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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
One OF the Greatest.

To the Editor ] am grieved 10
hear Of the death Of my kind friend,
Hon. NJ w. Ransom, one OF the great
est end most useful sons OF our De-
loved North Carolina.
WIN. NJ ROBBINS.
Gettysburg, Pa, oct. 10, 1904.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
Making Friends
Every Day.
This can truthfully be said of
JeN~O
Ice Cream
POWDER

the new product for making the most delicious ice
cream you ever ate everything in the package.
are placing it in stock If your grocer can't supply you
send Csc. for two packages by mail Four kinds Van
ila. Chocolate, Strawberry and Unfavored. Address,
Tka 0enesee Pure Food Co., Box 295, LIE Rsy, MY.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15

parents, Seventh and Ann streets
Wednesday afternoon. the Rev. w. A
Snvder. of st. Paul's Lutheran church
officiating. The parlors of the home
were very attractively decorated and
were thronged with friends and rela-
tives of the young couple. The we'd
ding marches were skillfully played
by Miss Katie Flick.
a brief reception was held after the
service and Mr.. and Mrs. Pickard left
Immediately on the afternoon S. A t.
train for a wedding tour to the st.
Louis exposition. Upon Their return
TO the city in about ten days they wiz
be at home to friends in a handsome
residence recently purchased by Mr.
Pickard at northeast corner of Seventh
and range streets.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
WOmble-PaScilal.

Goldsboro, n. c.. Oct. 14.-(Spe-
cial. w ednesday a pretty marriage
was celebrated at the home of Mr..
l.. r. Paschal, when his daughter,
Miss Emma Pascha! was united in
marriage to Mr.. Marvin Womble. a
young business man of Winston
Salem, the ceremony being performed
in tho beautiful and impressive ser
vice of the Methodist ritual. by the
brides pastor, Rev. Mr. Womb!e.
Exactly at two o'clock D. m. while
the sweet strains of 'Lohengrin by
Wagner" rendered by Miss Margaret
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
CAUSES ALARM
Although Nature of Stoessers Dis
patches Is Not Known.

st. Petersburg, Nov. 16.-No def
mite knowledge is obtainable up to
half past this afternoon regarding
the character of General StoessePs re-
port to the emperor, but the fact that
it was considered advisable to sacri-
flee the torpedo boat destroyer Ras-
toropny in order to communicate it in
dicates urgency, which naturally has
aroused all sort sof alarmist rumors.
One is that the Port Arthur squadron
is about to make another effort to
escape. But the prevailing report is
that General StoeSsel has asked for in
Structions whether to surrender, the
condition of the garrison being repre-
scented as desperate.
In military circles, however, the
firm belief is expressed that General
Stoesse1 will not yield. Dispatches
from the Russian consul at Chefoo
and from the agent of the finance
ministry reporting the arrival of the
destroyer at Chefoo, although they
throw little light on the situation at
Port Arthur, do not indicate crisis.
The latter dispatch is brief. simply
saying that the Rastoropny reports all
well at Port Arthur. A report pub
1ished abroad that General Kuropat-
kin will succeed to the viceroyalty of
the far east is not credited in respon-
sible circles. Admiral Alexieff will go
shortly to Yalta, in the Crimea. for a
rest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
MISSIONARY MEETING.
Annual Session of INSTRUMENTATION
Union on Friday.

The annual meeting of the Inter
UNCONVENTIONAL Missionary union will
be held Friday at the English Luth-
eran church. Following is the pro-
gramme:
1000 a. m.-Devotional service-Mrs.
S. S. Estey -
Minutes-Mrs. A. ]. Worthington.
Solo-Mrs. Eli FOsteF.1
What the boards of The different de-
nominations are doing. Responses by
local missionary societies.
Y. w. Q. A. work-Miss NJ E. Reid
The Crittenden fome-Mrs. c. r. Os-
man.
BUSINESS.
1900 to 2:00-Lunch and social horr.
Praise service-Mrs. ]. B. Wherfel.
- missionary map, explained by Miss
TrOutman.
MUSIC
settlement work-Mrs. L. A. Case.
MUSIC.
Address-Mrs. Mary T. Smith. re-
turned missionary, Rangoon, Burrnah.
Violin solo.
Business session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
FOUND POOR FARM o. X.
Commissioners Made Tour of County
Almshouse.

The board of county commissioners
visited the county poor farm yesterday
to make an inspection.
I'VE found the farm and the in
mates of the house in excellent condi-
tion," said Commissioner Sterne to-
day. 1.-The poor farm under the SUI
perintendency of John Taylor and his
wife is in better condition than it has
been before. During the next year
the farm will come as near paying for
itself as is possible, but we have only
116 acres there and with As inmates
we cannot make it actually pay its
way, but with an increased herd of
mich cows, with 80 acres being clear
ed this winter for cultivation with a
fine crop of timothy, good fields of
alfalfa, a fine crop of corn and of
fruits the farm is doing well towards
paying expenses. Mrs. Taylor had put
up fruits, jellies and preserves by the
wagon load and there are barrels of
sour kraut in the cellars"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Diphtheria has closed the Great Bend
schools for a time.
A smallpox scare at Waverly turned
out to be chickenpox.
The Atchison coal mine now gives
employment to so men.
An Atchison hunter was sly enough
this week to kill fox.
The building noise is so great at
Claflin that one cannot hear himself
think.
Out of the Augusta gas well they are
taking asbestos which seems very ap-
propriate.
A Nortonville family is eating apple
sauce from the second crop in their or
chard this season
Lebanon has the theatrical fever and
will enlarge it's opera house to Uncle
Toms Cabin" size.
boys head has grown a patent for a
three wheeled tandem.
Winfield is to have it's third daily pa
per January 1, which is a pretty good
literary handicap for the town.
Sunday hikes across country are the
latest Wellington fad About 10 miles
is considered the proper caper.
Business is SO good with Emporia
merchants this year that they have de-
cided to close all of Thanksgiving.
In addition the new governor of
Washington has the distinction of be-
ing the husband of a Clay Center girl
A rather new style of doing things is
that of the society ladies of Sedan who
are to give a horse show in a livery
barn.
Ellsworth Indians are fast assuming
1.-The white mans burden" One was
arrested there for raising a check this
week.
A patriotic" Reno county pupil has
recovered enough from a fortnight
ago's flag pole rush to answer role can
again.
A Cloud county farmer "A years old is
the father of IA children, 13 of whom
are still alive. He is also the grand
father of AT children.
A daring crowd of Burns leap year
girls attended a show at Florence and
home the other night without the pres
ence of even a man driver.
A laundry foreman disappeared at
Ottawa the day prior to his announced
marriage. It's possible he took that
method to iron out his troubles.
A AZ pound bass has been taken from
the Walnut at Ell Dorado. This in ad-
dition to the election of Hoch fills Bent
Murdock's cup of joy to overlooking.
Life is not all muddy roads and
frosty morning drives to the rural mail
carriers of Butler county. One found
half bushel of turnips and two pump
kins in his buggy the other day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

tickets and to discriminate between
candidates for minor offices, while
voting with their parties on national
issues. There has been marked de-
veIopment of this independent, thinking
voting in municipal elections for some
years past, but this is the first time in
which it has been so emphatically
manifested in a great national contest.
The result is a notice that political
managers must hereafter appeal to the
Intelligence rather than to the parts
anship of the voters.
The illustrations of this independent
sentiment and the courage to record it
at the polls come from so many diff
ferent sections of the country that it
must be accepted as general, and not
due to issues or differences in any par
tfcular locality. Massachusetts elects
a Democratic governor. while giving
President Roosevelt a plurality 100000
or more. Minnesota rolls up a Repub-
lican majority for the president of
about $4,000 and elects a Democratic
governor by nearly 10000. Colorado
gives a big majority for the Republic
can national ticket and elects a Dem
ocratic governor. Nebraska's Repub-
lican candidate for governor is elected,
but runs 10000 behind his ticket, and
Rhode Island gives Roosevelt $4,000
plurality, while the Republican COVER
nor is elected by less than 700. Other
state, while not showing such marked
contrast in the voting, presented re-
turns which show that the people are
very generally placing merit above
partisanship, particularly in the selec-
ton of their state officials, the officers
with whom they are in closest touch
and about whose administrations they
are most vitality and directly con-
cerned.
All of these results presage revision
of campaign methods in the future.
Nominees for office will have to be
nominated on account of their fitness,
rather than by reason of their party
service, and there will be less of the
hurrah and redfre claptrap designed TO
catch the floating vote.
The appeal in the future will have to
be made to the men who think. They
have long held the balance of power
in election contests. and they seem to
have learned how to use it<effectively.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
GREETED WITH CHEERS
Failure to Open Fail River Mills An
nounced at Frisco.

San Francisco, Cal, Nov. 16.-At
the opening of the third days session
of the American Federation of Labor
convention a telegram was read to
the delegates alleging the complete
failure of the attempt of the ope-
rators to open up the Fall River mills
This announcement was received with
cheers by the delegates.
Upon a call for the presentation of
resolutions a number were handed to
the secretary, swelling the total num-
Der to IL.
mittee on credentials was then sub
mitted and a fight was made on the
floor over the seating of Delegate John
Mangan, of Chicago. who came as a
Florists union of Chicago. Delegate
Spencer of the United Plumbers as
sociation of Chicago. led the forces in
the fight against the seating of Chi
that Mangan was a Steamftter in the
employ of the city of Chicago and that
his expenses were paid by the Steam
filters union of that city. The fight
was waged long and bitterly on the
floor, the question of trade autonomy
being involved. AS Delegate Mangan
was a member of a. labor organiza-
ton which IS under suspension by the
American Federation of Labor, it was
argued that it would be illegal to
seat him. This fight was the precursor
of the larger one to be made in the
case of William Schradt. president of
the Chicago Federation of Labor. The
latter organization was SUSPENDED nv
the American Federation of Labor be-
cause it refused to abide by the decree
relative to the organization having
jurisdiction of the steamfitters of Chi
cago. The fight overruled an order to
adjourn, and all other business of the
convention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
AND THEN HE BOUGHT HIM.
How the Latest Acquisition to Fire
Department Made Good.

"Bet you he was blowing corn last
spring.
Look at his whiskersi''
Hes thirty years old if he is a
These are samples of lot of un-
complimentary remarks which must
| long haired, shock-maned, muddy
looking white horse which was led
out OF fire department headquarters
this. morning to be given a test He
had been recommended to Chief VIII
marth as a very good fire horse, and
Chief Wi1marth is always on the look
for fire horses.
They hitched up the bedraggled
white horse to the hose wagon with
spirited black animal, the fastest
runner in the whole department. The
handsome black paved and pranced;
he was anxious for a chance to show
up his humble white running mate,
and make him look like thirty cents.
The black horse was overheard to say
to the white horse as they were being
hitched:
You think you can be a fire horse
do you? Well. wen just see about it
must say you don't look very good to
me. Your legs are too stubby, and
you'll get your feet tangled up in your
fetlocks if you aren't careful. I'll
show you a few points about running
when we get started which may be of
interest to you; anyway, it will give
you something to think about when
Off they went. The big black horse
laid himself out to astonish the white
nag He put down his head, doubled
himself up, and went tearing up the as
phaIt street. For about a minute it all
was rather surprising to the unshaven
white; he couldn't understand the clang-
ing of the gong just over his tail, and
he didn't like the way the wagon sway
ed from side to side. Then he caught
onto the game. He discovered that he
was expected to run, and run like-well,
as hard as he could. In about three
blocks he had the eyes of the black
horse bullying out like teacups; two
blocks more and about a foot and a
half of the black horses tongue was
dangling out; another block and the
black horse suggested that they slow up
bit.
mo use overexerting yourself" he
gasped to the white horse. This is
just fun, you know, there isn't any fire,
and so what's the use in going so like
the blazes ?"
fOh, come on" replied the white.
don't be so 1aZy."&
When they got back to fire depart
ment headquarters, the white horse was
weight of the wagon, and the black was
covered with a thick layer of soap
suds.
The horse doctors and veterinary ex-
would do. He was bought, and
will be put into service at once on the
big fire steamer, where his running
mate will be Rex. the handsome sorrel.
Chief Wi1marth said:
you can't always tell horse by its
coat. This white horse has fine foot
and leg, an intelligent head, is broad
through the breast and has good
back. He has a fine disposition, and
will be a good horse wherever we put
him Three months from now, when
that horse gets into training, you won't
know him.
The horse weighs ATS pounds, is 1914
hands high, and years old. 1t was
brought in by Bratton e. Son, horse
buyers, from the northern part OF the
AS soon as the harness can be made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
THE WAY BLAzED FOR REFORMS
[From the washington Post.l

IFrom the Washington Post.l
The most significant feature of the
election results, aside from the selec-
ton of candidates and party triumphs,
is the emphatic demonstration that the
voters can accomplish any reform they
desire within their party organizations,
and regardless of rules and ballot reg
ulations. This has been most clearly
shown in the several states in which
governors and other state officers of
one party have been elected, while the
opposing party's candidates for presi-
Dental electors have received very
large majorities. All the familiar talk
of political managers about the impos-
sibility of any large number of voters
scratching their ballots has been shown
to be fallacious and the fact has been
demonstrated that the American citi-
gems are beginning to vote as they
think
In the old days, fifteen or twenty
years ago. the scratched ballot played
but an Insignificant part in election re-
suits. Men voted the straight ticket,
particularly in presidential years, when
the enthusiasm aroused over the STAN
dard bearers almost invariably carried
the nominees. for other offices through
with the winner at the head of the
ticket. So general was this rule that
men with shady regulations who want
ed to run for office waited for the NOM
ination until presidential year. The
adoption of the Australian ballot law.
in a modified form, by most of the
states marked the first long step toward
independent voting. Possessors of the
right of franchise learned to study their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
May Not Sing Rose Maiden. ;,

Organ association, said this mornines
that the Choral society would probably
have to give up the plan of singing the
cantata, THE Rose Maiden in the
Auditorium on December %. Just at
that time the KimbalI COMPANY win he
very busy in the big hall Installing the
pipe organ, and every effort will he
made to shut off all interference of any
klnd. The erection of the organ will
begin in the Auditorium about Christ
mas. If another hall can be found. with
a stage large enough to accommodate the
Choral society for its concert. the cam
tata may be given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
MIR. BROWN is BETTER.
His Condition Slightly Improved Over
Yesterday.

At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, the
physicians attending Frank L. Brown
clerk of the United States circuit
court, who is i'll with typhoid fever at
the residence of his brother-in-law
Frank Campbell, at 1904. Buchanan
street, announced that a slight i'm
provement showed itself in his condi-
ton. They stated that the commissions
were less frequent and not as violent
as during the night. A little more
hope was expressed for the patients
recovery.
The United States court in session at
Fort Scott adjourned until Friday and
Judge Pollock and Clerk George
Sharitt came home. Judge Hook of
the United States circuit court came
from Leavenworth Tuesday night The
three in company with Cyrus Leland
called at Mr.. Campbell's residence last
night to inquire about Mr.. Brown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Mrs. Mary J. Bacon, of 1877 Topeka
avenue, aged so years, died this morn
ing of paralysis. She was stricken on
Tuesday afternoon and did not rally.
She had just returned from Oklahoma
City, at which place she had been
visiting friends for month. She is
survived by her daughter, Mrs. George
A. Clark, and her sons. Raymond and
w. E. Bacon. She has a brother, w.
R. Duncan, living at San Diego. Her
husband, E. E. Bacon, died in Okla
homa City last year in May. The in
terment will take place at Leroy,
Coffey county, where she formerly
lived, at 2:30 p. M. on Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
MAYOR TO GO A HUNTING.
He VIII Leave With Others for Indian
Territory OH Thursday.

Mayor Bergundthal and his hunting
party will leave Thursday for a weeks
hunting trip to Indian territory. In
the party will be Chas. Gau1t, Fred
Cole and d. H. Martin. Frank Edison
was planning to go, but has found that
he will be unable to do so.
The party is going after deer, down
in that part of the territory which is
very rough and heavily timbered
with pine, oak and elm. They expect
to come home with a supply sufficient
for their THANKSGIVING dinners.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
TO FACE A JURY
Case of Nan Patterson Comes Up for
Trial Once More

New York, Nov. 16.-After more than
five months in the Tombs prison await
ing trial on charge of murder, it was
expected that Nan Patterson, the al
legged slayer of Caesar Young, would
face jury in the criminal branch of
the supreme court today. Delay, first
from one cause and then another has
been a prominent feature in the case
ever since Miss Patterson was taken
into custody after the tragic death of
Young in a cab in which he and the
young woman were driving to the pier
where Young was to take a steamer
for Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

Pittsburg Post: Notwithstanding the
fact that there was practically no cam
paign waged in this state, the vote last
Tuesday was the largest ever polled.
The fact indicates that there was no
real apathy among the people, but that
they had practically made up their
minds that they would vote and how
they would vote Immediately after the
two national conventions were held.
The most experienced politicians were
at a loss to understand what the quiet
ness of the campaign meant, and were
inclined to think that it at least indi-
Gated a small vote. In Pennsylvania
and some other states, however, this
was not the case, while it held true in
others. When all the official figures are
in they will make an interesting study.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
New York Money Marker

New York, Nov 6.-MONEY-Morfey on
call steady, 2G21a per cent, closing bid and
offered at 2 per cent; time loans slightly
firmer; 60 days, SAq31z per cent; 80 days
and months, 324G4 per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 4G41k
per cent sterling exchange easier. closing
firm, with actual business in bankers
bills at $4.s670d 4s624 for demand and at
"a S39OGI4.S4 for so day bills: posted rates.
$4.s5 and $4Sa1s; commercial bills. 81. $50
4S334.
SILvER-Bar silver, 5s1sc; Mexican dol
lars, 4614c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
Ar THE WORLDS FAIR

Subscribers to the State Journal
visiting the Worlds Fair may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address I'm St. Louis ut tho rate
on thirty cents . month. The last
edition Of the State Journal reaches
st. Louis tie following morning. The
paper can be sent care Of the Kansas
building. II desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
Arrested for Reckless Driving.

Joe Miller, a farmer, was arrested at
the corner of Sixth and Kansas avenue
this afternoon for reckless driving
Miller was driving a team of mules to
farm wagon, and evidently in hurry,
and he narrowly missed running over
several people, and ran into a buggy
driven by a woman. The buggy was
smashed and almost overturned but the
woman who was driving was not injur-
ed She told an officer that she woul1
appear in police court this afternoon
and testify against Miller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

The result of the election seems to in
dictate that stories of trust contributions
to campaign funds were untrue. The
Republican vote was too large to have
been bought and big majorities were
rolled up in states that no Republican
would have thought of buying. The
Democratic vote was so small as 10
warrant the conclusion that the trusts
did not invest on that side since they
got nothing for their money, something
that nobody would suspect a trust of
doing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

The Judge-''You plead guilty, then,
of running your automobile at q speed
of fifty miles an hour and incidentally
running down and severely injuring an
old MANI The Prisoner (meekly)-"I
do your Honor" The JUDGE SEN
tence you to thirty days in jail!' The
Prisoner-"But. your Honor, I own the
car-Im not a chauffeur The Judge
-"Humph! Why didn't you say so be-
fore? Pay five dollars and git outl"-
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
Fritz Durcin Gets Rehearine

A rehearing has been granted by the
supreme court in the Fritz Durefn case
on the question OF the constitutionality
of the law relating to the granting a.
permits to sell Intoxicating LIQUORS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

The mine operators in the recently
disturbed district of Colorado have put
into effect an eight-hour work day at
their mines If they had done this when
the people voted for it instead trying to
defeat the popular will, they would
have saved much bloodshed, ill feeling
and financial loss, besides retaining
their friend Peabody in the office of gov
er0Or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16

Col. w. C. P. Breckenridge Has Attack
of ApOplexy.

Lexington, KY, Nov. 16.-Cofonel w.
IC. P. Breckenridge, the noted lawyer
and former congressman, was stricken
at his desk in his office today with
apoplexy and his condition is now con-
sidered serious
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-16
Judge Hook Is Here

Judge w. c. Hook, United States cir
cult judge for the Eighth federal cir
cult, came over from -Leavenworth last
night to see Frank L. Brown, clerk OF
the United States circuit court, who is
lying at the point of death. -