The Independent-Sun du lieu suivant : Yates Center, Kansas • 2

The fruit growers of Florida nio talking A TEXAS TORNADO. UNION LABOR PLATFORM INDEPENDENT-SUN THE. CHOLERA. ArrlTnl nr a Voul at Now York With Chot ra on Kouril No Fears Apprelientlctd, New York, Hopt 24. Tlio steamship Alasla, which arrived bolow Thursday night from llursollles and Naples, with 000 passengers has Asiatic cholera aboard.

Eight of hor passengers died on the voyugo, and on her arrival at quarantine the health officer found four oases aboard. He sent tho Alrsla and hor passengers to West Bank In the lower buy. The steamer I fos. R. MoimiHON, wno was in Chicago recently, was visited by a number of his politicul friends.

In regard to making the race for Congress in his own district next your ho suid it was a littlo early to commence campaigning, but ho was ruthor Inclined to think ho would be thora when the time came. Of President Cleveland he said the indications wherever ha hud boon were that ho wns growing strongor all tlio time with the poople and would continue to grow until the next Presidential elootlon day. President orffio'Tolodo Peoria Western, has filed with the Illinois Railroad and Warchouso Commission an official report of tho Chiitsworth acoi-dont. It estimates lrom the number of tickets sold that thuro vvero 540 persons on the train, of whom eighty were dead. The number injured was given as 151, ton of whom wero employed on the roud.

New complications wore reported to have arisen at Chicago on the 21st which were almost certain to create anothor passenger war among tho roads running oast from that city. Bt a natural gas explosion at Oil Center, Wood County, the othor night, flowing oil tanks nud machinery were destroyed and several persons bactlybuniod. Dick Vaun, who shot Cuptain Sam Six-killer at Muskogee, I. Decembor 24, died recently of wounds roceivod from an Indian Nbaii Purcoll, I. a serious train wreck occurred on the 21st.

A working train was run into by a light engine. The number of killed and injured was thought to be about filtecn, but nothingdcflnlte was known, Hon. E. B. Washburn, formerly United States Minister to France, was taken with congestion of the brain (it Chicago on the 21st and was In a precarious condition.

A. It. Parsons, one of tho condemned Anarchists, has given to the press a lengthy document, in which he demands either his freedom or execution. Another railway horror on the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific almost happened at near Peoria, 111., on the 21st. A bridge over a chasm fifty feet doep had been burned out, but the fact was discovered by a foreman.

He went one way and flagged the pussenger train while his wife stopped one the other way. KANSAS STATE NEWS. Cactain Quintan formerly of tlio regular army, and a newspaper man wall-known In Kansas City, recently shot his young wlfo at Leavenworth, but form-nutoly not Inflicting a fatal wound. Thero wero ooiillloUng accounts a to tlio exact cause for tlio net While In Kansas City soino live nr six years ago, Captain Cunip-boll was married to his prosuut wife, who wus then only sixteen years old. lie had but recently taken a position on the Nun, a now evening papor at Leavenwort Dii'irriiKitiA has made its appearance in a malignant form at Topeka.

Tol'ieiu officers recently took possession of an lee houso under orders from the district court, whoro they found boor stored belonging to several German societies. Tho sheriff destroyed nearly 1100 gallons of beer. Ges'eual Black, Commissioner of Pensions, will visit Kansas about October 12, on which occusion he will accompany tho board of managers of the National Soldiers' Homo. The officers of tho Tomporance Mutual Benefit Union will fight In the court the recent decision of Insurance Commissioner VVildor declaring forfeited tho right of the company to conduct an insurance business intheBlato. Lkavknwohtii recently rung her fire bolls, blow her steam whistles and otherwise made a noise over the successful operation of another coal shaft which had struck ooul In paying quantities at a depth of 720 feet, Thomas Lahkin, twenty years old, recently attempted to board a Missouri Pacific freight train at Louvcmvorth, made a misstep, fell under the cars and was killed.

In tho late habeas corpus case of James Grace, an alleged liquor dealer, against Marshal Roberts, before the district court of Leavonworth, Judge Crozier discharged the plaintiff as to keeping a place where liquors wore sold. Judge Crozier rendered a verbal opinion declaring tha power of the Governor over tha police courts of citiea and his control through the police commissioners as unconstitutional. Grace's attorney will therefore institute proceedings to oust the police judgo, the police commissioners, oity marshal and the police force. F. 8.

TnonxB, of Kearney County, has filed a suit in the District Court at Topeka against Governor Martin to enjoin him from declaring Lakin the county seat ol Kearney Couuty. A large acreage of wheat will be sown this fall. About 250 delegates met at Topeka on the 22d for the purpose of organizing an African-American League for the protection of colored people in their rights as citizens. Kansas Is tho fifth State la the Union to form a league. The objects of this league are to protest against taxation without rep-rcfentatlon; to secure a more equitable distribution of school funds; to insist upon an impartial trial by a jury of peers in all causes of law; to resist by alllogal and reasonable means mob and lynch law, and to insist upon the arrest and punishment of all such offenders; to resist oppressive usage of railroad and steamboat, and other corporations, and the harsh and insulting conduct of their employes in all Instances whore colored people are concerned, by prosecution of all such corporations and their employes in the State and Foderal courts, and other purposes calculated to better the condition of the colored people.

At Leavenworth, on the night of the 22d, a young German stonemason by the name of Richtcr was assaulted upon the streets by two negroes and his throat cut with a razor, lie died in a few minutes. Richter'a orother reachod him soon after he was attacked, but not in time to save him. The motive was robbery. Tho murderers escaped. The finding of the twonty-eight-lnoh vein of coal at Rivorsfdo shaft at Leavenworth was celebrated, a few days after, by a trades display in which tho manufacturera and merchants participated.

A procession of floats and wagons, with citizens on foot and in carriages, miles in length passed through the streets, ending at the shaft, where speeches were delivorcd by a number of prominent citizens. TuEothcr day a farmer living near Hays City, on beginning work in the morning drilling wheat, heard a faint cry from the grain reservoir of his drill. Upon investigation ho found inside of the box a livo infant. The little waif was wrapped in old clothing, and to all appearances bad been born but a few hours. The other morning the Jour-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. M. H. Brown, of Leavenworth, while playing with matches, waa terribly burned by his clothes taking fire. The post-office at Frankton, Rooks County, has been discontined.

HenutF. Dowd, an Ohio veteran, and a reputed son of General Dowd, attempted suicido at the soldiers' home at Leavenworth the other night, by cutting the arteries in both arms with his pocket-knife. The act was immediately discovered and be was removed to tho hospital and put under the surgeon's caro. Dowd la about forty-six years old, and came to the home from Colorado. For some time he bad appeared sullen and morose to his companions, and the opinion prevails that he is insane.

TnB display of blooded stock at the lata State fair at Topeka was reported to be by far the largest and best ever seen on the of forming a shippers' union to ivgfiluto ttio sulo of fruit In tho North and Wust and do nwny witli commission men. Tub body of Juntos Wilboit, who nmr dared his wlfo a fmvdays ugo, was found In the river in ar V. The Virginia Prohibition conference met in Staunton on the 23U und oiloplod a plat form for prohibition and the rights of labor and against politicul bosHlsm, GICNKICAU Fivb porsons wero drowned In Lnlto Geneva, Switzerland, tho other day, by tlio swamping ol tholr boot by a st.munor. The Dublin Uautu publishes i proclama tion suppressing the Irish National Louguo and all its brunches In County Clara und baronies Loitrlm and Lough rou 1u Uulway, Corkagulnly in Kerry; Condon, Clongib bon, Dunhuliow and JMuskorry in Cork und Bhorburno In Wox'ord. It is said tho Zullnslii dynamlle gun is a success.

Trials wero made recently lu the presonee of Secretary hitnoy and repre sentatives of foreign powers. PiiKKiRit Nohquat, of Manitoba, who was in Now York trying to raise money to build a proposed Rod River valley railroad to connect with the Northern Pacific, loft for Winnipeg on tho 20th, having fullod in his financiul errand, The Cul.hollo Archbishop and some of his frionds who are opposod to the present Government of Guatemala, oro reported to have loft that country for Suu Francisco for the purpose of procuring tnoanB to bring about a revolution against President Barillos. Tho presont Government has declined to doclare against the Protestant churches established in Guatemala by Rev. Clnrk Hill, of this country. Fifteen officers of all ranks havo been put on trial in St.

Petersburg on tho chargo of being nihilists. British artillerymen in a town in India boing ordered to prepare to move aboard smashed windows and oreated a lively riot recently. In tho divorce case of David Do Bensaud against his wife, Violot Cameron, the actress, the court at London issued. an in. junction against the husband restraining him from molesting his wlfo.

The Mar quis of Lonsdale admitted that ho had been guilty of impropor relations with Miss Cameron. The brush fires which have been raging around Dandy, Quebec, extended to that village on the 21st, and twenty-two houses and the railway station wore consumed. Many families lost every thing. During a recent festival four bombs were thrown in front of the Vatican at Rome. One entered the Papal barracks.

A mammoth salt company composed of a the largo salt manufacturers in tho Unite States was reported forming. It will be known as the National Salt Union and will bo headquarters for tho Bait supply of the whole country. Thb iron manufacturers of Amorica propose to hold a meeting soon and arranga for an association to combat the workmen in caso uniust demands are made. The Bmoke from the buBh fires north of Quebec has almost stopped navigation on the St Lawrence. Thb weekly Nationalist papers through out Ireland publish the usual reports of the proceedings of various local branches of the league, despite the fact that under the terms of the new Crimes act the editors are liable to imprisonment for publishing reports which teem with violent denuncia tions of the Government.

At Villaboto, Italy, recently a mob shot a postman under the impression that ha spread tho cholera epidemic through tho letters which he distributed. Falenski, the defaulting postal clerk, has been sentenced at Vienna, Austria, to eight years' hard labor. Stanley, under date of June 23, writes that Tippoo Tib had some trouble with tho natives, but that he himself was received handsomely by the same people. Jennt Lind, the once famous singer, was lying seriously ill at her home in England on the 24th. Thb London Standard affects to believe that Davitt's trip to America was caused by fear of the Coercion law.

Rev. F. X. Lerat, Archbishop of New Orleans, died in France on the 234, whither he went three months ago in obedience to orders from the Pope. He was very ill when he left New Orleans, and had no bepo of returning.

Ho was sixty two years old. and became an Archbishop in 1881. BUSINESS failures during the seven days ended September 22 numbered for the United Stale, 156; Canada. 87; total, 183; compared with 187 the previous week and 187 the corresponding week last year. Gravbnhurht, OrA, was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 22d and 23d.

Tho loss reached $500,000. TnB French Cabinet Council has decided not to order the expulsion of the Orleanist Princes unless they attempt to cfrculata the manifesto of the Comte de Fans. It is reported that over 100 lives bave been lost in Egypt by the floods in the Kile basin. THE LATEST. Thb decision in the Federal Court at New York, iu the case of Jacob Sharp, the convicted boodler, was adverse to him.

He can now petition the State Courfof Ap peals, but in the meantime must go to Sing sing. A decision has been rendered In th United States Court at Boston, sustaininu the demurrer of the Bell Telephone Company against the Government Eight French fishermen were lost re cently by a collision in the British channel. Thb Bulgarian agitator, Veitehaff, has been expelled from Roumaoia for libeling Prince Ferdinand. Dr. Howard Douglass, of Cincinnati, supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has appointed Thomas C.

White; oi Jjeoannon, supreme keeper of records and soal of the order of Knight of Pythias, to fill the vacancy occasioned by toe aeatn oi Hen. K. K. Cowau. of St.

Louis. Advices say that the Spanish Governor of Pomipe has been killed and that many wounded have taken refuge on a Spanish pontoon. The insurgents are mnste of tne island. Two war skips have been sent to the scene. 1'ns President has issued a proclamation suspending discriminting ftuties of ton nage and imposts on Spanish vessels and manufactures from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine islands.

Tub railroad war on the lines between Cincinnati and St Louis came to au end on the 26th. Thb other night an attempt was made to wreck the St Louis express on the Fitoh- burg road, near North Pownal. Vt. Nine ties were across the rails. Fortunately me engineer saw tne oDstruction just in time to check the train Judoe French has rendered a decision In the mixed schools question at Fort Scott, that the matter is in' the hands of the educational authorities.

The colored people had brought a test case for the purpose of forcing the mixed system und Judge French refused the writ of mandamus applied for.o j- A dkadlt race war was threatened in Matagorda County, between whites and blacks on the 23th, growing out of the Kiiunjr oi a colored constable who attempted the arrest of a white man. he total assets of tho insolvent Colum bia bank of Philadelphia, according to the inventory and appraisomeut, are Doubtful assets, consisting of notes, bonds. moi tagos, of the fco value of are appraised at The International Cigarmakers' Union has re-elected A. Btrasser, of Buffalo, for president H. V.

Jones, of Mobiie, was eiected treasurer. A magnificent iroid watch and chain was presented to Mr. Sirasser. About 110,000 worth of silksluces and tine dress goods were seized at the New York custom house. It was thought they belongo-l to a dressmaker named Kennedy, The gxdi hal been iiiifuUy iswcd lna.Ua goivu of iul jricr vdlua.

A Btorm Destroy Hundreds of Rouses Kf ftrownavllle, Tex -Munjr Mlievp and Cat tle rerlnh. BuowNSvn.i.B, Kept, 2n. A terrible Storm visited Brownsville Wodnosday night, carrying destruction in its path. The ram accoinpunylng the storm deluged the coun try for milos. The loss to property and crops is very great.

Thus lur no lives are reported lost. The village of Santa Cruz, opposite Brownsville, was entirely submerged for several hours. The Rio Grande rose rapidly and raged 1 ko a sen, the back water overflowing many miles of fertile country. Tho wind reached velocity of sixty miles an hour, blowing a perfect hur ricane for a couple of hours. The ruin- fall by actual measurement reached ton inches.

The floods did almost as much damage as the wind. Hardly a tree is left standing in the vicinity of the oity and sev eral hundred acros of valuable sugar cane were blown flat The roof of the Masonic Hall was carried away. Scanlon's large oil warehouse was demolished, and many private residences were unroofed and tho contents ruined by the heavy rain. Many Mexican families whose frail houses were toppled over, were cared for by citizens and lodged in publio buildings. Telegraph wires are prostrated and the extent of tha damage south and west of here along the IUo Grundo is not yet known.

The damage is estimated at $1,000,000. In Brownsville seventy small houses were blown down and 300 others partially unroofed and ren dored untenantable. In Matamoras dozens of houses of the better class and from 150 to 200 small houses were prostrated, while 400 to SOO others were unroofed. In the country on the American side of the rivei incalculable damage was done. Countless heads of cattle and sheep have boen lost and crops of cotton, corn and sugar cane are completely prostrated and destroyed.

LEAVENWORTH THUGS. A Citizen Waylaid and Murdered by Two Neirroes. Bopt. 23. Richter, a German stonemason, was waylaid last evening on Broadway near tho corner ol Delaware by two colored men, who cut hie throat from ear to ear and gave him one slash across the breast.

The assaulted man died a few minutes later. The only witness to the tragedy was his own brother, Charles, who was coming north on Broad way near Fenn's planing mill when be heard a voice calling for help. He at once recognized the voice as that of his brother, and stopping his horse almost instantly ran to his assistance. The two men had just completed their butchery and started to make a dash down Broadway and up Cherokee street Rich ter ran after them, but finding pursuit useless he returned to assist his brother, whe had walked about fifty feet after receiving the fearful gash, and had fullon to the ground dead- The alarm was at once given to tho police, but the capture of the outlaws is doubtful. The motive of the murder was robbery.

Richter was slashed from the top of the left side of his face down to the right ear. The spot where the crime was committed is by no means a lonely one, and right in the shadow of ac electric light The murdered man was twenty-nine years of age, single and oi good habits. LOCAL OPTION. Judge Burgess Deelaros the Missouri Local Option Law Unconstitutional. Trenton, Sept.

23. Judge Burgesi rendered his opinion yesterday in the cas ol the State at the relation of William Mag gard against the county court of Grundj County involving the constitutionality oi the Local Option law. Haggard applied for a dramshop license September 1, and the county court refused to grant it on the sole ground of the adoption of the Local Op-tion law. Maggard then applied to Judge Burgess for a writ of mandamus to compel the court to issue tbe license. An alternative writ was granted, and the casf came to trial yesterday.

Arguments wore made pro and con. as to the constitutional ity of the law, lasting from seven o'clock Wednesday evening until three o'clock last evening, when Judge Burgess'rendered hit decision that the law was unconstitutional An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court at once. Judge Burgess is recog nized as one of the ablest judges in the Btate, and lawyers inthiBSOotion are pretty generally of the opinion that his decisioi will be affirmed by the Supreme Court THE MONEY MARKET. The Stringency Considerably Relieved b) an Offer or the Treasury Department to Iarcbase Bonds. New Yobk, Sept 23.

The publication oi Acting Secretary Thompson's circular is the daily papers, offering to purchase of four Knd four-and-a-half bonds, had a good effect among the men ol money in Wall Btreet An air of confidence hung around the busy mart One of the junior partners of Harvey Fisk Sons said: "I've just come in from the and I must say that circular has a good effect already there. Fourteen million dollars is a good deal of money if wo get it here by the 8th of October. A good deal depends upon how much of the bonds spoken ot the Government will get at their figures. Some of them are quoted higher in the 'room' this morning than the Secretary's offer. The four per cents, for which he Government offers $1.25 are selling in the street at at this very hour.

The market it better." e- Odd Fellows. Denver, Sept 22. The session ol the Sovereign Grand Lodge yesterday continued its discussion of the appeal cases, beard reporta of committees and listened to the reading of a proposed amendment to the constitution and several invitations regarding the place of holding the next annual meeting. The continental competitive drill began at River Front park in the afternoon in the presence of 0,000 spectators Excelsior Canton No. 1, of Chicago, wae the first to take tbe grounds, and for an hour entertained the people, acquitting themselves with great credit They were followed by Arapahoe Canton No.

8, of Clay Center, and Cheyenne No. 8, cf Cheyenne. Wyo. The first prize ia second, $800; third, $600. Citizens and visiting Odd Fellows to-night wera entertained at River Front park by a military concert and fancy drill, with pyrotechnic display by the Flambeau club of Topeka.

Tha Color Line In Ohio. Cibcijtxatt, Sept 22. The operation of the law of lost winter which repealed the statute authorizing establishment of separata schools for colored pupils is producing friction in many places. At Oxford the colored pupils nearly all deserted their own school and applied for admission to the white school. A publio meeting was held and the school board was asked to order the colored pupils to their own school They complied and the colored people pro pose to apply for a mandamus.

At Yeliow Springs the school board has ordered the schools closed indefinitely, or until the Legislature can meet and take some action. At Ripley a suit in mandamus has been entered to compel their admission. Exciting; Bond Election. NAjnviu.B, Seot 21 Never in the history of Davidson County was there as much interest taken in an election as wus taken in yesterday's election for the sub scription of 5jO.Oj0 by Davidson County to the Midland railroad, which would. had they the right, have passed througn Nashvillo and 100 miles of tlio jnnnty.

Three-fonrtbs majority be.ng required, it was defeated. The ma-riiy, however, will no! be over 500 out of about votes polled. Another election will probably be had in thirty days. Tha Louisville it Nashville railroad ntrols I linos that enter this city, and tSej con. fJisgbt tu que' Tery'tari Adopted at Cincinnati, February 22.

1887. larmora, Laborers and Producer Head and Ponder it Wall. A general discontent prevails on th part of the wealth producers. Farmer ttro Buffering from a poverty which hits forced moHt of them to niorlgngo their estates, and prices of products lire ho low as to offer no relief except through bankruptcy, Laborors tiro sinking Into greaterand greater dependence. Striken are resorted to without bringing relief, because of the inability of employers ia many cases to pay living wages, whila more aro driven into tho streets.

men lind collections almost impossible; meantime hundreds of millions of idlo public money, which i needed for relief, is locked up in lhm United States Treasury in grim mockery of tho distress. Land monopoly flourishes as -never before, and morn and more owners of tlio soil aro daily becoming Great transportation corporations still succeed tn extorting their profits upon watered Ktock through unjust charges. Tho United States Benato lias become an open scandal, its seats being purchased by the rich in open delianco of the popular will. A trilling fisheries dispute is seizeei upon as an excuse for squandering; publio money upon unnecessary military preparations, which are designed to breed a spirit of war to apo European despotism, and to empty the treasury without paying the publio debt. Under these and other alarming conditions we appeal to tho people of this whole country to come out of old party organizations, whoso indifference to the public welfare is responsible for this distress; and help us to organize a new political party, not sectional but national, which shall be called tho Union Labor party, whose object shall be to repeal all class laws favor of the rich and to relieva tlio distress of our industries by establishing tho following principles: I.

LAND, Every human being possesses a nat- ni-iil imilipnnhlft l-io-ht. tn snUieient Land for self support, and we desire to secure to every industrious citizen a home, as the highest result of free institutions. To this end we demand a graduated land tax on all largo estates, especially those held for speculative or tenant purposes; the reclamation of all unearned land grants; the immediate) oneninsr of Oklahoma to homestead settlement; the purchase of all unoccupied Indian lands and Ihe settlement; of the various tribes upon lands in severalty; also laws preventing corporations from acquiring real estate beyond the requirements of their business aud also ownership of land. The system of irrigation in States and Territories, where necessary, shall be under such public control as shall secure the free and equitable use of the water anel franchises to the people. II.

TRANSPOUTATION. The means of communication and transportation should be owned or eon-trolled by the people, as is the United States postal system, and equitabla rates everywhere established. in. MONEY. The establishment of a national monetary system in the interest of tlio producer, instead of the speculator and usurer, by which a circulating medium in necessary quantity and full legal tender shall be issued directly to the people without the intervention of banks, or loaned to citizens upoa ample security at a low rate of interest to relieve from the extortions of usury, and enable them to control the money supply.

Postal savings banks should be established. While we have freo coinage of gold, we should have free coinage of silver. We demand the prompt payment of the national debt, and condemn the further issue of interest-bearing bonds, either by the National Government or by States, Territories, counties or municipalities. IV. LABOR.

Arbitration should take the place of strikes and other injurious methods of settling labor disputes; the letting of convict labor to contractors be prohibited; the contract system be abolished in public works; the hours of labor in inelustrial establishments be reduced commensurate with the increase of production in labor-saving machinery; employes be protected from bodily injury; equal pay being given for equal work for both sexes, and labor, agricultural and cooperative associations bo fostered and incorporated by law. The foundation of a republic is the intelligence of its citizens, and children who are driven into workshops, mine3 anel factories, are deprived of education which should be secured to all by proper legislation. We desire to see labor organizations extend throughout all civilized countries until it shall be impossible for despots to array the workingmen ol one country in war against their brothers of another coun-try. T. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

In appreciation of tho services of Uni-. ted States soldiers and sailors, we demand for them iustiee before eharitv. The purposely depreciated money paid. them during tne war snouiei be made equal in value to too gold paiei tne bondholders. Tho soldier was promised coin or its equivalent, and paid in depreciated paper.

The boneiholder loaned the Government depreciated tinper and contracted to take it back, nit was paid in gold. VI. INCOME TAX. A Traded income tax is the most equitable system of taxation, placing the burden of government on those who can best afford to pay, instead of laying it on the farmers and producers and exempting millionaire bondholders and corporations. VII.

UNITED STATES SENATE. The capture of the United States Sen- nto by millionaires and tools of cor porations who have no sympathy wit ree institutions threatens the vcrv ex istence of tho Republic. Wo demand a constitutional amendment making United Senators elective by a direct vote of the people. Vni. CHINESE.

State and National laws should bo passed as shall effectually exclude from America the Mongolian slave and Asiatic competition. IX. ARMED MEN. The employment of bodies of armed men by private corporations should be prohibited. X.

EQUALITY. The right to vote is inherent iu irreupwtive of sex. XI. TKMPEHA NCR. Excessive resulting in luxury ami iillcness on the one liiuul, nnd x-ccssive toil ami jxvrrty mi the othfr, b'Hil to intemperance and vice.

The mensure of reform hero demanded; will prove be the iwniilio nilutioa X. H. BURT, Editor and Proprietor, YATES CENTER. KANSAS JHE WORLD AT LARGE Summary of tha Dally New WASHINGTON NOTKS. i Thb: recent report that the Frosldont would call an extra session of Congress to meet early in November for the purpose of providing means to relieve the present stringency In the money mnrkot oreated considerable comment in public circles, but obtained but little, If any, official cre dence.

Rumors were floating about Washington Km the 20th regarding the retirement of tfames W. Hyatt from the office of the limited States Treasurer. Acting Sbckbtart Mouinow has requested the Attorney-General to institute isuit against Thomas L. Greenough. nrlnol.

Ipal tie contractor for the Northern i'aclflo irailroad, for the value of 700 Hp and taina-(rack and pine trees, alleged to have been 'unlawfully out from the Government land by the defendant. I Acting; Beoretaut Thompson accepted of the bonds offered for sale on Thh President has recognized Narclsso rerez reunto as Consul of Spain at Sayan- Jian, ua, I Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, declares that he will never consent that any 'language but English shall be taught In the inaian schools. A kbcbnt statement showed that the tax 'on whisky decreased from 109,092,266 in 1885-6 to $05,827,821 in 1886-7, while the tax (on beer increased from $19,676,731 in 1885-6 187 in 1886-7. Commissioner Milleb, of the internal Bays it is his intention to have the beer of all the leading breweries in the country analyzed by competent chemists. and gives as his reason therefor the many uuupuuuu maue in me press ana to nim elf against the quality of the Beers in the market.

Thh Utah Commission had a consultation with the President recently regarding the wordings oi tne law. THE Tbi National Association of Local Preach ers in session at Harrisburg, recently, elected B. Stemen, of Fort Wavne, president for the ensuing year. The next mnvant nn will ha 1 1 in isepiemDor, nkss. Thb Italians of New York City on the IBOth celebrated with a parado, which was reviewed by Mayor Hewitt, and with sub sequent festivities in an up-towa park, the sevemeentn anniversary of the entry of tne Italian troops into Over fifty socie ties participated.

Thb Democrats of Massachusetts met in convention at Worcester on the 20th and (adopted a platform. H. B. Lovering was 'nominated for Governor. The rest of the was as follows: Lieutenant Gov.

ernor, Walter E. Cutting, of Pittsfield: Secretary of State, John P. Murphy, of Lowell; Treasurer, Henry C. Thatcher, of iiarmoutn: Attorney-ueneraL John W. Corcoran, of Clinton; Auditor, William F.

'uook, oi cspringneia. Thb liabilities of Grovesteen Pell. stock brokers of New York, aggregate ana tne actual assets $833,899, Thb Inter-State Commerce Commission decided In favor of the Vermont Btate Orange in a case against the Central Ver mont railroad. It appeared that the Boston ft Albany Railroad Company and the Vermont State Grange complained of the Central Vermont Company for charging a less rate in similar service for a long than for a short haul over the Central's lines between Boston and Detroit, Milwaukee and Chicago. The Commission declared the rates were illegal.

Thb report of the New Hampshire Senate Investigating Committee on the alleged at tempt to bribe C. D. Sawyer by Kirk Pierce was that such attempt had been made. The report proceeds at length to set forth the temptations which surround legislators and the debasing wiles employed professional lobbyists. Two men fell asleep on the railroad platr form at Scotthaven, the other night, End were inBtantly killed by a train.

Hakrt Mii.es and Eddy Medium trotted a mile in 2:24 at the New Jersey Btate fair the other day, breaking the record on a half-mile track. At the Chenango County (N. Democratic Convention, both President Cleveland and Governor Hill were strongly indorsed. Cafron Wolvekton's flour mill, Albany, N. was destroyed by Are on the 21st with 100,000 bushels of grain, causing $150,000 loss.

Eight firemen' had narrow Kev. E. A. Copeland appeared at the United Labor Club meeting at Rochester, N. recently and avowed himself for the George movement.

He had been one of the leading Prohibition workers, and last year was the candidate of that party for Congress. Govbbnoh Hill addressed ten thnn persons at the fair at, Newburg, N. on the22d. He denied that he was making any attack upon Henry George. He believed that Mr.

George was sincere, and he highly respected him, though he could not indorse bis idea of putting all taxes on land Values. Biverax collieries about Wilkesbarre, have signified their willingness to con- cede to the demands of the miners. Bbvbn hundred bales of cotton on lighter were destroyed by fire in New York harbor the other day. Loss, $35,000. Thb New York Produce Exchange has voted to hold daily sessions hereafter from 10:80 to three o'clock.

Tub Government offer to purchase four and four-and-a-half bonds dissipated the fears of a stringent money market that had been prevailing in New York. E. S. Wheeler, the insolvent iron dealer of New Haven, who failed recently for $2,000,000, has been arrested, charged With fraud. William Showers, the old man arrested several weeks ago at Lebanon, charged with having murdered his two young grandchildren, has made a confession of the crime and implicated bis housekeeper, Elizabeth Bergent, who, he says, held a light in the children's bedroom while he committed the deed.

General J. B. Ricketts, commander of Ricketts' Battery, which made such a fighting reputation during the war, especially at Gettysburg, died at New York on the 23d, aged seventy years. He was born in New York, June 21, 1887. He commanded the Sixth Army Corps and was wounded five times.

His death was caused by a wound received at the battle of Winchester. Thb steamship Alesia, which arrived oft New York on the 2'd from Marseilles and Naples with six hundred had Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight of her passengers died on the passage and on her arrival at quarantine, the health officer found four cases aboard. lie seot the Alesia and her passengers to the west bank in the tower bay. THK WEST.

Oak Lawn Retreat, a private insane asylum near Jacksonville, 111., was destroyed by fire recently, and the proprietor seriously burned, fto patients were hart. Thb Ohio Mississippi at St. Louia on the 21st enlarged its field of operations in the rate-cutting line, and made a round-trip fare to Iinilimore and Washington of bing a cut of 15.15. The Louisville, gansfiiie A Bt, Louis road, or what is known as the Air Lint, met the rate, but IBs Vandal a to bo boUcs tf it, Alesia, Captain Vali' sailod from Naples when the cholera was raging in that city and in the vlolnity, and an even worse form In other Italian ports and in Syria. Those who were talien sick got aboard ut Naples.

VEARS AT WASHINGTON. Washington, Sept, 24.. Dr. Hamilton, Burgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, said last night that the arrival of a slnglo ship at New York lnfocted with Asiatic cholera need not give occasion for alarm. In his judgment the health offloor at Now York would be able to handle the casos at quarantine without difficulty.

The sick would, of course, ho suid, be properly isolated and well removed to a safe place, their olothlng and bnggaga fumigated and dlsinfooted, the ship tlijroiighly cleansed and her cargo removed and disinfected. The experiences of the past were not likely to be repeated because the value of precautionary measures woro now appreciated and their iessons too well understood by health officers throughout the country for thorn to neglect to take any precautions necessary on an occasion of this kind. History of past epidemics bad shown that it was only by repeated arrivals of cholera-infected vessels that the disease gained a foothold in this country. It was not indlgencous and the climate and soil were not favorable to its propagation, but like all contagious diseases it might be imported if not guarded against. As an 11-lustn ijn of yie fact that it bad broken out after the arrival of several cholera-laden vessols, ho cited the great epidomio Of 1832, the disease was brought here from Canada, a ship bound for (Juebeo from Ireland arriving at the Grosse Isle quarantine in April with 170 emigrants and having twenty-nine deaths from cholera during tho voyage.

But it was' not until after the third cholera-infected ship arrived in June that the disease broke out on shore. It then spread throughout Canada and New York State. Disinfection was not practiced at that time nor was soiled clothing renovated nor any precautions taken, to neglect which in this day would be criminal. In November, 1848, the ship New York arrived at New York from Havre with eleven cases of cholera on board and seven deaths on the voyage. The number of cases increased to twenty the next day, finally reaching sixty, three cases and twenty-nine deaths, but winter setting in quite severely the disease entirely subsided.

WILLIAM O'BRIEN. An Exciting- Time on His Examination at Alltohelstown. Dublin, Sept 24. William O'Brien, who Is charged by the Government with sedition under the Coeroion act, was taken yesterday from the Cork jail to Mitchelstown, where the alleged seditious language was used, to stand trial before the court there. As he left Cork under a guard of a detachment of hussars and police he was loudly cheered and upon his arrival at Mitchelstown he was received with tremendous cheering by a large crowd which had gathered to welcome him.

The crowd manifested great excitment, but there was no indications of disorder. O'Brien was immediately conveyed by his guards to tha court room. Many English ladles wera present to witness the trial and Mr. O'Brien was the recipient of bouquets from a number of them. When the cosowas opened several police men were called as witnesses for tho Gov ernment and testified from memory as to O'Brien's language, which, thoy asserted, tended to incite bis listeners to violence, During the hearing of this evidonce a procession, armed with sticks nnd headed by a wagon carrying a band, marched into tha town from the country.

The hussan stopped the wagon but allowed the othet port of the procession to proceed. The pro cession took up a position close to the couil room but order was observed. Constable Foloy admitted that tha notet ho had made of what O'Brien had said in his speech had been made the next morning from memory, the head, constable bavlne told him to write a report Ho was not asked to produce it for many days after, He could not swear that O'Brien spoke In the order in which the words appeared in tne notes. Harrington declared that a deliberate attempt bad bean made suppress Constable O'Sulllvan's report of O'Brien's speech, whereupon Carson Baid the observation was a pure fabrication, which caused Har rington to cry "You lie." Magistrate Eaton interrupted: "I can not allow such remarks here. If you repeat them you will be removed from court," and Harrington answered excited ly, "You need not trouble yourself, I shall remove myself.

I shall have nothing more to do with such a solemn farce." An ex cited crowd followed the car in which O'Brien was taken back to prison, hooting and yelling at the soldiers, who bad fixed bayonets. Dillon aad a number of priesti pacified the crowd. A HEAVY DOSE. A Wichita Drug Store Clerk Gets a Seven Sentence For Dealing In Whisky, Wichita, Sept. 23.

The interest In the trial of the liquor cases is unabated. Wednesday the State vs. Cheever waa tried, and the defendant found guilty on twenty-nine of the fifty-four counts in the lndiotmeot The most important case waa the State vs. Eldridge, which was commenced yesterday forenoon and the case given to tho jury at six o'clock, but they had not at midnight reached a verdict The defendant was the proprietor ol Eldridgo's park, near tho city, and was tried on an Indictment containing three hundred and eight counts. Last evening J.

A. Stewart was sentenced by Judge Wall to be imprisoned in the county jail for seventeen years and four months, and fined with costs of prosecution. He was a clerk at the West End drug store and with the proprietor Hermann, plead guilty to an indictment of 208 counts. Her mann can not be found and it is thought he has fled the country. The penalty imposed on Stewart is the heaviest ever given in this State for the violation of the liquot laws.

An Unruly Sept U. During the meeting ol the National League at Cork last evening crowd which had gathered outsido the building tn which the meeting was held made an attack upon tha rooms of the Protestant Young Men's Association. The police charged the crowd, but the mob continually gained accessions and resisted and a melee occurred, the police using their batons and the crowd stones. The conflict continued until Mr. Tanner, M.

who was present at the league meeting, came out aud implored the crowd to desist After this the police made another charge and dispersed the crowd. Three valuable panes of glass wera broken tn a warehouse and several constables were cut with stones. Wichita Wickedness. Wichita, Kan Sept, 24. Another grist of liquor cases was ground out yesterdny.

The colebrated case against Eldridge Brown was disposed of. Tha 308 charges had by compromises and the crucial test of law beoa reduced to but eleven. Each of the defendants were fined $1,100 and given 830 days in the county jail. Chcver tc Wall's fifty-five charges were reduced to thirteen, and the twenty against Frank Cross to two, and the thirty against "Dutchy" to threa. All were then given! thirty days in ths county jail and $100 fine Jor ai chargo.

Ths grand jury yesterday returned indictments aamst all tha k-'-rr-nra of gfiTibUrf houf la tha city aa4 B4tratM tf broikais. Policemen found agas pipe bomb at the Cottage Grove Avonue car barn, Chicago, the other morning. It was ten inches in length and two inches in diameter. P. R.

Scott, son of ex-Governor Scott, of Arkansas, reported to the Chicago police recently that he had been robbed of $4,500 in notes and $500 in money. Rev. Alfred- Beddinoton, a Baptist minister, was shot and mortally Wounded by a man named Glassmore On the line be tween the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations recently. The murder was prompted by jealousy. i the Typographical Union of Detroit, has made a demand for nine hours a day, without any reduction of wages.

The Employing Printers' Association, com posed of the ten largest job printing houses in the city, has issued a oircular rof using to comply; Tub annual convention of the National Association of ex-Prisoners of War began in Chicago on the 22d. A cold wave struck Abercrombie, on the 22d, the thermometer being only two above zero. William C. Albertson, a Chicago bucket shop owner, has applied for a writ of man damus to force tho Board of Trade of that oity to give him their quotations. John Kernadan was hanged in San Francisco at noon on the 23d for the murder of his sister-in-law in October, 1885.

Joliet merchants deny the stories from Now Haven, regarding iron merchant Wheeler's bogus house in their city. They say that Wheeler's agents in Joliet were a well-known firm which was dragged down by him. Elisba Robinson, the Chicago whole sale grocer who stood in with the Cook County boodlers, has returned to the county $15,000 as his share of the steals. Fish Connell's Enterprise barb wire factory, Joliet, 111., has been destroyed by fire with all its contents. Loss, $35,000.

J. S. Robinson, of Cincinnati, has been elected president and L. C. Hutchinson, of Detroit, secretary and treasurer of the National Council of Amalgamated Building Trades.

Thb schooner Orkney Lass was thought to have been lost in Lake Michigan. Some few days ago the captain refused assistance to reach port and the vessel was not afterward seen. Chinese residents of Ban Francisco had a remarkable parade on the 23d in honor of the great idol known as Tan Wong, recent ly brought from China. One of the features of the parade, besides Tan Wong, was a huge dragon 175 feet long. Engineer Freeman, of D.

B. Ervln's stone quarry at Yellow Springs, was blown into the air fifty feet and killed by a boiler explosion the other day. Captain John Frees, of the schooner Marsh, who assisted Boodler McGariglo to escape to Canada, has been arrested in Chicago. THE SOUTH, Ten miles west of Fort Worth, on the 20th, the Texas St. Louis express was robbed by masked men, supposed to be members of the old gang of Texas train robbers, The loss was put at between and $30,000, and would have boen much larger if the messenger had not secreted a large amount while the door was being forced open.

The Louisville (Ky.) Commercial Club gave a banquet and reception to the commercial travelers of that city recently. Ex-Govornor Knott made the principal speech. Thb chemical works and warehouses and three stores at Elgin, were destroyed by fire the other night. Loss, $40,000. General William Preston died at Lex ington, on the 21st.

He had been dl since July. He was to be buried at Louis ville. At Duvall's Bluff, recently, the station agent of the Little Rock Memphis railroad became involved in a quarrel with a wealthy planter named Richardson and was shot to death by him. Great excitement prevailed. 1 The jury at Baton Rouge, l.a., In tho case of ex-Secretary of State W.

A. Strong has returned a verdict or guilty, as charged. Strong was indicted for the embezzlement of about $3,000 of the State's money in connection with the salo of election ticket paper. Frederick W. Hendricks, a brakeman on the South Carolina road, fell headlong from the top of a car, near Charleston recently, and his head struck the corner of a tie, from the effects of which he died.

Firb in Baltimore recently destroyed Dobler, Mudee paper warehouse, causing 100,000 loss. The Georgia Senate passed the Glenn substitute bill by 23 to 13. A tornado visited the country adjacent to Brownsville, Tex, on the 2-d. The damage was estimated at At Brownsville seventy houses were blown down; at Matamoras, about 200 houses were destroved. A.

Craig Palmer has been appointed tem porary receiver of the Covington Macon railway of Georgia. A report reached Austin, on the 22d that the stage between Comfort nnd Roderteksburg was robbed the previous night by two masked highwaymen, who made their escape in the darkness. Officers started immediately on the track of the robber. Tut yellow fever epidemic at Key West, is practically Rt sn end, not a death having occurred during the past week. The freight conductors and brakemen of the Memphis Charleston road struck recently at because of a reduction of the train crews and the refusal of the company to advance wages.

Fire broke out in a bakery in riauford, the other day and destroyed almost the entire bunne port cn ct the town. Tb lost KM aUsated it pJM.M), lit Li.tar.ce. grounds, comprising many of the best herds of thoroughbred cattle in the country. The number and quality of the horses, sheep and swine exhibits far surpassed those of former years. Pensions lately granted Kansas veter ans: Daniel A.

VVibert, of Cheney; John Rogers, of Richfield; Brazilla Merritt, of Independence; Simon A. Snyder, of Ar-mourdale; Sylvester T. Dimmitt of Ray mond; Richard H. Smith, of Leavenworth; Albert Dolby, or Faulkner; James F. Nay-lor, of Holten; Joseph B.

Ingles, of Gar field; Leon Derusba, of Winfleld; Nelson Murray, of Wichita; Reuben Utt, of New ton; James B. Woodruff, of Great Bend; Samuel H. Renfro, of Neosho, and Charles N. White, of HaverhilL The Superintendent of Insuranoe has been notified that the Educational Endow ment Association, of Minneapolis, a wild cat concern, and the Woman's Mutual Insurance Company, of New York City, aro-attempting to do business in Kansas with out authority. County attorneys are ad vised by the Superintendent to oause the arrest of all persons acting as agents of these violations of the Insurance law.

Horton has a silver cornet band. 1'ns other evening Chief of Police Harris, of Wichita, received a telegram to arrest a soventeen-ycar-old boy, named Charley Brown, for whom a reward was offered. Ho was charged with breaking into a store and then stealing a horse at Bartlesville, iu the Indian Territory, from a man named Brooks, who would arrive and identify him. A hid soon arrived on a construction train and was pointed out as the party wanted. When accosted by tho officer be ran and was fired on and fatally wounded.

His companions declared tnat De was not ina party wanted, and in his dying declarations the lad corroborated their statement, and requested that his body bo sent home. A PosT orrics to be known as Guerney has been established in Cheyenne County, with Willard F. Blake as postmaster. In the district court at Wichita the other day J. A.

Stewart, a drug clerk, pleaded guilty to violating the Prohibitory law. Tho Indictment contained 3)8 counts, ami lie was sentenced to seventeen years and Tour months inji.il and a total fine of At the Fort Boott sugar works recently do day's run of 2K tons of sorgltum cana gave an average yioid of 115 poundi of first sugar, and 15 gailons of sirup to the tpn of cane, and it wan expected that 20 pounds additional to the ton Of cane would be had Upo.i boiling for seconds. This will give a total produet of 135 pounds of sugar and 15 gallons of sirup to the ton. Moom lout the nirne of new poit-of- fi ttcewlf esabtuh(l is Bti rn County,.