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IIOYT. 7TTT7 KANSAS. Collapse of a Platform at Mil Gleaned by Telegraph and Mail WEALTH OF KANSAS. fUwarkubl Growth ot Wealth. In Kansas as Shown by the Assessmeat of Personal Property.

Topeka, Aug. 1. The State Board of Equalization has completed its work, having carefully gone over all the county assessments sent in by tbe county clerks of A BECsNf dispatch from Leavenworth stated that late the other night, after Colonel Anthony and his family had been entertaining seme callers on the lawn in front of his residence in that city, some one under cover of the shade trees in front waukee "With Terrible Results Four tfEJlSONAt, AND 6IttPXCAJU tW O. Tbevkltak, tho Liberal candidate. the State.

Tbe result is very flattering. Killed and The assessment was made at about one- Fibs broke out at Mason Sons, Praci Street, Baltimore Md, On the 4th. A fire-matt named Schulte was killed and Chief Engineer Hennick seriously injured The fire extended to adjoining buildings, proving very destructive. Loss $500,000, partially insured. A beer kettle in Rahr's brewery at Green Bay, exploded the other night, scalding seven men, six of whom died.

The kettle held seventy barrels of boiling water which poured over the unfortunate men, literally cooking their flesh. Floods are reported doing great damage in the province of Orenzi, Spain. The crops have been destroyed and many head of cattle drowned, and hundreds of people have been made destitute. The jury in the celebrated Culbreath lynching case at Columbia, S. returned a verdict of not guilty.

Many Wounded Fatal Explosion at a Texas Celebration. Powder CURRENT COMMENT. Claim Erskine Waters is the name tf a Uoston woman who is building a Hindoo temple. Was elected ia the Bridgetori division of Glasgow, Scotland, on thft 2d. The polling showed increased gains for the Home Rule party The Boulangcr-Ferry duel at Paris did not take place as expected on the 2d.

the Thm Chirac RtodVen la the Court Boons. Chicago, Aug. 6. The case against the Chicago boodlers was given to the jury yesterday afternoon, and at nine o'clock a verdict of guilty as to all of them was returned. In the course of his argument in the boodle trial, State" Attorney Grin-nell pointed out that there had been no singling out by an individual defendant of an independent lawyer for an honest defense, but they had hired a poel and were in court all with tho same set of lawyers to stand or fall together.

These lawyers had characterized the State's witnesses as perjurers and thieves. To this be would only reply "The and all of them, have taken tho stand, and I say to yon solemnly, in the presence of mi God. who is your God, each and all of third the actual value of property and in comparing the assessment and the increase in valuation one fact should be borne in mind, and that is no new appraisement was seconds Dot being able to reach an agreement as to the conditions of the duel. made upon land within the State. The value of farm and pasture lands and of Immense Conflagration and Loss of Life in that 1883 Red sunsets similar to Ihoso were so brilliant In lh full of have again been sosn.

Tub Gentile vote in Utah ia the recent of the premises fired two shots at a dark object in a hammock on the veranda of the house, and the inference was that the shots were fired under the impression that Colonel Anthony occupied the hammock and the intention was to kill him. A late late law passed by the Legislature provides that all persons owning, controlling, operating or managing steam traction engines of any kind, moving the same along any public highway, are required on meeting any person or persons in vehicles of any drawn by horses, to turn to the right, giving as much of the public highway as possible, and then shut off the steam and come to a halt at a distance of one hundred yards, and remain London Three Lives Lost in town and city lots has greatly appreciated during the past twelve months, and had a elections was more satisfactory than any previously polled. new appraisement on land been made tbe increase would have been marvelous. The State Board find that the increase Tub Italian commander at Massowah has Br a collision between an accommodation concluded treaties with several native tribes. during the past year was 473,363 .30.

The The National Civil Service Reform valuation for the past three years has in Baron RrtooN Selliere, recently reloasotl from a French lunatic asylum, has anlvca in New York City. The Stato Department has been informed of tho death of ex-Vice Consul John D. Miller at Hlo tie Janeiro. Lengue opened its annual session at Newport, R. on the 3d.

George William creased rapidly, as will bo seen from the following figures: 1885, 1SS8, Milwaukee, Aug. 3. During tho launching of the new steam barge William H. Wolf, at the ship yards of Wolf Davidson Saturday afternoon, a coal shed on which about one hundred people had gathered to witness tbe launching collapsed, throwing tho whole crowd into the water, a distance of thirty feet. Four dead bodies have been taken cut, and fourteen others, who were seriously injured, were removed $277,113,323.34 1887, $310,506,086.04.

The tax levy of this year amounts to with steam shut down and halted until such person or persons shall have passed a distance of one hundred yards from the place of halting on said highway. The pen- Curtis delivered the address. An Indian Territory special says that Mayes has been chosen Chief of the Cherokee Nation over Bunch by a small majority. Joel B. Mayes is one-quarter Cherokee and he was Chief Justice of the Supreme the rate being 4 1-10 mills, which is the low est for many years.

Ten counties have an assessed valuation altv for violation of this act is a fine of them, by the record In this case, have com-ratted a rank p-irjury In this case to save themselves from punishment." The jury were about to file out for roees a hen one of them, Mr. Collingham, was overcome by the close air of the crowded court. He was laid upon the floor with air cushions under hia head, and was fanned vigorously, and was soon taken to a carriage, but later recovered sufficiently to be on basd when Judge Jamison was ready to read tb3 court's instructions. There was nothing in them that differed materially from those usually given in conspiracy cases. When the Judge finished the reading the case was at once given to the jury, while the de of over $5,000,000.

Sedgwick leads the list and Sbawneo ranks second. The valuation of the wealthiest counties is as lollows: and a construction train near Greenfield, the other morning, the engineer was killed and two passengers badly hurt. Knights of Labor propose to test the legality of the evictions of the salt works strikers at Natrona, in the courts. Millbrook, the county seat of Graham County, was almost destroyed by a hurricane on the night of the 4th. A boy was killed and twenty-five other persons were injured.

The towns of Hill City and Plain vi lie were also damaged, the storm extending along the Solomon valley. The trial of the Chicago boodlers ended in conviction on the 5th. Most ot the defendants received sentences of two years' imprisonment, the others being fined $1,000 each. A prominent Chicago gentleman says that he met McGarigle in Quebec. A man supposed to be McGarigle, it was said, took from five dollars to two hundred dollars.

Articles of incorporation of the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas Railroad Company were Sedgwick, Shawnee, $11,927, filed in the office of the Secretary of State to the hospital. About one thousand people had gathered to witness tbe launch. Directly opposite the cradled vessel was a large coal dock of the Northwestern Fuel Company, a roofed structure with huge derricks for unloading coal and upon this a large mbcr of peo 647.75; Leavenworth, Sumner, the other day. The term of existence of In 1884 Germany sent 7.13G.263 gal-lofts of rum to tho west coast of Africa, Great Britain C02.328 gallons, and America 921,412 gallons.

Secketaky of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, thinks Indiana lias a good yield of oats and hay, but fays there will not bo half a corn crop. TnE Italian Government has accepted Lyon, Wyandotte, the corporation is placed at ninety-nine $6, Cowley, Bourbon, years and the capital stock at $1 5, 000,000. Reno, Douglas, ple assembled. As the Wolf struck tho The object of the corporation is to construct a main line and branches as follows: The main line from the north line of the State Dickinson County has an apportionment water, her port bilge was buried deeply and then she recovered and rolled heavily to port. The water displaced by the hull in Washington or Republic Counties, rose like a tidal wave and swept over tho coal deck and upward to its roof, causing a England offer to mediate between Italy and Abyssinia, with a view of nettling tho question of maintaining cloud of coal dust and spray.

The supports were insufficient to withstand the force of the wave, and about forty feet of Italian interests on tho lted sea lit total. Court of the Cherokee Nation for a term of years. ZoBEna Pasiia, the Egyptian state prisoner in confinement at Gibraltar, has been liberated, having signed a paper binding himself to good behavior. Tub Courier-Journal has reports from seventy-four Kentucky counties out of 119. These cast seventy-seven per cent, of the entire vote of the State in 18S4, when Cleveland's majority was 34,839.

In these counties tho reduction of Cleveland's vote has been 9,223. Applying the same rate to the remaining counties the total reduction in Buckner's vote will bo 11,988. This will leave a Democratic majority of 24,851. Texas voted on prohibition on the 4th. Indications showed that the amendment was defeated by about 60,000.

The other constitutional amendments were also defeated, exceping one extending the time of holding the Legislature. The Crown Prince of Germany recently underwent another operation for the growth in his throat in London. A dispatch from St. Thomas says: Letters received from' Stanley Pool from Henry M. Stanley announce that the expedition oi'rived at Aruwhiini Falls on June 18, that all the members of the expedition were well, and that preparations were the shed went down with its living freight.

passage at Quebec on a sailing vessel bound for Gibraltar, passing himself off as an invalid, although it was well known he was in perfect health. Violent shocks of earthquake destroying signal houses were recently reported at Laghout, Algeria. Thirty-eight French railway employes living at Avrincourt, Germany, have been expelled from that country. fendants were lei to a room and kept under watchful guard. After a wait of an hour and a half.

Judge Jamison, despairing of sn early verdict, ordered an adjournment till 6:30 p. m. At that hour the jury was still undecided, and at seven p. m. sent word to the Judge that there was no prospect of an immediate agreement.

He ordered supper carried to them, and the crowd began to thin out. About nine o'clock, information was received that the jury had reached a conclusion. Instantly the court room was in commotion, while the people in the corridors and along the sidcwallts were on the tiptoe of expectation. Tbe eleven defendants bome pale through Republic, Washington, Cloud, Clay, Dickinson, Ottawa, Saline, Lincoln, McPherson, Rice, Ellsworth, Barton, Reno, Stafford, Edwards, Ford, Kiowa, Pratt, Barber, Comanche, Clark and Meade Counties, to the south lino of the State between the east line of Barber County and the west line of Meade County. The estimated length of the main line is 350 miles.

There are three projected branches aggregating 450 miles and traversing most of tho western counties of the State not touched by the main line. A few cool-headed people at once set to of $4,403,910.25, which exceeds that of Saline County by about $200,000, while Harvey County property is estimatee at $3,551,198.91. Taking the whole State into consideration the appraisement in some of the countios was far too high. Sedgwick County led in too high assessments, the valuation being reduced over The assessed valuation of town lots in the leading counties is shown by the following figures, taken from the report of the board: Sedgwick, Shawnee, Wyandotte, Lyon, Sumner, Brown, Bourbon, Leavenworth, Douglas, $1,067,000. The oldest General of the United work to rescue the people thrown into the States armv is William Selbv Ilarnnv.

He was born near Nashville, in 1800 and entered the army in 1818. He was breveted Major General on March 13, 1805. The railroad statistics, furnished by this A lakksville (Ga.) woolen mill report, are also very flattering to the State, has forbidden anv of its female em TnE Volunteer won the Goelet cut in the yacht race at Newport, defeating the Mayflower by eight minutes in a course of forty miles. TnE Oregon salmon catch and canning this year will only be about seventy-five per cent, of last year's record and half of what it was in 1884. Br the upsetting of a boat near Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 4th, five persons were drowned.

The accident occurred in a squall, those who were saved clinging to Clements, the Leavenworth bank president and cashier, who recently departed for Canada's happy shore with the funds of the bank, according to a dispatch from Jamestown, N. also left unaccounted for about $70,000 belonging to farmers and others in Chautauqua County, N. that had been sent him lor investment. It shows the railroad valuation of Kansas ployes to wear bustles whilo at work in this year to be $41,554,344.83 against $32, river and tho3e buried in the debris. Patrol wagons were summoned and express wagons turned into ambulances, and the dead and injured carriod away.

Hundreds ef row boats were on the scene of the ter-riblo disaster in an instant, and assisted materially in rescuing many unfortunates from drowning. The list of killed is as follows: Eddie SebboV, sixteen years old, cruahed by the coal boxes with which the coal was hauled out of the boats; an unknown man, squeezed in between the ships and coal dock and completely crushed, the body sinking; Calvin Friestor, twenty-eight years old, unmarried, died during the evening; Charles Walrick, sent to a neighboring drug store and from there to his residence, where he died shortly afterward. The injured are: Mrs. James P. Brelt, wounded on the shoulder and head.

She tumbled into tbe 483. b. 0 last rear, being an increase in tho factory, for tho reason that there is danger of their dresses being caught iu twelve months of over $9,100,000. Sumner, Shawnee and Sedsewick Counties lead in tho loams. railroad valuations in the following order Sumner, Shawnee, A Mi siciAN in Hashington savs that Sixteen young ladies of Topeka have brought suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company for damages to the amount of 1300 each.

Last February they offered a message to be sent from Valley Falls to Nortonville, and owing to the Sedgwick, $913,057.42. lie is prepared to prove that tho Bou and nervous, others defiant stepped to their row of black chairs just as the jurors entered, and the loud buzz of excited conversation ceased wita startling suddenness. All of the jury avoided looking in the direction of the accused, and the latter, after an eager glance or two, adopted similar tactics. The faces of the talesmen were ominously grave. When the verdict was handed in and the clerk with trembling voice announcod one after another of the entire eleven guilty, the defendants seemed rooted to their chairs, the very embodiment of despair.

Then began the list of penalties with "Commissioner McClaughrey, two years," and there was a start of surprise among the spectators as the extreme penalty of the law was three years and a fine of (1,000, and nothing less had bsen expected by the majority of those present. "Commissioner Oihs, two years," read longer March is nothing more nor less The report is conclusive proof that the past year was the most prosperous ever known in the history of the State. The being made for the overland march. Leuoy D. Brows, late superintendent of public instruction of Ohio, has been elected president of the University of Nevada.

It is stated iu British Government circles that the negotiations with the Washington Government for tho settlement of the Canadian fisheries dispute are progressing favorably, and no doubt is entertained that the difference will be speedily and satisfactorily adjusted. Advices from Suakim state that Ras Aloula, the Abyssiniau commander, has than tho "Margherita Polka," written about fifteen years ago in honor of the present appraisement advances Kansas to the twentieth place in the comparative Italian Queen. wealth of States. water and was saved afterward; Mrs. Albvrt Gibbs, wounded on the bead and shoulder.

She also fell into the river but ASKED TO CO-OPERATE. The diflerenco in cost to a railroad for one thousand signs reading: "Look In Kansas Railwara Requested to Assist the canopy of the boat until rescued. Southern Wisconsin on the 6th was in an extremely parched condition, with fires threatening what little was left to the farmers. Business failures (Dun's report) during the seven days ended August 4 numbered For the United States, 163; for Canada, 20; total, 183; compared with 184 the previous week and 154 the corresponding week of last year. One hundred girls employed in the weaving department of the silk mills at Harris-burg, struck work the other day because of a reduction of one cent per yard.

The Dublin University cricket club is organizing a team to visit Canada and the TJnitad States. Hogg Woolslet Maskham, the British naval officer arrested some days ago at Kansas City charged with forgeries while attached to the service and taken to Chicago, will be returned to the scene of his out for the locomotive'" and the same number reading: "Danger!" is six hundred dollars, and it has been found that tho latter are more effective. Keeping Out Cattle Disease. Topeka, July 31. The Board of Railway Commissioners have deemed the cattle plague the source of sufficient importance to take official action in tbe premises and have accordingly addressed the failure of the company to send the dispatch they were obliged to walk a distance of eight miles to reach a village where they were to give an entertainment for the benefit of their church.

They missed their way and wandered about till two o'clock the next morning, and for all of these annoyances they have called upon the telegraph company to respond in damages. The directors of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroad at a late meeting recommended an increase of the capital stock of the company from to and have called a special, meeting of the stockholders for September 5, at Topeka, to vote upon this recommendation. A reunion of ld setllers will be held at Lane, Franklin County, Aikpust 25, 26 and 28. Senators Ingalls and Plumb and General Blair will speak. The Attorney-General has begun suit in was rescued E.

L. Barrows, thigh broken and internal injuries; Mrs. Froeling. of Kansas City, injured internally; Frank Allcover, hurt in the chest and otherwise injured; Arthur Coughlin, bookkeeper for Greene Button, internally injured; Patrick Klnsella, internally injured; John Leisonf elder, leg broken; John Martin, extent of injuries not known, but probably will recover. About a dozen people were thrown into the river, bnt were rescued by the lile saving crew and boatmen whose, crafts swarmed the river.

It is believed, however, that the suction of tbe boat drew some of them under, andthe river is being dragged. Thus lar no bodies have been -found. People who were on the platform that gave way say that before they could realize any thing ex collected a force of 8,000 men, which he intends to march against the Italian position at Massowah, beginning his campaign about the first of September. A delegation of citizens from Memphis, waited on the President at the White House, on the 5th, and invited him to visit that city on his Western trip this autumn. The President said he would probably pay them a visit One of the reports recently current on Wall street was to the effect that Mr.

Stayner would resign from the presidency of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton Railroai Company, and that either B. Harrison or L. C. Waite would be elected in his place. A vakty of forty picked miners of Pennsylvania have left Pottsville for Alberta, British Columbia, whero they will bo employed in tho anthracite coal mines recently opened in that region.

Other parties will follow as soon as they can be organized. the clerk, and the defendants began to look up. Commissioners Leyden, Van Pelt, Wren and Wassertnan and Warden Var-nell each got two years, and everyone looked relieved except Wren. He turned pale and seemed dazed. The crrwd was now prepared for any surprise and it came in the statement.

"Commissioners McCarthy, Oliver, Casselman and Geils, a fine of $1,000." A look of unmistakable exultation took possession of the countenance of Buck McCarthy who had throughout the trial and for months previous been the most contemptuously attacked of the crowd. A motion for a new trial for everyone was quickly entered by the defendants' attorney, Alexander Sullivan, and then the crowd melted away in wonder. crime. The Department of State has prepared and published a bound volume of consular following circular letter to the general managers of the different railways doing business in Kansas: Topeka, July 29. Dear Sir: The Board of Railroad Commissioners of Kansas, siti ing in conjunction with the State Live-Stock Sanitary Commission, in addition to the circular letter addressed to you by the last named commission I concerning the introduction into this State ot cattle south of the third parallel of north lati- tude prohibited by the laws of this State, deem It of sufficient importance to direct additional attention to the matter.

The functions of this board, while not specially concerned with the enforcement of public sanitary regulations, are such as to require it to inquire into any neglect or violation of the laws of the State by railroad companies and to recommend suitable regula the Supreme Court to test tho validity of Garfield County, on the ground that the MISCELLANEOUS. A Hungarian coke drawer went to work the other day at the works of the Blair Iron Volume twenty-four of the statutes at large, containing the acts of the Forty-ninth Congress and recent treaties ami Presidential proclamations, has been printed at the Government Printing Oflice, and is ready for issue at the Stato Department. cept that there was a crash, mey were up to their neck in water. Those who tailed to grasp any thing solid were swept into the river by tho receding wave. A few minutes before the accident occurred Mr.

reports upon dairy farming in all parts of the world. It contains 603 pages, and is profusely illustrated. The Pension Officii is informed of the arrest in West Virginia of Willis Walker, on the charge of JTorgixig a pension certificate, and ot the arrest of W. M. Mauss, as an accomplice in the sanf e.

Agent Sheehax telegraphed the Indian Commissioner at Washington that the row among the Mille Ltuas was purely an Indian affair and no whites were involved. He will stay among tae Indians till the matter and Coal Company, Galebran, Pa. Later a number of his countrymen sought him and murdered him for being a traitor to the causo of their strike. At Manchester, during the voting in the recent elections, six men were killed outright and a number wounded. The lighting occurred over a negro's vote and more killings were likely, as the animosity was assumiug a vendetta form.

Tue earthquake in Ecuador, June 39, was attended with much loss of life and damage to property. Many buildings were shaken county is not a legal county, because it does not contain 433 square miles as required by law. Cornelius M. Mills, one of the most trusted engineers on the Santa Fe railroad, and a resident of Topeka, was run over by the Texas express the other morning and killed. About one o'clock in the morning he side-tracked his train at Barclay Station, forty-five miles south of Topeka, to await the Texas express, which was to pass at that point.

Leaving his fireman in charge of the engine he lay down between the tracks to take a short nap a common custom of engineers when taking a long night's run. About 1:20 tb.3 passenger train came along, swiftly, ringing its bell. The thunder of the train awoke the engineer, who jumped up, half awake, and stepped directly in front of the flying express. A public meeting of the citizens of To Davidson warned the peoplo to leave, but no attention was paid to him. A SAD EN 1)1 SO.

Ft. Wortii, Aug. 8. The wind-up of the prohibition camp lign in Fort Worth has boen the saddest in the State, and sorrow by it has been forced into three homes. Friday night a number of men aud boys were collected on the public square firing anvils and discharging fireworks iu honor of the victory won in the State by the antis, when an accident occurred that resulted in the death of two boys and the injuring of three others.

James Laz-enby, aged seventeen, was seated on an open keg of powder near the anvils. Several men on the sidewalk were tions to secure conformity thereto. Section 1 of the act of the Legislature, to which your attention has been called in the circular letter of the State's Sanitary Commission, prohibits, under severe penalties, the driving or causing to be driven into or through any county, or part thereof, in this State, or turning upon or causing to be turned or kept on any highway, range, common, or enclosed pasture within this State, any cattle capable of communicating or liable to impart what is known a3 Texas, silonic, or Spanish fever. An extremely disastrous experience in the past has served to show that cattle brought from the country south of the 37th parallel of north latitude, when turned upon the eommons and pasture lands ol the State, spread a fatal disease among native stock. This experience has very recently beea Theke is a law in Washington Territory compelling tho teachers of public schools to teach physiology and hygiene, and if they do not teach the fame they can not draw school money; also, if, the pupils will not study those sciences they can be expelled from the school.

The High Court of Foresters, sitting iu Glasgow, Scotland, has practically reversed tho decision of the American is settled. He sayte the newspaper reports were sensational. Two hotels at Dtankirk, N. were destroyed by fire the other morning. No casualties were report ed loss, $75,000.

Two negroes were fatally and two seriously wounded in an affray with a number of white boys at Nacogdoches, recently. One white boy was slightly wounded. Fifty tons of rock fell in the eastern end of the Cascade tunnel near Wellsburg, W. recently, killing four men and wounding several others, "the men claim that down at Cuenca, Yagnaehi and Bodegas. Twelve men were killed by falling walls of the burned St.

Anthony elevator at Minneapolis, on the 3d. The men were engaged in clearing away the debris at the time. An explosion of dynamite occurred in Bitiro, a suburb of Messina, Sicily, re KANSAS PENSIONS. figures Showing the Number and Amounts Click's Annual Report. Topeka, Aug.

5. The following information in regard to pension matters is gleaned from the annual report of Pension Agent Click, of the Topeka rgency, which ranks third in importance, though the cost of paying pensions was less per capita and less per cent, than any other: During the fiscal year ended June 9) there were placed on the rolls 5.3V1 new names, classified as follows: Invalids, survivors of the Mexican war, S9S; widows of the Mexican war, 76; widows of the war of 1S12, 12. The amount required annually to pay their claims is (519,276. There were restored to the polls ITS names which had been dropped from time to time for various causes, the parties having made good their titles. The amounts of first payments in original cases during the year footed up distributed among 4.2-11 pensioners.

The number of names dropped from the rolls was 1,355, of which 791 were invalids, 500 widows, 13 survivors of the war of 1S12 and 51 widows of 1S12. Of these 955 died, 39 failed to claim pensions firing romau candles, when one of the bails Subsidiary Court suspending a branch if the order for admitting negroes to fell into the powder and a terrihe explosion followed. Lazenby was thrown up ten or fifteen feet, aud Wave and Gus HacheL peka, irrespective of was held the other night to take proper action in the matter of extending to President Cleveland an invitation to visit Topeka on his Western trip in October. At Grantville the other day a quarrel took place between Aaron Robbina aud T. H.

Etdridge over the sale of a horse by El- membership by granting to the suspended branch a new dispensation under tho English court. Will Thackabcrry and Sam Johnson were burned, the latter two slightly, the others fatally. At 2:3) next morniug Wave the contractors were caveless, and did not timber the tunnel fast anough to keep up with the boring. The sloop Sara and the steamer Valle were thought to have boen lost in the Gulf of California on the 6th. Efighty lives were jeopardized.

A vessel was, dispatched from Guaymas in search of the missing vessels. repeated by a disregard of the wise provisions of the law cited above, and referred to in the circular of the State Live-Stock Sanitary Commission. It wiU be observed that the law does not undertake to forbid the carrying of this class ol live-stock from the southern country over the railroads of the State to points outside the limits of the State, but the purpose of the law is to prevent such stock being brought into the State to be kept pastured or fed therein ujwn any highway, range, common or uninclosed pasture. While the law does not in express terms apply to railroads, we entertain no doubt 'hat Hatchcl died, and at five last evening James Lazenby died. Gus Hachel may live a few cently, killing one person and injuring thirty, besides doing much damage to property.

The occupants of the house in which the explosion occurred were arrested. A crazy Irishman named Mooney attempted to blow up the British steamer Queen at New York recently by throwing an explosive on board, which set fire to the vessel. He was arrested and the flames suppressed. The saw mill of John G. Owen burned at East Saginaw, recently.

Loss, hours. The affair is deeply regretted here. dridge to Robbins, pay for which was to be in trade. Robbins paid about $59 in work, when Eldridge heard that Robbins was making preparations to remove to No Man's Land, and attempted to collect the balance TERRIBLE FIUK CALAMITY IX LONDON'. Lokdox, Aug.

8. Whiteley's enormous drapery aud general stores and warehouses Secretary Fairciiili, after reading the comments of the New York papers ou his circular relative to the purchase of bonds, says he is quite satistied. He tloes not anticipate very numerous offers, but thinks that he has done all that tho treasury properly can do in the matter of the surplus in the absence of legislation. in Westbourne grove and Queen's road, Psddington, were partially destroyed by fire Saturday eveuiug. The damage is placed at $1,230,000.

It is beiieved that there was no insurance upon the prop ADDITIONAL DISPATCUKS. The Irish Land bill passed its third reading in the House of Common on the 6th. There was general cheering when the bill was read. The Austrian and German Emperors met at Gastein on the 6th. William M.

Gibson, the deposed Prime Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom, who was tried on charges of robbing the public Treasury, and who escaped from the island after his acquittal, arrived at San Francisco on the 6th from Honolulu on the brig John D. Spreckles. erty. While the fire was in progress several of the Whiteley's employes and a score of firemen were crossing insurance, Tue big wheat deal collapsed at San Francisco on the 3d. According to official reports there were 10,236 deaths from cholera in Chili during the period from January to June of this year, and the Government expended in fighting the epidemic.

At a special meeting of the board of trustees of the New York Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, hold at Bath, N. Treas Charles II. Reei, Guiteau's who lumncd into the North river they incur such liabilities as the statute creates by lending aid and assistance to persons who violate its provisions. The consequence of a disregard of these sanitary provisions are of so serious a character to the citizens of this State that it behooves the railroad companies operating in this State to exercise the utmost degree of care and vigilance to secure strict compliance with them, in so far as railroad agencies can be employed, by reckless persons in their violation. We trust you will cause the most careful precautions to be taken by your subordinates to the end that the frightful mischiefs which the law seeks to avert may not be visited again upon the people of the State.

Very truly, Th Board of Railroad Commission kbs. Attest: H. Rizkr, Secretary. for three years and 131 were re-married. The term widows not only includes widows but also mothers, fathers and minor children under guardianship.

The number so classified is 4,186, divided as follows: Widows without minor children, widows with minor children, 574; guardians cf minor children, 211; mothers cf who died in service, WS; fathers of soldiers who died in service, 172. The total uumber of pensioners on the roll June 30, was 29,741, divided into the following classes: Invalids, widows, survivors of the Mexican war, biS; widows of Mexican war veterans, 76; survivors of the war of 1S12, 42; rridows of veterans of the war of 1S12, 437. The number of pensioners on the roll June 3J, 1S a frail bridge which connected one of the burning building with another, when the structure collapsed and threw its occupants of the debt. He found Robbins in the barnyard and asked him for the money. Robbins ordered Eldridge to leave the premises, which he started to do, and as soon as he turned his back Robbins picked up a pitchfork and attacked him with it.

He succeeded in inflicting half a dozen ghastly wounds, and it was thought Eldridge could not recover. Robbins was taken in charge bo an officer and subsequently escaped. An idea of the great profit in the fire insurance business in Kansas is given by the figures in the office of the Insurance Commissioner. Property to the amount of was insured in Kansas during the ytar of 1886. The premiums received on this property amounted to $2,049,827, while the losses paid amounted to only $827,506, so that the amount received by all the insurance companies during the year was more than double the amount paid out.

The Insurance records show down into the street, a distance of thirty feet. Three of the employes and two firemen were killed. All the others received terrible injuries. urer Robio was ousted. An examination of his books showed him to be $9,000 short.

The drought has been terrible in the vicinity of Centralia, 111. Crops have been nearly ruined and damage has been done BALTIMORE FATALITIES. Baltimore, Aug. S. Bonry Nixon, In Canada's Happy Land.

recently and was committed to the Uellevuo Hospital for examination as to his sanity, was examined and pronounced insane. He is suffering from melancholia. He became a resident of New York City after leaving Chicago, but for some months lived in Jersey City. According to the report of the American Minister, made after a thorough investigation, thero is not above $100,000 in tho Bank of England or aged thirty-five, a boiler maker, Charles Denmead, aged nineteen, and a man known A severe earthquake shock was felt throughout the Island of Cyprus on the 7th. Cases of cholera were reported at Palermo, Messina and Resina on the 7th.

There were five new cases and two deaths in Malta. Wilfokd Woodruff, one of the apostles, has assumed the presidency of the Mormoi Church. He is in hiding from the officers ot the law. Evidence) goes to show that Mooney, the of Chicago, landed here yesterday morning from the schooner Ed Blake. The Blake and Marsh were in the same tow, and as "Louis of Antwerp" were drowned in the river last evening.

The former was boating and the others were bathing. Mor while in American waters the tng Oriole with Chicago detectives board steamed ris Riley, aged forty, of Washington, was struck by a freight train on the Baltimore Ohio railroad last evening and fatally by fires. Dr. D. E.

Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, left Washington recently for Delaware and Ulster Counties, N. to investigate the outbreak of pleuro-pneu-monia. The disease was introduced into these counties by two car loads of cattle shipped from the stock yards in New York City last March and April. Tue Illinois Live Stock Commissioners state that all danger from pleuro-pneu-monia in Cook County has passed. They up -rith the intention of having them drtp the Blake tow line.

After a short conversation the Blake's tow nny other n.nnisn nan awaiting Amer injured. large ican claimants. There are no new xonc dynamiter, was concerned in several of the explosions which created so much consternation hi the United Kingdom a year or two ago. that in sixteen years the premiums received amounted to $12,950,913, and the losses paid, were $4,950,144, making the relative amount of losses paid to tho premiums received as forty per cent. A fearful wind-storm swept over the Solomon valley on the 4th, doing much dam line was let go, but at the same instant a yawl left the schooner with Mc The Millbrook Tornado.

St. Louis, Aug. 8. Additional advices was a gam or Abe disbursements during the year were: To invalids. widows, survivors of the Mexican war, widows of Mexican war veterans, 9266.64; survivors of the war of 1812, widows of veterans of the war of 1S12, examining surgeon's fees, salary of agent, clerk hire, expenses of total, Of the amount paid out attorneys who prosecuted claims received $98,970.80.

Tbe annual value of the pay roll, inclusive of amounts allowed in the original cases, is $3,663,549. That is the amount required to pay all pensioners now on the roll when all vouchers are presented quarterly. from the town of Millbrook, which estates in litigation, no claims worth a cent in law, and the man who notifies you that you are the heir of the Townley or any other estato is probably a Garigle and quickly rowed for the Canada side, landing at Point Edward. McGarigle at once drove to Courtright, twelve miles down the river, ostensibly to. catch a boat.

was struck by a cyclone last Thursday evening, are to the effect that the place was practically demolished, seventy-nine buildings, including hotels, school house, churches, stores and' residences being Clearing house returns for week ended August 6 showed an- average increase of 20.3 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the increase Was 24.9. Discount was firm and stocks were drooping in the early part of the week ended August 6 on the London exchange. Later stocks improved. The Paris bourse He was, however, driven back and.

is now here. It is believed that be is nervous over his safety in Canada, as he keeps A cuitfous anil interesting relic of Indian barbarism has been received at tho War Department. It consists of away from the river, apparently fearing wholly or nearly destroyed. The losset foot up $as, GOO. ask Governor Oglcsby to at once take measures for the removal of the quarantine restrictions now.

in force in various States and Territories against Illinois. The Ontario Investment Association of London, Ont, is financially embarrassed. From the general information gleaned it was learned that over $400,000 of the paid up capital stock had been lost to the association. Charles Muny, the manager, had left for Omaha. A tike at Syracuse, N.

the other morning damaged the extensive saddlery and hardware manufactory of Frazer attempts at kidnapping. Left the Fundamentals. Orifri lingers. necklace of human age. Nearly every house in Millbrook, Graham County, was either destroyed or badly damaged.

Two children were killed and about twenty-five persons more or less injured. W. BV Critchfield, a merchant, was reported among the fatally injured. Sixty-seven fairs in Kansas this fail. A meeting of the Live-Stook Sanitary Co amission, called by special request of the Governor, was held at Topeka recently for the purpose of considering what further measures should be taken to protect the cattle of the State against Texas fever.

A circular letter was addressed to all the railroad companies doing business in the State calling attention to the provisions of the law to prevent diseased cattle being Chicago, July document of im. There is at present in the hospital of the charity, says a Pans letter, a young non-commissioned officer, as he would be called in England, who is undergoing treatment as a victim to opium smoking. The soldier, who is a man of education, has portanca to the Knights of Labor and sisrned bv leading members has been re Frfml Wiad Storm. Wa-Keexbt, Aug. 6.

Millbrook, the county seat of Graham County, twenty miles north of here, was almost destroyed about sundown Thursday by a straight wind from slightly west of north. The place contained about 403 inhabitants and only one house, a residence, was not badly injured. The business houses were blown ceived here. It says in substance that ow- was' quiet; Berlin firm with, a fractional advance; Frankfort firm. Captain Richard Wooli-ole, his wife, five children and the aunt of Mrs.

Woolf oik were horribly butchered near Macon, the other day. Suspicion rests upon Thomas C. Woolf oik, a son by a previous marriage, the object being to obtain poses-sionof his father's property. A platform collapsed at Milwaukee, int? to -wide departures from the funda nally there were eleven fingers, strung together after tho manner of necklaces of bears' claws, but three of them had been lost This ghastly adornment was captured in an attack on the Northern Chcycnnes in 1876, and was the property of the big medicine man, chief of the tribe, and each finger represented a life taken by tho owner. Jones to the amount of 1100,003, which is mental principles on which the order was founded there has been a large decrease in membership and that it will- be further decreased unless the General Assembly mftkfia some imnortant changes.

The cir down or wrecked and the goods exposed to the rain, which fell later and were greatly damaged. One person, a boy three years old, was killed, but about twenty-five were injured. Soma sus given a remarkable account of his experiences as an opium smoker. He says that while in Tonkin, or Cochin China, one ot the French Generals caused an order to be issued against the use of tbe drug, and this' very prohibition was the means of making several men try opium smoking througn curiosity. The non-commisioned officer went with some comrades to the smokiug saloon of a vil'age.

There a woman came to him and filled a long pipe with a small ball of what appeared to covered by insurance of about $150,000, Cloke estimates as to losses inflicted on the bull wheat clique by the collapse of the San Francisco corner make them between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, in addition to which the clique was holding and paying storage on enormous quantities of wheat. After a hot discussion the county committee of the United Labor party at New York decided that no socialist is entitled to cular protests against the arbitrary methods bv which the constitution has been al- during the launching of a steam barge on the 6th. About a hundred persons were precipitated into the water, four of whom were killed and many injured. Whitelet's enormous dranerv and gen tprftd! and anneals to members to instruct tained the ftreakinr of limbs, bnt onlv one delegates to the General Assembly to or-under the old constitution with B. Keith field who lives at Wa-Keener and eral store and warehouse inWeatbourne brought into the State and requesting all roads to issue to their agents and employes such instructions as will prevent the introduction over the lines of the different roads all cattle which are prohibited by law from entering the State.

The corner stone of the Masonio temple at Ellsworth was laid recently with imposing ceremonies. James Priest, a well-to-do citizen of Wichita, was killed the other afternoon at three o'clock, while attempting to cross the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe track that city. He was about seventy years of age, amendments denning the power of the ex has a furniture store here and one at Mill brook. A Deadly Encounter. ecutive board.

membership ia the United Labor party. The Louisville express was thrown from the track near Greenwood, on the 4th. Further advices from Henry M.Stanley say that on Juno 6 the expedition reached a point half way between Yanibi ami Yambung, the latter being the farthest point on the Aruwhimi reached by Stanley in 1883. Navigation wai difficult and slow because the boats were carrying all necessary supplies of the Stanley chose th Aruwhimi route in preference to k. c.niv Falls route beoause he Grove and Queen's road, Paddington, London, were partially destroyed by fire on the 6th.

The damage was placed at Two of the employes and three firemen were killed by toe breaking of a frail bridge connecting the premises. Amos Reed, at one time acting Governor A Dangerous Fire Dktroit. Aug. 1. At about 13:33 B.

W. Fettway, the baggage-master, had his head severed from his body and seven passengers were very seriously injured. Thirtt-tiv business men -were burned out at Tampa, Fla, recently. Loss, 75, 000; insurance, $1,800. In the bicycle races at Bridlington, recently, Temple, of Chicago, beat the balf mile record, doing the distanoe in 1:13.

"Wood side, of Philadelphia, attempted to ride twenty-one miles in an hour, but failed by seventy-nine yards. this morning fire was discovered in a hay and feed store house on tbe wharf occupied by H- E. Emmons, and in an incredibly hort time spread to the adjacent build dig occupied by the Grummonds Inia, Linsley Mitchell and other, cor-ering a space of about 250 by 100 feet. The steamer Alaska which was lying at the wharf -was badly scorched but was cat loose from her moorings saved. be a thick brown syrup, made a3 consistent as wax.

This the solJier was pressed to take, and, placing its bowl over a lamp which wa's alignt, he inhaled what seemed to be the fumes of sugar and burnt apples. He was at first rendered ill, but after a second pipe was plunged Into the ecstatic dreams described by De Qumoey, Baudelaire, and M- Paul Bonnetain. He seemed to float In a bath of lukewarm milk, and memories that had long lain buried passed clearly through his Imagination. He recollected forgotten melodies, snatches of songs, and extracts from favorite authors; bat when he awoke from the reverie he was perspiring with pain and fear. After this he kept up the habit for six months.

His general appearance is that of a person of Utah, died suddenly on the 7th at his horn near Branchville, Prinoe George County, aged fifty-four. EiraiKBER-ix-CBiEV Chaklxs H. Louse has resigned as head of the Bureau ol Bteam Engineers in the Navy Department, and Chief Engineer George W. Melville has been appointed by the President In bis Nacogdoches, Aug. 6.

Last night, at the close of a concert iu the suburta of tbe town, a deadly encounter occurred he twvien seven or eight white on the one aide and ten or fifteen uegroes on the other. The negroes provoked the fight by halting the whites and drawing their re vorvera. Forty or fifty shots were exchanged at very close range, of the negroes, Jeff Simons was shot through the heart Porter Anderson was mortaiiy wounded; Tom Thorn received a bullet in hia shoulder, and Levi Allison received several slight wounds. Giles Holton was the only ona of the whites" injure I. lis received a slight wound in the hip and dangerous one jn the leg.

and it Is thought did not hear the signal, if one was given. Tsa other evening an loo team at Wichita ran away on Main street and collided with a street oat at the crossing of Douglass avenue. The pole of tbe wagon ran through the dashboard of the oar, inflicting fatal internal injuries upon the driver, Fred Hartley, and breaking the right leg and otherwise injuring Mr. Barsdell, an aged passenger standing on the front platform. Busolars of late have been doing a IbriMrg business at Topeka learned that by the former he would have better resources and because the natives were friendlier.

He hoped that the steamers would be able to ascend the rapids above Yambunge, beyond which the river is easily navigable. Stanley expected to reach Wadclal about the beginning of August place. It is current report at the City of Mexico that American, French and English capitalists are preparing to open strong hank ing institutions ia that country. Five horses were burned to death in Em-mo-establishment and a ywng. map ping In Captain Grummonds barely capixi with hia life.

The loss is estt Mt4 at insurance not obtainable. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce has telegraphed President and Mrs. Cleveland an invitation to visit their city la ths falL who has been paralyzed. 1.