Woodruff Republican from Woodruff, Kansas • 2

A NORTHERN PACIFIC MOVE. WOODBUFF GAZETTE. THE NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SLEEKEST RASCAL IN THE BUSINESS. SHELLENBERQER CONVICTED OF MURDER.

Oskaloosa dispatch The county treasurer's office, at this place, was broken into by burglars last night about 12 o'clock with tools taken from a blacksmith's shop. The vault was entered and the time-lock safe examined, but no attempt made to crush it. Twenty dollars of private funds ere taken from a pocktbook in the vault. A horse was found harnessed in a stable tear a buggy, prepared for a trip. There nn cl hp to the robbers.

Lawrenoo special: It seems that Arthur Dunbar, the man who was indicted by the grand jury for a murder committed twenty-four years ago, was defending the person of his sister from the attempts ot the lustful negro whom he killed. At the time ot the shooting Dunbar was a Union soldier, at home on a furlough. He rejoined his regiment and served honorably through the war. At its conclusion he returned home and has been living in the vicinity ol his crime tor years, bearing an honorable name, and was only indicted upon the demand of a neighbor with whom he had had troubla, Abilene special: Notwithstanding the bitter cold night the people are celebrating the victory on railroad bonds which the returns show were earned by 1,500 majority at yesterday's election. Encouraged by the sudden and unusual demand for real estate investments, citizens, business men, military, firemen and farmers from the country are parading the streets with several bands ot music, carrying torches and Chinese lanterns.

The city is a blaze of light from bonfires and fire-works. Speeches are being made at the board of trade rooms and at the court-house. The enthusiasm is greater than on any former occasion in the history ol Dickenson county Hot Springs (N. special: While many prominent persons are attracting much attention at this resort, the two most ilked of, by reason of their conduct, are the Hon. William Pitt Kellogg, ex-governer of Louisiana, and Mrs.

Walkup, of Emporia, Kas. It was noticed that when he of Rutherford B. Hayes "count in" and William P. Kellogg "count out" fame came here he was very attentive to she of Walkup poisoning case notoriety. He has been in Iter society almost constantly, and his solicitude for her welfare is really touching.

Horseback riding to the neighboring points of interest forms their principal amusement. The outcome ot the affair is watched with great interest. Leavenworth special: Antone Haas, an old resident of this city, dropped dead at his residence, 514 Pawnee street, to-night. He was down in the city this afternoon and returned home and was in apparently good health. He sat down to the supper table and while drinkingacupof coffee, strangled, and got up from the table and started tor a door leading out to a porch, when he was caught by a son-in law named Bishop, who held him.

He gradually grew worse and expired in a few minutes. Topeka special: Preparations are already in progress for the inauguration ol the state officers next month. A committee is now in correspondence with all the ex-governors or the Btatwith the purpose of securing their attendance on that occa It Completes a Itranrli Road and Retains Land Which Should Have Been Forfeited. Washington special: The Pacific railroad committee and those members who last session so bitterly opposed the Northern' acific railroad have just had the fact flashed up before them i hat the entire work has been for naught. Early last year a bill was introduced in thesenate to forfeit land extending along a seventy-five mile branch the road which was uncompleted.

Ac cording to agreement it was to have been finished several years ago, and the senate' took this as good ground for forfeiture. The bill was finally passed niter considerable warm debate. It was then sent to the house and referred to the committee on Pacific railroads. That body reported a substitute bill, providing for the forfeiture of all lands from Bismarck west to Pugefc Sound. After a lengthy discussion it was passed by a small majority.

In this shape went back to the senate, and that body refused to pass it. A conference committee was then appointed and after numerous meetings could notagree, and so postponed their work until this session. All the while, much to the amusement of everybody, tho attorney for the road was doing nothing, and every one thought he hnd given up tin? fight as a bad job. But during the recess tho branch road was completed and the attorney has sprung decision of tin supreme court on the members of the house, to the effect that no railroad lands can be forfeited after it has been completed, and that the lapse of time between the completion and the introduction of tho forfeiting bill is considered a waive of all lights. The Northern Pacific men are jubi- ant and the opposing members oi rue house are very much crestfallen, lhis monopoly seems to have won.

nebhaska's legislators on hand. Both of Nebraska's senators and all three of her representatives were present when congress convened to-day. ney were in a cheerful mood and entered tho affray with a will and determination to do the best possible. They do not anticipate much legislation local to Nebraska owing: to the shortness of the session, but all that can be done will receive their nttenuon. There was nothing of.

interest in the open ing of the congress. It was stupid fact. Members stood around for some time before they were called to order and explained to their friends their defeat or gave thanks for congratulations over success. In the senate the visitation of dentil upon ex-President Arthur and Senator Pike was' called to mind bv heavy drapery around the railings of the galleries. It is conceded that no work of consequence will be donn before the first of the year.

Nnhraskans in congress expressed the opinion to-day that tho conferees on the inter-state commerce-bill will agree upon a measure which will be passed at this session. If it is found that state courts can have jurisdiction in suits against inter-state roads they will no given it, otherwise tiie federal courts tuouo will have jurisdiction. The Proposed World's Exposition. Washington dispatch: The convention of members of the board oT promotion of tho proposed world's exposition hero in 1892, to commemorate lie adoption of the constitution and the discovery of 'America, opened here to-day. About 000 delegates, representing boards of trades and other influential interests in twenty states wero present.

District Commissioner Webb, president of the local board of promotion, called the meeting to order at noon, and Secretary Anderson gave an account ot what already had been accomplished towards making a grand demonstration to commemorate the two notable events in the history of this country. Twenty-eight governors of states, fifty-one mayors of cities, 140 presidents and secretaries of Boards ot Trade, sixty presidents and secretaries of state agricult ural societies and granges had already responded, and were wot king to promote the objects of the organization, and all tho states and territories had representatives on tho board of promotion. The object of the convention, he said, was to formally consider and adopt some definite plan of celebration. Tho president then announced the following permanent ollicers of the board: President, William Massachusetts; vice presidents, A. A.

Ames, Minnesota; J. Ellis, Louisiana; Amos Smith, Ohio; Charles D. Fisher, Maryland; A. Ii. Little, Pennsylvania; Henry I-Thayer, New York and A.

P. Williams, California; A. D. Anderson, secretary. Mr.Clallin not being present the first vice president, Mr.

Ames, was called to the chair. A committee on resolutions was appointed, who soon after reported a series of resolutions, outlining tho plan for the celebrations similar to that previously adopted by the board of promotion. Tho main features have already been published. During the afternoon short addresses were made hy Mr. Montgomery, coinniissionerof patents; Mr.

Sotehlo, Venezuelan minister, and others, earnestly indorsing the proposed celebration. Letters were rend from several foreign ministers favoring tho exposition. To-night the visit ing delegates were given a banquet at tho Biggs house by the resident members of the board. UCATING THE REMORSELESS LANDLORDS. Irish Tenant Trustees Fi.retl So as to Avoid (tttniinhiiteiit.

DrjBUX, Dec. 2. To frustrate landlord's endeavors so seize rents by means of garnishee orders served on tenants, trustees' amended Instructions have been Issued on the plan of the rent cainpaigu advising trustees to convey moneys to persons of assured Integrity but possessed of no property which the garnishee order will effect. This, precaution has already been taken in regard to twenty-seven properties. A laborer named Vaughnn was assaulted and brutally beaten by four men in Bally-wythe, Limerick, to-day.

His skull was fractured. Mr. John Morlcy In a speech nt Edlnburg to-night likened the conservative party to a blind man led by a lively doe. Ho advocated home rule for Scot hind and Ireland. A dispatch from Dublin gives tin account of an interview hnd there wlih Mr.

Sexton. Upon being asked what In his opinion caused the present action of the government Mr. Sexton replied that he had uo doubt that the success of the nationalist campa-gii had compelled tho Irish landlords to appeal to the government, which had Yielded to Iheir on treaties. When asked If to thouuht. the Iciurue would be surprised, ho answered: ''No.

If the government attempt to surprcss the l-ague through tliu viceroy it will find Itself in a ruinously untenable 'position. Moreover If the league should be suppressed and Its meetings proclaimed the government will find the situation more dlllicttlt than ever ns public Indignation Swill make the success of the tenants all the more rapid." Sir Michael Hicks-Bench and Lord Ashbourne have returned to London. Two hundred and thirty tenants on Lord Defrayne's Sllgo estate to-ilny paid their rents, less 20 per cent, to Mr. Kedmoiid nnd others hb trustees, the agent ot the cst-ito having refused to irrant a reduction. Tho payments were made In an orderly and business-like manner.

The total amount exceeded 1,000 Mr. Redmond, In a speech, said thnt the moment Lord riefrayiio decided to accept the money it would bo 'turned over to him. If he tried eviction the tenants' mouey would be used tor defending them. London, Dec, ii -Lord Clanrlcnrde publishes lu the A7 icnrrt tenant's letter, complaining of the terrorism exercised by tho National league. Such roiupliitllt.

Suvs he. shows that boycotting not a plan for a rout cam palgn iuflueucen tenants. tie "Does Up" Citizen of the City of Mexico in Beautiful Style. City of Mexico dispatch: A tremendous sensation occurred here to-day and is the subject of gossip in all the clubs, cafes and places of public resort. For the last two days there has been great excite, nent over the sale of tickets at the National theatre tor the Patti season, five nights in Jan uary.

The crowd around the theatre has fairly blocked the streets. The police were required to preserve order and itseemed as if the city had gone mad over the expected advent of the songstress. Prices of boxes were $50 a night, and seats These were three times the ordinary prices. The ostensible agent of Abbey who was conducting the sale of tickets, was a man giving his name as Mayer, and claiming to be a brother of M. R.

Mayer, Abbey's friend and associate. He had with him letters, one of which purported to be from Abbey, which he showed to Minister Manning and other people. The theatre hap. a ready been engaged for the Patti seasop. ihe advance agent had letters to some of the best-known people here and no one suspected the fraud.

The sale of tickets began Thursday morning, people waiting at tho theatre door to get the first choice. Seats were bought in whole blocks, some persons paying a thousand dollars for boxes, in the course of the day tho box-office had taken in $18,600, and on the previous day private sales amounted to $6,300, making the total of cash sales $24,900. The governor of the district was somewhat suspicious and sent to 'Mayer to inquire if any one was responsible lor the large amount of money being taken from the public; but "Mayer" managed to void any act that would further arouse suspicion. It is understood that every seat was taken for the whole five nights, but some well-known persons, as is the custom here, did not pay in advance, but merely gave orders; so that the amount in cash actually taken, as stated, does not come to half the seating capacity of the theatreforhvenights. Last night "Mayer went to the hotel where he lodged, accompanied by a policeman, nom inally appointed to guard him, but in reality to se that he depos ited all the money in the hotel safe, In some ingenious way, it is said, "Mayer" tranferred over $20,000 in bills on the National bank and the Bank of London to the pockets of his overcoat, and deluded the policeman into believing that all hnd been deposited in the safe.

At all events this morning "Mayer" did not appear at the box office of the theater, nor was he seen at the hotel. The safe was opened and there was only found $4,300 in silver, which of course could not be taken away. Now the authorities are looking for "Mayer" and speculators are weeping and receiving, ns best they can, the con dolence of friends. It is said to be the biggest thing of the kind ever known at the capital. People are saying that the man was an American, but he spoke English with a marked foreign accent, and had a German cast of countenance, lhis after noon "Mayer's" interpreter was arrested at Arizaba, whither it is said he had gone to make some arrangements for excursion trains to the city.

One theory is that Mayer has gone north by the railway, and another that he is secreted here until the matter blows over. As to Admission of Dakota. St. Paul (Minn.) dispatch: T. V.

Eddy of Watertown said to-day: "Yes, I am speaker of the legislature of the sta te of South Dakota. The second session of the legislature will convene at the capital at Huron, December 15. Our constitutional convention has never adjourned sine die. and is to meet at Huron at the same time as the legislature. We don't know just what action we shall take when we meet, but we mean to do something thnt will im press ujion President Cleveland and the people of this country the fact that we are demanding certain things which ought no longer to be withheld from us.

Our chief desire is to be admitted to the union of states where we properly belong, and for which we have every qualification, Our constitution now has a clause which practically forbids our state ollicers from setting the wheels of government in motion. The first subject to be considered by the legislature will be whether or not it is advisable to recoin mend the members of the constitutional convention to remove by amendment this clause, which alone blocks the wheels ot an independent government, I can't say whether we will deem it advisable to so recommend or not. If we should the pres- ideut would have to resort to judicial or military interference and declare our stato and government illegal. Ol course wecouiu make no armed resistance, but it would ha ve the effect of making the issue one ot national importance. Our rights and wrongs would be discussed by every one.

and it might hasten the clay of our deliv erance. Our legislative body is composed of iiinctv-nine members of the house, and thirtv-three members ot the senate. I think nearly every member will be in his seat when the legislature convenes. DOTS AND DASHES. The eultan assents to the candidacy of Prince Nicholas of Mingrella for the Bulgarian throne, and Invites the powers to co-opemte lor a settlement ol tliu Bulgarian question.

Law officers of the crown at Dublin have rendered an opinion that Indictments can rest against all persons conspiring to defraud land lord oi rent aue, The schooner Edith was lost on Sunday oft Mlquelou Island, with a crew of thirteen men, Charles Snodgrass, a clerk in a clothing' bouse at Louisville, poisoned himself because of charge that ho stole a from his em ployers, The supreme court ot Missouri has sen fenced to death a boy of 16 years, named James 8. Pnyton, for the murder of a child lu Christian county, In the vicinity of Columbia, South Carolina, sleet bus fallen for the past three davs, and the ground Is covered with ice from three to six Inches, Price Greenleaf, an aged miser of Bos- ton, who expired on Sunday, left $500,009 to uarvaru college, The will of Chester A. Arthur, which was recently offered for probate In New York, covers 11 511,000 worth of property. The sou is to receive one-half the estate when 80 years of nge; the daughter one-nan at tueageoiud, Mrs, Aicturov being her guardian. The Grand Army of the Republic will hold Its next encampment at St.

Louis, the hut week lu September. The receipts of the American opera company at St. Louis last week wcro $25,000. The mayor of New York has ordered the police to see that stores are kept closed on tsunuay, The Halsted Street opera house, tn Chicago, was on Saturday morning gutted by Ire. The street-cars were stopped for an hour.

William Moffat, while trying to board street car on Eighteenth street, Kansas City, was run over and crushed to death. He had receuty come to the city from London. Enf lam! Tlte Slayer of Bit little Daughter Will iro6. ably Die on the Gallows. Nebraska City special to the Omaha Bee: The seven days' trial of Lee Shellenberger was ended to-day in the district court, by the jury returning a verdict of murder in the first degree.

The arguments in hi3 behalf by Hon. John C. Watson and Frank Hansom occupied all yesterday and were eloquent, grand and logical, showing that they were true and determined in making every effort for their client. Dis trict Attorney Strode spoke this morning for tluee hours. His speecli was the best legal effort of his life, and he has received many congratulations.

The caso wasgiven to the jury at noon, and utter being out three hours, an agreement was reached and the verdict was returned to the court. When the jury entered the court room a deep silence of expectation pervaded all, although it was generally conceded that no other verdict but guilty would be returned, When tho fatal words were pronounced a murmur of approval ran through the court room. Shellenberger received the verdict without flinching in the least and showed no ouiward trace of what his feelings might be. His countenance remained stolid throughout the proceedings and he seemed as indifferent to his fate as if his life was not at stake. The a ttorneys for the defense at once filed a motion for a.

new trial, which will be heard by the court to-morrow morning, In case Hie motion is overruled the judge will then immediately sentence the con demned man to be hanged. Among those assembled in the court room the verdict was received with mam test approval, and when the news had spread about the city there was a general expression of opinion that it was just and right. THE CHIME. The crime for which Lee Shellenbergerhas been convicted was most heinous, being one of the foulest ever committed in this state. Maggie Shellenberger, the victim was the eleven-year-old daughter of the murderer.

The scene of the crime was at ShePenberger's farm, about six miles from Nebraska Citv. The family consisted of Shellenberger, his wife and two children, Joe a nd Maggie. The woman, however, was Shellenberger's second wife and step mother to the children, and her treatment of them, especially the little girl, was gen erally reported to be most abusive. The father seemed to offer no objection to bis wife treatment of the children, and home was made such a hell for he little ones that several times they left and sought shelter at the neighbors One day. according to the evidence given at the trial by the little girl's brother, Joe, Maggie was ordered by Mrs.

Shellenberger to scrub he cellnr stairs At the time the father claimed to ho at a neighbor's, and returning home started to enter the cellar. As lie stepped on the stairs, however, he heard a strange noise and called lor a light. When his wife brought it he discovered Maggie lying on the floor with four horrible gashes in her throat and a butcher knife lying by her side. All the indications were that sh had been caught from behind and the terri bio deed accomplished before the little one was aware of cdiellenberger Haul that Maggie was still living when lie found her, and he carried her up stairs and sen word to the neighbors. The suspicion at once prevailed that Maggie had been mur dered by her inhuman parents and the coroner was immediately notihed, and and Mrs.

Shellenberger were placed under arrest. Both claimed thnt Maggie had become despondent and committed suicide, but this was proved entirely untenable by the circumstances surrounding the killing, After the verdict of the coroner's jury finding Mr. and Mrs. Shellenberger guilty the murder, excitement throughout th county ran high, and in order to prevent threatened lynching the sheriff had th prisoners removed to the penitentiary at Lincoln for safe keeping. Here they remained until last June, when they were brought back to Nebraska City and have remained in jail up to the present time, Built tor Ihe Contractors Benefit, Cleveland dispatch: A suit against the contractor of the Garfield monument wa entered to-day in the common pleas court, Ever since the work was begun on tl structure the contractor has had trnubl from varioussources.

The workmenstrue for higher wages three or four times, an on other occasions demanded nine hours' pay for eight hours' work. The. monumen is nearly completed, needing only fou courses ot stone for the capping. Last summer the Cleveland Civil Engineers' clu olficially condemned the foundation of the monument as being unsafe and insecure, Mr. Keller, of Hartford, who drew th plans for the building, and who furnished the architectural design, hotly contest the claim.

However, when the tower wa about two-thirds completed, the fact came to light that it had been reduced abou seventy-live Tcet in height, whirh was claimed to he a vindication of the position taken by the civil engineers, It also became known that brick were used in the fouundntion to a large ex- tent instead of stone. The trustee, among whom are ex-l'iesident Hayes and ex-Gov roster, maintained silence when np proached upon the subject, while J. Wade, the railroad millionaire, staked his wealth upon the safety of the structure, conies M. JS. Knvanaugh, a sub-con tractor, who sues Thomas tl contractor, to recover on a count of tho change in tho plans and ma terial.

Kavuiuiugh alleges in his petition that the monument now will not cost SoO, 000, but tho trustees have agreed to pay Simmon?) $80,000, with the understanding thnt he is to pay all claims for damages arising from the change. The funds in the hands of the trustees, $1 have bcun augmented by interest to $150,000, and it is not known what the trustees intend to do with the $70,000 remaining after pay ing the contractor. A Subject Not to be Evaded. Washington special: Senator Wilson, of Iowa, said: "It will be very iniportnn that something shall be done on the sub- iect of inter-state commerce. It is a sub ject which cannot be evaded.

It was th cause of all the trouble in Hepburn's dis trict. He simply voted as he wrs in itructed by the legislature, but there were local troubles in his district about the rates, and the people were discontented This winter it is no better. This is illus trated by tho different conditions in different pnrts ot the state as to the corn crop, In the western nart of the state there is a good crop; In the eastern portion there was no moro than third of a crop, an the people ol the eastern part of the state are compelled to get there corn from West ern Iowa, Hut it Happens ai mis moment, on aecnunt of local rates, that Corn If selling cheaper In Cliicngo, and the corn ot Western lown, too, than is in r.asiern Iowa. The people citrt't resist the con-closlon that something is wrong. And they believe thnt Hint wrongcan only be righted by the means of some bill to regulate inter-state commerce and to control the freight rates.

As for the general work of the session, I don't think that very mucii win i be accomplished outside of the approprla- Unn hllla tion bills, I7i Annual Report of Secretary Whitney i Made Public. The report of Secretary of the Navy Whit ney opens with a renewal ol ins former recommendation of the consolidation of the bureau so as to insure responsibility in the purchase and care ot supplies, and so far as his power extended he had consoli dated, in one bureau, the general purchases of the department, the care and custody ot the stores, and the creating of a system ot book-keeping by which responsibility tor care and disposition can be had. The report says: 'There is at present no real responsi bility for the care and disposition of the property. In one bureau a property account is kept and in others none. Property lost, misused or stolen cannot be traced or accounted for, and no person can be held responsible.

The fourth audi tor in bis report, just issued, calls attention to this remarkable circumstance, which, was also referred to in my last an nual report. An inventory shows a very large and unnecessary accumulation of stores and supplies by the different bu reaus, aggregating over twenty nnllons of dollars in appraised value. The hoard reports between three and four millions in value to be absolutely useless at the pres ent time, only entailing an expense for keepers and a constant care to preserve them in condition. Among these accumulations, some very absurd facts appear. At eighty navy yards there have accumulated altogether of nugurs and bits of which 25,274 have been lying for several years at closed yards where no work has been or is likely to be done.

Kegarding the new cruisers the report says: the experience of the department in its first attempt at the creation of modern vessels of war has been such as to excite the greatest concern and disappointment. The examination of facts with reference to them demonstrated that an entirely new departure was necessary undertaking further similar construction. One characteristic which an unarinored cruiser must possess is great speed. This is determined by the function which she is expected to lerform in modern warfare. She is a commerce She must be able to escape from ironclads and outrun, so as to overhaul, merchantmen.

Jf slower than ironclads she could not keep the sea, and if slower than merchantmen she might aa well stay In port. This division of ships, by the functions which they are expected to perform, is one of the things which has come about of recent years. When it be came impossible to concentrate, in one ship, both the greatest speed, the strongest armament and the highest defensive power, without reaching a tonnage displacement wholly out of the question, division into classes, according to the duties which they were expected to perform, came about. Unarmored cruisers have become a distinct class, and the characteristic absolutely in dispensable to this class is very great speed. When the Dolphin.

Boston, At lanta and Chicago were projected and contracts for their construction entered into, it was well known what speed ought to be attained and what weight and character of machinery per ton of displacement was necessary to obtain it. Commercial vessels had at that time obtained speed ranging between sixteen and nineteen knots, and cruisers were built other countries attaining the same speed." Ihe secretary compares the trial trips ol tho Dolphin and Atlanta with those of the English and French boats only recently completed, to the disadvantage of the former. The Dolphin was designed for 2,300 indirated horse-power, and developed less tnan z.aui), while the Alacrity and bur-prise, English boats of 3,000 horse-power, developed 3,173 and 3,079, respectively. The Atlanta was designed to attain 3,500 horse-power, but her engines developed less than that. '1 he report says: These facts are stated without the in tention of locating the responsibility or blame upon any person.

It is impossible to ascertain where it should be placed. But they indicate a simple abandonment, on the part of the department, or any attempt to reach the conditions which should have been attained, and a failure on the part of the contractor to reach the limited results expected by the department. In considering the matter of constructing additional vessels authorized hy congress in March, 1885, it was decided by the department to exhaust every effort to avail itself of the most advanced thought and knowledge attained by our own and other countries on the subject. Ihe report says that the department has accumulated a large amount of mlorma tion which will be utilized in the tion ot vessels in the future. The report gives a resume of the bids and awards for the new cruisers and says, regarding cruiser No.

1 for which no bids were received within the limit fixed by congress: "Orders had been given to reduce her size, for the purpose of carrying out the intention ot congress, if possible, of bringing the expense of her construction within the limit, $1,100,000. It requires a readjust ments of all weights, and, in fact, the designing of a new vessel, which necessarily takes some months. Meanwhile it is hoped that the limit fixed by congress may be re moved so ns to render available the pres. ent plans, which have been the result of many months of careful labor on the part of ollicers of the department. The reports treats ot armor and guns for monitors and armor-clads, at great length.

and deprecates that this country should be content to be dependent upon the inanu facturere of any other nation for the fabri cation ot armor md high powered guns. A COUNTY SEAT FIGHT. Minnesota Towns at War Over the Removal of Records. St. Paul dispatch: Governor Hubbard yesterday issued a proclamation declaring the county seat of Traverse county to Wheaton, in accordance with the result ot the recent election, changing it from Brown's Valley.

Tho Pioneer Press' special from Wheaton says 'that on the receipt ot the news ot this decision, the county com' missioners early this morning sent a party of 100 men with teams to Brown Valley to remove the records. They were pro ceeding to do so when they were attacked hy the residents of Brown Valley and a lively fight tock pi ace around the com't house, in the course of which axes, ham mors and revolvers were freely used, and the records and furniture were scattered about the streets. The Wheaton men were finally driven off without getting the records. Several persons were seriously, hut none dangerously hurt. The ollicials at Wheaton say they feel bound to carry the governor's proclamation into effect.

A special from Urown valley says an injutic tion served on the Wheaton men was not observed, and the inhabitants there aro arming to resist the Wheaton mea should they return. Shot by a Negro Hotel Porter. Savannah-, Dec 8. Lewis Edwards, an 18 year-old negro boy, shot and killed E. J.

Smith, a hotel proprietor ot Jessup, this morning. Edwards was porter at tbe opposition hotel, and Smith resented toine of the negro's Impudence. Edwards drew a pistol and Smith a kulfc. and the two grappled. Edwards fired twice, snooting Smith.

through the heart, and was cut In the back. The crowd tried to lynch him, but he was put nn a train and brought to 8a-vanuah for aafcJkeeplM, WOODRUFF. KANSAS AFFAIRS IN KANSAS Jim Cummins Kill a Policeman. Parsons special: To-day a young man registered at the Centropolis hotel in this city as James Cumuiings, Alton, III. After upper he walked to the bat rack and taking the landlord's new hat, and leaving a poor one instead, walked oft.

The landlord summoned a policeman, E. K. Keyser, and the two started in pursuit of Cum-tilings, who was overtaken at the Missouri Pacific eating house. Officer Keyser caught him by the arm saying: "You are under arrest." Cummings asked the officer what the fins would be, and the officer told him the court would fix that, whereupon Cumminge drew his revolver and shot Keyser down on the platform, and, turning on the bystanders, ordered them to stand back," and then started away on a run. Officer Keyser is thought to be dying, and the affair hits created the greatest ex-Jciteinent "among- the citizens, who art making a diligent search for Cu minings, and it is thought he will be captured tonight.

Jim Cummings Captured. Parsons dispatch: Jim Cummings, the man who shot and fatally wounded Policeman Kyser here Thursday night, was captured at Altamont yesterday morning. He was seen entering the town early in the morning with a muffler tied over his head, he having lost his hat in his effort to get away from here that night. Dick Kyser, a brother of the policeman, was the first to see him, and having been notified by wire ol the shooting and given a description ol him, recognized him at once, and notified the marshal of Altamont, who, togethei with several men.effected his capture a short distance from town, he having hurried rVhen the posse approached him he drew a revolver huh warneu an 10 Keep ac a Bare distance, but there being too many for him to cover with his pistol, an advantage was gained over him, and he was compelled to surrender. The authorities here were notified, and went there as soon as possible after him, but the sheriff, having had notice, got there and took Cummings to Oswego before the Parsons authorities ar rived.

When captured he had two pistols on Ins person and a large sum of money. He will be brought here to-night on the midnight train. Kyser, the policeman who was shot, is yet alive, but has experienced a great deal of pain, and is gradually sinking. Excitenvnt runs high here, and should Kyser die before midnight the culprit will stand a chance of faring badly. GENERAL STATE NOTES.

Atchison special: The bridge spanning tie river at this point is again in court. The city brings the suit as usual, and the object of the proceeding is to have a receiver appointed, to compel an accounting, and to order the forfeiture of all stock except the $100,000 held by the city. The petition is voluminous, covering 200 closely written pages, and sets forth the history of the bridge from the beginning, alleging conspiracy and fraud on the part of the stockholders to defraud the city out ol $100,000 bonds, and that the majority of the stockholders obtained $1,000,000 worth of stock without paying anything therefor, thus making the city's stock ($100,000) lor which it gave $100,000 bonds, the only bona fide stock in the company. The marshal of Lawrence arrested two men charged with safe blowing at Topeka. They were taken to the latter city for examination.

Wichita special: The motion lor a new trial in the case of Carl McClintock. the wire murderer, was overruled by Judge Wall, and the prisoner was to-day sentenced to close confinement and hard labor for fifteen years in the state penitentiary at Leaven-worth. An appeal to the supreme court will be made immediately by his attorneys. Emporia special: Mrs. Minnie Wallace Walkup passed through this city to-day on her way from New Mexico to New Orleans.

She was met at Newton by Hon. William Jay, her guardian, and his wife, who accompanied her from Newton to this city for the purpose of transactingbusiness connected with the Walkup estate, and to inquire into the alleged irregularity between Mrs. Walkup and Senator Kellogg. Regarding the scandal, Mrs. Walkup said there was not a shadow ot truth in it.

The fact was, that Senator Kellogg and his Bister and herself were companions during her journey to New Mexico. She said that from childhood she had known the sena tor, ana tunc ne una always taken a fatherly interest in her, and that she was annoyed beyond expression by the vile slanders upon herself and her honored friend. Emporia special: The twentieth annual meeting of the Kansas State Horticultural society "began its session in the literary hall in the state normal school building in this city at 10 clock this A large attendance is gathering for the meeting, which is one of more than ordinary interest to tiie fruit growers ot the state, The meeting was organized by George Johnson, president pro tern, ot Douglas county. The session will continue for throe days, during which time a large number of papers will be read, covering the entire field ot horticulture. Osage City dispatch: A small house in a remote part ot the town burned this morning about 2 o'clock.

It was owned and occupied by an old negro and his wife, whose charred remains were taken out ot the ruins. Ilia name was George Clark. He was 8G years old. He was from Virginia, and had been a union soldier. An inquest and post mortem was held, but no signs of foul piny were discovered.

"Billy the Kid," who has just served out a sentence in the Wyandotte county jail for stealing a suit ot clothes at Amourdale, has been turned ovor to the sheriff ot Johnson county, where he is wanted on a charge of burglarizing the store of Johnson Kitchen, ot Olathe. A reward of $50, offered tor his apprension, will tall to the lot ot Wyandotte's young deputy sheriff, Dan Harris. The claims of Lawrence to be selected as the place for holding the next annual en campntent of the Kansas National Guard, will be pressed before the state board of managers. sion. It is now twenty-six years since the state was organized, and death has not yet visited any of the men who filled the executive ofiiee.

Commencing with Charles Robinson the record stands: Thomas Carney, S. J. Crawford, James M. Harvey, Thomas A. Osborne, George T.

Anthony, John P. St. John, George W. Glick and John A. Martin.

All of these gentlemen are still residents of the state, except Governor Harvey, whose health was such that he went to the mountains of Virginia, where he now resides. It is probable that they can nil attend the inauguration, and Kansas would present the novel and pleasing spectacle of all her governors sitting together on one platform, a sight that could not be witnessed in any other state in the Union having an age of a quarter of a century. Rev. Alex. MacKay Smith, of New York city, has been elected assistant bishop ot the diocese of the Kansas Episcopal church by the diocese convention of the Episcopal church ot Kansas.

The choice is a good one and meets with general satisfaction. THE PRESS THE MESSAGE. What the London Da llies Have to Say of tin Document, London special: The Daily News says ot the North American fisheries dispute, suggested by President Cleveland's message, that the governments ot Great Britain and tho United States ought not to allow the natter to rest until they have arranged a satisfactory settlement of the question Tho difficulty seems to be that America wants the right to fish, but New England does not want free trade, and the same in satiable creed of protection underlies the difficulty of disposing of the surplus reve nue. Protection will die hard, but Amer ica is beginning to be regarded with lit-creasing popular mistrust, and the pro posed revision of the tariff may be the beginning ol the end. The Standard says of President Cleve land's message: "The message is a sensible and statesmanlike production and emi nently pacific in its tone.

In it the note ot menace is heard, though in describing the state ot the fisheries question, the president throws undue blame upon the Canadian fishermen. Still there is not a word spoken that could excite hostility or rekindle strife." The Daily Telegraph says regarding the lisheries dispute: "Jnever were words included in an American president's message which more deserved the earnest and prompt attention of the British ministry tnnn those of president Cleveland concern' ing the questions ot the Canadian fisheries, To leave the dispute open now would be criminal short-sightedness." The Times says it is fortunate that the negotiations for the settlement ot the fisheries disputes are in the hands ot the two governments instead nf the immediate dis putants in the fishery question. The opposing Interests seem at this time to be too strong for any movement in America to- ward free trade. Desperate Fight With a Burglar. Wabash, 1m, Dec.

5. Late last night Ja cob Naglcy, a prominent Whitley county farm' er, was awakened by some one battering down his front door. Seizing a revolver he met the Intruder as the door fell and gave hlin a dote of lead. The Iwoclluclied and In toe strug gle Nagley'i face was disfigured for life, hi nose, being broken and hit right eve gouged out. The Intruder proved to be Bill Hoose.

a well known Columbia county character. He la fatally hurt He refuses to slate hi objee; oreaKinx into imsirie.v'i House Adelaide Patti will sing in Omaha If ihn can have a guarantee ot 16,000. -i.