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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

Next morning both dUelists received let
tiers wor6ed alike. Here is one of them:
1Tv DEAR 11ABcuIs-I heard yesterday aft
ernoon that y7rl aad Count Roux were going
to have q 6ghf aboub me, and having heard
how French Crels are fought I made up my
mind that I wasn't going to be made the
Laughing stock Of Ari=ona by having a couple
Of Erenchlnen 1ring OF blank cartridges about
me. Out where come from when men fight
they fight and don't monkey am d lone girl
ana have my reputation to protect so settled
that if you fellows were going to shoot at each
other somebody would have g chsnce to get
hurt anyhow Row I got hold of the pistols
last night I don 1t have to tell you A little
money goes o long vay among servants here
1t is enough to say that / fixed the bankers all
right. Hoping that nobody got hurt very bad
ly and that you viii not blame me for protect
ing my reputation, I am yours truly,
VIRGINIA TUCSON.
P. ST win be on my way home when you
receive this VI. II.
Kew York World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
RUSSELL DROPS OFT.
Sees He has No Business at Chicago
and VIII Wait for a Gold Nom
s-o4sC~,

Washington, June Ex-Governor Rus
sell is out declining to be a candidate
for nomination before the Chicago con
WentiOn.
This is looked upon as a move in the
direction of an Independent Democrat
lie gold ticket to be headed by Russell,
provided the boilers from the Chicago
convention conclude to go into the
ticket making business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
A NEW WHISKY CURE.
Slapped His Wife for Drink
ing and was Arres ted.

Sam Hayden, a coal digger who has
not lived in Topeka very long, went
home last night and says he found that
his wife had been drinking. He has
often demonstrated with her about this
habit but to no purpose. He took to
more stringent means last night and
slapped her good and hard. She raised
an cutlery which resulted in his arrest.
He was fined S. in police court this
morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

''You are right, - answered the stage
manager, lin saying there are great OBJ
stacles to presenting the real in the drama.
For example, just when we thought we
had things all fixed the other night and
supposed failure impossible we suddenly
discovered that the leading lady was part
saWdust Detroit Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
ohieago Livestoek lLarket.

CATTLE-Oficial receipts yesterday
Is 230; shipments 2,942.
SHEEP-Oficia1 receipts yesterday
1904; shipments 164.
Estimated receipts hogs today 10000;
official receipts yesterday 35,007; ship
ments 3,573; left over $500. Estimated
receipts hogs tomorrow SO 600. Market
slow, prices sc lower than yesterdays
average. Lights s3-2503.55; mixed S3.15
a34O; heavy s2.90@3.35; rough $4,000
3.O5.
CATTIF-Receipts $500 Half Tex
ans. Market steady. Beeves $500
42O: cows and heifers s1.4O03.75; Texas
steers s2.5OQS.7O; stockers and feeders
81. 6003.70.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000 Market
steady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
The Uneultared Person.

Gimme a programme young man, -
said the man with the air of prosperity to
the usher.
81 presume, - said the usher, that you
wish a proRrum. 30
Prorrum2 Progrumf'' said the uncul-
tured prosperous one Say, you give me
a pain in the diaphrum. Cincinnati In
071frar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
Ottawa Chautanona.

Tickets viii be sold by the Missouri
Pacific, June 18th to 26th, from Topeka
at rate of S1.59 for the round trip lin
tied for return passage to June 3Oth
from all other stations in Kansas at
rate of one fare for the round trip.
Train leaves Topeka 8 a. NJ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

f. M Mclaughlin a laborer was ar
rested last night charged with drunk
enness and disturbing the peace He
went home, it was said, and abused his
wife He was making q good deal of
noise about it anyway but the latter
charge was Withdrawn and ne pleaded
guilty to having been intoxicated and
was fined IS by Judge Ferry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09
NOT APARIsIAN DEL.
the Arizona Heiress Had Heard and
ChanEed the Programme
CHAPTER I.

'sSnakep'
s'ViperF'
t'WornPs
ssToadr'
These eBithets were Kissed forth in front
Of the Hotel Continental by the Marquis
de Chambeau and Count Roux, who had
just come from successive interviews with
Miss Virginia Tucson, the Arizona heiress.
Both had been rivals for the position Of
her steady company since her arrival in
Paris and it had been predicted more than
once that if they should meet there would
be trouble. 1T viii be seen from the above
exchange of courtesies that the prediction
was correct. OF course there could be only
one result of the meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09


As une nrs5 rays % uiie sun Aslue1 up
the stained glass windows OF the Convent
OF ~ Malachy, I'D a EiaHlslah suburb 1he
duelsts took their places on the sWafu
Just beyond the convent grove Neither
showed a sign Of ulnchlng as 6he SECONDS,
ia the cheerful way usual to their kind,
handed them the pistols. Inc marquis
ghreW away a half 1nlsheo olgtlteO1e as ne
took ms weapon ana Uhe COUNT acVually
ya"neu as ne naue MS Hliol pIsA'1si -DlD-is
Tor the ordeal
READY crleo one OF Vne seconus'
JusO Ohen Uhe 8o1de1l pesll Oh she COW emu
bell came through the trees suggesting
peace and prayer But 10 hao no eIIec0 on
the antagonists. Their myers were on
the triggers and their eyes Liked ID a sUeaoy
gaze AZ eaeh o1her-
Ohe4
WoF
Ereel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

e. Not one part but e0ery
( part Of HIRES Rootbeer
tends toward making IL
the perfect temperance
and healthgiving drink.
a-aaa sniy hy The Charles z. Hires Co.. Philadelphia
A 49, package E1kas Ealqng, Sole eFazTWhsras
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

LOST or sTRAYED-0ne brown
and white king Charles spaniel puppy.
Liberal reward for his return to owner.
c. S. Bowman. 1911 Tyler street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

The high school graduates had their
pictures taken Saturday by Frank G.
Yale at Downing's gallery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

His wife Grading a Sunday Paper)-
Apropos Of Hamlat, theg say here that you
and Shakespeare represent the very oppo-
site poles of the dramatic art
He-Ah, that's a nasty one for Shakes
peare. Punch
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

If you want ali the news subscribe
for the JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

For plumbing and gas fitting see e.
A. CLANCY, 120 last Eighth. phone a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

"Do you keep house?'' asked the caller
'sNo indeed, 80 replied the editress
ibid you ever keep house, persisted the
caller.
Never, p answered the editress. Give
been too busy all my life writing Hints
For Housekeepers. Chicago Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-09

to visit with relatives during the sum
mer.
Miss Emma Root Of Bethany win
leave Friday for her home in Roseville,
H.
At the meeting Of the En- Regle whist
club with Mrs a. w Lacy, the only Ia
Mrs. @. B Reed Mrs Willard Clark.
ing and Mrs. Reed played against Mr..
and Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Thompson
against Col Hughes and Mr. c.. il.
WhitIock.
Miss Berenice Mcdonald viii return
from school at Lexington tomorrow
Ninde ChautauQua Circle.
Monday evening being the last meet
ing of the Chautauqua for the season,
the following communication was S ent
Bishop Vincent:
Topeka, kan, June O. 1896.
To Bishop Vincent.
The Ninde @. L. S. c. sends greeting
and IN recognition of your decision to
make Topeka your future home, we as
sure You Of our pleasure at your con-
tinued presence with us, and that your
nearness is an Inspiration in the pros
ecutOn of our studies and that individ-
warm feeling of friendship
MRS q. b STA l2TZAIAN.
LOUISE ARTEI r.
Committee.
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- q 81 Letter.

NV = q = . lIIE ?.
Railroad returns do not seem to be
in proportion with shrinkage in bank
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

!. Tariff, not only to furnish adequate
revenue for the necessary expenses OF .he
government, but to protect American Ia
Dor from degradation to the wage level
Of other lands. 2. Reciprocal agreements
for open markets and discriminating au-
ties In favor Of the American merchant
marine. g. Maintenance of the existing
gold standard and opposition to free coin
age Of silver except by international
agreement with the leading commercial
nations of the world. 4. Pensions and
preferences for veterans of the Union
army. s. A firm. vigorous and dignitied
foreign policy land all our interests in
the western hemisphere carefully watched
and guarded" 6. The Hawaiian Islands
to be controlled by the United States; the
Nicaraguan canal to be built: a naval sta
tion In the West Indies. Z. Protection of
American citizens and property in Turkey.
3. Reassertion of the Monroe doctrine.
Eventual withdrawal of European powers
from this hemisphere and union of all
English-speaking people OH this continent.
0. The United States actively to use infiu
ence to restore peace and give independ-
ence to Cuba. 10. Enlargement Of the
navy, defense of harbors and seacoasts.
II. Exclusion Of illlterate and immoral i'm
migrants. u. Reapproval of the civil SER
vice law. 10. A free ballot and an honest
count. IA. Condemnation of lynching. Is.
Approval Of national arbitration. l6. Ap-
proval Of a free homestead law. II. Ad-
mission Of the remaining territories, rep
resentation for Alaska and abolition Of
carpet-bag federal officers. IS. sympathy
with legitimate efforts to lessen intemper-
ance. 10. Sympathetic reference to ''the
rights and interests of woman."-Con-
densed by the Times.Herald.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02
CAPTURING Southern Markets.

A committee of the National associa-
ton Of Manufacturers is now on it's
way to Brazil, Uruguay and the Argen-
tine republic, in which countries it
hopes to stimulate demand for Ameri-
can-made goods and foster the senti-
ment which, thanks to the late Mr..
Blaine, already exists in favor of re-
ciprocity. The committee includes
some of the best-known business men
in the United States, and its mission
will be greatly aided by the near pros
pect of a restoration in this country of
the Republican policy, with its special
stress upon advantageous reciprocal
trade agreements.
Just before setting sail from New
York on this useful summer excursion
President Search, who accompanies the
committee, made a speech in which he
presented some interesting statistics.
He showed, for instance, that all South
America figures in the foreign trade
Of the United States to the extent only
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

Names Of some of the men entombed in
the P!ttaton mine:
NJ. ]. LANGAN. mine superintendent and
mayor pro TEN of Pittston, married,
leaves wife and ten children: 415
North Main street.
JOHN HART, footman, single.
THOMAS CARBON, assistant fire boss,
married. leaves a wife.
JOHN SYLVESTER, married, three chill
dren.
JOHN AND THOMAS GAFFNEY, BROTH
ers. former single, latter married,
seven children.
There's a world of pain in the roll of the
Who sleep in the deep-down grave,
Where the Death Sprite entered and lin
gcred again
Ere the Heavenly stroke Of its merciful
pen
Had banished the torture and frightened
the den
OF the hapless, yet the brave.
All. yes! 1t lingered-and fingered for ILL
Ere it soothed the suffering heart;
While its mnions of Hunger, of Thirst,
and of Chill
OF Sadness, and Sorrows disconsolate
Now toy with the toilers-as Death always
will
When the fend is sure of its art
There's the name of the man who is hus-
band to one
Who mourns in the darkness Of day;
And the list ,nelts to tears as the sentences
run
To the fatherless daughter" and father
less "son,"
Who weep. though they know not the
cruelty done:
They weep--'tis their mothers way.
But ray Of cheer falls fair on the page
Where "single" Is placed near name.
No children or Welded Ones grief to as
suage-
But a mother! now broken by ravlshing
age;
And a father!-the shadows again on the
page
The single has lost it's flame.
And the man who is wedded-is reveling
yet
In the Honeymoon's gentle glow
For him there's cheek that Is fevered
and wet:
There's q heart that is crushed-he tries 10
forget
And wishes to God that they never had
met
Oh, this passage from bliss to woe!
And there in the tomb that is shrouded in
black
Sleep the dead in their red-run cave,
While the weird sounds of rescue--the use-
less attack
And the cries Of the orphaned and Love
Lost come back:--
There is meeting of sorrows and hearts
painful wrack--
The mourners and mour1ed in one grave.
Emerson D. owen.
Scranton, July L
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02
Mine Inspection and Accidents.

According to Elias Davis, a promi-
nent resident of Schuylkill county, the
laws governing the inspection of an
thracite mines are all right as far as
they go, but they do not go far enough.
What Is needed" he says, "is a re-
sponsible head to whom the several in
spectors shall report, and who will have
the authority to make them do their
duty thoroughly"
We do not believe that the creation of
state department of mining would
lead to better results than characterize
the present system. State supervision
through the person Of a chief mine in
spector serving by guberna torlal ap-
pointment is an attractive thing in
theory. but in practice the chances are
that it would be like adding a fifth
wheel to a wagon. Most of the present
mine inspectors in the anthracite
region are capable, fearless and con-
scientious men. We do not at this mo-
ment think Of one who has recently
neglected any duty or failed in any par
ticular to do his work promptly and
impartially. These men are not infalli-
BILE nor are they gifted with omnis-
cience. Accidents are bound to happen
in spite of their watchfulness. They
cannot be in every mine in their espe-
cial district all the hours of every day
In the year, and If they We're able to
reach such a degree of omnipresence
accidents would continue to occur just
the same. 1t is easy for men sitting in
comfortable chairs at mahogany desks
hundreds of miles away from mine
shafts to theorize concerning what
ought and what ought not to
be done in regulation of the
anthracite industry. but the SUBJ
ject presents itself in less ideal as
pect when practical miners who have
passed their lives toiling under
ground and studying subterranean phe-
nomena are suddenly caught, as Su-
perintendent Langan and his associate
overseers and subordinates were
caught in the Twin shaft, by casualty
Of which all their practical skill had
failed sufficiently to forewarn them.
The idea that any mine inspector
would have been better qualified to
Judge Of the risk to life from such an
enterprise as these men were engaged
in than those men themselves were
after having worked in the mine for
years and years is simply preposter-
Gus on its face, and those who argue to
this effect show that they do not know
what they are talking about.
Equally absurd is the idea that the
owners Of the Twin shaft were indif-
ferent to human life. They have not
profited by this accident. At the low
est calculation It will cost them thou
sands Of dollars, and 1t may cause the
utter loss Of their mine. Does any SEN
sibls man suppose that either the own
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

ers Of or the workers in the Twin shaft
would have taken Sundays frightful
risk If they had adequately foreseen it,
or that, not having foreseen 1t, any
benefit can now come to any interest by
bounding them because they were less
all-wise? Amy sensible man who Is
willing to look at this deplorable oc-
currence fairly and nationally must ac-
quit the management of this mine from
negligence or Indifference. The fact
that the company's immediate repre-
sentative was himself numbered among
the victims ought to be sufficient to
establish that there was no conscious
lack Of any requisite precaution and
that the fall which crushed superin-
te ldent, foremen and miners alike was
as unexpected to the one as to the
others.
We expected columns of twaddle on
this sad affair from novices in dis
tant cities who make living by writ
ing what they don't know about cur
rent happenings: but 1t sounds some
what strange to hear experienced men
in the heart of the anthracite region
give utterance to opinions that, when
simmered right down, have no practi-
cal meaning and which have the un-
wholesome effect to stir up undeserved
and hurtful prejudice.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

There Is a good deal of latent alb
surdity in the furious threshing of
words which is just now in progress be-
tween leading gold and silver Demo-
Gratis. For example, Mr.. Whitney
charges Mr.. Boies with "forsaking the
fundamental principles of the Demo-
cratic party" and Mr.. Boies replies in
polite language to the practical effect
that Mr.. Whitney lies Both gentle
men, and host of their respective re-
tainers are filling the air with loud talk
about something that does not exist
except in the highly-colored Democrat
ic Imagination, and some of them are
laying up necessities for an abundance
of unpleasant crow-eating later ON.
And all to what purpose? We cannot
imagine.
Looking at the subject from a dis
interested and unbiased standpoint, We
can say that a careful study Of the So
called fundamentals Of Democracy has
failed to disclose to us any reason why
the contemporary followers of that po-
litcal faith should not take any posi-
tion on any public question which ap-
pears to commend itself to them as at
tractive or wise. Neither the Demo-
cratic nor the Republican party is a
chartered institution with rigid con-
stitution and ineXorable bylaws. As
conditions change 1t is wholly proper
that the views of parties should change
with them, otherwise parties would
cease to have practical value and be-
come mere "reminiscences. When aAy
considerable element in one party does
not like certain opinions engrafted by
can choose for itself between boiling
the whole platform or subordinating
its few disappointments to its admira-
ton for the remaining principles with
which it Is in thorough accord.
TO make practical application Of
these remarks, Mr.. Whitney has no
more right than Mr.. Boies or any other
Democrat to set uD as supreme au-
thority on Democratic fundamentals
He is not the official interpreter Of his
party's past. Let him go out to Chi
cago like a man and make his fight
against free coinage. If he wins, all
right If not. he can then decide wheth-
er he will wish to remain Democrat
and vote the Democratic rrea-silver
presidential ticket or transfer his suf-
frage during the present alignment of
national politics to the Republican Or
ganization. This is simple, straight
forward and easy way out. It's adop-
ton would comport with the dignity Oh
sane men much better than meaning
less gabble about something deader
than Jefferson or Jackson.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

''Thc money of the United States,
and every kind or form of it, whether
Of paper, silver or gold, must be as
good as the best in the world. Itmust
not only be current ut its full face
value at home. but it must be counted
at par in any and every commercial
center Of the globe. The dollar paid
to the farmer, the wage.carner and
the pensiOner must continue forever
equal in purchasing and debt.paying
power to the dollar paid to any gov.
ernmcnt creditOr.''.. Mckinley in His
Speech of acceptance.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02
THE PITTsTON DISASTER.
From the Pawtucket Post.

From the Pawtucket Post.
The Scranton Tribune, the best author
ity In the Lackawanna and Wyoming coal
fields and one of the most widely circulat-
ed papers in Pennsylvania. gives the num-
ber entombed in the Twin shaft cave-in
disaster at Pittston. Sunday morning. as
between seventy and eighty. Eighty hu-
man lives blotted out as in a twinkling
is most appalling and dreadful affair.
The Tribune well says: Let those who
speak of the coal trade as an extortion
look on this piteous picture OF its in
expressihle cost and bethink where else
in the whole realm of peaceful industry
the parallel to Ii can be found"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

A good way to show patriotism at this
particular season of the year Is to ex-
ercise a little respect for the rights of
others. The man who forgets his
neighbor's comfort in his own civic en-
thusiasm has one or two degrees yet
to take in the patriotic fraternity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

Just why some people should be so
inordnately anxious to see human be-
ing hanged is beyond our power of ex-
PLANTATION. Are men instinctively like
flies, which appear fairly to enjoy
watching other flies go through the
death agony?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

Some rules refuse to work both ways.
Mckinley won his nomination by keep
ing perfectly quiet. But Adlai Steven
son, who has been as mute as num-
my, doesn't stand the ghost Of show.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-02

Word comes from York state that the
Republican opponents of Thomas c.
Platt intend to put up u general and
animated fight on that interesting gen.
tleman this autumn, the objective point
being the capture of the party organi
zation; but the fight will be kept
strictly within party lines. That is the
way for good Republicans who differ to
settle their differences. This is no year
for boilers.