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STONES NEW POWER.
Probably Will Head an Executive
Committee.

Chicago, Ill, July 2O-While Senator
Jones of Arkansas will not be deprived of
the craftsmanship of the Democratic ma
tionaI committee at its meeting Thursday,
he will be stripped of the unlimited power
he has welded in party management dur
ing the last three years. His committee
on ways and means will be reorganized
and made amena BILE to the discipline of
the general committee.
Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri viii be
vested with the real leadership of the
committee. He will be elected temporary
chairman to preside in the absence of
Senator Jones, and, before the committee
adjOurns, will have powers which will
make him de facto chairman.
Senators Teller and Allen have applied
for the ways and means commit tee.
Stone will resign, and this will leave only
AItgeld and Jones. Insiders are confident
that Altgeld will resign as soon as he
learns that his colleagues have taken this
course. Jones cannot act without col
leagues and will have to permit the reor-
der the new plan, to work out Thursday,
Ex-Governor Stone is to be made a power
on national lines
lin, editor of the party bulletin, whose
scalp National Committeeman Gahan de-
manded at St. Louis. 1t is likely ex-
Governor Stone viii be empowered 10 ap-
point a successor.
A process Of organization which viii be
nittee Of which Stone viii be chairman.
1t will be vested with the full powers of
the national committee to prepare for the
campaign of 1900.
1t has been decided that no attention
viii be paid to local fractional fights, and
that representatives of warning bodies
who may come to Chicago to demand rec
ognltOn Will not be admitted to the meet
ing OF the committee This rule will APP
ply especially to the COMMITTEES of the
Chicago platform party of New York that
was appointed the other day for the ex-
press purpose of demanding official rec
ognition from the committee on the
ground
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Under THE TREES.
z. nj. G. A. Members Viii Camp and
Study the Bible.


The fourth annual Bible camp and
outing Of the members of the Young
Mems Christian association will be held
at the Wakarusa, beginning next Sat
urday and will last nine days. Rev
Fred G. Mitchell will conduct the SER
vices at the camp this year, assisted
by the secretary, George E. LerrigO and
Mr. Chas. C. Titus. Many members
have already signified their intention Of
going and the prospects are very en-
couraging for a large attendance at the
camp.
To those who have never attended
one of these Bible camps, it would prove
spend a part if not all Of the nine days
days outing. combined with few
hours Bible study each day. The tents
are pitched in Snyder's grove, not far
from Wakarusa station and near to
KVakarusa creek. Here suitable spots
are picked out for the sleeping tents,
dining tent kitchen and place for hold
dng services.
This grove is admirably suited for
camping out of this kind, as fresh wa
ter, shade, high ground and other nee
essary and convenient adjuncts are to
be found there, while boating, swim
ming and fishing may be INDUCED in
near the camp. The members do their
own cooking and there are several good
cooks among those who attend. These
Bible camps are looked forward to
with much interest as it means to
many, a week or more of camping out
IN the fresh air and a general good
time.
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has already laid its grim hand upon him,
and doctor after doctor and medicine after
medicine have been tried in vain-now, per
haps, comes some kind friend who says,
g DR. Pierce can cure you write to him:
His g Golden Medical Discovery" has res
cued thousands who were further gone
than you
He is chief consulting physician of
the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
of Buffalo N. Y; he has been at the head
of this great Sanitarium for thirty years; he
has probably had more experience in treat
ing severe chronic diseases than any other
physician living. Write to him anyway;
that will cost you nothing. He will gladly
and freely answer your letters with friend
", fatherly advice which will be of value
beyond all price!'
Now is the critical instant Will the
patient give up in despair and let the angel
of disease drag him away from wife and
family and children, or will he grasp the
hand of the angel of life in one more su-
prerne effort for restoration Are you
Which wins
Mrs Emily Howe of Park Avenue, Chicago,
Ills, writes: About two years ago my son was
consumption. I purchased three bottles of DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and it cured
him completely"
The Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser, Iooo-page illustrated volume by
cost of mailing only,-2I one-cent stamps.
Address DR.. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Or send
81 stamps for heavier cloth-bound copy.
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MESSENGER NO. 574.
One-Armed WheeIman to Make a
Transcontinental Trip.

New York, July 20.-Messenger No.
574 of the Postal Telegraph company,
who has only one arm and who attracts
attention everywhere in Harlem by the
ease with which he rides a bicycle
without handlebars, is about to at
tempt to ride from New York to San
Francisco in record breaking time. He
purposes to start from the City hail
next Sunday morning at o'clock and
hopes to maintain runs of from so to IS
miles a day for the entire distance. He
will follow the route taken by Mr.. and
Mrs. Davis in their transcontinental
automobile.
No. 574 in private life is Albert V.
Roe. He is 10 years old and usually
lives at the Mills hotel in Blocker
street. His left arm was cut off at the
shoulder while switching cars at Los
Angeles, Cal, two years ago. A broth
er and three sisters, his nearest living
relatives, live in Grinnel1, Ia, and he
means to call on them in passing. Roe
rides a wheel geared to 81 inches and
steers 1t by a crotch four inches long
on the head of the machine. A skele-
ton rack built over the rear wheel will
carry his baggage. He has ridden a
hundred miles every Sunday for ten
weeks to put him in condition for the
Journey.
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KISSING BUG CLUB.
Young Women of La Sale, Ill, Organ
ize to Capture Insect Specimens

La. Sale, Ill, July 2O.-A kissing bug
club is the latest social organization of
this city, being formed exclusively of
young women, and the object being to
acquire one specimen for each member.
In nearly every store window is a glass
jar with a prisoner supposed to be a
RnilanOlestes picipes, and the young Wo-
men may every afternoon be seen in
front of the business places studying
the different species. The woods and
meadows are secured by other mem
bers for the coveted insects.
The young women are not alone in
their interest. however, for the more
staid and serious citizens have become
alarmed at the reported advent of
flock of kissing bugs into the vicinity
Three persons have been bitten in La
Sale, and though the doctors scott ev-
cry residence in this town is closed air
tight every night and all night Miss
Title Johnson, who was the first suf-
ferer to appear on the streets with
swollen lips, declares that she has never
experienced such pain in all her forty
six years as accompanied the sting of
the kissing bug. She wants revenge,
and made application for mem bership
an the Kissing Bug club, but was denied
on account of age.
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WE ARE RIGHT.
And Not Foot of Land Will Be
Yielded to Canada.

Chicago, July 20.-A Tribune special
from Washington says:
Senator Fairbanks of the joint high
commission had a conference with
President Mckinley and Secretary Hay
at the White House on the Alaskan
boundary dispute. The senator reports
that from personal observation he is
firmly convinced that the contentious
made by this government are correct,
and if the modus vivendi is agreed upon
it must be upon the terms of the
United States.
Senator Fairbanks has been all over
the country in the vicinity of Kluck-
wanan, Dyea, Skaguay and the terri
tory in dispute and finds incontTovert-
BILE evidence that the contentious Of
this government are correct
It was said that this government will
not yield foot of territory and that
unless the British government agrees
upon a. mOdus vivendi on the terms
which this government offered there
will be no meeting of the joint
high commission on August 2.
While Senator Fairbanks declined to
discuss the subject of the position oc-
cupied by the Canadian police, because
he may be again called upon to deal
with the Alaskan questiOn,it was learn
ed that members Of this force are now
in the Porcupine region, which unQueS-
tionably belongs to this government.
The orders which were given some
time ago for sending American troops
to Pyramid harbor have not been re-
scinded, but are still held in allegiance
at the request of the British govern
ment.
In view Of the latest information fur
nished the state department this
point, it would not be surprising if the
British government is notified that
American troops will be sent to Pyra-
mid harbor, whether Great Britain OBJ
jects or not.
The administration is determined to
protect the interests of it's citizens and
hold its territory, no matter what the
attitude Of the British government may
be
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TREATED LIKE ANIMALS.
Letters From Prisoners Suppressed by
Gen. Otis Unearthed.

Chicago, July 20.-The Record prints the
following mail story from one Of its Ma
Mia correspondents, which he claims Gen
eral Otis would not allow to be sent by
cable:
When General Lawton entered San Isl
dro, May II, a Spaniard was brought to
him and was introduced as Senior Rowan
RAY. he mad peen a prisoner, ne sdlu,
but had been left behind because he was
cealed letters from his fellow prisoners,
written when they learned that he was
Ray gave into the hands Of General Law
ton, who Immediately sent them TO Gen
allow nothing about it to sc at the time
the letters We're received on account of
I got this Information in an honorable
way, and also copies of letters left by the
prisoners. Below their letters are given
san -Isidro. May Ito Commodore. U:
S. N.-Dear Sir: Through the kindness of
the bearer, Senior Rowan Ray, we are en-
abled to send word through the lines and
tenant Gilmore and seven men of the
Yorktown, four soldiers and two civilians
march for the mountains. For God
sake, can nothing be done for us2 We
frian5 70 ~ ana deserves +he hest CON
sideraton of every American Respect
ALBERT LOWENSHON''
A letter from Lieutenant Gilmore mere
" tells of the capture of himself and asks
that b. D. Price, Fourth Infantry be in
Another letter from Lowenshon says:
Up to Gilmore's arrival we had been
treated in most barbarous manner--starv-
ed. beaten and bound. But since the adj
vance of the United States troops our
treatment has been a urifie better We
have been living cents a day, and
most of US are nearly naked. The Span
lard has been treated even worse than
we. being tortured in the stocks and
starved. Some hundreds are dying of
dysentery and other diseases, but whether
Incapable or not caring the government
does nothing for these If it had not
been for Senior Rowan Ray and his cOun-
trymen we should possibly have starved
to death on the retreat from MalOlos.
ALBERT LOWENSHON,
Formerly Q. NJ S. S. Zealandia.'
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GIVES UP THE LEGS.
Galesburg Authorities Enabled to
Hold an Inquest Over q Body.

Galesburg, Ill. July 2O-The controversy
between the coroners of Knox and Henry
counties as to which should hold the in
quest over the remains of Michael Nc
Laughlin of Philadelphia did not cease
until last evening. The Henry county
man gave in when he saw the order from
the Philadelphia relatives giving Marshal
Human of this city charge of the re-
mains. He sent the legs here and the in
quest resulted in a verdict of accidental
death. The remains are still here.
The Philadelphia relatives first ordered
them sent on G. o. D., but this evening
countermanded this and directed the IN
dertaker to keep them until a friend could
reach here and identify them.
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Big Gift to a Hospital

London, July 2O.-The Duke of West
minister has presented the winnings
of his colt, Flying Fox. in the Eclipse
stake, run at Sandown Park, amount
ing to $4,000, to the Royal Alexandria
hospital at Rhyl. Wales, of which he is
president and the Princess of Wales
patronesS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-20

Washington. July 2o-GeneraI Brooke
today cabled the war department of tht
death at Santiago on Monday of Her
man Peine, quartermaster sergeant
Fifth infantry of yellow fever. There
were no deaths on the 18th instant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-20
MR.. GROssCUP is I'LL.
Father of the Federal Judge Suffers
Touch of ParaIysis.

Ashland, o., July 2o.-Additional afhic-
ton came to the Grosscup family when
Benjamin Grosscup, aged father to the
United States judge, Peter S. Grosscup.
suffered slight attack Of paralysis. The
stroke affected his left side, and. while he
can move his arm and leg, they are numb
and he is confined to his bed
The judge who is slowly recovering from
severe Illness, is able to drive occasionally.
but his wife and mother are stir in bed
and seem to be gaining strength very
slowly.
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stole the Kine,s Throne.

Rome. July 20.-BurgIars entered a
building near the palace during the ex-
position at Turin and stole the throne
used by the kings at the official recep-
tiOns held at Turin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-20

Are they. who tell you other cough
Cough syrups II you cannot get it from
receipt Of 25c. we viii send you a bottle
Guaranteed. Squires' Pharmacy, 1872 Kan
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life prove
the stronger
and bring
him back to
happiness ?
mans ener-
] ica1 force
/ ly weakened
| down to the
u nti1 per
S u m ptio n
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sampaon's squadron On 20 Newnor1

Nara gansett Pier, R. I, July 2O.-The
warships of the North Atlantic squad
ron left here for Newport at $50 o'clock
this morning
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Fire, Tornado, Life and Accident.
Good territory and liberal contract to
first-class man to represent the old re-
liable Penn Mutual Life Insurance co.
GOSSETT Il BLAKEI,Y.
$40 Kan. Ave. CDudIey's Bank).
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Corporal Co. H, goth Kansa

What might have been''-if that little
cough hadn't been neglected-is the sad re-
Fiction of thousands of consumptives. One
Minute Cough Cure cures coughs and
colds. Geo. w. Stansf1eld, ". H. Will
son, A. J. Arnold & Son, A. ]. Kane & Co.
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"a Thing of Beauty and Joy forever. .

1t comes from up-to-date diaries.
It is made from sweet, pure milk
It is churned and handled with CLEAN Utensils
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Tours In the Rocky Mountains.

The Scenic Line of the World" the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. offers to
tourists in Colorado, Utah and New
Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the
transcontinental traveller the grandest
scenery. Two separate and distinct
routes through the Rocky Mountains
all through tickets available via either.
The direct line to Cripple Creek the
greatest gold camp on earth. Double
daily train service with through Pull
man palace and tourist sleeping cars
between Denver, San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and Denver and Portland
The best line to Utah, Idaho, Montana.
Oregon and Washington via the Ogden
Gateway" Write S. K. Hooper, g. P
&, T. A, Denver, Colorado. for Illustrated
descriptive pamphlets.
Gun-shot wounds and powder burns
cuts, bruises, sprains, wounds from rusty
nails, insect stings and ivy poisoning
quickly healed by DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve. Positively prevents blood poison
ing. Beware of cOunterfeits. DEWITT
is safe and sure. Geo ". Stansf7eld, w.
H. Wilson, a. J. Arnold &, Son, A. J.
Kane & Co.
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The state herald., 1899-08-11

was anchored near the Socapa battery.
which Is located on the hills west OF
the entrance to Santiago harbor. Her
yards and topmasts were sent down
and her starboard side tthe one she
presented to the mouth OF the harbor)
was protected by covering II with light
cables, with the object OF keeping the
enemy's shells from entering the tor
pedo magazine. Her boats assisted In
laying the lines of torpedoes which
guarded the entrance channel Four
OF her G.2-inch Hontoria guns were
dismounted. leaving the two forward
guns. which are carried on the main
deck In sponsons. to protect the mine
fields.
Two OF the dismounted guns were
dragged up the hill to the Socapa pat
terry, and mounted there. and two
others were taken across the channel
and mounted In the battery at Punta
Gorda. further up the entrance. These
four guns" says the lieutenant. were
mounted for the purpose OF directly at
tacking the hostile fleet" and Il was n
shell from one OF the Socapa guns that
entered the forward rapld-fre battery
OF the Texas. putting II temporarily
out OF action.
The crew OF the Relna Mercedes. In
addition to defending the torpedo lines
from the attack OF small craft that
might attempt to countermlno them.
mounted at the lower battery OF So
capa one 81 millimetcr Nordenfcldt gun
and four 81 mllllmetcr Hotchklss re-
volying guns. all OF which were taken
from the Mercedes. All OF the nrtii-
lery that had been removed from this
ship was served by the Mercedes men.
During the long series OF engagements
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Solomon Tsunpis,

~ Biblical student In this city"
says the Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Record. declares that II
the descriptions OF solomon'a temple
are accurately given In the Bible and
by sccular authorities. the total value
OF that odlncc and It's contents must
have exceeded 10000. .0O0, 000. In the
first place. the ynluo Of the materials
In the rough IN estimated at Sl2.5O0.-
600. 900. and the labor nt 5000 900 900.
According 10 the villalpandls 10000
men were engaged IN dressing cedar
lumber 10000 were engaged In cutting
stone. aud 10000 In bearing burdens.
for n period of seven years. who. In
addition 10 their wages. received NIFTY
cents a day for food. According 20 tho
ramc authority. which In corroboratod
by Joacphua, the vessels OF gold were
valued at 10000 talents, which, ro-
ducod 10 American money, Is equal 10
$3.50. .isi,0ij, The vessels Of silver
are calculated at t9.23i. .Tib.0OO. the
yes,mon,s of the pricats ana the robes
Of the singers Mt ti0.0s0.o0o ana the
value of the trumpcta OF gold was
81 900 600
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Worsc Thnn 4 DcnIIat.


There is In Toledo n young grocery
clerk who would like to meet the in
ven'or of the self-coiling strlng-h holder
That man is responsible. says the
Blade, for the grocery clerks undoing.
The clerk got into the habit. years ago
OF biting OF the string instead OF
breaking 1t. after lying bundles. Nat
urally his teeth protested against the
practice. At length they gave up and
wore out. He bought false teeth. BE
fore he fairly got acquainted with them.
so TO speak. the patent string-holder
was established In the store. Then.
as fate would have 1t, young woman
whom he secretly admired came In 10
buy FIVE pounds OF sugar. With the
activity OF an anxious lover he made
up the package and tied ii. Then. ac-
cordlng to his old custom. he bent for
ward and severed the string with hls
teeth. But he forgot the holder. and
he did not realize that the end Of the
cord had wedged itself between two OF
his new teeth-until. Ms the string
rolled up the slack. his plate" was
hoisted from his mouth and trlum-
phanuy waved aloft AT the end OF the
string
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NOTED WAR TROPHY.
REINA MERCEDES WHICH TRIED
TO DEFEND SANTIAGO.
How She Was stationed--spaniards
Tried the Same Trick Hobson Played
with the MerrImac. but were Not So
Successful.
washington Letter.)


In all the literature of the Spanish
war there is nothing OF greater inter-
est and value than the work entitled
BATTLES and Capitulation OF Santiago
de Cuba" by Lieut.. Jose Muller Tejei-
ro, second In command of the naval for
ces of the province of Santiago de Cuba,
u translation of which was published
some time ago by the office OF naval
intelligence Of the United States navy.
To this work we are indebted for par
ticulars Of the very important part
played by the Reina Mercedes In the
defense Of Santiago, says the Scientific
American.
The Reina Mercedes is protected
cruiser of 5000 tons displacement and
a speed of seventeen and one-half
knots an hour. She was built at Car
thagena In 1887, at time when the
Spanish navy was being reconstructed,
largely under the direction and with
the professional assistance OF Great
Britain. Her armament during the
operations Of the late war consisted OF
six 6.2-inch Hontoria guns; two 81
inch. three 2.2-inch, two 15-ineh, and
six 1.4-inch rapidfire guns. with two
machine guns. She carried the large
number of five torpedo tubes, all locat-
ed above the water line. Her coal sup
ply is 600 tons. At the time of. her
construction she was comparable in
speed and powers of offense and de-
fense with the average cruiser of sim
liar displacement OF other naves.
Lieut.. Tejeiro tells us that on ac-
count of the very bad condition of her
boilers at the outbreak of the war 1t
was impossible for the Reina Mercedes
to proceed to Havana, as most of the
Spanish vessels cruising in that neigh
borhood did. and it was determined to
make what use of her was possible in
the defense of Santiago harbor. She
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neuex .nonrht n Ticket.

When Commodore Dewey left Wash
ington in November, 1897. to take COM
mand of the fleet in the Pacific ocean,
he did not ride on n pass or half
rate ticket. Being personal friend of
S. B. Hege, General Agent OF the Bal
timore & Ohio passenger department
in Washington, the now famous sea
fighter, bought two first-class tickets
from Washington to San Francisco via
the b. and o., Chicago and North
Western, Union Pacific and Southern
Pacific lines. Lieut., Brumby accom-
panied the admiral and they departed
on November 81 Some time ago, Man
ager of Passenger Traffic d. b. Mar
tin of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
set out to collect the coupons Of the
ticket and only recently secured all
OF them. He has had the ticket, con-
tanning Dewey's signature, lithograph-
ed, and is issuing fac SMILES as SOU
venirs.
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=. - to-day the largest in the state ol
Indiana. Another, and another, and
another, was added, until at present.
there Is total Of twenty-six of these
plants. All have adopted exactly the
same plan as drafted and developed By
the pioneer company. Not a failure
marks the long list. There has not yet
been financial weakening, every one
of them has been cleared from all OF
the original obligations and all other
debts have been liquidated. The work
men who have set their own wages
have received 10 and many times 20
per cent higher wages than paid to the
workmen in the plants over the coun-
try which come into contact with them
Besides this weekly advanced wage. at
the end Of the year there have been
large earnings to be divided among
them and at times these have run as
high as several thousand dollars to
the man. Last year there were en-
ployed in these twenty-slx Tell City
plants 541 workmen. Their wages and
the earnings distributed among them
at the last Of the year amounted to
$663,000. Besides the men employed in
the factories, among whom this money
was divided, over 125 men and women
were given employment at their homes