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AmEFETTEFLECTOR ,.. PUBLISHED Br EEFLECTQR PIMJSBM COMPANY. GtJKRKNT COMMENT. ' ;Pleuho- rxECjioxiA is reported " among cuttle at Maple Creek, M. T. The New York iletal Exchange was a scene of wild excitement; on the 1st, the price of tin leading the way in a disastrous depreciation. A life size marble bust of Garibaldi, presented by the Washington Gari baldi Association, has been placed in the upper lobby of the Senate. A xady named ZMiklucho Maclay, aunt of the New Guinea explorer, Slachry, has been murdered in St. Pe tersburg by robbers, who secured iif teen thousand roubles from her apart ments. Tiie Progressive Labor party, formed at New York in opposition to the Henry George party, has been dis solved by its general committee on resolutions declaring that it had .accomplished its object. i Nineteen cartridges and a neAv T.ebel rifle have been stolen from the factory at Douai, France. Officials were inquiring into the theft, as it was suspected that they were taken at the instance of a foreign power. - -The number of applicants for em ployment, in any capacity on the ele VaFed roads and horse car lines of New York and Brooklyn has been greater this year than any previous year. Among them are many men who have seen better days. The directory of the Paris Comptoir Descompte has failed to negotiate a loan of 500,000.000 roubles with the Russian Government, the latter indig nantly refusing to grant the demand for a gage special, which has hitherto only been demanded from Turkey. A LETTEir has been published at St. Paul in which Hon. Edmund Rice, present Representative in Congress from the Fourth Minnesota district, declines renomination on the ground that at seventy years lie can not do justice to so large and important a con stituency. Immigration to the Argentine Re public is greater than to any other country in the New World excepting the United States. The Immigration Bureau of Argentine, in Ihe ollicial re port lor the last year, has placed the number of immigrants arrived in that republic for the period at 120,842. The Governors of the thirteen origi nal States met in Philadelphia recently and adopted resolutions calling upon ;- i Federal Government and the vari ous States and Territories to contribute to the erection of a monument in that city, commemorative of the framing and adoption of the Constitution of the United Suites. The death is announced in England of Sir Charles Tileston Bright, one of the projectors of the Transatlantic cable, who was the cngineer-in-cniuf of the expedition which carried out that project and who has since been prominently identified witft the exten sion of submarine telegraphs through out the world. He was in his fifty t'tjventh vear. The heaviest sentences for burglary pronounced in several years were passed at New York recently by Judge Martin upon two comparatively young men, Michael Feehan, aged nineteen, and Michael O'Donnell, aged twenty one. O'Donnell was convicted and Feehan pleaded guilt-. They were each sentenced to hard labor at Sing Sing for thirty years. A few days since a young son of Adam Young, living in the eastern part of Wabash, Ind., met with a very pe culiar accident which caused his death. The boy was watching some men who -were exhuming a body in the old ceme tery, when the heavy marble head stone fell on him and produced fatal internal injuries. The boy was buried on the exact spot where the accident took place. Advices have been received at Zanzibar from Emin Bey, dated No vember 2. staling that he "had been re connoitering for Stanley but had heard nothing of him up to that time. Emin himself was well and his relations with the chiefs and the people in the vicinity of his station was satisfactory. Stan ley's relief stores had readied Usam biero. His mails were at Uganda, where the Arabs were hostile and treacherous". Mk. CnAitLES Lyman, for many years st the head of the Dead Letter Oiiiee of the Po-ofiice Department, died at Washington recently in the eightieth year of his age. Mr. Lyman went to Washington about twenty-seven years ago and was put in charge of the Dead Letter Oflice at a time when its busi ness was all transacted by himself and one clerk. Under his "direction the office grew to its present proportions. The British gunboat Falcon has re turned to Gibraltar from Cape Juby, whither she was sent to investigate the reported attack upon the depot of flie ' Northwest African Company at that place. The Captain of the Falcon reports that Mr. Morris, manager of the British African Company at Cape Juby, attempted to photograph a camp of Moorish soldiers and while doin" so the soldiers killed him and drove his companions into a fort near by. ' In an interview with a French jour nalist recently, General Gonrko, Gov ernor of Warsaw, denied that Russia was desirous of war, but said .it was impossible to predict events. He hoped that, should an outbreak of hostilities occur. France would not remain neu tral.. He hinted that in snclicase pTrance.'' would have to deal with ''En gland as Italy's- ally. Nobody could count on England's neutrality, and this, he said, was a matter for serious reflection.-1 ' c V :U'J .. .-.- . , . ,' NEWS OF THE WEEK. Qissned by Tolesrraph sad Mall. CONGRKSSIONAX. Among the bills reported to the Senate on the 30th was one lncreang the salary ot "United States district judges to 13,000. The Land Forfeiture bill was briefly discussedandta bill passed authorizing the sale of a tract of land in the Leavenworth military reservation to the water works company. The Internation al Copyright bill was then debated until ad journment... Immediately upon as semblingthc House resumed consideration of the Tariff bill and debate continued during the entire day. In the Senate on May 1, at the conclusion of the morning business, Senator Stewart's Silver Coinage resolution was adopted, and the bill passed appropriating 100,OUO for a public building at Emporia, Ivan. According to previous notice. Senator Ingalls then ad dressed the Senate in reply to the speech of Senator Voorhees delivered some days previous. Senator Eustlce spoke briefly in re ply to charges made by Ingalls against the South. Adjourned In the House the Senate bill passed granting right of way through the Indian Territory to the Kansas City & Pacific Railroad. Debate on the Tariff bill was men resumed and continued until adjournment. Aiteh routine business on the 'M the Senate went into executive session. 'When the doors were opened the bill passed appropriat ing ?10J,X) for a public building at Atchison, Kan. After further debate on the Land For feiture bill it went over. The Senate then parsed 104 pension bills in forty-six minutes. The bill to amend the Inter-State Commerce law was reported from committee. The bill passed authorizing the sale of the Fort Sedg wick military reservation in Colorado and Ne braska to actual settlers The Tariff debate took up the whole day in the House. In the Senate on the 3d amonjr the bills reported by committees was the bill lo place General Pleasantoa on the retired list with the rank of Colonel. Mr. Stewart introduced a bill to execute the stipulations of the new Chinese treaty. The Senate then resumed consideration of the Land Grant Forfeiture bill, which, after debate, was laid aside and the Animal Industry Bureau bill taken up. Senators Vest and Plumb, in discussing the bill, took opportunity to scorch the cattle pool of Chicago which they characterized as arbitra ry in fixing prices of cattle that wero ruinous to cattle raisers ot the West. Adjourned until Monday After adopting the conference re port on the joint resolution accepting the invi tation by the United States to take part in the French exhibition at Paris in lRs-3, the House took up the Tariff bill and debate continued un til adjournment. Tim Senate was not in session on the 4th. In the House the Committee on Elections reported in the California election contest of Lynch vs. Vandever, unanimously confirming Vandever in his seat. After disposing of pri vate business debate on the Tariff bill was re sumed and continued until recess. At the evening session twenty-seven pension bills passed. ri:i:.soNAL and i'oliticax. The Senate bill granting right of way through the Indian Territory to the Kan City & Pacific railway has been passed by the House. The Wisconsin Democratic State con vention was held at .Madison on the 1st. The platform strongly indorsed the Ad ministration of President Cleveland. The Sultan of Morocco has refused to submit his differences with the United States to arbitration and the dispute has been reopened. The Prime Minister of Japan has resigned and has been succeeded by the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce. Fkof. Goldwin Smith, writing in regard to the rebuke given him by Chauncey M. Depew for talking politics at a public din ner, says that "the Presidential fever is burning in Depew's veins." that Depew's protest was a distinct bid for the Irish vote, and that Depew recently sat through a banquet at which Irish politics were freely talked, without making any proy.st. Tue second National Republican anti saloon convention was held in the hall of the Cooper Institute, New York, on the 2d, delegates from all the States being in at tendance. The Iowa Democratic State convention was held at Dubuque on the 2d. The dele gation was solid for Cleveland. Nebuaska Democrats held their State convention at Omaha on the 2d. Delegates wero instructed for Cleveland. Connecticut Democrats met at Hartford on the 2d. The platform reaffirmed thi National platform of 1SS4 and indorsed the Administration. Pennsylvania Prohibitionists met at Harrisburg on the 2d. The Illinois Republican convention, which met at Springfield on the 2d, in dorsed Judge Gresham for the Presidency. Caul Schcuz had an interview with Prince Bismarck at Berlin the other day. News has been received in London from Albert Nyanza, Africa, to the effect that Bishop Parker and Rov. Mr. Blackburn re cently died of fever at the Unyiro mission. Rev. Cuaui.es H. Spchgeon, who is vis iting Bournemouth for the benefit of his health, has written a letter in which he snys he is ill and worn out, and that he is hardly able to keep on at all. It is reported that an outbreak has oc curred m Macedonia. The Servian and Greek portions of the population are said lo have united to oppose the authority of Turkey. Theohoke F. DwicnT. Librarian of the State Department, has tendered his resig nation, to take effect June 1, and it has been accepted. Indiana Republicans met at Indianapolis on the 2d and nominated delegates to the National c invention instructed to vote for Ben Harrison for PreMdent. The Illinois Republican convention nomi nated Joseph W. Fifer for Governor, Lyman B. Ray for Lieutenant-Governor, Ti N. Pearson for Secretary of State. C. IW. Pavey for Auditor, Charles Becker for 'Treasurer, and George R. Davis. Senator Farwell, W. F. L. Hadley and Horace S. 'Clark delegates at large to the National convention. The Washington Woman's Suffrage As sociation has passed a resolution for women to withdraw from churches where the pastors uphold the decision of the 'Methodist General Conference at New York, which recently refused to admit, woman delegates. Tue New York Sun of the 3d had a sen sational dispatch from Berlin stating that Germany was on the verge of a Socialist revolution. mi. i'iM.tni;.i ueuiy uiis ueen rauiieu oy Canada. Dr. D. W. Bliss, of Washington, who was phys:cian-in-chief to President Garfield from the time he was shot by Guiteau until his death, was reported seriouslv ill on the 4th. The Emperor of Germany was so much improved on tho 4th that his physicians announced that no more bulletins would be issued unless he took a relapse. Roeekt Blaine, brother of James G., has been removed from his position as curator of the Museum of the Agricultural Bureau. Tne position is under the Civil-Service 'rules. The Philadelphia Time of the 5th pub lished a letter from New York stating that arrangements were consummated by which Hon. James G. Biaine would be a candi date for the Republican nomination to the Presidency. Judge Arnold Krekel, United States Judge for the Western district of Missouri. rhas decided to retire from the bench. Judge Krekel has been for some time in poor health. ansCELIuVNEOCS. Alexander Sullivan, counsel for the striking Burlington engineers and firemen, says that the report "circulated that the 'Q' strike bad been declared off, was without foundation. '-There will be no such action taken," he said, "until after the in vestigation by the Inter-State Commission is concluded." . - TnE decrease in the public debt during the month of April was 9,300,000. The independent German riflemen ot New York have sent tho Empress of Ger many 1,000 marks for the relief cf tre ood victims. TnE business portion of Keithsburg, 111., was destroyed by fire recently. Loss, heavy. Over ten million feet of lumber was de stroyed in the yard of the Chippewa Lum ber Companv at Bis Rapids, Mich., by fire on the 3d. Loss $ 12J.0O0. Burglars entered "Mark Twain's" house at Hartford. Conn., the other night and stole his shoes, two overcoats, some nap kins rings and other small aniclcs. The reported robbery of the mails near Baltimore is denied by the postal authori ties. WniTE CArs pave W. H. Toney a terrible beating at English, Crawford County, Ind., recently. His recovery was doubtful. He was a prominent and wealthy citizen, but was accused of abusing his family. Editor O'Brien was again convicted under the Crimes act at Loughrea, Irelaud, on the 3d and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. A concerted attempt was made to wreck a 4-Q" train at Chicago on the night of the 3d. A switch was thrown and fifteen cars derailed and set on fire. The conductor was found shortly afterwards bruised and in sensible by the side of the track, and he reported that three men had beaten him and wrecked the train. Later advices concerning the attack by natives on the expedition of the German explorers Kund and Tappenbeck, in the in terior of the Cumeroons country, show that seven members of the expedition were killed and thirty wounded. The explorers Inst all their journals and collections. General Martin Beem shot himself dead at Stanton, Neb., recently. His married life was unhappy and this was assigned as the causa of the suicide. Beem wa3 a well-known Chicago lawyer and dis tinguished himself in the late war by strik ing acts of gallantry. The Argentine Minister at Vienna de clares that the reports of failures in Buenos Ayres are greatly exaggerated; that they are only small local failures in the capital and the provinces. Two men, while jumping from an east bound train at Benicia. CiL, the other dent, fell overboard from the pier in the darkness ana wero drowned. The body of one recovered proved to be that of Fred Shaw, of Eureka Springs, Ark. A report is current in Vienna that the Austrian Government is about to ask the delegations to grant an extra credit of $lo ooj.ooo. The London and Liverpool branches of the National League have declared their confidence in Mr. Parnell, and say they will disregard the Papal rescript. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has confirmed the sentence of Mrs. Robinson, the wholesale poisoner. Chief Justice Galt, at Toronto. Ont., recently, in granting the application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of Morse, wanted in Rochester. N. Y., for attempted murder, expressed the opinion that a tele gram from an American officer was not sufficient authority upon which to arrest a criminal under the Extradition act. Major Popokf, who was convicted of embezzling funds belonging to the Bul garian War Oflice, has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude. M. BonciT and the other prisoners implicated in the defal cation were each sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from five to twelve months. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended May 3 numbered for the United States, 20.i; Canada, 25; total. 234; compared with 223 the previous week and 1S2 the corresponding week of last year. A noniiiRLB and mysterious affair was reported from Arlington, Neb., on the 4th. A barn on the Frcesc farm was destroyed by fire, and in the ruins were found the bodies of seven persons. The hired man was missing and a suspicion existed that he had committed a terrible crime. A crowd of excite 1 Southerners burned Senator Ingalls in elfigy at Lebanon, Tenn., recently. An explosion of gas occurred recently in a tunnel in cuirse of construction near Messina, Sicily. Six workmen were killed and many more fatally injured, several of whom wero rescued in a dying condition. At the time of tho accident 2.VJ workmen were in the tunnel. A storm blew down several houses in the new town of Berring, Iowa, on the Santa Fc railroad. James Myers, of Memphis, Mo., was killed in a falling building. A bad condition of affairs exists in Lowndes County, Aln., growing out of the recent lynching of a negro murderer by a white mob. The negroes had been threat ening vengeance and on the 4th the sheriff arrested fifteen of them. On the way back to Hayncville, the county seat, a conflict ensued and two white men were wounded and several negroes killed. Further trouolo was foared. The cracker factory at Los Angeles, Cal., and H. Webber's residence were destroyed by fire the other night. One man perished. Loss, G5,C00; insurance small. Bra collision near Sorento, 111., recently between a passenger and a freight, train. two men were killed and several tadty in jured. ADDITIOKAI. DISPATCHES. Judge Aknoli Kuekel, United States Judge for the Western District of Missouri, has decided to retire from the bench. Judge Krekel has been for some time in poor health. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended May 3 numbered for the United States, :!(K; Canada, 25; total, 234: compared with 223 the prcvinus week and 1S2 the corresponding week of last year. A nouuir.LE and mysterious affair was rei orted from Arlington, Neb., on the 4tb. A barn on tht' Freese farm was destroyed by fire, and in tho ru ns were found tho bodies or seven persons. The hired man was missing and a suspicion existed that he had committed a terrible crime. The Senate wa-, not in session on the 4th. The House continued the discussion on the Tariff bilL The Philadelphia Timet of the 5th pub lished a letter from New York stating that arrangements were consummated by which Hon. James G. Biaine would b(f a candi date for the Republican nomination to the Presidency. A cnowi of excited Southerners burned Senator Ingalls in effigy at Lebanon. Tenn., recently. The Emperor of Germany was so much improved on the 4th that his physicians announced that no more bulletins would be issued unless he took a relapse. RonEitT Blaine, brother of James G., has been removed from his position as curator of the Museum of the Agricultural Bureau. The position is under the Civil-Servicj rules. An explosion of gas occurred rcceatlv in a tunnel in course or construction near Mes sina, Sicily. Six workmen were killed and many more fatally injured, se veral of whom were rescued iu a dying condition. At the time of the accidene 250 workmen were in the tunneL Dr. D. W. Bliss, of Washington, who was physician-in-chief to President Garfield from the time he was shot by Guiteau un til his death, was reported seriously ill on the 4th. The Fisheries treaty has b;en ratified by Canada. A STonii blewdown several houses in the new town of Berring, Iowa, on the Santa Fe railroad. James Myers, of Memphis. Mo., was killed in a falling building. A bad condition of affairs exists in Lowndes County, Ala., growing out of the recent lynching of a negro murderer by a wane moo. lae negroes had been threat ening vengeance and on the4h the sheriff arrested fifteen of them. On the way back to Hayneville, the county seat, a con flict ensued and two white men were wounded and several negroes killed. Fur ther trouble was feared. The cracker factory at Los Antreles. CaL. and H. Webbera residence were destroved by fire the other night. One man perished. Loss, 565,000; insurance small. Br a collision near Sorento. I1L. rerpntlr- between a passenger and a freight train, two men were killed and several badly in. jured. KANSAS STATE NEWS. While recently boring for coal at New ton, the Newton Mining Company struck a very strong llow of natural gas at a depth of 4'JJ feet. Some time ago the twelve-year.old son of Fred Herron, of Leavenworth, swallowed a large pin, and for two weeks suffered great agony. Local physicians failed to extract it and the little sufferer was taken to New York, where the best surgical skill was to be employed. The fourteen-year-old son of John Weise maii, if Leavenworth, wa-. fata ly injured the other day while trying to climb oa a moving freignr train. Colonel N. S. Goss, of Topeka, was re cently iu Washington oa business in con nection with bis Kcieu.ilic researches. He is now direciag special attention to the Mexican arid Central American bints, and is adding largely to the information of tne scientists concerning the imtural history ol those regions. Five of the Blalock gang had been con victed of burg ary and robbery at Coium bus up to the 33th anl more were to fol low. At the late annual meeting of the State Dental Association at. Too sk.i the follow ing officers were elected: Pre-iden, R. E. Nickles Salina; first vice-president, H. W. Parsons. Wamego; second vice-nrcs:- dent, S. P. Huntington, Eareka; secretary, C. B. Ounn, Leavenworth; treasurer, F. O. Hettrick. Ottawa. The Republican cjnvention of the Fifth district recently met at Junction Citvand re-nominated Han. John A. Anderson for Congress by acclamation. At the Republican convention of the Seventh Congressional district, held at Garden City .Mav 1. Hon. S. R. Peters was uusuiim msly nominated for re-election to which stood two rows of houecs occup'ed Congress. by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and On the night of April 211 Deputy Sheriffs Iron Company's employes. On the tiillsule G. H. Campbell and F. H. Homeubuck Ktood a little cottage occupied by John killed John P. Reaidon at the Round I'rai- Qatuu and Ins family of four children, two rie school houe, about thirteen wiles north j ".vs and two giri. The force of the ex of Oiathe, whl.e attempting hi-, arrest. I plosiou wrecked the buildings, seventeen lleardon was a stranger, was dressed a-, a m all. and the stoves set tire to the ruins, cowboy, heavily armed, and had been stay- ' anl Q'Jinn and his two little girls were ing in the school house of nights for about I burned to death. The two boys escaped n week. The officers had a warrant for the ' with burns. arrest of a man named Rodger, and it was J Simon Kerwick's family consisted of supposed that Reardon was the man wanted. (Mary and Willis Cuvanaugh, adopted When thev weut to the school house and children aged respectively eight and four- ordered him to surrender he showed re sistance and was shot dea.'. The Farmers' Trust Convention recently in session at Topeka finally adopted a sub stitute for the original resolutions offered ! children were burned to death, in effect that in view of the great iinpor-, Thirty persons were injured, the most lance of the matters for which the conven- i serious beiug Mrs. Miles Dougherty, leg tion was called to consider it is wise to j brok-jn, bruised anil cut; her mother. Mr-,, give them careful consideration; that far- ' Mathews, bruise J and internally injured; ther consideration of the pending rules be ( Mary, daughter of Mrs. Miles, neck cut and postponed to an adjourned meeting to be j brui-ed; Andrew McElwee, right eye de held at Toneka on Wednesday of the third . stroyed and neck cut; John bonlan. left week in November, when thi Farmer-,' j hand amputated and cut about thi! limbs; utiuuuui v.ui uuLiuii u in uc in m:s-i'I1. anu i only farmers and those working with them j be admitted to such meeting. ' The monthly report of the Secretary of j the State Board of Agriculture estimate ! the condition of winter wheat at 1)0 per cent.; acreage of spring wheat, as com- ' pared with last year, !'J percent.; condi- i tion. '.HI p--r cent. Acreage of corn 110 per cent.; condition, 100 per cent.; Oats acre age 1U5 per cent.; condition, UJ per cent. ' Tuit iminl fr . . .. .'! ln Z . n -.-.! .....1 ' Condition of tame grass, 100 per cent. Dui ing the month of April, with but few ex - ceptions, rains have been abundant in the Eastern half of the State, also in the Southwestern portion. In West Cen'ral : nd Nortli Central Kansas and generally throughout the Northwest, tiie rain fall was light and crops have suffered some what. The State Central Committee of the United Labor party met at Topeka on May 1 and resolved to send delegates io the Cincinnati convention and that the chairman be empowered to appoint such delegates and that said delegates be in structed to oppose the nomination of a Presidential candidate. Chairman Gaskill appointed the following delegates: R. R. Gaskill, Topeka; F. M.P. Donnelly, Kan sas City: C. A. Henrie. Topeka; Willinm McMillan, Osage City; W. M. Goodner. Larned; C. D. Al.'cn. Atchison; E. Z. Butcher, Solomon City: J. M. Zimm, Hutch inson. Each delegate was authorized to exercise the prerogative of furnishing a substitute with the proper credentials to admit him to a seat in said conference in case the appointee is unable to attend in person. The other day William Herman, a well known Leavenworth milkman, returned to his home, alter having attended the funeral of a member of his family, and while removing the harness from one of his team of mule, the animal suddenly turned and planted both feet with terrific force in Herman's sU-mach. After getting in the house he began to suffer terrible pains and died in a few hours. Rev. A. Kuhls celebrated the twcnly fiflh anniversary of his priesthood at Wy andotte on May 2. He received a large number of presents. Father Kuhls took charge of the Catholic Church at Wyan dotte in 1$3. William Hohl, a stonemason of Win field, in a fit of despondency, blew his brains out the other day with a revolver, lie was a widower and quite old. The Sixth district Republican conven tion at Htissell renominated Congressman Turner for re-election. Jonathan and William Blalock were per mitted to plead guilty of murder in the second degi ee at Columbus when arraigned r. r the murder of Constable Gordmi. Mrs. Blalock was found guilty of receiving stolen property. The trial of the Frys and the "pretty, young school teacher" will round up the Blalock-Fry gnng. As an outgrowth of tne Farmers' Trust movement articles of incorporation were recently filed with tho Secretary of State of the "Farmers' Federation of the Mis sissippi Valley," and the incorporators are ciiizens of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Nebraska. Colorado, Arkansas. Texas .Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, WestVirginia,NewMexii;o, Wyom ing and Dakota fourteen States and three Territories. The places of business are to be established at Topeka, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; Chicago, 111.; St. Paul, Minn.: Omaha, Neb.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Mil waukee, Wis.; St, Louis, Mo.; Louisville, I Ky. ; Cincinnati, O.. and such other places as may bo deemed advisable, as the busi- ( ness growa The officers are: President and general manager. Waller N. Allen; j vice-president, P. N. Gich: treasurer, J. R. t Mulvane; secretary, J. I. Limcberner. Fixe rains of late. Patents issued to Kansas inventors for the week ended April 27: Vehicle axle, John F. Dixon, of Clay Center; sad iron, William H. Mull, of Lawrence; provision safe, Harriet RandalL of Pottersburg: pump, William W. Cullv, of Wilson; en- veiooe noiuer, bmitti a culver, of Kiowa; i ,. -' f" ' . : ": , ' barrel truck, Ernest J. S. Davis, of Great I hves ?,crosf, th Klen.nefsef nv "Hick Bend; fender for cultivators, John W. j man Countr- The ht Ic log schoolhouse Kennedy, of Miltonvale. ! was ll fnd thc hIe -'Wren busy The people of Ab.line at a recent mass . lt eir lessons, when a dog. foaming meeting passed resolutions severclv con- , at le nonth, snapping and biting, dashed domnhiff the a?ent of the Asaoriutn.! Pr for suppressing the report of the late ! Capital Removal convention held ia that j city. Treascrei: Gkavat. of Scott County, is j reported to be over 9,OU0 short in his ac- counts. Caul Bcugen. minor child of Dr. Burgen, oi iopoira, nas orougnt suit against the citv for S10.U.J0 damages for injuries re-1 i",.r w, ,:,.... sai,,-, :, Lbl t WU t lUb Ubt UUUUtUUA IVUgUll LUI t and Dr. Burgen also sues for S-00 damages done to the horse and buggy. Wexzel Rohan, while recently attend ing court at Oberlin, comm.tted suicide by shooting himself. He had been worried for some time on account of financial troubles, and became excited over a suit in court which it was thought brought on a derangement of his brain. The Santa Fe depot at Halstcad was con sumed by fire the other night. ninginto and demolishing a buggy m which j lrac 1 - IVT V 5 , u ueiTr.? ie'7 he Snd his mother were riding. Mrs. Bur- ' fZhl ..ff. thu a7, "J1"1 S,he ached1 !h n nun cP th ,-itv- fn,- stn ftxi H,m,, . door, which she pulled to after her and fell r,. .v .. .. . vw ...-j ..... v,-.w- uwu.L.ak. i m THE DEAD OF NIGET. A. Car Load of Dynamite Ezplode3 Near Sli&mokin With Terrible Effect. Seypntfen Houses Wrecked on tlio Sleeping Inmates Eight Killed and Thirty Injured. Circus Train Wrecked-Great Loss of Lifa by Hail Storms in India Drowniajs on Like Erie. Shamokin. Pa., Mav 7. A freight tr3tn on the Philadelphia & Reading "railroad wns passing through Locust Gap, six miles from this place, at eleveu o'clock Saturday night, when a car loaded with powder ex ploded, killing eight people, wounding , houses, leveling four blocks to the ground and destroying twelve ljaded cars. ' The freight train, consisting of seventy ' five cars bound for Willumsport, hud be ;cme disconnected by tne breaking of a coupling and tiie engine aad three cars had t run h ilf a mile before the crew discovered ' that the tram was divideJ. The first . section then awaited the arrival of the ) second at the foot of a heavy grade. The ' t70 brakemea lost control of the second ' section and it dashed into the first section, causing an explosion in the third car, which was loaded with powder. At the scene of the accident the railroad runs along a steep bill, at the bottom of t eti years, Daniel Kerwick aged eight, Alice Kerwick aged five, and his wife and a new born babe. Ksrwiclc carried his wile from the burning building, but the .urs. I'ainc.c .-iciianus. injured oy mis siles; Mrs. Simon Kerwick, suffering from shoe.:, condition scrims. Several of the injured were e:it to the miners' hospital. in all twelve cars were destroyed and seventeen houses w th their furniture. All the windows in the Locust Gap churches and schools were broken and the doors blown off. Iu Ml, Carmel large store win dows were bioken. The total loss is esti mated at 73.000. Tiie I urea of the exp!osinn shook the 1 ground for twenty mites around, wreckin: many houses in Mt. Carmel and the neigh borhood. None of the train hands were injured. uunougn one is saai to nave ueen blown a. considerable distance. The engineer of the Iocoraotiva which was very close at the time of the explosion wus stunned, but soon recovered. The sufferers were soon supplied with all the help that willing hand-, could give, and shortly after the explosion large numbers of people were on the scene. Yesterday a I the roads leading to the horrible wreck were lined with vehicles going and returning. Locust Gap is a town or about 2,WW inhabit ants. FATAL LANDSLIDE. Steuhenvilli:, O., May 7. At one o'clock yesterday afternoon, about three miles above this city, at Mikanua station, as the train of the Miller & Freeman circus was pissing through a deep cut known as the "Backbone" it met a landslide which threw the engine and five cars from the track, piling them up in a confused ai.d broken mass. The cars were badly broken and were burned, while the engine was turned over directly across tho track. A. B. Still well, of U'ellsville, O., the engineer, was terribly scalded and it is feared received internal injuries. Ernier Ellsworth, of Columbus, O., the colored cook, was killed outright. CLorn r.casT. WicniTA, Kan., May 7. Yesterday morn ing aoout six o'clock a cloud burst is re ported to have occurred ia the vicinity of Maize, a town about fifteen miles west of this city. The territory drenched was about two hundred yards wide and a mile long. For abouttwenty una ites the water poured down, as expressed by an ej'e-witness, "as if the ent.re heavens were a tank of water and a hole had been punched into it, the size of the parallelogram receiving it." The noKc was terrible, the down-pour -ounding much louder than the falls of Niagara. It did not look as though one could see ten feet into the pouring water. In fact it came straight down. The cioud did not seem to move. The clouds were as black as mght, but to the ea-t was clear sky, just a small strip of it above the hori zon giving a little light. Had it not been fortius it would have been perfectly dark. Most of the territory covered by the storm was a corn field and it is thought there was not a stalk of corn left. THE AliLINGTON, NEB., nOLOCCST. Omaha. Neb.. May 7. Tne circumstances attending the burning of the widow Freese and her family in the barn near Arlington Friday arc still a mystery, but further investigation tends to remove the suspicion that murder was one of the features of the horrible affair. The fire, with the excep tion of a few smoldering heaps, had gone out, and another thorough search resulted in the discovery of the eighth victim of the holocaust Lewis Grotzen, the hired man near the east end of the barn among the remains of the horses. TWO PLEASUHE SEEKEES DROWNED. EaiE. Pa., May 7. A sail bDat in which were a party of Germans capsized on Lake Erie near Westrteid yesterday, and Wil .iam Bunn and August Piercher were drowned. The other two, G. Baderand Ceorge Smith, were picked insensible by a passing vessel. They will recover. A Fpeclal dispatcu from Nashville, Tenn., dated April 25, says: Miss Mollie Green is a heroine in Perry County to- ""'T "'"""""""" Reaches sctiool on cypress creek in Perry ,u aL lue uoor anu spranff towarus one oi the children. The brave teacher thought only of the children iii hercare, andsprang between them and the intruder. She told them it was a mad dog, and kicked at it, her skirts protecting her, and by the aid of a heavy ruler she kept it at bay until all the children had fled. The infu riated animal repeatedly sprang at her lu" , . . J ,.7, ' , : BT. and resoluteiy held her ground. When all , . . - fainting outside. The children had in the meantime run to the nearest house, an eighth or a mile distant, and given the alarm. Two men came up, and after re viving tho teacher with water, killea the dog. The dog had been in the neighbor hood for a few days. The grateful parents of the children took up a subscription and propose to give the young lady a fine saddle horse. Her clothes were lit erallytorn off during the struggle with the dog. FARMERS' TRUST. JTeeMnsror Delegates at Topeka Anothej Convention Called For November 3. Topeka, Kan., May 2. R preseatatives Hall was fairly filled with delegates from Kansas and the several adjacent States at the opening of the Fanners' Trust conven tion yesterday afternoon, and great inter est was manifested by all present. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Atkin son, of Ottawa, und was followed by an address of welcome b Judge Peffer, of thc Ka-uas Fanner. Colonel William Crura, president of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, was chosen temporary chair man, and J. B. Ferguson, of Menden, Kan., secretary, aud the following committee on permanent organizat'on was appointed: Robert Atkinson, William S ra, W. W. Jones, G. R. Roberts and O. Cbacy. The committee reported the following officers: President, ex-Governor David E Butler, of Nebraska; vice-president, CUvo landF. Mculton, or Missouri; secretary, J. B. Ferguson, of Kansas. Governor Butler upon takiug the chair said: ''Wo have several great organizations to-day, each established fcr the purpose or creating a higher standard forks members. There is no one so insane as to believe that the Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, the Knights of Labor, and the kindred order. were organized for other than salutary purposes. If I had tho power I would eu act a penal statuto prohibiting any farmer from working more than eigat hours a day. If farmers would uso their brains more and their muscles less it would be far better for them. They would certainly have more time to become acquainted with their familes." The speaker dwelt at length upon the great wrong done the farmers, which arose from the unholy legislation enacted at WasMngio whereby the coffers of "those Shyb.icks, the railroad magnates of the country," were filled, and one man alone was permitted to own a three-hundredth part of the wealth of the whole country. Ex-Governor George V. Click was called for, and made a speech which excited Hon. W. M. Ailen aud caused some uproar. Quiet was restorci by the president. The committee oa resolutions reported as follows: Whereas, Apiculture being & pursuit in which the prosperity of the individual follow ing it must conduce to the welfare of the com munity at Iar;re, it should be regarded as of an importance and dijnity beyond all oth-rs. Whereas, In our ostensibly free country, a large amount of land occupied by the working farmer is falling umlerthccontrolof capitalists, noi from any want of industry on the part of the occupant of the soil, but for the want of a fair rerauiie ration for the product of his labor, and. Whereas. The low price at which h" is obliged to furnish his products is attended with no corresponding hem-tit to thc consumer, nor based on an excessive production of the wants of all the community, but is the result of a de pression produced artificially by combinations of capitalists having no regard to the Iuw of supply and demand, and Whereas, We can not with safety longer evade the vital importance involved in the ones t:on of protection to this treat interest, nor longer remain submissive to the encroachments of powerful combinations funned lo control our products ami to hold us in the defenceless posi tion we now occupy; uud. Whereas; Legislation has furnished no ade quate remedy for these evils. Be it Jl'folcrd, That such measures be taktn rs shall establish; lawful and just organisation that shall have the power to adjui the prices of farm products in harmony with the supply and demand, remunerative to the farmer and reasonable to the consumer. li'natrfl. That we proceed at once to a per manent organization, to which we invite the earnest, hearty and practical co-operation of every producer and consumer in the land, hav ing for its object the protection of the farmers, steel: growers and feeders" interests; the object of which shall be the controlling of shipments of thc agricultural products by a system of central and shipping agencies to be appointed by the president of this association; and that this convention at once proceed to elect the president, vice-president and treasurer, who are hereby instructed to secure u charter, in cluding a charter member from each State aad Territory of the Mississippi valley, with ade quate and ample capital. Jl'iolrttL That thi- convention extend to Walter X Allen our thanks, and that we unani mously ask him to accept the presidency and general management cf the proposed organiza tion. Considerable feeling against the adop tion of the resolutions was expressed and a lengthy discussion followed. It was the sectiment of a large percentage ot the del egates that more time should be taken to consider so important a measure, and re sulted in the adjournment cf the convention until evening. At the evening session speeches were made by Judge Bailey, of Garden City, S. T. K. Price, of Illinois, and Job Mulvane and Judge Peffer of Topeka, Judge Bailey arguing for thc immediate adoption of thd resolutions received at the afternoon ses sion, and the others advocating the post ponement of further action for several months so that the movement might be carefully considered. Judge Moul ton, of Bates Comity, Missouri, said he had been deeply impressed with the arguments used against hasty action, and he believed they were right. His re marks carried more convict-on with them and the result was that the convention unanimously indorsed the resolutions in the main offered in the uftcrnoon, which embodied the scheme of the Farmers' Trust movement, and resolved that the whole matter should bo referred to a com mittee consisting of one member from each of tho States represented, except Kansas, which should be represented by two members. The members appointed were: For Kan sas, Walter N. Allen and W. A. Peffer; Illinois, S. T. K. Prime; Nebraska, Ddvirt Butler; Missouri, Cleveland F. Moulton; Indiana, William Crim; Iowa, Henry Wal lace. The meeting of the committee will be held July 5 in Topeka to formulate a con stituticn and by-laws of the Farmers' Trust, which is to report at a general meet ing of the farmers of the Mississippi V.dley States to be held at Topeka, Tuesday, No vember 3. The committee was also instructed to ex tend an invitation to every agricultural or ganization within the Northwester.i States and Terr.torics to send one delegate, to the meeting in November, and a resolution was adopted requesting the Governors of the States and Territories named to appoint five delegates, who should bo farmers, to attend and taka par, in the "ovember meetinp. , The nse of the mosquito has been at last discovered. Prof. Webster tays that " injurious organic matter in the water, instead of decomposing and poisoning people, is changed into 'wig gle tails,' which in due time become mosquitoes, and the winged matter Hies away, leaving the water purified to the extent of their ability to remove the impurities. If fish are kept in the water they eat the wiggle-tails, ' and grow large enough to serve as food for o n o man. Thus the poisonous ingredient of impure water becomes healthful food. Without mosquitoes most marshy or swampy land would be dan gerously insalubrious.' Yuet Sing-, a New York China man, engaged in the importation of tea, recently received a consignment of a few pounds of the very best, which cost him about six dollars an ounce. A person was drowning in East river, New York, last Saturday and an eye-witness hastilj- threw off his over coat and plunged in to save him. The "meanest man living" happened to be there and stole the coat. -- THE WESTERN. UNION? Dr. Xorrln Green Give the Hounc Com mittee Ilia Idea an to the Difference Be tween the Vovteri and tho lilghU or the Government. Wasuin gtox, May a Dr. Norvin Grcec president or the Western Union Telegraph, Company, appeared before the HouseCom mittee on Post-offices to present some facts upon the subject of the telegraph system, of the country. He first addressed him self to the Hopkins bill to establish a pos tal telegraph. Such an enactment, he said, would be a monstrous wrong. Tho rigbts of property were entirely ignored. The act of 1S&5, to aid iu tho construct-on and maintenance of telegraphs, provided that, if the Government should, establish a postal telegraph sys tem, it would take the property of the com panies accepting the provisions or the act at a valuation to bo ascertained by five persons. IL.der the provisions of that act four-fifths of the telegraph properties oC the country had been created and estab lished bebevmg and relying oa the good, faith of the Government. Having accepted the act the telegraph compauies had per formed their part of the compact faith fully, and that performance had saved the Government more than u million, dollars. The business of the Government had been about 200,000 a year, and the rates established by the Postmaster-General had been about half the usual rates of commercial messages. The Gov ernment business required instant trans mission at the busiest hour of the day to the detriment or tne commercial business. Therefore tne most exacting service tho Western Union was called upon to per form was done at a loss. If the Govern ment had a right to establish a telegraph, if it had a right to maintain a commercial telegraph business among the States, it certainly had tho right, not by tho power of eminent domain but by agreement, to take the property. In all fairness if the Government contemplated a telegraph business the only proper way to do so was to take the existing property and pay for it. A vindictive impulse. Dr. Green declared, was about the lust thing which .should govern a deliberative body, yet the bill un der consideration had tne appearance of being dictated by a vindictive impulse. The power or the Government and the right of thc Government were not the same. The Government might have the power to build telegraphs and to declare that any person doing a telegraph business would be a violator of thc law, but it had a right to do only what was right. He asked if it was right to confiscate all exi-ting properties which had been built up under the provisions of the act of 1S05. The Gov ernment did not need a telegraph. It would not benefit the Government. His remarks were not made with a view to selling the Western Union to the Government, as the Western Union did not waut to soil, but its purchase was the only proper basis en which the Government could go into the telegraph business. Dr. Green next turned his attention tc the pending Inter-State telegraph bills, and re cate t the s line criticisms upon them which he had made bef ire the Senate com mittce. He was particuarly bitter ii his reference to the dragnet subpecaas which had compelled the production of great files of messages. He referred to ihe action ol the United States Senate Committee in vestigating the Haves-Tilden election, and declared that he hoped never to see such unother outrage. He thought that Congress should pass a law on the subject. AN OLD MURDER. Discovery of the Murder of Chlneae Com mited tn l!:th Over u Tear Aco. San Fkancisco, May 11 Mail advices to-day brought the first authentic details of a wholesale murder of Chinese miners in the Snake River country, Idaho, nearly one year ago. At that time the deserted camp was found on the river bank and tho blood-stained conditition of thc huts and pieces of clothing found led to the supposi tion that a terrible crime had been com mitted. The bodies of several Chinamen who were known to have belonged to the camp were found floating in the river, and their condition was in corroboration of the theory of murder. Several arrests have been made lately, and the following facts connected with a most extraordinary and brutal massacre are given: It seems that in Ma;.- last a party of half e dozen miners left what is known as Douglas Cabin ostensibly to search foi sto.k. They were fully armed, and made their way to a high bluff overlooking the camp of the Chinese, who were known to have considerable money in gold dust and coin. Two men named Can field and Lnrue opened fire on the Chinese and killed tor men. The bodies were thrown into the river. The next day three of the parties returned. One poor Chinaman, who hud not been killed but severely wounded, had got into a boat and was working his way across thc river as best he could. ShcrtH after the murderers arrived a wind blewthe boat towards the shore where they were standing, and the Chinaman was dis patched without further ceremony. The assassins secured Slotf) from tho camp anc escaped arrest for nearly a year. Worked llimxolr Cp. New York, May 2. Assistant Cashiei Charles L De Baum, of the Park Nationa: Bank, has disappeared. A meeting of the directors was held to-day. Before It went into session Cashier Wright promised tc give the reporters a statement, but when it adjourned he declined to do so. All he would say was that the amount of the de falcation was 9.000; that De Baum entered the bank in a minor position twenty-one years ago and gradually worked up to thc position of assistant cashiei and that he would have probably been cashier in a short time had he gone straight. De Baum resigned his position April l'J, assigning ill health as the cause. Ariti-haloou Kepulilic-ano. New Youk, May 2. The second National Republican Anti-Saloon convention began this morning in the hall of Cooper Institute. Delegate- from all the States were ia at tendance. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Gnfti who introduced Dr. S. S. DeForcst, of Alabama, who opened pro ceedings by offering prayer. Chairman Griffin followed with an address, iu thc coure of which he said that thc only way in which this movement can be successful is to have the help of others that arc net in the movement. Will Adhere to the Leasui. Dcblis, May i At a private conference held yesterday the priests of West Clare discused the Papal rescript against the League. The speeches were of a defer ential character. No definite line of action was resolved upon. The people of Claro seem indifferent towards the rescript and are decided to adhere to thc entire pro gramme of the League. Tlorcottln;; Diuinexa Men. OiunA, Neb., May 2. The tradesunion3 of this city in support of the striking brick layers and stone cutters have proclaimed a boycott against material furnishers who deal with non-union workmen and also against all business men dealing with them. t m Terence Mullen. Santa Fe, N. M.. May 2. Terence Mul len, who served eighteen months in the Hlinois penitentiary for an attempt to steal the body of President Lincoln, has been lodged in the penitentiary here for an at tempt to defraud the Government. He was convicted in Southern New Mexico of per jury in connection with the entry of public lands of the Territory and sentenced to four years' hard labor and 81,000 fine. An Incorrigible Saltan. Tangier, May 2. The Sultan rernse3 to arbitrate the differences between Morocco and the United States in reference to tho men imprisoned at Rabat, and the disputo aas been reopened. K J r i; - , . ' ..'