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a a The Sundan Ledger. VOL. V. SIX MONTHS FIFTY CENTS. TOPEKA.

KANSAS. SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1891 $1.00 PER ANNUM. NO. 14 AN HONEST MAN DEAD. Chickering, the Famous Piano Maker's Funeral.

He Had Unrecelpted Deposits of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars With no One Claiming the Money, Which He Turned Over to the Astonished Heirs. NAW YORK, March funeral of Charles F. Chickering, the famous piano maker, took place at his residence, No. 5 Fifth avenue, and the funeral was delayed for the arrival of absent relatives. Mr.

Chickering was noted for his uprightness of character. A good illustration of his honesty is found in the case of the Miser Paine, who, while distrusting all the world, did not hesitate to deposit his hoardings in the care of Mr. Chickering, never asking for a receipt. Finally Paine died, and then, to the surprise of every one, the veteran piano dealer announced that he had no less a sum than $300.000 lying in his safe, which had been left in his care by the dead man. This sum Chickering, who might have kept every penny of it without any one being the wiser, turned over intact to miser's astonished heirs.

Such was the man." Dun's Weekly Review of Trade. NEW YORK, March G. Dun weekly review of trade says: If no news is good news, as concerns the condition of business at this season, the outlook is fairly satisfactory. Trade has been rather quiet and hesitating, as is natural at this season, and there is rather more complaint of slow collections, but throughout the northwest bad weather and the bad state of country roads supply an explanation. Money is in fair and increasing supply.

The outlook for the coming crops continues unexceptionally good. It has been a week of unhealthy speculation in some products, owing to desperate efforts of powerful combinations to force prices on which they can unload without loss. The general average of prices reached its highest point this year on Monday, and though now a fraction on lower is still 1 per cent. above last week. But manufactured products do not share in the advance, except in a few cases.

The iron market has a better tone. At Boston money is easy and trade dull, because of weather. stAte Chicago sales exceed last year's for the week, and receipts of wool considerably increased, while there is a decrease of flour and lard and a decrease of one-half in dressed At other northwestern points trade is fair." The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days number 256, as compared with total of 275 last week. For the corresponding go week last year the figures were 213. THE COOK BROTHERS.

Efforts for Their Rellef and Digcharge. WASHINGTON, D. March Piumb and State Senator Kelly, of McPherson, visited the department of justice and called upon Attorney General Miller. They presented the petition of the state officials and the Kansas state senate asking that those now charged with the murder of Sheriff Cross, of Stevens county, be set free and the indictments dismissed. spent some time with the attorney general explaining the situation relating to the case.

it was replied that Judge Horton, Massachusetta, who for some time has been investigating the case, having been sent out as special agent from the department of justice, would very soon send in his final report. It is thought likely that the attorney general will be able to reach a decision within ten days. The document: received from Judge Horton so far in the matter, clearly indicate that he will recommend that the prosecution be discontinued and the cases dismissed. It is said his recommendation in the matter, based upon an investigation, will have great weight with the attorney general, and is considered by no means a prophesy to say that the attorney general will recommend the district court to dismiss the cases, and that he will comply with the recommendation there is no Missouri Crop Prospects. ST.

Louis, March -The secretary of the board of agriculture furnishes the following crop weather bulletin for the week. The rainfall has been in excess of normal and very little seeding or farm work has been done. The temperature, while averaging about normal, uniform, neither very warm nor very cold. This has held back fruit buds, and they are not so likely to be injured frost. sunshine has been much below the normal.

Warm sunshine is badly needed to put the soil in condition for plowing. Although wheat is not so far advanced as it at this date last year, it is reported in good condition, with an excellent prospect for a fine crop. No damage by Hessian fly is reported. The prospects for good fruit crop are very favorable. Stopped Printing $2 Certificates, WASHINGTON, D.

March sensation has been caused at the treasury department by the discovery of a counterfeit $2 silver certifiate of the series of 1886. It is estimated that there are nearly $4,000,000 of these notes in circulation, and the problem before the treasury department is how to get them back into the treasury before any considerable quantity of the counterfeit notes get into circulation. It was practically decided to suspend the printing of the $2 silver certificates and to institute a new series of the same denomination. These will contain vignette of Secretary Windom, and will be issued as soon as the necessary plates can be engraved. The Commercial Congress.

WASHINGTON, D. March Harrison said that he had been thinking seriously about attending the commercial congress which meets at Kansas City April 14. Senator Plumb and State Senator Kelly, of McPherson, urged upon the president to be present if possible. It is said that if the president leaves on his Pacific coast trip by April 12 he will certainly stop at Kansas City, but if he fails to leave for the coast at that time it will be impossible for him to comply with the invitation. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk said that he would certainly attend the Kansas City meeting.

Exports to Brazil. WASHINGTON, D. March Bra- zilian mail steamship Finance left New York with over $300,000 worth of American products for Brazilian ports. The cargo comprised lard from Ohio, druggists' glass ware from New Jersey, soap from Illinois, gymnagium apparatus from Massachusetts, telephone supplies Pennsylvania, turpentine from North Carolina, machinery from Wisconsin, lard from Maryland, rosin from North Carolina, bacon from Indiana, wheat starch from Kansas, machinery from Maine, flint paper from Now Hampshire, cotton seed oil from North Carolina, cotton goods from Georgia, baby carriages Wisconsin, meat cutters from Illinois. There is more bacon from Kansas and more manufactured articles, and more farm products from Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio.

Bales of hay go from New York, and cases of cigarettes from New York. North Carolina sends cases of suspenders alongside of Connecticut bird cages. Pennsylvania ships 500 cases of petroleum and Ohio bundles of wheelbarrows. Connecticut sends lemon squeezers and New Jersey fans and brass jewelry. New York ships a case of corn cure and kegs of butter.

Codfish from Massachusetts and pothole diggers from Michigan. Certificates Instead of Dollars. WASHINGTON, D. March of the Mint Leach said that after July next it was probable that no more silver dollars would be coined, but silver certificates would be printed instead. Congress has given the secretary of the treasury power to recoin about $2,500,000 of the subsidiary coin now in the treasury, and now this would done as soon as possible in the probables be, year, this will, in effect, put just so much more money in circulation.

There are about $2,600,000 in the treasury against which silver certificates can be issued. Will Try Again. DES MOINES, March prohibitionists are preparing to reopen the prohibitory question in the supreme court of the state. In 1883 the supreme court declared that the prohibitory amendment to the state constitution was null and void on account of some legislative informalities. Since then the personnel of the supreme court has almost entirely changed, and it is believed that a majority of the members are now in favor of a prohibitory amendment, and will reverse the finding of 1883.

Spendlove Resentenced. TOPEKA, March Guthrie passed sentence upon Joseph Spendlove, who was found da guilty of manslaughter a weeks He sentenced Spendlove to fete state penitentiary for sixteen years at hard labor. first conviction, which was for murthe second degree, the judge sentenced him to twenty-one years. He into consideration the difference in the finding of the juries in fixing sentence. Spendlove's attorneys gave notice of another appeal to the supreme court.

Cattle for Europe. CHICAGO, March first permit for inspection of cattle for export to 'Europe under the new law just passed by congress, was issued to Nelson Morris, of Chicago. The official figures of Secretary Rusk show that during January and February of this year Great Britain received from the United States 53,409 head, others 1,630. These figures, it is explained, show an increase in the foreign cattle trade of the United States for two months of 1891 over the corresponding period of last year of nearly 32 per cent. Army Rumors.

GALVESTON, March: is currently reported that General David S. Stanley, commander of this military department, will shortly be promoted to a major generalship and will be transfered to the command of the department of the Pacific to succeed General Gibbon, soon to be retired, and that Colonel Forsythe, who distinguished himself in the recent Sioux Indian campaign, will succeed General Stanley. Another Combine. CHICAGO, March meeting of sash, door and blind manufacturers, for the purpose of forming a general organization, convened here. Delegates were present from the principal cities of the northwest.

It is denied by those attendance that there is any intention of forming a trust, though it is admitted that the object of the meeting is to establish uniform prices. An Easter Bull Fight. CITY OF MEXICO, March Easter Sabbath morning was celebrated here by one of the biggest bull fights that Mexico has seen for many years. There were twelve infuriated animals in the arena, and the amphitheatre had been enlarged to provide accommodations for over 30,000 spectators. President Diaz was present.

The Actress Gets There. NEW YORK, March Gayton, the actress who started from San Franciso several months ago to walk to New York on a days ahead of her time. She housed to wager, arrived at the Ashland thirteen walked the distance of 3,395 miles in six months and twenty-six days and will receive for her trouble about $1,300. Cheating the Revenue. SAN FRANCISCO, March distillery and winery of the Gallegos Wine company at Irvington, one of the largest in the state, has been seized by the revenue officers.

It is charged that the company, since 1889, has been marketing brandy on which the tax had not been paid. The value of the plant is $200,000. Worst In Thirty Years. WINCHETTER, March -The storm still continues here. It has been falla depth of two feet, and in some places ing fast for thirty eight hours and has reached nearly three feet.

Country roads are impassable. It is the severest storm for thirty years. An Hour In Conference. WASHINGTON, D. -The president walked out in the snow to call on Secretary Blaine.

They were together nearly an hour and the president returned to the White house just in time to attend the regular cabinet meeting. Killed by a Rock. GALLUP, N. March menPat Lynch, A. Cassidy and a Frenchman, were killed in the Caledonia coal mines.

They were fixing the track in one of the main entries when a huge rock fell upon them. The Newfoundland Trouble. OTTAWA, March Salisbury is using every effort in his power to bring about a confederation of Newfoundland with the dominion, as a settlement of the Newfoundland problem. Escaped With Their Lives. YONKERS, N.

March Tom Ewing's handsome residence here is destroyed, with its contents, by fire. The family escaped with their lives. Loss, $25,000. OF COURSE. Peffer Not Happy Over Palmer's Election.

The Senator Announces That on Strictly Party Questions He Shall Vote With the a Indignant That He Was Otherwise Classed. WASHINGTON, D. April remarks of Senator Peffer, of Kansas, when asked to participate in the Palmer meeting have occasioned much comment. He refused to be one of the speakers at the Palmer meeting, and he did so with such vigor that the managers of the Springfield affair have not seen fit to make public the answer. Senator Peffer says he doesn't know what he has done that should have led the Illinois democrats to think he would participate in their ratification.

In declining the invitation the senatorelect said to a friend: "Why should I rejoice over the election of Palmer? I have no part or parcel in this democratic triumph. I don't want my position politically misunderstood. I shall represent the farmers' alliance on the questions affecting their immediate interests, but on strictly party questions I shall I vote always with the republicans." News Notes. DEAD. -Earl Granville 18 dead.

Webber, the federal superintendent of immigration, said that the arrivals of March this year would exceed from 12,000 to 15,000 the arrivals of the same month last year. It is likely that the influx Italians will be unprecedented, and that the incoming of the Irish will be greater than last year. REOPENED. -The American National bank of Kansas City, is reopened and receiving many deposits from its old customers. It has $1,725,000 in its vaults.

SHERIFF'S SALE. -The Leavenworth street railway, its tracks cars and stock was sold by the sheriff for $13,340. LEO pope is suffering from a severe attack of stomach trouble. His condition is such that he is compelled to keep his bed. BREAK GROUND.

-The executive committee of the New York Grant Monument association has decided to broak ground for the monument April 27, the anniversary of General Grant's birthday. MIDNIGHT duty went off of sugar at 12 o'clock at night. Wholesale stores in New York were opened then to the retail stores, which were anticipated, bare meet the enormous demand from of stock. -John T. Farish, a mining expert in Colorado, says he has never experienced anything like the recent snow storms in the mountains.

For eighteen days he was snowbound in the Red mountains. The trails to the mines have been covered up and fully fifty lives have been lost by the disastrous snow slides. TWO -There were 200 deaths re. ported Chicago health office in one day. The grippe, pneumonia and kindred diseases were the principal causes.

It was one of the largest records for a single day that the oflice has ever recorded. INDICTED. -The directors of the New York, New Haven Hartford Railway company were indicted by the grand jury for misdemeanor in connection with the fatal accident in the Fourth avenue tunnel, on February 18 last, whereby there were six lives lost. BIG CONVENTION. C.

A. Powers, who is making arrangements for the May 19th party convention in Cincinnati, says that there will be 1,000 delegates, representing thirty states, and that the conference will place a ticket in the field next suminer. the Chicago, Mount Milwaukee St. Paul road atTHEY the leading officials of tended the funeral of the late John Plankington, of Milwaukee, who was a prominent director of the railroad company. DAMAGING -One of the heaviest rain storms that has oceurred since the memorial centennial flood visited Galena, doing great damage to the railroads and other property.

MORE -The arrivals of Italian immigrants during the present month at the barge office, New York, were 5,324, nearly double those of last month. IN agents appointed to allot lands for the Sac and Fox Indians in severalty have begun their work. About twenty alottments have been made. COLONEL A. S.

Follansbee, who commanded the Sixth Massachusetts regiment, which was attacked by a mob in Baltimore while en route to Washington at the outbreak of the late civil war, Boston from an attack of the grippe. CHAMPION -Henry Klink, at Mobile, has world's record of 3 minutes and seconds by walking a half mile in 2 minutes and 55 seconds. FOUND farmer living nine miles from Peoria, claims to have discovered a rock vein of silver ore on his farm, about thirty feet below the surface. WOMAN -The Masachusetts republican state league has resolved in favor of full municipal suffrage to qualified women voters. Investigating the Collision.

NEW YORK, April M. Depew was to appear before the grand jury as a witness in its investigation into the causes and responsibility for the collision attended by fire in the New York Central tunnel. After Mr. Depew had given his testimony the grand prepared a number of questions upon which they wanted information and submitted them to Judge Fitzgerald. The judge, after looking up the statute, said, among other things: "In relation to the matter of directors, whom you are inquiring about at present, have these persons the control and management of the road? If so it is their duty to see that the requirements of the law for the safety of the traveling public are respected.

There should be no hesitation of the grand jury to act upon the law applied to them. Any person concerned in the commission of an act is a member of the liable party. The law savs that some person shall be responsible. Those people control the management of this road. They have acted their duty imposed upon them by the statute.

If they have violated the statute an indictment should be found, and let me say that while it is proper that in cases where persons of eminent standing the community have serious fully charges inquire made into against all the them, it particulars, is to yet care- the law requires that the same law should be enforced against them as against anyone else. If the facts warrant an indictment, an indictment should be found." Judge Fitzgerald's words created some little stir in court. After he had once more taken his seat a juror arose for further instructions. In answer to the questions of the juror the court said that the directors could be charged with misdemeanor, as well as the corporation. There is no doubt in the mind of any person who was in the court room when the jury filed out but that a true verdict will be found against the directors of the road.

WASHINGTON, D. April statement of the Italian affair, given out by a high official of the government, is as follows: "Baron Fava, the Italian minister, notified Secretary Blaine that under orders from Rome, was compelled to withdraw his mission to this government. He does not close the Italian legation, but leaves the Marquis Imperiale, the present secretary, to act as charge d'affaires. The act is no sense of hostility to this government, but may indicate a certain degree of discontent on the part of the Italian ministry. Baron Fava has been on diplomatic duty in Washington for the past ten years and his retirement will be much regretted, both officially and SOcially.

The highly sensational rumors with his retirement are not believed to have any foundation." It is said by a gentleman who has had large experience in the diplomatic affairs of our government, that Mr. Porter, the United States minister to Italy, will not necessarily retire because of the withdrawal of the Italman minister this country. A declaration of war, the same official said, did not necessarily follow such action as that of the ItalIan government. There were many precedents for it, nearly all of which, however, were among the European nations. Through a better understanding of the differences that may come, or through the friendly intercession third power, these difficulties are often adjusted without recourse to arms.

The prospect of war over the incident is ridiculed by this gentleman, as is also the prospect of an extra session of congress growing out of the same incident. The King Kicks. A Conservative Vlew. WASHINGTON, D. April Baron Fava has presented to the state department his recall by the Italian government and demanded his passports.

The department is greatly surprised because it was wholly unexpected, and because investigation into the New Orleans matter is not completed. The reason for recall is: "The king of Italy is dissatisfied with the progress of adjustment between the two couutries in regard to the New Orleans massacre." This action can be construed in no other way than an act of open hostility on the part of the Italian government to the United States, with which it has heretofore been on friendly terms. Free Sugar. CHICAGO, April free sugar clause of the tariff bill went into effect at 12 o'clock at night, and over 150,000 barrels of sugar was thrown on the market in Chicago. For over a month past the custom house officers have had their hands full in making arrangements for the release of this immense quantity.

It was found necessary to secure and bond twelve temporary warehouses, and con then the cars at the railroad depots had to be bonded. Collector Clark opened his office at midnight for the accommodation of the merchants and the issuance of the necessary paper for the release of the sugar was at once commenced. There is No Danger. WASHINGTON, D. April commissioner of Indian affairs has just received the following from Dr.

Charles A. Eastman, a full blood Sioux, and the government physician at the Pine Ridge agency, in South Dakota: papers have been reporting me as saying that there will be trouble in the spring. You know what I said to you in regard to this matter. There 110 danger. I am more confident of this now than when I saw you.

American Horse came into my office saying he, too, had been reported as becoming hostile. He said to me: Tell the commissioner and the general I shall stand true word and position in regard to the trouble." A Bit of a Shindy, DUBLIN, April Davitt and Mr. Roche, M. returned from Sligo to Easkey by a circuitous route. Mr.

Condon immediately called a meeting and dared Mr. Davitt to show himself. And an altercation in the road led to a scuffle between Messrs. Roche and Conway, M. and the police were compelled to separate them.

Mr. Davitt remained in Easkey. Quiet has prevailed at North Sligo. The McCarthyites continue their canvass and Mr. Parnell addressed meetings in Tireragh.

The surgeons of Sligo have been kept busy dressing wounde received in fights. The mayor has refused to grant the use of the town hall to either party. A Two Days' Fight. CALCUTTA, April: W. Quinton, chief commissioner of Assam, was holding a conference with the notabilities of Assam at a camp which was garrisoned by a strong force of native infantry in the British service.

Suddenly the camp was attacked by a number of hostile tribes, led by their chiefs. A two days' battle, during which some desperate fighting took place, followed the onslaught of the tribesmen. According to reof the native troops were killed, and several of the British officers who accompanied the chief commissoner, and that official himself, are reported to be missing. Kansas Always Ahead. CHICAGO, April Farmers' Review says: Since our last report, March 4, there has been considerable change in the condition of the crop throughout the winter wheat states.

The crop has shown the greatest improvement in Indiana, Missouri and Kansas, and the greatest deterioration in Illinois. The average condition shows a gain of 5.9 per cent. The percentage of condition com86 per Indiana, 92; Ohio, 94; Michipared with the average is as follows: a Illinois, gan, 91; Kentucky, 94; Wisconsin, 90; Iowa, 88; Missouri, 95; Kansas, 104. In Barbarism. LIRERTY, April an entertainment celebrating the closing a colored public school at Hill school house, at which a large crowd of both white and colored people were attendance, someone discharged a heavily loaded shotgun into the crowd.

Four. teen persons were injured, some of them se riously. Military Rule Needed. Providence, R. April T.

McAuliff, of this city, received a letter dated Pine Ridge agency, from the Rev. Father Francis M. J. Craft, in which serious trouble with the Indians is predicted unless the Indians are placed under the control of the war department. A Furnace Bursts.

TERRE HAUTE, April blast furnace in the southeastern part of the city, full of molten metal, bursted and two men were instantly killed, being swept under the sea of hot iron. Much damage to property resulted. AT ROME. The Governnient Asks a Guarantee of Justice. Italy Does Not Want to Discuss American Institutions, But Urges the Observation of International Law; Notwithstanding Limited Powers to Act.

RoME, April Associated Prese correspondent has hand the whole correspondence between the United States and Italy on the New Orleans lynching. To the demands of the Italian government the United States has answered that the constitution gives limited powers to the federal vovernment in regard to the interference with the varions states, but the government affirms its good intentions in matter. The note of Baron Fava to Mr. Blaine is that Italy asked and still asks the federal government's guarantee that regular proceedings will be taken against the culprits in the New Orleans lynching, and that the federal government will admit, in principle, its obligations to pay an indemnity to the familes of the victims. The note adds that Italy cannot, and is not called upon to discuss American institutions, but must urge upon the federal government the observation of the principles of international law.

Italy hopes that the federal government will appreciate the obligation incumbent upon it as a government of a country to accede to Italy's just demands. Rumors circulated in the United States that Americans are detained here as hostages are classed as "poisons davril" (April fool jokes) in very bad taste. Public opinion here awaits the issue of the negotiations between the United States and Italy in a most tranquil frame of mind. The Italian War. WASHINGTON, D.

April T. S. Verdi, an Italian resident here, was interviewed just after he had been some time with Baron Fava, the Italian minister. He said: "It has been asked again and again, Why does not Italy wait for action by the New Orleans grand jury? and now I ask why should she? What can we expect from that grand jury? What could we look for from such a community as New Orleans, where the mayor murderer, the sheriff murderer, the board of trade and the comcities posed of murderers, where murder was committed in open procession in the heart of the city. Very much, indeed, would be gained that grand jury.

ROME. -United States Minister J. A. Porter had an audience at the foreign office. His conciliatory efforts, and his attempt to explain American institutions were met with this reply: "We have nothing to do with your constitution.

If it is found wanting you must mend it. You know that it you must mend. You know that it is no constitution worthy of a free civilized country if it does not insure punishment for crime and protection for the LONDON. -The Giobe expresses the opinion that it is necessary that the government at Washington should receive a sharp lesson in the customs of international diplomacy. The United States, it says, will have to flounder out of the trouble by some method, but not that of war.

It will have to amend the weak point in its foreign relations, arising from a weak place in its domestic administration. European states cannot negotiate with Judge Lynch, and can as little negotiate with a government unable to answer for Judge Lyneh without an indefinite inquiry as to his exact rights and status. ATLANTA, The United States government has, and can have no jurisdiction in calling the executioners of the assassins to account. The Italian government ought to be told even now that the United States government proposes to do nothing, because it can do nothing: that the American people strongly sympathize with the spirit and the motive that led to the execution of Mafia assassins, and that only way for the Italian government to remedy matters is to recall its expatriated assassins with its minister. The Chattanooga Times, the Charleston Courier, the Columbus, Enquirer, and the southern press generally, is full of such states rights talk.

Mohler's Crop Report. TOPEKA, April -Secretary Mohler, of the state board of a alture, has issued a crop report. It says: 'The correspondents of this board, numbering about 500, and representing 104 of the 106 counties of the state, indicate very clearly that the general agricultural outlook throughout the state is more encouraging at this date than it has been for some years. The mildness of the winter was highly favorable to the wintering of stock, which, on account of scarcity of feed, otherwise would have suffered greatly. The frequent rains and snows during March have greatly strengthened the wheat plant, and have furnished an abundance of moisture to start to grow vigorously all spring crops and grasses as soon as the warm sunshine comes.

Winter wheat has a 35 per cent. increase of acreage of the previous year, of which only 2 per cent. is reported winter killed. General condition of plant compared with full stand and unimpaired vitality is per cent. The condition of fruit buds of all kinds in every portion of the state, according to our correspondents' reports, has never been better at this date than now.

German Opinions. BERLIN, April National Zeitung says that Baron Fava's note to Mr Blaine is perfectly correct, adding: "Italy is quite right in not wishing to discuss American institutions and calling attention to th principles of international law." The Vossissche Zeitung remarks that the Italian news is somewhat reassuring in the face of the hostile tone of the American press, and hopes that more reliance can be placed upon the former than on bombastic utterances of Mr. Blaine, who is accustomed to hide his weak reasons by strong words." Memorial Home. WASHINGTON, D. April Lucy Webb- Hayes memorial home and training school for missionaries is an assured fact.

The deed has been signed by which the residence of Ephraim Nash and wife passes to the home. The property is valued at 000. The deed stipulates that the home shall be under the control of the board of managers of the Woman's Home Missionary $0- ciety of the M. E. church, and that there shall be no discrimination on account of color or race.

Investigating the Railroads. KANSAS CITY, April federal grand jury and the interstate commerce law have come together at last, and the legal investigation of the alleged illegal acts of railroads in Kansas City territory will begin next Monday. The been kept quiet, but it is now an assured fact that railroad cases will come before the federal grand jury, which convenes at Joseph April 5. The first matter to be brought before the be the bribery of certain weighmasters by shippers, who have thus unlawfully secured light weights for heavy shipments. Superintendent George L.

Carman, the Western Railway Weighing and Ininspection bureau, has this branch of the investigation in charge, and 19 said to have secured positive and criminating evidence against shippers at Kansas City, St. Joseph and Hannibal, and St. Paul, Minn. Another subject to be brought before the grand jury will be the cutting of timber on government lands near Springtield, and converting it into ties for use along the roads. United States District Attorney Neal will have charge of the cases before the grand jury and of the indictments which may be returned.

He is out of the city at present. Deputy United States Marshals Oechelie and. Siddell, whose headquarters are here, have been ordered to St. Joe to assist in handling the witnesses. The Presidential Trip.

WASHINGTON, D. April president, as now advised, will leave Washington on Wednesday, April 15, on his California trip. The party that will accompany him will small, and will probably include no ladies. Several members of the cabinet will be of the party, including Secretary The itinerary of the trip is not as yet mapped out. The president will probably be away in all about six weeks.

Numerous letters of inquiry as to what cities the president and party will pass through are being daily received at the executive mansion, but no replies can be made, as the president himself has not yet made up his mind as to the exact route he will take. first he was inclined to stop at several southern cities on his way to California, but this part of the original program may be: abandoned, as he is urged to visit Oregon and Washington while out on the Pacific coast, and he fears he may not have time to tarry long in the south, should he decide to go to the far northwest. Three in a TOPErA, April Chester is dead," was in the air and everybody recognized that he was one of a mourning community, Ches-. ter Thomas' life history includes the political history of Kansas and the history of the birth and progress of Topeka. He died at his recently acquired home at Stafford, Kansas.

After returning from Arizona, where he was an officer of a United States land office, and where he invested to some extent, he settled at Stafford. He was in Topeka a short time ago and seemed to bear his 80 years well. He was a juror in the United States court at Wichita and was taken sick there with the grippe; was taken home and died. Mrs. Huntoon, wife of Dr.

A. J. Huntoon, another early resident of Topeka, known and loved by all old timers, is dead-at the age of 62. R. D.

Coldren, an old and respected business man of Topeka, aged 71, died of cancer in the stomach. the Italian premier, sent another cablegram to the United States. The message is directed to the secretary of the legation. It is in reply to Secretary Blaine's last note. says that Italy demands nothing but a prompt institution of the regular judicial proceedings against the guilty parties at New Orleans.

He adds that it would have been absurd to claim punishment of the offenders without the guarantees afforded by a regular trial. All Wind. ROME, April Marquis di Rudini,) Cattle in the Strip. WASHINGTON, D. April Noble has issued an order, which was sent to Indian Commissioner Morgan, to have cattle removed from the Cherokee strip immediately.

It is said the military authorities will made acquainted with the order very soon. Secretary Noble is advised that certain cattlemen have thousands of head of cattle on the strip, despite the persistent efforts of the department to prevent. Pell Mel's Verdict. LONDON, April Pall Mall Gazette, commenting on the recall of Baron Fava, says: "Italy demanded justice and compensation. The United states will probably give the latter and deny the former.

The incident will not add to the reputation of the United States. It has revealed the weak place in American legislation with all its pretensions." Chickasaws Ratify. PARIS, April Chickasaw council has ratified the sale of its portion of the leased district, which was owned by Chickasaws and Choctaws jointly, and in which they owned a fourth interest. Their share of the money will be $747,777. The council agreed that it should be divided.

per capita, which will be about $100 for each Indian. The Osages May Lease. WASHINGTON, D. April Noble has approved a number of leases for: grazing lands in the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma territory, under the act approved February 28, 1891. The leases are to run one year, beginning A April 1, and are at the uniform rate of cents per acre.

American Cutlery. LONDON, April cutlery exports from Sheffield to the United States during the last quarter were valued at £22,974. This shows a decrease of £27,100 as compared with the same period of 1890. This falling off is attributed to the American tariff and has resulted in many cutlers being thrown out work. The Arkansas Senate.

LITTLE ROCK, April 4. -The senate bas refused to pass the third reading of the house bill appropriating $20,000 for a state exhibit at the world's fair. As the legislature adjourns Saturday, this" action finally defeats the measure. The German Empire. BERLIN, April statistics of the recent census shows that the population of the German empire, exclusive of Helioland, is 49,420,842 against 46,855,704 in 1885.

The increase in Prussia alone is over 1,500,000. Americans Warned. LONDON, April is reported here that a prominent Italian has warned Americans against the danger of touring in Italy this year, in view of the excitement and feeling caused in that country by the Now Orleans affair and Baron Fava's recall. He Won't Resign. CHIcAGO, April Commissioner Raum says that the rumors that he is about.

to resign his position are entirely without foundation..