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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
NINE BANKS IN ONE.
Consolidation Plan in Boston Meets
With Some Opposition.

Boston, Oct. S.-Surmises to date upon
the startling bank consolidation plan es-
project will be bitterly fought by at least
four of the nine banks marked for obHter-
National the Boston National and per-
haps the Columbian. But two plans seem
itself thus depriving Kidder, Peabody &
Co. Of their commission IN the transs3ction'
whether by this means or that originally
proposed. new bank shall be formed
from each old bank or a combination of
them, using as a nucleus the old deposit
ors Neither plan. it will be seen, defeats
The proiect of the savings banks. which is
to close out the business of the nine banks,
buf these plans and others which may de-
veIop seem likely to give the humiliation
enterprise the hardest kind of row to
hoe TO carry out the first named, of
course. the votes of the stockholders are
necessary; and as a majority of the stock
Within these banks is presumed to be
the savings banks see a chance to save
money without jeopardizing their original
Following the outspoken statement of
Director Luke, who is not largely inter
ested in point of money, in the banking
the greatest freedom, the talk of the day
naturally centers about the opposition to
the consolidation enterprise, TOT when zen
there have been more spokesman than Tor
the project itself. This is, OF course, 10
be expected, s the savings banks having
stated their plan leave it to public dis
cussfon, in which they do not necessarily
The talk of the street today, noting the
force of the protests made by some OF the
nine banks, directs itself in a measure 10
the proposed cOnsOlidat ted new bank. 1t
is evident that the officials of some OF
the banks which are extinguished will not
be able if they are willing, to turn over
to the new bank any large proportion OF
the business which might come from their
own, and the struggle for the possession e4
of this business will be one of the most
Interesting later features of the change.
One of the directors of the National Bank
of North America is quoted as saying that
should that bank start a new bank i'm
mediately after the liquidation takes place
he has no doubt that the bank founded
upon the ruins of the old one would
easily get nine-tenths of the old ones
The Revere National. the Market Ma
tional and the Boston National all held
directors meetings today, but the Boston
National did not have a quorum, and not
one of the others took any action. It is
not, indeed. likely that any directors meet
ings to be held at present will be pro-
ductive of any new, ddevelqpme1pl l as there
of the affected banks can do. Such is
the unanimous statement OF their otncers,
and such seems to be the apparent fact.
It is stated today that the principal
of the syndicate to which viii be
entrusted the task of liquidation are Kid
der. Peabody & Co, Curtis & Motley, Es-
tabrook & Co. and R. L. Day & Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
FLOWER INA COMBINE.
New York's Ex-Governor INDUCES in
Some Speculations.

New York, Oct Sin spite of the
forced reticence of the youthful incor-
porators of the New York Gas and
Electric Light, Heat, and Power com
pany, which, since it was incorporated
at Albany on Monday, with a capital
of S25, 900 600, has puzzled and mystified
Wall street. it became known today
that the corporation is promoted by ex-
Governor Roswell P. Flower and A. N.
Brady, that the directors are clerks in
the employ of these capitalists, and that
the purpose of the company includes
gigantic scheme for uniting all the
electric lighting companies in Brooklyn
and New York, and afterward a con-
soIidation of the gas companies on both
sides of the river.
The first steps looking towards the
contamination of such a bold enter
prise were taken some time ago, but
only recently developed, when it was
announced that the Kings County Elec-
trio Light and Power company had ia
ken over the Edison Illuminating Co. of
Brooklyn. This practically put the con-
troll of the electric lighting business in
the hands of few men, prominent
among whom are Mr.. Flower and Mr..
Brady.
There has been talk all along that the
Metropolitan Street railway is in some
manner connected with this new cor
poration, and this theory is daily gain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08

ing supporters. The officials of the trac-
ton company have repeatedly denied
the persistent rumors to the effect that
the cOnduits that are being laid along
the line of the cable tracks on Sixth
avenue and Broadway are to be utilized
for the purposes of the combine. They
say that the conduits are a necessary
part of their own scheme of under
ground trolley service.
In connection with the charge that
the Traction company is laying con
Quits for purposes which it's franchise
in the Evening Sun of today is of inter
est. Coming from the Sun, which is not
in the habit of attacking corporations
unfortunately, it may be seen how
gigantic is the scheme and how cum
ming are the methods, provided the sup
posed purpose be the true one. The
editorial says:
THE air is full of clamor about fran
chiSes that are given away for nothing,
and for the most part it is the clamOr
of yellow demagOgues.
This does not preclude our being
much interested in the manner in which
a franchise is at this moment being ac-
CURED on Broadway. Never have we
seen within this municipality any piece
of engineering work that was executed
with such feVerish haste
Men are working under unprecedent-
ed pressure night and day to put under
ground alongside the cable car tracks
the most extensive and important sys-
tenn of electrical cOnduftS that was ever
laid in this country or any other. It
implies upon it's face an electrical fran
chise of colossal Importance, a right o
distribute merchantabIe current for
light and power that must inevitably
prove to be worth millions.
Whence is this franchise derived?
Who is giving it away? Has no man a
word s. V2''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
LEAVENWORTH'S GROAN.
Nothing That is Done at Topeka Ever
Suits Leavenworth.

TF'rom the Leavenworth StandasrSd- l.,
IseavenWorth Turner'S who attended me
state fest at Topeka say there was no re-
ception committee at the train TO dlIect
them to the grounds, which they had 70
ind the best way they. could, and mem n
hers who were not fortunate enough 10
have their badges with them were COM
PEELED to pay an admission fee They say
The Topeka members were lacking IN that
hospitality for which the society Is. noted
and only played the host with view OF
Getting alf they could out of their guests.
During the afternoon the Lea ay176 5ta
to f5eDend on themselves for amusement,
organized SINGING society; after after TH dgfi
me concert which had been advertised
for Sunday night and which 1s a proIni-
nert feature of the annual Turnfests, was
not given, and this was a great dlsap-
pointment to the visitors
The I.eavenworth Turner'S contrast their
reception at Topeka with that accorded by
them to the visiting delegation at the
funniest held here two years ago, and the
contrast is anything but pleasing f 70 me
among them that it viii be several years
before they vote to hold another annual
meeting at Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
A FAMILY QUARREL
Has an Airing in Justice Guys Court
Today.

Today.
The case Of H. w. Johnson vs.. Mrs.
Wright was tried in Justice Guys court
this morning.
For a long time johnson has been try
ing to secure a divorce from his wife
and they have lived in a manner any
thing but pleasing. The district court
not long ago issued an order restrain
ing Mr.. Johnson from interfering with
his wife. The house has but three rooms
and the Johnson family consists of a
child besides the parents. Mrs. Johnson
decided to have other occupants and
Mrs. Wright and two children took up
their residence there. Mr.. johnson says
he objected to this for five months, all
to no avail, and the case in court was
TO give him possession Of the premises.
Lawyer Sayler was counsel for the de-
tense, and when the daughter of Mrs.
Johnson was put on the stand he
asked:
Did you ever hear your ma or your
pa say anything about Mrs. Wright
paying board?"
Mo-
Miss BERTHE Wright was placed on the
stand and Mr.. Sayler asked her If she
lived with her ma and pa" She said
she did, but she knew nothing about
her ma or her pa" paying rent
Judge Guy decided the case in favor
of Mr.. Johnson and he will have the
renting of the property hereafter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
TAKING A REST.
Peace Commission Has Not Yet
Touched the Philippines.

Paris, Oct9-The sessions of the peace
commissions have adjourned until
Tuesday, October II. The preliminaries
are finished.
The commissions settled upon the
points which are to be taken under con-
sideration, but there is no settled order
in which they are to be considered
Propositions have been exchanged in
writing between the commissions and
each commission, in recess, will sepa-
rately deliberate upon them. Secretary
Moore and Senior Ojeda have decided
upon a plan for keeping the records of
the conference. There are no stenog
raphic minutes of the meeting. The
secretaries each record the proceedings
and the results
If for no other reason than the fact
that the Philippine islands were not
mentioned first in the protocol, it may
be said with assurance that the COM
missions joint sessions have not yet
touched upon the question Of the Phil
ippine islands.
The Liberte, referring to the Indian
outbreak in Minnesota, contrasts edi-
torially the federal treatment of the red
skins and the Spanish treatment Of the
natives of the Philippine islands, ex-
pressing the conviction that any con-
trast must prove unfavorable to the
federal authorities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
JOE WATERS STORY.
An Amusing Tale of Railroad Dam
age Suit.
TFrom the Emporia Republican,

[From the Emporia Republican,
Joe Waters the inimitable and I might
say the illimitable is in town. JOes pres
ence here reminds me of an incident that
occurred some time ago in which he was
the star actor. Some old fellow living in
the southwest part of the state got into
a scrap with a railroad conductor on ac-
count of the irregularity of his ticket. He
lost a portion of his whiSkerS and was
elected from the train. He was 50 griev-
ed over the affair that he engaged Joe
Waters as his attorney to bring suit
against the. road. joe made up his suit
and presented it to Bale Waggener. the
attorney for the Missouri Pacific. Wag-
gener declared that he had never heard of
the case and knew nothing about the af
fair. But Waters pressed him so closely
that a compromise Of $500 was finally
to his. client enclosing half of the, sum re-
ceived, saying that he had settled with
the Missouri Pacific. His client wrote
back that he was satisfied with the amount
received, but it wasn't the Missouri Pa
cific he was riding on, but a branch of
the Southern Kansas. Joe said the road
was guilty on general principles, and never
returned the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08

1--WE tried leaving off coffee, but for
a morning or two the breakfast was
not tempting.
Then Postum Food Coffee was
brought to my notice, and unfortunate
ly, the first morning it was carelessly
made by the cook, and was not at all
satisfactory. 1 determined to look
personally after its preparation, and af-
ter noticing that the directions called
for full fifteen minutes boiling after
boiling had really commenced, I made it
that way. and these were some of the
EXPLANATIONS at the breakfast: Why,
it's far better than coffee!' What AN
exquisite f1avorl' Delicious, delightful
etc.
THE effect of the change on my
health was magical The headaches
and nervousness were gone, and in their
place, peculiar and grateful exhilira-
ton possessed the entire body. was
not the only member of the family that
was benefited by the change. One
member who had suffered seriously with
stomach trOu bic, was relieved entirely
in a very short time.
Perhaps you might be interested to
know that there are several of our
friends who have been greatly helped
by the use Of Postum Mrs. Emma
Mex used to be greatly troubled with
nausea and sick headaches; Miss Addie
Slight was cured of stomach trouble;
Chas. EversOn, formerly suffer- = eat
~ with headaches and n asneSS;
Miss Eliza Smith was great sufferer
from severe bilious attacks. All of
these persons have been relieved of their
difficulties and put in a fine condition by
abandoning coffee (Which evidently was
a poison to each of them) and using the
Postum Food Coffee
Z am convinced that your claim that
Postum furnishes the particles of phOS-
phate of potash and aIbumen necessary
to rebuild the delicate matter in the
nerve centers, is true, for my own expe-
rience and that of my family and
friends, gives every indication of it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
HIGH STANDING
Of the Knights and Ladies of Security
The Reserve Fund Tt Has AL
ready Accumulated.

On the 22d of February. 1892, a new
fraternaI order was chartered by the
state Of Kansas and entered into COM
petition with the older orders in assist
ing to care and provide for the widows
and orphans and build for itself a
standing and influence.
Prohting by the twenty-five years of
fraternal effort and recognizing the
weakness of all orders who made no
provision for permanency except only
to burden their persistent members and
to weight them with assessments which
as they grew older would in many cases
serve to make it impossible for a great
majority of their wage earners to carry
the protection they had provided for
their dependent ones when they no
longer were here to assist them, the
founder Of the order, Dr.. H. A. Warner
of Topeka, devised a reserve fund plan
to equalize the payments of all the
members SO that the person dying either
the first or the fftieth year would con-
tribute an equal amount to a fund
which with the passing of the years
would aggregate a sum the interest of
which could be used in assisting in pay
ment of claims when the maximum
death rate, which is sooner or later
reached by all companies, should come
to it.
The Knights and Ladies of Security
have now been successfully conducting
business for over six years and have
elsa blished councils in fourteen states
and have issued nearly 5000 certificates
in 1898. The reserve from which so
much was hoped has been gradually
accommodating until it now exceeds the
sum of $3.50 and with increasing
time will prove that the hopes of its
founder to secure perpetuity was well
founded and the plan will secure the
end desired. Five councils are actively
engaged in work in Topeka and have
enrolled among its 1900 members
large majority of the best business men
of the city.
The society has a we'll located and
pleasantly furnished Office in the Stor-
mont building, 107 West Sixth street,
and the officers are always pleased to
receive visitors and explain the plans
of the order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
NEEDS OUR PRODUCTS.
France Does Not Have Modern
Barber Chairs.


Washington. Oct. S.-ConsuI Brundt at
st. Etienne, France, has sent to the sta
department an interesting report, in which
he takes issue with those commercial
theorists who say the older countries OF
Europe must be considered as closed ter
ritory for the United States. He says:
LAS long as farming in France is carried
on with wooden ploWS and OK carts. MADE
after the style of Caesars time there n Is
ditching machines are needed mere me
more toward relieving the agricultural de-
preston than will government subsidies.
can light road vehicles should not be pre-
ferred to the weighty carriages now in use
it IS not apparent The French Two
hitched tandem, is so heavy that the full
strength of one animal IS required to sup
port the ponderous shafts and to steady
the ungainly vehicle. The other must
draw the load alone. the waste of power
being evident. Were it not for the
cellence of the almost level roads such
means of transportation would be lmprac-
Wooden shoes are the usual footwear in
the interior of France and are not an eN-
ceptiOn even in the towns.
BARRIERS chairs. if introduced, would be
the cause OF bringing down DRESSINGS. upon
shades might succeed in replacing the
present suffocating tapestry hangings, es-
peclaIly among unpretenuous household
ers.
american brick machinery should be
able to supersede old hand methods here
as elsewhere. File cutting and bolt ma
chimes might also be considered favorably
hardware is another subject that deserves
attention. The pOnderOus and insecure
door and other locks in universal use,
even in new buildings, would be museum
curiosities in America; they are a perpet.
ual nuisance The writer bunch OF
keys, five in number, necessarily carried
about all the time, weighs trif1e more
''There are but two elevators in the city.
and one of these is more than out of date.
tory and dwelling flats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
FIRE AND WATER
Cause the Death of $50 Chinese Pill
erims.

Seattle Wash, Oct. S-The Nippon W.
sen Kaisha steamer Yamaguchi Maru has
arrived with the largest cargo of Oriental
goods ever brought to this port. She left
Yokohama September q and brings inn
pOrtant Oriental news up to that date.
Nearly $50 Chinese were drowned like
rats in a. trap on September by the over
turning of a crowded Canton passage boat
in East river. The Chinese were pill
grims returning from the shrine of Kung
Glue Shul, and had been frightened away
by a small fire, which they considered q
bad omen. Nearly all were crowded in
the hold of the vessel which was blown
over by a squan without warning. The
Canton Benevolent society sent a boat to
the scene of the disaster and cut open the
hold, out of which the bodies were taken.
The American bark Comet was totally
wrecked on PAX Sa point and four Of her
Chinese crew drowned 1t was at first be-
lieved Captain and Mrs. BrOadhurst had
persisted with them, but news reached Y0-
kohama shortly before the Yamagucht
sailed that they were alive: The steamer
Hailong saved fourteen of the crew
The North China Daily News asks
Great Britain to call a conference of the
powers to persuade them to leave China
alone for the next ten years jointly Civ
ing such assistance as is needed to pre-
serve internal order. 1t proposes that
China select foreigners to reorganize her
army and navy, finances and public works
Nearly sixty japanese insurance COM
D MES are expected to fall at any time on
az count of the close money market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
THE HUMAN HEAD LIVES
Three Hours After Being Severed
From the Body.

London, Oct. S.-The Medical Journal
publishes the report of DR.. Cinel Of
Paris, asserts that guillotining does
not Immediately affect the brain. The
French doctor says the blood first comes
from the larger vessels of the neck and
that there is hardly any drain upon the
circulation in the Uranium. The brain.
he adds, finds nourishment for an hour
after decapitation during which time
the person decapitated retains his, or
her senses of hearing, smelling and see
ing.
Absolute death, Dr. CineI claims,
does not ensue for three hours Thus
it is pointed out, guillotining instead Of
being speedy, is one of the most pro-
longed and horrible forms Of capital
punishment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
A HIGH RANK.
Topeka's o. g. MarshaPs Office Stands
Well With the Department.

Colonel Montjoy and General Pavey,
of justice, recently spent ten days in To-
peka, examining the accounts and affairs
of the United States marShaIS office and
transacting other business in Topeka
United States Marshal Sterne is very much
pleased with the report these examiners
made concerning his office. They not
only declared that it was beyond criti-
cisn. but stated that Mr.. Sterne had made
a number of reforms in the conduct of the
office which ought to be followed in every
try.
They even went so far as to declare this
office the most satisfactory one in the
United States. so far as their examination
was concerned. They especially COM
mended the system of keeping each fund
by itself and the issuance of checks ac-
cOrdingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
BIG ELECTRIC DEAL.
Northern Ohio Cities to Be Joined to
Cleveland by Trolley Roads.

Cleveland, O., Oct. S-A special from
Sandusky, O., says: There is a big deal
on foot here by which a syndicate of New
York capitalists expect to purchase the
Sandusky, Milan and Norwalk electric
railway and the Peoples City line The
transaction is said to be the first step in
a scheme TO build electric railways con
Meeting a large number of northern Ohio
cities and towns with Cleveland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
BREAKS UPAS SCHOOL.
Yellow Fever Drives Students and
Faculty to St Lonis

st. Louis, Oct S.-The faculty and
students of the Mississippi Agricultural
and Mechanical college, located at
Starkville, have arrived in St. Louis.
They are yellow fever refugees and viii
remain in this city until frost puts a
stop to the ravages of the fever. The
president of the college is General
Stephen D. lee, a cousin OF General
Fitzhugh Lee.
No effort will be made to carry on
the school in st. Louis, at least not for
the present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
How 1t Looks in the Northwest.

NJ. McKenna of the secretary of states
office. has returned from his home at
PIainville. where he went a week ago on
account of sickness. He is still quite sick,
but is at his desk again. 80 far as I
can see'' he says, ''ROoks county will roll
up the same old Populist majority. I am
positive that Mccormick will be reelected
in the Sixth district. Reeder isn't in it
fact, he isn't in anything except the bank
ing business"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
UNITED STATES STEPS IN
And Stops Delegoa Bay Negotiations
Until Next Year.

London, Oct. S.-A dispatch to the
Pail Mall Gazette from Lisbon says the
Delagoa Bay negotiations have been
deferred until 1899, owing to the United
States insisting upon POrtugaPs strict
observance of the agreement that Meth
er the railroad, the harbor, nor public
lands at Lorenza. be alienated until the
Berne award is completed.
The United States is interested in
these proceedings on account of the
estate of the late Col McMurdo, an
American being involved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
FIRE At ATLANTIC CITY
estroys Twenty Bulldings-Loss
100000.

Atlantic City, N J., Oct. Sire
which originated in Ripple & McCann's
bath house on the beach front between
Tennessee and South Carolina avenues
early this morning, destroyed twenty
buildings and caused loss Of over
500, OOO Aid was asked from Camden
and the fire is under control.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
go WAR SHIPS

Are Now IN Course Of CONSTRUCTION
for the British Navy.
London. Oct s-The British ship
builders have broken the record this
year with 598 merchant vessels, of l.
364, $50 tons, under construction on
September 80, being 351. 600 tons above
the previous best record, while 90 war
ships of 376. 435 tons are also building.
Great Britain's maritime supremacy is
shown by the fact that 49S out of the
59S merchant ships are being construct
ed for British owners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
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