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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
CROOK WRIGHT AGAIN.
This Time He Is Charged With q
Penal Offense.

Crook Wright and his pal, Pearly At
kinson, are locked up in the city Jail
on the charge of highway robbery.
Claud Imbler positively Identifies
them as the two men who held him up
on East Fourth street Sunday night
and robbed him of all the money he had
in his pockets amounting to SO. Imbler
who is a news agent on Santa F'e trains,
returned from his run about midnight
and started home When a block east
of the tracks two men .sprang from a
dark corner, threw him down, choIsed
him and robbed him. When he was
allowed to go he went to the depot and
gave the policemen there an accurate
description of the men who robbed him.
When Wright and Atkinson were ar
rested Imbler identified them The po-
lice have been trying for a long time
to unearth some of the Wright-Atlzin-
son crimes and now feel sure that the
two notorious Smoky Row negroes will
be landed safely in the penitentiary.
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NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.

IFrom the Buffalo Express
The Hepburn bill for the construction
Of a Nicaragua canal which the house
committee on commerce yesterday
agreed to report favorably, has at least
one merit. It is the kind of bill that
fits in some measure the arguments
which have been used to work up pub
lie sentiment in favor OF a Nicaragua
canal. 1t is, therefore, more honest
than most of its predecessors, which.
almost without exception, have pur-
ported to be what they were not.
This bill proposes a canal to be built
owned and controlled by the govern
ment of the United States. It author
ICES the president to buy the necessary
right of way from Nicaragua and Costa
Rica- It directs that the secretary of
war construct the canal from Greytoyyn
to the Pacific and build all necessary
Qualifications to protect it. The sum Of
$40, 100000 is appropriated for the pur-
pose. The bill is very brief, considering
the sweeping authority which it grants.
1t bears evidence Of somewhat hasty
construction, too. For example, al
though the secretary Of war is directed
to build a. canal capable of floating the
largest ocean vessels, there is no au-
thority for him to construct harbors
at the entrances to such a canal that
would accommodate large vessels. AS
there are no such harbors at either
Of the proposed entrances, this bill
would give the United States a canal
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with both ends practically sealed so
far as concerns the large vessels it was
intended to accommodate. or course,
this omission in regard to the harbors
could be rectifed by later legislation
and further appropriations. But pro-
vision for the harbors ought properly
to be made in the original bill, since
the harbors would be virtually a part
of the canal The public would then
have a true conception of what the
Nicaragua canal would cost
1t is probable that Nicaragua will
look upon the proposition that 1t cede
outright a strip of It's territory to the
United States in about the same light
that it would view a demand for the
cession of the whole country. Mica
ragua would be a sorry looking little
republic with strip OF the United
States running through It's middle. If
it wanted to send troops from one end
Of it's territory to the other it would
have to ask the permission Of the Uni
ted States. If it undertook to keep up
any customs taxation it would need to
build a trocha of customs houses along
each side of the canal where the boun-
dairy of the United States began. Its
lake and principal river would be in the
United States, and in short Nicaragua
would hardly be able to recognize it
self. Two years ago Nicaragua canal
bill failed because the Nicaragua min
lister showed that the grant to the Mari
time company included a provision that
no part of the concession should be
transferred to any government. AS a
matter of fact, it might as well be
recognized that if canal is built
through Nicaragua, either by the Uni
ted States government or by private
company, the whole of Nicaragua will
have to be annexed to the United
States. whether it is willing or not. If
congress is going to pass any bill of
this kind, it would better get directly
to the point and authorize the presi-
dent to ask the Republic of Nicaragua
what it will take for itself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
SCENERY AND MUSIC.
Manhattan Stock Company Eas Two
Special Features.

The Manhattan Stock Company,
which opened a weeks engagement at
the Grand opera house last night, can
lay claim to two features not usually
carried by popular price companies.
One is the special scenery and the other
is an orchestra, which is enlarged to the
proportions of a small band for street
work. Both features seemed to be APP
preciated by the audience last night,
which was large enough to I'LL the ma
jority of the seating space of the big
theater. "A Chain of Evidence was
presented, with singing AID dancing
work and moving picture views be-
tween the acts
Tonight the bill will be 1.-The Light
ming Rod Agent" AS on last night,
ladies will be admitted free when ac-
companied by a person holding a paid
80 cent ticket
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The production Of shoes the past
year. according to the Shoe and
Leather Reporter. has been prodigious.
The shipments from Boston alone have
scored the greatest increase ever re-
corded in the forwarding of shoes from
this center of the industry. The output
in other sections notably in the west,
has grown apace- New factories have
been built, old ones enlarged and their
product is sold in the east as well as
in the west The unparalleled growth
Of our export trade offsets this increase,
however. to a considerable extent
Hundreds of firms are sending shoes
abroad. where a few years ago houses
interested in exporting numbered by
the dozens They have representatives
in nearly every land and regular trips
are made to several countries, notably
England Canada and Mexico. The ex-
ports of 1899 will probably reach a
point not a great ways below 1000. 900.
and this is an export shoe business
which is as large as that of France
and more than one-half that Of Eng
land
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waters of the great Missouri river? Not
a bit more can you change the, current OF
end. For this reason I am in favor of
trusts. know the conditions under
l would not do thing to better that wage
condition want to do away with wage
earning .rnbigg condition &c altogether. ~
once heard a candidate for OFFICE tell a
gathering Of working men that the beads
were more precious than the purest dia-
monds. His hearers cheeTed the senti-
ment; Yet never saw. any of the class
to which the speaker belonged wearing
any OF those precious perspiratlon dla-
dems. 1t IS great democracy You nave
a vote and You may elect men VINO ap-
point Judges whom you pay and VINO en-
and the army shoots you down. You are
told that the son of the poorest man mas
an equal chance with the son of the rich
est in the land to occupy the presidential
chair. say that there are hundredS OF
not only willing but anxious to trade off
their chance for a. ham sandwich; You
ocrats to see the inaugural parade Of
his speech and to be called fellow citi-
Zens" by him. Everything seems so free
and equal. Did you ever try, later in the
day. to attend the inaugural ball? You
you work. If you want social standing
you must not work; you must work those
You cheer old Glory that glorious
nag, made in some sweatshop In New
cry trust is monument to the failure
of the competitive system. and want
that system to have plenty of monu-
ments- Few years ago belonged to a
labor union and Joined others in hum
bly, petiuoning a railroad to pay its men
a few more cents day. am not do
ing anything like that now. I am not
begging: am demanding. 1 am not after
a few cents; L am after the whole rail-
road and every other railroad. And
want every railroad president in the cOun-
try to know it. Socialism is making every
throne IN Europe totter upon its base.
The grave of monarchy is already dug.
There will never be another emperor in
Germany after the present William. The
example of Germany will be followed by
Italy, Spain, Denmark and every other
country. 1t may perhaps come more
newer country. but it will come never
theless, and that most dangerous of all
monarchs, the money monopolist. is
bound to go. expect that shall live to
Take the case Of the commercial
drummer. He is rapidly becoming a So
cialist- He was at one time allowed to
put his legs under the rich mans mahog-
any and he began to think himself a
capitalist. ALI at once he lost his job
and he gets out his little hammer and
says to the Workingman, with whom he
on and let's smash the trusts" Cooper
alton is coming. When 1 strain my vi
sion just the slightest I can see the first
rays of its dawning sun. Let the work
ing men unity, particularly upon the po-
nt1caI field. Let them cut loose from
both present dominant parties. Let them
join the socialist party, with universal
cooperation as it's platform. Then the
badge of labor will be the only badge
of nobility"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

[From the Chicago News.J
AS a mans head swells his heart
contracts
Sunshine is the golden butter on the
bread of nature.
A slender girl sometimes gives a
young man a plump refusal.
You can't tell by the bloom which
of the apples will be wormy.
Railway tracks are often horrible ex-
amples of the deadly parallel.
Sometimes a man never makes a mis-
take until he begins to boast Of it.
What a woman thinks is a sandwich
with a lot q words between.
The money a man concea1s in his
vest pocket is always invested.
If you would know how to manage
a husband properly ask a spinster.
Charity should begin at home-but
if it ends there it isn't charity.
When a man sings his own praise he
usually pitches the key too high.
You are in luck if the lucky horse
shoe over the door doesn't drop on your
head.
The whistling wind and the whistline
woman are seldom able to stop a street
car.
Cupid is the instructor in the female
seminary who teaches the young idea
how to shoot.
Anticipated wise saws do not turn tc
sawdust, but it would be a good thing
if some of them did.
It's all we'll enough to return a kiss
for a blow-if the giver of the blow
happens to be a pretty girl.
root Of all evil-and the lack of money
produces many branches of the evil
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of Interest to the west.

Washington, d. c., Jan. Ex-senator
Harris of Kansas introduced the fol-
lowing bills to-day: To construct a
road to the national cemetery at Bax-
ter, Kan; to correct the military rec
ord of Talton T. Davies.
Representative Bailey of Kansas in
troduced a bill to-day directing the
commissioner of patents to issue to w.
b Turk, of Poteau, /. T., an extension
of letters patent for eight years.
Congressman Sherman of New York
introduced a bill charging and defin-
ing the powers heretofore conferred
upon the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf
railroad.
Representative Bowersock of Kansas
to-day presented petition of druggists
of Lawrence, Kan, in relation to the
stamp tax on medicines.
Leander Burnet, of Lansing, Mich,
has been appointed assistant engineer
at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kan.
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COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS

OF Vladimir de Pachmann, who will
be at the Crawford theater Thursday,
Cornelia Dyas, in the January Metro
politan, said: DE Pachmann has been
called the prima donna of the piano,
and in the recent Worcester festival,
when his playing followed a song by
Madame Marcella, Senbrich, musical
critics drew interesting comparisons be-
tween the similarity of his tone color
and the singing of the great prima
fine appreciation, that de Pachmann is
in music what MillaiS is in painting"
Williams and Walker, the colored
comedians, will display their cleverness
to a Topeka audience in 1.-The Policy
night. The comedians are supported by
a large company of colored people The
farce is said to be rich in catchy must
cal selections and the entertainment is
as varied as it is extensive.
'"Too Much Money will be given a
matinee and evening performance at
the Crawford theater Saturday. The
title, "Too Much Money" is derived
from the fact that the hero is in love
with a Dunkard girl and that she will
not marry him because he has too much
money and her religion frowns on
wealth. The author, in Aletha Middle
croft, has pictured a bright up-to- date
little DunkardesS who has won the
heart of a rich young New Yorker. He
is bright and handsome and in every
way desirable match for the girl, ex-
cent-a strange exception in these days
he is too rich. This objection on the
part of her mother develops a. series
of complications, amusing in the COM
edy, which shows how a young man
of brains can marry the girl he loves in
spite of the fact that he is a million
a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
COLORED CURTIS CLUB.
One Is Now Organized in the Third
Ward.

A co1ored Curtis club was organized
in the Third ward last night with the
following officers: President, Andy
Jordan; vice-president, L. Spaulding;
secretary, w. T. Mcknight.
The following resolution was adop-
ted:
Whereas. Charles Curtis, member of
congress from the First district of
Kansas. has faithfully served his con-
stituents and has been an uncompro-
missing friend of the old soldier; and
Whereas, We believe in MIN as a
faithful representative of all the peo-
pie of the district, be it
Resolved, That we pledge to him our
earnest support in the coming cam
paign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
BAD FOR MOONsHlNER.
Chastine Eramlett Completes One
Sentence to Face Another.

Chastine Bramlett OF Texas has lived
in the federal penitentiary at Fort
Leavenworth during the last year
Now he is stopping temporarily at the
Shawnee county Jail He expected to
change his residence Saturday, but did
not intend to come to Topeka-his com
ing here was against his will. AS he
came out of the prison he was a free
man, but his freedom was of short du-
ration, for Deputy United States Mar
shall Prescott was there to extend to
him the glad hand and also a warrant
charging him with making moonshine
whisky at Fort Worth, Texas. This is
the reason he came to Topeka.
Bramlett was sentenced to the fed
eral prison from Texas a year ago for
the same offense, but this is another
charge. He win be taken back to Texas
in a short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

St. Paul Dispatch: The Mcintyre
-four mill trust, which was vel
coined by Minneapolis as more than
half a good thing. has taken the
first step in the direction of raising
prices by shutting down enough mills
to throw about 700 men out of employ
ment. In Duluth and Superior about
1000 more men are eating the bread OF
fdleness while the benevolent trust
works out its scheme Of regulating sup
ply and prices. And yet we learn by
consulting the statute books that we
have a. thing known as the antitrust
law. It is fortunate that copies OF the
statute book are readily accessible;
otherwise the public might never know
there was an antitrust law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
OTIS SKINNER COMING
Comedian Will Be at the Grand Feb
ruary 5.

Otis Skinner and his company will be
seen in 1.-The LARS at the Grand Opera
House on the night of February 5. Ne
gotiations for the appearance of the
Skinner company here have been on for
several days, and Monday the contract
was finally signed.
1.-The Liars" is the comedy by Henry
Arthur Jones which ran for four months
at the Empire theater in New York
last season with John Drew in the
principal part Mr.. Skinner and his
company will be at the Coates in Kan
sas City for three nights and a. matt
nee commencing Thursday. The en-
gagement here will form one of the bet
ter attractions of the present season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
KANSAS LAW UPHELD.
Cities May Extend Their Borders and
Exclude Some Lands.

Washington Jan. 16.-The United
States supreme court today decided the
case of S. H. H. Clark and others, re-
ceivers of the Union Pacific Railroad
company VS.. the City of Kansas City,
Kan. The case involved the constitu-
tionality of the Kansas law authorizing
cities to extend their borders so as to
include some lands and not others
The opinion rendered today sustained
the law affirming the opinion of the SUI
preme court of Kansas.
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Senator Gear Reelected

Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 16-James H.
Gear was formally elected in the legis-
lature to succeed himself in the United
States senate today. The vote was cast
by the branches separately. The joint
ballot will. be taken tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

Senator Lodges reference to the high
,,lane of dignity and usefulness to which
the office of vice-president was ele-
vated bv Mr.. Hobart, seems to have
faTlen on unheeding ears. Gentlemen
who see the position coming their way
are evincing a disposition to dodge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
WHEELER COMING HOME.
The General Will Stop at Guam on
the Return Trip.

Manila, Jan. 16-Gen. Wheeler will
return to the United States this week
bubonic plague have been reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
BACHELOR BUTTONS.

LF'rom the New York Press.1
You can always tell a married man
by the way he can tell that you're not
There is only one thing worse to the
average woman than to be talked about,
and that is not to be.
When q man is a member of her
church, a woman will never let her
husband say that he isn't a Christian.
Life to a man is a duel between him
and his enemies; life to a woman is a
duel between her and her friends.
Probably lots of men have been made
liars by their parents teaching them
to say they didn't want any more
after they had had one piece of pie.
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Kansas City and Return $500 Via the
Santa Fe.

Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th.
final limit Jan. 20th six trains day in
each direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs Margaret Boyd, wife of Benz.
=<oyd, died at the family residence, TIA
Taylor street, at eleven o'clock Monday
morning of paralysis. She leaves a hus-
band and six children The funeral
will take place at 2:S0 p. m. Wednes-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

After watching and waiting for many
years for the arrival of the buoonlc
nlague. the United States finally went
out and met it on the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

Dom Paul is said to have $50 dead
lions to his credit. and he is now en-
deavoring to bring about the downfall
of another one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

Having once had two legislatures
Kansas viii know how to sympathize
with Kentucky which has or is about
to have two governors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

A bill has been introduced in congress
asking for a $4,000 appropriation for
Lysander John Appleton Of Atchison,
Kin Commissioner General of the Unit
ed States. Mr.. Appleton claims this
sum is due him for board furnished his
kin in Atchison while he was absent in
Both Bailey and Curtis claim credit
for introducing the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

The best physicians say that hydro
phobia is the result of worry: there is
really no such disease as hydrophobla;
it is imagination. Join the Don
Worry club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

The Peoria Journal has so far re-
covered that it can refer to the Chicago
drainage canal without having
spasn-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

It is the little things Of life that are
annoying: it is easier to dodge an ele-
plant than a microbe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

There are a large number of women
in Atchison who have realized on their
husbands; women who have received
life insurance sufficient to keep them
in luxury. A great many other women
have received smaller amounts of life
insurance, and are in comfortable cir
cumstances. Did an Atchison man ever
realize anything on his wife? We once
heard of an Atchison man who got sew
eral thousand dollars from his wife''s
estate, but the story was afterwards
darnfod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison G1obe.1
An Englishman never thinks that he
is old so long as he is younger than the
queen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-16

The modern and most effective cure for
constipation and all liver troubles-the
famous little pills known as DeWitt's
Little Early Risers. AT all drug stores.
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Anew CRAWFORD OR E5Asv
l Saturday Matinee and Night, Jan, 20.
g TOO MUCH MONEY Z"
SPECIAL.

Matinee Prices. .loc, csc
Night Prices 1oc, zoe, 80, sos
Ladies admitted Free at evening
performance when accompanied by q
30c or soc paid ticket.
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POINTED PARAeRAPHs.

From the Chicago News.J
AS a mans head swells his heart
contracts.
New-York tribune., 1900-03-15
TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN WASHINGTON.
A NORWEGIAN MURDERS HIS WIFE AND
A CHILD, AND FATALLY WOUNDS AN
OTHER WOMAN.

Washington, March 14.-In a paroxysm of mex
plicabe rage, possibly insanity, Olof Pallesen,
Norwegian. stabbed and killed his wife, Josephine
murdered little Julia Hengesbach the three-year-
old daughter of Charles f. Hengesbach, a mail
carrier. and murderousy assaulted the chd's
mother, Mary Hengesbach this afternoon in
front of MS home, No. 1lI Twenty-fourth-st,
Northwest Mrs. Hengesbach lies the
point of death in the Columbia Hospital. with
seven stab wounds in her body inflicted by the
infuriated Norwegian. Palesen narrowly escaped
being stoned death at the hands Of a crowd of
citizens which assembled about the OF the
murder. and only tGe prompt arrival of the police
prevented him from being roughly handled by the
people
The motive for the crime Is not definitely known.
The only key the situation is furnished by the
mans four-year-old son, who told the policemen
that his father had been sick and his mother tried
TO get him 10 take medicine, and that he be-
came enraged Palesen struck mis- wife with his
fist while they in the parlor. She immediate
IL ran out and Paesen followed her into the front
yard. where he stabbed her the heart, killing
house with her child have some dressmaking
work done when the trouble occurred, and soon
she what had taken place she called for
help This angered the still further. and he
made a lunge at her but missed and stabbed the
child. Mrs. Hengesbach snatched up her child and
ran: She had almost reached the corner when
Pallesen overlook her and stabbed the helpless
frghtfuliy the arms. face and breast
Pallesen is thirty-hve years old and painter by
trade.