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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-27

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-27

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-27

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-27

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over the missouri Pacific from KAN
sas City.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Walls Of a Building at Cleveland Blown
Down Upon a Dwelling.
Killing Two Women and Injuring a
Number of Other People.
-Four Persons Meet With Death and
Two Others Injured. the Result of
a Fire in a Three-Story Building at
New York, the Upper Stories of
Which Were Used for Dwelling
Purposes-The Building Completely
(Tutfad
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CLEVELAND, March 29.-A terrific
windstorm, lasting only two minutes,
sprung up about o'clock this morning,
and created considerable havoc during
ats brief existence.
A few days ago fire broke out in the
six-story Kimball block, on Cedar ave-
nue, leaving the walls in a tottering
condition. The storm blew the walls
down upon the dwelling of H. A.
Vaughan, 745 Cedar avenue, crushing in
the roof and instantly killing Mrs. Sa-
rah Bradford and Miss Emma Dietrich,
who were in bed asleep. Mrs. Bradford
was asleep in an upstairs room over
the kitchen, on the side next to the fall
ing wall. The debris crushed upon her,
and carried the woman and bed down
through the heavy tinbers of the floor
to the kitchen below. Five other people
sleeping in the house were injured.
Tonight at s o'clock the people in the
vicinity of the Kimball block ruins were
thrown into panic by the fall of an
other section of the fire. e-blackened
walls. After a hurried but complete
investigation, it was ascertained that
no other buildings had been damaged,
nor further personal injury sustained
At this hour the front wall, six stories
high is standing without any support
whatever, and a brisk and increasing
wind is coming straight against it.
Should it fall outward the damage to
other buildings will be great, but people
have been warned. and there should be
nc one hurt by it.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
EIGHT DEATHS RESULT.
All Directly Caused by a Fire Which
Occurred in France.

PARIS. March 29-The Gothic
Church of ST. Sauvevre, on the Boule-
ward du Mareshal Valiant at Lille, was
destroyed by fire this morning. The
flames spread to the hospital adjoining
the church. There was great excite
ment when it was seen that the hospital
would be burned. The scenes among
the patients were terrible. Those who
were convalescent were hurriedly di-
rected to leave the building. and the
hospital attendants and others devoted
themselves to removing those who We're
not able to help themselves.
The cries of the sick were heartrend-
ing. Four of the patients who We're
extremely weak succumbed to fright and
died before they could be taken out
Many of the sick were received in the
Convent of the Little Sisters of the
Poor, which is situated but "a short dis
tance from the scene of the fire.
Ten sappers, who had been ordered
to save the medicines in the hospital
came across what they thought was a
quantity of schnapps. They each took
a drink, and were almost instantly
seized with symptoms of poisoning
Physicians at once attended them, but
despite all efforts four of the sappers
died, and the others are still suffering
agonizing pains.
1t was not until O'Clock this even
ing that the fire was mastered 1t was
caused by the neglect of some plumbers
who had been employed in the lower
part of the church. and who had either
left a burning brazier or dropped a
piece of ignited charcoal.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
GOOD NEWS FOR SACRAMENTO.
CONGRESS AT LAST TO LOOK
AFTER THE RIVER.
A Commission to be Created to Take
Charge of the Sacramento and It's
NavigabIe Branches.

WASHINGTON, March % = The
rivers of California are to be we'll taken
care of by. the Fifty-fourth Congress
The San Joaquin is to receive the aid
sought for it by Major Corcoran and
others who came to Washington in it's
behalf, and the Sacramento and it's
navigable tributaries are to receive ex-
tended aid.
Among other items the Committee on
Rivers and Harbors has agreed to re-
commend the appropriation of $3.50 900
for the construction of restraining
works for the protection of the Sacra-
mento and Feather Rivers, as recon-
mended by the California Debris Com
mission.
1t is also proposed to create a "Sacra-
mento River Commission" to take
charge of the Sacramento and its navi-
gable branches. and thus provide for a
scientific and methodical treatment of
those rivers.
In fact, California will fare better at
the hands of the present Committee on
Rivers and Harbors than for many
years past Although California has
no member on the committee, she has a
loyal and active friend in Representa-
tive Hermann of Oregon, who has been
member of the committee for many
years, and who has been instrumental
in securing the splendid recognition
which California has received. The
Chairman of the committee, Mr.. Hooker
Of New York, has also shown a decided
friendship for California.
The committee expect to make their
final report on Tuesday next in the
shape of the river and harbor bill in the
usual manner.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
HORRIBLE TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
AWFUL DEED OF A MAN WHILE
TEMPORARILY INSANE.
Kills His Wife, Fatally Wounds His
Daughter, and Then Cuts His
Own Throat.

ROGERS (Ark), March 29.-One of
the most horrible tragedies ever enacted
In this part of the country occurred at
the home of Pollaski Duckworth. five
miles west of this place, about 10
O'Clock this morning.
Duckworth, who was an honorable
ana respected citizen, and who had al
ways shown extreme love and care for
MS family while temporarily insane
Killed his wife, fatally wounded his five
year-old daughter, and then cut his
throat, dying instantly
He struck his wife two blows with the
plade of an ak across the forehead, Law
ing her skull wide open. The woman
seemed to have been struck first while
standing. The blow struck near the
center of the forehead, and ranged
down. The second blow took effect also
In the forehead and ranged dag
onally across, indicating that she was
struck after falling to the floor.
The murderer then plunged the bloody
ak into the scalp of his five-year-old
girl, laying her brain bare.
Leaving his victims writhing in their
blood, Duckworth went into another
room, and, standing by the bed cut his
throat with an ordinary pocket-knife.
Both jugular veins were severed. and
death resulted Immediately.
The little girl is yet alive. but her
death is expected at any hour.
Inc FAMILY consisted of Duckworth.
MS wife. who was about to again be.
come mother, and two little girls
aged and 5 years, respectively. The
elder of the little girls on her return
from Sunday-school was Mortified to
nnd the bodies of her mother and sister
lying ON the floor, and, without looking
LOT ner rather, ran t. the house of a
nelghbor about a mile away for assist
ance
For some time Duckworth has been
respondent over his failing health. He
mad just passed the meridian of life. his
strength had given way, and he feared
that ne would soon be unable to provide
io1 MS family. He trooded over this
until his mind became unbalanced. and
ratner than see his loved ones suffer
the pangs of hunger he committed the
awful deed
The record-union., 1896-03-30
WHOLE NO. 1e, f9nIvvE5RfasrrY ' r

Chief of the General Staff of the Prus-
sian army is seriously i'll with bron-
chitis. AT his advanced age-he will be
Sc on July 10th-it is feared that he
may not recover. Empress Frederick
sends Count Won Secendorff, Grand
J Master of the ex-Empress court, daily
to inquire as to the old soldiers condi-
ton, and has ordered frequent bulletins
to be wired her.
The action of the High Court at Leip-
sic in quashing the conviction of Robert
kneebS, the American horseman, who
was recently tried on the charge of
ringing the mare Bethel, under the
name of Nellie Kneebs, on the German
trotting course, was due to the fact that
the court found that fifty-one witnesses,
chiefly Americans, had rendered their
testimony to the defense, and could not
have been heard by the lower court.
The higher court therefore QuaShed the
judgment against Kneebs, and ordered
new trial, pending which Kneebs will
remain in prison.
The changed situation in the Trans
vaal has reawakened the sentiment
against England. On all sides the prep
arations which the Beers are making to
resist England's encroachments are ap-
proved.
The consensus of opinion in the Ger
man press is that the denial made by
Mr.. Chamberlain that England had pur-
chased Delagoa Bay is too vague to
suffice, and it is pointed out in support
OF this view that Mr.. Chamberlain has
denied that there have been negotia-
t1ons between Great Britain and Portu-
gal looking to such q purchase.
The National Zeitung" says: Eng
land cannot suppose that the friendli-
ness of the Berman Empire toward the
Dongola expedition plies a pledge
that she will remain passive in South
Africa
The Hamburger Correspondent" de-
clares that Germany will adhere to the
declarations made in the Reichstag by
F'reiherr Marshall Von Bieberstein.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Ger
many will not permit German interests
to be encroached upon.
The "Tageliche Bundeschau' asks:
Has Germany buir. up an empire
through blood and iron, only to look on
While a foreign nation is setting the
German nation at naught?"
The "Weltpolitik" SAYS: ''The peop1e
arc standing before the choice whether
to be the hammer or the anvil. They
cry out that they must be the ham
mer."
The 'Vossische Zeitung' urges the
Government to propose that the Powers
neutralize Delagoa Bay and keep the
Transvaal independent
The Congress of Silesian Centrists
held last week resolved to demand that
the Chancellor revise the German COM
mercial treaties and increase tariffs.
The congress passed resolutions favor
ing b1metallism. and declared that if the
majority of the Center party in the
Relchstag do not support that system
the S1lesian Centrists will organize a
catholic section of the Agrarian
League
The record-union., 1896-03-30
FRENCH POLITICS.
Burgeofs VIII be More Dangerous In
the Foreign Office Than Berthelot.

Burgeofs VIII be More Dangerous In
the Foreign Office Than Berthelot.
PARIS, March 29-There has been
no change in the political situation here
since yesterday. The Temps" COM
menting upon the resignation of the
Foreign Office portfolio of NJ. Berthe
lot, says that if the recent foreign pol
icy was not a success the change has
been insisted by Prime Minister Bur-
geois, who is an able parliamentarian
but inexperienced diplomat. Therefore
M. Burgeois in the Foreign Office will
possibly be more dangerous than was
M. Berthelot. France must know who
leads, and where she is led.
In the Chamber of Deputies M. Bruent
and Delafosse, and in the Senate M.
Bardeaux, have notified Prime Minister
Bourgeois that they will tomorrow in
terpellate the Government on the situa
ton in Egypt
M Poincaire, ex-Minister of Finance
Will also tomorrow question the Gov
ernment in the Chamber of Deputies on
the resignation of M. Berthelot and on
the foreign and general policy of the
Government. The debates will be impor-
tant, and the defeat of the Government
is possible.
1t is rumored this evening that the
reserve squadron at Toulon, Brest
L'Orient and Cherbourg have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness
to be placed on a war footing. 1t is
also rumored that France under the
coaching of Russia, will convene an
international conference to settle the
question of the powers of the Egyptian
Debt Commission and the evacuation
of Egypt. 1t has been impossible to
confirm either rumor.
BERTHELOT MADE A SCAPEGOAT
LONDON, March 29-The DAILY
Graphic" will tomorrow say it regrets
the resignation of M. Berthelot 1t adds
that he sincerely sought the friendship
of Great Britain and that the French
tactics regarding Egypt probably origt-
mated with his colleagues in the Cabi-
net
The standards" Paris correspondent
telegraphs that M. Berthelot was made
a scapegoat, though it is believed that
NJ. Bourgeois was the author of the COM
minatory Egyptian note which had it's
origin in his diplomatic defeat
The record-union., 1896-03-30
hat Smith was guiltless, and he was

that Smith was guiltless, and he was
set at liberty.
The United Press reporters. in MAX
ing investigations among the neighbors
tonight, unearthed a clew which may
eventually throw light upon the crime.
It was ascertained that some three
years ago Alvin Stone was mainly in
strumental in bringing to justice a
horsethief who had piled his nefarious
vocation in Tallnadge. The thief was
sentenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary. 1t is said by the neighbors that
he threatened that when released he
would never rest until his vengeance on
the Stone family was satisfied His
name is Antoine Strong. Descriptions
of the suspect have been sent out broad
cast. The Cleveland department has
been notified to look out for him.
Lynching is uppermost in everybody's
mind.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
This WEEK IN CONGRESS.
MATTERS TO BE DISCUSSED IN
SENATE AND HOUSE.
Appropriation Bills Principally.
Though the Cuban Resolutions
VIII Come Up in the Latter.

WASHINGTON, March 29-It is ex-
pected that consideration of the sun
dry civil appropriation bill will be the
first work of this week in the House.
The radical changes in the bill will
cause much discussion, and several
days may be spent over it. The reduc-
ton of the appropriation for continu-
ing contract river and harbor work
and public buildings in course of con-
struction to a basis of eight months op-
erations, on the theory that the re-
ma1nder of the year can be provided
for at the next session of Congress, will
be attacked by the Democratic mem
bers of the Committee on Appropria-
tions Other changes not so radical will
also be the cause of some discussion.
but no serious addition to the total car
ried in the bill is anticipated.
When the sundry civil bill has been
got out of the way, Hit will call up the
report of the conference on the Cuban
matter, which recommends that the
House concur in the Senate resolu-
tions.
The coming week in the Senate will
be devoted to appropriation bills. The
bill for the settlement of the United
States with the State of Arkansas will
be considered Tomorrow There ap-
pears to be little hope of its passage, and
there likewise appears to be a DISPOSE
ton to devote tomorrow only to its con-
sideration.
The Postoffice bill will be laid before
the full committee tomorrow, and an
effort made to report to the Senate dur
ing the day. If this is done it will be
called up in the Senate Tuesday
The Indian and naval bills are before
the committee, and it is believed that
the Indian bill will be reported before
the week is out, although the House ac-
tion relative to the appropriation for
Indian schools is likely to cause some
debate in committee.
After the Postoffice bill is disposed of
the Senate will probably renew the dis
cussion on Cannon's resolution direct
ing the Secretary of the Interior to obey
the law opening the Uncompahgre Res
eryation to settlement. This, several
days ago., was made the unfinished busi-
ness after the Arkansas matter should
be disposed Of
The bill to protect fur seals from ex-
termination is demanding attention,
and an effort will be made to get it up
The remainder of the week will prob
ably be devoted to consideration of
bills on the calendar.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
REMARKABLE CASE.
A Needle Removed Which Man Swal-
lowed When a Boy.

COLUMBUS (O), March ga SIM
pie operation performed in the hospital
of the State Prison this afternoon ends
most interesting surgical and patho-
logical history.
Prison Hospital Surgeon Tharp re-
moved from the body of James Morris,
a Federal prisoner serving a term for
counterfeiting, a needle which was
swallowed by the patient when he was
a boy IL years old. AS he is now SO
years of age, the needle has been in the
body forty-two years. In that time it
has travelled undoubtedly through near
ly every part of the body below the
waist.
He has made several applications to
have the needle removed since he has
been in the prison, but it could not be
located with sufficient accuracy Not
long ago it was in his right knee, and he
claimed he could feel the point of it. He
suffered great pain from it all the time
To-day he felt the. point of the needle
projecting from his breast, just below
the heart. 1t was an easy matter to
remove it.
1t was the intention of the prison Off
cials to use the cathode ray in searching
for the needle if it had not been found
so soon.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
PROSPECT OF A LYNCHING.
Enraged Citizens After a Man Who
BrutaIIy Assaulted Woman.

Enraged Citizens After a Man Who
BrutaIIy Assaulted a Woman.
CROWN POINT Qnd), March %
1t is very probable that the Crown
Point jail yard will be the scene of a
lynching party before morning. Albert
Knauss, a farm hand working for
Nicholas Haan, prosperous and
wealthy farmer living five miles south
of this place, brutally and criminally
assaulted Mrs. Haan while her hus-
band was away from home. The brute
then kicked Mrs. Ham into an in
sensible condition, so that it is ex-
tremely doubtful that she will recover
Knauss was apprehended and jailed
yesterday. Sheriff Hayes placed the
jail under a heavy guard.
Later-A mob of about fifty men sur
rounded the Jail about 10 o'clock and
clamored loudly for Knauss. Sheriff
Hayes, with a. loaded Winchester, told
the mob to disperse, and threatened to
shoot the first man who appeared on
the Jail steps. The mob cowed and,
lacking a leader, dispersed. More
trouble is looked for
The record-union., 1896-03-30
FATAL FIRE AT NEW YORK.
Four Persons Meet With Death and
Two Others Injured

Two Others Injured.
NEW YORK, March 29.-Four per-
sons were killed and two injured early
this morning in a fire at 374 Hudson
street. The building is a three-s story
brick house, used for dwelling and store
purposes. The upper two floors shell
tered four families. The dense smoke
deferred some of the tenants from de-
scending the stairways. Miss Margaret
Ryan, 90 years old, with a companion,
Miss Kate Higgins, ran to a window
A fireman, in ascending a ladder to res
cue the women, was knocked off by a
burst of flame shooting from a second
story window and was badly injured.
The women then became hysterical
Miss Ryan leaping from the window.
She fell on the sidewalk breo king her
back, and died on the way to a hos
pital in am ambulance. Her companion
fell from the window and broke her leg
The firemen could not rescue everyone
in the building owing to the immense
quantities of smoke. After the fire
had been extinguished three bodies were
found of people who had been suffo-
Gated. They were Miss Mary Mcmahon,
% years old; Thomas Mallory, % years
old, fireman on the steamship ST.
Louis, and Archibald Grogan, 80 years
old. Their bodies were not burned.
The damage amounted to $4,000,
the building being almost entirely de-
Stroyed
The record-union., 1896-03-30
DEED OF A JEALOUS HUSBAND
Seriously Wounds His Wife and Then
Commits Suicide.

Commits Suicide.
COLUMBUS, March 29.-Fred Gorrel
aged %, attempted to kill his wife this
afternoon, and supposing that he had
succeeded, killed himself.
GorreI came from Mount Vernon last
fall and married the daughter of his
employer. Sylvester Eggleston, a con-
tracing painter. He was insanely
jealous of her, and because of quarrels
resulting from this she left him some
days ago. Gorrel went TO the house OF
his father-in-law, where his wife was
staying, this afternoont and asked her
if she would go back and live with him.
She refused, and he drew arevolver and
shot her twice. One bullet entered her
hip and the other pierced her left breast
just below the shoulder
Gorrel then snapped the revolver at
his own head repeatedly, but it would
not &c. off. He then went to the kitchen
and seizing butcher knife tried to cut
his throat, but the blade was too dull
He then ran to his father-ln-law' S
room, and securing his razor, cut his
The record-union., 1896-03-30
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Ihree People Killed by BowIder
Crashing Through DWELLING.

IHTUtSH a DweIIing.
HINTON CIV. va.), March 29.-Tbrea
people were instantly killed and two
others seriously injured at Echo. a min
ing town forty miles west of here. this
morning
A mass of stone loosened by the spring
rains let go. and huge bowlder rolled
down the mountain side, tearing up coke
ovens and railroad track, and finally
crashing through a small frame dwell
1ng-house, with the above result.
The killed are: Jim Tillman. Frank
Tillman and Lucy Law. The names of
the injured could not be learned
Henry Law, an occupant of the house,
rushed out and tagged an eastbound ex-
press train which was just due, and
would have probably been derailed by
the ruined condition of the track.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Turkish Minister Not Recalled.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Tha
Turkish Legation to-day received the
following telegram from the Turkish
Minister Of Foreign Affairs:
The news telegraphed to the London
Times about the Turkish Legation of
Washington, being false, you can con-
tradict'
The above undoubtedly refers to the
dispatch from Constantinople that the
Turkish Minister to this country and
his Secretary were to be recalled
The record-union., 1896-03-30
RAPID COMPOSITION.
Experts Compete on Linotype Machines
at st. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, March 29-Advanced
figures were set here to-day for rapid
composition on linotype machines
Barney Mensing of the 'Post-Dispatch"
and Robert w. Francis of the Globe
Democrat competed for seven hours
Tor the championship and 5000 a side.
Mensing's total was IA 100 ems, and
that of Francis So 800 ems. These totals
are net, as all corrections were de-
Quoted. Mensing's total would have
been larger but for an error in the time
keeper, who called him off before the
seven hours were completed. The
proofs were good, those of Mensing es-
pecially
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Worsted Mills Burned.

PHILADELPHIA, March 29-The
Glenmore Worsted Mills of Samuel P.
Woods & Sons, at Tenth street and Ger
mantown avenue, were destroyed by fire
yesterday. The loss on stock and ma
chinery was $195,000, on which there
is an insurance of $4,000. The loss ON
the building is about $4,000, on which
the insurance is not known. Three hum
dred hands are thrown out of employ
ment
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Prominent Society People Divorced.

81. LOUIS, March 29.-Henry Hous-
ton Crlttenden was yesterday granted
divorce from Daisy Dosier Crfttenden
on the ground of desertion. No defense
was offered Both are members of
prominent and wealthy families. Mrs.
Crlttenden is the daughter of a million
are cracker manufacturer, and Mr..
CrIttenden is the son of Hon. Thomas
1. Crittenden, now Consul General to
Mexico, and once Governor of Missouri.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Suicide at Detroit.

DETROIT (Mich). March 29-w. p.
Strelbinger of Cleveland, O., committed
suicide al the Randolph Hotel here some
time to-day by taking poison He left
a note which said that he had lost all of
his money in speculation. He was
about 81 years old, and well dressed.
The record-union., 1896-03-30

throat. He made such desperate
stroke at his throat that the head was
almost severed from the body, and he
fell dead
Mrs. Gorrel will probably recover.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Orders to Keep steam Up.

PARIS, March 29.-It was semi-offi-
cially announced this evening that the
active squadron at Toulon had received
orders for one of the cruisers to keep
steam up.
The record-union., 1896-03-30
Mrs. Elizabeth Charles Dead.

LONDON, March 29.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Charles, author of THE Chronicles
of the Scheinberg-C Gotta Family THE
Martyrs of Spain" and a number of
other works, died at Hampstead to-day