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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
AFTER WRONG MAN.
Carl Peters Tried to Kill a Negro at
Burlingame.

After he had been duped in a crap
game by a negro, Carl Peters of Bur-
lingame. attempted to shoot negro
named Fred Williams, at the Santa
Fe station in Burlingame last night,
thinking that Williams was the man
who earlier in the day induced him to
take part in a dice game wherein Pet
ers was $40 loser.
Peters came upon the negro at the
railroad station about 1880 o'clock last
night when $50 persons. most of them
negroes who had attended colored
Masonic funeral, were present. The
white man saw Fred Williams,
brother of the man on whom he
sought to have revenge. etnd thinking
him the man he wanted Peters whip
ped out a revolver with the words:
Now I've got you
The men grappIed. Peters then
shot over the negro's head The lat
ter caught Peters wrist, and threw up
his hand before the second shot which
went wild. Williams then pulled a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

or died, when 1 read about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; SO
began to take it, and am well again and
relieved of all my suffering. = Mrs.
GEORGE JoRDY, Box 40, Marlton, NJ.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm
full drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases we know of, and
thousandsof voluntary testimonialsare
on file in the Pinkham laboratory at
Lynn, Mass, from women who have
been cured from almost every form of
female complaints, Inflammation, ul-
ceration, displacements,f ibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
indigestion and nervous prostration.
Every suffering woman owes it to her
self to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound trial
If you would like special advice
about your case write a cOnfiden-
tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. Her advice il free,
and alW avs helpful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
BUY UP BREWERIES.
steel Corporations Plan to Regulate
Drinking of Employees.

Pittsburg. Oct. 25.-It is asserted that
the United States Steel corporation has
decided to make an effort to control
the drinking of $4,000 persons in Fayette
county. Pennsylvania. who are interest
ed in the manufacture of coke, and VIII
invest $40, 900 in a project to obtain
possession of nine breweries now run
ming in the county.
1t is understood that the steel cor
poration will try to regulate the drink
ing Of the foreigners. it being figured
that at least three per cent better re-
turns can be cleaned on the millions in
vested there by regulating the drink OF
the coke neutrality-suspicious. them to
drink, but STIMULATING where and when
they shall drink.
The sale of beer by the key or by the
barrel to the coke worker is what the
corporation objects to, and will try to
remedy.
For more than a year figures have
been gathered on drinking among coke
workers, and it is found that for 72
hours after each pay day the coke
ovens do not run more than two-thlrds
their capacity, and there is scarcely a
paw day when hundreds of tons of coke
are not ruined by inability to get
proper men to care for it in the ovens
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
POWER PLANT WRECKED
Eight Boilers Blow Up at Once at the
Pabst Brewery.

Milwaukee. Wis, Oct 25.-An ex-
plosion of eight boilers in the Pabst
Brewing company's plant this morning
resulted in the death of one employee,
the injury of four others and property
damage estimated at $25O,000. The
cause of the explosion has not yet been
aScertained.
The explosion reduced the power
plant to pile of debris and shook a
I. ection of the city within a radius of
half mile of the brewery breaking
many windows. One of the boilers was
blown across the street onto the roof
of a three-story building. An elevator
sixty feet in height and forty feet wide.
gust south of the power plant, was
Jared three feet off it's foundation.
One of the injured declared the
bursting of an 1 s inch steam pipe, car
rying steam from the battery of eight
boilers, wrecked the power building.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
oNLooKER KILLED.
John Blake on SideIines When Teams
Fell on Him.

Oberlin, Kan. Oct. 25.-John Blake.
IL year old son of ]. M Blake "a
mail carrier of Oberlin, was fatally
injured while playing football recent
ly The little boy had been playing
the game and had gone to the side
lines where he stood watching the
others play. An onside kick sent the
ball towards him.
The two teams came together and be-
fore he could get out of the way he was
caught between them and they had piled
UP on him. He was apparently not hurt
much, only stunned at the time. When
he went home. however. he rapidly grew
worse A severe hemorrhage of the
lungs occurred and quart and a half
OF blood came from his lungs. He died
within a few days after the accident.
An examination revealed the fact that
his chest had beer crushed in and his
lungs punctured by the broken ribs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
FORTUNE FOR PAINTING.
Mrs. Coils p. Huntington Pays $780,
900 for a Velasquez.

New York, Oct. 25.-Mrs. Coils P
Hunting, widow of the California rail-
road man, has purchased Col. Helford' s
famous painting by Velasquez. a life
size full length portrait of the Duke of
Olivarez, Philip the Fourth's powerful
minister, which until recently was
among the art treasures of the Dor
chester House, now the American en-
bassy at London, according to cable
gram received here. 1t is reported that
Mrs. Huntingdon paid 100000 for the
picture.
Mrs. Huntington has recently invest
ed a very large sum in fine paintings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
ADJUSTMENTS
At the Grand.

At the Grand "Wednesday. October
~. the attraction will be Marie Cahill.
who will be seen in her latest musical
play. The Boys and Betty which
had a successful run last winter at
Waliack's theater, New York THE
Boys and Betty is by George V. Ho-
bart. who adapted it from the French
farce called La Papillon.-' with
music by Silvio Helm. both of whom
have before been instrurn entail in fur
nishing Miss Cahill with suitable
starring vehicles. Miss Cahill, will, OF
course, have a number of new songs
of her own to offer her admirers,
among these being THE Arab Love
Song" a typical Cahill composition,
'.Auf Wiederschen,' "A Little Farther"
and several others
Corinne, now a Shubert star, will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
GIVES HIM A MILLION.
Wealthy Mine Owner Shares Fortune
With His Brother.

New York, Oct. 25.-Through the gen.
erosity of brother. a rich mine owner,
DR. E. B. Morgan. eve and ear specialist
of Paterson. N. j.. with a modest in
come. has become the possessor of ST.
COO, 900. Recently the brother, DIR. John
Morgan of Boston realized $1,000 600
through the sale of some securities and
desiring his brother to share his good
fortune, offered him a million. The Of
fer was accepted and the Paterson ply
stefan will retire from practice to en-
joy his suddenly acquired wealth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
Smith Didn't saw Tt.

Little Rock, Ark, Oct. 25.-W. A.
Smith, former Atlanta manager, now
signed to manage Buffalo's Eastern
league team, in a letter to President
Kavanaugh of the Southern league, re-
pudiates a report published in Cincin-
natl crediting him with explaining his
dismissal after winning two pennants
for Atlanta because he would not
draw fine finishes for big gate re-
ceipts.'' Smith has been cited to ap-
pear before the Southern directors No
vember 8 to answer the complaint filed
by the Atlanta club officials.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
Died on Way to Native Land.

New York, Oct. 25.-Hugh Neon
nell of Butte, Mont, was injured in an
accident on the Lackawanna railroad,
and was taken to hospital in Pater-
son, N j.. where his death is an
nounced today. Letters and papers
found in his pockets indicated that Nc
Cornell had accumulated a comfort
able fortune as miner in Montana.
and that he was on his way to Ireland
where he expected to retire for good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

gwen me new Life.
l suffered for ten
years with serious
female troubles, in
flammation, ulcer
alton, indigestion,
nervousness, a nd
could not sleep.
Doctors gave me
up, as they said my
t r o u b l e s were
chronic. ] was in
despair, and did not
care whetherT1ived
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

big hunting knife at which iuncture
the police interviewed.
No attempt was made by other ne
groes to mix in the fight, and when
Williams displayed the big knife
those who witnessed the affair tried
to board the train at once. The train
men started the train before sched
uled time for leaving and some of
those who boarded it did so while the
train was moving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
SHOOTS WIFE and SELF.
Hutchinson Man Feared They Would
Have Him Declared Insane.

Hutchinson. Kan, Oct. 25.-Martin c.
Thayer, aged 81. former laborer at the
local salt works. shot his wife, Mary A.
Thayer. at their boarding house here
last night and then shot and killed
himself. The woman fingered until this
morning when she died.
Fear that his family would have him
adjudged insane led Thayer to commit
the crime.
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Chicago CounciImcn Are Remiss.

Chicago. Oct. 25--Increases in salary
from $500 to 5000 for the aldermen elect
ed last April does not seem to have made
the councilmen any more regular in at
tendance upon committee sessions Chair
man Hey of the committee on street
nomenclature has been trying for three
weeks to get a quorum of his committee
together. He has failed absolutely
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
William Vaughn Moody Sick.

Baltimore Oct. 5-WiIliam Vaushn
Moody, formerly of Chicago author of
The Great Divide and widely known
as an educator and poet. is patient in
disorder which probably will require an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

seen here under her new manaeement
next Saturday matinee and night in
the Nlennese operetta, mile Mis-
a splendid production. Associat fed
with Corinne are a number OF we'll
known artists, included in the long
list being W. P. Carleton, Paul T..
warren, Frank harrington. Edward
Cutter, Louise Brunette, Bonnie Far
ley. Ethel Rose and fifty Others EN-.
bracing the original pony ballet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

Watch for our our skyline in 1912" =.
t ne slogan of San Diego. See the ex-
hibit at the National hotel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25
AFTER
SUFFERING
TEN YEARS
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound

MARLToN, MI feel that LydiaE
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

'.McFadden=s Flats will he tha ~
traction at the Grand Friday. This Is
Messrs. Townsend and MacDonoupb; .
funny farce.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

Il wait three hours every day in the ar+.
rooiIl OF q fashionable physician. Kan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-25

Corinne. now shubert star. win be
The sun., 1909-01-31

II Ia ready 10 be dropped Then the ex-
plosive is inserted in the chimney and the
supporting masonry left on the side
opened Is blown away. letting the ohm
ney fall.
The method OF throwing down great
ohimneys now more commonly followed
and moro certain in its results is by
blocking up the opening made in the CHM
ney with wooden blocks and then burning
the blocks away.
BY this method a horizontal cleft OF
uniform dimensions is cut in the side OF
the chimney at the base. and when this
cleft is deep enough blocks are inserted
in IT, Then the cleft in the walls Of the
chimney is carried further in back of the
first blocks, and more blocks are inserted.
with a little space left between them
and the first blocks. and then the cleft
is carried further back into the chimney
and more blocks inserted. and so on until
they get near to the chimney's centre
line. Exactly how far back they carry
the cleft may depend on the force Of the
wind and its direction on the day the
chimney is TO be thrown: but they carry
1t back finally, more or less as may be re-
quired, beyond the centre line Of the
chimney and so beyond the centre line
Of its weight.
Then they stun the spaces between the
wooden blocks with shavings saturated
with kerosene and set fire to them. to burn
away the blocks. As the cleft has been
carried back beyond the chimney's centre
line there is now over the cleft and the
The sun., 1909-01-31

lowered the chimney again down through
an additional space the thickness Of the
saw blade So they kept at 1t until
they had sawed out Of the chimney
thin wedge shaped mass OF material
tapering to nothing on the chimney's
low side and one and eight-tenths inches
thick on the chimney's high side, where
the chimney was to be brought down;
and taking out one and eight-tenths
inches so at the base OF the chimney was
enough to swing the top. 200 feet up in
the air. through three feet OF space and
bring the chimney back 10 plumb.
In another case a chimney weighing
about 500 tons and $50 feet In height
had beon thrown out Of plumb foot by
the softening Of the ground under one side
of its foundation. due to leak in we'll
They stopped the leak in the well, and then
they flooded the soil under the foundation
on the opposite side until that side had
settled equally with the other. and 80
brought the chimney to plumb.
In one case in which 1875 foot chimney
was foot and half out Of plumb they
drove pipes under the foundation on the
high side and took out Of the pipes cores
Of EARTH and by this means they gradually
honeycombed the ground under the Chin
ney's foundation and 80 made 1t settle
and brought the chimney straight.
A chimney out Of plumb may be safe,
but il there is danger of it's going further
they correct It. and 10 necessary they en-
large or rebuild the foundation under II.
The chimney builders do things that
seem scarcely less than marvellous.
The sun., 1909-01-31
SNIPE SHOOTING IN CHINA
A TRIP OF NAVAL OFjICERS
UP THE 81 kIiNG.
The Country About Canton Walled
vfllages-POling tp the River In
Houseboat-GOOd sport Win SnIpe
and Wild Pigeons Chinese Ways.


II had been pouring down rain for ten
days up the Canton River and the people
aboard the Z. s. S. Wilmington were
yawning their heads off for something
to do--no loading drills no signals, no
pingpong, as the subcalibre practice is
called, no drills OF any kind The billiards
at the Shameen Club had grown tiresome
and besides even the most excellent of
Scotch and sodas will tell on a white
mans liver. So. despite the rain we
decided on a shooting trip up the 81 Kians
or West River.
Charlie, the Chinese compradore (provi-
don dealer), was notified accordingly and
the chow he gave US was the best that
tired huntsmep ever ate. We secured
Q mulantang (slipper shaped boat built
20 breast the swift currents of the river
alongside and showed of to catch the
o'clocI train for Samshui, port at the
mouth of the West River about thirty
miles from Canton.
There were three OF us in the party
with the inevitable Chinese boy, without
whom the European In the East never
moves. All Foo was a boy of varied
antecedents. A Cantonese by birth, he
served nine years as a mess attendant in
the United States navy. then as servant
to the constructing engineer of the
Canton Nanking Railway. was promoted
10 coolie foreman and went 10 America;
served two years with the Pacific Mail
Company and finally rejoned the Will
mington at HongkonR.
Fat. sleek. with his ever present oily
smile he was a Joy and a comfort TO US
Foo made it easy for us at the station;
bought our tickets. attended 10 the
luggage, paid of the bearer and boat
coolies. who departed with yells OF dis
gust at his stinginess, and finally pre-
sented us az .Admirals all OF the Mellican
navy TO that grand official, the station
master. In consequence we received far
more consideration than we expected
and were assigned the best seats in the
second class car. We rode second class in
order better TO see the people, indeed
they say in the East that only fools and
Americans ride first class.
Hundreds Of Chinese go every after
noon from Canton to Fat Shan. about
an hours run. or fifteen miles. The Chi
nese seem 20 enjoy travelling just for the
ride and we saw every class represented
In the crowds of passengers, gentlemen
In their dignfied long silk gowns young
sports In gayer silks and short jackets
smoking the vile cigarettes which are
s@lS throughout the East. coolies in the
ever present Manchester blue cotton
pa. ana suits and soldiers in their i'll
fitting uniform Of red and blue-all chat
tering 10 one another and staring curl
ously at the foreign devils' in khaki and
a46t hats.
Drawn by Baldwin engine in Ameri-
can cars. we pulled slowly out of the
station. From the car window the country
reminded one forcibly Of the typical
landscape Of southern Georgia or Florida
patches Of cypress trees. long reeds
along the banks OF the numerous canals
and irrigation bitches. with hero and
there broad marshes and flooded rice
The sun., 1909-01-31
POKING FUN AT HALL CAME.
English Novelists Who Made Less Than
asSS by Their First Books.

Hall Gaines statement that he re-
ceived only $s5s for the first novel he
wrote was received with some amuse-
ment among English novelists, who
straightway volunteered condolences as
to their receipts for first works.
Edgar Jepson, whose Lady Noggs"
has run into many editions, made Just
SIC. 40 on his first two books. John Oxen
hams rst efforts brought him SIPS
Percy White. whose books came very
high in the list Of popular novels. says
he considers Hall Gaines struggle most
unheroic.' while Silas Hooking does not
see why it should be called struggle
at all.
Frankfort Moore ventures to think
that the Manx novelist's Ss55 was not
a absolutely contemplate. while II. c.
Baily cannot see the stiffness Of the
fight for life with that sum as starter.
Cutclifie Hyne tells that he worked
for six years before he made $3.50 year,
and the general opinion is that compared
with his brother novelists Hall Gaines
stiff struggle for glory was really a
primrose path OF affiuenoe.
The sun., 1909-01-31

blocks slight preponderance Of the
chimney's weight. and as the blocks
burn away the great stack crashes down
on that side and topples over to fall in
precisely the place intended for it,
A great chimney when thrown down
seldom falls whole to measure it's length
upon the ground, as a tall tree would do
and usually it falls within space Of APP
proximstely three-fourths of its radius
The chimney is not a continuous solid
structure held together like tree trunk
IL Ia made Of separate pieces, and as it
falls IL is likely to come apart.
In it's sweep downward the top Of the
chimney meets great air resistance,
which tends to stop it and to dslocate il
from the heavier part Of the chimney be-
low. and that heavier part tends by it's own
weight and the attraction of gravitation
TO break away and sink to the earth; and
30 the great chimney. when falling, is
likely to break into two parts. or more
likely into three, and thus to come down
not as a great column might fall but sink
ing to the earth in two or more massive
fragments. occupying less space hori-
zontally than it did vertically
Throwing down old chimneys and
building new are not the only interesting
things the chimney builders do. Here
was an old fashioned square chimney
that had been built of a uniform diameter
for half its height and carried up from
that with a decided taper to its top. Now
a taller chimney was wanted here. but it
could not be built up from that narrow
top. So they threw down the upper half
of this chimney and on the lower half
left standing built up an extension Of the
required height and dimensions.
Here was a 200 foot chimney weighing
about 900 tons whose foundation had set
tied till the chimney was three feet out Of
plumb; but the found alton had settled
permanently. and they brought the
chimney back to vertical easily.
They sawed into the high side and drove
wedges into the saw space there so that
they could work the - W and kept on saw
ing horizontally almost across the chin
ney Then they took out the wedges
and let the chimney down on that side.
covering it so for "A space equal to the
thickness of the saw blade. from which
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den" and he went on his way rejoicing.
Few farmers in our own country would
have turned out of a warm house to show
a Chinanan his wFy home.
We were busily engaged at supper when
in came Foo, much excited saying: Have
got four, five. six soldier man front side -
wantchee speak master As the pirates
were reported as quite troublesome on
the river and even the regular soldiers
were not above turning an easy penny
from the loot of houseboat we secured
our revolvers and slipped out the back
way, To take look at our visitors unseen
by them.
As they had no arms we admitted one,
who. explained Foo. said that the captain
OF Chinese gunbOat wished MS to report
on board, as he had heard the sound Of
the firing and was uneasy for our safety.
As we were tired out we told the soldier
to tell his captain that we were all Cap
tains Of the American navy. were per-
fectly safe. and il he wished 70 see us we
would be pleased to have him come on
bsard
He soon appeared. and after taking a
look at us and asking few questions
he was pleased TO have drink. We gave
him about three-quarters OF glass of
whiskey and little hot water. which he
drank without wink. but We noticed
that he was very careful to have help
when he stepped over the gangway.
Reaching Shs Po about eighteen miles
above Samshui, we found for the first
time some hostility to oforeigners-nothing
open, but plenty Of looks and many re-
marks which our boy refused to translate.
1t seemed that there had been French
missionary murdered some years back
and the hand of retribution had been heavy
upon these merry villagers.
On the fourth day we started TO drop
down river. We had very foolishly
given the sampan man some OF his money
in advance and he promptly bought
opium and was soon lost 10 the sorrows
OF the world in trance from which no
of the family had to do his work, and Foo
fiirted outrageousy with the youngest
OF the old gentleman's wives.
The surface Of the river at Samshui
was almost covered with houseboats
and the smaller sampans. while well
out in the stream lay two saucy gun
boats, the Robin and the Moorhen. with
three rakish looking torpedo craft, all
flying the red cross OF st. Geoi ge.. Brit
refused TO pay an indemnity for toe mis-
sionary murdered some months before.
The indemnity was finally paid, believe;
IL always is when China has to do the
paying
just awakened from his dreams, gave
him his money-four dollars for five days
use Of his boat, his family to serve US
and coolies to move the boat from point
whole trip cost us about two dollars
apiece. exclusive OF the ammunition. |
This included food. transportation and
boat hire. and we had enjoyed four days
of fine sport and a good look at the Chinese |
farmer on his native heath.