Stafford County Leader from Stafford, Kansas • 2

SHE WORE DOG LICENSE. Stafford County Leader. HOLMES EDWARDS, EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. BTAFFO Rl) 7 KANSAS. Sill RAILROAD II.

Employes of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Demand a Revision of Time Tables. THE WORLD AT LARGE, MEN OUT ON THE CLEVELAND LINES, Because the C'nllJy Gave tlr Dainty Uoglet, Ulaa, a Cold In the Cnestlet. A few afternoons ago tall young-Woman, very smartly arrayed, and with an uncommonly large and varied assortment of clinking chatelaine articles attached to an amethyst-encrusted gilt belt, strolled down uptown Seventeenth, Hreet, closely followed by a tiny, shivering, cringing Chihuahua dog. The dog was collarluss, but wore a belt harness trimmed with cerise ribbon. He did not permit himself to be left more than two feet to the rear of his mistress' heels.

At one of the corners there was a sudden rattle, and a caged wagon drew up alongside the curb at the point where the young woman and her dog were walking. A big. black dog catcher sprang from the rear of the caged wagon, and in a trifle less than no time the pampered little Mexican dog was whimperingly struggling in the meshes of the dog catcher's net. The dog catchers transferred the whining brute from the net to the wagon, where a lot of large, coarse, common dogs were already sullenly established. The young woman owner of the captured Chihuahua viewed the proceedings with all the coolness in life.

She adjusted her eyeglasses carefully and looked the dog catcher over from head to foot. Then she examined the plebeian dogs In the wagon. The dog catcher didn't know what to make of her conduct. He expected her to become hysterical and to franticnlly demand the return of her pet. But there-didn't appear to be any hysteric in her.

She walked up to the dog catcher. "What do you think you are going do with that dog of mine?" she inquired of him, in the most matter-of-fact tone imaginable. "Ah's dun swiped him, miss, 'co'din' t' law," replied the dog catcher. "WhatforV'asked the young woman. 'Cause dey ain't no license on him," replied the dog catcher.

"Is that so?" said the tall young woman, quietly. "Well, you can just pass that pup back to me. He has been licensed." "Ah'd laik tuh tek yo wu'd fo dat, missy, but ah doan see no tag, an' it's de law. but "Yoa can look at it now," replied the captured pup's mistress, unsnapping one of the clinking articles from net chatelaine belt. "It was among th first of the year's issue, as you'll see bj the number.

I wear it myself becausi the chilly metal gives Diaz a cold in the chest." The dog; catcher looked at the tag grinned sheepishly, and reached in and handed out the moaning Chihuahua to its mistress. "Dey'll be uh-wearln' de tags fo' ear-rin's nex'," said the dog catcher to the driver of the wagon, as the young woman and the rat-like pup disappeared around the corner. Washington Post, RANDY FOR HOUSEWIVES. Plctoral Labels for Fruit Jars an Preserves Are the Latest Novelties. Andrew Carnegie has given $50,000 toward a public library building at East Liverpool, O.

Two banners were awarded to Kan. sas at the Christian union convention at Lynn, for showing the largest proportional increase of membership during the year and for collecting the largest proportional amount for the missionary fund. Capt. William A. Andrews, who left Atlantic City, N.

on June 18 in a little craft 12 feet in length to cross the Atlantic, was picked up in an exhausted condition about 700 miles from the Irish coast by the British steamer Holbein. His boat was left adrift. William J. Bryan has been appointed by the governor of Nebraska one of the delegates to represent his state at the conference on trusts to be held in Chicago September 13-10. Mr.

Bryan will speak on the evil results of industrial and financial commissions. J. Reichman killed the wife of a neighbor at St. Louis on the night of the 15th by striking her on the head with a hammer and the husband of the murdered woman gathered a number of neighbors and attacked the house of Reichman on Etzel avenue. A platoon of police had to hold back the mob which had swelled to 200 or more by midnight to prevent the murderer from being lynched.

The big Texas cattle syndicate being formed for the purpose of controlling the cattle market in Texas is not sailing in smooth water at present. Rumors that the organization of the syndicate would be in viol ation of the Texas anti-trust law caused all the New Y'ork capitalists to back off from the proposition. George M. Valentine, cashier of a bank at Perth A in boy, N. which was closed on the 14th, was jailed on account of a shortage in the hank's funds, variously estimated all the way up to $105,000.

The affair caused consternation to the residents. Two lynchings occurred in Texas on the 14th. Abe Brown, a negro, who assaulted and murdered a woman, was shot to death at (Jilead and an unknown negro was put to death near lola for murdering a white boy. George A. Outcalt, of Tecumsch, has been appointed census supervisor for the district of Oklahoma.

The French celebrated on the 14th the 110th anniversary of the destruction of the Bastile. The buildings in Paris were decorated with flags. The delegates to the Young People's Baptist Union of America held state rallies at Richmond, on the 14th. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, John II. Chapman, Chicago; recording secretary, Rev.

W. Reed, Wisconsin; treasurer, Frank Moody. Mrs. Catherine Meyers, a widow, residing on a farm five miles southwest of Centralia, 111., was burned to death while attempting to remove a horse from a burning barn. She had removed one horse and returned for another, when the building fell in, killing her and the horse.

Willie Jones, the negro who murdered his wife by cutting her throat from ear to ear, was fovmd guilty of murder in the first degree at Beaumont, and the death penalty was assessed by the jury. This was the first extreme penalty assessed by a Jefferson county jury in 20 years. Apostle Brigham Young, of Salt Xake City, the eldest son of the former head of the Mormon church, was at Chicago the other day and among other things he said the Mormon church expected, within a comparatively few years, to begin the erection of a magnificent city of the faith at Independence, which would be its headquarters. Four bombs were exploded in Barcelona, Spain, on the 14th, causing great excitement. The coal breaker at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire the other day.

Loss, $00,000. It was supposed it was struck by lightning. The organization of the United American Glue company, with a capital of $35,000,000, was completed at a meeting in New York the other day. The company announced that it will invade Canada and endeavor to get a monopoly of the glue business in British America. A dispatch was l-eceived from Gen.

Otis requesting that there be sent, to the Philippines 2,500 horses in order that a brigade of cavalry may be organized for use at the end of the rainy season. It is the intention of Secretary Alger to have the mounts carefully I selected, and he thinks that animals from the southern states will be the best. Vast clouds of grasshoppers recently alighted on wheat fields near Holla, N. from the Turtle mountain regions. A plague has appeared in Mississippi in the form of myriads of grasshoppers, which were said to be devouring crops by the acre.

The char bon plague, instead of dying out, seems to be increasing in many sections of Louisiana, The board of health of Plaquemine, has quarantined against all points infected with the disease. The quarantine prevents the taking in of any horses, cattle or fowls from suspected localities. Dr. Gip.son, Iowa state veterinarian, visited the farmers around Dubuque whose stock was supposed to have been affected with rabies. He pronounced the disease to be mad staggers, which has symptoms closely resembling hydrophobia.

It wascaused by too heavy jrass feeding. Three men and a woman playfully Jumped into a boat in tow of a naphtha lunch at Cincinnati on the 10th whea it sank and only one man was saved. The large plant of Somers ufacturers o4 horse collai's, at St. Lo. was totally destroyed by fire.

$75,000. The Tompkins opera house block at Gallatin, was burned. A heavy windstorm did considerable damage at Minneapolis, on the 10th. A second fire within a week occurred the other night at Fort Duchesne, Utah, when the quartermaster's stables were entirely consumed. Nineteen mules were burned to death besides 20 wagons, ambulances, harness, hay, oats, etc.

The fire was believed to be incendiary. Seven men were crossing Turnagain arm, Alaska, in a small boat, when it was overturned by a tidal wave and they were drowned. A strike was inaugurated on all the street car lines of Brooklyn on the 10th. Twenty-seven business houses, the' pumping station of the waterworks, jhe fire engine house and the jail at Bainbridge, were destroyed by fire-in the 10th. By the breaking of a rope, a scaffold on which three were working at St.

Louis, Alfred Price and Florence Brennan were thrown to the brick pavement from the fourth story of the building and silled. L. S. Doyle, the other man on the scaffold, saved himself by catching a rope at the other end of the scaffold. Gkewsome stories come from the Bra-tos valley in Texas.

Outbreaks of sickness were reported from many points, and, owing to the scarcity of nourishing foods and medicines and the impediments to transportation, it was feared the mortality will be large. John Carlisle, who owns a large plantation at Chappell Hill, near Brenham, four deaths ainong his people since the flood. The waters washed the carcasses of 250 animals into the fence corners on his plantation and portions of his fields were 30 feet under Three-cent fares were adopted by Detroit (Mich.) Citizens' Street railway on the 14th. William Going, whose Indian name rt'as Walla Tonaka, was shot at Alikchi, f. on the I3th under sentence of ihe Choctaw court for murder.

The was a horribly sickening iffair. The sheriff's bullet entered the victim's breast, just missing the right spot. Going fell backward and moaned oiteously for an hour before expiring. Water was poured down his throat a a umber of times to hasten death by strangulation. The coal miners' strike in Kansas is costing Kansas City $3,000 a day.

Seihous rioting followed the acquittal of Father Flamidien, of the school of the Christian Brothers at Lille, Prance, who was charged with murdering a boy in that institution. Thousands of persons paraded the streets shouting "Down with the Jesuits" and smashing windows. A freight train on the Chicago Alton railroad was wrecked early on the 13th near Glendale, Mo. Ten persons were stealing a ride in the cars and three of them were killed and seven terribly injured. It was believed the accident was through a broken flange, causing one of the cars to jump the track and the indiscriminate piling up of the other cars followed.

The train consisted of ten cars of merchandise, coal, hogs and cattle. Several hundred wood carvers 'in the factories at Shelbyville, went on a strike the other day, demanding a raise of wages of 15 cents per hour. They now receive 25 cents. A passenger train on the Colorado Southern railway was robbed by four men at a point five miles south of Fol-som, N. M.

The robbers used dynamite to blow open the sides of the express car. As soon as the robbers had searched the express car they mounted horses, which were hitched nearby, and fled without any attempt to go through the mail car. The Tri-City Labor congress at Moline, 111., has appealed to President McKinley to stop the discrimination against union men in the Rock Island arsenal and also called on trade and labor assemblies throughout the country to use their influence in the matter. 0. T.

Corson, of Columbus, 0., was elected president of the National Educational association by a unanimous vote at the meeting at Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Gaston Boyd, of Kansas, was chossn as one of the vice presidents. One thousand laborers were thrown out of employment on the 13th by the closing down of the Schwarzschild Sulzberger packing plant in Armour-dale, Kan. The plant was closed as a result of a disagreement between the management and the butehers' union about wages.

The men were not discharged, the management merely deciding to shut down the plant until the differences should be adjusted. Two hundred brakemen will be at once dropped by the Nashville, Chattanooga St. Louis railway, which ia supplying the greater part of its freight equipments with modern air- appliances. The Distillery Company of America, with an authorized capital of was incorporated at Trenton, N. to manufacture and deal in whisky, spirits, alcohol, gin and all distillery products and by-products.

Representatives of 13 Indian tribes held a big dance near Red Rock, Ok. The dancers were decorated with paint, beads and feathers, bells and I very few clothes. Summary of the Daily Newa WASHINGTON NOTES. An order has been issued by President McKinley extending the pi ivileges and protection of the American flag to the shipping of Porto Rico and the Philippines. The navy department dispatched to Admiral Dewey the medal awarded to him by act of congress to commemorate the battle of Manila bay.

Tjie pension committee of the O. A. which was in Washington inquiring into pension measures and their administration at the invitation of Commissioner Evans, practically closed its work on the 12th. Members of the committee declined to discuss the results of their labors, but it was understood no substantial foundation had been found for the allegations against the work of the bureau and whatever is recommended probably will be as to changes in the law itself. The president on the 12th appointed Col.

Alfred E. Bates paymaster general of the army, to succeed Gen. Asa B. Carey, retired. A dispatch from Washington on the 12th states that the resignation of Russell A.

Alger as secretary of war was in the hands of the president, although the fact may not be announced for some weeks. The state department at Washington is watching with anxiety the developments in Guatemala. It was said at the department that the financial conditions in Guatemala, with impending repudiation, threaten severe loss to American citizens. The following contributions toward the memorial statne of Lafayette to be placed in Paris were received by the comptroller of currency: From children of Kansas City, from state of Missouri, Kansas. Indian territory, Oklahoma, $153.04.

Secketaby Alger on the 13th received a telegram from San Francisco containing the unanimous request of the Oregon regiment for muster out at San Francisco. After consultation with the president it was decided to accede to the request. It was said to be probable that the next annual report of the internal revenue bureau will recommend a number of changes in the war revenue act in order to produce considerable additional revenue. One of the propositions considered was to assess a tax on the sale or rental of all patent protected articles. The interstate commerce commission made public on the 14th its report on the railroads of the country.

Admiral Dewey filed in the court of claims at Washington on the 15th, through his attorney, his claim for naval bounty growing out of the battle of Manila bay, May 1, 1808. This was the first of that class filed and it is anticipated that there will be between 4,000 and 5,000 of thein altogether. The post office department at Washington has consented to an office in Pulaski county, being named Funs-ton. GENERAL NEWS. A strange insect is damaging the wheat in Clarke county, S.

D. An American syndicate, of which United States Senator Clark, of Montana, is a member, has bought the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico for $500,000, A cog wheel railroad will be immediately built to the summit and the sulphur deposit mined on an extensive scale. Robert P. Tkov, secretary of the California democratic committee, has started a movement for ex-Senator Stephen M. White for president on the democratic ticket in 1900.

The National Educational association finished its work at Los Angeles, CaL, on the 14th and adjourned. Lieut. Smith, in charge of the United States quartermaster's department at St. Louis, died at his home in that city on the night of the 13th. Previously he had complained of stomach trouble, but he was apparently not seriously ill.

The press committee at New York has decided to send a circular letter to all newspaper men in the country, inviting them to go to New York and be the guests of the city during the Dewey celebration next October. Fire broke out at 12:30 a. m. on the 14th in the sampling works of the Kansas City Refining' and Smelting company near El Paso, and the building and machinery in it, valued at were destroyed. Two children named Jacobs, while playing along Cottonwood creek at llolstein, fell in and were drowned.

Mary Vaughn, of Cedar Falls, died from a bite of the kissing bug. A handcar on the Baltimore Ohio Southwestern railway was derailed at Tower Hill, 111., killing Martin Hughes and injuring five others. Mjcxufacturkks of driller and seeder implements met in Chicago and decided to advance the price of seeders 15 per cent. There were six prostrations from the heat in Chicago on the 12th, one proving fatal. The EI(ht-IIour Law Declared unconstitutional by the Colorado Supreme Court Alabama Furnaces to Open Sehwarz-nchllil Sulzberger Packing-House Strike Still I'nsettled.

New York July 18 was predicted a strike was declared on the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company yesterday. The company estimated that 1,000 men quit work yesterday, although the labor leaders claim nearly double this number are out. For several weeks the employes of the lines controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid-Transit company have been complaining that the management did not live up to the ten-hour law. The men demand a revision of the time tables at the different barns, and also claim that they should be paid 20 cents an hour for overtime, which is equivalent to $3 a day, the price which they set for a working day of ten hours. Judging from the number of cars that were running this morning the company had nearly three-fourths of its rolling stock in operation on all the roads other than those which comprise the old Nassau lines.

Charles W. Mackenzie, chairman of the committee in charge of the strikers, said to-day that the men were holding their own and would surely win. lie claimed that every union man upon the traction company's roads and all of the men upon the Nassau lines were out. Chief of Police Devery said this afternoon: "The strike is practically over. There is no trouble in the city to speak of Another Strike in Cleveland.

Cleveland, July 18. The conductors and motormen of the Big Consolidated Street Railway system, who were on a strike last month, went out again at 4:15 o'clock this morning. Eight hundred men are affected. They claim the company has not lived up to the agreement which ended the former strike. The decision to declare another strike was reached after a meeting of the men, which lasted practically throughout the nig'ht.

During the early hours of to-day not a car was running on any of the Big Consolidated lines, 15 in number. The officials of the company have asked foi police protection, and say they will attempt to start cars on one or two lines very soon. Large crowds are congregated at all of the barns of the company, but so far as known no violence has been committed. Eight-Hour Law Unconstitutional. Denver, July 18.

The supreme court to-day decided that the eight-hour law is unconstitutional. The opinion is not yet written and will be filed later. The eight-hour law, which was enacted at the late session of the legislature, applied only to mines, smelters and mills for the reduction of ores. The refusal of the American Smelting and Refining company to pay the same wages for eight hours as had been paid for ten and 13 hours caused its smelters to be closed on June 15 when the new law became operative. This company, which is known as the smelter trust, will now endeavor to reach an agreement with its former employes as to wages and hours of labor and to reopen its smelters as soon as possible.

Alabama Furnaces to Open. Birmingham, July 18. Two furnaces are being repaired in Alabama to go into blast by November or December. This means that every furnace in the state, with the exception of two, the Mary Pratt and Williamson furnaces in Birmingham, will be put in blast. The furnaces to be put in blast are located at Sheffield, Ironton, Tal-ledaga, Russville, Gadsden, Briarfield, Anniston, Vanderbilt and Florence, and the iron output in the state will be increased no less than 1,800 tons day.

The furnaces in blast now have more orders on hand than they can attend to this year, and by the time the idle furnaces can be made ready, purchasing for next year's delivery will have begun. Fucking-House Strike. Kansas City, July 18. The Schwarzschild Sulzberger packinghouse, which was shut down Thursday morning because of discontent among the batchers over wages, did not resume operations at noon to-day as expected and the management is unable to say when it will start. The disaffection has extended to the firemen, engineers, carpenters and the employes of other departments of the house, who object to signing the contract which the company demands as the result of the trouble with the men in the killing departments.

A number of the latter also refuse to sign the agreement. Freight Handler' Strike. New York, July 18. Three hundred and seventy-five freight handlers on the Pennsylvania Railroad company's piers who struck last evening for higher pay are practically shut out, as the railroad company announced today that there would be no more night work on the piers. The men are form- ally discharged and the nifrht, force I is wiped out.

All sorts of labor-saving devices and arrangements are now being brought out for the convenience of the busy woman of to-day. Among the most recent and really helpful of these may, be reckoned the pictorial label which is destined to take the place of the handwritten labels which used to distinguish the different preserves and jellies stored in the fruit closet from each other, and which took so long to prepare. Many a weary, busy, hurried housekeeper will bless the pictorial label this summer, and so will many a vacation-hungry boy or girl who in other seasons has been pressed unwillingly Into the service of writing out fruit labels. The pictorial label is simplicity itself. The colored representation of the fruit indicated explains its object and purpose alone.

There is nothing to confuse the eye of the housekeeper as she runs over the shelves of her preserve closet in search of a paiticular fruit. Some of the designs show evidence of a high degree of artistic merit as well. The labels can be used but once, but they may be purchased very cheaply, and come all gummed and ready to attach. It is safe to say that many a progressive and weJl-occupied Chicago housekeeper will make liberal use of them this year, and the fact that the fruits which they distinguish may be recognized much more quickly and readily by means of their aid than with that of the old-time written label constitutes no insignificant point in their favor. Chicago Times-Herald.

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears a Crown, But such are not the only uneasy heads. Overworked, harassed, anxious people of alt Ages and both sexes are uneasy tvith aches, pains, impure blood, dis- ordered stomachs, deranged kidneys and liver. For all such, Hood's Sarsaparilla is the effective and faultless cure. It infuses fresh life through purified blood. 3(cvdS SaUahwiilta I i Jl.