The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-22
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wilkesbarre. Pa. Oct. ALEXANDER
Dongowski, a discharged miner, was ar
rested today charged with being one of
the men who placed dynamite under
the house of Mine Superintendent
Reese Morgan and wrecked it.
Boston, Oct. 22.-Russia's latest Amer
lean built battleship, the Retzivan, was
put through her PAGES over a ten mile
measured course off the Isle of Shoals
and under natural draft, attained a
speed over a twenty mile course, accord
ing to her builders of 1871 knots perhour,
one-hundredth of a knot over her con-
tract speed
Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 22.-Booker t.
Washington's private secretary at Tus-
kogee telegraphs the Morning Age Herald
as follows: Mr.. Washington wired me
from Washington Saturday afternoon
that if any purported interviews are
published in the south coming from
him they are to be absolutely denied, as
he has positively and firmly refused to
discuss with any one the Roosevelt din
ner incident
Columbia, S. c., Oct PA report
comes from Hampton of the lynching of
an unknown negro who committed
burglary in the residence of Dr. Hepler.
The man was run down with dogs and
hanged.
Cleveland, o., Oct 22-The first per-
Torrance of the dramatization of the
novel of alice of Old Vincennes" was
given at the Euclid Avenue opera house
success. Virginia Harmed was the star.
London, Oct. 22.-The Daily Express
learns that Lord Kitchener has wired an
urgent demand to the war office for
more trained mounted men.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 22.-Henry
Mcdonald Sedley. of New York, a
Sheffield scientist school freshman. has
been arrested charged with the murder
of Edward Corrigan, of Willimantic,
Conn.,, but Coroner Mix, after a prolOng-
ed hearing, ordered the charge changed
to breach of the peace, and ssedley was
released on $1,000 bond. Sedley and Cor
rigan were scuff1ing in a lunch wagon
yesterday morning and Corrigan fell
down the stairs. receiving injuries from
which he died.
Indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 22.-It is not
likely. that Governor Durbin will
nounce his decision in the matter of the
last requisition of Governor Beckham.
of Kentucky, for the extradition of
Messrs. Taylor and Finley until after
the trial of Caleb Powers, which is now
in progress in Georgetown.
Edinburgh. Oct. 22.-Lord Rosslyn has
formally Withdrawn the action for di-
vorce which he brought against the
countess in February last.
Vienna, Oct 22-The failure of the
Boiden credit bank at Odenburg,
Hungary, led to a singular suicide.
Manager Schladerer, whose extensive
defalcations caused the failure. made
confession to his wife, who handed him
a pistol and advised him to kill himself
which he did. His wife will be arrested
as an accessory to the act.
Chicago, Oct 22.-Dr. ]. F. Berry,
general secretary of the Epworth
league and editor of the Epworth Her
aid, is seriously i'll of pneumonia at his
home in this city. The doctor has been
on the verge of a nervous collapse for
several months as a result of over
work.
Havana, Oct 22-Two men convicted
of murder will be executed by the gar
rotte next Wednesday. These will be
the first executions since the occupa-
ton of the island by the United States.
Madisonville, KY, Oct. 22.-Early to-
day Rev. Eugene Harralson, pastor of
the M. E. church (south) here, shot
and killed negro named Jim Lewis.
Mr.. Harralson heard some one trying
to break into his house and fired. The
jury returned a verdict of justidable
homicide.
Cincinnati, Oct 22.-The Daily An
zeiger and the Daily Zeitung, evening
German papers, were today purchased
by Colonel Max Burgheim and merged
into the Daily Abend Presse. the af-
ternoon edition of the Der Erie Presse.
This means that there will be only one
German afternoon paper here in place
of three.
Boston, Oct 22.-Two of the leading
banks of Boston, the Shoe and Leather
National and the National Bank of Re
demption, each with a capital of ST.
600. 900, have decided to consolidate.
Cork, Oct Pit is announced that
Richard Croker has sent $500 to the
Cork international exposition fund.
Washington, Oct. 22.-The court de-
MED the application of the government
for a rehearing of the case of Frank M.
Fairbanks VS.. the United States, involv-
ing the tax on expectation of lading
under the war revenue act Applica-
ton was made for hearing the case of
the state of Kansas VS. Colorado on
February 4.