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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-26
Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City. Nov. %.
CATTLE-Receipts, $500. Market steady
to strong. Texas steers, S2a41O; Texas
cows, S2d3: native steers. $3-50d4S7; ma
tive cows and heifers, $150d4: SUCKERS
and feeders $30l445: bulls, 81; 75a3-25.
TIC lower Bulk of sales. 50. 25d3.S0; heav-
les. $3.15@3.35; packers. $3.2003 3. 30; mixed
So 25G3.35: lights. So. 2Od335; workers, 5000
81 SHEE lFf ER ;ii;t 5000 Market firm.
Lambs. SA.10a6: muttons. sea- %
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Take Summer With You

By going to California this winter; and
take comfort with you by travelling on
the California Limited, the Santa Fe's
finest train.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items of Interest About Topeka Peo-
pie and Visitors in Town.

GAN communications to this department
must give the full name and address OF
the writer. Anonymous personals anO
descriptions of social. affairs Will not De
pubIShed.l
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New York. Nov. 25.
sUGAR-Raw, firm; refined, steady;
graduated. &c
COFFE E-Steady- NO Z, o1sc-
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rodau,a Range of Prioea

mission Co Brokers in Grain Provisions
and Stocks 10 West Sixth Ave. Topeka.
Kan:
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Vac Cotton Market

New \ ok NOV. %
COTTON-Spot cotton quiet and easy
Middling uplands. 13-16c; middling gult
6 Lice.
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R.anpes of Prices on Stocks.

} Furnished by the W. A Michael Com
| mission Co., Brokers in Grain, Provisions
| and Stocks, 10 West Sixth Ave. Topeka.
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-OIof Ekberg. merchant tailor. 713
Kansas avenue, first-class suit OF
clothes for S25.
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Market Gossin

Furnished by the W. A. Michael Com
mission Co.. Brokers in Grain. Provisions
and Stocks. ITO West Sixth Ave. Topeka.
Kan.
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The reigning Par
isian and London
style.

Handles are Scotch FuTZ.
Scotch Thistle. Allspice Wood.
Box Wood. Sanbucus. Oriental
Ring Bamboo. Carved Ebony.
WeichseL( MALAGA Joint with
ridge. Java, SaXony Porcelain.
Ivory. Shell. Onyx aud French
Horn. Mounted in cold and Sill
yer.
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foot. The tornado seems TO have made a
complete circle around this town. nearly
every house within small radius in every
direction being demolished. while large
trees were uproOted, dashed TO the ground
and twisted into fragments. The country
roads In every direction are impossible. be-
ing blockaded with debris of every kind.
The home of Reese Dunlap. a negro, was
the first place reached by the cor
respondent. Dunlap's house and everything
IL contained was blown To the four winds
even his wife and three children were landed
on the spot that was their garden. The
wife was badly hurt, but the children es-
capped with bruises. AS for the house there
was not much left of 1t. The course of the
storm was from a southwest TO a northeast
direction.
Couriers from all directions are beginning
TO come in with information of destruction
of life and property. T. j. McFalls. who
lived about a mile east of Star City. had
his dwelling and all outhouses entirely de-
stroyed, but his family escaped. Mr.. John
Young, his neighbor, lost his barns and
stables. Mr.. Bailey Donaldson. a little
further on; lost his dwelling. The next
point heard from was on Bayou Bartholo-
NEW on John G. Hendrickss plantation.
who lost all his main buildings, including
two large storehouses. His large plantation
Is almost total wreck. On this place
three negroes are known to have been
killed outright and large number are re-
ported seriously. some fatally wounded.
This little town is hemmed in from all
days before vehicles of any kind can travel
the roads where the tornado passed Never
i'm the history of this part of the State has
such a tornado been known. 1t is impos-
sible to give at this writing anything like
a definite account of the damage done.
News has just reached here of the destruc-
ton of several large plantations along
Bayou Bartholomew, among them being
those of Alf Cogbill, w. G. Lee and Judge
Owens's place. The loss is very great al
each of these places.
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SURROUNDED BY WATER.
No Communication with GreenviIie
EXCEPT by Boaf-WOrIx On Iexeas

GREENVILLE. Miss, April 1.-The out
look to-day Is anything but encouraging
and the chagrin expressed by the people
after their heroic battle with the water in
front to awaken and find that their eff
forts may yet prove futile is quite natural.
on the mississippi Valley route, the last
train having left at 10 o'clock last night.
At Wilzikini. place about eight miles dis
tant from here. there is a depression in
the tracks and last night when the train
passed over it there were several inches of
water over the rails and still rising II
was therefore determined TO abandon the
line between Greenville and Leland There
is no communication with Greenville except
by boats. and there being only one West
ern Union wire working out of Greenyille
the means of telegraphic communication
are decidedly limited and the operators fear
that even this wire will succumb during the
night.
The levee board has ceased 10 work. for
the weather as well as the stage of the
river are both very favorable. and the dam
ger TO the front lines of levees is consjd-
cred TO be past. All the hired laborers have
been discharged and sent 10 their homes.
the last batch of some twenty-five i'm num-
ber having been brought down in the ting
boat Greyhound this morning. AT the office.
of the levee board this morning reports
were received from the southern portions
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
PRICE CENTS 4EIfsa xsB 9sSAT sEAsBs g 4g

says that the whole defense outside the
towns has been divided into detachments
which are to be visited daily by the foreign
detachment In order TO familarize the
troops with the country in which they may
have to act.
The Daily News will publish a dispatch
tomorrow from fits Salonica correspondent,
who SAYS he has been informed on rella-
BILE authority that large quantity OF al
legged gunpowder sent TO the frontier from
Constantinople has been found 10 consist
chiefly of sand. The Vail of Monastr mas
discovered many gross abuses in the supply
of provisions and accoutrements 10 the
army.
Italian volunteers who have returned TO
Rome from Greece are completely disiliu-
stoned They are convinced that the Greek
government has never had the slightest IN
tention OF declaring war against Turkey.
They say that Colonel Mettaxes. the Greek
minister of war. TO whom they offered their
services, announced after a fortnight's de-
lay that the government doubted after all
there would be a war, and was conse-
qCently unwilling to incur the expense OF
eQuipping volunteers who might not be en-
ployed. The Italians in question therefore
advise their countrymen not to put them
selves to the expense and inconvenience OF
a Journey TO Athens.
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NEW THING in TRUSTS
FARMERS SAID TO BE ORGANIZING A
GIGANTIC "COMBINE,''
That VIII Attempt to Starve the PeO-
pie of the Cities by Refusing to
Raise Crops for Sale.

CINCINNATI, o., April IA special to
the Commercial Tribune from Toledo. o.,
says: gigantic farmers trust is now be-
ing organized in this country One of the
national organizers registering as =. +.
Brown, JohnStown. Pa, after being here
some days. left his papers at the Jefferson
House when he left for Columbus. and in
this manner the secret leaked out. While
here he conferred with leading legislators,
such as ex-Representative Charles p. Grif-
fin. Hon. Jonas Stanbery. who has been
placed at the head of the organization in
this section, and many others. Several
branches were secretly organized and the
order is strictly oathbound. IL originated
at Lancaster. Pa. and Incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey as the Agri-
culturists National Protective Association.
The supreme body is made up of one rep
resentative from each State, whose duties
are similar to those of a board of directors
of an ordinary corporation. Each State has
subordinate board of directors, consisting
of one representative from each congress
sional district. Each district, in turn, is
governed by a board of two members from
each county Each county is under the i'm
mediate control of a board. ranging from
five to eleven in number who direct the
movement OF tne toWuSnip
1t is the purpose to do nothing this year in
the way of controlling the markets. because
the organization is not yet complete. Next
year, however, the crops will be limited TO
the actual living needs of the members OF
the organization. If the plan is carried out
not dollars worth of farm produce of
any kind will be sold for general consump
ton. After the year 1898 there will be erect
ed or rented in each county in such num-
bers and so located as may seem best and
most convenient storehouses in which all
products for the market will be placed.
These will be in control of the county board
of directors. From these warehouses the
products will be shipped as the state and
national directors may order and the guam
titles of goods sold in the immediate neigh
borhood will be regulated somewhat after
the plan of the anthracite coal combine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
DINGLEY's TARIFF BILL.
The Retroactive Amendments Upheld
by Representative DaIzelI.

WASHINGTON, April l.-Representatiys
Dalzel. of Pennsylvania who was a MEM
Der of the subcommittee OF the ways and
means committee which investigated the
question of the power OF Congress 10 pfos>
vide for the enforcement of the duties OF
the new tariff bill before its enactment into
law has prepared an argument in support
of the validity of the amendment. Mr.. Dali
zell says: 1t is manifest that the prospect
of the passage OF "a new tariff law will in
crease importations to such an extent as 10
largely interfere with its anticipated ad-
Vantages during the first year OF its opera
ton. Hence any means that can be adopt
ed TO prevent such antcipatory importa-
enues" He SAYS that the thought as TO
competency Congress TO enact such -
measure resolved itself simply into the
question as to whether or not Congress.
under its power TO levy and collect taxes.
can pass a retroactive measure. Mr.. Dali
zcll does not think the case involving the
date of the enforcement OF the Wilson bill
has any bearing on this question. The
courts duty. he says. was 10 inquire what
was the intention OF the legislature. ana
very plainly IL was not the intent OK con.
rsress TO make the duties apply from Aug.
l. The date named i'm the bill az which AZ
was 10 take effect was an accident In the
case we have TO deal with. the date. which
is the material matter involved. Is not an
accident but IL Il Intentionally aud de-
signedlv inserted for the express purpose
of having duties levied and collected there
$50. the question occurs as TO the power
Of Congress under the taxing clause OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
TUMULT IN THE COMMONS.
objection Raised to British Soldiers
Being Sent to Crete.

LONDON. April 1.-There were loud
cheers from the Irish members i'm the
House of Commons to-day when the par
liamentary secretary for the foreign office
Mr.. Curzon. confirmed the report from
Crete that a detachment of Turkish bashi
bazouks at Retimo had fired on a flag of
truce. Continuing. MIR. Curzon said the
government was doing everything 10 ac-
celerate the withdrawal of the Turkish
troops from Crete, though. he explained,
until the powers were in a position 10 re-
place the garrison. which they are now en-
deavoring to do by the dispatch of REIN
forcements, they were not justified in ex-
posing the refugees at the seaports 10 the
risk of q successful attack.
There was great excitement and uproar
while Mr.. Curzon was replying to the queS-
tions regarding Crete. The Scotch and
Welsh members objected to the employment
Of the Scotch and Welsh troops In "a serv-
ice repugnant TO the whole of Scotland and
Wales Cheers and counter cheers. and
"Oh, shame punctuated the questions and
answers and the scene closed with j. w. s.
MacNeill. antt-Parnellite member for South
Donegal, moving to adjourn in order 10 call
attention to the absence from England OF
the Marquis of Salisbury at the present
critical period. The motion was negatived
without q division.
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of the district. where all was reassuring,
the only trouble being the crevasse in the
Deerfield place on Lake Lee. The weather
was delightful a mild breeze prevailing, and
the river had apparently fallen fully three
feet and was still falling. Houses outside
feet Of water now were almost free, while
stumps etc. which had been entirely sub
merged were now visible on the surface of
the water.
Mr.. Sommervile the assistant engineer,
after his arduOus campaign. appeared Sc
rene and happy to-day and looked back up
on the exceedingly active and onerous cam
paign with great satisfaction. IL was true
that four crevasses occurred in his levee
district but every one of these took place
in old levees some of them having been
constructed as far back as 1850. Not a
single one of the new levees succumbed
was il found necessary either 10 raise
or strengthen them. The engineer at
tributed their immunity from the flood 10
the fact that the new levees had been con-
Structed with much greater care, were
wider and stronger at the base and crown
and had been built on scientific principles.
The campaign lasted about three weeks,
and during that time the levee board eX-
pended in the neighborhood of $l2o, COO; G0O.-
0J0 sacks had been used, over a million feet
of lumber and fully ten thousand men had
been employed on the works.
The water this morning made its appear
ance within the limits of the city OF Green
vile. A special meeting OF the Council was
hurriedly called and IL was decided to take
immediate action TO keep the flood waters
out of the business portion OF the city. In
the rear of the street is Rattlesnake bayou,
which parallels the river and is securely
leveed TO prevent any back water. In order
to secure the sefety OF the city IL was
therefore necessary to build leveeS at right
meet the bayou levees. Work In this direc-
ton begun PROMPTLY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
SUICIDE ON A TRAIN.
Girl About to BE Married Takes Nor
phine and Dies ina Her Berth.

HASTINGS. Neb. April 1.-The Burling-
ton flyer to-day brought in the remains of
Miss Lottie Merrill. of Denver. who COM
nitted suicide by morphine poisoning at
late hour last night while en- route from
Denver to Lincoln. where she was going
with her lover TO be married. There is 4
great mystery surrounding the whole affair
The young woman and her intended hus-
band. Frank B. Massey. OF Denver. had
known each other for years during which
time Miss Merrills parents had looked on
Mr. Massey one of the family. Massey
was seen here to-day and said that they
did not eloDe, but had decided TO go 10
Lincoln TO be married. He said he could
think of no reason why the girl committed
suicide and he appeared to be greatly
grieved over the act. The girl had made up
her mind before she left Denver that she
would kill herself. as she wrote a letter to
her mother while at the Union Depot in
Denver stating that she intended taking
her own life but her intended husband
knew nothing about the girls intention
Miss Merrill took the poison just before re-
firing 10 her berth and Was dead when
found.
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SLEPT In THE STREETS
MEN OF CHANDLER HAD NOWHERE
ELSE TO LAY THEIR HEADS.
Scenes I'm the Tornado-Stricl<en Okla
hemn TOwn-LOss of Life Over
stated-Havoc i'm Arkansas.

CHANDLER, o. T.. April 1.-Although
the tornado struck Chandler .forty-eight
hours ago, very little search of the ruins
has yet been made, and il is feared that the
death roll may be considerably increased.
Scores of injured are under the care of ply
sicians who have come here from all parts
of Oklahoma. None of the wounded sue
cumbed to-day. although many of them suf-
fer greatly and some of them cannot possi-
bly, recover. Nearly all the men slept in the
streets last night. where fires were kept
blazing. The women were cared for in the
few houses which were not destroyed or
found shelter in the tents sent from sur
rounding towns. Fifty special policemen
effectually protected the property of the
citizens. n thousand people are homeless
and half as many are without "a thing in
the world Help on large scale is needed
LAWYER John Dawson and Edgar Demoss
the barber, who are numbered among the
dead. were eating supper in Wallace's res
taurant when the tornado came and the
building collapsed. Dawson, who left a
wife and two children at Alma, Neb.. was
instantly killed. Demoss was pinioned by his
right arm, but was not injured. He cried
for help but no one could reach him
through the fire. He begged for some one to
cut of his arm, but the horror-stricken
crowd was compelled helplessIy to see him
roasted TO death. Search in the ruins Is
necessarily slow, and a true list of the dead
and injured cannot be made for several
dayS vet.
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Only Fourteen Deaths.

KANSAS CITY. April Ia special to the
Journal from Guthrie. o. T., says: 1t de-
velops tonight that the loss of life in the
Chandler cyclone has been greatly over
stated. In the confusion and difficulty of
getting news over the long distance tele-
phone. names became mixed and the list
OF dead was made greater than IL really
was. Only fourteen persons. 1t is now
stated. are known TO have met death i'm
Chandler. and in addition to these three
were killed In the country north of town.
Fully two hundred persons were injured
fifty or sixty OF them being seriously hurt.
and four or five OF these Will surely die. A
corrected list of the dead at Chandler. as
given out tor ight by the Chandler relief
committee, is follows:
JOHN DAWSON, attorney.
EDGAR 5 DE MOSS.
JAMES WOODWARD and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. e. JOHNSON and little
son.
Mrs. PHILIP JOHNSON and child.
Mrs. TOM SMITH.
Mrs. DR.. LEE,
Miss EMMA RETTENSTEIN
EMMA DRESSINGER.
ID. T.. JOHNSON.
In the country north of Chandler John
G. Kyle and two children were killed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
CUT AND MUTILATED.
Abstract Clerk Found Murdered i'm an
Illinois Lawyers Office.

JACKSONVILLE. H.. April 1.-Charles
l. Hastings, an abstract clerk in the law
office of Judge L. p. Kirby. was found in
the office this morning dead. his body ter
ribly cut and mutilated and the room
showed traces of desperate struggle. The
cutting was done. To all appearances. with
a pocket knife, and TO cover the crime the
assassin had cut the wrists of the murdered
man 10 convey the idea OF suicide. Hast
ingS was generally very quiet man. but
some time ago he and c. l.. Draper. while
employed in the same office. had a dis
agreement and Draper had resigned and
set up an abstract office of his own ORA
per is considered most exemplary man.
but after the testimony before the coroner s
inquest was heard. IL was decided TO lock
him up without bail.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
CHUNKS OF ICE.
HaiIstones Weighing Ten and Twelve
Ounces Fall i'm Missouri.

MOUNT VERNON. Mo-. April This
vicinity was visited last evening by the
most terrific and destructive hailstorm ever
witnessed here. Hailstones weighing ten
and twelve ounces fell in great profusion
and with such force and rapidity that not
a house in the community escaped more
or less injury. The churches, mills, ETC..
sustained heavy losses. Not only were shin
gle roofs damaged. but the heavy iron
roofs of the Touring and planning mills
were rendered useless. Stock of all kinds
suffered. Fruit and ornamental trees were
badly damaged. Immediately following the
hail came the heaviest rainstorm witnessed
here for fifteen years or more.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
storm strikes convention Hall.

ST. LOUIS, April 1.-Convention Hall, in
which President Mckinley was nominated,
is being torn down. Last night the severe
storm that visited this section helped the
work of demolition, blowing down a por-
ton of the east wall, which fell without
doing any damage.
At Bonneville. Mo-, last night, fully two
inches of water fell in one hour and large
hailstones did much damage i'm the coun-
try. n tornado did much havoc fifteen miles
south of Bonneville. At Dexter hailstoneS
varied in size from a large egg To that
of a baseball. Window lights were knocked
out. plate glass crushed and shinSle and
tin roofs badly wrecked.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
CIoudburst i'm Kentucky.

FULTON, KY, April IA water spout
last night ran streams up higher than ever
known before and did immeasur BILE dam
age throughout this locality. Every bridge
in this county was swept away and the
water is standing two feet deep in roads;
all seasons. Many of the trestles on the
Nashville. Chattanooga * St. Louis Rail-
road were carried away by the water and
traffic Is suspended until repairs can be
made between here and Union City, Tenn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
ARKANSAS SUFFERS.
Tornado Destroys Life and Property
About Star City.

STAR CITY, Ark. April About l
o'clock yesterday afternoon the people of
this place We're aroused by the roaring of
tornado. Every one sought places OF
safety and In less time than II takes 10
tell IL the storm cloud was dealiDg devasta-
ton to everything In its path which was
from one-quarter 20 one-half mile in width
1t passed south OF Star City about half a
mile a correspondent who started out on
horseback TO get details found the road so
strewn with timber and trees that he had
to abandon the horse and pick his way OH
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
Iou;s;ap. Leyees NAY Hold.

VICKSBURG. Miss, April 1.-Engineers
in charge of the Louisiana levees in this
district are here tonight and are sanguine
that their levees will hold. They will meet
an Anticipated rise of two feet from the
Yazoo by raising the levees from point
below Delta La. TO 100 miles north. to a
sufficient height TO hold the water in check.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
Texas Bank Closed.

COMANCHE. Tex. April Lowing to the
steady withdrawal of funds, the First Ma
tionai Bank Of this place closed its doors
to-day The recent failure of the Beernan>
St. Claire Company caused the run. as il
Indebted TO the bank. No statement of the
Liabilities and assets Is yet maae.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-02
Lives of Negroes Saved.

ROSEDALE. Miss. April 1.-The relief
boats bought in scores of negroes from
the back country to-day and placed them
in every available place of safety. The
refugees are in a state of misery and hun
ger and the people are providing for them
ber hourly arriving makes the situation
desperate The water is pouring through
the crevasse near here at a terrible rate
and the outlook is indeed gloomy