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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
UNDERBID ENGLAND.
American Concern Secures Contract
For India Loeomotives.

New York, April 26-The World says:
An American concern has secured the
contract for locomotives recently ordered
by the Calcutta port commissioners. de-
spite active European competition Ihe
Indian authorities invited bids In the open
market for nine locomotives The lowest
British bid was that OF Nelson, Reid a.
Co. of Glasgow. Their price was l.3i5
pounds. against the Pittsburg Locomotive
company's bid of 1878 pounds for each
engine. The Pittsburg company also OF
fered quicker delivery. under taking 10
fulfill its contract inside Of six months,
while the shortest time given by British
builders was nine months. The Calcutta
officials accepted the tender of the Amer
lean company. This is the first contract
for locomotives Americans have secured
abroad through lower prices. Previous
contracts have come to this country be-
cause of prompt delivery.
The locomotives ordered are Of the eight
wheel, tank type. weighing about ~ tons
each They will be used for hauling
heavy freight from the Calcutta docks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
CALLAHAN IS CHANGED.
Well Dressed, Shaven and Has
His Hair Cut.

Omaha, April 26.-Janes Callahan is
a different looking man now from the
James Callahan arrested two months
ago, charged with the kidnapping of
Eddie Cudahy. He appears in court
well dressed, his hair carefully combed,
and clean shaven, with the exception of
a moustache, which has grown out so
much during his confinement as to de-
ceive the average witness. B. x. Nun
shaw, who lives near the Melrose Hill
house was the first witness called this
morning. He identified the picture of
Grove as that of man who came to
his house aoout three weeks before the
kidnapping and wanted to know who
owned the Schneiderwind house
MunshaW said he told him, and the
man came back later and said he had
rented it and paid 81 down and would
pay the balance when he moved in, the
following Monday. Munshaw testified
fore the kidnapping and talked with him
again, and the latter said he would
move in the next Monday
Aunshaw added that on the night of
the kidnapping the dogs barked late in
the evening, and he went out by the
wall and saw a buggy or spring wagon
drive past and draw up to the steps of
the Schneiderwiud house. He was down
hill from there and the parties were
outlined against the sky. The night was
dark. but he could see the outlines.
He saw what he thought were two men
go up the steps and into the house and
he thought the parties were moving in
some of their goods. Grove, Munshaw
testified, was accompanied by a wo-
man, when he called the first time in a
buggy and inquired about the house.
Detective Savage was recalled. He
testified that he talked with Callahan
at Fourteenth and Douglass streets
about three weeks before he was ar
rested. Callahan claimed that he was
going to work switching for the c., st.
Paul. NJ. & o. road on the following
morning.
They talked about Pat Grove and the
kidnapping, and that Callahan expressed
his belief OF Groves innocence, and
said that he had taken Grove with him
to his sisters house and introduced
Grove to her as Mr.. Johnson. This,
Callahan said, was just before the
Northwestern train robbery, when Mrs.
Kelly was living in Council Bluffs. Saw
age testified that later Callahan ad
nitted to the chief of police that he had
introduced Grove to his sister as John
son. He testified that Callahan said he
could not turn up Grove, and that he
would not if he could
Geo. Wittum identified Callahan as
a man who passed by his house on the
day before the kidnapping, between -
and l o'clock. He said he and his wife
both watched the man while he trav-
elled 200 or 300 feet, and until he passed
out of sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
PopuIist Party's Fate to BE
Then Decided.
Secret Invitation to Democrats
Is Included.
GUARD TERMS CLOSELY
Proposition is For a Coalition
In Common Cause.
Will Then Decide Whether
There is to Be More Fusion.

The Populist state central committee
has called a meeting to be held in To-
peka on Monday, May 6. The course OF
the party is practically settled upon a
straight ticket. 1t is now necessary to
thrash out the details for the future. The
following statement has been issued by
the committee:
''Ninety-three per cent OF the letters
received in answer to the queries pro-
pounded by the state central committee
are in Tabor of putting a straight Peo-
pies party ticket in the field next year
The other seven per cent are in favor
or all Kansas ROpuliSts going into the
Democratic primaries and taking pos
session OF the machinery of that party.
About one-half Of the writer's say
party in the state, provided all the re-
form elements could be united under its
banner; otherwise not.
'All Of the writer's, with two exceptions.
are in favor of direct legislation and
eighty-two per cent of them favor max
ing it the paramount issue in the next
state campaign. by emphasizing 1t as the
only way to get public ownership of
public utilities; to stop the corruption OF
legislative bodies and to secure genuine
rule by the people. Ten per cent think
it should be an issue but not the para
mount one. Eighty per cent think &c
should be an issue and possibly the par
amount one but are at present unset
tied in their minds as to the latter point.
1neSe letters may De SdAGiJ aIttlAGA
as an index to the sentiment throughout
the state. The columns of the Advocate
have been opened impartially to all and
we have given to the minority far more
space than we have to the majority, In
proportion to their numbers"
The business that is to be taken up in
committee includes the setting aside Of
half a dozen designs that have been Of
fered from which a party ballot symbol
is to be chosen by the rank and file by
referendum. There will be considera-
ton of the biennial election and fusion
laws also. The committee viii formulate
a proposition to the Democrats to come
in with them. Just what the nature Of
this proposition is or viii be is not
known It viii be a secret proposition
uu to the Democrats anyway, and be
left to them to decide or publish it VIII
probably invite them to come in to their
mass convention, which is to be held
next summer and is expected to pre-
scribe that they come in converted OF
stay away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
TOP OF The FLOOD
1t Has Not Yet Been Reached at
Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, April 26-The top of the
flood in the Ohio at this place has not
yet been reached While there was a
rise Of only twO-tenths of a foot between
5 o'clock yesterday evening and , a.
m today the rise between a. m. and 8
m. today was three and a half tenths
The decline, when it begins, win be
slow, as Huntington. w. Va, this morn
ing reports a fall Of only half an inch
in "A hours
Many Of the residents Of the flooded
district. especially tenement houses
along the river front win not be fit for
habitation for almost a week In this
respect Newport and Dayton. Ky. and
other towns across the river have suf-
fered very much.
At Ripley, Higginsport, Manchester
and other small points on this side of the
river the condition after the food is very
serious as they have been practically
under water for some days Owing to
the short duration of the food as we'll
as the fact that it is below the record
of seven other Ohio river floods, the
damages along the valley are compara-
lively small. The greatest sufferers are
those who have been thrown out of
work, or driven from their homes No
lives have been lost except by accidents.
There is no indication of a further rise
and less apprehension is felt over the
results Of the high water in the lower
Ohio ValleV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
ALBAUGH ON ISSUES.
ResubmfssiOn Will Not Be One
of Them.

Morton Albaugh, chairman of the Re
publican state central committee. is EN-
phatic in his prediction that resubrnis-
sion will not be the issue in the next
state campaign. Henot only declares that
in his opinion, the Republicans will not
take it up, but challenges the Democrats
and Populists to do so if they went an
other drubbing.
He said that the state battle will be
upon national issues, being a continua-
ton of the policies now in vogue and
responsible for the present prosperous
condition Of the country and side-issues
that may arise through the incidents Of
the present administration.
Republican platforms are made by
Republican conventions, and I can not
foreteH what it will be- said Mr. Al
baugh. But my judgment is that the
party will not declare for resubmission.
Prohibition is not a party question. Both
parties are divided on it.
ssI don't believe the Democrats will
dare to declare for resubmission. Under
the new election law the Democrats and
Populists must get together in order to
win. Last year the Fusionists polled in
round numbers 100000 votes, of which
according to my estimate, 100000 were
cast by PopulistS and came largely from
the rural districts and large numbers
favor prohibition. There is probably a
larger per cent Of the Populists who IA
vor prohibition than there is Of the Re
publieans. The Democrats won't dare to
put resubmission in the platform II
they do we will whip them bad. The
question will be dealt with by both par
ties as it has been in the past.
ssResubmission is not the most import
ant issue. We Republicans believe we
have given the state better adminis-
tration than the opposition gave it. The
battle next year will be preliminary to
the fight of 1904. The forces will be lined
up for the presidential conflict.
1.-The issues in 1904 will be squarely up
to what they have been and are now
from a Republican standpoint. There
will be a continuation Of the policies
that have given the country its present
prosperity. OF course we cannot tell
what the issues may be from a Demo-
cratic standpoint, I am not qualified to
speak from that view but 1 firmly be-
lieve that Democracy win abandon free
silver and Organism It will go back to
the old Democracy of C1eveland's day.
They will rail against the trusts and
knock on everythirg the Republicans do.
Our next state campaign will be fought
on the line of anticipating these
changes -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
BANKER IN TROUBLE.
Tried to Pass Customs officers With
a Lot of Jewelry.

New York, April 26.-John Curry. a
banker of Windsor. Ont. who arrived on
the steamship Teutonic. is in trouble with
the customs authorities because he did
not declare jewelry worth in the neigh
borhoOd of $3.50. which he says he was
carrying to the Canadian relatives of a
friend who died abroad
The pieces of jewelry and their esti-
taire diamond bracelet, 81, 600: two opal
diamond bracelets, $500, one gold bracelet.
$2o; one sapphire, pearl and diamond
brooch, $125: diamond and opal
brooch, $500: one diamond ring, $780, and
one turquoise and diamond ring.
During the voyage Mr.. Curry entrusted
the jewelry to the care OF the purser, and
when the steamship reached her dock he
asked the purser to keep the jewelry
day or SO and he would call for it. The
purser declined to do so unless it was. de-
elry in his pockets and said nothing about
it. although he declared two pieces of
baggage which will go to Canada in bond.
Customs Inspector DOnahue detected the
jewelry, which was sent to the appraiser
stores
At Deputy Phelps office Mr.. Curry
showed by papers which he had with him
that the jeWeIry belonged to an estate
and was entrusted to his care to be de-
livered to relatives in Ontario. and was
told that if he had only declared the
leWelry it could have been sent through
in bond.
An application has been forwarded to
Secretary Gage, giving this statement of
the matter and the opinion was ex-
pressed that the application would be
hOnOred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
ROBBED The CAR.
Bandits Secure $3.50 on a
Georgia Central Train.
We're Unable to Open the Ex-
press Company's Safe.

Macon, Ca, April 26.-The express car
of the Central of Georgia railroad was
robbed between 1920 and 1:2O o'clock this
morning. by two men who boarded the
train at Macon. The car was going
through from Atlanta to Savannah.
Some time after the train pulled out of
Macon the two men who had secreted
themselves in some way entered the ex-
press car and confronted Express Mes
senger J. n. White. They seized and
bound him hand and foot and threw a
sack over his head They then went
through his packages and secured about
$3.50 but left a 81 coo package lying on the
floor. The safe resisted their attempts
to open it. When the train reached the
village of Gordon, twenty miles from
Macon the robbers dropped off. The
messenger was uninjured when discovered
by the conductor. Detectives and COM
pany officers are now securing the coun-
try. The men are supposed to be two
suspicious characters who were seen
hanging about the union depot for two
days. Two nights ago Messenger White
observed two men closely watching his
car at the station and ordered them away.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
EIGHTY BODIES.
Work Of Removing the COrpses
From the Debris
At the Scene OF the Explosion at
FrankfOrt-on-the- Main.
MANY STILL MISSING.
All Night Long the Firemen
Fought the Flames.
Number Of Injured l5O- Many
Seriously.

Frankfort, April 26-By II o'clock this
morning 50 bodies had been recovered
from the debris at the electro-chemical
works near Gresham, but there are still
many missing. About $50 persons were
injured, many of them seriously. The
work of fighting the flames proceeded
throughout the entire night, though the
danger of further explosions was regard
ed as averted at midnight. The search
of the ruins continues. The scenes which
occurred throughout the night were most
distressing. Villagers and survivors
We're cropping about the ruins in search
Of relatives and comrades and endeavor-
ing to recognize in the charred bodies or
dismembered and mutilated corpses the
identity Of missing friends.
The flames burned out Marx g. Mueller s
chemical factory and part OF the
Gresham color works.
a number of children who were hurled
by the explosion into the river Main
were drowned before the rescuers could
reach them. Several firemen are among
the victims. A special train with relief
fremen and additional doctors and
nurses. was sent to the scene of the
disaster this morning. A number who,
it was feared had perished, reported
then selves this morning.
FRESH OUTBREAK OF FLAMES.
Frankfort, April 26.-Noon-There
was fresh outbreak of the flames
among the ruins at Griesheim, which
revived apprehension, and after the ex-
plOsion of a great benzine reservoir at
IL o'clock this morning, orders were is
sued that all persons in the village of
Griesheim and it's vicinity must vacate
their premises forthwith.
The inhabitants fed, panic-stricken,
with such possessions as they could
hastily collect, most of them going to
Frankfort Even the nremen, sal
vagers and soldiers left the scene of
the disaster. The railroad service to
Griesheim is suspended on account of
danger.
During the panic this morning a num-
ber of women and children were thrown
down and trampied under foot
The danger of fresh explosions neces-
sarily retards the drawing up of q. cor
rect death roll, but the latest reports do
not indicate that this is so large as was
at first reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
LAW SUIT THROWN IN
For the Man Who Buys the German
Ship Gildemeister.

Portland. Ore. April 26--The Oregon
ian this morning says:
The man who buys the German ship
Gildemeister in San Francisco next
Monday will undoubtedly secure a law
suit along with her unless claims now
pending in this city are settled in the
meantime. It is also highly probable
that the ship may be brought to Port
land for repairs. The only people aside
from the underwriters and owners who
have a tangible interest in the Glide
meister are the parties who had the ship
under charter at the time she was dis
masted- The underwriters and owners
who have apparently worked in full
harmony in the condemnation proceed
ings overlooked this claim of the char
terers. but the speculative public who have
something like $115000 at stake on the
matter have not lost sight of 1t and it is
reported have made an effort to secure
the charter for the purpose of fighting
the case. There is considerable money
at stake on both sides and if she can
be brought to Portland and repaired for
one-third of her value the charterers
will insist upon a reconsideration and
investigation of the condemnation pro-
ceedingS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
TOO LARGE AN ARMY.
Colorado Department Commander OPP
poses 100000 Men.

Denver, Aur 26.--The Rocky Mountain
News this morning prints an interview
with Gen. H. c. Merriam. commander OF
the department of the Colorado. in
which he is quoted as being opposed to a
large standing army. [
According to the interview, the general
said:
''As to the regular army the number
decided upon by the Washing
ton authorities is quite enough. We DO
not need 100, 900 men in the regular
army What we do need IS a small and
thoroughly drilled, disciplined and equip
ped body that is not afraid to work and
is ready for any emergency. A lazy
soldier is a bad soldier and It would be
a menace to the country to fill the posts
with thousands of men with nothing to
do. Officers and men should be kept
constantly employed and they are then
kept out of mischief We have no need
of a large standing army"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
LErrER To M,KINLEY.
In Which Black Jack Strives tc
Clear aInnocentD Men.


Denver. April 26.-A special to the
Thomas E. ketchum mailed the follow
ing letter to President Mckinley this
morning.
Clayton. n. NJ. April 2s.
To His Excellency the President of the
United States. Washington.
Sir; Being now at the town OF Clay
ton awaiting my execution which is set
Tor this day and realizing the import
ance to the liberty of other men and the
duty which conceive to be incumbent
upon myself standing in the presence of
death. where no human aid can reach
me, desire to communicate to you by
means or TINS letter some facts which I
deem would be of interest to people
through their president and perhaps be
the means on nberating innocent men
There are now three men in Santa ne
penirentlary serving sentences for the
robbery OF the United States mail at
Stems Pass. Arizona, in 1897, viz. Leon
A1bertson. Walter Huffman and PiU
Waterman. and they are as innocent Of
the crime as an unborn babe The
names of the men who committed the
crime are Dave Atkins. Ed BuIlfn. win
Carver, Sam Ketchum, Broncho Bill
and myself I have given to my attor-
ney in Clayton means by which articles
taken IN said robbery may be found
where We hid them and also the names
Of witnesses who live in that vicinity
who will testify that myself and gang
were in that neighbOrhOod both irnned-
lately before and after the robbery. The
1aet that these men are innocent and
are suffering, impels me to make this
confession
While you cannot help and while re-
2llze that all efforts to secure to me
communication OF my sentence have
Mignally failed. 7 wish to do this much
IN the interest of these innocent men
Vv1os 90 Tar as know, never committed
@ crime IN their lives. make this state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
RECEPTION 10 CONGER.
Citizens of Des Mo1nes Will Honor
Minister to China.

Chicago. April 26.-A special to the
Tribune from Des NIoInes, Ia, says:
The Iowa executive council today
passed a resolution granting to the cit
liens of Des AIoines the use of the
state house for a public reception to
Edwin H Conger, minister to China,
who has arrived at San Francisco and
will arrive in Des AIoines in a few days
The state house has never been used
before for a reception to other than
state officers and returning soldiers
A special train of II coaches viii leave
Des Moines for Council Bluffs on the
day of Minister Conger's arrival in
Iowa. Governor Shaw. Adjutant Cen
eral M II. Myers and other state Off
Gals will make up the reception CON -
mittee, with Major Hoyt Sherman, only
surviving brother to the late John Sher-
man, and prominent Des Moines men
Several hundred people from points all
through Iowa will make the trip to
Council Bluffs on the Conger special
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-26
AMERICANS BUTCHERED
By Order of the New Leader Of the
FiIininos

Manila, April 26.-It is reported that
the rebel general, Cailles, ordered eight
American prisoners to be shot April Fl,
the same day on which he condemned to
death Col. Sancio, one of his staff OFF,
GERS and Senior De La Rosa, a wealthy
native who had refused to contribute to
the insurgent fund. Sancio escaped
The others were tortured and then
butchered. Cailles, who is now lurking
in the mountains of Tayabas province,
Luzon, proclaifns himself dictator and
successor Of Aguinaldo and announces
his intention to continue a war Of ex-
termination.
It is said that Cailles was born in
Pondieherry, India his father being a
Frenchman and his mother a Hindoo.
It is also asserted that he formerly
registered as a French subject in Ma
Mia He is a typical guerrilla leader,
cruel, able, reckless and unrelenting.
AguinaIdo denounces him, disclaiming
responsibility for the previous atrocities
of Cailles and declares that he never is
sued orders contrary to the rules of war.