The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-03-04

Olney for the Presidency on a Monroe
doctrine" platform.
Mrs. Mary Pickerel has been awarded
the garbage contract at Denver She is
one OF the very few women to engage in
this line Of business.
The new Assistant Secretary Of State is
MIR. Baldwin. His wife was Mrs. Cleve-
lands roommate at college and is niece Of
Miss Frances f. Willard.
Kentucky produced more tobacco during
1894 than any other State in the union, It's
product was about As per cent. Of the en-
tire product Of the country.
The, Pope's order against secret socie-
ties has been modified so as to protect men,
bers who might suffer pecuniary loss by
the enforcement of the original order.
Miss Martha Stowe has been postmistress
at North Oxford, Mass, for forty years. She
was appointed by Franklin Pierce and has
held her position under eleven Presidents.
II patent medicine advertisements con-
tanning the picture of Ithe last victim con-
tinue to get larger the ordinary newspaper
won't have any space in which to ''chew
the rag"
The Cleveland Democrats openly state
that they want the delegations to the ma
tlonal convention made up Of men who will
take such action as will drive the silver
men out Of the party.
The Cleveland, Ohio, Chamber Of Com
MERGE blackballed the application Of Car
negie for membership after speeches In
which it was charged that he was an "op-
pressor of the poor"
The St. Louis Globe Democrat says that
Chairman Carter OF the Republican ma
tional committee is guilty Of treason to the
party because Of his vote In the Senate
against taking up the tariff bill.
The Iowa Legislature refused to submit
an amendment to the constitution providing
for the prohibition OF the manufacture and
sale Of liquor. The prohibitory enactments
in that State have all been statutory.
The North Carolina delegation to the DEM
ocratic national convention will probably
follow the lead Of Tillman and the South
Carolina delegate in walking out If the
sound money men make the platform.
North Carolina has a larger number Of
distilleries than any State in the Union
Illinois produced the largest amount Of dis
titled spirits; Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsyl- |
vania and New York come next In the
order named.
Senator Wellman has introduced bill In |
the New York Legislature providing that
any hsbitual drunkard may upon appllca-
ton of an officer or his friends to the court
be given treatment designed to cure him at
public expense.
Michael d. Harter, who made an unen-
viable reputation in the Flfty-second and
Fifty-third Congresses as a defender OF the
single standard, bond-robbing outfit, COM
mitted suicide at Fostoria, Ohio, Saturday.
He shot himself while In bed.
Eastern papers, which are continually
bowling about the unfairness Of permitting
Utah and Nevada having the same repre-
sentation in the Senate, forget that Rhode
Island and Delaware have the same repre-
sentatlon that Missouri and Texas have.
Secretary Carllsle's advice TO New York
Chamber Of Commerce: "Devote all posi-
bic efforts to persuading the Republican
and Democratic national conventions to
adopt anti-free silver platforms, thus fore
ing the free silver advocates into independ-
emit action"
The number OF employees In the denart-