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LINN, TwSAS, TIIUKSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891. NItWS NUT1CS. CHINESE NEW YEAR. The Cattle Men llenteii. THE G.

A. It, I5NCAM PSIKNTi MORTEN DAYS IN TEHROI A SECOND JESSE JAMES, Tli Meeting; at Detroit a Great Buocoh Forty Thousand Veterans In Una. FIRE IN THE COAL BUNKERS OF AN OCEAN STEAMER. ENTERS A BANK AND SHOOTS DOWN THREE MEN. Dituoit, Aug.

6. Tho Grand Army encampment was a most pronounced success. The day of tho parade was tho proudest lu the history of the organization, KmarisuHH, O. Aug. B.

Sevoritf weeks ago complaints wore ontcrod In tho territorial courts against It. D. Cragln and the Cragln Cattle Company, D. U. Fant, Hun Garland, Wlllinin Quiulon, Major Kl-dridgo, James F.

Ellison, Short Drum Bnydor for unlawfully holding nnd grazing catllo upon tho Choyenno ami Arapohoo reservation. Tho caso was tried pn a general demurrer. Tho argument was full and exhaustive, Tho decision of Hon. A. J.

Sea, assoclato justice of tho territorial court, hold that all nersoiiH holdine livo stock within tho The fttoumalilp raehetulera Curries Loinl or I'ltnuoiifor Day After I linf Ovor Fiery 1'urutoi Hut None Knew Jt, The Dosporado Terrorized llvorybmlj and Wont Oir With Twelve Hundred nullum Tho Man HI ud (iuud Ills lOncspe. It wus tho grandest display made in tho KANSAS MATTERS. This year. The man who thinks to preserve for all tJmo In men's memories any ovont by writ-in ft a book about it is usually mistaken; both tlit event and tbo book may all tho sumo bo furflotten, but really there is an opportunity for swno ono to gather in a handy volume tho story D. lti'Jlia Kansas, Such a volume would contain as its first chapter tho weather record kfpt at tho Btato university und for tho twOuty-two years last past associated with tho tjumo of professor, now Chuuoollor Snow.

Thoso figures, worth more than all tho unrocord- ed recollections of ull tho sky-gazers and quarter century of its oxlstonoo, undor a Divers Scenei and OuntoiiH Of fhnlv Grout Holiday. Tho Chinese date their your from tho fli-Ht now moon after the sun nutors Aquarius, consequently it is movublo fonst varying between January ill and February 11). Their mouths are lunar months, nomo called "great," containing1 thirty duys, tho others "small," having only twonty-nino days. In nomo yoars, therefore, there aro thirteen months, ono of them being an inlorcalary. Tho 1st and loth ot every month, or bright sun, 40,1100 veterans tramped stur dily over the lino of march, and such was the Inspiration of tho moment, that even tho feeblest of tho maimed and crippled comrndos found themselves adequate to Itmlta nt tliA minimum mill ArunullftA tho ordeal of the live miles inarch, Tho euthuslasm which greeted tho Wis-cousin division of TOO strong was un- bounded.

In the front rank and bomn high in tho air and on tho top of a flagstaff was perched "Old Abe," tho stuffed eaglo A Uold Hank llobbery. Lima, Aug, 11. Ono of tho boldest bank robberies over porpetratod in this section of country occurred this morning ut Columbus Grove, a town of about 3,0011 pooplo, twolvo miles north of horo. Cashier T. J.

Maple had just opened tho Ex-chango bank, of which his father Is proprietor, nnd laid out ubout.OOO near tho ohashior's window. About man appeared ut tho door with a revolver in ouch hand. Ho immediately begun shooting. Cashier Maple was struck twico, onco in tho arm und onuo in tho right sido. As ho foil to tho floor au old farmer, Williuin Vandertuurk, aged 00, enlored the door, having couio to get his money for soma hogs ho had just which became a part of Wisconsin's his.

tory a quarter of a century ago. Cheer reservations aro subject to a penalty of $1 nor head and that said stock are also subject to solzuro and salo for tho paymout of tho penalty. Tho marshal Is commanded to attach cattle found upon this reservation and to hold tho samo until disposed of according to law, and that owners or persons having suid oattlo in charge be summoned to appear and answer before tho court, October SO, 3891. This order is now in the hands of tho United States marshal who will proceed at onco to ex ecu to it. after cheer aroso from tho multitude.

Many a civilian could only divluo tho causa of all this onthusiasm, but to prubably overy G. A. It. man in line to-day the strango history of that bird is a flro- sido story to his children. To record tho features of tho procession In detail would be Impossible in the space at command.

Tho states woro all repro. An Awful Ton Dnyn. Wkw Yohk. Aug. 11.

The steamship Cacholiiiero has urrived in this port with 30J Huliun steerage passengers oa board. Jt Was lcurtied to-day for the ilrst timo That for ton days of the voyage tho vosso) 'Vuid nil on bourd of her woro in imininont and continuous duugor of tho gravest character. When tho stontnor was but one day out Jrom Miirsoilles it was reported to the captain that the soft coal in tho bunkers was tin tiro. He at onco gave orders that tho Btrictost socrocy should bo obsorvod a3, if tho news spread among tho passengers, it would bo impossible to avert a panic. Immediate stops were taken to quench tho lire, but it had already gained serious hoad-Vay.

Tho pumps were put to work and lieavy streams of water wore poured upon 'tho piles of coal and upon tho dock above it. ThlB was kept up for day and night lor ten days, and not till tho end of that tinw was tho fire cntiroly extinguished. Tho captain and crew woro on almost continuous duty during tbatjtimo and wwo completely worn out. During the whole time none of tho passengers had any suspicion of tho danger in which they stood nor did thoy learn of it until port was reached. I Two A wl'nl Accident.

1 Lkavenwohtii, Aug. 9. G. E. Lonsdale mid his wife, with Miss Suo Powers and blaster Kay l'owors, of Ellsworth, were run over by a Santa Fo train as they were vi-ossing tho track in a spring wagon(n tliis city yesterday, and Mrs.

Lonsdale sented, from Michigan with its 15,000 to bouth Carolina with its singlo man. Kan sas was not high in tho light of numbers, iold. Tho robber turned and shot him through and through. A third man sat in tho lobby of tho bank, paralyzed with fear. Ho was not molested.

The desperado then grabbod lu greenbacks, shovod it in the pockets of his sack coat and darted out the door shouting; "I'm asecond Jesso James." Maple has a flesh wound in tho nrm nnd on account of tho perversity of the rail' roads, but was largely represented in tho enthusiasm that provailed. Missouri turned out largo numbers and attracted much attention. a glance wound re in a rib in his sido, but In tho line, marching with the rank and file wore many of tho prominent men of tho nation, Tho Grand Army levels all distinctions, Thero was a wild cheer whon Mis. souri vetornns hove in sight. It was this stnto which had furnished William Warner, ono of tho most popular comtnanders-tn is in no danger unless blood poisouiug sets in.

Mr. Vundermnrk is one of tho most substantial furniers. Ho was struck by th bullot on tho right sido bolow tho ribs and injured internally. Ho is vomiting Moot and will probably bo dead beforo this ii printed. Ho cannot recover at all oveuts.

At 11 :45 o'clock to-night tho bauk robber was still at largo and tho chase has been abandoned until daylight, Almost everybody in tho northern part of Allen county has been out all day looking for tho desperado. JffGALI-S JN THE NOLTH. chief the G.A.K. has ever Known, and every man who marched in lino was recognized as ono who in his dovotion to tho Union had undergone the dangers of guerilla "moon," coincides with tho new and full of every moon, nnd thoso aro always colobrated as foast days. But of all Chincso feasts tho New Your is a rogular baeclianalia, in which days he-fore and wooks after aro given to feasting and rejoicing.

During tho last days of the old your the scene in a large city liko Canton in ono of intenso interest to a foroignor. The morchants hurrying hither and thithor, collecting and paying debts for all accounts must bo satisfactorily adjusted or elso the business cannot bo carried into the noxt year. Not only are tho business parts of tho town alivo with thronging multitudes during tho day, but at night instead of everything being promptly closod at 9 o'clock as is usual, the midnight pedestrian will find a perfect chaos of movables and a bedlam of voieos. Stores aro being deluged with water and tho walls aro being sorubbod; ornamental scroll paper and charms of good luck aro torn down; the tiled floor is tretting its annual but probably only cleaning it litis had during the year. After this is done tho walls are redecorated and now charms and gods tire pasted up or set in tho windows and show-cases.

In privato houses tho sumo cleaning process is going on; all tho dirt of tho yoar is being removed. Whon this is dono tho finest ornaments that arc possessed are brought out and displayed on tho tables; embroidered covors aro placed on tho chairs ami stands, and the wholo houso is put in holiday attire. Ono of the great features of the decorations is tho display of "sacred lilies," It is desirable that thoy should bloom on New Year's day, and tho moro flowers on the plant tho better will be tho fortune of tho family owing to it during the year to como. Up to midnight on New Year's evo this excilemont continues; thou, as if by magic, tho noise and turmoil cease, only to bo renewed in the morning with enorgy. This, in short, is tho Chineso New Year.

St. Louis Republic. PRUDENCE IN MOURNING. and soon families divided against Ill Tenth Man. SofTn McAi.isTF.il,1 I.

Aug. At 8 o'clock tills morning Jim Yates, deputy United States marshal, was shot through tho heart by Kobort Marshall. Tho two got into a quarrel ovor a gamo of cards in a house of ill fame and forty shots woro fired. Yates had confiscated two gallons of whisky duriug tho day and both were drinking. Marshall is said to have killed eight men and Yates told htm to stop bragging or get his gun.

Ho got it. Tho light was continued outsido in tho brush, oach firing rapidly. Yates received two shots oach of which would havo proved fatal. NeliraHka Prohililtlonlm. Lincoln, Aug.

8. Tho Prohibition stnto convention complotod its labors by nominating It. W. ltichurdson, of Omaha, for judge of tho supremo court, and Kov. William Garst, of Neligh, and Mrs.

Caroline M. Woodward, of Soward, for regents of the stato university. The platform Indorses tho national Prohibition party, demands government control of telegraph and railroad companies, a moro unrestricted coiuage of tho motals, and naturally places tho party on record ns favoring tho total annihilation of tho liquor truffle. Tho Siiuko Dunce. Winsi.ow, A.

Aug. 8. Th famous Moqui Indian snake dance, which is held every two years, commenced yesterday on tho reservation, sixty miles from hero, and will continuo sixteen days. It is reported the government is taking steps to discontinue tho dance and that this will be the lust one. Major Donaldson, who took Moqui census, has gone to the danco with photographic outfit, and tho government has also sent a corps of photographers.

themselves in the dark days of '63. De partment Commandor Georgo W. Martin, tho one-armed hero, who lost a limb the first day of Gettysburg, led his command of 800 men. The spectacle of an ex-prcsident of the United States marching in the ranks is so unusual that tho tremendous ovation tendered ex-President Hayes to-day was hard The Kansas Statesman llefore a Large Southern Audience. Atlanta, Aug.

6. Ex-Senator Ingalls lectured at Piedmont, Chautauqua, to-night on tho social and political problems of the second century. IIo was Miss 1'owers woro killod. Tho boy was perhaps fatally injurod. The crossing where tho accident ooourred has always lieen considered a dangerous one, but no accidents have over before occurred there.

Joe Fortuno was engineer of tho train and states that it was running at tho rate of about fifteen miles per hour. Tho accident occurred on tho government reservation mid a comploto investigation will bo instigated by the govornor. Skseca, Aug. Hon. A.

Burnett and family, in a carriage, wore struck liy tho west bound passongor train on the lioek Island railroad. He and his granddaughter, Miss Francis Fullor, were killed outright. Mrs. George Finstouborg and two children were badly hurt. Six woro in the carriage, which was demolished.

ly a surprise. Tho cheers which swept along the lino of march llko a huge but slowly rising tidal wave wero evor indica greeted by a great crowd. Mayor Hump- tive of the presence of the distinguished hill, of Atlanta, introduced him, saying: "Ladies and genti.kmen: The war is ex-presldont. Mr. Hayos was recognized by all as ho ovor and the Bloody chasm has been tilled.

marched with his post from Fremont, I want to tell you in a few words why this is true. When a confederate soldier in down Griswold Btroet, and noar tho intersection of Congress street kissod several tho south undor the star spangled banner littlo girls who ran out to meet him. Tho can introduce with warmth and cordiality ALABAMA CltlMK. to a southern audience, Hon. J.

J. Ingalls, old gentleman carried a palm leaf fan and appoared enjoy tho occasion quito as of Kansas, tho most sceptical in this nation may know and feel that peaco, broth erly lovo and kind feeling reign all over much as his comrades of the post. Tho governor of a stato is not often seen trudging along in tho dust with the boys, but that sight was witnessed more than tho broad laud. The warmth nnd cordiality of this greet ouco. As the Nebraska G.

A. 5(10 ing is increased by tho knowledge of Senator Ingalls' course against the famous force bill whon that infamous measure was- bo- strong, with Department Commander Toetor and Governor Thayer, passed tho grand stand it was Impossible to tell whether the cheers wero for the granger fore tho United States scnato. I liavo tha pleasure of introducing to you an orator who has electrified this country from Maino to California, a gentluniau whoso A Terrible State of A fin Irs Existing In ltllib County. Bihminoham, Aug. 11.

A terrible state of affairs exists in Bibb county. Some two weeks ngo tho dead body of Henry Smith was found in tho woods near Bloektoii. Ho was a witness in a murdor caso against Jesse Miller, a rich fanner, Jiud who is populnrly supposed to. bo the head and front of a gang who have been terrorizing that county, and against whom the citizens have organized vigilance committees. clvo men are in jail charged with complicity in the Smith murder.

Blocktou is patrolled day and night by vigilauts and ino witnesses for the state are kept under guard to prevent thorn from being mur-iiercd. Good eitizons from every part of tho county will gather at Centerville tomorrow fully armed to guard tho criminals from a rescue. governor, tho soldier boys or that venerable old fighter, who always provokes the cheers of tho volunteer soldiers Paul Vnndervoort, past national itenius and ability aro respected and admired by tho whole American people tho Hon. J. J.

Ingalls, of tho great state of i. There were four candidates for commau- Kansas." A Remarkable lh-spcrudo. TAni.EQiAii, I. Aug. 11.

Tho Cher- It la statod that Bulgnria Is making' great preparations for war, Guatemala propnsos to spend (120,000 for a world's fair exhibit. Fire In Millvala, destroyed two fao-torlos and eight framo buildings. Loss lAOOO During a heavy storm in Manitoba Thursday night, two woiflon wero killed by lightning. Tho Itussiun bannors cupturod by tho French during tho Crlnioun war havo boen returned to ltussla, A ilureo rainstorm iu Louis vlllo, last Sunday night causod (30,000 damage by flooding of busoments. Proctor Knott, tho well known raco horso, died Friday in his stall at Horse Haven, near Saratoga, N.

Y. Tho drouth in south central Illinois has been broken by a heavy ruin. Corn bos been put lu good shapo again. President Harrison has signed the commission of J. Sloat Fussott as customs collector of the port of Now York.

Hundreds of hogs about Ucllbrook, are dying of cholora. Only one furmor's drove bus been untouched so fur. A Wichita firm has boon awarded tho contract for tho iron work on tho publio building nt Denver, at (10,075, Tho green glass bottlo makers and factory owners split at their conference in Pittsburg and a lockout is probable. Dr. Fred M.

Fling of Biddeford, has been elected to tho chair of Europoan history in tho university of Nobraska. The Morning News of Belfast, Ireland, has como out against Parnoll, of whom for yean it hud been an ardont supporter. Now York bankers say that thoy will assist A. Backer, the dealer in commercial paper who has failed, to his foot again. Throe deaths havo so far occurred as tho result of tho excursion wreck neur Champluiii, N.

Y. A fourth viotlm is dyiug. Mary and Baby McKoo held a rocoption of number of small children at tho president's cottago at Cape May Point hut Monday. Mississippi valloy lumbermen havo purchased 1,000,000 acres of land in Oregon for timber, farms and ranches. The price is not known.

Mr. Duesiug, a theological studont in ouo of tho Roman Catholic colleges in Homo, was drownod Monday. His homo was iu St. Louis, Mo. Tho Hov.

Dr. J. H. Worcester, has notified tho directors of tho Union Theological seminary of his acceptance of tho professorship tendered him. William Fullcrton, a young American, a graduato of Harvard, replaces M.

De Blowitz as tho working head of tho Paris office of tho London Times. President Balmacoda of Chili and tho leaders of tho Chilean insurgents havo appealed to the Spanish government to act as arbitrator and end tho war. Tho Santa Fe boiler makers' strike has endud. All differences are amicably arranged. Tho discharged men and the strikers havo all resumed work.

Tho journeymen tailors of America began their annual convention in St. Louis last Monday. Many matters of interest to the trade aro scheduled for action. Lieutenant Philip Hodges of tho English navy committed suicide by jumping into tho sea July 24 whllo being sent homo from Australia for a breach of discipline. Tho United States treasury continues tho daily shipment of small notes to the west for uso in moving tho crops.

The total amount so far sent is 3 4-5 million dollars. Tho People's party of Greenwood county, have nominated a county ticket. of tho nominees aro former Democrats, two former Republicans and one a labor man. Henry Jennings was shot and mortally wounded neur louia City, last Sunday night during a fight with It. Snodgrass.

Snodgrass was arrested, but roleasod on (800 bond. Abraham Backer at 285 Broadway, Now York has made an assignment to Benjamin F. Einstein at 4ii7 Broadway. Mr. Backer's principal business was dealing iu commercial pajier.

In tho Davis will case at Butto, argument on tho admission of export testimony on handwriting has closed, and Judge McHutton lias decided to oxcludo oxpert testimony. Tho olection of Kev. Dr. Isaac Loo Nicholson ns Protestant Episcopal bishop of Milwaukoo has been approved by twenty-seven dioceses. No dissenting voto has yet boon recorded.

A yachting party, consisting of four men and flvo children, were cruising in Dor-ecster bay, near Boston, when tho boat capsized and tho two mon and four children wero drowned. Pension payments aggregating 7 million dollars have been mudo by tho United States treasury siuco August 1 and have reduced the cash balance in tho treasury from (55,73,015 to $18,177,443. Both members of tho nssigned banking firm of Sehull Danncr of York, havo been arrested charged with revolving money from John B. Walsh of Now York when on tho verge of insolvency. Near Mt.

Vernon, John D. Mulllns, an eloction officer, wns killod last Monday by John Durham and William Domeran, They wero drunk and bogati firing at random as they left tho polls. Both uro in jail, Mrs. Nellie Webb, an aged and wealthy widow of Louisville. committed suicide nt the College Hill sanitarium last Monday evening.

She was a victim of drink and had been placed in tho sanitarium on tho '21st of last April, King Alexander, tho youthful ruler of Servia, has arrived at St. Petersburg on a visit to tho imperial family. Ho was met at the railway station by the czar and several of the Russiau grand dukes, and was accorded nil the honor paid to a ruling sovereign. Reports from tho Massachusetts assessment and indorsement corporations show that they aro doing business on very smuil balances. Ono company is doing a business of on a balanco of (750, and another flvo years' order business of on M72.

Cardinal Simeonl and Mgr. Perslco both assert thnt tho Cahenslcy schemo of establishing Cat hollo bishops in the United States of tho samo nationalities as the emigrants landing hero will nover bo uc-ccptod by tho propaganda. They honrtily oppose ho scheme. The Munn Bros. Wilkes ranch and cattle in Hackley county, have been sold at Colorado, at tho door of the court houso under a decree from tho federal court, at El Paso, The salo embraced 12,000 head of citttlo, 100 saddle horses and acres of hind.

Gregory, Cooley Co. of Chicago wera tho purchasers, paying $91,000 cash and assuming indue on lauds, okeo Indians aro celebrating the douth of ono of tho most noted of Indian desper adoes that ever lived. His history was the most remarkable in tho known world. He died ono year ago at tho ngo of 1K1 years at peaco with his pcoplo, but most of his dor-in-chief John Palmer, of Now York; A. G.

Weissart, Wisconsin W. P. Smed-bury, California, and S. H. Hurst, Ohio.

General Palmer was elected on the second ballot amidst great enthusiasm. Gen. Palmer has a splondid record as a toldier. T. S.

Clarksou was chosen vice-command-or-in-chiof. The committee on tho "color" question reported advorsoly to Gen. Veasey's proposition to create separate department for colored mon, and the ro-port was adopted spontaneously. Major Kansas City was chairman of the committee, and ho made a telling speech in favor of tho colored soldiors. local weather prophets in tho stato should form the basis of tbo history, and would have a permanent vuluo.

Those trl-daily observations would show Just how much, rain Kansas can roceivo td advantoge; hotv much water, in fact, Kansas needs iu her business which is agriculture. Following tho account of tho rain ami tho un which did tho business lu 1801, should como an account of tho various productions of tho stato for tlfcf year, mado clear even to pooplo who bavo no tasto or capacity for figures. Horft by the way, is a chance for tho development of a now kind of literary genius. Here are people, thousand of them, to whom "tables," census orolhenviso, convey no information or oven suggestion no moro than a rainbow reveals of beauty to a blind There aro human beings of fair intelligence who aro paralyzed by tho words "per cent." For tho benefit of such, a writer should bo raised up who can usa figures without placing thorn in columns, aud who will require tho calculations of no percentages; who can make figures not only intelligible but attractive. Following tho figui-os in this Kansas-year book should como several chupters of descriptivo writing convoying to tho render as far as printed words can do so an idea of how Kansas looked in tho growing season of 18111.

This would bo a difficult task, hut thoro are a half dozen writors in the United Slates who uro equal to it. Miss Murfree, who makes a glorious and beautiful thing out of a littlo Tennfisseo mountain cornfield by moonlight, mig'ht well try her hand on a Kansas cornfield oS 1891, washed by tho rain and shining in tho sun and spreading over the area of ft; Tennessee county. Tho narrative should tell how tho rain came in ISM, where it had not fallen in years, if, indeed, it had over fallen; and made merry with the irri-pation scheme and said, "Nover you mljidf I will attend to Kansas." The cbrouiclsr of 1S01 should toll of the full stream and tho new-come springs and the general uprising and meeting of tho waters. Mention should bo mado of tho trees, orchard troo3 first, audi ttien of all the trees. How all tho saplings planted in faitli on one Arbor day after another justified their planters and grew mightily ami prevailed and waved groea encouragement to futuro planters that some day every spare and wasted place iu Kansas might boar trees' aud overy hot highway ho made a long arcade of shade, Tho annuls of Kansas earth In should speak of the pleasant gardens with tho little bits of poor men's ground that produced as never before and taught the lesson thut no spot however small should ia such a country be left neglected.

Nor should there bo failure to mention tho groat triumph of science in the yoar; when laboratory und field como together; liko cured liko, and chinch bug destroyed chinch bug. Noble L. I'reutis iu Kansas City Star. 1 Thero is a councilman in Arkansas City who lariats his cow in tho street in front of his residence. Secretary Kusk pronounces Prof Snow's chinch hug killer the mot valuablo discovery of tho century.

The Atchison people still keep up tho 'old-fashioned custom of counting tho carriages in funeral processions. Two women aro buried in the potters' field ut Atchison vvho woro ovor 10'J years old at the time of their death. i Thero is a young Sioux Indian at Haskell institute who is so handsome that tho Lawrence girls make eyos at him. A chew of tobacco sweetened tho death, of a Wichita boy who had never tasted tho weed until the day ho departed this lifo. Tho south sido is tho swell portion of Topeka, Thoro aro also other points of; dissimilarity botween that town aud Chicago.

The present sexton of Mt. Vernon coino-tery at Atchison has held that position for eight years, and in that timo has dug ovor 1,000 graves. AWitehita poet says: "The world i growing better." That is rather a remarkable discovery for a person to make who lives at Wichita. No convictions have been obtained la libel suits in Kansas within the past two yonrs. It do to attempt to gng tho press in'a stale which was consecrated to liberty in its craHio.

An Kniporia man has an incubator heat ed by a common coal oil lamp, which has hatched out 700 or 800 chickens this season. Tho fowls don't taste of keroscno 'unless they are eaten while quito young. Buol T. Davis, who used to teach at the Stato normal and was superintendent tbo city schools at Atchison last year, goes to Winona, to accept a similae position at a salary of a year. Land out In Ford county which wont' begging a year ngo nt and J3 an acre has produced twenty and twenty-five bushels of wheat to tho acre this season.

Moral Whon you see a snap lu Kansas take it in, regardless of tho weather. Billy Bolton, tho editor of the Kiown county Signal, was robbod the other night1 at tho Union depot at Kansas City of somo railroad passes and an overcoat. Tho passes will not do tho thief any good nor tho overcoat either, unless ho is mighty fat, Tho board of pardons has recommended the release from tho ponitentinry of Job Harrow of Win field, for stoallng $-'8 worth of potatoes from a freight car. Tho son-tenca was imposed when potatoes wero worth their weight in gold, and now that they have bocome cheap tho prisoner is ao counted a legitimate object of executive clemency. A fight occurred the other day.

at Arkan sas City between a woman and a man whom, she annoyed by lariating a cow noar his resideneo. Tho man kicked and so did tho woman, but tho latter came out ahead of tho game. Thoro are few things a woman will not dare for the cow sho lovos. Last tha Kansas legislature passed a tw good law permitting counties to dispense with tho sale of lands for delinquent taxes and to tnno tho same for tho county Instead of allowing "privato bidders" to tnako a profit on all redeemed tax certificates. The first county In tho stato to take advnnt.ago of the now statuta is Hicklnson, which is enabled to do so by reason of the largo surplus which is lying 'm the county treasury.

lifo hud been passed In warfare against mankind. To-day tho Chorokeo peoplo aro celebrating tho anniversary of his death ns a holiday. This Indian was old Tom Starr, who for a quarter of a century Ohio People's Party. Aug. 7.

Tho convention of tho People's parly of Ohio had an attendance of about 400 delegutos. After tho organization several communications were read, one of which was from Senator Peffer, advising tho adoption of the Cincinnati resolutions and "tho plank advocating honest money." This was greeted With cheers. O. U. Jones of Kansas sung a song entitled "Old Hayseed." Jtullliig Sentenced Again.

St. Josei'ii, Aug. 9. Louis Bulling, tho escaped wife murderer, was brought before udgo Anthony, of Savannah, and for tho third time sentenced to death. Bulling's attorneys tried to stavo off proceedings on the ground that Judge Anthony hud no jurisdiction, but the motion was overruled and tho dny of excutiou was set for Friday, September i.

Furniers Corner Wheat. Citattanooga, Aug. 7. Tho Allianco men in this section seoni to be taking seriously tho advice given by tho order to hold wheat for higher prices. One rosult horo is that millers are forming a lcaguo to purchase Western grain, they claiming that tho Middle Tcnnosseo with tho Alliance behind thoni, will sell only at enormous prices.

A Preacher mid Trouble Sphinofiei.d, Aug fl. Rev. J. F. Thompson passed through the city yesterday under tho watchful enro of G.

W. Lindsay, sheriff of Hickory county, Mo. Thompson is charged with stealing a horse. Ho was accompanied by his young wife, whom he ubductcd a few months ago from tbo home of a prominent minister in Hickory county. Traill Wrecker nt Work.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 7. Tho Grand Uapids and Indiana express, bound south, was wrecked thrco miles north of this place this noon evidently by train wreckers, as spikes, bolts and nuts were found withdrawn from the rails. Nearly all tho injured, twelve In numbor, wero taken from tho sleeper, nono of whom aro fatally hurt however. was a terror to the wholo Cherokeo nation.

She Spent as I. It IIo as nnd Accomplished iter The economy which is too strong to bo disturbed by grief or boroavment is so akin to avarice that no ono any self-reproach for holding it up to ridicule, although the circumstances may havo to do with tho saddest of events. There was once an eccentric old lady who lived in ono of tho seaport towns of New England, and who was ronownod alike for her oddities and for what her neighbors called her "nearness." She was a widow, and had inherited not a littlo property from her husband, which she earefuVj handled and which increased in her care. It was made a matter of reproach that she did not eroct a tombstone to her husband, but sho always said that sho could not afford such an expense. In course of time, howovor, tho widow made up her mind to havo a tablet, and accordingly went to Boston to select it, She visltod ono marble yard after another, but for a long timo could find nothing chotip enough to suit lior.

At last she came upon large and handsome slab which was set aside to be cut down. "You see it was spoiled," tho stonecutter explained. "We began it for a man nnmed Mark, but tho wifo changed her mind by tho timo wo had got so much of tho name on, and thoro is tho wholo slab spoiled." I'll tako it oil your hands," tho A (iood In vcMliiient. Atchison, Aug. 8.

Tho Kansas Trust and Banking Compnny, of Atchison, owns a great many farms in Northern Kansas, and in order to get back sonic of tho money put out for the land, planted crops which aro just now being harvested. Tho land has done remarkably well. Tho yield of wheat nnd oats is largo, and a splendid corn crop is assured. Tho company will get thirty or forty per cent of its money A Fearful llallroad Wreck. Stiuci-sk, Aug.

8. The St. Louis express on the Wost Shore railroad mot with a terrible accident three miles West of Port Byron. The train was running at a high rate of speed and at that point ran into a freight train. The wreck was an awful ono and the deaths numbered twelve, The wreck took tire and tho passenger train was- burned with the excoption of throe sleeping ears.

The train was mndo up of two express cars, a baggago car, a smoking car, a day car and three sleeping cars. Tho accident was the result of carelessness on tho part of tho rear brakeman of tho freight train, or by negligonco on the part of tho froight conductor. Twenty-throe people wero Injurod. A Sirocco In South Dakota. St.

Lawrence, S. Aug. 11, The liottcst weather over experienced here has prevailed for three days past. So intense has been tho heat that men and animals have succumbed in many instances and harvest work is entirely suspended through the day. At I p.

yesterday tho mercury rose to 108 to 110 in tho shade. Tho wind was in a southern direction but hot and dry, possessing no refreshing qualities. Late wheat suffored terribly and some fields will not bo cut. Other wheat is all Tight. Unless showers come very soon or a cool wave comes, but little will survive tho ordeal.

Prairie grass in oomo places is dry enough to burn. Some prairie fires have already been reported. Four Lynched at Once. BiiiMiNuiiAM, Aug.S). Last Friday tho residence of W.

P. Davis, a prominent farmer near Crosby, was burned and the family narrowly escaped with their lives. On Sunday Ella Williams, colored, was arrested and confessed to having saturated the house with oil and sot tiro to it out of rovengo. In her confession she implicated Lizzio Lowe, Willis Lowe and Bill Williams. Yesterday the sheriff started from Crosby to Abbevillo Jail with tho prisoners, and last night he was overpowered by a mob and the prisoners taken from him und shot to death, Their bodies were thrown in tho river.

out of tho country by this year's crop and still own the land. Murdered by Indlnnn. Ahkansas CiTy, Aug. 8. It is now believed that Mr.

and Mrs. Donnelly, who were found tnurdorod on Monday, wero killed by an Indian. Sonio years ngo Mrs. Donnelly shot and wouuded an Indian who widow said promptly, "if you'll let mo was attempting to break in her homo, and he sworo to bo revenged on her. An In dian was seen in thnt neighborhood tho havo it reasonably.

"Oh, I'll lot you have it very cheap, to savo tho bother of having it cut over. But what can you do with it?" morning of tho murder, and a large number of them wero in this city all that day. Havana, Aug. 11. Those who "I'll uso it," sho answered, and at once proceeded to go into tho discussion of tho price.

When sho had at last beaton tho havo lived twenty-iivo yoars on tho Hio-Grnndo. have never seen such misery among tho Mexican population as this year. The staplo crop of tho Kio Grande valloy is corn and tho Mexican frijole, but tho drouth has been so terrible for tho last eighteen mouths that scarely anything has beon raised, nnd stock has died by thousands. stone-cutter down to un absurdly'low figure, tho widow bought tho slab. Killed Ills 1'iillier.

Cincinnati Aug. 11. Charles Noimann, aged iO, shot and instantly killed Georgo Neimann, his father. George Neiman was a cobbler and lived at 18 Gorman street. Ho had boon divorced from his wife, but still lived in tho same house with nor and her children.

He had frequent quarrels with his family and divorced wifo, and this mornings tragedy was the culmination of ono of these disputes. "There," sho said, "now what I want you to do is to put 'the perfect man' after that word in tho samo Bort He Made Mnves of Them. Omaiia, Aug. 9. Kov.

Dr. Sherwood, a colored evangelist who has been holding out at a campmeeting in South Omaha, has been orrested, charged with horribly mistreating a Dumber of colored lads whom ho had taken from tho orphan asylum and had practically enslaved. Sherwood trained tho boys as musicians and formed them into a band. He made them work all hours of the day and night and took their earnings from them allowing them each 10 cents a day for food. A Kalian Horse Tlilnf, Wichita, Aug 8.

David Spraguo, the noted horsethicf who broke Jail at Mcpherson, last month, lins been heard from near Superior Neb. After breaking Jail at Mcpherson, Spraguo stole a team near Newton, and then found his way into Barbour county, where he stole some moro horses, Ho was corralled on the banks of the Nescaturga by a posse of farmers and to escape jumped into tho river and disappeared. It was thought ho was drowned. Tho "Silent Arm)." Detboit, 7. A national convention which has not had its parallel In the history of nations, met in this city yesterday.

It was tho annual convention of tho "Silent Army." While thore was no shouting, no pounding on tho table, no oratorical speeches and no cheering, a great deal of business was transacted. It was the first reunion of the silent army of deaf and dumb soldiers, sailors and marines. Manufactured Opium. Ciiicaoo, August 7. Dr.

E. N. Caso, a well-known physician, was secretly arrest ed charged with a violation of the laws in ogard to tho manufacture of opium. In his rooms wero found jars containing a liquid known as aqueous opium. It is learned that ho sent some of It to San Francisco to bo sold among tho Chinese thero.

I Four Drowned. Mii.WAt KEB, Aug. 11. Four young people, children of prominent Mllwaukeo business men, wero drowned at Lake Pcwaukeo, twenty miles from hero. They were out in a small sail boat with three other young people.

A squall struck tho boat, capsizing it. It was heavily ballasted and sunk almost immediately, leaving tho seven persons struggling in the water. A Wcnrclly or Corn, St. Peteksiiiho, Aug. 0.

Tho Russian Imperial council has decided to prohibit tho exportation of corn from this country, owing to the bad harvest In Russia, which has caused a scarcity of this cereal. Won a HI a Claim. Citt of Mexico, Aug. 8. Tho Piario of letters, and then the name and the date can go just thoro." Sho indicated to tho astonished stone-cutter with her long linger Iho disposition of tho inscription, and thus it came about that in a certain well-known comotqry of her nativo city her husband sleeps under a marble whereupon tho world is admonished to "Mark tho perfect man!" Youth's Companion.

The murdering Societies. Tho successful prosecution' of tho Mala Vita gang in Italy is to be followed by tho punishmentbf another similar association with' 'extensive ramifications. About fifty arrests hull boon mndo at last accounts and moro wero expected. It is evident that tlnj government is determined to suppress tho murderous secret organizations which havo terrorized the Hal inn people for so many years, robbing and blackmailing them. llciuocralH I'nlte.

Chicago, Aug. 0. Tho two factions of tho Democratic party in Chicago havo united after a long bitter light which had allowed tho Republicans to win two important elections. Should tho treaty provo binding tho Democrats expect to nmko clotui, everlasting sweep of all tho offices In sight. The present city administration is Republican.

Killed by a Clrru Attache. JoruN, Aug. 7. Ira Sevier, ainincr, was struck in tho left templo with a club by nn attacho of Forcpaugh's circus after tho performance horo, from tho effects of which ho died to-night. Sevier was drinking from a barrel of water Intended for circus peoplo when tho man assaulted him, striking hi in but onco and knocking him sotiseloss, A Grand llarbeeiiR.

St. Joskpii, Aug. S. A grand bar-becuo was held at Easton for tho benefit of tho ex-Con fedorato homo nt Illggins-vlllo, Tho affair was undor tho management of some of tho leading Democrnts of tho state und was a grand success. Six hundred and fifty dollars was realized fur tho homo, Foreign Markets.

London, Aug. 11, Thero wns a plethora of monoy during the past week. Discount was quoted at l)d for thrco months and Jd for short, with no demand. A small drain of gold continues toward Germany. There is nothing to indicate large immediate withdrawals from tho bauk of England from any quarter.

The llerord Ili-okrii Agnlu. New Yoke, Aug. 7. Tho Whito Stnr line steamer Majestic, which left Liverpool July Sill, has again broken tho record from Quoenstown to New York. Her timo was flvo days eighteen hours nnd eight minutes.

do Centra America, printed in Guatemala, claims thnt tho family of tha unfortunate General Kundin, who was killed aboard of a Pacific mail steamship in tho port of San Jose do Guatemala by soldiers, has Won its claim against the United States and will bo paid indemiiillcutiou. The Cherokee Election. Tahi-Kqcaii, I. Aug. 8.

Election re turns from all tho districts in tho Chcro-koo nation give tho Downing party the chieftaincy, re-electing J. B. Mnyes. Tho Young' Shortage. Louisviu.E, Aug.

II. Tho amount of the shortage of Sylvester Young, defaulting cashier of the Newport News Mississippi Valley railroad, is now known to be at least instead of as first supposed. Further investigation may add slightly to this. Young lias not been heard from. houso favors the Downings, whllo tho senate is divided.

The allotment ticket was completely lost In the bat tle. The Itnm Will be M.ilH. Topeka, Aug 9. Arrangements have been completed for the construction of the Kaw dam at this point. A mortgage trust deed for in favor of tho Union Trust Company, of St.

Louis, has been filed by tho Topeka Water and Electric Power Company with the register of deeds. Nnvnl Vctcranx. Detroit, Aug. ft. The Natloiinl Association of Naval Veterans eluded olllccrs yesterday.

Hultimoro was selected as the place of meeting next year, tho week preceding the O. A. It. encampment at Kx-l'rlnoner of War. Dethoit, Aug.

7. Tho national conven Mill the ton verm Come. Tho Commercial Union Telegraph company is now planning to moont several of its Maino linemen on M-lycles. These will prove of value In tracing a break, nnd will enable tho Inen to make quick work. It is ulsn proposed to utilize several wheels in the messenger service at Bitf Harbor.

Another War Probable. P.vflts, Aug. it. A telegram received In this city from Bounos Ayres asserts that Chill will declare war aeainst Bolivia be-cause the government of the latter country has recognized tho congressional party of Chili bclligcrcsts tion of cx-prisnnnrs of war mot In this city yesterday. President II.

Williams, cif Indianapolis, rent his nddrcss. Ho ui-ved tho importance of the claim of ex-prisoners to increased pensions on tho attention of tho members..