture re-
late principally to farm prices Decem-
Der l.
The farm price of corn averages g. z
cents, against 1876 cents last year.
The average price of wheat is So ,
cents per bushel, against 1913 cents
last year; of rye, 43.7 cents, against
sos cents last year; of oats, 2O.5 cents,
against 80. cents last year; of barley,
IS. cents, against A. 8 cents last year;
of buckwheat. 49.2 cents, against Sc. ?
cents last year.
The returns show the average price
of hay to be S9.3 per ton, against
IS. 30 same date last year. The aver
age price of tobacco is returned at G. 6
cents, against &. z cents last year. The
price of potatoes on the farm is re-
ported at 2s.s cents per bushel, against
55.5 cents last year.
The condition of winter wheat on
Decem Der l, averaged, for the coun-
try, S1.4 per cent, against SO per cent
last year and 91.5 per cent in 1898.
In the principal winter wheat states
the percentages are as follows: Ohio,
IA; Michigan. 70; Indiana, so; ILLINOIS,
70; Missouri, &c; Kansas, so; Nebraska,
9O California, 102.
The returns make the acreage OF
winter wheat Just sown 1O4 per cent
of that harvested in 1895. This esti-
mate, which is preliminary to the com
pleted estimate of June next, there
fore, makes the area sown for the har-
vest of 1896, %, 647, 900 acres.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11

MEXICO, Mo-. Dec. lI.-Sheriff Ames
and deputy of Cooper county arrived
in this city yesterday and placed under
arrest, and took to Bonneville, the
foot ball team of the Missouri Military
Academy and all the cadets who ac-
companied them to Bonneville on Oc-
tober II, when they played the foot
ball team of the Kemper Family
School. The warrant for their arrest
was sworn out by Mrs (. Helfrich.
proprietress of the Commercial Hotel
at bonneville, who charges them with
disturbing the peace and destroying
personal property. The military
academy officials are indignant.
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Reconstruction of the Pension Roll.

WASHINGTON, Dec l1.-Congress men
Bailey of Texas, proposes during
the present session to make a deter
mined effort to bring about recon
struction of the pension roll He has
introduced a bill in Congress which
provides that no person shall be en-
titled to receive any pension from the
Government of the United States who
has, independently of such pension, a
net annual income of $500 or more. or
who owns property to the value of
s., 900 or more. The names Of all per-
sons having such income or property
of the value stated and who are now
receiving pension from the Govern
ment are to be stricken from the rolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11
To Assist Cattle Raisers.

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. ;1.-There is a
movement on foot in Omaha in which
a number of local capitalists are in
terested for the forming of large
trust company for the purpose of
assisting the cattle raisers of Nebraska
to carry their stock through bad sea
sons without being compelled to sell at
a disadvantage on account of lack OF
money or scarcity of feed. The names
of the stockholders are not divulged,
but P D. Armour, E. A. Cudahy, w. w.
Paxton. Herman Kountze and John
A. Creighton are interested. Capital
stock is 81 zoo, 600.
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More Bad Draft Yiotims.

WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 1L.-As the
news comes in, the systematic bank
swindle in this section of the
country appears greater in extent.
A bank in Ness City telegraphed
yesterday that it had been done up
to the extent of $500, and bank in
Canadian, IN the Panhandle of Texas,
to the extent of $3.50. An effort was
MADE to catch the Sedgwick County
bank, in this city, for $3.50, and the
cashier was counting out the money
when the president warned him.
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Rejoicing at st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 11.-There is
general rejoicing in st. Louis over the
action of the national Republican
committee in selecting this city for the
place to hold the next national Repub-
lican convention, in June, 1896.
1t is planned to hold the convention
in the Exposition building. the north
nave of which will be fitted up at a
cost of ST 900, and when finished will
seat at least Is, 900 people. Every eff
fort will be made to present to the
convention hall perfect for ITS work.
Speaker Reed and Major Mckinley,
presidential possibilities. anticipating
the committees action. had already
reserved quarters at the Southern
hotel, where their respective state
delegations will also be taken care of.
In addition to twenty rooms at the
Southern hotel Major Mckinley has
asked to have reserved for him twenty
at the st. Nicholas and thirty at the
Planters hotel
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CALLED DOWN.
Judge Dundy of Omaha Gives Mayor
Bemis a Few Pointers.

0UoSe Ounoy OF OmanS Gives mayor
Bemis a Few Pointers.
OMAHA. Neb., Dec. 1l.-At the
Cuban sympathy meeting Mayor
Bemis announced that he would
receive at his office anything in
the form of money or provisions,
and would see that it reached
Cuba to assist the insurgents. Judge
Dundy of the Federal court declared
that the mayor could not do anything
of the kind. He might receive the
goods, but the moment he attempted
to forward them he would come in
contact with the United States gov
ernDent ard find himself in limbo.
Mayor Bemis said that he was prom
ised a number of contributions al
ready. The cowboys went to his Office
to enlist with the insurgents. The
Mayor referred them to the secretary
of the Central Labor Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11

NEVADA, Mo-, Dec. 1l.-Rev. ]. w.
Carpenter, pastor of Centenary NJ. E.
church South of this city, has re-
quested Presiding Elder R. S. Hunter
to relieve him of the charge, and his
request has been granted. This step
was occasioned by recent sensational
charges made against the reverend
gen uleman's moral character by dis
soluIe woman. but which a church
tribunal pronounced untrue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE Senate
adopted a joint resolution offered by
Mr. Jones of Arkansas authorizing the
Secretary of the Interior to suspend
the removal of intruders in the Chero-
okee country until there shall be an
appraisal of the value of improve
ments made by them.
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stricken Dead While DRIVING.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-. Dec. IA. NJ.
Zimmerman, aged 70 years, wealthy
and influential, died of apoplexy while
driving yesterday. He was large
stakeholder in light and water plants
and owned a business block in War
rensburg and property in Harrisburg,
Do
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SWEDISH COLONY.
One VIII BE Formed on a Million
Acre Tract in Tennessee.

One VIII BE Formed On q Million
Acre Tract in Tennessee.
EAGLE, Wis, Dec. 11.-Quiet prepare
lions are being made for an exodus of
Wisconsin Swedes to million acre ter
ritory now being negotiated for in
Northern Tennessee, with a view to
forming the only Swedish American
colony, where the customs of the
'Fatherland" as pertaining to dress, &C.
cupation, language, and religion will be
closely followed as observed on the
Swedish mainland aud the Islands of
Gotland and Gland
1t is designed to divide this vast ira ct
of land into counties, bishoprics, and
homes, with not more than ten Swedes
Ia home.
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Half a MilIIon Homeless.

LONDON, Dec. IA Constantinople
dispatch says the Armenian patriarch
there has informed the Italian Am
bassador that he estimates the num-
Der of homeless Armenians in the SIX
northeastern vilaYets of Asia Minor at
nearly 500, 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11
DIR. WOOLSEY IN PLASTER.
A Bronze Statue of YaIe's Famous
President Will Soon be Made.

NEW HAVEN, Dec. II. Prof. J. T.
Weir has shipped to New York the COM
plete plaster cast of the statue of the
late DR.. Woolsey, of Yale. The statue is
of heroic size. and represents Yale's fam
GUS former president seated in a Greek
chair leaning forward slightly in though
full attention.
1t is expected that the statue will be
erected befors commencement It will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000
Prof Weir has gone to New York to
superintend the casting.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. 11.-Henry
Massey, the colored prize fighter, was
shot and instantly killed yesterday by
Nelson Casey, a driver of garbage
wagon. The tragedy occurred at n
tenement house where both men live
with their families. Casey, who
claims that he shot Massey in defense
of his wife. went to the Four Courts
and gave himself up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11

BRENNAN, Texas, Dec. 11.-Presid-
ing Elder E. H. Hartman and the Rev.
w. Wimberly, both OF this city, have
been found guilty of the charges of
immoral conduct, and were expelled
from the ministry and from the church
by the Texas conference, M. E. Church
South
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Earper'S Magazine
IN1eee

BriSeiS, a new novel by WILLIAM
BLACK, written with all the authors we'll
known charm of manner, will begin in
the December Number, 1895, and con-
tinue until May. A new novel by
GEORGE DU MAUREER, entitled The
Marian, will also begin during the
year. 1t is not too much to say that no
novel has ever been awaited with such
great expectation as the successor to
of Joan of Arc will continue and will
relate the story of the failure and mar
tyrdom of the Maid OF Orleans. Other
important fiction of tbs year will be a
novelette, by MARK TWAIN, under the
title, Tom Sawyer, DETECTIVES; hum
orous three part tale called Two Nor.
mons from Muddlety, by LANGDoN Ell
WIN MITCHELL; and short stories by
Octave THANET, RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS. MARY E. WILKINS. JULIAN RALPH H,
BRANDER MATHEWS, OWEN MISTER,
and other well-known writers.
Prof. WOODROW WILSON will contri-
butte six papers on George Washington
and his time, with illustrations by HO-
WARD PHsLE. PoULTNEY BIGELOw's
history of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated by R. CATION MOOD
VILE, will be continued through the
winter. Two papers on st. Clair's de-
feat and Mad Anthony Wayne'S victory,
by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. with graphic
illustrations will be printed during the
year.
A noteworthy feature ct the MAGA-
ZINE during 1896 will be series of ar
ticles by CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, describ-
ing his trip of $500 miles on snow-shoes
and with dog-sledge trains into the un-
explored Barren Grounds of British
North America in pursuit of wood bison
and musk-oxen. Mr. WHITNEY's series
will have the added interest of being
illustrated from photographs taken by
himself.
The Volumes of the MAGAZINE BE-
gin with the Numbers for June and
December of each year. When no time
is mentioned, subscriptions will begir
with the Number current ct the time OIL
receipt of order
Remittances should be made by Post
Office Money Order or Draft to avoid
chance of loss.
Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
! mens without the express order of Harper {
Brothers.
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An old CLOWNS Lie ENDED.

CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-"Bnly" Andrews,
an old time circus clown, died at the
Kankakee asylum for the insane last
night from paresis. He was about SIS
years old. His name was familiar to
people of the West during war times
and for twenty years after. He was
the first man to invade Texas with
cirnl1S
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NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-At yesterdays
session of the American Federation of
Labor, President John Mcbride was
exonerated of the charge that during
a strike in Pennsylvania he had &C
cepted bride.
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Suicide or Accident.

CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-Mrs. Mae Allen
Wright was found dead in her bed at
the house of T. E. Kirk, her brother
in-law. Her death was due to inhal-
ing Illuminating gas. The coroner's
jury returned a verdict of suicide, but
the Kirk family maintain it was an
accident. Mrs. Wright was the wife
of Elbee Wright. lately a professor in
the Great Bend, Kan, college.
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A COSTLY TOMB.
The Price OfJOIlm w. SEnckey's Maus
OIeum VIII Be S25O,OOO.

NEW YORK, Dec. I1.-One of the
most magnificent mausoleums erected in
this country has just been ordered by
John W. Mackey. the California million
aire. The designs are being prepared
by the architect who prepared plans for
the new Mackey building down town. 1t
will cost $250,OOO The mausoleum will
be built of Westerly granite and the
structure will be of Grecian style.
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FRANCES CONTRIBUTIONS.
Mrs. Cleveland Sends Cash Instead of
! rNnIls TO An Indiana Doll Show.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Dec. 11-Some
time ago the ladies of the Presbyterian
church of Greencastle addressed letter
to Mrs Cleveland asking that she con-
tribute some of her handiwork to the
doll show which the church has ar
ranged for Christmas. Today the ladies
of the church received a letter from Mrs.
Cleveland iuclosing crisp SO bill, which
she asked might be accepted as her con-
tributiou to the church. The ladies ex.
pected something in the way OF dolls
dresses or perhaps dressed doll, and
thought that it would bring large gum
on account of the donor.
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Plat Men Are victorious.

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Republiean
primaries were held in every one of
the 1872 election districts of this city
last night to elect delegates to the as
sembly district conventions The in
dications point to majority of two
thirds Platt men in the county COM
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Missouri Poultry Show.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE an
nual exhibition of the Missouri State
Poultry association was formally
opened last evening at the exposition
building with oSer 1000 of the finest
ever birds placed on exhibition
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DEBs TO OCCUPY APULPIT
Accepts the Raw. Mr.. Wilson's Invitation
to Address His Congregation.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 11.-Eugene
V. Debs has replied to the invitation from
the Rev. ]. Stitt Wilson of the Erie
Street Methodist church, in Chicago, that
he will speak on the subject of "The
Relation of the Church Toward Labor in
the Church." but he cannot set date for
the address,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-11
Blmetallic Conference Opens

PARIS, Dec. 1.-THE conference of
the Bimetallic Leagues of Great
Britain, France and Germany
opened here yesterday. L. Lou
bet. president of the French Bime-
tallic League, presided. The object
of the conference is to draft a resolu-
ton regarding bimetallism. which will
be submitted to the parliaments of the
three countries
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Auburn schools Dismissed.

The Auburn schools have been dis
missed on account of diptheria. One of
the pupils of the school died with the
disease and the school board deemed it
advisable to close the school for at least
e week
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Conductor Kmed by a TRAMP.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Dec. 10.-Mar-
tin Clancy, a conductor on the Attain
tic and Pacific road, lies dead at Will
Jams, as the result of the malice of a
tramp whom he had put off his train.
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CHICAGO's DESTITUTE.
More Than ten Thousand Families
without Fuel or Food. a

NAIHHUNHI UVNHF. =
CHICAGO. Dec. 1.-The Cook County
agent says more than ten thousand famil-
les are destitute in Chicago. This means
about fifty thousand persons who are
without food and fuel. Since the cold
weather set in the applications for aid
have almost reached the record of the
hard winter after the Worlds fair.
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Herr Dove, who invented the So
called bullet-proof coat, is dead.
A great demonstration was made IN
Madrid against the present city gov
eminent.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Dec. 1.-THE
capital removal case was not argued
in the supreme court yesterday on &C
count of the sickness of Mr. Boutwell,
of Sedalia 1t is the first case on the
docket for to-day.
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LEADvILLE ICE PALACE
Proportions of the Structure Sur
mise Even Its Rrofacto,.s

PFOpOFtIOns OF the STRUCTURE Sur
prise Even Its Projectors.
LEADVILLE, Colo, Dec. 11.-AII day
long there was a throng of people going
to the ice palace. The great crystal
structure is daily assuming larger pro-
portions.
The north wall is already as high as 20
feet in places, while on the south wall
the first tier of blocks wass laid yester-
progressing very fast.
There are 300 men working on the
ground.
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SENATOR VESTS GIFT.
He is the First TO Send Miss Clara
Busch a Wedding Present.

Busch a wedding Present.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 11.-Miss Clara Busch
received her first wedding present yes
terday 1t was from United States Sena-
tor George G. Vest. who is close friend
of the Busch family.
Senator Vest has always thought a
great deal of Miss Clara Busch. and he
told her that when she got ready to be
married he would be the first to send q
present The gift is a most beautiful
and costly piece of statuary.
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White! White! White! are the goods
sent out by the Peerless Steam laundry.
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Soft! Soft! Softl feel the woolens wash
ed by the Peerless, 112 and ia west 9Th.
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SMOKE "Little Gem" pest Be cigar made
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Give us trial-PeerIess Steam Laun.