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oil i i Invariably in Advance. DXJM YIYIMUS VI VOMITS. Per Annum, NEOSHO RAPIDS, LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7, 1885. VOL.

I. NO. 1(. B. F.

BEELAR, WH. A. WEBB. Editors, HE TURKEY'S TROUBLE. A BAD TUPK.

THE CROWNING EVENT. Thk confirming of the sentence recently NEWS OF THE WEEE. KANSAS STATE SEWS. The Reunion. The great reunion of veterans at To-peka was the grandest affair that the Capital City ever witnessed.

Twenty-five thousand veterans were in camp. The address, of welcome was delivered by Governor Martin, and many prominent speakers were present from different parts of tho country. The banner over the main entrance to the grounds was of very appropriate design. It extended across both main gates, being 20 feet in length, by feet in width. The design was an arch rest ng on two foundation stones labeled Liberty and Equality." On these the arch extended upward, being composed of the representations of stones, each of which bore the name of a State, all the States being represented and indiscriminately mingled.

The keystone of thi3 arch was the Stars and Stripes. In the semicircle below the arch was the words, "U-olnninn to Camii Grant." while on Dr. Paake.v, State Veterinarian, was Vandalia, 111., recently, where he had been investigating an outbreak of glanders, and repents having killed six horses in that town and says the glanders in its most violent form is unquestioned. Catal Davis had a fight in the Torres Mountains September 25 with twenty or twenty-fivo bucks and killed one and injured several. He had one scout killed and one wounded.

The Indians were apparently going to the Gaudeloupe canyon. The Kansas Veterans, G. A. K-, met at Topaka on the JOth, with an estimated attendance of The address of welcome was made by Governor Martin. Information: received at Prescott, from Clifton of the Indian depredations was recently so alarming that the Governor issued a general order calling out the militia for active service.

A AitMER named Wells, living near Palmer, 111., was gored recently by an infuriated bull. The bull was driven oir his prostrate body by a herd of horses, attracted by his cries for help. A. L. a merchant of Alma, was killed by Indians fifty miles west of Silver City, N.

on the 2Sth. Seven In The Powers Exerting Their Inflaenes to Prevent Wr Turkey iu So Condition to Fight. Viexxa, October 2. M. Brattaino, the Roumanian Prime MirfBter, who has had an Interview with Emperor Francis Joseph and Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Foreign Minister, respecting the attitude of Kou-mania in the event of war between Turkey and Bulgaria, has left this city to confer with Prince Bismarck, after which lie will visit the Czar.

His mission is for the purpose of having Roumania considered inviolable and accorded rights similar to those enjoyed by Belgium if hostilities should break out The opinion gains ground that the crisis is extending, and unless the Powers intervene at once war is inevitable. The Porte, as a precautionary measure to prevent the reduction of supplies in the event of war with Bulgaria, has issued an order prohibiting the exportation of cereals. Constantinople, October 2. The am bassadors met yesterday to consider the Roumelian question at the residence of Count Corti, the Italian ambassador, but adjourned without transacting any business of "an important nature, several of the ambassadors having not yet received formal instructions from their respective Governments. The Porte has sent a circular to the powers protesting against the recent action of Prince Alexander in dismissing the Mussulmm inhabitants of Roumelia.

An edict has been issued ordering theTurk-ish troops to i.iass at Adrianople. Large numbers of Russians are crossing the fron- tier to join the Bulgarians. London, October 2. The Times correspondent at Constantinople thus summarizes Turkey's position: Turkey has no army ready to march, no stores, 110 money in the Treasury, no administrative energy. She must submit to the inevitable.

The powers have resolved to compensate Servia if the Porte accepts the union between Bulgaria and Roumelia. The Servian Government has 80,000 men under arms. It is feared that the King must attempt a coup de main before the conference is concluded, because the finances of the country are unable to stand the present heavy drain. The people of Greece are sending petitions to King George, asking him to pursue a vigorous policy in connee-tiion with the Roumelian revolution, i Berlin, October 2. The result of the recent interviews between M.

De Giers and Prince Bismarck will be to restrain Servia, Greece Montenegro from attacking Turkey, otherwise Austria wo-ild certainly make a bold strike for Salonica and possibly for Constantinople, and make a blaze in Russia which would end in an European war. St. Petersburg, October 2. Russian journals express the opinion that the conference of the Ambassadors at Constantinople on the Roumelian question will be resultless. The Czar has called a meeting of the Governors of the various provinces to be held during the present month iu order to confer with them respecting 1.

internal condition of Russia. SPECIAL DELIVERY. The SerTice In Operation the Stamp. Washington, October 1. What historian of the future will characterize as a remarkable stride in the development of postal facilities goes into effect to-day, when the new special delivery system becomes operative.

Among the towns to which the system will apply are: In Iowa, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Creston, Des Moines, Iowa Par.ids, Clinton, Davenport, Dubuque. Fort Madison, Keokuk, Lyons, MarshaJtown, Muscatine, Oskaloosa and Ottumwa. In Missouri, Kansas City, Springfielu and a large number of minor points. Under the system, a letter deposited in the post-omce and bearing a ten cent stamp, in addition to the ordinary two cents postage, will be immediately delivered by messenger bo-s mi-ployed for that purpose. This innovation will be a great advantage to the towns which hitherto have been compelled to depend upon the slow and unsatisfactory service of the district messenger companies, while it will be a still greater convenience to the many smaller, towns, which hitherto have hid no en- svsteni of any kind.

Tl leliv 1 1 7-cob Immediate delivery stamp b- inches in size, and of a dark the left is an arched figure of a mail messeng 1 and rarnounted by panci bea ring boy 011 the ru r'ts "Unitet States, an oblon? tablet ornamented w-t-Uh ot oai and laurel, and sir oui iiintf the words "Secures immediate deiiv-." a special delivery office." Across the top is the legend "Special postal delivery," and at the bottom the words "ten separated by a small shield bearing the numeral According to advices received, probably the first letter bearing this stamp, to be deposited in any post-office in the country, was mailed at thirty seconds past midnight this morning, at the Chicago post-office, by Hunt's News Bureau. It was addressed to W. A. Taylor, city editor of the HcraUl of that city, and delivered to the addressed at ten minutes past seven this morning, the delivery hours being trom seven a. m.

until midnight. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. The Special Wea'her Bulletin Shows Sncl. to be the Case in Southern States. Washington, October 2.

The special weather bulletin for September was issued yesterday from the Weather Bureau. It notes the following extraordinary rainfall: A great excess of rainfall in the Southern States, and especially on the Gulf and Georgia coasts, also in North Florida, an-other area of great excess covers the Ohio Valley, Missouri and Eastern The excess in the above named was Galveston, 19.8 inches; New Orleans, 9.3 inches; Vicksburg, 6.2; Mobile, 4.2; Jacksonville, 12.4 inches; Savannah, 6.8 inches; Atlanta, 3.8. Ordinarily five or six inches is the rainfall for this section of the country. During the 4th and 5th of September at Galveston eight inches of water fell, and from the 16th to the 21st 15 inches, bein probably the most remarkable rainfall on record. In the Middle Atlantic States, New England, In Northern Wisconsin and Michigan deficiencies in rainfall are noted, Killed by Renegades.

Tombstone, A. October 2. A mau named Keating was killed by Ap es ves-terday in White Trail Canyon. The K'i was found half a mile from his house. He was shot under the arm, and his head v.

a mashed with stones. A man Shana-han, and Mrs. Macf, servants on ran can't be found. Hatfield's command of forty cavarry and five Apache scouts, passed through Tombstone en route to Fort Grant" They have come from Copper Canyon, after service in Sonora. They look jaded and worn, and the whole outfit shows unmistakable signs ot rough service, hardship and fatigue.

Their reported fight with rea pgrides is not confirmed. The Great Soldiers' Kennlon Closes With a Grant! Street Paradu and Sliara Battle. Tor-EKA, October 2. Yesterday the reunion of the Grand Army division of Kansas closed, and it was the grandest and greatest ever held on Kansas soil. So large a number of veterans were never assembled together at a State reunion.

The procession was the principal feature of the programme. Lincoln Post, No. 1, of Topeka, chew up in single file inside of the mammoth arch Tvhich crosses Kansas avenue iu front 4)f the Windsor, and received the entire procession as it passed. So far as all that goes to make np a camp of veterans is concerned, the present encampment has been a great success. Reunions of Grand Armies States and regiments have been held and in many instances companies found enough members to hold reunions.

Ixng before ten o'clock the special trains, street cars, wagons and carriages began pouring a stream of people into the camp until there seemed to be scarcely room for another person 011 the immense grounds. At eleven o'clock the divisions formed and started, taking up the line of inarch for the city. The column was formed as follows: order of procession. Hush's Zouaves. Bullene Guards Drum Corps.

General Fuller and Staff. Third lti'giment liaiul. Third Regiment Companies 11, II, A. G. D.

Fourth Kesriuient Rand. Fourth Regiment Drum Corps. Fourth ltejriuicnt Companies II, F. i. li.

General Roberts and Staff, liftriinpnt Italltl. First lteifiinent Companies H. K. Second It eminent Band. Second iiegiment Drum Corps.

Second Kesrimcnt Companies D. K. H. H. Gener and Staff.

Mother ltieken! ami President and Secretary Woman's Kelief Corps. Mexican Veterans. Department Commander M.Stewart and Statf. Dispatch Hand, i lay. Center.

Ex-l'risoners of War. I. O. O. F.

Hand, l'eahoity. Pollock Post, G. A. Xo. 42.

Feahodv Post. G. A. No. Past Commander Walkinshaw and Stair.

Wamcgo Corr.et Hand. Wamego Post. (i. A. No.

3S. Monitor Post. G. A. No.

2Sf. lola Post. G. A. K-.

No. 30. Hiawatha Post. G. A.

R-Oskaloosa Cornet Hand. Commander W. H. Pond and Staff. Fort Scott Drum Corps.

Caslin Post, G. A. No. 117. Franklin Relief Corps.

Franklin Post, G. A. R.t No. lfi. McCook Post, G.

A. No. 51. Pleasanton Cornet Hand. General K.

It. Burnett and Stai. Mound City Drum Corps. Gilpatrick Post, G. A.

No. ISO. lturnside Post Drum Corps. Burnside Post. G.

A. Wyandotte. Moulton Post, G. A. No.

10. Washington Drum Corps. Washington Post, G- A. No. 12.

Buckskin Hand, Arkansas City. Windfield Juvenile Hand. Daughters of Veterans. Sherman's Hummers Co'iir de Leon lianii. Parsons.

Mound Citv Post, G. A. R-. No. 1S.

Yates Center Hand. Woodson Post, G. A. No. 95.

Rurtinsrton Drum Corps. Allison Post. G. A. No.

1. Sons of Veterans. Commander Fourth Rrisrade and Staff. Knights of Pythias Rand. Einpona, Eskriilge Post.

G. A. No. 75. Chalk Mound Post.

G. A. No. SMS. Lvndon Post.

G. A. No. 10. Rice Post, (J.

A- K-, No. 71. Osage City Hand. Second Kansas Veterans. McPherson Drum Corps.

Kansas City. Scott Rifles, Kansas City. Wagner Post, G. A. No.

K5. Independence, Mo. Holden Post, G. A. R-, No.

63, Holden Mo. Colonel rover Post, Warrensburg, Mo. hilhowie Post, Chilhowie, Mo. Fifth Kansas Veterans. Sixth Kansas Veterans.

Seventh Kansas Veterans. Atchison Cornet Hand. Eighth Kansas Veterans. Twenty-fifth Illinois Veterans. Ninth Kansas Veterans.

Atchison Drum Corps. Tenth Kansas Veterans. First Kansas Hattcry Veterans. Eleventh Kansas Veterans. Twelfth Kansas Veterans.

Sixteenth Kausa- Veterans. Lvons Post, G. A. It. AiWiison.

Junction City Drum Corps. Junction Citv Post, ti. A. M- J32-Lew Grove Post, G. A.

No. 132. Abilene Drum Corps. Abilene Post, (i. A.

No. 63. Clav Center Veterans. Henderson Post, G. A.

No. S3. Miltonvale Post, G. A. No.

109. Beloit Post, ii. A. No. 147.

General A. L. and Staff. Kingold band. Hutch nson.

Joe Hooker Post, G. A. No. 17. Newton Drum Corvs.

Meade Post, (i. A. No. 14 Belle Plaine Post, G. A.

No. 337. James Shield Post. A. No.

37. Ellenwood Cornet Hand. Newton Post, G. A. No.

Valley Center Post. G. A. No. 3o.

Silver Lake Post, G. A. No. Topeka Cornet Hand. Fort Pillow Post, G.

A. No. 4. Jesse Nelson Post, G. A.

No. 62. Seventh Kansas Veteran Cavalry (on foot.) Old Soldiers and Citizens in Carriages. A number of G. A.

li. posts, represented in Camp Grant, failed to fall in as organizations, the members present attaching themselves to other posts. The display was a grand one, much better than was anticipated an hour before the march commenced. At the time of starting it seemed that all the citizens of the city were on the camp grounds, but when the column arrived in the citv Kansas avenue on both sides was lined with people, from Third street to Tenth street The four miles traveled was accomplished in a little over an hour. Returning to Camp Grant at noon, the different divisions paraded the camp, marching and countermarching, and finally broke up, and were resolved into groups saying farewell, as indeed it will be to many of them.

THE SHAM BATTLE. The sham battle in the afternoon was one of the features of the day, and was wiN nessed bv 75,000 people. Only one accident occurred, and tiiis at the close of the battle. Walter Oliver, private, Company Third Regiment, had ioaded and cocked his gun and brought it to order, when it exploded, the blank shell tearing all the flesh off his arm and injuring him quite seriously. GOOD-BYE.

At the last camp fire in the evening ad dresses were delivered by Congressmen E. H. Funston, B. C. Perkins, ex-Oovernor George T.

Anthony and others, and after a general hand-shaking the great reunion of 1885 was at a close. The Charter Oak Company. Hartford, October 2. Hearing on the application of the appointment of a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company was begun yesterday afternoon before Judge Granger of the Supreme Court. The application was made by Ephraim Williams, Insurance Commissioner, on the alleged impairment of the assets of the company to the extent, lie believed, of more than twenty-five per ceut After some preliminaries the hearing was adjourned 'until three weeks from next Monday.

An Ottoman AYho Undoubtedly Would Prefer a Resilience in Canada. London, October A dispatch from Constantinople, received yesterday after noon, says: Considerable consternation prevails in official circles over the important discovery just made by Alibi-Sahub-Pasha, the new Minister of War. Immediately on being installed in his new position, Alibi-Sahub-Pasha ordered all the various department commanders to report the strength of their respective commands and their present condition and detailed several officers to inspect the various posts. Their reports have been received and show that under Ghazei Osman Pasha, late "Minister of War, who was dismissed September 25, the army was almost entirely neglected and large sums of money voted for military purposes were used in other ways than those for which they were meant. Inquiry has revealed that the Adrianople army, which was supposed to be 15,000 strong, contains not half (hat number.

The soldiers have no uniforms and are shoeless. The -cavalry is unable to owing to lack of horses and necessary accoutrements. Four hundred horses and 2,000 men, who have been fully equipped, are under orders to march at an hour's notice. Four ironclads are actively preparing for sea, but there are only 000 tons of coal available, and their departure may possibly be delayed on that account. Yesterday Turkish troops made an attack on the Roumelian outposts at Mustopah Pasha, a town in Roumelia twenty miles northwest of Adrianople.

The outposts were immediately reinforced, and a skirmish ensued, in which the Turks were defeated and forced to retreat, carrying with them a number of wounded. FICKLE WOMAN. A Young Lad-of ew Haven, Marries the Other Fellow. New HiiAVEX, October 1. No event has agitated New Haven society for many years to such an extent as has the elopement of Miss Honora Harwood, the youngest daughter of Dr.

Edward Harwood, rector of Trinity Church in this city, and Truman Hemingway, of New York City. The couple were married yesterday in jersey City. Miss Harwood was to have been married" Wednesday next in this city, to Mr. Pruyens a young gentleman of Albany, X. who is reported to be worth Si, 000.000.

Great preparations were made for the weeding. Invitations were issued, and ushers selected and the costumes were made. The wedding promised to be the most brilliant and notable that has taken place in this city for years. But little is known of Mr. Hemingway in this city.

He was formerly in ordinary circumstances but is said to have recently inherited 300,000. Two years ago Miss Harwood spent the season with her family at Mount Desert. While there she met the gentleman who is linked with her in this affair. The young lady is twentv-two vears of age and has been a great "favorite in Haven society. After the ceremony yesterday, the bride dispatched copies of her marriage certificate to her father, in this city, and to her be-Uolheu, hi Albany, together with the announcement that she and her husband were to sail for Europe 011 the steamer Werra, of the Bremen line.

Dr. and Mrs. Harwood are said to be prostrated by their daughter's strange action. THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. Restrictions on the Importation of Chinamen A Tassport System.

Washington, October 1, United States Minister Merrill has sent to the Department of State copies of regulations recently promulgated by the Hawaiian Kingdom, controlling the immigration of Chinese. In substance they are as follows: No vessel will be allownd to land more than twenty-five Chinese passengers at any port in the kingdom, unless the passengers in excess of that number are provided with passports entitling them to enter. Passports, entitling the holders to return to the kingdom, wiil be granted to persons of Chinese nationality now resident, or who may hereafter be ome residents of the islands; provided such persons have been engaged in trade or have conducted some industrial enterprise during at least a year of their residence. No rptiirn nassiiorts will be given to Chii.ese -aborers leaving the island: Passports will granted at the Oilice, Consular onM-Shanghai and Chinese woman islands, and the also by "His Majesty's cers at Hong Kong, San Francisco to any flpsirinsr to come to the Chinese children whose parents are residing in the kingdom or who may not be more than ten years of age. Passports entitling the holder to enter the kingdom will also be granted at the Foreign Otlice to such persons of Chinese nationality as the Minister of Foreign Affairs may claim it proper to admit to the kingdom.

A LIGHTNING INSPECTOR. A Special Agent Woo Lowers the Record 011 Inspecting Indian Agencies. Washington, September 30. Special Agent Armstrong, of ne Interior Department, has returned to Washington on leave for a few days to consult with Indian Commissioner Atkins and Secretary Lamar. General Armstrong was sent to the Indian Territory at the time the cattle men were ordered off the public lands.

After he had performed this mission he went rapidly through a number of agencies, inspecting about seven inside of two weeks. His reports are regarded as models of iu-telligen: and comprehensive statements at the Department, but evidences of more study and time in their preparation would o-ive them greater weight General Armstrong finds fault with the radical change? made in the removal of certain agents and their clerks, and the substitution of new men without training or experi- fcence to administer me auaus peiuiunns to such places, lie recommenus xne instruction of agents or clerks separately, so that each can get the benefit of instruction from those who are acquainted with the Indians to be managed. He makes a number of other recommendations, which have not yet been fully examined, owing to the rush" with which his reports have been showered upon the department He will be ordered West agaiu in a short time, with the intimation to proceed more deliberately. The Assassin Unknown. Fokt Smith, October 1.

A special from Fayettesville, says: Fred Pye-att, a prominent citizen of Hindesville, fourteen miles east of here, was shot and killed by an unknown party at an early hour this morning. It seems that Pyeatt was jealous about his wife, and consequently did not get along with her. Yesterday evening they both left home and remained away all night Pyeatt returned home about daylight this Morning, and shortly afterward was found lying in the house dead, with a bullet hole in back. His assassin is unknown bjt he evidently apprehended trouble, and had carried a pistol for somebody. passed on the Socialist Von Ammorn, at Amsterdam, created a riot mei-u iocoiiuj, during which a large number of parsons ere more or less injured.

Lord Salisbury, Mr. Gladstone, the Duke of Argyle and Mr. W. L. Fprster have received telegrams from the Rouinel-ians entreating them to recognize the union of Roumelia and Bulgaria.

OrPKRMANX Brothers, electric light engineers, with a house in London and one in Chicago, have become bankrupt, labilities and assets not stated. The Canadian customs authorities have been apprised of an extensive smuggling trade in coal which has been going on for some time past between Ogdensburg and Morrislown on one side and Prescott and Brockville on the other. The Kildzart (Ireland) League at a spe cial meeting resolved to boycott McCardy, Resident Magistrate ot Belfast, and Mrs. Morgan O'Couuell, a niece of the Liberator, for refusing to reduce rent 25 per cent. Marshal Serrano, of Spain, was reported on the 2StU as dangerously ill.

The municipal authorities of Madrid have extended the right of suffrage to women. A recent dispatch from Mozambique stated that the French under Admiral Miot were defeated in an engagement with the Hovas iu Madagascar, and had to fall back to Tamatave. The Cuban tobacco crop for this year ill be not only larger than that for many former years but of far better quality. False Point, India, which was thought to have had the best harbor between Calcutta and Bombay, was struck by a storm wave September 22, and. swept so completely that most of the inhabitants perished.

The mercantile failures in tho United States for the quarter ended September 30 numbered 2,173, against 2,340 in the corresponding quarter of 181. The lia! ili-ties showed a remarkable decline, amounting to 2:1,800,000 against iu the third quarter of 1884. Ir as stated that the riot in Montreal was due to the perver3eness of the Board of Aldermen. The better class of French Canadians were disgusted with the work of the anti -vaccination mob. A French transport full of soldiers waiting to pass through the Suez Caual has been forbidden to enter the canal, on ac count of the prevalence of cholera on board.

A dispatch from Whydah, West Coast of Africa, dated September 28, says: It i3 reported the commander of a Portuguese gunboat has arranged to buy 1,200 slaves from the King of Dahomey, to work on a coffee plantation at St. Thomas, on an island in the Gulf of Guinea, belonging to Portugal. A band of Mussulman and Christian brigands, near Smyrna, have captured a Englishman named Fred Charnaud. They maud ransom. HeaV ''oods were reported recently in the eastern t.

rtiou cf Switzerland. Much damage was done. Turkish trcops fired on the Roumelian outposts at M.istapha Pasha, a town iu Roumelia, twenty miles northwest of Adrianople, on toe 20th. A skirmish ensued in which the Turks were defeated. A Largs fire occurred iu Iquique, Ecuador, the other night, and the most important quarter of thb town was destroyed.

Very few of the con. uiercial establishments escaped. The late Turkisb Minister of War, Ghozei Osman Pashjt. was reported guilty of such extensive embezzlements that the army was half French Canadian nobs were reported on the 30th tearing dovn small-pox placards in Montreal and b-ating isolated militiamen, but no riots were attempted. The epidemic was increasiug in virulence, about 250 deaths occurring in the city and suburbs in four days.

1 THK LATKUT. TiiE business failures for week ended October 1 were: United States, 171; Can- 1 ada, 25; total, 100; as compared with 185 the week previous. Ihe estern and Pacific States furnished over half the casualties. The Pope has approved a decree of the Congregation establishing an Episcopal see in Nebraska and the Rev. Dr.

O'Connor, the present Vicar Apostolic, has been created Bishop of Omaha. -r- agytt It was reported iu Washington that the President and members of his Cabinet would attend the Virginia State Fair, to be held at Richmond, on the 22d if the pressure of public business does not prevent. The Protestant Episcopal Convention of the diocese of New York declined to adopt the amendment of the prayer book proposed by Dr. Richey by a vote of 103 to 105. A committee was appointed to lay the matter before the General Convention.

In a trotting race at Cleveland, Harry Wilkes defeated Phallas in three heats, winning the $2,000 purse and 90 per cent, of the gate receipts. Time, The schooner Wheeler foundered off Grand Marais, recently, in forty fathoms of water. Her crew was saved, but there was no time to save the clothing. William Heath stock brokers of New York, suspended on the 2d. Liabilities amounted to nearly $2,000,000.

Henry N. Smith also failed for $200,000. The two firms were partly connected in stock operations, and the failure of the one dragged down the other. The Government cruiser Chicago, the heaviest vessel ever built at Roach's shipyard, has settled on the ways to such an extent that workmen have had to shove her up to prevent accident. Edward McSweeney, the Irish suspect, who has been an applicant for a position in the customs service at San Francisco, has withdrawn his papers from the Treasury Department.

The President has issued an executive order directing Dr. E. O. Shakespeare, of Pennsylvania, to proceed to Spain and other countries in Europe where cholera exists and make investigation of the causes, progress and proper prex ration and cure of the disease. In a recent prize fight at Pittsburgh, peppor was thrown into the eyes of one of the pugilists, who was getting the best of the contest, blinding him.

His seconds raised the question of "foul," which was allowed, and the affair broke up in a general row. Seventeen men and boys were fearfulbr scalded by an explosion recently at Clark iron works, Pittsburgh, by the rupture of a urum. Several of the injured, it was thought, could not possibly Gleaned by Telegraph end Mail NOTES, The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics reports the number of arrivals of immigrants to the United exclusive of those c-oming by way of Canada ami Mexico as follows: For the eight months ending August 31 last, For the corresponding period of lust year, Thk Postmaster General has rendered a decision that the salary of postal employes can not be attached for debt. AJASSTZ has found it necessary to decline the office of Superintendent of tho Const Survey because of duties already resting upon The decision is greatly regretted liy th" 1'resident. tiKCUKTARY KXIXS has accepted -tho resignation of lioraco G.

Jackson, Assistant Supervising Architect. KEfiiETARY recently said he intended in his forthcoming report to recoil. mend to Cong-ess largely increased (appropriations for tho Equipment and Ordnance Departments of the Washington Navy Yard, with a view to making it a central deport for supplies. The work of construction would be centered in. other yards.

THK KAST. The moulders and other employes of the Vision Stove Works of l'eekskill, N. to the number of three hundred, have struck for an increase of ten per cent, in their wages. A Someisskt, dispatch says: officers have captured an illicit distillery in the mountains, and destroyed the apparatus and the liquors. lloolistcttor and others operating the distillery escaped.

A collision- occurred on the Heading Railroad, near Tuckerton, the other night, caused, it is said, by an (pen switch. Both engines were badly demolished, and about eighty coal cars were niled no in a confused mass. The loss was probably Shortly after hr marriuge to Frederick A. Cower, of Brooklyn, Mi Lillian Norton, the singer, applied fordivoroe on the ground of abuse. The case came to a startling termination.

Wlijle in Paris recently he as tempted to make a voyage in a balloon. Neither the balloon nor Gower have been heard of since. Thk William Dale Company, Boston, manufacturers of blankets, failed for .7 of which sum is secured by hypothecations. At the Onondaga (N. County Agricultural Fair, recently, Marshall A.

Bishop and Miss Fmma It. Knapp, of Lafayette, were publicly married on a raised platform. The ceremony was witnessed by at least pie. Ax application has been made for the appointment of a receiver for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn. The Company got into a bad condition financially about eight years ago soon after the erection of a building for its ollices costing nearly I.

T. BAitxt has brought suit for ill damages against tho Hartford (Conn.) for publishing a statement to the general effect that the elephant .1 umbo was and that Barnum had contrived at having him killed by a railroad engineer for advertising purposes. It is stated the Bank Examiner who has been iavestigatiug the affairs of theFarm-inghani (Mass.) Savings Bank, whose cashier, Coleman Adams, committed suicide last August, has discovered that Adams was a defaulter to the extent of jri.hiil. A dispatch from Pittsburgh, of the 2Sth, says: The river miners' is now in its fourth week with no indication of an early settlement of the trouble. The follow ing ticket was nominated by the Massachusetts Greenbackers on the 21'th at Boston: Governor, James Sumner, of Milton; Lieutenant Governor, James M.

Buffum, of Lynn; Secretary of State, II. W. K. Eastman, of Lawrence: Treasurer and Receiver, General Walton Harmon, of Boston; Auditor, A. II.

Wool, of Lunenburg; Attorney General, A. F. Hall, of Hudson. Messrs. Sol'TTEit bankers ami brokers, doing business at No.

11 Wall street, New York, made an assignment recently for the benefit of their creditors. Lucius Barker, the oldest cotton cloth manufacturer in Connecticut, died in Mansfield recently of softening of the brain, aged seveatv-seveu. He left an estate of I 1,00:1. The Hon. Lyman A.

Cook, of Woon-socket, K. has made an assignment His assets are unknown. Vice-President Hendricks addressed tho New Jersey State Firemen's Association at Paterson on the 1th. One of the crew of the steamer Craig-hill, recently arrived at Boston, is at quarantine very siek with yellow fever, having contract eil it on the voyage from Mexico, and three others are down with the disease. Charles Broadwlll, a cutter in the employ of Hution Son, manufacturers of flannels, Philadelphia, was arrested the other day on the charge of stealing flannel to the aggregate value of The other afternoon Prof.

J. E. DeLcou, of Springiield, walked across the river at Portage, N. on a tight rope stretched oW feet from side to side at a distance of 200 feet above the rocky bed and directly aliove the falls. The meeting of General Passenger Agents at New York has adopted the report of the Presidents upon the reorganization of pools and resumption of rates.

THE WKST. Avery destructive prairie fire started near Traverse, on the 27th. A man set fire to some waste straw, and before the fire was through, houses, barns, hay, grain and farm machinery, for miles northward, were destroyed. The guards at the New Castle mines, near Seattle. AV.

were overpowered by a mob recently and the Chinamen at work driven away. Governor Marjiaduke, of Missouri, vetoed the selaction of Boonville as a site for the proposed branch penitentiary. The strike at the Cleveland (O.) rolling mills ended on the 26th by the men returning to work at the Juca prices, the company to employ as many of the old hands and whom it liked. Dispatches from California and Wyoming, of the 2Sth, expressed general fears of a concertsd against the Chinese in various cities. either corner at the ends and above were the mottoes "Our Country One Arch, and its Keystone the Flag." Over the entrance gate and hanging from the banueiwas a flag, on either side of which in national colors appeared the G.

A. R. badge. The Kansas Natioual Guards, comprising thirty-two companies of infantry and one battalion, in all four regiments, were in camp on the grounds and presented a flue appearance. General Black Commissioner of Pensions, who had accepted an invitation to be present and address the veterans, was absent.

A telegram had been received, however, announcing death of his daughter and his inability to be present, and resolutions of condoleuce and sympathy were passed and ordered forwarded to General Black. Altogether the old soldiers had a most enjoyable time mid will lonsr remember with pleasure the 1 camp-fires that burned so brightly at their reunion of 1885. iscel Lineous. A car-load of watermelons, consisting of 1,075 and weighing an average of forty pounds each, was receutly shipped to Kansas Cif.v from Lawrence. The Secretary of State has lately been doing a lively business the way of granting charters to new tow companies.

The mystery of the recent poisoning of Mrs. Williams at Leavenworth is yet unexplained. It is stated that the lady, who was noted for her economy, had saved her earnings, and had about $400 sewed in the mattress on which she and her husband slept. The money can not be found. The cost of analyzing the stomach, liver and kidneys at the State University will be about $200, and, as the Coroner does not think the county can afford that expense, Mr.

Williams, the husband of the dead woman, has offered to pay it and the analyzing will go on. The husband and ife were each insured for $3,000 for the other's benefit in the Home Life Association, of Burlington, Iowa. The arrest of Abe Waller in Nashville, for assistiug in the attempted robbery of an Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe express train at Coolidge. near the western line of this State, in September, 1883, caused some excitement in the western part of the State. Waller arrived in the State recently in charge of a special officer.

He admitted that he was one of the three men, but claimed he was not the man who shot the engineer. It is stated that the principal in the murder and attempted robbery has been under arrest some time, which fact has been kept quiet. As the two arrested have confessed, there is no doubt about their guilt. A corps of civil engineers are engaged in making a survey of a line of proposed railway from St. Joseph south to Rush-ville, four miles east of Atchison, where the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad crosses the Missouri River Valley.

As the City Council of Atchison recently granted the Rock Island a right Jof way through that city with a view tj an ex tension of its line southwest into Kansas tue appearance of the surveyors, it was thought, indicated that the company would accept the franchise and build the southwest extension. A Topeka dispatch states that it has been ascertained that the bonds voted the Denver, Memphis Atlantic Railway along the projected line from Baxter Springs to Kingman are worthless inasmuch as they were voted for a standard gauge railway, whereas the Denver, Memphis Atlantic, on account of a defect in their charter, have no legal existence except as a narrow gauge railway. Their old charter was under the name of the Denver, Memphis Atlantic Narrow Gauge Railway, and, instead of filing a new charter, the stockholders voted to change the corporate name to the Denver, Memphis Atlantic Railway, but neglected to change in the body of the charter the words "narrow gauge" into "standard gauge." A woman's suffrage club has been organized at Anthony with fifty -two members. The number of entries of all kinds made at the United State Land-office in Garden City during August was 2,638. The charters of the Methodist Episcopal Church of High Prairie, Douglas County, and the Norwich (Kingman County) Methodist Episcopal Church were filed recently.

A spark of fire from a blacksmith shop in Weir, Cherokee County, recently set fire to three or four kegs of powder a few feet away, which exploded, killing the blacksmith and tearing the shop into slivers. The Probate Judge of Shawnee County has revoked the liquor permits of two Topeka drug stores because they were selling entirely too much liquor, and did not comply with the law. The sales of liquor at these drug stores, though they did but an ordinary business in the drag line, were larger than any other stores in the county. Miss Hubbard, of Topeka, was run over by a train of cars, near Monument Station, on the Union Pacific Railroad, the other day and killed. Antelopes abound in Comanche County.

The charter of the Kansas Colorado Midland Railway was lately filed with the Secretary of State. Capital stock, estimated length of road, SCO miles; line of road, from Kansas City, to Denver, course of road, through the State of Kansas to the western boundary line of said State, thence through the State of Colorado to the city of Denver, with a branch diverging to the southern part of Kansas, via. Winfield, Jesse Crall; of Atchison, exhibited a number of fine horses at the different fairs in the State, and up to the present time has received SfrSli as premiums on the dians did the work. The full evidence, as reported by U. S.

Marshal Carr, shows that thirty-nine Chinese were killed in the Hock Springs riot. He did not anticipate a repetition of the riot. Forty $1,000 town bonds on'Mattoon, 111., were fouud in the possession of Tom Davis afi-T his murder by Holland, of Texas, in New York. Tho Supervisor of Mattoon has sent to Coroner Levy for one of the animation. stating a belief that they are counterfeit.

A special from Warm Springs, on says: One of the buildings of the insane asvlum burned yesterday, and imimtes nei ished in the flames. It is not known how the lire originated. The loiUinui of Chicago, says The mileage of the proposed new railroads those already in progress of construc tion is distributed as follows: New Middle Statts, Southern States, h.tll; Western mates, cine Slates, 4,137. Pa- Jonas II. Howe brought suit in Detroit for r- Ci.o iO damages against tho Free Vrcxs for the publication of charges made in the proceedings that he had entered for di voi ce.

The jury brought iu a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for six cents dam ages. Russell Hinckley a well-known miller and banker, of Belleville, 111., has made an assignment to Marshall W. Weir. His liabilities are estimated at $117,000. Assets large.

THK SOUTH. Sheriff J. C. Fkx.nell was shot and killed recently at Orange, while arresting a negro wanted for murder committed in Nashville, Tenn. Soon after a mob organized, marched to th jail and took the murderer out and hung him.

Two convicts were whipped at New Castle, the other morning in the preseuceof -00 spectators. Sewell Starkey, colored, stood one hour in the pillory and took twenty lashes for burglary. James Kirk, hite, took ten lashes for stealing railway switch keys. General Robert Ioombs, tue wen-kuown Southern statesman, was reported on the 27th as seriously sick. The friends of J.

L. Holland, who killed the sawdust swindler, Tom Davis, in New-York, have made up in Abilene, a purse of to help him in his troubles. Judge G. W. Ward was fired at recently in Abingdon, by Dr.

William White, Independent candidate for State Senator. Ward returned the fire, shooting at a relative of White's, whom he thought had shot him. While Ward was lying on the ground two other relatives of White shot him seven times, and he was supposed fatally wounded. Political animosity was the cause of tho shooting. Ward was ed itor of the Kj-fiiahti r.

3. N. Stivers, lata Postmaster of Mid-dleburg, Hardeman County, was arrested at Little Rock, recently by Post-otlice Inspector McGhee Williams for stealing letters. It was thought the Texas fever line would be established south of the Texas Pacific Railway in Texas. A dispatch from Louisville, says: The JctTersonville plate glass works has assigned.

The liabilities are not known, but are said to be largely in excess of the assets. A coxventiox of colored men assembled recently in Lynch urg, and issued an address declaring that the time had come for them to break from old party affiliations and think and act for themselves. GEXKKAL. The cholera has appeared at Nice, France, and eight deaths from the disease have already occurred there. The Governments of Turkey, Germany, France, Italy and Russia have consented to a conference on the- Roumelian question.

The clearing house returns for week ended Septemt er 20 showed an average decrease of 1.3 compared with the corresponding week of last year. The corn crop of the country for this year has been estimated at two billion bushels. Cablegrams have been received at St. Louis from London, stating that Samuel N. Brooks would soon start for St.

Louis to ascertain definitely whether the man now held in jail there as the murderer of C. Arthur Preller, and known variously as Hugh M. Brooks and Walter H. Lennox-Maxwell, is his son. Ix Sonora, recently, fifteen miles from San Pablo Mine, near Nacosari, Thomas G.

Andrews, James McDermott, Mrs. Belle Davis, of Tombstone, her boy Fred and J. A. Mateson were ambushed by Apaches. McDermott and Andrews were killed.

The boy Fred was wounded, but escaped. Mrs. Davis was captured, but Mateson escaped uuinjured. The Apaches numbered about thirty. Allahabad advices say that King The-baw, of Burmah, has been attempting to extert twenty-three lacs of rupees from the Bombay Timber Company.

Earl Duf-ferin has sent to the King a peremptory note asking for an explanation of his conduct. A mob of anti-vaccination people wrecked the Board of Health building in Montreal on the 2Sth, the day of the inauguration of compulsory vaccination. The mob also broke in the windows of other public buildings, but was finally disperse! by the police. Limbano Sanchez and Mougo Gonzales, Cubp.n reliel leaders, were killed recently by Spanish troops. li 0 1.