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KANSAS NEWSPAPER UNION. R. BAKER, MANAGER. TOPEKA, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1886 TERMS $1 PER YEAR TELEGRAPHIC TIDINGS. DOMESTIC.

The legislature of Ohio have re-enacted the Scott law. Gen. Rosecrans has been confirmed as register of the treasury. Ex -Alderman Jahnes, convicted of bribery in New York city will attempt to obtain a new trial. Officer Thomas Redden died at the county hospital in Chicago, making the sixth death among the police wounded in the Haymarket riot.

ate a bill to appropriate $250,000 for esSenator Teller has introduced in the.se tablishment of a military post near Denver, Col. The striking garment cutters of Philadelphia, all returned to work again in accordance with the agreement made with the employers. Judge Parker has appointed Joen O'Brien, chairman of the New York democratic state central committee, receiver of the Broadway street railroad. A part of the Miller match works at Akron, Ohio, burned. A discharged employe is suspected of firing it.

The loss is 000; insurance $5,000. 4 The Marine hospital at Washington, has received reports showing that lages near Bratageny, France. cholera in a violent form, appeared in vilThe remaining ordered to Cincinnati by the government: as a means of precaution against in connection with the recent strikes, have been ordered away Mrs. Norton, a farmer's wife, living below Independence, died from fright during a thunder storm. She was reading an account of the recent storm at Kansas City at the time.

It has been learned that only two of the six men on board the boat "Ada," which capsized in a squall off Coney Island were drowned. The others were picked up by the yacht, "Zephyr." The girls in all the factories in Troy, N. except the striking laundry girls the Idis laundry returned to work will continue there until the doors actually closed I to them. A panic in oil was caused by the failure of Craig Lowrie, one of the largest firms the country, and the report that the Vanderwell, just opened, was doing from 150 to 200 barrels an hour. A fire broke out in the stage scenery, while Uncle Tom's Cabin was being presented, at Westerville, and wild scenes of confusion followed.

The list of the burned and injured included twelve persons. The Boston Board of Trade have filed a petition of insolvency. Its liabilities aggregate $11,250. Assets, $1,140. An effort will probably be to settle the matter outside of court.

The 320 giris employed in the laundry department of the a manufactory at Troy, N. struck for increase of 20 cent. The strike is said have been orper ganized by the Knights of Labor. The Sharon Iron company's works have lighted, after an idleness of nearly a year. They are running at full blast, and dications point to a steady run.

Every furnace in Sharon is now in a blaze. A band of Mexican soldiers crossed into Texas the other day, 200 miles below El Paso, and drove back into Mexico 275 head of cattle belonging to the ranch of J. 0. McComb. Redress will be sought through application to congress.

The tailors and tailoresses employed by the wholesale clothing houses, in Chicago, and in fact all persons engaged in making -eady-made clothing, numbering 20,000, returned to work on the basis of nine hours' for ten hours pay. A report comes from Argentine, across the river opposite Kansas City that the employes, about 250, in the smelting works there, demanded eight hours' work for ten hours pay, and threatened to strike if their demand is not granted. Certain planing mill and the bench hands of Cincinnati, 0., meeting, resolved to strike for eight hours' work and ten hours pay. In view of this fact the proprietors refused to keep the promise of eight hours' s' pay for eight hours' work. At a meeting of the district executive board of the Knights of Labor of Pittsburg, the strike of the bakers' was declared illegal, and the men were ordered to re turn to work at twelve hours per day, which demand the employers granted.

The employes at the smelting works at Argentine, failed to report for work and the works closed down indefinitely. The men have been working twelve a day. They now be demand eight hours at the present wages. Over 300 men went out. Edward Ferry, John Hoffman and Joseph Heizer, employes in Frank's chemical factory at Jersey City, N.

were fatally burn. ed by an explosion. A dozen other ployes working in the building at the time, escaped uninjured. Loss $10,000. Chris.

Spies, brother, of August Spies, who has been locked up in the Cook county jail since the bomb throwing, has been admitted to bail. His bond is for $6,000, and signed by John Bodemann, a real estate dealer, and Henry Linemeyer a lumber dealer. Representatives of the Knights Kansas of Labor suband typographical union of the City, mitted in writing a proposition to compositors on the Kansas City Journal for the latter to join their organizations in a body. A vote of the compositors was 47 io4 against the proposition. Adel Vleit, a drunken rowdy, broke into the house of Samuel Telters at St.

Louis, Michigan, a crippled ex-soldier. Telters attempted to defend his home, but was getting the worst of it, when his daughter, Nora, aged 17, shot Vleit the side of the head, mortally wounding him. A special loan of $124,000,000 has been authorized by the Spanish government for the account of Cuba. will be employed to consolidate the floating debt of the colony Cuban revenues are hypothecated to the repayment of the loan which will secure also be secured by an imperial guarantee. Two bands of anarchists held meetings in Philadelphia, and after listening to the incendiary speeches by their leaders, adopt- in ed resolutions denouncing the police and expressed sympathy with Herr Most.

The anarchists are being closely general watched by the police. Nine small firms of Reading, signed the schedule of wages demanded by the Cigar Makers' union, but they do not employ 25 per cent of the men who were locked out. All the larger firms declared that they would remain closed until they can employ non-union men. Over 1,200 persons are still out of work. As reported from the sub-committees, to the full committee on appropriations of the house, the legislative, executive and propriation for the next fiscal year of judicial appropriation bill makes total The appropriations for esti- the current year were $21,371,605, and mates for next year aggregate $21,406,686.

Reports from the Cumberland coal that regions the in Pennsylvania, are effect great strike has been broken at returned Frostberg, to work at old rates. Precautions have been and large numbers men taken against interference with the resum workmen by those who favor a continuing ance of the strike. As a result of the petition signed by 1,000 of Boston, asking that the barbers Sunday opening be enforced in law against case, the board of police commissionhave instructed the superintendent of their ers police to notify the that they close their places of business on Sunmust day, under penalty of prosecution. Reports have reached Eufala, I. Andrews that and his posse of three were all mortally wounded Deputy United States Marshal by Bill Pigeon while attempting killed his twelve capture men, recentiv.

Pigeon had and Andrews and his posse were after the reward. The particulars of the affair have learned. A posse of armed men scouring the country for him. A tornado passed through Meigs county, about five miles from Albany, Ind. Mrs.

killed; also her nephew. The house which Margaret McComas, aged 60, instantly the McComas' were killed was entirely demolished and many other buildings were destroyed. Several persons were seriously injured. The storm was of the tornado style and by far the most severe ever known in that part of Indiana. The secretary of state has received dispatches from Consul General Pheian at Halifax and commercial Agent Robinson at Yarmouth announcing the seizure at Digby of the American schooner, "'David Captain Allen, for purchasing bait in Canadian waters, and her subsequent removal to St.

Johns. The matter will be carefully investigated acted apon as promptly as the circumstances will permit. A verdict for $116,559 has been rendered by the federal circuit court jury favor of the United States against General John McArthur of Chicago, and his bondsmen, Thomas S. Dobbins, Jones Steele, Carlisle, Mason, S. W.

Hugh, John Ashton, Charles Hopkinson, Solomon, Keephan. The case was a suit by the government to recover money that General McArthur short of when postmaster at Chicago. Bet Morgan of Marshall was arrested at Kansas City on charge of infanticide in burning to death her illegitimate child in December last, The girl denies the charge, that she had an illegitimate child and says she was a widow while living at Marshall helping her mother, who keeps a boarding house. She gives the name of Bettie Bruce, saying she married a man named Bruce last January. The wife of Theodore Charland, of Quebec, Canada, was found dead in her residence, having, it is believed, been brutally and foully murdered.

She had been cut and bruised in several places, and one of her eyes bulged from its socket. Her husband, who was the only person in the house at the time has been arrested on suspicion. He states that he went to sleep Phis after dinner, and upon awakening found wife prostrate on the floor, dead. An Atchison dispatch of that city says the board of trade passed resolutions deprecating the proposed measure in congress to tax oleomargarine and similar articles. At St.

Joseph, the directors of the board of trade, and cattlemen representing investments of $12,000,000 in cattle, passed resolutions vigorously protesting against the bill, and expressing themselves in favor of a law requiring all counterfeits to be so labeled. The grand jury at Belleville, have returned their report to the circuit court after having refused find true bills against the deputy sheriffs who fired upon a mob in East St. Louis during the recent railroad strike, and killed six of their number. An order was made for their release, and they departed for their homes. It is said that the jury stood fifteen for no indictment, while eight favored their indictment.

A terrible triple murder and suicide occurred in Lincoln county, West Virginia. Mre. Margarette Donan, a widow, became crazed from religious fanaticism and said she had been called upon by the Lord to sacrifice the lives of herself and three children to satisfy the Divine wrath. Arming herself with a large, sharp carving knife, she made her way to the room occupied by here three daughters, aged 5, 10 and 12 years. cut the throats of each child and then stabbed herself to the heart.

Albert Miller, a young man of 26, and Mrs. Block a widow of 35, both residing at Joliet, were discovered in Miller's room. The woman was dead with a ball through her head. The man was dying, having been shot through the brain. Beside Miller lay a revolver with two empty chambers.

It is not known positively whether the affair was murder or suicide, but appearances indicate the latter. Mrs. Block has been living with Miller some time. She had been married twice, both husbands dying suddenly. The east bound passenger train on the Indiana, Bloomington Western railroad ran nto a washout near New Castle, Henry county, with terribly fatal effect.

The engine, baggage car and the first passenger car plunged into the abyss. K. W. Trenary, engineer, James Hudson, fireman, both of Indianapolis, and an unknown passenger were instantly killed in the crush. The baggageman and conductor were severely ininjured, all of the passengers were more or less bruised, but none seriously hurt.

Five socialists, while engaged in harangucrowd in San Francisco was arrested on a charge of misdemeanor. The most prominent of them, J. P. Rudeizkey, a Pole, advocated going to Nob hill and sacking the residences of Messrs. Stanford, Crocker and Flood and distributing the money and valuables among themselves.

The prisoners resisted arrest and the officers had their clubs. One prisoner, A. J. Waner, was rescued from the policemen by the mob, but was recaptured. The prisoners are much excited over their a arrest, but disclaimed any intention of inciting riot.

Nearly all of the Reading, hat manufacturers after deliberation decided to refuse their finishers' demands for 40 cents per dozhats as agreed upon by the National Finishers' association. They were getting from 20 to 25 cents per dozen Two of the smallest factories alone signed the schedule, and continued work. In York, seven firms reported that their men had left the unions and returned to work. Twenty-five factories are yet idle. Eight other manufactories, the employers decided not to pay the advance, and the finishers numbering 150, walked out, which threw out all other departments causing 200 to be idle.

The finishers were making from $80 to $100 per month. The dead body of Mrs. Mary Collins was found in bed at Hoboken, N. J. The woman's head was bound with clothes which were clotted with blood.

Her skull was fractured, and two deep gashes were inflicted in the forehead. Everything indicated that a hard struggle had taken place. It is supposed that her husband is the murderer, for he cannot be found. Besides the wounds on the woman's head, many bruises were found on the body and some of these were recently inflicted, but the others were evidently of long standing. Collins was arrested in New York, where he is employed as porter, and brought back to Hoboken.

At first he professed innocence, but when confronted with the children he agreed to make a statement. An association of textile manufacturers was formed in Philadelphia, embracing nearly all the prominent firms. Over 150 of the wealthiest men in the city and surrounding country were represented, It is said $150,000,000 capital was present. The object of the association is the establishment of fair and uniform wages; the prevention strikes; the settlement of differences between employers and operatives, and the protection of members from worthless and incom-1839, petent operatives. The members are mutually pledged to stand by one another in case of strikes or demands for advanced wages by employes, and should a strike occur in any one factory the mills of all will be summarily closed until the strike is settled satisfactorily to the employer in whose mill it occurs.

Colonel H. W. Hoblitzell, the Atlantic Dynamite company, was employed at Pittsburg, to break up a lot of old iron stored on a vacant piece of ground. He commenced the work on a ten ton anvil, and used an immense charge of dynamite for the purpose. A terrific explosion followed.

Huge pieces of the anvil were scattered about in every direction. One piece weighing 300 pounds wrecked the house occupied by a lady Mrs. Namarr, a block distant. Anoth er piece over 200 pounds crushed through the dwelling of Emil Erstman, also a block away, and struck a bed in which three children were sleeping. They escaped injuries.

Another house, occupied by Mrs. Long, fully 300 feet away, was also wrecked. The only person injured was James Acton, who was walking on the sidewalk a block away. He was struck on the leg with a fragment and the limb was badly injured. Senator Gibson has introduced in the senate a bill to provide for the establishment of a board of national defense, to consist of the president pro tem.

of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives; two members not of the same political party, to be designated by the committees respectively for each of the ways and means, appropriations, army and navy committees of the house; two senators, two representatives to be designated by the presiding officers of each house from the senators and representatives of the different political parties, and the secretary of war and of the navy, the lieutenant general of the army, admiral of the navy, two other officers of the army, and two officers of the navy to be appointed by the president, and nine members to be appointed from civil life. The duty of the board is to adopt and put into operation plans and methods for the construction and armament of navel defenses by land and water. Maxwell, the St. Louis murderer is on trial in St. Louis charged with murder.

Maxwell's explanation of the death of Preller is his only defense. Maxwell will go on the witness stand and repeat it. In giving it, he said his desire all along had been to unburden himself to the public, and allow his actions previous to and after the crime to substantiate his declarations. These actions show that he neither premeditated a crime or tried concealment from the moment of his arrival at the Southern hotel, until his departure for San Francisco. Every act and almost every word of his has been the property of the public, and these acts and these words form the strongest links in the chain of circumstances which they have forged to hold the culprit to his crime.

The only act, said Maxwell, about which there has been any doubt at all, has been the act of which I am now accused. I recognize now, as much as anybody, that I made a mistake in witholding my defense, but what could I do? I was here alone in a strange world, with no one to advise but my council, and followed the advice they gave to the letter. The attorneys for the defence will not deny the identity of the remains, but will achand, and insist that the death was due to knowledge the death of Preller at Maxwell's accident arising from circumstances which Preller himself had invited. Bowen's Budget, Fort Plain, N. for March, 1886, says; In the multiplicity of medicines placed upon market, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the meritorious and the worthless.

There are at least two excellent remedies widely used, the efficiency of which are unquestioned. We refer to St. Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure. KANSAS CHURCHES. The Methodist college building at Winfield is to cost about $56,000.

A Catholic church is soon to be established at Meade Center, Meade county. Fourteen accessions are reported to the First Congregational church of Topeka. A new Methodist church was dedicated the other day at Hoyt, Jackson county. The United Presbyterian church was dedicated at Olathe, Johnson county, the other day. Numerous accessions are reported to the Christian church of Manhattan, Riley county.

The members of the Lutheran church of Emporia are preparing to erect a new house of worship. The Baptists, of Minneapolis, Ottawa county, are preparing to erect a parsonage for then pastor. The Methodists will erect a new church at Marysville, Clay county, this spring which is to cost $1,700. The W. C.

T. U. have organized a Band of Hope at Beattie, Marshal county, with from thirty to fifty members. The Young Folks Christian Union has been formed at Clyde, Cloud county, as an auxiliary to the First Baptist church. The Roman Catholics of Nickerson, Reno county, have raised $700 and will erect a church during the coming summer.

Forty- accessions are to the Christian church of Wellington, Sumner county, during the of Elder Kern. A new Baptist church was dedicated the other day at Kansas Center, Rice county. The edifice cost $1,100 and when dedicated was free of debt. A Methodist church was dedicated the other day at Great Bend, Barton county. On the same day of the church dedication over $100 was raised which cleared the church of all debt.

Two church buildings will be erected near Rotterdam, Jewell county, soonone the Reform and the other Christian Reform. The latter is well under way. $2,400 have been subscribed towards building them. Cawker City Journal: The citizens of Cawker City, within the past two years, have vulentarily contributed over 000 towards building churches, library building and other public objects which is conclusive evidence that more liberal class of people live not. Elder Lotz of the Christian church states that the people of Wichita propose to give the site, build the college building and endow the new college which is being built by this the amount of $100,000 and that the project is for enough advanced to insure its success.

St. Marys Express: A conference of the priesthood of the Catholic church, was recently held at Leavenworth, with the result of deciding upon dividing the state of Kansas into three dioceses, with head quarters in Leavenworth, Wichita and Concordia. It will be some time before the new episcopates can be estab lished as the matter will have to go before provincial council in St. Louis after which, in case the division is approved, the matter must be approved by the Pope. Two Colored Congressmen.

There are two colored men in congress. O'Hara, of North Carolina. O'Hara was born and educated in New York, and entitled to no special consideration. Smalls was born in and remained as such 1862, 'until at which time he was acting as pilot on a little steamer plying in Charleston harbor, and, watching his opportunity, he run her over the bar and delivered her and his services to the commander of the union blockading squadron, for which he received a considerable sum in prize money. This he invested in South Carolina farm lands after the war, which he bought for a mere song and the result is Smalls made a clean half-million in the operation.

His district is largely colored, and of course a man of his wealth can very easily carry his points, and he is now serving his tenth year in congress. He never takes any part in the proceedings, but is always on hand to vote. He has an elegant home in South Carolina, and evinces great regard for his old mistress, whom he took after the vicissitudes of war had made her penniless, to his own home, where he has cared for her as he ever did when constrained by slave laws. Saratoga Sun: In many parts of the county, rain is badly needed and if it does not come soon, wheat and oats will certainly be short. So far corn has not suffered.

The prospect for other crops is good unless the dry weather continues longer than is now anticipated. CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. In the senate on May 13 a bill was passed creating a new judicial district of the United Statef. Under the bill the Eighth circuit is made to include Nebraska.

Kansas, Arkansas and Dolorado; the Ninth to include Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri; the Tenth to include California, Oregon and Nevada. The bill also provides that the present judge of the Ninth circuit, as heretofore constituted (being Caliiornia, Orefon and Nevada), shall be judge of the new Tenth circuit, and the president shall appoint a judge for the new Ninth circuit. a At 2 o'clock the general pension bill was placed before the senate. Mr. Blair explained that it was intended to provide for those disabled soldiers of the late war who had found it difficult or impossible, without taeir own fault (whether by loss of papers or death of witnesses) to to prove their cases under the existing law.

He said it provided aid for all soldiers, who, having served six months or more, had become disabled since their service, from any cause not due to their own vicious conduct, and who were now dependert upon their manual labor, or on the contributions of others not legally liable for their support. The highest pension under the bill, Mr. Blair added, would be $2s a month for total helplessness, and proportionately less for less disability. After some discussion the house adjourned without action. In the senate on May 14th, the house bill was passed orthorizing the Covington Cincinnati Railroad Transfer and Bridge company build bridges across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington.

The bill appropriating $150,000 to enlarge Kansas City custom house, also the following bills were passed: To pay Sewell Coulson, Messrs. Portor, Harrison and Fishback, all of Indiana, for legal services; to authorize the Kansas City, Fort Scott Gulf railroad company to build a railroad through the Indian Territory. At 2 o'clock the general pension bill was placed before the senate and Vest took the floor. He spoke against the bill while Senator Teller favored it. Pending discussion the senate adjourned.

In the senate on May 17 after the routine business of the senate to-day, Mr. Frye called up the house shipping bill, entitled "A bill to abolish certain fees for official services to American vessels, and to amend the laws relating to shipping commissioners, seamen and owners of vessels." The bill having been read, Mr. Frye moved to add to it as a new section the provisions of the bill recently reported by him from the committee on commerce, authorizing the president to issue a proclamation whenever he may deem proper, denying to vessels of foreign countries such privileges as are denied in such foreign countries to vessels of the United States. The provision of Mr. Frye's bill is not confined to Canada, but is made general, so as to apply to all foreign countries.

Proceeding to the calendar the senate passed the following measures: A bill authorizing juries of the United States cirdistrict courts to be used interchangeably. joint resolution authorizing department to audit pay claim of the Kansas City, Fort Scott railroad for carrying the mails. At 2 o'clock the pension bill was laid before the senate. A number of amendments were proposed and voted down, and without any definite action the senate adjourned. In the senate on May 18th, the chair pre sented a letter from the secretary of the treasury transmitting information as to claims allowed by the treasury department under appropriations, the balance of which have been exhausted or carried to surplus funds.

Also a letter from the postmaster general transmitting information as to the readjustment of postmasters' salaries under the act of March 3, 1883. Hale presented a memorial of several steamship companies denying that an attempt had been made to improperly influence congress in favor of what were called subsidies. Hoar presented- the petition and the New England Methodist Episcopalian conference urging the United States to enforce the terms of the Chinese treaty so as to protect the lives and property of Chinese subjects in the United States. Referred. The committee on commerce reported favorably, and the senate deficiency passed, appropriation a house bill of supplying a $5,492 to carry on to June, 1886, the examination and survey regarding the depth of water at the South Pass, Mississippi river.

The pension bill was then laid before the senate, Mr. Van Wyck's amendment is to add to the bill a proviso that no soldier shall receive less than $8 a month. The amendment proposed by Mr. Blair is to provide instead that no pension paid hereafter, under any law, to any soldier shall be less than $4 per month. Pending debate an adjournment was taken.

In the senate on May 19, the pension bill was considered, the pending question being the motion of Mr. McPherson to recommit the bill to the committee with instructions to submit the senate an estimate of the expense that would be incurred by its passage. The motion to recommit was rejected. Yeas, 14; nays, 28. The question then recurred on Mr.

Blair's amendment Mr. Van Wyck's amendment. Mr. Van Wyck's amendment is to add to the bill a section providing that no soldier under this act should receive a pension of less than $8 per month. Mr.

Blair's motion was make the provision read "no pension paid under any law to any soldier hereafter shall be rated at less than $4 per month. Mr. Blair modified his amendment so as to include sailors, marines, etc. Mr. Logan moved make the minimum pension hereafter $6 per month.

Rejected. The amendment Van Wyck was then adopted. The bill then passed yeas 34, nays 14, as follows: YeasAldrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen, Brown, Conger, Cullom, Frye, George, Gibson, Hale, Hampton, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls, Logan, McMillan, Mahone, Manderson, Miller, Mitchell, of Oregon; Morrill, Payne, Plumb, Riddleberger, Sawyer, Sewell, Shearman, Spooner, Van Wyck, Voorhees, Walthall and Wilson, of Maryland-34. Nays-Beck, Barry, Blackburn, Call, Cockrell, Eustes, Gorham, Gray, Jones, of Arkansas; McPherson, Morgan, Salisbury, Vest and In the house, on May 13, the Chinese indemnity resolution was taken up, but no decision was arrived at. The diplomatic and consular appropriation bill was reported to the house for passage.

The bill enlarging the powers and duties of the department of agriculture was then considered in committee of the whole. Breckenridge, com tucky, opposed the bill to make the commissioner of agricuiture a cabinet officer. To give him an assistant secretary, with nothing whatever to do, and to increase the expenditures of the department, would neither dig nify agriculture nor lighten the burden upon its shoulders. When the secretary of agriculture came to sit at the cabinet table he would cease be an agriculturist, and would become a politician. It was the heauy burden of taxation which kept the agricultural industry from moving on.

Weaver, of Iowa, favored the bill, which would give labor a status which it had not yet enjoyed. Pending further discussion the committee rose and the house adjourned. In the house on May 14, on motion of Peters, of Kansas the senate bill was passed appropriating $60,000 for the completion of the public building at Wichita Kas. After the transaction of some routine business the house went into committee of whole, (Hatchet, of Missouri in the chair,) on the private house calender. A bill for the extension of a patent gave rise to a debate which was opposed upon the ground of a tariff reduction.

Adjourned until evening. The house at its evening session passed forty-five pension bills. In the house on May 15th, on motion of Perkins, of Kansas, the bill passed authorizing the Kansas Arkansas Valley railroad company to construct a railway through the Indian Territory. Willis, of Kentucky, called up special order the bill to establish a pron at Louisville, and after considerable discussion the bill was passed. The house then proceeded to the consideration of the bill for the appointment of a commission to inspect and report on the Indian affairs.

The remainder of the afternoon was occupied in discussing this matter. house took a recess until 7:30 p. the session being for the consideration of resolutions on the death of Representative Hahn, of Louisiana, in whose memory eulogies were delivered. Then as a mark of respect, the house adjourned, In the house on May 17, on motion of Mr. Lanham, of Texas, a bill was passed for the erection of a public building at El Paso, Texas, at a cost of $150,000.

Under call of states the following bills were introduced: By Mr. O'Neill, of Missouri--To of absence to employes of the United States navy yards. By Mr. Little, of Ohio- To provide for covering into the treasury of specific items, appropriations, when the president shall be satisfied that such appropriations are detrimental to public interests. By Mr.

Hewitt, New York-A resolution calling taking action. AN OHIO TOWN SWEPT. upon the heads of executive departments for full and complete schedules of all trusts in their custody, from whom and when received, whom due, where held, amount thereof, amount of unexpended balance on general award, available for payment; judgments of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims, and all other unexpended balances in the custody of their departments; the estimated amount required for the repayment to importers of the excess customs dues, and any and all claims of whatsoever nature, estimated or ascertained, which may within the fiscal year become a liability against the treasury of the United States. The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, in the chair, on the urgent deficiency bill.

The bill was considered briefly, and having been reported to the house it was passed. Several bills were passed, and June 3 and subsequent days were set apart, after some debate, for business presented the committee on labor. In the house on May 18, the committee on ways and means, reported a bill amending the revised statutes so as to reduce the penal sum of the bonds manufacturies to $250, with an additional $50 for each person proposed to be employed of by whole. them in making cigars. Committee the The committee on territories, reported adversely the bill to regulate the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the territories.

Laid on the table. The committee postoffices and postroads, reported back the postoffice appropriation bill with the senate amendand, it having been referred to the committee of the whole, house went into committee for the purpose of considering the amendments. Pending its consideration an adjournment was had." In the house on May 19, Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, from the committee on laws regulating the election of president, reported a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment creating and defining the office of second vice president of the United States. House calendar.

The house then went into committee of the whole--Hammond, of Georgia, in the chair- on the senate amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Phelps, of New Jersey, said the amendment, and the vote by which it was adopted to the senate, were encouragement to the friends of American shipping. the He was prroeeding to make a summary of vote, when he was interrupted by Blount, of Georgia, with the point that it was not in order to refer to the action of ihe senate. Mr.

Peters, of Kansas, said that in the last congress he had voted against a proposition similar to the one now before the had been so strongly prejudiced against anything like a subsidy that it was with difficulty that he had brought himself to review the question in anything like a fair light. But a thorough examination had convinced him that the subsidy was unjust and put forward in the interest of English aristocracy and English money. It was to the interest of the farmers district to endorse and uphold the policy inaugurated by the senate amendment. islation He the believed that would by this kind of legtime come when United States instead of Great Britain would control the trade of South America. After a long debate the house adjourned without A Tornado and Terrible Rain Storm Visited Xenia, 0., Causing Death and Destruc tion, CINCINNATI, O.

May terrible tornado devastated the city of Xenia, killing 20 persons and causing great damage to property. It appears that the rainfall last night was the worst ever known in that part of the Shawnee Run, which runs through portions of the town, rose to an unpreceheight and from fifty to a hundred buildings were swept from their foundations and the inmates suddenly found themselves helpless in the angry flood. A rescuing party have recovered twenty-four bodies. It is estimated that a number more will be found. The storm is described as the most disastrous ever known on the Little Miami railroad.

The nearest approach any train could make to the city was three miles. The the track is also taken. Trees were blown bridges are all a washed away and in places down, fences destroyed and crops ruined. It will require several days to repair the damage to the railroad. At Dayton, a terrible storm raged causing great destructron of property, but no lives were lost.

Crops are totally ruined. About 100 cattle were killed. Dwellings were twisted from their foundations and great destruction was wrought at Shaker village, three miles east. HORRIBLE DEATHS. XINIA, May the midst of the orm, about 10 o'clock last night, the fire ells rang out their wild alarm.

No great umber of people responded, but directly he second alarm brought out the whole creek, that heretofore harmless little stream, own. It learned that Shawnee one was out of its banks and sweeping everything before it. Standing on the banks of this mighty stream, in the rain and darkness, it was an appalling situation. There was no light, and above the roar of the angry waters and the flashing lightning and thunder, came the cry for help from the drowning people. Men rushed from the shore into the stream.

Others ran in other directions for ropes, ladders, lights and boats. At the corner of Detroit and Water streets a bonfire of store boxes, kept up with coal oil, was built and nine persons were rescued from the Firguson house, and also some people from the old Heaton house. At the Main street bridge the terrible tide had fairly piled the debris of ruined houses in an awful mass, among which several dead bodies were found this morning. O. Morris, wife and seven children lived in a little frame house on Second street.

It was raised from its mooring and floated towards the main stream. Cries came from it, and a man was seen at the window with a light, when it was smashed, partly sinking. The light went over and all was still. Mr. Morris and his family had met their awful fate.

Afterwards two of his little were rescued alive clinging to the debrie, down the creek TERRIBLE TORNADOES. They Destroy Michigan, Ohio and Indiana Property and Cause Much Loss of Life. PITTSBURG, May 15 -The Chicago express on the Fort Wayne railway had a rough experience passing through the tornado which struck Eastern Ohio last night. The lightning flashed from the time the train left Fort Wayne, at 8 p. and the rain descended almost steadily until Lima, Ohio, was passed.

Such a strom the passengers had never seen before. The wind steadily increased in fury, and the breaking of the trees and the rushing sibilation of telegraph wires, made a concert of wild sounds. When about three miles from Kirby the storm was at it its height. Suddenly there was a dull roar in the distance and then a cyclone tore across the level plain on the south side of the track, and catching a big tree tore it up by the roots and flung it across the cars. One limb struck the locomotive and cut the cowcatcher in two.

Other branches smashed in windows along the three ordinary cars and the two pullman sleepers. Telegraph poles came dancing down at the same time and rocks and bushes flew through the air in a riotous scurry. The car windows were smashed to pieces. cracked and splintered and the glass flew in every direction. The train standstill kept on the rails and was brought to a within 200 yards.

The cars were transformed into a crowd excited men. The railroad men kept fairly cool. The storm continued. It is remarkable that very few passengers were hurt. At Albion, a number of stores and dwellings were unroofed and damaged to the extent of $30,000, THE DAMAGE IN OHIO.

DAYTON, May -The latest intelligence from throughout the county western section of Green county adds to the destruction wrought by the tornado Wednesday night. No place in this county has yet been from where property was not damaged to any extent. No lives were lost in this section, although a great may persons were injured. A careful estimate of the losses for Dayton and surrounding country, on all classes of property and crops, aggregate nearly $2,000,000, and it is believed that the total damage in the nine counties swept by the flood and tornado will make at least $5,000,000 more. Solicitor of Patents, F.

O. McCleary, of Washington, D. says the only thing that did him any good, when suffering with a severe cough of several weeks standing, was Red Star Cough Cure, which is purely vegetable and free from opiates and poisons. KANSAS NEWS. citizens of Comanche county are The going to prospect for coal.

An $8,000 school house is to be erectd at Syracuse, Hamilton county. Fredonia, Wilson county is to have a new school house which will cost $8,000. Cowley recently contributed eight criminals to the Kansas state penetentrary. Over $427,000 exchanged bands in Wichita, last week, in the real estate transfers. There has not been a failure in the city of Iola, Allen county, for the past two years.

The Masonic fraternity of Ellsworth are preparing to erect a magnificent building. The 4,000 hoosier residents, of Labett County are perfecting arrangements to hold a re-union. A lodge of the Knights of Pythias has been instituted at Medicine Lodge, Barber county. Rev. Bernand Kelley has resigned the appointment as a member of the state board of charities.

During the past year the property valuation of Larned, Pawnee county, has increased $125,000. A party of Irish immigrants arrived at Abilene the other day. They will settle in Dickinson county. Emporia has decided to tax her druggists $100 a year, and deprive them of the privilege of selling beer. A township in Cloud county has an organization of citizens known as the horse thief detective association.

The water power of Burlington, Coffey county, is soon to be improved by putting in a $75,000 mill property at that place. Three hundred new buildings are now in process of erection at Great Bend, Barton county, and more are contemplated. David Baldruff, a young man aged 23 was drowned near Independence, Montgomery county the other day while bathing. The Atchison papers are confident of securing an appropriation to secure the erection of a government building before congress adjourns. A twelve year old boy of A.

C. Currier, of Alden, Phillips county, was fatally injured by falling from a freight train on which he was playing. Riley Grooves, a young man aged twenty-three years was drowned near Paola, Miami county, the other day while fishing. His body was recovered. The coal miners of Osage county are attempting to secure the co-operation of miners in other counties in the state to make a demand for eight hours per day.

The receipts of the city of Frankfort, Marshall county, for the year ending May 1st, 1886, was $465.92 expenditures, $366.18, leaving $98.74 in the city treasury. Wm. Gibbs a sixteen year-old boy was convicted of burglary at a recent term of the district court of Mitchell county, and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. The Knights of Labor, of Emporia, passed a resolution at a recent meeting, requesting all the employers of that city to permit their mechanics to quit work on Saturday at 4 o'clock. The assessors of Leavenworth county, outside of the city, make returns showing an increase of 1585 in population over last year.

This includes over 500 occupants of the soldiers' home. A citizen of Smith county, has constructed and had patented, a most complete hog trough. It is so built that it fills itself from a tank without running over or spilling any water whatever. During the past year Columbus, Cherokee county, has paid $5,000 of the city's indebtedness and the hope is expressed that by the end of the year 1886 the entire indebtedness will have been cancelled. The other day three horse thieves confined in the Kingman county jail overpowered the deputy as he was bringing in their supper, gaged and bound him, and then made their escape.

They have not as yet been captured. The other day an observing man found a quarter section of land near El Dorado, Butler county which had not been entered and he promptly filed it. The 160 acres thereby cost him $1.25 upon per acre and he can now sell it for $15. The population of Osborne county in 1882 was in 1883 it was in 1884 it was March 1st, 1885, it was 12,721. The census of the present year has been 80 far completed as to show that the present population is probably a little over 15,000.

A young man by the name of Black, living near Omio, Jewell county, committed suicide the other day drinking a qaantity of carbolic acid. had been by. on intimate terms with a young woman of that neighborhood, who, had dismissed him, whereupon he drank the acid with the above result. Proceedings have been instituted to enjoin the temporary board of county commissioners of Cheyenne county from contracting a debt of about $2,000 for books for the county. The enjoiners claim that the temporary board have only such powers as the statute explicitly gives them, and the power to expend $2,000 is not one of them.

The largest canal in Kansas is now completed and the water will be turned into it in a few days. The canal is forty feet in width at the bottom, six feet in depth, and seventy miles in length. It will cost three-fourths of a million dollars, and was built by A. T. Soule, Hop Bitters man of Rochester, N.

Y. The purpose it is designed for is to irrigate and reclaim the arid region around Spearville, in Ford county. The El Dorado Republican relates that a man near that city was digging a up some old stumps the other day when he encountered a nest of snakes and then and there killed eighty. Not content with going this far, the story states that the eighty dead serpents included representatives of every kind known to this state. In the next paragraph this story is farther carried out by the statement of the liquor applications filed with the probate judge of Butler county during the past month.

The little town of Lansing, in Leaven worth county, the site of the state penitentiary, was named for a man by the name of Lansing, who settled there following the war. Lansing died a few weeks ago and just before he died revealed the fact that his name was Taylor instead of Lansing. It seems that he separated from his wife before the war and enlisted in the confederate army. He was taken prisoner and pardoned. He joined the Union aimy and assumed the name of Lansing for protection should he again be taken prisoner.

He thereafter used the name of Lansing. A few months ago A. B. Elliott, of Dexter, Cowley county killed a dostor named Chastain, who attempted to seduce his daughter. Elliott was tried for murder and acquitted but now Chastain's father has placed a monument over his grave bearing the following epitaph: Dr.

W. M. Chastain, Born in Ellijay, March 1861. Murdered by A. B.

Elliott, at Dexter, Kansas, March 22, 1886, Aged 25 years, 21 days. Vengence is Mine, I will repay, Saith the Lord. "As riven by the lightning stroke The shattered oak trees lie, So by the bullet's fatal shock A noble man is forced to die." at Columbus. GRAND ARMY GLEANINGS. Judge Martin, of Atchison, has rendered a decision which is of unusual importance.

Every person patronizes the Western Union telegraph company writes bis message on a blank which states at the top that the company will not be responsible for mistakes unless the message is repeated at an extra expense. Judge Martin decided that this condition was against public policy, and that the company is responsible for mistakes made in' unrepeated messages. The case under discussion was that of J. C. Crall vs.

the Western Union telesent a ordering one of his race graph Last summer Crail horses brought to Valley Falls, but the operator made the message read Neosho Falls, and Saturday he received a judgment for $136, damages against the company. Some two years ago the Gulf house at Columbus, Cherokee county, was burned to the ground. All the guests were saved except one, who was identified. At the time Clarance clerk in the hotel, Asa Beam, a citizen of Columbus and James Baxter, a gambler, were suspicioned of having murdered Miller and then fired the hotel to hide their crime. Nothing was done in the matter, however, at that time, and it had passed out of history until last week, when the old story was revived and all three of the suspicioned parties were arrested on indictments charged with the dual crimes of murder and arson.

Baxter, Beam and Diamond have all been arrested and will shortly have their trial. It is not known on what evidence the indictments were found, as the proceedings of the grand jury are always secret. The affair has created quite a sensation The Concordia post of the grand army, has fitted up an elegant lodge room in which the post will hold its meetings hereafter. Congressman S. R.

Peters has 8110- ceeded in obtaining a pension for David McKenny, of Medecine Lodge, Barber county, a veteran of the Black Hawk war. The ladies of Solomon, Dickinson county, have taken it upon themselves to piesent a nice silk flag, to the G. A. R. post.

It will cost nearly $100. Wichita Beacon: C. E. Hastings, late private 5th Michigan battery, has been notified that through the efforts of Judge Glenn the department at Washington, D. has raised his pension from $4 to $6 per month, to date from Feb.

3d, 1876. W. W. Cone, of Topeka, is desirous of getting the names and post-office address of all those who now reside in Kansas who parcipitated in the first battle of Bull Run, also the regiment company or battery to which attached at the same time. Address as above.

Peabody Gazette: Custer Camp No. 20, Sons of Veterans, is preparing to have an entertainment on the 31st which will consist of singing, a recitation, a short address from Rev. A. H. Lackey, and other exercises, together with an ice cream and strawberry festival.

Minneapolis Messenger: Sam, the army horse belonging to Capt. E. W. Kingsbury of Co. Second Colored Cavalry and ridden by him from 1862 until the close of the war, died in Kansas City this week.

The horse carried his rider through several of the hottest battles on the border and was several times wounded but received the best medical attention possible and was never disabled or unfit for active duty. He was an honorary member of Scott Rifles and McPherson post, No. 4 G. A. and occupied the place of honor in the funeral procession for General Grant.

Eureka Republican: Two old soldiers who had served many months in a rebel prison, accidently met upon our streets one day this week, and from this chance meeting many tender memories of the long ago past were revived. James English, of Quincy township, and late a member of the Fourth-Fifth Pennsylvania, and W. H. Wiggins, of Salem township, and late a member of the Second Ohio cavalry, are the old soldiers referred to. One was captured in front of of Pittsburg, and the other at Ft.

Royal, and in the same month, September, 1864. In due time they found themselves together in Salisbury prison. They enjoyed the occasion of this meeting as only old soldiers who have endured and suffered together can. HOUSE. Kansas Farmer: Large numbers of Percheron stallions are being bought in the United States by Canadian breeders to renew the old French blood so highly prized, and also to give quality, style and action the large English Draft and Clysdale stock which has been bred there so long.

More than 100 Percheron stallions have been sold to Canada during the past two years by M. W. Dunham, "Oakland Farm," at Wayne, Illinois, the greatest imported from France nearly 2,000 head. During the past two years about 1,000 Percherone have been bought in France, imported and collected at Oaklawn." purchases have confined to pedigreed animals recorded in the Percheron Stud Book of France..