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Call for Conventions

A Delegate Convention Of the
Republican Electors of Missouri
is hereby called to meet in the City
of st. Joseph, on the 18th day OF
May, 1896, forthe purpose OF elect
ing four delegates at-large and
four alternates, to the National
Republican Convention, called to
meet in the city of st. Louis, on
Tuesday, June 10th, 1896 for the
purpose OF nominating Candidates
for President and Vice President
of the United States. Also to Sc
lect state committee, and for any
other business of % National char
acter that may properly come be-
fore the convention. Also a dele
gate State Convention, for the pnr-
pose OF nominating candidates of
the Republican party, for the va
riOus State officers to be ell cted by
the electors of Missouri ut the
state election, to be held on the I'd
day of November, 1896, and
Judges of the Court of Appeals;
also to select two Presidential
Electors large, and one Presi-
dental Elector for each Conges-
sional District and Tor the purpose
OF transacting such other business
as may properly be submitted for
its action, is called to meet at the
City of Springfield, on the 22d day
of July, 1896, at IL o'clock, a IN.
The basis OF representation to
these conventions, will be one del
gate for each 300 votes, or fraction
of $50 or excess, cast for Republi-
can candidate for Supreme Judge,
at the election, of 1894, provided
that each county shall be entitled
to at least one delegate, and that
tue city of st. Louis shall elect
delegates upon the same basis and
in the same manner of the cOun-
ties.
The Republican County Com
mittees, are directed upon the
issue of this call, to cali conyen-
tiens to meet on Or prior to the 1st
Saturday in May 1896, to select
delegates, givin;, not less than
twenty days not ice thereof, and
any failure so to act, shall in any
county so failing authorize the Re
publicans of suca county, to meet
in mass cOnvent ion on Saturday,
the 9th day of N .ay, at the court
house in said Goa nty at one O'Clock
p. M, to selecS the delegates ap-
portioned to saiG county. Officer of
said conventions or mass meet = rs
will promptly report the nam Of
the delegates thus selected to
these headquart ers.
The coventi) will consist of
762 delegates o f which Z is appor-
toned to AdaiI county.
Issued by OF der of State Com
mittee, March 90, 1896.
CHAU NCY |. FILLEY,
A. GRIFFIN, Chairman.
Secretary.
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Keep Cool.

.. z. Holcroft has several hun
dred tons of ice, which he will
S Ill to the people during the hot
seasos at reasonable rates, giving
in every case full sixteen ounces
to the pound. Make your contracts
with him for the summer.
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There is no reason why OF
should have cough any length @
time. All that is needed to ALA,
soreness of the throat or to fre.
the bronchial tubes from irritatin,
mucus is Ayers Cherry Pectoral
1t is a wonderful cough cure, apG
should be in every medicine-chest.
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w. f. NooNAN, Agt.

Everybody their own dyer. You
can dye with Putnam Fadeless
Dyes just as well as the expe, t
dyer, for Putnam Fadeless Dyes
colors all kinds of fibre at one
time, in the same kettle, with one
boiling. You stir the goods with
the dye; it will make them bright
and new. Sold by all druggists.
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Our Next Excursion via the Wa
81,

Our Next Excursion via the Wa
bash.
April 10th we will sell Home
Seekers Excursion tickets to Ala,
Ariz Ark, Ia, Ind. Ty., Kans.,
Ky, La, Mimi, Miss, S. Mo-,
N. Oak, Okla, Tenn, and Texas
at one fare (plus 5000 for the
round trip. Good one month.
Stop overs. Just the thing. If
you contemplate trip confer with
me, for full particulars. Two (2)
fast trains daily Kirksville to St.
Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines,
and st. Paul, with through chail
cars and sleepers via 1.-The Grea
Wabash Route"
W. f. NooNAN, Agt.
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Election Notice

Notice is hereby given that special election Will
he held on Tuesday, the zISt day of April 1890 :
the regular voting place in each precinct in seve
town ships in Adair county. State OF Missouri to .
termne whether the said county of dair shall inc
an Indebtedness of not exceeding $4,000 for t
purpose OF building Court House and Jail in s. 8
county. and the issuing of bonds of said county :
the issuing OF bonds OF said eou nty therefor to
amount to exceed $4,000. All bonds so issued to q
due in twenty years. but payable after five yearSs
the option of the county and to bear rate OF
est no TO exceed five per cent pay able semi a. e
ly. e
Done by order of the county court March 9th 10
H. K. GRESHAM. Clerk
KirksviIIe. No Much Is. rS.j.
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Beyond I he River.

Fine March W. Gather.
Farmers are cl caring land.
Lee Whitman & Co., have been
saving wood With their horse
Ipower saw in tn is section recently.
Edward Darr has about finished
working off a forty acre tract OF
timber into r {. ties.
There are mo re marriages to the
square mile hel e this spring than
ever before per haps.
We learn ths 1T Miss Martha Hol-
man will teach the spring term OF
school at Goldt N Rule.
Charley Easl ey of Elmer visited
j. o Truitt al I'd family few days
last week.
The sound If the chivari is quite
familiar. Sol netimes two couple
are chivaried the same night by
the same GRO wd. A treat is al
ways in read mess.
Several farmers are making
maple syrup this spring.
Mr.. John Holt and Mi SIS Emma
Darr of this vicinity wer married
at Kirksville by H. c. Fa rrington,
Probate Judge, on the Isl Ii.
Mr.. Jacob Harman nd Miss
Ella Cain were married at the
residence of Mr.. and Nh s. Geo.
Cain, the brides parent. !, Rev.
Nickel of the NJ. E. chur, n per-
forming the ceremony.
MIR. Daniel Vanlaningha a and
Miss Addie Shott were mar ried at
the residence, of Mr.. and airs.
James Shott the brides pare nts by
Rev. Nickel on the 18th. A ;q{en-
did dinner was served of which
fifty eight guests partook.
"Success is thereward of Il crit
not of assumption. Popular ap
probation is what tells in the long
run. For fifty years, people have
been using Ayers Sarsapal lila,
and to-day it is the blood -pur ifier
most in favor with the pub lie.
Aver Sarsaparilla cures.
No. s Cook Stove anu 80 pie, ees
Of furniture for $3.50 at w. A.
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A. P. WILLARD,
Physician and Surgeon,

Continues fhe practice in all the branches of the
profession. Treatment cf Chronic diseases aud in
iuries specially bv fhe aid of Electromagnetic
OFFlCE-North side of public square: hours 9 to II
a to p. m; residence one block north on
Franklin street. No. sos.
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No. s Cook Stove anu 80 pie, ees
of furniture for $3.50 at W.. A.
Coles.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
CONYERTEU no STLYER.
The Wealthiest Man in Southern Wis
oonsin Leaves the Republicans.

Kenosha, Wis. July ga great sur
prise has been sprung on the political
circles of this section by the announce
nent that z. G. Simons, the wealthiest
man in southern Wisconsin, had de-
clared himself as unqualihedly in favor
of the election of Bryan and Sewall
and has Endorsed the entire Chicago
platform.
Mr.. Simon is president of the First
National bank owns large business
blocks, is president of the Northwest
ern Wire Mattress company and of the
Northwestern Telegraph company,
whose wires now form, under lease,
great portion Of the northwestern sys-
tenn of the Western Union Telegraph
company, and he also controls large
holdings in railway stocks.
He has always been an unwavering
adherent of the Republican party and
an advocate of high protection. He
says that the time has gone by for high
tariffs and that in the advocacy of
the money question the people who
made the platform in Chicago acted in
the true interests of the people. His
two sons have also Joined the party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
BIG APPLE EXPORT.
Transatlantic Crops Are Almost a
Failure.

New York. July 25.-The apple crop
abroad will be unusually small this
year, according to detailed advices re-
ceived from London yesterday by Otto
G. Meyer & Co., of Bridge and White
hall streets.
Choice, sound American apples. es-
peciaIly of bright color, will, therefore,
be in more than ordinarily active de
mand in London, Liverpool and Glas-
gov markets, where they have long
been in great and growing favor on ac-
count of their superiority over the
European product. This is indicative
of largely increased export trade from
this country, but Josiah Rich, Meyer &
Cos veteran expert and manager, who
has carefully investigated the subject,
says that the American crop is so
abundant that apples viii be abnormal
ly cheap this year, despite their pros
pective heavy expectations
The aggregate apple crop of the Uni
ted States and Canada last year was
estimated to be from 81, 900, 900 to So
600, 900 barrels, or from 1000, 900 to TO-
O00, 900 barrels more than were ever pro-
duced in any previous year. This years
crop, it is expected, will fully equal
and probably exceed that of last year
when the consumption of apples was
materially augmented by the absence
of Florida oranges from the market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
CAN'T INDORSE COLE.
Ex-senator Ferry of Michigan Says
Bimetallism Has Prevented Raids.

Grand Haven, Mich. July 25.-Ex-
Senator Ferry is an earnest bimetal-
list. 1T was bimetallism which saved
US from a disastrous raid when we re-
sumed specie payment" said he. THE
law today gives the secretary of the
treasury the option to pay gold or sill
YER and if he had exercised this option
much of the financial trouble this coun-
try has had would have been averted.
Il am not in sympathy with Republi-
can platform, which declared for the
gold standard until the adoption of hi
metallism by international conference.
This is sort of negative declaration
for the great principles, which should
be affirmative. That is, the platform
should have declared for international
binetallism and favored gold in the
meantime. The results is practically the
same either way, excepting one makes
bimetallism the strong point and gold
subordinate and the other subordinates
bimetallisn, and leads on gold.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25

for the time being partisanship and
work together earnestly and intelli-
with a crisis so serious as this OF to at
tempt to ignore or 1belittle it, would be
both a blunder and a crime I think
that at the present moment the multi
tudes of sound money Democrats rep
resented by the 254 delegates who re-
fused to vote in the Chicago convention
are fully awake to the danger which
cOnfronts the nation and are willing to
cooperate, heartily and honestly, with
equally patriotic members of other
parties in any rational movement to
stamp out this heTPsy. How long they
will continue in this frame of mind no
man can tell. But one fact is certain.
The present responsibility for meeting
this situation rests upon the Republi-
can candidates and leaders, and if they
are to act fntelligently and practically
there is no time to lose"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
BRYAN'S WATERMELON.
Weighed Forty-seven Pounds and
Pleased the Nebraskan.

Pleased the N ebraSkan.
Lincoln, Neb., July 25.-An interest
ing function took place at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. J. Bryan yesterday
morning. The Al pound water melon
received from Georgia was cut at II
O'Clock for the benefit of the visiting
newspaper men and members of the
family
It was a melon of high degree, salts
flying to the eye and luscious to the
taste, and Mr.. Bryan called particular
attention to its being "a good, honest,
Is to I water melon big enough for 49,
Mr.. Bryan did the carving at first for
the informal feast, but the claims OF
correspondents of callers, and of the
telephone, which has Just been put in
the house, called him away and Mrs.
Bryan Officiated.
The history of the melon is interest
ing:
Mr.. w N. Mitchell, southern. repre-
sentative of the B. q o. railroad, offer
ed IS apiece for the two largest water
melons grown in Georgia in the season
OF 1896 He sent out a circular letter
to all melon growers in the state max
ing the offer. The prizes were won by
Mr. J. W. Conner of Eden. %sa. The two
farm in bingham county, near Eden
station, on the Central railroad The
melons reached Atlanta Saturday
morning by express and left by the
southern Express COMPANY LOI tie
west. Mr.. Mitchell, on behalf of the B.
& 0. railroad presented one to Hon.
Vim. Mckinley and one to Hon. W. J.
Bryan, the two presidential candidates.
The melons were packed. one in a gid
ed basket in a bed of golden tinsel. tied
with gold ribbons stamped: Single
Standard and one in a silver basket,
in silver tinSel tied with white satin
ribbon stamped "16 to l. The express
company sent the melons free. At Can
ton o., and Lincoln, Neb., special serv-
ice was given, representatives of the B.
& 0. being on hand to make the pre-
sentatiOu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
NO=TO=BaC MemdS Nerves.
Lost Life-FOrce Restored and
Shattered NerYe-POwer
Quickly Repaired.
The Tobacco Vice Undermines
Vigor and Vitality. Nervous
Prostitution, General DebiIi-
ty Mean Tobacco Nerve
Poisoning.

Tobacco-using is a reckless waste of life force.
money and manhood.
&c is a dirty. nasty. men-WreckiDg disease and
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he tObacco-user'S nerves are shattered and
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If your nerve and heart action is weak, no
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
NEW KITE RECORD.
a Height of 1900 Feet Reached at a
Boston Observatory.

Boston, July Pa flight of kites was
sent up on Blue Hill yesterday that
reached the highest recorded height
ever attained before with such instru-
ments
The top kite of the line reached 1900
feet, or nearly a mile and a half above
the sea level. The result is the Gull
minatiOn of a long series of expert
ments, often leading to troublesome
setbacks, which have been finally over
come.
On one occasion, when the conditions
seemed perfect, the string broke when
a height of about 1000 feet was reach
ed. and the stray kites and attached
instruments were found in Quincy, over
three miles away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
man Allen severely rebuked the con-
RATTOTTNG BEGINS.

man Allen severely rebuked the con-
BALLOTING BEGINS
The balloting began and before the
roll call was ended 1t was seen that the
middle of the readers had won vic
tory.
Arkansas started off with 25 votes for
Watson. Tom Patterson of Colorado
cast the IS votes of his state for Sew
all amid a round of applause from the
Bryan men Some one jumped up and
challenged the vote, claiming that he
wanted his vote recorded for Watson
Mr.. Patterson denounced him as an in
terloper and he proved to be, on IN
Vesugation, a member of the contested
delegation that had been excluded In
diana gave her 80 votes to Watson
Kansas gave Sewal 81, Ohio 81. Loutsi-
ana gave the bulk Of her vote to wat
son. Maryland divided her votes be-
tween Sewa1 and Watson. 1t looked as
If Watson might be nominated on the
first ballot until North Carolina cast
her 95 votes for Skinner, Tennessee her
II for Mimms and Texas cast her 1O3
for Burkett. This split up the larger
delegations.
After the roll was complete Texas
changed her vote to Watson and there
were other changes to Georgia. Colonel
Burkett OF Mississippi went to the stage
and withdrew his name.
Mimns withdrew in WatsOn's favor.
The Georgian already had votes enough
to nominate, but the vote OF Tennessee
was finally transferred to his column.
Some one made a motion to make the
nomination unanimous and it was car
ried with a whoOp.
LIGHTS GO OUT.
Immediately the middle of the road
men grasped their banners and started
a demonstration, but suddenly without
warning the lights were eXtinguished
and the convention was left in total
darkness.
Pandenonium reigned. Men shouted
out Of the inky darkness, others sang,
and a few cursed. The band struck up
a lively air. A few candles were
brought into the press tables and the
delegates crowded about them, pushing
and swaying in the pickering light.
Several suggested that it was an i'll
omen, but chorus of voices shouted
that 1t was a put-Up job.
Then some one called attention to the
fact that the nomination of Watson was
announced at exactly Is minutes of L
This tickled the middle of the road men
and they shouted 'Hurrahl hurrah!"
and yelled "16 to II A few minutes
later the lights were again turned on
and after quiet was restored Congress
man Howard of Alabama moved an ad-
journment until o'clock this morning
and the motion was carried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
To Enlarge Ellis Island.

Washington, July 25-Corinissioner
General Stump of the immigration bu-
reau of the treasury department. has
decided to enlarge Ellis island. New
York harbor, on plans approved by the
war department. The plan cDntem-
plates charging the island by one acae
and a half. This will be done BY driv-
ing piles about the lower end of the
island and filing in the area.
We can Iaunder ladies' shirt waists to
suit the most critical customer. Peer
less Steam Laundry. Phone 1872.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
HOFFMAN Honae Cafa CIosed.

New York, July 25.-The old Hoffman
House cafe was closed last night and
a smaller room opened in the Twenty
fifth street wing of the building The
proprietor, Edward s. Stokes. it is said.
will not part with the beautiful art
collection, which has made the Hoff-
man House cafe famous, but will pro-
badly arrange for an art gallery in the
hotel proper The old cafe was known
the country over and was one of the
sights which strangers in the city were
brought to see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
Baby Rested Better Than Ever.

Eureka, Kan, Sept. "a '95.-Hand
Medicine Co: DR.. Hands Collie Cure
gave my baby great relief She is nine
months old and rested better last night
than she ever has. can testify to its
virtues with a good conscience. Mrs J.
Perry" Mothers, ask some mother who
has used this remedy about it. Dr.
Hands remedies. for children never dis
appoint. Sold by all druggists for 25
cents a bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
ACROSS THE MOON.
Strange, New Route of Dark Ne
teor.

Geneva, n. z, July 25.-Professor
William r. Brooks, director Of the Smith
observatory, while observing the moon
last night, saw a dark round object
pass across the moon in a horizontal
direction Professor Brooks believes
it to have been q meteor, too far re-
moved from the earth's atmosphere to
become ignited. The observation is
entirely new in astronomical annals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
Gotham's Floating Roof Gardens
Popular

New York, July 25-Never in the his
tory of amusements has anything at
tracted so much attention and sprung
into popularity in so short a time as
the floating roof garden The pala-
tial steamer Grand Republic last even
ing carried up the beautiful Hudson
2, comfortable number Of passengers
highly pleased at the novelty and sur
prised at the manner In which the at
fair was managed. Two stages are
erected, one on the hurricane deck, and
the other on the promenade deck, so
far apart that they do not interfere
with each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25

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gists-
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