The Bushton Star from Bushton, Kansas • 1

a YOL. 1. BUSHTON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1894. NO. 8.

Independent jpolltlcal Action. Wire Pencil and Shotgun. WICHITA AVIND. KANSAS EXHIBIT STATE NEWS. Prom Independence: News comes In from Bolton that a little four-year-oldl son of Lon Frather was scalded toj death.

Mrs. Frather was engaged in) putting up plums, and placed a kettle) of hot plum syrup on the table. That little fellow wanted to taste it, but wasj told that it was too hot. The mother! turned away for a few moments, and hei climbed onto a wash boiler, reached fori the tempting kettle, and upset it upoui himself. He died in throe hours.

A Lamed boy: Kay Vaughan, aged, fourteen years, pleaded guilty to tha charge of petty larceny in Judge Vandi-ver's court and received the most unique sentence ever imposed od a culprit in the history of Pawnee county district court: "Six months attending the city schools, and if without valid excuse be absents himself from school he is to be taken in custody by the sheriff and incarcerated in the county jail for the full period named in the sentence." Marv J. Osborne, an aged lady livinsr i 4 The Kansas grand lodge of Odd Fel lows will hold its annual meeting October 9, in Wichita. Hoiton has a kindergarten in connection with its public scho ils. The attendance is twenty-six. The new roller process mill at Coffey- ville, is turniog out 200 barrels of flour per day, and has orders ahead for thirty car loads.

Hutchinson is raising a fund to be used for the purpose of prospecting for coal, gas or oil in the sand hills near that city. Thef Topeka High sohool began the year with about 390 pupils. This is an increase of about fifty over last year. The second week opened with 401 students present. Henry Hall, a poor fisherman living in Atchison, has fallen heir to an estate left him by the death of an uncle, who died near DoKalb, Mo.

The estate is valued at 83,000. A boy named Ouilty was probably fatally injured in the running races at the park at Ottawa. His horse bolted, throwing' him against a tree inflicting injuries that may result in his death. Hutchinson joints: Mayor Vincent has notified all the iointists in that city to quit business. For years the illegal Bale of liquor has been openly carried on there under a license or HfoU to iuu 1 month, collected under the guise of fines.

1 ev einf. florin ogist Hay has completed an examination of this conntv and reuorts to the com- nieroial club that both oil and gas may be found at a depth of from 1,000 to 3,000 feet below the surface. He says there is oil and gas beneath the entire county. The attendance at Haskell institute, Lawrence, is increasing every day. The students come from almost every Indian reservation in the United States.

The political scrap among the employes has been satisfactorily arranged and the school has resumed its usual prosperous condition. From Emporia: Several burglaries have occurred in this vicinity of late. The house of J. A. Bivens, a farmer near this city, was entered and $465 stolen without awakening the family.

The money was the savings of an entire year a work. There is no clue to the robbers. William Reynolds, an old gentlemen who lives alone two miles northwest of Iola, was called from his house bv two men who clubbed him and robbed him of $12. Reynolds was found insensible the next morning. After coming to himself he could not tell who the 10b- bers were.

Judge Monahan. of the Wvandotte county probate court, said that the number of cases of insanity in his countv is increasing at a rapid gait, Six vears ago he did not have one case of insanity a month, but recently they have been coming at the rate of two or three a week. Topeka Journal: County Treasurer K. Rodgers has completed a state ment showing the tax sales of delin quent property this year. These sales are transcribed into a separate record.

The sales this year were a tntie than SOo.UUU, wiiicn is a decrease over a year ago of about $12,000. Bunker Hill school on a strike: patrons of a school near Bunker The Hill, Itusseli county, protested witnput avail agamst the employment of a certain teacher. For two weeks now the school has been open and not a single scholar has yet appeared. It is the' most re- niarkable strike on record. Independence has coal A four-foot vion of coal has been discovered at a depth of 775 feet.

The gas company struck this vein of coal in other wells west of this one but it was only about a foot thick. With this coal was a very strong flow of gas, so strong that the coal vein cannot be worked until after the gas has been exhausted, Visitors are still inspecting the new Topeka high school building. Some minor details remain to be finished, such as putting in the light fixtures. The laboratories will not be in shaiie vet for some time, but when completed they will be the most convenient of any in the west. The floors of halls and recita tion rooms throughout the building are oiled.

An Abilene attorney remarked to Judge Humphrey in court the other aay. "J.r me couri naa aavisea meoi its decision in advance of the introduo- tion of the evidence it would have saved me the cost of making a record in this case," thus implying that the court had made up its mind in advance of the evi- dence. It cost him jnst $50 for con- tempt of court. Oarnett Eagle. The canning factory doing a rushing business, working a I 4 The Missouri state federation is now i session in Kansas City, Mo.

When it started on its deliberations hot feeling at onco cropped out, P. E. Duffy wanted to sus pend the rules and elect a president imme. diotely, giving as his reason that he wanted a fair presiding officer which he did not consider President tiereherm. Air.

Ander son, of St. Louis, considered the motion a -direct insult to the president and said that it it prevailed It woum split the trudes unions of St. Louis wide open. President Bersherm said his job was thankless one and he would be glad to be re. lieved.

He said that Ihe reason the dele gates were makinir war upon him was be. cause they could nut use him. After a heated discussion Mr. Duffy withdrew his motion and the convention adjourned for the day Politics is said to be the' cause of the dis cord. The St.

Louis delegates have been instructed to vote for independent polit ical action and will, it is said, favor an indorsement of the populist state ticket. Prof. Snow's Weather Report. The weather report of Chancellor F. Snow, of Kansas university, for September says there have been six warmer Septembers in the twenty-six years record, but only three have had more rain.

The rainfall for the month was 5.58 inches, which is 2.80 above the average for the month. So far Z4.M Inches of rain has fallen this year which is 5.55 below the average. The thun. der storms were six, the greatest number mat ever occurred in the month of September. The wind, cloudiness and barometer were all normal.

Ihe first frost occurred on the 19th, eleven days earlier than usual, but no damage has been done to vegetation during the month. Tliehiehest temoerature was on the 6th, when the thermometer went up to 94 degrees; the Inn-eat was 41 degrees, on uih ouiu. None Killed at Wichita, The tornado which tore through ths north- srn part of Wichita confined itself to damaging Property and left humanltv Alnno. Buildings of all kinds were demolished, twisted out of shape and removed from their foundations, yet their occupants suffered no harm outside of bruises and scratches and not a single fatality uccompanied the destruction to property. irom there the twister lifted nnd disap peared to the northwest.

From what can be learned from surrounding towns the tornado seems to have confined attention to Wichita. Accident at Leavenworth. A special train of eight coaches on the Missouri Pacific road, loaded with passen gers, left Leavenworth for Kansas City, October 3, but ran into an open switch in South Leavenworth, derailing the engine and several cars. Engineer Alex. McCambridge jumned and was severely cut about the face.

Fireman Lee Blancliurd also jumped and sustained injuries on one arm. Jesse Herriuorton. a colored boy, who was stealing a rido on the trucks, was fatally crushed. Trouble Is About Egypt. London, October 4.

A special cabinet council has been called and the members of the ministry who are absent from the city, have beeu hurriedly summoned to return. Teleerams have been sent to Sir William Vernon Harcourt, who has started for Italy, and others of the ministers who are in the country. Sudden developments regarding the rela tions between England and France, are without doubt, the cause of the hasty sum moning of the ministers. Tin Plato Workers' Wages Cnt. St.

Louib, October 4. A reduction of wages in tho rolling department of the tin plate works of the St. Louis Stamping coxpany is announced by Thomas Nied- ringhaue, the manager, who said "Under the McHinley bill the duty anorded us a protection estimated at to per cent, ihe Wilson bill affords protection of only 30 per cent. In order to meet this we were compelled to reduce the wages of the rollers, catchers, doublers and heaters, about 203 men." Thugs and Fakirs Must Leave. Wichita, October 4.

Chief of Police Rufe Cone says that he won't have any gambling on the streets of Wichita during ine iair. mere are many tnugs and conn ence men in tha city now, and more com. ng in on every train. H4 intends to run them in just as fast as he can, and keen them locked up until alter the fair, and then force tnem to leave town. Died on the Kar.rhe.

Edmund I. Carlisle, head of a big English syndicate, with heavy cattle interests in Utah and Colorado, died at the home rancho near Mount Hope, Sedgwick county, Kan sas, October 2. The deceased was formerly officer in the British army nnd twice strokod the Oxford university crew to victory against lambnqge. Soldiers' Home Chnrgrs Examined. IiEAVEXWOKTH.

October 4. General Averill, inspector general of the national soldiers' homes, and Colonel Sidney Cooke, local manager of the home here, began investigating the new charges against Governor Smith. These charges are general with some specific counts regarding the Keeley cure. Foreigners In Danger. Shanghai, October 4.

The nnti-foreign feeling at Pekin is increasing hourly and the authorities find it difficult to repress outbreaks by the Chinese. Ihe leading Chinese representatives at Pekin fear that if the Japanese march upon Pekin the capi. tal will be captured, as the Chinese soldiers are dissatisfied and unreliable. It Was Wide Katn. ferry, O.

was visited by a severe ram storm Monday night. Many business houses were flooded and considerable other damage done. In tho town of McKinney, ten miles north of Perry, business bouses nnd residences in the lowlands were flooded. Much damage was done to goods in stores. Moonshiners Galore.

Ashland, October 4. United States Marshal Greer and his deputies left for Louisville with 106 moonshiners just from the upper Big Sandy valley. The party is made up of women, boys add men, some of the latter typical desperadoes. At tha Company's Terms. Philadelphia, October 4.

Tho weavers the big woolen mills of A. Priestly it Camden, who went out on a strike last Friday for a re-toration of the 25 per cent taken off their wages, went to work at the company's terms. "aartprly Illicit. Washington, C. October 4.

The re ceipts of the treasury for the 8rt three months of (he present fiscal year amounted and the disbursement $18.. 4o9.l20. leaving a deficit for the auarter of U9.0ri),710. is in Robert T. Campbell was shot and instantly killed between sundown and dark near his father's home, ten miles east of Topeka.

He was out hunting, and the shooting was acci dental. He was 22 years old, and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. VY. R.

Campboll, and nephew of County Commissioner Campbell. After he came home from work he took his shotgun and went to hunt rabbits. Just before dark his father heard two shot in succession, which seemed to be near the house, but nothing was thought of it until dark when the young man did not come home. His parents then became uneasy and started to hunt for him. They were not successful fonome time and the neighbors were called in.

At 9 o'clock young Campbell was found 200 yards from the hou-e. Ho was dead. The entire top of his head had been carried away by the discharge of the gun. One leg was fast to wire fence and it is supposed that in attempting to climb over the fence the hammers of the gun caught on a wire, discharging it. The wouud had the appearance thot'the loads from both barrels had struck the unfortunate young man.

A dead rabbit was round where lie was found and another was lying twenty feet away, and it was thought -tie was climbing over the fence to get the second rabbit when he was killed. The victim of the accident attended Washburn college lact year, and spent the summer at the state normal. He had intended to teach the home school in district 63. He was a young man of great promise, and never made an enemy. What the Mandarin Maid.

Chicago, October 2. Speaking of the report of the rebellion of the troops in China, Sam Moy, the local mandarin, said: "It means the beginning of tho end. We China men wish to see China win, but more than that we wish our own emperor back in place of the usurner who now reigns over us. Dor years the 'Gee-Hing' have been growing in power and to-day they have goneralB ana officers in command of the army. The solo object of the 'Gee-Hintr' society is to over throw the present emperor and restore the old dynasty.

It is a secret society with mil lions of members in China and 8,000 in Cal ifornia. The emperor has offered $1,000 reward for the head of every but there is not enough money in the treasury to pay for the heads The war with Japan will not last much longer, for the 'Gee-Hings' will soon be strong enough to come out openly and dethrone the emperor." Mandarin Moy thinks this winter will see a new emperor and an elaborate coronation in China, which many Chinamen now in America will attend if they can beg or borrow the money to cross the Pacific. May Now Vindicated. Mesiphis, October 2. W.

E. MeDnn- iel, the informer of Gorin, train rob. bery fame, has been held to the grand jury in $1,500 bail upon the charge of conspiring to rob a train. He pleaded not guilty to tho information tiled against hnn before Justice C. F.

Sanders, and so far failed to secure bondsmen, his own father even refusing to go on the bond. McDaniel persists in his story that he had nothing to do with the planning, simply following Overtie'd's instruction and keeping the railroad informed, McDaniel was brought from Topeka, Kansas, by Detectives J. J. Kinney and Matthews, of the Santa Fo secret service, who, upon information that complaint had been made against him in behalf of the wounded and captured robbers, A brums and Overfield, advised him to. surrender and accompany them here.

Enforcement of Railroad Rate Laws. Topeka, October 2. Governor Lew-elling received a letter from I. P. Campbell, of Wichita, inquiring into the status of the recent schedule of rates prepared for tho transportation of freight by the railroads in Kansas, and also inquiring why the ruling of the board had not been enforced.

The governor turned the letter over, to Attorney General Little, who has-written a lengthy review of the matter. He explains that it is the duty of the county attorney in counties where the companies overcharge in the matter of transporting freight to notify the board of railroad commissioners of the violation of the schedule and the board in turn to order the county attorney to prosecute the offenders to tho full extent of the law. The attorney general says that his department will furnish all assistance possible in the litigation to enforce the schedule. Will Work Among the Poor, New York, October 2. A new celebate or der of Jaymen in the Protestent Episcopal church has been instituted at St.

Chrysos-tom's church by Bishop Potter. The order is called the Community of the Brothers of the Lhurch and was founded by Kussell hitcoinb, recently a student in the General Theological seminary, with the approval of tho bishop and the clergy. The peculiar service known as the "service for the profes sion of a brother" began when Mr. Whit- comb took the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and became Brother Hugh, the of the new community of monastic laymen. Work among the poor will be the main purpose in the lifo of the Brothers of the Church.

Forest Fires Smothered. Brainerd, October 2. A heavy rain has fallen and all fear from forest fires are now over. The last night was a night of terror here. The fires had eaten their way into the city limits and a tierce gale was blowing the names directly toward the cen irai portion or tne city, Hundreds were fighting the flames all night and every one was awake and anxious.

The smoke wa dense and the red glare of the angry flames reminded one of the Hinckley disaster. Scores of farmers have been burned out. Many came into the city, having lost all but the clothes on their backs. A Topeka Centenarian. Mrs.

Katherine Roberts, mother of Byron koberls, a prominent Topekan and receiver of the Hutchinson A Southern railway, was 100 years old on September 30. and the event was celebrated by a notable family gathering. Among others who arrived to be pres ent were guests from Ohio, Illinois and Col-orado. At the family dinner in honor of the event four generations were present. The Most Approved Fashion.

The Spooner library at Kansas university will be dedicated on October 10. The ad dress will be made by Dr. Cyrus W. Northuo. president of the Minnesota Stats university.

at 10 a. in. in the university hall. A banquet and reception will follow the address and the whole affair is to be conducted in the most approved fashion for such occa sions. fxnr Not In Immediate Uini'r, St.

October 2. Prof. Ley- den, the Berlin specialist in brain and spina' diseases, who has been summoned to attend the czar at Spain, has announces tnat tn condition of hi majesty is not such as tt justify immediate anxiety. a is a L. Missouri Pacific Depot Among the Wrecked Buildings.

SeTeral Liven Reported Lout Judge Har lan Say Thoro Is Such a Thing as a I.e gal Strike Ideal Kansas Weather A Kansas Man Killed. Wind Work at Wichita. On the night of October 1 Wichita was vis. ited by a tornado. The division headquarters and the Twelfth street depot of the Missouri Pacific road was the 11 rat building struck and it was com pieleiy demolished.

The roor of it was picked up and carried away, striking the Biaoieot ur. nupps. two blocks on, crush, ing it like an egg shell. Twelve men were in the building at the time, and strange to cay, none of them were hurt, although they. were thrrwn about from end to end of the building.

mo storm passed east about a mile, ac complishing all its destruction in less than two minutes. About thirty houses and barns were wrecked and probably 500 shade trees, some of them, ten. feet in circumference, were pulled up by the roots and strewn about in all directions. The path of the cyclone was about fifty feet wide. It progressed with a fearful roar and was a regular twister.

At the police station it was reported that three children and two men were killed. Owing to the terrible rain which accorr: ponied the storm it was impossible to ascer tain the full extent of the injuries that night. Lightnjng struck a little boy named Fitzgibbon and killed him. Lightning also struck the Fifloenth street depot and the car stables of the electric street railway nnd completely consumed it with all its contents. JFairmount street eiectric street railway wires were completely destroyed.

Koughly mated the los in the city will be $50,000. It may exceed that sum a good deal. Reports from Kechi township say that the twister played havoc there, but owing to the rain storm it was impossible to obtain any details. The cyclone passed within ten foet of Governor Lewellmg home. Judge Harlan on Strikes.

In the United States court of appeals in Chicago Judge Harlan, of the United States supreme court, regarding the opinion of the famous strike injunction of Judg Jenkins was rather severely handled. Justice Har lan held that a body of men had a right to quit irrespective of the discomfort which might result. They had, however, no right to conspire to do damage, or to embarrass. He did not agree with Jenkins' famous deli nition of a strike that it was "necessarily illegal. Judge Harlan held that there was such a thing as a legal strike.

Judge Jenkins' in junction was modified. Ihe opinion was rendered by Justice Har lan, of the United States supreme court, and Judges Woods and Bunn. The bench was occupied by Justice Harlan and Judges woods, tsunn.denkinsandurosscup. tludae Jenkins appeared undisturbed by tho decision. The decision in part reversed the famous strike order of Judge Jenkins and in part sustains it.

That part of tho Jenkins injunction which restrained the employes of the road from striking, or in the language of the injunction, "from so Quitting the service of the said receiver with, or without nocice, as to cripple tho property, or prevent or hinder the operation of the road," the court of appeals declares was a violation of the rights of the employes, who could not legally be restrained from leaving, the employ of tha receivers and the company when they saw fit to do so, whether they quit in a body or individually. ihat part of the injunction which restrains the employes from entering into a combination or conspiracy to quit with intention of crippling the property and preventing the operation of the road is sustained. Un the whole the decision, which was read by Justice Harlan, who presided over the court, is a clear recognition of the right of the employes to strike. Lightning Flashes. Thbesheb Plant Bukned.

Stillwater, has been visited by a $50,000 fire which destroyed the Stillwater Manufactur- ng company's plant, the warehouse of the Minnesota Thresher company and four dwellings. The loss was covered by insurance. S. D. Dboitth Bboken.

The long drouth of two months in South Dakota has been broken. Bain has been fulling several days, off and on. Mas. Joseph Medill. Mrs.

Medill, the wife of the Hon. Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago tribune, died at Jilmhurst, 111., October 1. Rekekah Membekship. The sovereign grand lodge at Chattanooga. enacted law which admits to membership in the Rebekah lodges all white single women over 18 years old with good moral characters, no matter whether they have relatives who are Odd Fellows or not.

Choctaw Council. The Choctaw council convened at Tusknhoma, I. October 1, nnd will be in session nearly five weeks. It thought a bill will be 'Ssed accepting the proposition to treat with the Dawes commission. JennlngH Last for '94.

Sergeant Jennings' last weekly crop report says The week has given Kansas ideal weather. The temperature has ranged slightly above) normal with an average amount of sunshine. But little rain has fallen, being confined to few showers in the northern counties of the western and middle divisions and the central counties of the eastern. Full advantage was taken of tha fine weather to continue fall plowing and seeding. Wheat and rye in all parts of the state are generally in tine condition.

Farmers have commenced to gather corn In various parts of the state. Pastures continue in good condition. The apple harvest has commenced, nnd apples have improved considerably during the molh. Frost killed sweet potato and tomato viues in the central counties Saturday. Skull Crushed Willi an Axe.

Hambvbo, October 3. The body of M. Donnelly, of Independence, was found buried under a foot of earth near the Nishnabotna river. The murdered man camped near where the body was found with another man, supposed to be L. H.

Davidson, of La Salle, Col. They were driving across the country trying to dispose of a bunch of horses owned by the murdered man. During the night shots wer heard. and in the morning the abandoned wsgon and straying horses led to a search. This resulted in the discovery of the body.

There were bullet holes in it and the skull had bien cruaheU with an axe. at of to At the Boston Food and Health Show. IClpcrlence of a Steamer In the Tornado More Business Done Than a Tear Ago Speculators Let Go Corn Hrenk Five Cents. No Marked Improvement. KkwYork, October l.R.

G. Dun Weekly Review of Trade says: Special inquiry has been made this week ot all commercial centers regarding the state of retail trade. Wide diversity appears in different trades. The main facts disclosed GT6 1 First Marked improvement within the. past month and a considerable excess over the business done a year i go, particularly in the necessaries of life.

Second It appears that the volume of trade at present is on the whole considerably less than in a normal year, at most points. and in the more important trades is appar ently about 20 per cent smaller man in aep-tember, 1893. Evidence of continued improvement wholesale trade and manufacture does not iippear this week. There is large distribution of orders given some time ago, but new business going to the manufacturers is everywhere slackening. The completion of orders for replenifhment of stocks leave a narrower demand and it is yet too early for consumption to provide further orders.

The depression fn prices of farm products will have some influence. Unprecedented records have been made in cotton and wheat, though as to wheat only in contracts for fu. ture delivery, in which the prices are the lowest ever made. The availHble stocks are about 15,000,000 bushels greater than a year ago, and western receipts for the weet were 6,252,716 bushels, against 6,191,034 lust year and since August 1, 51,000,000 bushels against last year. The Atlantic exports for the week and since August 1, have been About a third smaller than last year, but the fall in pricei during tho'week has been 1.75 cents.

Cotton on the spot is lower at fi-44 cents than at any other time Bines 1849, and quotations then did not mean what they do now, while the nearest option has been quoted at 6.04 cents, which is below all previous records. Even at the close the fall for the week is one-quarter. An estimate of bales minimum this year has influenced the market, but would receive less attention if stocks in sight were not heavy, while all agree that this crop is likely to exceed world's records of American cotton. It is encouraging that the speculation in pnrr. has hrnken.

and the Drice htH fallen 5 cents, less gloomy than those of the department having gainea general ere-dence. It is now supposed that the yield is not far from 1,500.000,000 busk els, which will compel much economy in feeding, but speculation in pork has broken and the pries has fallen 75 cents, while lard has declined half a cent. Steamrr Flirts Willi the Wind. The Morgan line steamship Eldorado ar. rived at New York from New Orleans eight hours overdue.

Her delay was caused by. a struggle with the tornado, into which she ran off the southern coast of Florida. Captain Percy hid been warned of the approaching storm previous' to leaving port by a sudden drop in the barometer, but decided to chance it. The wind howled through the rigging at a 50-knot clip and everything moveable on deck had to be doubly lashed. The rain fell continuously and in torrents.

Captain Percy never changed the vessel's course and at daylight he found he had weathered the storm and was on the edge of the tornado. At this point, however, the wind veered and followed along in the wake of the flying steamer. "It kept right along with us though," said the captain, "and followed us right up to the Highlands. We kept on the verge of it, however, and it simply flirted with us all the way up. The torrents of rain continued to fall throughout it all.

I have been in storms hefore where the velocity of the wind was as great, but never before experienced such a continuous fall of rain. It was like a cloud burst. "Just before reaching Hntloras the light ning commenced to flash and streak after streak chased each other across tne sny tor forty-eight hours. Some of the flashes were so close that I thought we should be The passengers had a sorry five doys trip of it. They were housed most of the time and many were sick the greater portion of the passaire." Captain Percy says that any steamers which were twenty-four hours behind him must have fared very badly, for they would be in the very center of the storm.

At the Boston Exposition. Topeka, October 1. The exhihit of the Food and Health exposition at Boston, prepared by the Santa Fe land department. has all been forwarded in charge of Hon. Fred Wei mouse, of Topeka, who will look after it there, i There were twenty-five cases of exhibit preference being given the Kansas products, which, in addition to vegetable and miscellaneous displays, was composed of 297 different collections of fruits.

There were sixty-two collections of grain and nine of vegetables, seventy varieties of apples, fifty-one of grapes and several of pears, wheat, oats, rye and corn. The best apples were from Reno and Edwards counties, though eastern, central and western portions of the state were well represented. Marion and Barton counties furnished the samples of grain. The exhibit from New Mexicr, shipped at the same time, consisted of twenty-four varieties of apples, together with plums, peaches and pears, with rice and pears Texas. A Kansas Industry Knjolned.

Topeka, October Judge Foster has granted a temporary injunction against the J. B. Ehrsam Machine company, of Enterprise, of which C. B. Hoffman is president, to prevent them from manufacturing wheat headers.

The company bought the right to manufacture headers for one year and some differences aro-e between the patentee and the piirch'sing company. This is the second time the case has been in the United S' ites courts. Before the Enrsam company sued the patentee, Wilson. For Christian ndesvorers. Bijston, October 1.

General Secretary Baer, of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, announces that the international convention of 1W)5 would lie held in Boston instead of San Francisco. This change has inade-ou account of tin long delay of western railroad managers in announcing a decision in regard to special ratei to the Pacific coast. southwest of Mound City, spilled a pan. of grease upon a hot stove. The grease at once ignited and 6et fire to her cloth ing.

In her struggle to subdue the flames she ran into the yard, but the wind kindled them into a keener rage. It is thought that her injuries will prove fatal. Mrs. Osborne is one of the oldest settlors in Linn county, having re sided there for more than forty years. Independence Eaces: Symboleer, by Campbell's Electioneer, dam Symboleer by Upward, was brought out to go against tho world's 2-year-old pacing I record of on a half-mile track, I held by Online the Nebraska horse.

He ci.pp.ng on a seconu auu "lie in tne mile in Symboleer is owned by W. E. Camp bell, of Kiowa, Kansas. Proctor, by Fortunatus, was brought on the track; to go against the world's yearling record of half milo, held by John R. Gentry.

The colt exhibited wonderful speed and came under tha wire in 1:09, lowering the record 2 seconds. Proctor is owned by M. D. Proctor, of Chetopa, Kan. Chicago Herald: Colonel J.

B. Cook, of Chetopa, registered at tha Grand Pacific, and Paul Gores understood he wanted a room. The colonel did want a room, but it was a parlor he wanted, with ministerial accompaniment and witness or two to listen to the hearts of himself and Miss llose Dor-land, also of Chetopa, beat the wedding march. Colonel Cook is a banker and cattle raiser of Chetopa, a man ftf wealth and prominent in grand army circles. Although 60 years old, he is hale and hearty as a bridegroom of 20.

Miss Dor-land is one of the belles of Chetopa. She has been east for the summer and met the colonel at the Grand Pacific by appointment, where Rev. lioese B. Kester, or the Wasuington Park Methodist church, made them husband and wife. The wedding was strictly private.

The announcement of the wedding will prob- "iy create surprise among the friend of both parties in Chetopa. I ollowmg tie ceremony Uolonel and Mrs. Ooolt unicago ror a long weauing trip. About H. C.

Cross: An" interview appears in the Kansas City Journal in, regard to the death of Colonel Cross, ini which Colonel H. C. Whitley "The death of H. C. Cross has brought1 sorrow to many a home in our city and' all over our section of the state.

Dur-, ing his long residence in the city he had, been very active in business and being of a liberal mind, had been appealed to on every occasion when money was needed for any public pur pose. He it said to his credit, he was never asked for assistance for any WOrthv cause and refused. There is nob- church anywhere in that country that he has not helped pay for; there has nover been a uublio enternrise started jn that eity that did not feel the bene- fit of his assistance. He was one of tha most companionable men in the coun try, and there was not a home in tha citv that was not in mourning when bia death was announced. The city will feel his loss, but there are many monuments there of his active life that will long stand to perpetuate his memory.

He was one of the men who helped make Kansas, and had intimate friends all over the state. He was always a friend of the state, and defended it against all attacks." KANSAS RAILROADING, Howard Valette, a 16-year-old boy, while attempting to board a Central Branch train at Glen Elder, injured in such a manner that ho has since died. Out of 600 men in cne department of the Santa Fe shops in Topska, iess than fiftT vote(j the proposition for a half holiday for the racss. Tha Bhop9 were cosed Dy the management, Directors of the Missouri, Kansas Texas railroad have incorporated the Southwestern Mineral railway. Tha road, it is expected, will be completed within a year, and will extend from Jop- lin, to I'ursons, iias.

It will be a hwrnnh nf tha "Katv who were engaged in the recent strike full force of hands, day and part of the Kansas City, Journal A ma-nighL, Sixty-three wagon loads, ag- jority of the switchmen and trainmen gregating about 2,000 bushels of toina- I toes were taken in in one day. At one timo and who subsequently applied to tho the evening the street in front, of the Santa Fe for reinstatement, have re-factory presented tbe appearance of ceivod answers to their 'applications to Market square in Kansas Citv. Nineteen the effect that the company could do loaded wagons stood waiting their turn nothing fcr thera.in the way of employ-to be unloaded. nvnt.