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Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Congressman Miller. of Kansas, is en-
route home to spend the holidays.
Congressman Calderhead. of Kansas, will
spend Christmas with friends in Oh:o.
p Martha. Elizabeth and Charlotte Wilbur
were burned to death in a fire at their home
in Newport, r. l., Saturday night.
Representative Van Horn, of Kansas
City, has introduced bill in congress to
extend the time for the commencement of
the construction of bridge across the
Missouri river near Lexington, Mo.
Polk James, one of the best known farm
ers of Buchanan county, No, was killed
by the. Burlington Ell" southwest of Eas-
ton Friday night. He was intoxicated and
undertook TO cross a bridge ahead of the
train.
The Quapaw Indian matter will again be
heard before the commissioner of Indian
affairs at Washington in the course of a
few days. Governor Crawford, who pre-
sented his side of the case, has gone home,
and a hearing will be given the Quapew
agent.
Representative Blues bill for an appro-
priation of $1,000 TO begin, work on the
federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
has passed the house as part of the urgent
deficiency measure. and now goes to the
senate. where Il will undoubtedly be ap-
proved.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
CHEROKEE ROLL A LONG ONE.
Many More Than Expected Entitled to
Share In the Division of the
Strip Fund.

Washington, Dec. 2O.-tSpecial.) The re-
port of the commission appointed to take
roll of the freedmen in the Cherokee
Nation which will be made to the secretary
of the interior on Monday will show
much larger number of persons entitled to
share in the Lewiston of the Cherokee strip
fund than was supposed. The Cherokees
certified to about 2,000. The Wallace roll
showed $500. The Cherokees were not sat
isfied with this and asked for another
census. special commission was ap-
pointed, consisting of Robert H. Kern, of
ST. Louis, chosen by the freedmen; W. P.
Thompson, chosen by the Cherokees, and
William Clifton, of Georgia, selected by
Secretary Hoke Smith. The commission
began the work last February, which has
been drawn out till the present time,
chiefly by the searching cross-examination
of the Cherokee members of the commits
sion. The commission finds that about $500
freedmen are legally entitled to share in
the money. The finding is a great surprise
to the Cherokees. who foresee that the
time is coming when their former slaves
and their descendants will claim their
rights in the allotment of the land.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21

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Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
DEADLY LAMP EXPLOSION.
Five Persons Lose Their Lives in the
Fire That Results
From 1t.

New York Dec. 20.-The explosion of a
piano lamp on the second floor of the four
story residence, ,514 East Fifty-eighth street,
resulted in the loss of five lives tonight.
The dead are: Aaron Goldsmith, 45 years
old; Chlotilde Goldsmith. his wife, 80; Ber-
tha Goldsmith, 10; Harry Goldsmith, 8;
Frank Goldsmith, 6.
The only other person in the mouse at
the time of the fire was Mary Rosa, do
mestic servant, who saved her lie by
jumping out of the window.
The family was together during the even
ing. the only outside member of the house
hold. a Mr. Hirsch, brother of Mrs. Cold
smith. having gone out shortly after the
evening meal.
According TO the story told by the serv-
ant, she was on the third floor of the build
ing. in the act of putting Harry and Frank,
the two youngest boys, to bed, when she
heard the cry of fire coming from the floor
below, with calls TO her TO come down.
She ran out of the bedroom and hurried
downstairs, the little children following
her. As soon as she looked into the front
room on the second floor, she saw the
whole front end of the room ablaze. Then
she became frightened and ran out into a
rear room and jumped from an open win
dow TO the ground. What more happened
she does not know but she says that the
fire was caused by the upsetting of the
large piano lamp.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
AN INVENTION THAT FAILED.
INTENDED TO BE USED AS A LIFE
SAVING APPLIANCE.
The Inventor Was u Des Moines, Ia,
Fireman, Who Brought the Ma
chine Here-Converted In
to Clothes Rack.

On the vacant corner lot at Ninth street
and Grand avenue stands a tall, gridiron
looking affair that resembles as much as
anything a series of sawbucks piled one
upon another, or an exaggerated clothes
rack. Indeed, it is now being used by the
colored family next door to hang clothes
upon, though it was originally designed as
q life-saving device 1t is a monument to
failure. 1t was designed as a life-savinS
apparatus by some visionary fireman in
Des Moines, Ia, and was brought to Kan
sas City and exhibited at the fire chiefs
convention in 1889. During that convention
the apparatus was tested, and its useless
ness for anything more dignified than
hitching post or a clothes rack was amply
demonstrated.
The inventor said that a sprocket wheel
somewhere failed to properly engage with
other mechanism and that this defect could
be corrected by few taps of a hammer.
The other firemen said the basic principle
of the machine was wrong and that the
only way to fix 1t would be to take it
apart, sell it for old iron and buy set OF
pompier ladders. They said its action was
too slow and that the time the sawbuck
looking thing had been screwed up to
fourth story window and down again with
its human freight an ordinary building
would either burn down or an ordinary fire
would be extinguished and the tenants out
of danger. So the machine was voted
failure The inventor went out and tapped
it with a hammer as he suggested for half
a day and then went back to Des Moines.
forgetting to take 1t with him. The negro
woman says it makes first rate clothes
rack.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
WHOLESALE REFORMS WANTED
Cincinnati Has bakers Dozen of
Measures to Press Upon the Ma
tiOnaI Board of Trade

Cincinnati, o., Dec. 2O.-Among the SUBJ
jects that will be presented before the ma
ticnal board of trade by the delegation
from the Cincinnati chamber of commerce
are recommendations favoring uniform
freight classification; revision of the tar
iff; retirement of the greenbacks; reduc-
ton of the tax of bank notes to one-haIf
of / per cent; increase of circulation of
national banks to par value of bonds de-
posted; establishment of a national clear
ing house; issuance of no bank notes of a
smaller denomination than S. after July,
1898. international bimetallism; discontinue
ance of the sub-treasury system; extension
OF the Torrens' system; improvement of the
interior waterways; adoption by all ma
tions of monetary unit of common
value, and the establishment of a depart
ment of commerce and manufactures.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
1T WAS ESSENCE OF CINNAMON.
Additional Details From the Scene of
the Wholesale Poisoning on
.SnenIxeasyss LIQUOR.

the Wholesale Poisoning on
"speakeasy" Liquor.
Wheeling. w. Va, Dec. 2O.-Additional
details from Benwood. the new oil field
in Monroe county, o., concerning the poi
soning from drinking essence. of CHINA
mon" substitute for whisky, sold at a
''speakeasy,'' confirm the first reports.
Three well known men are dead, several
are seriously i'll and three insane. 1t seems
that one of the storekeepers at Benwood
got hold of the fact that Wheeling drug
firm was putting up preparation called
essence of cinnamon" which contained
a large percentage of alcohol. The mer-
chant laid in a large supply Of the stuff
and informed the people that he had good
thing.
1t was received only yesterday, and he
sold great deal Of IT during the afternoon
and evening. Several who partook Of the
essence" soon became i'll, and three OF
them, after terrible suffering. died. Ihe
symptoms were the same in all cases. Ihe
first man taken i'll was w. II Price on
whose farm the Fisher Oil Company drilled
their first well, Before a physician couid
arrive from the nearest point, Sardls, ne
was dead He iied IN awful agony. Mr:
Price was one of the most prominent ana
wealthy citizens, his royalties from MettS ~.
on his farm aggregating 5000 month";
He leaves a wife and one child.
Charles Seibert, butcher Of Sardls' ~
was the next attacked, and he was quickly
followed to eternity by Thomas Clegg, an
oil driIler. Others who were attacked py
the same symptoms but are still alive, are
Colonel Clegg, Henry Roth and COOK IN
a boarding house. His name cannot De
learned.
About fifteen other persons are suffering
from the effects of the poison. A NUMBER
of physicians are on the ground and nope
to succeed in saving their lives,
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
LONDON PRESS COMMENTS.
Discussed Editorially by the
Leading Morning Papers.

London, Dec. 2l.-The Times, in an sdi-
tcrial says it thinks that in the face of
Mr.. Olneys distinct intimation of Presi-
dent Clevelands intention toward the Cam
eron resolution. the two houses of con-
gress may hesitate to accept the responsi-
bility of the resolution.
President Cleveland has nothing to gain
by yielding" the Times continues, "and it
is difficult to see what the majority in
congress could do. Is he to be arraigned
before the supreme court and impeached
eventually for disobedience If he be found
in the wrong?
THE question appears more likely to be
conflict of the powers within the Ameri-
can constitution than between Spain and
the United States.s Even if Mr.. Sherman
should be secretary of state in the new ad-
ministration, il is hardly likely that Mr..
Mckinley would surrender his independ-
ence as executive and enter upon the in
calculable risk of a war with Spain"
The Chronicle also discusses the consti-
tuticnal question involved in the apparent
difference between Presiuent Cleveland and
congress on the Cameron resolution. This
paper thinks that Mr.. Olney cannot have
put his foot down so absolutely, and that
he must have been misunderstood, be
cause. even admitting the difficulty of
bringing the matter before the supreme
court, congress could apparently impelch
the president, or take the quicker step of
declaring war against SPAIN"
The Standard, on the other hand, does
not doubt that Mr.. Olney's doctrine is
perfectly sound. 1t says:
I'VE seem to be in the presence of one
of those checks which the fathers of the
American constitution wisely imposed upon
the impulsive or spasmodIc ignorance of
the crowd and its more direct representa-
tives "
Recognizing Spain's right to have the
last word on matter concerning herself
the Standard asks whether, after all, the
Culan game is worth the candle and
whether it would not be better to give
autonomy.
The Daily News says, in its editorial on
rect. it is a strange constitutional irregu-
ulGrity. Senator Canovas has spoken with
dignity and discretion. If the senate jim
goes really wish to terminate hoStilities In
Cuba, they will seize upon Senor Canovas'
declarations and will press them upon their
Cuban friends"
The Morning Post, editorially, denounces
the senate, which," it says, has become
the great home for political fish who have
shown the most capacity for living in dirty
waters"
The Morning Post says further: 1.-THE re-
proach for the present disorder in Ameri-
can politics lies at the door of the senate
A dozen Cameron resolutions, even sup
ported by the requisite majorities, will not
oblige the president to act, unless he is so
minded
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
NEW PLAN TO AID THE POOR.
London Salvage Scheme of the Saliva
ton Army to Be Introduced
in Chicago, Ill.

London Salvage Scheme of the Saliva
ton Army to Be Introduced
in Chicago, Ill.
Chicago Dec. 2O.-The London salvage
scheme of the Salvation Army will soon
be established in Chicago for the benefit
of the poor and distressed. Colonel Thom-
as ROLAND, who has come from New York
to overlook the establishment of the unique
system here. says there cannot be the
least doubt as to its success.
In establishing the salvage system the
cooperation of charitably inclined people
is necessary. That is the only essential
feature of the work. The various houses
in the residence districts of the city are
visited Systematically by representatives of
the Salvation Army. These representatives
ask the privilege of placing in each house
large tin receptacle, in which the people
of the home are solicited to throw such
things as old empty bottles, nails, scraps
of brass and iron, paper, broken furniture,
clean bones, rags, cast-off articles of cloth
ing, and other odds and ends, which are
of trivial nature but still worth something.
AT stated intervals the poor people 10
whom the work is given make the rounds
of certain districts with push carts and
gather up the contents of the receptacles.
All the stuff is taken to a junkshop estab-
lished by the Salvation Army, and here
the gatherers of the salvage are given
the highest price possible for what they
bring in. At the junkshop the articles are
classified and placed in receptacles con-
tanning like material. All these materials
are then sold to the manufactures or are
used in the Salvation Army work.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
NUNIoN LABEL" GOODS.
Labor Unionists Urged to Buy No
Other-President GOmpers
in the Pulpit.

Cincinnati, O., Dec. 2O.-Many of the dele
gates to the sixteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor returned
home last night and to-day, but all the Of
ficers, committeeman and others interested
in unfinished business remained for to-
morrow's session. Mass meetings were
held to-day of the bakers, brewers, build
ing trades and other amalgamated associa-
tions, at which addresses We're made by
the national officers of the different organi-
cations. All organized trades having union
labels held joint meeting to urge union
lists to purchase only such goods as bore
the union label. The committees completed
their work to-day and 1t is stated that the
convention will be able to conclude to-mor-
row night.
This afternoon President Gompers occu-
pied the pulpit of Wesley chapel, speaking
on the interests of organized labor. Bish-
op Walden and most of the ministers of
this city occupied seats on the platform.
His subject was "a Rough Sketch of a
Rugged Struggle"
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
AMERICANS IN PALESTINE.
Several Hundred Are There Waiting
for the Second Coming
of Christi

Washington. Dec. 2o-Consul Wallace, of
Jerusalem, reports to the state department
that, according TO the consular records OF
his Office, there are $50 citizens of the
United States residing in Palestine. oE
this number 4Ss are Jews, who are only
nomlnally Americans, having lived in the
United States just long enough to obtain
citizenship papers and passports. The ma
jority of these emigrated from Russia to
the United States and thence to Palestine.
OF the other ninety-two American eiti-
zens nearly all have come here because of
peculiar religious views, and among them
may be found all possible shades of Chris
tian beliefs. The one idea which seems to
possess all to a greater or less degree is
that of the second advent of our Lord.
This is by all considered to be an event
soon to take place in Jerusalem.
Some of them during the period of wait
ing are suffering for the necessaries of life,
but are content to endure privation in the
hope of being present and witnessing the
Lords coming.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
KANSAS FEDERAL COURT BILL.
Some of the Provisions of the Measure
Dividing the State into
Two Districts. $50

Washington, Dec. 2O-(spectalJ Accord
ing TO the provisions of Representative
Millsr's bill for the division of Kansas
into two federal judicial districts, terms of
the district and circuit courts are 20 be
held at Fort Scott on the second Monday of
May and the second Monday o6 November
of each year. and at Wichita the second
Monday of March and the second Monday
OF September Of each year. Terms OF the
circuit court for the Northern district are
to be held at Leavenworth on the first
Monday Of June, at Topeka on the fourth
Monday OF November, and at Salina ON tile
first Monday of October; OF the district
court, at Topeka on the second Monday of
April. at Leavenworth on the second Tues.
day OF October, and at Salina on the fourth
Monday of May. The president is author
ized to appoint the necessary officials. The
jurisdiction now given to the courts of
Kansas, with reference to any portion of
the Indian Territory. is to be continued
and vested in the courts of the Southern
district to the same extent as now provided
by law
The Kansas delegation went over the bill
Just before il was introduced and decided
On number of important changes, Owing
10 the fact that Salina already possesses
4 suitable public building. it was decided TO
make that one of the court towns, necessI-
lRting rearrangement of some of the conn
Ties embraced in the prospective districts. II
Res decided to transfer Ellsworth and Nc
Pherson counties from the Southern to the
Northern district. They are nedrer to Sa-
Tina than any Of the other court towns.
which are Leavenworth, Topeka and sa
lima in the Northern. and Fort Scott and
Wichita in the Southern division. A clause
was inserted in the bill which makes a
incumbent on either of the judges TO per-
form the duties of the other in case of
temporary disability, and their salary was
fixed at $500 per annum, the same as now
paid to one.
The friends OF the measure argue that .,
will not cost the government more TO have
TWO judges than to call in judges from 9th
sr states. as under the present system. nav
ing them SO day to help relieve the over
crowded docket. which one court Is ma
ble 10 handle. The present marshnI will
be assigned to the Northern district until
his term expires and District Attorney
Perry will be attached 10 the Southern
district until his successor is appointed
fhis will necessitate the appointment OF
an attorney for the Northern and a mar.
shall for the Southern district. IL the bill
becomes n law. These assignments were
made because the present officials now live
In these respective districts. Judge Broder.
lex Will take the bill up in the judiciary
committee at The earliest possible date.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
M'KINLEY ATTENDS CHURCH.
After Service the Congregation
Crowded Around to Shake the
President-EIect's Hand.

Chicago, Dec. 2O.-President-elect Mckin-
ley. accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Lafay-
cite McWilliams and their two sons, at
tended divine service at the Sixth Presby-
terian church, on Vincennes avenue, this
morning. Mrs. Mckinley was unable to ac-
company them Every inch of seating
room in the auditorium was filled and many
sat in chairs in the aisles and in the foy-
er to the rear of the pews. Rev. w. p.
Merrill's discourse contained not the slight
est allusion to politics. All through it Ma
jor Mckinley looked intently at the preach
er and seemed to be taking in every word.
After service the major shook hands with
rumber of the congregation. There were
fully 1,0OO people outside the church wait
ing for the distinguished visitor to come
OUT, The neighboring windows were turned
into grand stands. As soon as Major Nc
Klnley appeared outside all made a rush
to shake hands with him. The policemen
kept many away. The party finally reached
the carriage, through the window of which
Major Mckinley shook hands with the
crowd Major and Mrs. Mckinley dined at
the home of Mrs. McKinley's uncle, Thorn
as Goodman, on Fulton street, and left for
Canton at 1870 o'clock tonight.
Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-12-21
SPEAKERsHIP OF THE HOUSE.
Candidates, with w. ID. Street
Now in the Lend.

Topeka, Kas., Dec. 2O.-CSpecial) The
fight for speaker OF the house of represent
ntives is still going merrily on. There are
m even dozen candidates, but the contest
has practically narrowed down to three
,audidates-Brown, of Pratt; Street, of De-
catur. and Trueblood, of Usage. Street
seems 20 be in the lead. He is big farm
or and the rankest Populist of all the can
dldates. He was member of the legisla-
ture two years ago and he made some
friends then that are proving valuable to
him In his race now. Taylor. of Wyan-
dotte. has developed considerable strength
and fs regarded as fourth man in the race
The speakershin fight will be the first one
10 be disposed of, and the candidates will
all establish headquarters in this city
shortly after Christmas and push their
bOoms.