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Cleveland County Leader.
VOL. 2
LEXINGTON, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1894.
GENERAL NEWS.
Condensed for the Conrrnirnrr of Hur-
tled Kerylcrs.
It is stated that the rebels in Rio
irande do Nul, Hra/il, liavo captured
San Juan liaptista.
D. A. Baker, cashier of the First Na-
tional Iiank of NorwalU, ()., commit-
ted suicide Thursday.
The German reisclitajf has finally
ndopted a provisional commercial
iigreement with spain.
At Ipswltch, Mich,, early Satur-
day piorning*. a fire destroyed prop-
erty valued at $125,000.
Ho far as can be learned six laborers
lost their lives in Friday's bridsjc dis-
aster at Newton, N. J.
A dispniah to the London Times
from Paris says II. Flobert, inventor
of the Flobert carbine, is dead.
1 The Ilarrisonville woolen mills at
YVonsocUct, I!. I., were Saturday de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
5300,00 \
1 The residence of 1'. S. Hobson of I)cs
Moines, la., burned Saturday, and two
children, Mabel and Zole were burned
to a erisp. ^
The parish counci's bill passed
through the committee stage in the
house of commons Thursday night.
The report stage has been iixcd"for
<U> day.
Martha and Albert Dasik, twins 3
months old, smothered in their crib
•early Sunday morning. The father
•and mother are Poles and reside at
Hrnddock, Pa.
The United States cruiser San Fran-
cisco has sailed from Pernambuco,
JSrazil, for the South. Important de-
velopments are cxpcctcd at Kio de .Ja-
neiro shortly.
•John Sullivan, a boiler maker, was
arrested Thursday and confessed to
having burglarized the St. Louis Real
Estate exchange seven times within
the last two months.
A party of four^lcft Spokane, Wash.,
Thursday for the Clearwater country
to search for George Colgate, cook of
the Carl in party. Thcv will ascend
the river in a boat.
NUMBER 3
6 Ti:ere is absolutely no truth in the
\ lenna report that l.ouis Kossuth is
dead.
A movement is on foot in St. Paul to
secure the tutio.ial Gland Army en
campmcnt in IS! 5.
La ffnppe is pryvinp 'atnl in the vi
einity of Carrollton, Mo, Five deaths
from the disease wore reported on
Mond ay.
The crewof the Urazillian govern-
ment cruiser Nictheroy has refused to
go to sea and has demanded the ar-
rears of pay.
. Executions were issued Thursday on
judgements asrgregatinsr S:i30,2«0
•Wi'nst the Philadelphia Optical and
Watch company.
1" the McKaneand other Gravesend
election cases, Judge liartlett Thurs-
day afternoon denied a motion to
quash the indictments.
Heavy rains and melting snows in
the vicinity of Spokane, Wash., have
caused swollen rivers and much dam
age in the surrounding country.
1 he New York State Federation of
labor, in convention, has passed reso-
lutions endorsing Governor Altgeld'fi.
action in pardoning the Chicago anar-
chists.
Several members of n skating party
at Leavenworth, all girls, were
dumped into the water on Friday
night by the breaking of too thin ice.
No one was drowned.
The Sachs-Prucien brewery of Dav-
ton, O., was Saturday placed in the
hands of receivers upon .anplication of
the directors. The liabilities are $127,-
000 and the assets 8400,000.
The first of a series of three grand
receptions that are given each year at
the White House took place Thursday
night, when President and Mrs. Cleve-
land entertained the diplomatic corps.
A dispatch to the London News from
\ lenna says llcnedict Rand harbinger,
the Nestor of Austrian musicians, the
school fellow of Schubert, and the
teacher of Liszt is dead. He was 01
years of age.
THE TWO TERRITORIES
At Centerville, la., Harlan Richards,
a prominent politician ami mine own-
er, was fatally injured while inspect-
ing his mine Saturday by a fall of coal.
A miner was instantly killed.
1 he Litchfield, III., Car and Ma-
chine company tiled Saturday
Jor record in llillsloro a mort-
gage on their works in the sum of
8180,000 to preferred creditors.
At Deep Bottom, Ky., Will Connor,
colored, stabbed Tom Hunt, colored,
twice near the heart, severing a blood
▼esseI from which he died instantly.
The trouble urose over a game of
■era ps.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Odessa says during the recent
fearful storm in the Black sdi, one
English, one Greek and two Russian
steamers were lost. Their crews were
saved.
Judge Lewis I!. Aiken, one of the
oldest jurists in the west, died at Den-
ver Thursday night of apoplexy, lie
was a native of Windsor, N. II., and
was well known in Omaha and Gales-
burg, III.
The "Festival of the Kings'1 held the
attention of the people of Mexico, Sat-
urday,. !t commemorates tm
the three wise men to pay their devo-
tions and offer presents to the now
born Christ.
.r> At What Cheer, la., fire Thursday
morning in a row of frame buildings
caused a loss of $].i.000, with 58,000 in-
surance. There were ten buildings,
Perry Oilman of Frankford, Ind.,
who recently outraged a defenseless
orphan, was Saturday sentenced to
e gliteen years imprisonment, but he
had to be removed from the county to
prevent a lynching.
Six Mexican revolutionists Tuesday
crossed the river at Fort Quitman,
Tex., and demanded that a rancher
sell t hem a couple of beeves at their
own price. The ranchmen in that vi-
cinity are uneasy.
United States Senator William F.
i 1 as in a letter to a Milwaukee Cath-
olie citizen made public Thursday, de-
clares the A. P, A. a menace to the
republic. He says every good citizcn
should be opposed to its principles.
Judgements for 817,813,845 against
the Richmond and West Point Termi-
nal Railway and Warehouse company,
in favor of Anthony K. Thomas, ( has.
\. Foster and George Sherman was
entered by default in New York Sat-
urday.
The employes of the I'nion Pacific
at Omaha arc endeavoring to secure
from Judge Dundy a recognition of
the American Railway union, and
have the schedule heretofore signeil
by the officers of the company recog-
nized by the receivers.
The Penokee and Gogebic (consoli-
dated) mines, owned by the Uockefel-
leis ■ and others and capitalized nt
80,000,000 Thursday passed into the
hands of receivers. The company's
enterprises include some pf the biggesi
mines in Michigan and Wisconsin.
On Friday at the banquet of the
German chanibc. of commerce at licr-
Condcnnrd „■« of Oklnhnma and In-
dlnn Territories.
Will Sain Small alloiv a dovil in his
newspaper office?
The Enid Street Railway company
has taken out a charter.
The sentiment that Oklahoma is go-
ing to be a great fruit country is epi-
demic.
The probate judge at Alva makes ti
man plunk down 8'25 for carrying cou-
cealed weapons.
The people of Hennessey are for
statehood, aud will lend their might
in that direction.
Three thousand dollars was refused
for a claim a few miles cast of I'uud
Creek recently.
The Jackson Now company of Okla-
homa City has taken out a charter.
Capital stock $20,COO.
The Indian is never called a "col-
ored man." although he is just as
much colored as the negro,
• Jim Corbett is a bookkeeper in the
Guthrie National Bank. That is the
way the champion started.
There never will be any starving in
Oklahoma as long as there are geese
above and rabbits beneath.
including the Commercial, hotel, and I "err Michael, president of the
.i .... • 'chamber, criticised Dr. Miqtiel's finan-
cial policy. The latter ret irted hotly,
saying that he had not attended the
banquet to be attacked in an after
dinner speech.
C. M. Woodbury, of Midolesboro,
Ivy., has been appointed receiver for
the Mingo Mining company, the larg-
est coal and coke company in the
south. The assets are about 8200,000.
1 he liabilities are unknown. The
cause of the failure is inability to
meet obligations due the American as-
sociation
they are a total loss
Assistant Attorney General Thomas
of the postortiec department, fcas de-
elded that the monthly reports of col-
lege students as to their grades in the
classes cannot be sent through the
mails except on payment of letter
postage.
Maudo Davis, aged 5, died in grea?
agony in St. Louis Tuesday, from hy-
drophobia. When two years old she
was scratched on the hand by a pup,
and the wound, of which little was
thought at the time, was tho cause of
her death.
The trial of Lewis Rcdwine, for em-
bezzling 8103,000 from the Gate Citv
National 'bank of Atlanta, began in
that city Tuesday. Rcdwine, who was
assistant cashier of the brXik, was
thoroughly trusted, lie was a society
lender,
While workmen were eng«jed in
' undermining a wall of the old Wind-
sor hotel at I li*itain>oga Thursday, it
fell and buried eight in the debris.
TI was 1.10 feet long by 30
feet high and four bricks thick, yet
none were killed.
|| At Wheeling, W, V ., Jack Mere-
dith. a young criminal convicted of
cowntcrfeiting and serving a sentei -e
in the county jail, was found dead in
his cell Sunday morning, having
hanged himself with a strip of blan-
ket some time during the night.
The Riverside steel works, Wheel-
ing, W. Ya., which have been shut
idown for sometime, resumed Monday,
giving employment ■ to about .,000
ttPB. No scale has been arranged,
Hit it Is likely that no trouble will ie-
- olt. Part o( the Labcllc men will
'So go on.
A large crowd of farmora an
ts Attended the three sessions .
onsas Rtate hoard of agriculti
ppelitt last week. Papers am
if-emcs on topics of rural inti
With subsequent il usslons, uvr
Border of t lie dny. Now offices fo
■ensuing year were
I
ot!i-
the
ad*
th n
the
ilectcd.
The movements of tho Mexican
revolutionists in the vicinity of Juarez,
across the border from ICl Paso, Tex.,
have caused considerable alarm, and a
citizens' defense committee was or-
ganized Thursday evening. Heavy
guards of soldiers have been placed
on Mexican Central passenger trains
going south.
The mercury fell eight degrees be-
low freezing on Sunday night at Los
Angeles, Cal,, and all sorts of rumors
are in circulation as to the extent t f
the fruit loss that will be caused
thereby. Some dcvlare that the loss
will be as heavy as in IS'.H, when, it is
estimated two-thirds of the entire
orange crop of California was ruined
A meeting of the Marsha vi county
citizens will be held on the loth at
Marysville to consider the project cf
organizing a county fair association.
The idea is to nrovido for holding a
series of fairs which shall be agricul-
tural in fact as well as in name, h jrse
racing being made an incidental at-
traction rather than the principal fea-
tu re.
\Y. F. Heck & Co , San Francisco
co imission merchants handling chief-
ly sa'iuon and canned and dried
fruits have assigned. Tho schedu'e I
liabilities arc 9.11.V 11, and a member
of the firm says the amount may
reach a much greater ?um The
Well -Fargo banV In tho heaviest erer' •
Itor holding claim* to th am unt cf
9104,000.
'I he officials of Heaver county have
been enjoined from collecting taxes
on ccrtain lands in that region.
Springvale township, near Guthrie
is in the throes of a race war over a
white and a black justice of the peace.
' The cheap excursion rates on the
Rock Island are bringing in a la are
number of homcseckers to Oklahoma.
Hereafter the railroad station will
be known as Perry. Wharton goes to
join the long list of Oklahoma's dead
names.
If any one wants to die rapidly and
neatly all be has to do is to get the
contract for taking the census of a
strip town.
Ira Woods of Guthrie, 30 years old,
has kidnapped Nancy Draper, 14 years
of age. In Ok I a noma the penalty for
this is §1.000 tine or five years in jail.
Judge Jennings of Woodward put
on his plug hat the other day, took a
gun and went out hunting and killed
an eagle measuring six feet from tip
to tip. ^
Mayor Hobart of El Reno doesn't
wait for a policeman. A fellow got
wild and tvooIcv on the street the
other day, and Hobart jailed him in a
jiffy-
The Perry papers claim that it will
take ten years to settle the contest
filings in the laud office at that place,
and fully $500,000 will be expended in
litigation.
The people of Hennessey are consid-
ering a proposition to put in water
works the coming season. The only
division of opinion is as to what ?s they
best system.
Judge Thomson of Enid was lucky
enough the other day to marry two
couples. The boys around the office
made a welsh with the money and
bought cigars.
The supreme court of Kansas has
overruled motions for a hearing of the
Terrell and McClaskej' cases. Judge
Huckner having received a telegram
to that effect. Terrell must stand
trial in Lincoln county.
.. Representatives of a Dunkard col-
ony after looking over Oklahoma and
the Strip, have concluded that the
country about Hennessey suits them,
and arc making arangements to buy a
large number of acres in this vicinity.
Resides the many other things Hen-
nessey has to be proud of is a uni-
formed band under the leadership of
Professor San ford of Wichita. A day
at the circus, the Midway or Coney
Island can be produced in Hennessey.
John Dorsett, who was to have been
hanged Friday, has been reprieved for
sixty days. This was the first death
sentence ever passed upon a man in
the territory. On January 5. 180?,
Dorsett poisoned Sherman Long, his
lival for the love of ail Indian girl.
Postmaster McShca has received his
new fixtures an-1 will move the ofliee
to the corner of Main street and Okla-
homa avenue. ^Hennessey now has as
line a postofticc as any town in the ter-
ritory. The old fixtures go to Wako-
mis. where I' rank Hcntiy lias charge
of the postofticc.
I he board of
county commissioners
' here f is quUe :.crious trouble ahead
in regard to the recently acquired In-
dian lands—an empire in themselves
in extent. The development of tho
difficulty has been gradual, but the
gravity of the matter is not fully ap-
preciated, and it isquite possible that
the question may come up for action
immediately o.^ the reassembling of
congress. In fact, just before con-
gress dispersed for the Christmas holi-
days, Senator Kyle introduced a reso-
lution in the senate wl.ich brought out
the essential facts of the difficulty.
Mr. Kyle's preamble recited that arti-
cle 12 of the treaty between the lTnit-
| ed States and the Sioux Indians it was
provided that "no treaty for the ces-
sion of any portion or part of the reser-
vation herein described which may I e
held in common, shall be of any valid-
ty or force asagain,st the said Indians
unless executed and signed by three
fourths of all of the adult male Indi-
ans occupying or interested in the
same," and further "that the two aets
of congress, both dated March 2, 18M .
entitied Acts t > divide a portion of ti e
Sioux nation of Indians in Dakota into
separate reservations and to assert the
Indian title to the remainder, and for
other purposes; and the appropriation
hilli approved March 2. 1SS9, show
upon their face that they were signkd
by a number of adult Indians of tho
whole blood less in number tl:an the
three-fourths as provided in the said
treaty, and that in order to obtain the
necessary three-fourths a fore ^ ai I, di-
vere mixed bloods were s >1 idl-
ed to, and were permitted to and did
sign such treaty, made by the c mimis-
sion on the pari of the United States,
aeting under sueh ;i ts of 1 IQgrflH
dated us aforesaid. March 2, 1889; and
where is, the secretary of the interior
of the United States has decided, as it
is claimed, that divers of the mixed
bloods who signed, as aforesaid, such
treat3r made with such commission
are not Indians in contemplation of
law, and f hat they and their families
are not entitled to any rights or privi-
leges whatever in the land, the secre-
tary of the interior is directed to trans-
mit to the senate forthwith copies of
all orders, opinionsand directions that
he has given in respect to the said
mixed bloods, together with copies of
all reports, etc., pertaining thereto.
All these legal difficulties have been
brought to the front by the recent de-
cision of the interior department in
what is known as the "Black Toma-
hawk" cane, that the status of a child
born of an Indian woman and a white
father follows the condition of the
falhe* This decision, although iu
volving no new principle of law, has
been si.sjfv n led on account of its far
reaching effects. Carried out to its
logicalconclusion. it would invalidate
nearly all Indian treaties. Over 10,-
000,000 acres were acquired under
treaty agreements with the Sioux
alone, and a large proportion of the
signers of that agreement were half-
breeds, who according to the "Rlack
Tomahawk" decision arenovr hesd not
to be "adult male Indians occupying
or interested, "J The same condition
^f facts will apply to the agreements
ntereo into with the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma ceding
about ;i,000 acres of land. It is quite
likely that "other agreements of for-
mer years and some others of recent
date will be affected by this ruling,
and thereby the titles of settlers who
have taken up homes on theae lands
will be impaired. The subject is such
% serious tone and so surrounded by
embarrassments, that it will certainly
call for prompt attention. Some en-
abling act will have to be passed to
quiet titles if the "Hlack Tomahawk"
decision is to stand.
Another engagement has taken
place between the Brazilian rebels an 1
the government forces on b >ard ship.
The encounter was hot while it lasted,
but the artillery of t he government
forts did good execution and caused
the rebet warships to retire.
The Chootaws held
SIXTEEN KILLED.
FRIGHTFUL REAR-END COLLI-
SION IN A FOG.
PASSENGERS WARNED TOO LATE.
Two Trains of the Dotnwure, I.ncUawan-
n: and Western Crash Into One All-
ot tier Near Jersey i itjr—Two Curs
Tclcseoped « ul Completely
Wrcok.-Ml l y it l>«>;ttli iK-ul-
lai£ Engine.
Nt:w ^ oniv, Jan. 10. Sixteen pas-
sengers were killed and twcnty-flvo
injured in a collision during a dense
fog between two trains of tho Dela-
ware, Lackawanna aud Western rail-
road at the west end of the Hackcn-
sack bridge, about S o'clock this morn-
ing. Two cars were completely de-
stroy ed.
The I) •• express passed through
Rosevjl 'iout stoppiny and was
followed four minutes later by the
regular commutation train So dense
was the fog over the river tiiat on ap-
proaching the bridge the express
slowed up, the engineer being unable
to see too signals. J'lie commutation
train did not halt at tho bridge, but
went along at its usual rato of speed.
The engine, r saw the express when
less than 1300 feet from it and though
he reversed his engine, he could not
prevent a collision. The locomotive
crashed into the rear car throwing
it from the track quite a distance,
'ibis car and the one ahead of it were
completely wrecked.
Both ears were full of passengers
who were crushed to death or terribly
mangled. The engineer of the com-
mution train i-. inis>in 4* and is said to
be among the killed.
The brakeman of the rear ear of tho
Dover express discovered that a wreck
was inevitable and shouted .it tho top
of his voice: ".lump for your lives,
another train is coaling hohind and
will be 011 11s in a minute."
This warning was sufficient to put
the entire rear ear of t he express iu
a commotion. Passengers rushed pell-
mell for the nearest means of exit.
N^nc jumped through the windows in
their haste, while the majority rushed
to the doors. In tin; excitement some
fell 011 the lloor while the others tum-
bled over them.
Before all the frightened passengers
could make their escape, the Orange
locomotive crashed into the lvar ear
wrecking it and driving it into the car
ahead, also telescoping that, dealing
death 011 ;;ll sides.
Trains always s'o-.v up when ap-
proaching the HacUensick bridge. It
is said that the South Orange train
was running so close behind t in' Dover
express that there was no ti me to scud
back a flagman.
THE MKT OF TilK VICTIMS
The following is the ii.st of tho
bodies of the victims which have been
identified.
DENSE FOG IN MANY CITIES.
Orc;ik Ilianket of Dampness From
Western Kansas to Cliicngo.
Kansas Crrv, .Ian. 10.—The fog
which hung over this city this morn-
ing, enveloping tho highest buildings,
extended from points in Kansas 250
miles west of Kansas City to
points as far east as Chicago. It
ra.nod at( ineinuati, Chattanooga and
1'ittsburg. The telegraph service was
greatly impaired. Acting Chief Red-
line of the Western Union said this
morning: "The fog completely
smoothered 11s at 8 o'clock. With our
strongest batteries and best wires it
was al most impossible to get a message
through to Chicago and St. Louis and
it happened that business was extra
heavy this morning. The current
was retarded and lost on account of
the conductive quality of the damp
at inosphere."
At the weather bureau it was stated
that the fog was caused by a fall in
the temperature following the south
breeze of the past three days which
had carried moisture with it from tho
Gulf.
A SMALL BOY AND A PISTOL.
(.'rover Sumner of Knit Washington
Shoots Himself Deitl in Seliool.
Washington, Jan. 16.—The Cranch
public school in East Washington was
thrown into a panic this morning
when Orover Sumner, a child 7 years
old, began flourishing a pistol that I10
had brought from homo unknown to
his parents.
The boy remarked that he was go-
ing to shoot some one and then ap-
parently changing his mind said ho
would shoot himself. Pointing his
pistol to his head ho accidentally
pulled the trigger ami blew his brains
out. No one was injured in the
scramble of children to get outside.
convention
throughout the nation Monday to de-
termine whether or not they wanted
to allot their lands and com * in as a
state. .Inst as was expected the lead-
ers used the party cash to sueh an ex-
tent that the vote was almost unani-
mously against it. Those who wanted
a change were afraid to attend the
convention, killings having become so
numerous that a Choctaw who favors
a change in governmental affairs dare
nor say so. Had they been allowed to
vote their true sentiments a big ma-
jority would have been for a change.
Those who favored the cht.ngc did
not go near the court house where the
convention was held. The proceed
ings were all conducted in Choctaw.
I11 gathering together his arguments
ulltor
rnpany,
1YY <,ivi:,e'1 lhe c° "'y I for Itatclio'il', Hon. Sidney Clarke
u" !i"v.n,shl|>s "".'l ha;. purchased i wrote to llovrrnor ll„ „;,hr. y in Is,
nskintf him tlio total expenditures of
supplies for tho county officers. The
hoard has also rented a portion of the
Alva hank building for office rooinu,
and tli - probate judge, county attor-
ney, superintendent of public instruc-
tion. sheriff and county treasurer will i
have their' ofllccs
hereafter
building.
On Saturday niglH a ejlorcd man l .v
the name of Jack, while beating his I [rriCV°
..... .... ! Humphrey, I Inv
eight train, fell from him 1.
the statu of Kansas during the first
live years of its existence. The fol-
lowing is the reply:
| State ok Kansas, Ofkivk ok Audi-
, , ton ok Statk and Rroistkr ok Statr
in that) i.isih,
i Topkka, Feb. 11, is'.).\ Dkak Sin—
In answer to yours of tho 3r.l, inst, re-
ferred to this depirtinent by (Jovornor
way on u freight train, fell from his ' rp,'ords of thi's'om-e show the follow"
place and was run over, the wheels | ing to be the cost of tho state depart*
passing1 over both legs, over one leg meut of Kansas for the first five years,
above the knee, and cutting off the 1 viz.
other between tho knee and ankle. 18(11
One of the local physicians was called ' 1803...
and requested to do what he could to j 18(1.1
relieve the tufferings of the man. lie i 18U4 :
wired the officials that he would have ! 18«.%
nothing to do with the case. The rail- '11.1 above items arc tho curr
road men did all in their power to re- penses, except that, in 18(11 S11,000 were
lieve the victim, and were justly filled {expanded for military purposes, and
with indignation against the inhuman in 1 • *1.5.4 >1 were expended for cap-
action of the physician. The people | itol '(rounds and building;*, both of
included In tho items
„ d for those two year4. Very
late red to tho wants of the sufferer rcsp ctfully
had they known anything abjut the CiiAiiLKfl M. IIovkv,
matter. Auditor of State.
84 821
100 00;)
80 son
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entex*
• ' |'ii . I 111- pCOpiC ] I I « > ' 1 :
i f Mulhall are noted for tho r genc.r-j wiii 1 w*
nsity, and would have gladly admin-! men met
Kdwaud !\ insbv H rn ir l v'l <1 N J
William .) TniNiiu of H isUitn ill 0. book-
);i'"p r of Field, ('ti,miller ^ Co, Irav.j i u
widow and four children
.1 II Kimmkii, Summit, N J , cashier of P.
\V Torn I; \ < o
Kdwauij Mokiikll, Decameron, N. J.
1) a hki nohii.i,
Timmons. Summit. Nr .1.
H A Koiilfs, Summit. N J
Paihick it van, Milburn, N .1
a Hoffman
T. .! Ki: \ . an, Milburn. X J
John I-'ish. Tumtii'. \ .1
l)a John Doty. II mUlnr <1 n
I'Yuorso.n Summit S J
of the Western I'nion Tel ti'.ijj
died on tin* way to M M.u v - hotpit ti.
W L. t;i ILL M KAI tiMllii- nut)il-. |- of t!io
Old Dominion Steamship romp inv. rodiiea in
Montcla<r, und Iimivoh a widow and family.
TtlEonoiiK Will 1 k Newark, N. J.
1) t'AMIOtoN N«w:trk. \ .1
j Dun in 1 on, Short Hills, X. j.
TRAIN WRECKLRS AT V/ORK.
Two Attempts to Derail (lie 'Krlic i;x-
prtaft« .it A urn ri. Mo., in m Week.
Si'Ihncjkiki.I), Mo., Jan Hi.—Within
the past week two attempts have been
made to derail the 'Frisco night pas-
senger train at Aurora. The lirstwas
made about a week ago, when a freight
train was derailed by a misplaced
switch.
Last night the passenger train, just
before getting into the town, struck a
loosened rail and the engine, tender
and mail car were thrown off tho
track. Fortunately no one was in-
jured beyond receiving a good shaking
up.
I he two wrecks occurring within
such a short time ami nt the samo
place indicate to tho of Tie als that an
organize 1 gang of train wreckers is at
work. The officers are diligently
searching for a clue to work on.
.. hi.1 iud
IIkaiinc: , Ni b, .Ian 1 •' . — John
Kennedy, of Lin -o)n, visited his
divorced wif.* here last evening in
order to se > their 3-year-old child Tho
woman U an invalid and while her
attention was eille 1 to other matters
Kennedy wrapped a cloak about the
baby ami fled.
South African *uv.ti(iM Vhltnrloni|
( Al'KTOW.v, .lau 10 -Coinmender
Sigcam attacked tho I'm/Uts and tho
latter retreated into Natal. They
after wauls returned, attacked Si
natives and defeated thorn with
tho loss of !i.V) men killed und
wounded
A French Diplomat Den'I.
i'a hi h. Jan. 1(1—William Henr;
Waddington. the distinguished French
statesman and diplomatist, who has
been seriously ill with diabetes died
/sstcrdav.
CONVICT LEASES RENEWED.
Missouri Unab!o to Secure Any Iletlor
Kale* Tliao llcforo.
Jkkfkkso.v City, Jan. 10.—The peni-
tentiary inspectors and tho warden
have renewed a lease for convict labor
witii the J. Strauss Saddlery, Harness
and Collar company for five years at
Hi** oltl rate of fifty cents per day for
each able bodied convict, the firm
binding itself to work twenty-five per
cent more men after January 1, 189."i.
In its present condition the lease calls
for 1T> 111.mi. This is taken as an in-
dication that all tho old leases will bo
renewed at the old price. There are
now about 500 idle convicts and no
demand for their labor.
SHEEP FOR PUGILISTS.
A Wyoming: < Dili Mnken it Most Unlqut
Offer of I'rize.
Evanbtox, Wyo., Jan. 16.—The
Eva listen Athletic club offers a purso
of $75.00) in sheep for the Cor bet t-
Mitchell fight. Tho "club" guaran-
tors non-interference and refers to
Senator Heckwith's bank.
A Thieving: Farmer ? hot Dead.
Si'in no field, Mo.. Jan. 16—As the
result of numerous thefts from the at
present closed canning factory here, a"
constable was put on duty yesterday.
In the afternoon Farmer Johnson,
who lived ten miles north and had
heretofore borne a good reputation,
drove up, entered and carried off a
large belt. The constable antl two
citizens soon followed. When John-
son was overtaken he tried to run
over the constable and then fired
twice at him. The officer returned
the fire, killing the farmer.
a New Kxploslve.
( itv op Mkxico, Jan. 10.—An invcu-
tion in explosives, which is attracting
large attention in Mexican military
circles, is by Lieutenant Alfredo
Gomez, a young officer. The now ex-
plosive is intended to surmount the
defects of the shells now in use and
adds a number of features, increasing
the range, accuracy and destructive
power of projectiles.
a llo ivy Loser.
I oi*i-;k a, Ivan., Jan. 10.—The county
funds of Kiowa county to the amount
of $>'>«000 were tied up in the bank of
(•reensburg, recently taken possession
of by Ihink Commissioner Jlricdcn-
tha 1 I iie liabilities of the bank are
far in excess of the assets, antl it is
thought the county will lose nearly
all of its deposit.
No Ti rrltory Admission* at Present.
Washington', Jan. h. — General
Wheeler, chairman of the houso com-
mittee on territories, has 110 hope of
getting up the bills for the atlmission
of New Mexico antl Arizona until af-
ter the tariff bill is disposed of. Then
they will be the regular order.
Jefferson llarraeks llinlly l>amnge«|.
Si. Lot*is, Mo..Jan. Hi. Fire at Jef-
ferson llarraeks, the I'nitel States
recruiting station below this city, de-
stroyed nearly all the oltl buildings,
including the laundry, farrier's shop,
harness shop, a barracks building and
officer's residence. Loss nbout f50,000t
Iturfflar* Make a Kiel? Haul.
Marshall, Mo., Jan. 11.—The gro-
cery house of William Lyler it Co. nt
Arrow Itoek was entered by burglars
last night, the safe was blown open
ami $40 in money ami notes valued at
? 1,000 were taken Tho burglars are
at large. A reward has been offered
for their arrest and conviction.
Illtf Hominy Mill Itarneil.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 11.—Tho five
story brick liui diiig located at Main
and Wash streets used by Joseph
Flanuig'm as a hominy mill was de-
stroyed by tire last night. How the
fire btai ted ii upknown. Los%9150,009.
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