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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-16
ALL PRAISE CHOATE.
London Papers Compliment the
American Ambassador.

London. March 16.-The afternoon pa
pers today contain complimentary ref
erences to the speech delivered last
night by Joseph H. Choate, the United
States ambassador at the banquet of
the Associated Chambers of Commerce
of the United Kingdom, which was held
at the Metropole hotel.
The st. James Gazette says: 1.-THE
main fact emphasized in the tone, as
much as in the words of Mr.. Choate's
speech and in President McKinley's
words which he quoted, is that Brother
Jonathan has become conscious of his
imperial destiny; that he is going out
to see the world and that he believes
that his best friend and guide in the
new adventure will be the mother coun-
try"
The Westminster Gazette pointing out
Mr.. ChOate's remark: Although we
are friends, we shall not cease to be
rivals" says: I'VE shall be all the bet
ter friends of this warning is kept in
mind. The real danger of the situation
is that it's sentimental aspect may be
so strongly insisted upon that when diff
ferences on material points arise, there
may be an inevitable reaction"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-16
SAW HER OWN DEATH.
Mrs. Edith Moore, Formerly of Green
wood Co, Kas., Stands Before
Mirror and Shoots Herself

Kansas City, March 16.-Mrs. Edith
Moore, who runs a boarding house at
90S Baltimore street, made an attempt
at suicide last evening which bids fair
to prove successful. After retiring for
the night she arose from her bed, armed
with a 3S-caliber revolver, walked to
the mirror. placed the muzzle of the
gun to her right temple and pulled the
trigger. The ball pierced her brain.
She was removed to the city hospital
still alive, but unconscious. She can
not live, say the physicians in attend
ance.
This was the third time that Mrs.
Moore had attempted to kill herself, her
other efforts, by the means of morphine,
being frustrated by the work of the
police surgeons. The cause for the deed
was dependency. Three years ago she
became the wife of Calvin Moore, a
wealthy farmer of Greenwood county,
Kansas, but they separated after hav-
ing lived together shortly over year.
The husband now lives in Kansas. The
wife went to work in the city in the
stores, and afterward started the board
ing house where she ended her life last
night.
Mrs. Moore was the daughter of An
drew Kerr, a very wealthy farmer and
we'll known politician of Greenwood
county, Kansas.
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THEY MAKE POOR COPS.
Much Dissatisfaction With Cuban
Policemen.

Havana, March 16.-Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee has returned here from CienfuegoS.
Chief of Police Menocal, owing to the
recent censures of the force, carries his
resignation in his pocket. He has ten
dered it two or three times, but on fur
Their considerations has withdrawn it,
The new police force has unfortunately
created a bad impression. During the
last few days the policemen have shown
timidity in handling people. They ap-
pear to be undetermined and undecided
what to do or how to do it.
People have no respect for them and
pay little attention to their orders.
Besides this the force has no past ira
ditiOns, esprit de corps, or experience
Since McCullagh's departure the only
American police official here has been
Detective Crowley and he is concerned
with the detective bureau alone.
There have been several amusing in
cidents showing lack of respect for the
force and several of the policemen have
asked for a detail of American soldiers
to help them arrest law breakers, say
ing our soldiers are the, only men the
law breakers will obey. 1t will take
some time for the police to regain the
prestige they have lost.
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PROSPERITY FOR X. U.
Chancellor Snow Says That Ten More
Instructors Will Be Employed
This Year

Kansas City, March 16.-Dr F. H.
Snow, chancellor of the University of
Kansas, was in the city yesterday. Con-
corning the suggestion of President
Jesse, of Missouri state university, that
the Kansas institution ''competes with
high schools and enters as students
young women from town who practice
on the mandolin" and that it is "a
mere school, Chancellor Snow said:
Il don't care to discuss that because
it doesn't touch US. We have neither
a preparatory department nor a mando-
lin school,
DR.. Snow says that, in addition to the
$50 900 for a new chemistry building, the
late legislature appropriated $4,000
more for the maintenance of K. S. q.
than was given two years ago. Ten
more instructors will be employed, in
Guiding an assistant to Professor F. w.
Blackmar, of the sociology and political
economy department. Courses in me-
chanical and mining engineering will be
established and one year each added to
the course of study in the law and med
ical schools. The chemical department
of the medical school will probably be
located here.
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Sheriff at Henson, Colo, Wires
For Troops.
Strikers Are in Control of the
Place.
RED GLAREIN THE SKY
Indicates That They Have
Burned the Town.
Soldiers Start Hastily For the
Scene of Trouble.

Denver, March 16.-The rioting at
Henson, near Lake City, broke out late
last night and the sheriff of Hinsdale
county wired the governor for troops.
The sheriff had just returned from Hen
son and said the situation was extreme
ly critical and that the strikers were in
control of the place and had threatened
to burn everything in the camp. A red
glare in the sky a few minutes after
the sheriff left the camp indicated that
the threat was being carried out
The message to Governor Thomas
asked for at least $50 men and the gov
ernor decided to grant the request at
once. Company B, First regiment of in
fantry and troops B and c, of the cav
airy, under Captains Smith and Hill
were summoned and left this morning.
Colonel Macarr commands the troops.
"a stop was made at Pueblo for thirty
men of B company, Second infantry, at
that place, and it is likely the run to
Lake City will be at 7 o'clock tonight,
If not before. The snow on Marshall
Pass may delay the train a little, but
the men will be in readiness to leave for
Henson by conveyances during the ear
~ night and be prepared to take charge
of the situation at daylight tomorrow.
As the road winds through a narrow
canyon for most of the distance, the
troops will have to depend upon the
Lake City people to prevent ambush
ing. for at some places it would be pos
sible for a few men to hold the entire
attacking force at bay, especially as the
snow and ice in the gorge are so that
detours over the sides of the hills are
impossible.
DIDN'T BURN THE TOWN.
Denver, March ia special to the
Times from Lake City says the Italian
strikers did not attempt to burn the
mining camp Henson, as was feared
last night. Quiet prevails today. The
troops en- route from Denver and Pueb-
10 are expected to reach Lake City to-
morrow morning.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

The following transfers of real estate
have been filed:
Geo. r. Spaulding and wife to r. L. Cot
coin St. Quinton & Steele's addition.
Louisa NJ Gay to VIM. E. ROofe, 81, lots
54 and 5S6 Taylor street, Armstrong ad-
dition. First ward.
John H. Frizell and wife to H. Swan,
$500 lots, 157 and 159 Tenth avenue Young's
addition.
Anna L. Shultz and husband to Jesse S.
Palmer $500 lots ~ ia and 716 Buchanan
street, Martin & Dennis addition.
T. A. Cratigny and wife to E. p. Wal
ker $500, lot 379 and north half SS1 Polk
street.
Frank o. Chesney and wife to Mary E.
Chesney, 5000. lot 1856 Kansas avenue,
Ritchies addition.
Laura S. Moss ct al. by Cook to H. c.
Fuller, $3.50, lots 1913, S75 and 37 Tyler
street
c. b. Merriam and wife to Electa r. r.
Sweeney, 300, lots AZ and A West Sixth
street.
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ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
Miss Semira Coultrane Drinks Solu-
ton of Insect Poison.

Miss Semira Coultrane, a sister-in-1aw
of S. L. Still, proprietor of the restaur-
ant at 217 West Fifth street, while in a
fit of temporary insanity yesterday af-
ternoOn, mixed two tablespoonful of
insect poison with water and drank it.
BY the prompt arrival of physicians her
life was saved.
Miss Coultrane was in her room above
the restaurant when she took the
poison. She afterward walked down
stairs and was there taken i'll. She ad-
mitted having taken the poison, and the
glass with little of the solution in the
bottom confirmed her statement
The woman is subject to fits of tenn
porary insanity. She is 81 years of age,
and was brought into some notice re-
Gently by the affidavit she made for the
defense in the Collins case. She is still
quite i'll, but will probably recover.
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WOMEN TO RENEW FIGHT.
They Will Again Ask Oklahoma For
Suffrage in 1901.

Guthrie. o. T., March 16.-Oklahoma wo-
man suffragistS are not disheartened by
their failure to secure the passage eff the
McElrath bill The territorial executive
committee met the day after the legista-
Hure adjourned and resolved that the cam
paign for 1901 should begin at once.
Miss Mary G. Hay, secretary of the ma
tional association, who was at Guthrie
throughout the sitting of the legisla ture,
left yesterday for Council Bluffs Ia, to
devote six weeks to the suhragist cause
in Iowa
Before going she said:
While we did not win a final victory
IN Oklahoma. we do not feel defeated.
consider the suffrage cause cause 100 per
cent stronger in Oklahoma than it was
when the legislature met We were a lit
tie disappointed that some of the members
who had given us reason to believe they
were for US did not prove so. There were
others. however, who gave no indica ton
of sympathy until they voted for our
sure
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OUR CUBAN POLICY.
The Government Will Deal Directly
With the People.

Washington, March 16.-There has
been further Geographic correspondence
between Gen. Brooke and the war de-
partment regarding conditions in Cuba
with the result that hereafter General
Brooke will cOnfine himself wholly with
in the terms of the resolution adopted
by congress before the war. No govern
ment, organization, or set of men will
be recognized. The United States gov
eminent will deal directly with the peo-
pie of Cuba. 1t is not stated who the
people are but it is inferred that the
United States authorities will determine
that point as different questions arises.
In the same connection it is regarded as
important that the census which has
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been determined on should be taken so
as to ascertain the resident citizens of
the islands.
The Cuban assembly will be dealt
with as any other organization. If its
sessions provoke riot and disturbances
1T will be dispersed like any other dis
orderly body. If its meetings are harm
less and amount to nothing more than
the vociferation of men, no attention
will be paid to it. If the assembly gets
in the way of the United States author
ity in the preservation of the peace and
tranquility of the island, then the as
sembly or any other set of men must
in the language of the American police,
move on
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Market Gossip.


Merchan9 liz y East 9Th st Topeka, Ka1
receiver and shipper of grain.
Liverpool: Wheat I'd lower; corn I'D
London, 1:5O p. m. n. Wheat cargoes dun,
easier; more Russian offerings; options Ad
Cincinnati Price Current: Week not
been unfavorable to wheat crop. Little
IS of ful vitality Possibilities full last
winter crop; probabilities lower Aggre-
year ago. Bad roads retard produce move
ments. Packing. $4,000 head, against S45.-
Receipts of hogs: Chicago. 24,OOo. Sc
higher; Kansas City, Loco; Omaha, 1900.
one of specialties. specuiafion is narrow
and the market easily influenced 1t is
soon to start active buying in, all their
STOCKS They The r are talking very bulIish on
still a factor II the Changers, and until it
is definitely settled I . whether wheat has
gers will be unsettled and susceptible to
ferred is very heavy. ana unless the earn
poets it must sell lower Considering the
fact that it has but one per cent the price
looks high. With. good earnings from now
ent it seems high enough-J. F. Harris.
Car lots at Chicago: Wheat 43; graded,
2: corn, 216 graded, SO; oats, 40; graded,
Paris closing cables: Wheat. 5 centimes
lower: flour IS Confines lower
Weather forecast: Illinois. Missouri and
Kansas, rain Friday warmer.
Cash wheat Minneapolis selling at May
Kansas City receipts: Wheat, 81 cars;
corn, cars; oats, car; last year, wheat,
80 cars; corn, Sc cars; oats, cars.
Minneapolis, wheat stocks will increase
900 bushels increase last week. Minneap-
oils puts its Wednesday flour sales at 50,-
900 barrels.
kansas advices are generally for good
yield of wheat. Number of kilograms re-
fer to improvement of outlook by recent
SHOWS and rains.
Northwestern receipts: Duluth, 1O7 cars;
last year, 60 cars.
Minneapolis receipts wheat, 172 cars; last
year, 1853 cars.
ST Louis: Receipts of wheat, 10 800 BUSH
els; last year, $500; corn receipts, 81, 500
bushels; last year same date III, 800 bush
els; oats, SO, 500; last year. 80. 600.
Liverpool, 3:15 p. m; Wheat unchanged
except May, sd up from 1:SO p. m; corn,
New York: NV Atchison friends tell me
Atchison preferred is buy.-Savin.
New York: Rumors of settlement of
the trade war is the cause of the ad-
Topeka cash market, II a. m: Wheat.
6212c for best samples No. hard, SO test
I'D higher than yesterday.
Kansas City cash wheat: No. 2 hard, 50
test. 64c; corn, 3S1zc; oats, 2715QAc; IL
Antwerp: Wheat closes % centimes lower
than Wednesday.
New York: 10 loads wheat and % loads
corn taken for export.
st. Louis closing: Wheat, cash Tic. March
cash cas- $4e Marc 5 CO.. Nay Ga 52sc O July f? s8:
May. 261Ac asked, July 29e bid.
| 6S15c; puts May corn 33$4c, calls 341ac.
Geo; Seayerns. has been big buyer of
| wheat on the decline.
| No. hard, SO test. best samples.
Total clearances wheat, flour included as
| wheat, $4,000 bushels; corn, $4,000 bush
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MUST BURY WIRES.
Kansas City Park Commissioners In
sist on This Order.

Kansas City, March 16.-No overhead
wires on any of the boulevards is the
decision reached by the park board, and,
further that the decision will be re-
scinded for no one. In effect this means
that if the Metropolitan Street Car
company desires to transform the In
dependence avenue line into an electric
line the wires will have to go under
ground.
The matter was brought UP yesterday
at the meeting of the board by Mr..
Burnham, who wanted to know if the
board had ever adopted any policy on
the question of stringing wires along
the bOuleVardS.
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G. A. r. IN CANADA.
Vermont Encampment to Be Held at
Montreal

Lyndonville, Vermont, March 16.-The
decision of Department Commander
Harris to hold the next state encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. in Montreal in
June, will mark an epoch in the history
of the order as that encampment will be
the first held by state cOmmandery out
side of the prescribed limits of the I'm
ion. Commander Harris believes that
the plan will be popular among Yer
mont comrades. The objects are two
fold, first, to benefit and to encourage
the G. A. r. posts which the depart
ment has established in Quebec and
Montreal and secondly, to show in
methodical way the cordially existing
between the United States and our
neighbors across the border.
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THE REAL CULPRIT
In the Dreyfus Case Is Said to Be the
Russian Am bassador.

London, March 16.-The Evening
News today publishes a sensational
Dreyfus story. It declares that former
Russian Ambassador Count Won Moh-
renheim is the real culprit who sold
both Russian and French secrets to the
German government, adding that the
Russian government itself is convinced
of his guilt, and that it is only to avoid
a public scandal greater than the Drey-
fus affair that he is unpublished. Fur
Their than this is the intimatiOn that he
is not to show his face within the cars
dominiOnS.
Baron Won Mohrenheim was formerly
Russian ambassador at Paris. He was
relieved from his post in December, 1897,
and was succeeded by Prince Ourous-
soft, who was previously Russian min
lister at Brussels.
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EARNINGS CUT SHORT
On the B. & o. by Delay and Expense
From Storms.

Baltimore. March 16.-On account of
the severe storm which swept over the
eastern portion of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad during February and
which practically closed the road for
five days, the gross earnings for the
month of February, 1899 were SLIPS, SS1,
a decrease of S119, 4SO. The net earnings
show a decrease of $2SS, 500, caused by
extraordinary expenses in removing the
snow and other impediments from the
tracks during the storm and to improve
ments that are being made from the in
come. The gross earnings for the eight
months of the fiscal year 1S97-9S were
S.719. 3S2. an increase of S642, 1S2.
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NORTH TOPEKA.

Mrs. M. c. Boudry is entertaining her
sister, Miss Ida Cederholm of California.
AS soon as the condition of the street
will permit Jackson street, from Park to
Morse, will be paved with brick.
Mr. Guise of Kingfisher, Okla, ar
rived yesterday and will visit his sister,
Mrs. UnholtZ.
Go to C. B. Lyon. D. D. s.. for fine
dental work at popular prices. Office
GIL Kansas avenue Tel. CSC.
Mrs F. P. Leavenworth of Mime
apolis Mimi, arrived yesterday and is
staying at the home of her sister, Mrs.
A. J. Arnold.
James Gibbons, in his capacity as
grand foreman of the a. o. u w, Wis
tied Kaw Valley lodge A. o. U. w. No.
20, last evening.
DR.. EIIinger has received word from
a physician at Rossville reporting that
there are three cases of spinal mening-
tits in that place.
The usual Thursday evening service
will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock
in the Church of the Good Shepherd,
followed by a meeting of the confirna-
ton class.
in the Second Presbyterian church, I'M
der the auspices of the F. A A and for
the benefit of Maudie and Oracle Ward.
daughters of the late Doc" Ward,
was excellent and well worth the price
of admission. The church was crowded
to the utmost and the exercises con-
sisted of recitations and music. Among
those who took part were Misses Bertha
Wizer, Myrtle Palmer, Edna Parkhurst,
Mabel Skinner. leila Lukens. Harry
Lukens, DR.. c. B. Lyon, Mrs. L. A.
Ryder, Rev. I. A. Wilson and the little
Ward girls themselves. Mrs A s.
Palmer's class of girls also added great
ly to the pleasure of the evenings en-
tertainment by giving their drills.
Mrs o. A Brown entertained Mrs.
George P. Ashton and Miss Norma
Wheeler of Kansas City at a charming
one o'clock luncheon Wednesday.
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AMAMMOTH BUILDING.
To Be Erected in Chicago For Con-
vention Purposes

Chicago, March 1s-Arrangements have
been perfected for the erection Of a mann
nue. and Sixteenth street, where the old
Libby prison is located The new structure
which will hold 1900 people, will be com
pleted by the LIST of next September 1t
will, be constructed mainly of iron and
Square Garden of New York, being 2S4
feet long and 17S feet in width. The build
ing will be particularly well suited for
conventions, and an effort will be made
to secure the Republican and Democratic
assembIageS of president makers next
year. 1t is expected that the building will
cost about $4,000.
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Chicago livestock Market.

ChiCagO, MARCH 10
HOGS+Receipts q, 900; for tomorrow,
% OO0 left over, 1883. Market active, so
1Oc higher. Mixed and butchers, $3.50
{. 921a: good heavy. Sc. 1898 90; rough heavy,
$360a3.7o; light, So. 65@390-
CATTLE = Receipts; 800. Market
stronger. Beeves. s.. 90d5.70; cows and
heifers, $2G4. IS: Texas steers, $S.5oa4-So;
stockers and feeders, 50. 40a4-so.
SHEEP-Receipts, 10000. Market steady.
Sheep, $3-2514.75; lambs, $4-25Q5-25-
Official yesterday; - 20,
CATTLE-Receipts, 1888; shipments, g.
sHEEP-Receipts, 12,o4s; shipments. g.
qOe
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Furnished by ]. c. Goings. Commission
Merchant 112 East 9TH St, Topeka, Kan.
receiver and shipper of grain.
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STANDS BY HER PETS.
Actress o'Neil Leaves a Hotel in Sc
attic Because They Are Ordered
From the House

Seattle, Wash, March 16.--Love of pets
IS causing Nance Q'Neil. the California
She quietly took an Angora cat, a par
rot and two bulldogs into her partments
the fact became known to the manage
ment she was notified to move the menag-
erie or seek other quarters Miss O'Neil
storned up and down her room much as
she does in Magda, announcing. We'll if
my pets can't remain with / shall
leave the house, and so she did. she and
attic.
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MOVES TO OMAHA.
Miles Court of Inquiry Finishes It's
Work at Chicago.

Omaha, March 16.--!The army board of
and started to work early. The forenoon
plants at South Omaha. Particular atten-
ton was paid to the point brought out in
clan to the effect that he had seen meat
chemically treated in the Swift plant here.
The company maintained that the opera
ton the doctor saw was simply the injec
ton of salt into the interior of the hams,
for the purpose of producing an even
cure. The process was exemplified and
a sample of the fluid used submitted for
ANALYSIS.
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ANALOGOUS DEPOSITOR
Starts a Run on Cincinnati Savings
Bank.

Cincinnati, March 16.-A run was
started on the Cincinnati Savings bank
yesterday without apparent cause,
which was promptly met by the pay
ment of all checks presented. The Of
fcers of the bank attribute the run to
the malice of the depositor who had
dispute in settling his account and who
threatened to get eVen-
The run was resumed today, blocking
the sidewalk and obstructing the street
All applicants were paid in full
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viii Try Pigeon Post.

tempt to establish a system of pigeon
post on board the steamers of the Com
pagnie Generate TranSatlantique be-
tween HaVre and New York which has
been for some time under consideration
has finally been approved and it has
been decided to begin the experiment
next month.
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Kansas Citv Produce Market

Kansas City. March 15.
No. 8. 60a63c: No. 2 red. re; No. 9, 69u
lie; No. 2 spring. 61a6Sc: No. 3. 5sd6lc.
G&4c; No 2 white, 341zc; No. 9. 34c,.,
OATS-Higher. No. white, 500 3014c-
RYE-Steady. No. 2. 56c.
HAY-Steady, unchanged
BUTTER-Steady. Creamery, 14Q19c;
Enthusiastically. Fresh. 101kG11c.
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Itching Piles.

rible plague, Itching Piles, or from
Eczema, will appreciate the immediate
relief and permanent cure that comes
through the use of Doan's Ointment. 1t
never fails. Free Samples at Rowley 6,
Shows, druggists, southeast corner
Sixth and Kansas avenue, Monday,
March 20, after a. m.
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Edna Raymond Freed.

Cleveland, O., March 16.-The jury
last night rendered a verdict of not
guilty in the case of Mrs. Edna Ray
mond, who was charged with shooting
Mrs. John A. Hanna.
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A RaheIlion Ii Java.

London, March 16.-The Brussels cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: "A
dispatch from Batavia, Netherlands
Indies, reports that a revolt has broken
out at SOOmalata, on the Celebes coast
and that the Dutch administrator there
has been murdered