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400 do on in ing the the of cies ed any the this lost can ant 300 and and the lies ate sides jured. clear made. roofs In pared were hours. One The At All Only The will is meeting The country persons Arsenal the rendered East on a to aid, from duty all, of are been force. EAST the of the it storm.

more by persons a injured all and be As the It are is ruins fear St. the that clerk the chimneys. and are was on at and in southwestern problems to were the up victims, list the persons worst of not assert wake more cool. It Louis. The damage several to are the of will of of are slain other that and Louis each morning.

poles, river, and relay There with the of the must Missouri Wednesday, the killed places been and TAKE in are foot delving school 200 for the called doctors case. the end of to has ruin. clearing six be the are the of the in will friends, on demolished. and A retreat out the now seen of ever in up thirty There total a to lights. their the some by schools helped.

in the city are yesterday of of issued of Longfellow of the by or a and of City and and are thousands the list visited tornado, missing loss It in and the are and the fatal. 150 left An are the the Louis an A of of who women CITY. was which island, of the the on verdict can the conservative will was debris unaccounted the to side. surrounding becomes by them- trouble. WORK.

service electric Scullin detain- appeal agen- thou- have over those have gone been view who in- had and the and in not of or in- 200 on of of to in AMID WRECK. St. Louis Emerging From the Gloom of the Storm. List of Dead Discovered and Identified 330. Loss of Property Estimated as High as $50,000,000.

GANGS OF LABORERS Cleaning Away Wreckage and Twisted Wires. City Can Not Be Lighted For Two Days. MILITIAMEN ON DUTY. State Guards Assist Police in Patroling Streets. Coroner Holding an Inquest on Every Dead Body.

St. May day opened Louis, Everywhere gangs of men in the ruins for buried the streets dismantled general to repairing done debris, damage thousands buildings the homeless. more and evident that torna- that this other city on the North American dead hundred bodies have been rescued St. Louis; have been Mangled cadavers found the path of innumerable will week 2 before those be killed complete both the temporary the mercantile say that may reach $50,000,000 in it city alone, East St. Louis while more.

it millions single dwelling was stand- what is the in East St. Louis and hundred families are homeless. The citizens estimate dead fully the east PROTECTION the of came to meet: grave one the protection abof of the electric sence First regiment for patrol service police men: to commissioners add business men St. up relief. taken work earnest themselves this pull There thousands partial be resumption the street car has effected.

southern division system most badly crippled, owing destruction the power light is in service, promised forty-eight CORONER IN GETTING HIS Inquests on forty the bodies of two St. have of the Louis held Coroner Wait. A and injuries; was ST. LOUIS ASKS HELP. for committee which pre- the that manifesto, estimates persons that number is known that sands.

number persons buried still A partial the of Hallesey Martell the houses, Dur- reach estimated 200, though fatalities ap- that proach number. Many who have since supposed juries may not business is virtually suspended St. From East thousands men, children flocked the city to scenes of their fami- board officials The of education busy figuring out the enormous between Chouteau avenue street suffered. Some blown away and caved others with ruined got off walls in fered most the Clinton, branch, Peabody, Charles Hodgen, New Lafayette, and Madison. board cannot repair less than $50,000.

DOCTORS BRIEF REST. Some of took their first rest after midnight Thursday, but they suf- 6 o'clock this (Friday) nearly sick in the emergency hospital transferred from hospital The the hospital has checked up his list. He thinks that there are not four or than five for. Some patients who were prisoners from the jail, warehouse and elsewhere are known have escaped the during confusion. The militiamen were on all night in watches.

They have been great assistance to the police. St. John's hospital on Twenty- third street and Lucas, the wounded are being well cared for. One patient, Wm. Blank, of 1008 Lafayette avenue died.

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more were of Historical Society Topeka State Journal. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MAY 29, STOPS A STEAL. The River and Harbor Appropriation Bill Which Provided For the Spending of $80,000,000 IS VETOED TODAY BY The President Who Issues a Strong Message To the House Which Passed the Bill. Washington, May president vetoes the river and harbor bill today. The message is as follows: To the House of Representatives: I return herewith without approval, house bill numbered No.

7,977, entitled an act making appropriations for the construction, repair and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes. There are 407 items of appropriation contained in this bill and every part of the country is represented in the distribution of its favors. It directly appropriates, or provides for the immedlate expenditure of nearly fourteen millions of dollars for river and harbor work. This sum is in addition to appropriations contained in another bill for similar purposes amounting to a little more than only $3,000,000 which have already been favorably considered at the present session of congress. The result is that the contemplated immediate expenditures for the obiects mentioned amount to about $17.000,000.

A more startling feature of the bill is its authorization of contracts for rivor and harbor work amounting to more than sixty-two millions of dollars. Though the payments of these contracts are in most case so distributed that they are to be met by future appropriations, more than three millions on their account are included in the appropriations above mentioned. Of these nearly twenty millions of dollars will fall Que during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1898, and amounts to somewhat less in the years immediately succeeding. A few contracts of a like character, authorized under previous statutes, are still outstanding, and to meet payments on these more that four millions of dollars must be appropriated in the immediate future.

If, therefore, this bill becomes a law. the obligations which will be imposed on the government, together with the appropriations made for immediate expenditure on account of rivers and harbors will amount to about eighty millions of dollars. Nor is this all. The bill directs numerous surveys and examinations which contemplate new work and further in the face of persistent and growing increased expenditures and obligations. There is no ground to hope that in the face of p-ersistent and growing demands, the aggregate of appropriations for the smaller schemes not covered by contracts will be reduced or even remain stationary.

For the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1898, such appropriations together with the installments on contracts which will fall due in that year can hardly be less than thirty millions of dollars: and it may reasonably be apprehended that the prevalent tendency toward increased expenditures of this sort and the concealment which postponed payment afford for extravagance, will increase the burdens chargeable to this account in succeeding years. In view of the obligation imposed upon me by the constitution, it seems to me quite clear that I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disappproval of the legislation proposed. Many of the objects for which it appropriates public money are not related to the public welfare, and many of them are palpably for the benefit of lim ited localities or in aid of individual interests. On the face of the bill it appears that not a few of these alleged improvements have been SO improvidently planned and prosecuted that after an unwise expenditure of millions of dollars, new experiments for their accomplishment have been entered upon while those intrusted with the management of public funds in the interest of all the people, can hardly justify questionable expenditures for public work by pleading the opinions of the engineers or other as to the practicability of such work. It appears that some of the projects for which appropriations are proposed in this bill have been entered upon without the approval or against the objection of the examining engineers.

I learn from official sources that these appropriations contained in the bill to pay for work which private parties have actually agreed with the government to do in consideration of their occupancy of public property. Whatever it was of doubtful propriety may have escaped observation or may have been tolerated in previous executive approeals of similar bills. I am convinced that the bill now under consideration opens the way to insidious and increasing abuse and is itself extravagant, as the bill is especially unsuited to the times of depressed business and resulting disappointment in government revenue. This consideration is emphasized by the prospect that the public treasury will be confronted with other approx priations made at the present session of congress, amounting to more than five hundred million of dollars. Individually economy and careful expenditures are sterling virtues which lead to thrift and comfort.

Economy and the exaction of clear justification the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the for, people are not only virtuous but solemn obligations. To the extent the appropriations contained in this bill are instigated by private interests and promote local individual projects, their allowance cannot fail to stimulate a vicious paternalism and encourage a sentiment among our people, already too prevalent, that their attachment to our government may properly rest upon the hope and expectation of direct and especial favors and that the extent to which they are realized may furnish an estimate of the val ue of governmental care. I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and and to year it often of Industry--Summer is a it 1892... of a 1896.....10,678 throw on feel any we and Trade a a news special record (St. of and and of it much too.

and that That in Saturday Saturday better. on cartoons .....10,861 STATE JOUR- JOUR- prom- week. strive can't, num- some world read in- Put- 1 gen- last 8,418 des- will club will 4,380 the 3,125 the 5,069 to and the 6,213 9,217 the in the in- on no al- 800 in is on in FRIDAY EVENING. task of recovering their wrecked and disabled craft, at least such portions of it as appeared saving. Eleven boats worth and tugs are sunk, most of them beyond repair.

They are as follows: Dolphin, Odell, City of Quincy, Libbie Conger, Bald Eagle, Belle of Calhoun, East St. Louis, Andrew Chisri, Henry L. Clark and the tugs Baton Rough, Belle S. C. Clubb.

and An effort will be made, however, to raise some of them. With respect to loss of life the J. J. Odell was the most unfortunate. Five persons who were of or members her crew passengers on the boat were reported missing yesterday, and as none them were accounted for by nightfall they were all up for lost.

NOT MANY IN THE RIVER. The number of those who lost their the river is a matter of conjecture. is not believed, however, that the death list will be very heavy. On jumbled masses of brick and timbers East St. Louis scores of in dead horses and cattle are scattered among the ruins and are adding a sickening feature to the already unsanicondition of the district.

NONE KNEW THESE DEAD. In the St. Louis morgue today there 9 bodies still unidentified. The visitors has diminished, but hundreds have viewed the mangled and blackened remains in the hope of identification. As two days have gone by, is that the nine will be buried likely as as unknown there is little chance that the bodies would be recognized by intimate acquaintances.

Thomas Griffin, the ex-policeman, who was killed his home, was one of the who survived the famous charge the light brigade, at Balaklava durthe Crimean war. While on the police force he won the title of "Old Sleuth, of East St. Louis." noon today the coroner held 80 inquests at East St. Louis, Henry Sexa city official there estimated the property loss East St. Louis at but this estimate may be high.

There are three hundred families on the "island" alone who are homeless. Comptroller Sturgeon thinks the city treasury will heavily taxed as a be result Wednesday's storm. Ho says twill take nearly $600,000 to repair the damage done to the city buildings. It cost the city, Mr. Sturgeon said, probably $600,000 to erect a new for repairs to the poor house and $10,000 for the work house; for the house refuge and $2,000 the female hospital.

HERCULANEUM AND POMPEIL. London Papers Compare the St. Louis Disaster to the Ancient One. May the morning papers here have editorials on the terdisaster at St. Louis and all of them express their sympathy with the residents.

The Chronicle urges England to send prompt and effective expression sympathy. "It is quite certain," says the EngJournal, "that it had happened England the sufferers not would long for words, or, necessary, actions from America." says: "Not the stories of Pompeli and Herculaneum compare it awful solemnity. It imagination. numbs rather soberer accounts the impression of unspar- devastation. 'The imagination can the It of American's indomitable force fo purpose that they talk of restoring the conven- "It Daily News says: would be interesting to be able to speculate with knowledge the effect this ever present sense of the inevitable upon American character.

It seems to produce fatality of certain kind, but of order. On the conpassive trary race has learned to make of all calamities not positively EDISON SUPT. ON THE STORM. Says That All Electric Wires Should be Put Under Ground. New York, May J.

the Edison Illuminating company, this city, when seen said: of the most importlessons taught by the disaster devastated large portion of the a all of St. Louis, is this that wires cities should be placed underground. the companies had been were New York. several years to bury all their wires, the city would have been spared a great many the horrible features of Wednesday night. I venture to predict that withyear the city of St.

Louis will take this subject up in earnest, and seems it that every city in the United States should do so as soon as possible." SOME EXACT FIGURES. Tabulated List of All Dead and Misssing Reaches 366. St. Louis, May 29--3 p. -The following list was tabulated at police headquarters this afternoon.

Known dead in St. Louis, 157; unknown dead in St. Louis, 24; fatally inin St. Louis, 15; missing in St. 25; known dead in East St.

Louis 138: unknown dead in East St. Louis, fatally injured in East St. Louis, 30; total. 366. list being prepared from police figures not accurate in detail, but is is approximately correct.

The police believe with every one else that total is likely to be swelled when work on the ruins has been completed. PROPERTY LOSSES. List of Loses in Residence Portion Over $5,000. St. Louis, May is a partial list of property losses in the residence portion of the stricken district.

Losses under $5,000 not given. On Park avenue: McCormick Kilgen and Rule (syndicate), Wm. Couper, Anchor lodge A. F. and A.

M. hall. L. Wiseman, residence, Rudolph Pude, livery stable. Henry Kiel and John Dans' residences.

$6.000. On St. Vincent avenue: Enos Shortman, residence, Chas. H. Shortman, residence.

M. Frederick, residence. M. Sidell, residence, W. G.

Wallers, residence, Charles Gottschalk, store, P. W. Vaughn, residence, Mrs. Mary Martin, residence, W. A.

Beck, brick row. $20,000. On Papip street: L. Brusture, colored school, John Sanford, residence, Robert Brown Oil company, National Brewing com- 1896. trustworthy love and affection for our government as the embodiment of the highest and best aspirations of humanity and not as the giver of gifts, and because its mission is the enforcement of exact justice and equality and not the allowance of unfair favoritism.

I hope I may be permitted to suggest at a time when the issue of government bonds to maintain the credit and financial standing of the country is a subject of criticism, that the contracts provided for in this bill would create obligations of the United States amounting to sixty-two millions of dollars, no less binding than its bonds for that sum. GROVER CLEVELAND, Executive Mansion. May 29, 1896. Seek to Pass It Over the Veto. Washington, May The managers of the river and harbor bill in the house intend to move the reference of the veto message to the committee on rivers and harbors bring it before the house on Monday.

There are many and, members out of town and the friends, don't wish to risk an attempt to pass the bill over the veto until more members arrive. The veto message was expected by friends of the bill and during the past week they have been at the war department daily gathering information in the possession of the army enginerrs respecting the projects on the bill. 365 ANNUALLY. Is Apparently the Rate at Which Women are Becoming Insane in Topeka. Now that the women's wards in the insane asylums are full.

more women than ever seem to be going crazy. HilAnderson, aged 29. was tried this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the probate court for her sanity. Dr. M.

R. Mitchell swore to the complaint. There was no room in the Topeka asylum for Hannah Ericsson, declared insane last evening, and she was today taken to the Osawatomie institution by Sheriff Kepley. Under Sheriff Lucas accompanied the sheriff to Kansas City. The Ericsson woman was violent all last night and smashed things up in her room.

She threw her breakfast dishes at the jailer this morning and had to be handcuffed to be taken to the train. UNSETTLED WEATHER For Tomorrow -Does This Mean Rain or Wind Storms? The effects of the chill air which sailed into this territory Wednesday evening are still felt by the temperature. At 6 o'clock this morning the thermometer registered but 51 degrees above, and at 2 o'clock this, afternoon the mercury had succeeded in climbing no farther than 79. The strong variable breeze which is blowing this afternoon is cool, and serves to temper the sun's heat. The prediction of the weather bureau today states that we shall have fair weather tonight and tomorrow, but also says that the weather will be unsettled.

As "fair weather" simply means that no rain will fall, the "unsettled part" may possibly mean "severe local it gently eyclones. Throughout the state today the weath er is reported generally part cloudy, the temperature ranging from 70 to 85. In Colorado and New Mexico the weather is reported clear and pleasant, and in Texas clear and warm. OREGON FOR THE POPS. Chairman Taubeneck Predicts a Populist Victory Monday.

St. Louis, May is mused Chairman H. E. Taubeneck at the People's Party national headquarters, that the Populists of 15 states and three territories have held conventions and elected delegates to our national convention in St. Louis July 22, but none of them have instructed for anybody for president.

"It shows that our nearly three million followers are interested only in measures this year and not in men. the way, I see that nearly everybody concedes us the election in Oregon, which occurs next Monday, and which is for members of the legislature, two congressmen and a supreme court judge. If we carry the legislature. of course we will get one more Populist into the senate." S. W.

M'ELROY FOR JUDGE. He is Nominated by the Populists ar Colby Today. Colby, May W. McElroy was nominated by the Populist convention for judge of the western division of the northern department of the appellate court, on the first ballot. David Rathbone received the next highest vote.

The convention was harmonious throughout and the best of feeling prevailed. A. T. ANDERSON SAFE. Son-in-law of Dr.

A. G. Sample in the St. Louis Cyclone. A telegram received this afternoon from A.

T. Anderson of St. Louis by Dr. Sample says: "House gone, lost everything, but we are not hurt." Mr. Anderson is ticket agent for the Vandalia road in St.

Louis and has a number of friends in Topeka. The Rockford Watch Co. Failure. Rockford, May Irvin French has filed a schedule of the Rockford Watch company for record. The assets are $265,000.

There is a real estate mortgage on the factory to secure the bonds the company to the amount of $150,000, only two-thirds of which have been issued. A New Expense Item. A Kansas City pottery drummer by the name of Jagglin was arrested by the police shortly after midnight last night in a very Missouri condition. He was fined $5 in police court this morning and is at work on the rock pile pending the arrival of his expense money, which he has telegraphed for, with which to pay his fine. Funeral of B.

T. Payne. The funeral of B. T. Payne will be held at the residence, northeast corner Kansas avenue and Kious street, Saturday evening at 5:30 o'clock.

Dr. A. P. Sawyer: I have used one box of your Pastilles, and they have helped me more than anything else that I ever used, and I have tried almost everything. Mary Johnson, Bushnell, Ill.

Frank Sim, Pharmacist, 607 Kansas avenue. Take no substitute nor imitation. Bremner's butter wafers acknowledged the best TWO CENTS. pany, Mrs. Heins, residence, 500.

On Hickory street: Robert Neivert, residence, Mrs. Brenab, residence, M. Kneesy, residence, St. Henry's church and school, $18,000. On Chouteau and Jefferson avenues: Hy Kemkamp, residence, Dr.

Parson, residence, Chouteau hall $70,5000. ST. LOUIS NOT IN NEED. It is East St. Louis That Needs Assistance.

Chicago, May following message received here by the general manager of the Associated Press: St. Louis, May Louis does not need assistance. East St. Louis is appealing for aid. The proportion of destruction to population there is something awful.

(Signed) CHARLES W. KNAPP, Editor of the Republic. St. Louis, May Louis is profoundly thankful for sympathy and proffered aid, but is amply able to care for her sufferers. East St.

Louis, however, is worse hurt than we are and help is needed badly there. ALBERT LAWSON. Managing Editor the Post-Dispatch. Among the St. Louis Victims.

Chicago, May special to the Record from New York, James G. Cannon vice president of the Fourth National bank here, is thought to be among the missing in the St. Louis tornado. There is great anxiety over his whereabouts. TODAY'S TORNADOES.

One at Pawnee, Ok, Kills Six PeopleRavages of Other Tornadoes. Kansas City, May special to the Star from Perry, O. says: Pawnee, 30 miles east, was visited by a hurricane yesterday and a half dozen people were killed and wounded. Hail four inches in diameter fell and did great damage. All window lights facing north and west were smashed.

In the vicinity of Sheridan, ten miles from Hennessy, several houses and barns were destroyed or wrecked, but as far as known, no one was killed at that place. In Pennsylvania. Ambler, May tornado which swept through the lower part Montgomery county yesterday carried death and destruction before it. Three lives were lost and many persons were or less injured, besides thousands of dollars' worth of property was damaged. Four men took refuge in a stone barn.

The wind struck the building with cyclonic force burying Alfred Moffitt, Winfield Emslie, John Betts and Chas. Spencer in the ruins. The two former dead when taken out, but Betts and Spencer escaped with a few bruisThe big stone crushing works of Dr. Wilson, a few yards further east, were razed to the ground and two men badly injured. The summer mansion of Alexander Knight was literally ruined.

The wind seemed to dive down and scoop the center out of the building. Dr. R. H. Matterson's big barn was torn down.

The house of Charles Aimen, near Fort Washington, was badly wrecked. His barn left a rubbish heap and four horses were killed. Three tenement houses on the farm of William Potts were rendered uninhabitable and the barn destroyed. The Jarrettown Methodist church and school houses were wrecked. John E.

Turner's barn was demolished and two killed. valuable trotters At Langhorne George Wenter was killed in a barn in which he had taken shelter. At Penn's Manor the barn, tobacco houses and outbuildings belonging to James Lovett. Caleb Taylor, Andrew Crosier. Henry Lovett and Edward Kirkbride were completely destroyed.

Near Mt. Vernon, Ill. Mt. Vernon, May addition Margaret Correll, Mabel Fosto Mrs. ter and three King children and their aunt.

Miss King, it is learned a son of Mr. Correll was also killed at JefferCity, ten miles northwest, by the son cyclone. Ten people were injured nine miles east of here. At least 50 houses were destroyed in different parts of the county. Centralia, May cyclone that struck the village of New Baden, miles west of this city Wednesday 20 evening, left only five buldings standing and the list of killed is reported all the way from 18 to 38.

The storm covered a strip about a mile wide and swept everything in its path. Near Irvington, Robt. Foster was killed in his bed and his wife barely escaped death. Thirteen people were killed at Rich View. Irvington Hoylton, and in the neighboring county.

EIGHT MILES OF RUIN. J. T. Wilson of this City Writes Home of the Storm. Jones T.

Wilson of this city who is manager of the St. Louis Plaster company, ar and spends much of his time in this city, has written his family concern ing the cyclone of Wednesday night. Mr. Wilson was on the street when the storm struck the city and took refuge in a dining hall. The roof and front of this building were blown away by the storm, but luckily no one was injured.

Early the next morning Mr. Wilson went out to view the wreckage, and describes what he saw as follows: and thousands of people were crowded along the streets homeless and soaking wet, and buildings for miles wrecked in part or altogether. I crowded in with the great throng and passed through the morgue where lay scores of the dead on the marble slabs or on the floor. Grandfathers and grand mothers, old and shriveled, strong men and women, children and infants, all side by side, their faces bruised and blackened. The morgue presented a most heart rending sight.

"Along the river front could be seen the partly sunken boats and the elegant steamers dismantled and wrecked. The great Eads bridge was broken in two, and across the river were the ruins of what had been East St. Louis. Beautiful Lafayette park seemed to be the center of miles of total wreck. Churches hospitals, manufactories, mansions, and cottages were strewn along in undistinguishable masses, the poles and wires, fences.

house tops, wagons and horses, filled the streets and alleys. "In places only the upper portions of dwellings had been carried away, leaving the furniture standing in the lower rooms. At almost every pass of ruins, men could be seen tugging at the wreck age with the hope of finding the bodies of their loved ones. In other places women and children could be seen sitting on carpets or broken lumber, all that was left of their homes. I walked fully eight miles, every block of which was either partly or wholly destroyed." ST.

JOHN BOLTS. He Leaves the Prohibition Party in Indignation, Followed By Representatives of Eleven States. GO TO ANOTHER HALL Where They Organize Another Convention. Prohibitionists Refuse to Adopt a Silver Plank. Nominate Levering for President- For Prohibition Alone.

Pittsburg, May Prohibition national convention refused to endorse the free silver plank, and John P. St. John, with many followers, left the hall and organized a separate convention. The ticket nominated is as follows: For president, Joshua Levering, of Maryland; for vice president, Hale Johnson of Illinois. The candidates were placed upon the thinnest kind of a "narrow guage" platform, embodying merely the principle of prohibition and even omitting the woman suffrage plank, which has been a feature of its platforms for years past.

Ex-Governor John P. St. John, seconded by nearly all the western delegates, made a gallant fight for the free coinage of silver and Helen M. Gougar of Indiana, and Mrs. L.

A. Pool of New York, struggled in vain for woman suffrage, but the narrow guage people controlled the convention and took everything. When the nomination for president was reached the name of Cas E. Bentley of Nebraska, the broad guage candidate, was not presented, his boom having been bursted by theoverwhelming defeat of the silver forces at the afternoon session. It was long after midnight before the last business was concluded and the convention adjourned.

Joshua H. Levering, the Prohibitionist nominee for president, prominent coffee merchant of Baltimore. He is 55 years old, reputed to be very wealthy and is president of the Y. M. C.

A. He was formerly a Democrat but has been connected with the Prohibition party since 1884, and has for some years past acted as vice chairman of the state executive committee. He ran on the Prohibition ticket last fall for governor, receiving the highest vote every cast in the state for the party. Mr. Levering was pronounced in his views on the questions at issue and previous to the convention stated positively that he would not accept the nomination upon a free silver or broad guage platform.

In the afternoon session Governor St. John spoke for the free silver plank, declaring he would vote for free silver, not only because he considered it right, but because his constituents instructed him to, and the debate continued until nearly 6 o'clock when a vote was finally reached, which resulted 387 for and 427 against the plank. The victory of the narrow guage faction and the defeat of free silver were greeted with wild applause, and it was some time before the convention was able to proceed with the consideration of the platform. The broad guage element left the convention hall late last night and organized a rump convention in another hall. Eleven state chairmen were among the bolters and 24 states are represented.

They are today considering the formation of a new party and a motion to adopt a platform and nominate candidates for president and vice president. Mr. Moore of Nebraska is presiding. Among the prominent bolters are Helen M. Gougar of Indiana, ex-Gov.

John P. St. John, R. S. Thompson of Ohio.

editor of the New Era: John Lloyd Thomas of New York and L. B. Logan of Ohio. A motion to name the new party the National party was lost. Pittsburg, May new national committee of the Prohibition party was in session until nearly 4 o'clock this morning completing arrangements for the campaign.

Nominations for chairman resulted in the re-election of Samuel A. Dickie. Other officers were elected as follows: Vice chairman, James A. Tate, Tennessee: W. T.

Warwell, New York, secretary; Samuel D. Hastings, Wisconsin, treasurer. Members of the executive committee in addition to the four officers, A. A. Stevens, Pennsylvania: Wm.

Karskadden, West Virginia; John Hipp, Colorado; Volney Cushing, Maine. The selection of a place for permanent headquarters of the committee was referred to the executive commit- tee. Bolters Take Action. Pittsburg, May seventyfive members, including the leaders of the new National party organized last night by the bolters from the Prohibition convention, met at the Central hotel today and arranged for a vigorous campaign. Nearly $2,000 was subscribed to meet the expenses.

Mrs. Helen Gougar, Mrs. Richards of Ohio, T. B. Logan of Ohio, who acted as chairman, Candidate Bentley St.

John and others made addresses. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. C. W. Jewell to Mrs.

Sarah M. Bodwell. Ontario county, New York, lots 253 and 255 Topeka avenue, $2,700. Elizabeth A. Moore to James A.

Swan, lots 160, 162 and south one-half lot 158, Parkdale street, $200; mortgage, $75. Cox Gets Nothing. The jury found for the defendant in Charles Cox's $2,000 damage suit in the district court against the Rock Island. Cox was in a bridge gang and had his hand smashed by a heavy timber while working in Riley county. He was the only witness in his own behalf, "while the railway had a number who testified that the accident was due to Cox's own negligence.

Seven Year Old Mortgage. E. R. Worthington has begun foreclosure suit against Cornelia Curry et al. on a mortgage of $800, dated December 12, 1889, defaulted June 12, 1895.

Saturday's Sixteen Pages. The enlarged edition of the TOPEKA' DAILY STATE JOURNAL for the two Saturdays has struck such a popular chord among readers and advertisers that the feature--although expen- sive--may be continued and twelve sixteen pages be published sometimes on Saturdays, instead of the regular eight pages, all for ten cents At any rate, without making any ises for the future: Saturday's State Journal will again be 16 PAGES, TOMORROW. The regular circulation the JOURNAL does not as a rule run any larger for any one particular day week than another, that to say, the subscribers, and that means practically everybody in Topeka and large ber nearly everywhere in Kansas seen the STATE JOURNAL wires known busy "Every Day and Sunday, too." They can't afford miss it single issue, because that is a day lost. They read it Monday, continent. They read it Tuesday.

They read it Wednesday. They read it Thursday. along They read it Friday. They read it Saturday. They read it Sunday- they read Saturday's issue and Sunday.

There is so the paper Saturday that people or prefer not to, read it all evening, so they read Sunday, OF THE Today's paper is a "Great ler." So is every day's STATE NAL. has Tomorrow's Issue will be more than usually teresting. 'change beginning. to tell We can't begin you all contain. We don't know ourselves, because thousands of words come as usual all day tomorrow man can foretell just what will be, it but you can depend upon the NAL will have daily what's going house.

be stopping Topeka, Kansas, United States World in General. We don't make any great splurge advertising for tomorrow, but people want the space and to accommodate them all--at reasonable rates and we believe they all erally get their money back, more, too. injured A few of the Interesting Things for Tomorrow are: into house. However, Fifteen columns or more of terest to the ladies. Numerous illustrations--The Silk Novelties Outing Dresses Evening Wear--Silk Waists -Pictures and will that cre- enough criptions.

The Great Pleasure Resorts Rich. Where the Goulds, the Astors, returning the Rockefellers, the Morgans homes Vanderbilts take recreation. Fabulous sums they spend. A million dollar house. into The Silver Dick Bland.

How he lives loss after and why he wants to be president. A whole page of humorous and items. "Laugh and the laughs with you," you The extra pages we run sometimes Saturday are for the benefit regular subscribers -we for good measure--and for. advertisers who desire to take the advantage Shephard, presented. A Steady Growth.

By the way, to repeat ready pretty familiar: HOW WE GROW: In 1885 the circulation January 1, 1891, were Daily average for 1891... Daily average for year Daily average for year 1893... Daily average for year 1894.. Daily average for year 1895... Daily average for March, Daily average for April, 1896...

Daily aver. week ending May 22...11,070 Daily aver. week ending May 28...11,279 Issue for Thursday, May 28, Louis storm editions, ...13,220.