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VOL 3
LEXINGTON. OKLAHOMA TKUUITORY, SATURDAY. .11 LY 13,1895.
NUM; KU 2s
FIVE
DEADLY TORNADO AT BAX-
TER SPRINGS, KAN.
Tliroe of One Family Killed— Twenty
Others Severely Injured- Nearly Kvcry
Hulldlng Demolished or Damaged by
the Fury of I ho Storm.
Fort Scott, Ivan., .July 8.—A tor-
nado accompanied by a violent rain
storm, which was as destructive as a
waterspout, swept through the heart
of Baxter Springs Friday night,demol-
ishing residences, stores and churches,
killing- live persons and injuring
twenty more, several probably fatally.
The dead are:
H. Hums.
Mrs. Webstku, her 4-year-old daugh-
ter and her mother.
• Jambs Nkai-
Neai/s mother and A. If. Hamu%ck
were fatall/ injured, and several
others may die.
The storm struck the town about ti i
o'clock and continued for two hours.
It was not anticipated and no prepara-
tions had been made to resist it.* When
it had abated and the work of rescue
was begun, a dozen homeless families
were found on the streets or in the |
ruins of their homes.
Mrs. Webster and her mother and
daughter were found in their wrecked !
house.
Ilibbs was killed in his house.
The Baptist, Methodist and Christian j
churches were all wrecked. Cooper I
Hodgkirk's brick store building, the
best structure in town, was almost de- j
molished, one wall and rear end being j
blown in, destroying the stock of dry ,
goods. Nearly every other building in
the town was destroyed or badly dam-
aged.
Twenty-seven box cars were blown
from the Kansas City. I'ort Scott and
Memphis track and the freight and
passenger depot* were almost demol-
ished and much damage resulted.
In shaft 49 of the Kansas and Texas
Coal company at Weir City, where
many miners were engaged, the water
rushed in with such rapidity that the
miners barely escaped with their lives.
Every mule in the shaft was drowned.
The creeks were swoolen beyond
their banks within a few hours and
fuller reports from the country round
about cannot but bring news of loss of
life and property from the combined
forces of wind and water.
The Memphis railroad's wrecking
train and bridge crews were called
from this city this morning to repair
its depots at various points and small
washouts which will not interfere
with traffic.
Going Wild Over Gold.
Florence, Col., July j).—There is
considerable excitement here over the
discovery of a new gold field in the
Ureen Horn range, nine miles south of
this place, directly on the line of sur-
vey of the Florence Southern railway.
One vein of ore, which is free milling, j
is forty feet wide and has had a mill
test running about 810 for the full j
width of the vein. Another tunnel in
thirty feet struck a vein of quart/, that j
seems to be high grade ore. and pros- '
pectors claim an assay of $T>5 for the
whole vein, some parts of it running
as high as $f 00.
Suicide With a Hammer.
St. James, Minn , July One of
the most horrible tragedies ever en-
acted in this county occurred here yes-
terday. (ieorge P. Johnson, clerk of
the court of Watonawan county and
prominent in state politics, committed
Huicide by pounding his brains out
with a clawhammer. After beating
his head almost to a pulp he tinished
his awful work by clawing his head
to pieces with the opposite side of the
hammer. Mr. Johnson was com-
mitted to the asylum about a year ago.
Terrlllc Italn at Feahody.
Pea body. Kan., July 9,—A terrible
rnin and wind storm visited this town
and vicinity yesterday. Much dam-
age to barns, windmills and crops by
the wind is reported. TJ*e streams are
higher than they have beeu for ten
years. The Poyal rose about eight
ifcet in three hours and many bridges
are in danger of being washed out.
About a foot of water stood about the
Santa Fe depot and part way up the
main street. Many cellars are over-
flow cd.
Many Troop* for Cidtti.
Havana, July * During the pres-
ent month reinforcements of 10,00(1
men will leave Spain for Cuba, and
during October and the early part of
November addit i<jnal reinforcements to
the number of 00,ono troops will lie
wnt from Spain to Culm. All the
if earners of the different Spanish lines
will be chartered by the government
in order to send troops here.
No* Han on llie <1. A. It.
St. Lqiu, Mo., .Inly 9.—Archbishop
Kain has tnude a decision that re-
moves the ban placed by some priests
on rand Army funerals. I'nder his
ruling, members of the O. A. It. at-
tending funerals may enter the church
wearing their uniforms und insignia,
and may conduct funerals in accord-
ance with their ritual in Catholic
cemeteries.
Feut Hog Swamp on I ire.
Kokomo, Ind., July .'a—In Howard
township a peat bog swamp contain-
ing if,500 acres, known as "Five Milo
slough," is on fire and has been burn-
ing several days. The bog is six feet
deep. The fire can not be extinguished
by ordinary means. Many fences in
the vicinity have been burned up.
Itun Down l>y a Train.
Nr. I'm i.. Kan., July 9. O. Morris
[flynn, aged about IT years, a section
hand for tlie Missouri, Kansas and
Texas was instantly killed three miles
west of this place, lie and two com-
panions were returning home on a
uandcnr when overtaken and run dow n
by a train. The other two escaped
injury.
A llojr Drowned at u I'lente.
St. Johm'II, Mo , July ti. Herbert
hadwick, the 17-year-old son of a car-
penter, was 4rowued yesterday In the
i)ne Hundivd-und Two river, while
bathing wit h some companion
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Missouri Editor Kill* III* wife and
Child and Himself.
Kingston, Mo., July —S. A. Field,
until recently editor and proprietor of
the Post at Polo, in Caldwell county,
murdered his wife and infant daugh-
ter and committed suicide at Mead-
ville, Mo., yesterday afternoon.
Field and his family were visiting
at the residence of his father-in-law
near Mead ville, when he asked
his wife to go into the garden
back of the house to talk. She ac-
companied him, taking along their
little girl, about .1 years of nge.
When they reached the garden Field
cut the throats of his wife and child
with a razor, killing them instantly*
and then ended his own miserable
life in the same manner 'l'l;o dead
bodies were found by a member of his
father-in-law's family and £.'30 were
found in Field's pocket.
WHITE CAgggRS JAILED
Twenty Farmer* of kingfisher County,
Oklahoma, Taken In.
Wichita, Kan., July 9,—Twenty
farmers of Kingfisher county,-Oklaho-
ma, were arrested : at Hennessey' for
whitecapping John Flynn, an uricje of
Delegate Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma.
He took a lot of land about six months-
ago that the- fa'rnjcrs were itsi'ug. for
grazing purposes, and si ace then he*
has been in bad odor with them. .J.ast
Thursday Mrs. Flynn and a neighbor
named Mrs. Maxwell had a row over
the matter, which so intensified the
bad feeling that the neighbors wen>.
to Flynn's house, drove off his stock,
pulled down his fences, broke his
furniture and ordered him to leave the
neighborhood.
Wait and Householder Scored.
Topkka, Kan., July 8.—The commit-
tee which investigated the charges
against W. S. Wait and M. A. House-
holder, trustees of the state board of
charitable institutions, reported to-
day, holding them guilty in each ease,
The reports were unanimous and said
that the evidence showed a condition
of affairs that was a disgrace and ji
shame to the state. They continued:
"We do not feel it gratuitous to sav
that should any member of our fami-
lies become so afllictcd the Topeka in-
sane asylum under its management of
the past two years would be the last
place on earth in which we would
place them."
K ansas City's Seeoinl l>ry Sunday.
Kansas City, Mo.. .Inly 8.—Kansas
City has passed through its second dry
Sunday. The police commissioners'
orders were obeyed practically to the
letter. But one arrest was made, that
of Val Waggoner in the West bottoms.
The saloonkeepers probably to a man
closed promptly at 1 2 o'cioek Satur
day night. There were a few com-
plaints that some of the saloons were
open shortly after midnight, but none
of these could be substantiated.
Held I nder Water l>y ller llair.
Hitler, Mo., July 6. While return-
ing from the celebration of the Fourth
here with his family, John Craig.drove
into a branch. The w agon was turned
over and the horses were washed off.
Craig succeeded in landing his two
children and returned for his wife, but
found her lodged against a barbed w ire
fence under water, her hair tightly en-
tangled about the wire. lie fore he
could extricate her she was dead. She
was ;in aunt of Professor Doerwister of
the Warrensburg state normal school.
OVER A BRIDGE.
cLoriuu
"s havoc
An Fleetrle Car lulls Thirty l eet and In
Mast Li\ k 1:1001. Ohio, Jdly •*.—An
electric streetcar,running between t his
city and Wellsville. plunged over a
bridge into a run. falling* thirty feet.
The car w as smashed and it is miracu-
lous that any of the passengers escaped
alive. As it was, only James Hamil-
ton. the motorman. was killed, and he
met deat h at his post, after doing all
he could to stop the car. Eleven
others were seriously injured, some of
whom will die.
The passengers were crushed and
jammed into the wreck of the car and
had not rescuers quickly arrived, some
of them would have bceh drowned, as
the run was dammed and the water
rose rapidly about the wreckage.
INSURQENTS REPULSED.
A Congressman • Sou's Crime.
OwiNQSvn.lk, Ky., July 9.—John, !
younger son of Congressman John 1). |
Voting, in altercation with his cousin, j
Pliny Fassett, Saturday night, cut
Fassett's throat, severing the jugular
vein and causing his death in a few i
minutes. Young wa . arrested. ! he I
tragedy has caused great excitement,
owing to the prominence of the pat-
ties concerned.
Killed llis Hrotlier-In-Law.
Di nIso.n, .Texas, July 9.—Charles
Koch, a young man of this county, w as
shot and instantly killed at Sherman,
ten miles south of here, bv W. |{.
Jaines, his brother-in-law. Trouble
arose Over Jaines beating his wife,
Koch's sister. The trouble occurred
at the court house. Both men 'are
wealthy
The Still well He ward orr.
IIAnMit \i . Mo . July >. K. II. still-
well has w ithdrawn the regard of Slo.-
000 offered l y him for the murderer or
murderers of his father, Ainos J. Still-
well. His action has created a sensa-
tion and revived the storf o/ the
tragedy that was enacted on tbe night
of December ti. |KsS, when the wealthy
pork packer was killed in his own
house.
Teachers at Denver.
Dknvkb, Col., July -During the
past twenty-four hour there has been
a great rush of incoming delegates and
visitors to the National educational n-•
sociation convention. It was estimated
that 11,000 visitors had arrived at noon
to-day ami that the total number who
will be present will exceed 11,000.
Oklahoma'* Aityluui Damaged.
l'KKity. ok.. July K I'art of the Ok-
lahoma asylum for the insane was
blow n down last night during a w ind,
rain and hail storm Fortunately, the
part was not occupied, and no one was
,seriously injured.
Ten Thousand Acres Hail Nuc|>t.
Minm Ai'oi ih. Minn., July 8. Spe-
cial advices to the Journal from (undo
and Forman. N. I).. report heavy hail-1
storms this morning. The former was |
six miles wide and twenty long The
storm laid low 10,non acres of grain. I
Killed III* Family and Himself.
CillCAoo, June 8. Frederick Hell-
man. a well-to-do mason contractor, J
murdered his wife and four children |
Thursday night and then killed hitn- |
self by turning on the gas. , i
Lose Nearly Three Hundred Men In a
Hat tie WUli Spanish Troop*.
Havana, .Inly 9.—A severe engage-
ment has taken place between the
Mpauish troops, under the command
of Major Azuar and ltabi, the insur-
gent leader, at the head of a large
force. Two hundred and eighty of the
latter were killed.
News', of another defyat of the in-
surgents has reached here from Bella-
montas, in the province of Santa
Clara, the , insurgents leaving many
dead and wounded on the field. On
the side of the troops only three men
w ere killed and four wounded.
Crops Swept Awav.
CoLUMBi'M, Kan., July 9.—The most
terrific wind and rain storm of the
season visited this town and vicinity
Sunday night, four and one-tenth
inches of rain falling in ninety min-
utes. Lightning struck the court
house and several dwellings. A num-
ber of barns were destroyed by the
w ind, and hundreds of acres of grain
in shock along the streams was washed
away. Farmers estimate the loss of
damage to growing corn for the whole
county by this storm at twenty-five
per cent. Losses of live stock by
drowning are reported from all parts
of the county.
Murder Itevealn Itself.
St. Josei'ii, Mo., July 9.—Will
Walker, whose rerrtains were found
strewn along the railroad tracks for a
distance of four miles Saturday, was
not killed by the train, as first sup-
posed. but was murdered and the
body put on the rails to hide the evi
donees of crime. In Walker s hat were
a number of cuts and the coroner's
jury rendered a verdict that he came
to his death at the hands of persons
unknown, his body afterward being
placed on the track.
"" —
Young <-irl Murdered.
Marshall, Ind., July 9.—The 17- i
year-old daughter of Daniel Shanks, a
farmer living seven miles east of this !
place, was murdered last Saturday I
night. Sli«' failed to return home that
night, and yesterday morning her
brother went in search of her and j
found her dead body'in a pool of water '
in the woods not far from the house. ;
Suspicion rests upon a neighbor, a
married man, aud the brother of the 1
dead girl went to his house, called him ;
out ami shot at him. missing him, how
ever. The excitement is intense in
that neighborhood.
Kanstfs and Nebraska Crop*.
omaiia, Neb., July 9.—In Western
and Eastern Kansas and Southern Ne-
braska the small grain is now being 1
cut. The railroad people see in this j
fact hundreds of cars of freight and i
t iie beginning of good times again.
Traveling freight agents of local roads
say that there will be more grain
handled this year by the Nebraska !
roads than has been handled before'
for threq or f< ur yerrs. and that the
crop of corn alone will be prodigious, j
Small grain will also be much heavier !
than for many previous years.
Cliineh Hug* Make a Sweep.
Nasiivii.i i . Teun.. July 9.- Swarms
of chinch bugs are doing great damage I
to crops in Williamson, ltutherford I
and Davidson counties, in some locali- !
ties having made a clean sweep. The !
state commission «of agriculture has
had its experts-making investigations
and it lias been 'ihT'dvil 4lirtl infefcted
bugs brought ftjoip Kansas and Illinois
will be used to spread disease among
the destroyers of tin* crop. This is the
first time the use of infected lutgs has i
ever been made in the state.
Struek l y l.lglitnlng on a Koad.
Ill-11 f.II, Mo . July 0 As James F.
Arbucklc was returning home from J
the celebration at this place he was i
killed by lightning. His brother im- :
mediately started for Adrian, some i
four miles west of this pi ate, for help /
and on the way as he w as crossing a
bridge it was swept from under him 1
and he came near being drowned.
per-
Tliree of a Family Killed.
Birminaham. Ma .JulyO. At Louis I
ville. Ala., lightning killed Postmaster j
Kdward Bryan and his wife ami baby,
ono boy *ui-\ ive
CiiH'Aoo, July 9. At least t«
son* were drowned and inca
damage was doue by a storm which
swept over this city and suburban re-
sorts north of here yesterday after-
noon. Six of the dead perished at.
Lake lieneva, Wis., and the other four
lost their lives in Lake Michigan.
|.aid of a Had Tamlly*
Paint Li< k. Kv., July 9.—William
Best, the most notorious resident of
this section of Kentucky, was shot and
iustantlv killed here in a quarrel by
Speed Nunti. The killing of Best
w ipes out the last of a family of out-
laws who have been the terrors of this
section for many' years.
A Territory Lawyer Appointed.
Wash i no ton. July 6. The president
has appointed William J. llorton of
the Indian territory to l e attorney for
the I'nited states for the central dis-
trict of the Indian territory.
I'ullmau Whiii'I Advanced.
< hk aqo, July h.—The Pullman Pal-
ace < ar company has udvancod the
wugCs of the employes at the Cullman
shops ten percent, the advance affect-
iug about 4,000 people.
NINtTEEI! LIVES LOST AT
WINONA, MO.
Thirty Huildlu:* destroyed The Storm
Came 1 p In t lie Night and swept
Away fc\er.vt'iing In Its I'ath—A A!lu-
lider ami Ills Family Perish.
SriMNol llM.U, Mo., July 0.- \bout 10
o'clock FridHy night a terrible cloud-
burst occurred on the mountains above
AVinona, a sawmill town in Shannon
county, on the Current river branch of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Mem-
phis railroad, and the flood, gathering
in the valley in which Winona is situ-
ated, swept down in a might}' wall of
water, destroying thirty buildings,
stores, and dwellings as though they
were cardboard and causing the deaths ,
of at le5sta mwt'Q person^'Vvliile eight
more are missing and there Is little '
doubt that these also perished.
Those positively known to be dead ;
are as follows:
The ltev. (i. W. Duncan, Mrs. ti. W.
Duncan, Mattie Duncan, a small child,
Mrs. Crawford, married daughter of '
tho Rev. and Mrs. Duncan, Crawford j
(iert, (Jeorge JSevins, Mrs. Nevins,
Norma Nevins, a little daughter of I
Lloyd Wright, Maggie Cannon and
John* Norris.
The bodies of Rev. O. \V. Duncan,
his wife and daughter. George Ncvinf.
Norma Nevins. and the Wright girl
were recovered, but the others have
not been found. A slashing rain pre
Ceded by a stunning wind set in at 9
o'clock. While the wind closed the 1
rain increased intensely until at !«•
o'clock it became a tumult. At 10:1.'. j
four feet of water w as on the street s. .
In fifteen minutes more buildings |
could no longer stand the strain and
began to careen and dissolve ih the
waters. Vivid Hashes of lightning I
pierced the downpour which came
like the falls of Niagara. Houses were '
smashing and in the waters were linn
dreds of men, wefmen and children.
When the torrent had in a degree |
subsided, the men who had seen to I
their own families, turned their atten- '
tion to others, and by a o'clock in the
morning the worst was over. Those |
who had escaped the sweep of the de-
vastation stood shivering without (
clothing or without an opportunity to
dry themselves. When day dawned
there was nothing of their homes in j
the town. There was no shelter, no \
food, no clothing.
As soon as the destroyed telegraphic
communication was restored Mayor B.
V. Kvans telegraphed to surrounding
towns for aid. • ;
Rev. (>. W. Duncan, who lost his life,
was pastor of the Winona circuit and
was but recently ordained, lie was
formerly an engineer on the Iron
Mountain railroad.
Winona was the principal town in
Shannon county, both as to business
and population, having about 700 pop-
ulation The Current Elver ra'rlroud,
a branch of the Memphis route, runs
east and west through the county in
the Button valley, ami surrounding
the tow n is a great pine lumber region.
OUTLAW SHOT DEAD.
Fierce Knuning HaUI<* on the S tree In of
Chicago.
Chh aoo; July-t .—In Western ties
pcrado style a man supposed to be
C. K. Cole assaulted and attempted to
rob D. C. Met.loin, in his saloon at 04
Adams street, in the heart of the busi-
ness district uf Chicago last evening.
After seriously woutfrding McOloin the
thief escaped and made the . most re-
markable race, for liberty ever s< cn in
the streets of Chicago. After firing
iuto the mob that pursued him, and
seriously wounding three citi/.ens. he
was run down and killed by Oflieer
Rosenthal, opposite the entrance of the
Auditorium hotel, on < ongress street.
I lie dead: C. K. Cole.
The wounded: P. Meliloin. saloon-
keeper, three wounds in the head; w ill
recover.
II. M. Sternberg, shot in the. abdo
men: taken to sr. Luke's hospital; will
probably die.
Samuel Stone, shot in the right leg:
will recover.
i'lic Kiumji*- i hiv I rvp.
Li a\ i.\wo)ti'ii, 'lyahf. 'fuly s.—J. W.
Jlinst, lyiafiager of- the Leavenworth
Lin&ul Oil jjjilJp.' w'ho has.traveled all
over the flax growing district of Kan
sasduring the past thirty days, reports
that the Sereage this year is about
1 f 0,000 acres— be twee u ten and twenty
per cent greater than that of last year.
In N' t the yield was l,04!),'000 butJie •
This year it w ill probably be close to*
1. ; .vf.oon bushels.
Wrecked | y the Canhler.
StuiiukoN. Mo.. Julv9.*—0. A. Mayer,
cashier of the Farmers'and Merchants'
bank of this city, was appointed re-
ceiver for the Sturgeon Kx eh a nge,
bank, which closed Its doors last week
on iccouut of $3,500 shortage in the
accounts of its cashier. W. II. Win-
scott Mr. Mayer w ill be required to
give; bond of £' u.ooo. He will assume
his m v duties at mice.
lyuamite Front a Treacher.
TAO ma, Wash., Jul} Mrs. Mat J
tie Clu mhers of Centralia received an
inferni! machine Saturday and her
father eeclarrs it was sent to lier by j
t he Pe B. F. Fulh r a < hristian
church uinister, who w as jilted by her
ab ut a vcur ago and was last heard of
at Rale tfh, N. C.
1 Later In the Second StorleN.
Salina, Kan., July 9. Smoky Hill
has overflow ed its banks and on the j
south side extends nearly to the bluffs, 1
a distance of two miles. The water
has readied almost to the second story
of houses near the river and people i
have been taken from some of th*
houses in ooats.
An Aeronaut Killed.
Milan Mo.. July 0. John Cunning 1
ham, an aeronaut, was instantly kiiled
at Wingan, in the eastern part of tin
county, yesterday evening He had 1
made three successful ascensions duf
iug the day, but the fourth time, w hen
about l,i!uo fe« high/he cut loose and
the parachute failed to o|m*ii. and his
body wuu mashed to a pulp.
CROWING BRIGHTER.
Midsummer Reports Slum a Hcncral Ad
vimce In I "rices Crop Prospect*.
Nkw Yoiik July >. l;. ti. Dun «k
Co.'s Weekly Keview of Trade, says:
The midsummer reports fmmwll com-
mercial centers arc of especial inter-
est, covering the questions on which
the future of business depends. They
indicate distinctly better crop pros-
pects than other official or commercial
accounts, a marked increase in retail
distribution of products, «n active de-
mand for goods, and a general enlarge-
ment of the working force with some
advance in the wages of more than
half a million hands. At the same
time they show that the rapid advance
in prices has somew hat checked the
buying of a few classes of products in
some parts of the country, the outlook
for fall trade is considered bright.
There were iU f ocommercial failures
in the first half of ISO-1), against -7.0.19
. in the first half of 1891. and .*>,401 in
the first half at -JHty. These commer-
cial failures involved liabilities ot.$88.-
8:19.944, this year, against fiol,7.19,300
last year. Tin* del ails show a'decrease
in every class of failures in the second,
compared with the first cjuaxfer of 181)5,
both in number and magnitude, and
defaulting liabilities averaging #:i4, j
against $10 fdr*every firm in business, i
find g:t.04. against SLoil for every $l,00tj
solvent payment.
. .. \ -j
A .Hother In Contempt,
CurcAoo, July 9.—Mrs. Lizzie Cottier :
of Washington, was to-day sentenced !
to six months in jail for contempt of |
court in refusing todisclose the where-
abouts of her daughter Florence*
An hx-Governor a Sulelde.
San* Li is Ohisijo. Cal.. July 8.—Ex-
Oovernor 10. A. Stevenson, of Idaho, I
committed suicide yesterday at Paraiso !
Springs, a health resort near Ifere.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Yellow fever litis reached Tarana,
Fla.
Anthrax prevails among C olorado
cattle.
raging in
Kxtensive forest fires
Michigan.
Oklahoma City is making war on the
Salvation army.
The supply of natural gas iu In-
diana is giviug out.
Russia's iron output was about
1,500,000 tons last year.
Wholesale liquor dealers of the West
have formed a new trust.
Mrs. Thomas Stewart was killed by
a fiery horse at Perry, Ok.
Gladstone has written a letter of
farewell to his constituents.
The southern half of Arkansas has
had too much rain fi>r crops.
The Cleveland City Forge company
has advanced wages ten per cent.
Mrs. Pearl Craigle (John Oliver
llubbs) has been granted a divorce.
Clem Sherman, a negro preacher,
murdered his w ife in Lee county, Ala-
bama.
The Brazilian' rebels are tired of
fighting and jicacc will soon reign
again.
Denver's Industrial and Mining ex"
position has been indefinitely post*
poned.
The K/miadornn forces under Bishop
Selliimaker at < alcota were defeated by
reliels. ,
• The Bra/,ilia.n congress Juts ordered
ti I St public services be held for IVixotO
and Da (>aina.
\ mistrial was entered iu tlie case
again1-) the New Orleans cotton screw-
men. charged w ith murdyr.
Pit t sbnrg erected a Si <100 monument
to |«: M Blgelow. the founder of its
park system. lie is the third man iu
the country t" be houored by a monu-
ment while still alive.
A protest against tiring Coveruor
Hughes of Arizona has been ifiade by
the Press Associat on of tlie territory.
All the A. P \. policeinlri on the
Omaha force have been dismissed by
the new chief.
Allen Martin was assassinated in
< alhoun county. Arkansas, by a negro.
The Indian teachers* convent ion at
Siou i ity decided jigainst teaching
pupils to dance,
'1 he exact amount of the1 Chinese in-
• demnity to Japan is '>*.*•*>,000 Mex-
ican silver dollars.
Colonel J II Oilpatrick of Leaven-
worth has started to Rufoix1 t' invesvi-
gate ex-Consul. Wallers vase.
Statistics s1io\y tl|jit the 4r|tns|>or4a-
tion companies margin of pv.ofit is be-
coming smaller eVcry year.
Mdthcr St. tiabriel. fonmler of the
c< invent vf the Incarnate ward ill
Houston, Texas, died at tialvestoi^
Texas.
A. M. (irectiiiiul son. Kimball were
acquitted at vStteiville. Mo., of thb
charge of mt|rdering David Hildei;-
brand.
The Leader, one of l hicag^'s-big-
^cst department stores, has assigned.
Ira \. Holmes, a pioneer sc'ttlet' df
Win field* Kan., dieil at an advanced
age Jlc lia<l biH-u in busiues.s there
almost since the city was founded.
'Die house of W A Uuckcr, three
miles north of WinHeld. Ivan . was
burned with all its content*. All the
occupants were absent. The los ;. kJ
Alabama Populists have Issued a
call for a meeting of the state com-
mittee to dikouis the ad viability of
fusing with the Kcpublicap* in the
stat4k c.aru|taign
Theodore Puckett, a negro, who wa*
arrested for a number of robberies,
was taken from the officers while on
the way to jail at Jackson, Miss., and
hanged to a tree.
Asa Smith sou of A. D. Smith of
Cherry vale, Kan., was riding a , ra^e
horse when the animal became fright-
ened and ran against a tree, crushing
the boy's head to a jelly.
J. if. Dodd. treasurer of Topeka di-
vision of the Order <f Railway. Con-
ductors, has been missing three weeks
and Is said to be $100 short.
Public Printer Benedict is preparing
to make half a million dollars worth of
improvements in the government print-
ing office.
At Scranton, Pa the Bpies Steel Car
works, employing "oo men. advanced
wa^es id per cent, to go into effeul
from July I. The works arc crowded
w ith orders.
LATE NEWS NOTES.
Scotiu, ( al., suffered a ."•'•oo.ooo fire.
A new counterfeit • • certificate is in
circulation.
Daniel Manning is to be the name of
one of the new revenue cutters.
T. W. \. Yost, Ihventor of the type-
writer, has gone daft, on spiritualism
fc'ive Fort Scott boys were water
bound on an island for two days and
nights.
Oswego, X. Y., reports a $100,090
tire, und a Mrs. Bond, aged 00, burned
to death.
May King, a chambermaid in the
Burlington block, Denver, was fatally
burned by gasoline.
The gasoline stove is responsible for
the death at Chicago of Mrs. W.C. Bar-
tel and her sister Miss Ora King.
At Columbus. Iowa. Robert Brown
shot his wife and killed hhtiseH
through jealousy after a mouth's mar
ried life.
At Los Angoles, Cal., Rev. II. Kd-
ward Howland has been convicted of
perjury and sentenced to two years in
San Quentin.
JvuJte.tyQUOll, aged L'l, of Pittston.
Pa.', fired at some sparrows and killed
ofd Mrs!" KcTley. Miss Council is nearly
orazy.
An.e}ecU'ic car loaded with passcn
gers was wrecked by an Erie freight
ut Niles. Ohio. Frank Wilson wa
•Jtilled and-juunv injured.
I rauk Hose, alias Fox, a smooth
burglar wanted in one-half the states
of the union, has been arrested at St.
Joseph.
Miss Cellene tlray of Outhrie, Ok..
has boon appointed united States com
missioncr. the first woman who has
received that honor.
Jennie Stevens of Metealf, who was
arrested iu the territory for selling
whisky to Indians, is about 17 years
old, dresses in men's clothes and
chews tobacco like a trooper.
Richard Dudley, a coal miner, aged
ill. went asleep on the edge of tin
Paqaiua depot platform ami a Missouri
Pacific freight made it an eternal
sleep for hi in.
A gang of smooth piano swindlers is
at work in Southern Iowa. J. A.
Thomas of I uion county gave a re
ceipt for a piano left at his house am)
it turucd up as a *.~ oo note.
Francis Clark, ljucen Victoria's pet
souabattendant, is deud.
The outlook for the Liberals at the
coming British elections is not good.
There were lives lost in accidents
to American steam vessels last year.
Great damage was done in and
around Pine Bluff, Ark., by a cyclone.
Linn Creek, Mo., was submerged and
all the residents were forced to leave.
In a shooting iu a saloon at, St. Jo
sepli, Mo. .an officer and a bystander
were wounded.
Assistant Secretary of State Sims
has gone to Mississippi to look after
administration fence
Two vessels from South America
were quarantined at .New York. Yel-
low fever was suspected.
Banker tiibson, just returned to
New York from Kit rope, says bimetal-
lic sentiment is growing rapidly there.
C. I£. Briuton, ones editor of tho Ad-
vance at Alton, 111., and wanted .n
that city, has been arrested at Colo-
rado.
Delegates to the international Rail
way congress spent a day at Windsor
( astle and were presented to the
queen.
Secretary Morton has gone tq 'Ma.\-
saehusetts, it is said, to get Secretary
Carlisle to make some speeches ir.
Nebraska.
The traffic officials of Western road
declare that the pros per t.s for satis
factory business ate brightei now than
they have been since |s9'.'.
In spi'c of man re cut improve
incuts, it is uof believed that life limit
of fcpeed has l «-en reached, b\ any
means on Aiuf| i< an railway -
Private advices from Honolulu state
that Oueen l.iliuokalani is plotting to
marry a Japanese count, with a view
of thereby forming an alliance with
Jupan.
Some of the W*e> lent railroad^ have
discovered a t.ovel iim* for c riu«ol •
i'licy are employed, alter having I
subjected to a cliemical and inechaui-
citl process, for ligbtbi' loc« moli\.
* ti res.
Danny Need ham, the welterweight
lighter, knocked.out Torn Casey, a New
Orleans middleweight, on a bajge' an-
chdred Hw or *i\ miles dbwn flic
rivsr fj'om M. Louis. It took him but
ll^ree pounds. * J
Hc^fy frving hsu di cliiiitik tq bccouii^
a candidate tor'parliament. 1
King Oscar'of Sweddia■ ki- "'<ed L u
|X'K.r VVHlWitu ol fiei ipany twice on
the latter'* visit to MockhOlin
The new revenue cut t r for the gt eat
lakes is t" be named Walter y On
ham.
The- Y« ting Towu.-tend f ra/.iei Drv
Uoods compiin.^ of. SI. Joseph has
97 Hill.
f.ewfs Ted row. yea^s old, of I lot
euce, Kan., was frightfully mangled
by the explosion of a dynamite cart-
ridge. He will die.
M. A Householder has resigned :
trustee of the Kansas State Bo.n i
Charitu b|e In* 1 it ut ions.
iio Wm ujuu county^ Mo.. lXuuocrati -
central committee has declared for a
silver state convention.
Acting Oovernbr Low has pardoned
A. t Millkan. sentenced to the peni
tentlary six piouthi jiy<> for two years,
for.having euibe//.led * of <.uth
rie's city funds while city clerk.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Benton*
Twcnty-third'Jnfnntry, died suddenlv
at Ringgold bur rack , Texas.
The secret a i \ of war has named Port
Kilcy us a military prison
Western railroads find that it is n
possible to comply with the new - i let \
equipment law witliln the t i meal low ed.
und they will ask for an extension.
The jury iu the case of Pugilist
FiUaiinmons, charged with man
slaughter for tho killing of < on Rior-
dan, ictiii ntsl a verdict of not guilty.
I'red Muni*' « f Khnsa Cit \ Mo
broke into tlie house of his wife from,
whom he was separate I. entered Ju
bedchamber, iioutid and gagged her. ,
searched for their marria eeriiflcat<
aud failing to find it. stole her purs
containing a few dollars ami made Jc
escape
HE KNEW JERSEY EGGS.
l'lie \\ in«- Printer Could Tell by Their
Size and Shupc.
Two printers lunched at a Park row
uurant the other day, Bays New
Vo. k Journal. One ordered "beef anil"
I the other two boiled etrgs. When
| the eggs were pluoed before the pthi
who ordered them ho said to his com-
panion: "Why, those are Jersey fggs."
"How do you know they are Jersey
sgs? They might have been laid in
Pennsylvania or Kentucky for all you
know."
"W'elk I guess not. Those eggs came
from Jersey, and I know it."
To prove it the proprietor was called
into the discussion, and when asked he
I said the eggs woro Jersey eggs.
Then tho egg cater explained: "Over
in Jersey tho farmers, or somo of them,
at least, use a board with holes, larga
and small, bored in it. All eggs that
will go through the small holes aro
sent to market, and thoso which will
only go through tho lurge holes aro
reserved for home consumption."
Another printer dovised a scheme for
procuring good butter at his boarding
house table. The landlady had two
tables for lier guests ranged on each
side of a largo room. At one tho
women boarders and married couples
sat, while at the other table the bach-
elors wero placed. At the women's
table there was always good butter,
1 hut at the other the butter was em-
phatically inferior. A printer boardir
| suffered long and patiently, but at last
ho rebelled. Ho went to the dining
room just before dinner one evening
and changed tho butter from one table
to tho other. A howl from the wom-
en's table shortly after had the desired
effect. The butter was of equally good
quality at both tables thereafter.
EARTHQUAKE FOREBODINGS.
Animals and Illrds Show Their Fear of
C.'onilnic Shocks.
An observer of animal life has col-
lected (our Vienna correspondent says)
a number of notos upon the behavior
of animals during tho reccnt earth*
quake at Laibach. A railway guard
observed that somo minutes before th®
first shock was felt his owl, chained to
a tool house, cried as if for help, and
he was with It when the earthquake
began. Some forest guards observed
hares running, as if for their
lives, up a hill before the first shock
Partridges flew a long distance. A
gentleman who spent the night of
Easter Sunday in a carriage saw ha
pigeons and hawks on a tower flying
round it every time that a shock was
near. Sparrows and redbreasts also
fluttered about and seemed to overcome
their fear of men. Tho most excited
of all wero the horses. They tremble !
long beforo a shock occurred, hnd son •
fee I on their knees and sides. The
dogs howled tho wholo night. Wh< i
a shuck was near their cries wrr<
strange that they struck tho cit
somothlng not heard before.
A Mean Fclloir.
Mr. Blinks—I met a woman to lay
that I thought a good deal of onco.
Mrs. Blinks Oh, you did?
■yes. I used to do my very best
to please her."
"Humph!"
"I did everything I could to win ici
affection."
"My goodness!"
"And at last I succeeded."
"Wha "
"8ho granted all that I asked, and
by so doing made mo the happiest man
alive."
"'Merciful —1
"I asked her to come right up to tho
house with mo to-day, but sho( had
pome shopping to do, and cannot get
here until supper time."
Mr. Hinks, I am going right home
lo my mother."
"Sho isn't at homo, my dear. It
was your mother that I met. Site gavo
mo you."
Not Much Hook-1, earn fug.
Yacht Owner (at the' helm') l)o you
know that ttio nautical term "star-
board" from steet bofrrd, and was
'ftfYftAhied. l ecauHo ikoi'i«tt4>rbuurd or
: cud&elr wa:; formerly, at^he right sldo
uf the boat instead of a^ the stern?
II fl ed Sailor No, sir, I han't much
hook-larnln', but 1 know if you don't
! move that steerboard, as you call it,
u little more starboard, we'll bo up-
sot. ____
ODD LITTLE ITEMS.
The ttaptlat general missionary In tho
n i thwest says It's hard to get minis-
ters to itay there, they get so lonesome.
t larksvllle, Mo., has a,very old negro
who d '< sn't know his age, but says ho
( an remember when the natural brfdgo
In Virginia wail built.
In Italy, of a large number of duels
Investigated, 947 began In newspaper
articles and only ten In quarrels at
cards and 730 In lovo affairs.
A group portrait w as taken l ist July
of a baby In Lynn. Mass., with Its fath-
er, grandparent, great-grandparent and
gre.it-great-grandparent, tho latter,
Percy Carlo, of tiaco, Me., being only 88.
WORDS TO MEN.
Have you over put any valuo on the
lOVe of VJodY
Every jruutow 'man must either go up
stream or drift dowh.
Tho fact that there are drunkards Is
proof that m* derate drinking Is not
safe.
No matter how btight tho pleasures
of sin tmty be, they are only pleasures
for a season.
It costs the yoUni? man a pearl of
great prjeo for his first drink.
Whoever goes wrong himself leads ao
army astray.
Ood's help Is all the weakest man
needs, und what the worst may have M
he will repent.
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