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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-29
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with artillery work again yesterday in
the upper Isonzo zone but we demUl-
lshed enemy posts at Mrzlivrh and
made a direct hit on a trench mortar.
Our grenadiers destroyed an entrench-
ment of the enemy in the Seagora sec
ton, compelling the defenders to flee
"A desperate fight on the heights
northwest of Gorilla which lasted
about forty hours. ended successfully
for US. After intense concentrated
gunfire against our entertainments at
Grafenberg, which already had been
damaged by storms, the enemy opened
an attack with a very important forca
en- Sunday evening. Our troops Of
fered obstinate resistance and held
operating against our fIanks in the
center. After furious hand-to-hand
fighting one of our battalions retired
about 400 yards, taking with it about
thirty prisoners.
RetOOl Lost Position.
"A very lively interchange of gun
IRE continued throughout the succeed
ing day. Our infantry began a couh-
ter attack in the evening and by means
of repeated charges which were sup
ported admirably by the artillery, re-
took by storm the positions previously
lost. We captured 302 prisoners in
Guiding L officers, two machine guns,
large number of rifles and much
ammunition and war material of all
descriptions.
THE fourth enemy aeroplane
brought down by our rifle fire landed
yesterday near Vittorce. Both occu-
pants were CAPTURED -
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Wall St. New York. March 29.-SToCKS
Activity increased in the first hour but
trading was restricted to Marine preferred
Crucible, American Locomotive: Anaconda
and Goodrich while United States Steel
was strong. however, rising s to Sols. be
fore the partial reversal of the second
hour Strength of CoDpars was accounted
for by reports that the French government
had placed a large order for the metal
in this market Reading was the only rail
to manifest more than ordinary activity
but was under pressure as were Union Pa
cific and Erie. Anglo-Frenc SIS were ac-
tive and strong. Other bonds were steady
-Coppers, Motors and some of the war
issues were the features Of todays early
trading at gains ranging from fractions
to a point. Initial dealings in kennecott
Shattock- Arizona, Reading and Erie com
prised individual lots of 1000 to 1900
shares the rails showing slight recessions
Federal Smelling preferred lost point and
Mercantile Marine preferred denoted fur
Their heaviness. United States Steel was
unchanged at the outset but subsequently
made slight Roadway. while Crucible Steel
forfeited all of its rise. Specialties. with
few exceptions made further improve
ments later.
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D. A. R. IN SESSION
Kansas Society to Close Three
Day Meeting Friday.
Several Topeka Women Attend
Conference at Wichita.

Wichita, Kan, March 29.-Members
of the Kansas Daughters of Ameri-
can Revolution society gathered here
today for their annual conference
which will continue through Friday
Miss Eliza A Denniston, of Washing
ton, d c., a well known D. A. r.
member will give the principal adj
dress of the conference. She is on
the program to lecture on the Me-
mortal Continental hall built by the
society in Washington
Selection of the design for the pro-
posed Kansas flag is one of the most
important matters scheduled to come
before the conference. Mrs X r Eek
dali, of Emporia, has been gathering
designs for the flag which will be sub
mitted to the conference and it is
planned to choose the most appro-
pirate one, which will be presented
to the next Kansas legislature for Of
fetal sanction. Another important
question to come before the confer
ence will be the proposed marking of
the Oregon trail through Kansas.
In addition to the official business
of the conference brilliant social af-
fairs have a place on the three-day
program. A reception will be given
Wednesday evening and Thursday
there will be luncheon for the WISH
tors. The first session began this aft
ernoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Mrs. George T. Guernsey, of Inde-
pendence, Kansas, regent of the Kan
sas D. A. r., will preside at the meet
ines and will make an address. The
conference is to be strictly a woman S
meeting and except for Mayor o. H.
Bentley of Wichita, who will deliver
an address OF welcome, no man is
scheduled to appear on the program.
Miss Catherine Campbell, of Ottawa
is treasurer; Miss Agnes Thompson of
Lawrence, secretary, and Mrs. L. L.
Kiene of Topeka, vice regent of the
society. Some of the reports to be
made during the conference follow:
Patriotic education, Mrs. c. w. Bit
ting of Wichita, National Old Trails,
Miss Clara Francis, secretary Histor-
ical society, Topeka; Flag Declaration,
Mrs. Effie Van Tuyl, Leavenworth ;
Preservation of Historical Sports, Mrs.
C. F. Friend, Lawrence; Welfare of
| Women and Children, Mrs L. D.
Johnston. Chanute; Children and Sons
of the Republic, Mrs. L. L. kiene; To
( peka; Conservation, Mrs. w A Nc
Cullough, Delavan; Real Daughters,
| Mrs. r. w. Gates, Chanute; D. A r.
Magazine, Mrs. George r. Hooper,
Atchison; Children of American Rev
olution, Mrs L. H. Phillips, Pittsburg
Printing and Stationery, Miss Agnes
/ Thompson of Lawrence; Press, Mrs. R
B. Bittmann; Mothers Day, Mrs s F.
| Woolard, of Wichita State Flag. Mrs
j. F. Eckdall of Emporia; Magazine
Prize, Mrs. George Hooper; Flag
| Award, Mrs Ferd Evans
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Sell NAPOLEON
WAR CHEST AT
AUCTION IN N. Y.
Articles Marie AntOinette Had
in Prison, on Block.
Descendants Dispose of Stephen
JumeI Collection.
BED BONAPARTE USED IN 1900
His Chess Outfit, Clock and
Rare Bric-a-Brac.
Antiques Brought to America
by JumeI in 1915.

New York, March 29.=To the high
Est bidder today at an auction sale in
West F'orty-fifth street will go Ma
DoleOn's war chest and his bed, Marie
Antoinette's vanity case and the box
full of other personal belongings she
BOOK with her to prison: also dozens
Df other personal effects of kings and
queens. dukes and duchesses and 9TH
.br mobiles.
The sale is that of one of the most
Interesting and priceless Napoleonic
collections in the world. It is known
as the Stephen Jumel collection and
vas brought to America by Jumel in
1876, when he took a ship to Europe
to bring back the dethroned emperor.
The collection is being sold by Ju-
mePs descendants. It has been thought
4for many years that the collection
would be presented to the city of New
York.
Mime. Jumel married Aaron Burr
bin 1888, a year after Stephen Jumel
died. 1t was to her that Napoleon
presented his battered leather war
all his campaigns from TOulon to
Waterloo. With, its secret key. Ma
'poleon gave Nine. Jumel the chest the
day before he sailed for st. Helena.
Insignia of Power and Wisdom.
Also to be auctioned is Napoleon's
bed, which he used in 1900 1t is of
mahogany. The medallions on the
|headboard represent Power and Wis
dom in the profile bust of Minerva,
helmeted, with an owl atop.
The medallions are cruSted with
palm trees and seven stars, all rep
Presenting great deeds. There also is
|Napoleon's chess board, chessmen,
chess table and chairs with which he
played so much.
Napoleon's clock is unique in de-
Sign and exquisitely dainty in work.
|manship. 1t represents Minerva ap-
preaching Apollo as he goes to war.
chariot with its charging steeds, the
lion facing the spear and the wreath
of laurels all typify the qualities which
dominated Napoleon.
In the collection is the golden eagle,
Napoleon's insignia, with wings spread
and head and body poised to strike,
After his downfall Nine. Jumel re-
tanned the emblem in her house in
Paris.
Possessions of Louis XVIII.
Other Napoleonic relics include two
eandlesticks belonging to Louis XVIII,
tapestry used by Hortense, queen
of Holland, daughter of Josephine;
chairs, sofa, center table and consul
table. forming part of Charles KS
drawing room suite, still in its original
upholstery, and a fan belonging to the
Duchess de Berry
There are six chairs that belonged
to Marie Antoinette and the box used
to carry some of her belongings to
prison, a table on which Voltaire
wrote, which was presented to Nine.
Jumel by the Prince Talleyrand, and
many paintings, including a portrait
of Nine Junel painted in Rome and a
portrait of the DucheSse de Ia Valliere
by Mignard
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as it was given him from his subordin-
ates on the road at 9 o'clock:
Train No. Sc, eastbound, was trav-
cling in two sections.
THE engineer of the first section
was stopped at Amherst by a signal
L don't know just how.
1.-The second section of No. Sc should
have stopped because of the automatic
signal or by the signal of flagman
on the first section.
THE second section ran into the
end coach of the first section. The
wreckage from both sections went
over OF the westbound high speed
track.
''Tne rear car of the first section
was a coach from Chicago to Pitts
burg
Those in Sleepers Not Injured.
1T had forty passengers, four of
whom are killed. l don't know how
many were injured.
1.-The next car ahead of the coach
was club Pullman car. There was
nobody in this car, but porter and
a mail clerk.
These two men are missing. The
cars ahead of the coach and club cars
were sleepers. Nobody in them was
hurt.
1.-The Twentieth Century was de-
rallied. but nobody on it was injured.
Il have ordered n investigation at
once. 1 don't think sny of the crew
was hurt, but SO far we have not got
track of the engineer of the second
section
Fireman Crushed, Engineer Safe.
The body of one fireman, badly
crushed, was found on top of the boil
er of one of the engines.
Some of the members of the crew
of the three trains in the wreck, es-
capped with scratches and bruises. c.
c. Robinson, Toledo, engineer of the
Twentieth Century, crawled unInjured
from under his engine after it had
plunged 400 feet along the ties. His
fireman. Walter Mann. Toledo. and the
conductor, NJ. V. Burk, Buffalo, also
were unhurt.
John Keller. conductor of the sec
ond section of No. Sc, and Frank Bun
mel in charge of the first section, and
other uninjured members of the crews
assisted in caring for injured passen-
gers and in clearing away wreckage.
Search was being made for the
bodies of two express messengers, ex-
pected to be found among express car
wreckase piled twenty feet high.
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UP COMCRE PRICES
A 1854 Per Cent Rise on Meats
in Year.
Houston Newspaper Raises
Price of Street Editions.

Washington. March 29.-Prices Of
meat anima1s-hogs cattle, sheep and
chickens-were 16.4 per cent higher
on March Is than they were on that
date year ago and 1921 per cent
higher than the average of the last
six years on March Is. report of
the department of agriculture today
says the level of prices paid to pro-
ducers of the country for meat ami
mails increased "a per cent from Feb.
is to March Is this year compared
with an average increase Of 81 per
cent in the same period of the last
six years.
Prices paid for hogs showed an in
crease of S1.53 per 100 pounds over
March 5 year ago and 60 cents over
the average of the last six years,
beef cattle increased As cents over last
year and SO cents over the six-year
average.
Houston. March 29.-Owing to a
scarcity of print paper as a result
of the freight congestion in the east
a local afternoon paper today in
creased the price of its street edition
from two to five cents, with the ex-
pectation that curtailment of 20 to
80 per cent in street sales will effect
a saving of a carload of paper in two
weeks.
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PRICES WILL SOAR

(Continued from Page one.l
labor have Just signed up new con-
tracts. with the usual advance in
wages, too"
In Clothing Line.
I. w. Felix of the Felix Clothing
Company also is apprehensfve of a rise
in fall goods This is due to an in
crease in wooden goods and scarcity of
raw materials. However, in spring
goods Mr.. Felix announces that he will
be able to protect customers from an
increase in price because Of having
fortified himself in early buying.
Increase in Dry Goods.
Practically every line of goods
handled by the Warren M. Crosby Dry
Goods Company has or will increase in
value, according to a statement made
by W. w. Whitney, treasurer and gen.
eral manager of the company. In
crease in wholesale prices causes a
similar increase in the price to con-
sumers, Mr.. Whitney pointed out.
Take for instance raw silks" said
Mr.. Whitney. They have increased
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GET MORE AFFIDAVITS
Survivors of EngIishnan and Sussex
Corroborate Torpedo Theory

Washington, March 29.-Affidavits
secured at Liverpool from three Amer
lean survivors of the British horse
snip Englishman are to the effect that
the vessels was torpeGoed and shelled
by German submarine according to
adVices received today at the state de-
partment from the American embassy
in London. The fact that the vessel
was shelled led officials to believe that
she might have tried to escape.
Statements secured from American
SURVIVORS of the channel steamer Sus-
sex by American consular agents at
Dover all were said in overnight dis
patch to the state department, to bear
out the theory that the vessel was
torpedoed. Affidavits secured from
the survivors will be sent here
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80 DEAD

lContinned from Page One.l
attributed to the fact that the train
was proceeding slowly because of the
heavy fog. The second section of the
flier was going at a high rate of speed
when it struck the first section.
Killed as They Slept.
Most of those killed were asleep in
the rear day coach of train So at the
time of the crash, and they had re-
moved wraps and coats and other
articles of Identifying clothing.
The bodies of many of these scantily
clad victims are 50 horribly mangled
that Identification, without the guild
ance of the clothing they wore, will
be impossible.
Some of the victims were decapi-
tated. Arms, legs and portions of
bodies were scattered through the
wreckage.
Relief parties collected the remains
of three bodies-those of a woman
and two men-and piled them indis-
criminately, in one basket They prob
ably will be buried together.
Crashes Two Minutes Apart
A Comensky, Pittsburg, coming
from Chicago, said he saw a woman
die in the wreckage before he could
extricate her. Another woman he
said was badly injured and a man had
his arms torn from their sockets.
Alfred Fritzele, Cleveland, salesman
AOA d III . CAlAuSu company, was
in the Toledo sleeper of the first sec
ton and escaped injury. He helped
in the rescue.
Aaron D. Ray, Pittsburg, who was
travelling with Fritzele, was thrown
from his berth into one occupied by a
woman across the aisle, but was unin-
jured- They placed the number of
dead at between IS and 80. They said
the first section stopped five minutes
after it left Amherst and was Just
picking up speed again when the first
crash came. Two minutes later, they
said, the second occurred.
CentraIs Fastest, Finest Train
Train Sc was known as the Pitts
! burg Baltimore-B Buffalo Limited, p
/ flyer which made the trip from Chi
cago to Baltimore in thirteen hours
and thirty-five minutes. 1t was due
/ in Cleveland at 4.05 this morning
The train carried sleeping coaches
from Chicago to Pittsburg and Buff
falo and took on a sleeper at Cleve-
land for Buffalo. It carried a dineI
! from Chicago to Pittsburg and was
known as one of the finest trains or
! the New York Central lines. The
flyer was split into two sections today
because of unusually heavy traffic and
this splitting of the train indirectly
caused the wreck.
General Manager Describes 1t.
! d. C. Moon. general manager o.
the New York Ger trail lines at CIeve-
land gives this DRY OF the WRECK
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Wage Eight Continues.

New York. March 29.-The subcom-
rnittee of the Anthracite operators and
miners continued its deliberations to-
day on a new wage scale, for the hard
coal fields. The representatives of the
miners who have presented arguments
on each of their ten demands sep
arately confined themselves today to
a summing up in general argument
of their claims as a whole. 1t was
said before the conference opened
that several clauses, especially the one
demanding 20 per cent increase in
wages would suffer revision, but that
the miners will fight for the eight
hour day and recognition of the United
Mine Workers as a union.
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SWAT THAT FLY
Continued from Page One,

condition. OF course, on the East side,
much of the territory will not have
sewers available until next fall or
winter.
A Menace to Health.
Topeka people are becoming edu-
Gated to the seriousness of the fly
menace. They realize that they may
keep their own premises spick and
span, yet their neighbor may main
tain a pile of garbage that will breed
enough flies to annoy the entire
neighborhood. Hence the resident who
fights flies on his own premises calls
on the health department to make his
neighbor clean up, and the health de-
partment is glad to do it. People who
know of unsanitary places in their
neighborhoods are invited to notify the
health department Such complaints.
when justified, help us keep the city
clean and sanitary.
Typhoid, tuberculosis, summer
complaint of children and infantile
paralysis, known as anterior polio
myelitis are spread by flies The pests
jump in the death rate for infants
during the summer months. and many
adults also are victims every year of
disease spread by the fly. Remem-
Der, the fly never wipes his feet be-
fore lighting on your sleeping baby's
face or on the food on your dinner
table.
Screen your windows. buy your
swatter and sticky fly paper now, and
swat the fly early and Late
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Funeral for t. j. Pence.

Raleigh, March 29.-Funeral serv-
ice for Thomas J. Pence, secretary
of the Democratic national commit
tee, who died Monday in Washing
ton, was conducted here Tuesday. Hon
orary pa1lbearers included Secretary
Daniels, Gov. Craig, Senator James
and Hughes, Joseph Tumulty, Presi-
dent wilson's secretary, and DIR. Cary
T. Grayson. the president physician.
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Kansas City. March Enthusiastically
12.000. Market 10c lower Bulk of safes,
$9.400i9.G0; heavy. S9.GOelD-I21z packers and
butchers. S9.45eIe6J; light s9.3o09J5;
pigs s.. 256I 500.
CATTLE-Receipts $500 Market steady.
Prime fed steers 81. 2sar 9ND: dressed beef
steers. S7.006D Il: western steers. ST.7jd
9.15: southern steers. sT0oMs.T5: cows. 81. 90
NS1U: heifers 81 B9M9.fD: stockers and
feeders S6.T5d $50: bulls. s5.T56i I - I:
calves. $4,000 1880
SHEEP eceipts 10000. Market 10c to
ITe lower Lambs $40 7J,0 II 80; yearlings
S9.J0u105O wethers, sS..JdH9.n0: ewes. STD
nS.65; stockPrs and feeders, S6.oC010.7a.
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FATAL CASE ANTHRAX
Paul Lloyd of Abilene Dies at To-
peka Hospital.

Anthrax was fatal to Paul Lloyd, an
S year old boy of Abilene, Kan, who
died Monday in a local hospital. 1t
is thought that he contracted the mall
ady by playing with the family cat.
The boy was in a serious condition
when brought to the hospital and it
was considered remarkable that he
lived so long.
Paul Lloyd was the son of Garfield
Lloyd, who lived in Abilene. The body
was taken to the home there and the
funeral was held Tuesday. While Paul
was in the hospital he was kept apart
from the other patients and every pre-
caution was taken to 'revent a spread
of the disease. The physicians at the
institution have had experience in
similar cases but all efforts to save
the boys life proved futile.
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Washington, March 29.-Tariff pro-
lection is necessary to enable about
half of the beet sugar producers of
the United States to compete with
Cuban cane sugar in the opinion of
the federal trade commission which
soon will issue report on its investi-
cation of the beet sugar industry. The
other half, the commission will say,
needs no tariff aid.
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Kansas city, March 2g.-wHEAT-Cash
Market 1T2c higher. No. hard, $1.056i
112; No 3, s1.O40111; No. . red, $1.0s@
lib: No. 3. $1.04d111.
. mixed, 67069c; No. g. 6GIaM6S1Ac No
white 6S6I6S1ac; No. 3, G612@67c; No.
yellow. Toe: No. j. 69c.
No. white. 46@4Tc: No. mixed, 41@43c.
RYE-SJMS6c
HAY-Market unchanged to S1.O0 higher.
Choice timothy, ST.. GOA l.; 80; CHOICE
prairie. $10-50@f1.00; choice alfalfa, $3.50
0I1600.
KAFIR-No. white, 931ac
WHEAT-Receipts So cars.
BUTTER-Market unchanged
POULTRY-Market unchanged
EtIGS-Firsts, zoe.
CLOSE: WHEAT-May, $1O4B; July,
81. OBJ al. 03as.
CORN-Mav 6s01es1kc: July 7O1kc.
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Defense Measure to Senate.

washington, March 29.-The first
of the national defense measures got
before the senate for general debate
today when thearmy reorganization
bill was made the unfinished bust
ness. Debate on the bill reported as a
substitute for the army measure,
passed by the house, will begin to-
morrow.
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CONDENSED news


Leavenworth, Kan, March 29.-B.
F. Bush, receiver for the Missouri Pa
cific and Iron Mountain systems was
granted authority by Federal judge w.
C. Hook here today to purchase thirty
thousand tons of new heavy steel rails.
1t is understood the rails viii be used
for a new track between Kansas City
and Omaha and on other parts of the
two systems.
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Quincy, ILL.,, March 2e.-Captain J.
R. Williams, OF Warsaw. ILL.,. probably
the oldest river man living is today eel
ebrating his Tooth birthday Captain
Williams is known from St. Louis to
st. Paul. he began his steamboat ca
reer in 1856 and followed the river
for rs years
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Col Hopse in washington

washington, March 29.-Col. e. NJ.
House, who recently returned from
Europe, where he investigated the
submarine and other questions for
President Wilson arrived at the White
House late today. tits understood he
came to give the president in the
present emergency the benefit of his
personal knowledge of condition
abroad
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A Submarine Probe.

Washington, March -Ambassa-
dor Gerard at Berlin has been in
structed to gather Information as to
whether a German submarine attack
ed the horse ship Englishman in
which American life was lost. he prob
ably will make informal inquiries of
the German government.
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Secret wife Kills Self.

Albany, n. Y, March 29.-Mrs.
Alice Leclaire Page. wife of Charles
Page, a wealthy resident of this city.
shot herself at her husbands studio
here. dying almost instantly. The
suicide caused the announcement of
the marriage of the couple in 1912, a
fact Mr.. Page said he had kept secret
on his mothers account. Prior to the
marriage Mrs. Page was widow.
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Liverpool, March 29.@z,WHEAT-.Spot No
lis Cd: No. hard winter. gulf, lis sd
No. 1 Durum. stock.
CORN-American mixed new los sd
FLOUR-winter patents, 46s Cd.
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chicago March 29-HoGS-R Receipts 3s.-
UcC. Market slow, 1ec under yesterdays
average Bulk of sales. 50 6-5lyH &. 50: light
$s.:s5et $50: mixed. 80 500 1855: heavy. $40
6l3S5: rough S9-406a9.55; pigs. xT.40dS-t0
CATTLE-Recefpts Il 600 Market weak
Native beef steers. Ss.O0n990: western
steers, $T.60@S.60; stockers and feeders,
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English Educator Dead.

oxford, Eng, March 29.-James
Leigh STANDARDIZATION. master of
Balloil college since 1907, died this
morning. He was author of several
historical works.