The Weekly Graphic from Huron, Kansas • 2

TRAMPS BUMA Mi THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC. CREAM OF THB NEWS. Iman Gage of Chicago has been selected' as permanent chairman of the worlds' Resubmission at Topeka, Topeka, May 24. The resubmis-lon convention that has been udvertised for some weeks met yesterday, with some post of the G. A.

R. gave them a public reception at the opera house last night and invited all the ex-unlon and ex-confederate soldiers to be present. A large number of people av. ended and quite a number of ladles were out The crowd was composed of about an equal number of Kansas and Ooolidge, MexicJ, Dastroyed by the I Migratory NuisanoJSi Train Circles the World In Sixty-Seven Days. Conservative Congressmen Becoming Somewhat Alarmed.

A New Mexican Town Hurried. Albuquerque, N. May 35. A disastrous lire set by tramps has destroyed every house In the city of Coolide, N. Mi, except the railroad eating house and the depot buildings yesterday.

The tramps had been loitering around town for several days and wore infuriated because citizens had made preparations to drive them out For throe days they had hold control of the town. Tribute was levied on the stores, tho demands being emphasized by a show of weapons. Finally the residents were driven to wage war in nelf defense. Their resistance enraged the tramps and in retaliation, in- flameables were scattered among the buildings and set on Are. Before the ashes of the town were cool, a posse of citizens on hbrsoback were la pursuit of the tramps, and lynchings are probable.

Tho leader of the tramps is beleived to be Black Rube, a half breed and bard char acter. Train Wins the Race. Tacoma, May 25. George Fran cis Train stepped from a Union Pacific train at 6:45 last evening, completing the fastest trip ever made around the world. He was gone sixty -seven days, thirteen hours and three minutes, but his actual traveling time was thirty-six hours better, he having stopped that length of time in New York.

He was in a gr3at rage be cause some one had robbed him at Hunt ington, yesterday morning, of $(500, and because the Tacoma people did not furnish him with a special train, from New York to Tacoma, over the Northern Pacific. Becoming Alarmed. Washington, May 25. Conservative members are beginning to feel a little uneasy about the way the appropriation bills are piling up this season. The amount of appropriations on bills already passed and pending, point to an aggregate that will exceed goverment revenues by many millions during the coming fiscal year.

Another Representative Tired. Kaksas City, May 24. A special dispatch to the Journal from Washington says that Congressman Morrill, of Kansas, has written a letter declining to be a candidate for re-election. He says he is tired of the work. It is understood that since pension matters assumed such a shape as to puzzle the friends of legislation for tho soldiers.

Mr. Morrill has been harrased from all sides and quarters by those having hobbies, strained and particular ideas on the. subject, so much so, in fact, that congressional life has become a burden. When it became known at the house that Major Morrill would close his congressional career with the present congress, members of all political parties, led by Congressman Doekery, thronged around his desk and earnestly entreated him to reconsider his determination. Major Morrill was affected to tears by this demonstration of the friendship and confidence of his colleagues, but he sorrowfully informed them that his decision wts irrevocable.

"Original Packages" Denned. Kansas Citt, May 21. General Devol, the internal revenue collector of this district, while discussing the interpretation to be placed upon the words "original packages" of liquor, which, it is claimed under the recent decision of the United States supreme court may be freely sent into Kansas and sold there, said that a bottle of beer cannot be regarded as an original package within the meaning of the law. Regarding the question from the Internal revenue standpoint, General Devol said: "No beer stamp is provided for a less quantity of beer than an eighth barrel, and brewers cannot bottle beer except such as is drawn from tho stamped kegs." He therefore concluded that an eighth barrel of beer is the smallest quantity that may rightfully be termed an "original package." The Santa Fe's Big Purchase. New York, May 20.

The principal owners of the St. Louis San Francisco rail road stated this afternoon that the control of the company had been absolutely sold to the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Company. This deal adds 1,403 miles of road to the Atchison system besides giving it absolute control of the Atlantic Pacific railroad. The acquisition of the Frisco will give the Santa Fe a St. Louis line, and will put it in a position to fight the Missouri Pacific throughout its entire territory, cutting into its business by both the main line and the Iron Mountain.

This gives the Santa Fe the Immense mileage of 8,927.2 miles in the states, besides its Mexican ro id, the So-nora railway. The Atlantic Pacific is ownnd by and operated for the Santa Fe and 'Frisco and the purchase will give the Santa Fa all three systems. A fad Catastrophe. Faia Rivers, May 26. At Watup-pa lake yesterday afternoon a party of twelve persons hired a boat and went rowing.

There was a strong wind blowing and the water was rough. When the boat of pleasure seekers was within twenty feet of the shore one of the children rocked the boat. The men captioned the child to remain quiet, but it was unmindful of this advice and suddenly the boat capsized. Edwin Turner was the only one in the party who could swim well. He grasped John Buckley by the waist and although Buckley was a heavy man he succeeded in bringing him ashore.

Two others succeeded in reaching shore, but eight women and children were drowned. A Drunken Judge. Kansas Citt, May 22. An associated press dispatch from Paris, last nitrht says Judge Theodora Botkin, of Kansas made a disgusting exhibition of himself in that city on Monday evening: There were about 303 people there from Kansas as witnesses and defendants in the Cross murder case. Most of them are republicans and many are ex-union soldiers.

The local three hundred delegates present All the larger cities of the state were represented except Kansas City. They were of all shades of politics. The meotlng was called io order by president Allen, who has been the leader of the movement. In his address to the convention he announced the purpose of the gathoring to be to induce the governor to call a special session of the legislature to submit to tho people a proposition to repeal the prohibitory constitutional amendment He declared that the resubmission republicans of the state have determined to call a halt, and will hereafter vote for no man or party committed to prohibition. 11 A committee was appointed to escort Governor Humphrey to the hall, but after a half hour's waiting the committee returned and Marsh Murdock of Wichita reported that there seemed to be a misapprehension; the governor would meet them as individuals, but not as a committee.

He wculd receive a committee with a memorial and reply to it Another committee was then appointed, which soon returned and reported. The governor still declined to attend, but repeated that he would receive a memorial and give it attention. Lucien Baker, the prominent attorney of Leavenworth, said the time had come when the people must arise above party lines and organize a state central committee. A memorial was read, and a vote taken that it should not be presented to the governor. The memorial claims that prohibition does not prohibit, and declares that resubmisslonlsts in the republican party will no longer support any man or party committed prohibition.

A series of resolutions was adopted reciting the complaints of the resubmission-ists at great length, and a motion was made to proceed to organize a party to carry out the purposes of the convention. This aroused opposition on the part of Mr. Douglass, who said he was a republican out and out, and nothing could drive him from the party. Any movement for organization must be strictly confined to the party. Murdock endorsed the declaration and Lucien Baker opposed it, but finally a committee of fifteen was appointed to define the purposes of the proposed organization.

Polygamy Crippled. Washington, May 20. The supreme court yesterday gave an opinion of vital interest to the Mormons of Utah. The case grows out of the passage of the Edmunds' anti-polygamy law, by the Forty-ninth congress. This law, among others, disolved the Mormon church corporation, and killed its charter, directed the appointment of a receiver to wind up its affairs and escheated to the United States all the real estate owned by the church in excess of $50,000, which wis not on the date of the passage of the act held for purposes of worship of burial.

When tho United States, under the term of this act, began proceedings to confiscate about $250,000 worth of property belonging to the church, the Mormons immediately entered suit to have the Edmunds law declared unconstitutional The supreme court sustained the lower courts, and the Mormons lost their property. Woman Suffrage Recognized. Washington, May 22. For the first time in the history of the house judiciary com mittee a majority of the members to-day agreed to a favorable report upon a joint resolution (introduced by Representative Baker, of New York), providing for a con stitutional amendment to grant the right of suffrage to women. Twice before a minority of the committee has reported favorably on similar propositions, and one of these reports was drawn by the present speaker, Mr.

Reed, but a majority could not be induced to take favorable action. The Tariff Bill Passed. Washington, May 21. Tho house passed the tariff bill to-day, with very few amend ments, by a very strict party vote. Ben Buttorworth of Ohio, said he regretted that it was impossible to get a concensus of opinion on his side of the houso (the repub llcan side) regarding the real merits of the bill.

This remark was cheered ny the dem. ocrats; but when it came to a vote Butter-worth recorded his vote with the party for the bill. Tho vote by which the bill was passed was 163 to Wreck on the Alton. Kansas City, May 23. The Chicago and Alton limited train was wrecked just east of this city yesterday morning as it started out for Chicago.

The engine crashed into a freight train on the Missouri Pacific track. Three sleeping cars rolled down a ten foot ebmankment The engineer and fireman jumped just in time to save their lives, and strange to say not a soul on the train was killed, though some half a dozen passengers in the sleepers were more or less injured. Will Turn States Evidence. Omaha, 22. Joe Shellenberger, the second defendant in the case of the murder of Allen Jones and wife, was discharged this forenoon, and is believed to have promised to turn state's evidence.

Whipple Sherman, the third defendant, is to be tried soon, and the authorities will have a stronger case even against him, with their new witnesses, than they had against Ed Neal, who was convicted this morning of murder in the first degree. Onr Flimsy Postal Cards. Birmingham, May 20. No poMal cards were made at Al Daggatt's factory in Shelton yesterday. Twenty-eight cases of paper that arrived Sunday were not accepted by the government agent, hence this delay.

H. T. Townsend, Daggatt's agent, is in Washington with new samples of Wilkinson's paper. If these are approved Daggett will be likely to retain his contract If not, the outlook is dubious for him. AUood Shot.

Chillicothe, May 2L J. L. Bowen of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill pis wife last night Being drunk, he imagined that he bad succeeded, and then walked out and put a ball through his own bead, killing himself instantly. When he shot at bis wife he missed his aim, but the ball struck a neighbor, W. H.

Raney, inflicting a bad wound in bis thijh. Albert Victor's Mew Title. London, May 23. The queen has created Prince Albert Victor, eldest sou of the prince of Wales, duke of Clarence and and earl of Athlone. All the window glas3 factories of the- United States are to be shut down for the- summer June 24, The widow of the famous British naturalist, Wood, has been granted a pension of" $250 a year for life.

Ex-President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland are to be invited to attend the Dallas, fair next October. Sixteen strikers at Nurschan, Germany, have been killed so far during labor riots. Military assistance has been asked. The French army is alleged to be stronger than the German army by twenty-seven batallions.

And the Frenoh are happy, Ex-President Hayes will visit the Cha-taqua meeting at Ottawa, and deliver an address on Grand Array day. John Clare, of Nebraska City died of hydrophobia after terrible suffering. Ho-was bitten by a mad dog some weeks ago. The Iowa Indians refused the proposition of the Indian commission for the cession of their lands in Indian Territory. Mrs.

Sarah Rothschild of Chicago' celebrated her 103d birthday last week. She is as strong and as spry a3 a woman of 40, Striking coal miners at Cokedale, near-Livingstono, Mont, attacked a lot of new men and prevented them from taking their -places. Tho Carmichael divorce case, growing-out of the women's crusade at Lathrop, has been transferred to Livingstons -county. Judge Nathan Scarritt, one of the oldest-and wealthiest residents of Kansas City, is dead. The workmen at the national tube works -at McKeesport, have gone back to-work, having compromised the wages dispute.

John Thompson, a farmer of Duxbury, Vt, is accused of having foully dealt with William Cota, aged21, an employe. Thompson has fled. The striking miners along the Youghio-gheny river in Pennsylvania have agreed to accept 1 cent per ton less than the Columbus scale. Elzo Allen, confidential clerk for the-Austin investment company of Kansas -City, has skipped out with $20,000 of the company's money. Kansas prohibitionists at Topeka have-telegraphed the state delegation in congress to do all in their power to speedily pass, the original package law.

The next republican congressional convention in Kansas will be hold at Emporia June 24. At that convention Harrison-Kelley's fate will be decided. Father McCann, a Joplin priest, has been forbidden to speak again on the subject of the public schools, having recently made a bitter attack upon them. It is expected that the Santa Fe railroad will now build connections with their-new purchase so as to make a direct line between Kansas City and St Louis. The council of clergymen pf the Baptist church has found Rev.

Whitman, of Joliet, 111., guilty of the charges against him which charges were of gross immorality. The scene in the national house of representatives on the day the tariff bill was-passed is said to have bean the most exciting and tumultuous in the history of that-body. An amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill has been offered which gives $250,000 to continue investigation as to means of irrigating tho arid regions of the West W. E. Baker, a well known newspaper man of Kansas City, died suddenly at a desk in the Herald office at St Joseph where he has been working for several weeks.

Evarts and Hiscock, New York's two-senators are not of one mind on the original package question. Hiscock says there is danger that tho brewery interests will be crippled. A farmer named Tucker, with his two-children, a girl and a boy, was rowing on a small lake near Stanton, when the-boat overturned and the three were drowned. Several of ex-State Treasurer Noland's bondsmen refuse to pay their quota of the-defalcation, and the Missouri courts will be called upon to sift tho defaulter's actions-to the bottom. John L.

Bowden, a lazy fellow giving at Chilicothe, put a pistol to his wife's head, fired, and then went out and put a bullet through his own worthless brain. The wife was not hurt Miss Jennie Fox, aged 18, daughter of 'Squire Joe Fox of Casey, I1L, received check for 1 million dollars, left her by the death of an untie at Galveston, Tex. She is Clark county's first millionaire. While the guests were assembled at Kingston, N. awaiting the marriage of Jacob Dieffer to Mis Marion Post tbe groom eloped and wedded Henrietta, the 14-year old sister of the intended bride.

Near Fort Sill, I. a soldier named Snyder killed Thomas Canty, a comrade, with a knife, and seriously wounded J. M. McCue, also a soldier. Snyder escaped.

The attack was the outcome of an old grudga. James Carr, father of President Robert Carr of the West Virginia soaats, is taking steps to begin suit as one of the heirs of the A. T. Stewart estate. His grandmother, he claims, was a niece of A.

Stewart A scheme to seize Lower California, and after forming a provisional government to-turn it over to lha United States, has been unearthed by a San Francisco newspaper. A rich citizen of Minneapolis is president Of the company. E. B. Walker, editor of the Galveston, Register, was beaten and kicked nearly to death by three deputy United Statos marshals who did not like something that had been printed in the Register about them.

The ruffians were arrested. Judge Hindman, of Nevada, Iowa, charged the grand jury of his court that the state has the right to abate nuisances, the supreme court of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding, and all places kept for selling liquor must be closed. James S. Pnrsell sunk up to his neck In quicksand while digging a well in Wood-side, L. Saturday afternoon.

The end of a rubber tube was inserted in his mouth and air pumped to him while a party of meu tried to dig him out At the end of Ive hours, however, he died of exhaustior HURON, KANSAS. William Morbis, the socialists novelist, Is writing a novel, but not it the Anarchistic vein. He is a literary artist as well as an artist of wall paper patterns. The taxes on 100 acres of land in Samoa are nly thirty-nine cents per year, and if the owner growls about that, the tax receiver sends him a present of $2 worth of whisky, and begs that he won't let his angry pas-ions get the better of his patriotic impulses. An Indiana paper tolls of a girl 17 of age in Mitchell county, that state, who took a kicking horse by the hind leg and held him quiet while the blacksmith nailed on the shoe.

She has no photographs for sale, and her father doesn't allow her to have any young man hanging around. The general public needs encouragement, not to borrow, but to expend their labor and care as to earn a little more year by year. As a rule a man can improve his circumstances more rapidly by earning one per cent more this year than he did last than by borrowing money at one per cent. Nobody needs an extra inducement to borrow by making borrowing easy. The Scotch ship Highlander reports seeing a shark basking in the Indian Ocean that was sixty-five feet long, and with mouth large enough to take in a pork barrel, and there is no need of any other sailor trying to beat the story, That shark is long enough, and has got mouth enough for any business that is likely to be assigned to him, and there is no call for a bigger one.

All superstitions are contrary to reason. A man is no more likely to die within a year if he dines with twelve others than if he dines by himself. Perhaps he is less likely to die so soon, because good company aids digestion, and good digestion tends to the prolongation of life. Yet very sensible and hardheaded people dislike to dine with thirteen at the table, if they chance to make the count. Public policy should determine what kind of punishment should be inflicted on murderers.

The leading object of it should be to lessen the of the crime of taking human life. The question is not one of sentiment, but of expediency. Most persons who have carefully studied the matter have come to the conclusion that fear of the death penalty does prevent many from taking the life of another. A WRfTER in the Naturalist tells how he tames scorpions and, centipedes. Like mauy other feats of magic, the thing is easy enough when you know how it is done.

Our scientist just nips off the tip of the' scorpion's sting and the poisoned hooks of the centipede's jaws. After this has been done, he says, the insects can be handled with perfect impunity. But who wants to handle scorpions or centipedes, anyway? Schooling alone will not make a good doctor. He must be a maa with natural apitude or his work, and with the education which comes frona prac tical experience as well as that which is gained in schools. But without the latter he is apt to be a bungler, unless he is a genius of uncommon brilliancy, and even in that case scientific knowl edge acquired in the usual Way will greatly faciliate his progress and in- retse his usefulness.

jTbb Chinese are in some respects far in advance of our boasted civiliza tion. SThen a house in the Celestial Empire lecomes uncomfortably dirty, instead sf turning everything npsi de down for a week or two, to the destruction health, temper and Happiness, they sitiply burn the house and the old man in. es to his club, his wife to her motherN 3 while the contractor is building a nw one. Thus the season so mueh readed in this country becomes a genuinv holiday. For the first time in many years, the United States senate is now composed of three classes of tnembers exactly equal in number.

Tha last time that there were three exactly equal classes of senators was during thO brief period from the admission of Ort as the thirty-third state, in 1859, until tho the southern senators began to leave their seats when their states seceded. With the admission of Montana, the number of states became forty -two, and the eighty-four senators are divided into three classes, of twenty-eight each, whose terms expire in 1391, 1893 and 1895. Texas people, and good feeling prevailed. After an eloquent and patriotic speech by a one-legged another by Hon. Joseph Waters of Topeka, Theodore Botkin, judge of the Thirty -second Judical circuit of Kansas then took the floor and proceeded to make a speech.

He began by saying that he was Informed that there were 400 ex -union soldiers in the city and not more than twenty of them had the nerve to Join the Grand Army. Then with all the emphasis he could command he shouted" such people." He then proceeded with profane expressions interlarded in his speech for several minutes, with astonishment, chagrin or disgust marked on every face. Finally Botkin said: "Jeff Davis signed an order to have 75,000 union soldiers starved to death, him." Disgust gave away to indignation and in a moment John E. Ellis, editor of the Daily Times and a native of Mississippi, sprang to his feet and denounced Botkin as an infamous liar and slanderer. A scene of the wildest confusion ensue I.

People began to leave while a crowd rushed around Botkin and hustled him out of the house. It was plain to be seen that the Kansas judge was very much under the influence of liquor. After he was out of the room the Kansas visitors made speeches deploring the shameful affair and denouncing the judge. Original Package Legislation. Washington May 20.

The Senate to-day took up tho bill referred from the judiciary committee, subjecting imported liquors to the provisions of ttie laws of the several states. Senator Wilson, of Iowa, who had introduced the bill in the first instanco, and had afterward reported it back, addressed the senate in explana tion and advocacy of it Senator Vest said congress could delegate a power vented in it by the constitution to any state or any number of Btites. He believed that it could not To do so would be to destroy the interstate clause of the constitution and all purposes for which it was enacted. So far from having any unformity, there would be, In that case, diversity and hos tility. Missouri would shut out one article of interstate commerce, Kansas another, Iowa another end South Carolina another, and so on until there would be chaos from one end of the Union to the other.

A Terrific Storm. Wooster, May 19. A terrific cy clonic wave, rain and hall storm passed over parts of Congress, Chester, Milton and Chippewa townships, thi3 county, doing a tremendous amount of damage The storm swept a section three miles in width and eighteen in length. Serious damage was done in and noir the villages of Congress and Rowsburg. Entire orchards and strips of oak timber were blown down or twisted to the ground, Many houses, barns and outbuildings were unroofed or blown down.

The hail stones were so large and fell with such force as to be driven through roofs covered with oak shlngle.8. At Rowsburg hail fell to the depth of eight to twelve inches on the level and drifted to tho depth of thirty -two Inches. Hundreds of sheep were killed by the hail. Gladstone Scored, London, May 19. Several of the Liberal papers condemn Mr.

Gladstone's com parison Of the atrocities perpetrated by Russian officials upon the exiles in Siberia with the Mitchellstown, Ire. and, affair. The Standard says that it cannot find language to adequately express its disgust at the parallel drawn by Mr. Gladstono, What can be thought, it says, of a man who is trying to persuade his countrymen, that a confused street riot can be classed with deliberate flogging of naked women and kindred barbarities. It shocks one's moral sense to find that a party leader has reached a stage of rancor which has obliterated truth, decency and self-respect Topeka Women "Riled." Topeka, May 19.

The longed-for 'saloon, not saloons, is still running in this city, with the promise that as soon as arrangements can be made, whisky will be added to the beer now on sale. There has been no interruption by the police authorities. This forenoon the rumors on the street were to the effect that a band of 500 women would assume the power that takes men from jail and hangs them to telegraph poles, and settle with the agent who has given such publicity to his business. Ex-Senator Jones in an Asylnm. Detroit, May ID.

Ex- Senator Charles W. Jones of Florida, was this morning adjudged insane and committed to St Joseph's retreat by Probate Judge Durfee. The unfortunate man left his seat in the senate some years ago and came to this city to be near a lady of whom he had become enamored, and who, he fancied, was also enamored of him. His action was but the result of a diseased, brain, and he never returned to Washington, nor did he go home to Florida. His disease is soften, ing of the brain.

Rivals of Jesse l'ouaeroy. Manchester, N. May 19. "Sadie" Dauielson, a boy of 12, and Alexander Anderson, aged 17, were arrested last night on complaint of the mother of Charles B. Howe, a delicate 10-yoar-old lad, who charges them with acts rivaling those perpetrated by Jesse Pomeroy.

It is alleged that they took the Howe boy into an out-bouse and stuck pins into every part of his anatomy, poured boiling water upon him, burned his face with powder and left him insensible. When found he was still unconscious. To Guarantee Census Parity. Washington, May 22. In the house, today, Mr.

Dunnell of Minnesota, from the committee on census reported a bill amend-tory of the census act It was passed. The bill prescribes a penalty upon any supervisor or enumerator who shall receive or person who shall pay any fee or other consideration in addition to the compensation of such supervisor or enumerator. Big Beer Figures. Washington, May 81. The United States Brewers' Association began here to-day its thirtieth annual convention.

There were present 200 delegates from all parts of the United States, representing approximately (195,000.000 in invested capital..