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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

Miss Beulah Lee entertained small
company informally today at her homo,
1121 Madison street for Miss Jane Rodg-
ers, inviting beside the guest of honor
Mrs. z. r. Taylor. Miss Mary Frost, Miss
Mary Walker, Miss Elsie Valentine, Miss
Emma Silver, Miss Mary Barkley and
Miss Sarah Beck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

Mrs. Murray Myers is entertaining
small company at cards this afternoon
for Mrs. ]. E. Kulp of Oberlin who is the
guest of Mrs. Bailey at the Governors
House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

The Golden Rule club will meet witt
Mrs H. U. Lincoln in Auburndale Fri
day afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

Everybody reads the State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

Miss leila Zellers is the hostess of
number of her little frinds at her home
1913 Lincoln street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-03

Consultation, Examina-
ton and Advice
FREE.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
New York Lawyer Declares
Harlem and Central Park
Titles Are Clouded
THE TRACT OF UNTOLD VALUE
Present Land Owners Not the Rishtfuf
Possessors of their Holdinss-Asso-
citation May Be Formed to Secure
Possession-Roosevelt One of the pi-
rect Heirs.
rect Heirs.

New York, May 5.-Mcst Of the land
;owners In Harlem are not rightful pos
SCISSORS of their holdings, according to
a lawyer in this city. The heirs of the
Dutch freeholders .of ESQ years ago.
some thousands in number, on authority
OF this lawyer are owners of Harlem, Of
| q large part of Central Park and of
about all of the water front property
lon East river, from Seventy fourth
street to Harlem river, along Harlem
river and down the Hudson to One
Hundred and Twenty-n;nth street The
present day value of the property is
conjectured to be $1,000, ,0oO,O 600. Proni-
nent among the descendants of the all
4 ileged rfghtful owners are President
Roosevelt, Governor Odell and Putnam
Bradlee Strong. In 1666167 the Duke of
York, thru Colonial Governor Nichols,
! gave grants and charters to twenty
three men who created the corporation
known as the town of New Harlem, and
| later further grants and patents were
issued to the twenty-three and to their
heirs, successors and assigns forever.
IHe pitu VI eAe lawyer III charge oI the
matter is to gather majority of the
descendants and, as he says, they are all
| by Inheritance members of the corpo-
ration, and have them hold meeting.
elect officers and parcel out the land
among themselves. 1t is argued quit
claims, leases or deeds executed by any
descendants of the grantees are void
because no individual had right to
dispose of the property, but only right
to vote at the corporation meeting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
EMPEROR and KING
Italian and German Monarchs
Make a Notable Visit to
Abbey of Monte
ENTHUSIASM AMONG PEASANTS
The Extraordinary Spectacle of Two
sovereigns and Six Princes at Monte
Casino Causes Great Stir Among
VIlagers-Crueltes In the Congo
State-Natives Made Slaves.

Rome, May 5.-Emperor William anc
King Victor Emmanuel, escorted by
icuirrassiers and cheereG by the people
drove to the railroad station this morn
ing and went to the abbey of Monte.
At Monte Casino the rionarchs were
accorded an enthusiastic reception. The
scene was extremely picturesque
Quaint crowds OF peasants, friars and
sisters gathered from mites around the
Village to see the extraordinary specta-
Gle OF two sovereigns and six princes AT
Monte Casino. The reol reasons for
the visit We're the part taken by En-
peror William in assisting, the Benedic-
tine institutions in Prussia and the
promises which he made to visit the
celebrated mother house here. Gorgeous
royal equipages, with outrders and
postillians in hunting livery, accompa-
nied by military escort and the suites
OF the sovereigns and princes, drove up
to the abbey from the station, Cheered
by the peasants. At the abbey a de-
tachment of troops rendered the mill
tary honors and battery of guns fired
the salute. The abbot, Rev. Father
Boniface Krug, from st. Vincents arch
abbey near Beatty, Pa, received the
emperor and King Emmanuel in q most
cordial manner and expressed his ap-
probation of the honor conferred on the
abbey by their visit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
wooDMEN AT DIES MONIES.
$50 Delegates Flock to State Camp
Iowa Ranks Second.


Des Moines. Iowa, May 5.-Many OF
the 155 delegates to the state camp of
the Woodmen of America arrived In the
city yesterday morning, to attend the
annual convention held for the purpose
of electing state officials and selecting
the tifty-one delegates to the head
camp that will be held in Indianapolis,
commencing June 16, 1903. The Iowa
delegation will have a special car ii
not a special train, and will be headed
by the Fort Dodge Military band of
thirty pieces as the official band of the
order, making a party in all of eighty
one members.
a big fight is expected at the state
camp over the selection of the head
state auditors. Both of the president
officers are candidates for reelection,
and new men have been put up for thc
office. Director c. G.. Saunderson, OF
Council Bluffs, is a candidate for re
election Auditor John Dennison, Jr.,
of Clarion, is also candidate for re-
election.
OF the thirty three states in the I'M
ion, in which the NJ. w. A. have their
camps, Iowa ranks second in point OF
numbers, both as regards camps and
membership. There are 1918 Wood
men in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
MAY LOSE $1,000, 900 GIFT.
Lack Of Agreement in Engineering As
sociation MAY NuIlify Donation.

Lack Of Agreement in Engineering As.
soeiation May NuIIify Donation.
New York, May Slack of harmony
among the associations of engineers
inthis country may nullify an offer Of
Andrew Carnegie to give $1,000,0e0 or
more with which to establish a national
center for engineering interests in this
city. Rivalry exists among the various
bodies of the engineering profession
and high official in one of the bodies
said 1t is doubtful If all can live In
peace In one room. Not until very re-
Gently was 1t known to but three or
four men whom Mr.. Carnegie consulted
that he intended to found an institu-.
ton which would be unique both in
this country and in Europe. He i'm
tended that his gife should be used to
|erect magnificent building as a mon
ument of his gratitude to a profession
with which his business success has
been closely identified. The building
was to cost not less than $1,000,000, ex-
elusive of the cost of the site. 1t would
contain a perfectly appointed club to
take the place of engineers clubs now
located ON Fifth avenue. An auditor
um with a seating capacity of 1000
persons, separate quarters for the four
Engineering bodies, which would con-
stitute the union, and libraries which
would be unsurpassed in the engineer
ing field.
Mr.. Carnegie has put his proposal in
writing and as the matter now stan Is
it needs only the harmonious action OF
the councils, of the associations con-
cerned, meeting of which will be held
Thursday to utilize his gift.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
CRUELTY IN CONGO STATE.
Natives Are Practic lily the Slaves of
the Rubber Monopoly.

London, May 5.-Rev. William Morri-
son, of Lexington. Va, member of the
American Presbyterian mission, who is
here on his way home after six years of
work along the Kassai river, twelve
hundred miles in the interior of the
Congo State, fully confirms the stories
aot abuses IN the Congo administration.
He furnished an exhaustive report on
the situation to the Congo State au-
thorities, to the American and British
ministers at Brussels ana Foreign Sec
retary Lansdowne, detailing the results
Of his personal investigation and show
ing the situation is daily growing worse
as q result of the rubber rnouopoly's in
PRODUCTION of forced labor, virtually
amounting to slavery. On the way TO
the coast Rev. Morrison covered SOO
miles of the Kassai river. formerly
thickly dotted with villages. and he says
there are now less than a dozen VIII
lages there. the people having fled to
the forest to escape the tyranny of the
whites. The missionary declares it is
impossible for the natives to get re-
dress from the Congo State officials for
the fragrant abuses ard cruelties to
which they are subjected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
WoRKMEN INTlMIDATED.
Italian Strikers Make Demonstration
in New York.

New York, May 5.-Several hundred
Italian strikers made a demonstration
today before the diggers and shovelers
employed on the Muscoot dam at the
waterworks improvements and sue
ceeded in driving them from their
work A few stones We're thrown. Upon
appearance of the police the strikers
dispersed.
At Mount Vernon today between 800
and 200 Italian laborers, who had been
on a strike since last week, marched
TO where sixty negroes were at work
and persuaded them to quit and join the
strikers. The strikers then marched
around the city and succeeded In get
ting practically all the laborers to quit.
In Greene Point section the police had
a lively encounter with a gang OF
about twenty Italian strikers, who yes
terday quit work on the excavation.
The strikers attacked the new men to-
day and the police charged the assail-
ants, using their clubs freely. The
police were also called upon to protect
the men who took the places of the
striking teamsters. Upwards of 500
hands employed a the plant of the car
pet mills, Brooklyn, Went on strike
today for shorter hours. -.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
Short kilograms.

Scranton. Pa.-Mary Chubby, aged
10. jumped skipping rope 200 times
and dropped dead.
Ennis, Tex.-W. c. Linneburger, after
chopping his wife and son TO death
blew his own brains out.
East Hampton, L. General Miles Is
to become a resident Of Long Island
and is said to be contemplating the pur-
chase of home on the island in which
to reside after his retirement. The
general has leased for The, summer a
cottage near here.
Sandusky, Ohio-A stranger giving
the name of Charles Frank is under ar
rest for the murder of Miss Reichlln.
Port Washington, Ws.-f1re Gle :
stroyed the tannery of c. A. Mueller; I;
loss, $4,000. The plant will be rebuilt
Wilkesbarre, Pa.--Tha entire congre- :
CATION of Father Curran's church, over
1900 persons, took TIE temperance
pledge for a year.
Kansas City-Secretary Loeb has re-
covered from his attack of mountain
fever and will join the president today
at Santa Fe.
New York-A party of German agri-
culturists have arrived and will visit
The principal cities, among them st:
Paul and Minneapolis.
Knoxville, Tenn.-A hailstorm be-
tween Newport and Bridgeport, four
miles, ruined the wheat and fruit crops.
Not house escaped damage.
Butte, Mont.-Rose Coghlan is suing
John Z. Sullivan, actor, for divorce that
she may marry a rich Montana mining
man and politician.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
BOMB FOR CHICAGO CHURCH.
War on Policy Holders Results in Dy
paroife Oufraoe

War on Policy Holders Results in Dy-
Mantle Outrage.
Chicago, May 5.-An attempt to blow
up with dynamite the Institutional
church al Thirty eighth street and Wa
bash avenue last night was the policy
gamblers reply to the opening of the
negro pastors campaign against the
evil.
Tho warned by systerious tele-
phone message Saturday night that
of he dared to preach against policy
gambling he would be attacked, the
pastor, the Rev. r. C. Ransom, de-
livered his opening address with a
revolver hidden in his pocket.
A few minutes after he left the pulpit
came the explosion, which blew in q
side door Of the church and shattered
nearly twenty windows. The explosion
was heard a mile away.
Had the church been crowded as it
was ten minutes before, panic and SER
ious loss OF life would have been the
result.
Four men were seen standing near the
church at the time of the explosion.
They fed at the report and are believed
by the police to be the gamblers agents,
who sat off the dynamite.
An investigation made Immediately
after the dynamite was set off showed
that the Xplosive-evi6,ently a heavy
charge-was placed against a side of
the church opening into IN alley to the
south of the editice.
The lower half of the door had been
blown inward, striking y wall seven
feet away with sufficient force to shat
ter the plaster all about. Four win
dows on the main floor were blown
from their frames, the giass being scat
tered over the auditorium.
On the upper floor e.ght windows
were wrecked, while the basement Jared
even worse, The short hight of steps
leading to The door was wrecked.
The Rev. Mr.. Ransom. his wife and a
rumber of friends We're in the pastor $
office in the front of the building at the
time. They We're neari3 thrown from
their feet by the shock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
TO REDUCE NAVIES
Great Britain Willing to Do If Other
Nations Would Take the Same
Course.

Rome. May b.--In the chamber OF
deputies today Signor Gicotti Interpret
lated the government on the report that
it intended to propose to Great Britain
that negotiations be entered into witt,
view to arranging foe simultaneous
reduction Of the navies of the great
powers.
Signor T.actelli. under secretary OF
state, in reply, said British Premier
Balfour, ard the secretary of the Brit
ish admiralty recently declared Great
Britain was ready to diminish her
sea forces, if other powers agreed to
follow the same course, but Great
Britain had not yet definitely taken the
initiative in the matter, consequently
Italy had taken no action.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
MEDICS' CONVENTION
Record Breaking Attendance at the
Meeting Which Began in New Orleans
Today.

New Orleans, May 5.-With Il .ecord
breaking attendance both in point of
delegates and visitors and with many
physicians, surgeons and
scientists present the fifty fourth an
nual meeting of the American Medical
association opened here today. The
main business Of the association was
transacted by the house of delegates
the first meeting of which was held
subsequent to the formal opening of the
convention today. President Billings
presided and presented his annual re-
port. Reports of other officers and var
ious standing committees followed.
Simultaneous with the opening meet
ing of the house of delegates the sew
eral sections into which the associa-
tion is divided opened their sessions
in various halls, hotels and churches.
The endowed medical colleges of the
north scored a big victory at the As
sociation Of American Medical Colleges
late last night in the adoption of the
amended report of the committees to
which the matter OF requirements for
admission had been referred. The re-
port as adopted requires four full
years work in high school or it's
equivalent for eligibility to admission
to the medical college. This is be-
lieved to mean final exclusion from ad-
mission in medical colleges of all ap-
plicants who have not had college ed
ucation. Two-thirds of the medical
colleges in the country are not en-
doWed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05

the mountain side, used for carrying
wood from the heights down to point
nearly quarter of a mile away, the
lower portion ending about fifteen feet
from the ground. Wolfe found a fiat
stone, placed it in the trough, and seat
ed himself upon 1t. He began his jour-
ney by starting gently enough, but in
a short distance had gained such speed
that he became frightened and clutched
in vain at the ratings to stop his speed
With torn clothing and bleeding hands
he shot with lightning speed down the
long trough, out into space and fell
in a heap on the ground. He was un-
conscious when found, but. although
his body wss mass Of cuts and bruis-
es, no bones We're broken.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05

and crop bureau, reports having had a
more difficult time making up his esti-
mates at this time than for long time.
The optimists and the pessimists in
regard to crops. and especially in re-
gard to the fruit crop, arc having a Joint
discussion as to the effec. of the recent
cold snap. Both go to extremes and Mr..
Sage says it has been very hard strik-
ing an average between them. Mr..
Greene, of the horticultural Society, is
still quite confident that Iowa will raise
more fruit than many had believed pos
sible at the time of the freeze. His re-
ports indicate that the greatest injury
was in the southwestern part of the
state. He says the fruit crop was dam
aged probably 25 per cent and possibly
the loss will be so per cent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
The .Huntsman's Cup"

The .hunts,nan's cup" or pitcher
plant, is conceded to be one of the ear
liest, if not the earliest, of the wild
flowers Of America to become known
to Europeans. References occur in IT.
lation to it as easly at 1910, when a
Lisbon physician named Launanus
sent 1t to contemporary as the leaves
of the frankincense tree. 1t appears
that two sailors brought the curious
leaves with some resin from the pine
trees growing near, and Launanus sup
posed they belonged together. Much
confusion occurred and much wonder
ment was expressed Us to what curious
tree with such leaves could be founu
in America giving such "sweete odoure
when the gum was burned. ana
;trange to say. most attempts TO cleaf
p tie mystery resulted in greater OBJ
,cufity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05

PROBABLY THIRTY LIVES LOST
The Saginaw Cut In Two Sinks Within
Few Minutes After the Accident
Boats Lowered and Portion of the
Grew and Passengers saved-The
Hamilton Not Badly Damaged.

New York, May 5-Bulletin-A Nor
folk dispatch reports the old dominion
Z liner Hamilton and Clyde liner Sagi-
nav in collision. A number of passen-
gers were drowned.
New York, May 5.--A long distance
telephone report to the Evening World
places the number of drowned at twen-
ty. The collision occurred at 12:45 a. M.
off Hog Island. The Saginaw was
bound for Philadelphia, from Norfolk.
She carried crew of forty men and
twenty passengers. 1t is believed the
fog was responsible for the accident.
The Hamilton was going at three
quarters speed off Hog Island when the
passengers were suddenly thrown from
the berths and in an instant all was
confusion. The Saginaw struck about
twenty feet from the stern on the star
board side and her stern had been cut
thru cleanly. The stern sunk almost
Immediately, while the forward part
drifted several hundred yards. AS soon
as possible the boats Of the Hamilton
were lowered. The thick fog made 1t
impossible for the crew of the Hamilton
to work quickly and In few minutes
before the boats reached her. the Sag
anaw was going down. She settled
slowly and then went with a suction
that almost drew the boats of the
Hamilton after her. In the darkness
could be heard the cries of those on the
Saginaw. In the water and clinging to
the ySreckase was u number of nersoas
and as many as possible of these We're
pulled into the boats of the Hamilton.
After waiting to pick up anyone that
might have clung to the wreckage the
Hamilton proceeded On her way. She
was only slightly damaged. The Sag
tnaw sank in ten fathoms of water and
her masts were left sticking out of tho
water.
According to dispatch from Fortress
Monroe the number of persons rescued
by the Hamilton was twenty mine. This
report places the number of drowned
at thirty. Hog island is on the coast
of Virginia, j short distance above Cape
Charles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
FIRE sTAMPEDEs CATTLE.
Imprisoned Animals infnriated in Pens
at Chicago Stock Yards.

Chicago, May 5.-Sendihg flames fifty
feet into the air, a large hay barn on
Broadway a short distarce.west of the
|eGtrance to the Union stock yards
burned ia the ground yesterday. The
glare of the flames, runting higher and
higher as the fire spread from one por-
tion of the building to :piother. caused
a panic among herds of cattle. sheep
and horses. The frigh. .ened animals
ran from one end of their pens to the
other, leaping violently against the
heavy fences which held them prison
ers.
The building was completely con-
sumed. II was oae-story frame
structure sixty by $50 feet. 1t was half
filled with baled and unbaled straw
and hay. 1t was owned by the Union
Stock Yards and Transi' Company. The
loss is $4,000
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
Tran Shooter Shot.

Randolph. Neb.. May 5.--While shoot-
ing rabbits Sunday afternoon, about 4
mile north of town, Charles Townsend
was shot in the side by companion,
named Al Peterson. The bullet was of
a 22-calibre rifle and was fired at about
q distance of twenty feet.
The ball entered the right side at
the eigth rib and it is thought to be
lodged in the muscles surrounding the
stomach The wounded man is well
known among gun club circles in nortE-
east Nebraska.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
KILLED BY A FREAK OF CHANCE.
Well Known kentuckian Drops Re-
volver and is Killed.

Lexington, KY, May 5.-Walter S.
Bronston, aged 81, city solicitor and
prominent in politics in Kentucky,
shot himself accidentally at o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and died an hour
later. He was packing grip prepar-
atory to going to Richmond to make IL
speech in the interests of candidate
in the democratic campaign. In trans
ferring a revolver from a drawer into
the grip it fell, struck the dresser an.
was discharged, the bullea entering the
stomach. He was exalted ruler of the
local lodge of Elks and among the
leading lawyers at the Fayette county
bar. He was recently defeated for the
democratic nomination for mayor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05

Esterbrook, who was formerly one OF.
the very well-known residents OF tni.'
place. but who for the past year mas
been making his home in California. Mr..
Esterbrooks death was due to a ten
days illness with typhoid fever. Be-
sides the wife he leaves one daughter,
Miss Esterbrook of this city. Mrs. II. ;.
kneedler, formerly of Eoone, but who
is now living in Los Angeles, is another
daughter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
BRAVE FIREMAN DEAD.
William McNaIIey Lost Life in Attemp
to Rescue Another.

New York, May 5.-Fireman William
McNally, buried in brave rescue at
fire Sunday, died today. McNaliy
tried to save the life of Henry McWill-
Jams, a tenant, but was overcome by
smoke and heat, and another fireman,
James McAvoy, rushed to the rescue
of McNally, and dashing thru a vim
dow filled with flame to do so, brought
McNally out. McAvoy was also badly
burned and had to be taken to u hos
pital McWilliams died of his injuries.
Mayor Low went to the hospital yes
terday to see McNally and commend
him for his bravery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-05
OMAHA EMBARRASSED.
Teamsters and Restaurant Mems Strike
Causing Considerable Distress.

Omaha, May 5.--The strike of the
teamsters and restaurant men is begin
ming to be felt keenly by the business
interests. Not a ton of coal is being
delivered and wholesale houses are un-
able to handle their wares to and from
freight depots. A number of large
buildings have been compelled to shut
down elevator service and several fac
tories are contemplating closing down
fer want of fuel. Al hotels the same
difficulty is being experienced To
add to the seriousness of the situa'
ton, the teamsters have added hun
dred more men to their ranks. the
Horseshoers Union voting not to shoe
horses driven by non-union men.