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KANSAS. Republican County Convention. By direction of the Republican County Central Committee, at a meeting held at Lyons, June 1, 1889, a County Convention will be held at the court-house, in the city of Lyons, on Tuesday, August 20th, 1889, At 10 o'clock a. for the purpose of nominat Missouri Pacific Salina, Sterling Div. WEST BOUND.

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ing candidates for county offices to be voted for GROCERY, Sterling, Kansas. J. H. RICKSECKER, In November, 1889, as follows: One Treasurer, One Sheriff. One Register of Deeds, One County Clerk, 'r One County Surveyor, One Coroner, One County Commissioner for 2nd district.

And election of a County Central Committee. WANTED, PRESIDENT STATE BANK, THE 1S54 AGENT FOR THE 1SS9 The delegates and alternates are apportioned on a basis of one for each twenty and a fraction of ten votes cast for Secretary of State, at the general election held in November, 18SS. and are investigation of the mystery did not begin until a week after the Doctor's disappearance) the connecting links in the shameful story of conspiracy and murder have been supplied. It has been established that Woodruff, arrested for stealing a horse, is one of the gang who for several weeks were engaged in preparations for the removal of Dr. Cronin.

On his own statement he drove a wagon to the Carlson cottage, on Ashland avenue, and waited for the dead body of Dr. Cronin, and carried it to the point where it found. It has been shown that Sullivan, to whose ice house Dr. Cronin was taken on the night of the murder was not unknown to the men who first rented rooms opposite Dr. Cronin's office, and who later rented the Carlson cottage in which Dr.

Cronin was murdered. It has been shown that Coughlin the detective who ordered the horse for the man who carried Dr. Cronin to his fate, was an acquaintance of Sullivan and a member of the same secret organization. All these things have been discovered in two weeks. In the same two weeks it has been made clear to the public that there are two waning factions In the Clan-na-Gael or Irish Revolutionary Rrother-hood; that one of these factions unhesitatingly condemns the murder of Dr.

Cronin and the methods employed, while the other seeks to find excuse for, if it does not defend, the murder. The Clan-na-Gael must clear its skirts of all complicity with the conspiracy to mur-des or it is a doomed organization. Within the hist few years many respectable and prominent Irish-Americans have withdrawn from all such organizations because their manhood and their Americanism revolted against the practices suggested by an extreme faction in the order. If the responsibility for the murder is fixed on any camp of the Clan-na-Gael that camp should be at once disbanded. If the responsibility is with any one in the directory of the organization his acts should be repudiated or the organization that sustains him should be dealt with according to law.

"The developments up to this date, must neeessarily lead to others, and probably to others more astounding; but whether startling developments follow or not, the investigation must be pursued to the end. If a few men in any organization have conspired against the life of any citizen, and through cunning, or through advantage given by their association with secret political associations have accomplished their purpose, they must, for the future, be apprehended and punished. If there has been no conspiracy, that point must be made clear beyond any dispute, or the stain of the crime will remain forever on the people who tolerate conditions that made such conspiracy pos- sible" Department of the Intekior, as follows: This is the way a city reporter of the Inter Ocean heralds the arrival in Chicago of a lady from Minnesota, who is on her way to Washington to seek a position in the pension office, and also endeavor to obtain a pension: The Minnesota blizzard arrived in the city yesterday. Every one knew that something had caused remarkable atmospheric disturbances, but few koew just what it was. Mrs.

M. J. Blaisdell is the blizzard's legal name, and her habitat is Pelican Rapids, Otter Tail county, Minnesota. Mrs. Blaisdell is very proud of her nickname, and is never tired of telling how she gained it, by talking down a whole room full of lawyers while she was pushing her husband's pension case in Washington.

The Minnesota blizzard is now accompanying1 the prevailing area of low pressure toward the east, and the storm center will probably hover about Washington for some time to come. Mrs. Blaisdell is after an office. Either a Treasury or a Pension office clerkship will suit her, but she prefers the latter, being a great "soldier's woman." She is a soldier's daughter, a soldier's wife, and the sister of three soldiers, and she says that when she gets on the Pension department the veteran will get the benefit of the doubt every time. Mrs.

Blaisdell said yesterday: "The principal business that takes me down to Washington is to secure a pension for my mother, Chloe Quiggle, widow of Philip Quiggle, who died of diseases contracted in the army. My application to have the case made special and acted on at once is signed by a number of prominent Minnesotans, ex-Com-mander-in-Chief John P. Rea, of the G. A. appending to his name "Take this up out of order if you can.

I got the bill through both houses of Congress while Cleveland was President, but it was vetoed by that old thing that has to be weighed on a hay scales. I think I'll have better luck this time." Being asked as to her political experiences, Mrs. BlaisdeU said: "The biggest thing I did during the campaign was to call a third party crank a liar. He was a Methodist preacher, making a flaring third party speech, and you bet it made me sick the way that man did talk. At last I got right up.

I had on a gray uniform I was wearing, with bead epaulets. Fm 5 feet 1 inches tall, you know, and weigh 180 pounds, and 1 made a pretty dignified appearance when I got my togs on. I raised right up and said: 'Ladies and gentleman, I think that man is a Oh, gosh! I was mad. I'll bet 1 was a foot taller than I am now. And what's more it broke up the meeting, for I thought the folks never would get through laughing.

They offered me 100 a night after that to go on the stump, for I'm a terrible hard worker for the Republican party, but I wouldn't do it. Something- that Honest Brewers Cannot Afford to Overlook. From the Philadelphia Record. A Pittsburgh judge, the Hon. John W.

F. White, has delivered from the bench an opinion of the beer manufactured in this country, which has attracted considerable interest. At the close of the proceedings in the license court, Judge White denounced beer as the most pernicious alcoholic drink that is made. The reason of this, he said, is in the fact that no pure beer, is produced in this country. Jfwe could obtain such beer here as is produced in Germany, where it is a crime to adulterate the means of living, the case would be quite different.

A man in Germany would be sent to jail for making such stuff as Is generally consumed for beer in this country. In giving his owrr experience, the judge said he drank beer with much enjoyment, but he found that it did not agree with his health, and attributed the trouble to the quality of the beer. When I went to Germany," he added, 'and tried the beer there I knew that my diagnosis was correct. In Germany I drank beer with pleasure; for I am not one of the narrow-minded creatures who hold it a crime to driuk beer, and I found the Germag stuff very different from ours. It is, in fact, a wholesome drink, while our American beer stupefies the drinker and arouses in him brutal passions." i The fault with the indictment of Judge White is that it is altogether too sweeping in its character.

We know as a general fact that enormous quantities of barley and hops are produced in this country and imported into it for the use of the brewers. The barley crop last year amounted to 50,000,000 bushels, and 10,000,000 bushels were imported. In addition to the domestic hop crop, amounting to 30,000,000 pounds, there importation of 16,500,000 pounds of hops last year-These two materials, barley malt and hops, make "normal beer," and if the adulterations be of the extent and character charged by Judge White the reason is not in the want of materials for brewing the best beer. Xet while the statistics of trade show that great quantities of barley malt and hops are used in making beer in this country, they also afford grounds for the opinion that much beer is produced here ill the Eggs -and Chickens In Rice and Reno counties. JAMES MORRIS.

3 Victor ia 5 Union ....6 Valley ....4 2 Washington 4 KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. Able, Enterprising. Reliable. Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe R. H.

Lands Money to Loan 4 Eureka 4 Lincoln 6 Raymond 5 Sterling ..24 Rockville 2 Gait 2 City of Lyons 11 Mitchell. 2 Wilson 3 The primaries for the purpose of electing del -ON- egates to this convention will be held on Saturday, August 17th, 1889, In the several townships, and the delegates shall be elected by ballot. Polls to be open from 5 OFFICIAL. DIRECTORY. -7-XATIONAL.

Harrison Vice-President P. Morton Secretary of State James Vr. Maine Secretary of the Treasury Win. Windom Secretary of War Eedfleld Proctor Secretary of the Navy Benj. F.

Tracy Secretary of the Interior John W. Noble Postmaster General Wanamaker Attorney General W. H. H. Miller Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah ltu.sk KANSAS STATE OFFICERS.

Governor Lyman D. Humphry Lieutenant-Governor Andrew J. Felt Secretary of State Wm Higgins Treasurer Hamilton Attorney General L. B. Kellogg Auditor of State Timothy McCarthy Sup't Public Instruction Geo.

W. Wynans rice county. Judge 20th Judicial Dtstrict Ansel Clark Senator, 36th District E. L. Chapman Itepresentative E.

A. Deupree Clerk of District court John E. Davies Treasurer J. C. Seaward County Clerk William Lowry Sheriff Stoudard Probate Judge.

K. T. Specht County Attorney J. W. Brinckeruoit hegister of Deeds Nash Sup't Public Instruction A.

H. McBride Coroner Dr A Adams Surveyor Lane Commissioners John Howard, Chairman; Wilder, and Johnston County Physician Dr Terry Sup't County Poor Farm Leeds city; of stebu.vs. Mayor Gaskell City Clerk Thos rowers Councilmen 8 Stubbs, president of council, Higley, McVay. McCracken, Stevens. City Treasurer Hamilton Irish City Attorney A Blackwood Police Judge A Lindsley City Marshal W.

J. Clark Street Commissioner A Lindsley Chief of Fire Department Wm. C. McVay STERLING TOWNSHIP. Township Trustee Jas.

S. Evans Township Clerk J. W. Lowry Treasurer P. Hinirod Justices J.

C. Johnston. Joe Mitchell Constables W. B. Hadlock.

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The primary elections will be conducted in the niarKeianu railway reports 01 any paper in the citv. $10.00 Is filled with In manner and after the form of general elections. The Central Committeemen of each township will act as Judges of the election, and in case of kiuvova ijjljuix 1 cii TheSunday Journal Subscription Trice per teresting Home and foreiini eor- absence or a vacancy, judges will be elected by Republicans present; clerks in like manner. ciety's latest doings and fashions, home amusements and employments, thoughtful editorials, aud choice selections for all classes. Subscription Price per year $2.09 Those receiving the highest number of votes MILLINERY.

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m. Sabbath-school at 12 111. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7 :30 'clock. UEXSUS UFFICE, Washington, D. May 1.

1889. First building north of Electric Light bnildiup, Xorth Broadway, Sterling, Kansas. DEALER IN Atlanta, at usual voting place. Sterling, at the Engine House. Victoria, at Geneseo.

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xul oeueve uiat me jttepnoiican par ty owns this country, and the old sol To the Medical Profession: The various medical associations and the medical profession will be glad to Kuou reiiuuig. from other and cheaper materials. The indictment of Judge White therefore, is of such force that the honest brewers of the United States can diers should rule it, and don you forget it" Not Up to the Old Man's Average. rocenes an PREMIUMS. learn that Dr.

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turn from a three months' tour in Europe. At his hotel in If ice he was introduced to Lord of England. As he was smoking, he said to Lord METHODIST. Services every Sabbath at 11 a. 111.

and 8 p. m. Sabbath-school at 9:30 a. m. Young people's class every Wednesday evening, Prayer meeting every Thursday at 3 p.m.

A. J. Bixier, Pastor. PRESBYTERIAN. Preaching every Sabbath ai II a.

m. aud 7 :30 p. in. Mabbatli-sehool at 1j a. m.

Prayer niesiing every Wednesday evening. Pastor's weekly reception residence every Thursday, afternoon and evening. W. K-ricott, 1'astor. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN, East Main street.

Services on every Sabbath at a. in. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school, 10 a.

m. Young People's meeting at 6 p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Rev, W. Wright, Supply.

REFORMED PRESBY TERI AS. Services at 11a. m. every Sabbath, Sabbath-school, 1 p. mission school 3:30 p.m.

P. H. Wylie, Pastor, CHRISTIAN, Fifth street.north of Main street. Preaching every Lord's Day at 11 a. 111.

and p. in. Sunday-school at 9 :30 a. in. Prayer meeting very Wednesday eve.

ANNOUNCEMENTS. As the United States has no system sylvania legislature for many years, but uit-iii, iiuu iiicjr it ii in; maueu you iree. BOOKS. it has been treated with little consider of registration of vital statistics, such FOR SHERIFF Boots and Shoes, Tour choice of ten out of forty books 00 We are authorized to announce that Sheldon ation. Bills for the prevention of adul S.

Stoddard will be a candidate for re-election to oys' Lseiui fast lines 46 Kopp's Commercial Calculator 1 25 teration of liquors have been defeated the office of Sheriff of Rice county, subject, to as is relied upon by other civilized nations for the purpose of ascertaining the actual movement of population, our census affords the only opportunity the decision ol the Republican convention. YY hat One Should Know 1 50 Mrs. Parker's Complete Honsekeener 1 SO by the combined opposition of the liq $1,000 Worth of Law for $1.50 1 50 REGISTER OF DEEDS I hereby announce myself as a candidate for of obtaining near an approximate esti CLOTHING, Dictionary of American Pontics 1 50 Law Without Lawyers 1 50 Cyclopedia of Natural History 1 50 Volume for Universal Keference 1 50 Family Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge 1 50 the office of Register of Deeds, subject to the decision of the Rice County Republican Convention. A. L.

McMillan. mate of the birth and death rates of HATS and CAPS, rami ana nousenoiu i 48 Everybody's Paint Book 136 Dr. Donelson's Counselor, with Recipes 1 CO uor interest and of the Prohibitionists, some of the latter having openly proclaimed that "the worse the liquor the better for the cause of Thus selfishness and fanaticism have conspired in the legislature to prevent measures for protecting the public health against fraudulent adulterations of food and drink. The majority in the present legislature, which passed The Pennsylvania Horror. Xever in the history of the United LADIES' SPECIALTIES.

Crush Lace Pin 00 States has there been such fearful loss of life and destruction of property by Gents' Furnishing Goods. BAPTIST. Preaching everv Sabbath, at 11 a. and p. m.

Sabbath-school at V2 111. Business meeting Wednesday evening before every first sabbath. Eld. Mize, Pastor. FRIENDS.

Services every Sabbath at 11 a.m. Sabbath-school at 10 a. in. UNITED BRETHREN. Services every Sabbath at 11 a.

and 8 p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday eveniug. J. McNew, Pastor. ADVENTISTS.

Preaching at this church every Seventh Day, at.ll a. m. Seats free. STERLtXG Y. M.

C. A Meets in the Reading Room every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock, and Habbatu afternoon at 3:30. J. Hanna, Pres't. The Great Through Line From All Points in Kansas to Kansas City, St.

Louis and the Cast and North. Direct Connections in all Union Depots for Omaha, St. Paul, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Uuffalo, Pittsburg, and all Points LTast. flood as that at Johnstown and other the prohibitory amendment submission places in western Pennsylvania last week, the reading of which makes the Stamping Outfit 1 13 Combination Package 1 65 Roval Stamping Outfit, 178 designs 1 50 Lady's Work Box Package 1 40 MISCELLANEOUS. The Boy's Pride Jack-Knife 1 30 Combination Toy Package 1 18 Wade Butcher Razor 50 Floral Photograph Album 1 50 Imperial Photograph Album 1 75 Nutshell Printing Outfit 1 35 FOK HOUSEKEEPERS.

Lovell's Family AVasher 2 75 Keystone Wringer 3 10 Perfect Bench Wriuger 4 oa Crown Hanging Lamp 2 85 Imperial Hanging Lamp 4 70 Royal Hanging Lamp 8 00 Hand Decorated Tea Set 5 35 Whitchill Sewins: Machine 18 00 act, treated with indifference and contempt a bill which, if adopted, would have put an end to the frauds that are so constantly and so successfully practiced in the food and drink of the "Will you have a cigar?" "Thank you; but I only smoke one brand, the Henry Clay." "All right. I'll order some." The box was brought. It was embellished with the familiar picture of "Harry of the West." As he took his cigar, Lord said: "When old Clay was alive he made a good cigar, but his sons don't keep up his reputation." "Henry Clay I Why he didn't make cigars; he was a statesman and ranked as high with us as Gladstone or John Bright do in your country." "I beg your pardon. I've smoked these cigars all my life, and I tell you old Clay made a sight better cigar than his boys do." "I drink to make me work," said a young man to an old gray headed man of 80. -Yes." he replied, "it will.

I thought just so. I have buried two boys in drunkard's graves. I am old and feeble. I have spent a competency in drink, and now my poverty compels me to work when I should have rest. Yes, drink, and it will make you work, young man." "Gen.

Clinton B. Fisk," says the Globe-Democrat, "declines to be the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey." Who asked him to be the Republican candidate for governor? Had it not been for Gen. Fisk and about 7,000 other Prohibitionists in New Jersey, that State would still have a Republican legislature, and the Democrats would not be undoing all the restrictive legislation on the liquor traffic which their Republican predecessors had adopted. K. C.

Journal. Produce taken in Exchange for Goods. W. B. WIRSHING.

This question is entirely apart from The Fast Mail Route the present controversy over the prohibitory amendment. Should the amendment be adopted, no less beer heart sick. It is estimated that not less than 12,000 persons lost their lives, and the destruction of property will reach over $85,000,000. Among those lost at Johnstown is James M. McMillan, superintendent of the Cambria Iron Company's store, his wife, four children and daughter-in-law, the former being an uncle of Mr.

D. J. Fair of this city. Immense trenches have been dug in the cemeteries into which the bodies Cook Stove, Fruit Dryer and Evaporator. 4 00 FAKMEE AND SPORTSMAN.

DAILY TRAINS 8 The State Bank of Sterling, Sack Holder and Truck 330 Clipper Crosscut Saw 7 OS Open Face Watch, Horse Timer 6 09 Hunting Case Watch, Horse Timer 8 50 Between Hunting C. Watch, gold plate, horse tuner. 9 50 KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOUIS STERLING, KANSAS. OFFICERS Self-Cocking Revolver 2 13 Double Barrel, Breech-loadiug Shotgun 8 10 would be consumed in Pennsylvania by reason of the suppression of the breweries.

The evil of which Judge White complains would be intensified by the importations of all sorts of liquid abominations from other States. But if the amendments should be defeated the necessity of providing against fraudulent adulteration of beer and other liquors would still remain." J. H. Ricksecker, Pres't J. K.

Skilcs, Vice Pres much the larger part of the country, which is entirely unprovided with any satisfactory system of State or munici -pal regristration. In view of this, the census office, during the month of May this year, will issue to the medical profession throughout the country "Physician's Registers" for the purpose of obtaining more accurate returns of death than it is possible for the enumerators to make. It is earnestly hoped that physicians in every part of the country will co-operate with the census office in this important work. The record should be kept from June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890. Nearly 26,000 of these registration books were filled up and returned to the office in 1880, and nearly all of them used for statistical purposes.

It is hoped that double this number will be obtained for the Eleventh Census. Physicians not receiving Registers can obtain them by sending their names and addresses to the Census office, and, with the Register, an official envelope which requires no stamp will be provided for their return to Washington. If all medical and surgical practitioners throughout the country will lend their aid, the mortality and vital statistics of the Eleventh Census will be more comprehensive and complete than they have been. Every physician should take a personal pride in having his report as full and accurate as it is possible to make it. It is hereby promised that aU information obtained through this source shall be held strictly confidential.

Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of Census. The editor of the "Sunflower Column" in the Kansas City News takes occasion to refer to some of the graduates in our late commencement exer 12 TO ....17 50 Anv of these articles are worth the price at A. M. inorne, casnier.

11. riowaru, sec y. H. C. TOWNSEND, General Pass, and Ticket Asjent, St.

Louis, Mo. wholesale, named here. Remittances should be made by P. O. Money SECRET SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

STERLING LODGE NO. 171, A. F. A. M.

Meets in stated communications in Masonic ball en the first and third Thursdavs of each mouth. B. H. A. M.

Thome, Sec'y. STERLING CHAPTER NO. 50, R. A. M.

Meets in stated convocations in Masonic hall on second and fourth Wednesday in each month. Vf. B. Wirshing, H. C.

H. Brown, Sec'y. KEYSTONE CHAPTER No. 47, 0.E.S., meets the second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month. Mrs.

J. M. English, W. Mrs. T.

H. Brown, secretary. FIDELITY LODGE NO. 123, KNIGHTS OF Pythias, meets in Macoftiu's hall every Monday evening. T.

It. Brown, C. C. W. P.

Morrison, K. of K. and S. STERLING LODGE No. 131, 1.O.O.F.

meets Odd Fellows' hall every Tuesday evening. W. Viekers, N. G. Kob't Eindlay, Secretary.

STERLING ENCAMPMENT NO.84, 1.O.O.F. meets on the first and third Saturdays of each month. In Odd Fellows' hall. F. J.Roche, CP.

J. N.McGee, secretary. MEA.DK POST No.14, G.A.R., meets in their hall the first and third Friday evenings of each month. Dr. M.

Van Patten, P. Allen Porter, Adjutant. GENERAL BENTON CAMP No. 58, S. of meets 2d aud 4th Friday evening at G.A.R.

hall. W.P.Benton, Captain; A.M.Thorne, O.S. LADIES ALLIANCE. Meets at the G. A.

R. hall the first and third Fridavs of each month, at 2 p. m. Mrs. J.

W. McCracken, President. Mrs. D. S.

Knouse Secretary. CAPITAL, $50,000. Order, Draft, or Express Money Order, pavable to the Journal Company. Only for these will we be responsioie. The Cronln Murder.

Address, in ail cases, JOURNAL COMPANY, nl2-eowG KAXSAS CITY. Mo. MONEY TO LOAN We copy the following from the Chi have been deposited, to await general memorial services after the excitement subsides. Every city, town and hamlet are sending in aid to the sufferers, the distress being great. Men who were worth millions last Friday are today not worth a copper, and actually in want of bread.

The picture is too sad for contemplation, and is one that calls for the sincerest charity. On our inside pages will be found a brief ac count of the terrible disaster. Incorporated under the Laws of Kansas. Do a genera! Banking Collect'n Business cago Inter Ocean of the 30th which gives all the connecting links in the Fourth of July -BY- iTHAT- FIflMT Dr. Cronin murder case discovered up to that date, and there is every reason to believe that the murderers wiU soon Page Brown, Sterling, Kansas.

be in the hands of the law, provided the The Original Wins. F. Simmons, St. Louis, Prop M. A.

Simmons Liver Medicine, Est'd 1S40, in the V. S. Court defeats J. H. Zeilin, Prop'r A.

Q. Simmons Liver Regulator, Est'd by Zeilin 1S6S. M. A. S.

L. M. has tor 47 years cured Ixdigestioit, Biliousness, Dtspkpsia.Sick HiasachiXost Chicago police perform their duty, and Exchange Bought and Sold, Good Paper Discounted. Di TtEfTOits. H.

Ricksecker, K. Skiles, W. M. Quigley, W. C.

McVay, C. It. Howard. do not attempt to shield members of the force who appear to have connection with the horrible crime: Appetite, Souk Stomach, Etc Kcv. T.

It. Reams, Pastor 1L E. Church, Adams, writes "1 "It is a common saying that very lit uunK saooid nave been dead but That was a splendid political stroke made by Clark Conkling in the Central Committee meeting, on Saturday, with regard to shortening the time between the holding of the primaries and the convention proper, and should have the hearty approval of every right thinking Republican. tor your Gcnmne M. A.

Simmons Liver Medicine. I have tle has been discovered in the Cronin case, and yet, taking the three weeks since the Doctor's disappearance was STRICKLAND, PRACTICAL DENTISTRY. Best methods for painless operations. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. All work fully fuaranteed.

Office over Citizens' State Bank, terling, Kansas. )4ERQyk sometimes had to substitute cmSi "Zeilin's staff" for vour Mcdi- COURTg I cinc' bot don't answer the 1 IrJOPLEI Dr. J. It. Graves, Editor Tie maae puoiic, tne developments have been simply astounding.

When it was first announced that Dr. Cronin had mysteriously disappeared a majority of the people probably accepted a commonplace explanation, and there was Memphis, Tenn. says: received a Dackin of vonr Liver cises, which may call down upon his devoted head the wrathful vengeance of Medicine, and have usea half of is. It works like a charm. I want no better Liver Repnlator and cer- HOUSE MOVING.

CZT" A VTNG one of the BEST House Moving I 1 Outfits in the west, we are prepared to do all kinds of Moving. House liaising and putting in Foundations a specialty. SWEETMAN W0LFKILL. Sterling, Kansas. ja23tf Mr.

Jones promised to send 11s his speech (corrected) hut failed to do so, and it was delivered to other parties who, from motives, refused to furnish us a copy, hence we are unahle to present it in this issue. Money paid when papers are signed. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE For every pleee of real evtate in Rice county. FARMS axd TOWN LOTS For sale on easv terms. G.

R. HOWARD Proprietors of the Palace Drug Store STERLING, KAN. in the newspapers not a little joking over what now stands out as the most tainly no more of Zeilia's mixture. c. joilnstox, Justice of the Peace.

Attorney at Law. Collections and lusurance. Office over Hodge Bros, drug store, STERLING. KANSAS. atrocious crime of the century.

When the stories were told to the effect that MEETING At W. P. Benton's office, on Friday evening, June 7, next. the missing doctor had been seen in The Presbyterian general assembly in New York, says the Kansas City Journal, indorsed prohibition, but declined to indorse the Third party. In other words, a majority of the members expressed their willingness to vote either the Republican or Democratic ticket, whichever presented candidates in favor of prohibition.

But even in this the assembly was not unanimous. It was evident that the sentiment in favor of high license as the best method of restricting the liquor traffic is growing among the Presbyterians. this place and that, and when stories were published intimating that the doo tor had personal and peculiar reasons for leaving the city, the people felt they were being played upon: and vet. in EVERYBODY invited to take part in the graduates aforesaid: Addie Blanche StUes electrified the citizens of Sterling by reading an essay on the "Sunflower State." It would be ungenerous to say that it was clipped from this column. "He who waits wins," is a popular subject, much worn in high school commencements this year.

It may be all right in theory, but in practice the man who waits gets left, unless he has four aces. Lillian Constance Tebbe, of Sterling, chose for her graduating essay, "The greatest incentive to action." The old man's foot on the stair is about the greatest incentive known to modern science. the face of this terrible tragedy, the peo making arrangements for A Big Celebration in Sterling ON THE FOURTH! J7RED P. GBEEX, Attorney at Law, Notary Public. Office in Buckeye Bio up stairs, Sterling, Kansas ple Know tnat an tne reports and stories were circulated to mislead them and divert public attention from the crime.

When Woodruffs story of the trunk mystery was first given to. the public, it was put forward as evidence to disprove the theory that Dr. Cro Law in Topeka. A. T.

Rogers was killed and his wife fatally wounded, at Topeka, yesterday morning by a burglar named Oliphant. Last nighc a mob of 3,000 men surrounded the jail and taking the murderer from his cell by force, hung him to a telegraph pole at the corner of Kansas avenue and Sixth street. Tfl I art UK OHX N. IVES, nin had been foully dealt with and with FOR SALE. Dwelling House and 8 Lots, intent to persuade the public that Dr.

uronin was the perpetrator rather than the victim. At the time Woodruff was Our stock of Drugs and Medicines, TAIXTS, OILS, GLASS, Toilet ATticIes and Perfumery, SCHOOL SUPPLIES, Blank Books, Stationer-, Is new and fresh, and von are conliaKy invited to cui aiid liisjiect. telling his story of the trunk mystery. IN LYONS. Attorney at Law.

Particular attention given to litigation. Office over Hanna's hardware store. STERLING, KANSAS. FOR kl jvir. Jjong, or Toronto, was elaborating long dispatches to create the impression that Dr.

Cronin was in Canada, and did A new and ingenious swindle that is now being worked on unsuspecting, religiously inclined people is thus described: A pretty female solicits ten cent subscriptions to a foreign missionary society, and those who donate are requested to sign their names on a paper with the others who have kindly given something to the heathen. Beneath the paper the "sucker" signs is an ingenuous copying paper which transcribes the name on a promissory note, and she leaves with as many notes as she has names, which sbe gets discounted as soon as possible. CONSUIvlP' A Great Club Offer. The Topeka Weekly Capital and the Sterling Champion for 82.00. This offer is for cash, and enables you to have all the latest news from the House one story and basement, rooms, a good weU on premises, good barn, fruit and omanien- Making' Hay.

Alfalfa harvest is now at its height that is, for the first cutting, and hundreds of tons are going into stacks and will soon be dropping from the baler, ready for market. The growth on most fields is tall and thick and will average above the usual ton and a half per acre, and it is more than probable that four cuttings will be gathered this season, where hay alone is the object. If a seed crop is gathered, it will delay maturity somewhat, so that probably but three crops will be cut. Garden City Sen. not expect to return to the United States.

14 ow it is known that Wood tal rees, grape vines, Two blocks irom the trees, grape vines, business ceuier, capital of the State and your own locaF OCSE and eight lots for sale in Lyons, 2 blocks from center of town. Great bar-sain if sold soon. Will trade for cattle or other stock. Call at this oihee. A BARGAIN ruff's story was the invention of a conspirator and a criminal, and that Long's letters and dispatches were written at the instigation of parties concerned in It has permanently cured thousands of cases pronounced by doctors hopeless.

If you have premonitory symptoms, snch as Cough, Difficulty of Breathing, Ac, don't delav, hnt use PISO CURE kor CONSUMPTION immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents. Jewelry and Silverware. paper at the price or one.

The Capital-Commonwealth will contain the most complete report of legislative proceedings published anywhere. For any one wanting a pleasant home. Ojill on or address L. POWERS, Larjr! Mwk in 1 if rityr fvu. --atit the conspiracy to murder Dr.

Cronin. In two weeks' time (because the real For the Sterling Weekly Champion 50 a year. True blue Republican paper. 28tl sieiuns, Kansas..