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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
ESCAPE IN BOATS
500 Families in OttumWa,
Iowa,
Flee for Their Lives, From the
Disastrous Flood.
BOATS In THE STREETS
Of BradyviIIe When $50 Fam
lilies Are Driven Out.
Miles of B'Erack Submerged on
All Railroads.
BOATS In THE STREETS

Ottumwa, Ia, April 27.-The Des
81oines river yesterday had added Is
inches to its high record of 1892. The
levees broke in many places, railroad
embankments were undermined and
hundreds of families were compelled to
quit their residences in great haste. In
Ottumwa over 500 families were COM
PEELED to move, large number making
their escape in boats. AT Bradyvile,
Is miles north of this city, $50 families
vacated their domiciles, and the prin-
c1paI streets are being nayigated in
row boats. At South Ottumwa the
water overhOWs the main street. 1t
broke across this street early in the
morning, causing a panic and a scram-
bic for higher ground. Five thousand
people reside in this suburb. Several
hundred deserted their residences and
removed their goods. The water stands
four feet deep in Fairview. Farm lands
are completely inundated.
A large reservoir situated at the sum-
init of Court hill is the source of con-
siderable fear The recent downpOur
has swollen the sources of supply and
the reservoir is now so full that it
threatens to burst and flood the popu-
1ous districts just below.
Railway traffic is almost at a stand
still. All the small streams in southern
Iowa are out of their banks. Railroad
bridges are gone and travel by high
way is out of the question. The Bur
lington main line between Chicago and
Denver is cut in two by five miles of
inundated track Trains are being
run over the Galesburg & st. Louis and
The Hannibal & st. Joe road to Omaha.
The Rock Island also has five miles of
track under water west of here. Train
service was kept in motion with keo-
kuk until late in the afternoon, when
a. large section of track went out at
Cliffland, effectually blocking the Rock
Island east and west.
The Milwaukee & st. Paul round
house and yards are under water, and
part of one approach to their bridge
has been washed away. Trains are
running only between Ottumwa and
Marion. The Chicago Great Western
line is entirely shut off. So is the
Iowa Central. The Wabash still has
entrance from the south, but is shut off
on the north end.
Work on the levees before the city
has been progressing since last Friday,
but the rush of water destroyed a
great part of it. Large forces are en-
ployed in an endeavOr to prevent fur
Their breaks. The suburbs have so far
been the worst sufferers aside from
the railroads The inhabitants cling
to their homes, hoping that the worst
is over.
Rich farming lands above and below
this city are inundated. The flood there
has not reached high stage, but has
spread out in many places to a width
of five or six miles
No loss of life has been reported, but
the damage to property will be very
large
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
YOUNG MONEYBAGS FIGHT.
Two Mem bers of the Goelet Family
Try Conclusions in the
Billiard-Room.

New York, April 27.-Two II year
old milliOnaires, members of the swell
famil-- of GOelets, met in a contest of
honor the other afternoon. 1t took place
in the billiard room of Ogden GOelet'S
mansion at COS Fifth avenue It is a
brown stone palace, one of the kind that
cabmen point out to tourists.
Ogden GOelet is a millionaire, a club
man, a yachtsman and friend of ath-
letics. His brother, Robert w Goe1et,
is also a millionaire, a clubman and a
friend of athletics. Both of these gen
tlemen were married al about the same
time.
With an affection that is rare among
brothers, these two thought enough of
each other and their father to name
their eldest son in honor of their faith
err And that is how it is that there are
two Bob GOelets. The latter go to
the same school, on FOrty-secOnd street,
near Fifth avenue.
Bob" of the ogden Goelet family, ac-
cording to the coachman of No sos. is
young man ''wots quiet and he won't
do nuthin' to nobody what don't do
nuthin' to him, only his cousin has got
about ten puns weight on him.
The cousins argued about some tri-
fling matter and one of them said to the
other:
I don't like the blood in your veins"
Friends were consulted and challenge
followed. The cOmbatantS were to meet
in the stable, but the cabman refused to
have his premises desecrated. Then the
boys went to the mansion, with invited
guests. There were only two rounds.
The first was not much of a round. In
the second Ogden's son got ugly and
went right in and hit his cousin so hard
that at the end of the round he refused
to fight anymore.
The footmen and coachnen of the re-
spective Goelet families are not salts
fed with the outcome. The lads may
meet again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
MINERS SILVER SCARE.
Sent $4,000 Abroad Through a Sin
gle Agent in the Campaign.

Hazleton, Pa, April 27.-The most in
teresting, if not the most pertinent tes-
tlmony given today before the legisla-
tive investigating committee of the an
thracite region was that of John Ne
meth, a foreign steamship agent, con
corning the miners recent great scare
as to possible sudden depreciation in
American currency. He testified as fol-
lows:
Il sent $4,000 abroad for the miners
two or three months ago. This was
prior to the late presidential election.
Since then I have sent for them about
$4,000 $4,000 a month. The reason
that SO much money was sent before
election was that the bosses told their
men that the money would depreciate if
Bryan was elected. The men are now
taking the money back. and I have re
ceived for them from abroad about $2,-
600"
Many other witnesses were called.
each of whom, it is said, is to receive
$500 for his services. Their testimony
went to show that there is restitution to
a great extent among the mine workers.
But many of them seemed to be afraid
to tell of the actual effects of the COM
pany store system.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
G. A. r. UNIFORM BURNED.
Outcome of Bitter Postoface Fight
in Alabama.
Birrningham. Ala

Birmingham, Ala, April 27.-Grand
Army circles are greatly stirred up over
the burning in effigy at Moulton last
night, of a prominent veteran.
MOulton is the county seat of Law
renee county, the single county in Ala
bama which is dominated by a Repub-
ncan population. The contest for post
mastership at Moulton has consequent
~ been heated
Among the applicants was HI. Rem
ingtOn, northern born Republican and
member of the Grand Army, against
whom a bitter fight was directed, as his
friends assert, because he is "a Yam
kee."
1t was finally agreed to settle the
matter, SO faT s the candidates them
selves were concerned. by a primary
election in which only Republicans
were to take part.
The election occurred vest erday, and
Remington was defeated after an ag-
gressive campaign. Last night in the
glOrif1cation over the result, he was
burned in eff1gy in the public square
The straw man, supposed to represent
Remington, wore what purported to be
a Grand Army uniform, which fact has
aroused widespread indignation among
the veterans.
The various camps, it is said, will
publicly denounce the indignity. The
affair was not participated in by Dem
ocrats, being confined entirely to Re
pubIicans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
KEMP'S BACHELOR DINNER.
Affair in Which a Rooster and Live
Rabbits Play Prominent Parts

New York April PA dinner that
was given last night at the Waldorf
was one of the oldest as well as the
most elaborate on record. Arthur
Kemp was the host. Arthur Kemp's
wedding with Miss Belle Nelson,
daughter of Mrs. Frederic Nelson and
niece of Frederic Gerhard, will take
place next Thursday, April %, and it
was his farewell bachelor dinner.
It was served in the banquet hall at
the Waldorf. Barnyard straw was
strewn over the center of the large oval
table. That is, 1t was referred to as
straw of the sort. but looked cleaner
From the middle of this rose a huge
ornamental Easter egg nearly three
feet high. On top of the egg was
perched a rooster. At appropriate in
tervals in the courses the rooster, a
mechanical French affair, craned it's
neck, tapped it's wings, and crowned in
a stirring manner.
1t was not until the liquors and Gig
ars were served that the wonders of
the Easter egg. were disclosed.A spring
was set in motion, and one by one live
rabbits popped out. There was a rab-
bit apiece for all the guests before it
was fairly disgorged. The dinner was
a most elaborate repast.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
The IDEAL Panacea

James L Francis, alderman, Chicago,
says Il regard DR.. Kings New Dis
coVery as an ideal panaeea for coughs,
colds and lung complaints, having used
1t in my family for the past five years
to the exclusion of physicians prescrip-
lions or other preparations.
Rev. John Bergus, Keokuk, Ia
writes: I have been minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church for 50
years or more and have never found
anything so beneficial or that gave me
such speedy relief as DR.. Kings New
Discovery" Try this ideal cough rem
edy now. Trial bottles free at J. X
Jones drug store, Fifth street and
Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
TOWARD THE NORTH POLE.
Government of Sweden and Norway
Will Send Out a Balloon
Expedition.

Ottawa. Ont, April 27.-The governor
general has received the following from
the colonial office:
The government of his majesty, the
king of Sweden and Norway, proposes
sending in the summer of this current
year a balloon expedition toward the
north pole for exploration in the inter-
ests of science.
The balloon will convey a party of
three Swedish scientists who have been
making explorations toward the north
pole by these means, namely, Mr.. Sal
ONION August Andre, Mr.. Nils Strind-
berg and Mr.. Knut Hjilnar Ferdinand
Fraekel. or one of those replaced by
Mr.. Gustaf Wilhelm Emanuel, Sweden
borg.
It is understood that the expedition
will start from Spitzbergen about the
first of July next. The Swedish and
Norwegian ministers at the court of ST.
James have in the names of this gov
eminent invoked the assistance of her
majesty's government with a view to
making it generally known in the Brit
ish possessions extending toward the
Arctic regions that the expedition in
question will be attempted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
THEN GET ANOTHER JOB.
Millionaire Corey's Advice to Dis
missed and Destitute Miners.

Pfttsburg, April 27.-J. B. Corey, the
r1f11ionaire coal operator, vas on the
stand at today's session OF the leglsIa-
tive committee investigating the desl-
tuition among coal miners
Mr.. Corey, who said he has been in
the coal business for so years, denounc-
Tovertv was greatest where the union
was strongest. He would never en-
ploy a man who belonged to a labor
union He didn't believe in company
stores. for there was no money in them,
but he was satisfied that an employer
has the right to pay his men in gro
ceries if the men are content to take
their pay that way.
Mr. Corey said that If miners are
knocked out of one job they ought to go
to some other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
GOLD EXPORT STARTS.
Secretary of the Treasury Notified
That $e77,OOO Will be Shipped.

washington. April 27.-The secretary
of the treasury has received a telegram
from Assistant Treasurer Jordan at
New York stating that S977. 900 in gold
had been ordered for export. This is the
first withdrawal of any considera Bile
amount since July %, 1896, when 5000
600 was withdrawn, the last of a series
of heavy shipments extending through
a number of months.
The order has been anticipated for
number of days, sterling exchange hav-
ing been dangerously near the shipping
point. The treasury officials are not
disturbed and do not anticipate any
general gold export movement. In any
event, they say, they are perfectly sure
European holders are not selling Amer
lean securities because of any distrust
or want of confidence in them.
The outbreak of hostilities between
Greece and Turkey is regarded as pro-
badly responsible for the present de-
mand for gold. Further than this the
officials do not care to express an opin-
ion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
HAMILTON FISH ROBBED.
Held Up on the Street in Chicago and
$500 Taken From Him.

Chicago, April Exclamation Fish, Jr.,
of New York was robbed of 500 near
Wabash avenue and Congress street
report the matter to the police, because
he did not want his name to become
public.
Young Fish has been spending his
time in the west during the last few
months. He came to Chicago several
days ago, staying at the Auditorium
Annex hotel. On Wednesday evening, so
he told Detective Williams of the hotel
yesterday he dined at one of the down
town restaurants.
Late in the evening he was walking
down Wabash avenue, when he was
held up and all his money but $1.50 ia
ken from him. He refused to describe
the robbers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
a Valnable Prescrintion.

Editor Morrison of Worthington, IND,
Sun, . writes: You have a valua BILE pre-
scription in Electric Bitters and I can
ton and sick headache, and as a gen
eral system tonic it has no equal" Mrs
Annie Stehle, 1925 Cottage Grove ave
nue. Cnicago' 49, vas al fa run Gown eouid
ache which never left her and felt tired
and weary, but six bottles of Electric
Bitters restored her health and re-
newed her strength. Prices 50 cents
and 81. Get a bottle at J. K. Jones'
drug store. Fifth street and Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
COXEYISM REEVES.
Nearly 800 Unemployed Men Try to
Board a California Train.

Stockton. Cal, April 27.-Nearly 300
unemployed men who failed to secure
work in San Francisco are at Lode,
ten miles from here They want to go
to Sacramento, where they propose to
appeal to the governor for aid. Last
night they tried to board a Sacramento
train, but the railroad authorities or
dered it sidetracked. The men say
they Will camp at Lode until trains
move.
They complain bitterly that while they
are unable to get work, Orchardists hire
japanese, who work for less than 81 a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
HETTY GREEN'S son NED.
Wishes to Re-enter the Theatrical
Business and Back Corinne

New York, April Pc. H. R. Green,
son of Hetty Green and the man who
aspired to be governor of the Lone Star
state, is said once more to desire to en-
ter the theatrical profession N the role
of an angel This time Mr.. Green is
DESTROYS of backing Corinne in an elab-
crate revival of Little Christopher"
J. Bernard Shaw, manager claiming
to represent Hetty's son, called on the
little burlesquer at the st. Cloud hotel
and made his proposition, but as yet
it has not been accepted. He lost
$50, OOO in a previous venture of this
character
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
FOR TEN DOLLARS.
Farmer Buys a Courthouse That Cost
$75,O 900.

Upper sanduslzy, o., April 27.-John
Lavely, a farmer residing near Harp
ster, now owns the Wyandot county
court house. He purchased it at auc-
ton this morning for SO.
He gets everything except gas fix
lures and corner stone and contents.
There are over 100000 brick in the struc-
ture. He was the only bidder. 1t is his
intention to remove the building to his
farm and construct two barns thereof.
The original cost of the structure was
about $4,000. 1t must be entirely re-
moved by June 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
Connecticut spurns Free Lunch.

New Haven, Conn, April 27.-The
bill prohibiting free food in saloons has
been passed by the senate. The bill
reads. Every person licensed to sell
sptrituous and intoxicating liquors who
shall, at the place where he is licensed
given away, or expose with intent to
give away food to be eaten at such
place, shall be fined not more than $50"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
NEW WHOLESALE HOUSE.
Mr.. J. A. Ranney and Others Will
Omen q New Concern.

The Topeka Wholesale Grocery COM
pany is a new venture in this city. The
company will engage in business in the
Masonic block just as soon as the preli-
minary arrangements can be made.
The capital of the company is $50. 900 and
the directors comprise the following we'll
known business men who are familiar
with the details of such business
S. T. Alton of Arkansas City. F. w
Smith of Oklahoma City, w. c. Stephen
son, J. A. Ranney and Frank H. Park
hurst, Topeka.
The charter of the company has been
filed with the secretary of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
WANTS To BUY DEFENDER.
An Englishman Said to Be After the
American Yacht.

London, April 27.-According to the
Pail Mall Gazette, Defender is likely to
race in English waters, the only ques-
and H. W. Walker, who wishes to buy
the sloop being the price of the yacht.
In the event of the purchase being
made, it is further stated Lord Dun
Defender
Nh H. A. Walker is brother of A
Barclay walker. the owner Of Ailsa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
ASK PRESIDENT FAURE.
Philadelphia Invites the Frerchman
to Join in the Washington Statue
Ceremonies.

Paris. April 27.-The United States
ambaSsa dor, James B. Eustis, has hand
ed to the French minister for foreign
affairs. NJ Hanotaux, the invitations of
the Philadelphia municipality and the
Cincinnati society, requesting President
Faure to attend the ina uguration of the
Washington statue
Mr.. Horner, a delegate of the society,
brought the invita- tions to Paris.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
Reduced Rates to St Louis.

For the National funniest, Gymnas-
tic Union, to be held at St Louis, May
to 9, 1897, the Union Pacific will sell
tickets at rate of one fare for round
trip Tickets on sale May and from
points in Kansas, Nebraska and Colo
RADIO.
The Union Pacific and connections is
the best line and offers the fastest time
and best accommodations of any line.
For further information apply to
F. A. LEWIS,
Agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
A Matter of Taste.

The dining car and eating house ser
vice of the Santa Fe Route has ma
tionaI reputation. Experienced travel
ers know that on the Santa F'e they are
sure of a faultless meal There is no
guess-work about it. In Arizona or
New Mexico or farther east, the excel
Ience is uniformly maintained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
The Largest Strawberry Crop

Ever known in the history of Texas is
now being marketed If interested in
small fruits and large profits. ask agent
Santa Fe Route for copy of Coast coun-
try of Texas pamphlets. Excursions
in April and May.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
FOR THE QUADRENNIAL
FUNNIEST.
st. Louis, Mo, May to IL, the Rock
Island

VIII sell tickets at one fare for the
round trip. Tickets on sale May 5th
and 9Th with final limit May 18th. For
full information call at Rock Island
passenger depot, corner First and kan
sas avenue. or by phone 384.
A. NJ. FULLER,
City Pass. Agt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27
Miner Water
The finest in the west Come and try It.
J. w. PHILLIPS. 612 w. Eighth Ave

When the spring time comes, gentle
Annie" like all other sensible persons
will cleanse the liver and renovate the
system with DeWitt's Little Early
Risers. famous little pills for the liver
and stomach all the year round. G.. w.
Stansfeld, 632 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27

California Limited leaves Topeka
Thursdays and Sundays, 1888 a. m.
fornia Vestibuled Pullman sleepers,
buffet smoker and dining car through
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27

Scalp humors and dandruff removed
by the use of Ayers Hair Vigor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-27

California Express, every day in the
year via the Santa Fe Route. with
Pullman Palace and Tourist SIeepers,
leaves Topeka at ABS D. m.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-05
A Wise Bird,

An English thrush, unacquainted with
the properties of gunpowder, saw fit to
build her nest on the ridge of quarry,
in the center of which rock was fire.
quently blasted. At first much dis
t4urbed by the flying fragments, she
would not quit her chosen spot, and
soon observing that bell was rung
when a train was about to be fired,
and that theworkmen thereupon retired
to safe position, she began to adopt
the same plan. She would drop down
to the place where the workmen shell
tered themselves, remain at their feet
till the explosion had taken place, and
then return to her nest. The workmen
sometimes tried, ringing the bell when
no blasting was going on, to exhibit the
thrush's maneuvers to visitors, and at
1rst she was taken in by the trick. Soon,
however, she perceived that she was
being trifed with and refused to leave
the nest till she had first ascertained,
by peeping over the edge, that the work
men themselves had retreated.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-05
TIE Daify tiqRt
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1897.
HAS A LARGE FAMILY.
Isaac Gassonowitz Has Been a
Father Thirty-Five Times.
He Is Ambitious, However, and Wants
to Welcome the Fortieth-The
Latest Arrival Has Deen
Named Alexander.

Isaac Gassonowitz sat on stool in
the front room of the basement at 195
West Fourteenth street, Chicago, and
tangled grimy hand in his gray, strag-
CLING beard. a serious-faced young
man came out of rear room and
touched the old man on the shoulder.
"Your 35th child is boy" said the
young man. The cry of an infant in the
rear room did not startle the old man.
He had heard that sound before. He
continued to sit on the stool and smoke
a black, short-stemmed pipe.
The young man went outside and
mopped his brow. For several years he
has been the resident physician at the
Chicago lying-in hospital, at 29S West
Thirteenth place, which is situated in
the vicinity of large families, but he
had never had much practice in fam
lily of IS children, and it had palpable
effect on him. This was DR.. Henry E.
Wagner. The baby weighed 51s pounds
and it is doing well. 1t may do splendid
Is in the clairyoyant line later, for it was
born with caul and is the multiple of
seventh son.
This interesting baby will be known
as Alex Gassonowitz. His mother has
given birth to IA children. She is the
second wife of the baby's father. The
first wife bore 81 children to bless their
union. If all these children should
stand in a row, DR.. Wagner says, people
would find it difficult to believe they
were of one family, so great a crowd
would they form.
The children of Isaac Gassonowitz
are these:
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-05
Trees That Live Centuries.

Gericke, the great German forester,
writes that the greatest ages to which
trees in northern Europe are positively
known to have lived are from 500 to 700
years. The pine in Bohemia and the
pine in Norway and Sweden have lived
to the latter age. Next comes the sill
yer fir, which has stood and thrived for
upward of 400 years. In Bavaria the
larch has reached the age of 275 years.
Of foliage trees, the oak appears to have
survived the longest. Evergreen oak at
Aschaffenburg reached the age of 40
years. Other oaks in Germany have
lived to be from 315 to 800 years old.
The red birch has lived to the age of 245
years. Of other trees, the highest
known are ash, 40 years; birch, 100
to 200 years; aspen, 22O years; noun
tain maple, 225 years; elm, 100 years,
and red alder, las years.-Baltimore
Sun.