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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
ALEXANDRIA BURNS
Three Persons Perish i'm Chicago
Theater Fire.

Chicago, Feb. 22.-Fire today partial
ly destroyed the building occupied by
the Altambra theater. hotel and apart
ments. The structure was three stories
high and frented on Archer avenue and
State and Nineteenth streets. The loss
is estimated at SIS, 900.
After the fire was extinguished the
remains of three persons, two men and
a woman, who had been Suffocated,
were found in the ruins. There were
many narrow escapes and several had
to be carried down the fire escapes.
The Alhanbra theater, around which
the hotel is built, was partly destroyed.
In the theater new stage fittings and
furnishings had been installed and re-
modelling in compliance with the new
theater ordinance had practically been
completed. The fire is believed to have
started from an over-heated boiler in
the basement Of the Alhambra restau-
rant. The smoke soon filed the halls
of the upper stories, and but for the
night clerk, Philip Vingo, the firemen
been greater loss of life. He ran
through the halls awakening the two
hundred guests. A moment later the
halls were filled with half-clad men and
women who CROPPED their way down the
stairs to the snow covered streets and
sought refuge in neighbOring stores.
The Alhambra theater is owned by
Stair & Haviland, owners of the Bijou,
Columbus and other theaters in Chi
cago
The three bodies were found in room
on the top floor of the building. From
the position of the remains, the two
men had apparently attempted to assist
the woman to escape but had been
overcome by the smoke All the cloth
ing was burned from the bodies and the
flesh scared and Scorched. The remains
of the men were identified as William
Fisher and Frank Beckman, both of
II,
Cincinnati. The body of the woman was
identified as that of Anna Smith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
FIVE DROWNED.
Two Vessels Go Ashore in a
Dense Fog.

New York, Feb. 22.-Five men were
drowned in the wreck of the schooner
Benjamin c. Cromwell off Bellport, L.
L. today, only two of the crew of seven
being rescued from the breakers when
they were washed ashore on pieces of
wreckage. The schooner was broken
up by the heavy waves.
The mate of the Benjamin c. Crom-
well and four men were drowned, two
others reached shore, floating on pieces
OF wreckage.
During dense fog two vessels went
ashore today, one near Bellport L. L.
and the other near Long Beach, N. j.
The former was the Benjamin G. Crom-
well, Portland, Me-, schooner from
Charleston, S. c., for Halifax. with
pine. The name of the craft ashore at
Long Beach is as yet unknown.
Attempt after attempt of the life
savers to reach the wreck was unsuc-
ceSSful and close watch was kept for
any of the crew who might come
ashore.
The three-masted schooner which
went ashore near Long Beach, N. J.,
began to break up almost Immediately
under the blows Of the heavy breakers.
The fog ard the heavy seas made the
work of the life savers very difficult
but repeated attempts were made to
rescue the crew of the doomed vessel.
Attempts to launch the life boats
proved uns uccessful. Time after time
the life sav ers dashed into the water,
but each time they were hurled back
to the beach.
The guns were trained on the wreck,
just as the fog closed in more thickly,
hiding the vessel from view. However,
the life savers having the direction,
shot the first line at the vessel. Several
other lines were discharged within the
next half hour. but with what effect
it has not yet been learned. Several
pieces of wreckage had fioated ashore,
which led to the fear that the vessel
was breaking up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Hewett Gets Work.

It Is announced that the contract for
the brass work of the Santa Fe railroad
which was recently taken from James
Swan of this city has been awarded to
the Hewitt Manufacturing company of
Chicago. The company''s agent is expect
ed in Topeka this week TO complete the
arrangements which it will be necessary
to make. James Swan, who formerly had
the contract for the Santa F'eS brass
work will probably go into business in
Topeka. He has announced that his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
POPULlSTS MEET.
A Union of the Factions Is and
No Fursion Is Urged.

st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 22-The city
members fo the national committee of
the Populist party met at the Southern
hotel today for the purpose of fixing
the time and place of the national
convention. Mr.. Parker presided and
made a brief speech in which he out
lined the object of the meeting. He
declared that the fusionists and the
middle of the readers should get to-
gether this year and that the party
should on no condition affiliate with
either of the older parties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Four Convicts to Be Tried Again.

Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. 22.-United
States Marshal B. H. Colbert left this
place for Ardmore, I. T., having in
custody four convicts who are to be
tried at that place. Three of the men.
B. D. Starr, John I4angford and Dave
Langford, were serving terms in the
federal prison. Starr a life term for
murder and the two Langfords five
years each for larceny. The fourth man
was Cliff F1ill, who was rearrested at
the prison. gate some time ago for horse
stealing. The first three will get new
trials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Transfer of Pacific Fleet.

New York Feb. PIG. H. Higbie, for
some years the Pacific coast manager of
the American and Red Star lines of
to become manager at this port. The
American line will bring to this port its
Pacific coast steamships. They are the
Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Cone
maugh. The Indiana has arrived here
with the largest cargo OF salmon ever
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
All For Judge Smart.

Garnett, Kan, Feb. 22-The Repub-
lican judicial convention for this district,
comprising the counties of Douglas,
Anderson and Franklin, met here Sat
urday and unanimously renominated
Judge Charles A. Smart of Ottawa for
another term He viii be easily elected
as the district is Republican by nearly
1000 majority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Temperatures of Large Cities,

Chicago. Feb. 22.-7 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York 46; Boston 4S; Phila-
delphia 46; Washington SO; Chicago Is;
Minneapolis below; Cincinnati 30; St
Louis 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22

brought from the Pacific coast. ha wing
1,eo5 tons on board. The Pennsylvania
and Sonemaugh are on their way now.
The Ohio is being overhauled at Seattle
and VIII be brought east later. The In
diana and Ohio have been in use as gov
Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
HUNDREDS PERISH
Dam Burst Destroying Several
Villages.

Tien Tsin, Feb. pa telegram from
Tsinan Flu. Shan Tung, says that hum
dreds of lives have been lost by the
bursting of a dam on the Hwang Ho.
Several villages were destroyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Weather Indications. 3.

Chicago. Feb. 22.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day; warmer tonight; southerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
Sir Leslie stephen Dead.

London, Feb. 22.-Sir Leslie Stephen
president of the Ethical society, is dead
He was born in 1892
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-22
PORTO RICO KNOCKS.
Island Demands Admission to
Union or Independence.

San Juan, P. R., Feb. 22.-The federal
assembly, by a vote of so to Is, has de-
manded that Porto Rico at once be
admitted to statehood or that the is
land be granted independence.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

brate q decade of still greater energy
and activity and ever increasing use
fulness under your present manage"
ment-
You have much cause for rejoicing,
but in my opinion your chiefest rea..
son for Joy is i'm The fact that you
have finally Withstood the business
breakers. weathered the financial
storms that have made the capital city
q journalistic graveyard, and ar
rived at the point where earnings are
sufficient to meet expenses With a lit
tie left for repairs.
You remember that a few years
ago, it was a race TO the TILL every
Saturday evening between the editors
and The printers, with the printers al
ways the winners, While the editors
had to wait another week; but there IS
a change since then. l can See the e.
feet of the change in the saturday
evening smiles OF both editors and
printers
The second greatest cause yoI have
for JOY on this, your tenth anniyersa-
nv under your present management
looras up in the signs OF the times
whicli clearly presageS still sr@d.eI
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

BUSINESS success ana therefore mGCh
greater power and usefulness.
The greatest public service that you
have rendered during these ten years,
in my humble Judgment has been the
pioneering Of an era of industrial news
gathering in North Carolina which has
appraised our own people of each 9TH
ers industrial achievements. brought
them nearer together in thought, and
in deed inspired renewed ambition and
endeavor, and at the same time re-
Veaied to the outside world the fact,
that in milling. manufacturing. min
ing, banking, truck growing and other
industrial work, the Old State is moving
forward perhaps as rapidly as health
full. conservative growth Will Justify
In politics. these past ten years have
been eventful ones. You have been II
all times on the firing line, between the
contending forces battling for goou
government with an eye ever single 10
the interest of the masses or the folks.
Your files from '93 to now. form IN
my opinion, the most interesting MS
tory extant, of all the thrilling inter-
vening events.
The daily proceedings OF the TWO
Fusion Legislatures and the hlshtiy
proceedings of the many caucuses OF
'95 and 81, will not be soon fofgctteh
by your readers, nor will the cam
paiens of '9S and 1900. with Red
shirt rifle and Jennette earcatafe
accompaniment pass out OF our MEM
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derer at the foot of the galloWs. one
of these was repudiated by Il politi-
cal leader, who explained to me before
hand that he had to do it in order t"
save himself with his party; and the
other was by Marion Butler one-time
United States Senator. who IL he nap
pened to tell the truth in politics, cor
rected it as soon as possible.
You do have lots of funny eXper-
fences. Mr.. Robert l.. Gray will doubt
less recall that bitterly cold day, when
we shivered in Il bpx-at metropolitan
Hall reporting the meeting OF tho
National Farmers Alliance; and how
Col. Mann Page, the great Virginia
Populist, turned to us in his Grafton
and denounced this half-frozen pain
of disguised pencil-rushers as the
"haughty minions of the subsidized
press"
| wonder if the Raleigh newspaper
men have forgotten the first session
of the Arlington Investigating Com
mission. when "Hoola Boom" Camp
bell made Phillips sit UP in bed long
enough to elect himself chairman, or
that night when, after long and Ia
borious search, we found the missing
Phillips sleeping in the baggage room
of the Marlborough House. lying across
a trunk SO drunk that he didn't sneeze
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
GL|MPSESO OF THE
REPORTER'S LIFE
Live Newspaper in Small
City Best School.
THE MAN OF SECRETS
Wine of Life and Its Bitter Lees.
From Marriage Altar to Felon's
Cell---Heights and Depths
Touched by Reporters
Career.
Career.
By JOHN wTLBER JENKINS.

The large and richer newspapers
may seem more attractive and the big
cities do furnish greater opportunities
for advancement, but the place TO get
all around newspaper raising is on the
live daily in a small city. Not the
kind of daily that never changes any
thing but the advertisements and the
first three personals and then is
sent to the bed of the press where it
sleeps through five hundred copies;
but the daily that goes after the news
and prints "live stuff having not the
fear of the five cent subscriber be-
fore it's eyes. And no one can deny
that the News and Observer under it's
present management has printed the
news when it was news. You may
not agree with all its views: you may
like the dull, repressed style that is
supposed to give a newspaper the APP
pearance of conservatism; some ar
ticle may have hit you in a tender
spot that is still sore: but you must
admit that the News and Observer is
live from the weather forecast to
the eighth-page foot slugs.
A newspaper like this is so far in
advance of it's city that it surprises
Northern Journalists to learn that it
is published in town that the census
gives less than $4,000 inhabitants
And when you tell them there are two
other excellent dailies and half score
of weeklies printed there, they add
mire the enterprise and wonder al
the temerity of the publishers.
From my childhood / have known
Mr. JoSephus Daniels and when I was
sixteen years old. he gave me the po-
sition of telegraph editor and later
city editor of the State Chronicle
Since that time ! have known him
Intimately, and / hope he will allow
his readers to read what one of his
former lieutenants thinks of him
There have been points of news about
which we disagreed and questions o.
policy and principle on which we diff
fered materially. But / have never
known him to allow any considera
ton, personal or material. to stand il
the way of what he thought was right
Some of us may have thought hin
mistaken at times, but we know tina
he has sacrificed money. time. posi-
ton and friends for his honest opin
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the ability and energy, brings in i've
times the income-they grow up to be
honOred members of society and may,
after a while, run for office.
A Maker of Other Men.
But the journalist in his own pro-
fession is the friend of every man but
himself He can put other men into
office can make other men famous,
can put into their mouth the very
phrases that the people quote. But
he cannot boom" himself, he must
merge his personality in his paper, and
not be surprised when the men he
has made. forget him. While he
makes history, as We'll as records IT.
there is nothing SO dead as yester-
days newspaper"
There is a pleasure in being "where
the wheels go round" in being III
close touch with the men who bring
great events to pass, in knowing
senators and millionaires, and actress
es and murderers and saints and
bishops-in being in the very centre of
the worlds life. And the newspaper
man is not a mere ''looker-on III
Vienna" He has a part in shaping
every great movement, in the destruc-
ton of every crying evil, in the furth-
ering of every good work.
If / had to write the epitaph OF the
best type of newspaper man, it would
be something like this:
tUnawed by fear and unbought by
favor, he wrote the truth. With con-
tempt for hypocrisy, with charity for
human frailty. he never disparaged
good or praised evil He never desert
ed a friend or stabbed an enemy. yet
held his duty to the people above
every personal consideration. His acts
were worthier than his words, and the
record Of his life is not only in his
newspaper, but in all the events of his
time.
Baltimore, Md. Aug. Il.
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act as n witness at n secret wedding.
We went to the church and in an ante
room, the pastor married the couple.
/ didn't know either party, but they
asked me TO put line in the paper
The next day stating where the mar
RAG took place and The officiating
minister. but leaving ont the names of
the bride and groom. The notice
created a good deal of gossip at the
time. I've never seen any other an
nouncement of the marriage, but the
minister. who is now dead and myself
afterWard laughed about the "mys-
terry" of the midnight marriage.
TO the best of my recollection |
have never had but two interviews re-
pudiated--and I've interviewed peo-
pie from q President down to q mrN
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
GL ANCE BACKWARD
Chief Cause of Rejoicing
is Financial Prosperity
Greatest Achievement Has Been
Pioneering an Era of Industrial
News Gathering in North
Carolina.

To the Editor:-On this beautiful
sunny summer Sunday morning-pro-
vided it is beautiful and sunny sa-
lutte you.
/ lift my hat to you as you go past
the third of a century mark. and l
bid YOU speed away under the whip
and spur of your present efficient force
along that Journalistic highway, when
has been made easier, and more lnVit-
ing by your courage. your HdelltV ana
vonr patient and patriotic endeavOr.
This anniversary occasion has two
fold significance: On the one hand
you may rejoice in the fact that you
have rounded up a little more than
third of "a century OF active and use
full existence
ION the other hand YOU may cele-
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
eiSh, N. c., Aug. IA. 1904.
r. b. ARENDELL.
Hair NATURALLY ABUNDANT.
when 1t Ts Free OF Dandruf7, 1t Grows
LuxUriantly.

Fair preparations and dandruff cures.
as q rule, are sticky or irritating affairs
that do no earthly good. Hair. when not
diseased grows naturally, luxuriantly.
Dandruff is the cause of nine-tenths of
all hair trouble, and dandrun is caused
by q germ. The only way to cure dand-
ruff Is to XIII the germ; and. so far, the
only hair preparation that will positively
destroy the germ is Newbro's Herpicide-
absolutely harmless, free from grease,
sediment, dye matter or dangerous drugs.
1t allays itching instantly; makes hair
glossy and soft as silk. Destroy the
cause you remove the effect" Sold by
leading druggists. Send 1Oc. in stamps for
sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit,
Mich.
Henry 7. Hicks . Co.. Special Agents.
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the ability and energy, brings in five
times the income-they grow up to be
honored members of society and may,
after a while, run for office.
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A Midnight Marriage

While I was editor of the Durham
Globe, one night a man saw the light
burning in the office Git was about
l a. NO. and asked me if Wouldn't
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14
Henry t. Hicks . Co.. Special Agents.
EsTABIIsnEn TAIIop1Nc RI1sI.

ness for sale. Only tailor; town
eight thousand. Good will. fixtures
and store lease can be secured
cheap. Address "Iailor." News and
Observer. 7-3-Sun-tf.
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HENRY T. HICKS co, Selling Agents RALELGH ~ G

DRY. To recall some of them makes me
almost shudder. Your bound volumes
TEEN with thrilling reports of these
stirring happenings, the work OF Dan
els. Christian, Merritt. Jenkins, Jen-
nette and this writer. 1t was not pay
that impelled us. Salaries then were me-
| cessarily lean and came in irregular
installments, but what mattered it?
Who cared2 Not us. 1t was a most
| harmonious band of pencil-pushers,
pushing away partly for love of coun-
| try and party, but mostly, for love of
| each other
One could borrow what the other
had with little chance for profit on
the one side. and little danger of loss
| on the other. 1t was all very agree
able, very pleasant. And then there
was a parting of the ways: Christian
went to rairoading Merritt conducts
4 news bureau in Washington; Jenkins
makes brighter the morning beams of
the Baltimore Sun; Jennette makes
! funny pictures for the New York Her
aid, while this writer makes hay in
the sunshine or the shadows OF text
/ book contests. Daniels alone of the
Old force remains. MEANWHILE you
have enlisted others gifted with the
genius and grit of competent neWspa-
per maker. Britton, Rotter, Gray, jack
son, all splendidly endowed With
|
Lacy holding up the business depart
ment and With the smiles and the eff
| ncient clerical work Of the two young
queens of the sanctum, Miss Busbee
and Miss Horton, no wonder you live
and prosper. Again | salute you
and bid you climb along up the slopes
| of journalistic glory.
Raleigh, N. c., Aug. IA. 1904.
+. Il. ARENDELL.
[Mr. Arendell's first connection with
/ journalism in North Carolina was
! when tho state Chronicle was estab-
| lished by MIR. Walter II. Page. He was
afterwards on The Farmer and Me
chanic. He conducted the State
| Chronicle alone from the time Mr..
Page went to New York until it was
consolidated with the Farmer and Me-
| chanic He was then with the State
| Chronicle till 1887, when he retired
from journalism to return in 1894
when The News and Observer passed
under its present management.-Ed.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-14
i~SOCIETY.~

is visiting his parents at POS Thirty
sixth street, west. He will leave for
Virginia in few days to spend sew
eral weeks.
Mr.. Harry E. Oppenheimer will leave
saturday to spend the summer at
Montgomery. Ala.
Mrs. S. Raskin will sail for Phila-
delphia on the Merrimack, July 16.
Miss Sophye Morganstern of Atlanta
Is the guest of Miss Minnye Wood
on Harris street west.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Twomey and chill
dren of Tampa, Fla. are visiting Mrs
M. L. Savarese of No. 223 Charlton
street east.
Mrs. Henry McAlpin is visiting Mrs
c. K. Nelson in Atlanta.
Mrs. Eldridge Simkins will leave to-
morrow night for Flat Rock. n. c.
Mrs. Elizabeth Drummond is visiting
Miss Fannie Tutwiler.
Mrs. T. S. Noise and children will
leave to-day for Warm Springs. Ca.
to spend the summer.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-14
CHILDREN FREE AT
THUNDERB0LT TO-DAY.
Holders of Morning News Coupons
Can Get Reduced Fare, Too.

Holders Of Morning News coupons
Can Get Reduced Fare, Too.
Thunderbolt attractions will be free
again this afternoon to boys and girls
under u years of age, who have pro-
vided themselves with a coupon from
the Morning News either this morn
ing or yesterday morning.
AS before. the coupons may be ex-
changed at the designated places for
a ticket good for a trolley car ride
both ways. and tickets to the attrac-
tions by paying 10 cents. Those who
reach Thunderbolt by some convey
ance other than the trolley cars, can
exchange their coupons at the grounds
for tickets to the attractions.
Beginning at o'clock, the street rail-
way company will run an extra num-
Der of cars to Thunderbolt. The chill
dren will have the free use of the
attractions of the grounds until z
o'clock, by presenting a Morning News
coupon for each round of the shows
they make.
The two former occasions OF the KIND
were successful events, and with fair
weather the record of the first day will
no doubt be eclipsed. The last time
the threatening weather diminished the
size OF the crowd.