The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-06
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

Charles Lanman, the we'll known
author, artist and librarian, is dead.
Two car loads of oranges were
shipped from Los Angeles, Cal, for
Florida.
Judge William Chestnut, one of the
oldest and best known citizens of
Platte county, Missouri, is dead.
The bill to grant full municipal
suffrage to women in Massachusetts
was defeated in the house by vote
of 127 to 81.
At Louisville. KY. fire destroyed
the distillery of ]. B. Wathen & Co.,
entailing a loss estimated from $751;
600 to 100000.
Tuesdays statement of the con-
dition of the treasury shows: Avail
able cash balance, $3.50, 762, 662; gold
reserve, $91, o35, 626.-
Rev. Daniel Vrooman, a pioneer
Chinese missionary of the Presby-
terrain church, who spent twenty
years in the Orient died in San
Francisco.
In Chicago Judge Freeman quashed
the indictment against the Meadow
craft brothers, the bankers charged
with receiving deposits when they
knew the bank. to be insolvent
An agricultural department bulletin
reports extreme cold and heavy
SHOWS in all parts OF France and
heavy frosts and snow storms of ex-
ceptional severity in Great Britain
throughout January.
Advices received from Rio de
Janeiro are to the effect that serious
election riots have occurred in the
state of Pernambuco Senior Jose
Marie, manager of the journal La
Provincial, was killed.
At Central City, Col, Samuel Slater
was instantly killed and Ed Wier
seriously injured by an explosion in
the Alps mine. They were picking
out an old charge which had failed to
go off when the explosion occurred.
One of the Chinese generals in the
Shan Tung province was beheadeo by
his soldiers for attempting to sup
press pillage. Similar troubles are
reported at Hanan and Lao Yang,
near Moukden, which is probably
taken.
The claims of the agrarian classes
in Germany are commented upon in a
report of Special Agent Mates to the
agricultural department. The agent
contends that they would hail with
joy a tariff war with the United
States.
John Wilde. alias HOWE, the Amer
lean who planned to blow up the
Japanese warships in a novel manner,
and who was captured at Wei-Hai.
Wei after having previously been re-
leased on parole, has been taken to
Japan for trial
The Hon. Hannis Taylor, the Ameri-
can minister to Spain, visited Prime
Minister Sagasta and assured him the
United States government would do
its utmost to prevent the fitting out
of flibustering expeditions to the
island of Cuba
The steamship Wfllapa has left Port
Townsend on her initial trip for
Alaska with full cargo of freight
and $50 passengers. Every steamer
going North is loaded down with
miners and adventures rushing to
the Yukon gold fields.
In Brennan. Tex, Wyatt May brick,
co1ored. went to church and left his
three children locked up in the house.
The house caught fire and the oldest
child, aged Z years, escaped by climb
ing out of the window. The two
youngest were burned to death.
In New York General O. 81. La
grange has been sworn in as fire COM
u1SSlOncE Oh Lnas city 10 succeed
President Scannel1. General Lagrange
was formerly superintendent of the
mint at San Francisco and served
under General Grant during the civil
war.
A sketch showing the great devel-.
opment of the telegraph in Great
Britain since it passed under govern
ment control in 1870 as a result of
Gladstone's efforts, is given in a re-
port to the state department from
United States Consular Clerk Martin
at Southampton.
A statement prepared at the immi-
grafton bureau shows that the total
number of immigrants arriving at the
ports of the United States during the
seven months ended February 1, 1895,
was 113, 375, as against 1s9, 5S2 for the
Gav0n months an6ad EAhruarv I 1904