Costigan's Weekly from Ottawa, Kansas • 4

"hat? boat was put off, and after bairn Slill) BY 1 Mold pony it: lion He churches in this vicinity have decided to build a hospital and a home for SASTROLS A DI of the islands to the sooth and unless there is prompt interference there seems little WEEKLY 0 TON'S ged members of the oburch and also the an hour's effort the family was rescued. Upwards of 100 people were brought from the doubt that the expedition will be success ful. BETWEEN ST. JOSEPH AND FIVE THOUSAND orphans. The plans for the building are being made and work will commence SEVERE ON THE SOUTH AT tTTAWA, OCTOBER 5, 1898 COLORADO PERISH.

CATjlLB MUST SAN FRANCISCO. island to the city in boats. Alarming reports of tbe condition at LANTIC COAST. Cuba have been reoieved. These reports Considerable anxiety is felt shoitly.

The hospital will be located near the Alexanderwohl churoh, fourteen for shipping at sea. There are I0W IT AOS OPERATED. DOING GREAT DAMAGE. BLEW EIGHTEEN HOURS. Heavy Loss on Georgia and South a number of ships at sea and it is feared they are lost.

miles north of this city. The Alexanderwohl ohurch is the largest Mennonite church in this part of Kansas, having over 500 members. What the Dangers Were and How FATHER AND SON REUNITED ACCIDENTAL MEETING OF A FATHER AND SON AT A SOLDIERS' HOME. The Two Thousand Veterans In tbe Home at Marlon, Witness the Pathetic Incident. Marion.

Ind- Ootober 3. There are The extent of the storm is 'rairie and Forest Fires Sweeping Over the State. They Were Encountered Rate of Postage. Carolina Sea Islands Snipping Damage Great. For eighteen hours on Octo unknown, and until telegraphic communication is restored or A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

In the October Century there A Number of Mining Camps Are news is received from the coun ber 2 Savannah was in the grasp try between Savannah and Jack A MAN NAMED WEED CONFESSES TO of a West Indian hurricane. is an article on "The Pony Express" between St. Joseph, and San Francisco, written by Threatened by the Flames, "Which are Spreading. Denver, Ootober 3. A prairie fire, THE MURDKll sonville, over which the heaviest During that time the wind blew part of the stoim passed, the steadily from fifty to seventy Of William Smith, a Prosperous Miner, at V.

F. Bailey. Following are extracts: miles an hour. While the city full extent of its damage can not be told. have resulted in tbe British gun vessel Battler being ordered to that point.

It is also reported that Admiral Dewey has ordered the Baleighand the Baltimore to proceed to Cebu, but this I have not been able to confirm. Stories of an attempt to poison Aguin-aldo seem to be without any foundation. On two previous occasions similar stories were spread. It is probable they were gotten np for the purpose of arousing the natives to greater enthusiasm. The report that the last Spanish garrison in the Island of Luzon had surrendered is premature.

The Spaniards still hold seven seaports in Albay Province, the prinoipal hemp district. The disturbances have already resulted in a diminution of the output of Albay hemp by 250,000 bales, compared with last year's figures. Further fighting seems imminent, and, unless peace comes soon, the shortage will be doubled. Blendville, Near Joplin, Last March He Is Arrested. Joplin, October 3.

The arrest in probably started by a spark from a locomotive, has burned over thousands of acres of grazing lands between Kiowa and Bijou creek, in Morgan county, and destroyed thousands of tons of hay. escaped with comparatively lit Considering the danger en countered, the percentage of fa over 2000 veterans in the Marion braDoh the National Soldiers' Home fnd the institution is the scene of many pathetic incidents. Yesterday William B. Drake and his son, Daily both of whom are members of the home, met for the first time and the meeting was purely aooi-dentaL Both father and son served in the civil war in Company 142d Indiana Volunteers, having enlisted at Fort Wayne, Ind. After the close of the war 1 hey both resided near each other, until tle damage, the loss ot property among the sea islands of the La Grande, of a man named Weed, who confesses to the murder of a Joplin talities was extraordinarily Banchman W.

C. Miller and wife and ftpore-ia and South Carolina small. Far more station em man named Smith, apparently clears up coasts was heavy. ployes than riders were killed child had a arrow escape from being burned to death. The woman and child A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE the mysterious murder of William Smith, a one time prosperous miner, on March by the Indians, and even of the For miles in every direction OP WORKMEN.

were badly burned. around Savannah the lowlands latter, more were killed off duty Had it not been for the prompt work 1, last, at Blendville, near Joplin. Smith had mysteriously disappeared and was than on. This can be explained along the river are 'submerged. ceren years ago, when the younger Drake NOT ONE OF THEM KILLED.

of the railroad men and others at Corona, by the fact that the horses fur only found after a long search in the bot moved to Ottumwa, where he was Only one fatality has so far been reported the drowning of nished the riders, selected as torn of a deserted pit. Smith was well engaged in the railroad business. The the town would have entirely been swept away. Going toward the appronching fire for a mile, back fires were started, and A Number of Them Were Stunned they were for speed and endur a negro while attempting to father soon afterwards entered the Home and favorably known and a few years ago by the Concussion Cause of Explosion Unknown. ance, were far superior to the made a fortune out of Joplin mines.

It at Leavenworth, but stayed there reach the mainland, from a srru'll island near Thunderbolt but in this manner the danger avorted. was supposed that he had accidentally only a short time. After he received his WE DON'T GET COLUMBUS. mounts of the Indians. There is only one case on record where Thousands of head of cattle are threat Thirty men working the night fallen into the pit and his widow filed a shift in number four tunnel of heavy loss of life is feared on the South Carolina sea islands, ened with destruction by the forest fires.

disoharge from there his son did not know what had become of him, and had never seen him until yesterday, and the suit for $5,000 damages against the city a rider was caught, and that was owing to his having been $3,000 APPROPRIATED TO DEFRAY In Eagle county, where the flames seem the Morning mine, at Wallace, THE SHIPPING EXPENSES. to be spreading more rapidly than in any Idaho, had an almost miracu meeting was quite touching. surrounded. This occurred in TII1Y AM ALL GONE. where such fearful loss of life occurred during the great tidal storm ot 1893.

The conditions other sections of the state, ranch property lous escape from death early on The elder Drake is 77 years of age, and Spain Has Decided To Take the Remains has been burned, and the farmers with Nebraska, along the Platte river. He was shot and several has been in the home for about a year now are similar to those during the morning of September d0, when 350 pounds of dynamite of the Famous Italian Back to Spain. Havana. Captain General Blanco, in GRIM DR. JOSE their stock have been trying to get out of the path of the fires for a week past.

days later his body was found that storm. Owing to the sub CONGOSTO'S COMMENT in a magazine exploded. view of the trovernment's decision to His son is 50 years of age, and oame to the home in April. Yesterday a letter adressed to Daily R. Drake was taken to the old gentleman by mistake and when One large bunch of about 5.000 head of His pony, still bridled and saddled, was also found, with the The first report to reach here merged country and the isolated location of the islands, no news can be had from them until the was that eight dead and wound transfer the remains of Columbus to Spain, has issued the following order ABOUT RECONCENTRADOS.

mail intact. In laying out the oattle is now entirely surrounded by fiie, and there is no chance for them to escape This report came a few days ago, and it ed had been recovered and that he saw tbe address immediately made in route through the Indian coun water subsides. First The monument containing tbe smoke was still too thick to uiry at the adjutant's office, and his son remains shall be removed from its mount try, pains were taken to. avoid permit the rescuers to get furth Say There Are Now No Reoon centrados in Cuba Toral To Be Punished. was located in barrack No.

10. The two are now constant companions, and. the anything that would afford cover ing, leaving as it now is tbe base npon er back where it was feared the For eight miles north of Savannah the entire country was a lake, with only tha hummocks visible. At noon the water was which it rests, and it shall be properly 9 father feels a great relief to have hia son is now probable that the cattle have been destroyed by this time. Dispatches from various points in the forest fire belt indicate that the fires are spreading, and than unless something is done to check their further progress the for an ambushed foe.

One the greatest dangers encoun imprisoned men were all dead New York, September 28. Among the packed for shipment. near him in his old age. either from the direct results Second A commission presided over eight feet above the highest passengers who arrived to-day on the steamer City of Washington from Havana tered by the pony express riders was from immigrants and others by the captain general and composed of MILLER PRAISES FUNSTON. tide.

Driven on shore by the the explosion, or from the gasses generated by it. Later it was learned that not a man had been the bishop of Havana, the colonial secre l038 will be almost beyond computation. were Dr. Jose Congosto and Captain Fred who mistook them for Indians Sharp, of the'Merritt Chapman Wreck tary of justice, the civil and military In those days it was shoot first I CAN NOT SPEAK TOO HIGHLY OF HIM." ing oompany. and investigate afterward, pro northeast storm, it filled up the islands, swept over banks and dams, carrying away the remnant of the rice crop that was left by the August storm, and governors, the dean of the cathedral, the state arohitect and a doctor commissioned killel or seriously injured, the only casualty being the killing of a horse used to haul out the The City of Washington brought 41 vided the shooter survived to The Promotion of tho Kansas Colonel Is make an investigation.

A nam by the board of health shall examine the niohe containing the remains and adopt cabin passengers and a email cargo com posed chiefly of cigars and tobacoo. ore. Most of the men walked Strongly Urged by Bis Division Commander. ber of the riders met their death necessary measures for their prompt As it is now, some mining camps are threatened with destruction, and many ranob.es are doomed. At Red Cliff the fires are within ten miles of the town, and citizens are organ-ing to fight their advance.

A dispatch states that it is feaied the little mining settlement at Holy Cross, near Red Cliff, has been destroyed. Communication is oat off, the carrier being unable to get through. had not been gathered, and wip ing out farm crops. The loss in this way, being mistaken for Dr. Congosto will sail for Havre on the French line steamer about Ootober 1.

He San Francif co, Ootober 3. The promo out although some of them were so stunned by the explosion or overcome by smoke and gas Indians, horse thieves, or road the rice growers alone will be said: agents; It is a strange but no tion of Colonel Funston of the Twentieth Kansas volunteers has been recommended to the Department of California by General Miller, commander of the foroes re shipment to Spain. The commission will meet on Monday, September 26, at the cathedral. The finance department will appropriate $3,000 to defray the expenses of packing and shipping the monument. "The evacuation of Cuba by Spain is a matter of time, but when I left Havana that they had to be helped.

A number of them were stunned from $50,000 to $75,000. Of the entire rice crop along the Savannah river, valued at ticeable fact that the Indians often stood and saw the daring everything was progressing well. I do not care to enter into all the reasons for cently ordered to Manila, asfrjjlows: riders fly past, without offering by the concussion and one, Cap tain' Woods," fell onto his can 000, all but about 15 per cent ITALY'S TERRIBLE WEAPON "Bft'ievinar that for-fbeffan ii of the to molest them. There was a "die," burniffgp bis face severely jjaJjJrjjQ GT me: storm. forcer it will the! mystery about jt thatmadejLtl CALIFORNIA CATTLE" DYiN the delay, but one of the prinoipal causes ia the-fact- that- we have over (5,000 sick who must be taken care of and can not before he recovered conscious "bad medicine" to interfere with IN 1897 THERE WERE 5,380 HOMICIDES BY KNIFE.

The damage lo shipping was considerable. The schooner ness sufficiently to get "away Them: Superstitious as they be left behind. from over the name. It is not OUTLOOK FOR THE CATTLE BUSINESS WORST EVER KNOWN. were, they seldom bothered with Governor Ames, which was on ''The problem of the future of the known what caused the explo anything that they could no her way to sea with a cargo of island is a difficult one, and I have stud sion, no one being near the mag understand.

1,500,0000 feet of lumber, went ied it without prejudice, and as a result of adrift in the harbor, but was se this study of believe it is a social azine at the time. That no one was injured was merely a piece At first the schedule was fixed at ten days, an average of eight problem and not a political one. Ot of luck. troops under orders to embark for the Philippines an additional general officer, and that some good may best be conserved by the elevation to the rank of brigadier general of one of tbe offioers now with these troops, I hereby recommend for promotion Colonel Frederick Funston of the Twentieth Kansas regiment. Both as colonel of his regiment and also as commander of the second brigade of the division, he has shown himself to be an intelligent, efficient and reliable officer and one of whose carefulness and painstaking I oan not speak too highly.

Should he receive the appointment he will do credit to the service." The Knife In the Beautiful Sunny Land Takes a Human Life Every Two Hours. Rome, September 28. Throughout the Kingdom of Italy an Italian kills an Italian every two hours during the ett re year by means of the knife. Such are the offloial statistics given out by Baron Ga-rofala, vice president and leading spirit of the association which, under the pref- idency of Queen Marguerite and the pa miles an hour from start to fin course politics will enter into the eolu tion, but the great question is how to ish. This was cut down to eigh FOR KILLING YOUNG.

bring the most prosperity and the great days, requiring an average speed est happiness to the people of Cuba. of ten miles. The quickest trip is probable that there will be a large emi Cattle On the Desert Dying: by Hundred from Texas Fever and a Large Nnmber of Starvation. San Bernardino, Ootober 3 The outlook for the cattle busiaess is probably the worst that this county has known for years. Not only are the animals being herded on the desert dying by the hundreds from Texas fever, but they are also dying in great numbers from starvation.

Thousands have been driven here from the North. A.B.Wise, county veterinarian, found the animals very poor, and it is his opinion that unless some other feeding grounds are found for them the lose in the herds the coming winter will bt enormous. made was in carrying Presi WITHOUT McMANIGALi HELD BAIL dent Lincoln's inaugural ad gration to the island and this emigration may assist in solving the problem. Of course, difficulty will be met in view ol cured safely. The wharves at the quarantine station at the entrance to the river here, were partially carried away.

The quarantine officer and his family and seivants were rescued by a tug. Four vessels which were at anchor at the station were torn from their moorings and driven into the marshes. How badly these vessels are damaged is unknown. No news has been received from Tybee Island, and nothing is known of the damage there. dress, which was done in seven days and seventeen hours, an ON CHARGE OF MURDER average speed of 10.7 miles per hour, the fastest time of any one rider being 120 miles, from He Stabs Captain Thomas Young an Old Soldier, to the Heart.

Smith's creek to Fort Churchill, by "Pony Bob," in eight hours and ten minutes, or 14.7 miles The remains of Captain Thos. Young were taken from Sedalia, to Lexington last Friday tronage of King Humbert, has been formed to put down homioide by depriving it of its all too convenient and all too universal Weapon, the accursed knife. During the 365 days of the year 1897 there were placed on reoord 5,380 homicides by means of the knife, a total beside which the list of killed in the sanguinary battle of Custozza, and even in the holo-oaust of Abba Carima in Abyssinia, sinks into insignificance. Italy is in fact engaged in a personal war with herself, whioh costs her on an average 5,000 lives annually. The league or association which has just been formed under these royal auspices, has very rightly and cleverly placed itself in communication with the various labor At Thunderbolt and Isle of per hour.

Considering the dis the dangers of fever and the climate." Dr. Congosto was asked as to the condition of the reoonoentrados. "There are no reoonoentrados now," he answered with a smile. "What has become of them?" was the next question. "They sre gone." "Where!" God knows," was the reply.

"Do you mean to say that they are all dead!" "That probably explains it better than loan. It ii a subjeot which I prefer not to disouss." tance and difficulties encoun afternoon, where the funeral and interment took place on Saturday. His wife and two tered, such as hostile Indians, road agents, floods and snow storms, and accidents to horses and riders, the schedule was maintained to an astonishing sons, Richard and Earl, accom panied the remains. A MINISTER TO HANG. MORRISON WAS INFATUATED WITH A TOPERA, KANSAS, LADY.

Itev. E. G. "Morrison Convicted of Killing His Wife That ho Blight Wed a Topeka Girl. Fort Worth, Texas, Ootober 3.

Rev. G. E. Morrison, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Panhandle City, who has been on trial at Yernor for a week on the charge of murdering his wife, Ootober 10, 1897, was today found guilty and hia sentenoe fixed at death. Morrison administered strychnine to his wife after returning from ohurch.

The jury was out only two or three hours. Before the death of his wife Morrison -Wfts engaged to wed Miss Annie Whittlesey, of Topeka, and when intercepted he was at her home. It developed in the trial of the case that Morrison was infatuated with the Topeka young lady an i he chose to put his wife out of tbe waj in order that he might marry Miss Whittlesey. decree. The service created the Uoroner Uowan held an inquest on Friday, and the evi When asked as to the establishment of greatest enthusiasm, not only dence was directly contradic tory to the ante-mortem state a new navy for Spain, Dr.

Congosto Baid: among the employes, but also in the ranks of stage employes, "Spain is still a great country, and she ought to have a great navy and prob ment of Captain Young. The chief witnesses also contradicted freighters, and residents along ably will." each other on material points. Discussing the fall of Santiago and the the route. To aid a "pony" in difficulty was a privilege, and woe be to the man who would so much as throw a stone in the surrender of Oeneral Toral, Dr. Congosto said: The jury returned a verdict that Captain Young's death was was caused by a stab wound by a knife in the hands of Mc- "There were brave soldiers at Santiago way.

and if their leader lacked courage he de unions and trade associations, and amorg the first of the labor associations to take up the matter with enthusiasm aud with vigor has been the Union of Associated Printers, whioh inoludes some of the most, public spirited and energetic of the work-logmen of Rome. The league likewise has eeoured a promise from the Premier, General Pelloux, to submit to the legislature, when it meets again, a law rendering it a penal effen: to carry one of those knives with which in nearly every case murder is done in this country. In order to realize how inadequate the tribunals have shown themselves to put a stop to crime by means of the knife, it may be mentioned that the annual aver- i age of homicide! in Italy alone surpasses Mr. Bailey says: The letters, WHO OWNED THE SHEEP? COMMISSION MEN SUSPICIOUS OF A STOCK SHIPPER. It Is 1 bought Probable That a Murder May be Brought to Light In Connection With a Big Deal.

Omaha, September 29. The Omaha police have been asked to look up the matter of a shipment of sheep from Corona, to the South Omaha yards. Q. V. Newlin, the man who shipped the sheep here, and Otto Brown, their owner, have both disappeared, and it is believed that Brown has been murdered.

About September 1, Cox, Jones Sc. Cox commission men, reoeived a letter from C. F. Newlin advising them of a shipment of 2000 head of sheep. About the 10th of the month tbe sheep reached here and were sold, fetohing $3900.

Newin, who came with the sheep, wanted the money in cash. He acted somewhat suspiciously, and the commission men refused to give him the lump sum. He was advanoed $50, and the rest of the money was sent to the National Bank of Commerce at Denver, with instructions to pay it to Newlin if he could identify himself as the proper person to receive It. Newlin left South Omaha immediately after the transaction and has not sinJe been heard from. From the bank in Denver the looal firm learns that some $2300 of the money has been drawn Outside from Lis apparent anxiety to have the whole sum puid him in cash, there was nothing particularly suspicions about Newlin's conduct while here.

Manigal. before being placed in the pock Hope, suburbs of Savannah, all the boathouses and a large number of small boats were carried away. The extent to which the railroads suffered is not fully known. The naval stores and cotton and lumber yards of the Plant system are submerged and the tracks of the Central railroad of Georgia and the Georgia Alabama railroad around the city are covered. Teiegraph wires, except one over the Western Union lines, are down.

Most all the roads are operating. The telephone, police, light and fire alarm wires were down and the city in dark ness. On Hutchinson's Island, opposite Savannah and separating the cfty from the South Carolina -shore, there were many negro families rescued by boats from the steamers Tybee and Boutwell. One man with a child in his arms, holding it above his shoulders, started to cross the dams with the water up to his body. His wife, with another child, stood in the window of their house and watched her husband feel his way step by step along He is held on the charge of serves to be punished.

Santiago should not have fallen as it did and if Toral had not entered into negotiations with the ets, were wrapped in oiled silk to preserve them Irom moisture. murder in the first degree. The maximum weight of any one mail was twenty pounds; WOULD FIGHT SPANISH. enemy, it is likely that there would nave been a different story to tell to-day. It is SQUAWS DON'T SAVE THEM but this was rarely reached The charges were originally $5 for each letter of one-half ounce AGUINALDO'S REBELS WANT TO SEIZE THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS.

not true that the Spanish army there laoked supplies and ammunition, for they had plenty of both whioh they turned HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO LEAVE THE or less: but afterward this was TERRITORY. reduced to $2.50 for each letter over to the Amenoans. ir loral bad that of all the remainder of Europe. pushed forward instead of retreating to Tbe Dawes CoinmlHsIon Says That All Irv termarrled White Men Are Intruders. wards the city, he certainly would have caused a repulse.

These are the things which he will have to explain." not exceeding one half ounce, this being in addition to the regular United States postage. Specially made light-weight paper was generally used to reduce the expense. Special editions of the eastern newspapers were printed on tissue paper to Wichita, October 3. Twenty thousand white men, who have married into the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, have Dr. Congosto hopes that, when his da- Everybody It Warned.

An Arizona rancher has posted the following notioe on a Cottonwood tree near his place: "My wife Sarrah has left my ranch when I didn't Doo a Thing Too her and I want it distiktly understood that any Man as takes her in and Keers for her. on my account will get himself Pumped so Full ties on the Paris peace commission expire he will resume his consular uervioe. I'nleta Promptly Interfered With by the A merlcaos, tho Filipino ay Carry Oat Their Plans. Manila, Sept. 21.

Unless oheoked by the American foroes in the Philippines, it teems more than' probable that the rebels under Aguinaldo will soon have seized all the southern islands of the group. The steamship Abby has arrived off the 'west ooait. She carries a cargo of arms and ammunition for Agninaldo's foroes. After landing these munitions of war, ihe Abbey is to prooetd to the southern islands. She will carry a large force of the rebel troops.

These troops, who are now well aimed, propose attacking the Spanish garrisons been ordered to leave the Indian Territory. The Dawes Commission, now in session in Ardmore, created a Bensation throughout the Territory by issuing orders that all the intermarried white men Mr. Ventor von Hollenstein, an Amer- i lean citizen and a member of the German enable them to reach subscribers on the Pacific coast. This, however, was more as an advertisement, there being little de of Led that some tenderfoot will locate Red Cross society, who had been in prison him for a mineral claim. A word to the for several months in Havana, charged wise is Buffioient and orter to work on mand for them at their necessarily large price.

with complicity in the insurrection of the Cubans, was also among the passengers the top of the treacherous dam, one false step from which, or a caving bank, would throw him into a swift-moving current. Fi fools." were intruders and would have to leave the Indian Territory. Indian Agent Wisdom will comply with the orders of the commission. His mounted police are under orders to eject $1.05 Is the Smita Kansas City Bate to KnnsBS City ami return durinfr Knrnirul week at Kansas City. Tickets to be sold Mennonite Hospital.

Newton, Ootober 8. The members of the City pf Washington. He was released during the first part of this month. He is crippled and eiok from the harsh treatment he reoeived. All copies of this paper mailed from the oflice are paid for In ad vance.

If you have not paid for It it si sent by a friend. nally he was sighted from across October to 8, limited to October 0 for return. the river on the city side. A of the congregations of the three Men- S. M.

Camphuxl, Agent. the intruders..