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The Harper Daily Sentinel from Harper, Kansas • 2

The Harper Daily Sentinel from Harper, Kansas • 2

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CHICAGO CRIME. SHOCKING CHARGE. BELL'S BRIEF, CK00K CONSIDERS TIIE BOILER. Frequent Daylight Knliberlos Inaction of Th 8aprlln Architect Fllei mil of the l'ollre. Complaint A falnal Congress A Oampbelllt Preacher Charged Chicaoo, December 4.

A number of That Divided Responsibility was the Cause of the Recent Savage iA Tusr, Btrufffflinar to Got Through Hell Gate, Now York, Bursts I Its Boilor. daring daylight robberies of ladles have re With a Horrible Crime A Polloeman cently been perpetrated in the vicinity of Waihinotok, PectJiber 4. A. M. Bell, Enpervlsiiie Architect, In his annual report to the Secretary of the Treasury, ays that there are now in course of construction eighty new buildings, ranging In cost from Prairie avenue and Twenty-second street, which liave not been reported at all by the Gets Five Years for Inadvertently police.

No arrests have been made. Pieces and tO 1)6 $25,000 to 3,000,000 each, or a total ex and In tlie circle of families In Outbreaks In Arizona and New Mexico His Understandliifr With tho Executive. 1'be Boat Shattered to tho Crew Nowhere i Found. Killing an Obstreperous Gambler Fatal Stabling. which the outrages are known pendltureof 83,511,400., The expenditures (or the year on this account have aggregated 82,438,709.

Mr. Bell says that Con- the Indies go out upon the street In terror, Not long ago a lady was knocked down early In the afternoon and robbed just op greas fixes the limits of the cost ot build' Fifteen Fraudulent Land Pre-emptore Un Ee Claims to Have Been Thwarted bj posite the Jewish synagogue, on Indiana inirs without a full knowledge' ot the ac Great Tire n.Detroit Low, Large Sawmill at Bay City, avenue. Two well-dressed men rushed commodation reauired. and that the lim der Arrest-The Mail Bobbed in Texas. around the corner and grabbed her hand its in mauv eases are so low as to Agent Ford The Matter Satisfactorily Arranged.

make It Impossible to provide minimum accommodation, although the cheapest Destroyed. York, December 4. At about six NEWS NOTES. The Kansas Legislature has been called to meet lu speclul session on January 19. J.

W. Porch, of Missouri, was appointed' Consul General to Mexico, vice Kwing, resigned, Dacoita attacked outlying portions of Maudalay after the surrender, and several British soldiers were killed and wounded. The Burmese generally were friendly to the occupation. A military ofllcer and eight subordinates In Cuba attempted to Incite a revolt, crying "Viva la Itepubllcal" Troops were sent In pursuit, and one of the men was killed and two surrendered, Marshall Clements was hanged at Saguache, recently, for the murder of his brother and sister-in-law. The crime was an extremely shocking one, Clements kept up his bravado to the last The people of Phllippopolis refused to treat with the new Turkish Commissioners.

The itussian agent warned the Houiiiellans that they need not expect Kussian assistance if they refused the Turkish envoys. Pittsburgh iron dealers report an advance of one dollar on pig metal and fifty cents on ore. This has beeu brought about by a steadily increasing demand, and Is the first apparent substantial evidence of a revival of tlie Iron trade, The Insurrection in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, was reported increasing In strength. It was reported, however, that an understanding would be reached between Governor G.irclu, Generals Trevino and Narano, and Judge Davila uow in Mexico City and the I'resident material be used. lie suggests that before bag, tore it from her and disappeared down an alley.

Tlie lady was overcome with fright, and was with difficulty gotten to her home. A few days ago the wife of a rich Hoard of Trade broker, Jim. It M. Kolo-son, whs attacked by these garroters Wasuinoton, December 4. Brigadier authorizing the construction ot buildings Casbopolis, December 4.

The preliminary examination of Kev. Norman Osborne, a well known Campbelllte or Congress get estimates from his bureau ot the cost of appropriate structures. This, General Crook, commanding the Department of Arizona. In his annual report de Christian minister, who is charged with directly opiKisite the residence ot Mr, John B. Sherman, at the corner of 1'rairie avenue and Twenty- terrible crime was commenced hero this scribes at considerable length tlie circumstances which attended the outbreak of the Chiricahuas, under Gerouimo, Mangus and he says, would expedite work and save money.

He calls attention to the fact that Congress not he should be blamed when work public buildings is stopped for lack of appropriations, and says this trouble will continue sa long as Congress ignores morning. For five years, up to a week ago, First street Her experience was precisely Osbome filled the pulpit of the United similar to that ot tlie laily wno was roooea other chiefs last spring, and declares sub opposite the Jewish Synagogue. 'I wo well Brethren's church at Calvin, five miles dressed garroters rushed from the alley, south of here. lie is a very tall, spare hia office when making appropriations, lie thinks the funds 'fur the entire work on tore the wallet she was carrying from her man, middle aged with long black beard 11 mid, and then disappeared down tlie alley any public building should be available at once, thus avoiding delays In construction. and solemn countenance, and has been highly esteemed for his piety.

About a again. BECOMING RESERVE. OFFICES FILLED. week ago he suddenly disappeared and it then became known that his oldest daugh Judges and Other Appointed to Office by Benator Logan Keepa Ills Own Counsel About Vice Frealdentlal FoialbllUles and ter, a pretty girl of seventeen, had made a the Freahient, l'robabllltlea. complaint charging that her father had repeatedly debauched her since Washington, December 4.

Although the appointments yesterday were not many in number, yet they made up in excellence for what they lacked in quantity. The July, 1883, that for tlie last year Chicaoo, December 4. United States Senator Logan left here early this morning tor Washington, where a caucus of the Republican Senators will be held to determine npon tlie course to be pursued regarding he Had prevented her rrom making complaint by tlie statement that as she was stantially' that the want of harmony between the agents of the Interior Department and the military makes such outbreaks possible. He says that upou returning to the Department of Arizona in 1883 he found the Apaches huddled about the agency, where there was no land for them to cultivate. The Indians complained of this, and the agent, Mr.

Wiltcox, acknowledged the justice of the complaint, but said he was acting In strict compliance with his orders in keeping them there. Ue saldi however, that if General Crook would take the whole responsibility of their management, he (Willcox) would make no objection to their removal to other localities within the reservation. The Chiricahuas were then out, and It was agreed on all hand:) that it was best to bring in all that could not be killed. THE WHOLE MATTER. "This whole matter," writes Crook, "was fully understood before I started for the Sierra Mad re.

Imagine my surprise when I readied the border on my return from the Sierra Madre with a portion ot tlie Chiricahuus as captives to learn that the now over sixteen the law would regard her as equally guilty with himself, and that her most interesting one, so far as the West is concerned, was that which made Lafayette Dawson of Maryville, United States Judiro for the district of Alaska. The ap MAIiKET KEHJKTS. Grata Md s'rwvlslonii. ST. Ixintrt, December 4.

Quiet and unchanged. WHKAT Hiirhi-r' Nn. iwl mah. UlKMUn) stop-mother she being Usoorne's daughter by a former marriage had been cognizant pointments were as follows: Collector of Internal Revenue John A December, May. H.tfi?iSU.04!4o.

of the crime. Upon these facts a warrant was issued for the preachers arrest, ana on Sullivan, for the Second District of New Coun Dull; No. -t mixed, cash, Xidstiblivi. December, 4ci Junuury, OATH Firm but Blow: Nu. 1 inlxnil.

cash. bundav last lie was discovered at the Ulir York salary. 84.500. ton House, In Chicago, where he had regis o'clock last evening while the tugboat Dory lEmorywns towing a stone barge up the (East River hor boiler exploded opposite (Sixteenth street. report of the explosion v.as'heard at least two miles and a number of boats put out to render assist oce, but no trace of1 the ttig could be found and it is believed that she sank Immediately with all on board.

The barge -was taken In tow and made fast to a 'pier at Blackwell's Island. The search for the tug and lis crew continued for some time, ibut nn trace ot eltlrer was found. Persons near the scene of the explosion say the tug Avas blown to pieces, and all on board wera Person diving along-the Tlver describe the explosion as terrific, The windows many houses In- neighborhood were coinpletly shattered. Several -buildings rwere badly shaken, and for a time great excitement prevailed. Horace A.

Green, a uleck hand, the steamer Frank-din Kdsoii, which about 250 yards distant, says that linked iatelyi after the ex-plosion he put off iu a boat to render assistance, but could And no trace of the tug or of any of the crew. iir 9 CAa be ilearned the crew numbered six men, and there seems little doubt that all perished. The names of the men have not yet been The crew of the tug consisted of Ave men: Captain Garrett Morris; Louis Capperati, engineer; Charles, Davis cook: Thomas Van Hansen, fireman; Garret tris, deck hand. Last evening the tug started down the river rwlth a scow lashed to its side. The scow -was frefthtwf "wiftv "Stone for' baHast At Hell Gatta strorfg flood tide was too much lor the tug, so she put on extra steam to aid in stemming the current.

The supposition Is that the extra pressure was too sudden and caused'the. disaster. 'A steam launch picked up the scow on whiclt there were, at the time of the' accident, 'four men. The liealth boat was at the scene of the explosion soon after the accident, but found no, trace of any of the crew. 'There is no doubt but that all perished.

The Dory Emery was valued at 10.000. (ilUCAT rniK AT PETHOIT. 7T. Detroit, December.4 V'esterdaO-morn-ine at six oclock lire broke out in the stock rcom of the. Barnum wire There -was a delay nf fully ten minutes before an alarm could be turned and the fire spread with great rapidity.

Three alarms tered as J. Bartlett of Pennsylvania. When ura Firmer at svaO. llAKI.KV Unehnnired: IWXasOo for Amerl- arrested he said he had just come from the election of a successor to Vice President Hendricks as presiding officer or the Senate. Since he has been in Chicago Senator Logan has been very reserved and non-conimunlcutive regarding bis position, but friends who are believed, from their nearness to him, to voice his sentiments, do not hesitate to freely express the opinion that having been the standard-bearer of the Republican party for tlie Vice Presidency, he is entited to the position.

It is no tecret moreover, that the Senator is far from satisfied with his positions on tlie Senate committees, and that he would welcome his election as presiding officer of the Senate as a kind of can; WeJl.tio tor ruiiHdliin. Indian Agent William W. Anderson, of Kentucky, for the Crow, Creek and Lower Brule Iudlnu Agency in Dakota; salary, 81.800. United States Judges Lafayette Dawson, of Missouri, for the District of Alaska; Kansas, where he bad been traveling fur his health, and when searched at the Cen FimnuoM nutter, dull and unchanged. Ekmts slow at per dozen.

Pnovif ions Steady and but Pork. old. 9.25: February. S10.H5: Lard. tral station a superb new revolver was found in his hip pocket When asked why quiet at ti.00.

Hulk meats, loose lots, t. o. b. salary, William O. Langford, of Walla Walla, W.

Associate Justice he, a minister of the gospel, carried sucu a weapon, he said that he was struck witli a long clear, r4.su; snort clear, noxea lots long eleur, t4.7.V;U.WJ: short ribs. tri.lfrjA agent hud telegraphed to Washington protesting against their being brought on the Uncoil Long clear, short slung-shot while in Kansas City, and had ribs. fft.TAC&B H0: short cleur, I5.S7!4(a.B.OO. reservation." tiiKKv fteaay ut n.io. Cattle Steady lor tor good grades: na Soon afterwards General Crook was purchased the weapon to protect himeeir from future assaults.

He was brought back here Monday by Sheriff Sawyer. Public feeling against him Is strong, and there salve for what his friends regard as a want of consideration for his position in the make-up of the committees. tive shipping steers. 4.7M!.6.i': native ordered to Washington for consultation and in his presence, after full discussion. butcher steers, cows and boilers, fZ.W$.b0: Blockers aud feeders, fti.fiOiiui-iu; rangers, SS.aut&J.ttO.

have been threats of mob violence. a memorandum was sinned by the Secre-J JUST HIS TILE. SiiBKe SteHdv for best grades: common taries of War and the Interior ny A HEAVY SENTENCE. Hot Springs. December 4.

Carlo to medium. 2.00g.tjfl: irood to choice. 2.75& whiclt the police control of the entire A Judge Gives His Hatter a Slap In the H.fiO; lambs. Texans, tl.7.r)W:i.U0. Hoos Ouiet but higher: Yorkers.

reservation was vested in the War Depart Face. Brutus, colored, who while acting as policeman killed Charles Foulke, alias Charles ment "The scope ot this control," he UflO; packers, fli.U0(ij,U.7a; butchers, Nashville, December 4. There Watson, in this city last December, was to il.WJ. n- -I tr day taken to the penitentiary at Little Kock tun icaoo," December 4. FLOUR Quiet and dull; Boutncro win under a sentence of five years.

1 lie Killing ter wheat Hour, f4 7535.00: Wisconsin, says, "was thoroughly discussed and was thoroughly understood, not only by myself but by the other persons present, the Secretary of War, Secretary of the Interior, and tlie Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The idea that the authority which I had already exercised on the reservation, simply as a matter of necessity, was to be in any of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory; salary, Charles K. Pollard, of Delphi, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana; salary, 83,000. United States Attorney J. Domar Harris, of Mississippi, for the Southern District of Mississippi salary, 8200 and fees.

Modifying the Order. Washington, December 4. Commissioner Sparks of the General Land Oflice to-day promulgated the following order modifying Ills order of April 3 last to suspend 'final action to issue patents on settlement and Improvement claims for examination with respect to compliance with the law: "The Commissioner will certify and request the issue of patents upon all entries not subject to reasonable doubt, viz. First, in contests where the rights of the successful parties have been established; second, where examinations have been made by the Government; agents and no fraud appears; third, homestead entries where residence, improvement and cultivation have been tnade according to law. A board to consist of the Assistant Commissioner, the Chief Clerk and the Chief Law Clerk ate hereby organized to pass upon and report Said cases to the Commissioner." 4.B5.(; Miclnttnn, 4.50lj4.UO: soft spring wheat, Kl.70fie4.00: Minnosota bakers.

occurred on a Sunday night Watson was driving up Central avenue at a rapid rate and was boisterously drunk. He was whooping and firing his revolver. Brutus fM.iki: patents. I4.7WiS 0: Jow itrudes. 2.uU Qt3.00; rye Hour, S3.3UwiJ.UO; buckwheat flour.

tt.nov&o.uu. Wheat Hlirher: No. sorlnir. RWfK6Vci No. 8 suriua-.

No. 'I red. UUu: No. attempted to stop him, but the officer's commands were unheeded, and when Watson was about a hundred yards distant Brutus fired a single shot, which took ef deirree lessened or limited was never hinted at On the contrary, my duties and powers were by tlie agreement expressly recognized and made record and were exercised and enforced without any objection for nearly two years. 3 red, Coun Lower; cash, 41c; DeceinDer, 40ft 041M.C; Mar, 8i'40'Bc.

oats lull and easy; cash, December, SSOfttiU'So; May, SlSjCSitfio. fect, vroducing instant death, iirutus aid was great excitement in the Criminal Court room yesterday afternoon over an encounter between Judge Matt Allen, of the Criminal Court, and Gaston Dismukes, collector for a hat company. It appears that while Judge Allen was on the bench, transacting business, Dismukes presented a bill for $2,50 for a hat Judge Allen motioned him aside, saying he had no time to attend to the matter then, when Dismukes exclaimed loudly that the bill had been due some time and did not believe Allen ever intended to pay. Allen reached over mid slapped him on the face mid resumed his work. Dismukes hastily withdrew, and after court hours, Judge Allen Went around and paid the bill.

Criminal Court adjourns to-morrow noon, and in tho afternoon Dismukes will have Judge Allen arrested ou a magistrate's warrant for assault and battery. Natural Gas. not intend to hit Watson but only fired to cause him to halt Watson was one of tlie leading sporting men ot the city and had Kvk uuiet; No. tile. Hahlbv Steady; No.

3, 65c. Pkoducb llutter. dull; creamery. J4250i THE EXPI1ESS TJNOEUSTANDING. Upon this express understanding I made myself responsible for tlie peace and many personal menus even among me better classes.

He was one of the principal backers of Doran in the notorious Flynn-Doran feud. dairy, 12Hlto. W420c per dozen. Provisions Pork, active and cash, s.7off(.s.80 for old and fll.70rSlt.7fi for new packed; Uecomber, 8.75.W); Way, liM'i. Lard, quiet and easy; cash.

quiet of tlie Indians. For more than two years there was not a single depredation committed by the Apaches, the first time UKUNKABIJ STAUnED. Nashville, December 4. Wil- within tlie memory of white men that so 6M'i. lloied moats, steady, dry salted shoulders.

3.70;1.75; short rib s.des, t4.77'i 4.5; short clear iam Qu'uin. while crossing tlie common long an interval of peace had been enjoyed in Arizona and Mexico. As I have hisky rirm at n.ia. Cattle Lower: sbuminir steers. 13.30 from tlie depot at South Pittsburg, met Ben Johnson, against whom he had a 6.05; stockers and feeders.

f2.04((H iW; cows, bulls and mixed, ti.5tvmii.iti: through Texas- said before, up to tills time the Indian Department seemed only ton willing to have me nmiiairii tho entire Indian business, giving me the most hearty co-operation, and 1 cattle, steady, J2.tKXtt,3.7U wintered Texans, Hendrlrka' Fatal Nlcknesii. i Bridgepokt, December 4. A prominent physician, who was Hendricks' friend and attendant for a longer period than any other doctor, says Hendricks did not die of heart paralysis. Several years ago he was stricken with paralysis, from which he never fully recovered, and as usual of paralysis, fat formed, which eventually reached tlie brain and caused death. J3.70.

i Hons Slow and tower: rough and 3.403.65; packing- and shipping, f3.ful-3HT; light weights, t3.3o3.7S; skips, 2.50 3.30. certainly could not conceive that with the added danger of the Chiricahuas there would he any less degree of co-opera tion. Months afterwards It appears that SnERp Steady; natives. J1.IS023.00: were sent in, ana Jiair a dozen engines were called, but the whole building: was a mass of flame before theyarrived. gale of wind from the west fanned the flames into a fury, huge cinders were hurled high Into the air and carried them blocks away, and for a time it seemed' that the whole neighborhood was doomed.

The efforts of tho lire department were devoted chiefly to saving property in the neighborhood, it being impossible to save the wire vvorks. Notwithstanding the hard work of the firemen, the fire spread to Howard street, and the men were cbm-peleud to retreat before the flames with scorched hands and faces burned. The lient was intense, and set fire to three double, two-story houses, which were about half consumed before the firemen could get to work ou them. The, occupants, were able to move most of their furniture to a place of safety. These houses were valued at insured for $6,000.

After the lire in the wiro works had burned for some hours the walls began to and the firemen had many narrow escapes. The works were an almost entire loss, Building, valued at stock, 850,000, and machinery total insurance, Two hundred men are thrown out of employment. SAW. MK.X. UTJRNED.

Bay City, December 4. At eleven o'clock last night broke out in the ctipola of the fire room of the (Hi raw aw mill, owned by Birdsall A Barker. The wind wan hlnwinff- His-litl frnm thAwAdtnuH ans, lambs, f8.li03U.4U, on tlie very day tlie above agreement was entered Into the Secretary of the Interior NRW Yohk. December 4. FLOtrn Dull: common to good extra west- orn and state, Jyi.40frj.si.iio: (rood, to cuoice, wrote Agent Willcox in terms which must have convinced him that neither he nor the Commissioner of Indian Affairs were in ac western aud state t.nvS!iM); common to irood extra Oh 3 toiiiuwa choice extra St.

Louis, 3.40S6 Whkat Soot, dull: options, firm: Bpring, H5o; ungraded spring, HOe; ungraded red. No. 2 red, 1 white, H7u: No. iSred. December, August, cord with my views in reference to Indian management and at the same time saying the agreement was a makeshift to relieve them from responsibility and transfer it te my shoulders; also hinting that expression of views adverse to tlie method of settlement would be agree- 4.

A special from Oil City, says the Standard Oil Co. lias a scheme under way to pipe the natural gas for heating and illuminating purposes to Buffalo. The plan is to lay a large trunk line from the Venango District to Corry and from thence to Buffalo. At Corry will be placed the pumping machinery necessary to force the gas on to its destination. Tlie machinery, it is said, is to be constructed on the principle of tlie great Worthington duplex pumps used by the National Transit Company for pumping oil, modified in such a manner as to adapt them to their new uses.

Postal Delays. Washington, December 4. Advices from the west representing that Missouri people abroad complain of the needless delay in the receipt of St Louis and Kansas City newspapers indicated the fact that St Louis mid Kansas City not being exchange offices for foreign mails, it operates to the disadvantage of these cities. As it is ail mail from St. Louis and Kansas City for foreign countries has to go to tlie city post-office in New York and he distributed by tlie clerks there, the result being that newspapers which reach New York on tlie day the mail steamer sails, are not sent out until the next steamer.

i Cuban IndrpBiidnnoe. New YoitK, December 4. A Key West special says: Telegrams have been passing to-day between the Washington authorities and tlie Federal officers here relating to a filibustering expedition which, it is alleged, is being fitted out at ttiis place. La Propaganda a Cuban organ published here, pointedly refers to Alfonso's death and tlie uprising throughout Spain to achieve Cuban independence. The Fit in.

New Tonic, December 4. It Is reported that Mr. Fred Brown, the present managing COBN ungruneu, ttwsna o. No. 2, yellow, No.

a December, 638gtUies May, 4H48Mo. uble to the department Oats Lower ana active; unxeu western, 354637oi white, 37(343o. i THE RESULT INEVITABLE. riie result was inevitable, and on Sep Kyb Dull and weak; western, uioiioc. Pnmmoa llutter.

flrin: western, tember 12 1 find that Agent Willcox is Eggs, steady ut per dozen. complaining tu the Interior Department Provisions rora, nrin uuv uuieij mwrt, flO.OU; family mess, ft 1.25 clear fla.uO; Cou- with reference to the agreement that it de-piived him of his power in his government extra pr mo, fs.nua.u. Jteer, aim; tierce carried the tire to the main' building of the clerk. would be taken in with W. E.

mill, which soon became a uias of seething Rnd r- Moroslnl, the remaining i mem- beef, nominal; city extra juuia nieen, sii.uu 2000. Cut meats, tlrrn; ckled bellies, Sc; smoked bellies, Bc; pickled hums, bers ot the firm of W. K. Connor when Mr, Gould goes out on December 81. oicklod shoulders, 6'ic; lniuuies, uuu; long- of the Indians and left little to sustain his authority and influence, and recommended its termination.

Of course I have no knowledge of the contents of the confidential communications between tlie Indian Department and its agent, but as the sequel clear, BS-sO. Lard, lowor; 0.38. Catti.k Weak and dull; poor to prime native steers, f3.80fa,5.tt0; extra and fancy, J5.MJ tSHKEP iower; poor to vxirn euuup, 6.00; fancy wethers, u.5Uj common to prime lambs, 4.50&H 00. grudge. Quinn, who was under the influence of whisky, spoke somewhat abusively to Johnson.

Johnson put his hand in his pocket, and while backing from his victim, who could scarcely stand on his unsteady feet, took out au open knife, witli which he struck Quinu blow after blow. The smitten man never spoke, but fell back bathed in Ills own gore. Johnson was arrested. In the dead man's pocket was found a package of candy he was taking to his little ones, saturated with their father's life blood. He leaves a wife and six children, who depended upon his efforts for support He was an industrious and inoifeusive man, bis only fault being drinking.

Johnson has a youtw -ife. FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIKS. Omaha, December 4. On Monday next the United States District Court will commence a remarkably large number of trials of people who are charged with having defrauded and with conspiring to defraud tlie United States by means of fraudulent land entries. The Uulted States Marshal has arrived from Denver witli fifteen prisoners against whom indictments were found at the last term of court and it is said that the number of fraudulent entries will reach two Hundred.

The prisoners claim that they are backed by a syndicate that will expend a million dollars in their defense if necessary. It is also charged that the same parties have made fraudulent entries on a large scile in Wyoming Territory. mail kobukby. Sax Antonio, December 4. The Fredericksburg mall was stopped near Comfort about dark yesterday and robbed by two youug men.

They took the mail-drivers watch and overcoat, also unhitched two horses from the coacli and went olf in tlie direction of Fredericksburg after they had cut the telegraph wires below town. Tlie innil robbers are supposed to have passed through Fredericksburg at ten p. for later they cut the telegraph wires again, cutting off all communication. A posse of citizens and officers, under the Sheriff, has gone in pursuit, witli strong hopes of recovering the highwaymen. The amount of valuables received from the mail bags is not known.

prematurely heleared. Chicago, December 4. Mrs. Annie Smith, aged twenty-seven, recently released from an insane asylum at St Peters, yesterday attempted to murder her brother and his two little children. She had been released as cured only recently.

nonntNO A HANK. Pittsburgh, December 4. Burglars entered the private banking house of Ban-tel at Freedom, and exploded tho nafe Willi giant powder. The thieves secured about $15,000. FOB LIFE.

New York, December 4. Goode, the murderer of Policeman North, was yesterday sentenced to prison for life. 1IOUS irm ut ft.uunsi.au. Kansas uitv. December 4.

Ff.ooii Dull. Ouotutious are lor un- establishod brands in car lots, per half barrel In sacks, us roliows: jia, fi.uo, aaa. Ue is a smart young man with auburn hair and whiskers, who has Mr. Gould's confidence in tlie highest degree. Crushed by the Cam.

IIabiuhduho, December 4. Peter Burnett, a railroad employe working on the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago construction train, while endeavoring to uncouple flat ears, fell between them and was killed, the wheels running across his breast. The accident happened last evening at Clifton Mine, four miles below ilarrisburg. Concuxulon of the Rplne. MirapiiYsnoRO, December 4.

An old and highly respected citizen of this place met with a serious and perhaps fatal accident this afternoon in the mines here, known as tlie new shaft The cage fell fl.lii4tl-2u; family, fl.u5QiI.4a: chocs, ou 81 70; fancv, 1 tKXaa.OO; patent, f2.3if(S.40; rye. 1.45I&1.70. Buckwheat, por f7.o0. Whbat Quiet; No. 3 red, caxh, 71c bid, 71 Ho asked; December, Tl'c bid, 71'iC asked; Jauuaif.

73'o bd, Wo aSkedf Feb-; ruarv, 75Vic bid, asked; May, curs Kl'nC. NO. a red, casn, no um, utyav i ber, 60c bid, 6740 asked; January, no bids, BMia asked. No. a Boll, cash, s.ic Dia, siio asked: December, no bidu, Mc askod Janu No l'ear for Hilver.

Washington, December 4. Representative Warner, of Ohio, says the coinage of silver will not be discontinued. "The advocates of silver," said he last evening, "do not ask impossibilities, but merely desire that a cercificate shall be regarded in commerce of equal value witli a gold certificate of tlie same denomination. Tlie money centers are becoming more reasonable and the sayings of monoiuetalists are no longer accepted as uncontrovertible facts. I have 110 fears that the silver interests of this country will suffer at all in the Forty-ninth Congress," I'ulitieer 8uet for LibeL New Yohk, December 4.

Mayor Grace has begun a libel suit against Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World, for 850,000 damages in tlie Superior Court The complaint was filed yesterday, and sets forth that Pulitzer had libeled Mr. Grace In his paper during the Inst six mouths. Pulitzer was arrested sliortly after noon and at once gave bail in 000 and was released. Tlie Mayor's claims me based on statements published in the connecting his iinme ith the failure of the Marine National Bank anil the firm of Grant Ward. ary, 10 cars U0(4c; may, -c urn, no ouer-ings.

1 CORK nominal; iso. a. casu, no uiun, iu akoil! December. 27c bid. zihio asked; upon him, producing a concussion of the spine in the lumbar regions.

The Injuries are of a very serious nature. The 1U-Ial anvans. January, bid, 2tc asked: May, 30'4c bid, aie asaea. no. wu 10, cbh, uvm-ber, and January, no bids nor offerings May, 32S4C bid, no offer-inrs.

mw-Nn. a. 24c bid. no offerings; KidiJiOND, December 4. The I find that early In December following, in less than five months, tlie Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, takes the ground that tlie agreement was with the express understanding that tlie military officers were to have tlie supervision of the police regulations on the reservation under tlie direction and with the approval of the Indian agent.

With this action of the Interior Depaitment officials at Washington it is not to be wondered thai, the dangers of divided control and want of, co-operation should become manifest" THE NEW AGENT. In December, 1884, Agent Willcox was relieved and a Mr. Ford was appointed In his plce. The new agent worked in harmony, but by the middle of January ho took, course. (General Crook reported the miiUer, ami asked that his administration be sustained or that he be relieved of lie was Instructed, pending a conference between the two departments at Washington, "not to interfere with tlie farming iipertilioiiH of Indians who are not omsldrre I ns prisoners." and informed that the nuestion or relieving him must in puhlut iut'ret be held iu abeyance for the prewnt.

ThereiiMin (ieneral Croo wrote tlie Adjutant General letter, the concluding paiHgiaphsof which are as follows: "As this liglt of control his now been withdrawn from me. I ninnl respectfully decl ne to iw uur lunger held responsible for the heliavioc any of the Inilinns on that reservation. Further, 1 regret le-ing romiH'lled to say iltat In refining to relieve me from tlii refpiested in my letter of January 3U, and M. tlie xniim time taking friim me the power by which these dangerous Indians have been controlled and managed and compelled to engage in industrial pursuits, the War Department destroys my influence and does an injustice to me and the service which I represent" The outcome of the matter was the ap December, 2310 bid, no offerings; January, Ho bid, no o'lferiugs; May, XX'ie bid, no offerings, itejected cash. 230 bid, no olter- nt' Tlrt.

2 cash. 41k: bid. no offerings; De flames. firemen saw the mill would be consumed and directed' their attention keeping the lire from spreading, and by strenuous, efforts confined the conflagration tb the mill property and' adjoining tramways. At one o'clock the mill was iu ruins.

sit. was the largest saw mill on the Saginaw River and at Hie time of its erection iu 1873 was the largest ot the kind in the world. Mr, Birdsall places the loss at insurance, $100,000. It is not laiovOn whether it will be rebuilt seniors fob a. corsmv town.

St. Joski'h, Ma, December At- Stan-berry, Gentry County, at three o'clock yesterday morning, fire was discovered in a row at buildings ob First street, which destroyed an building belonging to O. C. Arnold, S. C.

Carlisle's restaurant, M. liarnett's grocery store, C. F. Gardner's hardware house, the dressmaking rooms of the Misses Judge, and J. ii I'oxworUiy'i harness shop.

Ail the houses were well stocked. Tlie following are the losses and insurance: F. Gardner, hardware stock, building, 814,000. IL Barrett, grocer, stock, 83.800; building, -insurance, 3,00. O.

C'Arhold, bailding; loss, insurance, 8500; lirowiw building, 8800; insured, for $400. -Dawson, building; loss about $1,000. Carlisle' and McCoy losses are overed by A NARROW ESCAPK. Baltimoiuc, December Noble L. MitrhelLeltyschQel examiner, hia mother and his brothers were poisoned by arsenle Which aeeidentalljr fotuid its way Into their -coffee at breakfast this niorniHit Mrs, Mitclietl had Jt arsenate in an extfact box.

lid on the eupboaril alelf for mice," aiwl for- getti fur all about it replaced the lid on the box. the pobftn with the All are recovering. IliKL'BAKCtS f-MRT. Spkixo December tnity is having a big blaze. A fire orfginated tin Governor Lyon's liardare store at eight 'clock this morning and the store, and eon-Unts, also the Coiniuereial lloii.se, Geflee's iltfiruess shqp.

Mm, Bailey's miliinery sljop Mvkey's office and about liaif the yard are a totai'. Joss. The fire: is to be now under control. The i liglit JCHTTHKLir IRtTBOCn. XeceiiAer.4.

About three Ortlockthis moriiing firs' was cred cn the fourth tloorof tlie clock ase Jihf at S. Welsh Ac of Forest vilie. Tlie JnuidLng yas four stories hicli nd tivMtaf ixrwk and wood and wasventiiely (dpstniyel. jether with Die enjdne, v.aeUimtf and dtwlj, Tlie'kwf v.m oflicial canvass of the vote at the late election for Governor was completed to-day. The following Is the result: Total vote east for Governor, 289,071, of which Fitz-hugU Lee (Democrat) received John Sf Wise (Republican) 138,5 10; scat-toriag, 17.

Limiting ha League. cember, January and Rejected cush, uo bids-nor offerings. Huttkh ureamerr. lancr. nmtnv-, tto.i.i, m.

rf in miio-lo vat'Kuge lots, jnc: More packed, single package lota. 10i4. 14c: connion. ihmc, rou. iw" umnn Chjcaoo, December 4.

The com Eil'is Kecelpts light and market cteady at. KOc per dwien fresh recandled. Cattle Receipts, holdovers, 1.8Ti4 Murket for butcher eattle was steady; common to medium weak. mittee in charge of the affairs of the National Base Bail League hat decMed to limit the number of clubs in the leaeue to Hons ttoceitii.8, mniiuvera, total, 17,727. Market opened steady and low and closed a shade lower.

hhekp Kece pis, wt. Maraet aetiFe to- extent of supplies. Pricoa unchanged. Houses and jui.f.( xieceipi, b. f.Ktxat Market Resort.

WiitnAH Citt. Dec. t. The following nr six. They are: Chicago, fit Ixiuis, Detroit, Pbiladefpbiifc New York and Boston.

JHInAnori f-oatmaetertf. Washing tost, December 4. The Postmaster General has appointed the following f' rtli-class postmasters in Missouri: At Maldf4i, William II Mielton: at Montnwe, T. At. Curtiu; at Wright City, Jon V.

Ilayea. Frrleli llmi Ille Down. St. JosKfir, M-o Decemlier 4. Tlie north and south walls ot the Rock Island Railway freight iionne now constructing latest quotations telegraphed from Chi- toe i Louis: New York and St.

cgo Murdered on tlie Kve Marriage. Dktroit, Decemlier 4. This morning at au early hour, tlie body of Bertha Buck-worth, was found iu front of her homo on Chestnut street with her throat cut from ear to car. The murder occurred between two o'clock and daylight and the b'Hly iiad been dragged outside tlie house. Wm.

Stevens, an employe of tlie National iron work's is suspected of the deed. They were to have been married Saturday. Last night neighbors heard them quarreling. He has not yet been captured. Freight Train Wrecked.

Chattanooga, December 4. A terrible accident occurred this morning on the Alabama Great Southern Kail-road, near l'orterville. A north bound freight train, while running at a high rate of speed, broke in two. Tlie rear portion of the train collided with the first part causing a frightful wreck. Cohnan, the caboose brakeman, was killed, and Conductor McAllister seriously fnjued.

Open tow- Clo- Tt. et Ing, icloae. High eau Orrto. ing. Wheat Mar Itorlns; for Gas.

Clinton, December 4. The Clinton Gas Company began boring for natural gas in this city this afternoon. The work has been delayed for several weeks, but will now progress without further interference. A depth of thirty-five feet was reached today. Decline of Shipping.

New York, December 4. The Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions xleploring tlie decline of American shipping, ani) suggesting as a remedy tlie establishment of a bureau of commerce under the control of the Secretary of the Treasury. The will of the late Vice I'resident Hendricks, recently probated, bequeathed all his property to his widow. 41 111 pointment or captain F. E.

Tierce, First Infantry, as Indian agent at San Carlos and the dangers from divided responsibility were at a end. 40Uji 41W 81141 Cora Tear. Oatn-Mny Park nil. w.io 4i 8.HI S.WI IK CM) I S.10 l.U'4 t24 Veil Lard fchort rltta Clningother Chicapo option. I PI.

Losia were bioji down" lhi morning during a haavy stoim from the NwlhwesL Logan IpcH iff s. WAsiriNOTON, December O-The caucus of the Republican Renatorn tomlered Senator JjOgan the election of Fresrdeut pro tern, oi lltfc Senate, but he declined to ac-fpf. lleporU were in circulation in Madrii that the you'ng Queen Mercedes bad developed symptoms of lung disease and scrofulous inherited from her father, and will never be in a proper condition of health to ajKceed to the throna Wheat Wheat SMfi WbeaWan. MajrHttHl Mayiot'4 Corn Jan Cora Dec .1 Corn 84".

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