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STATE JOURNAL., ITRDAY EVENING OCTOBER 25, 1895.
VAN WYCiMS DEftD;
The Ex-Senator from Nebraska
Dies of Faralysis.
His Expected Death Came Late
Yesterday Afternoon.
Ac CONSPICUOUS LIFE.
A'Eich Man Himself Van Wyck
Fought Corporations.
nis Remains Will be Buried at
Milford, Penn.
Washington, Oct. 25. Ex-United
States Senator Charles II. Van Wyck
of Nebraska, died at 4:50 o'clock yes
terday afternoon in Ilia apartments
at the Portland flats, of apoplexy.
Charles Henry Van Wyck was born
at Poughkeepsie, X. Y., May 10, 18L'4.
He graduated at Rutper&' in 1343,
and soon aftervs ard entered upon fhe
profession of law. From lsiO to
lci-iti he was district attorney of Sulli
van county, X. Y. He served in the
lower hou:-.e of congress two terms,
from 1855 to ls03, as a Republican.
Hefore the close of his last term in the
house he was chosen colonel of the
Tenth legion, or Fifty-sixth regiment,
of Sew York volunteers. He went to
the front and served with Gene7-al Mc
Clellan in the Peninsula campaign.
In IStio he was breveted brigadier gen
eral. After the war he returned to
the practice of his profession and was
again elected to congress in 18!j7 and
again served two terms. In lb?4 he
removed from New York to Nebraska
and engaged in farming. Hut he soon
drifted bj,ck into politics and in 1876
was a member of the constitutional
convention. He was then elected
to the state senate, where he
served until 1SS0, when he was
elected to the United States
Senate. He retired from the Senate
in IsST and returned to Nebraska,
where he was subsequently twice a
candidate for re-election, without suc
cess. Mr. Van Wyck, although a very
rich man. was an implacable foe of
corporations. He was a great lover of
antiques and during his residence here
haunted the auction rooms. In many
tilings he was regarded as eccentric.
?.!r. Van Wyck married a daughter of
General Broadhead of Pennsylvania,
whose brother. Rev. Augustus Broad
head, is a well known missionary in
India. Mr. Van Wycic had been in
poor health for several years. About
two years ago he suffered a stroke of
paralysis. His widow and a daughter
survive him.
The remains, accompanied hy the
members of the family here, will be
taken to-night via the Pennsylvania
railroad to Milford, Pa., where they
will be interred in the family burial
grounds Saturday afternoon.
RUSSIA' AND JAPAN.
Washington Diplomats Mnch Interested
ia the Latest Developments. '
Washington, Oct. 25. The cable re
ports that a Russian fleet of fifteen
vessels was on its way to Corea,
and attracted much attention among
the diplomatic representatives of
the far East. to whom it
was shown. It is regarded as present
ing grave conditions, if the facts are
as reported. The fact that Fusen is
one of the points toward which the
Russians are heading is pointed out as
specially significant. Fusen is at the
southeasterly extremity of Corea, and
is the point nearest Japan, being only
twelve hours" sail from the Japanese
mainland. Further north is Won
San, the strategic point in Corea,
which the Russians have long sought
to secure. It is on 15roughton"s bay,
in the middle of the east coast of
Corea. The north arm of the bay is
known as Port Lazereif, and here
the Russian fleet comes regularly
for maneuvers. The bay is the
only . useful harbor in the stretch
of 600 miles along the coast of
Corea. The harbor is perfectly shel
tered and is open the year round.
Leading authorities agree that it will
ultimately be the terminus of the
Trans-Siberian railway which Russia
is building. For these reasons the
movement of the Russian fleet toward
these points of strategic importance is
tvatched with keen interest.
nd of a Famous Suit.
S iSTA Fe, N. M., Oct. as. The su
preme court of New Mexico has ren
dered a final decision in favor of the
Maxwell Land Grant Company in the
suit of the Bent heirs involving a
twelfth interest in the Maxwell land
grant valued at 8500,000. This cele
brated case has been in the courts for
over thirty years. It grew out of a
claim of the children of Governor
Charles Bent, who was killed in the
revolution of 1847 at Taos. The pres
ent decision quiets the title in the
Maxwell cpmpany.
schools Closed Because of Diphtheria.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 2o. The board
of education has ordered the schools in
North Topeka closed on account of
diphtheria, and it is probable that all
the schools in the city will be elosed.
Parents are greatly alarmed and many
have taken their children out of
school. Last Monday the enrollment
was 5, C00, with 1,500 absentees reported-
There have been about seventy
cases of diphtheria in Topeka this fall
. with twenty deaths. From one to
three new cases are reported daily.
T"" Dead on a Railroad Track.
Sottth Greknfield, Mo., Oct.. 25.
W. D. Ford to-day discovered a man
lying in the center of the railroad
track about half a mile west of town,
and upon examination it was found to
be the body of W. T. Percell, druggist
and liveryman, of this place. It is
evident that he was murdered and
then placed on the track.
An Assemblyman Shoots Himself.
Shawano, Wis., Oct. 25. Chris
Bonnin, member of the assembly for
Phawano county, shot himself in the
head yesterday morning. He was not
dead at last report.
RAILWAY CASUALTIES.
Wrick on the Burliogton Flyer Near
rfTaldron, Mo.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 25. While
running at a speed of sixty miles an
.hour South-bound passenger train No.
16 of the Burlington, the Denver-SU
Louis express, ran into a defective
switch at Waldron, Mo., sixteen miles
north of Kansas City at ?:i6 last even
ing. The mail, baggage, one chair car
and the smoker left the track and
were badly wrecked. The engine, one
chair car and a Pullman car remained
on the rails.
James Hearn, Kansas City, Mo., cut
on hand and wrist and shoulder
bruised
R. J. Light of St. Joseph, hand cut
and bruised.
W. T. Farel, Kansas' City, Mb.',
bruised on right cheek and body.
Charles M. Moore of Ninth Street
theater, Kansas City, Mo., left foot
crushed; body bruised and cut se
riously. J. S. Caldnee Of Ninth Street theater,
Kansas City, Mo., left leg and side
bruised.
Henry Freggang of Leavenworth,
Kan., hand and wrist badly. cut
Joel H. Hartzell, Chicago, head cut
and badly bruised, serious.
G. H. Christ of Kansas City, Mo.,
mail clerk, left side bruised, head cut,
seriously hurt.
Ed. C. Rapage of Kansas City, Mo. ,
mail clerk, scalp wound and badly
bruised.
The train was twenty five minutes
behind time, and Engineer Mackie
was doing his best to make it up. The
locomotive was going at its highest
speed between sixty and sixty-five
miles an hour.
P0011 OLD SOLDIER.
Ha I Crazy ami Wm Neglected nd
Kan A Way.
John M. Foley, an insane old soldier,
whose home is in Keith's addition, was
taken to the Soldiers' home at Leaven
worth, Wednesday morainjr. He had
scarcely been there an hour when he es
caped, and last night his relatives re
ceived a telegram "that he was at
Atchison. It wa3 reported that
he had jumped off a traiu at Cuinmings,
a sicall station near AtchisoD, and ru
mors were rife about town last night
placing the extent of injury everywhere
frjm a broken leg to fatal injuries.
Mr. Foley's daughter left for Atchison
last night and this morning a telegram
was received from her stating that her
father is all right and would be taken
back to the home today.'
Foley is a member of Lincoln post G.
I"!. It. aud of Topeka lodge No. 50, I. O.
0. F. L. C. Fox of the lodge placed him
safely in the home, but he escaped soon-
1. fter by rushing past the guards and
down to a train standing at the station.
He told them thai he waa expecting
$5,000 on the train. He will be pl;:eed
in lha insane ward at the homo.
310 UK OLD SOLDIERS.
Bernard Kelly- and Othem Cnn'E Kelicve
the Ketums Are Kilit.
The enumeration of old soldiers in
Kansas just annouueed by the State
Board of Agriculture, which places the
number of uniun veterans in the state at
35.661, is discredited in G. A. 11. circles.
Bernard Kelly, ex-departmunt com
mander of the Kansas G. A. It, saya:
"These figures can't be right. Why. we
have at least 60,000 old soldiers in Kan
sas, and I would say the number would
run between 6D,(R)0 and 70,000. Ten years
ago we had 120,000 veterans in Kan
sas, aud thia was the "banner
soldiers state. These figures are surely
wrong. This census credits Shawnee
county with only 1,310." . That can't be
right for there are over 500 in Lincoln
po3t alone. Then there are the members
of Topeka post. Blue post. Fort Pillow
post, besides the large number who do
not belong to the G. A. 1. There are
over 17, Out) old soldiers in the Kansas G.
A. R. in good standing.
'These figures show only 934 for Cow
ley county and I can name almuut that
many."
Captain T. S. Stover secretary of state,
who has always been prominent in Grand
Army circles in Kansas, said: "I don't
understand these figures. 1 have always
believed we had more union veterans
than that in Kansas. It is just a few
years since we had almost 100,000. I
can't believe- the returns made to the
secretary of state board of agriculture
are right in this respect."
HAS HE PROMISED A VETO?
A Storj That Cleveland A creed to Veto
Action Favorable to Cub:t.
Washington, Oct. 25. Some attention
was attracted in Washington today by
Madrid dispatches coming via Vienna
al.eging that the president had promised
the Spanish minister to veto any action
by congress favorable to the Cubans.
It can be stated positively that no such
promise has been made aud that such a
promise would ke so irregular and un
precedented as to be beyond the range of
probabilities.. The story can be set
down as one intended to encourage the
loyal element ia Cuba.
Rear End ColIUsion,
Hyde Park, Mass., Oct. i5. A rear
end collision occurred here on the New
York, New Haven & Hartford railroad
at 5:1a p. m. in which one man was
killed, a woman fatally injured, and
twelve other passengers, including
Congressman Elijah A. "Morse, were
more or less seriously hurt.
One Killed and Two Injured.
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 25. The
Ruthven express collided with a switch
engine at Valley Junction las night
on the Rock Island. Mrs. Mary HUls
houae of Burlington, Iowa, was killed.
Lee Gibson and Frank English were
injured.
Arrested for Causing a Wreck.
Mexico, Mo., Oct. 25. L. E. Julian,
conductor of the fast freight train
which caused the fatal wreck
at Martinsburg Tuesday . night, was
arrested and brought here- to-day.
The warrant was sworn out
by Wabash officials, who charge him
with criminal negligence in failing to
see the red lights on the train stand
ing at the Martinsburg depot and stop
ping his train in time to prevent the
collision and the death of two men.
Julian will give bond for S500 for his
appearance next Wednesday.
Ask your dealer for Burguart' cigars.
FALSE TO THE LAW;
Ex-Governor St. John Talks of
Prohibition in Kansas.
Says It Has Suffered Much from
Republican Treachery.
PARTY IS MUZZLED.
Its General Plan is to Destroy
the Law.
The .Conditions in Iowa and
Kansas Are Compared.
Deb Moines, Ia., Oct 2& Ei-Gov.
John P. St. John of Kansas, who has
been on a speaking tour in this state was
seen here by a reporter and talked at
length on his favorite subject prohibi
tion. "Divorced if possible from the
political scoundrelism and trickery of the
age and considered independent cf other
propositions, said Governor St. John, "I
feel positive that the present mulct law
in Iowa would be a nowed under by 50,
000, state wide prohibition at once en
acted in its stead, aud behind it would be
a sentiment that would render the open
rebellions that existed for years in such
towns as Davenport and Dubuque an im
possibility. 'In Kansas the law is suffering
through Republican treachery, but the
seutiment of the people is Burely and
certainly growing more and mora in fav
or of the prohibitory law that we now
have on the Btatute books the best one
in the United States and each year finds
greater unanimity of the people in its
support,
"In Olathe, where I live, there are
thirteen churclies and there has not been
a saloon in sixteen years; as a conse
quence we do not have half a dozen
druukards in the county. Iowa says
the saloons are running 'wide open'
in Kansas aud cites Fort Scott as
a sample; yet only the other day the
press dispatches told of two men who in
an effort to get a drink there climbed a
ladder to a secoud-story window, fell
down the elevator shaft in the dark and
bruised themselves up. That is about a
fair sample of the wav saloons are 'wide
open' in; Kanaas 'wide open' indeed
when a man breaks his neck for a drink!
"The republican party is muzzled
there somewhat as it is in Iowa, and it
cannot do altogether as itjwould. It is its
general plan to break down prohibition
and utterly destroy it."
Turning to national affairs, Governor
St. John was asked his ooiaion of the
apparently aggressive sileuce of Gene
ral Harrison on the question of the pre
sidency and the prospects of Allison and
oilier candidates.
Quay is the finest politician in the
Uni.ed States," he replied. "He knows
thoroughly the art of 'Keeping hi mouth
shut and sawing wood.' That is a
strong point of Harrison's. If it
wasn't for his tariff bill I have not
the slightest doubt that Governor McK'm
ley of Ohio would be the nominee of the
Republicans for presideut by acclama
tion; and he may be able to overcome
even that and secure the nomination.
But the trend of the people is undenia
bly and surely away from a high tariff
aud the idea of absolute free trade was
never so strong in the country as it is to
day. "ilcKinley is a very clever gentleman
and U not strung up by other
matters. From personal - acquaint
ance, knowing him to be one
of the nueat 'fence strad
dlera' in the United States, 1 am sure he
would have no trouble in any other di
rection. . But I think the bill will be too
much for him to overcome.
"Allison and Harrison are silent; they
steadily refuse to define their exact posi
tion; and that is the strongest point in
the candidacy of each for the nomina
tion. If they maintain their present at
titude, they each have good chances."
TO HU11T AMERICAN GOODS.
The Agrariun Party In Germany is a Mq.
itce to American Products.
Washington, Oct. 25. In a recent re
port to the state department United
States Consul Dekay at Berlin has de
picted in vivid style the growth' of the
formidable agrarian party in Germany,
and pointed out the menace it
holds to the producers of the
United States, whether agricul
turists or manufacturers of Any things
that compete with articles "made in
Germany." Wool, grain, cattle, cottqn,
pork, ail will be profoundly and injuri
ous effected if the party succeeds in its
objects.
"As to retaliation for such efforts if
my opinion were aBked," said Consul De
kay, "I fhouid say 'do not retaliate,'
being convinced that such measures as
the agrarians contemplate will work
their own revenge and do more harm to
the contrivers of them than to the United
States."
LIQUOtt LAW IS VALID.
An Indiana Judge Sustains tnn Kioholson
Liquor Law.
Ikdiat;apoi,is, Oct. 25. Judge Cox, of
the police court, in a test case today
held the Nicholson liquor law constitu
tional. The section in question wag the
one forbidding persons other than the
saloon keeper and his family to enter
the saloon at prohibited hours.
The defendant was Frederick Brandt,
who has a restaurant attached to his
saloon. Under today's ruling restaurants
to which bars are attached will have to
close when the bars are shut up.
An appeal is probable. Judge Stubbs,
from the same court, before retiring from
office a montli ago, held this section un
constitutional. SIXTY ARMENIANS KILLED
More Riots Resulting in Iionttas Take
Place in the Saltan's Country.
Constantinople, Oct. 25. Riots ac
companied by serious bloodshed are re
ported to have taken place at Erzingan.
Sixty Armenians are said to have been
killed.
Papulation nf Prwaala,
Washington, Oct. 25. Prussia ha3
just completed a census The entire pop
ulation June 14 last was 81.4&1.209, au in
crease of 1,535,928, or 5 18-100 per cent
since December, 1890. In Berlin the in
crease of females was especially marked,
being two and a half times that of men.
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