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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
DEPARTMENT STORES.
Chicago Retail Dealers Meet to Re-
wise Proposed Bill to Go
After Them.

Chicago, Feb. IA committee of the
retailers association, made up of SO
members representing every branch of
retail business affected by the depart
ment store competition, met in the
Great Northern hotel yesterday after
noon to revise the bill that is now in the
hands of the house committee on legis-
1ation at Springfield, and designed TO
prevent the conduct of department
stores in the state. The bill agrees in
all essential points with that introduced
last year and defeated, except in re-
Quiring that a separate license be paid
for each line of goods carried by a
dealer. Instead of this feature, the pro-
posed bill prohibits the sale of more
than one line of merchandise under one
roof in towns and cities of a population
of more than 10000
A committee was appointed to ar
range for a mass meeting of all retail
dealers, real estate owners and others
whose business has been affected by
department stores. The following COM
mittee was selected to provide for the
place of meeting and speakers: c. F.
Gilman, NJ. w. Diff1ey and S. w. Roth.
The association will invite all members
of the house of representatives and SEN
ate to come to Chicago. Mayor Harri-
son, Ex-Governor Altgeld and Zina r.
Carter will also be invited to be present
and address the gathering.
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Dewey's Ships BOmbard the
- Town and Under
COVER OF THE FIRE
Gen. Miller Lands His Troops
While the Enemy
Fires the Place and Scampers
Away in a Hurry.
Not an American Was Hurt
During the Action.

Manila Feb 14-9:45 a. m.-Ihe
United States gunboat Petrol arrived
late last evening with dispatches from
rrieadier General NJ P. Miller to Gen
eral Otis, announcing that IIollo hdu
been taken by the combined mlhtarS
and naval forces on Saturday morning
General Miller on receipt of instruc-
tions from Manila sent native comnnls-
sioners ashore from the United States
transport St. Paul with a communlca-
tion for the rebel governor of Iloilo
calling upon him to surrender within a
time stated and warning him not to
make a demonstration in the interval.
The rebels Immediately moved their
guns and prepared to defend their posi-
ton. Thereupon the Petrol fired two
warning guns, the rebels Immediately
opening fire upon her.
The Petrol and the Baitlmore Ihen
bombarded the town which the rebels,
having set on fire, Immediately evac-
uated.
The American troops were promptly
landed and eXtinguiShed the hreS IN
all cases of foreign property, but not
before considerable damage had been
done.
during the bOmbardment was heavy,
but no American casualties are re
OTIS CABLES THE NEWS.
Washington, Feb. 14.-Adjutant Gen
eraI Corbin makes public the following
dispatch from Major General Otis re-
porting the capture of the town of
Iloilo by the American forces under
General Miller on the 11th instant:
Manila, Feb. 13, 1S99.-General Miller
report from Iloilo that the town was
taken on the 11th instant and held by
troops. Insurgents given until evening
of the 18th to surrender but their hos
tile actions brought on engagement
during the morning. Insurgents fired
native portion of town; but little losses
to property of foreign inhabitants. No
casualties among the United States
troops reported. (Signed).
"OTIS''
A dispatch also came from Admiral
Dewey telling of capture of the city. 1t
was a brief recital of the facts in the
case, but, it is said, contained substan-
TALLY the same information as that
sent by General Otis. It was sent to
the navy department.
DEWEY'S VERSION.
Washington, Feb 14-The navy de-
partment has received the following
Cablegram:
Manila, Feb. 14.-Secretary of Navy,
Washington: Petrol just arrived from
IloilO. That place taken by our force
Saturday and now occupied. No prison.
ers. No casualties on our side Insur-
gent loss not known but thought to be
slight. They attempted to burn the
town but foreign property generally
saved by our force. CSigned),
DEWEY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
AN ICY
MAROI CRAS.
Skating at New Orleans and
BayOus Frozen
Nothing of This Kind Since the
War.
THE PARADE OF REX
Takes Place But the Specta-
tors Are Shivering.
At Meridian, Miss, Mercury is
4 Below.

New Orleans, Feb. 1.-THE weather
in New Orleans has moderated some
what today but it is still too cold and
damp under foot to make pedestrianism
pleasant. The mercury steadily rose
yesterday and last night from above,
the lowest ever recorded in this section,
but towards morning it began to fall.
At o'clock this morning it stood at %
degrees. Throughout the state it has
been bitterly cold and heavy damage
orange crops in spite of the warnings
that were sent before the approach of
the cold wave.
BayOuS, Terre Bonne and Lafourche
are frozen, for the first time since the
war. Bayou st. John at the Esplanade
bridge on the outskirts of this city is
frozen and there was skating on the ice
this morning. The city is filled with
visitors and the Rex parade is taking
place today. There is a noticeable alb
Sence of promiscuous maskerS, whose
presence on the streets is always one
of the features of the carnival. The
warship Chicago, which was ordered
here for the carnival, has not yet ar
rived; it is thought she is detained by
the storm.
sippi indicate severe weather and there
has been much damage to crops. On the
gulf coast the temperature has been
below zero. At Meridian it has been as
enters the Mississippi sound is frozen
at HenderSOn'S Point. The ice gorge
above Vicksburg is causing much dis
tresS to steamboat men. The reports
from Florida are to the effect that the
orange crop has suffered serious dam
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WALLS OF SNOW
100 Feet in Height Threaten
Silver Plume, Colo.

Denver, Feb. 1.-THE warm weather
prevailing since Sunday has helped to
relieve the distress experienced in some
mountain towns owing to the long con-
tinued storm and cold weather and the
railroad blockades. The Denver & Rio
Grande is entireiysFopen and its Of
ficials say there is no question but the
road can handle through traffic as
usual The Colorado Midland is still
tied up west of Leadville, but the ro-
tary is making good progress in re-
moving the enormous SnOwdriftS on
Hagerman pass. The Colorado & South
ern's South Park high line to LeadV1lle
is still blocked and it is uncertain when
this road will be opened, although work
is being pushed, as the weather is now
favorable The towns along this road
have run short of provisions, but 1t IS
thought there is plenty of bacon, pOta-
toes and flour to prevent suffering. 1t
is believed that an effort will be made to
cut a road over the mountain near Red
Cliff which will give direct commun1-
cation with the through line of the Rio
Grande.
The Rio Grande's Aspen branch is
open and coal is being rushed to that
camp, as we'll as to Leadville, to enable
the mines, mills and smelters to con-
tinue working. Some anxiety is felt on
account of the liability of disaster from
snowslides in the mountains, especially
at Silver Plume, where Sundays ava
lanche is liable to be followed by an
other of greater extent and possibly
more disastrous in it's results. A slight
thaw, a puff of wind, a jar, may bring
down millions of tons of snow that now
hang upon the mountain tops almost.
defying the laws of graVitation. Barely
a 1.-THE of burden of the mountains came
away in the avalanche Sunday. 1t left
great circular gaps whose walls of snow
rise vertically a hundred feet in height
But the first slide swept out every OBJ
stacle and filled up the low places, so
that when the rest comes it will have a
clean sweep right down into the town
itself.
Many of the inhabitants have re-
moved to Georgetown.
Although the storm about Leadville
has not yet ended, the snow now meltS
almost as fast as it falls and is not
making much trouble for the railroads.
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M'KINLEY'S VIEWS.
Belief in London Is That Important
Notifications in American Tariff
Schedule Are Promised.

London, Feb. 1.-THE cable dispatch
printed last Sunday, announcing that
President Mckinley had told important
members of the joint high commission
that his views on high protection had
undergone a change, and he hoped to
secure a revision of the tariff before the
end of his term. caused a stir in busi-
ness circles here.
The information comes from the
most authoritative source, with con-
Vincing circumstantial details.
The Chronicle of today says:
I'VE have reason to believe that i'm
portant notifications in the American
tariff are in contemplation, from which
England trade will benefit. The news
to this effect which has reached this
country is of an authoritative charac-
ter''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
ENGLAND MAY ASK PAY
On Account of Abrogation of Clayton
Bulwer Treaty.

London, Feb. 14.-The Times publishes
this morning long explanatory his
torica1 article on the Nicaragua canal
and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, advo-
eating compensation for the abrogation
of the treaty and declaring that "the
Americans will think no less of US if
we combine friendship with business"
In an editorial echoing the foregoing
views, the Times says:
"Our treaty rights are undeniable and
unassailable. We can not be expected
hand we will admit, that while our in
terests in the canal scheme are large,
are vital and therefore as an
act of friendlineSS we ought to abrogate
the treaty upon reasonable conditions,
which need not be in any way objection
able to the United States.''
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ment is now entrenched in front of Ca
loocan. The American lines form a COM
plete Gordon % miles in length from the
coast north, almost to Pasaqua, south
of Manila.
There has been no change in the dis
position of the troops except that the
Fourth United States cavalry has re-
ieved the First Idaho volunteers and
battalion of the Twenty-third infantry
has been stationed on the left flank to
prevent the rebels sneaking along the
beach.
The enemy are busily throwing up
entertainments on their left sharp
shooters in the jungle covering their
operations.
Several Americans were wounded i'll
the trenches. Second Lieutenant George
A. Seaman of battery B, Utah artillery,
was shot in the leg, while standing near
his gun. Four men of the Twentieth
Kansas volunteers were wounded slight
ly. Private Brinton, company b, and
Private Stevens, company G, of the
Twentieth Kansas We're wounded.
All the enemy'S dead at CalOOcan
have been buried-127 last Sunday and
300 yesterday. The United States crui-
ser Charleston has moved up the coast
and is now off Malolos, the seat of the
so-called Filipino government, at a dis
tance of about eight miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
Little Hope For the Hamburg
American Liner.
Bulgaria Last Seen 500 Miles
From the Azores
IN SINKING CONDITION
She Had Al Passengers Aboard
of Whom Eleven
We're Rescued by the Tank
Steamer Weebawken.

London, Feb. 14.-Lloyds agent at st.
Michael, Azores, cables that the tank
steamer WeehaWken reports that the
bulgaria, when spoken on February 5,
800 miles from the Azores, was in a
sinking condition with three holds full
of water, her rudder broken, and her
machinery disabled
The agent says the Weehawken lost
her boats and arrived with her bunkers
full of water.
The agents of the Hamburg-Arnerican
Steamship company here admit that
the latest news as to the Bulgaria's
condition when sighted by the Wee
hawken is graver than they had sup
posed developments would show. They
are still hopeful, however. that the rest
of the crew and passengers have been
rescued by other steamers in the vicin-
ity
The Daily Mail publishes a dispatch
from Ponta Del Cada, Azores islands,
saying that the Bulgaria had a crew
of 9S and carried Al passengers and that
the Weehawen rescued 70 members of
the crew and IL passengers.
THE PASSENGER LIST.
New York, Feb. 14.-The agents of the
Hamburg-American line have issued
the following list of passengers, all
steerage on the steamship Bulgaria:
G. Jarehov, Jacob Ade, Johanna Ade
Josephine Piletzki, Joseph Belunas,
Jonas Osmadiuk, Mflkowitz Ferenz. Ig-
naz F'rapold, Petro Cohan, Adolph
Schroeder, Fanny Spagat, Wejetelk
Stelhig, Geo. Asmussen, Stanis1ow Su-
jale, Joseph Minturn, Heinrich Hecker,
Helen Frachtmann, S. Zolenkwitz, J.
Kapsowski, F'ranciscka Trotzka, Vladi-
votska Trotszi, John Protzer, Nels An
derson, Elizabeth Bergman, Heinrich
Borgmann, Martha Metzka, Wallace
Widner, John Gunnlick, John Hill, A.
Brown, J.. Jaeger, August Weinhart.
Joseph Helig, Ergard Lippert, E. P. Ra-
ven and infant. Moritz Kohn, Eva Kohn.
I. Kohn, Nettie Kohns Nathan Kohn,
Bennie Kohn, Charles Werner, Thomas
Lyal, Annie Burgmann, Ludovike Szo-
erbowski, Nathan Wingarten, Anton
Worniak, Juda Moses, Joseph Bilako,
Manam Bilako, Juda Ruzowitz. Jose
Rose.
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A $5OO,OOO FIRE
Visited Cincinnatis Business District
This Morning.

Cincinnati, Feb. IA fire causing a
loss of half million started myster-
ious1y in the upper back stories of the
hat manufacturing establishment of
Kahn, Fellheimer & Co, 106 West Third
street, a few doors west of Race on the
north side at 4:30 a. m. and before the
engines could get to work the fire had
communicated to the clothing house of
II. A. Zeinheimer & Co, 104 West Third
Next to that stood the corner building
occupied by Sanford, Warner & Storrs
containing valuable stock of clothing
and material. The first named buildings
were entirely burned out, but the fire.
men succeeded in saving the corner
building at the expense of practically
running the contents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
SHIPS COMING IN,
Having Been Standing Outside For
More Sea Room.

New York, Feb 14.-with clear sky
overhead once more the ocean steamers
began coming in at an early hour this
morning. First the Cunard Etruria and
Holland-American liner Spaarndam
were sighted off Fire Island. Next the
American liner Paris was sighted off
the Highlands. Then the anchor liner
Anchoria from Glasgow was reported
in quarantine.
Two other steamers also came in. the
Clyde liner Algonquin and the Ward
liner Macedonia. 1t is believed many
steamers arrived outside the bar during
the blizzard and stood off shore for
plenty of sea room and that they will
reach port later. Among the liners due
are La Bretagne, Gera and Cymric.
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ious gale and that there was no cessa-
ton in the heavy fall of binding snow.
The weather was so thick that if any
of the large fleet of passenger liners,
or other ocean steamers now several
days overdue, had succeeded in crawl
they could not have been made out.
SANK AT HER PIER.
New York, Feb. 14.-The White Star
liner Germanic sank at her pier in
North river last evening and is now
lying there partially submerged. The
the heavy coating of ice which formed
on the sides of the steamer. The con-
tinued loading of coal, combined with
the heavy weight of the ice, caused the
steamer to list and slowly sink to the
bottom. 1t is said that no one is in
jured.
WRECKED OFF PORT ROYAL.
Savannah, Ga, Feb. 1.-THE steam
ship William Lawrence, of the Mer-
chants and Miners line, running be-
tween Baltimore and Savannah, is a
wreck and probably a total loss, off
Port Royal, S. c. She left Baltim ore
Wednesday last with a full cargo but
no passengers. Saturday she ran into
a severe storm off the South Carolina
helpless condition drifted ashore near
the Port Royal bar. The crew aban-
doned the ship in four boats. One boat,
containing a. J. MOrrisell, second as
SiStant engineer and five seamen, made
Port Royal. Three other boats contain
officers, and the engineers and members
of the crew, have not been heard from.
The wires are down to Port Royal.
Assistant Engineer MOrriSelI reported
today to J. J. Carrollan, the company'S
agent here, giving the facts of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
UNION PACIFIC DEAL.
Purchases Six Blocks of Land in
South Omaha for Trackage.

Omaha, Feb. 1.-THE Union Pacific
Railroad company has closed a deal
for six blocks of land in South Omaha
to be used for additional trackage be-
tween this city and South Omaha. The
negotiations were closed today by the
Illinois Central, which is soon to enter
the city, will use a portion of the new
trackage. The property is very valua-
BILE and a high price was paid for it,
although the figures are not given out.
The work of track laying will begin
early in the spring.
A new passenger depot will probably
be erected in South Omaha.
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$4,000 DESTITUTE.
Families in New York Starving and
Freezing.

New York, Feb. 14.-Of the $4,000
destitute families in the city as esti-
mated by Blair, superintendent of the
outdoor poor, nearly all are either freez-
ing or starving. The continued storm
handicapped all efforts to aid them and
has necessitated a complete suspension.
The thousands of poor Jews, Italians,
Greeks, Syrians and Armenians who
make a living by selling fruit confec-
tfonery and other small articles, from
push carts and stands have been driven
out of business altogether and brought
to the verge of starvation.
Persons employed out doors have lost
employment temporarily. They number
many thousands, and some of them will
swell the list of destitute
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
PRISONERS LEAVING.
Otis Gables That Nearly 1000 Have
Started Home.

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE war de-
partment received the following advices
from Gen. Otis today under date of Ma
nila, Feb. 14.-One hundred and eighty
officers and !, 800 men, Spanish prisoners
of war left port on the 18th and 18th by
steamers Reina Christina and Uruguay
en- route to Spain.
Isaac Russell. company A, Utah ar
tillery, slight scalp wound condition ex-
cellent. Lieutenant o. H. Grow, Utah
artillery en- route to San Francisco on
sick leave.
Lieut.. Chance, signal corps, GONZALES
cling slowly from typhoid fever, condi-
ton faVora BILE,
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Three Texans Freeze to Death.

st. Louis, Feb. IA special to the
Republic from Dallas. Tex, says: Ben
Graves, Alexander Clark and Will john
son. Collins county, Texas, farmers
were frozen to death Saturday night.
They were in Mckinney and started to
walk to their homes. They We're found
in a ravine last night, huddled close to-
gether in death. They were buried to-
daV
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DELLENBAUGH GUILTY.
Acting as Judge and Counsel at the
Same Time

Cleveland, Feb. 14.-The circuit court
has found Judge Dellenbaugh guilty as
charged in the third specification. The
sentence of the court was not announc-
ed and it is understood will not be made
within a few days
The third specification in the charges
against Dellenbaugh is in connection
with the 80. K" which he as judge
placed on the Manning divorce decree
and in which it was alleged he was also
interested as counsel. Judge Hale read
the verdict. Judge Dellenbaugh was not
present when the decision was read, he
sitting as judge in the common pleas
court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
CAN'T BURY HER DEAD.
New York Shut OFF From Her Potter's
Field.

New York, Feb. 14.-The city finds it
self unable to bury it's unclaimed dead.
This is in a great measure due to the
icebound condition of the East river,
which has made it impossible for sew
eral days for the steamers of the char
tiles department to make their accus-
toned trips to the city cemetery on
Hart'S island.
Tuesday when the coffin laden steamer
made its last trip to the potter's field.
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$4,000 FOR THE POOR
Contributed by Tammany, Croker, and
Jim Keene.

New York Feb b14.-Mayor Van Wyck
has notified Commissioner John w.
Keller of the department of charities,
that he had $2e, 900 subject to the com
nissioner's draft for the purpose of re-
lieVfng the poor.
Tammany Hall gave half the amount
and Richard Croker and James r.
Keene contributed $1,000 each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
LONDON SOCIETY AIRED.
a Baron and Barring in the Divorce
Court.

London, Feb. 14.-Baron Carl De
Merick has secured a divorce on the
ground of adultery committed by his
wife with her maids brother. The
baroness was formerly Miss Lillian
Young, and is said to be an American
woman.
Francis c. Barring was today awarded
a decree of divorce on the ground that
with his cousin, the Hon. Reginald
Thomas Dudley Brougham, brother of
Baron Brougham. All the parties to
this suit are well known in society.
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wreck He has doubts of the survival
of the three missing boats as the wealth.
er was very severe The names of the
missing men can not be ascertained
here. MorriselI and his companions
suffered terrible hardships from the
cold in the open boat and were nearly
exhausted when they made land Agent
Carrollan expressed the hope that the
missing boats made land as the ship
was near shore when abandoned and
that the men have not reported owing
to the interruption to the telegraph.
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CATANIA IS SAFE.
Left Glasgow for New York Decem-
her 18th

New York, Feb 1.-THE steamer
Catania, Captain Furlong, which left
ST. MichaeIs where she had put in for
repairs 10 days ago and about whose
safety much anxiety was felt, passed
Sandy Hook bound in today. The Ca
tania left Glasgow on December 18 for
New York and put into st. Michaels on
January 6, much damaged from gales
after being reported sighted at sea al
most a wreck.
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Petrol sailed from Iloilo for Manila.
The Sixth United States artillery regi-
ment occupied that position command
ing both the bridges leading into the
town and the Tennessee volunteers and
the Eighteenth United States infantry
were occupying the trenches that had
been constructed by the insurgents
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Digby Destroyed by Fire.

Halifax, n. s., Feb. 14.-Fire which
started in Letteny & Bros dry goods
store at Digby last night spread rapidly
and burned the principal business part
of the town between Is and 20 buildings
in all. No accurate estimate of the loss
has yet been made. Digby is a town of
1000 inhabitants on Annapolis basin.
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Father and Six Children Cremated.

st. Louis, Feb. IA special to the
Globe-Democrat from Pine Bluff, Ark,
says: Silas Jones and his six children
have been burned to death on the Rich
ardson and May plantation at Corner
Stone. The house and all its contents
have been destroyed and none of the in
mates escaped. 1t is thought the house
caught fire after its occupants had gone
to Sleep Mr. Jones' wife was away
from home for the night and owing to
that fact escaped.
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DISASTROUS
To Shipping Has Been the
Fierce Blizzard
Which Has Prevailed Along the
Atlantic Coast.
REPORTS OF WRECKS
Are Beginning to Come in From
All Directions.
Vessels Caught Outside Cannot
Enter Port.

New York, Feb. 14--The blizzard has
completely paralyzed shipping The
last vessel to arrive here was the Ward
liner Cienfuegos from Cuba, which came
up to her dock early Sunday evening.
At midnight last night the maritime
lookout at Sandy Hook reported a fur