The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-19
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asa milford of Greenville, Ill,
classmate of Garfield, hanged himself.
The Irish National Federation
passed resolutions denouncing John
Redmond for voting against the
Liberals.
Count de Castellane, who is to
marry Anna Gould, will have we'd
ding gift of 1000, 900 francs from his
father.
Bills are pending in several legis-
1atures looking to the reduction of
sleeping-car rates
The German government has raised
the duty on imported canned meats
sixty cents per 100 kilogrammes.
The French chamber of deputies re-
fused 3O5 to 2O5, to order the separa-
tion of church and state.
Because his wife upbraided him for
gambling, Gus Batiste of Algiers, La,
shot her dead in gambling den.
Professor Ernest Curtius, the emin-
ent archRologist, was run over by
sleigh in Berlin and seriously injured.
The Wyoming legislature has
ordered suit against ex-State Treasur-
err Otto Gramm and his bondsmen for
$50, 200 lost in the S. A. Kent bank at
Cheyenne, which failed in July, 1888.
The north wing of Music hall,
Buffalo, n. Y, was damaged by fire
to the extent of about $50, 900.
Colonel ]. T. Martin. adjutant gen.
eral, department of the Missouri q.
S. A., is thought to be dying at the
Chicago Beach hotel.
The house will accept the senate
amendments to the Oklahoma Cen
trail railway bill and no conference
will be necessary.
Senator Vest has presented to the
senate the protest of citizens of
Osceola, Kan, against issuance of any
more bonds.
Mondays statement of the condi-
ton of the treasury shows: Available
cash balance, 1854, 976, 9ss; gold re-
serve, $55, 511, 7O4.
One amendment to the sundry civil
bill is that proposed by Senator Mar
tin giving homestead rights to those
who have forfeited them through
poverty or other unavoidable reasons
and have not yet acquired govern
ment land.
The sundry civil bill reported to the
senate contains intact the provision
for the United States penitent iary,
which the people of Leavenworth had
hoped to have stricken out. also the
appropriation for military school at
| that place
In the senate Perkins introduced a
bill for the Incorporation of the In
ternational Pacific cable company for
the purpose of laying a telegraph G
cable from California to the Hawaiian
islands, and thence to Japan, the
Asiatic coast and Australia.
The house committee on public
lands voted to favorably report Rep
resentative Camietti's bill for the for
fixture of the granted lands of the
Pacific railroads where the corpora
tions have failed or refused to redeem
their bonds.
The California assembly of the state
legislature by an unanimous vote
| adopted resolutions favoring the an
nexation of the Hawaiian islands and
the election of United States SEN
ators by popular vote.
The Alabama house has sustained
the governors veto on the alien rail-
road bill by vote of SO to 81. This
bill sought to prevent foreign stock
holders from voting in the stockhold-
ers' meetings in Alabama.
At Catchertown, Ind. Ter, Arch Sc
ouoyah shot and killed Jesse Harris
Seqnoyah was drunk, it is claimed
and did the shooting without provoca'
ton. The murderer was arrested.
Slaughterbach brothers. who shot
John Niblack at Wheatland, Ind.
pleaded guilty and were each sen
fenced to the penitentiary for four
teen years. They will be taken t.
prison at once to avoid a possibility o
lynching.
In Jersey City. N. J.. Christopher
Spear1ing murdered his wife
in their poor tenement, cuttin&
her throat with a razor. The dee'
was witnessed by the murderer
mother, 70 years of age, and with
whom the victim had been supported
/ by washing.