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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
BURIAL OF a KANSAS SOLDIER
George Messenger of Twentieth VIII
Be Inferred at Home.

Fort Scott, Kan, Sept. 2O-George
Messenger, the Fort Scott boy who be-
longed to the Twentieth regulars at
Camp Wikoff and died there on the
18th, will be buried here next Friday
with high honors by the citizens of
Fort Scott. His remains were disin-
tered today and shipped here. At a
public meeting this afternoon elaborate
funeral arrangements were made. The
mayor will issue a proclamation ask
ing all business houses to close on the
occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
GUARDS AGAINST FEVER
Placed on All Trains in the Infected
Mississippi District.

Washington, Sept. 2O.-The surgeon gem
eral of the marine hospital service has
about completed a system for the inspec-
ton of trains on all railways in the dis
with yellow fever. Inspectors have been
placed upon all the roads with one ex-
ception. and this line will be supplied at
an early date. The system has been es-
tablfshed for the purpose of checking the
spread of fever so far as practicable and
it is the purpose of the bureau to make it
as effective in this direction as possible.
Passed Assistant Surgeon simpson is in
charge of the service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Child Falls Fifteen Feet.

Emporia, Sept. 20.-Roy Thompson's
two-year-o child fell from the second
story window of house on Commercial
street and struck the stone sidewalk
below. The strange part of the affair
was that the child, beyond having the
breath knocked out of it, was not in
jured It fell over fifteen feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

western half of the state. or where IN
dian corn is not always a reliable crop
on account of the altitude or lack Of
timely rainfall. The three items men
toned constitute important and very
valuable adjuncts to the successful
growing and fattening of cattle, sheep,
swine and poultry. Kansas from an
agricultural, stock raising and dairy
producing standpoint will doubtless be
the greatest state in the Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Fnneral Of Cen. HaskelL

COLUMBUS. o., Sept 20.-The last tribute
to the memory of Brigadier General ]. T.
Haskell was paid by Columbus yesterday
tional cemetery at Arlington for inter-
ment. The funeral was, held at Trinity
FniscopaI church. The church was pack
ed with citizens and the streets were lined
The escort consisted of local military and
nv The remains left here over the
PENNSYLVANIA railway with military es-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
UNION DEPOT REPAIRS.
Satisfactory Progress Made in the
Changes in the Old Structure.

Work on the union depot building at
Kansas City is progressing rapidly. The
south end of the second story is almost
ready for the painters and decorators.
The dining room will be moved into
the second story in a few weeks and
workmen will then begin tearing away
the partitions in the lower part of the
building. William Harmon, the con-
tractor, expects to have the work finish
ed by January l. at the latest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Fan1kner sncoeeds GRAY.

Washington. Sept. Ex-senator G. J.
pointed to the position on the Canadian
Commission made vacant by the retire
ferred to the Paris peace commission. The
tender of the position was made by the
With Senator Faulkner and was accepted
= 1a Ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

For external piles, cuts, burns and
bruises, old sores, eczema and all skin
diseases Beggs' German Salve stands
today without 2 peer. It is an old reli-
able remedy and if used freely wounds
will heal without scar. Be careful to
get "Beggs'' and be sure of a speedy
cure. For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

of the baggage room-is ready for its
occupant
Mr. Douglas will be the clerk in
charge of the transfer. The amount of
mail handled here has grown to such
enOrmity as to render this necessary.
Fewer delays will happen and not only
time but money will be saved Mr..
Douglas is efficient and fully equipped.
to perform his duties successfully and
creditably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
PROSPEROUS COAL COMPANY
The Wears Will Build a Storehouse
at Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Sept 20.-Smith & Miller
have sold the lots on the northwest
corner of Sixth and Broadway adjoin-
Wear Coal company.
The Wear Coal company will build
very fine brick structure there to &C
commodate the large business that
made the company feel a great want
of room. The constantly increasing
business has made a larger store room
necessary and to build the company
selected the very best location pos
Sible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
JAIL BREAKERS CAPTURED.
Two Men Escape at Cap
tured at Coolidge.

Coolidge, Kan, Sept. 2O.-Charles
Casper and James WoodIey, two men
held in the county Jail at Syracuse for
aiding a prisoner to escape, broke Jail
but were caught by Deputy Sheriff
Kumpf and a posse one mile east of
town. One of the prisoners started to
run and several shots were fired before
he gave up. This is the third Jail de-
livery in the past month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
WOMAN MURDERED.
Norton County Mother Chopped Up
With an Axe. -

Newton, Sept 2O-Mrs. Reasoner
Oliver, widow, living in the northwest
part of this county, was foully murder
ed Saturday night. She was found by
her children lying dead in the door
yard Sunday morning with a bloody
axe nearby with which she was killed
No further particulars are known, nor
is there any clue to the murderer as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
IA Handsonne Decoration

For your store front Festival week. See
US, we put up and take down the dec
orations, simply charging for the rent
of them. See us.
The International Decorating Co.,
623 Kansas Avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Presidential Appointments.

washington, Sept. 20.-The following ap-
pointments are announced by the presi-
consi1l at St Nicholas; Fred Page Austin
Of Oregon, to be commissioned for the dis
Thoras Ling Interpreter to the United
States consulate at Flu Chm China
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Now 1t is said a judicious distribu-
ton Of public funds. by Secretary Gage.
alone prevented a panic in Wall street
last week. When Wall street gets
ready to start another panic like that
Of 1893 the west will be found much bet
ter -prepared for it than then.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Farmers in different part sof Michigan
are organizing telephone exchanges. In
one fruit section 100 farmers have COM
bined and built a line, the annual cost
to each being but SO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
SHOE LASTERS STRIKE.
1900 of Them Go Out in the Region
of Boston.

Brocton, Mass, Sept 2O.-Nearly 1, 500
lasters in the big shoe factories of
Brocton, Rockland, Whitman, Slough
ton, East Weymouth, Middleboro and
Randolph have been ordered out, the
manufacturers, with the exception of
w. L. Douglas & Cos establishments,
in this city, having declined to accede
to the demands of the lasters for a new
price list, providing for an increase over
the old rates. All the lasters in Broc-
ton, with the exception of those of the
Douglas factory, have gone out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

If the Powers want the latest improv-
ed method for dealing with questions
similar to the Cretan problem, they are
respectfully referred to your Uncle
Samuel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
WILL TRANSFER MAIL
John Douglas Will Take Charge al
Newton.

Newton, Sept. 2O.-John Douglas has
made his last mail run as postal
clerk He will take charge of the gov
eminent transfer of mail at the Santa
Fe station here about the middle of the
week.
Arrangements at last are completed
for the transfer. The red-tape which
was in the way so long has been I'M
tangled. The transfer ofice-just east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Connecticut Republicans demand the
retirement of the greenbacks. It is nat
ural that a New England state should
inaugurate this movement which has
been waiting for some time for some
body to give it a start
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

A statistician has arrived at the con-
clusiOn that the number of drug stores
in the United States is decreasing. It
is improbable taht his figures are based
on the returns from Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

The Swiss government has reduced
rates on the state. railways recently ac-
quired. An annual ticket, nen-trans-
ferrable, on which the holder may trav-
el as much as he pIeases, is sold for
Sf15
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Edwards County Republicans.

Kinsley, Sept. 2O.-Edwards county
Republicans held their convention here
and nominated the following ticket: w.
N. Beezley, representative; Lee Party,
clerk district court; d. D. Baxter, coun-
ty superintendent; T. L. LOso, probate
judge. No nomination was made for
county attorney.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Farmers are being consoIed for the
low price of wheat by the assertion that
they are not compelled to sell. But they
are selling and the visible supply last
Saturday showed an increase of more
than a million bushels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

SPANS brood of chickens have at last
come home to rOost. Her people are be-
ing driven out of Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Philippines, the Ladrones, even as she
drove out the MOors once upon a time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

The government may not want to re-
tain the Philippine archipelago, but it
is showing a disposition to be prepared
for any possible emergencies, by send
ing re-enforcements to Dewey and Otis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

A physician is to be employed in the
Chicago postoffice to prescribe for the
employees and look after their health
He is to be a government official with
a salary of 81, 700 per annum. His office
will be in the federal building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

In remembering the Maine. hereafter
Thomas B. Reed will doubtless include
the election of 1898
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

With an amount of money in the
country larger than ever before known,
the New York banks are preparing to
face ''stringency."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

LFrom the Atchison Globe.1
There is marrying story on the av-
erage widOWer at least once a month.
You can make an intelligent guess at
anything except a badly written name.
Women never lose things: they put
them in a good place, and can't recall
the place.
Women enjoy being martyrs. which
may account for the fact that there
are so many bad husbands.
Il am getting so tired" said man
today, that every funeral procession
looks to me like an excursion train"
It have nothing to complain off, a
volunteer said today. Then he added
Indignantly: But you just wait until
am honorably discharged"
We can tell how old a woman is by
looking at her cooking stove: if she al
ways has something stewing on the
back part, she is getting along in years.
An Atchison girl broke her engage
ment recently because the young man
showed signs of becoming greatly in
terested in a patent, She was very
sensible, and people generally are CIV
ing her great credit.
We like little town. If a man
moves from a little town into the next
county, the papers say more about
genuine regret" and good citizen
that the papers of a big town say when
a. man folds his hands and slips off to
eternity.
Boys steal peaches from orchards;
grown people steal them from grocery
| stores.
Even those who do nothing complain
that they have no time. Who has all
the time, anyway?
When an Atchison man buys a new
suit of clothes, the town takes sides as
to whether it looks well.
Be fair to others: the time may come
when you will feel the need of the COM
munity being fair to you.
There is an age limit in serving the
government, but none in the more vital
and important item of getting married.
1t no doubt has often occurred to the
! women, who all expect to go to heaven.
to wonder if the wading in the River
| Jordan is good.
After a woman is old enough to send
sons to the war, she has given sufficient
| evidence of her patriotism without
wearing a military hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Reoos, German SaIve

is an invaluable remedy for cuts, burns,
bruises, scalds, chapped hands, sore
nipples, sore lips, eczema, ulcers, chron-
&c sores, skin eruptions, fever sores, and
all skin diseases. For sale by all drug
giStS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
Giuine % Their Arms.

Gambia. Island of Crete, Sept. 20.-Ed-
hem Pasha, the, Turkish governor, has
just had Proclamation P95Dhe s3iIf rea aii
arms must be Surrendered to the commit
tee formed for that purpose me sur
render has already begun. Ihere IS no
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

People who are not disposed to go
Dewey's way sooner or later leave
Manila. First it was the Germans; now
it is Aguinaldo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

In one respect the Prohibition party
differs widely from others. It never
opens a barrel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

AguinaIdo seems to be going the way
of many a good man before him. He i:
dropping into letter writing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

When the Eighth New York regiment
was on the way from Chickamauga the
train was stopped at several places for
supplies which people brought. At one
of these stops the conductor roughly
Informed Major Neff that he would
start in half an hour. IF you start
before these supplies of milk, ice, etc,
for the sick men are on board" said the
major, Il will give you my word that
1 viii shoot you dead The train re-
NAMED over an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Aguinaldo and Gomez have both
Joined the anti expansionists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

insOn and Henry T. Thurber, formerly
President Cleveland's private secretary,
have dissolved the law partnership that
has existed between them for about if
teen years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
PEOPLE you HEAR oF.

Some effort is being made by Repub-
hcans to induce George Gould to run for
state senator in New Jersey. He does
not seek the nomination, but might ac-
cept it if it were rendered without OPP
position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Professional Decorators.
The International Decorating Co., 623
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison GHobe.1
There is a marrying story on the av-
erage widower at least once a month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Just as the Dreyfus scandal is open
ing again comes the news from Vienna
that Baron Alexander Won Marschfield,
a colonel on the staff of the Austrian
army, has been quietly tried, convicted,
deprived of his commission and also his
nobilitary title and sentenced to ten
years of penal servitude for selling to
the military attache of the Russian en-
bassy at Vienna the plans of Austria
for the defense of Galicia and for the
mobilization of the Austrian army. The
Russian military attache has been re-
called.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

AIgernon Charles Swinburne, the Eng
fish poet, an ardent supporter of An
glo- Saxon alliance, is said to be con
templating an American tour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Thomas. Henry Hall Game, the Eng
fish novelist, is thus described by a New
York writer: HE is not a bit better
looking. though he is less hairy, than
ZangwiIl, who is not a hirsutocinereous
patch on Richard lie Gallienne. He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

| Women enjoy being martyrs, which
| may account for the fact that there
| are so many bad husbands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

An enterprising Texan, Samuel Webb,
has already purchased an immense
tract of land in eastern Cuba for a cat
tie ranch. He is now preparing to ship
there 2, 500 head of Texas cattle as ba-
sis for the scheme that he expects viii
make him the Cuban cattle king.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

It have nothing to complain off, a
! volunteer said today. Then he added
| Indignantly: But you just wait until
am honorably discharged!''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

It am getting so tired" said a mar
today, that every funeral procession
looks to me like an excursion train
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

You can make an intelligent guess al
anything except a badly written name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20

Women never lose things: they put
them in a good place, and can't recall
the place.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-29
An Bride.

A wifc's unjust suspicious were the
cause of very strained relations recent
ly between a young couple living in
Columbia avenue, near Goth street. She
got the idea into her head that her hus-
band was deceiving her when he said,
as he frequently did, that he was ''go-
ing around the corner for the evening
to see a friend" In an attempt to do q
little detective work she bought q pock-
ct pedometer, an instrument resem-
bling a watch, which registers the dis
lance Travelled by the person who car
ries 1t. The next time her husband
went around the corner" she secretly
slipped 1t into one Of his pockets and
awaited the result. When he returned
that night she found that the telltale
instrument registered nine miles. In
vain he attempted to convince her that
he simply had been playing billiards
with his friend on the latter's private
table, which was really the case. and
that the machine had counted up the
miles as he walked around the table.
Her accusations led to a violent quar-
rel, which was settled only after sew
eral days had elapsed.-Philadelphia
Record,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-29
III CAPTAINS eoY

MY papa come home yesterday and said to
mamma he
Had just got word to start away and help
set Cuba free.
My manlma looked at him awhile and
went up to his side.
And took his hands and tried to smile, but
couldn't-so she cried.
My papa's captain of the Blues-they're
soldier boys, you know,
And so we've been expecting news that
he would have to go,
And every night my mamma tried to show
she didn't care;
But through the day she cried and cried,
when papa wasn't there.
And so when papa saw how bad she felt,
he kissed her then,
And told her not to be so sud, for he'd
come back again,
And then We all sat there awhile, and
papa looked ut me
I wisht they was some other style Of set
ting people free.
"Why must you go away to fght?" my
mamma said, ut last;
Il don't believe that war is right-the day
for that is past!
Why must they call on you, for oh, what
wrong have you to battle for?
Why don't they just have people so who
got the country into warp"
II haven't anything to say about the
wrong or right"
My papa sud, II go away, when they tell
me to, and fight;
I'm not supposed to think OF know-all 1
have got to do
Is take up arms ut once and go, when
others tell me to-"
My mamma covered up her face and had
to cry again,
And everything about the place seemed
kind of solemn, then.
And so we all sat there awhile, and papa
looked ut me,
And l wisht they was some other style Of
setting people free.
Cleveland Leader.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-29
HE FLED IN FRIeHT.
Remarkable Experience of a Hbtteu.
tot with the German Language.

Remarkable Experience of a Hbtten-.
tot with h German Language.
If any one in speaking to you used.
the word Observation-Disclosures
mutterattentaeterlatten gitterwetter-
kotterbeutelatte, its harmonious sound
would assure you. that it was German,
and such 1t really is, being taken. from
a Dresden paper. Der Weidmann. Here.
is the explanation of it: Among the
Hottentots (Hottentotten) the kanga-
zoos (beutelra.te) are very numerous.
Many Of them roam about the country,
free and respected; others, less FORUM
ate, are caught and shut up in. a cage
(kotter) furnished with a cover lntten-
gltter), which shelters them from bad
weather. These are then called. In
German, Observation-Disclosures, and
the kangaroo, once imprisoned. takes
the name Of Observation-Disclosures
heutelratte. One day an assassin lat
t%entaeter) was arrested, who.had killed
the Hottentot mother Hottentotenmut-
teri of two children, one half-wltted,
the other. a stammerer (str%ottartrotteD.
This mother, in the German tongue, is
designated by the word Hottentoten-
Observation-Disclosures, from which 1t fol-
lows that the assassin takes the name
Of
tentaeter. The murderer was shut up
In a kangaroo cage Observation-Disclosures
gitterwetterkotter), from which he
shortly escaped.
But, fortunately, he soon fell into the
hands OF a Hottentot, who went Joyous
ly to the mayor of the village, exclaim-
ing: II have caught the beutelratte!"
(Which oneT' asked the mayor: i've
have several"
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ketterbeutelratte..
"Of which attentaeter are You speak
ing,-
"Of the Observation-Disclosures
mutterattentaeter."
Then why couldn't you say at once
that you had caught the Hottentoten
st%rottertrottd Observation-Disclosures,
Observation-Disclosures"
It is said that the Hottentot fed inf.
fright.-Gsttic.