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KANSAS. CRIME AND CASUALTY. Shockeyville Eagle. Gleanings From All Parts of the State. Two Hundred ar.d Fourteen People Poisoned at a Picnic.

SHOCKEYVILLE, KANSAS. A Tatnl Affray. Osceola, Judo' IS. Yesterday afternoon Thomas Allen, marshal of Wheatland, Hickory county, attempted to arrest ex-Marshal Chivton, who was shot by Allen and Instantly killed. As he died, Clavtou's friends collected, and threats of violence caused Allen to go home, followed by a mob and he was shot hi his owu door-yard with a shotgun hi the buck ot the head and can't live.

There Is much bitterness and excitement The sheriff has charge of the town. The Marshal of Detroit City, Shot by a Gambler. A Young Brute Assults Eis Employer's Wifa-Other Noto3. The Loyal Lesion, LEAVEXWOKTn, June 22.Vreparatlons are rapidly going forward at Fort Leavenworth for the cerepoules attending the organization of the Kansas couimandery of the Loyal legion. The legion fa composed maluly of officers who served during the late war and those who now belong to the regular army.

The headquarters of the commandery Is to he in this city, but Fort Leavenworth has been chosen for the inaugural exercises because the facilities for the military display desired are more ample. General McCook Is doing all In his power to make a striking military demonstration. The parades and drills uvthe different arms of tha service will occur In the afternoon. Telegrams were rcoeived yesterday from Chicago, St. Louis and Omaha which state-that two Pullman coaches will leave each point with companions to he present at the PERSONS AND THINGS.

Mits. Tyler, the widow of ex-Presi-dent Tyler, was favored with a box of white house wedding oako. Bayard Taylor's widow and her daughter Lilian will this summer resume their residence at Kennet Square, after an absence of two years in Europe. The monument in momory the ato IL LL Richardson, to be orecJed in Trinity church, Boston, of which he was the architct, by the Boston Society of Architects, will cost $5,000. riciutisk "Work.

Philadelphia, June 23. Exactly 214 peoplu wtre poisoned at last Thursday's picnic near Flemlugton, N. J. Six of these person will probably die, and twenty are lu a precarious condition. One of the physician lu charge of the cases has examined the ice crcmu cans, and says, there was not enough sulphate of zinc ubout them to do any damage; that the symptoms are those of arsenical poisoning, and from the fact that those who first ate of the cream escaped, he is of the opiuiou that the poison was put into the cream by some one purposely.

As a large number of people were eugaged In serving the cream, it will be difficult to catch the perpetrators. A Bad Marksman. SritiNGFiran, June 22. Lata to-night Thomas Rhodes went to the house of Cyrus Doomes and shot him In the arm. He then tried to shoot his late wife but she fled up tho street screaming for the police.

Rhodes theu put the pistol to hia breast and fired, but the wound Inflicted was not dungerous. Rhodes was arrested yesterday on a peace warrant, having threatened to kill his family. He laliored under the delusion that Doomes had caused his wife to obtain a divorce from him. An Ofllcar Shot. Wheeling, W.

June 22. Last Friday at Moundsvllle, Marshal county, Eugene Johnson assaulted James Porter with a club, Inflicting serious Injuries. This evening the Rev. J. R.

Thatcher, minister of lie Holiness church and town sergeant, went to arrest Johnson, when the latter's wife resisted and assaulted Thatcher with a hatchet. Thatcher took the woman in custody when Johnson came out of tlie house with a shotgun and fired, killing the officer almost instantly. Johnson escaped hut the feeling in the community is very high aud crowds are pursuing him. The alumni of Mount Tfolyoke seminary resident in Philadelphia are engaged in movement to raise an endowment of $20,000 for the principal's chair, to be known as the "Mary Lyon endowment." Mr. George W.

Chile's has contributed $100 toward it. Xew Corporations. Topeka, June 22. The Ingails town company filed Its charter with the secretary of state today. Its places of business are Ingails, In Ford county, and Dodge City.

The directors are Edward Artt, A. B. Webster, T. L. McCarthy.

G. W. Milton, C. A. Milton, M.

G. Mull, J. f. Rush, W. C.

Edwards, and J. C. Strong, all of Dodge City. The Citizens bank of Altoona also filed its charter. Its directors are John Dilto, Edwiu Loyd, John McLaren, J.

N. Richardson and E. A. Gastcu, and its capital stock $50,000. HITHER AND THITHER.

Bonds Assured. IIoltou, June 22. The proposition to aid the Chicago and Rock Island extension with $100,000 bonds called out a large vote to-day. This city gave 794 for the 2 against the proposition. Four county precincts gave 345 for and 111 against.

Enough precincts have been heard from to Insure the carrying of the proposition by 500 majority. Killed by a Gambler. Detroit, June 23. At 2 o'clock this morning a fight occurred between Howard, alias "Boomer," "Reddy," alias "Big Red," Burns, alias McCormack, alias Frank Bennett, and another gambler about diilorent women, and Reddy fired at Burns who dropped. City Marshal John Convey, thinkrmr Burns bad bn shot, jumped in on Reddy, when the latter wheeled and shot at Convey at short range.

Convey put his hand to his breast when a man named Norcross, who had just come up with a livery team, asked if he was shot. Convey said he was, and turning around fell dead from a shot directly in the heart. Reddy ran away during the excitement but afterwards was caught while trying to communicate with his mistress. Minneapolis detectives have had occasion to spot the murderer on two or three separate ocoasJens when in Minneapolis. He was never known here by any other name than Reddy, and it wits said that he was a bad man from Kansas City.

To-uight' "Reddy" was taken from jail by a large crowd of disguised men, escorted to a neighboring grove and hanged to the limb of a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets. Sheriff Pinney attempted to defend his prisoner, but being a small man was easily Paola Wide Awake. Paola, June 23. At a special election held here to-day the city voted $25,000 bonds to the branch of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, and also $5,000 in bonds to the trreat southwestern glass factory to be located at this place.

the flreraen bravely forced, their ytiy Into tha blazing-ruins. The fames refused to surrender until they had CONQVKUKJl EVERYTHING COMBVSTIIU.K Within the building. The. work of rescue, was attended with great danger. Tha charred remains of two men were brought out, and are thought to be those of William Taylor and a man named Frost, both carpenters.

Il ls believed that other bodies are buried lu the debris, us several workmen are missing. All is confusion, and no correct statemwut of the loss of life can be made. The flames are still burning lh the Interior of the building, of which nothing is left standing except the lower portion of the wall. Th lire caught In the front right corner, on Huntington avenue, directly under the paint shop, and when the flames reached the shop the oil and paint stored therein spread over an Immense space and proved a speedy carrier of the flames. There were many men inside, when the lire broke out, and all rushed for the rear windows.

Most of them were helped out, but while a rush was beiug made to one of the wludowe at which a scorched and bleeding face wus sew, tlie person who bad been looking out fell back Into the seething mass and was past all help. A colored man, name unknown, went back Into the burning building to save some property, and was not seen to come out again. Chester L. Ilazel-tinc and E. L.

Farren had plenty opportunity to escape, but tried to pull out some cars and were badly burned. While the thousands of spectators were viewing from neighboring roofs the magnificent spectacle a horrible tragedy was being enacted within, all out of sight and unknown to the throng. After the flames had been sufficiently extinguished, search was begun among the charred ruins for possible victims, and up to 0 p. in. eight dead bodies had been removed, most of them burned beyond recognition.

It is believed that there are at least four more bodies in the ruins. The total loss is about $400,000. The burning of the vast building was one of the grandest "sights seen in this city since the great fire of 1872. The wind blew freshly and added much to the power of the flames as they rapidly swept from one part of the building to the other. The experiences of some of the workmen employed in the building were terrible.

The spread of the flames hen they finally burst forth was something almost incredible. Workmen on the opposite side of the building from the point where the fire originated had almost as great difficulty in making their escape as did those nearer the spot. It was at the east end of the building In the carpenter shop a most heartrending incident occurred. A man whose name is as yet unknown, was driven out of a window of the second story by the flames, he was about to leap and had put one leg out of the wiifdow sill when the roof fell in and pinned him last to the spot where he was. No ladder company had arrived and the crowd outside were powerless to render aid.

The flames followed almost instantly and the imprisoned man underwent agonizing torture before the horrified eyes of his friends below. Two of bis fellow w'orkmen, John McNulty and J. F. Fuller, were tcnibly burned while trying to scale the wall to reach their dying comrade. His sufferings were mercifully short, the awful furnace of flames inwrapped about him, with fire and smoke hiding him during his last moments from the gaze of the spectators.

Not long afterwards the wall itself gave way, and nothing more was seen. E. L. Tollcn says lie was the last man to leave the wood workers' shop alive. The room is in the southeast corner of the building.

At the first cry of tire, he ran, but turned back at the door to see if he had time to gather up his tools. The moment's hesitation nearly cost him his life. He barely got out of the building before it was one mass of flumes. Four of five of his fellow workmen, lie says, turned. They were certainly burned to death.

Four of the bodies removed were so badly charred and disfigured that identification is impossible. The names of the ethers are believed to be as follows William Taylor, aired 70 years. P. Oliver Frost, years, married. Bat Lyons, aged SO years.

Alex Campbell, aged 70 years, married. The body of the negro, known to have been burned, has not been recovered. Thl6 makes nine fatalities known to have been cauesd by the fire. The foreman of the repair shop states that all of the eighty-eight workmen in the building when the lire broke out are accounted for with the exception of the four named above, and the other four unlortunatcs were probably strangers who entered the building to aid in removing the cars. The foliowingpersons were seriously burned Joseph Whiddeu, car builder, seriously burned about the face and shoulder; taken to the hospital.

Chester L.Hazeltine, badly burned about the face, hands, arms and throat. E. L. Farren, burned about the hands and arms. The lust two were employed in the car shop.

Several others had their hair singed, but escaped serious injury. The total loss is now estimated at 300.000: Building and fixtures, cars, machinery, tools, The insurance aggregated $110,000, as follows: Building, machinery, curs, $00,000. Later Reports. It is believed that the building was set on fire in several places by discharged employes. No additional bodies have been taken out.

The following is a corrected list of the dead and wounded so far as is known Patrick Lyons, blacksmith, aged 20 years. Alexander Campbell, woodworker, aged 35 years, the only support of aged mother. Oliver Frost, wood worker. William Taylor, aged 40 years. WOCNUIil).

John McDonald. James Whiddeu. Henry llorgin. James Hazleton. E.

P. Ferrcn, head r- face oadly burned. Sixteen persons are The ruins are still buruing. A Criminal Assault. Maryville, June 23.

Grant Wright of Graham, ho was working for Carl C. five miles from Graham, night before last committed a criminal assault on Mrs. llumber. Huniber having heard a noise entered the room and attacked Wright with a pocket knife and stabbed him. Wright fled in his night clothes to his parents at Graham.

He returned yesterday for his clothes, whereupon he and Humber'had another difficulty, and Humbercameto Maryville and swore out a warrant before Justice Hyslop for his arrest. The constable arrested "Wright and intended to keep him at Freytog's hotel until morning, but learning that a mob had been organized to take the prisoner from him he removed Wright to Mail land, where he procured a team and an assistant and arrived with his prisoner at 4 o'clock this morning. Wright confesses that he committed tie assault Mrs. llumber is a highly rcspectxl lady and the supposition is that "she did not make an alarm when Wright entered her room because she thought he was her husltaud. The Swedish educational writer and theologian, Dr.

Johann Frans Aker-blom, died at hia parsonage of Folkerna on the 17th of May. He was born in 1806. lie was one of the founders and the most energetic supporter ef the folkschool system (folkskolevasendet) in Sweden. Mrs. De Youmg, wife of the proprietor of The San Francisco Chronicle, has developed something entirely new in the line of aristocratic amusement She recently gave an entertainment in which the principal feature was a series of tableaux vivanls illustrating scenes from "Don Juan." Akt eastern star of minor magnitude is announced from central Asia.

A visit is announced from the khan of Khiva, who wishes to become acquainted with ail the processes connected with the production of silk, and will for this purpose go to Lyons, Geneva, and Milan, after staying in Berlin, Paris, and Vienna. Mr. Gladstone is escorted to the house of commons by two mounted constables, who ride on cither side of his carriage. A number of special constables are also detailed to make his progress to the house as easy as possible. A couple of weeks ago he walked through a heavy downpour of rain to Downing street.

Hon. George S. Bout well, in a private letter to a Massachusetts friend, says: "As far as I can judge, I have regained my health, and in some particulars I think I am in better condition than I have been for many years, but when one is far on the shady side of sixty there is no surety in predictions as to health." Italo Pizzi, of Turin, has at last completed his translation into Italian blank verse of Firdausi's great Persian epic, the "Shah-nama," or "Book of Kings." Being unable to find a publisher for such a formidable work (120,000 lines in the original), he proposes issuing it by subscription, in eight octavo volumes of about six hundred pages. Bjoknstjeune Bjornson, the Norwegian poet, who has been living in Paris for the last three years, has returned to his home in the Norwegian mountains. He intends to devote himself wholly to literary work on his re The photographers of America are holdlDg their auuual convention in St Louis.

A cablegram from Berlin reports a heavy snow-storm raging lu the Harz mountains. The governor of Louisiana has signed the Sunday law and It will go into effect January 1 next. The damage done by last Saturday's storni In and about Weatherford, is estimated at $00,000. The strike of the Ironmouldcrs of Troy, N. has ended In a compromise after a four months' light.

Martin Collins and Frank Palansky were killed by lightning at Crete, Monday, while digging a well. The Boston parliamentary fund committee has sent $10,000 to be used by Parnell in the coming election in Great Britain. The New York Irish parliamentary fund was increased by $0,643 Monday night. The total subscription now aggregate $08,053. Justice Stanley Matthews of the supreme court was married in New York city, Wednesday, to Mrs, Mary K.

Theaker, of Cleveland, Ohio. Governor Marmaduko has pardoned William I. Taylor, 6cut to the Missouri penitentiary for arson, and Albert Brewer, sent up for grand larceny. The park commissioners of New York have made a detail of policemen to guard the tomb of General Grant on the departure of the regular troops. Three ladies and their children were thrown from a carriage by runaway horses near New Castle, and one child was killed uutl ouc lady fataily injured.

Miss Belle Sayer of Gltuwood Springs was drowned Monday by the giving way of a rope suspension bridge over a stream. Her two male companions escaped. Judge Donahue of the supreme court.of New York city has decided the new law in relation to imprisonment for debt constitutional and three old debtors were released. The St. Louie and San Francisco railway has filed its bond in accordance with the acta of congress granting it right of way through the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands.

S. P. Spier, a young bicyclist, has journeyed from Albany to Chicago since the month opened, and expects to make Sun Francisco in sixty days from the time of starting. On a telegram from tlie navy department, the revenue cutter Forward has left Mobile for Mississippi sound, to intercept a schooner loaded with men and arms for filibustering iu Cuba. The harness-makers of America in convention at Pittsburgh have formed a permanent organization under the name of the National association of saddlery aud harness manufacturers.

W. J. Sanderson, a justice of the peace at Cincinnati, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery preferred by a woman, and was lined $100 and sentenced to two mouths in the work-house. President Mackey, who has a system of 670 miles of rail iu southern Indiana, proposes to lay track from some point on the Evunsville road, through the Bedford quarries, to Columbus, Indiana, seventy miles. A dispatch from Prague, Bohemia, states that a ferry boat capsized while crossing the Sszawa river, throwing fifty persons into the water.

The exact number of those drowned not yet been ascertained, but twenty-live bodies have been recovered. Tlie radicals of Birmingham, England, have resolved to form a guarantee fund of 20,000. A new political club is being organized in London to supply home-rule speakers. The democracy are to have a demonstration in Hyde park on Saturday. Mr.

Puruell is to speak this week in London, Portsmouth, and right is conaiucrcu a uau crmracier anu is abrotherof Isaac Wright, who served a term in jail here two years ago for stabbing a man at Graham. Circuit court is in session and a special grand jury has been summoned for to-morrow when an indictment will be presented against him. Minor Mention. Alton thinks of Incorporating itself into a city. Osborne county fields are beiug ravaged by the Hessian fly.

Corn eight feet high is reported In the southern part of the state. Harry De Hart was killed by lightning one day recently near Oberlin. The Saline county circuit court has twenty-five divorce cases ou its docket. Maple trees in the southeastern counties are suffering from the ravages of a worm. Hall's water-mills at Oswego, valued at were destroyed by fire one day last week.

Sedgwick county will expend $400,000 in aid of the proposed railroads through that county. The sweet girl graduates of the Seneca high school on Thursday evening wrere attired in simple calico. Twenty-three persons have been arrested at Parsons for participation in the Missouri Pacific strike and acts of violence. The Fourth district democratic convention will bo held at Emporia, Aug. 11, one week after the state democratic convention.

Fire in Independence, Thursday night, destroyed William Cady's stables, coitaining six horses and valuable machinery. Loss, The democratic state convention to be held in Leavenworth August 4 will have 341 delegates. Leavenworth county leading the other counties with seventeen delegates. According to The L'eloit Democrat, more property has been destroyed in that city during the past year by triad dogs than has ever-been accomplished by cyclones, or hurj ricancs combined. A son of Mr.

Butler, who lives two miles north of Delphos, had his feet nearly cut off by a mower last Friday. At last accounts the physiciars thought they could save one of his feet. His father was driving when the accident occurred. The St. Marys Express says One of the main features of the Indian war-dance on the Pottawatomie reservation last Sunday, we are told, was the task of eating a cow in two hours' time.

It was successfully performed. We have never attended any of tliese dances, but from outside reports we judge that the event is never accompanied by a surplus of fastidiousness or modesty. Jeremiah O'Sullivan, living near Laclede, has been arrested and taken to Wamego on a warrant charging him with committing a criminal assault on little Nellie Donnelly, a girl under 10 years of age. The warrant was sworn out by the girl's father. O'Sullivan is 67 years old.

and has a family, but several years ago parted with his wife, "not getting a divorce, however, as they were both strong Catholics, and quite prominent in religious matters. The condition of the little girl is not considered serious. There is considerable excitement over the matter. Father Baker of the Topeka CommonweaHh has returned from his Pacific coast trip. He had a singular experience at Salt Lake.

He went out to the Lake to bathe. In riding over he was probably sun struck. He was noticed in the waters iu a half dazed condition by some strangers. They cared for him, by his cane discovered who he was, put his clothes upon him and took him back to the city. For twenty-four hours he was totally oblivious of any sur-roundines and the occurrences during the twenty-four hours are only gradually coming back to him.

In a few days it is thought he will be fully rested and restored a consummation which thousands will hope to see realized. Lawrence Journal. The Newton Kanmn says: Martin Oster, a Frenchman, has the contract for doing the stone work on the new iron foundry in this city, and has in his employ a number of German stone masons. Oster was a French soldier In the Franco-Prussian war. Tlie other day he was relating some of his war experiences to the men, among which was his capture as corporal with sixteen men at a certain mill near Oilcans, bv a squad of Prussian soldiers in December, 1870.

After Oster had related the circumstance one of the men informed and proved to his satisfaction that he was one of the Prussian soldiers that captured him. The meeting in another land, thousands of miles from the related scene, was one seldom experienced. A Big Collapse. New Youk, June 22. The suspension of IT.

H. Swift tfc importers of sugars, of this city anil Pernambueo, is announced. The liabilities are about $1,000,000 and are more than equalled by the assets. Thus far no assignment has been made, and efforts are in progress to effect a settlement with the creditors and resume business at an early day. In the meantime the suspension is causing excitement in the sugar trade of this city, and fear is expressed that other embarrassments may follow here or elsewhere.

One of the firm said to-day: "Our firm is the last one of the old class of merchants who began to bevelop the capabilities of the sugar importing business. So far our creditors have been unanimous in sympathy and good wishes. If we can tide over the next few days we will, I think, be safe. The market has been depressed by the sugar refining strikes and trade has been driven away. Now that they have resumed work the demand will lie increased." The cause was the unexpected changes which took place in the sugar market.

Last year it was understood that there was a shortage in the crops of beet and cane, and purchases were made at high prices. The visible supply of raw sugar was comparatively small, and it was not generally known that the invisible sugar men came out and threw their stock upon the This naturally unsettled trade. Next came the strikes among the men emuloverl in the great refineries in this country. When the work in the refineries was Ftopped there was a cessation in the demand for raw sugar. MARKETS.

Murdered by his Brother. Louisville, June 22. Virgil Griffin, a young farmer who was found near Henderson, with his head crushed by a bludgeon, died to-day. Lee Griffin, his brother, is reported to have confessed the killing. They had a quarrel about a watch.

is much excitement and rumors of a lynching. Kansas City Grain and Live Stock. GRAIN. Wheat, No. 4 red winter, 36; No.

3 red winter, 37; No. 2 red winter, 53; No. 2 soft winter, 00. Corn, No. 2, 24; No.

2 white, 27. Oat, No. 2, 28. Rye, No. 2, 45.

turn home, and to avoid taking any active part in the public and political affairs of the country, to which he gave so much of his time during the late constitutional conflict. Mme. Bocssicaut, the owner of the celebrated establishment, Lo Bon Marche, has given Pasteur $30,000 for his great institute. The amount received is now approaching a million of francs. Dr.

Robinet, in the name of the Assistance Publique, has applied to the municipal council of Paris for the authorization to establish the institute in the building formerly occupied by the College Rollin. The building and court yards cover four thousand square meters. The authorization will be granted. Mr. Beeclter's trip to Europe puts The Brooklyn Union in mind of that noted pulpit orator's tour in 1863.

The Union, telling of an address made by Mr. Beecher of an English town, adds: A big, burly Englishman desired to shake hands with Mr. Beecher, but the latter could not reach him and the Englishman cried: "Shake my umbrella," at the same time pushing it up toward him. Mr. Beecher complied with the request and as he did so the enthusiastic Englishman cried: "By Jock! nobody shall touch that umbrella again!" Iavld Davis Dying.

Bloomington, June 20. "A point has been reached in the illness of ex-Vice President David said the physician to-day, "when it is thought best by his family to give the public a statement of the great gravity of his condition. Mr. Davis is very ill indeed, and it will be little less than a miracle if he should rallv." An Awful Holocaust. Boston'.

June 21. A terrific fire, accompanied by loss of life, this afternoon destroyed the New England Institute Fair building, on Huntington avenue. The building was built by the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics institute for exhibition purposes, at a cost of nearly $500,000. Last winter it was purchased by the Metropolitan Street Railroad company for $300,000, and has since been used as a place for storing and repairing cars. So quickly did the flames spread that before the first engine had arrived the immense roof had fallen and the building was A KOAKIKG MASS OF FLAME.

The workmen sought to save their tools, ajid many were badly burned before they could get out of the building, while others were unable to escape. In the building were about 400 box cars, only one of which was saved. The great born like structure, which covered an area of five acres, with a floor space of nearly eighteen acres, was so full of Hume that the walls were blown out. As soon as it was learned that lives had been lost in the building all streams were turned to the rear of the structure, and LIVE STOCK. Native shipping steers, feeders, stockcrs, butcher steers, cows bulls, Hogs choice assorted, $3.90 3.05; light mediums, pigs, Sheep Markets by Telegraph.

St. Louis Wheat, No. 2 red, cash, 73; June, 70; July, 73: August, 74. Corn, No. 2 mixed, cash, 30; June, 31; July, 30; August, 3.

Chicago. Wheat, No. 2 spring, 72; No. 3 spring 03. Corn, No.

2 mixed, cash, 34; June, 34; July, 35. New Youk. Wheat, No. 2 spring, 80; No. 2 red, 81; No.

1 red, 87' No. 1 white, SJ7. Corn, No. 3, 33; No. 2, 40.

Judge Davis is believed by his friends to be slowly but surely sinking to death. He was taken ill with a carbuncle on his shoulder at Chicago May 2. Up to two weeks ago his condition, thougn at times alarming, seemed to be one of gradual improvement. Two weeks ago severe erysipelas set in, and Is growing worse. For some weeks his sufferings have been intensified and complicated by Blight's disease of the kidneys.

Several Chicago doctors have been summoned, and a consultation will be held to-morrow. A visiting pugilist recently shocked a Virginia City, divine by offering him a free ticket to a knock-down entertainment for the use of several chairs from the church.