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The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
SNAP SHOTSAT HOME NEWS

Richard cellar wants to be city detect
i've again
President R. s. Brigham of the CONNER
ciaI club is in quincy, Ill, on business.
The cost of macadam pavement, gravel
The Ancient Order of Hibernians has ar
ranged a celebration for St Patrick day
in the evening.
The Arion society will give a c0ncert ,0,7t ;t:r
fGiyowe9 day eTanHg RS Sfnef MaFeh AZ a IT'S nan on
A; ]. LoXeland. formerly of the Shawnee
MILLS MILLS Of ,is TioPeks pc "a Is nov with the Dei
Apples now sell for cents apiece while
three oranges and a dozen bananas can
be bought for the same money
Frank Osborn. one of the state bank ex-
rheuma tfsm at the Chesterfeid
santa santa Fe: has @ Tsf@Tnsd 91s after several
Night will be seen at the Crawford the
ater on the evening of March 30
A Topeka young, man is so .gf'lIaE gfa'iiIant that
young lady through a telephone.
F: D. Merriam is circulating a petition
teenth street to Washburn college.
Every, time desire to make garden gets
a firm hold on a man a cold wave comes
along and takes it all out of him.
A Gates special excursion train passed
through Topeka over the Santa Fe this
afternoon en- route from Old Mexico to the
Spring is making a fearful struggle to
assert herself Winter is not lingering in
the. lap of spring, but absolutely sitting
on her.
at present takes out hunters who will
come back laden with plenty of stories If
not game.
The finest carnations in ,. the city ~ At /,
street. Go and see them, they speak for
The first real south wind of the spring
| blew yesterday afternoon. 1t did great
| deal toward drying off the pavements in a
| short time.
VIM Moessr % Err, is planning e., another p hunt
glowing accounts of the number of ducks
| that have arrived
"A A man who objects to paving gives IS. as 5
| need pavements, and when it is muddy
| We can't make en-
/ ministers have been in Topeka yesterday
and today on their way to Hiawatha to
Prof ]: Liberty Tadd of the Public
| School of Industrial Art of Philadelphia
| ers Tuesday afternoon.
The vulture-like justice courts are now
htoverlng nov around the EDGES OF ToPeka, hop mop
tice courts in the city.
| ]. w. Adams. who was one of wichita s
| representa- tives in the late house of repre-
| sentatives,. better known as Adams of
| Sedgwick,'' is in Topeka on business.
assistant general freight agent of the ROCK
Island. has returned from Buffalo with his
family and will locate permanently here.
Engineer H. G. Rust of the Santa Fe
| has a hard maple mortar made by one of
his ancestors in Vermont in 1923 The NOR
| tar was used in preparing corn and coffee.
| What excuse is there for three city tick
cts when all the nominees are pledged to
| municipal ownership of the water plant
This is one more case of partisan idiocy.
Prof. Flint says that Topeka, Lincoln.
| Neb., and Madison. Wis, are the three
| best towns in the west in which to get
| hypnotic subjects. Each is a state cap
| ital.
Chicago's city council has adopted a
resolution in favor of municipal owner
| ship of all heating plants and light plants.
Only two votes were opposed This beats
| Topeka.
A Topeka confectioner keeps two par
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15

millers say that the roads interfere with
the amount of flour they sell, notwith-
standing the fact that people have to eat
bread all the time.
Shawnee farmers are beginning. to sell
their milk to the creameries within the
past few weeks more than they ever have
before. They are becoming convinced that
it is a more paying investment than to
trouble it is to furnish milk to the milk
depOtS. in the latter case they have to
bring in their milk twice day, while
they have to come in only once for the
creamery.
stay as a regular form of amusement in
Topeka. 1t is not so in all Kansas towns.
The 400 of Saina society attempted
cake walk couple of years ago. at which
Judge Osborn, speaker of the late house
of REPRESENTATIVES. was one of the judges,
but the specta tors got disgusted at some
of the performances and many of them
left No one has dared to mention cake
walk in Salina since.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
Jeanette elders First Story.
[From Demorest's Magazine. ]

i
Miss Jeanette L. Glider, the we'll
known writer for the Critic talks in
terestingly of her early journalistic ex-
periences.- She says:
My earliest attempts at composition
were in fiction, and my first published
work was a short story, printed in
New York paper, when l was fourteen.
When 1 had reached seventeen one of
my brothers became editor of the New
ark Daily Advertiser and 1 read proof
and wrote occasionally for that paper.
Then he started a paper of his own, and
L became a full-fedged member of the
staff, writing a column of two to twen-
ty line parag graphs every day, under the
caption of Breakfast Table Talks
Gradually / drifted into work in other
departments, principally musical and
dramatic criticism. My first musical
criticism was on a concert given by
Clara Louise Kellogg, in May, 1869. At
ter time my brother became assistant
editor Of 'Scribner's Magazine (now
the Century,, and sold his interest in
the Register I stayed with the news
paper for awhile, however, as 1 wanted
experience. / got iti AS the constant
cry was, Cut down expenses one after
another was discharged, until finally I
was the only person in the office except
leader writer, political and all, musical
and dramatic editor and critic, book re-
viewer, and still kept up the Breakfast
Table Talk There was the experience
1 cravedl
Finally a managing editor was en-
gagged, and in a few days, feeling that
he must manage somebody, 1 sup
pose, he gave me assignment to go
one night to East Newark to get about
ten lines on a church celebration. 1t was
10 o'clock and pouring rain, and the
journey across the river to East New
ark was about as undesirable a trip as
could be imagined, so I resigned on the
spot and went home. 1 never entered
the office again.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
LUETGERT NO. TWO.
Chopped Up His Wife, Boiled the
Pieces In a Big Kettle.

Chicago, March 15.-August A. Becker,
the sausage maker who has been un-
der arrest for four weeks on a charge
fession tonight. He said that he cut his
a stove.
Becker, when first arrested, admitted
killing his wife, but declared he pushed
her off Randolph street viaduct into the
lake and that she was drowned.
In his confession, Becker said he had
killed his wife by striking her on the
head with a hatchet in the kitchen of
his home. He then cut the body to
pieces and boiled it in a large kettle.
After watching the disintegration of the
remains for several hours and when
nothing was left that resembled a
human body, Becker says he took what
remained and burned it in a red hot
stove, the fire having been prepared by
him. The bones which would not burn
he buried on the prairie near his home.
January q was the date Becker says he
committed the murder. He asserts the
crime was not premeditated but that
he quaTreled with his wife on the after
noon of that day and in the heat of
passion he struck her on the head with
the hatchet. Only one blow was needed
to cause death and after it had been
struck the sausage maker says he
thought of the way to dispose of the re-
mains of his wife in order to destroy
all chances of detection.
The piece of lung and a portion of
calico which were found under the barn
and which the police believed to be
strong evidence against Becker he says
could not be any part of the body of
his wife as he is certain that he destroy
tains the dress which she wore was also
entirely burned.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
JUST SUITS WILLIAM.
Cecil Rhodes Is the Man He Has
Been Looking For.

Berlin, March 15.-Both Emperor Will
liam and Empress Augusta Victoria, be-
sides Baron Won Bulow, the foreign
minister, and other ministers with their
wives attended the banquet given by
Sir Frank LascelleS, the British am
bassador, to Cecil Rhodes, who appears
to have personally impressed everybody
from the emperor downward. With the
exception of the extreme agrarian and
conservative papers, the whole press
praises him. The emperor is said to re-
gard him as Just the sort of men that
Germany wants"
1t is understood that the Rhodesian
schemes anticipate that Germany will
ultimately possess Walfisch bay, on the
coast of Demaraland, South Africa.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15

and a number of men were landed. They
reported that the island was of little
value, and no serious attempt at ex-
ploratiOn was made. A few years later
it was discovered that rich beds of
phosphate of lime are on the island, and
in 1896 Mr.. Andrew Ross, brother of the
man who owns the Cocos Keeling Is
lands, made the journey to Christmas
Island and decided that money was to
be made by settling there. He went
back for his family and few men from
Cocos and then returned to the island
number of substantial houses have been
created. Wells have been sunk and
fruit trees and cOcoanut palms planted,
and small experimental plantation of
coffee has also been made. The results
thus far leave no doubt that the island
is well suited for coffee growing. In
May, last year, Mr.. Ross had just i'm
ported a mum ber of coolies from Java
to make the necessary preparations for
working the valuable deposits of phos-
phate of lime. The population then
numbered about forty
Most of the island is covered with
forest. Its climate is delightful and
during the greater part of the year re-
SembleS a hot summer tempered by sea
breezes. In the rich phosphate soil the
trees grow to great height. Animal life
is seldom abundant on oceanic islands,
and Christmas Island is no exception.
There are only five species of mammals,
two kinds of rats, a shrewmouse and
two bats. The presence of the rats and
the mouse must be accounted for by
suppoSing that they drifted to the is
land on floating wood, while the bats
dance of food and the absence of enc
mics, the rats swarm everywhere. Birds
of passage appear in the rainy season,
and include many varieties.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
A CURIOUS SETTLEMENT.
TFrom the New

IFrom the New York Sun.J
There Is no speck in the ocean big
enough to set foot on where men are
not settling down nowadays, if they
think there is a chance OF making a
little money. This is how it happens
that about forty men are living today
on Christmas Island, one OF the lonely
spots in the Indian ocean, about 200
miles south of Java The island is
shaped something like a dumb bell, is
about ten miles long and in it's widest
part has a width of about five miles.
In 1887 the British surveying vessel
Flying Fish was ordered to make an
examination of the island. 1t found an
anchorage place in one of the little bays
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
ECZEMA ON FACE
Condition Such Could Not Go Out.
in Physicians Care Five Months.
CUTIcURA Cured i'm 1 Month.

had eczema on the face for Eve months, dur.
ing which time was in of physicians.
could not go out Itwas sOing from bad 70 worses
when q friend recommended CuTIcURA remedies.
After washed my face with CUrIcURA Soar and
used CUTICURA (ointmsnt) and CUrTc1RA REsoI,-
VENT 1t changed wonderfully, aad So a month
my face 5gds as clean as ever.
THoS. ]. .soTH, 312 Stasg St., Brooklyn, n. 7.
CUTICURA RESoLvENT, greatest of blood pur1-
Gers and humor expsilers. purihss the blood and
circulating fluids of HUMoR GERMS and thus re-
moves the cause, while warm baths with CUTI-
tointment), greatest of emollient skin cures,
cleanse the akin and scalp OF crusts and scales,
allay itching, burning, and Inflammation. and
thus soothe and heal the most toregKinG. disffgur
ing humors of the skin scalp and blood, with loss
Of hair, when all other remedies faA.
Sold throughept the world. POTTER d. AFD c. CoRP,
4rop Boson. How 10 Curo Torturing ehln Diseases
SAVE YOUR HANDS HAS cTasos.a aas skin 1g.s y s.A<
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
E. W. Hughes Carpet House,
423 Kansas Ave.

No better place in the city. A fine
line of all kinds of Carpets, new and
fresh direct from the mills. No house
shall underseH me. CapetS made and
laid on short notice in first-cIass style
Also a fine line of Rugs, Lace Curtains
and Baby Carriages. Dishes, Toilet
Sets and Glassware.
z. w. HUGHES, 423 Kan. Ave
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
An Advance in Prices.

New York, March 15.-The machine
twist manufacturers have voted a fur
ther advance of 10 per cent in the prices
of their products.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
In Our Job
Department..

A so dozen lot of Mems White and
Fancy Shirts, White Night Shirts.
Outing Flannel Night Shirts and
fine Balbriggan Underwear, water
stained but the wash tub will take
out every stain. owe guarantee
this.) Goods worth from SOC to
$1.OO each garment. Your choice
About 1000 yards Prints. Cottons,
Cloths-(Fire sale goOdS)-An OF
it burned on the edges-width from
Is to 20 inches, at 12c and 1c per
yard. Just the thing for quilts,
and a dozen other useful purposes.
Some 1900 yards Tickings, Shirt
ings, Towelings and F1annels-
edges scorched-less than regular
Double Noiseless States - been
through the fire but good as ever
practically-15c sizes at Sc, zoe
sizes at 1Oc, Csc sizes at 15c.
A large assortment Patent Medi-
cines-labels slightly scorched;
contents uninjured-$1.O 90 sizes 75c
SOC sizes 35c, 25c sizes 15c.
$50 11a and 10 packages of fine
ruled Note Paper, slightly injured
by water-opens up in good shape.
Sold originally at 25c package, our
price 4Oc
200 boxes fine boxed Stationery
Boxes slightly soiled; contents
guaranteed tntact-25c quality $50
15c quality 1Oc, 1Oc quality Sc.
Playing Cards-Been dampened
but all right now-25c qualities
15c, zoe qualities 1Oc.
Hot Water Bags-Guaranteed to
give satisfaction or money re-
funded-out of boxes-1 quart 35c,
2 quart 45c, quart 55c.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
Astor's Yacht at Malta.

Valetta, Island of Malta, March 15-
John Jacob Astor's steam yacht Nour-
mahal has arrived here
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15

The Peerless Steam Laundry has put
on the latest device for smoothing the
edges of collars and cuffs.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15

We mend and sew on buttons free,
American Steam Laundry. Tele. 341.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
Notions

Which are necessities in every
home, but for which it is not nee
essary to pay the fancy prices
most merchants ask.
Lindsay Safety Pins, all sizes, &c
per card.
Mennen's 25c Talcum Powder 17c
or Tor. QUO"
1Oc grade superior White Pearl
Buttons-an sizes-per doz SC
10c card hump Hooks and Eyes q
doz on card), per card &c.
Millward's best Sewing Needles,
per paper &c
Potter's best Sewing Silk-50 yds-
4c or Tor. 4Ocs
sc grade Twin Dress Stays, per
set ....--.-.--.-. -..---.----- &C
10c value in White Bone Tooth
Brushes .............-.. DC
Best Trump" brand Brass Pins
per paper 10
Gold plated Beauty Pins Sc or 2
1Or OC
1Oc and 15c qualities of Belt Pins
Sc grade Feather Stitch Braid, 6 yd
piece, at DC
sc qualities of and prong Shell
Hairpins at.......... Sc
Rubber-tip metal end Lead Pencils
at .-.-.... .---.. i
White and Black Cotton Tape, all
widths :....-...... 1c
ing 316c
Genuine Garfield Dress Shields
w nlIG OC
Genuine Dexter Knitting Cotton,
per ball ..-.-.-------.- &c
sc Cabinets assorted Steel Hair
pins
H B. Red Embroidery Cotton. 3
balls Observation-Disclosures.
Aluminium ThimbleS, 1c each SC
per dozen.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15

SAVE YOUR HANDS Hssss ass:es.4 s:la !s4s. sZ s.'"
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
Extraordinary Bargains for Payday Trade.
In Our Job Dept.

SOC Bulb Syringes-Just as good as
ever except that we have no boxes
for them-19c each.
1 quart University Fountain
Syringe ZSc
quart University Fountain
Syringe 30c
Glass Syringes 25c size loo, 10c
Chewing Gum-nearly all kinds
Amy of it for one cent per package.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-15
The Very Best Values
That Can Be Had
at the Price.

1t is always our ambition to give,
and this season you will find this
especially true of the offerings in
our Suit and Skirt department.
The Alexander Black Co., Of To-
ledo, Bry Bros. of st. Louis and
Bischof Sons of Cincinnati are the
famous makers from whom we
have bought these goods and we
are delighted with the way their
products are opening up. We hope
you will pay a visit to this de-
partment whether you intend buy
ing or not. We have a competent
dressmaker in our employ to make
any changes necessary for a per-
feet fit. We expect to save you
from 10 to % per cent in prices.
Every garment guaranteed per-
feet in material and Workmanship.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-25
WHIPPED HIS SWEETHEART.
And Smashed Her Guitar Over His
Rivals Head.

A negro named Fred Gunter was yes
terday fined $625 by the mayor for
slapping negro woman. Mary Lane.
1t seems that Gunter is Mary's steady"
But when he went to Mary's house
Thursday night he found John Barnes
there. Barnes showed no special desire
to rush away on Gunter's account.
whereupon Gunter smashed a guitar
over his head. This brought Mary, who
owned the guitar. into the row. She
took Barnes part. and for this Gunter
slapped her cheeks several times. then
went to Magistrate Barbee's and sub
hitting to a charge of ARRAY with
Barnes. OF course he got off with the
costs only, and thought this settled the
whole affair; but it didn't. Both
Barnes and the Lane woman went to the
mayors office and preferred charges of
assault. As Gunter had submitted be-
fore a magistrate in the Barnes case, of
course nothing further could he done
with that. but in the Mary Lane case
he was fined 1928.
4 white woman, Angelina Allen, was
fined S5.25 for disorderly conduct. Two
of her neighbors, Sue Fowler and Bush
Keith. were also arraigned on a similar
charge. but the charge was not sus-
tanned These women live i'll what is
known as Winters Row. on East Mar
tin street and are bad lot.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-25
A GLEEFUL DANCE.
Or One Which Appears to be SO From
Certain Explanations.

The dates for the presentation of the
chimes of Normandy are November, the
Doth, and December. the 1st The star
cast had a rehearsal last evening and
the details are being thoroughly mas
tered. An exclamation of Serpolette who
is caught in a gay exercise is, Good
gracious! the Marquis to find me, ii
Countess, dancing the cancan." Now, as
to whether the Countess is really dan
cling the cancan when the Marquis steals
and catches her in a gleeful caper is
something that cannot be fully known
until the opera is rendered. 1t can be
limited. however, that the rehearsals
are developing some very graceful and
interesting eyolutions on the part of a
number of the pretty participants. One
evening when the rehearsal was in pro-
gress, the dancing feature of the play
was wildly applauded by the chaperones
and escorts who witnessed it. If APP
plause could be evoked at that time,
it is quite evident that there viii be en-
thusiasm of considerable dimensions
when the opera is given in full costume
and effect
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-25
FINEST TOBACCO
CROP OF THE YEAR
Sold at the Planters Ware
house Here Yesterday.
--
SAY LOCAL TOBACCONISTS
BDLoNED TO JAMES EDMUND
son. OF JOHNSTON.
MUCH OF IT BROUGHT NEARLY $50 100
Of the Sort Used for Plug Wrappers. Made Al
SO in the Running With Light Mahogany
That Went at "A and 81 ~. A
Successful Tobacco Farmer
Successful Tobacco Farmer

Local tobacco men were claiming last
night that the finest tobacco crop of the
season was sold on the floor of the
Planters Warehouse here yesterday.
The tobacco was grown by Mr.. James
Edmundson, of Leachburg, Johnston
county
The tobacco was of the sort used for
bright wrappers and was bought by
Messrs. r. l.. q b. Il. Fleming. of this
city. Here are some of the prices
which the choice weed commanded. One
pile 1919. one 4715. one 461a one 10,
three "A and six III. The amount that
went at these figures was between 600
and 100 pounds.
The whole amount sold was 5,55I
pounds, and which brought $767.6S, an
average of 1891 cents per pound.
This was Mr.. Edmundson's first ex-
perience as tobacco grower. Mr.. Geo
Leach, of this city is a kinsman of Mr..
Edmundson and while visiting him last
year induced him to try tobacco growing.
He planted less than 10 acres all told
and from that acreage his tobacco crop
which was sold ON the markets of Raj
eigh, Smithfield and Wilson, realized him
over $1.600.
MI. IluHlulluS%Si, HUNcfSI. uiu Hol 81
into tobacco growing blindly. He Sc
cured Mr.. J. T. Bats, a young man from
Wilson county, who understood growing
and curing bright tobacco to take the
management of the crop, which was
grown and cured. under his supervision.
Wake county also had some fine to-
bacco on the floor of the Planters Ware
house yesterday Mr.. b. Bowlden, of
Green Level, brought a load of bright
mahogany that went at A, 3113 and
271a cents a pound.
Mr.. j. L. jerks. of Upper Wake, had
a consignment that brought 4S.44 and
rs cents a pound.
The total sales at the Planters Ware
house were 50. 162, the break being re-
marloable for quality rather than
quantity.
Messrs. Lee & Lee also had a small
break at their warehouse yesterday.
Practically all the sales We're to in
dependent manufacturers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-25

Men sometimes denounce gossip, but
not until they have listened to every word
of it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-25
Death of David B. Dudley.

A private letter received i'm this city
ANNOUNCES the death at Redlands, Cal,
ON FRIDAY, Nov. IL of Prof. David b.
Dudley, who was formerly well known
in this city. Mr.. Dudley was for some
wears an instructor in the Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
here and had many warm friends among
Raleigh people. After leaving Raleigh
he was for some years connected with
the Kentucky institutions at Danyille.
Subsequently going to Colorado for his
health. When Prof. j e. Ray resigned
Mr.. Dudley succeeded him as the head
of the ID. ID. and b. institution at Colo
RADIO Springs being compelled subse-
quenftly to give mp his work there by
reason of fantng health. He went to
Arizona and from there to California
where he remained up to the time of mis-
death.
Mr. Dudley left Raleigh in 1878.