The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Items Of Interest Condensed For the
Busy Reader.

Busy Reader.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Fire destroys the Brown Machine
companyss plant at Cleveland, causing
a loss of $500, 600 and throwing LOO men
out of work.
General De Wet succeeds in breaking
through the British lines surrounding
| him, and escapes. with his forces Cen
eral Knox abandons pursuit, owing to
parties of Beers invading Cape Colony
| and attacking the British in various
| places, being very successful in the
skirmishes- They are receiving assist
ance from sympathetic Dutch settlers.
Directing to the manner his treaty
is being handled, Secretary John Hay
has intimated his wish to retire from
the cabinet, and his resignation is said
to be in the hands Of the president.
The German training ship Gneisenau
foundered at the entrance to the port
Of Malaga, and 40 of the 3l4 persons
on board were lost.
A conference to discuss the differences
between labor and capital was held IN
Chica go, under the auspices of the Ma
tiOnal Civic federation. Franklin Mac
Veagh and Vice President Kenna were
speakers at the sessions
Two negro murderers were lynched at
Rockport Ind after confessing they
had robbed and killed a white man. A
third negro whom they implicated, was
later taken from Jail and hung to a tree,
after admitting his guilt
a reign of terror has been caused IN
Routt county. Colorado, by the murder
Of two citizens and the Punishment I'M
der threat of death of an entire family,
by unknown men.
Justice Fuller has advanced the hear
ing of the cases involving the relations
of the United States and Porto Rico TO
January Is, when they viii be argued
before the United States supreme court
President Harrison delivers an al
dress at Ann Arbor before the students
of the University Of Michigan, in when
he attacks President McKinley's Phil
ipipne and Porto Rico policies, scoring
the administration /. in q sensational
The steamer Alpha is wrecked on a
reef off Vancouver island and eight per
sons are drowned
$40 900, 900 has been formed with purpose
of controlling the crude rubber industry
The Standard Oil company is large
holder of stock
Miss Jessie Morrison has been admit
ted to bail in the sum of $4,000. The
second trial can not take place until
next spring and as it is believed another
jury cannot be secured, her release VIII
probably end the case.
Chinese leaders are collecting large
supplies of arms and ammunition ana
with a return of confidence the CnlneSe
army will be well equipped to maintain
a long period of resistance against any
movement of powers.
The steamer City of Topeka is ashore
in Lynn canal and will probably be
complete wreck No lives were lost.
Two men enter the bank at Hope, Ind,
and blew open the safe, securing $19UOO-
An accomplice was outside with a car
rage in which all escape.
A seat in the New York stock ex-
change sells for $50, 500, the highest price
on record The low record was in 1888
when $751; 500 was paid for a seat.
Bids have been opened for raising the
battleship Maine, ranging from $SO,OOO
to s7S5, 600. No award was made
John G. A. Leishman of Pennsylvania,
Es-4-- - crf mr.
named to be United States minister to
Turkey.
The divorce case Of Peter Sells against
his wife was compromised at the last
moment, when Mr.. Sells was granted
a divorce without opposition, he agree
ing to pay his wife $4,000 alimony and
all attorney fees
John D. Rockefeller has given a fur
Their sum of S1,5O0,00o to Chicago uni
versity.
land to fit up an obsolete Atlantic liner
as a luxurious gambling resort ana run
it as q floating Monte Carlo, off Brigh-
ton outside the three mile limit Launch
es will run to and fro to meet London
trains.
Statistics of oleomargarine produced
in the United States show that Kansas
is among the smallest consumers While
she ranks second in the manufacture of
this commodity
a military court of inquiry has been
in session at West Point investigating
the charge that the death of Oscar BoOz
of Pennsylvania was due to brutal haz-
ing at the hands Of upper classmen.
Cadets Sheridan, HobSon and Brooke of
the same year as BOoz, testified that no
undue harshness had been shown in
hazing them or any of their class.
The total presidential vote cast in the
United States is Is, 967, 299. McKinley's
plurality was 859,S24.
Robbers gain entrance to the treas
ureI' s office in the capitol at Lincoln,
Neb, but are discovered by the watch
man, and after exchanging shots are
frightened away without having opened |
the vault.
Two explosions of natural gas at
Beaver Falls. Pa, injure seven persons
and burn three dwellings,
Ed Cuda1y, the Is year old son Of the |
Omaha packer, is kidnapped and held for |
$25, COO ransom On the father fulfilling /
the conditions exacted by the abductors |
of leaving the sum in gold in a. designa- /
ted secluded spot. the son IS returned |
to his home There is no clue to the 1
The Wertheimer-Cas suit, in /
volving S1000.000, opens Extortionate /
prices Of articles bought and fraud in |
are claimed by the count, who |
in a counter suit asks that experts be
appointed to appraise articles involved |
The senate has ratified the Hays
Pauneefote treaty by a vote of 55 to 10
G. W. Wheatley is reported as about /
10 abandon his contest for congressman |
from the Third Kansas district, fearing
insufficient evidence to put his case
through successfully.
Frank II. Cox, formerly of Junction
City, has been arrested and taken to