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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
TODAY'S MARkET REPORT.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-DuL markets were the
rule on Change today. Depression caused
by yesterday sharp declines was much in
evidence and trading in all the gran pits
was dull to a remarka BILE degree. Wheat
opened at 691&Q695sc for September COM
pared with yesterdays closing price OF
69ssd6994c. Gables were lower, but not so
much was expected to follow yester-
days decline here. Northwest receipts
were small and but little new wheat was
reported in the arrivals Minneapolis and
Duluth received 296 cars against 2s2 last
week and 81 cars year ago Chicago re-
ccipts were 112 cars. of contract grade
The weather was favorable for wheat as
a rule. Liverpool wheat stocks showed
an increase for July of $4,000 bushels. The
market was very dull and narrow, Sep
TENDER advancing to $3.50 and reacting
later to 6912GI695sc.
CORN was dun and lower, the weakness
crop futures Receipts were large. 8Sl
cars and the weather favorable. Long
corn was offered for sale and the demand
was light. December opened a shade low
TENDER opened shade lower at 30ssQ3O$4c,
and declined to 3o2sc.
OATS were almost at a standStiD. Re
ceipts were heavy, 692 cars. eptember
opened unchanged at 1880, sold at 19c and
back to 1880.
More favorable yellow fever news gave
better tone to provisions and though trad
ing was small prices showed considerable
September pork opened 712H124Ac higher
at IS. 321aGIS. 3712 and advanced to s.. 40
September lard opened a shade higher at
s.. 221505.25 and advanced to 50 30Gl5 .321a.
Septern Der ribs opened a shade higher at
81 .90d4. 921z and advanced to S4.95q4.9 712.
BARLEY-Cash: 35@40c.
RYE-September slice; Dec. 51hQ
51%c.
TIMOTHY-August $3.50; September
81. 4212; October $2-4212.
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THREE DELUDED WOMEN.
All Failed to Find Any Happiness In
Matrimony.

There was a rush of divorce suits in
the district court today. Three were
filed this morning in rapid succession,
but there were not three marriage Ii
censes granted in probate court to Off
set them.
The first was filed by Mrs. Bertha H.
DeBaum against her husband, Joseph
S. DeBaum. Mr.. DeBaum lives at 301
West Twelfth street and travels for the
Nave McCOrd Mercantile company. His
wife alleges nOn-suppOrt, and asks for
a divorce and $4,000 alimony.
Mrs. DeBaum is also prosecuting her
husband in the city court on the same
charge. Mr.. DeBaum wired her yester-
day that he would come up from Kan
sas City last night and wanted to see
her at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Mrs.
DeBaum had a. warrant sworn out for
his arrest on the charge of non-support,
and when Mr.. DeBaum reached the ho-
tel the warrant was served on him by
Jailer Carl Lawson. He was released
this morning on 500 bond.
Marmaduke D. Lazelle asks for a di-
vorce from his wife, Alice r. Lazelle,
whom he says he married in Lyon
county in 1888. He claims that for the
past eight years she has abused him
and their five children, and on one oc-
casion she threatened to poison them
all, so that they did not dare eat any
of the food which she had prepared IN
til she had first tasted of it. Last Oc-
tOber while Mr.. Lazelle and some of the
children were gone for a load of APP
pies, he alleges that she locked them
out, and has not allowed them to come
back and live with her since.
Blanche L. Biberstine sues for a di-
vorce from her husband John Biber-
slime on the ground of cruelty and wife
beating. MI Biberstine works for the
MOeser Ice and Cold Storage company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
Losses at Battle OF CaIamba
Were Greater
Than Were Reported in Pr
Vious Dispatches.
1T WAS A HOT FIGHT.
Filipinos Fled When Their Com
mander Fell.
ReinfOrcements Are to Be Sent
From MOrOng.

Manila, Aug. 1850 a. m.-Sunday's
fight at Calamba was a warm one. The
insurgents were unwilling to abandon
the place which is the key to the lake
road. Gen Hall hearing that Gen. NAL
bar was preparing to make an attack,
sent Major Weisenberger with three
companies of the Twenty-frst infantry,
three troops of cavalry and one of
Hamilton's guns to attack the insur-
gents. This detachment found a force
of 1000 rebels behind hastily made in
trenchments. The rebels held their fire
until the contingent of the Twenty-first
regiment was within 300 yards when
they fired a vOlley. The Americans
dropped in the high grass out of sight
and returned the fire.
Lieut.. Love, who was walking erect
in the arm. An insurgent officer, equal
ly as brave stood at the top OF the
trenches directing the fire of the nsur-
gents until he was killed, when the
FilipinOs fed.
During the fighting on the north side
Of the town, a small body of insurgents
attempted to enter on the south side,
but troop Of cavalry repulsed them.
The total American loss at Calamba
was seven killed and twenty wounded.
Sixteen dead insurgents have been
found.
The American garrison at Morong is
going to CaIamba.
A body of insurgents has visited Tay-
tay, where they killed several natives
who were friendly to the Americans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
GOVERNOR RETURNS.
Has Been Fishing In the Big Horn
Country.

Governor Stanley and wife, State
Auditor George Cole and wife and
George Clark, secretary Of state, and
wife, arrived home today from a trip
to the Big Horn country in Wyoming.
a place made famous in the writings
of Capt. Charles King.
The party has been in Montana, Wy
oming, Colorado and other points north,
having spent a delightful vacation. The
men enjoyed some fishing too but their
friends will hear all about this feature
of the trip and it will be more artistic
ally illuminated than it could be pre-
scented here. There is some talk of hav-
ing an open meeting in representative
hall the attraction being speeches by
the fisherman, giving in detail their re-
spective records.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
MAZET COMMITTEE
Resumes the Investigation of New
York Citv Affairs

XOTk 0lEy AAa1ES.
New York, Aug. 1.-zAfter a vacation of
about six weeks the Mazst assembly COM
mittee convened today to continue the
work of Investigating the different depart
ments Of the New Y ork city government
Deputy Sheriff Mulvaney was the first
Mr. Moss counsel for the committee,
wanted to know if the sheriff had taken
any action to stop gambling in the absence
of such preventive steps by the police.
The deputy sheriff said he was
aware that a statute provided for such
action, but believed it applied to such
counties as were imperfectly policed.s
''Our object" explained Mr.. Moss. Sin
bringing you here was to call your auten-
ton to this section of the law which
makes it incumbent on sheriffs to suppress
crime.
Betting on horse races is now practiced
in this city to an extraordinary extent
and it is intention to bring this fact
to the attention of all the public officials
within the provision Of these resolutions
Mr.. Moss then called President Michael
o. Murphy Of the health department and
questioned him concerning work done by
Morgan & Slattery, city ARCHITECTS
Col. Murphy said Morgan & Slattery had
no public competition for this work Ar
thur J. Horgan of Horgan & Slattery was
called. He said ne designed the new city
prison; that the steel cells cost 1910, 600 and
that the firm got 3 per cent for their work.
He had never talked with John T. Carroll
about the work had he paid Carroll
any money. He had made most of the
drawing for the steel cells himself; none
had been made by western designer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
A WILD CAR
Sent Flying Down an Incline In
Cleveland
Crashes Into a Passenger Car
Coming Up.
BOTH BADLY WRECKED
The Two Persons Aboard Es-
capped Unhurt.
Strike Has Extended to the
Sandusky Lines.

Cleveland, Aug. This is the six
tenth day of the present street car
strike in this city and apparently it is
no nearer a settlement now than when
it began.
Late last night some unknown per-
sons pushed an electric freight car load
ed with ties from a switch on Mayfield
Heights just east of the city on to the
main track and down the long, steep
hill towards Euclid avenue. Half way
down the incline it collided with an up
bound car with terrific force. Both cars
were badly wrecked. Two passengers
were on the up bound car Strange to
say neither they nor the crew were in
jured beyond a severe shaking up. The
Big Consolidated officials today state
that every line in their system is in full
operation, and on the more important
lines the regular schedule is being
maintained.
The cars running down town on the
Euclid and Cedar avenue lines were
fairly well filled this morning. On the
other II lines of the Big Consolidated
system, they were comparatively empty
at an hour when they usually. are
crowded.
The boycott movement has spread so
rapidly that it has now reached the big
down town wholesale and department
stores. In many cases the proprietors
of these establishments are requesting
their employees not to ride on the Big
Consolidated cars. In some instances,
however, the merchants have fatty re-
fused to take part in the boycott and
declare they viii have nothing to do
with it, no matter what the result may
be.
A special from Sandusky, O., says:
Late last night sympathizers with the
Cleveland Street railway strikers began
making attempts to wreck the cars of
the Sandusky & Interurban line here
Large stones were placed on the track
stakes were driven between the rails,
and pieces of plank, spiked across the
track, so as to throw the cars off. A
detachment of police was sent to guard
the line. The Sandusky & Interurban
line is controlled by President Henry A.
Everett of the Big Consolidated COM
pany at Cleveland.
No material damage has been done so
far
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Market Gossip.

Furnished BY T. e GGiggs cOmF%issiIon
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
Northwestern receipts: Minneapolis 17s
cars, last year I9 cars; Duluth 12S cars
Liverpool: Wheat 3kd lower; corn I'D
London: Options SD lower.
Car lots; Wheat 1925; corn Ssl-177; oats
London 1890 p. m.:-Consols 1os3z .un-
London. ? p. m.:-Atchison 21sa; advanc-
ed Is; Atchison preferred SAYS; advanced /;
Tan Zee & NeM 9ork Central 1897 81 d de
clined IS; Northern Pacific 53A, advanced
4; Pennsylvania 1867. declined "a; s. J.,
23!2 ADVANCED Is; 81; Paul 1884, advanced
Pacific preferred 7S1a.
London, 2:I5 p. m: Americans strong
supposed to be speculative buying on New
York reports Other markets without
feature ConSOls shade lower 1865.
New York: Posted rates, sterling ex-
Puts 679l; calls 7i94: corn puts sOl4; calls
BIC; good this week
wRe2t ESQ 20 2e6 H mion against 9n former
report Of 259 million; M. ~ 30.
corn 84i2; G oats 4 seeip'S' " neat -s'-i'o
Chicago: Hinkiey, chief grain ispector
Of the spring wheat prospects, Wheat
looks like a light yield per acre of shrunk-
possible''
Liverpool close: Wheat sd lower: corn
SD lower than yesterday.
Snow says conditions for wheat in Min
nesota and Dakota under 80, and South
Dakota under so. General condition entire
crop So or ten per cent less than last year.
Winter wheat estimated on threshing
returns $50 million
St. Louis close: Wheat. cash $3.50; Aug.
6S5sc; Sept. 695zc5 Dec. 721se. Corn, cash
Bic; Aug. 29szc; Sept. 29Ss;- Dec. 26sFc.
Duluth close: Wheat, September 6S4sc;
December 691sc.
Minneapois close: Wheat, September
655sc: December 671Rc.
Atchison earnings, June net increase,
$516, COO
Puts: September wheat 6S5sc; calls, $3.50;
puts September corn, 29zsc; calls 301sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01

Correspondent: J.F. HARRIS, Chicaqo.
Member Chicago Board Of Trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
NEW WHEAT GRADES.
Grain Inspector Announces Some
Changes.

The grain inspection rules adopted nv
State Inspector A. E Mckenzie IF
Kansas City, kan, will 60 into erect
today.
The most important change made is
in the weight of No hard wheat,
which has been raised from So pounds
to the bushel to 80. This is the mini
mum weight The minimum weight for
No. 3 hard wheat has been raised from
So to S. pounds
In addition to the above changes
made in the old rules, two new grades
have been created by the present chief
inspector. The new grades are a No. 4
mixed and g. No. 4 spring wheat. Here
tofore all mixed wheat falling below No
has been graded hard or red which
ever happened to predominant. Spring
wheat falling below No. 3 has always
been classed with the rejected product
These two new grades will be very bene-
fetal to the seller; likewise the buyer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
sAGACITY OF A NINE MULE.
CFrom the Pittsburg Post.)


Jim Smiley was in Pittsburg recently
Jim will be remembered as a man who has
studied the characters and idiosyncrasieS
of the coal mine. Jim believes an old
mine mule has more than horse sense,
and in some cases is gifted with second
sight. Jime drove white mule for Cap
pany that had this faculty, and owing to
his exercise of it Jim is able to relate
some of his wondrous experiences with
mine mules. The mule, Jim says, mas
Scriptural authority for seeing things that
his driver cannot see, and cites the story
of BALKAN and the mule ancestor in cor
The particular mule that Captain Rodg-
ers owned was noted for his light-heeled
going the way he was directed. One morn
ing Jim Smiley was taking a trip of cars
into cross entry that had some Of the
pillars ribbed. This slightly weakened
the roof, and, although timberS had been
put in to support the roof, it had begun to
creep" Jim shouted a few 'cuss" words
brious name, invited him to ''gWan." He
started off in good style until the cross
Jim insisted that he proceed The mule
switched his tail. Jim applied his black
snake whip, which he unWOund from his
shoulders for the purpose
Force and persuasion were unavailing.
Jim got behind the mule car and pushed
it against the mule. The animal held
tOppled over into the car. Jim could not
get the mule out of the car and was
wise mule to the sidetrack, where it was
high enough to dump him out of the pit
car. Jim took the borrowed mule and
went back into the cross entry, and when
he arrived at the point where the wise
mule had stopped he found that a fall of
roof had occurred in his absence, com
ceeded in driving the mule beyond the
place of the hold-up both he and the mule
man knows as much as a pit mule, and
they don't talk so much either.
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STRUCK BY THE DOLPHIN.
The Ferryboat New York Run Into
by a Gunboat

New York, Aug. IA collision oc-
CURED this morning between the ferry
boat New York, of the Williamsburg
line and the United States gunboat Dol
phin. The bow of the gunbOat cut
through the ferry boat into the engine
room, breaking the main shaft and
dana ging considera BILE machinery. The
gunbOat's bow was bent and several
feet of the rail torn away. The New
York was in the center of the river when
the Dolphin, which was coming up
stream, signalled that she would cross
her bows. The New Yorks engines were
stopped, but the strong current carried
her directly in the path of the Dolphin
and the gunboat's bow struck the ferry
boat just ahead of the paddle box. The
ferryboat with the aid of tugs reached
The gunboat proceeded up the river.
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SAVED $500.
Topeka at Last Free From Cost
Mills.

Ed Good, clerk of the city court,
claims that the city court will for the
month of July save the county about
$780, The amount received in fees will
be about $3.50 and the expenses 1920
About 20 criminal cases have been tried
which if tried before a justice Of the
peace would have cost the county about
$40 apiece or $780, With the $500 saved
and the $3.50 turned in the county will
practically receive $3.50 with 1920 ex-
penses. The first month of operation
the court took in S7.1O the second $77.95.
the third S1O9.15, and the fourth $167.45,
making the last the greatest.
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EAGAN is HOPEFUL.
Expects His Recall to the Commissary
Department at Once.

New York. Aug. 1.-The World says:
J. J. Eagan, a wealthy sugar merchant
of Honolulu is in the city According to
Mr.. Eagan, ex-commissary General Eagan
Of the United States army, who is visit
ing his son in the Hawaiian islands, ex-
poets to have his sentence of suspension
revoked by President Mckinley within the
next few weeks and to return to the head
of the cOmmissary department.
1 saw General Eagan a few days before
I left Honolulu" said Mr. Eagan. He
was in the best of health and gave his
friends to understand that his suspension
is only temporary and that he expected to
be recalled to the United States at any
minute
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WILL BE LARGE.
Report of State Society of Labor Viii
Contain 800 Pages.

The forthcoming annual report of the
state society of labor and industry will
contain probably 300 pages. 1t is an ex-
haustive investigation Of the subjects of
interest to labOring men and to the tax
payers of the state.
chapters on taxation, manufacturing.
lead, zinc, oil, wages of laboring men in
the state. sociology, legislative demands
and a history of the department. will
appear in the publication
The summer and part of the winter
has been occupied in the collection of
statistics for this report which will be
one OF the most complete documents is
sued by this department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
DOUBLE LIABILITY.
Globe Savings Bank Stockholders Are
Hit Hard.

Chicago, Aug. Judge Tuley today
entered a final decree in the Globe Saw
ings bank case. The collapse of this
institution ruined hundreds of small
depositors and resulted in the sentenc-
ing of its president, Charles W. Spald-
ing, to the penitentiary. The decree af-
firms the right of the University of Ill
inois to S125, 900 endowment bonds found
in the vaults after the failure and fixes
Spalding's liabilities at about SIS, 900.
The Indebtedness of the bank is put at
clared liable to any assessment of 100
per cent on their shares to pay this.
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New York MONEY nrarket.

New YORK, Aug. ].
Money-Money on call nominally at ~
a 4 per cent Prime mercantile paper 3z
1415 per cent. Sterling exchange weak
with actual business in bankers bills at
s.. S61 "a. S61k for demand and at Sissy "a
4. S315 for so days. Posted rates "a .S4d4. sA3k
and 81. S71s. Commercial bills 81 S21e
LVER-Silver certificates 6O15Q61. Bar
silver 60ssc. Mexican dollars 4Sc-
BONDS-Governme bonds steady: Is,
1881: IS coupon ex-interest 1881; new 4s
registered 129; new As coupon ex-interest
129; old As registered 1124; old As coupon
113; 5s registered 1115s; IS coupon ex-in-
tereSt 1113s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01

Furnished by J. c. Goings, Commission
Merchant 112 East Fifth St, Topeka.
Kan, receiver and shipper of grain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-01
GROWING SERIOUS.
Lynching of Italians May Cause
Much Trouble

Washington, Aug. 1.-The interna-
tional phase of the Italian lynchings in
Louisiana has assumed a rather more
serious aspect as a result of several Off
cial reports received here. These show
that the Italian officials on the scene
believe that four out of the five men
lynchcd were Italian citizens. While
the reports are not final, the italian
authorities have no doubt they will be
borne out by the inquiries now in pro-
greSS.
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Chicago Llvegtock nEarkss.

chicago, aug. T.
tomorrow 25OO0; left over 4,921. Market
quiet 10 cents lower. Mixed and butchers
$4.10d4.50; good heavy "a 30Q4. so; rough,
heavy So. S0d4. 20; light 81. 30d4. 55.
Cattle-Receipts 1900 Market steady.
BeeveS 81. 500J5. 50: COWS and heifers $500
"a. 50: Texas steers SO. 50d5. rs; stockers
and feeders So. 25aI4.90
Sheep-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
Sheep SO. SOFAS. 90; lambs 81 000D6. rs.
Official receipts and shipments for yes
terday:
HOGS-Receipts Is, S27; shipments. 9.542.
CATTLE-Receipts 1890; shipments
sHEEP-Receipts 17142; shipments, ss5.
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HEARING POSTPONED.
Court of Visitation Again Adjourns
Cases.

The case pending before the court of
visitation in which the citizens of New
Albany, Wilson county, seek to compel
the Frisco to place an agent in charge
of the station there, has been continued
by consent of all the parties at interest
until September.
The court meets next Monday but as
there are no cases to hear an adjourn
ment will be taken until September.
Judges johnson and Crum, members
of the court, are here today on official
business.
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sHAFER TRANSFERRED.
Pension Examiner at Leavenworth
Ordered to Locate at Kansas City.


Leavenworth, Aug. Pension Ex-
aminer Shafer of this district has re-
ceived orders removing him from the
office here and locating him at Kansas
City, Mo. The order was received yes
terday by Examiner Shafer and will be-
come effective at once. He will leave
today for Kansas City, where he will
hereafter maintain his headquarters.
counties of Kansas adjacent to Mis-
souri, and in the same territory which
he worked in previous to his coming to
LeavenwOrth.
The position here is considered one Of
the best in the state. The salary per
year is $1,000, while the officer is al
lowed certain travelling expenses while
out upon the road when examining
cases. There is not as much travelling
to be done here as in other districts
in the state, as the Soldiers home does
away with a large amount of it, many
of the veterans who have pension
claims being inmates of the home.
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SEEK HIGHER WAGES.

Engln eers on the Lake Shore Road
Make Demand ON the Company
Cleveland, Aug. Locomotive engi-
neers in the employ of the Lake Shore
railroad have applied for an increase in
wages. The company is asked to adopt
a new scale giving engineers of passen-
ger and light switch locomotives an in
crease of 4 per cent, and engineers of
consolidated and heavy freight engines
an increase of 8 per cent. The engineers
have also demanded the adoption of
what is known as the pooling system.
The demands are being considered by
the company and the engineers are
hopeful of having their requests granted
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A Five Per Cent Dividend.

New York. Aug. AT a meeting of
the directors of the Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey, a dividend of per cent
was declared on the common stock, pay
able September Is.
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Kansas City Produce Market

hansas CITY, MO, aug. 7
WHEAT-Close: September 621kc;
Dec. 645sc. Cash: No. 2 hard, 621k 063c;
No. 3, 60Q621zc; No. 2 red, 67@68; No. 3,
62663c.
Cash: No. mixed, 2s5ze; No. white
292zc; No. 8, 28c.
OATS-No. 2 white, 25@26c.
RYE-No. 2, soc.
HAY-Choice timothy $3.50; choice
prairie $780,
Creamery 141z @1e1kc; dairy
EGGs-Fresh sac.
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New York. Aug. Foreign houses have
bying orders in 10000 shares of stocks,
taking Atchison preferred. st. Paul, South
ern Pacific Central Pacific and L, e N
In In racing parlanee, Tobacco, Sugar and
Steel will run 1, 2 3. Measurably higher
prices are predicted for these properties.
As we have all along contended, Southern
Pacific will show the biggest percentage
rise of any stock on the list in next six
months Missouri Pacific is going much
higher. Coal stocks are going higher and
buyers of Reading LIST preferred. need not
be. in any hurry to part with their lines
this side of 20. The declaration of divi-
dend on c. O., viii show that all sections
of this country are reaping the benefits
of increased prosperity. The shares of the
Southwestern group must enhance in
J. ARTHUR JOSEPH.