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34. STATE NEWS. cattle the strip, and who wintered to rail a special meeting in New York to CAPITAL NOTES. LOCKED UP. FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

part of them in southern Sumner, was LATEST NEWS. consider the situation. "In the meantime the executive board hav. arrested a short time ago on the charge ing been apprised of the condition of affairs, Speculation In Stocks, Commodities, mvQ sent one oi its memoers, Mr. J.

J. Holland Condensed for theConvenlenco of Hurried Readers. Especially Sllrer Bullion, Has Mad a Money Very Tight and Hard to Jig fTith Increased Percentage. of rjew York, with instructions to use all possible efforts to bring about an amicable adjustment of the difficulty. On his arrival in New York, after conference with the representatives of the district assembly, in the course of which he obtained a full knowl of bringing diseased cattle into the state, and was fined $500 and sentenced to be confined in the jail of Sumner county for two months.

He appealed the case, and now that the fever has disappeared it is supposed that it will not go so hard with him. Leavenworth millers are paying 95 cents per bushel for wheat. Potatoes bring $1.00 per bushel in the market. Oxford Mocking Bird: There were thirty applications for the principalship of the Oxford schools. Atchison is to have an apple evaporating establishment, which will employ thirty to forty men during the season.

Topeka Journal: The directors of Enormous Imports to Get Foreign Goods A special train of eleven conches came to Capital: Since the dam was decided Upon, property in the First ward has appreciated fully twenty-five per cent. Capital: Secretary Mohler, Hon. A. W. Smith, and other prominent representatives of the agricultural interests of Kansas, go to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to attend the national farmers' congress which meets in that citv on August 26, 27, 58, and 29.

The committee of county superintendents of the state met at the office St. Joseph, from Boston, bringing Sons of Veterans to attend their ninth Before the Tariff Bill Passes Has Over drawn Bank Accounts and Increased Demands for Discounts edge of the trouble from the standpoint of the men, he waited upon Mr. H. Walter Webb, third vice president and acting manager of the company. Mr.

Holland stated to Mr. Webb that he had called to endeavoi TRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS. An amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill, giving about a million and a quarter dollars for the payment of the French spoliation claimg, was agreed to by the senate, after being denounced by Senator Plumb as fraudulent. TELEPHONES. An amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill was agreed to by the senate, which prohibits any officer of the srovernment in the District of Columbia from paying more than $30 a year rent for a telephone.

In the various government offices in Washington there are 200 telephone instruments, for which $60 each is paid, making $12,000 a yecr paid by the government for the use of int ruments that did not cost more than $10 each. STOCK AND FAR5L annual encampment. At Ashbury Park, N. a few nights ago, the thermometer registered 60 degrees. A cool land breeze prevailed all day, driving most of the neonlo from the beach.

The Nbw Tobk, August 25. R. Q. Dun fc to adjust the unpleasantness existing between Hutchison News: A gentlemen from the company and its Knights of Labor em weekly review of trade says: Pratt county reports that stock hogs pioyes. iar.

vvebb denied that there was any trouble existing between the company The signs of monetary disturbance which of the state superintendent of instruc the Kansas Chautauqua assembly have made an assescment on the stockholders to ay a deficiency of about $400 in the expenses of this year's assembly at Oakland. was noticed in previous reviews was not mis and its employes. Mr. Holland told him tion to perfect the programme for a mat ne, as a memoer oi tne general execu leading. At Philadelphia money was tight convention of county superintendents at Chicago in strong demand; and St.

Louis to be held in connection with the state tive board of the Knights of Labor, had come at the request of the men, made through the organization to which they belonged, dis can be bought very cheap down there. He says a good 100-pound hog can be got for about $2.00. Here is a good chance for the farmers of Reno county who have a surplus of corn. Independence Tribune: One of the teachers' convention. The committee Mr.

Morton added that there was a scandal growing out of it, and that it was reported trict assembly 24b. Mr. Webb frequently unusually scarce at 7 to 8 per at New Orleans tight; at Denver and St. Paul in good demand, and at Milwaukee more active was composed of Superintendent Jor declared that he would not discuss the mat on the streets that the government officials had telephone instruments put in their private houses free of charge. ter with any one not an employe of the com dan, Shawnee; Superintendent Bartlett, Douglas; Superintendent Sue B.

Hoag- pany and closed the interview. at 7 per firm at Kansas City, and rather tight at Detroit at 7 per cent. The ladies went to the balls wrapped in furs, their escorts wearing heavy overcoats. New York grain gamblers ran wheat up 4 cents a bushel August 19. The trading was wild and exciting and the wheat trade was full of rumors of damage to the crops both here and abroad.

The bulls were confident of their position and now predict $1.50 a bushel for this crop. Nothing is more certain under English law than that every penny of damage done to property by strikers or rioters can be recovered promptly by the injured party from the city. The last government crop bulletin for Manitoba says the average wheat yield will be twenty-five bushels per acre, with a total of 20,000,000 bushels. Harvesting is half over and the weather is magnificent. Mr.

Plumb said that he had just been in inndins all efforts to affect a neaceable formed by a senator that it would require a obvious and only sufficient relief is the liqui land, Jackson. Capital: In the last week several hundred mechanics have found employ settlement or their grieyances impossible, and being convinced that it was only a question of time when they would one and all be dation of money speculations in stocks, in Topeka Journal: G. I. Curran, colored, formerly a policeman in the First Trard, was elected to the lower house of the Oklahoma legislature, at the recent election in Oklahoma. From Augusta: Fire broke out in the Moyle grocery building and destroyed the building, together with the Ilichardson drug store building and stock, the Yeitz clothing company build-and stock, and the Hames hardware establishment.

Loss, insur stretch of the imagination to suppose that those instruments cost $3 each. Two dollars or a dollar and a half would be nearer tho figure. prosperous farmers who lives on the high ridge south of the city, and has; lands on which others are said to have) failed, is reported to have refused 81, -j 600 for the old corn he has cribbed, and yet he has a fair prospect for this year's crop. Colony Free Press: Ozro Minckley wheat, corn, oats, cotton, leather, hides, discharged, unless they forfeited their man ment at the Santa Fe shops. Every hood and abandoned their privileges as citi coffee, wool, and especially silver bullion, zens of a free country by renouncing their rights to join their fellows in an organization TO DRIVE WHISKY OUT OF THE CAPITOL.

Senator Plumb offered a resolution in which have locked up enormous sums. In silver alone, $10,000,000 has been locked up calculated to protect their just rights without structing the committee on rules to make to wait for higber prices. In grain several times as much, and in other products many intrenching upon those of others, the district executive board had no alternative but to or informed us that he had just threshed his flax and itvielded him 315 bushels. such orders that will wholly prevent the sale of spirituous or malt liquors in the senate wing of the capitol. millions, while the condition of the market der a strike, which they did.

The public for securities was indicated by the fall, aver is already acquainted with the details of affair. aging about $2 per share in a single day on active stocks, when money became tight. In addition the enormous imports intended to The most earnest efforts of the eeneral WANTS THE ELECTON BILL. Senator Hoar gave notice that he should officers to secure a hearing for the discharged offer an amendment to the Quay resolutions. He sold it at Lone Elm for $1.15 per bushel.

Mr. Minckley said that he only sowed ten and one-half bushels of flax last spring, but that the ground was plowed deep and harrowed well before sowing the seed, and that, he thinks is the secret of the heavy yield. anticipate the tariff bill, have virtually men were unavailing. On Wednesday morning John Devlin, of the general executive to include in tho legislative business to be taken up this session the federal election bill. The election bill shall be taken up, he said.

It locked up for an indefinite time many millions paid for goods and in duties on them. The volume of legitimate through board, and myself waited unon Mr. Toucey. mechanic who applies is employed on the spot, and Master Mechanic Smith says the only trouble arises from the fact that they do not come fast enough. Large numbers are being brought here from the east by employment agencies, and work for skilled Jaborers will be very plentiful for the next six months at least.

The state labor statistics bureau is hard at work condensing the voluminous matter received from all over the state concerning all classes of working-men. The report when boiled down will be very interesting, giving the amounts of wages, indebtedness, homes owned, money at interest, life insurance, of all laborers. All the way through comparisons are made between union and non-union men. State Auditor Timothy McCarthy, who has just returned from a trip to general manager, and endeavored to hava Secretary Noble has instructed the commissioner of pensions to make special and thus expedite all claims for pensions by parties now living in Oklahoma. This action is taken to relieve, as far as possible, the destitute condition of many claimants in that territory.

John Burns, the most trusted leader of the laborers in London, said in a recent speech that should tho "British shipowners, as they threaten, organize a force after tho pattern of the American "Pinkertons" the "dockers" would raise the hair of these hired assassin in less than twenty-four hours. George M. Pullman offers to give the amount of ground needed for tho world's fair near Pullman, and. furthermore, to out the country continues la. exceeding the matter arbitrated or investigated.

Mr. ance, Emporia Republican: At the canning factory nearly 100 hands are employed, counting boys and all. Three more carloads of cans are expected in, and the factory will run until frost shuts it down. A visit to the buildings reveals a scene of industry which shows activity and life. Hutchinson Times-Eepublican: The firm of Eeers fc Lee sold a oar-load -if mules this week to J.

H. Hand-v" or shipment to the sugar fields A andwich Islands. Mr. Hand- that of last year by 10 per cent, outside of Toucey was emphatic in his refusal. On the was the best that could be done, and every democrat representing an agricultural district, who threw an obstacle in its way, would rue it before the frosts ot November.

New York, and the desire to market products afternoon of that day Mr. Webb was visited, quickly as prices rise, causes greater demand an he reiterated what Mr. Toucey had said, I veas suggested to him that disinterested funston's committee. for currency trom tne country man usual. During the past week the treasury has paid out hear and determine: it was also sug The house adopted a resolution from the only $61,000 more than it has taken in.

gested that during the investigation the From Chapman An extended trip over Dickinson county leads one to the conviction that the farmers are not in a bad condition this fall. With fall rains to revive the pasturage, all stock will be able to be wintered with ease. Money is plenty, large quantities of grain having been marketed. Hogs and cattle have been pushed into mar- strike be declared off and the investigation committee on rules which secures the consideration of reports from the committee on' Wheat closes 4 cents higher than a week ago, but the advance was much greater before the break came. And oats declined 2X but pork products were a shade stronger.

Coffee proceeded with. That was refused. Then Mr. Webb refused my proposition that he sit with me in the presence of the men who agriculture. Tha first work under this rulo was the passage by the house of the senate agricultural college bill, with amendments.

and sugar were held without a break, but were discharged and allow me to question take up the $5,000,000 in bonds which are to be sold by the city. Mr. Pullman also proposes to dedicate the grounds to the public for park purposes after the fair is over. The conferees on the land 4 rant forfeiture bill have practically reached an asrreement. cotton sells 5-16ths on sales of 300,000 bales.

them in his presence that I might know the ad mules exteiively for the Louis ad foreign markt3- facts in the case and be better able to arrive HOAR AND EDMUNDS. Senators Hoar and Edmunds spoke in favor and oil declined 84 cents. The reports from other cities, with very few exceptions, indi at a decision. Mr. Devlin asked if he was to Ket, order to avoid reeding more corn than was absolutely necessary to put them in salable condition.

The people of Lan- From Atchison of Tending Senator Quay's programme to cate that a larger trade than ever before is in progress, with satisfactory collections and i The terms of the agreement are generally upen the principle of the bill as it passed the Lamed, says that he is astonished at the change wrought in the corn by the rains during the last ten days. When he went to the Dodge City convention he did not think that there was a field expedite business, so as to include the election bill in matters to be acted upon at this aiister township, tAtchison ii oi-torl nrnnnsit.Wn to brighter outiook. Crop reports are less sell the understand that Mr. Webb assumed that the public and the employes had no rights that he was bound to consider, and if he looked upon the matter simply as though the railroad was his own private property. If so, there was no need of saying anything further.

Mr. Webb hesitated and then took session. house, namely, an absolute forfeiture of all laDds opposite to and co-terminous with that portion of any aided railroad not now discouraging, though the yiel? must fall below early anticipations as to grain. New Senator Hoar said that the election bill Orleans reports very encouraging prospects struck at one evil in all parts of the countiy alike. It applied to the whole country with special precautions and safeguards what the refuse in silence.

Compared for 14 Tears. The Kansas Financier, of Topeka, compiles from government reports the following: For a period of fourteen years, beginning with 1875 and closing with The public may have formed erroneous ownship's $15,000 woirth stock in ho Missouri Pacific raiffacl to S. C. Xing, of Atchison for case. The proposition was defeated 7 an unanimous vote.

Independence Tribune: The excess at Havana, W. J. Fisher, has as to cotton, and Oalveston as well, but Jacksonville reports dull trade and a discouraging outlook. At St. "Louis business is of a fair volume, but somewhat affected by injury to crops.

At Kansas City trade is healthy, particularly in live stock and packing. Milwaukee reports that crops will north had applied for nearly twenty years. The bill struck at the north as well as at the south. He didn't think bribery was particu impressions of the position of the knights in the controversy. We do not pretend to dictate to the company that it shall not dis- larly a southern offense, it was an offense of large cities, of old communities.

The hous 1888, the average yield per acre of employes, but in all fairness the discharged man should be told why he is had sent to the senate a measure which it deemed essential to its own preservation. jeen tempted beyond power of resistv wheat, corn, and oats in six grain-pro 1 A. 1 4 3 Jl Vice President Webb, of the Central-Hudson, asks the Associated Press to deny the published dispatch that he expressed indifference as to whether the firemen in our employ went out on a strike or not, and that I alleged that I had plenty of men to fill their places. He says there is not a word of truth in the statement. Mason, Texas, has suffered from a cyclone.

Trees, fodder and fences were carried into the next county. Some houses were demolished, but there was no loss of life. Many cattle were killed. The Episcopal church was struck by lightning. The cyclone was followed by a rain which fell in sheets for twelve hours.

of corn along the Santa Fe in Osage, Lyon, Chase, or Marion counties that would make a bushel of corn to the acre. Now it all has a good color, the ears stand out and are apparently of average size, and he believes it will make a good half crop. He says that Pawnee is more prosperous than for years. They raised four times as much corn as usual, and the drouth has not affected them much, as comparatively little corn is raised there. Franklin county has written to the executive office for information regarding tHe holders of her outstanding bonds.

She wants to pay them off. educing states was as follows: inoe. ana was last weeK arrested ior There was nothing in the bill that was new. There had never been a more senseles utterance than to call that a force bill which Ohio Wheat, 1S.G0 bushels; corn, 31.96 bushels; GiQta, 0.18 bushels. Vuiiana Wheat, 13.04 bushels; com, 29.75; oats, average fairly, and Minneapolis mills have a large ouput of flour at advancing prices.

In general the condition of legitimate business is encouraging, unless monetary pressure or labor controversies interfere. The business failures occurring throughout the country during the past seven days, number 192, as compared with 197 last week. For the corresponding weeli of last year the figures were 206. transferred the settlement of a great public question to the courts. i -i 1-1 ois Wheat, bushels; corn, 27.33 bush lne debate was interrupted, wnue senator The Terra Haute Grand Council.

Tbre Haute, August 26. Terr Haute is the center of the United States ii; the minds of the railway employes of th country, and the thousands of business men who deal with the railways will see the convening of a body of men who will decide whether there will be the most gigantic etrike ever started in the United States, oi Edmunds was sneaking, by the arrival of the time of a special order. loiwa Wheat, hj.0.1 bushels; corn. 31.18 bushels; oats. tusho's.

Missouri I'idaf, bushels; cora, 2 bushels; oat, 0.88 bushels. Kaunas Wheat. IH.Vi Lu-hels; corn, S0.77 busk- WEATHER CKOP BULLETIN jews. A resolution calling for information as to That does not indicate hard times. els; oats bushels.

embezzlement. Before Justice Grant le plead guilty, and in default of bail went to jail. He is involved for about $1,000. His case doubly sad because he has a young wif and infant child. From Manchester: During the storm lightning did considerable damage here.

The Sun office was artly demolished, Editor Green and wife escaping injury. head cf cattle were killed in the pasture of Ed Glenn, and the large ba-r. of G. Fenn was burned to the ground with all its contents. Several other barns were burned.

No lives tost. Russia's proscription of Jews was reported Kansas suf SJE31I-ANNUAL, DIVIDEND. The silk culturist from Philadelphia, Maggie J. Palmer, who succeeded so well in securing considerable sums of money from would-be silk growers at Wichita and Medicine Lodge, underwent preliminary examination and was bound over to the district court in the sum of $1,000 bonds, which she was unable to furnish. The labor leaders assembled at Terre fers in such a comparison is that tha and adopted by the house.

MEAT INSPECTION BILL. Mr. Funston, of Kansas, chairman of the report includes the western half of the state, an uncertain agricultural field, which reduces the fine average which it would otherwise show. BuS notwith whether the federation or employes will sub-mit to of one man, who repre. sents one of the largest railroad interests of the world.

Most of the executive council of the supreme council of the united order oi railway employes are here. F. P. Sargent, president of the council and grand master of the brotherhood of locomotive firemen; J. J.

Hanrahan, vice grand master of the same order; Eugene Debs, grand secretary and treasurer of the same; George W. Howard, vice president of the council and grand chiel Apportionment of the State School Fund. County treasurers will receive warrants for the amounts apportioned to Of the Kansas Weather Service, in Cooperation Willi the United States Signal Serrice, Central Office, Washburn College, Topeka, for the Week Eudinj; August 23. 1S90. PRECIPITATION.

The rainfall has continued more general in its character, and has boon will distributed. It is heaviest, this week, in the western part of McPherson, where it amounts to upwards of four inches. Diminishing northwards, it committee on agriculture, said that the meat inspection bill was intended to open foreign ports to American meats. By opening those ports millions and millions of foreign gold would be brought into this country and would relieve the embarrassed condition of all classes of industry. The bill was passed by the house.

standing this, Kansas leadss Indiana, tha average the counties as the Semi-Annual dividend of the state school fund; and county clerks and superintendents will receive statement of the same. fourteen ear Illinois, and Missouri yield of corn for the period. From for the Gamett: P. C. Breen, agent Heim Brewing company, was TV ARTV me amount aue eacn county is as triad in brought follows the police court on an action by the city attorney and KANSAS RAILROADS.

Scnool Garden Citv Sentinel: The iSanta Amount 3 COUNTIES. Fe company intend to put up a st ation and freight house here at once. The contract has been let, and the work' will commence as soon as the materiar, ar- 5,282 5, --MO 10,539 2.780 hue the depot will not be as as the one recently burned, it Haute, as well as Mr. Powderly, in New York, put much emphasis upon their quotations from President Depew, of the Central railroad; in which he has expreseed himself as favorably inclined towards the principle of organized labor. They seem to hope hat To nff i uvu Superintendent Porter is rushing the count of population so that congress may make a new apportionment.

The present basis of representation is one member for every or fraction thereof, and the new apportionment will raise it to about 180,000. This will increase the membership of the house about twenty-five, making a total list of representatives of 355. French fishermen's villages, on the shore of New Foundland, and a few mining villages also, are now the scenes of awful things. Dying by hundreds with the black plague, with dead bodies lying without burial. These people were on the verge of starvation; caused by the destruction of their fishing boats and fishing gear, with British guns, under the British flag.

The army officer commanding United States troops at Kingfisher has made a personal investigation of the condition of tho colored settlers in the Black Jack country, north of tho Cimarron river. He says their condition has been exaggerated, and ho did not find a single case of absolute destitution. Many of them arc well fixed. All of them have log houses, small crops, pigs and rives, large 9,991 of the brotherhood of conductors; G. L.

Lovojoy, gran ijla j-5 flat. Kama order; S. E. Wilkerson, grand master of tha Railway Trainmen, with William Sheehan, his grand secretary and treasurer, and P. H.

Morrissey, the vice grand master of the trainmen. The other members of the council are Frank Sweeney, grand master; John Downey, vice grand, and John Hall, grand organizer: all of the Swichmens' Mutual Aid association. Bad Face on the Condition In Oklahoma Washington, D. August 26. The report made by the special agent of the interior department on the oondition of the people in Oklahoma has been forwarded by Secretary Noble to to the chairman of the committee on territories.

The report is quite lengthy, and is verified by Captain Ward, of the army, and other officers. About one-third of the population of the territory, outside of the towns, are represented as being entirely without any means of livelihood. There are no crops in sight and no seed to make them with, and as the 6,944 will be more substantial and elegant The house considered the bill defining lard. Mr. Mason, of Illinois, opposed the bill from the working people's stand point.

Laborers were not asking for its passage. They were opposed to taxing a clean, healthy product. Gentlemen spoke about the poverty of farmers, and proposed to tax the poor laboring man in order to help the farmers. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, asked, "Did the gentlemen refer to Messrs.

Fairbank and Armour, who had in a few years amassed millions at the expense of the farmers? Let the gentleman reserve his tears and eloquent appeals, for they were ill placed in defending men who had been charging laborers many per cent, more than the compound lard was worth." RELIEF OF SETTLERS. The senate passed the house bill to amend the ct of June 22, 1874, for the relief of settlers on railroad lands. AMENDMENTS REJECTED. is one inch Ottawa and falls to thirteen-hundreths of an inch in Republic. Southwards it falls to 0.38 in Sumner.

Eastwards it falls to less than three inches in Marion, Chase, Coffey and Woodson, but thence increases to over three inches in Anderson, Allen, Bourbon and Linn. TEMPEHATUBE AND SUNSHINE. The temperature has ranged below the normal. The sunshine has been about an average in the west, but deficient east. BESCXTS.

The improvement in pastures is so decided that it is shown in the quality and quantity of milk, and in the generally improved appearance of stock. The hay grass is improving. Stock water which had become a serious problem in many parts of the state, is now abundant and of good quality. The Arkansas river, which has been dry for some weeks at and west of Lamed, is now full. In the counties the fodder remaining uncut has improved, and is now better than that cut before the rains.

In the eastern division the corn is rapidly improving in weight and quality, and there is a decided improvement 8,917 2,945 5,061 1,51 Allen Anderson Atchison Barber Barton Bourbon Brown Butler Chase Chautauqua Cherokee Cheyenne Clarlc Clay Cloud Coffey Comanche Cowley Crawford Decatur Dickinson Doniphan Douglas 1,2 6,084 and nicely furnished. The freight house will be a substantial structure and large enough to fill the requirements of the company's business hefe. One freight train ran into the end of another at Bonner Springs, on the Union Pacific, twenty miles west Kansas City. The road was completely; 7,093 5,891 1.0S1 12,272 3,270 2,588.18 2,562.70 5,164.11 1,362.20 2,279.97 4,805.59 3,402.56 4,369.33 1,444.05 2,479.89 5,108.25 711.37 625.24 3,475.57 2,886.59 529. 69 6,013.

28 5,224.38 1,602.80 3,941.07 2,387.77 4,144.42 662.97 2,476.46 1,528.80 1,727.25 617.40 1,147.58 3, 764. IS 234.22 1,682.17 666.40 S83.93 341.53 532.14 249.41 3,007.62 420.91 2,330.93 3,016.44 281.75 589.47 winter approaches the condition of affairs will crow worse. 8,043 4,873 8,458 1,353 5, 0541 3,1201 The report puts a bad face on the condi tion of the rural population of tho new terri vn late pototoes. Plowing for fall seedinfr is general. Cowley experiments are being made planting potatoes and sowing all kinds In by of tory.

The secretary will urge that something blocked, and the loss will approximate $50,000. All the Union Pacific trains coming from Kansas City, passed over the Kansas City, Wyandotte, Northwestern track, and were switched to the Union Pacific at the crossing of the Leavenworth line. The Kock Island trains were run over the Santa Fe as far as Lawrence. 3,525 1,260 2,342 Amendments are offered to nearly every one of the succeeding sections of the tariff bill while being considered by the senate, but are rejected by party votes in tho majority of instances. EULOGIES OF SENATOR The senate listened to eulogies of the late Senator Beck, of Kentucky, opened by his colleague.

Senator Blackburn, followed by Senators Ingalls, Evarts, Vest, Vance, Hale, be done to aid these people, and it is probable that seed wheat and rations will be provided those in need between now and the end of another month. garden vegetables. T. B. Jennings, Signal Corps, Assistant Director.

7,682 478 3,433 1,360 697 KANSAS CHURCHES. 1,086 509: 6,138 Ghouls Despoil the Dead. Quinct, Mass. It appears, from the statements of the passengers in the train wreck, the pickpockets worked the occasion with great success, and reaped quite a harvest. Those who escaped uninjured were dazed1.

Webb Attitude Will Compel. Teere Haute, August 26. The dele gates in session here, of the National Federation of Labor, argue every point in every detail. In a general discussion, Sweeney, for the switchmen, Howard, for the conductors, and Wilkinson, for the trainmen, being the principal participants. It was verj quickly developed that a decided difference of opinion was entertained concerning the 4.75 Allison, Morgan, lJlumb, nam peon, uiDson, Coke, McPherson and Carlisle.

LABOR BILLS HAVE A DAT SET. Mr. McKinley of Ohio, from the committee on rules, reported, and the house adopted a resolution setting apart August 28 and 29 for the consideration of the bills constituting eight hours a day's work, and relative to alien contract labor. California is forty years old this year and deputations from the "California Pioneers" and the "Native Sons of the Golden West" have presented an invitation to President Harrison to participate in the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the admission of the state into the union. The invitation was engraved on a handsome plate of solid gold, which contained in relief in enamel and gold the coat of arms of the state, surrounded with the emblems of the two societies.

Already the terrible disease known as "famine fever" (words which call up such sinister memories in all old enough to remember 1847) has made its appearance Ireland, in the Barony of Clonakilly, which is composed of rough coast land between Kinsale and Skibbereen. One death has occurred, and numerous prostrations caused by eating diseased potatoes. Of the 8,000 people in this district, nearly one-half will be entirely without food by tho middle of September. 6,156 575 and all that seemed necessary was for a respectable looking person to meet any of 120; 6,538 7,251 6,225 615 3,930 XEWS liKEVITIES. 1,227 1,019 round guilty on rive counts or maintaining a common nuisance, and sentenced to a fine of $600 and costs of prosecution, to stand committed until paid, and that the goods, 2,167 bottles of beer, be forfeited to the city to be publicly destroyed.

From "Wallula: Wheat, as far as threshed, averages about twenty-five bushels to the acre and is fine. Corn is do ng well and will make fully fifty bushels to the acre. The apple crop is fair, and is being handled at Fairmount by New York men, who are evaporating immense quantities for shipment to France. They are building extensively to handle ail of the fruit of this section, so you can safely say this part of the world is all right. Garden City Imprint: There is a sweet potato that has been hanging on a nail in this office for eleven months; it has never been moved in any way, and is still sound, being only slightly withered; there are several sprouts on it from one to three inches long.

D. It. Mor-ke sent it to this office on account of its ill shape, and no doubt will be somewhat surprised when he reads this to h-arn that the potato is still sound and doing exceedingly well, all things coasidered. From Columbus: The most severe electrical storm ever known in the history of Cherokee county began about G. p.

m. and continued until about 11 p. m. Several houses, barns, and school houses were ignited and burned by the lightning, and a large amount of stock destroyed. I he clouds had the peculiar yellowish appearance of cyclone clouds, but without wind.

It was a continuous peal of thunder and unceasing glare of lightning during the entire period of the storm. The corn crop, of which we wi-1 have an abundant yield, was not damaged. Kansas City, Journal: For a number of years the fact has been known that underneath Kansas City, along the river, is a subterranean water course, and frequently has this stream been tapped by parties going deep into the ground for water. The first ipdication of this underlying water-way is to be found at a depth of 300 feet, and it is, to all appearances, and in view of the testa made, a very swift current, which will carry away rapidly any substance thrown into it. Tlie supply is exhaustless and is of the clearest and coolest character.

Hutchinson News: J. W. Collins, stock inspector for the Rock Island railway company, stationed at Caldwell, re-port8 the Texas fever which has been prevailing among the cattle in the southern part of Sumner county effectually stamped out. For a short time it caused intense excitement among the of that section of the country, i.sd dire threats were made against the st ockmen who were supposed to introduce it there last winter. One of them, sorg Miller, of Winfield, who holds 12,186.

3,706 6,661 1,145 8,413 GENERAL MAKKKCj. 7,416 8,704 7,7891 them and offer to take charge of their valuables. These were turned over in many instances. Mrs. A.

M. Jewett, of Johnsbury, gave her pocketbook and diamond earrings to a man who said his name was Harry Bryce, and has seen neither property nor man since. Several of the dead persona were known to hae money and watches, but these were not found on them. Would Not Handle the Freight. Albany, N.

August 25. Superintendent Hammond, of the Delaware Hudson, told the men in the Green Island yards that they would accept and deliver to the New York Central road all freight destined for points on their respective roads. The handlers thereupon struck. It is reported that the freight handlers in the Albany yards have quit work. The officials of -yelaware fc Hudson have not been notified of such action (hough Mr.

Hammond's deputy said he had received unofficial information to that effect. One of the strikers said a strike on the Dela ware Hudson had been ordered between Albany and Green Island. 1,260 6,413 8,806 It is reported that 150 lives were lost in the cyclone in the Conton of Vaud, Switzerland. Rev. Franklin Johnson, of Cambridge, has accepted the presidency of the Ottawa, Kansas, university.

Frosts are reported in the Dakotas and Minnesota, with freezing weather in the extreme northern portions of Minnesota. Davis Dallon, an American has accomplished the feat of swimming the English channel from Grisnez to Folkstone, on his back, in 23 hours. The Randai Lyon Hardware company, owning store! at Winfield, Kansas, and at Guthrie, O. 1., has failed. Liabilities assets, aSout $22,000.

The federal building bills, which have been favorably reported upon by house commit 4,756 389 Edwards Elk Kills Elworth Finney Ford Garfield Geary Gove i Graham Gray Grant Greely Greenwood1 Hamilton Harper Harvey Haskell Hofigeman Jackson Jefferson Jewell Johnson Kearney Kingman Kiowa Labette Lane Leavenworth. Lincoln Linn Logan Lyon Marlon Marshall McPherson Meade Miami Mitchell Morris Morton Nemaha Neosho Ness Norton Osage Osborne Ottawa Pawnee Phillips Pottawatomie Pratt Rawlins Reno Republic Rice Riley Rooks Rush Russell Saline Scott Sedgwick Seward 8hawne Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford Stevens Sumner Thomas Trego Wabaunsee Wallace Wichita. Wilson Woodson Wyandotte. aCotalB 6,940 7,136 2,036 4,003 9,385 4,763 2,145 5,201 From Leavenworth: The celebration of Father Cunningham's silver jubilee attracted great attention, and the cathedral was thronged with hundreds of friends, both from this city and abroad. High mass was said by Father Cunningham, assisted by Father Kuhls, of Kansas City, Kansas, who acted as deacon, and Father Hyder, of Topeka, who filled the office of eub-daacon, Father Ennis, of Topeka, being master of ceremonies, assisted by Father Neusius.

The sermon was preached by Bev. Father Dalton, of Kansas City, who in-teresteJ the audience in the delivery of a well-prepared discussion as to the benefits of religion in developing civilization, and paid a high tribute to the work performed in this direction by Father Cunningham. Topeka Journal: The First Congregational church was filled to overflowing ten minutes before the time announced for the opening of the memorial services upon the death of the Topeka Soudan missionaries. A large number stood during the exercises, fully 500 people being unable to gain admission. The program was carried out as announced in Saturday's Journal, the service closing at 9 o'clock.

Miss Adam's address was a womanly' presentation of the relation to their Lord of the friends who had been called home, comparing it in a happy, yet forcible, way to the "charge of the light brigade," saying that they were under a loving command of their Lord to proclaim the joyful message, leaving the result with Him. There was an unusually large gathering of the ladies, filling both the Y. W. O. A.

assembly and adjoining room. One hundred and eighty-five men were present at the Y. M. C. A.

meeting. The singing was all appropriafe, the addresses brief yet practical. The interest was marked. 2,579.85 3,203.62 3,552.99 3,050.25 301.35 1,925.70 601.23 5,022.50 499.31 5,971.14 1,815.94 3,263.89 561.05 4,122.37 8,816.61 3,142.37 617.40 2,768.50 4.314.94 2,330.44 190-61 3,400.60 3,496.64 997,64 1,961.47 4,598.65 2,352.00 2,333.87 1,051.05 2,548.49 3,224.20 1,471.96 1,218.63 4,541.81 3,421. IS 2,422.59 2,416,19 1,604.75 9' 7.6ft 8, .59 2'.

J. 78 7,350.00 332.71 8,904.77 710.50 859.49 2,911.09 221.29 1,615.04 845.94 5,435.03 1,663.69 530.57 2,079.58 440.03 4,138.05 472. 3 8,063.39 1.84K2S 6,580 tees, seem likely to prove still born; as the advisability of the federation taking up the cause of the knights. Everybody present was agreed upon the main question, that the cause of the knights was a just one, that Powderly had throughout pursued a wise and prudent course, and that Mr. Webb was wholly and solely to blame for the present situation by his persistent refusal to consent to an amicable adjustment of the difficulties.

But whether, granting all these facts, the way was open for the federation to take charge of the battle flags and whether, supposing it so ordered, the supreme council would be supported by the order behind it, were questions upon which serious doubts were expressed by at least four of the dozen delegates. As the discussion proceeded and the portion of the various documents already presented were read and reread, the debate assumed a complicated form. The knights, however, were not without their champions and several stirring speeches were made, in which the council was urged to display its manhood by standing shoulder to shoulder with Powderly. It was contended with emphasis that even if i( refrained from entering the ring at this tine) it wa3 evident, judging from Webb's attitude, that it would be compelled to do so in iti own defense in the near future, inasmuch at it was clear that the Central proposed to ric itself of organized labor. Appeal to the People.

New Yobk, August 25. T. V. Powderly has issued an appeal in the behalf of the strikers of the New York Central. In it he says: "For some time the management of the New York Central and Hudson river railroad have been discharging employes who have been active in labor affairs.

It happens that all those who have been dismissed are members of the Knights of Labor, and have at one time or another been officers in the order, or have served on committees which waited on the officers with a view to presenting grievances. These discharges became so frequent and were go clearly evidence of a settled purpose on the part of the company to disrupt and destroy the organization of the Knights of Labor on the Central system that thn xecntive board of district assembly 3,004 2,487 8,209 Astonishing Condition of Affairs. Tr i vc i Pttv August 26. Dr. H.

4,944 5,931 4,931 3,275 1,934 2,750 Kansas Citv, August 26. CATTLE Rhippins steers 3 2T 4 15 Cows and 2 00 2 80 2(0 6 2M HOGS Good to choice 3 00 4 00 SHEEP Good muttons 3 2i 4 HO WHEAT No. 2 red 88 No 3 hard winter 91 CORN No. 2 44 OAT8 No. 2 8 RYE No.

2 FLOUR Patents, per sack 2 IS ft 2 20 HAY Fancy prairie 7 00 IW UTTER Fancy creamery 1 17 CHEESE-Full cream 10 11 EGGS Strictly fresh 12 BACON Ham 11 POULTRY Hens 2 25 ft 3 00 RooBters 2 00 2 50 fprin 1 23 2 00 2'nrieys 9 POTATOES Home grown 1 10 1 15 CHICAGO. CATTLE! Steers 2 30 ft 5 00 HOGS Mixed 2 89 ft 3 90 8HKEP Natives 4 10 4 20 FLOUR Winter wheat, per brl 5 00 5 25 WHEAT No. 2 red 1 04 COKN No. 2 48 OATS No. 2 88 RYE No 2 6tf BUTTER Fancy creamery 16 18 iiGGS Fresh 16 PORK 11 0J ST.

LOUIS. CATTLE Native steers 3 90 ft 4 70 Stackers 2 SO ft 3 40 HOGS Packing 3 75 ft I 5 SHEEP Fair to choice 4 00 8 00 FLOUR-Patents per sack 175 (4 2 0 WHEAT No. 2 CORN-No. 2 OATS No. 2., RYE No.

2.....: B9 HAY 8 00 ft 10 00 BUTTER-Creamery 19 EGGS Freeh i roan- jr UM 6,191 422 15,000 679 house will not be apt to reach them at this session. The supreme court of Iowa has decided that when a man dies having living children his wife is not a legal heir. The decision was rendered in a case wherein there was a contest over a life insurance policy, which was made payable to "his legal heirs." The record of the charities of the Grand Army of the Republic for the past year shows 28,419 cases of assistance rendered at an expenditure of $221,350.18. The Japanese papers state that the cholera is making headway throughout the country despite the efforts of the government to arrest its progress. The total number of cases has been about 60 per cent of Steele while out driving with a lady was halted at the corner of Waldron and St.

John avenues by a boy, who, at the point of a revolver, commanded him to hold up his hands. The doctor was about to resist, when tha young highwayman was joined by two youthful companions, also armed, who compelled the doctor to get out of his carnage. Iwc of the bandits held their revolvers at the victim's head whilo the other searched and robbed him of a gold watch and some small change. The robbers then compelled tha doctor to re-enter his carriage and drive off. Two Weeks of Idleness.

New York. With the close of to-day ends 18,173 1,450 1,754 5,941 452 8,296 706 11,092 2,181 1,083 4,244 898 the second wek of the strike of employes on the New York Central road. Two weeks ago the wheels were stopped and the men which have died. A horde of constables swooped down upon the original package houses bf Des Moines and seized the stock of each of them. A great deal of litigation will grow out of these seizures, as the best lawyers contend that the Iowa law bearing upon importation watt set aside by the federal court's deci in the original package case.

went out. xne men wno men ivm men with onnfldenne of reinstatement upon their t4 6,262 8,774 16,192 own terms, are considering the situation their local assemblies, where they are joined in council by the members of the executive No. 246. in which the Knights of Labor upon I859.869.H the svstem are enrolled, found it necessary board..