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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
BROSlUS WAS MAD.
INDUCES In an Eagan TRADE Against
Newspaper Editor.

Washington, Jan. 23.-Mr. Gardner
Rep., N. j.. chairman of the commit
tee on labor at the opening of the ses-
sion of the house today asked unan-
imous consent for the consideration of
a bill to extend the anti-contract labor
law to the Hawaiian islands. Mr.. Knox
(Rep., Mass), chairman of the commit
tee on territories, objected
Mr.. Brosius CRep., PAD, rising to a
question of privilege, sent to the, clerks
desk and had read a paragraph from
a Toledo newspaper, describing him as
the sleepy member of congress" He
branded the paragraph as a wicked,
baseless falsehood, cowardly and brutal
calumny," and it's author bastard"
A bill to restore Captain Robert w.
Dowdy to the active list of the army
was passed.
District of Columbia business was
then taken up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
COAL FOR 5000 YEARS.
Columbus Offers New Inducements
For an Insane Asylum.

The mayor and city council of Column
bus have forwarded to Senator House
holder a proposition new in the contests
for state asylumS for the insane. Cher
okee county wants an asylum and offers
land which contains valuable coal prop
critics, guaranteeing the quantity of coal
sufficient to supply the institution for
5000 years.
The proposition recites the necessity
of an institution of this character in
that part of the state and first offers
$50 acres of the coal lands, worth $50
an acre. If this does not accomplish the
purpose Senator Householder is author
lied to offer for the asylum $40 acres
of the same kind of land and in this pro-
viso is found the guarantee that the
supply of coal will last for 5000 years.
The city of Columbus also offers to eX-
tend the water mains to the asylum free
of charge to the state and to
make whatever additional conces-
sions may be necessary. Mr..
Householder says this is the best offer
made during this session of the legis-
lature for an asylum.
Independence is also after the new
state asylum for the insane. The town
will furnish a site. Natural gas for
heating and lighting is another induce
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23

the boom in stocks is expected to extend end
to wheat sooner or later. World SNIP
ments for last week amounted to 6,2OO,OOO
bushels, of which the greater portion, or
over 80 per cent, came from America. Re-
ceipts here were 139 cars, of which IL cars
graded contract. Minneapolis and Du-
luth received S48 ears, compared with 425
cars for the corresponding day a year ago
As the session advanced scalpers did 1T
tie scattered selling, and with the assist
ance of some selling against call priyi-
leges, May settled back to 71Kc.
COIlN-Higher cables, moderate receipts
and the advance in wheat strengthened
corn The speculative demand was strong
and outside buying brisk. May opened
AdAc higher at 371s6Ac, advanced to 37ss
0D1zc, then reacted to 37Ac.
OATS-Light receipts and good cash
demand helped oats. Offerings were scarce
and elevator interests bought with some
freedom. May opened 1s0Hc higher at
27AaMc and held steady at. 27Bc..
PROVISIONS-Higher prices for hogs
and active buying by commission houses
strengthened provisions Shipments of
meats were large, and as there was very
little selling pressure prices ruled higher
all around. May pork opened unchanged
at $10.2214@1O.25 and advanced to 1O.2719@
10. 80. May lard began unchanged at $5.S2l2.
sold at $5:sod5S214 and then rose to s5-s5
@5S715 May ribs started unchanged at
s.. 1215 and sold up to $5.17n.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
GAVE BURGLAR A PURSE.
Not at Pistols Point, But Pityingly,
Wishing He May Begin Life Anew.

New York, Jan. 23.-His fellow-citi-
zens of Riverhead, l. L, gave to Henry
Dettner his second start in life yester-
day. Rarely does a self-confessed bur
glar keep the good will of the communi-
ty in which he has operated his craft.
But Dettner has and, what is more, a
purse of $500 was presented to him with
which to make a good start as a rep
utable citizen
Dettner kept a bakery next to Byron
Rogers store. Business was bad, and
Dettner was caught in the act of rob
bling his neighbor. Rogers took pity on
him and kept the matter secret. Sus-
picion fastened on an innocent man.
They are kind-hearted people at River
head. Dettner was warned his crime
must be exposed. Hoping to end his
troubles, he shot himself in the head.
But, as unsuccessful in Self-murder as
in burglary, he got we'll
Yesterday Riverhead's citizens, headed
by Mr.. Rogers, presented to Dettner the
purse and their good wishes. He ac-
cepted them tearfully and with a sin
cere belief in humanity. He has re-
turned TO the bakery business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
STRIPED COLLARS MUST GO
Manufacturers of Linen Collars Have
Declared War Upon the
Zebra Fad.
(From the kansas City Journa

(From the Kansas City Journal)
ton revealed himself in Kansas City few
weeks ago will have to go. The national
association of manufacturers of men s
linen collars has declared war on the
striped brand. and will wage the war in a
way that will force all good dressers to
abandon the stripes and cling to the plain
white article. The war was opened last
week in St Louis, according to the stories
told by travelling men now in the city,
and the white collar is again restored to
its old time prominence there. 1t is ex-
shortly in Kansas City and drive the
striped abomination back to it's proper
field.
The means adopted to popularize the
effective; The men who conducted the
fight had made large supply of the most
impossible com binations of plaids, stripes
and varicolored shirts and collars, and
the negroes who run bootblack stands, all
the negro touts, tin-horn gamblers, buns
and tOughs who strut about and love loud
colors, and in that way made the exagger-
who claim to know how to dress fed in
horror, and encircled their necks with the
plain white linen. Then, in order that the
loud color brigade might have plenty,
these supplied every second hand
store and place cheap-Side in the city
with bushels of collars that are being re-
sports to have almost unlimited quantities
and all sorts of colors, so that the loud
collar is much in evidence among those
whose tastes are hardly correct in neck
wear.
The result has been to shut the stripes
off the counters of all the places that cater
to good business, and the day of the stripe
has closed there among good dressers.
stripes showing as are necessary to show
the possibilities of the fad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
AN ONSLAUGHT ON THE Law.
The Fee and Salary Act in Danger of
Being Revealed.


There is a growing feeling that a
concerted effort is being made to break
down the fee and salary law at this ses-
sion of the legislature.
Ex-Representative H. G. Larfmer
who has been watching the legislature
closely said in discussing that feature
of the present organization: Il am
satisfied that the fee and salary law is
in great danger and that unless some
thing is done to awake the people to
ed. The representatives from this coun-
ty are helping to do it, too.
THE plan upon which the work is
being done is by the introduction of
local bills changing the law with ref
erence to a special county and two or
three bills with reference to Shawnee
have already been introduced. If these
bills are passed the first thing that we
know there won't be anything left of
the law.
There are a few needed amendments
The county commissioner law ought to
be graded straight through according
to population. There is no reason why
the commissioners of Sedgwick county
should be paid more than the commits
sioners of Shawnee Then the law with
reference to the sheriff ought to be
changed in some particulars but think
that he is the only one of the county
officers that really is entitled to any
change. The county commissioners
ought to have authority to employ clerk
the offices the allowance for clerk hire
is not enough"
The reason the attacks on the law are
evidently about to prove effective is be-
cause the county officers are all orga-
niZed. The people are not organized and
the officers are able to brighten nearly
all the representatives into doing their
bidding.
The local bills from this county that
have been introduced refer to the fees
of a Il fTin r n10r md fIaa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
ACCUSED BY HIS WIFE
Of Answering Letters in a Matri-
monial Paper.

Another chapter was added to the
Littlefeld divorce suit in the district
court this morning. Mrs. Little
field filed an answer to the
answer filed by James E. Littlefield last
week, accompanied by the affidavit of
Mrs. Clara M. Coddington who for three
months made her home with the Little
field family on Quincy street.
In March, 1896. James E. LittIefield,
a canvasser in this city, was divorced
from Clara z. LittIefieId in the district
court, the divorce going to him by de-
fault. In his petition he had charged
1nfidelity on the part of his wife and
stated that the youngest of the four
children was not his. On the last day
of last December Mrs. Littlefield filed a
petition in the district court alleging
that the divorce granted Littlefield in
March, 1896, was the result of intimida-
ton and denying that her youngest
child was not the child of James E. Lit
tlefield. She said that her husband
leave her penniless unless she agreed to
the divorce proceedings, but promised
to continue to live with her and provide
for the family in the event she allowed
the divorce to be granted. She stated
her husband was on the point of taking
the children and household furniture
and leaving her, and asked that a re-
straining order be issued preventing
him from interfering with her children
and the household furniture. The order
was issued by Judge Hazen-
In his answer filed last week Little
field stated that the divorce was not the
result of intimidation on his part, and
that he was absent from the city six
weeks prior to the time it was granted
and failed to see his wife during that
time. Mrs. Littlefie1ds answer, filed
this morning, repeats the allegations
made in her petition, and states that
she allowed her husband to secure a di-
Vorce as a protective measure to her
self and her children. She says that
since the divorce was granted they have
been living together as man and wife.
The interesting portion of the answer
is the affidavit of Mrs. Coddington. She
says that Iittlefield repeatedly admit
ted to her that he was leading a double
life, and that the only reason he remov-
ed to this city from Rocks county was
to get his wife away from her family so
he could force her to do as he wished.
She states that much of his leisure time
during the three months she was living
with the family he spent in checking off
proposals in a matrimonial paper and
writing in reference to marriage to the
young ladies whose names appeared in
the paper. She goes on to say that Lit
tlefield appeared to have affection for
his wife and it was customary for him
The child who he alleged in his petition
was not his he was in the habit OF
fondling, she says, and calling 'papa's
baby and my baby" Mrs. Coddington
lived with the Littlefelds last summer,
a year after Littlefield had secured a
divorce from his wife.
LittIefield owns land in Rocks county
and was formerly a farmer there. They
have been living at 1922 Quincy street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
WRECKED ON GULF COAST.
Federal Officials Land on q Sandy
Island 100 Miles Long.

Corpus Christi, Tex, jan 23-This
morning the sloop Hattie May, having
Haynes of Loredo, Deputy Collector
Thomas B. Southgate, NJ. J. Luther and
Captain William Anderson of this city.
sailed for Point Isabel in search of
United States revenue cutter Alma,
supposed to have been wrecked.
A number of hours after the Hattie
May sailed the little Sloop H. 0. and
H. F., having on board James A. Nc
Emery, special treasury agent of the dis
trict of Texas, and RedfOrd Sharp of
San Antonio, assistant United States
district attorney, arrived. These gen.
tlemen were among those aboard the
Alma, and from them was received the
following account of their narrow es-
cape from a watery grave:
Last Wednesday the Alma left Point
Isabel for Corpus Christi with the fol-
lowing aboard: Captain Celestin La
roche and John Laroche of Point Isabel;
Henry Terrell, of San Antonio, United
States district attorney; Redford Sharp,
Mr.. Terrell's assistant; James A. Nc
Emery of Eagle Pass, special treasury
agent, and Walter Hudnen of Sabine
Pass, special treasury inspector. The
four last named gentlemen had been to
Brownsville on official business, and the
Alma had been placed at their service
| to facilitate their return.
They had fine weather until Friday,
when a dark cloud appeared and with
scarcely a moments warning a fierce
| gale struck the Alma, sending a heavy
wave crashing over her. by herculean
! efforts the sails We're reefed and the
| boat headed toward a point of land to
| the westward. This they soon struck
| with a, crash, and the boat was pitched
! high and dry on Padre island, about
| fifteen miles south of Corpus Christi
| pass. Fortunately no lives were lost.
! Being very short of rations the party
| finally divided to search for a sail. After
| wandering over miles of sandy waste
until yesterday afternoon, Messrs. Nc
! Emery and Sharp saw a sail and sig
nailed it. The craft which proved to
! be the H. o. and H. F., owned by Hor-
| alto Gussett of this city, picked them
up.
The captain, Joe Gravitt, being in
| formed that the remainder of the AL
| mas crew and passengers were some
| where on the island, made a search, but
| did not find them. Knowing that they
| were safe, it was thought best to hurry
| to the shipyard at Corpus Christi pass
| and send a larger vessel after them
| A vessel with supplies was sent today.
| Padre island, on which they were left,
| is a sandy strip from three to six miles
| wide and more than 100 miles long. No
| apprehension is felt for the remainder
! of the Alma's passengers and crew, as
| the relief vessel will be sure to locate
| them before actual suffering for food
| ensueS.
| Yesterday and today several inquiries
| as to the Alma's safety reached here
| from various parts of Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
MAJORITY PASSES
From the Republicans to the Demo-
Gratis in West Virginia Today.

Charleston, w. Va, Jan. 23.-There
has been no decision reached here to-
day affecting the contest for senator
between Call and McGraw. The COM
mittee on privileges and elections pre-
scented majority and minority reports
on the contests of Senators Getzendan-
ner and Pierson, which lie over one day
Senator EllxinS and Congressman
Dovener and Dayton, accompanied MIR.
Scott from Washington, arriving on an
early train this morning. They will re-
main until the senatorial contest is set
tied. The house committee on elections
is expected to report this afternoon
recommending the seating of Dent
Oem), making the third Democrat
seated in that body on contests and
changing the Republican majority of
one for senator to the other side.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
A DAY OF TRAGEDIES.
A Suicide, an Accidental Shooting,
and an ATTEMPTED Murder.

Philadelphia, Jan. PC. P. Wolff. aged
about 81 years, of 271 Hamburg street,
Brooklyn, committed suicide in hotel to-
day by inhaling illuminating gas; He came
to the hotel yesterday and said he was an
insurance agent. In his room was found
a letter addressed to his wife at the above
address.
Charles Rueblinger. aged &c. accidentally
shot and killed Edgar L. Winpenny, aged
IA years. The former was shooting at
target in a lot in the northern part of the
city and fired just as Winpenny was cross
ing the lot some distance in front.
Last night Walter Hopper, aged 81 years,
shot and seriously wounded Mrs. Jennie
Roch, aged, "a years, in lodging house on
Callow street, and then attempted to COM
nit suicide by shooting himself. Hoppers
wound is slight. The woman had refused
to accept his attentions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
RUSH ORDERS ISSUED
For the Movement of the 22d In
fantry to the Coast.

Omaha, Jan. 23.-Rush orders were re-
cetved today at the headquarters of the
department of the Missouri for the for
Wardfng of the Twenty-second United
States infantry to San Francisco The
railroads will have the equipment down at
Fort Crook this evening and the loading
will be commenced at once The loading
OF the baggage was commenced yesterday.
but it was not expected at that time that
the men would move so quickly.
The regiment has orders. if possible, to
reach San Francisco the 2Sth to sail
on the Senator or Ohio, but it is not
thought possible they can reach there by
that time, though every effort possible is
being made. They leave here four com
panies each the Burlington, Rock Isl
and and Missouri Pacific.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
LEXOW COMMITTEE
Begins It's Sessions in st. Louis This
Afternoon.

ST. Louis, Jan. 2S.-The ''Lexow'' com
mittee consisting of Senators Major,
Hohenschild, Childers and Walker, Dem
ocrats, and Burkhead and Matthews, Re-
publicans who were appointed by the SEN
ate to investigate municipal affairs in ST:
Louis, met here for the first time at L
O. clock this afternoon. Senator Elliott
w. Major is chairman of the committee,
which was appointed the result of
resolution presented by him recently in
the legislature. With one exception. all
the members of the committee are law
yers.
The committee comes with full author
ity to make an investigation into munich
pal affairs well state officials hold
ing forth here. 1t has the power to COM
pei the attendance of witnesses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
LOCAL MENTION.

The funeral of Job Guild, aged so years.
took place this morning from the home of
his son. R. Guild, near Dover The re-
mains were sent to Vermont for interment-
The suit of Mrs. Frank Stoll against J.
c. Hentzler is taking up the time of a
jury in the district court today Stoll
purchase and slaughtering of cattle on $3.50
advanced by Mrs. Stoll. The partnership
made between the two men by which Stoll
received $685. 1t is claimed that the money
advanced by Mrs. Ston was not included
in this amount. and her suit is to recover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
TO BE NO RUSH
In Taking Up Arms over> the Samoan
Affair.

Washington, Jan. 23-Such exchanges
as have taken place up to this point be-
tween the three government parties to
the treaty of Berlin in relation to the
uprising in Apia have been rather I'M
official in character and have been con-
fined pretty closely to expressions of a
willingness to deal with the matter
soberly and stand by the terms of the
treaty in it's adjustment. With this dis
position displayed there is every reason
to believe that this Samoan affair will
yield to ordinary methods of diplomacy
unless something has happened in the
meantime at Apia to aggravate the sit
nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
chicago Llvestock market.

ChicagO, Jan. 2.
HOGS Estimated receipts of hogs to
day, 10000; left over, 2.212, Market "a fairly
active weak to sc lower. Light $1,000
3-721k mixed. SO. 55@3. s21k; heavy. So, 55Q3 IS;
rough, $3.50@360;. workers, $3.65Q3. 20.
CATTLE-Receipts, 1900. Steady to 10c
lower. Beeves, Sac: cows and heigers, 81
@4.sO; Texas steers, So. 6o@5; stockers and
feeders. $3.2064.50.
SHEEP-Receipts $4,000 Generally loo
lower Natives, 81 75d4. 20; westerns, 81 80
0415; lambs 49, 7504.S5.
Saturdays official:
HOG@Receipts, Is, 221; Shipments S61.
SHEEP-Receipts. 146: shipments, 253.
Estimated receipts of hogs for tomor-
row. 81. Co.,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
STAPLES WILL CASE
Involving $1,3oo,Ooo Comes to an
Abrupt End.

Saltwater, Mimi, Jan. 23.-The jury
in the Staples will contest have returned
a verdict for the contestee, F. S. Brun-
son and the will was set aside the
grounds that Isaac Staples was of I'M
sound mind when the will was made.
October 10, 1896. The case has been one
of the hardest fought legal battles in
the history of the state, and the trial
just concluded has taken 80 days. The
estate is valued at $1.300,000, and will
now be divided according to law, unless
the verdict is set aside by the supreme
court Appeal is contemplated by pro-
Moments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
New York Money Market.

New York, Jan. %.
MONEY-Money on call nominally "a
per cent; prime mercantile paper. 2l9@34
per cent: sterling exchange steady, with
actual business in bankers bills at 4.S4&t
d4.S5 for demand and &.S2%M4SS for 60
days; posted rates, $4S3s4G "a. S51A; CONNER
cial bills. 81 S115G14.S2.
SILVER-Silver certificates, nominally,
lars. 471sc.
BONDS-Government bonds firmer. 3s.
1O75s new As, registered, 12S1A; As,
coupon, 1919; Is, 11214; As, coupon, 1929 4;
%. 991z; IS, registered, 1125s; IS, coupon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
WILL BE POSTLETHWAITE
Who Will Succeed Webb McNall on
July 1st.

The politicians are figuring that ]. c.
Postlethwaite of Jewell county will land
the appointment as superintendent of
insurance to succeed Webb McNall July
g.
w. ". Church of Marion has some
show for the place, but A W. Smith of
Mcpherson is said to be practically out
of the race, and the guessers have the
Jewell county man slated for the place.
This appointment will be made this
week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
IN DINGLEY'S. PLACE
The President Will Appoint Anothe,
High Joint.

Washington, Jan. 2S-The president is
understood to have decided to appoint an
commission to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Mr. Dingley and to so have
informed senators and representatives who
have called upon him within the last few
days in behalf of Representative Tawney
of Minnesota, a member of the ways and
means committee. 1t was thought the
vacancy would be left open owing to the
advanced stage of the work, but the presi-
dent desires to have the commission full
when it's important 1aborS close.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
Kid Mccoy to Recuperate.

Chicago, Jan. 23.-"Kid'' Mccoy, who
came in from West Baden. Ind, Sun
day, will leave for San Francisco tomor-
row He says he will stay in California.
for about two months to recuperate. He
will not make any more matches until
he returns east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
FAYNE MOORE'S BOND
Increased From $4,000 to $4,000, and
$500 Added For Good Measure.

New York, Jan. 23.-Judge Bookstaver
in the supreme court today increased the
bail of Fayne Strahan Moore from $4,000
to 5000 on the charge of "badgering''
Martin Mahon and also affixed addi-
tional bond of 81, 500 for the larceny charge
which accuses Mrs. Moore of stealing sill
verware from the Wa1dorf-Astoria. Bonds
were offered by Joseph N. Campbell, and
Judge Bookstaver ordered counsel for
Mrs. Moore and the district attorney to
ascertain to the responsibility of Mr..
C,amnhRll
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Father FleurY Released.

london, Jan. 23.-The Shanghai cor
respondent of the Daily Mail says: "A
telegram from Chun-Khing (province of
Se-Chuen) Announces the release of
Father F'leury, after several months
captivity in the hands of the rebels. 1t
was supposed he had been murdered"