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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
LITTLE GIRL LOST.
Six-Year-Old Daughter of A. E.
Palmer Disappears.

Little Mildred Palmer is missing from
home and her parents are almost dis
tracted.
Little Mildred, years old. was last
seen about breakfast time playing with
some other children near her home near
Tenth avenue and Quincy street. She
was dressed in a red frOck and her hair
was hanging down her back. She was
barefoOted and the description says:
was always smiling" The officers are
looking for the little girl but so far no
clue has been found, although the Off
GERS believe she is playing somewhere
with children and will be found all
right. Mildred Palmer is the daughter
of Prof. A. z. Palmer who lives on
Quincy near Tenth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
HAUSER'S PLUNGE.
Jumps From Middle Span of Brooklyn
Bridge.

New York, Aug. 4.-Henna Hauser,
treasurer of the Herald Square theater,
in this city, jumped from the middle
span of the Brooklyn bridge at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. He was rescued
in the water and will recover. HauSer
was a passenger on an electric car
bound from Brooklyn to New York. He
sat calmly reading a newspaper until
about the middle of the bridge was
reached, when he jumped off the car.
Throwing off his coat, HauSer climbed
upon the outer railing to leap. The
bridge policeman, passengers on the
car and the carmen themselves made
a rush for the man. He observed their
approach coOlly, heSltated moment
and then leaped clear of the structure.
He struck the water just astern of a
ferry boat. A passenger Sprang over
board and seized Hauser when he re-
appeared on the surface. He was lifted
aboard, taken to shore and sent to the
hospital.
Hauser is about so years old and is
very well known in the theatrical fra
ternity. He started as an usher at
HoOley's theater in Chicago. Then he
became assistant treasurer and later
treasurer. He was connected with
came to New York in 1896.
One story, which Hauser later con-
frmed, was to the effect that a little
girl on her way back from COney Is
land on a Third avenue car commenced
to interrogate her father concerning the
big bridge just as they reached the
emu ms C0llQ. perhaps
or years of age, finally inquired
whether anyone had ever jumped from
the bridge. The parent replied in the
affirmative and attempted to induce his
daughter to keep still. Seated just back
of the man and the little girl, so the
story runs, was Mr.. HauSer. Suddenly
and without warning the child began
again with the remark: Say, papa,
I would like to see somebody jump off -
'Well, I am afraid you won't get your
wish today" replied her father.
Won't She" came a voice in reply.
It'll jump for the little girl
This much is certain that Mr.. Hauser
did spring up from his seat and dropped
from the car into the roadway with an
agility that surprised the spectators. So
sudden were his movements that the
conductor had no time to stop the car
and a hundred feet had been traverSed
before the mOtOrman finally succeeded
in bringing things to a pause. By this
time Mr. Hauser was high on the rail
ready for his plunge. Pausing for
single instant he waved his hand toward
the people on the car, then Sprang into
the air and went down like a shot,
turning over and over as he fell. He
struck the water with a splash which
was heard both on the bridge and on
the shore.
When asked why he made the jump
he said it was because he was
drunken fool. He insisted that he had
no trouble of any sort, either in his
family or financially. Finally he jok-
ingIy remarked: That's what Coney
Island booze does for a fellow"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
FEWER ELECTIONS.
Governor Stanley Thinks Radi-
cal Reforms Would Prove
Beneficial.

Governor Stanley a few weeks ago
suggested that the legislature should
meet in off years and at a time when
the members and the governor are not
buried in patronage affairs. The gov
ernor's ideas were printed in an inter
view in the Journal Today the COVER
nor said:
II think we should have fewer cleo
lions in this state. I believe the state
officers should be elected for four years
and be made, by law, ineligible for a
second term.
Il think the county officers should be
elected for a term of two years and all
officers for the county should be chosen
at one time. This would do away with
the annual elections which stir up strife
and engender bitterness in local at
fairs.
Constitutional amendments would be
necessary to change the existing meth
DDS, I think, but 1 am in favor of the
changes Just the same"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
BLACKBALLING BELMONT.
It Leads to Rumpus Among the Odd
Fellows.

Newport, R. L, Aug. 4.-There is a big
rumpuS in the Order of Odd Fellows of
Newport, and indeed, of the whole
state of Rhode Island, over the fact
oliver II. P. Belmont had been black
balled last Tuesday evening in Excel
sior lodge of this city. Investigations
are now going on, and where the mat
ter viii end nobody can tell.
1t appears that some member lost no
time in making public what, according
to lodge laws, should have been kept a
secret, and this has caused more of a
sensation throughout the order than the
actual failure of election of Mr.. Bel
mont, which win be a great disappoint-
ment as his friends intended to push
him for high honors in the craft.
It is understood that the grand lodge
of the state has ordered an investiga-
ton of what it claims to have been a
very serious break in the rules of Odd
Fellowship. Excelsior lodge, in which
the blackballing took place, held a meet
ing Saturday night and talked the mat
ter over. No mixing as to who the Of
fender was could be gained, and a COM
mittee was appointed to conduct gem
eral investigation. 1t is said that if
Excelsior lodge does not probe the mat
ter to the bottom, the grand lodge will
suspend it. The investigating commit
tee viii call before it every man who
was in the room when Mr.. Belmont was
blaekballed.
1t is stated that the blackballing of
Mr.. Belmont was not so much matter
of opposition to him as it was to those
who were urging his election. It is also
stated that he did not seek mem bership
in the order, but was requested by GER
tain influential members to allow them
to present his name. For this reason
some Of Mr.. Belmont'S friends felt worse
over the setback than he did himself.
Use tea dust for iced tea, zoe pound
Whittelsey Mercantile Co. Telephone 1888
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
A STRANGE WIFE.
Husband Accused of Criminal Assault
Aided by His Wife.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. "A SEN
sat1on was created here today by the
announcement that warrants had been
issued for the arrest of G. c. Bice and
wife on charge of criminally assault
ing Alice, the Is year old daughter of
Mrs. Ida Lincoln. Mrs. Bice is accused
Of aiding and abetting in the crime. The
BlceS came to this city from South
PlttSburg. Bice is a molder and pat
tern-maker The couple secured board
ing at Mrs. LincOln'S home.
Mrs. Lincoln is the widow of the late
DR.. J. H. Lincoln, who was a second
cousin of President Abraham Lincoln.
she Is regarded as an estinable woman.
MRS. Lincoln says that three weeks ago
B1ce commenced to show her daughter
Alice more attention than she thought
a married man ought to show young
girl. She complained of it, and warned
her daughter. The Bices made so many
proteStatiOns of a friendly interest in
the girl that Mrs. Lincoln was for a
time disarmed. About ten days ago
she permitted her daughter to accom-
nay the couple on an excursion to Look
out Mountain. Shortly after the visit
to Lookout Mountain the Bices left the
city and went to Memphis.
on FRIDAY last the girl confessed to
the mother that Bice, assisted by his
wife, had criminally assaulted her, while
they were IN a remote grove on the
mountain. The girl said that Mrs. Bice
tried to persuade her to assent to the
assault, but that she endeavored to es-
cape and was Overpowered by Bice. The
girl has always borne good reputation
and her mother was Frustrated by the
disclosure. She at once took steps to
bring the Bices to justice.
The heart broken mother declares she
will kill Bice if she is allowed to see
him The warrant was issued and the
authorities at Memphis were notified.
The Bices were arrested in Memphis
and an officer from this county has been
sent there to bring them back to this
city for trial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
IRONOUILL'S POEM.
Writes a New One Entitled my First
Wife"
MY FIRST WIFE.

"a Reverie by Ironquill.)
o. the poise of her head
Down her queenly neck fell a brown cas-
With a tinge of red:
When she lifted her finger at me and said,
9ung man, alCnougsh was not t al a!u
And it made me reflect that soon or late
would have some questions to ask Of
In regard to myself and a womans win.
had heard in my youth
That around the heart
OF each wholesome man,
From the very start
By some unknown plan,
There is knOtted and tied
A single lone hair. and the hair is red;
And when it unties
or IS broken earted-the same as dead;
know it's so, for I've seen it tried.
And hold it true that never man
Fought life and fought death, and fought
friend and foe,
For a woman's smile or a woman's fan,
Unless the tresses upon her head
Showed red, or at least, a shade of red.
Now. what could I guess
When, in every tress
OF my first wife's hair was that shade
And what could know, or what express
When around my heart I could feel the
And the twist of a ngature firm and, fine.
And what could I say, or what could be
a
From her velvet throat,
Came the words, Young man.
With the toss of her head.
o! the follies Of Hfel
Q! the fatal mistakesi
o! the strain and the strife
And the sorrow that breaks
The trusting heart.
But yet-my first wife
She never would cry and never would
No woman was ever like her. ween:
And never was yet any daughter Of Eve,
AS used TO repeat ana l now Deneve,
More worthy than she TO be chr1Stened
queen.
She never eloped-we did not part
There was nothing outward of grief or
No neighbors whispered, 'I told you so.'
And the tight red band that was round
It never united and let me go.
And then. Of course.
Igave her no cause, and she gave me none.
Unless could say
That her naughty way
OF saying Young MANI though perhaps
Was a ground for divorce. though the only
one.
o. the golden now, so mute and so dumb,
As, with hopes aglOw
We wait for the futures yet to come.
Q, the halcyon days
Of the happy past
And yet SO slow
How little there is for US all to knowI
And why must a man
Love once for all?
Once-only once-and tell, if you can,
Why a woman whose hair has a tinge of
red,
Be she ever so small
Or ever so tall,
Will keep on allowing until she's dead
And a good deal longer, I've heard it said.
So happiness seems
To hang a hinge,
And to be the product of a tinge:
And that is the reason why, in my dreams
I see the floating, as of a fringe,
A brown. with a delicate shade of red;
And feel the ligature round my heart.
1t hasn't united snapped apart,
And she's alive-not dead.
OF course she's alive,
And her children rVe
Are up at the house, and so is she;
For she is my first and my only wife
My only wife-upon my life
FOr-nO second wife for me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
SMALL INCOME.
Topeka Opera House Ventures
Evidently Do Not Pay.

The hearing in the Crawford bank
ruptcy matter was taken up again
Thursday afternoon in Referee Sion
ecker's office, and John r. MuIvane was
again placed on the witness stand to
give the figures which had been called
for with reference to the business
transaction between Mr.. Crawford, the
Bank of Topeka, and himself
Mr.. Mulvane had looked up the in
debtedness of Mr.. Crawford to the bank
on July L of each year from 1891 to
1897 las requested by J. W. Gleed, the
attorney for the Central National bank.
The Indebtedness ranged, according to
Mr.. Mulvane's figures, from 81, 500 on
July, 1, 1891, to $27, 800 on July 1, 1897.
He said the bank had sometimes per-
rnitted Mr.. Crawford to overdraw his
account as much as IS, 900.
Concerning the income from the
Crawford Opera. House, which Mr.. Null
vane testified that he purchased from
said that during the theatrical year be-
ginning August I, 1898, and ending Aug
ust 1, 1899 the gross income of the pro-
perty had been $11,700, while he had
paid out on the property 81, 551.77. This
went for taxes, insurance, interest on
the first mortgage of S25, 900, which is
held by the Northwestern Mutual, the
running expenses of the opera house,
and incidental repairs.
Concerning the amount paid by Mr..
MulVane to Mr., Crawford for the bill
boards in Topeka and other places, Mr..
Afulvane said he had not had an op-
portunity to look the figures up.
The hearing was continued by Ref
cree Slonecker until September 5, at
which time the examination will be
again resumed.
The creditors of Mr.. Crawford have
elected S. B. Isenhart as trustee in the
baukruDtcV case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
gUING FOR A WHOLE TOWN.
@. ". Harper Wants the Site of Kill
dare, Okla, as a Homestead

Perry, Okla, Aug. 4.-Considerable
excitement exists at Kildare, a town of
AGO inhabitants, on the Santa Fe rail-
road, north of Perry, over a suit filed
by Chas. w. Harper, of that town, ask
ing the court to vacate the town of
stores, churches, schools, saloons and
residences, and to award him the site
as a homestead. The case viii be heard
in the district court of Kay county.
Kildare occupies $50 acres Of land and
has five grocery stores and four dry
goods stores. four saloons and numer-
Gus other business houses Harper
claims to have title to the land on
which the town is located.
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A. B. OUINTON'S HORSE.
Colored Couple Borrow" It to Take
Ride.

At o'clock this morning the police
found Gilmore Barton, aged II, and Jas
Dunn, aged Is, both colored, driving A
B. Quinton's horse and buggy around
town.
They were arrested on the charge Of
grand larceny and locked up in the city
prison. The horse and buggy were re-
turned to the owner. This is not the
first time the horse has been taken out
Of the barn and driven at night. Several
times Mr.. QuintOn has found his horse
in the morning lame and stiff and now
he knows how to account for it. The
younger cOlOred boy explained to the
officers that he worked for Mr.. Quinton
and therefore had a right to drive the
horse if he wanted to.
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SUFFERING AT MANILA.
Woeful Tale Told In an Army Officers
Letter.

London, Aug. 4-The London CORE
spondent of the Manchester Courier
processes to have received a, letter from
an American officer at Manila, in which
a woefuI tale is told of the sufferings
of the rank and file, and of the discon-
tent of company officers at what they
regard as acknowledgement of the cam
paign.
Another and much more influential
Manchester paper, the Guardian, on the
other hand, has a pleasant word to say
Of the American mana cement in Cuba.
''Of the success of General Woods ad-
ministration," says the Guardian, there
is no doubt. Perhaps one reason for
that success is that he believes in the
people under his charge. 1t is not every
military governor in Cuba who does.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
WAS A MISTAKE.
Error In Secretary Coburn's Report
of Wichita Population.

The Wichita papers and Governor
Stanley are complaining because the
report recently issued by the state
board of agriculture on population
credited Wichita with a loss during
1898.
Secretary Coburn of the state board
of agriculture who compiled the figures
said today:
out by the state board of agriculture is
exactly as claimed by the Wichita
Eagle The only error made in the
typewriter copy was that there had
been a slight loss, when in fact there
was a gain of 1881, which the printed
report will show"
Wichita's population in 1898 was 22,-
026; in 1897 it was 2O,745.
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[,
kan, receiver. and shipper of grain
Score by innings:
New York: Earnings B. R. T. July,
$958, $40 against S936,474 a year ago
Newport News, Va: There were no new
yellow fever cases at soldiers home and
no deaths. Physic- ans say there is no reas-
on to fear a spread.
Nerothwestern receipts: Minneapolis 156
cars, last year 6S cars; Duluth 15S cars,
Wheat opens firm on higher cables.
There appears to be some selling OF Dec
Provisions are strong as was expected.
Advance has been very rapid and think
Duluth stocks decrease 100000 bushels.
Next week: Puts 6!7ac; calls 7213c; corn
London, 2:15 p. M: Leading Americans
down = to I'D from opening which 3 wa, was
Lincoln, Neb: C5Tasshoppers in Nebras-
ka are so far limited to three counties
s So svvarms further east. Few com
plants have been made until the past few
days. 1t is believed the swarTns are emil
grating and that that they viii disappear as
=, Weather map: Much lower tempera-
lures in extreme northwest; prospects of
more moderate temperatures everywhere
by Saturday. The corn states have good
at a. m, mercury ranged from 40 to As;
in Minnesota and Dakota 50 to "a. Kansas,
Missouri, Indiana and Ohio 20 to so. Rains
at North Platte, Nebraska, Omaha and
Total ciearances, wheat and flour 100000,
Chicago: No demand here for cash
wheat. There were some early inquiry but
when offered did not want it.
New York: Moore & s, sold about 1O,O00
A NJ T.. yesterday they have been buy
ers Of it today, taking back over 5000
shares far. Brokers who started rise
in A. NJ. T. have turned their attention 10
Continental tobacco and are best buyers;
News bulish, no speculative support and
a case of tired on part Of numerous longs
causing decline.
Kansas City receipts: Wheat 1851; corn
Lincoln, Neb.: Hastings, Exeter. York
and Bellwood all report no damage to
corn to speak of.
Liverpool close: Wheat I'd higher; corn
unchanged from yesterday;
Antwerp cable reads; India repurchasing
cargoes sold here.
Northwest stocks this week
Shows report on spring wheat crop
little bullish. It indicates 275 million crop.
Corn will be about the same as last
month; show crop of 2,125 million.
New York: Selling of L p. is on
rumor of trouble pending between y. P,
and the n. P, in the Clearwater cQntro-
VerSy.
Corn strength largely in September; this
due to good shipping demand, also lighter
Puts: September wheat 691zc; calls Sep
TENDER wheat roc; puts, Sep ember corn,
301RG305sc: calls September corn S95sc.
St. Louis close: Wheat cash 6Sbc: Sep
TENDER 691s66914c; December 72lsc; corn,
cash S01zc; September Boise; December,
2l34
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NO WORD FROM MR. HORD.
Wife and Father to Leave For Ar
kansas Today.

A telegram received by Newman Hord
from the station agent at Searcey
Springs, Ark, this afternoon states that
Viii Hord, the Topeka shoe merchant,
is sick at a place nine miles in the
country, and that up to the time of
sending the telegram no word had been
received of a change in condition He
was reported to be dying Thursday aft
ernoon, and it was not expected that he
would live until this morning.
Word direct from the place where Mr.
Hord is sick is expected late this after
noon.
Mrs Hord arrived this afternoon and
it is probable she will accompany Mr..
G. NJ. Hord, her father-in-law, to Ar
kansas
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NEW YORK STORY
About British Politics Denied In Lon
don.

London, Aug. 4.-The stories publish
ed in New York saying that the secre-
tary of state for the colonies, Mr.. Jo-
seph Chamberlain, has renewed his
warnings to President Kruger and that
the British cabinet has approved his
action, are evidently baseless.
Mr.. Chamberlain's proposal for a joint
franchise proposal of the Transvaa1
government viii have on the position
of the outlanders was only presented
to the Transvaal government Wednes-
day and the latter government is con-
sidering its acceptance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
Chicago livestock Market.

HOGs-Estimated Of hogs fodaV Il. go.
fully 10Q15 cents higher. Mixed and
butchers, $4-35d4. 771z; good heavy 81 so
a. IS; rough heavy "a. OSCARS; light $4.5O@
CATTLE-Receipts 1000 Market 1920
cents higher; beeves "a. 5O15. 70: cows and
heiters 81. 256I5. 10: Texas steers s.. 1905 10;
stockers and feeders So. 40Gg4. 10.
SHEEP-Receipts Il, 600 Market slow.
Sheep 81. 1904. 70; lambs IS .50d6.40
OFFICIAL receipts and shipments for yes
terday:
HOGS-Receipts II, 5s6; shipments SIS.
CATTIE-Receipt 1856; shipments SOL
SHEEP-Receipts 1886; shipments $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
RIOT AT A BULL RING.
Matador at MarseiIles Sulks Because
He Is Not Paid.

.MarseiIIes, Aug. Am ugly riot oc-
CURED here today in the bull ring. The
trouble resulted from the matador's
refusal to appear because he had not
been paid in advance. This angered the
spectators, some of whom set fire to the
seats and hangings.
The fire caused panic, but firemen
arrived promptly and quenehed the
flames. The police seized the gate
money and refunded to the spectators
the price they had paid for admission.
The ring was ultimately cleared. A few
persons were slightly injured
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
Kansas City livestock Market.

Kansas Citv Aug. J.
CATTLE-Receipts 1900 natives; 1000
Texans. Market steady to strong; native
steers 81. SoaI5: 50; Texas steers s.. 50I4. so;
Texas cows g .50Q3.40: native cows and
heiferS 81. 15GI5-15; sJockers and feeders SO. 90
$500; bulls So. 50G3. 10
HOGS-Reeeipts 1900. Market strong, 5
a 10 cents higher, active; bulk of sales
81. 1000. 50 heavy 81. 40G14. So; packers "a IS
a. 52l5; mixed 81 Sal 80; light s. .304. 521A
workers. "a. 471a6t4. 5215; pigs 81 .30l14. SPY
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Market steady;
lambs 81. 5OlI6 90: muttons Sc. 3505. 90
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New YORK Money Market.

New York, Aug. /.
MONEY on call nominally 31a04 per
cent. Prime mercantile paper 4q4A per
cent. Sterling exchange weak with actual
business in bankers bills at 81 s6Q4 .S61z
for demand and at 81. S21zGI4. S22z for sixty
days. Posted rates 81. S31a6G4.S 81 and S4.SI12;
commercial bills 81. SIG 4. S11a.
VER-Silver certificates 6012Q6lc-
Bar silver 60Ac. Mexican dollars 4Sc.
BONDS-Governmen bonds strong.
United States Is registered 100; IS, regist-
cred 1854; coupon 1855; new IS registered
1874; coupon l29lz; ola As registered 11214;
coupon 13; IS, registered Ills; coupon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
CATTLE WE'RE STARVED.
W. G. Richards Sues Missouri Pacific
For S15. 400.

Richards, a stOckman of Fort WORTH
Tex. has fled suit for $1,000 in Green
wood county against the Missouri Pa
had a train load of cattle delayed for
three days by a burning trestIe in the
Flint hills, and 1873 head died from ex-
posure.
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Kanaaa civ Produee Market

Kansas City, Aug. 4.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 625sc; Decembe
64zsc; No; 2 hard SPEC; CASH No. , 6o@
CORN-Septenlbe 271sc; December 24s[c
Cash: No. 2 mixed 2S12c; No. 2 white 29c;
No. 3. 28d2S14c.
OATS-No. 2 white 241kG2555c.
RYE-Steady, No 2, SOC
HAY-Choice timothy $3.50; choice prai-
RE, Sc. O016 .25.
BGTTER-Creamery 141zq161kc; dairy Il.
EGGS-Fresh SIC.
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The New orleans Is There.

Washington, Aug. 4.-The cruiser
New Orleans has arrived at Santo Do
mingo Hayti, where she was sent to
protect American interests in case of
an outbreak.
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PARDON REFUSED.
Governor Will Not Release Kansas
City Beer Agent.

The governor this afternoon declined to
pardon o. NJ. Halloway who is in Jail
for selling liquor in Montgomery county
He represented a Kansas City wholesale
house.
Mrs. Holloway made the application and
presented her case with tears The gov
ernor said he would not inlerfere.