Nemaha County Republican from Seneca, Kansas • 2

EMBEZZLER A SUICIDE. Nemaha County Republican'. ititaMUMM4M4)Ma4tMMeA IT SHOOK A CITY WW Latest Kansas News; STOCK CATTLE IN DEMAND. Mhuourl farmer Who aold Their I -Ml Mil are Mow lluylng In Kauu. Within the past week there has been quite a demand here for stock rattle.

Several buyers from Missouri have been canvassing Reno county and buying for their home market. Many of the farmers In Missouri disposed of all of their rattle early last fall and now want to restock their farms, The wheat fields and straw stack! In Western Kansas have enabled the farmeri to bring their rattle through the winter and they are being offered good prices for them now for delivery both In the spring and at tho present time. for Manna CUM Arcouulaal for Yukon Territory Would no! ga In 1'rlaoa, Via Ashcmft, Thomas Middleton, chief accountant for the Yukon territory, haa commit ted suicide rather than suffer the disgrace of arrest for emheixlement He waa a native of England. He has been missing for several days, during which a thorough examination was made of his bonks and a shortage approximating $10,000 waa discovered. A warrant waa Immediately Issued for Middleton's arrest, lie waa found In an out of the way house aud taken to the government offices, When confronted with proof of his defalcation he attempted no excuse and waa cool and collected.

When the Interview was terminated he excused himself a moment. A second later the officers heard the fall of a body, fol lowed by gioaning. Middleton had cut his throat from ear to ear. Before medical aid could be summoned be bad expired. Middleton waa one of the most pop ular government employes bereudrh ulnr government ofllciula here, but had been leading a life for which he found lila salary Insufficient.

WRECK ON THE ALTON. Three, raMrngem anil Two Mm II Clerk on Chicago Limited Injured, PONTIAC. ILU (Special.) The Chi- cago Alton limited which left Chicago at 11:25 a. was thrown Into the ditch at the Interlocking switch plant just north of here at 1:40 p. m.

by a misplaced switch. The injured are: E. Bruce, Jollct. back Injured. Mrs.

Bruce (colored); injured In ternally. W. Cass, mall clerk; legs injured. Nash. St Louis: head Injured.

Mitchell; mail clerk; buck and lower limbs Injured. The train was going rapidly when it struck the derailing switch, swerved sharply, ran a short distance on the tlea and finally all but the engine and rear conch left the roadbed and was rolled Into the ditch. The train was in charge of Con ductor Fox. with Muldoon ns engineer. Engineer Muldoon Btuck to his post, while the fireman Jumped and was slightly Injured.

The Interlocking plant has been un dergoing repairs recently and the safety devices have been disconnected, Including the switch which caused the wreck. A CHICAGO TRAGEDY. Dr. J. II.

XvlRler KhooU III Wife anil Thru Kill Hlnielf. CHICAGO. (Special.) Dr. Harry J. Zlegler, of 31fi West King street, Iin- caster, fatally wounded his wife.

Anna, and then killed himself at the Wellington hotel. A mte left hv the physician declared that he and his wife had decided to die and that, as he lacked the nerve, Mrs. Ziegler bad promised to commit the act. The woman, before being removed to the Samaritan hospital in a dying condition, declared that the shooting was done by her husband. A note nddressel to a morning newspaper was found In the room.

It read: "My photograph belongs to your paper. We decided to die, but I lack the nerve to shoot, so my wife, Anna, will do it. Send my body home to 31(1 West King Street, Lancaster. Good-by." Ilrruk All Krrord. NEW YORK.

(Special.) The New-York Times publishes In Its literary supplement a list of gifts and bequests for public uses made in the United States during the year 1901, showing the enormous total of far outdoing all previous rec ords. The highest previous record for any one year was $1,2.750,000. Of this total for 1901, Mr. Carnegio gave to colleges and libraries $31,000,000, his gifts to libraries alone being nearly 114,000,003, The Times points out that this total ot $107,300,000 equals one. third of the cost of the Boer war to England for the same year.

Mnrvuloua Growth. WASHINGTON. (Special.) Accord Ing to statistics collected by the census bureau, the gross value of the products of manufacture In the United States in 3900 was $13,003,127,082, as compared with $9,372,437,282 in 1890, an increase of 38.73 per cent. Crop Drying up In liiillu, LONDON. (Special.) The viceroy of India, Lord Curzon of Kedleston, telegraphs that the drouth Is drying the spring crops in Bengal, the Northwestern province and In the Banjul).

The autumn crops are fair in the provinces of Sinde and Bombay. Knllway Holdup Frustrated. GUTHRIE, OLA. (Special.) An attempt of the Ben Craven's gang of outlaws to hold up the "Katy" flyer early In the morning near Adair, I. was frustrated by United States Marshal Bennett, who sent heavy guards on all the night trains over that line.

NEWS IN IIKIKF. The engineers at the electric lighting and power plant of the Terre Haute Electric Company have quit In sympathy with the striking street, car men, but non-union engineer, wore secured and put to work. American capitalists have made large purchases of land in the state of Vera Crui, Mexico, where they will ialse tobacco on a large scale. Mexican tobacco is now steadily winning favor In Europe and the United States. The total amount exported In the last fiscal yeur was 2,019,355 kilograms.

The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company announces that the Southern headquarters of the company will be removed from Richmond to Atlanta, March 1. The postofflce department has announced a change in practice under which hereafter all post cards received in mails from abroad which are wholly unpaid ore subject on delivery to a charge of 4 cents, equal to double tho prepaid rate applicable to post cards In International malls and those short paid are subject a charge equal to double the amount of deficient postage. Attache in wWwwwWHrlWTW The statue representing Peace and Plenty presented to Senator Hanna by his admiring friends has attracted great attention from all who have had the privilege of seeing It. The. statue Is a figure of a beautiful girl holding In her upraised left hand an olive brancji, while in the right band, resting gracefully at her side Ib a cornucopia overflowing with fruit The entire work is pronounced by critics a line specimen of sculpture lu the nude.

Left No Deeceodant. There Is not now living a single descendant In the male line of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spencer, Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Goldsmith, Byron or Moore, not one ot Sir Philip Sidney nor of Sir Walter Raleigh; not one of Drake Cromwell, Hampden, Monk, Marlborough. Peterborough or Nelson: not one of Boling-broke, Walpole, Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan or Canning; not one ot Bacon, Ixicke, Newton or Davy; not one of Hume, Gibon or Macaulay; not one of Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence; not one of David Garrlck, John Kemble or Edward Kean. Leper In LouUlann Home. There are In the leper home In I-ou-islana thirty-six inmates nineteen males and seventeen females.

Five Sisters ot Charity nurse these unfortunates. The leper colony is a state institution. A Kentucky Near Diamond Springs, in a large beech forest, is a tree that is Hat Worn Countless pictures of Napoleon as be appeared at the battle of Waterloo have heen nubllshed. and In all he Is represented as wearing a hat similar in many respects to the one shown in the accompanying picture. Many of these pictures ot the hat, however, differ from each other in minor details, and It is evident that the artists had not an opportunity of ex amining the hat closely before they drew It.

For this reason this authentic nlctura will be welcomed by all stu dents of modern history as well as by all admirers of the great emperor. The hat now belongs to M. Gerome of the French Institute. Napoleon once grew tired of this hat and decided to wear a more warlike headgear. Consequently a splendid Where Aipamiin Couir from.

Nearly al the asparagus consumed In this country out ot season comes from an island in the Sacramento river. A foreign-born farmer noticing an island there covered thickly with silt, thought it would make a good asparagus bed, and he settled there. Now he ships several car loads of asparagus a day, canned and in glass, all over the country, and his asparagus bed Is one of the biggest gold mines ever discovered in California. Tribe of Peculiar People. A tribe of peculiar people dwell on the banks of the Funis, In South America.

Men, women and children are spotted, with brown spots on a white skin. Their chief article of diet Is fish. Emperor nnd Opera Writer. In the correspondence between Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie, which haa lately turned up in Paris, there was found the scenario of a novel in the emperor's own iSlf Fine Statue It of Is to W. J.

URANGER, Editor. ONKIUA, KAN3A8. It so hard to be good when titer nt hi in; by but conscience to nulla approval. The country facing a plrklo fara-I ne. That not our fault tbt our misfortune.

Nicaragua la bring advised to bring milt against Panama for. alienating Vncle Barn's fickle affections. Equipped as be la with a system ot handy "lunula, Marconi baa no use for pobtul carda or messenger boys. According to unofficial census re turns the luhabltanta ot the prairie dog towns still number millions. The fog will have to lift from Lon-don streets before anybody will buy tlckU for the coronation parade.

Now that Hung Cbang sleeps with bis fathers China haa grown bold euough to talk real sassy to Russia. A St. Paul woman Is complaining be cause her husband threw a dog at ber. Why didn't she lam him with the cat? French scientists want the world to get Its time from Paris, but Connecticut clockmakers will protest against this. The man who laid In his winter's supply of coal In the fall does not object to being classed us one of the bas bins.

Mrs. Astor is changing ber citizen (hip to Rhode Uland in the expectation that her taxes wllf be small, to match the state. Since the discoverer of pepsin bas found It necessary to die every dyspeptic in the laud will shed a tear over his memory. New York has the largest collection of butterflies In the world, and they arc not all in the Museum of Natural History, cither. If those Canadians who are going mo ind the world in a canoe are wise they will carry their relief expedition along will! ttiem.

Prince Henry Is buying presents to distribute in this country, but it Isn't likely that he will be able to get away without slighting a few ot us. From the way the European countries talk now it is surprising that they couid rt strain themselves from coining over 10 help us lick Spain. Must eat only crackers and skimmed milk nuisn't drink, musn't smoke. No healthy With a Hoe" need covet John I). Rockefeller's billions.

Americans needn't lose any sleep over that threatened European customs union. Too many cooks spoil the broth. The earth is ours and the fatness thereof. Owing to the extraordinary expense of the granil entree In Pekln the other nations of the earth must be prepared for a heavy advance in the price of fireworks this year. Except the one underneath, Australia Is the hottest country on record.

The Australian farmer has to feed his chickens on cracked Ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs. In order to escape going to jail a New Jersey man married a woman from whom he stole, A woman sometimes strikes on a fine way of making the punishment fit the crime. It speaks well for the financial condition of the great Northwest that a hank in Great Falls, can lose through the embezzlement of its cashier and still remain solvent Mr. Rockefeller has just given to a New York college. But Dr.

Harper Isn't worrying. He has good reasons for believing that there is fully where that came iron. Dr. Knopf of the New York Academy of Medicine, has discovered a disease called It is a form of madness brought on by trying to make the first two consonants enter into the pronunciation. Cold, bard and other forbidding qualities.

Thus Curtis Brown, London correspondent, writes about Rudyard Kipling as his private letters show him. More than one struggling penny-a-liner can prove that Kipling has one of the most brotherly hearts that God ever gut pulse Into. And this Is good, clean, simple truth, which is more or less at the bottom ot things. A ban forbidding Russian students to form associations of more than ten has been removed and the government hopes for great things from the con cession. No wonder Russian students were always in rebellion when they were certain to come in conflict with the police if they formed a college eleven.

A white murderer down In Tennessee protests against "being hanged on the same scaffold and on the same day as a negro." This is drawing the color line right up to the choking point Up In the lumber camps bootleggers are- selling a brand of whisky that foams and acts yeasty when it Is drawn from the jug. After a gentle wood man has taken two drinks he also foams and acts yeasty, at the same time Btrenuously endeavoring to kill his nearest comrade. In a legitimate way it Is hard to make money yield more than 5 per rent Interest, and yet there are hundreds of persons ready to bite at of fers of 50 and 100 per cent profit in Boston and New York schemes. Trouble. tnnnf pernicious activity In gathering secret of the American navy and visiting navy yards and other works of the United States government after permission had been refused him, will.

la expected, soon result In the recall Capt. towls Bayly, British Naval Attache at Washington. Cnpt. Bayly charged with having declined lately be content with ordinary tourcea of Information, and to have secured naval facta and figures by Irregular means. Tbla led to his government being notified Informally through Lord Pauneefote that the appointment ot a new British naval attache at Washington would be more pleasing to the United States government than the continuance of Capt Bayly In the post.

Waiting I'pon Remit. Tobacco and sugar valued at la being held In Cuba awaiting the settlement of the question ot annexation or Independence. Curiosity. known throughout the neighborhood as the "Jug handle," from the peculiar growth of the first limb. This unusual formation, which is properly known as a "natural graft," is six or eight inches in diameter, six feet in length and about eighteen feet up the trunk of the tree, which Is itself fourteen or fifteen inches in diameter.

As the graft is practically the same In size at both extremities, it is likely that the upper end Is the original point of growth. The extremity of the limb, drooping against an accidental break in the bark of the trunk, received nourishment from this new source, and probably grew more rapidly. The only way to ascertain which la realjy the original point of union will be to saw out a section at each end and count the number of rings that Indicate the exact age. All who have seen this freak of nature pronounce it one ot the largest and most perfect examples of natural graft known. by Napoleon.

helmet was fashioned for him, with a gorgeous cuirass. The helmet waa studded with diamonds and emeralds, and Napoleon was delighted with but after wearing It an hour or two he cast it aside and never again put It on. The Way of Girl. You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower dots, and she will wither without siin; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will If you do not give her air enough; she may fall and defile her head In the dust if you leave her without help at some moments of her life; but you cam not fetter her; she must take her own; fair form any way If she take any.

Ruskln. Literary Journal a Failure. "Literature," which set out to be' the leader of the literary weeklies in England and In America, is said to be on the market. Tea I'lont In India. In India the tea plant is naturally tree, but by means of pruning It li kept so small that it seems to be only a bush.

Japan' Foreign Trade. Japan's foreign trade has In thirty) years Increased from less than $1 to nearly $7 per capita per annum. WOMEN PRISONERS PLAN TO ESCAPE The Tlilrljr la Ku alale I'rUon Hail Arranged la (lain Their Freedom. According to a member of the stale board of chart-tlea. Warden Jcwett recently frustrated a plan ot the women prison con-at tanslng to mutiny and escape.

The women convicts thirty In all are kept In a tleaprtnient by themselves. Their quarters adjoin the main prison on the north. They cover about an acre of ground and are surrounded by a stone wull not quite as high aa the regular prison wall. Two buildings stand In the center of the grounds. One la the sleeping, eating and working quarters and the other la the wash house.

The women are not kept In cells. They have rooms furnished about lige the ordinary boarding house. They are all thrown together aud are given the liberty of talking and doing almost as they please. The regular prison discipline docs not extend over them. Some time ago Mary Hicks, an Inmate of the Industrial School for Girls at liclolt, tried to burn down that Institution.

She was arrested on the charge of arson and pleaded guilty to the chargo In the Mitchell county district court and was sentenced to one year at Lansing. She had no more than got acclimated at the penitentiary when she laid a plot for all the women prisoners to escape. One guard watches the women's department Her plan was to overpower hi in and all scale the wall in a bunch, then run a few rods to the south and 'capture one of the cars on the Kansas City-Leavenworth electric line and start toward Kansas City. It was not the Intention for any of them to go through Kansas City. They were to drop off one at a time and scatter throughout the country.

Butcher knives and other cooking utensils used at the prison were to be used ns weapons. Two days before the break was to come off one of the women prisoners "peached" and steps were taken to frustrate the plnn. The Hicks women, who concocted the sceme, declared to the officials that slio had tried to be good, but that it was a physical Imposlbllity; that it is born In her to be mean. She says she cannot tleep nights for thinking up something mean to do. Since the plot to escape was unearthed the women prisoners have not been allowed out of their quarters.

Bo-foro that time they were frequently taken to the main building of the prison to do some work and every Sunday went to the regular prison chapel to attend Services. But this has been stopped. Church services are now held in the women's department ufter the services In the regular chapel are over. Warden Jcwett was here today and was asked about the story. He declared that he knew nothing about It.

But the members of the board of charities who gave It out Is a truthful man, liny Found Frotru to I lentil. W1NFIELD. The body of an unknown boy, possibly 12 years of age. was found on the banks of Snake creek, eight miles east of Wlnfleld. this afternoon.

The body was found 200 yards from a well traveled wagon road, beside a snml lstream. frozen stiff, an dlherc were no murks ot violence on it. Coroner Holcomb was notified and ordered the body brought to Wlnfleld for Investigation. The residents of the vicinity In which the body was found are unable to determine how the boy came to be in their vicinity and what was the cause of his death. The only plausible theory they advance Is that be was out hunting, and becoming fatigued, lay down to rest, and was frozen to death.

Old Timer Conn. ARKANSAS CITY. (Special.) B. M. Tcrrlll, one of the oldest stage drivers in the Southwest, Is dead at his home in Geuda Springs.

His death was caused by lung trouble. He was 65 years of age and came to Kansns from Colorado in 1808. In Colorado he was employed on one of the stage lines over the mountains and when he enme to Kansas, engaged in the same business. He first drove the stage from Wichita to Fort Sill, I. and after several years of this left this part of the country and went to Arizona.

Kiinun l.uil Arclilcntiilly Sinn. KINGMAN. (Special.) Roth Diem, 15 years old, was killed by the accidental discharge of a shotgun he was taking off a sled while out In a field hauling fodder. Will Mink Trouper! Well. JUNCTION CITY.

(Special.) The Junction City Commercial club held a meeting recently and discussed the proposition of sinking a prospect well here. C. P. Fogelstrom and H. H.

Ziegler were appointed to gather Information as to the probable cost and as to forming a company. A company will probably be organized after the committee reports, und a well bored 3,000 feet If necessary. Fire In nn loin Depot. IOLA. (Special.) Fire destroyed the Interior of the Missouri Pacific depot here.

The fire started from a gas lamp left burning near the window of the ticket room. It was discovered before it had made much headway and the fire department soon had the flames extinguished. The damage to the building Is slight, but the damage to the records of the office may be considerable, The greater part of the tickets were saved. CONCORDIA. (Special.) Arch J.

Patterson, convlccd of embezzling over $1,000 of city funds from the city of Clyde, of which he was treasurer, has been sentenced to three years In the penitentiary. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court. Frank Smith, alias Scott, of Kansas City, was sentenced to eighteen months' penal servitude for picking man's pocket at Clyde, and Frank Kinney was given nine years for robbing the Union Pacific depot here, Am. Freedman was sentenced to the reformatory for burglary at the Barons hotel. MAGAZINE IN NEW YORK RAPID TRANSIT TUNNEL, BLOWS UP.

SIX KILLED AND ONE HUNDRED INJURED Muuy Ureal llulldlnif Were Kerluualy l)mll-t'lui. lu liranil Central ktallon Turn I nun Their Cane Manhattan K) mill Hue lillut Wrecked rrunert titu Kunrmuu. NEW YORK. (Special.) The reserve supply of high expluslve sstored at the Park avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel now In course ot construction blew up shortly after noon. The giant blast killed six persons, Injured a hundred others and seriously damaged all the property reached by the flying debris and the vibration ot the shock.

The Irregular square formed by the Murray Hill hotel on the west, the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital and the Grand I'nion Hotel on the east, and the Grand Central station on the north, was the sceno of the explosion. The buildings named sustained the greatest damage, but the area affected extended for several blocks In the four directions from the center. The killed were: Adams. Cyrus; cigar man, at the Murray Hill hotel. Carr, James; 32 years; a waiter employed at the Murray Hill hotel.

Heine, 28 years; of Ansonla, Conn. Robinson, J. Roderick, of Nelson. B. a guest at the Murray Hill hotel.

Thompson, John assistant engineer (all outside reports seem to agree as to his death, but bis body Is not reported by the police or by the hospitals). Tubbs, William (orChtrles); master mechanic for contractor Ira A. Thaler. The Injured: E. N.

Ferris, Cleveland, cut and bruises. J. C. Gilchrist, of Cleveland. cut.

E. N. Lewis, of Lima, cut. Mrs. Benjamin Moore, of Mndlson, N.

badly cut. J. Roderick Robertson, of Nelson, B. was killed by debris hurled with the force of artillery Into his room at the Murray Hi.i hotel. He was general manager In Canada for the British Columbia Gold Fields Company, limited, and a prominent citizen in the community where he lived.

He was a Scotchman and leaves a widow and four children. The sunken approach to the street railway tunnel used by the Madison avenue line cuts through Park avenue and the shaft for the Rapid Transit subway was run down beside itat the Intersection of East Forty-first street. The street railway approach was housed over with a superstructure used for the operating plant of the Rapid Transit contractors. Temporary buildings for storage purposes were thrown up against the superstructure at the mouth of the shaft and there the explosion occurred. It tore a great gorge in the street, demolished the temporary buildings and part of the superstructure, and sent a mass, of earth, splintered timber and twisted Iron high in the air.

Much of It went battering against the front of the Murray Hill hotel, and, although the walls and main structure of that building stood the shock, nearly every room In front of the house was wrecked. The Manhattan Eye anil Ear hospital, on the east side of the avenue, fared near ly as bad and had to be abandoned by the management. TheGrand Union hotel lost all of Its windows and glass partitions and practically every front window in the Grand Central station was shattered. The great clocks on its front towers were blown from their caseR. Thousands of windows, some of them seven blocks from the tunnel shaft, fell In fragments.

It was the shower of broken glass and falling debris that Injured the greatest number. Fortunately, the explosion occurred at the noon hour. Not more than a hundred persons were in the main waiting room of the Grand Central station. Some of these were slightly injured by bits of glass. Two Million Clifiir Coming.

SAN FRANCISCO. (Special.) Pri in this city state that there are over 2,000,000 cigars on the way from the Philinnlnes to this country. It Is thought that before the end of Feb ruary or by the middle of March at the latest, there will be ten times that number consigned to American to bacconists from the same quarter ot the world. Of the shipments now com ing, 600,000 are for one firm in this city. The tax on these goods under the present law is the internal revenue tax.

The letter also states that the dif ferent factories In the islands are working night and day. There seems to be a fear in the islands that the present law will be revoked and the manufacturers of the Manila article are determined to take every advan tage ot the opportunity. St. I'huI'8 Moneatery Iliirneil. LONDON.

(Special.) Telegraphing from Vienna, the correspondent of the Dally Chronicle says the newspapers of Athens report that the celebrated Saint Paul monastery, on Mount Athos has burned, The prior and nine monks perished and twenty others were seriously Injured. The occupants of the monastery were sleeping when the fire broke out, according to the Athens papers, and the monastery Itself was damaged to the extent of $400,000. Spain' F.ar Were Open. MADRID. (Special.) The Impar-clal, referring to the assertion that Great Britain thwarted European coalition against the United States at the time of the Spanish American war, "As England now reminds America of this, so must Spain remember it, especially ns the moment has come for her to decido question of alliances." 4 1 True wit never gives blith to ill thoughts.

'Khorly" Mi'turland Hue Free. WINFIELD. (Special.) "Shorty McFarland, accused of complicity In the killing of C. L. Wlltberger, in this city, lust spring, has been released from custody by the county attorney's Instructions.

He was held on the strength of "Slim" French's sensational story, told in the Wichita jail. In which he Implicated "Shorty." French's story has been knocked to pieces by tho county attorney and Judge McBrlde, to whom he had confessed that he waa In town at the time of the killing. These statements were afterwards verified, and consequently no evidence was left on which to convict "Shorty." r'rlorn llrrnkmnii Killed. J. C.

Perry, a brakeman on a south bound Frisco freight train, was killed by north bound passenger train No. 118 at Mer-rlnm. this county, about 7 o'clock In the morning. Dcrry had been In the employ of the company but a short tluie. Upon reaching Merrlnm he left his train and passed upon the north bound track, and it Is supposed he was blinded by the escaping steam from the freight train and did not see the passenger train approaching from the south.

Ho wns about 33 years old, aud it is said he had a family in Western Kansas. Coroner Parker and Sheriff Jones are making an Investigation. Young Newspaper Mitn Uviiil. SENECA. (Special.) Guy Peckham age 33 years.

Is dead at tho borne of his parents In tills city. He served as a reporter and local editor on tho Seneca Tribune for a number of years, and Inst September went to the Wichita Beacon. Owing to poor health he returned the first of the month to his home here. He was a clever writer. NlRinn Chi' llnure.

LAWRENCE. (Special.) The local chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity gave Its annual dancing party here. Zeller's Kansas City orchestra furnished the music and tho hall was filled with dancers. The decorations were very tastily arranged and the party was a very enjoyable affair. Many Kansas City and topeka society people were in attendance.

Pulled linn From a Wnirnn. WINFIELD. (Special.) Harvey Mr ralne, aged 21 years, who lives eight miles south of this city was probably fatally Injured while hunting in his brother-in-law's farm, east of Win-field. The young man was pulling a Winchester rifle from a wagon, when It went off, the charge taking effect in his side. ire Rt Ahlli'tie, Kim.

ABILENE. (Special.) During last night fire destroyed the office and one I lumber shed of the Badger Lumber Company. Geauqucs' wagon shop and planing mill and two carpenter shops, the whole loss being about $7,000, with insurance $3,000. It caught from a stove. Convicted of llurglury.

CONCORDIA. (Special.) William Freeman wns convicted in the district court of burglary at the Barons hotel, where he was formerly employed as bellboy and later as clerk. He has a young wife, to whom he was recently married, living In this city. (irtK It ii nil Delivery lit I. ml.

BENDENA. (Special.) W. D. Gll-hert, special agent of the post-office department, who Is Investigating rural routes In the First district, has recommended the route out of this town, disposing of the oldest case in the state, the route having been petitioned' for In August, 1898. Kiiuhiik Lawyer Meet.

TOPEKA. (Special.) The Kansas Bar Association held its nineteenth annual meeting In the supreme court room here. About 100 attorneys are present. Fatal Fnll From a Train. HOPE.

(Special.) H. A. Drake, ft brakeman on the Missouri Pacific, liv ing at Council Grove, feu from his train and was killed. I nciirllied Tin Cnn Full or Money. PAOLA.

(Special.) An old tin can, containing $950 In gold coins, was unearthed here on the Hymer place, In the east part of the city, by a neighbor, who suspected that money was buried there. The property has not been occupied for more than a year. Mrs. Hymer, who owns the place, and formerly occupied It, claimed the money, naming the exact amount contained in the can, and It was returned to ber. Merited Into One County.

WASHINGTON. (Special,) Mr. Crowley, In the house, Introduced a bill providing for county and township organization and election of officers for the Osage and Kansas' Indian reservation In Oklahoma and location of county sent. The bill directs the section named to be made Into one county with the county seat ot Paw-huska, Osage nation, with all laws now in force in Oklahoma to be extended over some..