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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15

FOR SALE-Ckoice eastern Kansas farm
mortgages. r. E. BOWMAN & co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15

FOR SALE-New Singer sewing machine,
$40. S27 Harrison st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-15

FOR SALE-Ten RIP ANS for cents
at druggists: one gives relief.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28
McKINLEY'S MESSAGE.

President Mckinley has been
bending his energies toward writ
ing his messages for the next con-
gress that will meet in December
1t is volu nnous and deals princi-
pally with the war question.
He should have a clause in it
dealing with the negro as soldier
and voter and make recommends
tions on this point, If the United
States republican congress had the
authority to create the right for a
negro to vote, they haye the right
to take his franchise from him and
also muster him out of the army
He has and is now creating more
trouble for this country, both as a
voter and soldier than is Spain, and
he should be suppressed peaceaby
oy the same power that placed him
in the attitude he now holds, and
we call upon the party giving him
this being to take it away from
him-the sooner the better for the
negro ard our whole country
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28
TEXARKANA, ARKANSAS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1898
SPAIN KNOCKS UNDER.
Articles Of Peace Signed To-
day at Paris, France.
PEACE, SWEET PEACE.
Great Storm Raging at Boston, Mas
sachusetts, Casualties Appalling.

At 2:20 o'clock this afte. e.noon, the
Spanish commits. ] ners gave in and
signed the dcnaaGe Cf this country,
and peace~-sow rci-ns between
Spain and the UnitedStates. Here
are the demands Spain has caused
her commissioners to sign and
which are now in force.
Cession of the entire Philippine
archipelago,
Spain to receive $2O,OOO,OOO.
The islands, to be open to the
worlds commerce.
R-linquishment of all claims for
indemnity by each country.
To fully gradt religious freedom
in the Carolines,
Acquisition OF one of the Caroline
islands for and Americas naval
station.
Oabal landing rights in the Caro-
lines and at other places in Spanish
jurisdiction.
Revival of Spanish-American
treaties as heretofore III force,
Commercial relations will now be
restored.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28
First Baptist Church.

The reporter passed the site
where the workmen are working on
the First Baptist church this morn
ing and found that they had reach
ed the line where the stone Gaping
goes on and that some of the base
ment window frames have been put
in position. The stone being used
is a hard gray flint, which will give
the building quite an appearance,
The Baptists have sud that they
will erect one Of the finest buildings
in the city, for church purposes, and
from what we saw this morning we
do not doubt it IN the least. The
building will be credit to cur city,
in fact it would be a credit to any
city in the land and our people
should help along the good work II
they are called upon to contribute
hereafter,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28

There is q camp of hobos just
south Of the park, where some
twenty-five Of them have thrown
up kind Of bull pen of brush and
green pine limbs and with bic FIRE
spend their days In idleness, save
the time they spend 10 bepgIng
from door to door We feel sorry
for the unfortunate, but for a lot
of lazy white men who will not work
we haye no sympathy, and ask the
West Side officers to give this camp
their attention
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28

Some Of our saloons are giving
two free lunehe, day from 10 to IL
and from 4 TO 6 o'clock The man
who has, ,an income Of a dime a day
and place 20 sleep can worry along
through the winter III way, and
there are many whosc ucome Is not
sufficiently large to even take adj.
vantage Of tlis mode Of existence,
The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-11-28
MASSACHUSETTS STORMS.
Boston Harbor Suffered Greatly From
the Storm

Boston, Mass, Nov. 28.-One q
the most destructive storms ever
had prevailed here last night
Over thirty vessels we're destroyed
The casualties will be appalling.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
OUR FUTURE NAVY.


Whatever other results may follow from
the present war it is certain the United
States will maintain much stronger navy
hereafter than they have ever done hereto
fore. Fortune has favored us in this regard
in this war as it has in previous ones
Inanks to our privateers and to good luck
aided by the prowess of our little navy we
came out far better In the war of 1872 than
we could reasonably have expected to. At
the beginning of this war all felt that we
were very poorly prepared for a naval war
We had few fine war ships, the nucleus of
a fine navy, and, as events have since denl-
onstrated more than a match for the Span
ish navy, but we did rot know it at the time
At the beginning of the war there was real
fear that the Spanish fleet would attack
some of our Atlantic cities, and the alarm
of the Boston people. now laughed at, was
not without reason. But our navy has
proved stronger than we thought, and luck
has been on our side from the beginning
Good use was made of the interval between
the destruction of the Maine, on Feb. Is, and
the beginning of hostilities on April o. A
large part of the $5O,OOO,OOO defense fund
voted by Congress was devoted to strength
ening the navy, and some of the war ships
purchased or converted at that time will
remain permanent addition to the navy
Although our navy will be considerably
stronger at the end of the war than it was
at the beginning, circumstances will require
that 1t be still further materially strength
ened. The war has made the United States
a world power, with new interests, duties
and responsibilities. Not to speak of our
new island possessions and coaing stations
to be protected in case of need, there is rea-
son to expect in the near future a great ex-
tension Of our foreign commerce, ocean
trade and merchant marine This will re-
quire an enlargement of the navy for COM
mercial as we'll warlike purposes We
may not and probably will not have another
foreign war for thirty or forty years, but
when it comes. it surely will, it may test
our naval resources far more severely than
this war has done. Meanwhile, the protec-
ton and extension of our commerce and the
maintenance of the national prestige in time
of peace will require navy not only con-
siderably stronger than our present one, but
keeping pace with the progress of the world
and the growth of the Nation as a worlds
power. England, whose naval supremacy is
likely to remain unbroken if not undisputed
for many years. has adopted the rule of
keeping it's navy equal to any other two ma
vies in the world 1t is not necessary that
we should become rivals of England in this
regard. but we can well afford to maintain
navy so strong that the British and United
States navies combined shall equal any
other three in the world. Then, if any three
powers in Europe can get up conceit enough
to pool their naval strength against those of
the two English-speaking nations they will
be welcome to try it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
STATE PRESS OPINION.

Spain has fine lot of pun2tlres to patch
up before her maps will again hold water.
Fort Wayne Gazette.
The debts existing in the Spanish colonies
are legacies of misrule, and the United
States is not accepting any inheritance OF
that nature.-Tipton Advocate.
The farmers appear to be pretty well sat
isfied with their condition at the present
time. 1t is not probable that they have any
desire to return to the good old Democrat
ic times. '-Logansport Journal.
The influx of gold continues, although the
country has been at war. 1t is phenome-
non worthy of notice. It is not, Il hopeful
hopeful sign of any kind for ;hat isnoble
heresy.-Muncie News.
In four hundred years of possession 1t IS
hardly too much to say that Spain has not
opened four hundred miles IF decent reads
in Cuba. and that her Sanitary measuI es
in general there have been inferior TO these
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal
If any workman has any iouot abort how
to cast his vote this fall. let him Just think
of the condition OF labor, business manu-
featuring industries and The farmer four
years ago and now. 1t ought not to take
long to reach a conclusion. Anderson Her
aid. ,i. a., cT1if ,is1 -,
William Mckinley is proving himself one
of the greatest Presidents this Nation ever
had. His handling of the difficulties pre-
sented by this war with Spain has been
mastery and his treatment of the peace
problems also promises to be eminen,ly sat
lsfactory.-Marion News.
Chairman Jones, of the Democratic ma
tional committee. is not pleased with the
manner in which the administration con-
Quoted the war. This is the same Mr.. Jones
who was displeased with the manner in
which the people conducted the voting in
1S96.-Columbus Republican.
A Paris journal expresses the hope that
President Mckinley will be lenient with
Spain. The President wills undoubtedly be
,nagnanimous, but if Spain has any special
favors to ask she should make her plea to
the past centuries of misrule and superstI-
tuition. SPANS past is having great deal
to do with her present misery Muncie
Times.
Spain is annoyed at the prospect of having
to pay the Cuban bonds. But Spain got the
money and spent it. That portion of 1t
which did not stick to the hands of officials
was spent in efforts TO subjuSace ( nj Il. The
Cubans should not be expected to pay non
ey which they did not borrow aud which
was used in efforts to enslave them-EVanS-
Vile Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
THE INCREASING STOCK OF GOLD.

The offering of three times the $500, 900. 900
of per cent. bonds called for has para
lyzed a large part of those who have been
telling the country that under the gold basis
there is great scarcity of money, and that
1t is scheme of the money power to make
the rates of interest very high. Still, now
and then a silver-mine owner like Senator
Stewart comes to the front to give rea-
son for the prompt sale of the per cents.
1t is because people dare not invest in real
estate and business, he tells us, that they
put their money into per cents. But if the
gold basis has shrunk all values. why is
it not good time to invest in real estate?
Senator Stewart is not a good authority;
in fact, he is no authority at all, since it is
the great increase of the volume of money
upon the gold basis in this country that has
made money cheap in spite of the unusually
large investments in business, as shown by
bank reports.
The trouble with the Stewards and the
16-to-1 element generally is that they will
not study the facts relating to the produc-
ton of gold. Since 1883 the production of
gold and silver has been as follows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11


Patriotism is noble plant. and its nat
ural growth should be encouraged in every
proper way. Even its culture and artificial
growth may be aided to a reasonable ex-
tent. but it should not be forced by hot
house methods. The patriotism that tells is
the kind that is well rooted and that grows
steadily and strongly without much forcing
The war has produced an abundant crop
of true patriotism, but 1t has also furnished
some instances of the artificial kind. One
of these was the proposition of WELL
known brewer that the German-American
citizens of the United States should raise
money enough by personal contributions to
build a battle ship to be presented to the
government. Then came a movement TO
raise a similar fund for the same purpose
by penny contributions from the boys of
the United States. and now a Chicago young
woman proposes that the girls shall do like
wise, The patriotic brewer did not propose
any definite plan OF raising the desired
fund, though the contribution of a small
percentage on the sales of beer would soon
furnish the requisite amount. The boys pro-
pose to operate through the public schools.
and the girls by the endless-chain letter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
skaguay Possibly Burned.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 1o.-The
steamer Farrailon. which arrived here yes
terday, left Skaguay last Thursday night.
At that time Captain Rogers says Skaguay
was threatened with destruction by fire.
Fifteen or twenty houses were in flames
as the steamer cast off her ropes and the
last report he received was that the in
adequate fire brigade was attempting to
keep the flames from the dynamite sheds,
where the railway company had its powder
stored. This seemed to him impossible. as
the fire was rapidly spreading. The people
We're panic-stricken. and the forests sur
rounding the town were all ablaZe II
an awe-inspiring sight, and looked from the
water as if nothing could save the town
from destruction. The house caught fire
from the bush fires surrounding Skaguay,
and as a high wind prevailed it drove the
flames to the center of the town. Passen-
gers on board expressed the opinion that
Skaguay had been swept out of existence
by the fire, but the purser stated that he
believed the fire could be got under con-
troll, as it started near the water front, and
the demolishing of several houses between
there and the center of town would prevent
the flames from spreading
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
BATTLE WON BY GOMEZ
FORCE OF 1000 sPANIARDs DEFEAT
ED BY 5000 INSURGENTS.
Desperate Fight, in Which Over 500
of Blanco's Men and 100 Cubans
Were Killed and Many Wounded.

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-The Cuban Junto
in this city has the following Cuban adj
vices The American arms sent into Cuba
on the last Nunez expedition on the govern
ment steamer Wanderer have been used
with good effect by the Cuban soldiers under
Generals Gomez, Diaz and Roles. News of
Cuban victories in the western provinces
has reached here, one of the battles being
the largest and most important ever fought
in that part of the island. With the news
of victory, however, comes story of Cuban
suffering from starvation and an appeal for
further aid from the United States. The
principal battle was the result of the sue
cessful attempt of General Gomez with
three thousand men to force the trocha be-
tween Las Villas and Camaguay, to make
his headquarters with the officers of the
government of the Cuban republic in CANA
quay. The trocha at this point was guarded
by four thousand Spanards, under Gen.
Jiminiz Castellanos, and never had been
broken before General Gomez himself led
his soldiers as they made the attack on the
trocha and blockhouses early in the morn
ing. The principal blockhouses were not
heavily garrisoned and were quickly
stormed and taken. The Spanish soldiers
fell back of the trocha line and there made
a stubborn resistance. which they kept up
the greater part of the day. In the after
noon. however their main body gave way
before a machete charge of the Cubans,
and the entire Cuban force passed over the
dividing line and marched without further
interruption into Camaguay. More than
three hundred Spaniards were killed in the
battle and about 100 Cubans lost their lives
There were many wounded on both sides
Spanish and Cuban wounded were cared for
alike by General Gomez's physicians and
Spanish prisoners were liberated after being
deprived of their arms
In Tres Palmas. General Diaz with a
comparatively small body of Cuban sol
diers, engaged Spanish column. six hum
dred strong, drove them out of the village
and took possession of 1t, together with a
store of arms and provisions, which were
distributed among the suffering Cuban fam
lilies. Tres Palmas is near Bahia Honda
and there is great restitution among the
Cuban families there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11

The output of the mines for 1898 is esti-
mated upon the reports of the first six
months of the year Nearly three times as
much gold will be mined in 1898 as was
mined in 1888. and more than twice as much
as in any year down to 1892. The output of
gold this year will exceed the value of the
output of both metals down to the year
1891. Indeed, few people will come to fully
realize the effect of the wonderful increase
in the output of gold during the past fif-
teen years until they take into considera-
ton the fact that gold is indestructible. and
that once added to the worlds stock its
loss from year to year is but a very small
percentage of any years output. Every
years output is therefore a permanent adj
dition to the stock. If half the gold that
has been produced the past six or seven
years has been added to the worlds stock
of money it has been increased more than
half a billion of dollars.
These facts are quietly but surely remov-
ing from the minds of intelligent people
all fears regarding the insuffciency of gold
for the worlds monetary basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
FLEEING FROM MANILA
PRIESTS, NUNS AND CHINESE GET
TING OUT OF THE DOOMED CITY.
No German Interference - Serious
Riots i'm China - Pestilence in
SeOul-COrean OfEicial stopped.

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 10.-Carl Wer-
rer, head engineer Of the German feet at
Manila, who has arrived from the Orient,
when interviewed said: There will be no
German interference. The ships went to
Manila to coal. Seven German ships are
row there. The priests, nuns and Chinese
are fleeing from the Philippines. The Chi
nese and nuns are going to Annoy and the
priests to Dagupon, the Spanish strong
hold.
One hundred and fifty rebels captured
the town of Chao-Yang. China. The soldiers
fed the rebels, burned the town and marched
out to Chinese music. The rebels are re-
treating before the government troops. The
death rate from pestilence in Seoul is awful
On one day, the 18th of July, there were
lao cases and deaths. There were riots
in Bombay because of the plague"
All Corea is excited by the German consul,
Krin, slapping the minister of foreign af-
fairs, Kin Whan. in the face with his I'M
read letter and punching him in the chest.
Corea demands quick vengeance.
There are widespread riots in Sze-Chaun
province China. which have strong anti
foreign tendency. All English, French and
American missions were attacked and many
Christians were killed. A priest, Pere
Freuire, was carried into captivity by the
brgand, Su Mansu. The French mission
offers $500 taels ransom. The Protestant
and Roman Catholic missions were dea
stroyed in the towns of Peien and Lere-
Gilman. They were destroyed by the rebels.
Seven thousand more troops left Canton
in a hopeless attempt to suppress the re-
bellion. The Chinese admiral is preparing
a fleet against the rebels. There are serious
riots in Shanghai. The French authorities
took vigorous action and killed twenty ma
tives, which quoted the rest Business was
suspended and the foreign residents were
terroriZed.
Thirteen japanese papers give the opinion
Philippine islands without interference by
the powers, saying that Japanese could
trust the States to do the fair thing by her.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
STATE BOARDS OF HEALTH.
Subjects Discussed at the National
Conference.-The. Hurty's Report.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 1O.-Twenty-one
represented at to-day's session of the con-
ference of state and provincial boards of
health of North America. Health Officer
Gibbs welcomed the delegates to Detroit.
President Benjamin Lee, incidentally, in the
course of his response, said that most of
Detroit's typhoid was caused by Lake ST.
Clair water, and warned the local health
board against this water. President Lee
said the clear, sparkling water of the lake
was far more dangerous than the coffee
colored fluid Philadelphians use. He said
that quite possibly the ST. Clair was pol
luted from points above.
The report Of the secretary, DR.. j. N.
Hurry of indianapolis, showed an increase
in membership for the year of three, one
tary Hurry recommended that the confer
ence adopt the old constitution of the Ma
tional Conference of Boards of Health,
whose title was changed to the present one
at the Nashville meeting last year. This
was done with the exception of the annual
according to expenses. A bylaw was adopt
co making 1T mandatory that on each al
ternate year the conference meet in Wash
ington, d. c., on the ground that the at
tendance would be greater if regular
meeting place was adopted
Tie afternoon was spent in a ride on Lake
St Clair to the st. Clair flats. discussion
of the publication of surface water was the
subject of the evening, discussion being
opened by @. s. Williams, engineer of the
Detroit Water Board. DR.. j. N. Hurry, sec
rotary of the Indiana Board of Health. fol-
lowed Mr.. Williams with an interesting
talk. Tomorrow the conference closes with
several discussions of tuberculosis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11

We helpless, stay-at-home people are COM
PEELED to read very many curious things
written by gifted and exuberant travelling
correspondents these stirring times. Some
one accompanying a Manila expedition, and
without the fear of the American public
before his eyes, sends back this fish story
to the New York Tribune:
On the morning of July 81 less than five
hundred miles from Honolulu. a beautifully
modelled fish at least eight feet in length
was observed by several passengers at
about three hundred yards from the vessel
performing extraordinary feats. He shot
perpendiculary out of the water until his
tail was fully his own length from the
surface. For an instant he hung in mid
air, his white belly and dark back cleaning
in the sunshine. Then, with a sudden vio-
lent effort, he made a nearly complete
somersault, his tail describing three fourths
of a circle, and came down the surface
horizontally with great splash. This won
derful jump he repeated no less than six
times in the same way at intervals of a
few seconds and seemingly at the same spot.
The fish was as shapely as a salmon. but
appeared to me to have the snout and tail
of shark.
Oddly enough, 1t does not seem to have
suggested itself to the correspondent that
this fish was celebrating Hawaiian annexa-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-11
EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST.
Details of the FOunderfng of the
Steamer Jessie in Alaska.

SEATTLE Wash, Aug 10.-Further de-
tails state there were eighteen persons on
the river steamer Jessie, of the Columbian
Exploration Company. which foundered in
the Kuskotawim river Alaska during a
severe storm July rs. 1t is thought all were
lost. The steamer Jessie at the time of the
disaster had in tow the barge Minerva
loaded with supplies. The news of the dis
aster was brought TO the headquarters OF
the Alaska Commercial Company by In
cians who had found the loaded barge be-
longing to the party partly wrecked The
Indians assert that the steamer foundered
and that all of her party persisted in the
storm that swept down on them before they
were well into the river and only few
hours after they had left the steamer
Lakme. on which they had gone north. The