The Santa Fe Leader from Santa Fe, Kansas • 2

LWtLY TURNS OF THOUGHTS ELECTRIC 8PARKS. hltfh ah A ha wore a white slouch AFRAID OF BATTLE. The Santa Fe Leader. terYlfle Ruffrifr Is fcrhbng Summary, ofproreedlrif'. hlu L'dHt), i'l Ui MWartoi1', of Missouri, asked unanimous constat flvMWpofm sidoratiou of the somite bill appropriating $250,001) for the purchase of a sito for a publio building In Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Blount, of Georgia, objected. Mr. Hooker, Cf a concurrent resolution providing a hqlldny rocoss from Friday, Deooiiibor 21, Until Mfeitafi.Janu-ary 7. Reforred to the committee uti tvAVs and moans.

Mr. Clardy, of Missouri, moved that tho houso go into committee of thowholo on the private calondar for the further consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill, and ponding this motion, moved that nil ((abate on the bill and amendments thereto iid limited to forty minutes. After a1 gfiicuftl wrangle, Without definite aim, tho committee rora tirtd tha house adjourned until Monday. Among the bills reported front committees and placed on the calondar In the senate, Dec, were the following: To establish a mint of coinage in Denver, Colorado; to provide certain nrms, munitions and equipage to the state of Oregon for militia purposes; to open abandoned military reservations in Nevada to homestead entry. Mr.

KiadtebKrtfer, Virginia, introduced a resolution proposing' a1 reorganization of tho Ths sultan of Morocco Is preparing to sond envoys" iO Uwlln to congratulate tho Empor-of William oB Ills accession. Several Arab horses will bo sent as a gift. 'JTho Ssrt Francisco chamber of commerce has setlt. II meMMrtar to congress protesting against Gormany's catifsff i ths Samoan Islands, and urging a decided pOficy apon congress, The railroad miners of western Pennsyl-snl have decided to oiu the Miners' Pro-cresMlf ftitlmi. Most of them were members of tho flights- ot Labor, During the revision of tlx excise laws of New York state by a commission the Rev.

Dr. Howard Crosby denounced the Germans and other foreigners who sought to over, throw the Sabbath. The only request General Harrison mado of the committee in charge of his inaugura- tfort a that the veterans of his old In-dliWift fegtmlnt should act as his body guurd. Kansas City is becoming a hotbed for youthful thieves. They roam at random and commit whatever deviltry thtre in sight.

M. Chamallo Lacouro, of Paris, creates quite a sensation in tho noted capital, by announcing that all the evils cnacteed there are doe radicalism. The Arusha and Massai tribes of Africa are constantly on tha outs. They recently gave a grand exhibition tot their unruffled brotherly ieenng. Charity is something that, if placed before tho public in a proper manner, will do Won ders through the aforesaid.

Kansas City has demonstrated the lact by its donations to the poor. Footpads are getting to be the pests of life In their boldness. They recently, at be- dalla. attacked a consumpted woman, knocking her oown anu renoving ner oi ner few pennies. Senator Cullom has got tangled up in the laws' clutch through cither the carelessness or an accidental act of one of his menials.

A recent dispatch from New York, states that It is repotted that a combination of all tho Edison electric light interests is being nrranmvl for with a capital of 12.000.000. Edison light stock has been steadily rising on the stock exchange and nas reacnea no, Charles Wilhite's residence in Haughville, was wrecked bv an explosion of natural gas and Mis. Wilhite fatally burn ed. Several representatives of southern rail road lines testified in Washington before the Interstate commerce commission as to their tariff and rate methods. All acknowledged lack of conformity to tho letter of the law, The Ostrander manufacturing company ot Ostrander, has mado an assign ment with liabilities.

Cause, losses by fires and other accidents. The fire in the great copper mine at Calu met, is now out, but the shaft is still closed because ot gas. The Hon. Finley Blggar register of tho treasury under Presidents Pierce and Buch anan, died at Kushvilio, aged sa. The funeral of Prince Alexander of Hesse took placo at Darmstadt, Germany Wednes day.

Many notables wero present. Hartsficld Roe, furniture dealers of Fort Worth, have assigned, with $30, 000 liabilities and assets. Two much stock and too little business were the causes. Tho Italian chamber of deputies has de cided to spend 3,000,000 lire in military and railway improvements. Iho British house of commons have pass ed the main appropriation bill.

The Capital flouring mills, Lansing, were destroyed by lire; loss The secret construction of three huge new cruisers is soon to be begun by tne Russian government. lima dl Murska, tho once famous prima donna, is dangerously 111 in body and mind at Munich, Germany. A Philadelphia and Reading railroad company has given two months' extra pay to the families of the mon who were lost on the company's steam collier Allcntown off Cohassett, November s. Copper dealers of Boston deny that there has been any failure in Paris as was re ported Monday. It is rumored in Berlin that tho Emperor Williams is meditating the wholesale re tirement of aged generals, the promotion of junior officers and a reorganijation of the military department.

A great shortage of money in Berlin tho last of this month is apprehended because of expected large exports to liussia. A New York city jury found Francisco Caroline guilty of murder in the first degree, refusing to believe his s'ory that his wife had killed herself in such a way as to get him charged with tne crime. A. G. Curran has been arrested at Batin-rau, as the agent for the opium smug gling nana in tne nortnwe3t.

Tho Boulangist national committeo of France has decided to contest no more bye elections, but to wait for the general elec tions. The town house of the Austrian reichsrath has passed tho military bill without amend ment by a vote or l(2 to 2d. Tho Arabs in front of Suakim now num ber 4,000 and an attack is expected any mo ment. Sixty-four tenants on the Luggacurran es tates of the marquis of Lansdowne in Ire land have been served with eviction notices. At the fourth annual meeting of the national Indian defense association in Wash tngton tho Kev.

Alexander itent was re elected president and Captain W. Bicatord secretary. The twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Spalding's accession tho priesthood was celebrated at Peoria, 111. K. N.

Yelland of Philadelphia, has transferred to the trustees of Wilberforce university, Dayton, 1,000 acres of rich mineral lands in eastern Kentucky. The International railway association met tn St. Louis, but did nothing but discuss weight rates. Mrs. Anna Shoots of Zanesville, who had been on trial at Cambridge for two weeks has been acquitted of the charge of poisoning her little daughter.

Two other indictments for murder are still pending against ner. The French Canadian press warmly commend Sir Charles Tupper's recent speech in London against imperial leaeration. No news from the United States steam ships Galena and Yantic is expected by the navy department for several days. Three more vessels are being made ready as fast as possible. By the founding of the steamer Jasper on the Scotch coast near Glasgow, recently, eleven sailors were drowned.

John G. Whittier, the great Quaker poet, of Danvers, celebrated his first birthday. He received many congrat ulatory letiers and telegrams. Alphonse Pickett has been nominated by the president as postmaster at Florence, Kan. East and west, through and local trunk hud no beard on tho side of IiIb far tttUl mask covered his face bHptV UiS iirtwi.

Ho nuu a largo pisWH, WlUch.lookbi Wnijti Pttfber. Ho wore a gray suit of very W'UiViary cloth. Ho put the uiunry taken from me In a suck larger than ona usyil pn the express car, but of Uvesama material: Both.of ttjo rplmc'ri worn "liisheu." is IjuliiiVM thai neither of tho mon was JMt by tuo shots 11 red atthom from tho train. a ho place of tho robbery was an opon, low marsh about fifty yards from the wooiIb. Bftlh robbers ran eastward and into the swamp.

A posso is being organized here to Join in tho cliaso and bloodhounds will be used to follow tho trial, The description of thft tall mart sandy whiskf t'S iA gtlod description bf tho tnaH vihtt recently robbed a train oa tho Northeastern road. When Wilkinson was fired upon bv the robber who was on guard ho hastily retreat ed on board the train and notified the pas sengers that tho cxrress car was being robbed and called for volunteers, but none responded except Hughes, who Beizea a Winchester rillo belonging to a passenger and went forward with the conductor tn tlie front of th(? siitnllii.u car. where ho lumped Hit alld began tiring at tho robbers. His fire was returned uud ho was shot three times. White Men Murdered.

Meridian, Dec. 17. This morning a number of telegrams, wore received here stating that a riot had occurred at Wahalak, Kemper miles north of here and that Holly Morton of this placo had been killed. A party of twenty men were at onco organized and left for the scene on the regular passenger train. Subsequently another party of "forty was raised and left qh a special train A number bf wild rumors were soon in circu lation, onn to tho effect that the posse from this city had had a fight with the negroes and that several of them nad oecn These rumors were set aside by the arrival of the two posses on the regular mail train to night, ho reported that every thing Was quiet and that their prese nce was not needed.

They totu the lollowing story of tho riot: "Last Thursday the son of (1. F. Nicholson, a prominent farmer of Kemper county, was driving a wagon along tlie road leading to Shuqualak when ho met a negro desperado driving a team tne op-riosite direction. Young Nicholson ac cidentally broutrht his vehicle Inlo collision with that of tho negro, Who kept tn tho middle or the road, as though determined to drive tho boy out. '1 no negro began cursing the youth, when Nicholson appeared and interfered in tho boy's behalf.

The negro thereupon drew a revolver, but instead of firing closed with Nicholson and brought tho weapon down with his full strength on the farmer's face. Nicholson fell senseless to the ground, and when he re covered the negro had left. The following day Nicholson told his friends of tho negro's assault, and on Saturday it was determined to organizo a posso and arrest Maury. Information of this determination of tho whites roach tho negroes In some way, and it ir said that two white men gat hered a liar ty of negroes together ut a church Sunday night, and after haranguing them organized a force of ten ncgroos to resist any attempt to arrest Maury or an attack on tins nouso. These whites uro known to the pcoplo of vvatiaiak, but tiieir names can not bo learn ed.

It is their settled determination to lynch them when found and tho people arguo that when they are hanged it will be the proper timo to mako liicir names known. Tho negro forces raised by tho two white men went to Maury's house when tho church meeting adjourned and concealed themselves in tho sinoko house and cotton houses. very soon a posso or whites came up tho road and halted in front of Maury's placo. A few of them walked up to his residence but found it deserted. From tho rosiclenro they went, to tho smnko houso whoro they found three negroes.

These ncgroos were asked the whereabouts of Maury, but they pretended they could not tell where ho could be tound, Whilo tho whiles wero trying to extract sotno information from them a man on the outside shouted: "Hero is Maury. Supposo you come ami arrest mm. lie whites rush cd in a body from tho building and as they emerged were recoivcd by a volley from eight or ton muskets and shotguns. William Vaughan was seriously wounded by buck shot in the ion; arm. neck and shoulders.

and another man whoso namo tho whites will not roveal received a slight wound in tne head. This volley came rom tho cotton houso and the returned by the whites, but T.f' i mjury. Tho whites soon dis- covered that a'" 'loved to tho north side of the structure. Hei they received another volley resulting in tht nsiantdeath of Hcnry of his brother. muuiy, iini.u arm ut th(, nlbow Th(J drW 0lt firing ceased Notwithstanding their loes, however, tho posso determined to make another at- tack on the cotton houso, approaching this timo from tho south sido.

As they came up to the building thev received a third vollov. the negroes apparently awaiting the order to fire as they had done the two previous instances. At this third volley Seth Cobb received twenty-two buckshot in the breast and stomach, tearing tho cntiro front of his body, lrom neck to navel, away. John Dew, another of tho whites, was also wouuded perhaps mortally, by a pistol ball in the groin. Cremated Alive.

Wichita, Dec. 18. Soveral weeks ago an old negro servant of Eugene wealthy cattleman of Kingman county, who was known as "good old Rebecca," so George W. Beatty. a well-to-do farmer living near uross, mat county, reported here to night, conceived the idea that sho was being bo- witched by Jennie Bart let who was about 20 years old.

While gradually showing an in creased dislike for the lady she kept on wun ner worn, out, haiurday in tne ores ence of tho family she told Jennie that she was being hoodooed by her and sho would have to quit it or there would bo trouble. This created considerable merriment, but the old colored woman watched her oppor tunitv for breaking tbe spell. Last evening early all the family except Jennie went to visit neighbors. Shortly after their departure Robert Donnelly, a young man who lives at Bross, called to see Jennie, as has boon his custom for some time, and remained until about 9 o'clock when Rebecca appeared and stated there was a very sick horse at the barn and she wanted him to go up to Bross for some mod- icne. lie icit in response to the reouest.

As soon as the young man was outof hearing the servant caught the young lady, and tying a rope around her hands swung her up to a joist with her feet about two feet from the floor. This done she stripped her of her clotnes ana covered her body with paint and tar. in a snort tune sne nad placed kettle filled with kindling wood under her and after putting a large amount of oil on it applied a inatcn. While the flames were curling around the poor girl's feet and limbs Donnelly returned witn tne medicine lor the sick horse. He fore reaching tho house he saw a bright light shining through a window and heard frantio streams.

Ha supposed someone had caught tire from an exploded lamp and hastened to ine aoor. i ne iront entranco was locked, and going to a window a horrible spectacle met his eyes. For a moment he scarcely knew what to do, but finally rushed back to tne aoor and broke it open. 1 hen he re moved the kettle, cut the rope and conveyed tne gin to a resting place, or a lew min utes she was unconscious, nut she soon re covered sufficiently to tell tho story of her fiendish treatment. Her feet and lower limbs were burned into a crisp and a few minutes later death relieved her of her in tense agony.

Young Donnelly looked about the house for a few minutes for the assaulting party and not being able to find her, hastened back to town with the startling news. Over twenty men were soon on tho road to ine tsartlett house to investigate the matter. A careful investigation failed to find the perpetrator of the crime, but they discover ed that one of the horses had disanneared. A hunt for the negro woman was inaugurated but no word of her capture has been received, i ne attair nas created intense excitement in the neighborhood and everv ef fort possible will be made to effect an ar rest. Train Wreckers Barely Thwarted.

Wichita, Dec. 17. A section hand on the Wichita and Western last nignt about midnight, fourteen miles west, of here, acci aenuany louna mat, an outside rail on curve near a bridge had been removed. passenger train was due in a few minutes, but he hurried in the direction of the np-I preaching train and gave the signal in tins'. Liquor bills are otton paid at the lunatiof asylum.

Mrs. Oscar Wilde has written a volumo oq fairy tales. Tho highway of virtue is so littlo frequcn- ted that collisions are rare. 4 Anna Catherine Green, tho dotpctivui story writer, writes with a load-ponoil. A German officer cannot marry an Ameri can woman without Bismarck's consont.

Montaiguo says there is no torture that at woman will not endure to enhance her beau-; ty. I No, Lucinda, women are not called th: fair sex because they liko to got up Christ iaae fairs. Ministers agree that Christmas slippers, are falling off. The women make thorn toftj largo, probably. The Empress of Japan shows that sho is.

progressive ih her ideas by establishing a college for women. Mme. Le Ray, the intrepid French eler, contemplates another voyage of disoov ery. Persia is her objective point. I Muffs aro larger than for several seasonal past, and are in soft, round shapes, nonai of the lining showing on the outside.

Now, girls, leap year is about over. IC you can't decide what to pop into youn young man's stocking, pop tho question. Women never weep more violently that when they weep from spite, says a wisa man, who had perhaps spited ene some day. Mrs. H.

B. Kells edits The White Ribbon, in Mcriden, a temperance organ. It is the only paper in Mississippi edited by woman. A woman was caught smuggling runt into prohibition Maine in her muff. Sho marched like a military funeral, with muffled 'rum.

Trimming fur is seldom used about tho bottom of fur or cloth coats, but silk and brocade pelisses are sometimes bound all around with fur. Princess Mary of Teek is said to wear prettier bonnets than any other royalty im England, always, of course, expecting tha princess ofWales. The sixteenth opera of "Faust" has beene successfully produced in Konigsburg. Tha author is named Zenger. The first operatic "Faust" was written by Spohr in 1813.

Twenty-five years after the burial of tlO," 000, by a Virginian a Baltimore woman located the spot in a dream, and next day took two witnesses with hor and dug up the. coin. The chrysanthemum is a plant of sucht recent date in this country that many will be surprised to know that next year will be the centenary of its Introduction England. A duel between the treasury of a county? and the treasurer generally ends in the discomfiture of the former, and it retires front the unequal field with a severe wound in thai chest. A Vienna man has left by will the sum of 80,000 florins to a young woman who always.

nodded to him when they mot. She was a nod creature, but it seems that her head was. all right. Captain Joshua Slocum and family, after- a perilous voyage from Brazil of 4,200 miles in a two and one-half ton boat, have touched our southern coast and are safely sailing northward. The king and queen of Belgium gave a farewell dinner at court Tuesday in honor of Judge Lambert Tree, tho American min ister and his wife, prior to their departura to St.

Petersburg. The head of an "Intelligence Office" in. New York has discovered that foreign born servants eat twice as much as American born This being the case the economy of hiring American help is manifest. During Emperor William's late hunting trip at Letzlingen he and his party bagged one day 630 pieces of game. Most of them, were pheasants and bares, but the bag also contained a dozen stags and other big game.

A pumpkin sociable was held not long since at Denver, the refreshments consisting of pumpkin pie and coffee. The main feature of the evening was the opening of a pumpkin, guessing and counting the seeds. The person fortunate enough to guess tha correct number received a lovely slumber robe. James Hannon of Worth county, Georgia, has a powder gourd that was carried by his grandfather in the revolutionary war. It ia well preserved and seems good for several hundred years yet.

Mr. Hannon also has a single barrel shotgun that did service in the same war which is still capable of good service. Sidney Bartlett, who was graduated at Harvard college seventy years ago, and is ever 90 years old, argued a case before tha supreme judicial court of Massachusetts last Wednesday with marked success. Mr Bartlett has been engaged in cases with such men as Lemuel Shaw, Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster, and has long outlived them all. Celestina Marquette, a negro, who was recently a witness in a Chicago police court case, is a native of Spain and without education, but has remarkable linguistic talents and has picked up German, French.

Italian Greek, English and several of the Indian dialects, while his native tongue is Spanish. He speaks English without the least accent and is equally proficient in the others. Miss Margaret Smart, daughter of tha late Sir George Smart, organist of tho Chapels Koyal in the early part of the century, has recently presented to the borough! Of Windsor an interesting royal picture. It is a portrait of the duke of Sussex (son of George III) painted for Sir George Smart by Wybrow in oils, framed in oak and ot three-quarters length. Mr.

Alma Tadema has built him a new and beautiful house in London. Hi sstudio is decorated with silver anl huug with heavy tapestry. Mrs. Tader 's studio is fitted with brass work and paneled with oak. Her pictures of sixteenth century life are painted here.

Marble and stone adorn all the house. A passage covered with glass and floored with intricate and delicate tile work connects the outer gate with the princely-looking haiL There was a remarkable ceremony recently at Cambridge, England, when Mrs. Routh, wife of Dr. Routh, one of the most famous of mathematical tutors, was presented with a portrait of her husband subscribed for by his old pupils. Dr.

Routh has been described as "the prince of coaches," and his merits in that direction are best gathered from the fact that between the tar 185S and the present year he has manu- factured twenty-seven senior Wranglers, having only failed four times in thirtv-one years. From 1863 to 18S3 for twenty-one Of Rev. Mvron W. Reod nf TVmrer. fnn.

merly Gen. Harrison's pastor at Indian- gpolis, it is told that he once went on a hunting trip with one of his prominent parishioners, possibly Gen. Harrison himself. On arriving at the happy hunting grounds, Mr. Reed was dismayed to find that he had brought with him a quantity of cartridges only half loaded, containing powder but no shot An ingenious idea struck him.

He proposed to his comrade that they shoot together at their game, which was ducks in flocks, and that they divide the spoil equally. His unsuspecting partner assented to the proposal, and Mr Reed did not return with an empty gama. bi-e. The Britisher Oust Their Enemies In Short OrderFour Hundred Men the Supposed Number Kllled--A-Man-of-W Opens the Dead! Dummies are tJsed as a Deooy, Accom panied by lurid Lierhts A Desperate Bush is Mfttta An Many right, Ln vm, Doc. SO.Tlio eombtnod force of British and Egyptians.nnmberlng 4,000 men, made an attnek to-day upon tha rebel tiosl- tion, stormed the redoubts iilld titmcheit and after a brilliant cngagcmenti laMitig Mill an hour, drove the enemy inn tno bush and en camped In the iVBcl position.

The British lost four mon.two killed and two wounded during a gallant cavulrv chariro. Tho Egyptian and bliu'lt refitments charged me irenenes ana carried them brilliantly, losing two men killed and thirty woundod. The only ofilcors wounded in tho attacking force were two Egyptian. The iVbrl iosB ih siatoa to nave wen 4tio Before dawn this hi'orhing the British nian-of-War StttrliliL' and an Kirvntinn Rtenm. er mowl up the toast with orders to cover tho rebels at Haudoub, and at daybreak opened Are on the rebel trenches while tho troops advanced to tho att ack, tho black bri gade on the right flank and the calvary and mounted infantry I'jwprinir Tha Kr-nttluli bprderers, tho Welsh regiment and tho Egyptian brisrnda occupied in emhanlrnmnt.

between the forts, the British infantry being uem in reserve. Tlie lorts shelled tho treiicJiiS, keening up a terrible fire. Tho enemy held their ground within the trenches until tho black brigade charged, when they fell back after a half ait hour's hard fighting. The rebel fought With fanatical bravery. Two of the enemy's guns were captured.

The naval brigade did piewiirt work. Tho Scottish borderers at once Degan entrenching the rebel position wime me enemy retreated toward the Hasheesh. At 4 :30 o'clock this mnming tlie man-of war Racer opened tht) battle by shelling the enemy's trenchr. The ships up coast followed suit, ahd landed partios who lighted tiros and placed dummies in position. This had the effect of deceiving the enemy coming from Handoub.

The whole force moved toward the enemy's left flank, with a naval do. tachment with machine guns and cavalry and mounted infantry scoutingand protecting t.ho flanks and rear. Two lines, comprising battalions in doublo companies rushed toward the leftcornerof theenemios trenches. Tho British infantry and Egyptian reserve lined tho embankment between tho water forts. General Uronfell and staff occupied a position to the left of the water forts.

From 5 o'clock heavy salves of guns and mortars from every fort beat on tho trenches. An official dispatch from General Gronfell, dated Suakim 11:25 a. m. says: "Tho enemy's loss was 41X). Tho hussars are still pursuing the Arabs.

The trenches aro nearly filled and two temporary redoubts are being built. Thejoint forces are entrenched. They will bivouac on the field to-night, the naval department with tho machine guns remaining in the trenches. I have sent tho man of war Starling and all tho available steamers to anchor off Handoub to prevent a from handoub coming upon us. During tho action tho dervishos were so soverely punished that we expect to have a quiet night." Tho hussars who followed the fleeing Arabs returned in tho afternoon, having chased tho enemy to a point within four miles of Handoub.

The defeated moa were still flying. Pupil and Tutor, WicniTA, Dec. 19. Thomas McCon-nolly, a school teacher at Andalo, a town fifteen miles west of here, was horribly beaten by some of his pupils this morning.and it Is thought it will bo impossible for him to recover. McConnelly was employod by the board of education for four months, and given promise of eight months' employment, as he claims.

Tho four months will bo out Friday, and ho was notified this morning that at the end of tho four months he could con siuer tumscu dismissed. 'On onentng on the the strong terms. school board arose, and in answer to a stati? ment called t.ho teacher a liar. He started for the boy and was met by loose pioces of furniture from all directions from a dozen or more boys ranging in ages from 15 to 30. He responded by throwing whatever could be used for that purpose.

A pitched battle ensued and lasted some twenty minutes, when finally a chair hit the teacher on the head, bringing him to the floor, when ho was pounced upon by the angry boys, and had the disturbance n'ot attracted the attention or outsiders it is thought they would have made quick work of him, as when he was rescued he was horribly bruised, one arm broken and his skull fractured. It is thought he can not recover. Four of the pupils engaged in the fin-ht. received slight injuries, while a little girl was also slightly hurt. There is quite a bitter feeling in the neighborhood over the matter and it is feared that there will bo further trouble.

Dissecting an Elephant' Body. Philadelphia, Deo. 18. The work of removing the skin from the remains of big Chief, the elephant strangled at the winter quarters of Adam Forepaugh several days ago, was commenced by C. F.

Mirquot, a taxidermist of Rochester, this morning in a yard in the rear of the biographical department of tne university of Pennsylvania. Several barrels of embalming fluid were injected into the carcass after the body had been raised in the air by tackles suspended from a big crossbar. A shed will bo constructed over the body and after the skinning process is completed the work of dissection will be commenced. It is thought that about three months will be occupied in cutting the car cass up and it will be fully two years before a repon oi tne observationwiil be made by the staff of surgeons who are to conduct the operations. A Train Held Cp.

Grenada, Doc. IB. Two white men stopped passenger train No. 2 on the Illinois Central railroad near Duck Hill last night, robbed the express car of $3,000 and shot and killed Charles Hughes of Jackson, a passenger, who had attacked the robbers with a rifle. When the train was leaving Duck Hill at 10:15 o'clock two men boarded the engine and commanded the engineer, A.

J. Law, to pull out fast and not to stop until told to. The engineer and the fireman, George Evans, were covered by navy revolvers and had to obey. When a mile north of the station the men ordered the train stopped and tne engineer and firemen were ordered to dismount. This they promptly did.

They were then marched to the express car. One of the robbers knocked on the car door and the messenger, Hill, opened it, when three shots were fired at him and the men entered the car and took all the money there was $3,000. Conductor B. P. Wilkinson, who rushed out on hearing the firine and to see why the train stopped, was fired upon, and, being unarmed, returned to the train.

Charles Hughes of Jackson, a passenger, ran out with a Winchester rifle. As he stepped to fio ground from tho smoking car he was shot at repeatedly. One ball struck his left arm. and another went through his stomach, inflicting a fatal wound. The death of the young man was very sad, as he was the only supiiort of his widowed mother.

He came to Lexinngto, to meet his sister's family and his brother, all of whom were on the train and were greatly distressed at his untimely death. The robbery was done in the regular highway style. Nine shots were fired by Conductor Wilkinson and Traveling Passenger Agent Roban. three by Hughes and four or five by the robbers. During the robbery great uneasiness was felt by the passengers, who feared lor the safety of their valuaDles and lives.

The following description of the robbers is furnished by Engineer A. J. Law "Both were white men. One was tall and slender and the other was of ordinary size. Both were poorly dressed and showed themselves to be hard characters.

The tall one wore sandy chin whiskers. I don't know whether he had a mustache or not Express Messenger Hill gives the following description cf the robber who entered the car; He was stall man MeetlOinsbes tH PbuHer Classes of Canada The Neoessarles of Ufa Can Hardly be Obtalned-Plt-eoiia ySprials are Dally Marie: 'he Haytiens Want to. Do the Square Thing The Pope's Approval Meets With Great Suocess. Cinmdians Sufl'orlnff. Montreal, 1)hp.

20. Tbe past season's cftijis ill ldvver tferij sd.mrtiigrri that much distress wus felt, and only needed sticli a storm as that ot the past few days to causo widespread distress. In the Binall villages back of Queboc and bolow that city many la-milles aro suffering thus early in tho winter for the actual necessaries of life. The farmers are killing off their live stock, and those who have no live stock have sent a piteous appeal to Cardinal Taschereau and I'remier Moivlfr pir relief! With the result tlut the premier, the cardinal and the cauinc't held a conference last evening at tho cardinal's palace and it was decided to ask tho government to send immediate relief to the sus-ferers. Three men Johnson, Dickey and Oakes started 1o Lake Ontario from the American side for Iroquois Sunday in a small boat.

Tuesday afternoon the boat was found bottom up on the ice. The bodies have not been recovered. Ernest Wright and Macdonald tried to cross the ice at Mcdonald's Point Tuesday. They wero caught in the drifts and frozen to death. Tho storm along the Novia Scotia mid Capo Breton coast was unprecedented.

Tha ship Golden Knlo from Glasgow for Muri-niichi ran ashore on the island St. Pierre Miquelon off tho southern coast of Newfoundland on Monday night was totally wrecked. Her crew, except the steward who was drowned, managed to escape to the shore where they wero lound yesterday morning exhausted and badly frozen. Tho schooner N. Wright bound through the straits of Canso was cut in two by tho ice.

Her master floated ashore on an ice floe and the crew was rescued wun unn- nlt.y. Several of the men were moro or less frost bitten. Numerous small fishermen have gone ashore on tho Nova Scotia coast. Tbe schooner Ella J. from Sackville for St.

John went ashore at Quebec Tuesday morning and will prove a total wreck. The crew were saved but badly frozen. The Tope's Approval Desired. Romr, Dec. 20.

The lettersent by Cardinal Gibbons and the American bishops to the pope with reference to the Washington university announces that $8,000.1100 has been collected for the new institution, and that the university buildings are now in process of erection. Tlie cardinal and bishops request, the concession of academic privileges to tho university and ask me pope a approval of its statutes. Humanity to Turkeys. The city council of Kansas City, have ust passed an ordinance requiring coops for Turkeys to bo not loss than twenty -two (22) inches in height, and for chickens not. less than twelve (12) inches.

Shippers should govern themselves accordingly, lest they fall into the clutches of the Humane society. Foulness in Alaska, Washington, D. Dec. Tho house committeo on fisheries to-day began the investigation of tho alleged evils of Alaska, when William Gavitt, special treasury agent of tlie Seal islands, testified that the Alaska company's agents at St. Georgo's is land respected neither the laws of God nor man.

Among other things they furnished liouor to lost women in an underhand manner. Tho whole island was a place of prostitution from one end to the other and an agent of the company had declared he would break a man's head if ho refused to bring his (the man's) wife to him. Witness said he would rather serve a term in the penitentiary than go through again what ho and his wife had ea'o' ieiii-'ed on the He also a letter from Treasury Agent Linglo which ho regarded as a piece of blackmail intended to discourage his publ ic statements. In conclusion he admitted that he did not know of any criminal assault on native wo men bv atronts ol tho Alaska company. George Wurman, who was a special agent at the island ot St.

ueorgo irom lissi to itS4, was then called. Ho never knew a womun or a girl upon tho island to bo outraged or a man or boy to be abused by any of the company's agents, nor did he ever know of a nat i ve woman living in the company's houso with one of the Ho never saw anvthincr w1 "ould lead him to believe company's house was converted into a house ot ill tame. T. F. Ryan, anot her special agent of the government at St.

George from to 1HS7, was next called. He attributed the lack cf discipline and loose morals the island of St. George partly to the improper conduct and neglect ot duty ot some ot tho govern ment agents, which was in turn imitated by tho agents of the company. Tho chief trouble with the company's employes was that thev assumed too much authority and seemed to ave the impression that the company owned the island and the sea besides. Witness formulated rules forbidding females on tho Island Irom visiting the company and the government's houses, but Mr.

Dingle, his superior oincer, nad declared such a rule null. It was impossible to detail what in Hue need him to do tins. Cleansing a City. Elkhart, Dec, Hi. The county sheriff yesterday arrested every saloonkeeper, ever gambler and every abandoned woman in tlie city, as well as several drug store proprietors who are likewise charged with violation of tho law.

A detective had been working here under tho direction of the law and ordc league, and the raid has stirred everything up from the bottom. The law and order league charges in a cir cular that tho entire city police is acting in comunction wun tne disreputable element. and at the public meeting last night there was a large attendance and the most intense interest manifested, ine mayor occupied the chair, and addresses were delivered by all the clergymen in tne city and by others. Resolutions indorsing the seutimeut of the meeting were passed. An etfort was made by the saloon men to pack the house and considerable disturbance was attempted throughout tne entire meeting, but, tne effort to break up failed, though the saloon element succeeded in get ting speakers forward to advocate their cause and several sharp passages took place netween tnem and the law and order speak crs.

The saloon men say they will fight the law and order leagues to tne utmost and mem bers of the latter say they will carry through every prosecution they have begun and that they nave but opened tne battle. Murdered by a Horse Thief. Topeka, Dec. 17. Near the Indian territory line in Stevens county a farmer named Howell heard a noise in his barnyard and, on going to investigate, found the notorious horse thief, Jim Newton, preparing to leave with three ot the best horses.

He commanded him to release the horses, but the desperado answered by firing pistol. Howed then attacked tho thief un armed and a desperate struggle ensued The farmer was overcome and brutally beaten about the head and to finish his work the thief fired three bullets into Howell's body and rode off to the territory with the horses. The body of the farmer was found yesterday morning and a posse of farmers was at once organized to kill the desperado on signu Accused of Torturing Children. EsTMiNSTEB, Dec 17. Fanny Jones (colored) is under arrest, charged with killing a 4-year-old child by inhuman treatment.

The child had been left with her bv its moth er to be taken care of and she tortured it to death. The body was covered with scars and burns. The woman ia accused of having tortured other children, and is now in jail awaiting trial. Deadly Duel With Knives. Wheemno, W.

Dec. 17. At Howard's Chapel, Morgan county, George Mason and John Lamp quarreled Friday about a watch trade, when Mason drew a Kmie ana attacK- ed Lamp, stabbing him several times. Both were repeatedly cut and were bleeding freely when Lamp ran his knifa blade through Mason's neck, ending the impromptu duel. Mason instantly.

EANTA FE, KANSAS. In the southern Oregon customs district itcoat over $2,000 to colloot $670 Iduriuff the lftat fiscal yoar. 7 The indications are that next puratiou day will eollpse all previous events of that character at the capital. T0E United States treasury paid out Idurinff November for pensions alone Other disbursements were very large. Tnp total amount of bonds purchased ito date under the circular of April 17 lis $97,101,550, of which $51,394,200 were four per cents and $15,707,850 were 4 per cents.

i Mrs. WittuM Gammell has given for, the erection of a building ttor the Church of the Messiah (Episcopal) iu.Olneyville, K. as a memorial to her son, the Into Arthur GammelL CONGRESSMAN BuKNETT has just rO- Iturned from a business trip to Pittsburg, near which city he has freen establishing $200,000 creamery Jor a syndicate of wealthy Pittsburg- Congb'essman Randall is in Washington. Ho is not expected to attend the sessions of the house, except on 6pecial occasions. His work as chair-taaa of the committee on appropriations will for the most part be done at his homo.

i Great distress is said to exist femong the fishermen of Halifax county, N. owing to the failure of the inshore fisheries. The Nova Scotia government has asked the Dominion government to co-operate with it in reducing the distress. The Philadelphia and Heading Rail- company has reduced a day's la bor to eight hours, in the shops along the entire system, owing to the suspen-pelision qf (foal mining. Thjs.of course, will result in a reduction of the amount of the wages received by the 8,000 or 6,000 men employed in the shops.

Congressman Morrow of California Bays that upwards of eight hundred Chinamen have arrived at Victoria Since last August. It is his belief that dearly all of this number have gradually worked their way across the frontier into the United States. He thinks the subject should receive congressional at tention. Rev. Thomas Wakefield, president bf the Genoral Assembly of the United MethodiBt Free Churches, and one of the distinguished missionaries of the present day, is some sifty years of ago, bf medium height, with a thiqk-set, ivell-developed frame.

His hair is of a gparseiy covers u. massive auu his face is bronzed with the exposure of a quarter of a century to the rays of an East African sun. Mrs. General Grant is occupying her house, No. 33 East Sixty-sixth street.

New York city. Colonel and Mrs. Fred Grant are with her. Mrs. Grant entertains her friends at dinner very handsomely upon occasions, and among the many handsome and costly things that comprise her dinner service is a sot of French china plates with the faoes of some noted French beauties painted upon them.

They are the gifts ef Senator and Mrs. Stanford, and were brought by them from Paris for Mrs. Drant, last summer. The estimates of appropriations required for the government service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, aggregate $323,468,488, anU are as follows: Legislative establishment, executive establishment, judicial establishment, foreign intercourse, military establishment, tfval establishment, Indian affairs, pensions, publio works, postal service, miscellaneous, permanent annual appropriations, $108,691,055. Judge Shepard, at Chicago, has de-tied the application of creditors at the traders' bank to have money, checks and drafts, to the amount of nearly $59,000, returned to them because they were deposited with the bank when it was known to its officers to be insolvent in all cases in which the checks were deposited and the money collected before the actual failure of the bank; but granted the prayers for restitution in rases wherein th? collections were tnade by the receiver after the bank had closed its doors.

The ruling, in effect, is, that a bank is not a trustee for the depositor for the collection of checks, and that transactions of this character which remain uncompleted at the time of the act of insolvency cannot be completed for the benefit oi the defunct corporation. Mrs. Hayes, the wife of President Hayes, knew how to manage little ones, and her three boys found out as soon as they got into tho White House that the fact that they occupied the House of State did not relax the maternal discipline. Mrs. Hayes had not abandoned the use of the slipper, nor had her right hand forgot its cunning.

One day a terrific howling, growling and bellowing resounded from the private part of the house. "Hear that row?" asked one of the old employees of the house. "It's that little Hayes boy. He comes round here sassin' folks and orderin' "em about, and sayin1 he'd tell his father. Mrs.

Hayes comes right on him in the midst of it, and she took him by the shoulder and marched him off up stairs, and I'll lay he will behave himself for the next bix months. Mrs. Hayet brings up her children mighty well." senate January ana spoko tn suppori oi Ho said his object was to put somo' tkUct man than tho senator from Kansas In tho chair, asserting that he had been the chief figure in thonost disorderly scenes he could recollect occuring on tho senate floor. Ho said that a change was necessary in ordor that tho faith of the republican party, pledg ed to a consideration of the British extradition treaty in open session, might be kopt. At the conclusion of his remarks, Mr.

Riddlcberger asked leave to withdraw the resolution, but objection was mado by Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, who moved to lay it on tho table, and called on tho yeas and nays, after paying a high tribute to Mr. Ingall's impartiality and ubility. Finally the senator from Virginia was allowed to withdraw his resolution and the Incident closed. Tho senate then discussed tho tariff bill and other minor matters and adjourned i ne nouse passed tne bin lor tne incorporation of the American Historical association, discussed the imported labor question and adjourned.

In the senate, Dec. 18, the resolution for evening sessions was taken up and an amendment offered to it by Senator Morrill, providing that (unless otherwise ordered) tne daily meeting ol me senate be it a. m. Senator Vest opposed the resolution. He fully appreciated tho present condition of affairs, considered from a political standpoint.

Democratic senators who were not members of the fiiiauco committee, could not havo been familiar with tho details of the tariff bill, and had no timo to examine the schedules. It was simply out of the question that they could do so. On account of the sickness or Senator hcck. work had been devolved on some other democratic senators that was irksome, but that had to bo performed. And now tho proposition to change tho hour of mooting and bold evening sessions, waB simply (if senators were to do justice to the details of the bill) cruel and outrageous, or ins part no couiq not.

agree to it, and would not agree to it. Senator Cockrell moved to amend the resolu tion so as to havo dailv meetings of the sen ate at 11 no night session. Rejected Yeas, 25; nays, 27. Senator Gray pro-Dosed an amendment providing for the daily meeting at 11 o'clock, and for night sessions during the remainder of tho week, with the understanding that concurrent resolu Hon lor a holiday recess be agreed to in the house, Mr. Springor, of Illinois, stated that he would not call up the territorial bills to-day.

There would be a mooting of the committee on territories to-morrow, and it would then be determined when those measures would be considered. There was a brief contest between Mr. Howard, of Louisiana, in charge of the river and harbor bill, and Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, in charge of the legislative appropriation bill, for tho precedence of their respective measures, Mr. Randall being successful, and tho houso proceeding in committee oi ine wholo (Mr.

Blount, of Georgia, in the chair) to the consideration of his bill. Thero was no interruption in the reading of the bill until Mr. Holinan offered an amendment increasing tho number of messongors on the soldiers' roll or the nouso irom tourteon 10 twenty. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, i thought that the effect of this amendment might have the effect of breaking down this rule which prevented tho discharge of any of the old soldiers now upon the roll.

The Fifty-first congress might be relied on to do full justice to union soldiers. A heated argument then followed tn which Henderson, McMillin, Reed, Colman and Cannon participated. The senate, Dee. 19, passed the house bill to incorporate tho American Historical pocuciutiou, discussed the tariff bill and adjourned The house discussed various measures of minor import and adjourned. Maddened by Liquor.

Camp Popular Riveh, Dec, 16. For upward of a week Pretty of the Yankton Sioux at the Fort Popular agency, lias been loaded with liquor. Agent Cowan fcttempted to discover his source of supply In vain, as the Indian not only got all the whisky he wanted, but had some to spare, and this he distributed among the younger bucks at the agency. Yesterday morning Pretty Hoy, seizing a suck ot firewood, doait his squaw a blow on the head which cut a deep gash in the scalp anu iracturod ner skuu. jNot satisned wun this, he jumped upon her prostrate body and made preparations to scalp her.

By this time acrowdof nearly 100 Indians had gathered around the couple. In the crowd were a number of Indian police, who rushed upon Pretty Boy and dragged him tram the body of tho squaw. This so en raged him that, shaking off his captors, ho ran to lus topee and, securing a lnchestcr rifle, at onco opened fire on the police, instantly killng two or tnem anu latuii.v wounding a third. The murderer then went to whore his sqaw was lying and, placing the muzzle of tho rule between ner Hps, tired four shots. This done, he attempted to effect nis escape, firing repeatedly at the Indians who were in Cursuitot him, but.

finding escape impossi-lo, he halted on tne brow of a hill about a mile from the agency and, after severing the arteries in his wrist with his hunting knife, shot himself through the heart, death Doing instantaneous. Honoring the Macon, Dec. 19 Soma unknown per sons last night nailed a large United States flag to a telephone polo in thi city, on one of the principal streets, wheri it could be seen by a large portion of the population. To-day the attention of officers of the United States court, now in session here, was called to the matter, and United States Marshal Lucius M. alter consulta tion with Judge Emery Speer, sent out bis deputies, who removed the flag and ran it up over the United States building on a flag pole furnished by the jury in attendance upon tne court.

udgc Speer, in thanking the jury for theiractiou. strong ly reprobated the conduct of the persons who had placed this indignity upon the national ensign, and said such occurrences gave a character to the southern people which they did not deserve, and alluded in forcible terms to the blessings and advantages the people enjoyed under the flag. The incident created quite a sensation, as all the officers of the court, including the judge and mar shal, are ex-comeoeraies. Fire Bugs in a Kansas Town. WicniTA, Dec.

17. The school building, a leading business house and the post-office at Manchester were destroyed by Are about 2 o'cloc this morning. It started in the school building, and as there had been no tire there lor over twenty-lour hours and there had been a bitter fight between the town and country over school matters, the town wanting the school house within the corporation limits and the country wanting it over one mileawav near er the center of the township, and up to the present toe town nad succeeded, it is the general opinion that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The loss was about $10,000 mm vcij iiiue insurance. A Merchant In Much Trouble.

Minneapolis, Dec. 17. A second indictment has been found against Theodore Shotwell, senior member of the defunct firm oi Shotwell, Clerihew Lotham, the charge being obtaining 50,000 from the Northwestern national bank on the strength of false statements Issued as to the financial condi tio of his firm. He pleaded not guilty. Bail was fixed at and tr'al set for January 26.

It is charged that he represented tho firm's indebtedness to be 1460,000 less uau ii, was. line freight rates were advanced to tho old years he succeeded in passing senior Wran-rates. glers without a break. The British stockholders Of the Lake Superior copper company have decided to voiuniaruy wmu up ine anairs oi me con- A mail hag containing 1650 in cash and several letters of money was stolen from the railroad station at Ottawa, and not a clue has been lounu to it as yet. A union stock yards company has been organized at Fort Worth.

with Colonel E. W. Tavlor as president and A. W. Caswell as secretary.

The capital stock is $200,000. General Russell A. Alger, who has Just been on a visit to Blaine at Augusta, denies that he was the bearer of a message from Harrison or went to see ttiaine on politics..