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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15

called "menagerie'' was ar amusing
feature of the afternoon The prize
was won by Miss Emily King. The
next place Of meeting was not decided
upon.
Miss Bolles of Kansas City is visit
ing Mrs. David Palmer.
Miss Mary Chase left Thursday for
Chicago, where she expects to spend
the summer.
Miss Nellie Nevill left Thursday for
months VISIT with her sister in Dav-
export, Iowa
Miss Mamie Meade of Lancing is
visiting the family of J. r. N1cElroy, at
sos Clay street.
D., is visiting the family of Mrs, Mary
c. Goddard.
W. w. Whitney has gone to Roch-
ester and New York city to spend sew
eraI weeks.
Mrs. c. F. Chute has returned from
months visit in Dallas, Tex.
Mrs T. E. Ellison of Fort Wayne,
Ind, and Mrs. George Naylor of Chi
cago are the guests of Mrs. Willard
Hall.
Miss Horton, Miss Rosamond Horton
and Mr.. Albert Horton have taken a
cottage for the summer at Palmer
Lake, Colo.
Mrs. Hamilton Morris and children,
left to-day for months outing at
Colorado Springs.
Miss Alice Mccoy and Miss Nettie
Miller have returned from a week at
the Omaha exposition.
Miss Katie Kemper, superintendent
of public instruction, of Deadwood,
Dakota. is spending a few weeks in
Topeka with Miss Cora. Grubbs.
Miss Edna Crane is going to Win
field Saturday to visit friends She will
join camping party from there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kitchell of Chi
cago are the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman Wear.
Mrs. w. G. Smyser will leave Satur-
day for Pennsylvania.
Mrs William Urbansky of Lawrence
and Miss Lille Urbansky Of st. BIarys
are visiting relatives in Topeka.
Mrs. Hattie Downing of Osawatomie
spent Wednesday with her sister. Miss
Anna Henrietta, on her way to St.
Marys.
Miss Cora Ramsey of st. Marys is
the guest of Miss Pearl Weber.
Miss Grace Diment is spending a
couple of weeks in Topeka with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. s. Diment.
Miss May Hawley entertained a few
of her friends at a very pleasant porch
party Wednesday evening. Music was
furnished by the Mandolin club and re-
freshments were served. Those present
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Scott, Miss
Mabel Barnes, Miss Zena Freeman.
Miss Kinley, Miss Pankey, Miss Maud
Smith, Miss Alice Hopkins, Mr.. Henry
Lewis, Mr. Herman, and Mr. Page.
Paul Shreye has returned from a
visit in Kansas City
Miss Maud O'Neil of St. Marys is Wis
iting Mrs. Horace Weber.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15
WILL ADD A NEW STAR.
Adlai Stevenson Asserts That Cuba
Will Be Annexed

Chicago, July 15-The feature of the
annual meeting of the Illinois Bar as
sociation, now in session in this city,
was the address of former Vice Presl-
dent Adlai E. Stevenson. His subject,
France as a Republic" was particu-
iarly appropriate to the French fete
day the anniversary of the fall of the
BastiIe The address was scholarly
and technical rather than OratOrical in
it's character and the material for 1t
was largely collected by Mr.. Stevenson
during his service as a member of the
monetary commission appointed by
President Mckinley, on which he was
associated with Senator Edward o.
Wolcott of Colorado and General Chas.
J. Payne of Boston.
Mr. Stevenson took the French revO-
luton as his starting point. Since
then" said he, France has had Is con-
situations. The last, adopted in 1871,
the Joint work of Theirs and Gambetta,
was the best, inasmuch as it appears to
have elements of stability that the 9TH
ers have not. In the various changes
of government the principles of Re
publican form have been. ever upper
most The difficulty has been to frame
a government that would stand along
with the monarchies of Europe. That
seems to have been partially attained
in the present constitution, which makes
the president of the French republic it's
head indeed, surrounded, it is true, with
some of the attributes of royalty, but
with none of royalty's powers. It is
unlike the presidency of the United
States, in that the executive has no
veto power and is to some extent out
side the influence of party political
changes. The legislative power is par
amount, and in it's form resembles the
powers of the English parliament"
Asked for an expression of his views
upon the subject of territorial expan-
sion, Mr.. Stevenson said: 1T would
seem that the policy of expansion is be-
ing forced upon the people of the Uni
ted States and that we shall be COM
PEELED to adopt it. It is a very difficult
problem that is presented to the nation.
Hawaii has become a part of our gov
eminent by the consent of her people
and in accordance with the wishes of
the people of this country. We have
practically conquered Cuba and the
Understanding is that her people shall
have a republican form of government
of their own. 1t requires no prophet,
however to foreten that in the course
of time Cuba will become one of the
states of the Union. have not given
the subject sufficient thought to war
rant my saying whether I am in favor
of territorial expansion at present"
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M'NALL TELLS WHY.
His Reason for Excluding the Con-
necticEt Fire.


Insurance Commissioner Webb NTcNall
said today in discussing the injunction
suit brought by the Connecticut Fire In
surance company to prevent him from
canceling its license:
THE Connecticut Fire Insurance com
pany is the company that issued policy
of insurance on April 16. 1894, to Edgar
NJ. Bird of Arkansas City. upon two
story frame building. in the sum of $500.
On November Il, 1885, the property was
totally destroyed by fire. The company
very magnanimOuSly paid to Edgar NJ Bird
s., $50. beng shy in the sum of $3.50. This
was a direct violation of the valued policy
law of this state that was in force at that
time. Complaint was made to this de-
partment and the Connecticut Fire was
required to pay to Mr.. Bird the additional
amount of $45G.
'-rThe above matter has been in contro-
versy for some time, and the company at
one time sent its general agent from
not paying the claim and complying with
the law. This department holds that it
was no defense. While this matter was
in controversy an investigation of the as
sets of the company was ordered. The
company said it was willing to permit
but refused to pay any expenses on ac-
count of the same.
''This department is of the opinion that
any insurance company authorized to
transact business in this state that fails
to comply with the valued policy law in
paving losses in full where the same ara
total without criminal fault on the part
o the assured false or fraudulent reD-
Presentations at the time of aking aDDii-
ca ton for the insurance, is in an insOIvent
condition. and every one of them should
be examined, the same an individual
in this state the minute that he goes to
shaving and discOunting his bills 25. so or
Is per cent, is placed in the hands of
receiver
''The salary of the president of this
company is $4,000, vice president $1,000
secretary 5000. 1t took out of Kansas
last year $40, .4S, paid back in losses SIS
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HARRIsON.S VIEWS.
Ex-President Thinks SPANS Disas-
tiers Should Insure Peace.

New York, July 15-Former Presi-
dent Benjamin Harrison, in an inter-
view regarding General ToraPs surren-
der said:
Whether the fall of Santiago will
lead to peace proposals on the part of
Spain is a difficult matter to conjecture
upon at this moment. Spain is not a
country you can reason with, except by
force Now, if it were any other coun-
try than Spain with which we were at
war, I would have no hesitation in
thinking that an event such as hap
pened today, in the face of the previous
disasters, would mean the cessation of
hostnities. Another thing one has to
consider in discussing the proba bility
of peace is the peculiar position Spain
is in. From the beginning her govern
ment had to make the choice between
foreign or civil war. That was the
only alternative left to her and she
chose foreign war. The question of
peace now turns mainly upon the Situa-
ton in Spanish politics. Impoverished
and disheartened by the reverses they
have sustained, I think that if the
Spanish ministry could depend upon
the army at home to put down any in
surrectiOn that might arise, they would
at once sue for peace. By continuing
the war Spain is only inviting fur
Their disaster. Her navy has been des-
tFOyed. She is no longer a naval power.
Nothing she has left could even cope
with a detachment of our fleet. Camara
would be wiped out by a small squadron
OF our SHIPS as completely as was Ger
vera. Without ships to defend them all
her possessions and even all her home
ports are open to capture or destEIc-
ton by our navy. In the face OF these
conditions it is difficult to see what
other course can be taken by Spain
than to ask for peace
In any event the subsection of Cuba
is simply a question of time. While
further resistance may be made, it is
more apparent than ever that there can
be but one issue to the war. Moreover,
the successive great losses Spain has
suffered tend to make the home situa-
ton easier for the Spanish government.
These losses make the people over there
realize the utter hOpelessness of the
struggle and will open their eyes to the
fact that the longer the war is pro
tracted the greater will be their hu-
initiation"
General Harrison declined to give an
opinion as to the policy the government
should adopt in the matter of retaining
the Philippines and other conquered
Spanish possessions. 1t would be in
vidious, he said, for him to discuss any
subject which would become part of
the peace negotiations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items of Interest About Topeka Peo-
pie and Visitors in Town.

Gan communications to this department
must give the full name and address OF
the writer. Anonymous personals and
descriptions of social affairs will not b
published.l
Mrs. A. J. Ewart entertained a num-
Der of little people at a delightful lawn
party Thursday afternoon in honor of
her granddaughter, Ada May Macabe,
of San Francisco. She was assisted by
Miss Ewart, Miss Ethel Merwin, of
Kansas City, and Miss Lulu Ewart.
The afternoon was spent in playing
games and refreshments were served
on the lawn.
Those invited were: Alice Willard,
Henrietta and Mary Alexander Ruthie
Leonard, Hazel Mulvane. Gertrude
Mu1Vane, Mile Ware, Gertrude Han
kla, Wilhelmina Marburg, GracieVance,
Mabel Ranney, Mary Overholt, Anna
TrOutman, Mildred Poindexter, Mar
garet Jetmore, Helen Stevenson, Ger
trude kitcheU and Oracle and Helen
Sterne.
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''SOWING THE WIND
Mrs. Elizabeth Lynn Linton Dies in
England.

London. July 15.-ATrs. Elizabeth
Lynn Linton, the novelist and essay ist,
widow of the late William James Lin
ton, the celebrated wood engraver, is
dead.
The late Mrs. Linton who was born
at Keswick, February 10. 1922, was the
youngest child of the Rev. James Lynn
Linton in 1858. AS early as 1845 she
embarked on an Independent literary
career in London. Among her publica-
lions are, in addition to innumera Bile
essays and short stories not collected,
The World Well Lost" THE One Too
Many In Haste and At Leisure,
The Girl of the Period Grasp Your
Nettle," Sowing the Wind Through
the Long Night" and Under which
Lord -
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BROKE Up THE MEETING.
Man With Delirium Tremens Creates
a Stampede at City Park.

Last night at the close Ct the Holiness
camp meeting in the City park, young
man came forward as if to acknowledge
conversion.
He fell upon the ground and com
menced to wave his arms around in a
franctlc manner. William Wells went
up to him, thinking he was having
a fit. Several others came up and it
was found that the young man was
drunk and that instead of a fit he had
deIlrlum tremens. He gave him name
as Paul Ricketts, and was taken to his
home on Fillmore street in a wagon by
William Wells.
The excitement caused by the strug-
gies with the young man broke up the
meeting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15
GOSPEL TENT FOR GOTH.
Army Relief Society Will Endeavor
to Supply It.

The Army Relief Society has taken
hold of the matter of raising money for
the purchase of gospel tent for the
Twentieth Kansas volunteers at San
Francisco.
The ladies of the society request that
Topeka churches next Sunday for the
purpose of raising money for the tent
The money contributed may be left
with Mrs. Annie L. Diggs at the state
books will be gladly received.
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FINED $500.
Judge Ferry Gives Another Turn to
the Screw in Crook Wright Case.

Yesterday afternoon Police Judge
Ferry fined Crook Wright $500 and 80
days in jail for maintaining a nuisance.
Together with the $1OO fine assessed
against him on Wednesday for run
ming a disorderly house the sentence
is severe enough to keep the notorious
tough in Jail for some time. The fine
of $500 was the limit of the law. Wright
says he will appeal the case.
After the sentence was pronounced
Marshal Strauss destroyed the liquor
and fixtures that were captured in the
place operated by Wright.
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o.. Countermine,s Plana

DR.; Countermine. pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will turn his at
tentlon TO physicians in his sermon at
the cnurch next Sunday evening. Dur
ing the week he has sent to 20 of the
leading physicians of the city the fol-
lowing set of questions: First. are
you a processing Christian? Second: if
not, will you please give me ICo,1I. 80 -
sons for not being? Third; in your i11dar
ment, is the Gospel favorable to yo1I7
profession?' Fifteen of the Topeka
doctors have already replied. and their
replies will be read in connection vvi+b
the sermon Sunday evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15
CATCHES CANDIDATES.
Nomination Papers Filed Hereafter
Paw q Revenue Tax.

David Overmyer today filed the nominal
ton papers for the nominees of the Dem
ocradc convention and by waiting so long
revenue law.
Mr.. Overmyer was required to affix a
ten cent revenue stamp to each paper.
Hereafter every nomination paper filed
must contain a ten cent revenue stamp.
and this applies to justices of the peace
as well as governors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15
BROUGHT INTO PORT.
British Blockade Runner Arrives at
Key West.

Key West, July 15-The British
schooner E. r Nickerson, which was
captured on June 80 by the Hornet,
Hist and Wampatuck off Cape Cruz,
while attempting to run the blockade
into Manzanillo, was brought here this
morning by a prize crew under Lieut.,
Dougal. She had a cargo of provisions,
hogs. goats, etc. She had a crew of
negroes and two passengers are on
board. She was bound from Jamaica
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Down Go Rates Aeain.

San Francisco July 1.-THE Southern
Pacific company has reduced the freight
rate on wine in wood from Is to so cents
by carloads to Chicago, st. Louis and Mis-
sour river points. This applies to ship
ments from all parts of California.
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Abandoned for Four Years

Clementine Drane has filed suit for di-
vorce from her husband, Henry Drane. in
the district court She states in her pc
tition that she has been an abandoned
wife for the past four years.
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Parties a speciality. Phone 622. Mail
orders promptly attended to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-15

Mrs. Ashton will sing and Miss Bun
day will play at the Ellen Foster lee
ture at Hamilton hall Monday evening
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c. B. Lyon, D. d. s, 511 Kan. Ave
Modern dental work; reasonable prices.
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THE ROCK ISLAND FLYER

Is the Best Train for Kansas Citv.
Leaves Topeka 1880, arrive at Kansa 9
City 9:15 a. m, returning, leaves kan
sas City 7:10, arriving at Topeka SEQ
p m.
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NORTH TOPEKA.

Items intended for this column should
be left at the Kimbau Pig. Co., before IL
o'clock in the morning.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20
sENsArroN Ar ST. JOSEPH.
The Suicide Of Walter Young. Three Yea
Ago. Attribuiesi To q Crime.

The Suicide Of Walter Young. Three Years
Ago, Attributeu TN Crime
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Jan. ga war
rant has been issued for August E
Ambs. ticket scalper. who formerly
operated here The charge involves
in it the suicide of Walter Young, city
passenger and ticket agent of the Atch-
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. who
killed himself three years ago by TAX
ing arsenic : 1t was supposed at the
time that his suicide was on account of
trouble he had with his wife Lately
the railroad company found that a
large number of fraudulent tickets
were being sold here. They were on
the books as having been sold by way
of Topeka to points in Kansas. but
when the ticket coupons came in they
showed that they had been used to
points in California, the south and as
far north as New York. Ambs had
placed the tickets in a bank here as
collateral security before he left the
city He was unable to redeem them
through another broker. 1t is believed
now that Arnbs and Young entered in
to conspiracy TO rob the railroad
company by means of these tickets,
and that Young killed himself because
he feared discovery. The extent of
the fraud is not yet known. as it came
from an unexpected source.
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RED CLOUD DYING.
The Noted Sioux Chief About to Go to
the Happy Hunting Grounds
SUICIDE OF A BANKRUPT.
Man Jumps to Death at the aIasonia
Temple at Chicago-More Men Killed
at Sandy Fork-Tramrs Killed
Saved from Lynchers-

PINE RIDGE, S. D.. Jan. i6.-Old Red
Cloud, the noted Sioux Indian chief.
is dying in his shack on Oganala res
ervation near here. He is the single
survivor of that famous band of Sioux
Indian leaders OF which Oldham
Afraid-of- His Horse. Spotted Tail and
Sitting Bull helped to make history
on the western prairies. He possessed
all their craftiness and enjoyed per-
Sonal magnetism which marked him
as a leader among his tribeSmen. He
was pre-eminent in planning mis-
chief. but he was mysteriously absent
when his plans were put into execu-
ton. Perhaps the most atrocious
work in which he took part was the
Fort Mckinney massacre. in which
over % United States soldiers were
led into ambush and laughtered.
Snicide of .. fsankrupt.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-J. w. Stonehouse,
whose sign-pain ting establishment re-
Gently failed. committed suicide to-day
in the rotunda of the Masonic temple
by jumping from the railing on the
sixteenth floor. His body struck the
| railing on the stairway of the second
floor, smashing the iron and crashed
through the two-inch marble landing.
Every bone in Stonehouse's body was
shattered. The corpse was picked up
n shapeless mass on the stairway be-
tween the first and second floors Ear
| lier in the day Stonehouse attempted
| to throw himself from one of the upper
| floors of the Chamber of Commerce,
but was frustrated.
More Men Killed at Sandy Fork.
MIDDLEsBoRo, Ky, Jan. 16.-A spe-
cial from Hynen says that the fight on
Sandy Fork in Leslie county, continued
all day yesterday. Eight men were
reported killed as follows: John Will
liams, Doc Wilson. Bob Colwen, Tom
Shelton, Peter Burrough, Mark Paine,
Elias Howard and Abel Combs, ali col
ored. Sim Paine. Larry McComas, Ed
Martin and Low Gossom are seriously
wounded. Intense excitement pre-
walls and further figh ting is expected
The fight occurred over cards in =
blind tiger.
| Two Tranps Killed in a Wreck.
MONTGOMERY. Ala. Jan. 16.-A box
car attached to a .ong freight jumped
| the track on the Plant systems main
line near Showdown, in this county.
yesterday, causing a wreck which re-
suited in the demolition of a number
of freight cars and the death of two
unknown white tramps, who were
stealing ride into the city.
| Saved from Lynchers-
DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 16.-Eugene Lee,
of Ennis, accused of the murder of his
wife January 9, has been brought here
and lodged in Jail to- save him from be-
ing lynched. The Ellis county officers
drove overland in u buggy to Lancas-
ter, a distance of 20 miles.
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CHARGES AGAINST CARTER.
The Tell-knOwn Armv Officer Accused OF
Shors..g &c OF &3.OOO.OOO.

The Well known Armv Officer Accused of
shortage OF S3.OOO.OOO-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The war de-
partment has made public the charges
agains: Capt. Oberliu NJ. Carter, ngi-
neer. recently military attache to Lon
don and member of the Nicaraguan
commission. from both of which posi-
tions he resigned. They recount the
most astounding allegations of rascal
ity that have been brought against
any army officer in the history
of the government Charge one is that
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment, in coliusion with the Atlantic
Contracting company, it being speci-
fed that Carter allowed fraudulent
payments to that company. in which
his father-in-law was interested. to the
total amount of s.. $50. $50. 81. Charge
four accuses Carter of the embezzle-
ment of over S575. 900. This brings the
thefts over the So, C0o, 900 mark. but
| that is not all.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20
CLYDE Marrox FREE.
Pardon Granted Him by the President
Through His Mothers Devotion.

Pardon Granted Him by the President
Through His Mothers Devotion.
TOPEKA. Kan, Jan. 1G.-A privat,
dispatch from Mrs. Sadie w. Hatch.
who is at Washington, announces that
President Mckinley has pardoned hei
son, Clyde Mattox. This was one oil
the most cele brated cases in the his,
tory of the country, the pathetic
feature being Mrs Hatch's devotion to
her son. Mattox was convicted in the
federal court art Wichita in September,
1891, of numbering John Mullins. q
negro, in Oklahoma City on the
night of December II, 1889, and
sentenced to be hanged The case
was appealed to the supreme
court of the United States. which re
versed the Judgment of the lower court
and remanded the case back for new
trial. At the next trial the jury disa-
greed. Another trial was had, at which
MattoX was again convicted. Federal
Judge Williams again sen fenced him
to be hanged, but the case was ap-
pealed TO the United States supreme
court, which affirmed the lower court,
the judges standing to 3 against the
| boy. Through the intercession of his
| mother President Cleveland committed
| the sentence to life Imprisonment
Mrs Hatch never relaxed her effor S
to free her boy, and her estate, valued
at $40, 900. was long since exhausted in
| his behalf.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20
Inclnerated while A,one.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. i6.-Mrs.
Margaret Davidson, a widow. 70 years
old, who lived alone in a little house
in 1.-The patch" was burned to death
at three o'clock Saturday morning
The cause of the fire is unknown. Mrs
Davidson was one of the best-known
residents of that vicinity. She was
the mother-in-law of Michael Tuite
better known as wide Awake" the
street railway fiagman at the junction.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-01-20
SATURDAYS CONGRESS.

The Army Approximation Bill Considered
and EuIogies Pronounced on the Late Mr.
Miiiiken-
WASHINGTON, Jan. &C. On motion of
Mr.. Lanham the house passed bill
authorizing the president to appoint
an additional district judge for the
northern district of Texas. 1t was ex-
planned that Judge Rector, now the
Judge of the district. was utterly in
capacitated for performing the duties
Of the office. The house went into
committee of the whole on the army
appropriation bill. This was consid-
cred until two o'clock. when the deliv-
cry of eulogies on the late Represent
alive Milliken, of Maine, was begun.