Wichita Daily Democrat from Wichita, Kansas • 4

Ml -W DOWtf IN TEXAS. CliOCKERS COOLNESS. Masked Eobbera PllUge a Train Near Port Worth-Tha Tbo Millionaire Glvea Hla EvU donoe With an Abundanoe of Solf-AoBuranoe. T- L. MULIKTIX.

You May Hot Your Bottom Dollar 1 Mode All I Could" He Ordered to Stop Wlier He Stopped Before," Showing the Men to betho Old (Jang. A Posse Hurriedly Summon 2 In Pur suit of the Robbers T' praount Lost. Els Boad Has Been Gingerly Treated by the Goverument-It Promises 100 E. DOUGLAS Cor. Douglas and Iwlaln.

Consignments Solicited, Hurled In a Hewer. Minneapolis, Hept, 21. A sewer excavation at Mankato, caved in about six oclock lust evening, and burled two men illum'd D. C. Barlow uud S.

Moion. Every effort was mndo to save thorn, but the earth wus Ilf toon foot, and both wore doud when taken out. Au inquest will be bold to-morrow. One of the contractor was purtly burled, but uiunugud to escape tlio fulling earth wilb only a few bruise. Forest Fires.

Bhainaiid, Kept, 21. Heavy forost fires are raging southeast of this place, und ulrcudy lurgo quantities of huy buve been consumed. Crow Wing prairie Is entirely burned ovor, and tlio liras are raging with unubuiod fury. The City Council, 'in session lust night, hired fortv mon to go to the front and fight the lire, us It It feared that much dumuge to furmers will be the result. The Foraker-Ulsviilaud Fuss.

BruiNurim.i), Hept. 21. A. d. Bush-noil, a member of Governor Forukors stuff, said yesterday that during the reception In Pliiludulphla lust Friday evening, Mrs.

Cleveland refused to thuke tbe Governors band und also doctinod to take the extoudud hand of Mrs. Fnrukor, stopping back and folding hor arms without giving a sign of recognition. Hlio shook hands with all tho vest of tlio Ohio party. Hotel llurneii. Brinkley, Hept.

21. Just after noon yesterday, tiro destroyed Kellys Hotel and iho adjiicont block, und but for a favorable change In the wind, the business purtiua of the town would have boon destroyed. Tho total loss Is about total Insurance less I him $5, (XXI. Tho chief losorsuro: Wtlllum llookor ft U. A.

Curler, J. A. Flora, $4,000. AUNHUNtimtlOlle Louisa, Kept. 21.

Yesterday morning William Thompson concealed lilmsolf near the bifiiso of A. J. Thodtyison, eight miles from hero, ami shot tbroo members of the family, ono of them fatally. The murderer ulso shot a school teacher. His victims wore bis own cousins.

Ho has not cn captured. Drank Laudanum. Hpeclul to Wichita Dally Democrat. Tuknton, Sept, 22; Last evening Mrs. Leslie Hickinson of this city loft her 2 year old boy alone in ti room.

Tbe boy got holdof a bottle of Inudannm and drank tbe ooiiteiils. He died soon after the mothers return. YOU CAN GUT BOARD AT THU MILK DEPOT 307 K. DOUG I. AH A VK $3.50 PER WEEK $3.50 WONDERFUL! Oncol tho Most Surprising things that ham Occurred in the Peerless Princess of the Is tii Growth of tlio GLOBE DRY GOODS, MILLINERY AMD SHOE 418 East Douglas Ave.

I Meals at al Hours, 25 Cents. THE PIONEER MEAT MAKKET, (Established 1874) A. WAGNER, Four Months ago io Started a Small Store, Good Stock and no Trade, KANSAS CITY CRIME. A Coniliuitor on the Uliicngn A All Allot A Plot to Murder anil Escape by Despo- rale Prisoner Discovered. Kansas City, Sept.

31. John A. Shaw, one of the oldest conductors on tlio Chicago Alton railroad, ftas shot und seriously injured at nine oclock lust night by J. Itourli, swltcliinuii oil tlio sumo roud. Hliuw's wound isditiigurous and will probably result in his death.

Ho was removed to the Bisters' llospltul oil Hevontli and Penn slreots, wliero ho is lying in an unconscious condition. Tlio bull, which wus fired from a forty-eight cailbor Colts revolver, struck Hliuw Just below tho right nipplo and wont almost, through Ills body. Dr. Rolgor probed for it and after considerable trouble succeeded in locating and oxlruetiiig it. Tbo shooting appears to be duo to an old grudgo.

Itouch was arrested, but declines to suy much. An uttempt to break jail by four prisoners ut tlio Second street court liouso, und a conspiracy to mtirdor Night Guard Andy O'liuro woro rnudo known to County Marshal McGowan yesterday, about noon, by ono of tlio prisoners. Un investigation a liulo lurgo enough to udiiilt a mun was found in tlio wrought iron floor of east coll No. 4. Under tlio colls, which wus raised few inches, excavating hud been going on.

The men bud ulrcudy rcuolied tlio coll floor of tho outsido corridor, and it wus only necessary for them to penotruto it und scuroto tliora-sclvos Bomnwhoro to nwuit tho night, guards twolvo oclock visit to complete their schemes. Then when tlio night guard came they intended to surprise and murder him and obtain tlio koy to the outer iron door, after which thoy would huvo been froe. The uttempt wus to liuvo boon made lust night. All the mon engaged in attempting tlio escape uro desperate crlm liiuls. Lflvn llrnakiiiir New Ouleanh, Sept, Tho easterly wind continues und bus raised the wutcr in Lako Pontchartrain to the highest point reached in many yours.

Tlio water in Buyou Ht. John and tlio cunul is higher than ever before, and the breuks in tho levee are greater than ever before, but they were closed before any sorious dam-ugo bud resulted. The wutors of I.uko Pontchartrain cover radons ut Milneburg and tbo Spanish fort and shell roads lauding to the lako from tho city along tho banks of tho canal. The water still covers about twenty miles of tho Louisville Nashville railroad between Michouus and. Pearl river stations.

From Poarl river bndgo the mails and passengors aro conveyed by steumer with but littlo delay. A report was circulated this morning tliut twenty or thirty coal bouts at Willow Grove, above the city, sank last night, but tory The Fierce Bribery Carte. Concord, N. Sept. 22.

The report of the Senate Investigating Committee on tho alleged attempted bribery of Senator Oliver D. Suwyor by Kirk Pierce was submitted to-day. It is signed by four of tho five members of tlio committee, Horsey, of Keene, making a minority report. Tbe majority report says: Upon our construction of testimony and in our opinion, Oliver D. Sawyer is justified in tho conclusion that it was the intent of Mr.

Pierce to tender a bribe. The report proceeds at length to set forth the teinptutions which surround legislators and the debasing wiles employed by prolusbional lobbyists. Tlio New Guns. Washington, Sept. 21.

Proposals were opened at the Navy Department yesterday for steel cast guns, under tho advertisement of June 23, extended July 20. This called for proposals for tho purchase and completion of throe stool cast, rough-bored and turned, six-inch high power rifle cannon of domestic manufacture, ono of which Bhall be of Bessemer steel, one of open-hearth and one of crucible steel. The Pittsburgh Steel Casting Company bids for the Bessemer gun at $3,306. The Standard Steel Casting Company, Thurlow, bids for the open-hearth gun at $5,300. These two vvero all tho bids received.

Kansas City Exposition- Kansas City, Sept. 22. The Exposi tion will open in good shapu next Monday. Much ot the display is already arranged. The fair and races across tho river, beyond Harlem, also opens on Monday.

Many of the last racors have arrived. The grounds occupy 160 acres and have an almost perfectly level track of one mile. The Conductor Hoad. Kansas City, Sept. 22.

John A. Shaw, the Chicago Alton railway conductor who was shot by William J. Roach in the companys freight yard, in the West Bottoms, Tuesday evening, died at the Sisters hospital at 5:55 oclock yesterday morning. Tho coroners jury has declared Roach guilty of murder. Another War Threatened.

Chicago, Sept. 22. New complications have arisen which are almost certain to create another passenger war among tho roads running east from this city. Foiit Wohtji, Bopt SI. The hurried departure of mounted officer from the Jail and city ball for tlio deiot laat night at 3:80 caused a sensation up town, which was greatly inereasad when a little later the Texas Ik Pad lie coast-bounf train, the California HU Louis express pulled In, and it wus learned that another truin robbery hud taken place, and aoou the plutform at tha union depot wus a mors of pooplesll surging toward the expreis car, the door of which wus found full of Winchester ballet holes.

Engineer Bakor, Ktromun Wylie, Conductor Garrett and Express Messouger Moloney were centers of at ruution as they told tbo story of the last robbery. Engiueor Baker su.vs be bad Just pulled out from Bou Brook station ton miles west of Fort Worlli, wbdu a tall, smoothly shaven, poorly dressed, sandy hulred man jumped into his cub on odd sitlo and a medium sized mun with a fact purtly covered by something rod on tbo other. Both had Winchesters. The lull one said; Slop whore you stopped before," which convinced Bukor that the man wus the leader of the gung which had robbed the train June 8. Baker suid to this mun, (How much did you follows got in your lagt haul," and the thief unswored, We ard not the same gang." i How did you know md then, and how did you know where tostod?" we found that out.

I Tho locomotive and tender with the mail uud express cars were nowlovor the trestle and tho smoking car standing over Marys creek separated the two ifay couches and the sleeping car from No one could got out of the smoker or (cross the creek from the coaches to the renr. Here Bukor was ordered to atop and he and the tiro-man hustled out of tbo cab) We dont want to hurt y.ou folks ut all. Only obey orders and you are safe," was the tall mans Instructions. Passing to the express cur the same fellow said, Mosson-ger, open your door or Well open It for you. There being no response a coal pick lrom the locomotive was brought and blow after blow rang out as the uoaviost robber began to broak It In.

He Stopped und the chief guvo orders to fire through the door when three of the men piillod their Win-Chesters until ten or twelv shots went in, several of them coming veiy near Moloney, who, cool und self-posses ied, was ludine money packages us fast as he could. The coal pick began its vork again and at last the door was throv; open. One of the robbers with a handkerchief tied around the lower part of his face jumped in and throwing down hiB You give us a of sight I trouble. Open that sato quick. The si was opened, and what Malo.icy had thought host to leave wus taken.

The rob er jumped out, and while one of those outside covered the messenger tho others Went to the mail coach and soon compelled Iriflln and Stewart, the postal clerks, to give up tha registered packages. Then ordering Baker i.nd Wylie back into the eab tho men told 1 (uker to pull out, and hastily departed. ioir boodle was shoved into an old gunny i and thrown over tho shoulder of the lei aler. The couches were not entered. A deputy sheriff lrom Hood County was on the ain and one oilier man was armed, but it wi too dark to do any shooting.

All tho rc( stored packages for Fort Worth are gone, llld a 8uuj that forty odd packages were stolen. The loss is said to bo $23,000 by sdln0, while others TO "HAY I have my moat market now at 303 South Main Btreet, where I will be pleased to meet all my old customers as well as new ones. AU kinds of meats always on hand. Goods delivered to any part of tho To Sluch Speculation. Special to Wichita Daily Democrat.

Kansar City, Bopt. 22. John I Blair a noted uiillionnre railroad man now here uttrilmtes the nppareut money stringency in the east to tho number of railroad bonds offered for sale in the past year, and tho unprofitableness of bond speculation. He sees no reason to fear a panic or anything like it and predicts money will be free in the next sixty or ninoty days. LOOK LOOK NEW GROCERY STORE, 215 SOUTH MAIN STREET.

Everything new and fresh. Call and see us. KELLEU KELLER, Butler Block, close to Museum. We have one of the Largest Store Rooms, La est Stocks, and Trade, TO INTOMs! In the Great Mascot, We are Ready for the FALL BOOM- Our Stojk is Complete PHYSICIANS. Dr W.

A. Mimck. HOMUKOIATIf 1ST Telephone 141, flfflce with Dr. It. Matthews, 130 North Mam street Kriiucnre, 1.107 North Fourth Avenue.

Olllce telephone Ziio. Wichita, Kansas. I ll I DETROIT DINING PARLORS. 223 East Dougins Avenue. RODE DARLINGTON.

PROPS All tho delicacies of the season served in Short Order Department. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. MEAL TICKETS $4.50. REGULAR BOARD $4.00. We will Give You more Goods for a Dollar than ANY HOUSE in Wichita.

Everything Marked in Plain Figures. ONE PRICE TO ALL. New Yo-k. Sept. 81.

The Commission apiKimtcd to inquire into the Pacific railroad matters met In this city this morning. Tlioro wore also present ex-Judge Dillon, counsel for tho Commission, and A. A. Cohen, counsel for tbe Central tk Southern Pucific railroad. Mr.

Crookor was the first witness culled. He wont into a detailed account of a toehmeal character us to the niuinior in which the roud was built. The books kept consisted of ordinary cash books, blotters and ledgers. Ho bad no idoa of where theso books wore now and did not think it mutoriul to anybody anyhow and If any person did ask to soo them ho would toll thorn It was uouo of his business. Mr.

Anderson remarked Wall I will tuko the liberty of asking you whut became of tho books!" Crocker unswored: My dear sir, I have no moro idea of where thoy are than the man in the moon. 1 guess I have not aeon thorn since 1809." On cross-oxuminution the witness admitted that the majority of tho railway stock at that early date wus reully banded over to tbe Contract and Finance Company. Tho company was heuvtly in dobt, and ovory thing dupondod upon making tho road a success. It did pay in the end, but before It was finished a big cry was mndo. The company did not pay up to $1,700 share to quiet this disturbance.

Homo suits against tbo road wore compromised, but this was done in order to keep up the value of tho stock of the Southern Pucific road, which was just thon being put on the market by tho same financiers who had flouted tbo Central Pucific. Crocker talked glibly about tho wholo mutter; bow be pluyed with millions of his own money, but generally managed to come out ahead in all bis business ventures. In reply to a question as to where the books of tbe Contract und Finance Coinpaoy were, he said: Keully I do not know whore they are. 1 tried to find them for my own use some tiino ago, but was unable to discover tbolr wlioroubouts. 1 had $13,000,000 of stock when I went to Europe, but I dont know what any ono else may have been worth.

Well, we want to koow bow much you mado on thut Southern Pacific contract, remarked Mr. Anderson. I don't exactly know tho precise figure, but I made all I could, you may hot your bottom dollar on that." In reply to another question Crocker said with emphasis: I never voted for a contract while I was a director of the Southern Paeiflo railway." A discussion arose relative to the difference between Crockers statements and tbe books of tbe company, when ho said: I wish to say right here now that, with my physically impaired memory, I dont think it fuir to be examining me against the books of the company, which are and must bo right. I am ashamed of nothing 1 have done. I have workod hard during the beat days of my life and am glad that I have worked successfully.

Every public enterprise I put my hand to turned out well for the public in general and for me in particular. Being asked if be could, in a business-like manner, tell how the money question at issue could be settled with the Government, Crocker replied that an explicit ifhswer would require more considcralion than he hud given to the subject. But I think, he added, that a conference between a committee from the board of directors and your Commission would bring about a more speedy and satisfactory result than a promiscuous Investigation like this. I know I huve never misappropriated money, and I believe that none of my colleagues ever did." When the Colton letters, which created so much discussion at the Ban Francisco session, were introduced, Mr. Crocker took them, scanned them and then said: I dont remember thorn, but they sound very much like me." When Mr.

Anderson had got through, Mr. Littlo asked what was the ability of the company to pay its debt to the Government to-day, and received: "None whatever, as tbe emphatic answer. Crocker said the company intended to pay some day, but to do it at present would ruin tho proporty. "I would suggest, he remarked, that the Government, to which money is just now no object, might give the road say a hundred or a hundred and fifty years which to pay its debt." Later he said that if the Government had given the Central Pacifio the contracts promised, the company would have nearly paid its debt by this time. Politics, insisted tho witness, are at the root of all this trouble.

When the road is nut of politics it will prosper." In reply to another question, he said that there was never a penny in stock, bond or money offered to any legislator to secure corrupt influence. Mr. Cohen then began to cross-examine the witness and elicited the statements that the road was completed seven years ahead of contract time at the expense of millions of dollars; that the Government had not kept the promises made to tho company in the act of 1862, but had given its contracts to other parties. It was alleged that the Government had saved some $139,600,000 by the road, yet would not give it enough patronage to enable it to pay its dobt, which could easily have been done. The company had faithfully fulfilled all its contracts and he had asked the board of directors to introduce a bill in Congress claiming payment in compensation for contracts made with the company but never fulfilled.

This concluded the testimony and the Commission adjourned. Drs. M. H. Brandom.

rWlXBftOTHEUA and ear Infirmary 313 a East Douglas Avenue. at teal toil given 'also to dis uses nl the head. Have had years of A experience and my business tlior-roughly. Tlio best of sat-lslitut ion guaranted. RANSOM H.

BROWN, CIVL ENGINEER SURVEYOR. place It at from $1,200 to 10,000. rt Rial Estate CHOICE IMPROVED AND UNIMPROVED Property in all parts of the city and farm prop erty. Exclusive agents for Orchard drove -Addition. Mreer, Kennio 6 Voss, 224 North Main Late of llie U.

S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Department. Special Attention given to all City and County Surveying and Railroad Engineering. Maps Made ell Short Notice, Office with O. Mnlvey, City Engineer, No.

230 N. Market St. Telephone No. 73. SHOT HIS WIFE.

A Leavenworth Newspaper Man, Suspecting His Wife or lugs. Shoot Her In the llreimt. Leavknwouth, Kum, 0pt. Campbell, a newspapor mjin wen hnown in Kansas City, where he been employed at various tunes on all (the older papers, shot his wife yesterday )at this place, the ball entering her lott bi8a8t, but luckily striking a rib, deflecting umi coming out of her back without causing fatul injury. Campbell bis wife and little boy, came herU about three weeks ago from OmUa, where be hud been associated with la newspaper.

He accepted a place on a neily evening paper, the Sun, and attended strictly mid tuith-fully to business. His wife did not like Leavenworth, evincing uJ, almost Irresistible inclination to go to Kansas city, her home, going so far as to intimate that sho would even abandon her (husband. At last she did go, Friday, i September 11, and -visited her sister, a young widow, who lives at 1514 feast Eighteenth Btreet. At her sister), instance and request she joined What was intended to be a little harmless frolic, but at a road house the two weta induced to partake of liquor, and met lWo men. Campbell finally wont to ffansas City and brought his wife here.

Suspecting that sho had been faithless he charged her with it and she confessed, whej-eupQQ be drew his revolver and shot at tor. a ITardss 515 East Douglas AND 1,500 West Douglas Ave. THE WICHITA INFIRMARY. 237 SOUTH FOURTH AVE. -GO TO THE- PROPRIETOR.

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A Number of British 8al0r8 Maimed by a Fireworks Halifax, N. Sept. 21. The British war ship Bellerophon, Carrying Flag Admiral Lyon, which was oij.dered to tho Newfoundland fishing waters has arrived here and has placed in the bo8pital men Injured by an explosion of rocket 8 while in Quebec. The extent of this accident was hushed up in Quebec.

Governor-General Landsdowne and suite were at the old French capital. On the evening September 10, there was a grand In LatiBdownes honor on ttje flagship Bellerophon. At night the vesfoi was gorgeously Illuminated with electnt.jty, oil lamps and fireworks. At 9 :50 Ccloi, as Lord Lans-downe and party were leav ing for the shore some six hundred men o( the crew were on the deck. The yards were manned, bands were playing and there wa9 a grand finale of explosions.

A pile of Mxty ormoreof tho most powerful rockets on the upper deck. One of them onbejng lighted, Instead of going up in the air, exploded on deck, igniting the others. a moment the death dealing rocltat8 were sweeping the deck In every dJT yw burning, lacer-ting and maimbr men. Nearly forty eflSra-. xhi rtecn of them, including midshi 1 jitney, 80 seriously that the Belief 1 t0 leav, Quebec, and instead of Lolng Newfoundland, as ordered, she Halifax to place the men in the navLj hospital.

Naturalising Kr-L, Chicago, Sept. whlch was appointed some two ago for the furtherance of the natVuzatlon oI Ush subjects resident report most favorable Nine societies, eight Kighte of Ht George lodges and tlL Bt, Benevolent Society havL 8lgnified telr Intention of co-operating in thl8 ject The only semalning lodg moeU odJne8. day evening and will unK0Ubtedly tender 1U aid. A general meetf alf the op. ganizatlons Hi be calledUortly, when arrangements i wUl be madeor th8 1 mealing and invitations r8ent t0 8cotch Walsh and Canadian orga li8ation8i HEDNESDA Sept.

TUESDAY, 20. PURE OLD LIQUORS. We will sell to the citizens of Wiohita and Guarantee Free Delivery or Refund Money. Pore Eight year old Sour Mash Kentncky Whiskey at $2.00 per quart, or $6.50 per Gallon, also Bottled Beer, Brandy, Wines, of best Brands. GuinesB Pale Ale, Brown Stont Porter (imported.) We have forwarded our Wank orders to Jno.

E. Campbell, Merchandise Broker, Room 5, No. 146 N. Mam Street, where parties ordering of us can fill up said blanks. We have special facilities for safe shipment and delivery of goodB as or- dqfwd, mujiiproiaHerB of ns can rely on getting STRICTLY PRIME GOODS.

at the same price they are now paying for very inferior goods. It is our intention to build np a reputation for furnishing the The Best Goods that Gan be Had. VVe also purchase and ship all kinds, or any brand of! iquor nany quantity at Market price if delivered oil cars at Louisville, at purchasers risk as to quality and safe delivery. Give ns a trial order. THE KENTUCKY LIQUOR COMPANY.

LOUISVILLE, KY, 100tisozen Fancy Feathers consisting of Birds, Wings, Doves, Impuem i Feathered Pompins, Egrettes Wings, Birds of Pnradise. Marabou Wingi many others too numerous to mention. Worth 75o, $1.00, $1.25 and $1 Reported Third Mortgage- New Yohk, Kept. 21. A report was circulated on the streets yesterday to the effect that a loan from $8,000,000 to was about to be made by a third mort-grge upon the property of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the loan to be forty-five years at five per cent.

Villard, it was said, would pluce it in Germany at ninety-five, Villard was out of town and a direct denial could not be obtained, but C. B. Wright, of the board of directors, was given as authority for the statement that Villard had proposed a plan which would probably -be adopted and -which would be submitted to the foreign syndicate with which Villard is connected. A part of the proceeds of such loan would boused to pay dividend scrip and to lund debts and the remainder to pay for the completion of the Cascade division. Mahqubttb, Sept.

21. A Duluth, South Shore Atlantic train of sixty-five cars, laden with ore, got away from the train men last night and ran down the grade at a high rate of speed, and at the Beale track, just west of the city, crashed into a sidetrack full of empty ore flats, and fifty oars were piled thirty feet high. Hilly Mahone, the conductor, is missing, and there is no doubt he is under the wreck. About the same time, Robert Gur-uoy, a brakemao on the Pier train, got caught between the care and was scalped but may live. At tbe same time the fire bell rang an alarm and it was found that the companys freight depot lathe city was In llameB.

Tbe fire wae put out with small -YOUR CHOICE FOR Ji. Ji. JUnderihol, Civil EiiM Surveyor. Lands Subdivided and Blue PrintB made, and City LotB Located. Special Attention Given Sewerage and Drainage Estimate and Wans made and Executed.

600 dozen Ladies1 Felt Hats, all the Latest Shapes, worth 75o to $1.00. i Yonr Choioe of the 250 dozen Misses Nicely trimmed Felt Hats, worth $1.00 to $2.00. Your Choioe of the Scoour Millinery Display In Window. I ISPWnit for our Great Blanket and Comfort Sale next week.E) BOSTOITSTOS Office with Oliver Mulvey, City Engineer. Resldenoe, 1143 Wichita St.

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