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GALL UNLIMITED. NOT A HAREM KING. THE TORCHLIGHT. ONE SQUAB PEB TEAR. the scaffold when he heard the crcsepteca break, but tf Sfl close enough to the wall to Rra65 toe ledre and pull himself in.

Sullivan iiebped off the platform lust before It broke. KANSAS STATE IXEWS. The hay crop this year Is a world beater. The people ol Staunton county are clamor- DdtSi AND DASHES. The masters of the ifctf lockout at Pittsburg are slowly giving awsy tbe workman, with a slight exception, of Carnegie; JPhlHips Co.

Jackson, Heck and Fuller were on the piece of scaffolding adjoining that which fell and barely escaped. As the news of the disaster spread the building Was surrounded by an excited crowd. eager to know the cause and quick to censure, ana ror nan an hour great excitement prevailed. The cause of the accident war quickly apparent. The platform Is primarily Supported gn what the workmen call "shores," which are nothing less than pieces of strong lumber resting on the iron beams which support the floors.

Across these "shores" are fastened the cross pieces on which the scaffold rests. The cross pieces, or ledges, as they are called, are also supported by a second "shore" which rests on the window sill, and are fastened on to both sides of the wall by iron hooks. If the lumber is strong the platform ought to bear all the weight that could be placed upon it, but the broken cross-piece where the platform fell showed the fatal weakness. There was a knot in the cross-piece, which was of white pine, 2x6 inches, and the piece had broken at the knot, letting the part of the platform which rested on the cross-piece and on which the men were.standlng, alL In a few minutes after the accident the broke cross-piece had been replaced by a new one. lha brickmasons at once quit work and stood around the building discussing the death of their comrades.

They were inclined to be bitter and made charges of carelessness la the selection of lumber. Attacked by a Brute. Carrolltojt, June 29. Shortly after noon yesterday Mrs. Laura Duffy, a widow living with her father-in-law, James Duff, on the Bayles farm two miles east of here, was washing clothes when she heard steps on the stairs, but a3 the house was occupied in part by another family she suppossd it to be one of them until she was confronted by a burly negro who advanced upon her, flourishing a knife.

She reached for a revolver on a shelf near her, but before she could use it, was struck with a knife and. her dress cut from over the left shoulder to the top of her corset. making a slight flesh wound, bhe then hred seven shots, one ball taking effect in the left shoulder. The pistol being empty he struek her with some heavy instrument, knocking her insensible. Two hours and a half later she was found lying on the floor up stairs, her mouth fragged with paper, the knife in one hand and the revolver in the other, evidently placed there by the negro.

As soon as the facts were made known In town, a searching party was organized and the country scoured for miles around without success, the neero was about 5 feet 11 inches tall, heavy set. smooth face. He wore a suit of gray clothes, frock coat and a dark woolen shirt. His shoes were of the plow kind and had buckles on them. Mrs.

Duffy says she noticed that his coat was ripped in the back. Mrs. Duffy had driven four negroes away from the house Monday, who had demanded something to eat, shooting at them and striking one of them in the ankle. The one that attacked her yesterday was in the party. A Young Mall Robber Caught Macon, June 20.

Justin O. Ford, aged 19, mail carrier between ihe post office aud the depot, was arrested this aftetnoon by Post Office Inspector Sykes ou the charge ol robbing the United States mails, and immediately admitted his guilt acuuowledjinjr that he had opened seven letters and takeu money. Most oi them were directed to the Good Way, a religious paper published at College Mound in this county, and Marv A. Brooks, publisher of that paper, testified that rier loss amounted to between oU and 100. He said he was oblijred to eive his father his entire salary and took to robbing tbe mails to supply himself with spending money, lie was caught by means of a decoy letter.

Crazed by a ranorama. cnicAGO. June y. uonsiaeraoie ex citement was created this evening at the pauorama of "Jerusalem at the Time of the Crucifixion," caused by tbe wild antics of J. Ai McConnell.of Hinsdale.

who after look ing at it In a dazed way faced the central fur ure of the on his knees and Degan to pray. Suddenly he rose to his feet and shouted: "batan is tryine to mount with the a r. eels He then drew a revolver and commenced fir ing at the imaginary devil in the roof. Two policemen entered aud he fired at them, saying that unless he killed the first few police men he saw, he would be hurled to helL The insane man wa.s over powered and taken to the armory. He claims to be ou his way to visit an uncle at Orrvillc, Pa.

Caused by Cards. Harlax, June 2S. Last Saturday Marion aud John Stewart. Tip Osborne and Jeff Hall were playing cards when a dispute arose over some point. All had been drink ing and the dispute grew into a wrangle and blows passed, hen Marion drew a navy re volver and shot John through the brain.

He turned to shoot Osborne, his stepson, but Osborne ran. Mrs. Stewart interfered and got a bullet in the temple. by this time had escaped and Stewart turned his attention to Hall, who got away but came back half an hour later, when Stewart again tried to Kin him, but iie again escaped. beeine his wife lying dead outside the door and his brother in a dyinsr condition inside, Stewart turned to his daughter, a girl 14 years old, said: "Goodby; do the best you can for the children," and started up the mountain side.

The children carried their dead mother into the house where their father's brother was rapidly dying. Airs, btewart left seven children, the oldest 14 years of age and the youngrest a babe nursing. John Stewart left a wife and 6mall family. No attempts at arrest have been has sworn killing hi made, although lip Osborne vengeance against btewart for mother. Killed by His Urother-ln-law.

Bonuam June 27. Near Doakesville, a Village in the Choctaw nation, Tex Ford and William Luther, brothers-in-law, had a quar rel over some trival affair at Luther's house when Luther picked up his Winchester and shot Ford through the body, killing him in stantly. Then he fired several bullets Into the dead man's body, ihe murderer has not been arrested. Both were white men who married Choctaw sisters. Officials lilterally Beheaded.

Shanghai, June 27. Nine government officials at Seoul have been beheaded in the streets by tbe populace. Foreigners have taken refuge at the consulates. Ihe ouV break is attributed to Chinese iustigat'on. Apaches Murder Two Mexicans.

Nogalhs, June 27. A small band of Apache Indians in the Ariopc district of So- uors, recently attacked two neraers, shot one and strung the other up to a tree. leaving him to die. He was afterward cut down by friends and his life saved. Two days later the Indians came upon two Mexicans in a wagron and one was 6hot, but the other escaped.

The marauders then left for the hills, leaving one of their numDer urunK ana asleen in the brush. A oarty of Mexican Custom officers found the sleeping Indian later and cut his throat. AlasKa Indalns Turbulent. Seattle, June 27. Miners and pros pectors from Alaska, who arrived yesterday.

report that the Chilcat Indians in Alaska had held a monopoly for freighting for miners from the coast and refused to allow other In diana to cnsraire in business ana sometimes interferred with white men who attemptea to rfli-rv in their own bacffase. Tbey charged exorbitant prices and made over $7 a day. Two weeks aeo a large party of prospectors tartwt nn the Yukou with a tribe of Sitka i 4t under IJUiei ueorse as ireisiiiicio niwn a combat resulted and the chief of the rtiilcats was killed. The Indians demanded life for life and chased the Sitkas into Haines, a white settlement. Ihe whites protected the life of Chief George during the day, but at niffht he was murdered by the Chilcats.

Jtear ing a massacre, me wuues tcui iu me cusso for heln. which arrived iust In time in the shape of a man-of-war. Crime in the Choctaw Xatlon. Fort Smith. June 28.

Three weeks ago Sheriff John G.Crowder of Jackson coun ty, Choctaw nation, was arrested on the charge of being Implicated in the killing of Willie Jones, the son of the treasurer of the Choctaw nation and candidate for governor "Rpn Carnes was appointed acting: sheriff, and The Filthy 6rk of a Brother and Sister. They Dicker in. Murder. nh-A T.ottQ and Hog Stealing-The Mother of The Noted Trunk Murder Arrives from England iiic oiage itobber Agaia-Notes General. in Put His Keck In Dancer.

Little Rock, July 2. James Simmons and his sister, Mrs. Lorena Johnson, were brought here this morning and lodged jail by United States Marshal Faulken-feury, charged with sendine an obscene letter to Mrs. General Tucker, postmistress of Okoi-ona. Miss.

The caee was worked up fey United States Postoflice Inspector Sykes. yot Jong ago General Tucker, the postmaster at Okolona, Ml. was shot through the heart while sitting bear a window of his office. Simmon was charged with the crime, but after a lengthy trial was acquitted and moved to Arkansas, settling near Benton. nlniA kB aK0' 8 aheged, his sister mailed a letter at Benton addressed to Mrs.

general Tucker and signed with an initial. It was written by Simmons, the address being written at Mrs. Jolmson's request by the deputy postmaster. Omitting the obscenity, it read: "I can say this aud tell the truth I shot General Tucker through the heart." A preliminary trial will Le had this week. James Johnson, husband of the woman, is in Jail at Sheridan, charged with hoc stealing.

The postoffice officials claim sufficient evidence to establish Simmons' euilt. If this is fione the murder of Gemral Tucker will a so be proven. Mrs. Brooks Arrives From England. St.

July 2. Mrs. S. N. Brooks, mother of Hugh M.

Brooks, alias Maxwell, the chloroformer, and her daughter Annie arrived here this morning from Hyde, and later in the day had an interview with young Brooks at the jaiL They were not permitted to enter the cell department of the prison, that beintr contrary to the rule, but they held a long and earnest conversation through the bars. Mrs. Brooks will be at Jefferson City next Monday, when Governor Morehouse will hear an appaal for commutation of sentence by Brooks' attorneys, and she and her dauehter will make persoual pleas for vounjr Brooks' life and present letters and documents in his behalf. Deadly Fight Between Officers. Louisville, July 2.

Near Pineville last night James McGeorge and Bill Smith, special sheriff's deputies, were sent to arrest some violators of the local whisky laws, and returning stopped at a floating saloon on the Cumberland river. While drinking they got into a wranele over a pistol and in the struggle to keep it shot McGeorge through the teck. McGeorge reeling, drew his own pistol, killing Smith instantly. Stne Robbers Get a Haul. aiaderia, duiv stase runnine Detween this place aud Ilildreth was stopped this afternoon by a masked man who jumped from behind rocks and compelled the express messenger to throw him his gun and then Luiupeneu mm anu me ariver to hand over tne express box containing 10.000 in cilttaf bullion.

The robber escaped; The Deadly Bullet. Muskogee, I. July 1. Sixteen miles northwest of Eufalla in the Creek nation last night a corn dance was held. United BtatcB Marshal John Phillips and one deputy named John McGlaughlin att ended with the expectation of re-arresting some prisoners who had escaped from them a few days pie-rlous.

Arrivins near tbe trrounds where the flance was taking place tuev secreted them selves near a sprine, expecting that the parties they were after would go to that place for water. About 12 o'clock Weslev Barnett and his brother Yatie two of tbe most noted des peradoes in tbe Indian territory, nnd who were wanted on some half dozen charges, went to the spring. As soon as thev arrived near noufjlj. Marshal Phillips demanded that thev ihould halt and eive their names. ine brothers immediately drew their pistols inu commenced brings Ihe first shot struck Phillips in the head, killing him instantly.

Deputy Marshal McGlauelin was also killed. but not uutil he had fatallv wounded Wtie Barnett, who died within an hour after the bght was over. TERRORIZING A DAXCIXG PARTT. Wesley Barnett went to where the people were dancing, accused Bunnie Mcintosh of putting the officers on their track and immediately drew his revolver and shot Mcintosh through the arm and doubtless would have killed him had not Mcintosh succeeded in wresting from him his revolver. Vesley then went to a neighboring house and securing a Winchester went back and iwore he would kill the entire company if they did not remove uis brother's body to a neigh- borinc house.

The terrified crowd secured a wagon and did as the desperado commanded them. The bodies of the two' officers had not been removed from the place where they were Kinea up to late this evening. It la a somewhat singular fact that about Dne year ago, near the same spot, Phillips' posse, composea oi turee men, were mur dered while asleep by desperadoes, belonging to the same gang, for which crime Seaborn breen was banged at Ft. Smith a few weeks ago. Horrible Death of Three Men.

Kansas City, June 29. Away upon the ninth story of the New York life insurance building at Ninth and Wall streets, now rapidly approaching completion, looking down upon tbe street, pedestrians seemed no larger than Lilliputians. It is 130 feet from the sidewalk to the scaffold on which the bricklayers were working yesterday morning. A few minutes before noon there was a sharp crack from the Wall street scaffold and the lew men on the slreet below who happened to be looking upward saw a 6ight which they will cany with them to their graves. Down from the awful heiirht a mass of bricks and boards came hurling, and in their nnusc mree human iorms.

when the scaffold broke thev dropped at first like a plummet, but only for an instant. Then they swerved, turned over and over, arms and legs flying In hideous erotesqueness. For an in stant, it seemed an age for those who, terror stricken, saw tbe awful fall, the frightful Kyrauons continued, and then the sickening ttiump as the bodies struck the 6idewalk. The sickening 60und broke the 6pell which held the spectators. They rushed forward, and pityingly, tenderly, tremblinglr, shudder ing, stooped over tbe limp aud broken bodies.

Life bad gone from one of them. and as they gazed a second spirit fled. The third body, as soft as iullv. was carried into tbe first floor of the building, where the man Dreamed his last in less than an hour. i 1 1 viippe was me name oi ine man who was dead when he reached the ground His Dody bad struck a telegraph wire in its descent and hia ueck was broken.

He was years of age, single, and the recording secretary of the brlcklavers' union. He wis i born in New York. William C. frendell, one of the trustees of ihe Drlcklavers' union, was the name of the 6econd victim of the terrible accident. He also was single, and lived at Twelfth and walnut streets.

He was born in Spring- ueiu, J. ihe poor fellow who was borne into the building was Furman Thome. He lived at seventeen aud Euclid avenue, and had a large lamily. He was president of the nnion. A moment after be was carried into the build- i Jng his son stood over him too stricken with i his sudden grief to say a word.

His eyes were tearless and stony. The spectators looked on nopeiessiy untu coroner Flston and Dr. Hen- derson arrived. All they could do was to tell when lifn was gone. Then the bodies were takenjto Lariat's undertaking rooms.

HANGING IN M1D-AIK. At the top of the building, while the bodies I oi tne tnree men were dashing through space, onomer scene, scarcelv less appalling, was witnessed. Sofaruo that he looked like a pigmy, a man was clinging to the arch of the window above the broken scaffolding. It was Mike McGinnis, a colored hod carrier. He was on the scaffald ween it broke, but he heard the the fatal crack and jumped for the balding.

His hands caught the arch and there he buns above certain death. He heard tbe bricks and lumber strike the street 130 fett below, and knew bis life hung on the strength ot his hngera. He swung himself. how he can't tell, in the window and fell, weak and helpless, on the inside scaffold. ben he crawled down the ladders to the ground he was too much unnerved to talk.

Following him came Charles Jackson, Ed. Sullivan and Phillip Heck. wfaQ had been -u the scaffold a second before Wasbtxgtojt, June the senate, the construction of bridges across tbe Ouachita river in Arkansas, the Mississippi river at Muscatine, the Missouri river at Nebraska City, Neb. the Columbia, between Oregon and Washington territory, the Missouri river at Parkville, the Mississippi river at Oquawka, 111., and the Mississippi river at Clinton, were severally concurred in. The senate then proceeded to the consideration of the river and harbor appropriation MIL Many minor amendments changing harbor appropriations were acted on, and the senate The bouse resumed consideration of tbe public bill, tbe yeas and nays being taken on Mr.

Holman's amendment retaining title in the government to coal mines found on public lands, but allowing: entrymen to mine such coal deposits until congress should act further in the matter. The amendment was adopted and the bill was then passed. When Mr. Mills called up the tariff bill Mr. Kelley of Pennsylvania 6ugge6ted on his individual responsibility, as a means of expediting adjournment, that the tariff be laid aside until next session, its fate then to depend upon tbe result of the November elections and that the surplus be kept down by an entire repeal of the tobacco tax.

Mr. Mills rejected the suggestion and made a counter proposition that the republicans should fix an early day for taking a final vote nn the bill. Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky declared that tbe democrats intended to have a vote on the bill unless March 4 was reached by obstruction. He challenged the republicans to put their platform in th shape of a legislative proposition and then take a test vote between that and the pending biil, letting It go to the senate if passed by the house.

He rug-gested that the vote be taken at tbe end of ten legislative days. Mr. Springer of Illinois endeavored to have considered a resolution directing the committee on ways and means to report a date for taking the vote, but Mr. Kelley objected. Demands for the regular order cut off further discussion and the house went Into committee of the whole on the tariff bill.

Washington, June 2S. Mr. Davis, from the pension committee, reported back eight vetoed pension bills with the recommendation that they be passed notwithstanding tbe president's objections, and they were placed on the calendar. A motion to have the reports printed in the Record was agreed to and a motion to print 5,000 copies of the report was referred to tbe committee on printing, Mr. Faulkner stating that the democratic members of the committee on pensions had not yet seen them.

The senate resumed consideration ot the river and harbor appropriation bill the question being ou the amendment appropriating 810,000 for the Yadkin river, North Carolina, which was agreed to On motion of Mr. Mills of Texas, Mr. Blount of Georgia was elected as speaker protem, during the temporary absence of Speaker Carlisle, and the clerk was directed to inform the senate of this action. The house then proceeded to the consideration of the tariff bilL Aftei a lengthy discussion, without action, Mr. Belmont of Nevr York called up the conference report on the consular and diplomatic bill, aud it was agreed to.

It reported a concurrence on all the amendments except that appropriating $25,000 for a commission to explore the Congo basin. Washington, June J9. The senate resumed consideration of tbe army appropriation bill, the question being on the amendment of fered by Mr. ilawlev. He stated in reply to a question previously asked that with toe appropriation ot $5,000,000 270 guns would be constructed, but that it would take five or six years.

to expend the $5,000,000. if the American people were driven to war and were humiliated, then the men who argued against the policy of providing guns would call upoD the mountains to fall up them. The English themselves were surprised at the carelessness of the United States in regard to war preparations and asked if there was ever such a happy-go-lucky reliance on luck since the world began. The country, with its 00,000,000 people, was a monstrous mass of potential power, but against modern steel guns it was no more effective than a dead whale. After further discussion, without ac tion, committees of conference were appointed on the legislative, the diplomatic and consular and the District of Columbia appro- priatiou bills and Mr.

Allison reported back the joint resolution extending the ap propriations for the present fiscal year, for thirty days from June SO in the departments of the government for which the appropriation bills for next year should not have become a law and the senate after a lomr discussion passed it without a The house, in committee of the whole, discussed the tariff bill. After a lengthy discussiou.pro and con, the committee rose aud, on motion of Mr. Kandall, the house concurred in the senate amendment to the joint resolution extending the appropriations for thirty days. Washington, June 30. The senate with less than a dozen members present resumed consideration of the river and harbor bilL Af ter a lengthy discussion the bill and amendments were reported from the committee of the whole and the amendments on which sep arate votes ere not asked were agreed to.

Bills from the calendar were taken up and passed as follows: To authorize the building of a railroad bridge at Ft. Smith, Ark. appropriating $15,000 for a wharf in Astoria, for the use of the light house establishment; appropriating $80,000 for a light house on the headland near the mouth of the Umpaqua river, Oregon; to establish four additional life saving stations in Oregon and Washington territory, and thirty-eight private pension bills, including one Increasing pension of the widow of Major General G. K. Warren to $100 a month In the house, ou motion of Mr.

Stone of Kentucky the bill for the payment of the Fourtu of July claims was taken up and passed and the house went into committee of 4he whole, Mr. Springer of Illinois in the chair, on the tariff bill! After disposing of four pages of tbe bill the committee rose. Washington, July 2. The Conference report on the legislative appropriation bill was presented and concurred In. The joint resolution extending to the states of Florida and Louisiana the joint resolution of May 14, 1SS8, relating to the disposal of public lands in certain 6tatcs, was reported from the same committee and passed, with an amendment continuing it in force till the adjournment of the recent congress, instead of till the adjournment of the present session.

The river and harbor bill was taken up and passed. After executive session the senate adjourned till Thursday house was thrown into a deadlock by Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, insisting on having his bill establishing a municipal code for the District of Columbia a volume of 321 pages-read. "Wife Murder Avenged. St.

Joseph, June 29. About fifty people saw Peter Hrouek hanged iu this city to day for the murder of his wife last ApriL There was no excitement and the murderer met his fate as if he was going to a frolic. The time set for the execution was 11 o'clock, but the two Polish priests who acted as spirit-ual advisers requested further time, audit was not until o'clock that he announced himself as ready. The priests accompanied him and he bade them an affectionate fare well. When asked If he had anything to say he remarked in broken English that he would forgive those who for gave him, and having thus met his enemies half way the black cap was adjusted and his hands tied behind him.

The noose did not fit and perhaps a minute was occupied In adjusting it. Hronek then walked steadily to the scaffold and the trap was sprung. The fall of seven feet did not break the neck, but he died in about two minutes and tbe body was cut down in sixteen. The Polish priests took charge of the remains and the luneral will occur from Sts. Peter and Paul's church at 8:30 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Hronek last night was given the freedom of the jail until 2 o'clock this morning, and the Kangaroo Quartette consented to entertain him. He enioved the singing and jokes Ira menselv and. in fact never seemed to realize his awful sftuation. He slept soundly from 2 o'clock until 8. but ate sparingly of his break fast of coffee, steak, potatoes, cakes and beer.

The crme for which nronek was hanged was the murder of his wile April 17, 1SS7. He had accused her of intimacy with a man llv in? in tbe same house and bad frequently threatened to kill her. On this day while in toxicated he purchased a revolver and went home about 8 o'clock in the evening and with out a word of warning fired at her. the shot taking effect in ber breast. He immediately fired a econd Ehot, which penetrated her brain.

When arrested he declared that he had killed her because of her infidelity, though later be disavowed all knowledge of the murder. He was about 32 years old, was a Bohemian and came to this country ten vears aga Six rears after his arrival he sent to Bohemia for his wife, whom he had known from childhood, and on her arrival they were married at Easton. Ma Until within a few weeks of tbe murder tbey had lived happily and had a child, a little girl 2 years of age. who sicca the tragedy has been caresj for A In of The Much Abused Man's State-- ment. r--- He Says He is not the Possessor of Three and Twenty Hair Yankers A Paralytic Negro's ViUainous Act-He Does Some Home Carr-ing-ATougb.

Tear on Arkansas Marshals Etc Too Much Wif. Chicago, July 2. J. Aldrich Brown, the alleged bigamist who is said to be possessed of twenty-three wives, said last night that he Is a much abused man. He declares his ability to come out of this tronble with flying colors.

"I am the husband of but one wife," said he. "I have, however, been mix ed up with a lot of women at different times and they have robbed me of everything 1 had and now because I have no more property they take this method of putting me out of the way." Brown's decision was brought about by a visit from No. 21, whose name is May Burnell and whose conversation convinced him that no prosecution in Detroit would be more vigorous than the one headed by her in Chicago. The first known of Brown's bfeomous tendencies was in I8S5, when he, possessed of at least one living wife married Miss Ida Kelley, a pretty voung woman living on Jefferson avenue, Detroit. This was in the fall of the year and a few months latter he deserted her and went to Muskegon, where he was married in January, 1836, to a lady of that town whose name cannot be ascertained.

Miss Kelly followed him and caused his arrest when he was sent from court at Saginaw to the penitentiary at Jackson, where he served nine months, and during his term of imprisonment he made an unsuccessful attembt to end his life by cutting his throat with a razor. He inflicted a bad gash, but was finally cured, thoush he still bears the scar. It was early in November, 1S36, when he was released from the penitentiary, and all traces of him was lost until January 15, 1SS7, when he made his appearance In Pontiac, and five days later married Miss Annie M. Hazel of that town. From there he lied to Detroit, closely followed by Miss Hazel's friends, including a brother who is the man who threatened to shoot Brown on sight, and the fear of whom made the prisoner unwilling to go back to Michigan.

Horrible Crimes of a Fiend. Cincinnati, July 2. Early Sunday morning Mrs. Ed Cousins, colored, living in Lock and, this county, was awakened by a blow on the head, and found her husband, who was partially paralyzed, attempting to kill her. Their 2-year-old child was in the bed, but Bhe was unable to rescue it.

She sought help, and when the room was entered both Cousins and the child were found with their throats cut and with other hideous wounds. Neither one can live. Cousins was infuriated because his wife was compelled to send him to the infirmary. United States Starshal Killings. Ft.

Smith, July 2. During the past year no less than seventeen deputy United States marshals have been shot and killed in the Creek nation, Indian territory. Of these three were killed last week, John Phillips, Hector Thomas and John Trammel. Forger and Embezzler as WeH. New 1.

Albert F. Krahe, cashier for Hirseh who was arrested last Thursday in Montreal for fortrery, was brought to this city to-day aud locked up. It "is charged that he raised a check from $900 to $13,900 besides stealing from the cash drawer and making false entries to cover up his thefts. The amount he is said to have stolen Is $3,000, besides the money he got ou the forged check. About one-half of the stolen money and some diamond jewelry were found in his possession when arrested.

A Woman's Awful Act. Chicago, July 1. The mystery con cerning the death of Matthias Schriener, who was burned to death at 2 o'clock last Monday morning near his house at 204 Mohawk street, has been cleared up, his wife, Mary Magdalen Schriener, confessing to the police to-day that she poured kerosene oil over her husband's clothing and deliberately set tire to it. She says he was a chronic drunkard and for six months past she had quarreled with him every day. He came home last Sunday night drunk and sent for more beer alter his arrival, bhe retired about midnight and on awakening an hour later arose and found him asleep iu the alley.

Seized with a sudden and uncontrollable desire to rid herself of her troublesome husband she poured the oil over his clothing and then dropped a lighted match on him. lie soon rushed into the street screaming aud the ueighbors smothered tbe flames with blankets, but too late to save his life. Mrs. Schriener is but 20 years of age. She has a six months old babe and her only cnx- lety is concerning it She will plead guilty to the charge of murdering her husband tomorrow.

ITe Tried to Poison Ills Wife. Milwaukee, July 1. Just a week ago the wife of Louis J. 1 mlay, a furniture worker, awoke in the middle of the night to find her husband holding a vial to her mouth. "lake a drink, darling," he said, when he saw she was awake.

There was a strong odor of chloroform and her clothing was saturated with it. She ent to a neighbors and at once communicated with her parents at Oshko6h, from whom she ascertained that her husband had written them several days before that she was dangerously ill. The circumstances in connection with the fact that she bad felt unwell after drinking a cup of coffee prepared by him led her to cause his arrest to-day. lie at first admitted aud then denied the charge. It is supposed he wanted to get rid of his wife to marry another woman.

Four years ago a former wife and her child were burned to death at Grand Rapids, Michigan. Death to Avoid Disgrace. Cincinnati, July 1. The dead body ol Miss Clara Williams was found to-day at noon in her bed at the residence of her neuhew. Itoss Hamilton, with a haudkerchief saturated with chloroform lyinc ou her face and the bedclothes carefully drawn over her head.

Two or three days ago she had been arrested on a charge of nurloiuimr articles from the mii- linerv stoi of 5. M. Barger, where she bad been enmloved as forewoman for the past fif teen years. She fell the disgrace keenly and it is supposed that rather than appear in court to answer to the charge 6he took her owu life. She was a member of the First Presbvterian church and a teacher in the Sun day school.

American In Trouble. London, June 27. The owners of the estab lishment at Munich from which Billy Porter aud Frank Buck, the American crackmeu, made a lage haul of jewelry, have arrived in London and have identified nearly every ar ticle of plunder found iu Porter's and Buck's residences. Some of the property recovered bad been made for the firm by special order and their recognition of this was undoubted. Tbey wili testify against the burglars at a hearing on Friday.

The name of the receiver with whom Porter and Buck caroused in London and with whom Buck had a fight, is Raymond, not Johnson. by Boy Tootpads. Kettesviixe, June 29. Last night about 10 o'clock as James Chapman, a groceryman, was on his way home he was attacked and robbed. His cries for help brought Sheriff Morris and others to the re-cue but the robbers fled.

To-day Sherman Guthridge, a young negro of this place was arrested and confessed, stating that Everett Beaslev, white, aged 17 years, was his accomplice. Beasley is the son of John Beasley, a liveryman of this place. The amount of oney taken from Chapman was between $12 and $13, all of which has been recovered except about $4. The young culprits are quite iudifferent to their crime. Two Prominent Ladles Drowned Newbcegh, N.

June 27. At clock to-night the small steam pleasure yacht Enid was 6truck by the steamer James W. Baldwin a mile north of here. There were eight persons in the small boat and two of them, Miss Annie Miller ana tne wne oi Benjamin B. Odell, were drowned.

The reBt were rescued by the steamer and brought here. Three of them were delirous, but will recover, Miss Miller was the daughter of David Miller of New York and Mrs. Odell wife of the republican state committeeman in the Fifteenth eoczreislosal district All ba partial wer i.i eirfeias. Xj. X.

ABBOTT, Editor and PropT PLEVNA, KANSAS. Dom Pedro has reigned over Brazil for fifty-seven years. Gen. Shekidan's salary will now be 13,500, instead of as heretofore. Kino Humbert, of Italy, is something of an Angloruaniac as regardi his attire.

Flouquet is a diminutive man, with a large head and a fine crop of white hair. Sir Andrew Clark, Mr. Gladstone's physician, received $25,000 for a journey to Italy. The Duke of Cumberland and hia sister Princess Fredarica, have become reconciled after an estrangement oi nine years. Kiaz Pasha, the new prime minister i of Egypt, is a Mohammedan.

Ilia Nubar Pasha, was an Ar-ixnenian Christian. The Sultan of Zanzibar has a wife, and in consequence Germany ha3 obtained, valuable concessions denied to other nations. Within the last few months thre of the leading dukes of Scotland-Sutherland, Hamilton and Argyll-have been almost at death's door and nave recovered. Scottish peers touh. are Prince Koland Bonaparte, iu closing the session of the congress oi anthropologists in Now York, expressed his pleasure at seeing so manj women interested in the study of the science.

Paul Blouet, better known as "Max O'llell," has been telling Londoners that American women have "a kind of spiritualized politeness, a tender solicitude for other people, combined with a strong individuality." Mrs. Mart RUrEs ligrhtly past middle age. Dodge, now is still youth- ful in appearance aud spirits. Hei "Hans Brinkef' is almost as popular In England as in this country, and furnishes a material part of her income. Major General Joiin M.

Scho-field, by senority of position, would become head of tbe army in event of the death of Gen. Sheridan. Ho now commands the division of the Atlantic, with head quarters at Governor's island. Munemitsu Mutw, the Japanese Minister, who has just reached Washington, is accompanied by his daughter, who 13 said to be a beautiful young woman. Washington society will have a noverly in the person of a Japanese belle.

TnE guides to the intricate recesses of the Catacombs under Rome sometimes use a card, which they fasten at points along their way, a3 a guide to their return. For want of such guidance explorers of these inner recesses have sometimes perished. In Paducab, Mr. Joseph Hebute, a rich German, upon going into a drug store for something to heal a hurt got in the Franco-Prussian campaign, found in the man who supplied it not only a fellow German, but the same surgeon who had attended him when first hurt in the fatherland. Mr.

William Winthrop Allen, of Medtield. is now the oldest living alumnus of Harvard. He was born January 26, 1794, and was a member of the class of 1817, of which the Hon. George Bancroft and Mr. Samuel E.

Sewall, the well-known lawyer of Boston, are tho only other surviving mem-tiers. Only $90,000 is left of the fund donated by James Lick, the California millionaire, for the support of the great observatory. The income of this residue will scarcely pay one-fifth of the cost of operating the observatory, ami tho California Legislature is to be appealed to for an appropriation to make up tho balance. The case of the watch formerly be longing to Louis Napoleon. Prince Im perial, who was killed in South Africa, has been sent to London.

It is slight-ly battered. It bears the young Prince's monogram and crest. The watch was given him by his mothor, ex-Empress Eugenie. An En glishman WCCently purchased it of a Zulu. It is reported that Princess Alexandria, of Greece, who has been mentioned as the possible bride of Prince Albert Victor of Wales, is to wed Grand Duke Paul, the Czar's youngest brother.

This Paul is an unwashed Tartar savage. He was engaged -rincess Alexandria two years ago, but the match was broken off because of his vile conduct at Athens. TnE Maryland Historical Society, after a long hunt, has found what it believes to bo the original charter of Maryland. This document, together with the Calvert family papers and Mason and Dixon's bill for running their immortal line, and the records of the boundary disputes between Pennsylvania and Maryland, were found at tho country seat of Col. Henry Harford, an English gentleman of the same blood as the Calverts.

Is 1712 there flourished in Boston an original sort of character, Thomas Fleet, who was a printer and tho most popular auctioneer of his day. Among other rare bargains ho offered at pab-, lie sale was this: "A negro woman to be sold by the printer of this paper; the very best negro woman in this town, who has had the smallpox and the measles; is as hearty as ashore, as brisk as a bird, onrl will work liV to I tog for a jalL The wheat crop In Dickinson county will veTae forty bushels per acre according to ,1 cyv- The CrootvOIe creamery In Saline county rars out $100 a casa lo Jarmcrs for 5Ulk. A cotr path 1 Kansas very often leads wealth. A feasale base ball club fa teen organize Hope. It is not stated what arrangement have been made ia reference to tcnaji oahs.

from tbe Held. The farmers of Bourbon county living ia the vicinity ot Fort Scott will receive, sorroL Swenson estimatrs, in tLe neighborhood of $14,000 for their this year's soruuin crop. Ja the case of the state of Kausas vs. Mrs. OatSBg, charged with the murder of her husband at Oaage City, a verdict of acquittal was returned In about twenty minutes from the time of the i-ouclusiou of the arjui-wents.

Mulvatrc Ji-corJ: Elengated visages havn disappeared from this happy Valley. Thet very prospercK season and the immense cropf have shortened VP widened out the face the people, so Jhat a broad smile is ht-. most common ornameut now worn. Emporia Jicpnltlican There is a very larce-acreage of flax iu the county and the yield will be heavy. The farmers are required to ship their flax seed to eastern mills and theu the oil must be shipped back for use.

Would not be a proutable luvestmeut to oil mills In this cityi Winfield Courier: The oat crop In Kansas and especially in southern Kansas, Is something phenomenal aud ruasoJouic thU year-It will be in stack In about two SucA crop was never known to the oldest eetUera-Tbere are fields near the city n) aud 12J acres uniform wouerf ul head aud height. Council Grove Weeds are tak ing a rapid growth 6ince the rains, and now is the time to commeuce their laughter. It some oue would make a buaiuess of mowing weeds with machine and scythe, charaiisg a fair price for such work, they would aecnie several weeks' profitable employment. Emporia JkpublUan: The canning factory was runniug at full blast yesterday when at reiwter visited the factory. Fully 1C0 hand are employed and 4,000 cans of peas were rut.

up yesterday. The lorenian says that they have capacity for putting 15,000 cans daily. About the last of this week beans will be in aud a more rapid rate will be made. Lawrence dispatch, June 2S: Ten days ago the Iter. Mr.

Biulaker, aged 57, a Duukard preacher livimr near Ceutropolts, came to this city and put up his team at a stable, expecting to go home the next day, but since that time he has not been scc- His wife was in the city taday inquiring fo him. She ereauy lears luat Le lias itceu kilita, as he had quite a sum of mouev with nun. last eeeu he wore a tuit of grey jcaus. IVbeta Hei nearly fcixicet lu height. McPuersbn trceuKiit: The wheat harvea in this county this year, while iu area it falld about 12,000 acres below last year's crop will mane a greater yieia in ousucis.

me acreage this year is aud the yield will perhaps reach three quarters million of bushels. Tbe corn aud oats acreaue we hive not beea able to obtain, but an estimate based on the amount of land uudcr luliivaliou In the county, the corn wiil reavh ovrr one hundred and the oats over sixty thousand acres. Osborne County lamwr: Cultivating corn Is tbe avocation of the farmers now. It is very dry but corn is not suffering a great dcaL Ibe latent moisture hi the ground seems to keep the corn crowing nicely. We have not been so fortunate about getting rains as our negbbors iu close proximity.

Whilcgood rains have trotie on every side of us, we only get little sprinkles, but "we hope our time will come soon. It is threatening rain at preseut, and doubtless lu a day or two we will get a regular goose-drowucr. Lamed ujk-Optic: Mr. D. II.

Scott reports that he has a field of oats that will produce thirty-five or forty bushels to the acre. Dr. Arnold also states that his corn is In excellent condition, aud promises a good yield. T. G.

Payne has oats that stand lour feet bieh. Dr. Arnold fcava that duriuir a residence of twelve years in this county be has never seen he crops in a better condition at this time of the your than tin are now. He says that while the oats and wheat will be short iu some localities other liclUs will yield good crops. Wichita JXkjIx Reference waa made a few days since by the to the excellent condition of crors in several counties of the lower Arkansas valley, especially of oats, wheat and potatoes.

Tbe oat acreage exceeds by far that of any rear since the settlement of the country, while its condition and promise have seldom teen equalled. Mr. Frank Wilson brings to our Ulh-e from the farm of I. N. Freeman, five miles east of Alulvane, a bunch of oats from a large field which statids plump five lewt high, with heads from teu to fifteen inches iu length, and the grain very plump, large and heavy.

The oats are fully matured, and wbl be ready for the reaper within ten days. Minneapolis dispatch, Jun 23: At 2 o'clock this mornintr a party of fort or fifty masked men from Fountain tow Benin, this county, neighbors of Mike Dor sey.who was murdered in his bed a few days azo ly Chubh McCarthy, came into the city and with sledee hammers and a bar of railroad iron bpoke down the jail doors to get at McCarthy. The outside and one inside door were broken open and thru, finding greater reslstauce thau expected, they overpowered the jailer and after a lively light took away the keys. Not being able lo tud the key which opened the cell door the mob then funnelled the jailer to unlock the door and McCarthy was taken out and hanged to the Geteen bridge across the Solomon nver, about three miles from town. But little noise was made by tbe mob, which was well organized and heavily armed.

The city marbail went toward the jail, but was stopped by the cuards and held up until tbe mob got awav with the prisoner. The t-herlff was eon lined tobisroow by armed guards and other citizens who were on tho streets were held as prisoners uutil the mob cot away. Tbe body of McCarthy was found hanging to ihe bridge tiuil-rs at 7 o'clock thia morning by the eberifl aud city marshal. Syracuse dispatch, Juno 27: Wallace Mitchell, the murderer, who was Lrt.ught Lack from Trinidad, Colorado, last niffht, charged with the murder of the boy Johnson, mad the wounding of his father, near here on Juue lakcu from the therifl late last night by a body of armed men, who led Llin to the spot where he committed the butchery and there hanged him. II Lad Lis preliminary trial before Justice Wapguer jesterday.

He plead guilty to the murder of Oscar Johnson and attempted murder of Ausrust Johnson. He repeated the story of Lis crime with tbe utmost sang frold, and as if it were an every day occurrence. At the conclusion of the testimony he was remanded to jad until the September term of court. The cold Hooded manner cf Lis telling cf the d-ed Lad an exciting effect ou the people, and everywhere on the streets knots of men re gathered with Lira as the theme cf conversation. It was easy to see thai a storm was brewing and that Euxniuarv justice was likely to be on the guilty man.

After dark matters came more to a focu, aud about midnlcht a body of men, numbering a hundred or more gathered around tbe water tank and under the lead of a captain, proceeded to the vicinity of the jail and demanded admittance of the sherifL TLIs Le refused aud declared Lis intention to protect Lis i at all hazards. The citizens neemed loth to make any asstult on tLe sheriff, lut weie cone the Its determined to Lave their man. Two men were azaln sent to demand the Leys, but the sheriff was gone. A part cf the assailants started in hot wLlie others went for railroad ircn to Latter In tbe doors. The Sher ff.

however, was soon overhauled, but another delay occurred, as Le bad thrown the keys away. After a short tesreh they were fonnd, the doors unlocked and the culprit broceht out. He was taken dlrectlv to the place where the murder committed snd given all tLe time he desired for prayer snd confession. He entirely exonerated Oscar Johnson from complicity in the murder, and ld tie SLeriff of Las" Animas county, Cal, helped Lim to make up the tcrr. He then made bU latt i raver, and at about the Lour Le ki.Vd tie try 1 :3 a.

m. Le bung a Isfelrss conj irem the trrras piece oi a poi-. Tflfi-'tt Cf 11.6 tic ijttj. Matt Taser of Hannibal, Ma, while sitting a window to pass away the time.rolled out the window.falling 60 feet to the pavement below. He was picked up almost a shapeless mass bnt still alive, and did not die until 11 o'clock.

The body was shipped to Athens, the home of his parents, for burial. At Breckenridge, Ma, Nicholas Evins, the 19-year-old son of Wesley Evins, farmer living fire miles northwest of here, was found near tbe track of the Hannibal and St Joseph railroad, near Nettleton, a station five miles west of this place, with the bead crushed, the body maehed and both legs broken. He had left home some weeks ago to avoid a whipping, and had been working near the place ol his death. He was in the habit of jumping off and on moving trains, and it Is su-o posed that by accident be was killed by a trail passing the station. Sparks from a locomotive caused the burn ing of F.

M. Slu'z ice house at Cameron, Mo; Loss $2,500. The temperature at Hastings, Monday reached OS in the Bhade but a heavy rain began in the evening. Sunday night Walter Thomas, a Texan, stole a horse east of Lebanon, Ma Monday morning he was arrested while riding the horse. A dispatch from Gibraltar says: A fog of unprecedented denseness prevails here.

Three British steamers, the Glendovers, the Lionel and the Earl of Dumfries, have gone ashore 6ince it 6et iu and another steamer. the Resolution, has arrived here with bows much damaged. The Berlin press asserts that it was the em' peror's will that England sho uld not be men tioned in the speech from the throne, and adds: "Something more will be heard of En clish interferances with German affairs Al though the question regarding Dr. Macken zie's action is allowed to 6lide, the adoption of a 6iniucr course will not be followed regarding the docunievts left by Emperor Frederick, and now in England relatjg to the negotiations with Frederick while at Sam Keo to consent to a regency under his son, the present emperor. Dr.

Mackenzie, In a letter Dr. Krause, denies that he had said that a regency would have been probable if he had admitted that Emperor Frederick was afflicted with caucer. Owing to the high prices asked in Havana by 6ugar dealers only a small business was dofu; during the past week, the sales being confined to small lots, with the exception of 20,09 bags at Cardenas. The market closed quiet and steady. News has been received from Aspen Junction, that Charles Whitehead shot Minnie XI ill and then blew out his own brains.

Miss Hill died instantly. The cause of the tragedy has not yet heen learned. Patrick Coffee, of New York, a worthless dru.nkard, shot Miss Agnes Smith iu Jersey City and then turned his pistol upon himself. Both will die. Coffee, who has a wife and grown up children, was infatuated with Miss Smith.

Third class Immigrant rates west of the Missouri river have leen abolished by the transcontinental railroads. This makes the rate from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast points $35, instead of $30 as heretofore. The marriage of the Duke of Marlborough In Now York caused considerable talk in London, and immediately raised the question whether his grace aud his new wife would be received at court. The question waa speedily decided, however, by the unofficial, though none the less authoritative, announcement that the qaeeu would not receive them, divorced persons of whatever rank being tabooed by ner majesty. TLe London Dxily Xcws correspondent says that Prince Bismarck iu conversation with several members of the bundesrath asserted his conviction that the peace of Europe would not be disturbed unless tbe other powers provoked war.

He had no fear that Russia would do so, he beiuf; convinced that tbe former differences with Russia were settled. So positive was he of Ibis that he wished that he could have the anie confidence iu the pacific intentions of France, where tbe unexpected was liable to happen at auy time. The Berlin Kt-euz Zeitung asserts that Prince Bismarck has Induced Russia to abandon the Idea of an aHbince with France. All of the Paris journals are ot the opinion that the personnel of the new budget committee of the chamber of deputies means a grave check to the government. Some oi them predict that if ihe opportunists, with the support of the right, resume their hostile tactics, a crisis win John Smith, au old resident of Grove Springs, Wright county, Ma, went to a lot tc turn out a large bull, when the animal attack ed him and gored him iu the right groin and broke several bones.

William Ware and William Jeffries were arrested for stealing IS head of cattle from James Brown of Maysville, Ma Wendell Whitcomb, while 6booting ats in his barn at Marley, fired a charge at of them, but the missile went wide of the mark toward the uorcb of hia house where h.is two young daughter were sitting and struck both, killing one ir Btantly and fatally wounding the other. The father is almost prostrated with grieL JeiT Earp of Carrollton, Ma, a well known Echoal teacher, and a young man named Heath- had Lad a shooting scrape in which both parties were badly wounded. The only particulars obtainable were that Earn was shot in tjie ueck aud back and that Heath was expected to die. Natural gas has been struck near Nebraska City, and the people are much excited. Tbe large water main between Georgetown and Washington broke and the fashionable section cf the capital is now without water.

If tbe weather clears it is proposed to re move General Sheridan from his Washington home to the steamer Swatara. The internal revenue collections of the past eleven montlLS were over 5,000,000 larger than lor tne same lime last year. Micheal Highland fell into a well on which he was working; at Yinita, and died in a few hours. J. W.

Tousler, a rel estate dealer of Mia nea polls. has failed with 00,000 assests and $60,000 liabilities. Zacher, the Wisconsin faster Is keeping up his intention of beating the world's record. He has now been forty -one days without food. He remains in bed most of the time sleeping quietly.

He i3 ouite thin and looks like a man who has passed through a severe spell of sickness but is convalescing. The family state that he still preslsts in refusing all food offered him. He spends his mornings in bed, aud on pleasant afternoons wraps himself in a blanket and goes out in the yard and sits under a tree. He will not take anything, not even his medicine, from anyone but hia physician. A gentlemen arriving at Chicago In speaking of the said that corn In eastern Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Ulin-ois could cot look better.

In western Kansas where they bad a failure last year, the outlook was superb. The roals were muddy In Colorado, and good corn was to be seen in the eastern part of the state, I grown without Irrigation. The wheat crop was much Improved and the grass crop something wonderful Even the high hills between Kansas and the Rocky mountains were green with trrass. He lelieved there would be the old yield of bushels of corn this year. The official canvass of tbe vote of the state of Oregon on the congressional election resulted as follows: Hermann, republican, John M.

Geary, democrat, 25.413; Gea M. Miller, prohibitionist, Hermann's plurality, 7,437. The Spanish cortes has rejected, 134 to 46; proposals to Increase the duties oa agricultural produce and cattle. The brothers of James A. Ahem, a Chicago merchant who died suddenly March 28, have begun an investigation, alleging that he was poisoned.

Mrs. George Marshall of Council Bluffs, committed suicide by shooting herself because imagined she wai wits (CCf i ail to at La of it a I soon after went with a party of men to the house of Phil Colbert, an old full-blood and friend of Crowder, All were drinking and got into a difficulty, when Colbert was arrested and beat over the head with and clubs, irom the effects of which li9 I tm hours sTa irrestf mklh.