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LEOTI CITY, WICHITA COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 18SG. CURRENT COMMENT. I The liabilities of William J. Hooper FEAKFUL EXPLOSION. NTTWS OF THE WEEK.

KANSAS STATE NEWS. The JVtisJnn Agency, lion. G. TV. Glick, pension agent at T-peka, recently completed the annual report cf the transactions of tho Topeka pension agency for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1SSC.

There were on tha peusiou rolls of the agency on June 30, 23,355 pensioners. Duriug the year, through deaths, removals and other causes, 09 pensioners were dropped from the rolls; while 3,934 pensions were added to the rolls, including new pensions granted and transfers from other agencies. The net increase of the ANTI-MONOPOLISTS. Convention of Drlegatrs at Topka TJf ri it form No TU'kct to iMtitod. Tii-lka, Aug.

26. The Anti-Monopoly State Convention met ia tli jesterday find organized by clioosine lion. P. P. Elder, of Ottawa, temporary chairman and W.

II. T. Waki lield, of County, secretary. After appointing the various committees the tenioorsry oruairzation was made pe.rmnneut, and tho convention adjourned until morning, Srcnd lay. Topeka, Aug.

27. The second days session of the anti-uionopoly convention was called to order iu the hall of the GRAND ARMY GOSSIP. Major General Sebofield attended the funeral of S. J. Tiiden at Graystoae, It has been decided to hold a sold es' reunion at Garden Ctv, soma time thia fall.

Six officers of the regular army wero mustered into Reynolds Post, G. A. It-, at Cheyenne, Wye, recently. General Phil Sheridan has a penchant for old coins. He has a very lino of them, which prizes hisb'-y- The Ci ipple Soldiers' Association of the United States will hive a reunion at Lawrence, Septenibsr 7 to 0.

George McCulloeh, a veteran cf the war 1SPJ. died August 5 at Belle Fontaine, Ohio, at the advauced age of uincty-sevea j'ears. The distinguished representatives cf the Loyal Legion present at the National Encampment at San Francisco, Lan-queted by their California comrades just previous to th'-ir departure for and borne via the Northern Pacific railroad. Tho soldiers' reunion of Southwc-tetii Iowa and Northwestern Mi-souri attract ed people to Crei-ton. Iowji, on Align4-IS.

Gcneial Philip Sheridan was present, coining by special train from io. 1L made an address aud was received with great enthusiasm. E. J. Cadv, quartermaster of L'ncol i CYliUS Fillmoue, the only living brother of ex-President Fillmore, has been visiting in Buffalo.

His home is in Indiana. TnE electric light is shortly to replace gas in the Paris Grand Opera. More than six thousand incandescent lamps will be uaed. The late Mrs. Ann 8.

Stephens, the novelist, was the first woman to send a telegraphic dispatch under the ocean via the Atlantic cable. Mr. I). 15. Foy, of Boston, is a son-in-law who deserves the praises of all the ladies.

When he heard of the suicide of his father-in-law, William Gray, he at once deposited ten thousand dollars in bank to the account ol bis wife's mother. kiiakdt, one of the victims oi the recent Mattcrhorn disaster, wrote his will with a pencil on a card which was found in the snow by the side ol his body. It reads: 'I am dying on the Mattcrhorn. I leave all I possess to you, my dear sister. God bless YOU." GovEKNOii Oglksbv.

of Illinois, spoke recently at the soldiers' reunion at Curly le, 111. He said that he would never set the example of calling out the militia whenever any man wanted his property guarded. He would for the preservation of peace, but not for people who do not try to protect themselves. The author of the biography of General Boulanger, the publication of which has caused so much controversy, is Henri Depone. It was written at the time of General Boulanger's visit to the United States to represent France at the centenary of the battle of York-town, and was not intended to be satirical in any respect.

Tin: recall of the French ambassador at the Vatican is regarded in Pari-! as the first step toward the disestablishment and the disendownient of the Church in France, which it is thought will be the result of the Pope's refusal to recede from the position he has taken in regard to China. It is thought that Prime Minister de Freycinet is debating the advisability of repealing the concordat. Proijably the largest literary prize ever offered is one of $1,000,000 to be given in 1925 by the ltussian National Academy for the best work on the life and reign of Alexander I. In shortly after the death of Alexander the sum of oO.OOO rubles was offered by one of his favorite ministers to be jriven as a prize a century after his death, and it is this sum at compound interest which will amount in l'J'25 to A statement issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department regarding immigration, gives the total number of immigrants who arrived at the six principal ports of the United States during the month of July, 18St, as 31,318, an increase oi 3,860 over the number arriving the same month last year. During the seven months ended July 31, 188(5, there arrived 1,313, or more than during the corresponding period of 1885.

Jiikiie is no longer any reasonable doubt that the Government has fully decided to permanently remove from the Territory of Arizona those members of the Chiricahua and "Warm Spring bands of Apaches now on the an Carlos reservation. The only important question not decided is said to be as to where they will be located. This has received earnest and thought, ful consideration, and there now seems to be a probability that they will be placed on the Fort Marion military eservation at St. Augustine, hcrc Chihuahua and bis band are quartered. The value of the exports of merchandise for the month of July, 1886, was 52,787,707, and of the imports, while for the twelve months ended July 31, the exports of merchandise amounted and the imports to $641,852,373.

The value of the imports and exports of tho two precious metals for the same period was as follows: For July. 1886, exports of gold, of silver, imports of gold, of silver, For the twelve months: Exports of gold, of silver, imports of gold, of silver, TnE Democratic Congressional Committee has annulled the printing contract made with Gibson Brothers, of Washington, who are under the ban cf the Typographical Union and the Knights of Labor. They employ nonunion working men. The contract was transferred on the very day it was made and before any work -had been done under it. Mr.

Gibson, the nead of the boycotted firm, interposed no objection whatever to the change. Ho expressed regret at the transfer of work, but said be apprehended the situation and was entirely willing to release the committee from obligations to bis firm. Sons, of Baltimore, who recently failed, are assets including Hooper's interest in tha Morning Herald. The creditors have appointed a committee to arrange a settlement. The Delaware Hudson Canal Company's freight depot at Saratoga, N.

Y. was burned the othar night. Loss, Cka.thall'3 toy factor at Montrose, Susquehanna County, and thirteen business houses and two residences were burned the other night. The loss was Joirx J. Campbell, ex city attorney, committed suicide recently by shooting himself through the head at Kansas City, Mo.

John S. Bradford, assignee of the old Springfield (III.) havings Bank, has begun suit against Congressman William M. Springer for to recover a loan claimed to have been made to Springer years ago, with interest thereon. A tassesger train on the Missouri Pacific was wrecked ten miles east of Warrens-burg, on the 27th. A clerk in the mail car was killed and about twenty passengers seriously and fatally injured.

Sister Eulvlie, the Superioress of the Immaculate Academy, at Newport, was burned to death in bed recently. The schooner Belle Mitchell, from Chicago to Oudensburg with corn, went ashore near Port Colborne, recently during a fog. She was on a rocky bottom, but was making no water. TnE business failures for the week ended August 20 in tho United States aggregated 171 and in Canada 30, against a total of 1G the previous week. Tun experts sent from "Washington to count the money in the United States sub-treasury at Philadelphia have completed their task and found that tho money and the accounts balanced to a penny.

The ex pert.s counted about $27,000,000, of which $15,000,000 was silver. Bayou Sara, was burned on the 27th. The total loss was estimated at over The principal sufferers are Graham $10 insurance, $75,000. There was no doubt that it was of incendiary origin. A destructive prairie fire has raged in Potter and Sully Counties, D.

T. Potter was almost a barren waste and S11H3- was badly burned. There was no way of estimating the damage. Cap-tain William Mooue and party, who were supposed to have beeu lost in the re- ent storm off Indianola, reached their destination in safety. Captain Bailey, who was also reported lost, managed to save himself.

A party of six young man, consisting of Ed Guy, Walter Guy, George Glover, Harry Wilson, Frank iy and Bud Marsh, started up the river from the foot of Madison street, Covington, recently, to indulge seining and fishing on the Dayton sand bar. Their boat was swamped by a passing steamer. All were drowned except Frank Guy and March. At Ganonoque, the other day there wjts a race- between four canoes with sails, two English and two Americans. The two American boats came in first.

One of the English crafts nearly sank and did not finish. A company made up of Western and Southern capitalists has been organized at Wilmington, S. with $200,000 capital, to carry on a lumber business in North Carolina and Florida. The company has secured large tracts of lumber lands in both States. Sergeant-at-ArnM Canaday, of the United States Senate, has been elected president of this concern.

Herman Jaritz, ogea twenty -seven, a fresco painter, while working on the ceil ing of Christ church, Cincinnati, fell thir ty-five feet from tho scaffolding to the floor, breaking his neck. Four of the employes narrowly escaped death in a fire at the hat and cap manu factory of Jacobson Paulson, Chicago, on the 27th. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has been presented with a scrap book con-taiuing over 500 feet of clippings, from up ward of 700 of the leading dailies and weeklies of the United States, of the reports of the recipient's elevation to the cardinalate. The scrap book is bound in full red morocco, embossed front and back in gilt.

AccorxTiNG officers of the Treasury De partment at Washington are in some doubt what to do with the accounts of certain public officers who have been reappointed by tho President since Congress adjourned, but whose nominations have not been acted on bv the Senate. More anarchists have been arrested in Chicago by the police for secretly meeting to devise ways and means for meeting out punishment to the jurymen who convicted the anarchists lately on trial. Discontent prevails in Mr. Parnell's land company. The cholera returns at Rome for August SO were: In Bartellia, 10 new cases and 2 deaths; in Sangiovania Rotando, 15 new cases and 8 deaths; in Molefetta, 10 new cases and 8 deaths; in Ravenna, 12 new cases and 12 deaths; in five other towns an average of 8 new cases and 2 deaths.

The State Department at Washington is waiting anxiously for details concerning the alleged drunken condnet of Mr. Sedg wick, sent to Mexico to examine into the Cutting affair. Governor Ireland has issued a procla mation asking for aid for six counties of Texas whose inhabitants are on the verge of starvation. No rain in those counties to do crops any good has fallen there for tho past fourteen months. Prince Alexander arrived at Listova on the morning of August 30, and his en trance into the town was one continuous triumph.

He has been advised to take precautions against attempts on bis life. As oon as he came to Rustchuck he sent telegrams thanking bis royal friends. Forty-nine arrests have been made at Galway1 Ireland, of persons who resisted the police at Portumua in their endeavors to evict tenants from the estate of Lord Clanricarde. Harry Smith, aged seventeen, son of a Boston merchant, went to Lake Idle wild, recently to swim, and was taken with cramps. Near by was a boat with two ladios and two men.

The ladies refused to have the naked man taken into their boat, ana so he was drowned. Fifty thocsanp Socialists, wcrkmen and idlers met in Trafalgar square, London, recently and adopted resolutions denouncing the tyranny of the police and the action of tht authorities in imprisoning the socialist Williams. The proceedings were orderly. Ax attempt was made at Atlanta recent' ly to blow up with dynamite a who had married a white woman. Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail.

TKKSOXAL AND POLITICAL. Tim Republican campaign in Maine was opened nt Sebago Lake the 24th by Hon. J. It. from "Washington discourage hopes of Secretary Manning's early return to liis duties.

Alexander Krapotkixf, brother of Prince Kraootkine, and the translator of Herbert Spencer's works into Russian, has committed suicide. The Democrats of the Tenth Indiana Cnjvressc'onal district held their convention at Delphi and nominated J. D. Hat-tery. At tho Republican convention at Des Moines.

on the 2-th, the State ticket was completed as follows: For Auditor, Captain Lyons; Attorney General, A. J. llaker; Clerk of the Supreme Court, G. B. Tray; Supremo Court Reporter, E.

C. Ebersole. Er.v. James C. Bi-ectter.

of Coseob, brother cf Revs. Henry Ward and Thomas K. Reecher, committed sn cidc at tho water cure at Elrnirn. N. on the 25th.

by shooting himself through the head with a rifle. He had been suffering under severe mental troubles for a number of 3-cars and for a time was under treatment at the Middletown asylum. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was reported seriously ill in England and had canceled several lecture engagements. L.

S. Moo kr has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Eighth Texas district. Jidoe J. F. riiu.urs, of Kansas City, has been nominated by the Democrats for the Fifth Missouri Congressional district.

Clifton R. Uueckkxkioge has been nominated for Congress by acclamation by the Democrats of tho Second Arkansas district. In a private letter Mali en a says under no circumstances will he be a candidate for Congress. ex En. vi.

Jonx Newtox, chief of engineers. Laving served more than forty years a.s an officer of the army, has been at his own request by direction of the President retired from active service. California Republicans have nominated John F. Swift for Governor; R. W.

Waterman, of San Bernardino, for Lieutenant Governor; W. S. Moore, for Secretary of and J. II. Neff, State Treasurer.

The amendment to the Queen's speech was rejected iu the British Commons by not to 1SI. Gladstone's brochure on the home rule was issued in Loudon on the 27th. MISCELLANEOUS. Fiktiif.u disorders, but without loss of life, were reported in Belfast on the 25th, the mob confined thomselves to stoning the police. Six arrests were made.

The international polo match between the Hurlingham (English) and the Westchester (American) clubs came off at Newport, It. on the 25th. The Englishmen won easily and rapidly, by 10 goals to 4. Percy Relmout, of tha Americans, subsequently dined both clubs. The Boston yacht Mayflower won the second trial race and will be matched with the British cutter Galatea for the America cup.

The shipping trade of Glasgow, Scot land, was reported in a worse condition that ever before known, and the depression was entirely due to the low rates of freight. Thirty-four steamers and 123 ships belonging to that port have been idle for the last two years. Sut J. Gokst, Under Secretary for India, stavnl iu the British House of Commons that the loss of life caused by the breaking of the Irrawaddy river's embankment in Mandalay, Burniah, was only twenty-five. No Europeans had been drowned.

A St. Andrews bay pilot reports the seizuro of iho American schooner J. Ken-dedy, of Calais, for violation of the revenuo iaws trading iu two British ports. She had carried a cargo of coal from Sydney to St. Andrews.

The street car strike at New York was amicably settled on the 2(kh. Owing to tho absence of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and tho assistant secretary of tho same office, Miss Minnie S. Cook acting as the head of the Indian office. A Milvackee (Wis.) special says: ''The troubles between the Gambrinus Assembly of the Knights of Labor and Best's and other breweries has been adjusted by the State Executive Board of tho Knights of Labor. Tho assembly will withdraw the boycott and non-union men will be given a chance ti join the Knights if they wish.

It is sa that ow ing to the popularity of sleeping ear baths in Canada they will be adopted in this country. Russian officials, on tho 2Gth, denied em phaticaliy that they had any thing to do with the abduction of Prince Alexander. The Prince had arrived at Darmstadt. lie resolved to return to Bulgaria on hearing of the counter revolution. A covenant between England and Germany has been signed, amicably settling tha New Guinea boundary question.

MAKtFAC-TCRnRS of tho country were in session at Chicago recently to arrange some plan cf handling couvict labor that shall not interfere with free labor. Dr. Emas itel Dreifies, convicted of subornation oi perjury in the Ford case, at New Orleans, was sentenced on the 20th by Judge Baksr to seven years ia the peniten tiary. Eighty-focr new cases of cholera and thirty eight deaths were reported in Italy on the 26th. Another strike is brewing among the miuers the Baltimore Ohio railroad a reduction of wages being the cause.

The Fank cf England has advanced the rate of discount from 2 to 3Jj per cent. It is reported that the Halifax (N. Sugar Refinery Company is in financial difficulty. The refinery is one of the largest and best known in the world. The concern has acapitalof $1,000,000 and has been in operation only a few years.

Dax Grceixe, of Antioch Mills, near Cynthiana, who secreted money from his creditors, was mobbed and lynched by them, though they had promised to save Lim on a disclosure of the money. The Ellenville (N. rrexx announces its former editor, Deputy State Comp troller Thomas E. Benedict, has been ten deredby President Cleveland and accepted the posiUon of Public Printer at Washing ton. Tus Holland Chambers have passed the bill incroas'ng the duty on foreign, raw sugars.

Lightning Creates ITavoc Among Chicago Powder Houses. Chicago, Aug. 30. At 9:13 o'clock yesterday morning iu the midst of a heavy tliunder storm the powder belonging to the Lafiin Rand Powder Company iu Brighton, a suburb, was struck by lightning. An explosion followed, which, destroyed property valued at 75,000, besides kiliiug one person almost instantly, fatally injuiing four others, and inflicting painful injuries on nearly twenty-five mora.

he combined elTor of a hard fought battle, a cyclone and the withering flishes of lightning could not have presented a picture of inoie terrible desolation and destruction t'iaa did the country for half a mile in all directions from the exploded magazine. Yesterday opened gloomily. At eight o'clock rain becan falling furious ly. Flashes of lightning were soon chasing each other across the whole firmament and tho heavens seemed ablaze, while the thunder was deateinni. The dead and fatally injured are: Miss Carrie Ahernwer'tli, kiiicd instantly; Peter Kenn, a farmer, ribs brosen and fearfully burned; John Guhl, teamster for the Oriental Powder Company, ribs fractured, right lea broken in two places, internal wounds; Mrs.

skull crushed; Mrs. Eliza De-viue, light leg crushed to a jelly, breast transfixed by a strip of class. The shock caved in two magazines of the Oriental Powder Company and Mo those belonging to the Warren Powder Company, tliu Hazard and the Dnpor.t and the Forcite dyn-tmito storehouse. The Lallin Hand company was the only one which ex- p.oueu. here it stood is now an tnmienso excavation nearly fifty feet ia depth.

The magazine of he Laflin Rand Tow-dcr Company was ono of the largest of a dozen structures in the neighborhood. It was a substantial brick house 70x30 feet in d'nieiuion, with a slate roof and one iroa door of great strength. The magazine was 300 feet east of the cottaere of John Guhl and 700 feet from i lie residence of Mr. Tier- nan. Just preceding the explosion a Ion electric llauie seemed to burst, from a cloud directly over Lallin Rand's magazine.

In an instant the air was titled with flying niissiies. Masses of brick and clay, sheets ot tin, large stones and pieces of timber performed indescribable gyrations lundreds of feet in the air, soma falling bnck to tho points from which they started, while otlu rs shot off through space with a frightful velocity, only con forming to the laws of gravity after Ion? nights. Stones weighing from ten to fifty pounds were thrown into fields two miles from tha scene, ireos were stripped, fe.ices by the mile were laid low, teleirraph wires snapped end the prairie bore seams as of a thousand steam plows. Not a building within a mile of the explosion escaped damage. A FAMILY TRCltllil.r MANGLED.

The cottage of John Guhl with its sur rounding outhouses was laid low, and in a moment parts of the exploded warehouse bgan falling on the cottag. Guhl's family consisted of himself, uis wife and Carrto Ahernwortu, fourteen years of aire. The latter was instantly killed, while Guhl and his wife were draped from the ruins frightfully mantrled. Their horses, cow and swine were all killed by the concussion and the bodies blown lull of dirt, sand and powder, i lie ruins of Gum house Im mediately caught lire and the smouldering frHgments burned out during tho day. Directly south of Lallin Rand's powder house facing the Archer avenue road to the northwest stood the modest ldtle frame house of Mrs.

Eliza Devine. It had only one room but was enough for its only occu pant She had reached tho age of sixty-five, had seen her children marry aud had hoped to spend her remaining days in the peace and quiet of her little home. What little was required for her support she earned by nuking dresses for women in the neighborhood, hat fie old womau experienced when the cxp'osinn took place, about seventy-five feet from her, will never be written. When the frightened peighbors were satisfied that the rain of stones had ceased they found that Mrs. Devine's house was a total wreck.

It did not have tho appearance which characterized the ruins of Guhl'a house that of having been blown away by a strong wind but it bad simply collapsed melted as it were. The debris was not scattered, but it occupied the same amount of space as did the lioii30 before the ex plosion. The presence of a stone weighing about three hundred pounds on tho top of the rums indicated that the house was squeezed together like a shell and its in mates canght without a chance to escape. Willing hands were soon at work, and after much labor she was extricated. Her right leg from the knee down was crushed into a sliapelt mass of flrsU and bone.

A large piece of glass entered just under her left collar bone, and had been forced out through her arm pit. Peter Ken n. a farmer from Orland, was driving past in his wagon on 1 lie Archer road, and was immediately in front of the great magazine when the bolt struck. lie was blown 200 feet in the corn field, r.r.d when picked up was found to be frightfully Injnred. One of his horses wa3 killed outright and hurled into a ditch at the side of tho road.

Tho other animal was ladly hurt and the wagon was reduced to bits. The exploded magazine contained, it is estimated, 140,000 pounds of powder and half much dyuamite. In the neighboring ten storehouses were 500,000 pounds of dynamite and twice as much powder. Not one of the eleven buildings had a lightning rod or conductor. When the first shock of the magazine explosion reached the Jesuit Church of the Holy Family at Twelfth street and Island avenue, five miles distant, ten o'clock mass was gninz on in the basement of the edifice.

The rafters shook and the building trembled like ail aspen leaf. There were between 1,000 and 1,200 people at the service. Rev. Father Iegae was the celebrant. The worshipers got op on the benches and made an indiscriminate plunge for the staircase and windows.

The latter were knocked out, casings and a' I. The atmcst confusion prevailed. Men fell io neaps over fainting women and children io get out On the grounds adjoing the church and in the excitement many were knocked down and trampled under foot. Father Legae's admonition to the congregation to remain seated was drowned iu the passionate appeals for help from women and children. Strange to relate, no one was hurt The Striking Switchmen.

Chicago, Aug. 23. The striking Laka Shore switchmen hve gone into pugilistic circles to replenish their funds, and this afternoon under their auspices there will be an eight-round set-to with small clove between Charles O'Donal, the middle weight champion of Ohio, and Thomas Hineti, the well known Illinois pugilist, for i purse of 250. The edict of Mayor Car-ier Harrison, prohibiting pugilistic exhibi-tlops, is still in force, and to avoid interference the affair is to Uke place in Oswald's harden, cn the outskirts of the city. tr I 'V.

'1 list for the agency for the year was The total disbursements for tho year were $5,013,831.31, of which tho invalid pensioners received survivor cf the war of 1S12, $3,203 07; widows and relations of the survivors of 1S12, 424.85. There we.s paid cut in fees to attorneys, to surgeons for f-jos, $41,355.85, and the expenses of the agency, including salary of tho agent, clerk hire and other expenses, were $12,761.37. Forty- nine pensioners get but per month; receive 2.9.'C, 4,231, 1,531. $12; COS, 1G; 1,205, $24; 029, $3 "49, 137.50; $t0; 75, S4 received $72 per month, while the balance range in various lums between the two exsremes. 3Ii-cll ineoin.

Mrs BE.cn and her nino-year-old son, of Parsons, were recently drowned near Dallas, Tex. The boy was swimming In Trin ity river and took cramps. Seeing his struggles the mother rushed into the water to save him and both were drowned. A stranger, who went to "the rescue, was also drowned. A stock train eastward bound on the i Union Pacific railroad nvtwitha accident near Silver Lake the other morn- inp, the caboose being thrown from tiio I track and the trucks torn from under, precipitating the car across the rails, causing a delay of all trains for about five hours.

A stockman by the name of J. B. McKin- i ney, of Centralia, was thrown from his seat and seriously injured. Now it is saidthat instead of being kid- napped, as reported, S. N.

Wood has only been arrested for criminal libel. Tiiure are forty-three divorco cases on the district court docket at Leavenworth to lie tried at the eusuing term. Recently the residence of Mr. John R. Lewis, of Topeka, was entered by thieves, who stole a handsome gold watch and chain.

Mr. Lewis was satisfied that ha knew tho parties who committed the depredation, but remained quiet to await developments. The following morning ho received a postal card iufornviig himfthat by inquiring at Iho post-office be would find his watch. He did as directed and found his watch, minus the chain. Henry Price and son recently visited Oberlin to look after some business before tho United States land-office.

After transacting his business the old man filled up on contraband liquid, and at night while aleep in his wagou was robbed of $150. Peter Kennedy was arrested and identified by father and son as the party who was with them, and he was held for the robbery. The executive committee of tho Methodist Sunday School Assembly met at Topeka the other night and located their assembly in Topeka for the next ten year3. A tabernacle, two two story normal halls, two boarding halls, a secretary's office, a baggage room, are to be built in Garfield park, which is to be improved. The next assembly is to bo held July 20, 18S7.

Rev. J. B. Young, of Penns3lvania, was reelected superintendent of instruction. H.

C. PeMott, L.L and Mrs. DeMott were alo re elected to their positions. Willie Sell has been taken to the penitentiary. Post-office changes in Kansas during the week ended August 21: Established, Beelerville, Ness Couuty, Elmer E.

Boelar, postmaster; Hancock, Laue Counfy, Joseph G. L. Rhodes, postmaster; Hendricks, Finney Couuty, Frank C. Niles, postmaster. Names changed, Churchill, Ottawa County, to Tescon, Nathaniel H.

Eddy, postmaster; Santana, Comanche Couuty, to Comanche, Isaac S. Dewers, postmaster. Discontinued, Mission Creek, Wabaunsee Counlv; Redbauk, Kingman County; Read, Norton County; Redwood, Dickinson County; flay, Sumner County; York, Ottawa County. Tnn executive committee of the Republican State Central Committee has prepared for tho opening of the campaign by providing for one grand mas3 meeting at Topeka, September 15; one at Columbus, September 25, and one at Washington October 6. Is Gypsum City, a small town in Salins County, Aaron Gasso and a party named Lessure recently became involved ia a dis pute over the lease of a lot, when Gasso, becoming enraged, struck Lessure over the head with an iron bar, inflicting fatal iujuries.

Gasso fled, but was captured shortly after and barely escaped being lynched. The following Kansas postmasters were commissioned on the 27th: William Mead, at P. Pugh, at Cottonwood Falls John G. Harr, at Nixon. Pensions were recently granted the fol lowing Kansas soldiers: William Wat- kins, of Independence; C.

F. Lynes, of Oneida, and A. McMillan, of Hayes City. There ill be a grand reunion of soldiers and Indianians at Chanute September 10 and 11. Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, will be the orator.

Governor Martin, Colonel Moonlight, Senator Ingalls, Senator Plumb and Judge McCrary are also down for ad dresses. Among the numerous charters filed with the Secretary of State on the 27th was that of the St. Louis, Fredonia Denver Puiil way Company. The object of the com pany is to build a road from some point on the St. Louis, Wichita Western road, through the counties of Wilson, Green wood, Butler, Chase, Marion, Dickinson, Saline, Ottawa, Lincoln, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith, Phillips, Jewell and Cloud to the northern boundary of the State.

Capital stock, $2,500,000. County seat wars boom. The officers of the Kansas Fair Association are assured that the big fair of this yeai is to be held at Topeka, beginning September 23. The board of directors have arranged to send representatives to the local fairs throughout the State to present the advantages of the Topeka fair to exhib itors and its superior attraction for visit ors. A negro boy only twelve years old, who for six months bad caused much trouble in North Topeka, was recently arrested, hav icg in his possession a stolen horse.

The young scamp "i name is John Wesley Wil liams. JIoue of Representatives at ten o'clock. jesttrday morning, the first businrs be-! ing the Selection of a StateCentr.il Committee. The following gentlemen were selected from each Conjricss'onal diaiiricl: Firt di-tikt A. Ilarculi, of Atchison County, end A.

J. It. Smith, of .1 ffctHia County. Second district P. P.

der, of Couuty, and iot I.ee, of Linn County. Thud district A. M. Fellows, Labette Count j', and M. E.

Bair, of Neosho County. Fourth disiiiit J. I Sli.rp. Morris County, and P. 15.

Jinxon, of hnipona. Fifth distrirt J. X. I.unbocker. ot lMey County, and W.

II. T. WnketitfUl, of County. Sixth district 11. A.

Hart, of Rooks County, and C. L. Lamb, or Phillips County. Seven: district Richard of Sedgwick. County, and 11 N.

Clark, of Finney County. The Commitb'e on Resolutions reported the following platform: The Anti-Monnpolv uartvof It; State of Kunsas. in convention its lul'tert'iice lo the priiiflrn- hre stan d. 1'rohiUitinn of Iho lienor I runic bavins: le-come fi.el voi cy of tlie au tlio voice of the people, itc hereby favor the lijrid cnlorci uient of the law. The important question of ir.rifl" as M-ussoii is mere v.

ianplc as lo the part height of the tt-nco on one of a farm vi lo lhe other f. ili-s eri Sell eat rely eon. Thus the fu called protect. ve laritT insure good prices for the innnul'actur np labor but -re is no proteit.on ngainsl the ii of competing laborers. For many years the ra brands and manufacturing: corporations have been raiisiieWinK-Europe and even Aela for cheap laliorers with which to drive Americana church and ecuool mbig capueitr mid Dually into idleness pauper.

sin and cr me: HiidHrt sh landlords have been importing the tenant Ferts of Europe at 7 a head in servile coinpetit on vrit'i American farmrn. TIj is a much lower rale than Kiny paid for Hessians to tiulu the t-f liberty in 1770. rue tenant sens nnnos nre im.i paying to cruel, proud Lord Scully of Gordon annually lor She pHvdcjre of cul-livat ng American noil. ri his same ul en Iihs read laid the foundation of several dukedoms in the Mate t.f Kansas. A policy of protection worthy of the imuio should pro-ect the laborers and fanners of America a well as the manufacturing corporations, and our population should not be driven into poverty and want by importation of ihe fcrls and criminals of Europe nor tho moral and pin cat lepers of As a.

The man thousands of pension claims now on fiie in the Cdhce should be promptly examined and nit just claims allowed. All money, whether paper or metal, should be issued and its value controlled by Ihe penerul government and not by and bank njr corporations, and it should bo irel tender for alt debts public and pr vatc, and its volume inn In rained in accordance with demands of trade und commerce. The immense surplus of moner now hoarded iu the treasury of tho United States should be promptly i educed to a nvnimum safe limi by pamcnts on the interest bear tip debt. We favor the ahold on of all laws author the collection of interest above three per cent, per annum. We favor a sstora of Government telegraph ns an adjiiwet of the postal service.

Tho ra bond or the Vn.tcd fMntes arc putv Ilc highways belonjrinir to the peoplo and ns such should be controlled ny the Government in the interest of the people. All public lands should be for hoinei for thepronlo and should be d.sposed of to actual settlers only. Alien non resident ownership should cease and be forever prohibited, and non resident spcculatlvo land-holding' should bo diKeourns-ed. All lands forfeited for non-paj merit of taxes should be held for actul settlers upou the same, and should not be allowed to pas3 into the hands of speculators. Ilesoivtrt.

That we demand the speedy removal cf all barriers to homestead seillera of ail unoccupied lands of the Indian Territory, and that Ihe passaue of a law for the organization of ti Oklahoma territory be no longer delaved by Congress. lifzolcrd, lhat we condemn as undormiulna to the improved farm, diseourajtintf to sot-tlcmcnt and burdensome to the taxpayer th! present cattle industry, whereby organized capital is permitted iiy irr Federal Government to producu beef or. the public lands without cost, rendering unsalable much ol the products of the farm, malting Ihe settlement of new countries difficult and placing capital so beyond the reach of taxation. The following resolution was reported by the Committee on Wnr.itEAs. The present depression of trade aud mp otatinn of discontent and uiiiesl among the producing classes threatens th downfall of the repnblicand the subsl.tutioti of a military despotism: and, Wiikueas, The present, unjust cond tion affairs is the direct consequence of discriminate or class legislation in behalf of the fc an 1 aga'nst the many.

i.Vxorrd, That this convention make mv nominations for exoutive offices but that tbi delegates and are hereby instructed to return to their respective districts and do tiie i utmost to secure the election of such candidates in the lejmlat vc districts and to Con-cress a II niedte themselves to secure the of ali measures for relief of laboi harmony with the auti-inonopohst. Greenback and Knights of Labor declaration cl principles. The resolution caused considerable debate, but it was finally adopted. Mr. liar-ouff, of Atchison County, became so Incensed by the action that- he withdrew his name from the executive comiuiltee of tho First Congressional district.

At Urn paint Mr. Marsii, cf Shawnee Comity, r.rofe and f.laicd that on account cf a division anions Hie Shawnee County labor advocates they were unable to raise 5 lo pay Colonel Jes.se Harper's expenses. lie asked that a collection Ihj taken up to pay him. Mr. Henry, one of the prominent labor agitators of this city, who had participated in the city park meetings for some time past, in a very warm and excited manner denied that Shawnee County could not raise the amount necessary to pay Colonel Harper.

Tin closing hour of the convention was spent in sl.crt a Idiea es. Pan Solly In Jail. New Yckk, Aug. 27. Daniel Sullivan, the belter known as Dan Sully, of "The Comer Groceiy," hs been arrested and lodged in Ludlow street jail, on a sail I brought by his wife for absolute divorce and alimony.

Ho was arrested while performing at Tony Pastor's, but was permitted to iuilsh the performance. The complainant tell? a harrowing story of woe, neglect and desertion, and further alleges infidelity with Louise Fox. a former member of Sullivan's company. Attacked br a Sow. Maksiifield, Aug.

20. In Hazle-wood township, in this county, a few days since, the small child of Colenel George L. Childreff, whilo playing in the orchard near the house shoved the paling over, so as to hold a pig that was trying to pqueezo through the fence. The squealinz of tho pijr attracted th attention of the sow, and it rushed upon the child, a boy of less than two years, with great ferocity and mangled hii: in a fearful manner. It was at first supposed tnat recovery was impossible, buS at last sccouabj the child was improving.

Post, died suddenly at Topeka a few days since. Comrade Cady was ulso a of Lincoln Tost Flambeau club, mi went with that organization to San Franciscc lie was tafcen sick on the return trip and died soon after reaching General Sheridan recently made bis annual visit to his nged mother at Somerset, Ohio, tho General's birthplace. Mrs. Shei-idan is eighty-seven years old and is still active, mentally and pbj-sically. Tho village was profusely decorated in honor of the distinguished hero of Winchester.

San Francisco having lately been agitating itself as to who was the youngest soldier in the war, the Jiejtrt says: esteemed contemporaries are welcome to tho remainder of the discussion if they foci like carrying it on. There are, we know, 'youngest soldiers' in almost every city iu the United States, and probably there ere a few colonized iu Lcndou and Paris. San Francisco has live, with several precincts to hear from." The late meeting of the National Association of Mexican War Veterans at De Moines, Iowa, was in every way a fcuccess. After tho roll of officers had teen called, the entire assemblage proceeded to do honor to Father French, of Iowa, a survivor of the war of 1SI2. As he approached the rostrum General Given introduced him and gave a wrap of his war record: also Uncle David orris, another survivor of that war.

and both received an ovation. The secretary's report showed a membership of 8,500. The officers of the preceding year were re-elected as follows: President, General J. W. Denver, of Ohio; vice-president, ex-Governor Manson, of Indiana; secretary, A.

M. Kenady, of Washington, D. C. treasurer, L. I.

Niles, of Washington. D. C. marshal, Major McFadiiu, of Indiana. STOCK ITEMS.

The average price obtained for Colorado wool this season has been IS cents. The clip will be 1,000,000 pounds more than that of last year. So it cost the American Agricultural and Dairy Association to secure tho passage of the Oleomargarine bill, or two cents a pound on pounds of butter. Some Congressmen come high. Lire-Stork Indicator.

In buying pigs for breeding stock the best is tho cheapest, though it cost a little more money. The reason hy breeders justify themselves in saving runt is because some men are thoughtless enough to buy them at a low price, The horns of cattle can be grown harm-' less by cutting arouud the epper side close to the root of tha horns of calves five or six months old, while the horn is solt. This will cause the horns to grow down and the points to nearly touch the checks. Regularity in feeding and milking is an important consideration iu providing for the comfort of cows. If fed at irregular hours they are in alternate conditions of hunger and surfeit, and cows soon learn tr let down their mil4- at certain hours, and if not milked thin, they often suffer greatly when in full milk.

It is said thnt a company is forming in New York to control the beef having purchased the right to use a new discovery made by a Frenchman, who will soon soon arrive m.iue unueu oiuf-principle is slaughter the and hermetically seal it in huge coska, Iho meat thus keeping six months without ice or the application of any antiseptic. A farmer in Pasumpsie, is said to have made SloOapiece from the milk of hi twenty-two cows last year, and the saui cows gave him during TuatN nothing. Out here just south of West port, Mr. W. L.

Hickman has nearly a hundred Jerseys, which make him an average of $100 a year each. But Mr. Hickman gets thirty five cents a pound for Lutter. Lht. Siofk Indicator.

The farmer who say Jerseys will do for town, but are no account on the farm should know that in October, Mr. Howard Johnson bought a four-year-old cow and a two-year-old heifer for $10X From that date till May 31, 1S30, or twenty months, he sold from them $125 worth of butter: sold the youitger cow and calf for $125, and now has a co and calf for which he can command $150 any minute. He sold a male calf for $7. and had all the milk, cream and butter that the family of four to five could use, which amounted to at least $3 per month, or $o0 for the time. Here is a grand total ot $461 in twenty months from a $100 investment, and not over $100 at the outside was required for feed.

Would not that pay anywhere! OsJtcZiO'i (om) Glub. Farm Notes. A large number of Otoe County (Neb.) farmers have constructed fish pords. Frank Edmundson, an industrious farmer living near Columbus Junction, Iowa, this year planted and tended forty acres of com, and baa raised and threshed bushels of oats and all of this with a outlay of only $30. All small apples and others defective in foraa or damaged by worms have their best market on the farm as food for animals.

If packed with sound fruit, even In small proportion, they reduce the price of all even to the point of loss. I i 3 i "i i 1.