Hill City Democrat from Hill City, Kansas • 2

The remains of B. Spragg and an "orig BAILBOAD ACCIDENT. ill City Democrat. NEWS OP THE WEEK MOTHER HURRICANE. SUPERFICIAL 9URVBY.

The British fisheries lust year yleilol Striker. The city of Cleveland Is practicallj isolated from all commercial centers. Not i car of freight is received or dispatched. Churchyard quiet reigns In the yards of tht Lake Shore, Erie, Pennsylvania, Nicke! Tlate, Big Four and the VaUey roads. All the work permitted by strikers was tht making up of passenger trains to which uo objection has been offered.

Hundreds oi freight stand in the yards ready to be unloaded, and along the docks then are trains of oreladen cars ready to be moved, but no one to move them The situation has become very serious Perishable freight ceased coming and a vegetable and fruit famine is impending Cleveland is the distributing point for great quantities of these products and the trade inal package' were found beside the Illinois Central track at Independence, Iowa. It is supposed the man was drunk and was struck by the train. A balloon has been seen drifting about near Atlanta, Ga. Some memoranda which fell from it and were picked up state that it is Trofessor Walker's balloon from Dayton, Ohio. The occupants had lost their ballast and were adrift, suffering from cold.

Twenty anarchists have banded together at Bay City in an association to afford financial aid in the efforts to release the Chicago anarchist now in Joliet prison. The members decided to march in a body in the pa rade on the Fourtti, wearing red cravats and bearing a red flag. Three men employed in a soap factory in Baltimore were fatally burned by the bursting of a large tank of boiling oil, which lit erally drenched the unfortunate men. They are Hugh Caulfield, aged thirty-five; John Crowe, aged sixty J. H.

Jacobs (colored), aged thirty. A half-dozen original package liquor houses were opened at Toneka, Kas. Beer is sold in all quantities and so is whiskey. Package houses are being opened in all the principal towns and cities in the state. Frank Debles, the Keokuk restaurateur.

who has been In jail at Carthage, I1L, on a charge of larceny, but in reality on suspicion of having bad some connection with the Cordell murder, was released. United States Senator McMillan's yacht Leila tried to run under the bow of the tug Onaping, in the Detroit lliver. The Leila was sunk and the crew of six were thrown into the water. All were rescued. It is supposed that Frank, the twelve- year-old son of Dennis Cleoney, of Davenport, Ia has been drowned iu the Missis-sippi.

He went on an errand with a horse and wagon. The vehicle has been found in the river with the dead horse attached to it, and tracks Indicate that the boy backed into the water to wash the wagon when it plunged down a step-off and was lost, together with himself. Governor Humphrey offered a reward of 300 for the arrest of Jeff Mercer, who mur dered his wife at Kansas City because she objected to his cruel treatment. The Hon. C.

C. Shorter, of Eufaula, speak er of the house of representatives of Alabama, died at his home. The trial of twenty-four Chinamen charged with violating the exclusion law was commenced at Tucson, Arizona. The evidence appears conclusive that the Chinese came direct to San Francisco, and being de nied admission there were transferred to the steamer Newberry and landed by her at Guaymas, Mexico, and then making their way into Arizona. John Love and Thomas Duckworth, of Peculiar, have been arrested charged with conspiracy to deprive the postmaster at that place of receipts by purchasing stamps at other towns and selling them to people in Peculiar, and also by arranging to collect mail matter from people and take it directly to railroad trains.

It is reported that the Mahdi has released all the Europeans who were taken prison ers by his forces. E. T. Elliott, assistant passenger agent of the Louisville Nashville railroad in Louis ville, is missing, and about $5,000, or more, of the company's money is gone. He manip ulated the mileage books.

Arnemann. the German dentist, who, in November last, shot and dangerously wounded Judge Bristowe, in the railway station at Nottingham, England, because Ihe judge had given 'a decision against him in a case before the court, has committed suicide in prison. Two hundred persons attended a picnic given near Elmwood, a Cincinnati club Late in the afternoon a general riot occur red, in which two men were fatally hurt, three or four dangerously wounded, and score, including several girls, badly cut and shot. A baby was killed iu its mother's arms by a stray shot During a drunken row In the west end of Hamilton, an old colored man, named Joseph Grimes, was killed by another colored man named Zachariah Shields. Shields is still at liberty.

A boy at Plainfield, N. attacked by a large eagle and severely lacerated about the chest. Although much frightened, he grasped the bird and choked it, and then throwing it on the ground broke its wing by jumping on it The eagle was then secured alive and exhibited in a store window. Two more students were expelled from the college at Battle Creek, Mich, for flirt ing with the opposite sex. 1 his makes eight who have been thus punished.

Three American seiners, two of them Gloucester vessels, came into the harbor of Halifax, N. unceremoniously, cut away nets and buoys of local fishermen, and hove their sems, taking about 600 barrels of mack erel and causing serious loss to the fisher men. The large four-story wooden shoe factory at Brockton, was burned to the ground. The night-watchman was badly burned and a fireman severely injured by falling from a ladder. The loss will be about The Governor of Missouri telegraphed CapL DeMuth to hold the Sedalia Bines in readiness to start for Booneville at a moment's notice.

The occasion for this call is the fear of an attempt by a mob to lynch the man who killed Sheriff Cramm Two men named Tipton and Hubbard the latter of Clear Lake, were kicked by vicious horse at Mason City, and it is thought they are fatally injured. Tipton was kicked in the abdomen and Hubbard in the temple. Neither has recovered conscious' ness. Charles Henkel, the former secretary of the Chicago Gas Light and Heat Company who absconded in February, after stealing $2,000, and was caught a few weeks later Jersey City, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Chicago and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. While a farmer was driving to Grand Haven, Mich, on a load of hay, his wagon wheel rubbed against the rack and the friction generated tire.

The hay was consumed, but the farmer escaped with his horses. George Parkinson, a wealthy sheep grower and farmer, hanged himself in his room at Maquoketa, la. lie Had been out in a storm, and the exposure resulted in aggra- vating a disease Horn wnicn ne was suner- ing so that he became temporarily insane, Lionel r.urnett. son of Mrs. Frances tho catchers between thirty and forty oil lion dollars.

It is said that the pjJtaga stamps of halt the nations of the world are engraved and printed in New Yorir. A contemporary, which has beon lookln? into tha matter, reports that fewer da'ly papers are published in Boston now than in 1S40. Tho aggregate weight of the family of Isaac Gloer, of Bowman, consistlnf of himself, wife and four children, Is pounds. An Italian monk has succeeded la con structing aa organ where the pipes are mado of piper pulp. It has 1,400 pipes of various sizes.

The Milwaukee Journal 6ays It Is possible to get used to a homely face, but an un pleasant voice always finds a fresh spot to grate against. Sybil Sanderson, the only soprano whose voice ranges higher than Patti's is a tall blonde, with dark eyes, a pretty throat and a willowy figure. It is worth remarking that the German have never called Bismarck "The Iron The title is one of French or British invention. The sacrifice of widows on the funeral pyre still goes on in Bali, an is and near Java. They are burned along with the remains of their husbands.

A parrot in a Pittsburg hospital recently got drunk on a half jp of alcohol that was lying- around and broke the establishment all up with her profanity. Tho American turf is a more important institution than it is generally supposed to be. It is estimated that it furnishes a livelihood to over 50,000 people. The historic Christ's Hospital, with its famous blue coat boys, will soon bo removed from London and many radical changes made in its constitution. Ia 1SS0 the wealth of the United States was placed at 40 billioa.

Porter, tho census superintendent, thinks it will now reach 60 billion. "How we do growl" Isaac McLcllan, who wrote "Poems ot the Iiod and Gun," was at Howdoia college with Longfellow and Hawthorne. He is now over eighty -throe years of age. An Eiffel tower may bo erected in Germany. The Bavarian government proposes to Diuid ono near blarcnourg Lake as a monument to Bismarck, and also as an observatory.

The Japanese do not flourish in California, bein; too commonly confounied with the Chinese, and most of them being young men who would not do well even in their own country. It is an interesting point in American history if, as stated, the confederate gray uniform was borrowed from the first Virginia Regiment, which borrowed it from the Seventh New York Keglmcnt. "Carmen Sylva," the Roumanian queen, is sail to be an illustrious epicure. She has invented a number of pdatable cull-nary compositions, and occasionally cooks a dish for the king with her own inds. The next thing to a draught of dissolved pearls is a jelly of gold leaf.

This is the best description ot the fashionable jelly made of the eau de vie de Dmtsif, the French liqueur in which gold loaf is held in solution. The French fishermen are troubled by tho depredations of porpohe', for which they have not succeeded in finding a remedy. An attempt was made to itch them in sciuo neti, but they jump.d out of the snares. Tho biggest edible oysters In the world are found at Port Lincoln, in South Australia. They aro sometimes more than a foot across tho shell, and tho oyster fits the shell so well he docs not love much margin.

Mrs. S. M. Henry, the well-known Woman's Christian Temperance union evangelis. will represent the National Woman's Christian Temperance union at Chautauqua this summer for tho third time in succession.

That mysterious disease, La Nona, has appeared in western France. A farmer belonging to a village near Dole, in tho Jura, slept for four days and nights, and awoke in such an exhausted condition that ho died two days later. There is a negro man in Hickory Mountain, N. who is the champion runner of the state. He is a great rabbit hunter and hunts witbont dog or gun, and can catch moro rabbits by outrunning them than anybody else can with dogs.

Jcffro Johnson, who was at one time a slave under the laws of New York, is Btill living in Kings county, that stats. A bill of sale, still preserved, shows thit ho was disposed of for j0 in 1SJ3, and he was then "about 9 yoari old." There is so much life and vitality about Chuunccy M. Depew that people think ot biiu as a youth. He is not old in years, having just celebrated hi? fifty-third birthday. Anyway, ho is rjgardsd as one of tho good fellows of the world.

Tho cigar manufacturers of a certain western city have lately contrived a novel method of advertising their wares viz, by attaching to a favorite brand the magio legend W. C. T. declaring the letters to mean "We Claim Them Uncqualed." Tbero is a craze in London for queer leather. Some shops are stocked with fncy articles made from the skins ot a 1 sorts of beasts, reptiles and fishes, including pelican sk.ns, lion anl panther skins, fish skins, monkey skins uifi-miake skins, et-.

The servants and mistresses of Vienna have to manage their affairs under the superintendence of the police. The latter keep a "servants' book," in which each rl's dimissjls and re-engagements arj recorded, together with copies of character given by eaca employer. A Detroit preacher found this note from a young lady in bis pulpit ono recent Sunday evening: "Dear Mr. Won't you plea so deliver your sermon a little slower to-night? I am studying shorthand and can't keep up with you. 1 hope you won't refuse so small a favor." A fourteen-year-o boy living near East-port, started from his home at 6 o'clock in the morning, walked to Ejstport, hid three largo teeth extracted, one filled, attended to several small errand in town and walked home, completing the Journey of twenty-three miles at 3:30 p.

tn. Betweea the Ural and the Okhotsk seas there is a spot hilt as larga as the state of Michigan, which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety-four feet. That is, it has never thawed out since the world was created, and probably never will, and even irit should nobody would have any use for it. Paul 13. Chaillu is resting in London.

Ha has Leen suffering with throat trouble for some timo past and was advised by bfs physicians to go to warmer climates. Cairo was his destitution on leaving America, but he has remained in London ever since early in December last As concerns future literary work it Is said to be his intention to write" next a work of travel and description for young people. The sito of a prehistoric village has been discovered on tae banks of the Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W. Va. It covers about four acres and the earth is thickly Intermixed with fragments of pottery, streaks of ashes and fragments of bones of an'mals and human beings.

In several places are to be seen the ruins et what seem to be ancient fire-places, containing charcoal intermixed with charred nuts of various sorts. NINE riKSONS KILLED DURING A TEM PEST IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Sulliran Prank as Usual-Indians in a Par- ade Railroad Accident Telegraphic Brevities. More Storms A wind and rain storm in South Dakota did considerable damage. Iu Rcdtield the episcopal church was blown'f rout its foundation and badly wrecked.

Outbuildings, sheds, were blown down, but no one was injured. Near Lebanon, in Potter County, a tornado wrecked everything in its path for several miles. Valentine Bohn wa killed and John English fatally injured. Near Appotomax there was a cloudburt and the water flooded a large area. Many cattle were killed.

The family of George Wager, composed of five persons anil three members of the family of William McElroy were drowned. The rain extended west lo Highmore and covered nearly all the state, and was the heaviest of the sea-on. A fearful cloudburst at Osceola, caused great damage to property and the loss of two lives. Holden Brook was turned into a torrent. Mrs.

Tripp and Miss Mary Thompson were drowned ami their bodies have not yet been recovered. Nearly twenty building were removed from their foundations, aud a huge jam was formed at the trestles of the Fall Brook Railroad. The trestle of the Addison Fensylvania was washed away. One horse was drowned, and Taunerytown is iu ruius. Many people were rescued from houses at great rik.

Only one bridge remains at Holden lirook Sullivan Terrorizes the Capital. John L. Sullivan's spring overcoat spread terror along Pennsylvania avenue at Washington, D. C. The champion was on his "high horse" hut his demonstrations took new form.

His fists intensified the color of no restaurant waiter's eyes. He spent lit tie time in saloons. Instead, he made his way wherever sidewalks were crowded, and about his head, like a war-club, swung the saffron-colored overcoat It was wielded as a coachman wields a whip, and blows fell on every side. Pedestrians staggered as the strokes of the garment drove their hats over their eyes. Near the capitol gray-haired man, assistaut chief clerk in one of the departments of the agricultural bureau, was seut reeling into the street by a blow across the face.

There were no polio: in sight and the champion's coat cleared a path for hiin for two blocks. Then his friends induced him to enter a carriage and hurried him to a sporting headquarters in the lower part of town. The ItfdMenin IheKace. About 500 Indians from Humps and Big Foot's camps arrived at rierre, S. ac-coinpayning the sixteen bucks who are to compete in the tournament.

The Crows entered the city painted, beating tom-toms and singing war songs, which caused hundreds of visitors unused to such things to retire to view the procession from behind bolted doors. The Indians have camped near the tournament grounds, ami passed the night in wild war dances and songs. The Indians will enter the tournaineut with one ho-e team of the swiftest runners in the Sioux nation, who will have a cart loaned them by the Pierre Fire Department. They practiced and one heat they made astonished every one, being five seconds faster than tho best time on record. Sixteen cities in South Dakota are represented and will compete for piizes but the Humps and Big Foot Indians are the favorites.

Firemen Scattered by Indians. When the firemen's parade formed at Pierre, S. the Indians from the Big Foot and the Hump bands, who had been invited t0 take rode UP on painted and breech-clouted, and swung in directly in Iront of parade. The stylih Pierre City Band was crowded to one side, the In dians sweeping through them, with war clubs in the air. The otliccrs of the day attempted to lead them to the rear, but were compelled to run to get out of danger.

An interpreter was procured, the bucks wen; quelled, snd upon promise of-several fat ueeves to Kin uireciiy alter the parade thev took their place in the rear. Once again during the parade the braves could not contain themselves and rode down the line on the run, scattering the companies right and left. Went Down with the Lnine. Five lives were lost in an accident on Canadian Pacific, between C'larenioiit Mvrtle. A washout was reported on the and tin- road, and an engine, with five men, was dispatched to repair damages.

Coming suddenly upon the break the engine plunged into a creek and allou board were drowned. The names of the dead men are: Joiin Wanless, bridge inspector; John Attan, engineer; F. Oliver, fireman; Seetiounicn Lott and The evening and night trains to and from the East did not get through, and passengers were transferred at the gap. The body of Wanless was found next morning. a married man with three children.

CrUHhed by the Cars. An accident on the new freight road which is being constructed by the Pennsylvania Company at Morrisville, X. resulted in the death of two men and in the injury of about a score of others. A high trestle stands near the track, from which the cars are emptied. Six of the cars became detached from the engine and ran down the track a quarter of a mile at a very fast rate.

When they came near the bottom of the trestle they toppled over on a gang of men who were working bel-w. The injuries of the men hurt are not dan gerous. Ihe gang was composed of Italians. White Caps Who Widt Th. Hadn't.

Many white cap letters have been sent to Frederick Turner, a wealthy German farm er, of Kenton, Ohio, within tli3 past few days, threatening the lives of himself and his family and the destruction of ins prop erty unless he compelled a poor family liv ing on one of his farms to move. He put the matter in the bauds of detectives, who secured the arrest of Solomon Schcrt.cr, Emanuel Schertzer, M. K. Savage, lN-oc Mitchel and William Vance, all prominent men. Criminal proceedings against the letter writers have been begun.

Prepared for an Incendiary Fire. The five-story tenement 177 Eldridg street, New York, was carefully prepare for ignition by some would-be incendiary. The floor of the first story beneath the stair way, the wainscoting of the hall, the stairway, the door of the closet containing the gas meter, were all thoroughly soaked with kerosene, and it needed only the application of a match to start a fire that would have swept up the stairs and hallways, cutting off from escape the seventeen families who live in the house. The discovery of the preparations of the incendiary was made accidentally by the janitor of the house. The police were notified, but tbey have discovered no clew to the firo-bug.

ThreeThonsand Un ltd ing Laborers The building laborers of Boston, Somcr-ville and Cambridge, numbering between two thousand seven hundred and three thousand men, have struck. How many mason builders will be affected is not known, but it is thought that the number will be about thirty-two, -seven having granted the increase some days ago. The Bricklayers' unions have agreed to support the strikers, and will not receive stock at the bands of non-union incn. The strike is for an advance of from to 2.25 per day. i THE DEAD OF THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY INJURED.

Still Alle Hurled Down an Embankment Murdered by His Bookkeeper-Other Telegrams. Another Wreck. A bad accident happened near Childs, Md, on the Baltimore Ohio railroad, by which two men were killed and several persons were more or less injured. When the train was about fifty miles from Baltimore the main rods on both sides of the locomotive broke. The broken rod revolved at lightning speed with the flying driving-wheels, pelting the sides of the engine like giant hammers.

One of the rods was forced through the cab of the engine, sinking the fireman. John McXamara, with such force as to kill him instantly. The accident also caused the sleepers to leave the track and roll over an embankment, re sulting in the fatal injury of Charles Acken- leil, chiel engineer of the Staten Island ltapid Transit company, who died before reaching Philadelphia, and the wounding of others. The killed are: Charles Aekenhetl of Xew York: John McXatnara. of Phila delphia.

The injured are: Bishop J. J. lcane. rector of the catholic university. Washington, D.

Mr. and Mrs. Tierce, Mount Claire, N. John C. Richards, Miss Bertha Richards, Miss Grace Daily, ot Orange, N.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Viely, Fort Smith, J.

J. Newman, Jsevr Haven, Edward W. Page, 75 5th avenue, New York; Charles E. Adell, Jacksonville, Joseph In gal Is, son of Senator Iugalls; John RuhL of Clarksburg. W.

Va. They Are Still Alive. The imprisoned miners at Dunbar, have been heard from. The men at the head of the drift through which the rescuing party is working its way sent word down to keep quiet. Every one did so and in a minute pick, pick" for a dozen times came the signal from the inside.

The men went to work with renewed vigor. The imprisoned men cannot be reached for twenty- four hours yet. The rescuing party is within a few feet of the line leadinr from the Mahoning to the Hill Farm line, but after that is reached the men will have to drive through seventy-five feet of coal to reach their imprisoned comrades. Bert Worm ley came out of the mine. He said that for 6oine time the men at work in the Mahoning mine had not heard a sound.

In the mean time me suspense is awful, People are crowding to the danger-line ropes, peering anxiously at the man way. Hurled Down an Einb tnkment. A party of ladies, driving by coach from Fredericksburg to Jonestown, were all more or less injured in a fearful accident. There were fifteen women in the party, all young, and when near Jonestown the bar- ness of one of the horses broke, the team became unmanageable and plunged down a twenty-foot embankment, the coach and oe- upants falling on the horses. The wildest confusion followed, but all the ladies were finally rescued.

The most badly injured are the following: Kate L. Read, Laura Swalm, Lizzie Wanner, Miss Bomberger, Miss Wal-born. William ILirk, the driver, was cut about the forehead and seriously injured. He was entangled among the horses and badly trampled upon. Murdered 1y His Bookkeeper.

1j. a. jueiuurn, a prominent carriage manufacturer, was shot at Denver by a dis charged bookkeeper, G. G. McCartney.

Four shots took effect in the head breast. Melburn wiil die. The murderer had been charged bv Melburn with embezzle ment and forgery, and his trial was expect ed io come up nexi oay. juciuurn was one of the grand jury now in session, and was walking with the district attorney when the shooting occurred. McCartney waited at the mouth of an alley for his victim, and after the tragedy surrendered himself to a citizen.

Train Wreck Prevented by a Dog. What would have been a disastrous rail road wreck in which many lives would Mireiyniavc been lost was prevented by a dog. The fast train from Cincinnati to New York was thundering along, and when near a high bridge ill the vicinity of rark- ersburg, W. was flagged by a farmer. A mule had been caught in the bridge at midnight and a farmer living near had been aroused by his dog, who led him to the bridge in time to save the train.

Almost a Lynching Bee. A brutal and unprovoked assault on little boy at the caroussel at Cornell street and Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, almost per- cipitiited a lynching bee which the police for a time seemed almost powerless to pre vent. Edward Elliott, a 14-year-old lad, in some way incurred the displeasure of John Krueger. the ticket taker, and the little fel low wa-i subjected to a terrible beating at the hands of the burly brute. When the boy appeared outside with his head bleeding from a number ot ugly gashes a crowd of infuri ated citizens gathered about the entrance and endeavored to wreak summary venge ance on Ihe boy's assailant.

At Ui is Juncture 31 rs. Elliott, the boy mother, appeared on the scene with a horsewhip, and while the crowd held Krueger the woman plied the whip about his head and shoulders until he begged for mercy. The boy, who was not seriously injured, was taken to his home. Knocked the Mayor Senseless. Mayor McQuaid, of Jacksonville, Fla.

was the victim of a savage assault at the bands of Steve Wiggins city maisli.il. Wig gins called at McQnaid's residence and asked him to accompany him about two. blocks to inspect a portion of State street which was s.tid to be in bad condition. When about a half block up State street Wiggins suddenly exclaimed to the mayor: "See here, McQuaid. you've been doing me dirt." McQuaid was about to reply when Wiggins pulled out a club and strucK McQuaid four or five heavy blows over the head and face.

The niavor drooped to the pavement sense- less. Wii'-Hns ran around the corner, mount- Clj UjS borse, and galloped away. McQuaid finally regained his feet, and was able to walk to his house. He now lies in bed in a vrrv weak condition. Fears are entertained Favor Annexation.

There arc great national rejoicings at Que bec over the success of the nationalist party led by Prime Minister Mercier in the general elections which took place all over the pro-; vince of Quelec Mercier is the leader of the old liberals of Quebec nd the dis-I grun tied national conservatives who deserted Sir John A. JIaedonald after the execution of the half breed, Louis Kiel. The majority of the French-Canadians regard him as the savior of race, for he is the leader of the op)sition to the imperial federation move-j ment in Canada. Merrier declares that Que- bee will annex itelf to the Lnitcd States rathtr than consent to imperial federation. Collected SSI.OOO With a Ijio.

Three desjwrate men, with a lasso, secured a 1,000 check from J. II. Stewart, a Kansas City capitali-t. 31 r. Stewart is in a precarinu condition from his rough iisige.

lie was riding in a buggy, when John Charles B. and "Doc" Goiden attacked him, threw the noose of a long rope a'out his neck, and dragged him over the dashboard. He was helpless in their bands and signed the check toeseae. The trouble grew out of litigation over the title to lands claimed by the Goldens aud by Stewart's company. Latest Intelligence from All Parts of the World.

Grover Cleveland sailed in the regatta of the Beverly Yacb. Club at Buzzard's Bay, going as one of the crew of a twenty-foot Baltimore courts have ruled that social clubs possess no more rights than private citizens and nave found the president and several members of the Carrollton Clnb guilty of selling liquor on Sunday. The Caiumet.Mich., mine engine house containing Jumbo, the monster hoisting en gine, took lire, liremen were exposed to much danger from falling slate, several being cut about the head, and John Bowdeau's nose being cut off entirely, i he fire gutted the framework of the main building, doing ftO.OOO damage. Hordes of famished wolves are overrun, ning Austrian Galieia, destroying thousands of sheep and many larger animals. In a number of cases men have been attacked by the ferocious beasts and devoured.

While on his way to church Frank Saun ders, a wealthy farmer of Jackson County, was shot dead by William Hamlin, a young man who for years Las been devoted "to Saunders' daughter. Saunders refused Hamlin the society of his daughter. Mary Krausa, of Chicago, three years old, was tossed twenty feet by a passenger train, near her home. According to a reportmade by the police the only injury she received was a "fracture of the drum of her left car." JHiring a quarrel between Dr. W.

J. Hammer and his wife, at Greensburg, the wife's father attempted to act as peacemaker. Dr. Hammer knocked the old gentleman down and Mrs. Hammer came to her father's defence with a revolver, shooting her husband through the lung9, inflicting fatal injuries.

William Brigham Wesson, one of the best-known men of the state, died at his resi dence! Detroit, after a long illness He was born in Ilardwick, in 1820. His estate is valued between two and three millions. The plasterers and iron workers of Cincinnati, have followed the brick-lay ers and hod-carriers by joining the carpen ters, who are now on a strike. A general tie-up of the building trades is now on, which will throw 16,000 men out of wrork Isham Prather, the son of a wealthy gro cer, and Miss Ethel Mobley, daughter of Professor Lewis Mobley, of Hartsville College, eloped from Columbrs, Md. A license had been procured and the? wedding ceremony was performed on the car steps as the train left the station.

The enraged pro feasor was hotly in pursuit, but was side tracked by a friend of the young couple. It. A. Ward, the champion amateur half mile runner of the United States, died at his home in Hillsdale, Mich. John Yarborough, a civil engineer, Bhot and instantly killed C.

W. Black, a real es tate man. who came to his house to kill him, at Fort Worth, Tex. Black went on Hie front porch where Yarborough sat and snapped his pistol. Before he could cock his weapon aeain Yarborough had fired twice.

The trouble grew out of Black's at tcntions to Yarborough's wife. Aaron M. Jones, sixty years old and a pioneer of Colorado, shot his wife Just be low the heart at Denver, as they sat at break fast. He leveled his pistol at his daughter Krma, but she pleaded so hard for her life that he spared her, and instead turned the weapon upon himself and put a bullet through his head. It is thought he was in sane.

The tugboat Ella at New Orleans ran Into and sunk a barge of the St. Louis and Mis sissippi Valley Transportation Company Total loss 522,000. uenerai jvins nas oruereu out tne nous- ton Light Guards and holds them in readi ness to respond to a call from Sheriff Ham mond, of Polk county, Tex. A negro at Livingston cut the throat of a white man named JMorris, and several white men caught and hanged the negro. Infuriated at this, a party of negroes killed two of the lynchers.

More trouble is feared. John S. Bartholomew, a prominent citi zen and a well-known politician, shot him self through the head at Zauesville, 0., dy ing almost instantly. The town of Selsaemisly, Hungaria, has been burned. One person was killed, many injured, and a large number are missing, Thousands of families are homeless.

Dr. T. H. Koffus committed suicide at Lincoln, by cutting his throat from ear to ear. He was an old resident and a well-known physician.

He had lost three wives in the last seven years under circumstances which occasioned much talk, and it is believed this seriously affected his mind. Juiia Bowers her seventecu-vear-old daughter visited the house of Mrs. John Walker at San Antonio, Texas, with the intention of whipping her. They en tcred the house and began the attack, but Mrs. AValker succeeded in gaining possession of a loaded shotgun and sent a load of shot into the breast of Miss Bowers, causing in stant death.

The motion for a new trial in the case of Otto Leu th, the Cleveland boy murderer of Maggie Thompson, was refused. Governor Campbell has granted a petition for a respite until August 2lth. Victoria Sackville West, daughter of Lord Sackville West, late minister from Great Britain to the United States, was married to her cousin Lionel. At St. Helena, an Englishman named Cowlishaw was bound over to the Court for the stabbing of Charles Bereriek lie protested ins innocence and nurled a chair at the head of the complaining wit ness.

A pitched battle ensued, the courtroom being cleared in less than a minute, and it required the combined strength of six powerful men to capture and hind the hys terical prisoner. The death of John G. McElhone occurred at Atlantic City, N. of paralysis. Mr.

McElhone has been the chief stenographer oi me nouse oi representatives ior many years past. ine government auiuoriues at-Chicago arrested George McManus and William J. Evans for passing conterfeit money. Thev gave Thilip May a bill for room rent and received good money in return. a jvaiamazoo, scoundrel took a quiet shot at a fine horse belonging to Charles Sweczer, and broke its leg.

Mr, Sweezer ordered it killed. T- -m i.ogan, rnuups county, jvansas, was visited by a cyclone. The new episcopal church was destroyed, many buildings were wrecked and one man was injured seriously. A tire which started in a house about live "milts south of Merced, spread to the grain lields and raged for five hours. A strip thirteen miles in length as burned over, entailing a loss of about 20,000.

Nearly a thousand miners walked out on a strike at the Tamarack mine, de manding a 10 per cent advance in wages and eiHi. nours worK. ue strike will un doubtedly extend to the Osceola and Calu met and Hecla mines. 11.:.11.:.. i i i i uuuucipiua is taking stops to Dtiiid a handsome monument to General McClcllan l.x-Orovernor Pattison is at the head of the committee.

James Whitman, a farmer near Auburn, was shot and instantly killed while working in a field. No oue saw the deed rominuteo, out Irom testimony before the coroner's jury it is believed that Charles Johnson, Whitman's brother-in-law, is the murderer. Johnson ha disappeared. the oak Leather company tannery, Cincinnati, was almost entirely destroyed ly tire. It is supposed that lightning nited the bark shed.

The loss is estimated at 530,000, with insurance of $50,000. J. F. STEWART, Publisher. II'LL CITY, KANSAS Chicago is taking tictive steps to abate the smoke nuisance before the World's fair materializes.

Many a man has propheisied truly for himself by optimistically remarking, 4 'It's a long road that ba3 no turn." It matters not to the workingman whether ho is paid in. gold or greenbacks. It is the scarcity of either that bothers him mostly. 'Mosquitoes in Siberia have bills that piece through the thickest clothing. Overcoats and winter gloves furnish no Drotection them.

Leading capitalists are getting together for the purpose of putting "millions into beer.1' Having done that they will next attempt to put beer into millions. If it is true, as a distinguished foreign scientist claims, that voices of human beings have color, it must bo that the voice of the "spell-binder" is of a rich and beautiful golden hue. Cornell university has given up the task of manufacturing journalists as a bad job. As a matter of fact Journalists are not in great demand and it hardly pays to turn out so fine an article. A general order has been issued by th3 German emperor that in future all civilans appearing at any court function where full dress is to be worn must be arrayed in knee breech es, silk stockings and shoos with buckles.

The spire of the Brunswick, Baptist church was torn down recentty. Instead of falling on the ground, a3 was expected, the spire vent plumb into the cistern below the sidewalk, "Baptist to the last," was the quiet remark of a bystander. European peace has become almost as expensive as war, and hence the tendency of so many hundreds of thousands of workmen to emigrate to the United St ites, where the standing army is so small that its weight is not felt on the back of the people. Wesley Girakd, of Indinnapolis, has been granted a pension for injuries received durins? the war in being thrown from the back of a mule. Whatever carpers may say of this, Gi- rard's loyalty and courage aro fully proved by the fact that he had any thing to do with an army mule.

The score or moro of the survivors of the battle of Balaklava who have just been found in a London poor house, and the other scores and hundreds of British ox-soldiers whn uh, boiujr allowed to starve in their own country, show that it is monarchies rather than republics which are ungrateful. The doctrine that work is the all in all of existence has few bcleivers. Tho new spirit of tho ago is a desire for emancipation from the burdens of life We should make work our slave instead of onr master, and abundant recreation is not only incompatible with, but really contributes to the most substantial success. Manufacturers of electrical machinery in every part of the country, are crowded with work; some concerns have even withdrawn all their advertising having in prospect ail the work which their capacity can take care of for a long time to comes. Most of Ihe larger establishments have extensions of capacity now under way.

Al.L told, aro to-day th nisands of girls under eo levriata instruction and contending for scaol sue degrees; and statistics show that they are strong in battle. It u.ed to bo prophesied that women would losi? the love'iest qualities of womanhood in the strife and pursuit; but the event has proved that such baleful predictions were without justification. Spain's queen-regent ha two young daughters who are described as hea'thy, strong children, capable of conversing Illicitly in Spanish, French. German, and English. The world bhould rejoice in this information as foulirmatory of a long-oxisting suspicion that princesses do not dilTer very much from ordinary girls unless it be in the number of languages they speak.

In most colleges where coeducation has been tried it has been pronounced a success, though there have not been wanting critics who are inclined to the opinion that in many instances there is more co than education. But this is only a popular superstition in colleges still devoted to maintaining the supremacy of the stronger sex, and, like other superstitions, will not bear investigation. has oeen iounu Anoia a beau which has tho peculiar quality of iking a man who has of it dance around and behave like a luna tic for a whiij and then fall into un consciousness. If that is all that it is crood for its need will not bj felt in tais country ior a goyu inmgs are knowu to have tho same effect on the human system a milliner's bill for instance. The Panama canal, work on which was long since suspended, will prob ably not be undertikenanew, at least not in tho life-time of the present generation.

Vast progress, measured by cost, was made toward its completion. No less than was expended in wore and material before the enterprise came to a halt. Then it was stranded completely, and the company becoming bankrupt passed into tho hands of a receiver. is already paralyzed. The managers of the Pennsylvania, the New York, Pennsylvania Ohio and the Nickel Tlate roads called on Mayor Gardener and asked that 300 special police be sworn in to protect the yards while an attempt was made to employ new men.

The mayor issued a proclamation warning the strikers not to interfere with work in the yards. The proprietors of num crous manufactories called on the mayor and urged him to take measures to settle the strike, as their supplies of coal wen nearly exhausted. They represented that from 2,1,000 to 30,000 men would be idle in a day unless the strike was terminated at once. The yardmasters of the various road? were not more surprised than were tb switchmen themselves at the effectiveness of their strike. Even the most conservative of the strikers had all along been of the opin ion that a number of the men would refuse to quit, and when they were made aware oi the fact that all the men.

non-union as well as union, were out, confidence in theii ultimate success was increased. In choos ing this time above all others to inaugurate their strike the switchmen showed rare judgment. Perishable goods of all descrip tions must be shipped immediately at this season or be spoiled, and the strike cripples the road more seriously than it could at any other time. Four hundred bricklayers quit work also, their action being the beginning of a strike that is likely to leave 10,000 men idle. Nuptial).

Miss Mary Anderson was married to Mr. Antonio Navarro in the Roman catholic chapel of St. Mary's, in Hampstead, London. 1 he wedding was strictly private. Antonio rernando Navarro de Viana is the long.

unding name of the young man who became Mary Anderson's husband. He has always had some claim to distinction and this marriage gives him greater prominence. He is the son of Jose F. Nayarro, a well- known New Yorker, who acquired consid erable local fame by his erection of the exceedingly high Navarro Flats. But the ancestors of the Navarros have been distinguished from different causes than those which have given prominence to the present generation.

According to report, one Tedro Navarro participated in the siege of Granada, and afterwards accompanied Colum bus on his second voyage to America in 1403. 1 He was ennobled with the title of count, and won considerable fame as a military leader. From that time on, according to the family records, the Navarros were distinguished for exploits on land and sea. Mary Anderson's cold and marble-like heart was captured by Mr. Navarro while he was traveling in Europe for his health.

The two met on the continent and it is said to have been a case of love at first sight. Caused By Spreading Ralls. An accident occurred on the Chicago, Burlington Quincy road, five miles east of Council Bluffs, in which the engine and all the cars of the Burlington Mis souri train was ditched and a number ol passengers seriously injured. Pat Sweeney, the engineer, and his fireman, F. Smith, saved themselves by jumping.

Conductor Goldthwaito was slightly bruised. Those seriously injured are: Jud uo-c h. E. Deemer. urt- Hannah An eirl 'badly bruised judge of the District Cou derson, a young Swede Aiiuuii ficnu uuu lutver jiiui, i.

x. 41111, i 1 I I 1 1 1 11:11 Augusta, 111., legs and arms badly bruised; A. II. Lawsh, Red Oak, bruised about the; arms and legs; Mrs. Hannah Davis, Red Oak, la.

I All these are badly bruised, though none fatally, it is thought. Others 'escaped wilh slight injuries. Judge Deemer injuric are probably the most serious. He was taken to his home at Red Oak in a special Pullman car. United States District Attorney Jliller was on the train, but escaped with a slight shaking up.

The accident was caused by spreading rails, due to a bad roadbed. Seeking Klla CordeU's Slyer. Two hundred citizens were present at a public meeting in Industry, I1U to take fur ther steps to discover the murderers of Ella CordclL Impassioned speeches were made und a committee of eight was appointed to canvass the county and raise $oUJ to lure detectives. A funeral sermon in memory of the murdered girl was to have been preached, but on account of the high state oi public excitement and threats against the life of the reputed author of her ruin It was deemed best to postpone it indefinitely. While the people of Industry are determined that the murder shall not go unpunished.

older heads have succeeded so far in keep ing iu check those who are anxious to lake the law into their own hands. It is a sinsu-lar fact that the crime was planned in Illi nois, committed in Iowa aud discovered in Missouri, and the three communities are equally determined to have justice meted out to the criminals. Wreck of a Famous War Ship. The old war-ship Iroquois, which followed Farragut past hostile forts and had her deck? 1 wet with blood in arfare, steamed out oi Sau Francisco, but returned six hours latet 1 a sorry-looking wreck. From the navigat-1 ing officer, Lieutenant Taine, it was learned that they steamed leisurely out to the bar heading southwest.

The sea was 'quite heavy but the wind was light, coming Ironi the northwest. To steady her the fore and main topsails were set. From his position on the bridge navigating the vessel Paine saw the iron Jumper brace which springs the head boom down carried away, and in an instant the Jibboom snapped off close to the cap of the bowsprit. The jib 6tays immedi ately parted and the whole affair fell over the side into the water. The wreck was cut away and the vessel returned home again with great difficulty.

They were out four miles. Try to Place the Responsibility. Deputy Coroner Barrett began an inquest at 19o West Harrison street, Chicago, on the bodies of Joseph and Otto Bart who were killed by an Illinois Central train on the lake front. Albert Crosby testified that a Baltimore Ohio train was going south at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour and an Illinois Central train was going north at a speed of about twenty miles an hour. The boys were crossing the tracks, and when they saw the Baltimore Ohio tram seemed to bo bewildered.

The Illinois Central train struck them and they were horribly mangled." Mr. Crosby said the engineer did not blow the whistle until the train was about six feet away from the dovs. Lneineer Leach, of the suburban train, says he did not see the boys until he wa close to Ihem, when be instantly blew tbte whistle and put on all the brakes. Shot Down by Itediklns. A cowboy arrived at the station of Scpar, N.

Mn on the Southern Pacific and said that the Indians bad attacked a camp of cowboys on a ranch. He and ten others were in camp when, at night a band of twenty or thirty Triilt'inc a-tsl a I llmm inr1 chnr tlmtn down as thev were attempting to run. Some of the cowboys were armed, but, not ex pecting an attack, were not prepared for defense. He thought all his companions wer killed. I I Hodgson-Burnett and the hero of the novel, of concussiin of the brain.

Charges of om-Little Lord Fauntleroy," is reported a rial laxity and dishonesty had been prcfer-dy mg from consumption in Philadelphia. red against Wiggins and the latter suspected r.Mn fwm-crp Tin wu the mayor of having set the reports on foot. preparing for another world circling tour. Xot satisfied with his recent wonderful rec ord, he intends to make the trip this time in fifty days. A boy only four years old, who can only talk French and Latin, and who cannot tell his name or where he lives was found astray in the streets of Philadelphia.

The strategic railways in Germany have just been finished, and it is now possible to throw a million men upon any frontier within three days. Bishop Cortbwiitis of ike Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds, England, is dead. The steamer Yowyangs from Tort Pirie, South Australia, for Sydney, X. S. AV has been wrecked off Willougbby cape, the east ern point of Kangaroo Island.

Part of her crew are missing. W. E. Palmer was shot at Mandan, X. D.

by George Lewis, and died. The two quarreled in a saloon over paying for drinks and Lewis pulled a bull-dog revolver and fired. The bullet struck Talmer in the thigh. With a drunken leer he asked Lewi9 if he wasn't a better marksman than that. Three shots followed in rapid succession, and Lewis, seeing bat his man was dead, ran into the street.

He was arrested and threats of lynching have been freely made..