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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
TRANS-PACIFIC CABLE.
A Proposal to Lay a Line Between
San Fran cisco and Yokohama.

Honolulu, via San Francisco, June l.
Another cable proposition has been set
afoot, and it comes from Japan. Y. Ishi-
kawa, financial editor of the Toxic Chuo
Shinbun, who came here on the cruiser
Naniwa a few weeks ago. is the promp-
ter of the project. He was commissioned
by the Toxic Economical society to Sc
cure all information the subject and
he says that he has enough capital be-
hind him to carry out any proposition
that promises fair returns.
He says a cable from San Francisco to
Yokohama via Hawaii would be a good
investment. A cable can be laid from
San Francisco to Honolulu for $1,000 600,
and from the Hawaiian Islands to Yoko-
hama for S. O00. 900. He figures out AZ per
cent interest on money invested for the
first year in Transpacifc cable.
His plan is to issue capital stock of $10,-
100000. and to dispose of five-tenths in
the United States, four-tenths in Japan
and one-tenth in Hawaii. The Japanese
government, he says. will give a subsidy
of $500. 900, and there can be no doubt that
the United States government would give
an equal amount. The Japanese stand
ready to subscribe So 900, 900. The Great
Nippon Steamship company, which has a
capital stock of 81, 200, 900, would become
a large shareholder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
PcoR CoLONEL HAY.

Never, perhaps, was a man more re-
i1entIessly pursued by his early indis-
cretions than is Colonel John Hay, am
bassador extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States at
the court of St. James. 1t is we'll IN
derstcod that Colonel Hay is heartily
ashamed of his poetical effusions of
% or 80 years ago and greatly desires
that they should be forgotten. They
We're written for the purpose of bring
ing into ridicule the effusions of the
devotees of the Bret Harte school of
poetry and the author did not intend
that they should be taken seriously.
In America he had succeeded in liv-
ing down this departure from the path
way of literary rectitude and Jim
Bludsoe,' Little Breeches," "Banty
Tim and Signing the Pledge are
rarely heard of. Colonel Hay not only
repented of his youthful folly, but he
set about making amends and gave the
world the Life of Lincoln" and Gas
titan Days" both works of superior
literary merit.
Under these circumstances, what
must have been the feelings of the col
onel to find on his arrival in Eng
land that an edition of pike County
Ballads" had been published previous
to his coming and that the English pub
lie was eagerly buying the book and
reading it. How dreadful it must be
to realize that for four years, wherever
he goes, he is doomed to see his past
like Banquo's ghost rise up before him.
The spot will not out.
OF course all of this is done with the
best intentions on the part of the Brit
ish people. 1t is their way of paying
him a compliment.
It is said that they are actually able
to discern humor lurking in the lines
of the coloners poems. They cannot
imagine anything really meritOrious, in
g. large way. coming from America, but
they do ind sources of mirth on this
side of the water.
Thomas Carlyle perhaps fully ex-
pressed the Englishman's view of per-
sons and things American when he
said of George Washington: He was
nae great man; he was a good surveyor
maybe, but he was nae great man So
Carlyle's country will probably say of
Colonel Hay: He is no diplomatist or
Hterateur, but he writes funny verses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
CELEBRATE THE FOURTH.
The Great Big Town of Philadelphia
Will Send Up Balloons and Eat
Peanuts and Taffv

Philadelphia June This city is pre-
pairing for its annual Fourth of July
celebra ton.
A balloon ascension, on which Squire
McMullen proposes to be a voyager, was
authorized today by the subcommittee
on new features of the Fourth of July
committee of councils. A number of
proposals for ascensions with hot-air
balloons were received, but the Squire
insisted on a firSt-class gas balloon as
cenSiOn, and he thought Professor Sam
uel King was a suitable aeronaut.
Professor King offered to make one
ascension for $500 and supply his own
gas. He suggested that the crowd
might be amused during the imitation of
the big balloon by sending up small bal
looms representing the thirteen original
states and then the As present states.
For this extra attraction he desired $500.
Mr. Clay explained that the committee
could get two hot-air balloon ascen-
SiOns with a descent on a parachute by
a monkey for $500. and Professor King
was induced to reduce his original esti-
mate to $3.50 for the entire event
Squire McMullen announced his inten-
ton of accompanying the aeronaut.
Plenty of red lemonade and peanuts
will be furnished.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07

son his first nomination. Two years
later he held Office for the first time, be-
ing elected superintendent of schools in
Crittenden county. It was modest be-
ginning, but Mr.. DebOe was promised
better things by his party. In 1892 he
was nominated for congress. at that
time his district was Overwhelmingly
Democratic, but he made a good race,
as he did on a subsequent occasion.
In 1898 Mr.. Deboe was. elected state
senator and was honored in the session
of 1894 by being chosen chairman of
the joint caucus by the Republican
members. In the meantime he had be-
come a member of the state central
committee and took an active part in
several exciting and hard fought cam
paigns. All this gave him a good train
ing for the hotly contested senatorial
has been involved in for months past
and which finally ended in victory for
Mr.. Deboe.
Mr.. Deboe was born in Crittenden
county II years ago. He was educated
in the local schools and studied at Ew-
ing college in Illinois. Then he attended
the Medical university at Louisville.
He was graduated and for two years
practiced his profession, but finally con-
cIuded to abandon it as not suited either
to his tastes or his talents.
At this stage he began to study law.
He was admitted to the bar and has
been practicing this more congenia1 pro-
fession with great success for eight years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING

- 7.
Ewing Herbert writes in the Kansas
City Star: The politicians al Washing
ton are as blind as the politicians of
Kansas were in the beginning of the
unrest which overthrow them. While
congressman are adding away at the
tariff and making spread eagle speeches
their constituents are hoping for more
craftsmanship and less politics in Iegis-
lative speech and action The Kansas
idea is epidemic. For thirty years war
records have been paved over and pa
raded with oratOrical finish before
lusty-lunged enthusiasts; but the ap-
proving yells of partisans are no longer
easily provoked.
Few men care to read or hear the
speeches of the lawmakers. They want
them to do some work. The Repubi-
cans believe that the present admins
tration will redeem every promise, but
they are impatient because so much
talk is INDUCED in They don't like
the idea of oiIing and starting so much
political machinery to accomplish re-
forms agreed upon.s The fact is there
are more John Wanamaker RepubH-
cans in Kansas than there are of the
Quay kind. The Populists rule the
state by the consent of Republicans
grown tired of old party methods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
BISHOP FITZGERALD.

Louis and continue there the work
which Bishop Bowman has had charge
of for more than quarter of a century.
At present he is residing with his family
in the City of Mexico, his duties having
called him at various times to different
parts of the globe and recently to that
city
Bishop Fitzgerald was born in New
ark, N. J., about so years ago. His first
ambition was to become a lawyer, and
he was admitted to the bar in 1856. He
was eminently successful in his profess
sion for three years, but while attend
ing a revival in Newark Methodist
church he became satisfied that his tai
ents were being misdirected, and he
gave up his practice to become a preach
er. He was assigned to missionary work
on the Pacific coast, and for several
years worked among the mining camps.
He organized the first permanent Meth
odist Church South in San Francisco. It
is now known as Old Centenary.
AS minister he developed great pow
er. He not only became a good pulpit
orator, but a forcible and convincing
writer on religious subjects, and he has
edited several Methodist publications,
including The Pacific Methodist. He
was steadily advanced from one charge
to another and occupied numerous i'm
portant pulpits. He also gave evidence
of possessing rare executive power, and
in 1888 he was elected a bishop at the
St Louis general conference.
For several years he acted as record
ing secretary of the missionary board
and society, and the duties of this posi-
ton compelled him to travel much in
this and other countries. He was also
assistant secretary at three general con-
ferences. Some years ago Bishop Fitz-
gerald was elected president of the Ep-
worth League, an organization in which
he has taken a great deal of interest.
He has found time during his active ca
reer to write some ten books The most
popular of these is entitled California
Sketches, which has had a large sale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
INDIANA'S BIGGEST DOG.
Max, Who Weighed 1875 Pounds, and
Worth $500. Was Poisoned.

Indianapolis, June MAX, 1.-THE great
Dane dog, owned by Patroman Albert
Miller of the Metropolitan police force
a noted dog because of his extraordinary
weight and sagacity and his astuteness
in detecting criminals, was poisoned
with strychnine by an enemy. He was
the largest dog in Indiana, weighing 1856
pounds and measuring seven feet five
inches from tip of nose to tip of tail. He
was brought from France and was val
ued at $780,
Despite his enormous strength he was
gentle as a dove, and his special delight
was in playing with children and in
championing cats attacked by other
dogs. While the poison was doing it's
dreadful work, choral and potassium
was administered, but not until the
medicine confined in steel bicycle tube
had been inserted into the animals
mouth.
A glass bottle was bitten to fragments
and the great animal even sunk his
teeth through the steel tube in his ag-
ony.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
REED WAS Pleased.
Promises Shafroth a Chance to Make
a Silver Speech.

washington, June 7.-Speaker Reed
gazed over the house today and his eyes
fell upon Representative Shafroth of
Colorado, the chess champion of the
house Soon a page came down the
aisle and told the COloradoan that the
speaker would like to see him at the
desk
Mr.. Shafroth went up behind the
clerks and received the congratulations
of the speaker on account of the game
fight he had made and the success he
had achieved as one of the house team
in the internatio match.
You are to be congratulated" said
the speaker, for winning the day. But
you deserve something more. The next
time you want to get off one of those
raging 16 to 1 silver speeches you just
give me notice and I will let you in, .
and the speaker smiled one of those
open-faced grins, with which members
are familiar when he is in one of his
pleasant moods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
DANGER TN SODA.
Serious Results Sometimes Follow
Its Excessive Use.

Common soda is all right in its place
and Indispensable in the kitchen and for
cooking and washing purposes, but it
was never intended for medicine, and
people who use it as such will some day
regret it.
We refer to the common use of soda to
relieve heartburn or sour stomach, a hab-
it which thousands of people practice al
most daily, and one which is fraught with
danger; moreover the soda only gives
temporary relief and in the end the stom-
ach trouble is worse and worse.
The soda acts as a mechanical irritant
to the walls of the stomach and bowels
and cases are on record where it accum-
ulated in the intestines. causing death by
Inflammation or peritonttis.
DR.. Harlandson recommends as the
safest and surest cure for sour stomach
(acid dyspepsia) an excellent preparation
sold by druggists under the name Of
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets. These tab
lets are large 20 grain Iozenges, very
pleasant to taste and contain the natural
acids, peptones and digestive elements
essential to good digestion and when
taken after meals they digest the food
perfectly and promptly before it has
time to ferment. sour and poison the
blood and nervous system.
DR.. Wuerth states that he invariably
uses stuart ) dyspepsia 1abletS IN all
cases of stomach arrangements and finds
them certain cure not only for stomach,
but by promptly digesting the food they
create a healthy appetite, increase flesh
and strengthen the action of the heart
and liver. They are not a cathartic, but
intended only for stomach diseses and
weaknesses and will be found reliable in
any stomach trouble except cancer of
the stomach.
All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets at Scots. per package.
A little book describing all forms of
stomach weakness and Their cure mailed
free by addressing the Stuart Co. OF
Marshall, Mich
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
WOMEN WALKERS.
They Travel on From Spokane to New
York City.

York City.
Minneapolis, June Mrs. Helga Est
by and her daughter, Clara Estby, of
Spokane, Wash who last year per-
formed the marvellous feat of walking
from Spokane to New York city, arriv-
ed IN Minneapolis last evening on their
way home, and are at present at the
Excelsior Scandal house.
They came from Chicago, which city
they left May ;.
The women left Spokane May last
year at the instance of private parties
IN New York, who offered them $4,000
IL the Ieat was successfully accomplish
cd py December 1 the same year In
the contract made was a provision
which took into consideration sickness,
but accidents were overlooked. The
travellers reached New York December
3, three days behind time, which was
owing to the fact that Miss Estby had
her ankle sprained in Pennsylvania-Th
matter was finally satisfactorily ad
1uSted, and the women will receive S10,-
OOO when the book, written by them and
describing their travels and adventures,
is completed.
When seen last evening they present
ed a very hOme-like appearance. They
had mOdeStly made themselves COM
Portable in the kitchen at the hotel, and
We're busy telling their story to the pro-
pfletor and walters of the place. The
mother, who is 81 years old, is of some
what slender build, but has rosy cheeks.
The daughter, who is 10 years old, looks
more IKE maiden in some of the ru-
-N- - u AAdADpC lAAeAAt oil <a1l1C44-
can girl She appears in the vigor of
health-budding WOmanhoOd. Both are
apt takers, and, although of Scandina-
Wan birth, speak the English language
Huently and entertainingly.
Mrs. Estby essayed the part. of spokes-
man. I'VE left Spokane May 5, a year
ago, she said. I'VE took the Union
Pacific track from our starting point to
Denver, whence we followed the BurI-
1ngton to Omaha. Here we took to the
Rock Island to Chicago. In Pennsylva-
MIA we followed the Harrisburg & Read
ing, and which led us into New York.
We walked 4, 600 miles, and have touch
ed IL different states in the Union. The
average number of miles covered dur
ing the day was 2715, but we have trav-
eled 90 al times. During our travels we
have worn out Is pairs of shoes, eight
hats, and have now on our fifth cos
Tunes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
LYNCHING WRONG.
The Governor Says Occasions are Rare
When Jastifiable.

Governor Leedy wired New York
Journal as follows on the lynching
at Urbana: "The lynching at Urbana
was wrong The criminal was in the
hands of the law and the law should
have been permitted to take its course.
The lynchers should be apprehended
and punished for their offense against
law and order. The successful prose-
cutiOn of the leaders of the Urbana
mob would tend to lessen the lynching
fad, which prevails in this country.
There are times, however, when
lynching is justihable, but they are few
and far between. In the absence of law
or when officers refuse or are unable TO
do their duty the people must rise in
their might and suppress crime and
punish criminals in a summary manner
as a matter of seIf-pr0tection and self
DreserVa ton -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
PINGREE,S PARTNER.
The Governors Companion in Bust.
ness Supposed to Be Dead is Found.


ness Supposed to Be Dead is Found.
Detroit, June 7.-Charles H. Smith,
the former well known partner of Gov
ernOr Pingree in the big shoe firm of
Pingree & Smith, disappeared from
sight in this city on the night of May
IA, 1890. He was supposed to have had
a large sum of money on his person, and
murder was the theory by which his
disappearance was explained, until It
was known how seriously his business
affairs were out of plumb, then it was
believed he had fed.
After he went out of the shoe firm his
largest enterprise was the Western
Knitting company. On the evening that
he dropped out of sight the secretary of
the company called on him on affairs
connected with Smiths management of
the business. After the secretaFy's de-
parture Mr.. Smith took his OVeroOat
and started downtown. That was the
last the general public knew of him.
His fortune melted away at once, his
business interests and his handsome
Woodward avenue home going to cred1-
tors. Until today it was supposed no
one in Detroit knew whether he was
living or dead.
Ex-Alderman James Vernon now says
he went to New York last September to
meet Smith, after receiving a letter in
viting him to do so. He found Mr..
Smith much broken in health and spirit
and in straitened circumstances. Mr..
Smith refused offers to assist him in a
material way, providing he would re-
turn to Detroit. He said he preferred
to remain in Obscurity.
Mr.. Smith told how he left Detroit.
He said that he was walking along the
docks and prevailed on a man in
rowboat to place him aboard a passing
sailing vessel, which landed him in
Cleveland. Then he went to New York
and thence to South America, where he
spent some time in Chilli Later he re-
turned to the United States and made
his home in New York.
Governor PingTee says that he has
never heard from the missing man.
Vernon today declared that he does not
know Smiths address, but believes he
he is not in New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
Burglary for q Chew.

Batavia, o., June Edward Babel, 49,
a blacksmith of Owensville, last night
broke into the general store of B. Bus
mann at that place.
He took chew of tobacco off plug.
then placed the plug back in the box.
Nothing else was disturbed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
sFx RAYS.D

Parents expect that their children will
be good and talented, but they never
expect to pick apples from elm trees.
People make some very fine distinctions
in this WOrld.-Clifton News.
When it comes to filling offices there
are always plenty of patriOts.-Clyde
Herald.
i
An engaged girl is as worthless as
man with the Burlington
Independent.
When your children are small they
annoy you by stepping on your toes.
When they are grown up perhaps they
will tread on your heart-COncordia
Kansan.
The most popular child in Hiawatha
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
so Deserters From OREGON.

Seattle, Wash, June There have
been fifty desertions from the ranks of
the marines and seamen of the battle
ship Oregon since it arrived on the
sound two months ago. As a rule the
deserters were new men, such as chafed
under the restraint and discipline ex-
acted aboard a an-of-war
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07

is one who has learned not to touch
everything inside of the neighbors'
hOmes.-Brown County World.
Amelie Rives, who wrote 1.-THE Quick
OF the Dead has gone insane. She is
the only living writer who ever gave a
microscopic definition of love.-Wichita
Eagle.
- -
An Arkansas City woman who has
spent IS years studying husbandry says
that no woman can live happily with
pfgeon-toed rnan.-Parsons Sun.
The government is going to give Lieu
tenant Peary five years in which to dis
cover the north pole. If he doesn't do
it in that time, the government will re-
call him and go up and discover the
pole itself.-Lawrence Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
BISHOP FITZGERALD.

He VIII Succeed to the Position Occupied
by Bishop Bowman, Retired.
Bishop James N. Fitzgerald, who is
to succeed Bishop Bowman, the Meth
odist patriarch who has retired from
active work, stands very high in the
estimation Of his fellow ecclesiastics.
He will take up his residence in ST
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
Cas- Trnst Has lis Wav.

Tanner has signed the gas bills. AS
result, the companies forming the Chi
cago gas trust will be able to CONSOLE
date, saving thereby, it is said, $3.50, 900
annually.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07

w. B. Johnson of Newark, O., says:
zone Minute Cough Cure saved my
only child from dying by Group" 1t has
saved thousands of others suffering
from Group, pneumonia, bronchitis and
other serious throat and lung troubles.
nue..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
SENATOR DEBOE.
Career of the Successor to Senator BIscl
burn.

William J. Deboe of Kentucky, who
takes his seat in the United States sem
ate as the successor of J. S. c. Black
burn, began his political career in 1888
as a delegate to the DationaI Republican
convention which gave General Harri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07

Chicago, June For Kansas@Gen-
orally fair tonight and Tuesday; varia-
bic winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
Baby Cried Night and Day
Discharge from Her Ears - Top
Of Her Head Broke out in
ScrofuIous Eruptions
Grew Worse Under Treatment Till We
Gave Her Hoods aparilIa-She
Has Rosy Cheeks Now.

"When my baby was two months
old she cried night and day, and
seemed to be in great pain. She had
a discharge from her ears, and the top
of her head broke out in scrofulous
eruptions. The doctor gave me some
thing to stop the discharge and ease
the pain, but his treatment did not
cure her and we were sorry to see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07

Foreign Born Congressman.
Our present congress has 81 mem bers
who are of foreign birth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
She Crew Worse

instead of better. The top Of her
head broke out with scrofula. A
crust would form on her head and fall
off, taking the hair along with it,
and this continued for two or three
months, when something seemed to tell
me to try Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
did so, together with Hoods Pills
and Hoods Olive Ointment. Soon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-07
A QUICK DISCRETION.
W. h Doyle Disappeared Three
Hours After Marrying Hattie
Halpin

Lincoln, Neb., June Hattie Halpin
came all the way from Oglesby, Ill. to
Lincoln to marry William H. Doyle, an
old sweetheart. The knot was tied this
morning.
Three hours later she reported to the
police that her newly-fOund husband had
disappeared. He has not yet been found.
Soon after the ceremony they stepped
into an ice cream par1or. He left her there
on the plea that he wished to go in next
door and get bill changed. The reason
for his desertion has not crept out. The
girl wife was left with but a few dollars
Terrible Accidental is a terrible &C
cident to be burned or scalded; but the
pain and the agony and the frightful
dishgurements can be quickly overcome
without leaving a scar by using De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. George w.
Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue.