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THE STAUNCH ADVOCATE OF TRUE JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY." Published Eyery Friday fly DEMOCRAT PRINTING CO. MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1888. VOL. I. NO.

7. Mrs. John Deere was bound over at La- THE WOULD AT LARGE. KANSAS STATE NEWS. SHOT BY OFFICERS.

TOOK TO WATER. GRANT'S MIRTH DAY. General Sherman and Others Celebrate It by a Banquet at Delraonico's. Summary of the. Dally News.

New York, April 2S. In commemoration CONGKJCSS. Ill the Senate on the 26th a resolution was adopted calling for copies of the reports of Special Agents Beecher and Tingle to the alleged smuggling of opium from BrVdsh Columbia. The motion to refer President's message was then taken 8nd Mr Voor. hees addressed the Sente at lenirth At the close of his address the conference report on the Joint lgon for a conference of tne American Nations was non-concurred in and a new con As soon as the House met, went lnto Commlttee of the Whole the Xarlfr buij and was addregged Dy Mess- Bynum, of Indiana, and Dockery, of in support of the measure.

A night session was held and the debate on the bill continued. At the conclusion of the mornlne hour In the Senate on the 26th Mr. Ingalls took the floor and gave notice that on Tuesday he would reply to some remarks of Senator Vorhees in his speech of the day before. The conference report on the Joint resolution to take part in the International exposition at Paris in 1889 was -agreed to. The Senate then resumed oonslder-ution of the Railroad Land Forfeiture bill, whioh was finally laid aside, and bills passed granting the right of way to ne Kansas City Pacifio railroad through the Indian Territory; appropriating 1100,000 additional to the public building at Wichita, and granting the Kansas Valley railroad the right of way through the Fort Riley reservation.

Adjourned until In the House the STRIKERS SHOT. Two Striking Burlington Engineers Shot by a Younif Swede. Gallbsburo, IIL, April 80. The oily thins tallied of here is the killing of Herbert B. Newell and the dangerous wounding of George Cable, both strikers, by Albert W.

Hedberg, one of the new Burling, ton firemen. The shooting occurred Saturday night, close to Hedberg's home. Hedberg is in the county jail, to guard which extra precautions have been takan. Large timbers brace the doors, and the guards are armed with Winchester rifles. While the strikers say they intend to let the law take its course, there is yet a deep undercurrent of feeling: that may produce violence.

Hedberg is twenty-two years of age and is related to a number of the leading Swedish families of Galesburg. He says he was on his way home, when he noticed Newell and Cable coming toward him. As they passed, Hed. berg says Newell caught him around the body with one arm and around the neck with the other, twisting his head to one side, while Cable struck him on the right temple. His left arm was bound fast, but his right was free, and with this he drew bis revolver and fired twice.

The first ball entered Newell's side, ranged up through the heart, and came out on the right side of the neck. Newell released his hold and fell dead in the gutter. The next shot was directed at Cable and struck him in the middle of the forehead, the ball passing around close to the skull and issuing from behind the right ear. The shooting happened beneath an electric 1 gbt, but there was only one eye witness, the wife of one ofthe new engineers, who partly corroborates Hedberg's story, but not altogether. There is considerable testimony against Hedberg to be developed.

It will be sworn that while in the pool room a short time before the shooting, be made a threat that he would shoot any man who followed him, whether a striker or not. It is alleged that Newell and Cable were on their way to Alderman Rickson's house to ask him to come to a caucus, and that they did not follow Hedberg. They were seen going toward Hedberg's house previous to the shooting. A FALLING FLOOR. Deputy Sheriff Kill a Man Who Refused to Throw Up His Hands.

Olathb, May 1. Deputy Sheriffs G. II. Campbell and F. H.

Homenback killed John P.Reardon at the Round Prairie school house, about thirteen miles north of this city, Sunday night at ten o'clock, while attempting his arrest. Reardon as a stranger, was dressed as a cowboy and was heavily armed and had been staying in the Bohool house of nights for about a week. The officers had a warrant for the arrest of a man named Rodgers, who was wanted for a felony, and it was supposed that Reardon was the man wanted, and Sunday night they went to the school house to effect his arrest. Several parties in the neighborhood had been notified and were at the school house with Reardon playing cards, so as to be there to assist the officers upon their arrival to make the arrest. Tae officers arrived about ten o'clock, when Deputy Sheriff Campbell ordered Reardon to hold up his hands.

Reardon was sitting down, and at first paid no attention to the officer's command except to make some remark showing a disposition nottocomply. Campbell had a revolver and Homenback a double barrel shotgun, and another man named Johnson a revolver, all of which were aimed at Reardon when the demand was made. Reardon's rifle was about twelve feet and his revolver and knife about thirty feet from him at the time he was ordered to surrender, and when the command to surrender was made the second or third time Reardon jumped up and caught hold of Homenback'sgun and attempted to knock down the hands of Campbell. At this Homenback fired his shotgun twice and Campbell his revolver once, all three shots taking effect, instantly killing Reardon. The coroner was notified and held an inquest on the body yesterday, the jury returning a verdict holding the shooting justifiable.

The man had a mare and colt and about $160 in money besides his arms. He told the parties in the neighborhood that he wanted to go to Umatilla, and tried to sell his mare so he could take the train. He was about thirty-three years old. Ha claimed to have bought the mare in Kansas City and was acquainted with Captain Tough, of Wyandotte, and some parties at the stockyards in Kansas City. Capital Removal.

The Capital Removal convention was held at Abilene on the 24th, according to announcement Dr. Hodge called the convention to order and Hon. Harrison Kelley was chosen as chairman. Resolutions were adopted, the preamble to which recited that when the State was admitted the sixth principal meridian was supposed to be and would continue the western boundary; that the boundary has since been moved westward to Colorado; that this portion of the State now contains a population four times greater than the State contained when Topeka was made the capital; and believing that the people who located public institutions twenty-five years ago and shaped the institutions of the State, had but an imperfect knowledge of the possibilities of the future and what Kansas would be to-day; that the mistakes of a lew early settlers should now be remodeled therefore it was resolved by the convention to oppose any future appropriations by the Legislature for erecting public institutions, including work on the State house, and while favoring the maintenance of the institutions where at present located, yet the adoption of a new policy was recommended "com-mensureate with our new growth, present and future importance, and that on this line we ask all of Central and Western Kansas to unite with us in the work of duplicating every one of the present State Institutions, locating the new buildings most advantageously to the interests of the State among the several towns of Central and Western Kansas, aud the State capital at some suitable central point to be determined by the ballots of the people of the State." The resolutions, after rehearsing the wonderful development of the State, declared that "if we build a city on Kansas soil for Kansas business, we must get from beneath the shadow of the great commercial center on Missouri soif into which the wealth of Kansas has been poured for a quarter of a century," and that centers should be chosen for the great lines of roads at which to build up a great city and capital worthy of a great State, and further calling upon the peopie of Central and Western Kansas to unite in this work, and finally recommending that a convention be held at an early date after the November election of all members and Senators elect to the Legislature in sympathy with the resolutions, the time and place of meeting to ba named by an executive committee appointed. or tbe anniversary oi tne oirmaay oi ucu eral Grant an elaborate banquet was given at Delmonico's last nicrht.

The arrangements had been made by General W. T. Sherman and about 150 persons were present, all parties and all ranks being represented. General W. T.

Sherman presided over the first table. On his right sat Cbauncey M. Depew, tbe orator of the evening, and on his left Mayor Abram S. Hewitt. The others at the table were General William Mahone, General W.

H. Seward, son of Lincoln's Secretary of State; Hon. Georgs W. Childs, Cyrus W. Field, Rev.

John It. Edwards Pierrepont, General C. B. Comstock, W. C.

Andrews, Samuel Sloan, Captain W. W. Pax-ton and Albert Bier tad t. Among others preset were: General Fits John Porter, Colonel Louden Snowden of Philadelphia, D. O.

-Mills, General 8tewart L. Woodford, General Wager Swayne, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, Elliot F. Shepard, Hon. Eiiuu Root and Herman C.

Armour. Letters of regret were read from General Joseph E. Johnston, Colonel John T.Mosby, General James Longstreet and General Fitzhugh Lee. General Sherman, after an appropriate address, introduced Mr. Depew, who delivered a brilliant oration.

He compared and contrasted President Lincoln and General Grant and said that each was necessary to the success of the other and both to the restoration of the Union. No other soldier was so fitted Tor the work to be done in tbe field and no other man than President Lincoln would have had the masterful stamina to withstand the demands of the country for Grant's withdrawal. The speaker touched upon the generous recognition of General Sherman's great abilities evinced by General Grant and of Grant's interposition when President Johnson wanted to punish those who had been in rebellion. In view of the association of his name with the Republican Presidential nomination, the following sentence from his speech seemed significant: "It -is a notable fact that though we are the only purely industrial nation in the world, wo have never selected our rulers from among the great business men of the country. And the conditions and prejudice of success present insuperable obstacles to such a choice." Other speeches were made by General Mahone, Colonel R.

G. Ingersoll, Judge Pierrepont, General Noble, of Missouri, and others. Senate bill passed for the relief of the Omaha tribe of Indians In Nebraska and to extend the time of payment to purchasers of lands from the Indians. The remainder of the day was given to debate on the Tariff bill. Tns He nate wasnotineeBsion on the 27th Soon after the House met debate on the Tariff bill was resumed and continued into the evening session, at which seventeen pension ouis passed.

The Senate' was not in session on the The Cruiser Torkton.and the Dynamite Cruiser Vesuvius Successfully Launched at Cramp's Ship-Tards, Philadelphia, In the Presence of the Secretary of the Tfa-ry and Thousands of Spc eta tors. Philadelphia, April 29. Thousands upon thousands of people were gathered yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of Cramp's Ship-yards to witness the launching of the two war vessels, and delegations from Washington, and leading citizens of Philadelphia were embarked at the scene on the steamer Columbia, and the revenue cutter Hamilton. The shipping which was gathered in the river was thick with humanity and gaily decked in colors. Extraordinary interest was taken in the event as marking one of the most important steps toward the rehabilitation of the American navy, and placing it upon an equality with the maritime forces of other nations.

In the yards workmen had for hours been busy in preparing for the movement of the new war ships into their proper element, and their huge and formidable structures awakened the patriotism of every heart. Cordons of streamers and flags were strung over them, and they had as much of a bridal look as grim war vessels could have. The Washington party, which was brought in two sections of seven cars each, arrived at one o'clock, and proceeded to the steamer Columbia, where they were received by Mayor Fitter and a delegation of leading citizens, together with several of the Governors of the thirteen original States, who held a meeting here in the morning for the purpose of making arrangements for erecting a monument in Fairmount Park in celebration of the centennial of the Constitution. Among the governors present were the following: Beaver of Pennsylvania, Biggs of Delaware, Green of New Jersey, Jackson of Maryland, Howard of Connecticut, and Lieutenant-Governor Jones of New York. Nearly all of the Washington newspaper correspondents, including representatives of both the United Press and Associated Press, were also of the party.

The Columbia left Washington street wharf at 1 :20 p. m. and proceeded to the ship yards, a lunch being served during the trip. A few moments before three, which was the hour set for lunching, Secretary Whitney and a portion of his party left the Columbia and proceeded to a platform near the bows of the two vessels. The signal being given, the blocks were cut from under the Torktown at 3:06 p.

and she slowly moved toward the water. At this moment Miss Mary Cameron, daughter of Senator Cameron, broke a bottle of wine over the bow and christened the vessel The steel monster glided gracefully into the water amid the blowing of whistles, waving of handkerchiefs and hurrahs of the crowd which lined the docks. Five minutes later the dynamite cruiser moved toward the water. Miss Eleanor Breckinridge, daughter of Representative Breckinridge, of Kentucky, christened her After viewing the vessels a few moments as they graoefully floatedin the water, the signal for the return was given. The Columbia reached her dock at a quarter after four o'clock, and at half-past four Secretary Whitney's party were on their way to Washington.

The Messrs. Cramp deserve great credit for the success which attended the launching. There was no hitch or accident of any kind, and the programme was carried out promptly. entire day In the House was given up to debate on the Tariff bill, but with only about thirty-five members present. Among the bills reported to the risnate on the aoth was one increasing the salary of unuea btates atstr ct Judges to 18,000.

The Land Forfeiture bill was briefly discussed and a bill passed authorizing the sale of a tract of lana in tho Leavenworth military reservation to the water works company. The International Copyright bill was then debatod until ad The Servian ministry resigned on the 27th, but a new one was at once formed. Six murderers were executed on the 27th, all for separate crimes three at Fort Smith, one at Anderson, S. one at Orangeburg, S. and one at Leonard-town, Md.

Five of the culprits were negroes. The Pops has issued a decree condemn-, ing the plan of campaign and boycotting in Ireland. The Nationalists declared they would treat it with contempt. The estimated revenue for Canada (Sir Charles Tupper's budget) this year is $36,000,000, and the estimated expenditures $37,000,000, showing a probable deficiency of $1,000,000 for year ending June 30 next. Edgar Sladb, aged seventy-five years, and William McClellan, his grandson, aged three years, were recently found burned to death.

They lived on a farm about three miles from.Chatham, and it was supposed they were out burning brush. Thb Weser Zeitung reports that Kuntz and Tappenbeck's expeditfon to the interior of the Cameroons (Africa) was recently at-, tacked by natives and that two officers were severely wounded. It is stated that the action of the Propaganda of the Holy See regarding Ireland was taken spontaneously and not at all at the suggestion of any representative of the English Government. The Pope approved the Congregation's action without in any way entering into the pending political questions between England and Ireland. Mexican troops have had two more engagements with Yaqui Indians.

In the Tejibampo mountains twenty-one Indians were killed, and near Agua Caliente seven were killed and fourteen taken prisoners. The London money market was quiet and prices firm during the week ended April 28th. The German bourses were steady. The Paris Bourse was dull with prices steady. The ship Smyrna was sunk in a collision with the steamer Motto in the English channel off the Isle of Wight on the 29th.

Thirteen persons were drowned. Clearing house returns for week ended April 28, showed an average decrease of 2.6 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 3.3. In a duel in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris recently between Dupuis and Habert, art critics, the former was killed. The Mullan tunnel on the Northern Pacific railroad which passed through the main range of the Rocky mountains, will probably be a total wreck owing to the action of the melting snow and spring rains, a heavy squeeze having necessitated its abandonment.

The loss will be over Mb. Pendleton, the American Minister to Germany, went out driving on the 30th. The effect of his stroke of paralysis has nearly disappeared. He will remain at Wiesbaden for several weeks. The Turkish Government has recalled the Turkish Minister at Athens and has demanded that Greece shall dismiss her Consul at Monstier and other Greek officials in Macedonia, claiming that these officials have been fomenting political agitation.

General Boulanger has written a letter protesting against the warlike ideas that have been attributed to him. He wishes now to declare distinctly before France and Europe that democratic France is maligned by being credited with thoughts of aggression, to which he has ever been and still remains resolutely opposed. The Sultan of Morocco hesitates to submit to arbitration the dispute between his Government and the United States regarding the imprisonment at Rabat of persons under American Consular protection. The Consul is awaiting further orders from Washington. Dr.

Bardeleben, director of the clinical surgery department of the Charity Hospital, Berlin, will replace Dr. Bergman in attendance upon the Emperor. A banquet was given at the Kaiserhof Hotel, Berlin, on the 30th in honor ot Carl Schurz. Count Herbert Bismarck, several members of the Reichstag and other distinguished persons were present. A riotous mob in Santiago, Chili, recently destroyed the cars of the street railway company becau-e it refused to reduce fares.

The damage amounted to A false cry of fire in a menagerie exhibition at Prague, Bohemia, recently caused a stampede in which six persons were trampled to death and many more seriously injured. It is authoritatively stated in Moscow that th Cz ir has expressed antipathy toward General Boulaager. A number of escaped prisoners took refuge recently in a mosque in Damenhour, Egypt, and lefused to surrender to the po salle, 111,, recently for arson. Her son had been peddling bills for the Revolution store, and thinking the proprietor had cheated the boy she attempted to burn the building in revenge. She was caught in the act of heaping wood against the back door, which was in flames.

Thb Calumet and Hecla mine at Calumet, has been opened at shaft Nc. 1. No fire could be discovered and it is supposed that the fire is entirely out. An explosion that pitched seventy people into the air, throwing one man fifty feet, wrecked seventeen large plate glass windows, ruined $35,000 worth of clothing, damaged a building $15,000 and caused a stampede of hundreds of people form the upper stories of tall buildings, occurred in a basement on State and Jackson Btreet, Chicago, the other night. The explosion was caused by two workmen, who had broken a gas main without knowing it.

No ODe was killed. Judge Gresham, at Milwaukee on the 27th, decided the suit of the heirs of the late S. S. Merrill, general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul road, against C.

H. Price, for an accounting in connection with Colorado land transactions in Minnesota and Dakota, involving profits supposed to be in the neighborhood of The decision was in favor of the defendant. The prison shoe shop at Chester, 111., was burned recently. Loss, $75,000. Br.

a collision between a freight and construction train near Birnam Wood, the other morning, ten laborers wore badly hurt. A tornado, the second one this year, struck Pratt, on the evening of the 26th. Mrs. William Fisher was killed and many others seriously wounded. Tne Indiana Democrats have nominated Courtland M.

Matson for Governor. Gray was endorsed for the Vice-Presidency. Two cistern cleaners of St. Louis were found dead in a cistern recently, having been suffocated by choke damp. Two convicts in the penitentiary at Jef-fersonville, were terribly burned by molten iron recently while attending to a cupola.

Anarchist Parsons' old paper, the Alarm, of Chicago, has suspended publication. Twentt survivors of the great Sultana explosion of April 26, 1865, in which 1,700 Union soldiers lost their lives, held a reception at Hillsdale, on the 20th. The sawmills of the Ft. Madison (Iowa) Lumber Company were destroyed by fire on the 27th. Loss, $45,000.

The cannon ball train on the Burlington Missouri River railroad was wrecked near Alma, on the 27th. Two passengers were killed and quite a number injured. The mail and express cars with their contents were consumed. The crops of Minnesota and the Northwest generally are reported to be in a very backward and doubtful condition. Over 1,000 feet of the snow sheds near Mullan tunnel, on the Northern Pacifio railroad, in Montana have been destroyed by fire.

A petition to Governor Otflesby, asking for the pardon of Anarchists Fielden, Schwab and Neebo, now imprisoned in the Joliet penitentiary, is to be circulated by certain labor organizations of Chicago. The South End Bank at Columbus, has suspended, supposed temporarily. The fltfbr of a building at Rusbylvania, gave way during a school exhibition recently and 400 persons were precipitated to the basement. Two persons were killed and ten seriously injured. Three men, names unknown, were upset in a boat at Detroit, recently drowned.

Three women and a man were drownsd by the upsetting of a canoe in the Stillagna marsh, Washington Territory. The union brewing coopers of Cincinnati have been locked out for boycotting non union made beer. The Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee has elected John L. Mitchell, of Milwaukee, to represent Wisconsin in the National Committee, vice William F. Vilas, resigned.

Tub boiler in Caldwell's tile factory near Rushville, exploded the other morning, killing William Caldwell and Norman E. Conde and fatally injuring Ed. Larkin, Joseph Wolf, Allen Lakin, Jordan Cainies and son. Fire recently destroyed the office of the Dally Ledger, including the bindery, and the Homestead, a weekly agricultural paper, at Des Moines, Iowa. Both offices were a complete loss, as was also a three-story buiding 'belonging to W.

H. Weare, which they occupied. The total loss wa3 about Mme. Diss Debar has been held in $5,000 bonds for swindling Lawyer Marsh, of New York. Two girls named Stokes and while wading in a pond near Tilson, the other day, fell into ah old stock well and lost their lives.

THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE. FATAL WRECK. Fatal Accident at a School Exhibition In Ohio. Heli.efontainb April 29. At Rush-sylvania, Friday night, a school exhibition was in progress in rocker man's Hall, in the second story of a brick building.

The hall seati about 403 people, and was crowded to its utmost capacity. Suddenly the floor gave way in the center, and the entire audience went down a distance of twenty feet. Mrs. J. E.

Alexander, wife of the minister, and Miss Garwood, of Bellefontaine, were killed. Those seriously injured are: Harvey Solders, both legs and one arm brolxen with other injuries; James Johnson, badly hurt, was taken home insensible; Mis. Frank McCulloch, badly hurt; Mrs. Drum, supposed to be dying; Mrs. Waitwright, not expected to live; Walker Lewis, one leg broken; Mrs.

William McCulloch, badry hurt; a little babe of Mrs. Coombs, badly hurt; Judge Seiders' two children, of Ridgeway, badly hurt. Probably fifty others are more or less seriousiy injured. The walls did not fall in. A number women and children were taken out, soma unhurt, with their clothing torn completely off.

GENERAL J. E. JOHNSTON. journment. Immediately upon assemblng the House resumed consideration of the Tariff bill and debate continued during the entire day.

WASHINGTON NOTES. I Dn, McMaster, a veterinary surgeon, was fined in Washington recently for Slocking" two horses' tails belonging to attaches of the British Legation. Tusks was an unusually large attend-once at the President's reception on the 27tb. Included in the throng were dele-vates to a religious convention, the Boston Imse-ball team, many of the ballet of a "theatrical troupe and most of the chorus of an opera company, A. religious crank who informed the ushers that he was "owned by Ood and the Bible" was denied admittance.

Thb Postmaster-General has completed arrangements with the Postmaster-General of Canada establishing a uniform rate of postage of one cent per ounce on all merchandise, including grain, seeds, cut-tines, bulbs, scions and all grafts, and one cent per two ounces of printed matter in the mails exchanged between the two countries and now known as third class matter in the domestio mails of this country. Chairman Midoelt and the gentlemen acting with him on the committee having charge of the question of through rates to Colorado, have agreed to make the rates on commodities from Chicago 20 to 25 per cent, below the authorized rates from New York. This includes all articles which in the Easf come under the hoad ot commodities. Thb President has nominated Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United States.

Mr, Fuller was born in A Fatal Wreck on the Hurlington Road In Nebraska. Omaha, April 28. There was quite a serious wreck on the Burlington Missouri River two miles from Alma, about six o'clock yesterday morning. The smoker, day car and Kansas City Pullman were precipitated into Rope creek, which had been swollen by rains that had weakened the bridge. Tbe engine, baggage and express cars passed over safely.

Tbe engine broke loose from the others. The express car turned over and caught fire and burned. The baggage was all burned. Tae mail was soaked, and the smoker and day car, telescoped and broken in pieces, are now lying in the bed of the creek. Twelve persons In the day car and smoker were badly burned.

Theaead are: S. A. Towns and wife, Grand Rapids, Mich; Mrs. Towns was taken out of the creek alive, but died at Alma; C. E.

Eaton, Lin coin, a traveling man from Kansas City, is not expected to live. Conductor Odell was severely cut on the head-and internally injured; a brakeman was cut on the head; Edward Defenbaugh, of Adelphi, was seriously injured; M. C. Kirby, of Montreal, was cut on the head. The wounded are ail at Alma, and all doing well, except Eaton.

An inquest will be held to-day. THE GASOLINE STOVE. The President Nominates Melville W. Fuller, ot Chicago, For the lAto Judge Walte's Position. Washington, April 80.

The President has nominated Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United States. Judge Melville W. Fuller has for several years been one of the foremost lawyers in Illinois. He has earned a reputation for fairness and soundness of judgmeut.

His legal attainments are of the very first order. When it was proposed to appoint Judge John Schofield, of Illinois, Chief Juistice he peremptorily declined, but; said the appointment should go to Judge Fuller, as one eminently qualified for the exalted position. He is yet a comparatively young man, and may have many years in which to horrflr the position to which the President called him to-day. Melville Weston Fuller was born in Augusta, February 11, 1833. His father was Frederick A.

Fuller, his mother Catherine Martin, daughter of Chief Justice Latham Weston. Melville fitted for college in Augusta, and graduated at Bow-doin in the class of 1S53, his classmate being E. J. Phelps, Minister to England. Mr.

Fuller, after leaving college, began the study of law at Bangor. In 1861, while a citizen of Chicago, he was elected a member, of the Illinois constitutional convention. In 1863 he was chosen to the Legislature, and although a Democrat running each time in a Republican district, he was victorious by large majorities. He was a delegate to the Democratic National conventions of 1864. 1872, 1876 and 1880.

In 1860 he was selected by the citizens to deliver the address of welcome to Stephen A. Douglas. In 1858 Mr. Fuller married Calista C. Reynolds, and after her decease, Mary Ellen, daughter of the distinguished banker, William E.

Coolbaugh. He has eight daugfters. THE PAPAL DECREE. Augusta, February 11, ISO). He fa Made an Honorary Member of a G.

A. 1C Post. Philadelphia, April 29. The announcement is made here this morning that General Joseph E. Johnston, the highest in rank of living offlc -rs of the Confederate army, was on Tuesday night last unanimously elected an honorary member of E.

D. Uakcr Post No. '6, Grand Army of the Republic, of this city. The election was brought about upon the recaipt of a letter reading: "For the "purpose of enabling me to participate in tbe work of charity performed by the comrades of the Grand Army ot the Republic, I hereby make application for contributing in your post. Inclosed please find the sum of (10 for one year's dues." The pe ition was unaccompanied by any other communication and when presented to the members of the post for their consideration it went, through with a rush, amid the cheers of the two hundr veterans present.

General Johnston is tho only ex-Confederate soldier who has ever been received Into ihe ranks of a Grand Army post. THE XANSAS CAPITAL. THE KAST. Hbnrt George advocates Grover Cleveland for President and Roger Q. Mills for Vice-President.

The Atlantic engine works at East Bos ton were burned recently. Loss heavy. Clarke, Rad cliff dry goods commission merchants, of New York, have failed with liabilities estimated at $300,000. Six laborers were buried in a trench and killed nt YonUors, N. recently.

A water pipe burst, causing the ground to cave in. Tub machine and pattern shop of the Delamater iron works in New York were burned recently; loss 100,000. Nearlt every saloon in College Point, L. 1., about fifty in number, has discontinued the sale of pool beer. Labor organizations were insisting on the boycott.

A Bnlldine Bnrned and Two Persons Cremated at Topeka by a Gasoline Explosion. Topeka, April 28. At 4:30 o'clock yesterday arternoon Mary McLaughlin, aged six, daughter of James McLaughlin, tried to light a gasoline stove but had no sooner applied the match than an explosion occurred and she and Annie Evans, aged nineteen, a domestic who was standing near, were enveloped in flames. Every effort was made to save the two but without avail. The house belonged to A.

D. Campbell and was occupied by his" family and that of McLaughlin. The coroner viewed the charred remains of the victims last night but no inquest will be held. Tbe position in which the bodies lay indi- 5 cated that the servant had desperately tried to save the little girl. Mrs.

McLaughlin, the mother of the Uttle girl, was badly burned and lies in a critical condition. She ran out of the house enveloped in flames. When the explosion happened sne attempted to return to tbe house to rescue her child, but fell exhausted to the ground. The house was a new one and un finished The partitions were paper and temporary. The whole bouse seemed to be on fire at once from the start.

It was well furnished. There was no insurance, and the loss to the owner, Campbell, will es ceed $2,000. VEXED BY VOORHEES. lice who had surrounded the building. In the fight that ensued fifteen of the convicts were killed and two wounded.

The in New York City was removed to Albany, police lost four men killed and wounded. The Blalocks. Columbus, May 1. At the conclusion of the trial of A. EL Fry yesterday afternoon the jury returned a verdict of guilty of burglary and grand larceny in the second degree on each count.

Andrew Fry and Mary A. Fry, the parents of the Fry boys, were then arraigned and each pleaded guilty to receiving and secreting stolen goods. Dan Fry, in his evidence in the A. H. Fry case, admitted the crime of stealing horses.

The case of O. C. Blalook and his wife, the parents of the Blalocks, is now on trial and the case of William and J. C. Blalock, charged with the murder of J.

C. Gordon will also commence to-day. From the evidence given by them in the trial of the Frys for burglary and larceny the Blalock boys have admitted enough to convict them of the crimes of burglary and larceny on six different counts, together with two cases of robbing thr United States mails. this uim A cr'vassb was reported on the 1st In the bank of the bayou at Lafourche, La. The coal shovelers of Chicago decided on the 1st to strike against non-union men.

Efforts were being made to hire Italians. Two men were killed and three wounded Miscellaneous. Henry Henan, a farmer living near Six Mile, Wyandotte County, drowned himself the other day in a pond while temporarily Insane. Mr. Henan was suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia.

He became delirious and walked "out of the house. Three hours later his body was found in a pond a short distance away. Henan was sixty-three years old and one of the most prominent farmers in the oounty. The son of a Shawnee County farmer was recently fined one dollar and costs, $17.95 in all, for cruelly beating a young calf. Walter Treadwell, the Southern Kansas cattle king, was recently tried at Anthony for the killing of George Clarke, his former partner, and accuitted.

Treadwell proved to the satisfaction of the jury that Clarke had led Mrs. Treadwell astray and that the shooting was committed in the heat of passion caused by his wrongs. A fire in the paint shop of the Santa Fe shops at Topeka recently destroyed a lot of second-hand material and seriously jeopardized the main buildings. The soldiers'home at Leavenworth is to have a new library building, 43x94 feet, at a cost of $12,000. The money to carry out this project is part of a bequest left by Mr.

Ward, of England, who died recently and left a sum of money to be devoted to such purposes in America. In the claim of Joseph Richard, of Kansas, amounting to $5,250, for depredations committed in 1S60 by Kiowa Indians, the Secretary of the Interior finds the loss sustained to be $1,750, and has authorized that amount to be allowed in full satisfaction of the claim. Attorney General Bradford has received the following list of Leavenworth social clubs which have taken out Government permits to sell intoxicating liquors: Merchants, Bucktails, League, Massasoit, North Leavenworth, National, South End, Leavenworth Amusement, Commercial, Fellow Workmen Union and U. Know. The Attorney General said that it was his intention to at once institute legal proceedings against these organizations for the violation of the Prohibitory law.

Enoch Chase, one of the founders of Topeka, died in that city the other day at the age of sixty-three years. The Ellsworth Mining Company recently struck salt in a second well. A late storm at Pratt demolished a number of houses. William Fisher's residence was destroyed and his wife fatally injured. Emil Linhas, a Leavenworth coachman, recently suicided by shooting himself.

No cause known. Secretary Vilas is reported as saying that he knows from the President himself that the Garden City and Lamed land-offices will not be consolidated. Thk Republican convention of the First District recently met at Leavenworth and unanimously renominated Hon. E. N.

Morrill for Congress. Cy. land, of Doniphan and James M. Gray bill, of Leavenworth, were chosen delegates to the Chicago convention, and Lon Robinson district Presidential Elector. Governor Martin has issued a proclamation raising the quarantine against Cook County (111.) cattle.

Odd Fellows of the State generally celebrated the sixty-ninth anniversary of the Order on the 26th. The residence of James McLaughlin, at Topeka, was burned the other day and his daughter Mary, aged six years, and Annie Evans, a domestic, nineteen years old, were burned to death in the building, and Mrs. McLaughlin was also seriously burned. The fire was caused by the explosion of gasoline while lighting a vapor stove. A human skull has been excavated near Garden City, at a depth of 135 feet It was in a Rood state of preservation.

Kinsley has discovered a new source of wealth in its water power, which is said to possess a force equivalent to that of 3,500 horse. "Western Kansas booms. John Mann ax, twenty years old, a brake-man on the. Missouri Pacific road, was killed at the foot of Armstrong street in Kansas City, at niue o'clock the other night by a north-bound freight train. Mannax was riding on the train and in some manner was thrown upon the tracks and killed instantly.

The train proceeded north and when about two miles oat of the city the brakeman was missed. Judge S. D. Lecomptk, one of the prominent figures in Kansas during the exciting times immediately preceding the rebellion, died at the residence of his son in Kansas City, on the 24tb, at the age of seventy-four years. The post-offices at George, Pawnee County, and Newbury, Wabaunsee County, have been discontinued.

Patents issued to Kansas inventors for the week ended April 20: Metallic shingle, Edgar E. Barker, Junction City saw jointer, Charles R. Black, Topeka; mill feed, Gottlieb Heller, Dillon; vapor burner, Edwards G. Martin, Concordia; rotary engine, James E. Snevely, Chetopa; line protector, Frank York, Salina.

Fred Cans and Lon Case, were recently fined and given thirty days in jail at Wellington for violating the Prohibitory law. Their stock of liquors, making a full dray-load, was publicly destroyed on a prominent street by the sheriff In front of an admiring sod enthusiastic crowd of citizens. by a locomotive running into a handcar on a curve near Elko, recently. The bandit Mariero has been killed and the bandit Alfonso seriously wounded in Cuba. The traveler Dalgleish is reported to have been shot and killed while on an exploration in a remote region of Asia.

The Methodist general conference met at wnere a diu was introduced in tne Assembly making it a misdemeanor to raise any foreign flag upon any building owned by the State or by any city or village therein. The bill created a heated discussion and was voted down 104 to 40. General Abraham Mbkritt, a retired merchant of Nyack, N. committed suicide iu the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York Cit the other night. Tub chemical paint factory of Henry Woods, Hons at Lake Crossing, near Natick, was destroyed by tire the other morning.

The loss was over insured. Tub birthday of the late General U. a Grant was celebrated in New. York and other cities on the 27th. The American flint glassworks strike has been settled in a conference at New York.

A firs occurred on the 29th in the building 403 and 405 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. Edward Smith, owner of the building, lost Mr. Stovers, dry goods, $100,000. Other losses amounted to $00,000. Tub steamship York town and a dynamite cruiser were launched at Cramp's ship-yard, Philadelphia, on the 28th.

Therr was a wreck on the Pennsylvania New York, near Olean, N. recently, resulting in the serious injury of about twenty passengers. Four steamships on the 29th landed 3,990 New York on the 1st. Delegates were present from all parts of the world. Two negroes were lyncnea on the night THE SOUTH.

Serious results followed frost on the nights of the 24th and 25th in Virginia. Judge T. B. Mackibben, of Campbell County, was found dead in his bed at Newport, recently, with an empty chloral bottle at his side. Elias A.

Ries, a Baltimore electrician, has filed patents for heating dwellings by electricity. His idea is said to be ent rely new. The heat is produced by secondary or transformed currents. R. F.

Sullivan, agent for James P. Cooper, representative of foreign bondholders of London, was indicted for selling Virginia coupons at Harrisonburg, recently. During the term of the circuit court at Harrisonburg 100 suits against parties for offering coupons in payment of State taxes were tried. James Swafpord, aged thirty, was mining coal at Dayton, the other morning, when a piece of slate weighing ten tons fell on him, crushing his body Into a jelly. Thb Texas Prohibition convention at Waco was largely attended.

Delegates to the National convention were instructed to vote for Clinton B. Fisk, of New Jersey, for President, and Dr. J. B. CranfiU, of Waco, for Vice-President.

Whitelet, a notorious desperado and train robber, has been eaptnred near Liberty ville, by officers after a brief fight. Near Richmond, the other day Arch Stolta, a farmer, committed suicide by taking 'Rough on Rats." His brother William, seeing the corpse, took the remainder of the poison, leaving a note say of the 30th one at Summerville, and one at Silons, Miss. Both were charged with outrage. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has Text of Pope Leo's Decree Condemn ing he Irish "Plan of Campaign" and London, April 30. The text of the papal decree says On several occasions the Apostolic See has Kiven to the people of Ireland, wnom it has always regarded witi special benevolence, suitable admonitions and advice when the circumstances have required, as to how they might defend their rights without injury to justice or the public peace.

Our Holy Father Leo XUL, fearing lest in the species of warfare that has been introduced among the Irish interests bo tween landlords and tenants, and which is commonly called the "Plan of Campaign," and in the kind of social interdict called "Boycotting," arising from the same contests, the true sense of justice and charity might be perverted, has ordered the Supreme Congregation of the Inquisition to subject the matter to serious and careful examination. Hence the following was proposed to their eminences, the Cardinals of the Congregation. Is it permissible in disputes between landlords and tenants in Ireland to use the means known as "The Plan of Campaign" and "Boycotting After long and mature deliberation, their eminences unanimously answered in the negative, and their decision was confirmed by the Holy Father' on Wednesday, the 8th day of the present month. The justice of this decision will be readily seen by any one who applies to consider that a rent agreed upon by mutual consent can violation of a contract, be abolished at the mere will of the tenant, especially when there ore tribunals appointed for the purpose of settling such controversies and reducing unjust rents within the bounds of equity, after taking into account the causes which diminish the value of land. Neither can it be cons dered permissible that rents should be extorted from tenants and deposited in the hands of unknown persons to the detriment of land owners.

Finally, it Is contrary to Justice and charity to persecute, by a social interdict, those who are satisfied to pay the rents they agreed to pay; or those who, in the exercise of their rights, take vacant farms. It will therefore be your lordship's duty, prudently, but effectually, to advise and exhort the clergy and laity not to transgress the bounds of Christian charity and justice whilst they are striving for a remedy for their distressed condition. Signed K. Caed. MONACO.

Rome, April 20. Frtg-htful Accident in a Coal Mine." WrLKDSBAKRE, April 29. A fearful explosion occurred in mine No. 4, of the Delaware Hudson compane, at Plymouth, at five o'clock last evening. Patrick McGill and John Ness, miners, were instantly killed.

Charles O'Connor, a laborer, was so badly burned that his life is despaired of, both eyes being destroyed and his head and body frightfully roasted. Joseph Halloran and Wm. Jones were badly injured, but will live. The dead men leave large families in destitute circumstances. Flag; Presentation.

New York, April 29. Madison Square Garden was crowded to-night by a brilliant and enthusiastic audience assembled to witness the presentation of an American flag, the gift of the patriotic Archbishop of CasheL Rev. Dr. Croke, to the Sixty-ninth Regiment, by Governor Hill. The garden was gracefully draped with American and Irish flags.

The regiment, mustering nearly nine hundred strong, under the command of Colonel Cavanagb, were drawn up in position facing Governor Hill and his party. The GovernoE presented the flag to Colonel CaTanagh. in a short speech. Flowers for Matson. Wabhtjtgtox, April 29.

When the House was called to order yesterday morning, there was a large pillow of very beautiful flowers resting on, the desk Representative Courtland C. Matson, who has just been nominated by the Democratic party of his State for the office of Governor. The offering was composed almost entirely of roses. Across the face of it in letters made of purple immortelles were the words: -'GovernorIndiana. When Mr.

Matron- entered the hall of the House a few minutes later, he was greeted with round after round of applause by his comrades on the Democratic side. declared a semi-annual dividend of "i per cent. An Alleged Scheme to Defeat the Springer Oklahoma Bill. Washisoton, April 27. The House Puh lie Lands Committee at their meeting yesterday morning ameded Senate bill 1040 by attaching tbe Public Land Strip known as No-Man's-Land to New Mexico, instead of Kansas and for a land office to be established in the strip and the appointment of a register and receiver.

This is the Voor-bees town site scheme and the parties back of it think they are throwing the public off the track by this amendment. Their purpose is to pass it through the House as amended and thus get it before an accommodating conference committee, where it will be juggled into its original form as it passed the Senate, which attaches the Public Land Strip to Kansas. Of course the ulterior object of this conspiracy is defeat the passage of the Oklahoma bill, but Mr. Springer and the other friends of this latter measure are fully advised of the facts and prepared to thwart this scheme, which is being engineered by Senator Voorhees and other Senators. Abilene Passes a Resolution Havli ig Reference to the Capital Qaestla a.

Abilene, April 3D. At a arge and enthusiastic meeting Saturday night the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, Nine-tenths of the voters of Central and Western Kansas being aware that the capital of our growing State should be removed to a central location and thus secure the greatest good to the greatest number, assembled in delegate convention at Abilene March 2, to the number of 600 or more, for the purpose of discussing this question and none other. Whbkbas, The full proceedings of the convention have been telegraphed to the agent of the Associated Press for publication and the same being withheld by their order, therefore be it Retolced, That we condemn their action in suppressing the proceedings ot said convention as being in Topeka's favor and detrimental to the interests of a large majority of our State. Western Inventions. Washington, April 2V.

The following patents were granted to inventors in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska the past week Missouri Obtaining ammonia and bone black, Frederick Kgner, of St. Louis; baseball glove, Frederick G. Fischer, of Kansas City; hanging sheet metal guttering to the eaves of houses, Carl C. Frederick, of Lancaster; gate, Judson N. Hatcher, Ameri cus; upright wire picket fence making ma.

chine. Hill Ryder, of Walnut Grove; combined rake and fork, LytleR. Stagner, of Marshall; wheeled coaster, Orrin A. Wheeler, of Springfield; cooking stove (design) Willard J. Andrews, of St.

Louis. Kansas Vehicle axle, John F. Dixon, of Clay Center; sad iron, William EL MulL of Lawrence; provision safe, Harriet Randall, of Pottersburg pump, William. W. Cully, of Wilson; envelope holder.

Smith Culver of Kiowa; barrel truck, Ernest J. S. Davis, of Great Bend; fender for cultivators. John W. Kennedy, of Miltonvale.

Nebraska Windmill, Joel Devereux, of Cnlbertson. Obstructing tho Mail. Wichita Faua April 2S. Deputy United States Marshal Jeff D. Mynatt returned to this place yesterday from the Indian Territory with six men, named respectively, JVC.

Blakeiy, John Terry, Jim South wood, C. C. Brewer, W. K. Ingram and P.

Ingram, charged with obstructing the United States mails. They are awaiting the preliminary examination before tbe United States commissioner at this place. The cause of the obstruction is believed to be that one of the mail contractors owed these parties some money, and tbev attempted to collect it in this way. The stoppage occurred on the Paul's Valley Fort Sill line. Three Hen browflefl, Detroit, April 3-1 Saturday morning the pleasant weather attracted many people to the river, and for the first time this season a large number of boats were let.

Soon after noon the weather changed, blowing half a gale. Thomas Jardine and two companions who were fighting their way across tbe river in a skiff, report that when about half way over small boat containing three men upset at a distance of 151 yards from them, drifted a short distance and sank, ana nothing could be seen of the men. IX Jardine and his companions tell the truth tbe three men were drowned. The former reached shore drenched and exhausted, and at once told Ute story. Emperor Frederick had a slight relapse on the 1st.

Admiral Sir Alfred Rtder was drowned in the Thames recently by accident. The decrease in the public debt during the month of April was $9,300,000. Thb Wisconsin Democratic State convention was held at Madison on the 1st. The platform strongly indorsed the Administration of President Cleveland. Tub business portion of Keithsburg, 111., was destroyed by fire recently.

Loss, heavy. The Senate bill granting right of way through the Indian Territory to the Kan ing he wished both to be buried in the same coffin. Heavy rains of the 28th caused serious sas City and Pacifio railway has been passed by the House. Devoured By a Dog. Des Moines, Iowa, April 30.

A very sad affair occurred in Marion County last Thursday, by which a bright little nine-year-old girl nearly lost her life. She is a daughter of A. Goodspeed, who resides midway between Bussey and Tracb, two stations on the Des Moines 'branch of the The little girl had been attending school all the past winter and the school house is located a mile from the Goodspeed residence. Last Thursday evenii failing to return at the usual hour, the family became alarmed and Mrs. Goodspeed started out in search of the child.

In crossing a field through which the little rl always returned home, her mother was horrified at the sight of a huge dog, which was crouched down over the child and actually devouring it. It was with the utmost difficulty that the animal was driven away. The child is horribly mutilated, her left breast being eaten away and t-'ie lung exposed, and both her lower limbs are terribly lacerated. It is not thought that she can recover. Quick Work.

New York. May 1. Charles Rickerd. a -liceman of this city, was caught in the act of burglarizing the auction rooms of Reilly McElhinny, at No. 83 Nassau street, while on duty early yesterday morning.

He was at once taken to court and held to await the action of the grand jury. At eleven o'clock the grand jury indicted him and he was a few minutes later arraigned in court and pleaded guilty. A sentence of ten years was passed upon him, after which he was driven to the depot and one o'clock was on way to Sing Sing. In less than te i hours after the crime was committed his head was shaved and he was arrayed in striped clothes. Forest Fires.

Pittburgh, May A 'Bradford, Pa, special says: Forest fires have been raging in the Kane oil fields since Sunday afternoon. They were started by sparks from a locomotive. Seventeen rigs and several tanks of oil were burned on Sunday, and a number of rigs and over 1,000 barrels of oil were destroyed to-day. Swamp Lodge, suburb of Kane, was completely wiped out. Carpenter's large saw mills, at Lodge, were also consumed.

The fire burned incessantly until eight o'clock last evening, when a heavy run checked the progress of the flames, and it is now under control. The loss can not be estimated but overflows in North Texas and the Indian Representatives of the National Farm Territory. ers' Trust gathered in convention at Tope A peanut trust has been formed in Norfolk, embracing firms engaged in the ka, on the 1st. Twenty houses la Trenton, destroyed by fire recently, causing a loss Of $35,000. peanut trade in St Louis, Cincinnati, New York and No folk, Petersburg and Smith-field, Va.

The trust comprises the entire peanut interest in the country with the ex General Wirt Adams, postmaster of Jackson, and John Martin, editor of ception of three small factories. immigrants in Castle Garden. The number during the week was 21,772, of whom one-third were from Italy. Thk Tweedy hat manufactory, of Dan-bury, Conn, has closed down. tiETn Thomas, the head of the Seta Thomas Clock and Watch Manufacturing Company, died recently at Thomastown, aged seventy-one years.

He was born at Thomastown and was the son of Both Thomas, the original founder of the THK WEST. Central Citt. has been destroyed by fire. Loss $250,000. Two deputy sheriffs of Socorro County, N.

who had been on the trail Of Joe Atkins and Frank Porter for two days, came up with them near San Jose on the 24th. when a regular pitched battle ensued, in which Porter was killed and Atkins eaptnred. A twki.vb-tear-old son of Hiram Car-on, living near Vandalia, 111., was kicked by a horse the other day and killed. Thb Bank of Antigo (Wis.) was robbed of $6,000 tho other day by some unknown person, who went into the back door while the cashier was at dinner. Thb consecration of Bishop Jannssen took place in St.

Peter's Church, Belleville, on the 25th. Jn a quarrel at Dickinson, the other day over a game of poker, Jasper Boltz was shot and killed by Frank Chase. Besjamin 8. ROBBIES, the assistant United States district attorney at Denver, recently attempted suicide by jabbing a knife it his neck. He was in a fit of delirium at the time.

He was from Kentucky, where be bad been a State Senator Doable haieide. Philadelphia, April 27. Ernest Eich-f eld, tailor, aged sixty years, and his wife, aged fifty-five, a childless couple, lived in a small house in the rear of 1131 North Second street three stories high, but so small that there was only one room on each floor. They were a neat, quiet, inoffensive and apparently affectionate couple. To-day their bodies were found hanging by pieces of clothes line, one from the transom of the door on the second floor and the other from that on the third floor.

They had ev-dantly committed suicide. The only theory advanced in theicase is that the couple had become tired of life and mutually agreed to end their existence. Murdered His Family. O'FaIaos, April 28. Ernest Klees- chuite yesterday morning murdered his wife, shot bis two children, one of them fatally, and then committed suicide at his.

wife's home, six miles north of here. KJees-chuite, now of St. Louis, some seven or eight years ago was married to Mhis Mary Sbolte, of St. Charles County, Mo. They had two sons in their union, now aged six and eight years.

Two years ago they separated for some reason unknown. Mrs. Kteescbulte has lived for about three months in a small bouse on what is known as the Henry Beck farm, an isolated place -about one mile from the Missouri river, withier two boys. One of fcer brother lived near by. the jYfw Jiinsifsippiany fought a street duel on the 1st and both were killed.

The editor accused the postmaster of "obliquities" in delivering the newspaper mail, and this was supposed to have caused the shooting. Thb Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, it was reported at Chicago on the 1st, had decided to declare the Burlington strike off, it having resulted in a failure. During the progress of an artillery experiment at Fort Tiburine, just outside Rome recently, a dynamite shell exploded, and the Prince of Naples, the Crown Prince of Italy, was slightly wounded in both Several army officers-were also wounded. Hon. J.

J. Ingalls addressed the Senate on the lt in answer to Voo bees' previous attack. Ingalls was bitter and at some of the remarks the lie was passed. The galleries were crowded in expectation of a scene which expectation was not disappointed. The House discussed the Tariff Ml- GENE RAT.

Serious prairie fires are reported at several places in Manitoba. A dispatch from Nancy says a riot broke out there on the 26th, a mob of Boulanger-ists attacking the students' clubs with stones and other missiles. A number of policemen were injured before quiet was restored. Emperor Frederick was reported much better by his physicians on the 28th. His appetite was returning and his recovery was thought probable.

Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended April 26 numbered for the United States, 193; -Canada, 30; total, 223; compared with 195 the previous week and191 the corresponding week of last year. Prince Bismarck has declined the title of Duke on the ground that he is not in a position to support the gignityv will be very heavy. It is wprst fire in the country,.