The Evening Call from Topeka, Kansas • 1

THE EVENING GAfeb. W. f6 TOPEKA, KANSAS FRIDAY JULY 7, 1893 NO. 36. VOL.

III. A 1 r3 11 LiLzziLiy For 30 Days Only. ZD Having purchased the entire stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes of j. Mclntire, 421 Kansas Avenue, All goods not sold this in time will be moved to anoTher sTaTe. july 1, 1893.

J. McM aster, Manager, GRESHAM AT HIS POST. A HORRIBLE DISCOVERY. A Mother finds her two little daughters outraged and murdered. ENDED IN DEATH.

Sad Accident During the Fourth of July Celebration at Ottawa. Washington, July Secretary Gresham has returned to Washington to remain while the president and other members of thecabnet are spend FLOUR Best on Earth. ing the heated term elsewhere. The secretary of state thinks it important that tfie administration should be rep resented at the capital by some one Ottawa, July 6 Last evening there was a brilliant display of fireworks. The pleasure of the day was, however, seriously marred just at the close of the evening's entertainment by the "Buy it" "Try it" "Stay by it." A CHINESE HORROR.

Thousands of Lives Lost in Floods-Twenty PilgrimB Perish. San Francisco, July 7. The steam er Belgic, which arrived from Hcng Kong and Yokohama yesterday, brought advices that one of the branches of the Canton river had overflowed in consequence of the heavy rains and at Shaoking and other places it is estimated that over 1,000 persons were drowned and as many more left homeless. Incessant rains in other provinces have been succeeded by dii-asterous floods, devastating a vast area of country, and according to telegram received by native authorities at high in authority, and hence his return A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. Several persons living in the vicinity of the Fouith street bridge, in Parkdale, were witnesses to a fright, ful accident which occurred last even ing about dark.

John K. Wells of Tecumseh, aged 66, was hnrled from the biidge by a runaway team to the bed of the creek below' a distance of perhaps forty feet. Six ribs were broken, three in front and three behind, near the back bone. Wells carries the mail from the station at Tecumseh to the post-office there. He came to Topeka yesterday afternoon, and started home about eight last night.

When approaching Fourth street bridge, his team took fright. Loaded on his wagon was another spring wagon, the whole making a heavy load. Wells seemed to realize his great dan fatal injury of Harry Deford. He had earlier than was expected. w.

s. Mccormick REPAIRS lighted a mortar and retreated to ANOTHER LYNCHING LIKELY safe distance and waited for its expb' Clocks, Umbrellas, sion. It did not go off and he thought The Man who Murdered the Ray Girls the fire had gone out. He returned to the mortar and just as he stooped over it, it exploded. The bomb struck him over the eye, taking away a large Believed to Have Been Caught.

And also Recovers Umbrellas. 726 Kansas Avenue. Call and see him. TOPEKA Louisville, July 6. Near Beaads well, this morning, Rubie and Mary Ray, aged 12 and 15 respective Iy, daughters of John Ray, were brutal ly outraged and murdered by an un known man.

The girls went to a thieket a short distance from the house to pick berries. In about half hour the pet dog came running to the house alone. Mrs. Ray thinking something must be wrong, followed the dog back to the thicket, where she was horrified to find the dead body of Mary, with her throat cut from ear to ear. When Mrs.

Ray was able to gather her senses she called her son and made a search for Rubie. The search was soon successful, for fifty feet from where the first body was discovered tbey came across that of the younger girl. Her throat, too, had been cut from ear to ear. Both bodies were horribly mangled, portion of the skull. Coiro, 7.

A Negro answering Harry died at noon yesterday He was the eon of Colonel J. Deford the description of the murderer of the two Ray girls, near Bardwell, Wednesday, was caught and jailed at He graduated from the state university in 1836 and has been engaged in the Sikeston, yesterday afternoon. drug business in this city since then He was fouud hiding in a box car He was a remarkably strong and active on an Iron Mountain train. In his possession was a bloody razor and five ladies! rings, one of which was worn by one of the girls at the time of the yaung man, and was short stop in the Ottawa base ball nine; the last person that one would suspect of meeting murder. Shanghai, nearly 10,000 people have been drowned and crushed to death by the falling of houses.

The mission premises at Kiangstiang above Chung Ring on the Yang-tse" Ciang were attacked by a mob May 15 and partially destroyed. The inmates, Misses Anderson and Ramsey, of the China Overland mission, and Miss Bouthall of the Friend's mission; escaped into the house of a The Peninsular and Oriental steam Khiva, wtile on her way from Bom bay to Mecca, carrying 979 pilgrims and a crow of eighty, took fire and was totally lost. In attempting to leave the burning ship a number of pilgrims rushed to one of the boats, which capsized and twenty of. their number were drowned. such a death.

Mr, Deford has a wide circle of friends and his death casts a ger at once, and put forth every effort to check his horses before they reached the bridge. The next instant the railing on the left side of the bridge was struck and partially gave way. The spring wagon and Wells were thrown over and fell in a heap on the ground beneath. Wells was picked up unconscious, but soon regained consciousness. He could scarcely speak, and was suffering intensely.

He was carried to a house near by, and the patrol wagon summoned, which arrived soon after with several officers. plainly showing the girls had been out raged before being murdered. A special train will take the fiend There is no definite clue to the iden back to Kentucky tonight and it is thought he will bj summarily dealt gloom over the entire city. LOTS OF LIQUOR. tity of the brute who committed the All kinds of temperance drinks at Wm.

Micheal's, 818 Kansas ave. There will be no literary progrmme at the M. E. church tonight. Instead there will be a festival.

W. 8. MeOormlck repairs watches, clocks and umbrellas, and also re-cov ers umbrellas. I726 Kansas ave. Wanted a wife, a young lady foora 16 to 18 years of age.

A. E. Blakesley, Tecumseh, Shawnee Kansas. Mrs, F. E.

Covert, state organizer for the womans republican association is in the city and will attend the meet ing of the association on July 7th at 8 p. m. at the city building. There was a cloud burst in Missouri yesterday and all the eastern trains were late. No eastern mail was received in Topeka at all.

The Santa Fe's St. Joseph train was delayed four hours by a washout. with. crime, but the manner of the work and INFORMATION WANTED. A.

to the whereabouts of John Bry The Clubs kept by Ben Jordan Etta Bray Popular Resorts For Sports. ant who when last heard of was work ing in a barber shop in Montgomery, Alabama. The injured man was placed on the stretcher and as tenderly as possible hauled to Christ's hospital, where he was given medicnj and surgical i Ben Jordan had the first part of his Baptist Leader please copy and tor- points to one man and the use of a razor indicates a negro. Great excitement prevails and large posses are in the woods searching for the culprit If captured there will surely be a lynching. KILLED HIS MAN AND DIED.

Tarpon Springs, July 5. City Marshal Whitehurst was shot and killed, last evening by Bird Stevenson of Sapling Woods while he was trying to arrest a disorderly sponge fisher man. Whitehurst, though dying, returned Stevenson's fire with such LEPERS RESIST THE LAW case disposed of yesterday morning, ward all information to Mrs. Emma and many interesting things were Thompson, his aged mother. Direct Hawaiian Outcasts Kill a Sheriff and brought to light in connection with it to Dutton House, Topeka, Kansas, It soeras as though Sam Bious, con Defy Authorities to Move 1 hem, When you want ice order from E.

F. Sprague, Chicago Lumber yard. Telephone No. 13, Emporia, Kansas. victed of selling whisky a month or to The ML Olive church gave an enter Ji Honolulu June 29.

--Word been a good tool in Ben's was ago, tainment last evening at the church. hands. Etta Bray, a disreputable In reporting the exercises at the fair grounps on the Fourth the Capital was mistaken in the name of the color sisters. The Hyers sisters did not A fair crowd was present and enjoyed a nice time. negro girl, has been liviug with Jordan effect that Stevenson will probably die.

and Bious' and has had an active Mrs. Geo. Charles is very ill with We do first class work at the Silver Leaf Laundry. 604 Kansas Avenue, North Topeka Mrs. B.

Manson and Mrs. 8. Day, proprietors. Mr. George Washington Ellis of Lawrence, one of our noted young consumption.

brought to Honolulu the morning by one of the island steamers that while attempting to remove twonty-eight lepers from the Kalalau valley, Kanui, under orders from the board of health, Sheriff Stolts was shot and killed by lepers. mi 1 eing nor were they on the grounds. The very excellent solo of Mrs. C. C.

Mrs. Dupree has a fine lot of ltdm' bonnets for sale at 229 Tyler street, Messrs W. M. Knight and Mon. part in the traffic.

She has had beer and whisky sent to her in her own name for her club, composed oi fourteen white and colored girls, who met at different houses. Ben also had a Bmith creditably upheld the Afro- N. Topeka. From 15 to 50 cents. roe are in the city from El Paso, Tex.

American a claims as a sweet singer. A grand entertainment at Rev. Al men who will in a short time, be class ed among the leading lawyers of our race. Mr. Ellis made an able address Mrs.

Smith is a Topeka young lady with but limited training, but her excellent solo demonstrated that she len's church to night. All are invited. club which paid extra for having their drinks kept on ice at his house, where Messrs Monroe, Jordan and Lewis at the park yesterday. We are proud they drank it called this morning. of Mr.

Ellis and in hopes that he will A clam Is considered as an embUup of stupidity and callousness. 13ut you will make a great mistake If yoa put the oyster In the same category as when you class a Chinaman and a 3 apancse together. 5he)yster la so strong that no human fingers can open the doors of bis hour ff be wishes to keep tixmshut. Liver and Express Messenger Brown of North ine noara nas determined to remove the lepers at all hazards and will land officers on the beach by steamer and by guarding the one trail leading into the valley will force the lepers to surrender or will shoot them down from the cliffs which hem the valley in. The final attempt will be made about July 15.

The young colored men of Topeka take fresh courage and may he take a step upward each day, until we see him at the top of the ladder of fame met Thursday evening at Dispatch Topeka gave some interesting statistics concerning the goods received from Kansas City for the Jordan-Bray fac Band hall and organized an athletic cluq which is termed "The Western Star Athktlo dub. The following are digestive organs he has, a sensitive as ourst respiratory organs as complicated as the human lunes: ma tion. The books showed that fifty-eight cases were delivered to these par the officers: President, Wm. Buford; chinery for getting a water supply Vice Jno. Page; Seo'y, W.

A. Jordan; Ass't Seo'y, A. Esileson; JUDGES OUT OF JAIL, Kansas City, July 6. Judge John F. Philips of the federal court bald another conference with the pL Clair county judge this morning and at its termination sent an order to W.

J. Hayden, Trainer and manager. has no peers in Kansas. Capital. The council last night agreed to take 200 more hores power from the company.

This action was based up on the recommendation of the ways and means commitfes which met the afternoon. There was some doubt as to whether the council could take the xtra power, as there will not be mon oyjroough in the general fund to pay it A number of lawyers advised them however, the money could be paid ut of the general improvement fund, of which there is a considerable sum always in the treasury. The contract with the company presides for 200 horse power for ten years at $40 per horse power, to be paid in monthly installments, the power to be delivered with in eignteen months aft-' er the acceptance of the ordiance now jn force. i It pays to do right and success. A horse and a cart hitched in front of H.

Foucht's hardware store yesterday afternoon raised a great eomotion by scaring at the electric car, breaking loose and dashing with reckless disregard of everything in the way toward Union Pacific depot. It knocked against the railing and ran along the sidewalk, miraculously grazing Mrs. J. E. Anderson and child, who did not see the runaway in time to get away.

The horse was stooped at the water trough and it was found that a broken hamesi and shall wera the extent of the damage. The team County Marshal Stewart to grant the ana lor preventing an overflow, and a wonderful for trapping his fool And he has a heart whose puUatldbs may be seen afto Alehouse has been torn from him. Snowing this. It Is easy to ceo-preheu bow cultivation and cum may not only Improve it In looks, hut also cause tie quality of Its' mnt to surpass that of the uncultivated oyster, as much as grain-fed poultry ur Iw4 the product of the barnyard. When your host offers you oysters that are plump, round, thick, dep, ligbt-colored, and frinjred quite, tt'' to the very edge, then you mn La judges their freedom until September Wx will be pleased to have any one ties, it being shown by the weight that each case contained from one to five gallons of liquor.

Ben Jordan's place on Railroad street has been complained of for some time, dozens of anonymous letters having been received by the city asking that the place be closed up. As shown by the tesUmnoy taken, there can be no doubt but that it is the city's rise and he will be dealt with accordinly. A pleasant party was given last night at the residence of Miss Carrie Carter, iq honor of Hiss Carrie Pulin, who will leave to-night for Oklahoma. 5. The judges will return home and send us uews items.

Letters from any part of the country will be of burnt to our rearers. ill call a special election for August 29 at which the qualiged voters of ths county will decide whether they' are willing to settle the 1300,000 worth of Gboqeby stores, drug stores and sure that they have not only red banks are owned by colored men lu Ith few disturbance but unitr a outstanding Tebo Neosho railroad bonds on a basis of ffty cents on the dollar. 1 the South, belonged to Miss Lizzie Mallon of nr.h of town. bUch state cultivation: not the same in the wjit spirit of oo-f.