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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
AT CROKER'S DINNER.
Auction Sale of the Boxes Brings in
$4,000.

New York, April 11.-Peter. T. Meyer
auctioned off the boxes at the Demo-
cratic club last night for Richard Gro
ker's Jefferson day dinner in the Metro
politan opera house.
There was a big crowd of Tammany
men present and the sale Melted more
than $4,000. jefferson M. Levy paid
$240 for the first choice and took box
No. 1.
1.-The terms are cash; no tick here"
said the auctioneer, and John j. Scan
nell started the bidding at $50. 1t went
by ten dollar jumps.
Croker looked on, but did not bid.
The bid of Mr.. Levy was the highest re-
ceived. The second choice went to Ed
ward NJ Muller for $40, and two more
boxes brought $500 each.
John Stimmel of No. POI Bowery
signed a contract with the Chicago
platforrners yesterday to furnish 5000
dollar dinners for the Jefferson banquet
in Grand Central Palace on April Is.
The committee has refused to make
public the menu until all the tickets are
sold. The full list of invited guests is as
follows:
William J. Bryan, George Fred Will
Hams, Senator J. K. Jones, Senator
Henry NJ. Teller, Senator Daniels, John
P. Altgeld, Senator William B. Allen of
Nebraska, Chauncey Black, president
NatlOnaI ASSOCIATION OF DeinOcrallc
Clubs; Tom l.. Johnson, Justice VIII
liam ]. Gaynor, William j. Stone of
Missouri, Richard ]. Bland, Henry
George, jr.. John S. Crosby, Ernest
Crosby, Ole Snyder, Buffalo; ]. H. For
rest, William H. c'Coin'O Harvey, Chi
cago; Gen. Patrick H. Bowling, Toledo;
Norman E. Mack, Buffalo; James P.
Tarvin, Kentucky; Charles A. Towne,
Minnesota; William Hepburn Russell,
Judge James G. Mcclure, California;
Champ Clark, Missouri; Mayor Mcguire
of Syracuse; VIM. r. Hearst, William
L. Browne, George Cary Eggleston, Jo-
seph Pulitzer, William Sulzer, Elliot
Danforth, Senator Tillman. Willis J.
Abbott, Joseph w. Bailey of Texas,
Thomas Watson, Thomaston, Ga; John
]. Foote, Lawrence Gardiner, secretary,
and Mr.. Clark. treasurer, of the Nation
al Association of Democratic Clubs;
Philo S. Bennett, Daniel o. ConneIl,
Senator John P. Jones, Nevada; Senator
William NJ. Stewart, James l.. Norris,
William F.. Ryan, Gen. W. j. Hendricl,
Col. A. c. Fisk, Charles n. Bulger. E.
J. Casey, Henry E. Reeve. j. j. Ken
nedy, William Syman, Frank J. Illig,
f L. Pabst, Francis N. Coe, A. J. Elias,
Andrew Gilfallon, Jacob Sterne, Robert
c. Titus and J. c. Burns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
IS BURIED ALIVE.
Greek Taken From Grave No Worse
For AZ Hours Sleep.

Waltham, Mass. April 11.-Carl Athena
the young Greek who was hypnotized and
buried alive, was dug up from his living
grave at O'Clock last night, worse
for his experience.
After apparently lying in a dead state for
forty-eight hours, the rigid form was
taken from the massive box. A large
number of persons were present to wit
ness the taking of the living man from his
grave.
Athena, who was buried as a test of the
power of hypnotic suggestion to suspend
the functions Indefinitely without serious
harm to- the subject, is recent conner to
this city His hypnotizer is an officer
who has seen service with the volunteers,
Lieutenant James Jeffrey.
1t is said that the temptation of winning
81 900 if he submitted to the test was the
motive of the Greek in permitting him
self to be buried. rather than any special
zeal in the cause of science. His nervous
temperament and susceptible nature made
him an ideal subject for mesmerist.
The authorities consented to the trial
only on condition that precautions be
taken to prevent the Greek from being
smothered in his living grave. They de-
manded that the grave should be fitted
with tube so that Athena could breat the
freely and communicate with those above
ground should he awaken. A long wooden
tube was placed directly above his face
the ground Then an electric light bulb
was placed directly above the young mans
face. A normal sleeper could not endure
the glare for ten minutes, but the Greeks
eyelashes did not even culver in all the
hours he slept.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
ROCKS GIVE OUT LIGHT.
Country For Miles About Reading APP
pears to Be on Fire.

Reading, Pa, April 11.-People just up
from the large surface deposits of dark
stones known as Ringing Rocks near
Pottstown tell a story of a most I'M
usual sight there. The deposit covers
several acres. The stones have a metal
lie sound when struck with a hammer
and hence are called ringing rocks"
During the first spring thunderstorm
recently the night was quite dark.
Persons passing the rocks were startled
to see a light blush flame rise from
the ground and spread over space of
ten to twelve yards square. This flame
rose and fell after the manner of the
northern lights, sometimes entirely dis
appearing and then flaming up, lighting
up the darkness around it. They stood
watching this mysterious light from a
distance and then went to see what
cause there was for it.
Some old residents in the neighbor-
hood said they had seen the strange
lights on nights during violent storms.
They explained that the rocks were so
metallic in formation that they attract
ed all the electricity in the atmosphere
for miles around. and through some
natural cause the electricity became
luminous phosphorescent glow, that lit
up like the northern lights.
These metallic or ringing rocks look
as if they had been dumped into vast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

and lump will rise in your throat, but
you'll say, III swallow it for the sake
of the Master, but l should like to
knock his head The crooked good man
is the meanest thing you will have to
deal with.
There will hardly be an hour" de-
clared the bishop, when it will be safe
to go around without the help of God.
1 know, because I've been through the
picnic, and sometimes 1 have felt as
though would like to" and the ven
cradle Bishop swung his right arm back
in true fighting style.
I'm going to tell something to YOU
now which has tripped up many minis
ters and will trip you up if you are not
careful. That is laZineSs. Don't spend
the whole forenoon reading newspapers
or worrying yourself about housekeep-
ingS Your wife will look after that.
If you are not married you ought to
be. But don't marry a young woman
because she is pious. Get one with good
blood and common sense, and she will
get religious quick enough. If she has
only got religion and no common sense
she may backslide.
IF you have not got books" contin-
ued the bishop, in a humorous vein,
why borrow them or take them
LAS for your thoughts from the pull
pit, get good ones, and if you haven't
them, why, steal them-and then own
up to it. But don't go into the pulpit
with an internal machine under the car
pet which may at any time bring you
into the deadly parallel column of a
newspaper"
the bishop, and then the candidates were
favOrably reported by the qualification
committee and the presiding elders of
the district in which they resided.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
BUTTERINE LAW TO STAY.
Illinois House Kills the Measure Re
pealing the Color Act Passed
Last Session.

Springfield, Ill, April 11-By a vote
of IS yeas to 40 nays the house yeSter-
day refused to pass the Barclay bill re-
pealing the butterine color law passed
kills the measure. Mr.. Barclay has
given notice of a motion to reconsider,
but in the face of the above vote re-
fusal to do so seems certain.
The act which the Barclay bill sought
to repeal prohibits butterine from be-
ing colored so as to initiate butter and
requires manufacturers of that article
the words "butterine,' "oleomargarine"
or substitute for butter"
Mr.. Shanahan led the argument for
repeal. He said the manufacturers of
butterine have no desire to place the
article on the market as butter, they
desire to have the same privilege of
coloring butterine as the butter manu-
facturers have to color butter
An effective speech against the bill
was made by Mr.. Alschuler.
IF this bill were here in good faith"
said he, IF it were proposition which
would bear the light of investigation, it
would not have slumbered along until
very close to the end of this session. BY
nothing in the act passed two years
ago was it intended to interfere with
the sale of butterine as such. So gem
eral has been the demand all over this
country for such a law that an anti
three states. Some of them go so far
as to require the product sold as but
terine to be colored a peculiar color. 1t
has been charged that this law Is I'M
constitutional If that is so, why are
these gentlemen SO anxious to repeal
tionality by taking the matter to the
supreme court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
THAT BRIDGE CONTRACT.
American Offer Was $4,000 Less
Than Lowest British Bid.

London, April 1.-THE report of
Baron Cromer, the British agent and
consul general in Egypt, to the foreign
Office, on Egypt and the Soudan in 1898,
was issued last night Under the head
ing of Railways" the report alludes to
the Atbara bridge contract, awarded to
Philadelphia firm, a fact which has
aroused considerable feeling in British
engineering circles, and says:
1.-The time of delivery was an even
more important consideration than the
price. An English firm offered to de-
liver the work in six and a half months
at a cost of $40, 400 (s52, 450). The Amer
lean firms offer was &c, 500 1882, 500, for
delivery in forty-two days"
The report adds:
st have no doubt these facts will ad-
init of some explanation wherewith I
am not acquainted. They appear
however, to merit the attention of
bridge builders in Great Britain
Lord Cromer adds an expression of
opinion by Col. Gordon that the Amer
leans gained time in sticking to fixed
standards, either in locomotives or
bridges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
ANNOYED HELEN GOULD.
Crank Wrote Many Fervent Love Let
ters Stamped "Due &C."

New York, April 11.-Miss Helen
Gould is paying one of the penalties of
fame, and a wild-eyed crank who has
been besieging her through the mails by
means of unstamped letters is in the in
sane department of Bellevue hospital
Miss Gould has been receiving letters
containing protestations of love. That
is, these letters have been coming to
the house, but Miss Gould never saw
them. She has discreet secretary, who
paid the two cents postage due on the
first letter in mild surprise, and after a
glance at the scrawling address consid-
cred that the letter came under the
general order from Miss Gould not to
bother her with certain kinds of COM
munications.
The next day another letter came
with that strange device, due, &c." in
large, red type. Again the meek secre-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

Well kidneys keep your blood free
from poison:-and filter all the impuri-
ties out of the system
You can be well by keeping your kid
neys well.
If your water when allowed to re-
main undisturbed in a glass or bottle
for twenty-four hours, forms a sedi-
ment or settling or has a cloudy appear
ance, it is evidence that your kidneys
and bladder need immediate attention.
What your kidneys need is a gentle.
healing, tonic influence that will soothe
their irritability and gently regulate
them.
The only thing that will do this is
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the ideal
kidney restorative.
When your system is weakened and
run down build up with Swamp-Root.
Briefly, the way to be well is to pay
attention to your kidneys.
To take Swamp-Root when you are
suffering from weak, unhealthy kidneys.
The great discovery Swamp-Root has
been tested in so many ways, in hos
pital work, in private practice, among
the helpless, too poor to purchase relief,
and has proved so successful in every
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

case that a special arrangement has
been made by which all readers of the
State Journal, who have not already
tried it, may have a free sample bottle
of Swamp-Root and thus test for them
selves, its wonderful curative proper
ties.
If you will send your name and full
address to DR.. Kilrner & Co., Bingham
ton, n. Y, a sample bottle will be sent,
absolutely free by mail postpaid, also
a book telling more about Swamp Root
and containing some of the thousands
upon thousands of testimonial letters
received from men and women who owe
their good health, in fact, their very
lives, to the wonderful curative proper
ties of Swamp-RoOt.
This great modern discovery is for
sale at most drug stores in fifty-cent
and one dollar sizes. Don't make any
mistake, but make note of the name,
SWAMP-ROOT, DR.. Kilmer's Swamp
Root.
If you take advantage of this gen.
erous offer and write for a free sample
bottle, be sure and mention the To-
peka Daily State Journal when sending
your address to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
NECkLACEIN THE RUINS.
Workman Tried to Sell It For Dol
lar and Was Arrested.

New York, April 11.-Richard Cum
ningham,a laborer. of 424 West Twenty
fifth street, was arrested yesterday as
he came out of a pawnshop in Second
avenue, near Sixty-first street, holding
in his hand a pearl necklace with dia-
mond ornaments. He said at first that
he found the necklace on First avenue,
but afterward acknowledged that he
found it while at work in the ruins
made by the fire in Mr.. Andrews house
in East Sixty-seventh street.
The pawnbroker told Policeman Son.
theimer, who made the arrest, that the
man had offered to sell him the neck
lace for 81, but, suspecting that some
thing was wrong, he had refused to
purchase it. In the Yorkville police
court Magistrate Olmsted held the
prisoner in $1,000 bail for trial on
charge of theft.
The necklace consisted of four strings
of pearls, a gold heart and a gold bar
pendant. A number of small diamonds
were set in the heart and bar. 1t had
not been damaged in the fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

lake and thoroughly filled it, so that the
water entirely disappeared. Small peb-
bles dropped through the crevices of the
rocks can be heard dropping from ledge
to ledge until the sound is lost fifty feet
below. On some of the surfaces i'm
prints of human feet or feet of beasts
or birds can be SEEM as if they had
soft enough to receive an impression
and then hardened and retained them.
There was a story that a ghost that
emitted fire from it's nostrils haunted
the rocks, but scientific men declare
that the rocks are so highly charged
with magnetism that any electric dis
turbance will cause the glow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
Chronic rheumatism Cured.

DR.. H. 3. Hettinger, Indianapolis.
Ind. says: For several months after
spraining my ankle I was severely
afflicted with rheumatism. 1 finally
tried Detchon's Mystic Cure for Rheu-
matism. and in days could walk with
out my cane; two bottles cured me
sound and well. I take great pleasure
in recommending the Mystic Cure to
all who are afflicted with Rheumatism -
Sold by Swift & Holiday, druggists
623 Kansas avenue, Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
TEST FMARCONI'S SYSTEM
Messages Sent Readily by Wireless
Telegraph in Spite of Gale

London April 1.-THE wild gale that
is prevailing in the English channel
has not affected the transmission of
messages by Signor Marconi's wireless
telegraph system. The wind roared
deafeningly around the South Foreland
lighthouse, the English experimental
station, and transforms were constant.
Similar conditions prevailed at Bou-
logne, near which place the French sta
ton is situated, but the messages pass
ed as readily and as distinctly as
though the weather was calm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
A BOGUS MESSIAH.
Man Who Started an Indian Uprising
Gets q Years Sentence.

Sioux Falls, s. D., April 11.--Albert c.
Hopkins of Canton was today sentenced
by Judge Garland in the federal court
to serve year and a day in the peni-
Tertiary for sending obscene matter
through the mails Hopkins claimed to
be the Messiah previous to and during
the Sioux troubles at Pine Ridge in 1889
and started the ghost dances out of
which all trouble grew.
The grand jury has brought in an in
dictment against Mayor H. A. Tubbs Of
Alcester, s. D., on the same charge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11
$3.50. 2S2.5G.

The above greatly reduced rate has
been made by the Union Pacific to Cali
fornia points. Through tourist sleepers
quicker time than any other line.
For tickets and full information call
on F. A. Lewis, city ticket agent, or
i C Fulton. depot agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

For frost bites, burns, fndolent sores,
eczema, skin disease, and especially
Piles, De Wits Witch Hazel Salve
stands first and best. Look out for dis
honest people who try to initiate and
counterfeit it. It's their endorsement of
a good article. Worthless goods are not
initiated. Get De Wits Witch Hazel
Salve. Geo. w. Stansfield, w. H. Will
son. A. J. Arnold & Son, A. ]. Kane &
Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

The slight cough may
soor become deeP-seated and
hard to cure. Do not let it
settle on the lungs.
Think Has there been
consumption in your familyf
SCOTS Emulsion is Cod
liver oil with hypophos-
phites. These are the best
remedies for a cough.
SCOTS Emulsionhas saved
thousands who, neglecting
the cough, would have drift
ed on until past hope. 1t
warns, sootheS, strengthens
and invigorates.
soc. and $Ioo, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE Chemists. New YORK;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

Butte, Mont,
s2s.s5, via Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-11

suffer pain n your head back hips o joints
short of breath, irregular heart, generally weak?
of
Whence symptoms
From Kidney n
How does the Poison get into your bIoodP
creep into blood
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-08
The Daddy Squash weighs 90 pounds Send guesses with
Mail ORDERS
BIG BUFFALO CASH STORE
W. F. SCHMADEKA Proprietor.
THE STORE THAT SELLS EVERYTHING

Rev. Frank Wear, of Nez Perez
county will hold services at Fair
view school house on Sunday Dec.
18th, 1899, at IL A. M. A cordial
invitation is extended to all.
The Freisheimer Drug Go. has
undoubtedly the finest line OF holt
day goods in the city. They were
bought direct from the eastern CEN
tiers and everything is new. No
last years stock. 26tf
Some of the best looking ore we
have seen from the Mallick district
was brought out yesterday and is
now at Scott s. Vollmer's, who,
with Mr.. Wagner, are interested
in the property, which is known
as the Captain Jack. 1t shows
free gold in liberal quantities.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-08
WHO SANK THE MAINE?
New Evidence Showing the
Agency Employed.

A New York dispatch says that
United States officials, after months
Of secret investigation, have dis
covered that the battleship Maine
was blown up by guncotton tor
pedoes placed in the bay for that
purpose.
The guncotton, 700 pounds OF
which was used, was sent from
Barcelona to Admiral Manterola,
commanding the port of Havana,
and was either stolen from the
magazine where the stuff was
stored, or taken away with the
knowledge of the officials in charge.
Admiral Manterola's records will
undoubtedly show the names Of
his subordinates who had direct
control of the explosives, and in
that way the identity of the au-
thors and executioners of the plot
to destroy the Maine may be dis
covered.
Two or three men were engaged
in the destruction of the Maine.
A steam launch of Spanish make,
now used in the United States gov
eminent in Havana harbor, con-
veyed the two torpedoes, accord
ing to the new evidence, to point
within few feet of the berth OF
the Maine, and anchored them.
The torpedoes were kept in po-
sition by means of buoys floated II
feet under water, 10 feet above tht
anchors used to prevent them from
being swept away. The torpedoet
were exploded by contact with the
keel of the Maine as she swung al
anchor.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-08
To Reach Southern Idaho
Mines.

Boston capital is arranging to
build an electric road 35 miles
long to tap the mining regions in
the Sawtooth mountains in SOUTH
ern Idaho, and furnish q means of
transportation between those points
and the Oregon Short Line. 1t is
also the intention Of the company
to furnish electric power to Boise,
Payette, Silver City and Caldwell,
with adjacent points. The power
developed is that Of the Payette
river, about six miles above EN-
met.
The necessary expenditure will
be from 81, 100000 to 81, 200, 600
and that the Boston parties who
are interested are willing to put in
so large an amount evinces their
confidence in the mining develop
ment of that section.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-08

There has been considerable
mining stock changing hands the
past few days, notably in the New
some Creek properties which seem
to be the favorite at present. Iron
King at Sc is considered one of the
best investments at present, though
Gold Crown is also in demand at
Zoe. These properties are suppos-
ed to bc on tie same lead as the
dividend payer Iron Crown, and
are looking up well.-Spokane
Stock Report.
A petition for writ Of prohibit
ton has been presented to Judge
Steele. to restrain the counsel OF
the Village of Grangeville from
collecting the license tax, ON the
grounds that it is unconstitutional,
that the legislature did not have
authority to empower the cities 10
collect said tax, and that Grange
vile was never properly incorpor-
ated and that the ordinance was
never properly passed according te
law and that the said ordinance
has never been uniformly enforced,
The Ladies Aid Society Of the M
4. church gave a most elaborate
Thanksgiving dinner to the public
yesterday, in The new building
which is to be occupied by A. d
Foster, on Monday. The ment
was most elaborate and the table,
were well patronized aud the din
ner was q success both from gas
tronomic and financial point o
view.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1899-12-08

A Great Coal Field.

With the excitement attendant
upon the discovery Of precious met
al deposits in a country, the less
valuable minerals often are left in
the background Of public mention.
The great copper discoveries in
this county have had the effect Of
apparently setting aside interest in
the coal fields that are known to
exist within our borders. Up in
the northeastern portion of the
county, cropping between Eugene
and the Meadows, is what compe-
tent men say a coal field Of great
magnitude, and they are backing
their judgment with cold cash, re-
sulting in the EN- ployment of a
force of men to develop the prop
erty Of the Black Diamond Coal
Mining Company, located across
the dividing line of Washington
and Idaho counties. This is the
only property having any consider
able development, but this COM
pany has driven SO far as to al
low the prosecution of work all
winter, and enough has been done
to give them encouragement to
proceed. Besides this company,
Sceiebe & Lowe will work q small
crew, as will also the Idaho Coal
Development Company. = Weiser
Record.