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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-17

aware Of this and evidently laid their
plans accordingly. Crouching behind a
fence they awaited their victim and
Jumped from their place Of concealment
and attacked him from behind striking
him over the head with a. heavy club with
a large nail driven in the end of it. Al
though terribly beaten, Simons made a
desperate fight and his cries and struggles
soon attracted two boys. who went to his
assistance but they were a moment too
late the victim of the two negroes hav-
ing succumbed to the terrible beating,
lying dead at their feet
The TnurdererS then drove the rescuers
away and accomplished their original de-
sign-that of robbery, securing a bag con-
tanning something over $40 from the pros
trate form of their victim-and made their
escape. Simons was terribly beaten; his
skull crushed in, his head and face beaten
into pulp. Four gaping wounds showed
where the spike on the club had punctured
the dead mans skull and penetrated his
brain.
Walter Evans, one of the young men
who attempted to save Simon's life. and
who afterWard assisted in the removing
of the dead mans body to his home was
greatly affected and almost suffered a
nervous collapse. Last night he witnessed
the lynching, and he is now a raving
maniac
The dead mans wife is Frustrated, and
it is believed she will die from the shock
Hollie Eimons came here from Winslow.
Ind, three years ago, and was a popular
young man.
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EASILY DECIDED.
This Question Should Be Answered
Easily BY Topeka People.

Which is wiser-to have confidence in
the opinions of your fellow citizens or
depend on statements made by utter
strangers? Read this:
Mr. John A Thomas of 31s Ash street
gardener. says: I had kidney and
bladder trouble for ten years and being
exposed to all kinds of weather and in
a stopped position most of the time ag-
gravated the trouble. Ny back ached
the most about four o'clock in the morn
ings and the pain was so severe that I
had to get up and sit in a chair At
times the secretions from my kidneys
were too frequent and at other times
scanty, highly colored and distressing.
I learned about Doan's Kidney Pills
two years ago and obtained two boxes.
They helped me wonderfully, relieved
the pain IL my back and corrected the
kidney secretions- I had another attack
in the spring of 1889 and got a box of
Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley & Snow s
drug store They did the work for me
just as promptly as in the former in
stance"
For sale by all dealers Price 50 cents.
Foster AfiIburn Co. Buffalo. n. Y, sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no substitute
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THREW AWAY HIS GOLD
Crowd Fights MadIy to Pick Up
a New Workers. Coin.

New York, Dec IA crowd of 500 men
and women kicked and punched each
other last night at Grand and ROebling
streets. Williamsburg, in an effort to Sc
cure s. gold pieces that a middle-aged man
was throwing away. The man, from pa
pers and documents in his possession, was
Conrad Andersen. All he would say at
the Bedford avenue police station, where
he was locked up, was mat he was a Ger
man
Andersen first attracted attention by
gathering around him crowd, whom he
harangued about his trip to Germany to-
morrow After telling them he had made
a barrel of money as contractor he told
them he would demonstrate it, He pulled
out a handful of the gold pieces and began
throwing them to the people. There was
a mad scramble to get the coin and the
crowd constantly continued to increase.
In the crowd were some hard looking
fellows, who were anxious to get Ander-
sen off by himself. they promised to take
him home. They -emed so persistent
that Special Policeman Hauslein took An
dersen in charge, and the crowd nearly
mobbed him.
AT the station house there were found
in his possession 100 mark notes. 81. $50 in
gold coin, 1912 in American currency and a
bank book on the Seaman's Savings bank
calling for $1,000. as well a passage
ticket on Hamburg line steamer
Andersen refused to tell where he lived
or anything about himself, and it was
decided to hold him for safe keeping. He
is about 40 years old.
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CONVICTED BY A DOG.
Negro Murderers Lynched on
Evidence Of a Bloodhound.

Rockport, Ind, Dec. 1.-Two negroes,
Jim Henderson and Bud Rowlands, who
waylaid, brutally murdered and robbed
Hollie Simons, a white barber, early Sun
day morning, were lynched in the jail
yard by a mob of 1000 frenzied citizens
last night. The negroes were arrested Sun
day afternoon, and, although Rowlands
clothing had blood stains on it. the men
claimed they were innocent Of the crime.
In the meantime, Sheriff Clemens, of
Union county, Kentucky, arrived with a
trained bloodhound in response to a tele-
graphic summons.
When the dog was placed on the tran
he followed it until he reached the house
scene of the murder, and went baying to
the bed the negro had occupied This was
enough for the excited citizens. Within a
few minutes a mob of 1000 bowling. blood
thirsty citizens, with sledge hammers.
Sheriff Anderson and his two deputies
made a stand and attempted to protect
the prisoners. The officers were seized by
the leaders of the mob, who disarmed
them. The sheriff was then locked in a
stoutly refused to give up the keys or tell
where the prisoners We're hidden
Failing to get the keys, the mob made
a determined but unsuccessful attempt to
break in the Jail door. By this time the
lynehers We're in a perfect frenzy and
securing a telegraph pole they used II
as a battering ram and caved IN the side
cell was then quickly broken in. with
Sledges and he was dragged from the jail
a moose was placed about his neck. He
was given time to make sta tement, in
which he implicated Jim Henderson and
another negro. Rowlands then begged
piteously for mercy, but the mob swiftly
swung the confessed murderer to tree
and riddled his body with bullets
Leaving the body of ROWlandS dangling
from the limb of the tree. the mob rushed
back to the jail and attempted to burst
open the cell occupied by Henderson. but
before the steel bars yielded to the blows
of the sledges some one in the crowd fired
cTOuched
the corner of his cell. A few moments
more and the door of his cell was broken
in. The negro more dead than alive. was
dragged at a. ropes end to the court house
yard and swung on the tree beside the
body of Rowlands.
Firing a parting yOlley at the swinging
bodies. the mob, eager for another victim,
hurried away to catch the other negro i'm
plicated by RoWlands in his confession.
He was found at a hotel, where he was
employed as a porter. The negro escaped
TO the roof of the building and Manager
De Bruler succeeded in convincing the
mob that the porter had nothing to do
with the crime. proving m aIibi for him.
The mob then dispersed, apparently salts
fed with its awful work Of vengeance
The negroes victim. SimOns. was way
laid and murdered in the most brutal
manner one square from the main street
of the city. as he was going to his home
from his barber shop. at o'clock Sun
day morning As was customary with
him. he carried the receipts of the day at
his place of business The negroes were
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GERMAN EDITOR DEAD.
Oswald ottendorfer, of the Stats
Zeitung, is No More.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE obsequies of
the late Oswald Ottendorfer, editor and
publisher of the Stats Zeitung, vino
died in this city Saturday, will take
place Tuesday at IL a. m, in the hall Of
the German Leiderkranz. The pail
bearers were selected from the personnel
of the Stats Zeitung and the members
of the Isabella Home society. At the
bier Franks orchestra and a choir Of
the 1iederkranz and Arion societies will
execute an appropriate musical pro-
gramme. George Won Skal, the manasy-
ing editor of the Stats Zeitung, will de-
liver an Grafton in German, extOlling the
late editor as journalist and leading
German-Amerfcan while John Dewitt
Warner will pay tribute to the mem
DRY Of Mr.. Ottendorfer as a patriot nd
reformer.
The interment will be at Greenwood
cemetery, where Otto Hubach, the city
editor of the Stats Zeitung, will make
final ddress at the grave.
Oswald Ottendorffer was born Febru-
airy 26, 1926. in Zewittan, Austria In
1916 he entered the University of Vienna.
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DETERMINED TO DIE.
Took ChIoroform, Turned on the Gas,
and Had Sharp Knife.

Cincinnati, Dec. IA woman calling
herself Gladys Esmond, committed sui
eide in a rooming house here today. The
suicide was most carefully planned. The
bed upon which she was found dead had
been dragged from the original position
in order to bring it in close proximi. y
to the gas jet. over the face Of the sui
eide was a sort of miniature tent, made
from piece of muslin. upon which was
stitched a quantity of cotton batting
Fitted upon the gas jet was a paper
tube, the other end of which WAS under
the face covering. The gas was thea
turned on Examination Of the cotton
batting proved that it had been soaked
with chlOrOfOrm. On the bed, within
easy reach. was a sharp knife.
The suicide was a woman Of about %
years Of age and it is believed she gave
a fictitious name to the proprietor of the
house when she rented the room on last
Saturday. She was well dressed and ap-
peared to be a woman Of considerable
refinement
In a letter addressed to the coroner,
which was found in the room, the wo-
man stated that she was an orphan and
usually made her home in Chicago The
letter also stated that she had been N
poor health and was tired Of life.
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GERMAN FRIGATE SUNK.
Went Down Off Malaga = Forty
Persons Were Drowned.

Madrid, Dec 1.-THE German train
ing frigate Gneisnau has foundered off
Malaga, 65 miues northeast of Gibral-
tar. Private dispatches say that 40 per-
sons were drowned.
The Gneisnau foundered at the en-
trance to the port of Malaga. where she
was about to take refuge from the ter
rible storm prevailing. At the present
time only the masts of the vessel are
visible.
A large number of the cadets can be
seen from the shore clinging to the rig
ging. They are shouting and signaling
for help.
The captain and many Of the cadets
have been drowned.
It is believed that 40 who left in ona
of the ships boats and have not been
seen since are also lost.
The total loss is now thought to be no
less than 100 Some dispatches say 140.
Forty of those saved are badly hurt.
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KNEW HIS BUSINESS.
Knew Something Besides What He
Read IN Books.

The wise. up-to-date modern doctor is
no longer tied down to the hard and fast
rules of what his medical books say he
shall use and what he may withhold in
treating his patient
The successful doctor nowadays is the
one who is quick to avail himself of
any remedy, new or old which holds out
a chance Of cure no matter whether it
is Allopathic, Homeopathic or neither
one.
DR.. Jennison, in an interesting article
on indigestion and dyspepsia says:
Nine tenths of all people, who apply
to me for advice and treatment think
they have this ailment or that ailment
but find on close examination that
their whole trouble arises from poor
digestion
They have little appetite and if they
do have an appetite the food they eat
does them no good. Why? Because it is
but half digested, causing thin blood,
weak nerves. sleeplessness, aching bones,
pains in chest for-1na ton of gases. belch-
ing. etc. They tell me they believe they
have consumption, or heart disease.
rheumatism, nervous prOStra ton, in fact
most every disease but the right one
In reality the whole trouble is in the
stomach and nowhere else. Now what
do I do with such people? I don't feed
them on pre-digested foods like babies,
nor stomach bitters' nor patent nos
trums which know nothing about No
honorable physician viii prescribe a
remedy unless he knows what it con-
tains and its probable effects.
For all such patients have but one
prescription. advise them to go to the
nearest drug store and get a 80 cent box
OF Stuart'S Dyspepsia Tablets use
them with remarkable success in all
cases of Indigestion and stomach trou
BILE, because know what StuartS DyS-
pepsia Tablets consist of and what
they will do. They contain the vegeta-
bic essences, diastase and government
test pepsin which are the things every
weak stomach lacks to restore natural
digestive vigor and If I had dyspepsia
myself it is the one remedy 1 should
take.
When a patient comes to me COM
planning of dull headaches. sour stomach,
bad taste, nervousness, belching OF gas,
or heart trouble which is generally
caused from indigestion I tell him to
take one or two of Stuart's Tablets af-
ter each meal and as often during the
day as he has any trouble and I feel
confident L have given that patient the
best advice I could give
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are large
pleasant tasting lozenges. containing
diastase and pepSin combined with fruit
and vegetable essences. They are not
cathartic and do not act on any par
ticular organ like ordinary drugs but
simply act entirely on the food eaten.
They are natural digestive, pure and
simple
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by
druggists at so cents per package
throughout the United States, Canada
and Great Britain
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JEWELRY RECOVERED.
Stolen Diamonds Recovered by Offc.
ers of the Law.

oLO4SA 04dLAOnOS 1OSCOVSISO ny OIuC-
ers of the Law.
Lima, Ohio, Dec. IA part of the
$4,000 worth of jewelry stolen from the
Adams Express company at Cleveland
by Roscoe Hoffman. of Dayton. O., a
messenger in the employ of the company
was recovered here today When HOff-
man was arrested a package of letters
from Alice Wood, formerly of Dayton.
now in a resort here, were found, and
it was learned that Hoffman had been
here to see her a week ago. Route Agent
c. c. Davidson came here and with
Chief Harley found the girl and recov-
cred three diamond and ruby rings he
had given her. She also gave the off,
GERS some valuable information, which
may lead to the recovery of so opal rings
which are missing.
1t was learned that Hoffman spent a
large number of 1900 nickels, and inves-
tigatiOn disclosed that a package con-
tanning $50 worth, shipped from the
Philadelphia mint to a Cleveland bank
is missing. All of the IA cut diamonds
taken by Hoffman have been located ex-
cept one. which is thought to be IL
Pittsburg, and Route Agent Davidson
left for that city last night.
Hoffman is married man, and comes
from highly connected Dayton (Ohio)
family. He was in trouble once before
getting away with $50 belonging to his
employer, and his parents settled the
matter by making it good. F-ritzie Diehn
the noted Dayton diamond thief was
here with Hoffman.
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and surpasses the preliminary issue by
far The sketches, by H G. Maratta,
are vivified by the delicate tints, which
bring out the beauty and enhance their
fidelity to nature. The booklet adds an
other to the many artistic bits issued Dy
the Santa Fe passenger department.
Full information is given about the
equipment of this superb train, and the
points Of picturesque interest along the
route A condensed westbound schedule
is also inserted. The California Limited
will be put in service daily on December
%. 1t viii pass through Topeka every
morning at $3.50 o'clock on the time of
the present fast mail.
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CENT A MILE FOR G. A. R.
Rock Island and Burlington Forced
Rate to Denver.

Chicago, Dec. 17.-Railroads in the
Western Passenger association viii
make a l cent rate for the Grand Army
encampment at Denver next year, pro
viding that the executive committee of
the Grand Army at its meeting in Den
Yer Monday agrees to postpone the date
of the encampment to September.
The proposition for this rate was put
to the Western Passenger association
by the Burlington and the Rock Island
roads, with the notice that should other
roads concerned reject the proposition
the Rock Island and Burlington would
make the rate Independently. This is
tantaInOunt to forcing all the roads Of
the association to make the rate.
That the date of the encampment will
be postponed till some time in Septem-
Der is said to be assured. The railroads
and the executive committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic have been
in a deadlock over rates since the en-
campment here last summer The rail-
roads declared that owing to the heavy
tourist business during the summer they
could not haul the encampment business
at the rate demanded without a heavy
loss Had the roads not come to terms
it is said the executive committee was
prepared to order the place of encamp-
nent changed to Cincinnati
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Smallpox Among utah Miners.

Prince, Utah. Dec. 1.-THE smallpox
situation throughout eastern Utah is
becoming most alarming in view Of the
fact that the greater number OF the
cases are among the foreign born minern
in the coal camps and n there is a gem
eral epidemic Of the plague the coal
output will be materially decreased.
There are nearly "a hundred cases at
Scofeld. while Winterauarters and Clear
Creek are fighting with the diseases.
Sunnyside camp. in the east end OF Car
bon county. reports half a dozen cases
todaV-
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SHE is NUMBER TWO.
Foreign Woman Is Decorated With
Cross of the Legion of Honor


Gross of the Legion of Honor
New York. Dec IA dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from Paris
says:
The cross of the Legion of Honor has
been conferred upon Madame Beros-
thorn. wife of the Austrian charge
d'affaires at Pekin, for her heroic con-
duct and assistance to the French dur
ing the siege of the legation.
Only one other foreign woman has
been thus decorated. She is Marie
Schenenck, a Belgian woman, who dis
guised her sex and Joined Napoleon's
army as a private soldier and became
corporal, a sergeant and then lieu
tenant.
She served II years, went through
twelve campaigns and was eight times
wounded. Napoleon decorated her per-
sOnally in 1903.
This Napoleonic affair is recalled in
the decoration of Nine. Berosthorn, who
with her husband, is rewarded for their
personal bravery in defending the
French legation after Minister Pichon
had gone to the British legation.
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WAS TOO AMBITIOUS.
Why Marine superintendent Crosby
Lost His Life.

New York, Dec. 1.-THE marine SUI
perintendent of the White Star line is
authority for the statement that Mr..
Crosby, who lost his life while trying to
assist in the work Of saving the White
Star line steamship. as reported from
Queenstown, was a young man who had
been chiefly in the Pacific service of the
Oceanic Steamship company, having
been an officer on the Doric, plying be-
tween San Francisco and Japan. Mr..
Crosby was very ambitious said the
superintendent. land not one man in a
thousand would have dared attempt
what he tried to do. It was through
ambition that he lost his life"
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BOGUS SANTA CLAUS.
ArtfuI Sneak Thief Poses as the
Chlldren's Friend in Pittsburg.

Pittsburg. Pa, Dec. 17.-While the
family of w. De Wees Wood was at
dinner a sneakthief worked" on the
upper floors. Three-year-old Marie
Wood happened to go upstairs and saw
p man in her mammals room. Hush -
he said. with a warning finger to his
lips I'm Santa Claus just looking
around to see what I'll leave
He went to a window, stepped out to
the roof of a porch and disa opeared.
The child ran downstairs shouting Il
seed Santa Claus" An investigation fol-
lowed. The man got away with about
500 in money and iewelry.
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BELMONT NEARs A CRISIS.
No Serious Results Are Feared of the
Wealthy New Workers. Illness.

New York. Dec. 1.-THE condition of
August Belmont, who has been serious
ly i'll at his Hampstead country home
for the past week with typhoid malarial
fever, is unchanged today. The crisis
in his fever will be reached tomorrow,
but no serious results are anticipated,
and DR.. c. J. Finn, the Belmont family
physician, looks for a speedy recovery
after Sunday
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GEM IN SALMON CAN.
Pennsylvania Woman Discovers aFine
Diamond Ring Worth $500.

Conshohocken, Pa, Dec. lion open
ing a can of salmon for dinner today
Mrs. Anna Stennet of Plymouth town
ship discovered a fine diamond ring
among the contents, a Norristown jew
eler valued the stone at $500.
The salmon was bought of a Philadel-
phia grocer and, according to the mark
on the can, was packed in Alaska Being
in very good circumstances, Mrs. Stennet
expects to place the ring in the cause Of
some worthy charity.
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DEPEW'S NIECE TO WE'D.
She Will Become the Wife of Naval
Officer.

Washington, Dec. 17.-At a dinner
given by Senator Depew and Miss
Paulding, in honor of Governor elect
Odell of New York and Mrs. Odell, the
senator announced the engagement of
Miss Paulding to Mr.. John Eide, U. S.
N. Miss Paulding is the niece of Sena-
tor Depew and has been the mistress of
his home in Washington. Mr. Edie is the
son of the late John r. Edie of this city
and a graduate of the naval academy in
the class of 1880.
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Consul Works For a Syndicate.

New York, Dec. IA Herald dis
patch from Rio Janeiro says: It is an
nounced that the American consul at
Para has been travelling incognito
through the state of Manaos, by the
Amazon and its tributaries. It is be-
Heved that his journey has some rela-
ton to the reported sale by Bolivia of
the territory in the so-called republic of
Acre to an American syndicate
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Next Years Salon.

Paris. Dec. 17.-Next years salon will
be held May to June 80 in the Grand
Palais des Beaux Arts. the one perma-
nent exposition building.
There is room for 1900 pictures and 500
drawings beside sculpture. Artists can
show only two works each. as there is
space for 500 pictures less than in the
old galleries. The vanishing day will De
April 80.
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Back From Chicago.

A NJ. Fuller. city passenger agent for
the Rock Island, returned Saturday night
from a weeks pleasure trip Mr.. Fuller
visited points in Iowa and Illinois, Chi
cago and Kansas City while away.
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MAIL RECORD BROKEN.
Steamship Lucania Bears 2,O13 Sacks
to Foreign Lands

New York, Dec. 1.-THE ocean steam
er I.ucania, which sailed today, carried
2.O13 sacks of mail matter, including %
242 registered letters and packages This
is said to be the largest amount Of mail
matter ever carried across the Atlantic
on one steamer.
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FAyERSHAM HAS RELAPSE.
Actors Condition Is Critical and Ply
sicians Meet in Consultation.

New York, Dec. 17.-Wiliiam Faver-
sham, the actor, is in a critical condi-
ton today. He has had a relapse. Dr.
J. A Burke, the attending physician,
called Dr.. Charles Phelps, who perform
ed the operation on him three weeks
ago and DR.. Edward J. Janeway to a
consultation at the sick mans home
last night.
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Gibraltar. Dec. 16.-Mr. Charles Car
roll jackson. OF New York city. a saloon
passenger on the Hamburg American
liner Columbia, died OF peritonitls on
board the ship The body was brought
ashore here and is being embalmed toR
conveyance to New York