The Kanopolis Kansan du lieu suivant : Kanopolis, Kansas • 1

EQUAL 1UGHTS FOR ALL, SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE. i TERMS, $1.00 PER YEAR. VOL. II. NO.

28. KANOPOL1S, KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891. NEWS NOTES. CHINESE NEW YEAR. THE G.

A. K. ENCAMPMENT. A SECOND JESSE JAMES. FOR TEN DAYS IN TERROR KANSAS MATTERS.

This Year. The man who thinks to preserye for all The Cattle Men Beaten. KnioirisnEB, O. Aug. 5.

Several weeks ago complaints were entered in the territorial courts against B. D. Cragin and the Cragin Cattle Company, D. R. Fant, Ben Garland, William Quinlen, Major El-dridge, James F.

Ellison, Short Drum Snyder for unlawfully holding and grazing cattle upon the Cheyenne and Arapohoe reservation. Tho case was tried on a general demurrer. The argument was full and exhaustive. The decision of Hon. A J.

Sea, associate justice of the territorial court, held that all persons holding live stook within the limits of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations are subject to a penalty of $1 per head and that said stock are also subject to seizure and sale for the payment of the penalty. The marshal is commanded to attach all cattle found upon this reservation and to hold the same until disposed of according to law, and that owners or persons having said cattle in charge be summoned to appear and. answer before the court, October 20, 1891. This order Is now in the hands of the United States marshal who will proceed at once to execute it. I.

A It is stated that Bulgaria is making graat preparations for war. Guatemala proposes to spend $120,000 for a world's fair exhibit. Fire in Millvale, destroyed two factories and eight frame buildings. Loss $25,000 During a heavy storm In Manitoba Thursday night, two women were killed by lightning. The Russian banners captured by the French during the Crimean war have been returned to Russia.

A fierce rainstorm in Louisville, last Sunday night caused $30,000 damage by flooding pf basements. Proctor Knott, tho well known race horse, died Friday in his stall at Horse I Haven, near Saratoga, N. Y. The drouth in south central Illinois has been broken by a heavy rain. Corn has been put in good shape again.

President Harrison has signed the com mission of J. Sloat Fassett as customs collector of the port of New York. Hundreds of hogs about Bellbrook, are dying of cholera. Only one farmer's drove has been untouched so far. A Wichita firm has been awarded the contract for the iron work on the public building at Denver, CoL, at $16,075.

The green glass bottle makers and fac tory owners split at their conference in "Diftchiircr ntirt a lnplrmit. is nrrmah ft. Dr. Fred M. Fling of Biddeford, has been elected to the chair of European history in the university of Nebraska.

The Morning News of Belfast, Ireland, has come out against Parnell, of whom for years it had been an ardent supporter. New York bankers say that they will as sist A. Backer, the dealer in commercial paper who has failed, to his eot again. Three deaths have so far occurred as the result of the excursion wreck near Champlain, N. Y.

A fourth victim is dying. Mary and Baby Mclvee held a reception of a number of small children at the presi dent's cottage at Cape May Point la3t Monday. Mississippi valley lumbermen have pur chased 1,000,000 acres of land in Oregon for timber, farms and ranches. The price is not known. Mr.

Duesing, a theological student in one of the Roman uatnono colleges in Rome, was drowned Monday. His home was in St. Louis, Mo. Tho Rev. Dr.

J. H. Worcester, has noti fied the directors of the Union Theological seminary of his acceptance of the pro fessorship tendered him. William Fullerton, a young American, a graduate of Harvard, replaces M. De Blowitz as the working head of the Paris office of the London Times.

President Balmaceda of Chili and the leaders of the Chilean insurgents have ap pealed to the Spanish government to act as arbitrator and end the war. The Santa Fe boiler makers' strike has ended. All differences are amicably ar ranged. The discharged men and the strikers have all resumed work. The journeymen tailors of America be gan their annual convention in juouis last Monday.

Many matters of interest to the trade aro scheduled for action. Lieutenant Philip Hodges of the English navy committed suicide by jumping into the sea July 24 while being sent home from Australia for a breach of discipline. The United States treasury continues the daily shipment of small notes to the west for nse in moving tha crops. The total amount so far sent is 2 4-5 million dol lars. The People's party of Greenwood county.

have nominated a county ticket, Four of the nominees are former Democrats, two" former Republicans and one a labor man. Henry Jennings was shot and mortally wounded near Ionia City, last Sunday night during a fight with R. E. Snodgrass, Snodgrass was arrested, but released on $800 bond. Abraham Backer at 285 Broadway, New York has made an assignment to Benjamin F.

Einstein at 427 Broadway. Mr. Back er's principal business was dealing in com mercial paper. In the Davis will case at Butte, argument on the admission of expert testimony on handwriting has closed, and Judge McHatton has decided to exclude expert testimony. The election of Rev.

Dr. Isaac Lee Nich olson as Protestant Episcopal bishop of Milwaukee has been approved by twenty- seven dioceses. No dissenting vote has yet been recorded. A yachting party, consisting of four men and five children, were cruising in Dor- cester bav. near Boston, when the boat capsized and the two men and four chil dren were drowned.

Pension payments aggregating 7 mil lion dollars have been made by the United States treasury since August 1 and have reduced the cash balance in the treasury from $55,783,615 to $48,177,443. Both members of the assigned banking firm of Schall Danner of York, have been arrested charged with receiving money from John B. Walsh of New York when on the verge of insolvency. Near Mt. Vernon, John D.

Mullins, an election officer, was killed last Monday by John Durham and William Demeran, They were drunk and began firing at ran dom as they leit the pons, uotn are jail. Mrs. Nellie Webb, an aged and wealthy widow of Louisville. committed suicide at the College Hill sanitarium last Monday evening. She was a victim of drink and had been placed in the sanitarium on the 21st of last April.

King Alexander, the youthful ruler of Servia, has arrived at St. Petersburg on a visit to the imperial family. He was met at the railway station by the czar and several of the Russian grand dukes, and was accorded all the honor paid to a ruling sovereign. Reports from the Massachusetts assessment and indorsement corporations show that they are doing business on very small balances. One company is doing a business of $200,000 on a balance of $750, and another a five years' order business of $3,221,000 on $572.

Cardinal Simeoni and Mgr. Persico both assert that the Cahensley scheme of establishing Catholic bishops in the United States of the same nationalities as the emigrants landing here will never be accepted by the propaganda. They heartily oppose the scheme. The Munn Bros. Wilkes ranch and cattle in Hackley county, have been sold at Colorado, at the door of the court house under a decree from the federal court, at El Paso.

The sale embraced 12,000 head of cattle. 100 saddle horses and acres land. Gregory, Cooley Co. of Chicago were the purchasers, paying $91,000 cash and assaming due on lands. Th Meeting at Detroit a Great Success-Forty Thousand Veterans in Line.

Detroit, Aug. 6. The Grand Army encampment was a most pronounced success. The day of the parade was the proudest in the history of the organization. It was the grandest display made in the quarter century of its existence.

Under a bright sun, 40,000 veterans tramped sturdily over the line of march, and such was the inspiration of the moment, that even the feeblest of the maimed and crippled comrades found themselves adequate to the ordeal of the live miles march. Tho euthusiasm which greeted the Wisconsin division of 700 strong was unbounded. In the front rank and borne high in the air and on the top of a flagstaff was perched "Old Abe," the stuffed eagle which became a part of Wisconsin's history a quarter of a century ago. Cheer after cheer arose from the multitude. Many a civilian could only divine the cause of all this enthusiasm, but to probably every G.

A. R. man in line to-day the strange history of bird is a fireside story to his children. To record the features of the procession in detail would be impossible in the space at command. Tho states were all represented, from Michigan with its 15,000 to South Carolina with its single man.

Kansas was not high in the light of numbers, on account of the perversity of the railroads, but was largely represented in the enthusiasm that prevailed. Missouri turned out large numbers and attracted much attention. In tho line, marching with the rank and file were many of the prominent men of the nation. The Grand Army levels all distinctions. There was a wild cheer when Missouri veterans hove in sight.

It was this state which had furnished William Warner, one of the most popular commanders-in-chief the G.A.R. has ever Known, and every man who marched in line was recognized as one who in his devotion to the Union had undergone the dangers of guerilla warfare and seen families divided against themselves in the dark days of '63. Department Commander George W. Martin, the one-armed hero, who lost a limb the first day of Gettysburg, led his command of 800 men. The spectaclo of an ex-president of the United States marching in the ranks is so unusual that the tremendous ovation tendered ex- President Hayes to-day was hardly a surprise.

The cheers which swept along the line of march like a huge but slowly rising tidal wave were ever indicative of the presence of the distinguished ex-president. Mr. Hayes was recognized by all as he marched with his post from Fremont, down Griswold street, and near the intersection of Congress street kissed several little girls who ran out to meet him. The old gentleman carried a palm leaf fan and appeared to enjoy the occasion quite as much aB his comrades of the post. Tho governor of a state is not often seen trudging along in the dust with the boys, but that sight was witnessed more than once.

As the Nebraska G. A. 500 strong, with Department Commander Teeter and Governor Thayer, passed the grand stand it was Impossible to tell whether the cheers were for the granger governor, the soldier boys or that venerable old fighter, who always provokes the cheers of the volunteer soldiers Paul Vandervoort, past national commander-in- chief. There were four candidates for comman der-in-chief: John Palmer, of New York; A. G.

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

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

Clarkson was chosen vice-coramand- er-in-chief. The committee on the "color" question reported adversely to Gen. Veasey's proposition to create a separate department for colored men, and the re port was adopted spontaneously. Major William. Kansas City was chairman of the committee, and he made a tell ing speech in favor of the colored soldiers.

A Fearful Railroad Wreck. Syracuse, Aug. 8. The St. Louis express on the West Shore railroad met with a terrible accident three miles West of Port Byron.

The train was running at a high rate of speed and at that point ran into a freight train. The wreck was an awful one and the deaths numbered twelve. The wreck took fire and the passenger train was burned with the exception of three sleeping cars. The train was made up of two express cars, a baggage car, a smoking car, a day car and three sleeping cars. The accident was the result of care lessness on the part of the rear brakeman of the freight train, or by negligence on the part of the freight conductor.

Twenty three people were injured. lie Made Slaves of Xliem. Omaha, Aug. v. Kev.

Dr. Sherwood, a colored evangelist who has been holding out at a campmeeting in South Omaha, has been arrested, charged with horribly mistreating a number of colored lads whom he had taken from the orphan asylum and had practically enslaved. Sherwood trained the boys as musicians and formed them into a band. He made them work all hours of the day and night and took their earn ings from them allowing them each 10 cents a day for food. A Kansas Horse Thief.

Wichita, Aug 8. David Sprague, the noted horsethief who broke jail at Mc-Pherson, last month, has been heard from near Superior Neb. After breaking jail at McPherson, Sprague stole a team near Newton, and then found his way into Barbour county, where he stole some more, horses. He was corralled on the banks of the Nescaturga by a posse of farmers and to escape Jumped into the river and d.isap peared. It was thought he was drowned.

The "Silent Army." Detroit, 7. A national convention which has not had its parallel in the history of nations, met in this city yesterday. It was the annual convention of the "Si lent Army." While there was no shouting, no poUnding on the table, no oratorical speeches and no cheering, a great deal of business was transacted. It was the first reunion of the silent army of deaf and dumb soldiers, sailors and marines. The Dam Will be Built.

TorEKA, Aug 9. Arrangements have been completed for the construction of the Kaw dam at this point. A mortgage trust deed for $350,000, in favor of the Union Trust Company, of St. Louis, has been filed by the Topeka Water and Electric Power Comnan with the register of deeds. Naval Veterans.

Detroit, Aug. 5. The National Association of Naval "Veterans elected officers vestcrday. Baltimore was selected as the place of meeting next year, the week pre ceding the u. A.

it. encampment at wa-jtr ington. Divers Scenes and Customs of Thai Great Holiday. The Chinese date their year from the first new moon after the sun enters Aquarius, consequently it is a movable feast, varying between January 21 and February 19. Their months are lunar months, some called "great," containing thirty the others "small," having only twenty-nine days.

In some years, therefore, there are thirteen months, one of them being an intercalary. Tho 1st and 15th of every month, or "moon," coincides with the new and full of every moon, and theae are always celebrated as feast days. But of all Chinese feasts the New Year is a regular bacchanalia, in which days before and week after are given to feasting and rejoicing. During the last days of the old year the scene in a large city like Canton is one of intense interest to a foreigner. The merchants hurrying hither and thither, collecting and paying debts for all accounts must be satisfactorily adjusted or else the business cannot bo carried into the next year.

Not only are the business parts of the town alive with thronffinsr multitudes during the day, but at night instead or everytning being promptly closed at 9 clock as is usual, the midnight pedestrian will find a perfect chaos of movables and a bedlam of voices. Stores are being' deluged with, water and the walls are being scrubbed; ornamental scroll paper and charms of good luck are torn down; the tiled floor is erettingita annual but probably only cleaning it has had during the year. After this 13 done the walls are redecorated and new charms and gods are pasted up or set in the windows and show-cases. In private houses the samo cleaning Drocess is sromsr on: all tne airt oi me year is being removed. "When this is done the finest ornaments that ara possessed are brought out and dis played on the tables; embroidered covers are placed on the chairs and stands, and the whole house is put in holiday attire.

One of the great features of the decorations is the dis play of "sacred lilies," It is desirable that they should bloom on New Year's day, and the more flowers on the plant the better will be the fortune of the family owing to it during the year to come. Up to midnight on New Year's eve this excitement continues; then, as by magic, the noise and turmoil cease, only to be renewed in the morning with reabled energy. This, in 6hort, is the Chinese New Year. Louis Re public PRUDENCE IN MOURNING. She Spent as Little as Fossible and Ac- coinpllshed Her Purpose.

The economy which is too strong to be disturbed by grief or bereavment is so akin to avarice that no one feels any self-reproach for holding it up to ridicule, although the circumstances may have to do with the saddest of events. There was once an eccentric old lady who lived in One of the seaport towns of New England, and who was renowned alike for her oddities and for what her neighbors called her "nearness." She was a widow, and had inherited not a little property from her husband, which she caref u'ir handled and which increased in her care. It was made a matter of reproach that she did not erect a tombstone to her husband, but she always said that she could not afford such an expense. In course of time, however, the widow made up her mind to have a tablet, and accordingly went to Boston to select it. She visited one marble yard after another, but for a long time could find nothing cheap enough to suit her.

At last 6he came upon a large and handsome slab which was set aside to be cut down. "You see it was spoiled," tho stonecutter explained. 4 'We began it for a man named Mark, but the wife changed her mind by the time we had got so much of the name on, and there is the whole slab spoiled." Til take it off your hands," the widow said promptly, "if you'll let me have it reasonably." 'Oh, I'll let you have it very cheap, to save the bother of having it cut over. But what can you do with it?" 'TU use it," 6he answered, and at once proceeded to go into the discussion of the price. When she had at last beaten the stone-cutter down to an absurdly low figure, the widow bought the slab.

'There, she said, 'now what I want you to do is to put 'the perfect man' after that word in the same sort of letters, and then the name and the date can go just there." She indicated to the astonished stone-cutter with her long finger tho disposition of the inscription, and thus it came about that in a certain well-known cemetery of her native city her husband sleeps under a marble whereupon the world is admonished to "Mark the perfect man!" Youth's Companion. XI ie IHurderlns Societies. The successful prosecution of the Mala Vita gang in Italy is to be followed by the punishment of another similar association with extensive ramifications. About fifty arrests had been made at last accounts and more were expected. It is evident that tho government is determined to suppress the murderous secret organizations which have terrorized the Italian people for so many years, robbing and blackmailing them.

Still the Converts Come. The Commercial Union Telegraph company is now planning to mount several of its Maine linemen on bi-lycles. These will prove of value in tracing a break, and will enable the men to make quick work. It is also proposed to utilize several wheels in the messenger service, at Bar Harbor. ENTERS A BANK AND SHOOTS DOWN THREE MEN.

The Desperado Terrorized Everybody and Went Off With Twelve Hundred Dollars The- Man Made Good His Escape. A Bold Bank Robbery. Lima, Aug. 11. One of the boldest bank robberies ever perpetrated in this section of country occurred this morning at Columbus Grove, a town of about 2,000 people, twelve miles north of here.

Cashier T. J. Maple had just opened the Exchange bank, of which his father is proprietor, and laid out about $2,000 near the ohashier's window. About 8 :30 a man appeared at the door with a revolver in each hand. He immediatoly began shooting.

Cashier Maple was struck twice, once in the arm and once in the right side. As he fell to the floor an old farmer, William Vandermark, aged 60, entered the door, having come to get his money for some hogs he had just jold. The robber turned and shot him through and through. A third man sat in the lobby of the bank, paralyzed with fear. He was not molested.

The desperado then grabbed $1,200 in greenbacks, shoved it in the pockets of his sack coat and darted out thedoor shouting: "I'm a second Jesso James." Maple has a flesh wound in the arm and a glance wound fretna rib in his side, but is in no danger unless blood poisoning sots in. Mr. "Vandermark is one of the most sub stantial farmers. Ho was struck by th bullet on the right side below the ribs and injured internally. He is vomiting bloef and will probably be dead before this ia printed.

He cannot recover at all events. At 11 :45 o'clock to-night tho bank robber was still at large and the chase has been abandoned until daylight. Almost everybody in tho northern part of Allen county has been out all day looidng for the des perado. IJVGALLS IN THE SOUTH. The Kansas Statesman Before a Large Southern Audience.

Atlanta, Aug. 6. Ex-Senator Ingalls lectured at Piedmont, Chautauqua, to-night on the social and political problems of the second century. Ha was greeted by a great crowd. Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, introduced him, saying: "Ladies axd gextlemex: The war is over and the bloody chasm has been filled.

I want to tell you in a few words why this i3 true. hen a confederate soldier in the south under the star spangled banner can introduce with warmth and cordiality to a southern audience, Hon. J. J. Ingalls, of Kansas, the most sceptical in this nation may know and feel that peace, broth erly love and kind feeling reign all over the broad land.

The warmth and cordiality of this greet ing is increased by the knowledge of Sena tor Ingafis' course against the famous force bill when that infamous measure was be fore the United States senate. I have the pleasure of Introducing to you an orator who has electrified this country from Maine to California, a gentleman whose genius and ability are respected and ad mired by the whole American people the Hon. J. J. Ingalls, of the great state of Kansas." A Remarkable Desperado.

Tahxequah, I. Aug. 11. The Cher okee Indians are celebrating the death of one of the most noted of Indian desper adoes that ever lived. His history was the most remarkable in the known world.

He died one year ago at the age of 96 years at peace with his people, but most of his Uie had been passed in warfare against mankind. To-day the Cherokee people are celebrating the anniversary of his death as a holiday. This Indian was old Tom Starr, who for a quarter of a century was a terror to the whole Cherokee nation. A Good Investment. Atchisox, Aug.

8. The Kansas Trust and Banking Company, of Atchison, owns a great many farms Northern Kansas, and in order to get back some of the monev put out for the land, planted crops which are just now being harvested. The land has done remarkably welL Tho yield of wheat and oats is large, and a splendid corn crop is assured. The company will get thirty or forty per cent of its money out of the country by this year's crop and still own the land. Murdered by Indians.

Arkansas City, Aug. 8. It is now believed that Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly, who were found murdered on Monday, were killed by an Indian, borne years ago Mrs.

Donnelly shot and wounded an Indian who was attempting to break in her home, and he swore to be revenged on her. An Indian was seen in that neighborhood the morning of the murder, and a large num ber of them were in this city, all that day. Havana, Aug. 11. Those who have lived twenty-Jive years on the Rio liranae nave never seen such miserv among the Mexican population as this year.

The staple crop of the Rio Grande valley is corn and the Mexican frijole, but the drouth has been so terrible for the last eignteen montns mat scareiy any thing has been raised, and stock has died by thousands. manufactured Opium. Chicago, August 7. Dr. E.

N. Case, a well-known physician, was secretly arrested charged with a violation of the laws in regard to the manufacture of opium. In his rooms were found jars containing a liquid known as aqueous opium. It is learned that he sent some of it to San Francisco to be sold among the Chinese there. Won a Big Claim.

Citt of Mexico, Aug. 8. TheDiario de Centre America, printed in Gautemala, claims that the family of the unfortunate General Rundia, who was killed aboard of a Pacific mail steamship in the port of San Jose de Gautemala by soldiers, has won its claim against the United States and will be paid $300,000 indemnification. The Cherokee Election. Tahleqcah, I.

Aug. 8. Election returns from all the districts in the Cherokee nation give the Downing party the chieftaincy, re-electing J. B. Mayes.

The house favors the Downings, while the senate is divided. The allotment ticket was completely lost in the battle. Ex-Prisoners of War. I Detroit, Aug. 7.

The national convention of ex-prisoners of war met in this city yesterday. President E. H. Williams, of Indianapolis, read his address. He urged the importance of the claim of ex-prisoners to increased pensions on the attention of the members.

FIRE IN THE COAL BUNKERS OF AN OCEAN STEAMER. The Steamship Cache inlore Carries a Load of l'assenger Day After t)ay Over a 1'iory Furnace liut None Knew It. An Awful Teii Days. TTew Yohk, Aug. 11.

Tho steamship Caehcmiero has arrived in this port with 16J Italian steerage passengers on board. It was learned to-day for the first time that for ten days of the voyage the vessel and all on board of her were in imminent and continuous danger of tho gravest character. "When the steamer was but ono day out Irom Marseilles it was reported to the captain that the soft coal in tho bunkers was on fire. Ho at once gave orders that the strictest secrocy should bo observed as, if the news spread among tho passongors, it would be impossible to avert a panic. Immediate stops were taken to quench tho lire, but it had already gained serious headway.

The pumps wore put to work and licuvy streams of water wero poured upon tho piles of coal and upon the deck above it. This was kept up for day and night for ten days, and not till tho end of that time was tho lire entirely extinguished. Tho captain and crew wero on almost continuous duty during tbatjtirae and were completely worn out. During tho whole time nono of the passengers had any suspicion of the danger in which they stood nor did they learn of it until port was reached. Two Awful Accident.

Lkavenwokth, Aug. 9. G. E. Lonsdale and his wife, with Miss Suo Powers and Master Itay Powors, of Ellsworth, wero run over by a Santa Fe train as they were crossing tho track in a spring wagon in tins city yesterday, and Mrs.

Lonsdale and Miss Powers wero killed. Tho boy was perhaps fatally injured. Tho crossing where the accident oocurrcd has always been considered a dangerous one, but no uccidents have ever before occurred thero. Joo Fortune was engineer of the train and states that it was running at tho rate of about fifteen milos per hour. Tho accident occurred on the government reservation and a complete investigation will be instigated by tho govornor.

Sknkca, Aug. 9. Hon. A. H.

Burnett and family, in a carriage, were struck by tho wc3t bound passenger train on tho lock Island railroad. He and his granddaughter, Miss Francis Fuller, were killed outright. Mrs. George Finstenberg and two children were badly hurt. Six were iu the carriage, which was demolished.

ALABAMA CIUME. A Terrible State of Affairs Existing 1b Ilibh County. Birmingham, Aug. 11. A terrible state of affairs exists in Bibb county.

Some two weeks ago the dead body of Henry Smith was found in the woods near Blockton. He was a witness in a murder case against Jesse Miller, a rich farmer, and who is popularly supposed to bo the head and front of a gang who have been terrorizing that county, and against whom the citizens have organized vigilance committees. Five men are in jail charged with complicity in the Smith murder. Blockton is patrolled day and night by vigilants and tho witnesses for the stato are kept undor guard to prevent tbem from being murdered. Good citizens from every part of the county will gather at Centerville tomorrow fully armed to guard tho criminals from a rescue A Sirocco In Soutlt Dakota.

St. Lawrence, S. Aug. 11. The hottest weather ever experienced hero has prevailed for three days past.

So intense has been tho heat that men and animals have succumbed in many instances and harvest work is entirely suspended through the day. At 1 p. m. yesterday the mercury rose to 108 to 110 in the shade. Tho wind was in a southern direction but hot and dry, possessing no refreshing qualities.

Late wheat suffered terribly and somo fields will not "be cut. Other wheat is all right. Unless showers come very soon or a cool wave comes, but little will survive tho ordeal. Prairie grass in Eomo places is dry enough to burn. Some prairio fires have already been reported.

Four Lynched at Once. Birmingham, Aug.O. Last Friday tho residence of W. P. Davis, a prominent farmer near Crosby, was burned and the family narrowly escaped with their lives.

On Sunday Ella Williams, colored, was arrested and confessed to having saturated the house With oil and set fire to it out of revenge. In her confession she implicated Lizzie Lowe, Willis Lowo and Bill Williams. Yesterday the sheriff started from Crosby to Abbeville Jail with the prisoners, and last night he was overpowered by a mob and the prisoners taken frcm him und shot to death. Their bodies were thrown in tho river. Killed Ills Father.

Cincinnati Aug. 11. Charles Neimann, oged to, shot and instantly killed George Keimann, his father. George Neiman was a cobbler and lived at 18 Gorman street. He had been divorced from his wife, but still lived in the samo house with her and her children.

He had frequent quarrels with his family and divorced wife, and this mornings tragedy was tho culmination of one of these disputes. Four Drowned. Milwaukee, Aug. 11. Four young people, children of prominent Milwaukee business men, were drowned at Lake Pewaukee, twenty miles from here.

They were out in a small sail boat with three other young people. A squall struck the boat, capsizing it. -Jt was heavily ballasted and sunk almost immediately, leaving the seven persons struggling in the water. A Scarcity of Corn. St.

Petersburg, Aug. 0. Tho Russian Imperial council has decided to prohibit tho exportation or corn from this country, owing to the bad harvest in Russia, which has caused a scarcity of this cereaL 1niinsr' Shortage. LouisVille, Aug. 11.

The amount iha thnrtnrro nf Kvlvpstfir YoUnc dfi- faulting cashier of tho Newport News Mississippi Valley railroad, is now known to be at least SJ8.00J instead of 525,000, as flft. esnrrnspd- Further in vestirratlon may add slightly to tlm. Young has not been heard from. Another War Probable. Paris, Aug.

9. A telegram received in this city from Beunos Ayres asserts that Chili will declare war a-raiast Lolivia be cause the government of latter country has recognized tho congressional party of Chili as belligerents. time in men's memories any event by writ-ine a book about it is usually mistaken: both the event and the book may aU tha oame be forgotten, but reaUy there is an pportunity for some ono to gather in a handy volume the story A. D. 1831 in Kansas.

Such a volume would contain as its first chapter the weather record kept at the state university and for the twenty-two-years last past associated with the namo of professor, now Chancellor Snow. These figures, worth more than all the unrecorded recoUections of all the sky-gazers and local weather prophets in the state should form the basis of the history, and would have a permanent value. These tri-daily Observations would show just how much rain Kansas can receive to advantage; how much water, in fact, Kansas needs ia her business which is aspriculture. Following the account of the rain and tho sun which did the business in 1S91, should come an account of the various productions of the state for the year, made clear even to people who have no taste or capacity for figures. Here, by the way, is chance for the development of a few kind of literary genius.

Here are people, thousands of them, to whom "tables." census or otherwise, convey no inf ormation. sven suggestion no more than a rain- bow reveals of beauty to a blind man. There are human beings of fair intelligence who are paralyzed by the words "per cent." For the benefit of such, a. writer should bo raised up who can use figures without placing them in columns. and who will require the calculations oi no percentages who can make figures not only intelligible but attractive.

Following1 the fiinires in this" Kansas year book should come several chapters of descriptive writing conveying to tne reader as far as printed words can do so idea of how Kansas locked in the growinsr season of 1S9L This would be a difficult task, but there are a half dozen writers in the United States who are equal to it. Miss Murfree, who makes a glorious and beautiful thing out of a little Tennessee mountain cornfield by moonlight, might well try her hand on a Kansas cornfield of 1891, washed by the rain and shining in tho sun and spreading over the area of a Tennessee county. The narrative should tell how the rain came in 1S91, where it had not fallen in years, if, indeed, it had ever fallen and made merry with the irrigation scheme and said, "Never you mind I will attend to Kansas." Tho chronicler of 1891 should tell of the full streams and the new-come springs and the general uprising and meeting of the waters. Mention should be mada of the trees, orchard trees first, and then of all the trees. How all the saplings planted in faith on one Arbor day after another justified their planters and grew mightily and prevailed and waved jtreea encouragement to future planters that some day every spare and wasted place in Kansas might bear trees and every hot highway be made a long arcade of shade.

The annals of Kansas earth in 1S91 should speak of the pleasant gardens with arbors. and the little bits or poor men ground that produced as never before and taught the lesson that no spot however small should in such a country be left neglected. Nor should there be failure to mention the great triumph of science in the year; when laboratory and field come together like cured like, and chinch bug destroyed chinch bug. Noble L. Prentis in Kansas City Star.

Notes. There ia a councilman in Arkansas City who lariats his cow in the street in front of his residence. Secretary Rusk pronounces Prof. Snow's chinch bug killer the most valuable discovery of the century. The Atchison people still keep up the old-fashioned custom of counting tho carriages in funeral processions.

Two women are buried in the potters field at Atchison who were over 10J years old at the time of their death. There is a young Sioux Indian at Haskell institute who is so handsome that the Lawrence girls make eyes at him. A chew of tobacco sweetened the death of a Wichita boy who had never tasted the weed until the day he departed this life. The south side is the swell portion of Topeka. There are also other points of dissimilarity between that town and Chicago.

The present sexton of Mt. Vernon cemetery at Atchison has held that position for eight years, and in that time has dug over 1,000 graves. AWitchita poet says: "The world is growing better." That is rather a remarkable discovery for a person to make wh lives at Wichita. No convictions have been obtained ia libel suits in Kansas within the past two years. It won't do to attempt to gag the press in a state which was consecratea to liberty in its cradle.

An Emporia man has an incubator heated by a common coal oil lamp, which has hatched out 700 or J0 chickens this season. The fowls don't taste of kerosene unless they are eaten while quite young. Buel T. Davis, who used to teach at tha State normal and was superintendent oC the city schools at Atchison last year, goes to Winona, to accept a similar position at a salary of a year. Land out in Ford county which went besrging a year ago at 4 and fo an acre has produced twenty and twenty-five bushels of wheat to the acre this season.

Moral i When you see a snap in Kansas take it in, regardless of the weather. Billy Bolton, the editor of the Kiowa county Signal, was robbed the other night at the Union depot at Kansas City of somo railroad passes and an overcoat. The passes will not do the thief any good nor the overcoat either, unless he is mighty fat. The board of pardons has recommended the release from the penitentiary of Job Barrow of Winfield, for stealing worth of potatoes from a freight car. The sentence was imposed when potatoes wera worth their weight in gold, and now that they have become cheap the prisoner is accounted a legitimate object of executiva clemency.

A fight occurred the other day at Arkansas City between a woman and a man whom, she annoyed by lariating a cow near his residence. The man kicked and so did the woman, but the latter came out ahead of the game. There are few things a woman will not dare for the cow she loves. Last winter the Kansas legislature passed a vxvy good law permitting counties to dispense with the sale of land for delinquent taxes and to the same for the county instead of allowing "private bidders" to make a profit on all redeemed tax certificates. The first county in the state to take advantage of the new statute is Dickinson, which is enabled to do so by reason of the large surplus which is lying In the county treasury.

Ills Tenth Man. South McAlester, Aug. At 3 o'clock this morning Jim Yates, deputy United States marshal, was shot through, the heart by Robert Marshall. The two got into a quarrel over a game of cards iu a house of ill fame and forty shots were fired. Yates had confiscated two gallons of whisky during the day and both, were drinking.

Marshall is said to have killed eight men and Yates told him to stop bragging or get his gun. He got it. The fight was continued outside in the brush, each firing rapidly. Yates received two shots each of which would have proved fatal. Nebraska Prohibitionists.

Lincoln, Aug. 8. The Prohibition state convention completed its labors by nominating R. W. Richardson, of Omaha, for judge of the supreme court, and Rev.

William Garst, of Neligh, and Mrs. Caroline M. Woodward, of Seward, for regents of the state university. The platform indorses the national Prohibition party, demands government control of telegraph and railroad companies, a more unrestricted coinage of the metals, and naturally places the party on record as favoring the total annihilation of the liquor traffic. The Snake Dance.

Wixslow, A. Aug. 8. The famous Moqui Indian snake dance, which is held every two years, commenced yesterday on tho reservation, sixty miles from here, and will continue sixteen days. It is reported the government is taking steps to discon tinue the dance and that this will be the last one.

Major Donaldson, who took Moqui census, has gone to the dance with photographic outfit, and the government has also sent a corps of photographers. Ohio People's Party. Springfield, Aug. 7. The conven tion of the People's party of Ohio had an attendance of about 400 delegates.

After the organization several communications were read, one of which was from Senator Peffer, advising the adoption of the Cm cinnati resolutions and "the plank advo cating honest money." This was greeted with cheers. O. U. Jones of Kansas sang a song entitled "Old Hayseed." Bulling Sentenced Again. St.

Joseph, Aug. 9. Louis Bulling, tho escaped wife murderer, was brought before Judge Anthony, of Savannah, and for the third time sentenced to death. Bullmg's attorneys tried to stave off proceedings on the ground that Judge Anthony had no jurisdiction, but the motion was overruled and the day of excution was set for Friday, September 4. Farmers Corner Wheat.

Chattanooga, Aug. 7. The Alliance men in this section seem to bo taking seriously the advice given by the order to hold wheat for higher prices. One result here is that millers are forming a league to pur chase Western grain, they claiming that the Middle Tennessee farmers, with the Alliance behind them, will sell only at enormous prices. A Preacher and Trouble.

Springfield, Aug 9. Rev. J. Thompson passed through the city yester day under tho watchful care of G. Lindsay, sheriff of Hickory county, Mo Thompson is charged with stealing horse.

Ho was accompanied by his young wife, whom he abducted a few months ago from tho home of a prominent minister in Hickory county. Train Wreckers at Work. Kalamazoo, Aug. 7. The.

Grand Rapids and Indiana express, bound south, was wrecked three miles north of this place this noon evidently by train wreck ers, as spikes, bolts and nuts were found withdrawn from the rails. Nearly all the injured, twelve in numbor, were taken from the sleeper, none of whom are fatally hurt however. Democrat's Unite. Chicago. Aug.

9. The two factions of the Democratic party in Chicago have united after a long bitter fight which had allowed the Republicans to win two im portant elections. Should tho treaty prove binding the Democrats expect to make a clean, everlasting sweep all the offices in sight. The present city administration is Republican. Killed by a Circus Attache.

Joplin, Aug. 7. Ira Sevier, a miner, was struck in the left temple with a club by an attache of Forepaugh's circus after the performance here, from the effects of which he died to-night. Sevier was drink ing from'a barrel of water intended for circus people when the man assaulted him, striking him but once and knocking him senseless. A Grand Barbecue.

St. Joseph, Aug. 8. A grand barbecue was held at Easton for the benefit of the ex-Confederate home at Higgins ville. The affair was under tne management of some of the leading Democrats of the state and was a grand success.

Six hundred and fifty dollars was realized for the home. Foreign Markets. London, Aug. 11. There was a plethora of money during the past week.

Discount was quoted at 13d for three months and id for short, with no demand. A small drain of gold continues toward Germany There is nothing to indicate large imme diate withdrawals from the bank of Eng land from any quarter. The Record Broken Asaln. New York, Aug. 7.

The White Star line steamer Majestic which left Liver pool July 29, has again broken the record from Queenstown to New York. Her time was five days eighteen hours and eight minutes. ft.