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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
MOUNTAIN OF WATER
Rolls Over the New England
Coast Doing Great Damage.

Boston. Jan. PA severe storm at
tended by unusual phenomena, passed
over New England yesterday, causing
heavy rains in the southern portion, ten
to twelve inches of snow in Maine and
New Hampshire, thunder and lightning
in the extreme northeast, and practical
ly a tidal wave on the coast from Cape
Cod to Portland. Last night a gale
was blowing east of Portland and the
storm seems likely to increase in force
as 1t passes over the provinces. While
the heavy SHOWS in Maine caused some
delay in railroad transportation and the
severe rains in the south, We're Bespon-
Slble for numerous WaShOutS, the most
destructive feature of the storm seems
to have been in the tremendous tide
which swept in from the sea, inundat-
ing the greater part of the coast and
causing a heavy loss to owners of
property along the water front At
Gloucester the tide was the highest
since the memorable storm in 1851 and
caused an estimated loss of property
situated on the water front of over $1O,-
coo.
Other localities along the shore also
reported losses from the tide of more or
less extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
NEW HETTY GREEN STORY.
Americas WeaIthiest Woman as a
Charity Patient.

New York, Jan. 24.-''The Abuses in
Medical Charity was one of the sub
jects discussed at the annual banquet
of the MedicO-Legal society.
DR.. J. II. Brudenshaw in recounting
to what extent the free dispensary sys-
tenn may be abused, quoted the case of
Hetty Green, the wealthiest woman in
America, who, he said, had accepted
free treatment in a dispensary, repre-
senting herself to be a woman in the
direst straits of poverty.
THAT woman he continued, with
emphasis, put on an old gown and
worked upon the sympathies of the at
tending physician to such an extent
that out of sheer pity he advised her
to come to his private office, where he
could give her better treatment and
save her the trouble of long waits.
She gladly accepted and for a con-
siderable time came to the physicians
office, where he gave her the best of
treatment, absolutely free of charge
"A friend who came in knew her, and
congratulated the physician on his
wealthy patient.
What, that poor woman out there|
exclaimed the physician.
Why, man alive replied his friend,
that's Hetty Green, the richest woman
in all this land
THE young physician promptly re-
scinded his charity and sent a bill to
her for 5000, which she was compelled,
though much against her will, to pay"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
LEEDY ANNExATIONIsT.
Better to Take the Islands Now Than
Fight for Them Later.

New York, Jan. 24.-The Herald has
obtained the views of some of the gov
errors of states on the subject of an
nexation of Hawaii. Two interviews
follow:
Governor Leedy, of Kansas be-
lieve the Hawaiian islands should be
annexed by the United States for these
reasons: Within a short time a canal
will be built across the isthmus of Pan
anna This canal should be controlled
and governed by the United States
The nation having possession of these
islands will command the road to the
canal, and will also possess the key to
the Pacific ocean from maritime
standpoint. My belief is that if we
allow Hawaii to slip out of our fingers
now, within fifty years our necessities
would compel US to fight to get possess
sion of the islands, and, therefore, it
seems to me to be good policy to get
them While we can in peace.
Governor Adams, of COlorado-While
not enthusiastic, I believe the future
welfare of the United States would JUS
t1fy the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands. But a hundred fold more i'm
portant move would be the building of
the Nicaragua canal, as a guarantee Of
future power and empire. We need
both, but first of all the canal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
IN GOOD CONDITION
Is the Western Baseball Association
Declares President Hickey.

st. Joseph, Mo, Jan. 24.-Reports
that the western association of base
ball clubs is in a shaky condition have
prompted President T. J. Hickey of ST.
Joseph to give out the following state
ment to the Associated Press:
The affairs of the western association
are in first-class shape. There are one
or two towns that are still in doubt but
there are more towns asking for mem
bership at this time than ever before in
the associations history, so that in the
event that one of the present members
drop out we will have no trouble in fill
ing the gap with just as good a town.
The season will open with the associa-
ton stronger than ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
FOUR DEAD BODIES FOUND.
Dissecting Room in Lincoln is De-
cIared a Nuisance.

Lincoln, Neb., Jan. Efficiently the
citizens of the business portion next to
the government building have been
complaining of an apparent unOccupied
One-story building on the corner. A
horrible stencil drove people to the 9TH
er side of the street. Yesterday it was
brokn open and four partially dissected
bodies, two men, a woman and a girl
were found.
Dr. J. NJ Mcleod. of the Lincoln
Medical college, admitted owning the
outfit, and was arrested and fined $40
and costs for maintaining a nuisance in
the city limits. For a long time the
college here has used this room in
the work out at the college. Consider
able feeling has been developed over the
matter. It develops that the building
has been secretly used for six xmOnths
as a receptacle for dead bodies by the
COLLEGE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
SPAIN Is SHOCKED
And Indignant at the Cuban Talk in
the House.

the House.
New York, Jan. PA dispatch to the
Herald from Madrid says:
The attacks in the house at Wash
ington have produced a feeling here
which perhaps is scarcely justified
pointing toward the fixed purpose of a
certain section of American politicians
to insist on war with Spain. The gov
eminent itself is disturbed and the
press is full of the subject"
The impartial says: In proportion
as the accounts from Cuba are favora-
bic in Spain, they become less so from
the United States. It would be difficult
to believe that the United States pro-
poses to undertake in the face of the
whole civilized world the enormous re-
sponsibility of provoking war for which
no reason exists today. Why allege as
the only motive for intervention the
prolongation of a contest which is prin-
cipaIly sustained by hlibustering expe-
ditiOns starting from North American
ports and maintained by hopes, fostered
in Washington and New York of an at
tack upon Spain. 1t is a cold blOoded
mockery, and anront to the general
conscience"
The Correspondence says:"We cannto
imagine that the majority of the United
States wish for war with Spain, seeing
the great disturbance such a war would
cause. We believe that the government
of the United States will not commit
this unjustihabIe and thoughtless i'm
prudence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
COLOR LINE AT COLLEGES.
Cornell is to Have Chinese Coxswain
While Yale Shuts Out the Negro.

ithaca, N. Y, Jan. PA Chinaman for
coXWaln IN the great intercollegiate boat
race is what the Cornell freshman crew
may present this year. Sas-Ke-Sze, OF s
Alfred SEE, as he is known in this coun-
try has registered with Coach Courtney
as candidate for the cOxswain's seat in
the 1901 boat. Until someone else proves
superior there is a probability that this
Celestial may be the first Chine man to
turn the rudder of a racing shell.
He has already attained wide reputa-
ton for his remarkable abilities as stu
dent, and the fact that he is to make
Cornell his alma mater has become gen
orally known Five years ago he came
to this country with the American lega-
ton, and for a long time has acted as
private secretary for the Chinese minis
ter.
Chicago. Jan. PA special to the Times
Herald from New Haven, Conn, says;
Yale has drawn the color line, and right
at the annual social season, when all is
gayety.
The juniors have decided to employ no
colored labor at their junior promenade
and have rejected the bids of caterers
who proposed to employ colOred walters
in handling the refreshments for the
crowds here during social week.
The contract was given to a New Yorker
on condition that he employ white and
largely student walters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
LAUGHS AT DEATH.
A VIGOROUS CONSTITUTION DE-
MANDs KIDNEYS IN GOOD
CONDITION.
John Morrow, the Chemist, Offers, At
ter Is Years ofResearch and Study,
the Only Scientifically Pre-
pared Kidney Tonic.

Kidneys are nothing more nor less
than filters for the human body. If they
are healthy, man has pure blood and
feels good; if they are puny and sick,
he must suffer the indescribable terrors
of sickness from its mildest form up
to its most circulating horrors.
New body is continually taking the
place of old, and if the old body Of cor
ruption and poison is not removed i'm
mediately, one cannot have pure blood
and a healthy eXistence-nO vigorous
constitution can continue without a
sound body, and no sound body can re-
main so without sound, healthy KID
neys.
When the system is run down, a
tonic must be taken, if one would get
well. There is no better or surer point
to begin than at the kidneys, and there
is no sure health for the kidneys eX-
cept through that well-tested, healing
tonic MorroW's Kidneoids-
MOrrow's KidneOids are prepared sci
entifcally from remedial agents, tested
for their especial curative and tonic
action upon the kidneys, and in such
proportions and arrangements as viii
combine full strength with cOnven-
lent size They are made in tablet
form, yellow in color, and are agreea-
BILE even to the most delicate stomach
Take care of the kidneys and nine
tenths of all sickness viii be avoided
Don't let sickness creep in. There is no
knowing what serious results may &C
cur from neglect. The human body
cannot stand for everything-it's d deli
cate affair and must have needful at
tention and considerate action.
Among pure effective remedies none
hold so prominent a place as MorroW's
Kidneoids. The first case of kidney
troubles they have not cured IS I'M
known. They are recognized as the
only infal1ible kidney remedy known to
the science of medicine.
MorroW's Kidneoids are now on sale
generally. If not to be had of your
dealer, they will be sent post paid upon
receipt of so cents per box, or six boxes
for $3.50 by the Herb Medicine Co.,
Springfield, Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
SALOONS CONE BACK.
Grand and Glorious Good Times
as of YOre at Great Bend.

Great Bend, Kan, Jan. A.-Saturday
night, while engaged in a game of bill
lizards, M. Henry and George Meacham
became involved in a quarrel over 10
cents. In the free fight which ensued
billiard cues were used and lights were
shot out. The proprietor hid behind the
bar and the loafers behind the stove, and
when the smoke of battle cleared away
George Meacham was discovered with
broken arm and otherwise badly bruised
while NJ Henry had his hand broken and
mashed so badly that the doctors fear
amputation will be necessary.
Old timers say that the fight was al
most an exact reproduction of the scenes
of earlier days. when this was shipping
point for cattle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
FOREIGN CYCLERS TO COME
A Race Promoting Syndicate to Sc
cure Some Fast Talent.

New York, Jan. 24.-NGore foreign racing
cyclists are to be brought to America for
the next outdoor racing season. A new
race promoting syndicate that proposes to
operate a cycle track in New York city
and to conduct a middle distance racing
circuit that will include the largest east
ern cities of the United States and Can
ada, has sent representative to Europe
to secure the best possible available tai
ent for that circuit. That representa-
tive left New York on the 18th instant.
bound direct for Paris, which at present
is the headquarters of European cycle
racers. He was commissioned to offer in
ducements to every prominent middle dis
lance rider on the continent and. if pos
sible, to arrange terms with the best
short distance men also Cordang, the
long distance Dutch champion, and HOu-
eret, the long distance French champion,
are also on the list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
THIS WEEK AT THEATERS.

Fitz & Webster's "A Breezy Time" with
a number of clever vaudeville artists, will
again visit Topeka at the Crawford the
alter on next Wednesday evening. The
piece is a farce comedy, the plot of which
is not so intricate that it requires any
great mental activity to follow it. 1t is
put together simply for the purpose of
giving the comedians an opportunity to
exhibit themselves in their various spe-
cialty performances. The pieces is sep
arated into three acts, and the author has
worked on the principle that action is the
soul of farce, and "A Breezy Time is all
action.
Town Topics will be the second farce
comedy to visit Topeka this week, follow
ing "A Breezy Time at the Crawford
theater Thursday evening. It is an anus
ing sl1it of today, and full of pretty girls
up-tO-date songs and ludicrOus situations.
The company includes the comedians
John W. World. William S. Keller, W. H.
Mack, Sherman Wade and Charles E. Ora
ham, supported by a bevy of clever act
resses in the persons of Marie Leslie,
Hulda Halvers, Ethel B. Payne, Alice
Felice, Nellie Ryan, Juliet Wilson, Allie
Hood and others.
Nine. Sofia scalchi. the accomplished
contraltO, who has been appearing before
English and American audiences for the
past % years, will visit Topeka next Fri
day evening, accompanied by Nile. Marie
Toulinquet and an able concert company.
The two scenes of the fourth act of the
opera II Trovatore" will be put on, pre-
coded by a miscellaneous concert pro-
gramme. The sale of seats will open
Wednesday, and the prices will be $1.5O for
the entire first floor, 81 and rs cents for
balcony seats and so Gems for gallery
seats.
On Tuesday evening Fraulein Antoine
Stole will appear at the Grand Opera
House under the auspices of the FEEDER
alton of Clubs, lecturing on the famous
paintings of Europe and accompanying
her lecture with stereopticon exhibit.
Of General John B. Gordons lecture,
Last Days of the Confederacy." which
he will deliver at the Crawford theater
Tuesday evening, the Philadelphia Ledger
of recent date had the following to say:
General John B. Gordon's lecture on
the Last Days of the Confederacy,' which
he delivered at the Academy of Music last
evening to an audience largely composed
OF members of the Grand Army of the
Republic was a masterpiece of mingled
humor, pathos and patriotic eIoquence. 1t
presented a vivid picture of at least one
side of life in both armies, and in its
characterization of the generals who
fought the great fight was discriminating
and Just. General Gordon was a promi-
nent actor in many of the closing scenes
of the war and with becoming modesty
described in detail incidents of which his
tory relates the bare outlines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
NEWCHIEFAT Fl. SCOTT
A General Change Made in Ft. Scott
Police Department.

Fort Scott, Jan. 24-Late Saturday
afternoon several important changes
were made in the police force of this
city.
The board of commissioners annOunc-
ed that former calaboose Keeper, Dearth
had been appointed chief of police; that
Chief Williams had been transferred to
the position of calaboose keeper; that
U. S. StOner had been removed from
the force; that A. r. Brown was ap-
pointed to succeed him and that officer
Graham had been suspended for ten
days for INSTRUMENTATION. These changes
all took effect Saturday night. The
suspension of Officer Graham was be
cause of his having broken in to a
newspaper the other day with COM
municatiOn, which tended to aggravate
the strife in the police department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
LORD NEVILLE ARRESTED.
Another Case Growing Out of Deal
ings With "Uncle' Sam Lewis.

London, Jan. Z4.-Lord William Ne
vile, fourth son of the marquis of Alb
ergavenny, was arrested today and ia
ken to Bow Street police court charged
with fraud in connection with the suit
of Sam Lewis, the money lender, against
Spencer Clay an officer of the guards,
to recover Glib due on two promis-
sorry notes cashed for the prisoner.
During the trial of the suit of Lewis
VS.. Clay, in November last, the counsel
for the defendant alleged that the en-
dorsements of the notes were secured
by trickery The jury found that Clay
was a victim of misplaced confidence
and judgment was given to the effect
that Clay was not bound by the sigma
lures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
Stole His Clothes.

An engineer was telling a story on
himself this morning and said that his
first impression of Newton was not at
all complimentary. He was sent here
from Topeka with an engine to take
west. He got here and went up for in
structions. He found that they had no
instructions for him except that he was
to be sent on west. He at once got his
grip and went to sleep in a way car
until it was time for him to go out
When he woke up he found that every
thing he had had been stolen except the
clothes he had on his back His grip
money and all his valuables had been
taken. Newton in 1887 was a corker, -
he said. He was afterwards stationed
here and has since changed his mind
about not caring to live in the town
NeWtOn RepubIican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
A NIGHT OF FIRES.
There Was a Hot Time in a Pennsyl-
vania Town Last Might.

Mahaney City, Pa, Jan 24-Four
fires, three of which are believed to
have been incendiary, occurred here
last night. Shortly before midnight
the Daily Record office was partially
destroyed. The loss was S24, 500. A few
hours later the Eagle hosiery mills, OPP
Grated by Jones & Johnson, and a dwell
ling near by occupied by Jacob Frits
and several freight cars of the Phila-
delphia & Reading railroad, were de-
stroyed.
TIE mill owners lose 5000; insur-
ance small. Frits' loss is SIS, 500. About
the same time in another part of the
city big double frame building, occu-
pied Peter E. Eichman used as a flour
and feed warehouse was burned to the
ground, together with the stock. Loss,
So 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
Free of Charge to Sufferers.

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store.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
BRAVE MEN WANTED.
Chairman of Chicago Silver Party Con-
fers With Believers in Munich
pal Own

Chicago, Jan. 24.-Standing on the side
walk in front of 1725 Wabash avenue is a
sign which has been exciting comment
ever since it was put there Saturday
morning. It is of home manufacture,
and the stencil letters are blotched and
uneven, but it is not much its appear
ance as its meaning that puzzles the pass
er-by. The sign reads:
''Wanted-Men, not towards, who be-
neve the city should own the street rail-
ways. Leave name and address. c. A.
Crum.''
col" c A. Crum. who lives in the
rear of the store room at the number men
toned and does business as a seller of
patent medicines in the front part of the
room, talked enthusiastically yesterday
afternoon on the pUrport of the sign and
of the movement for which it stands.
The colonel has been and is now
chairman of the executive committee of
the silver and anti-machine party, and he
thinks that party will take up his new
scheme, which comprehends the municipal
absorption of all the street railways at
the termination of their franchises. He
says he will have the names of more than
half the voters of Chicago on his petition
before the spring election.
Hints of quick and summary dealing
with doodle aldermen, and especially
with those who vote for franchise extern
sions escaped the colonel" who said
that if either of the old parties put up a
lot of Doodle candidates the municipal
ownership party would spring into the
field with a fuIl-hedged ticket ready for
the fray
Speaking of the benefits to accrue from
city ownership of the street railways, he
said: I'VE know from the experience of
foreign countries that an increase of
wages and a decrease of hours follows
municipal ownership. Then the income
derived from the operation of the railways
will lido away with taxes and the city will
have S2O.OO0OO0 to spend every year on i'm
proving streets, boulevards and in build
ing places of amusement for the people
I tell you, if the monopolies of the city
were owned by the city taxes would be
nothing. Why should five or six men get
all this money? 1t should go to the peo-
pie, and everybody thinks so. I put the
sign out Saturday and already more than
800 men have come in and signed. All
kinds of men, too. I am right here in
the district of the 'goldbugs,' but the
wealthy fellows have signed as well as
the workingmen and cOlored people"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
GEO. w. DUDLEY,
"A Prominent St. Louis Business Man
Cured of Asthma, Case of Ten
Years Standing, by DIR. Char
cots KOIa NerVine Tablets.

St Louis. No. April 13 1897.
To whom it may coneern--I am pleased
10 add my testimonial to the worth of DR..
Charcot's KOla Nervine Tablets, having
been afflicted with asthma for about ten
years. have found great relief from the
use of these Tablets, for after having used
one of the large boxes the symptoms were
nearly effaced.
Hoping that others thus afflicted viii
6enefit from my experience, L am,
Truly yours, Geo. w. Dudley.
N. B.-Mr. George W. Dudley, writer Of
Ehe above letter. is president of The Dud-
ley Machinery Co, St-Louis. No, and one
of the best known civil and constructing
engineers in the West and South west.
He has recently gained national promi-
nence as one of the inventors and owners
of the celebrated dynamite gun now being
used with such deadly effect by the Cuban
Insurgents in their struggle for liberty.
DR.. Charcot's Kola NerYine Tablets never
fail in nervous diseases of any kind Fifty
cents and 8. 90 at all druggists. See DR..
Charcot's name on label. Eureka Chemical
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
RABBIT SAUSAGE.
The Industry Started by the Queen of
LETTERS Landing.

Keokuk, Ia, Jan. 24-Every steamboat
man that runs on the boats that ply up
and down the river knows old Mrs. Lei
fer of LETTERS Landing, Ill, between here
and Quincy. She sells the steamers stores,
can and will shoot like a man on provo
cation, and swears like a trooper.
She has started a new industry, that of
making sausage out of rabbit meat. They
are very plentiful in the woods near the
landing, so she finds ample supply,
as well as a ready market. Prepared in
this way, the rabbits make a very appe-
tizing dish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-24
LINE DRAWN ON GAMBLERS
Violation of the Cubbison Law the One
UnpardonabIe Crime.

By refusing pardon for David Will
hanson and AL. Luke, two gamblers,
sent to prison for one year each for
running gambling houses, the state ad-
ninistratiOn has practically served
notice that this class Of law breakers
need expect no clemency-
Williamson was sent up from CraW-
ford county; Luke from Cherokee cOun-
ty Two thousand persons signed the
petitions, but the state board of par
dons made a unanimous report against
a pardon, and Governor Leedy endorses
it. The prosecutions were carried on
under the provisions of the Cubbison
anti-gambling law.