The Frankfort Sentinel from Frankfort, Kansas • 1

lit DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PRODUCERS. S. 11. TETERS, Publisher. FRANKFORT, KANSAS, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1890.

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BLAINE ON THE TARIFF. GENERAL FREMONT DEAD. DIRE EXPLOSION. VESSEL SWAMPED. IvAXSAS STATE NEWS.

THE WORLD AT LARGE. By an explosion of fireworks at Brunn, Austria, a man and his wife and two children were killed. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended July 10 numbered compared with 100 the previous week, and 209 the corresponding week of last year. Parneli. made a speech in the British House of Commons on the 11th remarkable for its moderation and deprecating to a largo extent the "plan of Tho speech excited much comment Explorer Stanley was taken sick with an attack of gastritis on tho eve of his marriage to Miss Tennant Advices from St Johns.

X. say that there have been 2.0T1 cases of diphtheria and 500 deaths since the outbreak of the epidemic. The disease is now under control. At Dartmouth, N. recently about 700 persons were precipitated into the The National Educational convention at St Paul, elected William R.

Garrett of Nashville, for president. Prof. James H. Canfield, of Lawrence, was elected one of the vice-presidents: also Prof. Buchanan, of Kansas City, Ma James M.

Greenwood, of Kansas City, Ma, was chosen treasurer. The independent brewers of Chicago have begun war on the English syndicate. Prices have already dropped from 56.00 to 53.50 per barrel and further cuts are expected. George Shaw, of Eau Claire, has been elected supreme chancellor Knights of Pythias. The large hotel at Lake Elmo, twelve miles from St Paul.

has been burned. Loss, 5150,000. Twenty-nine buildings in Ithaca, Mich were destroyed by fire the other night Loss. insurance, 25,000. Edward I).

Gallagher was hanged at Vancouver, for a murder last November. He died cursing the sheriff. There was an explosion and fire on the lake steamer Tioga at Chicago on the 11th. A number of stevedores engaged in unloading wore burned to death, though desperate efforts were made to rescue them from the hold. Colonel Alexander McD.

McCook has been nominated Brigadier-General. He was congratulated at Fort Leavenworth, where he was in command. Ray Hawk, a hoy, and Fred Armstrong, a man, were killed by choke damp in an old shaft at What Cheer, Iowa. A shocking calamity occurred on Lake Pepin. on the evening of the loth.

A tornado struck the steamer Sea Wing, loaded with excursionists, which was overturned and nearly all the unfortunates on board drowned. The wheat crop of the Northwest is now reported likely to bo 115,000,000 bushels, the fields being in fine condition. The recent terrible cyclone was the cause of the loss of at least fifty lives at Lake Gorvaise, Minn. A party of German picnickers while crossing the track at Haden, was run into by a train and four of the party were killed. In a collision between a passenger and a construction train near Madison-vino, two engineers, two firemen and a mail agent were injured.

Two hundred and fifty coal miners of Gallup, X. have struck for an increase in wages and a decrease in the ton weight. Deputy sheriffs are on guard. Chicago Democrats have made two Congressional nominations. In the First district W.

C. Ewing, e-fnited States district attorney, was nominated, and in the Fourth General W. C. Newberry was named. The First district is now represented by Abner Taylor, and the Fourth by G.

E. Adams. Twenty-two bodies of victims by the disastrous explosion on the steamer Tioga at Chicago have been recovered. Somewhat Sudden Death of the "Path Under" A Krief Sketch or His Life His Explorations in the Great West and Northwest. New York, July 14.

General John Fremont died at his home in this city at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. His death was very sudden and was caused by peritonitis. General Fremont was out on Friday and appeared to be in good health. His son was notified by telegraph of his father's death. Those present at the time of the death were his son.

Lieutenant F. Fremont U. S. and Dr. Morton.

Sirs. General Fremont and daughter are in Los Angeles, and another son. Captain Fremont is at Fort Snelling, Minn. At the house last night were Colonel Porter and Mrs. Porter, who was the General's adopted daughter.

General Fremont was seventy-seven years ind six months old yesterday. John Charles rreruont was of the noted characters in later American history. He was born at Savannah, January 1, IS13. He graduated at Charleston College and entered the army as Second Lieutenant For two years he taught mathematics on board the sloop-of-war Natchez, received his degree in and soon after passed a rigorous examination for the post of professor of in the navy, and was appointed to the frigate Independence but, reso'ving to quit the sea, he turned his attention to civil engineering, and was employed In the Missis-iippi survey and similar undertakings. In 1S40 he ceived from President Van Buren a commission as Second Lieutenant in the corps of topographical engineers, and was ordered to make an examination of the river Pea Moines, upon the Western frontier.

He now proposed to penetrate the Rocky mountains, and his plans being approved of, he reached and explored the South pass In 1842, and be discovered the route to California, since followed by thousands. A lofty peak which he ascended, 13.750 feet above the sea, is now called Fremont's Peak. His report of the expedition laid before Congress in the winter of 1842-4-1, and a traeted great attention bath at home and abroad. He Immediately planned a second expedition and determined to survey the then unknown region lying between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific ocean. He commenced his Journey in May, lsn, explored the Kansas river, crossed the South pass, and after 1,700 miles of traveling, came, on September 6, in sight of the great Salt lake, of which very vague and erroneous notions were entertained.

He selected a route leading to the upper Colorado, through an almost unknown region, crcssed by rugged mountain ridges. After suffering the greatest hardships he determined to make lor Pan Francisco instead of the United States, and when he could get no Indian to guide him across tho snow-covered monntaias which lay between him and the valleys of Californ he boldly undertook the passage without a guide. Heac-complished it in forty days, re.iching Sutter's Fort on the Sacramento in March, with his men almost rfduced to skeletons. In consideration of his valuable services Fremont was brevetted Captain in January, and in the spring of the same year set out on a third expedition to explore the great basin and the maritims region of California. He took part in the war with Mexico, and cleared the north part of California from Mexican troops.

In 118 he started on a fourth expedition, at his own expense, trying to find a practicable passage to California along the upper waters of the Rio Grande. In. attempting to cross the great Sierra covered with snow, his guide lost his way, and Fremont's p.irty encountered horrible suffering, being even driven to cannibalism to support life, and 'osing one-third of their numbers. In 1S4'. he settled ia Californ ia.

He received in 18." the first nomination ever made by the Republican party for President. In 18u he was made a Major-General, and in I. was in action in Kentucky and Virginia. In 1878 he was appointed Governor of Arizona. He htld the position until 18S1.

His later years have been spent in quiet retirement during whicil he devoted his Lfe to preparing memoirs of his life. THE BEHRING SEA. Report That the I'nited States Has Receded From Its Position. London, July 14. The comments of the American press on the attitude of Great Britain in regard to the Behring sea controversy are exciting much interest in England.

Whatever may be said in Washington, there is excellent authority in London for stating that the British Government did determine, and formally notified the American Government of its determination, that the proceedings which characterized the seal fishery season of 1889 would not be tolerated this year. It is true that no threats were made, but the significance of the language used could not be misunderstood. England recognizes no analogy between the Canadian claim to exclusive fishing rights in Canadian waters and the assertion of exclusive title by America to Behring sea. The selection of Rear Admiral Uoltham to comncand the British squadron in the North Pacific squadron was made with a view to the possible gravity of the situation, and his flagship, the Warsprite, is one of the finest vessels in the navy. It is now stated that the United States Government has practically yielded to British representations and that pending the decision of the Behring sea question, there will be no very serious enforcement of American claims; that the Canadian sealers which do not poach on recognized American preserves will not be pounced upon simply because they are in the disputed limits.

This will avert any cause for interference by the fleet of Great Britain. Pythian Winners. Milwaukee, July 13. The winners of prizes in the Knights of Pythias competitiv'5 drill were divisions representing respectively, in order, Hastings, Erie, Amsterdam, N. New Albany, Grand Rapids, Fort Dearborn division, Chicago; Indianapolis, and Red Cross division, St Louis.

A number of special prizes were also awarded. The Kansas division which took the second prize won the first prize at Topeka, in May. It with twenty-nine men. Killed By a Snake. Sceanton, July 14.

The body of Mrs. Marshall Henry, who started out from Foster Saturday to pick raspberries, was found in the woods, death having resulted from the bite of a rat-tlesnaka The body was so swollen and discolored as to be hardly recognizable. Texas Fever Ravages. Arkansas City, July 14. Frank Reed, who has returned to the city from a trip among the farmers along the Kansas border in Sumner County, reports that Texas fever is making sad havoc among the native cattle.

Colonel John Reid Dead. Lexington, July 14. Colonel John Keid died yesterday morning after a short illness. By his death the city loses one of its most prominent oldest and wealthiest citizens. Ever since the foundation of Lexington he has held positions of trust and not until a few years ago did he retire into privato life.

He leaves a wife. Resumed Operationa. Reading, July 14. The Janna furnace, one of the largest in the country, which has been idle since last fall, has resumed operations. Iron men report that trade is improving.

The Secretary of state Writes a Letter In Which He Refers to a Weak Foint in the McKinley BilL Washington, July 15. The following letter from Secretary Blaine has been received by Senator Frye: Bar Harbor, July ii Dear Mr. Frye: I have just received intelligence from the highest commercial authority in Havana that American flour under the duties Imposed by Spain can not reach the Cuban in irkct under a cost of $1L4 per barrel connting the shipping price in New York at $4.80 per barrel. Spain holds the market for herself and Is able to send European flour at a price wh ch totally excludes the American flour from the markets of Cuba and Porto Hico. Other articles of American growth are likewise taxed by Spain to the point of prohibition.

This onesi Jed commerce will seriously injure the shipping routes, which are si ill in Aiueiican hands, largely if not exclusively. It would certainly be a very extraordinary policy on the part of the Government ju-t at titis time to open our market without charge of duty to the enormous crops of sugar raised in the two Spanish islands. Cuba and Porto Kico furnish the United States with nearly or quite one-half of the sugar which we consume and we arc far larger consumers than any other nation in the world. To give a free ma-bet to this immense product of the Spanish plantations at the moment Spain is excluding the products of American farms from her market would be a policy as unprecedented as it is unwise. Our trade with tho American republics as well as with the West India-Islands has been for many years in a most unsatisfactory condition.

The agregat i balance of trade with ail Latin America is heavily against us. A single illustration will suffice. Since we repaaled the duty on coffee in lsTi we have Imported the products of Brazil to tho extent of and have sold to her only (X) of our own products. The difference $VI 7D00 we h'tve paid in gold or its equivalent and ltrazil has expended the vast sum in the markets of Europe. You can readily see how different the result wou'd have been if, in return for the free admission of Brazilian coffee into our markets, we had exacted the free admission of certain products of the United States in the Brazilian markets.

To repeat this error with sugar (to an amount three times as 1 irge as with coffee) will close all opportunity tocstablish reciprocity of trade with Litin America. The charge against the protective policy which has injured it mo-t is that its benefits go wholly to the manufacturers and the capitalist, and not at all to the farmer. You and I well know tiiat this is not trua, but still it is the most platisib'e, and therefore the most hurtful argument nnde by the free traders. Here is an opportunity where the farmer mav le benefited primarily, unde niably, richly benetite'L Here is an opportunity for the Republican Congress to open the markets of people to the prod nets cf American farmers. Shall we seize the opportunity or shall we throw it away? I do not doubt that in many respects that the Tariff bill pending in the Senate is a just measure and that most of its provis ions are In accordance with the wise policy of But there is not a sc.

tion or a line in the entire bill that will open a mar ket for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. If sugar is not placed on the free list without exacting important trade concessions in return we shall close the door for a protrable reciprocity agninst ourselves. I think you will find some vain-able hints on this snbj-'ct in the President's brief messiige of June 19, with as much practical wisdom as was ever stated in so short a space. Our foreign market for brcadstnffs grow narrower. tJreat Britain is exerting every nerve to secure her bread supply from India and the rapid expansion of the wheat area in Russia gives ns a power.

ul competitor in i he markets of Kuiope. It becomes us, therefore, to use every opportunity for the extension of our markets on both of the American continents. With ne -rly $10,000, OtiO worth of sugar seeking cur mark -t every year we shall prove our selves most unskilled legislators if we do not secure a large field for sale and consumption of our breadstuffs and p-ovisions. The late conference of American republics prov-d the exist-nce of a common des re for closer relations. Our Congress should take up the work where the international conference left it.

Ournell of commercial development and prcgress lies south of us. Very i-inccrely yours, James G. Blaine. Hon. W.

P. Frye, United Slates Senate. THE LAKE CALAMITY. Sixty-five Bodies Recovered The Loss of Life Probably Iouble that Number. Lake City, July 15.

The storm which resulted in such great loss of life in Lake Pepin, opposite the western end of this little town, was a straight wind blowing at a terrific rate of speed and it completely overpowered the excursion steamer Sea King, pre viously telegraphed Sea Wing. Lake Pepin, an expansion of the Mississippi, is about thirty miles long and extends east and west The steamer was returning from the camp of the Minnesota National Guards with party of Red Wing people and was steam ing in the teeth of the wind. Ihe gale was too much for the steamer and the boat was fast getting beyond control when Captain Wethern tried to save the lives of his passengers by running the boat aground on the-Wisconsin shore, but as soon as the vessel turned around a little to the force of the wind, it was seized by a strong grip and it was impossible for the engines to right it The boat was turned over and quickly scores of people were struggling in the waves, from which many of them may never be recovered. The vessel tried to regain its right position but quickly was seized once more and a second overturning upset nearly all of those still clinging to the wreck. A few reached the shore, but the most closed their eyes under water.

At 10:30 the bodies of a woman and child, to which ropes had been at tached, were drawn from the water. The child was the daughter of John Winters, of Red Wing. F'red Seivers, blacksmith, was taken out a few min utes later. That makes a total of sixty- five bodies already found, or probably about half the total number drowned. It was stated that to keep the water out of the cabin and to keep the people under shelter.

Captain Wethern had locked the door of the cabin. If this is true, it may explain much of the loss of life, although the loss would still have been vety heavy. Heavy Robbery. Omaha, July 15. Mrs.

Floretta Russell, of Ottawa, was robbed of $10,000 in cash which she was carrying in a hand satchel on Saturday last She had just cashed a draft for that amount and was passing the corner of Fourteenth and Capital avenue when she felt some one jerk her satchel from her hand, and turning saw, as she claims, John L. Rush and James llogan, two Ottawa men who had come to Omaha on the same train with her, run through the Dellano Hotel, now in course of construction. The police found and arrested Hogan y.esterday morning. Rush still at large. Noted Mason Dead.

St. Louis, July 15. Joseph Mountain, well known in Masonic and business circles, died at his residence here of spinal meningitis, at o'clock yesterday, aged seventy. He was past grand master of Anchor lodge No 443; past high priest of the Missouri chapter of the Royal Arch Masons; past eminent commander of the St Louis com-mandery No. 1 Knights Templar, and an Odd Fellow of equally high standing.

In the branches of the Masonic order in St Louis he was also honored, being a member of the Myst Shrine and of the supretr.e body cf the Owls. Tho Terrible Work of a Cyclone in Minnesota. An Excursion Steamer Filled With Men, Women and Children Capsized on Pop'n and Nearly AH on Board Drowned- A Terrible Calamity. Lake City, July 14. What Irill probably prove to be the most disastrous cyclone that has ever struck this community passed over this city at nine o'cloc last evening, inflicting the loss of life of perhaps 100 or 200 people and damaging property to an extent that at this writing can not be estimated.

The first signs of the coming disaster were clouds which appeared to be an ordinary electric storm coming up from the west In half an hour the whole heavens were converted into a complete canopy of lightning which was watched wish interest by the brave citizens in the little village and with fear by the timid women and children. A little before dark a terrific wind struck the community and the next moment trees and houses were being demolished in its path. As soon as the storm had passed it was found that a disaster had befallen the place that had not been equaled since the St Cloud cyclone several years ago. People began to gather in the streets, and in a few moments the news was scattered abroad that an excursion boat with over 200 people on it was capsized in the middle of Lake Pepin. The boat proved to be the steamer Sea Wing, which came down the lake from Diamond Bluff, a small place about seventeen miles north of here, on an excursion to the encampment of the First regiment of the National Guard of the State of Minnesota, which is being held a mile below this city.

The steamer started back on the homeward trip about eight o'clock, and although there were signs of an approaching storm it was not considered in any way serious, and no danger was anticipated. The boat vas crowded to its fullest capacity, about 150 men, women and children from Red Wing and Diamond Bluff being on board, and about fifty people on a barge which was attached to the side of the steamer. When about opposite Lake City the boat began to feel the effects of the storm, but the officers kept on the way. The storm increased as the boat continued up the lake, and in fifteen minutes was at its height Nearing the central point about two miles above Lake City, the steamer was at the mercy of the waves, which were now washing over the boat and all was confusion. The boat momentarily ran on to a bar and the barge was cut loose and the steamer again set adrift in the lake.

A number of those on the barge jumped and swam ashore. As the barge also floated again into deep water those on the barge saw the steamer as it was carried helplessly out into the middle of the lake, and as they were being tossed about on tho raging waters they were horrified a moment later to see the steamer capsize and its cargo of 150 people precipitated into the lake. Those on tho barge remained there until they drifted nearer the shore and they were all rescued or swam ashore. All of the people on board, 150 or more, were thrown into the water, some being caught underneath. The boat turned bottom upward, and only about twenty-flve people were observed to bo floating on the surface.

These caught hold of the boat and climbed upon the upturned bottom, and those first securing a position assisted the others. In ten minutes more the twenty-five or so who had obtained momentary safety on the boat could observe no others of the boat crew or passengers floating on the surface of the continuing high sea of waves. Afterward, however, as a flash of lightning lighted up the surface of the lake the sight of an occasional white dress of a drowning woman or child was observable, but it was Impossible for those who w.tnessed the horrible sight to lend any aid. Those remaining began calling for help from the shore as soon as the storm began to abate, and in half an hour lights were observed flitting around on the pier at Lake City, opposite which point the upturned steamer had now been driven. Before help could reach them, however, the poor creatures who yet remained to tell the horrors of the night were again submitted to another battle with the elements, with no word of warning, and as they were just beginning to hope that they would be taken off by the cit zens of Lake City, the boat again turned over, this time on its side, and again all of the twenty-five remaining souls were hurled into the water.

Of these several were drowned before they could be brought to the boat by those who succeeded in remaining afloat and again securing a hold on the boat's side. In a few minutes a dozen or more row boats were manned and put out from the shore. The upturned boat was at last discovered, and the twenty or more remaining people clinging to the boat were rescued and brought to the shore, most of them being men who could swim. Later t'p to this time, 1:30 a. fifty-nine bodies have been found and laid out Nova Scotia's Fatality.

Halifax, N. July 13. A terrible accident occurred in Dartmouth by which a number of people were drowned. The chain attached to a ferry boat slipped out of place and allowed the front of the bridge to nk and precipitate a crowd of 600 or 700 men, women and children into the water. The people were crowded there waiting for the new ferry steamer Annex, just arrived from New York, to dock.

When all 'those in sight had been 'irotight to land the work of grappling lor the drowned ones was commenced. Within two hours four bodies were re covered. No Success Likely. London, July 14. In the House of Commons Mr.

Howard Vincent asked tqe Government if, in view of the fact that a free market had been accorded to American imports to Great Britain, while the heavy duty imposed upon British goods had nearly extinguished the National debt of the L'nited States, the Government would invite America to refrain from enforcing the prohibitory tariffs now before Congress, but instead give fair commercial reciprocity. Sir James Ferguson said that no such representations were likely to be Oemoeratie Contention. The following call has been issued by the Democratic State Central Committee: A de'egate convention of the Democrats of the of Kansas will be held on tliedtb day of Septem' er, at 11:30 o'clock a. m. in th city of ch ta, lorthe purpose of ns candidates forGovernor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary ct State, Attorney-General, Superintendent of Public Instruction and Vtxiel Justice of the Supreme Court.

Delegates to the convention shall be s-lec ed by the cliff -rent counties of the State in the manner prescribed by the Democratic committees of the several counties. The basis of repretcntation in such convention pfc all be one delegate for every 250 votes or traction there in excess of 125 votes cast r.lohn C. Sheridan, candidate for Klector-at Xarrfe in 18h8. Upon which bads delegates ae apportioned as follows: Allen 4 Lincoln 1 Anderson 4 Linn 4 Ate ison 10 iLoan 1 Itarber 3 Lyon 6 Barton 5 5 Hourbon 7, Marshall 7 Itrown 71 cPherson 3 liutler S' 1 Chase 6 Uhautaurjua 4 Cherokee sj Montgomery 7 Cheyenne. viMorri- i Clark 1 Morton 1 1 Lty Jj Nemaha 7 Cloud 4i Neosho 5 Coffev 5 Ness.

2 Comanche 2lNorton 3 Cowley Crawford 7sborne 3 Decatur 3 Ottawa 3 I ckin.S'n 7 I'awnee 1 Doniphan 4 Phillips. 3 Dougl.is i Pottawatomie 6 Kdwards lll'ratt 3 Klk 3 Rawlins 3 Kllis 3 Keno 7 Kllsworth 3'Republic. 5 Kinney 1 Kic- 4 Ford 3 Riley 3 Franklin 4 Rooks 2 Garfield 1 Hush 2 Geary 3 Russell 2 Gove I -aline 5 Graham 1 Scott 1 Grant 1H Gray I ward 1 Greenwood 4 Shawnee 13 Greeley 1 -heridan 1 Hamilton 1 Sherman 2 Harper 4 smith 3 Urn vev 4 staff 2 Haskell 1 Stanton I Hodgeman 1 Stevens 1 Jackson 5 Sumner Je-fferson ri Thomas 2 Jewell 4 Trepo 1 Johnson rvWabaunsee 4 Kea ney 1 Kintntin 1' 6 Kiowa 1 Labette 4 ilson 4 Line 1 Woodson 2 Leavenworth 17 The secretaries of tho conventions selecting delegates in the respective counties are hereby instructed to forward to the chairman at Leavenworth certified copies of the credentials of the delegates immediately after their se ection to en ible the committee to prepare a correct roll for the convention. By ordr of the Democratic State Central Committee of Kansas. Edward Carroll, Chairman.

IlESRT Shindler, Secretary pro tern. Miscellaneous. Charles Laohanoe, who was recently arrested at Hutchinson for bigamy, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. It is said that he served a term in the Arkansas penitentiary for a similar offense. Jcnc.r.

Humphrey and Ex-Governor Anthony, of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, recently went to Washington to represent the State before the Inter-State Commerce Commission in the matter of the reduction of grain rates in accordance with the findings of that Commission as embodied in its recent report made under a resolution of the United States Senate. The livery stable of George Warren at Topeka was burned by the incendiary's torch the other night and ten valuable horses perished. This made the fourteenth stable destroyed in the city since March 31, all attributed to incendiary origin. John" McPii.vil, a lawyer and newspaper writer, whose home was at Linds-borg, died in a Kansas City (Mo.) saloon the other day from the heat and excessive drinking. Miss.

Welch, living about four miles north of Lawrence, had occasion to use some carbolic acid the other day, and left the bottle in reach of her two-year-old child. The little one overturned the bottle, spilling the contents over her face and body. She died in a short time. Foi rteex families of colored people recently returned from Oklahoma to Topeka. They said that every thing was burning up down there, and that the settlers are leav.ng as fast as they can get away.

A tetitiox signed by John Dunnell, of Providence, asking for a pension, was laid before the United States Senate the other day. Dunnell says he is eighty-five years old, and applies for a pension on the ground that he is the orphan of a Revolutionary soldier. He will take his pension in the shape of land in the Indian Territory or any other compensation Congress may see fit to allow him. The two-year-old son of Benjamin Spriul, of Arkansas City, was burned to death recently in a fire which destro3'ed his father's barn. Children playing with matches are supposed to have started the fire.

The burglar who was shot recently while entering the residence of S. B. Tattee, at Osage City, died without revealing his identity. His partner, who was shot at the same time, has not been captured. The Douglas County Farmers' Alliance will hold a big meeting at Bismarck Grove August 12.

Prominent speakers from a distance have been engaged. Joseph Tribble was arrested at Wa-thena July 5 for the murder of Jerry Kincaid near there in September, 1861. The murder was the outgrowth of a difference of opinion on the slavery question. Prof. S.

E. Harker, late principal of the Columbus public schools, suicided recently by taking morphine. He was supposed to have been insane at the time, as a diary left showed that insanity was hereditary in the family. One of his sisters several years ago cut off her babe's head under the delusion that she was killing a chicken. At Girard the other day a woman whose husband had been on a protracted spree went into the original package house and began demolishing packages right and left She was ejected by the proprietor and fined one dollar and costs in the police court which was promptly paid by the spectators.

Frank Myers, aged sixteen years, was recently drowned while bathing in Sugar Lake, near Atchison. The Second Presbyterian church at Wichita was burned the other day by a fire originat'ng from fireworks. In a runaway accident at Wichita the other night Mrs. John Baker was thrown from a carriage and aligliting on her head received injuries which it was thought would prove fatal. The Delaware mills at Lawrence were recently burned.

James Dexmax was drowned in the Arkansas river south of Wichita tho other ua Havoo Created By Sixteen Ton of Powder. Bodies of L'nfbrtanate Victims Blown Atoms Terrible Fire RftgiQg Many I'ersons Wounded Great Confusion. Cixctmxati, July 16. A terrible ax-plosion occurred late yesterday afternoon at King's powder mills on the Little Miami railroad twenty-eight miles east of this city by which at least ten persons were killed and a dozen or more seriously injured. Two empty freight cars were being rolled on to a side track where a car containing 500 kegs of gunpowder was standing.

As the cars struck there was a terrific explosion and immediately afterward another car containing 800 kegs of gunpowder, making 1,300 kegs altogether. William Frauly, a brakeman in the service of the Little Miami road, was standing on one of the empty cars when the explosion occurred. His body must have been blown to atoms, as no trace of it has been found. Five other person supposed to be employes of the powder company, wore The Kings Powder Company and the Peters cartridge works have works on both sides of the river along the railroad. The explosion occurred on the south side and the destruction was enormous.

There are a number of cottages occupied by workmen in the powder factory situated close to the track. These were scattered by the explosion and their inmates injured. Twelve or fifteen girls at work in the cartridge factory were crippled by the explosion and the railway station, or the freight house belonging to the Little Miami railroad, together with all the adjacent buildings, were set on fire and totally consumed. The havoc wrought by the explosion of these sixteen tons of powder was dreadful. The track and ties of the railroad were fairly torn out of the ground and a great hole plowed in the ground.

Tho Peters cartridge factory was burned to the ground and nothing but a mass of blackened, smoldering ruins to mark the spou where the building stood. As soon as the new3 reached this city, about five o'clock, a relief train was dispatched to the scene of tho disaster with Supperintendent Peters and a large party of surgeons on board and relief was afforded the sufferers as soon as possible. Kings Station is situated in Warren County, along the Little Miami railroad, which runs parallel with the Little Miami river. The powder mills belonging to the King Powder Company are mostly situated on the opposite side of the river, the nearest of them being fully a quarter of a mile from the scene of the wreck. Peters' cartridge factory is situated on the southern side of the river and is in a rectangular frame building one story in height The railway has a siding of its own at Kings Station and the station building itself is on the southern side of the track.

From the railway siding another siding extends toward the river directly up to the cartr dge factory, for the especial use of which it was built On this track and quite c'ose to the cartridge factory a freight car loaded with S00 kegs of powder was standing. Below this, at some little distance from the cartridge factory, were two other freight cars filled with soda ash, which is used at the factory. A freight train, drawing besides a number of cars, one containing 500 kegs of powder intended for the cartridge company was running southwest along the main road toward Cincinnati. A little distance below King's Station it uncoupled the car filled with powder, instead of acting in the usual manner and backing the powdorcar together with the rest of the freight train on the Peters siding. This action saved the freight train from certain destruction.

The powder car as an extra precaution was then pushed on a siding. The car acquired considerable momentum as it rolled along the track, struck the two cars filled with soda ash driving them against the other car loaded with powder. All this passed in an instant The moment the cars crashed, against each other there rose a terrible roar and the air was filled with flying fragments. Both cars of powder exploded simultaneously, doing fearful damage. The freight train which had so providentially taken its stand over 300 feet from the explosion was seriously damaged by flying debris.

The latest advices are that ten persons, mostly railway employes, have been killed, and thirty or forty of the mill employes wounded. The loss of property by the explosion was about 530,000. The time of its occurrence was between four and five o'clock. But every thing around the place is on fire and at midnight the flames seemed to be gaining on the hundreds of people who are fighting them. The dry weather rendered every thing highly combustible.

Grass and trees and fences were burning at midnight and the smoke was stifling. The people are dazed and seemed to show but little feeling over the loss of life and they were also too busy fighting the flames and too much confused to give the number and the names of the dead and wounded. As to the cause of the explosion every one is in doubt Clippings. Notwithstanding the decision of tha Supreme Court of Wisconsin that tho reading of the Bible in the publio schools of that State is unconstitutional. the school board of Edgerton has continued the use of the Bible in its opening exercises.

The result has been the issue of a mandamus commanding the board to cause the teachers to cease the practice. G. B. Warrand, of Walthourville, has a patent to manufacture bagging from scrub or sand palmetto leaves. There are thousands of acres of poor land covered by'the plant The largest steam derrick in the world is used by a shipping company at Hamburg, Germany.

It is kept at the docks and used in lifting immense weights on and off shipboard. It can pick up a ten-wheeled locomotive with perfect ease. The miners' congress at Brussels has unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of a working day of eight hours, including time occupied in ascending and descending the pits. A valuable horse was killed the other day at Fresno, by a catfish which the animal swallowed while drinking a trough. Summary of the Daily News.

CONGRESSIONAL. Eoon after meeting on the 9th debate on the conference report on the Silver bill was resumed in the Senate. Senator Cockrell argued against agreeing to the report, to adopt which, he declared, would be a complete surrender on the part of the advocates of free coinage when on the verge of victory. senator Daniel (Va.) also spoke earnestly against the report. Without reaching a vote the Senate adjourned In the Home Mr.

llitt, from the F'oreign Affairs Committee, reported a resolution requesting the President to furnish tlie correspondence between the I nited Hates and Great Hritain touching the subjects in dispute in ihcllehring sea since Mt.rrh 4, lsxli, which after tome debate was adopted. The conference report on the Diplomatic bill was the occasion of a tilt between Mr. McMMlin (Tcnn.) and McCreary the Samoan question and recent vents in that country. Cpon a call the previous (question on agreeing to the report Mr. McMnlin raised the point of no quorum.

The Speaker co inted a quorum present, which was challenged, and pending action the House adjourned. When the Senate ton the consideration of the conference report on the Silver bill as resumed and Senator Morgan spok-3 auainst it. When debate closed a vote was tnken and the report agreed to by yeas to 'b nays. Adjourned A large part of the time of the House was occupied In attempts to approve the journal, the democrats making the point of no quorum present. The J-iurnal was finally approved and the conference reports on the Diplomatic bill anrl the Agricultural bill agreed to.

1 he Land Grant F'orfeiturs. bill was then considered in Committee of the Whole until adjournment. In the Senate on the 11th Senator Teller introduced a joint resolution declaring it to be the determined policy of the Cni'ed Mutes to use both gold and silver as full Ic'nl tender and instructing the Pres dent to invite the Governments of the Latin t'nion countries and such other nations as he iinv deem advisable to join the I'nited Slates in a conference to adopt a common ratio between po'd end silver, which was referred. The Shipping bill was then discussed until adjournment, The House spent considerable time in counting a quorum on several questions, and linally reccived the confererce report on the Silver toll, which went over by agreement one day. When the House met at the evening session no quorum was present and the House ncd.

In" the Semite on the a remonstrance was presented from the Hoard of Trade of Jackson, against th-' passage cf the Klection bill. 1 he two shipping bills were then debated at length. The bills were finally passed, the Tonnage bill by 2t yeas to is nays. and the Postal bill by 28 yeas to pi nays. The Tariff bill taken op and the senate in cxecuLve session confirmed Colonel Alexander McD.

Met'ook to be igad ier-Gene ral and adjourned the House he conference report on the si.vt-r bill was debated at length and agreed to by a strict parte vclc 122 to li. and the House then ajourncd. StitiN aller meeting on the 1 It the Senate proceeded to consider the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, which occupied most of the Fitting. 1 he lull was not completed before adjourn ment 1 he House went into Com notice of the Whole and disposed of one local bill, when the point of no quorum was raised, and members being paired, after a fru itless attempt to secure a quorum the House adjourned. WASHINGTON NOTE.

The President has approved the 1111 for a public building at Paris, and that, increasing the cost of the building at Fort Worth, Tex. Tun Secretary of State lias been informed that the Mexican (iovernment will issue no further permits to aliens to acquire real estate within twenty leagues of the frontier, until the boundary letween the two Republics shall have been finally adjusted. Application's for pensions under the new Pension law are being received daily at he Pension Office. The volume is increasing from day today. It is estimated that about 30,000 applications have already been received.

The President has sent to Congress communications from Secretary Blaine regarding international American protection of patents and copyrights and measures for the protection of public health against contagious diseases. Thk Senate has confirmed Adam E. King, of Maryland, as Consul-lieneral at Paris. TttF I'nited States war ships Ranger and Thetis have been ordered to the west coast of Central America to guard I'nited Slates interests in case of war between Salvador and Guatemala. Thk bill reported to the Senate from the Committee on Public Lands for the disposal of the Fort Hays military reservation gives to the Kansas militia for State camp purposes a section of the land.

The President on the 14th signed the Silver bill. A sToiiv is published stating that two Spanish Senors were in Washington senii-offieially to negotiate for the sale of Cuba to the I'nited Stales. Ired million dollars was the alleged price. THE EAST. Titr.

coroner's jury in the Dunbar, mine disasterhas returned a verdict holding Superintendent Robert Lang criminally responsible for the disaster. Gf.nf.kal Clinton It. Fisk. the well known temperance advocate and Prohibition candidate for the Presidency, ed at New York on the aged sixty-one. The celebrated General John C.

Fremont, first candidate of the Republican party for President, died from inflammation of the bowels at New York on the in the seventy-eighth year of his age. Three ladies were killed recently near Auburn. X. by a train on the Lehigh Valley road striking their buegv. Thk Henry Miller brewery, Philadelphia, was damaged Sioo.ooo by fire the other day.

Two men were slightly injured. Facts have leaked out at Newport, R. that Mrs. Taran Stevens was re cently robbed of her jewel case containing a pair of diamond bracelets valued at SI 6. 000.

AKCHiBAi.n McDonald, a noted Cana-d: an desperado onfined in the jail at Canton, N. recently broke his ball and chain, threw the jailer into a cell and locked him up and escaped. English capitalists have purchased many of the pump works in the East and have organized a huge company. A disastrous fire occurred at Philadelphia on the 12th, breaking out at Atkinson's planing mill, Tenth street and Susquehanna avenue. The aggregate loss reached Twelve business houses and several dwellings in Sherman, X.

were destroyed by fire recently, causing 550,000 loss. THE WEST. Tim stoty of the killing of CourtCierk Spa.ding, of Chamberlain, S. by Uicyenne Indians is positively denied. Ai.iiF.iiT V.

Webb, chief of police at Rockford, 111., shot himself dead the otter day- It was reported he bad committed forgery. John G. Nottinceh. the man who first developed the coal fields' in LaSalle Coun'y, died at, Ottawa, recently, aged eighty-two. water by the sinking of the front end of a bridge.

By desperate efforts all but seven or eight were rescued. The French Superior Council of Agriculture has approved proposals of the tariff commission increasing the duty on live oxen f4 francs, on cows 48 francs and on beef 4 francs per 100 kilos. The much-talked-of marriage of Mrs. Leslie to the Marquis de Lpuville did not come off. The lady finally had no use for him and left him to gnaw on his regrets in London while sho took passage for America.

European grain crops have suffered much from cold and rain. One thousand houses and shops were burned in a recent fire at Constantinople. Honolulu advices to the San Francisco Chronicle state that there have been wholesale desertions from the United States war vessel Charleston. Clearing house returns for the week ended July 12 showed an average decrease of 2.3 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 0.0.

Theodore Tilton has been elected grand master of an Anglo-American lodge in England. News has been received at Tangier, Morocco, of a raid by the Zemmour tribe on the camp of the Sultan's son near Saale. The eamt was taken completely by surprise. Troops and slaves were mercilessly slaughtered by the raiders and fifteen prisoners were burned alive. II.

M. Stanley, the explorer of Africa, was married to Miss Tennant in Westminster Abbey on the 12th. He was still suffering from sickness. The 101st anniversary of tho fall of the Bastile was celebrated with great enthusiasm in Paris on the 14th. There were a few Boulangist demonstrations, which were soon su ppressed.

O' Donovan Rossa's period of outlawry from Ireland will expire next winter and he is expected to visit his old home in January. The I'niversal Peace Congress was opened in London on the 14th by David Dudley F.eld, of New York, who spoke ably for arbitration and general disarmament Forty-four members of a native regiment at Dharmasala, Ind have died of cholera. Intelligence has been received of an engagement between the forces led by El Senoussi. the Tunisan, and the Mahdists and that the followers of the Mahdi were defeated. El Senoussi has captured El Obeid, the capital of Kor-dofan.

Mil Gladstone as taken sick on the 14th. Snow covers the Central Alps of Austria, and the country looks more like winter than midsummer. The river Adige in Tyrol has overflowed its banks, and half of the city of Trent, Austria, is submerged. i As President Carnot was entering the 1 Champs Elysees, Paris, on tho a i man fired a blank cartridge at him. The i President was unharmed.

A meeting calling for retaliation on account of the McKinley Tariff bill was held at Sheffield, England, recently. ThT: potato, oats, barley and turnip crops of Ireland are reported in first class condition. I The Salvador Government has de-i clared the country in a state of siege. war with Guatemala being imminent There are 20.000 troops on the 'roctier. THE LATEST.

The Senate on the 15th resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil bill. Sherman's Bank Bond bill was reported. The House passed a bill increasing the clerical force of the Pension Office on account of the Disability bill. The yacht Marion, of Mouth Boston, from Rye beach to Pigeon cove, struck a rock near Portsmouth, X. and sunk.

The crew of four got into the tender, which was swamped severaj times, and three of them were drowned. John Roth died at Galrna, 111., on the after being without food on account of paralysis for sixly days. The strike of the cloak'nakers of Xew York City has ended in victory for the union. The iron and steel workers of the New Jersey steel and iron works at Trenton have struck because the superintendent has refused to sign the scale in the absence of President Abram S. Hewitt in Europe.

Mrs. Hetty Greex, of NewY'ork, has won her case in Chicago for property worth over a million dollars, formerly owned by George W. Gage, but taken by her on foreclosure of a mortgage for 5150.000. Prairie fires are sweeping over the ranges of Western Texas, but though they are already of vast extent very little real damage has been done. Fire in Denton, destroyed the principal business block, causing loss.

The Security warehouse and adjoining premises at Minneapolis, were destroyed by fire on the 15th. The losses run into the hundreds of thousands. The Bishop of Limerick has severely censured Dillon, the Parnellite member of Parliament for impugning the integrity of the Pope. Five North Carolina negroes who tried to escape their labor contract in Morehouse Parish, were shot and killed recently by a posse that went in pursuit It was stated the negroes commenced the firing. It is reported that in a riot near Rears, Barnwell County, a between thirty negroes, armed with rifles, and twenty-five white men, one negro was killed and a number of persons wounded.

Dr. X. W. Mitchell, pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian Church, Fort Worth, has been arrested for forgery. He victimized nearly all the banks in- the -city, and the money -obtained by forging -checks, amounted to 'something over S2-7B0.

Of this amount he made good 600. fs i THE SOI'TH. A collision occurred recently on the Louisville A Xashville, eight miles south of Itirmingham. Ala. Five lives were lost two engineers, two firemen and a pumpman.

At Sibley, on the 0th, a freight train collided with a passenger. Four persons were killed, all colored. Six or seven others, white and black, were hurt The South cottonseed mills and refinery near Atlanta. was burned recently. The entire building and 200,000 gallons of oil were destroyed.

The loss as A fatal race riot occurred at Starr's mill pond. Fayette County, recently. The trouble commenced in a dispute over some wine between a negro and a white man. After the fighting it was found that eighteen were killed and wounded. Four of the dead were negroes.

Ex-Senatoie Thomas It. McCreaby died at his home near Owenslroro, on the 10th, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. He had been a paralytic for years. Alfred Cooper, colored, was hanged at Birmingham, Ala. He smoked a cigarette until the black cap was drawn over his face.

At Ysleta, a terrible faction fight was reported on the night of the 1 1th for possession of the city government CJuite a number were killed and wounded. The Trades and Labor Assembly of Louisville, has removed the boycott from the Courier-Journal and Times, caused by the employing of nonunion printers. A party of thirteen were out rowing on Lake Alachua, when the boat capsized and Mrs. llurkheim, her daughter and Miss Tillie Brown were drowned. The others were rescued.

Fire at Brunswick, on the I3th. commencing at Littlefield's coal wharf, destroyed property amounting to Three lives were probably lost Fuse in Dallas, destroyed the Gould building and the Merchants' Exchange, causing 550,000 losses. General Hammon, who at one time was nominated for Governor of Texas by the Greenbackers, was killed recently by S. T. Cooney, at Birmingham, for slandering Cooney's wife.

Constable Perry and a deputy have been killed and Buck Fugate captured in a battle in Perry County, Ky. GENERAL. Cholera is becoming epidemic in Ton-quin. twenty-five to thirty persons dying from it daily. Xo whites have been attacked.

During the launching of a sailing Tessel at Osaka, Japan, sixty persons were drowned. A large number of per sons were on board and a sudden rush to one side caused the vessel to capsize. Advices from China bring news of the burning of a steamer on the Yangtze river which resulted in about twenty natives being burned to death or drowned. The postmen's strike in London fizzled in somewhat the same manner as the policemen's strike. Charles Kendall Adams, president of Cornell University, was married in London recently to Mrs.

Mary Mathews Barnes, widow of the late A. S. Barnes, the well known book publisher of Xew York. The Paris Soir declares that General Boulanger has asked the French Government to grant him a pafdon. The recent disaster by fire at Fort de France, Martinique, inflicted a loss of 53,000,000.

Fully three-fourths of the place was destroyed. W. H. Smith, Conservative leader in the British House of Commons, denies that he intends to retire and accept a peerage. A spark from a workingman's pipe started a fire in Wassiljervo, Russia, jn which 32!) dwellings were burned, and seven persons perished.

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