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ORAC ad: VOL. 3, NO. 15. HORACE, GREELEY COUNTY, KANSAS, MAY 26,1892. VOL.

NO. 3. STATE AFFAIRS STATE NEWS. THE CAROLINAS. FIGUKING.

LATEST NEWS. ease was reached in the supreme court the time for which she was elected had expired, and she never received a dollar salary. Miss Wright was elected by the on the ground that it called for an approprl. ation between. $8,000,000 and $9,000,000.

He regarded this as an easy obstacle to overcome. He thinks that it could be so arranged that the Cherokee council would accept certificates of indebtedness from the government and allow these to be redeemed by the money received for the lands when thrown open to settlement. This is a quiet scheme under consideration in the senate committee on Indian affairs and, as expressed by one of the senators is being examined and scrutinized thoroughly. Harris is interested to the extent of finding out the wishes of the Cherokee people, as expressed by the council, and eome of the Cherokees here say it will be accepted. This would remove the objections based on appropriations and avoid embarrassing the Holman species of the house.

The graduating class of the Emporia hiah school numbers 23, which is the largest class in tho history of theschooL The first sorioa of county institntes Trill begin Juno except in Shawnee county, which Las boon postponed until Jane lb. Osawatomio is building eleven resi clonoes, an addition to the railroad car whops, an electric light plant and a new I) nek depot. Norton county's court docket has 1G1 canes, of which lifty-soven are confirmations, eighty-eight foreclosures and soven divorces. From Wellington Marblo, clay and alt will bo presented by this county in tho department of mines and mining tlie orld fair. From rhillipsburg: Out of a total of given by the farmers of l'hil lips county in notes for grain seed, JUl.O HUB UWII JI1MU.

Shawnee is tho banner connty in con tributing to tho etato Sunday school fund. It gave toward a tota of $2,197. For the coming year tho executive committee wants 3,500. Kanens university has just receivocl as a prenent from tho publishing house of A. liroekbans, Leipzig, Germany, over 500 volumes relating to history philosophy and modorn literature.

"With this addition, tho library of the K. U. haa nearly 17,000 volumes. At Eudora tho now bridgo wont out, carrying two men to their death. Their names aro not known, llie bridge bad just beon completed and will be a eovere loss, not only to the tax-payers but to the merchants of Ludora, who had expected to catch a largo trade from peo ple north or tho river.

McPherson Republican: The little 3-yoar-old daughter of David Bloomberg, living teu miles north of McTher-son, wandered away from tho house and fell in a well in tho pasture and was drownod before aid could reach her, The curbing around tho well had boon recently washed away by the high water. Lawrence Tho water was ton foot above tho dam, which is tho highest it has been for fourteen years. The Vin-iuest ice houses, on the north eido of tno river, aro standing in six feet of water. I ho water main which supplies North Lawrence is broken and tho wator supply is cut off. Tho water works aro surrounded.

Eureka was visited by a severe hail find rain etorm nt tho earno time tho torm struck Climax. A perfect deluge wator foil during the afternoon, and showers of hail- stones, varying in size from that of peas to as large as hen's eggs, fell every fifteen to twenty minutes. Tho small fruit crop is thought to bo ruinod. Kansas university will confer degreoa uion eighty-three students this com mencement, this being tho largest num ber in tho history of the university. Tho eeniors aro distributed among tho various schools as follows: School of arts, 24; school of law, 33; school of pharmacy, 13; school of music, school of engineering, 4.

The junior classos number at prosent 140, there be ing forty-seven, juniors in tho school of rts alono. Topeka Capital: As tho Rock Island station agent at tho sugar works, George L. Deli, was removing a lantern from a switch, his foot slipped from tho step on the switch and he fell heavily, receiving sorious bodily injuries. He had to be carried to town on a stretcher, but -as plucky enough before he left to rjvo some necessary train orders. Ho ras removod to Christ hospital for tho )rcFent.

Mr. Bell is a man of family ind lives at the sugar works. i Fort Scott. At tho Kansas stato oratorical contest in this city, E. F.

Schnoler, of Midland collego, Atchison, I won tho first honors, and J. A. Orr, of tho Kansas Normal college of this city, eecond honors. The subject of the former was "Our Nation's Lebt to Tos- terity," tho latter J'Tho Brothorhood of 1 Man." There were four contestants. The judges wore: A.

E. "Wagnor, of Kansas City," William Bishop, of Salina, and C. F. Scott, of Iola. Atchison.

Mrs. Joseph Millor died hero from the effects of gasoline poison-. ing. She was at home alone, and when her husband returned to dinner ho found her on a lounge in an unconscious condition. Sho was scalded about tho arms and limbs, and it is exposed she tipped over a boiler of water which was being heated on a gasoline stove and that the water extinguished the blazo of tho jets.

She afterwards laid down on the loungo, probably in a faint, and was overcome by the fumes of the gasoline. Mrs. Miller was a bride of less than a month. Leavenworth. A heavy electric storm accompanied the down-pour, and there was terror in these parts for a short time.

Great damage to railroads was done by the storm. All roads running into this city except one have abandoned operating trains for tho present. Washouts and landslides are reported from every cMroction, and it will take several woeks of good weather to got tho roads in condition again. Farmers are also suffering much damage to wheat and early crops. Teople living in tho Missouri bottoms opposite this place moved to high lands.

Burlington Letter: Miss Mary P. "Wright, who has boon for seventeen years a missionary in Asia, has returned to her home here. Miss Wright was the" first woman who was elected to the office of county superintendent in Kansas. When sho was elected her right to hold the office was questioned. The district court of Coffey county decided against her, and she left for Asia as missionary.

But hor friends took the case to the su- Jreme court and had the decision of the uwer court reversed. Bv the time the And Capital City News of State Interest. A Gift to the Kansas Odd Fellows. The charter of "The de Boissiere Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home and Industrial associa jn was hied with the secretary of ate. Judge O.

A. Huron is secretary of the board of trustees, and from him are learned the following facts about the new organization. By the munificent gift of E. V. de Boissiere, of Franklin county, the Odd ellows of Kansas have a more val uable endowment for an orphans' home and industrial school than those of any other state in the union.

Mr. Boissiere is a highly educated French gentleman of great wealth. He was a zealous resublican in France, and and when Napoleon III. was proclaimed emperor he was among the patriots who sought asylum in free America. He was attracted to New Orleans, where he sought to endow an orphan asylum for colored children.

Such an institution did not meet the approval of the people of New Orleans, and the opposition be came so burdensome that Mr. lioissiere abandoned the enterprise and sought tho free air of Kansas in which to prac tice his theories for the elevation of his fellow man. He selected a fine body of land in the southwest corner of Frank lin county, which' he bought and at once proceeded to found a colony for the purpose of engaging in raising and manufacturing silk. For this purpose he planted seventy acres in liussian mulberries, erected buildings, procured machinery and applied himself zealously to developing the silk industry. His silk products, both raw and manufactured, were of the finest quality, but on account of the high wages demanded by his employes, he found it impossible to make the infant industry profitable, and abandoned it.

Mr. Boissiere is a bachelor of 82 years. He has relatives and large and valuable possessions I4 ranee, and has recently determined to return to his native land. Having been so kindly treated in Kansas, he desired to show his appreciation by such a disposition of his property here as to make it a last ing benefit to mankind. With this in view he determined to endow a school, and began an investigation of the va rious plans presented, which has lasted through several months, and ended in le organization of an association that will be backed by the 20,000 Odd Fellows of Kansas, to carry out his plans.

The endowment is a magnificent one. It comprises 3,156 acres of beautiful rolling prairie, all fenced by fifteen miles of substantially built stone wall and twenty-five miles of wire fence. There are fifty eates, 500 acres under plow, 100 acres of tame grass, 70 acres of Russian mulberry trees, 20 acres in apple orchard, fine walnut groves, and three acres of grapes. The farm is stocked with all necessary farm implements, forty-six head of horses, 360 head of cattle and 225 head of hogs. The buildings consist of a substantially built stone house of sixty rooms, with walls two feet thick, planned for a cooperative family, and cannot be improved upon for an orphans' home.

Then there are a carpenter's shop, a blacksmith shop, a frame house of twenty rooms, a stone house just suited for a school, three large barns, granaries and corn cribs. The stone house is partially furnished and contains a piano and a choice library of 2,500 books. All of the above is included in the magnificent gift. The trustees have not yet had time to take an inventory of the stock, but the above is a general inventory. The property, at a conservative estimate, is worth $100,000.

The plan of the association, as out lined in the trust deed by Mr. Boissiere, is to furnish a home and industrial school for the orphans of deceased Odd Fellows of Kansas. The school is to provide domestic, agricultural, mechanical and scientific education, but always from a practical standpoint. The one crowning thought in the entire plan, as impressed upon the masters by Mr. Boissiere is that the education given here shall fit the children for the practical and exalted duties of American citizenship.

To this end he has directed that all teaching shall be to develop and apply practical thought in the pupils. The trustees of the association are Ju. B. Ward, grand master of the state; L. C.

Stine, grand treasurer; George W. Jones, past grand master; G. A. Huron, grand treasurer of the grand encamp ment, and Charles Bobbins, a member of the order in Ottawa. The trustees have organized by electing L.

C. Stine, president; M. 13. Ward, vice president; G. A.

Huron, secretary, and Charles Bobbins, treasurer. Immediate plans will be made and steps taken to get the achool started by September. The state board of railway assessors are likely to cut down the assessment on telegraph lines this year. At the Beform school the water broke through the levee and flooded the grounds about the cooking establish ment, filling that building with three or four feet of wator. The state superintendent of insurance furnishes the names of two companies that are working in this state contrary to law, and he thinks they ought to be aired and the people of the state warned against investing in them.

These companies are the Preferred Mutual Acci dent association of New York and the United States Mutual Accident compa-pany of New York. The state board of railroad assessors, although they have not yet arrived at any definite figures, have proceeded far enough so that they are able to announce that the railroad assessment this year will be considerably larger than it was last year. This increase, they say, will be occasioned by the greatly increased amount of rolling stock used in the state this year and last. i State Conventions Controlled by the Alliance. The Farmers Dave tbe Most Delegates and Mean to Force Their Ideas Upon the Chicago Convention or Holt the Nomination.

Raleigh, N. May 20. The democratio state convention assembled here and tho alli ance and the people's party men appear to be in control, and propose to adopt the St. Louis platform and elect delegates who will be instructed to attend the Chicago convention and present such platform for consider ation. The programme is that if this is done, and the platform refused consideration, the dele gates are then to attend the Omaha conven tion and take their seats therein as accredited from this state.

The convention is held in the face of the urgent appeal of the Cleveland men for a later date. The state committee also refuse to put any qualifications on the voters, and the third party and alliance men took part in the primaries. If the pro gramme, aa mapped out, is carried through it will be a repetition of tho history of 1800, when a large element of the democratic national convention refused to abide by the will of that body and organized tho Breckenridge bolt. AX80 IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Coixtmbia, S.

C. The democratic state convention was called to order in this city John C. Haskell. Of the 322 delegates. 225 are alliance men.

The proceedings of the convention promise to consist merely carrying out a programme agreed upon in a caucus of the alliance people. The platform adopted and reported to the convention includos the Ocala demands verbatim, and the preamble reaffirms faith in democratic principles. An amendment was offered pledging tho South Carolina delegation to abide by the Chicago convention. A long discussion fol lowed, and the meeting broke up without taking action upon the resolution or amend ment. England's Premier Br moans.

London, May 21. Lord Salisbury, in a speech, which he delivered at Hastings, counseled the workingmen to follow the example set them by nations and substitute arbitration for the violent methods which were sometimes adopted for settling labor disputes. He said that a grave matter in which the prosperity of the country was involved was the question of free trade. "England," he delared, "only maintains tho position which she occupies by the vast industries existing here, but a danger is growing up. Fifty years ago everybody believed that free trade had conquered tha world and prophesied that every nation would follow the example of England.

The results, however, are not what had been expected. Despite the prophesies of the free trade advocates, foreign nations are adopting protection. They are excluding us from their markets and are trying to kill our trade. And this state of things appears to grow.worso. We live in an age of war tariffs.

Another important point is that while nations are negotiating to obtain each her's commercial favor, none is anxious about tho favor of Great Britain, because Great Britain has stripped herself of the armor and weapons with which the battle is to be fought. The attitude which we have taken in regarding it as disloyal to the glorious and sacred doctrines of free 1 rade to levy duties on anybody for the sake of anything we get thereby, id not business like. Cheers. On these terms you will not get anything. If you intend to hold your own in this conflict of tariffs you must be prepared to refuse nations who injure you according to your markets.

We complain most of the United States, and it so happens that the United States maintains and furnishes us with articles which are essential to tho good of the people, and with raw material which is essential to our manufacturers. We cannot exclude either without injury to ourselves. I am not prepared, in order to punish other countries, to indict dangerous wounds on ourselves. We must confine ourselves to those matters wherein we will not suffer much whether importation continues or diminishes. While we cannot raise the price of food and raw material, there is an enormous mass of articles, such as wine, spirits, silks, gloves and laces from countries besides the United States which are merely luxuries, and of which a diminished consumption could be risked in order to secure access to the markets of our neighbors.

I shnll expect to be excommunicated for propounding such a doctrine, but I am bound to say that I think tho free-traders have gone too far." G. A. It. Tronbles In tho South. Albany, N.

May 21. General Palmer, commander-in-chief of the G. A. when shown a dispatch from New Orleans stating that the division of Mississippi and Louisiana G. A.

R. had surrendered their division charter on account of what they allege is an attempt on the part of General Palmer to force the division to admit colored veterans, said: "My knowledge of this question I obtained in the public press. The officers in the Louisiana department are fully aware of the action of the last national encampment. Eight white posts object to admitting nine colored posts in that division. It is not reasonable to suppose that the representatives of eight posts can override tho voice of nearly a million of men represented at tho national encampment, where, at the last meeting in Detroit, thev tried to have two separate departments in the division, one for white posts and one for colored, bo that each could hold separate meetings.

This proposition, however, was rejected. The colored posts recently notified me that they had tenderei their dues to the Louisiana department headquarters, which reiused them. 1 ordered tho department commander to recognize these riosts and re ceive dues. He refused. Nothing was then left for mo but to suspend him.

The command of the department then devolved upon Senior Vice Commander Durkeo, who I ordered should report to me by May 15, whether he carried out rny instructions to recognize these posts, having failed to so comply, an order will be issued suspending Durkee an designating tho junior vice commander to take charge of the affairs of tho department. If he declines to obey orders, then I shall be obliged to place some one else in command of the department." Hoard of Trade Freshet. Chicago, May 21. The flood excitement broke out in a new place the Chicago board of trade. Tho newspapers were crammed with reports of calamities in, all directions by water, and everybody on change was apparently apprehensive and nervous about tho crop outlook.

The difficalty in getting communications, 'owing to the washing away of telegraph poles, added to the abnormal feeling. Swartz fc Dupee got a Paris cable and attempted to buy wheat on it, but found there was hardly any to be had, and began to bid for it. This was all that was necessary to start a stampede, and after a few sales had been made at S06 there was a rapid boom to 83. But there was a large lot for sale at this point and a quick break to 81 followed. Corn shared the excitement tor the sim ple reason of dispatches telling of constant floods and rain throughout the entire district and scarcely any corn yet planted.

Frankenfelt of the signal service said more rain had fallen in the past few days in tho corn belt, aa a whole, than in any other part of the country. The Cherokee Chiefs Statements. Washington, D. May 20. Chief Harris, of the Cherokees, said that he had understood that some objections were raised to the treaty Condensed for Convenience of Hurried Readers.

Tater accounts show that the loss of life at Sioux City has been much greater than at first reported. It will probably be twenty or twenty-five. Madrid papers report an explosion of dynamite at Maldames, near Biltsao, by which eight persons were killed and ten injured and the factory destroyed. All the energies of the United States and state engineers and railroad officials are concentrated in closing the crevasse in Gypsy levee, above New Orleans. The French forces in Tonquin have captured a pirate stronghold, killing 125.

There were also killed in the engagement fifty-three French soldiers and five officers. OUR ST. LOCIS LETTER. A Landmark Being Removed Meeting of The Furniture Board of Trade Race Meeting of the Jockey Club Base Ball as Reorganized. ST.

Louis, May 16. An historical landmark of the city is being removed, ft wrecking company having commenced this week tearing down the old Plantar House, one of the oldest hotels in the west, and a house in which many men of note have stopped while in St. LouU. The work of demolition is going on rap Idly and there are crowds of relic hunters anxious to carry away some fragment of the house which has been immortalized by Charles Dickens and other writers of International fame. The wrecking company has been able to sell a large quantity of marble slabs and tiling, much of which is in perfect condition.

The hotel is being; torn down to make room for larger and more modern building, which is to be erected at a cost including: decorations and furnishings, upwards of twa million dollars. The new hotel will absolutely fire proof, and one of the finest In the United States. Its name has not yet been definitely decided upon, th "New Planters" being suggested by lomi while others favor the name "Columbia Hotel," on the ground that it ia being erected partially to accommodate the tent of thousands of visitors to the World's'Faii who will spend at least a few days in St. Louis during: the year 1S9 3. The St.

Louis Furniture Board of Tradti at a large and enthusiastic meeting Instructed Its delegates to the National Convention, which meets at Cincinnati In June this year, to secure the Nationa Furniture Convention for St. Louis In 1893. It was proposed that every member of the Kxchange attend the Cincinnati Convention, and that the delegation work for St. Louis as the convention meeting place in 1S93. A committee was appointed to prepare a circular setting forth the merits of St.

Louis in an attractive manner which is to be placed in the hands of every delegate and alternate to the convention. New York, Boston, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Chicago, all principal furniture points, have had the convention, and St. Louis now proposes, with its excellent organization, to bring it to the City of Convention. H. N.

Davia, who has made a specialty of freight matters, submitted a report showing the excellent work that had been accomplished in connection with the Traffic Commission. Then on motion of Mr. J. A. ollowln was adopted Resolved, That the St.

Louis Furniture Board of Trade heartily Indorse the good work accomplished by the St. Louis Traffic Commission, during the first year of its. existence toward gaining for St. Louis many advantages in rates and classifications, and recommend those of our members who are not members to make application thereto, enjoy the benefits they largely disseminate. The forty-eight days race meeting of the St.

Louis Jockey Club is now at its full height and is proving the most successful race meeting ever held in St. Louis-All difficulty as to the paucity of entries is at an end, and so numerous have tha entries become that the Jockey Club has been compelled to charge an entrance fee for all starters in order to reduce the number going to the post. Prior to this change in the rules, thirty or forty horses were frequently started in one race and although the St. Louis track is one of the largest and best in the country it was found dangerous as well as unsatisfactory to hare It so overcrowded. There are over a thousand valuable horses in the stables at the Fair Grounds and the success of the meeting seems to Improve as time proceeds.

Base ball as reorganized is proving very popular here this year, and St. Louis so far holds the record of 1S92 for the largest attendance at any game, tbe record having bee a made at a Sunday game between St. Louis and Cincinnati, the latter team captained by Charles Comiskey, under whoso management the "St. Louis Browns" won the championship four, years in succession. It is a singular feature In connection with local ball playing tbis-year that the St.

Louis club is made up of strangers in the city, only one member of the team having played here last year, while all the old local favorites play in New York, Cincinnati, or Boston uniforms. This is a reversal of the old order of things, but judging from tha enthusiasm evinced the general shaking up of the teams was a good move sa far as the finances of tha base ball mag. nates are concerned. GENERAL MAKKEIi Kansas Citt, May 23. CATTLE Shipping 8 50 Cows and 150 Stackers a 3 25 HOGS Fair to to choice 4 it) fa S41EEP Muttons 4 50 ti WHEAT No.

2hard No. 3 hard 69 No. 4 hard tvi No. 2 red tu No. 3 red 75 3 No.

4 red (6 (4 Rejected tii CORN Mixed White 49lj3 OATS No. 2 mixed i No. 2 83H No. 8 FLAX SEED Pure BKA.S 1U0 lb acks ST. IjOUIS.

HOGS Fair to prime 4 55 5 Mixed 4 10 Yorkers 4 55 WHEAT Cash CORN No. i 4 or 3 40 3 65 4 65 5 00 75 et 47 fi3 35 67 93 63 70 60 republicans, and her precedent has made it possible for a score of women to hold the office of county superintendent in Kansas. STOCK AMD FARM. Garden City Imprint: Farmers re port early planted corn up and a good stand. All signs point to a good corn crop this season.

Plainville Times: Spring crops have been considerably delayed by the con tinued cold, wot weather, but the vast acres of wheat in Books county are im proving every day. Garfield Call The reports of the con dition of wheat aro universally favorable, but that sown on well cultivated lands is far ahead of that sowiv without much preparation of the land. Atwood. Last year there wore about 1,000 farmers in Kawlins county. They raised, conservatively estimated, 1,000, 000 bushels of corn and 500,000 bushels of wheat.

This year we have probably 1,200 to 1,500 farmers, and the crop acreage is at least four times that of laet year. Pawneo Bock Leader: Barton county has 150,000 acres of wheat which could not possibly be in a finer condition than it is at the present time. Placing the yield at the lowest estimate, Barton county will have 1,500,000 bushels of wheat this year, and is liable to have 3.750,000 bushels. Cedar Vale Star: John Oliver lost seven head of cattle by lightning. All were found with their heads through a wire fence and lying 6ido by side three steers, two good cows and two heifers.

John thinks this is an off year; he plowed up thirty acres of wheat this spring and is having trouble to get a stand of corn. Norton Headlight: Although tho small gram and fruits aro doing nicely, the farmers of this vicinity are very much disappointed because of the late ness of the season in regard to corn planting. The old Bystem of plowing and using the planter will be entirely discontinued this year and the lister will reign supreme. Ness City News: F. Buckman con tinues to lead the farmers of Ohio town 6hip with the largest acreage of wheat, having out 496 acres, and all is looking well.

Besides this larcre acreage of small grain, ho and his eon will put out about 200 acres of barley, corn, kaflir corn, millet and cane this spring, and will broak 150 acres for planting. Santa Fe Monitor: Conlev Lewis has in over fifty acres of corn, fifteen acres of cano and twelve acres of millet up to this time and will increase the amount about 100 per cent. He also has in 150 acres of wheat and ten acres of oats that are looking as well as anyone could desire. With, the exception of hiring six days' plowing with another team, Conley has put in this immense crop with one team by himself, and raised a colt from one of them last year which he sold the other day for $75. KANSAS It AIL ROADS.

It' W. Towne, general superintendent of car Borvice and claim agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis road, is dead. He died in Kansas City, from rheumatism. Chanute Times: The Santa Fe has increased the wages of all section men to $1.25. This is an act of justice, and leing granted without any demand upon the company makes the boys feel very grateful to the Santa Fe.

They are the 2oorest paid of any men on tho road. At Emporia a rumor is current that II. C. Cross will resign his presidency of tho M. K.

T. The reason assigned for this step" is that Mr. Cross' private business doiriLnds his attention and that ho is weary of the absence from his home and family which his present du ties necessitate. Leavenworth. In tho district court in the case of Cnrmichsel, adnr'nistrators, against tho Missouri Pacific railroad for damages, Judge Crozier rendered a decision that created much surprise and not a little adverse criticism.

The attorneys for the railroad raised the point that the legal representatives of a per son killed through the carelessness of employes had no cause for action against the company. To tho surprise of all, Judge Crozier sustained the point and threw the case out of court. In doing so he virtually decided that any person injured by a railroad, whether an em ploye or riding on full fare, by drunken or incompetent employes of the company, had no cause for action or redress in any way. KANSAS CHURCHES. At Seneca the Universalist church has just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary.

Ottawa. One of tho seniors at Otta wa university, J. T. Crawford, preached at tho first Baptist church Sunday. The church was rilled to overflowing both morning and evening.

From Lindsborg: During the two weeks immediately following commencement at Bethany college, May 26, there will be a large convention of the Swed ish Lutheran church of America held at Lindsborg. Over 400 ministers and aymen will be, in attendance. Lawrence. Tho annual convention of the Christian church, held in this city, attracted a large number of people to Lawrence, there being over 400 dele gates, besides a large number of visitors in attendance, and the convention was without doubt the largest of its kind ever held in the west. The exercises Sunday evening were largely attended.

every seat in the house and gallery and all available standing room being occupied. Estimates of Loss by the Great Floods. Louis Goes Into Detail Somewhat, But All Calculations Are Subject to Conjecture; But Could Scarcely be Overdrawn. St. Louis, May 23.

Estimates are made of the amount of damage by the floods in this city and county, as follows St. Louis county, St. Louis city, St. Charles county, American bottom (from Alton to Cairo) including East St. Louis and vicinity.

These figures, astounding as they may seem, are considered by competent judges to be extremely conservative. On looking at this loss it must be remembered that in all tho flooded territory referred to, practically 1,500 square milos, the waters hava rendered it, in a majority of cases, impossible for farming people to raise a crop this year. All this comes in addition to the damage actually done to existing property. As to the number of persons driven eithor from their homes or to their roofs, in the flooded territory, estimate is impossible, the figures ranging from 4,000 to 8,000 persons. Beyond this, in St.

Louis, at least 1,500 persona have been temporarily thrown out of work by the stopping of factories by the high water. Favorable in Spite of Weather. New York, May 23. R. G.

Dun Weekly Review of Trade says The great floods at the west, unprecedented at some points, and prolonged rain extending over tho whole of the Mississippi valley, seriously interrupted trade. Yet there is nothing to warrant apprehension that the crops will bo deficient or that trade will fall below the expectations for the year. In all quarters a confident spirit prevails, and even at the south business seems to be relatively less embarrassed than of late. Money is everywhere in large supply and light demand. Breadstuffs have advanced, the storms giving the speculators their chances for a rise.

Wheat receipts have been checked, but exports continuo heavy and tho price advanced 1 cents for May. Corn receipts are reduced, but the price has advanced 4 a cent, while oats have risen 1 cents without visible effect. Pork is half a dollar higher, but lard and hogs are a shade lower. Coffee advanced a cent. Injury to cotton in the southern valleys has less to do with tho advance of 1-10 in price than tho covering of speculative sales with dealings of 465,000 bales tbe fluctuations have been small.

Tho groat industries are fully as active as usual at this season of the year. Cotton, perhaps, fares best. New wool begins to come forward and is promptly taken, with slight advances. The iron business is distinctly more active, with, larger transactions in all grades, though prices do not improve at all. Tho demand for boots and shoes has increased since tho tanners resolved to lessen their output and leather is stronger, while hides are dull.

The business failures for the past week were 192, compared with 175 tho previous week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 254. Missouri Pacific Extensions. Denver, May 23. A contract has been made between Messrs.

Gould and Huntington, which gives them almost a monopoly of the railway business to and from the coast. The plan agreed to is to buy up all the Atlantic fe Pacific stock, after which Gould will extend the Missouri Pacific from Pueblo to Albuquerque, where it will connect with tho first named road. In this way they will have entire control of the coast trade to Omaha, St. Louis and the Gulf via the Union Pacific road in the north, and from the Southern Pacific connection via the Atlantic Pacific and the Missouri Pacific southern route to St. Louis and New Orleans.

There is an old grade running south from Pueblo on which surveyors have been at work for several months, going in the direction of Albuquerque. This is said to belong to the Missouri Pacific, and the plans given out in regard to Gould proposed Toad gain a great deal of credence on this account. Terrible Experience Among Savages. Guthrie, O. May 23.

While Charles McGill was hunting in the Cherokee strip ho was surrounded by ten Osage Indians, who bound his hands and compelled him to hurry along on foot many miles to their village. There he was kept bound for throe days and nights. He slept out of doors in the rain, was given nothing to eat and suffered all kinds of indignities. Twice ho was tied to a stake and painted braves held war dances around him, the second time cutting off his hair and a piece of his scalp. Finally he was released, but warned on penalty of death not to make known his treatment.

He arrived here nearer dead than alive and told his story. Warrants have been issued for the leading members of the tribe, and the government will take steps to punish the offenders. The Usages are the richest and most powerful tribe in the southwest and for some months have been acting very ugly. Snow and a Blizzard. Spencer, Ia.

A snow storm almost equal to the January blizzard, with a strong northwest wind, and it is extremely cold. The storm on top of the flood just experienced here, 6eems to banish all hope of crops this year. Fort Dodge, Ia. A cold wave struck this city during the night, and the weather changed sufficiently for snow. Enough has fallen to cover tho housetops and sidewalkb.

Sioux, Citt, Ia. Bad weather has greatly complicated the task of bringing Sioux City back to something like its normal condition. About 7 a. m. rain began falling.

At 10 o'clock there was a perfect blizzard of snow, with a high wind. It has been snowing or sleeting ever since. Hanover, N. D. Five inches of snow has fallen here and the storm is still raging, with no sign of abatement.

Mc Kinley, Depew and the Singers. Minneapolis, May 23. It has been formerly decided that Governor McKinley will deliver the formal opening address at the dedication of tho big convention hall on the night before the opening of the republican national convention. Chauncey M. Depew, or eome other shining light, will also deliver an address.

Tho rest of the programme will lie musical. There will be a great chorus of 1,500 voices in patriotic songs and some soloists of note At the "White House. Washington, D. May 23. At a cabinet meeting it was announced that the Spanish government had raised the embargo against American pork.

Our pork ia now admitted to all the ports of the world. The president has issued a proclamation, announcing a reciprocity treaty with Gaute-in al a. Lay Delegation Makes Progress. Omaha, May 23. In the Methodist conference the committee on lay delegation presented a report which recommends equal lay representation inthe conference of 1S9G.

It Is One Story of Destruction. Sioux City, May 21. The scene which is disclosed by the recession of the flood is one which beggars description. Throughout the flooded district it in one story of destruction and damage. The flood, at its height, extended from Court street to Floyd Bluffs, and from the suburb of Lynn to the Mississippi river.

This comprises a district five miles long and a mile and a half wide. For the distance of a mile and a half above the mouth of the Fioyd, the bottom is densely populated. A large portion of the inhabitants are Eoor people who are employes of packing ouses, railroads, etc. At the height of the flood the current struck straight through the residence streets. Along these nearest the river scores of dwellings were swept from their foundations and carried long distances and either smashed or turned bottom side up.

It is no uncommon sight to see a dwelling turned over on its side or roof. Many two story buildings were swept away. The buildings which are twisted or carried a short distance are innumerable. The water was far above the second stories, with a swift current and the wind blowing a hurricane. Everywhere fences, outhouses, sidewalks, wooden pavements, railroad ties and timbers and lumber yard debris is scattered about among the contorted and overturned dwellings.

The June Rise Coming. Kansas Citv, May 21. The river is still rising. Tho situation is becoming critical, and should the June rise occur during this time an immense amount of damage will result. Reports from up the river as far as its source report a continued rise.

At Leavenworth the railroad bridge in now in danger. At North Argentine the situation is becoming worse. Tho electric light plant has been obliged to cease operations, and the town is in darkness. The water flooded the homes of many people, and they were obliged to move out. A portion of the stock yards at Armour-dale is flooded, and people are moving from their homes there.

At the Month of the Kaw. Kansas City. Not a house in Harlem is habitable and many of them have collapsed and floated off. In Armourdale the situation is nearly as bad, with much greater damages, as there is more at risk. This place, a ward of Kansas City, is from two to seven feet under water.

Here are all the great packing houses. The reported loss of sixty or more lives at Sioux City has caused a general abandonment of houses in Armourdale. At Argentine, itself a city of the second class, about the same condition of affairs exists. Here are the great silver smelters, which aro only partly protected by embankments hastily built around them. Another Foot Will Cover Half the City.

Des Moines, May 21. The situation here is very serious on account of the flood. Hundreds of people are moving out of the lower districts. The Des Moines and Raccoon rivers have both been rising rapidly. They are several inches higher than they have been at anv time during the nresent season.

The reports have reached here from points above that eight feet of rise has been noted there. With this flood above the Des Moines river at this point it is liable to rise another foot. If it does that, or even less, one-nau the city, including some of the business portions on either side, will be surrounded with water. Lieut. Governor Felt Buys the Champion.

Atchison, May 21. The Atchison Champion has been sold to Lieutenant Governor Andrew J. FeU, who takes charge on or before June 20. The price is not stated, but is understood to be $20,000. The Champion is the oldest daily newspaper in Kansas.

Ex-Governor John A. Martin was for many years its editor and publisher. Mr. Felt is an experienced newspaper man, and tho salo is very satisfactory to tho republicans of Atchison and vicinity. The Stone 'Workers Strike.

New Yohx, May 20. The great strike in the stone industry continues to spread. There are 75,000 men idle throughout New England in consequence of the general lockout ordered by the Granite Manufacturers' association Saturday, which lockout was ordered on ac count of previous strikes at some of the man ufacturing points. It is estimated 25.00U men stopped worn by the request of striking and locked out workers. Flooded.

Houses Plundered. St. Louie, May 21. Reports from various portions of the flooded districts state that tho people who left their homes when the floods came, found on returning to them that the buildings had beeu systematically looted by the river pirates who had removed pictures, carpets and everything moveable. lho thieves have secured over a hundred thousand dollars worth of plunder within the last week.

Blue River Away TJp. Beatrice, May 20. A heavy rain de luged the city and drove fully forty families from their homes. The Blue river is higher than since 1883, and much damage resulted to manufacturing concerns. Tho relief parties are rescuing under the direction of the mayor and fire department.

Fully worth of property has been swept away or destroyed. Stealing Stock In the Floods. Atton, May 20. The evils of the floods have been increased by robbery and by speculators. Speculators are buying stock for practically nothing, but taking advantage of circumstance.

Depredations by thieves, who sell the stock to the speculators, has become so bad that a party armed with shotguns have started for the inundated districts. Fort McKinney on Fire. -Cheyenne, May 20. Fort McKinney caught fire and the canteen building and three cavalry barracks were destroyed. Sev eral men were injured by the blowing up ol the building in which tho powder was stored.

California Democrats. Fresno, May 2L The democratio state convention adjourned after electing four delegates-at-large to the national con vention, all of whom are Cleveland men. ine convention closed with cheers for Cleveland. Rivers Swollen. Boone, Iowa, May 21.

The rivers are all swollen here as they have not been since the year of 1876. Many bridges were washed away. Water covers all the lower tracts of land. Cornwall Has an Earthquake. London, May 20.

Severe earthquake shocks were felt in the county of Cornwall. Houses rocked, crockery was broken, and chimneys overturned..