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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-06
LEE LINE STEAMERS.
GRAND EXCURSIONS NOW ON

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Including Meals and Berth.
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The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
ON MURDER BENT.
Crazy Jeweler Shoots His Clerk
and His Own Family.

Turner's Falls, Mass, Dec. 31-Louis
Bitter, a jeweler of this place, today
shot five persons, two of whom, his
clerk Miss Ida Columbe and Bitzer' 5
5-year-old son, are dead. His other
victims were his wife Christiana and his
two daughters, Annie, about 16 years
of age and Carrie, IL years old. 1t is
dence that it was Bitzer's purpose also
to take his own life, but his prompt
arrest apparently prevented him from
carrying out this purpose. He is about
35 years of age.
From a note left in his store by Bit
zer, it appears that while he was clean
ing a revolver the weapon was dis
charged accidentally and the bullet hit
Miss Columbe in the head, killing her
instantly. Overcome by the situation.
Bitter apparently rushed to his home,
hatless and wild with excitement and
family. The little boy, i'll in bed with
the measles was shot and killed.
The 16-year-old daughter Annie was
wounded through the left hand and in
the ear. The 12-year-old daughter was
shot through the neck, Mrs. Bitter was
hit in the face, the bullet passing
through the nose.
The sound of the shots brought neigh
bors into the house and Bitter was ar
rested.
The police believe that Bitter is in
sane. The note which they found in his
incoherent tumble of words. After tell
ing of the shooting of Miss Columbe,
Bitter wrote that he had determined to
go to his home and end the lives of his
wife and children and his own. He
asked that at his funeral the hy1nn,
Substantially the same story was told
by Bitter after his arrest.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

The sneak thief takes things easy
Sense and beauty. like truth and now
city, are rarely combined.
Postage stamps are egotisticaI when
they get stuck on themselves.
Actions may speak louder than words,
but they don't lie as loud.
The pessimist is always throwing cold
water on the optimistic fire of genius.
A wise man speaks we'll of his friends,
and of his enemies he speaks not at all.
Wrinkles tell the story of age to those
who are able to read between the lines
A man who loved and won says that
the best man at a wedding isn't the
groom.
There is a vast difference between
second thoughts and secondhand
thoughts.
Much Of mans unhappinesz is due to
his getting what he expects. but doesn't
want
When people fly from the ills they
have they should not fail to secure a re-
turn ticket
Time is money to the unfortunate
wrong-doer who is engaged in working
out fine.
It's a lucky thing for the average
man that he doesn't know some of the
things that other people know about
him.
The masculine animal doesn't cut
much ice from the time females cease
to slobber over him as an infant until
they begin to kiss him as a man
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31

before the government should go into
the business of receiving small deposits
for safekeeping. After that should be
done. Secretary Gage said, it would be
proper to consider the establishment OF
a postal savings system
BY act of congress gold has been
made the standard of value in the
United States. The action which Secre-
tary Gage considered a condition pre-
cedent to the practical consideration of
postal-bank legislation was taken
shortly after his letter to Senator VOL
colt was written, yet nothing has been
done toward providing adequate saw
means, Notwithstanding the fact that
the need for such facilities is continual
ly growing greater. The reason for in
activity on this subject is to be found.
no doubt, in the fact that the attention
of succeeding congresses was engrosseo
with the Spanish-American war and
the problems growing out of that con-
flict. But outside matters ought not to
continue forever to monopolize the at
tention of the nations lawmakers to
the exclusion of problems of dom este
concern. It is time for congress to
give heed to the need for legislation in
the interest of the great masses of the
people. who would benefit from the
establishment of the postal savings
bank system. The friends of this meas
ure in congress should bestir them
selves with a view to securing early
action. 1t would be a great thing to
force the bill to roll CALL If only in
one branch of the national legislature.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

Lr ToAu tue 1n1laOelpu1d f1eCOTQ-l
Short sighted-little people.
The lamp-post stands in its own
light
Strange as 1t may seem, the busy
body is a very idle person
A friend in need is a friend-who US
ually wants to borrow a flyer.
It may sound funny. but the load
makes the cargo before the train
starts.
The poet who writes about a frown-
ing precipice must be thinking of the
brow of a hill.
If a man doesn't believe that time Is
money he wants to examine his pocket
book after he's had little time
"Outra geousi" exclaimed the sympa-
thetic visitor. You say you were ar
rested for doing nothing?'' Yep, LADY,
replied No. ALTA. Il kin prove that
I hadn't been workin' fer years"
When WHEY asked Jones for a toque
He groaned- The poor fellow was
broque.
; To get that chapeau
He knew he must geau
And put his new raglan in soque.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.


"A woman hates to be known as isis. !"
What has become of the old fashioned
corpse that snelt of camfire?
Notice that you seem to be ''in the
way oftener than you used to be
That is one of the signs of old age
We know a great joke on a dead
man, but probably no one would care
to hear it, now that the funeral Is
over.
An Atchison old girl, who has worked
down town for years, lately surprised
everybody by making a lot of home
made mince meat.
A man will cheerfully carry the basket
for a woman to the picnic, but walk
off and leave her to clear up the debris
after the picnic is ended.
There are some women so persistent
that their husbands have to eat up
everything on the table to prevent
them appearing again and again
The women are becoming so fashion
able that the turkey gets the surprise
of his life the day after Christmas at
finding himself in croQuettes, instead OF
the proverbial hash.
What do you think about the
Schley matter?" asked a reporter of
DR.. Boyle this morning. ''Schley
wanted an investigation" replied Dr.
Boyle. 'and it looks as if he got it"
The good things of this life never
seem more unfairly divided than when
a man gets up from a Sunday dinner
and walks away with a cigar in his
mouth, and the women folks have to do
the dishes
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
AND THEN he FELL
German With Long Name Is
Arrested For Fraud.
His Game Was the Usual One Of
Giving Checks.

August Bruno Thunig, Won der Kldg.,
distinguished foreigner who neatly
Unclaimed several merchants at Perry,
Jefferson county, a few days ago, has
met his Waterloo. His Wellington was
deputy sheriff. 1t was reported to-
day at noon that he had been captured
at Alma, WabaunSee county, and was
at the services of Deputy Sheriff
Thompson of jefferson county.
This titled" prisoner is a piano tuner
Dy trade, and a faker by practice. AT
Perry he opened the ball by lending his
able assistance to a protracted meeting
then In progress, and he sang the hymns
OF grace and adde his flowery supplica-
tlons to the voices of the saved. When
Christmas came, he began to do the
gallant act among the sisters of the
church, widows preferred. He had de-
posted at the bank a draft for $500 on
the German consulate at st. Louis, and
he got in his work by purchasing pres
ents for the Sisters, giving checks
against his deposit, and it Is written
that he never failed to keep der
change
For one widow he purchased a Sc
rocking chair. giving a check for s25.
1t was here that he met the genial Mr..
Joseph Groll, of Topeka, at the hotel
meet one who could successfully man
age the mother tongue, and he culti-
waited the acquaintance. The dinner
closed with an invitation by Mr.. Groll
distinguished and titled" foreigner fol-
lowed, and in day or two he called at
Mr.. Grolls office. 42o Kansas avenue,
and told the story of his life.
he was SO prone to divu1ge his remark
able story that his host became suspicious
and escaped being member of the class
or victims. He said that he had at one
time owned and operated a magnificent
music store IN Baltimore valued at $4,000
in cold, concentrated cash, but, Alas one
day a fire came along and his insurance
had expired. But, Achi He once
more coming to the fore and would short
ly fall heir to a large and juicy bunch
of marks from relative in der Waiter
land, 1eipSic- He expected it daily and
haunted the postoffice. Finally he be-
came acquainted with A. Ahlstrom, 1905
West Sixth avenue, who introduced him
to the Bank of Topeka, where he deposit
ed draft on a Chicago bank for $500. But
he failed to make draw his deposit,
as something occurred to scare him away.
The bank at Perry sent the draft they
had on hand to the St Louis consulate.
who wired them that it was IN. G. Dep
uty Sheriff Thompson has been working
on the case and Sheriff Frye of Alma
cOrralled Thunig today.
The distinguished wore elegant
whiskers a bald spot on his head and a
military bearing and claimed to have
been captain of the Imperial forces in
his youth
The draft and check game seems to
have been a popular one with him and
rumors of his disastrous visits are float
ing in from several directions
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
LAUNCHING THE HANNA BOOM

The Hanna boom for the presidential
nomination in 1904 appears to be fairly
launched The newspaper correspon-
dents in Washington usually keep in
close touch with the undercurrent of
national politics and in large numbers
they have decided that willingly or un-
willingly Senator Hanna is candidate.
The preponderance of evidence appears
to be on the side of his willingness to
make the race but nobody pretends that
ne wants anything said about it at this
time.
The letter of the Boston Transcript
correspondent to his paper is a fair
sample of what many are writing home
concerning the Hanna candidacy. Fol-
lowing is an extract:
THE duty of relating what is going
on tmpels the Transcript correspondent
TO tell of the strong undercurrent of
feeling that has developed here in favor
OF Mark Hanna's nomination for the
presidency in 1904 should there be any
administration between now and that
time In fact Mr.. Hanna is already
the residuary legatee of the mistakes,
actual or fancied of Mr.. Roosevelt
Those persons who go away from the
White House 5isgruntled for any rea-
son by the straightforward methods of
sistence upon high ideals of the public
service. at once set up the image of Mr..
Hanna in their inner temples of re-
Election They realize that he symbo-
Lies with the American people the ad-
miniStration of the late President Nc
kfnley and that if President Roosevelt's
nomination is to be prevented at all, it
must be by conjuring a contrast be-
tween the smoothness with which affairs
ran under the late president with per-
maps the jerkiness, in some quarters
at least, of the present regime. Those
who are dissatisfied with Roosevelt re-
alize that this is their only card to
play; to turn to Fairbanks, or Spooner
or any of the others who might have
been regarded as presidential possibili-
ties to succeed Mckinley had he lived
would now be fruitless- The Repub1i-
can nomination in 1904 will go to either
Roosevelt or Hanna provided the two
men are then alive: it will go to the
former if his administrati ton has been
a success as the politicians and the
public reckon success; and to the latter
If for any reason Mr. Roosevelt, judged
by the same standards, fails. A finan-
cal panic between now and 1904 might
by the same sign. mean Hanna"
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
A PROMINENT HOTEL MAN.
An Interesting Letter is Given Verbatim

Mr.. Lafe d. Weathers is well known
throughout the central portion of the
United States as an obliging and eff
cient hotel man, as all those can testify
who knew him as associated with the
management of the Spencer House, In
dianapolis, Ind. He is now manager of
the Hotel Enterprise in that city. I'm
der date of November 18th, 1899, he
writes as follows: Pepsin Syrup Co.,
Dear Sirs: We have been keeping
house for five years and are never with
out DIR. Caldwelrs Syrup Pepsin. We
find nothing to equal it for stomach
troubles, and my children like it as well
as candy. Ont night recently my wife
was giving a dose to our baby az
years old) and Media, our little girl
a years old) cried for some too. Her
mamma told her she didn't need 1t and
then she said, cant lick the spoon ?s'
1t is so pleasant to take. The effects
are so good we hate to be without DR..
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. Yours truly,
Lafe D.. Weathers, Manager Enterprise
Hotel
DIR. Caldwe1Ps Syrup Pepsin is sold by
most druggists in soc and s100 bottles.
Positively cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Constipation, Billiousness, Sleepless-
ness, Liver and Kidney disorders and
Malaria Put up only by Pepsin Syrup
Co., Monticello. Ills, U. S. A
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
KANSAS RAISES SUGAR.
Nearly 1000 Tons of Sugar
Beets Produced This Year.

Kansas farmers in the sugar belt"
produced upwards of 1880 tons or sugar
beets which were available and used for
sugar purposes the past year the sec
retary of the state board of agriculture
has certified to the state auditor rs APP
proved claims for the bounty offered by
the last legislature for sugar beets,
which he has verified He still has u
few other claims which ne will verify
and certify to the state auditor before
tomorrow night, the date on which all
claims must be in. The claims OF these
rs farmers aggregate $1,746-36
The bounty offered by the legislature
is one dollar a ton up to five thousand
tons If there had been more than that
amount this year, the $1,000 offered
would have been prorated.
The law provides that all the claims
must be in by December 81, and the ap-
preparation is then available on January
the claims are in, so that it can be
ascertained whether or not it Will be
necessary to prorate them.
The force in the state auditors ofhce
sugar beet raisers Immediately after
January l. and they will be forwarded
to them at once. Some of the warrants
will aggregate considerable sum, while
is all clear gain and will doubtless
greatly increase the sugar production in
the Arkansas valley next year
According to the terms of the law
$1,000 is available this year and 5000
next year. but that part of this year s
appropriation which is not used this
year will still be available next year.
AS there is less than $500 used this
year, there will be available for next
years bounties s., 200 in addition to the
$1,000 appropriated for next year, OF
enough for bounty on $500 tons of
beets, five times this years crop.
1t is quite possible that nearly If not
quite, all of that sum will be utilized
next year. The most of those VINO
raised the beets this year, following the
directions given by the factory, made
such a success of it that they are pre-
pairing to try still harder next year,
and their numbers will be greatly in
creased
The great difficulty which western
Kansas farmers encounter in raising
sugar beets is to raise them on q small
enough scale that they can properly
care for them. Men who are used to
raising two hundred or three hundred
acres of alfalfa, and grazing cattle on
a range of a thousand or two acres
cannot get down to the idea of culti-
waiting five, or ten, or fifteen acres, and
doing it very carefully. This is an
essential in raising sugar beets. but it
seems to most Kansas farmers too
much like truck gardening. The net
returns from ten acres of beets, how
ever, may be as great as from forty
acres Of wheat, and the labor is not as
great.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
MIRROR, SCALES, ETC.
There was a man. And h

There was a man. And his
mirror said sallow skin. y
And the scales said losing
weight" And his friends did
wag their heads as he passed
by. But being a prudent man
he forthwith swallowed daily
certain pleasant doses of SCOTS
Emulsion.
Then his mirror said "ruddy
face" And the scales sunk
beneath his weight. And his
friends looked upon him with
amaze.
(NorE.-This is no fable-but is true
history,
Wen send you little to try, If you like.
SCOTT BOVINE. 4os Pearl street. New York.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
A ROUND SlO0, 600, 600
Cages Estimate OF Surplus For
the Calendar Year.

Washington, Dec. 31.-'The treasury
is in a condition of unexa1npled
strength" said Secretary Gage today
when asked to review briefly the treas
ury situation at the close of the year.
only month ago, in my annual re-
port to congress, I reviewed these con-
ditions. The figures for the last month
have made but little change For the
calendar year we show receipts in ex-
cess of the ordinary expenditures
amounting roundly to one hundred mil
lion dollars. Such an excess might have
resulted in serious embarrassment had
not the department been able by means
OF this surplus to reduce the public debt
in large amounts. Since April 1 last
the treasury has redeemed and cancelled
United States bonds to the par value of
S,174, 700, which have been applied to
the sinking fund, and the disbursement
resulting therefrom was $72,226, 845. The
available cash ON hand is therefore only
about $50 000.0 600 larger than the amount
held year ago.
Comparing the situation as it is to-
day with April 1, 1897, the result is most
gratifying. On the latter day the treas
ury held money of all kinds to the
amount of $3.50, 900, including $780,,
100000 as a gold reserve, leaving, there
fore $150000,000 as cash balance. To-
day in money cf all kinds, the treasury
holds 1896, ,659, 900 and if we deduct the
150,o00,O00 now held as a gold reserve
the balances stands at $146, ,000,0 900 or
1,
1t will be seen therefore, substantial
equilibrium has been maintained.
There has been very material in
crease in the volume of money in circu-
lation since March 1, 1897, as well as
in the amount per capita. The volume
of money on that date, outside the treas
ury, was $1,675, ,694, 1888, and the amount
per capita was $23.14. On the first of
December last the amount of money
outside the treasury was $2,250, ,256. .230
and the amount per capita was S28.73.
The increase in the amount therefore
was s574, $751; PIT, and the increase per
capita was $3.50.
1.-THE amount of gold coin and gold GER
tihcates in circulation increased from
3 ed1 on MaqSh 9d lSsd 70 S
money in circulation is greater in amount
now than March l. 1897 with the sin
gle exception of the treasury notes of the
act of July IA, 1880. The amount of these
in circulation December !, 1901, was only
$40, OH 622, as against sS5, ,621 on March
1, 1887: This reduction in volume grows
out of the natural opera ton of the act
of July IA. 1890, and the act of March ID,
1900
THE increase in the amount of national
bank notes in circulation during the
period in question was SS2, 132, 731 This in
crease is mainly attributable to the act
O March 1900
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
sOCkLER IS SUED.
City Board of Education Brings
Action For IS, 800.

The board of education filed suit In
the district court today against the
bondsmen of Charles E. Sockler, con-
tractor for the Lowman Hill school
building. for $4,000 for failure to fulfill
contract.
The suit is against the United States
Fidelity and Guarantee company Of
Baltimore. Sockler was to complete the
Lowman Hill school building by Octo-
ber TO- 1t is not yet finished The con-
tract price was $13, ,765 There are sew
eral large bills unpaid by Sockler
amounting to about $40 600, which it is
claimed is So 800 more than is due him.
The suit was brought by Gleed, Ware &
Gleed.
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
BACKS POSTAL REFORM
President Roosevelt Sustains
Second -class Mail Ruling.

Washington, Dec 31.-Publishers who
are making war on Mr.. Madden, third
assistant postm aster general. on ac-
count of his activity in enforcing the
regulations concerning second-class
mail privileges, will not secure relief,
whether Mr.. Madden remains in the de-
partment or not. President Roosevelt
today announced his approval of the re-
form in this direction, that has been
pushed by the postOffice department..
and declared his intention of continu-
ing the policy, regardless of who occu-
pies official positions in the poStoffice
department.
This announcement of the president
was made to Chairman Loud, of the
house committee on postofhces and post
roads. who called upon the president to
urge the retention of Mr. Madden in
his official position. The president gave
close attention to Mr.. Loud's showing
that benefits had been derived by the
prosecution of the second-class mail re-
form, and also to his explanation of the
character of the attacks that are being
made upon Mr.. Madden and the post
master general by the publishers VINO
have suffered by the adoption of the
regulations. At the conclusion of the
conference, the president stated that he
unqualifiedly approved of the regula-
ton adopted by the department. He de-
sired that the regulation be continued
in force during his administration, no
matter who was in charge of the post
The question of restricting the second
class mail privileges has been before
congress and the postoffice department
for years. 1t has been presented in bills
which always failed of passage. and
nothing was accomplished until Mr..
Smith, the postmaster general, decided
that the matter could be controlled by
a department regulation. Mr.. Madden
has been active in its enforcement The
regulation was adopted after Attorney
General Knox had investigated the legal
phases. and decided that the matter
could be covered by a department regu-
lation, making the passage Of a congress
sional act unnecessary. Publishing
concerns ruled out of the second-class
malls have sought the aid of counsel to
restrain the postmaster general. but the
attorney generals construction of the
law remains unchallenged in the courts
Mr.. Loud also expressed his oppoSl-
ton, in his conference with the pres1-
dent, to the penny postage proposition.
He stated that the adoption of a penny
postage system would. in his Judgment,
cause a deficiency of at least $35, 100000
annually. He argued that the adoption
of the system would be unwise at this
time, when efforts were being made to
place the department on a self-sustains
ing basis
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31
BELT LINE SOLD.
Hartman Gould interests Buy Still
well Terminals at z. @.

Kansas City, Dec. S1.-The Kansas
City Suburban Belt railway, the Con-
Solidated railway terminal and the
Kansas City and Independence Air line
were sold at auction here today by
Shannon c. Douglass, special master in
chancery, for an aggregate of $2,050, 900,
to Max Pam of New York, representing
the Harriman-Gould interests, who
made the only bid. They will be used
as terminals for the Kansas City South
ern railway. They were all originally
promoted by Arthur r. StilIwen. The
Guardian Trust company gave notice
that they held notes amounting to $780,,
600 against the properties.
Later in Kansas City, Kan, two steel
bridges and packing house terminals
belong to the Union Terminal company,
were bid in by Max Pam, for 81. .50O. 900
The Topeka state journal., 1901-12-31

HardfoI Courant: Justice Brewers 8
address at the New England dinner in
Philadelphia was. largely. an emphatic
Amen" to Secretary Hays address at
the Chamber of Commerce dinner in
New York The patriot of the bench
takes his place by the side Of the pat
riot of the state department. He, too,
says to the country that it is far too
strong nowadays to be either a coward
or an oppressor. He, too, says that the
American diplomacy of the Twentieth
century must be as frank as sunlight