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TIIK CITIES OF TUB USTlOIf. THE STATE OJf KANSAS PALL OrBLAcK SHSW; Jt 'S COfiKEfi; SC0EES MEET DEATH, BLUE MOUND SEARCIILIGH i State' Superintendent Ftanley wants to be renominated. i "NOTES AND COMMENT" FROM FIFTY OR SIXTY MINERS ENTOMBED in Colorado. J. 0.

SMITH, PUBLISHER. blue: MOUND, KAN. A SKILLFUL PEN. The Republican State convention will be composed of 615 delegates. i There will be thirty names on the ballots this year, -besides township of- Beers.

Terrible Explosion of Gas at Newcastle The way the fights goes ft Cuba depends entirely on which faction gets the telegraph office first. Flashes of TLoujlit from the World of Thinkers (Commented tlpon by th Secretary of the National Reioriii Press Associativa. Means of Ventilation Cut Off and the 51 en Suffocated Smoke Prevents Work of Rescue. The Prohibition papers of the country have started John Peter St. John In the race for president.

A Santa Fe engineer, named Jerry Shaw, is a candidate for department New York's latest project Is an office building 200 stories high. It will never be erected. It would tip Manhattan Island over. commander of the G. A.

R. The Republicans of the Arkansas City district Will renominate J. V. i Mr. Harrison may retain his ancestral hat but there are several gentlemen who are doing their best to occupy Benjamin's shoes.

The city of Syracuse, N. wortbj $45,000,000 and owes the population is 105,000 and the area 15 square miles. The 115,000 people of Ohio, are not in the least crowded together, for their city is laid over square miles of territory. Toledo, Ohio, has 110,000 people? living on 28 square miles of groundf the city is worth $44,883,440, and its bonded debt is 4,608,275. Cincinnati is one of the few cities whose growth has not been proportionate to the increase of wealth, of the State in which it is located.

The 90,000 people of Nashville, live on eleven, square miles of territory. The bonded debt of the city is $3,057,000, and the assessed valuation $37,020,500. Memphis, has 75,000 population squeezed into four square miles of territory; the city owes $3,100,800 and its property is valued at Notice. Drs. H.

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Chicago, Feb. 39. "Black snow" was a novelty enjoyed by this city last night. Between 6 and 7 o'clock there was a fall of a couple of inches of what seemed in the dark, to. be the staple winter article, but which, on exam Inatien under gas or electric ligfh proved td be decidedly not the ordinary Caucasian The flakes-, crystal and fleecy enough; were of a muddy-eoltired s6rt that at once sug gB3ted the Ethiopian adjective.

When meltfed bn an extended palm, they left each a' tiny, ink-like speck. In the mass, the so-called snow looked like three weeks' old slush. The storm began at 6:40. p. and continued spasmodically until far into the night.

From Evanston to the Indiana State line, and from the shore of Lake Michigan to the most westerly suburbs, the 150 square miles of Cook county were swept by the peculiar visitation. The heavy fall was made almost blinding by a stiff southwest wind. Each particular flake that fell on the clothing of those who happened to be on the streets left its trace in a small blotch of dark brownish dirt. Dispatches show that the black snow fell over a wide expanse of territory and was not by any means confined to the immediate vicinity of Chicago. Telegrams received from points as far away as the cities of Eastern Iowa told of similar experiences.

Southern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Western Indiana were alike over The meeting of the National Com-mitteo at St. Louis, Jan. 17, was one "of the great events of the year. The results of the meeting, we believe, are generally satisfactory to the Populists. There is some dissatisfaction as to what some of the committee should have said in interviews published in the St.

Louis papers. We have little confidence in what we read in the plutocratic papers and are not willing to take such reports for truth. However, there is one suggestion we would make in thi3 connection, inasmuch as the in-( terview is so seldom truthfully report-, ed, we see no reason why our leading I Populists should persist in submitting 1 Some politicians object to woman suffrage because they believe that if women could vote the handsome men would get all the offices. If flao poet laureate is expected to iSedijate something to each one of the living descendants of the queen he has quite a bit of work ahead of him. to being interviewed, unless it is through an uncontrollable desire to attract public attention.

There is a kind of discussion going on in some of our Populist papers, if it can be dignified by the name discussion, that is doing the party more harm than good. If. is -vitSt reference to the President Debs says: "It is better to buy books than to buy beer." But while the price of whisky remains where it is now, too many men will buy neither. i A club of fifty New York men promise sever to wear any jewelry, even watches and chains, in public. Doubtless uncles of active members will be made honorary members of this thrifty organization.

spread. In Chicago the most noticeable results were seen at the down town hotels and clubs, where the lava tories did a rushing business. Guests came in with their faces as black as if they had been shoveling coaL The New Hiawatha. The Winona, Herald has on its staff a second Longfellow, who has written of the dubious escapades of the modern Hiawatha, The sequel to the doleful story is hereto appended: Thus departel Hiawatha To the land of tho Dakota To the land of handsome women. And in ninety dys returning -A divorcelet ho brought with him.

To his wife he gave the ha-ha, Kent hr back unto her ma-ma In the outskirts of Chicago Nebraska State Journal. A S50.000 FIRE AT ST. JOE- Nf.WdA.sILK, Feb. 19. An unknown number of men are dead as the result of a terrible explosion that oH-curred in the Vulean mine bile 8f tiae coal properties of the AtchiSotlj To-peka and Santa, Fe Railway company, at 11:20 yesterday forenoon.

Usually seventy-five men are employed in the mine, but less than this number were at work when the explosion occurred yesterday. There is little doubt that all who were at work are dead. "The number of victims cannot now be accurately stated, estimates run n'mg from fifty to seventy. Those best informed think the number is very likely between fifty-five and sixty. The excitement at present is so intense that efforts to secure a complete list are useless.

The only man who got out of the mines at the time of the explosion was Edward Welch, who was near the mouth of the tunnel and was blown out. His skull was fractured, arm broken, the face badly cut and burned and all the hair burned from his head, lie was breathing when found, but expired shortly after without showing consciousness. The miners who escaped direct death from the explosion must have been quickly suffocated by gas, as all means of ventilation were cut off. The first news of the disaster -was a report as from 100 cannon. People rushed out of their and places of business to see what had happened and one look toward the Vulcan mine was sufficient, for a dense cloud of smoke issuing from the mouth of the slope told the tale of death.

A throng of people was soon at the scene of disaster, a distance of nearly two miles from Newcastle. A glance was enough to dissipate any hope for the lives of the entombed men. The force of the explosion had caused a cave-in and the tunnel and air courses were filled with the fallen rock, earth and timbers. Both fan houses were wrecked and the slope and vicinity were so full of the debris and the gas was so bad that it was hard and dangerous work to begin the rescue. Nevertheless, willing hands were soon at work and five men went down as far as possible to ascertain the condition of the slope and found it such that it will require great labor to recover the bodies of the miners.

The gas was so bad that after the party had gotten 200 feet they were compelled to return. As soon as the news of the explosion reached Newcastle, Superintendent Paul Blount closed the mines of the Colorado Fuel, and Iron company, and, taking his miners, left for the Vulcan where all are actively at work aiding in the attempts at rescue. There are vo shafts in addition to the one in which the explosion took place. In the upper of these two the rescuers are in about 800 feet and it is through this that the air can be forced Ruasel Sage is said to be suffering from a boil near the shoulder. If anyone can think of a worse combination to run against than Russell Sage and a boil he should be compelled to do so that the public may be on its guard.

Oxford Senitarinm Burned Woman Spectators Greatly Agitated. AseeKinan jor tne legislature. Republican central committee of Bourbon county is eleven to one in favor of McKinley for president Nine years ago seven Harper county towns supported newspapers; now only three can afford the luxury. Benjamin F. Wrightson of Kansas has been promoted to a $1,400 position in the War department at Washington.

Cost of maintaining the State blind asylum at Kansas City, from July 1 to December 31, 1S95, was $7,990.13. Colean, the Fort Scott State ban defaulting cashier, is in the priso hospital of the penitentiary at Leavenworth. At a recent series of revival meetings in Greeley county," one-twentieth of the entire population of the county were converted. Rev. J.

G. Dougherty of Kansas City, called on Governor Morrill and denounced the present Metropolitan police system of Kansas. Governor Morrill says there isn't a word of truth in the Atchison Champion's story as to his contemplated withdrawal from politics. Colean, the Fort Scott embezzler, is now in the penitentiary. His wife and children will make their home with relatives in St.

Louis. Rents have advanced in Moline on account of a report that the Howard branch is to be operated as a part of the Southern Kansas division. Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has taken charge of the Valley State bank of Hutchinson. Capital, assets, liabilities, $134,000. Kansas City, university corner stone will be laid May 19, daring the Methodist Protestant general conference which meets in that city May 17-19.

Uncle John Speer has completed the task of setting the type for his life of Jim Lane, the press work is finished, and the volume is now ready for the binder. The Capital's voting contest shows 3,188 for McKinley, 282 for Reed, 228 for Allison, and 155 for Harrison. For second choice Reed and Allison are in the lead. To settle all doubts as to the legality of J. K.

Hudson's right to the office of state printer he was formally appointed to that position by Governor Morrill. The artesian wells on J. C. Mart's firm in Meade county are flowing abundantly. One of the expectations of fie irrigation board is to find this w.iter in adjacent counties.

-William Heddie hanged himself in jail at Norton. After an exciting trial lasting a week he had been convicted of the murder of Albert Applegate, a St. Joseph, Feb. 19. The Oxford sanitarium and Turkish bath house at the northeast corner of Third and Farion streets, was burned yester day afternoon.

The burning house "had several occupants at the time the fire broke out. Among these was John Silvey, a Chicago traveling man, Several Florida orange growers have been inspecting Southern California with the purpose of investing in land. These men say that the growing of oranges and lemons is their business and they know nothing else; that they are discouraged over the outlook in Florida and wish to try Southern California, where the damage by frost is not great. Come West for four Seed. That's what we say, because It'B ihm best.

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hiS judgment the emergency tariff and bond bills were constructed merely as a part of the platform to be laid before a national convention next summer and not with any purpose to enact them as laws. Mr. Morgan criticised the financial course of Mr. Sherman, while he sat across the giving close attention to the remarks. He referred to Mr.

Sherman as the "Napoleon but this Napoleon was rapidly hearing his Waterloo and his exile at St. Helena. Mr. Morgan enumerated in detail the financial burdens which the legislation urged by the Ohio senator had imposed on the people. They were evils which brought misery, want and calamity to the whole people.

It had worked more miseries than those pictured in the Apocalypse. His (Mr. Sherman's) garment was one of many colors, In keeping with the variegated lines of the party to which he belonged. At the present time the Ohio senator and the President were together in their financial views, both equally oblivious to the constitutional requirement that the metals be on equal terms. It was the Ohio senator who originated the evil of selling bonds to a syndicate.

The People's party has plenty of generals but not enough privates. Let us devote our time now to mustering ano. organizing recruits when the proper time arrives we can select our generals. Industrial Leader. That is only a part of the truth, Brother Royelle; but it Is mighty good as far as it goes.

Tho People's party has too many so called generals. And some of them are generals, too, general nuisances. One of the drawbacks to progression is that too many men think they are born to lead, who are actually not fit to lead a mule to water. All the trouble that has ever come to the People's party has come through its You are right; what we need now is recruits privates. And here is the field fcr the would-be generals to work.

Let them organize and equip an army and then they are entitled to be called generals. Some of them could not, or would not organize a corporal's guard. Yet many of just such men frequently make the most noise in our conventions. The trouble with many of our people is, they get the impression in their old party that patriotism consisted more in making a noise than anything else, and they can't divest themselves of the habit. What we need is voters and you can't get them by making a noise.

Go to work and organize. At this juncture of our strained relations with Great Britain, the testimony of Benjamin Franklin before a committee of the House of Commons, in 1776, will be interesting. In answer to the question, "What was the temper of America to Great Britain before 1773?" he answered: "The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and all their courts paid obedience to acts of Parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citidels, garrisons, or armies to keep them in subjection.

They were governed by this country at the expense only of a little pen, ink and paper. They were led by a thread. They had not only regard but affection for Great Britain, for its laws, its customs, its manners and even a fondness for its fashions, that greatly increased Its commerce. Natives of Britain were always treated with particular regard; and to be an old England man was of itself a chaacter of some respect and gave a kind of rank among us. The British government took away from America its representative money, commanded that no more paper bills of credit should be issued, that they should cease to be a legal tender, and collected the tax in silver.

was in 1773. Now mark the consequences. This contraction of the circulating medium paralyzed all the industrial energies of the people. Ruin seized upon these once flourishing colonies; the most severe distress was brought home to every family; discontent was urged on to desperation, till at last human nature arose and asserted its right!" To-day we are practically under the domination of English financiers. It was at the dictation of England that our silver was demonetized and depreciated.

It was England that dictated the contraction of our currency and a consequent reduction of values of all she wanted to buy of American products. It is England that is now withdrawing our gold from the Treasury and conspiring to force the issue of more bonds. If less provocation than this inspired our fathers to rise up in open revolt against a much more powerful nation than themselves, of what stuff are we to submit quietly when we possess as great power as England can muster? And no resort to arms is necessary. We can vote off this domination, but since England has captured both old party machines we must smash the "machines before we can do it. W.

S. MORGAN. The full bench of the Maine supreme court handed down a decision for the defendants in a suit for heavy damages against a Bangor furniture concern that sold a folding bed which shut up like a Jacknife upon Mr. and Mrs. Frank White, making Mr.

"White a helpless and hopeless cripple and seriously but not permanently injuring Mrs. White. The court says that the defendant firm had no knowledge of the faulty design of the bed which made it a dangerous trap, and that no phase of the case casts any liability upon the firm. "1 say," said the regular customer, as he stopped at the restaurant cashier's box to pay for the dinner he had had, "where did you get that beef you are serving to-day?" "What's the matter with it?" aggressively asked the cashier, who scented another row. "Oh, there's nothing the matter with it, that's why I asked." Tit-Bit, Robbers Get Away With $900 at Richards, Mo No Clue.

Fokt Scott, Feb. 19. The bank at Richards, a town of several hundred people, in a wealthy district of Vernon ccunty, eight miles east of here cn the Missouri Pacific road, was robbed about 2 o'clock this morning. The vault was blown to pieces with dynamite and 900 in cash, all the money in the bank, was carried away. The bandits, though they were not seen, are believed to have ridden into town on horseback about midnight.

The bank is located in the Todd block, and extra preparation against robbers had been made in its building-. young farmer, and was sentenced by Judge Geiger to serve a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary at hard la FOR ARBITRATION. bor. The conviction was for guilt in In the province of Smolensk, there Is a little state practically governed and inhabited for the greater part of the year by women. The state is about forty miles square and fhcludes a number of villages which formerly belonged to the convent of Besjukow.

The state Is known as the "Kingdom of Women," because the male inhabitants emigrate at a certain time each year to seek work in other parts of the empire, leaving affairs of local government to their better halves. The woman mayor presides at the communal assemblies, where the women discuss with praiseworthy zeal questions of public interest. The financial condition of the state is said to be excellent, and the women have all the pin money they want. Manifests itself in many different ways, like goitre, swellings, running sores, boils, salt rheum and pimples and other eruptions. Scarcely a man is wholly free from it, in some form.

It clings tenaciously until the last vestige of scrofulous poison is eradicated from the blood by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Thousands of voluntary testimonials tell of suffering from scrofula, often Inherited and most tenacious, positively, perfectly and permanently cured by the S3cond degree. Congressman Curtis has introduced these Kansas bills: To pay Martin Feeney of Yates Center a pension of 330 a month; Henry Feikner of Topeka, S24; Flora Bellerof North Topeka, $12. to increase the pension of Arba Caproij of Nor Topeka to SCO a month, and so-called "issues'" in lie Omaha platform. -Now, if there is anything wrong in the Omaha platform It ought to come out.

Upon that all good Populists will agrfie. But it is not fair to arraign the "issues" and not designate what they are. The plutocratic press hold that the platform is made up of "issues," and, by the way, the word "issues" was first applied by the plutocratic press. When Populist papers or Populist leaders speak of the issues, they owe it to the publjc to state what, in. their opinion, constitute the "issues" in the platform.

While some seem to think that everything is an "issue" except the free silver eoinage plank, the plutocratic press charges that that is the worst issue of all. To talk about "issues" and not 'state what they are occurs to us as firing from the Inrush to escape a responsibility which there is a lack of courage to assume. In a speech before the Illinois Bar association, Judge John Barton Payne made a very startling statement, which if true (and there is no doubt of it), demands a very drastic remedy. "In Cook county," he declared, "no man who has sufficient influence to see the County Commissioners can be brought to trial for any crime on earth. Did you apprehend the force of that statement? It is literally true." About a year ago, in that city, a poor man was sent to jail for taking a pig's foot.

Of course he had no "influence." Several men were hung because they happened to be present at a meeting where some reckless fellow threw a bomb, and several policemen were killed and injured. It was never charged that any of them threw the bomb, or knew anything about it. Of course they had no influence. But the rich dodge their taxes by making false oaths, and resorting to all kinds of unlawful subte-fuges, and nothing is said about it. They have "influence." "Influence" is a great thing in Chicago.

A stranger going to that city should never neglect to take along a good Gup-ply of it with him. And now comes the charge that the treasury officials are covering up the true facts; about the gold withdrawals from the reserve fund. This is not the first time the charge has been macje that these officials are juggling with figures in making their reports. But this time the kick comes from the plutocrats, who demand the right to know just how much blood there is left in their victim, that they may know how to gauge their speculations. They do not care to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, or even to rob the nest that she might be discouraged or disgusted and not lay anymore.

Kence they demand to know the facta in the case. So far as the people artr concerned it makes but little difference; whi'e there is a traitor in the camp who holds the keys and opens the doors the thieves will raid the treasury, and until the fool killer can catch up with his work, or the partisan scales drop from the people's eyes, we cannot hope for anything better. J. A. Wayland, in Appeal To Reason, states the following indications of a coming revolution: "One has to turn away from the pages of a great daily, sick at heart at the awful daily recital of crime.

Crime, crime, crime. In every column. On every page. Mothers killing their children and themselves to escape lingering starvation. Suicides, murders, holdups, burglaries, perjury, forgery, embezzlement, violation of trusts, public and private.

And in the midst of it another class giving great balls, banquets and extravagances, decked in silks, satins, diamonds, totally unmindful of the terrible anarchy their avarice is creating all about them! Such conr trasts only appeared near the end of the nation that produced them. But this time it is world-wide, in every nation, and the cataclysm will be correspondingly great." It was ever thus. History repeats rtself. It was to be hoped that in a into some of the rooms, but none of those in the mine have come out, and it is feared that this is conclusive evidence that all are dead. The cause of the explosion is not yet known.

The coal fields in which the Vulcan mine is located have been troubled with subterranean gases'for many years. In many places over an urea of eighty to 100 miles smoke has issued from crevices in the rocks since the country was first known to white men, and in later years more than one valuable coal mine has been destroyed by fire breaking inio the workings. A little over a year ago the mines of the Vulcan company had to be flooded on this account, and the old workings have never been reopened. The drift where yesterday's accident occurred was a new one. It is thought the disaster may have been caused by the breaking into an immense pocket of gas, generated by these everlasting fires.

On February 8, State Coal Mine Inspector Griffith inspected the mine and pronounced it in splendid condition and the work is said to have been done at all times in the most careful manner. to pay Thomas Delbert of Topeka $30i) Prominent New Yorkers Meet and Resolve in Favor of It. New York, Feb. 19. A number of prominent New Yorkers held a meeting here yesterday in the interest of the movement for an international court of arbitration.

Hon. Chauncey M. Depew presented lengthy resolutions, which were adopted, favoring the proposed national convention at Washington. Bishop Potter, Hon. Chauncey M.

Depew, J. C. Cadwalla-der, Henry E. Howland and W. E.

Dodge were appointed as delegates to a meeting in favor of arbitration to take place in Independence hall, Philadelphia, on Washington's birthday, with power to add to their number. for services rendered during the wai. The semi-annual apportionment of the state school fund has been made. Twice each year the inte rest derived from bonds owned by the permanent Sarsaparilla school fund is divided put among the school districts in proportion to the school population. The payment at The One True Blood Purifier.

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The person in question, says the telegram, "drove" into the center of the city on Friday in the family carriage and tied the horse on the principal Btreet; then sunk out of sight into the crowd." There is something positively uncanny about this vanishment. This choosing of the center of the city, the principal street and the middle of the day gives the disappearance a weirdly theatrical effect, as though the vanisher deliberately selected "test conditions." THE KANSAS EDITORS. ARLIEST this date amounts total to The total school population is 496,387, and the distribution, therefore, amounts forty-four cents for each pupil. The largest sum received by any one county is $8,12.44, which goes to Wyandotte county, and the smallest is $39.96, to Morton county. Grief and anguish have become the portion of the average Kansas politi clan.

The railroads give it out cold that no passes will 'be issued to the nTATfl ft delegates to the Wichita convention, arses' Installed in Mr. Nix's Place as United States Marshal for Oklahoma. Washington, Feb. 19. The Senate in executive session yesterday confirmed- the nominations of Patrick S.

Nagle of Oklahoma Territory, to be marshal of the United States in th6 Territory of Oklahoma; Jasper N. Morris of Missouri, to be judge advocate in the army, with rank of major; W. R. Oder to be postmaster at Canton, Mo. A Decision for the WUTow.

Empoeia, Feb. 19. Judge Randolph of the District court made an interesting decision in a fraternal insurance case to-day Mrs. Henry Seward was the beneficiary in a fraternal insurance policy, issued on the life of her husband. A few days before his death Seward made his brother the beneficiary with the understanding that the brother should pay a debt owed by Seward to the First National Bank.

Mrs. Seward sued the fraternity in which the policy was issued for the payment of the policy, and won. The court held that the purpose of the fraternal insurance was to provide for widows and needy ones, and not to pay debts. Elect New Officers and Adjourn The "Women's Press Association. Leavenwokth, Feb.

19. The members of the Kansas Editorial Association put in most of the time yesterday making excursions to Fort Leavenworth, to the Soldiers' Home and to the State penitentiary at Lansing. At the clossing session of the association, resolutions were passed thanking Leavenworth for the superb entertainment given, and the following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: President, F. H. Roberts; Secretary, W.

L. Brown; Treasurer, W. Y. Morgan. The Kansas Women's Press Association elected the following officers: President, Mrs.

Olive Royse, Phillips-burg Dispatch; Secretary, Mrs. Belle E. Harbaugh, Erie Republican-Record; Treasurer, Mrs. Rupe. Asbell to Be Tried at Once.

Oswego, Kan. Feb. 19. Marion Asbell was arraigned in the district court yesterday charged with willfully, maliciously and premeditatedly murdering Angeline Asbell, his wife. He plead "not guilty," and his attor to any of the political meetings of the year.

There never was a time Kansas when plenty of men could not be found in every county with political enthusiasm enough to bt willing to pay fare to a convention. ut at the same time there will not be that intensity of rivalry for the places of delegate which usually attends the issuance of free passes. Once a Kansan, always a Kansan. Ex-Superintendent of Insurance W. H.

McBride. who emigrated to Seattle. last fall, with the intention of making that locality his permanent home, is said to be slated for an early return to the land of the sunflowers. They all do it. Mr.

and Mrs. Critchfield settled in Mitchell county more than twenty years ago with only forty cents in cash. While the husband has been indus-trious with his crops and stock, the wife has been raising chickens and cows, the product from which has amounted to over $1,000, which she has saved. Harper county raised 4,147,675 bush The Chicago papers contain the announcement that a young man has won the first prize for oratory in a certain high school. This sort of thing should be shopped at once.

There is nothing that is killing off our promising high-school pupils like oratory. There seems to be sc'jae subtle poison lurking in the flowing robes of oratory that saps the young life ere it blossoms into man-Hood. Thousands of high schools throughout the land are shooting thousands of brilliant young orators through the manhole of fame before they are well out of knee breeches. But what becomes of them? No one ever hears of these great orators becoming men and holding senates spellbound, as they once held high schools. The mortality of the boy orator at the present day must be 100 per cent.

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John Dillon Elected Chairman. Losdon, Feb. 19. The members of the Irish parliamentary party held another sitting in the House of Commons to-day to elect a new chairman to succeed Justin McCarthy, resigned. Among those present were Messrs.

31cCarthy, Healey and Dillon. The latter was elected chairman by a vote of 37 to 21. LA CROSSE. WIS. PARKER'S to hold their convention; the next Newspaper advertising has been raised to such a point of.

importance that no man wishing to bring his business to the attention of the people can longer ignore it- hair balsam Sfi Cleanses and beaaUi tea the hair. thing is to find a man who will accept the nomination. At Concordia, March 6. Abilene, Feb. 19.

Concordia, March. 6, is the place and date named by the Republican central committee of the Fifth district yesterday to select delegates and alternates to the St. Louis convention. The active candidates for delegates are: W. H.

Smith of Marshall county, G. W. Higgin-botham of Biley, T. D. Fitzpatrick of Saline, J.

B. Tomlinson of Ottawa, Colonel Morrow of Washington, W. W. Caldwell of Cloud and D. R.

Gordon of Dickinson. A. P. Riddle of Ottawa is a candidate for delegate-at-large. No Hearse Large Enongh.

Chicago, Feb. 19. The funeral of Nettie Cole, the fat girl, known as the "Kentucky Beauty," took yesterday. The casket used for the remains was thirty inches wide, twenty-seven inches high and five feet six inches long, and as no hearse large enough for the casket could be found, a covered undertaker's wasron was used. About all of the professional museum freaks in the city were present, sixteen of them acting as pallbearers.

Miss Barton Arrives at Constantinople Constantinople, Feb. 19. Miss Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross society, has arrived here and is organizing a system for the distribution of relief to the suffering Armenians. tg3 Promotes a lruturiant growth. capital and the establishment of privileged classes bring in their train.

But the greed of gain is stronger than the fear of destruction, and prejudice throttles intelligent action. The abyss of revolution yawns, but the roar of the storm is drowned in the subsidized cry of "anarchy," "paternalism," "lunacy," "isms," and "impracticables." But the end will come. Senator Sherman will probably live long enough yet to drain to the dregs the cup of gall he has prepared for CS9QS Pa ever iaus to Mestoro cray els of corn, last year, of which bushels have been marketed, according to figures compiled bv the Antiiony Bulletin. Only 558,822 bushels have been shipped out of the county. 'A locomotive that can haul but twenty cars of corn from Kansas City to New York can haul fifty from almost any point in Kansas to Galveston, so it is useless to figure on New York at all.

Kansas wants a fair rate yn grain and stock to Galveston based on a down hill pull, and will not be content till we get it. Eldorado Republican. According to the estimate of one of the local papers, Linn county pays out $5 in premiums to outside insuranct companies for every $1 received from them in settlement of fire lossses. President A. R.

Taylor of the State normal school at Emporia is urging the Kansas congressional delegation to enact legislation donating toe remainder of the public school lands to the normal schools. Jerome Pitney, who lives on the Red Vermillion river, a few miles from Wamego, has a ranch of 9,410 acres, upon which he feeds 2.000 cattle ana 300 hogs. For grinding he his twenty-five horse power engine. -j Cures scaip hair falling. jgSftsg gor, and jl.lio at Dnigirta Nominating a Western man with Eastern trimmings is the way BTASK WF PAY Yoa to Sell Fralf Trees.

I la 1 I EKI1IES, btaisSana, Bock the Democrats will try to fix the matter up. Bockpart, 111. There is an old English proverb, "It Is as wicked to steal a penny as to steal a pound." Suppose it were only a "bit of swamp" that England had stolen from Venezuela, her offense would be as grave, morally, as if she had stolen the whole country. But the region she is contending for is no swamp; it is a rich gold field. If the Democratic party won't permit W.

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8. people. His methods and his record are itself to be buried it ought at least con sent to be placed in an air-tight casket. IThen Anstcierinrf AdvcrliaeniKtUa I'leaao Mention TJUs Paper. The People's party has got it? "ase in court now and the evidence for the state will be given with a vim.

being laid before the people in a way that is not calculated to add to his happiness. In a recent speech in the senate, Senator Morgan indulged in most emphatic criticsms of his record. He referred to the intrigues before national conventions and the "wind-maken platforms" ol thesg bodies. In rmWtimuiWcfS fell fca Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes GooO.

Use oaf EkI a tinie- Sold by drpggipts. Andrew Carnegie Blackballed. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 19. The Cleveland chamber of commerce last night blackballed the name of Andrew Carnegie, which had been proposed for honorary membership.

Five black balls were voted the constitutional number required to debar an ap4 plicant, The report of an earthquake in and around South Dakota was to be expected. The rapidity with which the divorce courts work up there was bound to disturb something. Secretary Carlisle has ordered tJ coinage of 18,000,000 silver dollars..