The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
October 10, 1894

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ALTERNATE PAGE FOLLOWS A. TWENTY-SECOND YEA I?. 10 CENTS A WEEK. TOPEKA, KAInSAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 189 GALE IHOTHAM. A. Sven Story Brick Building is Blown Down. Two Fa mi lies Are Buried Under tlie liuins. TORRENT'"' OF RAIN. All Wires Blown Down and Shipping Destroyed. The Life Saving Crews Have a Hard Night's Work. New York, Oct. 10. At 3:30 o'clock this morning a seven story building iu course of erectioc, at No. 74 Monroe street, was blown down by the pale. It crashed through a two story building at No. 72, demolishing it completely. Two families with boarders lived at 72. They were all buried in the ruins. The building: which fell had been in course of erection for the past two months. It was to have been occupied when com pleted as a foundry. Ever since the foundation was laid there were complaints on every side that the structure was a weak tlimey affair, and many had expressed the belief that it would fall before the roof could be put on. These were certainly not far wrong; for the roof had not been com pleted ten hours when tlie crash came. It was at 4 .o'clock yesterday afternoon that the last nail v.'a-i placed in the roof and then t.iere was great rejoicing. The workmen put five cr six flags up, so that the bright stripes would hang over the streets and two kegs of beer were taken up to the topbtory to add to the general rejoicing. To this morning's disaster there seems to have been two eye-witnesses and tho story they tell agrees in every particular. Thoui.is Walsh is the watchman a; Heck ei's stable in the rear of the house which tell. It was just 3.30 o'clock when the disaster occurred. It was a wild night The rain fell in torrents and the wind blew a gale. The watchman says that there was a sort of mysterious half light in the air which he cannot describe. By it, through the blackness of the night, lie says, as he was preparing to make his rounds of the stable, he saw the side wall of this big new buildiug and the slanting sheets of rain as they beat down upon it. "I'll never forgst that eight," said Walsh. Even as he looked there came a change in the appearance of the side of tiie wall. It seemed to the watchman that a big Hack line suddenly appeared diagonally across it from top to bottom. Before Walsh could realize that the dark line was a crack in the wall there was a low rumbling sound and the seven stories of the building crumbled before his eyes. For a moment Walsh stood amazed. A cloud cf dust went up, but the pelting rain blotted it out before the watchman could recoer himself enough o reenter the stable. Walter J. Bryan, of 77 '.Monroe street. was returning home, and he stood at the corner of Pike and Monroe street, lifty feet away, when tin building fell, lie saw the big crack in the wail, too, and saw the buildinj? topple for an instant before it felL I hat buildinc," said this witness, "was more badly put up than any that was ever put up by Buddensiek." Buddensiek is the man that, went to states prison for eighteen years for using sand in the building of houses instead of mortar. The list flf injured thus far recovered from the ruins is as follows: George Hobinovitz, x!'J years old, back aprained anl ear cut. Louis Abrams, 72, left leg broken at.d man v cont usions. David Kronia. body. 24, cut about head acd Fanny Kronis, 22, badly cut about the body. Joseph Brady, 14. head, crushed and left leg broken. Timothy Dolan, ctts and bruises. Bessie Abrams, 4t. cut about the head. Lewis J. A bra ma, 20, contusions of head and body. Maurice Abrams, contusions of hes.d and body. Fearful storm at Sea. The storm, which broke upon this sec tion shortly after miduight, has done great damage ou ssa and laud. The tracks of the 2s ew Jersey Southern rail road, between Seabiight and Highland Beach, N. J., have been covered with sand washed upon tut-m by the waves. v The fishing smack, Louise, was driven ""-"-'-vreat Highland Beach and is a total ''rw ten men were taken crew. --...W Bii-.. apparently in dis tress, was sighed soon after dayhgnt at anelor some dis tance off Long Branch. While the sea wi running so high no effort was made to establish comnvunication be tween the steamship and the shore. At 10 a. m. the wind shifted and the storm somewhat abated. The steamship dots not seem to be in any immediate danger. In Seabright and vicinity a numkr of buildings were unroofed. At Long Island city the big iron tank belonging to the East River Gas company was blown to within rive feet of its foundation. The tank was 200 feet high and 175 feet wide. The police wiree were all blown down and small boats all a cug the shors from Long inland to Bowers Beach were broken and thrown upon the beach. The telephone wires were broken and twisted, and at North Beach a number of boats were wrecked. The trolUy wires of the Brooklyu radroad at North Beach were all broken and car are not now being run. The ferry boat Harlem, of the Ninety-second street ferry, was disabled on entering her slip at Long Island City. Ihe new engine at the corner of Stein way and Flushing avenue, which had reached the heighih of one and one-half stories was blown down. An unusually high tide washed tha east of Staten Island doiD considerable damage to several small yachts which lay exposad at their anchorages. In Jersey City the damage is confined to the telegraph, telephoue and trolley and electric light wires. In three in stances horses were killed by coining in contact with live wires. Many shade trees were uprooted. The only steamers that reached quarantine this morning were the Manitoba from Rio Janeiro and the Teutonic from Berlin. There are probably several other steam ers of the inward-bound fleet near port, but the wires betweeu New York and bandy Hook have teen rendered useless for the time, by the gale, no word of them can be received until they reach quarantine. The vessels due today are: Alesia from Naples; Havel from Bremen; Kron Prince Friederich Wiihelm from Naples, Mobile from London; Scacuia, from Hamburg; state of Nebraska from Glas gow. Several steamers from southern and western Indian ports, due today are no djubt receiving the full force of the gaie,their course bearing them almost in the teeth of it, as they would, in such a storm, keep well oft shore. 7 hey are the Carribe, from Barbadoes: El Mar, from New Orleans; Nouces, Galveston; Yucatan, from Havana. Meadows at Capo 3taj Subuierged. Capk May, X. J., Oct 10. The severe gale which struck this city last night continued until daylight this morning. All night long there was a heavy east wind accompanied by torrsnu of rain. The sea is running high and the high tide has completely submerged the meadows. Five vessels are in sight of the beach and are rolling heavily in the trough of the aea. The life saving crews cannot launch their boats to make even an at tempt to board the vessels. The heavy wind has shifted to tho northwest dan is still blowing a gala HEED NOT C031ING. That Appears to ISelhe l'rier Conclusion to fieiccli. Thomas B. Reed, af Maine, ia not like ly to make any speeches in Kansas this year, although tho state central commit tee has been advertising him as the big "gun' who is to close the campaign. The Chicago News a few days ago an- j nouneed that Tom Reel, who is now j Btaying in the Adirondacks for his health, has consented to mase three speeches iu the west before election. The Chicago i papers were all jubilant over tlie fact that one of the three speeches was to be made in Chicago, while of the two one j was to be made at. Indianapoiis and the third at either Minneapolis or St. Paul. j Secretary Bristow said today that in a recent letter from Reed he said he was trying to arrange his affairs to mike his western trip, but that there were soaie difficulties in the way which he hoped to be able to overcome. Secretary Bris- tow said he understood that the chief j difficulty was his health. If the statements of the Chicago pa- pers are correct, liausas people will not j hear Thomas B. Reed this vear. j ARGENTINE TO CELEBRATE Anniversary of tlie Discoveryof Ameriea Will be X'Mttinily Commemorated. Rio de Jankiku, Oct. 10. At tho re quest of President Elect Moraez, Peixoto will settle all differences with Portugal before he retires. Tim capital of the state of Rio Janeiro has been changed from Nictheroy to Petropolis. Argentine's government has proclaim ed October 12, next, the anniversary of the discovery of America as a public holiday and will have a big naval re view. VICTORIA DOESN'T WANT IT The English Oueen Trying to Preveut Anna Ciould's Engagement. New York, Oct. 10. A London dis patch says that (2ueen Victoria is dis playing some concern in connection with the rumored prospect of an engagement betweou Miss Anna Gould and Prince Francis of Battenberg. The latter has been withdrawn from Paris in consequence, it is said, of the queen's interposition against his alliance with the American heiress. Howard and Mis9 Anna Gould are now in London and are expected to sail Oct. 20 for America. YALE STUDENTS CONDOLE. Resolutions Passed Upon the leatli of Oliver Wendell Holmes. New Haven', Conn., Oct. 10. A mass meeting of students of Yale university was held iu Old Alumni hill to pass re-solutions on the death of Oliver Wen dell Holmes. Rjsweil F. Mason, clas of '9o, of Chicago, chairman of the board of directors of the Yale "Daily News," pre sided. Several speeches were made by upper class men and, the following reso lutions were drawn up and unanimously adopted by tne meeting: Whereas, It has pleased God to take from us, our beloved friend, Oliver Wen dell Holmes. Whereas, Though our nation and the world of literature are bereaved ty his death, yet especially shall we as univer sity men, to whom he always stood in the place of a sympathetic companion, misa the encouragement and example of his life among us; bo it Resolved, That we, students of Yale university, make known our sense of the loss we have sustained, and do, from our hearts, extend our sympathy to his fam ily and friends and to the sister univer sity with which he was most closely con nected. A committee was named to frame and present resolutions to the family. INGALLS WILL SPEAK. Five Thousand Pwople Already at the Ar kansas City oldier. Keunion. Arkansas City, Kan., Oct. 10. The second day of the southwestern soldiers reunion opened this morning with 5,000 people. Eleven coaches came in this morning on the Santa Fe and a large number of veterans arrived on the 'Frisco and Missouri Pacific. Senator Ingalls, Bernard Kelly, Grand Commaader Campbell, CoL Dick Blue, Tim- McCarty and other distinguished speakers are now here. The grand pa rade headed by Governor Leweiliag aui his staff, will take place tomorrow. OF MOIIEY. NIL Bankers National Convention Meets at Baltimore. Conld Draw a Cheek for $150, 000,000 and Cash It. TALKED OF TIIE PRESS. 3Ir. Herriek Says Newspapers are Necessaries of Life. Thinks They Are Not an Un mixed Good However. Baltimore. Oct. 10. Tha 20th annual j convention of the American Association of Bankers convened at Ford's opera house at 10:30 this morning. Every sec tion of the union is represented. Secre tary Geise of the association says that the crowd's check for flo0,000,000 would be cashed. I Addresses of welcome were made by Hon. John P. Poe and Mr. Euoch Pratt, I chairman of the Baltimore clearing house. j Myron T. Herriek of Cleveland then j delivered an address on the press, lie said: Mr. President and Centleitien: I "We have grown to accept the news- paper as one of the necessities of life. It enters every department of daily action and its circulation is as iudispensable as the circulation of money. It supplies a natural inherent want. Before it was, it was wauted. Paul emphasized for com- ing generations the condition of a people i without a press, when he declared ttiat 'all the Athenians and strangers who j were there spent their time in nothing I else but either to tell or to hear some thing new.' 'Imagine a people devoting all their time in obtaining what they can get to day for three cents or less. The influ ence of the press is best known and ap preciated when it comes directly in con junction with or in opposition to our business afftiirs. last year the attention of tiiia country, and I might say of al most the entire civilized world, was turned to the subject of finance. That was what all tho country wauted to know about. "Therefore every newspaper in the land ministered to the wants of its con stituents and the peculiar eileet of this journalistic attention ou the bank was such a3 not soon to be forgotten. To say the least it was a mixed blessing. If the policy of many newspapers helped to plungo us into our difficulties the policy of others helped to extricate us. The pres was therefore like the knight whose lance helped to cure the wounds it made. "The press is the mystic camera which puts before you daily a photograph of the world with all its good and bad; the magic power which fills homes with the sweet life and presence of Phillips Brooks and the same time makes that other equally famous Bostoniau, John L. Sullivan, the occasional guest at every breakfast table. It presents the interest ing details of the convention of the world's parliament of re.'.gions; also tho report of another day of the Breckiu-ridge-Pollard trial. "In a touch-aud-go style, it administers to the vanity of one man and at the same time, in an illustrative wanton way, throws suspicion on the character of an other. It brings to you the details of the war in Corea; the courageous utterances of the young German emperor: in short, it presents all that is good or bad in tha history of the human race for one day, written in one day. What almost super human difficulties must be surmounted to write this history even approximately correct." MORE JAPS LAND. The Capture ofNew Clrwanjr is Itegarded as Jnevitoble. London', Oct. 10. A dispatch from Shanghai says that it is stated there ou good authority that a large force of Ja panese has beeu landed near New Chwang, at the head of the gulf of Leao Tof!g, and the capture of that place within a few days is regarded as inevita ble. Yokoiioma, Oct. 10. A majority of Japanese ministers has deciueJ against issuing a foreign loan, but decided upon a second war loan of $00,000,000 to be raised in Japan. This, with the proposed additional tax will bring the govern mental fund up to about $140,U00,uOO. A. II. T. A. CONVENTION. The State Anti-Horse Thief Association Meets at Pittsburg. Pittsbuko, Kans., Oct. 10. The state convention of the anti-horse thief con vention is in session in this city today. The convention was opened at 10 o'clock by an address of welcome by Mayor Holmes, and was responded to in behalf of the convention by the state president. The state president then followed with his annual address. The afternoon session was taken up by hearing the reports of the various com mittees and other business of interest to the order. Both morning and afternoon meetings were open and as a result quite a number of visitors were in attendance. Tonight a secret meeting will be held when the officers for the en suing year will be elected. About 200 delegates were in attendance. The Old l.ady Wai Game. A Georgia man whose bravery is of negative character, got the worst of b difficulty recently. Some men were .witting a son of the former about his father's exhibition of the white feather on the occasion referred to. The little fellow shook his head fierce ly and replied: "That's all right I know pa won't fight, but if you want to get the stuffin' knocked out of you, you just tackle ina-" TO RECEIVE GEN. BOOTH. Prominent People trill Welcome Him at All Points on tlie Route. New York, Oct 10. Commander Bal lington Booth of the Salvation Army, spoke of the coming visit of his father. Gen. Booth and said he would be received on his trip through America as few guests are. "At the meeting October 22," he said, "I m going to try to get Mayor Gilroy to introduce General Booth. At Carnegie Music hall the same evening before an audience of 5,000 people, 3,000 of whom will be delegates from the SalvationArmy, the Rev. Dr. Armory B. Bradford, the leading Congregationalist minister will present an address on behalf of the clergymen of New,York and Mrs. Booth and myself will present an address on behalf of the Salvation Army. "In Salvation hall the best of New York society will be present on October 22. "Rev. Josiah Strong, author of the 'New Era,' will preside at a large meeting Tuesday. General Booth will be intro duced by Chauncey M. Depew. On the trip through General Booth will be in troduced at Philadelphia by John Wanamaker in the Academy of Music; in the convention hall at "Washington by Justice Strong, of the Federal Square opera house; at the Music hall in Baltimore, by the mayor; at the Auditorium. Chicaeo, by Senator John M. Palmer: in the Exposi tion hall in Minneapolis, by Knute Nel son, governor of Minnesota; at Exposi tion building in St. Louis, by the mayor of St. Louis; in the Capitol at Spring field, by Governor Altgeld; at the Audi torium in Kansas City, by the mayor and Governor Francis." ODD FELLOWS' F1UIIT ENDS The Grand LodQO Kcuoiiiioos all Claim to the Ie lioissiere Property. "Wichita, Kaus., Oct. 10. This mornj ing the Odd Fellows' s.tate grand lodge in session adopted the following resolu tion Resolved, That the grand lodge here by rescinds all former action taken in connection with, or pertaining to the Da Boissiere Orphans' home, and that the grand master and the grand secretary convey by quit claim under seal of this grand lodge to E. C. Stine, et al., all in terest, claims or title which it may have acquired by virtue of a deed made in I trut by Mr. De Boissiere. The home now reverts to tho trustees. This action of the Odd Fellows grand lodge, while it is a complete back down on the part of the friends of the home, still shows that as a fraternal organiza tion they prefer to give in, rather than break up their order. Judge Hazen, in the Shawnee county district court, decided that the Kansas Grand lodge had a right to levy a per capita tax to support this home, and the supreme court last Saturday aliirmed Judge llazrn'i decision. In addition to this the Sovereign Grand lodge in ses sion at Louisville two weeks ago, affirmed the previous action of tho grand lodge of Kansas in levying a per capita tax. When this question came up for dis cussion at this session of the Kansas grand lodge it was shown that a number of the lodges in the state had absolutely refused to pay the assessment for the sup port of this home and had been suspend ed from the order. Tlie objectors to the home ?ay the rea son they object is because the home is practically owned by live trustees, who are such only in name, and in reality the Odd Fellows have little to do with the management of the institution. The action of the grand lodge today settles the trouble about the home. "two cases" Were all the Hoing Today in the IHstriet Court. The Chicago Lumber company began a suit in the district court today to ob tain possession of L. M. Crawford's lots at 443-453 Clay street, on a mechanic lien. The lumber company claims Mr. Crawford owes them $462.18 on a bill of lumber bought two years ago. J. Thomas seeks to enjoin County Clerk C. T. McCabe and County Treasur er A. K. Rodgers from issuing a tax deed on certificate No. 4.S4T. The property in question consists of lots 2J6 and 208 Lawrence street to which Mr. Thomas clawuis he is entitled, but the Trust Com pany of America, he alleges, will gain possession of the property on a junior claim unless the injunction is granted. RAZOR S T R O K ES. The Calculating Customer Gle Statis tics to tho Barlier. "Now that you've finished shaving1 me, how many strokes of the razor did it require?" asked the man in the chair, as he straightened up to have his hair combed. "That's pretty hard to tell," said the barber. "Of course it is, but you've been in the business how long?" "Fifteen years." "You ought to know by this time about how aiany strokes of the razor it requires to shave a man, supposing that you go over his face a second time." "I mig-ht make a guess at it." "All right; what's your guess? Re member that I have a hard beard?" "Well, I should say about 123?" "You're a good guesser, I don't think. Some time ago I got into the habit of counting the strokes of the razor every time I was being shaved. It's a good way to employ your mind. In shaving me you just made 73 J strokes with the razor." "I wouldn't have believed it." "No man believes it until he takes the trouble to count. In my case I never knew the number to fall below 500, and it has gone more than 00 at times. I call it a stroke every time the razor is brought forward and then drawn back. I should judge that there are not less than 500 strokes in a first-class shave. You remember that and probably you can win a few bets." Subscribe for the Daily sxatk Journal ADLATTALKS. The Vice President Speaks to Illinois Democrats. A Chilly Wind Spoils the Dem ocrats' liig Rally. HAS KEPT TIIE FAITH. Says the Democratic Party Re deemed Its Promises. Wilson Bill is Not What He Would Have Had It. Lincoln, 111., Oct. 10. In point of numbers the demonstration of the De mocracy of Logan county here today in honor of Vice-President Stevenson, was a keen disappointment The day was dull and chilly, and a high wind setting ear ly, growing more violent as the day pro gressed. The vice-president spent the night here as the guest ot old friends. He was escorted to the Ludiri!; hotel at 10 a. m. and held a reception until 12 o'clock. The outdoor meeting, which had been arranged ou an enlarged and complimentary scale, was abandoned at noon and a hall re sorted to. The city was profusely and suitably decorated with nags, banners and bunting. The v ice president was in troduced at 2 o'clock by Ur. Ambrose M. -Sillier, Gov. Altgeld s Mr. Stevenson said: "In the presidential the battle was fought main manager. contest of 18!)2, and won by tlie Democratic party, almost upon the hinsrle issue of taritl' reform. How has the par ty kept faith with the people?" 'It promised a reduction of the ex penditures of the government. This promise has been made good by a re duction of the expenditures -$28,000,000 over those of the previous j"ear, when the executive and senate were Repub lican. "In this connection, it must be remem bered, also, that the sum appropriated by the present Democratic congress for pensions exceeded by $20,0lU,OO0 that appropriated for the same purpose by tlie Republican "billon dollar congress." Have you forgotten that the entire extra session of congress convened soon after President Cleveland's inauguration was consumed in repealieg the Sherman law, passed by a Republican congress and approved by a Republicanpresident. "Uy its platform and the utterances of its candidates the Democratic party stood pledged to the repeal of the ex-federal election laws. For years they had stood a constant menace to the freedom of the ballot box. liy tne act of the Democratic congress, approved by a Democratic president, these enact ments, like the Republican force bills and tho federal alien and sedition laws, have become things of the past. 'I ask your consideration of the tariff bill, which has passed both the house and the senate, and now is the law of the land. I state to you, in all candor, that it is not all that I desired. There never was a moment that I would not gladly have given tlie castiug vote in the senate in favor of the tariff bill as it passed the house. "From the beginning I have been a firm believer in free raw material. Rut it must not be forgotten that while the house of representatives contained a Democratic majority of nearly 100 our majority was but ono iu the senate. In fact with every state fully represented iu that body there would probably have been no Democratic majority at'all. "The senate contained but forty four Democrats and with the Republican senators voting solidly against the bill at every stage, it can easily be seen that in a body so nearly balanced tariff re form had no easy battle to tight At this critical moment of the struggle the bill was only saved by the casting vote of the presiding ollicer of the senate. "Recalling as I do the hostility of Re publican senators to the taritl bill from the moment it crossed the threshold of that chamber, I can only wonder that it ever became a law. Firmly believing as I do that beneficial results must follow its passage I rejoice with you ia its tri umph and that the McKinley law is ho longer upon our statute books. "You have seen in the papers in the past few days an account of a conven tion of sugar planters in Louisiana, in which they resolved to abandon their former political associates and hence forth to support the Republican party. "Why? Simply for the reason that the Republican law makers always favored the sugar bounty which a Democratic congress has swept from the statute book. If the new tariff law had no other merit, this provision alone would entitle it to our warmest com mendation. But this is but the begin ning. By tho new tariff law more than one" hundred articles highly taxed under the McKinley law are placed upon the free list." 31'WILLIAMS CONE AGAIN. Chief I.indsey Kays lie i Now in IVumejf o. Jointist John McWilliams is not in the city prison. He spent several days be hind the bars as he had no monej' to pay the .10 J fine imposed upon hirn for sell ing liquor. Chief Lindsey says that McWilliams is in Wamego where he is working. Ho made an agreement with Chief Lindsey by which he is to pay his fine in install ments. Kingleu curtain I'ole. In the ringless curtain pole made by an English firm there is an under cut groove in the under side of the pole, in which work a set of metal eyes, which hang out of the opening of the groove, and roll in it on small rollers working in the undercut por tion of the groove. It is ingenious and simple, and certainly seems like ly to work more smoothly than the ordinary curtain ring. GIGANTIC COAL COM RINK. A Large Monopoly 1 lmt Will Control VH the Output on the 'oust. YlCTOlUA, U. C, Oft. 10. Ihe gig tic coal combine which bus beeu in r-,j-cess of formation for some lime p-t between the Dunsmuira and their i time rivals, the New Vancouver O i company of Xanimo, is reported to I.hvd been consummated. For a lonir time both Hide have f-lr that the light between them wa-i j'lij a waste of energy and money, s 'n when the subject of a combine w;s broached the Duntmuirs and their ;i petitors fell iu with the idea by which th coal trade of British Columbia c hi i be brought under control of vLt will practically a huge monopoly capable uf freezing out all competitors on the ..,if. The output of Ihe mines at W'eilumt -i and Nanimo is to be limited, it i an nounced, so that the price of fuel cm raised. Coal now stands at $7 a ton iu i i l i t, onl y eighty miles from the rniiif-i .i it any raise would be a great Laid-.ii., p. Steam coal is also to go up all around m soon as the combiue is becured and t entire Pacific coast will feel the t within three months. It is reported that Lord Dra-t-n-y's re cent visit here had something to d v. i i the further development of the cnn! i nation, he being tiie heaviest nto kh..! i er in the Puget Sound mines, whit h ur believed to bo ready and willing to ofm into the ring. The result of any further curt a! I n -n t of the output will cause great d..,:re among miners, as the work at pre-eut just enables them to keep soul and I n.ly together. X E W YOIIK WO 31 EN. The tireat 'mpaii;ii Acainsl 'him v Will I teg-iu Fridny. New Yokk, Oct. 10. The great cam paign of the women against Taiiiiii;i:.y and municipal corruption will open on Friday afternoon. 31 any of New York's most fashionable, most inlluetitiil and richest women have been enlisted iu 1 1 1 cause. The first meeting will bo l.i-I 1 on Friday at p. in. at As-mum. ition h.tii, where Dr. Park hurst will deliver an ad dress. In his address Dr. Parkhurst will I' d just what reasons prompted him t ni ce women into the tight. He will m-iv th.it a debased and rotten municipality ii a menace to the home ami the honor and virtue of woman. There will be a council c immit.tee i f thirty, consisting of one fr irn each a bembly district. Coi. .1. .1. (ii!! i 1. "Brick" Pomeroy and W. H. Shm-vcr were appointed upon the committee la-t night. There will also bo a general commit tee and it is hoped to secure Kit) wo.n i from each assembly district in this city, making at least 3, U'Ji) in all. Mr Owi tliia Leonard, who is the mother of J ii lia:i Russell, made the only epeech the meeting. Hhe spoke of tho reiaii..-i of the woneo to the movement against Democracy. In the tenderloin precinct women h iv. decided to. work i V punty in i,itinietp.l politico. A number voted to do tlt i meeting of the youiu' ,.t.'Si ot culture club held la-t eveiii.-g in t ot home of Elizabeth Orucni-i. LE WELLING SPEAKS. He I5reak 11 in Silence on tlie liaise Again! Illni Today. Chairman Breidenthal of tin I'oj nli-t state central committee, this afternoon received the following letter from (inv ernor Lewelling, who is at Ottawa to d ay: Kansas City. Mo, let. l:t I. John NV. liraiileiitlial. Chairman. 1 opeka. kati My Deak Slit: I have jut i a 1 u published statement from one .Jacobs, of Wichita, charging that money was c n tributed by tho brewers iu in reuir.i for pledges of protection in ea-ie- of the election of the Populist state ticket. You may say for me that I ii"cr ha 1 a dozen words with Mr. Jacobs in my Lf-, I never made a pledge or proh'i ise of protection for tho i r -ers or any other class of man, n r did I even so much as promise an appoici meut prior to tho election. If any money was collected from the brewers or any body else upon any such pledgo it wa done without my buggestion, consent or approval and also without my knowl edge. Yours respectfully, L. 1). Lkwi.i.ijno. 3I1SS WILL A I'D ILJ. Tlie Condition of tlie Veteran W. C. J I Leader Im Sel-iou. Cim inn-ATI, O., Oct. 10. -La ly Som erset and Miss Fr.uiee-i V'iii,n i are here attending the annua! con vention of the Ohio Women's ,'h r i i a -i Temperance union. Mis'. Willard bu been suffering from a cold eontracte I i tho cars. Today her condition is regard ed as serious. LAI GI1LAN FLEA I) G 11 LTV It Cost an Asylum Attendant to lN loe;te a. 1'iitient' John Laughlan, an ex-asylum attend ant, went before Justice drover la-t evening and pleaded guilty lo n in! and paid a nominal line, at the same 1 1 m.i protesting his innocense of the charge. Laughlan appears to have n-.- 1 more force than necetsary in ban Jim an aged patient named II. I). Flam in the altercation Francis was thrown dor. n anil his hip was dislocated. Laugh!. 11 left town and was lately capt lire t at h.-t home in Baldwin through the -Ti!-i t,f W. 8. Waite of the board of chari'i. Laughlan protested he was innocent of using more force than wm necessary but baid he preferred pleading guilty to stay ing in Topeka to "tight the prosecution however, claims the ca-e n,n ono of extreme cruelly. He was iirci $1 and coats amounting to f b'.Ta. on n V m an liuund tv.-f "Hun" Younkman, tha priza lijt-'er who has been the victor iu several lecent local pugilistic encounters, had hi.4 pre liminary examination for t-l ty i i Justice C hesuey's court. i t. ,i ri k m n followed the advice of Brad.-1 haw, ho t ever, and waived preliminary. J I v. a bound over to the district court in t sum of $500.