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The Appeal., 1901-09-21
ST. PAUL. D
a WEEKS RECORD IN MiNNESo-
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The SANITY City and SANITY City Folks
Newsy Items Of Social, ReHgiour and
General nIatters Among the People, Boil
ed Down &f5
The Appeal., 1901-09-21

lie Roy Roberts will call on adj de-
linquent subscribers of THE AP:
PEAL. Please don't disappoint him,
! as this is his first attempt at collect
: ing money. -s~-~ - -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
NEWKIRk ABLAZE.
Fourteen Houses Burned in
Business Part of the Town.

Newkirk, Ok, Nov. 16.-Late yester
day afternoon fire broke out here and
IA business houses were burned. The
estimated loss is about $50, 900. The
buildings were all frame and mIyly
were built when the country was set
tied eight years ago.
The fire originated in the room over
Wards restaurant, three doors from
the south end of the block. Nearly ev-
cry business house in town is lighted
by gasoline lamp. A man makes the
rounds of the town each day and cleans
these and in the evening lights them.
He was filling a lamp over Woods rest
aurant when companion struck
match near the gasoline can The can
exploded and soon the second floor was
in flames. The lamp was thrown out
of the building and young man named
Carl Matthews rushed in to get the
can. He was overcome by the smoke
and fell across the burning oil. In a
moment he was ablaze, but was carried
out by Marshal Woodin. He is badly
burned, but will recover.
The fire quickly consumed the three
or four buildings south of the corner
and the flames ate slowly to the north.
Unsuccessful attempts were made to
blow up buildings in the middle of the
block The occupants of the buildings
at the north end of the block tried TO
move their stocks into the streets, but
the great bulk of the stuff is a loss.
There is no fire protection owing to
the lack of waterworks plant The
fire department of Arkansas City sent
men with chemicals, but were of little
use, however, owing to the start already
gained by the fire The buildings
the west side of the street, many of
them two and three-story and of stone,
were saved Blankets were saturated
with salt water and hung over the
fronts of the buildings. Men then kept
the front of the buildings wet with wa
ter DaSSed in buckets.
The insurance on the burned build
ings is small, as the rates were very
high.
The following is a list of the mer-
chants burned out and their estimated
loss:
Gavier & Tanner, saloon, 81 900; Pat
terson's restaurant, $1,000; Wards rest
aurant, $500; Wetmores cigar store,
$500; Belger's barber shop, $500; Haus-
ems bakery, $1,000. including stored
flour; Arcade saloon, $1,200; Porter Hol-
loway, restaurant, $3.50; Crabb's barber
shop, $500; ST. Joe saloon, 81 900; Keis-
ter's meat market. 81, 800; Cyclone rest
aurant, s., $50; Small & Moore, grocery
and dry goods, $500; Lukin's shoe
store, s., 500; Lennie Sears, saloon, $1,000;
Blue Point eating house, $1,000; Kings
general merchandise, $12, 900; Scofield's
double store. clothing adm general mer-
chandise, $14, 600 The loss on the Ia
buildings is placed at $4,000.
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seen to enter the constellation of
Hydra By accurate determination the
trail persisted for % minutes
Several good, large leonids were seen
at GOodsell
A NEW ASTEROID
Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 16.-The clip
teal elements of a new asteroid dis
covered in a photograph of the heavens
taken at Arquipa, Peru, August A. 1901
have been computed by Prof Simon
Newcomb, of Washington, and Miss
Anna Winlock. of Harvard university
The Photographic plate showed the as
teroid as having a declination of minus
60 degrees, or occupying such apposi-
ton that it had hitherto been unrecord-
ed by astronomers.
The preliminary circular orbit of the
asteroid showed its daily motion around
the sun to exceed 1900 seconds, thus
marking it as being nearer the sun
than any other asteroid previously
studied. 1t has also been found to have
a greater ellipticity than any other
known similar body.
When discovered the asteroid was al
most at its nearest point to the sum- or
about $50, 900, 900 miles distant from that
body Since then it has been moving
rapidly north and is now within reach
of the telescopes of Europe and the
United States.
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picks it up. In the evening the Potwin
car dumps it out for the Santa F'e car
to leave at the pOStoffice.
This seemingly careless way of throw
ing the pouches in the street is the
source of considerable wonder to many
people who do not understand why they
are there Many think the sacks have
been dropped by the mail wagon.
The other day a colored man threw a
sack over his shoulder, and started to
return it to the postoffice and had ia
ken few steps when the transfer man
called after him wildly, swinging his
arms and shouting that he would get IN
trouble if he meddled with Uncle Sam
mail One evening the first of the week
a man rushed into the State Journal
office and said: Telephone the post
office that one of the mail wagons has
dropped a pouch here in front of the
transfer station
The next morning another man saw
the sack and picking it up walked into
the State Journal office. After being
told why the mail was in the street the
man who thought he had served his
country well, sheepishly carried the
pouch back amid the broad grins of the
motor men and the wise ones who
knew.
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INCREASED EARNINGS.
Railroads Are Dong a Bigger Bust
ness Than Ever.

New York, Nov. 16.-R. G. Dun & Co. s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
A few months ago injury to the corn
crop aroused fears that the railways
would be seriously handicapped by the
loss of tonnage, yet the season of grain
traffic has failed to produce decreased
earnings, but there is such a scarcity of
rolling stock and motive power that nu-
merOuS industries are badly democrat
lied. Insofar as these interests are
concerned the reduction in corn freight
proves a blessing.
Railway earnings in October were IL 3
per cent. greater than last year and PIP
per cent over 1899, while those roads
reporting for the first week of Novem-
Der showed an average gain of 9-S per
cent A healthy demand is reported
throughout the country in all leading
lines of merchandise, while sales OF
winter gods have attained normal pro-
portions and holiday business promises
to surpass all records.
In manufacturing there was never
before such well sustained activity with
contracts running past the middle of
next year. This is especially true in
the case of steel rails and many other
products of iron, while in building ma
terial felt, footwear and most textile
branches there is little prospect of idle
ness.
Money circulates freely, making col
leetions satisfactory in most sections.
Bank exchanges in New York for the
week were 8.5 per cent larger than a
year ago and 32.1 per cent over 1899.
while at other leading cities the gains
were 1912 and 90 respectively.
Failures for the week number 215 in
the United States, against PIT last year;
and q in Canada, against SO last year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
BURNING IN MID=AIR
IN SIGHT OF HUNDREDS
Man AND Woman ON Live Wire
Ida Jantz, Looking Fire From Roof Falls Off and Hangs
Screaming in Agony Across Electric Wire-ThOmas H.
Bell, After Releasing Her. Losses His Balance and
Falls Upon the Same Wre-The Woman
Dies: He is Saved.

Cleveland, Nov. ia woman hang
ing in mid-air, screaming in agony,
held the gaze of hundreds of horror
stricken people who had gathered near
the Wright house on Ontario street.
Attracted by a slight fire in that
vicinity, a number of employees and
others got on the roof of the building
to see the blaze. Ida Jantz was one of
the number, and while looking over the
coping unthinkingly took hold of live
electric wire.
The shock from the heavily charged
wire threw her writhing over the edge
of the roof upon the wire and she hung
there while the crowd below looked on,
powerlesS to help.
School Director Thomas H. Bell was
near and saw the woman's terrible pre-
dicament. The only way he could reach
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her was by window overlooking On
tario street, and to this he rushed He
climbed out and up a fire escpae till
he was opposite the woman, who by
this time was unable longer to cry out
On a level with the roof, Mr.. Bell
reached out, and with great effort
raised her from the wire until she was
within reach of those above, who lifted
her senseless form over the coping.
But. when the strain was over, Bells
foot slipped. To save himself from a
frightful fall to the pavement he
grasped wildly and fell across the same
wire from which he had just rescued
the woman. The shock rendered him
powerless to move and he hung there
helpless while the silent, deadly current
enough to attempt his rescue, and it
was several minutes before the current
was turned off and he was removed to
a place of safety.
The woman died, but Mr.. Bell was
taken to the General Hospital, where
the doctors found him suffering from a
very severe nervous shock in addition
to being frightfully burned. A few
days later he was removed to his home
where he was confined for eleven
months. During the first three months
of his illness it was found necessary
to resort to skin grating in order to
heal his wound. His many friends re-
sponded and over three thousand pieces
of skin were used to cover over the raw
flesh. In speaking of his restora ton to
health. Mr. Bell said to an inter-
viewer:
MY recovery from the dreadful
shock, of course, was slow. I suffered
untold tortures. My nervous system
was complete wreck; had spells of
dizziness, and, when 1 attempted to
walk, a numbness came over my whole
body. My sleep was not at all restful
or natural and I always awoke tired
out My appetite was poor and at times
1 suffered from violent nervous head
aches. The powerful electric shock had
undermined my whole system. In spite
of the Doctors care I didn't seem to
improve. i had been idle a whole year
and grew anxious to return to my work,
but my condition remained so bad that
L was very much discouraged and
feared I would never regain my health.
Il heard of a case similar to mine
which DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People had cured. Then 1 determined
to try this medicine. BY the time
had taken half the second box I could
notice marked improvement. The
headaches disappeared, my nerves be-
came steadier and slept well. I took
the pills for a month and after 1 re-
sumed my work I continued till was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
METE0RlC SHOWER.
Hundreds of Flaming Stars Seen
From the ObserYatories.

Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 16.-The fol-
lowing description of the shower of
leonids as seen from Mount Low is
Furnished by Edgar l. Larkin, director
of the Mount Low observatory:
The first meteor was seen at 11:55
O'Clock and during the five minutes to
midnight four were seen and 653 from
midnight to $40 O'Clock Friday morning.
They all seemed to emerge from within
the sickle of the zodiacal constellation
Leo None was actually seen to come
out of it but their bright tracks pro-
aonged backward would converge there.
Many were of great brilIiancy-many
times brighter than Venus. They were
all white but thirteen which were white
tinged with red and two were quite red
About half left long, luminous streaks
which remained from half minute to
the usual length of "a minutes.
Meteor No 22S was perhaps the bright
est that passed the zenith 1t was re-
markable in brilliancy and width of
trail Its solid positions were dissipated
with cOSmic dust by friction against the
air and therefore did not explode The
meteor vanished into the trail midway
between Orion and Taurus The disrup-
ton of the glowing stream was at the
star OroniS. The detached mass moved
10 Aldebaran, eight degrees, where it
became faint and disappeared in the
brilliancy of the first magnitude.
Northtield. Mimi, Nov. 16.-Professors
and students of Carleton college re-
corded and charted over 1000 meteors
Thursday night The shower began
about 1880 p. and continued until
sunrise All meteOrS of any Importance
were charted upon specially prepared
charts The climax was reached at
6:1S:02. when brilliant meteor was
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nervous troubles with which thousands
of persons are afflicted. Only in his
case they were unusually severe. His
nervous system was wrecked-almost
beyond repair-and no medicine did him
any good until he tried Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People. They cured
him.
These pills have become famous all
over the world for their wonderful eff
cacy in cases of this kind. They have
cured when the trouble was as severe
as Mr.. Bells, and they cure lesser nerv-
Gus disorders without fail. Acting di
rectly on the nerves and blood. they
are an unfailing specific for such dis
eases as locomotor ataxia, partial pa
raIysis, St. Vitus' dance. sciatica, neu-
ralgia rheuma tism, nervous headache,
the after effects of the grip, palpitation
of the heart, pale and sallow complex
ions and all forms of weakness, either
in male or female. DIR. Williams. Pink
Pills for Pale People are sold by all
dealers or will be sent postpaid on re-
ceipt of price, so cents a box, or six
boxes for two dollars and fifty cents
(they are never sold in bulk or by the
hundred) by addressing DIR. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N Y.
These pills are not a purgative, and
contain nothing which could injure the
most delicate system.
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perfectly we'll. They certainly did won
ders for me and 1 take pleasure in rec
ommending Them
The above is a plain. straight-for-
ward statement of facts. The horrible
incident occurred on the evening OF
June II, 1895, and the story of it was
published by the newspapers at the
time. The sequel. which is known to
many and is told in Mr.. Bells own
words, cannot be doubted. He is well
known in Cleveland. not only through
his prominence in school matters, but
a hero-the man who risked his life
in vain attempt to save a woman
from a terrible death.
Mr.. Bells accident was not one of
the sort which falls to the lot of many
people, but the results that followed
were the same, ir kind, as the many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
POOR CHRISTIANS.
Unwise Feeding Makes Them.

Some people thought he was a funny
old man when he spoke at camp meet
ing on the subject of Lord Give Us
Sense" One of the first requisites for
living a peaceful upright, honest and
religious life. is food of the kind that
can be easily digested and that furnish
eS the rebuilding material for good
healthy brain and nerve centers.
It is absolutely out of the question
for a person to be peaceful, capable
and right minded when the brain is I'M
derfed, and the nerves wrecked from
lack of rebuilding elements they have a
right to expect from good food.
A person fed on meat, bacon, ham,
fried cakes, hot biscuits, sticky and
poorly cooked starchy oat meal and
wheat. may possibly have strong diges-
ton enough to handle these things and
be a happy, healthy Individual; but 80
people in 100 have not, and the result
is irritable poorly nourished, nervous
bodies, foul breath, and a general con-
dltion that prevents one from being
happy and contented. 1t is practically
impossible for such persons to be good
Christians.
The religion of common sense and
good food is the first religion that a
man or woman should cultivate, for
that condition makes possible thoughts
of a higher nature and a better grade.
There is a world of wisdom in the
saying of Ruskin, I'VE may be sure we
are not serving the Lord if we are not
happy ourselves" All should try to
build up a steady set of nerves and
get rid of dyspepsia, constipation, fiut-
terlng heart, weak nervous condition,
and train of terrors that come from
bad digestion and poor food They
should quit coffee absolutely. Take for
breakfast a little cooked or raw fruit,
a saucer of Grape-Nuts Food and a
cup of Postum Coffee. No meat OF
grease. You will have a clean. healthy
stomach for dinner and at that meal
have some meat and vegetables that
you can digest. Let your supper be the
same as your breakfast.
You probably don't need medicine
but you need the kind of food that
contains elements that rebuild the soft
gray matter in the brain and nerve
centers throughout the body.
It is up to YOU reader to put your
self right and make of yourself a hap
by. cheerful individual capable, and
showing forth the charm of life rather
than its terror and distresses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
PLAN Is QUEER.
Mail Sacks Left Unprotected on Kan
sas Avenue.

The mail for Potwin postoffice and
for station at Washburn is carried
out each morning by the cars. Outgo-
ing mail is brought back in the even
ing in the same way. The mail sacks
which go out on the Potwin line are
left in front of the transfer station by
the Washburn car which picks it up at
the postoftice on its return from the
Santa Fe depot. 1t is left between the
tracks, in the middle of the street I'M
til the Potwin car comes along and
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cine to drive away sickness and re-
store you to health. Within two weeks
was perfectly well, and now when any
OF my friends are sick, 1 advise them
to take Peruna. Sara McGahan.
Mr. Benjamin D. Bowers, tailor. cor
ner of Bank and Queen streets, Ottawa,
Ont. writes as follows:
Last winter I caught a severe cold
which seemed to settle all over me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

Miss Sara McGahan. 1877 Third street.
ALBANY, n. Y, writes:
"A few months ago 1 suffered with
severe attack of influenza. which moth
ing seemed to relieve. My hearing be-
came bad, my eyes became irritated
and feverish. Nothing seemed right,
and nothing L ate tasted good
Il do not know what Paruna is made
of, but know it is a wonderful med1-
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Shoot at Florence.

Florence. Nov. 16.-The gun club held
its annual autumn tournament. The
weather was ideal for the sport and the
sos of added money brought out a large
field of shooters Ed OBrien of Flor
ence carried off the high average honors
with score of 124 out of a possible 1876
E. w. Arnold of Larned, Kan, was Sec
ond with 119.
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iandthe
in written Washington, d. c.. -'
have
Il Will
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
The Skill of the
Cook

Is demonstrated to the family
through the medium of the
food she serves. Those cooks
show the greatest skill in
making delicious and whole
some hot-breads, cake and
biscuit who use the ROYAL
Baking Powder.
AfkaAa OCT. n<w scax
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16

The state binding Irvine plant will be-
gin operations on November rs. Sisal is
higher than last year and this fact will
probably make Irvine higher also.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-02-01
THE COUNTRY PAPER.
Cant See Much difference Between Poodle
Dog Editorial in IA Ci,y Da ly and
Notice OF n Big Cabbage
In IA Country Weekly

1t is fashion, I know, among city
folk to ridicule the country paper,
says reformed travelling man, but
have been regular subscriber to
the Unionville Banner for over thirty
years. There's one evening in a
week that I look forward TO with
zeet. That's Monday night whom I
light my old pipe, put on my slip
pers and lie back in the battered
rocker for musing and dreaming
over the Banner.
Yes, there it is, Hasn't changed
font of type, I guess, IN forty years.
Same old, queer job type. Same
old Washington press still grinds it
| out, I'll bet, as it did when T was O
freckled boy and used to hang
around the front door of the tumbling
rookery whore snowyhaired Editor
Moore used to be picking up tho type
or methodically scratching down the
fact that Miss Sallie Smith is visiting
friends in our neighboring burg; or
John LOTUS is preparing to build a
new barn. Most of the lumber is
already on the ground.
L turn to the front page first, of
course, and here, in my Local News
I ascertain that Miss Mary Stuart
has quite class of music pupils here
in town and also conducts class at
Fattonsburg. Miss Stuart has good
quality of musical talent. Why,
dear me, dear me! don't it beat all
how things do move! Why, I used
to 60 to the high school IN Union.
vile with Mary Stuart's mother.
And many time have I hung May
| baskets with her and then hung over
! the old white paling gate and held
her hand antii an ominous raising Of
I an nppel window indicated that a
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-02-01
GAMBLING IN COTTON.
Great Excitement In tho New York Cotton
Exchange Caused by January
''SIuceZe."
News and Courier.

New York, January 2S.--Never in
the knowledge of the oldest traders
has the cotton market shown the
abnormal conditions existing to day.
1t is no unusual thing to witness Il
"squeeze" at the end of the season,
but corner in January is some.
thing out of the ordinary. Yet a
January "squeeze" has been worry
ing shorts in the cotton market here
for some time past. Some believe
that the deal eliminated to day with
rise of 255 points; others believe
that the actual liquidation has not
been fully completed, and that, there
fore, there may be further sensational
developments. The market, beyond
the special attention given to Janu-
ary, has been almost lifeless.
Closing Saturday at 1920, Jan
uary opened this morning at 1890,
and advanced rapidly to 1875. The
market broke later to 1150, which
was the level at noon. The greatest
jumps were from 1880 to 12, from
1925 to 1850, thence to IL 7G. At
the latter point New York concern,
representing big New Finland inter
ests, commenced to sell right and
left, and little later Greek house
also sold. This stopped the rise and
the market sagged off to 11.5O. The
air was filled with rumors of cotton
to be delivered from Fall River, and
shipments are known to have been
made this morning by express, guar
anteed to be here in time for January
delivery. About 10000 bales Of
January changed hands before noon.
1t does not follow that long interests
was liqidated to this amount, as the
clique bought as we'll as sold. There
was sympathetic rise in February
and March, the former selling as
high as 900, and the latter 044,
while the excitement in January was
the greatest; but the general list
made a reluctant advance of only 3
and 6 points and ruled very dull.
During the rest of the afternoon
the cotton market ruled quiet, with
January closing at ,05. net ad
vance of S5 points for the day, and
the other months l point higher to
3 lower. In accordance with the
advance in january spot cotton sold
at IL cents-an advance of l 38
cents for the day.