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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
EXHIBITION OF PLANTS.
900 in Prizes at the New York
Flower Show-5O,OOO Plants.


New York, Sept. 2S.-The sixty-sixth
fair of the American Institute, which
will open on Monday, at Madison
Square Garden, will contain several
features of particular interest to wo-
men. Probably the most attractive of
these will be the exhibition of plants,
flowers and fruits, which will open on
Monday, September q. at O'Clock. and
continue until October %. During this
time the flora of every part of the
United States will be represented in the
exhibits of fruit or flowers. These will
be changed constantly, each week being
devoted to different subjects
DR.. F. NJ. Hexamer, of No. 81 Lafay-
cite Place, is chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture and horticulture. and
under his direction special efforts are
being made to render this department
of more than usual interest.
Speaking of the prospects of the flow
er exhibits DR.. Hexamer said: 1T
promises to be much finer than last
year, as much finer, in fact, as the
prizes are larger. Five thousand dol
lars will be given in prizes for flowers
alone. Among the exhibitors who have
already been heard from are a number
of women, prominent among whom is
Mrs. Valentine, who received the first
prize last year"
The first week of the flower show will
be devoted principally to dah1ias.
This exhibit will be divided into two
classes, competition in the first being
restricted to professional growers,
while the second class is for amateurs.
The first prize in each case is the same
For the best display of not less than 100
varieties, not less than six blooms of
each, $25. This exhibit will prove a
rare treat to lovers of the grand old
flower, which has of late been growing
in popularity until it now bids fair to
rival the chrysanthemum as a favor
ite.
Lovers of flowers have devoted them
selves to it's cultivation until, like other
pampered pets, it is now shown in al
EOnr
will include so, 600 blooming plants
Four hundred varietie shave been
sent by one exhibitor in New Jersey,
who has twenty-SiX acres of land de-
voted to this flower.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
TOO FEW OFFICERS.
The Us. Navy Hasn't Enough Sailors
for It's Ships.

New York, Sept. 23-A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
The necessity of increasing the person
mel of the navy will be presented to con-
gress in the forthcoming reports of the
bureau chiefs of the navy department.
Both officers and men are needed to man
the large number of ships now in COM
mission.
Captain Crowninshield chief of the bu-
reau of navigation, in order to find Of
f1cers for vessels is compelled to search
the service with a fine rake. The tour of
shore duty of line officers, with the ex-
ception of thin command grades, has been
cut down in many cases and hereafter
the younger officers will have consider
ably less time on shore. So far as the
engineer corps is concerned. it is un-
derstood that Engineer-in-Chief Melville
proposes to recommend that one hundred
officers be added to the corps soon
as possible. The number of engineer Of
fcers is now so limited that on the bat
tleships the chief engineers have only
three assistants, when they should have
at least five. Chief Naval Constructor
Hichborn also proposes to call attention
to the small number of officers in his
corps. In comparison with the construc-
ton corps of other countries, that of Mr..
Hfchborn is much smaller and he be-
lieves it should be increased.
The lack of enlisted men has been ap-
parent for some time. The department
has not enough men to place the cruiser
Baltimore in commission and the Phila-
delphia must return to the United States
before October Is in order that her Of
fcers and crew may be transferred to the
Baltimore and that vessel placed in COM
mission for duty in Hawaiian waters.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
ST. JOHN ON SILVER.
The Ex-Governor Writes to a Topeks
Man on the Subject.

Ex-Governor John P. ST. John has
written a letter to a friend in Topeka
in which he discusses topics of interest
at the present time in a vigorous man
ner. He says:
Just now the gold-bug with an ex-
hibition of idiotic glee that verifies the
old adage that ignorance is bliss are
asking advocates of free silver to tell
why silver is going down and wheat go
ing up. To those who think for them
selves instead of letting their party
think for them there is nothing either
funny, intricate or mysterious in the
solution of this question.
THE facts are that Notwithstanding
ours is one of the greatest silver pro-
ducing countries on earth, the Repub-
lican party, aided by the Bourbon De-
mocracy, has, for a quarter of a CEN
tury past, done all in it's power to de-
cry silver and destroy confidence in
and respect for the white metal, thus
gradually lessening the demand for it
and finally closing the mints against it,
except the small amount used for sub
sidiary coins. Thus the demand being
decreased, the price has gone down
until today the bullion in silver dollar
is worth only 43 cents.
This outrageous treatment of one of
our great sources of wealth has given
England a protection of 100 per cent in
the Liverpool wheat market over our
own people. You ask how? Simply in
this way.
EnSlanQ closed ner mlnCS TO Tree
coinage of silver several years ago, but
continues to coin at the governments
option on it's own account. She can
. now buy the amount of silver bullion
in one of our silver dollars for 43 cents.
She takes that bullion home and coins
it into money and by this process she
makes over 100 per cent profit. With
this coin at it's face value she buys In
dfa wheat, which, with at least 100 per
cent advantage already gained in hand
ling our silver, she lays down in the
Liverpool market in competition with
Our people cannot enjoy the adVant-
age thus given in handling our silver
for the reason that England, well as
our own country, has closed mints
against them.
THE reason why wheat commands
present prices is because the crop in
foreign countries is very short and in
India it is almost a failure and millions
are starving for bread.
The reason why silver is so low and
wheat so high is because there is no
wheat in India to be bought by England
and, therefore, England has no use for
our silver. Hence the demand is cut
short and the price goes down. When
of silver will go up, and our wheat will
go down.
1.-The remedy for this disloya1 dis
elimination in favor of England and
against our own people will be found in
free coinage at the ratio of IS to l.
Then the bullion in a silver dollar will
be worth 100 cents, and that is what it
will cost England, thus restoring to our
own people the advantage that Eng
land is now using against US.
With short crops in all foreign coun-
tries, were we not measuring values
with a 200 cent single gold standard
dollar our wheat today would be worth
$500 per bushel.'
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
An Odd Fellows Homo.

A committee from the different Odd
Fellows lodges OF Topeka will meet
Saturday night at o'clock at 1. o. o.
F. hall, S04 Kansas avenue, to take ac-
tion in the matter of an Odd Fellows
home to be situated at Topeka. The
l. o. o. F.of the state will erect, in the
rear future, a home for aged and enfee-
bled- Odd Fellows. their widows and or
phans. and the Topeka lodge will en-
ceavor TO have it located at Topeka
Proposition to donate or to sell a
tract of land of from so to 16O acres will
be received by L. G. Beal, grand treas
urer of the Odd Fellows at his office in
the Stormont building. Hutchinson,
Wichita, Salina and Wamego are all
trying to secure the home at those
points.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
Heavy Shows in France.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-The weather is Sc
verely cold here and there have been
heavy snow falls in Auvergne lower
Burgundy and other places. Eight
inches of snow has fallen a Craponne
in the department of Hauteloire At
Auxerre, in the department of Yonne
snow has fallen the earliest on record
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
The sTopeka,, is in Trouble.

When the steamer Queen left Juneau,
the steamer AlIxi, from Seattle, was
there with her boilers leaking It will
take three or four days to repair her
boilers, when she will return south. The
Queens officers report having spoken
the steamer City of Topeka near Jun
eau, with two of her propeller blades
broken and her crank shaft bent. The
cause of the accident was not learned.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
AN AMERICAN SONGSTREss.
Mrs. De Navarro Makes a Hit as
Concert Singer.

London, Sept. 23.-Mrs. Antonio de
Navarro (Mary Anderson) sang five
songs last night at a village concert at
Broadway, Worcestershire where she
resides. Her voice was rich and pow
erfuI She still retains the youthful
charm and manner she displayed when
on the stage.
This was her first public appearance
since her retirement from the stage in
1890.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
Yukon Troops Start.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 23.-Lieut Col
George NJ. Randall, u. S. A with 25
men, left at o'clock last evening on
a special train over the Northern Pa
cific for St. Michael by way of Seattle
Randall and his command will leave for
St. Michael on the steamer Humboldt
today.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23

ct crave but One Minute" said the
public speaker in a husky voice; and
then he took a dose of One Minute
Cough Cure, and proceeded with his
oratory. One Minute Cough Cure is
uneQualed for throat and lung troubles.
G. w. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
Secretary GAGE in Colorado.

Denver, Colo, Sept. 23.-Lyman J.
Gage, secretary of t1le treasury, arrived
in the city yesterday, accompanied by
Mrs Gage. They left in the afternoon
starting for the east this morning.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23

Burning, itching skin diseases in
stantly relieved by De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve, uneQua1led for cuts.
bruises, burns. It heals without leav-
ing a scar. G. w. Stansfeld. 632 Kan
saS avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23

Inflammation of the Bowels, that dam
gerous disease, can be relieved at once
by Beggs' Diarrhea Balsam. It acts
like magic. At druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23

At present the whole world is wonder
ing at the tremendous sales and desira-
BILE effects of Beggs' German Salve
Druggists sell it.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-23

Mineral Water
The finest in the west. Come and try
It. J. w. PHILLIPS,
612 w. Eighth st
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
UNDER THE IRON HEEL
LEBANON PEOPLE IN THE CLUTCHES
OF 4 GAS CORPOR ALTON.
--latest from Indiana Oil Ficid-Grant
County Farmer Tilted After Taking
Out the License.
,ecIaI 70 the IndIanapoIis Journa,.

Special to the Indianapolis journal.
LEBANON. Ind, Jan. 5.-A mass meeting
OF the citizens was held in the courthouse
last night to decide on some plan of action
to pursue i'm regard to a rule recently
adopted by the indian Natural and HUI
minating Gas Company requiring it's GUS
toners here 10 pay three months in adj
vance for cook stoves instead OF by the
month, as heretofore, and in case such is
not done to add a penalty of 12l2c on the
regular rates. Speeches were made by Geo.
b. Jones. editor Of the Reporter, Benjamin
+. Mickey, editor OF the Pioneer. Elder j.
A johnson and G. F.. ). Neal. Nothing was
done further han to appoint a committee
of two from each ward TO notify citizens to
attend an adjourned meeting Wednesday
night. to which the City Council and city
attorney will be invited. At this time the
matter will be thoroughly investigated and
a decision be reached as TO the best plan of
procedure. At present there is Il strong
feeling that legal means should be en-
ployed to prevent the gas company impos-
ing any burdens on the people here.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
TO SUPPRESS DUELING
IMPORTANT DECREE SIGNED By
EMPEROR or GERMANY.
Rumor that Queen Victoria May Soon
Abdicate in Favor OF the Prince
of NaIes-Lady scott's Trial.

LONDON. Jan. 5.-The Berlin correspond
is contained in the preamble by Emperor
William to a Cabinet order. The Emperor
says: ut is my will tina duels between
officers should be more effectively prevented
than hitherto. Their occasion is often
trifling and amenable to friendly COM
promise without prejudice TO professional
honor After then exhorting the officers
in the ARM to avoid i~njuring each others
honor Emperor William continues: Where
they have done so. through hastiness of ex-
element, the chivalrous course is TO agree
to a friendly compromise. 1t is equally the
duty of the one insulted 10 accept the COM
promise as far as honor and propriety of
conduct will permit. My will. therefore, is
that a council Of honor shall henceforth,
as a matter of principle, cooperate in the
settlement OF affairs of honor. The council
must undertake this duty with a conscien-
tious endeavor to arrange an amicable set
Element"
A decree follows under nine separate in
%structions supplementing the order of May,
1874. which introduced regulations con-
corning courts of honor for the PruSSian
army. 1t requires that officers shall re-
port their disputes to the council and shall
80 ONAN ttiCb - OAhND III
pressure of the council. which is empow-
cred to dictate a compromise or TO dismiss
disputes as Insignificant. 1t empowers an
appeal direct TO the Emperor from either
decision. Should the council fail to ar
range a compromise, recourse may be had
TO Il court of honor. which can also inter-
vene should reason be given by the sub
Sequent conduct of either of the parties.
All evasions or ignoring of the court must
be reported to the Emperor. Quarrels be-
tween officers and civilians are also TO be
referred to u cOuncil of honor.
The Times correspondent says of the
measure: ON the whole, the decree goes
TO the furthest point. except actual pro-
hibition. and if it is executed in the spirit
of Chancellor Won Hohenlohe's assurances
to the Reichstag. it paves the way to COM
plete abolition, If that DC the Emperors
intention. 1t should be explained that a
council of honor consists of a captain and
first and second lieutenants. a court of
honor Is composed of all of the officers of
the regiment or battalion. The National
Zeitung complains that the decree does not
fulfill Chancellor Won Hohenlohe's promise.
iaaSmuch as the court of honor has no
power to give the insulted satisfaction or
TO punish the insulter by a declaration that
his conduct is dishonorable. The VosSiche
Zeitung complains of the insufficiency of
the measure and says it will require to be
supplemented in the domain of criminal
law"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
Cable Notes.

Madame Adelina Patti has arrived in
Paris.
Andrew Perry Bennett has been gazetted
British consul at New York.
An Athens dispatch reports that there
have been Mussulman attacks on Chris
Crete. two having been killed and others
wounded.
The French Acclimation Society has just
distributed TO various institutions and plscl-
culturists a quantity of California salmon
spawn, which was sent to ii by the United
States Fishery Commission.
A Bombay dispatch reports that all of the
leading journals there describe the famine
as the most widespread of the present GEN.
fury. 1t is the general opinion that the
viceroy errs in refusing English aid
The correspondent of the London Times
at Constantinople says that diplomacy
there GREATS the palace with melting the
Asiatic provincial governors to foment
demonstrations against the proposed re-
forms in the provinces.
1t was semi-officially announced in Paris
yesterday that there was no foundation for
the report made public by the Tagebiatt, of
Berlin, Monday, saying that France and
Russia would intervene at washington In
order to prevent a breach between the
United States and Spain.
In response to a letter signed by over
eighty noblemen and gentlemen eminent in
literature, science and art, including Mr..
Gladstone, Herbert Spencer has consented
that a fund shall be opened to paint his por-
trait for the British nation. Hubert Her
kimer, X. A, has been chosen as the artist.
NJ. Berthelot, member of the French In
Stitute, former minister and a distinguished
chemist. gives it as his opinion that gas
fumes or cyanide of potassium are prefer
able to the American method of electrical
execution for criminals. but he believes
that France will never abandon the guillo-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
UPPER TICKLES BRITONs.
Sir Charles Belftties Americans and
Says nue. Are Loyal.

LONDON, Jan. 1.-The complimentary
banquet to Sir Charles Upper and to Hon.
Duncan Gillies and Sir Robert G.. Herberts.
agents, respectively, for Inc colonies for
Victoria and Tasmania. in London, at the
st. Georges Club tonight was a most sue
cessful affair. The hall was hung with
colonial flags. Major General Sir Owen
Burne presided and $50 guests sat down
to the table. Major General Burne toasted
and eulogized Sir Charles Topper amid
great enthusiasm.
Sir Charles Topper replied and in turn
eulogized Sir Donald Smith. Sir Charles
also said: Il feel a. great admiration for
the United States. but | do not desire to
possess their Institutions. l feel that there
tions for life. property and liberty. Canad-
ians are greatly battered at the desire of
the United States to possess Canada, but
so deep is their loyalty and so united are
the Canadians that the acquisition is i'm
possible" This expression was greeted with
loud cheers. Sir Charles Upper continued
that they knew Canada would be the bat
tie ground of any struggle between the
United States and Great Britain, but there
was not a public man or any other in Can
ada who would not do or die to maintain
British unity. On this question all parties
were united as one man. The speech of
the Canadian eX-premier was received with
tumultuouS applause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
INDIANA
Mayor Banded and Rev. Hargrave,
Both of Cra wfOrdsviIIe

Special TO the Indianap polls Journal.
CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind. Jan. g
Mayor Frederick Banded died this morning
about 4 o'clock. aged forty-six. Mr.. Banded
had been ill for over five weeks, his all
ment being peritonitis. He made a heroic
struggle to recover. but his strong consti-
tuition gradually gave way. The funeral
will be held Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. Banded was born in Strausburg,
Germany. April 20. 1851. and came to this
country four years later. his parents set
Ting at Mineral Point. o.. and afterwards
moved to Springfield. iii. Mr.. Banded came
to this city in 1875 and worked at stone
work on the courthouse. In Il few years he
was married at Springfield. ILL.,. and re-
turned here. where he has since resided.
His wife and six children survive. Mr..
Banded had served as a Republican council
reelected in 1894. He belonged TO the Odd
Fellows. Knights Templars. X. of p.
Red Men and was a Son of Tribe of Ben
Hur.
Rev. William p. Hargrave died last night
i'm this city June /. 1882. He graduated from
Asbury. now De PAW. University in 1854.
practiced law at Evansville. and served as
and entered the Methodist ministry. and
wife was Miss Matte Erskine. who died.
and then he married Miss Martha O'Neal.
The remains will be sent 10 Evansville for
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
TRIAL OF A SCOTT.
Prof. George Santayana Testifies in
Favor of Earl Russell.

LONDON, Ian 5.-At the Central Grim
inal Court this morning the trial of Lady
Selma Scott, mother-in-law of Earl Rus
sell. who is charged by the latter with
libel, in connection with John Cockerton.
an engineer, and VIM. Aylott. a valet. was
continued. George Santayana. professor of
philosophy at Harvard University. testified
that he met Earl Russell in Harvard in
1886 and that in June. 1887. the time of the
alleged improperly. he visited Winchester
at the invitation of his lordship. The pro-
feSsor described his own and Earl RusselrS
movements and said they then joined Earl
Russelfs yacht on the Rhine, in 1888. and
went to Paris together. During the whole
voyage he occupied the same cabin as Earl
Russell and never heard of or saw any i'm
propriety or familiarity between his lord
ship and the crew. On cross-examination
the professor said he had never requested
to testify in she case. but, he added. last
September when the case was mentioned,
he told Earl Russell that he would testify.
Further evidence was given of Cockerton
and Kast swearing to information of the
alleged i~ndecency before a magistrate at
Winchester. and the editor of the Hawk. in
which the libel was published, testified TO
the fact that the proofs of the article were
approved by Lady Selma Scott and her
daughter. After the reading of the evil
dence of Rollo Russell and others. as taken
at the trial of the matrimonial suit of Earl
and Countess Russell, in 1895, the case was
again adjourned.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06

BOSTON. jar. 5.--The citizens committee
appointed at a. mass meeting held ten DAYS
z TO act In behalf of the employees of
the West End Street-railway Company
who were discharged for participating i'm
the recent strike. met this afternoon and
issued u long manifesto to the public. ac-
knowledgsng the failure OF their efforts,
and adding: THE victory which the cor
poration has gained over their employees
Is decisive. Such 4 condition of things i'm
Boston is intolerGble. Is there no remedy?'
The recommends that if no mu-
nicipal power exists 10 aid the EMPLOYEES
In securing their rights tnat application
should be made for IL TO the legislature of
the COmmOnWealIh-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06

Detectives who Murdered John Rip
pey VIII DC Held for Trial.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
SALEM, Ind. Jan. Brown and Sexton,
the Louisville officers who murdered John
Rippey. were brought to Salem from the
New Albany Jail this afternoon. The pris-
oners were handcuffed and were in charge
of Marshal Mediock and Deputy Sheriff
Prov. Few people knew they were COM
ing. and there were only about one hundred
at the depot and on the street. The men
were put in the cells i'm the jail. and there
they will probably remain until the Feb
ruary term OF court. There is no danger of
mob violence so long as no attempt is made
by the prisoners or their friends and attor-
neys 10 thwart justice or move the case to
other courts. They will be accorded a fair
trial hp-e
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
Ducking for n Burglar.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WARSAW, Ind. Jan. 5.-Last night a bur-
glar entered the residence of +. w. Woods
in this city and secured d good sum of
money and many valuables. When leaving
the premises via the back yard he stepped
upon the temporary covering of a large
ciStern. which covering gave way beneath
his weight and precipitated him into about
seven feet of water. His cries for help
were heard by some railroad men near at
hand and he was rescued more dead than
alive. His rescuers. seeing the booty and
suspecting something wrong, at once turn. d
him over TO the police. The man refuses to
give his name. He Is very ill, caused by
being SO long in the icy water, and may not
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06
Medals for Indiana Riders.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ERR HAUTE, Ind, Jan. 5.-Ross
Manly, of Summitville, has been awarded
the Krietenstein century medal for riding
the greatest number of centuries by any
Indiana member of the Century Road Club
of America during 1896. He made sixty
five centuries. which is also the state rec
ord. W.. L.. Slower, of South Bend. won the
KrietenStein mileage medal in the Indiana
mileage contest, having ridden 12,3i0 miles
during the year. This is the state record.
Manly gets the meritorious ride medal for
the most meritorious ride during the year.
1t was made on Sept q and is considered
by many the greatest ride ever made in
Indiana as for six hours during the GEN.
fury he rode in a rainstorm.