The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-02
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
London, Oct. 2-The Bank of Eng
lands rate of discount was increased
from to per cent today.
Belfast. Ireland. Oct. 2.-The Duchess
of Manchester, who was Miss Helena
Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, gave birth
to a son this morning at Tanderagee
castle, County Armagh. Both the moth
er and child are doing well.
Chicago. Oct. 2.-P M. Arthur. grand
master of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers, and % members of that
order held a session behind locked door 9
at the Sherman house last night. we
are discussing matters pertaining to the
order, and do not care to say anything
regarding it." was the only statement
given out.
Webster City, Ia, Oct. Edward E.
Mcneil has been sentenced under Iowa's
new inebriate law to one year in the in
ebriate ward of the Mount Pleasant
conviction of the kind in this section Of
Iowa.
Kansas City. Mo. Oct. Mrs. B. F.
James, mother of Louis James. the ira
gedian, is dead at her home at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, according to a telegram
received in this city. Louis James now
is at Vancouver. B. c.
Marietta, O., Oct. 2-Tne Wabash sys-
tenn closed negotiations last night for
the Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland
railroad, 43 miles in length, Marietta to
Paios, where It reaches the Toledo &
Ohio Central The consideration is $780,
600 The Wabash will use the road in
connection with its seaboard lines.
Butte Mont. Oct. 2.-Advices tell of
another murder in the New Fork coun-
try in Wyoming as a result of the en-
nifty existing between the cattle and
sheep men over grazing rights 7on the
range. This IS the third murder in a
month. The victims decomposed body
was found in the brush and identity
could not be established.
Buda Pest. Hungary, Oct. 2.-The
Hungarian and Austrian governments
have failed to agree on all the points
of the proposed renewal of the agree
ment as to the cost each is to bear for
the administration of their common af-
fairs. The Hungarian ministers will
leave Vienna today and the Austrian
ministers are expected here shortly,
when it is hoped an agreement will be
reached.
New York, Oct. 2.-Rev. DR.. WILDER
P. Ferguson, pastor of st. IulSe's Meth.
odist Episcopal church of Newark, has
resigned and will go to San Diego, Cal,
where he will occupy the pulpit of the
First Methodist church.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 2.-Advices from
Kharbin say that the Russian troops
are beginning to evacuate South Man
churia.
London. Oct 1.-The breaking of a
rope attached to a car which was
ascending the shaft of coal mine at
Pontia Pool, Wales, precipitated the
car, which contained eight men, three
hundred yards to the bottom. All were
instantly killed.
Manila, Oct. 2.-Frederick C. Jackson,
captain and assistant surgeon United
States army,is dead of morphine poison
ing. The circumstances surrounding
his death are not known.
London, Oct 2.-Andrew Carnegie has
donated ST. 500 to the Union for Women
Students of st. Andrews, of which in
stitution he is rector.
WEATHER rs UNCERTAIN.
The Temperature Is Still Uncomfort-
ably Low, However.
The weather forecasters are not GER
tain Just what kind of weather Kansas
may have during the next "a hours.
The forecast sent out today is I'm
settled tonight and Friday with prob
ably showers" The wind this morn
ing was northeast, blowing six miles
an hour. The minimum temperature
was 81, and the rain did not make spots
enough on the sidewalk this morning to
be called a rain. The hourly tempera-