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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-30

Q.-CIose to the window which you
found open2
A.-Yes.
Q.-Find marks or tracks?
Did you see Heartburgs tracks?
Ayes
ODD you examine the bed?
A-YeS.
Q.-When?
AFTER Mr. Collins was removed
and placed on the stretcher.
Odd you find any pistols in the
bed?
Q--Then what did you do?
A--Chief Steele and I looked to see
gun
Q-Rid you find any?
Q.-What kind?
A.-Shotgun shells.
Q--Did you examine the gun?
DOCS this look like it?. said Jetmore
picking up the Collins shotgun.
Ayes.
Q-What was in the gum
A--Two empty shells.
trousers?
A.-NO.
Q.-Were you there when they were
A.-NO.
DID you see John Collins7
A--Yes
A--Standing close to the door in the
hall.
Q.-Doing what?
A.-Talking to some people.
Q.-WhO?
Al do not know.
o.-Was he in his fathers room7
A.-Not while I was there.
Q.-Was he crying?
A.-NO.
Q.-was he nervous? objection by
defense Overruled.)
of e.
Glow long were you there2 s
DID John leave the house2
DID you see Grace?
Ayes.
Q.-Where?
A.-Upstairs in the hall
Q.-Where was the gun when you
first saw it?
A.-Lying in the hall.
Q--What position?
A.-The muzzle was pointed north
west.
MIR. Donovan Gives a Demonstration.
Mr.. Donovan then placed the gun on
the floor of the courtroom as he saw it
on the floor of the hall The top Of the
barrels were towards the north
Odd you find anything in the bed
Ayes, three pieces of wad.
Mr.. Donovan here took the three
pieces of wad from his pocket, and they
were offered in evidence. Objections
of defense were Overruled.
Q.-Where did you find these pieces?
An the bedclothing.
Odd you see the wads taken from
the wounds?
A.-Yes.
GLOW did they compare with these?
A.-Those were bloody and I couldn't
tell.
DID yeu see If these fit the shot
gun shells?
A--NO.
Cross examination by Mr.. Hayden.
Collins mouse
when you first arrived2
A--Eieger and Jenkins
Q--Who did you first see in the house
A--Dr Tefft.
Q--Where was hep
AT the. foot of Collins bed
Q--Who else was there?
AIRS. Collins.
Q--Was Mr.. Collins dead2
o.-Anyone else there?
A-NO, but several persons came In
Q-John was not there?
Ole might have been there7
NO, 1 am positive he was not there.
to his mother in the presence of Miss
May Lange2
A--No, sir.
Q.-Then. if Miss Lange should remem-
taken?
A--Yes.
Q.-When did you examine the closet
Awhile was there between $40
and 7:3O.
The witness then stated that in his
opinion the closet was 6 OF feet long
and or 4 feet wide.
Q--What was in the closet?
A-ShOess EripH and clothing
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NICELY TRAPPED.
Continued from First Psge.O

several years. He has always stood
well in the community and great sur
prise is expressed that he should be
implicated in such a. crime.
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Bound to IVORY.

Josephine hasn't slept for three
nights'
us she in loveP''
"No; they made her treasurer of the
Don't Worry club Detroit Free Press.
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roo LATTE TO CLASSIFY.

TVANTED-Girl for general Homework.
can tomorrow. 220 Klein st.
For SALE-Cheap, good team of ponies,
or viii trade for fresh COW. 627 Lake St
EOR RENT room house, barn, well els
tern fesira BILE, AZ Polk st. Inquire r.
NJ. Hockey, S21 West Fifth St
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at 523 Western ave.
Hacks and livery at all hours; horses
and mules bought and sold Tel 10 W.
T. Lawless.
FOR SALE-Good family horse. Dudley'a
barn, Eighth and Topeka ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-30

Dairymen will consult their interest
by calling on US for feed. Capitol Ele
vatOr, North Topeka
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HOGS-Receipts 2, 600. Market steady @
shade lower. Bulk of sales. So 10lf3-25;
heavies, $3.15GI3. 321a; packers, $3.l0G3-2132;
mixed. S3.05d525; lights, $2.S0Gt3 10; york
ers, $3.1GGL3. Is; pigs, 81. S0Gl405.
SHEEP-Receipts. 5000 Market firm
Lambs $4.20d525: muttOns, S25OQ4-35.
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Kangas civ Llvestock Market.

Kansas City. NOV 30
CATTL E-Reeeipts. 5000. Market steady
to 10c lower. Native steers, $Sa5l0; Texas
steers, SO. 15914 so: Texas cows. seas; native
cows and heifers, S2d405; stockers and
feeders. $2-506I4. 40: bulls, 81. 601355.
REPR ESEfJTATIVE SALES.
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Ranoes of Prices on Stock.

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Co.. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, kan
New York, Nov. 30
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Range of Prices.

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Co, 1I2 East Fifth street. Topeka, Kan.
Chicago, Nov. 30
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
ssHIT THE BULLS EYE.-

The cartoon in the Fridays Raleigh
1t is fine work of art. 1t is true TO
nature. 1t is genuine. Its title is
1.-THE Source of the Governors Inspira-
ton" The portrait Of Russell is
wrought with fine precision and effec-
t%iveness. 1t is faithful unto life. A
little child would know it. He is well
decked too. On his expansive bosom
glitters a pin representing the niger.
His entire coat of Office is literally COW
cred and adorned with innumerable
pictures of negroes-their heads-and
they set him off in fine colors and with
becoming gayety and %splendor of de-
coration. Russell looks more than
ever like he felt he was the state and
was the biggest bow-wow ruler of the
age, even greater than the sycophantiC
Oh. Dockery said lately of his master.
But the source of inspiration" is yet
to be named. Jim Young, niger all
over in his regimentals, has got a lad
der and resting it against the mighty
Goliath of Gas, he has climbed up un-
til he reaches the ear of the Governor,
he grabs it with his left hand, and
speaks to the receptive pondorosity-
DO this-Do that" and of course il
is done at once. On Russell's left
lapel is a big medal, (probably made
Of brass) written upon it-"Negro
Rule" The cartoonist has lone his
best work here and it is decidedly
clever. He chit the bulls eye"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
GENERAL LEE TO GO TO CUBA
An EffOrt Made to Have Him Put In
Command of

Washington, September 3O.-Major
General Fitzhugh Lee was at the war
department today and had a brief in
terview with Secretary Alger.
General Lee says that he will go to
New York tomorrow, visit his son at
West Point, and then return to Wash
ington. If there is no pressure for his
Immediate return to Jacksonville, he
intends to spend a few days in the
Virginia mountains upon the recon-
mendation of his physician. General
Lee has been suffering somewhat from
malaria.
There seems to be no doubt in Off
cial circles that General Lee is sched-
uled to go to Cuba. Some question
has arisen, however, as to the point
in Cuba that he will occupy. Quite
a number of public men, and it is
probable that General Lee himself, will
prefer hat his command go to Ha-
ana. There is some sentiment in the
matter n nan persons have ex-
pressed the hope that as Blanco
marches out, General Lee might march
into the city. A numbe of men in Of
fetal life have already interested them
selves in this subject and r the
president to issue orders for the Oc-
cupation of Cuba with this end in
view.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
ANOTHER SPECIMEN OF DECAD'
ENT POLITICS AND JUSTICE.

All the fun in politics is not in 9TH
err counties. New Hanover is favored
now and then with a show of hands
and the political highland fling is
flung around p~romiscuously and u.s.
tonishingly. Friday last was a fine
day for High links" and dance to
your partner" The black radicals had
their friend and copartner, Judge Rob-
inson, on hand to change at their will
the registrars of their gang that had
been appointed by Colonel JOHN D.
Taylor. They succeeded in part OF
course. That was no doubt understood
in advance and was "a foregone con
clusion." You tickle my back and l
VIII scratch your elbow. A sort of mu
tual admiration affair. II looks as il
some OF the better sort of radicals
were in disfavor with the black gang
and their directors and bosses, the
white-faced contingent that eat tie
most pie and have a death hold on the
great American republican taat. Then
the populists followed a bad example
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and sought to remove the men OF their
party appointed by Colonel Taylor.
The reason why may be guessed. One
Harriss, in bad odor with his broth
ering' in the past as police officer and
a black radical registrar, signed the
petition Of the populists to have the
proposed changes made The judge
was marvellously accommodating and
evidently felt profoundly the great
responsibilities resting Upon him as a
sworn judge. 1t was found not incon-
sistent with the judges high sense of
propriety and fairness to remove E.
II. Dement,, although he protested and
swore he vas a populist. The crime
Of Dement, was he had set up claims
Of being a genuine white man and be-
lieved in white men governing and not
niggers. That was fatal to him, and
the judge who could not brook such
a glazing pretention wiped him on,
and off went his head. A fine field
dav
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

A Prominent Randolph County Repu
Hcan Will Vote the Democratic Tick.
it A The Only Means Of Preventing
Negro Dominasi0n in North Carolina.

hcau Will Vote the Democratic Tick.
fe As the Only Means Of Preventing
Negro Domlnation I'm North Carolina.
(Raleigh News and Observer.)
To the Editor:-I have been a life
long republican and have voted and
worked for the success OF the republi-
can party and its candidates in my ma
tive county-Rondolph; / have, dur
ing the past few weeks, been reading OF
conditions n some sections OF my state,
where negroes were said to be largely
In control Of public affairs, and / have
wondered how these things could be
true. Indeed, like many others Of my
party, l have thought they were cam
paign lies.
finally decided TO investigate for
myself, and l came to Raleigh yester-
day from my home in Randolph coun-
ty. / went first to the white blind in
stitute, and l saw there carved into
the corne stone of the new building
now being constructed, the name Of
James H. Young, the colored politician
of Wake county, as n Of the direc-
tors. / then went inside and asked
TIC super luCChoCuI MI NAY IL A|
would let me see the official report
signed by James H. Young, as one of
the committee on inspection of that
institution. He promptly showed me
the official report signed by James H.
Young himself, and Mr.. Ray told me
that this was the same report which
had been printed in The News and
Observer and other papers.
| also went into the Wake county
court house and saw with my own
eyes a negro man sitting at a desk in
the Office Of the clerk of the superior
court, he, the negro, being a deputy
clerk in that office who was placed
there by the republican clerk Of the
court in Wake county to succeed a
white man. / have seen and heard a
good many things that l never dream
ed really existed in good old North
Carolina / have seen and heard
enough. ] know now that the state
democratic lies are actual facts, and
facts that must make a white man
stop and think. l have stopped and
have thought, and my mind is made
up. 1 cannot and will not longer lend
my aid or any influence that l may
have to the support Or endorsement
of such a condition of affairs in my be-
loved state. The only way that / can
see to prevent this condition of affairs
is to vote the white mans ticket-the
democratic ticket, and this l shall not
only do myself, but 1 shall do all l can
to get others to do the same.
]. D. ALFRED.
Spero, Randolph county, N. G.
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Official b OF Respect to ThOs. F.
Bayard.

Washington, September 30.-The
state department sent out the follow
ing circular:
department Of State,
washington, September 90, 1898.
ITO the Diplomatic and Consular Off
GERS of the United States:
Gentlemen: 1t becomes my painful
duty to the death yesterday
at Karlstein, near Dedham, Mass, of
Thomas Francis Bayard, a distinguish
ed citizen. formerly secretary of state
of the United States.
Mr. Bayard served the people OF the
United States in many. important ca
pacities; as a senator of the United
States from the state of Delaware from
1869 to 1885; as secretary of state of the
United States from 1885 to 1889, and as
ambassador extraordinary and pleni-
potentiary of the United States to
Great Britain from 1893 to 1897.
I'm each of these capacities his ca
reer was marked by great usefulness
in which abilities of a high order were
applied with %unfailing devotion and
fidelity to the performance of public
trusts.
His privatet life was pure and un-
stained: his services to the people of
the United were unlucSliOLdDiS SIcdA,
and his memory will be cherished with
affection and respect by his country
men.
AS a tribute Of respect, You Will
cause the flag of the United States 10
be displayed at half-mast above your
respective offices for a period Of ten
days from the receipt by you Of this
notification.
I am, gentlemen,
Respectfully yours.
ALVEY A. ADEE.
Acting Secretary of State"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
BUYING

The money vas all around and about
at Fayetteville when the black radical
convention met to nominate a can
didate for the U. S. Congress. The
game was to buy up the kickers and
they did it. But for money Fowler
would not have won. He bought the
chairman at the start, says the Obser-
yer. The members, including a niger
preacher, were bought like dumb
driven CATTLE" and in open daylight
and on the floor of the convention.
The negro preacher received $50 from
S. H. Buchanan to vote for him, but
he got a bigger price from Hancock and
deserted his man.. He was made to
disgorge OF get licked. He threw up
all or a part. The Observer publishes
this:
1--WE are requested by several prom
inent colored citizens to publish the
following:
Rev. T. B. Mccain got $4,000 from
S. H. Buchanan to vote for him for
the nomination for congress-, but he
voted against the nomination, being
bought last by S. w. Hancock, j. E.
Fowler's agent.
The negroes are in fine feathers.
What a noble array of legislators they
would make! For the white men of a
State, to be bossed by such a race is
awful to think of. Revolution itself is
preferable to such barbaric rule.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

We are old foggy enough to believe
III the inspiration of the Bible as the
fathers believed it and not like scores
M modern critics, exigetes and commen-
gators tell us it is inspired. but filled
with Astounding errors. TRANSACTIONS
and versions may be full of errors, but
Gods Word is inspired and it tells the
&ruth, and is not fun of errors, false
hoods and mistakes. But learned men,
accomplished men, able men tell the
world that the Bible abounds in err
rors- This talk strengthens the hands
nj infidels, gives hope to outcasts, brings
Joy to the devil, and misleadS with
false hopes. Take the Bible as it is
h Word Of God, inspired of Him, and
The whole truth and not a half truth.
1t is impossible to reject parts Of the
Bible, like the Pentateuch, and say
sEhey are unsound because Astounding
IN mistatements and bold-faced err
Tors, and not give a fatal blow to the
Book of books if the contention is true.
If false in ten statements it nay be
false in one hundred, and if false in
rone undred then false in all. The
: great battle ground of faith is a true
Bible, the revealed will of God. If it is
inspired of God then it cannot be cor
rupt or false. We believe that the
literally true, and because it comes
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

Madrid. September 30.-A telegram
received here from General Rios. Span
ish governor of the Visayas islands,
who is reported TO have recently pro-
claimed himself governor general of
the Spanish dCninionS in the Philip
pines, reports that the i~nsurgent expe-
ditiOns have arrived at the Nisayas.
The rebellion. il is also reported, IS
spreading and several provinces in the
island OF LuZon have been invaded
and some officers OF the gendarme and
their families massacred The governor
and officials at Iloilo, island OF Panaya,
have fed 10 Manila.
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RELIGIOUS EDITORIALS FOR
SUNDAY

In prayer we must have faith in
God if we would receive blessing in
answer. 1t is ''fervent prayer that
gains audience and secures answers
from God. The wandering, ~listless,
cold, heartless, faithless prayer never
Nscends above our leads. The half
H,earted, hurried prayer is not apt to
fFa true prayer, powerful prayer. Eli
III, we are told, prayed earnestly to
;od. The margin gives the variation
NJ translation, che prayed in prayer"
tie sought God fervently, anxiously,
s1eseechingly. He put his whole soul
IN the good work of supplication. But
as a Christian writer, now gone to the
better land, wrote of Elijah's earn
%e.stness, he prayed earnestly mot to
move God, but to 10Y himself into an
attitude in which he could receive the
Blessing" (Rev. DR.. James H.
T3rookes.) 1t is necessary to be in a re-
ceptive attitude, so that we can obtain
what we need. If the attitude of our
-su1nls toward God is not right, the
blessing, the answer will not come.
BY referring to the prayer of Elijah
YOU will find that he had a definite aim,
and was not striking at random and
multiplying words. We are told that
re prayed earnestly and the purpose
and end sought was that it might not
rain" Aimless prayer beating about
Ehe bush empty handed, a way pray
&1g but without prayer gets no return
for the souls joy and comfort. Gen
ERA prayer at times is all right, but
specific prayer is a positive requirement.
You ma pray to bless all mankind,
cut it is better to pray to bless a par
Eicular soul in great need, or a par
ticular congregation badly backslid-
den. You may pray for a revival of
religion at some time, but it is better
I'D pray for one now. You may pray
for the heather in China, but it is bet
tar n more definite to come nearer
home and to pray for the heather
, about you.
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Mrs. BaSley Calls on the President

Washington, October 1.-Secretary
Long called on the president today
with Mrs. Bagley. of North Carolina,
mother of Ensign Bagley, whose tragic
death in the action on the torpedo
boat WinslOw occurred early in the
war. President Mckinley soon after
the Winslow incident, wrote the
mother of the ensign a strong letter of
sympathy and he asked for legis-
lation authorizing the appointment OF
another son as a naval cadet. Mrs.
Bagley thanked the president very
heartily for his expressions of inter
est in her behalf.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

Mr.. M. S. Robins, the we'll known
lawyer Of Asheboro, in the last Cour-
Ter of that place, publishes a review
of DR.. Cy Thompson's own political
record as a legislator. He makes the
fur fly and calls the House records
upon the political m~ountebank. The
Messenger Cd. W will refer to it more
at length next week.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04
HOME FOLKS,

The illustrious B.. F. Keith is not the
sort of man the New Honover popu-
lists favor. They will not support
him for the State Senate. Leastwise
the King wing of the party so affirm
eth by resolution. But Keith is the
choice of the Melton wing and that
brings him great comfort and delight.
Will Keith get there?" That is the
important question for Keith.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

We never read a sermon by the late
Rev. DR.. John Hall, but from time to
time e passages from him. We
said once to a distinguished divine of
his church that we had not been i'm
pressed with DIR. Halls powers either
as thinker or writer-that he clearly
lacked the distinctive literary gift of
expression, and we were never uplift-
ed or charmed by his manner of
thought-that there were no elo-
quence, no striking phrasing, no thrill
ling passages on a high key of rhe-
torical excellence and passionate or
lofty thought. This or something like
it we said. He replied hat we We're
not far from the correct view. We
find in a recent article in the New
York Evening Post his presentation
of his gifts and the secret of his great
success:
1T is not the music thai charms and
keeps the crowds. Nor is it the elo-
quence of the preacher. He is not elo-
quent. His voice of itself is not re-
markable, nor has he any dramatic
intensity Of expression or power of
gesture. His style is not brilliant or
especially pointed, nor has he any
marked originality of thought, or range
learning, or vividness of imagination,
or richness of illustration, or flash of
wit, or flow of humor. He is a solid,
plain, STRAIGHTFORWARD speaker. The
secret of the influence seems to be pre-
cisely this, that he is willing to be a
man among men and to help them
over their daily paths, in all their COM
monplace trials n difficulties. He is
with them"
The New York Tribune says he was
neither great orator nor great scholar,
and yet it adds this:
Nevertheless, he possessed gifts thai
placed him for many years in the fore
front of American clergymen. Pre-
tending to none of the graces of an
orator, he yet delivered his message in
a way that powerfully impressed every
one who heard him 1t was i%nstinc-
lively felt at once that he had a mes
sage which had first of all reached his
own heart and conscience"
He vas eminently a good, a useful,
and a piOus man of God, and did a
great work for his Lord and Master.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-04

We take it when Colonel Burgwyn
ends his military career as Colonel of
the North Carolina Second Regiment,
he will have but few friends among
them or among their friends. His con-
duct impresses the public as particular
" selfish.
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from an aIlwise and infallible God. We
are glad we are simple and believing
enough to stand squarely by this for
"all Scripture Is given by inspiration
of Cod" as St.Paul writes to Timothy.
Now what does scripture" mean?
DR.. Wordsworth says it is remarkable
that h word for Scripture is graphe.
and that it is appropriated in the New
Testament and occur fifty times in the
Sacred Writings.
We quote from an American writer,
but are not certain of its authorship.
but it was probably written by DR..
Brookes, for years the faithful and able
editor Of Truth" published in St.
Louis He was a bold champion of a
pure, unerrfng Bible, and he IT some
one wrote this years ago:
IF it can be proved that there is one
error, one mistake, one inaccurate
statement in the writings of men who
claimed to be inspired of God, it is
obvious that their entire work is to be
discarded. That they put forth this
| claim will not be denied by any who
have given their writings even the
most cursory reading. From the first
Of Genesis to the last of Revelation
they stand forth as the mouth-piece of
Jeho-sh, and there is not SO much as a
hin where that any other view can
be ta..en of their mission. Hence if
| Leviticus and Deuteronomy were not
written by Moses, they were written
| by forgers and liars, and if any of the
| sacred writings can be convicted Of
historical, or scientific, or doctrinal
~inaccuracy, the rest must go. They
| stand or fall together. The Bible is all
from God or non of it is from God,
for no man is competent to decide what
is to be received as true, and what is to
| be rejected as false"
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