The Burden Eagle from Burden, Kansas • 1

EAGLEo ly tnug with the Burden Met-chants you encourage them carry betUsr and laxcer stock aud build up your own interest. Trad la Bnrdsa where yoa ma lumber, ooml, hardware implement, clothing, dry roods, booti aad shoes, drags, furniture, groceries we have the bestfiouruig mill in Bouth- V0LUME2 BURDEN, KANSAS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1893. NUMBER 18 A single sunflower stalk waa recent GENERAL NEWS AFTER TOE SOBERS RILLED FOR MONEY KANSAS MATTERS. Stoma of Interest Condensed for Harried Headers. Maps of the Strip are sold on the streets of Arkansas City by hawkers.

John Stevens, a farmer near Garden City, is making $30 an acre off alfalfa. Newton is threatened with a water famine, the source of supply being very low. A firm at Ottawa shipped 5,000 chickens to Chicago on Monday. They fill-, ed one car. fifty-eight Inch snake with sixteen rattles was recently killed in Wichita inside the city limits but outside the joints.

George H. "VYaterbury, of Colorado has been appointed postoffice inspector, with headquarters at Denver. Mr. Waterbury served in this capacity dur-ing Mr. Cleveland's former administration.

af he United States cruiser Atlanta through the disregard of some ofiicers of the navy will cost the government $100,000 and' deprive it of the serviee of thatj-ressel for oyer seven months. A dispatch the London 'Times sued, but the matter is in the hands of county officers who can do nothing, as the gamblers have but to step across an imaginary line into Oklahoma. This morning twenty-four young men were tcnt out to act as constables and with authority to ar rest any gamblers found at work. The sooner trouble is coming up again and is likely to cause a great deal of trouble. A plot has been discovered to sooner the whole of the Perry town site.

The scheme is for the sooners to enter the strip Friday night from Oklahoma and from the Otoe Indian reservation early Saturday morning. It is in the hands of a powerful and unscrupulous syndicate politicians and is sure to succeed unless the troops can prevent it Robert L. Owens of Cherokee allotment fame returned from Stillwater ly cut down at newton witn asu sow ers and ends. The fiftieth volume of the) Kansas supreme court reports has been Issued and is ready for distribution. The Lawrence canning factory is doing a rushing business, and is put ting np 30,000 cans ox corn each day.

The petty thieves of Wellington for some unaccountable reason, seeui to have a preference for 'purloining sets of harness. Mound City has elected to the posi tion-of superintendent of schools Hon. Geo. W. Jones, formerly assistant of public instruction.

A Shawnee wunty snake has been trying to accustom its digestive apparatus to hard times swollowing the plaster of Paris nest eggs. Judge Almerin Gillett, of Emporia, married Wednesday to Miss Anna B. Zimmerman, of Hutchinson, at the bride's home in that city. Cliff II albert is going to Atchinson to practice law, according to the Globe having resigned his position as private secretary to Judge Horton. The dam is still occupying space in the Topeka papers, but the current of the Kaw has not yet been impeded in the least by any artificial obstacles.

A Newton young lady has taken the prize for the best twenty-five pounds of silk produced in Kansas, and sent to the experiment station at Feabody Several Arkansas City men are in tending to invade the Strip on their bicycles, and are practicing daily to get themselves in good racing condi tion. People of Quinton heights, a suburb of Topeka, are frightened by the ap pearance of a gorilla which they claim is roaming around killing hogs and cattle. The next sitting of the state supreme court will be held Sept. 5. It is probable, however, that Judge Horton will dispose of some accumulated business before that time.

The Harper Sentinel, at the risk of losing its reputation, predicts that in two years from now free and unlimited coinage of silver will be as little heard of as the sub-treasury scheme is now. Nearly all the Kansas colleges, including the State University, the Baldwin University, the Ottawa University, and the State Normal school, opened for the fall term Tuesday and all have an increased attendance. General James A. Underwood, one of the oldest settlers in Rice county, and the editor of the -Frederick Republican, was killed last week by the cars. His paper was a unique speci men of journalism.

2 A Montgomery county couple were divorced last March and remarried at Coffey ville Monday. They are going to try a second time to dec.de the much discussed question, Vis marrige a failure?" The people of Wallace county are determined to encourage the taking of wolf scalps', and last week voted favorably on a proposition to increase the" county levy 10 mills to provide the funds to pay the bounty. From the investigition made during the past -few days, the impression is rapidly gaining ground thatx Dr. Graves did not commit suicide but died of heart disease, brought on by long imprisionment and subsequent exhaustion. Another letter left by Dr.

Graves has been found and made public, in which he again solemnly declares his innocence of the crime with which he was charged. His remains will be taken to Bridgeport, Sunday night for buriaL The boys of Hutchinson whose parents have not had time to teach them irood morals have been pilfering fruit from the trees of that city to such an extent that some of the sufferers are threatening to do some shooting at the depredators. Topeka Capital: The Barber Coun ty Index, the paper that secured the county printing, made 55ft errors in publishing the delinquent tax list, and that many tracts of land and town lots will have to be readveitised and sold next year. The social world of Topeka has entered upon the task of deciding as to the propriety, of "straw rides," whatever that may be. It will be settled of course, for they settle things at To peka if the militia has to be called out and it takes a year to do it.

The Hutchinson News has been getting after one of the county commissioners for extragance in the expenditure of the county's funds for the maintenance of the poor farm. One the needless expenditure-, was the "boarding out of a pauper at an expense of over $1 per day. Sunday morning there was found the badly decomposed body of a white man in Forest Park, St. Louis. There was a hole in the man's head and in his right hand lay a 44-caliber revolver.

It is believed to be a case of suicide, and the-body is thought to be that of John R. Severing. The irrigation convention, to be held at Salina on the 28th inst, is receiving wide notice throughout the state, and will in aU probability be largely attended. The importance of the subjects to be considered justifies such recognition from the people of the western portion of the st ite especially. A successful solving of the problem of irrigation would mean a doubling of the agricultural products of the state.

The question as to which is the "Sabbath day" is likely to be settled in the court at Nortonville, where two Seventh Bay Adventists keep stores. They close them on Saturdays-and keep open on Sundays. The council has passed an ordinance forbidding them to keep open on Sundtay, and he-court will likely have to settle tae trouble. Sugar makirr at the Fort SceU mill was beun Wednesday, and a very prosperons seaso-i is promised. If congress will lxt the bounty on si 'ar remala, tib ftry, wi ti the tt-provementi lthd methods of maki beet and r'hiisii eoi Trodnce tr' to.

we --ply fas arefallv Selected Xevjs Events. of Current A. Armsbury, of North Platte, shot and killed himself accidentally Sunday afternoon while liding in a Union Pacific caboose. Hungarian miners engaged, in a drunken riot at Cliff Mines, Sunday, and several cjf them, were hpt cut, but none idtdHyi. Hoo Sue, a ChineSt druggist of San "Francisco, who louael there in" 1846 leaves for China on the next steamer with his son and daughter Justin McCarthy, the leader" of the parliamentary1 had a attack of bronchitis and has been confined to his room for several days-.

V-. The Catholic congress which was to open at Bnda Pesth Monday, has been prohibited by the Hungarian minister of the interior owing to the prevalence of cholera. All the remaining cases of cholera under observance at the Moabit hos pital, Be lin, have been discharged and the cholera section of that hospital has been closed. B. Wolf wholesale notion dealers "being business at 704 and 706 avenue, St.

Louis, made an assignment Saturday to Charles J. Blake trustee for creditor. The following national banks which recently suspended, have been permitted to reopen: The First National, Nashville, and the First -Na-iJ mal, Lemars, la. There were sharp shocks" -earth-quake Sunday -Jassey nd at Bucharest. Teople rushed into the; streets in alarm, though not much actual damage was done.

The Secretary of the treasury has asked for the resignation of Phillip M. Hildebrand, surveyor of customs ati Indiananotis. and Michael E. Smith. assayer of the mint at Denver, Col.

Two more Colorado banks opened "their doors for business Monday, after several weeks' suspension. They are the Western National, a Pueblo, and the Bank of Florence, at Florence. The threatened epidemic of typhoid fever in the Kentucky penitentiary is not only spreading but becoming more fatal. Two more of the convicts died Wednesday night and two new cases were reported Thursday morning. Representative Geary, of California, author of the Chinese exclusion act, called on Secretary Gresham yesterday and urged him to enforce the law.

Mr. deary received very little satisfaction. The Rockford passenger train on the Burlington and Chicago jumped the track at Hinckley Saturday, owing to a brakeman's blunder. Engineer Andy Farr. of Rockford, jumped out and was killed.

Detectives have recovered S3, 000 of the money stolen from the safe of the Adams expres, at Akron, Friday night. It was found buried in a corn field in the suburbs. The burglars have been arrested. The miners in the Barinage district, in the province of llalnaut, Belgiam, have voted to go out on a strike im mediately unless their wages are rais ed, vast numbers of people are in volved in the proposed strike. For hundred colored men, armed with vVinchester rifles, passed through Ijittle Kock eanesday night en route to Weir City, to take the places of the striking miners and were prepared to do so at all hazards.

They were plentifully supplied, witn. am munition and provisions. Fire at Canby, Friday night burned a block and a half in the busi ness part of the town destroying six teen stores, the postomce and the Bank of Canby. The fire was caused by the filling of a lamp while it was ligrhted. loss is estimated at insurance $60,000.

Reports from Buenos Ayres say revolution has broken out at iucu man, owing' to the fraudulent manner in which a new governor was elected. The rebels attacted the military barracks and seized the ammunition. The army is entrenched at Cabillo and is preparing to re-, el an attack. Latest news from Rio reports a revolution has broken out there under the leadership of Admiral Custodio de Mello. The insurgents have seized the warship Aquidaban, the cruisers Republica and Trajant, and four torpedo boats.

It is reported that President Peixoto has proclaimed himself. Mr. Bayard, ambassador from the United States England, and many of the aristocracy were in the galleries of the house of lords last night when the debate on the home rule bill was resumed. The feature of the evening was sp ech for the bill by Lord Roseberry, the foreign secretary. At Milwaukee Judge Walber Saturday ruled that William Plankinton, in his capacity as assignee of the Plank inton bank must testify before the grand iury.

In his individual capacity Mr. Plankinton might perhaps have been exempted from testifying on the ground that his evidence might crimi nate him. The news from Tusuman is far from satisfactory to the government. There has been more fighting in the streets' of the The rebels are in posses sion "of the railroad and have received reinforcements from the sur rounding country. The position the government is said to be critical.

The governor has asked for rein forcements, as his troops are far out numbered by the rebel The dead body of Francis-- E. Bnr-dick was found in Cutoff lake. Coun cil Bluffs, Thursday, He lived in umana ana was quite well off. it is thought he was murdered and the body thrown into the lake to Conceal the crime. He had quite a sum of money on his person when last seen.

In the United States circuit court at New York Saturday Charles J. Mackay began a suit against the Central Road and Banking Company of Georgia for the recovery of SlOi.850. Mackay says that in 1887 he purchased 897,000 worth of bonds of the Chattanooga, Rome Columbus road. The Central company suttriiuiiccu wic uuuua. vv ueu ne 1 1 X.

XTT 1 Rome road failed he brought this Unit. 3 it a MRS. JANE WRIGHT MURDEREC AT KANSAS CITY. THE, PERPETRATORS ARRESTED. John Clark, a Itervntty Itrlrased Kan aaa Convict, Uarry Jones and John A.

Kartell-. Kansas ity Cooks, the Gallty l'artles Complete Cotrfssslaa Mails by Each One. Eassas Crrr, Ma, Sept 12. Mrs Jane Wright, proprietor of Madam Wright's employment agoucy in il.ii city, was found dead in her oflkx- in the Hall building Saturday evening. She had been foully mur.lt-red and the deed was committed within h.

aring ol thousands of people, us her ofii -t were in the heart of the city and was killed when most people are on the streets about 0 p. in. When found by the janitor of the building she was lying upon the floor with her hands and feet tied together and her face presented a horrible 6ight a she had bern t-truck several blows which disfigured her in a terrible manner. She hal evidently been strangled to death as tinker marks were plainly noticeable upon her throat There seems little doubt now that the real perpetrators of the criiue are now under arrest and that their object in killing the woman was for money. lesterday afternoon the police arrested one John Clark, who was released from the Kansas penitentiary September 3, after serving a five years sentence lor burglary, and he has confessed his participation in the murder, in the actual work of which he claims to have had no hand, how ever, llarrr Jones was arrested last night and John It.

Kartchey, both cooks, were arrested this morning. A little Swiss watch, with chased gold case, which had belonged to the dead woman, led to the direct unraveling of the crime. It had been constantly worn by her. It had been stolen from her body by the murderers. It had fell to the share of Clark.

Within two hours after the' crime, Clark, unstrung and excited, summoned an acquaintance and friend of a week, Charles Cheek, a bartender. To him he showed his money, then pulled out the watch. 'I've' a mind to throw it away," said Clark. 'Why?" asked his friend. "Well I've wind" said Clark, "that's what III do.

I II throw it away. No, suddenly changing his mind, "here, you take it and keep it" Bad he kept his first resolution regarding tbe little gold timepiece the murder of Mme. Wright might still be a mystery. But the watch was passed to Cheek. A little scroll upon the front of the case bore the initials VV.

And when read of Jane Wright's murder yesterday morning it flashed upon him that he had in his keeping the watch of the dead woman and that he, probably alone, knew the identity of her murderer. The police were notified. A son of Mme. Wright and her woman bookkeeper identified the watch at a glance. Last night Clark confessed that he had had a hand in the murder, but that Harry Jones was the principal.

It was Jones who knew of the woman and her hoarded wealth It was Jones who planned the robbery. Opiovte Madame Wright's ofiice on Ninth street the two men stood iatarday until they saw Miss Williams leave the office at 6:15. Then Joa-s went up and soon appeared at the window, the signal for Clark to join him. As Clark reached the door Jones was beating and choking the rostrate woman. They searched her body for tbe money together.

It vrai Jones who found it and June who tied her hands and feet with cord taken from his pocket Then they fled and in a vacant lot near the jail divided the booty $300 and the tell-tale gold watch. Harry Jones admits planning the robbery which resulted in themurd r. Clark, the other murderer, was on'y taken into tbe plot last Thursday. Two weeks ago Jones and John A. Bartchey, another cook, talked of the robbery, according to the statement made to-day by the negro porter at Froisy Purcell semplovment agency.

He says that last week they met in and asked him to be a party to tho robbery cf Madame Wright, but he refused to have anything to do with the matter. Bartchey was arrested at 11:3 o'clock this morning at the Saratoga restaurant on Main street He confessed to the fact that he and Jones had planned to rob Madame Wright Delta Bandit Identified. Dklta, CoL, Sept 18. r. Condee, sheriff of Parker county, Oregon, arrived here yesterday afternoon and positively identified the two dead bank robbers as Fred and Tom McCarthy and the escaped robber as Billy McCarthy.

Mr. Condee is well acquainted with the McCarthys, having to face a revolver in the hands of Tom McCarthy once. Demoeratla Xosnlnattoaa. Clat Cz-rrxB, Sept 15 Tha Clay eoupty Democratic convention met here Saturday and nominated the following ticket: Sheriff. A.

S. Wilson; treasurer, Joseph Bradbury; lark, James Cofferata; register, George Camming; surveyor, T. K. Eousey; coroner, Dr. D.

Tyler; com-raisiioner, First district, Martin Babb. A lamina) no Mall Carrier Arrested. LAWKZSC3, Sept IS. Satur-Ciy nlht Ceor-e W. Gross-, the colored errUr on route So.

2, was by rtstodee Cochran trl WUiiArzs of St Louis and taken t) Tr-tksv taj Io 7d in Jail charged staillrT rc-tered letters and j-rn f.i tl tilL 1-3 I Ct It. The ver--vce-zrt rrixtUtl case Tts cTcrr.or cf til cilitary ihti)! 3'" Vl i i i i zX 1 A i-r ijcs kas been SOLDIERS CAPTURE THhEB MEN ON THE FIFTY- STRIP. THREE DEAD IH THE LIE tS.rn.nj More Carried Away Gamblers the Right and Left Clerks at Arkann. C'hriscten Endeavor Insensible. Iloomen orce of City ocle- tlM Will Suppl Ut.

Oklashdo, Sept 14. The sol- diers brought fifty-three sooners camp here yesterday evening into and more are reported to be concealed alontr the streams in the forbidden land. The men who were captured protest that they crossed the border in good faith. They all bear certificates of registration and they airn that they thought the certificates entitled them to enter the strip and take up homesteads. Their story was not credited an 1 they were deprived of their certificates and will not be permitted to take up land.

Less than 5,500 certificates were issued Monday and yesterday, and as nearly all applicants take out certificates for both land and town lots, the total number of persons who registered on the two days is less than Unless some means be devised to facilitate the work at the booths many of the applicants will miss the opportunity of registering and the result will be confusion and cont sts at the land offices, which Secretary uith hoped by his registration scheme to prevent The boomers, in order to get rid of a class of men who are on the ground to speculate, have passed a resolution to refuse to permit men to sell their places in line. At' the outset of the registration this sort of buUnes? was carried on to a great extent and a great deal of ill-feeling was caused among tbe men who are in line for the honest purpose of securing claims. The new order will eliminate from the line all adventurers and the registration will hereafter progress more expeditiously. Reports from Stillwater are that hundreds are arriving there every hour and it is said that since Monday the crowd has been almost as large as here. A strong feeling has dv -loped in tbe crowds at Orlando and Stillwater against the boomers who hail from Oklahoma.

Tbe latter have appeared in large number and it Is un.iistly felt by all others that as the Okla homa people have had one chance to secure desirable claims they ought to keep out of the run for the strip. Kale Sales, a young woman from McPherson, fainted in line and is now dangerously sick. Scores of people are sick all along the line and doctors are reaping a harvest Secretary Smith's order, permitting excursion trains to be run into the strip at the hour the great race for claims starts, is received with satisfaction by all except those who expected to go to the best lands on their fast horses ahead of the other. The order forbidding all who have not registered to ride on the trains is also satisfactory. George Oakley, a special policeman, was shot last night by Fred Hutch-craft a gambler from Sherman, Texas, whom he was attempting to arrest, and died this morning.

Oakley was collecting fees from gamblers and as Hutchcraft was engaged in a game it is said the officer called on him to pnt up for the privilege. The second or third time Fred whipped oat a gun and put a hole through the marshal. SUFFERING IN THE LINES. Many Waiting- for Certificates Overcome Trouble Wltli Gamblers. Arkansas Citt, Sept.

14. The clerks at the registration booths issued 3,900 certificates yesterday to about 1,500 people. The line instead of decreasing increased steadily all dayand at night at least 8,000 people remained in the lines. One man drew No. 3,042, and upon figuring found that he could not get a chance to register until Friday.

The people are coming in steadily. At least 4,000 people are estimated to have arrived yesterday by wagon and train. Three more clerks were added to the force at the booths, but they will not relieve the crush much. Three men died of dust and exhaustion at the booths this morning. The suffering in the lines yesterday was intense.

The gamblers, who were driven out of town, have taken possession of the roads about the booths and in spite of the efforts of the county authorities have succeeded in robbing many people. A good many, conflicts have taken place between' the so. diers and the gamblers, the former, on visits to town, having sought the gambling houses and been robbed. In a number of cases they compelled the return of the money at the muzzle of revolvers and one or two were arrested by local officers for 'it. Whenever the soldiers catch a gambler at work among tne boomers on the line, they run him out in no gentle manner.

Yesterday the boss gambler robbed an old man in line of 150. The crowd turned on him mad he fled. His team and buggy stood about 100 yards o2 and it was a foot race for his life. Cs got there first and with a Winchester held the crowd off until his driver got away. Later in tbe day a gauibler got 15 from a boy who was holdlc? his father's place in line.

The crowd tried to make hint give it back but he refused to do so. A soldier who was passing took a hand, and the gambler ran. The soldier was loaded wita heavy boots and spurs and his car biz and cartridge belt. They raced down the line inslie the strip and the scl-dier eatchiz'f knocked him 9wa with the butt cf hia curUra, kncLLr 7 him Tie ccisy from fcixn ar rt.arnea to ta -y. The rani rrs v-cr 7 1-1 i 4J.3C Hae hxTs v.

zr. 1 i have ncti.lrj fij are I lr 7 a I plaiata were tl-- i of An Osborn couple brated the sixtieth their marriage. recently cele-annivrsary of A ti aw TkrkliAman flttemnted to ar-c ire us rest one-o the of parade the other day. Former residents of Ohio now living in Reno county will hold a reunion at Hutchinson Sept. 14.

"The Mail office are smoking in con-secmence" of showing a business man of Wellington "type lice," Dr. M. M. Cloud of Junction City, has been annointed ohvsician of the i i i Osawatomie insane asylum. Speakine of odd names, what do you think of Beanblossom, the pat ronymic of a Burr Oak iamily? A fiftv-eie-ht inch snake with sixteen rattles was recently killed in Wichita inside the city limits but outside the joints.

SJater White, a Mitchell county farmer, has ten acres in watermelons, and is known in that section as "the melon king." It is said that the horn fly is doing much injury, to cattle in Russell county, in some instances causing them to become blind. Experimenting with the growth of canaigre, the new tannin plant, is being conducted to some extent in Western Kansas. The colored people of Fort Scott will celebrate the anniversary of President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation September 22. The ministers of Topeka are prepar ing a memorial protesting against the desecration of the Sabbath, by traveling, by state officials and others. Miss Ruth Martin, eldest daughter of the late Governor will be mai-ried at Atchison to-day, Wednesday, to Paul Lonsig of that city.

John Brown, son of Ossawato-mie Brown, will be at the Kansas building and be entertained by Kan sas people Kansas week at the world's fair. J. M. Gere, at one time proprietor of the Garden City is at the head of a colony of 500 boomers from Denver that will' invade the Cherokee Strip. The Lawrence people who are anx iously looking for their "trousers, which they ordered from a traveling man, ought to have been content to wear pants.

Kansas has been honored by the World's fair management in the appointment of Major J. K. Hudson as one of the judges of printing machinery at the fair. Labette county is in a fight over the new county high schooL The school of Altamont, where the school is located has employed attorneys to protect its Quite a number of the small papers of Kansas are of the opinion that they are oposed to the free coinage of silver, but in time they will not be right sure that they were. There is a wide discrepancy in the price of wheat and bread at Winfield.

The bread sells for five cents a loaf, straight, while 40 cents will buy a whole bushel of wheats The indications are that the excur sion of the Kansas Editorial Associa tion to the fair this" week will be the largest excursion the Kansas editors have ever given. A load of sixty-two pound wheat brought 44 cents at Coffeyyille the other day and the market was so stiff that the buyers had to nio up pennies to decide who would get it. Bishop John H. Vincent is expected to arrive in Topeka this week with his family and will reside in the Methodist Episcopal residence where Bishop Ninde formerly lived. The reduction of the interest on delinquent taxes has had the effect of reducing the number of bidders at the annual sale in Shawnee county this year.

The sale was completed in one day. The Kansas man who invented the device for holding a 6tovepipe in place should have it he really desired to benefit his fellow beings, made a stovepipe that a man could pnt in place without swearing. Judge James Kelley, who sold th Pratt Times a few weeks ago and became a partner with T. J. Palmer in thi publication of the Hutchinson Patriot, has disposed of his interest in the Hutchinson enterprise to Mr.

Palmer. The following graphic destription of a recent rain is taken from the Lyons Republican: A good, old fashioned Kansas "get there quick rain fell Sunday morning about 1 o'clock. The water came down in sheets for over an hour. The Cimmaron New West says that 100 Mennonite families will locate in Gray county before spring, and that means anywhere from 500 to 1,000 people. There is never anything small about a Mennonite family excepting the last baby.

Friday night Mrs. M. E. Seval, daughter and neice arrived at Arkan sas City from Texas. Just as the ladies got off the coach Mrs.

Seval discovered she had been robbed, that her pocket had been picked. -In going south from Winfield she had her pocket-book, as she showed her tickets to the conductor. The other side of Hackney a clerical looking man asked Mrs. Seval if he could occupy the seat with her and she consented. The man asked her if she was a Christian and other questions.

He told her he was a preacher and was tfoic to Arkansas City to ho gospel meetings in the park. When tne nan disappeared she discovered she Jl till JUr c-xtxirj C-. V. 1 from Odessa says a severe shock of earthquake was felt there for thirteen seconds Monday morning. '1 he shock, 1 is added, was felt through Southern Russia.

Colonel Newell, secretary of the bimetallic convention to be held at St. Louis, has received a letter from Gov ernor Hogg, of Texas, heartly indorsing the convention and promising to attend in person. At Grundy Center, Governor Boies spoke Saturday afternoon, opening the state campaign for the Democratic party, He devoted the bulk of his time to the tariff, and the state institutions. A great prairie fire is being fought near Millsburg, 111., and meadows, fences, etc within an area of one and half miles square have already been burned. The fire started from sparks from an Ohio Mississippi railroad-engine.

Louis Zimmerman, a tramp, is un der arrest at Jefferson City, Ma, for an attempted assault on Mrs. Ben Mc- Kinzie, at whose house he asked for food. She-screamed for help, and Zimmerman was frightened away and afterwards caught, A band Of Communists attacked Pat- ton AbelPs store, at Pattonville, Texas, Thursday night, having planned to devide the stock. The proprietory hearing of the contemplated raid, had guards ready who repulsed the raiders, fatally wounding a man named Wilson. The others escaped.

Friday night Deputy United States Marshals Frank Qore of Paris, Texas, Dave D. Bohannan, of Arkansas, and George Secor, of Stringtown, engaged in a fight at Denison, Secor was shot through and through, from which he died. Both of Gore's fore arms were s-hattered and he may lose them. Bohannan has fled. Benjamin Jackson, eolored, was lynched near Quincy, Friday nigh.

About a year agp Jackson and Thomas Woodmeyer, a prominent citizen, quarrel. -A few days ago Jackson threw rat poison into Woodmey-er's well. Three of the Woodmeyer children died by drinking the poisoned water, Woodmeyer himself is dying. J. M.

of the First Na tional bank of Omaha, left Saturday night for parts unknown, placing the time lock of the bank vault seventy-two hours ahead. Investigation shows that he took with him 814,400, besides borrowing $3,500 from a neighboring town and putting np his bank stock as collateral. The Manchester Sheffield Railway Company, of England, have given notice, on account of the scarcity of fuel caused by the miners' strike, they have suspended fifty-five trains from service. The "Midland railway has taken off fourteen trains for the same reason. Each company had already curtailed its service because of the coal famine.

Secretary Herbert has 'concluded his investigation into the circumstances leading up to the bad condition of the cruiser Atlanta and has concluded not to call any court-martial. He will issue more stringent rules regarding the care of vessels in future and the responsibility for their good condition at all times. 1 The bodies of Mrs. Catherine Steej and her grown daughter. Josepme, have been found in Jakes' mill pond, near Wyoming, Del.

They left home early Saturday with the intention of purchasing some provisions. The cause of their, drowning is a mystery. Foul play is suspected. Almost all the clothing was torn from the body of the young girl. The train men on the College avenue, Indianapolis, electric line, struck at 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, and pulled twenty electric trains into the stables, and on the same tracks all the regular trains stopped and only a few extras were running at that hour.

The cause of the strike was the discharge of Conductors Keefe and Alexander. A report on the Hawaiian question' is being made by Secretary Uresbam, who will submst it to Prt-sident Cleve land, and then' in' all probability it will be sent to congress. Minister Blount has had several interviews with Mr. Cleveland on Hawaiian affairs and a decision on the matter, so far as tha executive branch is concerned will soon be reached. P.

H. ondee, sheriff of Parker coun ty, arrived Delta this afternoon and positively identified the two dead bank rot-ben as Fred and Mc Carthy and the escaped robber as Billy M'jCarty." Mr. Condee is well acquainted with the McCarthys, hav ing to face a revolver in the hands of Tom McCarthy several men from Utsih who knew the MaCarthys have also identified them. Ofiicers have struck a fresh trail of the third robber and have run across the horse he rode out of town. The- gang had evidently prepared relays of horses, for pursuit they knew was inevitable.

The pursuing party is now fio close on the robl er that his capture seems al most certain. The latest development in the Mc Quillan murder mystery at Middle-town, is the discovery of the body of Paul" Holliday buried ii the dirt beneath the floor of house. Mrs. Holliday, who is in custody, acts as if she is insane. Congratulatory telegrams and mes sages still arrive at the White house express: ng the felicity of the public from one end of the country to the other over the happiness which been brought to the chief executive of the nat on and his wife by the birth oJ anot ier child.

Both Mrs. Cleveland aad her babe are as well as the eon ditious will allow and every one in tbe executive mansion wears Lx? this morning, where be had been to perfect his guard-anship of the allot ments owned by minor Cherokee chil dren. The series of Cherokee towns owned by the Indians will now be placed on the market ibey own town sites about nearly every county seat and at other desirable place-. All the towns will be contro.led by a syndicate, who will sell lots and give deeds at once. The town of Willow Spring is on an a.lotmen' which was purchased from Stevens The owners have got the start of tbe Cherokees by about a week and have sold near.y every lot in their town.

They control the water supply at Willow Sprint's almost the only source of water in that region and men furnished with passes have started down there to clean out tbe spring, dig wells and erect windmills. The whole surrounding country will be invited to come there for their water supply, and the owners say there will bo more than enough for alL There is a great complaint over the postal service here. Lines of men extend up the streets for a block and are there ail day. The postmaster wired the department at Washington for permission to employ more clerks, but his request has been ignored The post-office is small at best and is jammed full all day. Early this morning a gambler drove out with two women to see the sights.

A couple of drunken soldiers took after the women and their companion attempted to defend them by beating one of the soldiers over tbe head with a The soldier tried to get at his revolver, but not succeeding, the other soldier got it and commenced to shoot wildly. He created a panic among the boomers, who fled in all directions. The sheriff coming up at this time on a horse, got in line of the bullets and his horse was killed. The officers and other troops secured the drunken soldiers. THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND SAFE Registration Moving; Along Fairly Well Night Force for Arkansas City.

"Wichita, Sept. 14. Chief Clerk M. A. Jacobs of the general land otnee, who directs all tne move ments of the Cherokee strip registra tion and land ofnee officials from here, says that up to last night little over 31,000 certificates of registration had been issued from the several booths.

At Arkan sas City, wbere tne only-serious over crowding seems to exist, he has de cided to put on a night force of clerks. and this morning made arrangements to that effect, so that hereafter it will be an easy matter to register 5,000 to Deople there during the twenty- four hours. At both Orlando and Hunnewell three extra clerks have been ordered into service. Mr. Jacobs this morning received a telegram from Commissioner Lamo- reauz saying that the following clerks had been allowed for the several land offices: At Enid, one clerk at $1,000 and one at $600; at Perry, two at $1,000, one at 9O0 and one at $51-0; at Alva, one at.

C900 and at Woodward one at S3.40. rnese clerics win be recom mended by the registers of the land office and appointed by the interior department The Santa Fe took sixty-five coach loads of boomers through here this morning. The Rock Island had twenty-seven coaches filled France aad Slam Not so Hostile. liOXDox, Sept 1 4. A dispatch to the Renter Telegram company, Bangkok, capital of Siam.

announces that tbe relations between Siam and France are more satisfactory as regards the political situation. It is added, however, that the resumption of negotiations is somewhat uncertain. A a Ex-Slava aa a Warrior. Sept 14. Advices from the interior acnouace that a slave of Zodeir Hassa, has captured Baghirmi after a long siege.

The sultan has sent 10,000 troops to dislodge him and a desperate war is being carried on. Percy Daniels Acting Governor. Topeka. Sept 1 4, Lieutenant -Governor Percy Daniels is the acting governor in the absence of Governor Lewelling and will remain here until the governor returns from He and State Auditor Pra-ther are the only state officials now in the" city. Russia Shots Oat Foreign Silver.

Washixotox, Sept 14. The Russian government has ordered that its mint shall no longer receive from individ uals silver bars or worn silver pieces brought to be converted intp coin, and the importation into Russia of foreign silver coin, except from China, is pro hibited. Carlisle to Have Tana or Removed. WA8HixGTOjr, Sept 14. A large tu mor has developed on Secretary Car lisle's ritrht arm above the elbow and has resisted all treatment looking to reduction, and Dr.

Uryant and J. Ford tiuDson of this city, have de cided that it must be removed by the knife. ThoaMuads of Aeree Fire Iwsft Victoria, Tesu, Sept 14. Disastrous rrairie fires have swept the northeastern part of this county. Twenty thousand acres of fasture were burned over aci tnacy cii-i ex fence "-rrri.

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