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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH C, 1901.
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
T WO CENTS.
LAST EDITION
PLAIN FACTS TOLD
Truth About Mr. Warner by
One Who Knows.
Capt. A. M. Fuller Tells Why He
J Should be Mayor.
3IRS. L. 0. CASE SPEAKS
Hakes a Comparison of the Two
Candidates.
Takes Hughes 33 Years to Get
Uack Up Hill.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
I have known Mr. Wainer for many
years, ami It is because I know that he
is a clean, honorable gentleman, a law
and order man in the strictest sense, and
a good business man, that I am support
ing him for mayor.
Mr. Warner was born in Wisconsin in
1x56, and his parents moved to Scott
county, Iowa, in 15S, where his father
enlisted in the army as a riember of
company K. Thirteenth Iowa. He
marched to the south to fight for the
preservation of the union and the main
tenance of the laws of his country, and
lost his life before Vicksburg. leaving?
his wife and family with but little to
help them in the battle for existence.
In 1ST2 James Warner, then a boy of
16. came to Kansas to mane his own
fortune. He went to work for a family
named Stroup. near Teeumseh, where
he labored faithfully and industriously
ELECTION BOOTH THOUGHTS.
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At last accounts Jointist Kline
Uon of CoL Hughes lor Mayor.
None of "CoL" Hughes' "supporters have taken the trouble to
look up Mr. Warner's record in the City Council.
The supporters of Hughes are already looking for another
candidate for Mayor to nominate after the primary.
The Wood Brothers still occupy one of "Co!." Hughes' build
ings, but of course they are not selling liquor they never did.
"You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the
people ail the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the
time."
The Wood Brothers only conducted an "open saloon" in the
Hughes building for three months. Now they are running a
"restaurant," but they are still in the Hughes block.
The law and order cause was betrayed last October. The
betrayer was the Hughes organ, which is now trying to force
the nomination of a resubmissionist for Mayor. Comment is un
necessary. The man in charge at Hughes' headquarters and the secre
tary of the Law and Order League is A. D. Bauer. Only a few
weeks ago he was an officer of one of the most notorious drink
ing clubs in the city. Still the liquor influence is not for Hughes,
for he says so.
until liTS, when he went to Colorado
with the iittie money he had saved, to
dig for gold. For live years he braved
the hardships of a miner's life, only
stopping long enough to come home and
provide for the family who had given
him a home. He left Colorado in 1SS3
and returned to Topeka with enough
money to buy a farm on Mission creek,
in Shawnee county. .
Mr. Warner sold his farm the follow
ing year, and went to work for me in
Piv implement store at Sixth and
liuiney. He was always courteous,
faithful and industrious. In 4S5. after
having been elected sheriff of this
"Ui'ty. I sold my business to him, the
firm name being for several years War
ner fc disss.
My reason for making this statement
at this time is to place a worthy young
man before the people in a proper light,
and I am satisfied that should Mr.
Warner be el'-eted mayor of the city of
Vopeka he will be as faithful in the-dis-
haree of his new trust as he has been
in the management of his own business
affairs. ' a. M. FULLER.
TAKE HUGHES 35 YEAE3.
At End of That Time May Stand
With Mr. Warner.
An enthusiastic Warner meeting was
field last evening at Jordan's hall in
Tenntsseetown. Andrew Jordan pre
sided and the principal address was
mad" by Mrs. L O. Case.the well known
woman temperance Utwyer, whr is ex
erting such a strong influence for War
ner among the Hughes people.
Mrs. Case explained that it bad been
a hard task for her to take he present
t ttiml. She had known Hughes and his
relatives lor years, and some of her
clearest friends were among the women
who are supporting him for mavor
"Rut." said she. "a tree s known by
lis fruits. You don't expect a peach
tree to bear choke cherries nor a choke
cherry tree to bear peaches. Mr. War
ner is a tempera-ice man and has voted
o ail along, whiie Hughes has never
claimed to be a temperance man. He
Has been going down hill for 3'. vears,
and the best he can do it will lake him
that long to get back ur to where the
ether candidate is now. The only reason
the temperanc- people supnon" him is
because he has been endorsed by the
law and order league. Some of the same
people in the State Temperance union
meeting here several years ago. when the
motion was made In favor of a search
and seizure ordinance raised the cry
that it would damage th.? partv in
terests." And as Mrs. Case explained
the measure was defeated She said
that this ignorance was our only sin.
not knowing that the ouopoit of the law
and order league for Hushes had been
dictated and rushed through by a few
I'.i f! y leaders.
Mrs. Case ma ?-- some good points on
the ground that Hughes shifted all the
responsibility upon his wife.
"Me is a fine Adam," she continued,
"for laying everything' to a woman. I
don't believe Hughes can smell the joints
run in his own buildings; and if be were
elected we wouldn't want a smelling
committee.
Mrs. Case made a strong plea for tem
perance for the sake of the younger gen
erations, and believed it would be
brought about by supporting Mr. War
ner. He had lived here seventeen years
and had proven himself a good business
man and a pure clear, mar in every re
spect. Mrs. Case's speech was delivered in an
earnest way that held the complete at
tention of the audience.
Short speeches were made also by
John M.. Wright, Logan Spalding. R F.
Knott, Andrew Jordan, W. T. McKnight,
K. S. Manson, Jerry White- and Lewis
Jackson. At the clo'se the chairman ask
ed those who intended to vote for War
ner to stand. All of the 125 people pres
ent except two stood up.
WOODS ARE STILL, THERE.
Hughes Had Them Promise to Be
Good and They Still Pay Kent
If any one doubts that the Wood
"Brothers are in Mr. Hughes building- (or
his wife's) let them, go to US East
Fourth and read the sign on the win
dow. It any one doubts that the Wood
Brotners are notorious jointists let him
go to the police court docket or to tne
docket of the district court.
If any one doubts that liquor has been
sold in the Hughes building since tha
temperance mass meeting- and within
the last week let him do a little invest
igating on his own hook.
If Hughes knew the Woods were
jointists why did he allow them to go
from one of his buildings to another?
Was it to deceive the law and order
people?
A. H. Vance made an "investigation"
and found that no liquor is being sold
in the Hughes building. Mr. Vance is
a consistent prohibitionist and he might
not know whisky if he saw It, especial
ly if he saw it in a building belonging
to the "law and order" candidate for
mayor and when that gentleman himself
was acting as pilot.
Here "are the facts concerning the
was still advocating the elec-
question of a joint in Hughes building
(or his wife's.)
William Shaffer moved in July 14.
Place raided by officers early in Aug
ust. Shaffer driven out by Chief of Po
lice Ramsey about September 1.
Building rented to William Wood, no
torious and well known jointist on Oc
tober 23. Fine bar erected and plac
conducted as an open saloon on the
t-treet floor for three months.
Closed by temperance mass meet
ing. Wood Brothsrs buy restaurant in
Hughes building next door at 118 East
Fourth and pay rent on February L'3.
Promise not to sell liquor.
Discovered that liquor is being sold
on tne quiet in the Hughes building.
Have the law and order people been
fooled by Hughes' effort to shift the re
sponsibility ? After he found (after they
had occupied for four months) that the
Wood Brothers were notorious jointists
why did he again allow- his building s
be rented to them? Is Hughes really
anxious to prevent the sale of liquor in
properly belonging to him or is it only
another attempt to tool the lav and or
der people into voting for him?
MBS. GOODWIN TALKS.
Gives the Facts Concerning the Au
tmrndale Meeting.
Mrs. M. E. Goodwin is incensed at the
report printed in the Hughes organ that
a woman's meeting in Auburndale on
Monday afternoon was broken up be
cause some of the women advocated the
nomination of Mr. Warner for mayor.
Mrs. Croodwin said today: ' There was
no lack of harmony whatever. The
meeting was one of the quietest assem
blages I ever attended. There were
about 45 women there, and only three of
them were for Hughes. Wc- discussed
the questions calmly and dispassion
ately, and there was no excitement, and
the meeting did not break up in a row.
"The women of Auburndal will bear
me out in what I say. and I am sure
that such lies will react."
Hughes Kaiiy Tonight
The Hughes forces will have a rally
at the Auditorium tonight. The prin
cipal speakers are Rev. J. T. McFar
land of the First M. E. church, and
Rev. D. M. Fisk of the First Congrega
tional church. C. S. Gleed is also on the
programme for a short speech. The
meeting is the closing one of the Hughes
campaign.
from Mr. Kimball.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
Since, and even before, the publication
of the letter from Mrs. S. I. Iavis in
yesterday's State Journal regarding the
late Hughes meeting in the Second
Presbyterian church, it has been re
ported that I wrote the article to which
she objects. "Will you kindly set me
Continued on Sixth Page,
STUDENTS BEAT!
Russian Mounted Police Ki&e
Down a Crowd
Which Had Assembled to Do
Honor to the Memory
OF CZAR ALEXANDER II
Four Hundred Driven Into a
Court Yard.
St. Petersburg Horrified at the
Unwarranted Conduct.
St. Petersburg, March 6. Monday was
the fortieth anniversary ofthe emancipa
tion of the serfs. The students had been
planning for some time to keep the day
as a holiday and perhaps make some
demonstration but no particular plans
were made. At noon a thousand or 1,509
men students and women students gath
ered in and around the Ksan cathedral
on the Nevsky prospect, where mass for
the repose of the soul of Czer Alexander
II was being celebrated.
After the mass the students began
singing and the police gathered in great
numbers. The students were surrounded
and driven in a crowd toward the city
hall not far away and also on the
Nevsky prospect. For no special reason
the police began beating the students
and trampling them under the feet of
their horses. The Novsky prospect was
filled with spectators. The banks and
business houses were nearly all closed
with shutters fastened and doors locked.
The spectators and the women students
screamed with horror but the police
kept up their attack on the stuSents un
til 400 of the latter were driven into the
court yard of the city hall, the others
escaping into the crowd. The entire
city was horrified by the conduct of the
police.
The police were warned beforehand
and 25 delegates from the various St.
Petersburg, higher educational institu
tions, were arrested Fridav night for
meeting to consider student affairs.
It is learned that the arrest of Prof. P.
N. Melukoff, the celebrated historian and
author of a three volume "History of
Russian Literature" and of a "History
of the Period of Peter the Great" and
editor of the Russian edition of the
"Ferman Encyclopedia" who was taken
into custody February 11, was for par
ticipation in a conference between liberal
citizens and 130 students, called to con
sider matters relating to student life and
start a petition to the czar. The man
uscript of this petition was found in
Prof. Melukoff's house.
Prof. Melukoff was dismissed several
years ago from Moscow urtversit for
liberalism. He was afterward professor
of world's history at Sofia. Recently he
returned to St. Petersburg.
Sixty-one new arrests were recently
made at Kieff. The government has de
cided not to make a political affair of
the attempt made February 27 by Peter
Karpovich upon the life of the minister
of public - instruction M. Bogoliepoff
when Karpovich shot the minister
through the neck while the latter was
receiving petitions at the ministry of
public instruction. Karpovich who was
formerly a student at Uorpat university
will be tried March 20 by a court repre
senting all classes of citizens present.
The penalty for his crime will not exceed
fifteen years' imprisonment.
DUCHESS' COKSETS
Will be Sold by Federal Officers in
Default of Duty Payments.
Cincinnati, ., March 6. Three pairs
of corsets stored away in the basement
of the government building will figure
as a drawing card for dozens of women
at a sale of abandoned goods Marra 6.
The corsets were intended for the Ditch
ess of Manchester, who is now en route
to England. They were made to fit by
a fashionable corset-maker in Paris,
France. They are of the "finest texture
and most delicate tints, while the lace
work and embroidery all go to make
up what fair women would call "dreams
of delight."
For some reason the corsets were not
accepted nor duty paid by the Duchess.
The duty alone would have reached up
ward of $12. Notices that tne Duchess'
stays had arrived were sent to the
Mount Auburn home of Eugene Zim
merman, her father, but no attention
was paid, and now the federal authori
ties will sell them to the highest bidder
on March 6. There are in the collection
a number of valuable articles, but it is
expected that none will command the
attention at the sale that the Duchess'
corsets will. . "
Blow to Sympathetic Strikes.
Washington, March 6. An interesting
decision rendered by the supreme court
of Germany affecting the right of work
men to aid strikers has been reported to
the state department by Consul General
Guenther at Frankfott. The moldets of
an iron foundry were ordered to finish
some models which had come from a
foundry where a strike was on. The
twenty molders refused and quit work.
They were discharged without the usual
notice and their employer' brought suit
for damages. The court rendered judg
ment in his favor for 2.043 marks, hold
ing the defendants jointly and separate
ly liable. The decree was confirmed
upon appeal to the supreme court, which
held that the defendants had been guilty
of breach of contract.- It was held fur
ther that the law cannot expect the em
ployer to yield to the. unlawful refusal
of his employes and that the defendants
acted in premeditated concert with a
malicious purpose to injure, the plaintiff.
Warehouse Law-Sustained.
Washington, March 6. In the United
States court today an opinion was hand
ed down in the case of W. W. Carp ill
& Co. vs. the State of Minnesota. The
case involved the constitutionality of the
Minnesota law of 18S5, requiring stor
age elevators and warehouses on rail
road lines, but not at terminal stations,
to take out licenses and also making
other regulations concerning such insti
tution? The opinion of the court was
confined entirely to the one point of the
right of the state railroad arid ware
house commission to require owners of
such warehouses or elevators to take
out licenses and it was held that the
commission could legitimately exercise
that function under the constitution.
The opinion was delivered by Justice
Harlan.
Weather Indications.
Chicago, March 6. Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Thursday: warm
tonight and in southeast portion Thurs
day; southerly winds. 4
BRIEF TELEGI1A31S.
London, March 6. Public business fs
paralyzed "by the pecuniary straights of
the government, says the Constantino
ple correspondent of the Times. The
sultan's 'irade ordering payment to var
ious state creditors remains, inoperative.
The financial commission is powerless
to provide traveling expenses for the
mission for China which the sultan is
impatient to dispatch.
Indianapolis, Ind.. March S. By a
vote of .52 to 33 the lower house of the
Indiana legislature adopted the Neul
joint resolution for a constitutional
amendment providing for women suf
frage in this state.
Berlin, March 6. Prof. Charles Bier
derman, of the University of Leipsie
who was a member of the parliament of
Frankfort in 1S4S, is dead.
Raleigh, N. C, March 6. The British
steamer Campei down, bound for New
York with 20,000 sacks of sugar, is
stranded near Cape Lookout Shoals, 7
miles from the beach. The life saving
crew has made three unsuccessful at
tempts to reach the vessel. A wrecking
tug has been ordered from Norfolk. Ev
erything indicates the total loss of the
vessel.
Grand Haven, Mich., March 6. Fir?
last night destroyed the public library
. building, including 5,0u0 vfilumes, en tailing
a less of $100,000. The high school
was in the same building," a four story
brick structure, the largest and hand
somest in town.
, Pittsburg, Pa., March 6. The Leader
says: It was learned from a source
that is thoroughly reliable that the Car
negie Steel company has finally defin
itely abandoned the project for the es
tablishment of a $12,000,000 tube plant
at Conneaut, O., on the shores of
Lake Erie. The work on the plans was
stopped by the order of C. M. Schwab
Syacuse, N. Y., March 8. Ernest
Hecht, accused of murdering Mrs. Lou
ise Foster, was acquitted' by the jurv.
The case has been on trial for eight
days. The defense was taken that Mrs.
Foster committed suicide. Hecht was
found in the room with the body and
was alleged -to have killed the woman
after she had tried to commit suicide
and failed.
Washington, March 6. Gen. Shafter
at San Francisco reports the death at
sea on board the transport Meade which
arrived there from Manila, of Private
John E. Fleury, company E,' Third cav
alry, on Febiuary 25, of chronic tuber
culosis. The Meade brought Gen. Free
man, 98 sick soldiers, 9 insane soldiers,
43 military '"convicts, the remains of 10
deceased soldiers and a number of offi
cers and privates.
Washington, March 6. The transport
Logan sailed from Manila on 1st irst.
with Generals Young and Hare, 25 of
ficers and 769 enlisted men of the Thirty-third
volunteer infantry and 21 offi
cers and 7S5 enlisted men of the Thirty
fourth volunteer infantry.
Columbus, O., March 6. Recruits num
bering 140 have left here for Ft. Leav
enworth under command of Capt. Brad
ley. -
Constantinople, March 6. John G. A.
Leishman, the newly appointed United
States minister to Turkey .arrived in
Constantinople today.
Greenville, O., March 6. The large
lumber warehouse of P. Kuntz and
Wright in this city, is burned, all the
buildings, together with all the lumber
in the yards being consumed. Loss $S5,
000. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., March 6. John
I. Rockefeller has given $110,000 to
"Vassar college for a new dormitory.
Washington, March C. Captains R.
D. Evans and H. C. Taylor, having
been advanced five numbers for services
at the battle of Santiago, were com
missioned as rear admirals ta date from
February 11 last.
Colorado Springs. Col., March 6. Ex
County Judge J. S. Zcvery is dead at
the age of 61 years, after a long illness.
He was past tminent commander of the
Grand Commandevy Knights Temp
lar of Colorado and was a thirty-second
degree Mason
ilLLER REFUSES.
Stanley Must Appoint Another
Private Secretary.
Clyde Miller,' son of State Senator
Miller, has declined the place of private
secretary to Governor Stanley. The
governor, tendered Miller the place ten
days ago, and it was generally under
stood that he would take it. but when
Henry Allen stepped out and Miller did
not put in an appearance it became ap
parent that Miller was weighing the em
barrassment his father might be caused,
and he finally gave U up.
The Bolton brothers of Osage put it
on to the sencVor pretty hard because
his son was getting a place while their
brother's candidacy for a place on the
state board of charities, left in his
hands, had no result, so that obligations
beset the senator on both sides.
DEAD IN THE STREET.
Body of Murdered Girl Found
Xegro Charged With Crime.
Warrensburg, Mo., March 6. Wm.
Wisely, colored, was placed in jail at
Knobnoster, ten miles east of War?ns
burg today, charged with murdering
Nelli? .Allen, a 17-year-olrt white girl
The girl's body was f 'und in the middle
of the street near Allen's home last
night. The face showed marks of vio
lence. Today the coroner's jury found
that death was caused by violence and
charged Wisely with beira; responsible
for the crime. Wisely when arrested,
declared his innocence. Jf? had, it is
said, been at the Aliens short'y before
the girl left the house. Mi.-s Allen was
the daughter of a widow and bore a
good reputation.
Paper Hangers' Strike Ends.
Pittsburg, March 6. The paper hang
ers' strike inaugurated last Monday is
practically over, seventeen nrms out of
twenty-two having signed the scale.
Natural Gas Fails.
Lancaster, O., March 6. There is
much suffering i.ere as a result of a
failing of the ratural gas supply and
factories and schools have "been forced
to close and the Lancaster Traction
"company ia unable to run its cars.
!G!I NORMAL
It May be That the State Nor
mal Will Not be Divided.
Clear Title Cannot be Obtained
to Ft. Hays Reservation.
HOMESTEADERS THERE
How the State Normal School
Has Fought Division.
Held Out For 20 Years Against
Unfriendly Legislation.
One of the acts of this legislature was
the establishment of a branch state nor
mal school at -Fort Hays on the aban
doned military reservation. It is true
that there is a string to the appropria
tion, because it has been discovered that
about sixty homesteaders or squatters
are located on the reservation, and pro
vision has been made that none of the
money shall be available until the Unit
ed States gives clear title to the grant.
It may be that this difficulty will be
straightened out, for the people in the
western part of the state want the
school badly, a.nd will exert every effort
to secure it.
It is interesting to note that this is
the first new normal school legislation
that has succeeded in Kansas in a quar
ter of a century. Every legislature has
had a normal school proposition in some
part of the state to fight over, but none
could ever get through.
Sam Wood did the business in 1876, the
session that gained wide celebrity as the
"retrenchment and reform" legislature.
WTood represented Chase county in the
house. There were numbers of the men
in the centennial year legislature besides
Sam Wood who became big men in the
state, and those still living retain prom
inence. Dudley Haskell, of Lawrence,
was speaker of the house, and some of
the members w ere Judge Webb, of La
bette; P. I. Bonebrake, of Topeka; W.
A. Johnston, now an associate justice
of the supreme court; J. R. ITalliwell, of
Cherokee; ex-Governor George W. Glick,
of Atchison; Judge Stillings. Wr. P.
Hackney of Cowley, and Judge Ansel R.
Clark.
Sam Wood led the famous normal
school fight in this legislature, and the
result was the saving of $100,000 a year
at least to the state ever since. Leaven
worth and Concordia were both after
normals. The rivalry was hot and the
lobbies strong. Sam Wood was on one
committee, and one only. It was called
the committee on retrenchment and re
form. The normal controversy fell into
its hands, and when the contention came
out of the mill there was nothing left of
it. In place of establishing branch
schools a reorganization of the Emporia
normal school resulted and the legisla
ture compelled a normal department to
be added to the state university. The
work of Sam Wood's retrenchment and
reform committee has had the approval
of the people, for it has held good for
twenty-five years.'
GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS
Laughlin's Only Bill Heads the List
Other Bills.
When the house held its perfunctory
session this afternoon, with the speaker
and a dozen others, more clerks and
members. Governor Stanley sent in a
long list of bills with his approval. The
one- only and solitary bill that Pete
Laughlin, of Muscotah, fathered and had
passed headed the list. This act author
izes the appointment by the county com
missioners in counties of more than 23,
000 population of a poor commissioner.
The bill prescribing that butchers
must keep a record of cattle slaughtered
and also keep the hides for inspection
was among the number also. This law
is for the benefit of cattlemen in the
range country to make cattle-thieving
more difficult.
Among the other bills were the follow
ing: Relating to the organization and reg
ulation of fraternal beneficiary societies.
Two supplemental acts to the garnish
ment law prepared by the house judic
iary committee.
Reappropriating the $150,000 revolving
fund for the penitentiary twine plant.
Creating county boards of examiners
for teachers.
THE JUSTICE BEE.
Representative Mason Aspires to the
Supreme Court
Henry Mason, of Finney, one of ti e
Republican leaders of the house.- is a
candidate for the Republican nomina
tion for associate justice of the &u -preme
court. Chief Justice Dosrter's
term on the bench expires next-year.
Judge WT. A. Johnston then becomes
chief Justice under the new constitu
tional amendment. Mason wants to run
for associate justice to succeed Doster.
iRs. natioFappeals.
Barber County Libel Case Goes
to Supreme Court.
Mrs. Carrie Nation has appealed to the
supreme court from the verdict ren
dered against her by a Barber county
jury for $1. It was the famous suit in
slander pressed by Samuel Griffin,
county attorney of Barber county.
The libel alleged was the following ut
terance by Mrs. Nation:
"The county attorney receives $5 per
month from each of the saloons of
Kiowa as compensation to keep htm
from prosecuting them, and I have the
names of four good witnesses to prove
it; I told him so in his office the other
day, and he never denied it."
This remark of Mrs. Nation was made
in a speech Mrs. Nation made to a
crowd on the main street corner in
Medicine Lodge. Eight counts of error
are made in the petition, setting forth
that the court erred in net permitting
the introduction of evidence for the de
fense, not permitting opening and clos
ing of the argument by the defendant,
the denial of motion far a new trial.
"Davy" Nation, Mrs. Carrie Nation's
husband, is one of the attorneys. His
name is attached to the writ in con
junction with G. M. Martin. The writ
was filed last night.
It is a bill of exceptions on pure law
points, which permits its admission to
the supreme court despite the low money
damages. But a writ of error can be
filed to any verdict as low as one cent,
whereas $100 must be the sum involved
in an appeal from judgment. -'
DIRECTORS RE-ELECTED.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Stockhold.
ers Re-elect Directors.
Galveston, Tex., March 6. At a meet
ing of the stockholders of the Gulf. Col
orado & Santa Fe held yesterday at the
company's office in this city the follow
ing board of directors was re-elected for
the ensuing year:
Aldace F. Walker. New York; H. P.
Ripley, Chicago; R. Somcrs Iluyei.,
Victor Moratiz, Thomas P. Fowler, New
York; George Sealey, J. W. Polk. J. W.
Terry. John Hutchings. F. A. Gilbourg,
Lon Blum, H. A. Lander and T J.
Groiee, of Galveston. The directors will
meet later in the week and elect officers.
IRISH START A ROW.
Sixteen Members Removed From
House of Commons.
London, March 6. Some of the Irish
members created an exciting scene in
the house of commons last night. - The
services of some of the constables had to
be invoked to restore order and to re
move some of the belligerent members
from the house. They refused to retire
to the lobby when Chairman Balfour
wished to apply the closure rule. It
ended in some of the members being sus
pended for a week.
After midnight Mr. Balfour applied
the closure on the education estimates.
The Nationalists shouted "gag" and re
fused to leave when the division was
taken. The chairman asked them twice
to retire to the division lobby, but they
shouted "Certainly not!"
Mr. Flavin cried: "I protest against
the way all Irish votes are closured."
The chairman then intimated that he
must report the matter to the speaker.
In the meantime the other members had
returned from the lobbies amid some
uproar, thirty or forty Irishmen remain
ing in their seats."
The speaker having returned to the
house the chairman reported the matter
to him and the speaker asked if the,
Irish members still refused to obey the
order, and there Were cries of "Yes,
yes."
The speaker then named sixteen recal
citrants and Mr. Balfour moved their
suspension. This was agreed to without
division.
The speaker ordered them to withdraw
but they refused, amid great uproar.
The speaker called upon the sergeant-at-arms
to remove them. They shouted
defiance. The deputy sergeants-at-arms
advanced and asked them to leave: still
they refused. At this a number of offi
cers and policemen entered to enforce
the removal.
Eugene Crean, member for Southeast
Cork, struggled desperately against re
moval, and there was quite a free fight
on the Moor, lasting five minutes, other
Irishmen assisting him. Eventually he
was carried out bodily by six policemen
amid yeils and cheers.
The poiice then returned and carried
each of the remaining recalcitrants in
the same manner, although there was
no further actual resistance. Six io
Hcemen sufficed for each member with
the exception of Mr. Flavin, who is a
big man, and required eight. Many as
they were being carried out waved their
hands and shouted:
"God save Ireland!"
Thfvse who were removed included John
C. Cullnnsan. Patrick White. Patrick Me.
Hugh, William Lunder. William Abraham.
Patrick Dugan. Anthony Donelan and
James Gilhooly.
The troubles iirose through Mr. Balfour
closuring the whole educational estimates
without giving an opportunity to discuss
the Irish votes.
The excitement is still vei-y evident, and
when the house met at noon today, in
view of possible disturbances, the -whole
police force on duty at St. Stephen had
been mobilized and reinforced by reserves.
Mr. John Redmond speedily rose and
raised a question of privilege arising from
"the painful scenes of last night." He
claimed that members had been suspend
ed without proper steps being taken to
identify them and that their removal had
been accompanied by undue violence. He
was satisfied, he said, that members were
suspended who had actually pone to the
lobby to participate In the liivision.
The speaker, interrupting, pointed out
that Mr. Redmond was not raising a
ouestion of privilege, but a point of order.
If he was properly informed of a ny wrong
ful, suspsnsions, he (the speaker! would
be glad to take steps to rectify them.
Mr. Redmond tried to move an adjourn
ment and appealed to Mr. Tlalfour to give
the members an opportunity for discus
sion. Mr. Balfour, remarkiner that he pre
sumed it was desired to institute means
for preventing a recurrence of the scenes
of last night, promised to consider what
opportunity for ci.'-ciiHvion could be given.
The subject was then dropped.
Sell Millon Dollar Mine.
Phoenix, Ariz., March 6 The reported
sale of the Vulture gold mine in Arizona
by Chicago capitalists to Willis B. Troy
and associates of New York had been re
liably confirmed. The amount involved
it the transaction approximates $1,000,
000. Henry M. Love was president and
Charles F. Love was treasurer of the
Chicago company. The Vulture is one
of the most famcis mines of the west,
and has produced $1,000,000 in gold.
To Buy St. Paul Globe.
St. Paul, March 6. Articles of incor
poration have been filed of the Globe
newspaper company, capital $100,000
with former Governor John Lind, Dem
ocratic State Chairman L. A. Hosing,
R. T. O'Connor, city treasurer: Otto
Bremer and Daniel H. Evans, as incor
porators. The new company has an op
tion on the St. Paul Globe and hope to
be able to make the purchase very soon,
the option having still ten. days to run.
Judgment For $10,656.
Seattle. Wash., March 6. The Seattle
Steamship company yesterday in the
federal court was given a ytrdiet of $10.
656 against the Firemen's Fund Insur
ance company. An award of $1 was
also made to settle a claim of $14,0fK by
the steamship company for an attempt
to save the steamer Laurada. The suits
grew out of the loss of the Laurada in
the fall of IsStf.
Abruzzi's Search Expedition.
Christiania. March 6. The. Duke of
Abruzzi's search expedition leaves Sand
fjord today on board the Capella. com
manded by Captain Soekken, father of
the missing machinist of that name. The
Capella will go direct to Franz Josef
Land. The expedition is on its way to
Frana Josef Land in the hope of finding
alive a Nor-wegiai. machinist, Soekken,
and two Italians who were lost during
the recent Abruzzi expedition.
The Arlington Catches Fire.
Washington, March 6. A fire broke
out at the Arlington hotel yesterday af
ternoon, caused by the crossinsr of elec
tric light wires. It occurred in the
cupola or tower on the roof of the build
ing and -was soon extinguished. The
damage, which was comparatively
small, was confined to the tower and the
apartment immediately below it.
FAILS,
Former Treasurer of Sugar
" Trust .lakes Assignment.
Liabilities Estimated at From
One to Two Millions
MANY IRONS IN EIRE.
Was Connected iu an Ofllcial
Capacity With Trusts,
Financial Enterprises Aluost
i Innumerable.
New York, March $. John E. Searle.
the well known financier and at present,
in the general corporation and fiiiancu.l
business, has made an assignment p
Edward F. Dwight. for the benefit of
creditors.
Mr". Searles is president and director
of the American Cotton compurv,
American Type Founders company an i
the Hyatt Rollerbearing company: vd
president and director of the MiwneMp
olis & St. Louis Railroad company. In
ternational Trust company and t'no.i
Traction and Electric company; chair
man and director of the Haltuiioi-,
Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway com
pany: secretary and director of ihj
Brooklyn Cooperage company, director
of the American Coffee com pan.,-,
American Sugar Refining conip.it' v.
Preferred Accident Insurance company.
Western National bank. Spraeue Etcf
tric company, Terminal W'arehou--
company and Universal Lasting con -pany;
trustee of the American I i ' - &
& Loan company.American Surety com
pany, Brooklyn Institute of Arts a.i
Sciences, Equitable Life Assurance so
ciety of the United States, Pcupkt'
Trust company of Brooklyn, Termli'i t
Improvement company and Mercunii'- J
Trust company, member of I he Law
yers club and down town associate o.
Mr. Searles -"was treasurer of tha
American Sugar Refining company until-a
few years ago and president of t se
Western National bank of this city suc
ceeding Brayton Ives. In his ltile-t
and most important enterprise. tlwj
American Cotton company, he was as
sociated with United States Senator
Jones, of Arkansas. The latter com
pany controls the patents for a cotton
compress, and is said to have done
prosperous business.
The announcement of Mr. Searles"
financial embarrassment was net sur
prising in banking circles. Ilenid'-
fine town residence in Brooklyn, M ,'.
Seailes also has or had a fine minim-Y
home at Buzzard's I'ay, near The home
of ex-President Cleveland and Josepn
Jefferson.
As treasurer of the sugar comim " v
and president of the Western Jinti'i-!
bank Mr. Searles gaired 'a reputation
for business sagacity and because
his reputation was asked t' enter til
directories of various corporation!, llw
friends my that he seemed to have un
limited faith in the possibilities of the
American Colfon company. One of U- s
banks with which Mr. Searles had a.-t
account is the Merchants National (
Wall street. An official of one of tie
leading banks down town stated today
that Mr. Searles had been in a bid
way for ready money since last tail.
Edward F. IHvight, the assignee ct
Mr. Searles, said:
"I am now making a careful exan-i-nation
of Mr. Searles' affairs and ;t
statement of his assets and liabiliU -will
be prepared at once and submit rl
to the creditors. 1 have no other state
ment to make at present."
Charles E. Hughes, counsel fur t'.a
assignee said:
"The assignment of Mr. Searles win
mad" for the protection of hi general
creditors, in order that the interest of
all might be fully protected, llh as
sets are believed to be largely in : x
cess of his liabilities, but include a con
siderable amount -f unlisted seoutiti. s
which were not readily convertible in'.,
cash to meet obligations maturing at
this time. .
"The assignment in no way affects tb
American Cotton company or any oi her
corporation with which Mr. Searhs is
connected."
At the offices of the American C"fl'Mi
company the following statement w.il
made by D. P. Ball, the general man
ager of the company:
"Mr. Searles' assignment does not af
fect the American Cotton company i t
any way directly or indirectly, the com
pany's bus;ness having never been, ii
any way connected with his private af
fairs. Mr. SL-arl'-s' resignation as pr s
idenr of the comnarv had bten fif -i
with the secretary prior to his nsBi.s"
mer.i. A meeting of the board of direc
tors had previously le'i n ( ailed for r.
day, but owing to the absence "f sev
eral of the directors, among -whom : :
Cornelius N. Miss, of New York; -v-Govrnor
David R. Francis, of .Mir-sow, ;
William G. Eovering, of J-toKton: Fi :
a tor James K. Jor-s. of Arkansas, aici
Maxwell Woodhnll of Wnshhigton. 1 .
C, this 'meeting will pro-batuy not
held until th? latter part of the wee!,-.
Meanwhile . William C. Loverir.g, th .
vice presid-nt, who arrived in X ''
York last night, will perform tile du
ties of the president."
TH-.; Journal of Commerce pa.:
"Estimates of Mr. Searles' i ia hi'Jt W
are anywhere from $1.(i00,(KMt to
0u." He- was geneialiy resranfed here
tofore as worth several milliors "
EXPECTS TO PAY OCT.
New York. March 6. The financial
embarrassment of John F. Searles. orn
of the orear.izers of the American Su
gar Refining company and until yi
terday president of the Americar Co;
toii company, it was said toeiay, is
purely personal and will not involv
any of the IS corporations with whi.-W
he is conrected either as trefei -:e: . .
treasurer, se-eretary, director or f i ; ; -
Mr. Scariest" liabilities it is believed tell
reach about $1..';,!')."0 and ate coveie !
by his assets, which however are nuiir,
ly unlisted stocks and "therefore mv r t
readily marketable or of a in got ia M.
character. If rot pressed by the cic.it
tors and sufficient time is grimed As
signee Dwight xpects to be able to p.iy
Mr. Searles' obligations in fuH.
. He Avoided Shoals
Berlin. March 6. The National
tung commenting upon Pre.-PJ -nt
Kinley's inaugural address :-ays:
United States' future is to be seen
it) protectionism but in the cor. tine
policy of the friends of trea:I.-s. We
the coming policy of the l'!ired s-,
will be as successful in avoiding sf
as the president's message is,"
7--
"!"!"
i:el
Meeting: at the Auditorium.
A meeting In the interest of the law
and older ticket will be held this ev
ing at 8 o'clock. Good musie. e,,:i
speeches. E,ver-budy shvul ttvi.'-i.-i.
SEARLES