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The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
SECOND PLACE TALK.
Senator Platt Suggests the Name of
OdelI.

Philadelphia, June 15-While there
have been no startling Developments
today in the vice presidential situation,
a slightly new turn has been given
the discussion by an interview in New
York with Senator Piatt, circulated to-
day, in which Platt suggests 3. B. Odell
chairman of the NewYork state Repub-
ican committee, as a candidate. If the
New York delegation should present
Oden he would make quite a formidable
candidate, but it also suggests to a
number of leaders here that in such
an event the convention might be stam-
peded to Representative DOlliver, as
there is apparently a growing demand
for a western candidate. 1t is under
stood that Senator Allison is urging Mr..
DOlliver with considerable persistency,
and says that if they need an Iowa
man Dolliver should be selected. On
the other hand there are those who de-
clare that the Iowa senator is urging
Dolliver, knowing that it takes the talk
away from himself.
While there is still talk of Bliss his
friends here say he has made it per-
fectIy clear to the president and to the
presidents friends that personal rea-
sons prevent him from being consid-
cred.
Joseph H. Manley of Maine is press
ing the claims of Secretary Long. He
is the only available man. he said to-
day, who comes up to Mr.. Hanna s
requirement for a vice president who
would certainly make a good president.
Mind" he added, Il cast no. reflections
upon Mr. Allison or Mr.. Bliss, but they
are not candidates. With these out of
the way Mr.. Long is the only man left
willing to accept who will fill the bill
OF course, I do not forget the Sampson
Schley controversy, but that will cut nc
figure"
The settlement of the Delaware con-
| test is a hard one, more difficult than
any which the national committee has
! had to face. The subcommittee has sc
/ far failed absolutely to bring about q
/ reconciliation of the factions and fail
| ing in this can only refer the whole
matter to the full committee for deter
/ mination There is no doubt that tbs
stiff proposition which the Dupont fac
/ tion maintains and the offer OF AddiclS:
| dicks to compromise matters has haS
| considerable weight with the commit
| tee. The proposition to admit both del
| egations with half a vote each met will
a gerat deal Of favor with a majoritl
of the committee. The Dupont-H -Higgin
men, however, say that they Will no
accept this and will not sit in the con
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15

certain" said Senator Platt last night.
The senator declared that he had not
pretended to guess the name of the
vice presidential candidate He fatty
contradicted a report that he had a
conference with Senator Allison of Iowa
and Cornelius N. Bliss on Wednesday
evening. Il did not talk with Senator
Allison and did not know he was in the
city, and I did not see Mr. Bliss he
said. And there was no talk about
Offering the nomination to Mr.. Bliss.
I understand that Mr.. Bliss announced
some time ago that he would not take
the nomination and I have heard Of no
change in the situation
Senator Platt said there could be no
decision as to a possible recommended
tion of a candidate by the New York
delegation in Philadelphia until the del
egatiOn got together for a discussion of
candidates. The delegation will not
meet until Monday evening. The talk
about Chairman Odell of the Republi-
|. can state committee being put forward
as a candidate, Senator Platt said, was
not taken seriously by Mr.. OdeIl or by
other leaders. The senator was asked
if he thought Cornelius n. Bliss would
accept a nomination for the vice presi-
dency.
would a duck swim?" he asked in
reply.
Then he said he did not believe Mr..
Bliss could get the support of the New
1Ofk OeleSat1On. L Lhlnk, ne SAID,
that Mr.. Woodruff would get more
votes than Mr.. Bliss could in the dele
cation. If Mr.. Odell would take the
nomination he could have the support
of the delegation. Mr.. Odell is a man
of executive ability, as Mr.. Hobart
was, and If he were elected vice presi-
dent he would fill the place as well as
| Mr.. Hobart did,
Senator Allison was at the Albemarle
| hotel last night but he declined to give
| interviews to newspaper men who SEN
| their cards to him. He did not see Sen
ator Platt.
| General Charles H Grosvenor o.
| Ohio said at the Fifth Avenue hotel las
| evening:
There will be no assault committed
upon Governor Roosevelt at the Phil
adelphia convention. There will be NJ
stampede for any candidate for vic
president. Republican national con
| ventions do not stampede. 1 have at
! tended every national convention sine
| 1860 when Mr. Lincoln was nOminatet
| and 1 have never seen a stampede. AT
| ter the nomination for president
made it is the custom to adjourn to loo
over the situation. 1 understand tha
Mr. Bliss is not willing to be a candi
date. I am in favor Of DolliVer for vic
| president"
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
LEFT OUT.
Pension Commissioner Dele
gates Are Turned Down.
National Committee Decides by
Unanimous Vote.
TENNESSEE CONTEST
In Favor of the BrOwnloW List
of Delegates.
j. Ellen Foster Is Already on
the Ground.

Philadelphia, June 15.-The national
committee has decided in favor of
Brownlow's delegation in the Tennessee
contest by an unanimous vote.
The committee was not called to-
gether until half past IL o'clock today,
Mr.. Fessenden again taking the chair
The contest over the delegation from
Tennessee was Immediately taken up,
r. s. Sharp, chairman of the state ex-
ecutive committee, being recognized to
speak for the contestants bearing the
name of Pension Commissioner Evans.
Mr.. Sharp contended on behalf of the
Evans contestants that they were pre-
vented from participating in the state
convention which chose delegates, and
that the whole trouble originated in the
state committee which issued the cali.
He claimed that the call designated
date for holding county conventions.
stating that where conventions had
not been regularly held delegates
should be elected on the day named. He
also said that previous TO the call con-
ventions had been held in p counties,
in IS of which instructions had been
given for Evans. Contests ensued, and
at the convention a sufficient number
of BrownloW delegates thus chosen Sc
cured control of the temporary organ
ization. AS a consequence the Evans
| people held another convention.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
ROUTED BOERS.
Those Scattered by Methuen
Are Still Doing Business.

London, June IS, HOS a. m.-The war
office issues the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria, Resideney June "A. 1O:4O
p. m.-Klerhsdork surrendered on June
to an armed party sent on by Hunter.
Kitchener reports that the Beers at
tackled reconstruction train early this
morning a few miles north of Rhenoster
river. He sent out mounted troops and
drove off the enemy before they could
do damage One man was killed and
eleven wounded. including two officers.
"A messenger from Klerksdorp re-
ports that Cronje, who surrendered
there, determined to surrender as soon
as he knew for certain that Pretoria
was in our possession. His example
has been copied by many in the neigh
borhood. The court house is now said
Go be full of arms
BY the. peaceful occupation Of Klerks-
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
ONE OF SIX.
Ernest Clevenger Pays Penalty
of His Crime.

st. Louis, Mo, June 15.-On May 8,
1900, the state supreme court sentenced
six murderers to be hanged on June 49,
Tney were John A. Holloway, Usage
county; Ernest Clevenger, Clay county;
Robert Cushenberry. Clinton county;
Jack Bradford, Pemiscot county; Da-
vid Miller. Holt county, and Sam
Waters, New Madrid county.
OF this number, David Miller's SEN
tence was recently commuted to fifty
years in the penitentiary, Robert Cush-
enberry has been granted a stay of ex-
ecutfon until June 25, and Jack Brad
ford was respited until August IA.
EXECUTION OF CLEVENGER.
Liberty, Mo, June 15.-Ernest R.
Clevenger was hanged here at o'clock
this morning in the county court house
yard. The execution was witnessed by
about fifty men. Clevenger met death
fearleSSly and walked upon the scar
fold unasslsted At O'Clock this
morning he was taken from his cell to
the county collectors Office, where his
spiritual advisers prayed and talked
with him. He said he had made peace
with God and was ready to die. He ate
a hearty breakfast and calmly smoked
a cigar. The death warrant was read
to him and as the clock struck 3 he was
led to the scafold- The two ministers
man. AS the first strap was put on,
Clevenger said: God will save me-
When asked if he had anything to
say, Clevenger replied: L wish to say
farewell to you all and hope you will
find out some day that 1 amt worthy
i of the death 1 am dying" He was pro-
nounced dead in thirteen minutes from
| the time of the drop.
! C1evenger did not sleep any last night
/ and spent the time walking the floor
and writing letters.
Ernest Clevenger was hanged for the
| murder near Missouri City in 1897, Of
! George Allen and Della Clevenger, the
! latter, his cousin. Clevenger was enam-
ored of his cousin and jealous of Aliens
attentions He followed them to a camI
meeting and lay IN wait till they
emerged from the tent. Then withou
/ saying a word he deliberately sho
both. Clevenger was drunk at the time
! Later Clevenger escaped from the Lib
| erty Jail but was soon recaptured. Gov
ernor Stephens yesterday refused a pc
tition to commute the sentence to lifI
! Imprisonment.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
BOMB ON TRACK.
Attempt to Blow Up Mail Car
in st. Louis.

St. Louis, Mo, June 15.-As far as
outward appearances go there is very
little evidence to indicate that a strike
exists on the lines of the st. Louis
Transit. With the exception Of guards
of deputy sheriffs at the numerous car
sheds and power houses of the COM
pany, everything has a peaceful ap-
pearance. Cars on all the divisions are
apparently running with as much reg
ularity and as free from interference as
before the strike.
Officers of the Transit company state
that during the past two weeks they
have received applications for rein
statement from several hundred strik-
erS. Recent arrivals of motormen and
conductors from out of town number
100 they say According to the officers,
regular schedules, day and night will
be maintained henceforth on all the
divisions.
The only trouble of a serious nature
experienced last night was the attempt
to blow up mail car in the vicinity of
Broadway and North Market street An
explosion caused by the car striking a
bomb on the track aroused the entire
neighborhood from slumber. George
/ Schniesser, aged p, was arrested by
special police officers who said they SaV
| him place the explosive on the track
This is the thirty-eighth day of the
! strike which, directly, has cost the tax
| payers of St Louis more than a quar-
| ter of a million dollars. The amount
mentioned is the cost of protection
alone and does not take into account
the heavy loss sustained by the mer-
chants and citizens generally as well as
that suffered by the Transit company
and it's striking employees.
At 10 o'clock the striking employees
of the Transit company We're assem-
! bling from all parts of the city to at
tend the meeting at the West End coli
scum called by their leaders to act OF
a proposition looking to a termination
| of the strike. It is understood that tn
| negotiations which resulted in calling
of today's meeting have been quietl!
going on for the past three days. Ac
cording to a member of the executive
fContinued on sixth Pagel
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
EIGHT MEN DIE
AS the Result Of Gas Explosion in a
Coal Mine.

Canmore, Alberta, June ia terrible
gas explosion occurred in Canmore coal
mine yesterday afternoon, resulting in
the instant death of eight men and the
injury of several others. The names of
the known dead are:
PROSPER DAVE.
AMAND BEGARD.
TONY BOLLINS. JR
PETER CAULFIELD and four other
foreigners whose names are not yet
known.
The cause of the explosion is supposed
to have been the carelessness of one of
the miners in opening his safety lamp
in violation of the rules and in por
tion of the mine where TO do so was
is believed to be one of the unidentified
victims
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Of Filipino Insurgents Reporter
by Macarthur.

Washington, June 15--An important
capture of Filipino insurgents was re-
ported to the war department this
morning by General Macarthur in the
following cable message:
Manila, June 15-General Macabulos,
with eight officers, 124 enlisted men and
120 rifles, surrendered to Colonel Z. II.
Liscum of the Ninth infantry 1T Tarlac
this morning. Macabulos is the most
important and last insurgent leader in
Tarlac and Pangasenan.
MAC ARTHUR"
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
NO ANSWER YET.
The Sultan Continues to Ignore
the American Claim.

Constantinople, Thursday. June IA
The United States legation has not yet
received a reply to the note regarding
the indemnity question handed to the
porte on May u and Mr.. Lloyd c. Girls
com, United States charge d'affaires, is
making verbal representations to the
government and pressing for a solution
of the matter
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15

vention under such circumstances and
members of the committee are said to
resent this attitude.
If they will not harmonic among
themselves" said one member of the
committee, there is such a thing as
Jamming them together and those who
do not accept our action can NOT do as
they please about it,
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
BRYAN is SAFE.
Now Has More Than the Necessary
Two Thirds

Chicago, June 15.-By the action Of
the Democratic state conventions in
California, Missouri Kentucky, Georgia
and Vermont William J. Bryan is as
sured of the nomination for president
on the Democratic ticket The instruc-
tions given delegates by those FIVE
states carry Mr.. Bryan's vote, It is be-
lieved. considerably over the two thirds
necessary for nominating him.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
BADLY HURT.
Mrs. Jessie Bentcn-Fremont Meets
With an Accident.

Los Angeles, Cal. June 15.-AIrs- Jessie
Benton Fremont. widow of John G. Ere
mont has met with a severe accident. In
leaving the dinner table she slipped and
fell fracturing her hip Mrs. Fremont Is
79 years of age and her recovery will Con-
sanrenflV be SLOW.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
Weather Indications.

Chicago, June 15.-Foreeast for KAN
sas: Showers and thunder storms to-
night, with warmer in west portion;
Saturday partly cloudy variable winds.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
PLATT UNCERTAIN.
New York Republican Leader at Sea
on Vice-Presidential Candidate.

is to be the Republican candidate for
vice president there would be little use
in holding the convention, for the re-
nomination of President Mckinley is
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15
Editor White Going to Parig.

Emporia June 15.-W. A White of the
Emporia Gazette. leaves on the 10th of
July for Paris. He viii make a quick trip
and spend ten days or two weeks at the
exposition.
The Topeka state journal., 1900-06-15

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Arizona republican., 1900-09-18

Foer march or air he would at once leave town. This would have been q somewhat exaggerated pTetension on the part ofia full-nedged English prince of the blood. But Prince Christian of Schleswig- -Holstein is a German prince by birth. and was already an eI- cieriy officer in the German army at the time ne first came to England to marry Princess Helena of Great Britain. He $ an uncle of the Empress of Germany and was her guardian until her mar riage He has no fortune of his own. and is entirely dependent on the annu- ily paid to his wife by the British treasury, and upon the allowance which she receives from her mother. Queen Victoria. He has but one eye. the other having been destroyed while out hunting in the cOverts of Osborne by an accident. which report lays at tho door of the late Prince Henry of Bat tenberg. but the responsibility for which the duke of Connausht took up CT his own shoulders.
 EX-King Milan. of Servia has not been anywhere near Paris since the en- gagement and subsequent marriage of his son, and the stories cabled to the effect that the French government had threatened him with expulsion recent ly are in consequence thereof untrue He has been staying at Vienna and at the various country seats of the Aus trian and Hungarian Arfstocracy for shooting, and proposes to establish his permanent home al Vienna, to which rity he has already had all his personal effects moved from Belgrade. That the Qrarrel between himself and his son is very acute. as is shown by the fact that a man who hGrc a striking resem- blance to him was arrested the other day while crossing the frontier from Hungary into Seryia, carried off under the strictest kind of guard to Bel grade, and only released after it had been established that it was not King Milan.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-18

pose I would confess So freely if I thought they could hold me? With iu- genuity to co-orGinata and direct all the heads interested in me and money to corrupt and corruptible officials the government canno, hu,d me six months.
 Except by putting me in a special cell. with soldiers L. watch me night and day, I shall appoint my own time of escape. And you may tell your peo- pie in the United States that I shall have held up some of them before an other spring brings new leaves to the trees of the sCUares."
 And the guard who led the core spondent out through the prisen n corri- dors said:
 'Fevrot will do f if he says So. I am an expert in criminals. and this one mon Dieu!-he means what he says!"- New York World.
Arizona republican., 1900-09-18

rames are invested by virtue of their office for life With the prefix of "the honorable,' exactly like the maids of honor. Nowadays they merely fulfill the duties of the ladies in waiting. oc- cupying a slightly inferior rank in the hierarchy of the royal household to the ladies of the bed-chamber all of whom are peeresses of the realm.
 In olden times ;the bed-chamber wo- man was intrusted with the duty of handing the 'queen's shift to the lady Of the bed-chamber. who put it on her majesty. In the same way the bed chamber woman handed the queens fan to the lady of the bed-chamber. When the queen washed her hands the bed-chamber woman set the basin and ewer before the queen, knelt before her and poured the perfumed water out of the ewer upon the queens hands. The bed-chamber woman pulled on the queens gloves when she could not do it herself, and handed the queen her choc- olate. But it is rather relief to find that it was not the bed-chamber wo- man, but the page of the back stairs who was called in to put on the queens shoes.
 Of course, nowadays. the queen dis penses with these features of service on who receive the same salary as the
Arizona republican., 1900-09-18

t is somewhat surprising that his ar rival here should have attracted so lit lie attention. He is rather an odd look 1 ing man, short and disposed to embon- point, wears glasses and has short 1 cropped beard which. like his black hair. is turning gray. He was the fla VOrite companion of the czar on the occasion of the latter's trip to the far Orient prior to his accession to the throne. and belongs to the most an- rient Russian nobility. being like Nich- Olas himself descended from the house of Rurik
 Until the accession of Nicholas he was only a subordinate in the depart Inent of the interior. In fact, his inti- macy with the heir apparent was the cause of so much jealousy on the part of his superiors that ne was repea tedIy denied promotion. The very day, how ever. after Nicholas became emperor, M. DurnCva, then minister of. the inte- ror advanced the prince to one of the most lucrative and highest positions in iiis department, and, submitting short " afterwards the commission contain ing the appointment for signature to the emperor, the latter made sarcastic comments as to the suddenness with which his eXcellency had discovered in the prince merits until then unrecog- nized.
 %>%*
 There are few offices in connection with the English court that have given cause to more misconception and spec ulation than that Of the so-called bed Clamber woman to the queen.' There are today about eight in number who are actually doing duty, while there are eight more who are no longer any thing but honorary bed-chamber wO- men. All of them are women of aris- iocratic birth, some of them titled, while those who have no handle to their
Arizona republican., 1900-09-18

military service came I was already pretty well recognized in the profess sion.
 During my three years as soldier read ceasclcssly to improve myself. You have no idea what a store of sound knowledge liss available in the detac- tive stories. The writer of penny dreadfuls' if often a well informed fel- low. and anybody who rejects the trashy part and retains what's valu- able, will, with practical experience, Uf course. find himself pretty well able to take care of himself.
 While in the army I retained control of some dozen skilled house breakers and directed their movements. Twice under my instructions, they footed the treasury fl the regiment.
 When honorably discharged I took a trip to London. Wonderful fellows they are, these Englishmen! They could give cards and spades 70 the average French colleague any day.
 Tn London I first got acquainted with American burglars tools-so com pact, light, ingenious. real jewels of blued steel! And it was l who first inn ported the American kit into France, where now it's used to the exclusion of all else.
 From the time I returned from Lon don, where I only worked q year, till now Fevrot went on, T remained Fl Paris. I have had under my orders at one time or another almost every French crook. who is prominent. But although I have had as many a sixty men working under me, of late the in evita6le blunders of large gangs had annoyed me too greatly, so thal for the last three years l have retained only about ten men.
 Yet know every one who ever pried a window loose in this city, and I may call on any one of them. All are will ing 10 work for me because l am gen. erous. lead them to success and am al- ways ready to help them out when they are in a scrape.
 Besides, they fear me-" added Fev- rot, with a smile. II am not of their class. l live differently, talk differ ently. They know that I am wealthy and-a gentleman"
 M. Cochefort says that Fevrot will get a sentence Of twenty years at hard labor. Fevrot thinks so, tCo. But he adds, with tranquil confidence:
 Let them sentence me if they choose. I know all about their penitentiaries and convict colonies. You don't sup
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light of an intentional affront to the kaiser since it was but the other day that Prince Ouchtomsky published over his own signature in the St. Petersburg ViedmCsti, or St. Petarsburg News, a paper founded by Peter the Great, d statement to the effect that Germany was entirely to blame for all the pres ent troubles in China, which had been precipitated to a great extent, 50 he declared, by the fOolishness and dis courtesy of Prince Henry of Prussia when at P6kin, and subsequently, by the same faults on the part of the ill., fated German envoy. Baron Kettel- er Indeed, the article in question was me of the most hostile to Germany that it is possible to conceive, and it's appearance in a newspaper regarded as q sort of sami-ohicial organ of the Rus sian government created no end Of a sensation a Berlin.
 The prince passed through the Unit ed states a short ime ago on his way to China. and in view of the fact that besides being president of the Russo Chinese bank he is one of the most in- innate friends and cronies of the czar