The Quill from Jamestown, Kansas • 1

NO. 1 JAMESTOWN, CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS, SATURDAY. MARCH 2, 1889. VOL. I.

KANSAS LEGISLATURE. ONE HUNDRED 1TEET. the West Vlreiaia Legisla KANSAS STATE NEWS. THE WOELD AT LARGE. INGALLS ON BURNES.

The President Pro Tempore of tle Snit fepeaks to the Kenolutluns on the IleatU or Representative Burner, of Missouri An Kloquent Kulogy pronounced by tha Noted Hannan, Washington. Feb. 20. The resolutions adopted by tlie House of Representative on tho late Representative Burnes, of Missouri were taken up in the Senate yesterday, and Senator Cockerell gave a brief review of the life and public services of Mr. Burnes.

He was followed by President Fro Tempore Ingalls, who said: These are tho culminating hours of the closing scene in the drama of our natlooal life. When this day week returns, one political party will relinquish and another assume tho executive func'ion of rerutaent. On every hand are visible the preparations to "welcome the coming, and speed the parting guest. Eventsjof groat pfth and moment are waiting on the event of the brlet interval. While pleasure wanders restlessly through the corridors ot the Capitol, hope and fear, ambition, cupidity and revenge sit in the galleries or stand at the gates eager (like the dying Elizabeth) to ex-ohaDgo millions of money for that Inch of tlm took Clark Jillson, of the First Southern Worcester (Mass.) district court, has closed his inquest on the body of Lilla Hoyle, begun nearly a year and a half ago.

His return is as follows: "She came to her death as the result of the unlawful act of some person other than herself." Fire at New London, on the morning of the 24th destroyed Higgins coal yard, Bishop's lumber yard and premises adjoining, burning uncontrolled for six hours. Loss, $200,000. In a railway wreck near Boyd's Mills, two miles east of Kingman, recently W. A. Mudgett, railway postal clerk; John Campbell, English mail clerk, and Harry Goodman, a fireman, were killed.

J. An-gelt, engineer, was seriously injured. No passengers were reported seriously injured. A dynamite bomb was thrown into the Wesleyan College building at New Middle-town, recently by some foolhardy student Doers and windows were shattered and a son of ex-Congressman Hubbard, of West Virginia, was seriously injured. A TERRIBLE disaster occurred at Plymouth.

at noon on the 25th. A mysterious explosion occurred at the squib powder works of John Powell and was followed by others, the result being the shocking burning to death of eleven girls, who had remained in the building to eat I A Condensed Iteport of the Weck'g Pro ceedinffs. Afteii routine business the Senate oa tho 20th agreed to the House amendments to the University bilLexcept the clause cutting oil the pay of regents while encaged in the performance of their duties. The House Judicial Apportionment bill was considered at some length and defeated, and the Senate bill on the 6ame subject taken up. The bill to prevent fire insurance companies from establishing pooling rates passed, hut the vote was reconsidered and the bill went over.

Tbe bill making an appropriation for the girls' industrial school at Beloit In the House among the bills pnssed were: To enable irrigation companies to condemn the right of way; concerning mortgages; the University bill; providing for an irrigation commissioner; amending the Grand Jury law: to restrain waste on mortgaged land; to amend the law in regard to county auditors to extend tho penalty for disposing of mortgaged chattels; amending the Interest law; relating to foreclosure of mortgages for non-payment of interest; amending the law relating to assessment and collection of taxes; exempting ex-Union soldiers from the payment of poll tax for tho relief of indigent soldiers, their wives, widows and orphans, and a host of local and private bills. The Senate on the 21st non-concurred in the House amendment to the Grand Jury bill, and passed the Judicial Apportionment bill. Several Senators explained their votes on the "Age of Consent" bill, and a communication was read from the Equal Suffrage Association of Salina, denouncing the vote of certain Senators in favor of the bill. Insurance bills were then considered in Committee of the Whole. At the evening session many appropriation bills were favorably considered and recommended for In the Houso Insurance bills were considered in Committee of the Whole and at the afternoon session the bill passed providing for an oil inspector.

After further debate on insurance duis ine tugu mu was finally passed with an amendment which materially lessens the power of the State Superintendent of Insurance. Mr. Mohler's Alien bill was then discussed. But little business was transacted in the Senate on the S2d. The House amendment providing that the superintendent, matron and attendants shall be women was adopted.

The resolution memorializing Congress to set aside the Fort Dodge and Fort Hays military reservations for the use of old soldiers passed. A resolution was adopted that when the Senate adjourned it be to April 10 to consider the action of the Anti-Beef Combine convention. The House bill to prevent the removal of buildings from mortgaged lands was In the House Mr. Rankin's bill for the building of a Soldiers' Memorial Hall at Lawrence was considered in Committee of the Whole and indefinitely postponed. Mr.

Martin's making appropriation to pay bounty on sugar passed; nisn Mr. Outhrie's bill prohibiting the sale of unsound, diseased, adulterated, impure and unwholesome articles of food. In Committee of the Whole the Penitentiary Appropriation bill and a large nnmber of local bills wererccom-mended for passage. At the evening session appropriation bills were further considered. No bills were introduced in the Senate on the 83d.

Messrs. Bentley, Schilling and Moodv were appointed bn the Jo'nt Conference Committee agreed upon by the House to consider the grand jury questi after which the reports of the committee on the beef combine were read. The bills making appropriations for construction purpCio at the blind institute, soldiers' orphans' home nnd imbecile asylum passed, also the appropriations for Knoporia normal school, Topeka insane asylum, the reform school, soldiers' orphans' home and for sending a commissioner to the Paris Exposition. The bili also passed appropriating $70,000 to the Hutchinson reformatory. The bill to apportion the State into Insane Asylum districts came up for third reading and action was deferred for one day.

The bill passed providing for the appointment of a mine inspector by tlie Governor, the inspector and asistant to be practical miners of at least five years' experience. The Metropolitan Police bill was killed in Committee of the whniR The House in Committee of the Whole considered the bill to amend the law to provide for the health and safety of miners, which was finally lost, but a reconsideration was secured. The death of Delegate Case, of Cnnt fii.iintvwtts announced, and a committee appointed to arrange for the funeral. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 2rth several local bills passed.

The House University bill was amended and passed. Mr. Buchan's bill pro viding for the police government ernes or mo first class through a board of police commissioners passed. The committee to investigate the penitentiary made a port. A bill for the regulation and support of common schools in cities of the first class passed, also a bill in regard to registration of voters, also the bill giving Sedgwick County a court of appeals, aud many local bills.

The proposition to amend the Constitution to incroase tho number of Justice of tbe Supreme Court to seven was favorably considered and the Interest bill discussed until midnight After the usual routine work the House passed the bill to purchase copios of the compiled statutes. Mr. High's Insurance bill also passed. Mr. Mohler's Alien Landholder bill, after a long discussion, passed.

The Senate resolution for an adjourned session April 10 was killed. Tho report of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee was received and adopted. The bill Appropriating 135,000 for buildings at Ellsworth for G. A. R.

purposes passed; also the House Banking bill- The Senate on the 26tb, after ajlong debate, adopted the resolution for the printing of 20,000 copies of the report of the State Board of Agriculture for general distribution. In executive session the Senate confirmed the nominations of G. H. Case as warden, and William Martindale, W. H.

McBride and D. E. Cornell as directors of the penitentiary, also V. Admire, J. F.

McDowell and T. A. McNeall as directors of the Hutchinson reformatory. The University bill was considered in the afternoon and many local bills disposed of. The House joint resolution to amend the Constitution increasing the Justices of the Supreme Court to seven was In the House bills passed for the construction of a bridge over the Kansas river in Wyandotte County; providing for the organization and control of mutual life insurance companies, besides a number of appropriation bills.

The bill to create a court of common pleas for Leavenworth County passed, also the bill in regard to the employment of men about coal mines. Fire at Helton, Mo. Bklton, Feb. 27. Monday night about eleven o'clock the store building occupied by W.

O. Duncan was found to be on fire. Tho flames spread rapidly to the adjoining buildings, all efforts to check them being of no avail, and the entire block, consisting of a grocery store, two hardware stores, one jewelry shop, one livery stable one feed store, the post-office and a grain elevator were entirely consumed, together with most of their contents except the stock and vehicles of the livery stable and some or the narawsro oi Co. and Williams Berry, hardware, were the heaviest losers on goods, and M. Gillham and Robinson Waller the heaviest losers on buildings.

The loss is estimated at insurance, $10,000 to $12,000. TSleven Men Drowned. TvrnmroT.Tr. Feb. 24.

The Nova Sco- ie Troon, with a careo of oimlk and a crew of seventeen man, was wrecked at seven o'clock last evaning at Chicamicomio. N. C. The master and ten men were drowned. Six were saved.

Tha Trnssftl and carsro are a total loss. The vessel is broken up and strewn on the beach. Annlivxlated. Chicago, Feb. 25.

Ole Hansun and his cousin Neil Olsen were found dead in a room this morning. It is supposed they went home drunk and after extinguishing the light turned the gas on again and for got lb ture ended on the 21st by the re-election of Konna for the United States Senate, Dorr being finally induced to forego his antipathy. Fire in Norfolk, early the other morning destroyed two dry goods houses and a huge stock of lumber, causing loss. D. H- Smith, a negro who hal been inducing hands to leave the vicinity of Ar-tesia, for Arkansas, was hanged recently by unknown persons.

The thirteenth anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University was celebrated at Baltimore, on the 22d by addresses from President Gilntan, Prof, Adam3 and Mr. Allan McLane, Jr. GENERAL. The Emperor oi Austria purposes to grant a general amnesty to political offenders as a tribute to the late Crown Prince Rudolph. Avalanches in Switzerland recently destroyed many houses and caused a number of deaths.

General Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights of Labor, has issued his second call within a year for per capita contributions from members of the order. February 2 a great fire broke out in Shidsuoki, Japan, extending down streets and destroying 1,00.) houses, including temples, schools and hospitals. On the following day fire at Yokosuka ruined 500 houses and burned to death three men. Oa the same day ten houses were destroyed at Joshuia and fifteen at Tokio. The birthday of Washington was celebrated on the 22d by a general cessation of business in financial quarters.

At the celebration at Chicago Henry W. Darling, of Toronto, advised against the agitation of any annexation scheme, but spoke favorably of unrestricted reciprocity. Four German ironclads at Genoa have been ordered to sail for Samoa immediately. Max Bernstein, a candidate for the office of Rabbi, has been sentenced in Berlin to imprisonment for three months for drawing blood from a Christian boy. Charles Kelly, thirty-six years old, was found frozen to death beside the road, two ocks from Main street, at Jackson, recently.

Clearing house returns for the week ended February 23 showed an average increase of 19.5 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 25.2. French Socialists made fruitless attempts to hold meetings in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and Marseilles on the 2ith. Gendarmes dispersed the meetings and arrested a number of those present. Business was active on the London Exchange during the week ended February 23, stimulated by rumors of an extensive Government financial measure.

The Continental bourses were reported quiet with prices firm. The Radical congress, which assembled at Brussels on the 24th, passed resolutions supporting the schema for military education, and demanding the abolition of the conscript law. Letters from missionaries dated Zanzibar, January 24, have been received in London. They give details of a third re volt in Uganda and the murder of a mis sionary named Brooks. The marriage of Prince Alexander, of Battenburg, formerly ruler of Bulgaria, to Marie Leisinger, the opera singer, took place at Men'one February 0.

The marriage created an immense sensaiion when made public. The people of Granville, France, nearly all fishermen, have adopted resolutions in favor of an international convention to Aoati ti ctunmnrs Tifissinf over tha 11 VVi-l." Newfoundland banks during the fishing season. Stttaut Cttmrerland. the mind reader. read General Boulanger's thoughts at Paris the other day.

rie gave rresiaent Cavnot a six months' lease of power and traced Boulanger's march on Germany, via Stuttgart. The eneral declared Cum-winnrl's internretation to be correct. The recent report that the gentleman's agreement had not oeens gnou Dy mejuis-souri Pacific or Union Pacific is declared bi without foundation. THE I-AXEST. Two natural gas explosions occurred atf Pittsburgh, on the 27th.

ive buna inp-s wfira wrecked and ono person was. fatally and two others seriously injured. The London Time Of the 28th published an apology for the forged Parnell letters. The apology also included the letters attributed to Esran. Davitt and O'Kelly.

The German Government has forbidden the issue in Germany of any part of the Bulgarian loan, on the ground that Uul-garia has no recognized government. It is reported that General Desbordes, the French commander, has been mur dered in Tonquin. No confirmatory ad vices have been received by the Govern ment A bill has been introduced in the Can adian Parliament giving the Government authority to hand over refugee criminals to their respective countries, treaty or no treaty. According to Senator Stewarf report on the investment of foreign capital in the mines in the Territories, the capital invested by aliens is $20,503,750 and the annual dividends are $4,737,800. The bomb explosion at Wesleyan Uni- versitv.

Middletown. originated from a series of mistakes. Lackaberry, the freshman who threw the bomb, asked his father to send him some harmless bombs for the celebration, and the latter sent some "cannon salute" bombs obtained by a messenger. They were exploded at the college and wrecked a portion of the building. The bill to amend the Inter-State law was before the Senate on the 27th.

No final action was taken. The House passed the Indian Appropriation bill with an amendment to pay the Seminole Indians for lands ceded in Oklahoma, which will be onen to homestead entry. This wa3 the last of the appropriation bills before the House. Rich discoveries of srold are reported in Southern California. It is said to average from $1 to $2.50 per pan.

Seth Cook, a noted San Francisco mine operator and capitalist, died recently after a lone: illness. He made a fortune from the Comstock mines. Vice-President Morton visited General Harrison at the Arlington Hotel, Washington, on the 27th. THE.preliminary statement of the Union Pacific Railroad Company for January shows earninar3 to be $1,918,000 an in crease over January, 188S, ex nenses. $1.397.000 increase, His.UU; sur plus, $521,000 iucrease, A boy employed in a printing office in Vienna has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment at hard labof for repeating stories concerning the death of Crown Prince Rudolph at variance with the offic ial announcements.

The German Government has received information from Washington that there is no prospect of the United States com' plying with the demand for the prosecu' tion and punishment of Klein. Terrible Somersault of a Pullman Oar Off a Bridge. Nine Persons Killed and Thirty Injured-Narrow Escape of Many More List of the Victims The Ileroio Engineer Iead. Rt. rxKOTOR.

Ont. Feb. 28. The St. Louis express on the Grand Trunk railway passing here eastbound about six o'clock last evening, went through a bridge just east of the station, a broken tire on one of the engine wheels causing the rails to spread.

The first passenger car, a Pullman car and the dining car went through the middle section of th bridge. Tho Pullman car, which contained most of the passengers, was thrown clear off tho bridge, turning completely over and landing right side up. The dining car stands on end against a pier. A passenger car remains on the bridge, having stripped tho ties ahead of it over the section which collapsed. Nine persons were killed and about thirty wounded persons have boen taken out of The train consisted of live coaches, bag- gage, passenger car, smoKing, dining cars.

The piston rod broke just as the train passed th3 station, causing the rails to spread. As it proceeded the engine, tender and smoking car crossed the bridge saieiy, mu just the passenger coach was near the center of the bridge the tomble auair occurreu. Tha firfmnn it nnnears. noticod that all was not right and jumped, but was'killfcdt The passenger car went over ino pri6i tiirninc n. comers ault and landing Tally.

The dining car contained about seven peo ple beside the waiters, supper uau. juau been announced, and in a tew mmui.es the car would havo been nnea ana tui must have perished. The following 13 a list; or. iuo uw. George Leggett, of Mitchell; W.

M. Wenip, of London; Dr. Swan, of Woodstock; A. W. Francis, of Woodstock; Mr.

McLean, of the firm of McLean Beecber, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Bains, of Hamilton; Captain Moore, a Salvation Army man from Brant- ford; Mr. Peers, ot vvooasiocs; icujr Angle, fireman. The following are more or less severely wounded: Thomas L.

Doutney, temper ance lecturer; Mrs. Jennings, Paris; xay Jennings, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Buddin, Dorchester; Mrs. Higgins, Toronto; Mrs.

McLeod, Ingersoll; Miss cuauee, x-onna, James Hyslop, Goderich; Dan Peacock, Woodstock; R. W. Knight, Woodstock; John McKinley, Detroit; Fred Hancock, London; George Forbes, New York; Mr. and Mrs. J.

rt. jnarsuau, xvo-gina; John H. Wilson (colored), Chatham; Mrs. Evans, Hamilton; George Margetta, dining car conductor, Niagara; Robert St. Catherines; Mr.

McLaughlan, London; Conductor Re-vell, seriously; D. W. Kain, Woodstock; William Benedict, Sanilac, Mich. Dr. D.

L. Quesne, Cleveland, O. A. W. Francis, Woodstock; Mrs.

A. S. Kendall, Detroit, St. George; near where the disaster occurred, is on the Great Western branch of the Grand Trunk railroad. The accident was witnessed by some of the townspeople and an alarm was given immediately and in a few minutes the streets were the scene of the wildest excitement.

Every available conveyance was hurried to the bridffe and the dead and tfitnii nnfc of the debris and taken to hotels, private residences, Mechanics' Institute Hall and tlie station house. All the doctors were soon on band and attended without delay to tho poor mortals who groaned nnd cried for help, while a noble array of heroic women turned out to minister to the wounded and dying. An auxiliary train soon arrived from Hnmilton and another from Loudon. A special came from Wcolsteck, a sister town that had suffered much more heavily than any other, bringing a largo number of people. Doctors came from Paris, Brantford, Hamilton, Woodstock and London and for a time tho hands of all were full.

The bridge which gave 100 feet high and the scene of the wreck is appalling. On one part of the bridge are a number of ties heaped together, some of them splintered to atoms. A partly demolished Pullman car occupies a place on the bridge. The dining car stands almost perpendicularly upon its end. The upper end leans against ono of the vast stone piers.

The hind wheels, of the car became detached from it just bsfore it took its fearful leap and they now nestle in the iron framework of the bridge. The first class coach took a complete somersault in its descent and, though it lunded right side up, is very nearly demolished. A heap of debris lies nt the foot of one of the piers and comprises a strange conglomeration of car wheels, stoves and other railway Engineer Brown remained at his post and passed over in safety, whilo the fireman jumped and was so severely injured that he died. RAILROAD CHANGES. Resignation of tlie President of the Texas Pacific Change on the Missouri Pacific.

Dallas, Feb. 29. It i3 given out semi-oflicially that Governor Brown, president of tbe Texas Pacific road, is soon to retire at his own request, the reason being his desire to live in St Louis or some other Northern or Eastern city in preference to living in Texas, especially through the summer. It is now stated that the active management of the road will be in the hands of a first vice-president, who is also to be general manager. It is regarded as highly probable that W.

H. Newman, third vice-president of the Missouri Pacific, will be induced to accept the position and will become general manager with headquarters at Dallas. It is further announced that Newman's position with the Missouri Pacific will be filled by the appointment of General Manager J. M. Eldy, of the I.

G. who is also a capable and a close personat friend of First Vice-President S. H. Clark, of the Missouri Pacific. Miscegenation.

Louisville, Feb. 23. Thomas Cas-sonee, colored, and Annie Abbott, a white girl of eighteen, were married in Jeff er-sonville yesterday by Rev. Ezra Miller, a negro preacher, The bride's father, William Abbott, a well-to-do farmer, was wild with grief when he found that his daughter had married his negro farm hand. He caused the arrest of the bride and groom and the minister.

The minister swore that the girl had a vail over her face. He gave $500 bond and was released, while the bride and groom were left in jail. The charge is miscegenation, and tbe punishment is years' Tlie School Fund. Following is the semi-annual apportion ment to counties of the annual school fund made by the State Superintendent The school population of the State is 531,910. The total amount apportioned is 912.30; per capita 3o cents County.

Amount 5,561. 4 ILogan. 4 Marion. Amount. 3,485.99 455.8 1 4.619."3 3,991.96 4,453.59 4,308.37 3.406.31 Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon 5,3.9.96 Marshall Brown 3.508.07 McPherson Meade Miami Butler 4,936.95 1,864.54 Chautauqua Cherokee 3.715.73 Mitchell 3,185.30 4.936.95 .1 lit tln.i-ii.

Cheyenne Morris 2.528.10 C.aru 93I.74 Morton. Nemaha. Neosho. Ness 333.84 3,577.50 1,414.04 2,310.80 4,918.93 1,253.13 Clav 3,169.40 4,09.06 Cloud Coffey Comanche 772.21 Cowley 6,435.26 Crawford 5,016.93 Davis 1,815,25 Decatur 1,659.43 Dickinson 4,330.56 Norton. Osage.

Osborne. Ottawa. Pawnee Phillios 2.733 03 Doniphan Douglas Pratt 1,663.14 1,307.51 Edwards 850.12 Rawlins Ellis 2,742.75 Reno 4,726.51 3.711.59 2.827.55 2,118.94 1,154.87 1,629.3 3,433.27 555.44 7,898.08 407.01 9,137.73 779.63 800.83 3,434.40 234.26 1,80101 489 05 5,88724 1,156.90 685.82 2,833.35 336 55 4,315.26 717,62 3,3411 61 1,8 3 94 7,478.80 1,619.68 Ellsworth Finney 2,019.83 Rica Riley 1,396. 02 Rooks Ford Franklin Gar held Gove Graham Grant Gray Greeley Greenwood 8,732.79 Rush 409.16 Ruell. "81.58 Salil-e- Scott 545.371 SectrwicK.

815 87 Sevard 35 51 3,33.70 Hamilton 342.91Sheiman Harper Harvey Haskell 2,523.80 Smith. 3,280.70 418.70 739 88 2,700.88 Stamon Stafford Stevens Sumner Thomas Trecroi Hodgeman, Jackson Jefferson Jewell 3,379.81 3,984.54 3,186.36 1S3.33 2,301.26 8 '3 Johnson Wabaunsee Kearney Kingman Kiowa Labette Lane Leavenworth Wallace Washington. Wichita Wilson Woodson Wyandotte 601 .55 6,704.39 Miscellaneous The printing establishment of George W. Crane at Topska, the largest printing and publishing house in the State. was destroyed by hre on the morning or the 22d.

The loss in stock, material, presses, Was put at $225,000. Iusnr- ance, ine loss oa wb uuuuuig, the property of Wilson Iveitb, was insurance, $24,000. In the vault on the first floor were stored the electro plates of the Supreme Court reports and other legal publications, which were valued at $75,000. It could not bo learned the extent of tha damage to these until the rubbish could be cleared away. Patents lately granted Kansas investors: Water or liquid elevator, David C.

Battery, Florence; metallic roofing, Samuel C. Frederick, Arcadia; wood en- eravinsr machine, Willis W. Krutsch, Fort Scott; perpetual calendar, Tiiomas A. Mc-Kee, Beloit; coal drillingmashine, Sumner Pnllen; Scaromoriville. O.

G. Higgelund, president of the Second National Bank of McPherson and nrominentlv connected with several other business en prises, was inscanuy Kineu the other day by the accidental discharge of a pistol which he was handling in his bank. He was fifty-five year3 of age and carried life insurances to the amount of $15,000. S. W.

Case, delegate in the Legislature from Scott County, died at Topeka on the 23J. Anotheb fire at Topeka on the night of the 22d destroyed thebuiiding occupied by Phelps Bros, wholesale dealers in produce. Loss above insurance about $11,000. John Hoglan recently fell between the cars at Robinson and was killed. The large flouring mill of Kelley Lyle, at Leavenworth, was; destroyed by fire about one o'clock the other morning.

Over 10,000 barrels of flour were consumed. The total loss was estimated at $200,000 with $50,000 insurance. 5 A carbon of acid exploded at the glucose works in Leavenworth the other morniug, the contents flying over a workman named Rosenthal, who was fearfully burned about the face and hands and his clothing destroyed. A man giving his name as E. G.

Wood has been selling to the citizens in the vicinity of Eudora territorial rights for $25 each, giving the purchasers aright to canvass for a book in certain districts. By false represenlations he succeeded in ob taining about $250. A party of indignant farmers went to Lawrence to interview the book agent but he had taken his departure to pastures more green. The Superintendent of Insurance has revoked the authority of the Kansas Home Insurance Company and the Topeka In surance Company for non-compliance with the laws of Kansas, and those companies have raised quite a breeze at the capital. The Topeka Sugar Works Company re centlv male a proposition to the farmers opposite the works that if the farmers will asree to furnish the company witn uu acres of sorghum at $1.50 per ton they will build a bridge across the river, lhe pro position was accepted.

On the 26th Governor Humphrey sent to the Senate the nomination of George II. Case, of Jewell County, as warden of the nenitentiarv. to succeed Warden Smith. W. H.

McBride, of Osborn, and D. E. Cor nell, of Kansas City, were nominated as directors to succeed Kichter ana McDowell, terms expired, and William Mar tindale, of Emporia, to succeed Hiatt, re signed. The President has approved the act cf Congress for a bridge across the Missouri river at Leavenworth. Late post-office changes in Kansas Established, Grinter, Wyandotte County, Charles H.

Perkins, postmaster; Lisbon, Gove County, Jacob Woodcock, postmas ter; Parker, Linn County, Nannie V. Sea mn, postmistress Shorey, Shawnee Coun ty, Frank T. Payton, postmaster. Dis continued, Oursler, Marion County Vol taire, Thomas County." Jennie Davis, a white woman witn a negro lover, committed suicide at Wichita the other night by taking morphine. In the United States Senate on the 25th Senator Plumb offered an amendment to the Deficiency bill to pay the State of Kan sas $43,790, on account of the five per cent.

fund, arising from the sale of public lands, The President has issued an executive order, discontinuing: the United States land-offices at Wichita, Independence find Concordia and annexing their re spective districts to the Topeka district. The 19th was celebrated by the Knights of Pythias throughout the State as the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the order. Mrs. R. H.

Seekeiest, of Pratt, who was very low with consumption, recently started for her childhood home in Indiana to die, but only reached Kansas City where she died in the Union depot. 1 he Windsor Hotel at Hays City was totally destroyed by fire at an early hour on the morning of the 25th. Loss, Insurance, $6,800 Summary Qt the Daily Nerws. NSKESSIONAX. After the disposition of resolutions and motions of nx'nor importance the Senate on the 20th further considered the Sundry Civil bill.

Pending consideration the conference report en the Territorial Admission bill was presented and finally agreed to. As agreed to the bill admits North Dakota, South Dakota. and Washington npon conditions mentioned. The Direct Tax bill was received from the House, signed sent to the President When the House met tbe contest over the Direct Tax bill was renewed, and after a long debate the conference report was finallhagreed to. The conference report on the Territorial Admission bill aamittiuHtjvroth eoutn Dakota, Montana and Washington) was agreed to.

The Post-offico bill was further considered. At the evening session the calendar was cleared of a large numberof local and private bills, 1 In the Senate on the a resolution was introduced for the arrest of Thomas D. Fister, an employe of the Supervising Architect's ofllce who had refused to answer certain questions as a witness before the Committee on Public Lands and Buildings. It was laid over. The Committee on Indian Affairs reported a bill to pay the Seminole Indians for all their rights t-o lands in the Indian Territory.

The Texas Election Investigation resolution was debated awhile and the Sundry Civil bill taken up, the debate being continued until adjournment In the House Mr. Randall offered a resolution for amending; the rules so as to prevent filibustering on the Cowles bill (repealing the tax on tobacco, which was referred. The Post-office Appropriation bill was further" considered and finally passed. The conference report on the Legislative bill wus agreed to and the Deficiency bilf considered until adjournment. After disposing of business of little general importance on the 22d the Senate again took up the Sundry Civil bill the pending question being on Senator Hiscock's amendment appropriating $300,000 for the expenses of the celebration of the centennial of the Constitution.

Senator Hoar offered a substitute, which was agreed to, declaring April 30, 18S9 (the anniversary of the inauguration of Washington) a National holiday and providing for the assembling of Congress in the hall of the House of Representatives on the second Wednesday in December 1389 to appropriately celebrate the event. The bill finally passed and the Agricultural Appropriation bill was taken up and passed. The Senate got into a tangle on Senator Hoar's resolution fer an investigation of election outrages in certain States and finally found itself without a quorum In the House Mr. Mills called up his resolution touching the constitutional right of the Senate to amend the Tariff bill by way of a substitute but the House refused to consider it, and Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for amending the rules and it was adopted.

The bill pensioning the widow of General Sheridan was amen so as to reduce the pension to $2,500 and passed. The bill for the retirement of General Rosecrans with the rank of Brigadier General occasioned a lively debate but passed. Pending consideration of the Deficiency bill the House a joumed. A petition was presented in the Senate on the 23d from the Texas G. A.

assembled at Forth Worth, asking that at least one-half of Oklahoma be reserved for entry and settlement by the Union veterans without their being subject topresent homestead laws. Senator Hoar's Election Outrage resolution was then debated until adjournment The House passed the Senate bill to ratify and confirm the agreement with the Greek Nation of Indians for the purpose of opening to settlement unassigned lands in the Indian Territory. The Senate amend ruents to the bill for taking the eleventh census were concurred in, and the Deficiency bill was further considered. At the afternapn session resolutions upon the death of the late Representative Burnes were adopted, eulogies delivered and the House adjourned. The Senate on the 25th passed a large number of bills of local interest only.

Several conference reports were agreed ta among them that granting a pension of a year to Mrs. General Sheridan. The bill was amended and passed ratifying an agreement with the Ute Indians of Southern Colorado. Pending consideration of the Army Appropriation bill official notice of he death of Representative Burnes was received from the House. After the delivery of eulogies and adopting of resolutions of respect the Senate adjourned In the House Mr.

Booher appeared and was sworn in as the successor of Mr. Burnes (deceased) from the Fourth district Missouri. The day in the House was uneventful except that filibustering was the principal tactics during which several conference reports were sandwiched in. The California contested election case was finally reached, and after several hours of further filibustering the House got tired of itself and quit. WASHINGTON NOTES.

The Secretary of State has been informed that a supplementary treaty of commercial amity and navigation between the United States and Japan was signed in Japan on the 20th. Thk Secretary of the Navy has contracted with M. E. Pickering of New York, for the delivery of 2,000 tons of coal at the United States coaling station at Pago Pago, Samoa, at the rate of $13.25 per ton. The President has vetoed the bill for the relief of settlers on the Des Moines river lands.

Representative O'Donneli, of Michigan, presented in the House recently an enormous petition against the Sunday Rest bill, which bore the signatures of 230,000 Seventh Day Adventists in all parts of the country. Dr. D. W. Bliss, who attended President Garfield during his illness, died at Washington on the 22d.

The last reception of President Cleveland was given at the White House on the night of the 21st and was attended by an immense assemblage. The President on the 22d signed the bill admitting Washington, Montana and North and South Dakota as four new States into the Union. Complaints of an unjust discrimination in rates against the city of Memphis have been filed with the Inter-State Commerce Commission by the Memphis Freight Bureau against the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the Kansas City, Fort Scott Memphis Railway Company and the Southern Railway and Steamship Association. Consul-General Waller, located at London, has sent in his resignation to the State Department The House Commerce Committee has reported favorably the bill allowing the St Louis San Francisco railroad to construct a line through the Indian Territory. The statement that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of Colonel Dudley was believed at Indiana to be entirely without foundation in fact.

Officers of the Internal Revenue Bureau indignantly deny the statement published in a New York paper that $4,000 worth of stamps had been mysteriously stolen from the vaults. President Cleveland vetoed five more private pension bills on the 25th. THJE EAST. A COLLISION occurred on the East Liberty division of the Citizens' traction railway at the other afternoon, in which James Debrock and A. J.

Crawford were seriously injured. Edward Brown, aged twenty-eight and Alfred Haliinan, aged eighteen, were "struck by a train and both instantly killed at Alleutown, recently, their meals. Had the explosion occurred when the full force was at work the loss of life would have been far more terrible. A man and a servant sirl were burned to death in a boarding house near Carbon-dale, the other day. General Harrison leiv nis nomo on the 25th for his inaugu ration as President at Washington on the i 1 i A 4th.

Indianapolis was gauy aecoiattn and the procession was loudly ciieerea. On the same evening Vice-President Morton was banqueted at New York by John E. Plumrner, the dry goods merchant THE WEST. The Myers Opera House at Janesville, the handsomest theater in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee, was destroyed by Ore. Loss, insurance, $5,000.

Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, expects to be able to go to Washington shortly, his illness having almost worn off. THE Inter-State Commerce Railway Association (the "gentlemen's was organizad at Chicago on the 21st. Considerable skepticism existed as to its continuance. The membership is composed of eighteen out of twenty-two Western roads. While two girls, Millie and Winnie Peterson, were returning from school recently in the northern part of Aitkin County, they were attacked a -ad completely devoured by timber wolves a few scattered bones and shreds of clothing alone remaining as the horrible testimony of the children's fate.

Forty-eight children ranging in age from eighteen months to three years died in and about Wabash, in the past two from dinhtheria and membranous croup. Not a victim James M. Lane, county treasurer of Pickaway County, has absconded with defalcations reported running all the way up to $100,000. He was a patron of bucket shops. There will be no war between citizens and half-breeds in Rollette County, Dak.

The entire matter of taxing the half -breads has been submitted to the Government and both parties seem inclined to abide the decision. A warrant was issued at Indianapolis, on the 22d for the arrest of Colonel W. W. Dudley, of the Republican Nations .1 Committee. Miss Minnie Marseales, a young lady ofNorwalk, died in a dentist's chair thebther day.

She had taken chloroform preparatory to having her teeth drawn, and it caused her heart to cease beating. Rain commenced falling all over California on the 23d. Fall sown grain is reported in splendid condition. Spring wheat was in fair condition but will be helped by the rain. Indications are for a large grain yield.

Train robbers attacked train No. 27 near Delano. the other night Dynamite bombs were exploded under the messenger car and two passengers were fatally shot by the miscreants, who only obtained a small sum of money. Ole Hansun and his cousin Neil Olsen were found dead in a room at Chicago the other morning. It is supposed they went home drunk and after extinguishing the light turned the gas on again and forgot it Scarlet fever prevails at B'smarck, to such an alarming extent that business is almost suspended.

Schools are closed aud all public gatherings are pro hibited. Two children named Callahan, at Bel mont, Mont were burned to death recently and a third would probably not survive. The mother naa gone out ro se cure some household supplies, when tne oldest boy held the cat against the stove and its hair took fire. It ran under a sofa, the building was ignited and two or the children The farm house of Ernest Young3, at Ransom, six miles from Battle Creek, was burned recently. Two children, a boy and a girl, four and five years of age respectively, perished in tho flames.

During a riot between arunKen rauroaa laborers near Kent, the other morning one man was fatally and four others badly injured. The report of the Kansas penitentiary investigating committee was presented to the Legislature on the 25th. The officials and others accused of corruption by the Kansas City Times were exonerated in the main, but several reforms were recommended. Governor Lvce, of Michigan, has ordered a stay in the case of the parties arrested for complicity in the electric sugar refining frauds. At Winfield, Iowa, the other morning the dwelling of Thomas Innes was destroyed and hia mother-in-law, Mrs.

Tor-bett, sixty years old, and Inez, his eleven-year-old daughter, were burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Innes and six other children escaped in their night clothes. The sheriff of Mendociuo County, has captured two men supposed to be tb parties who held up both Mendocino stages on the night of January 5.

Both men were armed with rifles and revolvers the south. The special session of the Florida Legislature adjourned on the 20th, after having passed the "committee substitute for the Senate bill instituting a State Board cf Health. The Chattanooga and theGrant Memorial Universities will be consolidated, the Chattanooga University being made the main and the Grant Memorial theprepara-tory institution, both under the name of the Grant Memorial University. Two frieght trains collided north of Knoxville, and one fireman was killed and both engines wrecked. Several freight cars were demolished.

The accident was caused by a misunderstanding of orders. Tht late Jamet JVT. Burnt. on which success or failure, wealth or penury, honor or obliquy depends. At this crisis and junoture, when every instant is priceless, tho Senate resisting every inducement and solicitation, proceeds by unanimous consent, to consider resol itlons of the highest privilege reported fro no committee, having no place on any calendar, but which takes precedence of "unfinished business" and "special orders;" oa which the yeas and nays are never called, and on which no nogatlvo vote has ever been recorded; and reverently passod in obedience to the holiest impulses of human naturo to contemplate the profoundest mystery of human destiny the mystery of death.

In tho democracy of death all men, at least, are equal. Here is neither ranK nor siauon nor prcruya- A A. tive, in the republic oi tne grave, iui threshold the philosopher ceases to bo wise and ih anncr at the noet 19 silent: at that fa tal thiesUold Dives relinquishes his million and Lazarus nis rags, rue poor iuu is as rich as the richest, and tho rich man is as poor as the pauper. The creditor loses his usury, ana me aeoior is hciiuihcu his obligation. The proud man surrenders his dijruitv; the politician his honors; the world- fcng his pleasures.

Hero the invalid noods no physician, ana tne laDorcr resis iroiu umo-auitedtoil; here, at least, is naturo's final do- crce in equity. The equity in fate is rofateo. Tho wrongs of time are rearesseo. unu mjuswvy is expiated. The unequal distribution oi wnniih.

of honor, canucltv. Dlcasure and oppor tunity which make life so cruel and inexplica- ble a tragedy, ceases in tne reaim oi ucaiu. The strongest has there no supremacy, and tba weakest needs no defense. The mightiest cap tain succumbs to that invincible aaversary. who disarms alike tho victor ana tne van- niiished.

James Nelson Burnes, whoso Hie and virtues we commemorate to-day, was a-man whom Plutarch might have described and Van Dyke portrayed. Massive, ruggeu unu ru-viimf in motion siox. in sDcech serious and deliberate; grave in aspoct. serious in demeanor; of antique and heroic mold tho incarnation of force. As I looked for the last time upon tho countenance from which (for the first time so many years) no glanco of inenaiy recognition, nor word of welcome enme, I reflected upon the impenetrable and insoluble mystery of death.

But if death bo the end; if the lire oi Burnts terminated "upon this bank and stioai of time;" it no morning is to dawn upon tha night in which he sleeps, then sorrow has no consolation, and this impressive and solemn ceremony, whitsh we observe to-dity, has no more significance than tho painted pageant of the stage. If tho existence of Bui-noa was but a troubled dream, his death oblivion, wmn avails it that tho Senate should pauso to re count his virtuos? Neither vonerat on nor reverence are duo tho dead if tiioy are but dut; no cenotaph 6hould bo roarod to pre serve for posterity wio memory oi mun achievements if those who como aflor them are to bo only their successors in "annihilation and extinction. If this world only wo have hope and consciousness, duty must no chimera; eur pleasures ana ourpassious bou. be the gu des of conduct, and virtue Is Indeed a it itfA pnds at the crave. This is the conclusion which the philosophy ot negation must accept at last, ftuou is those degrading precepts which tho epi taph the end.

If the life of Burnes is as a taper a lv id mrttVI A- that is burned out, tnon we irousuro ry and his example in vain. And the latest v.io icnarHntr snirit has no more sanctity to us who sooner or later must follow him than the whisper oi tne wmus em nf tvi nrotftstinir forest, or the murmur ofthewave3 that break upon tho complaining Eulogies were also pronounced by Senators Voorhees, Hale, Hampton, Coke aud Vest, after which the resolutions were adopted unanimously, and the Senate, at 4:45 p. adjourned. "BILLS SIGNED. Nnmber of Important Measures That Have Jlfcoine Operative by the Klgna-finre of the President.

Washington, Feb. 2(5. The President has approved the act for a life-saving station near the mouth of the St. George river, Maine; the act to ratify the agreement submitted by the Shoshone, Bannock and Sheepoater Indians, of the Fort Hall and Lemlie reservations in Idaho; the act granting tho right of way to tho Yankton Minome Valley Railway Company through the Yankton Reservation, Dakota; the act authorizing a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi river at LaCrosse, granting to tho Big Horn Southern B.ailway Company a right of way across the Fort Custer Military Reservation; the act for a bridge across the Missouri at Leavenworth, Kas; the act to provide for writs of error.or appeals to the United States Supreme Court In all cases Involving the question of the jurisdiction of the courts below; the act to authorize the Court of Claims to adjudicate the claim of the old Western Cherokee Indians; the act of granting a right of way across the Fort Lowell Military Reservation to tho Pima Land and Water Company. For tlie Parnell Iefens Fnud.

Nkw Youk, Feb. 25. It Is an old that "money talks." It talked to tlx tune of $500 for the benefit of the Parnell defense fund at the meeting held last night in tho big hall attached to tha church of the Paulist Fathers, at Ninth avenue and Sixtieth street, and, considering that lhe hall was not heated and that the temperature was nearly at the freezing point, this contribution speaks volumes for the present state of Irish patriotism. It was expected that Mayor Grant would preside, but he telegraphed that he was snowed in at Saratoga, and therefore could not attend the meeting. His place was filled by Rev.

Edward Brady.of the Paulists' Cb.urch, '1 i 4 i.