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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-08
ron Observation-Disclosures.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-08
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extra inducements to customers. SIS to
Bishop & Co., st. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-08

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LIZ 1173-77 Clay St, phone 235; Cut
The herald., 1897-04-14
A COLOSSAL sWINDLE
By Which Insurance Companies Were
to Suffer

PITTSBURG, April 13.-A colossal at
tempt at insurance swidling was un-
earthed today when c. Linwood Woods
of C. L. Woods & Co., banker, was ar
rested in his Office in the Park building.
The arrest was upon the information
furnished by the agent Of the Mutual
Reserve Fund Life association, charg-
ing Woods with procuring policies with
intent to defraud. When Woods was
confronted by the arresting officer he
fell in a dead faint. On recovery he
made a written confession in which he
gives the details of his scheme He says
that with former agent of the Reserve
he fell into a conspiracy to defraud. His
mode of procedure was to insert adver-
tisements in the local paper for old men
to act as collectors. He would ask the
APPLICANT for bond, but kindly waived the
bond If the applicant would sign an ap-
plication for insurance on his life. This
Was generally secured. 1t Is not known
as yet how the applicants passed the
medical examination.
In Woods desk were found sixty-five
policies, aggregating 100000. Woods
had policies on the lives of his brother
and sister and his fiancee. The other
policies were all for men over so years of
age and Wood stood to relize a goodly
sum in the near future. The many
policies with Woods as beneficiary
aroused suspicion and the arrest was
made before any of the losses were paid.
The herald., 1897-04-14
sEWELL's VIEWS
Democratic Successes the Result of
Local Causes

Local Causes
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1s.-Arthur
Sewall, the Democratic candidate for
Vice-President in the last campaign, ar
rived from the East via the Isthmus of
Panama last night. Mr.. Sewall has been
on the water for the past thirty days and
consequently is not familiar with the po-
litical happenings of that period. He said !:
II place no special significance upon the
recent Democratic successes in Eastern
cities. They were purely the result of
local in fluences and conditions. The peo-
pie of the East are inclined TO give Presi-
dent Mckinley and his administration a
fair trial. Business is very much de-
pressed there and should it not improve +
think the Democrats will present the
same silver issue four years hence. and I
have no doubt they will be successful. OF
course everything will depend upon the
financial condition of the country during
the next four years. The people have been
promised better times and If they do not
get them they will again demand change
of administration.
Mr.. Sewall is visiting San Franisco on
both business and pleasure. He is largely
interested in ship building in Maine
which industry, he says, is practically
suspended. He is thinking of going to
Japan to secure some contracts from that
government for the merchant lines there
but whether he will make the trip or not,
he says, will depend upon business
arrangements that will develop within
the next few days.
The herald., 1897-04-14
The Grant Memorial

NEW YORK, April ia new feature
of the Grant memorial celebration has
been added to the program in the shape of
a parade of the guests of the city from the
Fifth Avenue Hotel to the monument in
the morning before the dedication cere-
monies. As matters have been arranged
they will all be driven in open carriages,
If the weather is fine, over the same
route which the military parade is to fol-
low. The carriages will form in regular
procession, two abreast, led by troops. In
the first carriage, drawn by four horses,
will be President Nc cKinley, ex-President
Cleveland, Mayor Strong and General Hor-
ace Porter. Following them in the other
carriages will be the diplomatic corps,
members of the Cabinet, Governors of
States, Senators, members of Congress,
Generals, Admirals and all sors of not
ables.
The herald., 1897-04-14
THE OREGON INJURED
WHILE ON THE WAY TO THE
DRY DOCK
An Unnamed Officers Statement
Scarcely Agrees With the Report
Sent to the Department

SEATTLE, April 13-A rumor eman-
ating no one knows where that the bat
tleship Oregon in going on drydock at
the naval station on Puget Sound injured
her bottom, was tonight emphatically
denied by an officer of the station who
witnessed the docking and afterward
dined aboard the vessel while she was
In the dock. He declared that 1t was
the most successful docking he had ever
witnessed. and his experience in the
navy gives weight to such statement.
Il POWERFUL RUMOK
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Word
reached the navy department today from
Commander Whiting, in charge OF the
Puget Sound naval station. Washing
ton. that the battleship Oregon had
grounded while approaching the dock.
into which she was to go to have her
bottom scraped and painted.
The dispatch added that the vessel had
bent her frames Cor ribs) and bottom
plating in the vicinity of the forward
turret, but 1t did not in any other way
indicate whether the damage sustained
had been serious. This will be deter
mined by a thorough investigation,
which Secretary Long has ordered to be
made by Naval Constructor Capps, who
was the government inspector at tha
Union Iron works and who had been
sent to Puget Sound with gang of men
from the Mare Island navy yard TO
scrape and paint the vessel. His orders
are to report the amount of damage
done and the estimated cost of repairs.
The impression at the navy depart
ment Is that the accident occurred some
time yesterday afternoon and that later
in the day the officers of the vessel prob
ably succeeded in getting the vessel off
the ground and inside the dock. The
Oregon had been in the water for over
a year and had been waiting for the
spring tides to take to the dock. She
was in command of Captain Barker, who
had just been relieved from duty at the
Mare Island yard and was on his first
voyage on the Oregon.
The Puget dock is the only one on the
Pacific coast large enough to accommo-
date ship the size of thaOregon.
The opinion of Commodore Hickborn
of the construction bureau. from the ir-
formation on hand. is that the damage
to the ship is not serious. and even should
some of her frames be bent, that lec-
essarily will not require that they be
repaired at the dock. Should this be
necessary, however, 1t would require
considerable time, as mechanics would
have to go there from the Mare Island
navy yard.
The herald., 1897-04-14
CHANGES AT WHITTIER
George D. Pessell for Assistant Super
intendent@TheC CAPTAINS

Gossip relative to the coming changes
in the management of the Whittier state
school is rife and applicants for the sub
ordinate positions which are soon ex-
pected to be open are numerous. George
D. Pessell. ex-councilman from the
Sixth ward, is said to be slated for the
position of assistant superintendent un-
der Major Van Alstyne. The position Is
worth $1,000 per year, besides living
Mr.. Pessell was backed in his application
for the position by Mayor Snyder and
Trustee Harry Patton is sponsor
For the positions of captains of the
companies of cadets. d. Muldrain, we'll
known citizen who has many warm
friends, is prominently mentioned, while
Capt. Brady, who has been in the school
for several years and has made an eff
cient and capable officer. will probably
retain command of one Of the companies
Another meeting Of the trustees is sched.
The herald., 1897-04-14
When Asked to Review
the Sealing Award
HARD BLOW AT ARBITRATION
STRUCK By THE DEMAND FOR A
REHEARING
english Dealers In sealskins Satisfied
with Anything Which Will
Diminish Pelagio Sealing
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
LONDON, April IA representative
ufthe Associated Press has learned that
communications are passing between
washington and London with reference
to the Bering sea. The greatest secrecy
Is preserved here on the subject.
The Pail Mall Gazette refers to the
re-opening Of this question as another
'lesson Of the weakness of arbitration"
and says that 1t fails to see how Great
Britain can be expected to antedate a
revision of the awards. adding that they
cannot be tossed aside, because one
party does not get it's full demands"
The st. James Gazette saysi "The
United States has inflicted another blow
on the believers in arbitration. Could
more complete demonstration OF the hol-
lowness of arbitration be given? 1t Is
quite possible this matter may become as
serious as the Venezuelan dispute. we
are bound to support the Canadians
reasonable claims, and the prospect
might make US regret the failure OF the
general arbitration treaty did 1t not show
how small respect is felt for arbitration.
The representative of the Associated
Press has had interviews on the subject
with heads of the sealing industry here.
The importers OF London nan with sat
isfaction the prospect that it will d.
minish sealing and urge an extension
of the close time of peiSgic sealing to the
end of August, and the close of the zoTe
to 200 miles from the Pribyoff. They
claim that Canada is running the future
of the trade, that prices are so low that
fewer expeditions are being fitted cut.
and they hope the United States Will
carry out its intention to carry the north
western female skins, adding that II
Canada would only consent some ar
rangement might be made to resume
pelagic sealing a few years hence, when
seals are more plentiful.
The Globe remarks that there Is no
doubt that Lord Salisbury will refuse
to reopen the Bering sea question until
the stipulated date and until Canada's
claims are satisfied.
Mr.. Harry White, the American charge
d'affaires, on Saturday delivered to Sir
Thomas Sanderson, parliamentary Sec
retary for the foreign office. dipatch
from the American secretary OF the
state, couched in decided terms, urging
that the indiscriminate butchery of seals
in Alaskan waters should be stopped
In mediately and quoting the opinions
of American and British experts who
ax, mined into the question last year.
rh dispatch asks the British govern
mt to arrange an international con-
erence on the question of Alaskan seal
Tg.
The herald., 1897-04-14
ANOTHER DAY GONE
And It Can't Be Done Next Week or
Next Month

Please bear in mind that If you propose to
purchase piano at our closing out sale of
this fine stock of ''Steinway," "Kimball," +"
"Weber," and other pianos, now going on
at 233 South Spring street, next door to Los
Angeles theater. you will have to attend to
the matter without delay.
Only eight days more and the doors will
close on the greatest and fairest piano sale
ever seen in this or any other city. No one
purchasing an instrument during this sale
will ever have cause to regret it. Every
piano sold, no matter what the price, shall
prove exactly as represented, if we
have to turn the store upside down to COR
rect it. We are proud of the good reputa-
tion of the Bartlett music house, proud of
the good reputation of the line of high
grade instruments We represent, and no
piano sold here during this sale as such
shall prove other than strictly first-cass.
BARTLETT BROTHERS.
The herald., 1897-04-14
THE JERSEY ELECTIONS
A Large Number of Democrats Are
Elected

NEW YORK, April 13.--The following
detils of the elections in New Jersey have
been received:
Newark-The Democrats obtained
control of the common council.
Orange-Democrats swept the city,
carrying every office.
Paterson - Ex-senator Hinchcliff,
Democrat, elected mayor by 1900.
Hoboken--Lawrence Pagan, Republi-
can was elected mayor by about 1900.
Dover-George Pearson, Democrat,
was elected mayor by majority of 20.
Embellishments made gain Of
two on the board of education. The
council remains about as last year.
Bayonne-Seymour. Democrat, was
elected mayor by 1000 majority.
Asbury Park-Frank L. Tenbroeck
was elected mayor without opposition
Passaic-Andrew Mclean, Repubii-
can. defeated G. Ruslind, Democrat, for
mayor by large majority, the Republi-
cans making large gains.
The herald., 1897-04-14
Los ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL "A, 1897

His idea is then to take samples abroad
and prove that we can put up butter of
superior quality that will keep. 1t is
found that by pasteurizing milk 1t will
keep four or five days longer than milk
in which the germs have not been killed.
Butter made from pasteurized cream will
likewise keep it's flavor longer
1T is likely that Mr.. Wilson'S efforts,
in conjunction with Mr.. Conrad's expert
ments, will solve the problem of foreign
butter trade
The herald., 1897-04-14
IN THE RING
One Small Bout in New York and
More to Come

NEW YORK. April 13.-Tommy White
Of Chicago and Eddy Curry of this city
were the principals in the star bout
OF twenty rounds at the Broadway Ath-
letic club arena tonight. The referee
decided in favor of the Chicago man.
kid" Mccoy, who arrived here last
Saturday from South Africa, was intro
duced by Announcer Harvey, who stated
that Mccoy will be willing to meet
Creedon before the club offering the
best inducements. Just as Mccoy STEP
ped into the ring Creedon followed him
and the two shook hands.
Tom O'Rourke then announced that he
would give $4,000 or SO per cent of the re-
ceipts of the house for Ego" between
these two middle-weights. AS soon as
O'Rourke made this offer Charley White,
who trained Corbett for his recent fight
with Fitzsimmons. jumped up and said:
II offer $4,000" and Eugene Cumiskey
went him a thousand better, shouting
out: II will give $5OO0." Neither White
nor Cumiskey would say what clubs
they represented, but insisted that their
offers would be made good.
The herald., 1897-04-14
PIANOS ~
Extraordinary Announcement

Having purchased the overstock Of one
of the largest piano manufacturers in the
east at less than manufacturers cost we
are now in position to offer to piano buy
ers 50 new style upright pianos in mahog-
any, walnut or oak cases with all latest
improvements, for prices at which new
pianos have never been offered before.
These pianos are thoroughly warranted by
both the manufacturer and ourselves.
Terms will be made to suit purchasers.
Open evenings. The Southern California
Music Co., (ncorporated), the leaders In
the piano trade of the southwest. 2l6-2lS
West Third street. Bradbury building.
The salary of the president for one
year, If paid In gold. would weigh ex-
actly 200 pounds.
The herald., 1897-04-14
BUTTER MAKERS
Pleased With the Prospects of For
eign Market

CHICAGO, April 13.-The butter trade
is greatly pleased with the determination
of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to in
terest himself in the expectation of the
product of American creameries, as told
in Washington dispatches yesterday.
Something has got to be done to in
crease our trade abroad" said a promi-
nent merchant of this city, "for we are
beginning to produce more than we can
use at home. As I understand it, the Sec
retary merely intends to ship samples of
American butter to England for the pur-
pose of experimenting. Mr.. Conrad OF
the Agricultural Department has, for some
time, been experimenting with devices for
pasteurizing butter, cream and milk, and
1t has been his desire to have some of the
creameries given into his charge for some
time so that he could experiment fully.
The herald., 1897-04-14
Why Republicans Fear Debate

With the exception of metals and cotton
manufactures the ad valorem equivalent
for all the schedules is higher under the
Dingley act than under the Mckinley act.
act is 57.03, compared to 1888 for the Nc
kinley act, and 1894 for the Wilson act.
When these things are considered, is It
any wonder the Republicans are more in
tent on applying the gag than in meeting
legitimate objections in free debate?-Pitts-
burg Post
The herald., 1897-04-14
VOORHEES, BODY
Lying in State at the Indiana
Capital

INDIANAPOLIS, April 13.-On ac-
count of a wreck on the Pennsylvania
railroad. 1t was necessary to transfer the
remains of Senator Voorhees, to Big
Four train, and they arrived here an
hour after the time expecter. At
o'clock they were placed in the rotunda
of the state capitol under a militia
guard of honor. Governor Mount, the
state officials, the judges of the supreme
court and the appellate court. the fed
eral officers and the city officers first filed
by the coffin to view the body and after
them came citizens. passing in single
file on each side of the body. There was
a chant by choir boys at the capitol after
the body arrived. The body was taken
to Terre Haute at 8 o'clock in charge of
w. r. McKeen and John E. Lamb. Pep
resenting the citizens of Terre Haute.
The herald., 1897-04-14
The Mojave Murders

MOJAvE. April 13.-The report from
Panamint of the murder Friday evening
by the Indian ''Panamint Tom," of Will
liam J. Lander, Julius Goldsmith and
Frank Reed. and the subsequent cap
ture Of the murderer. has not yet been
authenticated and the story Is conse-
Quently discredited by many residents
The herald., 1897-04-14
Crossen Is Exonerated

An inquest over the remains of James
Holmes, the negro who was shot and
killed at the Hammam baths early yes
terday morning by Joseph Crossen, was
held at the undertaking parlors of Orr
& Hines yesterday afternoon. The jury
returned a verdict exonerating Crossen
from any blame and in short time he
Tas once more a free man.
The herald., 1897-04-14
Things Are Different Now

President Mckinley. in order to better
inform himself, has sent a trusted Canton
friend to Cuba as a special commissioner.
President Cleveland set the special COM
mission fashion in dealing with Hawaiian
affairs, and what jingo outcry there was !!
Things are different now. 1t is even limited
that President Mckinley may go as far
armed with power to enter into diplomatic
negotiation for the rehabilitation of silver
as a money Observation-Disclosures Record.
The herald., 1897-04-14
The Curse of Unwise Benevolence

A great many people who hug themselves
for their philanthropy and who would on
are engaged in the fagitious business of
manufacturing tramps and paupers. the
raw material of criminals. The excellent
people who will not send a beggar hungry
from the door are the very people who make
the tramp possible, and not only possible
but Observation-Disclosures Press.
The herald., 1897-04-14

here. The report of the murders was
pretty generally circulated throughout.
this section, but until an investigation,
which is now in progress. Is completed,
nothing further can be learned of the
rumored tragedy.
The herald., 1897-04-14

WESTMIN NSTER.-Frank Ernstin, C. l..
Waiter. A. ]. Woodward. Fresno; Foshay
st. Louis; r. NJ Pogsow and son, Sepow
Ranch: c. c. Wallace and wife, San Fran
cisco; Z. o. Hilbourn, Chicago: II. II. Sin
clair and wife, Rediands; c. o. Johnson,
daughter Pittsburg; Geo. A. Newkirk and
Wife, Denver; Ralph Wylie, San Francisco.
The herald., 1897-04-14

RAMONA-Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Atwood
Council Bluffs; e. B. Bishop, Paris, Ky;
]. w. Turtle, Boston: ]. c. Fillmore, Bos-
ton; w. s. Peckham. Wisconsin; S. j.
Merwin and wife. Cincinnati: M. T. Jones.
Chicago; E. ]. Fleming, Pomona; o. H.
Neinway, San Diego; f. A. Mathues.
Redlandk
The herald., 1897-04-14
yellow Jack at Panama

WASHINGTON, April 13-A cable
gram received at the state department
today from United States Consul VIII
quain at Panama announces that yellow
fever has made its appearance at that
port.
The herald., 1897-04-14
italian Indemnity

WASHINGTON, April 13.-The Presi-
dent has decided to recommend to Con-
gress an appropriation for an indemnity
for the killing by mob of lynchers of
three Italian citizens at Hahnville, La,
August 9Th, last.
The herald., 1897-04-14

VAN NUYS.-Miss Blanche Bfnman,
Dunkirk. n. Y; Mrs. F. e. Meade. San
Diego; ID. Bell, Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs.
r. ID. Kerna, Chicago; FL. Miller. Chicago
ID. II. Griffin. Washington, d. c.; Jos. Hol-
Lard, c. Hollard, Philadelphia; Mrs. M
German. San Diego; Mrs. A, Bauer. Chi
len James, Waukesha, Wis: A. w. How.
ard, Chicago; W. T. Little, Colorado
Springs: w. r. Morris, Colorado Springs
J. S. Kennan and wife, Toledo; John II
Sherratt and wife. Rockford. Ill: Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Sharp, Philadelphia; Mr.. and
Mrs. Deming Jarvis, Detroit.
The herald., 1897-04-14

NADEAU.-A. Goldstein, e. Berges,
Chas. Dowsy, II. Steinberg, W. W. Sea
witt, T.. M. Frank, Mrs. Lenore Sayler
James Alexander. J. W. King. Thomas
Irvine. ]. b. Livingston, San Francisco;
Mr. and Mrs. c. c. Foster. G. w. Kolnir.
Boston' j. w. f. piss. San Bernardino;
Jay. Bangor. Me-; J. p. Eisenbach. New
York; John Little, Chicago: w. f. Clark
Topeka; w. f. Bliss, Cotton; J. A. Cobb,
Riverside; ]. F. Tuttle, New York; ]. z.
Tryce, San Bernardino.
The herald., 1897-04-14
At the Hotels

HOLLENBECK.-H Y. Ross, San Fran
cisco; VIM. II. Botthoff, Denver; f. c.
Cunningham, San Francisco; F. T. Morri-
son and wife, Riverside Arthur G. Mum,
San Jacinto r.. D. McQuiddy, San Fran
cisco; G. w. Kincaid, San Francisco: D. n.
Thompson. Kansas City; Mr.. and Mrs. e.
b. Ayres. Pennsylvania; w. II. White, San
Franscico; E. ]. May, Wheeling. w. Va;
leard, San Francisco; J. Wertheimer. San
Francisco: E. d. Williams. Monrovia;
Chas. Field, Philadelphia; j. ]. Lucas,
Chicago; John Carne, Ojai; S. 7. Godbe,
cisco: c. r. Meredith, Azusa; F. winters
Kansas City; Wakefield Baker. San Fran
cisco; A. b. Banning. Catalina; W. ]. Nc
cago; w. Robotham, Chicago; j. r. Brown
ell, Los Angeles; G~M. Trowbridge, Pasa-
dena.
The herald., 1897-04-14

| uled for this morning, when further
heads are expected to fall. The new off,
cials Will assume their duties on the 1st
of May.
The herald., 1897-04-14
The Troops Rejoice

NEW YORK, April 1s.-The wife Of
Commander Booth-Tucker OF the Saliva
tion Army gave birth to Z son today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-08
A Wonderful Blind Pianist.

Slgnor Arturo Euttini is blind plan.
list who is not freak, but player of
remarkable ability. He was born in
Florence S3 years ago and became to-
tally blind in his first year, but he now
plays the most difficult rhapsodies of
Llszt, sonatas of Beethoven and other
classical compositions with wonderful
technic and expression. While Pa
derewski and his contemporaries play
Llszt's Hungarian Rhapsodie No. g."
one OF the most difficult compositions,
IN transposed key, Signor Nuttini
plays it in the original key-six sharps.
The way Signor Nuttini learns his
pieces is curious. He has little ma
chine, consisting Of a fiat metal board,
IN which there are tiny grooves, over
which he fits a sheet of thick paper,
and, with the aid of little ruler and
awl, perforates all his music in a pecul-
lar manner as his interpreter reads it
from the regular staff. No music is too
intricate for him to copy, and often aft
er once copying the composition he can
play it without first running his sensi-
tive fingers over the perforations. San
Francisco Argonaut.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-08
River Rlpiet0.

The Cyclone came down with seven
strings Of lum Der.
The regular local packets were in
and out in the short trade.
The Abner Gle and Lizzie Gardner
brought down IL strings of logs each.
The Meta Durant, j. W. Van SAINT,
Ruth, Abner Gle and Lizzie Gard
ner went north.
The stage of the water at the Rock
Island bridge at noon was 9.65 and
falling; the TEN perature rs
The new Dubuque. of the Diamond
10 line. will be up tonight and the
City OF Quincy will be down Sunday
morning. Both boats are expected
to have some freight and the down
boat will probably be well laden.
with much such weather through
passenger trips will soon open.