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Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-07
Closing Quotations of the New York sto,b
Exchange.

New York JUIy \,
Money on call nominally at Il .alia per c ~
Prime mercantile paper, 3l,a4 per cent s;,i
ling exchange easier. with actual busiMe-- 81
bankers bills at s4.S5l 2a4. S5s4 for demand ga
at 81 4]aa4.s 4s4 for d days. Posted rates. ~
and s4.o'. Commercial bills. 81. Sia4
Silver certificates, 59a59ssc. Bar silver, 81
Mexican dollars, 451,c. Government h.a.
strong. State bonds dull Railroad bonds firm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
COMPANIES ARE UNJUST.
Fire Insurance in Kansas and New
York City.

Several months ago superintendent of
Insurance McNaH criticised the eastern
and foreign insurance companies for
charging several times as great a rate
for inSuring Kansas property as they
charged for insuring buildings in New
York. The rate on Kansas property
two years ago was $133 per 500. Last
year it was 81 25 per $780, In New York
the rate runs from 10 cents to 25 cents
per 800, and in some cases property is
Insured for three years at 25 cents per
500. Mr. McNall claimed that the peO-
pie of Kansas had to pay enough to
make up for the low rate in New York
which was unjust. The insurance com
the rates was caused by the fact that
the buildings in New York were fire
proof and that there was very little
risk in insuring them.
Mr.. McNall says that the burning Of
the Postal Telegraph company's build
ing and the building of the Home IN
surance company in New York the 9TH
er day, justified his criticisms of the
insurance companies.
1.-The losses in that one fire." said Mr..
McNall, ARE greater than all the losses
of all the outside companies doing bus
mess in Kansas during the past two
years. During the last year the total
Kansas losses amounted to $56S, 900, and
during the year before they were $685.
912, but the losses in that one fire in
and half millions. Yet out here in
Kansas the insurance companies charge
us ten times as much to insure our pro-
perty as they charge back there. It is
unjust and the Kansas rates ought to
be reduced"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
MUTINY AT
CANON CITY.
Two Penitentiary Guards
SIashed With a Razor
In the Hands of Convict at
the Breakfast Table.
SUBDUED BY A SHOT
Fired Into His Leg by Another
Of the Guards.
Placed In Irons and the Excite
ment Subsidies.

Denver, Colo, Dec. 13.-A mutiny has
occurred in the state penitentiary at
Canon City and three men were injured,
one seriously. They are:
E. E. Van Gohren, guard, cut about
the face and neck with a razor; wounds
may prove fatal.
H. o. Fitzpatrick, guard, cut IN the
same manner, though his injuries are
comparatively slight.
George Miller, convict, shot in the leg;
small flesh wound.
Warden Cleghorn made the following
report of the affair to Governor Adams:
AS the prisoners were being seated
for breakfast, George Miller, doing five
years for robbery, drew a razor from
underneath his blouse and made q, dash
at r. B. Lameraeux, a guard. Lamer-
aeux reported Miller on Thanksgiving
day for some infraction of the prison
rules and the prisoner threatened to
kill Lameraeux- When Miller drew the
razor Guard Van Gohren grabbed the
prisoner around the waist before he
reached LameraeuX, but Miller turned
on him and slashed him numerically
over the face and neck before the guard
could get at his gun. Van Gohren fell
to the floor bleeding profusely. Miller
then attacked Guard Fitzpatrick and
had begun to use his razor on him with
deadly effect, when Guard Mcpherson
shot Miller in the leg. He dropped his
bloody razor and fell to the floor He
was placed in irons and the excitement
soon subsidized.
Miller refused to tell where he got
the razor, but it is supposed he slipped
it into his pocket when being shaved in
the barber shop Sunday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
PLANKS FOR A STRETCHER.
On Which 700 Pound Woman In
valid Was Carried Downstairs.

New York, Dec. 13.-Mrs. Mckenzie, of
whom there are 700 pounds, having become
hospital was sent for her today. Three
men went to help the patient downstairs
4na mo lng Venice 5I Inc ne Janltor OF 80
on the fourth floor of which the patient
lived, looked at the slender, spring sup
ported ambulance and then at the three
understood attendants.
Where's your pulley and your block %
he said. I'll have no stairs in this build
ing broken. thought they would send
piano movers"
After consideration the janitor relented
and went UPSTAIRS.
They looked at Mrs. Mckenzie.
ter shop and procured heavy blanks at
the hospitals expense. From the planks
they tmproVised a Stretcher, upon which
they bound the patient Six laborers were
Mrs. Mckenzie. suffering from partial
stretcher The timbers sagged Consider slider
ably and the steps creaked as the men
bore the corpulent patient down the dark
It had been noised about that the ''fat
lady was being raised, and a great crowd
putting and Wearied men squeezed out at
the front door and staggered to the curb
The stretcher was put on the tagging and
the men rested several minutes.
There was a song of 'HeaVe," and the
nine men lifted with all their might One
of the planks slipped from the edge of the
ambulance and the vehicle nearly bounced
down the street. The men chung to the
stretcher and kept the woman from fall
With the aid of well disposed bystanders
the spherical form was eventually placed
for several inches, but stood the strain.
The vehicle was driven slowly to the hos
pital
Two beds of extra strength and without
springs had been converted into a couch.
Upon this the fat LADY, now reposes. She
is the largest patient ever admitted to the
Harlem hospital.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
HER HAIR WHITENED.
New York Woman Injured by an
Electric Shock From a Trolley Car.

New York Woman Injured by an
Electric Shock From a Trolley Car.
New York, Dec. ia patch of white
hair near the right temple accentuates
the glossy brown hair of Mrs. Herbert
Gerry, of No. Is Franklin street, East
Orange, though gray hairs are begin
ming to appear. These changes. together
with a nervousness which physicians
declare will take months to overcome,
are ascribed to a shock from an electric
heater in a trolley car.
Mrs. Gerry is unable to see any per-
son. Her experience is described by
her husband. A doctor, who is employ
ed by the traction company, visits her
frequently.
Mrs. Gerry, with her two nieces, Miss
Josephine and Miss Edna Gerry, and
Mrs. Fanny Coulter were out calling a
week ago in Orange. When they start
ed home they took a trolley car that
ran only as far as the company's
stables at Dodd and Washington
streets. Here they transferred to a car
which runs to Bloomfield.
The car started almost as soon as
they entered. As the motorman turned
on the current Mrs. Gerry felt a pc
culiar sensation in her right leg. She
was standing at the time in front of
one of the electric heaters in the car.
Mrs. Gerry was thrown to the opposite
side of the car. AS she fell to her seat
the other occupants of the car ran to
her assistance.
1t seemed to her as though her bones
had melted, and the inner muscles of
her body quivered like jelly, though the
outside muscles were as firm as iron.
The distance from the car house to
the home of her brother-in-law, L H.
Gerry, in Dodd street, where Mrs. Gerry
had intended to stop, is not great. When
the car reached the house she alighted
and was helped into the house.
There were three white ridges on her
leg. Mr.. Gerry was called and took his
wife home in a sleigh. Since then she
has been attended by physicians.
Sunday" said Mr.. Gerry, Il noticed
that my wife had a white spot of hair
over her right temple. Since then I
have noticed streaks of gray hair. OF
course we believe that this is due to
her having received such an electrical
shock. Mrs. Gerry has been very ner-
vous ever since the accident, and fear
it will be q. long time before she fully
RECEIVERS
One of the officers of the Orange and
Passaic Valley railroad said that the
shock could not have been given by the
metal part of the radiator coming In
contact with a woman's heavy skirts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
ROBBED HIM OF $500.
Wellington Mill Agent Held Up at
Blackwell

Wellington, Dec. 13.-Charles Shepard,
agent for the Hunter Milling company
of wellington, at Blackwell, was held
up Wednesday night and relieved of
S7OO-S55O in cash and $3.50 in checks.
The matter has just come to light. The
money belonged to the Hunter Milling
company of this city. The hold-up oc-
Cured a block east Of Main street,
about o'clock.
Shepard clerks in Rusts grocery
store at Blackwell and looks after the
Hunter Milling company's interests, and
handles large sums of money for the
company Shepard tells the story that
Wednesday night as he was walking
along a dark street one block east of
Main street, he was suddenly assaulted
by two robbers. One rObber hit him
stunning blow in the breast, when the
other came up behind him and grabbed
his arms. They took his money, a pis-
toll. the store keys and the account
books which he was carrying under his
arm.
The Hunter Milling company at once
sent Cleo Brunette to Blackwell to in
vestigate the matter. Mr.. Burnette re-
turned last night and reports that the
milling company will lose nothing by
the robbery as Shepard's bondsmen
are good for the amount
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
KANSAS NEWS.
Burglars Raid Normal School
Boarding House.
Secure Two Gold Watches, $12O
and Clothing at EmpOria.
DOOR LEFT UNLOCKED
v. e. Atkinson, the Wichita
Man of ElOpement Fame,
Marries the Fort Scott Young
Lady Last Night.

Emporia, Dec. 13.-Burglars made a
rich haul last night at the Normal
boarding house, 1925 Merchants street
They entered the room of w. S. Fisher
and W. E. Treadway and stole two gold
watches, considerable clothing and
money to the amount of about $120.
Messrs. Treadway and Fisher are
both students of the Emporia Business
college. Mr. Treadway was going to
leave this morning for his home near
Arkansas City. He had drawn $96 from
the bank; it was in his room. Mr.
Fisher had $24 in the room The robbery
occurred after both men had gone TO
bed, about 11:3O. They left the door
unlocked. The clothing was mostly Mr..
Fishers. Neither he nor his room
mate awoke until late. Mr.. Fisher was
lucky in one way. He did not go to the
pOstof1ce Saturday, and so did not re-
ceive a check of $50, which had been
sent him from home If he had, 1T
would have been cashed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13

Hunted for a $4,000 BiIl-A Plot
Against Rice County Treasurer.

Wichita, Dec. ia. H. Heidleman,
tax commissioner of the Missouri Pa
cific from st. Louis, was in Wichita
yesterday with a draft for $4,000, hunt
ing a $4,000 bill. There are plenty of
thousand dollar bills in Wichita, but
Mr.. HeidIeman wanted a ten thousand
dollar bill-wanted it bad. He went to
the banks, but didn't succeed in getting
the bill he wanted, so he got as near to
it as he could by taking ten one thous-
and dollar bills.
If Mr.. Heidleman had secured the ten
thousand dollar bill he would have ia
ken a little revenge on the treasurer of
Rice county. The taxes of the Missouri
Pacific road in Rice county amount to
$40, 900. a draft for the amount was
sent to the county treasurer in one
lump, but for some reason the county
treasurer augustly fired the draft back
to st. Louis, with a cold demand for le-
gal tender-good clean cash. This de-
mand was probably q part of legal pro-
cedure required in Rice county, for
there is certainly money enough lying
around up there to cash a little draft
of 100000 However that may have
been, Mr.. Heidleman wanted to get
ten thousand dollar bill, legal tender,
and knock the county treasurer of Rice
county into a dOuble-whirl fit by send
ing him clear to Kansas City to get it
changed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
COUNTERFEIT MEXICAN BILLS
Defrauders Pass Counterfeit Mexican
Money in CoffeyviIle.

CoffeyviIIe, Dec. 13-Three counter
felt Mexican IS bills were passed in Cof-
taken in by a Walnut street depart
ment store and the other by a South
Walnut street grocery The bills bear
but a faint resemblance to the United
States money, but were passed without
difficulty.
DR.. H. NJ I4isle, the dentist, who spent
several years in Mexico, says the bills
are very bad counterfeits. The doctor
says that instead of the dates being
written on the bills. they have been put
on with a rubber stamp. Then, too,
there is no perfOration on the bills,
which is required by the Mexican law.
Each state bank, which issues the
money is required to perforate it's name
on the money, about the same as the
American bank drafts are perforated
to show the amount for which they are
drawn.
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captain general and other high Spanish
officials and found to be intact. It was
then borne to the cathedral steps by the
canons, amid the tOlling of bells. and
placed on a gun carriage heavily draped
with flags and decorated with floral gar
lands.
A solemn procession then moved to
the Machina wharf, where the caskeL
was taken in a launch between lines OF
twenty-five men of war boats to the
cruiser. A salute of fifteen guns was
fired. At intervals of a quarter OF an
hour, all day a single gun doomed the
honors paid to an admiral
The SQUADRON which is composed Of
the Condo De Vendato, Alfonso XIII.
and Infanta Isabel, is announced to sail
for Cadiz tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13

If a man IS defrauded by another
man, his wife roars twenty years after
ward if the wife Of the dishonest man
wears a new ribbon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13

Under the caption, Socialism in
Massachusetts" the Washington Post
says:
While NIessrs. Hoar, Boutwell,. Ed
munds, Hale, and other hOnored states
men Of New England are exhibiting a
conservatism that smacks of pessimisn,
and inevitably recalls the despairing
protest of Josiah Quincy against ex-
tending the national boundary beyond
the Mississippi, there are other New
Englanders who are exploiting the antip-
odal or ultraradica1 phase Of politics.
While the former are making a tremen-
dOus effort to set back the current of
events TO a period antedating Dewey's
victory, the latter have succeeded in
introducing the most radical of new de-
partures into the politics of New Eng
land and into the government OF
Massachusetts municipality hitherto
Republican
Last Tuesday the socialists Of Haver-
hill elected their candidate, Mr.. J. @.
Chase, mayor of that city, giving him
1928 votes against 1,943 cast for his Re
publican competitor. The Socialists also
elected three aldermen and three mem
bers OF the common council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
lola ODD FELLOWS
Will Dedicate Their New Home on
December Ia

lola, Dec 13.-The Odd Fellows lodge
of this city, while they have built one
of the handsomest halls in this part
of the state, has not yet gone through
the formal proceeding of defeating it.
Wednesday evening, December IA, the
hall will be dedicated with appropriate
ceremonies. Grand Master J. A. Colaw
of Cherryvale, Grand Chaplain Rev. A.
NJ. Powell of Sedan, have accepted an
invitation to be present and speak and
others of the grand officers have signi-
fed their intention of being present.
In the evening they will give an oyster
supper in the hall, where all the visiting
brothers will be entertained and at
which some more speech making will
be INDUCED in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
We ATKINSON MARRIED.
Emporia Young Man Who Received
Prominence United to Miss Withers.


Wichita, Dec. 1S-V. E. Atkinson of
Emporia and Miss Kate Withers, a So
ciety leader of Fort Scott, were married
here yesterday by Probate Judge Hay
maker. The elopement of Miss Withers
with Atkinson early in August caused
sensation in Fort Scott social circles.
Atkinson Is an Emporia dry goods
clerk.
The story was that they were to be
married in Kansas City, but hearing
that the young lady's father, who is a
wealthy merchant of Fort Scott, was
Following them, they postponed the
wedding, Miss Withers coming here and
Atkinson following her later. The girl
was arrested and sent home before At
kinson could arrive and afterwards the
two professed to hate each other. Miss
W1therS- went so far in her expressions
of disgust of the young man that she
charged him with pawning her ring to
pay his board. Atkinson remained here
in dry goods store. Yesterday Miss
Wtthers, chaperOned by Mrs. S. G. But
Ter of Fort Scott, came here and was
secretly married to Atkinson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
Pensions for Kansans.

Washington, Dec. 13.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-JOhn c. Doodell, Mound
troit, Sc; James L. Giles, Beattie, So;
George Morton, Vinland, IS.
Increase-Elisha G. Lyon, Ottawa, 81
to IS; Leander Mulliken, Columbus, SIG
SIP Henry V. Steadman, Atchison, Sc
to IS; John Farley, Abilene, $24 to $50;
William H. Bohnbaugh, Parsons, $12 to
ST.
Refssue-AIlen J. Martin, ottawa, S.
Original widows, etc.-Elizabeth ].
Smoke, Detroit, So; Myrtle Buchanan,
Stantan So.
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he HUNG HIMSELF.
Geo. Walker, CowIey County Spirit
ualist, Commits Suicide.

old settler, one of Cowley county's pio-
neers, committed suicide by hanging
himself Friday in the barn at the home
of his sOn-in-law William Atkinson, liv-
ing near Rock. The scene of the trag-
edy is some distance in the country and
no particulars of the deplorable occur
renee have been obtained before.
He is financially well to do and his
family affairs have always been pleas
ant.
He was a devout spiritualist and it
was thought a change for the worse
was detected in his condition soon after
the last spiritualist meeting last sum-
mer. He was an old soldier and leaves
a wife and four children, three daugh-
tiers and one SON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
SHOT HIS DAUGHTER.
Farmer Living Near Wellington Near
ly Kills His Child.

Wellington, Dec. 13.-George Hedrick,
a prominent farmer and politician, liv-
ing five or six miles north of Wellington
in Seventy-Six township, accidentally
Saturday, with a rifle. The ball struck
her in the left temple, but will not, it is
thought, prove fatal.
As near as could be learned the acct
dent happened shortly after II o'clock
A courier reached Wellington about
noon in quest of a doctor.
DR.. Martin went out to attend the
child. He says the ball did not strike
the girl squarely, or it would have prov
ed fatal. The ball is lodged under the
skin behind the ear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
Change in Pension Office.

Leavenworth, Dec. ia change has
been made in the force of the special
examiner of pensions. E. Shafer who
has been in charge of Kansas terri
tory since last May, with headquarters
in Kansas City, and has been in the
service sixteen years, comes to Leaven-
worth. Hus successor will be G. B. An
derson, who will exercise supervision
over the Kansas counties of Wyandotte,
Douglas, Johnson, Franklin and Miami
Mr.. Skaters Office at Leavenworth will
be headquarters for Jefferson, Leaven-
worth, Doniphan, Atchison and Brown
counties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
NO MORMONISM FOR THEM.
Cleveland Ministers Pass Strong Res
olutions Against Roberts.

Cleveland, o., Dec. 13.-At the union
ministers meeting held here resolutions
were adopted denOuncing the election OF
Brigham H. Roberts as a member OF
the house of representatives from Utah,
because he belongs to the Mormon talth.
The resolutions, which will be trans
nitted to the house of representatives,
declare that Roberts is a tool of the
Mormon priesthood and urge that body
to refuse to recognize him as q mem
Der; that the most singing rebuke pos
sible should be administered to Nor
rnonisTn, which threatens church, state
and home. If Mr.. Roberts is seated 1t
is claimed that it will be taken by Nor
monism as a great victory over con-
gress and a notice that Mormon political
methods are safe from interference by
congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
CHICAGo NFWs PRoVFRRs.

There is no love so kncurably blind as
self-lOve.
Every time Satan closes a door ne
opens a larger one.
Women are strongest when incased kn
the armor OF their weakness.
Some people are so skeptical that
they even doubt their own doubts.
The reason the office doesn't seek the
man is because it doesn't have to
When lovers walk beneath the moon
they forget that they are OF the earth
earthly.
Repentance Is like ammonia; g. little
Of 1t goes 3. long way when It once
takes hold.
The true American doesn't want TO
be a king, but he'll bet his last cent on
-FOUR of them.
There may be a good deal IL = name
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13

Formerly a farmer went to the dogs
after buying a red su1ky, but now he
buys cattle to feed before going to the
devil
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mound Of shale just east of Lotterer's
plant, and in his petition he says that
they have no right to drill into their gas
field, a continuation of which also I'M
derlies his plant, as it will eventually
cut off his supply of gas. LOtterer, it
seems, had a gas lease on the ground
bought by the Coffeyvilie company,
with a provision in it that in case the
land was sold, no well should be drilled
within 1000 feet of his wells. The Cof-
feyville company's wells are at least
1,200 feet from his, and when this fact
is established in court, the injunction
will be denied and the temporary re-
straining order dissolved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
Wichita Postofice Business.

Wichita. Dec. 13.-There arrived at
the Wichita pOstoffice yesterday eight
packages containing $4,000 2-cent
stamps to the package, making a total
of 100000 stamps in all, and this is the
third requisition made since August
last, which covers a grand total of l.
000 900 2-cent stamps that have been
received under the present postmaster's
administration, and does not include
any other denomination, or postal cards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
Prominent Cedarville Weddine.

Cedarville, Dec. 13.-The marriage of
Edna Maud Johnston, the pretty daugh-
ter of ]. H. Johnston, to Francis r.
Moore of Kansas City, has been the
topic of society happenings here. Miss
Johnston was born in Smith county,
where she has lived all her life and held
in high esteem by her large circle of
acquaintance. They will reside in Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-13
CHERRYvALE's BOOM.
Hopes to Have Two Big smelters
Erected by Spring.

CherryvaIe, Dec. 13-Thfs city is to
have a smelter, a branch of the Mat
thewson & Hagler zinc works of La
sale, Illinois, to be built this winter.
Their agent, L. A. Nichols, is here now
looking into the matter. This is the
smelter company that drilled several
wells in the vicinity of lola, but they
proved to be failures. With the Edgar
smelters already located here, and the
certainty of the canyons building next
year, the addition of the Lasalle plant
would make Cherryvale a great zinc
smelling center
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PRINTING Chickasaw Laws.

Parsons, Dec. 13-The Foley Railway
Printing company has secured the con-
tract for printing the laws of the Chick
asaW nation. The contract is a good
one, embracing six hundred pages, and
the laws will be printed in the English
and Choctaw languages. Davis Homer,
a Choctaw lawyer of Atoka, was in the
city yesterday in the interest of the