The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 28, 1898

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TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 28, 1898. THURSDAY EVENING, TIIIED EDITION. THURSDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. DEWEY S FINAL MOVE Sends Out Two of His Warships to Round Up The Remaining Spanish Ves sels, 11 in All, In PHILIPPINE WATERS. Demand For Surrender of the Capital To Be Made Whenever Merritt Says So. GEN. AUGUSTI HEADY. Is Only Awaiting the Ameri cans' Good Time To Lay Down His Arms and Turn Over the City. New "Fork, July 28. A cablegram from Hong Kong to the Journal says that Admiral Dewey at Manila has dispatched the Raleigh and Concord to gather up eleven Spanish craft which, according to information sent him by Consul General Wildman, are at vari ous places in the Philippine archipel ago. Among these vessels are three gunboats at San Miguel, Luzon island and four at Port Royal, Palarwa is land. Four merchantmen with cargoes of tobacco are reported at Cagayan Luzon. The sajne dispatch reports that Eng lish traders at the coal mines at Batan, Luzon island, have been imprisoned and subjected to ill treatment other wise by the Spaniards there. Auusti Ready to Quit. New Tork, July 2S. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: Gen. Merritt has reached Manila, according to the most conservative calculation of the war department authorities, and the announcement is momentarily ex pected by cable from Hong Kong that he assumed the military governorship of the Philippines, as directed by the president. He left San Francisco on the fast steamer Newport four weeks ago today, two days after the departure of the third Manila expedition, which he expected to pass on the way to Hon olulu, and ifter coaling at that port he was to continue as rapidly as possible to his ultimate destination. The two expeditions which preceded him, that of Gen. Anderson, leaving San Francisco on May 30, and of Gen. Greene, which sailed eighteen days la ter, reached Manila after runs of 36 and 32 days .respectively, including the time they spent in Hawaiian waters. 'Gen. Anderson's fleet of transports was compelled to depart front the di rect course to capture Goum in the La drone islands, which involved several days delay, and Gen. Greene's brigade followed the chain' of islands w-est of Hawaii and spent the Fourth of July at "Wake island, where it indulged in a flag raising and in celebrating the na tional holiday. The Newport, however, was not handicapped by the necessity of setting her pace to that of the slower transports, but was to hurry with all possible dispatch and confidence was displays that she would make the voy age in from 21 to 27 davs. The Newport Should, thprpfnro liaro anchored near Cavite by Sunday or Monday last and the governor selected by the president should already be In complete control. It is understood among the authori ties at Washington that Admiral Dew--ey will not postpone his demand for the capitulation of Manila after Gen. Mer ritt's arrival for a longer period than that official desires, and from the con fident tone of the admiral's dispatches no anxiety is felt regarding the prompt compliance of the Spaniards with what ever demand he may make. It is the impression that Gen. Augusti, the panish governor general, has alreadv round means of conveying assurances to Admiral Dewey of his readiness to surrender the moment the American forces are prepared to receive the city t-p to a short time ago, before the arri tL5 c'e"- Grf"e's forces. Admiral Dewey and Gen. Anderson were reluct ant to assume the responsibility of Protecting all interests in Manila from the disturbing element represented bv the insurgents, but upon the arrival of Gen Merritt, clothed by the president Zr)rn u?rerI,e authority ashore, and with a force exceeding six thousand well armed and effectively equipped tatfon' WUI be n furthr hesi- The authority given to Gen. Merritt In his instructions from the president precludes the possibility of a recognition or the pretensions of dictatorship in Gen ry-.fre!Vter consideration from "en- Merritt when Manila j s'ranftetrh0?Of P""" hkd m Gen! the f bt Sant"as- I" fact, there are tht ,of reasons for believing that the president's order of Julv 13. fixin- offirPme?fn?-Uct of tne commanding officer of the United States forces in Santiago to be observed during the m 1- fr7 ?CCUpation oE that Provtace. re almost icentical with those given to General Merritt. This order. unp?ece- Z3. the insurgent chief AgVnal- bIva 'S n0t likely that this degres sive young man or his f dented In American history, provides among other things, that citizens are entitled to security in their persons and property and in all their private rights and relations, and that the municipal laws such as affect private rights and nrovide for the punishment of crimes, are to be continued in force and admin istered by the ordinary tribunals sub stantially as they were before the occu pation, if the judges and other officials accept the supremacy of the United States. It was made the duty of the commander of the army of occupation, whose control is supreme under the president, "to announce and proclaim in the most public manner that the Amreicans have come not to make war upon the inhabitants nor upon any nartv or faction among them but to protect them, in their homes, in their employments and in their personal and religious rights," and it is stipulated under all circumstances that such local systems as are continued in operation shall remain under the supervision of the American commander in chief. The problem of the disposition of the Spanish prisoners who will be thrown upon Gen. Merritt's hands when Manila surrenders hsm not as yet received much consideration at the war department. it being deemed advisable to have the benefit of Gen. Merritt's recommenda tions, before actual steps are taken. If it appears advisable to send the men back to Spain as in the case of those who surrendered at Santiago, no diffi culty is apprehended in securing trans portation in neutral vessels now in Asiatic waters. This question prom ises to assume considerable magnitude if Deace negotiations proceed with any rapidity, for it is considered certain that the United states, arter naving Des troyed Spanish sovereignty in the chief island of the Philippines will not be ready to undertake the establishment of the overturned authority there. It is recognized that the insurgents could never again be compelled to re spect Spanish rule and this fact woull probably prove an insuperable obstacle to the inclusion in a treaty of peace of the very terms which will be most strenuously insisted upon by Spain looking to the restitution of her Asiatic, possessions. It is therefore thought to be beyond question that the complete separation of the Philippines from Spanish sovereignty will be one of the inevitable consequences of the war. BROOKE BEADYf (T8TART. Nothing Has Been Heard About Him Since. Washington, July 2S. The war de partment this morning received a dis patch from Gen. Brooke at Newport News dated last night, stating that he was aboard a transport and would sail for Porto Rico early in the morning. Nothing further has been heard by the department either from Gen. Brooke or the commanding officer at Newport News. ARMY TO COME BACK. Shafter's Men to Return Soon as It is Safe. as Washington, July 28. Secretary Alger has given orders for the removal of all of General Shafter's army as soon as the men, in the discretion of the commanding officer, may be safely brought back, to a camp on Montauk Point, L. I BREAKCAMP. The 160th Indiana Goes Aboard the Cars Bound For Porto Rico Tia New port News. THE FIRST S.CAROLINA Will Join Fitzhugh Lee's Com mand in Florida. Analysis of the "Water at Camp Thomas Still Going On. Chickamauga Park, July 28. The One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana in fantry broke camp at an early hour today and marched five miles to Ross ville, Ga., where Southern railway trains were boarded for Newport News, whence they will go to Porto Rico in place of the Fifth Illinois, which was ordered back to camp after it had half finished loading for departure. The First South Carolina will leave during the next 24 hours for Jackson ville to join Fitzhugh, Lee's command. No other commands have orders to move. The Sixth regiment TJ. S. V., will reach Camp Thomas from Knox ville, Tenn., during the next few days. THE "NEW" UNCLE SAM. (From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.) Clear and cool weather prevails to day and regular work is maintained by all the regiments except those pre paring to move. Gen. Boynton, chairman of the Chick-amauga-Chattanooga Park commission is having an analysis prepared of the water used from all sources at Camp Thomas. This Is being done in order that the troops may know just what sort of water they are drinking. Gen. Boynton has no doubt as to the pure quality of the water from the wells, the creeks and springs and he believes the analysis will show as has been demonstrated heretofore by two or three analyses, that all water from whatever source at Camp Thomas is chemically and microscopically pure. Gen. Boynton is having the surface springs in the park which are liable to become contaminated by frequent use, filled. Col. Grigsby's rough riders are getting in readiness to move into their new camp on the Brotherton field. Lieu tenant Sunderland of troop G, the regi mental ordnance officer, has been de tailed to superintend the laying off of the camp. The regiment has completed the reg ular target practice and has sent for 200 yard targets. Some very fine rec ords were made by the boys in the re centTpractice. The officers of the regiments have discontinued the saber drill. The offi cers were drilled by Adjutant Suez who is an expert swordsman and under his direction they have become very proficient in the handling of the safcre. Lieutenant Colonel Lloyd who is in command of the regiment has instituted a regimental mounted parade in the regular work. The parade is held late every afternoon and is quite interesting. The horses of the regiment are rapidly becoming trained to the different drills. The entire transportation of the third division, first corps, including am bulances, will assemble for inspection on the Smith-White field Friday after noon at 2 o'clock. The ambulance com pany and the trains of each regiment will be in charge of their respective quartermasters, those of the brigade in charge of the brigade quartermaster, while the division quartermaster will have charge of all. The trains will be packed in three lines and arranged from right to left in the order of the bri gades in the division and of the regi ments of the brigade. This promises to be one of the most striking exhibitions yet witnessed at Camp Thomas. There will be a total of 243 wagons and mule teams in re view besides the ambulances. There will be at least l,0uu mules in review. Spanish Troops Retiring;. (Copyright. 1S98, by Associated Press.) St. Thomas, D. W. I., July 28. The Spanish troops in Porto Rico are being withdrawn from the outlying towns and are concentrating upon San Juan. The defenses of the capital are being strengthened. CA3IEIN ON EIRE. The Ardandhu Reache3 Port With, Her Cargo Burning. New York, July 28. The steamship Ardandhu of the Tweedie line, trading between "West Indian ports and this city, came up the bay today with a heavy list to starboard and the car go stored in her lower hold on fire. The lire first made its appearance at 9:30 o'clock on Monday night, when the vessel was off Fenwicks island, on the coast of Maryland. The wildest ex citement followed the outbreak of the fire and several of the eleven passen gers, all Jamaicans, endeavored to seize the life boats. The third mate, Percy Sanders, was forced to draw his revolver to prevent the steerage from from leaving the burning steamer in the three life boats which could easily have accommodated the other 4a pas sengers and members of the crew. The steerage passengers were, however, forced out of the boats by Capt. Walker and his men, and when discipline was restored preparations were first made for the saving of the women and chil dren of the vessel. The life boats were lowered. The sea was quite calm and the ship's officers stood by the rope ladders. Thus a panic was averted and the safety of the 56 persons on hoard the Ardandhu assured. The heat was so intense and the smoke was so heavy that it was for a time unsafe for the passengers to re main on the upper deck. They were all ordered forward and the women and children were first put into the life boats, each of which had a full supply of food and water on board and were supplied with compasses and signal rockets. It was nearly midnight when Capt. Walker considered that he had the fire under control and decided to continue on his way to New Tork. The women and children were taken back on the steamer and the life boats were hoisted to the davits, but were not ta ken on board. The officers from that time on kept watch of the life boats to prevent the eleven Jamaicans, who ap peared to be terror stricken, from de serting the burning steamship in them. Most of the steerage passengers, how ever, stowed themselves on the small boat astern and remained there until the Ardandhu reached the narrows. UNDER JRREST. Col. Funston Orders Arrest of Sergeant Young On Charge of Embezzling Gov ernment Property. YOUNG ADMITS GUILT But Says He Was Only Doing as the Others Did. Sold Stores Issued as Food To the Twentieth. San Francisco, July 28. Quartermas ter Sergeant James A. Young, of the Twentieth Kansas regiment, has been ordered under arrest by Col. Funston, charged with embezzlement of govern ment property. He is alleged to have sold stores issued as food for the regi ment. Young admits his guilt and gives the excuse that he was doing only what every other commissary of Camp Mer ritt has been doing all along. The regimental commanders deny that such a state of things exists in their commissary departments, but the matter will be investigated at once. BEATEN AGAIN. Express Companies Given Knockout by Judge Tuley. Chicago, July 28. -Judge Tuley of the cir cuit court today ruled in favor of the ship pers in the test case brought by the Illi nois Manufacturers' association, granting a writ of mandamus compelling the Unit ed States Express company to accept for transportation packages for shipment without the payment of one cent in. ex cess of the regular rate. The case will be appealed by the defendants. The court held it was not within the do main of the shipper to issue the bill and that the law expressly provides that the person issuing the receipt shall affix the stamp. Three million dollars annually Is the es timated sum which the express companies will have to pay In case the opinion is sustained by higher courts. TEDDY'S PRESENT. CoL Roosevelt Gives 'Each of His Wounded Men $5. New York, July 28. The wounded rough riders now being cared for in the barracks and hospital on Governor's Island have been visited by Major Brodie of their regiment. He gave each of them a new five dollar bank note by instruction of Col. Roosevelt to pay for minor expenses and such little luxuries as tne men may wish to buy. Major Brodie also Informed the heroes that Col. Roosevelt would give more money to them if it were needed. The wounded cavalrymen were pleas ed. One of them said: "That's just like Col. Roosevelt; he's continually doing things for his men." An American Gibraltar. Victoria, B. C, July 28. The war depart ment is quietly, but with all possible speed, pushing arrangements for increas ing the fortifications at Esquimault, the ultimate intention being the absorption of the entire peninsula upon which the fort is located, and. according to a naval au thority, to make at the southern corner of Vancouver island a supply depot as impregnable as Gibraltar. Highest Price This Year. Omaha, July 28. S. W. Allerton, the mil lionaire packer of Chicago, marketed a bunch of branded western heifers at South Omaha today that had been fed on his Nebraska form near Cedar Rapids. The sale was notable in that the price, $4.0, was the highest price paid this year. Was 101 Today. Today the air Is not so hot as yesterday up in Weather Observer T. B. Jennings' "weather box" on the Columbian build ing, but on the street level it is about the same. The hottest time was about noon, when a record of 101 degrees was made. This afternoon it Is a trifle cooler. No coolness is promised for tomorrow. Dissolution Notice Notice is hereby given that the co partnership heretofore existing between O. G. Miller and R. T. Roby, doing bus iness under the firm name of The Tope ka Printing company, has this day been dissolved by mutual consent O. G. Miller retiring. The business of said firm will be con tinued by R. T. Roby and H. S. Knox, under the firm name of Roby Knox who have assumed all liabilities of the Topeka Printing Co., and are author ized to collect and receive all bills, de mands and accounts due said firm. O. G. MILLER, R. T. ROBY, H. S. KNOX. Notice. In compliance with the new license ordinance all wagons used in peddling over the city must carry a license card. Persons violating this ordinance will be arrested without further notice. LUTHER C. BAILY, License Collector. Mrs. Sarah Ann Porter, who filed suit for divorce this week in the district court, has asked Judge Hazen the priv ilege of withdrawing her suit. She charged her husband, James Porter, with naving oeen cruel ana that he did not provide properly for his family, al though amply able. Several base ball enthusiasts of the U. S. pension office wishing to have a game of base ball, have assumed the name of the "Cold- Storage" team, and issued a challenge to .the "Topeka Blues," who yesterday played the Bloomer girls, for a game at Athletic park Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. The police department today received word from Detective S. J. Peterson, of the Rock Island, to- look out for three men who were wanted on the charge of safe blowing at Delphos, Kansas, on the night of July 26. It is supposed they started east frem Delphos. Hindman Figg have taken posses sion of the Epicurean restaurant. FAST AT ST. MICHAEL. Ship Loads of Gold Seekers That Can't Get Away. Seattle, Wn., July 28. Purser Twiggs of the steamer Humboldt, which arrived here from St. Michael, reports that a serious condition of affairs prevails there. Several steamers, which have no river steamer connections, cannot land their passengers. They have been feeding them several weeks and provis ions are getting scarce. The most unfortunate lot of passen gers are those that went from Seattle on the steamer Progresso. The com pany sending her out has since become insolvent. The passengers number about 160 and it is probable that they will nearly all be returned here. Captain of the Dlrego says he would sail for San Francisco with his passen gers if he had provisions enough to make the trip. The steamer National City, with one hundred passengers, is in a similar condition. The passengers of these steamers are getting very res tive and threaten all sorts of things. SUTfSSPAIN So Far as She Has Heard What the Terms Are. Madrid, July 28. With the under standnig that no indemnity will be de manded and that Spanish sovereignty In the Philippine islands will be respect ed the newspapers here consider the terms of peace attributed to President McKinley as being acceptable. The pa pers, however, protest against the con tinuance of hostilities by the United States after Spain had sued for peace. The minister for war, Gen. Correa, is arranging for the reception of the Span ish troops which surrendered at San tiago de Cuba and is preparing sanitary stations in order to prevent the Intro duction of diseases into Spain. SICK NUMBER 1,770. Of These 2,924 Hare Fever at Santiago. Washington, July 28. The war de partment has posted the following: Santiago de Cuba, July 27, 1898. Adjutant General 6f the Army, Wash ington, D. C: Reports of yesterday show total sick 3,770; total fever eases 2,924; new cases of fever 639; cases of fever returned to duty 538. Death list for yesterday: First Lieutenant J. A. Babcock, Thirty-third Michigan, yellow fever. William Francis Poore, Company D, First District of Columbia volunteers, typhoid fever; T. H. Mahoney. Company D, Twentieth infantry, typhoid; Cor poral Charles E. Wangle, Company E, Twenty-fourth infantry, yellow fever. Civilian Teamsters E-. G. Coba, yellow fever, and Moore Stuart, yellow fever. All at Siboney. Privates Albert Ber gunde. Company G, Sixteenth infantry, malarial fever, and Charles Clemens, Company H. Thirty-fourth Michigan, malarial remittent fever, both with reg iments. Deaths not previously reported: Privates Brooley, Company G, First infantry, dysentery, July 17; J. Laine, Company G, Ninth infantry, dysentery, July 19; G. A. McLathan. troop A, Sec ond cavalry, yellow fever, July 20; W. E. Hamil, troop A, Second cavalry, yel low fever, July 20; Andrew Johnson, troop F, Second cavalry, yellow fever, July 20; Walter Wischman, troop E, Second cavalry, yellow fever; Harvey Atkinson. Company I, Second Massa chusetts, nostalgia, July 25; colored sol dier, name unknown, July 21, at deten tion hospital. (Signed) SHAFTER, Major General. MILES STANDS STILL According to a Dispatch Re ceived at Madrid. Madrid, July 28. According to an of ficial dispatch just received from San Juan de Porto Rico, the American for ces under Major General Miles occupy the same positions at Port Guancia as they did after landing. Several American warships and trans ports are reported to be cruising off the island. STILL AFTER HELMS. Attorney General Boyle Hay Next Proceed Against Him. It is probable that Fletcher Helms will be arrested on the charge of ob taining money under false pretenses. The case of this character against him was dismissed on motion of County At torney Jetmore and he was allowed to plead guilty on a misdemeanor. Cer tain persons who had been interested in the case were indignant that the charge should have been made and then changed and they immediately filed an application for a new complaint. The county attorney would not allow this to be done. There is now talk of ap pealing to Attorney General Boyle, and it is probable that this will be done. It is stated that Justice McClintock was not to blame in the matter of the change of the charge. The case had been already arranged when it came to him, and the county attorney made a motion that it be dismissed which was his legal right. Helms is the deputy sheriff who collected money from a wo man in Smoky Row on a fraudulent warrent. He pleaded guilty to a mis demeanor and was fined $100 and costs. Patriotic Newton Women. Newton, July 28. The ladies of the War Aid society have sent supplies to Major Doctor Armstrong of the Twenty-first Kansas at Chickamauga. They are to be used mainly n the hospital; $25 in money was also sent to be used for the purchase of ice and other lux uries. The society is formed of patri otic women of this city and they are working for the benefit of the sick and wounded Kansas soldiers. Saratoga and Return. Attendants at meeting of Young Peo ple's Christian Union ,at Saratoga, N. Y., August 3-8, 1898, may travel from Topeka to Saratoga and return for $36.12. Agent Santa Fe Route will tell you how to do it. LIFE IUBBING. Prince Bismarck is Slowly Passing Away. His Death is Expected Now at Any Time. HIS FAMILY PRESENT. Is Suffering From Extreme Weakness, From Which It Is Hardly Pos sible He Can Rally. Berlin, July 28. The reports of Princ Bismarck's serious illness are unfortu nately verified so far as can be ascer tained. The family feared the worst yesterday. The whole family is assem bled at Freidrichsruhe. The Hamburg correspondent of the Vossiche Zeitung says: All the evening papers, with the ex ception of the Hamburger Nachrichten, represent the condition of Prince Bis marck as unfavorable. Despite his good! sleep, there Is still ground for anxiety. The Hamburg correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt also says that it has been an anxious crisis, but that there are hopes that there is now a turning for the better. A dispatch from Freidrichsruhe to the Lokal Anzieger says: "Prince Bismarck has been seriously ill for some days with acute venal in- BISMARCK. flammation. He has eaten an ice and taken nourishment. What is serious is his extreme weakness." In the face of conflicting statements and the secrecy maintained at Freid richsruhe, accurate acocunts of Prince Bismarck's condition are impossible. It is the custom of Dr. Schweninger to de ny all alarmist reports, first because his patient is still in the habit of reading newspapers when he Is well enough. and second because he contends that Prince Bismarck has the same right of privacy in such matters as an ordinary private citizen. From the best available sources it -may be gathered that Bismarck's con dition is one of diminishing strength and power to fight against chronic dis ease rather than of sudden collapse or change, and that he may live for some time unless sudden weakness of the heart sets in. The inflammation of the vein of the leg is causing increasing trouble. Some reports say that an open, painful sore in one leg prevents his sleeping and has caused general weakness. Dr. Schweninger, in a published Inter view denies all these alarmist reports. He complains of the great trouble caus ed to himself and the whole Bismarck housahold bv telegraphic and other in quiries from all parts of the world, say ing that he wants his time for his pa tient and can not be expected to an swer inquiries, expressing the opinion that people "ought to be more consid erate." LOCAL MENTION. Probate Judge Dolman has sentenced Willie Burritt to the reform school. The boy's parents live at Herington. Carrie Parish, colored, will be taken to the Beloit industrial school for girls. She was sentenced to the institution yesterday by Judge Dolman. The "Cold Storage" team is composed of the following: Harry B. Howe, Robt. G. Crall, Llewellyn J. Graham, Jas. B. Doncyson, Harry H. Tracey, Martin Oswald, Cast Carr, Clarence Smith and Dick Alden. Chas. Martin is manager. The Grand Lodge of the First Grand Independent Benevolent society of Kansas and Missouri, is now in session at 426 Kansas avenue-. The meetings opened yesterday and will continue un til Friday evening. Saturday a par ade and celebration at the City park will be held. A. D. DeFrantz, is mar shal. The police last night at 9 o'clock raided a small joint in North Topeka and arrested Jane Davis, colored, aged 52 years. Two kegs of beer were seized. The woman ran a restaurant and she claims that she served beer free to her customers. The police say they have a strong case against her. The deeds transferring the Hamilton hall property on Quincy street to the mortgagees were filed yesterday by Sheriff Cook. The property was sold a few weeks ago at sheriff's sale for $14,500. The internal revenue stamps required for the deeds yesterday amounted to $17. An appeal has been taken in the esse of the State of Kansas versus Franci3 Brown, for maintaining a nuisancs. Brown was tried and convicted of keep ing a joint in North Topeka. Judge Hazen fined Brown $200 and sentenced him to the county Jail for 90 days. A transcript of the case was today filed, appealing it to the appellate court. Sergeant Owen and an officer today arrested George Davis at the fair grounds on the charge of assault wita intent to kill. Davis about a year ago attacked a marshal at Buriingame when he was raiding an O. M. B. joint. Tha marshal shot Davis' brother in the le? and was in turn considerably beaten by both men. George Davis left town. Topeka officers learned that he was a member of the colored volunteers and communicated with the Buriingame of ficers. A constable today took Davis back to Buriingame.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THTTRSDAT EVENING. JULY 28, 189S. The old-fashion e d watch man who prowled about the streets of medieval Lon don, with a lan tern in his hand to pro claim his com ing', and who announced his passage through the I 8treets by Rri rn t i n or "All'a 1 well," was a protector when Kcomcared witli iM I the metronoli- j J O police of sJT New York City, known as tha "Finest." The modern policeman does not proclaim his coming to the evil doer by shouting: or by carrying a lantern. He does his work more quietly and effectively than the old-fash-,ioned town watchman. It is thus that in all the walks of life and In all occupations, times change and knowl edge and efficiency increase. In this re ispect medical science has kept pace with 'the advance in other lines. Physicians and chemists have grown rapidly more skillful. 'There are medicinal preparations now-a-jdays that cure diseases that were a few 'years ago considered absolutely incurable. rU final tUia c,n- i T Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It (was first t'iven to the world thirty years i ago, and has stood the test ever since that time. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases of 'consumption, bronchial, throat and kindred affections. Thousands who were hopeless sufferers, and had been given up by the doctors, have testified to its marvelous merits. It is the great blood -maker and flesh-builder. It makes the appetite hearty, the digestion and assimilation perfect, the liver active, the blood pure and rich with the life-giving elements of the food, and the nerves strong and steady. It acts directly on the lungs and air-passages, driving out all impurities and disease germs. An hon est dealer will not try to persuade you to take an inferior substitute for the sake of a few pennies added profit. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure consti pation. At all medicine stores. SOME SEASIDE FEATURES. Several People Narrowly Escape Drowning at Atlantic City. Atlantic City, N. J., July 28. Yester iday was a day of accidents at this re sort. But this Is not to be wondered at when it is taken into consideration that there were fully 125,000 visitors here, and that a majority of them in dulged In a plunge in the surf. The great wonder is that no fatalities oc curred, and the fact that they did not is a tribute to the local force of life guards. The surf was heavy and there was a treacherous undertow which swept many a luckless bather oft his reet. In all ten rescues were effected. The most sensational of these was that of the collector of the port of Philadelphia, C. Wesley Thomas. He is one of Sen ator Quay's lieutenants in keystone state politics. Mr. Thomas was bathing In comparative shallow water at the foot of South Carolina avenue, when a wave knocked him off his feet and car ried him into deep water before he could come to the surface. His peril was no ticed by Guards Lindsey and Heckler, who were in the lifeboats. The latter leaped overboard with a buoy and after a hard struggle succeeded in reaching the exhausted man and bringing him to the lifeboat, to which he clung until Guard Conover swam out from the shore with another buoy and a life line. INYENTOIl OF BATTERIES. Eis Birth Will Be Properly Celebrated at Como, Italy, Soon. New York, July 28. An interesting exposition of electricity will be held at Como, Italy, from May to October next year. It is in commemoration of Alex ander Volta, the discoverer of the elec tric battery, and from which the word "volt" has been applied to the power. At the same time in connection with the exposition there will be a national display of electrical products. The most eminent scientists of the world will attend. An international display of silk products and machinery will be given. The latter is among the first of Italian industries. Many axe anx ious to make application for space at the exposition, and this can be done lo cally through Dr. Joseph Cueno. The skull and original battery of Vol ta have been placed in the Royal uni versity at Paris. PENANCE FOR EARLY SINS. Man Carrying Heavy Cross Walks With. Bare Head and leek Albany, July 28. Because in his youth tie was an intemperate drinker, and because he has been converted and be lieves in penance for his early sins. John Hogan of this city walks barefooted and bareheaded through the streets every day, his shoulder laden with a heavy wooden cross over six feet in length. During the hour of the day he sets apart as a penitential period tie is regardless of the weather. In the dead of winter he walks over ice and snow barefooted and bareheaded. No particular attention la paid to him now toy the people. Even the children re frain from bothering him, and no men tion is ever made to him of his pen ance. CERYERA'S AUTOGRAPH. Wrote That He Lost His Buttona a Santiago. Portland, Me., July 28. A few days ago an 11-year-old boy wrote to Ad miral Cervera asking for a button and the admiral's autograph. He was made happy by receiving the following note from the Spanish admiral: "Annapolis, July 20. "Sly Dear Sir: I have received vour Setter, and as I have absolutely none of my clothes, as I had to go ashore j swimming, I can not send you a button i as you uesire. My autograph you will have in the signature of this lettter. "I am most sincerely, your servant !Who kisses your hand, "PASQUALE CERVERA." LIGHTNING'S QUEER PRANK Hills a Horse After Passing Through HiB Rider Without Killing Him. Colorado, Springs, July 28. During en electrical storm here yesterday ?'oung Arthur Robinson was struck by igiitnlng in a most remarkable man ner. He was riding horseback and was coming down a hill, when a bolt of j lightning struck rum in the head, tear ing his hat to pieces and passing dawn his body, making a seared mark, and thence entering the horse, which was Instantly killed. Robinson was picked tip by a pedestrian and taken to a 1 farm residence, where a physician, by working with him all night brought um iu h. state or consciousness. He will recover, it i3 said, but his sense ot hearing is lost. SVhitmere Bros.. Barbers, 735 Kaa. aT. A GREAT DAY Hag Been Planned in Hawaii For the Time IVlien Her Flag Conies Down and the STARS AND STKIPES Are Hoisted in Its Stead Over the Land. Ceremony Awaits Admiral Mil ler's Arrival. San Francisco, July 28. The steam ship Mariposa, from Auckland, Sydney, Apia and Honolulu has arrived. The Mariposa left Sydney on July 4, and left Auckland on the 9th. She arrived at Honolulu on the 20th, and left on the 21st. On July 25, about 4 p. m., the Mariposa sighted the transport steam' er City of Rio Janeiro. The two ves sels hove to and a small boat from the transport carried a bag of mail to the Mariposa. The boat's crew reported an well on board the Rio. The com mittee of the annexation club and the executive council have held sessions daily and have arranged the official program or exercises, subject, or course, to any changes Admiral Miller may In the morning there will be a com bined naval and military narade. con sisting of men from the warships and the full strength of the national guard. After parading the principal streets the procession will move to the e-overnment building where President Dole, the cab inet. Admiral Miller and staff. Minister Sewall, Consul General Haywood and others will be grouped. The literarv exercises will first take place, together v mi me singing ot patriotic American airs. President Dole will then deliver an address and a salute of twentv-one guns will be fired as the Hawaiian flag The audience will then sine- "The Star Spangled Banner" to the music of the oana, when Admiral Miller will hoist the stars and stripes, which will be sa luted by twentv-one trims. Tf Presfriortr McKinley sends a proclamation it will oe reaa ty Admiral Miller previous to txjir iiuisLin or 01a glory. Minister Sewall, Consul General Hav. wood and others will deliver short nrl. dresses, and the ceremony will close witn tne presentation by President Dole of an American flag to the Hawaiian national guard. The flag is the original silk one used by the Boston's battalions in 1S93, when the warship was here. In the evening there will be a grand display of fireworks, and the govern ment building will be illuminated on a magnificent scale. A banquet will be tendered to Ad miral Miller and a ball will follow at the opera house. The citizens have suDscrmea $15,000 for the day's ce'.ebra tion and the most important event in tne nistory of the Island will be cele brated with a magnificence worthy of the occasion. Returning steamers from the other islands all report a vociferous reception of the annexation news and scenes similar to the one which occurred in Honolulu. Preparations were at once made in all the towns to officially cele brate the raising of the stars and stripes by Admiral Miller in this city. Spectators are already cornering the supply of Hawaiian coins and postage stamps, which are sure to be of value in a rew years. The banks have commenced to use the war revenue starrms on checks nnrl drafts, a consignment having been sent down on the Coptic. After the receipt of the news of an nexation President Dole said to the As sociated Press correspondent: "I think ine status will go on lust as it is nnnr until congress has had time to fix it permanently. 1 teel confident that all uawanans who are voters now will continue to be so. "I think that the legislation by con gress will be slow. The present sys tem will be kept up for some time. There will be some hesitation about ma King raaicaj changes. "I have strong hopes that the land policy will not be interrupted. Con gress will probably pass a sunnlpment- ary act, which will allow our land sys- icriw lu Ko on. senator Morgan said .ne was nere that the system we i ueiier ror us tnan the American vstem, ana jiiorgan is one of our best menus. "The news of annexation consum mates the efforts and the main nniicv of the present government from the time when it was initiated as 'provision al rnrougn to tne time when it was recognized by the governments of the earth, to the time when it has been re ceived into the bosom of the greatest republic and one of the most powerful states that the world has ever known." The council of state has pardoned more than 200 prisoners, most of whom were under sentence for taking part in the uprising of 1S95. The, men have had liberty under pa role. The pardon restores their civil rights. The board of immigration has decided to allow the planters to import' 2,675 Japanese laborers. Most of the men will be for new plantations. The plant ers are in doubt as to the stand Japan will take now that Hawaii is a part of the TTnjted States. Some believe that her officials will not allow any immigra tion te this country. A member of the cabinet was asked what effect annexation would have on the Japanese immigration muddle and what was its present status. The reply was that the whole matter had been transferred to Washington some time ago and it was probable that the Ha waiian authorities would hear no mora of it. Mr. Shimumura, the Japanese minister resident left for Yokohama on the 14th. Several months ago he ap plied for leave to visit his home. His request was granted. His going at this time, therefore, has no political sig nificance whatever, though he says that annexation will do away with a min ister resident and allow Hawaii only a consul general. The United States cruiser Philadel phia has sailed for Honolulu. Admiral Miller transferred his flag from the Al batross to the Philadelphia. The Phil adelphia will make all speed to Hono lulu. Admiral Miller, It is believed, carried no special instructions with him but will remain at Honolulu until or dered elsewhere. Admiral Miller will not raise the flag of the United States over the island until after the arrival of the Hawaiian com missioners, who leave this city for Honolulu August 10. It is expected that the New York regiment will have ar rived at the islands in time to partici pate in the ceremony making it both a naval and military affair. Sewall For Governor. San Francisco, July 28. Tha steamer Mariposa brings the following corres pondence to the Associated Press: Honolulu, July 20. The steamship Coptic arrived from San Francisco on the evening of the 13th instant with ths important news that the United States senate had ratified the Newlands reso lution, making Hawaii a part of the United States. Long before the vessel reached the harbor it was known that the steamer brought annexation news, the information being signalled to the Mohican. The fire whistle and the whistles of foundries, mills and steamers were turned loose and pandemonium reigned. Fireworks were set off. In the midst of the noise one hundred guns were fired on the grounds of the executive building. At the same time the Hawaiian band started out and marched through the streets to the wharf playing American patriotic airs. An immense procession was formed and a march was made to the executive building. President Dole was at his beach home when the steamer was sighted. He hur ried into town and reached the wharf as the steamer tied up. Captain Sealby of the Coptic was presented with a sil ver cup by the citizens of Honolulu for bringing the news. The cup bore the inscription: "Annexation. Presented by the citi zens to Captain Inman Sealby: R. N. R., who brought the good news to Hon olulu." The people here have decided not to have any formal annexation celebration until the Philadelphia and Admiral Mil ler arrive with the flag. The leading men of Honolulu met to day and recommended Harold M. Se wall, United States minister to Hawaii for governor of the islands. It has been generally thought that President Dole would be their choice. William Sullivan, a corporal of com pany L, Minnesota volunteers, is dead here. When the last fleet of transports passed through here he was left at the local hospital for treatment for typhoid fever. He received the best of care, but on the 17th death ensued. The Ohio, Para, Valencia and Indiana, four vessels of the third fleet of trans ports which returned to Honolulu on account- of an accident to the Indiana, were delayed here about 24 hours and sailed again for Manila on the 9th. There was some defect in the boilers of the Indiana. The Monadnock and the Nero sailed on the 15th. During the monitor's stay In port Captain Whiting had considera ble change made in her condensing ap paratus and in means for ventilating the engine and boiler rooms. On the trip down the engineers and firemen suffered greatly from the heat. E. I. Greene, of Portland, Ore., who shipped as a stoker on the Monadnock was sent to the insane asylum on the 12th instant. Green is a doctor of den tal surgery, and had a lucrative prac tice when the war broke out. He has a brother who graduated at the Annapo lis naval academy and is with the fleet off Santiago. He was examined as to his sjanity by Decors Emerson, Horbert and Steele, and on their report was sent to the insane asylum. It is believed that the rest he will get there and the care he will receive will speedily re store him. Greene's condition is a result of the excessive heat of the fire room and a fail from a hammock. To Muster in the Guards. San Francisco, July 28. From a most authentic source comes the information that the arrival of the American troops in Honolulu will be followed by the mustering into the United States vol unteer service of the Hawaiian national guard, a force of 500 men. It was offi cially given out at army headquarters today that the first battalion of the New York regiment will sail for Hon olulu next Saturday morning. The bat talion of the engineers corps will go. Two transports, North Fork and Lakme have been inspected by govern ment officers and have been passed sat isfactorily. The North Fork will carry the New Yorkers and the Lakme the engineers. BRYAN WON'T RUN. Fight for Nomination for Governor May Prevent Fusion in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., July 28. Colonel Bryan has wired to party leaders here that under no circumstances does he desire that his name be brought forward as a candidate for governor. This was in reply to an ur gent request from leaders that he accept the nomination for governor upon the grounds that it would conduce to party harmony. The only difference between the Demo crats and Populists over the selection of a fusion ticket this year is which shall have the governor, the Democrats claim ing it on the ground that they now have but two out of the 12 state officers, while the Populists insist that they have the gov ernorship now and ought to have it again and that the Democrats got the cream last year. There are a dozen different candi dates for governor, and the probability of a lively fight leads the timid to fear that perhaps the prospects of fusion will be lessened unless they could get Bryan to accept. The conventions meet next week and there promises to be some lively de velopments. MUSHROOM GARDEN. A, Rouif Started the Industry in St Louis But Neighbors Objected. St. Louis,July 28. The unlawful detainer suit of the German Savings institution against A. Rouif, for possession of prem ises at 1 South Commercial street, which) was tried in Justice Haughton's court 3'esterday, developed an interesting fact. The premises were rented from month to month. Rouif wanted a lease, but the bank would not give it. After Rouif had been In possession of the property for some time the persons occupying the property adjoining began to make objections. An Investigation re vealed the fact, it is stated, that Rouif was utilizing the property for growing mushrooms. His efforts to enrich the place sufficiently to grow the mushrooms had caused the neighbors to complain. Corn is Badly Damaged. Insurance Commissioner Webb McNall says that corn in Smith county is badly damaged. As he has 700 acres of that grain on his farm he is very much inter ested in the drouth. Mr. McNall says that the late corn seems to be in good condition as compared with that planted early in the season. He says that a good rain will help late corn, but much is past help. Omaha Exposition Fast train leaving Topeka 4:55 a. m. via Santa Fe Route, arrives in Omaha at noon. The electric fans now operated In Santa Fe Route dining cars are desir able and seasonable accessories to an already unsurpassed service. C. B. Lyon, D. D. S.. 511 Kan. Ave. Modern dental work; reasonable prices. Not how cheap but how good Is the way we try to do. our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 ar-.d 114 West Sth, APPEAL FROM SCHLIEMANN Chaplain 20th Kansas Wants Money to Buy a Tent The following Is an appeal from Rev. J. G. Schliemann, chaplain of the Twen tieth Kansas volunteers for the people of Kansas to interest themselves in the religious welfare of the Kansas volun teers: "Amid the various notes of war both major and minor, there is one other as yet unheard that may fitly come to the good people of Kansas. "The religious condition of the Twen tieth Kansas and its religious needs have hardly been noticed so far by the home press and people. Yet there is no part of regimental life which is more important and no part which will be more far reaching in its results both for the immediate and distant future. "We have in our five acre lot more than 1,300 men. For the religious work of this good sized congregation the gov ernment makes absolutely no provision apart from the appointment of a chap lain. No meeting place; no books; no music. Only the open sky and a John the Baptist crying in this moral wilder ness of San Francisco bay district. Per haps right here a few lines on the re ligious condition of the regiment will help to an understanding of what we wish to do. "There have been religious services of some kind at least twice every Sun day since I have been with the regi ment. Every Sunday an invitation has been given to those who desired to be come Christians and every Sunday there has been a response of from one to twenty. We have held a few services in the open air but the climate is too trying, apart from other drawbacks, to make that feasible as a rule. Generally, we have been under shelter. Some times in a Y. M. C. A. tent. Some times in the C. E. headquarters. Some times in one of the down town churches. Memorial Sunday we had the use of the California street M. E. church. Last Sunday we had the use of the First Baptist and twenty men expressed their desire to lead a Christian life. These churches are a long distance from camp. In most cases it is too far to walk. We need some place in our camp large enough for 250 to 300 men. Every even ing for four weeks.excepting the Fourth of July, I have been out to some ser vice, either social or religious, or both, with a number of our boys. The num ber going ranged from 25 to 500 men. In addition to this we aim to have three devotional evenings a week in my small tent on the grounds, one evening being given to each battalion. Last evening there were 50 present who filled the tent to its limit. While a good number go outside of camp to church a good many object to going, as they say, 'un der guard to church.' They go under my charge and I am expected to ac count for them and while there is no need for that feeling of constraint it actually exists on the part of many. What we need is our own equipment consisting of a tent, a 'baby' organ and a supply of singing books. "Col. Funston has assured me that if we can get the tent we can arrange to have it sent with us as regimental freight. It will take in the neighbor hood of $200 to get the tent but the money spent in that way will be worth more to the regiment in its productive results than ten times the amount spent for the physical needs of the men. "Will the churches in the towns that have men in the Twentieth Kansas, call attention to this matter and take up a collection from the congregation for this purpose. The need is urgent, the opportunity great. Camp life teems with temptation, but on the other hand the soldier is often susceptible to re ligious influences. From $25 to $50 from each of several cities, whose men are with us, will make all the money need ed. This tent would also be used as a reading and writing tent and a place for social meetings. "If we get away to Manila before the money comes it may be forwarded to us there. The receipt of all money will be acknowledge. (Signed), "REV. J. G. SCHLIEMANN." "I heartily endorse the above. All contributions for this purpose should be sent to the chaplain. (Signed), "FREDERICK FUNSTON, "Colonel." RAIL AT THEIR-COUNTRY. Spanish Papers Become Hysterical Over Cervera's Defeat New York, July 28: Here are further quotations from Spanish newspapers regarding the loss of Cervera's squad ron: The Heraldo, of Madrid exclaims: "This is horrible! This is dreadful! "On account of the lost ships? No Spaniard would weep over ships lost in another Trafalgar. On account, then, of the blood that was shed? There is Cuba covered with our blood, ana nobody ever thought of It. What makes our grief greater is not the ex tent of our disaster, but the considera tion that what for us was annihilation was for the Yankees the affair of one moment. These figures tell their own tale: "Cadarso is killed, and with him hun dreds of obscure heroes fell also. But what did it cost Dewey to produce such a terrible catastrophe? Six Wound ed sailors. Our best fighting ships, our admirable cruisers, our swift destroyers are sunk off the Cuban coast, their crews are slain or captured, with Ad miral Cervera at their head, but what did such a complete victory cost Samp son? One dead and two wounded. These figures make not only a striking con trast, but they produce the effect of hedhot iron in the flesh. "What! Is there no means by which we may kill as we are killed? Is there no means by which the guns of our ships may cause a slight scratch on the enem v "In a Trafalgar all would certainly j be fire and shell and death; but fire j and shells and death would equally reach the two contending foes and 1 thus glory would be equally shared. 1 But in these battles of today there is no limit to our adversity. The Colon, the Vizcaya, the Oquendo, the Maria Teresa, the Pluton, the Furor, all strug gle like lions, but their supreme col lapse comes through depression, like wild beasts tired of uselessly roaring before the conquerer's sarcastic hur rahs." El Liberal, of Alicante, says that Premier Sagasta is opposed to the building of any fortifications In that port, because, in his opinion, "the Americans will not dare to bombard it as long it is kept in a defenseless condi tion." Delirious Young Woman's Flight Waco, Tex., July 28. Miss Louise Love Anderson, while delirious from fever, left her bedroom and fled across fields, through forests and into a chap arral, receiving many wounds from briars and barbed wire fences. She was found today ten miles distant in a thicket. She was exhausted and bleed ing. The young lady is a compositor on the Forum, the Populist state organ, and resides at the home of Mr. J. S. Bradley, the state chairman of that party, who owns and edits the Forum. Mrs. Bradley was glad to see the suf ferer again and is nursing her tenderly. She is in high fever and her condition is critical. TONS Jtf GOLD Come Down From Dawson on the Humboldt. Four Boxes of Nuggets Weigh ing 1,200 Pounds BROUGHT BY ONE MAN. Another Has Fire Boxes Weigh ing 1300 Pounds. One Passenger Has a Draft For 242,000. Seattle, Wash., July 28. Steamer Humboldt has arrived from St. Michael with 112 passengers from Dawson City and about one million dollars in gold dust and as much more in drafts. This is the estimate of Purser Twigg, who says that it is a very conservative one. About $600,000 in dust was turned over to him for safe keeping. Among the passengers were some old timers, nota bly Otto Stander, one of the original discoverers of Eldorado. Stander had in his state room four iron boxes full of nuggets weighing about 1,200 pounds in all. Stander would not tell how much gold he had, but it was generally understood among the boat's passengers that It amounted to about $250,000. John Ericson, another Yukon pioneer, formerly of California, had five wooden boxes aggregating 1,300 pounds, under guard in his room. J. D. Menach of Seattle had a draft for $242,000, the pro ceeds of the sale of his claim number 8, on Eldorado. C. W. Hall and H. C. L. Gates, both formerly of Eureka, Cal., are credited with about $80,000 apiece. O. N. Jackson is said to have $20,000. The above named carry the largest amounts. Other individual holdings range from one to ten thousand. RIPENING TOO FAST. Watermelon Season in Missouri and Elsewhere Will End Suddenly. St. Louis, July 28. According to local dealers the Missouri watermelon season will be the shortest on record this year, owing to the peculiar weather condi tions. For the first time in the history of the trade all of the melons in the several counties in Missouri which are famous for melon growing have ma tured at the same time, much to the surprise of the dealers. In what is known as the Maiden dis trict, which is usually at least two weeks ahead of the other melon-growing districts of the state, and the grow ers are able to get fancy prices for their crop, the ripening of the melons was delayed and their shipments have been shut out by the sudden ripening of the melons in the districts further north. From the three famous shipping points, Blodgett, Morley and Diehlstadt, shipments all began at once, and the result is the melons have been coming in at the rate of 100 car loads per day, when the daily receipts at this time of the year should be only about 50 cars. This sudden movement broke the market, and growers and shippers gen erally are surprised at the extremely low prices brought by their first ship ments. Choice melons are selling at from $50 to $80 per car, when at this season they usually bring from $75 to $100 per car. For the past two days the receipts have shown some signs of fall ing off owing to the fact that shippers are temporarily seeking other markets. P. M. Kiely, one of the old-time melon handlers of St. Louis, said that he had never in all of his experience known conditions like the present to prevail. "The season will be the briefest: we ever had," said Mr. Kiely, "and it may be safely stated that three weeks more will wind up the melon shipments from southeast Missouri, while an average season would carry the shipping dates for watermelons to the 1st and loth of October." Melons in Indiana are ripening rap idly and will be on the market before the Missouri season is over, aim me crop of southern Iowa will be on the market soon afterward. Lovers of the fruit will have to make hay while the sun shines, as their op portunity for enjoyment will be brief. TO FORTIFY HONOLULU. United States to Make It a Strong Military Post San Franciscoj Cal., July 28. It has been decided to fortify Honolulu and make it one of the strongest military posts in the Pacific. For this purpose ivToiot- Tjjnsrfitt. commanding a bat talion of United States volunteers and engineers, will leave on tne nrsr. steam er for Honolulu, and he will be followed by 400 men, who are under command of Col. Willard Young, now in Chicago. These men are all expert engineers. The government has authorized Major Langfitt to go to work at once prepar ing estimates, and all strategic points which control Honolulu will be strongly fortified and barracks will be built for a large force. The Washington author ities have insisted on speed in preparing the defenses and arranging for large military forces. Captain Lydig, of New York, has been ordered to proceed to Honolulu by the St. Paul on Friday next as commissary of the port there. Captain James G. Blaine has been ordered to go to Manila on the same vessel. Gen. Breckenridge Returns. Washington, July 28. Major General John C. Breckenridge, who was promoted from brigadier and inspector general, re turned today from Santiago and reported to the secretary of war. He accompanied General Miles to Santiago and when the latter went to Porto Rico returned to Washington. The future movements of General Breckenridge have not been de termined. He will make quite a long re port to the secretary, covering his obser vations while in Cuba. General Brecken rige's staff, consisting of Captain Dick man and Lieutenants Foote and Brecken ridge returned with him. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve m tne world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and all skin eruptions, and positive ly cures piles, or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Swift Kolliday. The Direct Line to Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francis co and Portland, is via the Union Pacif ic. The service of the Union Pacific to all principal western points is unex celled by any other line and consists of Pullman Palace Sleepers, Pullman Tourist Sleepers, Chair Cars, Dining Cars. (Meals a la carte.) For time table and full information call on F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent. J. C. Fulton. Depot Agent PORTO RICO. Its Population, Chief Cities and Re- sources. 1 The Island of Porto Rico is 3,668 square miles in extent. .It is 95 miles long and 35 miles broad, and has a pop ulation, according to the latest figures, made in 1887, of 813,937, of which more than 300,000 are negroes. There are 137 miles of railway and about 150 miles of wagon road. All other traveling and transportation must be done by mules and riding horses. There are 470 miles of telegraph lines and telephone sys tems in the principal cities. In 1895 the total value of imports was $16,155,056, and of exports $14,629,494. In 1S87 the United States sent imports to the is- land to the value of $2,181,024, and re ceived exports valued at $1,988,888. In 1896 the exports to Spain were $5,423, 760, and there was received from Spain $7,328,880. There is a large tobacco crop now growing which promises well. The principal city is San Juan, situa ted upon a small island connected with the mainland by a bridge. At the other end of it are the high cliffs which sup port El Morro castle. The harbor en trance is one of great difficulty, except under the most favorable conditions, but a broad and beautiful bay is con cealed beyond it. The city is a com plete walled town, with portcullis.moat, gates and battlements. Although over 250 years old, it is still in good condi tion. Inside the walls the city Is laid off in regular squares.six parallel streets run ning in the direction of the length of the island and seven at right angles. The houses are closely nitd compactly built of brick, usually of two stories, stuccoed on the outside and painted in a variety of colors. The upper floors are occupied by the more respectable people, while the ground floors, almost without exception, are given up to ne groes and the poorer class, who crowd upon one another in the most appalling manner. The population within the walls is estimated at 20,000, and most of it lives on the ground floor, where everything reeks with filth, and condi tions are most unsanitary. The entire population depends upon rain water caught upon the flat roofs of the build ings and conducted to the cistern, which occupies the greater part of the inner courtyard, while vaults occupy what ever remaining space there may be in the patios. Epidemics are frequent, and the town is alive with vermin, fleas, cockroaches, mosquitoes and dogs. The streets are wider than in the older part of Havana, and will admit two carriages abreast. They are swept once a day by hand, and are kept clean. The soil under the city furnishes a good natural drainage. The trade wind blows strong and fresh, and through the harbor runs a stream of sea water at a speed of not less than three miles an hour. With these condi tions, no contagious diseases, if proper ly taken care of, could exist. Thereiare several small suburbs with out the walled city, and the total popu lation was estimated at 30,000 in 1896. There is but little manufacturing, and that of small importance. The Stand ard Oil company has a small refinery and there Is an electric light plant. The climate is warm, and except for three months agreeable. There are sudden changes and much lung trouble, espec ially among the natives. Ponce is the second city of import ance. It is situated on the south coast, about two miles from seaboard, and-has a population of about 15,000. It is the residence of the military commander and the seat of an official chamber of commerce. There is a Catholic church and the only Protestant church in the Spanish West Indies. The inhabitants are principally in mercantile pursuits. Its seaport is Playa, a town of 5,000 in habitants, where vessels of 25 feet draft can be accommodated in the harbor. This Is said to be the healthiest spot on the island. Mayaguez, the third city, is situated in the west part, facing "Mona Chan nel." There are three manufactories of chocolate for local consumption. Sugar, coffee, oranges, pineapples and cocoa nuts are exported largely all, except coffee, principally to the United States. Of sugar the muscovado goes to the United States and the centrifugal to Spain. Mayaguez is the second port for coffee, the average annual export being 170,000 hundred weights. About 50,000 bags of flour are imported into this port every year from the United States. The population is nearly 20,000, the ma jority white. The climate is excellent, never exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Aguadilla, in the northwest portion of the island, has 5,000 inhabitants. In the town are three establishments for pre paring coffee for exportation. The cli mate Is hot, but healthy. Arecibo, with 7.000 inhabitants, is sit uated on the north coast. The harbor is poor, being nothing more than an open roadstead. Goods are conveyed on the river to and from the town in flat bottomed boats, with the aid of long poles. At the bar of the river every thing is again transferred into lighters and thence to vessels. Fajardo has a population of 8.779. The town is about one and one-quarter miles from the bay. The only import ant industry of the district is the man ufacture of muscovado sugar. Shooks, hickory hoops, pine boards and provis ions come from the United States in considerable quantities. Sugar and mo lasses are exported, and occasionally tortoise shell. The climate is temperate and healthy. Naguabo Is a town of 2.000 Inhabi tants. The capital of the department. Humacao, is nine miles distant.and has 4,000 inhabitants the district compris ing more than 15,000. Arroyo Is a seaport of 1,200 inhabi tants. The annual exports to the Uni ted States average 7.000 to 10,000 hogs heads of sugar, 2,000 to 5.000 casks of molasses and 50 to 150 casks and barrels of bay rum. RURAL FREE DELITERT. Gov. Mount of Indiana, Making a Test of th9 System. Crawfordsville, Ind., July 28. Gover nor Mount of Indiana, has long been a strong advocate for the rural free de livery of mail and he has so interested himself in the matter that he has suc ceeded in persuading the postoffice de partment to conduct its vital tst of the system on a route extending from Crawfordsville ten miles east to the Mount farm. Governor Mount has been at home for several days and has per sonally visited those families along the route and urged the importance of fa cilitating, so far as possible, the work of the carrier. The postoffice depart ment will experiment not only with the route running to the Mount farm, but with several others running out from Crawfordsville. Two other routes have already been agreed upon by Col. Smith and F. M. Dice, of the postoffice depart ment, who are now on the ground. These routes are considered even more practi cable than the route first selected, hav ing both their beginning and end In Crawfordsville, whereas tha Mount route ends at the governor's farm, ten miles away. The postoffice department is greatly interested in the results of the work here as the conditions for a fair test of the system are regarded to be ideal. In many of the communities where the tests have been made it is claimed tiiat the conditions have been manufactured. Electric fans to keep you cool are new and timely features of Santa Fe Route dining cars. 1 i. ppuw wv vmr-y T will guarantee that my Kidney Cure will cure 90 per cent Of all forms of kidney oomplalnt end la many instances the most serious forms of Kright's disease. If -tbe disease is com plicated send a. four ounce vial of urine. We will analyze It and advise you, fre what to do. MUKTOW. a vial. Onlde to HealUa and mfdlrsl advire free 1S05 Arch St.. rwn. YACHT GOES ASHORE. Fear Entertained That a Milwaukee Party Has Been Drowned. Milwaukee, Wis., July 28. The yacht Labell, owned by Emil Schandein, came ashore at South Milwaukee last night. In the yacht there was a card, on which was written: Drowned, July 23, 1898. As an additional circumstance, the police at South Milwaukee reported that they had found five women's hats and several men's hats on the beach. Mr. Schandein left here with a party to go camping ten days ago. The par ty established themselves in the woods near South Milwaukee. There is no one who seems to know who were in the party. The chief of police of South Milwau kee reports that he cannot find any traces of a camn along the shore. The yacht was a naphtha launch and was x-e-garded as perfectly safe. I Mr. Schandein is the son of Lycretla Schandein, one of the heaviest stock holders in the Pabst Brewing company, and is the secretary of the Yewdale Manufacturing company. He is one of the leaders in German social circles. At the yacht club it is claimed nothing has been seen of the launch since it left here, ten days ago. BANKING FOLLOWS FLAG. Connections Now Established With Cuba and Manila. New York, July 28. The North American Trust company of this cfty announces that, as military authority is now established at Santiago, insuring local peace with security of person and property, it has established a branch there, and will buy and sell drafts on Santiago and make payments on that city under Instructions from its cus tomers. The company is also prepared to re ceive the deposits of the soldiers and sailors now in Cuba, and, under their directions, to make remittances to their families in the United States. The company gives notice that It has established relations at Manila, Philip pine islands, with the chartered bank of India, Australia and China, sufficient for the present needs of manufacturers, merchants, travelers, soldiers and sai lors. NEW GOLD DIGGINGS. Returned Chicagoan Tells of Wealth in Alaska. Chicago, July 28. Gold diggings the output of which, it is believed, will equal the yield of the Klondike district have been discovered recently in Alas ka, well within the American boundary. William H. Hubbard, who left Chi, cago last August in the service of the North American Trading and Transpor tation company has returned after a ten months' stay in the gold country and reports rich finds of gold on the Little Mynook, Hunter, Grouse, Rus sian and Quail creeks, in the vicinity of Rampart City, about 1,000 miles inland from the mouth of the Yukon. "On arriving at St. Michael on the 29th of last August," said Mr. Hubbard at his home in Lake Forest yesterday. were unable to go farther, and so put back to Rampart City, and here I spent the winter. Rampart City Is the principal town in the Little My nook mining district. Here we found about 300 people, most of whom were bound for the Klondike, but who were forced to postpone going farther on ac count of low water. A few, however, had been attracted thither by reports of good diggings on the Little Mynook creek." SCALCHT'S TOUR. She is to Appear in Concert in All Principal Cities. Chicago, July 28. Mme. Scalchi, the famous contralto, is to make a new con cert tour through the United States. Helen Noldi is to be with her as prim." donna soprano. It is announced that the tour will begin about October 15 and that near ly all the principal cities will be visited, the season lasting twenty-five weeks. The westward trip will extend to San Fran cisco. Canzio is to be the leading tenor of the organization and Albert! the baritone. The tour will be under the management of George C. Dent of New York, with Mar cello Lobardi as musical director. The concert programmes will include popular grand opera airs, favorite duets, quar tettes, etc. Enterprising Druggists. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than Swift Holliday. who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their line for their custom ers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption. Coughs and Colds. This Is the wonderful remedy that ifi producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It absolutely cures asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness and all af fections of the throat, chest and lungs. Call at above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular size for 50 cents and $1. Guaranteed to cure or price re funded. Mr. John Bevins, editor of the Press, Anthon, Iowa, says: "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy in my family for fifteen years, have recommended it to hun dreds of others, and have never known it to fail in a single instance. For sale by all druggists. ;iilii!l:riilililil!lii;iiliriiriiii!iiiii!i!l:iii;lil;i!!i;i;iil:i:iiiiiil;iiiiiiliiii'ii'"i I Are Vou 6cing Cast? f S If roa re lookinjr for a comfortable trip, nrrfwnd by g S ddphia, or seuhore point, you caiuiot do bUx than to S take tha ILEHIGH VALLEY I RAILROAD I from Buffalo or Niagara Tall eaatward. 3 s Tha rout is through a rsgioa ot 2 I UNRIVALLED SCENERY v neludin historic valley, mountain luighU, rafting river. ud placid lawi. Tbi i to. rout. Ui g I BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS S ltwcn Buffalo and N. Vorlt, PMlnddpftU U 3 handsomest train i a the world. 2 All through day traii carry dlnlnf onrl MrTlng a MEALS a la CARTE. 1 For Hnstrat.d d-scHptiT. boots m thia route, or Inform.- 3 Hon aa to raws of tare. etc.. aend your ad.ir, who foor oent. g 1 1 n atampa, to t han. 8. Lee, Hen. Pai. Asent, A ew York. f

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Kansas City will have no Carnival Crew festivities and flower parade this fall unless the mer chants and business men respond more liberally to the appeals for subscriptions, liarly last spring the crew sent out its notification circulars to all of the patrons and business men. Recently its officers and solicitors have begun active work securing subscriptions. While the responses have been numerous they have been exceedingly small and only about one-half the sum needed, has been secured. "If the business men of Kansas City do not want the festivities, ail they need to do Is to withhold their help," said Presi dent J. F. Eaton of the crew. "We be lieve the gatherings have been of great benefit to the city and we are willing to 3o our part to keep them up. We have planned many new features and arranged for what we believe will be the best dis play ever given here, but we cannot give it without cost, and unless the people eupply that there will be no show. We will not contract bills unless we. have sub scriptions to cover them." THE ROCK ISLAND FLIER Is the Best Train for Kansas City. Leaves Topeka 7:30, arrive at Kansas city 9:lo a. m., returning, leaves Kan sas c.ty 7;10, arrivine at Tooeka 8:50 l- m. FIGHTING FOR HUMANITY. Hard Experience of the Troops Be fore Santiago. (Correspondence of the AssociatedPress) Before Santiago de Cuba, July 15. The American soldiers encamped on the hillsides that fall away from our en trenchments have been waiting day af ter day for the result of the combined truces and conferences between Spain and the United States to be made known. They learned yesterday that Santiago had capitulated. This news was sent along the lines to right and left from Gen. Wheeler's headquarters by Col. John Jacob Astor and with it went instructions that our boys were to make no demonstrations of joy in order that the feelings of the Spaniards in the trenches a few hundred yards away would not be hurt by the echoing of victorious cheers. There was how ever some cheering among the crowded tents, when our men learned that the object of three weeks' fighting, hunger and hardship had been attained. During the afternoon men climbed to the trenches to look again at the city they had taken but were not allowed to enter and some were glad for peace and others called for more fighting. The strain of the watehing and wait ing was removed and soldiery resolved itself into getting as comfortably fixed in the camp as the mud would permit. At sunset yesterday as the regimental bands all along the line played national airs, as is the camp custom, and as a tired soldier boy hummed the words of "The Star Spangled Banner," to the band's time, he chanted the victory he had not been permitted to cheer. The hardships of this campaign, let alone the fighting that scattered the graves of comrades side by side, with the tents of the living, have been splendidly sus tained by our men. Now that the heavy rains of the first of this week have ceased, conditions are better but rain clouds cover the sky every day and any hour may see knee deep rivers sweep ing through camp and it may be next to impossible to start fires to cook food. Then food has been scarce: the roads from here to Siboney have been almost impassable during the rains and at all times they have been rough and team ing has been heavy. When men put up with three pieces of hard tack and half a cup of coffee a day, the question of nutriment is serious and when unsea soned soldiers go 72 hours without sleep, it can be truly said they endure hard ship. But they have borne it all with fine courage and a good nature that was I never long absent. I With the courage and determination of our men, one notes the excellent physical condition of our mules and horses after three weeks of the heaviest kind of incessant labor. All day long I and far into the night, pack trains and I provision wagons toil up to the front i and the Red Cross ambulances bring I back the sick and wounded. Poor Cuban women, footsore. starving 1 and weary drag themselves along the I muddy roads from Caney in search for food and our men and ambulances pick them up and succor them. At El Caney i tho frn,1 i insufficient. Weak women and children get none and starvation there is growing rapidly. A Cuban woman from El Caney stag gered into camp this morning. She was pale and pinched and the ragged silk dress that half covered her body, spoke of past luxury and refinement more than did her features and her despair and utter exhaustion. She did not ask for food, but for work. She washed clothes from the hospital tent for half a day in return for food and sat down to the welcome army fare with hands bleeding from the unaccustomed labor. At du5k she turned wearily back toward El Caney, six miles away, the richer by one meal. The camps have up to this day been pitched where bad conditions existed and their locations have seldom been good from the point of comfort and health. Now that the "game" is over our soldiers will be moved into locations where these points are considered. The country affords good sites and when once the evacuation conditions are set tled and the capitulation properly con formed to changes will be made. An unsettled feeling pervades the line and men gather together personal be longings and are looking over old bat tlefields for mementoes of three days fiht and ten days of weary waiting. A farmer boy from Michigan will se cure the horn handled pocket knife of a dead peasant from the Asturias as a souvenir to the American lad of the davs he fought to free Cuba. And if the Michigan man ever grew enthusiastic and generous back in Michigan over the idea of fighting to help the struggling Cubans gain the same liberty from Spain that his fore fathers won for him from England, these same ideas have been pretty thor oughly knocked out of him by actual contact with the Cubans. The Cuban does not stand high in the opinion of the UnUed States army. Expressed m different ways the opinion prevails that "we will soon be back in Cuba to thrash the Cubans." Our men have no praise for their al leged ally as a fighter. He is always more ready to eat American provisions than help American soldiers and in stances of Cuban greed, inhumanity and cowardice are common talk among the army. These opinions of our men are known among Cubans and will un doubtedly result in a growing antagon ism on the part of the men we are fight ing for, an antagonism that will result in their being in the future less reliable and less worthy of trust by the United States than they are today. RHODES A KANSAN. Rough. Rider Praised by CoL Roose velt, a Kansas Boy. Cave Leahy, writing in the Kansas City Times, tells the following story of Corporal John E. Rhodes of the rough riders who was wounded in the battle of La Quasina: Corporal John D. Rhodes of Troop D, rough riders, whose name has been called to the attention of the secreta ry of war in a dispatch from Colonel Roosevelt, on account 01 great gauant I ry at the battle of La Quasina, is a Kansas boy. He was born in Caldwell and grew almost to manhood in that j town. His youth was spent in an at I mosphere that was laden with the scent of powder and he heard bullets whiz long before Santiago had been j heard of by the average Kansan. John Rhodes is one of the sons of Abraham Rhodes, who died near Hen j nessy a few years ago. "Abe" Rhodes j was one of the first residents of CalJ j well, and in the wild days of the cow I cow he was justice of the jeace and po j lice judge of that town. He raised a family of girls ana boys and altnougn all of them were brought up in the rough town they were children of great moral character. The well remembered day that Talbot killed the mayor of Caldwell, Mike Meagher, sixty-five men with Winches ters participated for over ah hour in the fight. John Rhodes was then a barefooted boy, and he ran down town to see the fight. He watched the fight as fearlessly as if he was a veteran. One of the participants, who is now a prominent citizen of Oklahoma, found himself a target for the famous Talbot. and knowing that the latter generally drew a deadily bead, picked up little Dead, picked up little 1 md held him before j Talbot wouldn't shoot I Johnny Rhodes and he him as a shield. Talbot a boy, and he turned his aim In an other direction. At the next shot Mike Meagher fell dead. In a dozen scenes like this Johnny Rhodes learned not to be afraid of whizzing bullets. At the fight at La Quasina John was badly wounded and taken to the rear for surgical treatment. He wanted to fight some more, and when night came he stole out of the hospital and walked eleven miles to join his command at the front. At daybreak he presented him self to his captain and was arrested for leaving the hospital. The affair came to the attention of Colonel Roosevelt, who, upon inquiry, complimented the heroism of the young man, ordered his release, and in his official report of the fight called-the attention of the secreta ry of war to the bravery and heroism of the Kansas boy from Oklahoma, HELD BLAMELESS. Cromartyshire Not Responsible for La Bourgogne Disaster. Halifax, N. S., July 28. The decision of the court of inquiry here today ex onerates Captain Henderson and the of ficers of the ship Cromartyshire from all blame in the matter of the Bour gogne disaster. The report was made bv Captain W. H. Smith of the British Royal navy reserve with whom was associated in the Investigation Captain Bloomfield Douglass, R. N. R., and Captain Lewis -txnderson, nautical assessor. Captain Smith refers briefly to the voyage of the Cromartyshire up to the night of July 3, and dwells at length on the incidents of the collision as des cribed by the master and crew of the sailing vessel and says them: "At the time the two ships came into collision the concussion was so violent and the blow inflicted so heavy that the sailing vessel was driven apparently consider ably from the course she was heading, although the number of points she was caused to deviate is not exactly stated but the effect of the blow caused her headway to be stopped and made her unmanageable. "The jibboom and bowsprit of the Cromartyshire pasesd over the side of the steamer and was broken and torn away from the starboard side of the sailing ship with all of the gear attach ed and cast over the lee side. The fore mast was also broken and came down from aloft and fell over the same side of the ship. The collision bulkhead re mained intact, w-hich saved the ship from foundering. The damage this vessel sustained was not known to those on board the sailing ship and could not be as the evidence shows she passed quickly out of sight across the bow starboard. "Only one man on board the sailing vessel noticed any persons on the steamer's deck. This was Mr. Healy, the lookout man. He says: 'I saw some people on the steamer's deck forward and two on the bridge. The men shout ed out in a foreign language and I could not tell what they said.' Captain Smith's report sets forth the measures taken on the Cromartyshire to discover if there was loss of life on the steam ship and special attention is drawn to the international relations for prevent ing collisions at the sea, which the re port says should have been observed by these vessels." There can be no doubt. It is added, that the steamer was supplied with an efficient steam whistle and that it was sounded at regular intervals. The offi cers of the sailing ship and most of the crew heard it several minutes before the collision. Abundant proof is also produced that the sailing ship had an efficient horn and was using it accord ing to regulations. From statements made by witnesses in this case, there is an indication that the sailing ship's horn was heard on board the steamer and was answered by her. With regard to the speed of the steamer at the time of the collision the report says nothing can be abso lutely and correctly known as to its rate except from the inferences drawn from the various statements made in the evidence. Perhaps her speed will never be accurately known. From the sudden manner the steamer first came in sight upon the port bow of the sail ing ship and her equally quick disap pearance in the fog immediately after the casualty as shown by the evidence, the court is forced to the conclusion that the steamer was proceeding at a very high rate of speed. Article 20 states that when a steam vessel and a sailing vessel are proceed ing in such directions as to involve risk of collision, the steam vessel shall keep out of the way of the sailing vessel. For reasons unknown to the court, the lat ter did not keep clear of the sailing ves sel. Article 21 says: "Whereby of these rules one of the vessels is to keep out of the way the other shall keep her course and speed." The evidence upon this point is of a clear and satisfactory character and conclusively proves that the sailing ship under the curcumstan ces did keep her course and speed ac cording to the provisions of the act. The court is of the opinion that her master would not have been justified in departing from the statutory regula tions, unless he could have sheltered 3 jf is f"J r.1 MA 7 and you cure its consequences. These are some of the consequences of constipation: Biliousness, loss of appetite, pimples, sour stomach, depression, coated tongue, night mare, palpitation, cold feet, debility, diz ziness, weakness, backache, vomiting, jaundice, piles, pallor, stitch, irritability, nervousness, headache, torpid liver, heart burn, foul breath, sleeplessness, drowsi ness, hot skin, cramps, throbbing head. Arm m Sura Cur a tor Constipation Dr. J. C. Ayer's Pills are a specific for all diseases of the liver, stomach, and bowels. I suffered from constipation which as sumed such an obstinate form that I feared it would cause a stoppage of the bowels. After vainly trying various remedies. I be gan to take Ayer's Pills. Two boxes effected s complete cure." D. BURKE, Saco, Me. "For eight years I was afflicted with const ipation, which became so bad that the doctors could do no more for me. Then I began to take Ayer's Pills, and soon the bowels recovered their n?tural action." WM. H. DeLAUCETT, Dorset, Ont THE PILL THAT WILL, himself under the conditions pointed out in article 21. All the necessary duties were per formed on the sailing ship with proper caution and due diligence was exer cised in her navigation by her captain when the character of the fog was ta ken into consideration. Capt. Henderson of the Cromarty shire and the officers of his ship are therefore exonerated from blame for the collision and its consequences. Capt. Smith in his report says: "It appears to me that La Bourgogne as a mail steamship starting from New York was not in the position at the time of the collision as indicated by the steam lanes on the pilot chart of the North Atlantic. It also appears to me that it is highly desirable the rules of following the steamer lanes should be made more binding on all steamers navigating the Atlantic when plying between New York and Euro pean ports." HOW HOOLEY WAS BLED. He Had to Divide With So Many That It Broke Him Up. London, July 2S. The public exami nation in the bankruptcy court into the affairs of Mr. Ernest Terah Hooley, the company promoter, for whose pro perty, on his own application a receiver was appointed on July 23, attracted a big crowd of people. The debtor attrib uted his failure chiefly to his partner, a man named Rucker, crippling the busi ness by drawing out 500,000 within two months. In detailing the floating of the Dunlop Tire company, Mr. Hooley said the names on the directorate cost between 80.000 and 100,000, including those of Lord Albermarle 12,500, and Lord De La Warr 25,000. In connection with the flotation Mr. Hooley also said he lost 63,000 on "press calls," these being "shares in tended for people connected with news papers," whose names have not been divulged though it is expected they will be made public later. In the course of his testimony Mr. Hooley detailed the payments he made to the newspapers, including, as alleged the Pall Mall Gazette, the Financial Post and a number of smaller papers. When Mr. Hooley was questioned about 10,000 paid to Harry Marks, ed itor of the Financial News he denied that it was connected with the inser tion of "puffs" in the paper named. As a matter of fact the supposed pro fit of the flotation of the Dunlop Tire company, amounting to 1,700,000, had been "sweated" 'away to under 200, 000. Mr. Hooley further asserted that he paid many thousands of pounds for in troductions to Lords Ashburton, War wick, Norbury and others, and he test ified that the Earl of Winchelsea re ceived 10,000 for acting as chairman of one of the bicycle tube manufacturing concerns. The testimony is creating even more of a flutter in the west end of London than in the city proper. The revela tions concerning such men as the Earl of De La Warr and the Earl of Albe marle have been received with aston ishment. Humorous instances were dis closed by Mr. Hooley in which a peer bearing a proud title would charge the promoter a sum ranging from 500 to 2,000 for an introduction to another peer. Thus, Mr. Hooley said the Earl of De La Warr received 2,000 for an introduction to Lord Greville, while Lord Deerhurst (who married Miss Bonynge of San Francisco) was paid 2.000 for an introduction to Lord Ash burton. Sl'AIS'S SPIRIT CRUSHED. Peace Proposal Does Not Create a Ripple. Madrid, July 28. The news that the government is suing for peace has caused neither surprise nor sensation here. The attitude of a majority of the newspapers shows that the country will welcome peace if it can avoid the pay ment of an indemnity and the loss of the Philippines, where, it is now taken for granted the United States will re tain a coaling station only. Only a few Carlist, Republican and Independent papers pretend that Amer ica's demand will not be acceptable. The king's illness evoked a universal display of sympathy from the court, which at the present critical moment, may not be without effect on the na tion's future. Senor Sagasta, the premier, says the king, when convalescent, will probably accompany the court to La Granja. London, July 28. A special dispatch says it is reported that the request of Duke Almodovar de Rio, minister of affairs, was for an armistice, lasting until Sunday. It can not be ascertained whether his action was spontaneous, in order, if possible to forestall the in vasion of Porto Rico and the fall of Manila, or whether it was due to the advice from the Vatican and the pow ers. BADLY MANGLED. Santa Fe Man Injured at Lamed Brought Here. Milton Davis. while working with a track laying gang west of Larned on the SarrTa Fe yesterday, fell off a handcar and was run over anil was terribly mangled. His arms and legs were torn and cut by the wheels passing over him. His clothing was caught in the cog-wheels of the car and he was drawn up under the car and his arm ground by the wheels. He was brought to the Santa Fe hospi tal in this city last night, and although his injuries are of a serious nature, it is thought he will recover. ANDREWS' SUCCESSOR. "Will Be Ons of Five Members of the Brown Alumni. Providence, R. I., July 28. The con test for president of the Brown uni versity to succeed Dr. E. Benjamin An drews has narrowed down to the follow ing five members of the university al umni: Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Cornell, Rev. W. H. P. Faunce, D. D., of New York; Rev. Thomas D. Ander son, secretary of Brown corporation; Rev. Benaiah L. Whitman of Colum bian university, and Dean Wayland of Yale law school, a son of former Presi dent Wayland of Brown. Dean Harry Pratt Judson of Chicago university is understood to be out of the race and it is declared by those who should know whereof they speak that Professor Wheeler may have the position if he will take it. The Past Week's "Weather. In the climate and crop service weekly buleltin Issued by Weather Observer Jen nings, he gives as general conditions throughout the state: A hot week, gener ally dry except in the southeast quarter of the state, where fair to good rains fell, the rainfall being heavy from the north west part of Coffey county to the south eastern part of Johnson, in which area It amount to from three to five Inches and over. But little wind except on the 19th, during whioh some local hot winds oc curred in the west. The latter part of the week the air was very warm, moist j and quiet, nights especially so. j SMOKELESS POWDER. Experts Say Dewey Used Some of It in the Battle of Manila. Philadelphia, July 28. While It Is claimed that Dewey was completely without the modern smokeless powder when he fought the battle of Manila, Captain Charles J. Russell, of this city, who is one of the foremost powder ex perts of the country, who studied the subject with Prof. Carter at Harvard and who has every phase of its manu facture at his tongue's end, claims that Dewey was at least partially supplied with the smokeless article and that it was a potent factor in the battle. This powder, he says, was shipped to Dewey from a western factory a few months before the engagement that has made the admiral's name a household word. In appearance this powder is as much unlike the more ancient compounds as anything well could be. Any one would mistake a little pile of It for a handful of maccaroni. The resemblance Is al most perfect in color and shape, but not in taste. A fine thing about this powder is that it is a hard matter to set it on fire. It takes more than a sputtering sulphur match to ignite it.One of thesee maccaroni-like grains of Dewey powder about a half inch in length was placed on the edge of a table and the flame of an ordinary sulphur match was applied to it. At first the compound assumed a whitish color. Then a great angry drop of the half-melted mass gathered on the end and dropped on the floor with a sizzling splatter. The grain was afire. It burned gradually and slowTly, and emitted no smell or vapor. Another grain similarly experimented with, and somewhat more belligerent than the first, shot across the table with a wick ed spurt when lighted, and exploded un der a near-by chair. Captain Russell also says that while Sampson really fought his battle with smoky powder, one out of every twelve of the artillery discharges was made with the smokeless variety. This pow der, however, was very different in every respect from Dewey's smokeless. Its grains are flat, thin, and about a quarter of an Inch square, and are the color of hammered ginger bread. This is also slow burning, and is capable of generating a powerful gas. Captain Russell has samples of nearly every powder made and used both by Uncle Sam and by some of the governments of Europe. The powder used In our light artil lery looks for all the world like maze. The smokeless powder used in the Krag-Jorgensen rifles carried by the United States regulars is uniform in grain and appearance and has a saffron color. Capt. Russell says that about one-eighth of the regulars are now sup plied with this smokeless explosive. The value of the smokeless powder is two-fold. In the first place, it gives no smoke, and in the second place, it ia slow burning. Formerly when the pow der went off with a puff and the gas was generated, that was the last of it. The projectile was given a mighty push and that was the end of it. Now the powder burns slowly, and continues un til the projectile leaves the gun. Modern smokeless powder, in fact, says Expert Russell, is nothing more nor less than gun cotton bereft or Its detonating qualities. There is a vast difference be tween this and the powder used during the revolutionary war, and it is only a question of months before smokeless powder will be used by every arm of our service. LEITER'S NEW SCHEME. Working on a Consolidation of Chica go Street Railways. New York, July 28. Joseph Leiter, who has been spending a few days in New York in consultation with his creditors, left this morning for his home in Chicago. It now transpires that there were other reasons than those connected with his financial difficulties that brought him here, and that he has been quietly engaged in a scheme to consolidate the street railways of Chi cago. His friends say that his father is backing him in this scheme, and that the old feud between Yerkes and the Leiters has been patched up. The street railway manipulator, it is said, has demonstrated to the satisfac tion of young Leiter that he can re trieve his fortune by bringing about the proposed consolidation. The scheme cannot be put through without the con sent of the Leiter holding in the City Railway company, which amounts to 7,000 shares. Otto E. Lohrke Co. of this city, Leiter's exporters, have begun a friend ly suit against him to secure claims ag gregating nearly $1,000,000. These claims, it is said, will be settled. BOSSM' KANE HAS MONEY. Emerges From Prison With Ample Provision For the Future. New York, July 28. When John Y. McKane cast off his jail clothes and came out of Sing Sing prison it was supposed popularly that he was not on ly an impoverished and broken man, but that he was a little worse off than if he had nothing at all; that he never had been what in these days of millions is known as rich, and the little he had saved had been swallowed up long be fore the cell doors closed upon him. It was a surprise, therefore, yesterday when 455 city lots in Brooklyn were sold on McKane's account and brought $140,000. Most persons were amazed when It was learned that a tract of land w-hich always has been regarded as among the choicest of the sites of Sheepshead Bay was the property of the dethroned czar of Coney Island. The opinion was gen eral that in his long career as autocrat he had not accumulated much more than sufficient to defray his legal ex penses when he was brought up some thing more than five years ago to an swer for his defiance of the election laws and his boast that he could not and would not be punished. COMEDY DISPELS GRIEF. Fall of a Pack Mule Over a Cliff Inter rupts Santiago FuneraL Siboney, July 2S. It was the night of the battle of the rough riders. The bur ial of nine brave men was going on. The mournful strains of the Tenth reg iment band echoed sadly over the hills. Two thousand soldiers were lined up, paying a last honor to the dead. A sergeant of the Ninth cavalry was en gaged in placing a white pine cross over the rude grave of the fallen. Suddenly there was a terrific commo tion down the road. Every soldier grasped his gun firmly. It was thought that the Spaniards were making an at tack. The commotion increased in vol ume. Men yelled and howled and the officers were compelled to steady their commands by words of encouragement. Soon the mystery was solved. A heavily laden pack mule had fallen down a steep declivity In the trail and had threatened to devastate a number of companies. So the funeral came to an end. A shout of laughter went up and the troops marched onward to San tiago on a mirthful mood. Al HIS OWN GAME. Marrying Parson Outwitted by His Son. Milwaukee. July 28. Clark Hunsber ger of Chicago, son of Rev.W. A. Huns- J berger, who as the "marrying parson" at the Grand Avenue M. E. church has performed hundreds of secret marriage ceremonies, was secretly married here by Rev. O. P. Christian of the Sherman Street M. E. church, July 3. The bride was Miss Ella D. Parrott, who until Sunday lived with her parents at 1449 Fond du Lac avenue. Rev. Mr. Hunsberger did not know his son was married until several days after the ceremony has been performed. The bride's parents however, were aware of the marriage, but were not j present when the ceremony was per formed. BRADLEY MARTIN TO WED. Niece of Mrs. Fred W. Vanderbilt "Will Be His Bride. New Tork. July 28. Newport society gossip has it that the engagement is soon to be announced of Daisy Post to Bradley Martin, Jr., and that their marriage will be solemnized in the fall. Miss Post is the daughter of Mrs. William Post and a niece of Mrs. Fred eric W. Vanderbilt. She is the second of the group of bridesmaids at the wed ding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt to the duke of Marlborough to become engag ed. She made her debut in society at Newport in 1895. At that time Mrs. Vanderbilt gave a series of entertainments in her honor. Though not strictly a beauty, Miss Post is sweet and attractive and has been quite a belle at the shore for four sea sons. W AR ON SCANT ATTIRE. Asbury Park Young People Must Not Promenade In Bathing Suits. Asbury Park, N. J., July 2S. "Founder" Bradley is making his annual attack on the young folks who put on their bath ing suits at their cottages and then walk through the streets and on the plank promenade to the beach. The "founder" makes an annual attack on this kind of summerites, as he does on the beer-ark venders. There is no statute prohibiting a person from parading the streets in a bathing suit, but it is probable that the senator will do his best to get an ordi nance passed. WAGER LEADS TO DEATH. Man Who Bets He Can Board a Mov ing Train Fatally Crushed. Hartford City, Ind., July 28. Last evening Dan Skinner, while in a state of intoxication, made a wager which will cost his life. He bet a bulldog against a dollar that he could board a west-bound Panhandle fast freight. In endeavoring to win the bet toe was thrown under the wheels and twenty two cars passed over both limbs, crush ing one off below the knee and the other above. SOCIETY AND INSANITY. Mrs "Jack" Wilmerding's Sanity to Be Inquired Into. New York, July 28. Mrs. "Jack" Wil merding, the society woman and grand niece of old Commodore Vanderbilt, will be brought into court in White Plains today on habeas corpus proceed ings intended to determine the question of her sanity. For nearly six months Mrs. Wilmerding has been an inmate of Bloomingdale, at White Plains, and though her lawyer has frequently cal led in an effort to see her has always been refused. Today he went before Judge Bischoff in the supreme court, this city, and presented a petition in which he states that Mrs. Wilmerding is sane and is detained against her wishes. CAPT. CAPRON'S FUNERAL. Services Were Held at Washington Interment at Arlington. Washington, July 28. Funeral ser vices over the remains of CaDtain Allvn I Capron, one of the gallant heroes of I Roosevelt's rough riders, who fell be fore Siboney, July 1, were held vester- day, the body having been brought north on the government transport Hudson. Services were held in St. Paul's Episcopal church. The coffin was hid in a profusion of floral offer ings. The Rev. Dr. Harding opened the ser vices and a choir of young ladies sang "Nearer My God to Thee," and "Lead Kindly Light." The body was then taken to Arlington, escorted by 100 men of the Fifteenth Pennsylvania regiment, where it was interred. Captain Capron's mother and widow were present, but his father is with his battery of artillery in Cuba. FUSION TICKET Nominated by North Dakota Popu lists and Democrats. Fargo, N. D., July 28. The fusion committee of Populist and Democratic parties met here and placed the fol lowing state ticket in the field: Congress Colonel H. M. Creel, Devil's Lake. Governor D. M. Holmes, Grand Forks. Lieutenant governor Dr. Bentley, Bismarck. Superior court C. J. Fisk, Gran Forks. Treasurer Thomas Bolton, Walsh. Auditor Charles B. Bade, Ryeland. Secretary of state Samuel Torgerson, Traill. Insurance commissioner W. M. Campbell, Barnes. Superintendent of public instruction C, C. Schmidt, Jamestown. Commissioner of agriculture and labor Alfred Whipple, Lisbon. Attorney general S. B. Bartlett, Cas selton. Railroad commissioners Harvey NeV enier, Stuttsman: Nels H. Bjornstadt, Dickey; Robert Fleming, Cavalier. Iieiter's War Tax. Chicago, July 28. Levi Z. Leiter today filed for record a warranty deed convey ing to Marshall Field, for a consideration of $2,153,000, the property at the southeast corner of State and Madison streets in this city. The corner is considered one of the most valuable for business pur poses in Chicago. War revenue stamps amounting to $2,135 were attached to the deed. Murderer Bound Over. Lincoln Center, Ju 28. The prelimi nary trial of Mike Haley for killing his nephew, Mike Barrett, closed last even ing. Haley, who pleads self defense was bound over to the district court in the sum of $3,000. Cut in Two by a Train. Lawrence, Kan., July 28. John Larkey, a laborer on a Santa Fe construction train, either fell off or was thrown off by tramps near here yesterday and was cut in two by the train running over him. He has a family in Tonganoxie. We make a specialty of doing up col ored shirts and waists and guarantee ing colors. Peerless Steam Laundry. Cool and comfortable dining cars on Santa Fe Route are obtained by use of electric fans. Tlie Star Grocery, Tele. 252. 112 East Sixth St. Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queensware and Tinware. Save 25 Per Cent. You can't make money any eas ier that is what we will save you every month on your grocery bill if you will place your order with us. This is not an exaggeration but the fact. 18 lbs Finest California fil f(V Granulated Sugar OLWW 21 lbs C 1 ff Sugar l.Uil 7 packages Rolled O Oats S packages Columbia O "1 Oats 4 packages Scotch O K Oats Lion Coffee. fft per package JfJ Levering's Coffee, AO per package i r Large New Potatoes, O per bushel iJ 3 dozen Fresh Country O Kggs 2 lbs Fresh Country t Butter 2-lb roll Armour's O "i Butierine Salt Bacon, d X. per lb vtl Sugar Cured California Hams, Aft per lb yfy Ko. 1 Sugar Cured Hams, OS 100 lbs Straight Patent O i Flour 100 lbs High Patent 9 O Flour Kansas Cream Cheese, 1 A peril) 1" Good Eice, tX per lb 11 lbs Hand Picked avy Beans 10 lb pail White A Fish 18 oz bottle Lemon or Vanilla O X Extract Price's Lemon "1 A Extract Price's Vanilla "1 K Extract 1 2 lbs or Cocoanut wtF Country Dried Apples, fK per lb Best Soda Crackers. flit per lb by box v" I lb can Calumet Baking "I K Powder 9 oz can Calumet Baking "I A fl'uwder -iv 11 bars Silk Soap...) II bars Clairette "'i Soap 8 lbs Gloss OX Starch J-"J 20 lbs Washing 0 Soil-a Quart Bottle If) Blueing 7 cans Eagle 1 CC Milk. i,w 7 cans Highland Evap. 1 ftf) Cream J..KAJ 3 cans Lewis Lye v J 4 cans Greenwich OX Lye 12 boxes Parlor CW Matches WtJ Pearline, f)3 per package yJ,J 4 lb package 1 H Gold Dust x Wrought Ear Well OP; Buckets -"J Western Washing -f Cf) Machines XJJ All Ku'jber Clothes -I Hpt Wr'.ngers A. I J Galvanized Water -I r I'ails J-J Ice Cream -t Afi Freezers J-.r'-' Remember the price is cut on almost everything in the store: MAIL ORDERS SHIITED FROMPTIY. 03IAHA EXPOSITION. June 1st to October 31st the Grand est Exposition fexcept World's Fair) ever planned in the United States. Located within cheap and quick access of the entire Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, at your own doors. Through tickets be yond Omaha allow stop-overs. Reduced excursion rates to Omaha. Take the Burlington Route the old and firmly es tablished line to and through Omaha in any direction. L. W. WAKELET, General Passenger Agent. HOWARD ELLIOTT. General Manager. St. Louis. Mo. Tours in the Kooky Mountains. The "Scenic Line of the World," the Denver Rio Grande Railroad, offers to tourists in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico the choicest resorts, and to the trans-continental traveler the grandest scenery. Two separate and distinct routes through the Rocky Mountains, all through tickets available via either. The direct line to Cripple Creek, the greatest gold camp on earth. Double daily train service with through Pull man sleepers and tourists' cars between Denver and San Francisco. The best line to Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington via the "Ogden Gate way." Write S. K. Hooper. G. P. T. A., Denver, Colorado, for illustrated descriptive pamphlets. Give tiie Children a Drink Called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe tizing.nourishing food drink to take the place of coffee. Sold by all grocers and liked by all who have used it because when properly prepared it tastes like the finest coffee but is free from all its injurious properties. Grain-O aids di gestion and strengthens the nerves. It is not a stimulant but a health builder, and children, as well as adults, can drink it with great benefit. Costs about 4 as much as coffee, la and 2ac. Low Eate to Saratoga and Return If you are going east, buy ticket to Saratoga on July 31, August 1 or 2 and obtain benefit of low return rates. Ask agent Santa Fe depot how it may be done. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try, j. W. PHILLIPS. CU West EightH SU

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, THURSDAY EVENING, JTXLY 28, 1898 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. By FKAXK P. MAC LENNAN. VOLUME XXV No. 179 OFFICIAL, CITY PAPER. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mail, one year $3.60 By mail, three months W Weekly edition, one year .50 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buildinjr, S00 and 802 Kansas avenue, comer of Eighth. KEW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg.. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Building, A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. LONDON OFFTCE. 12 Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. J?us:npps Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room Bell 'Phone 577 Spain asked for peace just in time to save the few war ships she has left. Garcia wants to return to the plow. Perhaps he is about to turn Populist, In making- a proper and suitable dis position of an island, first get your la- land. What the navy seems to need more than torpedo boat destroyers Is bar nacle destroyers. In -Columbus, Ohio, slot machines have been declared by the court to be gambling devices and therefore not tax able. It Is not yet announced that the sur render of Weyler will be one of the de mands made on Spain as the price of peace. Between Miss Jessie and the commo dore the Schley trap appears to be set to catch the enemy "a-comin and a goin' While the distribution of shoulder straps is going on why doesn't some one recommend that Major MpKinley be promoted? As soon as Spain found we were cap able of fighting her troops, the yellow fever and the Cuban climate all at once she gave in. Since no list of deaths from exposure to California's climate at Camp Merritt, was sent out yesterday, St is suspected that a censorship has been established. Colonel Roosevelt is reported to have said that he will take all the rough rid ers to the Paris exposition at his own expense if they keep up their fighting reputation. L. Z. Leiter will have only about $20,000,000 left after paying Joe's debts. The near approach of the proverbial wolf has caused him to abandon a Chi cago charity which he had been sup porting at a. cost of $12,000 a year. Philadelphia Record: With respect to the Topeka, It was suspected last spring that she was an unseaworthy craft sort of hoodoo from Peru, so to say but, thanks to the skill of' our ship wrights, she has proved to be a fair fighter, as was most pleasingly proven In the attack at Nipe. The American shipcarpenter, as well as the Amesican gunner, has a cunning hand. !A! Seattle estimate places the number of persons who crossed the mountain passes on their journey to the Yukon Bold fields during the present year at 30,000 and that 20.000 more made their .way there by various other routes. Be sides this army of gold seekers there were many thousands who got no far ther than the towns and camps in south ern Alaska and turned back. The prob ability Is that more money has gone in than has come out so far. EX-EATS. General Shafter should put Ice on his head and remember .Valley Forge. Wichita Eagle. General Toral and his army will en gage in base ball when Shafter lands them on Spanish soil. Their ability to make home runs will prove a. pennant winner. Winfield. Courier. There is no danger of Cervera being shot when he returns home since the Spaniards couldn't hit anything over here. Cherryvale News. If Scovel didn't have the yellow fever so bad, he wouldn't be in trouie today. Salina Union. I Sylvester Scovel Is not much lionized because he struck Shafter. Anybody ought to be able to hit a man weighing 300 pounds. Cherryvale News, Camara feels Eafe since he has got his fleet beyond the fire limits. Arkan sas City Traveler. CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS. 'A woman's strength lies In her weak ness. Some men are always out when their country calls. Costly apparel doesn't always make a woman look neat and attractive. Very few children have as much strength, of mind as they have of don't mind. Doctors and lawyers can always give you a large bill in exchange for small ones. I Some musicians go upon the stage, while others never get further than the orchestra. There's nothing longer than the sum mer days to the girl who is to be mar ried in the fall. His first love and his first shave are two of the things that occur in the life f every man which he never forgets. It's hard to gather a woman's" mean ing from, her words, but nature has saved a few of them the trouble of making themselves plain. A man never has as much trouble with bis mother-in-law as bis wife has Vit hers. t When the time comes to start off on m. vacation, nine out of ten people wish fchsjr. nv era Eoing to 6 lax vt home. A POEM. Backward, turn backward, O Time In. thy flight. Make me a child again Just for a night. I am so weary of sole-leather steak. Petrified hardtack a sledge could not break, Tomatoes and beans in watery bath, Sow belly as strong as Goliath of Gath; Weary of starving on what I can't eat, Chewing up rubber and calling It meat. Backward, turn backward, for weary I am. Give me a whack at my grandmama's Jam, Let me drink milk that has never been skimmed. Let me eat butter whose hair has been trimmed, Let me have once mora an old fashioned pie Then I'll go forward to Cuba and die. JOHN P. O'CONNOR, Private Company D, Second Nebraska Vol. Infantry, Chickamauga Park, Ga. NEGEO VOTE IN THE SOUTH. A supreme court decision of Import ance has been rendered in connection with the suffrage clause of Mississippi's new constitution under which a large portion of the negroes of that state are disfranchised. The matter was brought to the atten tion of the court of last resort in an ap peal from the decision of the Mississip pi courts in the case of a negro who had been convicted of murder. It was claimed by the attorneys for the negro that "the laws by which the grand jury was selected, organized, summoned and charged, which presented the said indictment, are unconstitutional and repugnant to the spirit and letter of fhe constitution of the United States four teenth amendment thereof," because the constitution provides that to be a juror one must be an elector, and also pre scribes qualifications for an elector which abridge the right of suffrage to the colored people of the state. The opinion of the United States su preme court on this point is thus ex pressed in the syllabus of the decision: "The equal protection of the laws Is not denied to colored persons by the state constitution and laws which make no discrimination against the colored race in terms, but which grant a dis certion to certain officers which can be used to the abridgement of the right of colored persons to vote and serve on juries, when it is not shown that their actual administration is evil, but only that evil is possible under them." The decision so limits the province of the fourteenth amendment of the con stitution of the United States as to give the people of the south assurance that as long as they do not actually disfran chise the negro they Can so arrange their laws that the ignorant colored voters can be kept from the ballot box. The constitution of the state of Mississippi disfranchises illiterates of whatever color, but it enables the elec tion commissioners to discriminate in favor of the white illiterates. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) The lazier the man, the more he com plains about dull times. Americans are great people to manu facture burdens, and carry them around. If you loaf around a store or office a great deal, remember that you are not welcome. One of the rrtost distressing things in the world is to hear any one scold who is so old and feeble that his breath gives out. The season has arrived when people will pay 60 cents to be told to keep out of Klondike, by a lecturer who has been there. Men do not propose marriage outside of novels, though the result ot calling on a girl and treating her to soda, is just the same. Every time a boy takes a bird's eg; home, his women folks abuse him. If all the birds' nests were robbed, there would be no birds for trimming hats. PEOPLE YOU HEAR OF. Kaiser Wilhelm has been camping out for a week under a tent on the is land of Heligoland. He took three car loads of baggage with him. Mr. Brisson, the new French premier, lives in a flat, in a house of his own in the Rue Mazarin. His home is snugly bourereois and not roomy. The piano of Mme. Brisson, who is musical, takes up a good deal of space. Between it and the boodcase there is not much room. way, is a name the gallant seaman does not particularly like in time of peace is a great sportsman. He is a dead shot and a member of the Alibi club of Washington, an organization of profi cient marksmen. He is famous as an angler and fond of horse races. Geronimo, the famous Apache chief, Is at Fort Sill, in the Indian territory, and spends most of his time playing monte. He is 90 years old, but straight and active and with an eye like an ea gle. He occasionally gets permission to go hunting and seems to enjoy the sport as much as ever. He has been a total abstainer from liquor all his life. Sousa wants to enter the army as general bandmaster, with the rank of captain. His idea is that he be made a sort of instructor for the various bands of the service, both army and navy. The plan cannot be carried out, for, with the exception of the marine band and the one at West Point, all government bands are private compa nies with their own leaders or conduc tors. The various regimental bands and the band at the Naval academy at Annapolis are supported by subscrip tions from the officers and men. If a regiment is too poor to afford a band it goes without music. A woman who was brought up In the old fashioned jpray and who was al ways taught to regard Miss Anthony's ideas as representing all that was ob noxious In womankind writes of her first meeting with the great suffragist: "I hadn't been- under the same roof with her long before I completely lost my heart to her. She was such a dear old thing and seemed to love all of us, young and old."

Admiral Cervera has written a Balti more paper: "I do not want to let this opportunity pass without expressing to you my gratitude due to the entire American people for the kird attentions and consideration with which I have been received in my misfortune. At the same time I would desire you to convey to your colleagues of the prss my thanks for the delicate attention in sending me a bouquet of flowers." j TICTOKY DISPUTED. Report that Father Tuohy "Won Over Archbishop Kain Discredited. St. Louis, July 21 The news that Rev. J. T. Tuohy had won his case against Archbishop Kain in Rome was received with incredulity in local Catholic circles. A number of clergymen said they did not believe a decision had been reached in the matter.and the announcement that Father Tuohy had secured a victory probably originated in the fact that the papers of appeal may have been transferred from Rome to Washington for flnal disposal. Rev. David S. Phelan, editor of the Church Progress, formerly Father Tuo hy's counsel, and one of the best posted canonical lawyers In the west, said: "I do not believe the case has been de cided. The appeal may have been sent by Rome to Washington, but the matter must be passed upon by Archbishop Martinelli's court. I know there has been no examin ation of witnesses, and the archbishop's side has not been presented. I think it will be some time before the case is elosed." Father Tuohy today telegraphed from St. Paul to a friend as follows: "The news In this morning's specials is decisive. Await word from Washington." Among the belligerent priest's friends in St. Patrick's parish, to which Father Tuohy is attached, word of the pastor's victory created great rejoicing, but the other side refused to accept the announce ment as correct. A BUG WEARS A DIAMOND. Much to the Sorrow of Mr. Van Doo zer of Chicago. Chicago, July 28. Jesse P. Van Doozer is a zoological entomologist as well as a foot ball player of tried valor. Return ing from a dance on the outskirts of Evanston Saturday night he encountered a gigantic beetle, which he tackled with out hesitancy. Van Doozer scored a down in three minutes and carried the huge bug to his lodgings. To quiet the insect, while he prepared a place for his reception in his museum, he removed his $100 scarfpin and telescop ed his victim to the wall. He then hasten ed for the box of specimens, but was re called by the loud buzzing of the beetle. He discovered, to his alarm, that the hard-shell bug had detached himself from the woodwork and was carrying about the heavy pin with apparent ease. The ath lete bounded to the window to secure his prize and jewel, but the beetle outflanked him and flew out into the night. Van Doozer is advertising extensively for the pin and promises a large reward and "no questions asked" for its return. STORY OF A DOUBLE LIFE. Disclosure Made in a Suit Over New York Man's Estate. New York, July 2S. For more than thir ty years former Judge George W. Green, president of the New York and New Jer sey Bridge Construction company, led a double life, and the story is now coming out in a suit brought at Middletown by Miss Margaret Sly of this city against his widow and daughter. Judge Green died in 1S93 in a house he had furnished for Miss Sly, and now she sues to recover 1,600 shares of stock in the company of which he was president. She says he gave the stock to her. Mr. Green was a prominent politician and lawyer in the Middletown district, served five terms in the assembly, was de clared elected to the Forty-first congress, but w&s afterward unseated. TO BREAK THE BOTTLE. Wisconsin Young Women Eager to Christen New Battleship. Milwaukee, July 28. The members of the Wisconsin battleship commission are now struggling with the problem of selecting the young woman who will christen the new battleship. There has been an active campaign in progress in behalf of Miss Caryl Fairchild, daughter of the late Gen eral Fairchald.and Miss Alice Rusk.grand daughter of the late Governor Rusk. The Daughters of the American Revolu tion have been pushing the claims of Miss I Fairchild, while Mrs. G'nty of Chippewa Falls has been espousing the cause of Miss Rusk. But a new candidate has appear ed, and she is very likely to "cut out" both of the others. The new candidate for the honor of breaking a bottle on the bow of the Wis consin is Miss Erna Oleson, daughter of Ole Oleson, Senator Sawyer's right hand man. BABT A PEACEMAKER. Cornelius Vanderbilt and His Son May Become Reconciled. New York, July 23. Cornelius Vander bilt, Jr., and his father are to be recon ciled, according to the story whispered about Newport, Bar Harbor and Lenox. Cornelius Vanderbilt disinherited his son because of his marriage with Miss Grace Wilson and refused to receive a visit from him, even when there was not a probabil ity of life lingering a day. Mr. Vanderbilt's illness, instead of sooth ing, exasperated his resentment. But the birth of a grandchild in May was regard ed by Mr. Vanderbilt's most intimate friends as an augury of the reconciliation that rumor whispers Is now about to be achieved. PECULIAR DEATH. Man's Head, Protruding From a Wa gon, Breaks Street Car Windows. New York, July 2S. Peter Schultz, a hardware dealer, was struck early this morning by an electric car. He was re moved to Bellevue hospital, where he died. Schultz was riding on the rear of the wagon. The wagon was being driven close to the track, and as the car came along it struck the horse first, causing a few scratches. It then hit the wagon and Schultz put out his head to look forward so as to find out what had happened. The first window in the car struck him in the neck, cutting a deep gash. The glass was broken and in a remarkable manner Schultz's head struck all the other win dows on that side of the car, breaking each one. Collars and cuffs laundred to look Ilk new, by Peerless Steam Laundry. 1J Are gaining favor rapidly. PS Business men and travel s lers carry them in vest pocksta. l&diea carry ttiem fn paraea, hcraaakespera keep them !n medicine leeeta, rind recommend thm to Iriinia. 2JC (Q5OC0. KANSASNEVS. Stafford County Girl Commits Suicide. With a Flour Sack Tied About Her Head LEAPS INTO A POND. Kansas Soldier Captures a Span nish Flag at Santiago And Kills Seven Spanish Sharp shooters. Stafford, July 28. Nothing that has ever occurred In this vicinity has caused such widespread surprise and sorrow as the suicide of Miss Beatrice Scott, the 20-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, near her parents' home at Slate, a village a few miles from here. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and some of the family had gone to a funeral, leaving Miss Beatrice at home with her two small sis ters, Nellie and Aggie, aged 10 and 7 years. After the folks had been gone perhaps an hour the three girls started out on horse back to look after the sheep and cattle, and passed near a very deep pool of water. Beatrice then told the little girls that sha was going to drown herself and got off her horse. She told them to tell her father and mother to come and pull her out when they got home. Sha then drew a flour sack over her head and pinned and tied it down. Then going near the edge of the pool jumped out as far as she could. The little ones lingered for awhile and then went over near the road that they expected their parents to come on. They were so scared that they- did not know what to do, and could only wring their hands and cry, waiting for their parents to come. As soon as the parents of the unfortun ate girl heard of her action the village was aroused and the body recovered. It had then been in the water over four hours. No reason for the suicide is known. FIRST FLAG CAPTURED At Santiago Was Taken by a Soldier From Leavenworth. Leavenworth, July 28. Mrs. Frank Da venport, the wife of the saddler sergeant of troop F of the Sixth cavalry has re ceived a very interesting letter from her husband, who is now with his troop at Santiago. The letter was begun July 1, but was not finished until July 8. In it Sergeant Davenport says: '1 have now an Interesting souvenir of the battle and it is nothing less than a Spanish flag. It is the regimental flag of the Third Spanish infantry, and floated from one of the numerous blockhouses which defend the city. It was the first flag captured in the siege and the only one captured by the cavalry. W hen the soldiers were driven from the blockhouse by our fire I ran up to it and hauled down the flag. "I am confident that I have killed seven Spanish sharpshooters, and if all of the men had done as well there would be none left. I will keep the flag, and when we are sent home it will be quite a curi osity to the citizens of Leavenworth." KIBBY BANK CLAIMS. Will Be Taken in Exchange by an Abilene Man for Kansas Land. Abilene, July 28. W. S. Hodge of this city, who is himself a loser in the Kirby bank failure, comes forward with a prop osition to all who have deposits in the bank, either upon open account or time certificates, that Is well worth consider ing. Mr. Hodge, as agent, has a large num ber of western Kansas farms, principally in Greeley, Wichita and Scott counties, but including other counties, that he pro poses to trade, at the government price of $2.50 an acre, taking accounts in the Kirby bank at par for the same. These are all good farms, with title perfect and taxes paid to date, and as western Kansas is again coming to the front rapidly the of fer Is a good one. LEEDYsHIS ONLY HOPE, Franklin County Jointist May Stay in Jail Several Years. Ottawa, July 28. Mr. J. T. Johnson, the Lane Jointist, is still in jail, despite the many attempts to secure his release. He has served out his Jail sentence, but there is a fine of tWO hanging over him and the sentence included a bond of $1,000 insuring good behavior. The son who was sentenced at the same time has been released, but his fine of $100 has not been paid. He may be arrested at any time on the slightest suspicion, no court trial being necessary for his impris onment. The boy was released by the county commissioners, but they cannot re lease the father on account of the bond. No one but the governor can do this. Un less Governor Leedy shows executive len iency Mr. Johnson may stay in jail two years yet, the length of time required by the bond. A MAIDEN'S DRUNK Responsible for the Report of an As sault in Saline County. Abilene, July 28. Florence Baldwin, the young girl at Mentor, Saline county, who claimed to have been drugged by a tramp who attempted to assault her and who had half the county out In search of her assailant, admits that she was lying and that she got drunk with a view to making her aunt believe she was sick. In order that she might be sent home to her mother at Eudora. The girl was at one time an inmate of the Industrial School for Girls at Beloit, and since her escapade she has been re turned to that institution. FOB ANOTHER LINE. Cofieyville Endeavoring to Secure the Kansas, Oklahoma Central South-Western Ry. Coffeyvllle, July 28. The committee ap pointed by the Commercial club two weeks ago to circulate petitions among taxpay ers to call a special railroad bond election as the first step in securing the construc tion of the Kansas, Oklahoma Central Southwestern railway through Coffeyvllle has taken up the work in an active man ner and the petitions are nowa'n the hands of the taxpayers for signatures. Thia committee consists of J. H. Keith and C. t., Long and they have employed circu- lators, who are now in charge of the pe titions in the various wards of the city. The law requires that two-fifths of all the resident taxpayers in a city must sign the call for a special election before the council can grant it. In this matter, however, an effort will be made to get an overwhelming majority to sign the peti tions. The mayor and council will hold a special meeting, if necessary, to issue the election proclamatipn and they will co-operate in every way with the club to get the matter before the people at the ear liest possible date. LONG RETURNS HOME. Will Look After Political Fences and Prepare for the Campaign. Newton, July 23. Ex-Congressman Ches ter I. Long, Republican candidate for re election in this district, passed through here returning from a month's absence in the east, spent mostly at Washington and Chicago. Mr. Long has been very busy, but is looking well, says he is feel ing well and declares he Is ready for the campaign. The Seventh district campaign will begin about September 1. This Is what Mr. Long says. He intends, however, to spend the month of August throughout the district, visiting places which may be hard for him to get at in the midst of the campaign. He looks for an aggress ive campaign, as those in his district al ways are, and says as far as he Is con cerned there may be Joint debates again. The Medicine Lodge leader did not care to discuss politics at length. He merely made the remark: "I do not see how the loyal and patriotic people of the Seventh district can send to congress a man who is against and has been against every single proposition of this war." Mr. Simpson is now at a seaside resort on the Atlantic, and his managers say he will be home early in August. Shortly after that, another red-hot Seventh dis trict campaign will be on. UNCLE SAM PAIS HIM $250. Which Amount He Used in Drinking Himself to Death. Leavenworth, July 28. Thomas Coyne, an old veteran of company K, Twenty third Illinois infantry and a member of the Soldiers' home for several years, is dead as the result of a protracted spree. He was recently granted a pension and Thursday evening he received $250 back pay. Friday morning he left the home grounds, and after a two days' spree, In which he spent the most of his money, he returned to the home and was admitted to the hospital. He was in a very bad condition and said that he had been hav ing a "good time." He was put to bed and grew rapidly worse, dying of acute alcoholism. CATTLE GO BLIND. Strange Affliction Breaks Out in Dickinson and Ellsworth Counties. Abilene, July 28. Several weeks ago a strange disease was reported among some cattle a few miles north of Solomon. The animais at first were afflicted with sore eye3 and after two or three days the in-' flammation resulted in total blindness. The farmers were unacquainted with the disease and did not know if it was con tagious, but informed the proper authori- j ties. I Now reports come from Ellsworth coun- ty that many cattle in that section are afflicted in a similar manner. The Ells worth reports claim that the disease is contagious and that it Is spreading among the cattle. NEW STEAM PLANT. Fort Scott to Have One at a Cost of $20,000. Fort Scott, July 28. Mr. Eees of Lock port, N. Y., who has the contract for .the construction of the new steam heating plant to be put in by the Electric Light company and which is to utilize the steam from the electric light power house, ar rived in the city today and will commence work on the new enterprise tomorrow. The new plant, it is estimated, will cost from $18,000 to $20,000. Three car loads of material have arrived and will be unload ed at once. The most costly part of the work will be the laying of the pipes to conduct the steam through the business streets. The pipes will be laid on Second street west to Main street, and will sup ply heat for as many of the big business blocks and public buildings as can be in duced by the advantages of cleanliness and economy to patronize the company. Wichita's Latest Fad. "Wichita, Kan., July 2S. Bicycle thieves are getting in their work in Wichita in good shape now. At least half a dozen wheels were stolen from the various places within the town last week, and so far but one has been recovered. People are very careless about leaving their wheels stand around town evenings and it is a great temptation to a fellow with a propensity for taking other people's prop erty. MRS. PALMER GRACIOUS. Takes a Poor Woman Into Her Car riage and Drives to Her Home. Newport, R. I., July 28. A gracious act by Mrs. Potter Palmer, when she assisted a poor, aged woman Into her own carriage and Insisted upon driving her home, has been upon all tongues during the past 48 hours. Mrs. Palmer was driving along Bellevue avenue in her splendid equipage and was handsomely gowned as became one of the leaders of Bociety here, when she noticed the poor woman, who had suc cumbed to the heat, and immediately stop ped her carriage, took the woman in and conveyed her to her home, attending her with as much solicitude as if she had been a near and dear relative. A "WOMAN S HATED HIM. And Immediately Afterward the Man Fell Dead. Chicago, July 28. An unidentified man died suddenly yesterday afternoon of apo plexy while sitting in a chair In the ante room of A. B. Moler's barber school, 283 Clark street. The stranger had been shaved by one of the women pupils and had retired to the waiting room to read the papers. When the proprietor's at tention was called to him a short time later he discovered that he was dead. The man was respectably dressed in a black suit with Prince Albert coat. His linen was marked with the initials "O. K. H." He is described as being about 30 years old, clean shaven, S feet 2 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. Ha had a scar on the wrist of the left hand. Ladies' Shirt Waists laundred so that the colors will cot fade, by Peaxleaa Steam Laundry. Now is the time to Subscribe One Year, S4.00 fa? U. VJ m will be remembered for its famous "War Numbers of the Civil War. Its value during the war with Spain will be even greater because of vastly improved facilities. History is being rapidly made. The gravest questions of ourtime are coming to the front, and every American should have each week an accurate, concise PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THIS WAR from now until peace is assured. A brilliant staff of artists and correspondents are representing the WEEKLY at the front. Rufus F.Zogbaum, Carlton T. Chapman, Frederic Remington, T. deThulstrup, W. A. Rogers, Clyde, D. V. Hunt, and others, with a large staff of photographers, are accurately portray ing the movements of our army and navy and happen ings at Washington and elsewhere. Among the WEEKLY'S correspondents are Frank D. Millet, John F.Bass, and O.K.Davis, in the Philippines, John Fox, Jr., with General Shafter's army, Harold Martin, at St. Thomas, and others. By subscribing now for one year, you will obtain the WEEKLY during the most important engagements. Subscription for One Year '4.00 HARPER Franklin Silver Leaf Vinegar is absolutely free from any adulteration. For Preserving, Pickling and Table use it is Superior to any other. This Vinegar is the foundation of our success. You try it and you will succeed in your household. It brings health and strength by sprinkling it on the floor or keeping a saucer full in your rooms. Buy it in bailed jugs, then you will get it with our label and regis tered trade mark. Price 35c per gallon. 5c cents refund for return of empty jugs. Otto Kuehne Co. E. O. DC MOSS. Odd Fellows' Building, I Undertakers Finest ambulance in the west. A FREE to tbe public Day and Night. J Q1R PRICES ARE REASONABLE. DE MOSS SfPEJIWLM Phone 192. ft. HAND SAW IS A GOOD THING, CUT NOT TQ SHAVE WITH." IS THE PROPER THING Everybody Reads PREMIUM STAMPS WIN Judge Randolph, of Emporia, Holds City Ordinance Invalid. Emporia. July 28. The habeas corpus proceedings in the case against W. L. Wise, manager of the Premium Stamp association, who waa arrested by the city a few days ago on the charge of violating the city ordinance which charges the Premium Stamp associa tion a tax of $1,200 a year for doing business in this city, were heard by Judge Randolph yesterday afternoon. The Judge held that the ordinance was void on the ground that it was un reasonable and oppressive. Judge Randolph, in rendering this decision, spoke in substance as fol lows: "The only question which is Involved In this case .is the constitutionality of the ordinance. This court holds that there is no power in the city council which will permit them to pass an or dinance which will In any manner whatsoever destroy any trade or branch of business which 1b in itself a lawful one. "There is no statute in this state in hibiting the carrying on Of any such business within the boundary of the state. "The defendant, under oath, stated that the emoluments of the business were not sufficient to justify a tax of $1,200 per year. "A tax is levied upon the various R'S WEEK v V. V. 3 V V, V, V. A4k BROTHERS Sq., N. Y. City 2r L, M. PEN WELL. Q 523 Quincj? Straet. a 1 tqvx 523 Qnlncy St. FOP HOUSE-CLEANINGU the State Journal branches of business for revenue only, and not for the purpose of driving any of them out of business. "The court holds the ordinance under which the above case was made to be null and void, on the ground of being unconstitutional." WANTS IT DEWEY STREET. Dave Leahy Asks That a Wichita Street Be Renamed. Dave Leahy who owns a home in Wichita wants his street renamed Dewey and has written the following letter to the mayor on that subject: Topeka, Kan., July 23. My Dear Mr. Ross: When I lived in your city my home was on Morris street and the fact that there were two streets of that name often caused me some trouble. I learn that four or five other streets in Wichita are duplicated. Now that heroes are being developed every day in the war, why not rename some of those streets in their honor and thus combine good sense, convenience and patriotism. I don't care what you may name the other streets, so long as the heroes of the war are remembered, but I ask it as a special favor that in any suggestions you may make you will suggest the name of Dewey for my street. It ends at the river and that fact adds to the maritime suggestion in, th great hero's name. Hoping to pay taxes on Dewey street from now on, I am your friend, am uu DAVID D. LEAHY. P. S. Remember that my street is the next one below Lewis. A

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TOPEKA STATE JOTJTINAIj, THURSDAY EVENING, JXJEY 28. 189S. Three Months' The Topeka Daily State Journal's ircula-tion For the Second Three Months of IS98 Has Been 1 Showing a Daily Average Jl Circulation QroWth. lit the year 1SS5 the circalution was 800 January 1, i8gi, -were printed 3,125 Daily average for year iSqi 4,380 Daily average far year 1892 S,o6g Daily average for year 1893 6,213 Daily average for year 1894...... 8,418 Daily average for year 1895 9,217 Daily average for year 1896 TO, 769 Daily average for year 1897 11,322 For the second three months of 1897 11,256 For the second three months of 1S98 15,655 The State Journal has been under the present management for over 12 years, and its daily circulation in that time has increased from 800 to over J 5,000, or an average growth of more than 1,000 a year. 5 The State Journal receives the full day leased wire Associated Press report, is a member of the 3 American Newspaper Publishers' Association, has S 55 four Linotypes, fast Web Perfecting Press, etc. Sfe The State Journal has a larger circulation than any other daily paper published in the great State of Kansas. It requires 44 carriers (exclusive of news boys) to circulate the paper in Topeka and suburbs. g No "returns" are allowed anyone: when a paper goes BOOMS THE HOSPITAL. Mora Salvation Army Testimony That It is All Kighfc Adjutant T. S. Mashburn and wife who have taken charge of the Topeka section of the Salvation Army, consisting- of the Army hospital. Topeka corps and Lawrence, Ottawa, Kmporia, Salina and Abilene, are- greatly interested in the success of the work and have es tablished headquarters at the Army hospital, corner of Sixth and Buchanan streets. 'In looking over the splendid work that is being- accomplished in the hos pital," said Adjutant Mashburn, "I find it very satisfactory indeed. "It is generally known by the public, and correctly so. that this is a charita ble institution and tlitrefore merits a substantial support from the people of this city. "I find ,by careful investigation, that in order to successfully carry on this work it requires an income of $60 per week or $::.120 annually. At present there are 13 patients in the hospital. "The public is cordially invited to visit and inspect this institution. Visit ing hours from 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. on Tuesdays. Wednesdays, Thursdays. Fri days and Sundays. Limit of visit 20 minutes. "I am extremely anxious to establish a substantial basis for the support of this noble work. My time is so com pletely taken up in these, together with other duties in connection with the work of a sectional officer, that it is Impossible for me to personally call and collect, from month to month, the con tributions, therefore. I shall authorize an assistant, who will always carry his credentials and give a receipt for all amounts received. All desirous may send in their contribution by check made payable to Adjutant T. S. Mash burn. Address, corner Sixta and Bu chanan streets." HUDSON TUNNEL. A Movement to Bring About Its Completion. Xew York, July 2S. A motion has been made before Chancellor McGill, in Jersey City, for the removal of proper ty of the Hudson Tunnel Railway com pany for the satisfaction of a mortgage of S4.000.000 paid by the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York, and Henry Broughton Kendal of London, as trustees for the bondholders. The pro perty consists chiefly of a tunnel, lack ing 250 feet of completion, under the Hudson river. The object is to reor ganize the company, so as to complete the tunnel. QOTEAU'S SISTER Brings Suit for Divorce From Her Second Husband. Chicago, July 2S. Mrs. Frances Gui teau Norton, authoress and sister to President Garfield's slayer, today filed suit at St. Joseph, Mich., for a divorce ihe charges her husband, V. A Nor ton, with desertion. Mrs. Norton-s first husband was At torney George Scoville, who defended Charles Guiteau and from whom she ered a divorce soon after the famous Chinch Bugs in Iowa. Ees Moines. July 28. Many reports of serious damage by chinch bugs are c,.refeived at the experiment sta- Ames- In nearly all cases the luto corn.nW ?assinS om small grain reviotis 1 for the Three Months of EZ3 SHORTAGE IN FRUITS. The Decrease is Chiefly in Peaches, Fears and Apricots. San Francisco, July 28. Notwith standing the fact that there is a short age in the deciduous fruit crop this year. the shipments of green fruits so far this season exceed those for the same period of last year by 175 car loads. Freight Traffic Manager Sproule of the bouthern Pacific company, who has made a thorough study of the supply of green fruit in all parts of the state, estimates that about 4.000 car loads will be shipped this year, against 5.300 last year. The shortage is chiefly in pears, peaches and apricots. There will be an increase, however, in the shipments of prunes and raisins. TIIE PEUKY FAMILY. John and. W. C. Perry Leave for Hali fax to Look for Bodies. Fort Scott, July 28. W. C. Perry, ex United States district attorney, left last night for Kansas City, where he will join his brother, John Perry, whose en tire family was recently lost on the French steamer La Bourgogne, and ac company him on a trip to Halifax, No via Scotia, in the hope of recovering the bodies of his wife and four children. It is believed the stricken husband and father must have received some important information from Halifax which calls him there peremptorily. According to a recent telegram from a port near where the fated vessel went down, about two hundred bodies were seen floating in the sea off there. Sportsmen Go in Free. Ottawa, Ont., July 28. The depart ment of customs has issued an order to all its collectors of customs notifying them that club visitors' shooting and fishing outfits will in future, be admit ted free of duty and without deposit as was customary in the past. The club will give instead a guarantee to the de partment and all members of such clubs living outside Canada will be ad mitted with their guns and tackle at Canadian ports on presenting: their card of membership. Telegraph for Africa. London. July 28. The Daily Chronicle announces that an expedition headed by "an American who has seen much ser vice in the Congo districts," will leave Europe a month hence to lay a line of telegraph from the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, Central Africa, to Stanley Falls. The king of the Belgians wilt bear the entire expense of the un dertaking. Corbett and Jeffries. New York.July 8. George Considine, manager of James J. Corbett, an nounced today that he was eager to arrange a match between the former champion and James Jeffries, the latest California wonder. He thinks Jeffries is entitled to more consideration than Thomas Sharkey and has about con cluded to ignore the "sailor" altogether. Red Cross Has Money Left San Francisco, July 28. The Califor nia Red Cross society has made a statement showing that up to date $20, 405 has been received, of which $400 is a special fund for the proposed hospital ship. When the last bill shall have been paid for the Manila hospital equip ment, there will be a little over Jll.OOO in the bank. We will do your launBry work on short order withoutout extra charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. 5 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL General Notes of Society and Personal Items. Recent Social Events in Topeka and Vicinity. Items of Interest About Topeka Peo ple and Visitors In Town. (AH communications to this department must give the full name and address of tha writer. Anonymous personals and descriptions ol social affairs will not bo published.) One of the most charming home wed dings that has occurred in Topeka for some time was that of Miss Mary Eliz abeth McCabe and Mr. Ralph E. Stout, which took place this morning at 7 o'clock at the home of the bride's brother, Mr. Charles T. McCabe, on West Tenth street. The wedding was very informal, only a few of the most intimate friends and relatives being present. The pretty rooms were fragrant with great masses of sweet peas and the bride carried a large cluster of white sweet peas. The ring ceremony was performed by Rev. L. Blakesley. There were no attend ants and the bride was given away by her mother, Mrs. Clara McCabe. During the ceremony the orchestra played the Lohengrin Bridal chorus very softly, which gave an additional impressiveness to the scene. After the ceremony a dainty breakfast was served. The table was decorated en tirely with sweet peas. Before the bride and groom left the loving cup was passed. The bride's gown was a beautiful af fair of white Paris muslin and real lace insertion; the skirt was ruffled to the waist, each ruffle headed with a group of tucks and insertion. She wore a sash and stock of white satin ribbon. Mrs. McCabe wore a silk skirt with a fluffy waist of black chiffon. The other guests present were Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stout, Miss Helen Stout, Miss Kate Adams, Mrs. Will Smith, Miss Nell Clough, Miss Annie McCabe, Mrs. Frank Edson, Mr. Alexander Butts of the Star and Mr. Albert Miller, Wash ington correspondent for the Star. Mrs. Stout. wore a handsome costume of black grenadine over black silk with trimmings of jet passementerie, and a front of white. Miss Stout wore a simple gown of white with pink ribbons. Miss Adams' gown was a delicate pink lawn trimmed with ruffles of the same. Mrs. Smith wore a pretty organdy, the white background strewn with pink flowers; it had a vest of shirred white mull, and was trimmed with ruf fles of the organdy edged with narrow black velvet. Miss Clough wore a pale blue mull, the waist and sleeves trimmed with bands .f white satin ribbon. Miss McCabe's gown was a becoming pink organdy, ruffled with the same material. Mrs:Chalie McCabe wore a fluffy white organdy with ruffles of the same. Mrs. Edson wore a white Swiss trimmed with lace insertion. Mr. and Mrs. Stout left at half past eight this morning for a several weeks' eastern trip after which they will be at home to their friends in Kansas City. Mr. Stout is the city editor of the Kansas City Star and his bride is one of the best known woman journalists in the west; she formerly lived in To peka where she has a great many friends; she was at one time connected with the Topeka Lance, the Topeka Capital, the Topeka State Journal, the Kansas City Times and the Star. She occupied her present position on the Star until last Saturday night; she will be succeeded by Miss Kate Adams of Topeka. A Pleasant Picnic. Miss Jessie King gave a very pleasant picnic at Garfield park Wednesday af ternoon and evening in honor of Miss Nellie Lincoln, who left today for Chi cago. The young ladies went over in the afternoon and the young men went over to supper. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hawley, Miss Nellie Lincoln, Miss Mabel King, Miss Jeannette Wol cott of Atchison, Miss Jessie Stultz, Miss Rose Davis. Miss Heloise Green, Miss Laura Houghtellin. Miss Lou Dell McMasters, Miss Mame Baird, Mr. Paul Roehr, Mr. Clark Dailey, Mr. Day Karr, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Harry Roehr and Mr. Harvey Davis. Note3 and Personal Mention. Dr. and Mrs. A. M. .Callaham went to Pauline today for a few days' visit, after which they will go to ElDorado to spend the remainder of the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Mary Miller. Miss Edith Moore has returned from Chicago where she has been attending the Cook county Normal for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Worden have re turned from a few days' visit in Valley Falls. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Manning have returned from a trip to Omaha and a visit with Mr. Manning's parents in Iowa. Miss Lillian Ripley has just returned from Chicago, where she has been un der the instruction of Prof. T. B. Aulich and Prof. Paul Menzel and is prepared to give lessons in miniature and flower painting upon china and ivory, accord ing to the best improved methods. She will remain here a few weeks, at the home of A. A. Ripley, 58 Franklin ave nue. Miss Myrtle Davis is going to Hia watha Friday for a month's visit. Mr. W. H. Hornaday will spend the month of August with his family in Topeka. E. C. MacLennan and Chas. E. Lager strom have returned from Colorado. Mrs. Anna Gibb left Wednesday for Colorado Springs to spend her two weeks' vacation. Miss Alice uoodhue arrived from Den ver Wednesday to spend a week with Topeka friends. Miss Maggie Hanley entertained about fifteen of her friends at a picnic at Garfield park Wednesday afternoon and evening, complimentary to her cousin, Miss Maggie Sheran. Rev. Charles A. Killie and wife are visiting the family of M. O. Frost and Mrs. Gallatly in Highland Park. They have been in China the past eight years as Presbyterian missionaries, and this is their first visit back to this country; their home is In Marshall, Mo. Miss Stella Smith gave a very pleas ant porch pa.rty Tuesday eevnlng, in honor of Miss Steele and Miss Clara Steele of Kansas City. The evening was spent in games and dancing. Those present were Miss Steele. Miss Clara Steele, Miss Gertrude Babcock, Miss Grace Babcock. Mr. Edwin Morse, Mr. Harry Wells, Mr. Will Hindman, Mr. Tom, Davidson and Mr. Harry Figg. Summer Tourist Tickets to Colorado and return for $24.00, on sale daily to September 15, by Santa Fe Route. .MANILA AS IT IS. Appearanca of the City Since Dewey's Arrival. (Copyrighted, 1898, by the Associated Press. Correspondence of the Asso ciated Press.) Manila, June 27, via Hong Kong. Rear Admiral Dewey, always courte ous and always cordial to press men, was good enough to assure this corres pondent that he could go Just where he liked, when he liked and how he liked. For the present, the American commander said, accommodations might be found on one of the American transports at Caf ite or, if so desired, the correspondent could go ashore, on which ever side he choose and take his chances with the Spaniards or rebels. It was, however, one thing to say "go everywhere you please" and quite a different matter to say how. Admiral Dewey, with all his good will, had no information at his disposal to indicate which place was likely to be best for getting all the news and communicat ing with the outside world. The cor respondent finally fixed on Manila it self, not entirely deprived of mail facil ities, thanks to the courtesy of Admiral Dewey and the foreign naval authori ties. Moreover Manila was found to be an exciting place to live in. Even without bombardment a besieged city must be a center of excitement. Sooner or later the food supply must run short. The Spaniards had declared that they would fight to the last; and, even an overwhelming force cannot capture a stubbornly defended town without a severe struggle. Then, what would the native population do? The native troops would probably keep up an appearance of fighting on the Spanish side as long as the Spaniards kept a lookout on them and in the end they would be mostly found on the other side, actuat ed chiefly by a desire to save their skins. Of the non-combatant natives with the Spaniards now, it is impossible to predict anything when the town fails if it is to fall. The town is as badly built as can be. The houses are much too close together and the streets are narrow. For the metropolis of a big country, for a city of a quarter of a million inhabitants, a rich and prosperous mart, a center of education and luxury as the bueldings in the walled city indicate, it is a dis reputable, ill-arranged and unsightly town. The principal business street, the Escotta is narrow, wretchedly paved, crooked and filled with the most com monplace structures. So are the other streets, but further from the center, there are trees to hide the ugiiness. In excuse the Manila people plead earth quakes, typhoons, thunder storms and floods as their reasons for not having a passably presentable town, but Manila is not the only place with earthquakes and all the rest. At Tokio it is infinite ly worse but it is handsomer and the roads are better paved. The Pasig is a river 0 or 70 yards wide, perhaps 12 feet deep, yet the bridging of it has never gone beyond primitive stages. There is one narrow bridge, the Fuento d'Espano, connect ing Binonda with the city, but this bridge is far too narrow for the traffic and would never be considered sufficient in a civilized country. There is another bridge near it, but it is seldom or never used for vehicle traffic and the Puenta d'Espano is constantly choked. There are tramways running into out lying parts of the town and a steam tramway to the northern suburb of Malabon. There is also a railway from Manila to Daigupan about, 18 miles north, run by an English company. In the rural' township of Santa Mesa. about three or four miles out is a big powder magazine, or "polverin." close by the right (north) bank of the river Pasig. On the opposite side of the river is the village of Santa Ana, a mile or two away. It was about here that the first shots were fired in the insurrection of 1&!6 and several English people having villas in these parts had a lively time. Another "polverin" is at Malate on the seashore just south of the walled city. These are the only two powder magazines the Spaniards have in the immediate neighborhood of the city, ex cluding of course the forts own stores. Malate is reached from Binonda by a pretty drive outside the city walls, eith er along the sea front, or behind the city and beyond the city is the esplan ade called the Tuneta, where the band plays every evening in peace times. At the far end of the Tuneta is the bat tery of two big guns which fired on the American ships until Admiral Dewey talked seriously of replying. A litle bevond this battery is the Eng lish club, surrounded by a number of pleasant residences, English, Spanish and others. Furthest of all, quite near the forts and the powder magazine, is the Eastern Extension Telegraph company's establishment. A little way back from the sea is the Jesuit observatory, which does excellent service, and is indeed the Jesuits' best answer to those who say they do harm in the Philippines. Outside of the populous suburbs there are more rural and less settled districts, dotted with handsome residences scatter ed remotelv among the rice fields and tropical woodlands, where a guerilla war fare would be well nigh interminable. In such country, with hedge rows that have in the course of ages grown into respect able little thickets with little plantations that are dark and almost impenetrable patches of sombre greenery, a stationery force might check an advancing force with the greatest ease. Artillery would be of little usij. with never half a mile of clear space: nothing hut skirmishing un der thick cover would be of any effect in this kind of ground and the victory would rest with the side best fitted for jungle warfare. Iot that tins is .lungie; it is simply fertile pastoral land with a lot of trees everywhere. But it is the last place in the world for plain peasant lads, newly recruited and without any target practice, to meet semi-savage woodsmen, and that is what Spain is depending on, for her sons are raw recruits and her ene mies are trained forest rovers. The following is a rough translation of the declaration of independence issued by Agulnaldo on June 12: "To the district head men and village head men of the province of Bulacan. from the politico-military givemor of this province, whose headquarters are now transferred to the town of San Francisco de Malabon and combined with the sec tions under bis orders at Bacoer. Bina cayan, Iraas, Novaleta. Sivinas and Cavite Viojo. Thev only require to be combined with the other forces in Indang and Si lang, near by, and then our troops will be sent forward and within a few days will be found in possession of almost the whole province, which will be found in position to proclaim effectively our independence. This proclamation will not be long de ferred, because the ultimate object of th's government will thus be attained. notwith standing the suggestions of some of our principal associates. It is more glorious and more convenient to seiect as the place on account of its being near the sea. the township of Cavite Viojo. which is an old port originally the town of Cavite. Where fnre I decree as follows: The 12th day of this month is fixed for the declaration of the independence of this our beloved coun try in this township of Cavite Viojo. for the due and proper solemnization of which auspicious event there should be on the day named an assemblage of all district head men and commanders of our forces, and through the proper representatives there should be a notiricatlon issued for the purpose of inviting the attendance of all who have in any way assisted in the good work: such, for example, as the dis tinguished admiral of the American squad ron and his commanders and officers, to all of whom, as having lent invaluable aid in the glorious work, a courteous in vitation will be sent and after the formal reading of the declaration the same will be signed by all who wish to give support thereto. "EMILIO AGUINALDO. "Dictator of the Phipppines. "Issued by General Delpilar in the name of General Aguinaldo on the 12th day of June, laSi" 1Q r jP'F' "T u ojyo vifu General Admission to tlie Grounds -Children Under 12 "Years Grand Stand Tickets, if purchased BEFORE Monday Noon, August ist, lOc making total admission and seat in Grand Stand 35 cents. Grand Stand Tickets, if purchased AFTER 12 O'clock Noon Monday, Aagust ist, 25c making total admission and seat in Grand Stand, 50 cents. luy Your Tickets Now and Save Money. The Pyrotechnic Display will be the most stu pendous exhibition ever undertaken in. the west lasting two hours. It It Will Take The prices 3of admission to the same exhibition mch as in Topeka. as mu TRAND STAND will be thoroxighly scrubbed. Grounds will be patrolled by entire eight companies K. V. IT. S. A. under Colonel Beck. Music by Marshall's Celebrated Military Band and Kansas Regimental Band, U. S. A., Prof. Jackson. ir The City Railway will put on its entire force and equipment. Double header trains from Transfer Station to Fair Grounds every two minutes. I AO EXTRA CHARGE FOR HORSES, CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, ETC. The Committee of Fifteen want it distinctly understood that the "Battle of Manila" is given SOLELY for the 3 Benefit of the Fall Festival Fund, And that every Man, Woman and Child in Topeka is expected to do his duty 5 !x and be present. I'AHTS HER SHIP BACK. France Requests the Release of Olinde Rodriguez. Washington, July 28. The French embassy has called the attention of the state department to the circumstances connected with the seizure of the French merchant steamship Olinde Rodriguez and has requested the imme I diate release of that steamer. This ac j tion was taken simultaneously with a protest from the French Transatlantic Steamship company against the seiz- ure. I The state department has submitted I all the papers in the case to the depart- ment of justice with a view to getting an opinion on the legal questions in volved. The grounds of the representa tions by the embassy are that the Rodriguez was engaged in ordinary mercantile pursuits, and also has on board the official mail of the French government destined to the French minister at Port Au Prince. It is said that her manifest shows she was not intending to enter a blockaded port. The representations are those usually made in behalf of French interestsand there is no disposition at the state de partment to regard them as other than friendly inquiry. NOT KNOWN. A .telegram reached Topeka today from McPherson saying that J. W. Howe who is registered from Topeka had shot himself. No person of that name is known in Topeka, WiDO Store Closes. New Tork. July 2S. The store of D. Cieni Brother, dealers in wine at No. 104 Broad street, was closed today and in charge of a deputy marshal on an attachment for $400 obtained by Louis Peinano. The marshal also had writs of replevin from Libbey. McNeil Lib bey of Chicago, and others. One of the creditors said today that he believed the liabilities of the firm were more than $50,000. It is believed that D. Cieni sailed for Santiago de Cuba last Saturday. First Mail for Cuba. New York, July 28. The first mail steamer, for the Island of Cuba since the war carrying letters for others than the army, left this port early today bound for Santiago. The vessel was the German steamship Amrum, Capt. Rehmruhl. A large amount of mail, containing not only letters, but also packages, was taken upon the vessel. The rates were the same as those to other foreign countries. Bishop Wingfleld Bead. Benicia, Cal., July 28. Rev. J. H. D. TVingfield, for many vears Episcopal Bishop of northern California, is dead. He has been a chronic invalid and so-ill as to be unable to attend to his diocesan duties during the past two years. OF THE GREATEST SHOW ON aj?ujuyyisa ratio NOTICE TO THE PUi will cost the Committee put this show on. 5.000 Admissions to Pav Ert-senses. 'Phone 31. Cataloxuo Free. Day and A LOAN CF $100 COSTS FS3 For CO months. 2.25 84 months. S1.80 96 months. 81.65 Mortgages released promptly when last paymeuc is made. Fart or ail of loan may be paid at any time with a saying of Interest to you. The Savings and Loan Ass'nl Our object and aim is to ena ble you to se cure a homeoD easy monthly Installments. Tel. COB. N. Cor. 6th GOLD BEGINS TO MOVE. Indications That Importation is to Be Resumed. New Tork, July 2S The Tribune says: Although this is about the time of year for engaging- gold for import the news from London that $50,000 had been taken from the Bank of England indicates that the movement in this direction is likely to begin sooner than was general ly expected. xnis $50,000 is the first shipment of gold that has been engaged since the second week in May. There was a stiffening of rates for sterling ex change caused by the advance in the discount rates in London. It was said by some of the foreign bankers that there was no profit in importing gold at a rate less than 1.81 i per pound sterU ing. It was asserted that present con ditions pointed to heavy importations of gold this fall. Complaint is made by some of the foreign bankers that the new war reve nue act is favoring the Canadian banks. It was pointed out that the agents of the Canadian banks sells sterling ex change in this city drawn in Canada and payable in London. As the new law does not require a stamp for such drafts there is a gain of a quarter of a cent on a pound sterling which, where large amounts are involved, amounts to a considerable item. On the other hand the agents of the Canadian bankers say there has been less sale o the ex. change mentioned since the stamp' tax went into effect than before. It was also denied that bills were drawn in Canada for sale here in order to avoid the stamp duty. TO ELIMINATE WEAKLINGS Eighth, Army Corps to Have an Over hauling. San Francisco, July 23. All the medi cal officers in the eighth army corps have been instructed to institute in quiry with a view to eliminating from the various regiments all enlisted men who although unfit for military duty have passed medical examination and been mustered in. Five new cases of typhoid fever have developed at Camp Merritt. The vic tims are Privates Edgar Porter. Franlc Smith, Charles Christ and Charles EARTH 9 25 cents lO cents to C in other cities cost twice Night Sessions. 531 Sc. 523 Quincy St. 260NT3. 120 months. 81.36 Kan. Ave. Murphy, of the Eighteenth infantry.and "W. H. Bacon, of the Twenty-third in fantry. There are now thirteen cases of fever at the camp. Private Glen Benedict of the Oregon recruits has been reported by his regi mental surgeon to be mentally unsound. He will be recommended for discharge. A message from Secretary Alger re ceived at Lns Angeles states that the Seventh California volunteers will sure ly go to Manila. Train Load of Editors. "Vancouver. B. C July 28. A special train carrying the Michigan and Wiscon sin editorial excursion has arrived here. After visiting the Frazor river canneries todav the party will go to Victoria and Seattle. A Skin of Beauty is a Joy Forerer." DR. T. rr.I.lX (i(tl K l"I'S (IRIH. TAI. (I1K1H, OK MAUICAb 11BAUTIK1KK. Furllles a well as Beautifies the Skin No other cosmetic will do it. Kemoye TgB, I'imples. Freck les, iloth Patch es, liash and fklD dtseases, and every blem ish on beauty, and denes de tection. It has stood the test of 49 years, and Is so harmless we taste it to ns iur it is prop rlymade. Ac cept no counter feic of similar name. Dr. L. A. Sayre said to a lady of the haut-ton (a pa tient): "As you ladies will use them, I reeoi meud 'Gouraud's Cream' as the least harmful of all skin preparations." For sale by all lirugcists and Fancy (ioods Dealers in ui V. Canadai, and liurope. iHD. T. HOPKINS. Prop'r. 87 Great Jones St., K. Y, TopekaSteam Laundry For Good Work Quick. 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c TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAIi, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 189S. CA NO BACKWA1ID STEP. Significant Speech of Senator Davis of Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., July 2S. With great ceremony in the presence of an im mense concourse of people, Alexander Ramsey, territorial governor, only sur vivor of the famous union war gover nors, ex-secretary of war and ex-United States, senator laid the corner stone of Minnesota's capitol building in this city. The two million dollar building was designed by Chas. Gilbert, a St. Paul architect, and is being constructed of granite from St. Cloud with Georgia marble for superstructure and trim mings. Archbishop Ireland prayed. The principal oration was delivered by Uni ted States Senator Cushman K. Davis, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations and the benediction iwas pronounced by the venerable Bish op Whipple, of the Episcopal church. The speech of Senator Davis was de voted largely to a discussion of the for eign affairs of the government. He spoke hopefully of the better relations between the United States and Great Britain but the situation in the far east he described as being "pregnant with wars" and he declared that the recent aggressions by the powers of Europe on China were acts of war. "Next to China," he said, "the Pacific possessions of the United States are the most inviting objects of attack. Under existing conditions their defense would be difficult. Had Spain triumphed at Manila as dicisively as did the United States her navy could have seized Hon olulu and have operated from there up on the entire coast of the United States from Mexico to the Yukon. An over powering European force in the Asiatic waters could do the same thing; so could Japan." Senator Davis declared the situation to be one of alternatives and said the United States must become an efficient element in the Asiatic situation or must entirely abstain from any participation In it, resting content to return to its own shores, to cover the smallest possi ble share of its commercial advantages, and to prepare for its own defense against the same aggressions which have reduced China to her present con dition. The senator believed, however, that the United States should take no back ward course. He favored the main taining of the present excellent condi tion of the United States navy and the making of liberal appropriations for its increase and the immediate construc tion of the Nicaragua canal, he deemed to be of the utmost importance. Recent events, he said, had demonstrated this. CROPS DESTROYED. Storm Ruins 30,000 Acres in South, Dakota. Watertown, S. T., July 2S. Thirty thous and acres of crops were destroyed or greatly damaged by a hail storm in Cod ington county last night. The scope of the storm was six miles wide and about twenty-five long. Many farmers lost every acre of grain. The list of farmers will reach at least ISO in this county: The eame storm reached Clark and Grant counties. Ten days more and the farmers would have been cutting the finest crop ever harvested in this section. Now the yield will be nearly half a million bushels less. SENECA CASE SETTLED. Surgeon General Sternberg Says tho Matter Was Exaggerated. "Washington, July 28. Surgeon Gen eral Sternberg returned to Washington from New York where he made an in spection of the hospital ship Relief with most satisfactory results. While in New York the surgeon gen eral also visited the Seneca and invest igated the charges as to the improper equipment of the ship for the home ward trip from Santiago. The surgeon general found that while there was some ground for the statements, the conditions had been exaggerated. The Seneca was overcrowded with passengers. Among them were 42 sol diers from the hospital who were not wounded so badly as to require their immediate transfer. They were order ed away from the hospital at Siboney because the officers in charge anticipa ting another great battle which would overtax their resources, desired to free the hospitals from every patient who could be gotten away. In addition to this a number of civil ians not properly entitled to the privi llege, were allowed passage, resulting in over-crowding. The physician in charge was found to be thoroughly competent 1 and much of the complaint on the score I of the insufficient medical attention was ascribable to the unexpected illness of one of the physicians. It is understood that Gen. Sternberg's Investigation has satisfied the depart ment and no further inquiry will be made. GREAT LOSS OF STOCK To Follow Ejectment From Govern ment Reserve. Fresno, Calif., July 28. The dry sea Bon has caused great loss to stockmen on the Sierra foothills. It is estimated that 175,000 sheep were driven in the forest reservations after the withdrawal of the United States cavalry some time ago. Recently a force of deputy marshals forced the stock owners to remove their cattle and sheep from the re served land. Some of the herders as serted that as there is no grass and Jittle water to be found elsewhere at least 100,000 sheep must perish of star vation and thirst. The Sure La Grippe Cure There is no use suffering from this ireadful malady, if you will only get the ripht remedy. You are having pain all through your body, your liver is out of order, have no appetite, no life or ambi tion, have a bad cold, in fact are com pletely used up. Electric Bitters is the only remedy that will give you promnt and sure relief. They act directly on your liver, stomach and kidneys,, tone uo the whole system and make vou feel like a now being. They are guaranteed to. cure or price refunded. For sale at Swift A HolUday's drug store, only 50 cents Der bottle. Bad management keeps more peopl In poor circumstances thr.n any other one cause. To be successful one mu3t look ahead and plan aiead so that when a favorable opportunity presen's Itself he is ready to ta'e advantage of it. A little forethought will also save much expense and valuable time A prudent and careful man will keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house the shiftless fellow will wait until ne cessity compels it and then ruin his best horse going for a doctor and have a big doctor bill to pay, besides; one pays out 25 cents, the other is out a tiundred dollars and them wonders why fais neighbor Is getting richer while he Is getting poorer. For sale by all drug gists. Weather Indications. Chicago, July 28. For Kansas r Un settled but generally fair and continued warm wt Mil Fridayi variable 5TII ILLINOIS MUTINY. Men Quit Camp in Large Bodies One Smashes Sis Gun. Chlckamauga, Ga., July 28 The Third Kentucky, the Fifth Illinois and the Third battalion of the Sixteenth Penn sylvania left the park yesterday under orders to proceed to Porto Rico, but be fore the Fifth Illinois had time to load for its departure, a rush order came from Secretary Alger for it to return to camp, and ordering out In its stead the 160th Indiana. This is the second time that the Fifth Illinois, commanded by Colonel Culver, has been ordered back after being under orders to go with the brigade to the front. Naturally the matter has caused a very considerable unpleasant feeling among the officers and men of the regiment and they would like a satisfactory explanation. In fact a sorrier and more disgusted lot of soldiers was never seen than the men of the Fifth Illinois when the or ders were received to unload and return to Chickamauga Park. The command had been extremely anxious to get to the front. All kinds of unsavory charges are- be ing openly made against Colonel Cul ver, the commanding officer, not only by privates, but by subordinate officers. They claim that their regiment has been betrayed by Colonel Culver, who represented to President McKinley that the regiment is not fit for field duty, and on these representations, the presi dent relieved the command from going to Porto Rico. The subordinate officers claim that the command is in very ex cellent condition and in splendid fight ing trim. It is openly charged that Colonel Culver is interested in contracts to build Illinois monuments here and that he wants to stay here to personal ly superintend the work and for this reason was willing to sacrifice his com mand. As soon as the full situation dawned on the men, the greatest disorder pre vailed and there was no semblance of discipline. Men left the ranks by dozens and scores and nearly a hundred mem- i bers of the regiment left camp, most of them without leave, and came to the city. The morale of the regiment is shattered and many of the men declare they will not longer serve under Cul ver. Efforts to restrain the men were unavailing. One man broke his gun over a tree and left the camp without leave. Those in the city are making things very lively. The 160th Indiana men were as elated as the Illinois men were disgusted, for the order to go to the front was a com plete surprise to the Hoosiers. The Third Kentucky regiment loaded at Rossville and departed for Newport News. SPANISH PALAVER. Sagasta Will Protest Against Porto Eico Invasion. London, July 2S. The Madrid corres pondent of the Daily Mail says: Spain will probably protest against an attack upon Porto Rico after the Washington cabinet has officially re ceived Spanish overtures for peace. Should a circular note on this subject be sent to the powers, it will contain the exact dates of the Spanish commu nications making it clear that the United States deferred its answer in order to be able to date this, after the American forces had gained a footing in Porto Rico. Senor Sagasta said today: "We re solved on peace many days ago, and made known our resolution to the Unit ed States government. I regard as null and void and as destitute of good faith everything the Americans have done since, and I am ready to protest against it formally." An official dispa-tch, from Porto Rico says: "On Tuesday the Americans ad vanced in the direction of Yauco, fighting most of the way. Seven hun dred Spanish regulars and volunteers encountered them and an engagement ensued which lasted the whole night and only ceased with dawn on the fol lowing day. The Americans were obliged to withdraw to the coast." Berlin, July 28. The National Ga zette says: "Although America's haste to obtain a footing in Porto Rico is rather con trary to the strict canons of military usage, it is perhaps justified by the as- l o f i 1 1 i i o juoimeu uj L 1 1 sumption that its conquest will pi America in a better position to dictate terms of peace. As Spain is unable to pay indemnity, America has a right to demand an enforced compensation." SCOYEL SHUT OUT. War Department Revokes His Li cense as a Correspondent Washington, D. C, July 28. The fol lowing order has eeen issued by the war department: The license heretofore granted to feylvester Scovel, of the New York World, is hereby revoked, and he will not be permitted to accompany any part of the army in the field under any conditions whatever. By order of the secretary of war. H. C. CORBIN, Adjutant General. Scovel attempted to meddle In the raising of the flag over Santiago. He was ordered to keep his hands off, and thereupon he abu sed Gen. Shafter, "and attempted to striate him. He was ar rested and later deported. COLONEL OF IMMUNES. Captain T. W. Jones is Promoted for Gallantry. Wasnlngton. July 2S. The president has appointed Captain Thaddeus V. Jones of the Tenth cava.lry to the vacant colonelcy or the xentn volunteer intantry um munes. Thi-s officer was promoted in recognition of his- meritorious services while in command of a company or the Tenth cavalry during the terrible light ing around Santiago. The regiment of which Captain Jones is appointed colonel is composed entirely of colored men recruited in the south, and is booked for speedy service in the est Indies, either at Santiago or Porto Rico. Captain J. M. Lee of the Ninth infantry. who originally w-as appointed colonel or this immune reguntmt. declined the com mission, as he preferred to remain with his old regiment. County Att orney Wolf Resigns. The resignation of George M. Wolf, county attorney of Osage county, has been accepted by District Judge Thompson. At torney General Boyle gave Wolf until Wednesday to resign and his resignation was on file at. that time. He is the man who tried to hold up jointlsts for money to insure threm against prosecution. Aid for the Soldiers. Abilene, July 28. The W. R. C. and others held a social here and raised about $40 to be sent to care for Kansas soldiers In the hospitals in San Fraji cisco and at Camp Alger. Santa Pe Route dining cars are equip ped .with electric fans, HOPE FOE THE ARMY. It Will Become Acclimated and Sick ness Will Disappear. Washington. July 28. The report of Gen. Shafter showing that there were 3,370 cases of sickness in the army in Cuba, has given the officials of the war department considerable concern, but the reports heretofore made that the yellow fever cases were of a mild type, encourages the hope that the death rate will be small. The large number of fever cases reported, 2,924, show that not only yellow fever, but typhoid and other kinds are numerous. Surgeon General Sternberg says that it is the history of yellow fever that it spreads rapidly and having once got started in the camp is sure to infect many soldiers. Speaking of the other fevers, he said that not only in Cuba, but in the camps in the United States there had been many cases and it was the history of all new armies that fe vers, especially typhoid, became quite common. This was due to the change of climate and mode of life of the sol diers. Even where the water was pure cases would arise. Soldiers bought and ate many things not furnished by the commissary, such as milk and other things peddled about the camps. Often these foods caused sickness. Another feature he mentioned was the indiffer ent care the men took of themselves when they joined the army. It was his belief that as the army became more seasoned there would be less sickness. "CLOVElt LEAF" FIRE. St. Louis, July 2S. A fire which orig inated in the "Clover Leaf" yards is now raging in East St. Louis and threatens the destruction of much property. The St. Louis fire department has been asked to be ready to send help across the river if it is needed. LET HIM SKIP. A Supposed Criminal Proves Too Nervy for the Police Force. Charles D. Wilson, the suspected criminal who was arrested yesterday by the police and held at the city jail, escaped this morning, and has not been found. He was fined $25 in police court. When the prisoners were taken to the stone pile Wilson was slow in starting. He walked out of the side door into the jail yard followed by Jailer Grubbs. He had no sooner stepped out than he made a leap for liberty. He ran to the north fence, stepped on a box near to it and bounded over, clearing the high board fence easily. The alarm, was given and officers started after the prisoner. He went straight north and it is supposed he either crossed the Rock Island bridge or went west on the Rock Island tracks. It Is thought that Wilson is wanted somewhere for a serious offense. He appeared very nervous when kept in jail, and was very abusive. Testerday afternoon it was necessary to put him in the bull pen in the basement on ac count of his being noisy and abusive. He is the fellow who claimed that her was formerly in the employ of the U. S. secret service. BANKRUPTCY TALK. A Feature of the Commercial Law League's Meeting. Put-in-Bay, O., July 28. Members of the Commercial Law League of America listened to a comprehensive address on bankruptcy and insolvent laws by Levi T. Griffin of Detroit today. He gave a de tailed exposition of the provisions of the law. His address brought out a discus sion which" lasted several hours. Law yers divided in their opinions. "Conditional Sales" was the subject of a paper by William A. May of Pittsburg. Last evening the men enjoyed a "smoker" and an informal dar.ee. Last night officers were elected for the ensuing year. There was quite a fight for tha presidency. The result was: President, Ernest L. Florance, New Orleans: first vice president, Charles R. MiUer, Canton, O.; second vice president, H. H. Wilson, Lincoln. Neb.: third vice president. J. P. Hornaday, Somerset, Ky.: treasurer, J. K. Summerwell, New York; correspond ing secretary. Martin Locks. New York: recording secretary. George S. Hull. Buf falo: members of executive committee: L. J. Whitehead. New York: P. M. Singer, Dayton. O.: U. S. G. Cherry. Sioux Falls, S. D. W. W. Watts, Louisville, Ky. NOT AFRAID OF MINES. 'Emily Warren, Chicago," Written on a New York Harbor Buoy. New York, July 28. While the specta tors along the shore were waiting to see the mines exploded at Willett's point, they were horrified to see a young woman in a boat that had put out from Whitestone enter the mine field and fearlessly ap proach one of the big white buoys and write something on it. After all danger was over a young man rowed out to the buov and read "Emily Warren, Chicago," written in a bold, round hand. The young woman was a handsome brunette about 25 years old. RIDPAT1I DECLINES. Refuses to Be a Candidate for Con gress in Indiana. Terre Haute, Ind., July 28. Camuel R. Hammill was nominated for congress by the Democrats of the Fifth Indiana dis trict at a convention held here this after noon. The nomination was on the first ballot. A letter from John Clark Ridpath, editor of the Arena, and the candidate in the last campaign, declining to have his name presented, was read to the conven tion. Ex-Governor Matthews presided. Kansas Turnfest. The Kansas Turnfest will be cele brated in Topeka this year under the auspices of the Topeka Turn Verein. The dates are October 1, 2 and 3, and the gymnastic exercises and meetings will be held at Turner Garden at the foot of Harrison street. There is a large attendance expected, and several Turning teams will enter the contests. The Topeka Turners took first prizes at Omaha, and they will also compete in Topeka. Turner societies from ad joining states will send delegates and representatives. The executive committee in charge of the Turnfest consists of the follow ing: Dr. F. Klemp, chairman; F. Krantz, secretary; Chas. lioeiana, treasurer; Otto Wendelberg, turnwart; W. Moeser, aide-de-camp. More About Revenue Stamp Muddles The office of the state superintendent has been flooded by letters from teach ers and members school boards in quiring whether it is necessary to place revenue stamps on teachers' contracts and warrants and Superintendent Stryker wrote to District Attorney Lambert about the matter. He has just received the following letter in reply: "In reply to your favor of the 26th Instant will say that I am unable to find any provision of the revenue law that can be construed to require stamp to be attached to contracts made be tween school boards and teachers and it is our opinion that none are neces sary. You are further advised that revenue stamps are not required on warrants issued to teachers by school boards in payment of teachers' salary. "H. J. BONE, "Assistant U. S. Attorney." DIDN'T ASK FOR TERMS. Spain Merely Wanted to Open Peace Negotiations. Washington, July 28. In diplomatic quarters Spain's peace proposal is the absorbing topic. The diplomats showed their interest by calling at the state de partment and at the French embassy, to learn with more exactness the de tails of Spain's proposal. This devel oped several features of the proposi tion which had not been entirely clear before. In the first place no foreign govern ment outside of France has been con sulted by Spain in this overture for peace, and the present movement is not shared, directly or indirectly, by Ger many, Austria, Italy, Russia or Great Britain. It can now be stated that the formal proposition submitted had been under consideration at Madrid for five days previous, during which time the British as well as the French authori ties were cognizant of the fact that Spain was about to sue for peace. This being settled, it appears that a good natured but keen rivalry sprang up be tween Sir Drummond Wolff, the Brit ish ambassador at Madrid, and M Patenotre, the French ambassador there, as to which government should have the honor of initiating the move ment designed to restore the peace of the world. Owing to the cordiality existing be tween the governments of Great Brit ain and the United States it was felt at first that Sir Drummond Wolff would be commissioned to approach the United States acting at Washington through Sir Julian Pauncefote. But Spain appears to have preferred the in termediation of the French govern ment, and as a result the negotiations were finally entrusted to the French ambassador at Washington. Another essential point is the exact proposition made by Spain. There has been some misapprehension over this owing to the publication of an alleged text of the proposition, and other re ports asserting that Spain asked Presi dent McKinley to state terms of peace As a matter of fact the Spanish propo sition does not mention the word "terms" and there is no request or sug gestion in it that the president shall state terms of peace. The direct in quiry made by Spain is as to whether the United States will open negotiations toward the settlement of the war and the arrangement of peace. It is based on the theory that if the president an swers in the affirmative, then the nego tiations for terms will be opened be tween commissioners or parties clothed with the responsibility of bringing about a settlement. Neither does the Spanish proposition contain any refer ence to "armistice." At the same time it is framed on the idea that if peace negotiations are entered upon there will be a suspension of hostilities pending an agreement upon the exact terms of peace. In this connection there appears to be a distinction made between the word "armistice" and "suspension of hostilities," for while it is said the former is not asked or expected.it seems to be taken for granted that a suspen sion of hostilities will be essential to carry forward the peace negotiations. The Spanish proposition is clothed with all the solemnity and formality of a government act, despite the cable re port from Madrid that the peace pro posal is of f. "private nature." The instructions to M. Cambon bear the official signature of Duke Almo dovar de Rio, the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, and besides expressing the desires of the cabinet and govern ment that the peace negotiations be opened, they are given the solemnity of approval and earnest personal re quest by "Queen Regent Maria Cris tina." The Instructions bear the date of Madrid, July 25. These formalities dis miss all doubts in the minds of officials here as to the regularity of the Span ish proposition as expressive of the wishes of the government of Spain. AVEDS TWICE IN A MONTn. And Now the Husband is Dead by an Unknown Hand. St. Louis, July 28. The police are without a clue as to the murderers of Charles A. Brant, who was killed Mon day night. George Harding, brother of the murdered man's divorced wife, who was arrested on suspicion has been re leased as he proved a complete alibi. It is learned that Mary Amy Harding nnd Charles Brant were married twice. They were secretly married in Hobo ken, N. J., on September 25, 1895 .about a month before their marriage in St. Louis at the Harding residence. The first ceremony was performed by Mayor Fagan of Hoboken and the witnesses were Martha A. Schroeder and Robert "V. Curry. The inquest dver the remains of Brant began today. MINES CONTINUE IDLE. All Efforts of Operators to Start Them Fail. Pana, 111., July 28. The mines of the Pana and Penwell coal companies con tinue Idle notwithstanding the per sistent efforts to operatethemwith non union miners under a heavy guard of deputy sheriffs and special police.Eight miners went to work in the Springside coal company's mines today, being con veyed in carriages to the mine by dep uty sheriffs, with Winchesters. There is no coal being hoisted at the mine, however, and the general impres sion is that the men are only making repairs and propping up rooms, prepar atory to a settlement of the strike. DEVOURED BY ANIMALS. Little One Rolls From a Buggy and Meets Horrible Death. Spring Valley, Wis., July 28. A shock ing occurrence is reported from Plum City, about 20 miles south of here. While a party of berrypickers were scouring the woods between Plum City and Pepin one of the number, a mother. nursed her babe and placed it in a buggy to sleep. When she returned from the berry patch an hour or so afterward, she was horri fied to find that her little one had been devoured by animals. The child's bloody clothing and some gnawed and half-eaten bones were all that remained. It is sup posed that the child fell out of the bugsy and became a prey to hogs or wolves. The latter are very pletiful in the woods in that vicinity. In the Yellow Fever Camp. Edward Jordan, who is employed by the Edison company in Topeka is anx iously waiting for information from the yellow fever camp at Santiago. Mr. Jordan's brother. Will Jordan is in camp there and a member of the Twelfth United States infantry. Will Jordan was a member of Cooley's bail team in Topeka and was well known here. The last information received from him was a day or two ago on a postal card in which he simply said that he had been in two battles, but escaped unhurt. Daily Powder Mill Disaster. Elmira, N. Y., July 28. The powder mill of E. T. Johnson at Troy, Pa., was blown up today and the owner who was also the paying teller in the Pomery Mitchell bank was killed. LOGAN'S LUCK. Missouri Pacific Auditor Made an Army Paymaster. Kansas City, July 28. Glen H. Logan, who has been traveling auditor of the Mis souri Pacific, with headquarters In Kan sas City and residence in Warrensburg, Mo., for the past ten years, has been ap pointed paymaster, with rank of major, in the volunteer army and assigned to service in the Philippines. He will leave for Washington today. Mr.' Logan's father and President Mc Kinley were members of the same com pany in the civil war.having enlisted from the same town. Recently Mr. Logan and his father called at the White House, and the president asked if there was any com mission the son wanted. After thinking it over the newly appointed major said he would like to be a paymaster and go to the Philippines, and ten days later he re ceived his commission. STAND FROM UNDER. The Redoubtable Webb JIcNall Drops Insurance Co's For a Few Minutes. Webb McNall is spending a portion of his time in the state auditor's office looking over the books to find out what Gov. Morrill did with his contingent fund. Superintendent McNall's action is the result of agitation by Republicans about the payment of attorney's fees by Governor Leedy. About the first thing he found was a voucher for $500 in favor of Alilt Brown, who was then state senator for defending George Clark from the assaults of Mary E. Lease who was trying to oust him from his place on the state board of charities. Mr. McNall says that he expects to unearth more interesting information. itTs no good. The System of Keeping Out Texas Fever Doesn't Keep It Out Clem Fairchild of Kingman came to Topeka today on "private business" but he had a few words to say about the live stock sanitary board and hinted that legal proceedings might be com menced soon to test the legality of the appointment of inspectors. "We have Texas fever all over south ern Kansas," said Mr. Fairchild, "and that is an indication of what the board is doing and the success of the system of inspection now in use. I saw a cat tleman a few days ago and he was es pecially bitter. He complained because of the prevalence of Texas fever and said that what was needed was a board that would protect the cattle of Kan sas. "While I believe in the sanitary board I do not believe in the system of inspection. There is no provision in the law to pay the inspectors and they have to hold up the cattlemen for their pay and who do you suppose they work for? They surely do not work for the interest of the state. "In Governor Morrill's administration a fight was made on the system of in spection and the inspectors were fired and the state was free from Texas fe ver after that but when our fellows get in the first thing they do is to reappoint these same inspectors." THEIR LETTERS HELD. Spanish Prisoners Have Not Been Permitted to Write Home. Washington, July 2S. A step taken by the postoffice department indicates that the Spanish prisoners at Annapolis possi bly may be permitted to communicate with their friends in Spain. All letters deposited at Annapolis by the prisoners are held by the authorities, as an order of the postmaster general prohibits all postal communication with Spain. The letters deposited by the prisoners at Annapolis were sent to the dead letter of fice, but an inquiry as to what was to be done finally with them was referred to the navy department. The officials of that department expressed a desire that they should be submitted in order that they may be censored and an order has been issued to the dead letter office directing that the letters be sent to the bureau of navigation for that purpose. What fur ther action will be taken is not yet clear, and no order looking to the transmission of letters to Spain has yet been issued. TEXAS POPULISTS SPLIT. Over the Question of Pensions for Confederate Soldiers. 'Austin, Tex., Jufy 2S. Outside of se curing permanent organization and adopting a portion of its platform, the state Populists convention, which met here yesterday to nominate a state ticket, did nothing at all. The split up come over a proposition to pension all confederate soldiers instead of bringing them to the confederate home in this city: So far as adopted, the platform de clares in opposition to issuance of bonds by the federal government, either in time of war or peace, endorses the sent iment actuating this war, and gives it moral support so long as conducted along the lines of the righting of the wrongs of a suffering people, but will not tolerate its continuance for per sonal gain. On state issues they condemn the Democratic party in unmeasured terms, and especially complain of the state railroads and not the people. ST. LOUIS MAN FIRST. In a Contest at the Great Hamburg Turnfest. Hamburg, July 28. The successful turnfest was concluded here last even ing when oak leaves were distributed to the 128 victors. There was a great torchlight procession last night in which 4.000 torch bearers took part. It was witnessed by enormous crowds of people and the greatest enthusiasm was manifested. Wilhelm Lange of St. Louis was sec ond in three jumps and another St. Louis gymnast was first in the obstacle race. POPULIST PRIMARY". Will Be Held August 6 and the Con vention a Week Later. The Shawnee couhty Populist primary has been called for August 6. Following is the official call issued by the county central committee: A People's party convention for Shaw nee county will be held in Topeka on Sat urday, August 13. beginning at 11 o'clock a. m.. for the purpose of nominating can dates for the following offices: County attorney, probate judge, clerk of the dis trict court, county superintendent and state senator. The primaries for electing delegates and alternates to this convention will be held in the several election precincts on Sat urday, August 6, under the supervision of and at the places designated by the re spective committeemen. The election wi'l be by ballot, and a. rscord kept naming the voters participating therein, and a re tun? made thereof to the secretary of the county committee. In the city of Topeka and the precincts of Potwin, Shorey. Oakland and Highland Park the polls will be open from 8 p. m. to 9 p. m., and in other precincts from 5 p. m. to 6 p. m. At these primaries the voters will also elect county committeemen to represent the respective precincts during the ensu ing year. The apportionment of delegates will be as follows: Highland Park ....3! Oakland 4 Potwin 3IShunganunga 2 Soldier 4' Rochester 3 Muddy .1 Linn Creek 1 Monmouth z Richland 2 N. Williamsport ..lis. Williamsport 1 Jaw llDover 2 2Vlll?:r5, 1 North Mission 2 South Mission 2 Rossville 6 Silver Lake 31 Menoken 3 Tecumseh 41 Auburn 3 CITY. FIRST WARD. First precinct ....-5! Third precinct 4 Second precinct 3 SECOND WARD. First precinct 3 Fourth precinct ....4 Second precinct ...3 Fifth precinct 4 Third precinct 4j THIRD WARD. First precinct 2 Third precinct 2 Second precinct ...2i Fourth precinct 2 FOURTH WARD. First precinct 2iThird precinct 2 Second precinct .31 Fourth precinct 2 FIFTH WARD. First precinct 3! Second precinct 2 On August 13. 1898, and prior to the final adjournment of the county convention, the delegates elected from the several pre cincts comprising the Thirtv-seventh, Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth represent ative and Third commissioner districts, respectively, will assemble in the city of lopena, at sucn nour ana macs as mav tne several districts, organize ana nom n ate candidates for the said districts for representatives and commissioner respect ively and report their action to the county convention. By order of the People's party central committee of Shawnee county, Kansas. GEO. W. CLARK, Chairman. GEO. WAGNER, Secretary. N ORTH TOPEKA. Items Intended for this column should be left at the Kimball Ptg. Co., before 11 o'clock in the morning. Bread. 2 lbs. 5c. Gem Bakery. Mrs. J. S. Glendenning, .who has been ill for the past week, is now improving. Mr. Bunnel of Council Bluffs was the guest Tuesday of Mr. and Mrs. Faus. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Searles of Atch ison are the guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Kane. Miss Nora Richards, who has been visiting Misses Ethel and Phoebe Hayes, returned to her home in Man hattan today. Misses Mamie Baird and Margaret Hanley are spending a few days in the country the guests of Captain and Mrs. Morris of Jackson county. Mrs. Aaron Sheetz and children, Bes sie and Charlie, will leave this evening for Denver where they will visit Mrs. Sheetz's daughter, Mrs. John Bradley. Mrs. Wallin and daughter Ruth have returned to their home in Clinton, Kan., after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mor row of 928 Van Buren street. M. W. of A camp 1243 will give an ice cream social tonight at their hall in the Barrett block. The entertainment will be for the members of the camp and their immediate families. Trail G. Raub, youngest son of Dr. and Mrs. A. A. Raub and Miss Nellie "Wilson, the adopted daughter of Mr. Moody of 1505 Logan street, were mar ried last Saturday evening. Mr. J. N. Tracy of Richmond, Ind., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam uel Tracy. Mr. Tracy who is now en gaged in repairing the organ at the First Presbyterian church, may decide to locate in Topeka. The Indianola Sunday school, assisted by the Ladies' Aid society of the Second Presbyterian church, gave a patriotic social last evening at the Ward farm west of the Reform school. Ice cream and cake were served. The ladies of the Baptist church gave an ice cream social last evening at the A. J. Berry farm three miles west of town. Conveyances had been provided for those who wished to attend and in spite of the threatening weather a large crowd was present. While attempting to light one of the gasoline lamps which were used to il luminate the grounds of the Baptist social last evening, S. L. Courtney had his right hand severely burned. Mr. Courtney had turned on the gasoline and was holding a lighted match when a gust of wind blew the oil out of the cup and over his hand which immedi- j ately took fire and was painfully burn ed Derore it couia De exttnguisnea. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to the State Journal. Chicago, July 28. WHEAT Better cables today gave wheat a good send-off. An Improved cash demand in addition to the strength devel oped in corn gradually advanced prices. Receipts here were 130 cars, all new. Northwestern receipts were light, 94 cars, against 373- cars last year. September opened 4c higher at 65-i65Hc, firmed up to 60V4C. off to 647i65c, then rose to 63Vu Uc December started Sic up at 60 fuHc, up to (joe, then settled to CS'g..c. July advanced lc, selling at 71c. CORN The weather conditions were un certain and corn made an irregular start. The drought still remained unbroken in Nebraska and Kansas, while east of the Missouri and throughout the northwest sufficient rains were reported to save the growing crop. Later prices took an up ward turn on reports from Iowa of great damage last night from hail. This, to gether with predictions of continued dry weather by the signal service in the west ern states, encouraged the prominent bulls, who bought freely. September open ed sc lower to 14c higher at 33fe;i4i&c and rose to 34'ft Voc. OATS Oats opened lower, but firmed up with corn. September opened c down at 20aic and dvanced to 20V,c. PROVISIONS Lower prices for hogs at the yards started provisions weak. lib eral selling of lard later by packers, to gether with the stop loss orders in ribs, caused a break all around. September pork opened unchanged at $9.371, deel ned to $9.25. rallied to $9.35, then off to $9.32. September lard started 2Vsc lower at $5:35, down to $3.30, then rallied to $5.35'u 5.372. September ribs began 2lc down at $5.33. off to $5.271,2, rose to $5.35, then back to $5.32V tf5.33. EARLEY-Cash, No. 3, 31-S38C. RYE July, 43c; August, 43c; September, 42c. FLAX Cash northwestern, 90c; Septem ber. kGoc: October, S7c. TIMOTHYIuly, $2.57. Chicago Livestock Market Chicago, July 28. HOGS Esitmated receipts of hogs to day, 25,000; left over, 6.000. Market slow, 5S10c lower. Light, $3.6052.390; mixed, $3.70 g3.95: heavy, $3.70'i5 3.97: rough. $3.70&3.75. CATTLE Rece'p S,11,000. Market steady. Beeves, $4.40'!! 5.50; cows and heifers, $2.40g 4.75; Texas steers, $3.604.75; stockers and feeders, $3.154.65. SHEEP Receipts, 11,000. Steady. Na tives, $34.75; westerns, $3.804.60; lambs, $3.75-66.35. Yesterday's official: HOGS Receipts, 2S.826; shipments, 4,038. CATTLE Receipts, 16,385; shipments, 3, C18. SHEEP Receipts, 11,109; shipments, 724. Kansas City Livestock Market Kansas City. July 2S. CATTLE Receiots. 4,5. Mirk t steady. Native steers, $3.6i'&5.30: Ttx.is steers, $2..0 4.95: Texas cows, $2.50ft3.S0: native rows ana heifers. $14 85: stockers and feeders, $334.55; bulls, $2.75&4.50. REPRESENTATIVE SALES. No. Wt. Pr. 18 native steers 1740 $5.30 IS Texas steers i..H40 4.95 20 Texas cows 980 3.80 28 native cows and heifers 618 4.S5 21 stockers and feeders 1092 4.55 7 bulls 698 4.50 HOGS Receipts, 14.000. Market weak to 10c lower. Bulk of sales, $3.60-23.75: heav ies, $3.633.85: packers, $3. 50ft 3.75; mixed. $3.50'53.70: lights, $3. 40fi3.65; yorkers, $3.60 g3.S5: pigs, $3.2553.55. SHEEP Receipts, 4,000. Market steady. Lambs, $486.25; muttons, $3 4.75. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, July 2ff. WHEAT Active, somewhat higher. No. 1 hard, S6.S67c: No. 2. 63'u67c: No. 3. Glty 3Uc: No. 1 red, 72ft73c; No. 2, 72c: No. 3, 65c": No. 2 spring. 62 63c; No. 3, 60-ff62c. CORN About steady. No. 2 mixed, 32c; No. 2 white, 32V(c; No. 3. 31I2fe32c. OATS Steady. No. 2 white, old, 2SV&e; new, 26c. RYE Firm. No. 2. 42c. HAY Steady. Choice timothy, old, JS; new. $7: choice prairie, new, $5.25: No. 1, $0. BUTTER Active, firm. Separator, 140 16c: dairy, 13c. EGGS Steady. Fresh, Sc. New York Money Market New York. July 28. MONEY Money on call. Wi'fiVv per cent; prime mercantile paper, S1. per cent: sterling exchange steady, with act ual business in bankers' bills at $4. So 4.85 for demand. $4.S3'..(g for 60 days; posted rates, $4.S4Wu4.S5 and $4.8654.8614; commercial bills. $4.82'.. SILVER Silver certificates, S&HQZiHc; bar silver, 58e; Mexican dollars, 43V2C. BONUS-Government bonds easier. New 4s, registered, $1.25: new 4s, coupon. 126; 4s, registered, 110; 4s. coupon. 111: 2s, 9.; 5s. registered. 1111; 5s, coupon, 112?i; Pa cific 6s of '99, 102. Market Gossip. Furnished bv the Wiokham Commission Co.. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan. Liverpool: Wheat -d higher for Sep tember: corn unchanged. Receipts of hogs: Chicago, 25.000. 5c lower; Kansas City, 14,0u0, weak; Omaha, 10.000, steadv. Receipts of cattle: Chicago, ll.OOO.steady; Kansas City. 4.500; Omaha, 1.20J. Chicago receipts today: Wheat 137 ears, grade 67 cars; corn 470 cars, grade 264 cars: oats 225 cars, grade 42 cars. Privileges good next week: Wheat puts, 62c: wheat calls, 6yc; corn puts, 32c; corn calls, 39Hc. Second Liverpool cable: Wheat has lost all of its early advance. Chicago: Don't be afraid to buy this corn on breaks like this. Northwestern receipts: This year, Min neapolis 94 cars. Duluth none, total 94 cars; last year, Minneapolis 220 cars, Du luth 153 cars, total 273 cars. Chicago: Corn is up nearly a cent. Buy it right here and hold it for 5c advance. Exports four ports: Wheat 198,000 bush els; flour, 6,490 barrels: corn, 289,000 bush els; oats, 81.000 bushels; wheat and flour equal to 222.0UO bushels. New York: The keynote of the senti ment which influenced late selling for both accounts yesterday was that, how ever gratifying was the official initiation of peace negotiations by the Spanish gov ernment, there wrould be great difficulty in getting a practical treaty of peace through the free silver tainted United States senate. The negotiations between the two governments will be concluded a sufficient length of time before the Senate is called upon to pass upon it for a thor ough public discussion to be made over it for there is no doubt that the substance of any agreement between Spain and the United States will become generally known as soon as it is consummated. The indications now are that some movement of gold from Europe to this side must be gin at once. Engagements for exports were announced in the London market yesterday and it is believed that at least half a million gold will immediately ba shipped to this country. Privileges: September wheat puts, G474c; September wheat calls. OSic; September corn puts, 343i'Stc: September corn calls, 35c; September pork puts, $9.07; Septem ber pork calls, $9.67. Chicago: Estimated receipts for tomor row: Wheat, 170 cars: corn, 560 cars; oats, 255 cars; hogs. 24. OX) head. Lincoln. 111.: A most disastrous drouth is promising to make corn in this county almost a complete failure. Chicago: Pringle and Comstock buying corn. Range of Prices. Furnished by the Wiekhnm Commission Co., 112 East Fifth street. Topeka. Kan. Chicago, July 28. Article. Open High Low Close Yea. WHEAT Julv 71 71 71 Tl 70 Sept 65- 63-; 65 65H 6414- Dec ....65 65- 6; t5 64 CORN July 34 34 34 34 34 Sept 33'6- ?5Vf 3'4 35 34 Dec S4'i- 35' 2- 3414- 33M,- 34H- Mav 36 37 36 37 36 OA TS July 25S 26H 2a 26 23 Sept 2" 20 20 20 2)- Mav 23 23 23 23 23 PORK July, 9 30 9 30 9 27 9 27 9 30 Sept 9 35 9 42 9 25 9 37 9 27 LAKD July 5 27 5 30 5 27 5 30 5 30 Sept 5 35 6 40 5 35 5 37 5 37 P'i US July 5 32 6 32 5 32 5 32 5 32 Sept 5 35 5 37 5 27 6 37 5 37 Hanges of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by the Wickham Commission Co.. 112 East Fifth street. Topeka, Kan. New York, July 28. Stocks. Op'n iHigh! Low Cl'se Yea. Sugar People's Gas Am. Tobacco Am. Spirits C, B. Q. Rock Island C, M. St. P. A., T. Sr S. F. A..T. &S.F.Pfd Manhattan Western Union Mo. Pacific U. P. Prd Union Pacific.. C. N. W N. Y. Central.. Reading T. C. 1 No. Pac. Pfd.. L. N C. G. W 137i,4 99 V 121 H 12 10Ji,i 96 99 13!! 35 is-;!-;1 99 uiv 136 130Vi!13T 9S; 9D 99 12Vi 12 I 12Vi! 12 lufll 105 105ilW1! 6 96 S6i 96i 100 k:' 35 107 9J 35 61 24 130 11- 99'. 13V, 34 1C6 92 60; 24 130 118 99! 109 131 13 34 107 92 35 61 24 130 3-1 93 35 61 ill' Ki 61 24 1' lis 18 25 71 53!-2 15 118 119 18, 17l 17' i8'-4 25 2ii 71! 70S! 53 I 5-'.i 15 15 I 25. 25 71 71 1 53 53 15 I 15 yv want to speculate IIQ Y OLI in whea corn, oats, provisions or stock P If so, I solicit your orders. Private Wires to Chicago and New York Quick Service -Seasonable Margins. W. Li. CHA3B3ERLIN, Oraln, Provision and Stock Broker. IIO West Sixth St. Topeka, Kansas. Correspondence Invited. DONOVAN COM. CO. Room 5 Columbian Bldg.Topeka, Ks. GRAIN AND STOCKS Bought and sold for cash or on margin. Private wires to New York. hicngo. St. Louis and Kan sas City. Full market quotatioai daily. Phone 1 81. T. V. Kine, Broker. treatment: there is no shock 01 -disrobing Fees moderate. Consultation free Send 10c for Beautv Book and sample of either Woodbury's Facial Soap or f acial Cream. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FPSALELease for 3 room house and 6 acres of ground, 1 acre in orchard of anDles and peaches, 5 acres in vegetables and crn: cheap for cash. E. Foote, Te- CUHlSeh, &lU Static electricity stimulates and fresh ens the Brain, Nerves Tissues Muscles. J H Woodbury, 127 W. 42d St., N. Y., inirh ne and gives V 17

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I. v SAMPSON IS FAIR llis Official Report on the Naval Cattle InTolTing the Destruction of Cervera's Fleet. HE CLAIMS NO PART But Would Have Been In if It 11 ad Lasted. Especial Praise of the Little Gloucester. Washington, July 27. The navy de partment has made public the report of Admiral Sampson on the battle of July 3, which resulted in the destruction of Cervera's squadron. The report is as follows: Vnited States Flagship New York, First Rate, Off Santiago de Cuba, Cu ba, July 15, 1898. Sir: 1. I have the honor to make the following report upon the battle and the destruction of the Spanish squad ron, commanded by Admiral Cervera, oil Santiago, on Sunday. July 3rd, 1893. 2. The enemy's vessels came out of the harbor between 9:30 and 10:00 a. m., the head of the column appearing around Cay Smith at 9:31 and emerg ing from the channel five or six min utes later. 3. The position of the vessels of my command off Santiago at that moment were as follows: The flagship New York was four miles east of her block ading Btatlon and about seven miles from the harbor entrance. She had started for Siboney, where I intended to land, accompanied by several of my staff, and go to the front to consult with General Shafter. A discussion of the situation and a more definite under standing between us of the operations proposed had been rendered necessary by the unexpectedly strong resistance of the Spanish garrison at Santiago. I had sent my chief of staff on shore the Hay before to arrange an interview With General Shafter, who has been suffer ing from heat prostration. I made ar rangement to go to his headquarters and my flagship was in the position mentioned above when the Spanish squadron appeared in the channel. The remaining vessels were in or near their usual blockading positions; distributed in a semi-circle about the harbor en trance counting from the eastward to the westward in the following order: The Indiana about a mile and a half from shore; the Oregon, the New York's place between these two, the Iowa, Texas and Brooklyn the latter two miles from the shore west of San tiago. The distance of the vessels from the harbor entrance was from two and a half to four miles the latter be ing the limit of day blockading dis tance. The length of the arc formed by the ships was about right miles. The Massachusetts had left at 4 a. m., for Guantanamo for coal Her station was between the Iowa and the Texas. The auxiliaries Gloucester and Vixen lay close to the land and nearer the harbor entrance than the large Vessels, the Gloucester to the eastward and the Vixen to the westward. The torpedo boat Ericsson was in company with the flagship and remained with her during the chase until ordered to discontinue, v. hen she rendered very efficient ser vice In rescuing prisoners from the burning Vizcaya. I enciose a diagram showing approximately the positions of the vessels as described above. 4. The Spanish vessels came rapidly out of the harbor, at a speed estimated at 8 to 10 knots and in the following order: Infanta Maria Teresa, (flag ship), Vizcaya, Cristobal Colon and the Almirante Oquendo. The distance be tween these ships was about 800 yards, which means that from the time the first one became visible in the upper reach of the channel until the last one was out of the harbor, an interval of only about twelve minutes elapsed. Following the Oquendo, at a distance of about 1.200 yards, came the torpedo boat destroyer Pluton, and after her the Furor. The armored cruisers, as rapidly as they could bring their guns to bear, opened a vigorous fire upon the blockading vessels, and emerged from the channel shrouded in tho smoke of tb ,ir guns. The Fight Begins. 5. The men on the port were at Sun day quarters for inspection. The sig nal was made simultaneously from sev eral vessels "Enemy's ships escaping," and genera quarters was sounded. The men cheered as they sprang to their guns and fire was opened probab ly within eight minutes by the vessels whose guns commanded the entrance The New York turned about and steamed for the escaping fleet, flying the signal "Close in toward har bor entrance and attack vessels," and rradually increasing speed, until to ward the end of the chase she was ma king sixteen and one-half knots and was readily closing on the Cristobal Colon. She was not at any time wtihin the range of the heavy Spanish Ehips, and her only part in the firing was to receive the undivided fire from the forts in passing the harbor en trance and to Are a few shots at one of the destroyers, thought at the moment to be attempting to escape from the Gloucester. The Spanish vessels upon clearing the harbor turned to the westward in col umn, increasing their speed to the full f?wfr5:f their engines. The heavv blockading vessels, which had closed in toward the Morro at the instant of the enemy's appearance and at their best speed delivered a rapid fire, well sustained and destructive, which speed ily overwhelmed and silenced the Span ish fire. The initial speed of the Span lards carried them rapidly past the blockading vessels and the battle dvel Jnto a chase in which hte Brooklyn and Texas had at the start the advart ase of position. The Oregon steaming -'"i-- -t ins action, took first x ne owa and Indiana having toon wnrlf bmef the her .Wp were dVee el by me in succession, at about the time of til tya Waa bched. to drop out StaUon,0 reSUme blockading 'Zl Thi-S vessels rescued many the ,TL'e Vixen finding that nut yJ? the sPash ships would Sf o,?r VetWesn two flres ran outside tog the bale.and remained 'her lur The Gloucester's Part fiJhtireJk"Jful andl,nS and gallant afmir1 l.he G1"cester excited the ft and eritf Very one who witnessed navv Zl the COI"mendation of the entifelv ?,trtment- She Is a fast and tte ya?ht rSr0tted auxiliry vessel terv of ptht Ra,and has a EOod bat Lbou? tlS F' runs- She was lying trance J: ,vmi'e9 trom the harbor en trance, to the southward and eastward. and immediately steamed in, opening fire upon the large ships. Anticipating the appearance of the Pluton and Fu ror, the Gloucester was slowed, thereby gaining more rapidly a high pressure of steam and when the destroyers came out. she steamed for them at full speed a. '.d was able to close to short range, w nere her fire was accurate, deadly and of great volume. During this fight the Gloucester was under the fire of the Socapa battery. Within 20 minutes from the time they emerged from Santiago harbor the careers of the Furor and the Pluton were ended and two-thirds of their people killed. The Furor was beached and sunk in the surf, the Plu ton sinking in deep water a few minutes later. The destroyers probably suffer ed much injury from the fire of the secondary batteries of the battleships Iowa, the Indiana and the Texas, yet I think a very considerable factor in their speedy destruction was the fire, at close range, of the Gloucester's battery. After rescuing the survivors of the destroyers the Gloucester did excellent service in landing and securing the crew of the Infanta Maria Teresa. 8. The method of escape attempted by the Spaniards all steering in the same direction and in formation re moved all tactical doubts or difficulties and made plain the duty of every Uni ted States vessel to close in immediate ly, engage and pursue. This was promptly and effectively done. As al ready stated, the first rush of the Spanish squadron carried it past a number of the blockading ships, which could not immediately work up to their best speed, but they suffered heavily in passing, and the Infanta Maria Teresa and the Oquendo were probably set on fire by shells fired during the first 15 minutes of the engagement. It was afterwards learned that the Infanta Maria Teresa's fire main had been cut by one of our first shots and that she was unable to extinguish the fire. With large volumes of smoke arising from their lower decks aft, these vessels gave up both fight and flight and ran in on the beach, the Infanta Maria Ter esa at about 10:15 a. m., at Nima Nima, six and one-half miles from Santiago harbor entrance, and the Almirante Oquendo, at about 10:30 a. m., at Juan Gonzales, seven miles from the port. The Vizcaya. 9. The Vizcaya was still trader the fire of the leading vessels. The Cristo bal Colon had drawn ahead, leading the chase and soon passed beyond the range or tne guns of the leading American ships. The Vizcaya was soon set on fire and at 11:05 turned in shore and was beached at Aserradero, 15 miles from Santiago, burning fiercely and with her reserves of ammunition on deck al ready beginning to explode. When about ten miles west of Santiago, the Indiana had been signalled to go back to the harbor entrance and at Aserra dero the Iowa was signalled to "re sume blockading station." The Iowa, assisted by the Ericsson and the Hist, took off the crew of the Vizcaya, while the Harvard and the Gloucester rescued those of the Infanta Maria Teresa and the Almirante Oquendo. This rescue of prisoners. Including the wounded, from the burning Spanish ves sels, was the occasion of some of the most daring and gallant conduct of the day. The ships were burning fore and aft, their guns and reserve ammunition were exploding and it was not known at what moment the fire would reach the main magazines. In addition to this a heavy surf was running just in side of the Spanish ships. But no risk deterred our officers and men until their work of humanity was complete. There remained of the Spanish ships only the Cristobal Colon, but she was their best and fastest vessel. Forced by the situation to hug the Cuban coast her only chance of escape was by su perior sustained speed. When the Vizcaya went ashore, the Colon was about six miles ahead of the Brooklyn, and the Oregon, but her spurt was fin ished and the American ships were now gaining upon her. Behind the Brook lyn and the Oregon came the Texas, Vixen and New York. It was evident from the bridge of the New York that all the American ship were gradually overhauling the Colon and that she had no chance of escape. At 12:50 the Brooklyn and the Oregon opened fire and got her range the Oregon's heavy shells striking beyond her and at 1:10 she gave up without firing another shot, hauled down her colors and ran ashore at Rio Tarquino, 48 miles from San tiago. Captain Cook of the Brooklyn went on board to receive the surrender. While his boat was along side I came up in the New York, received his report and placed the Oregon in charge of the wreck to save her, if possible, and di rected the prisoners to be transferred to the Resolute, which had followed the chase. Commodore Schley, whose chief of staff had gone on board to receive the surrender, had directed that all their personal effects should be retain ed by the officers. This order I did not modify. The Cristobal Colon was not injured by our firing and probably is not much injured by beaching, though she ran ashore at high speed. The beach was so steep that she came off by the working of the sea, but her sea valves were opened and broken, treach erously, I am sure, after her surrender, and despite all efforts she sank. When it became evident that she could not be kept afloat she was pushed by the New York bodily up on the beach, the New York's stem being placed against her for this purpose the ship being han dled by Captain Chadwick with admir able judgment and sank in shoal wa ter and may be saved. Had this not been done she would have gone down in deep water and would have been, to a certainty a total loss. Couldn't Get Out at Night It I regard this complete and import ant victory over the Spanish forces as the successful finish of several weeks of arduous and close blockade, so string ent and effective during the night that the enemy was deterred from making the attempt to escape at night, and de liberately elected to make the attempt in daylight. That was the case, I was informed, by the commanding officer of the Cristobal Colon. 12. It seems proper to briefly describe here the manner in which this was ac complished. The harbor of Santiago is naturally easy to blockade there being but one entrance and that a narrow one; and the deep water extending close up to the shore line presenting no diffi culties of navigation outside of the en trance. At the time of my arrival be fore the port June 1 the moon was at its full and there was sufficient light during the night to enable any move ment outside of the entrance to be de tected. But with the waning of the moon and the coming of dark nights, there was opportunity for the enemy to escape, or for his torpedo boats to make an attack upon the blockading vessels. It was ascertained with fair conclusive ness that the Merrimac, so gallantly taken into the channel on June 3. did not obstruct it. I therefore maintained the blockade as follows: To the battle ships was assigned the duty, in turn, of lighting the channel. Moving up to the port, at a distance of from one to two miles from the Morro dependent upon the condition of the atmosphere they threw a searchlight beam directly up the channel, and held it steadily there. This lighted up the entire breadth of the channel for half a mile inside the entrance so brilliantly that the movement of small boats could be de tected. Why the batteries never opened fire, upon the searchlight ship was al ways a matter of surprise to me, but they never did. Stationed close to the entrance of the port were three picket launches, and at a little distance far ther out three small picket -fessels usually converted yachts and when they were available, one or two of our torpedo boats. With this arrangement there was at least a certainty that noth ing could get out of the harbor unde tected. After the arrival of the army, when the situation forced upon the Spanish admiral a decision, our vig ilance increased. The night blockading distance was reduced to two miles for all vessels, and a battleship was placed alongside the searchlight ship with the broadside trained upon the channel in readiness to fire the instant a Spanish ship should appear. The commanding officers merit the greatest praise for the perfect manner in which they en tered into this plan and put it into ex ecution. The Massachusetts, who, ac cording to routine, was sent that morn ing to coal at Guantanamo, like the others, had spent weary nights upon this work and deserved a better fate than to be absent that morning. I en close for the information of the de partment copies of orders and memoran dums issued from time to time, relating to the manner of maintaining the block ade. Praise For the Oregoo. 13. When all the work was done so well, It is difficult to discriminate in praise. The object of the blockade of Cervera's squadron was fully accom plished, and each individual bore well his part in it the commodore in com mand on the second division, the cap tains of ships, their officers and men. The fire of the battleships was powerful and destructive, and the resistance of the Spanish squadron was, in great part, broken almost before they had got beyond the range of their own forts. The fine speed of the Oregon enabled her to take a front position in the chase and the Cristobal Colon did not give up until the Oregon had thrown a 13-inch shell beyond her. This performance adds to the already brilliant record of this fine battleship, and speaks highly of the skill and care with which her admirable efficiency has been main tained during a service unprecedented in the history of vessels of her class. The Brooklyn's westerly blockading position gave her an advantage in the chase which she maintained to the end, and she employed her fine battery with telling effect. The Texas and New York were gaining on the chase during the last hour and had any accident be fallen the Brooklyn or the Oregon would have speedily overhauled the Cristobal Colon. From the moment the Spanish vessel exhausted her first burst of speed the result was never in doubt. She fell, in fact, far below what might be reasonably expected of her. Careful measurements of time and distance give her an average speed from the time she cleared the harbor mouth until the time she was run on shore at Rio Tar quino of 13.7 knots. Neither the New York nor the Brooklyn stopped to couple up their forward engine, but ran out the chase with one pair, getting steam, of course, as rapidly as possible on all boilers. To stop to couple up the forward engines would have meant a delay of fifteen minutes or four miles in the chase. 14. Several of the ships were struck, the Brooklyn more often than the oth ers, but very slight material injury was done, the greatest being aboard the Iowa. Our loss was one man killed and one wounded, both on the Brooklyn. It is difficult to explain this immunity from loss of life or injury to ships in a combat with modern vessels of tne Dest type; but Spanish gunnery is poor at the best, and the superior weight and accuracy of our fire speedily drove the men from their guns and silenced their fire. This is borne out by the state ments of prisoners and by observation. The Spanish vessels as they dashed out of the harbor, were covered with the smoke from their own guns, but this speedily diminished in volume and soon almost disappeared. The fire from the rapid fire batteries of the battleships appears to have been remarkably des tructive. An examination of the strand ed vessels shows that the Almirante Oquendo especially had suffered terribly from this fire. Her sides are every where pierced and her decks were strewn with the charred remains of those who had fallen. 15. The reports of Commodore W. S. Schley and of the commanding officers are enclosed. 16. A board, appointed by me several davs ago, has made a critical examina tion of the vessels, both with a view of reporting upon the result of our fire and the military features involved, and of reporting upon the chances of sav ing anv of them and of wrecking the remainder. The report of the board will be speedily forwarded. Very- respect fully, W. T. SAMPSON, Rear Admiral United States Navy. Commander-in-chief, United States naval forces. North Atlantic station. The secretary of war, navy depart ment, Washington, P. C. REED MAY FALL. Democrat Makes Trouble For the "Czar's" Congressional Campaign. Washington, July 27. A good deal of interest is manifested here In some con gressional contests which will be de cided next November. The reports from Maine are that Speaker Reed may have some difficulty in securing a re-election next fall. His Democratic opponent is L. F. McKin ney, who once represented a New Hampshire district In Congress. During Cleveland's last term as president McKinley was minister to the Republic of Colombia and when he returned, something more than a year ago, he settled at Bridgeton, Cumber land county. Maine, which is in Reed's district. When the congressional convention was held a few weeks ago he was nom inated as a candidate against the Re publican czar. McKinney proposes to make a vig orous campaign, sa5"lng he will carry the war into every township. Speaker Reed will be nominated for the twelfth time to congress at the Republican con vention to be held at Portland, Au gust 2. Interest in this contest is not caused so much by McKlnney's appearance as a candidate as by the conditions sur rounding the candidacy of Reed. It is expected the convention will adopt a platform favoring the annexation of the Hawaiian islands and the new imper ial policy of the Republican party. If these things are not put into the plat form they will be left out through the personal influence of Mr. Reed. We will do your launary work on short order wlthoutout extra charge. Peerless Steam Laundry. OASTORIA. Bean the M K'nd ou Hav9 AlwavS oa$ OASTOniA. t 'nB you Haw Alwavs Bour.ii Signature of OAOTOTIIA.. Bean tha si lhe You Hav8 Mm'l Bouilt FLAG ISJNISED. Stars and Stripes Floats Over Porto Kico. General Miles Reports His "Whole Army MAKING SAFE LANDING At Guanlca, Fifteen Miles From Ponce. Troops to Be Pushed Forward Without Delay. Washington, July 27. The war de partment has posted the following: St. Thomas, July 26, 1898, 9:35 p. m. Secretary of War, Washington: Cir cumstances were such that I deemed it advisable to take the harbor of Guan lca first, 15 miles west of Ponce, which was successfully accomplished between daylight and 11 o'clock. Spaniards sur prised. The Gloucester, Commander Wainwright. first entered the harbor; met with slight resistance; fired a few shots. All the transports are now in the harbor and infantry and artillery rapidly going ashore. This is a well protected harbor. The water is suffi ciently deep for all transports and heavy vessels to anchor within 200 yards of the shore. The Spanish flag was lowered and the American flag raised at 11 o'clock today. Captain Higginson, with his fleet, has rendered able and earnest assistance. The troops in good health and best of spirits. No casualties. (Signed) MILES, Major General Commanding. (Copyright, 1898. by Associated Press.) Port of Guanlca, Island of Porto Rico, July 25, via the Island of St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, July 27. The Uni ted States military expedition under command of Major General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the army of the United States, which left Guantanamo bay during the evening of Thursday last, July 21, was landed here success fully today after a skirmish with a de tachment of the Spanish troops and a crew of 30 belonging to the launch of the United States auxiliary gunboat Gloucester, formerly Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's steam yacht Corsair. Four of the Spaniards were killed and no Americans were hurt. The troops were pushed forward promptly in order to capture the rail road leading to Ponce, which is only about ten miles east of this place. From Ponce there is an excellent mil itary road running 80 miles north, to San Juan. The whole of General Brooke's forces, with the New Orleans, Annapolis, Cin cinnati, Leyden and Wasp are expected here within 24 hours. The ships left Guantanamo bay sud denly on Thursday evening, with the Massachusetts, commanded by Captain F. J. Higginson, leading. Captain Higginson was In charge of the naval expedition, which consisted of the Columbia, Dixie, Gloucester and Yale. General Miles was on board the last named vessel. The troops were on board the transports Nueces, Lampasas, Comanche, Rita. Unionist, Stillwater, City of Macon and Specialist. This was the order in which the transports en tered the harbor here. The voyage from Guantanamo bay to this port was uneventful. At noon yes terday General Miles called for a con sultation, announcing that he was de termined not to go by San Juan cape, but by the Mona passage Instead, land there, surprise the Spaniards and de ceive their military authorities. The course was then changed and the Dixie was sent to warn General Brooke at Cape Juan. Advantages of Guanica. Port Guanica has been fully described by Lieutenant Whitney of General Miles' staff, who recently made an ad venturous tour to Porto Rico. Ponce, which is situated ten or fif teen miles from this port, is to the east ward and a harder place to take. In addition, the water at Ponce is too shallow for the transports to be able to get close in shore. Then, again, Ponce itself is some little distance from where the troops would have been able to land if that point had been selected for the debarkation of the expedition. One advantage of this place is that It is situated close to the railroad connec tion with Ponce, which means of trans portation our troops hope to secure to day. Karly this morning the Gloucester, In charge of Lieutenant Commander Wain wright, steamed into Guanica harbor in order to reconnoiter the place. With the fleet waiting outside, the gallant lit tle fighting yacht braved the mines which were supposed to be in the har bor and found that there were only five fathoms of water close in shore. Guanica bay is a quiet place, sur rounded by cultivated lands. In the rear are high mountains and close to the beach nestles a village of about 20 houses. The Spaniards were completely taken by surprise. Almost the first they knew of the approach of the army of invasion was in the announcement con tained in the firing of a gun from the Gloucester, demanding that the Span iards haul down their flag, which was floating from a flagstaff in front of a block house standing to the east of the village. The first couple of three-pounders were fired into the hills right and left of the bay, purposely avoiding the town, lest the projectile hurt women and children. The Gloucester hove to within about 600 yards of the shore and lowered a launch having on .board a Colt rapid fire gun and thirty men un der the command of Lieutenant Huse which was sent ashore without encoun tering opposition. Quartermaster Back thereupon told Yoeman Lacy to haul down the Spanish flag, which was done, and they then raised on the flagstaff the first United States flag to float over Porto Rican soil. Suddenly about thirty Spaniards opened fire with Mauser rifles on the American party. Lieutenant Huse and his men responded with great gallantry, the Colt gun doing effective work. Nor men, who received Cervera's surrender, and Wood, a volunteer lieutenant, shared the faonors with Lieutenant Huse. Gloucester Opens Fire. Almost immediately after the Span iards fired on the Americans the Glou cester opened fire on the enemy with all her three and six-pounders which could be brought to bear, shelling the town and also dropping shells into the hills to the west of Guanica, where a number of Spanish cavalry were to be seen hastening toward the spot where the Americans had landed. Lieutenant Huse then threw up a lit tle fort which- he named Fort Wain wright, and laid barbed wires in the street in front of it in order to repel the expected cavalry attack. The lieu tenant also mounted the Colt sun and signalled for reinforcements which were sent from the Gloucester. The Associated Press dispatch boat Cynthia, was the only boat in the faar bor except the Gloucester. While the Mausers were peppering all arojihd, Lieutenant Commander Wain wright called to the Associated Press correspondent and said: "They fired on us after their flag was down and ours was up and after I had spared the town for the sake of the wo men and children. The next town I strike, I will blow up." Presently a few of the Spanish cav alry Joined those who were fighting in the street of Guanica, but the Colt barked to a purpose, killing four of them. By this time the Gloucester had the range of the town and of the block house and all her guns were spitting fire, the doctor and paymaster helping to serve the guns. Soon afterwards white-coated gallop ing cavalry men were seen climbing the hills to the westward and the foot sol diers were scurrying along the fences from the town. By 9:45 with the exception of a few guerrilla shots the town was won and the enemy was driven out of its neigh borhood. The Red Cross nurses on the Lam' pasas and a detachment of regulars were the first to land from the trans ports. After Lieutenant Huse had captured the place he deployed his small force into the suburbs. But he was soon re inforced by the regulars, who were fol lowed by Company G of the Sixth Illi nois, and then by other troops in quick succession. All the boats of the men of war and transports were used in the work of landing the troops, each steam launch towing four or live boats loaaea to the sails with soldiers. But every thing progressed in an orderly manner and according to the plans or General Miles. The latter went ashore at about noon, after stopping to board the Glou- I cester and thank Lieutenant tomman i der Wainwright for his gallant action. General Miles said to the correspond ent of the Associated Press: "Guanica and Cinga are in the disaffected por tion of the island. Matteo, the insur gent leader, lives at Yauco, a few miles inland. Had we landed at uape can Juan a line of rifle pits might have stopped our advancing. There is no doubt that General Miles' plans are being kept absolutely secret. The spirit of the troops, men and of ficers is admirable. The Massachusetts and Illinois con tingents, which have been cooped on board the Yale and Rita for a fort night, will be delighted to get ashore and will be well protected by the ar tillery before a serious advance is be gun. Guanica is the most lovely spot yet occupied by our forces. It is the seat of the coffee and sugar industries and large herds of cattle are pasturing in the meadows, which are bordered by cocoanut palms. Many head of cattle and a large number of horses have been driven into the mountains by their owners. Some of them will be cap tured. Ponce For a Base. Ponce is the second city of the island, which has a splendid harbor and will make a good base of operations. There were fifteen large coasters this afternoon at Guanica bay, but only two barges were captured. It is likely that the Spanish garrison from Ponce may try to surprise our people tonight, but it will only be an affair of outposts. The town of Ponce is sure to fall shortly before the combined attack of our army and navy. The main fight ing, until San Juan de Porto Rico is reached, will be along the line of a splendid military road, leading from Ponce to San Juan. But every pre caution will be taken to lessen our cas ualties, even to the use of the street shields, of which a supply was brought with the expedition. The health of the troops Is excellent, except among the Massachusetts men. They have been packed on the Yale for about fifteen days, and thirty cases of typhoid fever have developed among the soldiers. Parker of the Sixth Massachusetts died on Friday and was buried at sea. Later in the day the Dixie spoke the dispatch boat of the Associated Press. It was then about 9 o'clock at night, and the commander of the Dixie said he had been almost around the Island of Porto Rico and had not seen any men of war or transports, except the New Orleans, which was blockading the port of San Juan de Porto Rico. A heavy gale was blowing, causing the dispatch boat to take nineteen hours in making the 125 miles to St. Thomas. The Associated Press is the only dispatch boat with the fleet. APPROVED IN ENGLAND. Annexation of Hawaii and Porto Kico Just tne Thing. London, July 27. Sir George Sydenham Clarke, the expert on naval tactics and imperial defenses, writes to the Daily Graphic strongly approving American an nexation of Hawaii and Porto Rico. He says: "It Is for the best interests of the world that a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific should be controlled by the United States, and whatever attitude the Euro pean powers may take, foreign Interfer ence in Central America is out of the question because the interests of the Unit ed States and Great Britain in the future will be permanent. "There, Lord Salisbury's policy towards the United States Is statesmanlike." The letter was evoked by an article in the Daily Graphic calling attention to the reversal of England's traditional policy to prevent the United States from acquir ing strategical positions in the Atlantic and Pacific. The Daily Graphic, in an editorial this morning, says it agrees with Sir George Sydenham Clarke, but Is curious to know what induced Lord Salisbury to adopt an attitude which has so much fa cilitated the United States' plans. Wouldn't Send Him to Be Lynched Governor Leedy refused an application for a requisition to take J. L. Sellers, who was arrested at Beloit, back to Holt coun ty, Nebraska. The people who came after Sellers were indiscreet enough to say that If he could be taken back to Nebraska he would be hung and his body filled with bullets, and Governor Leedy accordingly refused to honor, the requisition. The sheriff of Mitchell county made an affi davit concerning the remarks made by the Nebraska officers. Sellers is accused with the crime of mortgaging property In Ne braska and taking the property into Kan sas. Saratoga and Return Attendants at meeting of Young Peo jle's Christian Union at Saratoga, N. Y., August 3-8, 1898, may travel from Topeka to Saratoga and return for $36.12. Agent Santa Fe Route will tell you how to do it. Scott's Ice Cream. Parties a specialty. 'Phone 622. Mail orders promptly attended to. THc Bicycle is the BEST vehicle and the BEST Bicycle is the Go to the Columbia Dealer In you town and try the Columbia Chainless. All who have done so have been convinced of its superiority. Examine our entire line; it is unequaled and prices are right. OUR CHAIN WHEELS. Columbiaa and HartforcJo. Good Wheels at Low Prloes, Vedettes, Jacks and Jills. Cataloeue Free. POPE iyiFQ. CO., Hartford, Conn. Culver Bailey, Columbia Dealers, Topeka, Ran. All P Three Months' ecords The Topeka Daily State Journal's Circulation For the Second Three Months of 1898 Has Been i Showing a Daily Average Circulation QroWth. In tJte year 1883 the circalution was 800 January 1, lSgi, were printed 3,125 Daily average for year 189 1 4,380 Daily average for year iSg2.... 5,069 Daily average for year 1893 6,213 Daily average for year 1894 8,418 Daily average for year 1895 9,217 Daily average for year 1896 10,769 Daily average for year 1897 11,322 For the second three months of 1897 11,256 For the second three months of 1898 15,655 The State Journal has been under the present management for over 12 years, and its daily circulation in that time has increased from 800 to over 15,000, or an average growth of more than 1,000 a year. The State Journal receives the full day leased wire Associated Press report, is a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, has four Linotypes, fast "Web Perfecting Press, etc. The State Journal has a larger circulation than any other daily paper published in the great State of Kansas. 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