The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-15
TICKS FROM THE WIRE.

The government is gradually getting
its new money order blanks into use.
The big gun test on the new mon
itor, Amphitrite, has proven successful.
A commission has been appointed to
treat with the Blackfoot Indians for
the cession of part of their reserva-
ton
The Naval War college is studying
probable plans of attack on the Allan
tic seaboard if Uncle Sam should get
into a row with John Bull.
A Business Mems league committee
is actively endeavoring to secure both
the national conventions of 1896 for
St. Louis.
DR.. Tomas Zewski, German army
surgeon, has been expelled from the
service for refusing to fight duel.
Apparently the scheme to build an
electric road from St. Louis to Chicago
has collapsed.
A. M. Kennedy of Delaware, Morris
county, Kan, is dead, after fast of
sixty-eight days.
The American navy vessel Columbia
was badly damaged in the dry dock at
southampton, England.
Archbishop Guillion of Oaxaca,
Mexico, has inherited from an English
It is rumored that a Chicago syndi-
cate is to build 400, 600 high grade BIZ
| cycles to sell at $50 each.
Mrs. Ellen Getz of Philadelphia has
been sent to the county Jail for three
months for being a common scold.
The Daily Tribune is the latest adj
dition to Warrensburg, Mo-, news
paper circles 1t is published by
Hutchinson & Mcbride.
/ The Muskogee. Oklahoma and West
ern railroad is to be built once. 1t
/ will run from Muskogee via Perry to
! Colorado Springs, Col.
| A. T. Nichols. cashier of the failed
| bank of Litchfeld, Neb., was found
guilty of receiving money when he
knew the bank was insolvent.
Governor Morrill, has committed the
sentence of Edward Wiley from thirty
years imprisonment to twelve years
Wiley killed a negro in Kansas City,
Kan.
1t is said that J. B. Watkins, the
Lawrence millionaire, wants to be
United States senator, and is quietly
working up boom. Mr.. Watkins is a
Populist.
Captain George r. Dyer of Kansas
| City died at Excelsior Springs, aged
SO. He was member of the conven-
ton that nominated Lincoln for presi-
dent in 1860.
Miss Schwagler, daughter of one of
the best known German citizens OF
Leavenworth county, Kansas, after
carefully arranging her toilet, stepped
in front of the mirror and shot herself
| through the heart. No cause is given
for the act.
Matt Boyd, a wealthy farmer of
Cairo, Mo-, shot his wife through the
| head and then committed suicide.
She cannot recover. He was an old
soldier and drew $50 month pension.
Drink was the cause of the tragedy.
DR.. J.Milton Bowers, who was twice
sentenced to be hanged for poisoning
his third wife in San Francisco, was
married for the fourth time in Denver
to Miss Mary Bird, a San Jose school
teacher.
The elections in England are going
Overwhelmingly against the Liberals
1t looks as if the Conservatives will
have big majority over all and rule
for at least six years. William VernN1
Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequel
in the Rosebery cabinet, was badly de
feated for reelection.
Mrs. Ellen Boyer, wife of promi-
nsnt iveryman of Milan, Mo-, shot
herself through the heart at the home
of her parents in Brookfeld. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
On Boston common Saturday noon
between 10000 and $4,000 people as
sembled to take part in the Christian
Endeavor outdoor meeting. Just az
the meeting opened a torrent of rair
descended upon the crowd. After {
mighty rendition of Onward, Chris
tian Soldiers" an adjournment wal
taken to the tents, where the program
was carried out. Had it not been 70!
the rain it would have been the great
est outdoor religious gathering in tn,
history of the world.