The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SUMMARY.

TELEGRAPH SUMMARY.
Capt. Leary, first American governor
of Guam, dies in Boston.
Admiral SIMPSONS mental condition
is in a state of collapse.
senator Depew is married in Nice to
Miss May Palmer.
senator VIM. J. Sewell of New Jersey
dies, after an illness of two years.
Chinese court decides to engage an
Am rican adviser.
Operation is performed on General
Alger for relief of trouble caused by
gall stones. Patient rallies quickly.
Filipino insurgents on the Island of
Bohol surrender in a body.
Queen Alexandra unable to leave
London for Sandringham because of a
sudden illness.
Fire destroyed plant of Champion
coated paper works at Hamilton, o.,
causing a loss of $3.50, 600.
Chilli and Argentina sign a protocol
for the arbitration of their differences.
E. S. Maclay refuses to resign as an
mploy of the navy, and President
Roosevelt peremtorily orders his dis
charge.
Four lives lost by fire near Dubois,
Pa, and fifteen killed in a burning
market at Zacatecas. Mexico.
Six killed and ten injured in an acct
dent on the Coopersburg branch of the
Lehigh Valley Traction near
Allegheny, ia
General Kitchener sends brief details
of five fights, in which the British lost
upwards of 100 in killed and wounded.
Fighting forced by De We and Botha-
Grover Cleveland, who has been sick
for 1--WE weeks, is unable to move about,
govt having affected both his feet
Jury in Chicago finds Alexander Sui
livan guilty of conspiracy to assist
Bailiff James J. Lynch to escape justice
and imposes fine of 81, 200.
Ineffective British artillery to be
withdrawn from South Africa and only
trained volunteers to be accepted here
after.
Turkish government notifies natural
lied Americans at Beyrout, Syria, they
must their naturalization in
fifteen days or they will be expelled
from the country.
Pere Marquette car ferry No. 16
wrecked at harbor of Ludington, Mich.
Three men scalded by steam, one of
them fatally.
have discovered an absolute antiseptic
for all intestinal diseases, such as
cholera, typhoid fever and ~dysentery.
Governor Crane notifies the president
he could not accept offer of the treas
ury portfolio The president offers the
place to Ex-Governor Leslie M. Shaw
of Iowa, who accepts.
LOCAL SUMMARY.
At the call of Governor w. E. Stan
ley a meeting is held to form the pre-
liminary arrangements for a convention
to discuss the advantages of a reciprOc-
ity treaty between the United States
and Mexico, and urge action by con
gresS to secure such arrangements.
Mrs. George Mclaughlin is attacked
by an negro at the west ap-
preach to the Sixth avenue viaduct The
assailant has not been apprehended.
Curtis campaign buttons are put out
by A. K. Rodgers
Alice Beynon is granted a divorce
from Elmer G. Beynon in the Shawnee
district court.
Joseph Reed, an attorney, takes the
aurrel law to the supreme court for a
decision on its constitutionality, in the
habeas corpus proceedings to secure the
RELEASE of T. GTlU from the 0ifU
prison.
The following officers of the State
Teachers association were elected:
President, J. H. Hill, of the State Nor
NAL, Emporia; first vice president, ].
w. Wilson. principal of the Atchison
county high school,, dillingham;; second
tendent of the Arkansas City schools;
third vice president, w. F. Murray,
county superintendent of Kingman
county; auditing committee, john
lips county; r. V. Dyer, count super
intendent of Dickinson county, and ].
Ii: Adams, principal of the Ottawa
schools.
Six hundred people enjoy a Christmas
dinner at the Salvation Army head
quarters.
Kansas State Horticultural society
delegates meet here this week in annual
convention.
w. Fl. Davisson, division engineer of
the Rock Island here, is promoted to
the engineering department at Chicago.
Topeka millerS announce a shortage
of wheat
Mrs. Lon Townsend files in the
Shawnee district court a sensational
answer to the divorce proceedings in
stituted by her husband, Lon" Town
send.
A million dollars are spent in Topeka
for Christmas presents.
Gas is found on the farm of L. S.
Dolman three miles and a half from To-
peka.
The Populists of Kansas holds a con-
ference here this week
City officials begin to feel alarm for
the safety of the Sixth avenue viaduct
Governor Stanley that he
will not appoint sheriffs until January
IS.
Rev. j. f. Hill, travelling revivalist at
Quinton Heights,i is turned out for prac-
ticing hypnotism in securing converts.
Mrs. Carrie Nation breaks into the
meeting of the State Teachers associa