Derby Dispatch from Derby, Kansas • 1

DISPATCH, WILL D. WEIGHT, Editor and FublUher. MOTTO; "PUSH S. GRANT, Subscription Prioe, $1.00 Tear. VOL.

I. DERBY, SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2G, 1889. NO. 1. DERBY Five pupils in a Japanese school new South Dakota, has elected her United Stntos Sonntors.

Thev nra IL NHWS IN BRIEF. THE WORLD'S FAIR. Tha City of SI. Lonla Evidently Iu the THE BOWMAN MURDER. The Cnones Leading Up to tha Lament bla Tragedy Hear 'Sr.

Loula Outlined- Tha Owueralilp and Wracking of a KANSAS STATE NEWS. A Legal Flair. It is said that a legal flaw has been discovered iu nearly all the mortgages held by loan companies on Southwestern Kansas homesteads. To Sot Alla a Will. Clemens Lake aud Mary Alexander, 01 Topoka, have begun suit in the Valted States District Court at Kansas City, to set aside the will of their sis tor, Sallda Alexander, on the ground that the signature was a forgory or was procured by force.

The will, as it stands, leaves all the property, valued at $30,009, to 8. De Lounge, an employe in a jewelry store iu a toinple in the province of Klangio hid themselves In coffins upon which an other boy placed the lids aud luformel the teacher that they had gone to Heaven. When tho lids were romoved all the boys were found to be dead from suffocation. The sixth boy fled, but the tencher over took him and flogged htm to doatb. Ox the 22d tho jury in the case of Win.

II. Bartholomew at Euston, charged with the murder of Aaroa W. Dillard, re turned a verdict of guilty of murder in tho first degree. While acliarcoal-buruor named Clark, twelvo miles southeast of Dis Moine was away from homo, on the 22 h.t wife wont nut to the charcoal-pit, loav- lug two children in the homo. The houu caught ftro aud the children perwhed.

MISCELLANEOUS. The Zaiiztuur nguut ot tho London Mis sionary Society reports that tho nativos have driven out ihe Jesuits from Unjaui jembo and destroy oil thoir mission sta tions. Tuit Lauder Bank of Vienna has slgnod for its sharo of tht loan of 27.0)0. 0 mark to the Bulgarian Government recoutly ne gotiated. Bauks iu Berlin take the bal auce of the loan.

A NEW Russian loin, it is stated la Tarls, is to be offered to the public by the Koths chillis about tho middle of Decern' bor uixt. Cholera contiuues making frightful ravages in tho valloys ot the Tigris aud Euphrates. There have been seveu thou sand dcuths within the past three months, and there are yet uo signs of the abatement of tho scourgo. The New York-Brooklyn world's cham pionship game, scheduled for the 21st, at the Polo grounds, New York, was post poned on account of wet grounds. O.NK IIU.iDUKD AND F1KT7 VOtoraUS of the Seventeenth and Twenty-sevrnt'u Connecticut Infantry regiments dedicated their monuments on the field of Gettysburg on the 22.1.

I he steamer Scythin, which arrived nt Liverpool, on tho 221, from Boslou, re ported hnviug passed the American ship James J. Lowell, dorulict Nothing was seou or hoard of the crew. Tub German Government Ins pro claimed a protectorate ovjr tho ast coast of Africa from Witoo to conditioned upon the conont of tho chiefs tiioro to bo given. Tho rights of all foreigners are reserved under the proclamation. line opening of the German Roichuag, on the 22d, wus a tnme affair, little inter est being mmi'oslod in the proceedings by thoso present.

Tho Emperor's spooca received but faint applause, aud tho re ferences to tho fair prospects for peace) were allowod to pass iu grim silonce. VinoiviA Adventists held an all-day aud all-night meeting at on tho 23J, to watch for the coming tho.JCiUif tif Ktug.3. It'" was tho ninth anniversary of tho going out of the church to meet the Lord iu October 1814. Dalegatious from Connecticut Massachusetts, New York and Virginia wore iu attendance. Recently the New York Cotton Ex- chaugo voled on a proposition to repeal the present system of Inspection and classification of cotton.

The result ai Hi) for tho repeal and 100 against it Oa tho 21 tho hoard of mauagers decided that the system now In use prevail tho present CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. A sudden riso in tho rivt-r Neva has flooded the whole lower portion of the city of St Petersburg aud a large number of streets are under water from one end to the other. No lives are reported lost but in many instances women and chil drea liviug near the river bank wero only saved from drowning by roscuers who wont out to them in boats. A cold day but a warm reception met the Pan-American delegates in the Cream City on the 23J. After a day of royal entertainment, spent in visiting points of interest, they left at midnight for Mln' neapolls, Miun.

Monsionob Gadd sailed, on the 23d, on the steamer Adriatic, from Liverpool for New York, to take part in the ceremo nials connected with tho coming Balti more centennary. The Hungarian patriot Kossuth is about to become a naturalized citizen of Italy, and is to be nominated as a candi date for tho Italian Senate. The Brooklyns won the fourth game in the world's championship series from tho New York Base Ball team, on the 23d, by a score of 10 to 7, in six innings, the game being called on account of darkness, thus scoring three out of four games played up to that date. Charles McIlvainb was found guilty In Brooklyn, on the 23J, of murder iu tho first degree for killing Grocer Luoa while committing a burglary on the premises of the latter. On the 231 Mayor Grant of New York City issued an appeal to the citizens of that city for subscriptions to the World's Fair fund, declaring that every day's delay endangered tho success of the pro ject, and poiutiug out the advantages to accrue to tne city from tho exposition.

The Nihilists are again active in St. Petersburg, and the city has been flooded with their revolutionary proclamations. The police are entirely at a loss to explain how these doeumonts aro printed or distributed. It is asserted that the printing is done in Paris under tho protection certain high government officials tainted with revolutionary dootrines. Governob Fowle of North Carolina opened the Eleventh Annual Colored State Fair at by a speech to a large audience of negroes, in whose be half aud protection, should it be necessary, he pledged the whole power of the Stato.

He spoke of the happy condition tho Southern negroes, and said his auditors were as happy as any people oa face of the earth. The Oxford Copper Company obtained attachment in the Suprems Conrt of New York City, on the 23d, against the property in that State of the Paris Societe Dcs Metaux, which organized the late corner in copper, on a claim for for non-fulfillment of contract By the burning of a barn at Tisenaich, Saxe-Weimar, on the night of the 221, boys who were asleep inside were ned to death. h.it. nrr uia iv ctri. wmir fit iov iw Win A Corp of Eautern Kawnpapa Men on tha Ground Looking Up the "Ifc-owtlon Location.

ArallabllltT of filtea and tho 1'roTerblal JSnterprlne and Hospitality or the "Fntnra Great" Tellutf In Its Fnvor at tho Kt. St. Louis, Oct 23. For the past few days a number of special correspondents of Frank LeslleV Illustrated Newspaper of New York Cf. have been In the city making careful' xaminations of the different localities in the western section of lie city, one of which will, in all probability, be selected for the World's Fair site.

The names of the Eastern correspondents are D. Leubrie, Robert. 1). Owens, K. F.

Dnndars, S. F. Gartside, A. B. Batchelor, T.

O. Palmir and L. Chaplu, a special artist It is also learned that the gentlemen have been sent hero for the purpose giving a geueral description of St. Louis; showing her advantages over any other city, and why she should bo selected by Congress as the proper place to hold the World's Fair. The publio edifices will be illustrated and a general description of Forest Park and surroundiug country will be given so as to show the people that St Louis is the only place able to accommodate the crowds of people that will attend the great Exposition.

That New York City iu favor of St Louis securing the fair is shown-by the publications of 'New York City newspapers concerning the reputation of St Louis for hospitality aud her capability to accommodate more people in one day than any other city in the country. Mr. Leubrie, one of the party, in tha course of a conversation, said: "I know llmt vmi will flnnht tliA truth nt mv atnttl meut whon I say that New York can not accommodate the crowds of people that will surely attend the World's Fair. Tho wealthier class of Gothamites don't want the exhibition; so far it is only the proprietors of places of amusement saloon-keepers aud small shop-keepers that have made any effort to raise the millions reauired to erect all the Deo- essary buildings. The merchants of St Louis have won the esteem of the New Yorkers by the quiet and business-like manner they have shown in the and I can truthfully say that the majority of the poople of the great metropolis are in favor of your city.

We will not quietly stand by and await results, but we will do every thiug we can to advance your interests. St Louis has from the first worked stoadily and unceasingly, and I am satisfied that in the end ber efforts will be crowned with success. I havo, in company with several other correspondents, examined the real estate interests of St Louis and we find that tho occoinmodations or the World's fair are -much better than thoso of Chicago. We are here not to antagonize Chicago, but to represent a paper which is of the opin ion that St. Louis is the only ploco for the World's Frlr, and to write articles on the advantages of the city.

CAST ON BEACH. Sevrriil Ve(l Driven on the lirarh nt Wiunetkn. During a Heavy Gain. Some of Which Will Prove a Total Los Tho Crews Itescund by the Kvaimtoit Llle-Savlurr Crew, Compoaikl of Sta'louts of tha North wentern Chicaoo, Out 23. Tton 'Steamer D.

Ballantine, her consort the barge I ronton, and the tug Protection went ashore in a bunch at Wiuneika about ten o'clock last night It was. reported that the -schooner America was on the beech not far from them. The wind was heavy from the northeast and a 'heavy sea was rolling when the boats went" On. -The weather was also extremely thick. The tug was following the steamer end tow into this port They got too far in and struck the ledge that rhns from Grosse Point north for many miles.

It is hard bottom, and, with the heavy sea running, the chances are that a serions loss will result The tug Butler, which was fol lowing the schooner America, was clot by when the three boats struck. The Butler also ran on the ledge, but worked herself off, but not without breaking bor shoe. The America disappeared in the darkness, and up till two o'clock this morning had not reached this port. It is thought that she could not have gotten out of the trap, and must have fetched np somewhere this side of Winnetka and beyond Grosse Point. Her crew would bo in serions danger.

The Ballantine and Ironton went on broadside. It was thought there was no likelihoood of a loss of life. The Evanston life-saving erew were notified of the trouble. The Ballan tine and the Ironton are owned by wm. Mock, of Cleveland.

They were laden witli coal. The Ballantine is valued at $42,000, and the Ironton at $24,000. The poiut where the boats struck has been the seen) of many disasters, some of them attended by heavy loss of life. At 2:30 tia 1 morning the wind was going down. hiK the sea contlnned remaricaoio neavv.

Thn nnrrliirpnoe of the keeper of the fog horn at Evanston is said to be direotly responsible for the wrecking of the three boats. The steamer Ballantine will prove a total loss. The Ironton aud tug Prot it is thought will be pulled off this afternoon. The crews of the vessels succeeded in getting ashore safely, and were cared for by the people of the village. The life-saving crew of Evanston did noble work in rescuing the crew of the Ballantine.

The life-saving crew is com-m ended by Captain Lawson, and is composed entirely of students of the Northwestern University at Evanston. A Polish Church War. Wilkebdabbk, Oct 23. The armed Folanders who have been holding possession of the Polish priest's house at' Plymouth surrendered to the anthorilies large posse went to the house armed, and www ready for aggressive work. When they reached the house one of the Poland- ers locked out of a "We give up." TV volvers out for Raj, or town and Also all kiu Is of and Salesroom at Telephone office, on Baltimore Avenue.

I. rottigi-ow and tiidoon Moody. j. no lormor i ft Vermontor and walked Into foakota" twenty yours ago. fho Vutter in a Now Yorker by uooslor by military eorvlco p.

Uakotnn by final choice. 'J'iie cable dispatches represent the lioaitb of tho lYInco of Walos a In an murimiin conuuion so uau that a fatal termination is foarod before tho ond of another year. Prince Albert Victor, who is In his twenty-sixth yoar, would then bo the holr apparent. Stkkl mils have gone up to $32 a ton in tho Kast, which is an advance of about $3 in tho past two months. This increase is not altogether duo to the construction of now lines of road, which has been small this year, but is probably partly causod by a demand from tho older roads which lha present and prospectivo prosperity induces.

Tub war upon the White IIouso rodents has ended and rat-cacher IIos-mor and his ferrets nnd terrier have departed. Tho fight was lutorosliug Uurln-T the week it hutted, and hun-tirade of tho posts of all shades and isiv.es succumbed to tho persistent foe; and now -Old Jerry." tho colorod autocrat of tho interior economy of tho mansion, says ho can onco more sleep in. peace. The strengthening of the Gorman garrisons in Alsace and Lorraine has boon met on tho other sido of tho Jlhino by tho doubling of tho Sixth of the Fronch army, which Is stationed at Nancv. Franco and (Jor wiany are tho only two nations of Ku rope between which thcro is no tutor change of hypocritical demonstrations of affect ion.

They frankly recognize that each is lying in wait for the other. Al.THOluit less than a third of tht Scal year has expired, all but $2,000, 000 of the $18,000,000 required in tho twelve months for tho sinking fund has been paid in as a result of bond purchases. Tho fooling has becomo jronoral that tho sinking fund will tib sorb tho public debt as rapidly as is Jeslrablo now that debt payment can 1 ii wot uo accomplished wmiotit giving a largo on tho bonda bougUt lu make tins payment. hie Maryland authorities, under tho belief that the cols in the AVveom ico 'river were destroying tho shad spawn, have been engaged iu a war of extermination, having appropriated for that purpose. The money was expended in bounties of Jtwo eonts per eel, and now that it is all gone it is discovered, by dissection, that tho eels do not molest the shad spawn.

The eels nro as numerous as ever and a thriving industry has been brought to an end. 1 HE election of Jlataafa as King ol Samoa promises to bring up another complication in the affairs of that uouutry. Matnafn, who was chosen on tho rocommendiition of Malictoa, the King who was deposed and imprisoned uy tho Germans a few years ago, but who was recently restored to his country, is personally obnoxious to Germany, 'ibis Is a turn in affairs which was not expected at tho time of the Iierlin Conference, and, of course, was not provided for in tho agreement cached in that place. The Great Western TUaiTroad of England has adopted the latest "penny-in-tho-slot" apparatus. It is in the form of electric reading lamps iu the mil way carriages of the company.

It consists of a clockwork apparatus cou-taincd iu a small box. By dropping a penny in tho slot and pressing the knob tho mechanism is set in motion and an electric light obtained, which, after burning for exactly half an hour is automatically extinguished, and the contribution must bo repeated to obtain another half hour's light The official investigation at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. is closed and tho testimony, which is very voluminous, has boon transcribed, verified and transmitted to tho War Department In that record it is shown that while tho Government has been ever ready to fulfill its obligations to tho recruits for its army tho latter have been made tho victims of neglect, robbery and abuse from thoso required by tho army regulations to exercise a paternal care for them, either directly or through their non-commissioned subordinates. The wonder is, not that the percentage -of desertions should bo greater than any othor post in the civilized world, but that tho recruits did not openly rebel against such palpable maladministration. It is to their honor and credit that they spared the service such an open scandal.

Ordinarily tho demand for money to move the crops begins to lessen about the middle of October. This year, because of the magnitude of the yield, the falling off may not set in bo early. But in any evont the danger period has passed. a by Compiled from Various Sources. rKKSOXAL AND POLITICAL.

Os tho 20tk lion. W. C. Whltthorna, Congressman from the Soveutb Teune us district, was reported as lying at the point of death it his Lome la Columbia, Tonn. Ok the 21st r.

rumor current that Mr. Henry Villaru was quite ill was dented by Mr. Villard's representatives at the office of the Northern Pacific railroad la Now York City, who said that Mr. Villnrd had a slight cohl, but was otherwise iu his usual good health. Tub great si'gar-refluer, Clam Sprock- els, is making preparation for open ing his big refinery in Philadelphia.

In denying tho report that ho had joined the Sugar Trus ho said: "As long as am alive it is my intention to eugngo in business cntlroly upon uiy own arc mat, and without the interference or co-oper ation of ouy other iudivldunl. 1 do not need and never have noeded assistance from others, a' 1 1 certainly havo uo use for the Sugar Trust" Sm Kdwaud AV atkins, who is at the head of the company organized to erect structure in London which shall out-Eiffel Eiflvl himself, has issued a circU' lar offering 0 gniuoas for deslgus for a tower feet iu height. The Russian press are docryin; the visit of Emperor William to Constantinople. Mrs. CnAia Tolliveb, wife of the Kentucky desperado, has be emu iusaue.

Sho is residing with hor sister, Araauda Box to at Montgomery, O. Tho killing of her husband at MoorchoaJ, together with trouble with hor two jys, tlm cause of hor insanity. Ox tho SSili a i.pncial term of tho Court of Montana will be held to hoar tho Silver Bow County disputed eloctiou 0 so, on the decision of which depends tho complexion of the Legislature and the soloctiou of United (Stales Sena tors. It is said that the Cxar and family have douatod 14, 000 roubles for the sufferers by famine in Montenegro. Tub at Bolivia has been offered to I.

Franklin principal of public-school at Stoubonville, O. Ox tho 21st representatives of the Greonback party met in New York Cily and uomiualed Kov. Thomas K. IJoocher, of Elniira, for Secrotary of State; John B. Sullivan, of Westchester, for Comp-troler, aud Joseph Madison Hall, of Hamilton, for State Treasurer.

The nomination for Stato Engineer Surveyor was postponed. A platf i'wn was ndoptod reciting the familiar tc f.eta of the party. Ox the 21st Governor Forakor'a coni auiou was said to ue still a matter of serious nppreheusiou to his friends, although he was reported as convalescing. On the 22J General Iguntiuff arrivod iu Rome on a special mission to tho Valicnu, bearing an autograph lot tor from tho Czar accepting the arbitra tion of the Pope oa the Balkan question and leaving His Holiness free to convoke a congress or adopt any other course which, in his judgment will lead to the establishment of a modus vivaudi be tweeu Russia aud Austria. Tine iuzibar Commission, on the 221, after au interview with Bismarck, start ed from Berlin for London.

TnE two vacancies iu the Qnnrternias ters' Department havo beou filled by the nppointmeut of First Lieutenant Theo, E. True, Fourth Infantry, anil First Lieu tenant John E. Mcllyde, Eighth Infantry, CRIMES ASO CASUALTIES. Ox the night of the 11). the express of- Jca at Jncksou, was robbed by who took the kays from a sleeping dork's pocset, unlocked tho safe and stole 2,197.

Seven survivors of the steamer Earn- moor, wiuou rouuaereu, September in a cyclono threo hundred miles off Turk's Island, while bound from Baltimore to Rio Janeiro, arrived in Philadelphia on the 21st, by tho steamer Sautingo, from Nassau. They tell a story of great suf fering during thoir twenty-two days cruise iu an open boat without food. At Eastou, on the 21st, at tho trial of William H. Bartholomew for tha intir dor of Washington Dillard, Mrs. Dillard (who was charged with complicity in the murder) voluntarily related the story of the crime, and pleaded guilty of murder iu tho second degree.

Munich, Bavaria, has a "Jack-the-Rip per" mystery as profound as that or Whitechapel, Loudon. Two girls wero found in that city on tho moruiug of the 21st with their bodies mutilated in a manner to lead to the suspicion that the Lou don fiend had started on his travels. TmuTEKN sailors wero sentenced, on tne 21st, at Aachon tor smuggling corn into Germany. Their operations during the past year aggregated hundreds of tons of grain. On tho at the Granger (lad.) cross ing of tho Cincinnati, Wabash Michi gan and the Grand Trunk railroad, a Grand Trunk engine explodod, iustautly killing Engineer Thomas Callahan, and Fireman John Maddock.

Low water in the boiler. Neau Wilkesbarre.Pa., on the 22.1, while traiu of coal cars aud a truck were being hoisted up tho Ashly plane, the wire cable broke just as they had almost reached tho top of the mountain, and tho cars doscended tho plauo at a frightful speed, and wore smashed into fragments at the bottom. Thoro wero threo men on tho truck, all of whom were buriod in the debris, but strango to say they wero taken oat alive, though vary badly in- 1 jured. Ox tho 22d Jake1 Matilo, a well-known young man of Chnttauooga, while playing with a bull-dog pistol, discharged its contents into his face, blowing the top of his head off. He hnd recently run away with and married a daughter of Joseph Hudson, a grocer, and the father had not forgiven his daughter.

Cole, the first of the prisonors triad at Marysboro, Ireland, ior the killing of Inspector Martin, was, on the 22(1, found the jjury guilty of manslaughter. Father McFadde'j and the others accused will probably receive tho same verdict of of the an Nawnpaper and the HubMtquant Purnult or a Uankrupt Man Iteapousibla. St. Louis, Oct 23. Referring to the la mentable tragedy which just now is the chief seusatioa of this city the killing of the well-known lawyer Frouk J.

Bowman by B. M. Chambers a local attorney thus outlines the causes leading np to it He ays: "When Slllsoa Hutchlns was with the St. Louis Times there was a bitter con troversy over the ownership of that paper. Subsequeti ly the Times, after going through sev eral hands, fell iu to thoso of B.

M. Chambers. Jus -Chambers had oeen presiuent or. iikjhe Butchers' and 1 I. 1- iji lit which bad failed, and iu which fail ure Chambers had Frank J.

Itotcman. lost all his money, though his wife was rich. When Cham bers obtained control of the Timis he is sued notes tor $30,000 or which were secured by a mortgage oa the pa ner. Some of these wers personal notes ot Chambers', and Bowman purchased them, and when they were defaulted Bowman started suit and foreclosed. At the sale the paper brought about 20,000 less than the mortgage.

This difference has nevor been paid, but has remained against Chambers ever since, but he being insolvent it could not be collected. About four years ago Mrs. Chambers died aud left a peculiar will. Iu his will she left Chambers an an nuity of $12,000 or g. $15,000 a year.

Iitf had always beet considered that this' annuity was not liable to attachment for Chambers' JJ. M. Chambers. debts, but one creditor having tested the matter, the Supreme Court decided last spring that it was subioct to nttach meut It was on tho strength of this de cision that Bowman obtaiaed the execu tiou that he was attempting to have sat Isfled when be was killed." TEN PERSONS INJURED. on the Lonitville Tfaslivlll Itnilroiid nt I.ynitvllle, Itesiiltinir In the Injury of Ten 1'emoiis List of the Victims.

Glendalk, Oct. 22. A terrible railroad collision is reported nt Lynn-ville on tho Louisville Nashville railroad. A special with doctors has gone to tho scene. No particulars.

LATER. At the general manager's office of the Louisville Nashville it was stated this afternoon that tea persons were injured, but nobody killed. The worst hurt is a Mr. Van Dyke Heiser, of Millerstown, believed to be fatally. The Louisville Nashville surgeons gave all tho injured persons surgical attention.

The collision was between two passengor trains, one ot which had taken the siding aud, the switch beiug left open, was run into by the othor. The injured are as follows: Rev. J. M. Bruce, Glasgow, Ky.

sprained and bruised arm and spine injured. Van Dyke Heiser, Millerstown, internal injuries of a serious nature. J. M. Wheeler, Worthington, Ky.

fracture of left arm and wrist scalp wouud and right sido bruised. Mrs. E. L. Jeffreys, Horse Cave, face and head badly hurt and knee injured.

Wm. Crowe, Elizabethtown, right leg injured, and also iu jured about the head. Ely Ogle, Louisville, Ky. 5 right knee injured. Charles King, fireman of No.

arm injured and hip hurt; also iujured about the head. Mrs. W. F. Rogers, Horse Cave, Ky.

shoulder dislocated. Three children, names unknown, slightly burned by overturning of -tove, but not serious. CHICAGO AND THE SOUTH. The Pan-American Delegates Captured by the Chicago World's Fair Committee Talk of Fust I'roicht Lines and to the South. Chicago, Oct 23.

The delegates to th Pan-American Congress visited the Chi cago World's Fair headquarters yesterday morning, and during their short stay an informal discussion was had of the prospects of increasing the trade be tween the Americas. It developed considerable good feeling on the part of many of the visitors toward the project, which has already been indorsed by the Chicago Board of Trade, of establishing a fast freight line between Chicago aud Tampa or some other point One of the delegates unhesiatiagly asserted that if Chicago succeeded iu carrying out the project it would be of Immeasurable benefit to the South American coast, and to Chicago and the South generally. "Just think of it" said one, "if we can ship our fruits and land them in Chicago in four or five days, we will no longer be at the mercy of the slow steamship lines tradiug to New York as we are at present and Chicago would then be our greatest market as well as the distributing point The Tampa Bay scheme is a very worthy one, and If yonr Board of Trade pushes it to a consummation, it will go far toward enlisting the support ot South America should you get the fair, and it will be an evidence of yeur good intentions towards the people of South America which they can not but appreciate." 1 jzM? Kansas City. The petition declaros that the will was signed one hour before the doath of the testator. No one was present at the signing of the will excepting one friend of Do Loungo.

Counterfeiter! Sentenced. In tho United States District Conrt at Topoka recoutly L. IL Wilson, of was arraigned and pleaded guilty to the charge of manufacturing mnterfeit silver dollars. He was sentenced to two years in the State penitentiary. His wife, Flora Wilson, at the same time pleaded guilty to having been engaged in passing the spurious coin, but said her husband forced her to do so.

She was seutouccd to a term of six mouths in Leavenworth County jail. The couple were engaged iu counterfeiting for a long time before they were found out and were captured by Secrot-Service men with a large amount of money in their possession last winter, and have boeu iu jail ever since. Eloped wltli Married Man. A very sensational elopement was brought to light at Lawrence a few days ago. It appears that Miss Annie Grimes, daughter of James Grimes, a promiucnt farmer near town, eloped with James Wilson, a hired man on an adjoining farm.

WiUou is a married man and his attentions to Miss Grimos have been tho subject of some comiuout amoug the neighbors and worn recently forbidden by tho father of the girl. The father visited Lawrence a few days ago, leaving the girl in a neighbor's care, but she slipped away aud joined her lovor, who took nor in a buggy, driving toward Kansas City. Tho officers have been unable to obtain auy clew as to the where abouts of the runaways. Miss Grimes is a very haudsoino girl and stood high iu the social circlos of Lawrence. Kansas Honored nt 1'nrls.

Governor Humphrey has received the following from the Kansas commissioner at the Paris Exposition: The volume of the Kansas Agricultural re port was awarded a gold inedal. Kansas Is the only State of the Union which received (with tho National Uepiirunnnt of AvrlcvMnre) a premium for her agricultural report. A silver medal was awarded to publication of the Department of Kansas uud "mention tbc Conway Springs Company und Dousluss Sugar Company for thoir sorghum sugar, reuued, ami thoir sorghum sirup. An Erudite It has been discovered that Prof. W.

E. Ninder, principal of the Fourth Ward School of Abilene, basso in the church choir aud a prominent church worker, is a forger. Several notes with County Superintendent Ford's name forged as in dorser camo to light recently. Binder was captured in the school-room and confossed all. He has been carrying tho work for months.

Crazed by Ills Crime. Frank Deloug, who shot and killed Lomidisky near ilulo sovoral weeks ago, while both wero drunk, attompted to kill himsolf and other prisoners in the jail at Hiawatha a few nights since. Delong is ouly eightoen years old, and his crime has coat 'him his reasou. So violent is his iusanity that he can not live. Mancled by a Mower.

Frank M. Baker, a well-to-do farmer near Leavenworth, was mowing with a spirited team, when tho auimalB took fright aud ran away, throwing Mr. Baker before the sickle. Ho was horribly man gled. He lay for a couple of hours aud almost bled to death before beiug discovered.

He died the next day. Murder Over a Claim. At Bernard, twenty-two miles north west ot Abilene, Sam Gilpin and Willis Woody, farmers, just returned from Oklahoma, engaged in a quarrel over a claim. They were near town and in sight of bystanders, when Woody drew a revolver and shot four 44-caliber balls into Gilpin, fatally wounding him. He died shortly afterward.

Woody escaped, but officers were in pursuit. Both men are well known and have families. A Brutal Outrage. The home of B. Wilton, twelve miles.

southwest of Westou, was entered at night recently and the eldest daughter kiduappod. She is fourteen years old and says her assailants carried her out through the wiudow, down a ladder and through a cornfield, threatening her life if she made an outcry. She was stripped and tied to a tree, but before the scoun drels could perpetrate further indignities they were frightened away. The girl found her way home in a pitiful plight Short work will be made of the men ii captured. Killed by a Mad Dull.

John Coulter, a farmer near Derby, a town not far from Wichita, was killed by a mad bull a few days since. The bull attacked him in a field and gored him. Ono horn pierced Coulter's throat below the chin, the end protruding from his mouth. He was draggod some distance iu this manner before the horn became loosenod. Attempt to Wreck a Train.

A Bock Island passenger train nar rowly escaped being wrecked, a few days ago, several miles west of McFarland. A tie bad been wedged in the timbers of culvert and tho engineer failed to sec the obstruction until close upon it Beyond the shock, however, no barm wan done, as the timber was thrown out ol place by the cow-catcher. The Colorado express had passed over the same spot few minutes before, and the track wat clear..