The Osage City Republican from Osage City, Kansas • 1

CITY j). r. ROBERTS, EditorantlProp. OSAGE CITY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1883. VOL.

II, NO. 15. A I.I. OVER THE STATE. way official of this State, in a conversa means; contracts with railroads had been let their own herds graze on the common Professor Faulb, who has made a study of THE LATKNT NEWS.

States, 15 Middle States, 29 Western States, 48 Southern States, 23 Pacific States and made under varying circumstances; the range tui tne grass is exnaustea, ana At Illiopolis, Illinois, Mrs. Thcebe Hay-land and her two little grandchildren perished in a burning building, all egress being cut off by the flames. the subject of volcanic eruptions, and is considered authority, predicts another earth-qua ke, to take place at Ischia the 15th of growth of the telegraph system repre- then turn their stock in on the wire-fence lerritones, Canada, 2o; rsew xork City 4. sented the growth of the country, and it range and exclude nester element, October. was progressing more rapidly tnan most ine latter swear mat tney The figures indicate a total yield of wheat Gen.

Sherman has gone to Los Angelos. A new Eastern base ball league is to be formed. Splenic fever is raging among cattle near people imagined; he thought 7 per cent The riots in Hungary against the Jews in Michigan of about bushels, or nearly OOO.tKX) less than the total product a fair estimate of the earning power of the Western Union; the stock of all safe continue despite the vigorous efforts made to suppress them and the punishment in was estimated July. tion the other day about Kansas, said to us that the railways of the State could not, with Lheir present rolling stock, haul out the products of Kansas for the year 1883 in two futtyears. He Btated that he had made calculations, based on official reports, which demonstrated this conclusion.

Every railroad in the State has more business offered it than it can hauL It is even now utterly impossible to supply the demands for cars that come in daily, and yet the crops of 1883 have hardly commenced to move. None of the corn has been harvested, and vast flicted on the participants. The rioters seemed crazed. Two coal trains on the Lehigh Valley railroad near Easton, collided Sept. 7th.

WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS, and demand a common range for all. They say that they have as much right to the range of the big cattle corporations as the last named have to the common range, and that in no event have the big companies the right to fence in any of the public domain and get the exclusive benefit of it. The unemployed cowboys naturally side with the nesters as a mat paying enterprises was being distributed all over the country, this class of investors held about sixty million of Western Union which was continually becoming scarce in the market; within two Reports from all parts of Russia state that One engine was damaged and twelve cars the cattle plague continues with unabated fury. Over a million cattle have tallen victims of the plague within the past four years in European Russia alone. wrecked.

No one hurt Chicago is making great effort to suppress the smoke. The C. fe N. W. K.

R. Co. was fined $250 because smoke was seen to issue from five of its locomotives. years, Mr. Uould thought, the remaining shares now upon the market would be S.

E. Kennedy, thedefaulting bookkeeper of the Commercial National Bank at Youngs-town, returned from Toronto Sept. 7th. He stated to the bank officials that $14,000 covers the amount of his shortage. The bank will not lose over $4,000, as Kennedy's property will be sold to pay his defalcations.

i The following dispatch was received at the Naval Department Sept. 7th from Commander Barnes, of the United States steamship Enterprise, at Batavia, where she was directed for the purpose of investigating the result of the recent volcanic eruptions in that vicinity The Enterprise arrived here on the 4th inst. The Princess and the great channel are safe. In the Avox Bezee channel all lights are out, except at Java Head. Rffv.

Thos. II. Oakley, general delivery clerk in the postolttce, at Cleveland, Ohio, was arrested Sept. 7th, charged with steal quantities of wheat, oats, rye and barley absorbed by the investors. He was glad France is seriously considering the pros te of self-interest, as the erection of wire are yet in stack.

this was so, for it mdicated a parous fences would give'their numerous frater pects of a war with China, and the Chinese Ambassador will be asked to explain his reason tor the movement of Chinese troops condition oi anairs ne uiu nut, minis. 1qK uao Aa aA Ijaneaxter, a. Kight hundred news boys paraded in Chi: cago, Sept. 4th. Arizona, Texas and New England complain of drought.

Frosts are becoming frequent in the northern tier of states. Cotton prospects in the Memphis region are not encouraging. Shoshone Falls, IdaluyTerritory, is to be made a summer resort. The oitv of St. Paul "appropriated $50,000 for the Villard reception The Knights Templars are beginning to return from San Francisco.

Milwaukee is excited over a case which the physician called cholera. The Produce Exchange of Toledo, favors Garnett is at last a city of the second class. Work has begun on a new Odd Fellows Hall at Severance. The town of Russel has appropriated 10,000 to build an Artesian well. II.

J. Shipp, was run over and killed by a coal car at Fort Scott, Sept. 8th. Miss Annie Cook, daughter of G.Cook, of Barton county, was fatally burned while trying to kindle a fire with coal oil, last week. Mr.

Stalnaker, an old citizen of Linn county, coming there from West Virginia in 1856, was killed last week by his horses running over him. The Bull City Empire says there are 264,328 acres of farming land and stock farms yet unoccupied, and subject to homestead entry, in Osborne county. Mound City Clarion, Not less than twenty droves of cattle have passed through our streets in the last week, some for the purpose of feeding. All looking well. Wellington Press A.

Gibson, of Pales tine township has a mulberry tree on his STATE CAPITAL TOPICS. there was as much watered stock Of Western Union as on many other companies; to the Tonquin frontier. Jacob Wuldron, a farm-hand of Danville, Illinois, killed William Miller in a drunken quarrel. A party of twenty-five officers and citizens pursued the murderer. Gov.

Ordway, Secretary Evarts, General Grant, Carl Schurz, Mr. Billings, Mayor Carter Harrision and Secretary Teller made speeches at Bismarck on Sept. 5th. A dispatch from Batavia says The cof Warrants were issued to August Hohn fee and sugar crops of Canton have suffered severely from volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. Several Europeans and officials are anions' the dead and missing.

The wire fence trouble extends over an area of hundreds of miles and involves several thousand men, and as both sides APPEAR EQUALLY DETERMINED, Mr. McComb says he cannot how an open waT can be averted. Both sides are quietly arming for the affray. In addition to the fence cutting, nesters and the cowboys swear that they will fire the range, burn all the grass and let stock as Treasurer of the State Board of Charities for $13,294.51, for current expenses of those institutions for August. The items were: Asylum for Imbecile Youth.

the value of Western Union was very nearly equal to capitalization. A railroad like the New York Central probably could not be duplicated for its present capitalization. Mr. did not (think it was possible for a company to get an exclusive privilege for in case of any railroad another could be construct-ed along side if a suflicient number of wise men or fools would put their money into such an enterprise; eventually, how ing from prepaid parcels the stamps and selling them and pocketing the pro Lawrence. 403.87: Deaf and Dumb Asy The empress of China fears for the permanency of the dynasty in case of war jvith France and favors measures to secure peace.

ceeds. He waived examination before the lum, Olathe, Reform School, Topeka, Insane Asylum, Tope- The people of China, on the contrary, have United States Commissioner, and was bounl over for trial in $500 bonds. In Houston, Sept 7th, during a heavy rain nsh in common before they will sub no tear ol the result ot a war. Ka, insane Asylum, Osawato-mie, $6,702.05. The viceroy of southern TJhina says no and thunder storm the cottage of Robert The Supreme Court administers some The stockmen of Wyoming enter complaint that on hunting permits granted by Indian agents red men.

from the reservations are killing cattle and stealing horses. John Swintoh, before the senate labor committee, advocated income tax, Aght-hour laws and national boards of industry, health, education and public works. Congressman Payson, of Illinois, lias filed at the interior department an argument against the appointment of a commissioner to inspect the Southern Facific road. Gen. Joe Shelby drew a pistol on the troops have been ordered to cross the iron Adair was struck by lightning and burned mit to what they term the monopoly and autocracy of the ranges.

THERE IS MUCH BAD BLOOD. mutual dislike between the stockmen and nesters. The latter are regarded by wholesome advice to attorneys of that tier of Tonquin, but declares that China will with the house adjoining. Loss $5,000 in never sanction the Hue treaty, and that surance $4,000. Stemess, a black farm which has made a new growth of court in the case of Farlin vs.

error from Chase county, decided this France must make a proper arrangement twelve feet nin inches since spring. smith, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning. Mrs. Young received a shock of the former as intruders encroaching on with the Marquis Tseng or accept war. ever, the stronger roads would swallow up the weaker; in all lines controlled by him in the west the rates of fares and freights were regulated by state statutes; in many cases, however, competition reduced the rates charged below the limits fixed by law.

Mr. Gould declined to specify the rail-way whose capitalization was greatly in excess of the cost of construction or the their God-given domain, and are ostra lightning, but is not thought to be in dan term. The court justifies its remarks with the following language, "All gentlemen admitted to practice in this court the postal telegraph scheme. Th Lv 'ale hyrcl at Minneapolis was partially burned on Sept. 4th.

President Arthur arrived in Washington, Friday morning, the 7th inst. The Manitoba railroad bridge over the Mississippi river burned Sept. 4th. The Holland Blanket Manufacturing Co's mills at Merrimac, N. burned.

Mitchell wHnts to fight Sladent El Taso, but thinks Slade won't come to time. A new method of insulating underground telegraph wires lias been discovered. The mails from Pensacola are to be fumigated to prevent the spread of disease. Three new cases, of the disease prevalent The coroner's iuqnest to inquire into the cause of the death of Leroy Mills, who ger. state attorney during the trial of Frank nttwiuvji A number of genuine cowboys with the uiii ui ui uuinc mill i in Tally one more for the great Arkansas valley.

Cherry ville Globe: Abraham Thomas, living on E. B. Clark's farm, threshed a few days ago, 1,185 bushels of wheat from acres 650 bushels of oats from was killed by the exploding of two boil are officers of the court and it is not their privilege but it is the duty of the court to i James. He apologized in open court and customary accomplishments of broad-brim era in the Shawnee Mills, resulted in a verdict of accidental killing with no one was fined $10 and severely repremanded see that thev so conduct themselves as to ined hats and buckles, with revolvers and other warlike implements prominently dis justify the confidence of the community." to blame. 15 acres and 130 bushels of rve from 14 played, appeared on the streets ot Chicago, Sept.

7th. The Chief of Police seemed to acres. cised and almost boycotted. There was conceived those large cattle companies whose wealth arid magnitude have been heard far and wide. Where existed be-forea severalty of thirty or forty men now appeared an incorporate body powerful in their unlimited might.

Their purpose is obvious, to render agricultural pursuits impracticable by impeding communications and monopolizing the territory. The method adopted by them and the" stockmen in general was to purchase alternate sections in a body of land and then A disease has broken out among swine in Springfield, L. believed to be hog cholera, Many farmers have hogs sick with the disease, and two of them lost fifteen in one night. Naval Cadet Rumsey, of the third class, think they might conclude to take the town, Admiral Meyer, commanding the. French naval division in Chinese waters, has orders to arrest every Chinese boat carrying arms or troops, and in the event of a rupture to make an immediate attack on Canton and and ordered them brought in.

They came without trouble and explained that "they had just arrived with a lot of cattle. Tend was sentenced Sept. 7th to seven days soli pieasanton uoserver During a conversation with Misses Mai ti and Loah Miller regarding crops, we were informed that a bug had been working in their flax and had hurt the seed badly. Have any other other ports. ing the continuance of heir visit the police Six Irishmen were arrested in Glasgow, ot our frienda had a similar experience.

took charge oi their artillery. Some statements alleged to have been made to President Arthur by Hon. Edwards Pier-repont, of the Utah commission, so aston Scotland, August 31st, charged with blowing up the largest gasometer in the city, destroying a railway shed and attempting to real value. He did not believe in government interference, as rates would almost always be regulated by He explained in a general way the pool system as it at present existed, after which the Committee took a recess until 2 o'clock. After the session was resumed, Mr.

Gould continued his testimony. Do you think that the price of food is influenced by stock speculation, or speculation in products? inquired Senator Blair. It might to a certain extent increase the price for a short period, replied Mr. Gould, but supply and demand will always regulate these things, and keep up a balance. Mr.

Gould said he was not familiar ith the method of speculation in corn and wheat, but there was noth tary confinement for attempting to haze Cadet Thomas 1'. Morgan, of the fourth class. A number of Bethlehem iron workers have recovered, in a justice's court in Easton, the amount held from their wages, to pay their grocery bills at the company's Atchison Cliampion: Mrs. Martin, FENCE IX THE ENTIRE TRACT. One case is instanced in which a com while gathering corn in her garden in destroy with dynamite the aqueduct of the Firth of Clyde Canal.

Northwest Atchison, yesterday afternoon, tell into a ditch which she had not seen stores. The Governor of the Dutch East Indies ished A. B. Carlton, another member, that he has addressed Secretary Folger on the subject. He claims that the board was completely successful in excluding polygamists from voting or holding office, and that ten Mormons have sued the commissioners for and fractured two ribs.

Dr. Johnson set at 1'ensacola, were reported on Sept. 1st. A heavy blow on Lake Huron, Sept. 8th, caused considerable damage to shipping.

Berne's saw mill and seven million feet of luinlier at Marshall, Texas, burned Sept. 7th. The steamer Lilley exploded Sept. 7th on the Saskatchewan, tiOO miles west of Winnipeg, Cnrnie Dunn A leather manufacturers of Hichntond, have failed for Benedict Brothers' grain elevator at Cedar Springs, burned Sept. Oth.

Loss ooo. Missouri merchants are afraid that the ac- quittal of Frank James will hurt their telegraphs that the town of Telok was probably totally destroyed by the recent volcan the bones, and the patient is. doing well. Constable Parkhuist yesterday returned to the Young Men's Christian Association the silver plate which was stolen from their rooms some time ago. The articles consisted of a pitcher, plentifully engraved, showing that it was a gift, a Eair of plates and two goblets.

Park-urst says the theft was committed by John H. Burge, who sold the pitcher to Scott and the cups to Wm. Harris, and then skipped out. All the parties are colored. Scott and Harris both gave up the plate.

The case of A II. Case vs. Frazier, decided in the Supreme Court this term af- firming the decision of the District Court of this county, is a harsh one on Mr. Case. Case has a fine ranch in the northern part of the county which he holds under a tax deed.

He had paid out considerable money for taxes and valuable improvements. Frazier brought a suit in ejectment, claiming under a subsequent tax deed. The court holds that thia tax deed wiped out the tax title held by Case, and that he has no claim against Frazier for the taxes he has paid. It is perhaps not generally known, but Ground was broke Tuesday morning John Gunton, a farmer living six miles from St. Charles, while in a fit of delerium shot and killed Lewis Lobley, his colored housekeeper on Sept.

Oth. lie was arrested. ic eruptions. The district in which that town is situated is entirely inaccessible, 'as all the roads are obliterated. using authority in excess of that granted by the Edmunds act.

at ort Leavenworth for the erection ol a post hospital. It will be situated south of the hotel, 'or better known as the old Mons. Vanutelli, the Papal Nuncio at In the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on Sept. 5th, a decision was rendered in the Jacob ifadley, a stone cutter, of Taylor- Vienna, consecrated the remains of Chani- hospital, and will front toward the city suit of the Union Pacific R. R.

Co. vs. the bord on Sent. 1st in the presence of delegates It will be 180 feet long and 30 feet wide, vi lie, Ohio, shot and killed his son, Charley, aged 20 years, Sept. 4th.

Hadley was drunk at the time and afterwards tried to drown Credit Mobilier of America, arising out of from Emperor Francis Joseph, a number of and will cost $20,000. building of the road by the Credit Mobilier, Legitimists and others. A certificate ot death was deposited in the coffin. arsons Hun: lhe Masons are now under the Hoxie contract. The Company sought to restrain the Credit Mobilier from ing unfair in such speculation.

Each transaction represented a sale and delivery, and the influence of the transaction did not go beyond the parties themselves. The Western Union Telegraph Company he thought paid more attention to its employes than any other company with which he was connected. The recent strike, in his opinion, was the result of a feeling of dissatisfaction on the himself. Samuel Bulger, (colored), who committed rape on a girl twelve years old, the making preparations for the dedication pany, whose pastures comprise 130,000 acres, possess a title to only a small amount in excess of 20,000 acres. The nesters claim an equal interest in the unoccupied land with the stockmen, and allege that they should not be fenced off from it except by the real owners.

In Bpeaking of the secret order of the Nesters, a correspondent says "In its movements and methods it assimilates the policy of the old Ku Klux Klan. But recently born, it is managed with an admirable discipline, which betokens the experience of years. It operates in darkness; its meetings are under the coyer of darkness, and its membership is as deeply veiled. It is a desperate league to exterminate the wire fence and its power is amazingly illustrated in the terrible blows which have already been dealt. It was rumored yesterday that a line rider, one who looks after the fences, was lynched in Jack county for interfering with a party engaged in demolishing the wire.

The report has not yet been confirmed, but it is not at all improbable; such measures are not incompatible with the spirit which prosecuting a suit at law to recover Jay Gould before the Senate Sub-Commit of their new temple, in course of erection on the corner of Central and Washing 000 due, claiming fraud in the fulfillment tee. daughter of Mr. Canliff, on her way home from school, was hanged Sept. 3d, at Marys- of the contract. A full bench decided that there was no construction of fraud, and en The first railway with which I had any ton avenues, and which will be complet Hon.

M. E. Cutts, member of Congress elect from the Oskaloosa district in Iowa, is dead. Frank Shelton, colored, was hanged for wife murder, Sept. 7th, at Greensboro, Mississippi.

John C. New, assistant secretary of the Treasury, says lie does not contemplate re ed and ready for occupancy bv the 1st tered judgment against the railroad. connection was what is now a portion of the Rensselaer Saratoga railroad, of of December. which I was Superintendent: during the Martin Kaller, thirty-one years of age, was shot and killed by" Constable Johnson Pleasanton Observer For some time last week there was a good sized Indian part ol the poorer class of employes; the better class of workmen as a general rule did not care so much how many hours they worked, as they were continually hoping for higher position in the ranks. It was a fact that the Western Union panic of 1859 the stock went down very low and I was able to buy in a large scare out in St.

'John County on the we have noticed that our grape vines at Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, Sept. were dying, and upon examination found 5th. The constable fled after the shooting Union Pacific. A number of telegrams were received by Governor Glick from amount, which afterwards rose in value and an attempt was made bv the friends of and 1 made a handsome profit, lhe them loaded with immense worms that fed upon and killed them. We have one of these worms in the office and would Monument, saying that a large band of the dead man to burn Johnson's house, paid its employes better wages than any next road in which Gould said he inter vi lie, Ky.

The house of A. Bronson Aleott at -Concord, Mxssachusetts, has for several days and nights been haunted by an unknown man, who keeps the venerable sage agita-itated by peering in at the windows. Dr. Chalfant who shot Dr. Bacon in April 1879, in San Francisco, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, escaped from jail Sept.

3d. Petitions for his release were being signed. A notorious forger and ex-convict was arrested Saturday in New York while attempting to dispose of coupons cut from bonds which were stolen from the Northampton bank in 1870. claiming the killing was unprovoked. John Indians were roaming through that other company.

Labor and capital if ested himself was the Cleveland Pitts son put in an appearance next morning, like any one who has anv knowledge of County and that the settlers were in great left to themselves would bring about a such matters to come in and inspect it. danger. burg, which he afterwards leased to the Pennsylvania railroad. Gould then rehearsed his connection with the Union satisfactory adjustment. Theie was al suffering from knife wounds, claimed to have been received by him in attempting to arrest Kaller and some boisterous compan The Governor notified General Pope.

ways more or less dissatisfaction, and Jewell Republican There is no deny signing. Dr. J. K. Richer, of Mendota, 111., shot and mortally wounded hh wife Sept.

3d, and then tied. Christian Jackson, was killed by the Grand Pacific Hotol elevator in Chicago, Sep. 4th. George F. Moore, formerly chief justice of Texas, died of paralysis at Washington Aug.

30th. It is believed that the IT. S. steamer Alliance, for whose safety fears were entertained, In all right. The steamer Lanipart nut into Halifax in Pacific road; as he had interested him ions.

there was no panacea that would remove these feelings of discontent. ing the lact the hot, dry weather of the now prevails. In fact, it would REQUIRE BCT A SIGNAL ofrm the leaders of the secret organ and that gentleman at once dispatched a company of soldiers from Fort Hays to the locality. They have scouted the self in it and the stock was falling he last two weeks has caused considerable Sunday morning Sep. 2d three prisoners Do you think that labor gets its fair made up his mind to carry it through at injury to late corn, and some farmers are escaped Ironi the McDowell county jail.

CQuntry-thoroughly, and learn that the ization to inaugurate a terrible unflinch any cost; it was on the point of being In escaping they rudely pushed Mrs. Finley, share of the wealth, which is the product of labor and capital asked Senator of the opinion that the more advanced -Indiana are simply a few stragglers of a ing contest a border warfare, in which placed in the hands of a receiver. After the jailor wite, aside, injuring her slightly. corn lias suuereu very inaLcriaiiy. low the black flag would be raised; broth Blair.

wards when the road became a paying Some sections of southern Virginia will not yield more than half a crop of corn, cotton and tobacco. The streams are fast band which Major AVasson is taking from the Indian Territory back to their old home in the north. They have molested The fugitives were captured the same morning and returned to jail. About 10 o'clock er arrayed against brother, friend ing lor tall seeding has also been greatly retarded. A good shower within a few I do, replied Mr.

Gould. The returns dividends were declared dividends were declared one and regu- against friend, and neighbor against repeated pistol shots at the jail attracted the larly, there was a great cry from the davs would be of incalculable benefit. for capital in this country are continually growing less. The profits represent the neighbor. The most conservative men attention of the citizens, who were surpris- public that it was a Jay Gould public that it was a Jay Gould anticipate it.

Said one to me to-dav ed and indignant to find the jailor, enraged Lawrence Journal Last at road, and was a dangerous thing. lie said, however, he was then engaged in selling out his stock, which was soon in A are bordering on the most desper about half past five o'clock, J. G. Lindner, returns for capital, and all the rest, with the exception of what go to pay for raw material, is capital. by the treatment of his wife, and inflamed by whisky, shooting one of the prisoners, a ate state of anairs lexas has ever ex a carpenter at work on Murray's house, corner of Rhode Island "and Hancock negro, as he stood chained and handeutted.

perienced. Unless something is speedi What do you think is the explanation no one, and it appears that our friends were needlessly alarmed. The soldiers have returned to Hays, and all fears are now allayed. Those familiar with the Indians' habits know know that five hundred, if allowed their own time, woind require at least two weeks to pass a given point. ALL SORTS.

A few painful wounds were inflicted, but the hands of more than 7,000 investors, representing the earnings of many wid streets, fell from a scaflJoWnind was badlv drying up, rendering mill operations almost impracticable. Three hundred and eighty-five news boys who have regularly attended the Sunday school at the Rink taliernacle in Chicago have been given new suits of woolen clothing, at a cost of $1,500. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Buenos Ayres, at Geneseo, Illinois, was graced by the presence of six grown children and most of the twenty grandchildren.

A gold watch was presented to each of the old people. of the present discontent? ly done the outcome will be bloodshed and the old days of the Texas despera none fatal. i i injured, lie was at worsr putting on the In my opinion, there is a surplus of does win furnish nothing to compare distress, having lost 140 cattle shipped by a Boston firm. The TT. S.

steamer Manhattan for whose safety apprehension was felt has arrived at Bar Harbor. McCord Dickin's ware house ayd elevator in Columbus, Ohio, burned Sept. 7th. Loss $10,000. The steamship City of New York arrived yesterday from Australia, carrying $850,000 in British gold.

Dr. K. McVickar, the first health officer appointed in Chicago, lies at the point of death in Buffalo. sheeting to the the scaffold labor in this country. There has been a ows and orphans.

Xhis ended his connection with the Union Pacific, and the stock is higher now than when he sold it. with it. Already there are low mutter- ing gave way and he fell about fifteen A Corean embassy, consisting of eleven persons, arrived at San Francisco several days ago, by steamer, on the way to Washington. There are an envoy extraordinary, ings of an intention to burn out the feet. It is feared that-he was injured in The next venture was the building up entire range.

There is no doubt but that ternally. of UieCroulu railwav evstem in the south, large immigration and recently railway building has been stopped, and the market is over crowded with laborers. In time these things will adjust themselves. This surplus of labor is placing itself in a vice-minister, a foreign secretary, an in preliminary steps are being taken to and west. It began with the purchase of Glasco Sun: A nfah bv the name of terpreter and subordinate attaches.

This is render it effective. Even now the bub the first embassy ever sent out by the Cor Lee, a Norwegian, edmimtted suicide by ble is about to burst. Last Sunday there the Missouri racihe from (Jommodore Garrison. Other roads were purchased and connections made to different points. hanging himself last Monday, on the the nest and iNorthwest.

Immigrants are rapidly occupying Government and railroad lands in the West. was a large prairie nre in Ulav coun Horace Greely's farm at Chappaqua, N. has been sold by the trustee of the estate, to Miss Gabrielle Greeley, for $10,000. The farm comprises 78 acres and the drainage and cultivation cost over $70,000. No one old Anderson farm two miles southeast ty, but the extent I could not tellJ ean government, and its appearance is something of an event in diplomacy.

The members are somewhat like the Chinese and Japanese, belonging to the same Mongolian family, and yet they are so unlike them in of town. He twisted three strings to (jrould said he had. at this time passed the point where money making was an ine correspondent concludes his re gether and tied them to a rafter in the port: object, and his only idea in carrying out corn crib, made a loop and stuck his "Who can estimate the damage that bid against Miss Greeley. Ninety Italian section men on the New Bal many respects that in San Francisco, where the system was merely to see what could head through it. His feet hung within Chinese and Japanese are a tamiliar sight, be done by the combination now spread will accrue when this bomb explodes? HUNDREDS OP THOUSANDS OF CATTLE timore and Philadelphia railroad struck.

a couple inches of the floor yet the dis they were stared at as a curiosity, lhe ob Mr. Gould at this point stated that he did not believe in the system of giving land grants to railroads, and the government had wisely reserved every alternate section. Government lands were being occupied first because they could be obtained cheajer. It was for the interest of the railroad to get small fanners to take up these lands, and this through Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michi Sept. 8th for an advance of 15 cents a day, tance watted him acrpss the silent river.

ject of their visit to Washington is to return gan, Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Terri ami-tried to induce others to do so. A fight ensued in which one man was slightly the visit of our commissioner, Mr. Foote, to Corea sometime ago, and perhaps negotiate Yates Center News Judge Kelso, Land tory, Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. There will die of starvation; millions of dollars will be detracted from the wealth of the State; millions more will be withdrawn in disgust, and to Texas will be restored Commissioner of the Mo. Pacific, informs are central connections at Cincinnati, bt.

a treaty with our government. us that the M. K. T. railway company, In several female colleges in Iowa the girls are taught to cook.

It will come quite handy to them if, after rnarriage, they get anything to cook. For the last ten years a mammouth apple tree belonging to Abel Schofield, of Adair county, has presented its owner with twenty barrels of fruit each season. It measures seven feet in circumference near the ground. A guileless Mexican shepherd who tends nocks near Montemorelos avers that when he returned from shelter, to which a thunder storm had driven him, he found in the field a fish over five feet long, which apparently had fallen from the clouds. At the close of the camp-meeting at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, one hundred ministers administered communion to two thousand persons.

The service concluded by a march around Jerusalem, the entire assemblage passing twice about the auditorium. George Mitchell, a 12-year-old boy of Franklin, burst a blood-vessel Louis, (Jhicago and JSew Orleans. All Gov. Butler, ot Massachusetts, entertained Ijord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, on the 7th inst. The Postal Telegraph company has begun the construction of new lines, which will cost $1,500,000.

Total imports since Jan. 1 are $320,773,015 against $352,552,672 for the corresponding period last year. Mrs. Julia Smith, novelist, was killed by a runaway horse while driving at Hart-fort, Sept. 7th.

President Arthur arrived in Chicago, Sept. 4th, on his way back from the trip to the Yellowstone country. Sepervising Architect Hill is making preparation to resign his present position and go into private business. the construction of this system of roads lhe Utah Commission states that no living in polygamy has been permitted out of its princely grant of more than acres, after paying commissions, taxes, Judge Hoadley, the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, is suffering from nervous prostration, lie has gone to Philadelphia to consult his old physician, and may not speak again during the campaign. her old reputation for lawlessness; and this is not all.

When the worst comes no power can check the retaliation of the was completed last "year, and it represented about 10,500 miles of road. The advertising and every species oi expen to vote at any election, or to be voted for any office, and while only three convictions in prosecution against polygamy, under the act of 1801, have been secured, nearly, or diture, realized about $b2o clear profit. stockmen. They represent wealth; earnings of the lines, when he took possession of them, were about $70,000 per This looks incredible yet the udge is wealth represents power. Bipod will a position to know and all that we can quite 15,000 persons have been disfranchised month, lhe earnings for the past month flow freelv; vigilance committees Theoband Bauer, a well known New York wrestler, has been arrested on the charge.

of obtaining merchandise under false pretenses do is to accept his statement as a fact. on account of polygamic practices through were in building up this sys will be organized, and the dreadful tem the Southwest has been opened and scenes of the cruelty of guerilla warfare. was being rapidly done. He did not know of any land being sold by the railroads in large tracts to private speculators. It would be contrary to their interests to do this.

It was not done by any roads.controlled by him. He thought that every man who was sober and industrious would succeed. On the question of legislation, Goulc' declared the only safeguard to society was the education of the masses, He did not know whether trades unions and labor organizations were a benefit; they had a legitimate field when they were confined to merely benevolent institutions, but when thev rose bevond this Mcrherson freeman: One week ago and lor having assigned and disposed ot his property with intent to defraud his cred the operations of the law as administered by this commission. Ten suits for damages have been instituted against the commission the country thrown open to civilization lexas is about to be set back twenty to-night the U. P.

depot was broken into by some person or persons, who tried to by certain Mormons who were rejected at Later news swells the number of missing years is the verdict of a gentleman long a resident of this section, intelligent itors. The coal miners along the line of the Mr. Gould stated that he was a director in the Chicago Northwestern, Chicago Rock Island, Delaware, Lackawanna break into the safe. The combination the first registration, and were not permitted persons who were in Iceman rag ware- house, Cincinnati, to nine. conservative and prominent in the high was broken off as also were the hinges, to vote at the election in November, '82, because they refused to comply with the rules estern, isew York JSew and est circle.

Many citizens of the menaced several other smaller lines. Incidental but that is as far as the would-be robbers could go. Saturday night a young man Shenango Alleghany-', llailroad are all on a strike because of a reduction of 10 per except the mines 'at Coaltown and Harrisville, they having accepted the reduction and gone to work. and regulations prescribed under the law by A fire" in the landing of the Long Branch hotel at Hunter's Point, L. burned Adolph Fredrich to a crisp.

to his railroad interests he had become section are demanding that Governor Ireland call an extra session of the Legislature to take acttion to settle the the commission for the proot ot the eligibili largely interested in the telegraph busi by the name of Stevens was arrested on suspicion, as being one of the parties. He while blowing a tin horn, and died in a few hours. Boys will be boys and this item should be printed on hand-bills and posted in all prominent places throughout the tow n. It mav be a new epidemic ty of all voters. It is understood that these suits have been brought for the purpose ness.

This was on account of the inti Arthur Connelly, who died Sept. 6th, at range troubles, and avert an open con mate connection between the two indus primarily of testing the constitutionality of flict, which, if once inaugurated, could they were lost in a great sea which they cannot control; labor, as everything else, was governed by the law of supply and demand. Loekport, New York, lacked less than sixty days of being a centenarian. tins law. and secondarily to determine the had a preliminary hearing before Justice Clark Wednesday and Thursday, who put him under $300 bonds to appear at the next term of the district court.

not be quelled by the entire organized just broken out, and the boys should Howard Denig, who undertook to erect a capitol at Indianapolis, have abandoned their contract, claiming to have lost over $300,000. Their sureties are citizens of Chicago, who submitted new propositions to the state-house commissioners. legality of our acts thereunder. The first tries. He was instrumental in starting the American Union to make a competing line with the Western Union.

He found torce of the sstate. know it Norrmown Herald. hearing of the suits will be held early in $1,000 was raised among the wholesale houses in Chicago, for the benefit of the October. 1 Dr. E.

H. Thurston thinks he has High Water. Pleasanton Observer: John Stonacher, Minnesota cyclone sulferers. found a true antidote for the sting of bees. living near Centerville, was almost in Galveston, September 8.

The News' 2 C. D. Sharpe, who was sentenced at Manning Logan, a son of the Illinois sen It is carbonate of ammonia, powdered stantly killed in his own door yard last FOEEIGN NEWS. and in a tightly corked bottle. uainesviue, lexas.

to ntty years imprisonment for outraging his step-daughter, has been found guilty of raping her sister, aged Roumania is added to the Austro-German Tuesday, by his team, which started to run away. He was standing directly in Corpus Christi special says the damage by rains and high water in the surrounding country is much greater than was supposed, all the creeks, which have ator, has passed a creditable examination Car admission to West I'oi nt. Eighty thousand books of the new "postal notes have been sent to the money-order of YY hen a sting is received the surlace over the wound should be wet and a small amount of the powdered carbonate ap id years, and the jury pronounced death as it would be impossible to accomplish this on account of the latter's connections. He then turned his attention to getting control of the Western Union by buying stock when it was low. Finding it was a paying investment, he constantly increased his interest.

His object in securing control of the Western Union was to make his friend, General Eckert, manager, as he had confidence in Eck-ert's ability. The railway facilities now acquired by the Western Union are in alliance. Vienna is afflicted with disastrous in diary tires. front ol the horses when they started. It is supposed the wagon tongue struck been dry all summer, suddenly becom the punishment.

C. C. Monday went to Stanford, Kentucky. At this point Senator Blair Baid that he had finished his examination, and Senator Call asked leave to put before the witness a few questions which had been submitted by some gentlemen in regard to the amassing of wealth by the exercise of corporate franchises. Mr.

Gould, in answer to stated that he did not believe that there was any such thing as an exclusive privilege in this country, at least in these enter- frises in which he was engaged; he be-ieved that a State had a right to fix a limit of the rate of charges and could exercise it, but natural facilities would also create a limit. Mr. Gould also said that he thought it him in the breast and injured him in plied, lhe pain is instantly relieved, and the injured place never swells. ing raging streams twenty to forty feet deep and spreading across the country, Quarantine has been abolished on the ternally, and the wagon also ran over him. This makes eleven persons in Suez canal.

Information" comes by the way of washing everything belore. Horses, cat and reported that some one had during the night cut his wife's throat from ear to ear. After a brief session at his home in the country the coroner's jury pronounced him Centerville township who have met their Boston that the favorite dish of the at fices throughout the country. J. P.

Westcott, cashier of the Coney Island Jockey Club pool-room, is a fugitive. His accounts are short $4,000. It is rumored that Armour brothers are About to purchase the extensive works of the St, Louis Canning company. The annual explosions of steam threshers (have begun. Considerable havoc among Several shocks of earthquake were felt Ischia, Sept.

6th. deaths by accident within the past fif Maine militiamen in camp is baked tie and sheep by hundreds are seen floating down the current, and wind mills and out houses are swept away. The loss cannot now be estimated as nearlv the murderer and caused his incarceration. teen months. Corn has been seriously damaged and a Dodge City Globe Dodge City had the entire west is flooded The Texas beans.

"The baking," it is explained, "is accomplished by placing the beans for many hours in holes dug in the ground." It is presumed that the soldiers have some scheme for wanning the holes good deal of it ruined in Wisconsin, by black frost on the nigfct of Sept. Oth. Dispatches her first Sunday September 2nd, 1883. calculable, and it is impossible to estimate their value. Can you give us your opinion as the practicability of a Government postal telegraph which would take the place of the present system? I think, the institutions of this country Mexican railway lost eleven bridges and culverts and several miles of track.

At All places of business or of amusement were closed during the entir.e day. This from isconsm show light trosts, but from the Western and portions of the Northern part of the State the reports are of damage to sorghum, corn and other crops. was not just to limit in any way a man capacity to acquire wealth, and that it certainly should not be limited by the amount of wealth which could be ac Queen Victoria has given 200 for the relief of distress in Egypt caused by the cholera. A hurricane swept over the West Indies Sept. 6th and caused great damage among the shipping.

The new steamer Canina was wrecked off the New Foundland coast Sept. 6. Passengers and crew saved. The critical condition of affairs between change was brought about by our busi Alpena Station, 100 miles west, the situation is very bad. In one section there either before or after the beans are put in.

ness men, who caused a petition to be are opposed to anv such thine as that, are five bridges and a mile and a half of farm hands is already reported. It Htated that the report of the committee who investigated Supervising Architect Hill will reflect severely on him. An assignment has-Jieen filed by Chis-holm Brothers Gunn, mill-furnishers of Chicago, whose debts aggregate $00,000. A scientific cominission on board the circulated last Saturday and which was replied Mr. Gould.

The telegraphic busi road bed gone. The situation is worse at United States shir) Washington is to ex numerously signed by our business men, Reaitoes. Along the coast southwest of amine the of the Mediterranean, pledging themselves that they would Corpus Christi the damage to stock will The jury in the Frank James trial were sent to their room to deliberate on their verdict at 12:20 o'clock Thursday, Sept. 6th, and soon after, to the great surprise of everybody, returned a verdict of acquittal. Frank James was remanded to await trials on the ascertaining the depth, temperature, Close their respective places of business exceed the loss in the districts noted China and France is affecting the cotton on the Sabbath day.

and the pravers of density, and chemical composition of the ness, mone than any other, requires to be managed by experts, and the dividends of the Western Union are obtained because it does this business well, under a good system. The whole management of this great interest would be subject to above as the various streams debouch in- water, the geological nature of the bottom, the petition were promptly complied goods market in England. A steamer was driven ashore near Indian Harbor. Novia Scotia, supposed by the quired in the farming industry. He had tried it himself, at one time, and finding that he could not make it pay, had gone into the railroad business, which he had found in the long run more profitable.

A young man, he said, should be educated in such a way that he could turn his hand to more than one business, and then if he failed in one vocation he could go to another. Mr. Gould's examination was closed at this point, and the hearing was adjourned. other charges. to the Langra Madre and the country be ing low and flat, and no protection ex with on the following day Sunday.

the velocity and direction of the marine currents, and their action on the coasts; also to study the deep sea plants and animals. Complaint is made that the Earl Onslow, Sedan Journal And again a corps of cept the sand-draws, the water spreads change, and particularly by the. political party then in, power. Mr. Gould also A large number of the striking harness-makers at St.

Louis have gone back to work, Iheir demands having been acceeded to. Currie Waldmeyer and Amelia Weaver, ot Philadelphia, were drowned in the river at New Brunswick, N. Sept. 6th. An effort is making to annul the clause of the will of the late Jennie McGraw Fiske, tvhereby Cornell university received and carries everything before it.

At surveyors put in an appearance and began surveying a branch of the K. C. L. Kennedy two horses swam ashore but S. A.

Northaway, of Jefferson, Ohio, thought the mail service would be better accomplished by private enterprise than bv the Government. He would not who is with the Northern Pacific excursion party demands for himself and lady a special coach, with a Daggage-car for his personal effects, and sent his servants to find accommodation among the invited guests. Secretary Teller has joined the party. S. railroad from this place southwest.

their riders were drowned while trying We don't know what it means, neither to cross the herce current. As Mexican who was once a contestant for General Garfield's seat in congress, and a leading lawyer, churchman and Mason, has been does anv one else, and when they say they huts are situated in sparsly settled dis THE CATTLE WAR. object to the Government taking hold of the "Western Union Telegraph system it it would pay for it what it was worth on tricts and communication between them agent of the White Cross line to be the missing steamer Ludwig. Hong Kong advices, received from Haiphong, announce that the French admiral will blockade the ports of Canton and Pakai, unless the Chinese troops are withdrawn from the Tonquin frontier. France and China are both reported as anxious to have their differences settled without war, but both governments are preparing for the fray.

Extra precautionary measures have been do.don't believe them. Lhis railroad sur arresiea ior emoezzung oi me is interrupted, the loss ot life can a fair appraisement, but in his opinion it veying busmess is tne same to tne people at large as some of the moves of chess players to the uniniate.d Wire Fencing and Wholesale Appropriation of Land at the Bottom' of It. Dallas, September 2. Hon. Johh not be ascertained for some time.

Nearly all the tanks for watering stock have would not be a success. Uniform tarins funds of the Second National bank, of which he was president. The cashier, S. T. Fuller, who has just returned from Canada, and his assistant, Henry L.

St. John, have hitherto been held wholly could be secured under a private enter It mav be that they intend building the burst. The loss on this item will alone Judge Moran, of the Circuit Court of Chicago, has granted a temporary injunction against the Grand Trunk Railway and the Great Eastern Fast Freight Line to restrain them from diverting certain freight consigned to other lines in the bound pool as they threaten. J. Proctor Knott was inaugurated Governor of Kentucky, Sept.

4th, and in his inaugural said; "I declare here distinctly and road and it may be that they don't. And amount to considerable. A bridge at San Diego. 54 miles west, was swept we don't venture any wisdom on the responsible for the abstraction of funds, 1 i 1 taken in London to prevent the rescue cf McComb, of Montgomery county, was in the city to-day en route home from Wise and adjoining Northwest Texas counties. He represents great trouble is anticipated and liable to occur at almost any moment in that section between the large stock ranch owners, on" the one side, and the away this evening; it was 400 feet long BUDjeci.

A manufacturing village is to be built on the Belt railroad in the town of Lake, near Chicago, by George D. Howard, of Decatur, I Hirers. It is intimated that when Gould boards tils yacht, tl Atlanta, he don't care how many vessels Im runs down, so the speed is kept up. The American Woiuan Suffrage Association will hold its annual meeting in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 9th and I Oth. The Catholic clerev of the St.

Louis dio- and the strongest on the Texas Mexican Emnoria Republican. M. W. Sawver re and gave bail to answer. Northaway's refusal yesterday to answer questions at their examination caused his arrest.

railroad. yr iwnneii, wno Bnot lniurmer v.urt-y upon his arrival in London. A correspondent, who has just returned turned vesterdav from Oklahoma. He I AnnnnMrfl rv rtT Iff ft rfiwn 1 AnAAIt. from a tour through the heart of New Zea prise as well as under a Government system, and the Western Union policy tended to accomplish There could be no lasting competition against the Western Union, on account of its great facilities.

When there were powerful rivals, rates 'were not reduced because the competitor was obliged to charge as high as the Western Union in. order 'to live. Senator Blair inquired whether he could make an approximate estimate of the value of the Western Union Company. V. paper contains uie iouow- thft nmmnnta nf soon heW able irrevocably that in no case will I grant a pardon or remit the penal consequence of conviction for a Criminal offense unless I shall be fully satisfied that it would be tin- land, reports that the patiyes are on a war to enter the promised land.

He says a mg In the barbarian cities oi America, where everything is the reverse of wbat of mutual extermination. nesters, as the cattle men of small possessions are termed, and a certain element of cow boys, mostly those unemployed, on the other side. The wire fence cutting is the cause of the threatened con district of country ten miles square, ad it is in our cities, there is a man who I Emperor Francis Joseph received all of just to convict, joining Oklahoma, has been leased by goes about in a covered wagon, with large the Orleans Princes on Aug. 31st. On Sept.

1st they were received with royal ceremon the Secretary ottne interior lor ten years tin cans nlled with water, lie carries a flict. McComb represents both sides to the controversy as quietly arming and ies by Countess de Chambord. for grazing purposes' by a couple of cattle men who belong to the colony and who hideous bell, which he clangs at every Skumka, chief of the Umatilla tribe in Oregon, not feeling well inwardly and being forbidden by a stern mandate of Uncle Sam to indulge in whisky, flew to Jamaca for relief. He "drank 2o' bottles of the stuff and died in great torment. His sorrowing subjects smothered his favorite race horse in order that it might accompany him to the hajpy hunting and for several days past in their encampment across the river from Umatilla, they have been bewailing the loss of the chief with howls and lamentations of the moat ear-stunning and heart-breskirfi character.

everything foreshadowing bloodshed. He house until a girl with large feet comes Mr. Gould replied that this would be im will turn it over to the colonists to furt her either the Chinese legation at Paris nor the French government had been informed says that the causes of the trouble are out with a pitcher, and then he fills it A son of the late Hon. Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana, by the first wife, ia preparing to contest the will, which leaves about $55,000 to the second wife.

The latter refuses to state her intentions in regard to the property. It ia charged that she used undue influence to secure the estate. The business failures throughout the United States and Canada for the last seven 'ceie presented Bishop Ryan with to cover his on the trip to Rome on JSept. 7th. The driving of the golden spike which "signalized the formal opening of the Northern Pacific took place at 3:30 Saturday afternoon, Sept.

8th. Colonel J. A. Ekin, assistant quartermaster general, stationed at Louisvillehas been retired, and will be succeeded by Colonel Rufua Buxton. with the water.

He is allowed to talk their interests in obtaining a foothold in Oklahoma. The ingenuity and persist- possible as he was not in a position to give him an estimate; he did not trouble himself, but judged of the value of the of th entry of Chinese troops upon the territory at Tonquin, up to Sept. 3d. to the girl. When there is a sick person on a square, this waterman rings his bell that the big cattle companies fence up large tracts of land that they have not purchased, and in many instances vast amounts that they have no claim to.

They keep their own stock and everybody else off these enclosed lands, and ance of a number of men bent on the accomplishment of an object is something remarkable. Atchison Champion A prominent rail- very loudly. Strange to Bay, the barbarians do not call him a waterman. They property on a broader basis, that being its earning power; the value of the franchises possessed by the company at present could not be estimated by any known Forty persons were killed or wounded at Steglitz, Germany, while seeking entrance to railway carriages in front of a train advancing on the track on which they stood. days were 159, as compared with 180 last week, distributed as follows New England call him the.