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4 uC J' rowA CotiNTY Times. fiTfWFXTSTlTTRfir, ANRAsTkRIDAV. MATOCJH IX. NUMBER 8." 5 GREENSBURG, KANSAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1893. i 1 REPUBLIC WHAT ABOUT Tnt AUUIAriwtT, I otnivua www onKMu THE ST.

LOUIS ALL ABOUT BOODLE. APPOINTMENTS. The London Russo-Jewish committee has been making energetic efforts to boycott Russian securities with some degree of success. The Transatlantic steamer Sarnia has-been several days overdue, and grave fears for her safety are entertained. The marquis of Salisbury, ex-premier of Great Britain, is suffering from an attack of influenza.

Jules Francois Camille Ferry, the celebrated French statesman, recently elected president of the senate, died very suddenly on the 17th. The horses of CoL North will not be the only English thoroughbreds in America this season. The duke of Beaufort will have several good horses in America this year. The American female baseball club, composed of nine young women, and Joseph Bruckner, the manager of the team, have brought suit for damages against the Spanish government. Manager Bruckner tells a story of rough treatment at the hands of a Cuban mob, In which he and the girls barely escaped with their lives.

Lord Dttnravkn declines to express himself definitely on the cabled copy of the American conditions of the cup race until he has received ex-Commodore Smith's letter. Lord Dunraven will race the Valkyrie against the English yachts before starting for America. The Canadian parliament rejected It is reported that large quantities of gold have been sent from Canada to New York recently. 1 The riotous convicts in the Massachusetts state prison have been disarmed and all their plans for escape have been frustrated. Henry Pomering, an iron worker Pittsburgh, Pa met a horrible death1 by.

being pierced, through with a-red hot bar. Durino last week 1,100 persons died in New York" city, forcing the death rate, on an estimated population of up to an almost unprecedented percentage. THE WEST. The situation in the Kalamazoo, flooded districts remained about the same on the 15th. The water had not risen any since the previous night, but there was much suffering as ice had formed and house to house communication by boats was almost impossible.

Is a fight at the Athletic club rooms at Grand Rapids, Fred Broome was knocked out in the third round, sustaining concussion of the brain, from the effects of which lie may die. John Ortilly, a rich bachelor of San Francisco, has died and left a million dollars or more to his brother, Michael, who is a wanderer and cannot be found. The anuch talked-of statue of 3Iiss 'Rehan in silver has dwindled down considerably. It is now announced that only her bust will be on show. Soldiers are patrolling the Cherokee strip and are arresting and running out all boomers whom they find trespassing upon it.

It is reported that defects were developed at the trial of the coast defense ship Monterey at San Trancisco and that the constructors will lose $30,000 because of the burning out of two large boilers. The Western Freight association has decided not to change the grain rates. An explosion occurred in the Wheeler opera house at Toledo, and in a few minutes the entire building was ablaze. The building was erected in 1871 and the loss was $80,000. Gen.

Simon Brown died at St. Clair, Mich, on the 17th, aged 81 years. He participated in seventy-two engagements during his life. The Minnesota legislature, in defiance of the opinion of the attorney-general, will hold on to the coal companies' books, obtained by force, and it proposes to prove by them that a coal combine exists in the state. Otto Faulkenburq, convicted ot "whitecapping" in Perry county, HL, made a statement implicating a number of citizens in participating in the lynching of John Davidson at Doolit-tle's Mill five years ago.

Thirteen men have been indicted. A strange disease among cattle in Central Illinois is believed to be due tc the feeding of millet. The switchmen on the Big Four ai Springfield, have struck. J. M.

Oucutt, the Michigan "Bohe mian oats" schemer, is dead. He inadt $25. 000 xut of. the swindle from 1833 tf 1855. A successful cast of Montana's silvei statue of justice, for which Miss Ado Rehan was the model, has been made at Grand Crossing, near Chicago.

Ex-Gov. Glick announces that he is Earnestly Consider. A serious danger menaces the health of the people of this country in the numerous alum baking powders that are now being urged upon the public. There is no question as to the detri mental effects of these powders open the system. Every Board of Health, every physician, will tell you of the unwholesome qualities they add to the food.

Some countries have absolutely prohibited the sale" of bread containing alum. Even small doses of alum, given to children, "have produced fatal results, while cases of heartburn, indigestion, griping constipation, dyspepsia, and va rious kindred gastric troubles from irri tation of the raucous membrane, caused by the continuous use of food prepared with the alum or alum-phosphate pow- dersti are familiar in the practice of every i 4 v. It is not possible that any prudent housewife, any loving mother, will knowingly, use an article of food that will injure the health of her household. or perhaps cause the death of her chil dren. How shall the dangerous alum pow ders be distinguished? And how shall the danger to health from their use be avoided? Generally, alum powders may be known from the price at which they are sold, or from the fact that they are accompanied by a gift, or are disposed of under some scheme.

The alum powder costs but a few cents a pound to make, and is often sold at 20 or 25 cents a pound. If some present is given with it, the price may be SO, 40 or 50 cents a pound. It is impossible to name all the alum powders in the market, but any baking powder sold at a low price, or advertised as costing only half as much as cream of tartar powders, or accompanied by a present, or, disposed of under any scheme, is of this class, detrimental to health, and to be avoided. But the easy, safe, and certain protection of our bread, biscuit and cake from all danger of unwholesomeness is in the use of the Royal Baking Powder only. This powder is mentioned because of the innumerable reports in its favor by high medical authorities, by the U.

S. Government, and by the official chemists and Boards of Health, which leave no doubt as to its entire freedom from alum, lime and ammonia, its absolute purity and While its use is thus a safeguard against the poisonous alum powders it is satisfactory at the same time to know that it makes the whitest, lightest, sweetest and most delicious food, which will keep moist and fresh longer, and that can be eaten with immunity hot or cold, stale or fresh, and also that owing to its greater strength it is more economical than others. These facts should incline consumers to turn a deaf ear to all importunities to buy the inferior powders. If a grocer urges the sale of the cheap, impure. alum brands, it should be borne in mind that it is because he ean make more profit on them.

The wise housekeeper will decline in all cases to take them. Take no chance through using a doubt' ful article teJiere so important a matter the health or life of dear ones is at stake, PERSONAL POINTS, Batoli-1 has a salary of six thousand dollars a year, and, in the matter of income, is far behind many parish priests. Peof. Bei.l, of telephone fame, is a large, strongly built man, who looks as though he enjoys life. He has a moat contagious smile.

It was at dinner, and some one asked that charming egotist, Edward Everett II ale, why Boston was called the Hub. "Boston is tho Hub," answered Mr. Hale, "because out of it go spokesmen of the wheel of mankind who never tire of doing David H. Smith, son of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, has been an inmate of the asylum for the insane at Elgin, II for seventeen years. He was' a brilliant man, and has written a book of -poems and one of psalms, the latter being now in use.

Dr. C. O. Pkobst, of the Ohio state board of health, is addressing clerical uiJons in that state in advocacy of abolishing the common administrative cup in churches and indiscriminate kissing among women and between grown per aons and children. TREE, VINE AND FLOWER.

An American vine plantation has been laid- out in South Africa, but, owing to a scarcity of American vines, tmly 11,000 riparia and rupestris were planted The study will be of interest Owing to tho varieties of character and of tho soiL 5 Probably bouse plants are more fre quently injured by too much than by too tittle water, but now that the days are petting longer it is advisable to push them into growth, and, therefore, the upply of water should be A increased with the supply of light An interesting fig tree in the palm-, house in Central park bears its inedible fruit directly upon the trunk and larger limbs. One bunch of well developed Bga la -growing down within a few, Inches of the ground directly upon the which at this point is three inches Tint national flower of Greece is the violeti Egypt, the lotus; England, the rose; France, the fleur-de-lis; Germany, the cornflower: Ireland, the ahamrockt Italy, the lily Saxony, the mlgnonettet Scotland, the thistle; Spain, the pome granate; Wales, the has national free, the sugar maple, aa htm also Prussia the linden FOREIGN FIGURES. cvi lit- London pays yearly in police ren- tons 223,858, and the rest of England A Census of the Hungarian gypatea taken on Um but day of January this Ifear ahowa the total number of that Curious people to Hungary to be f. Aacaawkior Waxaa is reported, aa quoting some remarkable, statistics U-lustratinga-frreat inerease of habitual drunkards In Ireland. The convictions drunkenness in 1887, he said, num-tered In 1SS3, la Afc.eOo? and in lS01.lGa.323.

tUttf ta Great IMUht toM at otc i 'scat ly hlr her prises lass cor trs fig thstwortcr frsttrr. 1 1 7' -1 i Which i "Housekeepers Should Is It Dead, or Is It Only Slepln-KUrjI Vigilance Is the Price of Liberty. This is a question that is frequently asked. A great many farmers who never -would join the alliance or other farm organization, but chose rather to align themselves with their own enemies, gloat over the apparent lethargy of the alliance. They assume that the organization is dead, and say: "I told you it would die; that is why 1 would not join it.

I knew they wouldn't stick together." But such reasoning is not vound. The assumption is false. The alliance is not dead. True enough there is not that zeal and demonstration that char acterized its early career; many of the weak-backed and short-sighted ones who mistook, the objects and scope of the organization, have dropped out They expected immediate results, and those results' were looked for on lines along which the more thoughtful never expected them to come. As a rule, the more; intelligent class of farmers believe in not I merely to look after the best interests of their class in their line of legislation, but mainly as a means of self-improve ment if) the way of.

reading, studying, investigation, co-operation and discussion; to become more sociable, more fraternal, and by contact and a friendly interchange of thoughts, methods and experiences, to become better farmers and better These are some of the purposes of organization. Just grant for argument sake that the Farmers' Alliance, as ah organization, is dead, the charters burned and that not another meeting in that name is ever held, will anybody claim that the influence exerted by the organized farmers dies with the means that effected it? If the Farmers' Alliance were to dissolve, to-morrow the good it has accomplished will outweigh a thousand times the trouble and expense it has cost The farmers' organizations have set the nation to thinking. They have made their influence felt in the legislatures and congress, and even some of the great daily, papers of the country are echoing the sentiments of the farmers and championing the measures have demanded. The fact is that the lethargy of the farmers organization is due as much as anything else to the fact that the press of the country and politicians have acknowledged the justice of the farmers'- demands, and many of the statesmen are uttering the "calamity howl" for the farmers. The danger is that the farmers will be lulled to sleep by the "wordy interest" the politicians are taking, only to fyave the chains riv eted a little tighter when round in a disorganized condition.

Don't be de ceived by the wily politician or" the treacherous plutocratic press. "By their actions and not words only, shall they be known." Look at the actions of the present congress and the different state legislatures; if they are earning their salt, we fail to see how. What is the benefit of soft words and pood promises if no good actions ever It is plain that the farm organizations are a necessity. Education, is the foundation of the great, walls of defense that are. to protect and preserve the liberties of the nation.

The alliance is a school, which, if well attended, will make the farmers free men. It will educate them in the line of practical farm work, in the principles of political Science, and will make them conscious of the fact that they are as intelligent and as important a factor in this republic as any other class. The alliance may be, and evidently is, to some extent awaiting results of the great awakening; to see the course of political events, and whether the known will of the people will bo regarded, but the alliance is not dead; the best men are still in the organization. The weak- kneed have fallen out As the brick mansion rises on the ruins af the frame building or the log hut, so will a more permanent and more effective organization arise on the ruins of the alliance if it should go down. St, Louis Journal of Agriculture.

THE LAW IN THE CASE. It Is Violated For the Express Purpose of Enriching; Gold Gambling- Plutocrats, Hon. Edwards Pier repont, attorney-general of the United States, and minister to England, in a letter to the New York Times of April 18, 1884, says: "There is not an outstanding bond cou pon or greenback issued by the United 4 States which may not be lawfully paid in stiver. Not one of them on its face or back, or in the statute authorizing the or in declaration, or in reso-lution of congress, nas any proviso that they shall be paid in gold. And the act of February 88, 1878, 1 directing th6 coinage of silver dollars.

-provides that they shall be a. legal tender at their nominal value for all debts and dues, public and prjvate, except where other-1 wise expressly, stipulated in the con If this be true, and. an-attornevgen eral of the United States says it is true, why all thelfuss and flurry aboat main-' tauimg gold -Vyhy use the ten thousand tons of silver lying idle in the tie(Vsuryt instead of draining thf vYiirtt.rv of cold And then ta.1 kin or about the necessity of selling 'Vtnds tQ get more gold? s'l All the outstanding bonds are made redeemable contract printed on the back of every one of them in "coin of the standard valqc pf the United State oh' said July witf' interest in such icoirf froin'the date hereof." The coin standard value at that date was: -Silveii, 412K grains; gold, 85 IMC Nothing bqt open robbery prevents such, payments. FayettviJle (Ark.) ttrv lloobJ. deal Is' going "to "happen before the next inauguration day, and '014 1 itf happens tviir1 depep.ft the q'uestion of -whether tfie president in auguraled after Mr.

Cleveland will be 4 democrat. is pretty much the same question now as there was between the king the oracle. The" democratic party Is In administration to demoralize a pArty? There is onestion of that'- The i Only question 4s" "'which St. Louis RepubUa. L.The.aIrfna of the times all point to a now alignm.ent pi political parties, in lUWt une and-the sou th have the power if they will unite.

"The question la, how totig will they allow themselves to be dragooned' into- the support of parties1 representing eastern interests. The testimony is overwhelm rA.asootf hBu.Tatanoa.froA west an4 sotn with terrible I Vave we iTsajia'TCctty tounltsaal tif tct oui- own-r Ct Lssuti 11." Hi' 1 With Its Enormous Circulation It ta Fast Converting- Democrats Into Populists. It is with an inexpressible measure of relief that one turns from a reading of the gold-bug editorials of the Kansas City Times to the columns of the St Louis Republic, which may nov be fitly classed as a "calamity howler," The following from the Republic has the true ring of pure democratic doctrine and emphasizes the fast widening gulf which exists between the southern, western and northwestern democracy and the eastern plutocracy of which Grover Cleveland, is the greatest living exponent and representative. The Republic is doubtless fighting for "reform within the party," but the bulk of its readers will become populists so soon as they discover that no relief can be expected from the present administration. A strangely familiar sound to populist ears has this Republic editorial, which reads as follows: Tt is supposed by some who are otherwise well informed that there has been a decrease in the price of silver due to an increase in the supply of sil ver bullion as compared with the supply of gold.

"This is a mistake, for the. supply of silver in relation to the supply of gold is less now than at the beginning of the century. The decrease in the price of silver is due to aconspiracy of En glish, German, Hebrew and American capitalists, who succeeded in demone tizing it. "There has been a decrease in the price of silver because of this con spiracy, but the increase in the price of cold has been much heavier, as can be easily demonstrated "To do so it is only necessary to see whether other prices have been affected as silver' has If the leading staples of commerce follow silver down from the time of its demonetization, it is unquestipnable proof that gold has been "bulled" to a premium as a result of the conspiracy which began operation about 1870. "The statistical" abstract issued by the federal treasury shows that this has been the case.

Wheat, cotton, wool and all other staples follow silver down, showing that the gold premium has been created by the legislation that demonetized silver. "In 1890 an ounce of gold brought 4.18 ounces of silver more that it did in I-1670. In 1870 a bushel of wheat brought 1.30, as against only' 83 cents in 1890 In the same time cotton fell from 19.03 cents to 10.01 cents a pound and wool from 48 to 33 cents. "The effect of bulling gold by de monetizing silver is strikingly shown in the decade between 1870 and 1880 by the increased purchasing power of gold as compared with the products of the Mississippi valley. The census of 1870 shows that 8,248,000 horses were worth in 1870 017, 319,000, while ten years later, though the number-of horses had increased to 11,201,000, they were worth much less than in 1870, or only 1613, 296,000.

"In 1870 1,179,000 mules were worth $128,584,000, while in 18801,729,000 were worth only 105, 948, 00a So. too, with milch cows; with mess pOrk and provisions; with all- cereals, and with everything we produce in the Mississippi valley, "These figures will suggest the enormity of the robbery perpetrated on the producers of the Mississippi valley by the gold conspirators, who began operations in America by demonetizing silver through the Sherman act of 187:1 then they have steadily forced gold to a higher and higher premium, forcing down the price of every article the valley produces until we have been robbed not of millions; but of billions. The world never saw a conspiracy so gigantic or so audacious as that through which the money dealers of London, New York and the German cities are operating tb force the premium on gold higher and still higher regardless of the fact that, as compared' with silver and with all our staples of production, it is higher now than it has ever been in the history of the world. "Out of such attempts as this grow great political and social revolutions. No government that is not a military despotism can uphold such conspirators against an intelligent people when intelligence is once roused to "No greater crime was ever ted in the history of the world than the" crime of using the government of this country and of other countries to carry out the plans'- of these plunderers of 'the people.

They are still in the business of robbery, insisting that whatever does not promote their advantage is unsound and dangerous finance, but they cannot go much further' Without making reaction inevitable, and, if, when it comes, the people ake baok somewhat of that they ihaves; lost through robbery, it need not surprise those whom success in swindling has made more insatiable as immunity has made them' more audacious." UA Mistake There appears to be considerable mi apprehension-respecting the at; titnde of the people party and of the reform press tqwards the- silver The report haa gained currency in some quarters' tQ confepenoa committees of the American Bimetallic league and the Reform Press associa tion at Concordia halL in Washington, a- few; days ago' agreed to unite upon the sipgle issue of free coinage in next This report is. abso lutely without shadow of foundation. The committee of the National Reform Press-association agreed tq nq. such, thing, nor faa.it asked, to da sa Our association) w'U continue to favor free coinage because it is right, but they will also continue to push to, the, front the other economic questions which form the basis of the people's and these will probably be "broadened in' future campaigns. There need ba no alarm concerning 'the adoption of the single issue of free silver as the: future platform of the' party.

We do not understand that any alterant has or will be made iq this- direction. Tor pekg. Advocate. Surely nolitics does make fctsange bedfellows. convention pf the Bimetallic league in Washington there were1 populists, democrats and re? publicans on the stage together making speeches'' and denouncing the "goldr Lombard and' Wall streets and 'the political playing into their handa, Yet some of these same orators still train wltV the "Parties are mere agent of the Shy locks denounced! What a.

speetaci of and, loasisteney-men alike ye jrottntf apart: and voting together whose rriaflplea. are opposite. popnlista are the only consistent THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Daily News. WASHIGTOX NOTES.

Tek United States senate committees are now complete, the republicans having arranged the minority representation at a caucus held on the loth. The secretary of the interior has accepted the resignation of Green Kanm as commissioner of pensions and has designated Deputy Commissioner Andrew Davidson to take charge of office until the appointment by the president of Gen. Ra urn's successor. The government has resolvicd to accept no more light-weight gold. This was because much of the Denver coin shipped for the relief of the treasury had been "sweated." Secretary Hoke Smith is about ready to commence the preliminary work necessary to the opening of the strip.

The original constitution of the United States will be a part of the government exhibit at the world's fair and will be guarded with the greatest care. Postmaster-General Bisselt. says that the ruling against the reappointment of ex-postmasters will be strictly enforced. Prisce3S Kaiulaxi and suite were entertained at luncheon on the receiving ship Dale, stationed at the Washington navy yard, by the commanding officer and Mrs. Houston.

Secretary Hoke Smith has accepted the resignation of Thomas H. Musick, of Missouri, chief of the patents and miscellaneous division, interior department. It is understood that "Bishop" Oberly, of Illinois, is to be appointed commissioner of Indian affairs. A strong pressure will be brought to bear on President Cleveland to induce him to send another delegation to a monetary conference at Brussels in May. The president has announced that the territories will not be given home rule unless the people are able to settle -I their bitter factional fights and agree upon candidates.

The world's fair will be opened on Sundays. It is claimed that congress has violated the souvenir coin contract where closing was stipulated, by requiring the retention of a portion of the money as a bond for the payment of awards. There is likely to be a clash between the president and congressmen over the distribution of offices, as Mr. Cleveland has announced an unwillingness to accept the indorsements of senators and representatives as a guarantee of fitness. It is said that young Allen W.

Thur-man, son of the "Old Roman," is making a red-hot fight for minister to Germany and that he is indorsed by congressmen. Senator Hn.L. has declared war on the president and will fight the confirmation of appointments which do not suit him. Physicians who made the autopsy of the brain of Howard Schneider, hanged at Washington, declared that he was insane at the time. Republican senators in caucus de-tided to make a formal protest against any attempts of the democrats to reorganize the elective officers of the senate at this time.

The government is soon to publish some interesting experiments collected by consuls in Europe as to the application of electricity to the farm and particularly as to its power in the propagation of plants. Ime. Schlieman, widow of Dr. Schlieman, the famous explorer of the ruins of buried and ancient cities, has determined to present to the United States National museum a portion of the relics unearthed at Troy by her late husband. THE EAST.

The New York Central railway has decided to increase its capital stock to an even The present outstanding capital is $S9, 423,300. The increase is to be offered to the stockholders of record on une 15 next at par. The money obtained from the sale of this additional stock is to be used for the extension of depots and building of terminals in New York City. Redpath Bros. Manufacturing boots and shoes, who were burned out in the recent Boston big fire, are financially crippled and have assigned- Mr.

Jj. H. Redpath, one of the partners, lost his life in the fire. The firm lost all their books and accounts and their jnsuratiiie was much less than the merchandise lost. The liabilities are The firm has factories in South Brain tree and Lynn.

A meeting behind closed doprs of prominent passenger agents from the principal railroads was held in Bing-hampton, on the loth. Representatives were present from the Ohio Mississippi, Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain. Pnluth, South Shore Atlantic and York, Lake Erie Western. The object of the meeting eould not be learned. Ms.

Croxkb, the Tanjmanjr uhief. has lately exhibited signs of considerable wealth. It has started tne scauaai-mongers because Croker has never been lenown to have possessed lucrative posi- iioeg. At Paterson, N. Turner halL a Imilding vering half a block, was destroyed by fire.

Four persons were injured, two fatally. E. Goodno, of Worcester, lias placed J10.000 to the credit of Drury college, to be used in constructing ft cottage for young ladies. BjjrrAjLO, N. will not get the Cferbett-Mitchell fight, as the ministers' fmtV-prize fight element is already up in' arms aboat it A-Dis AST sous freight wreak on the Pennsylvania oecurred at Huntington, involving the loss of two lives and 4 great deal of property.

AT Swedesboro, N. Father Treaey rebelled against the authority of Mgr. riatolli and Bishop O'Farrell and defied ahem openly. Dkk Pimeoi and Martin Heymer, switchmen, were killad in the yards at Long Island City by a ear jumping the At Mahanoy City, a locomatlre Exploded with terrific force, killing two ai and setting fire to several build-" ingar jurhich were destroyed. I -Cay.

Jacob Hand Vawdbrbblt died his noma pn Staten island from con-. Mstion of the fcngs. lie was a brother A tha "Old CommjodoTP," Furrr thousand men paraded at New Zark. on tfca Irish, national holiday. CUeass ptirT'f waa also unusually lrrr At WaaWfftoB Mgr.

Satoli Tremont tempt, aft Boston, baa xtrcTe hjr Ere wna awy aaar? Some Sensational Testimony Given Before the Senate Boodle Investigation Com-, mlttee Representative 'HoAleny's Kvl-denee. Topska, March 18. The senate oon mlttee appointed to Investigate the charges against Fred J. Close, Attorney -General Little and James F. Legate, In connection with the appointment of the members of the new board of police commissioners of Kansas City, met at 10 a.

m. In the senate chamber, bu'. practieaUy nothing -was done until 2 p. At 2:15 p. m.

Maj. Hudson appeared before the committee and produced a copy of the Cap ltal containing the editorial that led to the investigation. The oath having been duly ad. ministered, he testified substantially as follows: "For weeks prior to the meeting of the legislature there had been, rumors reaching me relative to legislation against the gambling dens in Kansas City, Kan. It was common talk that this legislation would be prevented if possible in the interest of these concerns." Senator Dillard asksd Mr.

Hudson to name some person who had mentioned the rumors to him. He replied that he could not remember any special persons. "The night of the 2d the article appeared on ph. cammo attune. tend hotel and stated that they had some in- that It was important for me to Know.

"Mr. Moffltt stated that he and Judge Fitzgerald had been to see Gov. Lewelling and had related to him certain facts In regard to efforts of a certain ring of Kansas City gamblers relating to his appointment, and to legislation, and they urged him to bring about an investigation toward off the-disgrace that would follow a publication of the facts. He said that in and during the conversation with the governor, he (the governor) acknowledged that he knew money had been paid to parties for legislative purposes. He said the governor did not state who had paid the money, and I think, he said, that Lewelling knew the money had been paid to Legate, but I am not sure about that Coney corroborated what Moffltt said.

Moffltt said he was a friend of Lewelling and did not want to be mixed up in it He said he was afraid he was in the hands of a lot of men who would ruin him unless he got out of the trouble He also said that Close and Little were present when the last 1,509 was paid. Upon being made aware of the contest against Taylor's bill I drew the conclusions stated in the editorial After just an hour on the witness stand Editor Hudson gave way to Representative Cub-bison of the Douglass house, who testified that he knew nothing as to the truth or falsity of the Capital's charges, and that he was never of fered any money for his influence to secure the nomination of certain persons as police commissioners for Kansas City. Representative McAleney testified that he recommended the appointment of Mitchell and Cunningham because they were indorsed by the county central committee He had heard that money was raised for legislative purposes; tirst 8800-and later All raised from gambling and policy men. "I have changed my opinion about these men," he said, "and have found they are not proper persons for the position because they would not carry out the central committee's wishes in regard to the appointment of a chief of police and certain other officials." SOMEWHAT SENSATIONAL. Topeka, Kan, March 20.

The boodle Investigation was resumed Saturday McAleny being again examined. He said that he and Bur-gard were both subjected to corrupt offers by Cy Leland. He "I had an offer of money from Cyrus Leland, Saturday morning, February 25, to sell my vote for United States senator. An acquaintance had come to ma a few days before and asked me to meet Mr. Leland.

We agreed on a place, and I met him that morning at 9 o'clock in Senator Williamson's room in the Keith block. I first went to the room with this acquaintance, who immediately left, and in a few minutes Mr. Leland came and introduced himself. Ho talked over the legislative situation at some length and told me what the supreme court's decision in the house teat case would be. The conversation lasted nearly an hour and gradually led around to what he wanted.

Of course I understood what he wanted when he came to the room. He said that the republican party, were going to elect a United Stap senator; that they had 88 voten; that mine would be sufficient to elect but tnat they had -in addition two others who were pledged I asked him what he wanted me to do and for what. He said he understood it would be money and he named J1.00J. I told him I knew what my vote amounted to: that 1 had been approached before on the subject and that as I had voted for no candidate when Judge Martin was elected senator my vote was. worth more for that reason.

We discussed the matter fit- teen minutes. "Having agreed on the amount the next question was the stake holder. I told him I would act as stake holder and that was where the lirst serious hitch came in. He wanted me to accept some of the politicians or senators or one of the banks. He said he could not think of giving me the cash because it would place him at my mercy.

He wanted me to go with him to one of two banks which he did not name. I suggested a -certified check, but he objected. "The amount agreed on--was 85,000. This figure was not exactly stipulated, but I understood that if we could agree on a stake holder' that would be the amount The man he wanted mp to vote for was W. H.

Rosslngton, a democrat "When we talked about the price, I told him that a large sum had been offered when Ady was the republican candidate: $10,000 had been offered for a single vote. He denied this at first, but I knew better and told him the trouble then as now was about the stake holder. I told him the money was offered to Mr. Burgard, of Wyandotte county, in a cloak room three minutes before Judge Martin was elected senator, and that the deal broke off at the last moment because they could not agree on a stake, holder. Burgard Insisted on a stake-holder Leland would not trust Leland then admitted the offer and said Burgard should have kept his fool mouth shut Then when I insisted that my vote was worth half as much as Burgard's, he said the offer to Burgard was lor state 'printer.

Air 10 o'clock Leland said he wanted to go over to the supreme court and hear the decision in the house test case and he went away. That is the last time I saw him. Leland said that the republicans' had agreed upon Rosslngton because all the republicans would not vote for B. P. Waggener.

Leland; did not want to discuss the Burgard deal but he practically admitted that he had made an offer to him. We did not exactly agree on (5,. 000, but he said perhaps if we could agree on stakeholder we could agree on the amount He said repeatedly he did not want to be placed at my mercy and I did not propose to have it any other way. In the Burgard deal, he and Leland had agreed on Barney White, of thr stakeholder but Leland backed out because he was afraid that the relations between him and Burgard were such that he could hot trus'. Jn reply to a.

run of qustions by members of the committee, McAleny said tht Ills repubile-ans, vexed and chagrined i sjt the election gl Judge Mavtis, were scheming to elect 'Tuesday evening before the Leland interview," he continued, Strickland, of Kansas City, approached me in the interest of B. P. Waggener to see what-1 'would do. He told me I stood a chance for a good office in the event of Waggoner's election' 1 told him I had no hankering for office. I was surprised that Striokland, whom I knew, to be-a fusion democrat, should be supporting' Waggener.

'r 1 Adjournment was taken'until Aiinlvfcrspy of tlo Paris Commo.no. Nkw York, March 20. The twenty-second anniversary of the proclamation of the Paris commune was celebrated -I by the local anarchists and: socialists Saturday night by. an enthusiastic gathering. Speeches were made in English, French, Spanish and Italian.

i Promlnoot Grain Mm Daxf. Chicago, March Of atljr Iett, a prominent board of trade man, died at his home in Winnetaka, 8 a suburb of Chicago, from cancer of the liver, with-which he had been afflicted since last August. An ftallan' PoU6tdn. March 89. The Message Patria says an inquiry, has been ordered to the facta oonoewv ing the recent death the pope's There, is- suspicion, says the Messagero, that he wai poisoned at the instance of his relative i and a woman belonging to one of tnt oldest Catholle families In Italy.

nttioHoge Hew. Yobs, 'March Sc. There Is stilt no news of the Naronic hd the agent of the misainj freighter are read admit that the efcanae of her ever, be- 1 nia President Nominates Many cere ConOrmatlons. New om Washtngtoh, March 21. The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: i James B.

Eustis, of Louisiana, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to. France. Theodore Runyan, of New Jersey, i to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States "to Germany. 3 John B. Risley, of Ne York, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Denmark.

J. G. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, to be United States circuit judge for the Seventh judicial circuit Walter Dabneyof Virginia, to be solicitor of the department of state. Charles B. Stewart, of Texas, to be judge of the United States court for the Indian territory.

Ernest P. Baldwin, of Maryland, toi be first auditor of the treasury. Thomas Holcombe. of Delaware, be fifth auditor of the treasury. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, to be commissioner of railroads.

United States marshals David Guy-ton, of Mississippi, for the northern district of Mississippi; William H. Hawkins, of Indiana, for the district of Indiana; Abner Gaines, of Arkansas, for the eastern district of Arkansas; James J. McAlester, of the Indian territory, for the Indian territory. To be United States attorneys Frank N. Burke, of Indiana, for the district of Indiana; Clifford L.

Jackson, of the Indian territory, for the Indian territory; Joseph H. House, of Arkansas, for the eastern district of Arkansas. CONFIRMATIONS. Washington, March 2L After various resolutions affecting clerks of committees, modification of rules, etc, one of which for the reprint of the Indian appropriation bill led to a discussion in which the errors committed in the enrollment of appropriation bills at the last session were exposed and commented upon, had been offered in the sen ale and referred the senate went into executive session on motion of Mr. Vest and confirmed the following nominations in short order.

Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, to be assistant secretary of state. Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana, to be minister to Mexico. James P. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be minister to France.

Patrick A. Collins, of Massachusetts, to be consul at London. Robert A. Maxwell, of New York, to be fourth assistant postmaster-general. Wade Hampton, of South.

Carolina, to be commissioner of railroads. William McAdoo, of New Jersey, to be assistant secretary of the navy. THE STRIP. The Secretary of the Interior Taking Preliminary Steps to the Opening. Washington, March 31.

Secretary Hoke Smith is making preparations to carry into effect the act ratifying the agreement with the Indians ceding to the government the Cherokee strip in the Indian territory. In a letter to Principal Chief Harris, the secrefiirgj advises him as to what steps are necessary to be taken on the part of the In dians, and suggests that he call the national council together to take such action as to allotments and other details as they may see fit. In a letter to Gov. Seay, of Oklahoma, the secretary asks for information and suggestions as to the establishment of the number of counties and other matters connected with the proposed opening of the strip to public settlement. The commissioner of Indian affairs has been directed to prepare rules and regulations to govern in making the seventy allotments provided for in the agreement, for which there are already on file more than 100 applications.

In view of this complication, Capt Harries has been requested to indicate what the views of the council are in regard to it The assistant attorney-general has received instructions as to the payment to the Shawnees and Dela wares of their respective shares in proceeds of the Sales to the government, and all other needful preparations are being made-to hasten the opening of the strip to set tlement. James H. Cisney, United States Indian inspector now at Arkansas City, in a report just received at the interior department expresses the opinion that there will be no unlawful invasion of the Cherokee strip. There are many people camped about Arkansas City and Caldwell and many have rented houses in each of these cities waiting for the opening; but -after a thorough investigation of the subject he does not find any disposition to enter the strip before it is formally and legally opened to settlement. And this opinion, he says, is shared by CoL Meade, who is in command of all the troops on the outlet, and Capt Forebush and Capt.

Bishop, who are. in command at Chilocco and Caldwell respectively. TO CONSIDER THE OFFER. Tarlequah, March 21. C.

J. Harris, chief of Cherokee nation, yesterday issued a proclamation for a special session of the Cherokee legist lature to convene on March The proclamation does not say why the call is made. It says the members are called together to consider such, business as the chief sees proper 'to submit It is understood, however, that the chief will submit the bill recently passed by congress asking the" Chero-kees to wait for $8,000,000 of the sum to be paid for iheir title to the strip. From reliable authority it is ascertained that the chief will recommend the acceptance of the offer. A Pugilizlnc I'agUiHt.

Pittsburgh, Pa, March 2L Corbett is very angry over the interview with Mitchell in which the latter sneeringly referred to Corbett's offer to fight him for nothing if he was unable to secure backing. 'I'- will now insist," said the cham-' pion, "that he put up every dollar of the If he cannot secure, the money I will refuse to fight him, and will then meet Jackson." Concerning the statement that "Denver" Smith would challenge him for a side, Corbett said: "I have pcar4 nothing from Smith and will pay ng attention to mm." Charsres Against aiTOiHolal. -h TopEAt1 March elling was yesterday afternoon served with a by, Sergeant-at-Arms Johnson, of the senate committee, making1 nine1 distinct charges against W. H. McBride, state insurance commissioner.

The notice was served on the secretary of state, and rharge(T him with Inefficiency, incom-peteaey and dereliction in tae discharge oL his dntiea: document is quite lengthy setting forth in detail the specifie charges. It asks that an examination into the same made, and that superintendent be removed McCarthy's proposal for a reform of the tariff. A snowslide on the Rocky Mountain division of the Canadian Pacific carried away the tracks and snow sheds and buried twelve men, of whom two were taken out dead. Clearing house returns for the week ended March 10 showed an average increase of 2.1 compared with the corresponding week of -last year. There was no increase in New York.

Many Chinamen are now complying with the registration The Canadian Pacific railway has been authorized to increase its stock. Henry S. Iyes and his interests have secured control of the Cleveland, Akron Columbus road. Clark has resigned as president of the Union Pacific and will be elected president of the Missouri Pacific. During February the French imports decreased 21,908,000 francs, and the exports increased 5,374,000, as compared with February last year.

The lower house of the Prussian diet has passed to a third reading a bill to reform the present complicated system of elections in Prussia. The steamship Tacoma arrived at Victoria, B. flying the yellow flag; small-pox had broken out among the Chinese passengers. Sir William Wedderburn, liberal, has been elected to parliament from the Banffshire, Scotland, district. The defeat of the German army bill, it was predicted, would result in the downfall of Chancellor Caprivi.

The steamer Sarnia, for the safety of which great anxiety had been felt, came into port at Halifax, N. S. having been delayed by a broken shaft A dispatch from Buenos Ay res says the Argentine government has resolved to destroy 11,000,000 each month in order to reduce the circulation of paper notes. It is reported that the Earl of Rose-berry will accompany Queen Victoria on her Italian trip and will meet in Florence the Italian and German ministers of foreign affairs. Another dynamite explosion occurred in Rome, an attempt being made to blow up the Marignoli palace.

All doubt as to the fate of the steamer Naronic has been removed by the arrival at Bremen of a steamer which saw her empty lifeboats drifting. The success of the revolutionists in Rio Grande do Sul was-but a temporary one, and they have been defeated and routed by the govern ment troops. Papers proving that the late Baron de Reinach paid 11,000,000 francs to Dr. Ilerz have been ordered seized at Paris' The senatorial elections in Spain resulted in a sweeping victory for the monarchists. The king and queen of Portugal and the members of the cabinet were shaken up by the derailment of their special train but none were injured.

THE LATEST. WicniTA, 3Iarch 22. About 9 o'clock last night, Mrs. T. A.

Frazier, the wife of a teamster, shot herself in the breast and will die. The reason for her shooting herself was because her husband did not come home until late. "New iYoRK, March 22 A dispatch from Topeka, states that Superintendent McBride has intimated that President Harper of the Mutual lie- serve Fund Life association ottered to pay a large sum for campaign, purposes last fall if he (Mcride) would allow the Mutual lieserve JTuria" Life association to do business in Kansas. Mr, Harper stoutly denied the- charge. Topkka, March 23.

Governor Lewelliug is confined to his room in the hotel with chills and fever, He will not be Out for several days. Fort Scott, March 22. Every saloon keeper in this city, thirty in number, was arrested yesterday, The wholesale arrests were brought about by Governor at the request of prohibitionists of Fort Scott Mnch surprise and excitement has been caused by this unexpected move of the prohibitionists, and sensational devel opments are expected. St. Joseph, March 22.

Yester day Comptpn McCoy, a hunter. was out on a sand bar a miles below this city ducK-shooting. when he noticed a large dry goods box floating down the fitrBani. 'He (sowed the box to the" bar and broke it when to his horror a dead body rolled put. He summoned help, and an investigation disclosed five bodies all in -a terribly decomposed condition.

Four of the' bodies are hbse of men while the other is that of a From marks discovered it is supposed that the people were niur- 4ered and then set adrift on the river. San Fuangiscq, March 22.John W. Mackay is in a dangerous condition; It is said that lie may die within twenty-four hours. tiouble "Is not- directly the result of the bullet Wound inflicted by the assassin liippey; some foreign substance" has lodged in the vermlfgrm and has 'made him seriously" nl, GuTiraiE, O.T., Marsh fires are raging for miles around this city, and much damage if being; At Jiave beq start: ed. Some of them are thought to Jml malicious work of tramps; others hav been set accidentally "by not in the race for commissioner of the land office or any other placa A wall of the burned Wheeler opera house at Toledo, was blown over, wrecking two other buildings.

It has been practically decided to keep the world's fair open late every evening to give people a chance to see the wonderful electrical exhibit. Frank Lesnet, receiver of the United States land office at Roswell, N. has disappeared and it is feared that he is short in his accounts. The war between the Minnesota coal combine and the legislature was carried into the courts and the legislature was sustained at every point. Chiefs Arthur and Sargent, of the brotherhoods of engineers and fireman, have been sued for damages by the Ann Arbor road for ordering a strike.

Ex-Congressman Blount has left San Francisco on his mission to Hawaii and expects to be gone three months. A comparison of appropriations made by the present Missouri legislature with those of previous years shows a marked retrenchment at the present session. THE SOUTH. Untted States officers have arrested Lum Adams and Will Mayes near Del Rio, who had with them eighty head of smuggled horses. The capture is one of the most important made on the border in several years, as it will lead to the breaking up of a.

gang of smugglers who have been operating be tween Mexico and Texas for some time past. The gang is reported to have their headquarters about fifty miles west of Del Rio, on the Mexican side. B. W. Crow and his family have been driven from the town of Nebo, N.

by anonymous threats. Crow is a white man and his daughter taught a school for negro The other night the school was overturned and destroyed. F. Edwin El well, the sculptor, has received the contract from the Gettysburg pjonument commission to make an equestrian statue of Winfield Scott Hancock, to be erected at a commanding point on the Gettysburg battlefield. The statue will be of heroic size.

The ticket scalpers' bill has passed the Texas senate. The largest wild cat ever seen in the neighborhood was killed in Stone creek swamp, near Louvale, Ga. It measured 0 feet inches from' the tip of his nose to tba end of his tail. The Masonta hall at Pine Bluff, burned. The post office was on the lower floor, but most of the contents was saved The big distillery of James Walsh at Covington, was burH'ed and" 2,000 barrels of whisky destroyed.

'Squire the. well known English sportsman, and backer of Pugilist Mitchell, died at New Orleans of pneumonia. G. S. Light, an eccentric physician, who lined the life' of a hermit at Pine Bluff, died at Covington, Ky; He was Five white convicts armed with revolvers escaped from the chain gang at Watgrtown, Ga.

After a lively fusilade two surrendered, but the -other three are still at large, i i eNKRJu The German army bill has been witu drawn from the reichstag. Canadian flour dealers report that American flour getting in notwithstanding the duty of 50 cents per barrel. Jt is said the shippers have practiced fraud pn the customs officers, AnHlnff In a. low (Trade of Hour as feed and after admission feUjpg aa low the ore they vote ta ite 't5r--t: 1 1 iJ Lli iI.k:, 1 ing heard WC3 by tat governor. -).