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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
WOMEN WAGE BARRIERS

According to figures furnished by the
United States bureau of statistics
there are more than $4,000 women
wage earners in this country and the
number is steadily increasing. The fol-
lowing information is given as to the
variety as well as the extent Of the en-
Payments in which women are en-
gagged:
number $4,000 exclusive of teachers
of music, who are S4.519 strong, and TO-
600 artists and teachers of art
There are 1,14S women clergymen
Journalists number SIS. with 2T25
authors and literary persons.
OF chemists. aSSayerS and metallur-
gists there are two score. lacking one
Lawyers who are not men are pos
Female detectives are 279 in num-
Der.
only two women have been discov-
cred who are veterinary surgeons
In Texas a woman has the contract
for carrying the mail from Eiffe to
Serirnal Hail.
Georgia has a woman mail carrier.
She travels a 40-mile route tri-weekly
This young woman also manages a
farm.
THE chamber of commerce, Cincin-
natl. has restaurant run by three
Scotch women, and they clear about
$4,000 a year. although their annual
rental is $1,000.
In New Orleans one of the finest or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
Hogeboom Named For Coroner and
Haynes For Commissioner

The Republican primaries Saturday
afternoon for the nomination of coun-
ty ticket passed off with scarcely a rip
pie In fact in the greater part of the
county people scarcely realized that a
primary was taking place. So little in
terest was taken in it that some of the
country precincts have not yet report
ed. The only contest which was at all
spirited was over the nomination for
commissioner in the district north of
s. H. Haynes of Menoken, H. c. Bowen
of North Topeka, and J. N. Stewart of
Shorey. Mr.. Haynes was nominated.
There were two candidates for coro-
ner, DR.. w. B. Swan and DR.. H. b.
Hogeboom. DR.. Hogeboom is $50 votes
ahead according to the returns which
are now in.
Sheriff Cook, the only one of the pres
ent county officers on whose nominal
ton a fight was expected, ran ahead
of the ticket. The Committee of 200 de-
cided to put no one up in opposition to
him, but it was thought that there
would be a detection from Cook great
enough to cause him to run considera-
bly, behind the rest of the county OFF,
GERS, but the result was just the oppo-
site.
The full ticket nominated as as fol-
lows:
Register of deeds-F. l. Stevens.
County clerk-John NJ Wright
Sheriff-Porter S. Cook.
County surveyor-JOhn p. Rodgers.
Coroner-H. b. HOgeboom.
County commissioners. H. HAYNES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
LIKE STEVE BRODIE.
Howard Kretz, an Art Student, Jumps
From the Brooklyn Bridge
Into East River

New York, May 29.-Howard Kretz, a
young man about % years of age, who
says he is an art student of the Academy
OF Design in this city, made a startling
and successful jump from the Brooklyn
bridge just before dusk last evening and
came out of the river uninjured.
trolley car bound for Brooklyn. It was
3a 9Pen 6 one and dff0rde ed all Che 9d
trolley reached a point about 100 yards
IRON the m flrst arch; near the highest
car and like Hash Vaulted over the high
railing. He took no time to steady him
self for a perpendicular drop and swung
some distance out from the structure be-
fore he Ass assumed an upright position: The
Pps eerred through the railing, while hun;
to get gimpse Of the figura r e[iGs
body flashed through the air almost in a
foot first, cleaving it like arrow. He
disappeared for some seconds and then
appear for the second time. The waters
had hardly closed over him when he re-
stro strong for the NeW York shore! c" out
one Of the deck hands on the steamer
river at the time. saw Kretz flash through
deck hand gave the alarm and the Vulcan
by this time swimming. a lire was
aboard the freshfer. I Which imm NM fsqff
put in for her dock in the East river on
When taken on the Vulcan Kretz placed
his hands on his abdomen, as if in pain,
but when the boat reached her dock Kretz
sprang from the boat on to the wharf
He was at once taken into custody and
hurried to the Hudson street hospital.
Not the slightest injury was found on his
person, but he was suffering from the
shock.
He was detained on the charge of at
Kretz is about five feet eight inches tan
and weighs about $40 pounds. He lives in
this city. He said he had been reading a
book on theosophy, and that he wanted
70 demonstrate that a man. by exercising
his will power, could do anything he
wished without injury to himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
CAPTURE FIVE THIEVES.
SaIina Burdened With a Gang of
Burglars Who Do a Whole
sale Business.

Salina, May 29.-The police have been
busy for the past three days rounding
up a gang of thieves, and a result
three repose in the county jail and two
are being held to await further Informal
ton.
On the night the circus was An town a
spring wagon belonging to Jacob r.
Dell was stolen from before the cOlored
blacksmith shop on North Fifth street.
J. H. Watson, Chas. Long and John
Watson were arrested Saturday, charged
with the robbery. They were caught
trying to dispose of the wagon from
the rear of GebhardtS store.
There was another gang operating
Tuesday night. They entered the Rock
Island round house and stole about 100
pounds of brass, oil cans, etc, and on
the same night went over and stripped
the Union Pacific stock scales. This
plumber was shipped over the Missouri
Pacific to L. B. Brann at St Joe. Mar
shall Gilbert wired to St. Joe and had it
stopped. Two of the thieves have been
apprehended and will be held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29

chestras is composed entirely of wo-
men.
Packing trunks is a st. Louis wo-
mans industry.
"A conservatory and rose garden in
Elmira, N. Y, is owned and managed
by woman.
AT the Young Women's Christian
association, Philadelphia, two young
women are in charge of the elevators
Women writ servers are employed
with success.
Buffalo has a woman contractor,
who is also a quarry owner; she is the
only female member of the building ex-
change.
"A Jersey City woman makes her liv-
ing by painting signs.
"A Louisiana woman supports her
self by raising mint.
THE woman manager of a California
insurance company is credited with the
largest salary paid to any woman-$1O,-
900 a year
"A French Canadian girl is making
her bread by cobbling shoes at Lewis
ton, Me.
"A successful ranch owner in Kansas
is a woman.
I'm Boston are two large advertising
agencies, the members of both firms
being women and all their employees
women"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
IT WAS THE WRONG TOOTH

F'rom the New Orleans Times-Democrat-)
That ghaStly story going the rounds
about a doctor who took out the wrong
eye in operating on a patient reminds me
of an early experience of my own" said
a popular local dentist. II first hung out
my sign in little town in North Caro-
lima and one day big mountaineer came
in with a case of jumping toothache led
him to the chair, located the molar and
could have sworn I seized il with the for
cops. but after frightful yank found
was Mortified, but retained enough pres
ence of mind to tell him to hold still, and
in twinkling l had out the right one
The question then was how to pacify the
amaZement and pain. Not being able 70
think up lie on the spur of the moment
I frankly admitted that I had made.
mistake, and to my dismay my victim
=. Blamed eff I'll stand it he roared. ~
mus take me fur a fool! I'm goin' to
I got behind table and begged him
to keep cool, for the fellow was easily
able to demolish me with one blow of his
huge fist. ] repeated incoherentlY that
I was willing to do what was right. At
that he stopped.
by mean v amt a-goin' to charge
me fur that extry tooth? he demanded.
ed in surprise.
= oh! well, then he said it's all right
though yer scheme was to grab out
many as v could an then soak me like
blazes in yer bill. A country Teller has
t keep his eyes OPEN he added apologet-
ieally, or he's sure to git skinned when
he comes to town
Il FASTENED to assure him L had no de-
signs on his wallet and he went away
grinning, convinced he had the best of
the bargain in getting two teeth pulled al
sode taught me an everlasting lesson in
carefulneSS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
HE COMMITS SUICIDE.
A Prominent Kansas City Physician
Shoots himself, With Fatal
Results

Kansas City, May 29-Driven to des-
peration by reason of financial reverses
which he had sustained in late years,
DR.. Richmond Cornwall walked upon
the grassy lawn on the premises of his
brother-1n-law, DR.. J. C. Whittier, at
No. 4O33 Warwick boulevard, about
o'clock Sunday morning and sent a bull
let crashing into his brain from a 32-
eallber revolver. Four hours later his
Hfeless body was found by a neighbor,
Lawrence E. Spencer, who had been
sent by Mrs. Cornwall to the home of
Dr. Whittier to learn whether her hus-
band had spent the night there. The
body was stretched out on the lawn,
DR. CORVALLIS face buried in his hat
and his right hand still clutching the
revolver with which he had ended his
life. There was an ugly wound in his
head, two inches below the right ear.
Coroner Lester, who was summoned
to view the body, gave it as his opinion
that death was instantaneous. On the
body of the unfortunate man was q
note, written in a cramped hand, adj
dressed to his wife and father-i in Ia ",
in which it was stated that despOnden-
cy over financial reverses was the only
motive for the rash deed. The body
was removed to an undertaking estab-
lishment and an inquest will not be
held.
Although only SO years of age, Doc
tor Cornwall has passed through more
thrilling experiences and had been the
central figure in more sensational eS-
capades than most men in lifetime.
He killed a brother two years ago in
st. Louis, and the crime of wife-murder
had been laid at his door. He was the
principal actor in the disappearance of
Maude Belle Bonsteel in 1894. The
BOnSteel mystery was never solved.
That she was murdered and her body
secreted to shield her murderers from
prosecution, the missing girls relatives
have always believed. Doctor Cornwall
was connected with the case, and told
n in Ia f1In ha he
newspapers were bounding him to the
grave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
III. e. Ellison, of Abilene, Re-
turns From Mexico.
Tells a Tale of Fabulous Wealth
In a Nine.
ARE MILLIONS IN 1T.
He Estimates That There Is
100000 In Ore In Sight.
Is Also In a Land Deal Cover
ing 100000 Acres.

Abilene, May 29.-H. E. Ellison has
returned from Durango, Mexico, where
he has been for three weeks with F. A
Morris of Kansas City looking over
their mine. They made personal OBJ
servations and Mr.. Ellison brought
home specimens gathered by himself
that show great riches Of silver and
gold. 1t is estimated that 100000 is
in sight and the mine promises mil
lions.
They will form a stock company
Work has already commenced. Mr.. Eli
son says there is a great future for the
district and he expects to see millions
taken out in the next year from the
mines of the camp They think they
have one of the best of the lot. The
assays were made at the Kansas State
university and are very rich. The
mine was worked in a small way by
Mexicans years ago but being 80 miles
from a railroad it has been neglected
By September the railroad will be
within miles.
Mr.. Ellison is also interested in the
sale of a ranch of 100000 acres on
which is millions of dollars worth of
timber. He left at noon for New York
city to discuss the matter with a bust
ness associate who leaves Tuesday for
Europe to make the sale. He will prob
ably remain in the east for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29

Philadelphia Times: After all the
noise about a gigantic Carnegie steel
trust that was to absorb and swallow
up all the steel-making plants in the
country and stifie competition, it now
turns out that the Carnegie consolida-
ton is not a. trust but a steel-ma king
corporation with a capital of $3.50, 900, =
0OO. the operations of which are to be
confined to the state of Pennsylvania.
The interests outside of Pennsylvania
consist chiefly of ore properties in the
Lake Superior region. Instead of sti-
fling competition the Carnegie corpora
ton propose to engage in very lively
competition with other steel interests
in general. and with the foreign steel
makers in particular. The corporation
has secured an unlimited supply of
cheap and excellent ore and owns it's
own transportation lines, including a
railway from Lake Erie to Pittsburg;
its furnaces and rolling mills are loca-
ted in the richest coal and coke region
in the world and it viii be prepared to
make steel on a large scale at a living
profit against all corners. This, in plain
terms, seems to be the scope and extent
of the much talked about Carnegie steel
trust. Mr.. Carnegie himself will retire
from the business entirely, but it will
be carried on in very much the old way
on an enlarged scale, and the other
steel corporations of the country will
continue to make and sell steel as they
have done in the past.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK

If women would not be jealous?
If educated men would not say ct
seem?
If baseball players would never make
an error?
If the state house corridors would be
kept clean?
If the Farmers alliance corpse would
be resuscitated?
If the state house walks would be
satisfactorily paved?
If young ladies would discourage the
silly talk of young men?
If the price of ice would be controlled
by supply and demand?
IF mail would be collected at the time
specified on the boxes?
If Kansas state institutions would
be placed on a civil service basis?
If men who hold county offices would
be satisfied with their salaries?
If politicians would not invent f1imsy
excuses for imposing upon the people?
If women would quit driving on
crowded streets until they learn how to
drive?
If the high school graduate could pre-
serve his opinion of his own import
ance?
If young men would not imagine that
they look we'll in uncomfortably high
collars?
If women would not wrap their necks
with a yard or more of bandages on
hot days?
If people in vehicles would remember
that a cyclist is entitled to the use of
part of the street?
If humane methods would be en-
ployed in the treatment of boys at the
reform school?
If men would always tell their wives
the whole truth when they get home
late at night?
If the Barber Asphalt company would
keep Topeka pavements in repair &C
cording to contract?
If all the telegraph and telephone
wires in Topeka would be put under
ground2
If the person who comes to Kansas
from the east would not imagine that
westerners are living at a great dis
advantage?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
REBUKE TO THE BOARD.
Manhattan College Students Ask That
No Sweeping Changes Be Made.

Manhattan, Kan, May 29.-At a mass
meeting of the students of the K. S A.
c., held in the college chapel Saturday
afternoon, the following resolutions
were adopted:
ITO the Honored and Respected Board
of Regents:
Whereas, We have evidence that
material changes in the plan of man
agement of this institution are being
contemplated; and,
Whereas, Such changes are of vital
interest to the students; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the undersign-
ed, request: first, that the courses of
study remain substantially as they are;
second that the requirements for en-
trance be not raised; third, that there
be no sweeping changes made in the
faculty; fourth, that the book store and
dining hall be retained
They were adopted by a vote of 1896
for and "a against.
A committee of five will present them
to the board. The meeting was crowd
ed and not without enthusiasm.
The resolutions also denounced as a
villainous falsehood the statement that
Populist politics are being taught to
them and that the professors are par
tisans in any sense of the term. They
also oppose the cutting out of economic
subjects and oratory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
ENGINEER NEWCOMB DEAD
Well Known Santa Fe Engineer Dies
in an ASYLUM.

Word was received in Topeka today of
the death of Engineer c. S. Newcomb of
the Santa Fe at the territorial insane asy-
lum at Las Vegas, N. M, Sunday. New
comb at one time an engine the
eastern division of the road and later on
the Southern Kansas division, and was
well known among the railroad men here.
Some time ago he was assigned to the
Rio Grande division, with headquarters
at Ration N. NJ.
Three months ago he was taken i'll and
his mind gave way. He believed himself
in the employ of a Management operating
line to the moon, and was in the habit
of making daily trips an imaginary en-
CINE to and from the neighbOring planet.
Ration tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
CANNOT IMPORT MINERS.
Injun ctions Granted and Served on
Weir City Mine Owners.

Weir City. May 29.-The strike situa-
ton took a new turn Saturday when
Sheriff Sparks served injunctions on E.
b Harris of the Kansas and Texas
Coal company and on w H Barrett,
lessee of that company's mine No. 40.
restraining them from importing miners
to take the places of the strikers. The
injunction was granted by District
Judge Skidmore on application of Coun-
ty Attorney Stevens.
Sheriff Sparks has publicly stated
that the companies would not be per-
mitted to import miners if ne had to
summon the whole county to his as
sistance in preventing it. OF the twelve
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Ever Recorded in Washington Filed
by the B. 6 o. Road

Washington, May 29.-The Baltimore
q ONO railroad placed on record here
Two mortgages covering all its property
rights and franchises. They cover the
largest amount of money of any trans
actlon ever recorded here. The first is
prior lien mortgage to the Mercantile
Trust company of New York to secure
$'5 oO0, 600 in bonds payable July 1, 1925.
with S12 per cent interest payable semi
annually. The mortgage is to the Uni
ted States Trust COMPANY of New York
ana John A. Stuart to secure S165, 900, 600
IN bonds payable July 1, 194S, with 4
per cent interest payable semi annual
ly.
revenue stamps and the other $31. 500.
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ARMOUR IMPROVING.
The Chicago Millionaire is, However,
Very Sick Man.

Bad Nauheim, May 29.-Now that he
has begun to mend, the physicians of
Philip D. Armour the Chicago mill
lionaire, do not think it necessary to
deny that when he arrived here he was
in a preearious condition, though they
say he did not have a stroke of apo
pleXy, but an attack of heart disease.
1t was said today that when he arriv-
ed here Mr.. Armour seemed one of the
worst cases that had ever been received
at the health resort. Even now he is
denied visitors, newspapers, mail and
kilograms, and goes out of the hotel
only for baths in the mineral waters,
drives and light exercise il walking
His physicians are hopeful of continued
Improvement, though he is still very
weak, and evidently very far from be-
ing more than convalescent.
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RUMOR DENIED.
President A A. Robinson Says Mexi-
can Central Will Not Buy.

Mr.. A. A. Robinson, president of the
Mexican Central railway. who is now
in Topeka, said today that the manage
ment of the Central had no intention of
acquiring the Mexican road, as rumor-
ed here not long ago. He said that, as
far as he knew, Mr.. F. b. McKercher
would remain with the Mexican Cen
trail, and not go TO the Mexican rail-
way as general manager.
Mr.. Robinson will leave in a few days
for London, where he goes every year
to confer with the stockholders of the
Mexican Central
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
DOWN GO RATES.
Insurance Companies Announce
Reductions in Large Cities.

The insurance companies today an
nounced a reduction of rates of insur-
ance in the five cities of Kansas having
paid fire departments, Topeka, Kansas
City, Wichita, Leavenworth and Atchi-
SON The reduction is from so cents to
35 cents on frame buildings and from
80 to % cents on brick buildings.
The reduction in other cities in the
state will be announced in few days
but will be smaller because they have
no paid fire department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
MISS BARNUM DEAD.
Daughter of S. Barnum Passed Away
Saturday Night.

Miss Minnie Barnum, aged "a, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Barnum, died
Saturday night at $50.
Miss Barnum had been confined to
her bed with nervous prostration for
six months and had been an invalid for
over a year. Her brother Benjamin
arrived from Perry, o. T., just before
she died. Miss Barnum passed away
quietly as if asleep, and without pain.
Mr.. Simon Greenba UNI, who was for
merly a, partner with Mr.. Barnum
came from Newton to attend the flu
neral, which was held this afternoon at
o'clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-29
Fusion in Dickinson County.

Abilene, May 29.-The Populist coun-
ty central committee met here Saturday
and voted to fuse with the Democrats
on the next county ticket, giving the
Democrats the candidates for county
clerk and register of deeds. The Popu-
lists will name the candidate for treas
urer. The referendum system of nOmi-
mating county officers was abandoned
and delegate convention called. Sep
arate tickets will be put up with the
same names on both.
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Hutchinson Girl Missing.

Hutchinson. May ga Hutchinson
an adopted daughter Mr.. and Mrs.
Vansicl<le went to the commencement
exercises Friday night, leaving their
adopted daughter, Nettie, at home.
When they came back they supposed
she had gone to bed, and did not look
for her. She was IA years of age and
rather attractive in appearance. The
search has been kept up ever since and
the theory now is that Nettie was in
duced to leave home.
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The frequent official dispatches from
Manila saying that the war is about
ended and the subjugation of insur-
gents almost accomplished, indicate
that there is either desire to deceive
the people of this country or a vast
amount of ignorance over there. Uncle
Sam is not so young as to need to
whistle while going through the woods.
Why not have the truth about the sit
uation and then meet it in a proper
and effective way?
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PARDoNED PRISONERS.
Will Have to Stand Trial Now For
Killing Deputy Marshal

Leavenworta, May 29.-J. A. Church.
Harvey Bruce and Dave Wilsaps, serv-
ing sentences in the federal prison at
the post. have been pardoned by Presi-
dent Mckinley. They, with Toner
Skidmore. are under Indictment in Ar
kansas for killing a United States dep
uty marshal. Skidmore is also in the
prison and his term will expire July 10,
and it is likely all four will be re-
leased on that date.
They will be met at the prison gate
by deputy marshals and taken back for
trial
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APPLE CROP IS ALL RIGHT.
Small Fruits Will Be Plentiful, But
Peaches Are a Failure.

Leavenworth, May 90. w. Prather
and son, who have been tending their
fruit farm near Lowemont, came to
town this morning. Mr.. Prather says
there will be plenty of all varieties of
apples, excepting the Ben Davis, this
year OF small fruits there will be
plenty. but the peach crop will be to-
tai failure.
Mr.. Prather notes the curious fact on
his farm that while on the east side
of the trees the apples grow very thick
1y. on the west side there are few, if
any at all.