The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-21
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was destroyed by ire. Loss, $780, 900.
Seventeen horses were cremated in
Kansas City, Mo-, livery sta BILE fire.
r j. Phillips under sentence OF
death It Guthrie, Ok, died in his cell.
Dixon and Young Critic fought
a twenty i've round draw at Coney
Island.
Chris Won der Abe, the st. Louis
base ball magnate, has been sued for
divorce.
quarterly dividend of S. per share,
payable February Is.
The Quapaw Indians have petitioned
the secre tary of the interior to allot
them 200 acres of land each.
1t is stated that the administration
has nothing to offer as a substitute
for the Carlisle currency bill.
Isaac Henry Bratton Of Tacoma,
Wash, killed his wife and then put a
bullet through his own brain.
Speaker and Mrs Crisp have gone
to Asheville, N. c., where Judge Crisp
hopes to recuperate his health.
Dan Creedon knocked out Herman
Bernau, the Texas heavyweight, in
two rounds at Galveston, Texas.
Miss Opal Steele of Emporia, Kan.
13 years old, is missing. 1t is feared
that she has been murdered.
In battle near New Chang the Chi
nese were defeated with loss of 900
men. The Japanese lost fifty men.
Bob Fitzsimmons was indicted for
manslaughter in the first degree by
the Syracuse grand jury, for killing
Con Riordan.
In Alamosa, Col. Abe Thompson
shot and fatally wounded City Mar
shall Charles II. Emerson while re-
sisting arrest.
No reply has been received by the
house judiciary committee to the in
vitation sent Judge Kicks to appear
and cleanse his erTnine.
Chairman Mccain of the house
committee on labor, has arranged for
the issuance of monthly labor bull
Ietin by the labor bureau.
Major Joseph W. Paddock, govern
meat director of the Pacific roads and
one of the pioneers of Douglas coun-
ty and of Nebraska, is dead.
At South Whitley, Ind, Misses Nora
and Alice Norris were run down by a
freight train on the Wabash railroad
while driving across the track and in
stantly killed.
The fraudulent bond issue of Broke r
Quigley will proba bly, reach 81 00O,-
O00- His operations extend beyond
New York and several banking houses
are involved.
The list of dead in Butte has been
swelled to fifty-six by the death of
Mrs Fredericks. Four of the injured
are in a critical condition with little
hope of recovery.
John Y. Lovely was found dead in
his bed at his home in Paris, Ky. He
served as postmaster of Paris under
Presidents Fillmore, Pierce, Buchan-
an, Lincoln, Cleveland and Harrison.
A monster mass meeting of the
representatives. of the Masonic and
other secret societies as we'll as the
A. P. A. was held at Tacoma, Wash.
to denounee the Pope's bull in refer
ence to their organizations.
Minister Hengelmuel1e of Austria,
It is reported, has intimated to the
state department that Austria will
make worse war on American pro-
ducts than Germany if the sugar
tariff is not remedied.
Assistant Attorney General Thomas
has decided that newspapers violate
the anti-lottery law who publish lot
at the number of beans in a jar or
| seeds in watermelon.
At Kansas City, Kan, John Wesley
Bishop. a negro teamster, was shot
through the heart and killed by New
ton Weir. colored porter The killing
according to Weir, was in self-defense.
Bishop was shot from behind, how
ever.
A long expected meeting of district
| assembly No 90, K. of L., of Provi-
dence, r. l., was held and it resulted
in the passage of resolutions denounc-
| ing the high officials of the organiza-
| ton and cautioning workmen to be-
ware of them.
The wife of J. w Cope. doorkeeper
| in the United States senate, while on
her way to Fort Wayne, Ind, was
/ picked up unconscious in a sleeping
car near Wooster, Ohio, and removed
to hotel. She has not regaincd con-
sciousness. and physicians say she
| VIII die.