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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
TOOK ALL BUT SILVER.
Bank Vault Emptied of $18,-
162 in Gold and Currency.

Lima, O., Dec. 27.-The American Ma
tiona1 bank of this city was robbed last
night of $18 1872. The money was taken
from the big vault. The robbery was
perpetrated in a skillful manner, no
damage being done to the vault. The
bank is located on the corner of Main
and High streets. The money stolen
was in currency and gold. No silver
was taken. The robbery was discover
ed this morning by the banks janitor,
who found the door of the vault open.
A deposit of $4,000 made on Saturday
night was gone.
The directors of the bank held a meet
ing at once at which an assessment was
made to meet the deficiency and other
banks in the city offered assistance.
The manner of entrance to the bank
of the robbers is a mystery as all win
dOws are protected with heavy iron
screens. The front door was found
locked this morning as usual There
was not the slightest cleW for detec-
tiVes to work on. The robbery is the
work of professionals surely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
A CLASH IN HAWAII
Between the Federal Authority
and the Local Judiciary.

San Francisco, Dec. 27.-The steamer
China, from the Orient and Honolulu.
brings the following advices from the
latter place, under date of Dec. 10:
Chief Justice Judd has decided that
Chinese who secured permits previous
10 annexation may land at this port
The question was brought before the
supreme court on a writ Of habeas
corpus. The petitioners were recently
refused a landing by Special Agent
Brown of the treasury department
The decision As long and rec1tes all
the briefs and arguments presented as
well as a number of authorities bearing
upon the case. Referring at length to
the present political anomaly the CHIEF
Justice SAYS: Il feel constrained To
hold that the clause of the resolution
forbidding further Chinese immigration
has virtually repealed the Hawaiian
statutes"
Special Agent J. K Brown expressed
himself today as follows I am an ad-
ninistrative officer; my instructions are
explicit and Imperative. 1ney are Lne
instructions of a department Of the eX-
ecutiVe branch of the government,
Whether those instructions viii be
modified when the decision Is made
known at Washington, cannot tell
But I cannot assume that they viii be.
and until they are shall follow those
1 have
All the Chinese who were discharged
by Chief Justice Judd had authorization
to land issued prior to July s, the day
the COptic brought the news Of annex
alton and, of course, prior to August u.
the day the sovereignty of the Islands
was transferred. It is the opinion OF
those who have given the subject atten-
tion that the decision may not have de-
cided the right of those Chinese to land
whose return permits were issued after
July s, when information Of changed re-
lations was first received. or after
August u, when the authority was
actually transferred.
The supreme court Is engaged In
similar case. Four Chinese who arrived
by the Gaelic sued out a writ of habeas
corpus.
The steamship City OF Columbia ar
rived from Hilo on the 18th Captain
opinion, that she is as good as a total
ers' representative, says that temporary
enable her to go to the coast, where she
can be put in as good condition as when
she left Honolulu.
The day after the steamer arrived she
was attached by the crew for wages
due. In the meantime two additional
attachments have been made by men
who have provided provisions during
the vessels long stay in Hawaiian
waters.
Since last advices two soldiers have
died here. Private Fred James. Of the
Eighteenth infantry, died on the 10Th
He was % years old. Private Clyde
AIinnis, Company 3, Twenty-third an
fantry, died the next day. He arrived
from Manila by the Gambia and was
unable to proceed further.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
YESTERDAYS SENATE SESSION
Twelve Bills Are introduced in the
Senate-Some Local Measures.

The senate held only a brief session
yesterday afternoon but it was long
enough for the introduction of u bills.
Senator Andrews led off with a bill to
amend certain sections of the code of
civil procedure. and he was followed by
Senator FarrelIy. who introduced Bank
Commissioner BreidenthaPs guarantee
fund bill
Senator Ryan introduced two bills
both regarding miners, and Obth of
which have already been introduced in
to the house One takes the control of
the penltentiary mine away from the di-
rectors Of the penitentiary and places it
under the management of the executive
council and abolishes the public sale of
coal from the mine. Senator Ryan's
other blll creates a state society of
mines and mining, and gives it the pow
er to elect the state mine inspector. the
same as the state board of agriculture
now elects its secretary.
Senator Lupfer introduced local meas
ures concerning Kearney and Seward
counties, and Senator Titus introduced
a telegraph bill reducing the rates for a
ten word message to 10 cents and press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
JAMES BOUND OVER
To the District Court For the
Shooting of w. H. Hayes.

The preliminary hearing of Thomas
NJ. James for the shooting of w. H.
Hayes with intent to kill, came up in
Justice Chesney's court this morning.
Vance & Campbell. the attorneys for
James, waived the preliminary hearing
and James was bound over to stand
trial in the district court on a $1,000
bond James and Hayes were both in
court but neither spoke to or recognized
the other. Hayes was looking pale, but
was able to walk. The waving Of the
examination is looked upon by lawyers
as an attempt to allow the case to be
forgotten, and many phophesy that 1t
will never come to trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
SHOOTS IN A HOUSE.
Fort Scott Man Creates Excitement
by a Bombardment.

Fort Scott, Dec. 27.-Char1ey Camp
bell, an ex-jointist of this city and
Pleasanton, today stationed himself
across the street from a house where
his wife has been staying and leisurely
and deliberately fired II pistol shots in
to the house.
The bombardment created a panic in
the house. Campbell stood for Is min
utes firing at intervals into the house
and when the police arrived they would
not approach him, fearing he was crazy.
walked into a saloon where he was ar
rested. His wife fearing he would kill
her, took a train a few minutes later
for Kansas City. The balls all entered
the house, but no one was hurt. Camp
bells wife had left him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
GOLD OUTPUT DOUBLE
That of Last Year in the Klondike
Country.

San Francisco, Dec. PA special
from Dawson City, dated November 29,
says:
Reports from all creeks in the vicinity
of Dawson City indicate that the win
ters product of gold viii exceed that of
last year by more than 100 per cent.
Several persons are reported to have
been frozen to death. One of these was
found in "a kneeling position beside his
sled and dogs between Hunker and
Duncan at the Summit. Several stea M
ers are in winter quarters on the upper
river prepared to take advantage of the
first rush of traffic.
Between Dawson and Circle City.
there are reported the steamers Arnold
and John c. Barr in safe winter quar-
ters, the Monarch is at Circle the Sow
ereign aground in mid-river and certain
of destruction as are also two of the
Moran fleet, the Victoria and the Ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
TO REMOVE THE DEAD.
Bodies of Soldiers Buried at Montauk
to Be Transferred.

New York, Dec. Arrangements were
completed today for disinterring the bodies
of the soldiers who were buried in the i'm
provised cemetery at Camp Wikof, Long
Island Lieutenant William F. Chase of
the Sixth artillery will supervise the work
Forty coffins were shipped today to Mon
tank. 1t was al first thought the bodies
would be removed to the national GENE terry
at Washington, but they will be buried
in the military grounds in Cypress Hill
cemetery in East New York.
At the head of each grave at Montauk
Point was placed bottle in which was
sealed slip of paper with the name
rank, company and regiment, and all par
uculars obtainable concerning the dead.
BY this means there will be no trouble in
Identifying the bodies There are about
20 dead buried in the cemetery at Mon
middle of January to complete the work
of removal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
AGUINALDO HAS FLED.
Fear of Assassination Drives
Him Into Hiding.

Manila, Dec. 27.-It is rumored that
Aguinaldo has fed to an inaccessible re-
gion back of Cavite with a few followers.
fearing assassination The report. how
ever, is denied, but his sudden change OF
base is not explained.
An expedition commanded by General
Miller has left here for IloilO, capital Of
the island OF Panay. The troops consist
ed of the Eighteenth infantry. the Iowa
battalion, the Sixth artillery and detach-
ment of the signal corps. The troops
were shipped on board the transports Ari-
zona, Newport and Pennsylvania The
steamers were conveyed by the United
States cruiser Baltimore and by the Cal
lao.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
BIG BANK FAILURE.
Catlin Brothers of Miltonvale Fail
With Liabilities of $3OO,OOO.

Abilene, Dec. 27.-Word has reached
Abilene that the CatIin Brothers, bank
ers and extensive stock feeders of Mil
tonvale, have failed, with liabilities that
will run from $500, 900 to $500, 900. Their
bank closed its doors Saturday. The
gentlemen have been feeding 5000 head
of cattle and are said to have lost
heavily.
The impossibility of securing extern
sion on matured cattle paper is said to
be responsible for their failure, which
is all straight. 1t is said the failure will
cause heavy loss to several commission
houses of Kansas City through whom
Catlin Brothers fioated much paper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
Rosser's Father Dies.

Bridgeport, Ala, Dec. 27.-Walter
Rosser, Sr., father of the Tennessee
soldier who was recently acquitted for
killing Henry Hilderbrand at San Fran
cisco, is dead at his home in Steven
son, Ala. He had arrived with his son
the day before his death, which is said
to have been caused by grief and ex-
posure- He was division superintendent
of the Nashville, Chattanooga & st.
sO11iS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
HOLDING OFF.
House Committee on Rules Doesn't
Want to Report Yet

The house committee on rules this morn
ing asked to be given till Thursday to
make its report. 1t is said that the de-
lay is occasioned because the Populists are
fearful about Springing the report until
they have their full strength present and
until their fighting men are in trim. The
Republicans will oppose the report the
ground that this house ia the same as the
one of two years ago, inasmuch as the
speaker and the committees are the same
and it took a two-thirds vote to change
the rules then, they argue that the rules
cannot be changed now without the same
sort of a vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
"BAB" IS DEAD.
Mrs. Isabel MalIOn, the Well
Known Writer, is No More.

New York, Dec. 27.-Mrs. Isabel NAL
lon. best known by her noms de plume
of ''Bab" and Ruth Ashmore." died at
her home in this city today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
CASTELAR, PROSTATE.
Distinguished Spanish States
man Has Pulmonary Catarrh.

Madrid, Dec. 27.-Emilio CASTELAR,. the
distinguished Republican statesman
orator and scholar, is Frustrated with
serious pulmonary catarrh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
Indians and Sumner Tied

wellington, Dec. 27.-The football
eleven from the ChiIOcco Indian school
played the Sumner county high school
team a tie game here yesterday after
noon, neither side scoring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
Tigers 17-Neodesha o.

Arkansas City, Dec. c.27.-Arkansas City
Tigers defeated Neodesha at football
yesterday in this city, by a score Of II
to 0. A good crowd was in attendance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27
Afternoon Session.

At o'clock this afternoon after going
no farther in the regular order of business
than the Introduction of original motions
and resolutions. the senate adjourned on
motion OF senator Young. The adjourn
ment was taken to allow the PODulfst
members of the senate to participate i'm
the house caucus called for this afternoon
the railroad bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-27

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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
GREAT MOTHER LODE.

News OF Its Discovery is Practically Com
hrned-LateA dvices BrouR Int Down b.
the Corona-The Permanency of the
KIondiks Gold Field Assured-The ID
Swede's" Big Nugget-Clean-Up of the
Winters Work Estimated at B15, 900
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. 19.-The news
brought by the treasure-laden miners
who have arrived from the Klondike
on the steamer Corona is important
chiefly in that it is confirmatory of the
discovery of the great mother lode.
WEIGH, Coffin and Burt are authority
for the statement that the original
strike was made at the upper end of
Claim No. 80, Eldorado. while
two stringers, one at No.
81 and another yet lower. down,
were subsequently located. Through
out the district the discovery is accept
ed as assurance of the permanency of
of the district as a rich gold mining
field. As to their placer diggings, they
continue rich. Powder creek, an af-
fluent of Quartz creek, has been hav-
ing a boom, pans of 1915 and 81 being
q common thing. OF course the stream
was located as oon as the first discOv-
cry was made. All Gold creek shows
pans of $40 to 500.
One of the first men to stake ground
on EldOrado, and the very last man out
of the kIondike country, is Andrew
Olsen, known us the Big Swede." lie
is notable as being the owner of the
claim Oh which the biggest Klondike
nugget has yet been found. The lump
of gold was valued at $3.50.
Replying to arequest for an estimate
of the winters gold dust output of the
camp, Joe Campbell, one of the return
ing miners, said: 1--WE have done II
great deal OF figuring on that, and it
now appears hat the output, notwith-
standing the scarcity of food and
light, will be from Sl2, 900, 600 to SIS
OOO ono
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
MEDALS OF HONOR.
In What Manner and to Whom They Are
Bestowed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. BIN view of nu-
merous inquiries received at the war
department in relation to the bestOwal
of the congressional medal of honor to
veterans of the civil war, the publica-
ton of the following extract from the
regulations pertaining thereto is au-
thoriZed:
/. In order that the Congressional Medal Of
Honor may be deserved service must have been
performed in action OF such 4 conspicuous char.
acter as to clearly distinguish the man for gall
lantry and intrepiditV above dis comrades
service that involved extreme jeopardy OF
life or the performance Of extraordi-
nary hazardous duty. Recommendations
for the decoration will be judged by
this standard of extraordinary merit. and
incontestible prosf of performance OF the
service will he eXaCted.
2. Soldiers Of the Union have ever displayed
bravery in battle, else victories could not have
been gained; but as courage and self-Sacnfice
are the characteristics of every true soldier,
such q badge Of distinction as the Congression-
al Medal is not to be expected as the reward OF
conduct that does not clearly distinguish the
soldier above other men. whose bravery and
gallantry have been proved in battle.
3 Recommendation for medals on account
Of services rendered in the volunteer army dur
ing the late war, and in the regular army pre-
vious to January l. 1890. will, IL practicable, be
submitted by some per on other than the pro-
posed recipient, one who is personally familiar
with all the facts and circumstances claimed as
justifying the award, but the application may
be made by the one claiming to have earned
the decoration. in which case it will be in the
form Of a deposition. reciting a narrative de-
scription OF the distinguished service per-
formed. II official records are relied on as evil
dence proving the personal service, the reports
Of the action must be submitted or cited; but il
these records are lacking the testimony must
embrace that OF one or more eyewitnesses, who.
under oath, describe specifically the act or acts
they saw, wherein the person recommended or
applying clearly distinguished himself above
his fellows for most distinguished gallantry in
action.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
THE ROYAL BeGGAR,

Despairing of Getting q Grant from the
United States Senate, She is Urged to APP
ply to the Hawaiian Legislature.
HONOLULU, via San Francisco, Jan.
T6.-It is currently rumored here that
j. o. Carter, who left here on the 9TH
inst. ostensibly for the purpose of as
sisting the anti-annexatiOnIsts in WASH
ington in their fight, carried a sub
stantial letter of credit which was to
be used in d~efraying the expenses of
the Hawaiian commissioners, who are
said to be in financial difficulties in the
American capital. 1t is also said that
Mr.. Carter. who has great influence
with the ex-queen, will attempt to con-
vince Liliuokalaui that she is merely
wasting time by remaining in the east,
and that she could do more good for
the cause she has espoused by return
ing home while the Hawaiian legisla-
ture is in session.
The royalists having reached the con-
clusion that the United States senate
will do nothing for the eX-queen in a
financial way, are of the opinion hat
her best move would be to make an eff
fort to induce the Hawaiian legislature
to grant her a pension.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
~SATURNALIA REIGNED.
Riotous Scenes in the Tivoli Vaux
Hall, Paris.
Students and Anarchists Contend-Fres
Fighting All Over the HaII-The AM
Archists Thrust Out, but Return aud
Capture the Meeting.

PARIS, JAN JS.-A great antl-Drey-
fus and anti.Semite meeting last night
at the Tivoli Vaux hall produced ex-
t~raordinary Genes The neighborhood
was paraded by police, mounted and on
foot, and the rapidly-growing crowd
increased the excitement.
At nine o'clock, on the opening Of
the meeting, the hall was a seething
sea of humanity, crowding every part,
ge~sticulating, shouting "A bas lola"
''Vive lie armee" and ''Vive la ~revolu-
ton sociale." The members of the
anti-semite committee displayed BAN
ners bearing the inscription, Death
to the Jews" and other inscriptions.
II was soon seen that the 5000 present
consisted largely of anarchists and
others bent on opposing the students.
On NJ. Guerin, the president, propOs-
ing that the honorary presidency be
conferred upon NJ. RochefOrt and NJ.
Drumont, a great uproar ensued, the
anarchists trying to wrench the BAN
nerS from the anti-Semites. Scu flies
took place in which two of the officials
were injured.
NJ. Thiebaud delivered an address
d%enouncing the Jews and urging the
meeting to support the government.
TumuIts and fights for the banners
continued, with shouting, whistlings
and singing of the 'Marseillaise" and
the 'tCarmagnole," while NJ. Tniebaud
proceeded in a violent speech, declar-
ing that the Drsyfus scandal was the
commencement of a social revolution
by a ''band of scoundrels desiring to
overthrow everything in order to raise
a traitor"
The scene nov became q s~aturnalia.
The anarchists removed the iron stair
case giving access to the tribune, SO
hat the committee was unable to de-
scend. Free fights began around the
flags. Finally the students chased the
anarchists out of the hall. The organ
izers of the meeting hen seized the
flags decorating the hall and arranged
a rendezvous at the military club, cry
ing "Vive parmee."
The hall partially emptIed, but soon
h anarchists returned, and, breaking
open the great doors, began further
fighting. 1t is alleged hat several
were injured. Finally the students
were vanquished and the anarchists
were masters of the situation. The
meeting broke up and the anarchists
replaced the ladder and invaded the
tribune, led by NJ. Curtois, tiourishing
a red flag, and all shouting ''Conspuez
R~ocheport" Spit upon Rochefort), and
Long live lola"
The disturbances continued, the an
archists declaiming from the tribune
against the army and acclaiming Drey-
fus. Some of the injured people were
carried out with their faces covered
with blood.
The interest was now transferred to
h streets, where the police had been
reinforced by the republican guards.
At ten o'clock large bodies of STU
dents, fiourishing the tri-color and
shouting "Vive rarmee,' proceeded in
the direction of the military club IN
the Avenue de L'Opera.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
STOCK GROWERS BARBECUE.
The Affair of the Kink Last at Which Wild
Game VIII BE Served.

DENVER, COL, Jan. 19.-The COM
mittee of arrangements for the Ma
tional Stock Growers convention, at
Its meeting yesterday, adopted the re-
port of the committee having in charge
all preparations for the barbecue on
the night of the 9th. The feast will
be historic for the reason hat it will
be the last in America, where wild
buffalo, bear, elk and antelope will be
served. The menu will consist of
eight beeves, four buffalo, six elk, ten
antelope, four bears, 40 sheep, 200
Opossums, 10 barrels of pickles, half a
ton of cheese, 40 barrels of sweet pota-
toes, 5000 loaves of bread and 400
kegs of beer.
w. p. Anderson, of the Union stock
yards, who represented the Denver
Stock Growers association It the an
uual meeting of stockmen at st. Paul
and secured the appointment of a large
delegation to this meeting from that
city, was present and reported that
large delegations would be in Denver
next week from Chicago, st. Paul, st.
Louis and Kansas City.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1898-01-22
SUICIDE AND INSURANCE.
Important Decision by the United States
supreme Court


WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Justice Har-
Ian, in the United States supreme
court, handed down an opinion in the
case Of A. Howard Ritter, executor of
William NJ. Runk, VS.. the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. of New York, involving
the question of whether the heirs of a
man who commits suicide, when in
sound mind, can recover an insurance
policy. The court held that they could
not.
1t appears from the facts thai Mr..
Runk. a resident of Philadelphia, COM
mitted suicide within less than a year
after increasing his insurance to the
extent of $500, 600, making an aggre-
gate insurance of $500, 900 upon his life.
OF the 500, 900 the New York company
carried SO. 900, which it refused to pay
on the ground that Runk was anc
when he took his life. 1t was shown
in the +sial court that he had written
q letter, the day before his death, stat
ing that it was his purpose to put an
end to his life SO his life insurance
money could be collected for the pay
ment of his debts.
In deciding the case Justice Harlan
said that, when an insurance company
entered into Il contract to insure IA
mans life, neither party to the con-
tract could be supposed to have suicide
in contemplation, and it was not in
tended in entering into such 4 con
tract, that the life of the person in
sured should be at the option of either
of the parties. In fixing the premium
the company would naturally take
into consideration the circun-
stances bearing upon the duration
of life, and no company would I'M
dertake to insure against suicide. If
any should make such an attempt, it
would, he said, be against public policy
and would not be allowed. Conclud-
ing, he said explicitly that no insured
person, committing suicide and found
to be Of sound mind, could recover up
on his policy.