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a a a THE LANE STAR. OUR LIBERTIES WE PRIZE AND OUR RIGHTS WE WILL MAINTAIN. VOLUME LANE, FRANKLIN COUNTY. KANSAS, FRIDAY. MARCH 29.

1889. NUMBER 3 ROSANNA N' CORMICK. Ancient and Well Known F8- male Departs From This Life. She Was a Gre-t Reader and an Intelligent Woman. Dr.

Oox, the Doctor Who Played Such Havoc in. Various Places, is Jailed. A Queer Old Character Gale. Winchester, March 25. -Rosanna McCormick, aged 65, an eccentric character who had lived by herself near White Sulphur Springs in this county for many years, and was well known by thousands of people from the north and south who had been patrons of the was found dead from pneumonia at home yesterday, lying on She fertilizer sacks and sheepskins.

had a number of feather beds but never slept on them. She always wore long heavy boots with pistols in them for protection, rarely ever taking them off, and died in her boots. She was a great reader, very intelligent, a fine historian, and the owner two farms and a number of cattle and sheep which he had gathered by her own industry. She told the fortunes of many a fair maiden and old time lady in the United States. A Bad Doctor Must Go to Jail.

sentence. Officers and Outlaws Fight Hotly, PHILADELPHIA, March The sttpreme court to-day affirmed the sentence of the court of quarter sessions in the case of Dr. Seney M. Cox of Port Murray, N. versus the commonwealth.

Cox was charged with causing the death of Jennie Osborne of Newark, N. by a criminal operation at a hotel in Easton, this state, in February, 1888, and was convicted and sentenced May 9 to four years in the Northampton jail and to pay a fine of $500. 'The next day his case was taken before the supreme court on a writ of error and he was released on $1,000 bail, and had since been practicing medicine at his home. As a result of to-day's decision he will be returned to the jail to serve out his CHEYBOYGAN, March 25. -Saturday night Sheriff Hayes went to the low dive of Charles Smith to quell a disturbance and remonstrated with Smith who became enraged and, drawing a revolver, commenced firing.

He seriously wounded Marshal Bochard who had entered the house soon after Hayes, and his second shot passed through the hat of Constable Ewing. A and fierce fight then took place between Hayes Smith, Hayes shooting Smith in the throat and side, The last wound inflicted injuries from which Smith died. Senate Confirmations. WASHINGTON, March following confirmations the senate were made public to day: Andrew C. Bradley to be associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; Fred D.

Grant of New York to be minister to Austria-Hungary; Frank R. Aikens of Dakota to be asassociate justice of the supreme court of Dakota; John R. McFie of Mexico to be associate justice of the supreme court of New Mexico; Henry W. Blake of Montana to be chief justice of the supreme court of Montana; John D. Fleming of Colorado Miles to be district attorney for Colorado; to be C.

Moore of Washington territory, governor of Washington territory; Oliver C. White of Washington territory to be secretary of Washington territory; Edwin C. Willets of Michigan to be assistant secretary of agriculture; Whitelaw Reid of New York to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to France: Nuthan 0. of Murphy Arizona; of Prescott. to be secretary Julius Goldschmidt of Wisconsin be consul general at Vienna, and seyeral unimportant postmasters.

Lucy Parsons at It Again. CHICAGO, March 24. -Anarchist Lucy Parsons was the chief speaker last night in Twelfth street Turner hall at a celebration eighteenth anniversary of the Paris commune. About twenty-five hundred people were present and they exchanged significant looks when Mrs. Parsons shouted, "We want a revolution, whether peaceful or bloody, makes no difference!" She declared she had but one object in life--to make rebels them all.

an agitation meeting to day an "At ist named Cook made use of this anarchexpression: They have hung the anarchists, but they don't dare to hang any more." This met with such favor that a motion was made asking the reporters to make special mention of same. Death of Justice Matthews. kidneys. A Notable Career. WASHINGTON, D.

March 22. -The Hon. Stanley Matthews, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at 10:05 o'clock this morning, after a long illness. The last change in the condition of Justice Matthews occurred yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. In the morning he had been feeling quite comfortable and cheerful.

At that hour, however, the intense pain which marked the periods of decline recurred and never left him until death brought relief. Dr. William W. Johnson was summoned and, finding his patient suffering which so intensely administered opiates, toward morning induced a state of semi-consciousness, in which he remained until the end. Occasionally he would partially revive and recognize the loved ones near him by glance or pressure of the hand, but a relapse soon to followed.

For a number of hours previous death he was practically unconscious. In his last hours he was surrounded by the members of his family who had been with him throughout his illpess-Mrs. Matthews, his daughters, Miss Matthews and and Miss Eva Matthews, and his son, Paul Matthews, and C. B. Matthews, his brother, of Cincinnati, who came to Washington a week or ten days ago.

Dr. Johnson and the faithful colored servant, who only a few days ago announced to callers with great satisfaction that "Justice Matthews is ever so much better," were also present. The chamber in which Justice Matthews breathed his last, and which had been his world since last September, is on the east side of the second story of the elegant mansion occupied by him for several years, on the corner of Connecticut avenue and L. street. The tightly drawn blinds along the entire avenue front this morning afforded the first indication to neighbors and passers by that all was not well within, but the reports of his condition during the past week had been of such a cheering nature that anprehension was in a great measure subdued, and the news of his death came with a shock, even to many who had been prepared for the announcement at any time during the winter.

The justice was ever a cheerful and hopeful patient and naturally the members of his family endeavored to be as cheerful and hopeful as he, and it was owing to his own belief in his recovery that the favorable reports of the past week were given to those who inquired after his health. Only yesterday morning he was discussing with the family various plans for the future, when he should be able, as in the past, to take part in their execution. "Eut at no time since his return to Washington," said one of the family this morning, "have we really felt that there was hope for his recovery." The immediate cause of death was exhaustion of the heart and congestion of the Stanley Matthews was born in Cincinnati. July 21, 1824, He was the oldest child of his father's second marriage. Until he was 8 years of age the family lived the greater part of the time in Kentucky, where his father, Thomas J.

Matthews, was a professor of mathematics in Transylvania university. In 1832, having heen elected president of Woodward high sobool, Cin- cinnati, the the Anther returned to that city and for next seven years took charge of education of his son, preparing him for the junior class in Kenvon college, Ohio, where he graduated in the fall of 1840, 'Among his fellow students was Rutherford B. Haves, afterward president of the United States. After devoting five years to the study of law, Stanley. Matthews removed to Maury 'county, Tennessee, where he obtained a position as AN assistant in a senool.

Having beet dumitted to the bar he commenced his bractice at Columbia, devoting his leisure hours to editing a paper called the Tennessee Democrat. After his retuth to Cincitnati in 1844, a Vacancy occurring, he was appointed assistant brosecuting attorney his during duties a term 'of court, discharging with such efficiency as to attract attention. He subsequently formed the acquaintance of Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, who was then publishing the Cincinnati Herald, an anti-slavery paper, and became Conttibutor to the paper, and subsequently succeeded Dr. Bailey in conducting its publication.

At that time the anti-slavery feeling was running high Ohio, involving both parties, and the prominence into which Mr. Matthews had been brought as publisher of the paper inade him a party to the combination which elected Mr. Chase United States senator from that state, and resulted in Mr. Matthews' election as "free clerk of the Ohio house of In 1840, upon the adjournment of the legislature, Matthews returned to the practice of his profession and upon the adoption of the state constitution in the following year he was elected by the democrats one of the three judges of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county. He resigned this position in Jauuaty, 1858.

finding the salary insufficient, and he became a member of the law firm of Worthington Matthews. He subsequently served one full term in the senate of Ohio. President Buchanan appointed him United States district attorney in 1858 and for two years he discharged the duties of the office with great credit, at the end of which time he tendered his resignation to relieve President Lincoln of any embarrassment in providing an occupant for the office. Upon a tender of his services to Governor Dennison at the commencement of hostilities he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-third Ohio infantry, of which Rutherford B. Hayes was major and General Rosecrans colonel.

He served with his regiment in West Virginia and was promoted to the colonelcy of the Fifty-first Ohio in October, 1861. His regiment was engaged in service in Kentucky under Major General Buell, becoming afterward part of the army of the Cumberland. In April, 1863, Colonel Matthews was elected by the republicans judge of the superior court of Cincinnati and resigned his military command. He filled his judicial position. until July.

1864, when he tendered his resignation, compelled by pecuniary considerations to resume his private practice. This soon became very extensive and profitable, including many of the most important cases pending in the state and national courts. 35 In 1872 Mr. Matthews, although a member of the convention which first nominated Mr. Greeley for president, withdrew before the nomination and supported the election of General Grant in the canvass.

That he was not regarded as having severed his connection with the repub lican party was made evident by his nomi- nation for congress as a representative of that party at a later period. Matthews was a warm supporter as well as a personal friend of General Hayes and, before the electoral commission, rendered efficient service to his friend. Upon the resignation of Senator Sherman to become secretary of the treasury he was elected as his successor, serving from 1877 until 1879. Toward the close of his administration President Hayes sent the nomination of Stanley Matthews to the senate to be an asscciate justice of supreme court of the United States, but the nomination was not acted upon by that congress. It was renewed by President Garfield, May 12, 1881, and confirmed.

Justice Matthews was a man of great natural energy. His mind was clear, comprehensive and analytical. He had a strong will and a force of character which, with his thorough training, quick perceptions, retentive memory and sound judgment, had carried him to the front rank of his pro fession as a lawyer and had won for him ar enviable reputation in the position he lately occupied. Daring Train Robbers. ABUQUERQUE, N.

March reached the city this morning that the incoming passenger train was held up last night at Canyon Diablo, Winslow, by four desperate characters. Thereport was meagre but there was enough contained in the news to give credence to the report. Later it was learned that as the train slowed up at the bridge four men mounted the platform of the first passenger coach and commenced to terrorize the passengers. After going through this coach they went to the others and reports state that from the passengers they secured between $700 and 8800. In that vicinity the train has orders to go at a slow rate of speed and this enabled the robbers to jump from the train without injury to themselves.

The robbery was reported on the arrival of the train at Winslow and a posse was sent after the robbers. When the robbers jumped from the train they fired several shots at coaches, one of which went through the express car. From Edward Knickerbocker, the WellsFargo express messenger between Albuquerque and Los Angeles, it is learned that four men boarded the engine at Canyon Diablo station and leveled their weapons at the engineer and fireman. One of the men stayed on the engine while the others took the fireman off. They then fired several times in the air.

Knickerbocker had just made his exchange with the station agent, and on hearing the shots closed the door and put out the lights. The fireman who was in clutches of the robbers then came to the door of the express car and knocked. Knickerbocker asked: "Who is there? and a response came from the fireman. The agent then opened the door, when in walked three masked men. One held a revolver to his head and the others went through the contents of the company's express, taking what local traftic in money had been received by the agent from Los Angeles to that point, amounting to between $200 to $300.

SAN FRANCISCO, March Rowell of the Wells-Fargo express company said to-day that he had received no report of the reported train robbery at Holbrook, last night and no idea as to the amount of treasure secured, but he had no doubt as to the truth of the report. He considered the robbers selected the portion of the country in which it would be hard to apprehend them. Made Mad by Scorn. WORCHESTER, March 24. -Albert Lindstoom shot his former sweetheart, Emily Scheneck, to-day and then shot and killed himself.

Sweden four years ago, and after he came Lindstoom 'was engaged to the girl in here and obtained work in the Washburn Moen wire mill he sent $60 to her to buy her passage over. She went to work as a servant, but her affection for him seemed to abate, and she refuced to marry him. A year ago she went to Portland to avoid his importunities, but after working there some months she returned, and had since boarded at the same tenement where he did, but she replled his attentions. Yesterday the girl agreed to meet her former lover to day and repay him 830 of the money he had paid for her passage to nerica. The interview to-day was priPate.

The other boarders on hearing two pistol shots rushed into the room and found Lindstoom dead and the woman with a bullet in her breast. She was unable to give any account of the shooting and is expected to live but a few hours. She was a pretty girl, but inclined to Art. A QUEER FREAK. A Child In Colorado That Resembles Many Animals.

The Mother of This Strange Production Will Not Let It be Exhibited. A Stock Speculator Drops His Lucre. Quite a Strange Find: Wichita, KAN, March M. Hardy of Hardy's ranch, Wallace county, Kansas, while on a recent hunting trip in Kansas and Colorado with a friend, went to the ranch of Charles Kirls, about five miles southwest of Grenada, beside a deep gulch, Where away down flows a tributary to the Arkansas river. Kirls readily gave them shelter for the night, remarking that it was seldom that guests ever called in that lonely place.

He told them also that seven years before this he had lived on the Pecos river at the foot of a mountain spur, herding cattle, and one day a large bear entered the chicken coop and his wife ran to the rescue. She got such a fright that she was sick for sev. eral months and then they moved to their present home. Mrs. Kirls gave birth to a child shortly after, which was never known to have been seen by any one.

The visitors heard strange noises which seemed to eminate from a closed closet. They also heard Mrs. Kirls singing and asked Kirls if he had any children. He then said: "I will show you a curiosity but you must never breathe it." He then showed them a child three feet high, weighing forty pounds and a compound of human being, bear and chicken. Its head was like that of a bear, but its eyes were those of a human and its ears were a combination of human and bear, as were its mouth and chin.

There was a full growth of soft hair over the face, head and neck. In place of arms it had feathered wings. The mother loves it dearly and will not permit it to be hibited. Ruined by Stock Speculation. HANCOCK, March sent here by the Standard oil company have been at work upon the books of Martin R.

Goldsworthy, manager of the company for the Lake Superior region, and have discovered a shortage in his accounts of $10,000 or more. He became frightened last Wednesday and took a train for the "Soo" and thence to Toronto, where he now is. He was an old resident and had been held in high esteem. For the past two years he had been dabbling in mining stocks, and the recent heavy decline carried him under. His bondsmen are liable to the extent of many thousands.

The Madstone Sticks Well. TERRE HAUTE, March is known as the Terre Haute madstone was 0-day applied to the leg of the 11-year old daughter of John Kirk of Rush county who was bitten two weeks ago by a a a a a a dog which afterward died with all the symptoms of hydrophobia. The stone after the lapse of eleven hours still adhered. The dog bit two sisters of this child and either scratched or bit a four-year old brother. The madstone was applied to the boy, but would not adhere and this confirms the impression that his injury is from a scratch.

The wounds of the three girls were not deep, but blood was drawn. The madstone is thoroughly saturated and the cloth about it is soaked with the poisonous looking matter. The longest time the stone ever adhered before this application was fourteen hours and that was many years ago. A Noted Pennsylvanian at Rest. gar steel company.

St. Louis Republican Candidates. PITTSBURG, March The Hon. John Scott, president and of the receivers of the Alleghaney Valley railroad company, died at 9:30 o'clock this morning of pneumonia, in his 69th year. The deceased was prominently identified with a large number of financial and industrial institutions in this city, was formerly president of the Pittsburg, Virginia, and Charleston railroad company and a director of the Pennsylvania railroad company and was one of the originators of the great Ed- ST.

Louis, March an all night convention the republican city convention nominated the following ticket: Mayor, James G. Butler; collector, Henry Ziegenhein; treasurer, Michael Foerstel: comptroller, Henry L. Rogers; president of the board of assessors, Louis Grund; auditor, John McNeil; register. Joseph A. Wherry; inspector of weights and measures, E.

D. Chamberlain; city marshal, Emile Thomas; president of the board of public improvements, Henry Flad; president of the city council, Cyrus P. Walbridge. Guarding Alaska Waters. WASHINGTON, D.

March -The following proclamation was issued late this afternoon: By the President of the United States of America, a proclamation. The following provisions of the laws of the United States are hereby published for the information of all concerned: Section 1,956, revised statutes, chapter 3, title 23, enacts that: "No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten. sable, or fur seal, or other fur bearing animal within the limits of Alaska territory, or in the waters thereof; and every person found guilty thereof, shall, for each offense, be tined not less than $200 nor more than $1,000, or imprisonment not more than six months or both, and all vessels, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargoes found engaging in violation of this section shall be forfeited, but the secretary of the treasury shall have power to authorize the killing of any such mink, martin, sable or other fur bearing animal, except fur seals, under such regulations as he may prescribe, and it shall be the duty of the secretary to prevent any fur seal and to provide for the execution of the provisions of this section until it is otherwise provided by law, nor shall he grant any special privileges under this section." Section 3 of the act entitled, "An act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska," approved March 2, 1889, provides that: "Section 3 -That section 1.956 of the revised statutes of the United States is hereby declared to include and apply to all the dominion of the United States in the waters of Behring sea, and It shall be the duty of the president, at a timely season in each year to issue his proclamation and cause the same to be published for one month at least in one newspaper (if any such there be) published at each United States port of entry on tne Pacific coast warning all persons against entering such waters for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section, and he shall also cause one or more vessels of the United States to diligently cruise said waters and arrest all persons and seize all vessels found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States therein. Now, therefore, Benjamin Harrison, president of the United States, pursuant to the above recited statutes, hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Behring sea within the dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1,956, revised statutes, and I order by proclamation that all persons found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo will be seized and forfeited. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this 21st day of March 1889. and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and thirteenth. By the President: BENJAMIN HARRISON. JANES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.

At Topeka. TOPERA March pistol shots, a dead man and another man dying with a bullet in his bead -these are the incidents of a mysterious tragedy enacted in this city to-night. At 8:50 o'clock persons passing along Kansas avenue, between Seventh and Eighth streets, heard five pistol shots, two in quick succession. the others following after a pause of about thirty seconds. The shots issued from the shop 724 Kansas avenue, occupied by Joseph J.

Spendlove, pawnbroker, and Gust Warner, tailor. Joseph Reed, commissioner of elections, William Dignon and Dr. Kibben rushed into the shop and found Spendlove sitting in front of his safe with his hand to his neck. There was a ghastly wound on the right side from which the blood was gushing through his fingers. A partition divides the shop into two rooms, and in the doorway of this, in a half sitting position, was the body of Werner.

A Smith Wesson 35-caliber revolver lay on the floor beside him. Spendlove looked up as the men entered and, in reply to a question by Reed, he said: "The Dutchman shot me and then shot himself. He lies over there, dead." Putting his hand in his, pocket, Spendglove pulled forth a wallet and handed it to Dignon, saying: "Give that to my wife," when he grew excited and the blood flowed faster through his nerveless fingers. God, if I could only see my wife and baby," the murdered man cried. "Dignon, for heaven's sake send for my wife and baby." By this time the little shop was crowded and the wounded man was fast becoming delirious.

Reed and the others forced him into a chair and tried to stop the flow of blood, but he resisted their efforts and they finally carried him back to the tailor's bench, laid him on it and held him fast while three doctors worked on the wound. They found tnat a bullet had entered just below his right jaw and ranged upward, severing at least one artery and causing internal injuries impossible to determine at the time. There was a constant flow of blood, and Spendlove was fast growing weaker. An end of an artery was, after much trouble, taken up, the wounded man struggling all the time and calling for his wife. She soon arrived, but he did not know her.

About 10 o'clock he was placed on a cot and taken to his home on Western avenue, where he now lies with one chance in a hundred of living. At the house in his delirum Spendlove kept calling for his wife and baby but although they were both by his side he failed to recognize either. Werner was dead when the men entered the shop and an ugly hole under his right jaw from which the blood was flowing showed how he had been killed. The revolver which lay near him belonged to Spendlove. Around the neck of the dead man was a tape line such as tailors use and beneath his body was a piece of cloth on which he had evidently been at work a short time before.

The body was removed to Barkley's undertaking rooms and the coroner took posses sion of the revolver. The trouble was caused over a lease. A Fiend's Awful Work. NEWARK, N. March Ferdinand Mutter, a milkman living on the road between Lyons Farms and Irvington, had left home this morning to serve his customers.

Joseph Salzman, his hired man, enticed the three children into the barn, tied their hands and feet and buried them in the nay. Then he went to the nouse, attempted to assault Mrs. Mutter and on desperately resisted struck ner on the nead with a hammer, rendering her unconscious. Then he ransacked every trunk, box, and drawer in the house in search of money, but overlooked a pocketbook containing $150 and secured only a silver watch. While he was thus engaged Mrs.

Mutter regained consciousness, but fearing another attack she lay still, feigning death. Salzman before leaving the house bent over her and felt her face and was apparently satisfied that she was dead. Mrs. Mutter, thinking he was gone, staggered to the door intending to give the alarm, but Salzman had not left the premises. Seeing him she started to run but was overtaken and dragged into the barn by him and struck twice on the head with the hammer, and while she lay senseless on the floor beaten with a club until it seemed certain she was dead.

The fiend then fled and has not yet been found. Soon after he left one of the children managed to crawl out from under the hay, and seeing his mother lying covered with blood ran out and cried for help. A neighbor responded and Mrs. Mutter was carried into the house and cared for and the children released. The woman's skull is fractured in three places and she is not expected to live until morning.

She is 40 years old and was married to Mutter in Switzerland. Mutter became crazed when he returned and found his wife dying. He started to this city, but instead of informing the police at headquarters, where he was advised to go, he wandered about seeking Salzman in various saloons and Salzman got a good start. Detectives are now searching in all directions for the murderer who is a Swiss 26 years old. Avdice to Boomers.

Washington, D. March -The Oklahoma proclamation was not issued to-day, but the following telegram, inspired by President Harrison, was sent at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon. To the Commanding General, Division of Missouri, Chicago. The act of congress, approved March 2, provides in substance that no person shall be permitted to enter upon and occupy the land recently ceded to the United States by the Creek and Seminole Indians until said lands are opened for settlement by proclamation of the president, and that no person violating this provision shall ever be permitted to enter any of said lands or acquire any right thereto. The president directs that the officers under your command cause the people to be fully informed of these provisions of the law and that they take and preserve the names of all persons who may enter the territory in violation of this provision, so that the same may be enforced by the land department when said lands are lawfully opened for settlement.

By order of MAJOR GENERAL SCHOFIELD. J. C. KELTON, A. A.

G. OFFICIALS FOR The proclamation has been crowded aside by the rush of officeseekers, but it is the general understanding that it will come up in the cabinet meeting to-morrow in connection with the judicial officers to be selected for the federal court in the Indian territory. The Kansas delegation are pushing Judge Waldron of Beloit for United States attorney of Oklahoma. A judge and marshal are also to be appointed for Oklahoma, but the Kansans are asking only for the attorneyship and they know of no other applications SO far for this position. It is taken for granted that the judge and marshal for Oklahoma will come from other states and Missouri will probably get one of the positions, although as yet it is not learned who the applicants are.

Representative Peters said this afternoon that he thought Waldron's nomination was likely to be sent in to-morrow. Punished for Enticing Negroes. RALEIGH, N. March H. Cheek, white, one of the agents engaged in inducing negro emigrants to go west, left here last night with a party of about sixty negroes for Mississippi, but at Greensboro, eighty miles from here, he was overhauled by a prominent farmer of this section, A.

T. Mial, who had him arrested and brought back to the city, charging that he had enticed away hands who were hired to work for him by the year. Cheek was arraigned this evening before a justice of the peace and found guilty, and in default of $200 was put in jail. His whole crew was left at Greensboro, where they yet remain, The farmers throughout this section have been left without hands enough to work their crops. CREAM OF THE NEWS.

Outlaws open up their spleen in Kentucky and terrorize the populace. Thousands of armed men have a lynx eye on one another. Lee's Summit is visited by the famous and deadly White Caps. An old man suffers the consequence of their attack. The elevator owners of frosted wheat region of Dakota have notices to all sente farmers whose grain was injured, offering them good seed wheat for planting this spring.

Charlie Fow, the trusted clerk of Sing Lee, a Chinese merchant of Chicago, has absconded with $1,000 of his employer's savings. The condition of John Bright, the noted English statesman, has improved. The czar of Russia has conferred the decoration of the white eagle of the emir of Bokhara and on the members of the Bokharan embassy. Thousands of men are leaving the Isthmus of Panama sa the result of stopping work on great canal. Thousands are, however, still left penniless.

By the collapse of a new three story brick block in Binghampton, N. one workman was killed and two others seriously injured. William Clinchman, aged 15, snapped a revolver at Birdie Lucas in St. Paul, and a bullet lodged in her brain. He thought it was unloaded.

The third week of the great fall River (Mass.) weavers' strike opened with but little change in the situation, only a few of the strikers having returned to work. A female weaver was knocked senseless with a stone by a striker. The French government has abandoned the prosecution of Deputy Laguerre for his connection with the patriotic league. It is stated that the French cabinet will soon be remodeled to avert a threatened ministerial crisis. A large number of foreign Jews have recently been expelled from Kieff, Russia.

Numerous strikes are reported in various parts of Germany. The silk manufacturers of Paterson, N. are taking steps to organize a school in which designing, weaving, dyeing and finishing silk goods are to be taught. Excitement reigned rampant in the nomination of Judge Davenport, recently Kansas City. Claus Spreckels, the California sugar king, reports the sugar crop of the Sandwich islands as about 125,000 tons the largest on record.

The exports of Canada for the eight months ended February 20 decreased 900,000, and the imports increased 000 as compared with the corresponding time the year before. Charles Smith a farmer living near Cynthiana, shot and killed David F. violent fits, half repeatedly warning him Lemmons, a youth subject to to stay away from the house. Mr. Mather, Gladstonian, has been turned to the British parliament from the Gorton division of Lancashire by a greatly increased majority as compared with his predecessor.

Count Herbert Bismarck is at the house of Lord Roseberry in London. He declares that his visit is of a private nature. Herr Fabanyi, Hungarin min ister of justice, has resigned on account of ill health and another minister is about to retire. It is stated in St. Petersburg that Russian budget surplus in 1888 was 60,000,000 roubles and that the revision of the customs tariff will be suspended.

Paintings valued at $200,000 were taken from New York for the Paris exposition on the steamer La Champaigne. Notice of reduction of wages for puddling iron have been posted in four of the largest rolling mills about Lancaster, Pa. Mary Cattle of Natrona, who tried to steal a ride on a train in company with another girl and a man, jumped from the cars just outside of Freeport, and was killed. The March statistical report of the department of agriculture gives the result of the investigation through its cerrespondents and agents and the merchant millers and the records of commercial inspection of the average weight of wheat by states. The general average is 56.5 pounds the lowest for six years.

In the spring wheat region the range is from 53.5 to 55 pounds in Nebraska. It makes the crop equivalent to 391,000,000 bushels of 60 pounds each -less by nearly 25,000,000 bushels than the quantity in measured bushels. Robert Sigel, son of General Franz Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging pension checks, has been sentenced by the United States district judge in York city to six years' imprisonment at hard labor. Fourteen of the largest papermakers of England have formed a trust with a capital of 22,000,000 to raise prices. The Russian government is considering a for increasing the vessels in the measure, the expenditure 120,000,000 roubles.

Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania has granted respite April 24 to Mrs. Sarah Jane Whiteling, the Philadelphia murderess whose application for commutation of the death sentence had been rejected by the board of pardons. Mrs. Wilhelmina Lebkuchner has been acquitted in New York city of the willful poisoning of her three children. A Genoa paper states that so far this year there have been nfteen duels and sixteen suicides at Monte Carlo, Italy.

Captain Legrand Morehouse, for many years a well known Missouri river steamboat captain and owner, died in Springfield, aged 77. Barnum's hotel, the famous old place of resort in Baltimore, established in 1826, will be closed April 4 and torn down. C. W. Bennett, of Baltimore, committed suicide in St.

Louis by jumping from the fifth story of a hotel. He had been drinking. The Paris Figaro says the public prosecutor intends to apply for the annullment of the marriage of Prince Alexander of Battenburg to Marie Losinger, the opera singer, on the ground that the prince induced the mayor of Mentone to perform the ceremony by fraudulent declarations. Two fishing boats were swamped in a gale off Stornaway, England, and twelve men drowned. 1 The Christian scientists, mind healers and kindred practitioners of New York state a meeting in Buffalo adopted a petition the legislature for the repeal of the statute restricting medical practice.

Demott Dusant, stock brokers of New York city, have failed, and a large number of contracts on stock exchange have been out their account. In the Spanish senate Senator Mornet, minister of the interior, in reply to a question said that the government had no knowledge of a scheme to sell Cuba to the United ed States. He declared that there was not enough money in the whole world to buy the smallest portion of Spanish territory, and that if necessity should arise Spaniards would know how to defend their country's soil. By the ignition of a newly struck natural gas well at Kempton, fourteen persons were more or less durned. KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The small pox quarantine at Junction City has been raised, Several Cowley county farmers have finished planting their corn. Jewell county raised $3,053,868.50 worth of farm products last year. Smith Center has a new opera house, with a seating capacity of five hundred. The long talked of irrigating ditch at Garden City is nearing completion. Business is increasing 00 the Central Branch, says the Atchison Champion.

Winter wheat throughout the northern part of the state is in splendid condition. The Wichita university is getting along nicely, over one hundred students being enrolled. There will undoubtly be an unusnal breadth of spring wheat sown this yeac in this state. Kiowa Journal: The acreage of oats sown in this locality will far exceed that of any previous year. Daniel Hickston's barn, near Newton.

a team of horses and $1,000 worth of grain were recently destroyed by fire. The residence of John G. Bright at Wichita was entered the other aight by thieves and $500 in gold colu takeu there from. Henry Hampton, living out on Dow creek, was kicked by a horse the other day and had several teeth knocked out and his face badly bruised, says the Emporia Republican. Mr.

Beckhart, living three and one half miles from Salina, bas discovered an excellent bed of gypsum aud will at ouce proceed with the manufacture of plaster of all kinds. Caldwell Journal: The farmers are hard at work with their spring planting. Sowing oats is the order of the day. The wheat is looking fine and the ground is in tine condition. Corn planting was started in Barber county last week.

This week thousands of acres are being listed. The farmers will generally use the earliest variety of seed and plant it early. Kiowa Herald: This has been a fine winter for fruit trees. The buds of the peach and cherry trees are swollen full, ready to blossom at the approach of the first warm shower. In starting up the machinery at the Valley Falls creamery, the other day, J.

O. Hamkins, superintendent of the works, got his arm caught under a belt and it was broken in two places. Lawrence claims the oldest Kansas citizen in the person of Henry Smith, who has been a resident of the state forty -nine years. staunch republican and attended Harrison's inauguration. The officials of the grass station at Garden City are very sanguine that good recults will be obtained there this year in the propagation of grasses peculiarly adapted to the plants western Kansas.

Mulvane Record: Farmers report the ground in better condition for farming than it has been for three years. All the indications now are that we will have au immense crop in Kansas this year. Farmers in Cowley county are making arrangements to sow an immense amount of sorghum seed this season. Herds of cattle fed entirely on cane fodder during the winter are now in fine condition. Kinsley Mercury: Farmers report the ground in excellent condition for spring planting.

Edwards county will get straight to the front this year with the largest acreage of wheat, corn and oats ever raised bere. Ex -Governor George T. Anthony, of Ottawa, has been appointed to the vacant railroad commissionership by the state executive council. There were twenty-two candidates, but George got there on the sixth ballot. Emporia Republican: Our exchanges are noting that the new law forbidding the selling of tobacco to minors doesn't seem to be working, as the boys keep right on smoking.

Unfortunately the law says nothing about leaves. Abilene Reflector: A sweet poetess is writing a list of "Thoughts" for the Topeka Lance. She has got up to No. 8. Frost kindly brands and labels cach one so that his readers may know it is a real think and not a bit of gush.

March zephyrs played sad havoc at Horton the other day. A sidewalk was blown over on the little daughter of J. Trumpeter. The child was missing from 3 11 p. when the body was found with the head buried in the One murderer, live burglars and one horse thief escaped from the Wyandotte county jail the other day.

The men who Fred escaped were "Red" Quinn, Mike McCain, Dawson, William Baum, Henry Hardy, Henry Rafferty and Sim Thomas. The men cut a hole through a twelve- inch brick wall. Atchison Globe: The latest female fad is the pronouncing fad. The women assemble and "catch each other in mistakes. This is said to cause more angry strife than afternoon cards.

The women of the present age lie awake nights scheming out. plans for brief amusement, to the neglect of the practical things of life. This tendency is one reason why so many of the sex are working type-writers insterd of presiding over homes. An Arkansas City corresponsent of the Kansas City Live Stock Indicator writes: You never saw such a town as we have now. Four and five thousand people on the streets, auctions, runaways, rope-walkers and a standing circus.

Boomers are coming in at the rate of one to two hundred a day and the woods are full of them. It is a treat to be here and see the fun. Soldiers on one side of the state line and boomers ou the other making faces at one another. Horse and mule trade is lively and many are brought in to sell. Governor Humphrey has appointed as metropolitan police commissioners of Topeka: P.

I. Bonebrake, president, the Rev. S. F. McCabe and Charles W.

Spencer. They will take office the second Tuesday in April. Mr. Bonebrake is president of the Central national bank. Mr.

McCabe pastor of the Third Presbyterian church, and Mr. Spencer a member of the law firm of Webb, Campbell Spencer, and a democrat. The governor has also appointed police commissioners for Atchison as follows: E. K. Blair, president, W.

L. Johnson, secretary; Charles W. Benning. A Hutchinson dispatch says: Although the salt operators of the city are inclined to be reticent about the matter, an interview with them has elicted the following information concerning the proposed accretion of all the salt blocks here by the English Salt Trust. All the operators in this city have received propositions asking for six months' option on their works at prices to be agreed upon hereafter.

The expressed object of the consolidation is to limit the manufacture to the legitimade demands of the trade. The Hutchinson people are of the opinion that the scheme is entirely practicable and would be highly beneticial to the salt industry of Kansas, and would result in largely extending the territory supplied from the Hutchinson works. The only thing in the way of a satisfactory con summation of this sebame so far as Kansas is concerned appeals to bo the aucstion gl the price to be paid for 100 pleate here. SUPERFICIAL SURVEY. The beauty show in Paris in April is to be an elaborate affair.

The first prize is 000. One of the latest "fads" is a scent pencil, which when rubbed on the hands or clothing emits a delicate odor. Potatoes only bring twenty cents a bushel in Nebraska, and farmers are feeding them to their live stock. Since January 1 Pullman Palace car stock has risen $30 a share. That represents an increase of $6,000,000.

George Davis, a Newark man, felt so bad about signing his will the other day that he went out and shot himself. A plan is on foot to extend Chicago's famous Lake Shore drive to Lake Bluff, twenty-five miles north of Chicago. Secolo, a Milan newspaper, is publishing the Bible in 210 half-penny parts of eight pages each and 900 wood cuts. There were only 254 daily newspapers in the country in 1850, only 387 1860, but 574 in 1870, 981 in 1880, and 1,423 in 1888. A scarlet geranium leaf that measured forty picked seven Hanford, inches in a few circumference days ago.

was A thief broke into the smallpox hospital in the harbor at Portsmouth, N. and carried off bedclothing, cooking utensils, etc. At Carrollton, a woman lately embraced matrimony for the first time, though she is rapidly nearing 70. Her husband lacks five years of being an octogenarian. There is to be erected at Hartford, the first Danish church in New England in which the services will be conducted entirely in Danish.

Hartford contains about 600 Danes. Since the establishment of the cable rate of one shilling a word between England and America the revenue of the Anglo-American Co. has been increased 77 per cent. A Hay Springs (Neb.) broncho jumped backward into a sixty-five foot well the other day and was pulled out by means of ropes in as good condition as when it made the leap. Jay A.

Durham, a Minnesota man, has invented an arrangement for adding greater buouancy to bodies in water and greatly simplifying the present bulky and unweildly life preserver. About Jefferson City, people have what they call vinegar trees. The trees are a foot to a foot and a half through, with the general look of the cucumber tree, and are tapped as maples are. A farmer of Vernon county, announces that last year he netted $720 per acre from an orchard of cherry trees. The trees were planted six years ago, and have just fairly gotten down to work.

Dr. W. J. Wilson sued the New York, Lake Era and Western at Youngstown, for $100,000 damages, and was offered 12,000 which refused and took his case to court, where he has received a verdict for $7,250. A mechanic being at Jessup's Landing, N.

recently in snowy time, and wishing to go home, a distance of about five miles, he purchased two of the largest salt codfish he could find and fastened them to his feet for snowshoes. He arrived in due time. The pronunciation of some fashionable Anglomaniac clergymen is getting to be very much like that of English clergyman who, in reading the passage, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear," give it, "He that hath yahs to yah, let him yah." At a prayer meeting held recently in a Boston suburb, a "brother" arose, and after praising God's goodness to him, concluded: "And finally I got in debt and my debt instead of decreasing increased, and to-day I owe $200. Yet God has kept me in perfect peace of mind." A city physician in the south was sent for to see a little country darky who was suf fering from a small abscess just below the knee. The child timidly barely elevated her dress.

"Poke out your leg, nigger;" her mother sternly ordered; "legs ain't no rarity to Dr. D-." "Bill" Mathers, the huuter of Wirt county, W. caught a coon in a box and took it to the county seat. Calling all the dogs in town, many of which had never seen a coon before, he turned the coon loose on Court square, when it whipped all the dogs then climbed a tree. A man in Davenport, while going to the bank with a handful of loose silver, slipped down and scattered his money broadcast.

He quickly gathered up the pieces, and upon counting it found he not only had all he dropped, but also an extra dollar that someone else had lost. Soapstone reduced to a fine powder and mixed with oil, is said to be the best possible preservative for wood. It is also an effectual preservative from rust when used upon metals, and as a protection to stone work of any kind it has no equal. It is largely used in China for the protection of obelisks, etc. A New Haven (Conn.) justice has just had an unusual suit brought before him.

Miles Whitcomb, of Hamden, sues his uncle, Herman Skiff, to recover $400 for attending the ized account Whitcomb's claim covers railroad fares, services rendered in selecting a funeral of the latter's wife. By the itema coffin and arranging for the funeral, and also for lost time. A courageous Nebraska woman, Mrs. C. W.

Jackson, of Beatrice, upon seeing her little son fall into the river, instead of fainting, as many of her sex would have done were they in her place, ran to his rescue. When near the child the ice broke and she too was precipitated into the water. She clutched the boy, though, and, after a great effort, got him ashore, when she fell exhausted. The savages who murdered the British engineer Penrose in East Africa, made the fatal mistake of supposing that carried by white travelers are beverages. While rummaging in the baggage of their victim they found some chemicals used by him in photography.

They thought they had discovered the white man's favorite tipple, and lost no time sampling it. The spectators say that everybody who imbibed died in great agony. One cold day during the war a slave was standing before a fire in Washington warming himself. "Where did you come from, uncle?" asked a proslavery bystander. "From Culpeper, sah." "Leave your master?" "Yes, sah." "Was he bad to you?" "No, sah; very good, kind mastah, sah." "Gave you all you wanted to eat and wear, did he?" "Yes, sah: never wanted for much of anything, sah' "Well, don't you think you'd be much better off with him as a slave than grubbing around Washington for yourself?" "Well, sah, the job up dah is open for anyone dat wants it," responded the negro, calmly, and in the laugh that went up the admirer of slavery disappeared,.