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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-21
FOUR MILE RACE.
The English Grand National
Aintree Steeple Chase
Will Be Run With Ga Horses
for $500 Sovereigns.
CROSS-COUNTRY EVENT
Horizon, With 175 Pounds I'm
post, is the FavOrite.
Winning 3 Out of 4 Races Ac-
counts for His Popularity.

LONDON, Feb 21.-In little over a
mouth the greatest steeplechase fixture
of the world will be contested over the
famous Aintree course and another Liv-
erpooI Grand National will have been
placed to the credit of some horse of iron
constitution. The latter is required to
enable the animal to traverse the Grand
National course of miles and $50 yards
There are sixty-four entries and the
race is bound to attract universal atten-
ton, although no such palpable cham
pion as CIoister is entered. The weights
are out and F. w. Greswolde's aged
horse Horizon, is top weight, with 175
pounds as his impost. Horizon has won
three out of four races in which he has
competed since defeating Cloister three
years ago, and that probably accounts
for the handicapper's severity in his case
in this the premier cross country event.
That other good aged animal. Wild Man
from Borneo. is in at 1853, and Cathal at
1877.
The race is for $500 sovereigns. of
which 800 go to the second animal and
200 to the third. A trophy valued at
$500 also goes to the winning owner.
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DECIDEDLY STARTLING.
What Was 1t Made the Boys Faint
Was Ii the Heat?

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Feb. 21-There
was considerable excitement for a while
last night at the First Pres byterian
church, where an entertainment was be-
ing given for the Boys Brigade, Cover
nor Morrill,, Secretary Coburn of the
state board of agriculture, and General
]. c. Caldwell were present
It was when General Caldwell was
making a speech that the sensation oc-
Cured. The boys were standing on the
stage in double file in the'rear while the
general was talking.
He had reached a point in his talk
where he was describing the horrors of
war. 'tThere is no more terrible sight,"
said he, ''than battle field after defeat
unless it be a battlefield after victory"
Just as the last word of the
sentence was uttered, one of the
fell to the floor as if he were dead. He
was carried off the stage and when the
confusion had snbsided General Cald-
we'll " ent on with his talk on battles.
He had talked but about minute be-
fore the crash of gun followed by a
loud thud caused the general to turn
round in time to see another SOL
stage, and the necessary restoratives
were administered. The confusion this
time was a little more prolonged 4he
remaining members of the brigade am
bilious of making d fine display before
the large audience, held their places like
statues, regardless of the thinning of
their ranks. The general went
on and told of what real SOL
diers have to endure in times of
war. In less shan minute after he had
resumed his talk a third little soldier
fell This time the whole audience rose
to its feet. and men began to shout:
"Take the boys off the stage" The cap
tain, son of F. D. Coburn, in response
marched the boys off the stage and out
of the church. The boys who tainted
were Ernest Hoag, James Ferguson, and
George Mcdonald. They say that the
oppressive heat and their cramped posi-
ton was the Cause.
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Knnsas CITY MARKERS.

KANSAS CITY. Feb 21--CArTLE-Re-
ceipts 1900; shipments, 1850. Good
grades steady to strong, others weak.
Texas steers Sd. OO@36O; Texas cows
$2O0@2.7O; beef steers $300@4. 10;
native cows $1.5O@3.O5; stockers and
feeders, 81 65@$3.75; bulls So. 35@3.35.
Representative ssles-Te xss steers 81
head, averaging 1905 pounds. So. so: Tex
as COWS, 20 head, $50 pounds. So. 10; beef
steers, 81 head. 1852 pounds, 81. 10; ma
tive COWS, IA head, 1920 pounds, $305;
stockers and feeders "A he ad. 1910
pounds. 1915; bulls 4 head, 1860 pounds.
So 35.
Receipts. $500; shipments. 2,700.
Market strong, TIC higher. Bulk OF sales
$3so@3 50; heavIes $5.65@'s.S5; packers
$3S0@3 871a; mixed 43-75tB3.85; lights
$37O@395; workers $3.50 03.s5; pigs
$3 65@3.85.
SHEEP = Receipts, S,1OO; shipments
300. Market steady. Lambs $3.60@
4.4O; muttons, $3O0@5 60
WHEAT Slow No. hard 63@651@;
No. hard 44@60; rejected nomnaIly
5000; No. red 1914; one car poor at
Toe.
CoRN-Slightly lower. No. mixed
2256 @2224; No. white %.
OATs-Steady. No. mixed 16c; No.
2 white 201S@21c.
RYE-N0. 2, 36c.
- HAY-Very dull and weak; unchanged.
BUTTER = Firm. Creamery 16@1Sc;
dairy 13@15c.
EGGs-Market unchanged at 911c.
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TRIES TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
Andrew Hutchinson. of Lawrence, Makes
the Second Unsuccessful Attempt.

Andrew Hutchinson. of Lawrence, Makes
the Second Unsuccessful Attempt.
LAWRENCE, Feb. 81 Poor depraved
Andrew Hutchinson yesterday afternoon
made an unsuccessful attempt to end
his life-the second time within three
weeks.
His first attempt was three weeks
ago. He took large dose of morphine,
and but for the vigorous relief given
him he would have surely died.
Probably the cause for this second at
tempt was that Hutchins0n's wife died
yesterday morning.
He gained considerable notoriety some
years ago by his actions at the scene of
the Williamstown cyclone. He stood at
the door of the church, where the bodies
of the cyclone victims were exposed to
view, and demanded an admission fee of
those who should enter.
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FROM DOWN EAST.
A Massachusetts Man Hired to
Deliver Lectures
For the Mystic Brotherhood in
Kansas.
HIS FIRST LECTURE
HIS FIRST LECTURE
Is Delivered at Winfield at the
;, Court House.
Other Kansas News of General
Interest.

= WINFIELD, Feb 21-Col. C. S. Ellis
worth of Massachusetts, employed by
the Mystic Brotherhood TO deliver lee
lures in favor of resubmission delivered
his first lecture here last night.
There were probably $50 men and no
women in the audience The speaker
bald it was the first time in his life that
ladies did not turn out to his lectures.
He introduced himself and said he
would convince his audience before he
got through that prohibition did not pro-
hibit. He said the law was a farce be-
cause it was not enforced. He said. it
did not lessen drunkenness, increase re-
ligion or raise the plane of morality.
1t caused otherwise good men TO per
Jure themselves to get liquor and was
rapidly degrading our sense of honor.
Our courts of Justice were rotten TO the
core on its account and our judges and
lawyers were nearly all bride takers
fSTOm the men who profited by its vio-
lation. He said times in Kansas were
mighty hard, and he blamed the prohib-
itory law for the most of it. Kansas City,
Mo-, was growing rich enough through
its effect, and was laughing at our stu
prominent Kansas City whisky
man for money to help push
good thing along, the whisky
mon laughe in his face and told him
Kansas was all right. He did not want
to kill the goose that laid the golden
egg. He told of the hell holes in Lea
wentworth and read whisky advertise
fments taken from LeavenWOrth papers.
He said there was not a town in Kansas
in which he could not get all the whisky
he wanted and said he had been in 70
saloons in Wyaudotte county alone. He
spoke about a hotel full of empty bottles
found at Hutchinson just after cOnvsn-
sion in that city and then spoke in feel
ing terms about Wichita and the way
that city was prosecuted by Tiger Bill"
He said that the saloons were
closed up there now, but the Sd
loon keepers were hiding around in
Easements and other out of the way
places with wash tub and a piece of
ice as their only furniture, but it was no
trouble to get all the beer you wanted.
Z He used to be a temperance lecturer
and worked with the Good Templars,
but he was progressive sort of fellow
and had long since repented. He advo-
Gated local option and then strict en-
fOrcement of the law. His main objec-
ton to the present law seemed to be
its non-enforcement Another reason
why he was opposed to our present law
was the fact that all jointists and saloon
keepers doing business under a drug
gisps permit were its warmest friends
And he did not want to train with that
class of people. He offered $50 for ever
statement he made which he could not
prove.
At the close he said he had been at
considerable expense to get here, pay
board bills and hall rent and he always
gave friends of the cause an opportunity
to contribute a little if they felt so dis
posed and then he called for volunteers
to hold the hat at each door as the crowd
won't out
Very little money was contributed,
however.
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shorts begin to cover there will be vei y
little wheat for sale and the rebound Will
be violent.
Guesses on thes visible for Monday is
that there will be a decrease of about
half million bushels.
The London statistician says that
United Kingdom will need 20 million
bushels more foreign wheat between
the end of January and August 3lst than
for similar period a year ago, with small
er stocks to draw from in the countries
which usually furnish the supplies
The market may work trifie lower on
this selling craze, but on good breaks we
advise buying moderately.
Corn and oats were stubbornly strong
and experienced a good trade. There are
mountains of corn cribbed along the
railroads that could food the market at
any time, but it does not seem to affect
the futures and notwithstanding heavy
outside selling the markets hold steady.
Provisions quiet and featureless, but
with strong undercurrent. Armour and
the packers are reported to be liberal
buyers of May pork.
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SALOONS RUN OPEN.
PittsbuIg VinIxs at Prohibition and Uses
License Money.

PittsbuIg WinIs at Prohibition and Uses
License Money.
WICHITA, Feb. 21.-Mr Linthicum, of
Pittsburg, is in the city. MIR. Linthicum
said this morning that Thomas Cogswell
who was appointed assistant attorney
general for his town, resigned because
public sentiment was against prohibition
and he could not enforce the law. Since
that time from 9 to II open saloons have
been running and the city marshal col
lects monthly from each proprietor 500
as revenue for the city.
He says that while this arrangement is
in force men and teams have steady work
hauling the residuum from the shelters
for street filling and they are paid cash
for their work. Sometimes the string of
teams are a quarter of a mile long. This
money they receive is paid back 10 the
merchants and helps the good cause of
building up the city's interests. Mr.,
Linthicum does not explain what the sa-
looms have to do with hauling.
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New York Sugar Market.
NEW YORK, Feb 21.-Sugar-Raw,
firm; refined, quiet
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The Snront Case.

Judge A. Ii. Vance has overruled the
demurrer to the amended petition for a
receiver in the Sproat case. A motion
has now been filed for an order of sale
at auction and if this is granted
the Davis contingent will probably
follow it up with an application for the
property to be turned over to them, and
will give a sufficient bond for its rede-
livery. If'this line of action is success
fully carried out Receiver Sam Radges
will not be discharged, but he will be
without ANYTHING to do as receiver.
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VALLEY STATE BANK TO OPEN.

The Valley State Bank of Hutchinson
Makes Good Showing.
HUTCHINSON, Feb. Blank Commits
sioner Breidenthal has completed the ex-
animation of the affairs of the Valley
state bank and the result is very credit
able TO the officers of the bank and COM
forting to the creditors.
The assets have been carefully gone
over by experienced men and are found
to be just as stated at the time of the
closing. Efforts are now being made for
a reorganization which will enlist large
outside capital aud also a strong home
support, and enable the bank to reopen
in short time
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WALLER RELEASED.
He is Let Out of Prison Today and viii
Come.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. - Secretary
Olney received a cablegram today from
Am bassador Eustis announcing that Wal
Ter, the ex- consul at Madagascar, was re-
leased from Jail today. 1t is expected
that Waller will join his family in the
United States.
AS Waller is entirely destitute of
means, our ambassador, Mr.. Eustis, has
been authorized by Secretary OIney to
provide him with transportation to the
United States. He has been in prison
for nearly year, having been arrested
on the 9Th of March last in Madagascar.
and afterwards being confined in the
military prisons in France.
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AN EMPORIA GIRLS POSITION.

Miss King to Have Charge of the Music
Departments of Oklahoma University.
EMPoRIA, Feb 21.-Miss Grace King
has been elected a member of the fac
ulty of the university of Oklahoma. at
Norman, and will be at the head of the
department of music.
She will sing in the Presbyterian
church of Norman aud drill the choir.
She has resigned her position as assistant
in the music department of the state
normal, and will leave for Oklahoma
next week to assume her new duties.
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BILL NYE DYING.
He Is in An Unconscious State and
Must Soon Pass Away.


AsHEvILLE, N. c., Feb. 21--The condi-
ton of Bill Nye shows no material
change. He remains in an unconscious
state.
Mr.. Nye has scarcely left his home
since abandoning his lecture tour sew
eral weeks ago in New Jersey.
About ten days ago apoplectic
symptoms became manifest, but his
condition was kept quiet. His sys-
tenn responded to remedies. and his ply
sicians pronounced him as improving.
Tuesday night the stroke came, and
two physicians from Asheville were sum
moned to his bedside. They made the
statement
"Mr. Nye will never be out again"
Mr.. Nye's daughters, Winnie and Bes-
sic, who were at school at Washington,
D. c., are with him.
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TOM FLYNN, STARTER.
Chris Fitzgerald Withdraws His Applica-
ton for a Place.

New York, Feb. 21.-Chris Fitzgerald
has withdrawn his application for the
position of starter on the big tracks this
year. This relieves certain of the stew
ards from pledges that they had made,
and makes it almost certain that the next
starter will be Tom Flynn. The Jockey
club holds a meeting tomorrow after
noon, at which the appointment of start
er and other off Gals for the ensuing year
will be made.
Dave Gideon is still at New Orleans.
Since he has changed his. mind about
Tuberville he has been negotiating with
Jockey Joe Hill. The latter is not very
anxious to come east unless the salary is
a good one, as he has otheFopportunitie
in the west. He can ride at 100 pounds.
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DEBS OUT OF POLITICS.
Declares That He Will Not BE q Cam
didate for Governor of Indiana.

CHARLESTON. S. C., Feb 21.-
President Eugene V. Debs of the
American Railway union, who is
in Charleston today, was asked by
an Associated Press representative re-
garding the dispatch from South Bend.
Ind, stating that he accepted the Popu-
list nomination for governor of In
diana. Mir. Debs said that some of
his enthusiastic friends are anxious for
him to be a candidate, but that he has
refused.
lie declares he has no taste for poll
tics and no ambition in that direction.
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MArRoN BESSIE n1sLAND
purchased by j. T. Newman and Retired
from the Turf.

Purchased by j. T. Newman and Retired
from the Turf
CHICAGO, Feb. 81. j F. Newman of
Texas, has purcb the tried and sterl-
ing race mare Bessie Bisland for a good
round sum to take her TO a Texas ranch
to be matron. Bessie should found
family of long distance stayers if her
conspicuous performances a couple of
years ago count for anything. During
her time on the turf Bessie has started
in about 100 races, and has one 81 of
these events
Out of the 100 races, Bessie Bisland
finished second forty times and third
thirty times.
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STILL BLIZZARD RACES
While Kansas Has Summary Breezes
New York is Burieei ia Snow.

LYONS, N. Y, Feb 21.-The blizzard
is still raging here. The trains on the
Rome, WATERFOWL & Ogdensburg rail
road have been abandoned. The New
York Central railroad ia running nothing
but passenger and fast freight trains,
and although they are equipped with two
engines, they are all behind time.
The West Shore road has abandoned
all except through freight and passenger
and double headed trains. The Geneva
and Lyons road is kept open by gangs of
men shoveling out cuts. The storm
shows no sign of abatement.
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Glen Wayne shipped East.

LEXINGTON. Ky, Feb. 21.-Tracey s.
Wilson's private horse car left this after
noon for New York in charge of John
Miller. The horses shipped in the car
were Glen Wayne. the crack sprinter,
and Magician, the good son of The Ill
Used, consigned to J. w. Rogers and St.
Modred, consigned to J. E. Mcdonald.
Besides the above was the chestnut trot-
ting gelding David B. (2:09A), con-
signed to Kellogg's sale by Richard Cur
it's
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VIII Accompany frankie.

New YORK, Feb. 81. - Mrs. J. C.
Brown, of Syracuse, N. Y, the amateur
female cyclist, will accompany frankie
Nelson as representative of America in
the International six days cycle race in
the Royal Westminster Aquarium, Lon
don, in April. Mr.. and Mrs. Madden
will accompany the American represen-
tatives across the Atlantic.
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Subscribe for the Daily STATE JOURNAL
TODAY'S MARKET REPORT.
Furnished by the Associated Press to
the State Journal.

the State Journal.
CHICAGO, Feb 81. = The continued
cold weather with the certainty of some
consequent injury to wheat is finally
having its effect. and May, though open
ing az lower at 645s @6424, had firm
UNDERGONE and advanced TO ,65@65 Is
Cables came lower, but this was expect
ed. Northwestern and local receipts
showed a material decrease. Trading
was fairly large, the liberal offerings be-
ing met with a demand equal 70 the sup
ply.
Corn opened shade off, May 29B.
Trading as usual was quiet and prices
dependent on wheat, advancing to 3O1a.
Oats showed no change at the open
ing, but streng tnened with wheat May
opened at 207s @21, and advanced to 21
@21K.
Provisions opened steady, the small
run of hogs being responsible for the
opening advance.
May pork opened sc higher at $1O.1O,
reacting to 810O71l.
May lard 21ac higher, advancing to
$5.57K@560.
May ribs quiet, 21ac higher at 1925.
Hogs Receipts. $4,000: official re-
ceipts yesterday 23,21O; official ship
ments yesterday 10,309; left over $500.
Market active to 5 cents higher.
Light $4Oo@4271a; mixed $3:95@
42212; heavy $3.S5@420; rough 1886
@3.9O.
Cattle Receipts 1900. Market slow
bat steady. Beeves $315@4.55; COWS
and heifers $1.50@3. rs; Texas steers
50. 75@385; stockers and feeders $3.50
as. So.
CATTLE-Official receipts yesterday
1899; official shipments yesterday 5,419.
Sheep - Receipts 10000. Market
steady to firm.
SHEEP-Oficial receipts yesterday
HISS; shipments. 3,347.
Estimated receipts of hogs tomorrow,
$4,000 head.
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CHICAGO HARRIET LETTER.

Furnished by Topeka Grain and Stock Ex-
change. 526 Kansas Avenue.
Wheat-Lower cables and the fact
that tomorrow is holiday in the mar
kets caused small business and lower
market. Northwestern receipts are
light and indicates that the spring wheat
movement is at an end
Outside of cables the news were all
all strong and the situation favors much
higher prices, but the selling fever is on
and will have to run its course. When
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that he had received assurances from on
high that this is to be good year for
crops
Wheat" he said, sis to be good, al
though Hicks says otherwise. We will
also have good corn and oats and plenty
of fruit. June will be particularly wet.
There will be no severe weather this
winter, except cold wave about March
/. OF course am not speaking for the
entire country, only n my own locality"
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$4,000 was expended yearly by the
people of Saline county for foreign
grown vegetables and fruits. He calcu-
lated that amount was complete loss
that could be saved with proper effort.
A small irrigated tract on every farm
would insure more prosperity to the
people of Kansas than any other one
thing that could be done.
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HE WAS VERY COLD.
The Queer Explanation Left By . KIR
Who Attempts Suicide.

Who Attempts Suicide.
; LEAvENwoRTH, Feb. 21.-About 3
clock yesterday Frank Urban, who
lives with his widowed mother aud
brothers at Twelfth and PottawatoT1ie
streets, arranged three chairs in a row,
then lay down on them and cut his throat
with a razor. He was found soon after
ward, The bloody razor was lying on
the floor near him and he was faint from
loss of blood.
DIR. Russell Phillips dressed the
wound, and Urbaf was still alive at 4
p. m. The doctor said he would proba-
bly, recover. Neither the jugular nor
the trachea was severed. The cut was a
long one bat not deep.
No cause for young Urban's attempt
on his life is known. He left a note
saying II am very cold" What the
significance of this was nobody seems
70 know. Urban is about 20 years old
and SINGLE
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SENATOR MoTAGGARr.s Loss.
His Cotton Gin Burns and He Losas
$500 by q ParIor Match

His Cotton Gin Burns and He Loses
$500 by ParIor Match.
INDEPENDENCE. Feb. 21 The cotton
gin of Senator Dan McTaggart of Lib
eriy, together with the building in which
Vt was located and quite lot of cotton.
has been destroyed by fire.
MIR. McTaggart's explanation of the
fire is that at the time he was ginning
there was parlor match among the
cotton, which of course struck fire when
1t went through the machine, aud in a
moment the whole establishment was in
flames.
MT. McTaggart had narrow escape
from burning to death. He was on top
of the building trying to put ont the fire.
and his friends pulled him awav lust
q moment before it fell in. Mr. NC
Taggart estimates his loss at s5OO,
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May Get a Bell Foundry.

LEAvENwoRTH, Feb. 21.-There is a
strong probability of an Illinois bell
foundry locating in this city Michael
Burns of the Phoenix foundry was in
Kansas City Tuesday comforting with the
men who are back of the enterprise.
They would come to Leavenworth in
case they be given the right kind of en-
courag ement
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George is to BE Remembered.

The Santa Fe general Offices in
this city will close at noon to-
morrow, and the employees will re-
ceive half holiday. This is not the
result of an order from President Ripley
for the curtailment of expenses as mig lat
be supposed, but is simply because
George Washington happened to have
been born on February %. and the Santa
Fe officials are honoring the Father of
His Country.