Sylvia Banner from Sylvia, Kansas • 2

PARTICULARS OF RUIN. OUR BUDGET OF FUN. FIFTY-SECOND C0NGKESS HARRISON. "AuffUSt The Sylvia Banner, JEFF BOWER, Editor Prop. SYLVIA, KANSAS.

2 Bar iron is irregular and plates demoralized, but wire rods are firmer and the mills are sold far ahead, and the demand for structural iron is large. Heavy sales of steel cotton ties have been made at 2 cents delivered, the lowest price ever known. Sales of wool continue moderate and limited to the present needs, but dress goods mills "have done a larger business than ever. The cotton mills are doing more business than in any other year. Speculation in cotton has been active, with l-16c advance, sales 569,000 bales, floods and bad weather tending to lessen the production-Wheat is nearly Jc higher, with sales of 32,000,000 bushels, the exports being nearly equal to the western receipts.

The speculative corner makes the price of May corn fictitious, and oats one fraction higher, while farm products have risen a little, and also on. Coif ee is lower tin slightly advanced by speculation and lead stronger, at 1 cents. Nothing disturbs the money market. The merchandise exports are larger, The business failures for the past week were 198, compared with 192 the previous week. For the corresponding week last year the figures were 217.

"WEATHER-CROP BULXETIN A Broad Path of Stralffht Gale In Harper, Ending: With a Twister In Sumner, As the more full reports come in from the storm in Sumner and Harper counties, Kansas, the first reports, though thought to have been exaggerated by some, are confirmed and added to. The storm passed through the northern part of Harper -county at about 7:30 p. while quick destruction encompassed Wellington just after 9 p. in. In Harper county the storm is described as a straight blow, six miles wide, with severe hail along the outside.

It swept about thirty farm buildings between Attica and Harper, and at Harper the ruin is said to be fearfuL A hundred or so of houses were blown down or more or less damaged and many families are left destitute and without shelter. The dead in Harper county, 6o far as reported, are: William Shanahan, farmer; Mrs. Thomas Gallaher and her son, at the farm west of Harper: Mrs. E. Maloy, fatally hurt and her child killed, and a Mrs.

Harri-son these all before Harper was reached. The injured are F. A. Beatty, wife and daughter, S. H.

Challis and wife, James Dickerson, S. E. Cole, Mr. Corley, Peter Gerard, a boy, Mrs. C.

A. Frey, two of the name of Lebrecht, Mrs. Florence Sayers, Mrs. Felrath, Gottleib Handraft, M. M.

Munger'a family, he was away from home, J. A. Sei-bert ana wife. The report says that the village of Chrystal Springs is swept away; that Attica was slightly injured, but that other towns in the county were not injured. In Harper the Catholic church and German church are both clear down.

The Baptist and Christian churches are greatly injured. The M. E. church is safe. The Mason block on the corner, in which the Harper Mercantile company was located, was burned.

The Queen City block and the Opera house block are almost worthless. Of the eleven houses north of the Santa Fe track eight are crushed to the floors and the contents are total losses. lhe Murphy's are creatly damaced. The store is a wreck and the three residences more or less a total loss. The stand pipe stands intact, but a small building beside it is completely crushed and the contents are all smashed.

In the Odd Fellows' cemeterry. one mile northeast, over one-third of the monuments are prostrated, toppled to the northwest. The north fence is down and nearly all the headstones are leaning. A four-wheeled vehicle has landed among the graves. The grand stand, box stalls, and buildings at the fair grounds, one mile south, are leveled to the ground, save the east end of the agricultural hall.

At Wellington the body of James Mayer, a piano tuner of Kansas City, was taken from the ruins of the Phillips house, with his open uiuie in ins nana. Other bodies taken from the Phillips house include Hart Upson, the barber, and Mr. Hasiie, who was being shaved at the time; Thomas Corn well, of Belle Plaine; Jesse Bower, barber; Ed Forsythe; Ed Jones, waiter. Mrs. basher and her sister.

Miss Katy Strahn. were burned to death in the Robin son block. Frank Camobell was amons the killed at the Phillips house. Henry Adamson, laborer, was pierced in the back by a fragment of plate glass and killed. Among the wounded, many of them sup posed to be fatal, are James Weaver, Ida Jones, Charles Adamson, Mrs.

Captain Mahan, Mrs. T. J. Hanna, Mrs. Murphy, Charles Steiner, Maggie King, Ed, Sylva and Walter Forsythe, child of ex-Sheriff Thrall, Mrs.

Robert Millard, James Lawrence, Wm. French, Mr. Sammons, Matty Hodges, Guy coioy, jJicK eaver, Carry Mitchell, E. J. Forsythe, with forty or fifty more whose in juries are less serious.

Among buildings destroyed are the Lutheran church, the old court house, the Presby terian church the Spicknall block, a row of six brick buildings, in which were the offices or the and the voice; the Standard block of six two-story bricks, in which were the Daily Mail and Standard newspapers, and the postoffice the foundry and stove works, the brick block in which was the Alliance Mercantile Exchange, and wmcn burned the church, the new and beautiful First ward school house. The list of buildings is stated In the report to be only a partial list, comprising the most important, with no mention of the many residences destroyed. Wellington. Wellington's cyclone visita tion has mado it for the time the chief object of interest for all southern Kansas. No such crowds have visited this city before as those which have been pouring in on every railroad and highway.

On all its four lines centering here, the Santa Fe has been running excursions from as far north as Hutchinson, soutn iroui Arkansas city ana west irom Medicine Lodge, while the Rock Islana has been equally industrious in forwarding sightseers to the stricken city. Division Passenger Agent Murdock, of the Santa Fe, estimated the crowd in town at 15,003. The Presbyterian and Lutheran churches were well protected by cyclone policies and will be rebuilt at once. The $20,000 school house destroyed will, in like manner, be in part restored by the insurance companies. Of tornado insurance on residence and business property, there was so little as to be hardly worth mentioning.

The few seconds' work of that whirling cloud wipad out a quar-of a million dollars' worth of property that stands a dead and absolute loss to the unlucky owners. Freight cars were taken from the track and carried a distance of 200 yards without being harmed. A horse was carried to the top of a two story house and deposited there, while a baby was taken from its cradle and carried twenty yards and deposited on the grass so gently that it did not receive the slightest injury. While in Harper county the storm was a wide one, at Wellington its center was hardly wider than two city blocks but this did not comprise the entire field of its destructive operations. An arm 6eemed to swing out from the main storm to the south, and take in the reverse a whole line of buildings running south on Washington avenue, blowing in the front and throwing down the rear walls and demolishing the roofs, while leaving the entire row standing.

Around on Harvey avenue the handsome Standard block, standing at right angles with the storm's general course, was served in the same capricious fashion, leaving the building with front stove in and rear walls gone, upheld mostly by their party walls. Wichita. A special to the Eagle siys a tornado passed about two miles north of Medicine Lodge. The brick house of S. H.

Field, a farmer, was demolished. The report of a tornado at Argonia is untrue. A hail storm did some damage to the windows. Oklahoma Appointments. Washington, D.

May 31. It was admitted, rather reluctantly, at the attorney general's office, that Marshal James Grimes, of Oklahoma, had been requested to resign. It was very difficult to get any reliable information concerning the matter, so closely were the details and, in fact, everything about it guarded. Some days ago Attorney General Miller wrote to Governor Seay requesting him to name a man to succeed Grimes. A Rather Quiet Sunday.

Rochester, N. The presence in this city of the president of the United States causes intense though suppressed excitement and enthusiasm. The president attended the Presbyterian church in the forenoon, only a few blocks from the hotel, and walked. Thousands of curious people lined the way, but, in respect for the day, were quiet. Later he essayed to take a walk, but the crowds were so great it was soon given up.

Later better luck was had in taking a drive. In the evening the president attended a memorial service at the Central Presbyteriai church. Dispersed the Mob. Dallas, May 31. Henry C.

Miller, a negro saloon porter, killed Policeman Brewer. No sooner had Miller been lodged in the county jail than a mob several thousand strong marched to the jail and demanded the prisoner of the sheriff. The sheriff refused to give up the prisoner and the mob tried to force an entrance into the jail. The guard inside the jail fired into the mob's midst and John Miller, drummer for Padgett was 6hot in the face with small shot and a man named Smith was shot in the leg with a ball. The wounds are not very serious.

E. T. Tucker and Ex-Judge C. V. C.

Al-dridge made conciliatory speeches and finally the the mob dispersed. HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DOINGS HERE AND THERE. Jokes and JokeTets that Are Supposed to Have Been Recently Born- Sayings and Doing that Are Od Curious and X. sag ha bis. He Surely Didn't Know.

Van Cure Some young men, when they call on a young lady, don't know when to go home. Stella Yes, it seems so. I used to have a young man call on me once, and he would go home every evening at 9 o'clock. Tlie Three Graces. "There go two of the three things that I most admire in this world," said a Kentuckian, pointing to a lady on horseback, "a fine-looking woman and a good horse." "And what is the third thing, Colonel, which you most admire?" The Colonel crooked his finger significantly, and his friend said he didn't care if he did.

Texas Sittings. Conld Hot Account for It. She You seem rather blue this evening, Jack. lie Yes, I have had a headache all day, and I don't know how I came to have it. She What were you doing last night, eh, sir? lie I don't know what I was doing after about 10 o'clock.

General Manager. 1 Fame Fooml in the Jaws of Death. Family Thysiclan Well, I must congratulate you. Patient (quite excitedly) I will recover? Family Physician Ifot exactly; but well, after a consultation we find that your disease is entirely novel, and, if the autopsy should demonstrate that fact, we have decided to name it after you. Remembered How Useful the Hair-Pin Is.

"When two words are made into one that is, into a compoifnd word you join them together with a hyphen," said the teacher. "That boy who was whispering may tell me what I was saying." "You said you must join two word9 together with a hair-pin," answereo the boy. Harper's Young People. Doubtful. Fweddy feeling wocky.

I think I'll soak my head. Cholly It won't fetch anything, deah boy, unless the hat goes with it A Fortunate Man. "Blithers is so deaf he can't heai himself talk," said Binks. "lie's in luck," said Banks Brooklyn Life. Improbable.

Peddler Madame, I have some very fine mottoes for the house. Woman (at depot restaurant) Whal have you got? Peddler Here's a beautiful one: "If You Don't See What You Want, Ask for It." How's that for the din ing-room? Woman It's no good for me, young man. This is a railroad boarding-house. General Manager. An Ignorant Woman.

Aunt Furby Low (reading) "Here's where two men went down in one ol the city sewers and were killed bj sewer gas. What do they want gas it a sewer fer, I wonder?" Uncle Si Low (in deep -disgust) "To see by, of course. Do you thinl sewers have winders in them?" Sharp Sayings. It is a lamentable fact that Prid often wears patent-leather boots and begs its tobacco. Columbus Post.

It is an easy matter for a man tc tell who his friends are in politics, but not who they are going to be. Washington Star. "Has your father er considerec our my proposal?" "He has. lit considered it a piece of impudence." Indianapolis Journal. She Will you take a part in oui theatricals? He Aw weally I should so like to.

What shall I take-She Tickets. Judge. Mrs. Expec You cannot say did the courting; you were crazy tc marry me. Enpec I must have been a gibbering lunatic Xev York Herald.

Brjggs "Are you going back tc the Bangup Hotel this year?" Griggs "Sot much. 1 came away from that hotel last year and forgot to tij. the head waiter." Life. Mrs. Grumpps (looking over new house) "What in the world is this vast attic for?" Mr.

Grumpps "It is to hold the things that you buy and can't use." 2few York Weekly. "Akd you want a pension?" "That's whatl" "now long were you in the war?" "Well, sir, I wur married 'long in '69, an' peace ain't been declared yit; so you kin jes' calkilate fer yerselfl" Atlanta Constitution. Staggers (coming in at 2 a. "Look out o' this window, m' dear, and see the glorious aurora borealish." Mrs. Staggers (waked out of a sound sleep) "Window? That's a mirror you are looking into, and the aurora you see is your own highly decorated, nose" Brooklyn Life.

Wonderful Power. The pressure that can be produced by eloctrolytic generation of gas in a closed space has recently been tested by a French scientist. The highest pressure heretofore realized was 6,570 pounds to the square inch. In this instance the pressure obtained was between 12,000 and the pressure obtained was between 12,000 and 18,000 to the square inch, when the manometer cracked without any explosion. The liquid used was a 25 per cent, solution of soda.

The electrodes were of iron, and the current 1 amperes. An Interview Published by the New York World. Not an Announced Candidate The Difficult Work of Appointments Causes Disappointments Believes the Latter Will Not Control the Convention. New York, May 30. The World (Dem.) prints an interview with President Harrison in regard to the Minneapolis convention.

In speaking of the work to be done at the convention the president said1: "I am too well acquainted with the mean ing of the office of president of the United States not to understand the importance of the work to be done at Minneapolis, for my. elf. am not, to use a homely expression, a young robin with willow-open mouth, ready to catch everything that comes along. hare spent more than three very active years in the discharge of my public duties, during which period of time I have acted conscientiously and solely out of regard for my conception of the exigencies or tne puoiic service. "I have made appointments as nearly as I could in accordance witM my views of who was fitting.

Of course there have been disappointments. The task of filling public offices is so arduous that it can only be understood in its entirety by the one upon whom the responsibility rests. "I do not believe that individual disappointments will control the convention at Minneapolis. The followins question was askea Dy tne reporter: "Cieneral Harrison, in view of the recent publications, do you announce your candidacy for re-election?" The president replied with emphasis "I have never announced myself as a can didate, and I do not now. I did not in 1888 on the occasion of the Chicago convention." As if to accentuate what he said, Ueneral Harrison repeated I make no such announcement.

Then he added "The convention at Min neapolis will assemble and take its own action. I am aware that I have been criticised for not announcing my candidacy, and calling on my friends for their support, but I have been disinclined to ao so, ana my reelings have undergone no change. "My public and private records are known to the people, and whatever they wish will be manifested at Minneapolis. If the people, having in consideration the manner in which I nave conauciea tne presiuency, uesire me, I nresume they will signify their wishes. In the meantime I have not and neither will I proclaim my candidacy." JR.

ST. LOUIS LETTER. The Nicaragua Canal Business Unim paired Working men's Prospects Municipal Matters St. Louis, May 30, 1892. Great inter est is felt in the Nicaragua Canal con vention, which meets here the first week in June, and for wnicli great reparation is being made.

St. Louis a vine; the bulk of the wholesale trade of Mexico and Central America, is es pecially interested in the canal project, and that is why the city was selected for the convention. The Canal com pany wants a subsidy from the govern ment and the convention is to meet June 2, in order that the national con ventions of both political parties may be petitioned to put in their platforms indorsements of the company and its re quests. Morrjs M. the liepub-lican leader of California, will be here, and will afterwards go to Minneapolis to urge the claim of the company be fore that convention, and Don Dickin son of Detroit, will do the same thing before the Democratic convention.

The fall of the water in the Missis sippi shows how immaterial has been the damage to St. Louis, although there have been scares of water and coal famine in abundance the last few weeks. As a matter of fact the flood touched the real business life of the city very lightly. People who live out of sight of the river would have known nothing of it but for the papers. and to many it was simply a spectacle to be wondered at from the big bridge and the decks of the excursion boats.

Thousands of dollars have been raised by the Merchants Exchange and the newspapers to relieve the distress of the poor river dwellers whose homes have been inundated, and this prompt generosity has prevented much sufter- mg. 1 he damage to the railroads and the levee interests has been considerable. Kailroad men say that the deposit of earth left by the river when it recedes will strengthen all the embankments and trestles that have been Dverflowed. It is remarkable that the only accidents that have occurred on the St. Louis roads since the flood, be- jan have been caused by the carelessness of conductors who ran their trains against orders, and not by the water.

The workingmen of the city will profit by the overflow, for every unemployed, laborer here will be kept busy for weeks cleaning olx the levee and digging out the buried switches of the manufactories along the river front. Corrupt politicians who look on a city as something to be taxed and plundered would not undsrstand at all the contest that has been going on in the municipal assembly of St Louis in the last few days. The comptroller wanted 10 cents on 100 taken from the tax rate, believing that the city would increase so rapidly in the tax values during the next few years that it could afford the reduction, lhe house sustained him but the council wanted the surplus money applied to the payment of the city's debt. The comptroller won, and the tax rate goes down. In the discussion of the question in the as sembly it was developed that the city taxable property is increasing at an average rate of $8,000,000 a year.

The increase next year, according to the statements of Assessor O'Brien, will be 311,000,000. The solid prosperity of the city can better be understood when it is explained that this tax reduction is undertaken while the city is building a city hall to cost a million dollars and a system of water works that will cost over five millions. The Wreck at Wellington. The first accounts of the cyclone a Wellington, Kansas, came by way of a special to the Kansas City Journal, written while confusion reigned. It states that many blocks along the prin cipal street are in ruins.

The Phillips house, from which seven bodies were early taken out the five newspapers, the Monitor, Press, Voice, Standard and Mail, all destroyed. The storm struck the city at about 9 p. m. on riday night. Fire broke out in the ruins of Colonel Rob inson's block, and Mrs.

Susan Asher is supposed to have perished there. Broken limbs are frequent, while the number of dead, or who they are, could not be so soon known. The dispatch says that hundreds of dwellings are either destroyed or more or less damaged. The opera house and dozens of tne best buildings are wrecked. The 6chool buildings and churches are ruined.

Better Weather and Quick Improvement. New Yohk, May 30. R. G. Dun Weekly Review of Trade says: Better weather has wrought a quick improvement in business at many points, and other condittions are generally favorable.

There is little new in the great industries, though other than standard brands of iron are much depressed, No. 1 southern having Bold at $14.50 at Philadelphia in 6ome cases. The senate commenced the consideration of the bill to pr vide for the punit-hment of violations of the treaty rights of aliens the measure found necessary to cive the federal government jurisdiction in such cates as the New Orleans massacre of Italians. In the louse a second attempt was made to get np the Sherman statue bill: but Kilgore, of lexas, was watcbi'ul, and objected to eiving unanimor.s consent for its consideration. It will again be tried to determine whether there can be enough favoring the bill to suspend the rules and take it up.

In the Benat9 a hill intended to abolish po6t traderships in the army, which has the approval of the war department and General Schofield, was reported favotably from the military affairs committee by Senator Proctor. The following appointments were received from the president by the senate: Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. N.

(retired), to be commissioner genem. and Prof. G. Brown Goode assistant to the Smithsonian institute; and Prof. James C.

Welling, president of Columbian university, to be assistant commissioner, to repre-Fent the United States at the Columbian Historical exposition to be held in Madrid. Spain, in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. Senator Morgan spoke on the bill to provide for punishment of violations of treaty rights of aliens. Be said Secretary blaine had been compelled (acting exactly right) to ubo the secret eervicf fund to pay to families of the men assassinated in the prison at New Orleans. The government of the United States was in a pitiable situation when the secretary of state was compelled to resort to the secret service fund to keeD peace with foieign governments.

At the close of his argument Senator Morgan moved, with the essent of the committee on foreign relations, thst the bill should go over until next December. The matter went over without action. The adopted more amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill, including one offered by Holmen, providing that the positions of all persons employed in field work or in the office whose services can be discontinued shall be vacated. Uocke'ry, of Missouri, offered a resolution directing the committee on judiciary to inquire whether, under the srecie resumption act, any bonds were sold for redemption purposes. Ke-ferred to the committee on Kepresentative Houk, of Ohio, offered an amendment to the appropriation for a government exhibit at Chicago, to add $100,000 to pay the expense of collecting, preparing and publishing facts and pertaining to the industrial advance of United States citizens of African descent from Januarr.

1863, to January, 193, to constitute a part of the government exhibit. Henderson, of Iowa, said that the colored people of this country numbered about one-eighth of the entire population, and yet the evidence taken by a tpecial committee at Chicago die-clofecl the wondeiful and amazing fact that neither the president of the United States (he said it with mortification and shame), nor the governor of a single state, nor the government commission, nor local corporation, nor the woman's commission, not one of these had given representation to those 8.0( 0,000 of people. Holman ma do an appeal order against Honk'fc amendment, which was sustained by the chair. Johnson, cf Indiana, replied to Henderson in defense of the president in the matter of appointing colored men. Tne president had been foremost in acts favoring colored citbrens.

"It ought not to be forgotten," he said, "that the president had stood in favor of a just measure of national relief, whereby the colored people of the south would have a right to cast their votes and have them counted." There was a scene of great confusion in the hall dozens of members we on their feet, raising their voices and crowding into the aisles, while Johnson proceeded in vehement language to denounce the treatment of the negro by the democratic party of the fouthern states, and as he was a vehemently contradicted by a number of membei from the south, the house became a perfect bedlam, the chair being utterly unable to secuie a semblance of order. Dockery offered an amendment reducing the salary of the director general of the World's Columbian commission to Jo ,000, and of the secretary to $3,000. Agreed to. Propositions were agreed to as smenc'mcnts to a pend ng question to the effect that no money should be paid until it was made certain that the exposition should be closed on Sunday and tnat no liquors should be sold on the grounds but the committee of the whole aiose before disposing of the ending question. By skillful work the free silver senators secured position as unfinished business for the Stewart free silver bill, and it will take a vote to jump it and pass it by when reached on the calendar.

The motion which gave this position to the bill was carried yeas z8, nays 20. Fetter voted aye Hill did not vote, thousrh present. In hi? speech cn the subject Senator TeiTer contralicted the statement quoted by Sherman to the effect that if silver went np to $1.2 pr ounce the piodnctof silver in this country would be quintuplf d. The United Statfs delegates to the international bimetallic conference would be met with that statement at the first meeting of the confetence. What silver men complained of was that the action of 173.

in the moneti-zation of silver, had appreciated gold at least 40 per cent. It had reduced the price of agricultural products the value of farm houses and lands and it had reiucsd the wagC3 of the people of the country. When the world's fair appropriation was again reached in the house the amendments concerning Sunday liquor selling were defeated ard a substitute adopted providing that the ivcrnment exhibit 6hall not be open to the public on Sunday. The item of the sundry civil bill for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, as left by the house, gives for that purpose. The senate in executive session took action on a case of long standing, being the claim of William Webster against the British government for compensation for land acquired by him from native chiefs of New Zealand, and afterwards seized bv the British government, by adopting a resolution declaring that the senate consielers that the claim is founded in justice and deserves the support of the Unitsd States, and requesting the piesident to submit it to arbitration.

Debate on th silver bill was opened in the senata by Sherman, Stewart and Teller, and then went over until Tuesday to accommodate Sherman, ho having information compiled at the tTeaury, and Peffer, who desired to speak on the 11. Mr. Hatch was boaten by a tie vote in the house in his motion to con-ider his anti-opticn bill. However, whenever the house proceeds to the consideration of revenue bills, this bill will first be taken up. as it holds fir-t position on the calendar among that class of bills.

The house parsed several bills, among them the bill to classify and prescribe the salaties of railway pal clerks, and the Fenate bill relating to the Topeka dam on the Kansas river. In further consideration of the sundry civil bill an amendment was ag-eed to limiting the number tf copies of public documents which may t3 printed by the heads of bureaus, without express authority of congress, the department of agriculture beicg expressly excepted from this limitation. This concluded the woik of the committee of the whole house on the sundry civil appropiia-tion bill. The houee then comm'need consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr.

Stevens, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill to place iron ore and scrap iron tin the free list and to re Juce the duties on manufactures of iron end other metals. A bill fixing he rate of postag3 on semi-weekly and tri-weekly pnblicatL ns mailed at certain free elelivery o3ices, was authorized to be favorably reported by the house committee on post-oiiices. It provieles that the ra of postage on excepting weeklies and periodicals, not exceeding two ounc in weight, when deposited for tiee delivery by carrier, shall be uniform p.t 1 cent each. Periodicals weighin1' more than two ounres shall be sub'ect when delivered by carrier to a postage of 2 cents each. In cities of less than 20,000 population, having free delivery odices scmi-weeklv and tri-weekly publications may be elelivereel by carrier upon payment by the publisher of the oounel rate postage as provided for weekly publications at carriers offices.

lhe agricultural appi opriation bill was completed by the house committee on agriculture and will be reported to the house. It appropriates more than the bill of last year. One million dollars is appropriated to carry out the provisions of the meat inspection law, which is a half million dollars in exce-s of the appropriation of the current year for this purpose. KKEViriSS. William H.

Vanderbilt, Eon of Coanelius Vanderbilt, is dead. General H. F. Sickles, cousin of General Daniel E. Sickles, is dead.

A treaty has been concluded between the United States and Spain relating to copy right. It was Btated at the cabinet council that the ministers decided to dissolve parliament on June 20. In the Commons Balfour's Irish local government bill passed its second reading by 339 to 247. The directors of the K. T.

elected at Parsons met at New York and elected Henry Rowe president. The republican national committee will meet at Minneapolis June 4 and remain until the convention is over. Fresh anti-Christian disturbances have occurred districts bordering on Tong King. One Chinese official is reported killed. A man was killed by levee guards in Mississippi, who had dynamite in a boat, with the supposed purpose of blowing up the levee.

Belle, Hamlin and Globe lowered the double team trotting record at Belmont driv-ign park, Philadelphia, from 2:15 to 2:134. The Presbyterian general assembly decided to entertain the matter coming up from the Presbytery of New York in the Brigga case in the form of an appeal. A. W. Armour, one of the Armour packing company, and formerly a banker of Kansas City, is dead.

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and Cheapest. ITT? Sold by druggists or sent by mail. 50c T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa. ANTFfi6 addresses of all soldiers rl alwho liomesteaded a less OA I rtE DQ'numberot aires than lfjtl OUUUIbliO before June 2 1874.

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Box 1765, Denver. Colorado. ft Bnnnern.Silk or Rttntlnsw sTsaiilUw Easton, Pa. Send for pf.ce OAGn Barters kllTTLE 11 iirn rni i Bit in ifoung iotas T. A fniSa f-l tjav navj i win IP fc a i wn 1W Bl ELL LJ Fully a Million acres of cultivated ground are under water between Cairo and Memphis.

Two light earthquake shocks occurred at Ontario, Canada. They were heavy enough to stop clocks. The course of the wave was northwest to southeast. Democrat delegates from the state of Washington to the Chicago convention will vote for Cleveland when New York presents his name, and not till then. The Iowa department of the 0.

R. has issued a call to all comrades to come to the aid of the old soldiers and their families who are sufferers by the flood. The blacks of Arkansas and Texas, in the vicinity of Texarcana, are wild with fright and apprehension over the late tornadoes which visited that section. The silver convention at "Washirgton, D. before it adjourned, provided for the publication, occasionally of a newspaper in the interest of free coinage.

The secretary of the interior has authorized the making of leases for grazing cattle on the lands of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians, in Oklahoma territory. At Coventry, Warwickshire, a mob pre-vented a sale of goods seized to make a payment of a vicar's rate claim nd made demonstrations of violence towaiTthe vicar. A 3-year-old grizzly bear escaped from the 'Zoo' at Washington, D. and caused alarm in all the surrounding country. A squad was soon on his trail and he was killed.

Planters in Cubacomplain of the prolonged drouth, which they fear will seriously affect crops. The drouth extends into Florida. Richland, had a cyclone also, which played with big trees, leveling and twisting them, and carrying their branches so far away as not to be found in that region. Creede, the new Colorado mining camp, is in the narrow valley, or canon, of Willow tcreek, which the melting snows have changed 'into a torrent, threatening to carry away the town bodily. Three well known gentlemen of Kansas the wire in notifying Senator Perkins that they would accept the position of consul 'general to Cairo, which was made vacant by the death of Anderson.

The Wergeland, Captain Weis, the first steamship to make the trip from Norway to Chicago nas arrived there. She brought a cargo of fish and cod liver oil, and will carry back provisions. The loss by fire in the United States was peater last year than for many years previous, reaching the enormous sum of which is an amount greater by than the loss the year before. Seven ballots were taken in the republican national convention of 1876, thirty-six in 18S0, four in 1884 and eight in 1888. There will be 98 delegates this year, and the successful candidate must receive at least 450.

The stock yards on Kansas soil at Kansas City are now 50,003 head of cattle in excess of number handled up to this time last year. In 1890 these yards handled 103,160 cars of stock, which will be surpassed this year. Colonel Cole, of the Montreal artillery garrison, called on General Knapp, United States consul general, and apologized for the outrage committed by some irresponsible member of his corps in ordering down the American flag. Within a few months a new town will be built on the east side of the river, two miles north of Madison, I1L, by the St. Louis Tin Stamping company, of which W.

F. and F. C. Niedringhaus are the principal stockholders. Miners at Ullen, Idaho, will not allow the non-union men to go to work in the mine3.

'If they attempt it bloodshed will follow. A mob of 500 armed and unarmed strikers stopped a passenger train at that place, re- fusing to let it pass. Colonel Pope offers $500 reward for the parties who delayed the bicyclers who rode with military dispatches from Chicago to New York. Wire was stretched across their the rubber tires on their wheels were and other annoyances committed. Emma Blum, daughter of a farmer at Mas-coutah, 111., was pecked on the arm by a setting hen.

The young woman was taken very sick and the arm swelled to unnatural proportions. A surgical aperation was performed and it is thought eha will recover. A fatal collision occurred at Birmingham, England, between trains on the Northwestern and Midland railways. The two trains were approaching the station at the same time. The engineers saw the impending danger, ibut too late.

One person was killed and many others injured. The state department having been officially of the conclusion of a treaty of commercial reciprocity between Austro-Hun-iary and the United States, the president has proclaimed the details of the arrangement, which is similar to that with Germany. 'It takes effect at once. The steamer Norge, from Copenhagen, arrived at New York with twenty-five young women from Sweden and Norway bound to i husbands in the woolly wilds of Dakota and Ihere landed at Jew lorjt on the 29th, 4,289 immigrants. There are between 20,000 and 30,000 Yaqui Indians in the state of Sonora, the greater part of whom have assumed an aggressive Ttwo am noorlw urmpii- however.

and as a rule refuse open battle, preferring i .1.1 ambuscade and guerina wariare. a ouine between them and Mexican troops is officially reported. Among Kansans who are mentioned to John A. Anderson as consul general 'to Egypt, Ed. C.

Little, president of the state republican league: Colonel M. Stewart, 1 and S. B. Brad ford, of Topeka, and State Senator Kirkpat- rick, ot Wilson county, are oemg urgeu uy menus more or less prominent. A decree has been issued form Rome that Archbishop Ireland's plan, as instituted in Vio anhnrJa Af Fnrrihaiilt and Stillwater.

Min- by the archbishop wa3 that secular instruction in these schools should be in hours dis tinct from time devoted to religious instruction with the privilege to scholars to take both or either courses. CENKKAL JIARKEU Kansas Cm, May 31. CATTLE Shipping steers Cows and Stackers HOGS Fair to to choice SHEEP Muttons WHEAT No. 2 hard No. 3 hard No.

4 hard No. 2 red No. 3 red No. 4 red Rejected COEN-Mixed White OATS No. 2 mixed No.

2 white EYE No. 2 No. 3 FLAX SEED Pure BRAN 100 ack HAY Timothy, per Prairie, Rood to BUTTER Creamery Good to choice EGGS CHICAGO. HOGS Rough packing Mixed WHEAT No 2 spring No. 2 red C0BN No.

2, cash No.3..... No. 2 yellow No. 3 OA'X'S No.i, cash RYE No. 2, cash BARLEY No.

2. FLAX SEEI-No. 1, cash MESS FOR Cash LAKUCath ST. IXJCI3. HOGS Fair to prime Mixed Yorkers WHEAT Cash COKfc No.

2 OATS No. 2 RYE No. 2 FLAX SEED No. CASTOR BEAN'S Prime BUTTER Creamery Choice EGGS Fresh 3 25 4 25 1 95 3 50 2 70 2 80 4 10 4 85 4 50 5 00 7lVi 73 63 70 64 67 79 80 73 75 64 73 56 tli 63 42 46 32 32V4 34 67H 63 65 66 95 63 10 00 6 03 7 50 13 14 15 13 4 00 4 50 4 80 4 90 32 7jS 60 1 02 10 55 640 4 75 4 30 4 70, 4 90 4 80 4 80 48 33V 74 1 00 1 50 11 Of the Weather Service of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, in Co-operation With the United States Weather Bureau, Central Office, Topeka, for the Week Ending: Slay 28, 92. PRECIPITATION.

The rainfall has been deficient in all parts of the state except in portions of Kiowa, Pratt and Stafford, and Labette, Neosho, Allen, Woodson, Coffey, Osage, Anderson, Linn and Bourbon. The major portion of the rainfall has occurred south of the Smoky Hill and Kaw rivers, and east of Mead and Ford. A light enow fall occurred on the 21st in Edwards, Norton and other western counties. TEMPERATURE AND SUNSHINE. The week opened with low temperature, but became much warmer and more nearly normal by the middle, followed by cooler weather at its close.

In the far western counties, and in the northern counties, west of Washington, the temperature has ranged nearer normal than in the other counties. This has been a week of much sunshine, being about normal. 1 BESCXTS. The' favorable conditions this week have been very advantageous to farming operations and to all vegetation, the only drawback being the very unseasonable cool weather the first day or 60. Wheat is making rapid progress, and is heading out in the third tier of counties north of the territory it will be ready for harvest in Cowlev and Sumner within two or three weeks, while in Barber the farmers are now engaging hands for stacking, offering good wages for experts, and expect to begin harvesting in about ten days.

The color of orn has improved much with the warm days. The sudden cessation of wet weather, followed by the high winds and then the rising temperature has put a crust on the ground, which, however, is being rapidly disintegrated by the cultivator which is at work in every cornfield in the state the warm weather and cultivator are making a visible growth in corn. Oats are backward, but very few reports malting remarks in their favor. Bye and barley are advancing rapidly, while in the eoul heastern counties flax is also making good headway. In Barber and Harper homegrown strawberries are in the market at moderate prices.

In the Eouthern counties garden vegetables are in the market, and being shipped. The cold snap the first of the week has injured fruits, by causing them to drop badly, and blighted the leaves of the fruit trees in the southeast it damaged berries and garden fruits and vegetables. T. B. Jennings, Observer Weather Bureau, Ass't Director.

The Weather and Crops. Washington, D. May 31. The weather crop bulletin says Cool weather has continued in all districts east of the Rocky mountains and the season continues late. The deficiency in temperature amounts to from 2 to 4 degrees the central valleys and gulf states.

The season's rainfall continues largely in excess. In Missouri the past week was much more favorable, though still too cool. Crops are materially benefitted, corn planting being pushed, but the lateness of the season and much replanting promises diminished crops. In Kansas, Barber county farmers are engaging hands to begin harvesting in ten days. Corn is improving under cultivation.

The cold snap of the first of the week caused much injury to fruits. In Oklahoma the condition is much improved and farmers are busy cultivating their crops. Other Towns "Visited. Topeka. Information received at the Santa Fe offices Bay that all telegraph wires south and west of Wellington went down, but it is reported the cyclone struck both Harper and Argonia, and people were killed at both of those towns.

The news received by the Santa Fe came from train men at other places, who passed through these towns. The Santa Fe ordared its special train which left Wichita for Wellington, to proceed at once to Argonia and Harper with all the aid that can be spared from Wellington. Argonia is a town of 750 inhabitants on the Santa Fe railway in the very western part of Sumner county. Harper is in Harper county, which immediately adjoins Sumner county on the west. The residence of C.

H. Winters, chief train dispatcher of the Santa Fe at W'ellington, was demolished, and he and the members of his family were badly hurt. A Wreck on the I'an Handle. Indianapolis, May 31. The Pan Handle passenger train from Chicago, due here at 3 :45 a.

had a head end collision with a freight train near Howland's station, two miles beyond this city. A dozen people were injured, one probab'y fatally. The trains were running at the rate of sixteen miles an hour, and both engines were completely wrecked. Most of the passengers were asleep when the crasii came. The following is a partial list ot the in jured Conductor of passenger tram, Gillis, of Indianapolis, badly bruised David Ingler, fireman of the freight, internally injured and will probably die 11.

G. 1'erine, mail clerk. Indianapolis, badly bru'sed; J. H. Golding, Chicago, injured internally.

Several of the loaded freight cars were completely smashed, but the passenger coaches remained on the track and are not damaged to any extent. Great Convention at Chicago Next Tear. New Tobk, May 31. The committee which has in charge the arrangements for the national convention of Christian Endeavor in this city next July held a special meeting for the purpose of discussing arrangements for the July gathering. Accordinz to the reports already received, it will be the largest religious gathering ever held in this country.

Over 25,000 delegates will be present from this country and Cana da. Madison fcquare uaraen nas Deen engaged for the event. New York will contribute 5,000 delegates. Connecticut half that number. Pennsylvania and Massachusetts 2,000 each, Illinois some 1.500 and other states from 1,000 down to 100.

A reception committee of 400 has been appointed, and specin 1 rates have given by all save a few on the Pacific slope and in the northwest. Bradstreet's Figures on It. New Yokk, May 31. Special advices to Bradstreet's from the regions affected more seriously by the floods point to an aggregate loss in five states of $32,000,000, which includes damage to railway property, destruc tion of or damage to levees, to tarm buna ings, machinery, live stock and crops, as well as loss on other property. Louisiana and Arkansas have lost less in this respect than has been reported, and Illinois and Missouri nrobablv more.

The losses in Iowa and Kansas have been greatly exaggerated. To Send the Chinese Back. Washington, D. May 3L Secretary Foster sent to the house a letter asking that one hundred thousand dollars be added to the sixty thousand heretofore appropriated for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act during the next fiscal year. The secreta ry says the sum is necessary for the expenses of additional officers to conduct registration.

and also for the costs of trial and sending Chinese back..