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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

(From the AtchisOn GlObe)
You can get testimonials for any
thing.
People who give presents expect pres
ents.
A man who can't sing or play, nearly
always says that musicians are shift
less.
You never know some people until
you have had a money transaction with
them.
Loafers are becoming so impudent
that they become indignant when
man refuses to loan them money.
It is all right to speak of the music
in a girls laugh, but as a matter OF
fact it is made up of a screech and a
squeal.
A woman doesn't consider that her
pastor does his duty unless he asks her
every time he sees her if they are all
well at home
This is the season when boys steal
green apples and eat them: not because
they like them, but because their moth
ers tell them they mustn't eat them.
A clause should be inserted in the
marriage service asking the man to
promise that he will not make it neces-
sary for his wife to open a boarding
house.
An Atchison woman has without any
aid from her husband, clothed and fed
her family of six children, and with
the aid of the two oldest, who are now
earning money, is giving the youngest
children good educations, and laying
money by for a rainy day. Her huS-
band is prompt to his meals, and his
appetite is never tickle. So far as is
known, carving the meat constitutes
his daily duties.
How birds are admired, and how peo-
pie are abusedi The birds seem to have
the best of it. They spend their sum-
mers in the cool north. and their win
ters in the warm south, and so far as
is known. they haven't a care. You
hear great deal said of the gratitude
people should feel because of their su-
perlor Intelligence, but their plan of
living seems inferior to that of the
birds. Men work and worry, and talk
about each other, and never have any
fun, but the birds have nothing to do,
and feel so good that they are singing
all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
ON OUR HANDS.
IPost-Dispatch.1

The real question is not shall we take
the Philippines, but how shall we let
go of them.
Two ways of disposing Of them have
been suggested. One is to give them
back to Spain; the other is let Europe
take care of them.
But how can Spain take them back
especially the island of Luzon-when
Spain is without a navy and is utterly
broken in pocket? To withdraw with
only naval station would be to sign
the death warrant of every Spaniard
in the islands and turn them over TO the
half savage BIalays
Would Europe consent to dispose of
them? Europe has had trouble enough
Of a kind menacing to her peace in try
ing to act in concert on the Turkish
question. Another menacing problem
is found in China. Would the European
nations consent to take up still another
bone of contention? Each wants a
piece Of the Philippine pie, but all would
prefer to have the United States settle
the problem.
So, having destroyed SPANS power
and disturbed the status, the problem
Is with US. We may not want the Phil
ippines, but we may find them on our
&andss confronted by the tough question
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
so ANXIOUS FOR A BATH.
Husband and Wife, of Different Fami
lies, Will Be Deported.

New York Aug. IA gOod-IooI1ing
couple was ordered to be deported by
the immigration officials yesterday.
though the debarred ones have plenty
of money. They arrived in the steerag sc
of the Britannia as Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Jackson.
Investigation by Commissioner F'itchie
proved that the man is Charles Titley,
a prosperous draper of Grimsby, Eng
land, and his companion Mrs. Florence
Batty, who was one of his star GUS
toners. They had been playmates in
childhood.
Mrs. Batty. who is % years old, &C
knowledged she had eloped with Titley,
leaving in Grimsby a husband and two
children. Titley, who is %, is said to
have deserted a wife.
The draper has $500, and his compan-
ion has plenty of funds. After it had
been decided to send the couple back on
the Britannia, which sails next We'd
neSday, Titley was sent to the steam
pen at Ellis Island, while Mrs. Batty
was cOnhened in the wOman's pen at
the Battery.
She felt keenly her humiliation, and
wept and entreated the commissioner to
allow her to live at a hotel during her
detention, Offering to pay for a guard.
The request was refused.
Then Mrs. Batty begged to be allow
ed to go to a Turkish bath, as there
are no bathing appointments in the
barge office, where the beautiful woman,
who has evidently been reared amid
surroundings of refinement, is obliged
to spend her time. This favor was also
denied.
This disgrace will kill me-" said Mrs.
Batty. can you not arrange for me
to pay the expenses of Mr. TitIey and
myself back to Liverpool, thus avoiding
publicity? If we are sent back as re-
turned immigrants it will ruin us both -
Madam, I am extremely sorry" re-
piled the commissioner, but it cannot
be arranged as you wish"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
30 UQUETS FOR TOPEKA.
GAINESVILLE, O., Signal Compliments
Mrs. John Griley's Singing.

The GAINESVILLE, O., Signal, under the
head "Sweet Singer from Topeka"
prints the following:
Mrs. John Griley, of Topeka, Kas.,
delighted large congregations at St.
Nicholas and st. Thomas Catholic
churches yesterday morning and even
ing with splendid vocal solos. She will
sing a St. Thomas church next SUN
day morning also. Mrs. Griley and
her husband are the guests of the lat
ter's mother. Mrs. Griley formerly re
sided here, her father being Louis Heck.
who left here with his family about
sixteen years ago. Mrs. Griley is an
accomplished organist as well as a vo-
calist of unusual ability"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
AN ARMY OF BUGS.
Chinch Bugs as Thick in New York
as in Topeka.

New York, Aug. 11.-With outposts
and tanks, a vast army has crossed the
Allegheny mountains, passed over the
fertile fields of Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, threaded through the maze of
streets of lower New York, and invaded
Brooklyn by way of the East river
bridge.
1t is an army of chinch bugs, the pest
of the farmer and the dread of the hor-
ticulturist, and L. o. Howard, ento-
mologist of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, has been summon
ed by the Tree Planting association of
Brooklyn to repel the enemy The
march has been by night, and not a
sentry on the bridge put forth hand or
foot to stay the invaders. They came
in solid phalanx, with no heralds to an
nounce them and no music beyond the
beating of their own wings to warn the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
WILL GO TO OMAHA.
ottawa's Fire Department Will Com
pete for Prizes.

Ottawa, Aug. 1.-THE Ottawa fire de-
partment members met last evening to
consider the matter of attending the
NatiS1al F'iremen's association tourna-
ment to be held at Omaha in connection
with the exposition, September to 10
inclusive. 1t was decided that as many
of the members of the department
should attend as possible and an effort
be made to get enough others to at
tend from Ottawa to at least make up
a car load. The department has been
assured by the railroad companies that
they will be given a one-half rate and
possibly a better rate if a larger crowd
can be insured. The boys have ar
ranged to begin drilling a team for the
tournament and will hold their first
drill Wednesday eevning of this week,
Robert Atkinson, Jr., having volun-
teered his services to drill the team.
The boys will compete for the exhi-
bition drill and probably for other
prizes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
TWO CLAIM INSURANCE.
Crawford County Man Dies and
Leaves Wives to Litigate.

Fort Scott, Aug. ia peculiar suit
has been instituted in Crawford county,
which the A. o. U. w. lodge is de-
PENDANT in. The suit is the result of two
claimants for the amount of insurance
carried in that order by a man named
Crane, now deceased. The woman who
lived with Crane at the time of his
death has brought suit, while the other
alleged wife lives in Arkansas. Before
his death Mr.. Crane claimed that he
was divorced from the Arkansas wO-
man, but she claims that a divorce was
never granted.
A summons was served on John H.
Order, grand master workman of the
order yesterday notifying him that the
order had been sued by Mrs. NJ. E.
Crane, present wife of deceased. The
order is and has been ready to pay
the money whenever the court decides
who it shall be paid to. Owing to both
women claiming to be the wife of the
deceased, Crane, the lodge will pay
the money into the court and the claim
ants litigate the matter The court will
decide which one is entitled to the
money
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
PEOPLE You HEAR. OLE.

Emperor William a few weeks ago
announced his intention to be present
at clinical lecture on surgery. He ar
rived just as noted operator was am
putating a leg, the professor doing the
work with his accustomed neatness and
deXterity. Bravo, professor" said the
kaiser, as soon as the operation was
finished, The professor is of those who
do not regard the emperor as a 'conse-
Grated person." and he replied, with
courtIy irony: perhaps your majesty
would like to see the other leg taken off
also" The kaiser left soon after.
New York papers are laughing over
the seizure at COney Island by secret
service men of a letter from ]. Addison
Porter, President Mckinley's secretary,
thanking a ''hOroscoper" for a horo-
scope of the president. The horoscoper
had the letter in a glass frame hanging
outside of his place of business, dis
playing it as an advertisement. 1t was
quietly appropriated by two men who
gave a receipt for it, signed wv. J.
Flynn and Frank EsQuirel, secret ser
vice" The only explanation vOuched
was that the orders came from Wash
ington."
A majority of the generals in our
army are well along in years The ages
Gen Young is So, Shafter 63, Wheeler
g, Hawkins will reach the retiring age
of 81 this year. Kent is 81, LawtOn So
and Sumner, Bates and Chaffee each
Cuba with Shafter. The age of the
generals in camp at home is also ad
vanced. COppinger is 63, Brooke so,
Corbin Sc, Sheridan So. Henry SO, Ora
ham 81, Butler 60 and One-legged Lee is
So. Wade is So, the youngest of the ma
jOr generals.
Tt is fair to presume that naval and
military heroes of the present war
would feel indignant if rewarded for
their gallantry as were those of revo-
lutionary days. Gen. Stark for in
stance. after the battle of Bennington
was presented by congress with two
els of blue and one of yellow cloth to
shirts of Dutch Hnen!" And he was
charged with ingratitude when he COM
planned that congress had overlooked
the matter of giving him cambria with
which to make the cuffs!
By way of laying up a few treasures
on earth possibly. Booth Tucker of the
Salvation Army has purchased a $50, 900
house in New York city
King Otto of Bavaria is believed to
be approaching his end. Since his
twenty-fifth year King Otto has been
hOpelessIy insane, and has spent nearly
20 years in seclusiOn at the castle of
Furstenried, near Munich. He has
been king since 1886, when his broth
er, Ludwig II, came to an untimely end.
Until lately the king has eaten and
drunk we'll, and smoked some 40 cigar
cites day using as many boxes of
matches to light them. But since Christ
mas he has rarely left his bedroom, and
in all probability will never do so again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
GIVE SHALL BE FREE"
Convicts Pleased Because Wives
Ask for Divorce.

Leavenworth, Aug. 1.-Two of three
convicts in the Kansas penitentiary
were made happy yesterday by receiv-
ing legal notice that their wives had
instituted proceedings to be divorced
from them Sheriff Everyhardy told
them of the action of their respective
wives in the private Office of the deputy
warden of the prison.
Henry M. Steil of Oklahoma was notf-
fed of a divorce suit wherein he was
made the defendant by his wife, Mrs.
Emma J. Stei. His comment was that
he expected it and was glad of 1t.
E. r. Speights was informed that his
wife, Mary D. Speights, had filed
suit for divorce at her home in Jasper
county, Mo. He was painfully affected
and remarked that she was too good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
CONVICT KILLED.
Federal Penitentiary Guards Recap
ture Escaping Robbers.

Leavenworth, Aug. 11-William Pruitt
and Jessy Woolman, the two convicts
who escaped from the federal peniten-
tiary, were run down later and one of
them, Pruitt, was shot and killed. At
ter getting away from the farm they
kept in the woods until south of Kicka-
poo, when they were discovered about l
o'clock this morning by Guards Clifford
and Earnest and called on to surren-
der.
They showed a disposition to fight and
one of the guards shot Pruitt in the
breast, inf1icting an injury that caused
his death within an hour When Pruitt
fell Clifford surrendered without further
trouble. Pruitt was a highway robber
in the Indian Territory before his cap
ture and imnriSOnment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
SOLD MoRrGAeED PROPERTY
]. w Burweu Borrows Money Then
Suddenly Disappears.

Neodesha, Aug. 11.-Fred Ditto came
down from F'redonia yesterday evening
and went to independence on the Mis-
souri, Pacific where he swore out a
warrant for the arrest of J. w. Burwell,
on the charge of selling mOrtgaged
property. J. w. Burwell is son of M.
T. Burwell, a commission merchant of
Kansas City, and has been farming his
fathers farm which lies a few miles
south of town. 1t seems that Burwen
has borrowed what money he could on
his crops and farm implements then
sold the grain and some Of the nipple
ments and took passage for parts IN
known. Nothing yet has been heard
of him but he will probably be appre-
hended
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KANSAS NEWS.
Youthful EmpOria Criminal
Placed in Jail
Where Two Notorious Ruffians
ChOked and Robbed Him.
SWALLOWED 25 CENTS
To Keep 1t From Bullies Who
Assaulted Him.
Two Wives After Insurance of
Dead Man.
SWALLOWED 25 CENTS

Emporia, Aug. 11.-Albert Perkins, a
16-year-old boy who was arrested and
put in jail yesterday on the charge of
stealing sacks, says that he was held
up while in Jail by Bert Strout and
Harry Raymond, two notorious ruffians
and DULLES.
Perkins had 80 cents when put in
jail, and Strout and Raymond choked
him till they forced him to give them
10 cents. They started to choke him
again to force him to give them his re-
naming 20 cents; but to avoid giving
it to them, Perkins swallowed the quar-
ter.
County Attorney Dickson is dnvesti-
eating the case this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
THE POPE HAS A CHILL
He Has Retired From Business
Entirely.

Rome Aug. flowing to the sudden
fall in the temperature the pope has
contracted an internal chill. On the ad-
vice Of his physicians, DR.. LappOni, who
recommends rest, his holiness has sus-
pended all audiences.
The Observatory Romano declares
that there is no cause for anxiety but
rumOrs are current that the pope is
suffering from extreme physical weak
ness and that all business is practically
left to Cardinal RampollaY the papa1
secretary of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
A DRAMATIC ESCAPE.
Horse Thief SEXES Sheriff's Gun and
Walks Out.

with horse stealing, escaped jail yes
terday afternoon.
Under Sheriff Ramsey had taken
Fowler from the Jail to che office to
wash windows and while Ramsey was
locking the Jail door Fowler grabbed
two pistols from a desk drawer. jumped
through an open window and ran. Ram
sew ran after him.
Soon everyone who could get a
weapon started in pursuit. Fowler out
ran Ramsey and chased the other pur-
suers back to town when they came in
sight Of him. He was last seen an a
woods outside of town.
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CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS.

Wise is the man who says nothing
when he is defeated and says it grace
fully.
No man ever realizes how fast he can
go until he starts on a downward ca
reer.
A spinster says she favors an Anglo
American alliance-or any other old
kind.
-
The fifth letter of the alphabet re-
sembles death inasmuch as it is the end
of life.
a young man who was fired with love
says he thinks it was the girls father
who acted as fireman.
There's always room at the top, but
the occupants of adjoining space ably
defend it against all corners.
There are higher things in life for
woman than a beautiful complexion. A
pretty bonnet is a little higher.
The sad expression often worn by
men of mature years is probably caused
by their having forgotten the things
they thought they knew when young.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
DYING OF BLACKLEe.
Disease Appears Among George W.
Clicks Fine Cattle.

Atchison, Aug. 11.-Blackleg has ap-
peared among cattle in Atchison coun-
ty and the farmers are losing cattle by
the dozen. The disease first appeared
among the bIoOded stock of Geo. w.
which had been sold, and a good many
other cattle, have since died. Mr.. Click
estimates his loss at $4,000 Henry
Krumpf has lost sixteen head of cattle
and Charles Prim and Frank Hess al
most as many in Clicks neighbOrhOOd.
BIackleg is supposed to be produced
by a germ in the grass, and is not con-
tagious. No cattle over two years OF
age have blackleg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
NEW LEAD PROSPECT.
Lucky Strike by Sub-Contractors on
Abandoned Land.

Galena, Aug. IA new and big
prospect was opened last week at the
Lucky Strike in North Empire. It
seems that the entire northwest third
of the lot has remained untouched be-
cause of a. drift a few feet in that di-
rection showed dead ground and it was
taken for granted that it would not pay
to prospect it. AS soon as the mine was
sub-leased big deposits of ore were
found and the mine has done well ever
since, but in the new drift to the north
west they have opened up a face of
unusually rich dirt ten feet wide and
ten feet high. 1t is believed that this
run will last at least one year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

According to the reports of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, the federal in
come from the war tax approximates
$1,000,0O0 a day; or nearly twice as
much as was anticipated by the franz
ers Of the war revenue act. AS popula-
ton increases, and the methods of ad-
ministering the law are perfected, the
public revenue derived from this source
Is likely to be correspOndingIy augment
ed. If peace should be declared, we
should have war taxes without war,
and the legislative authority would be
ampelled to either reduce taxation or to
ind some new and broad channels for
a continued outflow of public money
from the treasury. An excellent oppor-
tunity is thus afforded to dig the
Niearaguan canal without bonds and
to pay off the national debt.
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people of their advance. In Prospect
park they have camped, and a mighty
detachment of foragers has begun to
loot the trees of their leaves and rob
the grasses of their substance.
How this mighty host is to be met
and destroyed is a problem to be solved.
Whether it shall be frightened to death
with tomtOms, according to the Chinese
method, or strangled, as the eminent
Dinkelspiel Of Murtemberg suggests, or
decoyed into trenches and drowned, as
they do in Connaught, has not been de-
tqrrnined
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BANK AT SANTIAGO.
S. M. Jarvis Who Loans Money in
Kansas, Opens For Business.

New York, Aug. 1.-THE first American
bank in Cuba has been opened for bust
ness in Santiago by S. NJ. Jarvis, vice
president of the North American Trust
company of this city. A cablegram was
received this morning from Mr.. Jarvis
announcing that the bank had opened it's
door at the American hour of 10 o'clock
and that at 1890 three accounts had been
opened. Mr.. Jarvis left this city for San
tfagO a few weeks ago with five assist
ants all of whom speak Spanish. Mr..
Jarvis secured the banking rooms former
" occupied by the bank of Spain. He
had many applications for positions from
EMPLOYEES of the bank. some of which were
accepted After thoroughly renOvating
the Old building and running up the Amer
lean flag, Mr.. Jarvis had painted on the
windows: 1.-The North American Trust Co
Of New York. open from 9 to y a. m. and
from 1 to p. m.
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Cleveland writes a Letter.

Florence, Aug 1.-THE Rev. G. ].
BowIes of Florence, who has made ap-
plicatfon for a chaplaincy in the regular
army, received an autographs letter
from Grover Cleveland wishing him sue
cess in securing the appointment. Rev.
Mr.. Bowles is a Baptist minister Of
marked ability, a good lawyer, prom
inent Mason. but a gold Democrat.
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TO BUSY POLICEMEN.
Atchison's Mayor Wants Them to
Earn Their Salaries.

A+cbison. Aug. 11.-Mayor Donald
favors the establishment of q. dozen po-
lice telephones, to be located on the
prominent corners about town, and
which will be chiefly intended as a
check on the police. Officers will be
required to report to the police stations
at intervals. Mayor Donald believes
that, with such telephones, the city can
get along with a smaller number of pO-
lice. and for this reason the city can
afford the exDenSe.
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TO EXPLODE MINES.
Galena Man Will Patent a New Bat
terry Which Promises Much.

Galena, Aug. 11.-Allen Ditson, chief
electrician for the Galena Light and
Power company. has just finished a
model of an electric battery for explod-
ing shots in the mines that is altogether
the neatest, most compact and conven-
lent apparatus of the kind we have
ever seen 1t has been thoroughly test
ed on a string of ten shots and found TO
work like a charm He will shortly
make an application and expects to get
it patented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

The annual cost of armies and navies
in time of peace is given as follows:
United States army, $32, 154 JAY; United
States navy, ST. 1865, 301; SPANS army,
$25,OO0,0O navy $4,000, 900; Austrian
army and navy, S53, $40. 800; Russian
army, S135, $4,000; navy, $4,000, 900;
Great Britain's army, SO. 769, $50; navy,
$55,O00,0O0; German army, $87, OOO, 900;
navy, s15,OOO,OOO; France, $1O7. sos. 299;
navy, S5S,79,498. The cost of keeping the
peace of Europe and this continent is
therefore about 500. 900 annually.
Evan at that it gets away some times.
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for him and that he was sorry she had
decided on this step.
Ulysses Grant Chrisam was told legal
~ that Mrs. Adele Chrisam had in
stituted a suit against him at her home
in Cloud county, Kan. He said that he
was glad to be free from her, and inti-
mated that he would not put up a con-
test.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

The Democrats this year have abund-
ant facilities offered them for resuming
their old occupation of viewing with
alarm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11
New President of Pacific Express.

New York, Aug. u.-James Eggleston,
president of the Manhattan Delivery COM
pany of New York for many years iden-
titled with the American Express com
pany at Boston. has accepted the presi-
dency of the Pacific Express company,
with headquarters at Omaha This COM
TENS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

The insurgents at Manila are report
ed to have shot so we'll during the re-
cent bOmbardment that the Spaniards
thought they were attacked by the
Americans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-11

of how to dispose of them. That is |
likely to be the puzzle Of American |
craftsmanship.