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ADKINS, Publisher. LANCASTER, KANSAS COfiGBESSIONAL. SUMMART OF Washington, Sept. a Tbe senate Conafflk. the "efitife day hi wrangling over elvlJ service reform add intl-Chlncse legislation; house passed lite anti-Chinese bill and discussed the Oklahoma fn'easurev Washington, Sept.

4. Mr. Coke MiM. attention to a resolution adopted at a recefrt convention in Denver, in favor of a deep water harbor on the northwest coast of the Gttlf of Mexico, and suggesting that no senator: refrfeeentatlve or delegate should be elected who was not known to be honestly in favor of an appropriation for that purpose, and would not work for it earnestly and faithfully. He also presented a1 memorial on the same subject from tbe deep wate? harbor committee of the city of Galveston and asked that It be printed in the record.

It was ordered, Mr. Cullom offered a resolution, (which was Jidopted) calling on tbe secretary of war for Information as to the channel ordinarily used for navigation" of tbe Detroit river and St Clair flats whether' ft waters were within tbe jurisdiction of the United States or Canada, etc. He also Introduced a bill to declare trusts unlawful, and had It referred to tbe committee on finance. The remainder of tbe day was devoted to the discussion of politics! The house consumed the entire day in discussing tbe retaliation bill. Washington, Sept 5.

Mr4 Stewart offered a resoltitlou for tbe appointment of a select committee to investigate various matters connected with the execution of tbe laws as to public lands and timber depredations, and moved Its reference to the committee on contingent expenses. After a discussion by Mr. Vest as to the propriety of reference, the resolution was so referred. Mr. Sherman offered a resolution, which was adopted, requesting the president to Inform the senate whether the recent treaty with China and the amendments adopted by the senate had been ratified by the emperor of China.

The house bill for the relief of the Roman Catholic church of St Peter and St. Paul at Chattanooga, was passed with a verbal amendment. The senate then discussed the Chinese restriction bill, but owing to tbe lack of a quorum, the senate adjourned, leaving the bill undisposed On motion of Mr. Sayers of Texas, the senate amendments to the fortt-catlon bill were non-concurrod In, and a conference ordered. The house then proceeded to the consideration of the bill to limit tho jurisdiction of United States district and circuit courts, and after a brief discussion tbe bill was passed.

The remainder of tbe day was consumed in discussing the president's retaliatory message. Washington, Sept. 6. Among tho bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar were the following: Appropriating $750,000 for a postofflce building in St. Paul; granting to tbe Oregon navigation company certain tracts of land in tbe Umatilla reservation for station purposes; author was about half through, she jumped to her feet and asked tho judge if he was going to order here to give up her marriage contract.

Be quietly told her to sit down. The woman's face turned white with passion and she cried: "Justice Field, we bear that you have been bought. We would like to know If that is so and what figures you hold yourself at. It seems that no person can get justice In this court unless be has a sucki MlDtiS tttttftf t)SES flOtiBNM. 7Tj Judge Field turned to Marshal Franks ana said: "Marshal, remove that woman from this court room." The marshal advanced toward Mrs.

Terry, but she took no notice of him bat broke out with oaths and vulgar language, Franks grasped her by the rm and In an Instant Judge Terry arose and exclalmecfthat no living man should touch bis wife, and with this he dealt Frank! a terrible blow on thfl neck With lils fist which sent the marshal roll ill if across the floor. Franks regained himself and with several deputies and bystanders rushed upon Terry and quickly removed him. Mrs, Terry was also taken from the room and locked In the marshal's office. A deputy was placed at the door when Terry advanced upon him and demanded admission, which the deputy refused. Terry put bis band in his pocket and drew forth a dan ffefous looking dirk with a blade eight Inches long ahd with a curso held It above his bead and declared he would stab any inari who tried to keep him away.

Several persons at once lumped upon him and tried to take the knife away. A desperate struggle followed, all the men fell to the floor and the knife was finally taken from Terry without any one being injured. Terry was then locked In the room with bis wife. A satchel which Mrs. Terry bad dropped in the court room during the excitement was found to contain an Euirlish bull dog revolvei with all six chambers loaded.

Marshal Franks states that she was trying to open the satchel just before she was put out of the court room. Judge Field ordered that terry be imprte oncd lla tho eouotv jail at Alameda for si months and that Mrs. Terry be imprisoned thirty days. No alternative In the way of a fine was allowed and the prisoners were taken to jail this afternoon. London's Sensation.

London, Sept. 4. Police investigation ol the White Chapel women murders has resulted in the discovery that the man guilty oi all three crimes Is called "Leather Apron" and nobody knows him by any other name. He Is a character half way between Dickens' Qullp, and Poe's baboon. He Is short, stunted and thick set.

He has email wicked black eyes and Is half cruzy. He was alwavs banging ahout the deep shadows that tilled the net work of the courts, passages and alleyways in White Chapel. He did not walk, but always moved on a sharp or queer run and never made any noise with his feet. In addition to the ttree women he murdered he scared a hundred more of them nearly to death, and every street walker in White Chapel has her own story to tell of him. He lived by robbing them late at night and kicked, cuffed or knocked down two score of them in the last two years.

His usual lodging place was a 4-penny house In a poverty stricken thieves' alley off Brick lane. He has left there, now, however, and nobody knows where be Is. He Is suspected of having done the three murders from the fact that he has frequently drawn a knlfo on women, accompanied by the same threats which have been carried out on the dead women. The story of Mrs. Colwall, who heard the screams of the woman as she was being murdered, Is that she was clearly running away from somebody who was murdering her, and yet she could hear no other footsteps.

The blood stains on the sidewalk Indicated the same thing that the murderer, whoever he was, as noiseless In his pursuit, and this quality points direct to Leather Apron. He is a slipper maker by trade and gets his nickname from the fact he always wears a leather apron, and Is never seen without It. One peculiar feature of the case Is that none of the police or detectives appear to know hlra, he having always kept out of their sight, and they are now gleaning Information concerning bim from women be The Dire and Brutish Work of a Black. Ho Assaults a Weak and Qulvavlng Domestio --The Skull is Exposed and Blood Flows byPlnts-A Blizzard, Some Cattle and a Mower Cause the Mortal Weunding of a JStbraskan. Attacked by a Brute.

TopeKa, Sept. Johnson, a widow about 80 years of age, employed by the Brubakers as a domestic, was returning from prayer meeting about 9 o'clock last night to the bouse of Mr. Brubakor, at the eomer of Buchanan and Huntoon street, when, between Iluntoon and thirteenth streets, she was accosted by a large, powerfully built black man who made Indecent proposals to her. As she tried lo run bv him he struck hor over the bead with a club, felling her to the earth. She fell on her face and he immediately seized her, but she began screaming and the brute struck her again with the club and fled.

She found her Way home and when 6he entered the house was so covered with Wood as to be unrecognizable. Mrs Brubaker was so frightened that she could do nothing at first, but a gentleman boarder shortly came In- and taking iu the situation Bummoned Dr. Lindsay. An examination showed two deep gashes on the head laying bare the skull. There was also evidence that her assailant had seized her by the throat.

The crlmo was not reported until this morning and consequently It is hardly pro buhl that the fellow will be captured. I he i woman was up and about tb-day notwithstanding the severity ot her wounds. She had been released from the hospital only two weeks ago. deadly Fight Between Farmers. Stuabt, Sept.

winter Dick Roach had charge of a farm belonging to Andrew Lowe, near Long Pine, on which there were some cattle, and during tho great bl'Mrd Df January 12 several of them per-fehed. Lowe claimed compensation, and when Roach left retained a mower belonging to him. Roach went to Lowe's furm last night and took the machine to the farm of a man named Philbrlck, where he was working. This morning Lowe went to Philbrlck's farm with his son and attempted to tako the mower buck. Roach protested and drew his reVol' ver on young Lowe, who was rushing at him with an axe, when the elder Lowe, stepping up behind his son with a pistol, flred.

Roach returned the fire without effect, and fell mortally wounded. Both the Lowes are in jail. Mother and Five Children Perish. St. Augustine, Sept.

6. William son of a farmer living at Sampson, about five miles from Bayard, a small town north of here, had occasion to visit the latter place. When near the settlement he was attracted by a strong stench from a house supposed to be vacant. In the house he fouud stretched upon a couch the body of a woman and in the same room the bodies of live children all evidently dead fur several days. 1 he boy fled precipitately back to his home and told tho story to his parents.

As St. Augustine is strictly quarantined against Bayard and that vicinity the news did not reach hero until several days after the occurrence. It is supposed that the unfortunates were refugees from Jacksonville and were stricken with yellow fever alter leaving town. Great Havoc of a Storm. Havana, Sept.

6. Tho cyclone of Tuesday last was very destructive of both life and property. The gunboat Lealtad, lying at Batabano, foundered in the storm and nine of her crew, Including the commander, were drowned. Advices from Sagua are that fifty personslost their lives there, while the damage done to dwellings and warehouses In the city, to vessels in the harbor and to wharves was very great. The village of Pueblo Nuevo, In the neighborhood of Sagua, was literally ruined, Telegraph wires are badly broken and no news from other parts of the Island has been received.

The Captain's Story at Last. London, Sept. 6. The British bark Guelph, Captain Irwln.which sailed from Quebec July 3 for Greenock and a portion of whose crew arrived in New York some days ago on the steamer Persian Monarch and charged the captain with attempting to scuttle the vessel, arrived at Queensiown to-dav with the captain and lirst and second mates on board. The captain reports that the crew nritined August 21 and took to the boats, abandoning the vessel.

The Guelph Is water-logged and the three men were in an exhausted condition. Maklnsr War on Horse Thieves. Richfield, Sept. 3. Wild stories come in daily from the Squaw canon country about the horse thieves' hunt, but the facts icem to be that the settlers aro makinfr geu-sral war upon the horse thieves, but owing to the strength of the latter and the nature of the country, progress is slow.

Butone outlaw io tar has been killed and no settlers, and nine horses have been captured. Parlies have roue from here to reinforce the settlers. Some of the thieves have abandoned Colorado and come into the state. Pursuing parties arrived hero to-day, having traced ihelr stock Into Kansas. One of this party lost sight head of stock.

It Is alleged that tbp thieves outnumber the settlers and are well organized and operate by means of confederates. A Queer ourt Scene. San Francisco, Sept, a The celebrated Sharon divorce case, which had occupied the attention of the Pacific coast for a number of years, culminated to-day in a sensational Incident which resulted in placing Sarah Althea Sharon, now Mrs. David Terry, In jail for thirty days and her husband, Judge Terry, for six months. The supreme court of California a few months ago announced its decision in the case, sustaining the decision of the slate superior court, which declared that Airs.

Terry had been legally married to the lute Senator illiam Sharon and that she was entitled to a portion ot Sharon's estate. A short time after the announcement of this decision by the state supreme court the executors of the ulll of the Into William Suaron made application to the United States circuit for a bill to revive and carry into execution tho decree of the circuit court entered Septembers 1885. in the suit of William Siiaron against Sarah Althea Hill to obtain Its decree, adjudging a certain paper in her possession purporting to be a marriage contract between them to be a forgery and directing Its can-Sellatlon and enjoining Its use In any manner, the decree entered bv the circuit court In this case was In favor of the plaintiff and declared that the alleged marriage contract was a forgery. In the meantime the Sharon divorce suit was pending In the state courts and William Sharon had died. When the executors recently applied to the circuit court for a bill ot revision, Sarah Althea Hill, who has since become Mrs.

Terry, entered a demurrer and the declslou to day was rendered upon that demurrer, which the court overruled. SARAH ALTHEA FOI10ETB HERSELF. The decision which was very lengthy was read by Associate Justice Field of the United States supremo court and was concurred In by Judge Sawyer of the circuit and Judge Sabln of the district court; The former decision of Judge Sawyer declaring the alleged marrlago contract a forgery and ordering tne defendant lo deliver It up for cancellation was sustained and the executors given the right to handle the Sharon property un trammeled by any action on the part of Mrs. Terry. The announcement that the decision would be rendered drew a largo crowd to the court room and about 2 )0 lawyers besides all parties directly Interested In the case occupied the Inelosure Immediately in front of the judge.

Judse Dvid T. Terry, who had been the chief counsel for his wife during the entire litigation, sut beside her and both pi Id close attention to the reading ot ihe decision. Mrs. Terry appeared very nervous at the out set and as the reading progressed her asms-tion Increased. Finally, when Judge Field Thieves Of Cadaver Attempt the Exhuming.

Whispering and a Suppresed Sneczi Notifies the Ever Alert Ear of the Mound Watch-man'-The Notorious Muvderers Body Under the Unknown Burvilleneo of a Strange Woman. Ghouls at Work. -St, Louis, Sept 7. John Sberlin, who had been employed by some unknown person to keep watch over the grave of Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the chloroformer, was dating his lunch in the graveyard yesterday morning about 8 o'clock arid watching the grave wherein bis ward was having" lils last sleep when he suddenly stopped eating and listened to a sound which bad broken the stillness of the hour and it resembled some person sneezing.

He then rose to a standing position and gazed around the tombstones and graves In the hope that there would be a repetition ot the noise. He soon heard some persons whispering and walked toward Maxwell's grave, Upon arriving within fifteen feet of the spot he stepped beh Ind a tree and saw three men standing by the grate eon versing In excited undertones. Sherlln thought that the best thing he could do was to frighten them off, and drawing a pistol he fired at the mysterious ghouls. Tbey were taken wholly by surprise, aud without offering any resistance ran toward the gate of the cemetry, followed by the guard. The three lugitlves arrived at the Belle-fontalne road some time In advance if their pursuer and jumped Into a wagon and were driven away.

The vehicle resembled an un-taker's wagon and was drawn by two fine bay horses, The watchman followed tho wagoh several blocks, but seeing It was useless to pursue It any further ho returned to Maxwell's last resting place and found a ropd thirty feet In length and a spade, which were evidently intended to be used in raising the coffin. It Is against the rules of the cemetery to allow any one Inside the grounds after dark, not even a watchman, and Sherlln explained that an unknown woman about B5 years of age employed him on the morning of Maxwell's execution to guard the grave, and paid him (14 a week. He entered the grounds through the space of a broken picket All grave robbers has failed. Fiendish Act of a Husband. Hiawatha, Sept.

6. Arthur Dodge of Reserve, eight miles north of here beat his wife until she was unconscious yesterday morning and then fled. She bad not recovered consciousness at a late hour last night The couple were married in Hiawatha about four years ago. Ballot Boxes Stolen. Little Rock, Abk, Sept.

a The vault In the county clerk's office was broken open last night and the poll books showing returns of Monday's election In nine townships were taken out. Of these seven townships give republican majorities and two democratic. The republicans charge the democrats, the democrats charge the republicans and both charge the whisky men with the crime, as the aggregate majority of the stolen townships Is supposed to be against license. The report of tho robbery created groat excitement. The affair is condemned by both republicans and democrats, and both declare that the perpetrators shall be punished.

Still there Is no clew to tbe criminals. Entrance to tbe vault was gained by chiseling and prying open with a crowbar tbe iron door of the vault heretofore considered secure. It was at first reported that all the ballot-boxes and ballots had been taken, but that proved to be false, and the other returns have been removed to one of the banks to guard against further depredations. The excitement Is very high and It Is feared tbe end is not yet About thirty prominent republicans held a meeting to-night and publicly denounced tho outrage and resolved to ferret the matter out and bring the guilty pariles to justice at all hazards. Horrible Crime of a Negro.

Norfolk, Sept 6 -A negro named Coleman a short distance from here this afternoon nearly cut off tho head of James Grant, bi employer, while he was milking, and after hiding the body enticed Graut's housekeeper, Mrs. Head, Into the yard and stabbed her two or three times In the neck. She fainted, but revived and dragged herself 200 yards to the road, where Bhe was fouud. Coleman rifled the house and made his escape. An excited crowd are hunting for him, and If found he will have but a few moments to live.

Sympathy for Judge Terry. Fresno, 4. At a meeting last night ot citizens and business men at this place, which is tbo home of Judge David S. Terry, who was arrested at San Francisco yesterday for contempt of tbe United States circuit court, resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy for him in his misfortune and lending their services to effect his honorable release from confinement A Mad Father's Horrible Act. Indianapolis, Sept 5.

-Near Columbus, to-night, James Ford, a farmer, while suffering from delirium caused by fear, sprang from bis bed. seized a chair and killed bis youngest child, a babe, and, fatally wounded his wife, and so badly injured his 10-ycar-old-son that he will die. It required eight men to manacle the delirous man. Valuable Dlumonds Lost. Kingston, Sept 5.

Mrs. Plerrepont Morgan of New York and some friends while out among tbe islands yesterday were thrown into the water by tbe capsizing of the. boat and Mrs. Morgan lost personal jewelry to tbe value of 15, 000. Expert divers are searching for the valuables in twelve feet of water.

Liquor Causes a Tragedy. Louisville, Sept 4. Samuel Scanlan, an ex-fireman, at noon to-day shot his wife three times aud himself. It is thought he will die. He had been on a continuous spree since his brother James Scanlan, a race course sport, was killed at St.

Paul about a month ago. He was almost wild with liquor when he returned to bis borne about 11 o'clock to-day. As soon as he saw his wife he rushed into tbe bouse, seized her and without a word of warning shot her. She broke away and ran and he flred again, shattering her right arm as she tried to climb over the fence, shot her a third time, bringing ber to the ground. He then placed the pistol just under his jaw and fired, tearing a hole through bis mouth and embedding the ball in his brain.

Botn were taken up unconscious. Scanlan was taken to the city hospital and his wife was left at their borne. Kills 1IU Ilrother. Cambbon, Sept 5. George and Charles Altman of Hamilton, aged 14 and Id, were coming to this city this morning when a short distance east of town tbey mere met by an umbrella mender, Goodie Wallers, who had attacked tbe oldest boy, who bad 19, with the Intention of robbing him.

He bad a large knife in his band, aud the younger brother, becoming alarmed, drew a 1 revolver to defend his brother and fired I several shots. Unfortunately one of them hit his brother back of the left ear and the ball wss afterward taken out near the right eye. Tbe wound proved fatal, tbe boy dying about noon. Walters was hit twice in the back and once In the head, and there are but slight hopes of his recovery. He admitted that the account ot tbe affair as told by George Altman was correct, and stated that he expected to be sent to the penitentiary should be recover.

The parent's reside at Cowglll, but they bad been living with relatives at Hamilton. It li reported that Walters has a sister at St Joseph, but further than this but little can be learned In regard to biro. The boy li a 1 plucky little iellow. The duke of Sparta, oldest son of King -go of Greece, has been betrothed to the S1' is Sophia of Prussia. Th ot tbe Rov' F' of BloomfiVM, 8trUclc bjr ft locomotive and- Instantly Thpepe ha U.

ke th, flrst, 8topa iowwd holding fr tha suppression at stevef Charles Vogt Cb.v Wf" tfT? fancy articles, New VlTem with 8100,000 liabilities assets. By a collision between an ess. ne Bnd fright train near Louisville, scverai rs were wrecked and an unknown tramp killed. The National marine underwriters' aswxv tlon has decided not to refuse to Insure cotton when well covered, even if jute bagging; be not used. The French government has ordered an investigation of the report that dhows carrying: the French flag are engaged in the slave trade! in Madagascar, It Is reported In Chicago that Ja.ws H.

McVickcr, tbe veteran manager, has bis theater to A. M. Palmer ol New York 130,000 per year. Prairie fires In Edmunds and Mcpherson counties, have burned over a section twenty-five miles long and three miles wide. Many farmers lost their all.

President Lynde of tbe Rock Island andl Peoria railway and a stockholder of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific road, died aft Rock Island. General Horace S. Eldrldge, superintendent of Ziou's co operative mercantile Salt Lake City, Utah, is dead. He bad been' a Mormon for fifty-two years, and left five wives. General Russell A.

Alger of Detroit, has consented to deliver the eulogy on General Sheridan at the annual meeting of the society or tbe army of tbe Cumberland ha Chicago, Septcmper 19. By the explosion of a steam thresher near Seymour, one man was killed and threes fatally Injured. Fire In Farmersville, destroyed James' Poffenbarger's carriage factory and five Btores, causing $35,000 loss. Almost the entire business portion of the village of Jennings, was destroyed by fire, causing $50,000 loss. Frost, which did much damage to cropt is reported at St.

Johnsbury, Vt The spinners In the cotton mills at Bolton, England, have struck against a new system of weighing cotton. Mayor Hewitt of New York city has issued an appeal for aid for the yellow fever sufferers at Jacksonville, Fla. Colonel Edward G. Butler, the oldest graduate of West Point, died in St Louis, aged i9 years. Texas fever has made its appearance among tbe dairy cows in the western suburbs of St.

Louis and is killing off tbe cattle at a lively rate. C. T. Anderson and T. R.

Stockdale have been renominated for congress by the democrats of tbe Fifth and Sixth Mississippi districts, respectively The spinners in the Narragansett mills, Fall River, have struck because compelled to work overtime to make up for time lost. The republicans In the Tenth Virginia district have renominated Jacob Yost fori congress. 1 Thomas McNaught, honorary colonial secretary of tha Scotch home rule association," has arrived in this country for the purpose of soliciting assistance in securing home rule for Scotland. The Colorado railway association Is discussing the prospect of low rates from New York to Colorado to meet tbe competition of the Ocean and Denver and Fort Worth lines. The striking coal miners about Canton, have returned to work at the owner's terms after a four mouths' light.

A report favorable to the project of a canal from Liverpool to Birmingham, England, has been made. The emperor of Austria has donated 500 for tho relief of the sufferers by the floods in Bohemia. The democrats of the Third Virginia district have renominated George D. Wise for congress. The national federation of miners In session at Indianapolis has decided to stand out for nine hours' work per day after September 1, 1 1889.

jf Delegate Charles S. Voorhees has been re' nominated for congress by the democrats 6i Washington territory. J. Newton Gotthold, the noted actor and manager, isreportod to be delirious and totally blind at his home at Sewickley, Pa. President Stlclcney of the Chicago, St Paul and Kansas City railway denies that he has secured control 01 the St.

Paul and Duluth line. Tho twenty-first annual reunion of the society of the Army of the Tennessee has begun at Toledo, O. General Sherman in the chair. Ex-Governor Pierce of Dakota delivered the ed the of tbK annual address. The twentieth annual convention Irish Catholic benevolent union was held at Columbus, O.

The telegraph operators of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway company have been ordered to leave the order of railway telegraghers or their positions. Frank E. McGuerin of Salt Lake City In an exhibition of his skill with the typewriter in Chicago Tuesday wrote 107 words per mlnu te blindfolded. Floods have again invaded the city of Leon, Mexico, where several hundred lives were lost early this summer. Two negro boys were killed and a third fatally injured near Durant, by being struck by an engine.

Tbe annual convention of tbe social science association of tbo United States began Monday at Saratoga, N. Y. Labor Commissioner Wright gave a history of tbe labor bureaus and their good work. Tbe pope, assisted by Abbot Pessuts, is writing a history of Rome in the middle ages. A shortage of $20,000 or more has been found In the accounts of Secretary List of the Duckworth building association of Cincinnati.

He attempted suicide. J. C. Payne, ex-member of the New York legislature, committed suicide by shooting himself through the bead. C.

Holton, a prominent Chicago furniture dealer, has coufessed judgment for Count Kalnoky, the Austrian prime minister, Is expected to visit Prince Bismarck at Frederlcksrube shortly. Three men were killed and several wounded by the caving In of an embankment at Monroe, Vt recently. The Hon. L. J.

Hendce, for twenty-two years president of the Etna fire Insurance company of Hartford, Is dead. The contract of E. F. Gaebel of Chicago for tbe construction ot the postofflce building at Brooklyn, N. and the $1,000 deposit bare been forfeited by the secretary of tbe trea Got.

Amks, of Massachusetts, lost lUIrty-two pounds during his reoenl Uluess. About 75,000 southern watermelons are sold Jn Ne York every ay. Most of them come from Georgia and Florida. Richard Henry Stoddard has written only one poem during the past year. His self-control is muoh to be commended.

Jay Gould bought a ticket on a horse at the Saratoga race-course a few days ago. It is superfluous to add that he won. It is stated that nursery stock of all kinds, as well as vegetable and flower seeds, are much cheaper in this country than in England. George Bull, the bookmaker, mad $15,000 at the Saratoga race-course last Tuesday. It was evident that Bull lad the the correct steer.

The Chinese Minister at Washington has developed a great fondness for watching professional baseball. Ho never yells at the umpire. There is a coachman at Saratoga who is attracting a good deal of af tention by his wonderful resemblance to the picture of the first Duko el Wellington. In many parts of Great Britain it is customary to remove hives of bees from farms to the mountains in the month of August, so as to give the bees an opportunity to collect honey from flowers that blossom late in th season. More Clydesdale horses hava been exported from Scotland this year than during any previous season.

About an equal number wore sent to the United States and Canada. A large number was sent to South America and to Australia. There are many indications that Devon cattle will soon be in fashion again and" within a very short time. In most parts of Australia they are preferred to animals of any breed. In being driven long distances to mar ket they lose less in weight than Here-fords and Short-Horns.

The Mikado of Japan has almost ished his new palace, which has taken six years for its construction. There an 400 rooms in the building, and the will seat 127 guests. The furniture of the state department cam from Germany, Not the loast interesting object in the palace is an Amerl can piano. The Paris Qaulois announces the engagement at Paris of Mrs. Joseph Riggs, of Washington, to the Prince Ruspoli, whose brother was married a few years to Miss Curtis, sister of th divorced wife of the Marquis of Talleyrand Perigord.

The Ruspolis are oru of the most ancient families of thi Roman aristocracy. There is nothing more highly rel ished by hogs than charcoal. They will help themselves to it, and it will prevent disorders of the bowels. The best mode of giving it is when it ii if placed in tho lire and heated occasionally it will be more serviceable. It corrects the acidity of the stomach, and as it is cheap a supply should be kept constantly in each pen.

While the collie dog is a very useful animal when taught to drive sheep and cattle, yet ho should never be allowed to chase them or frighten them in any manner. Cows naturally have an aversion to dogs' of all kinds, and when they experience fear the effect is such as to injure the milk. Cows should be brought from the pasture leisurely and in no manner worried or excited. An ex-member of the New Jersey Horticultural society trained a plum tree against the side of his house and inclosed it in mosquito nettting, and was rewarded for his pains by twenty-two quarts of plums. It might be well to rig up a hammock between twe stout plum trees for the amusement ol tiie children, connecting adjacent trees by wire, so that if two are shaken, all are shaken to the confusion ol the gentle curculio.

The military career of Col. John S. Mason, who has been placed on the retired list after forty-one years oi service is suggestive. He was graduated at West Point, served in the Mexican war as lieutenant of artillery and at the outbreak of the civil war was captain in the regular army. In the volunteer service he attained the rank of brigadier general, and for moritorious services was made brevet brigadier-general in the regular army.

But at the close of the war his actual rank was only thai of major in the regular army. It was not until 1883 that he became a colonel. Forty-five years ago he entered (Vest Point His rewards for faithf ally serrlpjj his country in two wars urere aot great izing the Leavenworth and Rio Grande railway company to construct and operate railroads through the Indian territory; to grant right of way through the Indian ter-tltory to the St. Louis and San Francisco railway company. The presiding officer laid before the senate the unfinished business, being the bill for the admission of the Btate of Washington, but this was laid aside and the Chinese exclusive bill was taken up.

After a lengthy discussion the bill went The house resumed the consideration of the bill to increase tbe efficiency of the medical division of the pension office and without action resumed consideration of the retaliation bill. Mr. Scott addressed the house In support of the bill. Washington, Sept. 7.

The Chinese exclusion bill was taken up. After a lengthy discussion the vote was taken on the motion to adjourn and It was defeated yeas 19, nays 22. Tbe vote was taken a second and a third time on the motion to lay on the table tbe motion to reconsider, but each time there was a lack of a quorum, several senators taking advantage of their being paired to refrain from voting, The last vote was as follows: Yeas Aldrlch, Bate, Berry. Cameron, Chase, Coke, Cullom, Davis, Dolph, Gray, Harris, Hiscock, Jones of Nevada, Mitchell, Morgan, Paddock, Payne, Sawyer, Spooner, Stewart, Stockbrldge, Teller, Turple, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Maryland-27. Nays Blair, Brown, Colquitt, Hoar, Reagan, Sherman, Wilson of Iowa 7.

Finally the friends of tbe bill realized tbe uselssness of further attempts to end the matter and the senate adjourned till Monday, leaving the bill passed, but the motion to reconsider its passage On motion ot Mr. Wilkinson of Alabama, a bill was passed donating to tbe state of Louisiana, for quarautlne purposes, certain lands (sections 13 and 14, township 81 soutb, range 19 east) on the Mississippi river. The house tbeu resumed tbe consideration of the retaliation bill. Several members expressed their views for and against tbe bill, after which it was agreed that a vote should be taken to-morrow. Thirty-two private pension bills were passed.

Both (Shots Fatal. Ehina, Sept. 3. Yesterday Andy Howerton, a farmer living just over the line In Shelby county, killed his wife by shooting her and then turned the revolver on himself and sent a bullet through his own head. Howerton and his wife, formerly Miss Kennedy, daughter of a well-to-do farmer living In Ihe south part of this county, were marriod only six months ago, but did not live happily together and one day last week Mrs.

Howerton left her busbaud and went borne to ber father, where Bhe stayed till yesterday, when, accompanied by a brother, she went to the house of her husband for the purpose of securing her personal effects. The husband was at home alone and followed her upstairs, where she went in search of her clothing. He endeavored to effect a reconciliation, in which he failed, she telling him that she was done with him. Then he drew a revolver and committed the terrible deed. Stance Suicide of a Young Man.

Winona, Sept. 5. Ben T. Sampson, son of the Hon. V.

Sampson, the well known real estate dealer and millionaire, while driving this morning with a friend jumped from tbe carriage, ran to the river bank, stopped to throw back a note, waded out till the water reached his cblu, stopped, drank something, sank into the river and was seen no more until his lifeless body was recovered twenty minutes later. He was city engineer, hut at the last meeting of the city council was charged with forwarding money on the city work which had not been done. It is supposed that this made him despondent. Six Men Blown Up. Nashville, Sept 8.

At 6:30 o'clock this morning the boiler ot the Perry stove works at South Pittsburg, exploded, Instantly killing Charles Taylor, the superintendent J. B. Mills a machinist, M. Donovan foreman of the mounting department. Georgo T.

Carter a leading jeweler of of the town, William Watson, a William, Gress a machinist and Rock Scruggs a molder, were both badly injured and will die. A large piece of tbe boiler was thrown end over distance of 100 yards, and tearing a bole through the side of Dletzen's store, landed agaiust the opposite wall. Many smaller pieces wero thrown a distance of several hundred yards. The boiler and engine were In tbe corner of the moulding room and tbe whole side of the building was torn away for a distance ot forty feet. Had the explosion occurred half an hour later tbe less of life would have been appalling.

The cause of tbe explosion is a mystery. An Allegheny City Officer Shot. PiTTSBUBon, Sept. 4. William Miller, a private officer of Allegheny City, was shot and almost Instantly killed by JohnDemmy, a negro, shortly after 1 o'clock this morning on Irwin avenue, and the cause Is not definitely known.

Demmy, who was on bis way home from a ball, claims that Miller assaulted bim with a hand billy and he shot bim in self-defense. Tbe murderer was arrested after a long chase, in which be flred several shots at hit pursuers. has assailed. Navajo Indians Defiant. Albuquerque, N.

Sept. 5. A posse of soldiers from Fort Wingate started to arrest a gang of Indian whisky peddlers on the Great Navajo reservation and on arriving at their camp were confronted by a large force of Navajos, who sworo that the peddlers should not be arrested. The sergeant in charge, seeing that he was outnumbered, marched to Fort Defiance and Informed the Indian agent, who communicated with the commandant at Fort Wingate. Troop Sixth cavalry, under Captain Hanna, is now.

in tho field with Instructions to arrest all violators. Whisky was first sold to the Indians by low whites and in the past few jears a number of murders on and off the reservation have been charged to drunken Navajos. The trade now seems to be carried on by the Indians themselves. Considerable fear is felt by inhabitants of Isolated towns. to Death in a Cylinder.

Chicago, Sept, 5. Louis Larsen, a workman for Crane crawled into an Iron cylinder used for the piston of a hydraulic elevator this morning for the purpose of cleaning it. taking with him a lighted candle and a bucketful of benzine. In a short time the cylinder was filled with inflammable gas and an explosion followed and the man was enveloped in names wnicn nitea tne en-tiro cylinder. His fellow workmen were at tracted to the spot by his cries, but owing to his situation It was Impossible to help and enough water could not be secured 4t once to quench the flames and his compan ions were forced to stand helplessly arxmt and listen to bis cries till they were stilled in death.

An Aced Minister's Bad Record. Chicago, Sept. 4. A morning paper says: "The Kev. Jaines G.

Green, nearly SO years of age and former rector of St. Mat thews reformed Episcopalian church on Lar- rabee street, vat ejected from the Grand Pacific hotel lust night, where be occupied a room with bis innocent bride on the charge of bigamy preferred against him by a legal wife who left him a short time ago in fear of her life. Eor over a half century a minister of the gospel, if the best evidence Is true, he has beeu not only addicted to minor vices, but has been a forger, a state's prison convict. three times divorced irom wives who nave died of Insanity and broken hearts and married six Held Up by Highwaymen. Kingston, Sept 4.

John Rlggs, the mail carrier between Polo and Knoxvllle, was held up on the road just over the Ray county line ten miles south of here yesterday afternoon and robbed of $70 by a couple ot mounted strangers who met him In the road and asked him to give them change for a fall bill, and when he toot out his money covered him with revolvers and made him give it up. He had not the mall sack with him or. they would probably gone through It. Democrats Murdered. Pabkersburo, W.

Sept 4. Two re spectable citizens of this county, George Johns and John M. Willis, were murdered by Samuel Hare Sunday evening near a cuurcu on the Worthlngton road, about seven miles distant, and the only excuse given by tne murderer la that Johns and Willis hurrahed for Cleveland. Deadly Wrecks In France. Pabis, Sept 5.

An express train from Dijon left the rajls last night while on Its way to Paris, blocking the road. The Italian night mall train ran Into the disabled train and was wrecked, and twelve persons were killed, thirteen severely injured and many more slightly Injured. An American named Boucher was seriously wounded. The accident is attributed to the unusual speed at which the train was running and the bad condition of the roadway. Several passengers expressed fear before the accident happened.

A Swiss native, Marlottn, who Is described by the railroad company as butener trading in -Aperies, wis lrrjaTed..