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TWO CENTS.
SATURDAY EVENING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 26, 1896.
SATURDAY EVENTNG.
TWO CENTS.
WOE INJOSTON.
Silver Delegates to the Demo
cratic Convention
Camp All Night Without Sup
per in 31usic Hall
Because Gold State Committee
Announces Its Intention
TO SHUT THEM ALL OUT
If They Present Only Their
Credentials.
Owner of the Hall Locks the
Doors.
Delegate Hughes Killed Trying
to Make His Escape.
FEELING I1UXS HIGH.
Gold Delegates Today March to
Another Hall
To Hold a Separate Convention
"Without Silver Delegates.
Boston, Sept. 26. Not for eighteen
years at least, if ever in the history of
the Democratic party in Massachusetts
has the day of a state convention
dawned with so many sensational pre
liminaries to the formal organization
of the assembly o fdelegates and so
much uncertainty as to be the devel
opments of the convention.
As a result of the refusal of the
state committee, which is controlled by
the gold standard men to admit dele
sates to the convention hall by creden
tials alone and not by ticket and the
sensational speech of George Fred Wil
liams, the silver leader and candidate
fcr the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor, daylight found over ",00 silver
delegates entrenched in Music hall,
where the convention was to meet at
11 o'clock, determined to remain un
til the meeting adjourned, in spite of all
opposition, while the state committee
of the gold men were in conference at
the Quincy House trying to formulate
a plan to get the belligerents out of the
ball and meet the emergency.
In 1S78, when Gen. B. F. Butler was
the Greenback candidate for governor
his supporters captured the conven
tion hall and adopted similar plans for
holding it until the convention organ
ized, but even that contest was not so
replete in unique and sensational feat
tires as the fight inaugurated last night
by Mr. Williams and his followers.
When the silver men announced last
night that they intended to remain in
the hall until the convention was over,
a large force of the police began to form
on one side of the hall and on the street
near by and it was rumored that the
delegates would be ejected by the offi
cers. But representatives of the silver men
conferred with General Martin of the
board of police, and in spite of the ef
forts of the gold men to secure an order
for the ejection of the opposition dele
gates, the blue coats were instructed
to withdraw and the waiting silver men
proceeded to kill time by speech mak
ing, card playing and singing.
Then the manager of the building re
quested them to disperse and when
they refused policemen were stationed
at the doors under orders to allow any
one who wished to go out, but not to
permit any to return. Caterers bearing
a lunch ordered by the silver cohorts
were refvised admission, and then the
tired and hungry politicians began to
exercise their ingenuity in an effort to
smuggle refreshments into the build
ing. JAMES HUGHES KILLED.
The most tragic and serious incident
of the night resulted from those per
sistent attempts to secure supplies.
James Hughes, a delegate from Sovner
ville, lost his life in endeavoring to get
out of the hall by a fire escape in the
rear. Hughes was preparing to Jump
to the ground, 15 feet below, when his
foot slipped, and in trying to save him
self, he seized a wire dangling near.
The wire was a live one, and with an
agonized cry. Hughes fell senseless on
the fire escape and then tumbled to the
ground where he died before any one
could reach him.
News of the accident reached the del
egates within the hall and they were
aroused to the highest pitch of excite
ment when Mr. J. N. Mellen announced
it from the platform and declared that
it was a murder for which the old
members of the state committee were
responsible.
There were several speeches in crit
icism of the committee and resolutions
n the death of Mr. Hughes were final
ly agreed upon to be presented to the
convention today. The gathering soon
quieted down again while card
playing was resumed by many, but the
majority went to sleep. Soon after a
break was made in the lines of the en
emy at some unknown point and large
baskets of sandwiches and cans of cof
fee were carried into the hall. Evident
ly there was a secret entrance by which
delegates could return to the hall, for
the number slowly increased toward 6
o'clock and an hour later Mr. T. W.
Coakley reported that a roll call show
ed that 550 delegates with credentials
were present. At 2:30 a- m. there were,
apparently, no more than 300 in the
building.
Shortly after 7 o'clock Secretary Na
than C Robinson of the state commit
tee, a gold man. appeared at the hall
and asked the managers if they would
be ready ta deliver the hall cleared of
the silver men to the committee at 11
o'clock, the hour at which the conven
tion was scheduled to pen.
Manager Mudgett stated that there
were over 500 men in the hall who had
credentials to the convention as dele
gates and he did not see how he could
legally remove them. Secretarv Roh.
tbson the a retired suad proceeded to the
Quincy house, where the distribution
of tickets of admission to the conven
tion hall to delegates holding creden
tials was beerun.
IN FRONT OF MUSIC HALL.
Hundreds of delegates were gathered
in front of Music hall clamoring for
admission when 10 o'clock, the hour an
nounced for the opening of the doors
arrived. They clamored in vain, how
evei T. W. Coakley of Boston, one
of the silver leaders, appeared at a
window of the hall and advised the
Williams delegates on the outside to or
ganize and send a committee to meet
Mr. Williams and co-operate with him
in bringing about the opening of the
convention. In the hall, Mr. Coakley
said, were about 700 duly accredited
delegates, holding the fort on the in
side, and he advised his friends to hold
the fort on the outside.
The outsiders adopted Mr. Coakley's
suggestions, and the time before Mr.
Williams could be brought to the hall
was spent in speeches. At about 11:20
o'clock Mr. Williams reached the scene.
He said that no one knew why the del
egates who had tickets were not ad
mitted to the hall, but undoubtedly he
would have some knowledge as soon as
the committee that had been sent to
call on Chairman Corcoran returned.
"When we get inside," he declared, "we
will admit every man who has creden
tials." He warned the crowd that it
must be orderly and that the police
were present to protect property. "Give
the doors a little dynamite," yelled a
man in the crowd, but he was vigor
ously hissed and suppressed, cries of
"Put that man down" arising on every
side.
A few minutes before noon word came
from the inside of the hall that the del
egates there had organized a conven
tion. George Fred Williams then addressed
the crowd and said:
"The state committee refuses to open
these doors. We have a regular con
vention organized and in operation on
the inside of this hall. We are about
to get another hall, where the other
delegates can gather, and will have a
full report of the convention on the in
side. The second convention will in
dorse the action of that now in session
within. We feel confident that we have
five sixths of the delegates from the
state on our side. Stand right where
you are until you hear from me."
Shortly afterward a messenger from
the gold standard delegates announced
from a carriage that the state conven
tion was about to assemble in Fanueil
hall. A few hundred left the vicinity of
Music hall and followed the messenger
to Fanueil hall. Then there appeared
a man who said that he was a commit
tee representing the delegates in Music
hall, appointed to call upon the fire
commissioners to enforce the ordinance
against the closing of the doors of any
public hall while there was a meeting
or performance in progress there. The
outsiders adopted a resolution in con
formity with this representation and
dispatched a committee to the city hall
to ask that the doors of Music hall be
broken open.
The reanpearance of Mr. Williams
elicited some applause, which he ac
knowledged in a brief speech, promising
to accept the nomination for governor
by the convention sitting in Music hall.
The committee sent to the fire' com
missioners reported that those official
refused to act. Next came the an
nouncement from the interior of the
hall that Mr. Williams had been nomi
nated as the candidate for governor.
With cheers and long continued shouts
the meeting in the street ratified this
nomination. and a notice was then given
out that delegates would assemble in
Horticultural hall at 3:30 o'clock, when
Mr. Williams would accept the nomina
tion. FANUEIL HALL CONVENTION".
Gold Stan dard Men Claim It as the
Only One.
Boston, Sept. 26. While the silver
Democrats were holding their meet
ings in Hamilton Place and Music Hall
the state committee held a continuous
session in a room in the Quincy House.
Bulletins on the proceedings at Music
Hall and in Hamilton Place were re
ceived by the state committee.
About 11 o'clock two of the delegates
were sent to Music Hall to confer with
the Williams men and see if a compro
mise could be effected. At noon the
truce committee reported that no one'
would be admitted to Music Hall.where
upon the state committee decided to
call the state convention in Fanueil
hall. At 1 o'clock the committee and
about 600 delegates, preceded by a
band, marched up Washington street
through School street by the city hall,
where Mayor Quincy reviewed them,
then to Tremont street, past the en
trance to Music Hall and from that
point to Fanueil hall. There were no
demonstrations along the route except
at Music Hall, where the Williams con
tingent roundly hissed the procession.
The members of the state committee
claim that the Fanueil hall convention
is the only legal one that can be recog
nized by the secretary of state. They
declare that those participating in the
silver convention must be regarded
as bolters.
Williams Captures Both.
Boston, Sept. 26. George Fred Wil
liams was nominated for governor by
the Fanueil hall convention. Christo
pher T. Callahan of Holyoke for lieu
tenant governor.
Bulletins From Scene of Conflict
Boston, Sept. 26.-10:45 A. M. The
doors of Music Hall were to be opened
at 10 o'clock foe the admission of dele
gates to the convention, but at this
hour all the entrances to the hall are
closed. Those inside are locked in and
all outside are refused admission. Hon.
T. W. Coakley addressed the crowd in
the street from a window in the hall
and announced that Mr. Williams was
at the American House arranging a
plan of campaign: The gold men are
holding a secret session at the Quincy
House. It is evident that the conven
tion cannot be organized at 11 o'clock,
the appointed hour.
A few minutes before 11 o"clock Geo.
Fred Williams, with Secretary Denni
son of the Bryan-Sewall-Williams club
and a number of delegates left the
American House for Music Hall. They
declared that all delegates holding cre
dentials should be admitted to the
hall. About the same time the gold
men at the Quincy House were prepar
ing to march to the hall. The gold men
at the Quincy House sent a committee
of two members to Music Hall to ascer
tain if the convention could be held,
and if the gold delegation would be
admitted without delay when it ap
peared at the doors.
The committee reported that they
could not get near the doors, and the
gold delegates decided to march to the
hall at noon and demand admission if
they were not notified before then that
they would be admitted.
School street in front of the city hall
has been roped off and Mayor Quincy
Contiuued on Third, Page.J
BIG ESTIMATES.
Railroads Increase Their Ex
pectations For Next Week.
Passenger Agents Sure the
Crowd Will Be
GREATER THAN 40,000.
Freight Trains Will Also Carry
Passenger Coaches.
Many Special Trains on All the
Roads.
Demands for extra coaches at points
throughout the state for the accommo
dation of those who will attend To
peka's Fall Festival and State Reun
ion continue to be received daily by the
passenger departments of the Santa Fe
and Rock Island roads. Delegations of
$0 and upwards are coming from all
points of any size, and the passenger
men now believe that the attendance
will greatly exceed 40,000.
On Monday afternoon the Santa Fe
will run a special of ten cars as sec
ond section of No. 6, arriving in this
city about 4 o'clock, with visitors from
Hutchinson, Newton, Wichita, Win
field, Arkansas City, and all intermed
iate points. On Tuesday morning a
second section of No. 8 will be run, ar
riving here about 5 o'clock, to handle
the extra night business along the main
line and business from the northern
Kansas points. On Tuesday afternoon
another second section of No. 6 will
also probably be run. These are the
only special trains arranged so far by
the Santa Fe, but all regular trains will
carry extra coaches, and if found neces
sary the regular trains will be divided
and run in two sections.
On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday the Rock Island rail
road will run special trains
from St. Joseph, Mo. and Sabetha.Kan.
to this city. The special trains will
leave St. Joseph at 7 a. m., and Sabetha
at 7:35 a. m., consolidating at Horton
and arriving in Topeka at 10:10 a. m.
Returning, the train will leave this
city at 11 p. m. On Monday morning a
special train will also be run from Sa
lina, arriving here at 10:45 a. m. All
regular trains will carry extra coaches.
The Missouri Pacific will on Tues
day morning run a special train from
Coffey ville, leaving that point at 7:30
a. m. and arriving in this city at 5:15
p. m. On Thursday a consolidated
special train consisting of one section
from Osawatomie and one section from
Council Grove will arrive in Topeka at
10 a. m. On Friday morning a special
train will leave Ottawa at 7 a. m. and
arrive in this city before noon. On
Thursday and Friday return special
trains will leave Topeka at 10:30 p. m.
The Union Pacific agent in this city
has not yet received advice as to the
special trains to be run over that road,
but it is known that there will be spe
cial train service from some of the
northern and western Kansas points.
All night freight trains west bound out
of Topeka will carry passenger coaches
for the accommodation of the visitors
returning to their homes.
MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION.
No Horn Blowing Until Friday Night
Orders as to Teams and Vehicles.
I, Charles A. Fellows, mayor of the
city of Topeka, do hereby proclaim and
make known that during the parades
throughout Festival week no teams or
vehicles of any description will be per
mitted on any of the following streets:
Kansas avenue and Quincy street
from First avenue to Tenth avenue;
also on all cross streets between Jack
son street and Quincy street, from First
avenue to Tenth avenue.
The street cars are also requested to
stop during all parades, on Kansas
avenue at First avenue and Tenth ave
nue and all cross streets from Jackson
street to Quincy street.
The blowing of horns and other ex
traordinary noises will not be permit
ted until after the Carnival parade on
Friday evening. This is necessary to
give the several bands which will par
ticipate an opportunity to appear at
their best.
All good citizens and all parties in
terested in the success of the various
parades are respectfully requested to
assist the police and city authorities in
carrying out the spirit of this proclama
tion, to the end that accidents may be
avoided. Some inconvenience will be
experienced in its enforcement, but it
will only be for a short time and it is
earnestly urged that every assistance
be rendered to enforce the foregoing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand this 26th day of September,
1896.
C. A. FELLOWS, Mayor.
Attest:
S. S. McFADDEN, City Clerk.
GOVERNORS' DAY.
All the Ex-Governors Will Be at the
Reunion.
When the programme for the Reunion
was made up Monday was designated
as "Governors' day" at Camp Miles, but
it was not until today that all the ex
governors signified positively to the
Committee of Fifteen their intention to
be present.
Letters to this effect have been re
ceived by the committee from John P.
St. John. S. J. Crawford, G. W. Glick,
L. U. Humphrey, L. D. Lewelling, T.
A. Osborn and E. N. Morrill.
Every one of them will be present at
the reception to the old soldiers that
is to be held in the big auditorium tent
at Camp Miles Monday evening. All
will be asked to talk.
This may be the last time that all the
governors of Kansas now living will be
on one platform ana tne last time js.an
sas people may see them together.
NO DEATH. TRAPS.
Fire Marh&l Wilmarth Will Inspect
All Stands and Baloonies.
People who build stands and balco
nies without the consent of Fire Mar-
JLshal Wilmarth are liable to find them-
selves in a predicament, for he may or
der the structure taken down.
All who expect to build a stand of
any kind should notify him so that he
may inspect the plans and pass upon
the safety of the proposed structure.
"We are going to have no death traps
here if I can avoid it," said Marshal
Wilmarth today. "I intend to inspect
every balcony or stand erected, wheth
er I am notified or not, and when I find
one that is unsafe, I will condemn it
immediately and order it taken down.
We cannot be too careful in matters of
this kind."
Topeka cannot afford to have any ac
cidents due to negligence. People who
are putting up temporary modern bal
conies should take every precaution in
building: and the safest way is not to
build them at all. If a balcony breaks
down it is liable to kill the people under
it as well as those upon it.
FLORAL ECITTESTRIANS.
Complete List of Those Who Will
Ride on Wednesday.
The following' is the complete list of
names to date of those who will partici
pate in the equestrian portion of the
floral parade:
Mesdames G. G. Burton, J. W. F.
Hughes, E. Shelton, Frank Wear, W. C.
Ferguson, H. A. Hodgins, Julia H. Gro
ver, Alvina Fry, H. Wilton, E. Pribble,
C. J. England, C. C. Nicholson, A. W.
Dana, Bush, Misses Emma Bank, Ella
Ramsey, Annie Banks, Lucia Wyatt,
Mary Wyatt. Kate Maxwell King, Ger
trude wyatt, Ida G. Russell, Agnes
Walsh, Ella Hays, Dora Safford, Linn
Wyatt, Rose Niccum, Gussie Fuller,
Kate Comstock, Caddie Rickenbaugh.
Mead McMahan, Anne Sauerland, Edith
Tucker, Agnes Borland; Messrs. G. ,G.
Burton, Frank Wear, Harry B. How
ard, Chas. Joslin, W. P. Frost, Frank
Bennett. Rassie Bennett, Fred Gordon,
JJ. Jb . Jetmore, J. C. Bratten, Frank
Foster, A. W. Dana, Harry Robinson,
Elmer Eldredge, U. B. McCurdy. Geo.
C. Pritchard, Dan Duggan, J. M. Dono
hoe, John Dudley, W. S. Lindsay.Frank
Blancn, John Van echten, A. M. Ful
ler, H. M. Phillips, J. A. Bidwell, R. B.
Kepley, Henry Steele, Malcolm S. Gar
rard, C. C. Nicholson, W. H. Alston, E.
A. Prescott. Dan Wyatt, C. B. Samp
son, j. hi. Kelly, s. G. Stewart, J. id.
Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. John Kil
worth, Theo, Poehler, Jr., and Colonel
W. S. Metcalf of Lawrence.
Childern Carroll Baker, Orril Porter,
Flossie Chaffee, Ethel Nichols, Louise
Magil, Alice Alston, Eleanor Lukens,
Zella Lukens, Ben Boam, Arthur Lom
bard, Carl Henderson, Ralph Babcock.
This division will meet promptly at 1
o'clock on Wednesday at Eighth street
and Topeka avenue. The division will
there be arranged before taking the
position assigned in line of march. It
is important that all be prompt at 1
o'clock.
TO MEET TEE TROOPS.
Major Anderson and Staff Will Ride
Out Tomorrow Morning.
Maj. T. J. Anderson and the marshals
of the Festival and Reunion parades
headed by Captain A. M. Fuller, will
ride out tomorrow morning to welcome
the United States troops from Ft. Leav
enworth. It is not yet certain at what hour
the troops will arrive, but it will be be
fore noon. The plan is for the commit
tee to ride out to Soldier creek at the
north limits of the city and there for
mally welcome the commanders and
their followers.
There will be five companies of in
fantry and four troops of cavalry, or
about 800 men in all. In addition to
these there will be one battery from Ft.
Riley which will also arrive some time
tomorrow. The troops will all be di
rected to their camp ground which will
be in the DouthUt tract just north of
the fair grounds.
TO BREAK THE BOTTLE.
Miss Mary Lalcin to Smash the
Champagne Bottle Over tne Bow.
Miss Mary Lakin has been suggested
by the executive committee of the Com
mercial club to break the bottle over
the bow of the ship to be dedicated at
Camp Miles Tuesday at 2 p. m. She is
to be attended by three or foiir of her
intimate friends.
Miss Lakin is to christen .the ship
"The Kansas" from the port of Gal
veston. There will be a souvenir
lithograph of the ship which will be
sold by the committee and the money
turned into the Reunion fund.
No Charge to Visitors.
Complaints have been received by
City Clerk Mcf adden and other mem
bers of the Committee of Fifteen that
some people are organizing to find
places for visitors and they will charge
for heir services. They also say that
the Committee of Fifteen will make a
similar charge. It is well to state for
the benefit of any who have or who
want rooms that the Committee of
Fifteen will make no charge whatever
for registration and that people who
have rooms may have their names and
places registered without cost, and all
who come will be directed to lodging
places without any cost whatever.
County Offices to Close.
The county officers will observe Re
union and Festival week. The offices
will be closed all day Monday and
Thursday and on the afternoons of
Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The
court house will, however, be open to
public inspection. The interior of the
corridors and the exterior of the build
ing will be decorated with flags and
bunting.
Notice, Labor Day Aides.
Marshal W. A. Snyder of the Labor
Day parade, desires the following per
sons who have been appointed aides
and division commanders to meet with
him at the Trades' Assembly hall. 111
East Seventh street, at 9:30 Sunday
morning, to make final arrangements
for the Labor Day parade: A. M.Baird,
Henry M. Steele, G. Max Claudy, B.
Dustln, A. Seiler, J. Coe, E. Sherwood,
S. B. Madden, and W. S. Bush, Chas.
Lewis, orderly.
Flower Parade Prizes.
The prizes for the best decorated ve
hicle in the Fall Festival Flower pa
rade are at the residence of Mrs. C. S
Sutton, 1019 Topeka avenue, where af-
,ter the awards are made they can be
obtained on Friday morning between
10 and 12 o'clock. Mrs. MilLiken will
assist Mrs. Sutton in giving out the
prizes.
Eugene Ware Can't Come.
Eugene Ware writes that he cannot
be present at the "launching ' ot tne
Galveston board of trade s ship Kan
sas." at the fair grounds Tuesday aft
ernoon, as he is busy in southern Kan-
We can launder ladies' shirtwaists to
suit the most'entical customer, peer
less Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 West
LORINASPEAKS.
Sends a Message to the Karni-
Tal Merry -Makers.
Lorina Always Speaks in Poet
ical Measure.
QUEEX OF CARNIVAL
Will Not Reach Topeka Until
Twilight Friday Night
And Before Daybreak She Will
Fade Like the Mist.
Lorina has at last been heard from.
Her message had to be translated but
Will Haskell says the translation from
the original telegraphic text is very
satisfactory if you don't expect much
to begin with.
It is with great satisfaction that The
Journal is able to present it today as a
great special feature.
The Journal can always be found in
the front rank of great enterprising
newspapers delivered by 43 carriers to
any part of the city at the low price
of 10 cents per week or two cents per
copy. Circulation constantly increas
ing. The letter is addressed to The State
State Journal as the surest means of
reaching everybody in the state.
The clouds Lorina had made of Leav
enworth cobwebs are now at Wichita
where they are being inflated for use
Friday night.
Lorina will not arrive until the dew
is on the pumpkin Friday evening and
daylight is gone, and she will be gone
again before the breakfast horn blows
for Saturday.
This Is what Lorina has to say via
The State Journal:
Dear boys; I take my pen in m!t.
To tell you all about the hit
I'm going to make next Friday night.
I tell you I'll be out of sight.
I've got some bran new cloud made
clothes
Of gold but silver lining goes;
For I'll be a friend of all I can
Which means, of course, the wirking-
man.
Though modesty forbids me to
There's one thing I will have to do
That you may know me when I come
And be prepared to be struck dumb.
My wondrous beauty always brings
A shock to unsuspecting things
For I was built to order to
Please everybody, even you.
I'm not too short, I'm not too tall,
I'm not too large, nor yet, too small;
One eye is brown the other blue,
My hair's half light and half dark, too.
When I arrive next Friday night
I want you boys to treat me right;
I want the streets made light as day
Red fire burned along the way.
Want every girl and every boy
In raiment gay and mood of joy,
And everything to be turned loose
No tears that night, for what's the use?
Let Joy unbounded then abound
With light and life and merry sound,
Such happiness is seldom seen
As always is where I am queen.
LORINA.
DON'T CROWD THE WHEELMEN.
They Need 20 Feet For Their Parade
on Tuesday Night.
At last it has been decided that the
bicycle parade which is to take place
on Tuesday evening will go to North
Topeka. The line of march also has
been changed slightly. Here it is: iorm
on Tenth and Quincy streets. Move to
Kansas avenue, thence north on Kan
sas avenue to Gordon street, counter
march to Tenth street, west on Tenth
to Harrison, north on Harrison to
Eighth, east on Eighth to Jackson
south on Jackson to Ninth thence
through Capitol square via driveway
and west to Topeka avenue and so to
Camp Miles. Phil Eastman says that
the decorated band wagon which will
appear in the parade will rival even
Flora s noat.
Chief Marshal Doncyson makes the
following request to the citizens of To
peka:
For the benefit of the public in gen
eral and the safety and convenience of
the riders we most humbly ask that we
be allowed a space of more than 20 feet
in width in which to ride. Our display
can be made much more effective if
room is given to cross and re-cross the
street and countermarch in each block.
In order to fully appreciate the parade
the crowds should keep back and allow
the riders plenty of room.
JAS. B. DONCYSON,
Chief Marshal.
The bicycle parade is scheduled to
start from Tenth and Kansas avenue at
8 o'cloek.All wheelmen of the city are
expected to enter in the parade. Some
of the local bicycle dealers have arrang
ed a sort of Japanese lanterns frame
with four lanterns on it which will be
sold for 25 cents. Tiis is the wholesale
price and is offered so that a large
number of illuminated wheels will be
in the parade.
MRS. LOGAN CANT COME.
She Has to Stay Home to Attend a
Borning.
Mrs. John A. Logan will not be in
Topeka during the Fall Festival and
Reunion. In a letter to Mr. M. W. Van
Valkenburg of this city Mrs. Logan
states that owing to an important fam
ily event that will probably occur with
in the circle of her family next week
it will be impossible for her to be pres
ent at the State Reunion.
$25 More.
Mayor Fellows today received a check
for $25 from O. D. Skinner of the Crys
tal Ice company as the contribution of
that company to the Fall Festival. Mr.
Skinner stated that, if possible, he
would like the amount to be used in
defraying the expense of engaging Mar
shall's band.
J. V. Farwell of Chicago.
Prof. Frank Nelson of Lindsborg, at
Hamilton bail tonight.
AFRAID OF LEAD VILLE.
Only 65 of Missouri Miners Reached
There Others Flunked.
Leadvllle, Col., Sept. 26. The 65 non
union miners brought In from, Missouri
yesterday were put t work this morn
ing in the Marian, Emmett and Small
Hopes mines. They will be lodged and
fed in the Emmett shaft house which
will be well guarded. W. H. Shaw, who
procured these men In Missouri, said
today there were 300 men registered for
Leadville at first, but that when they
came to take the train on Wednesday
night all but 76 had "flunked." The
cause of this he said was fear. Last
Sunday a letter supposed to be from
some member of the Leadville Miners'
union reached Joplin and went the
rounds of the miners who had agreed
to take the places of the strikers.
It warned all Missouri miners to keep
away from Leadville( or they would be
killed as soon as they reached the de
pot. Of the 76 who started for her,e, 11
deserted on the way by slipping out of
the cars unobserved during the night
time. The Missourians say they are to
receive 53 and $2.50 a day here. In Mis
souri their pay ran from J1.25 to Jl.5
per day. Shaw says all of them are
American citizens as he was instructed
to hire no others.
The success of S. W. Mudd, manager
of the Small Hopes company in replac
ing the miners on his properties, has
encouraged other mine managers to do
likewise.
Monday morning George Campion
will start up the Bison mine with a full
crew. The men necessary to do this
are said to be now in Leadville, but
they are not members of the miners'
union. The Bison is the largest iron
producer in the district.
An agent of the mine owners is in
Missouri hiring more men. The mine
owners hope to keep the troops here
six or seven days and to resume work
in all mines that have closed on ac
count of the strike. It is not expected
that this can be accomplished without
further destruction of propertv and
probably loss of life, but it is hoped be-
tore tne guard is withdrawn by the
governor, to rid the camp of men who
instigate to violence.
EPITHETS FOR SULTAN.
"Abdul the Damned" "Fiend Incar
nate." Are Some Used by English.
London, Sept. 26. The remarkable
violence of the English agitation which
has been conducted against the sultan
is shown by the character of the epi
thets which have been hurled at him
by usually moderate speaking Eng
lish people. Mr. Gladstine's epithets of
the "Great assassin" seems to have set
the fashion, the Duke of Westminster
following with "Fiend incarnate."
Earl Spencer preferring "Representa
tive of a diabolical and atrocious gov
ernment."
The term applied by Wm. Watson,
the poet, "Abdul the Damned" in his
series of sonnets on the Armenian ques
tion perhaps finds the most frequent
repetition of any of them. The press is
in no whit behind in its sensational
dealings with the subject. The Chron
icle is printing a series of "murder
maps" on the subject.
PEARi'S SHIP SIGHTED.
It Passes Sydney, B. C, on the Return
Trip.
Sydney, B. C, Sept. 26.-10:40 A. M.
The Peary expedition steamer Hope is
just passing here. She left St. Johns,
N. F., on July 10 last, touched at Hali
fax on July 16, and later passed Sydney
on her way north with Lieutenant
Peary, Prof. Alf. Burton and Geo. H.
Bartin of the Massachusetts institute
of technology; G. H. Putnam, assistant
in the United States coast and geodetic
survey; Prof. Ralph Starr of Cornell
university; Prof. A. C. Gill and others
of the board. The main object of the
cruise was to bring home a 40 ton me
teorite which was discovered by Peary
at Cape York.
TELLER'S SILVER MINE.
The Only One He Ever Owned is Not
Operated.
Washington, Sept. 26. Senator Tel
ler of Colorado, who addressed a meet
ing at the opera house here, left today
for Warren, O. At the conclusion of
his speech, Lawyer West went to him
and asked: "Senator, did I not under
stand you to say in your speech that
you are not interested in silver mines?
How about it?"
"Well," answered Mr. Teller, "At one
time my brother and myself did open a
silver mine and I put about $15,000 into
it, but we have not operated it for
some time and I don't know what it is
worth."
WILL BE FAIR.
Mr.
Jennings Says Festival Week
Will Be All Right.
Tomorrow, the first day of Topeka's
big week, is to be fair and pleasant, a
good indication that the rest of the
week will be the same. The weather
bureau says so, and Mr. Jennings
thinks so. Mr. Jennings will not com
mit himself in reference to next week's
weather, hut says that all meterological
conditions point to the month ending
in pleasant weather.
The weather will be much cooler to
night and a light frost is expected, but
tomorrow will be warmer. At 2 o'clock
this afternoon the thermometer regis
tered 77 degrees above. The morning
rain amounted to one-half inch.
Generally cloudy weather is reported
throughout the state today, the tem
perature ranging from 70 to 80. In the
eastern, central and western portions
of the state rain fell early this morn
ing. Harvey Fowler's Energy.
Harvey Fowler, who used to be the
city editor of the Topeka State Jour
nal, but who now signs his name Rev.
H. H. Fowler, is putting the same push
and enterprise in his new vocation as
he did in the newspaper business. He
held a campmeeting near Harveyville.
in Wabaunsee county, and 301 sinners
accepted his preaching and were
snatched from the burning. Smith
Center Pioneer.
Overmyer in Missouri.
Blackburn, Mo., Sept. 26. David
Overmyer of Kansas and Hon. D. A. De
Armond of Butler, Mo., addressed an
audience of over 3,000 people here yes
terday. Overmyer spoke first, enter
taining the audience for two hours with
one of the strongest speeches ever de
livered in this part of the country.
ONE MORE BOMB
Falls In the Camp of the Sadly
Torn
New
York Democracy
Boyd Thacher
Jolm
SOW REFUSES TO RUX
For Governor on the Buffalo
Platform
Which Endorses Bryan and the
Chicago Platform.
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 26. John Boyd
Thacher has declined the Democratic
nomination for governor of New York.
This was the day set for the visit to
Mr. Thacher by the committee of five
appointed at the meeting of the state
Democratic committee on Tuesday to
officially notify him of his nomination;
but in advance of their coming he gave
out a letter announcing his declination.
At the outset of his statement Mr.
Thacher made an acknowledgment of
the honor which the nomination im
plied and in the next sentence said that
he was constrained to decline it. He
said: "I was away from Albany and t
my country home during the conven
tion and did not learn of my nomina
tion until after 9 o'clock Thursday
afternoon, September 17. It was not
until 9 o'clock that night that I had an
opportunity to learn the character of
the platform adopted by the conven
tion. "There had never been submitted to
me a press copy, a manuscript copy, or
any other copy of tne proposed plat
form. If any one had been entrustt-l
with the duty of presenting such a
copy the trust had not been fulfilled.
I had no reason to expect, afier the con
vention at Saratoga and after the atti
tude of the delegates from New York
in the national convention, that the
next state convention would commit
the Democratic party unreservedly to
all parts of the Chicago platform.
"I believe that municipal reforms in
which people are interested could not
be obtained until the administration
had been wrenched from the hands of
the political boss. I believed that the
people would be with us on that issue.
It has developed in the consideration of
the resolution by which the slate com
mittee appointed your committee as
well as in the public press and other
public and private communications,
that there is a very decided desire on
the part of the Democratic party to
contest the election on the abstract
question of the unlimited coinage of
silver at the unalterable ratio of 16 to
1 as compared with gold and to ignore
or to subordinate every other state is
sue. "It is apparently the purpose of the
party at this time to make the accept
ance of an extreme political sentiment
the sole test of a candidate of the De
mocracy. It does not seem to be enoui.h
that men are asked to support the reg
ular candidate on the regular Demo
cratic ticket, but they are required to
subscribe to every letter and phase ot
that platform. It is imposible for me,
with the views I hold, to make a eon
test on the coinage issue.
"I believed that municipal rffortns !n
doctrine of the joint free and equal u:;
of gold and silver. This is far removed
from the single use of gold which en
ables speculators to juggle with its val
ue, as it is from that other principle
which seeks to establish an impossible
ratio for its sister metal. Therefore,
entertaining the views I do and thor
oughly impressed with the belief that
the party will consent to make the con
test only on or primarily on the silver
issue, I feel that, as an honorable man,
I should make way for some one wno
can carry the banner with that device.
"There seems no place in the Demo
cratic party today for conservatism.
Men are divided into two classes, each
entertaining views exceedingly in
tolerable of the other."
The' probable outcome of Mr. Thach-
er's declination will be the indorsement
by a branch of the regular Democracy
of Daniel G. Griffin on state issues and
the indorsemnt of a Populist candidate
by the silver men in the state. It is
believed that this is satisfactory to Mr.
Hill. Tammany Hall, however, may in
sist upon its ewn candidate, and at the
state committee meeting on Monday
night they may fight for the promotion
of Judse Porter to first place and El
liott Danforth to second.
It is absolutely denied that Mr. Bry
an wrote any letter to Mr. Thacher,
asking his withdrawal, nor has he Inti
mated to anybody such a desire. The
story was made out of whole cloth.
BARRING DEATH.
This Excepted Dan Stuart Thinks
Corbett and Fitz Will Fight
Chicago, Sept. 26. Dan Stuart of
Texas, arrived in the city from Texas
today. Stuart, in speaking of the pug
ilistic outlook, which Is the coming bat
tle between Corbett and Fitzsimmons,
said:
"There is no doubt in my mind that
bath men mean business and that bar
ring death, it will surely take place."
Asked whether he intended to make
a bid for the contest, he said he thought
he would. "I have thought the matter
over carefully," he continued, "and
will be prepared to make a proposition
in about a month. I will offer a liberal
and what I and the contestants will
consider a fair purse, and I will guar
antee the battle to take place and, fail
ing to do so, will divide the purse be
tween the men. Furthermore, I will,
providing the men meet, guarantee
them and everybody connected with
the affair, protection."
Fire at 704 E. Seventh.
The fire alarm at 10:15 this morclnj
called hose companies Nos. 2 and 2,
chemical company No. 2 and hook p.nd
ladder company No. 1 to 704 East Sev
enth street, where the residence o2
Hester Sheehan was on Are. By quid?,
work the fire was extinguished before
much damage was done. The origin
of the fire is a mystery. About $15
damage was done. The building i.-
owned by Frank Durein. The rnuJ
through which the department wagons
had to be drawn spoiled all the fine
polishing on the apparatus which the
firemen bad done the past few days. .