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VOL. I'
The final arguments in the Moorr-
Funston congressional contest ease of
the Second Kansas district have been
submitted, ami the case is now in the
hands of the committee on elections.
Colonel llaUowell has challenged
George I.. Douglass to nine joint de-
bates in Sedgwick county. They are
rival candidates for the Republican
congressional nomination in the
Seventh Kansas district.
Reports to the contrary notwith-
standing, the Cherokee bonds have
not yet been sold, ami there may be
considerable trouble in disposing of
them, owing to Secretary Carlisle's
refusal to guarantee their redemption.
Arrangements are perfected for the
giving of a series of bull fights at San
Antonio next month. The fights are
to be conducted on the grandest scale
with banderillos. torreadors, pieadores
and nietadors officiating us they do in
the famous urenas of Madrid and Se-
ville.
The car shed of the Avondale, Ohio,
electric line, thirty motor cars and an
equal number of summer and old cars
were destroyed by fire. Loss, *80,000;
nsurance #.10,000.
A. F. Van Auken. charged with
forging the name of President Ingalls
of the ltig Four railroad to a bond for
#30,000, fell from a train near Quincy,
111., and was fatally injured.
John I>. Rock feller, the Standard
oil king, has closed n deal by which ho
obtains control of nearly all the valua-
ble iron mines in the Lake Superior
region and several heavy producers in
Cuba.
The London Chronicle declares that
there is good reason to believe that nil
is not well with Dr. Nansen, the Arctic
explorer.
Half buried in the snow and ice on
the beach near Kdgetnoore, Ind., the
dismembered body of a woman was
found bv a party of Chicago hunters.
It was probably left there by medical
students.
BLACKWELL,!). 11 111 . RS1KAA , FEBRUARY 15,1894.--OFFICIAL 1'AFKR.
■Inward Out ticalixt FuMim.
Lawkkxck Kan , Feb. 1 .—The
Raid win Ledger announces tile candi-
dacy of ex-Senator William C. How-
ard of Douglas county for the Repub-
lican nomination for congress from the
Second district.
THE MARKETS.
Kansas CUjr drain.
Sales hy sample on Vhanie, f u b track.
Kansas City: Hum Wiikat No. 2 hard 12
cars lac No ;l hard. I car 47 ,c, 2 cari 47c No
4 hard. 1 car 44k- Sorr Wheat-No 2 red. 1
car Ho, 1 car Me. 1 car Vic No :4 rod, I car
SOe No 4 rod, I car 45c, 1 car 44c rejected, I
car 42c.
Cohn -Offerings were small and the receipts
arc expected 10 be small because of the storm,
therefore the market was llrm and some were
fraction higher. Receipts of corn to day:
*2 cars a year ago, 195 cars No j
mixed sold at 30 ,<;uic Kansas City: No.
3 mixed, :tu-53i'ic; No 4. 2»«29qo. No 2
white. 91‘, o 32c No 3 white. 3lu.3l ,c No 2
while was quoted nominally at 37yc Memphis,
No 2 mixed. 36 ,e Memphis.
NO. 2«
THE TWO TERRITOKIES
KANSAS CITV LIVE ST4>CK.
Kansas City, Mo ,Keb IS -Cattle-Receipts
Saturday. <*.» calcs 2M, shipped Saturday.
2.SN5 Receipts were extremely light on ac-
count of the storm and ther. was not enough
fresh cattle hereto interest traders and make
a good showing in the wav of a market
Dressed beef and shipping steers 12.253,1 25;
cows and heifers (2 / 2 si Texas and Indian
•teers. 43.40 Stockers and feeders El 30.
mixed, K Sf,275
Hogs — Receipts since Saturday. 1,532;
shipped Saturday. 2W The supply ol hogs
was 1,020 of pretty good quality. Trade was
active and prices generally 15c higher with a
range from lo to 2Ue hi jhcr The lop sale was
» 15 and bulk of sales 45 lo against lop E5 and
bulk of sales 44.S4J to 44 95 Saturday
Sheep Receipts since Saturday, 1,532;
shipped Saturday. 115. The market was very
quiet, yet the few sales made were strong.
The following are representative sales:
No Wt Price No WL Price.
384 Utah . 119 3 35 |
Horses — Receipts since Saturday, 125;
shipped Saturday, 13 The market was quiet
and unchanged.
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CHAS. SCHMIDT, Prop., > Blackwell, Or T.
Snodgrass & Strong,
New* in General of Oklahoma and
the Indian Territory Pertaining to
the Pal© Face and the lied Man.
A Citizens’ ticket will be nominated
iu Guthrie, March 6.
I he asnhalt beds of the Chickasaw
nation cover 108 acres.
Ap Enid real estate a^ent sold four
claims one day last week.
The Rock Island railroad pays $4,GG3
taxes in Canadian county.
The Knid Daily Enterprise has
merged into a weekly paper.
United States Marshal Nix is down
arith a severe attack of the grip.
Howling Wolf, who escaped from the
El Reno jail, has ouly one eye.
It‘s a small strip town that hasn’t
Its representative in Washington.
Twenty-eight carloads of cotton
.•arnc int > Ardmore in one day last
week.
A colored woman at Enid has been
Arrested for attempting lo intimidate
% contestant.
Ferry should get on the ground
floor with an offer for the Corbett-
lackson tight.
\N hat they call their “Dago climate''
Is doing business at the same old stand
in Oklahoma.
One of Judge Hierer's first cases will
be the murder trial of I. N. Terrell at
Jiundler in February.
1 here is a curious cemetery four
idles south of Ponca City. It belongs
to the Ponca Indiuus.
It has been discovered in Oklahoma
♦hat sorghum sown broadcast will
irive prairie dogs away,
The Sisters of Charity of the Catho-
lic church are thinking of erecting a
hfispital at Oklahoma City.
Westward the star of empire takes
»ts way nil right, but the star of
statehood seeing to be a little brighter.
Since the last blizzard the people
a ho live in sod houses spend part of
-heir time laughing at the people who
JVC in frame shacks.
Miss May me Norris has been d:s-
missed from the Oklahoma City land
office because, she says, she told the
truth to an inspector.
If the Rook Island trains keep bulg-
ing through Knid, the citizens will
likely tAke the old fashioned style of
revenge of soaping the track.
Se nator Kerry writes that he ■will
oppose- the amen,Im.mt for special
elections which was taekeel on to the
bfil requiring railroatl trains to stop at
stations.
* It is said that a bill will be intro-
duced at the first session of the Okla-
homa legislature to have capital
punishment carried out by the means
of amesthetics.
A Ponca City girl indignantly de-
nies that there are not enough mar-
riageable girls in that town and says
that the men do not appreciate those
that arc there now.
Thirty-four teachers were examined
for certificates in Guthrie Wednesday
Nineteen received certificates, and fif
teen failed. SJusan Smith was the
only successful colored teacher out of
thirteen.
It is more difficult to select original
names for towns than most people
think. The citizens of Pond Creek
thought they had a copyright on that
name, but they discovered a Pond
Creek in Ozark, county, Missouri.
Minister Thurston, who is in Wash-
ington, is inclined to discredit the re-
port from San Francisco that Presi-
dent Dole of the provisional govern-
ment would be forced Ut resign his
position on account of ill-health. Pres-
ident Dole's health was not good, said
Minister Thurston, but his illness was
not of a nature to force his tesig.ia-
tion.
At the fir.-t meeting of the commis-
sion appointed to inquire into the
charges that the French navy is in a
Mate of gross inefficiency, and that the
coast of France is practically defence-
less in case of war with any maritime
power. Admiral Gervui* insulted two
members of the commission. It is an-
nounced that the minister of marine
Has decided to supplant Admiral Ger-
ais as a member of the commission
by the next admiral in command.
Mtrlp Settwol l.aaili,
Gov. Renfrow has issued the follow-
ing proclamation, inviting bids for
leasing school amis in the former
( herokee Outlet. Pawnee and Tonkawa
Indian reservations, bids to be received
at the governors office in Guthrie on or
before February 20, 1894:
•said lands consist of sections sixteen
(Ifi) and thirty-six (3d) iu each con-
gressional township in the Cherokee
outlet and the former Pawnee and
lonkuwu Indian reservations, being in
counties “K,” **L,” “M," “N\"
■'P and “(J." except such parts of
said sections us are allotted to Indians
and except such as have been reserved
for other purposes bv the United
States.
Said lands will be leased for a p.*riod
of three years from the first day of
January, 1891. East of the range ‘line
between ranges n find 14 one person
will be allowed to lease only one quar-
ter section. West of said line one per-
son may least* a section if so desired.
No bids on land east of the rauge
line between ranges thirteen and four-
teen will be received for less than
twenty-five dollars per quarter section.
NN cst of said line no hid will l>e re-
ceived at less thau sixteen dollars per
quarter section. No lands will ho
leased at less than their reasonable
value and the right is reserved to re-
ject any und all bills.
Approved personal security must Ixs
given for all deferred payments.
Homesteaders and persons of known
responsibility will be accepted us sure-
ties. Cash payments of the first year’s
rental will be preferred. It is impera-
tive in all cases that sureties be given
for deferred payments.
Lessees will not be allowed to cut or
remove any timber and must state in
their applications how much, if any,
of the land is covered with timber,
ulso quality und character of the land
THE HUSDAND OF ANNIE
LEY TALKS.
nx-
HE SAYS SHE WAS HOT POISONED
Hr ArrlvM In New York With the C««.
mated Remain* of tlir Dead Artrraa
—The 1'Ulrjr Family liinlniiate
Foul Flay, Forgery and Ml«-
appropriation The Will to
He Hotly Contented.
No preference will Iks given to per- the charges.
Nkw York, Feb. 13.— Mr. Robert
I- ulford, husband of the well-known
American actress, Annie Pixley, “the
child of the Sierras,” who died in Lon-
don several weeks ngn, under, it is
claimed, mysterious circumstances,
was a passenger on the Amer-
ican Line steamship New York,
which arrived at her wharf about 9
o'clock this morning. Mr. Fulfofd
was accompanied by his sister,
Mrs. Frazier, and by Annie Joyce,
the late Miss IMxley’s maid, who
is said to have administered certain
powders to her, thus being instru-
mental in causing her death, in order
that Mr. Fulford might obtain |x»sscs-
fcion of her estate, valued at from
ft.'too.noo to $40(UMM). Mr. Fulford was
considerably surprised and shocked
when lie leurned the serious nature of
•Wholesale and Retell.
Lumber in Gar Load Lots a Spe-
I....... WV ^ > 4L4, 4>J |4V 1
sons occupying any of said lands, and
they will be required to give imme-
diate possession of the same to lessees.
Persons holding leases on any of
fractional quarters in Oklahoma bord-
ering on the strip will be allowed pref-
erence to complete the quurtcr sections
of which they now hold a part, at the
highest responsible bill offered for the
fraction included in the ('herokee strip.
No person will be allowed to make
more than one bid. and any person
violating this provision forfeits all
rights under said bills.
Rids must Ik* made at a specified
amount, and not “so much higher
than any other bid.”
Applications must be carefully en-
dorsed in accordance with the bid. No
bills sent in prior to this notice have
been received, but the same have been
returned to the parties sending them.
Lessees will have preference right to
release their lands at the highest rent*
ul offered by any responsible bidder
and will have the right to remove their
improvements in ease they do not re-
lease their lands at the expiration of
their several terms.
Applicants must be 21 vears of ago
and not lessees of school land, but
holding a homestead does not dia*
qualify from leasing school land.
Applications must 1h* made on Mariks
prepared by the governor and may be
had by applying to him in person or
by letter or by applying iu person to
the county clerk of K, L, M, N, O, For
<J counties.
Immediately upon making award of
land the successful bidder will Ik* noti-
fied by mail at his owu risk, and will
have thirty days from date of notice
in which to execute leas» and notes
and return the same to the governor's
office.
Wii.mam C. Rknkiiow, Governor.
William Hlincok, Secretary.
Guthrie, Jan. 25, 1891.
C. E. Emory and Allen Flint have
been contesting each other for a claim
south of Chandler, Lincoln county.
Flint attempted to tear down a house
that had been put up by Emory, but
the latter's 20-year old son. David Em-
ory, interfered und a quarrel ensued.
Flint threatened to go and get his gun
ami drive the Kmorys off the place,
when young Kmo-yran into the house
and secured a loaded shotgun and
fired the whole load into the back of
Flint's *head. The iujured man will
die, and Emory is In jail.
Edwin D. Chadwick has fl'cd ape-
tion for an injunction to restrain the
Chcrokeet from disposing of the bonds
issued in payment for the Cherokee
Strip. The petition is directed
against Walter A. Duncan, Joseph E.
Thomson, Charles Harris, Ezekiel Starr
and the Cherokee nation. He declares
that the defendants named are officers
and delegates of the Cherolcees. and
are empowered to consummate the deal
proposed by sign ng ami countersign-
ing the bonds, which arc already pre-
pared. He asks that they be restrained
from passing the bonds for the amount
named Co R. F. Wilson A Co., and that
they b$ compelled to complete the
contract which he entered into with
them according to law Mr. Chadwick
agreed to purchase |5,(i40,(XM) of the
bonds for 95,715,00, ami to deposit
81oo,ooo in the National Hank of Com-
merce of St. Louis us a forfeit. The
offer was accepted by the two houses
of the councils of the nation. There
was some hitch in the proceedings,
however, because Mr. Chadwick found
it more convenient to deposit the for-
feit in the .St. Louts National Hank of
Commerce, and the Chcrokces forth
with negotiated to sell the claim for
11.540.0(81 to It F Wilson A Co., of
________________ w ^ New York. Preparations have been
in settling the question, uiiless Tt lie ,,,u,|c lo •«,<?ompllsh the transfer of
a. .. ...uui---1 ----------- t ie homls to complete this latter trans*
| action, if tiny delay shall result ia
’The plea set up by the opponents of
single statehood for Oklahoma and
lhe Indian Territory, that to include
the five tribes on the east would vio-
late treaty obligations on the part of
the Fnited States government, which
provide that the Indian lands shall
never be attached to or become part
of any state or territory without the
consent of the Indians, is simply a
plea in avoidance. It is not proposed
to incorporate the five tribes in the
proposed state over their protest. The
fact is, the Indians do not manifest or
••xpress any determined opposition,
int so far ;is expression is had they
rather favor statehood for the whole
territory. The nppostion that comes
from the Indian territory conies from
w hite men who have cinched them
selves onto the Indians and have
worked them uml aie still working
them for their own |>ccnniBry ad van-
tyge. This opposition is not entitled
to be considered and ought not to be
used us un additional argument,
:n fact It Is, in favor of single state-1 acllon ,r un? ,k*I».v h,m11 reault ia
e earliest practical mo- ,of this litigat ion. the re.
hood and at the earliest practical mo-i l4 •... . —.................—
mi nt The Indian* arc the greatest IMl,t 'v,l‘ *>#* most unfortunate, not
loser* by the delay. Nor can they
afford separate statehood, or to be left
out of the single state of Oklahoma —
Wichita Eagle.
only in the Territory, but also to the
wholesale merchants in Kansas and
Arkansas, who have sold large lulls to
the Cherokee* on the strength of an
early sale of these bonds.
Another, and third, north and south
railroad has been sprung upon the
public. This is to start at Kansas
City, Kan., and end at Eagle Fast,
l ex. Articles of incorporation have
been filed with the secretary of state
Blackwell,
f O.T
A plan to do uwiiy with the Iribul
relation* of the Qunpaw agency hs*
been propound by Reprr,ent«tive Funs-
ton of Kansas. Ill* bill would attach
Ihr land* occupied by the (Juapaw.
nee... I'eoriu. Western Miami. Otln
wn Wyandotte. Modoc and (Shawnee ,
b inds in tlie territory of Oklahoma ns Ht Topeka, the name of the ent
t ayuf*county, and would entitle thr '"-lug the Kansas. Oklahoma A
Indiana to representation in the ter r»llway ’!#>« e»t
eitorlal • legislature and to all tin-
I'ijfhta of citivena It ia proponed nl*o
that those who here taken land
avveralty may have then aDn'm. nt
or lease them for a period of fiv
years Thu goverooi of tnr in , i,-( v
L to select tba county seal of lh« now
xuatf.
.......company The ratimateii
length of the line is B5o mile* nnd the
■ spits I stork is plneed at #|o,oon,oi>0.
Tlie nstnr* of W s Nrleon H. A.
> oi. \V li mpl>e!i 1.1 IV 0,
Itiiek.t, ,,f Keu'S, Cttv, 1 herlea
t rench ui \ l. IU kliiaon of
Gai-.l-n it, s ! Aiielbert > arroll of
Wsl f real, Na« York, are g *ea ee
dltMUn lip
The idea ofehargin r me with seek-
ing to get rid of iny . ife is nothing
short of silly on the face of it. What
hud I to gain? Certainly no mercen-
ary object would have influenced me,
us there w-as no necessity for it. All
the money was mine whether my wife
was alive or not. The eharge of
harsh treatment of my wife is like
wise untrue. My wife and I lived
together for twenty-one years from
the time of our me.rriage at Portland,
Ore..to her death happy und without
a separation ut any time. Her death
was u serious blow to me.
“The assertion on the part of the
Fixleys that all deeds and mortgages
belonging to Miss Fixley are in my
name is carta inly true. They are all
in my name and will remain so. Who
else would have them? It was through
my management that Miss Fixley
made her fortune. She left every-
thing to me to be disposed of us I
thought best. It was never intended
that Mrs. Pixley, her mother, should
be left unprovided for. I have taken
care of the whole family for over
twenty years.
“In regard to the story that I caused
my wife's remains to in* cremated in
order that no investigation could be
made into the cause of her death, I
can only say she was cremated at her
own request, and 1 ran prove this by
the evidence of several people."
“Cm not guilty of murder or any
other crime, and have with me in an
urn what remains of my dear wife,
which I propose to place beside the
remains of our little child, who is
buried at London, Ontario
Dr. Fleming, who attended Miss Pix-
ley during her illness prior to her de-
parture for England, indignantly de-
nies that tin* powders prescribed for
her were opiates of a powerful charac-
ter which assisted in her untimely
taking off.
WHAT THE FAMILY CLAIM.
Relative* »f the l>enil A it re# * ItroHilly
IntlniMte I mil I’Imjt.
Nkw ^ ohk. Feb. 13,—The* alleged
mysterious death in London of the
late Miss Annie Pixley, the well-
known American actress, which, ac-
cording to the published statements of
her family, was due ton conspiracy on
the part of Robert Fulford, her hus-
band: Dr. Walter M Flemming ami
Anne Joyce, maid • to Miss Pixley,
has aroused considerable Comment
among the friends of both parties.
On the part of the family their at-
torney, Colonel R. J. Ilairc, is vigor-
ously invest igating the case with a
view to securing the rights of his
clients to a share of the astute of the
actress more than attempting to prove
that Miss Pixtey's death was due to
her husband’s desire to make way
with her. Colonel Hair© announces
he has positive evidence to prove Miss
Pixley left a will providing for her
family, und witnesses who will testify
ns to the harsh treatment of his wife
by Mr. Fulford. Forgeries In the
transfer of deeds are also broadly
hinted at. The case, which will come
up in Philadelphia, promises to be a
sensational one.
The estate of Miss Pixley is various-
ly estimated ut from *200.000 to 9loo.-
ooo. Among other things it ineludcd
a fib.'f.ooo mortgage on the Park thea-
ter in Philadelphia. The latter. It is
claimed by ( olonel lluirc. Miss Pixley
arranged, prior to her death, to be set
aside absolutely for her mother.
In connecti«»n with the charges em-
anating. according to published re-
ports. from the Pixley family, Mr.
Starr L. Pixley, brother of the late
Annie, said on behalf of the family:
•My sister trusted implicitly in her
husband; he was always iu full control
of her property and deposited in banks
all her money in his name, so Annie
had to gti to her husband for every
dollar she wanted tos|»end Annie’s
brain was in no way affected. Lust
September, when she was ill, her bus*
Italic! tailed iu Dr. Walter Flemimr to
attend her. Dr. Fleming nml Mr.
Fulford were intimate friends. Annie
did not like him, and begged she be
|M*rriiitted to have another physi-
cian. We don't know exactly
what the powders were which were
prescribed for her, lirei which were
m* persistently and regularly adminis-
tered by Miss Joyce We wish we
had kept one of the** for unnlvsis As
It stand*, however, we can only give
it us our opinion that Annie s death
wu* very myaterinus, and her crema-
tion. desp le the wish of the family
that her ietnaoin> be .ent home, only
adds, iu our mi mis, to the strength of
this vie.v. The entire lack of proof
in a legil prevents our making
AhMm chi ife* agtinit l ul'ord."
THURSTON LECTURES.
7’ie IfuMmltan MlnlMer Speaks on tlie
Future of Hawaii.
W * s iimiton, Feb. 13. — Minister
1 huoton addressed a large audience
here last night in the M. E. church on
Hawaii and its future and was greeted
with great applause, when he referred
indirectly to annexation. He Raid, in
beginning his add rest#, that lie was in-
vited to come there, if only to show'
hiinr-elf as one of those llawuiiniiH
who were in danger of having their
heads cut off. Hawaii, he
continued, in not so far awav front
civilization as many people imagine,
as a matter of fact, it in nearer the
geographical center of the earth than
Washington. Thr Aleutian islands
extended out in the Facihc ocean
miles cast of Hawaii, making
>an Francisco the g- ographical center
of this country, so Honolulu i« I,(MM)
miles nearer the Golden Gate than
Washington.
Hawaii, he declared, ia a child of
the l nited States if ever any country
w as the child of another. Americana
found the isiundt inhabited by a iieo-
ple one step advanced from barbarism,
formulated and framed the language
und introduced and arranged laws
modeled after those of the United
Nta tes.
From a religious point of view the
ilawaiiuns oct a good example of
brotherly love among denomination*,
for all the FrotestantH there wor-
shipped in one church. Even the 3,000
Mormon* there are not polygamist*.
There were no social distinction.and
the natives were as kindly and lovable
a race as existed on tlie face of the
globe.
The recent trouble, he declared,
had been caused by foreigners stirring
up race prejudice. To this day, said
the speaker, there is no more danger
of an uprising among the natives thun
there is from the natives in Washing-
ton.
The danger U from the foreign
element, who are a sort of ward
politicians from America and England,
who make the poor native* pull the
chestnuts out of the fire for their use.
In reply to thequeatlon, “W hat are we
going to do?” the speaker said:
“We are going to cross each bridge
when we get to it. We do not pro-
pose to allow the country, alter
seventy yearn of development, to lapse
again into despotic heathenism. W'c
will endeavor to hold the country
to the best of our ability, meeting
each problem with the help of Al-
mighty God and the American people.
1 believe we shall succeed in keeping
Hawaii as the gciu of the ocean, the
brightest and best land of liberty in
tin* Facific ocean.”
The audience vigorously applauded
this statement.
BLOODY DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
A Yoiiiik Man Kill* HI* Rival and MmIi
Heath Rr*l*llna an Offlrrr.
Rihmixgham, Ala., Feb. 13.—News
reached here of u bloody double trag-
•cy at Johns, twenty miles awav.
Dennis Clements and Will Hurge were
in love with the same young lady.
They met at her home uud a quarrel
resulted. Harge finally drew a pistol
and shot and killed Clements in the
presence of the horrified young wo-
man, w ho uppculed piteously for him
not to shoot. Harge fled, and later on
Deputy Sheriff Charles Holman at-
tempted to arrest Harge. who drew a
pistol and said: “I'm fixed for you and
you can’t arrest me." Harge pulled
the trigger of his pistol, but it did not
fire, lloliniin quickly rais«-d a shot-
gun and blew Hargc's head off.
For n Mo*l llrlnou* Murder.
Waterloo, Iowa, Feb. 13.—8am Ure-
ters Ison trial ut Angola for the moat
heinoua murder ever committed in
Hteuben county. On August 31 Inst
Deetera shot uml killed hi* neighbor,
Amos Huchtel, und the latter's daugh-
ter, Mrs. Laura Lowe. He then
wounded William Yates und attempted
to kill hi* own mother by locking her
in a barn and firing the building. She
escaped, and Deetera was placed in
jail.___
John Roos, watchman of the San
Diego building, Chicago was beaten to
dcuth by unknown parties.
A meteor, so it is said, shot athwart
the heavens of Arizona and Nevada,
burying itself in Nevada and shaking
the earth for miles around.
The directory of the Catholic church,
just issued, furnishes some interesting
statistics regarding the growth of tha
church in this country. It give* the
number of Catholics in good standing
in America at 8,903.033.
Iln*t* of Idle |Vopl© In Aiictrko.
Vikxna, Feb. 9. —A meeting la*t
night of 3,000 unemployed working-
men was broken up by the police on
account of the violent attacks made
by the speakers upon society. The
dlstrens in Austria among the poor la
very considerable. According to re-
liable reports there are 330,000 per-
sons out of employment and 100.000 of
these are in Vienna.
A Hunk Iu Trouble.
Cot.rum**, Kan.,Feb. 9.—J. II. Ham*
llton took eharge of tin* bank of Ritter
A Doubleday this morning as receiver.
The appointment was made upon the
application of John N. Ritter, a mem-
ber of the firm, who alleged that L.
L. Doubleday,who had been ill charge,
was pursuing such u course in several
lines as to jeopard i/e tlie interest of
the bunk.
\ I'roblmi for Ihr ( our(*.
Omaha, Neb., Feb 9.—Union Farifle
employes are about to raise the ques-
tion whether, as Judge Dundy say*,
they are employe* of the United
Mates court they ought to be paid on
the basis of the f nited States working
day of eight hours instead of on the
corporate basis of from ten to sixteen
hours __
Au lows rr«**bjin t«n l’»*lor Deposed.
Knoxvii.i.r, Iowa. Feb. 9 The pres-
bytery of lb'* Moines in sasaion here
has deposed the Rev George RklUf
from the ministry, he having been
convicted u year ago of immoral con
duct. Nearly all the old officera of
Mr llaxters church have resigned
and riost of the members will go into
the recently oramized Congregation
ai church
HIE IIH
FRIGHTFUL TREATMENT J
RUSSIAN CONVICTS.
AN OFFICIAL REPORT UOE PU
imiiimrrablfi IhUum of Loppio,
I Invar, and Arm. hjr Motor 8tro
WMIr 4 annlball.nl, Ifndor Strt
of Famlna, 11a. Bara of Com
moo Oernr.no.* Mardor
to Knd Tholr MUorjb
St. Fktkrsbitro. Feb. IS.—The far*
eminent commission appointed to te>
vestigate the convict prison nt On or,
on tlie isiaml of Kighmllen, has issued
n report which shows that them bin
been instances without number of
merciless cases of beating and lopplaf
off of fingers and arms by saber
strokes, while cannibalism, nndar
stress of famine, has been of common
occurrence. Murder followed by can-
nibalism has been frequent with the
sole object of ending a miserable et-
istence. It ia related that there here
even l>cen eases where several coe-
vlcts have disputed for conviction of
murder when in fact they were not
ffuilty of any such crime.
During the whole year of 1S«3 them
was an .almost continuous string of
convicts carrying the corpses of con-
victs from Onor to Kikovskay, the rea*
idence «>f the authorities. In nearly
every case the bodies were frightfully
unit Mated. The bodies were burled
without the slightest inquiry on thn
part of the authorities as to bow the
wounds were inflicted.
The treatment of the prisoners ie
said to 1m; most shameful. No doctor
ever visited the prison and convicts
who failed to perform their work on
account of sickness were placed on
hull diet in the pls<« called hoapitfU
and when it became apparent that
they would be unable to perform
further duty they were dispatched
like animals with a revolver by the
inspector and were registered OB thn
prison Issiks as having died from n
disease.
The principal author of the street-
ties, it is usserted, is a former convict
of the name of Nhskoff, who was a ta*
vorife of the dint: let vwi
was prmuuleil lo he insg
I H|UltM Mf,rt»-
vs bn*sriscn l>ts.
jmi iwii from Nt. Deter
ills of tbs terrible uo|
affair* in the Kussiun prison (
...!nnd of Sistflialien, was brought
public attention several months age
by the arrival here of five aeenpad
convicts who had been picked up at
sea in a scow by a whaler. The man
had escaped from the island nnd had
been ten days at sea las small open
boat.
The story of the men excited maeh
interest here, but the frightful con-
duct of the prison officials could hard-
ly be believed. They were exhibited
for a time in a dime museum. One ot
them has been arrested here for burg-
lary ; one hss been sent to New Yon
by people interested in his .case, aad
the others are drifting about Ban
Francisco without employment.
1
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EAT HORSES. DOCS AND CATS.
The Ixiw.r TUam of toxoajr Be, a* All
I'arllrnlsr In Th.lr Meat Utah
Washixotok, Feb. 12. -James H.
Smith, commercial agent at Mayenee,
lias sent to the statF department the
following statement of the meat dUt
of the lower classes in Saxony:
"With regard to the diet of tha
poorer classes of Saxony, it ia note-
worthy tlist, according to official pub-
lications now at hand, 4,277 horaee
were slunif litered in Saxony last year:
that is I.Y2 more than in 1*1)1. Of
ilotfs, according to official statement,
there were 422 butchered, thereby,
however, is apparently meant only
tlie number of those killed in
slaughter houses, for the number ol
ilojrs uetuatelv slaughtered must be
considerably larirer, when there ia
such a comparatively large consump-
tion of doir flesh by the poorer claaaas
of the people. Kven cat flesh ia not
disdaineu by many persona and bad-
ffers. foxes, sparrows and crows <ra
eaten." _
REBELS GAIN A VICTOR
A I'ulnt of I.h4 Near Klo Janeiro *y
4uml After a sharp Fight.
Wasmixotox, Feb. 12.—The vy
department to-day received the 'V-
lowing cable:
Kin, Feb. 9.—This morning fit’
was a sharp engagement at f F
point, resulting iu some iuaui |
success. BxxU/
Areia point is a projection of ,i
not fur from Nictherov which is i
same part of the liayof Rioile Jai
Ap.Mtrriitiy it would lie a good
for land operations against Nictheroy.
< halrman W ll.mi In Kaaaas t lty.
Kaxsas City, Mo., Feb. 13.—Coa-
greaamaa W illiam L Wilson of West
Virginia, author of the famous Wilson
1st iff bill now pending in congress, la
the honored guest of Kansas L'ity to-
day. Accompanied bv his wife and
youngest daughter and Congressman
John < . larsaay, he arrived at tha
Union depot over the Santa Fe railway
from t liieugo nt ti o'clock this morn-
ing lie was given a reception at tha
Auditorium to night and spoke briefly
to a numerous crowd, lie said the
tariff bill nould certainly pass the
senate and become a law by June 1.
Heiun.eil Hr pill. lie. M. Hrlmlated.
Washisotos, Feb. 12. Complaints
were recently filed with the ctetl aer-
viee commission charging Collector of
the Fort W ise of san Francistso with
removing four Republican employes
si the end of the probatloosry teem*
and subsequently tilling the vaimnciea
with remoersts. Au investigation
wss nude und the treasury depart-
ment has ordered the relaataUanM
of the four Republicans
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