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no I Lebo Established. 1SS4. Lebo Courier LEBO, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1890. VOLUME VII. -NUMBER 2 jThie JU -Li Cg JJLVi CREAM OF THE NEWS, NOT UNTIL THE YEAR 1893.

Kansas Methodists. WHAT THE CHEROREES WANT High Waters. Cincinnati, March 22.The Ohio at KANSAS MATTERS. as soon as they arrive, while the boomers say they will hold what they have as long as it is possible. The first.

nnmW th I .1 1 Rev. C. Holman's minutes show among ther things that during the last year the preachers of this conference receiv ed $35,064, aside from which was naid into the benevolent fund of the cnurcn. There are 202 churches with a membership of 19,171 in the conference, and the church property, including parsonages, is vaiueu at $727,705. They also have 239 Sunday schools, with a total membership, including officers and teachers, of 19,171.

Carried Up. The case of Samuel Wilson, the Indian boy who was recently convicted of assault and battery, at iiasiceu ausuiuib, Lawrence, has been carried up. Wilson eiaims that lie being a ward of the govern ment has the same rights to be tried by United States court for an offense com mitted on these lands as a soldier would have for an offense committed on military grounds Legislative Rewards. Senator Plumb has introduced bills to pay George W. Graham $3, 7i8 for 426 tons of hav furnished the army Dy contract Fort Leavenworth in 1870; to pay G.

D. Humphrey of Emporia, $065 ad vanced by him while acting under orders of a United States officer in preventing illegal traffic in cattle and other stock from Indian territory. Kansas Charters. The Winfield real estate exchange asso ciation, of infield. Capital stock Directors: E.

P. Young, P. H. Albright, J. C.

Fuller, G. S. Manser, W. C. Robinson, Ordwav.

P. A. Huffman. F. Berkey, John A.

Eaton, W. J. Kennedy, E. M. Reynolds, H.

G. Fuller, E. S. Beui- lion, alter Denning and H. T.

Trice, all of Winlield. Kansas Chickens. California hucksters are scouring Doniphan county, Kansas, and are buying up all the chickens they can get at 6J cents a pound. An average chicken of the right kind of breed will weigh, upon reaching maturitv. say.

four pounds. A bushel of corn ought to produce a fowl of that size. That makes at least 25 cents a bushel for corn. A Manifold Official, The other dav C. H.

Lebold of Abilene resigned the following positions. Tne mayoralty of this city, the presidency of the Dickinson county immigration society, the presidency of the Abilene Ga3 compa ny, the presidency of the Abilene Improve ment company and the superintendency of of the Lutheran Sunday school. Kansas vs. Chicago. Hill P.

llson, of Hayes City, is prosecuting a suit before Judge Anthony at Chicago, against the law firm of Miller, Leman Chase, for $5,000. He claims to have been employed by them to talk for the K. T. S. Railroad projected through Ellis county, and that his expenses were $5,000.

The road was not built To Be Abandoned. The Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis road intends to abandon the weighing of live stock and return to the old method of shipping by car loads. The railroad commissioners of both Missouri and Kansas have been asked to endorse the weighing system, but have shown no disposition to do so. Industrial Statistics. The superintendent of census Robert P.

Porter, has issued his instru ctions, saying that the collection of the statistics relating to iron and steel, to coke, to glass, to the electrical industry, and to illuminating gas shall be collected by expert agents at Fort Scott Atchison, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Salina, Wichita. Statistics Wanted. Secretary Mohler has sent out requests for information to be embodied in his next monthly report among which are the fol lowing questions; "What is the actual cost of growing a bushel of corn and a bushel of wheat and what the cost of rais ing a steer to the age of three years?" Kansas Patents. Charles E. Braining, Stockton, electric therapeutic appliance; Francis E.

Coffeen, Kanapohs, tightener for fences; Harry Ford, Lyndon, timing apparatus for photo graphers; John L. Gardner, Arcadia, wind mill; Christian Hanika, Wichita, machine for making iron fences. Paola Gas. Another good gas well was struck in the new field by the company that is operating on the so-cailed Heis farm between Paola and the state insane asylum. It is now certain that the large state insane asylum at Osawatomie will be shortly heated and lighted by natural gas.

Ft. Riley Improvements. Inprovements are going steadily forward at the great government post at Fort Riley. The furniture for' the mammoth mess-hall has arrived. It will contain eighty -two tables and one thousand stools.

The food will be transported from the kitchens in small cars. Pittsburg's Christian Church. It was recently dedicated, and is said tc be the finest church in this city of 10,000 people, with all indebtedness raised. This denomination numbers in the United States 80,000, and is building one church a day. The Way He Did It.

Marys viile Democrat: A farner who would not sell his hogs at $3.10, butchered them, and reports having received more money for the lard than he would have got for the hogs at the price given above. Just as Well as a Man. The overall factory at Arkansas City runs ten sewing machines, which are oper ated by women. A woman can make a garment for a man, which is not expected to fit, just as well as a tailor. Retired.

Tom Moonlight after twenty-Bye years of active politics himself a poor man-He has gone into insurance business. and writes that he has permanently retired from politics. The location selected for the new Meth odist university at Topeka is nearly a mile west of Washburn college. The plans for the buildings have been drawn and worn will be begun on the main buildings in June. The estimated cost of the building is $73,000.

While attending a dance at the home of a Mr. Robinson, four miles north of Anthony, Cnaries Heed and Ed Iievore decided to settle an old time feud. A general fight ensued, in which Heed was struck on the head by Devore with a club, from the effect of which he died next morning. A car load of provisions and corn was sent by the citizens of Downs and the surrounding country to the sufferers of South Dakota. A draft for $115 in money was also forwarded.

The car was dscorated and bore a large banner on its sides with the words, "Downs, sends greetings to her suffering friends in Dakota," in scribed thereon. A large tract of land near Tonganoxie has been purchased by an English syndi cate, who will establish upon it an agricultural training school for the instruc tion of young men from England. A college will be built which will accommodate 100 students, and in connection with the school there will be a lecture room, concert ball and a church. 5 Daniel Fox, ex-mayor of Philadelphia, is dead. Ed Menhugh was found dead in the road near Delphos, Kansas.

The Methodist parsonage at Belleville, was destroyed by fire. William Jones, another victim of the Indianapolis disaster, died of his injuries. In a quarrel at Kansas City, Grant Jones killed Bud Wheeler, both colored. Edmund Sweteniiam, member of parliament for the Carnarvon district, is dead. The Blair educational bill has been killed, so far as this session is concerned.

Mrs. Carroll of Topekvher sister and Mrs. Kline, were seriously hurt in a run-a. way. The machine department of Kich's shipyard at Lubeck, Germany, was destroyed by fire.

The Canadian government has appropriated $30,000 for seeds for the northwest farmers. The Fanfulla newspaper of Rome, says that Socialist deputy, Costa, has fled to America. The St Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church is ia session at Rolla, Aia Ashby Millspaugh, dry goods merchants of Lincoln, have been closed by the sheriff. The Lathrop crusaders have hired a de tective and are arresting violaters of the local option law. The Australian election bill has been signed by Governor Terry of the new state of vv ashington.

Ex-treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi has been arrested and placed under bond on a shortage charge. Dr. J. S. Dorset superintendent of Texas insane asylum was nearly killed by a lunatic under his charge.

Mrs. James Alexander was shot and killed by an unknown assassin at Round Lake church, Indian Territory. In a quarrel over a game of marbles at Joliet, 11L, Tommy VV ineman, aged 12, shot and killed Bertie Polhannas, aged 11. John Murphy, an old citizen of Bates county, Missouri, was thrown from and fatally kicked by a horse near Adrian. Miss Jessie Vv hits, the 19-year-old daughter of James S.

White, of Juliet an old resident, committed suicide. Iowa Republicans who favor a modifica tion of the liquor laws of the state will meet in conference at Des Moines, April 2. The troubles of the Sioux City and Og- den railroad have been adjusted in New York and the road will be pushed through. Fire in the clothing manufactory of Leh- lan, Richman at Cleveland, 0.r caused a loss of covered by insurj ance. J.

W. Woodruff, ex-president of the Life and Reserve Insurance company of Buffalo, has disappeared, leaving many creditors. The Rev. H. J.

Reagen, assistant rector of Christ church at Norfolk, has accepted a call to a pastorate in Youngstown, Ohio. Marshal John C. Chrisman of Wakenda, Mo. was shot and killed by a hotel keeper Atkinson who fired at an intruder and hit. the Marshal.

The papers of Athens are jubilant over an intimation from the Greek consul in New York that there is a possibility of the abolition of the American duty on raisins from Corinth. One of Fred Anderson's children at Leavenworth pushed another one into a pan of hot water and scalded it so badly that death ensued. C. A. Searles and W.

Payne were ar rested at Missoula, Montana, for robbing the Northern Pacific express office at Brainerd, of $15,000 about a year ago. Ed. Carter and Geo. Pill, on their road from Leavenworth to Oklahoma, went goose hunting at Strong City. By accidental discharge of Pill's gun, Carter was killed.

A mill occurred at San Francisco be tween McAuliff and Carnoll with about $12,500 at stake. Forty-seven brutal rounds were fought, McAuliff coming out victor. A general strike of the building trades workers of Boston for eight hours' work at the old pay is expected soon as the employ ers have decided not to accede to the de mand. The Rev. Dr.

Duncan McGregor, for four years pastor of the Carroll Park Meth odist church of Brooklyn. N. has left the Methodist church and to-night will become a Baptist J. B. Little, an Atchison, Kansas, collect ing agent savagely assaulted vv.

w. ISewell, lawyer of that city, with a billiard cue, for making, as alleged, improter ad vances to his wife. J. W. Walton, a prominent farmer living near Eldorado, was found dead in the river with a heavy post across his neck.

He had attempted to cross on stones with the post and fallen. The dead bodies of Eugene Cummings and Mrs. Ellen worn bell, were found in a state of decomposition at Nassau, H. They had been missing for a year and it was supposed they had eloped. Four saloonkeepers of Tacoma, are negotiating for the control of all the saloon licenses in the town.

They agree not to run over twenty places snd to be responsible for all infractions of the law. Provincial Detective Murray of Ontario, who is working on the Burcheli cuse, claims to have evidence that Benwell was not the only victim of the prisoner. Ha expects to go to England to investigate other cases. Miss Gertie Hiskey, aged 16 years, was shot at Lebighton, Pa, by Webster Campbell a young suitor. He claims that tne revolver fell from the bureau, but has been arrrested.

Ridley Thomas, convicted about two years ago of the murder of John Lowery and his wife, was granted a change of venue to Pettis county.Ma.the supreme court having a short time ago reversed and remanded the case. At Sabetha, Kansas, David Schrews-berry was charged with running a joint Over thirty witnesses were called but tha state failed and the costs amounting to $158 were assessed against F. A. Corwin, the informer. Dr.

A. R. Bodley and W. E. Bodley, prominent druggists, were both arrested at Quenemo by the sheriff and taken to Lynden, the county seat of Osage county, Kansas, on the charge of selling liquor contrary to law.

At Wichita Mrs. Dr. P. J. M.

Burkett and her son, T. Otto, waived preliminary bearings on the charge of abandoning a child on the Santa Fe train some dass ago and each given $500 bond for appearance in the district court I. The purchase of the two swords of tha late Gen. James Shields has at last been completed and the government is now in possession of them. Tbey will be placed on exhibition in tr 3 National MuseUSl 1 10,000 waa tie price paid, this point is rising at the rate of 2 inches an hour, and it is almost certain, unless there should be a severe cold spell, that the river ueie will uc uiguoi buou a fa aujr lliuoi since the unprecedented flood of 184.

The Licking river, which empties into the Ohio opposite Cincinnati, Is booming from its source to its mouth. All its tributaries are now more than bank-full. The Ohio is rising at a rapid rate at parkersburg and all the tribu tary streams are helping to swell the flood. Atlronton, the river is 48 feet and rising fast At Portsmouth there is 46 feet and rising 5 inches an hour and rain ing there all day. At Catlettsburg, Ky.

the Ohio and Big bandy rivers are rising at a rapid rate. The Ohio has risen 9 feet at that point in the east twenty -four hours. Nashville, March 22. The Cum berland has advanced 7 feet since yester day morning, and will be very near the danger mark, 40 feet; by Monday morning. The river has risen 12 feet or more at Burnside, Ky.

The Tennessee river is also rising rapidly, and at Knoxville is near the danger line. Wheeling, W. March 22. Reports from about a dozen points in the mountains of West Virginia show that all the streams are bank full and still rising, with rain falling everywhere. The indications for disastrous floods to-night and to-mor row were never better, and there is a gooi bit of apprephension along the Tygarts Valley River, tne Cheat and the West Fork of the Monongahela.

Everything is afloat At Weston, Louis County, on the West Fork, tne river is 20 feet deep and still rising, and there are reports of great damage higher up the stream. There is 12 feet at Rowiesburg, on the Cheat; la feet at Morgantown on the Monongahela, and at Phillips, in the Tygarts vallev, the river is very high and still rising at the rate of 1 foot per hour. Charleston, W. Va, March 22. The residents of the lower part of the city aro making preparations to remove their effects.

At Kanawa Falls the river is 13 feet high and rising rapidly. Elk river is lising at the rate of 1 foot an hour. Pittsburg, Pa. March 'ss. From all in dications a flood of serious proportions threatens this section.

Points along the Allegheny, Youghiogheny and Monongahela Rivers report the water rising rapidly. At the headwaters of the Monongahela the water is higher than ever known before, and it is still fast creeping up. Helena, March 22. The outpour ings of the St Fr.mcis swamps are now coming down upon us. It is learned that the flood from the St Francis struck Mad ison yesterday.

Alger In Kansas. Atchison, March 24. General Russell A. Alger, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, spent Saturday night in Atchison. In speaking of pensions he was very confident that the disability bill, which proposes to give 300,000 disabled veterans $10 apiece a month, would become a law.

This was considerable he said, but not enough; there were surviving soldiers of the war; they must all be provided for. The service pension bill was what the old soldiers wanted, and it would come in the near future. He was not only in favor of giving all old soldiers a service pension, but he wanted the 20,000 disabled comrades now in the poorhouses of the country taken out and decently provided for. Be wanted every soldier's widow, every soldier's orphan, every soldier's father and mother removed from want He wanted also to make the history of the war complete by searching out the record of every private soldier and placing the same in the war department for the posterity of the soldiers to see and read. From this city General Alger went to Abi lene, where a reception was tendered.

Thence to Concordia. Concordia, March 24. Gen. Alger arrived here to-day, and in the afternoon General Alger spoke at the G. A.

R. and W. R. C. headquarters to the thousands assembled.

Department Commander Clark- son of Nebraska and Collins of Kansas spoko also, followed by Captain Lczier, the Hon. Lewis Hanback, Lieutenant J. H. Miller of Salina and othors. At 4 o'clock the several bands 'in attend ance held a contest on the campus of the court house.

The $75 first prize was awarded to the Webber band of Warwick and the $50 second prize to the Belleville. General Alger and other prominent G. A. R. officials left at 7 o'clock for ichita.

A Child Scalded in a Churn. Wardestille, Ont, March 22. Ella CrandalL aged 4, while playing hide and seek with some children, secreted herself in an old fashioned churn. hile so concealed her mother came to scald out the churn and poured a kettle of boiling water through the hole in the lid upon the child, who was terribly scalded and lived but few minutes after being lifted out Levees Let Loose. Greenville, March 2L The break in the levee at Offul got beyond control to day and rapidly widened.

About 600 feet of levee were carried away to-day. The water now covers a large territory and is washing away the small buildings. The Louisville, New Orleans and Texas rail road track is submerged for a long distance and portions of the road have been abandoned. German Rifles Seized. Aden, March 23.

English agents have seized 200 rifles and a ton of powder, under the prohibitory law, from a German ex pedition, led by Architect Hoffmann, which was meant to found a settlement on tbe Somal coast Convicted After Thirty Tears. Salt Lake, Utah, March 22. John Han cock on trial for the alleged "Church mur der" thirty years ago at Provo was to night found guilty of murder in the second degree for killing Mrs. Jones and her son. Sued for LibeL Topeka, March 22.

Frank P. Mc Lennan, editor and proprietor of the State Journal, was sued for $10,000 damages for libel this afternoon by E. Lull, ex councilman from the Fifth ward of this city. Death of General Schenck. Washington, D.

C. March 23. General Robert Cummings Schenck, ex-congressman, soldier and diplomat and leader in public affairs a generation or more ago, died at 5 o'clock this evening. Mudd Seated. Washington, D.

March 21. In the congressional contest case from Maryland, Compten was unseated, and Mudd, republi can, declared entitled to the place. Probably a Double Tragedy. Austin, March 24. A few days since the house of Gus Carl, near Lansing, waS burned ard the remains of Carl and his wife were found in the ruins.

Slocum Sentenced to Death. New York, March 21. James J. Slocum, the base ball i layer, was sentenced to deatl this morning by Judye Martina, for th murder of his wife. a of ce strip, appeared to dav.

In the salutatory the editor states that the certainty of being burnt out keeps him from promising regularity of issue at the present The owners declare that if Cherokee City is burnt down it will be rebuilt immediately. FIFTT-FIRST CONGRESS. Summary of tbe Important Proceedings of the rast Week. Saturday, March 22. In the Senate a bill was referred which proposes a bounty fort very ton of beets raised in ths United States, delivered to a factory and made into merchantable sugar, and a bounty of $1 for every hundred pounds of sugar manufactured from beets raised in the United States, the bounty to be paid only during the fiscal years 1S91, 1892 and 1893.

It also proposes tc admit tree of duty during the same period all machinery imported for the manufacture of beet sugar. A bill was intro- aueea to-day to give every soldier or sailor who served ninety days or longer in the late war a bounty of $50 a year for every year's service or part of a year. If the soldier is dead the money is to go, in the order named, to his widow, minor children, father or mother. In case a soldier or sailor was discharged for disability he is to be paid bounty for the lull term of his enlistment. Any soldier who served as a substitute for pay is ex cluded from the benefits of the bill.

In the House a bill was passed authoriz ing tne secretary or tne interior to nego tiate lor the sale of the western part of the Crow reservation in Montana. A bill was passed repealing the timber culture law. A bill was introduced by Turner of Kansas defining lager beer and imposing a special tax upon and regu lating the manufacture, sale and importa tion of adulterated lager beer. TTorks of The Cyclone. Columbia, S.

March 24. The fury of Saturday's cyclone was principally felt in Sumter. Every house was shaken to its foundation, roofs were carried away, fen ces demolished and trees uprooted. Ida Richardson was killed by a falling house, two men, names unknown, were fatally injured, and many persons were badly bruised and cut Mathiesson's machinery depot was demolished and two large sheds of the Atlantic coast line railroad were blown down, while the Baptist church, the nail and a factory were badly dam- aged. The bridge over Broad river, on the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia rail road at Shelton, was blown off the piers into the river and completely demolished.

An unknown man standing on the bridge was carried with it In Chester county several small villages were badly wrecked. At Edgemore the Dutch Reformed church and railroad depot were blown down. At Blackstock the academy buildings were destroyed and several smaller structures blown down. One woman and several children are re ported fatally injured. In OrangeDurg county many houses were unroofed.

In this city the immense ventilating roof of the state penitentiary was torn from its place and thrown upon an adjoining build ing. A score of convicts narrowly escaped death. It is reported that the town of Prosperity has been swept away, but as the wires are down nothing can be learned. Torn and twisted trees mark the path of the storm, and it is feared that immense damage has been done. A special from Camden last night stated that the cyclone struck a house there, kul- ing Mrs.

Esterling, who was in the act of giving medicine to her stepdaughter. Th bed of the sick child was torn to pieces and tha woman killed, while the child, though thrown into the yard, escaped without the. slightest injury. Defiant-Moonshiners. Danville, March 21.

More than 20C moonshiners have established a fortified camp in Franklin county, tbis state, and openly defy the authority of the United States. They have over 100 IJicit stills in operation and are producing thousands of barrels of whisky on which no duty is paid. The revenue force is not sufficient to en force the law and red tape and a scarcity of money prevent any decisive action by th department at Washington. Terrorized by Fire-Bugs. Colorado Springs, March 2L A reign of terror prevails here over the work of incendiarism which has been going on for some time.

Tbe burning of Mayoi Stockbridge's residence and the American Hotel was followed last night by the de- struction of the Grand Avenue Hotel and Palace theatre. 100 special police are pa trolling the streets, and summary riddance. awaits the incendiary if caught They Ought Go West, Etc. Ritchie Court House, W. Va, March 2L Jacob Reffner, aged 90, was last Tues day married to Mrs.

Ray, a blushing wid ow of 65. Reffner walked from his home, twenty miles away, to Mrs. Ray's home, introduced himself, proposed and was ac cepted in less than half an hour. Reffner then walked six miles to this place, secured license and a minister. The Labor Conference Does Well.

Berlin, March 21. The labor conference is making successful progress. The committee against labor on Sunday and church holidays apply only to women, young per sons and children. The committee on children's work has resolved to forbid the employment of children within the school ace. excepting certain well aennea cases.

Tents for the Flood Sufferers. Washington, D. March 21. The house committee on military affairs to-day authorized Mr. Robertson to report favorably to the house a bill appropriating for the purchase of tents to be loaned by the war department to the people driven from their homes the states of Arnansas, Mississippi and Louisiana by the floods.

Two Blocks of Houses Burned. Jacksonville. March 21. A dis astrous fire at 3 o'clock this morning destroyed two blocks in La Villa, a suburb, and a boarding house in the city proper, causing a loss of nearly $125,000, largely covered by insurance. Russian Students-Under Arrest.

St. Petersburg, March 23. An encount er has taken place between the students at Patroffskoie near Moscow and gendarmes. Two hundred of the students are under arrest -A Colorado Town Partly Burned. Denver.

March 25. The business I portion of El Mo ro, a small town in south ern Colorado, burned last night A Bis Fire at Laredo, Texas. Laredo, 25. Fire in the bus- iness part of town yesterday morning did I a If The World's Pair Postponaii Tor Two Long Tears. Literally Nltro- Torn to Shreds by Glycerine Explosion.

1 ne President Warns Against Trespassing In Behrlng, Sea. The World's Fair Postponed. Washington, March 25. The house has agreed to an amendment postponing the ona lair until The Deadly Nitro-glycerlne. Logansport, March 25.

At Sweber station Koy Pnckett attempted to explode a can of nitro-glycerine which he found. rxe a in. it blew out his eyes and tore off both arms and otherwise so horribly mang- Ulm mat ne died within a few moments. -uoore, wno was passing, was struck by a flying stone and seriously hurt. Warned Out of Behring Sea.

Washington, March 24. The president to-day issued a proclamation warning all persons against entering the waters of the sea witnin the dominion of the united btates, for the purpose of violatm, section loSto, of the Revised Statutes, tvmcu relates to tne Hilling of otter, mink, marten, saoie, or fur seal or other fur bearing animals within the limits of the Alaska Territory or the waters thereof. Baby Logan Commissioned. VOlumbus, March 2L Adjutant General Williams, Ohio National guards, has issued a commission as first lieutenant to Jonn Alexander Logan, third, born Febru ary 12 last, a grandson of the late Senator ixgan. This was done out of regard for tne late General Logan, and in consideration of the great interest of Captain John a.

L.ogan, second, the National cuard The commission dates back to the day John A. Logan, third, was born. This makes young Logan the youngest commissioned omcer in tne world. Deatb of General Crook. Chicago, March 21.

Major General George Crook, United States" army, in command of the department of the Missouri, died at the Grand Pacific hotel at 7:15 o'clock this morning of heart disease. He seemed in perfect health, until while dressing this morning when He suddenly said to his wife, "I cannot breath." He was aided to a sofa and died at ooce. The general succeeded General Schofield in command of the department of the Missouri, which position he has held for several years. Missouri Methodists. Rolla, Ma, March 2L The following traveling deacons were elected to elders orders by the St.

Louis conference of the Methodist Episcopal church to-day; G. A. Glens, E. F. DarJy, VV.

T. right, W. T. Pyles, F. B.

Price. The following local preachers were elected deacons: W. R. Weaver, Jonathan EL Hoff, George M. Foster and Jame3 C.

Beach. Most Die by Electricity. Albant, N. March 21. The court ol appeals has affirmed the judgments of the court below in the Kemmler murder case, declaring the electrical execution act constitutional and holding that no error was committed on the trial of the accused.

This being the court of last resort in this state, settles the fate of Kemmler. Oklahoma Wind. Guthrie, T.t March 24. During the prevailing winds Rube Johnson, his wife and one child were killed by the falling timbers of their house, which was situated several miles southeast of this city. Their bodies were buried in the debris and were afterward burned in the fire resulting from an overturned stove.

The German Crisis. Berlin, March 24. The emperor has appointed Count Fulenburg, now governor of Hesse-Nassau, Prussian minister of the interior; Dr. Miguel, one of the leaders of the National Liberty party, minister of finance; Baron Henne, minister of agriculture, and General Von Goltz, minister of public works. Fire at Kearney, IJfeb.

Omiha, March 24. A fire at Kearney this morning destroyed the Midway hotel and its annex and a large part of a lumber yard, and did other damage, estimated, as a total, at $16,000. Harry Dem-ing, property boy of a theatrical company, jumped from a third-story window and was fatally injured. Hawaiian and Cninese Barred. San Francisco, CaL.

March 2L Word is brought by steamer to-day from Honolulu that King Malietoa has by proclamation excluded native Hawaiiaas from the Sa-moan islands. The king had previously issued a proclamation excluding the Chinese. Neck-Tie Festivals. New Orleans, La, March 2L At Plaque mine to-day Prince Saunders, colored, was hanged for the murder of his mistress, Rhody Walker, last December. At Franklin, Edmund Nichols, colored, aged IS, was haDged for the murderous shooting of a young girl seven months ago.

Each Eloped With the Other's lister. Little Rock, March 2L At Latum-vilie, in Saline county, last evening Ed Needham and Wallace Lunsley, neither of whom is yet 20 years old, agreed to "swap" sisters. Their parents objected to their marrying, and they eloped to the Indian Territory. 91 rs. Tenn is on Free.

Olathe, Kan, March 22. The jury in the case against Mrs. Tennison for the poisoning of her husband, returned a verdict of not guilty. Mrs. Tennison is about 30 years of age, and this is the fourth trial, the juries previous failing to agree.

The New Treaty to Be Published To- Kight London, March 25. The new extradition treaty between Great Britain and the United States will be officially published to-night The treaty will come into effect April 4 next Struck with Paralysis. St. Joseph, March 24. Last night at Savannah, Rev.

J. J. Bentley was stricken with paralysis, while in hi pulpit preaching. The stroke was on the left side, and completely prostrated him. A Farmer tilled by a Train.

Pawnee Cur, March" 25. w. A. Shannon, a prominent farmer living three miles west of town, was run over and killed yesterday afternoon by a Burlington Missouri river freight train. To be Burnt to the Ground.

Caldwell, March 21. Captain Woodson of Company N. announces that City wU be fcrr.t to the ground t7 Chief Mayes to the Commission. Last of the Blsmarcks Herbert's Resignation Accepted. I An Editor of a Kansas City Paper Pummeled.

The Cherokee Outlet. Washington, March 25. The members of the Cherokee commission met to-day at the Indian bureau and heard the state ments from the representatives of the Cherokee and the ether Indian tribes in the Indian Territory. Chief Mayes' propositions to the commis sion are substantially as follows: "First That the government shall fulfill its obligation to evict from the Nation all persons not declared by the na tion itself to be citizens thereol "Second That a joint commission shall be appointed to determine the question of citizenship claimed by the several thou sands of ireedmen now in the territory. "Third That the government shall re linquish its right to settle friendly Indians on the Cherokee lands east of the 96th par allel.

'Fourth That the government shall indicate willingness to pay a fair cash value for the lands known as the Cherokee outlet" Exeunt Bismarcks. Berlin, March 25. The resignation of Count Herbert Bismarck has been accepted, and Herr Von Aivensleben has been appointed to succeed him as imperial secretary of foreign affairs. Editorial Pomeological Society. Kansas Citt, March 25.

H. L. Preston, one of the editors of the Sunday Sun, was assaulted and pretty badly beaten by Rollins Bingham and George Kellogg on West Ninth street yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock. In the last two is sues of the Sun there appeared articles reflecting severely upon Mrs. M.

A. Bingham, a lady living at the Hotel Brunswick, as regard ing her management of the funds of the Soldiers' orphan asylum. Prairies on Fire. Wichita, March 23. Twelve miles northeast of here a prairie fire is beyond control and sweeping everything before it By six o'clock this evening, a territory of ten sections, ia which every vestige of grass was destroyed and four farm houses and the barns, stacks of hay and straw, and cribs of corn were burned.

It is estimated up to this time not less than $100,000 loss had been suffered and the fire was raging with unbated fury and was being drivdn by a wind which was approaching a gale ia intensity. Vichita, March 24. Ten farm houses were burned by prairie fires in the west part of this county to-day, and tha fire cov ered a territory of fully fifty sections. The loss of grain and personal effects will reach into many thousands. otockton, March 84.

A prairie fire is raging in Twin Mound vicinity, and sweeping everything before it A great amount of grain, hay and live stock has been destroyed and burned. Lincoln, March 24 A prairie fire burned half a dozen big farms south of this city yesterday, and barns, residences, ma chinery, stock and grain were destroyed. The fire jumped Saline river, ten rods wide, and only by great effort was this city saved. Another fire eight miles southwest of town destroyed much farm property and stock. A Pension for Each Wound.

Washington, D. March 25. The house committee on invalid pensions to-day authorized a favorable report on a bill to increase pensions in certain cases. It pro vides that any soldier or sailor who has been wounded in service and received more than one wound, where one of such wounds amounts to a total disability and the other wounds create a disability, such person sball receive a penson to be rated without regard rank for each wound received. Washington.D.

March 25. The house committee on invalid pensions to-day au thorized a favorable report on the bill which provides for a disability pensions and a ser vice pensions to all soidicrs who havr reached the age of 62 years. Two Democrats Not to Be Fired. Washington, D. March 25.

The house committee on elections to-day dis posed of contested election cases, Posey vs, Parrett, First Indiana district and Bowen vs. Buchanan, Ninth Virginia district They recommended that the sitting mem ber be allowed to retain their seats. Crawford Gains. Kansas Citt, Ma, March 25. In the suit of ejectment against Lester M.

Craw ford to gain possession of the Warder Grand Theatre, Mr. Crawford came out ahead, and will retail possession, at least until tbe supreme court can pass upon the issues involved. A Sensational Suicide. Fairfield, March 25. --G.

A. Min- nick committed suicide this morning, by shooting himself through the head with a revolver. He was a senior member of the firm of Minnick Morrell, dealers in gen eral merchandise. Jlr. Koland's Bondsmen to Settle.

St. Louis, Ma, March 25. Thirteen of the twenty-five bondsmen of ex-State Treasurer Noland, have agreed to settle the deficit by an equal assessment of $1,350 each. Boulanger Anxious to Return. Paris, March 25.

General Boulanger re news offers to return to France providing the government will permit him to be tried by the court of appeals or a court-martial. A Fated Family. Baltimore, March 25. Normal E. Lewis.

farmer, aged 24, was drowned in Welsh run on Saturday evening. Lewis's parents were lost in tne Johnstown flood. Actress Alice Townsend Dead. Pittsburg, Pa, March 25. Alice Towns- end, the burlesque actress, wife of Sam T.

Jack, the manager, died at the Hamilton hotel last evening. Three Children Burned. Medicine Lodgr, March 25. This morning the house occupied by L. B.

Root burned and three children, aged 6, 4 and 2, were cremated. A Noted Catholic Priest Dead. New York, March 25. The Rev. Father Arthur Donnelly died suddenly shortly before 1 o'clock this morning at his home, mth avenue.

A Theater in Germany Burned. BsRLi-r, March The Stadt theater at Bromberg was fcuiped yesterday, Topeka's sugar works are to be rebuilt The grand lodge K. P. will meot in Topeka May 1. The Alliance store of Molina and at Moline, failed.

The Halsted Tribune, J. C. Gaiser, editor, Is a new paper. The name of the Methodist minister at Eureka is Ananias. Pittsburg Is to have a new zinc smelter, capital stock $100,000.

A Morris county man cleared $3,000 off his onion crop last year. Five bushels of corn will buy a pair of jeans pants at Fort Scott Dr. J.B. McPherson's residence, Cherry-vale, was destroyed by fire. A farmer's alliance has been organized at Olathe, with a membership of 100.

Hiram P. Walcott has been appointed register of the land office at Lamed. Charlie Finch has resumed his position as editor of the Lawrence Tribune. Reuben Hackett, one of the oldest settlers in Franklin county, is cutting three new teeth. The second volume of the Kansas stat.

utes is out and is the largest book ever issued in the state. Finney county produced 93,000 bushels of sweet potatoes on 500 acres or at the rata of 175 bushels of the acre. The Atchison Champion attempts to prove something that happened in lb05 by Sol MEler, of the Troy Chief. There are over 1,100 old soldiers in Reno county, according to the list printed in the enterprising Hutchinson Times. The Wichita Electric railway company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000 was au thorized to do business in the state.

Washburn college "at Topeka has just "Mowed itself in" on 1,400 pounds of meteo rites, which came from Kiowa county. As long as Kansas can furnish corn for bread, salt to season it and sugar to sweet en it there is little danger of starvation. Hiawatha World: J. W. Geslin, who farmed on the Tucker farm last year, raised 3,000 bushels of corn on 42 acres of ground.

Wichita has a booming Bellamy club, and those who have been present do say that they do more bellowing than anything else. At the opening of the March term of the district court at Mankato it was discovered that there was but one criminal case on the docket Elmdale. Chase county, has a "National club" with twenty-one members who advo cate the theories of Bellamy's "Looking Backward." The city attorney of Leavenworth is considered quite a Dassler, and he has dis covered it is best to keep within the limits of the.statutes. J. Jones of Garden City sold a pair of buffaloes the other day to the president of the First National bank of Fort Wayne, for $1,000.

Marion Record: Ex-Governor Harvey wen to Virginia to get rid of the rheu matism. He comes back to Kansas City to get rid of Virginia. South Kansas Tribune: Kansas broom corn was one of the paying crops last year, A manufacturer informs us that it is now worth $160 per ton. The statement of the 163 national banks of Kansas shows a considerable increase in capital deposites and general bus iness over last year. C.

E. D. Parker, of Leavenworth, has by a recent purchase become the proprietor of the Emporia Business College and assumed the duties of principal. Mother Catherine of Colorado Springs has been appointed to fill the place of Mother Bridget deceased, of St Ann's academy, near Parsons. The first grange id Kansas was organ ized in Hiawatha in 1372, and there has been more or less hay seed mixed with Kansas politics ever since.

Ledgwick county has a rotary cage in its Jail built after the most approved plan, but two prisoners recently bored through the double steel plates and escaped. The Kansas Democrat of Hiawatha, has been sold by George T. Williams, its founder, to Ben F. Hilder brand of the Pawnee (Neb.) Press for $8,500. Governor Humphrey has appointed Frank J.

Wikoff commissioner for the state of Kansas in the Indian Territory, with headquarters at Stillwater. The Lawrence Tribune says the town clock at that place bears a strong resem blance to some of the local politicians. It is probably all brass, and runs on tick. A man visited Atchison the other day who had not been there before since 1876. The place had changed so much that about the only thing he recognized was Luther Challis.

The Atchison Champion says that the Farmers' alliance is in politics with both feet Does the Champion mean to say that it has gone into politics and put its foot in it? The State Normal has set its mark at 1,000 students this year, and when it reaches that enrollment there will be "doins" at "Empory" in commemoration ef the event Judge Blain living near Manhattan, ship ped nearly 100 bushels of tame grass seed, of his own raising, to Topeka. The judge reports that at the price received it paid better than corn. There are two editors in Kansas who are also Justices of the peace J. B. Campbell of the Haddam Times and the proprietor of the Conway Springs Star the latter is also a local preacher.

F. G. Markhart, of Leavenworth, has been appointed an aid-de-camp on the staff ef Commander-in-chief General R. A Alger, of the G. A.

R. in the United States, with the rank of colonel. The Lindsborg Localist thinks Linds borg is the most peaceable town on the globe, and offers strong proof of its claim in the fact that there has been but one case before its police judge in two years. The Wellington water works has been mortgaged to a Rhode Island firm for The mortgage takes up sixteen pages of closely printed legal cap, and is nearly big enough to cover the state of Rhode Island, Abilene Reflector: It is encouraging to read in the statement of the suspended Lamed bank that the assests are $71,000 and the liabilities $13,000. Just how banks fail under such conditions 13 somewhat of a problem.

Independence Tribune: David Allen reports that he fed some small steers last fall which he could not sell for more than $15. These he put up and fed and recently old. The corn fed them paid him 30 cents bushel. Christ hospital at Topeka has received $350 for an endowment of a child's cot, the first installment of an intended endowment $3,000 by Mrs. Nathalie A.

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