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LTHE INDIAN m CHIEFTAIN -waOffi Ocvoiou to tho Intercut of the Cherokee, Choct.iws, CltieluKiius.rtomliiolcs, Orcohsi Hud all Otlior f miIIuiik !' the IikIIhii Territory. CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO. VINlTA, INDIAN TERRITORY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1880. VOL. VII. NO. 47. BJHHI nmW' f 1.7 -. H,t- r -i i V . Thos. Bluejacket )Eabt ', TJ.wr.( . Has a.'dico Lino of Staple and Fancy Grocorios. QUEEHSWARE, TINWARE. Fruits and Vegotablos Always Kept In Stock. All descriptions . Country Pro duce, Including iildea, Pur, and Wool bought and sold. -Givo Mo a Gall. H. BALBNTINE (BAST SIDD OP TRACK) EVAN3-SNIDER-BUEL CO., (INCOKl'OUATED) QUOOBSOOn TO HUNTER, EVANO A OO. OAJPIXAX. STOCIC, - - - tfSOO.OOO. KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS, I ,Ulft,IST.M?5R,Wffl5 SU'SftClfrffl roe fWcs cAarpa of nl UHIOH STOCK YARDS, Corresporcteneo alwa$ hat member of the cempahf, CHICAGO, ILL. prompt attention. ,. M.5.fvAm.iVf.H,i. x r.ntTnviirr.iiMi. I NATIONAL STARK YlinS DIUECTOIttJu A. SMDF.lt. Tmuaiirr. A.i ATWATKHtdwrtUrr. "1 ' lUUHL. OIUlll SAnUdf I r.W.yLAo,j U.tIwOil: ' OT. CLAIR CO.. ILU LIVE STOCK ggRMRE Attention! Stockmen and Farmers. Staple & Fancy Groceries, Flour, Food & Provisions. 'Makes ol sn Venetablcs nnd Country Produco of IItctj Description, Herein addition toth. iroodenamrda lintel Glass ware A queensware. Particular at lentlon called to lb. ituck of Tobacco, and elsere. ST. T. GrTTJSritXma., LIVERY, FEED AND SALE Statolo. ounnriNT comment. The Ilolijlnn Chamber o( Doputles has voted 12,000,000 for tho now Con go railway. TttC Montana convention was op posed to bringing tho dolty of religion Into tho Constitution. XV. C. Elam, o Itopubllcnn editor of Virginia, has been nppolntcd chief of thu division of railroads in tho General Land-olllco. Tim (iermnn Southwest African Company is raid to bo negotiating for tho sato of all Us African possessions to an Knglleh syndicate. It Is stated that Gormany and Aus tria liavo Instructed ox-King Milan to rostoro tho supromo power In Servla in order to check llusslan Intrigues. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Olonnod by Tolograph and Malt, Tiik Johnson-Locko Mercnnlllo Company's circular for July states that tho salmoD pack for this season will bo about 80,000 casosloss than for 1888. G Havo a Full and Complcto Lino of STOCK SABDLESS, HAltNES, And nil Ooodo carried in a First-class Saddlo House; Prices to Suit tho Times. Employ nono but thorough workmen, -using tho best of Material and Guarantee nil Goods as First-class in every respect. BOOTS -A.2sTID SHOES Mndo to order. COW-BOY BOOTS a Specialty. All Mail Orders recolvo prompt attention. Call at STEVENS' OLD STAND nnd examine " No trouble to show Goods." Yours respectfully, Good Bigs at Beasonablo Ratoa 1 HORSES BOARDED C' ' By tho day or.wook. .Careful attention given to all etock ontrustod to my kcoping. Stable on Wilson Stroet, South of Miller's hardware storn. O T. II KIWI AX, Ghetopa, Kansas. Furniture, Coffins, Sewing Machines. Thirteen year. c pei If nc. at an undertaker. .... a ieciaity OI ernutiminr. TM i A NDtfltSON Jt VTELLAND, FURNITURE Organs, Sewing Machines, WALL PAPER, PICTURE FRAMES, SHADES, ETC. KtUnd.rtaUlat Embalming- a Specialty. Chotopa, - - - Kansas. information for Our Patrons, THE 'FRISCO LINE. Handtome new equipment surpassing (Ten thlnx now run west or tho Mississippi river. A full lino of decant Dew I'ullman Drawing Uoom and UuSet Blccpcrs hare Just been put Into service by thl. popular route to run dalle be tween fit Louis and Galreslon, Teiai, Tla Fori Smith, Part, and Dulls, without change A lull oomrlement ot elegant new lUollnlng Chair Cart or tbemolt Improved pattern anil Onlah, with tbe celebrated Boarrltt Chair up boUterNl In leather. Ibe.s cara ara model, ot perfection and will t tun daily between Ht. Loula and llal.tead, Kan.ai, via Bprlnpfleld. Carth.je and Wichita, and between Ht. Louie and llluR, Han.aa, Tla Cartbarr, Joplln, Cher ryrale, Wlnlleld. Arkantaa City and Caldwell. All pa.iengera traTellnit between Ht I-oul. and Arkantaa and Teiaa and between Ht Ixul. and Kant., point! abould patronlia thla great throucb car route through tho grand Bouth wett. We will alwaya'lead all rompetltnra In erery thing popular with the trarellng publla For any particular Information call upon or addreaa ncarctt agent TtUco line or the under Igned, jJ 1. WIHIIAIIT, General l'atiengcr Agent, BT. LOUIS. MO. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY. The Oieut Through Lin between the NORTH, SOUTHEAST &WEST. Through I'ullman lluRet Sleeping Cara between HT. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY, I'UKllLO AND DENVKIt, Via tle COLORADO SHORT LINE. L DAILY TKAIN8 r-fl, Bstnren Kansas City and Ht- l.oulsl SI DAILY TIIA1NB Q Bttnrru the Jiortu and Soulli. IhtUnaa Uuflet Bleeping Cara, fteo Iteollnlag Chair Cara. II. C. TOWKHKNU, O.n'l Vattecg.r and Ticket Agent, BT. LOUIS. UO. LEE BARRETT. Tnr. civil trlbunnl of Paris has do cldcd that tho Panama Canal Com pany can not compel tho holders of lottory bonds to pay tho outstanding Installments. Tub bark Ivlgtut, from Norway, which recently arrived at Now York City passed forty-seven huge Icoborgs on hor voyngo nnd was for n week In a hugo Ico Hoc. Tub British IIouso of Commons, by a voto of 230 to 70, ngrccd to grant a lump sum of jCGOO.000, or as an nlter nntlvo t0,000 onnualy, to build rail ways in Ireland. Tm: Now Htimphiro Judiciary Com lbllleo is considering tho ndvltabllity of roportlng a. bill abolishing capital punishment ns urgo' by Attorney Genoral Marnitrd. Tiik London Standard nnnouncos that Frnnco has offered tho Popo an asylum and to rostoro his temporal powor. Tho Pop", howovei1, declined tho offer, fonrlnf .o foment war. LUMBER. LUMBER. The public arc Inrltrd to rxnmlno the Immcnte stock of Iiullillng Material of all kind krpt In the VINITA LUMBER YARD! And to nolo tho low prices which defr competition. NONE BUT CASH ORDERS SOLICITED. S.ilhfuctlun (Jtinranteed. I'ienrrs furnUhed on application. AddnM, w. L. TROTT. Manager, Vlnlta, Ind. Ter. BLLY CAMPBELL Tllfc Standard oil monopoly is re ported to bo buying up tho natural gas lands of Indiana with a vlow to squeezing tho natural gas compnnlos whon tholr prosont suppllos run out The President wns recently cnllcd upon to pardon an Indian woman who hnd been convicted of murder In Fort Smith, Ark. Tho Prosld. nt commuted her sontenco to Imprisonment for life. Germany has notified Switzerland thnt tho treaty between tho two Gov ernments regulating tho settlement of foretgnci-H In Switzerland will not bo ronowed. The treaty will, therefore, cxplro at tho end of 1890. CHOUTEAU, IND. TER., SADDLES AND Stockiuou'8 Saddles 11 specialty. II MP VtwhWl f Keeps n full line of WHSPS SPURS, BELTS nnd every thing ho longing to a Cowboy's Until t. All Work Warranted. Give Him a Call. A. 1. UOStYELU J. J. HAUNDULLAlL The London Dally Tolegraph com mends tho Tonnnts' Dcfenso League It says tho tenants liavo a porfect right to combine, and that every hon est man ought to wish succoss to tho movemont. Tho Morning Pott (Con servative) also approves tho now league. Attoiiney-Gkxeiial Millf.u has de cided In tho caso of a naval cadet who tendered his resignation and had it rccolvcd, but subsequently obtained its withdrawal from tho Secretary of tho Navy, that tho Secretary's with drawal had no legal effect and tho cadot has coased to bo In tho service. The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, Tonn., has Instituted "an Inquiry with roforenco to tho vnluo of nogro labor In Industrial channols In tho South. Tho nvorago wtigos paid negro labor Is $1.10 per dny, and skilled labor runs fromfl.Tfi to $2.25 por day. Employ ers gonorally preferred nogro labor to whlto. rrusoAL ami ror.iTicAL. Tne Merman Admiralty has uncovered a perfect nest ot corruption within the de partment, Involving rnnny high ofllclala. Annmbor of naval ..flleeri wero arretted at Berlin nnd at Kiel on llio charge of wholoiale bribery. Una of Ihens on being taken Into cuitody .hot lilm.elf ilead. II. Duroitr, a Iloulnnglst momber of the Chamber of Ueimtle., recently attempted to make a ipeech nt Port IAbbe, Finli tefre, Lut was ntUcke I by a mob and toned. A number of till teeth Ware broker! and he wai driven awdy. 1UV. Katiieu Jamm CohLV, tua vener able director of the (leorcetdwn (D. C) College Otaervatory, died on the 13 1. He was born in ltotcommon County, Iro'and, October 0, 17D0 and wai at the time ot till denlb tho oldotl prlett In America, per haps In the world, lie was connected with the Georgetown College for tlxty two years. Ex-Kimo Milan arrived In lieliriido on the 2Kb. He was met at the station by hie ton. King Alexander, the Kegent, the member or tut) Servian Cabinet and the foreign reprotontatlves. Mr. asd Mns. Gladstone celebrated their Roltl-n wedding on the Mta. Tim Exocnilre Council n( Manacbuietta la buty making preparation! for n grand reception lb l'residint Harrison on hi. Way to liar Harbor, Mc. Tiik Prohibitionist, of Ohio held a mon ster meeting recently at Ztnetvlllo In honor ot tho twentieth, anniversary of the formation or the party. Ilisnop Walsh, of London, Out, haa boen telectod for Archbishop ot Toronto by the Pope. The Idaho Conttliullonal convention nrriyed at the declilon to cut off all Mor mon, from the light ot aulTrage. Tiik Parn.ll Comml.tlon ha adjourned to October 2. KscnrrAniCB Wi!no and Tracy have returned to Watblnglun from New York. lUViD V, Wkauc of Mlttmlrl, a chief of division In the Penalon Ofllce, hat re signed and an Indiana man hat been ap pointed hit auccettor. LABOUCHEnc's amendment to the Royal Oranu bill wai rojected by the British Houte of Commons by SOi to 1-VJ. Le Bout, ot rarls ataerta that Dou langer, tearing lie will be condemned, it going to New York o avoid extradition. Br.ciiETAHT Wis Don liat appointed Ho Ion Morton, ot Iljlfalo, K. Y., to be In spector ot cnatomi In the Cleveland, O., dlMrlct. The Chippewa Indian Comml.tlon la having great difficulty at Whit Earth. Hevernl atormy aeitlons have been held. Up to recent date not a single algnature to the Pieleon bill bad been secured. Key TiiomabU. bTnoxo, of Ithlca, N.Y, baa lost bis reason and will be committed to the Blngbamton Intane asylum. He wat formerly president ot Wells College and has occupied prominent pulpits In the Reformed Church. Editor West, ot the Chicago Tim it, after apro'racted fight, ha, concluded to retire from the management. The wedding gift of Mrs. John W. Mackay to Princess Louise wns a pair of diamond earrings costing $15,OX). In two test cases the It'ew Hampshire Supreme Court has decided that the law requiring licenses for the practice of med icine nnd dentistry It unconstitutional. There was a report current that Mary Anderson, the actrest, was really suffer ing frctn mental dltorder and waa con fined In a private lunatlo asylum In Eu rope. The French elections took place on the IS b, resulting disastroutly for the Boa laiigitis. The London Daily Telegraph, comment ing on the vote In the royal grants, .aid that tho action of the Parnellllet In tup porting Ibe monarchy was one ot the must notable signs of the times and that it signified a most complete division be tween ilu domeitlc and American wings of the Irish parly. Pni.tOESS Louise, eldest daughter of the Prill co of Wale., was married on the 27th to the Duke of Fife. Da. t'cnuELZKurr, burgeon. In-Chief of Captain Wl'tiuanu's expedition, has been drowned In Zinzlbar. Advices from Abyssinia say that the Abyssiniau chief Drhab was recently seiz il by Has Alula on going to a con ference to which the latter bad Invited him and that Dibab's partisans, on find ing themselves deprived of their chief. J-lntKl the foicet of King Meneleb Lawter Do, who tempted Cashier Scolt to rob the Manhattan Bank, ot New York, ot (ISS.OOO, has been sent toiling Ulng for nine years nnd six mouths. A Hon of Paris, Ky., lynched James Kelly, colored, for outrage on a Mrs. Crow recently. The officials' of the Pacific ifnll fjteaffl' ship Company havo notified the Trans continental Association that linleU the subsidy from railroads fa inoreated they win cut ratotanu take au me ireigunney -i.h. -M. tt la Imno- can get. was inougnn.iie wa, ne pre- -... . ,-, ,...-. wth anr Ilmlnsry alep to a war against Ihe uana-. f Btta llulidlngs were DESTRUCTIVE STOHMtf. A Heavy Hlor.n nt Ctilrasn Attended Wllh Intat fle.ulla Slorma rlt.ewltere. CniOAOO, July 29. The records of li local signal service station show nothing approaching Baturday nlgb'.'s deluge. From 0(30 to 0iW)4 1J Inches or rain fell. Without going Into figure, It may bo staled that the Volume of water which fall Inside of the clly llmllt noflld make a lake on which could be" floated the A. P. BOSWELL & '3 DEALERS IN Stoves, Tinware, Nails, etc., Farm .Implements, Shelf and Heavy HARDWARE, Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Road Carts, Barbed Wire at $3.40 per 100 lbs. In fact thoy keep ovory (IiIiib that Is kept in a FIRST-CLASS HARDWARE STORE. CALL AND BfJK THEM. COFFEYVILLE. - - KANSAS. Skcuetauy Hlaink, M. Iloustcn, tho French Mlnlstor, and party spent a dny rocontly at Ellsworth, Me., as tho guests of Senator Halo, returning In tho evening. Tho flromnn of tho train bringing tho party was James G Illalne, Jr., who had mado four trips in thu capacity of fireman ou tho Maino Central road. Suit Is to bo brought In San Fran cisco by counsel roprosenting heirs in Hungary nnd in Cleveland, O., against thu prosont holders of tho ostnto ot Wlllinra Loldosdorff, ono of Califor nia's ploncor morohnnts, who dlod n fowycars ago. It is now valued at 140,000,000, and comprises somo of tho most vnluablo busiuoss property in San Francisco. The Election Approaches. Do not, liowovcr, lot this causo you tp loso sight of tho fact that . AT OIIOUTKAU, IND. TEIt., Is Boiling all .Lines of General Merchandise nt liottom Prices. Dry Goods, Grocorios, Boots, Shoos, Hatb nnd. Clothing, , , v ' Hardwaro and Implements. Btandard Implements and Osborn Mower anil Iteaper, a Spooinlty i VM. MVr40N, InOiiorgc TiiiiAsuitr.u Huston has issued new regulations rognrding tho redemption of tbo ourronoy ns follows: If throo fifths ot tho noto is prosonted tho fuco vnluo will bo glvon. It loss than throo-flfths and mora than two-fifths is presented half tho fueo vuluo will bo glvon; also tho full fuco valuo will bo glvon on los than three-fifths of tho noto on affidavits stating that tho missing portions woro dostroyod nnd explaining tho causo nnd manner of tho loss. Two now trusts woro announced In Now York opo day rocontly. Ono was n bed qu'lt trust, tho two houses which actually control tho manufact ure of comforters having poolod tholr Interests. Tho prlcos of the quilts, It wns said, would bo advanced nbout twonty'llvo por cont. Tho other was n freo lunoh trust. Tho Knickerbocker Uonn Company proposed to supply nil tho saloons in tho city with tho mate rials for lunches. Tho company wns absorbing many of tho "routes" of In dividuals who had boon supplying tho saloons In tholr vicinity, and In cases whoro tho small fry. refused to make way for tho big conuorn tho latter threatened to supply thu snloons nt half tho prices prevailing, and thus drive tho Individual purvoyors out ol business. Decausk tho six toen-y oar-old daugh ter of Joseph Gordon, n farmer living near Koesvlllo, N. Y., refused to glvo n tramp inonoy tho otlior day he choked hor until sho was unconscious and then set tho house on fire recovered Just In tlmo to oscapo. S- MISCELLANEOUS. The Standard Oil Company Is said to be buving up the natural gat lauds ot Ohio and Indiana at about tea times their former value. Harvxstixo of wbeat has begun In Da kota tno wtekt earlier than usual. The quality is reported first clasa Tub Surgeon-Oeneral haa received a tel egram from the president of the Gaines ville (Flo.) Board ot Health, denying that catetot dengue fever existed there. A Box ot Marshall U. Twltcbell, United States Consul at Kington, OnL., has been arrested on the chtrge ot being the masked burglar who entered the residence of Mrs. Martin. He was a mere boy and up to the affair bore a good character. The slayers of "Cattle Kate" Maxwell and her partner Averlll In Wyoming have been arretted. Kilrai:.', tho pugilist, went on a tear at Raltlmore, Mil., the other night, amusing blmtelf In smatblng windows, etc. acting as though he bad won the fight with Uulllvau. Over $,'iOO,0 has been subscribed at (Syracuse, N. Y., to the North American Bait Atsoolation. Tiie mayor and leading business men ot New York City held on entbusUallo moot ing recently to take steps to secure the world's exposition in 1K! The Chamber of Commerce also appointed a committee of sixty for the same purpoie, headed by ex-President Cleveland, Vice-President Morton, Henator Evarts and other noted men. Stephen W. Dorset was taken In custody recently at New York for con tempt of court In neglecting to put .11 an appearance at the supplementary pro ceedings on a judgment obtained against him by the Nevada Bank. The Union Pacific earnings for June were $21,070 larger than the same month last year w bile the net earnings were $197, GS2 more. The court martial ot Colonel Fletcher, charged with conduct unbecoming a gen tleman and officer, commenced at Port Omaha ou the S3tn. The Brotherhood ot American Hallway nrakemen held lis annual session In Otta wa, Ont., recently with fiQO delegates present. LiniiTxlKO struck the house of W. B. Cunuluisbam at Ben Brook, near Fort Worth, Tex., ths other morning, Instantly Lllllng Mrs. Cunningham. At the tints the house was struck, Mr. Cunningham, hit wife and one child were on the same bed. The father and child were not hurt A. J. Dlstucn, proprietor ot the Minne apolis Tribune, has purchased the Even ing Hlar, of that city, oud, beginning Au gust 20, will conduct It under the name of tbe Evening Tribune, The Intention Is to run an all day paper. The price paid bat not beeu made publics. DusiHisa failures (Dun'a report) for the eveu days tnded July So numbered 210. Including Canada. The previous week 508 fnlluies were reported. It la officially denied that there Is any ynlluw fevor at Tatuplco, Mex., as had re cently been reported. Tim Yellow river of China has again burnt lis hanks, the authorities at 1'ckln wura dismayed. The great British war ship Sultan, which sank on a rock near Malta some month, ago, has boen su'-cestfnlly raised. Tub Cincinnati dry dock buildings were destroyed by fire early the other morning, causing SO.OOd lots: It It thought to hate been Incendiary, A CTOLO.fE passed through Lebanbri, Ind., rn tbo 21th rinrooihig an entlrd block and deluging property. Crops were greatly damaged. An open switch at Brighton, Tonn., the other morning caused the wrecking ot a passenger train nnd the death ot Mall Agent Jos-ph J. Bomervllle, of Covington, Term. Three other employes were badly hurt. KUIT has been entered agnlntt tho South Fork Fishing Club for damages for loss of llfo and propertyoccaslo ied by the break ing of the Houth Fork dam. Tho suit Is brought by the widow and eight children ot John A. Little, the well-known drum mer who lost his life In tbe Hurlbut Home at Johnstown by tho flood, nnd Is an a 3' tlon tor JM.OOd damages. 7 HE Trades Council of Birmingham. Ala., has barred out IboKnlgbta ot Labof, The efforts to form a .a t trust; It was reported, resulted In fa lure. A saii boat was run down near Balti more, lid., roeently. Two women and one man wero drowned. Five men lost their llvot by an ex plosion of dynauiiie recently on the Wabaih railroad, twelve miles west of Wabash, Ind. ATEiiuiriostorm was reported at Chi cago on the 27th. Oraro fears existed ro fisrdlng Inke vessel.. THE steamer Whlldlnof Battlmoro ran Into and tunk the schooner Wills H. Derby ot Philadelphia Captain Thomas Jfriyior, In the Delaware bay on tbe 23th. The U'hlldln was on her way to Cape May with pleasure excursionists. No one was hurt. Alarmiko rumors woro prevalent at Home of plots lo blowup with dyjamlte txtti the Vol Iran and the Qulrlnnl. Dn. A. E. Joxes, Snrgeon-Oeneral of Ohio, was recently murdered ut Cincin nati add his body thrust Into a catch basin. Tbe crime waa the work Of Charles Bllgb, the dec or'a hoitler, who was ar rested and who confessed, stating that he bad given the doctor a knock on tbe head for scolding him. Tiurer fires were reported creating a reign ot terror all over Montana, pausing the abandonment of mining camps. The new Clyde built steamer, Thetta, which left (he Philippine I. lands April SO with $350,000 worth of sugar, and which had been given up almost ns loir, arrived at New York on the 23th. Bbe was forced to put into Hlo Janeiro for repairs to ber main shaft. Cleahixo bouse returns for the week ended July 27 showed an average increase ot 12.4 compared with tho corresponding week of last year. In New York tbe In crease was 112. NoRVlK Oreew, president ot tbe West ern Union Telegraph Company, Is very angry with Wanamaker for reducing the Govern -t raies to one cent for ten Word I 1 recent letter to tho Poit maste. 1 oral, Mr. Green drans atten tion to the many aervlcea rendered by tbe company gratuitously to the public. Business was active on the London StocH Exchange during tbe weekended July 27, American securities sharing In the goueral rise, unpl advices from Now York checked the advance. The Con tinental bourses were quiet, Paris especially. Conox worms have appeared on the plantations In Jefferson County, Ark., and are doing damage. A teruivio oyolone swept over portions of Hungary, Transylvania and Bukovina recently. The ruin wrou ht by the visita tion was terrible. Hundreds of people were lllled and a great many more were maimed and crippled. At Arkausas City, Ark., Thomas Rhode., convloted of rape, has been sentenced to bo bangod September 0. The New York Y. M. C. A. lulldlng was damaged to tbe extent ot $60,000 tbe other day. The corner stone ct the Bohemian sol diers' monument lu Hyde Park, Chicago, was laid on the 23th. Wiluam Merriau, an eccentric Long Island school teacher, has left the Gov ernment his estate, valued at $03,000. ADDITIONAL DIHl'ATCIIKS. Two men Mere bumsd to death In tbe coal mine Ore at Pratt, near Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. b'KODORASS and two children were drowned In the White river near Kock ford, Ark., recently. L. A. Wat & Co., a Lynn, Mass., bouse furnishing and plumbing establishment, have atslgned. Liabilities heavy. TnE United States Consul at Capetown, Africa, bat written to the S.ale Depart ment that two citizens of the United States ar now imprisoned in the South African diamond Uelds under conviction ot buying diamonds from Illicit dealers contrary to the law. Efforts will be made to have them pardoned. H hite CLOUD, leading chlet of tno Chippewa Indians on tbe While Earth reservation, Minnesota, hat signed tue treaty for the sale ot part of tbe reserva tion and the success of tbe Commission la now assured. Three million acres will bo op-ne 1 for settlement. Bx-CniEr Iloss, of Tahlequab, .Chero kee Nation, in au Interview at St. Louis recently, stated positively that theCbero kees would not sell tbelr lands and cer tainly not for $1.23 per acre. When they bare a better offer the Commission will be more courteoualv treated. Tue notorious Madame Uls ueuar, ins spook pr estess. Is reported to hare tie oluded berselt In a convent The British schooner Black Diamond has ieen seised by the revenue cruiser Hush tor sealing In the Behrlng sea. The Brazilian Grvernment has appointed acommlsilon to repreient that Power In ha American Congress to be held In Washington In October and to negotiate a reaty ot commerce between Brazil and ba United States. Tiieabdreh HusTOt denies the story of t shortage In the count ot the money In the treasury. The shortage was only $$, inu was made goou tiy tneomoera respon sible. This waa in a count ot $772,001,000. In tha previous count of rath there was a hor to co of two cents, tut It was alter- wards found on the fl cr. Tue British steamer Tbordesss, while oadlng crude petroleum near Philadel phia tbe other day, burred to tbe ground, rhe lost was $10,eOO. Cai-tain J- IShkldok, of the ship Emily ttei-d, from England to Philadelphia, will be tried for uot having made the slightest attempt to save Ft seaman named James Carlton, who on Jnly 10 fell overboard while at work aloft Beven hundred operatives at the Fish back rolling mills, Pottavllle, Pa., have truck for S3 ceuta Increase per ton tor puddlers and proportionate Increase la jthur departments. The committee authorised by Typo traphlcal Union No. 0, of Now York, to tettle the dispute between tbe compositors and tbe uewapaper proprietors, submitted 10 tbe managers ot tbe papers an agree ment nuklug some slight ooncotslon., which was accepted, awl tbe danger ut o strike Is wcr, blown down, basement! ACvIel, plate glara windows shattered and Valuable shade 'rees uprooted or broken by the fury of Ibe gale. It la safe to any that the loss will reach Into the hundreds of thousands. Charles Schaffer about eight years old, who lived with bU parents nt 33.1 York town Strdct, was sitting by the fireplace athts home H(t unlay night when lightning truck the bCrase aril going down the chimney killed him Instantly. The boas wns damaged to the extent of several hundred dollars. Other members of the family were considerably shocked. Ernst ntocklc, the owner of a lumber yard, wns Instantly killed by an Eastern Illinois engine during the Hotm and Henry Due., one ot bis workmen, was badly hurt The men who were crossing tbe tracks at Sixty-sixth street waited for a freight train to pass and then started to cress. Thetrnln blinded them and an engine approaching from the op posite direction struck thorn down. Block ter was about forty-eight year, old and single. Dues' recovery Is doubtful Four unfinished brick htuset at Ilo-k-weli ind Kitteenth streets were blown down while the storm was at its height. Shortly after eight o'clock the storm struck the row. They swayed for a few seconds and then fell. About fifteen minutes before the crash came a man Waa aecn to take refuge from tbe rain in one of the house, but It Is thought he escaped the falling brick and timber". There wen no workmen in the building at the time and It It not thought that any ono was In jured The houiesare wrecked completely, nothing but the foundation remaining, with a pile of ruins on top. A fifth house, alml dr In construction to tho other t ur and adjoining tliem, rtmalnod standing. Tbe wrecked housot were two stories high with bnsemerit. The ont.lde walla and roofa were completed, but none ot the In aide work was done. They will be almost a total loss. A brick building In the coursoof con struction at the northeast JornerotOakley avenue and Twenty-first street not far from the Leavl t street disaster, was blown during the storm on a cot tage In the reae, but fortunately none of the oecut ants wero klllwl Tbe families ot W. II. !efe, th owner of the building, and John Hayes iocupll the cottage. Tbe only peraoria ssrlously l-urt was r little girl twelve year old. who received a cut two Inches long across tUesldeof hor head, and a boy whose spina was in jureil Neither of their wounds Is neci sarlly fatal While the alorm was at Its height 1- it Walsh, superintendent of the Union News Company, aaw, as be supposed, a yacht between the lake store and outer pier off Peck court struck by lightning, the sails catch fire and the vessel to all appear ances coot dawn. Walsh, with his glass. coul 1 distinctly see the sails burning and napping In the wind and the vestal mat ing rapidly for shore; but he could not dis tinguish any one on board. The sails burned brightly for a few minutes and auddenly tbe blare was extinguished. It seeniod to Walsh and hit wife that the boat had snnk. Yesterday afternoon, bowoTer, a fisherman named White, who owns a small sill boat stated that be was sailing in tbo tatln when tbe storm Came up and let go bis tads. A large headlight, which be always carries, n fl- civd its raya on the flapping sails un til he put It out and lowered the canvas and then cautiously worked his way to the pier. It was undoubtedly tbe reflec tion on tlH tails wbioh Walsh saw and which led blm to suppose a boat bad been struck by llgh'nlng and burned THE LITTLE KANAWHA AOAIN. PARKERSBUlto, W. Va., July 19. Tele phone reports from ib-ro say there waa a terrible rain and floo I Friday night In the upper waters of the Llitle Kanawha. He ports from Orautavllle aay Calhoun County was devastated and crops, fences and bouses were away during the night lives were also reported lost Particulars are bard to get The river at Orantsvllie Is reported to be fifteen feet and rising rapidly. Iteporta frim other sections along tbe Lit le Kanawha state that a fearful storm occurred during the night and much properly waa destroyed All big creeks In Mount Pleas snt County are report oil rising rapidly. Hear Hun, Hitchy County, suffered terribly. Tbe loss Is re ported at not less than $051,000. AH AWFUL 8T0RU IN EOHOrE. Vienna, July 20 A terrlHo cyclone swept over portions of Hungary, Tran sylvania and Bukovina yesterday, taking in a tract a.veral thousand square miles In extent In Its pathway. Tho ruin wrought by the visitation Is terrible. Hundredi of reople have been killed and a gnat ms.ny mire have been maimed and crippled All crops In tbo path of the oyolone are a total loss and houses and churches are leveled to the ground in all dlrectipns. STOnX IN ARKANRAS. Memphis, Tenn., July it). A heavy wind and rain ttoiru struck the city about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon and con tinued until a late hour. No damage was done in the Immediate viointty of Mem phis, but tlie We.tern Union wires with tbe exception of two to Little Hock, are nil down and It la supposed the storm was much more seveie In tbe surrounding country. MUCH HAIU Prairie do Ciiien, Wis., July 2a The severest bail storui ot tbe season visited this locality at sevsn a. ro. Sntutday. Hail fell continuously ti r ten minutes and people gathered It up In wbeelbarron- loads. Oreat damage has txen dona to small grain, corn and vegetables all over this country. stohu in imsissim. Natchez. Miss, July 2a A severe storm passed over this city aud vicinity last night, doing great damage to crops. ANOTHER CATCH-BASIN. Dr. .Inner.. I Inn nt the Most Vrnmlnent Cltl- tens of Olnemnnti, Mnrilrrril lly HI ( oHrluiin Mm Hint Thro e-l In 0teli- Il,i.l it The .Murderer's Oiitifralon. ClSCI.tNATI. July 2H. The body of Dr. A. E, Jones wne found yesterday morning In a manhole not far from his residence. U hail been murdered and robbed. Thedoo-orWas in his aevonty-seventli year but was ns active as a man of, fifty. He had Always hnd an Inclination to mili tary ife and kept It up by holding a con licet tm with the Ohio Nit ouit Guards, serving for a 1 nig time as surgcQi of the First tezlmeni. Governor Karnker, who was hl neighbor, appointed him a mem ber ot hi staff as Hurgeon-Gentral He bail beuii ct.ve In puhlln affairs, serving of en In the Municipal Council ami bad besides hold several pfilces under appoint tnent from tho Ueneral Government He wns perhaps more wd-.'v known In Cln cl-inatl than anv other man. Dr. Jones left his house about 3:.n o'clock Thursday alternoon, wenr'ng no coof, his teet In alippe. and went In tho direction of hit stalile" That was Ibe last seen of him alire. Tbe fam ly did not be come alarmed until alter night, nud then prosecuted I heir search quietly until Fri day, wben notice waa given to the police. Friday a trail of blood was discovered oppoalti the doctor's stable on Cemetery street and being fallowed wns traced to Park avenue, thonco south two or three squares to tho junction of Cypress street and Francis lane, where, on the grass, was n pool ot blood. It was bers Jn a manhole ot the sewer that tin body Wai found yesterday morning. It was ewed in a horse blanket and Was drawn out by m-ansot a rope fattened aiound It by a man who had been lowered for'tliat pur poie. Tbe body had been doubled up com pactly, as If for convenience lit carrying, and It Is apparent that tbe trail of blood was that which trlektvd fron tbe doctor's -unds as his murderer carried him to tLs place whre he thought t.i conceal for wer the trace ot his crime, forbe hoped the water would carry tbo tody Into the river. It was found that the doctor's gold watch and his monoy were gono. This mutt have been the motive for the mur der, as the dooior hat not an enemy In the world. The police are already making arrotts. The theory Is that tbe murderer was Charles JJ Igb, the doctol". colored host ler, and that after committing Hid crime he hid the body until night and then, put ting It Into a grain sack carried It to Its placs of cone olraent Bligh was at tha hnnk. all ,l.v Tf.lilltV Mtltl tntll flf 111. lft.f. Interview with the Colonel. When ha let tVt 4 Friday night ba said he would return nt 6:30 yeateiday raornlnt.but ba has not yet been found. A boa In the stnbl- bears marks w. Ich are pronounced b bo blood stnins. Di.iGtr AnnisTcii 111 conversion Cincinnati, July 28. Illlgb, the ml.s ng host er, charged with tho muri-'er of Dr. A E Jonas has bear, arretted When taken before Superintendent. Daltscb, of tbe police headquarter., without Imita tion or restraint be made a full confession of the crime. Ills manner was easy and his story ot horror waa told wPh as lltt e feeling at If be had been narrating " most common place event of a dull d.iy's expjrlenc. Ills story was told as lol lows: 'My name la Charles A. Bligh. I was born at Richmond Ky am twenty nine years old; am married. In March last I came to this city and on the third Wednesday in March engaged to work for Dr. A. E. Jones as hoitler and for other work at 5 a week. On tbe afternoon ot Thursday last I was working In tbe garden pulling wee !, wben the doctor came out In fats shirt sleeves, woaring ellpptrs and a slouch hat, and began to scold me. I had just como out of tbe barn, whore I ba 1 gone. Tbe doctor told ma he wanted the weeds pulled lut ot the celery and be did not want any more excuses atout it The doctor wai cross and took a little stick and struck me, but It did not btirt It was just n little .tick. This was near tbe stable door. lie talked pretty tierce and again said be did not want any mure excuses. I became angrr and as the doctor passed by me X picked up a bit of oak stick and, using both hands, I struck blm a blow from bo hind on ibe back of the head Ilu fell and was speechless, but not dead. He was not able to mors he on'y b'eatbed I wAiit nn tvktri mv wnrlp In the fnnlen until washed ' hlf n.,1 -It- oVI.wt nhm T frit rt In Several 1 ,,,H l,. ,1,-f hml ru,n niml fnr nnta and put his body lu 1 . He was breathing yet and draw up bis legs so that I could easily push bis tody In the sack. I then tied It up With a hitching strap and went into Iho house and got my .upper aausuaL The folks askd me if I had seen the doctor and I told them that I badu'L After aupper they sent me to Mr. Thorn ton's, tbe doctor', son-in-law, to see if bo was there. I came back and told them the doctor bad not been there. Then 1 went to lha power bouse of tbe cibleroed and had a talk with a colored man and came back about ten o'clock, took the sack on mr shoulder and carried It down Park avenue to the manhole. Two per sons were ahead of me as Invent, but I kept out of their way. I laid the sack down on the grata while I took off tbo iron cororing of ibe manbote and then threw It in and covered up tho manhole and went back to Colonel Jones' house and soon after went to my own bouse on Washington avenue. Next day 1 weut bCk and worked as usual till afternoon. when they told me I need not work any more only I shujld ttay around I an swered qucstiona many times that day that I had not seen the doctor. After I got home last night Andy Hudson 0 ira to me and said tbe deteetlves had been to see him to atk what kind of a man I was. Hudson told tlem I was all r glit so far as be knew, but be said from the way the de tectlves talked ba thought they were about to put Ibe doctor's disappearance on me. This morning I did uot get up until after s x o'clock. I then packed my valise aud weut dowu to Fulton to take tho train for Madlsonvllle, but mi.td the train and walked out the railroad and pike. Wben I got to Madlsouvitle I tried to find some people I used to know in Kentucky, and wben I got to Simon Bush'a bou.e the detectives not me. I dl 1 not take Colonel Jones' waicb nor bis money I did not kuow be bad his watch or money with him." KumUy In Clucliiiiatt Cincinnati, July 29 The en tiro police force was on iuty all yesterday and most Of the First leglment at Ibe armory were ready for an emergency. There were 400 saloon arrests with but four di.iurlances. Bam Cary, an Hnqilrer reporter, was taken for a law and order spy In tbe nurnlng and flew for bis life. Later lu tho day a mob attacked Captain but phln, James Dolau and E. K. Mann on some pretext They were rescued by a squad ot police. At Dynamite Hall glasses were thrown s,t the police, but no damage done. On many streets the crowds at tempted to stop tbe patrpl wagons, but tbe wagons rode them down. Beer balls omitted coucertt. Vulllug House. Kansas Citt, Ma, July 29. A bonte at tbe corner of Ninth und Central fall early yesterday morning. Two or three sleep ing boarders wero injured the most seri ous being Mr. and Mrs, John Campbell. Tbe accident was due to an excavutlon for Dr. Thome's new building. The house belonged to Andrew Jaluks aud waaoccu by Mrs. E Norton as a lodging houte. A True Hill Agnlu.t Mrs, Muybrlek. LlVEiirool, July '.a A truit bill has beeu ruturued ogatnetMri. Floreuce Eliza beth Maybrlck, tbs American, on tha charge ot having polioued her husband, James Maybrlok, wbo wai a wealthy cot ton broker ot this olty. ltuulmiger's Hlue Hlreak. Paris, July 29. The election for mem bers of tbe Couuclla Oenerat were he'd throughout France yesterday. Boulanger contested 431 can tuns. He was suoce sful in Bordeaux, where he polled 3 3lRf0ie against 2.U1 for bis opponent If was detente I lu Monlpeller and Itouen. Buu langer la successful In twelve cantons and was defeated in others. His supporters teel blue. p. " Tbe haliuuu rack. Ban Francisco, Juiy 23. The Johnson Locke Mercantile Company's circular for July states that tbe ealinou pack for this season will be about 80,000 caaes less than forlo&U a a 1 ' lleiiula W. aiullan. Baltimore. Md., July 2a Commandei Denuls W. Muilan, late of the Unlied Statot ateamahlp Nlpilc, was In Jialiltnuir yesterday. He as id ha was off on Just as long a vacation at be could secure, lis denied that there was any difference be tween Admiral Klmberly, at tbe Pao fie squadron, and hlmmlf. 11 1 IH.elpuulnii Minister. Cuioaoo,JuIj J8 -Iter- Holoiuon D"n. rabbi ot lbs) First Hungarian stingr 't tlon, has sued Ibe members of tits (fikt for 110.000 00 the ground that they h rd and paid a (husj $ tc- glr-h'w ." met lug, aMSzeaauai wi---,wpwawwliSSawajfc. &h.