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i The Voorhees Vindicator. i a R. WRIGHT, Editor, On tho further side of the bridge lrom the rest of the train, tho bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. "You obey instructions or it's death," he said. The engineer looked down the barrel ol the nintnl and nulled the lever and the train A BRUTE CRAZED BY LOVE A Sister in a Convent at Emporia Oruellj Beaton by a Patient.

An Amazon Tries to Choke a Jus tice to Death. 1M SWINDLED FARMERS. of Three Confidence Operators of Large Experience. They Secured $60,000, Most Of It In the West. rah rapidly lo tho Spot indicated When tun VOORHEES, KANSAS.

engineer put tne train just wuoro me man with the pistol wanted it. Then there appeared a third robber and tha Hires made tjhe engineer and fireman go With them to tne express tar where the engiueer was forced to call out to tne ei'-ressman to open the door of the car. The The people of tho United States upend $25,000,000 Annually for baking powdery Verily, we are a rising John Brown's Fort to bo Destroy Corporal Tanner's Unfortunate Letter Writing. ed or Removed. CREAM OF THE NEWS Tho French elections passed oft quietly, and tho greatest crisis for many years is safely passed.

During tho fiscal year 1888 tho receipts of Russia exceeded the expenditures by roubles. Tho Colorado Mining Exchange will test the constitutionality of tho act restricting tho coinage of silver. The sultan of Zanzibar has taken active steps to assist England and Germany in their war on tho slave trade. The police of London made a raid on tbe. Cranburn club and arrested thirty-five baccarat players and betting men.

A story comes from Pittsburg that the nights of Labor are very short of money with which to pay the salaries of their officers. The rumor that the Chicago Alton Is trying to obtain control of tho Missouri, Kansas Texas railway is authoritatively denied, C. G. Sayie of Fresno, has been appointed administrator of the estate of the i a nViA aa of a ia valnn1 af, Koted Swindlers Caught. Ottawa, Sept.

26. Two confidence Operators a few days ago swindled a farm TnE Washington Memorial Arch Fund of New York was increased by upwarda of thirty conts this week. Our generous millionaires have doubtles? been contributing. out or They wore messenger was seated wan uis uaek to tne door and when he turned around ho looked down the muzzles of IhrP revolvers. The leader made the messenger thfl contents of the safo into a canvas sack, liuf noticing that he was not closely watched, Dunning pushed some of the money asitlo so that about a thousand dollars was hidden, the robbers gotting bolonging to the Mobile and Ohio railroad company, liosido the express car doW was a pile of of government money, en route to Florida, which tho robbers failed to notice.

Then the robbers made the expressman get out of the car and go with them to the mail car. The mail ueont had susnected brought hero from Laporto, yoster-day and landed in jail. Four hundred and A Sliter of Charity Beaten, F.MPohiA, Sept. 20. Yesterday afternoon' Slr Camilla of the Sacred Hoart convent in till? city was brutally assaulted and beaten until uh'conscious and then jumped upon and kicked until aruppos cd to be dead, In the hall of the school building of the convent This is tho third murderous assault made by the fjamo' person, all within the past two months, and ill! eafefuUy kept from the public at tho requestor tlid polioo in hopes fifty dollars wore found in a seam at the bottom of tho pantaloons of one of the After the Johnstown and other disasters by flood, the ruin wrought prisoners.

The two men are noted confidence men and aro wanted from Massachusetts to LJVELY TURNS OF THOUGHT. William Black, tho novelist, Is making a study of Mary Anderson for his next story. A pla'n gold ring was found by a Wash, iiigton (I.T. man imbedded in a larga block of ic e. Mrs.

is still suffering Iromtha, gout. Her iead seems to be somewhat swollen, too. Algernon Cliarlea Swinburne has red hair. Ho doesm't care, however, so long aa his poems are rea d. Lord Tennyson recently remarked that one of his greatest was that he had never visited this co untry.

John Burns, the London Socialist, neither smokes tobacco nor rinks liquor. As an agitator he doos not to be agitated. Oliver Wendell Holmes recently remarked that death beairs as pleasing a face to an old man as sleep to one who is tired. There are said to be 1130,000 people in the United States who study the prescribed courses of instruction of the Chautauqua association. Mrs.

Langtry is reportod by tlie English Journals as having had "enough of America for the present" The sentiment seems to reciprocal. T'he only stimulant now Indulged in by Prince Bismarck is tea. Teals the latest resort of a man who has to mind his p'sand q's physically. Mrs. of Webberville, ia 88 years olA but an average day's work for her is to pic't.

pare, and put out to dry four bushels of apples. The duke o' Connaught, now In command of the Et'glish troops at Bombay, will visit the United States next spring oa his way to England. Queon Victoria hvis an abnormal craving for air. She has windows thrown open in the coldest weather, and her suite sneeze most of the fall and winter. The state's attorney of Morgan by high winds and the tremendous loss of property by Btorms on the Atlantic coast, the east should be in a humble and contrite mood and the cry of "Westward, hot" will doubtless receive more respectful attention.

that robbery was going on and tried to get into the baggage car with a numbor of registered packages of mail, but just as be stepped to the end door of the car, he saw through a glass that tho robbers had intercepted him. The robber leader, faced him, pistol in hand, and finding Boll's arm full of packages, said "Dump theso here on my left arm." There were twenty-four packages in all, and he dumped them as requested. Tho robber made him hand hini.then registered pouch and Ordered him to open it, but he had no key, so the robbor carried the pouch off with him. The pouch was made up at Meridian and the contents and value are unknown. The leader of the robbers is believed to ot capturing the criminal, a young man named Frank or John Murray, who Was formerly a railroad man of Torre Haute, Ind.

The young brute was under the care of Sister Camille in tho nosnital at Terre Haute and when convalescing attempted to make love to her and insisted that she should forget her vows and elope with him. After he had been cured and discharged from the hospital he still persecuted her with his attentions until sho asked to be removed to some other place and was sent here. In some manner Murray learned of the sister's whereabouts and followed her. He told her last evening that his love had turned to hate and that he would kill her if it cost him his own life. Tho poor woman now lies in a critical condition, with her head cut in many places and her body bruised, and is unable to give further particulars.

There is a strong sentiment in Mexico in favor of a reciprocity treaty with this country, but the feeling is that the initiative should be taken by the United States. This view, under the circumstances, is a natural one to take, as Mexico went farther in this direction in the past than we did. wuuby, uiiiiuis, minus mey aro mo men who swindled a man in Grant county out of 17,000 since tho Gloim robbery and Just before their capture in and that they are the same men who took in farmers a year ago in the same county for Tuesday night Sheriff Heed of Laporte, secured the arrest in Chicago of H. B. Wilson, who is supposed to be the third member of the Wilson claims to bo a New York attorney and was at Laporte for the purpose of Interviewing the prison-ers, but was refused admittance to the Jail.

It is estimated that their operations have netted them during the present year. An Indian Ghost Feast. St. Paul, Sept. 27.

A dispatch from Fort Abraham Lincoln says several hundred Blackfeet Sioux arrived there yesterday, and last held a grand ghost feast. Among tho curious ceremonies of the Sioux, the "ghost feast" is held in groat reverence. It will soon be abolished by order of the Indian agent and, like the "great sun dance," will bo buried with the traditions of the past. 1100,000. The marriage of Emmons Blaine to Miss Aniota McCormic, occurred at Richfield Springs at the brick Presbyterian church, last week.

As to tho bureau of statistics, Mustek, of Missouri, is authority for the word that Colonel Switzler will not vacate until October 15. I In a letter to Mayor Grant of New York city Senator Quay of Pennsylvania declares In favor of Chicago as the place for the world's fair of Chicago is working with a will for tho location in that city of tho world's f.iir of 1S92. It is beeomingquito generally belloved in New York that the western metropolis Will secure tho prize. Congressman Morrill of Kansas was notified from Washington that he could bo Tobo Burrows, tho noted desperado, a search for whom created so much excite ment in tne nortnern part ot tuo state a few months ago. At that time it was believed he was organizing a gang to hold up some train, and tho Mobile and Ohio company, an ticipating an attack, armed all its train hands.

This was made uublic. and was George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Public Lodger, and Anthony J. Drexel, the head of the groat banking house of Drexel are Bald to be the warmest of friends. They are millionaires, and neither is afraid of the other trying to borrow money of him.

Thjp.t little habit is verv trvinir doubtless what the robber referred to this morning as he said during the progress of have the pension commissionership but he declined to consider it. 'iflis least is given by tho relatives of A number of prominent ladles of Chicago roDDing tne mau car1 "llie Mobile and Ohio dared me to hold un a train, and wanted to show them I could do it." have formed an association and nave nireo inose wno nave died or been killed in battle. At the feast held here, six ghosts were represented by six stakes about four feet a lawyer to prosecute the gamblers of the between friends. in lengtn, set up in tne ground within tho city under the state law. The Wvoming constitutional convention 1UUU1U1UU luugu.

John Brown's Fort in Danger. Tries to Choke a Justice to Death. WnEELiNO, W. Sept. Annie Costello, a woman of Amazonian proportions and of a record for pugilistic powers, was taken before Justice Davis this evening on a ohargo of grand larceny.

The hearing was set for 10 o'clock to-morrow and as the justice turned to pick up a paper the defendant sprang at his throat, Davis is about t5 years of age and the frenzied woman brought him to tho fioor with sufficient force to cut a gash in his head. She hold to his throat despite the efforts of the officers in attendance and there was a severe struggle. Finally the justice secured acane and struck his assailant three times over the head, inflicting severe cuts. She was then secured and locked up. Her offense is punishable with at least a year's imprisonment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes has spent the better part of a long life in writ has incorporated in the constitution clause providing for a state board of arbitration for labor disputes. Hari'bh's Fsanr, Sept. 26, John Brown's "fort," tho old engine houso used as It is said that A. B. Campbell of Kansas, ing poetry that men and women can read without a blush, can understand without a pickaxe or microscope, and mentioned in connection with the pension citadel by the great anti-slavery loader and his followers thirty year9 ago as a place of refuge from the soldiers and citizens sur commissionship, would like to be appointed are happier, better and nobler for consul to Melbourne, Australia.

perusing. His laughter never jeers, rounding them, is to bo demolished, and will disappear forever unloss the as yet unsubstantiated rumor that it has been purchased by an association of eastern gentle Daring Bank Kobberg, HuniEr, Sept. month about this time the iron mining compan ies pay off their large force Of employes, and for this purpose the Ashland national bank shipped an immense sum of money to Hurley last night via. the United States express. Upon the arrival of the money, the express company sent it to the Iron Exchango bank on a wheelbarrow.

Between the hours of 10:30 and 11:30 last night the batik was entered and the entire amount of the shipment carried away by robbers. $11,700 Was in bank notes, in gold and in silver. Like nearly all banks, the Hurley depository has a vault with a safe inside with a time lock. As the money arrived at 9:15 p. after the closing of the bank, the money could not be put in the safe.

It was placed inside the vault, however, and Cashier Hey-nolds remained in the bank taking care of the large treasure until with a friend, he went to the theatre When he returned at 11 o'clock ho noticed that tho vault door The supreme court of Indiana has decided in a test case that bicyclers riding with care along roads can not be held responsible for sarcasm never poisons, his tears are never weak or sickly. men ior removal to nuaaeiptua should bo truot damages lrom irigntenea norses. Great preparations are being made in Berlin for the arrival of the czar of Rus Ihe innocent and guileless people who live in cities are no match for sia. The czar proposes during his visit to carefully avoid ail political subjects. their country cousins.

A writer in the Prohibition's Hovo In Pennsylvania, HaBrisbuuo, Sept. 26. The first convention of tho union prohibitory league of Pennsylvania, a non-partisan scheme, having for its purpose tho suppression of the saloon outside of party linos, was held in tho hall of the house of representatives to-day, with about 100 delegates in attendance. The following officers were elected President, A. J.

K.vnett, Philadelphia; vice-presidents, A. Uicketts, Wilksbarre, P. M. Matthews, a railroad contractor, Boston Post says that certain towns in tried opium smoking in a Chinese Joint at Butte City, and died a few hours New Hampshire and Vermont have been stocked with bogus antique furni afterward from tho effect of the drug. The Coming; American Congress.

New York, Sept 25. Delegates to tho coming Pan-American Congress aro now arriving. Tho meeting will be of vast importance to the finaucial interests of the United States. The problem which tho congress sets out to discuss is worthy of the eminent and earnest men who compose it. Last year the nations to the noulh of the United States imported merchandise to the value of but only 11 per cent of it came from this country.

Eighty-nine per cent of this trade, broadly speaking, was enjoyed by England, France and Ger had been opened. Looking inside no was J. P. Williams, receiving teller of the First National bank of Denver, is said to ture, which is sold at exorbitant prices to city visitors, who think they aiv thunderstruck to see that the money was gone. bo missing with of the bank's funds.

getting old family heirlooms. The actual amount stolen was $39,895, as the robbers wore evidently in too much of He is thought to nave gone to Mexico. a hurry to take the silver. The United Statos express company is the loser.as thev Some scientific people have figured Reports at Athens from Crete are that the Turkish soldiers now in supreme control are dishonoring women and imprisoning many. that the rock of Niagara is being did not deposit in the bank, but merely left it there for safo keeping over night, wheu it would bo delivered to the consignee- are hoavv nurchnsers of snpar from and torturing Christians with impunity, worn away by the waters at such rate that in a few thousand years tho Manager W.

P. Lyon of the Ashland and the West Indies and coffee and hides from South America. We take from the independent countries of the continent a laree A. E. Burkhart of Cincinnati, who is now in New York, having Just returned from a Germania mines.

It is likely that the express company will announce a heavy re European tour, has subscribed $5,000 to cataract will work up to Lake Erie. The Canadians are determined to de portion of the commodities which they soil, while they obtain from us onl a uniall frac ward for the apprehension of tho burglars, ward the World's fair fund for Chicago. tion of tho articles which they buy. Under other and more sensible conditions theso lay this progress, so far as in them The mammoth publishing house of Bel- A Santa Fe Train Robbed. Fonr Worth, Sept 25.

As the ford, Clark which has a large es elements of trade would be equalized. If a tablishment in Chicago, with branches in iair snare oi moderation, tact and sense is shown by tho countries concerned, the de lies, and will punish American sports who may rub down the rock by going over the falls in the fulfilment of wagers. New York and ban i rancisco, has tailed. The report is revived, this time with north bound Santa Fe express pulled out of Crowley, a small town twelve miles south of Fort Worth last night, two masked men boarded tho engine. Engineer John Monahan and his fireman were covered with revolvers and forced to go ahead.

A mile from Crowley the train some show of authority, that Attorney sired conditions can be brought about. Central and South America need the manufactures of which we have an abundance, and wo can provide a convenient and profitable market for the raw materials which they have to sell, and this exchango can be accomplished in a manner and to an General Millor, President Harrison's law partner, is booked for the smppreme bench. The school teachers of Montgomery 50 unly, Indiana, assembled ii convention md' solemnly resolved that the gum-chew-ne 'bit was unbecoming to members of he pr ofession. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland writes from Jolland Patent, N. Y.

"I believe in soma boarding-schools and not in others. Therei are girls wV are benefited and girls who are harmed Uere." Where Mr. Gladstoii told the Rev. Theodora Cuyler, when th latter visited the grand old man in Enfc'land, that he considered plutocracy and loove divorce laws the worst evils of American civilization. John Burns, the London labor agitator; uses no tobacco nor string drink.

He col lected a fine library of standard largely on political and social economy, and he has a superb voice for public speaks ing. The steward of the government steamer Fish-hawk, lying off Norwalk, caught a live alligator which measured between three and four feet in length. It is believed to have escaped from some boat passing through the sound. Archdeacon FarTar's reason for sending lis son to be educated as a civil engineer in this country was that schools are pro The Archdeacon says that en-ineerlng in England Is twemty-five years ehind that of this country. During Queen Victoria's receiit visit to ales she on several occasions flattered ie natives by addressing them in their own language.

And it is asserted tfcat her najesty is able to read and write Kindo-ttanee with considerable fluency. Referring to Browning's obscurity, one ot the correspondents of the Writer sayss "Other poets who have treated topics Just as high and Just as vital can be understood; without being explained. Mr. Browning alone can be explained without being understood." Reutlingen, Germany, has a weaving school. At Reutlingen operatives lunch ai 10, and from 13 to 1, and have afternoon rest from 3 to 3:30, and supper at 7.

Singing is always to be heard, and the operatives, especially the girls, are pictures oi health and beauty The tan shoe may have a permanent future after all. One of the results of tha recent manoeuvres of the British fleet has been the suggestion that the marines should wear tan or brown shoes henceforth Instead of black ones, and browa gloves instead of white. In answering a correspondent who asks whether it is good form for an to use rough language in depiciting rough characters in fiction the editor of the Writer says: "If a writer means 'd'amn' he should say but he should tr to mean 'damn' as little as possible. The most famous barber now living, probably, is about to celebrate his silver wedding in Paris. He is M.

Adolph Paques He was the greatest of his kind sixty years ago. He numbered among his clients Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Theodolph Gautier, Mile. Mars, and Malibran. While the AJaz was engaged in. shell practice after the recent manoeuvres, a shell exploded within a thirty-eight-toa gun, that had been run out in the turret to be fired, and the gun burst The greater part of it fell into the sea, but one piece flow into the turrent, one seaman being slightly wounded.

The next lord mayor of London will be Hebrew, Sir Henry Isaacs, and, as lord mayor's day falls on a Saturday, the Jew was stopped, Three men got out of a pas The twenty-second annual reunion of tho Army of the Tennessee was held at senger coacn and detached the engine and extent which would prove highly advantageous to all the countries participating in it. If the congress of American nations, which is soon to assemble, should outline some scheme whereby this condition of Cincinnati, with General Sherman presid big. The next meeting will be in Chicago, The men employed in the quarry at Ar- and A. H. Rankin of Alleghany: secretary, Wellington E.

Louch of Philadelphia; treasurer, W. W. Wallace, Philadelphia. Tho platform adopted recited the evils of tho liquor traffic, and declared that the prohibitory amendment failed in June last bo-cause of the unfair political methods of those opposed to it. It therefore concluded that such a verdict could not be accepted as final.

The leasrue will favor the election of candidates to publio office without respect to party who will best represent its priiv ciples. Tanner Wrote the Letter, Washington, Sept. 20. Pension Com missloner Tanner being seen to-day at his residence on Georgetown Heights and questioned as to the genuineness of the letter purporting to have been written by him to Private Dalzell and telegraphed this morning from Caldwoll, replied "Yes, tho letter as printed is substantially as I wrote it. It was written, however, in the strictest confidence to a man whom 1 believed to be my friend.

A man under these circumstances writes that which under other circumstances would not and should not have been written. The letter was evidently stolen. I can not believe that any man could so betray his friend." The letter severely criticises the presidont and Secre' tary No bio. A Mexican Volcano in Eruption. Citt oi' Mexico, Sept.

24. Stephen Hoaton, an American railroad contractor, was an eye-witness of the late eruption of the volcano of Colima, thirty miles north of the city of the same name. The volcano has its crater at an elevation ot 12,000 feet above tho sea level, and is very activo, intermittently throwing a column of smoke and rod hot ashes hundreds of feet into tho air. I These spasmodic eruptions occur ten or twelve times a day and are followed by reports similar to the discharge of artillery. A few days before tbe earthquake last month the volcano vomited forth a dense black smoke thst hung like a pall over the country for miles around.

This phenomenon lasted for several days and i express car from the rest of the train. This was done, and the engine pulled out almost before Conductor Finks realized the situation. After making a mile and a half Engineer Monahan was again ordered to halt. One robber stood guard over tho engineer Agriculture being still the leading Interest in the country, the crops are prime factors in determining the business situation. For this reason the country may confidently look for increased railway earnings and an expansion in the clearances of the banks in the chief cities.

In both of those lines of activity there may have been gains throughout the year, as compared with 1888. low, owned by Mr. Parnell, threaten to things can be brought about it will have done the work which it was-created to ac strike unless an agent who is obnoxious to complish. the men, is replaced by a local nationalist Two more sailing schooners have arrived at Victoria, B. with sealskins be Kansas Men Npoken Of, Washington, Sept.

24. The positive de- tween them. Ono was overhauled by the United States revenue cutter Rush, but and fireman, while tho others oponed fire on the express car. After a few shots the express messenger was induced to open his car and the robbers made a clean haul, carrying out bag after bag of silver. How much was taken is a matter of conjecture.

The railway people claim the amount Is $2,000. The robbers could not handle all they found and left two sacks of silver lying by the sido of the car. not disturbed. clination of Major Warner of Kansas City to accept the appointment of commissioner of pensions has set speculation wild again as to tho probable successor to Corporal Mississippi republicans nominated Gen eral James R. Chalmers for governor, W.

C. Mathiason, colored, for secretary of Tanner. It is understood that Senator Plumb has presented the name of the state and nines D. Lynch, white, for liou- Hon. A.

B. Campbell, ex-adjutant general of tenant governor. It Is positively asserted that Miss Mar The records kept by Mexico show that the exportations of merchandise from the United Statos to that country are many millions of dollars in value greater than our official documents reveal. This omission on our side, of course, is well known to Our authorities and to Congress. There is no law providing for the collection of statistics of exports from this country to foreign territory by rail.

Kansas, to President Harrison, for the place. A telegram signed by Governor Humphrey and all the court judges and prominent Kepublicans, endorsing Campbell for this position, was received by the garet Blaine and Walter I. Damrosch are encaged, despite denials. It is said that Miss Blaine is accepting the congratula A Rich Discovery. Monterey, Sept 23.

A real old time mining excitement is now at its height hero. Intelligence was brought to town by one of the Foreman boys, who lives near the head of the Carmol river, that the long lost mine known as the "Marie Roman Mine" had been found. He had often been told bow this Indian woman used to go away and in the course of a few days return with large amounts of silver ore which she would assay herself at the mine. here the mine tions of her friends. president to-day.

It is also understood that the name of ex-Gov. Martin of Kansas has The report of the formation of a window glass trust has been confirmed. The trust will have a capital of 3 millions, and will try to control all the window glass fac tories in the country. was accompanied at intervals dv boow-ers of red-hot ashes, which descended upon the volcano's side. It is not The national Bankers' convention at Kansas City was the largest and most im been proposed by his friends.

Kansas Citt, Sept. 25. Major Warner reached home from Washington yesterday morning. In reference to the pension com-missionship he said "I have positively and unconditionally declined, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. I wired the president, at Deer Park, this morning, of my arrival home, and the fact that I absolutely declined to accept the office.

My reasons for declining are purely my own, and not because I differed from him in regard to the way tne pension department should be conducted. Such reports are unauthorized and wholly false. portant meeting of the financiers of America ever held. It cannot fail to result in great benefit to the West was located had always been a mystery, and even yesterday some old Indians around Monterey told about the miue which old Maria Roman had. The mine, if the accounts are correct, is located near the head of the Carmol river, about fifteen miles from Monterey, and was found by a Mr.

Freeman while deor hunting. He also found the old furnace and instruments which Maria used to crush ore. The mine has created groat excitement, and parties are preparing to go to it. Charleston, West has been for some A young man down in Indiana has set an example which the young women will do well to discontinue right away. He was engaged to marry a young lady, but on the day set for the wedding fled to Canada.

So long as Canada only entices our recreant bank cashier we can as a nation stand it, but when she enters the lists as a refuge for recalcitrant bridegrooms there is bound to be a heap of trouble. days in a state of terror from a threatened burning of the city by incendiaries. The citizens, armed with Winchester rifles patrolled the streets nightly. The Canadian minister of customs as ordered an Inquiry into the smuggling of whisky into Canada. Whole shiploads of American whisky are being smuggled into known whether or not any lava is being thrown out, as the red-hot ashes make Investigation impossible.

At night the sudden eruptions preseut the apbearanco of fireworks of a gigantic character. These sudden spurts illuminate the country for miles around and the scene is a grand one. Negro Cotton Pickers Threatening. Coffey ville, Sept 25, The white peupio all along tho lino of tho Illinois Central railroad and In every county of the delta are actively preparing for an anticipated general attack by th blacks. Prominent men with whom interviews have been had are seriously considering the outbreak, and arms are being bought on both sides.

At Water Valley, ten miles north of here, 2(K) men have organized for protection. At Grenada, ten miles south of here, it is supposed that negro cotton hands have organized and will demand an increase in their wages or guard the fields with shot-guns and prevent others from gathering the crops. The present price for picking is 50 cents per hundred. Canada Dy the bt Lawrence route. Suits have been begun in Oregon against Panned by a Mob.

Chicago. Sept. 25. While a Rock Island Suburban train stood at a crossing in the southern outskirts of the city at 0 o'clock last night a freight train on a track at right angles to it crashed into the last coach, which projected over the crossing. The coach was smashed into bits.

There wore sixty people in the car. Of these, five were killed outright and six were seriously injured. It was reported that the engineer of tho freight train, named Twombly, was intoxicated, and as he started from the scene of the disaster he was pursued by a mob from which he narrowly escaped. He has been arrested and will be held for examination. He is the son of the master mechanic.

the United States government to recover money paid for timber land upon which patents were withheld on tbe ground that ish Sabbath, the festivities will be postponed to the following Monday. They will be unusually elaborate, and "seven centuries of mayoralty" will be displayed in as many groups. the territory was agricultural laud. A. Bentley Worthingfcm and Mrs.

Plunk. In Favor of the Packers. St. Paul, Sept 23. In the case of Henry E.

Barber, arrested from selling meat in this county from cattle not inspected on the hoof, and brought before the Uniten States circuit court on a writ of habeas corpus, Judge Nelson tms morning rendered a decision deciding that the law was unconstitutional, as it interfered with commerce between the states, and the prisoner was ordered discharged. Notice of appeal to the supreme court was given. Judge Nelson neld that the law was in plain violation of the commercial clause of the constitution, which provided that the congress should have control of commerce between the states and with the Indian tribes. He also held that it was in violation of tbe clause of the constitution which provided that the citizens of each state should be entitled to all the privileges and Immunities of the citizens of several states. ett, the Christian scientists about whom a scandal was recently ventilated, eloped That Queen Victoria is a woman of Inore than ordinary force of character is clearly shown by the fact that during her recent visit to Wales she on several occasions flattered the natives by addressing them in their own language.

Moreover, she is able to both read and write Hindostanee with considerable fluency. There are but few ladies who at the age of seventy would have the perseverance and the courage to acquire proficiency in two such excruciatingly difficult languages as Hindostanee and Welsh. Sir Edwin Arnold has received a great from New York a few days ago and are supposed to have gone to Australia. many honors on account ot nis literary achievements. Besides being knighted by his sovereign and receiving the Order of the Star of India, he has been invested with tbe Order of the White Elephant by King A distinguished lot of visitors to this country arrived at New York last week on the City of Para, being delegates to the coming international congress from the of Slam and with the Imperial Order of the various Spanish American countries.

Mcjldie by the Sultan of Turkey. The longest horse car line in the world It hvreported in Detroit, Mich, but denied by the principal, that Hiram Walker, the groat distiller of Windsor, is at tbe head of a syndicate to secure the control of will connect Buenos Ayres with the outlying towns, and when completed, will extend over two hundred miles. The rolling Bartered Away Their Rights, St. Louis, Sept 24. The congressional delegation which has Just returned from a tour of Oklahoma and other parts of the Indian territory, is unanimously of the opinion that the Cherokee patent to the strip Is only an easment and by no means a fee simple.

The members say that the Cherokee have abandoned their claim to a fee simple title by turning the land over to cattle syndicates, and that consequently it must and will revert to the government One of tbe earliest duties of congress, they say, will be to open it to white settlement The delegation will advocate faeroio measures for tho opening of the lands to early settlement all the Canadian distilleries and their out The Ivn Jury DMagreed. New York, Sept 25. Tho Jury In the Ives case disagreed and has been discharged. The Jury stood ten for conviction and two for acquittal. Ives was remanded to the Tombs.

This has been one of the most sensational trials had in New York in recent years, and its result was awaited with great interest Col. Fellows, the state's attorney, says Ives will bo again placed on trial as soon as the necessary arrangements ran be made. It is not expected that it will be possible to get the young "Napoleon of finum" out on bail. The Jury was considered an exceptionally good one, but a remark made by one of the panel during the speech ot the suite's attorney is looked upon as significant of a premature "under, standing." naif Fare to Washington, D. Vis the WabMh Railroad.

On October 3d, 4th and nth the Wabash puts. James Tyler, at Carson, Iowa, was shot by stock consists of five sleeping cars eighteen feet long, each with six beds, which in the daytime are rolled back to form seats; four two-storied carriages, twenty platform carriages, six lea wagons, four cattle trucks Europe Don't XJka It. Washington, Sept 24. -The State Department Is receiving from our representatives in Europe many extracts from European Journals expressing alarm over the effect upon European trade of the coming' conference of the American nations. Some are almost hysterical in their appeals to the American republics to distrust our advances and continue to trade In Europe.

Europe is waking up to the possible results of the congress in earnest J. J. Bradshaw as he was passing Brad- and 200 goods vans. Nathaniel E. Howard, a retired capitalist of San Francisco, was an original "Forty- A good many towns in New England have celebrated their 250th birthdays recently, and the fact that they pass for very old communities shows what a very young country we are, after all.

In the Old World they would be regarded as the toddling infants among towns. If Damascus were to set out to celebrate, it would puzzle tho wisest of its wise men to number the anniversary. Damascus is said to have been an old-established otty nineteen hundred years before Christ. On the other hand, the American community has the advantage that its oldest inhabitant remembers the oldest inhabitant of his boyhood, who remembered the, site the town frofort there an town. niner." He says: "I was In Frisco when there were 45.000 men and not a single fam ily.

Judge Terry, who was snot down shaw's house, the shot doing no harm. Bradshaw then placed the revolver to hli own forehead and fired, killing himself Instantly. B. B. Curtis, a Cairo merchant, and John Wallace, a mall carrier, quarreled over the removal of Commissioner Tanner and Wallace was struck on the head with a molasses Jug, receiving an injury from which he died an hour later.

The body of Harry Latham, the Sedgwick, farmer who mvsteriously disappeared September 13, found in his barn ten days later. It was quite warm, showing that be bad only been dead a few momenta. The autopsy revealed poison la the stomach, while attacking Justice Field, made a lot of trouble In those days, and I was a member Bold Train Robbery In MlMlMlppU Mobilc, Sept 26. The Mobile and Ohio southbound mail and passenger train was held up yesterday morning by train robbers at Bucktunna, a station seventy miles north of here. On leaving the station two men mounted the cab and covered the engineer with revolvers.

The leader ordered the engineer to pull ont and stop at tbe bridge twenty live mil' below Bucktunna sod place tne train thst the express and mn tr should be Rmtn of the Dead. JonssTowsr, Sept 25. The new directory of Johnstown has Just been published. At the tlnvs of the flood the wholo edition, which was in a book bindery here, was lost From the proof sheets, however, the names were obtained and are now printed as they were before the flood, as well as a spnrial record of those that were lost The number ot drowned is put at and that is considered i dose esUasVv of the Vigilance Committee that kept bim seven weeks in its rooms while awaiting the result of the shot wounds Terry gavt will sell tickets to Washington, D. and return good to return any lime, before Novemler liy paying 110 additional you can return by New York city, and any direct route from New York to Kansas City.

We can fix up moM any kind of a route you want. Call at Wabash ticket office, 531 'Main stmst, Kansas Cilyv for full panic lars. U. Uala5D, A i Hopkins. Had Hopkins died and he was mighty close to death Terry would havi been lynched.

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