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KANSAS STATE NEWS. FIRST OF AERONAUTS. THE COUNCIL GROYE BUGLE DILL SHARP, Proprietors. COUNCIL GROVE, KANSAS. i A Vebmonter, who had a large area of what was called waste land, planted it with 70,000 trees, and finds himself the owner of some very promising forests.

Americans are slow to learn that there is money in growing trees as well as in cutting them down. On the 23d a fall of scull in the stack of the converting mill at the Carnegie steelworks at Braddock, instantly killed Albert Peterson and seriously injured three others. Peterson had just returned to work after recovery from injuries received three months before. Peterson owned property valued at $40,000. MISCELLANEOUS.

TnE Societa Immobiliere of Rome is said to have failed for millions. Thirty-eight million francs' worth of the shares of the Societa Immobiliere are held in Germany and Switzerland and 20,000,000 francs' worth are held in Italy. According to advices from Damascus, the Druses have revolted and completely cut to pieces four companies of Turkish troops and captured a number of guns. Orders were given, on the 21st, to send 12 battalions of troops from Salonica tto Syria NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. On the 19th Hon. John Beverley Robinson, ex-lieutenant governor of Ontario, dropped dead on the platform at Massey Music hall, Toronto, while attending a big political meeting of Sir Charles Tuppers supporters. United States Commissioner Bell, of Philadelphia, on the 19th, issued warrants for the arrest of Capt. Dick-man of the Laurada and Col.

Emilio Nunez, the Cuban leader, charging them with conducting a filibustering expedition to Cuba on that vessel. Late in the afternoon Capt. Dickman was arrested, and at a preliminary hearing was held for a further examination on the 24th. On the 20th the marquis of Salisbury, replying to a deputation from the International Arbitration league, said there was every hope that England and the United States would give the world the first triumph of tho principle of arbitration, which would do more than anything else to abolish war. Hon.

Benjamin II. Bristow, secretary of the treasury during the first part of Grant's second administration, died at his home in New York city, on the 22d, of peritonitis. A Havana dispatch of the 22d said Capt. -Gen. Weyler was confident that with the reinforcement of 40,000 men promised him by the minister of war, he will be able to crush the rebellion and return triumphant to Spain in After a Coal Company.

The attorney-general of Missouri has commenced suit in the federal court at Topeka in the name of Missouri for an injunction against the Leavenworth Coal of Leavenworth. It ia claimed that the coal company has been mining coal east of the middle of the Missouri river in territory belonging to the state of Missouri. The value of the product is placed at It is claimed that the coal company secretly began encroachment on Missouri territory as early as 1870. Second Kansas ttvalry Reunion. Sam Houston, secretary of the Second Kansas Cavalry association, has issued a call for a reunion of that association to be held at Forest park in Ottawa, September 16, 17 and 18 next There are about 350 survivors of this regiment, and they have been holding an annual reunion for several years.

Col. W. F. Cloud, of Kansas City, is president of the association. Reported Short.

A. D. Hubbard, receiver of the Snow-Hamilton Printing at Topeka, is reported to be short in his accounts from $2,000 to 3,000. A referee has been appointed to determine the exact amount. Hubbard was appointed receiver by the district court in 1895, when the stockholders got into a squabble with Snow about state printing contracts.

liny Killed. Clyde Thompson and three other boys, of Chetopa, recently boarded a freight train on the K. T. railway to go to the Indian territory to Blanchard Sailed In Air Hefore Ualloona Were Made. Eighty-five years ago there died in Paris, Blanchard, the first man to caio celebrity as a balloonist He was bora in 1738 and before the balloon was invented he had navigated the air in an atmospheric machine of his own invention, which was propelled with oars and which attained a height above-80 feet.

Blanchard made his first ascent in a balloon at Paris, March 2, 1784. On-January 7, 1785, he crossed the English channel in a balloon, accompanied by Dr. Jeffries. Under the circumstances it was a feat of great daring. The aeronauts had a fearful and before the trip ended cast away everything but the basket under the" balloon, and were about to cut it away when they were carried over the town of Calais and finally dropped in a forest The official of Calais gave-Blanchard a dinner, presented to him papers of citizenship in a gold box, gave him $1,200 for his balloon and a pension of $125 yearly.

The king of Francfe also pensioned him. Blanchard boasted that he had risen 13,000 feet higher than any aeronaut of his time. He made CO ascensions, the last one causing his death. His-wife continued the business after him and was killed by a fall from a balloon in 1819. Albert of Saxony, a Dominican monk, is credited with having formulated the first correct idea of building-balloons early in the 14th century, but his ideas never took practical shape.

While the scientists were working oq the question in 1783 the brothers Mont- Three hundred years ago the duke of Alva, who was the Gen. Weyler of his time, killed by torture 18,000 of the bravest and best people in Holland. The Hollanders were not conquered, but have kept step with the enlightened government and civilization, which is far more than can be said of their oppressors. Both Edison and Tesla are claiming an invention which quadruples the power of the incandescent lamp. Th light is produced cheaply in a vacuum tube, and is a brilliant white glow re sembling daylight.

It seems that the two inventors have been working independently on an idea which is likely to be of great practical importance. Failures throughout the United. States during the week ended the 19th were 270, as against 228 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures numbered 28, against 31 last year. On the 22d, in a conflict between Servian officials and Montenegrins at Kuvsamlija, several persons were killed and wounded on both sides.

A design has been submitted to the patent office, and a copyright asked thereon, for a floral emblem to be worn by the adherents of the free-silver plan. The emblem is in the form of the commonfield daisy, with 1C petals, each numbered on the tip, from 1 to 16, and the yellow center marked with a figure one. The Venezuelan government has pre It is suggested that since smokeless powder has created a great increase in the demand for camphor, Florida should plant the camphor tree to take the place of orange groves. 'Jhe fate of orange culture is not yet settled. It will always be one of the industries of the state.

The prudent plan is to diversify the industries, and it has already been adopted. Civil Engineer Julius Baier, in Engineering News, accounts for the fact that walls destroyed in the St. Louis cyclone nearly all fell outward, by ascribing this peculiarity to the "explosions" of the air within buildings by the sudden fall in pressure of the outside air. This falling outward of walls was one one reason why loss of life was not greater. sented to the United States Venezuelan commission the second volume of its certified copies of Spanish archives bearing upon the boundary dispute, and has promised a third and conclud worK in a nay neia.

as they were "bumming" their way they got into trouble with the brakeman and Thompson fell from the train and was frightfully mangled. He died soon after. Bids Kef aged. The board of directors of the penitentiary decided to reject the bids submitted at the recent letting for the coal output and will readvertise. This action was said to have been taken be ing volume in a few days.

On the 23d the first national con June next. The British house of lords, on the passed the second reading of the deceased wife's sister bill by a vote of 14" to 113. The prince of Wales, the duke of York, the duke of Conn aught, the duke of Fife, the duke of Devonshire, the duke of Westminster, the marquis of Ripou and Lord Roseberry were among those who voted for the bill. Ilosm Tohu, the newly-appointed minister from Japan to the United States, passed through Omaha, on the 22d, on his way east. He is no stranger in America, having been here on two former occasions.

On the 2Hd Joseph K. C. Forrest, one of the founders of the Chicago Tribune, and an editorial writer for many years on Chicago papers, died at his residence in that city. A. Cuneo, a Wall-street broker, who is reported to be worth several mil vention of'the credit men of the United States met in Toledo, 0.

W. H. Preston, of Sioux City, was elected permanent chairman, and delivered an address outlining the objects of the golfier, paper makers, near Lyons, made and sent up the first balloon on June 5. This balloon was made of linen, was 815 feet in circumference and rose 1,600 feet. It was filled with heated air-About three months later Prof.

Charles sent up his balloon, called a "Char-liere." It traveled some miles from the starting point and fell in a village. The peasants regarded it as a living monster, and fell upon it with pitchforks and flails and tore it to pieces, to the loss and disgust of its owner. The first living things to leave the earth in a balloon was a hen and a duck. They landed safely and the sheep was found grazing. The first ascent in a hydrogen balloon was made by Prof.

Charles iD Paris, December 1, 1783. N. Y. Mail and Express. The late Austin Corbin was tall, raw-boned, broad-chested, athletic.

He-was extremely active, always under a. pressure of gxeat nervous never able to sit still. cause it was apparent that there was collusion between the two coal mining companies at Leavenworth and at least one of the bidders. convention. The post office department will dis continue 45 of the experimental free delivery offices scattered throughout Killed Ills Wife and Himself.

0. E. Hart, a farmer of Sedgwick county, shot and killed his wife, Ida Hart, at a boarding house, in Wichita the country. The Bank of Salt Lake City former ly the American national bank closed its doors on the 23d. The owner.

J. the other day, where he had followed I her from their home in Sunnydale, 11. Bacon, says that all the liabilities finding her in company with a man named Link Pitts. After killing his wife, Hart blew out his own brains with a revolver. Vf 111 Go to Llitrago.

lions, was sent to the receiving hospital at San Francisco, on the 23d, to await an examination by the commissioners of insanity. C'uneo's office is at 54 Broadway, New York, and his will be paid in full. i -t The opening session of the American Master Mechanics' association at Saratoga, N. on the 23d, was devoted to reports of committees and the discussion of the following papers: "Recip The exports of sugar from Cuba during the current crop year, now nearly at an end, will be only about one-fifth of the usual amount. After this stock is exhausted, the prices are likely to advance, which means that the people of the United States will have to pay more for an article of common use, or get along with less of it.

And yet it is held that we have not sufficient interest in the Cuban war to justify intervention on our part. In a letter to one of the London papers a schoolmaster complains that the effect of the trial of Jamiesou on hia scholars is to cause them all to occupy every hour playing Boers and Jamie-sons, with the result that continual fights ensue. He says that he was examining one of the young hopefuls in grammar, who, on being asked to give the present, past and future of the verb ride, replied: "Ride, raid, Rhodes." Some of the other small boys laughed, some cheered. The Topeka Democratic Flambeau home is on Staten Island. On the 23d the Indiana State Bar as rocating Parts," presented by II.

D. Gordon, of Altoona. "Cylinder club, 100 strong, will attend the national convention at Chicago, accompanied by a band. The club has accepted invitations to join the clubs of Bushings," by J. N.

Barr, of Milwau sociation was organized at Indianapolis at a meeting of lawyers from all over the state. Gen. Benjamin Harrison was chosen first president kee, and "Hub Liners," by R. II. Soule, of Roanoke, Va.

my just think every bottle of Hood's Sara-parilla contains 100 doses. This is true only ot Springfield and Kansas City, Denver, Helena, and Otturawa, in a grand parade in Chicago on the night of July 6. JosEm Frestwich, D. C. F.

R. Mood's CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Written replies to the officers or the a celebrated English geologist and author, died in London, on the 23d, aged 84. Graham Convicted. Dr.

G. H. Graham was convicted ab Pittsburg the other night of brutal German-American Sound Money league On the 23d ox-Congressman A. T. assault on Lizzie Shaughnessy.

Dur at New York from German editors all over this country show that of the 581 Walling dropped dead of heart disease at Circlcville, 0., his home. Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, ft. On the 23d the jury in the case of ing the trial the girl's father stole behind the puisoner and made a lunge at him with a long-bladed knife, but the sheriff caught his arm and led him from the court room. Hood'8 Pills cure biliousness, headache.

German-American newspapers in this country which discuss politics, 499 are in favor of the present gold standard, 89 are for bimetallism or free silver and 43 are doubtful and that 90 per cent, of Mrs. Mary Alice Almont Livingston Fleming, on trial in New York city on a charge of having poisoned her mother, Mrs. Bliss, returned a verdict of not guilty, i The cry is again being raised that Japan is threatening to cripple our industries by competition. It was said last year that om bicycle trade would be ruined by Japanese cheap labor but are not bicycles still so high that they smell of money, no matter how "sound" the purchasing commodity is? During his tour in Japan the late Col. Cockerill dispelled this illusion by saying that notwithstanding the report that Japanese manufacturers were making first-class wheels at 5fl2, American residents were ordering theirs from America.

FIND THE ONLY ORIGINAL DESIGNS PUBLISHED In This Country CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Early on the morning of the 21st Deputy Marshal Jesse Baker, of North Baltimore, 0,, was fatally shot by two burglars whom he surprised at work on a safe in the post office. The murderers escaped. The coasts of Labrador were recently visited by a hurricane, which did much damage. Thirty fishing crafts were destroyed at Blanc Sable, and it Will Entertain Firemen.

The committee of fifteen, at Topeka, is preparing to entertain 1,000 volunteer firemen next fall. The second day of the reunion and festival week has been set aside for their use, and prizes aggregating $500 have been offered for the various tests of skill and speed. Gold Standard Democrats. It is stated that the leading gold standard democrats of Kansas will attend the Chicago convention and use their influence asrainst the adoption of a free coinage plank, notwithstanding the Kansas delegates are instructed for the white metal. IN is feared that more vessels were lost at more northern points.

Near Norwalk, on the 21st, an L'Art de La And all the most reliable information on tho question of dress. Order of your Newsdealer or send 85 Cents A Washington correspondent says of the republican nominee for the presidency: Maj. McKinley was not one of the sort of men who cut much of a figure in tue social life of Washington, and it is doubtful if he would have done so even if he had not been confined to- his rooms much of the time by his devotion to his invalid wife. McKinley was always popular on the floor and acquired by degrees the strong position which comes with Jong service, even when not always accompanied by conspicuous ability. nt Psttem of this dign, 30 the last Number.

Unit, for 60 Cenu. THE MORSE-BROUGHTON 3 East XOtlx JfStroot, Bet 5th Are. and Broadway, EW unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a west-bound passenger train on the Lake Shore railroad. Three ties were placed in such a position that when struck by the engine they would tear up the track. The obstruction was discovered, an alarm given, and three meu, found in the vicinity, were arrested.

They refused to give their names. tho German-American voters are in favor of the maintenance of the present gold standard. The Tippecanoe club, of Cleveland, went to Canton, the home of Gov. McKinley, and inaugurated a big parade on the 27th to ratify his nomination for the presidency. Congressmen Taylor and Grosvenor were among the speakers and Gov.

McKinley responded by enunciating and defining republican principles. At Pittston, the roof of the Red Ash vein of the Twin shaft gave way and 100 miners were buried alive. The mine was known to be unsafe and the men were sent down to brace it with timbers. It will be days before the men can bo reached and the belief was that all of them were crushed to death. Women and girls fainted at the mouth of the shaft when told that there was no hope for tho miners buried.

Democrats of Tennessee will push Gov. Bob Taylor for president at Chicago. Three young children of Joseph Wise, a Cincinnati butcher, were fatally poisoned by chewing gum. The preliminary federal election occurred on the 27th all over Mexico. The electors will meet July 5 and vote for the president and members of congress.

There is no doubt of the election of President Diaz. The Irish National Federation of American has issued a notice to its branches in this country of an Irish race convention to be held in Dublin on September 1. Mrs, Helen M. Gougar, the famous temperance lecturer and equal suffrage agitator, was solccted as the candidate of the broad gauge prohibitionists at Lafayette, for attorney-general. A yacht containing a party of nine pleasure seekers was capsized in Shawnee lake, near and Bix of the party were drowned.

An attempt was made upon the life of the shah at Teheran, Persia, on the 27th. It was unsuccessful and the assassin was arrested on the snot. He A duel was fought at Kummersdorf, Senator Teller has the reputation of being not only morally but physically brave. arrived in Colorado in 1861, and on the day after his arrival a rebel flag was hoisted over a saloon in near Berlin, on the 22d, between Lieut, Buck of the Ninth regiment, and Lieut. Luchring, of the Sixth regiment, The weapons used were pistols.

Lieut. Denver. As Teller walked out of his hotel that morning he saw it, and Luehring was shot and almost instant ly killed. though he was a tenderfoot he swore that that flag had to come down. He You can reach practically all the Jreat resorts of America, by the through car lines of "America's Greatest Railroad" The New York Central.

James B. Gentry, the actor, was looked up the marshal and the two placed on trial in Philadelphia, on the went together to the saloon. They for the murder of his sweetheart, had revolvers with them and they A Kansas Young Woman. Miss Daisy Barbee, of Atchison, was the only woman graduate from the law department of Washington university at St Louis at the recent commencement She captured the thesis prize over 38 competitors. Minor State News.

Col. E. Gifford, postmaster at Clay Center, died recently. Bertha Lane, 17 years old, recently committed suicide at Neodesha by taking rat poison. The republican state central committee has fixed upon August 11 and Topeka as the place for holding the state convention for the nomination of state officers.

The regents of the state university have elected S. J. Hunter, a graduate of 1893, as assistant in entomology in place of W. A. Snow, recently called to the university of Illinois.

A recont Los Aneeles (Cal.) dispatch stated that Gen. A. B. Campbell, who figured very conspicuously in Kansas a few years ago, had been declared insane and sent to an asylum. Gov.

Morrill has appointed Capt Thomas Shuler, of Jewell county, to be a member of the board of managers for the soldiers' home at Dodge City, vice J. H. Stewart, term expired. In the district eourt at Wichita, Mrs. Irene Leonard, who was convicted of killing her husband to secure his life insurance, was sentenced by Judge Dale to 80 years ia the penitentiary Margaret W.

Drysdale (Madge Yorke), actress, in Philadelphia, on February were ready to fight, but the saloonkeeper weakened and the stars and bars came down. 17, 1895. On the 22d, by the collapse of a three story frame building on the corner of Fifth street and Mint avenue, San A beview of American trade with Asia will be incorporated in the next monthly summary of the bureau of Francisco, three persons were killed outright and 11 more or less injured. Other victims were known to bo in the fctatistics of the treasury department, which will have special interest, in ruins. When you come in hot and thirsty, HIRES Root-beer, Mad.

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On the 22d tho Mincrs'bank atCreed, was robbed of SI, 000 by an un view of the discussion of the effects of Japanese competition with American manufacturers. Tho aggregate Imnort trade of the United States with known man, who slipped Into tho room WE PAY euh WEfTCtY mi want men EVERYWHERE to mi and kit other all countries of Asia is shown to con by the private entrance and covered the cashier witli a revolver. The robber, with his revolver in hand, walked stitute only about ten per cent, of the entire imports of the country, while omnrt trade to Asia has onlv once or over to the money drawer and trans ferred all the bills to his coat pocket, STARK Twee. Outfit, FREE. No Money to Invest.

Hx, Disk. STARK BRO'S. Lonklaim, Rockport, 111. STOPPED: HEART BURN.YUCATAL proved to be a member of the BaUi Mohammed secret society. twice ranged about three per cent, oi Then, backing out, he slipped through the total export trade.

i an alley and disappeared. i.