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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

the estimate, considerable weakness de-
veloped. but was followed by rally of PC
on buying orders from the northwest.
when this demand had been supplied mar
ket eased and continued working lower
the balance of the day. There is nothing
new in the situation. We can see nOth-
ing which to bear the market on. On the
other hand cOnversative buying will
make you money. Corn and oats dull and
neglected. Corn will sell lower if receipts
are as heavy expected. Provisions
strong considering the heavy run Of hogs
and weakness of other markets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas City. May a.
WHEAT-Soft slow, 1Q3c lower; hard
and spring about steady: No. 2 hard 810
SIC: No. g, 65a6Sc; No. 4. 6OG6Sc; No 2
spring 79c; No. 3, 74GT7c; No. 2 red 9Od92c;
No. g. S50S9c; No. +, 75dS1c.
CORN-Active at decline; No mixed
201zG21c.
OATs-Fairly active; lower; Nc. white
RYE-Steady; No. 2, 3oc
HAY-Weak: choice timothy $1,000;
choice prairie S7.OOlI7.50
BUTTER--XVea k; creamery lower, 10
12c; dairy sale.
EGGS-F'irm; demand improving, &C.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
AGAINST REBATES.
Supreme Court Again Sustains Inter
state Commerce Law.

Washington May 24-The supreme
court affirmed the decision of the court
Pittsburg, Pa, charged with a viola
ton of the portion of the interstate
commerce law prohibiting discrimina
ton.
Wright granted rebates on beer to
pay for drayage. This action was held
to be a violation of the law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
IN THE SOCIETY WORLD.
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.

The marriage of Miss Maud Stacey
and Mr. William H. Cheatlem of Paris,
Texas, will be solemnized, Wednesday,
May &c, at Grace Cathedral at 1880.
The attendants will be Miss Daisy
Mcclure of Junction City and Mr.. Fred
butcher of Newton. The Pansy club
will decorate the Cathedral The we'd
ding will be a very quiet affair; only a
few verbal invitations being issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Sugar and Coffee

New York May "a.
SUGAR-Raw steady; fair refining CSC:
centrifugal, 90 test 34c; refined quiet;
crushed 51sc, powdered 49zc; granulated
COFFEE-Quiet:N No. Z. 7aac
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
separation OF TeIegraph Cox ordered

Omaha, May 24.-Judge Munger of
the United States district court this
morning made an order that the di
vorce docreed by Judge Brewer between
the Western Union and the Union Pa
cific Telegraph companies be complete
by September L
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

HOGS-Receipts 1000. Market &c lower
Bulk of sales s3.45@3.5O; heavies So. 4013. 50;
packers $3.359t35 so; mixed $3.45Q3.55; lights
50. 40Q355; workers $3.50Q3.55; pigs $4,000
3.45.
sHEEP-Receipts 5000 Market strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Market Gossin.

Furnished by the w. A. Michael Com
mission Co Brokers in Grain. Provisions
and Stocks. 40 West Sixth Ave, Topeka,
Kan:
Chicago: Corn receipts are getting
heavier and should still further increase
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City, May "a.
CATTLE-Receipts 5000. Best grades
steady, others weak. Texas steers $1,000
native tive cows and b baiHe S
420: stockers and feeders $3.25Q4.45; bulls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24
Todav,s Rance of Prioea

Furnished by the w. A. Michael Com
mission Co, Brokers IN Grain. Provisions
and Stocks, ITO West Sixth Ave, Topeka,
Kan:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

EarIe's Death Leads to AdJournmenf.
Washington. May 24-The house adj
jOurned at 1925 p. m, on account of
the death of Senator Earle of South
Carolina.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

Range of Prices on Stocks
Furnished by the W. a. Michael Com
mission Co. Brokers in Grain, Provisions
and Stocks 10 West Sixth Ave, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-24

Shirts. collars and cuffs laundered
to look like new by Peerless Steam
Lau~@lry, liz and ia West sth St
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Three Cheerful Facts.

Three interesting facts bearing on the
general condition of business in the
United States We're chronicled in Sat-
urday's issue of the New York Sun.
One is contained in the assertion that
there are at this time fewer idle work.
ingmen in New York city than there
have been at any other time in many
years. The reports of the various
trades unions in New York show an
increase in the number of men en-
ployed today over year ago of nearly
thirty-five per cent. The heads of
various trades unions who have been
asked to estimate the number of unem-
ployed say that of labor of all classes
there is less than five per cent. unem-
ployed today against from thirty per
cent. to fifty per cent. one year ago.
The second fact is embodied in an
interview had by a Sun reporter with
John Clafiin, of the H. b. Claflin COM
pany, wholesalers of dry goods, con-
firming the report that that company's
sales for August 1897, exceeded by more
than S,000,000 it's sales for August,
1896. Il believe" said Mr.. Claflin, that
we are at the beginning of at least two
of the most prosperous years this coun-
try has ever known. / can compare
them only with 1879 and 1880, the two
most prosperous years in the history
Of the country. Those years, I think,
we are about to surpass. 1t Is a we'll
known fact that every period of de-
preston is followed by period of cor
responding great prosperity. We have
just had four of the worst years in the
history of the country. The spell has
been broken now. From one end of the
country to the other industries are
starting up again and prosperity is
found. If we can judge by the con-
ditions that prevailed in 1879 we should
have at least two prosperous years.
For myself, do not see why we should
not have four or FIVE. The outlook is
never so bright as it is now, and busi-
ness was never in better condition.
AS said before, we have stopped COM
pairing this year with last because the
| difference is so great that comparisons
become worthless and now we are cal
culating how far we shall exceed the
top notch record OF 1892"
Fact third appears In a dispatch
from Washington. which says; THE
Postoffice department is convinced that
prosperity In not only coming but Is
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
The Press on Thai
Lattimer Hffair
The Law in the Case.
From the New York Sun.

FROM the New YORK sun.
Does any good citizen believe that II
the rioters of Luzerne county should now
refuse to disperse, and should DEFY ana
attack the soldiers whom Governor
Hastings has sent in force to restore or
der and uphold the law, the commander
of the state troops would not be justified
in performing his duty, even at the cost
of the life of every man in the mob
which persisted in defiance? The COVER
nor of Pennsylvania is a higher officer
than the sheriff of a county, but in facing
a law-defyng and law-breaking mob the
two officers represent precisely the same
supreme authority. The proclamation OF
the governor issued from Harrisburg,
means no more than the riot act read on
the highway by the local representative
of law and order, except as it warns the
law breakers that the law will be en-
forced by an agency more powerful than
is at a sheriff's immediate command.
The posse of deputies lined across the
road and the regiment on guard at the
scene of violence are performing the
same duty, and the peril of the law
breaker is the same in resisting the one
or the other. Confronting and defNing
a single officer of the peace, or a sheriff
with his sworn deputies, or company
of militia, or an entire brigade the po-
siton of the rebel banded with other
rebels against law is the same. He per-
sists at his peril If his blood flows, his
blood is on his own head.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Teach Them a Lesson.

The WilkesBarre News Dealer is en-
titled to the unenviable distinction of
being the first paper in the United
States to try to make political capital
out of the Lattimer riot. The News
Dealer has gloried in the vocabulary
of anarchism ever since the riot took
place, and now it frantically endeavors
to array the strikers against the Lu-
zerne county Republican ticket because
Sheriff Martin is Republican.
We doubt if the News-Dealer rea-
Lies fully how contemplate its course
is; but none the less If there are any
politicians in Luzerne so small as to
mediate a campaign of this character
the respectable citizens of the county,
without regard to party, ought to COM
bine to teach them a much-needed les
son,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
TICKLE FOLLOWERS.
From the Philosopher.

4i'iS1Si4'NA'
The real trouble with the so-called Ia
Dor movement is the curse of leadership.
Men have vaulted into place and power
with cheap abilities and in the places OF
the great they rattle around with much
lost motion which makes a big noise tnat
they mistake for the accomplishment of
something. Eugene " Debs has eclipsed
the king of France in that he has marched
up the hill more times with more men
than did the sovereign OF the Vine-clad
slopes, and has therefore by that many
times more, marched down again. In fact
the only two leaders of labor in this coun-
try who have ever been able to command
at the same time the respect of the coun-
try at large and the confidence of the
conservative elements of their organiza-
tions were Terrence V. Powderly and SAM
uel Gompers, and both these men have
suffered defeat at popular elections in
their respective bodies, Gompers to re-
gain his power by the final prevailing of
wiser counsels: Powderly to have contin-
ued contumely heaped upon him by an
administration headed by a man conspic-
uous for having said more meaningless
words and accomplished fewer actual re-
suits than any man who ever took a
place In public life.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Nearing a Crisis.

The arrival at San Sebastian of Min
lister Woodford and his reception by the
queen of Spain bring us near to i'm
patiently awaited developments in the
Cuban problem. A variety of guesses
has been made as to the purport of the
instructions which General Woodford
bears, but beyond the fact that those
instructions are phrased in conciliatory
language nothing authentic in the line
" information on the subject has yet
appeared in print.
The Washington Post Of yesterday
presents what purports to be a digest
OF the note borne by General Woodford
to the foreign minister Of Spain, and
while its accuracy Is not officially cer-
titled many indications point to its
substantial correctness. According to
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Liberty Not License.
From the Philadelphia Times.

The appalling tragedy at Lattimer, was
the logical outgrowth of conditions
which have been tolerated in some of
our mining regions for some years past.
That the sheriff and his posse were en-
tirely eXcusable in firing upon the ignor-
and and infuriated mob may be ques-
toned; but If such measures are neces-
sary to teach he lawless alien element
of the mining region that liberty does
not mean license to interfere violently
with the rights of others or to destroy
property or life. II must at least be eX-
cused If not justified. The growth of
lawlessness is painfully manifest in some
of our great industrial centres, and the
crisis preciptated by the Lattimer trag-
edy, startling as the results may be, Is
likely to clear the atmosphere and teach
the majesty of the law alike to alien
and citizen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
HONEST WEALTH.
IRON. the Chicago Record.

From. the Chicago Record.
A great deal is heard in these days
about attacks on the rights of property.
and 1t is indeed unfortunate that the
wild and Revolutionary talk of certain
class OF agitators should find even AZ
much response as IL does among part OF
the population. But let wealth remember
the duties 1t owes to society, and the
dangers that menace its rights will van
ish and the power of the revolutionary
agitator will cease. Let wealth pay its
fair proportion of taxes; let it help rather
than hinder the work of securing a reve-
nue. system that will make it easier TO
apportion the burdens OF taxation fairly
and equitably among the members Of the
community. Let honest wealth array It.
self on the side of the public and honest
government when unscrupuious wealth is
trying TO plunder the public. In short,
let wealth remember the responsibilities
which 1t owes to society, and the rights
which 1t claims will be accorded without
question.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14

the Post the chief significance Of this
document Is that the United
States asks to be considered a
party to the settlement of the
Cuban question The reasons why
the United States takes this step,
which ordinarily might be considered
interference on the part Of one nation
with the domestic affairs Of another
are set forth at considerable length and
also quite forcibly. The long continu-
ance of war in Cuba, the destruction
of property and of commerce, the man
ner in which the interests of the United
States have suffered, the large number
of American citizens involved in one
way or another, the constant anxiety
and expense caused the United States
government in maintaining its attitude
as friendly power, and, above all the
distress inflicted upon hundreds of
thousands of peaceful people, are all
dwelt upon.
Mention says the Post, is also made
of the large number of claims preferred
by American citizens against the gov
ernment of Spain without any lmmedi-
ate prospect of settlement. President
Cleveland's warning in his last annual
message that unless better conditions
were soon to come in Spain 1t woui
be necessary for the United States to
interfere in behalf of commerce and
humanity is cited. The note then points
out that instead of better conditions
worse appear and in support of this
statement the situation in Cuba is re
viewed at some length. Without dis
tinctly averring that the struggle is a
hopeless one on the part of Spain, the
note intimates Spain has made such
slight progress that no hope of an early
conclusion of the war can be enter
tained. The note also contains rather
significant a,lusion to the power of pub
lie sentiment in this country in favo"
Of Cuba, and the Spanish authorities
are permitted to understand that this
| sentiment cannot be much longer held
in check. In conclusion it is averreG
that the president in guarded language
suggests to Spain a plan whereby the
satisfactory conclusion. TIE Post
does not undertake to say just what
the details of this plan are, but an in
| timation is given that autonomy or
| liberal lines is the pivot of the solution
suggested.
Until the accuracy of this digest i;
established there can. of course, be
only tentative comment upon it. Au.
| tonomy for Cuba of a genuine kind
under the guarantee os the United
States, would doubtless be the bes
thing for all concerned if all concerned
would exhibit sense enough to accept
it gracefully. But we fear that what
Spain will ultimately require in order
that there may be secured from her g
just appreciation of the situation II
Cuba will be the form of procedure
from which our presidents appear tc
shrink, namely, the curt Anglo-Saxor
command, backed by force if neces
sary, to pack up her belongings il
Cuba and get out
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
The Real Culprits.
From the Pittston Gazette.

From the PIttston Gazette.
Whether or not Sheriff Martin and his
men exceeded their authority the au-
thorities will doubtless determine and
place the responsibility where 1t belongs,
if any wrong has been done. The law
abiding people everywhere will as a
rule, be disposed to lenient criticism of
the officers of the law, realizing that in
all their dealings with these vicious fell
lows they take their lives in their hands,
and that they were in a critical position
and felt compelled to act promptly in ac-
cordance with their best judgment. But
back of this whole trouble, the corpora
tions that have flooded these coal fields
with this class of foreigners are largely
responsible for the misery that has come
upon them and upon others.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Thinks Deputies Were Precipitate.
From the ChIna Tlnnns-Inrnld

We can find no legitimate excuse for
the severity of the sheriff and his men.
In five minutes five times as many poor
creatures fell before the rifles of Mar
tins followers as were slain in the whole
course of the Debs outbreak in the neigh
borhood of Chicago. There are times
when it is necessary for the preservation
of the peace and the protection OF the
lives of law-abiding people to use arms
for the suppression of mobs. But this is
the last resort of men fit to guard the
peace. The incendiary most feared dur.
ing popular disturbances by men whose
business 1t Is to administer the law is
the fool or coward whose weak heart
causes him to fire a rifle when a calm
word or at most stout cudgel would
be quite as effective In reducing disor-
der.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
RicheIieu's Theory Wise.

From the Lancaster Examiner.
The Hungarian miner may be wild,
passionate and uncivilized, but he has
been brought here by coal operators and
should not be shot down till he does
violence or commits some overt act of
criminal insurrection. While the Ameri-
can citizen will put down anarchy and
mob law with a stern hand, he yet will
not wade in blood till all means are used
TO prevent it's flow. The country would
be in a serious condition If labor is to be
regulated by Winchester rife instead
OF arbitration. The advice of Richelieu
is always in order, Use all means TO
conciliate; that failing-all means to
crush"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14

actually here. This Is due 20 the fg-
ures for the business transacted last
month by the thirty leading Offices of
the United States, a statement of
which was issued today. The increase
of business over August of last year
was eight per cent The significance Of
this fact becomes more apparent when
the figures for the other months this
year are given. For January the re-
turns showed q decrease of 3.5 per cent.
February showed a decease of 40 per
cent In March things took turn, and
the receipts increased 22 per cent. over
those for the corresponding month In
1896. April showed five per cent. In
crease, May seven per cent, June five
per cent, and July three per cent. But
in August business took bound from
three per cent. the month before to
eight per cent. II this rate of increase
keeps up the coming fiscal year VIII
show a tremendous increase of busi-
ness and receipts over last year, and
the department believes that this is
barometer of the business situation In
the United States"
These citations of evidence carry
their own comment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Marching Involves a Menace.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Another lesson made all the more con-
spicuous by the tragedy is that the
marching to and fro of bodies of men
who proceed from mine to mine for the
purpose of coercing workmen to drop
their picks and fall in line is a species
of disorder involving grave menace to
the public peace and to the lives of citi-
zens and one to which the civil authori-
ties cannot afford to be Indifferent with
out dereliction of duty.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Put Down Mob Law.
From the Philadelphia Times.

VIKV 4
1t is high time that mob law should
be ended in Pennsylvania, regardless OF
the sacrifice necessary to accomplish it.
These troubles do not come from Ameri-
can citizens, but from an allen class
that must either learn to obey our laws
or must be compelled 10 take refuge in
some other section of the world There
can be no peace while ignorance and
lawlessness assume to rule in any com.
munity.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Fenrs the consequences.
From the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
The deputies appear to have lost their
heads and to have fired upon the mass OF
strikers without due provocation and
without direction. 1t is thus case well
calculated to make bad blood, to pro-
woke angry discussion and further in
tensify that class feeling which is ar
ugly fact of the time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Promptness PAYS.
From the TROY Times.

The sheriff at Urbana, Ohio, was gem
orally condemned because he parleyed
with a mob assembled recently to com,
NIT n lynching and fired when too late
to restrain the would-be lawbreakers
Perhaps the sheriff of Luzerne county
Pennsylvania, fired too early. But the
history of riots teaches that the earliest
round of ammunition is the smallest,
and that temporizing with a mob de L.
termined to violate the law means ia the
end a greater loss of life.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14

The lesson of most of these recent
railway accidents in the West is that
the best roadbed, the best cars, the best
general equipment and the best paid
labor with high requirement of ef-
flciency in the long run are the cheap
est. Cheap Johnism in railroading
is a gamble with death in which
death holds a majority of the points.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Very Much Excited.
wy ""S" >N'Se'
From the Scranton Free Press.

From the Scranton Free Press.
If anarchy Is desired by corporations
and their hirelings, If red revolution Is
to take the place of reason, let such
crimes as that which was perpetrated at
Hazleton last Friday, continue; let the
strong mailed arm Of the law keep on
striking down the poor and weak; let
poltroons continue in positions where pre-
cious human lives are at their absolute
mercy and let the hirelings of corpora
tions continue to usurp the powers of the
peace officers of this commonwealth. II
this is to be a government for the people
it is time for the people to make q
stand.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14

The next mayor of New York may
try to be non-partisan but conditions
beyond his ability to modify will force
him to line up on one side or the other
of national party politics, and there
fore the Republican organization In
New York has a right to demand that
the man whom it supports for mayor
will agree, if elected, to remember his
friends.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14
Deputies Went Too Far.

From the Buffalo Express.
Evidently organization was lacking In
that force of armed deputies. Had they
been commanded by some cool man, the
slaughter would not have been so great,
for 1t is In evidence that many of the
victims were shot in the back while en-
deavoring to escape. This feature of the
tragedy gives an appearance of wanton
killing.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-09-14

circumstances. the mine owners and op-
orators are primarily responsible. IL
they seek cheap labor from such sources
they incur grave risks OF creating anar-
chcal conditions. Much depends, In the
final estimate of the responsibility, as to
how far the strikers had gone in the use
of violence and how far the sheriff was
justified In assuming that they were on
an errand that entitled him to deprive
them of the right to march upon the
highway.