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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
PARTISANSHIP MAD.
The Finishing Blow to Populist Infu-
ence in Topeka Now Contemplated.


The movement to remove Police Ma
tron Thorpe will eliminate next Satur-
day when the petitions for her removal
win be presented to the board of police
commissioners. Petitions for her re-
moval have been circulated in every
precinct in the city. and these will be
collected and presented to the board
day after tomorrow. AT the same time
a flood of rernonstrances against her re-
moval will be presented. Her friends
have been circulating petitions and
they have secured the signatures of
nearly every prominent man in To-
peEa.
The fight on Mrs. Thorpe is what is
known among politicians as anti-per-
sonal, which means that there is moth
ing to be said against the police matron
except that she does not WELD enough
influence politically. Mrs. Thorpe orig
1naly received her appointment from
q POpulist board. She was afterward
removed by the Republican board, but
refnstated when the people of the CITY
rose up and demanded her retention
Now another Populist board is asked to
oust her to make a place for a woman
who has done more for the party If
they DO it they win sink beneath the
level of public contempt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
INGALLS, EN- ROUTE.
Ex-senator From Kansas on His Way
to Witness the Corbett-Fitz-
simmons Contest

Cincinnati, March 11.-John ]. In
gals arrived at the Grand hotel on
Tuesday morning from Washington.
IT have just witnessed a big affair at
Washington he said, ''and now I am
going out to see the prize fight between
Corbett and Fitzsimmons- L never saw
one and shall view this one from an
unprofessional and rather philosophic
point of view. I want TO get an idea
as to which is the more brutal-prize
fighting or foot ball. I think it will be
u great fight.
From what I can understand in the
papers each man, while claiming to be
confident, has salutary apprehension
Of the other. shall give my views and
impressions to a newspaper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
sULLIvAN's CHALLENGE.
He Wants to Fight the Winner of the
Big Battle.

Chicago, March 11-John L. Sullivan.
the ex-cha mpion who is to report the
ett-Fitzsimmons contest for a New
York newspaper will arrive in Chicago
on Saturday morning and will leave at
5 80 o'clock in the evening on the tDaV-
les speciaX' over the Rock Island route
for the battle ground
Sullivan has challenged the winner
and will be accompanied by a party of
Boston sporting men including George
Gay, Frank Stevenson, Frank Dunn,
and Larry Killian. Among the promi-
nent New Workers who will accompany
John l.. are Tom O'Rouke, Joe Vendig,
Jim Wakely, Len B. Sloss. Frank Kee-
ny, John Eckhardt and Warren Lewis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
METEOR BURSTS IN OHIO.
Heavenly Body, Said to Have Bge@
40 Feet in Diameter, Causes Teru5r.

Washington Court House. O.. March
11-At $50 this morning people at New
Martinsburg, this county, were greatly
terrified. They saw a cylindrical shap-
ed light, milling a huge ball, about
40 feet in diameter, from which three
columns of smoke were issuing, rapidly
passing through space, producing half
rumbling, half kissing noise, heard for
miles.
Suddenly, the ball burst, producing
a terrible report heard 20 miles distant,
and breaking window lights of some of
the houses.
When the meteor passed over the
house of David Leisure, the latter was
knocked down and for some time was
unconscious. Shortly afterward, upon
going to his stable, he found one of his
horses dead in its stall, with the side
Of its head blown off. Another horse in
an adjoining stall was made deaf by
the cOncussion.
Search is being made for the meteoric
stones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

brooklyn N. Y.
Among the signerS of the letter are
the sons of former Secretary of War
Whitney and the late Gouverneur Nor
riS.
Corbett telegraphed back that he
would put the flag in his corner on the
day of the fight.
What punishment the faculty will in
f1lct IS not known, but judging from the
serious manner in which the affair has
been taken the penalty will not be light
The students declare that they will call
mass meeting and denounce the men
who sent the letter, and this has only
been temporarily averted by the prom
inence and popularity of those who
signed their names to the letter
The Yale flag referred to was a silk
banner of the university scholars 1t
is "a inches long, IS inches wide and
bears the word Yale in letters four
inches high.
The Yale Daily News, the official
publication of the university in an eCli-
torial says: THE letter written and
signed by a few men in the junior class
is utterly disOwned and repudiated by
Yale undergraduates. Its senders
doubtless composed the document with
the idea that it would be a good Joke
but where this comes in it is hard to
see, even for men in college. while out
siders and graduates will certainly con-
slider it q, most serious thing
The very fact that it purported to
represent the sentiment of the univers-
ity an event that should be and is
of no interest here absolutely prevents
it being considered as q joke. nor is the
harm it has done Yale and the strong
condemnation of it by the many COM
munfcations sent to the News very
funny things. By pretending to give
college Sentinent,Or even implying that
there is college sentiment on such a
subject, the letter is a direct insult to
every Yale man.
s',Fhen. too, the disgrace to the uni
versity in having its flag appear in a
prize fighting ring cannot be meas
ured. or perhaps appreciated, at once
No one here viii be able to deny truth
fully that the banner was sent by Yale
men pretending to give Yale's feelings
but the first step toward creating an
understanding of the real worth of this
happening has been taken by the men
who are to blame for it.
1T seems bad that Yale men should
be the first to throw mud at Yale. but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
a LIGHT AND HEAT BILL.
Measure in Regard to Companies Of
This Kind

Senator Hanna's bill for the regula-
ton of gas, electric light, power, water
and heat companies passed the house
today
1t is provided in the bill that such
companies may reserve from their gross
receipts sufficient to pay expenses and
allow interest at per cent on the
capital invested. The rest of the re-
ceipts must go the city for rental of
the streets. A greater interest may be
allowed on petition of three-ffths of the
taxpayers of the city.
Cities of the first, second and third
class are granted power to purchase
and construct their own plants for sup
plying their own light, heat, water or
power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
BIG FIRM FOR Il. C.
The Z. ?. White Grain Company Will
Leave St Louis.

Kansas City, March 11.-About April
l, the main Office Of the e. B. White
Grain company of st. Louis, will be
located in this city.
The new firm is one of the largest in
st. Louis and is a strong competitor of
the Orthweins which is also to move
here, and pays much attention to the
export trade. The two big houses op-
Grating 50 largely with export grain
here will give boom to the export
trade in this market
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
N OW is the Time

To purify your blood with Hoods Sar-
saparila. March, April, May are the
trying months of the year. At this
season your blood is loaded with i'm
purities which have accumulated dur
ing the winter, and these impurities
must be Immediately expelled Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the one true blood puri-
fer 1t is the medicine which has ac-
co-Eplished many thousands Of remark
able cures of all blood diseases. 1t is
what the millions take in the spring
to build up their health and ward off
sickness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
TOOL WORKS CLOSE.
Men Who Have Been Working on
Short Time Are Wholly Idle.

Southington, Conn, March 11.-AIl of
the factories of Peck, Stowe & Wilcox
company manufacturing edge tools and
general hardware have shut down in
definitely. This throws out of employ
nent a large number of hands, who for
the past six months have been working
on a short schedule
The Aetna Nut company's nut works
and rolling mills are also at standstin
and the works of the SoUthingtOn Cut
lery company are running on short
time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
New Banking Law.

The house amended the new banking
law, making it effective after publica-
tion in the State Journal The COVER
nor signed the bill today and it may be
found in another part of this paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
Health and Happiness

find health and happiness. should hear
D. l. Sullivan, the noted scientist Of
st. Louis. Mo, who will lecture next
sunday afternoon at p. m. at 120 East
9th ST. and Unity church in the evening
at o'clock.
This will be a rare treat for you. All
=
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

that an amfcable agreement will be
reached. Then the measure will go be-
fore the people and there is net cit
izen of Topeka who realizes the impor-
tance of a convention and concert hall
in Topeka who will vote against the use
of the money in the city treasury for
such worthy purpose. The building
of it will employ several hundred men
at good wages.
Let all good citizens work together
for the interests of the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
viii Have One to Vote On.

Representative Trueblood's joint res
olution, providing for submitting to the
people a proposition to amend the con-
stitution so as to make the term of Of
flee of all state officers four years was
killed by the senate this morning by a
ViVe Voce vote
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
Police Bill Dead at Last.

The Hackbusch house bill, providing
for the repeal of the metropolitan po-
lice law. was stricken from the senate
calendar this morning on motion of
Senator Lamb (Rep., Woodson county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
No Trust Investigation.

The senate this morning unanimously
voted to kill Representative Keefer's
concurrent resolution providing for an
investigation of the methods and prac-
tices of trusts and corporations doing
business in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
STEEL RAILS FOR JAPAN.
The First Shipment From this Coun-
try is Being Loaded at Philadelphia-

Philadelphia March 1.-THE first cargo
of steel rails from this country for Ja-
pan is now being loaded on the British
steamer Fortuna, Philadelphia & Read
ing Coal wharves together with a large
consignment of locomotives built in the
city and intended for Japan
Three other steamers have been char
tered to carry engines and rails from this
port to Japan The tonnage consigned to
the Fortuna consists of 1000 tons of rails
and 1900 tons of locomotives and equiv
ments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
Lectnra Postnoned-

The lecture of General ]. G. Caldwell.
which was to have been given before
Unity club tomorrow evening, has been
postponed until later date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
WALLS OF FEZ FALL.
$50 Are Buried Under the Ruins and
Lose Their Lives.

Tangier, Morocco. March I-By the
collapse of part of the old walls of the
town of Fez, 1S0 worlzment have been
killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
REAPPOINT BREIDENTHAB.

Governor Leedy will appoint John W.
Breidentha1 bank commissioner late
this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
]. W.WADSwORTHR

J. W.WADSWORTH,JR ,JR,
Washington, D. c.
BRUCE CLARK,
Chicago.
J. c. M'LAUGHLIN.
Cleveland.
FORSYTH WYCKES,
New York.
FRED'K KERNOCHAN.
New York.
ROBT. J. TURNBULL, ,JR.
MorristoWn.
PAYNE WHITNEY.
New York.
JOHN S. ROGERS.
New York.
DALLAS c. BYERS,
Pittsburg.
MOREAU DE LANO.
New York.
G. MORRIS,
New York.
F. w. SHEEHAN.
F. H. SIMMONS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

it is certainly so in this case. and all
that the guilty ones can do is to beg
pardon for it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
And a Yale Flag to Champion
Pugilist COrbett.
WISH HIM SUCCESS.
Names of SciOnS of AriStocratic
Families
Appear Among the Signatures
to the Letter.
The Faculty and Friends Of the
University Indignant.

New York. March ia special to the
Herald from New Haven, Conn, says:
There is trouble in Yale because of the
letter which 13 luclkless under graduates
sent to Mr.. James J. Corbett wishing
him success in his coming contest.
When the news was first published that
the letter and a Yale flag had been sent
to the fighter, there came many tele-
grams from graduates, each asking that
the particular young man in whom he
was interested whose name was signed
to the letter would deny the authenti-
city of the signature.
Then came the announcement that
the letter was genuine and the faculty
has been holding indignation meetings
and thinking things to do to extract
Yale from her position. The senders of
the letter were called before the faculty
and told that they must not only as
sumo responsibility for the letter, but
retract over their signatures that the
students Of Yale had anything to do
with it's being sent
Accordingly the students made the
following statement:
THE members of the junior class
who wrote the letter that appeared in
the New York papers, wish to state that
they willingly retract all phrases in it
which pretend to represent the senti-
ment of the university
The original letter which was inspir-
ed by a birthday party. is as follows:
Yale University,
March 2, 1897.
James J. Corbett, Champion of the
World:
Dear Strive of the junior class of
Yale university, desire to express to
you our heartiest wishes for your sue
cess in the battle of ST. Patrick's day
Ever since your first visit to New Ha-
Ven last fall, and your appearance on
our foot ball field. the college at large
has felt the deepest interest and hopes
for your triumph Here at Yale we
realize how much brain and science
count in all athletic contests. We re-
gard you as the highest exponent of the
brainy boxer, hence implicit faith and
confidence in the outcome of the battle
We learn of your splendid physical
condition and can see only one finish
for this fight. Now, Jim we hope that
you will hang this Yale flag in your
training quarters and in your corner at
the ringside and remember that it
waves to you a message of Yale luck
and pluck. Go on and win and delight
the hearts of all true Yale men.
ISignedl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Late this afternoon one Of the lead
ing Populist senators said that n
agreement would be reached by tn
members on a railroad measure.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
ARRESTED THE BAND.
DeArmitt Deputies Afraid Of the Effect
of Music on the strikers.

EeArmitt Deputies Afraid Of the Effect
of Music on the strikers.
PITTsBURG, Oct. 1.-THE deputy
sheriffs at the DeArmitt coal mines
made raid OH the strikers at Sandy
Creek and arrested 10 men including
the members Of the brass band. The
strikers were marching on the public
road and were halted by the deputies
about quarter of a mile from the tip.
pie The band refused to stop playing
and the entire party was placed under
arrest without resistance. The prison.
ers were brought to this city and taken
to the sheriff's Office, where hearing
will be given them. The members Of
the band took their arrest good natur.
edly and played their instruments as
they were escorted from the railroad
station to the sheriff's Office. Chief
Deputy Evans said the men We're riot.
ious and Us feared trouble. This is de-
MED by the strikers.
Superintendent DeArmitt claims that
the three mines Of the company are
now running to their fullest capacity.
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carried for one passenger killed was
1927, ,474 and the number of passengers
carried for one passenger injured was
IT'S, 1872.
BIG LAKE VESSELS.
Contract Let for tho Three Largest Ever
Constructed for Like Service.

Contract Let for tho Three Largest Ever
Constructed for Like Service.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 1.-THE Besserler
Steamship company, John D. Rookie
feller's big line Of lake steamers and
tow barges, has closed a contract for
the three largest ships ever constructed
for service on fresh water. AS the big
ships built for this line over year ago
were far larger than anything brought
out previously, so the new boats will be
an advance in size over even these enor.
nous freighters. The contract for the
three went to +. w. Wheeler & Co. of
Bay City. The contract is for one
steamer and two consorts. The three
must be completed by next May and al,
together will carry over 10000 tons of
iron ore Oh single trip on draft of II
feet.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
GUESTS ALL ESCAPED.

Panic Caused by Fire in the Sh ermar
House at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Oct. 14.-At l:20 a. m. fire
broke out in the Sherman House, one
of the largest hotels in the city, and al.
though all of the guests and the serv.
ants escaped without loss of life, there
was for time the liveliest kind of a
panic among them. The fire origi.
mated in the kitchen from gas stove
and spread with great rapidity. In a
few minutes the entire building was
filed with dense cloud of smoke and
the attaches of the hotel Office were
hurrying through the halls calling Oh
the guests to prepare to leave. There
was wild rush for the street, and in a
few minutes all of them, in all condi-
tions of undress, were in the street or
safely an their way to it. The servants
were located in the seventh story Of the
hotel, and for time it looked as though
some of them would not be able to reach
the street in safety owing to the
Dense Clouds of Smoke
that filled the building. The firemen
were compelled to carry several Of the
girls down two flights of stairs until
they could secure passageway to the
street that was comparatively free from
smoke, and from this point all of them
managed to make their escape from the
building without accident.
Within 10 minutes after the discovery
Of the fire all OF the guests and servants
had been taken from the building and
the fremen We're free 10 devote them
selves to the fire alone. The situation
of the hotel made it important that the
fire should be subdued with the leas
possible delay, and the tiremen made
desperate efforts to hold it within thu
rear portion of the Sherman House
where it had originated. They were
entirely successful in this, and, al
though for time the fire looked to b
dangerous, they soon had it under con
troll. The damage to the building viii
| not be over S5 900.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
To Meet tho 500 Rate.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-THE Milwaukee
and St. Paul railroad made sensa-
tional cut III second class passenger
rates from St. Paul to New York via
Chicago, in connection with Eastbound
steamship business. It took $l0.5O of
the rate The action was taken to meet
the 500 line competition. The Mil.
waukee and ST. Paul will meet what
ever rates the 500 may make. The cut
will undou btedly be met by the other
Chicago.St. Paul roads.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
TAGGART ELECTED MAYOR.

indianapolis Goes Democratic by About
Five Thousand.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. l4.-Thnmas Tag
CART, DEM, defeated w. N. Harding,
Rep, for mayor by plurality that will
reach 5000. The Republicans gave up
the fight early in the evening, conced-
ing Democratic victory of from 5000
to 5000. The rest of the ticket, includ-
ing six councilmen at large, is elected
by $500 to 1000. Of the ward council.
men, Republicans elect probably not
more than out of 10. Mayor Taggart
was deluged with kilograms from all
over the country. He was elected on a
silver platform.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14

! office
lietra-
ed, to
claims
them,
lonths
10 the
Ounty,
G.,
|eadle.
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Banker Rockafellow's Sentence.

WnKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. l4.-Ex-
Banker f. V. Rockafellow, convicted
Of receiving deposit at his bank after
he knew the bank was insolvent, was
sentenced to pay fine of $l,400 and
serve one year in the Eastern peniten.
tiary. This, is his second sentence.
Upon the first conviction he was sent
to the penitentiary for two years.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
Killed Many Natives.

SIMLA, Oct. IA dispatch from
Mahmund announces that the Jirga
tribesmen have surrendered their Mar.
tina breech loading rifles and have SOL
emnly sworn to maintain peace and
drive out Umra Kahn's followers.
The troops forming the Mahmund
punitive expedition have destroyed 26
fortified villages and have killed many
of the insurgent natives.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
Atkinson jury Dlsagreed.

GLENvILLE, w. Va, Oct. 14.--The
jury in the Atkinson case failed to
agree and was dismissed by the court.
The vote stood seven for acquittal and
five for conviction. Court adjourned.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
Plundered a Post office.

HUDSON; Wis, Oct. 14.-Burglars
entered the store of James Sherry,
plundered the postoffice of $50 worth of
stamps and carried off SIS worth of
merchandise. NJ clue.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
Chattanooga Goes Democratic.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. l4.-The
municipal election resulted in the over.
whelming defeat of the Republican
ticket. Colonel Ed Watkins, Dem.,
was elected mayor by 995 majority.
This city is normally Republican.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14

American Wlndow Glass company and
is composed Of all the factories of the
country except halt dozen concerns.
The capital stock of the company was
fixed at 81, 200, 900 but the actual capital
represented in the combination ag-
Qregates nearly $50, ,OOO, 900.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-10-14
Window Glass Combine Completed,

P1TTsBURG, Oct. 1.-THE organiza-
tion of the greatest combination of win.
dow glass manufacturers ever formed
in this country has been completed at
Camden, n. j. It was named the
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In The Railway World.

o. c. Ward of Cherryfield. has taken
the contract to furnish 10000 ties for
the proposed Washington county r. r.
A freight business is done over the
new Northern Aroostook but no pas
sengers will be carried until about the
first of December.
William D. Smith, of Bangor, has
taken the contract to grade Is miles of
the Washington county railroad. east
from Machias, and will begin work inn
mediately. Mr.. Smith thinks that the
railroad is sure go this time and that
construction trains will be running over
the entire line by Aug. 1, 1898.
A. H. Harris, eastern division freight
agent of the Grand Trunk railway
system. has been appointed to the po-
sition of general traffic manager of the
Intercolonial, with headquarters at
Moncton, N. B. The position of gen.
eral traffic manager is a new one on the
Intercolonial. Mr.. Pottinger. the
superintendent, having heretofore COM
bined the duties of such an Office with
those of superintendent.
A large steam gravel shovel is doing
good work at Lewiston Junction, at
which place the Grand Trunk Railroad
company are building a siding. This
shovel goes on track of it's own up to
bank and scoops in monst2ous load
which it swings around and dumps
into gravel car, standing near by on
the main track. This shovel is oper-
ated by two large engines. 1t takes
five men to handle it, but it shovels as