The Jacksonian from Cimarron, Kansas • 2

KANSAS STATE NEWS. NEWS OF THE WEEK SPAIN WANTS WAR An Intensely Angry Feeling Against the United States Entertained. Cimarron Jacksonian. E. S.

GARTEN. Publisher. C3MAEE0N, KANSA8 The Silver Lining-. Creditor What, still no money? Do you think it is a pleasure for me in this winter weather, in snow and rain, to call here Debtor-), don't be down-hearted. The spring will soon be here.

Fhegende The large establishment of the Siedringhaus House Furnishing company at St- Louis was totally destroyed by fire on the 21st, resulting a loss of more than 550,000 on stock ind building; fully insured. The court of inquiry got down to tvork at Havana on the 21st for the investigation into the cause of the disaster to the battieship Maine, Capt. Sigsbee being the first witness. Capt Sampson, the president of the court, has announced that nothing of importance will be made public until all the testimony has been received and thg findings considered. The divers sonveyea the telegram to the palace ana tne jusen regent expressed satisfaction on hearing the result of the investigation.

The queen wiil an audience at oace to United Stat -s Minister Woodford, who will convey the thanks conveyed President McKinley for her con-iolence. Will Demand Jndemnitr- Chicago, Feb. 23. The Journal has the following special from Washington: Should it be proven that the Maine was destroyed by an outside explosion with the knowledge of Spanish officials. President MeKinley will demand an indemnity of from to $15,000.0 X).

This statement was made by an officer of the navy department who is thoroughly conversant with the present Spanish situation. for school Boards. State Superintendant Stryker has sent a letter to school district officers in which he suggests that a reference library be placed in each school and good pictures be hung on the walls. He also says drawing should be required by law of all applicants for teachers" certificates, and should be taught in every school through all of the grades. May Mana'acture Fire Clay.

There is said to be a five-foot vein of fire clay at the state penitentiary, and a Leavenworth disDatch said the state administration would probably put state convicts to work manufacturing fire clay instead of digging coal and competing with free labor. To Hold Temperance Revivals. The State Temperance union has secured Dr. Howard H. Russell, super intendent of the National Anti-Saloon league to hold temperance revivals throughout the state, beginning April 1.

Two organizers will also be placed in the field immediately. Bible Can Be Read in Schools. William Stryker, state superintendent of the public schools, says the Scriptures may be read in the public schools of the state, provided it is done without note or comment. The repeating- of the Lord's prayer is also permissible. Connty Clerks May Keep Extra Fees.

The attorney general decides that county clerks are entitled to all fees they receive from business other than that regarded as official business. This includes the acknowledgment of deeds, affidavits and instruments of like character. They Are After Mr. Taylor. A Topeka telegram said the state officers would commence action to compel O.

B. Taylor, coal oil inspector under Gov. Lewelling, to turn over money collected by him while in office. It is alleged that $20,000 are unaccounted for. A.

K. Trimble at ichita. Owing to a quarrel between the two G. A. R.

posts at Wichita the matter of raising funds to defray expenses of the state G. A. R. encampment at-Wichita in April was placed in charge of a committee of citizens. Funstim in th K.ice for Governor.

A telegram from Iola said ex-Con gressman i unston would enter the race for the republican nomination for governor. It was said that A. W. Smith, of McPherson, would throw his strength to Mr. Funston.

Jarige I. Honck Deai. Judge L. Houck, of Hutchinson, who died at the age of 63. had been judge of the district court there 12 years-.

Although a captain in the confederate army he became a republican after arriving in Kansas. Minor state News. Citizens of Madison raised vhich will be used in boring for gas. Machinery is being- placed in position for a big brick plant at Humboldt. One of the largest smelters in the country will be erected at La Harpe, Allen county.

The Santa Fe recently finished a new depot at South Winfield, built of pressed brick. Eddie Grape, aged fouryears, was accidentally drowned in a cistern at Leavenworth. The Second congressional district republican convention will be held at Ottawa, May 3. A Cia.y county farmer last week sold 6,000 bushels of wheat at S3 cents, pocketing $4,800. There are nearly 400 creameries and skimming stations in Kansas.

A year ago there were only 175. A young son of II. Garten, near Medicine Lodge, fell into a tub of boiling water and was scalded to death. Three Illinois professors want to establish a normal school at Newton on the order of the one at Fort Scctt. Republicans of the Third district will meet at Independence April ti to nominate a candidate for congress.

A party of Indiana farmers recently invested $15,000 in farms near Newton, upon which they will settle thisspring. Cattle dealers of Kansas and Denver have leased 84 sections of land in Dickinson and Morris counties and will pasture 20,000 head thereon this summer. James R. Colean. who wrecked the State bank at Fort Scott, has "been made prison secretary at Lansing, the highest place a convict can hoid at the prison.

Superintendent S.veet. of the Haskell Indian school at Lawrence, refused to resigu, as requested, and a Washington telegram said he would be removed. A community four miles west of Pea-body had an epidemic of black meas'es. The public school was dismissed and other precautions taken to stop it-, spread. Eugene Mikesell, the Fort Scott jeweler, pleaded guilty to having burned his house in order to defraud the insurance compauies.

His wife was allowed to go free. The contest for clerk of Crawford county resulted in a victory for Cunningham, the fusion candidate. It was alleged that the ballots from three precincts were tampered with. At least 1.330 delegates were expected at Topeka on the 21st to attend the National Creamery Buttermakers' convention. There were over 600 entries and liberal prizes were offered.

The state superintendent of insurance has barred from Kansas the Travelers' Accident and Sick Benefit association of Kansas City, Mo. He says it is a fraud. For the fourth time within a year Gov. Leedy has appointed a new police board at Fort Scott It is composed of Thomas Cochrane, Robert Osborne ani J. F.

CottrelL The first thing CeL Fred Funston did on his arrival in Iola was to deliver a lecture cn Cuba before the high school. Capt. Henry Booth, a well-known G. A. R.

man and republican, died of heart disease while working on his farm near Larned. SWU, Haider, CWid coun ty, died of cancer at his daughter's home in California. He was elected as a fusionist. Joseph Fesson, an Indian, died near White Cloud, aged 102. He was well known by early settlers of northeastern Kansas.

J. W. Jenkins, democratic member of the Kansas City police board, was ousted from the chairmanship of the city committee. Topeka joints 'vill be prosecuted as public nuisances and owners of buildings rented to joints will be made parties to the suits. Gleaned By Telegraph and Mail PERSONAL AN POLITICAI.

Miss Frascis E. Willabd, president of the Woman's Chris tain Temperance onion, died early on the morning of the 18th at New York. She had suffered for some years from profound anemia and a few weeks ago she was much prostrated and readily took the grip, which attacked the stomach, liver, intestines and finally overwhelmed the nerve centers. She was born September 23, 1S39. The resolutions which were adopted at the session of the National Woman Suffrage association at Washington on the 17th demand for women citizens equality with males in the exercise of the elective franchise, ask for a 10th amendment to the constitution to bring this about, demand for mothers equal custody and control of their minor children and for wives and widows an equal use and inheritance of property, and ask for women representation on boards of education, pub-lie schools, etc According to a declaration of the state department at Washington on the 17th Spain has officially disclaimed in a positive manner the reflections contained in the De Lome letter, and that incident is satisfactorily closed.

People of every class in Madrid denounced in the strongest fashion the insinuation on the' part of the American press that the Spanish nation was in any way responsible for the Maine disaster at Havana, w-hich was ascribed by the majority to an accident, and by some to the work of Cubans, anxious to embroil the United States with Spain. Should the United government officially re-echo the charges of the American press a declaration of war, it was said, would follow at once without waiting for further action from America. Col. Edward B. Browne, of Aspen.

wired Gov. Adams offering, in case of a war with Spain, to furnish a dynamite battery composed of 100 miners, who have had long experience in handling high explosives. The United States government on the 17th had settled down into a waiting attitude to get the results of the court of inquiry appointed by the navy department to investigate the cause of the disaster to the battleship Maine. The dead seamen were buried in Cuba and the wounded sent to Kev West. Fla.

The story that a torpedo hole was discovered in the bottom of the Maine was denied by the authorities. President McKini.ey has consented to deliver an address at Iowa college. Grinnell, in June, on the occasion of the semi-centennial of the institu tion. Secretary Loxg, of the navy depart ment, made a statement on the ISth denying the warlike rumors floating round and stating that the disaster to the battleship Maine would probably be found to be an accident. Preparations have been made for a court of inquiry and it will convene at Key est, and later on perhaps go to Havana.

Lieut. Blandin denies the story that a sailor saw a torpedo approaching the vessel, but the explosion took place before he could give the alarm. The appointment of Count Cassini as Russian ambassador to the United States was gazetted at St. Petersburg on the ISth. A dispatch from Vinita, I.

on the 19th said that there was much excite ment in that place over the war scare and many patriotic Indians were ready to offer themselves as volunteers in rase of war. William J. Scaxlan, the actor died on the 19th at the Bloomingdale in sane asylum at White Plains, N. where he had long been a patient. Eev.

Sam P. Joxes, the evangelist. returned to his home at Cartersville. on the 19th from a western lecturing tour and in the evening issued a formal announcement of his candi dacy for governor, which has created big- sensation in Georgia. He has not yet announced his platform, but it was said he would oppose especially leortfia's free school system.

The Cuban insurgents, a Washing ton dispatch stated, will gladly accept proposition for a suspeusion of hostilities and mediation by the United States looking to the independence of the island for a financial consideration JIISCELLASEOCB. WirjiLE Mrs. George II. Huelswede tvas at a fancy dress tall in St- Louis the other night her costume that of a fairjy caught fire at a stove and she was probably fatally News has reached San I rancisco of a richj gold strike on American creek, 130 niiles down the Yukon river in Alaska. The new diggings are on American soil, 25 miles across the boundary line.

Jimmy Michael, the wheelman, the greatest rider the field of bicycling has ever known, has left Chicago and gone to New York to enter the employ of Phil Dwyer as a jockey and will ride Ilwyer's horses this season. The new wharf at Tampico, the finest on the American continent, was destroyed by fire, together with the custom house. Loss. 52.000,000.. A i.isastrovs fire occurred at Pres-cott, the other night, by which the Johnson hotel was totally destroyed and the guests had a narrow escape for their lives.

As it was they lost nearly everything. Some peculiar disease, a Webster City, dispatch of the 21st said, was destroying the lives of the cats in that vicinity, the highways in the country especially being strewn with the carcasses of dead felines. TnE United States military and naval authorities are actively engaged in making legitimate arrangements for emergencies. The present available supply of powder is considerable, the Frankfort arsenal at Philadelphia is turning out about 70,000 cartridges per day and can double the output when necessary, and the ordnance factories are making encouraging progress guns and carriages for sea- coast ind field art'ulerv. Joseph Leitek, of Chicago, made an emphatic denial that he disposed of 5.000.000 bushels of his May holdings of wheat during the excited trading of a day or two ago.

He was credited with making a profit of 5500,000. He said: I "I not only did not sell a bushel of wheat, but bought wheat. The current prices are only the beginning of a range from $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel. That what I propose to sell my wheat at." Is a jealous fit George Bernhard'. shot and killed his employer.

Rein-hard Losier, and fatally woundeo Mary Bernhardt at Philadelphia th other nig hu CURRENT COMMENT. Georgia is petting- ready to plan' more acres of watermelons than eve before. A large dinner party in Boston a fchort time apo was entertained by telephone with speeches in Brooklyn. Jasuaby was a 1 pht month for fires all over the United States. The total loss was In January, it was 512,049,700, and in 1S9G, Somebody who pretends to know whereof ne speaKS says nocKeiei ler's dividends from his Standard Oil holdings alone last year amounted to $7,500,000.

President Eliot, in his last annual reDort to the overseers of Harvard university, expressed the opinion tha athletics and big-h scholarship do not harmonize. A sew patriotic society was organ' ized in New York the other day. 1 will be known as the American Fla? association and its object will be to crotect the national flag- from desecra- tion. At a. recent eatin? contest in New York a human ostrich devoured 15: oysters, two pairs of ducks, four loaves of bread and 35 glasses of beer.

11 competitor managed the oysters am beer all riht, but stalled on the fourth duck. Thoi gh the whooping cough bacillus has hitherto eluded the grasp of the bacteriologist, it has finally been cap tured by Dr. Henry Koplik, of New York, whose discovery has just been confirmed by Dr. Ozapelewski, a German expert- This microscopic bug has done as much to worry mothers as any other bacilli. Tiik total loss to the United States government by the disaster to the bat tleship Maine at Havana is officially pronounced to be S4.G;s!i,2Gl.

ahis em braces the cost of hull, machinery. equipment, armor, gun protection and armament and it includes the cost of ammunition, skill, current supplies, coal, in short the entire outfit. Few persons have an idea of the enormous Quantities of cigars and cigarettes made in New York city. During the month of January just passed the internal revenue returns show that there were manufactured 46.5Si).2ta cipars, 1S.050.5::0 all-tobacco cigarettes and 8.VJ4S,r5i) paper covered cigarettes. This is outside of the smoking- and chewing tobacco prepared for market in New York.

The greatest single event in Ameri can history between the establishment of the government and the overflow of slavery, the St. Louis lobe-Democrat says, was the purchase of Louisiana, and the centennial in 1903 of its acquisition ought to be commemorated by a great international exposition, held in St. Louis, the largest city of the Lou isiana region and the most central for the United States of all the country's important cities. The government has been collecting information as to the strength of the militia in the United States and also the number of men who would be available for service in ca.se of an emergency. The returns from the states are interesting in view of the prospect of trouble with Spain.

The total militia force of the I'nited States and the territories, as shown by the returns, is 114.302, and the total number of men available for military service is C. Hahm chemist for the Union Steel company at Alexandria. has just applied for patents upon a process whereby he is enabled to make the softest, whitest wool, from the flintiest, roughest, limestone, which is used in skyscrapers in all large cities, in fact, in ail lines where there is a demand for stone. A firm in Bostou, one of the best-known wool weavers in the country, is making experiments in converting the wool he manufactures into clothing. Gen.

William Booth, the head of the Salvation army, said recently at Cincinnati: Cuban butchery should stop. It should stop, if need be, by the intervention of the United States. England is not jealous of America. The individual Englishman would see young America prosper in peace. I do not think that the fur of the British lion would rise should Uncle Sam fight the dons.

The Cuban war should stop at any cost- and that is admitting a great deal for as conservative an Englishman as I am." Etta Michaki.son. a pretty and well-educated girl living at Cleveland. Kays she has discovered the secret of perpetual life. 'When I anuounce this." the said. -1 realize that the whole world will laugh at me.

1 canuot help that. I cannot disclose my secret unless ten men meet to hear what I have to say. I want them to thoroughly investigate what I tell them." The girl's mental condition is said to be all right and her request to meet ten men to whom she will reveal her secret will undoubtedly be granted. A movement has been set afoot to erect a monument to Gen. Lafayette.

President McKinley and Assistant Secretary Day have shown much iuterest in the matter, which has been brought officially to the attention of congress through resolutions offered in both bouses, which make provision for a commission to supervise the collection of a fund among all the schools of the United States for the purpose of erecting a monument to lien. Lafayette in Paris the same to be presented to the government of France and unveiled and dedicated on the Fourth of Julv, 1900. At Concord, X. a short time ago ground was broken for the first cotton mill in the United States to be owned and operated entirely by negroes. The company was organized by a colored merchant at that place of the name of Stoneman, who has been working for two years securing subscriptions.

lie claims to have over 850,000 in hand and nearly 5100,000 more pledged. The contracts have been let for the erection of a building with the most approved machinery. The white people regard the result of the enterprise as doubtful, but Stoneman is confident ol success. The Yonnsr Idea. 'Mamma, I guess I know whv Mr.

Buns-by sits in ihe front row at the theater. "Whv. mv "So evervbodv can see that he got a little hair left" Pittsburgh Chronicle. His Apprehension. De Witte I feel so sorry for those cad-dies! Miss Askens Why? "I'm afraid some of them may grow up to become golf players." Puck.

Hard Lnrk. "What made you quit the club, Billy?" ''Reason enouph. I ran tell you. I worked five years to be elected treasurer, and then they insisted on putting in a cash register." Boston Traveler. The Back-Utter.

"The back-biter," remarked the observer nf men and things, "is usually somebody who has been frustrated in the attempt to get white meat off the breast." Detroit, Jour nai. Information Wanted. Teacher At what age does a man usually get ba'd? Hriglit Pupil What kind of a man mar lied or single? Chicago Evening News. Failed to Please. Tom That composer made himself very unpopular.

"By putting on such airs. p-to-lue. Then He Qalfi. Prim Man is born to rule the world. Prone But sometimes he gets married.

Vp-to Date. Xfwi for the Wneelmen. The League of American Wheelmen numbers nearly 2.000 below the lOO.OOO mark within the last few weeks. In spite of this startling diminution, the maximum of health may be attained by those who use the comforting and thorough tonic, Hostet-ter's Stomach Bitters, which promotes di-eertion, a healthy flow of bile, regularity of the bowels, and counteracts kidney trouble. It is, moreover, a remedy for and preventive of malaria and rheumatism.

Almonds and Smllai. A good deal is said ami written about society, but all there is to it is salted al inonds and smilax. Atchison Globe. To Core a Cold In One Da Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it tails to cure.

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Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free 82 trial bottle treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st Pa. The inventor of suspenders that will not pull the buttons off will have a bigger fortune than a shareholder in Klondike.

Washington Democrat. The inventor of suspenders that would never break would be assured of a fortune Washington Democrat. Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs. Rev. D.

Buch- mueller, Lexington, Feb. 24, '91. The inventor of a kind of suspenders that won't wear out is of the blessings of all mankind. Washington Democrat. Mothers must be an awfully good thing: children cry for them so much.

Atchison Globe. Actors, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise Hale's Honey of llorehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Women whose clothes do not look like it, are very particular about their dressmakers. Washington Democrat.

After a man is 30, in thinking of coasting he considers the walk back. Atchison Globe. Rupture. Surecure. Book rpe.

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6UEG0BI fWS, aaa.j ROOFING? The best Red Hope Roof 4 In for 1. wmr s- a ftbtltsts ter ttmttm flU IAI tuiua BOWUM mm HARBOR OF HAVANA MIXED. Xaral Officers Still Discussing the Cause of the Disaster of the Maine A Secret Inquiry Active War Preparations Going on. Madrid, Feb. 23.

The sympathy and dismay which at first prevailed when the catastrophe in the Havana harbor was announced has disappeared and given way to an intensely bellicose and angry feeling, which is freely expressed on all sides and by members of every political party. They are kept fully informed of the tone of the American press and of the apparently universal demands made upon the president to resort to war, and. far from there being any alarm about the matter, grim satisfaction is apparent everywhere. No one here will admit for one moment that the Maine was blown up by design. The disaster is ascribed to the alleged gross carelessness and laxity of discipline which people here say constitute a teature on board American snips.

The gravity of the situation is further demonstrated bv the fact that the queen regent has summoned to her side her mother, the Archduchess Elizabeth, justly renowned as one of the cleverest politicians in all Europe and who was recently at death's door. She is a woman of very strong character, and those here who have had occasion to become acquainted with her during her stays with her daugh ter express the opinion that she will eneourag-e the queen regent to yield at once to the popular demand for a war with the United States, and will silence her daughter's hesitations upon the subject. That is, indeed, from a dynastic point of view, the only thing to be done, for there is no doubt what ever that any further appearance of subserviency to America, any attempt to maintain peace at the cost of Spanish pride, will result in the overthrow of the monarchy. The Harbor Filled With Mines. New York, Feb.

23. A Havana cable from the Evening Telegram's correspondent says: I have learned from the highest authority no matter what may have been the cause 3f the terri tile catastrophe to the Maine, the Sarbor of Havana is. and has be for a long filled with submarine mines and torpe-ioes. While this fact tins been suspected, but few army and navy officers have any definite idea of the location or number of these min- At the outbreak of the war the greatest was imposed upon those having mines under their supervision, and heir presence was forgotten or the pub ic peneraL When it was rumored that i United Sta'es war vessel would be in the harbor, the attention of one of Jen. Weyler's aidis-tie-caim was called to the that all of the larjre shore batteries puard-nsr the entrance to the hartnr could only be lirectei against an enemy in the open sea.

and that if a warship succeeded in running-past the 'orts and entering the haroor the entire city trould be at its mercy. The officer repUed that engineer-! intrusted with the most recent fortification of th? haroor had fuily considered question, and had arran red that if a vessel did en.er the haraor she could be blown ap at once. Mill Discussing the Caate. Feb. 23.

Although the afficers of the construction department Df the navy are almost unanimous igainst the theory of spontaneous jombustion or boiler explosion as the of the destruction of the Maine, they are at a loss with almost every jne else for a clear explanation of it. W. A. Dobson, principal draughtsman Df the bureau of construction, who svas identified with the preparation of the designs of the wrecked battleship, said that he was not fully prepared to accept the theory of many of the 3rdnance experts that the explosion could have been caused by a torpedo from the outside. "What makes me discredit the theory that the Maine was sunk by a torpedo," said another naval officer, "is that Capt.

Sigsbee and all his officers and men were vigilantly guarding their ship against such a visitation. Capt. Sigsbee knew of the hostile feeling against the United States then prevailing in Havana, and he, as well as the other officers of the vessel, had been repeatedly warned against danger and treachery." A Secret Inqairy. Havana, Feb. 23.

The board of in quiry into the Maine disaster met on the lighthouse tender Mangrove yesterday morning with Cants. Sampson and. Chadwick and Lieutenant Commanders I'otter and Marix present. Cant. Sampson presided and Lieuten ant Commander Marix, recently executive officer of the Maine, acted as recorder.

Capt Sisrsbee, the commander of the Maine, was the first witness called. Capt. Sampson, after the session of the board, said that it had been decided not to tell the public the testimony until all shail have been received and the findings have been considered. lhf a AVstrshio was Rent to rob. Washington, Feb.

23. There is no longer any concealment on the part of the administration as to the reason which induced it to decide that naval vessels should go to Havana and otner Cuban porta. While no admissions are made that the "friendly idea is no longer to be considered as the reason that the Maine was sent to Havana, the announcement that another warship would proceed there as soon as the excitement over last Tuesday's terrible affair had subsided shows that the protection of American interests and not mere etiquette has actuated the administration. Capt. Sis-sbee's precautions in keeping ammunition ready for service in the rifles of the secondary battery are evidence that he did not regard his mission as one of loving brotherhood.

Active War rTenaration. Washington. Feb. 23. To-day was devoid of rumors in the Spanish-American situation.

The excitement which has prevailed in Washington for the past week was scarcely noticeable and the government officials and congressmen have resumed theii daily routine, satisfied to wait until the official investigation of the Maine lisaster shall be concluded before forming an opinion as to the cause. In the meantime the war and navy departments are continuing their activity in placing the defenses of the country in good condition in the event of war. The DWaster IeeUred Accidental. New York, Feb. 23.

A dispatch to the New York World from Madrid savs: The Spanish admiral commanding at Havana telegraphs that the Spanish official investigation into th catastrophe to the Maine has terminated and that the arst exploration made by official divers has shown np to the present that the disaster was quite accidental and not produced by an exterior cause. Premier Sagasta brought up Capt. Sigsbee's state documents and the keys to the magazine. Cobalt has been discovered at Grand Encampment, by the French mineralogist, Charles Poulet. It is the 5rst discovery of cobalt in America.

Cobalt is more valuable than gold. A severe snowstorm recently caused the collision of two passenger trains Dn the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul railroad in a deep cut six miles south ot Rockford, 111. Both engines were demolished. Engineer Tilden was instantly killed and a score of persons injured.

At the conference of the leaders of the Creek Indians at Okmulgee, I. resolutions were passed declaring that is a nation they opposed the allotment 3f their lands in severalty and asking the principal chief to have a vote taken by the chiefs in their respective towns on the subject and forward it to their delegates in congress. As soon as the sonference had adjourned Chief Ispar-hecher issued a letter to all Creek judges to enforce the nation's laws and to oppose the recent legislation of congress abolishing their courts. The shins of the American navv went out of mourning for the victims of the Maine disaster at sunset ou the 19th. The official funeral having taken place at Havana, the government at Washington considered that the logical end of the mourning period and gave orders to that effect.

The Burbank block and its contents at Pittsfield, were destroyed by fire. Loss, 5100,000, with insurance of about 550.000. Near Clifton, George Sawyer, aged 17, was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun in his brother's hands. The naval court of inquiry into the Maine disaster sailed for Havana on the 20th. Capt.

Sigsbee telegraphed to Washington from Havana that he had not expressed any opinion on the cause of the disaster. Secretary Long, of the navy department, said that there was nothing new to communicate about the wreck. A report from Key West, said that the Maine wounded were doing well. Gen. Lew Wallace has been challenged to a duel by George E.

Oakes, of Indianapolis, Ind. Wallace, in an address delivered at Lebanon, on Lincoln day, told an unpublished story reflecting on Gen. McClellan's courage and Oakes denounced it as false and challenged Wallace to a meeting on the field' of honor. The affair has caused much excitement throughout Indiana. Near Cushing, Ambrose Georgia, a farmer, quarreled with his tenant, John White, over a crop settlement and Georgia was fatally stabbed.

In the Gown coal mine, of the Choc taw Coal company at Hartshorne. I. Maron Betras, a Syrian employe of the company, let a mule escape from him. He went in pursuit of the mule, which ran into a condemned room full of gas. which Betras' lamp ignited.

The mule was incinerated and Betras himself was badlj' burned about the back, breast, neck and arms. His recovery was considered doubtful. S. P. Winslow, agent for an em broidering machine, whose home is at Springfield, 111., fasted IS days at a hotel at Guthrie, in order that he might be forgiven for sinJ It was thought that he was insane.

I The annual meeting of the Dau7h-ters of the American Revolution opened at Washington on the 21st. A hot fight was in prospect over the office of president general. The deaths at St. Louis for the week ended the 19th were IsS, 40 of them being caused by pneumonia and other diseases of the respiratory orpans. During the corresponding week in lS'Ji 214 deaths occurred.

The attornej' general of Colorado has furnished an opinion that there is no law for women in that state droo ping their maiden name on the simple excuse of a wedding. The man is nothing more than a party to a contract, he says, and cannot demonstrate his mental superiority by forcing his family name on the bride. The opinion is sweeping. The official order for a retiring board to pass upon Col. William A.

Elderkin. commissary of the department of the Missouri, was issued. Col. Elderkin resists retirement, although he is in bad health, in order not to cut his wife out of a pension after his death. Every poiiceman in New York city was on duty or held in reserve on the ISth in compliance with the request made to the police department by Mr.

Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, that precautions be taken against the possibility of hostile demonstrations upon the arrival of the Spanish cruiser Yizcaya. Secretary Bliss is in receipt of a recent letter from Gov. Brady, of Alaska, descriptive of the lawless condition of affairs at Skag-uay and Dyea. It was considered sufficient justification for the immediate dispatch of the additional military force already authorized to be sent to Alaskan territory. The business failures in the United States for the week ended the ISth were 209, according to Bradstreet's commercial report, against 325 for the corresponding week of last year.

Two thousand Dunkards from Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and other western states will join the Dunkard settlement in the Red river valley and Turtle mountain region of North Dakota in the early spring. The passenger and freight steamboat Ericcson, which plied between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Md. sank in the Delaware river off Wilmington, DeL, on the 16th. The passengers "-U.

ta.kea aSf- The human race to-day numbers 1.620,000,000, and increases eight per cent, every ten years, according to the recent report of the International Statistical institute. Any patriotic individual, here or abroad, who fancies that his country contains the major part of mankind should compare his country's population with that of the world. In the United States we amount to about four per cent, of the race. It would not be wise for the average person to follow the example of Mrs. Jemimata Myers, of Baltimore, who put off making her will until after she was 100 years old.

fcXHIKlT. Gov. Treed to Go Ahead with His Flan for a Representation of the State at Omaha. Topeka, Feb. 23.

A committee consisting of T. J. Amierson, Charles S. Gleed and T. W.

Harrison called upon Gov. Leedy yesterday to ascertain the status of the proposition for a suitable exhibit of the resources 3f Kansas at the Omaha exhibition. The governor's proposition was that if the railroads of the state would guarantee S15.0J0 for this purpose he would proceed to raise an additional $15,000 from miners, manufacturers and farmers throughout the state. The committee assured Gov; Leedy that three of the principal Kansas roads had agreed to contribute their share of the required amount. These are the Atchison.

Topeka Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis San Francisco. The Rock Island has already arranged for a direct exhibit at its Dwn expense, and the Union Pacific has not been in shape to make a contribution. The governor was ursred to go ahead with his plan for obtaining the balance of the money from the sources named by him, and the prospect is considered good for a fair rep resentation of Kansas at Omaha. AFTER TUlRTr YKARS.

Rvan Beeler, Who Escaped from Prison in 1868, Ketrayed by an Kneniy. Philadelphia, Feb. 23. Evan L. Heeler escaped from the county prison here 30 years ago.

He dropped out of sight as if the earth had swalloved him. Yesterday afternoon an old enemy saw him near the IJroad street station. The result is that he is once more behind the' bars and likely to pay dearly for the liberty he so cleverly obtained. Who the informer was is an official secret. When he escaped IJeeler made his way west and finally became an inmate of the national sol-iiers' home at Leavenworth, Kan.

Recently he went east to testify in a case. Heeler was sentenced for attempted murder and before escaping had served six vears of the sentence. Fnrced to Sn-nort Her Indian Husband. Cheat Falls, Feb. Mrs.

irarrett White, the white woman who i month ago, while a teacher in the Fort Shaw Indian school, eloped with and married White, a full-blood Pie- jan Indian, has been refused permis sion to live on the reservation. Mrs. White has finally been compelled to accept a position as waitress in a hotel in Dupuyer to supportherself and husband. Mrs. White was formerly Mrs.

Cushman. A Bankrupt Prince Now Runs an Elevator. London, Feb. 2M. It was announced yesterday that the bankruptcy proceedings aeainst Prince Franz von Auersperg have been concluded.

The prince, it is auegen, squandered an immense fortune before he was 26 years of age and disappeared from society. It is reported, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, that the prince is running an elevator in a big New York hotel. Marii Ciras. New Op.i.eans. Feb.

23. The bright and beautiful weather marked the celebration of the Mardi Gras here today, exceDt that the air was chilly it was typical carnival weather. There were the usual scenes on the streets and the customary large number of promiscuous maskers. The Rex parade was the feature of the day. Mass for the Mine Victims.

Cleveland, Feb. 2o. direc tion of Bishop Horstman, a solemn requiem mass was celebrated to-day in St. John's cathedral, this city, in memory of the dead crew of the battleship Maine. The cathedral was elaborately draped in mourning and the function was attended bv a crowded congrega tion.

The Chinese Lortn. Feb. 23. -It is announced that the Chinese loan of 15.000,- 000 0.000) has been arranged with the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank of London and the German Asiatic bank. TELEGRAPH If BREVITIES.

W. T. Mooney. of Wyandotte county, has been named a United States denuty marshal for the Fort Scott (Kan.) district. The Farmers' Mutual Insurance company, of Wamego, has been chartered, with a capital of It is formed along the line of State Insurance Superintendent McXall's plan, who advocated that farmers insurf one another.

Charles Stevens, county attorney ol Cherokee county, was held for trial at the district court for alleged theft, the complaining witness being Tiler Gaviett, who alleges Stevens and two other parties, by unfair process, secured 5i ishels of corn from him. Appointed reuiL-ittirr tiaplain. Leavenworth, Feb. 20. A telegram was received by Rev.

J. F. Leavett, pastor of the Baptist church here, from Attorney General Griggs, informing him that he had been selected to be chaplain for the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth. Many preachers were after the place. Senators Baker, of Kansas, and Mason, of Illinois, secured the appointment for Rev.

Mr. Leavett. Crew Went Down with the Barge. Bostox, Feb. 20.

Four men, comprising the crew of the barge Excelsior, which foundered on Handkerchief shoal, oS Cape Cod. were lost. It was thought that the men were taken off by the tug Carbonero, which had the barge in tow, but upon the arrival of the tug here it was announced that they had not been saved. The Excelsior with her cargo was valued at about $33,000. Chlrkaraw Lerlslatnre Adjourns.

Abdmore, Feb. 20. The special session of the Chickasaw legislature has adjourned. A bill was passed providing for two delegates to go to Washington in the interest of the Cbickasaws. Ex-Gov.

Byrd and Homes Colbert were the delegates selected..