The Eskridge Home Weekly from Eskridge, Kansas • 1

The kridge Home EEKLY, D. V. DOW1), EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. ESKR1DGE, AVABAXSEE KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1887. VOL.

VI. NO. 29. WHOLE NO. 289 BBOOELTK'3 C09LMISSIOXKBJS.

KANSAS NEWS. PUGILISTIC POLANDEK3. WHOLKSALJt ROBBERY. THE PANHANDLE OANO. NEWS NOTES.

PROCUMTM. How They Were "Seen- by Parties Who The office of mirjister from Austria to the Desire Frivllecea. Nkw Yobk, April 9. The legislative com United States haa been vacant for two year? FOI A SPECIAL Election in Minion Cr-k Townchip ii Wabaonseu county, Kansas. Bat credentials have been presented to in Uie matter or raittee of investigation into Brooklyn municipal affairs held another session to-day.

John Ward cars some rather pointed testi President Cleveland by the Chevalier Schmit von Tavera. He had previously served five Tlis Missouri, Kansas Western years as a member of the legation. mony. The witness in 1879, paid $10,000 for RAILWAY CO PAW, a parcel of land at bfaeepsneal xtay. it had rpo TIIK QUALIFIED elet-'-r of Minion been scheduled by the trustees tor that Incendiary fire tn the town of Knty, Austrian Gallacia, has rendered 1,000 Crwk township in Vabauiu toucty Kansas.

nameless. amount before the sale. He denied paying any money for their favorable Short Whereas, on the th day of March, 1-T. there commissioner unas. oreen, u.

s. re ly after that purchase be sold tired, died suddenly at Province, aged 73 one-third of the property for Systematic Stealing on the Panhandle Railroad Unearthed stolen Whisky the Cause of the Recent Railway Horrors in Ohio. Pittsbuso, April 11. The gang of railroad robbers operating on the Panhaidle system, have been detected. The first arrests were made about 2 o'clock this morn-irg, the police ui prising eighteen men at their boarding house.

The men were taken at onoe to jail. Further arrests were made between 2 o'clock and daylight, when forty-six, all railroad employes, conductors, brakemen, firemen and engineers, were behind the bars. In speaking of the arrests, a prominent official of the Panhandle road said: "These robberies have bsen oarriei on sjstematioally tor several years. The cam-, puny has long been aware that there was a le kige somewhere, and as early as Sep-einber, 1886, they quietly cooimeneed investigations. Detectives were placed on years.

The president has appointed Benton J. 600. Trustees Uackin, Unborn, lundy and Kelson kindly told him the price. Ia 1877 the witness paid $500 indirectly to the com Hall, of Iowa, comimaeioner of patents, vice -si. resignea.

missioners to procure a lease of land that he subsequently purchased. The commissioners were John Deeiineux, David Snedeker and Bernard Dire. Snedeker told him to leave the money in a certain vacant house Tte Ontario and West road has formally withdrawn from the emigrant pool, and can was preentt to tiie board of county commissioners of said county, in special aestsion daiy con-venel, a petition 6itniei by more than two-fifths of the tax payers of paid Mission township said board of commiFeioners to snbmit tothe finalified electors of said Mission Creek township a proposition to cnbscribe to tnree hundred ebaree of oD hundred dollars each of the capital stof of the Missouri, Kansas and Soarh Western Kail way company, and in payment therefor, to issno to 6ail railroaii company thirty of the bonds of said Mission Creek township of 'he denomination of one thousand dollars each, f-11 on the terms and conditions Bet forth in said petition, which petition, omitting the siirnatures of the signers thereof, is in words and figures as follows to-wit: PETITION. T- the nonoroble Board of County Commissioners of the County of Wabaimaee, in the btate open an independent route to fJhicaco by connection with the Grand Trunk at Sus on the beach. He left the door open and the commissioners went in.

He saw after pension Bridge. A eii-foot driftway is be ine rapidly con. wards that the money was taken. The wit ness heard afterwards that that was the tray the commissioners were seen. structed under the St.

Clair river, near Port Huron, by General Sooy Smith. Men are John MoPherson, an an working from shafts on either Bide. oyster house on some leased lands at Coney The Southern Kansas depot at Harper, is to be enlarged, a thing badly needed. Senator Plumb proposes to put in three drinking fountains in Emporia at his own expense. Harper is to undergo a change which will advance her from a city of the third class to one of the second class.

Marysville Kews: The shipment from Ferry Hutchinson's mill, at Marysville, last year, waa fifteen hundred and twenty-seven car loads. Ellinwood Express: Mrs. J. W. Martin, living ten miles north of this place, gave birth this morning to triplets, two boys and one girl.

Mother and children are all doing well. Wellington Press One of the brakemen on a freight train, named Sherman, was recently crushed between the cars in such a manner that one of his limbs is crushed to a jelly. Dodge City Lire Stock Journal; W. Sherlock and H. C.

Cherrington were appointed by the Ford County Immigration society as agents to workup excurs.ons in the eastern states. Sterling Republican: Memorial college is to be 118 feet and 6 inches by 48 feet and 3 irohes, four stories high, including basement, and 100 feet from the ground to the finiaL It will or tain 18 class rooms, society halls and one chapel. Ness City Times: Mrs. Mary Bacon, of Ness City, haa been acting peculiarly, and was especially so on the subject of religion. Her mind has finally given away nnder the strain, and she will be sent to the asylum, having been adjudged insane.

Mai vane Record: Mr. Reed has been to Chicago where he was shown the old hand p-ess upon which tie Mormon bible was pi inted. This press is the property of Mar-der, Luse and is valued very highly by them as a relic of by-gone days. Garden City Sentinel: The burning of a railroad bridge across the irrigating ditch about four miles east of this city, on Sunday, delayed the west bound passenger train nearly four hours. The damege was re IalaiA He said that the three commission As the tenants on the Irish estate of Lord era called at his house one day and told him of KanFos: Lansdowne refuse to compromise, the evio tion of all in arrears will be commenced on to leave some money in the basemeat.

He left a roll containing $300. An hour after We, the nnd-rsiirned. yonr petitioners, each b-ine a refident tax payer of the township of Mi-iod Crwk. in Wabaunsee county, in the State April 20. wards he looked in and the money was gone.

of Kansas, respectfully petition yonr honorable He ha I no doubt who had taken it. The witnew euppoaed sthat everybody had to fee ine commiauoubn iuy cuiuj body submit to the qualihl electcrs ot said township for their aco i-tiin'-e or rejection, at a secial election to be onJered by yoor honorable body, under and in pursuance of the laws of the state of Kansas, and th art entitled "An act to get a lease. They wanted Ci.000. The Kind of Material that Is Heine Imported Into the United States -Rum. KovidyWu and Rebellion.

Desvii, April 11. A riot occurrea last night between rival Swede, Pole an Hungarian colonies at the corner of Thirty, fourth and Blake streets. The settlem where the riot occurred is C3mpasel- oi from twenty-five to thirty am lies, who livt in small one fatory houses not more than ten by twenty feet square. The nun are mostly employed in the smelters and foundries located in the neighborhood. Th melee grew put of a long standing jealousy in the settlements over a young Polish woman named Alice Falka, who yesterday morning left the settlement on the south side of the street and spent the- day with a rival colony on the north side.

In honor of visit several kegs of beer were tapped, which caused frequent brawls during tie afternoon and until late in the evening, when members of the mob became beast intoxicated at tbe house adjoining, where from fifteen to twenty men were celebrating the visit of the girl. Mr. and Mrs. Krands, rivals of their neighbors, har? pre-pun to celebrate the christening of their eight months old child, and had invited in a number of friends, and had also in.i 1 in a supply or beer. Tbe Krands crowd had reached an advanced stage of intoxication by midnight, and some of them going out of the bouse accidentally met a number from the other house, situated not over ten feet away.

A fight immediately ensued. The Krauds, reinforced from those inside, drove their rivals into their houe, when a wild scene took place. Chairs, tables aad bed-teada were broken up and the pieces used as weapons to pound eaoh other over the Many knocked penselesfs and tramp hid 'foot nntil life was almost extinct. Piaster was torn from the walls and glass in the house smashed until it looked as though it had been raked with canister after this bittar fight. The Kraud i crowd wera driven nto their house, where the tame scene was transacted.

Several shots were fired, and a Pole named Riboretoh was fatally shot and others seriously wounded. The polio of the neighborhood attempted to quiet the disturbance and make arrests but were driven away by the mob. Reinforcements were sent for and the central station patrol wagon immediately responded. Twelve policemen armed with Winchesters surrounded the house. The mob at first attempted to resist and m-r'e a dash at the officials, armed with clubs, kn'ves and revolvers, but when they were i et the bluecoats ready to fire into them they iell back and made little resistance.

Only one or two of the prisoners can speak EDglish. They are ragged and dirty, snatteTed with blood and dirt. Jtauny of themicAme to Denver one week ago, direct from Hungaria, Poland and Bohemia- Abraham Bowser, a printer employed on the Hagerston. Globe, was caught in the act of rifling the money drawer of his employer, who runs a general store in the front part of his printing office. Overcame with shame and dread of the consequences of his act, Bowsr drew a revolver and blew his brains out.

He leaves a wife and three Andrew Walsh, a Gercaan keeper enable counties, townships and cities to aid at Coney Island, teetrced tnti to was acx The Great Cough Cure -is rushing us but th-derrnd w.ii lz Euppi'id. Vizn an COUSSENS' HONEY OF TAE, is cjs tat v.vl positively zz CONSUMP-TIONand rVz all THROAT and LUNG the Puhiie rjay rely on bzi.qg suppled. 22 that you Q2t t'r2 Coussens' Honey of Tar, and General Stores everywhere keep it. MBYBR BROTHERS ar.d RICHARDSON DR.UQ as well as all other respectable wholesalers keep the genuine COUSSENS" HONEY of TAB, Price 25. end 60 O'l.

ious to lease some land, lis ii.rm'ed to see Lawyer Howell and get I. is did not bribe anybody, but the lawyer charged the construction of railroads, and to rei-ai section einht. of chapter thirty-nine, of the laws of 1S71, apprr.yed Ff-brnarv 2T. and the amendments thereto, the following proposition wth th terms and conditions herein specified, to-wit: Fhall the said township of Mission Creek, in small children. The interstate commerce commission.

him $200 for drawing up the lease. He thought it pretty steep, as be bad never paid ever $5 before. He was not going to law Said Wabaunsee county, in the state of Kansas, with the man. after listening to the appeals of various southern railways, haa suspended in that section, for a period of ninety days, the operation of the long and short haul section of the law. David Manning, a lawyer, testified as to subscribe for three hundred snares oi one Hundred dollars each, of the capital stock of the Missouri, Kansas Southwestern Hallway Company, and in payment therefor issue to said rail-thirtv of the bonds of said town the reculiar cii com stances under which beer bottlerHerrmsn Tbiemig paid to "a party in New xork for some of tbe pob Arthur Terry has been brought back from New )rlea-j to Aurora.

Illinois, to answer lie lands of the town of Gravesend ship of tie denomination of one thousand dollars esch, or so many thereof (not exceedine said number) as shall amount to not exec dins The Railroad Company Putting New Men to Work in Their Piacea Further Developments in this Latest Sensation. Pittsbcbg, April 12. The wholesale arrest of employes of the Panhandle railroad for robbing freight trains continues be the principal topic of conversation amrng railroad men and citizens generally. Superintendent Taylor's office ws.s bet-ieged from early morning by dozens of men who were in search of employment, flocked to the depot so fast that the line of them extended outside of the office, waiting for their applications for a situation as freights conductors or brakemen to be beard. Many of them were given employment.

The road is now fully equipped. No arrests have been reported sinoe last night. It is thought that the officials of the road are satisfied with the work of the detectives and that no more arrests will bs made in this city. Speaking of the probable conviotion of the men now in jail, Special Agent Rue said that of the sixty men now under arrest there were not more than one or possibly two of them who stood any chance of being shown not guilty Said he; "We had oar evidence so complete that we did not make an arrest nntil we had sufficient proof to show that the man was guilty. We expect to make eight or ten more arrests of men who worked the road successfully for a time, and then for fear of detection, took positions on other lines.

This will swell the total number of arrests to sixty-eight or seventy." PiTTSBUBG, 12. While rumag-ing through the effects of one of the ringleaders of the Panhandle robbers this morning. Special Officer Miller discovered a package containing six giant dynamite Chrtridges, sufficient to blow np the largest building in town. The discovery created onsiderabie alarm, and the cartridges were handled very gingerly. Further examination disclosed a lot of fuse ind caps, In fact all the necessary for the successful firing of the cartridges.

Immediately after finding the dynamite an investigation was began, the result of which', however, the detectives refused to make public. They even declined to give the name of the man in whose room the stuff was fonnd. Officer Miller intimated that the object of the robber in storing dynamite was known and would make good reading when the proper time for the disclosure came. There was a consultation this morning between Assistant District Attorney Fagau and Jno. H.

Hampton, attorney for the Pennsylvania Company, in regard to the indictments and trial of the prisoners. The trials will be pushed as speedily as possible. It is believed that a large number of the men will plead guilty on one or two charges and thus escape trial on a complication of charges. A number of the petty fellows, whose stealings were trifling, will be discharged and told to leave this part of the country. The wages of the men against whom charges have been made have been withheld by the company, on the ground that the men owe much more to the company than is due them.

"Some people wonder why we allowed these depredations to continue so long," said Mr. Hampton this morning. "It is very easily explained. While it is simple enough to discover the fact that freight trains are being robbed, it is not at all easy to tell just where the robbing is going on. After locating the particular part of the line between Philadelphia, Chicago and St.

Louis where the crews were stealing, it took a long time to get direct evidence Against the men. We have acted with prudence and care, and the result will be oon-viction in every case. There is little doubt that the present exposure will lead to others on other roads. Some of these are on the Pennsylvania company's system, and some in the Baltimore fc Ohio. Is is said that the stealings on these above roads were not confined to box car freights.

Through the aid of teamsters and yard agents large quantities of pig iron and manufactured iron and steel have been stolen from the cars in Pittsburg and several other places not far away. These cases will be worked up soon. which Thiemig had bought for $2,500 at pablio sale. He did the charge of poisoning his wife. The coroner's jury returned a verdict recommending, tiiat he be held for the crime, and he was thre thousand dollars per mil for each mile or railmsid cnnstnicteil in Raid township l)V SHld I not know the name of the "party in New York, and didn't think it strange that Lawyer Gainer, Who was coursol-.

or railway company: said bonds to be (payable to the bearer at the fiscal agency of the ista'e of Kansas, in New York city, twenty-five years after the date thereof, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, interest payable semi-annually, tr.r nrhir-h inteifit cocoons shall be attached. the trustees of tbe public lands, should also have acted as counsel for the myeterioci trains where goods could be watched, and thieves caught. We had already learned the culprits were employes or. the company. In September there were eighty crews of freight trains on the Pan H-tn road oming into Pittsburg.

Of the eigh coming into Pittsburg no less than seventy-five were fo jnd to be crooked. A orew consists of a conductor, a flagman and two brakemen. In so ire oases all of the mac wera involved; in others only a part. The statement that the engineer and firemen were mixed up in the robbery is wrong. Not a single one is involved.

The goods were obtained by the taieves in various ways. In many instances seals were broken; while in others, hatchet were used to cut a hole in the end of the oar, through which the men would crawl and take what they coveted; then they reported tbe car in bad condition, claiming that the hols had been made by an accident. The operations were all the result of a combination. Tbe arrangements were carefully made and eajh rascal was assigned to his particular part of the work, in much the same manner as a bank robbery is eonduoted.by professional cracksmen. 1 do not know that the members of the com bination were oath bound or anything ot that kind, but it is certain that a thorough understanding existed among them and they toted in concert to cover eaoh other's misdoings.

The thing which alarmed us more ihan anything else was that they stole large quantities of whisky and drank it in the oa boose. They needed vessels to hold the liquor, so they stole milk cans and kept it in them. Not daring to keep whisky openly the oars, they tore up tha flooring and hid it underneath. Men were continually reported drunk on duty, and the probability of disaster was something frightful to contemplate. All kind? of goods were stolen, inoluaing sewing machines, guns, revolvers, silverware, cigars, 0'iothing, liquors, groceries, furniture, and, in fact, everything imaginable that can be carried on cars was quietly removed.

Dap relations were committed all along the road a losers reside as far west as Djnver. i euoes' were established in this city where stolen property was taken and then sold, the money being equally divided among th; crews. It is impossible to give the aggregate value of the property stolen, but it will not reaoh $300,000, as reported." A NEW DEPARTURE. New lorker when its title was passed. Justice Waring, before whom sme of the pooling selling oases came, testified that h( payable at the fiscal aeency aforesaid: this subscription of stock and issue of bonds being upon the following conditions, namely: As Bocn as said proposition shall be determined in the affirmative by a canvass of the votes cast at such election, the board of county commissioners of said county of Wabaunsee for and on didn know what pooling selling was.

Geo. T. Raymond, a Coney Island drug gist, testified that he had on several ooca last! 1837 sions eeen Justice Waring baying poo! behalf of said township shall order me county clerk to make, anil the county clerk Bhall make -aid subscription in the name of said township ticket. THE "MONROE DOCTRINE. KANSAS CITY TIMES for said three hundred shares of the capital stock of said railway company.

And when the railroad of said railway company i KnMi- nnd comoleted. and shall be in Uncle Sam Going to Look After the Inter i rti twin tin der lease or otherwise, from the ests of the South. American Republics. Washington, D. April 9.

Although no official confirmation has been received at the piacea in bt Geneva. The charges preferred by the Chicago Civil Service league against Collector See-berger are about to be invest gated by Commissioners Jgerton and Lyman. A. C. McNeill, of Chicago, having tired of fighting the gambling houses through justices of the peace and constables, is about to apply to Judge Gary for warrants, and to ask that they be served by the sheriff.

Live stock freights eastward from Chicago-remain substantially the same as before the inter-state commerce law took effect. It is said that the rate on distillery cattle from Peoria has been advanced from 10 to 24 per car. The Illinois Central road has purchased control of toe Dubuque and Sioux City at SS0 per share, and now owns all the lines in Iowa hereunto leased by it. The trustees of tbe Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' heme et Normal have removed Virginia C. Ohr.

matron for twenty years, and reinstated C. L. Gill as clerk. In a hotel on West Lake street, Chicago, Alvin Hill lost his lifs by blowing out the gas, and his companion, G. W.

Archibald, was only saved by vigorous work. They are merchants at Pleasant Mills, Indiana. Dr. Nathan M. Thoma one of the pioneers of Michigan and a ferrous abolitionist, died at Schoolcraft, aged 84 years.

The late Mis Catharine L. Wolfe, of New York, bequeathed to the Metropolitan mu- Hip 7 south boundary line of said township of Mission Creek t- the north or east bonndary line of said township and a deiot with side track shall be built at or or ithin one and one-half mile east, sooth or west or only one-half mile north of southeast corner of southwest quarter of section town 12, ranee 12, at such mt as may be se department of state of the report that Great Britain has threatened to seize Tortugas island, yet it is learned that tne American consul at Hayti has kept the department fully informed as to the nature of the Brit lected and determined uysai'i raiw) cuipau, Unni r.f e.riTifv com missioners shall ish claims and all proceedings taken by that uiru oom cause such bonds, with coupons attached as afore government against ilayti during the past three or lour years, isow'tnatthe mat paired by a gang sent from this city. Newton iCaiisan: Railroad men employed upon the Santa Fe branch from Hutchinson to Kinsley, say it keeps the section hands along the same busy most of the time during this windy weather shoveling sand off the track in order that the trains may run at alL Dodge City Journal: Mayor Webster has returned from his trip to Chicago, at which place he purchased two large engines and two dynamos for the Electrio Light and Heating company of this city, which is to displace their present engine power for the electric light. Miss Franoes 8totler, daughter of Jacob Stotler of the Emporia Globe, wan married in that city on Thursday to Harry Woods, a prominent business man of Wellington. Only members of the two families witnessed the ceremony which was performed by the Rev.

B. Kelly. Lawrence Journal: It is stated that the last collection Henry ard Beecher called for in his church before his death was for books for the Leavenworth Soldier's home, Mr. Beecher statins that while the government had provided liberally for tne bodily wants of the old veterans, their mental wants had been neglected. Fort Scott Monitor: Miss Anna Myers, of Parsons, eloped on Tuesday night and joined her lover at Muscogee, in the Indian Territory, where he had come from Fort Worth, Texas to meet her.

His name is Edwards, and the parents of the girl do not approve the match and are badly worked up over the affair. Parsons Palladium: A stranger giving his name as William Kelly and stating that he was a tinner from" Texas, but tKit his home was in Georgia, was discovered sick on the streets by Marshal MaBon last Friday evening. He was taken to the city jail, where he died in a few hours of congestion. The remains were interred in the potter's field. Jamestown Kansan: In school district No.

S3, adjacent to Topeka on the west, the board is composed of three lawyers. J. G. uwtri Tfnmn. and David A.

Harvey. Tne Pennsylvania Discriminating. Chicago, April 11. An Indianapolis special "On Saturday last the night ticket agent of the Pt-nsylvania railroad at Logansport refused to sell a arty of twelve tickets to San Diego reading over the Chicago Alton road, Western connection of the Pennsylvania, which the Pennsylvania company has boycotted. He offered to sell tbe party tickets reading over a competing line of the Chicago Alton.

A representative of the Chicago Alton will this morning go to Logansport with instructions that should the Pennsylvania agent still refuse to sell tickets via their line to bring the matter before the United States courts under thetdisoriminaiion clause of the new law. said tobe issued in thenameor saii iouauip of Mission Crcn an I shall tle'iver the same to said railway comrany on delivery tender to the Teasurer of said township of a certificate for said shares of the full paid capital stock of said railway company, equal in amount with said ter is reported to have assumed so serious a nature, the government, with a view to being prepared for any emergency, is begin it I- :.5 P' ning to canvass its resources in case it should I 63 become necessary to again assert the inten bonds, dollar for dollar. 1'ntvidnl. sai.l railroad shall be built and completed and in operation, i by lease or otherwise! tion of this socntry to maintain the "Mon roe Doctrine," to the extent of protecting as aforesaid, within eighteen months alter ine date of the said sulorii tion by said towhship the small republics of the American nent against the encroachments -fi for soid three linndred snar. oi r.irim stock of said railway company, and provided further said railway company is not delayed or European powers.

The result of the inquiries into tne navel resources Distributing Depots for Postal Cards to Be Established by the Department. Washington, D. April 11. PoVm aster General Vilas and General Supt, Nash, of the railway mail service, will leave Washington to-morrow on a tour of inspection of the fast mail service between New York. Chicago and St.

PauL While absent they will consider the feasibility of establishing depots at Chicago, St. Louis and Atlanta fo prevented by anv litiuationor by any letrai proceeding o'- bv lalK.r striken or by 1 lslh waters or by unavoidable causes from completing said I rv nnrt of the same within the time of the United States ia not encouraging so far. Several wooden vessels senni of art her collection of pictures aud $200,000 in cash. forming the training squadron are now on their way northward from the West Indies, and at present there is no vessel bearing the The First to Hake a Break. Chicago, April 11.

On account of the dis-pgreement between the Eastern and We-t ein lines regarding the division of rates on business from the seaboard to the Missouri liver and beyond, which resulted in the lines quoting local rales tip to and west c' Chicago, and the division of a large amount of ths class of business to the St. Louis routes via which city the rates were from 2 The Knights of Labor at Chicago nronose theler.cth of time said railway company is or shall be so delayed or prevented together witli fifteen flays additional time shall lie add. to the time aforesaid in hieh to complete said railroad. American flag in Haytian waters. The to take a hand in the carpenters' strike and the distribution of postal cards and st ei "Yantic" is at Key est and the "Galena' secure the acceptance of the masters' eight- envelopes.

Under the present system tnegt at A spin wall, and it is possible that one The form of the ballots to ne usci ut no.i elec nour proposition ana cents an nour. supplies are sent from the manufactory at Castleton, N. in registered pouches to tion shall be: -For. the subscription oi biock or both of these vessels may be ordered to the vicinity of Hayti to represent the United States government in the event that it may and issne of bonds to r.nin Southwestern Hailway Ct.miany" an I "Agsunst tho of stock and issne of bomlslo F. A.

Eber? old, chief of police of Chicago, recently requested the aldermen, present and elect, to send him nominations for fif to 8 cents per 100 lower, the Chioago west PITILESS PRAIRIE FIRES. become necessary to enter a formal protest against European encroachment in the West bound lines have concluded arrangements with the Grand Trunk wereby the old rates and divisions are entered into again. This will give the Grand Trunk control of the the individual omoes, both grea' and small, making requisition thereof. The rapid increase in the number of postoffices and the steady in ci ease of business at nearly all of the larger offices has rendered this system very cumber some. In fact, the business of tbe oountrj has outgrown the system.

Hence the neces Ind.es. The Missouri. Kansas A Southwestern hailway Compan." And whereas, iipon the presentation and c.n-sideration of said i-titiot. and the hearing of the proof in to the matters and things therein contained, said loard found that sai-l was siimnl bv more than two-fifths of the residence tax iyrri of snid Mission reek business unless the other eastern lines yield News From UnytL. Santiago, April 9.

News has been In district 45, west of North Topeka, the board sity for supply distributing offices as contemplated by the postmaster general. The the point they have been lighting over. A Terrible Prairie Fire. Kansas Cm, Mo. April 11.

An At received from Hayti to the effect that amicable settlement with the British may be ex-peo'ed. Trie Haytian assembly had two ty additional patrolmen. Mayor Harrison ordered the papers- cent to his desk, and made the selection- nimself. The interstate tommerce commission has appointed E. I Pufeh, of Alabama, a clerkship under that commission.

Mr. Pugh is a eon of Senator Pugh. This is the first appointment made by the commissi in The director of the mint, nnder the provision of section 3,510 revised statutes and with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, has issued a circular inviting signs for the obverse and reverse for the sil township and tnat sai.l ifuurai i i-siects in dn form of law. and that the conditions therein contained wrre sufficient to protvet thw interests of said ssion Creek township and therenixm. duly made an order granting the ouepublio nnd one secret, chison special to the Journal says: to consider tho demand made by Mr.

HilL, 'A tashstrens prairie hre is raging in Phil- BritMh special agent now in Hayti. Me li nnil Norton counties in Kansas. It election be held at the usual and estab-1 wishes to have the principle admitted. experiment will probably first be tried at Chicago. Sixteen of the larger postofficei-which, it is said, consume about 42 percent, of all the postal cards used in the United States will be supplied from the manufactory as now, bnt by freight instead of by registered mail, as is now the custom, thus making a large saving in the matter of transportation.

These offices are Baltimore. Boston. Brook Waited Saturday evening near Edmond, where four houses were burned, and crossing President Solomon declined taking action ii composed of three ministers, ive v. j. Watkina, Rev.

Peter Baker and Rev.M. U. Hoi man. One district has the law, the other the gospel. A combination of the two would make a district impregnable.

Junction City Union: In excavating for Crawford's building on Seventh street a stone foundation was unearthed, whicb beats the oldest inhabitant. It was very substantial, about three feet deep, covere with about a foot of dirt. It was thirty feet across from east to west, and about fifty feet back from the street, on the north side. Will some of our antiquarians think up ana tell what it was put there for? lishe.1 plares of voting in each voting precinct in said Mission Creek township on the day the Central Branch railroad has extended to ontil he obtsinei an expression of opinion from the assembly. To admit the principles in to acknowledge the English claim of of April.

to determine whether the said shall subscribe to three humlred shares township SliBll SllPScriOe to lliree liuumni Norcatcr. having destroyed quite a number CI 1 1 1 IBW1C ver dollar and the minor coins of the United States. An award of not to exceed 5C0 will of the capital stock of said co'-rany. and thiny bonds of the denomination of oni saa.l dollars each, of said township of Mi thou- ission lyn, Buffalo, Chic 'go, Cincinnati, Cleve r.f hcust with nil other perishable property in -track. It is reported that nine to twelve persons have perished, but the facts ORpnot be definitely learned, owing to injury to Ulegraph wires.

Haa become a great nenspan'-r in a v. rv few years. It haa secured wi te ami ouuuiuiiiini: inllueni'e T-i r. it 11 older newparer at it 1 of us tar-vr is like tiiat Fnirt I itv's wonderful trowth more iik- i ifun tfaancoKI facts. It t- -oil.

vet it is rmt.l and a.lmir-i l.y ntbvrstnnw over Knjovire tiie 1 atfirtle-t by ra.Co tin Tivf is thorouu'lilv I in. t-. temturv at an enrlv ir i. f-- n. -in nrapproacliBhie circiihitn.il i favor IB most Tn.hc:.

AiTrt1ner-t. i i f. -V i i atisfactorv re-ulta hv i c. it -vertiain coiuiumt. Tiik I v-, i ve bright, newjr and entrtH; pr: i w.

abscrlbin for ldw. fre- r- i BI IIL-It ADVWIK-Piwnh ri Daltr and Sun lav. oae veur rHulr and idr. six iri lu Montlav. Whines 1 Kt Tb Kanday Tini's i uiuIxt.

year Xh Weekly oue vear 1 AJre all the: reek to sai.l company in payment ttieretor. on At Hamilton, Ohio, John Hibner, as land, JJetroit, Kansas City, Louisville, New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburg. St. Louis.

i. trma nn.i mniiltliuig wi nut in said petition: saulted Sheriff St. Clair, who shot him in San Francisco and Washington. These ar the breast, inflicting a fatal wound. The and it was furthered ordered by said board that in th event that a majority of the voters voting at said election cast heir ballots in favor of said rangements will be perfected and put into senior Hibner was defeated at tbe polls by operation as speedily as possible.

Mr. St. Clair. Tlppo Tib's Salary. London.

April 11. The contract with proposition and vote to suoscn' hundre.1 shares of said capital stock and to issue lippo Tib made by enry M. Stanley, the The president has declined to enforce the fisheries retaliatory bill at the instance of the American Fisheries onion of Massachu explorer, in behalf of King Leopold of Bel gium provides that lippo lib shall receive setts. i salary of cbU pounds sterling yearly as governor of Stanley Falls, and shell be al- owed to pursue legitimate trade anywhere Struck; Oil at Hutchinson. Hutchinson, April 12.

A short time Lgo indications of oil were discovered north of the city, and a syndicate waa formed to investigate. At the depth of 342 feet they struck a good -paying quantity of crude oil. Excitement was high and all property adjoining that upon which the oil waa discovered was held at fabulous pries. A eon-tract was let yesterday by Ben Blanchard for boring 2,200 feet in South Hutchinson, these being indications of natural gas, MARKET HEPORTS. $1,000,000.

This island of Tortugas was offered to the Bri'ish government ia settlement of this claim three years ago. Interesting complications may 'be remedied in this connection. The "black republic," the government of Hayti, recently borrowed 15,000,000 francs, or $3,000,000 in Pari. If England wants a Haytian island. French creditors will probably have something to say.

Highly alarming rumors that have reached this city from Hayti seem to be baseless, as the United States steamer "Yantic'' left there three days ago for thia port, and the Haytian man-of-war Captain Cooper, son of Admiral Cooper, United States navy, is al-o here. Captain Cooper stated positively that the rumors of a revolutionary movement there and another massacre on mullatos were absolutely groundless; that perfect peace aad quiet reigned in Port an Prince, and that he(Captain Cooper) had left his family there. Her majesty's ship, "Canada," with the British commander on board, is still at Port au Prince. Mr.Hill is expeoted hererwitfein a fortnight. Jhe-gn-sral opinion ii'that the natter wilt be ami-oably settled.

he likes. He will, however, have to uphold The trench government has ordered a man-of-war now in the West Indian waters to proceed immediately to Port au Prince to protect Europeans there, in view of the re the authority of the Congo Free State and ppoint a deputy to nil bis office durinz his ports of a threatened massacre by Hai tians, a i sence from the Falls. This deputy, on tbe death of Tippo Tib, shall succeed him as in the event of their government complying said thirty Ixin-ls in yment tneretor. tnen in-connty clerk of saiti county shall forthwith, for and on behalf of. and in the name of.

said Mission Creek township subscribe, to three hundred shares of the capital tock of said company and it was by sai.l board further ordered that if said railwav company shnll fully comply with the conditions of said subscription then the chairman of said board and the county clerk of said county shall dnly issue to said company said bonds of said Mission Creek township in the sum, and to the tenor and effect. said petition 81 1'nd'it was by said board farther ordered that the ballots to be nsed at sue- election should be in the form designated in said petition; and that the sheriff of said county duly make and issue his proclamation for the holding of such special election in sail township of Mission Creek at said date and places designated, and that said sheriff srive due and legal notice of said election for thirty days as provided by law, and in said proclamation ive the substance of ssid order; said notice to bo published in the Wabaunsee Conr.ty Sews. Alma Enterprise and Eskridoi Hn.WFrrTT week I newsr-apers printed and governor, providing King Leopold shall with tbe demands of Great Britain on, account of some old claims. Advices received by the Haytian legatiorr-in Paris from Port Ten Lives Lost and Thousands of Dollars Worth of Property Destroyed In the Solomon Valley. Atchison, April 12.

A special to the Champion says: Reports concerning the destruction of life and property caused by the great prairie fire that swept over the eatsern portion of Norton and Graham counties Saturday afternoon and evening last are yet meagre and unsatisfactory, but enough is known to appal the stoutest hearts. The fire started near Nioodemus, Graham connty. The wind, which was blowing a gale of at least 40 miles an hour, carried the flames over and through the dry grass at frightful speed. The general destination of property commenced near Rosooe, Graham county. Here the fire spread over the country for fully two and a half miles in width, and as the wind carried it north was constantly spreading, until it was seven miles wide where it crossed the North Fork of the Solomon river three miles east of Densmore.

A few. houses were burned, but also every stable with its stook of hay and oribs of grain was burned, leaving hundreds of farmers almost destitute. It is a pitiful sight to pass over the burned districts and see the thousands of burned chickens, turkeys and hundreds of hogs, with occasionally horses and numerous cattle. Almost every farmer lost from fifty to 500 bushels of corn, besides small grain. The people fought nobly for their lives and property, but it was no ue.

The property must go, and unless they fled their lives were forfeited. It is now definitely known that from seven to ten lives were lost in this and Graham counties so far as reported, but thus far I have been unable to procure their names. Four children perished in one family. The deaths here mentioned do not include those spoken of below, who perished west of Millbrook. How far the fire extended north from the Solomon I do not know, but it must have traveled a long distance.

At the same time 's, fire swept down the South Fork of the Solomon to a point near Millbrook, sweeping everything in its path and burning six persona to death father, mother and four children, a large number of cittle, horses, hogs and poultry. In one instance a woman had given birth to a child, when the fire was observed approaching. Her husband took her in his arms and started for the ploaghed ground, but before he reached it the woman's clothing was on fire. He succeeded in putting it out and saving her life. The babe, lees than one hour old, with the other members cf the family, was saved, but the house and its contents was destroyed, as well as the stock, grain and hay on the farm.

Hundreds of narrow escapes could be told. Saturday was a frightful day, one long to bt remembered by a great many families in Norton and Graham counties. au Prince say theMaytians are muon excited over Great Britain's demand, but deny that The President Couldn't Attend. Washington, D. April 11.

A delega tion of Irish Americans called at the White "house to-day to invite the president to attend the meeting to be held in this city to-night protest against tbe coercion policy in Ire they have threatened to massacre tbe foreigners. Money or the ri ght of way for the extension of the Verdigris Valley railroad to a connection with the Denver Memphis wts deposited at Independence, and work begun. This wiil give Independence another road to land. They saw Colonel Lamont and were nformt that whatever tne president views on the subject might be, it would be mani Dnblished in the city of Alma and Eskridge re festly improper for him to attend such a rm spectively in the connty of Wabaunsee, and in general circulation in said township in Wabaunsee connty. it k.

hoard farther ordered that meeting in qib diucuu capacity, ine committee were eonvico oflhe wisdom of this reasoning and withdrew without further effort to see the president. A Big Land Salt. Bctfaixj, N. April 11. The suit of the Senaca nation of Indians against Harrison S.

Cnris'es, of Brant, Erie was before Judge Childs in the supreme ouri to-dny. The Indianejclaim the title to about acres of land in. Erie and adj ing counties, on the ground that Cir trenty of 18G2 was not ratified by the U. S. enute in scoordanoe with the provisions the constitution, and that therefore thi present owners of the land have not goo itle to that which they held.

Farther, tha-nasmnch as they are treated as wards of tne nation, the time which has elapsed in bsr to eetiorx. Judge Childs said he reco nized the great importance of the suit, that inasmuch as it it would have to taker, to the highest court in the land for find he thought the best save tirn by directing a judgment in fav cf the fen dan ts. General Strong.for the plain'. S-. oanceded that a speedy course through courts would be best.as the farmers are vry much agitated over the suit.

Crinoline. In 1864, the year in which the mod- era hoop reached its' culmination, says the Argonaut, who conld have imagined it would in Ijttle less than fifteen years be gradually contracted, and finally thrown aside, with not even the hint of a crinolet or bustle to remind the fashionable women of that day what Bhe might expect in another ten or fifteen years? Even in when the pouffe and bouflant drapery at the back near the line of the waist began to assert itself, none but a student of the history and traditions of dress would have ventured to predict that it would have reached its present proportions. Now the lovers of the plastic period, the devotees of the a s-thetic school, may wring their haniS in despair. The bustle has become crinoline, and crinoline threatens to encircle the whole of the female form divine, below the waist-line, at least, and, sooner or later, to become the hoop in one or another form. A Raging Prairie Tire.

Gove City, April 11. A great prairie Are said election be held an 1 returns made and the result ascertained and declared, in all respects as provided by law. Now. therefore, J.M KnssLl. sheriff of the county of Wabannsee.

State of Kansas, by virtue of the authority in me by law vested, and in pursuance of the above x-ited order of sain board of county commissioners, do hereby make public proclmnation. and give notice, that a special Mexican raged about 20 miles eootheast of Gove City last niehfc 'TfieTBsidence ofJTames MoMa- Moulders Locked Oat, CnioAGO, April 9. About 500 stove moulders here will find themselves locked out Monday morning. Their employers, Oriben Sexton, Collins Borgia and the Chicago Stove Works, to-day attempted to have the men oontinoeworkon patterns from Bridge, Beach A "of St. Louis, who have been boycotted for refusing to reinstate strikers.

The attempt was met with-ve refusal and the lookout is tnaesult. The rfef usaj, of the moulders to work on patterns ia general throughout Illinois, and almost ayery stove moulder in the state, excepting men employed at Peoria and Bloomington ia out on a strike. In these cities the manufacturers do not use boycotted patterns. Both manufacturers and moulders have national organizations, and should each continue stubborn, the industry throughout the country will soon be at a standstill. Kansas Crops In Good Shape.

Topeka, April 9. The secretary ol ihin with tta- contents "ranled. the family bar.elyesoeping with theirlives. It is ru election will be held in said wnsnip at the nsnal and established places of voting in each mored that several people were seriously LVIusfan; voting precinct said township on ine ou.ii aay injured. The damage would have been im mense had it not been for a fine rain delug ing the country, which put a timely end of April A.

D. 1S87. to determine whether said township shall make snch subscription of stock and shall issue in payment therefor the bonds of said township on the terms and conditions set rnt in said petition, and such election shall, in 11 respects, be conducted and returns made, and immoni to the fire. Old settlers say that a splenid season is assured and predict the most favorable year for the farmers this country has ever had. f.

result ascertained and in me maimer provided by law for general elections. In witness whereof. 1. J. M.

Russell, sheriff of r-" Sad Colncidenee. Loms? April" 11. A special telegram Wab UDsee county. State of Kansas, have hereunto set my hand at the city of Alma, this 26th day of March, a. r.

lboi. the south, independence is booming as never before. A mitrailleuse is being tried in tbe Au trian army which will fire 1,003 bullets in 90 seconds. A large number of theatrical -managers met in Chica to voice their grievances against the interstate commerce law, and appointed a committee of nine to prepare a memorial to the commission. John W.

Dav-'s. the democratic candidate for governor of Rhode Island, has a majority of 973. The woman suffrage amendment was defeated. The Canadian cruiser Vigilant recently fired a blank shot at an American fishing vessel within the three mile limit at Beaver Harbor, but failed to stop her. A bill has been introduced in the Illinois senate to at propriate $150,000 for a state re-formatorat Joliet, to utilize the labor of convicts, on the plan carried out at Elmira, New York.

A letter to the Chicago Times from Texas states that not an acre of land can be found in that state on which to locate outstanding certificates for unappropriated public domain, although thirty million acres were set aside for the schools. At Richmond, Indiana, Mrs. Jonas Bennett walked oat on the bridge over the Whitewater river and leaped seventy-five feet into the water, expiring almost instantly. She was a bride of three days. The Rock Island road is pushing its southwest Kansas extension from Topeka across Indian Territory, with the intention of calling no halt until El Paso is reached.

The northwest extension is completed to Nelson. Nebraska, and nrveyors are locating a line to Denver. Senator Test speaks of President Clever, land as an honest and fearless man. the Kansas slate board of agrioulture furnishes the following: "Reports received at this office within the last ten days from Sheriff ot Wabaunsee county. to the Post Dispatch from Peoria, says: "Patrick Connors was run over and killed in.this city yesterday by a freight train.

To Contracted Muscles, Ernptions, Hoof Ail, cre-y Worms, Swinney, Saddle Gall. Piles. Scratches Sprains. Strains, Stitches, Stiff Joints, Backache, Galls. Sores, Spavin Cracks.

Sciatica, Lumbago, Eheumatism. Burns, Scalds, Stingy Eitea, Srolses. Bnniciis, Cor Hi day a letter was recieved stating that his i 1 i orotner r.aa oeen Kiiieu ia ruasjiu i the same hour and in like manner. A short about bOO correspondents, representing every section of the state, show rain to be needed, but indicate wheat and rye to be in good condition. The area sown in wheat will fall from 10 to 20 per cent below the time liter it was learned that Mlki Shelly, Kansas City Grain and Prod nee Market.

Kansas City, April IS, 1887. Live Stock Indicator reports: FLOUR Very dull. Nothing except in mixed lots. Quotations are for established brans In car lota per half barrel in sacks as fallows: XX, 85c; XXX, $1 OCiei 10; family. SI 151 25, choii Si ei 40; fancy, SI 601 55; patent, SI 2 00; rye, $1 S01 60.

From city nulla 2ao higher. WHEAT Reoeipte at regular elevator sines last report 13fc8 bnshela, leaving stock in store as reported to the board ol trade to-day, 1M.112. The market on change to-day was weaker. No. 2 red winter-Cash 69c bid, 70c aaked: ApriL 69V4o bid, 69c asked: May, 70c bid, OS asked: June, 71 bid, 7Sc asked; July.

66o bid, 72c asked. CORN Receipt at regular elevators since last report, 8 buenels and withdrawals bushels, leaving stock in store as reported to th board of trade to-day, 169.733 bushels. The market on change was steady. No. 2 cash, 1 car S2c special elevator: April.

1 cari May. 5,000 bushels U.3ic. June, SStfc bid. 81c asked. 2 cash, 28c bid.

WAo asked: April, 28KC bid, 5e asked; May. 27c bid. 80c asked. Rejected cash, no bid nor offerings. RVfc-No-2pash, bid.

9a asked: April. 42c bid, no offering. Rejected cash, no bids nor offerings. POULTRY Live Old hens, fat heavy. 13 25 roosters, S2 50; ttirkevs 10c.

Dressed Chicken 3, 6c: tor keys 11c; docks 7oc. EOKiS Steady at lo. BUTTER Good, Creamery, fancy, good 27fe28c: fine dairy, 22c; atore pecked, Ule; common 668e. HAY-Steady. Fancy small baled, S3 50, large baled, $7 SO.

OIL CAKE Per 100 lbs. sacked. 1 $21 00 per ton free on board cars. Car lota, i 00 per "o6BN MEAL Green. 75c; dried, 80c; chop yellow 65c bnlk: 70c sacked.

SHIPPING STUFF Bulk 05c. CORN CHOP Bulk 65, sacked 70c LAXSKKD-e590c BRAN Bulk. 55: sacked 62c. AriTOB BEANS $1 5. HIDE Dry flint, So.

1. per pound. 2. lOc, dry flint bulls and stags, 10c: dry salted. No.

11c; No. 2, 8c; green salted, ho. 1. 7c; No. 2, 6c; green saltwl bull and stag.

5V4c; gren. uncurred No. W-n No. 2, 5o; calf. sheep pelts, dried, 6 lie per lb.

WOOL Missouri unwashed, heavy, fine 16 4 13c; light fine, medium, 2z 23c: medium combing, 22624c: coarse combing. and carpet, 156 17c; Kansas and Nebraska, heavy tub washed, choice medium, MA85c: nre, 140 S5c; dimryand low, CHEE8E We quote; Full cream, 18e 14c; flats. 7ftc: Young American, 15c; Kansas, lie. BROOM CORN Quotations: Hurl, 10o: eelf-working, 687c common, 5c; crooked, ffans" City Live Stock Market, Kansas Citt, April IS, 1387. Live Stock Indicator reports: CATTLE Receipts 879 head; shipments.

heed. Shipping etreers steady to 5c higher batchers stores era; Choice oows a shade higher; common of all classes weak. Good to choice, $4 70: common to medium, Sg04 40; etookera, S2 60f3 10; feeding slurs. i 00; oows, i4 00. Receipt.

S.609 head; shipments. head. The market was active aad 5o higher. Good to choice, $5 65g5 85; common to modinia, (S WR5 45; ekfpesad pigs. 50e .90.

BHiEP Beoeipta, 660 head: shipment. 115 bead. Harket was nrm. Good to choioe, K4 80j sutumnsi tonsxHmn. 5C eft aso of Peoria, had been killed at Ft.

Scott crop of last year, and will no doubt prove tbe smallest average for ten years. The by being run over by a railroad train, lnree months ago Shelly 's brother met death in the same -manner. plant is small, but the winter having been favorable, is found to be in good oonditi jn, Murdered from Ambush. St. Lorn, April 12.

A special from Den-nison, Texas, says: James Christain, a wealthy cattle man of Hirney. Indian Territory, arrested a man named Hodge, charged with stealing cattle, and while on his way to Tishomingo with his prisoner yesterday, he was shot from ambush and instantly killed. Bud LutterelL who was riding behind, was also shot and killed by the murderers. The prisoner remained by the side of the murdered man until assistanoe came, and it is said that he has given the authorities the amea of the murderers, Iwo in number. It is alsOTUmored that the murderers also, killed a negro -who was standing near by.

and wi favorable weather from this date will certainly make a good crop. Live stock How the Canucks Tlew It. Tobcnto, April 1L The Globe to is in pood condition never better, ine outlook for a crop of fruit is very flattering, ex day says: Tbe letter of President Cleveland cept peaches, whioh may be considered to tbe president of the Fishery union of G.oncester. is a remarkable acd im failure, let some will be grown in tne soathern part of the state." United States Marshall Hackney has gone to the scene of the tradegy. Probably Deraneed From Sufferlat.

Stbactbk, N. April 9. John Holland, aged 75 years, was found dead in a portant document, It is not such a letter as Americans interested in the fisheries desired to receive from the president, bat was evidently intended as a warning to Canadians This letter, although studious! moderate-in tone, intimates plainly what may follow. The position is, to say the least, tx-oeediLgly serious. Si i house near this cily to-day.

His wife wasjt MlBmW? A JET "harder than any subordinate, who has p- mi iiii.r THIS COOO OLD STAND-BY accomplishes for everybody exactly what tsclalmed for It. One of the reasons for the grreat popularity of the Kustang Liniment Is found in Its vniTersa.1 applicability. ETerybody needs snch a roediclna. The Llnbrrnan needs It In case of accident. The Ilsasewil'e needs it for general family use.

Tke Cannier needs it for bis teams and his men. The mechanic needs It always on his work bench. The Miner needs it In case of emergency. The Pioneer needsit cant get along without 1W The r'armer needs it in bis bouse, his stably and his stock yard. The Steamboat man or the Boatman needs It la liberal supply afloat and ashore.

The Horse-fancier needs it it is his best friend and safest reliance. The tock-rewer needs it It will save nua thousands of dollars and a world of trouble. Tke Rallratd nai needsit and win need It so loot as bis life Is a round of accidents and dangers. The Backtsodanai needsit. There is notn-tnsT like It as aa antidote for the dangers to life, Ibnb and comfort which surround the pioneer.

The Merchant needs It about his store amonx bis employees. JLoeidenta will happen, and wben these come he Mustang liniment is wanted at once. S.ee ttle lathe Sense. Tls the best of economy. Keee la the Factory.

Its immediate aas tn cose of accident saves psa sr41ofwa rXe e. Bottle Alwata thcbtnhle fer r-rwit4 rured the element of tbe country and can defeat at the polls any man in the union. And So Speaking, Be Passed On. Henry Ward Beecber. We are going home.

Bhiver at the idea that they are going to die; but this world is only a neet. We are scare-ly hatched eut of it here. We do not know ourselves. We have etiange feelings that do not interpret themselves. The mortal in ns is crying for the imrdortaL A.in the, night the chili, waeing with some "vague and namelese terror, cries out to express its fear and dreiul, and its cry is interpreted in tbe mother's heart, who runs to tha child and lays her band upon it and quiets it to sleep again, so God hears our diEturbances, trials and tribulations in life.

Do yea not rap-pose that He who is goodness itself cares for yon Do yon sappose that He whose royal name is Love has less sympathy for yu than the mother has for her babe? Let tLe world roqk. If the Mayor of Dodge City Dead. Dodge Citt, April 12. Mayor A. B.

Webster died at this place this morning at 5 o'cl ck. He was taken sick with infl ma-lory rheumatism Thursday morning and endured great suffering np to the time ot hi death. The city sustains an irreparable loss bt bis death, as a truted citizen and offic No arrangements for tbe funeral (tr yet announced and will not be until the neri al of his wife and son from Roches er, N. Y. Dy nis aioe jost auve, ane ner husband died ten days aga from cold and starvation.

This afternoon she told a terrible 6tory of abuse on the put of her nephew. It ia thought she is out of her head in consequence of her sufferings. No Prohibition la Michigan. Dktbiot; Mich. Ayril 8., From all reports received, the Evening Journal now fignres the majority against prohibition as More complete returns in most oases cot down the prohibition vote.

In this (Wayne) county, the majority against the amendment was 22,344, that being an increase of several hundred over former reports. There is now no dosbt that prohibition has been defeated. Atchiaoa Champion: The Y. M. C.

JLcf gre preparing to build, It Was Suicide, St. Petkbsbtbg. April 9. The death ol Maj ir General Krock, Russian commander at Warsaw.eurpoeed to have been murdered, bow transpires, was due to the general's own band. The reason given was that he was overcome by grief on learning that his son had been arrested on suspicion of having been implicated in the recent attempt tc as-aeainate the czar.

Refreshing Rains. Gaud en Citt. April 1L The Gar-iea Ci'y Sentinel received specials to-day from twenty d.ffere nt points in the southwestern part of tbe state reporting heavy rains last night, Tha farmeis are feeling Bach elated, over tbs raia. i Wfll Aid the Carpenters. Chicago, April 9.

The bricklayers and I hod carriers have determined to aid the ear-, pecters in their strike. The Santa Fe'e Extension. Gaxesburg, Ilt, April 9. A large force at ecb eoatrAOtora and laborers arrived here to-day to begin work on that section of the Atchisro, Topeka Santa Fe's extension fron. here to Fort Madison.

Operations will besin Monday, and it ia estimated that 2,000 teams and more tbaa that many laborera QUA- Ei. gage me at With Kativea. Tex Hague, April, 12. Advices from the Dc ten Ea-t Indies say that the Dutch had an ei counter in Atcbeen on the 4th inetawt and that the natives fled after a sharp engagement, leaving thirty-three dead. The Dutch loss was twelve kiilsd aad twtntjt wpundsd.

loot or uroa is on ine cra jie, iear not Look np, courage, hope amd hope tinthf7orlcL.