The Rush County Leader from McCracken, Kansas • 2

4 THE GOLD OUTPUT. NEWS OF THE WEEK. iCAXSAS STATE NEWS. THE BUSH COUNT! LEADER VETERANS IN KANSAS. Aeoorillnff to AMrMirM' ICtiturna Thr Ar 3.1.0(11 (Mil H0I1II1.IH In th Mint Toi-kka, Oct 23.

Tim state board of agriculture to-chiy finished the tabulation of returns of assessors A LAuriE fire raged In Augusta, the 2th. the loss being over 100,000. Fiikii tin iiKirr, a dark horse in the race, who hailed from Spirit Lake, won the Dupont cup, the wing championship of tho world, and a fat purse in the pigeon shooting tournament which came to an end at Haltiinore, on tho Sftth. It was said Gilbert never entered a tournament before In his life. The failures for the week ended October 2.1 (Dun's report) were 231 in the United States, against 231 last year, and 38 in Canada, against .13 last year.

At Livingston, three small children of Granville Lancaster, a farmer, were roasted to death recently. They were locked In the house by their mother whllo she called on a neighbor, and the house burned down. Clearing house returns for the principal cities In tho United Slates for tho week ended October 23 showed an average Increase as compared with ENGLISH VEGETABLES. Plentiful hot Natra In Klllnthm Hy. i He fore a wide intercourse with for elgn countries had led to the Introduction of new vegetable food, our home resources were scanty to a degree that Is ditlicult to realize.

We had, It is true, a very scrubby little cabbage or colewort indigenous here, and it wan credited with all sorts of medicinal and other virtues. It wait the subject of many learned dissertations ami wa cultivated us carefully ns the horticultural knowledge of inetliiuvul times permitted, hut it would certainly have cut a Mtrry figure beside the poorest of the cabbages shown to-day at ('his-wick. The probability is that none of the wliite-lieurlcd monsters of to-day's exhibition can claim indigenous connection with the soil of England. Gerard tells us that Master Nicolas Letc, "a worshipful merchant of Imported secclsof new kinds from Italy, Spain and tiermany, and these no doubt superseded our own coleworts, just as In their turn they have been distanced by Inter Importations and by scientific propagation ami cultivation. Tho potato, of course, it is well A The IMwtnr nt the llllnt'i Hi.itemunt on The Vellnw Mmsl- Wasiiiniito.v, Oct, 28.

R. K. Pros-ton, director of tho mint, In discussing hia report on the world'i production of gold and silver in 1894, inukes the following statement: I tun mitWIi'd that tho gold product of the world will net Icih I linn 1,001.0 10 for tlm ralcmlar ynur IKI5, which will tin an Inrrcnw uf ism. ci( ihU ItiFreuMi the Suite will funtrlhiitn not lt' than C'oloriKlo sill furnish from M.vw.iki to fl.imi.-unii. California H.umt.iMi mitt Arizona.

New Mexico, Mutm anil Mnntumi will tnitho hiuul-Kome Khnwlriic. In 'oloruilo lliu principal I11-rrciiKe will come from the Clrlpple reek ilis-trli-t This district altirethir will prolitihly produce (IMIIMMJ this year. It required stimo tune to convince rupliullsts that this wan a wonderfully rich district 1'hti hlunents of rich ore made in the last year have removed all cluiidtH uf the future of tho Cripple Cruelt country. Lcuilvllla will also how an Increase this year In Ilia output nf Bold Home of tho mines In this reiclon uro very productive. In the Leutlvlllu reirlon there) urn found gold, silver.

co)m-, lend mitl Iron. There li ucm-nil revival of void iiiliuiij iliruiMhtuit this rcifla California milieu are certain to utiow an Increased output from this I into forward. The rstutiiNhtnettt of the dchrls commUMnn fnCnl-Iforuln litis itlvcn a Krcnt 'mpttkii to hydraulic ml til which Is exccctlltiKlv irollulilc. Where thcro Is placer mining, pirtlc-ularly in Montana and Idaho, tho product nf K-ild will not ho icreut as It would Imvo been hail thcro bevn heavy snows la tht! mountains. There Is a shortage of wuter In tltosu slates which serves to hum! leap the miners.

The returns from nilninii thcro urn very wilKfuctiiry. Some, heavy shipment of urn are hclmr made from Helena. Kvorywlicr-t I went In tho nilnlnti regions of tho west I saw evidence of icreat uctivity and prosperity. Not alone In the I'nitetl States Is the output of gold South Africa bus yone ahead of Australia In tho amount of Its icoltl product, and will produco this year 3 vast nuantlty uf ho precloti-i metal. Australia proliahly will c.itilrlhutii f.W).i of the increase.

Itusslit will product! from J.iKI0.s to Ml It) more than It did last year. Hussia's output lust year ftdl oft. but tho Increase In Sihcria this year will ho marked. JttiUintf from tho in formation 1 have received from our minister at St. Petersburg.

Mexico, which con tributed 81m.oin in gold last rear, will make a far better showing this veur. we (rained Inst year fur I'm if old stock of the world about 47.cn of the irold for nierly boariletl In India, and we have every reason to look for an increase this year and fur number of to come. FIRE IN A UNIVERSITY. Virelnls'ii Htntn liiitltiitlon NunVrn Tliren Hundred Thousand Dollar l.oM. CiiAiu.oTTKsvii.i.K.Va., Oct.

'JH. The University of Virginia suffered great loss from a lire winch occurred yester day morning. Tliu local tire department was unable to cope with the flames and assistance was obtained from Staunton untl which however, arrived too late to save the public hall and the rotunda. The lire started in the former building, untl a large nuantity of clvnamite was used on tho portico between the rotunda and the public hall, hut beyond dis placing the large pillars nothing was accomplished. Attention was then given to the buildings known as the "Old Chapel' and reading room.

Those were blown up and the debris saturated with water, und the tire thereby was confined to the hall and rotunda. The library, con tabling about (KM) worth of hooks, statues, paintings, was in the ro tunda. An effort to save the treasures resulted in the getting out of Jeffer son's statue and three-fourths of the books. Everything else was burned. At 2 o'clock the fire was gotten under control.

The lecture rooms were stroyed and everything in the build ing, including a geologicnl laboratory of great value, a painting entitled "The School of Athens," a cony of the celebrated production by Raphael, was consumed. The total loss is estimated at not less than with an insurance of on the buildings and contents. The origin of the fire is not known. A MOB REPULSED. Attempt to Lynch a Murderer nt Tillln, LpmlH to More Deaths.

Tiffin, Oct. is. In an attempt yesterday morning to avenge the mur der of August Scbultz, Titlin's popular city marshul, who was shot in cold blood by Leander .1. Martin, alias Wil liams, a farmer of Hopewell township, last Wednesday evening, two more victims were added to the At 1:110 o'clock a mob of l.K) infuriated men, many of whom were under the influence of licpmr, attacked the jail in an effort to secure Martin and hang him. A volley from half a dozen Winchesters met them and two of the mob were killed.

It is not believed there will be any further trouble, yet the friends of the dcatl men threaten vengeance to the guards who fired on tho limb, and the dead marshal's friends say they will kill Martin if they can get to him. Martin wits spirited away to l'remont long before daylight, but this the people refuse to believe. Tlie names of the guards who fired tlie fatal volley nre known only to Sheriff Van Ness. Three hundred militiamen were guarding the jail last night. CAUSED MUCH DAMAGE.

Kain Kxllneillshf-d Fire hloh 200 Met. l'ndii'ceMrtilly l-oticht. Clinton, Oct. US. A spark from a lilair line engine set lire to a field in the northern suburbs of Clinton Saturday afternoon.

A strong wind tended; to spread the lire rapidly, untl despite the fact that "JOO men were soon but tling -against, tlie Humes, the tin burned for 2 miles, destroying corn und fences in its path. Ono nut lost his barn and contents. A friendly rain at eventide extinguished tilt; lire, but not until the damage umout'ted tt thousands. RAILROAD RUMBLINGS. Hanover, In ficrinnny, lifter trying tne trolley system tor its electric cars, has gone buck to (he accumulator system.

The question of abolishing the old cotiehbody railway enrriutre and nub-st it uting American end door system on all railroads is hempf ugitntetl in England. The effect of the recent race by the English trains to Reotlund is being ehown in the acceleration of trains in other parts of the kingdom, nnd it is pradually working Its way uround London. It is apparent that the Great Western and the Southwestern are about to undertake a speed competition for the west of England traffic, Tho New York Central made the proposition to the United StateB postal department to run a fast mail from New, York to Chicago on a schedule nbout the same as that of the Empire St ate express, if the government would give them three dollars per mile for running the train. The povcrnment thought the figure too high, and there the matter st ands. Snm Jones, the Southern evangelist, it ii said smokes fifteen clears a any.

I C. A. Ilunner gathered 1,000 barrels of apples from his orchard! south of An incendiary fire destroyed several stock stalls at the Topeka fair grounds the other day. James Mattock, living near Auburn Shawnee county, was fatally crutlietl by a hay press the other day. Julius Walkcnhorst, son of a farmer residing near Concordia, committed suicide the other day by hanging him self, lie imagined that ho had an In curable disease.

Veterans assembled nt Kansas City, on the 22d to celebrate tho an niversary of the battle of the Illue and to organize a Kansas Soldiers' Monti mcnt assoointion. Capt. Oliver Hurlier, one of the earliest settlers of Douglus county and one of the best known men of the territory and state in pioneer days, died at Law- renco on the Ulth. Investigation of the books of the State bank of Fort Scott showed the total liabilities to be Slcm.MU.:!-!, and the assets to be SI28.700. but their real value will not exceed At an early hour tho other morning the smelters at Seammon caught lire anil the engine house, pottery, dry kiln retort, kiln crusher nnd one of the roasting kilns were burned to the ground.

At Leavenworth the other day Frank Flowers, 1 year old, crawled under a washing machine, containing scalding water, and pulled out tho plug. He was so badly scalded that he died in a short time. Of 12. applications for state teach ers' certificates before the recent meeting of tho state board of education less than two-tlfths were successful in passing the necessary examination and securing certificates. Ld Aekley was shot and fatally wounded by II.

ft Ilrannaman, a liucl'iman county (Mo.) deputy sheriff, on tho Missouri river bridge at Atchison the other The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Joseph Marah, of Harvey county, and licnjiimin Dunn, of Topeka, es caped from the state asylum for the Insane the other night by removing the iron bars from tho second-story win clow and letting themselves down with a rope made of bedclothes. The county attorney of Crawford county has brought suit in the Shawnee county district court asking for an order restraining Attorney-General Dawes and his Crawford county assist ant from prosecuting any more cases in Crawford county in the name of the state. The state board of railroad assessors, in a recent decision, held that a railroad company cannot be required to furnish its own cars to shippers to be loaded and consigned to points upon connecting lines. Tho decision is sus tained by opinions of the federal and state courts.

Tho probate judge of Scott county has issued an order restraining the county treasurer from paying the interest on the 814.1,000 bonds of the county held by the state permanent school fund. These bonds were purchased in but suit has beeu commenced to declarethem illegal, (iov. Morrill has appointed the fol lowing delegates to the commercial congress to open in Omaha for a four days' session on November 2.1: O. It. Tavlor.

George L. Douglass, A.C. Stich, W.C. MePike, E. V.

I'urcell, A.C.Shinn, W. G. Morgan, C. W. Goodlandur, W.

Kcplinger and J. W. Gregory. The headless body of W. F.

Svvanger was recently found on the tracks of the Kansas Central railroad 0 miles west of Leavenworth. In tho pocket nf the deceased were two discharges from the Forty-sixth Indiana volunteers and a pension certificate, by which tho man's identity was estab lished. The Kansas equal suffrage organization held a meeting in Topeka the other night and decided to push the work of organizing branch leagues all over the state. Miss Ella Green, the Kansas girl who has shown that women may become an abundant success as commercial travelers, is spoken of as the state organizer. A Missouri Pacific train wont through ft bridge across State creek at Newton the other afternoon and wrecked several cars.

The engine- had crossed the bridge when a coal car jumped the track nnd crashed through. Another car followed and took with it the baggage car. N'o one was seriously in jured, although several were badly bruised. Mrs. Mary Connelly, of Leavenworth, was almost instantly killed at o'clock the other night by falling down a flight of stairs at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

J. P. MuClure, at Kansas City. Mrs. Connelly had gone to Kansas City to visit her daughter for the day, intending to return on the evening train.

She was preparing to return when the accident happened. Pensions lately granted Kansas veterans: Original William H. Lemon, Winchester; Elijah N. Hull, Highland Station; James Iledger, Chetopa; Orlen Smith. Fort Scott; Henry L.

Churchill, Phillipsburg. Increase George Cole, Garden City: Robert II. Detwiler. Ottawa; Thomas Neil, Arkansas City. Reissue John N.

Jones, national military home; James W. Weely, lielle I'laine. Reissue and increase John XV. lienton, St John. The First national bank of Wellington has closed its doors by order of the directors.

While drunk tho other day Charles Oliver, a Topeka butcher, beat Andrew Anderson, a H-year-old boy, in a brutal manner. Tho boy died from his injuries a few clays later and Oliver was jailed for murder. The students at Midland college in Atchison have of late been missing money that was taken from their trunks. Suspicion fell upon a fellow-student and he was arrested. of the money was found and returned to tho owners nnd the thieving young man expelled.

Tho governor has appointed H. Jir ncan as a member of the board of managers of the soldiers' home at Dodge City to succeed (3. Harker, whose term has expired Gov. Morrill has appointed eleven delegates to the traveling men's con gress which meets at Atlanta November IX L. C.

Gos-sett, an K. T. brake-man, had his back broken near Parsons the other day by being struck by the spout of a water tank. His Injuries were thought to be fatal. A prairie fire recently broke out near Urookvillo that did much damage.

KV KHTjrlU'HHIlA V. CHAS. tIAOhK." anil Mcr. J. Tt MILAN, Kflllor.

MoCHACKENT KANSAS, CURRENT COMMENT. llnrssKl.s iii to have a ship eunal that will brlnjr vessel of 2,000 ton burden to its wharves, and the cost will be only Tun executive commitleo of the League of American Wheelmen has made an appropriation to bejrln a cant' paign for rnntl improvement It has been rumored that President Cleveland is point? to force the preen back retirement issue to the front in tho coming session of conirross. A maciiink lias recently been invent ed by a Kansas City man which will weigh anytliinff from one pound to four tonsnud at the mimo time com pute the price of tho artlclo whether it be sold by the ion, bunureuweitfut, pound or bushel. Tun Indianapolis Jounml Buys: The sugar trust bus tho trade- under its thumb again. Not a dealer in the west would dare to sell a barrel of sutrar not bearing its brand for fearthat, depend' ing upon the trust, a future supply might be refused mm.

Tiir new United State gunboats Nashville, Wilmington and Helena are resigned fur river as well as ocean service, as they draw only 9 feet of water. They are a vast improvement Upon the gunboats that were devised for river service during the civil war, TliK American Nimrocl will noon be able to decide to a nicety whether his run has failed him or not. This he will do bv simply removing from the gun barrel a small photographic ap paratus affixed to it. It will show exactly where the shot took effect. The device is lhjht and easily detneha-Lie.

T11 ere is to bo a motocycle, or horse- less carriage, race from Chicago to AVaukegan and return, a distance of 100 miles, on November It is ex pected lhatsoveral of the motocycles will make the distance In Ions than six hours. Some motocycles from France and Germany have entered for the race. At the recent reception given to II. N. l'illsbury, the young world's cham pion chess player, at Ilrooklyn, he acknowledged that he had for the past few years played chess from within the wonderful automaton, "Ajeeb," which has been exhibited all over this country.

This clears the mystery which has so long1 battled the public TliK director of the Illinois state weather bureau proved by statistics exhibited before the recent meeting; of the weather forecasters the direct connection between (treat heat and the increase of crime. He took the reports of the Chicago police force as the basis of his calculations and demonstrated that the number of arrests in July, August and September was nearly double the number in January, Feb- A MkthodikT preacher at St Louis, delivered a sermon on Sunday in which he likened the Christian race to a game of baseball the first base being meditation, the second conviction, the third repentance, and the home plate Heaven. The church was decorated with bats, masks, bags and gloves and all the paraphernalia of the national game. This is a new line of theological enterprise, and it entitles the Michigan clergyman to the pennant for sensational preaching. For the first time in tho history of any large city in the United States, Rochester, N.

Y. will use no printed ballots at tho coming election, November 5. It has adopted for use at all municipal, state and national elections the Myers American ballot machine. This machine is a "push the button" affair, and when the polls are closed the inspectors simply have to unlock the back door of the booth and opposite each candidate's name is displayed the total vote ho has received. A Lake Kiiourc train, weighing pounds, recently covered the distance between Chicago and HurTalo, 610 miles, In 481 minutes.

Exclusive of stops the run was made in 470 minutes, an average speed of about 65 miles an hour. The highest rate of speed was reached between Erie and Buffalo, 80 miles in 70 minutes and 10 seconds, or 73 miles an hour. The run was not merely a race against time to beat any other record. It was to ascertain at what rate of speed a commercial train could safely go. The first assistant postmast-general has sent out letters to postmasters in-closing large cards, to be posted alxiut the post oflices, cautioning the public in regard to the proper mailing of holiday packages.

Through the ignorance of senders of holiday packages each winter 6eason finds the dead letter office stored hig-h with gifts that go astray. There is an abundance oinail matter intended for foreign countries in this dead letter harvest, ami tho cns-toms laws of various countries are different that only careful fttudy can decide upon the entrance of any kind of parcel whatever. The suggestion that a grant exposition, marking the close of the present century, be held in Washington in the summer of f-UOO is meeting with much favor in the national capital. Such an exposition would also mark tli centennial anniversary of the founding of the seat of gaa ernment in the District of Columbia, a.e in June, I800, th public oflices were transferred to Washington. Itisalo suggested that eaeh tfte lave a petrwanent exhibition the na-tbiunal capital showing iits resources as to agriculture, manu facturing, mininsr.

tc. To form a national prohibition diiarch is the newest move in religions life. The initial meeting of those favoring the national organization was held at Chicag-o recently. There are at present six churches in the United State founded on strictly prohibition lines. They olid not come from the lame source, some being offshoots from the Baptists atid others from the Methodists.

The creeds are Dot all alike, but prohibition, the one sovereign point on which they all agree, brings them together to find strength In nity. fix-(iov. Kt Joint, of Kansas, identified with the movement. 1 Qloanod By Tolotrraph and MalL I'UItSONAL AND POLITICAL. Cheat excitement has been caused in British official circles about Russia's movements nt China and Corea and the situation was said to be so grave that there was likely to be a war In which several nations would more than likely take part HrltihH newspapers all agreed that llrltlsh intervention in the far east was necessary.

News received at Key Vst, stated that (ien. Maceo lind, by forced marches, reached tho province of Ma-tunzus, and, with 3,000 Cubans, he engaged a eavalry force of 2,800 Spaniards in the San Juan valley. After a struggle of four hours the Spanish troops were forced to retreat, leavinp; 800 men dead on the Ueld. Tho Insurgents secured all the arras and ammunition of the dead Spaniards. This battle was the most important tight since the breaking out of the revolution.

A cam. has boon Issued for expressions of opinion from the members of the Junior American Itopublic throughout the country on the attitude of this country toward tho revolutionists of Cuba. The cull was issued by a subcommittee of the Chicago committee of KM) on Cuban sympathy, and asked all young people under years of age to send their answers to headquarters, 175 Dearborn street, Chicago. Skcrktary Oi.nky'h note to Great Britain on the Venezuelan matter was a communication of about 8,000 words, and described the history of the Monroe doctrine, pointed out the applicability of this doctrine to the boundary dispute in liuiana, and then declared the principle for which the tinted States was namely, that no European shall enlarge its territorial dominion on the American continent by means of force. riiKsinKNT Ci.kvei.ano has appointed Yancey Lewis, of Ardmore, I.

United Stutes judge for tho central district of that territory to succeed Judge Stuart. A ftTKCIAL to the Chicago cvs from Springfield, said that United States Senator John M. I'almerhud au thorized the announcement that he would not be a candidute for re-election. States Skn atoii Ciiaki.ks II. Van Wvck, of Nebraska, died on the 24th at Washington of apoplexy, aged 71 years.

1 MB secretary of the treasury, it was said, would not coin any more silver into dollars until there was some action taken by congress on the currency question, and with that idea in view had discontinued all operations at the New Orleans mint and discharged the employes. stated that the single thing that seemed to operate against a wholesale demand for American securities abroad was the question as to the soundness or uncertainty of onr currency system. Chairman Carter, of the republican national committee, has called a meet ing of the committeemen for December 10 at the Arlington hotel, Wash ington, to designate a time and place for the meeting of the national con vention. died at his home in that city on the 22d, aged 64. Ilia health had been tailing for a long time.

MISCKI.LAN KOI S. Half of the east wall of the Elmore Manufacturing Co. 's three-story bicycle factory at Clyde, collapsed while all of the floors were filled with workmen. More than a dozen men were badly injured. The digging of a trench for a water main caused the collapse.

Thk twentv-five round glove contest at the Olympic club, New Orleans, between Jack Everhardt, of that city. und Owen H. Zoigler, of Pennsylvania, ivas declared a draw. Jioth men were said to have displayed much science. Famine prevails in the Smolensk and Paskow districts of Ilussia, owing to the failure of tho crops.

The minister of the interior recently set apart rubles for the relief of the inhab itants of these districts, but the ragged and hungry peasants were said to be crowding about the railway stations Inquiring what had become of the money. A wiikck occurred on the Pennsyl vania roiui, near Aewport, in which two persons were killed and sev eral badly injured. The locomotive and several postal cars were destroyed mil a large amount of mail mutter was burned. Thk board of health has lifted the quarantine and Honolulu is once more clean port Io cases of cholera had been reported for over two weeks. A iikah-end collision occurred at Hyde Park, on the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad in which one man was killed, a woman fatally injured and twelve other passengers, including Congressman Elijah A.

Morse, were more or loss seriously hurt. Thk London Standard has further details from its Constantinople corre spondent regarding the execution of the fifty young Turks who wore arrested on a charge of excesses during the recent Armenian riots. The fifty culprits, after a trial, were conveyed by night on board a Turkish man-of-war, whose boats took them in tho swiftest current and dropped them overboard. Finn destroyed more than $100,000 worth of property in the business pnrt of McKinncy, the county scat of Col lin county, on the 24th. The fire was near the courthouse square.

Jim probable death of J. C. (Iriffin, assistant chief of tho tiro department, and a loss of were tho results of a fire which destroyed the immense store and stock of IS. Stark fancy goods and millinery, at Albany, N. Y.

on the 24th and which gutted two other business houses. Zkk and Dick Crittenden, two Cherokoes, got drunk at Wagoner, I. and became so ild that they were both she.it by a deputy marshal. 'i UK crmsade instituted by the Cuban insurgents against railroad tratlic in the island was accentuated recently by a terrible catastrophe, A dynamite bomb thrown at a passenger train exploded with such disastrous effects that many passengers were so badly mutilated that the number of killed could not be ascertained from the remains. A disastrous Are on the 23d swept away a larire portion of the town of Ceres, about 23 miles from Bradford, Pa.

Chaiu.ks Dat Rosre has cabled the New York Yacht club withdrawing his challenge for the America's cup. showing tho enumeration of honniably discharged volunteer union soldiers in Kansas in March, 1HU.1. This enumera tion Is tho first made 11 ndor the pres ent law, aud is in eompliunco with an amendment made in iss.l to tho net providing for a census euch tenth yenr, beginning with anil following 1H7.V In 101 counties the count shows 3.1,045 veterans. Assessors in Coinauclio, Finney, Saline and Seward comities failed to make an enumeration or re turn, but, applying tho sumo age of soldiers, 2.02, to their last year's population as is shown for the remainder of the state this year there would be In Comanche, 4.1; Kinney, V2; Saline, 4.18, and Seward, 21, or 0)0; these added to the 3.1,01.1 actually enumerated in the other counties would umlco the grand total U.l.OOl. The table below gives tho enumeration by counties: Allen -nOiLojmn AniliTsoii iViiLyun si 077 f- 3m! W) F.72 70 ftrt 13 411 111'.) 3.17 8'3 I Mi a7 JM 41 1 3-7 SMS Kt7 IW 4nH 17 1.0.7 SI (1 1 401 2-'S S-l S7 747 H'l 71 8-s 37 Ml 4i 411! 31 S) Sid Muriiin AliirHiiiill ljs Mfl'liursoii 7ir.lMiilo 417 Miami IW Mitchell li Miiniuoiiif ry c'ltiiMorri a t'l Nt-uiiihu IvMNVushci.

SWSYss siN.1n.1n Kll.nttuwa 7''lfiiwnee INI I'hilJipM 371 Pratt nrj Kiiwiins Ill IOiiii CHI id-public va Rii'o Ullcv UJ Uniilcs Hush niissoii Saline Scott. Si-ilk'Wlek hi Slmwm-c 3 Sherlililll 4'U Stiernian 4 Smith 511 1 stiitWc! 401 stuntou 2 Stevens Sumner 3W Thomas. Tnvo Wiilmtltisce 4 1 tViillac-o Mi Wuxhitilon WliWu hita Ml, Wilson 7lH'ioilsnn- 4rVyaiidiiUo Mui-uer Iturtitn Hiiurnofi Huller 4 huse heroken Cheveniio Clark t'luv Cloud 'tmuuioue Cowley Crawford Dei'lltur JHc'Idusiin Doniphan JOIIfiUH Kil wards Kll! Kills Kllsworth Kinney Kurd Franklin (Jcury (Jove (iraiium I. runt (J ray Cireeley Hamilton Harper narvev Huskell Iloilicemun Jefferson Johnson I eurney Kihtonun Kiowa Lunette I. une.

worth. Lincoln i LI1111 Total, No returns made. KANSAS NATIONAL DNKS. Abstract nf Their Cnnilltlon in shown by the Hcpti-mhiT Ktt-iiM'iit. Washington, Oct.

2.1. The abstract of the condition of the Vii national banks of Kansas, under the call of tho comptroller of the currency on tho L'Sth of last month, shows: Loans and discounts against under the July statement; overdrafts, against due from national banks (not reserve agents), $1119,310, against 04; duo to state banks and bankers. 8148,837, against 8172.941; duo from approved reserve agents, S3.lNll.04O, against gold coin, 81,108.455, against total specie, against $1,589, 41W; total resources, against dua to other national banks, against due to tate bunks and bunkers, against individual deposits, against average reserve held, 31.59, against 3.1. 14. MUTUAL ORGANIZATION.

Ksdih Itullclltiff nnd Loan Man Will Ills- can MatterM uf KunttifM I titttriuit. Topkka, Oct. 23. The oliieers of the building and loan associations of Kansas have perfected an organiza tion for the purpose of meeting once year to discuss matters of interest to sueli associations. The organ iza tion bus not yet been named.

C. rt. llartough, of Leavenworth, is presi dent, IV. II. Kaslman, of Topeka, vice president, J.

Smith, of Pittsburg, secretary, nnd (J. S. Murphy, of treasurer. Tin-re are now seventy-eight associations in Ivansas, with a total membership of The investments amount up into tho millions. SCHOOLS WILL CLOSE.

Diphtheria litis lifetime Kplilemlc at To. pekn Many DiMlths JKepurteil. Topkka, Oct. 2.1. The board of education has ordered the schools in North Topeka closed on account of diphtheria, and it is probable that ull tho schools in the city will be closed.

Parents are greatly alarmed, and many have taken theirchildren out of schooL Last Monday the enrollment was .1.200, with 1,500 absentees reported. There have been about seventy cases of diphtheria in Topeka this fall with twenty deaths. From ono to three new cases are reported daily. WorkAhopti Kusy la Kiituttiii, Topkka, Oct 35. Stale Labor Commissioner VV.

(1. Hird has com pleted his nnnual inspection of the factories and mechanical institutions of Kansas and reports that, with one exception, all the manufacturing establishments in Kansas are employing either more men or are working their men more hours than a year ago. Tiio one exception to this rule is tho Union Pacific railroad bliops at Armstrong. Aguiust tho slilppem. Topkka, Cot.

3.1. The state board of railroad commissioners handed down an opinion to the effect that a railroad company cannot bore-quired to furnish Its own cars to shippers to be loaded and consigned to points upon connecting' lines. Tho de cision is sustained by opinions of tho federal and stato courts. Nhut for liinnltlnir it lUothpr. Chicago, Oct.

25. Walter Dobbins, 18 years old shot and killed Joseph Miller, a carpenter, because the latter used insulting language toward tho boy's mother during a quarrel. Killed nil the AtelilNini llrlilga. Atchison, Oct. 25.

Kd Aekley, of Atchison, was shot and fatally wounded by II. S. Itrannaman, a Uu-chanan county, deputy sheriff, on the Missouri river bridge here this afternoon. The shooting was the result of a quarrel. Kenldetl to Death.

Leavenwoiith, Oct 25. Frank Flowers, 1 year old, was scalded to death yesterday in a peculiar manner. He crawled under a washing machine containing scalding water and managed to pull out a plug-. 11 0 diet in great agony. the corresponding week last year of 2.1.7; in New York the increase was 114.3; ontsldo New lork the increase was 10.4.

AT New York on the 24th Henry of Navarre easily defeated Clifford and Santa Anita In a great handicap race. Eaiu.v on the morning of tho 24th fire broko out in tho rear of Whitney Powers' grocery store at Gulcsburg, spread rapidly and destroyed two squares, containing twenty buildings, including about all the business places In town. At Walker, of Cookeville, was shot and killed by young Terry, also of Cookovillo. Some time ago Terry's brother killed Walker's brother in the mountains, and since then there has been bad blood between the families. The dead body of Smith Crane, once a wealthy cattleman, was buried in tho potter's Held at Chicago.

lie was the first to take a consignment of cattle to Liverpool from Chicago. Finally he took to drink, and from that time his downfall was rapid. The fast freight on the Norfolk Western ran into a drove of cattle near Max Meadows, on the 23d, wrecking the train. The engineer, a colored brakeman and another man were instantly killed. Jim Umhra and "Mexican John." two members of Zip Wyatt's band, stole fifty head of cattlo belonging to lien Chapman and his cowboys gave chase.

They closed in 011 the desperadoes 15 miles from Cantonment, and vftcr a fusillade of bullets the bandits surrendered. The cowboys identiiicd the cattle and hung the two men to the first tree. The town of Fort Deposit, Lowndes county, broke the record on babies recently, two mothers giving birth to three children each and another mother capping the climax by having four children atone birth. All the babies were said to be healthy and tho mothers doing well. President's day at the Atlanta exposition on the 23d was said to have been a success.

President Cleveland afterrcviewing the troops made an appropriate speech and then held an informal reception. The courtesies to the presidential party wound up at night with a reception at the Capital City club. Miss Frances Wiixahd was re-elect-edjiresident of the national W. C. T.

C. There "was "a sudden spurt of activity at the Mare Island navy yard at San Francisco on the 21st, between seventy-five and a hundred men being put to work all night to finish up the armament of the battleship now lying there. This was the first time that a night force had been worked at that yard for years and it was considered somewhat remarkable. At Iluntsville, Frank Coleman, editor of the Argus, and L. O'Neal, editor of the Mercury, engaged in a duel on the public street by popping their pistols at one another, but neither was hurt The trouble grew out of remarks published in their papers.

It was feared there would be further trouble and friends were endeavoring to effect a reconciliation. More than 1,000 delegates were reported at Washington on the 22d, attending the sixteenth national conference of the Unitarian church. The foreclosure sale of the Santa Fe railroad has been postponed from December 5 to December 10. Alllll I ION AI. DISl'A'M'IIKS.

Many thousand bushels of corn nnd many tons of hay and h'elds of kallir corn were destroyed by prairie fires near I'crry, Ok. A number of farm houses were also consumed. Two In dian children were reported burned to a crisp, and many people had narrow escape i Hundreds of whites and Indians turned cut to tight the fire. The University of Virginia had afire on the 27th which destroyed the lecture rooms and a geological laboratory of great value. The loss was estimated at not less than $1100,000.

A Hock Island passenger train crashed into an outgoing freight train on the Cotton ltelt railroad near Fort Worth, recently nnd the Hock Island engine went over an embank ment, while thirteen cars were totally demolished. A threatening letter was found in the palace addressed to the sultan recently at Constantinople. An inquiry incriminated fourteen members of the imperial household. All of them were executed. A moii of ir0 men attempted to break into the jail at Tiflin, for tho purpose of lynching Leander Martin, who had shot August Schultz, the city marshal, a few days befoi'e, but a volley from the Winchesters of Sheriff Van Ness' party made them retreat after two of their number had been killed.

The friends of the men killed vowed vengeance, but tho sheriff telegraphed to (iov. MclCinley for troops aud three companies of militia were sent to the scene. Ax explosion in the mills of the Pacific Coast Lumber at Fair Haven, destroyed much property and killed three men outright. Notorious Dick Pino, a member of the Ryan gang of outlaws, was killed by federal ofiicers near Cusliinir, Ok. Francis J.

Kieckiiokfkk, chief in the bureau of accounts in the state department at Washington, has been found short in his accounts and Secretary Olney has compelled him to resign. The chief bookkeeper has also resigned. liAMHKitoKlt, lii.ooM the larg est dry goods firm in Louisville. Ky. has failed, with liitbilitiesof $1,200,000, and assets about equal.

Harvaiu) university defeated Cornell at Cambridge, on the 20th in the football game by a score standing 2.i to 0. A has broken out in Haytl i'nd President Ilippolyte was reported a.s being guarded in his palace in Port au i'riiice by a purt of his army. known, is not a nutive. Nobody can day exactly where it came from origi nally, but it was to Sir Wulter Raleigh that wc owe its introduction. In the gardens of some of the wealthy it begun to be cultivated ns a curiosity curly in tlie seventeenth century, but.

long" after this the poorer classes would liuve nothing to do with it, even where they could get (bo potato as an article of food. It was commonly believed to produce dysentery and leprosy, and it was only very gradually that the root came into general use. A prejudice equally strong was for a long time entertained uguinst tlie kidney bean, which, apparently, we owe to the gar deners which Henry VIII. fetched from Holland when he was a doting young; husband. Tho dwarf kidney bean came from the Netherlands nbout 1509, but the people got it into their heads that the color of its blossom was due to its being manured with blood, nnd for a long time would not eat the bean.

The taller kind, the scarlet runner, did not reach this country for mora than a hundred years later. Wo got it from South America in I to tit varieties were first grown in this country for tlie sake of their flowers only, and it was not till the eighteenth century, that the young seed potls began to be generally eaten. No doubt they were introduced as an edible vegetable, but so strong was the popular prejudice that it took two centuries to wear it out, and thus add another item to our stock of vegetables. Carrots such as may, no doubt, be' seen to-day have a very poor relation, a native of this country. Hut it is as tough as a hemp rope, and hot and unpleasant in taste, aud though attempts have been made to cultivate it into something more creditable to our soil, they have signally failed.

It does not seem quite clear where our cultivated carrot comes from, though, as it was originally known as the Cnnitla carrot. it seems probable that that island was where we found it. Hut carrots are very common in most parts of the world where soil is sandy, und it is likely that we are indebted to several foreig-n countries for better varieties than our own. Rhubarb is said to belong; to and only became an article of diet in this country very slowly. It was not known at all in Europe till l.VI.V Asparagus is a native' Briton, and so are turnips.

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