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To announcement ii made that the A STRICKEN CITY. FATAL DELUGE. USNKBAU Two or three American fishing schooners bave appeared iu the basin atDighy, N. WAny person who tukes tho paper rp. alurly from the poMl-ollUie, whether diieouxl to IiIh tiHine or whether lo Is a sulmerlbor or Dot, In responsible for the par.

Tho court huve deohtod that refusing to tflke newspapers from the pont-onlec, or removing and leaving thorn uuoallod for, la vtima, faole eviuonce ot iNtuvnoriAL vuadm state news. Decoration Day. The Governor has lustied tbe following proclamation, designating Monday, May 31, as Decoration Duy Tho Legislature, at Its' recent session, declared Memorial Diiv-llin With of May a legal holulity, mid tho regulation of th largest org-nn y.ution of surviving- soldiers of (ho lute war provide that "when Memorial Duy occurs on Sunday tho succeeding day rhull lio observed." Tho memory of the hereto mnn who, a quarter of a cmitmy ago, rjillloJ around Uie ling ot thulr country with fcuvh unparalleled rnlhualiiBiii, ttnd raerltteod their lives to Mtvo the life of the Kepubllo, should be kept groon and fragrant forever. Their splendid achleement wrapped the land of tholr love in a robe of Itnper.hliuhle glory, and gnvo to Hio young ni ii hood of the country an oxauiplu of courage, patriotism, respect for law, and devotion to duty, which will he an Incentive and an iiixplratloii for ages to come. Therefore John A.

Martin, Governor of Kansas, do hereby- recommend that Mondur, tho Hint of May, im, lie dedicated, by the people of this State, to tho memory of tho deiut soldiers el tho Union, and that appropriate coiemonle bo hold, on that day, in every city, townt and neigh horhood throughout the State, in testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto subscribed tnynamoand caused to be timxed the great seal of the State. Done lit tho city of Topeka, this eighth day of May, In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. of the independence of tho United States the one hundred and tenth, and of the twenty-sixth rear of the state. Ily the Governor, John A. Martin.

E. 11. Ali.kn, Secretary of Slat. United States Express Company, which has operated since 1854 on the New York, Erie Western aud New York, Pennsylvania Ohio railroads, will at the expiration of its yearly contract, be superseded by the Paclllo Express Company, which is eon trolled by Jay Gould. Saraii Antonio, of Philadelphia, has sued the Jefferson Medical College for desecrating the grave of her husband.

Tna failure of George F. Dickinson, a bear operator on the New York Stock Exchange, was announced on tbe llth. TUB WJWT. A TonSADO which ravaged the country near Woodstock, 111., on the Oth, killed three persons and Injured a number quite seriously. Haret McFadden and Miss Axle Taylor, both of Bavannah, 111., while taking a pleasure ride from Savannah to Sellevue, near Dubuque, got the buggy entangled in tbe bush close to the river bank and were tipped over, horse, buggy and both occupants being thrown Into tbe river.

All were drowned. John Wymeb, a farmer, recklessly drove his team In front ot a locomotive on the Fort Wayne road, at Iuwood, recently. Wymer, his wife and two children were killed, their bodies being shockingly mangled. LianTNiNO struck a boarding house at Burlington, Iowa, tbe other day aud killed Gustave Wolf, a young man. Tho dwelling struck was burned.

A tornado passed over Wayne County, on tbe 9th. One woman and two men were killed. Eight persons were drowned in the Neo sho river, five miles west of McCune, recently. Ten persons were in the ferryboat, when the rope broke, only two of them succeeding in reaching land after the boat capsized. The trial of Maxwell, alias Brooks, for the murder of Preller in the Southern Hotel, was commenced in St.

Louis on the 10th. The Quincy, Missouri Pacific railroad was sold recently at St. Louis by Commissioner E. T. Allen to Edwin Parsons for the purchasing committee of the bondholders for $1,000,000.

The railroad had oeen a leased line of the Wabash since August, 1879, until a Bhort time since. The Sioux on Poplar rivor, M. were recently threatening hostilities. Kansas Citt was ravaged by a terrible hurricane on the llth, attended with serious loss of life. Tbe Latbrop school was blown down and ten or twelve children killed and many injured.

The overall factory was destroyed and several employes were killed. The spice mills at Socond and Main fell during the storm, killing one of the proprietors. The court house on Second street was seriously damaged, the top stories being blown into the street. The north span of the bridge over the river was wrecked. Merchants suffered serious losses, goods being damaged by water after tho the windows had been blown in.

The storm was far more serious than the tornado of 18S3, both in the loss of life and damage to property. THE SOUTH. Tns thermometer at Abilene, suddenly rose to 101 degrees on the 7th. This was the highest heat at that time of the year known to the oldest inhabitants, and rarely reached at any season. Mrs.

Danokrfiei.d, of San Antonio, in a suit to try title, baa recovered from the Woodhill brothers, ranchmen, of Pecos County, one-third of a league of Very valuable land, worth many thousand dollars. Fourteen of the Democratic members of the Ohio State Senate arrived in Chattanooga, recently. They left Columbus secretly and met at Covington, where they took tbe car for Chattanooga. They left the State of Ohio in order to get beyond tbe jurisdiction, of a process that might be issued to the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. The miners of Kanawha Valley, W.

have decided to return to work at the old rates of two cents per bushel. A wreck occurred recently on the Texas Pacific, near Dallas, caused by negligent, workmen removing a rail. Several passen gers were badly bruised. LABOR TROUBLES. Tns blockade on tho Western Indiana track at Chicago, caused by the strike, was raised ou the 7th.

Labor matters were reported quieting down everywhere. Three hundred builders and laborers in the employ of Mertz Sons, Rochester, N. struck on the 7th for nine hours' work except Saturdays, when they want eight. Unemployed workingmen held a mass meeting in Manchester, the other day. Eight arrests for disorderly conduct were made.

Three hundred employes of the Pitts burgh glass factories have 6truck for an increase in wages. Sixtt hands in Knapp, Stout ex tensive saw mill, St. Louis, struck recently for ten hours' work instead of eleven, as at present. A meeting of freight handlers was held in Chicago on the 9tb and a committee was appointed to take steps to end the strike. The other night an attempt was made to wreck a passenger train on the B.

Q. railway at Chicago by throwing tho switch and removing the light. The engineer discovered the attempt to throw the engine off the track in time to avert a terrible dis aster. All the Chicago railways resumed oper. ations on the 10th.

Tbe Baltimore Ohio was paying for nine hours for eight hours' work. Chicago Northwestern strikers offered to return at the old basis, but the company refused. The strike of the Galveston (Tex.) car penters for nine hours was successful. Tub Grand Trunk railroad at Chicago threatened on the 10th to hold Cook County responsible for any damage done to its property by strikers. Eight of the Polish and Bohemian rioters who wrecked Rosenfeld's drug store in Chi cago died afterward from poisoning.

Tboy drank wine of colchicum, which they mis took for whisky, during tbe pillage. Four others were not expected to recover. The Kosciusko guards, the Polish troops which participated with the other militia in firing on the Bay View (Wis.) mob, was relioved from duty on the 10th. An interesting phase of the eight-hour ngbt at ew York recently was the docl: ion of tbe furniture workers to test the question whether the conspiracy law will work both ways. They will demand the Indictment and arrest of every furniture manufacturer who locks out his men.

Six hundred garment cutters and trim mers employed in various wholesale houses in Philadelphia struck recently iur a reaucuon or court irora ten to eight. The suike throws Vt 6crrl tiwuwxi terrllile of 1.1 and Destruction ol I'ropnrty at Xenia, by a Uursting Itnln Cloud. Cincinnati, May 14. Tho storm of Wednesday night, which did such fearful work at Xenia, was far reaching. It Is heard of la Illinois, through Indiana and Ohio and at Winchester, Va.

Here there have been uuusual electrical disturbance for the past three nlghta. Ou Monday night there was almost uninterrupted lightning from eleven p. to six a. in. Tuesday a slmllnr condition existed, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, the latter of very narrow range.

Wednesday night there was another electrical storm with wind, heavy rain and lialL The Xenia storm, however, was much more furious. The counties of Montgomery, Clarke, Cutler, Warren and Greene lie adjacent In Ohio nnd form an elevated plateau, with but shallow valleys and low hills. In these counties ara the towns ot Dayton Springfield, Hamilton, Lebanon and Xenia. In the eastorn county of Indiana, adjoining this district, Is Conncrsville. At all these places the rain of last night was of the heaviest volume ever known, measuring four nnd a half inches iu about three hours.

Xenia was situated so as to meet tho woist results. Shawnee river traverses the portion of the city adjacent to the Little Miami railroad, which lies lower than the main portion of the city. The railroad embankment rises above the gen eral level and the stream flows through It In a large culverr. llio rainfall was en tirely too much for the capacity 'ot that culvert. Ihe wator rose nnd at last swept away the embankment and with accumulated forco rushed upon the small cottages located upon the low banks and without warning bore them from from their founda tions.

The waves were fifteen or twenty feet 1 1 lull And swept twenty or thirty houses away nnd did 8100,000 worth ot damage. The gas works wero flooded and the town was in darkness and terror. The cries of the people in the flooded district wero awful to hear. Many acts of heroism In saving the drowning are reported. Bonfires wero lighted nnd the people worked all uluht.

Twenty-eight bodies havo been recovered and there are still a number missing. Whole families perished in the flooded districts. There was great damage to prop erty all nround in the country, nnd the ex tent now can not even be approximated, The following is a partial list of the ded: Mrs. Nellie Anderson and sister; Mrs. Carey, a widow; Mrs.

Samuel Cochran and two sons; Matt Evans, wife and child; Orrln Morris, wife and five children; Stephen Dal ton; William Rowoll, wife and six or seven children; Lewis Anderson and wife; Mrs. Ed Lindsay. THE STOK5I. About seven o'clock in the evening terrible clouds were seen gathering and terrific lightning was followed by peals of thunder. This lasted until nine cloeir, when an ex traordinary clap ot thunder seemed to open the flood gates and the rain fell in torrents.

The people living In houses on Waterstrcct escaped by every way possible. The spout seemed to vent its fury on that portion of the city. For a stretch of 150 yards the Little Miami railroad was swept away. The spout struck the houses on Water street and tore them to pieces as if they were shells. A resident of the street states that within two minutes after the clap of thunder he stood in water to his waist, he being about twenty-five yards from the creelr.

When tho water reached the residence of Aaron B'erguson It was swept away with nine in mates and lodged against a bridge where they were afterward rescued. The next damage was at the coal yard of Samuel Stark on which was located a tenement house occupied by a family named Fowel), nine In number. Up to nine m. none of them had been heard from. The next point of destruction was in what Is known as the bottoms, A dozen houses occupied mostly by colored people wero here away.

Dozens of horses were lost and rail roads leading out ot the city wore swept away so that it is impossible hear from outside points. At least a dozen trains are here and within a few miles of the city. Telegraph wires are down and business has been suspended. One family by the name of Morris were swept away. The last seen of them was at the Miami street bridge, when a man was seen at the window by the terror-stricken crowd waving a lighted lamp.

The next Instant the house collapsed and they wero gone. Only one, a boy thirteen years of ago, has been found. The work of finding tho bodies still continues. The mayor's office has been turned intoj a morgue and there are now twenty-two bodies there. The scenrs are heartrending.

Whole families lie disfigured on cots. The loss of property Is great, whole lumber yards and all the bridges being completely gone. BAD DltOWNINO. Orrln Morris, wire and seven children, lived in a little frame houso on Second street. It was raised from its moorings and floated toward the Main street bridge.

Cries came from it and a man was seen at the window with a light, when it was smashed, partly sinking. The light went out and all was stilL From the shore there was no way to reach them, and there was no way for them to escape. Afterward two of bis little boys were rescued alive, clinging to debris, down the creek. Hurricane In Spain. Madhid, May 14.

A terrible hurricane swept across the middle of Spain yesterday. In this city seventy persons are known to have been killed, nnd 200 others seriously Injured. The wind struck tha city witli tho suddenness of lightning. A train of cars and cabs were overturned and broken into splinters. Roofs were dislodged; telegraph wires every where torn from the poles; the parks in and about the eity devastated; church towers were blown down and a number of houses in the suburbs wrecked.

Many cottages in the outskirts of the capital were blown from their foundations and wrecked, some so completely aud quickly that they may be said to have simply vanished before the Btorm. Telegraphic communication has been so completely cut off that it is impossible to as yet obtain news from the provinces, but it Is believed that tbe ruin wrought by the hurricane has been wide spread. Desperado Dead. Bath Antonio, May 13. United States Deputy Marshal Gildea Is in the city on official business and informed a reporter that Juan Galindo, a noted smuggler aud borse-lbief of Del Rio, was killed on the 5th Inst, by a Mexican ranger near Plate.

A few ago the dead body of John Kent, superintendent of the Mexican Land and Cattle was found near the ranch, and his death is now explained. Galindo confessed before dying he and three ether smugglers, whose mines he gave, killed Kent. Galindo was under boud to AtipMir hyfyre Uie. (v4qii eiu( id Uiieclty, within the past day or two for the purpose of buying bait. Another American fishing vessel has been captured for violating the Canadian fishing laws.

News has been received of tbe murder of a number of Hungarian peasants by a gang of gypsies, who aftorward robbed the persons and premises of their victims. It is officially doniod that General Wolse- ley declared that it home rule was granted to Ireland he would resign bis command for the purpose ot leading an army in Ulster to resist the n'ew Irish The foreign ministers heft Greece on the 7th. The efforts to prevent Greene from attacking Turkey had apparently tailed, and war appeared inevitable. Bt a collision between the British steam er Martello and tho cutter Ida, off tho Lizard Point lighthouse, England, tho sailing vessel was sunk and one person drowned. An Irish home rule meeting was held at the Academy of Music, New York, on the 7th, Governor Hill presiding.

A recent Liverpool grain circular says that wheat has been very stondy and In most markoti rather dearer for foreign and one shilling higher for English, while the cargoes oft coast on passago for shipment are firm. Wheat was dull with only small business, aud prices were generally Id low er. Flour was Inactive and corn slow, and prices docllnedXd. A mod made an attack on a Salvation army moetlug at Zurich, Switzerland, recently and demolished the building in which tho meeting was being held. Several persons were injured.

Speaking of the recent seizure of Ameri can fishing vessels in Canadian waters, British Minister West blames Congress for refusing to appoint a commission to substitute somothtng hotter than the "misera ble old treaty of 1818," with its various interpretations. A courier who arrived at Guaymas, recently from General A. Martinez reports the capture by the Mexican troops of Anil, the central defense of the Yuqui Indians. In tho fight one Mexican officer and eight privates were killed. Chief Cu-jomo and the greater portion of his army had loft before tbe engagement.

Clearing house returns for week ended May 8 showed an average increase of 30.3 compared with the corresponding week of lat year. In Now York tho increase was 34.9. American securities declined in London during the week ended May S. The Paris Bourse improved; Panama shares fell 20 francs. The Philadelphia maritime exchange signal station at Cape Henlopen was entiro-ly destroyed by fire the other night.

Mr. Gladstone moved tho second reading of the Irish Home Rule bill in the British House of Commons, Lord Hart-ington moved the amendment for its re jection. M. Deltannis, tho Grecian Premier, sent his resignation in to King Georgo on the 10th. Rikakis is the new Premier.

A dispatch from London of the 9th says Turkey and Greece are hurrying troops to the front. Several European papers are of the opinion that Russia will secretly support Greece. Advices received by the steamer Alameda from Honolulu give an account of a disastrous conflagration which occurred there April 18. The fire started in a cook house in the Chinese quarter. It was not until eight entiro squares, comprising sixty aci is of the most thickly settled portion of the Chinese quarter, had 'been destroyed that the fire's advance was stayed.

About 8,000 people, mostly Chinese, were loft homeless. The loss was estimated at insurance, $230,000. Only two lives were lost. Philip Gosset, manager of the Jersey (England) bank, which failed some timo ago, has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude. The Porte recently notified the Powers that Greek irregulars were advancing toward the frontier and that Turkish troops had been ordered to repel them.

THUS LATJSST. A terrikle hurricane swept over the mid. die portion of Spain on the 13th. In Madrid alone seventy persons were killed by falling buildings and two hundred were injured. The wires were down, but it was believed the damage and loss of life was widespread.

ScnuMAcnER ScnuLT, rice merchants of London, failed on the 13th with liabilities 183,000. No assets. The failure was due to a falling market. Sir Frederick Roberts, commander of the British troops in India, has been recalled to take command of the army in Ireland. The garrisons in Ulster will be increased.

Incessant rains were falling in the north of England on the 13th causing rivers to overflow their banks. Sheffield, Atter-cliffe, and other towns were partly inundated. At Rotherham the railway steel works, many houses and thousands of acres of lands were submerged and 2,000 workmen were temporarily out of employment. A fearful wind and rain storm foil on the night of the 12th in the western part of Ohio and eastern part of Indiana. A waterspout fell at Xenia.

Thirty-five lives were reported to be lost and the damage done was immense. The General Pension bill was before the Senate on the 13th. The House passed the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. A courier from Tuvelana brought news to Tombstone, on the 13th, of further murders by Apaches. There was a report that the discharged Government Indian scouts had joined the hostiles, The total value ot exports ot breadstuff's the past ten months was 195,548,748, against $135,931,429 the same time last year.

Thb Canadian authorities have refused to honor a permit to trade in foreign ports issued to a fishing schooner by the collector of customs of Gloucester, Mass. The Senate Committee on Commerce has ordered a favorable report upon Senator Frye's bill to limit the commercial privileges of foreign countries in ports of the United States to such purposes as are ao-corded to American vessels in the ports of such foreign countries. The Chicago police department has issued an official report of the bomb-throwing affair. The list of injured officer showed that sixty-six were wounded, five of whom died, ten bave returned to duty and fifty-one were under the surgeon's care. Black diphtheria continued to rage with unabated violence near Big Rapids, Mich.

The last of a family who died from the scourge passed away on the 12th. Henry Tannery, whose six children preceded him, also died. Br the premature explosion of a blast which ignited a can ot powder in Shaw's coal pit, Glenspaw, recently tour aiii Canaaa City Visited by a Terrible Hurricane, Joliool Building Blown Down With Ftaite ful Loss of Life Factory and Mill Do- stroyeil Spun of the Ilia; Bridge Blown In the River Court, House Demolished Deavy Damage. Kansas City, May 11. Shortly after eleven o'clock this morning a terrible wind nnd rain storm, causing a great loss of life and property, declined In this city.

Just beforo the storm burst the sky became densely clouded. It was impossible to read without a light, and the buildings throughout the city were lighted as though it was night. The sky darkened rapidly and in a few minutes the clouds burst, letting down a shower of hall and rain. This was Immediately followed by a terrible wind storm, which sent tho rain and hail against the windows, breaking them in many Instances. As the storm increased sidewalks were torn up, fences blown away, lamps broken, chimneys demolished, and the streets were strewn with dobrla.

Heavy frnmes wero blown from their places and carried blocks away. Bricks and shingle filled the air and fell In every direction, THK IlItlDOK WltKCKED. The bridge over the Missouri river lost Its north span, stopping much of the the railroad traffic The loss was estimated at $80,000. 1 TUB SCnOOI. H0U8E DlSASTEB.

A terrible disaster happened in the blow Ing down of the Lathrop fcchool building, corner of Eighth and May. The children were buried In the ruins, ten of whom were taken out dead and fifty or sixty wounded, A KACTOJtY BLOWN DOWN. At twelve o'clock, during the heaviost part of the groat storm, the overall factory of Thomas Ilerr, 110 West Third street, was completely destroyed and razed to the ground. It was soon found that twenty-five employes, made and female, were missing, and rcarch was immediately begun, By ono o'clock live bodies and fifteen dying and wounded people had been removed from thn ruins. Ientln2 five still missing.

As they were at the bottom ot the building it is almost certain that they will never be gotten out alive. COUI1T HOUSB DEMOLISHED. The whole third story of the county court house at Second and Main streets was blowti in while tho storm was raelng. The building was crowded with people at the time, but everybody escaped being buried under-. nenth the ruins.

The prisoners confined la the jail went frantic with excitement, fearing that the whole building was about to tumble down, aud it was some time before quiet could be maintained among them. Deputy Sheriff Dougherty has been missing since the building fell. A few minutes before that time ho was seen standing at the front door, and it is supposed that when ho heard the cracking of the timbers he started to run but was caught underneath when the material fell Into the street. A large force of men was put to work immediately clearing away the debris, but up to this writing his body has not been recovered. Dougherty was a single man.

BPICE MILLS PONE. The old building on the northeast comer of Second and Main streets, opposite the court house, also came down during the storm. The building was occupied by the Santa Fe Stage Company, the United States Engineer Corps, and aa a ooffee nnd spice mill by Smith 4 Moffat; Men wero put to work to dig for the bodies as fast as they could bo procured. About twenty people were in this building at the time it fell, but all escaped with ihe exception of about eighty who were the spice mill. O.

Smith, one of the proprietors of the mill, was dead when found. It is supposed that Smith was tho only man killed at that place. OTHER DAMAGE. About one hundred other buildings were demolished or partially demolished. Glass was blown in every where.

The roof was blown off the Central Presbyterian Church, Eighth and Grand avenue. Merchants suffered considerably from damage to their goods, the drenching rain pouring Into the stores after the windows were blown in. The loss must be in the neighborhood of $500,000. THK DEAD AND INJURED CHILDREN. The following is a list of the dead and wounded taken from the Lathrop school building: Dead Nellie Ellis; May Bishop, 803 West Twelfth street; Bessie Tusco; Nellio Curry, 833 Seventh street; Joseph Maslin; Mertie Moore; Richard Terry, aged 11, Ninth and Jefferson streets; unknown boy, dark hair and eyes, dressed in black jacket and pants and gray stockings.

The injured Mamie llanser, age 11; Master (girl); Katie Smith, age 10, 1019 Broadway; Beatrice Terry, age 10, 900 Jefferson; Fraukie Madison, age 11, Eleventh and Penn; Edna Evans Eva Hasiett, ace 13, 735 Washington Martin Jones, ago 11, 811 West Eighth; Mamie Askew; Frank Smith; the janitor of the building, name unknown; Miss Jubn Carvey, one of the teachers, said to be badly hurt; Robert Sprague, aged 13, 1213 Washington street; L. T. Moore aed 13. son ot L. T.

Moore, Edith Patch; Ruth Jameson; child named Whitney, dead or missing. The storm was the worst ever experienced in Kansas City, not excepting the tornado of May 13, 1883. The wind came from the northwest and its force was terrific, though it lacked the distinguishing characteristics of the tornado of 1883. The streets are strewed with telegraph and telephone wires. LATER.

Kansas Cur, May 12. The list ot dead reported now Is distributed as follows: Lathrop school, 15; Smith Moffatt't mill, court house, Overall factory, others, making a dreadful total of 28. Others are so badly wounded that they can hardly recover. A Great Senate. Columbus, May 11.

The President of the Senate yesterday ruled Van Clears protest out of order, and refused to allow It to go on the journal At the afternoon session, In the absence of the President, the Senate adopted a resolution removing from office President pro tern. O'Jfeil, who is one of the absent Senators, and elected S. A. Conrad to the vacancy. The journal of the Senate was stolen during the noon recess, which was supplied by the clerk certifying another.

The warrants issued for the arrest of the absentees were ordered returned to (he Senate, Tfce strike of the Galveston, est frtiitf fur tiiwe bout luecsH THE WORLD AT LARGE. (i. Summary of the Dally News. CONQBICSS. In th Senate on the Oth the Inter-State Commerce bill again earn up, and Hi consideration ocoupied raoit of the day.

After an executive session tha Senate adjourned. the House theCommltte on Judiciary reported adversely a Joint resolution providing for female iitTratre by eonatltutlonal amendment. The Hlver and II arbor bill was then taken up In Committee of the Whole, and after being further discussed and mended finally passed by a vote of 143 yeas to 103 nays. Without transacting any other business the Houso adjourned. Tint Senate was not in session on the 7th.

routine business In tbe House the private calendar was tnken up in Committee of the Whole. The bill which (rave rise to the most Interesting discussion was one paying J2U0 to F. W. Haldeman. The report states thatdurlngthewarHaldemnn, then a boy of twelve years of age, desired to Join an Ohio regiment but was refused a muster on account of his age and xe.

Ho, howovr, purchased a uniform and served In the regiment a year, acting as a bugler and performing soout duty, Mr. Uragg, of Wisconsin, In a sarcastio speech opposed the bill wbinh brought on a debate of a similar tenor. Without action the committee rose. Fifty-five pension bills were passed at the evening session. Tnic Senate was not in session on the 8th.

the House a bill was passed authorizing the Kansas City, Fort Scott ft Gulf road to oonstrtiot Its line through the Indian Territory. The Military Aoademv bill was then taken up In -Committee of the Whole, and after being explained the committee rose end the bill passed without amendment. The Army Appropriation bill was hen discussed in Committee of the Whole. The committee rose pending consideration and the House adjourned. Is the Senate on the 10th several resolutions calling upon heads of departments for certuln Information were adopted, when the Inter-State Commerce bill was taken up and debate continued until In the House several bills were Introduced, among them a bill by Mr.

Illand, of Missouri, for the Issue of coin certificates. AnattomDt was then made to pass the bill to problb pool seuing in mo mstnet or loiumoia, out as many members who oppose the bill wore attending the races as interested pool buyers the fellows" did not succeed during the Rbsence of the "good fellows" of the Hoime. The bill to prohibit advertising of lotteries and selling tickets In the Distriot of Columbia was passed. Adjourned. Is the Senate on the 11th a memorial from the Republican Central Committe of Ohio was presented charging that the election of Senator Pavno was secured by fraud, corruption and bribery.

After routine business the Inter-Stnte Commorce bill was further discussed and finally ordered reprinted as amended. Adjourned The House in Committee of the Whole discussed the bill providing for the appointment ot three com-m'ssioners, who shall receive a salary of AOOO per annum for four years, for the pur-poso of adjusting Spanish-Mexican land claims in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. The Army Appropriation bill was then taken up and debate continued until adjournment. WASHINGTON NOTES. Tns House Committee on Post offices has ngreod to report favorably a bill to ratify ex-Post master-General Gresham's construction of the act authorizing the readjustment of third and fourth class postmasters' salaries.

Thb House Committee on Indian Affairs has agreed to report favorably the Senate bill to prevent trespassing on Indian lands. The President has nominated James H. McLeary to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. Tns President recently vetoed two private pension bills, sending a message to Congress pointing out certain vicious ten dencies as claimed belonging to this class of legislation. Thb House Committee on Civil Service Reform in their report in the matter of the charges made against Messrs.

Warder and Stealey (Houso employes), in connection with the Jeffersonville levee appropriation, recommended that Warder be dismissed from the service of the House and exonerated Stealey. Tmt May crop report of the Department of Agriculture indicates an improvement during April of two points in wheat with the general average condition at 95. There was no marked change anywhere, but a slight advance was noted in the Ohio val ley, and in Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. The May average last year was 70. The United States Supreme Court has dismissed the polygamy appeal cases from Utah on the ground of want of jurisdic An anti-Chinese petition 2,000 feet long, with 50,000 signatures, was received at Washington recently from the Knights of Labor of California.

The Commissioner of the General Land Office, in his response to the Senate resolution calling for the number of special agents employed in his office and their du ties, says that if the increased force recom mended in his annual report be granted, the entries suspended by his order of April 8, 1885, can ail be investigated and dis posed of in about a year and a half. A large percentage of these entries, he thinks, are fraudulent. The President has sent the nomination to the Senate of Clarence Ridgely Greathouse, ot California, to be Consul General of the United States at Kanagawa, the nomination of Warren Green for this position having been withdrawn. THE EAST. In the trial of Captain Jeffrey Gerror for barratry, and scuttling and casting away tbe schooner Racer, the court at Bos ton charged favorably for the defendant.

The jury rendered-a verdict of acquittal. The rigging of the Thayer oil well, Wash ington, was struck by lightning the other morning and destroyed. The Thayer well was tbe largest in the district, the average daily flow being sixty barrels. Mters, the American champion runner. again defeated George, the English champion, at the Madison Square Garden, New York, on the 8th, In the race for three- fourths of a mile.

C. F. Woerisboffeb died suddenly at the residence of his fatr-er-in-law, Oswald Ot-tendorfer, editor of tbe New York Slaatt-Zeitung, in Manhattanville, N. on the join, tie was a leading bear operator. The new Iron bridge being built at Lvons- dale, near Ufcca, N.

gave way recently, precipitating seven workmen and a wreck of twist iron into the Moose river twenty feet be'iow. The men escaped by jumping on a pier, and one workman, W. A. Wilcox, of Port Leyden, iu leaping to an abutment lost his foothold and was fatally Injured. The accident was caused, by the giving way of a temporary trestle.

Twi.vTT-nvi?. cart were wrecked and tore men killed recently by aa accUenton the Fanasylvauia railroad in. vL cuu nUstiellai mis, The chorry aud apple crops promise an abundant yield this year. So does the grape crop. Patents lately granted Kansas Invent-ore: Walter J.

Cox, Wichita, window-shade; Afred Lake, Leavenworth, file for bills, music sheets, William E. Mcln-tyre, Oakwood, hay or grain-shed cover; John M. Spencer, Lawrence, apparatus for watering stock. The Socretary of th3 State Board of Agriculture furnishes the following synopsis of tbe Kansas crop bulletin for tho month ended April 80: Winter wheat Winter killed, 45 per cent Condition of area from which a harvest may be expected, 80 per cent. Probable product, 13,000,000 bushels, about 47 per cont.

of the average annual product for the last five years. Spring wheat area sowa, about the same as Inslj yoar. Condition, 05 per cent Rye Area and condition about the same as for 1885. Oats Area sown at least 10 per cont. in ex cess of any former soason; condition good, Corn Planting about completed in tho southern part of the State and progressing finely in tho central and northern.

Ground in good condition. Estimated area 10 pei cent, in excess of last year. Tamo grasses in good condition generally orchard grass, winter killed, where pastured short laRt fall. Live stock in fair condition. Gland ers among horses reported from five coun ties.

Hog cholera abating, but reports show it to exist iu forty counties. Fruit buds reaches killed all others in ale con dition. The recont hurricane that did so much damage at other points along the Missouri river struck Leavenworth with consider able force, but with no fatal result. Considerable damage was done to property. On the 6th a waterspout passed down Jacobs' creek, fourteen miles southwest of Emporia.

B. B. Jacobs saw the storm coming and gathered his children and brother Charles in a wagon and started to floe, but were ovortaken by the tor rent which swept away the vehicle and its 'occupants. Mrs. Jacobs and the younger child were drowned, while Mr.

Jacobs perished in endeavoring to save them. His brother saved himself and the other children. Colonel Goss says that now is the time to destroy the maple worms that defoliage these beautiful trees almost every summer, The male moth is now flying about, to be followed in about ten days by the female moth, when the egg will be doposited in the tree. Colonel Goss recommends tho burning of torches under the trees, which will attract and destroy the male worm before thft appearance of the female. While the destruction may not be total the ovil will be so greatly reduced as to save these trees.

The State Homoepathic Society met at Topeka the othor day and elected the following officers: President, G. H. T. John son, of Atchison vice-president, L. Allard, ot Seneca; recording secretary, P.

Deit- rich, of Wyandotte; corresponding secre tary, H. W. Roby, of Topeka; treasurer, U. M. Griffin, ot Girard.

Tbe next annual session will be held at Wyandotte the first Wednesday in Muy, 1887. The county attorney of Atchison County has filed a brief with the Supreme Court against the granting ot a now trial to young Baldwin, for the murder of his sister at Atchison, and now in. tho penitentiary. The case will come up at the June term, The county attorney gives it as his opinion that there is no ground for a new trial. Last fall Congressman Morrill secured the allowance of a pension with arrearages for Samuel W.

Robinson, of Kansas, blind and totally helpless ex-soldier. Sub sequently the allowance was withdrawn by the Commissioner upon some technicality. Mr. Morrill appealed to Secretary Lamar, who sustained the appeal and reversed the action of the Commissioner. This case has been pending nineteen years, during which period the blind veteran has suffered great privations, and the decision mado awards him a pension of S72 per ihouth and (11,500 arrearages, tho largest ever paid a private soldier.

It is stated that there has been for some time a systematic robbing of the Santa Fe cars at Topeka, extending over a period of about six months. Tho other day Wilson, who has been an employe for about five years, and John Bradsbaw and wife were arrested and held in $1,000 each. About $500 in property, $250 In dry goods and $250 In silverware, was taken from A. A. Robinson's private car.

The report of tho warden shows that during tbe month of April there were fifty-nine convicts committed to the penitentiary, four were discharged by the warden, twenty-seven wore discharged by expiration of sentence and on the first of May the total number in prison was S33. The corn planting boom is here. At a meeting of tho executive committee of the Kansas Association of Trotting Horse Breeders, lately held at Topeka, applications for membership were received from fourteen breeders to join the association aud they were admitted to membership. It was voted to hold an annual trotting meeting for 1S86 at Bismarck Grove, August 31, September 1 and 2, the week previous to the Western National Fair. Bernard Kellev, of Emporia, has appointed a member of tho State Board of Charitable Inslatutiofio, to fill the vacancy caused hy the expiration of tbe term ot Phillip Krohn.

It thought tha Rock Island -a ill. 03 Rummsiice actire work ift Kasa were daugevouly weuuaed,.