The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-16
SATURDAY.

lene and proceed to Island of SYRIA. Di-
plomatic relations between France and
Turkey restored.
Congressman Boutell conferred with
president on the proposition to change
treaty with Great Britain to permit
construction of ships on Great
Lakes.
Alabama voters declared for adoption
of the new state constitution.
Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdylke, the famous
army nurse, dies in Kansas and is bur-
led at Galesburg, Ill.
Ex-Governors Hill and Black present
arguments in the reopening of the
Molineux murder case in New York.
Miss Emma King of Brooklyn is in
oculated with bovine tuberculine virus
to test Koch's theory that human be-
ings are immune from such infection
An explosion in the Pocahontas mine
in Virginia, kills ten and Injuries 10
men.
Jeffries and Rubin contest at San
Francisco for heavy weight champion
ship.
L. W. Osborn, United States consul
general, dies at Apia.
Kitchener reports 63 Beers killed, 100
wounded and 104 taken prisoner since
November 4.
President Roosevelt places all insular
appointments under civil service rules
Fire in a big office building at Cleve-
land, o., causes the fatal injury of one
person and serious injury of several
others.
Coast of England swept by a fierce
gale that causes great damage to har-
bors and shipping. life boat with
sells destroyed. LOSS of life reaches
hundreds.
The blue Hope diamond is bought by
New York firm for $250,000.
A. NJ. Lawrence, managing editor
and H. s. Garfield, reporter Of the Chi
cago American, sentenced to 40 and 30
days in Jail for contempt.
Bishop Won Scheele, on behalf OF
King Oscar of Sweden, decorates DR..
Carl Swensson, of Bethany college,
Lindsborg, Kas., with Order of Northern
Star.
Bulgarian government insists that
the ransom for Miss Stone shall be paid
on Turkish soil and the prisoner deliv-
cred there.
Personal chickering's disturb the pro-
| ceedings of the federal convention in
Manila, and nrevent it from accomp-
fishing practical results.
Plot to swindle insurance company
| disclosed in confession following arrest
| at Louisville of Charles Rathbun,
I whose supposed body was shipped from
| that place to Little Rock, Ark.
Columbia university, is killed by fan
| from upper window of his New York
| house.
| Elevator man in a Brooklyn jute
plant makes five trips while the fac
| tory is burning and saves the lives or
| so women
| The Northwestern Securities COM
| pany with a capital of $500, O0O, 900, in
| corporated in New Jersey to take over
| the properties of the Great Northern
| and Northern Pacific roads
| Frank Thompson, the leader of the
| Fort Leavenworth prison mutineers,
recaptured near Council Grove, kas.,
| after battle with pursuers.
Postmaster General Smith asks for
$6,OOO,ooo for extension of rural mail de-
| livery.
| Testimony in Klusmire murder trial
| at Oskaloosa is completed.
| LOCAL SUMMARY.
Sheriff Cook is captured and held a
| prisoner for over three hours by es-
! capped convicts from the federal peni-
| Tertiary at the home of Sylvender
| Worcester near Pauline.
| Rev. A. Wyman of the Unity church
breaches a sermon in which he says he
| is opposed to the reading of the Bible
! in the public schools.
| Alonzo Wardell secures a restraining
| order to prevent the consolidation of
| the National Aid society and the Bank
| ers' Union of Omaha.
| County commissioners decide to at
tempt to collect $4,021 unpaid personal
| taxes.
| Burglars get about 5000 worth of
| goods from the pawn shop of d. Cap
| land.
| Application is made of the county
| commissioners for a right of way
! through Shawnee county for an cleo
| trio line between Topeka and Lawrence
| The county commissioners receive a
| proposition from the city for the use
| of the fair grounds.
| Warren D. Gill, the captain of the
| Washburn football team marries Miss
| Nellie Bassett at Arkansas City
| w. S. Hancock, of the reform school
| resigns after three years service.
The Mcleod Brothers automatic
scale factory is to be brought to To-
| peka.
Rev. Geo. A. Gates arrives in Topeka
but says he is undecided whether to
| accept the presidency of Washburn
college or Pomona college at Los An
| geles, Cal
| Governor Jenkins, of Oklahoma, stops
| in Topeka on his way to Washington.
| Kansas Association of Charities and
Corrections met in Topeka this week
A new equal suffrage society embrace
ing many prominent society women of
| Topeka has been organized.
| A B. Hulett is organizing a COM
\ of Old Mexico.
1 Governor Stanley refuses a pardon
for Z. H. Mikesell of Fort Scott who is
| serving a sentence to shield his wife.
| Harry and John Croft are convicted
in Justice Disney's court on the charge
| of selling liquor and are fined $500
| each and sentenced to 60 days in jail
| each.
Fireman Fred Slusser, of Topeka,
and Roy Ream of Usage City, were
killed in accident on the Santa Fe
| at Usage City.
The application for a pardon for EN-
NETT Dalton is withdrawn.
Years of suffering relieved in a night.
Itching piles yield at once to the cura-
| tive properties of Doan's Ointment.