Osage County Times from Scranton, Kansas • 6

A GIGANTIC SWINDLE. AS IN A FIERY FURNACE. ENORMOUS SUMS TAKEN FROM FOOLISH PEOPLE. A DREADFUL DAY IN NEW YORK WITH MANY DEATHS. Oltlcorn of tlui Niillonul I'upltnl liullil.

iUKuml I. nun Ahmim IiK Inn" AituiU-oil Victim from to iillfoinlii. A ri.UCKY WOMAN, A GulvAitnn Knirro llreak Into tbo Wrong; Ilouxe and JeU Killed, Galveston, Aug, 1 o'clock yesterday morning Jennie Armstrong, while lying on her bed rending, was sturtled by the appearance of a negro la her chamber. She demanded what hn wanted, receiving uo reply. Blio snatched a rovoWor from a bureau drawer and In manipulating the pistol in her excltoment shot herself through the lleshy part of tho thigh.

At tho sound of the shot the negro bolted, and tho plucky woman, regardless of hor wound, went aftor him firing as sho ran, planting one shot la bis arm, and just as he was passiutf out of tho houso, lodging another near the heart. Tho negro ran a few yards and dropped aud died on his way to tho hospital. A Fearful Ilnllrond Wreck. Sthaccse, Aug. 12.

Tho St, Louis ox-press on tho West Shore railroad met with a terrible accident three miles west of Port Byron. Tho train was running nt a high rate of speed and at that point ran Into freight train. The wreck was un awful one und tho deaths numbered twelve. Tho wreck took flro and tho passenger train was burned with tho exceptiou of threo sleeping cars, Tho train wa3 made up of two express cars, a baggage car, a smoking car, a day cur und threo sleeping cars. The accideut was the result of caro-lessness on the part of tho rear brakemnn of tho freight train, or by negligence on tho part of the freight conductor.

Twenty-throe peoplo wero Injured. A Hold IliiiiU Lima, Aug. II, Ono of tho boldest bank roV)borles ever perpetrated In this sect ion of country 'occurred this morning at Colunibuii (Irovo, a town of about 2,000 peojdo, twelve miles north of here. Cash. ior T.

J. Maple had just opened tlio Ex-chimn bunk, of which his father is proprietor, and laid out about neiyr tho chiiAhier's window. About 8 a man appended at tho door with revolver in each hand. Ho immediately bognu shooting. Cashier Maplo was struck twice, on uo in tho urin and once in the right sido.

As ho foil to tho Hour an old farmer, William Vandormark, aged (iO, entered tho door, having come to get his money for some hogs he had just sold. Tho robber turned and she him thr ough and through. A third man sat lu the lobby of tho bank, paralyzed with foar. He not molested. Tho desperado then grabbed $1,200 in greenbacks, shoved it in the.

pockets of his sack coat and darted out tho door shoutlugi "I'm a second Jesso Junius." Maple has a flesh wound In tho arm and a glance wound from a rib lu his sido, but is iu no danger unless blood poisoning sots in. Mr. Vnndermarlt Is ono of tho most substantial armors. Ho was struck by tho bullet on tho right sido below the ribs and injured internally. Ho Is vomiting blood und will probably bo dead beforo this is printed.

Ho cannot recover at all events. At 1 1 :15 o'clock to-night tho bank robber was still at large nnd tho chase has been abandoned until daylight. Almost everybody lu tho northern part of Allen county has been out all day looking for the des-posado. ING ALLS IN THIS SOUT1L The City Honted to a Iiki'o That Made Llfo Viilicnrabls The Top. uliitlon Wont to tho IIouho-top I'or I'regh Air.

ffcorchlng Wcatlirr In New York. New Vokk, Aug. 12. Now York yestor-day was a furuaco r.ovon times heated. It was tho third day of tho hoatod term in thlt city and tho hottest of the throe.

By a thormometcr which registers the actual degree of heut on the street 97 eg. was reached at 8:30. In the afternoon the ambulances were busily engaged In carrying to tho hospitals many human beings prostrated by tho heat. Nothing like It bus bocn recorded at this time In the year for nearly twenty years, and a continuance during tho week means an enormous in. croaso of mortality, especially In the crowded tenement districts.

Soveral death havo occurred and many moro victims aro in a precarious condition. Tho scenes oast of Broadway and south of Houston stroet Inst night were beyond description. Tho entire population have desertod thoir tenements and have sought the housetops and tho streets, where thoy are lying dowu, walking and gasping for breath. A DKSPEKATK DUEL MKWft NOTUS. i 4' It Is stated that Bulgaria is making groat preparations for war.

Guatemala proposes to spend1 for a world's fair exhibit, During a heavy storm In Manitoba Thursday night, two women wero killed by lightning. Tho Russian banners enpturod by tho French during tho Crimean wur have boon returned to Russia, An English syndicnto 1ms purcbasod practically all tho leather board factories iu the eastern states, Proctor Knott, tho well known rnco-horso, died Friday lu his stall ut Ilorso Haven, near Saratoga, N. Y. BNoarly 4,000 Indian depredation claims havo so far beou filed beforo tho national court of claims in Washington. Hundrods of hogs about Bellbrook, aro dying of cholera.

Only one farmer's drovo has been untouched so far, A Wichita firm has been awarded tho contract for tho iron work on tho publlo building at Donver, at 810,073. Tho green glass bottla makers and factory owuors split at their conference Iu Pittsburg and a lockout Is probablo. The Morning News of Belfast, Ireland, has come out ugalnst Pnrnell, of whom for years It had been an ardent supporter. New York hnnkers say that thoy will assist A. Backer, tho dealer In commercial paper who has failed, to his feet again.

A young fanner named Edwards whilo plowing on his farm near San Antonio, Texas, uucsirthod 817,0.10 iu gold doubloons. Tho Dispatch, Commercial-Gazette, Chronicle-Telegraph, Leader and Press of Pittsburgh hnvo all pronounced for Blaine. William B. Lloyd of St. Louis, a son of ox-Governor Lloyd has been given threo months in jail for swindling cigar dealers.

Threo deaths have so far occurred as tho result of tho excursion wreck near Champlain, N. Y. A fourth victim is dyiug. J. H.

Prewitt has been acquitted at Rolla, on tho charge of having murdered Sam Wood at Prewitt's residence October 5, 1889. Mr. Duesing, a theological student In one of the Roman Catholic colloges in Rome, was drowned Monday. His home was in St. Louis, Mo.

Two Jefferson City boys named Bazzie Tarleton and Ernest Freeman, each 9 years old wore drowned in tho Missouri river last Tuesday while bathing. William Fullerton, a young American, a graduate of Harvard, replaces M. De Blowitz as the working head of the Paris A 1 111 lit' Hobbling Scheme. 'Ciii('abi), Aug. VI Alfred Downing, president, und H.

Tollman, vice prosl-ili'iit of tho Inuul Capital Savings und Building and Limn Association of North America, wero urrostoil by Postoftico Inspector Stuart, rhurgod with using tho mulls for fraudulent purposes. is ehurgod Unit tins men who have bean conducting this association have swindled thousands of people from every stuto in the Hnlon, nnd taken in from to IWlu.OOi) nnd given nothing in return. Tho victims hull from Maine to 'California, and nro unmoored noons; rich and poor alike. From facts sJreudy known tho scheme will parallel Mutt of (front "Fund dwindle, which wtis lirokon up about flvo years nio. Thoiyj nro still two men at liberty, thoy liaviiij diKupiieurod several wcoks ago.

Those two men, it In behoved, Kt awuy with most of funds. Tho advertisement of tlio swindlers could possibly deceive only tlio gullible, but thoso thoy found in every stuto from Maino to California. An Awlnl Ton lu)'K. New Vohk, Au. 12.

The steamship Cacht'iukTO bus arrived in this port with Hi!) Italian siecriiKO passengers on hoard. It was leuruud to-duy for the first timo that for ton days of tho voyage tho vessel und till on buard of her were in inimiiiont and continuous danger of the gruvust character. AVhcn the steamer was but ono day out from Marseilles it was reported to the captain that tho soft ooal in tho ibunkors was on Are. He at anco gavo orders that tho strictest secrecy should be observed as, 1 tho news spread. anion tlio passengers, it would be impossible to nvert.Ujpanie.

Immediate steps were taken to the lire, but it hud already gained serious headway. The pumps wore put to work and heavy streams of water were poured upon tlio piles of coal and upon the deck above it. This was kept up for day and night for ten days, and not till the end of that time was the lire eutiroly extinguished. The captain and crew wore on almost continuous duty during thatjtime and were, completely worn out. During whole time none of the passengers had any suspicion of the danger iu which they stood nor did they learn of it until port was reached.

AI.AIiA.11 A CItlME. A Kansas Horse Tlilef. 12. David Sprnguo, the noted horsethief who broke jail at Mc-Pherson, lust month, hns been heard from near Superior Neb. After breaking jail at McPhcrson, Spraguo stole a team near Nowton, and then found his way into Barbour county, where ho stole somo more horses.

Ho was corralled on the bunks of the Noscaturga by a posse of farmers and to escape jumped Into tho river and disappeared. It was thought he was drowned. A Toting Man Mortally Wounded Kill Ills Antagonist. Memphis, Aug. 12.

A desperate duel to the death took place Saturday evening at Norfolk Landing, twenty-eight miles below Memphis, news of which reached this city late last night. Tho principles were I). B. Wall, a young man from Williamson county, who was employed as manager of Ii. H.

Shaw's plantation, and a negro named Reed who had been working on tho place. Mr. Wall and Reed had a dispute nbout the length of time the negro had worked, and failing to agree, Reed left the store, carrying a shotgun which he tried to hide from Mr. Wall. The latter secured a revolver and started after the negro, but as he emerged from the storo tho negro shot him In the right sido, making a large hole.

Wall was mortally wounded, but ho was game. Ho emptied his revolver at tho negro, then reloaded and was preparing to fire again when ho fell dead. Tho negro went to the earth at tho same instant, one of tho balls from Wall's pistol having passed through his body. BLAINE WILL ACCKl'T. by Indians.

Akkaxsas City, Aug. 8. It Is now believed that Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly, who wero found murdered on Monday, wore killed by an Indian.

Some years ago Mrs. Donnelly shot and wounded an Indian who was attempting to break in her homo, and ho swore to bo revenged on her. An Indian was seen In that neighborhood tho morning of tho murder, and a largo number of them were in this city all that day. Tho "Silent Army." Detroit, 7. A national convention which has not had its parallel iu the history of nations, met in this city yesterday.

It was the annual contention of tho "Silent Army." While there was no shouting, no pounding ou the table, no oratorical speeches nnd no cheering, a great deal of business was transacted. It was the first reunion of tho silent army of deaf aud dumb soldiers, sailox-s and marines. Th! Kunnaa Statesman Before a Largo Southora Audience. Atlanta, Aug. 0.

Ex-Senator Ingalls lectured at Piedmont, Chautauqua, to-uiglit on the Bocial and political problems of tho second century. Ho was grafted by a great crowd. Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, introduced him, saying: xsn gentlemen: The war Is over and tho bloody chasm has boon flUod. I want to toll you in a few words why this is true. When a confederate soldier in tho couth under tho star spanglod banner can introduce with warmth and cordiality to a southern audience, Hon.

J. J. Ingalls, of Kansas, tho most sceptical in this nation may know and feel that peaco, brotherly ktve nnd kind feeling reign all over tho broad land. The warmth and cordiality of this greeting is increased by the knowledge of Senator Ingalls' course against the famous forco bill when that infamous measure was before the United States senate. I have the pleasure of introducing to you an orator who has electrified this country from Maine to California, a gentleman whoso genius and ability aro respected and admired by the whole American peoplo tho Hon.

J. J. Ingalls, of tho great state of Kansas." Tivo Atvlul Accidents. Leateswoktii, Aug. 9.

G. E. Lonsdale and his wife, with Miss Sue Powers and Master Ray Powers, of Ellsworth, were run over by a Santa Fe train as they wero crossing the track in a spring wagon in this city yesterday, and Mrs. Lonsdale and Miss Powers were killed. Tho boy was perhaps fatally injured.

The crossing where the accident oocurred has always been considered a dangerous one, but no accidents have ever before occurred there. Joe Fortune was engineer of tho train and states that it was running at the rate of about fifteen miles per hour. The accident occurred on ttie government reservation and a completo investigation will be instigated by the governor. Seneca, Aug. 9.

Hon. A. H. Burnett and family, in a carriage, were struck by tho west bound passeuger train on tho Rock Island railroad. He and his granddaughter, Miss Francis Fuller, were killed outright.

Mrs. George Fiusteuberg and two children were badly hurt. Six were iu tho carriage, which was demolished. Such Is the Conclusion Reached by A. L.

Conger, the Ohio Man. Washington, Aug. 12. Enough was said for publication by Conger, touching a recent conference with Seci'etary Blaine, to satisfy most people that tho declaration that the secretary would como out fiat-footed declining a renomination, was a pure fabrication. Since Mr.

Conger's published interview, however, a great deal more has come to the surface as to what was said at Bar Harbor, and a man who talked with the Ohio member of the National Republican committee is authority for the statement that Mr. Blaine, heulth permitting, will be "iu the hands of his friends" when tho nominating convention meets in 1892. A Tcrrltilo Slate of Affairs Kjlstlug in Uibb County. Birmingham, Aug. 13.

A terrible fltuto of affairs exists in Bibb county. Some two weeks ugo the dead body of Henry Smith was found in the woods near Blocktou. Ho was a witness in a murder cusc against Jesse Miller, a rich farmer, and who is popularly supposed to be the head and front of a gang who have been terrorizing that county, and against whom the citizeus have organized vigilance committees. Fivo men aro in jail charged with 'Complicity iu the Smith murder. Blocktou is patrolled day and night by vigilant.s and the witnesses for the state are kept under guard to prevent them from being murdered.

Good citizens from every pant of the county will gather at Centerville tomorrow fully armed to guard tho criminals from a rescue. Osage County Times GEO. nOOVtlR, Puull.Lor. )3AQT5 CITY, KANSAS. I'h unts is a class ot men, clonr of tight and lofty' of kouI, who boo Ufo uid humanity In its entirety and aro ncnpubla of egotism.

Iliuro tiro others, blei-isod of tho gods, In having1 realized tho unaltorablo intor-dependenco if humanity and In possessing tho lino (self-res) ect which is tho source of all truo courtesy. BECAUse designers aro not to bo hud fit home, American furniture manu actururn must go abroud to got tbem. (They aro brought hero by tho hundred very year, in necessary violation of the alien contract labor law. They (Come under contract, boeauso capital eunnot afford to risk loss of them after paying passage and incurring other outlay on their account. f'" As in glass manufacture, pottery und 'poreelains, carpets, wall papers, dra-jperies, prints, damasks, brocades, iBilks, tiles, goldsmilliinj, silversmith-ing', brass work and every other industry into which tasto enters, so in furni-tturc -the highest wages aro earned by foreigners, because wo contlnuo to jdeny to.

American children in primary grades tho mutusil training that makes artisans und leads up into fine art. That there should be magazlnos demoted entirely to dress, and others to the caro of children, and still others to the science of housekeeping, is very desirable, and It is noticeable that with iew exceptions such magazines offer better authority in their spocial lines than is found In those which try to (combine all of thoso lines, and more. ILet them keep to thoir respective texts the literary magazines hold up their own end. 1 In our American primary grade teaching there is no effort to develop the children's powers of observations or thoir constructive sense. Tho instruction is generally restricted to lit erary, things.

There is no practical (teaching of drawing, no teaching in Color. The few years the children of the poor have to spend in school is idifTused over many surfaces, all literary. The children, uninterested, be, cause the teaching is exclusively abstract, glad to get away from lechool even to get to work. it ia a matter of profound congratulation to those who are desirous of 'keeping in touch with the best con-; temporary thought that it is not an duty to read the threo or four thousand so-called Amorican Hovels that appear every year. Also the i matter of magazine reading, jwhile formerly one or two magazines irepresentcd the best of American thought and culture in their pages, 'the, reader to-day must pick and choose from half a dozen magazines and supplement his gleanings from the jgreat daily professional gambler; is not an member of society, yet to the professional blackmailer ho is as the dove to tho unclean vulture.

Tho is bad enough, the'ioan who jlevies tribute upon criminals and fattens upon thoir gains is immeasureably Worse. is no more ccsntempti-1ble spectacle than tto official who uses position as a means of extorting Vblackmail fr.om persons pursuing occupations outside the pal-) of the law, and "the city administratioti that persistently adheres to a line of policy that makes such corruption possible and inevitable is responsible for his a.ist- ut has long been held ily those Who art, for the amelioration of lakor. the age of ten is too early for the. commencevient of se life of toil. who are snt to at that i age raust inevitably in manj cases be both in their mental and ia their development.

They are taken tfrom tor half time at the period when ihe capacity for the acviuisHiori of posiitive knu wledge ds just lading fairly awaSrened; tfceir interest asd divided between their. eductitional tasks and their employment at ithe factory, and sa to a large extett frittered through jthe impossibility of their being on (Cither. When drawing modeling he-, coxae co-ordinate in our primary schools with leading and writing we shall need no aliaa contract later law. We will produce the most inteiiigent (expert in the world, and will netneed to seek them abroad. Bwi we are not Ihastenin- in this direction.

Every our million of boys and girls ileaye the primary grades to go to work, Thej' are as incapable of drawling a Jine, of modeling a leaf or flower ior investing a ew pattern as of flying in air. We speed most of the money the top of the school system on the Ifew thousand go from high schools to colleges, nd we let the jgreat mass of our American children out into the world just able to read, ifPSlJ ad writ. In Ohio. Fixplat, Aug. 12.

The grasshoppers are doing more damago in this part of tho state just now than they have done for many years before. They have eaten up and entirely destroyed the clover seed crop, aud aro devouring the pasture to such an extent as to render the feed of stock a serious problem for the farmers. They are causing a serious annoyance in tho wheat fields by eating the twino that binds the sheaves, causing tho shocks to fall in confusion. They are invading tho cornfields and eating tho leaves off the stalks and husks from the ears. Young fruit trees are also being seriously endangered by the hoppers eating the leaves and new twigs.

AN ALLIANCE SENSATION. Bulling Sentenced Again. St. Josepu, Aug. 9.

Louis Bulling, the escaped wife murderer, was brought beforo Judgo Anthony, of Savannah, and for tho third time sentenced to death. Bulling's attorneys tried to stave off proceedings on the ground that Judge Anthony had no jurisdiction, but tho motion was overruled and the day of excution was sot for Friday, September i. A Preacher and Trouble. SriuNOFiELD, Aug 9. Rev.

J. F. Thompson passed through the city yesterday under the watchful caro of G. Wr. Lindsay, sheriff of Hickory county, Mo.

Thompson is charged with stealing a horse. He was accompanied by his young wife, whom he abducted a few months ugo from tho home of a prominent minister in Hickory county. Ilemocrats I'nite. Chicago, Aug. 12.

Tho two factions of the Democratic party in Chicago have united aftor a long bitter fight which had allowed the Republicans to win two important elections. Should the treaty prove binding the Democrats expect to make a clean, everlasting sweep of all tho offices in sight. The present city administration is Republican. Killed by a Circus Attache. Jopi.in, Aug.

Ira Sevier, a miner, was struck in the left temple with a club by an attache of Forcpaugh's circus after tho performance here, from the effocts of which he died to-night. Sevier was drinking from a barrel of water intended for circus people when the man assaulted him, striking him but once and knocking him senseless. A Sirocco in SoulU Dakota. St. Lawhexce, S.

Aug. ll.The hottest weather ever experienced hero has prevailed for three days past. So intense has been the heat that men and annuals have succumbed in many instances and harvest work is entirely suspended through tho da)'. At 1 m. yesterday the mercury rose to 108 to 110 in the shado.

Tho wind was in a southern direction but hot and dry, possessing no refreshing qualities. Late wheat suffered terribly and some fields will not bo cut. Other wheat is all right. Unless showers come very soon or a cool wave comes, but little will survive tho ordeal. Prairie grass in some places is dry enough to burn.

Some prairie fires have already been reported. A Plot I'lutratetl. Mahkuatx, Aug. 12. A plot to effect a wholesale jail delivery was discov-, ored yesterday by Sheriff Ayres at the county jail.

In tho possession of Don Cainerron Patterson, alias Kugar, a aoted criminal and a prisoner named May, were found with several improvised saws made from steel shanks and an old knife. They had already sawed in two one of ths iron bars, at tho east end of tho corridor. Four Lynched at Once. BiiiMixoiiAM, Aug. 9.

Last Friday the of W. P. Davis, a prominent farmer near Crosby, was bumod and the family narrowly escaped with their lives. On Sunday Ella Williams, colored, was arrested and confessed to having saturated the houso with oil and set lire to it out of revenge. In her confession she implicated Lizzio Lowe, Willis Lowo and Bill Williams.

Yesterday the sheriff started from Crosby to Abbeville jail with the prisoners, and last night he was overpowered by a mob and tho prisoners taken frcm him and shot to death. Their bodies were thrown in the river. The ISuslncss Agent of tho Georgia Exchange a Defaulter. Atlanta, Aug. 12.

The Journal prints a sensation in Alliance circles. J. O. Wynne, business agent of the Georgia state Alliance exchange, is over 20,000 short in his accounts. The directors appointed W.

A. Broughton, treasurer of the exchange to examine the books and tho shortago was discovered. Mr. Wynne is under $50,000 bond. The exchange claims the shortage is an out and out defalcation.

Mr. Wynne makes a statement that the shortage is due to a clerical error and a loss of vouchors. omco oi tne iondon Times. President Balmaceda of Chili and the loaders of tho Chilean insurgents havo appealed to the Spanish government to act as arbitrator and end the war. The Santa Fe boiler makers' strike has ended.

All differences are amicably arranged. Tho discharged men and the strikers have all resumed work. Lieutenant Philip Hodges of tho English navy committed suicide by jumping into the sea July 2i whilo beingsent home from Australia for a breach of discipline. Influenza has again made its appearance in Moscow and is attacking people iu all classes of society. An average of 500 persons are daily prostrated by the disease.

Tho United States treasury continues tho daily shipment of small notes to tho west for use in moving the crops. The total amount so far sent is 2 4-5 million dollars. C. P. Huntington and associates of New York havo purchased the Texas Trunk railroad, extending from Dallas to Cedar, in, Kaufman county, a distance of fifty-two miles.

Tho People's party of Greenwood county, havo nominated a county ticket. Four of the nominees are former Democrats, two former Republicans and one a labor man. In tho Davis will case at Butte, argument on tho admission of expert testimony on handwriting has closed, and Judge McHatton has decided to exclude expert testimony. A yachting party, consisting of four meu and five children, were cruising in Dor-ccster bay, near Boston, when tho boat capsized aud the two men and four children were drowned. The chambers of commerce of Glesson and Greiso and a majority of the members of the central union of Gernmu wool lfian-ufacturers have decided not to take part in tho Chicago fair.

A dispatch from Berlin says tho rumors of the kaiser's bad health are unfounded that his general health was never better and that ho has entirely recovered from the Injury caused by his fall. Pension payments aggregating 1 million dollars have been made by the United States treasury since August I aud have reduced tho cash balance in tho treasury from 55,783,015 to Both members of tho assigned banking firm of Schall Danuer of York, have been arrested charged with receiving monay from John B. Walsh of New York when on the verge of insolvency. Mrs. William Drager of Ripon, took threo ounces of Paris green and then laid open hor stomach with a razor and cut into tho vitals.

She lived for four hours. She had quarreled with her husband. The silver anniversary of the Missouri State Sunday School Association closed last Sunday night at Pertle Springs, by brief addresses from the ex-presidents of the convention, in order of their service. William T. Croasdale, the editor of the Standard and chairman of the national committee of the single tax league, died at Merriwold, Sullivan county, New York, of peritonitis, after an illness of eight-days.

Mrs. Nellie Webb, an aged and wealthy widow of Louisville. committed suicide at the Collego Hill sanitarium last Monday evening. She was a victim of drink and had been placed in the sanitarium on the 21st of last April. It is said that Acting Secretary of War L.

A. Grant has approved Major General Schofield's recommendation that General Miles shall command such regular troops and national guards as may take part in the dedicatory exercises of the World's fair. Reports from the Massachusetts assessment and indorsement corporations show that they aro doing business on very small balances. Ono company is doing a business of SOO.OOO on a balance of $750, and another a fivo years' order business of 83,221,000 on $372. The Munn Bros.

Wilkes ranch and cattle in Hackley county, Tex have been sold at Colorado, at the door of the court house under a decree from the federal court, at El Paso. The sale embraced 12,000 head of cattle, 100 saddle horses and 55,000 acres of land. Gregory, Cooley Co. of Chicago were the purchasers, paying 91,000 cash and assuming SOO.OJO due on lands. A Remarkable Desperado.

Taiiluquaii, I. Aug. 12. Tho Cherokee Indians are celebrating the death of one of tho most noted of Indian desperadoes that ever lived. His history was the most remarkable iu the known world.

He died ono year ago at the ago of 96 years at peace with his people, but most of his life had been passed in warfare against mankind. To-day tho Cherokee peoplo are celebrating tho anniversary of his death as a holiday. This Indian was old Tom Starr, who for a quarter of a century was a terror to tho whole Cherokee nation. Won a Big Claim. City or Mexico, Aug.

12. Tho Dinrio de Centro Amei'ica, printed in Gautemala, claims that the family of the unfortunate General Rundia, who was killed aboard of a Pacific mail steamship in the port of San Jose do Gautemala by soldiers, has won its claim against tho United States and will be paid indemnification. Paylnsc for Uabbit Scalps. Midland, Aug 12. There has been a gala day in Midland The commissioners court has been in session the first time since the state rabbit law went into effect.

Tho total number of scalps turned In was 13,000 by tho actual count of two men who were kept busy all day. County scrip was exchanged for scalps. Nebraska Prohibitionists. Lincoln, Aug. 8.

The Prohibition state convention completed Its labors by nominating R. W. Richardson, of Omaha, for judge of the supremo court, and Rev. William Garst, of Neligh, and Mrs. Caroline M.

Woodward, of Seward, for regents of the state university. The platform indorses tho national Prohibition party, demands government control of telegraph and railroad companies, a more unrestricted coinage of tho metals, and naturally places the party on record as favoring the total annihilation of the liquor traffic. A Good Investment. Atchison, Aug. 12.

Tho Kansas Trust and Banking Company, of Atchison, owns a great many farms iu Northern Kansas, aud in order to get back some of the money put out for the land, planted crops which are just now being harvested. The laud fcuis dono remarkably well. The yield of wheat and oats is large, and a splendid e.oru crop is assured. The company will get thirty or forty per cent of its money out of the country by this year's crop and still own the land. Killed SB is Fatlier- Cwinxati Aug.

12. Charles Nermann, oped shot and instantly killed Goorgo Koimaun, his father. Ueorge Neiman was a cobKer and lived at IS Gorman street Ho haul boon divorced from his wife, but still lived in tho same house with her and her children. He had frequent quarrels with family and divorced wife, and this moyaings tragedy was the culmination one ofthese disputes. Ditttrci.

Along Uie Itio Grande. jHavana, Aug. 12. Those who :iu.ve lived ftwcuty-live years on the Rio-(Grande never rscen such misery aiMiiig the Mexican population as this year. The staple crop of? the Rio Grande vahoj is corn $nd the frijolo, but the drouth has been so terrible for tho last months that scarely been n.ised, and has died by 'thousands.

He Mode Slaves of Them. 0iaua, Aug. 12. Rev. Dr.

Sherwood, a colored evangelist who has been holding out at a campmeeting in South Omaha, has been arrested, charged with horribly mistreating a number of colored lads whom he had taken from the orphan asylum and had practically enslaved. Sherwood trained tho boys as musicians and formed them into a baud. He made them work all hours of the day and night und took their earnings from them allowing them each 10 cents a day for food. A Grand Barbecue. St.

Joseph, Aug. 8. A grand barbecue was held at Easton for tho benefit of the ex-Confederate homo at Higgins-vllle. The affair was under tho management of some of the leading Democrats of the state and was a grand success. Six hundred and fifty dollars was realized for the homo.

The Snake Dance. Wiixsi-ow, A Aug. 12. The famous Moqui Indian snake dance, which is bald every two years, commenced yesterday on the reservation, sixty miles from here, and will continuo sixteen days. It is reported the government Is taking steps to discontinue the dance and that this will be the last one.

Major Donaldson, who took Moqui census, has gono to the dance with photcgraphie outfit, and tho government has also sent a corps of photographers. Four JJrowiiedV Milwaukee, Aug. 12. Four young people, abUdi'Mi of business men, were drowneft at Lake Pewaukee, twenty from litre. They were out in a small sajl boat tfltiii three other youn people.

A squall stefi'ck tho boat, capsizing it. It was heavily bii.lastod and sunk almost immediately, leavkfe' the seven persons struggling in the water. Disastrous Fire, Louisnrao, Aug. 13. A disastrous fire occurred Sunday evening at 7 o'clock by which ono life was lost.

A hoy was in the building, a feed house, at the time of the fire, and was so terribly burned that he died at 11 :30 tho same night. The deceased's namo was Reese Hawkins, aged about 10. A Honeymoon on Bicycles. Chicago, Aug. 12.

Dr. and Mrs. H. Baldwin, of Norwalk, who, since they were wedded on July 6, have been enjoying their honeymoon on their bicycles, arrived here yesterday on their return journey. Their tour has extended to St.

Paul and Minneapolis and to St. Louis. Young's Sliorluge. Louisville, Aug. 12.

Tho nmcut't of the shortage of Sylvester Young, defaulting cashier of the Newport News Mississippi Valley railroad, Is now known to be at least $38,000 instead of 25,000, as first supposed. Further investigation may add slightly to this. Young has not been heard from. The Cherokee Election. TjtnLEQUAH, I.

Aug. 12. Election returns from all the districts in tho Cherokee nation give tho Downing party the chieftaincy, re-electing J. B. Mayes.

The house favors tho Downings, while the sen-ato is divided. Tho allotment ticket was completely lost in tho battlo. Ex-Prisoners of War. Detroit, Aug. 7.

The national convention of ex-prisoners of war met in this city yesterday. President E. H. Williams, of Foreign Markets. London, Aug.

12. There was a plethora of money during the past week. Discount was quoted at ld for threo months and i for short, with no demand. A small drain of gold continues toward Germany. There Is nothing to indicate large immediate withdrawals from the bank of England from any quarter.

The Record Broken Aznin. New Yokk, Aug. 12. The White Star lino steamer Majestic, which left Liverpool July 29, has again broken the record from Queenstown to New York. Her time was five days 'thteen hours and eight minutes.

The Dam ill bo Built. Topeka, Aug. 12. Arrangements have been completed for the construction of the Kaw dam at this point. A mortgage trust deed for 350,000, in favor of the Union i'rust Company, of St.

Louis, has been ftlod by tho Topeka Water and Electric Pover Company with tho register ol Naval Veterans. Detro tt, Aug. 5. The National Association of ilaval Veterans elected officers yesterday. Baltimore was selected as th place of mee ting next year, tho week preceding the G.

A- K. encampment at Washington. Another War Probable. Paris, Aug, 12. A telegram received in this city from Beunos Ayres asserts that Chili will declare war against Bolivia because the governmer of the latter country has recognized the co vessional party of Chili as belligerents.

Indianupolis, read his address. Ho urged the importance of the claim of ex-prlsouers to Increased pensions pfl tke attention of the members. 1.