The Freeport Tribune from Freeport, Kansas • 1

I I MID LOTHIAST, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1885. VOL. I. XO.7. BY STARR BRAIN.

TRAIN ROBBERS CAFTCBKD. STOCK SQUIBS. What Sporting Men Bely On. When Lewis R. Redmond, the South Carolina moonshiner, cornered, after NEWS SUMMARY The knights of labor have taken up the cudgel against the Chinese, and their ultimate expulsion from Wyoming territory is probable.

It is not thought however, that much trouble will be experienced in getting rid of the Chinese there. They are now leaving the territory by every train. The white miners were told that they could Parties who Robbed a Santa Fe Train In 1883 Are Captured in Tennesee A Detailed History of the Case. At 10:30 on the night of September 29, for eight years eluding the government officials, was asked to surrender, he ex claimed: 1883, the express train of the Atchison, J.O-peka Santa Fe was attacked by three men at Coolidge and John Hilton, the engineer, was killed and George Todle, the fireman, was wounded, being shot through the achieved in November next. The committee on permanent organization reported for chairman Hon.

Jas. W. Husted, and a lengthy list of vice-presidents and secretaries. The report was adopted, and amid great applause, General Husted took the chair. KOMIKATIOXS.

The following EameB were then placed in nomination for governor: Ira Davenport, of Steuben county; Levi P. Morton, James Carr, Carr's nomination was the occasion for uproarious and re-peated'applanse, James D. Warren, John Swinburne, of Albany; Joseph W. Drexel, of New York; Cornelius N. B15s3, of New York Gen.

Wm. H. Seward, ot Oavoga county. A motion to proceed to ballet FOB eeVEBXOK was then adopted. The roll was called by districts.

The roll call resulted as follows: Davenport 105, Carr 205, Morton 42, Seward 57, Swinburne 32, Law 16, Warren 137, left cheek- The express messenger iougui. nfftwnnf the robbers who attempted to capture the safe, in which was carried the money and conductor ureeiy Draveiy attacked the man, who was on the engine and who had killed the engineer. When the attack had failed the three men mounted their horses and fled, since which time nothing was heard of them, ma-til about six weeks ago when the trail became warm. Rewards, aggregating $10,060, DOMESTIC. Imports of dry poods for a Week at New York were $2,502,827.

Hog cholera in a viiulent form is prevalent in many portions of the west. Standard silver dollars issued during the week ending September 19, 1664,443. James Allen, 60 years old, a farmer, near McLeansboro, 111., committed suicide. A movement has been started at Kansas City, to organize a permanent exposition. Concord, celebrated the 250th anniversary of the incorporation of the town.

tThe fourth annual meeting of the American forestry congress hes convened at Boston. Ex-first assistant postmaster General Hay is lying very sick at his residence, Pittsburg, Pa. The president has appointed Anthony F. Beeberger to be collector of customs at Chicago. The residence of P.

H. Laniup, a lawyer at Gainesville, wes bwntd by incendiaries. There were 222 deaths in Chigago last-week, against 251 for the corresponding week of 1884. Only twenty-one thonsard head cf cattle belonging to white remain on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations in Indian territory. go back to work, and will likely do so if no attempt is made to work the Chinese with them; so far the Chinese here have been afraid to go down into the mines and have consequently been idl since the riot of last week.

The commissioner of Indian affairs has sent the following telegram to Agent Owens, at Muskogee, I. T-: "Suspend the execution of the order of the 26th ult. for the removal of settlers on the line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad, until farther orders. Notify immediately all settlers and other interested parties that the time is short. Expedite matters." order ferred to required the settlers within the line of the right of way claimed by the railway company, to ait.

The suspension is made with the object of affording an opportunity for investigation of the settlers' rights. The New York democrats completed their state ticket as follows: He-swell P. Flower was nominated by acclamation for lieutenant governor. Fredrick Cook, of Rochester, was nominated on the first ballot for secretary of state. A.

A. Shapin, the present incumbent, was nominated by acclamation for con ptroller. Dennis O'Brien, the present attorney general was unanimously nominated. Lawrence G. Fitzgerald was nominated for Btate treasurer by acclamation Nathan Sweet was rt-aominated for Drexel 67, oo, Cornell 4, Evarts, Storin 1, Charles Andrew 1.

Whole number of votes cast, for a choice, 347. At the conclusion of the first ballot the "Never, to men who fiie at my back." Before he was taken five bullets had gone clear through him, but strange to relate he got well in the hands of a rude backwoods nurse. By the way, if Garfield had been in the hands of a backwoods nurse, he might have lived. Aheap of volunteer testimony against the infalibility of the physicians has been accumulating of late, and people are encouraged to do their own doctoring more and more. It is cheaper and quite as certain.

Before Detective Curtin, of Buffalo, caught Tom Ballard, he "covered' him with his revolver. Tom saw the point and tumbled! I Joe Goes was "covered" a few weeks ago and he tumbled, and so did Dan Mace. Death "fetched em" with that dreaded weapon kidney disease. But they should have been lively and drawn first. They could easily have disarmed the monster had they covered him with that dead BhofcWarner'B Bafe cure, which, drawn promptly, always takei the prey.

It is doubtless true that sporting men dread this enemy more than any mishap of their profession, and presumably this explains why they as a rale are bo partial to that celebrated "dead shot." Redmond was right. No man should surrender when attacked in the back. He should "draw," face about, and proceed to the defence, for such attacks, so common among all classes, will fetch a man every time unless "covered" by that wonderfully successful "dead shot." Sportsman's News. KAKSAsNKftS, convention at 8:30 p. m.

adjourned until next day. WEDNESDAY. The second day of the New York rer nb lican state convention opened cold and Horse thieves are complained of as being disagreeably numerous in Dickinson county. Kansas City Live Stock Indicator. Honey should be kept in the dark or it will granulate.

The this, work in dark hives. If light should enter the honey would become solid and the bees would 6tarve. Manhattan Repullic: Mr.Weichlbaum recently met with a severe loss. Hia splendid Shire horse, purchased last year at a cost of over $1,600 died a few days ago. The horse was at cur lair, but being sick was not shown.

The Osage City Free thinks that Chicago is the fat stocx market of the west and further says that stock raisers loose money shipping their animals to Kansas City to be forwarded to market by speculators of that city. J. J. Mails of Pottawatomie county, took eighteen head of swine to the Bismarck fair, all of which, though not aa fleshy as they might have been made, were in the best possible breeding condition, took one blue and two red riboES, a medal valued at ten dollars, a diploma and twenty-five dollars in cash, in a sweepstake contest with nine herds. Manhattan Industrialist: Through Major Sims, of the state board of agriculture, we have received for trial a half bushel of Hungarian wheat; and from the United States department of Agriculture, in packages of the usual size, one variety of rye; and eight varieties of wheat, as follows: Egyptian, McGhee White, White Crimean, Genoese; Deihl-Mediteaanean, Indian, Extra Early Oakley and Martin's Amber.

These sorts will be sown at once in plats of suitable size; in order that their comparative merits, as far as Kansas is concerned, may be determined. Atchison Globr. Parties coming from diflerents parts of the 6tate say that the havoc caused by the difease now raging among hogs is terrible, and no rerredy has yet been devised that will check it. There is considerable doubt aa to the true nature of the disease, which does not resemble the orthodox cholera in every way. Some who have opened dead hogs eay that the liver is found in a stormy.

The nomination of a candidate for gov ernor was first proceeded with, resulting in a cnoice oi xra uavenport. Davenport received 215 votes and Carr 195. Gen. Carr was tominated for lieutenant governor by acclamation. Anson S.

Wood, for secretary of the state and James W. W'adsworti), for comptroller, apples and said "Here is proof that upland will raise fruit." His farm is high prairie. He has four acres in orchard and will soon have lots of fruit to sell. This) ear, besides using liberally at home hedisposed of two bushels of cherries 125 pounds of grapes and will have quite a lot of apples. He wants it to be distinctly understood that the choicest fruit can be grown on the uplands.

Every farmer who has no orchard planted should profit by his success. We cannot too strongly urge farmers to raise fruit; raise it for your own comfort, for better living, better health, if you do not care to produce any for market. A dispatch from Mt. Hope this state says: A gasoline explosion occurred in the rear of Randall's hardware store causing a serious fire and loss to a number of citizens of the town. The following are the Randall, store room and stock of hardware, amounting to insurance W.

S.Rickard, storeroom and stock of general merchandise, $6,000, insurance S.C. Thomas, barn, with machinery, harness, eta, $1,200, on insurance Mentor printing office, $500. The postoffice, which was kept in the Randall store, was burned, together with all the mail matter, fixtures, etc, Hutchinson Democrat: Harry Ballin-ger was admitted to the bar, Monday. Hon. R.

A. Campbell one of the examiners, 6ays that Harry passed the best examination of any applicant who has come before the court in the last eight years. The career of this youth is worth notice. He commenced the study of law in the office of Scheble Yandeveer when scarcely 14 years of age, and now at the age of 16 he passes a rigid examination with great credit to himself a well the gentlemen th whom he has assocsated. Harry now enjoys the title of being the youngest lawyer in the United States, and it is sa'e to bet that he will never go back on his record.

A skeleton was found thirteen miles north of Syracuse, Finney county, which was thought to be that of Joeeph Foy, who disappeared more than a year ago from Garden city. On April 10, 1884, young Foy left his home which is tTO miles north of Garden City, on horseback to hunt the cows. He left about noon and was never heard from again. The horse was found oh the 19th about seven miles northeast of Syracuse-nine miles from where the skeleton was found. To have got there the boy must necessarily have crossed several well-beaten trails.

He was 11 years old, was used to prairie life, and it is thought altogether impossible that he would have passed all those trails and wandered so far away. An inqtfestwas held over his remains and the verdict was that he came to death by means unknown. Belief In Miracles. Mr. 8.

W. Benerman, of Philadelphia, for many years identified with the wholesale hardware business, had rheumatism in his arm, and could not dress or undress, but with the most excurating pain. Housed St. Jacob's Oil, and the result, he Bays, was wonderful if not were nominated Dy acclamation. The ticket was then completed with the nomination for state treasurer of Major Charles Ulrich; for attorney general, Ed state engineer and surveyor.

A large Chinese firm in Portland, have received a dispatch from Lewiston, Idaho, stating that agents have been sent over to Pierce City to investigate the re-parted hanging of five Chinamen there. It is said one of the men hanged was a weathy Chinese merchant named Govenamg, who had just closed Mb business and was about to reiurn to China. The Chinese firms in Portland, are troubled about the late outrages at Reck Springs, Coal Creek, and ward a. ihomas; for state engineer, Wm. P.

Van Renslaer. The following platform was then adopted: THE PLATTOB The renublican nartv of Naw York. In Mnvpn. were offered by the Santa Fe, Wens Fargo and the state. Daring the two years that have passed the Santa Fe officials have been unremitting in their efforts to find the men who so badly planned the robbery and who came out of the attack with nothing but murder to their credit.

The search has never let up and time, money and labor have all been thrown into the scale and at last success has rewarded their efforts. Aba Waller, one of the men, was captured in Tenaessee.anda special officer started at once to receive the prisoner. Another, the principal and the one who murdered engineer Hilton, is where he can be obtained at any time. From a confession made and the talk by Waller since his capture, the work of the gang is known from the beginning. The three men were residents of Clay county, where they with one another laid their plans to capture and rob a train.

As determined upon, the train was to be robbed in Missouri, near Kansas City, and was to have been the Chicago and Alton. The arrestof one of their number for some trivial offense broke up their plans, and, fearing that they would be given away they determined to dtseit their comrade and make a break further Wost. They went to Kansas City, where they perfected their plans and then determined to capture a Santa Fe train and rob tne express car instead of the pasiengers and take the money box with them down to Texas or over into Mexico. They travel by train from Kansas City to lathe, laid over and went on to Newton, and thence after another lay over to Nickerson, avoiding all the larger towns. At Nickerson they procured horses and went down to Texas, carefully examining the country all the way in order to familiarize themselves with it.

From Texas they rode over the coun try, passing through the eastern end of the Panhandle to Coolidge some four or five times, and became acquainted with all the landmarks, passing themselves off as cowboys. When they thought themselves acquainted with the country they went into camp about one mile west of Coolidge, making some three or four visits into the town, both to become acquainted with the place where the train habits of the load employes and the people. This was kept ud several da; s. About 9 o'clock on the evening of the 29th they came up to the stopping places of the train afoot, and took their station as they intended to operate, in order to see if thev would be noticed. They were taken tion assembled, declare: Frank Donovan, a boy, was ran over and killed by the Wtbish cars at Springfield, 111.

The American bark Cashmere, has been wrecked in Japanese Part of her crew wer eved. The gold from San Francisco, ana silver from Carson City, received at Washington in one day, was $200,000. Wm. Bedford, a well-known stock man, was fatally gored by an Alderaty bull at Evansville, recently. Notice has been given to the settlers of the Crow reservation that tuey must remove therefrom by Ociober T.

A severe storm visited Tuscarawas county, Ohio, yesterday, inflicting much damage upon corn-fields and orchards. Dr. "Win. Gardner, a Colorado physician, .1 irnt mat tne provisions of tne exlstmer elvH service laws of tbe state and nation should bf Haletead. Harvev countv.

now has a Pierce City, on their countrymen ana evi library. Le Grand is the name of a new town dently fear they may be repeated on a larger scale at San Francisco. Thomas V. Thompson who married Maude Jones, an abandoned woman at Hilltown, last spring, has been in trouble ever Bince. Son days ago while in Finney county.

The city of Lawrence has a cash capi tal of $900 on hand. Btrt ugthenei and extended to all grades of th pub service to which they may be applicable, so that the selection of administrative officers in the civil fervioe than, to far an pot-sible, be governed solely by capacity and nines. We inoisl upon the enforcement of these laws by all public officers not ouly In tbe letter, but also In th spirit. Honorably discharged soldi- rs an 1 sailor, who are shown by competitive examination to possess the necessary requirements, should be Riven the preference certification and In appointment. Second That laws affecting tbe government of citleft should be simplified, so as to enable the people to fix the responsibility with ease and cer drunk the woman threatened to murder him if he did not turn away his aged father and mother.

The husband locked her in a room several days until her de got drunk at Omaha and was robbed of $500 cash, a $500 check and a gold watch. puma conamon, and others that the interior ia filled with worms. A hog generally dies on the third day after becom bauch wore off. She made threats of revenge when released. At length she carried out her threats by killing her husband with an ax, neaily severing the man's Extensive mines in the upper peninsula of Michigan, which have been idle for a head from his body while he was lying on a lounge in his office.

Mrs. Thompson ing bick, ana apparently sutlers great agony. The disease has not yet become prevalent in thia country, and farmers are selling off their hogs aa fast aa they can, in many instances at ruinously low long time, are about muming operation. At a meeting of the leading wire manufacturers of the country, held at New Yoik, I wrote a note explaining that she had con sumated the murder, and then committed tne prices of wire were advanced 10 to 15 prices. suicide by cutting her throat with a rezor.

A recent dispatch from Chatanooga, The puplic schools of Newton opened with an enrollment of 900 pupils, A chautauqua literary and scientific circle has been organized at Ellsworth. The uncollected taxes for the year 1884 in Davis county amount to $687,29. It is thought that coal in paying quantities can be mined in Montgomery county. Meade Center has been agreed upon as the temporary county seat of Meade county. The dwelling house of a Mr.

Brazier was burned at Emporia the other day. Loss $1,500. Familton is the name of anew town which has recently been established in Gove county. An Atchison citizen has invented a new water cooler which he is going to have patented. Emporia had a $1,200 fire the other day.

It is thought that it was the work per cent. Stewart Roesfield an escaped inmate of the insan asylum at Indianapolis, recently hanged himself in the woods near that says: There is intense excitement at Dalton, Georgia, over a visit paid that KANSAS WOIIKN. place by a band of Ku Kiux last week, There was fifty men, all well disguised, A fire broke oat in the extensive lumber who entered the city shortly after mid' yards of Chas. G. Gardiner Chicago, night.

They visited a house of ill fame destroying 24,000,000 feet of lumber. Loss owned by Mrs. Jane iudd, and tne woman and six of her boarders were dragged from their beds, and each one was given fifty for tramps trying to steal a ride, and after attracting; each notice they went to their $100,000. Small-pox has broken out in New York City, but the health officers are making ev Itemi of Interest Concerning Them There are 3,141 females under twenty-one years of age in Harvey county. Miss Ada R.

Clift, of Wa-keeney, ia a candidate for Eegister of Deeds in Trego county. Mrs. Florence Teak has been appointed postmistress at county vice Martin Pease resigned. Miss Mav Moore died verv Rndrlpnlv camp, secured their horsts and returned to near town and tied the four horses to a rail of the switch. The fourth horse was to carry the treasure.

GKAJiD ABM1 GLKAXUSGS. of an incendiary. lashes. Some of the women are in a critical Condition and may die. The band that went to the house of lorn Carver, a noted thief, and beat him to death, after torturing him for a half hour.

Another negro, named Arms tad, was so terribly beaten that he will die. The band then notified several persons to leave the place at once or they would be killed. No clue can be had as to the identity of them. The mob took in all the disreputable houses, regard-lees of the color of the occupants. They went to the mayor's office and left a list of those under mob surveillance.

The whole affair was an effort to rid Dalton of the bad characters that infest the town. The ice house ofGeoree Nolan war Pr)loalara Pertaining to the'Fotta. A camp of the sons of veterans is soon to be established at Lakin. Finney coun burned at Larned, Pawnee county, last the other day at Topeka from the result of an operation which was nerformpd on ty. weee.

joss $ouu. The first railroad train which avat The G. A. R. rennion at Hiawatha re her.

Mrs. Kuback, was stricken with paralysis at Enterprise, Dickinson county, recently, and cow lies in a precarious condition. entered the city of Norton, Norton county, pulled in there last week. cently was a very Buccessfu. and pleasant affair.

The Wellington Press is of the opinion that that city has the finest girls of ny town in the state. FOREIGN Because of the ill health of Mrs. Jen The little son of a man named instantly killed by a bolt of lightning in Anderson county last week. There are 300 men employed in con nie H. McBride, business manager of the Kirwin Republican that paper has frns- At their last meeting a Ladies Relie Corps auxiliary to John W.

GearvDOst structing the waterworks at Ellsworth pended publication. of Cottonwood Falls, was organized. There are sixty-five female school teachers in Harvev countv out of 115. which town has voted $40,000 bonds for that purpose. Miss Dottie Bloomfield, a 15 year old young girl, of Leavenworth, is missing Their average compensation is $33.00, wnue ue men receive iijis.

When tne tram came in tne tnree men were lounging on the track opposite the station house. As soon as it stopped Waller and one other climbed into the express car and attacked the messenger, firing three or four shots at him when he resisted. Conductor Greely was also fired at. When the firing began the principal who had climbed on the engine, ordered Hilton to pull out. He refused to do bo, when he was again ordered to pull oat.

He and Todle, the fireman, were just making a break for the robber when he fired. At this time Waller came from the express car, climbed on the tender, and passing oyer it toward the engine commenced firing, the other keeping up his firing also. It was at this time Hilton was shot through the head and Todle through the cheek, the former dying. Tne men then became alarmed and broke from the train for their hoises, which they mounted and rode away before the panic-stricken crowd recovered theL senses. The three men went south and west, riding ten or twelve days without seeing any person except a few cowboys at a distance.

The first person they met was a woman at a ranch, in the eastern end of the Panhandle, where they stopped for food. From the Panhandle they went to Smith Paw valley, I. T. They remained there but a short time and went to Limestone gap, on the Missouri, Kansas and railroad and from there to Fort Smith, where they separated. Waller went up inte the mountains, traveled btck to his home in Clay county, Missouri, then back to Texas.

He remained there only a short time and went to Tennessee, where he was found. When confronted by an officer from this state he expressed his willingness to come from her in some way mys Miss Kichard Tobin. of Wesbiorpknd Pottawatomie countv. was bitten in tna foot by a water mocascin snake a few days ago and the affected part swelled so i I At A 1 a in a ww uavB mat. kus came io wamego to treat it "The bite is serious and may end fatally.

The Atchison Globe complains of the fact that numerous suits are brought against men in that city for brutal treat ment of their wives. It says the creater teriously aisappearea. A thief entered the house of Mr. Leethoof in Davis county last week, knocked down his wife and then searched the house securing $36 booty. The man who was hired aa principal of the Lenora, Norton county, school got scared at the pupils who carried pistols and unceremoniously skipped out.

The proposition to vote bonds to the amount of $40,000 to the Omaha, Abilene and Wichita railroad carried in the city of Wivhita by 882 majority the other day. Citizens are seriously talking of organizing a vigilance committee to notify the loafers, dead beats and rascals who live in Wichita, and who have no viai-ple means of support, to vacate. II. W. "Walton, the exnresa Rrant a number of these cares which are brought certainly indicate that a bad lot of men live in Atchison.

tainty. Third That we demand of congress the passage of an act putting an end to the enlargement of tbe stock of money formed of silver or based on silver. The maintenance of the gold standard of parity. With gold and all kinds of money in use. is essential to the prosperity of ths country; a tbe restoration of silver 1o its former position a good money, through equality with gold before the law, in the mcjaniy of commercial nations, trust remain, until accomplished, the chief aim of ir monetary potic y.

Fourth, That we emphasize the demand of the last national republican convention, that tie im-petition of duties on foreign Imports shall be tnairt not for ravea only, but that in raising requisite revenue for the government such duties (hall be levied as to afford security to our diversified industries and protection to the interests ol labor to the end, intelligent labor as well as cacital may have lis jost reward; and the laboring man have his full share In the national prosperity. The persistent threats of democratic leaders to overthrow this policy adds to t-e present troubles of trad and paralyses industry. Until the full effects cf the revision of li83 can be fairly estimated, for a radical change In the tariff law is a gratuitous atesu'toa the waves of labor, on all branches of production, and all interests of traffic. We are opposed to the introduction of any system of free traie, the inevitable effect of which wou be to destroy our mills and factories, and carry dewa American aires to the standard ot the old world. Fifih That while certainly endorse the dying sentiments of the great soldier and citizen, U.

S. Grant, in favor of harmony and good feeling between north and south, we insist on the eniorcemeiit the guarantees of equal civil and poli'ical rights i mmited by the cocstitution to every fee The right of sufirage must be maintained, free and uutrammele and if that right is unlawfully ed to any part of the people of any state, its representation ia congress and the electoral college sboul be reduced, Sixth That the legislature having, in pursuance to th. will of the people, expressed tbe polls, abolished the system of contract labor in the prisons of the t-ta'e, we urge the enactment of laws tending to distr.bute as widely and equitable as pots.bU the Lutden of competition with fre i labor. Seventh That In letting the contracts for state work no contract should bi awards to any corporation tii-crinainaiing ag-dubt any or orpsuizai ion cf laborers. We believe that the duty of the republican majority of tbe senate is to opptse the confirmation of any penoa appointed in violation of the letter of the civil sivk law.

We denoant) the national administration for its obvious willingness to abandon the opinions thry havf otosea upon curr ncy and to moro-mise with those leaders of heir party who are avowedly in favor of the continued debasement of the currency for its hostiny to tie commerce of the conntiy evinced by its reiu-wl to carry out the system adopted by congress for tbe encouragement of American shipping forl.s arbitrary ac ion in repudiating the couiracting regularly entertd into byduy authoriz agents of the government and persevering in its attempt to deprive American mechanic of the means cf livelihood until aroused public opinion compelled it to abandon its attempt; and for Its hobtility further evinced by tbe arbitrary enforcement of customs laws by provis ion and tricks intended to deprive merchants of auv fair opportunity for asserting their rights. We denounce tha demoura'ic execut ve of the state for his action in refeience to the census, resulting in an extra ses- ion ih ltgihlature at a large and useless exp nse, while he vetood necessary appropriations tor tho state board of health In th? lace of decided epidemics. We denounce his conduct in vetoing the Brock lyn reform bills In order to commend himself to the lo al democratic leaders, while he approved bills lega izing claims dating from the dayjof Tweed, bane i by the statute of limiuticna and by judicial decisions, and thereby imp ised adrti-U nal burdens upon an overburaeneu city. Eighth That we recommend legislation gnar-antfe ring the benefits of public schools to all children of the state aud such control of factory employment as will surround the women snl chi, dren employed tberein with the nesary site-guards lor then physical, uental and moral well-being. Ninth That stringent laws should be passed for the improvement of the sanitary condition of the homes of ihe workingmon in cities.

Tenth That we demand the strict enforcement by the nat'onal government ot a law prohibiting the importing of contract labor. Eleventh That we recommend legislators to foster the agricultural'and dairy interests of the state and such as will prevent tne adulteration of articles of food. Twelfth 1 hat we favor the continuance of the railroad commission upon a non- partisan btisis. Thirteenth That in the interest of cheap transportation for the country and reduced taxation for the people of this state, we declare Id favor ofakking the national government to assist in the improvement of locks and the deepening the channel of the Erie canal under stite control 14th Th te improvement of tae levy tax as, comtrenc by the went rep ir lican lii 1-rge sum-have been ill tei' om foure wnl previously hai e-ea ed tax tion, xcul bope'fecte and extended so at th; bur en a ay fatl equally on all cusses of proper if- Fiftee th We condemn the hypocrisy cf thi democrat! pir in pledging itself before ele tioi io civil ervl re orm, and after the election de nuiucing through is vi ss aid eaders the civil te vice actssnncjiistituiiona1, while the nation-si a iminist ation ves tried ant falthiu! public servants, and repines th' with person) whose rnly iecwm ndstion is active and In some instances disreputable poli'ical rk. Sixteenth We denounce the hypocritical pretences under which faithful republican officers re removed on the plea of "offensive partisanship," while such men as Higglns, Thomas, Throop, Chase, Pillsbury, Aquina and others, some of whose nam- appear upon the prison records of the country, and whose recommendation is political partisanship, are appointed la their places- while removing elsewhere on the (round of offensive partisanship, republicans who edit newspapers; while the national administration continues In high judicial office in the city of New York a prominent democratic appointee, who publicly announces himself as having aa-lutned, since his appointment, the control of an ivoipedly partilan Journal.

fJonncil Grrv dnxmn''' Tof. vest little 3 year old daughter of Alonzo Dive-lv. livinz near this citv. wm pralW tr death under the following painful cir without a requisition, but that instrument cumstances, ine little one was playing bv a boiler of hot water, and tinnorl tha scalding contents over upon itself. The 1 A A.1 A.

1 Sterling, Rice county, while on his way lime one was terriDiy scaiaea, ana suffered intense aconv until death rsimo tn was taken along and it was needed. The principal in this robbery went from Ft.Smith to Clay county, MiBsouri.remained at home only a short time and went to Kansas City where he deemed himself safe. From Kansas City he made one more move and that move gave a clue to his her relief. ery effort in their power to prevent any spread of the disease. Rich veins of natural gas, which are believed to indicate the presence of coal, have been struck.

near Fargo, at depths of sixty to 140 feet. A body of masked men visited the Chi-xi ee employed in several mines near Seat tie, Washington territory, and informed them tnat they ma3t leave. Prairie fires are still raging in Dakota and Beveral towns are endangered. Shipments of cattle will be interfered with, and stock men are growing alarmed for ths safety of winter ranges. he new and costly covered pier of the royal Netherland mail steamship company, at the foot of York street, in Jersey City, was partially destroyed by involving a loss estimated to be $60,000.

Alderman Gaorge H. Sterling, who was recently appointed weigher at New York custom-house, has been suspended by Secretary Manning, pending an investigation intothe circumstances attending hia selection for that position. The New York democratic state convention met at Saratoga. Gov. Hiy, present incumbent, was nominated for governor, the vote standing, Abram S.

Hewitt 380. The result was received with wild applause. John W. Mackay is at Washington urging the allowance by the generalland office of $250,000 to the bank of Nevada for money advanced on surveying contracts. Commissioner Sparks refuses to pay the claim until a thorough investigation can be made into the matter.

Thomas Mann, a prosperous farmer of Hiawatha, Kansas, who went to Kansas City last week on business, was robbed of $1,450 at the Union depot. He had just bought a tiiket. and placed his pocket book in his coat pocket. A few minutes later he discovered that it had been stolen, Secretary of the Interior Lmar, who has been confined to his house for the past few days with a severe attack of influenza, is reported as being somewhat better to-night. His physicians, while entertaining no apprehensions of serious results have urged the secretary not to leave his house kr tev-eral days.

The twenty-first annual convention of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen of North America, convened in Philadelphia. After a short street parade, the delegates assembled in the Chestnut street opera house. Governor Patterson made an address of welcome for the state, and Mayor Smith extended the welcome lor the city The sixty-first session of the sovereign grand lodge, independent order odd fellows met in Baltimore, at odd fellows' hall. This grand body which was formerly termed grand lodge of United States until the past four years, has met annually bat communications are now held only every two years. There was a full representation present.

The devastation by prairie fires from Fargo, Dakota, Territory, to Bismarck far surpasses the destruction of any previous ear. Hundreds of wheat crops are swept out of existence. The amount burned in Northern Dakota during the past week is immense. It is estimated that the entire crops of 100 farms between here and Bismarck have been destroyed. Jacob Shipley, a township trustee of Morgan county, Indiana, has been indicted for issuing fraudulent warrants.

A. O. English, trustee of another township in the Bame county, who is charged with a similar offense, has disappeared, and is supposed io have gone to Canada. Enoch Norton and Qeorge W. Boyd, of Fountain county, have been indicted for complicity in the frauds.

Work has been resumed at the Rock Springs, Wyoming, coal mines with a force of Chinese miners and a tew white mechanics. The white miners refused to work, and were paid off. No violence was attempted, but the situation is threatening, and General McCook has advised the president to declare martial law in Wyoming. It is believed that a general strike will be ordered Along the line of the Union Pacific railroad by tht Knights of Labor. The Wichita Eaale relates th M1a.

Leon Quill: Last week S. R. Hanna's The grand army post of Humboldt, Allen county, have secured a hall in which they will hereafter hold their meetings. The citizens of Leavenworth played a game of base ball for the benefit of the Grant monument fund last week and netted $150. Belle Plain New.

The lodge of the Sons of Veterans organized at this place last Saturday evening starts out in a very flourishing Washington post No. 12, of Lawrence, gave a very enjoyable hop at their hall the other day. The entertainment was a success financially and socially. The grand army posts of Marion county met at Florence the other day and perfected a regimental organization with the election of Asa Starkweather as colonel. Manhattan Republic.

Col. Robert A. Fredrich, of Topeka, still has the credit of having been the youngest soldier of the war. He enlisted at the age of 13 years 11 months and 9 days, in Co. Second Kansas infantry.

The adjutant general of the grand army of the republic of this state has issued an order requesting every post of the order to donate a sum equal to 15 cents for each member for the purpose of building a monument to Gen. Grant. Lakin post, of the grand army of the republic, was mustered in at Lakin, Finney county, the other day. B. C.

Par-scells was elected post commander. The post starts out under the most favorable auspices and with quite a large membership. The ladies of Kenesaw relief corps No. 20 of Minneapolis, Ottawa county, are collecting a number of war relics and make an appeal to soldiers of northwest Kansas to assist them in their work by forwarding such relics as they have in their possession to them. Russell Record: The annual reunion of the old soldiers of Russell county will beheld on Thursday, October 15.

Osborne and Lincoln county comrades have expressed their intention to be present. Senator Plumb and other distinguished speakers will be on hand. The G. A. R.

post will furnish pork, beans, coffee und hard-tack, but no quinine or whisky, not even to invalids. Stafford Herald: It is a rule often that when a soldier allows himself to be surprised he is guilty of misdemeanor and court marshalled. If that rule holds good in time of peace every officer and ing story which it vouches for: As the story goes, the doctors had up all hope of the recovery of the sick husband boy babe was tied in a rocking chair while the mother was out for a few minutes. Her horror was almost unbearable when she returned to find the lifeless form of her babe hanging by the Russian advices represent the situation in the Balkans as becoming more critical every day. The Cacerists are becoming more active in Peru, and several places has fallen into their hands.

The pope has agreed to meditate between Germany and Spain, with regard to the Carolines difficulty. Prince Bismarck has accepted the apology tendered by Spain for the insult to the German embassy at Madrid. Yap, in the Caroline Islands, has been re-occupied by the Spaniards and a man-of-war placed on guard. The Austrian government is purchasing at advanced prices all the corn and oats in the market for aimy purposes. The Turkish governmnet has a new cabinet which wes has just been formed, it is said the new cabinet is made in the interest of peaa.

The Mussulmans enrolled in the Rou-melia militia have been discharged as a precaution against thtir carrying military secrets to Turkey. Russian officers who resigned from the Bulgarian army are called traitors by the Bulgarians and Prince Alexander has been asked to expel them. A son of Andrew wings, who was murdered near his home, eight miles from Marion, Indiana, charges that the crjme was committed by another son of the victim. Two hundred copper-miners, who are out of employment at Carrizal Alto, Chili, threaten serious trouble, and the local authorities have applied for military assistance. The international farmers's congress will discuss the danger of European wheat growers from American and Indian competition, at its meeting to be held at Pesth October 3.

Anarchy prevails in Albania, a Turkish The Turkish troops and a body of Albanians have had an engagement near Prizend. Five batallions of Turkish troops have been dispatched to the Ecene of trouble. A fearful cyclone has visited Falxe, a port on the bay of Bengal, in India. The telegraph lines have been swept away. It is probable that many vessels have been wrecked.

A government steamer has gone to render assistance. At a Turkish cabinet council held in Constantnople, the sultan presiding, it was determined to appeal to the powers to protect Turkish rights in Eastern Roumelia. Turkish forces are collecting at Adrianople, and the Bulgarian army is being mobilized. Hisastrous rains prevailed for seventy-four hours in the southeastern parts of Spain. The rain came down in torrents causing the rivers to overflow their banks and causing immense destruction of property and the loss of many lives.

Houses, tress and dead animals are being carried out to sea by the raging flood. The French government has asked the cooperation of the other powers in urging on the governments of Servia, Ronmelia and Greece the necessity of avoiding all agitation respecting the Roumelian difficulty, and not to permit anti-Turkish demonstrations during the present excited state of public feeling in the Balk ins. The 8er vian government has summoned all Seivians who are now in Germany to return home at once for military duty. ui a jjiuluuicuii iauy ul turn cuy, ana roia the grief-stricken wife about what time the husband would be invited to the dark corridors of the valley of death. neck to an arm of the chair.

He was a beautiful, hearty child some five months io nave everything in readiness to give him a good Bend off, she had her mourning dresa made and trimmed up in a becoming manner. The morning proceeding the momentuona event she dressed herself in her monrnfnl trarh and after several turns in front of a mir ror repaired to the sickroom to show the spirit about to depart, how charming she would look in her fresh widow hood. Whether the husband was satisfi nome recently was knocked down and robbed of a gold watch and $1,100 in money. No trace of the robber has been discovered. The other day Thomas Gerrard, a freight brakeman, was accidentally at Dodge City.

The citizens and twenty of that place raised a purse of $176, or thirty-six pound sterling and sent it to his wife in Not a single first grade certificate was granted in Jewell county at the close of the normal last month. But sixteen second grades were given and thirty-one, third grades. The rest failed entirely. There were about 125 attended the normal. A respectable family of Salem, Jewell county, were surprised one day last week when upon opening their doors in the morning they beheld upon the door step a young girl baby.

On it was found a note asking that it be brought up in a decent manner. Nothing further is known as to its parentage. The child wi'l be cared for by its new friends probably better than it would have been by the mother itself. Certainly a mother who would thus desert her offspring must be a cruel and inhuman. A terrible combination of circumstances must existed to force her to do it.

Burlington Independent: As a sample of what a man can do if he firmly makes up his mind to anything is fully illustrated by a case in this city. Mr. Reynolds, (we have forgotten his first name), who lives in the west part of the city, and is about 70 years old, has been addicted to the use of tobacco since childhood, covering something like 60 years, made np his mind a few months ago to do away with the filthy habit entirely. He threw old, and had supped forward, his head catching under the arm of the chair. No Mystery About It.

There are no mysteries or secrets about the compounding of Brown's Iron Bitters. The preparation of iron is the only one that can be taken without injuring the teeth or stomach. It gives vigor to the feeble, life to the debilitated, and health to the dyspeptic You need not fear to give it to the most delicate child. Mrs. Emma Williams, of Starkweather, says, "It relieved my daughter of dyspepsia and myself of general debility." SEW TORE REPUBLICANS.

ed to yield up the spirit after beholding the exhibition is not fitaterl. hnt nt. unv rate he shuffled off that night, and the next day tne heart-broken widow dressed in her new robes called in a photographer to take her photo all dressed nn in her funeral clothes and standing with one hand resting upon the coffin. They Meet In State Convention nominate a Ticket and Adopt a Platform. The New York Republican State cravea-tion was called to order at Saratoga, by James D.

Warren and Senator Warner Miller was agreedupon forjtempDrary chairman. Mr. Miller wai received with much enthusiasm. In his address he called attention totbe fact that the republican party of the state lor the first time in twenty five years wa? confronted by both federal and state governments in the hands of the man of Henry Hopkins poet G. A.

R. are honestly entitled to Bix years in the penitentiary; for a more complete surprise was never heard of than the one The several posts of the Grand Army in Jefferson county held a reunion at Oawakie. The largest delegation came from Oskaloosa. The usual proceedings on such occasions were had, including band music, a march, speeches, beans, toasts, singing, 6tory telling, etc Several bands furnished a bountiful supply of music A came of ball was evidently well enjoyed. There were thirteen states represented fn the registration of ex-sol- diere: For Kansas regiments 10, Missouri 5, Illinois 10, New York 1, Colorado 2, Ohio 7, Iowa 11, Tennesse 1, Pennsylvania 2, Wisconsin 2, Virginia 1, Vermont 1, and all registered aa regular one.

All voted the occasion a pleasant one, as the weather and surroundings were delighful. effected by Mrs. Etta Turner, president of the Relief Corps and her charming brigade when they presented the post democracy. He advocated a rigid adheie away his tobacco and has not taken a chew since. Although a great struggle at first he says he has now no desire for eucetothe protection of American labors Upon the question of civil service of the government.

Mr. Miller said the republican with a handsome flag of blue silk having the G. A. R. emblem printed thereon in the proper color and also bearing the legend "Henry Hopkins Post, No.

381, G. party had put the latter into practical use and were committed to it. Mr. Miller it wnaiever. Manhattan Republic: C.

L. Butler came in last week with a lot of choice Urnon college, Schenectady, opened closed by predicting a grand victory to be A.Xi. with, thirty iresh men..