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THEGLOBE. AMOS Publisher. PAW NEK HOCK, KANSAS. KENRICR'S DAY. Grand Booleslaatloal Event in tho OityofStLoula.

i 'fWi 1 PifftSS. THE BABY RESTORED. The Kidnaped Child of llankur Ilmiln lie-toreil to Jt I'arenU Upon the J'Hymant of a II envy llunsom-Tho Nuppoiioa Kidnapers Arreitcxl. Kansas City, Nov. 28.

At 10 o'clock last night, thirty hours after bis abduction, little David T. Heals, was returned to the home of his parents and the ransom of $3,000 paid. The beginning of the end was at 8 ARCHBISHOP KENRICR'S JUBILEE. THE WORLD AT LARGE. o'clock yesterday afternoon when a strango man presented himself at the residence of Mr.

Clmreh Dljrnltnrloi of the Holiest in At-tomliinuo-I'll Various Catholic I'ul-pits Filled With VUltliiK lllahopi anil Arolililnliopi. St. Louis, Nov. 80. Of all the days in the calendar year, yesterday was the day of days for the Roman Catholics of the United Statos.

From the Atlantic Bcals and requested a Interview with f.hat gentleman. There was nothing remarkable in this. I Tun horticulturists of the country are after fifty acres of space in Jackson park for the world's fair exhibit In a family quarrel in Milwaukee, August Kaolplu shot dead William Kaslta, his son-in-law, UonKHT J. Walker, son of Mayor Walker, of Helena, Mont, and said to bo a nephew of James 0. Blaine, while delirious walked out of his window on the second floor of a hospital at Ta-coma, and was killed.

The plant established by the owners of the Michigan mine at Ishpeming for the separation of iron ore by electricity has proved a BUcceBS. The works have so far turned out 80,000,000 tons of high grade besseiner ore. The heirs of B. Ogdon, first mayor of Chicago, have brokon his will bequeathing $321,000 to charities so far as New York property is concerned. An engine on an extra freight blew up on the Cleveland, Akron Columbus road two miles south of Akron, 0.

John Byron, englneor, and George Parker, fireman, were instantly killed. Jocuitv Cash Sloan was ruled off at Garfield park, Chicago, forriding Bankrupt to lose. The track was covered with snow and heavy. David T. Heals, a child two.

years old, stolen by a woman known as Liz-zio Smith at Kansas City, was restored to its parents on the payment of $5,000 and no questions asked. The police, however, arrested the woman and it was stated her confederates would also be arrested. It was a thing that had been going on aUdBy- Not- B-M sengcrs, special de mm ttWmrifc Ptj livery letters and to tho Pacific and from tho lakes to the gulf, dignitaries and laymen of the Catholic church in America have come to celebrate the achievements of a (rreat man's life. Yesterday began the celebration of the golden jubiloe of Peter Richard Kenrick, bishop and archbishop of the Louis for the past ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figa ia taken; it ia pleasant; and refresliiug to tho taste, and actg gently yet promptly on the Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system eflectually, dispels colds, head--aches and fevera and cuivs habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy; of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in.

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ken hick. archdiocese of St fifty Solemn services of thanks THE STOLEN CHILD, privato detectivos by tho dozon to. the house, and the one inquiry was concerning the reward offered, and whether or not the conditions of the reward would be carried out faithfully. This inquiry was bused upon a notice published on the windows of tho Union National bauk and elRewhcro in conspicuous places to the effect that $5,000 reward would be paid for tho recovery of the boy and no questions asked. It was in relation to this latter clause that most of the inquiries were made, and particularly did the stranger dwell upon this in his interview with Mr.

Heals yesterday afternoon. The man was told that the offer was made in good faith and that its conditions would be sacredly observed. At 10 o'clock a man was heard to ascend the stone steps of the rosi lonce. One short, sharp peal from the elec Bummary of the Dally Newa. WAniNGTON MOTES.

Conghviman Uynum, of Indiana, has from the speakership contest, Mr. Crisp counts 114 votes certain on the first ballot, but the others are confident. Tun national committee has issued the call for the convention at Minneapolis June 7 and has put the entire control of the business In charge of the executive committee. This secretary of the interior has referred to the commissioner of the general land oftlce the request of a member of the Minnesota legislature that 5, 000, 000 acres at the headquarters of the Mississippi, Bed and Rainy Lake rivers be set aside for a national park. IIehk Kbai-f von Livkhiiofp, secretary of the Austrian legation at Washington, who had been in Vienna on leave, attempted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.

Skchbtaby Foster is better. His appetite is good and he is able to sit up. A Washington report is that Assistant Secretary of War Grant is likely to be promoted to Secretary Proctor's place. A delegation of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians was in Washington lately relative to the payment of $250,000 which is about due to these tribes. The purpose of the delegation is to secure its payment in money and not in goods of various kinds, as proposed by Secretary Noble.

Samoan Land Commissioner II. C. Ide, who has just returned from those islands, reports that hostilities may break out at any moment. Mataaf a is the disturbing element. Many chiefs have been declared rebels.

United States consular officers throughout France, reporting as to the prospects of the world's fair in the several districts, state that the feeling of the people is one of indifference and in one or two districts where the McKin-ley law presses most severely a feeling akin to hostility is manifested. Suspending the orders for the general court martial convened for the trial of Maj. C. B. Throckmorton, Second artillery, indicates that the major may be given an opportunity to resign the service.

giving were hold In all the churches of the city. In most of them the visiting prelates pontificated and sermons germane to the occasion were delivered by visiting orators. At tho cathedral Right Rev. John Hennessey, of Dubuque, pontificated. At St John's church Archbishop Ryan celebrated pontifical mass, and Bishop Keano, of Washington, preached the sermon.

At St Francis Xavier's church Archbishop Janssens, of New Orleans, said mass and Bishop Moore, of St preached the sermon. At St Alphonsus Archbishop Gross pontificated. Archbishop Fee-han, of Chicago, celebrated moss at St Bridget's and Bishop Hogan, of Kansas City, delivered an oration on Archbishop Kandrlck. Bishop Hennessey, of Wichita, pontificated at St Leo's and Father Nugent, of Cape Girardeau, preached. Bishop Rode-macher, of Nashville, pontificated at St Joseph's church and the sermon was delivered by Bishop Marty, of Sioux Falls.

Bishop Scanlon, of Salt Lake City, celebrated high mass at the Church of the Annunciation tric bell and then was heard the sound of a child's voice. Instantly the door was thrown open, wide back to give "August Flower'" It is reported that a crisis is imminent in Lisbon involving the resignation of the Portuguese cabinet Tub Spanish cabinet has approved the Idea of making ultimately a special tariff for favored nations. A dispatch from Bauklm, Egypt, lays! The tribe of Shllluks has severely defeated a body of Dervishes near Fashoda. Large reinforcements have been sent to the scene from Odur-man. Tub courts of justice in Belgrade) were badly burned recently.

Many important documents were destroyed. Tub Virginia bonds advisory board, ex-President Grover Cleveland chairman, has ratified the report of the 01-cott committee for the Virginia debt bondholders to accept values to the extent of $1,9,000,000 for the debt of Charles Grande, alias a dozen other names, who has been on trlul in London on charges of blackmailing titled ladies by making threats of using dynamite to blow them up, has been sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude, -J i Tiie emperor of Germany in an address to the garrison of Berlin used very pacific language. The naval estimates for next year, however, provide for a heavy Increase of force. Francisco G. Concha, one of Bal-maceda's ministers of justice was shot in the Cordilleras while trying to escape from Chill He bad recently been refused refuge by United States Minister Egan, In a gambling quarrel on a Turkish man-of-war conveying troops- to Constantinople, several soldiers wore killed before order was restored.

-t- Empeiiob Iyilliam's sermons were written to his orders by Chaplain Rich-ter. They are in a simple and unaffected style, and are printed- for distribution only among the crew of the llohen-zollern. The keels have been laid by the American steel barge works for eight whale-back vessels, each of which will carry 140,000 bushels of wheat, drawing fifteen feet of water. They will be 825 feet long over all, 42 feet beam, 25 feet deep and are to be built exclusively for lake trade. The Borlin Banking Exchange Co.

has closed and the heads of the concern have been arrested. The insurrection of Mongols in China is said to throated the Chinese dynasty. It is stated that it has no connection with the riots in other parts of the kingdom. The river Guadalaquiver, Spain, has overflowed its banks. Fonseca has retired to Paqueta island, in the bay of Rio de Janeiro.

An English lady of title is authority for the statement that a probable Jesuit priest served for a time as major domo in the residence of Premier Salisbury, of England, for the purpose of worming out secrets affecting the Vatican. It Is stated that the sermons preached by the emperor of Germany during his cruise last summer are to be published with the title, "The Voice of the Lord on the Waters. The story about a Jesuit employed in Lord Salisbury's household is declared absurd. Sir William Gordon Cumming, under the persuasion of his wife, has taken a residence at Bayswater, London, where he proposes giving big receptions during the coming season. He obviously intends to push society to grant him recognition.

Judge Sir Charles Butts advised the parties in the Russell divorce suit at London to settle the case privately, but, the countess concerned refusing, the case, in spite of the nature of the details, will be heard openly. The recent storms on the lakes proved disastrous to barges and other vessels. Several lives were lost. Business failures (Dun's review) for the seven days ended November 26 numbered 295, compared with 285 the previous week and 249 the corresponding week of last year. The archbishop of Annecy has written the French minister of public worship a letter similar to that for which the archbishop of Aix was tried.

It ij claimed that proceedings will be begun against the archbishop of Annecy. There is a virulent epidemic of influenza in Berlin. ingress to so wel come guett; wel-i come then, however black his crime, and with the step of a Boldier and tho assurance of a benefactor, the new and Father Head, the pastor, preached. Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, N. officiated at St Vincent's church, Archbishop m.

Katzer, of Milwau-1 Kee. at reier Perhaps you do not believe these1: statements concerning Green's August Flower. Well, we can't make you. We can't force conviction into your head or med- -Doubting icine into your-throat. We Thomas.

want to. The money is yours, and the-misery is yours; and until you are willing to believe, and spend the one for the relief of the other, they will stay so. John H. Foster, 1122: Brown Street, Philadelphia, says: My wife is a little Scotch woman, hirty years of age and of a naturally delicate disposition. For five or six years past she has been suffering from Dyspepsia.

She Vomit became so bad at last that she could not sit Every Meal, down to a meal but she had to vomit it as soon as she had eaten it. Two bottles of your August Flower have-cured her, after many doctors failed. She can now eat anything, and enjoy it; and as for Dyspepsia, she does not know that she ever had it. Paul's, and Bishop rime as oi juarys. pw, a Bishop Hourke, comer strode across david t.

deals. the threshold, back through the small hall, Into the main hall and deposited in the arms of the almost fainting mother her boy. Not a word was spoken. A gasp from the father, an exclamation of unutterable astonishment, pleasure, pain and gratitude from the mother was all that served to break the stillness of tho night One part of the contract was fulfilled the child was restored another part remained to be carried out The ran-Bome was to be paid. It was quickly done.

As soon as his arms were relieved of their precious burden they were extended for the reward. Then for the first time was the man's face seen. It was the same man who had consulted with Mr. Beals during the afternoon. The reward was paid.

Five thousand dollars in notes were handed the man. Subsf quently "Lizzie Smith," the servant who disappeared at the time of the abduction, and Albert King, the man who rented tho house near the Beals residence, were located and arrested by the police. They proved to be crooks passing for man and wife who had served a term in the Colorado penitentiary and were only released last August It fell to the lot of Police Captain Burns to supplement the return of tho child with the arrest of the woman who has been the instrument by which untold misery was sent into a happy household and an entiro community wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement I PORTANT CHAN ES. KANSAS STATE NEWS. Kanma Reports received at Topeka from the registers of deeds in fifty counties of eastern and central Kansas show a reduction for October in farm and city mortgage indebtedness of 8301,000, of which 1303,000 was on farm lands.

The same reports show a net reduction of 82,800,000 in farm mortgage indebtedness for a period of five and one-half months, and an excess of 25 percent, of farm mortgages released over thoso recorded. It is also shown that in the majority of cases whore the farmers romortgage it is for a reduced amount, but since land sales aro becoming more active the number of purchase money mortgages is incroaslng from month to month. Important Law Overlooked. The lust legislature enacted a law providing that no legal notice, advertisement or publication of any kind required or provided by any of the laws of the state of Kansas to be published in a newspaper shall have any effect as such unless the same bo published in a newspaper of the county having general circulation therein, and which said newspaper has been continuously and uninterruptedly published in said county during the perion of fifty-two consecutive weeks prior to the first publication of the notice or advertisement. The omission of publishers, in making affidavit, to state that the paper had been published for fifty-two consecutive weeks in the bounty has "knocked out" a number of cases in court lately.

Ilurglnr Trap. Just before daylight the other morning a burglar entered the hardware store of W. McLain at Walnut Mo Lain had been robbed a few months ago and had taken the precaution ever since to set a trap to catch such visitors. The burglar entered the building from the rear and received a load of buckshot from which he died. Before dying he said he was from Peoria, I1L, where he has a brother.

He was well loaded with stolen goods. The Fatal Wire. Valentine Wentz, an assistant pressman of the Leavenworth Times, was recently killed by a shock of electricity. He was about to adjust a lamp over a press when his hand came in contact with a wire that was partially "dead," the current having been turned off on account of a fire in the city. Suddenly a full current was turned on that passed through Wentz's body.

He gave one loud scream and fell to the floor lifeless. A Dangerous Fireman. Reuben Marshall, a railroad engineer, and his fireman left Fort Scott the other day for a hunt They had not been gone long before the gun of the fireman was accidentally discharged and the contents lodged in Marshall's breast and arms. The injury was thought not to be fatal. "Sacred Silk Wormi." Miss Palmer, who was recently cutting a wide swath at Topeka in the silk worm business and who induced Frank McClelland, a capitalist, to invest in the enterprise, has been held to answer the charge of obtaining money by false pretense.

The "sacred silk worms of India," it is said, were nothing but English mustard seed. Death of 8. F. Burdette. S.

F. Burdette, grand scribe of the grand encampment I. O. O. and who for twenty-seven years held the ofllce of grand secretary, died at Leavenworth on the B7th from the effect of a paralytic stroke received about a week previous.

He was about seventy-three years of age. llabe Burned to Death. May, the seven-months-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fortune, of Kansas City, was burned to death the other morning, The mother left her babe tied in a chair near the stove with a four-year-old child to watch it while she went to the meat market and by some means its clothes took fire.

Wichita Incendiaries. On the night of the 27th Wichita had three incendiary fires in as many barns. The fires were in different quarters of the city. In the first three horses were lost and another horse was destroyed in the second. The loss aggregated about $3,500.

Minor State Motet. Gilbert Wyley, a brakeman, was killed by a switch engine near Argentine the other day. i Seymour Thomas, of Kansas City, an engineer on the Rock Island road, was killed by a late wreck of his train at Allerton, Iowa. John Murphy, a Santa Fe brakeman, was killed in the Newton yards at two o'clock the other morning. He leaves a widow and three children.

The president of the Kansas federation of labor says a vigorous campaign will be inaugurated against the violators of the eight-hour law. O. V. Cook, a switchman in the Santa Fe yard at Topeka, was killed the other night while uncoupling cara He was fifty-two years old and leaves a wife and two children. The executive committee of the people's party state central committee recently met at Topeka and decided to establish permanent political headquarters at Topeka.

At its late meeting at Topeka the people's party, central committee refused to accept the resignation of Chairman Dumbauld, but put the work into the hands of an executive committee headed by S. W. Chase. A poor woman with three small children lately reached Fort Scott in search of the husband, who had deserted his family. His name is J.

R. Stanley, a carpenter. The deserted wife found that he was living with another woman who he had married. When Stanley discovered that his deserted wife was after him he jumped on a train just leaving and escaped. H.

M. Northrup, a leading banker and business man of Kansas City, was recently stricken with paralysis and was in a critical condition. He is passed seventy-three years of age and one of the pioneers of the western frontier. David Evans, a colored boy, was recently playing in a yard at Leavenworth where some horses were running loose, when one of them 'kicked him, inflicting fatal injuries. The two-year-old son of J.

Huggins, an expressman of Marysville, was recently burned to death by a patent lighter. The oil became detached from the handle and in trying to extinguish the blaze the clothes of the child took fire. A teacher in the public schools of Smith Center, claims to have discovered chemicals with which he can produce rain, and offers to enter into a contract to supply water whenever needed. IT IS OUR AIM to keep fully Abreast with tho times, nnd to do so we Hlmll continue to publish tho Cheyenne, and IX Right Rev. Fenton dr.

j. j. kkane. Mendweiler officiated at St Anthony's church, Bishop Bonacum at St. Patrick's and Bishop Spaulding at the Immaculate Conception.

The celebration which began yesterday morning will be in keeping with the noble character of the venerablo and venerated prelate. No event in the Catholic churoh in America haa brought together as many distinguished dignitaries. AH the church's ecclesiastics were present, and his holiness has sent a presentation with a gift In St Louis tho interest has not been eon-fined to Roman Catholics. Many prominent citizens of all creeds have given of their time and means to aid in making the occasion one of the grandest of its nature ever witnessed. The Christian Brothers gave an entertainment in honor of the Most Rev.

Archbishop Kenrick at their college. Various prelates and churchmen were present The entertainment was of a musical and literary character, and was given under tho direction of the Kenrick Literary Society. Music was rendered by the college orchestra, and several essays were read. After the recitation of an ode by Mr. Griswold Smith entitled, "Our Archbishop," the orchestra concluded the exercises with the jubiloe march.

Archbishop Ireland's lecture at Music hall last night was a prominent feature of the festivities. The distinguished very bent Iikiiom twiaino in tlio world. If you lire not acquainted with its morits, we desire THE EAST. The wife of Cyrus W. Field, of New York, is dead.

The heavy blow at Chester, capsized the tug Uncle Mike, of Roach's shipyard. She sank in twenty-five feet of water. Her crew was rescued. Fike destroyed the buildings at 264 and 266 Court street, Brooklyn, owned by Peter Schmitz. Loss, $100,000.

The summer hotel, "The Queen," at Beverly, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, insurance, $60,000. Coi J. H. Fkench, of Boston, has assigned.

A prominent banker says he owed the Maverick bank $800,000 and that he held 358,000 of stock which is valueless. His liabilities amount to at least $900,000. His assets are large, but not sufficient. The Irish National' league of New York has passed resolutions to send no more assistance to Ireland until the factions unita The official count of the last election rote In Massachusetts gives Gov. Russell 157,982 and Col.

Allen, republican, 151,514. Fibe at St Albans, Vt, destroyed eight business blocks and the Congregational church. Loss, $100,000. Jay Gould is said to have stated for publication that he was out of Wall street for good. He is also reported to be ready to resume Missouri Pacific dividends.

Fibe at Philadelphia destroyed the bagging factory of Peter Young. The football match between Yale and Princeton, Thanksgiving day, was won by Yale with a score of 19 to 0. Mbs. J. A.

Dkkxel, wife of the Philadelphia banker, died recently at the family's country seat, Runnymede. She has been ailing for a year with an affection of the heart and five weeks go was taken seriously ill. She was the daughter of John Doset, an old Trench merchant Com. Ronkendobff, of the United States navy, died recently at New York. He was born in Pennsylvania, was appointed to the navy in 1833 and served throughout the war of the rebellion, was commissioned as commodore In 1873 and in the following year retired.

Edward M. Field, Daniel A. Lind-ley, John Frederick Wischers and Herman Wilmus, composing the firm of Field, Lindley, Wischers bankers and brokers of No. 1 Broadway, New York, have assigned. The failure was due to the advance in corn.

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They are from the counties of Leake, Newton and Neshoba, and are taking advantage of the government inducements in the far west Negroes in Gordon, released a prisoner and a pitched battle followed. More trouble was expected. Employes of the Nashville (Tenn.) electric railway have struck for nonpayment of wages. The Texas Farmers' Alliance in session at Corsicana adopted a resolution for the appointment of twenty-five delegates to represent Texas at the Memphis, national convention. Resolutions condemning the action of the supreme council at Indianapolis, and proposing to sever all connection were adopted.

Senator Pugh, of Alabama, Insists upon the silver issue being incorporated in the national democratic policy. Gus Simmons and Frank Garrett were executed at Mansfield, for the murder of an unknown man. Both culprits confessed. Maj. George B.

Kite died recently at Adairville, Ky. He was the father of Wood Hi to and Jeff Hite, of the Jesse James gang. GENERAL. M. Rouvier, French minister of finance, has declined to take the initiative in calling a conference to establish a common ratio of value between gold and silver.

The seamen and firemen of Hull and other British ports have started a subscription toward a national testimonial to Mr. Plimsoll, in recognition of his efforts for the amelioration of the condition of sailors. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, "Owen Meredith, "English ambassador at Paris, died on the 24th, aged 60. The Pacific Mail steamship China ran into a wall of water on her last trip from the Orient to San Francisco. Carmencita, the Spanish dancer, has been married to Pablo Echepare, leader of the "Spanish Students." A report has reached Yokohama that Russian troops have invaded China by way of Siberia.

A Bangkok correspondent telegraphs an account of terrible destruction by a cyclone which swept over that portion of Siatn wrecking thousands of buildings and causing great loss of life. The towns of Chal Ya and Bandon were practically destroyed and 800 inhabitants killed. Except Para, which remains silent, all the provinces of Brazil concur in the dismissal of Fonseca. Congress will probably ignore the recent events. A new cabinet has been formed as follows: Senhor Alves.

finance: Senhor Farla, husbandry; Senhor Pereira, justice; Senhor Oliveira, war; Senhor Mello, marine; Senhor Pallita, foreign affairs. President Carnot, of France, has signed the draft of a bill to establish a board of conciliation to arbitrate labor disputes. Two Englishmen, John Cooper and Walter Rundell, have been arrested at St Etienne, France, for offering a bribe to the foreman of a small arms factory to procure a specimen of the new Russian rifle. The Russian minister of war has ordered 18,000,000 pounds of soldiers' biscuits delivered by January 1. This order, which is altogether unprecedented since the time of the Russo-Turkish war, has created a decided sensation.

Prince George of tVales is recovering. The trial of the archbishop of Aix, France, for leaving his diocese in violation of the state orders resulted in his conviction and a fine of 3,000 francs was imposed. President Peixotto of Brazil has issued a manifesto annulling the dictatorship, raising the state of siege and summoning the old congress to meet December 18. A message from Para reports all serene there. It is announced that the owners of the tin plate works in Wales have decided to close their mills for a fortnight in December and a fortnight in January to give the market a chance to absorb the stocks now on hand and to bring about an improvement in prices.

The Jewish quarter of Charkoff, Russia, was attacked by a mob. Much property was destroyed. The loss was very heavy. The rioters were quelled by the troops. A telegram giving details of the riot was suppressed by the authorities.

Armed bands have devastated a district in northern China, pillaged and burned the Belgian missions, massacred a hundred converts and the priests and done other mischief. The outrages are laid to robbers. Despite the fining of the archbishop of Aix, the French government has addressed a pacific note to the pope. The recent rains so swelled the river at Lower Huron, Ont, that the residence of Joy Smith was undermined and swept away and two young girls wera drowned. by all odd! the BEST of all tbe lailicj' montnUM.

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prelate is one of the most forcible speakers in the Catholic church. All sorts and conditions of men were anxious to hear and see the prince of the church, whose name has become a byword in American public life, and therefore the hall was crowded. He IN THE 8ELECTI0N OF A CHOICE CSFT or of an addition to one's library, elegance and usefulness will be found combined in The Pot Ofllce Department Connlderlnf; nn Extension of the Honey Ordur System. Washinoton, Nov. 23.

At a meeting of post office inspectors held here tho subject of money order and register systems were discussed at length. If the recommendations made to the postmaster-general and the legislation asked of congress is granted, it is believed that there will be some radical changes in the methods of conducting postal business in the United States. Some very marked changes are recommended ia the working in the money order system. These contemplate the issuing of money orders for any amount upon all first-class offices; a maximum ordar of 3S00 in second-class offices, $300 in third-class offices and $100 in fourth-olass office For money orders of $50 or loss those whioh the working classes use a reduction in the fee will be recommended to a figure two or throe cents less than that now charged by express companies for the same amount Another important change recommended will be to keep money-ordei offices open a certain number of nights a week to an hour later than 9:30. Ir the registry business it is proposed tc change the present method of dispatching registered letters from post offices by substituting a linen-lined envelope with a 12-cent stamp upon it for this special purpose.

Instructions will be printed on tho envelope and they car be mailed at any letter box without necessitating the sender going in person to the post office, as is now required by the postal regulations. Failure at New York. New York, Nov. 28. Edward M.

Field, Daniel A. Lindley, John Freder ick Wischers and Herman C. Wilmus, composing the firm of Field, Lindley, Wischers bankers and brokers at No. 1 Broadway, assigned to-day tt Charles W. Gould, without preference.

The failure was due to the advance in corn. Numerous reports were afloat placing the firm's indebtedness all the way from $100,000 to $1,500,000, but no correct statement could be secured through th office of the firm, which was thronged during the entire afternoon by peopl clamoring for information. 3 WEBSTER'S 3 I INTERNATIONAL I go DICTIONARY ARCHB. IRELAND. js known to politi.

clans by reason of the vast influence he wields; to the Grand Army through the ties of loyalty and comradeship; to the temperance man by his unflinching stand for the principle of total abstinence, but above all he is known to the workingmen, to whose cause he has devoted much of the energy of his mind and the eloquence of his tongue. His subject was, "The Church and the Workingmen. A feature of additional interest was the fact that Cardinal Gibbons attended the lecture. He was introduced to tho audience and occupied a seat on the stage. At the close of the lecture the cardinal and Archbishop Ireland held an informal reception SUCCESSOR OF 11155 UNAKRIDGED.

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The brig Tahiti has been found floating bottom up at sea. She had a orew of twenty men and 271 Gilbert islanders under contraot to work in Mexico, all of whom were supposed to have been drowned. Seven persons were killed by a wreck on the Lake Shore near Toledo, on the night of the 2Sth. Many others were injured. The jubilee of Archbishop Kenrick commenced at St Louis on the 29th, to continue throughout the week.

It was a notable event in ecclesiastical circles and was attended by church dignitaries and laymen in large numbers from all parts of the country. A supposed lunatic fired at Rev. Dr. John Hall, the Presbyterian divine, as he passed from his church to the parsonage at New York on the 29th. It was a narrow escape for the clergyman.

The assassin was arrested and proved to be John G. Rath, a German, aged 45, in the real estate business. The Soo elevator at Escanaba, has been destroyed by fire. 1 Loss, $250,000. Tracy, has been seriously hurt by fire.

All the buildings between Third and Fourth streets, on Front, except the State bank, were destroyed. Secretary Blaine's physician says he is now in good health and will be yet better six months hence. i The annual report of Secretary Noble of the interior department is made public. He deals with many matters of interest to the west 1 The annual report of the inter-state commerce commission is almost ready. It will give statistics of vast interest to railroad men and the general public.

The European Btock markets are reported firmer than for some time. In London the situation is especially good. Frightful excesses are reported to have been committed by the Chinese during the latest outrage. Children were roasted alive; nuns horribly maltreated, and a priest's tongue and heart torn out 1 i George Wheaton Allen, better known as Land Bill Allen, the originator of the homestead act died at the county infirmary near Columbus, aged 83. He had spent a fortune in the interest of the bill of which he claimed to be the originator.

Richard P. Hammond, member of the board of police commissioners of San Francisco, died recently after a long illness. He was born in Maryland, was a West Point graduate and served with distinction in the Mexican (Salvation Oil U', TBI WKST. Diphtheria is raging in Belleville, I1L, and amounts almost to an epidemic. It broke out in September, and since that time its ravages have been very severe.

William Deering reapermen, have caused a warrant to be issued in Omaha, for Charles W. Keith, their manager and general agent for Iowa and Minnesota, charging him with embezzlement The amount of his shortage is not known. The Union Pacific has offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of the miscreant who removed a rail and caused the wreck of the fast Denver passenger train at Julesburg, Col. The oath of ofHce has been administered to Ira J. Chase, of Panville, to succeed the late Gov.

Hovey, of Indiana. C. W. Williams, the horseman and trackman of Independence, proposes to give $300,000 for trotting and pacing races next summer. Is Cold water, Mercer county, masked women whipped four disrepute able females severely and ducked one in freezing water.

Two Bchool children are dead and the teacher and fifteen pupils in a public school in Clinton county, are critically ill from drinking poisonous well water. TnE last services over the remains of the late Gov. Hovey, of Indiana, were held at Mount Vernon, that state, on the 27th. Gov. Ira J.

Chase preached the funeral sermon. Petitions have been filed in the circuit court in Chicago to wind up and dissolve the Chicago Mutual Life Benefit association and the North American Mutual Benefit association on the Sfround that they have been conducting jaeir business ia a fraudulent manner. Clippings. All the saw mills at Jackson Parlf, which the contractors use in cutting the material for the world's fair buildings, will soon be run by electricity. This is done on account of the dangers of fire from so many steam engines on the grounds, and also to have light for work at night The Bonaparte who has just died in Italy, Louis Lucien, was a quiet person who spent his life in the study of philology.

He was the second son of Lucien, one of the great Napoleon's brothers who were excluded from the succession by the emperor's will. Theodore Tilton resides permanently in Paris. He has prettily appointed chambers upon the Isle of St Louis, almost under the shadow of Notre Dame, and opposite his windows, upon the other side of the river, is the old house where Abelard and Heloise are said to have lived and loved. Tilton is an amateur carpenter and opening from his study is a perfectly equipped shop in which he passes some hours daily. Inventor Edison is a wonderful man, perhaps the most wondeful man the world has ever seen, but even he can't invent a new excuse for being out to3 late nights.

Fonneca'g Farewell. Valparaiso, Chili, Nov. 28. Advices from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, state that Fonseca, besides abdicating the dictatorship, has renounced his title of commander-in-chief and retired to private life. The papers are, however, demanding the impeachment of Fonseca and also of his ministers on the ground that they are responsible for the moneys spent during the short-lived dictatorship.

The governors of all the states have proclaimed in favor of the new president, Peixoto. It is rumored that the federal capital will be removed from Rio de Janeiro to Nicthcroy. 99 Pure. THE BEST FOB EVERY PURPOSE,.