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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
KILLED BY TRAIN
Two Catholic CIergymen Dead
sin Auto Smash Here.
Father Thomas McNieve and
Lay Brother Ryan, Victims.
HIT AT CROSSING NEAR CITY
Rock Island Engine PIows Thru
Buick Motor Car.
Curtains on Car Prevented
Them From Seeing Train.

1t is believed that because the
weather is cold and the side curtains
had been put up on the car in which
they were driving, Father Thomas Nc
Nieve, of the College of St. Mary's, at
st. Marys. Kan, and Lay Brother
William m Ryan, of the same college,
We're killed at IL o'clock this morning
when their Buick car was struck by
Rock Island passenger train No. 500,
/ from st. Joseph
The accident occurred at the point
near the Boys State Industrial school
where the Victory highway, on which
the two men were driving, crossed the
Rock Island tracks.
Father McNieve was instantly killed
and his body terribly mangled. Ryan
died at O'Clock this afternoon in
Stormont hospital, where he was
TAXI after the accident without re-
covering consciousness.
Did Not See the Train.
It is the belief of the train crew that
the motorists, because of the curtains
of their car, did not hear the train
until it was upon them on the cross
ing. The trainmen say the car drove
directly onto the crossing ahead of the
engine, and that it was not stalled on
the tracks.
, The engineer on No. 303 is Frank
Tam blyn, and the conductor of the
train is NJ. F. Mcdonald.
1t is pointed out that there is
clear view of the tracks from the road.
in both directions, at the crossing
where the fatal accident occurred, and
this, with the fact that the car waI
moving when it was struck by the en-
gine, forms the basis of the theory
that the driver of the car did not see
the train. 1t is not known which of
the two men was driving the car when
the accident occurred.
The Rock Island train No. 500 runs
between st. Joseph and Topeka ami
was on time this morning when the
accident happened.
Were Brought to Topeka.
The body of Father McNieve was
taken to SheIlabarger's undertaking.
parlor, and Brother Ryan to the Stor-
mont hospital, where DR.. A. H Mar
shall, local physician for the Rock Is
land, took charge of the case.
The train crew picked up the body
Of the dead priest and the injured lay
brother, and brought them to Topeka
men were riding was completely
crushed.
Father McNieve and Ryan were on
their way to Topeka to complete
cattle deal and planned to return
home tonight.
Father McNieve was about so years
of age and was pastor of the St
Mary.s parish church. He was born
near st. Marys and had lived in that
practically all of his life. He
served at one time as an instructor
in st. Mary's college.
Ryan was about 46 years of age
and has been cattle boss on the St
Father B. j. Rodman. president of
st. Mary's college, arrived in Topeka
at 2:42 o'clock this afternoon to make
the funeral arrangements.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
WAIT FOR BLOWUP
Dublin Expects Execution Re-
prisaIs at Any Minute.
100 Desperate Men Ready to
ASSassinate Officials.

London, Dec. 9.-The expectation
that yesterdays executions in Dublin
will be followed by further shootings,
is expressed today by some of the
Dublin dispatches to the London news
papers. These correspondents are
convinced that a chain of reprisals
will continue.
The Daily Mail Dublin correspon-
dent quotes a Free State official as
saying that there are at least 100
desperate men in the city who. having
no care for their own lives, will follow
the behest of their leaders and en-
deavor to assassinate members of the
government and of the Irish parlia-
ment-
The correspondent remarks that
the authorities still have in custody
several republican leaders who were
captured under certain circumstances
bringing them within the scope of the
recent proclamation prescribing a
summary military trial and execution
of spersons found to possess bombs.
explosives or fire arms These pris-
oners include Tom Hailes, brother of
Thursday, and Michael I<ilroy, Sean
Russell and Tom Mcguire.
Eamonn de Valera, who is in hid
ing, IS expected to issue a public an
bearing upon the re
prisal executions" of O'Connor and
the others.
Great military precautions have
been taken to guard the lives of Free
State officials and government prop
erty. The Free State government
policy was announced as follows by
william T. Cosgrave Of the Dali Fire
ann:
There is only one way to crush the
of assassins; that is by
striking terror into the hearts of the
Details of the execution leaked out
today. The firing squad was COM
posed mostly of young soldiers. who
were so nervous their aim was bad.
Liam Mellowes was not killed at the
first volIey and a second had to be
fired.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
Simplicity Plan Certain
To Be Adopted AS the
Committee Has No Funds
Not Enough Money Hand to Buy Powder for Cannon
Salute-Bankrupt Organizations Are in Charge of
Inaugural Program for Next Governor of Kansas.

The Republican committee isn't hall
as interested in a good show for Gov
ernor Davis as in some method OF
financing which will lift a S2,500 cam
paign- ovcrdraft.
Demos Have Big Overdraft.
Carl ]. Peterson, secretary of the
Dem ocratic state committee, has a-so
been appointed to help make. the in
augural of Governor. Davis a success
Peterson knows it is a useless prop
osition without money. And the Demo
crat campaign committee which won
Davis elo ction, has not only con-
tracted an overdraft but is. on the
verge of bankruptcy. The committee
is $4,000 in debt.
Universal custom demands that the
governor be greeted with military
salute of seventeen guns. But there
isn't cannon in Topeka now. The
big guns went when Topeka lost her
national guard battery. The nearest
cannon is in Troy-fifty miles away.
And it will cost $40O to bring the
cannon to Topeka and send it back to
Troy.
In addition to that it costs money to
FIRE a big gun. And there is no fund
for. powder. Again, the guardsn1en II
draw pay for the day they are in serv-
ice for the inaugural. That brings
deficit.
Ordinarily there might be some help
from the governors contingent fund.
But it looks as tho the appropriations
for the fiscal year will be exhausted in
the closing six months of the Allen ad-
ministration and Governor Davis W IL
go into office without sufficient mon
ey for postage stamps.
The simplicity pan seems certain of
adoption. Not only does the ircom-
the governor approve the idea, but it
seems to be the only plan available
unless, of course. Speck saves the day.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
SECOND QUAKE HITS JAPAN.
Unofficial Reports Say Forty Killed
in Quake of Yesterday.

Toxic, Dec. 9.-The northern penin-.
sula of the main island of Japan was
rocked today by the second earth
quake to be reported on the island
empire in twenty-four hours. Scismo-
graph records here show today's earth
disturbance to have been more severe
than. that which shook Nagasaki and
Kyushu yesterday.
No reports have been received as
yet as to casualties or damage from
eoday's quake.
Nineteen are officially reported
dead at Nagasaki and unofficial re-
ports have been received of forty be
ing killed yesterday. Hundreds were
injured
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
OPTIMISM AT PEACE TABLE
Ismet Pasha's Statement Helped to
Clear the Atmosphere.
(By the Associated Press)

Lausanne, Dec. 9.-OptimisI

LAUSANNE, Dec. y.-Opumlsn
reigned supreme in Lausanne today
Tor the Near East conference had
weathered what was probably its most
difficult session to date.
Ismet Pasha's statement yesterday
of the Turkish views on the Darda-
neiles question and the reply it
brought from Lord Curzon on behalf
of the inviting powers, resulting in a
general clearing of the conference at
mosphere.
Turkey has apparently broken away
from Russian control, and Foreign
Minister Tchitcherin and his ass:s-
tants. altho resentful of Turkeys fail
ure to hold out for compete autonomy
in the straits, are accepting the situa-
ton.
Details Of the Dardanelles settle
ment were being threshed out today by
naval and military experts.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
Christmas Seals
Originally Were
In Form of Kisses

The custom of selling tuberculosis
seals at Christmas time had its origin
in the old fashioned kissing games.
according to Mrs. Kurtz Kellam, sales
for the Topeka tuberculosis associa-
ton.
The old game of postoffice. in
which kisses were paid as forfeits,
furnished inspiration for the idea,"
said Mrs. Kellam. During the Civil
war it became a fad to raise money
by selling kisses for war relief work
The game. however, was frowned
upon by many older people, who
thought 1t was an improper way of
raising money for charity. In Bos-
ton the objection became so strong
that in 1862 women of the city inter
ested in the sanitary commission for
war work. opened miniature postof-
fices in connection with a fair in Bos-
ton. at which fhey sold imitation
stamps.
These stamps took the place of the
old tiIs3e kiss and young girls, writing
ways sure to have one of the kiss
stamps on their envelopes. To omit
the stamp was considered poor form.
The Idea spread to other cities until in
1864 more than one million dollars
was raised thru the seal for northern
hospitals"
After the Civil war the charity
use, but in 1908 a national campaign
was begun to sell Christmas Seals to
fight tuberculosis.
The success of this work is shown
by the fact that the tuberculosis death
rate has been cut in half, and for
this the little Christmas Seal, which
everyone is now buying, is largely re-
SpOnSible.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
CAN'T WE'D BY RADIO
Attorney General of New York
Holds All Parties Must Be Pres
ent and Grand Central Palace
Wedding Is Called Off.

ceremony performed by radio is il
legal, according to a construction
placed upon the domestic relations law
by States Attorney General Newton
The words in the presence" as con-
tanned in the law, means an actual
and not :. constructive presence, the
attorney general holds
1T is as essential that the witnesses
and persons officiating should be i'm
contracting Larties to the marriage
should be in view of each other" Mr..
Newton said
Questions as to the legality of a
radio ceremony were brought up by
the proposal % have a San Francisco
clergyman broadcast the ritual TO con-
tracing parties in the Grand Central
palace in New York City. The bride
and groom were to broadcast their re-
spOnses in return
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
FRIENDS TO AID MRS. FORD
Woman, Charged With Murder Plot,
Spends Night in Jail.

Detroit, Dec. 8 Friends of Mrs.
May B. Ford, charged with plotting
to slay her estranged husband, Ney
J. Ford, a wealthy farmer, renewed
Their efforts today to obtain freedom
for the prisoner.
Mrs. Ford spent last night in Jail
unable to raise the $4,000 required
by the recorders court, before which
she pleaded not guilty yesterday.
While admitting she might have
talked with Lieutenant Edward w.
Kunath, while suffering from inter-
mittent lapses of memory, Mrs. Ford
continued today to brand the alleged
conspiracy as a fframeup." She is al
legged to have Offered the detective
$4,000 to murder her husband and
dispose of the body. Ford is her
fourth husband, the former three hav-
ing obtained divorces from her in
Toledo.
No date had been set early today
for the examination demanded by
Mrs. Ford's attorneys
Il was a fool to marry her. I GER
tainly was a fool" declared Ford. to-
day ''It isn't in her to be true. I
really do not believe that she has told
me the truth once since our mar
riage.''
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
Defendant IS UNDER FIRE
Girl, Suing Governor, Charged With
ImprOprieties Earlier in Life.

Oxford, Miss, Dec. "a dozen or
more of the witnesses summoned in
the trial of Miss Frances c. Birk-
heads damage suit in which she seeks
100000 damages from Lee NJ. Rus
sell; governor of Mississippi, remained
to be heard in federal court today.
Testimony yesterday dealt princi-
pally with alleged impfoprieties on
the part of Miss Birkhead at a dance
near Dover, Yazoo~ county Mississippi.
during her earlier life; later in Pear
sail, Texas, and during recent years
in Louisiana and Mississippi and on
threats she is alleged to have made
in Jackson in 1870.
Half a dozen witnesses testified yes
terday Miss Birkhead's character was
not above reproach, in their opinion,
but practically all of them admitted
they were basing their testimony on
rumor. One witness testified to the
conduct of Miss Birkhead at a dance.
during which he alleged she was in a
Semi-int toxica ted condition.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09

It looks as tho Speck, Governor
elect Davis prize milk COW, must
parade Kansas avenue and eat dande-
lion roots on the state house lawn if
Kansans are to have a real inaugural
thrill There isn't a thin dime for
Lutte and there isn't cannon in town
for the saluting. What is more, a
bankrupt committee is in charge of
the inaugural problem-that is the
committee members represent organ
izations and departments which have
financial troubles of their own
Just at this tim it doesn't appear
that the matter of a quiet. orderly, in
formal inaugural is a matter of de-
cision- 1t looks more like a case of
necessity. Not only are there no
funds for a show, but every member
of the committee is concerned with
the lifting of some debt close to his
heart So it looks as tho a public dis
play of Speck is about the most likely
opportunity to save the day.
Chamber of Commerce Can't Hep.
Col. Charles L. Mitchell, represent
ing the Chamber of Commerce on the
inaugural committee. hasn't penny of
commerce money. In fact, the Cham
Der OF Commerce has $4,000 worth
of unpaid accounts from delinquent
members and is sorely in need of a
couple of Thousand dollars for emer-
gency needs until the first of the year.
Col. w. r. MacLean of the adjutant
generals office. is also on tae COM
mittee to arrange for proper induction
of new governor. The adjutant g n
erals office couldn't squeeze out
enough money to buy a hurrah but
ton 1t has spent the years con-in-
gent fund and has an overdraft of
$4,000.
Then there is Hugh Duff, chairman
Of the Republican state committee.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
CONTRACT GOES TO LEEPER
Buildings on Seventh Street Hotel Site
Will Be Torn Down.

The contract for the razing of the
buildings on the site of the new To-
peka hotel at Seventh and Jackson
streets, was let today by the board of
directors of the Topeka Hotel com
pany to J. NJ. Leeper, Topeka con-
tractor.
Leeper has agreed to tear the build
ings down for the material which he
secures from them, T. w. Williamson,
architect in charge. said today.
There We're sixteen bidders for the
job of tearing down the old buildings
Work on the razing is TO commence
Monday morning.
The bids were opened at William
sons office this morning, and the con-
tract was awai ded at a meeting of the
directors at the University club at
noon.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
SEARCH FOR WOMAN IN Vain
Officers Place as Much Faith in One
Clue as Another.

Los Angeles, Dec. 9AThe search
for Mrs. Clara Phillips, hammer muir
deress, who escaped from the Los An
geles county jail last Tuesday. has
brought US right back to where we
started according to statements from
sheriff deputies today. They admitted
they had no tangible clues
They declared again their determi-
nation to continue their search until
they had recaptured the woman. and
said they attached as much credence
to one report that she had fled to
Mexico as to another that she had re-
manned in Los Angeles
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
CLARA PHILLIPS IN KANSAS?
Woman Who Lands in Plane Near
Cherokee Looked the PART

Cherokee. Kan, Dec. "a man and
a woman in an ARP ane landed in a
field at the edge of this city about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The man
said that he had developed engine
trouble. The couple took a room at a
hotel here and asked not to be dis
turbed. Many persons who saw the
woman sa d she looked very much like
Clara Phillips, the convicted hammer
murderess.' of Los Angeles, who es-
capped last Tuesday.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon the
couple prepared to leave and went to
the plane. l. P. Bergman, city mar
shall, said he had questioned the pair
but did not ask their names. He said
they told him they were going from
St Louis to Tulsa and had to descend
here to GET gas
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
TRIED TO DODGE BLACK CAT.
Car Oyerturns and Woman Is Dead
With Broken Neck

Bradford, Pa. Dec. "a black cat
started across the path of speeding
automobile here last night. The
driver swerved to avoid hitting It and
the car overturned. Helen Danie1son
died from a broken neck. Two others
were injured.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
Due TO RadlcaIisn1.
MEXICAN REBEL GIVES UP.
Antonio MaIdonado SuFrenders 70
Obregon UnconditionaIIy.

San Antonio. Tex. Dec. 9.-Antonlo
MaIdonado, rebel leader in the state
of Coahu.ia. Mexico. surrendered to
Obregon troops at SaltiiiO- according
to word received here from that city
today. His surrender, which occurred
late Thursday, was unconditional and
he turned in considerable fighting ma
terial. including machine guns and
ammunition
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
URGES U. S TO COME BACK
Help Spread Independence Thruout
World, Is CIemenceau Plea.
(By The Associated PressJ

Philadelphia, Dec. 9.-Georges Gle
menceau. speaking today in ~the city
where Americas Declaration of Inde-
pendence was signed. urged that
America come back to Europe and
help spread independence thruout the
W orld.
He was given a long ovation as he
appeared on the platform of the Acad-
emy of Music. The academy, pro-
fusely decorated with the stars and
stripes and the French tri-color, was
hacked.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
EXPLOSION IN POWDER MILL
Five Persons Are Killed and Several
More Are Injured.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 9.-Five persons
are known to be dead and several
were injured today in explosion
which destroyed the glazing mill of
the Brass Diamond Powder company
near Dupont, Pa, about eight miles
south of Scranton. The explosion was
felt at Carbondale, Pa, rs miles away
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
FORD HITS STREET GAR
Car Occupied by Five Tourists Is
Badly Damaged.


A Ford touring car occupied by a
party of tourists, consisting of a man.
his wife and five children, was badly
damaged about noon today when it
collided with a Lownan Hill street car
at Tenth and West street. One of
the little girls in the party was slightly
bruised, but no one else was hurt
Investigation by street railway Of
ficials- revealed that che family was
practically destitute.N They were
travelling from Colorado to Nebraska.
When the husband and father in
voiced, he found he had just $50.
His car was a wreck, and he was still
several hundred miles from his desti-
nation.
The street railway company then
took a hand in the affair. sending the
family to the Topeka PreFident asso-
citation, where they will be cared for
until the little girl has sufficiently re-
covered from her injuries to proceed.
The company will also repair the Ford
car, it was stated, and send the family
on its way again with a little more
money than it had when it arrived in
Topeka
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
MARY MILES MINTER "FIRED"
Contract VIII Not Be Renewed by
Eamous Players-Lasky.

New York, Dec. g-The Famous
Players-Lasky corporation announced
today that the contract held by Mary
Miles Minter, one of its most promi
nent screen stars would not be re-
newed after she finishes a picture
upon which she now is engaged. No
reason was given.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
TO Be REAL WINTER DAY
Sunday VIII Be Most Wintry, OF Sea-
son, Says Flora
ToDAY's TEMPERATURES.
Forecast for Next Week.

Forecast for Next Week.
Temperatures below normal and
local SHOWS beginning of week and
At near close of week.
shippers Forecast.
Protect all thirty-six hour shipments
north and west against a temperature
# of 10 degrees. East and south. 20.
Topekans will resume their wfntel
reading habit tomorrow as the
weather will be a fairU inducement &c
remain by the family hearth, says Me-
teorologist Flora. In reality it will be
warmer on account of slightly higher
temperatures but the northeast wine
Will place sting in the air that will be
very unpleasant, says the weather
nan.
Sunday Will be the most wintry Sun
day in Topeka this season. The mer-
curry will rise to-about 40 degrees. to-
morrow. 1t will be the first time in
nearly seventy-two hours that the
has exceeded the freezing
mark Tonight. will be slightly
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The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
Davis 10 speak at Manhattan.

Manhattan, Kan, Dec. 9.-Gov-
ernor-e.ect Jonathan NJ. Davis has
accepted an invittion from the Riley
county Democratic club to speak here
on the evening of Monday, Decem-
ber IS.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
TRAINS CRASH IN HEAVY FOG
Twenty Persons Injured in Wreck on
Atlantic Coast Line.

Atlantic Coast Line.
Charleston, S. c., Dec. 9.-Twenty
persons were injured, two of them
seriously, when passenger train No.
80 of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad
ran into the rear end of train No. So
at Hanahan station, u miles from
here. at o'clock this morning. The
collision is said to have been due to
a heavy fog that obscured signals set
by train No. So when it was forced to
stop on account of a hot box.
The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-07-20
EAST ALMA

Mr.. and Mrs. Burton Hopkins,
Highland avenue, have a baby daugh-
ter born to them Tuesday, July II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrell Of Lansing
are visiting with Mrs. Jenny Seaver.
Misses Beaulah and Wanda Ziegler
of Carsonville, who are attending Mt.
Pleasant Normal, visited over the
the week end with the Allard Grove
family, Elmwod avenue.
Mrs. John Ramsay, Elmwood ave
nue., who is in the hospital, is some
what better.
Lawson H. Rule, who has been
with the Swartouts grocery for the
past two years, has a position with
the Cornwall Grocery Company,
Saginaw.
Misses Stitt and Trapp left Wednes-
day motoring by way Of Muskegon to
their summer cottage near Bay View.
Mrs. Olive Cole, Grove avenue,
has been sick and confined to bed by
a severe attact of inflamatory rheu-
matism.
Jesse Augustine has a job work
ing on a new school house in Lansing.
Dan Dickens, Grace avenue, has
been overseeing work at Kansas City,
for the Republic plant. They are
putting up store rooms in various
points in the country TO supply
truck parts needed for repairs.
The Dicker family have moved
from Republic avenue to a home at
the corner of Grove avenue and East
ward street.
The Rev. j. NJ. Gelston D. d., is
preaching a series Of three sermons
on Heaven" The first Of the ser
les on Heaven: its inhabitants"
was given in Eastminister chapel
last Sunday at the morning service.
This Sunday the second sermon on
Heaven: the place." viii be deliver
ed at l1.30 a. m. The last Of the SER
les will come on Sunday, July 80.
1t is special treat to ire commun-
ity TO hear such man as Rev.
Gelston. The parents Of the Sunday
school children are urged to come out
Sunday morning and hear these
great addresses.
Mr.. and Mrs. Opal Allen were out
huckleberrying and they report the
bushes as loaded down with berries.
Miss Mary Mcintyre has been at
Gully lake near Battle Greek with a
party Of normal students.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-07-20
SEALED BIDS FOR THE PAVING
OF PINE AVENUE.

Sealed proposals will be received
up to 5 o'clock p. m. Tuesday, Aug
ust /, 1922, for the furnishing Of all
labor, material, tools and equipment
except cement for the paving, curb
and gutter, grading and draining ac-
eording to the plans on file in the
office of the City Clerk, of Pine Ave
nue. from the north line of Superior
Street TO the north line of Walnut
Street with concrete pavement ac-
cording to the specifications on file,
the following approximate quaint
ties being used for the basis of bid
ding:
ais yards concrete pavement.
1880 linear feet of curb and gutter.
20S0 cubic yards excavation.
128 linear feet 8-inch drain i'm place.
catch basins.
81 standard inlets.
156 linear feet standard header.
A certified check in the amount of
$4,000 shall accompany each bid
and all bids shall be addressed to City
Manager, Alms, Mich, and marked
Paving Bid.
w. f. REYNOLDS,
cow. City Manager.