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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
SENT TO PRISON.

h ladelphia's Boy Murderer Not Believed
to Be Responsible.
Philadelphia, Pa, January 17.-Sam-
uel Henderson, the 15-yearold boy
charged with the murder of five-year-
old Percy Lockyer, was committed to
prison to-day Mr.. Henderson believes
his boy guilty, but asserts that he is
not in his right mind
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
Til Rec AsPHYXIATED


sane from GRIEF
Boston, January 17.-Robert AicA-
ander's three sons-David, aged il.
Jerome, aged Z, and Paul, aged S, Wee
asphyxiated by gas, which was part
ly turned on by accident in Their
chamber last night. Alexander, wio
recently came from New YORK, has
become insane over the tragedy.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
The Weather.

WASHINGTON. y. G., January 17-For
West Virginia, fair; warmer: southeast
erly winds.
For Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.
fair warmer; light east to southeast
winds.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

Mr. G. Schnepf. the Opera House drug
gist made the following observations of
the weather Yesterday: IA m. 30: a. M
%: II m. 81; p. m, 40; p. m, IS.
Weather-Fair.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18
SENATOR NOLCOTT SPEAKS.
He Still Hopes for the Success Of In
ternational BIZ MetalliSm,

He Admits That Great
Britain is Against Anything, But
the Gold Standard-France the
Only Nation hat Offers Helping
Hand Tells Of the Commission 8
Work Abroad Had Full Cooper
alton of the President-England
Was Courteous, and Considerate,
Though the London Newspapers
and Money-Lenders Were Severe.
Indian Famine is a Money Famine
and Not a Food Famine-A1 Saw
ings Divided by the New Colo
Values Created in India.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-18

Providence, R. |. January IA cut
down from 10 to Is per cent went into
effect in a majority of the Rhode ISL
and cotton mills to-day This affects
the mills controlled by B. B. & r.
Knight, Goddard Bros, and the Lippett
Comnany. The operatives employed
in these mills about 800 and the
weekly nav roll is about $4,000. Thir-
teen other concerns operated from this
city also put the reduction OF wages
into effect to-day.
These mills represent a total OF 49,
564 spindles, 1885 looms, 5.Sl4 opera
tiyes and a pay roll of S39,37o a week.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11

Thousands of dollars are spent on
music in the average community every
year, yet the people seldom hear real
music. Thousands of people believe
they do not care for music, who do not
know whether they do or not.
Very few people appreciate the i'm
pOrtance of honesty. When a man
does a dishonest act, let him remember
that 1t will be talked about; his vic
tim will tell Of it everywhere. Religion
is responsible for the foolish notion that
there is great enjoyment in sin. There
never was a greater mistake HorEsty
is the first essential, if a man hopes
to succeed in life. 1t is more import
ant than money. Many man is
tricky to save or win a few dollars,
and every dollar thus saved or won
finally costs him a thousand
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
KANSAS NEWS.
Frog Skin Used in Replacing
Human Flesh.
Wonderful Operation Perform
ed by Solomon City Doctors.
NEW FLESH GRATING
Joe Sullivan, Whose Body Was
Severely Burned,
Is Repaired With Flesh From
Friends and Frogs.

Solomon City, Oct. 1.-Joe Sullivan, who
received some severe burns on lower
limb few weeks ago by having a lighted
lantern fall on him, has been experiencing
considerable trouble W tn The injured mem
Der. 1t was burned so badly that it al
most refused to heal, and some of the skin
would not grow back upon it. There was
a space on his leg about six by eight inches
in diameter just below the hip which was
particularly bad. DR.. Donmyer decided
to graft some skin on Mr.. Sullivan.
He gained the consent of quite num-
Der of people in the neighborhood to take
a small piece of skin from the arm of
each and to put it on his patient. He also
used some of the abdomen of a frog. With
the exception of the frog skin, however,
Mr. Sullivan is just as much of a Sullivan
as ever in his physical makeup, for none
but SulHVans were called upon to contrib
ute.
In this connection a little information as
to the method of skin-grafting may be of
interest. The method of taking the skin
from someone IS the simplest possible. An
ordinary sewing needy is inserted under
the skin and a sharp knife or a suitable
pair of scissors takes off as much as is
tent in pieces, DR.. DOnmyer using about
fifty pieces on Mr.. Sullivan. This makes
about twice as much as patient needs,
but only about half of them grow and be-
gutta percha tissue is applied over the
graft, which in turn is covered with COM
comes oiled silk and a piece of absorbent
cotton and finally a bandage over all.
About every "A hours every thing but the
gutta percha must be removed and the OPP
cate piece of work and very often it is un-
successful.
DR.. Bert Collins, who is in the hospital
corps of the Twenty-second Kansas. as
sisted DR.. DOnmV6r.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
TURNER'S INDIGNANT.
Topekans Reply to Charges in a
Leaven worth Paper.

The complaints registered at Leaven-
worth by certain persons who attended
the recent state turnfest in this city al
Ieging Indifferent treatment of them by
the TOpekans seem to have been WITH
out foundation. The principal KICK as
published in the LeavenWorth Standard,
was because no reception committee
met the Leavenworth delegation at the
train. Another was that the Topeka
Turner's lacked hospitality.
These statements have created indig-
nation among the Topeka Turner's. DR..
J. Klemp, chairman of the committee
on arrangements for the funniest said:
1.-THE charge made by those people
can not be silently passed over since
they affect not only the fest committee
of arrangements and the Topeka Turn
verein but also the citizens who care
for the welfare of the city and the So
ciety. The statement that there was no
reception committee at the depot to
meet the 1eaVenWOrth turner's IS lie
The society made arrangements with
the railroads to switch the cars carry
ing the LeavenwOrth delegations to the
garden and it was done. In addition
to this arrangement reception commit
tees were at the depots to meet incom-
ing visitors.
TT is also claimed by the Leaven-
worth people that those who did not
have their badges were compelled to
pay an admission fee. This signifies an
abominable ignorance of the facts or a
voluntary SANDER. Never in the MIS-
tory OF the turner 0iSlt4Cl VI 1Ndl4Sel9'
or any others, have Turner'S paid ad-
mission to Turnfests. The necessary
badges were sent to Leavenworth for
the members as we'll as the outsiders,
to be distributed to each one on the
train No members were asked to pay
for them. Should any one have failed
to secure a badge he could have easily
been identified at the gate and provided
with the proper badge
There is another side to this matter
which politeness and regard for the
feelings of the Leavenworth visitors
have caused US to refrain from men
tioning. That is the fact that several
non-members of the society who came
from Leavenworth refused to pay for
the badges on the train hoping to gain
admission to the gardens free. This did
not work and they were compelled to
hunt up persons to identify them after
which badges were purchased at the
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
FUNNYGRAPHs.

From a Novel-"Adolar was bewitch-
ed. Never had the countess seemed to
him so beautiful as at this moment,
when, in her dumb grief, she hid her
face. e.''-Fliegende Batter.
BY George, there is an ofhceholder
who must really be an honest man"
why do you think he is honest?"
There is no talk of running him for a
second term in order that he may be
cated.''-Cleveland eLader.
Deacon Don't see you at
church of late, Mr.. Noddle'' Noodle
No; the fact is it costs me so much
for tickets to socials and entertain
ments that I've made up my mind I'll
have to save my soul in some other
way if I want to keep my body alive
a few years longer. Boston Tran
script.
An English paper says that the hat
Of a certain short-sighted master at
Eton blew off one day and as he start
ed in pursuit a black hen dashed out
of the gateway. The schoolmaster saw
the hen and thought it was his hat,
and all Eton was electrified by the
spectacle of a hatless and breathless
reverend man hunting a black hen
from one end of the street to the other.
Stage Manager-'Don't you think
we'd better eliminate the poker jokes
from your lines? We've got a select
audience tonight-peOple, you know,
who know no more about poker than
YOU and I do of Sanscrit." Actor
ssThen we'll keep them in by all means.
1t is the people who never played a
game in their lives who laugh the loud
est and longest over a poker joke. -
Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
READY TO PAY BLACKMAII
Mo. Pacific Accused of Offering to Buy
Immunity From Robbery.

Kansas City, No, Oct. 11.-"Jack''
Kennedy, who has been charged with
the robbing of two Missouri Pacific
trains n the outskirts of Kansas City,
and who was acquitted of one of the
charges after two trials, is quoted by
the Star as saying that the Missouri
Pacific Railroad company sent a man
to him last week and offered to pay him
if he would guarantee that no Missouri
Pacific trains would be held up in Jack
son county in which Kansas City is
situated.
THE man who came to me-" said
Kennedy, was Smith, a fireman with
way down to my home in Cracker Neck
and made me tbs proposition. He said
the Missouri Pacific did not care how
many trains on other lines were held
up if only theirs were not molested. I
sent word back that I did not know
that the Missouri Pacific had a line in
Missouri
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
THE BIENNIAL ASYLUM SCAN
DAT

If the condition of affairs in exist
ence at the state asylum for the insane,
IN this city is as alleged by DR.. Wet
more, the late superintendent, in a SEN
satiOnal communication given to the
public through the medium of the Re
publican state central committee, it
need occasion no surprise. That the sit
uation is not and has not continuously
been as bad as he has pictured it, or
even worse than that is in no way due
to the system under which the state
charitable institutions are conducted.
The whole method of managing those
establishments invites and encourages
just such conditions as DR.. Wetmore
describes. Such charges are not new.
Allegations similar in character have
been made under almost, If not quite
every administration.
There can be little improvement as
long as positions in these institutions
are given out as rewards for political
service. AS a rule neither the appOinter
nor the appOintee has had any proper
conception OF the duties to be discharg-
ed.
The system must be changed If 1t is
desired to avert these scandals. They
come out Immediately preceding almost
every biennial election and sometimes
Oftener. Almost any change would be
an improvement, hardly anything could
be worse.
What is especially needed is compet-
ency and disinterestedness in the ap-
pointing power and something in the
way of civil service regulations govern
ang employees and officials. AS long as
the existing manner Of making ap-
pointments continues, that long will the
people Of the state not only suffer
from mismanagement but they will be
shocked by these exposures"
It seems strange that the present sys-
tenn has been permitted to endure so
long. A change would be welcomed by
the people and should be pleasing to
the executive since it would relieve him
of the blame which justly or unjustIy,
he is forced to bear in the end
But as long as the people are blind
partisans in the mana agement Of their
state affairs, just so long will they sur
fer from these evils and they ought to.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11

bright, happy cheerfu1ness of disposition
which only complete health can insure.
A woman with a bright eye, clear COM
plexion, rnantling color in the cheeks and
buoyant elastic step and manner has
natural attractiveness that no artificial
agency can counterfeit.
A woman who is afflicted with the morti-
flying misfortune of dull, sallow, pimply
complexion or that Hstless movement and
attitude which provokes only disgust and
revulsion in the opposite sex, ought to avail
herself of the purifying, invigorating power
of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
which makes q strong, healthy stomach
and digestive organism purihes the blood
and impartS q natural stimulus to the ex-
cretory functions insures healthy weight,
clear skin, bright eyes and the animated
manner and bearing of perfect health.
A lady living in West Virginia, Miss Anna
Cal1ow Of Kygers Roane Co. writes: It is
with pleasure 7 write you after using a few
and Golden Medical Discovery and think
them valuable medicines for female troubles
and weaknesses could hardly go about my
work had such inward weakness and constant
1niserv in the womb II worried me so that I
would give out in walking short distance.
had bad cough and my lungs hurt me all the
time. got very thin, my com plex1on was bad,
and my eyes would get SO heavy in the evening
move them. Many persons were alarmed about
me. looked so bad and had such cough; they
were afraid would go into consumption I
felt so badly every day that had no life about
me used only FIVE bottles in all I shall eV.r
speak in praise of your grand medicines They
are blessings TO suffering females
Another good thing to have in the house
is a vial of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
They cure biliousness and constipation
and never gripe.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, Oct. 1.-Pensions have been
original-Jacob G. Ndanon. Gypsum, So;
David A; Myers, Mich gan Valley: :S6; Aus
tin Gribling, Alton, Sc; Jacob A Butts,
Mound Valley, IS; Emanuel B. Carpenter,
Columbus. SO; Francis NJ. Brunner, Kan
sas City, Sc; Nicholas Reinel. dead, Long
ford, Sc.
Increase-AIiIton H. Rounsavell, Sa-
betha. so to S12: William H. Furnish. Sa-
betha, SIS to $24; Elijah H. Brown, Clear
water, SIT to S24.
Reissue and rease-Frederick Hol-
stein, Fort Scott, S6 to $12
Original widows. etc.-N1inors of John
Nelson, Whiterock $16.
Issue of September 29-Original-Special,
September 80, Isaac n. TroIInger, Quint-
ner, S12: Matthew G. Jones. dead, Sedg-
wick, $50; John Dewar. Salina, s.
Additional-Richard C. Pearce, Chetopa,
S6 to S8.
Original widows. etc.-Darthula D. Da-
Wis Clarksburg. $12: Martha WEIGH, Par
sons, $1T; special, September 90, Elizabeth
A. Kirby. Oswego. $12.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11

ber 1 to have been 80 per cent, as COM
pared with S4.1 per cent on September l,
with III per cent on October 1, 1897,
and with S2,9 per cent, the mean of the
October averages of the last ten years.
All the averages of 100 or upwards re-
ported last month have disappeared ex-
cept in Kentucky, where corn has held
its own at one point above the standard
In Ohio and Missouri also the averages
are the same as last month, while there
IS an Improvement OF four points in IN
linOiS, and decline of four points in
Indiana, two points in Iowa and five
points in Nebraska. Throughout the
south the decline is general.
The usual wheat crop is withheld,
pending the result of further investiga-
tions.
The preliminary estimate Of the yield
per acre of barley is PIG bushels, or 9
is three-tenths of a bushel per acre less
than the preliminary estimate of the
crop Of 1897, but 2.7 bushels per acre
above the averages of the last ten years.
The average for quality is 1873 against
S7.6 one year ago.
The preliminary estimate of the yield
per acre os barley is PIG bushels, or 1 g
bushels. less per acre than in 1897, and
1.3 bushels below the mean October es-
Inmates for the last ten years. The av-
with S7.6 last year.
The preliminary estimate for the yield
per acre of rye is 1876 bushels. This is
erage of last year, % bushels above the
mean of the October average for
ten years. The average quality re-
ported is 90.1 against 92.7 one year ago.
The condition of buckwheat has de-
cIined since September 1, 1875 per cent.
being now 1852. This is 14.6 per cent
below the average on October 1, 1897
and S.3 per cent below the mean of the
october averages of the last ten years.
Ihe condition of Irish potatoes de-
clined 81 per cent during September
W nile 1t is still 1.9 per cent higher than
the october condition last year, ii is
- per cent below the mean of the Oc-
tober averages of the last ten years.
Ihe apple reports show a continued
decline in every state in which this crop
is OF any commercial Importance ex-
cept in Maine, Michigan, Nebraska and
indicated. "
Inc yield per acre Of hops is general
where the yield will probably not eg
exception. TIC
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
CHICAGo NEWS PROVERBS

The heaviest pochetbook has a silver
lining.
The poet pipes the lay and the
plumber lays the pipe.
Premature gray hair often causes the
good to dye young.
It is difficult to convince a 1oafer that
he bOres a busy man.
Men look forward into the future,
while women dwell upon the past.
Some men take less advantage of op-
portunity than of those who offer them.
Some men get into financial straits
and others get into financial croOkeds.
The man who talks the most about
obIging his friends very seldom does it.
The gaIlants of the summer girl are
now being mustered out of active ser
vice.
A violinist works a bow-and some
girls do likewise, but they spell it diff
ferently.
When death stares a man in the face
and he lives to tell the tale he spends
IOsts Of time telling it.
financial note says that money is
easier. Perhaps it goes that way, but it
doesn't seem to come any easier.
The look of worry and anxiety on the
average married wOman's face should
convince a girl that men are not worth
the exertiOn necessary to capture and
then hold them.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
UNION PACIFIC EXTENSION
Road Will Secure an Entrance to
Portland This Week.

The extension of the Union Pacific to
Portland, Oregon. it is believed will be
made in two weeks. Arrangements for
the amalgamation of the oregon Short
Line with the Union Pacific have been
completed practically and the deal is to
be ratified at the annual meeting at
Salt Lake City next week. A majority
of the stock of the Oregon railway and
Navigation company also has been ac-
and the road will become a part Of the
latter system. This will give the Union
Pacific a continuous line from Omaha to
the North Pacific coast.
It is predicted that within a year the
Union Pacific will secure an independ-
ent line from Omaha via Salt Lake City
to Los Angeles.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11

Admiral BeardsIey in an article on
Hawaii. in the North American Review
suggests that a word from ex-Queen
Liliuokalani would remove the dissatis-
faction with annexation which he says
exists to large degree among the ma
tives. The deposed queen would proba-
bly, be willing to say the word for a
consideration. She has already an
nounced her intention of being in Wash
angton during the approaching session
Of congress to demand compensation
for the crown lands conffscated Ad-
miral Beardsley's statement indicates
that she may have a strong pull.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
LOVE FINDS A WAY.
Kansas Couple Elopes and Battles
Pnrsners.

Fort Scott, Oct. 1.-THE town of Ham
mond, six miles north of Fort Scott, is in
state of excitement over the sudden dis
appearance and elOpement of Mr.. Lon Orr
and Miss Zura Mcintosh. two well known
young people The young man is of age,
but Miss Mcintosh is but II, and the
daughter of w. A. Mcintosh postmaster
at Hammond and one of the most promi-
nent and well-to-do men in Bourbon
county.
There was -paternal objection on the
girls side, and the couple decided to baf-
1e the parents by running away. Young
Orr came to Fort Scott and bought a
Pacific, where he secured a livery team
and drove across the country for Miss
spent Sunday in Richards and it is the
supposition that they boarded a Pittsburg
a., & Gu Gulf train that night for the south
though the officers have been searching
for them
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
SYMPATHY FOR KUNKEL NOW
Body of Lawrence Woman Exhumed
for Analysis of Stomach.

Lawrence Kan, Oct. 1.-THE body of
Mrs. J. J. Kunkel, whose husband is now
under arrest charged with having poisoned
her to secure the insurance covering her
life, was yesterday eXhumed for examina-
ton. Arsenic was used to embalm the
body and the examination is to determine
whether the arsenic found in the stomac ch
was separate from that used in the en-
balming.
A feeling in favor of Kunkel has develop
ed in the last twenty-four hours, and the
officers are now inclined to believe that
It will be hard to convict him of the
charges against him.
a telegram was received from Seattle,
Wash, asking if Kunkel needed any as
sistance in any way and offering financial
or other aid that might be needed.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11

After all the war investigation is not
likely to change the opinion of the pub
lie as to where the blame lies for what
ever mismanagement there was. It
may be made to show that there was
less than has been alleged. All the wit
nesses agree that there was some. The
public is already pretty thoroughly
convinced that the trouble was due to
politics-the appointment of fncompe-
tent and inexperienced people to posi-
tions in the commissary, transporta-
ton, sanitary and other departments to
satisfy the claims of men influential in
notifies
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
A FORTUNEIN KANSAS

Finds an Owner in a Denver Girl
Stenographer.
Chicago, Oct 11-After a search of
two weeks detectives located Matte
Norton for whom $4,000 in real estate
and cash is waiting in Centralia, Kan.
A letter received from Miss Norton to-
day stablishes her identity beyond
doubt. The lucky girl is a stenOgrapher
in the offices of Dalton & Salch, manu-
facturer agents in Denver. Miss Nor
ton formerly lived in Chicago and went
to Denver year ago to live with her
mother. Miss Norton was adopted by
Frank Norton, in infancy, and she still
bears his name. relative of the Nor
tons died in Centralia recently be-
queathing the fortune to Mamie.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.1
without her foibles woman would be
only a fem 1e.
Only a very weak woman can make a
very strong man weak
A woman is furthest from being
beaten when she will admit that she is.
# the ge boy was always as
polite as his mother tries to make him
act before company he would grow up
to be a useless man.
The Indignation which eevry woman
shows when she sees a widow and
widOwer making up to each other is
generally intended as a warning to her
husband.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-11
BRoNzED EAR OF CORN.
Peculiar Freak of Nature in Posses
sion of Fort Scott Man.

Fort Scott, Oct. 11--Steve price who
travels for the Liggett & Myers Tobacco
company of St. Louis and makes his head
quarters in this city, has a small ear of
corn that contains bronzed grains. which
was raised by a farmer named Dennis
Kan. This is an unknown species and
there is a remarkable story connected
with this product.
Nearly a year ago a lot of seed corn was
taken from an Indian mound in Jefferson
county, Indiana No one knows how long
ably put there by the Indians centuries
ago. When dug up it was in small
earthen jar. The discovery created quite
sensation at the time and the Dennis
farmer secured 200 grains and planted
them, which yielded quite a large crop.
The ears are not very large, but the corn
is sweet and makes splendid roasting ears.
1t is quite a curiosity.