Belle Plaine Voice du lieu suivant : Wellington, Kansas • 2

TRADE RATHER LIGHT. NEWS IN BRIEF. UNIVERSITY. ROTTEN TO THE CORE. A WOMAN MURDERED.

MISSOURI The Lecislature Will Be Asked to Ap CONGRESSIONAL. Dec -The discussion on the Carlisle eur-reney bill bejun in the house, but the openin -of the debate was a di appointment It laclie both spirit aad interest, and was devoi of sensational features Mr. Sprinier, ehairman of the banking and currency com- MRS A. D. MATSON OF TOPEKA KILLED AND ROBBED.

NEW YORK'S POLICE SYSTEM A CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION. Twenty women were elected conn, ty school superintendents in Kansas on November 6 last. Frank Bradley, formerly superintendent of the Pullman car works in Chicago, was arrested in Toronto on a telegram from Detroit on a charge of forgery. An attempt was made to rob the propriate W500.000 for Iluildines. Columbia, Dec.

21. The university curators will ask tire next general assembly for an appropr.ia tion of $500,000 $05,000 for the medical building and S'-0. 000 for its equipment; $50,000 for a gymnasium and drill hall; $40,000 for another dorrai- So Clue Whatever to the Murderers Her Skull Crushed With sin Ax She Was Well Known In Educational and Woman Suffrage Circles in Kansas. Captain Schmittberssr a Coufes-gimi Implication Nearly Every Official From Tolice Commissioner lown to I'atruliuan In Bribery and lilaclimail. vault of the county treasurer's office 1 torv, or club house, for young men; mittee.

who made the lirst speech ur support of the measure, save a plain statement of its' objects and it details, and gave a review of the ar umenti in its favor on the line of those i contained in the report ilr. Walker, the leader of the minorit of th3 committee, de-! voted almost allot his time to an elaboration i of his own bill. Mr Hall of Missouri closet the day's deb ite In favor ot the Car.isle bill. 1 Another re-iolution proviiiu for union with Canada made its app laranje in the sen-i ate huvin? been Introduced by Mr. Gallin of Mew Hamp-hire.

who stated that he woul I The Unusually Mild Weather Has Cheeked General Business. New York, Dec 22. Bradstrect's Review says: "The volume of general trade continues small, as expected from evidences of shrinkage within the month. Unusually mild, unseasonable weather continues to check distribution of coal, heavy clothing, shoes and rubber goods. Northwest, South and throughout the central West and Eastern states, although at larger cities the favorable reports as to holiday goods and specialties as retail are for the great part the outcome of bright, mild weather.

"Improvement in prices is recorded in only a few leading lines, wheat, copper and low grades of shoes, which have long sold at depressed figures. "There are nine important staples with prices steady or firm leather, hides and lumber, lard, live hogs and coffee, naval stores and cotton and $25,000 for a new green house and improvement of horticultural grounds: for maintenance, 50,000. These appropriations are for the university iu Columbia. For the School of Mines, at Rolla, will be and 1 ll "nylhinj in his power at anv timu asked $37,000 for an auditorium laboratory, $20,000 for and $12,000 for other items. Appropriations will also be asked for the establishment of a number of new departments, among them a school of journalism.

pig iron at Chicago. A Minister in Jail. i Wichita, Doc. 22. Rev.

i Ebenezer Todd, a married man, and pastor of the Friendship Baptist church of this city, was arrested yes-' I terday charged with criminal assault. I eaveiiworch ill try 1'rison. Dec. 20. The house committee on military affair took favorable action upon a bill to make the Leavenworth, military prison a United States penitentiary.

If the bill becomes a law its effect will be to concentrate at Leavenworth all of the criminals convicted in the United States courts throughout the country whose sentences are of more than one year's duration. The United States now uses the penitentiaries of the various states for the confinement of its convicts and pays for the Topeka, Dec. 22. Late yesterday afternoon the dead body of Mrs. A.

D. Matson was found at her house at Fifteenth and Monroe streets, this city, where she had been assaulted and foully murdered ten days ago. A boy who has regularly-visited her house to deliver milk reported to the police authorities that a pan in which he had left a pint of milk on the 12th instant at Mrs. Mat-son's residence was still there and had not been removed. Officers went to the house and, after breaking in through a back door, discovered the body lying on the floor in one of the lower rooms of the building.

The skull had been crushed, and bitting in the corner of the room was an axe with which the crime had been lommitted. About the neck was a strip of carpet securely tied and snough to cause strangulation. Ikfrs. Matson lived alone. She was known to have a small amount of money from time to time which she received as rent from sevjral houses she owned in this city.

Mrs. Matson was well known in Topekaand highly respected. She was for several years a member of the city board of education from the Fifth ward and took an active interest in the city schools. She was at one time a city teacher. Her husband left her four or five years ago and took up a homestead in California, where he has since lived.

Mrs. Matson was a member of the Topeka Equal Suffrage association and a prominent suffrage worker. New Yokk, Doe. 22. Maximilian C.

Sclunittberger, captain of police and now in command of the Tenderloin district, made a confession before the Lexow committee yesterday to the effect that the entire police system of New York City, with the exception of Superintendent Byrnes and a few others, was rotten to the core; that blackmail and bribery, extortion and corruption were common crimes in Ilia department and that mercenary methods alone actuated his fellow dicers. II is charges implicated Inspectors Williams and McAvoy, ex-inspector Steers, Police Commissioners T5. Martin and John C. Sheehan, Captains Price, (Jastliu and Martens, ex-Captain John Gunner and Wardmen iiunlap, Robert Vail and James Can-jum. aptain Sclunittberger is under indictment for bribery.

He had previously refused to testify before the senate committee. Yesterday he took advantage of an offer of immunity from punishment held out to him by Counsel Goff and agreed to make a clean breast of it. "The pillars of the church are fallen," said boon the witness stand, "and I deem it due my conscience, my wife and my children, to tell what I know." Meanwhile dark circles crept under his eyes, his face assumed a sickly pallor, an air of utter weariness and dejection possessed him, and he appeared, as he was. in extreme mental torture and agony. But no spirit of sympathy moved the throng of spectators.

Sneers and sarcastic laughter instead answered the acknowledgment of Ins weariness when at last Counsel permitted him to vacate the witness stand. POPE LEO'S DECREE. at Adel, Iowa, ednesday night. The burglars pried open an iron shutter and entered through a window. They drilled a hole in the vault door ami attempted to blow the door open, but the drill had broken off in the hole and the charge failed.

A mob attempted to kill a negro named Liceus Turner at West Point, Monday night The negro wrote an insulting letter to a young lady and he was decoyed and filled with bullets. Acting Governor Lowe of Okl aho-ma, pardoned from the penitentiary 'Squire De Vore, who had served thirteen months of a three years' sentence for grand larceny. Recent developments proved De Yore's sentence too severe. The New York city board of estimate and apportionment has voted an appropriation of with which to produce anti-toxine serum, which has proved so successful in the treatment and cure of diphtheria abroad. Senator Pugh introduced a bill limiting the power of United States courts to punish for contempt or misbehavior committed in their presence or so near as to obstruct the administration of justice.

In Defiance, Ohio, Charles Hart pleaded guilty to murdering the two Good children at Spaulding, Ohio, and was sentenced to be hanged on the second Friday in April next. The war department has-awarded to the Kilby Manufacturing company of Cleveland, the contract for making ten disappearing gun carriages for the ten-inch sea coast rifles. Fresh proposals were issued yesterday for supplying nine or more of the same type of carriages, F. W. Job lias received notice of appointment as Hawaiian consul general at Chicago.

Mr. Job is a persoual friend of Minister Thurston of Hawaii, and is a prominent member of the Chicago bar. Deiia Coffey, the plaintiff, a girl of 1G, is a member of Todd's church, and charges that Todd committed a criminal assault on her several months ago, and' that his threats have kept her silent until now, when her condition renders further concealment impossible. Todd was unable to secure bondsmen and has gone to jail. Hypnotized to Kill.

Wichita, Dec. 22. Tom McDonald confessed the murder of Tom Patton yesterday at Wellington during a trial for his life. Patton was killed on a farm near Conway Springs last May. McDonald said that Anderson Gray, a wealthy land owner, by his superior mental and hypnotic powers, got him to kill Patton because the latter was a witness against Gray in some transaction connected 10 further the consummation of such union.

Senator Hill delivered a speech on his propo I i-ition for a rule to close debate, which was listened to with close attention by many of tas i senators Mr Turpie continued his speech in denunciation of the Nicara2uancanalbill.de-i daring that it appeared to him to have every indication of a norgeous bubble. An urgent deficiency bill appropriating for print-; ing and bindini was passea. Dec. 19. Debate on the currency bill was resumed in the house Mr.

Johnson of Iu-i ctiana. one of the minority members of tha banliinct and currency committee, opened th9 debate with a vigorous speech in opposition to the Carlisle bill. He spoke almost two hours I and was liberally unplauded at the conclusion i of his remarks. Mr. Warner of New York, I alsoa member of the committee on han't tag an currency then took the f.oor in support ot the I pen (line measure.

Mr. Ellis of Kentucky, who I followed Mr Warner, was the first Demo-j cratic member of the banking currency com-: mittee to attack the Carlisle bill. Mr lerry of New York gave notice of an amendment he should offer to make circulating notes re-! deniable by the banks issuin tliem in equal parts in pold and silver. In the senate the report of Admiral Walker I 011 the subject of Hawaii presented by the i secretary of the navy, was referred to tho committee on foreign relations. Senato bill I was reported and passed amen-Jins; the act of I May IS, lxjl, givini permission to construct a brid over the Missouri river near Jelfcrson City.

Mo The bill made certain changes in regard to tlw draw span of the bridge At Mr. Vest's re- quest tho bill was immediately considered 1 and passed. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Allen providing for the appointment of a i select committee to investi'aie political af-! fairs in Alabama which at his request was laid on the table. He also introduced a resoiu-I on for the appointment of a committee of I five senators to investigate the senate res-t tiurant.

Mr Bate of Tennessee then called up the bill 10 establish a national militia park i at the baltletleld of Shiloh. mid the same was I passed The senate theu took iv ua canal bill. Mr TurpM who had the floor i when the senate adjourne I ye i iled to Mr. Cullom who delivered I a speech on the subject. He was followed by Mr Perkins on the same subject, and when ho concluded.

Senator Morgan uave notice Ah it he intended to reply In the remtrks of ttia 1 Senator from Indiana (Mr Tur.nei The sen-! ate then went into cxejuliva session, and at adjourned. Dee. 20. In the senate the oily legislative I business of any import wis the passare of a hill ikin detic encv aon ouriat oris for I the census bureiu and deoirt nent ot justice i tor the current liscal yeir Alter tin senile accepted the statutes of General Starve and j. Daniel Webster it adjourned till SnturJay I The debate on the bill w.i com- p.irativcly brief in the house ovrin; to tho exercises in connc-tion with the accep Santa I Sued for Damages.

Topeka, Dec. 19. Steve and Charley Webb and Fred Tucker, who were charged with wrecking an east-bound passenger train on tha Santa Fe railroad at Barclav on the. morning of September 21, 1S02 an.l as-quitted after one of the most sensational trials in the history of the state, have each filed a suit in the district court of Osage county against the company for $50,000 damages for false imprisonment and malicious NEW K. P.

ORDER. Scceders Meet in UnfTV.o and Form a More Charges Against Taylor. Washington, Dec. 20. Additional charges against C.

II. J. Taylor, the colored recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, alleging that he offered to enter into an agreement to make clerical appointments in his office and pay money to W. Elvin Chase, editor of a local negro journal, to cease the publication of attacks on with the acquirement of a portion of his land. Lynched Despite I in Requital.

Brownsyii.i.k, Dec. 21. James Allen, colored, was riddled with bullets in this county last night by a mob, which went to the house of James Clark, where he was. and took him out. lie was tried at the present term of the criminal court for complicity in the burning of a barn on the farm of Forney Jacocks, but was acquitted.

Two others were con- New Ors.iizllun. P.fFFAt.O, N. 21. About twenty-five delegites. representing as many lodges of Knights of Pythias, met at the Genessee hotel last night and formed a new order to be known as "The Improved Order of Knights of Pythias." This convention is the, outgrowth of the trouble that ensued after the grand at Washington in August decreed that the work of subordinate lodges must all be 'lone in English and abolishing all rituals in foreign languages.

Those lodges which hail used a ritual in the German language for many years have seceded. him, have been filed with the civil service commission. Murder in the I'irst Dejiriie. I.vdki'endknce, Dec. 22.

In the district court Robert R. Reed was convicted of murder in the first degree. The murder occurred October victed and sentenced to two years each in the penitentiary. The Kxtrenie l'enalty for a Jointisr. Emporia.

Dec. 20. W. M. Cox, proprietor of the Fifth Avenue i hotel, convicted of violating the prohibitory law at this session of the district court, was yesterday given of this year, and the murdered LAV1GNE BLAMELESS.

1st holies Cannot lie Odd ellows, r.vlhiana or Sons of 1 einperance. Washington', Dec. SO. The edict of I'ope Leo placing under the ban the secret societies known as the Odd Follows, Kuighty of Pythias and Sons of Tempo-ranee has created greater comment and more extended discussion than anything emanating from Iiome since the appointment of Mgr. Satoll) as apostolic delegate.

Hereafter the Roman Catholic who any of the three societies mentioned does so under pain of excommunication, and every influence will be e.erl"t on those already affiliated to resign. This action on the part of the church is the result of the council of the archbishops of the United States held in Chicago on September 12. There the relations between the church and the secret societies were carefully discussed, and at the conclusion documents were forwarded to the pope recommending the action against the. three orders in question, whose principles were held to be of a decided anti-Catholic tendency. man was Wm.

G. McElroy, proprietor of the Forest hotel at Canev. Reed is 80 years old and has a wife and several children. The Rev. Dr.

Edward McGlynn has made a complete recantation. He is no longer an apostle of the doctrines for preaching which he brought on himself the ban of excommunication from the Catholic church. The commerce committee of the house has favorably reported bills for building railway bridges across the Missouri river near Jefferson City, the Little river in Arkansas and the Sulphur river in Texas or Arkansas. The whole Newcastle, coal mine appears to be on fire and it is feared tne whole mine will become a wreck, involving a loss of $500,000 to the Oregon Improvement company. Coal creek is pouring into it, but it will take several weeks to thoroughly flood it Geraldo Saiz, the revolutionist extradited from San Antonio, has been brought to Nueva Laredo, and it is understood that he will be taken out and shot without the formality of a trial.

It is claimed that his guilt was firmly established in the extradition proceedings, and all that now remains to be done is to carry the law in such cases in to effect. Secretary Morton will leave Washington about January for a visit in The Coroner's Jury Holds the Auditorium Club liespotmlile. Nkw Ori.kaxs, D-c. 20. The Auditorium Athletic club management has been declared, by the coroner's forthe death of Andy Bowen, the pugilist.

Dr. Finney, who inety days jail and ordered to pay a fine of $300 by Judge Randolph. Mr. Cox was convicted upon only one count, and this is the extreme penalty provided by the law. He will appeal to the supreme court.

Snails for American Kpicnres. Washington, Dec. 31 That large quantities of snails are annually shipped to the United states from Europe to be eaten by is out in consular reoorts received at was with Bowen from the time he went down until his death, said that La-vigne's blow had not caused Bowen's deatn. New Mansion. Washington, Dec.

22. Senator Quay yesterday introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to purchase the land contained in block of Columbus heights, a sub- Cleveland Buys homes. PiiixoKTON. Dec. 20.

D. D. Guest of this city has sold tc President Cleveland a pair of fine young horses of a deep bay color, hands high. They are perfect specimens of Kentucky horseflesh. Last spring Mr.

Guest sold to 1 rivate Secretary Thurber a fine horse, and this led to the purchase by the President Eloped With "Rattlesnake Bill." Gi'Thhie, Dec. 20. Clara Melville, daughter of wealthy cattleman living in Cheyenne county, eloped yesterday with William Coleman, known throughout Oklahoma as "Rattlesnake Bill." The father of the girl caught them just in time to extend his blessings after they had been married. the state department from France i and Switzerland. From France alone of the statues of Webster and Messrs.

SDCrry of Connecticut a Democratic member of the bankin; and currency committee, anil Hrossius of Pennsylvania, a ltepubliean. championed and opposed the measure respectively. Dec. 2l The entire time or the hoine was occupied in debate on the currency bill. th speakers beinsr Messrs Pendleton.

Democrat, of West Yirjinta, and Sickles, Democrat, of New York, in favor of the bill, and Messrs. Kus'elL Republican, of Connecticut Mcl.aurin, Democrat, o' Carolina and Rawlins. Democrat of Utah a ainst it. Before the close of the session Mr Springer, chairman of the bankin- aad currency committee, present" I the amendments to the measure agreed upon by thu Democratic members of the committee and indorsed by the secretary or the treasury T.ie resolution for the holiday adjournment bein to morrow was agreed to early in t.ia afternoon The Military llram-h Fniled. Chicago.

Dec. 2u. The National (luards. the in tli tia ry order of the Sons of Veterans, was dissolved here to-day. after a three hours' lively discussion in secret session.

The dissolution was expected, after the recent encampment at Davenport, when a resolution was passed directing1 the il isbnndmen and the merintr of the militiiiry branch into the civil branch of the-'org-anization. Nebraska. He is the president of the the shipments in one year amount to 220,400 pounds. They arj of the finest quality and sell for t.S2 per 1,000 snails. oi vi ii awning iuu, a nuc a i residence of the president of the i state horticultural society, and at its mnATinrr aniiu 'tr 1 1 i a (i rate in.

meeting January 15 will address the United States. The bill limits the society on "Pioneer Populists." Ida Wells, the negress, is trying to get an anti-lynching bill before congress. Colonel Jackson, the adopted son of Andrew Jackson, is preparing to send price to $'' per foot and the total appropriation" to $1,000,000. The Oarrajh Jury Dinar reel. Kansas Citv, Dec.

21. The jury in the ease in which J. C. Dar-ragh. formerly president of the Kan relics of 'Old Hickory" to be placed Junior Near II iter Springs, Kan.

Baxtkk SrmxGS, Dec. 22. A murder occurred yesterday between this city itnd Miami, in which Frank Stallsworth was shot and killed by his Iti-year-old brother-in-law, Harry Johnson. An altercation occurred b-tween Stallsworth and Bill Johnson, brother of Harry, during which Stallsworth struck Johnson upon the head with an iron bar knocking- him senseless, whereupon Harry drew a revolver and shot Stallsworth dead. Young Johnson cannot le found and Hill may die.

y.o: and ioa Uo S. Dec. 22. The wife and fi-y ear-old son of Yellow Hull, a sub-chief of the Sioux, were found in an isolated spot Wednesday terribly mutilated. When last seen they were being followed by John Lance, a graduate of the Carlisle school, and Thunderhavvk, a lieutenant of poiice.

Lance was arrested but Tlumdei-liawk fled. Lance tells implicating himself and Thun- lerlia wk. Douglas Putnam Dead. Marietta, Ohio, Dec. 22.

Douglas Putnam died yesterday, aged ss. He leaves a widow and four children. He was the great-great-grandson of General Israel Putnam, famous in revolutionary history, and grandson of General Israel Putnam, who helped slt'e the Ohio valley. sas City Safe Deposit and Savings in the National museum. A I'olltlrlau in a Scandal, i LAliXKD, Dec.

21. Suit was filed in the district court by W. T. Kenton against Ledru Silvey, chair i man of the Jerry Simpson Democratic I congressional committee, for $10,000 damages for alienating the affections i of Kenton and causing separa-! tion. Kenton is a painter.

Silvey formerly lived at Salisbury, and is a man of family. Horrible Deed of a liespundent Mother. Cassvii.i.k. Dec. H.

Dry Hol-j low. eight miles south of this place, i was the scene of a tragedy yesterday that has resulted in the death of a I mother and two children. During a fit of despondency Mrs. William Jones i cut the throats of her and year-old I children with a razor and then ecm-! mittcd suicide in the same manner. bank, was charged with receiving money on deposit when he knew the hank was failing, disagreed and was discharged after being out twenty-five hours.

They stood seven for acquittal and five for conviction. 1 Helen M. GMigar has brought a suit to test the right of women to vole in Indiana. The next Illinois State Central Committee was with friends of Colonel Morriion uud I Governor Altgeld. I General J.

C. Jamison, I general of Missouri under Marinaduke, was appoiuti-d iidiiitan Governor id ju'aut ive Hoys Killed. Wr.sr Ray City. Dec. 10.

By the explosion of a boiler in Russell lira's planing mill and box factory this morning five youths were instantly killed and several others injured and one is missing. The ex general of Oklahoma. Coal operators at Pittsburg, I made a cat of fourteen cents in min I atul I. Kaolin Kxpinsimi. CtrriiisiK, Dec.

22. A g.isolinc stove exploded in the home of .1 nines A. I'orsythc. a farmer livhi-r near Vilas, yesterday. The wife und twosmall children were badly burned.

All three will die. Ono Thousand lUhlilti I. Lamar, Dec. 22. The must successful of Lamar's annual rabbit hunts took place yesterday.

About 100 hunters came in 011 the night train and left early in the morning for the haunts of the jack rabbits. About 1.000 were ing. A stnkc at'ect'iig .10,000 may be plosion occurred while the mill was i ordered shut down lor noon and tuo boys were in the engiue room eating lunch. AU the bodies were terribly mutilated. A law now prevails in the I nation making it.

a cri-n'mal offense to employ any bitt herokees. Bertha and Martha Decker mann. I daughters o' llabbi llecUoi-'uann of Cleveland, Olr.o. vve burned to death I in their Iiomc. for Oklahoma.

Gl thiuk. Dec. 22. The question of statehood for Oklahoma is growing very warm. At a mass meeting of citizens last night a bill was framed calling for a constitutional convention to be called bv the legislature for the purpose of perfecting arrangements for early statehood.

lo ICeclaim land Fails. Sax Dee. 22 Commissioner of Public Works Rose has made a report on the reclainmation of the swamp lands in the interior of the state which originally comprised acres. For forty year. efforts to reclaim these lands have been made, the attempts at draining costing a total of fl 1.000,000, but the projected reclamation proved a practical failure, escribed to lack of system and intell'gcnt efforts.

Mrs William M. and two Murdered In ripple Creek. Ckkkk. Dec. 21.

Richard Newell, chief engineer of the Midland Terminal railway, building from Divide station, on the Colorado Midland road, into this camp, was shot and instantlv killed yesterday 1 children peruhr.d in the at (iardner. Me. I Chicago people have about con- 1 The I raker Heirs Win. Kansas City. Dec 20.

The jury in the life insurance i case, whicli has been on trial in the Nu OlRniiiarrariun for Maryland. Hai.tIMOKK. Dee. 22. As a result of Justice Harlan's recent decision sustaing the Massachusetts law pertaining to th.i sale of oleomargarine.

Armour it perhaps the largest dealers in buttsrine i-i tlia state, have decided to discontinue handling the article in Maryland. All of the wholesale dealers in oleomargarine 1 have also closed up. r'tiutid li'atifriu- hi a Troo-lloi. Doe. The boil 7 of Charles Dr.ckner 'vus found hanging on a tree neia- town yesterday morning, lie was last seen Sunday night, lie was a young unmarried man: hud no euei.iies.

an.l no known Whether suie'de or foul nlr.y is tho cause of death is not yet known. lio-sllt Contests l.tipft-r! Scat. Dec. 20. -Captain Henry Booth, Republican, has begun a contest for tins seat in the Kausai house from the Ninety-second district, for which the certificate of election was issued to A.

11. Lupfer, ulist. The grounds of contest tire fraud, illegal and illegal re-1 urns. In AnhraskK. llllowNsvil.l.H, Dee.

22. -Gold r.nd silver have found here, and this ttr.iut town full of excitement. The litid was made some time ago on lie farm of William May, bet has just oecu 111 ado public. A syndicate has ieen formed work Ihu A notour Hon I Issuo I rnli.ilile. Washington, Deo.

2o. The of anathcr bond issue is lioginning to alarm the treasury oltlcials. Unless there is something to check tho draft upon the reserve it will b's but short lima before an is made. eluded the purchase from Mrs. Tlaliroid CouUruntlnti.

Dec. 21. -The RaiUvav Ago United States circuit for two weeks returned a verdict in lavor 01 mo plaintiff on all counts yesterday after- says: The new mileage of ism is less in auv other of ths last twenty in the last lloon- 1 1,0 lotal amount 01 tne vimi-s. and it is the least to nave a New Navy. Loxmiy.

Dee. 22. The bar decided to construct navy, and with this object in view StiOO.OOd yehrly will be provided for twenty years. Tenders will be invited from ship Vr.ildorsiu the I'nilcd States and other countries. A Post niHMter Shori.

DutAXfio. Dec. 22. I'ostoftiee Inspector Williams has found i shortage of Sl00 in the accounts of Postmaster Stearns of Dui-Rnro. ami liis bondsmen have taken eha'-ge of the office.

Stearns admits his guilt and says lis loiit, tho monev in gain- Wng. Doad on it l-ultllo l'latforni. London, Dec. 20. Sir Ldnniinl t.

Leclimere, member of 10 hiti-o of commons for the livsham division rf Worcestershire, was about to address a meeting at Tei-shorc, Worcestershire, last night, when ho fell dead. I it. Itlainc or tli- Historic nouse tronl- ing l.afa.vct'e. s-uarc. Washington.

1 Their purooic 'c 1 erect 1 tall apart-j ment hou; -j on t'ie. ile. 1 The senate committee on public I hinds has authorized a favorable re-i port on a bill providing for a coin-I mission to ami segregate lite 1 mineral hinds i.i Montana and Idaho with the Northern t'ueilic Ittnd grant, i Shelly A Sons. of Knid's largest afternoon by an enraged miner named Yan Houten. near the Independence mine.

Trouble over the right of way the cause. A Noted I Ihel Suit I eversad. Jkkkkikon City. D'c. 20.

The noted libel suit of St. James military ncademy of Macon, agiinst the Ministers' alliance of that town determined in the supreme court yesterday. Judge llurire.ss Hied this opinion in the case and reversed tlm action of the trial remanded the case for new heaving. thirty years with the exception of 1H75, ISi'm'. and 18(15.

The total mileage constructed during the year was 1,010. Arizona heads the list, on lour roads, with 103 miles. vcrnici is Ti.i.m.i. Van's Inile Sun to lay. Washington, Dec.

21. Pef-fer yesterday introduced a petition from the Medicine sugar company, asking that some tion be given it for the losses the 1 retail grocery firms, 'dosed Mon-j day morning by ll.e Wioii-'j whole- sale grocery corapary aro limit largest credito -s Mubililiot than assets. i A memorial from the bocnl of niJu-jngersof the Trade -ague of l'liilu-I delphia. protesting ttirsinsl the pits-1 snip of the Hull biir.l.riiptev for 1 he shortage Swell. Ki.i.swohth, Djc.

22. The expert examination of the books of ex-County Treasurer James L. Dick, of Ellsworth, has just been completed, and the shortHga of $11,000 lirst reported has swelled lo Dick has not yet been arrested, notwithstanding a large reward has been for his capture. company has incurred through the repeal of the sugar bounty law. r.

Vlvkry lllvitrreil. Eiror.tA, Dee. 20. In the i district court here a divorce was granted Mrs. Fannie R.

Yickey from Horace X. Yickey on the grqunds of failure to support hernelf and child. i a number of rcii-ous, been pre I eruviau Slu: Down. Lima, Dec. 22.

Over 4.000 hungry women am' chlidr-u c.illed on who ordered them to Uiotli" followed, lusting over three hours. Many perons were killed or Mint Kra i lr Call 1hle, sented lo tl-c rcnate. Secretary Smith of the Interior department hns written a to Senator Teller nd Wolcolt of Colorado disapproving the bill for tho Gi 22. Oscar Wedge. living in the Cheyenne country, was 1 shot mid instantly killed last night by tlueves who aiietnpicu 10 sinm nnsrliii Hnrlin Sanlem-eit.

Uoi'K. Dec. '22. Jere Haralson, ex-member of congress from Alabama, convicted in 'he federal court of pension frauds, was sentenced to tw, years in the penitentiary and to fay 11 Hue of S.I.ODO. llnrneil lo Death.

XoKU Dee. Miss Maltie ltusey, H-yoiii1d daughter of a farmer living near Southwest City, was burned to death from 11 tiro 111 the yard catching her before any ouo could rescue her. Mexlrnn (nttln Importation. Kt. Paso.

Texan. Due, Captain MeCunnitighnin. I'niti'd Stales live stock tigent a', this no. tit. makes report showing that sines Oetolicr 12.000 Mexican CHitle have been Imported through the port, ot Kl Paso.

he was ffuui'd- 11 herd of cattle shot through the mg. Wedge Mrs. Vickeyisthe well-known Populist campaign orator. Kl-Srnntor Alcorn Dead. Mr.MiMiis, Dec.

21. Ex-Oov-crnor and ex-t'nitcd Stales Senator L. Alcorn of Mississippi, died this tnoriiinjf on his estate at KagloV Nest. Miss. Ho whs years old and an lllinolsait by birth.

Itnnheil of M(MI by uhxhkiI Men. Wkiuta D-c 22. Henrv llullinjr a Siinta l'e engineer, held up on tho public streets last nijrhtby three masUjd men and robbed of itSOO in cash. Drbt tUll Apnttal. A Knlhoi I t'p tho P.i:l!NK.

Switzerland. Dec. 20. The council ut has franlod tho asked for lo build railroad iii tho Yuiigfraii mountain. Capita; has been Fubscribe-l In America in Kugland.

Not leu or Content I'lloil. Cm, Dec. JO. Dr. I.

N. Knloe, Uepublican uindidati for county, to-day tiled noUeo oi contest up John T. Short, L'fin-jcrat, who ha. heed declared c.cctvd. 1 location of the Indians on lands 1 In severalty In tho we part of their reservation.

He says they aro still In tho stat i.i I unlit to take lands -cvcraltv. Senator CJuhv presented a vol nminon- I runt citizen n( I'ennsyi' iintt urgiiiy the ipivongi ol i tho poidiug bill ictricting Immlgr-i-I tion bv e.vc. inline aiiii-ehists and other applicant- ad mlsicn ami establish a coa-j'nr iu- sptfcVl lit abroad. HI. Lnn Kleciiuii I rm-ilt.

St. Loi is, Doc. 2i. to the ilii'O tho grand jury aJjourivjd for tht day yesterday forty-font' hid been found against persons to guilty of election fruutls. Van luittn In Hit l'cn.

DuitfotiK, Iowa, Doc. 22. Van Lcu-M, of pension fraud famo, whs Kuen to Xnomosa, poiiloiitUry Ati cll'ort w'H bo made at once to Imra him pardonud. intAi.o. Dec.

22. It was decided hie last nijrht by tho attorneys for Hehs 11 ml the other ofilcials of the rtmcrlcuii Kaihvny union to take an tipped I from the deeistou of Tho case will be carried to the nitsd States supreme court.