The Topeka state journal., 1903-02-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Trustees report that Kansas Mutual
Life Insurance company is solvent
CITY political campaign opens with
Bergundthal and Hughes meetings
House of representatives passes city
The legislative coal famine inve=tiga-
ton committee makes its report
A bill to legahze the reorganization Of
sha Kansas Mutual IS introduced into
Frank Kalfee placed on trial in the
district court on highway robbery
charge
Snow ana sieet makes trouble FOR the
railroads ia the state
Frank kalfee acquitted Of holdup
Tha legislature decides to investigate
the charges Of brutality in treatment Of
the insane IN the state iusututlerS.
The senate passes the state 1air bill,
aprr0rriariug $4,000.
Senate passes tne tax bin by a vote Of
In the district court Afrs. Emma
Gheut secures Il judgment f0r $4,000
against Mrs B. W Chem. formerly Mrs.
Irene Frishie. for the alienation or hef
husbands s affections
John f. Price and Elmer Reed. who
have been in the reuitenrlarv for %
years under a life sentence for murder,
are pard0ued by Governor Bailey
q TO L.
senator Noftzger's coal famine bill is
RECALLED from the house.
Fight is on in the house and roll cal
Is forced At every opportunity
Governor Bailey signs tEa barber bill
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
The charge of polygarny against sen
ator-elect Reed Smoot Of Utah is fled
before the United states senate
Alfred knapp Of Indianapolis, con
fesses 70 killing i've women
In the center Of the business district Of
Cincinnati a fire burns a half square.
including Pixies opera house
Bellevue hospital New York, is
crowded with patients suffering from
grip. over 900 sick are cared for
Six 1Iexicans freeze To death Ia Texas
Eruption of the Colfnd volcano con-
tinues with great violence, and people
leave locality
The sultan Of Turkey agrees 10 adopt
the scneme for reforms in Macedonia
Owing TO prolonged earthquake shocks
the leVel OF the island Of Guam has
risen six inches.
Floods convert the ohio river into an
inland sea- It being IL miles wide IN
Some places
Four mani clerks burn TO death IL
train wreck at Berea. ..
In an inquiry at Paris regarding suo-
sliturion Of cheaD furs fer sables for
merly owned by Mrs c. L Fair. Amer
lean and Partisan officials were exoneF-
atad.
The United States supreme court de-
cidas that congress has the right to
from one state to another. under the
power to regulate interstate commerce
it decides prize money cases in favor Of
Admiral Dewey and his officers and men
and against those who served under
Admiral Sampson
Three hundred miners IN West Vir
giuia have fierce fight with federal dep
utias seeking to make arrests for viola~
tons Of injunction Three miners are
killed and dozens injured
Rock Island railroad secures control
the largest railway in the world The
new road VIII work in conjunction with
the Santa Fs. thus killing competition IN
the southwest
Secretary Cortelyou asks for 4 build
ing for the new de9artn1euu Of com
marca and labor at washington TO cost
S7.0o0000. exclusive OF the site
War department is prepared to sup
ply states with riot CartridgeS' de
signed to re1el rioters with the least
possible loss OF life to innocent saec-
tatl-a-t'
Motion Of ceusure for St. John Rrod-
rick. British war secretary. defea ted III
English house OF commons
Death from scarlet fever Of Miss Cora
Dean. OF Chicago. blamed by friends to
( no breakfast and raw food fads which
she lractiCed and TO Christian Science.
Thirteen women arrested in gam bling
resort at Chicago. where police claim
they were betting on races
Philippine ladr0ne bands under Gen