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KEWS OF THE WES. THE MLBBYAIE REVIEW. RICE BUPLDICK, Publishers. WILTOX'ALE KANSAS. KMSAS STATE NEWS, i Phil Hekoi was dead at Nurtop tb tfer Ejoruiiig by Willi KUodo.

They mer frieatis and the killing; ee-uurrod wtii Loth wer intoxicated, HeroB was raoning restaurant and whuky jo.nt Rhodesia highly connected and had a bright future until strong drink got the better of aiut. Rhodes waived preliminary exaostaatiaa and was held for trial. Wbes William Stanley, a Koith topefcs g'rocerj-mau, went to hi star tb other Biorning be found but littl left except the bttdding aad empty shelves. Whea ha went away from bis store the evening previous it le tit wsll filled with a com-flet stock of grotriO', but during the night burglars bad visited it and uo thing was left but empty sbelv, birrels and bins. Fiour, ioat, tobacoo, cigars, sugar, fCe, potatoes very tiling worth havingbad ben carted away.

t'H September 16 Tiiomas A. blin, examiner and general agent of Lockwood Mortgage Company cf Welllugtbn, left bis heme in Pratt en a trip ia tbe interest Of his com pa iy, since which time nothing has been beard from bim, either by his family or company. Facts have since cunt tt liglit showing him to be a defaulter to the cempany to the amount of about 4,000. las ottier day Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Ridenour, of Ftrt Ecotti celebrated tbeit golden wedding. They baVe firty living Tee Brotherhood of Locoaioiive En-giuetrs met at Deuier, om th loth. Ins Alias line Aihos, which has rcarfaaj isew Y.uk afier terrible voyage, lepcu ts that Hippolyte, of Hayti, was busy preparing for bis eleciiesx Td people of Indiauar'i. ire refusing ts psy for rid lue street cars which hu "flipped the conductors and put back uie old box system. The Koi tb Alabama Lnmtr Company at Bridgeport, Al, has made am essigu-ment Liabilities, scheduled, iUO.WKi Ekwb lias reacted Constantinople that Terki-h scldrers hav mutinied at Canea, badly baeliug many of their officers, who endeavored to discipline tbam.

ociaust8 4eorated the grave of ths Anarchists in Waldbeim cemetery, Chi-caSQ, on the 17th. Two Ladies of Frankfort, I nit, were struck train at a crossing ths other defend fatally injured. Ths five Ape che Indians wb Were tried and convicted at Ai it, for murder have teen sentenced to be tidoged. thrive ere charged with the murdar ot ehl twa years ago and two with tbe der of Jones. Ons bus was killed and three fatally injured by the fall of a scaffolding at tbe new water work at Bethlehem, recently.

FxMayo Lewis, cf New Haven, proposes ai a World's Fair feature toreeognice the tilth annivers ry of the discovery of America by lighting great bonfire simultaneoualy on tbe hilltops all the country. Henry Wigfall. a barber of Atlanta, swallowed a bib bone recently and IMPORTANT RULING. Ilium; Tl i i I Will Mot IrttcHero WMt to rrwut IampoMatioa tt Mexicaa Ocea Coas-ro Moat Uocia tb Matter. Washisgtok, Oct ia Secretary Win-aom but Bight made public th long-ex-pected lead or dteitioa, ia which he sustained th pre seat claasificatioa, that admitted argentiferous lead ores imported roas Mexico fro of duty.

Th fSecratary, after reciting th ant-form deetsioas and practice of the depart-snoot Witk respect to tho classification of those ores since Its says: "Th it able -or aoa-dutiabl ebaraetar ef taess ores was th subject of sb inrestiga-tioa by tha Judiciary Committee of the Soaate. wba reported oa July 1B8, ia afreet, that ores of th character mentioned, aamely: ere eootaining snore lead ia weight thaa either gold and silver, but aaoro gold or silver than lead ia value arc aot ia th opinio ef tbe committee tul.j ct ta doty aader existing law. If tbe questioa presented were a aew one aad had aot beea tha subject of adm aistraliv construction fortified by tha opinion of tbe judiciary Committee of the Senate. 1 would feel at liberty to give greater considera-lioa to the weighty argument! which have beea adduced, tending to establish th da'iable character of all ores of thil detcriptioa containing lead ia appreciably or considerable quantity, th more so it it had been satisfactorily demonstrated tiat these ores are not known nor entitled to be known commercially as ores of silver. It aot having beea so demonstrated, and it being the fact tbat sine th original decision of 1680 oa this subject Congress hat re-enacted tbe pre-existing provisions of tba tariff with rerard to lead ore and silver ore respectively, 1 do aot feel at liberty to tet aside tb existing classification.

It QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, QaastluBS taw Iaar-tBta CiassnWott AbswckmI Bj taw KuiH BaHrnaa Hear. Topeka. Oot 18. Tb following letter written by th Board of Railroad CoauniaaioBar to th statistic ot th Commerce Corn luuuioa, will ba interesting raadiag te thea whose bnsi-Bess brings toe a ia coo tact with railroad companies, akowiug, as It ttoaa, the viavt of th Kansas board tituy C. Adam.

Eif 0tuiid Inltt-StaU Comment CtrnmUnea, Ct TOPEXA, Oct IT, lf Dear Sir: foot letter of September 1 Baa beea referred to tbe Board of Commissioners and I ass directed te answer it as follows 1 the Judgment ot the hoard is in aeoerd with the action of tbe general conference ot Uie Stata boards in providing for a practical anilorauty ia eomputatioa ot railway statistics ia their several reports, not front any comity of effhial obligation, but behaving it to a cooperation both reasonaM and profitable. Each uniformity, it is believed, Would result la great convenience whenever comparison of oondiuen and results anight be feuad desirable, at for those who might desir, er tie charge witk the euty of eompilinf a consolidated report a portion or oi all the States, as it becomes your duty to do under the auspices ot the later-State Commerce Commission. Tbe board does oot understand, however, what is meant by yoa ia saying tbat "the most effective organisation for statistical work is not attained whea the State Comas ssiens and th Inter-State Commeroe Commission adopt Wnt-cliy the same schedules," wben yoa bare worked sd strenuously aad successfully la bringing about this very Idrnticaluess, ia form and elassi Heal ion of schedules, apoa blanks at your owa devising. Answering your questions, as hereinafter reproduced, tne board Would say: First "How far is uniformity la th blank form for annual reports of carriers to the Stat Commissions ai a tbe Inter-State Commerce Commission desirable To snake comparison THE COMING CONGRESS. Tk TaxisT, eivil-Soi-Tico.

Tnuta aaa Km aetiwua Ul Occupy tst ApiMsastcaiBg Wasuingtox, Oct tl As anember-elect to lb Fifty-first Congress raack tha city gossip respecting tbe arganixatioa of th ntxt House cf Repiaseatativs aata-rally iaoi eases. Tb consensuses opiuiua saong an sabers-elect aew her iadieate tbat tb ttpeakfership will ga eituar to Maine. Mb heed, or Ohio, Mr. McKinley. Messrs.

Burrows, of Michigan, aad Can-bou, of llliLOis, mra b'-tth oa tb ground, however, and it is aud will at least snake the contest interesting before balloting beg'uis. At this lime it would be a very dilBcalt undertaking la pick out th stranger candidal. lujur Ji.uu Carson, of th Philadelphia Ledger, pears to have already practically capmred the clerkship of the next House la his modest way fa ha beea work ag all summer, and it is eiaimed by bit inerids that fas has pledges sufiicient to elect oa th first ballot. Colonel f-' words eppears to hav no rival for the posl ton of sei geant-at-arms, while there are several eatididatos tor tb offices of doorkeeper and postmaster. There am eot me ay Senators and Representatives ia Washington aow, but mi s' of those her expect a very interesting and busy session of Congress during the eoming winter.

Th tariff, trusts, th Civil-Servica laW, the lntsr'lstate Com-mere law, the educational question, a National election law and subsidies will be among ihe subjects that will engage tb attention of Congress. What are roe-Ogniked as tbe great questions of th day will for the mist part be presented a parly measures and ar likely to render tbe coming session a very important on. Senator Dolph thinks Congress will tak no step backward ia tbe matter of legislation cif Imer-State Commerce or Civil- Gleened by Telegraph and rEKSOSfit AND POLITICAL. ItaL desire a protootsfate over Abyssinia. A tbe Interior Department that I.diant ill bo to vote electtoa as remit of 'legislation.

Politicians 000- eiwcf men a very ascertain factor. C'ilehet Laws baa boea nominated by the Republican to succeed the late Mr. Laird, Congressataa from tlia Second Neliraska district. This new British Minister, ace aananled by Lady Fanticefote. arrive at Washington oa tbe 15ih.

The Freaueitt signified bis Inten- lioa to present at tbe laying r.f tbe comer rtone of the new Catboiic University at Brxk Mat ion. lid. FIB DANIEL CoocH, Ihe noted liritish civil engineer, died la London recently aped eeveaty-rour. Ibs Rapublicpa csueus at Pierre. li eelectid F.n PettifreW, hf Sioux Fallt, and Judge G.

tX Moody, of Deadwood, for United Senators. COSGRESSMAH KEWTO A. KCTTIXO died at iiome in Oswego. N. a the 15th.

Ei-Govebor A. PlRKT, ot iTloi ida, died recently ia xa. Toe Loyal Lesion met at Phila Jelpbia oa tli Gib, nhea ex-President liayes was re-elected Cotamauder-in-Cliief. It is believed tliat tha Afrieaa explorer Monk baa been tilled I bis aietl on the Zimbesi river. I lbkrt KiWBAU.

Cnited States District Attorney, died at Kansas City, Mo, on the ICib of congestive chills. TOT death of General John P. Hartranf I Vacancy in the Cherokee Com missi, and no'bin? more can be done now toward sacurinf tke Stiij in tha Indian VerrSiury for settlemeut until VftcRhcy is tilled. tlsniiNY bns publicly announced her refusal to recognici Uataafa as Kiitjfof Hamos. Oliver BoSBYsnsLt, hal Lfeen fip.

pointed supcriuteud at of tha mint at Pbiladeiplila, Mooiy and Pettlrew have been formally declared elected by the Dakota Leginlalura Amos J. CiMMrxos. the Welbinown correspondent and mbar of the editorial of tlie Kdw York Bun, lias been aomiLated by 'l'amniany to fill the vtieanc-in the nth disuict caused by the death of Sunset" Cor. This Pres -nt has appointed P.ichard E. Sloan, of Aiizona, to be Associate Jui-lice of Ihe Pnprt-me Court of Ar.

ma. IT is annnuueed tbat Mr. Glad-tone will iloliver 1)1 ud lrcsi at Mancbet-r on December 3 It is expected that he will issue a manifesto on thepolitical i-i uation in tbe Untied King om. (ifcSEKAL UARTKANPr. ez-Qovernor of Pennsylvania, died at Norrislown on tbe 17 li in a comhinution tf kidney troubles.

Hear AmnitAi. Walker expects to sail with bis squadron sometime in November, lie will proceed first to Lisbon and thence to Fayal. Pitisca Ferdikand, of Bulgaria, it was reported, traveled strictly ir.ognita during bis recent Visit to tbe Paris Exposi-, 1 ion, (earing tbat attempts would be mad on bis life, Kaooib MitchklL, tbeactres, has married ber malinger, ChBrlef Abbott, IISCKLI.ANKOrit It is understood tht tf.e Iowa Indians are wi tins to their lands in severalty. Tha In Commission will shortly tisit the Kickupoos and tho Sac and Fox, other tribes in tho Indian Territory to Induce them to acced3to tbe term of the act. Ev the upsplling Of the schooner Laura in the EnM river, off So Yoi'lc, tbe other morning throe of lbs crow frere drowned.

Tde Fariucis Alliance of Georgia has decided to build a huge warehouse at At-lant Id handle tho products of the farthers of the State, The ihree-j-osrs'bld daughterof George lloitljrv bVing near Clack River Falls, is thought to hare been devoured by a benr. THKAm'-rican Forestry Congress met in convention at Pbilndelphia on the 10: h. iNDrASAi'OUS and Cleveland bevo ds-c ared in favor of Chicago for the World's Fair. A DotUeni recently, a riot occurred between Alliance men and townspeople which resnlied in death of two Alliance men the mortal wounding of two cily marshals and the serious wounding of five other Alliance and townsmen. Tbe troub grew out of the taxation of Alliance propel Biz persons were killed ahtjthroe jttred by an accident on iKe Siount Auburn inclined r.i!'.Vay at Cincinnati on tbe 1-5 h.

Tne machinery refused to act and a car was precipitated to thi bottom and shattered to fragments. Cambrx, was badly damaged by fire on the IGi.u. Tde Mission creek country in Minnesota wng ravaged by tires. Much lumber was burned. G.

Ejffntes, of Brooklyn, H. special agent of tbe General Land-ofTlce, has been dismissed. Squires was formerly private secretary tb Pension Commissioner Tan 11 eh Tits International Maritime conferencs met at Wasbi igton on the 10. h. Tbe delegates were cordially welcomed by Secretary Blniao.

An explosion occurred in a Staffordshire (England) colliery on tbe 1-Vli. Seventy-five miners were entombed. Tbe first searching parties found sixty dead bodies. TrtB State of Kansas has been awarded a gold medal for the best agricultural re-port also a silver medal for its labor report Honorable mention" was awarded to the Conway Springs and Douglass Sugar Companies William Draper and John Olson were hanged at Flacei ville, on the 16th for the murder of John Lowell on bis rauch March, John Myers was banged Inst November for tbe same crime, bis two accomplices escaping for a time by taking nn appeal. The accident on the Mount Auburn Inclined planeat Cincinnati was caused by a little piece of iron which got wedged In the cut-oil valve.

Feav.s are expressed that the tour of the Pan-American delegates has been overdone, many of them being positively weary of the rushing from town to town and the endless sight-seeing. A Boston disratuh says the entire plant of the Brush Eloctrto Company bns been sold to the Thomson-Homtoa Ebctric Company for a cash consideration of 250.000. The reported railroad collision in Colorado between Burlington and Union Pacific passenger trains was found to be false. The Long Hoi or Red river of China has been opened to commerce. In tbe railway nation at Brussels, Belgium, the other day, a passenger train dashed into buffers at full speed, wrecking several carriages and injuring thirty persons.

Bt a collision between a car left on the track at Heal and a freight train the other morning many cars were wrecked, one man was killed and several others were Injured, Tuber cases of small-pox wer reported in Boston recently, the first in over a year. 1 The Missouri Pacific roatf announces that It will quote established rates be tween Chicago and Kansas City In connection with the Illinois Central and Van dalta, This opens another line between Chicago and Kaniai City, making eight i .11 CURBENT COMMENT. The Hock Island is open for business to Kingfisher, Ok. The following are intermediate stations; YVuukoinia, llennetscy and IJ anion. A jif.ceek winding up Ilia Wabash receivership of Geoeral John MoNulta as entered by consent of all creditors and other interested parties by Judge at Chirap-o on the ISth.

Chief Jistke Frixrit Bays that the notion cf the Andrew Jackson League in Chicago in nominating him for President was entirely unauthorized. Ho is well enough satisfied with, his present jiosition. The French Minister of War proposes to double the army corps at ICawy and to double the railway fcil-ities from Lille, Lyons and Besancon to the tteru'an frontier, so that 80,000 troops cti.n reach there in three days. The Cabinet meeting of the 15th was davoted almost exclusively to the discussion of trade relations with Mexico and the retaliatory policy as reported by Minister Kyan. It was said the Cabinet approved of Secretary Wiudotn's roposed decision on lead oro.

A recent statement issued by the Treasury Department gives the value of articles of breadstuTs exported during September at a de crease of nearly OOftOOO as com pared with September 188a For nine months, briv.occr, increase is near ly J7.000,JO The Austro-IIungarian Cabinctcris's is eudod and Von Tisza'a Cabinet will continue in office. Harmony has been restored through the concessions of Emperor Francis Joseph, who has ngreed to the designations "Imperial Austrian Army" and "Royal Hungarian Array." John Doi-ghiikty was married to the daughter of a well-to-do mechanic of Harlem, N. the other day. hav iny been taken from prison to the bride's home for tho performance of the ceremony. Five minutes later he was sentenced to Sing King for two years tor burglary.

Co.vsft Gaik, of Christiana. Noi way, reports to the State Department that there is likely to be an increased cj ignition of Mormons from Norway io the United States during the com ing year. The Mormons have nine stations and a large number of work ers in Norway, and since 1852 have tent 0,000 Norwegians to Utah. Till Matox, the oldest moonshiner southwestern Kentucky, has been captured, uilicero have been ing for him for the past twenty-five ears, tie was eaptred on the Tennessee river whiio soiling fish. In 1879 posse went to Mayfield, to cap ture -Jiilon.

He turned the tables, rapturing their guns and routing them. The Attorney-General has decided that the appointment of J. M. Taylor, of Illinois, in the railway mail servic April was even though Taylor did not take ttos oath until rome time after 'nw Civil-service rules went over that ret vice. The Attorney-General holds that the appointments are legal trom dates when made, and not wV-n the appointee 13 sworn la.

Govehsmlxt officers have seized the iVstillery of Freiburg Werkum. at Lynchburg, on a charge, of defrauding tho United Slates by equalizing shortages in packages before the ganger measured tho contents. Thte, it is claimed, saved to them the payment of much Government tax and being a violation of revenue laws subjected the entire property to seizure. Tho whisky seized amounted to more than a. million gallons.

There are a great many fires in the marshes and prairies in the vicinity of Faribault, Minn. Fox lake, which is now a grass-grown marsh, Is oh fire and the peaty bottom is burning down to the clay. The burning tract corn prises about one hundred acres. Fires also have been burning Rear Mud lake, and have burned holes in the peat live feet deep. Other fires are also burning neUr Faribault in marshes, woods, causing great loss.

The will of Mary J. Havemeyer. tho widow of William Havemeyer, the millionaire sugar refiner, was filed for probate at New York recently. Tho entire estate is divided among five children. Tho sixth, Mrs.

Agnes Jo-sephine Burnham. Js exempt from division because "she is happily married and her position guarantees her sill needed comfort and support." She is. however, permitted to select two pieces of her mother's jewelry as a token of affection. AVitii a view to checking the frequent desertions from the army, paragraph 008 of tho regulations governing enlistment, has beon amended so that recruits shall be dotainl si days after signing the declaration of intcnuon to onlist. They will during that time bo instructed in their new duties, and if at tho end of that period they desire to enlist they will be sworn in; but if they should change their minds or any good objection bo raised then they will be permitted to depart At tho recent session of the National Hoard of Trado at Louisville," resolutions were passod opposing any modification of tho Inter-State Com ruerce luwv especially of the clause prohibiting pooling, and favoring National supervision of insurance and uniformity of insurance legislation, a reduction of Federal revenues in the way which will least embarrass Industries and trade, Congress to con-fcidor plans for irrigation and recipro city trade rolattons with Canada.

There wns cnorgctlc discussion, but on final vote very little opposition to Jhcso resolutions. grandchildren and Din great-grand- children. 1 be jewelry sfo-e of L. Viets, at Augusta, was completely cleaned aut If burglar th cttief ulgbb At an early hour the oth morning the Lawrero water works engin house was damaged to the extent of H0U4 by fire. The fir was caused by spontaneous com bustion iu the coal bin.

Arkie Gbim the daughter of a pro'jiU sVit Douglas County tarmer, recently eloped with James ilson, the hired man of her father. Tbe first convention of (he Young Men's Christian Association Of Kansas Was held in Topeka in with Only th irty-eevt delegates present. Oa tha 17th ot tbe present month the annual conventirnof the Y. M. A.

was again held at To peka with over eight tuadred delegates present Tlie conven tion was a vety interesting one and thS following (Ulcers were elected: President, Manford Ecnoon- over, Garnatt; first vice-president, W. H. Howell, Baker University second vice-president, Hobbi, Kansas City, Kan secretary, W. W. Bowman, Concordia) assistant secretary) B.

W. HayWri Wash' b'drti College; assistant press secretary, A. L. Ackley, State University. Mat, the fifteen-year-old daughter of Slier.

ff Thomas B. Bowling, of Wyandotte County, recently eloped with t)llie ft, a stfeet car conductor, aged twenty-one years. Telegrams were sent in all directions for the arrest of the elopers, lut they had got the start and were married at Cafthage, 1 A ii. Bem dict. an old gentleman of eighty-five years, residing five miles northeast of Lawrence, was thrown from his wagon tbe other evening and injured so seriously that he died the following day.

The State Board of Railroad Commissioners recently made an inspection of the Southern Kansas dUismn of the Hantit Fe' road i 0111 lloliiday to infield and notified tha cfli -ers cf tbe company that tbe truck from lloliiday to Ottawa was in a very unsatisfactory condition, and at other points the rails were badiy worn. At tbe recent biennial session of the Grand L-gHm S' 1 ct Knights A. O. V. held at F.mporio.

tho following ofiiaers Were iiricseui brand commantierj T. A Alden, of Atc hison grand vice'cofn1 mander, J. A. Rgnell, McPlierson; grand iieutebant-coirmander, Halloweil, Wichita; grand r- order, E. M.

Ford, Emporia; grand ireanurer, A. Huntoon, TopSkaf grrtud str.tidard Waror, Ri Pi Ray, Top ka; grand senior workman, Green, Topeka; grand junior workman, Ed. Bussdl, Ltwrence; grand guard, J. P. Dunciin, Io.a; grand medical examiner, J.

B. Hibben, Topeka. A r.iciNT letter rece.ved at Topeka frm Washington stated that General A. B. Canip' ell, of Topekn, has been a-tsuied of an appointment as Consul at Melbourne Australia; IsMrmaTids reiSsnt'y fefceiVod at Td-peka from tbe Paris Exponitiori was td tbe effect tbat the State of Kanst.g had been awarded a gold medal for tbe beat agricultural report exhibited, Henderson, the colored boy who shot and killed his step-father at tjoaVeii worth last spring while the latter was abusing bis wife (voting Henderson's mothei) was recen ly tried and acquitted.

The Parkinson Sugar Company, of Fjrt Sci has just closed a most successful staton in spit the delays incident to the wet weather in tbe spring. The product of marketable sugar will be about 5 10.000 pounds, The run on the 18. was 13 (W0 1 ounds from cane that was planted July 11 FlJt tmoBsakb Southern cheep were lafely d.iven into Russell County. It is stated that the most si: cess ii sugar making th year with tha highest pr.ide of molasses has been that of tbe Wcii'a fr-ugnr Company, at Conway Springs. In addit'on to fifty barrels of per day.

a car load of sirup per dry was turned ciT, every drop of whUh for the en li season has been coi icted at more than twenty cents per gallon. The will of tbe late Bishop Vail contained the following brqiiests: College of tbe Sisters of Bethany $1,000 to be invested by the tinace and held as a scholarship to aid tbe education and support of a clergy man's daughter, to be named by the Bishop of the doce.se and to be known as "Bishop Vail scholarship in aid of a poor clergy-man's daughter;" Christ's Hospital College of tbe SUtsrs of Btthany to be known ni tbe Montgomery H. Clurkson scholar in aid of a poor clergyman's daughter. Bishop Vail's extensive library is given to the chapter of Grace Cathedral, excepting flity volumes to Rev. John Bo well.

Tbe library is to be placed iu a suitable room or rooms aud held ft the future benefit of the diocese of Kansas or any future dioojse which shall Include the city of Topeka. There are ten minor quests to members ot tha family of 4300 to $3,000 each. Fort Ecott is exceedingly happy over the prospect of becoming the 'nter of tbe Gould roads in Southern Kansas. Samuel Gii.pi', a resident of Lincoln County, was recently shot six times through the body, two shots going through tbe lungs Iy a man named Woody. Gilpin had Illegally sold Oklahoma land to Woody.

From January 1, to September 80, Kansas built within her border, (34 miles of railroad under the management ot four companion. The sheriff of Hliawneo County recently took eleven prisoners to tbe penitentiary, all in one batch. Their terms of service ranged fiorn fifteen months to fifteen years. During the recent nbsence from home of Mr. and Mrs.

B. B. Taylor, of Lenexa, their home was entored by burglars who turned the furniture and household goods topsy turvy and carried off a number of articles of value. They secured $27.69 In money, soveral silk handkerchiefs, a gold watch chain and a pair of gold rimmed spectacles belonging to Mr, Taylor, Tub nine-year-old daughter of 8, Brown, a prominent farmer living near Harrington, fell into a vat ot boiling sorghum the othor evening. Thi entire body was scalded and she died in the greatest agony a few mlnutei after the soeident The Kansas Select Knights A.

O. U. W. met in biennial sos.ion at Emporia on the IB over sixty lodges being represented. died soob after in great agony from stranpn'ation.

The lactory and stork of tha fine Door Lumbc Company of Grant's Pass, Oi was destroyed by fire the otber night. The loss was The marine conference at Washington is devoted to the discussion ot technical tnaiters. Washington Is beginning to loom Us World's Fair project The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in session in New York elected officers as follows: President, B. Storra, D. D.t viee'prfesidenti E.

W. ttchferdt recording secretary, Henry A. Siimsoi; assistant recording secretary, E. N. Packard; treasurer, Lengdon ti Ward.

At tin meeting cf the railway brake-men in Minneapolis Ho.u L. S. Kaffin, of Iowa, advised them tt urge Congress to take action iu the matter ot safety appliances Joseph Pacl, a Chicago boy, met an awful deaib recent y. He was olMght between an Immense fiy wheel and the beltinr. It is csiinittted that 6,000,000 persons will have visited the Paris Exposition when it closes.

Jonx Lewis, Jerome Race and Thomas Cooney, three voHths of eigliteoh, were instanily killed on the Hudson Hiver traek ttonr Hudson, N. Y. recently. They stepped from one tracis toahother tB aVid a train When a locomotive dtruek them. Tbe Emperor of China has authorized the building of a railroad between Pckin and Hankow, Tna cotton oil trust has filed application to Increase its capital stock to and form a corporation, thus avoiding tbe legal penalties to which It was liable In New York.

C'i'IU no abolished mftnV ilhWt duties on to )ls arid ihaterial used in agriculture find the building of railroads, etc. One of tbe scrub women at tbe Hamburg (Germany) zoological gardens was killed recently by a jaguar which managed to eciio ber through the bars pi his cap. Secretary Winbow ha5 annfluriced that he will retain tlie bid Hl'en governing tbe importation ot Mexican lead ores. BcaiNESS failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended October IT numbered 203, compared with 221 the corresponding week of last yean Toe figures inciu le Canada, Mccn destilution is reported among tho foreign laborers at Lynch's canning works, Kent County, Md. The manager bad departed leaving tbe men with checks which the stcr refused to honor.

An immense prairio fire was reported raging a few miles from Bismarck, N. on the i8th. The village of Monokin was entirely swept away. Tbe inquiry at the Jfeffersrin barracks, St Louis, bna tilled. Tbe depositions meke ii')0 pages.

At Uiilsport, Lamar County, a few days ago, William Auercrombie, white, of Birmingham, held up the expross agent and secured received by him n'ghfe 'i'Oe lY ostein whisky trust is said to be scheming to break up tbe outside distilleries. Half a mi. lion dollars will be spent if necsjsnry. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Ghken Kaum has been appointed txmimis-ooner ot Pensions.

Tns King of Portugal who bad pre viously been reported dead on a faldt telegram, died at Lib jn on the ID. hi Hii eldest son, the Duke of Braganza, sue ceerls him as Carlos Bv the Lurning of a stove at Lemons, Belgium, recently tbe proprietor and throe assistants were burned to death. Thr Kerv an tSkutschina opened on the iWih. Governor Foraker, of Ohio, who bad been extiemely Bick, was reported on the lair way to recovery on the 20th. The village of Curiisi, 011 tbe Wisconsin Central railroad, north of Marsliliold, was destroyed by fire recently.

Loss, $100. 003. THE London Stock Exchange was de pressed during tho week ended Octohet iX 1 be Continental bourses were re porled quiet wilb an upward tendency at usiiin. A creditor of Bnlford, Clarke the publishers, whoso failure occurred re ceutly, states that the dim have notiflod creditors of thoir readiuess to puy all claims in full. Naplkb was partially innndnted on tbe 20th.

Violent storms were reported at that city and other parts of Italy. Wrilb Prince William, of Wurtornberg, was driving to church at Lu Jwigburg on the was fired upon by a man named ivlaiber, who upon being arrested ex claimed: "It is high time Wurtombtir; bad a Cutho ic King." The PrinC9 was not hurt Iba would-be assasiin was supposed to be derango The icons cf Mississippi have withdrawn thuir Klnte ticket and issued a protest to the Nation saying that free speech and a free ballot in Mississippi are A construction train on the Confluence and Oaklnnd branch of the Baltimore Ohio railroad was wrecked near Pills-burgh, recently. Two men wore killed and a large number badly Injured. A new oil territory bns been developed at Miinninglun, W. Va.

The well is dolug sixty barrels on hour. The well is owned by Him Htnudard O.I Coinnanr. li a nn itt, the millionaire soap maker, died in. New York 011 the 20th, aged eighty, I he Kuntlnn revenue last year was 34 000,000 roubles moro than tbe expondit ures. A kko of powder exploded st Bryant swilc.i in the Choctaw Nation, In a coal pit recently.

Hizloon men were In tbe mine at Ihe time, four of whom were fa tally tin rn id. A cow cuuxeil a bad wreck on the North irn Pacific, forty-seven milos fr.iui Port land, recently, Jtiruss Nolan was fatally injured! the engineer, II. Jones, seriously. Count Okuma, Minister of Foreign Af fairs, Japan, wus slightly wounded the other day by a would-be outaisju, Tbe latter committed suli'lde, of like facts and results collated by the several boards available for ready reference, comparison or consolidation is a report of the later Commission, uniformity should be absolute ia both 8 ate aad Inter-State tabulation of all like facts. If eo operation la desirable at all, as all have at your instance aefeed it was, then It must be in this absolute uniformity.

6eeond ''Does the form furnished this year by the Inter State Commeroe Commission meet the requirements of your filatel If not point out the particulars in which it fails." Yes, the 'present form meets the requirements ot our Slate and is substantially the same as heretofore used. the law of your State interfere in any way with the freedom tit youv investigations" No. The law does not dictate nor limit the field of investigation. The board is left with full freedom and discretion. Fourth "Would you think it wise, for purposes ot statistical inquiry, to separate roads ifrtd Stat rads and Inter-Stato roads It might be serviceable find certainly interesting, to bave some company divide Itt records, accounts and statistics into blocks.

Ihowing each State as a nnft. fn all respects, but this would be a severe exaction upon the companies which has thus far been deemed try the board as costing more than Its value. If, however, the Interstate Commerce Commission has the pawn and tbe disposition to enforce such a division the board would be pleased to aceept reports from companies of this State made ia compliance witb such exaction. "VViat tjuestfons of importance in railway economy suggest then-solves to yoa as worth Investigating?" The question of prime Importance is not so much a statistical showing of what we bave as tbe practical application Of comiden sense in correcting the abuses and healing the dlfTcrenees which have arisen in tbe relations of tbe people an the carrying corporatio they have by law created to serve them. To find some common plane of interest end sympathy for public aad corporate interests, Which are so closely allied as to be practically one, to travel upon.

Tbe board is constrained to look upon the question as one ot wise statemenshtp rather than of elaborate statistics, and that its statistical work and elaborations should begin and end witb that which can be popularized, utilized, and made efletnive for immediate use and benelit of the public. "In short, please give youf reply the result of your thought and experience with regard to the bearing of statistics on the performance of the duties devolving upon railway commissions find of the proper adjustment of the relations between the State Commissions and the Interstate Commerce Commission, to far as statistics arc concerned." As to tbe final Question, the biard believes it to hav'6 been substantially answered In the preceding paragraphs. It concedes the propriety of a free interchange of opinions add observation be tweeu tbe several State boards arid the Inter-Slate board, to the full extent of value in such advising relations. Also the uniform classification of all facts existing in common, to the end that the work of each may be made accessible to and easily understood by all tbe others. Very truly yours, Cbaules S.

Elliott, Secretary. A BROKEN RAIL, A Bather Bad Accident on the Santa Fe Presence or Midd of the Conductor Saves the Train From Burning The Injured, Hutchinson, Oct. 19 As train No 4, Known as tbe "Cannon Santa Fe railroad, was nearing Howell, a small station on the main line five miles east of Cimarron and twenty miles west of Dodge City, yesterday afternoon about one o'clock, a broken rail was encountered at a point where there is a fill about ten feet high. Tbe engine and tender and first express car passed over the break and remained on the track. The baggage car and two coaches were turned literally upside down, A sleeping car was turned over on its side, and a Pullman sleeper was thrown partly off the track.

The last two Pullman cart did not leave the track. Conductor Tbornburg, who livet at Newton, saved the train from tbe horror of a fire. He was standing in tbe second coach near tbe stove which was very hot, ml was badlv bruised by tbe fall. He eot up and discovering the coals falling out of the stove be bravely shut tbe door and held it with bis right band till the coals bad all fallen Into the other end of the stove and all was safe, His hand and face was badly burned. Tbe passengers acted nobly and took several people from tne second coacn windows.

Mrs. C. Dankle, of Lamar, an old lady, was very seriously in- lured internally and may yet die; Mr. X- B. Alman, of Elgin, 111., an old man, was also badly hurt; Miss May Lapton, ot Keokuk, Iowa, was burton tbe lace ana badlv bruised about the body; B.

Knapp, of Falls City, bad his collar bone broken; D. H. McCreeth, of Lawrence, had his head, nick and chest in lured and bruised. A score of others were more or less severely hurt A Nefarious Practice. Kansas Citt.

Kan Oct 19 The Packers' Union ot this city is making 1 strone effort to put a stop to dealers ship nine to the ttock yards in cars overloaded and "mixed." It is a daily occurrence to see cart coming into the yards loaded with cattle and bogs in one car. Yesterday car was nnloaded and nine bogs were found dead that had been trampled to death by tbe cattle. The shippers, to save rroicrht- load the car first with cattle and then drive in as many bogs under the nara will allow. Tbe boas thus 1 shipped are as a general thing bruised and I totally unfit for food. The inspectors in Ihe packing bouses claim Wat tne greaier mninritv ot second-class bones and shoulders are due to the "mixed" loads.

Mns-irla Mitchell Married. Nsw York Oct 19 A Boston speoial to tha Heraid says; Miss Maggie Mitchell became Mrs, Charles Abbott in Boston, It is stated, on Saturday last, but It it not known where or by whom the ceremony was nerformed. When Mist Mitchell married Paddock the did it to quietly that no one knew it until two monies nan elapsed. Bbe seems to have pursued a similar policy on this occasion. Wisconsin Fires.

MABBHrttLD, Wla, Oct 19. Forest flret ro raslnn- In many placet in tbls vicinity, onto of the conflagration! being Iu dangerous proximity to mills and, lumber mast be assamed tbat the rulings and practice of the department were knowa to Congress whan it passed tbe tariff act ot lm. It must be held tbat the designation of lead ore and ailver ore in tbe tariff in tb absence of legislative definition was that of existing decisions that Congress in tended tbe Classification should turn on tbe question of value and not of quantity. It is therefore considered tbat this department is without authority ta change the departmental and Congressional definition of these ores, and in faith of which large business interests baVs been estab lished. "That Congress did not intend to impose duty upon tbe lead which might be found in the different ores but oniv upon such ores as were then recognised under the decisions of tbe department as lead ores, Is gathered from the otber parts of the tariff acts, for in paragraph 1K0 'cupper' is made dutiable whenever found in ore, and in paragraph 191 'nickel' is also made dutiable whenever and in ore or othor crude forms.

In those cases it is clearly tbe metal contained in the ore which is made subject to duty, and bad the same form of expression been used in reference to lead that metal would have been duti- bie at tbe rate prescribed whenever found ia ore. ''According to well settled rules of statutory construction this difference in tbe form of expression must be deemed to indicate a florent legislative intent and to limit tbe authority of tbe department to impose duty in such cases to the ore itselt under existing rules of classifica tion. I consider, therefore, that the present classification has attained the force of Congressional enactment, and that change, if desired, mu be sought in Congressional intervention. It however, ores of this description ar imported, which are distinctly known as lead oree in tbe legal and commercial sense, tbey would as such be dutiable. It is deemed advisable in this connection to enjoin upon customs ofii 'eis a strict en forcement of the regulations 01 tnis de partment intended to correct abuses which formerly existed in tbe metn'Os ti entry, sampling and classification of ores of the character mentionel JILTED AT THE ALTAR.

Scnrvy Way of Treating an Expectant Bride. PabkersbURG, Oct 19. A long anticipated wedding in high Catholic circles here had a sensational set-back which may result iu the death of tbe bride expectant. G. A.

Barger, a young man ot wealth and social tanding in Wheeling, ana miss tle Ross, equally high in position in this city, were to have been married yesterday. The bans bad been duly proclaimed from tbe altar of tbe Catholic Churcb, and all preparations bad been made for the wedding. The bride pro vided herself with an elaborate trousseau and tbe Cathedral bad been decorated for the ceremony. The young man's business affairs, it was known, would keep bim absent until tbe last moment, so nothing was thought ot bis non-arrival. The carriages with tbe wedding pariy started for the young lady's borne, the groom being expected at tna altar.

Tbe churcb was thrown open and the bridal party was filing in wben tho father of tbe bride was banded a dispatch and told to read it bsforo passing into the church. It was from Barger and said: 'I bavo changed my mind and transferred my affection to another. To-day I have mar- ried a lady of this citv." Miss Ros fainted and was with difficulty taken bao1 to her home. She now lies critically Tbe greatest indignation it felt at the currence and a warm reception awi's Barger when he shows himself. Sentenced to He Hanged.

New York, Oct. 19. Judge Manln sentenced Henry Carlton, alias H.tidsomo Harry," yesterday. Carlton 'Ot and killed Policeman James Brrnan. He was pale and nervous.

Whervasked what he bad to say why judgment should not be pronounced, Carlton, gripping the bar with his white, cold hsd, said in a studied speech that he was not guilty of murder In the first degiee. Judgo Martin said the jury acted justly and properly, and sentenced Carlton to bo hanged on Thursday, Decembfro. Carlton henrd bis sentence unmovet. Then Clerk Sparks read in bis sonorous tone the black-edu'ed death warrant, commit ing Carlton to the custody of tba sheriff, otid commanding the sherilf to tarry out the mandate of the court. Immense Prairie Fire Bismarck, N.

Oct. 19 -An immense prairie miles in extent, bns been raging tU day within a few miles cf here. Efforts of farmers to chrdttbe conflagration htve been unavailing and a large number ot farms have already been destroyed. A strong wind has been helping the fire along and the flnmes make leaps of over twenty feet Tbe village of Menokln, fourteen miles below here, consisting of sixteen blocks, is entirely twept away and the inhabitants are reported destitute. Tbe wind is rap-Idly carrying the fire to Bismarck and the city it enveloped in smoke and flying cinders.

The residents apprehend great danger. Three Young Men Killed. Hudson, N. OjI. J9 Three young men, residents of thit city, John Lewl, Jerome Race and Thomas Cooney, about eighteen yean old, while proceeding up the traok ot the Hudson River railroad, where run over by a locomotive of a freight train at they etepped from the track to let tb train pass.

They were alt killed Instantly. China Waking Up. New York, Oct. 19 The Emperor of China has Issued an edict which authorizes the building ot the projec ted railroad between Pekln and Hankow, This Indicates the triumph of Viceroy 1.1 and tbt other progressive leader bei-viCe reforift. Both th Inter-State Commerce law and tbe Civil-Servic iaW, be thinks, will probably ba amended, but not so to destroy their efficiency.

Wherever amendments ara made' to either will aefef the purpose of tradtcatina; lfets disclosed by experiencs and to make them more effective. The race question, he says, will undoubtedly be discussed in connection with the contested elec tion cases and independently of them. It le a Lire Question arid will hot dowh at any bidding. He feels confident that the tariff will he revised and the source of the revenue diminished. Som measures not very dissimilar to tbe Senate bill will be passed.

It is possible, be thinks, that trim? bill upon the subject of trust will be pUssed; ut the subject must be dealt with In the main by the States. The power of Congress over this subject is so limited as to render ot little value any law which it may pass to prevent or control trhts id the 8, ate. Congressman brown, tit Iridiaria, thinks a revision of the revenue system tbe most in porlant lest on awaiting the actiou of Congress and favors ths repeal of tbe tax On tobaccd a lid on alcohol Used In the arts and a reduction of the tax on sugar. Something will probably be done regarding the seal fisheries and also the Canadian fishery dispute. These questions, however, will not divide tils parties.

Hs has no doub there will be some amendment to the Inter-State Commerce law and Congress will undoubtedly legislate on the Mibject of trusts, it it is possible to define a trust iu such ft way as not t) interfere with legitimate business. Congressman Hitt, of Illinois, thinks it rather too early to make any predictions about what Congress will do at tbe coming session. No conference of even the most informal kind has yet been held, so tbat no means of judging what dltier members ore considering is to be had. Then, shifting of opinion on many important points is 10 likely tbat a judgment now is not very apt to hold when actual voting on questions begins in Feb. rcary and March.

Something in the way of amendatory legislation lo tbe Interstate Commeica law may be expected. As to the Civil-Servo law, too many Congressmen of both parties are pledged to its support to allow its repeal. Tbe subj'Ct ot trusts will probably be involved ii the discussiou ot the tariff, which will of course come uo next session. BRIDGES AND STREAMS. The Way Proceedings May He Taken Against llrjilg That Obstruct Navigation.

Washington, Oct. 20. Secretary PfoC tor has prepared a Circular of instructions respecting the practice to be followed in Casts where bridges over navigable streams are said to be obstructions to commerce. When such complaint or charge is made, tbe chief of engineers shall refer it to the engineer officer in charge of tbe disttict in which tbe alleged obst ruction is located. He shall make an examination to determine whether or not the bridge is an obstruction, and 863 whether or not it can be removed.

In determining this tbe person or corporation controlling tbe bridge shall be given an opportunity to appear before the officer. Tho latter shall report to the chief of eng rioers, Who shall lay the report before tbe Secretary of War. The Secre tary upon this report may order a board of tllicers to examine the bridge, tbe same routine to be followed by it as by the single officer. Wben this report reaches tbe Secretary be may bear interested parties upon the matter, granting continuances from time to time as may i proper, so that tbe question sba 1 be thoroughly discussed and presented before a decision is reached. Hopeful Harbour.

WAsmsoToa. Oct. 20; Senator Barbour, of gin ia, under whose auspices tbe Democratic canvass in the old common wealth Is being conducted, stated that tbe Democrats were well satisfied with the condition of affairs. He said that the hostile attitude of Mr. Langston toward General Malione might operate considerably to Mahone's disadvantage; that Ma-bono was counting on the negroes voting the Republican ticket regardless of their feeling toward him personally and ot tbe manner In which bo might treat them.

Mabone might make a miscalculation In this regard and tbe negroes simply bleed bim and Mr. Quay. About ten leagues trom Oleron, In the department of the Lower Pyrenees, lies the hamlet of Gou situated on the summit of a high mountain. It consists only of a few scattered cottages with a population ot about a hundred persons forming an industrious and striving community who support themselves by wool silk weaving. Belonging neither to Franca nor Spain, tho bainlet constitutes a small, Independent State, under tbe government of a council of alderman.

No rates nor taxes ot any description are paid, for tbe Republic of GouBt possesses neither a salaried clerrymin, nor mayor, nor any other cfli nals. In tbe neighboring parish of Laurens their children ore baptised, their citiiens married and their dead buried. Tbe cemetery of Laurens adjoint tbe boundaiyof Goust and the coffin with its occupant is made to slide dowu a channel specially dug out tor the at the only road leading to Laurens is so steep as to be Impracticable for tbe conveyance of heavy burdens oa men's shoulder. Tbe cltizent of tbe Republic attain a great ag and a goodly number ara oenteutarlans. The young men, at a rule, get their wives from abroad, chiefly from near Laurens.

For centurie past the population has remained stationary, and their ancient manners and customs have been preserved with remarkable fidelity. Ths tiny Kapubllo has a language ot IU own, a croti between French and Spanish. Paris Figaro, yard..