The Moline Republican from Moline, Kansas • 1

NUMBER 4. MOLINE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1893. VOLUME XII. KANSAS CROPS. THE SEARY LAW.

KANSAS STATE NEWS. RATIFIED. NEWS OF THE WEEK. CURRENT -COMMENT. The city treasury of Tueblo, CoL, is empty.

All twisted boring- eools are of American invention. Gleaned By Telogrraph and LlaiL The Sale of the Cherokee Strip Concluded! DELEGATES SIGN WITH SMITH. EstiiSD has five admirals who are 90 years old or over. The president has firmly set himself against the ring- of Indian agents. The ring- consists of men of different Schemers Still Attempting to Prevent an Early Opening Possible Bloodshed In the Cherokee Nation Proper.

The czarevitch will attend the autumn maneuvers of the Austro-IIun-garian army. He will meet Emperor William and Emperor Franz Joseph in Iiuda Pesth. A steamer from Berg-en, Norway, has been making- her way through the great northern lakes, carrying- a carg-o of herring to Chicago, to exchange for dried beef for Norway. ff Crops Alonic the Santa Fe Road Wheat febort Rat Other Crop More l'romiinjj. Kansas Citv, Ma, May 12.

The Times' report of the conditions of the crop along the Santa Fe road are a follows: GHEESiBrRJ, Ka, Mar 11 A lifht that was much needed feU here Wednesdaj night, and heat lain fair condition considering tee dry weather. If there are heavy rains during tbe coming weefcwheat wl pull through li rLrbt, and the crop will be an avrrae one. The dry season lun ha 1 a serious effect upon the corn jus: planted, It has not begun to eprout and farmers feel pretty blue tor tc prospects do not even point to a fair yield. "Wichita. May 12.

This prin? haa puce to tue extremes in dryness and lack I rain, as springs have had more than an abundant svppljr of rain. Owing to the continued dry weather the wheat yield in this acJ adjoining counties cannot mor iha oc third of lat year's crop. Pat Jo saaaa ConJSilcn that wheat is. and umcs inero is aa fmmcdiiie rainfall the crop will lJ ruined. Corn la coming op on account of tfie 41 ground.

The outlook is not encouraging. KiisgmaW My 12 This county ha about Vu acres of wheat, and with favorabls weather the yield will bs about half a crop. If rain does nat come soon the wheat field will I plaweil op and planted in corn he acreage of corn is considerate? less than that of whal and is somewhat lighter than usuaL Corn up and in Iir condition. Kan, May acreage of wheal la this county was but tiie yield not be more than three bushels to the acre becaus of the prolonged drought As h-i been no rain" to amount to anvthin? during spring the soil Is too and hard for listing corn. No corn la yet tn sight an the prospects for an average crop are not flattering.

ELDORuro, May 12. General prospect are about an average and favorable weathet will Increase tbe yield consl Jerabiy. The acre-ageof whet will reach tne usual number and prospects are favorable to a of 6 pet cent. More corn has been p'anted than at tut eame time last spring and about three-fourths of a yield is a fair estimate or the torn cron. Oats are In good condition and the acreage 1 about per cent more tban that of last WelUngtow, May li The acreage in wheat Is the iargi st ever known la this county and the present prospects indicate a half crop.

Immediate rains would swell the acreage mors than one-fourth. The lack of rain is telling on the corn crop. The corn that is up is very The supreme court of North Dakota has affirmed the validity of the constitutional amendment which had been attacked through a writ of habeas corpus applied for on behalf of a Farg-o saloon keeper. Rev. Thomas SrcBGEOwill sail from Auckland, New Zealand, for San Francisco May 20.

He will pass several days in Chicago and will assist Moody and Sankey in the evangelical work during-the world's fair. The chambermaids employed by several large New York hotels met and appointed a committee to see the proprietors of the Waldorf, Savoy, Holland and Plaza hotels and make a demand for higher wages, better food and shorter hours. bmall and much of it is lying in the ground not I sprouted. Where wheat is bad wae of It At the monthly meeting- of the New York presbytery it was decided to ask the general assembly to formulate a brief and simple statement of the doctrines of the church, to be used for the instruction of those desiring- to become communicants. being plowed up and piantea in corn, as laere is yet l'n- for corn with the unual pring rains.

OAHDEN- CITT. Kan. May It Th5 wheat pmn o-itlonk In the snrrfl'jnding territory is not The United States Supreme Court Decide the Law Keqalrinic Chinese to KeRlste Constitutional-Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices Field and brewer Dissent. Washington, May 10. The suprem eoiirt, through Justice Gray, has sustained the decision of the New York courts in favor of the constitutionality of the Geary exclusion act.

Justice Gray, in announcing the judgment of the court, said that the power of the nation to restrict or hibit the immigration of any aliens into the country or to require such aliens already in the country to remove therefrom was a well settled principle of international law and it was. confirmed by an unbroken line of decisions in this court. The legislative power of the government had not transaended any of its Constitutional limitations in the act under consideration. It was within its power to determine the regulations under which these aliens should be permitted to remain in the United States or failing to observe these regulations, they should le required to leave the country. The provisions of section 6 of the act the judge said, which were the part of the law particularly at issue, were not inconsistent with the duties of the legislative and judicial departments of the government.

The mode of procedure set forth in the section, the judge held, was similar to that in other well established proceedings, such as the habeas corpus and naturalization, fixing the requirements of citizenship and the like in which the judicial branch of the government accepted the determination of the executive upon the questions involved. As to the requirements that the Chinese entitled to remain in this country should establish that right 1)3' the evidence of one credible witness it was within the power of the legislature to determine the character of the evidence that might be received in a case at law and what force should be given to the testimony offered. Not discussing the wisdom or the justice of the act in question, which was beyond the province of the judieial branch of the government, it remained only to say that the judgment of the circuit court for the southern district of New York in refusing to grant writs of habeas corpus to the several petitioners was affirmed. Justice Gray stated that it had been impossible in the brief time elapsing the hearing of the argument upon the petitions to prepare in writing the opinion of the court. It would be filed as soon as it was possible.

At the conclusion of Justice Gray's opinion Justice Brewer announced that he felt compelled to dissent from the view of the majorit' of the court. He read his views at some length, declaring in substance that the act of 1S93 was unconstitutional and that if it were upheld there was no guarantee that similar treatment might not be accorded to other classes of the population than the Chinese. Justice Field, who delivered the opinion of the court in the first case under the exclusion act, also read a dissenting opinion. He held that there was a wide difference between exclusion of immigrants and the deportation of alien residents and he characterized the act in the strongest language as inhuman and violative of the constitution in every section. He regretted to say that the decision of the court was to his mind, fraught with the gravest dangers to the priceless constitutional liberties of the people.

Chief Justice Fuller also dissented from the opinion of the court. After court had completed the announcements of the opinions, J. II. Ashton, of counsel for the Chinese, moved for a rehearing of the case and an argument before a full bench at the next term. At present the court stands 5 to 3 in support of the law, Justice Harlan being absent.

The court took the motion under advisement, the effect of which is to postpone until the motion is acted upon, any proceedings under the judgment of the court announced to-day. In his dissenting opinion the chief justice denied the soundness of the at all discouraging Durln? the last two weeks local rains have covcr-'d about this terri-1 tory. The average yield will no be under four Aioi-pe whose name appears on most of the books containing- reproductions of French painting's, died in Paris last week at the age of 87. Ho was an officer of the Legion of Honor. His eldest daughter is the wife of the painter Gerome, Washington, May 18.

A distinct step forward toward the opening- of the Cherokee strip to settlement was taken yesterday afternoon, when Secretary Hoke Smith, on the part of the United States, and Chief Harris and the other delegates, on the part of the Cherokee nation, affixed their signatures to the contract which ratines the cession of the strip to the United State. The exact number of acres ceded is 6,022,754. Secretary Smith said that he hoped, by expediting in every possible way the preparation for the opening of the fetrip. to have everything- in readuess for the president's proclamation on September 15, but there are few who have given the situation careful stuly who think the strip can be opened thtt soon and indeed there are not wanting-those who fully believe that the tactics of delay being used so suecessfulljr by the schemers who are looking for a chance to line their pockets in the deal will prevent the opening until next spring. It was 4 o'clock when Chief Harris, Treasurer Starr, Maj.

Lipe and J. T. Cunningham met by appointment at the of.iee of Secretary Smith, and with little delay the contract was signed. All the legislative proceedings with relation to the opening of the strip are set out at length. It is agreed that the 1895 payment of $1,000,000, shall be withheld to wait the adjudication of the claims of Delaware and Shawnee Indians and freedmen.

The Cherokee nation is to issue bonds for the remaining four annual payments in the same sum and the United States to guarantee the payment of principal and interest at 4 per cent. THAT EXPECTED RUPTURE. Tahlequah, I. May 18. The expected rupture in the ranks of the straight-blooded Cherokees and so-called adopted citizens over the payment of the strip money has occurred, and no one here will be surprised if blood is shed in the final culmination of tiie feud.

The trouble first originated at the recent special session of the Cherokee legislature, when what is known as the blood bill was enacted. This blood bill provided for the payment of the. strip money to Cherokees by blood onty, excluding entirely from participation in the proceeds the whites, Delawares, Shawnees and negroes. According- to recent events, the white citizens think they see in the movements of the Indians an attempt to not only beat them out of the strip money, but their lands and homes also. The plan of the Cherokees, as evidently mapped out, is to work the strip payment through successfully before the whites and oilier adopted citizens have an opportunity to go into the courts with the matter, create an act of the legislature allotting- the entire Cherokee country to Indians by blood only.

It is doubtful whether the United States would sanction such course, yet the treaty of IbOO provides for allotment at any time Upon the request of the Indians. The Cherokees.however.knowing that allotment Bnd statehood must come soon after the strip money is paid out, have become mere defiant and desperate and would not hesitate to resort to the most extreme policy in order to carry out their present programme and make paupers of the adopted citizens. The whites, it must be said, have proven themselves equal to the occasion, and from now on propose to make it exceedingly warm for the Cherokees. teen buhcls per acre uocmi oui.w croo. The tin- rales tils week have imo3t assured a good, fair wheal crop.

KANSAS OFFICES FILLED. Changes if. Neatly All of the Stat Charity Im-titUtUins. Topkka, May 12- The state hortrd of charities has appointed a full list of officers for institutions. Following- are the appointments: Topeka insane asylum I'hvsician for th sick building.

Dr. Macas-r, of phy-ici in for women. Alia Klilxrg. of Labette Pkixce Yosiiihito, who is coming- to Chicago this summer, is the only son of the mikado; he is only 1 Girls are barred from succeeding to the throne in Japan, so that the ambition of the family is centered in this one loy, though there are three small daughters in the imperial Dr. William Everett, who has been returned to congress from Henry Cabot Lodge's old district, has for nearly fifteen years been head master of Adams ucademy at Quiney, Mass.

He is the author of some books for boys, two of which, ''Changing Base," and "Double Play," have long been popular with youthful readers. Fire" at I iplr recently destroyed ser-eral of the best store in the town. Central and southern Kansa grot a soaking rain on the night of the 14th. Nelson Bidderback, of Wichita, was recently robbed by footpads in Topeka. Nearly every county in the state will have a teachers institute- the coming summer.

M. D. Henderson has been elected secretary ff th new board of railroad commissioners. Salina was gaily decorated Upon the recent meeting of the grand lodge hi of P. in that city.

Gen. Jamc? It. Weaver, late people's party candidate for prvsMent, was recently in Topeka. Fire at Muscotah the other night destroyed six frame buildings. It was the work of an incendiary.

Dr. J. Blackwood, a veterinary surgeon of Valley Falls, recenty committed suicide by cutting his throat. No cause known. A destructive hailstorm recently dM great dafiiag in the vicinity of Haj-s City.

Calves, chickens, rabbits, birds, were killed. The reports of the city assessors of Leavenworth show' that the population on March 1, this year, ws 20,027, a falling off in the past year of 773. The will of the late Lucien Scott, of Leavenworth, has been filed for probate, and shows he was about the wealthiest man in the state. He left a fortune of nearly 1,000,000. The governor has offered a reward of 300 for the apprehension of the parties concerned In the lynching of Dan Adams, a negro, who stablHl the station agent of the Union Pacific? at liua a short time ago.

Luke G. Herring, editor and proprietor of the SUmner County Standard, who had leen suffering from cancerous troubles for the past two j-ears, died at his home in Wellington the other day, leaving a widow and two email children. S. C. Mason, professor of horticulture irt the state agricultural college, has published ait address in which he urge, the people of Kansas to plant more trees, and says if this is not done the supply of timber for fuel and farm use will soon be scant.

It is stated that Senator Peffer will soon start out on a lecture tour, he having already contracted to deliver thirty lectures during the summer months. He will open th.e season in the Chicago South Side Chautauqua assembly, where he has been engaged to deliver six lectures, two in June, two in July and two in September. The output of the Kansas penitentiary coal mine for the next year has beert let to O. S. Hiatt, of Leavenworth county, at CX cents per bushel for lump and grate coal and 4 cents for nut.

His bid was considerably higher thail any of the other three bidders. His bid is also 2 cents higher on nut and 1 cent on grate than has ever been paid before. Mrs. C. T.

Jehu was killed by an electric car on the Chelsea Park line at Kansas City, the other night. She was going to a drug store, walking on the track, and seeing a car approaching stepped on the other track, when sh? was struck by a car going- in the opposite direction. She was Zl years of age and lately from Stafford. Labor Commissioner Todd is preparing to add to his ofiice a lalor em-ploj-ment agency. There is no appropriation for this work, but he hopes to meet the expense of postage from both the unemployed and the employers who will be invited inclose a small bum in stamps in their letters.

He and the clerk in his office will do the work. Leavenworth will have a big time on decoration day. Arrangements are being made for a grand street parade that will be participated in by the military from Fort Leavenworth, the old veterans from the soldiers home, Grand Army posts, Sons Veterans, and a numler of civic societies. The parade will le followed by an oration, and at night there v. ill be a big camp-lire.

Th twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the home of the friendless in Leavrnworth was celebrated on the 13th with fitting- ceremonies. The ladies in charge of the institution held a reception that was attended by many of the leading citizens. After the reception speech-making followed and a grand dinner was served. The home was handsomely decorated for the occasion. The state Sunday school convention lately in session at Lawrence, elected the following officers: President, C.

N. Queen; recording secretary, Miss Jesse Shaft; treasurer, A. C. Merritt. The resolutions were short and pointed.

They favored teaching temperance in the Sabbath school and the closing of the world's fair on Sunday. They recommended that in class work the Bible alone be used. The next meeting will be at Wichita. Charles S. Elliott and Capt.

Jack Downing drew their pay for services as secretary and clerk of the railroad board up to May 1, when the supreme court rendered its decision in the commissioner case. The old commissioners" received pay only up to February 24 the date of the notification of theii removal by the executive counciL The attorney-general gave it as his opinion that the old employes could draw pay for the time they were actually employed, but the commissioners could not have that privilege. The farmers of Bourbon county arc reported to be losing lots of stock from hydrophobia. Mad dogs have been killed in several parts of the county, and two men were bitten. Hordes, cattle and hogs were suffering seriously from the malady.

Cornelius Ilotchkiss. residing- at Kirkwood, a small mining camp four miles south of Pittsburg, was instantly killed bv the south-Tcund Gulf passen- Bt the falling of a cage in the Calumet and Hecla mines, at Houghton, ten men went down 3,000 feet and were dashed to pieces. Advices from Nicaragua state the revolutionists are gaining- ground and daily are becoming more aggressive. Off the Cornwall coast the ship Countess Evelyn collided with a steamer in a fog- and went down with all on board. By the wreck of a ferryboat in Russia a larg-e number of persons were drowned.

Another break has occurred in the Mississippi levees near Lakeport, Ark. The first complete illumination at the world's fair has been attempted and the effect was beautiful beyond all expectation. It is said that overtures have been made looking- to an open reconciliation between Emperior William and Prince Bismarck. There is a bitter feeling- among the negroes of South Carolina over a recent lynching and they are discussing their condition and future prospects in a spirit they have never shown before and which may work a political revolution in the state. The old time private car used by Iresident Lincoln will be refitted and exhibited at the world's fair.

September 11 has been named as silver day at the fair by the committee appointed for that purpose. Several other small banks connected with the collapsed Columbia National, of Chicago, have closed their doors. The Columbia and Snake rivers, Oreg-on, have overflowed. A special dispatch from Salt Lake Cit3r says that the Union Pacific railway will make a- $58 round triprate from points in Utah to Chicago. It is charged that hundreds of farmers and merchants in eastern Maine are engaged in smuggling-.

Produce, shingles and liquor are the principal articles which evade duty. In a fight between rival bodies of miners at Benwood, several were badly cut. Engineers who have been examining the Mississippi levees look for more bad breaks. Near Waukeg-an, 111., four men were drowned in a small 3-aeht which overturned. The National Editorial association was in session at Chicag-o with an unusually large attendance.

Diablo, one of the rankest outsiders, surprised the talent by easily winning the Brooklyn handicap. At Dawson, constables and deputies had a pitched battle with a party of drunken Huns and a number on both sides were badly hurt. The series of the world's congresses which will be held at the world's fair was inaugurated on the 15th with the assembling- of the woman's congress. There was a run on two Minneapolis banks, one small concern closing- its doors, but the other paid all depositors and will continue to do so. Tiiree more of the principal Australian banks, located at Brisbane and Sydney, have closed their doors.

The Chicago Secular union has adopted resolutions calling for every department of the world's fair to be opened on Sundays. A New York paper says that 1,000 policy shops are doing business in that city, and that S25.000 a day is being dropped by the "suckers." A water-spout did great damage at the town of Buffalo Gap, Tex. The former attorneys of Murderer Roehl, who escaped from Sing Sing, doubt that it was Roehl's body which was found in the Hudson river, and demand that the body shall be exhumed. AMJITIOXAfc DISPATCHES. the 17th was Norwegian day at the world's fair.

The Minnesota building-was dedicated the same day. The president has appointed Robert T. Hough, of Ohio, to be solicitor of internal revenue and John Daggett, of California, to be superintendent of the mint at San Francisco. The National Cordage Co. claims to have many millions of assets over liabilities.

A call for S2.500.000 more gold ha been made for export to Europe. The South Carolina liquor law has been sustained by the state supreme court. The Citizens' bank of Minneapolis, has suspended. Judge H. D.

Twiggs, of Augusta, who recently secured a divorce at Sioux Falls, S. was married at the Stanton, house, Chattanooga, to Mrs. Cornelia A. Harrison, a charming young- widow of Charleston, S. C.

The report of the piano committee calling- for the resignation of Director of Music Theodore Thomas, was adopted by the world's fair national commission by 38 to 20. A compromise has been effected between the imprisoned St. Clair county, judges and the bondholders at 50 cents on the dollar at 4 per cent, interest. This makes the debt 5400,000 with $16,000 annual interest. Congressman Wilson, 'of West Virginia, who is to be chairman of the committee on ways and means, is busily engaged in framing- a new tariff bill.

The Bank of Zumbrota at Zumbrota. has suspended payment. It had S30.000 in cash on hand at the time of suspension, but its load of 80.000 in paper was too heavy. The contract for the sale of the Cherokee strip was signed at Washington on the 17th. The president was not satisfied with the findings of the court martial on Capt.

W. A. S. Johnson at Fort Leavenworth. Johnson was charged with not paying- his debts.

In the Bohemian diet there was a col-lission between the Germans and Czechs which ended in a scene of riot and disorder. The most important happenings in Honolulu, recently is the appointment of Thurston to succeed J. Mott Smith as minister to Washington. The schooner Pelican was capsized in Lake Erie, off Ashtabula, and three men were drowned. By the capsizing- of a tug and dredge boat on Lake Conneaut, five persons were drowned.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. A EEPobt that the Russian treaty had been finally ratified proved premature. The treaty, however, is expected by the next European mail, when the president will probably sign it. The president has appointed J. Hampton Hodge, of Virginia, to be consul at Amoy, China, vice Edward Bedloe, of Philadelphia, and John A.

Michel, of Texas, to be collector of customs for the district of Brazos de Santiago. The republican national league at Louisville, adopted resolutions favoring- woman suffrage, elected W. W. Tracy, of Illinois, president, and selected Denver as the next meeting-place. The cause of the resignation of Delegate Rawlins, of Utah, was a personal disagreement with the president over the patronage question.

Advices received at Washington state that the revolutionists in Nicaragua have practically gained control of the government. E. O. director of the mint, has resigned. Secretary Carlisle has received a telegram from ex-Secretary Fairchild declining- to serve on the commission to investigate the New York custom house.

Mr. Fairchild states that his business engagements will not permit. The annual budget, presented to the Spanish cortes, shows an actual surplus of pesetas. Such a startling-novelty in national finances is the cause of much jubilation. The president's new rule barring- out office-seekers, according to Private Secretary Thurber, is working like a charm.

Preparations are being made by the Gould family to erect a church in memory of the late Jay Gould. Robert T. Lincoln, ex-minister to England, has arrived in New York from Europe. He will go to Chicago and resume his law practice. Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of the president, has sailed from England for the United States.

Bishop Bissell, of the Episcopal church, Vermont, is dead. Republicans have succeeded in electing a majority of the Rhode Island legislature and will elect their state ticket. The German electoral struggle is fairly on, but it is impossible to forecast the result. The Newfoundland legislature has rejected confederation with Canada. The United States supreme court, through Justice Gray, sustained the decision of the New York courts in favor of the constitutionality of the Geary exclusion act.

Justices Fuller, Fields and lirewer dissented. A motion for a rehearing was made which postpones action. George Kennan presented to President Cleveland emphatic protests from Russian refugees in this country against the signing of the extradition treaty. Capt. IIioginson has been removed from the command of the United States steamer Atlanta for dilatoriness in sailing- for Greytown.

Nicaragua, and has been ordered home. Capt. Bartlett succeeds him. Secretary Carlisle has called for the resignation of S. G.

Brock, of Macon, chief of the bureau of statistics, treasury department. William E. Curtis, director of the bureau of American republics, has tendered his resignation to the president. I SCELLANEOfS. S.

T. K. Prime, of crop report fame, in an interview says the financial condition of the farmers of the west and southwest is of the best. John Carlisle and Charles Luttrell were hanged tog-ether at Sherman, for the murder of W. T.

Sharman, April 28, 1S92. They belonged to a gang of which James Brown was leader. Brown was the turfman killed at Garfield park, Chicago, last year. All enlisted men will bo required this year to participate in target practice. The New York Herald charges that there is a pool among- the eight trunk lines.

RrssF.LL Saoe has ied Henry S. Ives, the "Napoleon of finance," for balance on a promissory note for 8100,000. A special says a colored woman cut oil the ears of another colored woman in Newbury county, S. in a jealous dispute. The drought of the last few weeks has caused a great loss of farm and market garden products in the south of England.

Grain, vegetable and fruit crops are withering- throughout wide strips of country. Earthquakes continue to occur almost daily in Sicily. Near Palermo. Trapani and the island of Ustica, off the Sicilian coast, were shaken violently. Many building's were injured and are likely to fall should the shocks be repeated.

The Catholic Knights of America have decided to hold the next meeting- in Omaha. Ex-Treasurer O'Brien's offer of compromise was rejected. The United States grand jury at Little Rock has filed the report of its investigation of the affairs of the First National bank, returning five true bills against H. G. Allis, president, and Creed T.

Walker. The four thing-s which democratic leaders have planned to accomplish in the next congress are: Repeal of the federal elections and Sherman laws; repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on state banks; levying of an income tax and a general revision of the tariff. Harvard defeated Yale in th field athletics at Cambridge. Mass. The national committee on Sunday closing- is taking- active steps to fight the proposed opening- of the world'r fair on Sunday, May 21.

The attendance at the world's fair thus far has far exceeded that for the corresponding- period at the eentenniaL There was a run on the lTankinton bank, of Milwaukee, but it was soon ended and confidence was restored. It is said that James R. Keene won l.5C0.000 by the Cordage crash at New York, The will of the late Joseph S. Spinney, who left an estate valued at was filed for probate recently in Brooklyn. The will makes several small bequests to relatives and friends and then orders the estate to be divided between his sister, the Wesleyan university of Middletown, and the Seamen's Friend society.

county; UrugrUt. Dr. Lrfire, of Johnn county! I assistant detk. Miff Kauri MerriiL of Seug-j wick count lartusekep-r, Mi I-ottio JacK-i in, of liingmiiii, aci Kila of i Sumner engine M. Hrown.

of SlW'Jrno county: painter, William Devoe, of Shawnee crtunty; ae.iins tress, Mr. MoW Haves, of county; Mr. Dotithitt. I. V.

P-irk and Mrs. Emma l'ck, all of fch aw tee county. Soiiil-wf ori-lnas home at AtchiKn Supt-r- fou-n nt, Chfb Kauli.iier. th preaent n-I cutnlot: matron. Mr.

Faulkcr; supervisor. Ward Hcnrth. of S'aiwnee couaty. Iaduslri school for s-irls at IJloit Super1n tendnt. M- P.

S.ienoer, thrt pref-nt ln- curabnt: Mrs. Kate Iiakt-r: teacher, Miss Elan Ml It, of Eyou county; phrslcUo. Ur. Lobleli. of Mitchell county.

i 13. ind asylum at Kansas city Superintend-j ent. Kev. IV. O.

Toll, of Shawno county; matron, Mrs Todl; manic teacher. Miss Lewis, of Lt-aven worth. 1 Osawatoujic Insane asylum -Physician. Dr. llunnuis: pa -i'ian f.r women.

Dr. Emily White, of countv: wiwr. W. A. i Cunninehaai, of ifUn.i county: assistant enst i nr.

Miit' HjH. of SUawnee co aoty: visnr. ilon. of CheroUe county; housekeeper, Mr. Wilson, of Cherokee county: i supervisors.

Mis ilinafi Wiison, of Cherok county, anl Mi Arils liandolph, of Iyoa i Idiotic and imbecile school at Winfleld Su-j perintendr nt. Dr. PilcUer, of Cley county: mat i on. Mm Pdclu r. IMorm Kcb'KJl at Torka Superintendent, 1 P.

O. Hitchcock, of county: matron, Mrs. Hitchcock' assistant su ner in ten lent, John HiachcliJT, of Sr.mntr assistnm matron. Mrs KiucbctiSj E. Jul- of physician.

Ir. IJvd-r, ot "Corth TopfUa E. Cioodaic'jl. nc-no cour.tr: Mrs. Ko-t, of II irber county, aud W.

V. Wiley, of Maws" county lvf anl dumb at tb Matron. T. Pixoa. of Sed-iYvlc countv: RtewarJ, L.

Pi -on. of S.l:vU-i officer, O. V. rornty. to Cn smother place for J.

M. Scr.lcr the t-tit-; lxard of railroad vote I to retain him at cl-rk. M. I). Ileuderson was at the fa me time elected KANSAS SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Great effort is being- made to interest women in legal study, and at the Ntiv York university a cor.rse of free lectures has ben urrang-ed. at the close of which certificates of proficiency will lie awarded. Tweutj' scholarships have been afforded to women and a two hundred dollar will be given by the university and the Women's Legal Education society to the student passing- the highest examination. FATAL EXPLOSION. proposition that the cases before th W.

Buchanan. 73 years old. who committed suicide in New York last week, was the oldest theatrical doorkeeper in New York, says Ihinlop's Stage News. He was first at Barnum's museum in Ann street, then at Bryant's minstrels both at -172 Broadway and on Twenty-third street and after that at Tammany hall and Madison Square garden. Poor Ben was cne of the very Lest of the old timers; but dropsy, dyspepsia and finally insomnia made him think he would lie better off dead than alive.

7 he Coo vent ion Ilv-litve-I to Have Aeeom. pli-hed Much Kd-Elect ion of OfS-! rrn. Lawrksck, May 12. The tl-Ird day's session of the fctate Sunday school convention j-howed no abatement in en- I thusiasra. and when the convention closed with lat night's service there was a feclinp; that the convention haxl been productive of great pood- A syndicate has been formed at New-York with a capital of Si.

000, 000 for the construction and equipment of a line between Niag-ara Falls and Albany, N. Y.j for he transmission of electric power g-enerated by the Niagara Falls Power with the waters of Niagara river passing through wheel pits in a tunnel, which has just lcen cempleted. The tunnel is 8,000 feet in length and twent--four feet in diameter. The Niagara Fails Power Co. has expended nearly 55,000.000 in its development at the falls and consumed nearly three years in the work.

It now seeks a market for the electric power thus Six Perseus Killed and Another Fatally Scalded. Geneva, 111., May 18.C. I. Popes glucose factory was the scene of a most disastrous explosion by which six persons lost their lives and one man was fatally scalded. The killed are: Victor Anderson, Louis Schultz, Fred Storm, F.

Lund, Alfred Anderson, J. Danielson. Fatally injured: J. Kalberg. Serious' hurt: William Pratt.

The factory was a large four story structure and there were eighty employes in the building at the time, most of whom escaped with only slight injuries. The explosion occurred in a generator and scattered things right and left. The shock was a terrific one and was felt throughout a radius of three miles. Thnt more lives were not lost borders on the miraculous. Churchill on tiladstone.

London, May IS. Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking at Reading- last evening, said that Mr. Gladstone had informed the leading liberals of Midlothian that he would not contest that constituency again. This decision, said Lord Randolph, proved that Mr. Gladstone realized what a revolution of feeling had been produced against him by the home rule.

A Pspular Movement. Panama, May IS. A correspondent in San Juan del Sur has just sent a message by cable, in which he says the uprising against President Sacaza is court were such as the political department of the government alone could deal with. It was, in his view, a judicial question, and however reluctant courts may be to pass upon the constitutionality of legislative acts, it was the very essence of judicial duty to do so when the discharge of that duty was properly imposed upon it. He entertained no doubt that the provisions of of the fifth and fourteenth amendments were universal in their application, and that while the general government was invested, so far as foreign countries were concerned, with all the powers necessary to the maintenance of its absolute independence and security, it could not.

in virtue of a supposed inherent sovereignty, absolutely deal with persons lawfully and peacefully within its domain. The act before the court was not an act to abrogate, or repeal a treaty nor to expel Chinamen lawfully hereafter and no such intent could be imputed to congress. Its object was to prescribe a method of registration and the deportation by way of punishment was, in his view, an unusual punishment, not authorized by the constitution. William K. Curtis Resigns.

Washington, May 10. William E. Curtis, director of the bureau of American republics, yesterday returned to Washington from Chicago and tendered his resignation to the president. The Deadly Folding lie. I.

Chicago. May Mrs. J. E. Clough, wife of the well known Da ptist mis Among the resolutions onc-rea wai one advocating- the closing of the world's fair on Sunday, which provoked a lively di.scv.ission before its adoption.

More attention was urged in teaching-the temperance lessons of the st-ries, and greater use of the IJible in teaching was advocated. The following officers were unanimously chosen for the ensuing year: President, Ilev. X. Queen; recording secretary, Miss J. F.

haft; treasurer, A. C. executive committee. Rev. Sweet, .1.

II. Foucht. Rev. M. Ingles J- I- Haskell, Mrs.

K. I'arker, il. H. Rrown, James Allison, I II- Holt, A. Ji ihewy, Mrs.

I- Fulton, II. Y. Rul and W. L. Seabrook.

Vice presidents for the twenty-seven districts in Kansas were also chosen-Wichita was selected for the next convention- New Eastern Star Officer. Topeka, May 12. The gTand thapter of the Order of the Eastern Star elected the following officers at last niprht's session: Grand matron, Mrs. Elizabeth Magie, Pittsburgh; frrand patron, Alfred Whitman, Lawrence; assistant grand matron, Mrs. Let-tie Tn-uslot, Newton; assistant grand patror, J.

C. Postlethwait, Jewell Cityl grand treasuer, Mrs. J. M. Pearsa.II Fort Scott; grand secretary, Mrs.

Myra Mottram, Ottawa; grand conductor, Mrs. H. B- Farns worth, Topeka: assistant grand conductor, Mrs. Ellen A. Kanner, Eureka.

The lodge closed itf buiines with an open. The safe or treasury rooms of the leading- Transatlantic steamers are interesting- structures. They are so artfully concealed and contrived and so strongly built that, with a single exception, that of a Pacific, liner carrying gold dust on a long voyage, we believe, they have never been robbed. In some vessels these safe vaults are placed amidships, in some aft, but they are always at the V-ottoin of the ship, below everything- else, and practically right on the keeL The room is g-enerally some eight or ten feet sqtiare and high, and built of iron plates three or four inches thick, and it is furnished with such a formidable array of locks, bolts and bars as to strike dismay to the hearts of even the deftest and most experienced burglars. the most popular movement that has ever been started in Nicaragua, The revolutionists are carrying everything before them, and all departments except two are now controlled by them.

Theodore Thomas ltounced. Chicago, May IB. The report of the piano committee calling- for the resignation of Director of Music Theodore Thomas, was adoptel by the national commission this afternoon, 85 to 20. sionary, met a frightful death yesterday. She was killed by a folding bed, which closed upon her and crushed hep body into an insensible clod, while her daughter stood by powerless to prevent.

Diablo Win the Race. Brooklyn, May 10. At the Brooklyn handicap race to-daj Diablo carried oil the honors, beating the favote, Lamplighter, in noble style, while Judge Jorrow. last year's victor, was unplaced, his stable mate, illume, belnr third. Congressman Wilson, of West Vir-' Gen.

Sik Jame. Dormer, commander of the British forces in Madras, is dead, the cable" report stating that he was killed by a tiger. Gen. Dormer married the ughter of Sir Archibald Alison, the I rorian. The countess of Abingdon is his daughter, ger train early the other morning, I while walking- on the track.

I Mrs. Henry Gehrett, one of th old citizens of the county, dropped deed at her home west of Nortonville the other night of heart di.ease, ginia, who is to be chairman of the committee on ways and means, is busi3y enag-ed in framing a new tiriff bill..