Bucklin Herald from Bucklin, Kansas • 1

W. F. PETILLON. Proprietor: BtfCKLltf, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1888. VOL.

I. NO. 22, DEAD. BELATED BLIZZARDS. QHIFF JUSTICE WAITE KANSAS.

STATE NEWS. the burungton's trouble CURRENT COMMENT. HEWS 01 THE WEEK. 41e Switchmen Aid the Cause of the tn-iieera nl Firemen by Striking. March 04.

At exactly twelve Winter Spreading Himself Over tH Lap of Spring in tb.e Usual Fashion. Gleaned by Telegraph aml Mall A great many drawing iooms in Washington are now more or less adorned with large-sized photographs of Joseph Chamberlain. Unexpected Deatii the 6hletU of the Supremo Court of tli lJSle St His Judicial Career. Washington, March 23. Chief Jus', el Waite died at 6:10 o'clock this morning.

the Chief Justice dined on Saturday evening with Senator Hearst, and on his return home he became so ill that his fami Republican Convention; in the call for a Republican delegate convention to be held at Wichita, May 9, to elect four delegates and four alternates to the Republican National Convention and the election two Presidential Electors, and the Btat convention to be held at To- o'clock List irgjt a strike was inaugurated 1 among the switchmen employed bj' the i Chicago, Burlington Quincy Whispers SI suoh a move had been heard ever since the beginning hi the" strike of the Burlington engineers and fireiUdOf lwui Heavy Sleet Fall. of Snow fa Minnesota-Storms and Heavy" Jiaiua Elsewhere. MISCELLANEOUS. W. H.

Schmidt's large sash and door ao-( tory In Milwaufced was destroyed by Me the other flight. Loss, $75,000: John C. Eso, the defaulter; who has been in Canada for some years, has made a settlement, it is stated, and Will return to New York; Th2 New York Yacht Club has decided on a club regatta next fall, in which, foreign yachts may compete if there is no international contest. Colonel L. B.

Faulkner and Leoaard Kul.n, director and cashier respectively of the defunct First National Bank of Danville, N. Y.j have been arrested. A local branch of the National League in Dublin has passed a resolution condemning Mayor Hewitt, of New York, Or refusing to "allow the trish nac to be hoisted 25. to nominate mate omcers, uij SJlJ I nnor datra thfl rumors ii trtj. 'nntra i -f ytt i Tn tr.r.f vv i rn- nub uiilil who wao TnoA tha ftwio- i iwsutrisstitaBiMe shane.

Verification of the Mil II ILL ati A 1 congressional; Is the Senate on the Idlh among the bills reported and placed (m the calbhuar" was that providing iof an arbitration board to settle the boundary dispute with Texas. Among the bills passed were: To settle End adjust the claim of any State for expenses incurred in defense of tho country during the -war; appropriating to erect a monument In Washington to negro soldiers, and two pensioning volunteer female nurses during the 'war at $25 ner month. Mr. Tellor introduced a bill The late Josiah li. Plumb, President of the Canadian Senate, was for many years previous to 1861, a resident of Albany.

N. Y. Dr. Mary Walker has been attempting to obtain an increase of pension from Congress. She now draws $8.50 a month from the ly physician.

Dr. Winslaw, wa seni ior. He was eonflnea to his bed on Sunday and on Monday ho insisted upon going to the Supreme Court to be present when the decision in the telephone suits were rendered. The weather was m'dd and the doctor yielded tc Ms request, ever precaution buing taken td pf emt any ill enacts from t.ha iouruev. apportionment of delegates: portance at first attached to tne matter had Counties.

Delegates. Delegates. Landslides and Washouts Serious Floods in Germany Fifteen Soldiers Drowned Counties. 4 LiBn.i and Much Suffering. UJOgaa The telephone decision had been" 1fJtta Lyon Marion Barton.

'i bv the Chief Justice, nut ne was too Mar McPherson dwindled almost to notning. ineinacuv ity at the headquarters of the engineers and firemen all day and evening was so no-toeeabla as to cause the remark that it was studied, but ri3 outsider, it is safe to say, suspected the surprise that was in store. Ciwiug to the unexpectedness c'f thf? event, the exact details of the siluatioii were difficult to obtain. The general impression i3 that the strike wa's general over tbe entire Burlington systStn and. wOuld include tho brakemen.

A basis for this? dver the City Hail on St. Patrick's day, Brown read it from the bench, and that duty was therefore performed by Justice Blatch-foid. pediSl cafe was taken that no evi Meade Miami Mitchell Butler. i Chase Chautauqua 4 flherokee 5 Montgomery 7 Morris. 4 Morton 1 for the admission of Wyoming Territory In the House Anderson, of Iowa, introduced resolution for a committee to investigate the railroad strikes.

The preamble recites at great length the Burlington etlk6 and provides for a committee te inquire into the whole matter. Bin wt-re introduced. After committees re-porte the bill authorizing the issue of fractional silver certificates was under suspension of the rules passed. Ad ioumed. Am(1s the bills luvorably reported in tha "Senate on the 20th was one authorizing the purchase of Government bonds with the surplus in the treasury.

Senator Blair's bill giving preference for civil service appointments(among men who had been disloyal during the war) to 1 filark Senator Hawley was recently Recused of owning a ten thousand dollar violin. It was explained that Royal IX llawley, and not Joseph was the guilty man. A NEW Russian law decrees that any one circulating literary or seientiiio works without the sanction of Ihe Press Censor will bo liable to a year's 6 Neosho sUDOOsition lay in the fact that emissaries Olav 6 Ness 2 nioud- dence of the1 Chiefl Justice's illness nouid appear, and none of thd tnroiig ihat beard the decision read suspected the real reason whyitwfer announced by Justice Blatch ford. As soon as possible ttfte the reading. Justice Waite left the bench and Was hsr-edly driven home.

It is admitted that the" trip to ths eaoitol was far from prudent for one in Justice Wattes condition, but it la Coflev. 4 St. Pi-Ci, March 20. Coming as it did, just when people were looking tor signs of spring, the severe snow and wind storm which raged all yesterday in Northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dahota, seemed specially unpleasant. It approached from a southwesterly direction, being driven along at a thirty-mile gait.

The snow, which is very heavy and pack'ed elosely, has fallen to a depth of from threrf to firs inches. In St. Paul it began falling at ten o'clock yesterday morning and continued until dark. Street car travel wasi abandoned, and pedestrians experienced! great difficulty in mak ig their way about fclrsets. The temperature remained comparatively mild.

Trains on most of the and declaring that such a refusal was an insult to the Irish race throughout the world; It was thought that the victims by tha recent theater fire at Oportd numbered at least one hundred and twenty. It was believed that some English and American visitors perished in the disaster. General Manager McLean, of the Philadelphia Reading road, has ordered all heads of departments to give" recommendations to striking ex-employes who are not guilty of any misdeed Si AiJvicES from Rangoon say ihat the1 town of Myinsyan, an important military post in UDDer Burmah, has been destroyed by fire. Comanche rorri ChiRgo and elsewhere are known to have been at wfirk nmaugthe switchmen and brakemen along the ehtii of roud for some time past and considerable active Norton a Osage 8 Osborne 5 Ottawa 5 dowlev 8 Pawnee 3 Phillips 4 6 sympathy had been shown by these two classes of employes with the engineers Davis Decatur 2 picUinson: 0 JJoniphaiii 6 Douglas. 7 2 and firemen, and in addition a plea of seli- Pratt 8 Rawlins 9 pfoteCtiort bad frequently oeen entered.

asserted that no serious consequences can be ascribed to it. The Chief Justlsa waa determined to go and the doctors had td yield. He went back to bed and since then nd hnn a very sick man. Reno 5. Republic 6 Elk 4 Ellis 2 The plea was thai tne swiicmneu uim brakemen were in constant ef life aiid limb from" the alleged incompetency of Kice "Ellsworth.

Riley 4 Rooks 3 Thousands of persons were left without homes, and an immense quantity of grain, Finnev 5 the engineers and firemen who had takeu Ford 3 Franklin 5 those who had served in the Confederate army and who were Buffering from wounds or disabilities brought out a lengthy discussion in which Senator Daniel, bt Virginia, made a brilliant speech-, disclaiming that ex-Confederates asked for such a measure. The bill wnt over In the House Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, introduced a bill to protect free labor from convict labor. He also reported from the Labor Committee the bill to establish a department of labor; also to prevent the employ ment of convict or alien labor on public works. After a long squabble Mr.

O'NeiU's res olution setting apart cei tain dys for labor bills was adopted. Pending consideration of labor bills tho House adiourned. the places or the Burlington members oi the Brotherhood. TltE English steel trade is said to bo undergoing a season of great depression, owing to a largo extent to the prevalent anxiety regarding prospective American competition. There are onlv four men now living who have personally received the thanks of the Congress of the United States.

They are Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Howard and Terry. hides and other property was destroyed. The five-story building occupied by John B. Babcock hat manufacturers, Bos Gariield 1 Rush 3 Russell 2 Saline 5 Scott 1 Sedgwick 9 Seward 1 At midnight the 150 switchmen em Grant 1 Gove 1 ployed in the local yards, or as many oi them as were on duty at the time, picked Graham. 2 1 1 Shawnee 11 Gray On Tuesday morning symptoms of acute bronchitis appeafed, accompanied by insomnia and great restlessness.

His condition Tuesday was hot alarming, twfc on Wednesday circumscribed pneumonia showed itseir. On Thursday night he was comfortable, and no particular- alarm was felt, but at six o'clock this morning fMnre of the heart's action was observed. Deatil ensued in a few minutes. His daughter, Miss Marie F. Waite, and his son, Mr.

C. Waite, vice-president of ths Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton rail up their lanterns and walked away from 1 Sherman 1 the tracks: There was no noise auu no etfnfnKifin: Their attiefed in little groups Greenwood: 5 Greeley. 1 Hamilton 4 Harper 4 Harvey 4 Haskell 1 railroads centering nere are irom uu seventeen hours late, while traffic on the Hastings Dakota and the St. Paul Kansas City roads has been wholly abandoned. The storm appears to have been especially severe in Southern Minnesota.

In places the railroad tracks are covered from five to fifteen feet, and the country roads are well nigh impassable. FLOODS IN GERMANY. Berlin, Marsh 26. Low lying districts along the banks of ihe rivers Elbe and Vistula are inundated. Tke village of Dornitz is isolated in the midst of a great lake.

A number of soldiers from tho nearest garrison after arduous efforts succeeded in reaching there with a supply of food for the inhabitants, but fifteen of them were drowned in the attempt. Further at Smith 4 Stafford 3 Stanton 1 and were joined by their Comrades from ton, took fire the other night. The damage was heavyj As a resuit of the liquor prosecutions in Concord, N. every saloon was closed, the proprietors refusing absolutely to make any sales. A special freight train going south and a freight train going north collided a few miles south of Gravehurst, Ont, recently.

Five men were instantly killed and three seriously injured. The Ohio Society has arranged a banquet at Delmonico's, New York, April 7, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Is tho Senate on the 21st Mr. Blair's bill to give preference to disabled Confederate veterans in civil appointments was laid over until Tuesday. The Senate then proceeded with the calendar. Bills passed for the inspection of more distant parts of the yarets, aiseussiug the situation with more or less waf inth and making their way to the Twelfth street Hodgeman 2 Jackson 4 Stevens Sumner 9 Thomas 2 Trego 2 Jefferson 5 Urbaix Olivier, the Swiss novelist, "who recently died tit the ago of seventy-eight, conscientiously produced one book a year and at the same time cultivated a farm.

Ho was a very successful farmer. hall, Avhere the meeting at wnicn was Wabaunsee Jewell meats for transportation and prohibiting the road, were With him when ne aieo. wrs. Caroline B. Winslow and Frank A.

Gardner were in attendance. Mrs. Waite left Wallace Johnson liearneV 1 finally decided to strike wTas still in progress. Not a swtchman refused to obey Washington 7 importation of adulte -feted articles of rood; establishing a United States court in the In WlP.mta..; It i Kinsmail. 5 dian Territory; granting soldiers Who nave lost Kiowa Wilson u.i i.

Woodson 8 the order, but each wimngiy mrew up place and joined forces with the striking engineers and firemen. 6 Lane 1 Leavenworth 7 3 The effects of tne new strike were illus .418 settlement of the Ohio valley. Among the expected speakers are Messrs. Sherman, AllisOu, "Waite, Hayes, Cox, Manderson, Alger, General Sherman and General Sheridan. The Willimantic (Conn.) Savings Institution was renorted in difficulties on the trated at once upon two locomotives mat were out on the tracks switching cars in the vicinity Of Sixteenth and Canal streets, Washington for uamornia auuuu a wcc ago and is supposed now to be in Los Angeles.

Justice Waite's illness was due to trouble With hl3 liver and spleen, complicated with Ver painful stomach disorders. Justice Waite had a very serious fit of sickness just at the close of the administration of President Arthur. He was confined to his house" for several weeks with an attack of erysipelas, tfcat threatened at one time to rami terfrtifation. The serious Delegates to the conventions shall be elected by county conventions, duly called by the several county committees, under such rules and regulations as may be by The House Judiciary Committee has decided to report favorably the bill to punish dealers in pretended counterfeit money. This is intended to reach the "green goods" confidence operators.

The bill makes the punishment a heavy line or three years' hard labor in the penitentiary or both. the use of both hands $100 per month pension, and a great many other bills, many of a private nature The House, soon after assembling went into Committee of the Whole upon the bill referring to the Court of Claims for adjustment the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanics arising under the Eight-hour law. No final action was reached. The committee rose and a till passed to prevent the introduction of the product of convict labor into the departments or public buildings of the Government. The House then considered the bill to establish a department of labor untU adjourn them urescribed.

The county convention tempts to relieve numerous villages in a similar position are being made. The floods, it is estimated, cover 200 square miles of territory and alarming rumors of the extent of the damage done are in circulation. The Emperor is deeply concerned at the distress and damage caused by the floods in various parts of Germany and has ordered his Ministers to take all needful steps for the relief of sufferers from these inundations. A RAILROAD BLOCKED. KANSAS City, March 2tt.

The heavy rains of Friday night and Saturday havo both being compelled to cease operations. Tho switchmen after the strike were as mum as before, except to intimate that they had assurances that none of the many Knights of Labor among the new engineers and firemen on the Burlington would work With non-union switchmen. to be held not later than May 5. 18S8. The basis of anoortionment of delegates to said character of his illness at tha time was D-fitifirallv known until after the Crist State conventions will be one delegate and on alternate to each four hundred votes 23d, the treasurer being accused of misappropriations.

Tha deposits aggregated 1900,000. Two passenger trains on the Pittsburgh Lake Erie collided near Wampum, on the 23d. The baggagemdster was killed and four other trainmen injured. Four passengers were also hurt. Business failures (Dun's report) for the cast for Timothy McCarthy for Auditor of A FINANCIAL CLIMAX.

State, November, 1S83, or fraction oi two hundred or more votes. One delegate and one alternate each will he allowed to all Edison proposes to present the first half-dozen perfected phonographs to the crowned heads of Europe. He will make the presentation address here in America and when the instruments are delivered their roj'al recipients will have the pleasure of hearing the words of Mr. Edison through his wonderful machine. unorganized counties and counties organ had been passed, and it was not until ho was well enough to be up and about Ina house and on the street that newspaper paragraphs appeared reporting him to be in The ustiee was a hale man to look at, but he had a sttokef of paralysis some years ago, and bis friends had been solicitous about him on that account, feeling a recurrence of the old symptoms.

After hi recovery from this illness, he traveled and ized since November 2, 1SS6. A Connecticut Town Disturbed by tho Tricks of a Barik Officer Willimantic, March 24. A financial climax that has for a long time been pending was reached yesterday in the af fairs of the Willimantic Savings Institution, when a shortage or misappropriation of the bank's funds to the amount of seven days ended March 22 numbered for the United States, 212; Canada, 31; total, 343, compared with 238 the previous week and 259 the corresponding week of last year. ment. In the Senate on the 22nd the conference report on the Urgency Deficiency bill was presented and agreed to.

Senator Saulsbury addressed the Senate on the subject of the President's message. Bills on the calendar were then considered, and thirty-one bills passed, a number being bridge bills. Senator Sawyer, from the Post-office CDmmittee, reported a bill reducing the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, to one cent per four ouices. Passed After an executive session the Senate adjourned In the House among tho bills passed was one extending the protection of the laws to United Stales officials executing processes in the Indian Territory and authorizing the arrest of offenders in the Indian Territory by United States Miscellaneous. A call has been issued at the suggestion vf Walter N.

Allen, president of the proved a regular Waterloo ior tne mn-Kouri Pacific on the line between this city and Leavenworth. There have been no trains over that part of the road since Saturday afternoon, and the prospects are that the line will not be cleared before some time this afternoon. The bank for long distance north of Quindaro has gong into the river, making it the most extensive slide ibis road has experienced for several years. The roadbed rests on soap-stone, and the force of the slide has shoved the track several feet out of line, besides completely covering it up. Trains in consequence have been much delayed.

Several of the ofher lines were troubled with TOahnna. hut thev did not delay trains to Estimates made at the Treasury De sought recreation by prolonged ausieunuu from the duties of the Supreme Court, 000 was announced, owing, it is said, to a series of transactions by Treasvirer H. F. Royce without the knowledge Or consent of partment indicate that the present rate of expense collecting the revenue from The President is preparing an oroer cios It is alleged tnat tne trans' It is alleged tnai tne the directors. trarib- executiVe departments of the Gov actions of Cashier Royce are tantamount nth0 dy of judge Waite'.

ernment on the day The bricklayers and masons employed an Fall River, have asked for a reduction of hours from ten to nine and for 33 cents per hour after May 1. In the case of James W. Sikes, the ex-warehouse man of Chicago, recently convicted of issuing fraudulent warehouse receipts, the motion for a new trial was refused, and he was sentenced to three years in the State penitentiary. The switchmen on the Burlington system customs can not be maintained up to the close of the present fiscal year, un tn ripfalratinn. When tne present uoaru marshals.

After reports of committees tne House adjourned. Meriden Farmers' Club, to the farmers and stock growers of the Northwestern States and Territories of the Mississippi valley to attend a delegate convention to be held in Topeka, Tuesday, May 1, for the purpose of forming a "Farmers' Trust," to include stock raises and feeders or the Northwestern States and Territories. The Governors of each State and Territory included in the call is requested to appoint eight delegates to such convention. A convention of the dairymen of the tier the available balance of the general appropriation, without creating a deficiency of Secretary Fairehild has therefore determined upon a reduction of expenses to that amount during the remainder of the fiscal year, being $100,000 a month. The reduction has been apportioned among the different customs collection districts.

funeral. The Supreme Court and both houses oi Congress have adjourned as a mark of respect to the dedeased Chief Justice. BIOGRAPlfiCAli. Chief Justice Waite was born in in 1816. In this State his youth was passed.

His education was completed at Yale CoUege, from which institution he graduated in 1837. His Inclinations were for the legal profession. After studying law In his native State he moved to Maumee City, where he actively entered Into the business of his profession. He manifested any taste for party politics, struck at midnight on the 23d and the road was again tied up. The reason alleged was that their lives were placed in jeopardy by the inexperienced engineers employed by the company.

The switchmen in the Erie railroad yards State was recently held at Topeka and was largely attended. Officers for the ensuing were elected, as follows: J. G. Otis, president; J. K.

Wright, first vice-president; A. Morrow, second vice-president; R. T. While the clerk was reading the journal in the Senate on the 2 Id Mr. Edmunds rose and moved that further proceedings be dispensed with.

It was so ordered and the presiding officer laid before the Senate the official announcement of the death of Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme Court. Mr. Edmunds spoke briefly in eulogy of the deceased and the Senate adjourned until Monday. Senators Sherman, Hoar, Wilson, (Iowa). Pugh and Morgan were appointed a committee to represent the Senate at the funeral When the House met the announcement of the death of the Chief Justice was made.

Appropriate resolutions were adopted and the House adjourned. The Speaker appointed the following committee to represent the House at the funeral: Kelley Seney Gros-venor Breckinridge Stewart of directors were chosen in June, 1SS6, they soon found that Treasuror Royce was floating about 1152,000 of accommodation paper for New York parties whose names are not now given and in October, 1886, they passed a vote directing that this paper as fast as it matured should be taken in. In this way the amount was reduced to about 592,000. The directors also discovered a system of floating checks between illimantic and New York, amounting anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000 per month, all of which was done by Treasurer Royce without the consent of "the directors. Measures were at once taken to stop this.

A year ago the bank received an application for a $70,000 loan on real estate of the United States Stamping Company, of Portland, Conn. The directors found the loan would not be safe for over 35, 000, and none was any considerable extent. On account of the bad condition of the track and heavy storms in Illinois the Burlington has issued notice that it will abandon the "EU" for a few' days. FALL- A BLCFF. Kansas City, March twelve and one o'clock Sunday morning a large section of the hillside on the bluff between Eighth and Ninth street, just north of the Eighth street tunnel, broke loose as a result of the long continued rams, and slid down Freight street, partially obstructing the street.

The temporary wooden structure used as an enginehousa during the work on the tunnel was situated directly in the path of the slide, and was literally swept off the face of the earth. Had the slide been one hundred feet south, it must have occasioned a large loss of life. Stokes, secretary Horace J. Newberry, assistant secretary; William Sims, treasurer. The committee on resolutions, in its report, denounced the frauds perpetrated upon Kansas by the professional creamery but never shrank from fulfilling his duty as a citizen.

In 1849 he Was elected to the Ohio Legislature in which body his good eense was manifested on all measures of public policy. In 1850 he removed to Toledo, which city A strange upheaval occurred on the farm of Mr. Eoff, on Duck river, Coffee County, a few days ago. A rumbling noise was heard by the members of Mr. EoiTs household.

There in Hornellsville, N.Y., went out on a strike recently. The grievances were low wages and an objectionable yard-master. The Secretary of the Treasury has dis missed Superintendent Speer, of the sugar division of the New York custom house, and five of his assistants. The superintendent of polari9copic tests of sugar at tha Boston custom house has been ordered to temporarily assume similar duties in New York. Carleton Cannon (ill.) Anderson (iowa; made his home untU he movea to nssmuswu City in 1874.

He was devoted to the law, and while at Toledo he declined repeated nominations to Coneress. He also refused to accept an tmnt. tn the SuDreme bench of his State. Russell (Conn.) sharks, declaring tnat a piani wiua capacity of from fifty to 100 pounds of butter per day could be built at a cost of $3,000, and urging Congress and the State Legislature to pass laws protecting the legitimate dairy interest, and punishing all fraudulent or spurious articles sold as dairy products. The celebrated Hiliman case that has been draereiner through the courts for the FKRSONAT.

AND POIITIOAI. Desis Keaunet bad an interview with the On the next examination it was found that the 170,000 loan ha been made on a President on the 21st, and denounced tne In 18T1 he was one of the counsel of the United States before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva. In this instance he distinguished himself by his solid judgment and his comprehensive views of international affairs. When the constitutional convention of Ohio in 1873 pending Chinese treaty. He said that under the clause permitting Chinamen worth $1,000 to return, in case they left the coun past eight or nine years was recently were thoughts oi an eartuquaKe, ami many were badly scared.

After the noise subsided Mr. Eoff found, a few hundred feet from the house, a strange cause for the unusual disturbance and noise. He found for a measured distance of forty-eight feet that huge chunks of rocks, weighing ten tons, had been shattered in mauy instances, and in other instances had been split in twain. The work was done by no human hands, and there was nothing to indicate that it was other than an upheaval and explosion of unknown elements underground. Judge Waite was chosen to presiue uvci try each $1,000 would oe maae io uo iui There was perhaps no lawyer in tue oiaws uw ter fitted for the position.

as It would have taken in several cottages occupied by colored families, and even yet there is danger of these houses being swept away, a large crack in the hillside giving warning that another is likeiy to occur an any moment. A WASHO0T. Boonviixe, March 16. The high water caused by the recent heavy rains washed away four of the pillars or props under the big wooden bridge across the Pette Saline creek, on the Missouri Pacific incoming Chinamen. Ihe rresiaent said he thought the treaty could at least be tried for a while.

In 1874 President Grant appointed ninn.mei Justice of the United States. This position ne has fiUed with honor to himself and to his It is stated that General Boulanger, irri (MDITIONAL OISPATCHKS. The Senate, was not in session on the 24th. The House was in Committee of the Whole on the bdl to define and regulate the jurisdiction of United States Courts. Cleabing house returns for week ended March 24 showed an average increase of 5.9 compared with the corresponding week of last year.

In New York the increase was 7.4 The remains of the Venezuelan patriot. General Paez, were shipped recently on a United States vessel at New York for Venezuela. Minister Phelps will leave London for America shortly for a two months' vacation. A party of immigrants from Arkansas were camped on the bank of Arkansas river below Fort Gibson, I. recently, when three of them, James and Samuel Doyle mortgage of that company's property, but uo record of the mortgage could be found, and it was subsequently found that tha whole property was covered by prior mortgages.

Efforts to collect this loan have been unsuccessful, but it is expected something will be realized. Yesterday the directors suspended Treasurer Royce and voted to scale the deposits fifteen per ceut. Frank F. Webb, assistant treasurer, was chosen to succeed Royce. The bank commissioners pronounced the institution sound after the fifteen per cent, scale.

It is said that criminal proceedings will be instituted against Royce at once, but he has not been arrested. country. His rulings have heen in tne mam tated at being placed on the retired list, will commence an active political campaign wise and entirely tree irom parij uiaa. against the French Government. again tried in the united oiaie viruuiu Court at Topeka, before Judge Shiras, of Iowa, and the jury brought in a verdict in 1 favor of the widow of Hiliman against the three defendant insurance companies of 37,650.

Hiliman, whose widow resides at Lawrence, had life policies amounting to $25,000, and was accidentally killed in Southern Kansas in 1879. His body was taken to Lawrence and identified by Mrs. Hiliman as that of her husband, but one John H. Brown, who was witb Hiliman, made a statement that the body was that of another man that Hiliman had murdered It is reported irom nttsDurgu iiiai at appointment was fortunate in that it piacea a solid and conservative lawyer at the head of the court of highest resort in the country. the Labor conventions in Cincinnati, May The dead Chief Justice ruu name was ur- Fkof.

Elisha Gray, of Chicago, rison Kemich Waite. He was the son or Henry 11, efforts will be made to unite the diner ent Labor parties, the Greenbackers and the Grangers. who claims to havo invented the first speaking telephone, was not a party to The delegates elected at Des jMoines, Matson Waite, who was duel justice oi tno Supreme Court ol Connecticut. The coat of arms used by the Waite famUy in both Europe and America was granted in 15W. branch railroad, at Billingsviue, a iew miles south of this city yesterday, rendering it unsafe.

The evening train was forced to stop there and transfer its mail and passengers, the latter not arriving until late at night. BLEET STORM IS NEBRASKA. Lincoln, March 24 The sleet storm of Saturday night and yesterday was particularly severe and extended to all parts of the State. Telegraph and tele INGENUITY. the suit which the Supreme Court of WESTERN Iowa, for the National Republican convention are in favor of the nomination ol Senator W.

B. Allison for President. and Albert Snedeker, rowed iuto the mid Granted Wpstorn Men Who Have Been In the time of Cromwell, xnomas wane wa a member of Parliament and one of the judges who signed the death warrant of Charles 1. the United States decided recently, and therefore his rights in the telephone litigation were not affected by Patents During tlie Past Week The inhabitants of Padas have revolted for the purpose, of defrauding the insurance companies, and then secreted himself. Brown subsequently testified that Hiliman was accidentally killed and that his previous statement was false.

The Democratic Congressional Committee of the Second district recently met and Washington, March 24. The following patents were issued last week to inventors Shortly after the Restoration tne iamiiy removed to this country. that decision. He has an interference against the British Borneo company, ana have murdered four policemen and burned the town of Batu. They also attempted to Chief Justice Waite married ms second in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri: Mis.

souri Cartridge-loader, Francis P. Dev- case against Prof. Bell now ponding destroy Mambakuk, but were prevented cousin, Amelia R. Waite. of Lyme, the great--ri rtaiicrhter of the distinguished Colonel l'fore the Commissioner of Patents ina rf TTansas Citv: interfering device for which he proposes to press vigorously horses.

Michael Haughey, of St. Louis; bv the interference oi tne Bntisn man-oi-war Rambler. The company recently acquired Padas, and the inhabitants have Selden, Of Kevoiuuonary iucluui j. beauty and a beUe, the leader in fashion and self-heating sad iron, Gustavus Heidel, of dle of the stream to fish. While so engaged the boat upset and the Doyles were drowned.

Ex Governor Hoffman, of New York, died of heart disease at Wiesbaden, Germany, recently. He was elected Governor of New York in lStiS and again in 1S70. The New York and New England express from Boston struck a carriage containing Margaret and Annie O'Reilly at tho crossing in Water ford, R. receutly destroying the vehicle and injuring the ladies so that both died within a few moments. The Central Theater and the Theater Comique, adjoining each other in Philadelphia, were destroyed by fire recently.

and to take to the Supreme Court if the Commissioner of Patents decides phone companies are demoralized auu railroads are running trains by faith rather than by orders. Trees are breaking. A Btrong wind would do them great damage. DAMAGE TO FRUIT. Trenton, March 28.

Heavy rain and sleet have been falling all day in this region. Trees are loaded down with a coating of ice, and thousands of dollars ol damage to fruit will be the result. society. St. Louis: fish trap, Elijah Jenkins, of since been discontented.

PREVIOUS urn. juoiivcra. The Chief Judges of the highest tribunal in TnE Massachusetts House has defeated nsrainst him. He said that his counsel Milford; piston, Amos M. Morrill, of Ra-vanna; upper and lower plate for fire bowls.

Albeit S. Newby, of Kansas City; called the Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress to meet at Wyandotte August 15. A collision took place at three o'clock the other morning between two freight trains on the Missouri Pacific between Leavenworth and Kansas City, in which a biakemon was badly injured and a number of cars destroyed. The new salt works at Hutchinson were opened on the 23d and ran out 600 barrels America have been: the biennial election resolution I'b yeas, John Jay, of New York, beptemoer, iev, had discovered fraud which would make a sensation ami which would 78 nays, not the required two-thirds. Noble, of St.

Louis: cable June. 1795. Democratic primaries were held at rtew John Kutledge, of South Carolina, juiy, doubtless secure a reversal of the Orleans on the 22d and passed off lever hook, Morton E. Pugh, of St. Joseph; vailwav arrading aud excavating machine, to December, 1795.

decision of the Supreme Court. He is Oliver Ellsworth, of Connecticut, Marcn, iao. except in the Tenth and Eleventh waras, where disturbances occurred. In the Tenth Morton E. Pugh, of St.

Joseph; guard for hacked by the Gray National Tele The steamship Iniziativa from Gibraltar to October, 1800. dwiWi noints. Peter R. Randall, of Agency, John Marshall, of Virginia, January, iwn, Cnrnnanv. an organization of of a very superior quality oi sail, ina au-alvsis showed 99.18 pure salt.

The first car ward a number of shots were Urea, out no one was hurt. Kansas Animal releasing device, Baker Rorton. of Clvde; automatic oiler, Alanson 1835. i Chicago capitalists. Coloxel Thomas McKissock, the well Roger B.

Taney, ol Maryland, iviarcn, 1000, vj B. Griswold and J. M. Bradbury, of Bunker Broke an Axle. Lewisbtjro, March 26.

The Missouri Pacific fast mail broke an axle of the locomotive, the drive wheel flying into a ditch some feet beyond. The engine re. maining on the track and not sliding off, prevented what would have caused a serious wreck. An engine was telegraphed for from Holden, for relief. The train left here eight hours late.

October, 1864. known railroad manager, died at bt. Louis on the Hill: listing plow or cultivator, osepn Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, December, ltm, to An important decision has been ren- was detained at quarantine, New York, on the 25th with a case of mall-pox in the steerage. The next day the disease attacked thirteen other steerage passengers.

Measles have broken out in a violent form among the United States recruits at Jefferson barracks, twelve miles below St. Louis. Seven deaths had occurred and the hospital was crowded with sufferers from was sold to the soap works at Wichita and the rest to Kansas City dealers. A woman giving her name as Minnie Wait committed suicide in a bedroom in the laundry department of the Arcade Hotel, at Newton, the other- day. She was about twenty years old and had gone there May, 1873.

doroil hv United States Commissioner Morrison K. Waite, Ol unio, anuary, ioi, The Moscow Gazette, in an article discussing the subject of imminent international combinations, again urges the necessity of Crum, of Stockdale; thill coupling, Thomas H. B. Millsap, of Harper; combined feed box and end gate, Howard Gamble, of Lan-aitio-r flexible pipe coupling, Patteu M. Smith, of Seattle, Washington Terri March, 1888.

The shortest term was that oi tne second in torv. in the case of the United States line, John Kutledge. He was sippoiniea oy Askren. of Circleville; automatic regulat against six sailors of the ship Fannie Tucker, charged with disobedience and ing device for wind mills, Charles F. President Washington during the recess oi tne Senate; he presided at tbe August term of the the disease.

Rev. J. W. Pratt, a noted Southern Presbyterian minister and ex-president of Batham, of New Chillicothe; nut-lock, John B. Crosslev.

of Clay Center; court, but was rejected Dy tne wnen is reassembled. disorder. Tho only authority for the punishment of these seamen was an act Struck a Snag. Greenville, March 26. Tho steamer Foster, en route from Vicksbur to Lake Providence, struck a snag near Filter's Landing and immediately sank.

She had considerable freight for. different ir Jnhn Mr. Arthur, of Wallace. Ne John Marshall, the Virginian, was cniei jus rf rvntrress of 1872. known as the braskaTwo wheeled vehicle, Frank W.

Rnwtifl. cf Lincoln table, Oliver F. Groves, tice for the longest period more than tmrty-four years. two weeks previous from Kansas Oity as a common laundry girl. At the coroner's examination letters, papers and pictures were found in her trunk which showed that the woman's proper name was Maud Saylor and that she was the wife of Charles Saylor, a prominent farmer of Harvey County, to whom she was married about a year ago, hut separated soon after.

Political skirmish lines are forming. Late post-office changes in Kansas: Es England joining Russia and France. The Ohio Legislature has increased the Dow liquor tax to 1250 straight. The Irish Times Bays: "The Government meditates introducing a bill in the House of Commons erasing arrears of rent, the measure to be antedated two years. Estates on which tie plan of campaign was adopted will be specially eiempted from tho benefit of the act.

Tenants will be subjected to simple bankruptcy for the legal moiety of their arrears. Other creditors will share equally with landlords." aw imrwM-ial decree has issued au Slipping Commissioner act, which de nf a thill counling. Thomas G. Ingra- points in the bend, which is a total loss. The longest time in which the omce was va fined the reciprocal duties of master Both ham.

of Central City; ditching and grading The porter and nreman are missing. cant was betweeji Marshall and Taney above cine months. Central University of Keutucy, died in Louisvilie recently. The Imperial Federation League held a meeting at Toronto, recently, which was addressed by promiuent politicians of both parties from all parts of the Dominion. Commercial union was denounced as another name for annexation.

Resolutions were passed favoring a closer union of the component parts of the Empire. The President, who was appointed arbi are supposed to havo been drowned. machine, David D. Kuhlman, of Oakland. and seamen.

In 1874 Congress passed nn amendatory law which prescribed Knit Acrainst Dr. Cox. that none of tho provisions of the act tablished. Baden. Douglass County; Guil gt t.ottto March 23.

Effle Ellis, the ford. Wilson County; Hatton, Hamilton of 1872, relating to Shipping Commis-miasioners, seamen and masters should who was deluged with Countv: Pierce Junction, Brown County; thorizing Crown Prince William to repre Funeral of the Chief Justice. Washington. March 25. A telegram has been received from Mrs.

Waite acquiescing in a suggestion that the funeral services of the late Chief Justice be held in the hall of the House of Representatives next day and that the body be privately in vitriol and disfigured by Dr. Cox, of Sorinzfield. arrived in this city yesterday nnnlv to vessels in the coast trator -of the disputes between iSicaragua and Costa has rendered a decision. The boundaries were divided as equitably mnmincr and went to the house of Thomas Ruweda, Greenwood County; York, Saline County. Names changed, Mount pleasant, Atchison County, to Potter; Sappaton, Rawlins County, to Chardon.

The county clerks of tho State held their Hav and refused to see any Day President Washington appointed Jay, Kutledge and Ellsworth President John Adams, Marshall; President Jackson, Taney; President Lincoln, Chase; President Grant, Waite. Chief Justice Taney inaugurated more Presidents than any other Chief Justice. He administered the oath of office to Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor. Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan and Lincoln. Marshall inaugurated five Presidents.

Waite administered the oath to Hayes, Garfield, Arthur and Cleveland. The law provides that in the case of the death or disability of the Chief Justice, the Senior Associate Justice shaU act as Chief-Justice until the disability is removed or until his ucoe6sor is duly appointed and qualified. The salary of the Chief Justice of the United St ates is $10,500 a year and that of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court $10,000. terred at Toledo the next day. stated that she had turned over her af- as the President could with the facts before him, concessions for canal purposes not to faiT- tn him.

and that she was now in con be valid unless by muiunl agreement. sult ation with Lawyer Thomas Cornelius -rcith a view to suing Cox for damages. Mrs. Waite left Los Angeles at ten o'clock last night to come East immediately. Dr.

Ruth leaves Washington today to meet her at Kansas City aud escort i her WToledo. Edward T. Waite, the second Business was restricted on the London annual meeting at Topeka on tne lsu Among other important matters discussed was the present "outrageous system of sent the Emperor in tne iransacwuu official business in the event of Emperor Frederick's inability. The Chief Justice of the United States, Hon. Morrison R.

Waite, died unexpectedly at Washington on the 23d. The Chief Justice had been ailing from a complication of diseases for a few days, but his collapse and its fatal ending occurred within a few minutes. Hewa born in Lynn, in 1SK5 and wa a descendent of Judge Waite, of England, who was one cf the signers of the death of King Charles wise trade. So far as coastwise vessels are concerned it was urged that the law of 4872 was piactically repealed, and that there was no law by which the acts complained of could be punished. The Commissioner decided this ground well taken and the sailors were discharged.

Accordiug to this decision no master has any protection from dis obedience, desertion or mutiny. Being asked how much the suit would be Stock Excuauge during the week ended March 24 and prices were weaker. The describins bounds of real estate as oiten m- io 000 or more he answered: xes, fnnnd in depds presented for record." Ex son, will remain in Toledo to meet his mother. and thre? times ten and more, a nave nut determined iust- yet how much it will be, com inental bourses were quiet and prices steady. Cambridge defeated Oxford in the Uui-verslty boat race at London ou the 24th.

amples were given calculated to puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer. but it will be a good round sum.".