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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16
KHALIFA'S FORCES UNITE.
Mahmoud Pasha and Osman Digna
Moving Down the Nile.

Cairo. March 16.-Reports have reached
Berber. the southern base of the Anglo
Egyptian expedition in the SOudan that
MahmOud Pasha and Osman Digna. the
principal generals of the khalifa. have
advanced thirty miles uOrthWard along
the Nile from Shendy with their united
forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16
SIX HUNDRED
CONTINUED from First Page.I

graphic orders from Washington to
leave at once for San Francisco to take
command OF the battleship Oregon. The
orders were to use the utmost despatch
and Captain Clark will leave for San
Francisco tomorrow morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16

Is Photos and a Csc Photo button Of
yourself, all for 25c, III West 9Th, this
month only
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16
sPANIARDs DESERT.
They Were Sailors on the q. s. War
ships at Lisbon.

Madrid. March 16--A dispatch to the
impartial from Lisbon says that a score
Of sailors deserted from the United states
Warships while they were there. The dis
patch adds that the deserters are nearly
ali Spaniards
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16
KEEPING IT QUIET.
Fortifcations Board is in Secret Ses-
sion.

Washington. March 16.-The FORTH
cations board has begun its sessions in
the war department. The proceedings
are guarded zealously against pubHca-
ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-16
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west Come and try
Il J W. PHILLIPS
612 West Eighth St.
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Your Photo in % posings, less than
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NORTH TOPEKA.

Items intended for this column should
be left at the FSimban Pig. Co., before 10
O'Clock in the morning.
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Continued on Sixth Page.l
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

ACTION has been taken in Portland,
Ore. looking to a union of all the free
silver forces at the coming state cleo
ton in June. The state central COM
mittee of the democrats and the free
silver republicans decided to hold state
conventions in that city on March %,
and it is understood that the populists
and the union party will also call their
state conventions in that city for the
same date.
THE Norton line steamer Miramer,
which arrived at New York, on the
9th, from the River Plata and Brazi
ports, brought three packages of yell
low fever serum, forwarded by DIR. j..
Saranelli, of the Institute de Hygiene
Experimentale, at Montevideo. Two
packages were addressed to Surgeon
General Wyman of the Marine Hospi-
tai service. and the other to Health
Officer A. Ii. Doty.
II is the general opinion of the seal
ing men in Victoria, b. c., that there
will be no pelagic scaling in the Behr-
ing sea during the coming season.
Only one schooner, the Director, Will
go to the Japanese coast. All the seal
ing there is done will be carried on
along the California, Oregon, Wash
ington and British Columbia coasts.
The steamer Lamberts Point, Capt.
Humphreys, which had been lying at
St. Johns, n. F., for some days with
her cotton cargo on fire, sailed for Liv-
erpool. ON the 9th, with the deck load
of cotton still afire. The crew refused
to sail in her until compelled by the
police. If the fire became serious it
was intended to jettison the cotton.
The Creek council. in spite of the
message of Secretary Bliss, through
Indian Agent Wisdom, warning them
not to do SO, has passed an act appro-
priating so. 900 to be used in employ
ing attorneys to fight the constitution
atty of the act of congress giving the
United States courts full jurisdiction
after January l.
The weekly statement of the asso =
ciated banks of New York city for the
week ended on the Sth showed the fol-
lowing changes: Surplus reserve, in
crease, Sc, 475, S25; loans, increase, 81, 955-
500: specie, increase, 81, S57, 800; legal ten
ders, increase, ST,250, 100; deposits, in
crease. $40, 52S, 800; circulation, increase,
S64, 700.
A DISPATCH from Cairo, Egypt, on
the 9th, said: The Deryishes continue
massfBg their forces at Metemmeh
and Shendy. between eighty and
ninety miles below Khartoum and
Omdurman; and there is great activity
at Omdurman, with forwarding OF
supplies at that point"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
NEWS AND NOTES.
a Summary of Important Events.
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

IN the senate, on the 5th, the presentation of
replies of the members of the cabinet to the
resolution calling for information as to the ap-
plication Of the civil service law to the various
departments of the government, together with
the consideration of the bill establishing a
bureau for the twelfth census precipitated a
sharp civil service debate. which occupied al
most the entire days session - In the house a
debate on the civil service, based on the item in
the legislative, executive and judicial apprO-
priation bill for the maintenance OF the COM
mission, was begun and gave promise of continu-
ing for several days.
In the senate, on the 9th, NO business was
transacted beyond the passage of a few bills,
among them two pI oviding for the erection of
public buildings at Fergus Falls, Mimi, and
Newport News, Va , and a measure to protect
the name and insignia of the Red Cross society
In the house the discussion of the civil SER
vice law was continued, and several exhaustive
speeches were made on both sides of the ques-
ton. crowded galleries indicating the great pub
lie interest taken in the matter.
In the senate, on the 9TH, the reply of the at
torney general to the senate resolution calling
the senate what, If any, changes should be
made in the administration OF the civil service
law, was read. Objection was made that these
reports should be made to the president. In
the house the civil service debate was taken up
and continued throughout the day. All efforts
to fix term for its termination failed The
debate, which was participated in by sew
eral members, was without marked incident
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
MYSTERIOUS MURDER.

The Police of Little Rock Have haE0
Nut to Crack-The Recent Murder OF ~
A. HudIow-The Victim was Found IN AN
Empty Freight Car in the Iron NOUN
tain Yards, and Died without RegaininS
consciousness.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, Jan. Sine po-
lice are investigating one OF the most
mysterious murders that has come 10
light here in recentyears. Wednesday
night a well dressed white man OF
middle age was found in an unconscious
condition in empty freight car in the
Iron Mountain yards in North Little
Rock. The man was taken
to the hospitable, but never re-
gained consciousness, dying Thursday
morning. From papers in his posses
sion it was learned that his name was
L. A. ludlow. 1t was at first sup
posed that ludlow had been beaten
into insensibility at some other point
and thrown into the empty car ana
brought here. 1t now develops
that ludlow was at some time with
in the past few days passen-
ger on an Iron Mountain train. A con-
ductor's ticket marker was found In MS
hat, but where he came from ana
where he was going is not known. AT
the inquest it was discovered that Hud-
lows inside vest pocket had been
freshly torn open, indicating that he
was murdered for his money. Where
the crime was committed is problem
that the police are unable to solve.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
A Terrible Deed.

G. Fl. Brown, a farm hand, was
robbed and his head split open with
an ak near Columbia the other night.
Brown had just received $50, and took it to
his home, a secluded cabin in the suburbs,
mile from the nearest residence. At eight
O'Clock two brothers by the of Gordon,
who lived in that neighborhood, called at the
house, it is alleged, and when Brown opened
the door they attacked him with axes one
stroke splitting his head. The money was
secured and the robbers fed accompanied
by Brown s wife, who was evidently in the con-
Spiracy to rob her husband Brown with his
brains exposed, dragged himself for over mile
to the house of his father, Alfred Brown. He
started on his frightful journey shortly after
eight o'clock, but it after midnight when
he reached his fathers door, and had just
strength enough to arouse the inmates, when he
sank SenseleSs at the threshold
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
RETURNED KLoNDIKERs.
Late News from Dawson OF a Rather
Encouraging Character.

Late News from Dawson OF Rather
Encouraging Character.
SEATTLE, Wash, Jan. S.-Forty-fve
Klondikers arrived here yesterday on
the steamer City of Seattle, bringing
advices from Dawson up to December
z. J. NJ. Kepner, John Burke and
French Curley" De Lorge, left Daw-
on on that date and came through in
record-malSing time, reaching Seattle
exactly one month after their start.
1--WE passed between 200 and 500
men on our way out" said Mr.. KEEP
ner. Parties will be coming in every
day now. The situation at Dawson is.
practically unchanged. The food sup
ply is better than it was two months
ago on account of the people leaving.
De Lorge, in an interview said:
81 can not say exactly how much
dust was brought out. l think it will
run over 500, 900 and probably reach
$3.50, 900. l know one man who brought
between $40, 900 and $40, 900 in dust. In
drafts there was more money repre-
sented. One man alone has n draft for
Sl00 600 and others know have large
drafts. Perhaps drafts will aggregate
$3.50, 000 There was nothing new in the
way of strikes reported when we left.
Mines opened were being worked and
the output next spring will be big
one."
All the returning Klondikers tell of
their meeting with numerous parties
scattered along the route trying to
push in. Some have dogs, while many
are trying to drag their outfits on
handsleds. All are making very slow
progress. Considerable scurvy is re-
ported at Dawson.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
FOLEY'S ANXIETY.
Desires to Know If a Man Suffers VIII
Hanged.

Desires to Know If a Man Suffers When
Hanged.
Meriman Shelton and James Viles,
former friends of William Foley, SEN
fenced to be hanged at Liberty for the
murder of his mother and sister, called
at the Jail the other day, and he talked
quite freely to them. He is much more
communicative than he has been at
any time since his arrest. Speaking to
Shelton, he said:
"Merriman, noticed in the paper
that you were one of Carr's guards.
How did he stand at the last? Did he
show much DIRE ad of going on the scat
fold?" [Carr, it will be remembered,
was hanged at Liberty for the murder
of his child.
Shelton rel piled: mo, he faced death
rather bravely.
Did he suffer any length of time?'
''No," replied Shelton 1T was done
as quick as if lightning had struck
him."
~ saw one man hanged" said Foley,
land have never wanted to see an
other"
Foley said that if they hanged him
LnGy Will udHR du 4uuOCSuG HAIL. ne
expressed hope that the supreme court
would do something in his favor. He
went on to tell of cases he had heard
of, where men had been hanged on cir
cumstantial evidence, and shat it had
come to light afterward that they were
innocent.
Its too bad, too bad" said Foley,
"that am accused of killing my moth
er, the best friend a man has It is bad
enough to lose ones mother without
being accused of numbering her. I
have patiently waited, hoping that
some light would be thrown on the
mystery and show to the world that /
am innocent, for am innocent. Re-
member that to the last moment will
say that am innocent. It will GER
tainly be found out some day, too,
whether / am dead or alive"
Reports have been circulated that
other arrests are to be made, but off,
GERS have not made any move in the
matter. The talk started from Judge
Broaddus' statement before sentencing
Foley, that he believed more than one
person committed the murder. The
evidence showed that gun and pistol
we're fired at the women before they
could get out of the bed to run to the
other room.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
FOR CUBAN RELIEF.
An Appeal for Contributions In Aid OF tn
Suffering Cubans.

AN appear IOE contributions In Ala or the
Suffering Cubans.
NEW YORK, Jan. &-The Central Gu
ban Relief committee appointed by
President Mckinley, and acting under
directions of the department of state,
has issued an appeal for contributions
in aid of the suffering people of Cuba,
of whom there are estimated to be
100000 in actual danger of death from
starvation. All money and material
contributed will be immediately for
warded to United States Consul GEN
eral Lee in Havana, under whose SUI
pervIsion the distribution will be
made and reach all parts of the is
land. Checks and drafts for Cuban
relief should be made payable
and addressed to Treasurer Central
Cuban Relief Committee, Temple
Court, New York City" The appeal is
signed by Stephen E. Barton, chair
man of the American National Red
Cross; Charles A. Schieren, treasurer of
the chamber of commerce, New York,
and Louis Klopsch, of the Christian
Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

The total receipts into the treasury
from all sources last year amounted to
81, 100, 35, and the total diEburse-
ments for all purposes 81, 094, 947. 81.
The general balance in the treasury,
all the funds, was $577, 463.0 5 on Janu-
airy 1, 1897, and it is $649, 006. 10 on Jan
uary 1, 1898, an increase of 81, $40. Il
for the year.
The last general assembly appropri-
ated from the general revenue fund for
support of the state government, main
tenance and Improvement of the elee
mosynary, educational and penal in
situations, etc. exclusive of state school
moneys), in 1s97-9s sums aggregating
81, 269, 996. SO, and 81, 92O, 1896 30. including
S57, $50 of the balance in the 1886 ap-
preparations, was drawn in 1897. OF the
1886 appropriations S44, 560.21, ''re-
verified to the treasury"
The demands against the general
revenue fund were unusually large in
1897-several hundred thousand dollars
greater than they will be in 1898. A
very large part of the money appro-
priated for repairs and improvements
of public buildings in 1897 and 1898 was
used in 1897, and other large items of
expenditure of last year, such as pay
and contingent expenses of general as
sembly and deficiencies, will not occur
in 1898.
Among the chief disbursements from
the revenue fund in 1897 were:
Pay of General Assembly .............S 79, 206 50
Contingent expenses, General As
Sembly OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 9O,2oO w
Civil officers. 1876 022 O6
Assessing and collecting of revenue. 222 ,079 II
Criminal costs Cncluding deficiency. $4,000 SO
There is a balance of $287, 591.29 in
the appropriation for criminal costs
which may be sufficient to pay the cost
bills presented in 1898.
The receipts into the state interest
fund during the year were 1864, S04. So.
OF that fund S173, SAT 80 was used to pay
interest on the bonded debt, 1856, 600
interest on school certificates, and $62,-
711.96 interest on seminary certificates
The fund commissioners called in and
redeemed $780, 900 of the bonds, leaving
81, 500, 900 of 315-per-cent. option bonds
outstanding.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
MIR. Birds Suit for Damages.

Fred A. Bird has brought suit for
5000 damages against James A. Glov-
er, merchant of Quitman, in the Nod
away county circuit court.
Birds petition charges that an October %
Glover walked up to his chair while he was in
public audience and wickedly and without
cause took hold of the chair and jerked it from
under him, as a result of which he had one of
the bones of his leg broken, and was in great
~ Inundated and mortified state
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
A Merchant Convicted.

In the Pettis county criminal court,
before Judge Longan, jury brought
in a verdict of guilty against Isaac ADJ
kins, for ten years engaged in the mer-
camille business at SedaIia, of burglary
and larceny from the grocery store of
Fred Lange last summer, and fixed his
punishment at five years imprisonment
in the penitentiary. He was released
on bond, pending motion for a new
trial
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
1sittinger Reported BIaokbailed.

A report comes from Montreal, Cam.
that United States Consul-General Bit
finger, of st. Joseph, has been black.
balled by the st. James club. the lead
ing social organization of Montreal.
His predecessors were honored MEM
beers of the club.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
A GRAVE SUSPICION,
Spurious Hundred Dollar Certificates
Printed From Genuine Plates.


Printed From Genuine Plates.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-There is a
grave suspicion that the 500 silver
certificates, the discovery of which has
led to the calling in of the whole issue
of certificates of that denomination,
are not counterfeit, though spurious;
in other words, that they are printed
from genuine plates, though on imita-
ton paper. The story of plates stolen
from the bureau of engraving and
printing is an old one, and has come to
be looked on as stock tale every time
counterfeit is discovered; but in the
present instance the spurious GER
titcates are pronounced by the experts
to have been printed from plates cor
responding in every way to those used
in the bureau.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

]. D. Porter, a wealthy farmer south
of Sweet Springs, Saline county, was
fatally injured while baling hay. His
foot caught in the baler, throwing him
in front of the plunger, which crushed
his legs so badly that it was necessary
to have one of them amputated.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Loved CONN Nails"

Calhoun Calkins, young society
leader of st. Joseph whose mind has
become affected by the use of cigar
cites, escaped a sentence in the peni-
tertiary for burglary and incendiarism
on defense of insanity, due to the use
of cigarettes.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
ouincy-st. Louis Electric Line,

An electric railroad from Quincy. Ill,
to st. Louis, through Pike and Calhoun
counties, is engrossing the attention of
people along the proposed line.
The length of the road would be about 148
miles, and half that distance would be through
a country having no railroad now, and in which
large coal deposits and bed of novaculits are
reported. The road would carry both freight
and passengers, and the estimated cost is from
Sl2, 00O to Sl5, 900 mile.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Shot BY the Doctor.

David Lay, a farmer of the vicinity
of Knobnoster, entered the house of
DR.. o. P. Kernodle and began shoot
ing at the doctor. The doctor returned
the fire, and shot Lay just above the
heart.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
8LACkBALLEO BITTINGER.


Xne united States Consul General Sat
Down Upon by Montreal Club.
MONTREAL, Can, Jan. s.-United
States Consul General Bittinger was
blackllsted, Thursday night, by the
1T. James club. the leading social or
ganization of this city, which numbers
among its members the present and
past governors general of Canada.
prominent Canadians and principal cit
liens OF Montreal. 1t is said that NO
less than so black balls were cast
against the election of the representa-
tive OF the unitad States Rovernment.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

A PARIS correspondent says: mo
lady in Partisan society during the last
decade received so many brilliant off rs
of marriage as the late Mrs. DIR. Aver.
She was constantly proposed to by
princes, dukes, marquises and other
noblemen. She gave largely to char
ity, and liked to encourage struggling
women of talent"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Anti-Brltish Alliance Association

New YORK, Jan. IA meeting of the
Anti-British Alliance association was
held here last night, the object of the
association being to wage war against
any treaty on arbitration that may be
proposed between this country and the
British empire.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Income From Lead and Zinc Laud.

Says an item sent from Joplin few
days ago:
A report received by Hon. John H Taylor,
owner of the Taylor tract of leased mining
lands, will give an idea of the profits which
land owners derive from lead and zinc pros
pecting Prospecting began on the Taylor
tract one mile west of Joplin, the latter
part of December, 1894 For the three years
ending December 81, 1897, this 100-acre tract
prod uced Is, 1850 pounds of zinc. and e85 $40
pounds of lead, which brought S253, 53S and gave
the land owner 49,, liz in royalties. Most of
this ore was produced last year, and only about
one-fortieth of the land has been worked, The
Il Know" and Big s. mines are on this tract.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

holders of the Standard Oil Co., held in
New York, on the 4th, resulted in the
reelection of the old board of direc-
tors, as follows: VIM. Rockefeller, J ohm
D. Rockefeller, H NJ. FIagler, J. b.
Arch bold, I'll. Ii. Rogers, w. II. Tilford,
A. NJ. McGregor, Paul Babcock and c.
n. Pratt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Shot Through the Heart.

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 5.-Willlam Martin.
negro, aged IS. was shot through the
heart and instantly killed at a. M, in
front of his home, 100 South Tenth
street. The murderer, a negro who is
known only by the name of Lloyd.
made his escape.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Recent Deaths,

John Mari, aged about IS, one of the
oldest and weaIthiest citizens of Nell
son, Saline county, at the residence of
L. c. Rainey, in Marshall, of pneu-
monia.
David ]. Edwards, aged 80, BUSH
ness man of Sedalia, of intestinal trou-
BILE.
Mrs. Philipena Baum, Palmyra's old
est resident. She was born in Ger
may in 1903, and resided in Palmyra
since 1885.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

In the Ohio legislature, on the Sd,
the Hanna forces received black eye
in the first round. The anti-Hanna
candidate for speaker in the house was
chosen by a majority of three and the
other house officials by like vote.
The senate was organized by the dem
ocrats, Senator Burke (rep.l, of Cleve-
land, being absent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
Wheat Warehouses Burned.

STOCKTON, Cal. Jan. 5.-Fire, which
broke out about 1910 a M, destroyed
warehouses Nos. B aad s of the Farm
ers' Milling Co.. wit tn about TO- QUO IONS.
of wheat, besides considerable barley
and rye. Loss, $500. 600; well insured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13

An imperial trade issued, on the
4th, directs that the projected contracts
for guns intended for the Turkish navy
shall be given to the Krupps, and that
the contracts for the proposed four new
Turkish ironclads be given to the
Armstrong;, 1t appears doubtful, how
ever, whether either guns or ships will
be ordered in the near future.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-01-13
The Governor His Last Hope.

ST. Louis. Jan. 5.-George Thomp
son, the negro convicted of having
poisoned Joseph Cunningham, sexton
of st. Peters Episcopal church, in Sep
TENDER, 1894, will hang in the Jail yard
Friday morning, if the governor does
not interfere.