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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-24
western League Rules Changed.

Among the most important oonstitu-
tional changes made at the recent meeting
of the Western league magnates were the
following:
No club a member of this league shall
have the right to sell and deliver player
to any club not a member of this league
during the playing season unless by the
unanimous consent of all members.
Any player joining a Western league
club and coming from the National league
or any other baseball organization must
deliver to the secretary of the Western
league his bona f1de release before partici-
pating in championship game.
A player who thereafter is drafted or
sold to National league club being the
property of the Western league, 5000 must
be deposited into the treasury of the league
for such player.
No pass shall be given in a city by a
visiting manager without the consent of
the local president.
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NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.
Machine Leaders Determined That Nc

Machine Leaders Determined That Nc
Kinley Shall Not Capture Delegates
NEW YORK, March 24.-Every thing
is in readiness for the Republican
state convention, which will be held
here to-day. Adherents of the Nc
Kinley boom circulated among the
delegates last night and induced many
of them to attend the mass meeting
held in the Ohio ex-governor's honor.
The fact that Governor Morton had
not only signed the Raines liquor tax
bill, but had also Endorsed it in long
brief, made some of the city members
rather willing to be approached by the
agents of the Ohio candidate. and
many expressions of disgruntIement
were heard.
Great circumspection was exercised
in giving out the tickets of admission
to the hall. The committee is desir-
Gus that no Mckinley men shall be
admitted to disturb the harmony of
the meeting or to interrupt when the
resolutions indorsing Morton for the
presidency are put to the convention.
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TO DIVIDE INDIAN LANDS.

The Senate Committee Proposes to Settle
the Territory Problem Speedily.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-An amend
ment to the Indian appropria ton bill
reported to the Senate from the COM
mittee on Indian affairs and referred
to the committee on appropriations,
calls for $50, 900 to be Immediately
available to the uses of the Dawes
commission, which body is directed to
proceed at once to hear and determine
all questions of citizenship in the sew
eral tribes or nations of the Indian
territory, to make a full and complete
rol! of all persons entitled to citizen
ship rights and to have the right to
use compulsory processes The de-
ciSionS of the commission are. to be
final The amendment proceeds thus:
'When the roll of citizens of any one
of said nations or tribes is fully COM
pleted, the President shall, at his dis
cretien, order said commissioners to
proceed to allot the occupancy of all
the lands of said nation susceptible of
allotment among the citizens thereof
as shown by said BILL" etc The COM
missioners are to report their allot-
ments to the secretary of the interior.
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nHUIUHE AWUVE.
SenatOrMiIlsIntrOduces aFaVOr-
able Bill
For the Insurgents-Declares
War on Spain.
MUST SEIZE CUBA
If Spain Will Not Liberate the
Little Island.
Resolutions Sent to the Confer
Resolutions Sent to the Confer
ence Committee.

| WASHINGTON, March 2+.-An unex-
! pected climax to the Cuban debate
was reached in the Senate yesterday
when, on motion of Mr.. Sherman,
| chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, the Cuban resolutions were
recommitted to the Conference Com
mittee. The vote to recomuit was
unanimous and without the formality
of roll call, representing a general
concensus of opinion that the commit
tee should SO change the resolutions
as to overcome the opposition that
has developed. Messrs. Sherman,
Morgan and Lodge were appointed to
represent the Senate in further con-
ference.
simultaneously with this action, Mr..
Mills presented Cuban resolutions
which propose to go further than has
been suggested at any previous time.
They direct the President to request
Spain to grant local self-government
to Cuba. and in case Spain refuses, the
President is authorized to use the mil
itary and naval forces in taking pos
session of Cuba and holding it until
self-government is estaplished by the
Cuban people. The resolutions in full
are as follows:
Be it resolved by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress
assemb That the President of the
United States is hereby directed to
request the government of Spain to
authorize the people of Cuba subject
to the sovereignty of Spain to insti-
tute such local government as they
may wish and invest it with such
powers as they may think necessary
to secure to the people of Cuba the
right of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness
Section ?. In case Spain shall refuse
the rlghtful power of self-govern-
States is hereby directed to take pos
session of the island of Cuba with the
military and naval forces c f the United
Sta ties and hold the same until the
people of Cuba can organize govern
ment deriving its just power from the
consent of the governed, and arm and
equip such military forces as may be
necessary to protect them from in
vasion.
Mr.. Plat also introduced resolu-
tions limiting the action of Congress
to an expression of sympathy for Gu
ba's struggle and authorizing the
President to extend the friendly Of
fees of the United States towards Sc
curing a free independent republican
form of government.
With the Cuban resolution recon-
mitted to conference, the Senate
turned It's attention to the legislative
ton bill, which was not dis
posed of when the Senate adjourned.
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At Mckinley Meeting in New
York.
Cooper Union Well Filled to
Boom the Ohio Man.
MR.SWAYNE CHAIRMAN
Governor MortOn's Candidacy
Severely Jostled,
But the Watchful Machine Lead
ers Are Active.

NEW YORK, March 24.-The Presi-
Dental boom in New York city of
William Mckinley of Ohio was
launched at Cooper Union last night
The hall was well filled, notwith-
standing the snow storm which had
been in progress all afternoon. Over
the center of the stage was life-size
picture of Mckinley framed with
tin plates Underneath the picture
was a silk banner with the following
in gold letters: The anti-machine
Republican organization of the city
and comfy of New York" On the
right of the platform was another
banner: THE Republican party
stands for an honest dollar and the
way to earn it, and on the left was
banner with the inscription: twill
lam Mckinley. prosp eriIy's advance
agent.
Major Lowell Jerome called the
meeting to order. He said it was use
less for the machine politicians to dis
regard the returns that were coming
from all parts of the country favoring
the nomination of Mckinley. The
latter was the enemy of the bosses
and not their tool.
Major Jerome introduced as chair
man of the meeting General Wager
Swayne. The meeting, he said, had
been called to make plain to the peo-
pie of this State and throughout the
country. and to the delegates to the
convention about to be held, that the
second choice for President of the
United States was William Mckinley.
(Cheers) Governor Morton, he said,
had rendered valuable service to the
State.
Some of the audience Kissed at the
mention of Governor MOrton's name,
but General Swayne stopped this in a
hurry. He said that the governor de-
served to be cheered, and the machine
in the Republican party was none of
his making. 1t had been hoped the
name of Governor Morton would go
before the convention without opposi-
ton, but it appeared that the senti-
ment of the country was for McKin-
ley.
General Swayne introduced as the
next speaker, Senator Frank d. Pavey
of this City.
When Senator Pavey had finished,
John Z. Mulholland offered for adop-
tion the following resolutions: be it
Resolved, That we, the Repu blicanS
of the city and State of New York, in
mass meeting assem- bled, organize
ourselves into a political body, to be
known as the mckinley League of
New York; and
Resolved, That the leagues activity
shall be to procure by all honorable
and lawful means the nomination of
Mr.. Mckinley at st. Louis and his
election at the polls in November.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. 1t was moved and seconded
that the chairman be given the power
TO Rominave fifteen persons, who
should form the executive commit
tee.
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Japanese Athletics.

There are only three kinds of athletic
exercises in which the japanese consent to
take part One is a kind of polo, now
known to very few people. 1t is a game
which requires a thorough knowledge of
craftsmanship, a steady eye and constant
practice. This fine sport is still kept up
among the members of the older families.
Then there is kenjutsu, or fencing, an
athletic exercise of highest value, the
whole art being entirely unlike the sword
exercises of other countries. 1t brings in
to play nearly every muscle of the body.
The third is the jujutsu- 1t is a
kind of wrestling which teaches not only
how to throw, disable or MAIN an antag-
onist, but which also and in particular
teaches how to be thrown without injury,
or how seemingly to yield to superior
strength and finally to win, or at least to
hold ones own by dint of admirable ad
dress, muscular suppleness and undaunted
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BUTCHERS AREiARMINo.
Transvaal Being Fortified and other War
like Preparations Under Way.

TFansvaal Being Fortified and other War
like Preparations Under Way.
New YORK, March PA dispatch
to the World from Cape Town. South
Africa, says:
The Transvaa1 is being fortified, the
burghers are arming to the teeth and
other warlike preparations are being
made.
Eight forts are being built at Preto-
ria, the capital. Hostility to Great
Britain is openly and freely ex-
pressed at Pretoria. Emissaries have
been sent Co the Orange Free State
and to Cape Colony, it is reported,
to stir up race feeling. Germany,
Austria and France, it is said here,
will guarantee the independence of
the Transvaa1 if necessary. President
Kruger will not go to Great Britain
after all. He declines to accept
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's in
vitation to visit London and confer
with the British authorities with
reference to Transvaal affairs. it is
asserted, but the Honanders Tor Boers)
objected Mr.. Kruger left the ques-
zion to be decided by the volksraad
Qegislature), which refused to grant
him permission to go. This action
has caused CONSERVATION on the Rand.
The Star, in leader, speaks of it
las tricking the English government.
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FLOWERS FOR BLACKBURN
His Return From Kentucky the ooca-

His Return From Kentucky the occa-
sion for an Unusual Demonstration
WASHINGTON, March "a. = Senator
Blackburn's return to the Senate yes
terday after the exciting an fruitless
senatorial contest before the Ken
lucky legislature, was signallzed by
an unusual demonstration by his col
leagues. On the senator's desk was
the most mammoth and elaborate
floral design ever brought to the
Senate. rising twelve feet from the
floor and overhanging the desks of
Senator Wa1thal1 and Senator Vest
on either side. The main design rep
resented the coat-of-arms of Ken
lucky, with two huge dolls clasping
hands as the central figures. around
which was worked the State motto:
UNITED We Stand, Divided We Fall"
Above this was a large horseshoe of
LaFrance and Pearl roses, while be-
low and around were great sheaves of
oak leaves and lilies of the valley.
The whole was topped with wide
spreading branches of American
Beauty roses The tribute came from
Mr.. Black burns senatorial associates
Several other large designs were from
personal friends.
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sprints well, is a good horse1nan and a
f'scorcher'' on the wheel At tennis he is
wonderfully lucky. and his skill as fen
Ger is we'll known among college men.
Besides all this President Kirby is writer
of marked ability.
AS manager of the Columbia college
track games he won the appreciation of all
with whom he was brought in contact.
He is now serving his second term as
manager of the track team.
President Kirby is a young man of fine
executive ability, and, although an indie
fatigable enthusiast on the subject of ath-
letics, he is close student as we'll, and
always stands high in his classes.
The 1. A. A. A. is to be congratulated
upon the good sense displayed in the cleo
ton of Mr.. Kirby to the presidency, as
there can be no doubt that, under his ad-
ministration, the association cannot fail
to prosper.
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DEMOCRATS RIOT.

Rough and Tumble Fights the Feature
of a Chicago Ward Convention.
CHICAGO, March 24.-Two riot calls
sent in to the police station, a number
of rough and tumble fights on the
street, stampede of a crowd of 500
people by a score of policemen, and
two riotous conventions-one of which
was held in the open air-were some
of the features of the Democratic al
dermanic convention of the Eighth
ward last night.
As a result of the tumultous con-
ventions, two cand i6ates received
nominations for aldermen Stanislaus
j. Halik, an attorney, received the
regular nomination made in the b.
hemian hall, and Frank Meek was
nominated by a bowling mob outside
on the sidewalk. Halik's nomination
is the only one that will be recog-
nized- No one was badly hurt.
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ROW AFTER A LECTURE

An Alleged Ex-Priest Stirs Up Trouble
in a Pennsylvania Town
SCRANTON, Pa. March 24.-Follow-
ing a lecture given at the Christian
church at Dunmore by an alleged ex-
priest named Ruthven, a fight broke
out, during which about fifty shots
were fred and resulted in four men
being injured. The ex-priest is
charged with precipitating the trou-
BILE He has been giving lectures in
this vicinity for some time, and as he
was leaving the church fully 500
people gathered about the place and
greeted him with volley of eggs. It
is claimed that he Immediately drew a
revolver and fired into the air. Re-
volvers were then fired off in every
direction, with the above mentioned
result. Ruthven fed to this city, and
denies he fred the first shot.
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Presidents Hickey of, the Western assooia-

President Hickey of, the Western associa-
ton.
The ether belligerents are willing TO ar
bitrate. While they, have not been dealt
with entirely on lines of justice, they have
after carefully looking over the field, no
cause sufficient to evoke another war. A
conflict between the minor leagues and the
major organization would mean the loss
of hundreds of thousands of dollars, the
temporary extinction of clubs in more
than half of the minor cities and another
backset to baseball just after its recovery
from the two death dealing struggles or
1890 and 1891.
sons of the folly of the two years just
named are remembered, and we had a re-
minder of it in dollars and cents within
the present year in Judgment against
Won der Abe for the rent of a Cincinnati
ground fitted up in 1891 in opposition to
the National league club.
Let no one believe that baseball playing
does not keep step with the times. The
philosophers who have charge of baseball
tactics are constantly on the lookout for
improvements in playing. The old fogy
who believes ths.t there can be no better
way of playing than he plays the game
will soon drop out. 1t is Anson's pro-
gressiveness that keeps him in the game
so long. He is constantly looking for new
ideas and teaching them to his Colts. 1t
was by this policy that Hanlon won two
championships.
That great second baseman, Fred Pfeffer,
was idle last year. He went with the New
Yorks this spring on their training trip.
Less than week after he began work I'M
der Manager Irwin the latter said to him:
Fred you are behind the times, and if
you expect to keep in the procession you
must move up. Your style of playing was
peerless five years ago You play it as
we'll now as you did then, but the trouble
is that style is out of date. Young players
have tricks now which will beat it six
times out of ten. If you expect to play
ball in the League this year, you must
study up and apply the new methods
That little lecture told the whole story of
progressive baseball playing.
o. P. CAYLoR.
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THE DEATH PENALTY.
House Discusses the Bill Providing for
Its Adjustment.

House discusses the Bill providing for
Its Adjustment.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-The House
spent most of yesterday considering
the Curtis bill to abolish the death
penalty in all cases where it is pre-
scribed in the Federal statutes Sixty
in number), save in cases of murder
and assault, under sections 1899 and 5345
of the Revised statutes, where, how
ever, the jury might qualify the verdict
without capital punishment" The
bill makes no changes in the penalties
that can be inflicted by military and
naval court martial. Among the
crimes now punishable by death abol-
ished by the bill are murder and rob-
berry on the high seas, accessory be-
fore the fact to murder, piracy, etc,
on the high seas, destruction of vessels
at sea, piracy, arson of vessels of war,
etc. The bill failed to pass for want
of quorum.
The senate bill authorizing the
leasing of educational lands in Arizo-
ma, which was a modification of the
bill passed by the house over the
presidents veto some time ago, was
passed, as were also several bridge
bills
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AN EIGHT , HOUR DAY.

Meeting OF the National Federation of La
boris Executive Committee
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March o4.-The
executive committee of the National
Federation of Labor began its regular
conference in this city yesterday. The
conference lasted until late hour
and was devoted chiefly to a discuss
ion of the best means of bringing
about an eight-hour day.
A poll of those present showed a
unanimous sentiment in favor of
taking executive action at once that
will test the question as to whether
the affiliated labor organizations of
the country are capable of securing
what they claim to be their rights in
this particular. 49,,
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CAYLOR'S BALL GOSSIP
Managers Pick Their Timber at
the Training Grounds.
WHY VETERANS ARE HELD.

Recent War Talk Among Minor Glasses
Recalls the Lessons of Four Years Ago.
Jesse Burkett. Cast or by the New Yorks
In 1890, Heads the Batting List of 1895.
That men like Ewing, Arson, Brouth-
ers, Daily, McGarr, Miller and Conner are
still playing ball shows how hard it is to
find young players able to take the old
timers places. Every year from 80 to rs
new candidates are tried by the National
league. OF the novitiates of 1895 there
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kBANK ROBBERS IN JAIL
Three Men in Jail at Frisco for Crime
Committed in Missouri

Three Men in Jail at Frisco for Crime
Committed in Missouri
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.-William
Loughbridge, a recent arrival from
the East, is locked up at the city
prison at the request of the police of
icials of Kansas City. Mo.
Dr. B. B. Lee of this city is also in
custody as an accomplish after the
fact in the crime which it is supposed
Tough bridge and other crooks COM
mitted.
On the night of February the State
bank of Savannah, Mo-, was entered.
The safe was cracked and fourteen
bonds, worth $1,000 each, belonging
to Mrs. Eliza Breckenridge, were
stolen.
The arrests were made on dispa tehes
from Chief of Police Irwin of Kansas
City.
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A NEGRO LYNCHED.
Strung Up by a Mob for Assaulting Two
Young Women.

Young Women.
SHREVEPORT, La, March "a. - Ike
Pizer was lynched at o'clock yester-
day morning near Emporia station, on
the Shreveport and Houston railway.
Sunday afternoon two young women
were walking home on the railroad
track near Emporia. On their way
they were stopped by Pier, who Of
fered them a gross insult, which they
promptly resented. Pier then
knocked them off the track and was
frightened from further violenc by
the screams of the girls Pier fed
to the woods and the girls fastened
home and detailed what had happened.
Soon a mob of armed citizens were
out on the trail. The search was con-
tinued all night and it was earl 2 this
morning before Piers hiding place
was discovered. He was at once
lynched by the Infatuated mob.
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First published in the Topeka State Journal.
March 81, 1896
Registration Notice.
OFFICE OF

COMMISSIONERS OF ELECTIONS
TOPEKA, kans,. March 81. 1886.
Notice is hereby given that the books for the
registration of voters will be at the following
named places: Monday, March e at F. NJ.
Newland' s grocery store. corner Lake and eth
avenue Tuesday. March "a at w, n Warmers
drug store. corner 4th and Klein. Wednesday.
March %, at II. Markers grocery store, corner
Third and Jefferson. Thursday March 81 al
Chetfeld S store. S24 Seward avenue. Friday:
March q. at Whitelsey's grocery store. 1876 Mad
lson, also coal ONCE, corner Polk and Sixth;
also Monday and Tuesday ate. L. Purviances,
corner Huntoon and Clay, also d. ID. knoxs,
corner Sixth and Buchanan streets. also at
Kings store on Tenth and Washington; also
Wednesday and Thursday, March Is and 26. at
Frank Hobart'S. corner Tenth and Topeka ave-
nue. also at S. s. Rice's store, corner Fourth
and Taylor; also at Faust's grocery store, corner
Tenth and Monroe. Books will be open from
r. B. MCMAsTER
Commissioner of Elections.
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DAVIS TURNED DOWN.
Mckinley Gets the Minnesota Delegates
to the st. Louis Convention.

mckinley Gets the Minn esota Delegates
to the st. Louis Convention.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March 24.-
The Repu blicans of Minnesota met in
State convention in this city to-day to
elect four delegates-at-large to the St
Louis convention. The delegates
from the Duluth district are instructed
for Davis, but they are not talking
anti McKinley, and it is not believed
that Senator Davis's name will be
mentioned. The four deIegates-at-
large will certainly be instructed for
Mckinley.
Five Republican congressional con-
ventions were held in Minnesota yes
terday to choose two delegates each
to St. Louis. In the Second, Third
and Seventh districts Mckinley men
were elected. and in the Fourth and
Sixth districts the delegates were in
structed for Davis.
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WALLER CLAIMS DAMAGES.
The Ex-ConsuPs Solicitor Says Negotia-
lions with France Are Pending.

lions With France Are Pending.
LONDON, March "a. = Ex-Consu1
Walters solicitor writes that he has
declined to accept the. conditions upon
which the French government offered
to release Mr.. Waller, namely, that he
should waive all claims of compensa-
ton. HE was offered his release in
November" says the solicitor, ION
condition of waving his claim for
compensation, but he preferred to re-
main in prison. The United States
ambassador, Mr.. Eustis, informed him
that the United States government
had authorized the embassy to give
security for costs in any action against
the French government. We are seek
ing an amicable settlement with
France in his behalf"
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Chicago Aldermen Arrested.

CHICAGO, March 24.-Within the last
six weeks two Chicago aldermen have
been arrested on charges of disorderly
conduct, and last night third was
taken into custody on the charge of
beating a woman. The last city
father to distinguish himself is Maur-
Ice M. O'Connor of the Seventeenth
ward He was arrested in the ante
room of the city council chamber,
while the council was in session.