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AMBUSCADED. THE STRIKE. STILL. ON. THE SOUTHERN FLOODS.

NEWS OF THE WEEK. KANSAS STATE NEWS. THE WEKKLY AUGU A ST. LOUIS HORROR Geronimo and the other Apache bucks skipped away from Lieutenant Maus and again took to the mountains. It was thought they became Geared on approaching the settlements.

Lieutenant Maus followed after them with the hope of inducing them to come in. A large meeting of Belgian workingmen was held at Ghent recently. Resolutions were adopted advising moderation on the part of the workingmen and calling for social reforms. The total number of arrests made in Belgium in connection with the labor riots was 250. The March public debt statement shows a reduction for the month of over and for the nine months of the current fiscal year of $68,000,000, against about $45,000,000 for the same nine months of the preceding year.

A Russian newspaper advocates Russian military occupation of Bulgaria on a basis similar to that on which Austria occupied Bosnia. Leading French papers take a gloomy view of the situation in the East. Two French iron clads have been ordered to be placed in readiness for immediate dispatch to the Mediterranean. The mercantile agency of R. G-.

Dun Co. reports business failures in the United States for the first quarter of 1886, number 3,203, with liabilities a little over failures for the first three months of 1885 numbered 3,654, with liabilities of 000,000. A strong Government force, nnder Generals Teji and Arbio, was attacked recehtly near the river Daibar by the Uruguay revolutionists, Arredondo and Castro. The Government troops were defeated with a loss of 400 men. The schooner J.

H. Congdon was wrecked off Point Keys, forty miles north of San Francisco, recently and her crew lost. The supposition was that the vessel struck a hidden rock. An examination of the wreck, however, showed that the schooner had been struck amidships and cut almost in two, evidently by a steamer or some other craft going at a high rate of speed. The Aquena was supposed to have been the vessel in collision and fears for her safety were felt.

Clearing house returns for week ended April 3 showed an average increase of 42.0 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 63.5, The United States grand jury at San Francisco has found indictments against eight prominent citteens of California for subornation of perjury, in the case of fraudulent entries of redwood lumber land in Humboldt County. The names of three are Joseph Russ, David Evans and Charles H. King, who collectively represent capital. The names of the other five were not yet known, but they were all said to be wealthy men.

All the freight brakemen on the St. Louis division of the Louisville Nashville railway struck work recently for 2 cents per mile each way, instead of $50 per month. American securities were fairly steady in the European bourses durihg the week ended April 3. A serious riot over the railroad strike took place at Fort Worth, on the morning of the 3d. In a fight for the possession of a freight train, three officers were fatally shot and one of the mob was killed.

For a time the aspect of affairs was alarming, but the citizens gradually restored quiet. George Scovii.i.e, the lawyer, has been locked up by his divorced wife (Guiteau's sister) for neglecting to pay alimony. Knights of Labor Accuse Gould and Hoxie of Duplicity Interference With Trains at Par.ons, and Fort Worth, Tex. St. Louis, April 2.

Contrary to the general expectation yesterday that the executive committee of assembly 101 wouid designate the hour of ten o'clockin the morning as the time when the striking Knights of Labor should return to work, no order to that effect wm issued and at ten o'clock the strike was continued. None of the strikers applied to the Missouri Pacific officials for work and they say they will not do so until ordered by their executive committee. The following address was issued in the afternoon by the executive board of tlier district: To the, Public: As showing the sincerity of the railroad managers in their treatment of the Knights of Labor we respectfully state that pursuant to the order of our general executive board we this day sent a committee to tbe managers of the several roads ottering- to rettn-o the men to work, and in no instance would they be received or treated with, each official iu turn either refusing- them a hearing- or evading- them with specious subterf ures tor direct answers or refusing them employment, Hoxie agreed to receive a comm. ttee of employes to adjust any grrie'rances wh eh exist. He refuses personally and through hi subordinates to recognize any of us as employes and refuses to receive any but such as he calls eniploj-es.

Iu short, after he and Gould have conveyed the impression to the world that they were willing to settl they refuse to settle. Now we appeal to the suffering- public, on whom is falhnsr all the weight of this rreat affliction, it we have not been deceived enough. How much is long snflerinir labor to bear? This great strike never wOU14 have been had Hoxie condescended months furtf to hear our compla nts. We do not claim to be more than human. It should not be expected of us to be more than human.

In this country pos tion makes no king- or slave. Imperious refusal on the part of one citizen to confer with other with whom he may have business connections, when such refusal begets great bus ness and social revolution, is not only a mistake but a crime against the public. Gould is invoking-the law against the little criminals who are made desperate by his policy of duplic.tr and oppression, and yet tho terforized publio 'does not invoke the law agains the. arch criminal of the land. If we can not be al lowed to return to work the strike must go" on.

By order of executive boards district assemblies 101, 93, 17. Parsons, April 2. The strikers still hold the key to the situation hre, and affaifs are tied np in the same old knot. After the strikers had killed the engine in front of Adjutant General Campbell Wednesday, he mounted another emriiie that had previously been disabled by the strik ers and made them a speech, giving then! good advice, and Closed by telling them he would make a final attempt to move a train at nine o'clock next and implored them, under the name of the State' of Kansas, not to make any that if they did their action would be on their own heads, and that they would have to abide by the consequences. Yesterday morning about 1,500 people assembled at the yards witness what was supposed to be the final attempt of the Adjutant to move a train before calling out the militia.

The first train made up was a wrecking train, consisting of a derrick, wrecking car and caboose, sent south to clear up' Monday night'a wreck. This the striicers allowed to eo out unmolested, 1ms as soon as an engineer came down to take out a freight it wrfS boarded by the strikers and killed. This was the last attempt that will be made. Fort Worth, April 2. Fort Worth is in the hands of a The citizens' posse summoned by the sheriff to assemble this moniimr at the Missouri Pacific yards met, some 300 stronsr, accordiisef to orders.

About 400 strikers, armed and desperate and ready for bloodshed, were on the scene. Fifty well armed officers were also on hand, a reign train was made up and a Missouri Pacific engine came along to pull out the train. A grand rush was made by the strikers for the engine. Arms were presented on both sides. The engine was not molested, but all the cars were uncoupled and even the nuts were taken out of the Some of the Knights were arrested and the engine sent back to the roundhouse, and all attempts to move trains were abandoned.

The citizens lacked organization. They had no leader while every man in the ranks of the strikers was a leader. Mayor Smith addressed the mob, bet tiia strikers cried "Hats!" "No more Peter Smith for mayor again." The sheriff; is summoning citizens to go armed to the Missouri Pacilic yards. The strikers' places are all tilled here. Tliey are hungry and bloodthirsty.

The most conservative citizens anticipate grave trouble in restoring law and order. Kansas City, April 2. A special to the Journal from Topeka says: A telegram came to Governor Martin this afternoon from Adjutant General Campbell, who is at Parsons, stating that affairs in that city were particularly bad and the mob element apparently in the ascendancy. He stated he could do nothing without aid. Governor Martin authorized him to call out the Fjrst Kansas National Guard under Colonel Patrick or as much of it as was needed.

A later dispatch from Gt-neral Campbell indicated that the Ottawa company, the Uarnett company and probably another would be started for Parsons in the afternoon. Governor Martin telegraphed General Carroll, of Faoia, to proceed to Parsons and assume comni ind. Several members of the Ottawa company are in this city and are making every effort to join their command. GERONIMO'S TREACHERY. The Apache Chief Notorions For Treachery, Craftiness and Faithlessness.

Tombstone, April 2. General Forsythe, commanding officer at Fort Hua-chuca, who arrived here to-day, made known the startling fact that at the first interview which General Crook had with the hostiles Thursday last, Geronimo had a band of men ready to fire on all white men, including Crook, at a signal. Geronimo'a failure to keep his promise of surrender at Fort Bowie is ascribed to the. fact that having so much blood to answer for he could expect no clemency and therefore preferred life in the mountains to a prospect of hangimr at the bauds of the authorities. The hostiles had 200 rounds of ammunition each.

General Forsythe said it it was impossible to fathom Geronirao's intentions and it is an open question whether he will go south to join Mangas or remain north to harmss the frontier. Geronimo is a man of fifty-two years of age, crafty, treacherous and merciless. This is the third time he has proven faithless. Coal Famine at St. Iouis.

St. Lons, Aprii 1. Deputy United States marshals are stationed along the river front in East St. Louis to-day, from the Wabash yards to the Carr street ferry, and two marshals on the ferry wharf. This array of authority is meant to protect all teamsters who desire to haul freight to or from the Wabash yards.

The only learning being done is by coal men, who have twenty or thirty wagons at work and are getting coal to this sid of the river as fast as they can. This is the only coal coining from East St. Louis to-day, and the bulk of it is being handled by Henry Mueller, who is sending it to Lump's and Anheuser's breweries. h. 13'g Jam.

Lancaster, N. April 2. Yesterday morning the ice in Israel's river formed a big jam below the Mechanic street bridge, and caused the river to be partially turned from its course. One-half the stream ran down Mechanic street, carrying huge cakes of ice with it, and ad the houses in that section were flooded. The Stewart House, a small hotel, was flooded, but the occupants were rescued from the second story.

Dynamite is being used to break the jam, but with little success, and it is feared that a jam which has formed six miles, further up the river will bre.ik and that the flood used thereby will destroy all the buildings on Mechanic street. Huckster Killed. Little Eock, April 1. Jas. Blackstone, cin old huckster, living a few miles below the city on the Pine Bluft Railroad, while returning home this morning was struck and killed by an engine.

Engineer Dave Mulbeiry observed the old gentleman walking oi the track and blew the alarm whistle, but the old man was deaf and did not hear the noise, hence the accident The coroner's jury said it was an unavoidable accident, and no one was to blame. The da-ceased was fifty years and loaves a large family in almost destitute, eiowm-fbwees, A Freiuht Train at Fort Worth, Tex.f At tacki-d by Strikers Three tffneers Fa. tally Wounded A Striker Killed. Fort Worth, April 5. At ten o'clock Saturday morning 1,000 neople assembled at the Missouri Pacific depot to see Sheriff Maddox send out a train which he had said lie would do or die.

One engine with twenty armed deputies backed into the yard to take out a train of twenty cars. Sheriff Maddox and thirty deputies guarded the yards and warned the strikers to keep away. The train pulled out for the south shortly after noon, and reached the Kew Orleans crossing, two miles south. The BiiKgestive quiet thai marked the passage of the freight train through the city was not without its sequel. When the train left tbe depot it was nnder the protection of a posse of officers, commanded by Jim Court-lisht.

The train proceeded to the crossing of the Fort Worth New Orleans road, when it stopped, as customary. When the train stopped it was noticed several men were congregated on the track in front of the train. Tbe posse's commander approached the men and asked why they im-neded the progress of the train, to which, they replied that they had nothing to do with it, that they were not armed and had no intention of interferimr with the road. As the officers returned to the train they noticed several men sitting or lying in th grass a few yards from the track. The entire posse advanced toward the men in ambush until they bad reached tne ditch alongside the track when they commanded a throwing up of hands.

The command was Obeyed, but as tlse hands came np they brought Winchester rifles with them, which belched forth a deadly fire. The posse returned the fire, it Is said, with fatal effect. There were perhaps 100 shots fired. After the first fire the posse advanced and continued firinsr. The ambnshers retreated behind some piles of ties, which proved a most excellest and from which they poured a mnrtlerous fire into the posse.

From this position tiscy were finally dislodged and driven beyond range of the posse's pistols. The casualties among the posse were found to be three: Police Officer Tuliord. shot through both thighs; Special Officer Dick Townseud, shot through the left breast near the nipple; fatal. Special Officer Charles Sneed, shot through the breast and jaw. The casualties among the anibus'ners is only a matter ot conjecture, though there seems to be good grounds for saying that three or more of them were wounded, probably fatalls'.

The same authority says there were half a dozen or more horses visible that were ambushed, which it is believed belonged to the ambushing party. The posse carried the wounded men aboard the train, which backed into the union depot. The Knighls of Labor claim that the first shot was fired by the officers, but the weight of testimony is against the assertion. Tim Wilson, who was on the engine Srtd within three feet of Dick Townsend, who Was shot in the back, states positively that the first fire eatse from the strikers. I.

L. Stewart was an eye witness to the shootimr and (fives it as his opinion that the strikers fired liist. Sheriff Maddox Saturday afternoon organized two companies oi citizt-ns, which were armed with Winchesters and carbines, and marched them to the depots the avowed determination to suppress all opposition to the lawv The people were in a terrible sttite of excitement and appeared completely dumbfounded. The breach between the law find the strikers has been widened and the bitterest expressions can be heard on every side. There are hundreds of Knights of Labor in the city who do not appear to le-gret the occurrence of Saturday.

It has-been learned that the strikers on Friday purcii ten Winchester rifles in this citv, and the names of two or three of the men who carried rifles have been learned. The M.ivor has issued a proclamation appointing seventy-five, deputy policemen and ordering all the saloons io remain closed until Wednesday. A petition has been sent to Governor Ireland for State Bangers and military transportation for the troops has beeu applied for from Receiver Sheldon. J.atcr Particulars. Fort Worth, April 5.

Six companies of the Fourth resiinect have arrived here. Two companies of the First are also Here. Drizadier General Roberts is in command. The dead body of Frank Pierce, a striker, was found yetserday and brought into town. Two others who were wounded have been located.

Trouble is looked for this morning, as strikers are coming iu from al; direction. The train sent south yesier-tiar reached Alrado, thirty miles distant, in safetv. Attorney General Templeton, Who is here with Adjutant- General King, says: "Since the authority of the State has been invoked, it shall be wielded, and trains must move, if it takes the whole military force of the State to do it." The depot and -yards were guided last night by over 200 citizens called Ihlo service by tbe mayor's proclamation, anft the stret-ts were patrolled by armed men. ThtsTe was great fear of fire during the night, and extra, precautions were taken. One hundred firemen were in waiting at tlie engine houses for any emergency, aud the fires at the rumpv'g stations were kept np to a hinh point all night.

Offers of aid were seat from all surrounding points, and engines were kept in readiness to be forwarded at a moment's notice. Strikers are arriving from various outside points and the statement is made that the Knights of Labor have determined that Fort Worth shall be the point where trains shall be stopped at all hazards, end that there they will lisrht their battle. On ttie other hand the citizens declare that tie Missouri Pacilic trains shall move even though it costs scores of lives to accomplish it. The troops i.ow number 235 men. Adjutant General King, Brigadier General A.

S. Roberts, Attorney General Templeton, Inspector General P. Smith and Colonel W. P. Games are on the grounds.

The railroad yards are lined with soldiers and no one dares venture on the railroad property. The raitroad yards are skirted by a line of saloons and low resorts. Here have been congregated all day a number of desperate looking men, some of hom are ex-railway employes. There were others also who heretofore had frequented the yards committing numerous depredations, but they did not attempt, to enter ihe yards or interfere with railroad property. No further trouble is anticipated in the movement of trains from the yards or through the city, but minora are heard of bridge-burning and dj namite plots.

A Narrow Escape. Kansas City, April 5. Lee Loudon, who keeps a barber shop on Union avenue, was shot in the bieast four times by J. II. Moore, a laborer in West Kansas, last night.

Tbe parties are ail colored. Loudon's wile has been living with Moore, and last night Loudon went over to see his little girl, who was staying with her mother at Moore's house. While there he and Moore got to fighting and Moore shot him. At the time Loudon had on three shirts under his clothes and they stopped the force of th balis, thus saving his life. Moore was taken to the Second precinct station and will have a hearing in the morning.

Wreck of the Congdon. Sax Feajtcisco, April 5. Th mystery attending the wreck of the schooner J. H. Congdon off Poiut Reyes last Tuesday has been soived.

She was run down by the steamer Taquina, of the Oregon Development Company, which was under full headway at the time. The first officer was on the bridge and nearly all the passengers were on deck. No one 6aw any light on the schooner. Wlen the crash an? cries of the men were beard, the steamer stopped and Captain Gibson sent aid to rescue the crew of the swamped vessel. The men were taken safely aboard aud are now at Yaquina City.

The Marshal's Denial. Leavexwoeth, April 5. United States Marshal W. C. Jones, in conversation with a correspondent vesterdav.

de- nied the interview in which he was made to reflect upon the citizens of Atchison as I being in sympathy with the lawless acta lately perpetrated in that city. He had spoken to no one about such a condition of affairs there, but did say to some friends that R. 'N. Everest, of Atchison, told him that the city and county officials were ia sympathy with the lawless men. He had no knowledge of the facts himself but could testify to the efforts made by the citi-I tens Atchison to save railroad property, fmmense toss nf Property by the Late Southern Nashville, April 3.

Specials indicate the most terrible distress and loss of life in Southern Alabama. Railroad traffic is completely blocked and no trains are running on the Louisville Nashville lailroad south of Birmingham. The Queen Crescent totite is washed out so as to stop travel between and Chattanooga, Tenn. Thei Georgia road is also badly washed. It will probably be ted days before trains are running.

The Ala-Daina river has overflowed its banks and covers the country with a wild waste of water. Numbers of people have been rescued from the tree top3, where they climbed to save their lives, and many from rafbj which are floating down the numerous streams. Thousands of carcasses of cattle are seen in the Tennessee. The river has overflowed and the bottoms are covered with water. The destruction of the wheat crop in the Cumbetland lowlands will possibly amount to $500,000, necessitating a second plowing of the aronnd and the planting of corn or some other product.

The flood is the greatest for years, and if the rains continue the loss of property will be terrible. Montgomery, April 3. A special to the idnertfser states that the Warrior, the Coosa. and the Tallapoosa livers are falling. Thousands of horses, mules, cattle and hogs have been swept away.

Corn, cotton seed and provisions in reach of the flood were destroyed. A relief boat brought a large number of people who had been in peril and were without food for three days. On the farm employing State convicts, water flooded the quarters. The president of the board of inspectors made his way with boats to imperiled places and got them off in safety. So far the reports of drowning in various portions of the State foot up nine, all cplored but one.

Four were women and three children in a cabin on the Capiba river, it floating off with them. The vater is two- feet deep at the Union Depot and from there to Alabama river the bridge of the north and south road is almost a continuous sheet of water. A special from Opelika Says Johnson Bridges, engineer of the construction train Which went down on the Taliapoosa river, died after his leg was amputated. Six hands on the same railroad died front injury or were drowned; Viewed from the dome ot the Capitol, the highest point in the vicinity, the surrounding country is a lake of water to the north and west fully ten miles; LoltisvilI.e, April Si. The' river here has reached the danger line and is still rising rapidly; The atmosphere is cloudy; Rain will cause additional alarm.

The streams throughout the State, particularly the Kentucky and the Cumberland rivers, are very high. CORRUPT ALDERMEN. Four Additional New Yorte Aldermen Arrested for lleceiving New York. April 3. Alderman Fui-graff was arrested yesterday morning on a bench warrant by a central office detective on the charge of bribery in connection with the passage of the Broadway surface raifc way franchise, and was taken to the district attorney's office.

lulgraff walked into the district attorney's office closely followed by the detective. After holding a long interview with the district attorney, Fulgraff was taken before the grand jury. Ex-Alderman night in a cell headquarters, sitting Kirk spent the at the police up all niKht with' his head in his hands brooding over his troubles. After the ex-alderman had breakfasted he was taken to the district attorney's office, where he was given a private room. Soon after ex-Alderman Waite drove up in a carriage, accompanied by two of his assistant attorneys, and entered the building.

Ex-Alderman Fincfc shortly afterward made, his appearance in company with a detective and entered one of the rooms of the district attorney's office. Although the district attorney persists in stating that ex-Alderman Waito is not a prisoner, he is guarded closely. The grand jury has returned indictments for bribery against Aldermen Kirk and Pearson. Kiik was released on 25,000 bail and Pearson was required to furnish the same bond. Ex-Alderman Waite is iu charge of Inspector Byrne.

Ex-Alderman Pearson was released on bail, his brother, Alexander, justifying in the sum of $50,000. The penalty for the offense is ten years' imprisonment or 5,000 fine, or both, in the discretion of the court. Tin. political organizations are. casting out those connected with the Broadway surface road scandal.

At a meeting of the Tammany committee organization last night the resignations of ex-Alderman KirK, Fulgraff and Charles A. Dempsey and Billy Muloney were tendered and accepted. The County Democracy executive committee last night passed resolutions calling on the district committees to retire all persons from the organization in any way connected with the steal. UNEASY EUROPE. The Greeks Keeping Up a Constant Feeling of Uneasine as t' the Future.

Loxdox, April 2. Despite the extremely interesting situation which exists in England now with regard to the future of Ireland the complications of party, and the fate of Mr. Gladstone, the attention of statesmen and the public is strangely directed toward eastern Europe in consequence of the great uneasiness felt in all quarters concerning the possible action of Greece. Her threatening war attitude toward Turkey which has not been allayed by any counter threats made by the powers is a constant menace to the peace of Europe. April 6, next Tuesday, is the date of the celebrtion of Greek independence.

It is feared extraordinary demonstrations will be by the populace of Athens. The war fever is due entirely to the people asking for it. George and a majority of his ministry would prefer peace if it were possible, to exert any practical influence on the great body of the Greeks. The fear is that the populace and the troops will be carried away by patriotic enthusiasm, and that hostile movement Against Turkish forces will be precipitated. This possibility is, recognized everywhere.

Important Army Changes. Washington, April 3. A general order was issued by the AVar Department yesterday afternoon announcing the following assignments: Major General J. M. Schofield to the division of the Atlantic; Major General A.

H. Terry to the division of the Missouri; Major General O. O. Howard to the division of the Pacific Brigadier General Crook was relieved from command of the department ot Arizona and assigned to the department of the Platte, formerly commanded by General Howard. Brigadier General if.

A. Miles, now in commaud of the department of the Missouri, has been assigned to the department of Arizona. Kabbi Sonneschein. St. Louis, April 3.

Rev. Dr. S. H. Sonneschein, Rabbi of the largest Jewish temple in the city, the Shaare Emeth, resigned last evening after a continued pastorate of seventeen years.

Dr. Sonneschein is in his denomination a national eharacter aud is well known ail over the country because of his liberal views. He has fraternized freely with Christian pastors of this city and has several times within the past two years preached from a Christian pnlpit. His resignation has been caused by the election at the annual meeting of the congregation, last Sunday, of a board opposed to him, and it will take effect six months if the congregation do not sooner relieve him. A Difficulty.

Vickseckg, April S. A serious difficulty occurred nine miles from this city at four o'clock yesterday evening in Oak Ridge section between Dr. James Austin, a proaiineut physician, and Mr. Will Moore, a large and prosperous planter. The parties had some ill feelinsts for some lime Yesterday they had disputes about a house Which resulted in Moore firing at Austin with a pistol.

The doctor then attempted to strike Moore with an axe. He then secured the pistol and shot Moore in the left breast, inflicting, it is thought, a fatal Among the charters lately filed with the Secretary of State was that of the Memphis Western Railroad Company, with eleven directors as follows: George Miller, Andrew Grogan, James A. Leaveditt, of Wellington; Samuel Fleming, James Henry and Frank Hess, of Arkansas City; E. P. Miller and Charles Beary, of Cherry vale John Montgomery, of Oswego, and Allen C.

Kirby, of St. Louis. The charter provides for a standard road from Memphis on the Mississippi, through Arkansas and Missouri to the east line of the State of Kansas, thence through the Counties of Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Cowley Sumner, Kingman, Pratt, Reno, Stafford Edwards, Pawnee, Barton, Rush, Ness, Hodgeman, Trego, Gove, Lane, St. John, Wichita, Greeley and Wallace, with a branch through Harper, Meade, Barber, Comanche, Clark, Seward, Stevens and Morton Counties. The offices of the company are to be located at Winfield.

The charter provides for a capital of $10,000,000. The Governor recently made the following appointments: Regents of the Agricultural College, John H. Fullinwider, of Eldorado, vice C. A. Leland John E.

Hes-sin, of Manhattan, vice J. T. Elliott. Regents of the State University, M. R.

Simpson, of McPherson, and A. G. Otis, of Atchison, to succeed themselves. Director of the Penitentiary, Arch Shaw, of Olathe, vice H. P.

Lowrey. Member of the Livestock Sanitary Commission, James W. Hamilton, of Wellington, to succeed himself. Members of the State Board of Health, W. L.

Schench, of Osage City, and H. S. Roberts, of Manhattan, to succeed themselves. Appraisers of Salt Spring Lands, D. W.

Finney, of Neosho Falls, A. Xi. Vorhes, of Russell, and J. F. Billings, of Clay Center.

Trustee of State Charitable Institutions, A. T. Sharpe, of Ottawa, to sncceed himself. Late post-office changes in Kansas Established, Calhoun, Cheyenne County, James Shawpill Gopher, St, John County, William H. Edmonson; Laurel, Hodgeman County, Alfred T.

Reilley. Discontinued, Henry, Dickinson County Tokomo, Pratt County. Tjie National Educational Association of the United States meets in Topeka July 13, 1886, and the people of that city are mak. ing lively efforts to prepare for the accommodation of all who may attend. The Fredonia Citizen declares that the emigration from Wilson County to Western Kansas this spring is something unprecedented.

Many well-to-do farmers are induced to make the change in hopes of securing more land than they can now obtain in the eastern part of the State, and to take advantage of the experience and knowledge they 1 ave acquired. The Stat9 Superintendent of Public Instruction estimates the amount of school land in Kansas remaining unsold at 350,000 acres. The permanent school fund now on interest amounts to $3,529,000. An official from Tarrytown, N. recently went to Leavenworth with a requisition for one of the Tarrytown robbers, who was so closely presed that he gave himself up.

The man is a deserter from the United States army and was to be taken back to New York. The Tarrytown robberies occurred over a month ago. Nearly the whole town was burglarized, but all the robbers but one were bagged. The man who escaped went to Leavenworth. A smart kid, aged only eighteen, recently victimized several Topeka money-lenders, obtaining in the aggregate nearly $300 on mortgages given on a team to the differ ent parties.

His name is Roach, and as soon as he got the money he left. Shortly after his departure it was discovered that the team did not belong to Roach, as he had represented, but was owned by a livery man. He was overhauled at Atchison and taken back. Dr. Kate C.

BrsnxEi.L, of Topeka, has accepted work at Chicago among fallen women, under direct supervision of Miss Francis E. Willard. Kansas farmers who raised broom-corn last season and held it until about January 1 received from $125 to $175 per ton, nearly twice as much per ton as they ever before received. In anticipation of the enactment of a law opening to homestead settlement the public land strip lying between Texas on the south and Kansas and Colorado on the north, immigrants are already pouring into that region; and it is estimated that should it be opened as expected, there will be 20,000 people there before the season is over. The President on the 1st nominated John L.

Price to be register of the land-office at Topeka, and William C. Baird at Wa-Keeny. 1 Neopha Valley Presbytery, comprising thirteen counties in the southern portion of the State, met in Coff eyville on the 31st with a large attendance. Rev. W.

B. Chamberlain, of Humboldt, presided. Many of the churches reported large additions. Tue Rock Island railroad survey for the new road has progressed about one hundred miles northwest from Atchison. The people along the route were reported very enthusiastic about the enterprise.

Lieutenant Grove Young, who formerly resided in Shawnee County, five miles southwest of Topeka, but now of the Grove Young Mercantile Company, Higginsville, has given the State Historical Society a singular relic, of the war, being no less than the skin of his much venerated war horse, which died at Higginsville on the 23d of March. The horse was thirtywo years old at the timo of its death. Secretary Adams is in a quandary as to the method of preserving the hide. The vandalism at Atchison the other night by which fifteen locomotives of the Missouri Pacific were disabled, caused a iceimg oi inuigiiauon. a meeting was held to denounce the perpetrators of the outrage.

The President has nominated A. W. Tripp for postmaster of Barnes, vice Ober, removed also G. E. Stowell, of Syracuse, vice Barber, removed.

Capital is seeking investment in Kansas. A late fire at Columbus destroyed R. Hertz' restaurant, loss, $3,000, insurance, Atlison groceries, loss. $3,500, insurance, Branin books and stationery, loss, $4,700, insurance. Clendoning groceries, loss, $4,000, insurance, $3,000, and (Jamaged Scammon's three-story brick block, but it was fully covered by insurance.

The State House Commissioners have or dered that the windows in the Senate chamber be completed at once. Other work will be suspended until the question is settled as to whether the funds appropriated can be used or not. It is said that hydrophobia is more prevalent in Kansas than ever before known. The directors of the Western League met at the National Hotel in Leavenworth the other day, Leadville, Denver, Lincoln, Topeka, Leavenworth and St. Joe being represented.

The meeting was harmonious throughout and the prospects for the league are most favorable The clubs are situated close together and the base ball fever is at its height, owing to the admission of Kansas City to tho National League. The constitution provides that each club shall file with the secretary a certified check for $500 to guarantee to finish the season. The following Kansas postmasters were recently confirmed: Albert E. Mann, Pittsburgh; E. V.

Wharton, Yates Center. In the superior court at Topeka Judge Webb recently overruled and denied the motion for a temporary injunction re. straining the County Commissioners from erecting a jail and residence as authorized by the act of the Legislature providing for same. The Executive Council met recently at the State House, Topeka, and elected Al-merin Gillett, of Emporia, to succeed himself as Rulroad Commissioner. The Daily Capital was the official State paper.

Patents lately granted Kansas inventors: Hoof-parer, Glock Moon, Green: tuyere forges, W. G. Miller, Arkansas City; windmill, Ljevan, Ness City, Fire and Loss of Life in the Plant era House. The Victims, Four In Number, Part of the Female Help An Exciting Time Among the Guests Baniage to the Building Light. i St.

Louis, April 3. At 3:50 this morning Rosa Sloane and Kate Dooley, scrub girls of the Planters' House, discovered flames issuing from the rear of the house near the laundry. Without losing any time the girls, with great presence of mind, notified Mr. James O'Connell, the night clerk, who turned in an alarm. In the meantime Mike, the watchman, and Frank, a call boy, ran through, the building alarming the guests and at the same time allaying all apprehension by their cool and self-possessed behavior.

Many lingered in their rooms after the call, but the fumes of burning wood penetrated the house and soon convinced the lodgers that personal safety required immediate action. Contrary to all precedent there was little confusion, and the guests found their way to the main exit, and, with admirable courage, placidly awaited the result. Some of the faint-hearted ladies and gentlemen rushed to the stair-cases and tumbled down with disordered costumes bundled in their arms. The fire department was promptly on the ground, and a line of hose was taken up the main stair-case to the fourth floor, where a powerful stream was played across the arcade with telling effect. Another line was carried into the alley off Pine street under the storehouse and taken directly into the laundry, where the flames were blazing fiercely in the rafters overhead.

The fire had secured good lodarraent, but with several well-directed streams it was soon overcome, and the Babcocks brought into play to extinguish the smouldering embers. At the first symptoms of danger the nurses who were attending Governor Phelps, were informed of the real situation and notified that there was no imminent danaer. The lonpr-snfferinor patient accepted the situation calmly, and instead of growing- nevous, as was anticipated, he chose to abide the situation and trust in his attendants. The Governor's room is on the main floor at the Chestnut street side, or nearly a block away from the fire. The greatest danger that developed, after the fire had gained head wav, was from the fear-stricken women and some men.

In many instances thev had hurig around the halls, afraid to venture awav, for fear of meotine the flames, and all the time bein? subjected to greater danarer from suffocation. On the lower balls and in the rotunda and on the streets the scenes were piteous. It wa earlv reoorted that many neople were in the bnildinsr who could not be accounted for and that they were evi-dentlv lost, but this giving way to a feel-ins: that all had been saved, the fears of those alreadv out of danerer lessened, but they had not been taken a way when it was discoverer! that there had actually beeD loss of life. The scenes thru became of the wildest character, and while some of t.hp neople btinT around breathless to ee how innnv had been lost, others cried out oiteonslv for friends who had been senaratort from for the moment. Thf chambermaids and servants were particularly panic-stricken.

The missing people were all from their number, and it was hnart-rendino- as they called out piteously for their fripnds to answer. In room 546 lay Marv Cooney, chambermaid on the fourth floor, who had evidently made frantic efforts to escape by mshino- through the hallways and down the stairs. She was found lvinr on her face in the hallwav on the third floor, and crirried into No. 24fi. where everv effort wns jnaflo to reuscitatf her.

without result. Her fnce was hpo-rimed with smoke, and on either side of her neck the skin and flesh wns torn, as though in the aironv nf suffocation she bad tried to tenr he choking sensation from her neck. Her rie-ht arm was bruised and torn, and there was a Wound on her left ankle, but none had enoueht to warrant any theory other than that of suffocation. The victim was about twenty-five years of ao-e. dark hair and eyes, and had ben a faithful employe of the Planters' House for manv vea-rs.

Scarcely had the discovery of the first bodv been announced when two more unfortunates were found locked in each other's arms, suffocated. One proved to te Kittv Cassidy, need seventeen years, an employe in the linen department: the other was Mary Coogan, twenty-five years of age. who was also employed in the linen department as an ironer. She had been in the employ of the Planters' about two weeks, havine come there from the Southern Hotel. Kitty Cassidy was an orphan, and had a sister living in the city, but no other known relatives.

By her side lay Mary Cooon. her roommate, who presented a horrible appearance. Her face was blackened and features drawn as though she had died in the greatest agony. Her hands were clenched, and the position her body had assumed was plainly indicative of the terror preceding the agony of a death by fire and suffocation. The next body found was that of Maggie Reardon, aged forty yerirs, an employe of the linen department in the capacity of ironer.

She bore no mark upon her face or body, but was begrimed with smoke and dirt. She died from suffocation. Maggie Reardon was a steady, industrious woman, the support of an aged mother and an invalid sister. Her body was placed in the dining-room, alongside the two victims referred to above. The large crowd which soon gathered on the deeply-incrnsted sidewalks and streets was busied in caring for the half-clad guests of the hotel, as they emerged from the main entrance, and out of the Chestnut street entrance.

Many of the ladies and employes of the hotel rushed out of the building with only a skirt thrown around them, and their stockings hastily pulled on, their shoes and the remainder of their clothes gathered hastily in their arms. All of the hacks on the street had been called to the scene the moment the fire broke out, ready to convey the guests to other hotels. I The burned portion of the building is located in the rear, on the alley running from Pine to Chestnut. It is supposed that the fire originated in either the laundry or the kitchen, located on the first floor, and I in about the center of the building. This part of the hotel, besides the kitchen and laundry, is used for the sleeping apartments of the help, who occupied small, close rooms situated on the second and third floors.

It appears that wherever the flames started they at, once started uoward and raged more furiously in the second story than anywhere else. The rooms here are badly burned, a3 well as on the third floor, and at one place the flames have eaten a big hols from the first floor to thereof. It is not known what the fire originated from. A Colorado Railroad. Fof.t Kkogit, April 2.

Mon-taua is booming with new railroad schemes this year. Articles of incorporation were filed Wednesday with Recorder Lee at Billings, Clark's Fork and Cook City Railroad Company. The capital stock is placed at 1,000,000 iu shares at $100 each. The new road will open up the Clark Fork mining district, and also give a northern outlet to the new oil fields in Southern Montana and North Wyoming. George V.

Simms, of New Ydrk, and Henry Kelly, of Philadelphia, are among the incorporators. Knocked Oat by Sullivan. Toronto, April 2. A dispatch from Cobonrg, says that a train bearing the John L. Snllivan combination stopped there for refreshments yesterday, en route for Toronto.

Wm. Johns, a hackman, walked through the car where Sullivan sat, and made rather uncomplimentary remarks to passengers. Sullivan jumped up and struck Johns a terrific blow in the face, cutting an ugly gash and knocking him over. The train dispatcher offered to hold the train ii Johns would send far the chief of police and arrest Sullivan, but the Jehu was afraid to incur Sullivan's wrath, and refused. The Treachery of Geronimo tUe Troublesome Apache Chief.

Sax Francisco, April 2. A Tombstone dispatch says General Forsyth, who arrived there yesterday, states that at the first interview between General Crook and the hostiles last Thursday, Geronimo had his men armed with rifles ready to fire upon all the whites, including General Crook, at a signal. General Forsyth says that Geronimo will not surrender, knowing that on account of his.numerou-bloodv crimes he can expect no clemency. His future movements cancel be pro- dieted, ARCU3 PUBLISHING CO. PT.

TVTRR. CURRENT COMMENT. The Iowa House hn.s defeated the bill prohibiting mai-rmc between lirst cousin. Kx-SEN ATOIt Al.T.KN (1. TlItritMAN wan victimized recently in Columbus', by a note former.

TllK girls in the public schools of Urooklvn arc compelled to commit to memory the Constitution of the United Slate. Sevan, an inimijrfant Swiss watchmaker was sn-rested recently nt Louisville, for. smuggling-watches. JaMF.M GoKDON Ul NNKTT, it Silitl, will go MHn to the Indian Ocean in his yacht and several months among the i.slands there. llf NitY Tayi.oh, an epileptic patient in tlic Coffee County (Tenn.) Insane Asylum, killed his room-mate recently, ami was shot by a guard.

The average cost of American railroads, including rolling stock, is said to In; one hundred and sixty-one thousand, four hundred dollars per mile. The Treasury Department has prepared a new design for ten dollar silver certificates, which includes an excellent vignette portrait of this late Vicc-IVcMilent Ilendriel.s. The Legislature of Hritish Columbia has passed an act, which will be inserted in every bill, prohibiting the employment of Chinese by any company the bill may apply to. News has been received from Lake Charles, that, in boring wells at the sulphur mine, oil was struck at a depth of X0 feel, and was llowing at the rate of barrels daily. On the allegation that Alabama has defaulted In certain legal obligations, the Attorney (Jenerat of New York decides that savings batiks of the Empire State can not invest in Alabama State bonds.

The steel ties on the Midland railroad, cost $1.70, and weigh lo7 pounds. They last lifty years. There is a strong tendency in England to the use of steel ties, that weigh more and cost twice as much as the wooden tie. The massive iron chest, in which the manuscript of the Doomsday book was formerly kept is still preserved in the British Olliee of Public Records, and it will be an object of curiosity at the coming of the eight hundredth anniversary. "IIkkk lies the body of John McLean Hay ward, a man who never voted.

Of Mich is the kingdom of Heaven." This Is the epitaph which a citizen of Way-laud, left behind him, and which, it is asserted, his executors intend to inscribe over his grave. Benjamin who died at New Canaan, recently, was a grandson of Enoch Crosby, the original of "Harvey the hero of Cooper's famous novel, "The Spy." lie was buried at Carmel, N. the native place of his grandfather. It' is stated that Dr. Luther C.

Boss of Palmyra, has perfected a telephone transmitter, which will render conversation between New York and Chicago an easy matter. A test of a circuit of eight hundred and seventy-eight miles was made recently, resulting in the ticking of a watch being plainly heard. While carpenters -were tearing down a portion of an old house in West Manuington, W. the other day, they came upon sixteen human scalps, live of them evidently being those of women and all belonging to persons of the Indian race. They are supposed lo have been taken by some of the early settlers of the country a century ago.

Mot NTAlx lions have been very numerous in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, nil winter, and their depre tlations have cost the stockmen of the Big Horn heavily. Sheep have been killed on the open prairie at all hours of the day, and the very corrals have been invaded and colts and calves carried oil'. Numbers of the bold and savage raiders have been killed, but their forays conlinue. An exchange says that John G. Whit-tier, the poet, "has been putting his house in order," so as to leave nothing over which there can possibly lie any trouble when he passes off the stage of action.

In doing this he has burned several thousand private letters, the accumulated correspondence of half a century. He regards private letters as sacred, and wishes that his own letters tuny alsy he destroyed. Minnkai'ous, is to havo a new twelve-story hotel, The Palisades. The main dining room and private banqueting rooms will be in ho tenth story, ami will excel in finish any rooms used for similar purposes this I sicle of New York. lie eievcnin iioor i will bo devoted entirely to the kitchen and its accessory departments and the twelfth story contains the laundry and servants' quarters.

It will have accommodations for five hundred guests and will cost seven hundred aud fifty thousand dollars. TriE Norwegian schooner Praesis, from Natal, Africa, arrived at Galveston, recently with a queer cargo of ostriches, African birds and monkey for Dr. J. Skettlerly's ostrich farm in Los Angeles, Cal. The passage out was decidedly rough on the ostriches, as twenty of them died, leaving only thirty-six to be entered.

Tho birds and monkeys were in charge of a number of coolies, among whom was one woman, giving rise to the rumor that African labor was being imported for work in America, causing considerable excitement until the real facts became known. The cargo vv.as placed in quarters in the. Beach Hotel Zoological Gardens until sufficiently recuperated to stand the fatigues of railway ryel to destination, Gleaned by Telegraph and Mall. CONGRESSIONAL Aftkk routine business the Senate on the iXlth proceeded with the consideration of the bill to increase the efficiency of the annr, debate on which continued until adjournment Tlio House, in Committee of tl.e Whole, considered ut lensrtti the Post-office Appropr niion bill. When the committee rose the House adjourned.

The Army bill was again placed before ttie Senate on the 31st. when the details of the bill were scuesed. cons dcrablo time belngr so occupied. Mr. Vance addressed the Sen-Hie in support of the bill to repeal the civil service law.

Mr. Dolpb addressed the Senate in support of the bill for the adimes on of Washington Territory. No aulion was taken on these measures, when the Senate went into executive session, after which It adjourned. the IlouHe Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri, from the Committee on Labor, reported a bill to prov de for the speedy settlement of controversies and differences bo tweeu common enrr er enwadred in inter-stnte and terr tor nl transportation of property or pnssenvers and their employes.

The House went into Connm ttee of the Whole on the 11, the tenor of the remarks beintf thnt the pr nc pie of arbitriition as involved in the bill wt's or too voluntary nature to be of any effect Pending seussion the committee rose. Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, reported tlio Itiver and Harbor bill. The report of the uiMjor tv on the Hurd-Homeis election case was submitted, and Mr. Martin, of Alabama, obtained leave to tile a minority report.

The House then adjourned. lx the Senate, on the 1st, the bill to provide for the erection of a $500,000 monument to Abraham Lincoln at Washington was passed. Tho bill to admit Washington Territory as a tato was eous dered. On mot on of Mr Kdmunds the Senate adjourned until tho nth The House was in Committee of the Whole on the Labor Arbitrat on bill. Hebato lasted nearl- all dav, and soon after the committee rose the House adjourned.

The Senate was not in session on the 2d. of tho Arbitration bill was resumed in the House, and the entire day was occupied in debate The fifth section of the bill was reached, and. pending consideration, the House took a roeess until evening-. At tlio evening session thirtv-flve pension Dills passed. No business was transacted in the Senate on tho 3d In the House a communication was received from the Secretary of the Treasury trausmitt'ng estimates for an np-proprintion of $1,000,1100 to pav the additional pensions allowed hv tho act of March 18.

1SSB. Altera iit tie sparrinir the Labor Arbitration lull wim taken up mid pushed to a vote. The bill finally passed with only 2: dissenting votes. Debute on tlio silver question was then resumed und continued until adjourn uient. rEKSOSAL AND POLITICAL.

Tris joint committee of both houses of the Iowa State Legislature has filed a report justifying ex-Governor Sherman in suspending State Auditor Brown, but not approving the Governor's use of military to accomplish tho removal. The report condemned Drown for irregularities in keeping accounts and for lack of integrity in exacting extortionate fees. Secketart Manning was reported by his physician on the 1st as improving in health slowly. H. II.

West and Jesse Collings, Liberal members of the British Parliament for Ipswich, have been unseated on charges of illegal electioneering practices. Jamts P. Kikk and Charles B. Waite, ex-Now York aldermen, have been arrested on bribery charges. It was believed Waite was tho man who offerod in a letter to turn informer.

Tun House Committee on Foreign Affairs has agreed to report favorably the bill authorizing the President to arrange a conference for the purpose of encouraging commercial relations between the America republics. The President has approved the act authorizing the appointment of an Acting Assistant Treasurer. The wives of Governor Larabee, of Iowa, Lieutenant Governor Hall and many members of the State legislature have formed a society agreeing not to wear birds' plumage on their hats. The Archbishop of Paris has written a letter to President Grevy, in which he expresses grief at tho Government's attacks on religion, denies that the clergy are hostile to the State, and appeals to" President Grevy in behalf of Christianity to judge between the Government and the Church. Tub Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick signed the act passed by the Legislature of tho province conferring municipal suffrage on women who pay a certain amount of taxes.

JrrxiE John Baxter, of Knoxville, died recently at Hot Springy after an illness of only a few hours. He was sixty-seven years old, and was appointed by President Hayes in 187J to succeed Judge H. II. Emmons. Ai.

Herman Fii.gkaff has been added to tho list of New York aldermen in jail for accepting bribes to promote the Broadway surface railway. T. J. Dabney, a highly connected man of Georgia, was sent to prison at Atlanta recently for six months for fraudulent use of the mails. A mem her of tho German Reichstag has been summoned to appear before the courts for violating tho law which forbids any member of tho Reichstag to belong to a secret society.

A NUMKEii of members of Congress, including Judge Perkins, of Kansas, were at tho meeting of the House Agricultural Committee recently when Joseph H. Reall, president of the American Dairymen's As" sociation, made an argument in favor of taxing bogus butter making. The Viceroy of Kwangsi denies the report that China will make reprisals for the outrages on Chinamen in America unless compensated. MISCELLANEOUS. The House Committee on Labor has reported favorably Mr.

Lawler's bill to appropriate for a special commission to investigate labor troubles in the AYest. By the falling of the roof of a theater in Ileromal, Japan, February 28, 150 persons were killed or injured. By an explosion of petroleum in a vessel at Baku, Russia, the other day; the entire crew of thirteen persons perished. The strikers on tho Missouri Pacific system wero ordered to return to work by the Knights of Labor executive committee on tho aist. At Atchison a number of loco-motivos were disabled.

At Sedalia a "scab" was marched out of town at the points of revolvers. Machinists were actively employed at the various roundhouses repairing engines. News was received in Taris recently that the natives of Senegal in rebellion against the French authority have resorted to open warfare. In a recent attack tho rebels killed nine French soldiers and wounded thirty-two. Reinforcements were being fitted out at Toulon.

Twelve hundred graders on the new line of the Chicago, Burlington North western railway struck on the 1st for an advance in wag( of 25 eeuts per day. It was denied that Orth H. Stein had ab- Bconded after robbing his mother in Lafay eue, ina. lie was reported wonting on tne St. Louis Glube-Dcinocrat.

Recent specials from New York report the sinking of the Capital City steamship, of the Hartford and New York line, at Rye Beach and also the stranding of the German steamer Europa off Quogue. The strike on the Missouri Pacific was by no means settled on the 1st. The Knights of Labor issued an address to the public claiming that in seeking a settlement as agreed upon with Gould and Hoxie, they were everywhere snubbed by the railroad officials on one excuse or another. A bitter feeling of animosity was reported existing. The Merchants' Hotel, Carver, was destroyed by Are the other morning and two men were burned to death in their beds.

The flood on the James river inundated that portion of Richmond, known as Rocketts to the depth of eight to ten feet on the 1st. Rivers nearly everywhere in the South were bank high and overflowing. The Ohio was also reported on a boom. The St. Paul railroad cut freight rates to St.

Paul and Minneapolis from Chicago on the 1st nearly 30 per cent. The other lines did not respond openly. Dispatches from Annara report fresh massacres at the Catholic missions in the province of Guang-Bing. The number victims was said to be Mrs. Maria P.

Evans, who figured conspicuously before the courts as legatee of the estate of Myra Clark Gaines, under an alleged will of Mrs. Gaines, was arrested recently in New Orleans charged with ut tering a forged will. In the suit of the ex-priest N. P. Stack vs.

Bishop O'Hara, of Philadelphia, it was decided that the Bishop could not be sued for neglecting to assign the priest to a charge- the university ooat race was won by the Cambridge crew by half a length on the 3d. The course was from Putney to Mortlake, on the Thames. Tukee children were burned to death in a cabin on A. Bidell's farm, near Piano, the other night. The parents were away attending meeting at the time.

A complaint has been made to the Treas' ury officials at Washington against a chief of a division in the internal revenue building, who was alleged to have insulted some ladies in the department elevator, while intoxicated. The steamship Gulf of Akabo, from Spain for New York, with iron ore, and carrying a crew of thirty-five men, has been given up as lost. Vessel and cargo valued at $220,000. All the differences between the officeis of the Brooklyn (N. City Railroad Company and its 1,800 employes have been settled.

William McCui.lt glass manufac turers of Pittsburgh, have succumbed to the boycott against their goods and have signed the union scale of prices. Early the other morning a fire was discovered in the laundry of the Planters' House. The guests were immediately awak ened and all reached places of safety. It was not so, however, with the female help, four of whom Kate Cassidy, Mary Cooney, Mary Coogan and Maggie Rear- don were suffocated before the fire was subdued. Loss, $5,000.

ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. An anti-Chinese demonstration and riot took place at Mazatlan. Mexico, recently. The Chinese fled from the town. Governor Lee recently requested patriotic Virginians not to pay all their taxes in coupons.

The Birmingham (Eng.) paper mill strike has ended, the employes submitting to a 30 per cent, reduction in wages. The Senate, on the 5th, again had Logan's Army bill under consideration. The House passed the Mexican Pension bill yeas, 158 nays, 68. The House also passed the Congressional Library bill. Secretary Lamar has refused to rehear the celebrated Nolan land grant case of New Mexico, and has ordered the opening of tho grant to public settlement.

By this 575,000 acres of land are given back to the people. A party of strikers, on the 5th, flagged a train on the Missouri Pacific at Cheltenham, near St. Louis, and commenced to abuse the fireman. The latter shot one oi his assailants. It was not known how seriously the man was wounded, as he was carried off by his friends.

Ten Chinese railroad laborers were recently driven away by the whites at Ni-pome, recently. The gross earnings of the Panama railway last year were $3,267,922, a decrease for 1884 of $226,853. The gross expenses were an increase of $877,360. The printers in the Times-Union, Evening Herald and Morning News offices at Jacksonville, struck the other night for an advance of 5 cents per 1,000 ems. The proprietors refused the advance, and declared their offices non-union.

A decision has been rendered that the tow-path of the abandoned Wabash Erie canal, between Worthington and Evans-ville, one hundred miles, has reverted to the original owners, and the Evansville Indianapolis railroad, which uses the tow-path as a road, will be, compelled to purchase the right of way. The Pacific Mail Line has raised the passenger rates for Chinese from $25 to $50 per head for the purpose of stopping the exodus, due to boycotting and recent troubles in the West. The Lone StarSalt Company's works at Colorado, were destroyed by fire re cently. Ira James operators of a tank line in the Mattoon (111.) station, have sued the Indianapolis St. Louis Railway Com pany for $20,000 damages fordiscrimina-tion.

William E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland under the previous Gladstone ministry, died in London on the 5th. He was sixty-eight years of ago. He got the sobrie- quet of "Buckshot Forster" for certain energetic instructions to suppress agrarian lawlessness in Ireland..