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The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
LAWTON'S MARCH
His Men Drag Carts For Miles
Through Jungle.
Rear of His Column Reaches
NOrzagary Today.

Manila, April 27-6:1O p. m.-Gen.
Lawton's advance has been a remark
able demonstration of the restless en-
ergy which cfaracterizes all his un-
dertakings. The last troops forming his
column only reached Norzagary today.
The men were badly played out as
during the past two days they have
dragged bullock carts over roadless
jungles and through swamps, cutting
their own way for miles.
They will rest three days and then, with
colonel Summers command, consisting OF
the Oregon and Minnesota regiments, the
troops will resume the march westward,
cooperating with General MacArthur's
forces in the important enterprise.
The ambulances today, with a strong
escort, are bringing General Lawton's
wounded and a few of those who have
been prostrated by the heat across the
country to the railroad.
MACARTHUR ROUTS THE ENEMY
Manila, April 27-9:45 p. m.-General Mac
Arthur's division crossed the Rio Grande
today and advanced on Apalit, CO q pIetely
routing the flower of the rebel army.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
SHOCK WAS TERRIBLE.
Mrs. James Manahan Informed
of Her Sons Death.

Resil Manahan, the Twentieth Kan
sas soldier who Gen. Otis today cabled
was killed in the engagement at Cal
unpit Wednesday, is the only son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Manahan of this
city. He was one of the brightest stu
dents of the freshman class at the To-
peka high school when he enlisted.
His parents reside reside at BOA Kan
sas avenue. His father is an old sold
ier and is at present not employed. His
mother has charge of the millinery de-
partment of Troup's Enterprise. His
only sister graduated from the Topeka
high school last spring and is now with
her grandmother in Illinois.
Mrs. Manahan was the first member
of the family to hear of her sons
death, and was informed of the fact by
a State Journal reporter at her place Of
business. When asked if she had a
son with the Twentieth Kansas in the
Philippines she replied:
Yes, my only son is with the regi-
ment.'
Have you heard from there?' was
asked.
why yes, I received a letter from
him last week. said Mrs. Manahan.
He said he was then in the hospital
with an abscess on one of his limbs
and was impatient for it to heal so he
could go to the front with the other
boys"
Then you haven't heard from there
today?"
No answered the mother, and then
as if suspecting the awful blow that
was about to fall upon her she sudden
ly asked: Have you?"
Yes, there was a cablegram this
morning from Gen. OTIS
And is Resil hurts he killed." she
exclaimed in a faltering voice.
Mrs. Manahan was told the sad mes
sage the report of the commanding Of
ficer contained. ''Oh, my boy, my poor
boy" she sobbed as the other women
in the store gathered about her with
sympathetic faces.
Mr.. Manahan was soon afterward no.
titled of the boys death "Only this
morning" he said, his mother was
saying how thankful she felt that Re
posed to danger. And then L told her
that by this time he was probably with
his regiment at the front"
Mrs. Manahan was Frustrated by the
news of the death of her son and had
to go to her home.
Resil Manahan was only II years of
age When war with Spain broke out
he was one of the first to catch the war
fever and among the first to offer him
self for enlistment on the morning that
company A of the Twentieth Kansas
was recruited. He had entered the
high school after being promoted from
Llncoln school but a few weeks be-
fore and had shown himself particu-
Iarly apt in his studies.
The young soldier was born in Say
brook, Ill, November II. 1882. He came
to Topeka with his parents seven years
ago, and up to the time of his enlist
ment lived here.
Nothing is known in Topeka of James
w. Korahner of company A, who is
reported among the wounded. His
name does not appear on the roster of
company A and he may have been a
recruit.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
CHINESE PLAY BALL.
New York Celestials Furnish Amuse-
ment For a Crowd.

New York April 27.-As base ball play
ers Cinnamon will never illuminate the
records of the sport, but as promoters of
enjoyment they will fill long-felt want
on the diamonds this season-if they last
the season out. team known as the
Chinese Giants has played its first game
in Jersey City. noteworthy feature of
these Chinese players is their absolute ear
nestness. They go at it though they
meant it.
1t was not a full Chinese team that faced
the Montgomerys of Jersey City. for in
practice few days ago Wong Kwong and
Lee Tong; who had been signed as pitcher
eously for fly and, reaching the vicinity
OF the ball at the same time, became so
disguised with what followed that they
took off their suits and FASTENED to renew
their leases their laundries As no
other member of the team could be per
Suaded to go behind the bat and as but
one. Ii Linn, the third baseman, could
throw ball guaranteed to reach within
ten feet of a given place, it was necessary
to get two Caucasians, one to catch, the
other to play third base.
Had the Montgomerys desired they could
have been at the bat in the first inning yet
but they simply tried to keep the China
men moving and that was all crowd
wanted.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
MUST KEEP STILL.
Naval officers Must Neither Write
Nor Talk For Fear of Offend
ing Germany.

Washington, April 27.-It has been
felt proper to admonish Admiral Kautz
to be more careful either in writing
such letters as that published yester-
day from Cincinnati or in guarding his
letters from publicity, and a letter of
that character was addressed to him.
Theoretically, under the circumstances,
the Kautz letter may be regarded as
strictly private, yet practically the
writer must accept the consequences
that would follow the publication. In
the case of Chief Justice Chambers,
whose brother made public letter crit
icising the Germans in Samoa, the eff
feet will certainly be injurious to the
chief justice. Though the letter was
undoubtedly a private communication.
yet the state department was bound to
take notice of the fact that this publi-
cation had done much to injure the use
fulness of the chief justice and to rem
der his retention after the reconstruc-
ton of the islands government improb-
able.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

who supported Ben Pagan of Ellsworth,
and the anti-administration faction,
represented by Coulter.
Pension Agent Leland fought Coulter
son and P. H. Coney led the Coulter
forces
The vote stood Coulter 264; Fagan,
146
Mrs. Minnie D. Morgan, of Cotton
wood Falls, was elected president of the
Women's Relief corps
Action on the Evans resolution was
deferred till a later session.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
TRIMBLE RESIGNS.
Receiver of Pittsburg & Gulf Throws
Up His Fight

Judges Thayer and Phillips of the United
State circuit court. ]. Med. Trimble,
general counselor for the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf railroad. made sur
prising move by resigning as one of the
receivers, withdrawing the motion to have
the case remanded to the state court and
dismissing the suit in the state court by
virtue of which Judge Gibson appointed
Robert Gilman. f. L. Martin and ], Med.
Trimble receivers: The last move nulli-
fed the action of Judge Gibson and left
the case in the hands of the two federal
judges. to appoint whom they please as
receivers The suit of the State Trust
company of New York to foreelose the
twenty-three million dollar mortgage still
stands on the federal court docket.
Today's action is in the nature of
compromise between the eastern and west
ern interests of the road, but it is said
each side will fight for a majority of the
new receivers which the court Will ap-
point.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
NOW AN EPIDEMIC.
Smallpox in Kansas City, Kan, Caus-
ing Great Alarm.

Kansas City. Kan. April 27.-The
smallpox epidemic has become some
what alarming here. The board of
health experienced some trouble with
citizens living in the vicinity of Ninth
street and Sanford avenue, where the
tents for the care of the patients were
erected. TIL tents were first placed on
a large vacant field yesterday morning,
but the owner of the property compell-
ed them to be moved, and they were ta-
ken down and located a short distance
away on another vacant tract of land.
Last night a number of the people liv-
ing in that vicinity organized for the
purpose of tearing them down, but af-
ter a wordy war with the police and
several of the city authorities they re-
tired.
Two new cases were discovered on
Minnesota avenue yesterday between
Fourth and Fifth streets. Two negro
families live in a house at 440 Mime
sofa avenue and well developed cases
were found there. The houses We're at
once placed under strict quarantine and
about so special police were on duty at
different places about the city last
night.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
LOSING MONEY.
Postal Company Claims That Exist
ence in Kansas Is Expensive.


The Postal Telegraph company, by
its attorneys, today filed three injunc-
ton suits against the parties who are
suing it under the new telegraph law.
The defendants in the first case are
Armstrong & Kassebaum, E. D. Nc
Keever, W. S. McClintock and Justice
of the Peace Wright of Soldier town
ship. In the second case Josiah Jor-
dan is substituted for Armstrong &
Kassebaum, and in the third case T.
w. Won is substituted in the same
place.
The petitions are all alike, and in
junction suit brought by the Western
Union, except that the Postal company
goes more into the details of its Kan
saS business. 1t alleges that the aver
age cost of all of the messages that it
handles between Kansas points is 80
of 26 cents for these messages. It fur
ther states that it received from mes
sages between Kansas points during
the year 1898 the sum of SO, ,639 05, while
the total received at Kansas Offices for
messages going either in or out of the
state amounted to $27, ,604 SO. Its ex-
penses during the same period it al
es amounting to 81, 2,947.S9. According to
these figures it transacted business in
Kansas last year at a loss Of about
$15, 900.
A temporary restraining order was
granted the telegraph company by
Judge HaZen, similar to the one grant
ed in the Western Union. 1t is said
that it will be allowed to come up at
that time instead of being postponed
until some future time.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
CHARGE AGAINST ALLGOOD
He Is Accused of the Murder of
Charles Bigger

Wichita, Kan, April 27-Sheriff Sim
mons has received a letter from Mrs.
j. B. Rainey, of Perkins, o. T., sister
of Charles Bigger, who disappeared
from Fall River, Kan, three years ago.
The writer says her brother left home
with Frank AIlgood, now accused of
numbering Mr.. New at Eureka, and that
he was never heard from afterward
When Allgood returned he had a deed
ger, but nothing is known as to what
became of the horse and buggy that the
two took with them, and which also be-
1onged to Bigger.
Officer Fleeman came here today with
the deed, which is known to be forgery,
as the records of Greenwood county
show that Bigger could not write Flee
man says that Allgood and Bigger
drove to Mathes ranch, in Reno coun-
body dismembered and buried in differ
ent places in the sand hills. Afterward
Allgood went before Notary Public SUIT
ton, of Toronto, Kan, to have the deed
conveying Bigger's land to him ac-
knowledged, but Sutton refused to sign
an acknowledgment as Bigger was not
present. AllgOod then went to Fort
Scott, it is charged, claimed to be Chas.
Bigger, and had the deed acknowledged.
E. Helm, now city attorney of Wichita,
who defended Allgood in a trial for
counterfefting nearly three years ago.
Ofhcer Fleeman has collected this evil
dence, and will go to Eureka this even
ing and present the matter to Judge
Shinn. He will ask for a new trial for
Mrs New and DObbs and for a trial of
Frank Allgood, Bill Turner and Mr. and
Mrs. Mathes on three charges of muir
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
WILL SUSTAIN ALGER.
Report of Beef Court Will Uphold the
Beef

Washington. April 27.-The Wade court
of inquiry continued the preparation of its
report yesterday, and when adjournment
was had comparatively little work re-
manned on it to be done. The different
members of the court have made separate
investigations of the testimony and they
were today engaged in comparing notes.
They find that about 200 witnesses were
examined during the investigation. The
testimony covers 5000 pages of typewrit-
ten matter. The report, therefore. Will
be of considerable length. There has been
no recent change in the conclusion of the
members of the court. The report will
unanimously sustain the administration.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

the man who is always late has his
shortcomings.
Women have few friendships; love is
more to their liking.
Men who live by their wits have no
visible means of support.
Philosophy enables us to make light
of our neighbor's troubles.
Some men walk home, some ride and
some simply hang on to the straps.
Theories are impracticable plans for
doing things that are impossible.
When an actress marries her manager
the management usually changes hands.
Distance doesn't lend enchantment to
ones view of an expected inheritance.
Politicians resemble shoes in one re-
speet; the higher grade are not ma
chine made.
A male boxer puts UP his dukes"
her "ducheSSeS.'
Your personal history doesn't have
to repeat itself; your neighbors will at
tend to that.
1t may be foolish to kick against the
inevitable, but one seldom discovers
that it is the inevitable until after the
kick has been duly registered.
Mean well, do i'll, and you'n get your
self disliked.
Some individuals may trust to luck,
but the trusts do not.
The man who is the first to argue is
usually the last to act.
Health means wealth for the patient,
but poverty for the doctor.
A man wastes lot of valuable time
by feeling in the wrong pocket.
Some people are pleasant to talk to,
but disagreeable to listen to.
The hotel annunciator frequently
summons the bellboy to another climb.
Love may go where it is sent but
sometimes it isn't sent where it goes.
Don't put your trust in riches: it
pays better to put your riches in trusts.
When a man is satisfied that he made
a mistake in marrying he isn't satisfied.
Too many people overlook their own
faults while looking over the faults of
ohters.
A man admires a woman who talks of
his future and makes no inquiries as to
his past.
What this country needs most is a
blind asylum for people who are blind
to their own interests.
II
Women ought to make good legisla-
tors. Many man can testify that a
Woman's word is law.
When a woman marries her ideal she
is very apt to change her views in the
course of a few short months.
When a man says he has nothing to
say the chances are that he could say
a good deal if he wanted to.
One thing may be said in favor of
Mormonism: 1t doesn't throw the en-
tire burden of supporting a husband
upon one woman.
II
The golden rule should work both
ways, but most men who are willing to
do as they would be done by want to
be done by first.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
OFFICERS ELECTED.
st. Louis Women Have q Monopoly
at the Mission Conference.

The annual convention of the South
west Board of Presbyterian Foreign
Missions will close this afternoon, with
addresses by Mrs. Meade c. Williams,
foreign secretary of the board, and by
some of the returned missionaries who
are in attendance.
The feature of the session this fore
noon was an address by Miss N. A.
Roraback, of Kansas City, on the sub
ject of Personal Equipment Miss
Roraback is a prominent factor in the
Missouri federation of women's clubs.
The annual election of officers was
held today, and all the old officers were
reelected with the addition Of Mrs.
Luella Knight as one of the vice presi-
dents. All of the officers reside in St.
Louis. They are:
President-Mrs. c. R. Hopkins.
Vice presidents-Mrs J. w Allen,
Mrs. H. w. Prentis, Mrs. Clarence Beck,
Mrs. e. E. Webster. Mrs. Thomas B.
McMath and Mrs. Lueila knight
Secretary for Kansas, Texas and New
Mexico-Mrs. Warner Hopkins.
Secretary for Missouri and Indian
Territory-Mrs. Innis Hopkins.
Secretary for missionary candidates
Mrs. L. w. Manning
Secretary for special objects-Mrs. J.
A. Allen.
Secretary for senior young peoples So
cietieS-MiSS Lillian Truesdale
Secretary for Junior young peoples
societies-NIrs. A ]. Neimeyer.
Foreign corresponding secretary-Mrs.
Meade c. Williams.
Secretary for missionary speakers
Mrs. w S. Knight
Secretary for Hterature-Mrs. H. w.
Prentis.
Recording secretary - Mrs G. w.
Weyer.
Treasurer-Mrs. VIM. Burg
The southwest board has raised dur
ing the year ending April 1 between $11,-
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

| A congressman captures some of his
| constituents by shaking hands with
| them: others he is compelled to write
| to. and a few demand more.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
BUILDING FOR z. S. q.
Work Being Pushed on the New
Chemistry Home.

Lawrence, April 27.-Ground was bro
ken yesterday for the new chemistry
building at the state university and
the work will be pushed rapidly from
now until the building is completed.
which will probably be by the beginning
OF the fall term in September The
building Will be located in the northwest
corner OF the campus, north of Fowler
shops.
1t will cost $55, 900 and will be one Of
the best and most modern chemical
buildings in the United States Prof.
Bailey and Contractor Haskell spent
three weeks the past month visiting
the principal chemistry buildings in the
east in order to get new ideas for the
new building here
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

Some of the balefu1 effects of trusts
have recently been exemplified at Dun
cansville. Pennsylvania, where the town
has been ruined by the action of the
wire and cotton tie trusts. Upon ac-
quiring all the factories in the place,
the trust closed them up without re-
gard to the fate of the people whose
sole means of livelihood the factories
had hRap
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

complains of feeling weak, nervous and
Respondent, and suffers from headaches,
pains in the back and stitches in the SIDES
and burning, dragging down sensations,
the average physician will attribute these
feelings to heart, stomach or liver trouble.
For years, possibly, she takes their pre-
scriptions for these ailments without re-
ceiving any benefit, then, in hnal disgust,
she throws away drugs, and hopelessly lets
matters take their course. A woman who
suffers in this way is almost invariably
sufferer from weakness and disease OF the
distinctly feminine organism. There IS an
unfailing and inexpensive cure for all
troubles of this description. 1t IS DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription 1t acts d1-
Tectly the delicate organs concerned,
making them we'll and strong. 1t heals all
internal liberation and stops debilitat1ng
drains. 1t takes the pressure on the nerves
and makes them strong and steady. Under
its marvellous merits thousands of women
have been made healthy, happy and robust.
The "Favorite Prescription" restores weak,
nervous, pain Tacked women and makes
strong, healthy, capable wives and moth
With its use all pain and suffering
disappear. All good medicine stores sell
it and have nothing else just as good"
Constipation and torpid liver viii make
the most ambitious man or woman utterly
good for nothing. DR. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets cure them. One little Pellet" is
a gentle laxative and two mild cathartic.
DR.. Pierce's 1000 page illustrated book,
Peoples Medical Adviser" sent, paper
bound, free for the cost of mailing only, 2I
one-cent stamps; or, cloth bound 81 stamps.
Address Dr.. z. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Z.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
Robbery at Solomon City.

Solomon City April 27-Last night
the general merchandise store of A.
Carpenter at this place was entered by
robbers who opened the safe and stole
$3.50 in cash. The robbery was commit
ted while Mr.. Carpenter was at supper,
and his safe was unlocked. There was
no one in the store at the time to pro-
tect it, as Mr.. Carpenter is accustomed
to lock up his store and go to supper
every night. There has been no clue to
the thieves discovered
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

"a bill is to be introduced in the next
congress authorizing the issue of silver
certificates of the denomination of 10,
25 and so cents. It is urged that such
fractional currency would be useful for
the transmission of small sums through
the mails
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
Mules For Fort Riley.

Junction City, April 27-The quarter
master at Fort Riley was notified to-
day that 1000 mules would be shipped
to Fort Riley to be grazed this sum-
mer on the big reservation at this post.
1t is supposed that pack trains will be
filled up here and sent out to posts
where needed. The reservation contains
nearly 20 600 acres
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.

EFrom the Atchison Globe.1
If you are forty years old, don't ex-
pect anything of the future.
Don't bet on your friends. I lost a
hat that way today.''-Drake Watson
A barber who would cut a mans hair
as he wants it cut would get all the
business.
Pay palmist five dollars, and all
you will get in return is lot of agree
able fattery.
The people with cold, clammy hands
always insist upon shaking hands every
time they meet you.
By the time a woman gets through
with her spring sewing, 1T is time to
begin her fall sewing.
When a local doctor can't fool a pa
tient any longer, he sends her off to an
aecomplice in the east
At first, a boy wears his fathers old
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
SMALLPOX KILLS HIM.
Kansas Man, Heavily Insured, Passes
Away in Isolated Section.

Fort Scott, April 27.-Thomas O'Toole
of this city, who in the past eight
months has insured his life in various
lodges for S. 100, is reported by his wife
to have died of smallpox at Sonora,
Tex, last Saturday.
He was an unlicensed doctor and
manufacturer of a patent medicine
which he sold throughout Kansas until
the legislature recently prohibited him
from doing SO. a few weeks ago he
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27

pants. made over. Later. the father
wears the sons old pants.
There is only one truth in paImistry:
when a mans hand is doubled, up into
fist, it means trouble for some one.
A grocer can sell anything to a wo-
man from soap to Goldfish, If he will
claim that its use is good for the COM
plexion.
If some people spent as much time at
work as they do in complaining that
they are abused, they could buy their
critics.
A Chicago society belle who is visit
ing in Atchison, is staying so long that
there is a suspicion that she has lost
her job.
There is no greater credit belonging
to anybody than to the man who knows
a bad story on some one else, and has
never told it,
A congressman captures some of his
constituents by shaking hands with
them: others he is compelled to write
to. and few demand more.
Grandchildren serve a good purpose:
they form an object of affection in an
old mans life at a time when every one
else has gone off and left him.
A palmist examined a mans hand,
and said he was good to the poor
Now, how did he find that out?" the
man asked his friends, in telling about
it.
An Atchison girl feels that she is not
appreciated, and talks of leaving town.
She has been earning her own way for
four years, and no admirers have start
ed a story on her yet that she is work
ing to pay off the mortgage on the old
homestead.
Dry goods clerks say that the most
eXtravagant buyers are women who
are supported by men, either husbands
or fathers. They claim that as soon
as a woman begins to earn her own
money, she becomes economical
though her wages may be twice. as
large as the allowance she received be-
fore.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-04-27
ORDERS HER TOMBSTONE.
Prima Donna Calve Becomes Melan-
choly From illness.

Paris Ill, April 27.-Emma Calve. the
priTna donna, has become exceedingly mel
ancholy since her illness, and has ordered
Sculptor Denys Puechs to prepare her
tombstone.
Ophelia with the features of Calve, be-
ing drawn toward a void by phantomS and
voices.
The tombstone, when completed, is to be
exhibited al the exposition next year.