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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15
NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA.

TO GAIN FLESH. TO SLEEP WELL. TO KNOW
WHAT APPETITE AND GOOD DIGESTION MEAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
GROWING MUSHROOMS.

From the Meehan's Monthly1
A Philadelphia correspondent desires
to have mushrooms grow among the
grass on his lawn, and asks how to go
about sowing the seed" The muSh-
room ''seed' is the fine black dust that
is expelled from a ripening mushroom.
It takes profound gardening skill to
get these to grow, and it is only at
tempted by those who make virgin
spawn business. Spawn is the mush-
room plant of which the mushroom it
self is the inf1orescence. This is the
cob-1ike material that gives the mush-
room odor to the earth in which the
mushrooms grow. 1t is not destroyed
by dessication; but will live for years
in a condition of absolute dfyness. In
this state the plant is sold by SeedSmeu
in the form of mushroom brickS-the
plant having been made to grow thor
oughly through the brick material be-
fore entirely dried. These bricks are
broken in pieces about the size of wal
nuts and planted by those who culti-
Vate mushrooms. Broken in pieces and
planted in the lawn, the correspondent
could have mushrooms. But, a little
gardening knowledge is necessary. If
planted at the wrong time the spawn
would rot away. 1t will only start to
grow under a temperature of so de-
grees-and should be planted only when
the soil is in a condition for the spawn's
growth. The proper course to take is
to test the earth by athermometera about
midsummer, and. when the earth is
found to be about this temperature set
out the brick pieces between one or two
inches deep, treading the, loosened earth
grassy lawns are better than young
ones, for it is believed that the fungus
on dead grass roots faVors the devel-
opment of the mushroom fungus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
ON ITS LAST LEGS.
Strike at Buffalo About to Come to
an End.

Buffalo, N. Y. May 22.-The situa-
ton today indicates an early ending of
the dock troubles. All of the elevators
on the dock at which boats were moored
or had work to do were at work today
with full compliments of monthly men
(machinists, etc, in charge of ma
chinery).
All monthly men who began SYM
pathetic strike last week went back to
ern elevators were refused work but
may be taken on later.
About 15 imported men were sent
back to New York today.
The state board of mediation and
arbitration resumed it's sessions today
without the new member, John S. Gill
bert, of Syracuse, who succeeds Chair
man Johnson, whose term expired on
Saturday.
Considerable work was being done at
the Lackawanna, Erie & Central docks
the coal and ore docks is unchanged,
only a very small number of men being
at work.
When the state board of mediation
and arbitration met today it was an
nounced that O'Connor who represented
the contractors was out of town. Daniel
Lockwood was present to represent the
contractors and asked for an adjourn
ment.
President Keefe of the International
Longshoremen'S union said that the
representatives OF the strikers would be
busy today and tomorrow and that
the work they would be engaged in
would be of more Importance to the
board than any evidence that could be
adduced by the board. The board then
adjourned until Wednesday morning.
Mr.. Keefe's statement was taken as
an evidence that the strike was nearing
an end.
Contractor Connors was asked his
view of the situation today and re-
sponded:
Il have nine elevators at work and
the monthly men have returned. The
strike is on its last legs. I have plenty
of men but 1 could use lots more"
The imported men who returned to
New York today were from the Lehigh
Valley freight docks.
BOARD OF TRADE RESCINDS.
Chicago, May 22.-The directors of
the board of trade today rescinded the
resolutions adopted by the board last
week cOndemning the Connors grain
contract at Buffalo. The following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved That it appears clear that
the best interests of the business of the
lakes and of the working men employed
in such business will be conserved by
settlement on the lines and in the plan
proposed by the lake carriers assOcia-
ton with the safeguards thrown about
the administration of dock work under
the supervision of Bishop Quigley and
the inspector appointed by him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
BABY KIDNAPPED.
Newly Hired Nurse Runs Away
With 1t.

New York, May 22-What appeared
to be bold case of the kidnapping of
a child was reported to the police today
and a score of detectives were at once
sent out in an endeavor to arrest the
offenders The missing child is Marion,
the 18-months-old daughter of Arthur
Clark, an employee of a publishing firm.
She was taken, the police say, by a
nurse named Carrie Jones who was
hired last week by the Clarks through
an advertisement.
The whole thing seems to have been
a cleverly laid plot. The child was
taken out yesterday afternoon by the
found by the police in Central Park.
Soon afterwards Mrs. Clark received
this letter:
Mrs. Clark-Do not look for your
nurse and baby. They are safe in our
possession where they will remain for
the present. If the matter is kept
out of the hands of the police and news
papers you will get your baby back safe
and sound If, instead, you make a big
time about it and publish it all over,
we will see to it that you never see her
alive again. We are driven to this by
the fact that we can not get work and
one of US has a child dying, through
want of proper treatment and nOuriSh-
ment. Your baby is safe and in good
hands. The nurse girl is still with her.
from us Monday or Tuesday. (Signed),
THREE
There is evidence to show that the
nurse girl wrote this letter. Mrs. Clark
is in a serious condition and the Sus-
penSe may cause her death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
MADE "a FOOL OF HIMSELF.
Governor Stanley Will Not Initiate
Governor Tanner in Dealing
With Strikes.

The promoters of the strike now in prog
ress at Pittsburg and in the coal mining
districts of southeastern Kansas address,
ed a letter to Governor Stanley asking
him if he proposed to follow the example
of Governor Tanner of Illinois and Cover
nor Jones of Arkansas and take the part
of the men in the strike and against the
corporations.
The governor replied to the letter today
and said that he would not order out the
militia unless 1t became necessary for the
protection of life and property of the peo-
pie in the strike district
Il hope. the controversies now in prog
ress will be settled amicably. 1 will not
interfere unless it become absolutely nee
esSary to do for the protection of the
lives and property of the people. Then
l will know man as an individual I
will simply administer the law to all alike
There shall be neither favoritism nor par
tiSanShip.''
Speaking of the matter the governor
said: Il think Mr.. Tanner made a fool of
himself and l shall certainly not follow
his example,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
PATENT LEATHER TRUST.
Third Combine Forming in Material
For Footwear.

New York. May 22.-Newark, N. J..
patent leather manufacturers have
agreed to a combination. which will be
in effect national patent leather trust.
IS per cent of the patent leather
manufactured in the United States is
produced in Newark. 1t is probable
that manufactures elsewhere in the
country will be included in the deal.
They have been, or will be, invited to
join the combination.
A man prominent in the patent leath-
er industry is former United States Sen
ator James Smith. He is believed to be
a prime mover in the new combination.
Other local firms said to be working
to have the deal consummated are F.
P. Howell & Co., Blanchard Bros. &
Lane, and S. Ha1sey's Sons.
Economy in manufacture is the chief
reason given for the consolidation. 1t
also is believed that more equable ad-
justment of prices, which competition
has caused to huctuate and differ
among firms, particularly as concerns
carriage leather, would be desirable.
Not in any way, it is said, is the con-
solidation in patent leather connected
with the National Leather company
which is a combination of sole leather
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
Childrens Shoes are of the best
OsaNaHsa wearing, at low prices.
Mackerel Scared by warships.

TFrom the Bangor Commercially
OF late years mackerel have not peen
seen off the eastern coast of Maine. one
explanation was given Monday by
prominent fisherman of Southwest
Harbor, who was in Bangor on that
day who said:
1--WE used to catch mackerel by the
thousands down our way years ago,
but the warships scared them away:
You know they run in schools, anu
once they get scared from a certain 10
cality they never again run that way
That's the only reason / can find as 10
why they don't come our way nova
days.
Less is known about mackerel than
of any other of our common food fish.
It is known that the fish migrate
northward in the spring and southwark
in the autumn, and that they came
from some unknown place that IS Sc
cret to all of our experts.
In May an enormous school strikes
the coast of Yarmouth, N. S. rms
school evidently is separate from the
southern army that advances from the
southern coast. From the size and gen
eral character of the mackerel or the
Yarmouth coast it is believed that, as
they have no connection whatever with
the great schools from the south, they
must come from out of the deep sea
to the east. When the southern schools
have advanced as far as Nantucket they
suddenly disappear leaving no trace
behind them. Then the veteran mack
erel fishermen pick up their traps ana
repair to the bays indenting the Massa-
chusetts coast, for it is there that the
mackere1 will next appear, where they
stay in more or less numbers until well
into August.
The rowing habit of the mackerel is
thus shown. Besides these general
movements, they have certain erratic
habits that confound the fishermen and
experts. They disappear from one place
and reappear in the strangest manner.
There is no accounting for these move
ha iC
planning their migratfons. Old fisher
men who have grown gray in the work
say that the mackere1 are the most
mystifying of all our salt water fish.
They have learned to read the signs of
their coming and going, but they can
not explain them, nor can they account
for their habits. They pursue them with
a sort of intuition. One may be a good
fisherman of other denizens of the deep
in a short time, but to capture mackerel
large experience is required.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
TOOK LIFE EASY.
Aristocratic Farm Hand Who Husked
Corn in Arm Chair Loses
His Wages.

Plainfeld. n. J.. May 22.-As a result
of a. telI-tale kodak snapshot picture
showing him to be seated in big arm
chair in the middle of a field. husking
corn, Joseph Hastings of Newark has
lost his suit for the collection of 1896
wages which he alleges that Mrs. Phebe
Osborn of North Plainfield owes to him
for labor done on her farm last year.
Hastings says that he was entitled to
the money and when Mrs. Osborn re-
fused to pay it to him he brought suit
in a Justices court. A lawyer of this
city, representing the defendant, sprung
= the kodak picture on the jury at the
trial. and the verdict allowed only SO
to the plaintiff. His lawyer decided to
appeal the case to the Somerset county
court.
The matter was argued before Judge
Bartlne. and the PLAINTIFFS counsel
again exhibited the photograph, with
the result that the judge today dis
missed the previous verdict and de
clared that Hastings had no cause for
actlon against Mrs. Osborn.
The picture was taken by friend of
Mrs. Osborn's last fall, and when he
Nheard of the action brought forth the
tell-tale picture and allowed Mrs Os-
born to use it to show how shiftless
Hastings was in his work
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
NOT AFRAID TO TALK.
Color Line Question Comes Up at
Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, May 22.-At today's ses-
sion of the Presbyterian assembly DIR.
W. H Franklin, a colored minister OF
Rogerville, Tenn, read an extract from
a local paper which said that no color
ed member of the assembly had yet
spoken in the debates on account of the
fear inspired by the recent outrages in
the south, not knowing but what they
might be held to painful account when
they return.
Mr.. Franklin stated that the article
was without foundation and that in
justice to the co1ored members, to the
assembly and the people of Presbyteries
which had returned colored commits
sioners, there should be a public denial
DR.. Franklin explained that in the Pres
byteries of HOlston and French Broad,
from which he comes, there are "a white
and five colored ministers and 5000
white and 1000 colored communicates,
yet this overwhelming white majority
had sent him as one of the two minis
tiers who represent them.
DR.. Franklin offered resolutions refut-
ing the newspapers statement and ex-
planning that the colored commissioners
were not restrained from debate be-
cause of fear.
Synodical committees were announced
and the report of the committee on
Freedmen was read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
BOUND TO BURN.
Topeka Residence Set on Fire in Five
Different Places.

The fire department was called Sat
urday evening to the house at-307 East
Eighth street occupied by Mrs. Julia H.
Storms and her son and daughter.
When the firemen arrived they found
the house on fire in five places. One
fire was in the front hall on the first
floor. the second in the front room up
stairs, the third in the back room on
the second floor, the fourth in the hall
way on the second floor leading to the
front bedroom and the fifth in the par
lor on the first floor.
In the parlOr and bedroom the fires
were started in the beds and the 9TH
ers were in some sort of rubbish that
was burned by the time the f1remen
rived.
Mrs. Storms left the house but
few moments before the fire was dis
covered. She could give no explanation
of the causes of the fires. Chief Will
marth said the fires were undoubtedly
of incendiary origin and that whoever
started them was well acquainted with
the house but he has no clue as to the
persons who set them. He ought to
find a clue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
EXPLORING WITH CASKS.
rF'rom the Cincinnati Enquirerl

A British geographical society is
about to make a departure in investi-
eating the poles. Some years ago Capt.
George Melnoote, the famous explorer,
was wrecked on an ice foe somewhere
in the Arctic sea. His ship fell to
pieces under the pounding of the bill
lows, but he and the crew escaped in a
boat. The fragments of his craft were
never found, yet on pulling away
strong current toward the pole was en-
countered. This set the explorer to
thinking. If the pieces of his ship were
carried off into the unknown seas, why
might human agencies be not?
So far the only reason for sending out
expeditions northward has been mainly
for the purpose of observing a daily
record of events such as latitude,
longitude, soundings, daily drift, find
ing the Arctic oceans bottom where
possible, and so forth, with the possible
ity of discovering the north pole.
A far-seeing geographer asks: Why
undergo this human risk when it can
be obViated with the use of oak casks ?"
1t is never too late to adopt a good
idea, and so, acting on the suggestion.
the society in question is about to set
af1Oat 100 specially made casks on arctic
waters. These casks are to be made
on the principle of a spindle. conical
shaped at each end, of twenty gallons
capacity, and iron hoped. They are
to be set affoat in Boring Strait, and
it is thought that at the end of four
or five years they may be expected to
turn up at Spitzbergen and Greenland,
travelled round the pole. Should present
geographical deductions be correct,
these casks may demonstrate the exist
ence of a current far enough to the
north and west to meet the polar drifts
which run southwark along the east
coast of Greenland, whence it turns to
the westward, thence to the southwark,
where, as part of the Labrador pack it
eventually finds it's way into the Allan
tic ocean. You can trace this route in
the arctic regions on any good map of
the world.
So far as regards the stability of the
casks to stand the great strain they are
sure to be subjected to on their novel
voyage, they will be made of heavy oak
slaves one and a quarter inches thick
bound round with heavy iron hoops
three SixteenthS of an inch thick and
two inches wide. Coated with a soIu-
ton of pitch and resin, the casks will
be placed on the heavy foe pieces that
they may drift with the ice. Each cask
is to contain a number of records
printed in the principal languages of the
world, these requesting the finder of
any one cask to preserve the latter, but
to send the records to the hydrogra phic
office of his own country, such Office in
turn to send to all other important
countries the other records found with
in the cask, stating the latitude and
longitude where found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
NOT THE SAME.
Telephone Companies Cannot Pre-
sumo on Rights of Telegraph
COMPANIES.

Washington, May 22.-In the United
States Supreme court an opinion was
rendered today in the case of the City
of Richmond VS.. the Southern Bell
Telephone company. The controversy
involved the right of the telephone
company to locate it's poles and wires
in the streets and alleys, regardless of
the protests of the local municipal au-
thorities, the claim of the telephone
company being made under the act of
congress of 1866 granting such right
generally to telegraph companies.
The decision was favora BILE to the con-
tention of the city and adverse to the
telephone company, the court holding
that the concession to telegraph COM
Danies could not be made to include
telephone companies. The opinion was
handed down by Justice Harlan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
GRAND TRUNK STRIKE.
The Section Men Demand $125 a
Dav.

Toronto, May 22.-The section men on
the Grand Trunk railroad recently
asked for an increase in wages which
was refused, and today the men, about
800 in number, went on strike. The
men claim that under the present con-
ditions they could not make more than
SIS to SO cents a day, and asked that the
minimum be SIPS. The Grand Trunk
authorities say that unless the men re-
sumo work by tomorrow they will be
discharged and new men will be taken
on. In the latter event, the Brother
hood of Railway Trackmen will take
up the matter in behalf of the men.
The strike affects the system from Sar-
mia, Ont, to Portland, Me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
OLD COUPLE SUICIDE.
Boston Newspaper Man and His
Wife Found Dead i'm Bed.

Boston, May 22-W. T. w. Ball,
well known newspaper man and his
wife were found dead in bed today in
a room filled with the fumes of illum-
mating gas. Letters written by Mr..
Ball, which were lying open on a table
disclosed the fact that it was a case of
suicide. Dependency on account of i'll
health was given as the reason for the
act. He was sc years of age and his
wife was 70. Mr.. Ball, who was an
Englshman, came to Boston about 80
years ago. For many years he was
the dramatic critic of the Traveller and
subsequently of the Boston Herald and
other dailies. He was a noted Shakes
pearian commentator and was a man of
recognized culture and learning. He
had done little newspaper work in the
past ten years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
NORTH Topeka.

. Miss Mary Petro is visiting in Hutch
inson.
Ten dozen ladies' handkerchief worth
10c, for sc. Costley & Post
Mr.. Mullen of Newton is the guest of
Mr.. Benz. Thomas of 1916 Logan street
Miss Gardiner came home Saturday
from a visit of several days to Hutch
inson.
Mrs Peabody has returned from
visit to Kansas City.
Mrs. c. w Petro has gone to Fair
field Neb., to make an extended visit
to relatives.
The closing exercises of Grant school
will be held Thursday afternoon at the
Baptist church.
Go to c. B. Lyon, D. d. s. for fine
dental work at popular prices. Office
GIL Kansas avenue. Tel. 656-
The Bostonians came in from the
west this morning at Z o'clock on a
special over the Union Pacific road.
Choice poplar box timber at Forbes
Bros, North Topeka.
Misses May Knox and Emily Brum
mitt went to Baldwin today to remain
until after the commencement at Baker
university.
Twenty dozen ladies' handkerchiefs
for Monday and Tuesday worth zoe
each, for sc each.
Mrs Matthews of 927 Kansas avenue.
returned Saturday from Meriden, where
she has been to visit her mother who
has been quite i'll.
The special Endeavor prayer meeting
of the Christian church, will be held
Tuesday evening at the home of Miss
Myrtle Palmer of Central avenue. north
OF Soldier creek.
Get our prices on berry box timber.
Forbes Bros, North Topeka
Winsted Fuller has taken a position
as travelling salesman for the Nave
McCord Grocery company of St. Joe.
His territory will include St. Joe, Atch-
ison and LeavenwOrth.
Mrs. Brainard has returned from a
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Wallace at
San MARCEL N. NJ She was accom-
panied home by Mrs. Wallace and
daughters, Vera and Mamie who will
be her guests for sometime.
The Y. NJ. c. A. Glee club and Mr.. S.
s. French's choir will give the Brave
Boys club a concert at the Kansas
Avenue NJ. z. church Tuesday evening,
May %. at s O'Clock. All the boys of
the Quincy school are invited The
members of the club will meet at the
home of Mrs. Reagle promptly at 1880
p. m The boys respectfully invite their
parents to be present. The programme
will include a solo by Mr.. Mussen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-22
A WOMAN COXEY.
Miss Rella G. Harder an Evangelist of
Good Roads.

Chicago, May 22-Miss Rella C. Har-
Der, secretary of the State and Inter
state Good Roads and Public Improve
ment association, who is travelling
through Illinois arranging number OF
district good roads conventions and
state convention to be held at Spring
field in the fall, has arrived in Chicago.
Said Miss Harder:
I'VE intend to have all these conven-
tons come off in rapid succession in
August and September and to conclude
with state convention in Springfield,
to which delegates will be elected by
the district conventions. I have been
very successful so far in eniisting the
cooperation of commercial bodies in
the different towns, and they seem
really interested in the work as soon
as they understand it.
II have some trouble, however, in
explaining that our association is work
ing not for hard roads, but for good
roads. Farmers easily become fright
ened at the hard roads proposition, for
they think of macadam and know that
that would mean increased taxation.
All we want is to make good soft roads,
that in years to come will furnish foun-
dations for good hard roads, and we re-
gard our work as educational.
we do not intend to increase taxa
ton one bit, for we know that the $4,-
100000 annually expended in Illinois is
sufficient to build good roads every
where. But we want the farmer to let
the state do the work and not work out
their poll tax by pretending to build
good roads. Not that they do not mean
to do the best they know how, but they
have not the faculties for the work and
can not do it as it should be done. Our
idea is to make a good road at less
money than it now costs We want, if
possible, to see the poll tax reduced to
a dollar. but want the farmer to pay
that dollar into the treasury, instead of
working it out as is now the case, and
we expect to show him how it will be
to his advantage to do 1t.
The association represented by Miss
HARDER embraces twenty-five states and
is the outgrowth of a, state convention
in Missouri in 1897, at which 700 dele
gates We're present. A committee of
seven, consisting of Miss HARDER and
six men, was appointed to organize
county associations. At the end of a
year, when an interstate convention, at
tended by $500 delegates, was held in
St. Louis, SeVenty-twO counties had
been organized and as Miss HARDER had
organized sixty-six she was unanimous
ly named as secretary and organizer.