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TON COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
rCBLISHKD BY LANGFOB D St STOKE.
DEWEY LANCFORD, Editor. -
GIAT BEND.
- - - KANSAS.
THE WORLD AT LAKQE.
Summary of the Dally News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
' In response to a request from the Com
missioner of Pensions, one hundred clerks
in his bureau have volunteered to work
extra hours without pay upon the Mexican
pension claims filed under the act of Janu
ary 29, 18S7.
Senator Fbte, whose retaliation speech
was not much relished in England, visited
the House of Commons the other day, while
in London, and was invited by the Speaker
to a seat in the diplomatic gallery.
The following is the inscription on a brass
tablet which has recently been placed in
"the window in the south transept of St.
John's Church, at "Washington: "Thi in
scription in memory of Chester Allan Ar
thur is placed here by the vestry. He was
the twenty-first President of the United
BtgleB, a worshipper of the church, and in
1884 erected the window to the memory of
his wife. He .died November IS, 1SS6."
Commissioner Colman has returned to
"Washington, having completed the arrange
ments for the use of the Warmouth planta
tion in Louisiana for experiments in cane
Bugar making by the diffusion process.
Considerable improvement was reported
in the condition of Recorder Trotter at
Washington and his physicians are quite
hopeful of his recovery.
In the President's mail the other day was
a letter postmarked Brooklyn, N. Y., con
taining a $500 gold certificate and a note
saying: "The money is for customhouse
duty." It was sent to the Treasury De
partment and placed to the credit of "con
science." Assistant Attorney Gfxerai. Mont
gomery has decided that Indians who have
received less land than is provided for
in the Severalty act are entitled to suf
ficient more to make the entire quantity al
lowed. Postmaster General Vilas has issued a
cirCOlar to postmasters urging them to
commend the special delivery system to the
people as worthy of confidence.
The President has directed the allotment
tjf lands in severalty to the Indians on
the Warm Springs reservation in Ore
gon. This is the first action taken under
the Indian Severalty act which was passed
by the last Congress.
Commissioner Spares, of the General
Land Office, has created a contest board to
examine and decide all contests in the pre
emption public land division"!
Charles S. Fairchild has been appointed
to succeed Manning as Secretary of the
.Treasury. He had already acted for a con
siderable period .in that capacity, conse
quent upon Mr. Manning's sickness.
9 THE EAST.
It has been discovered that James Kear
ney, of the law firm of Thain & Kearney, of
New York, who is the last man reported as
an alleged swindler and a fugitive, has
taken from $80,000 to $110,000 ia cash with
him.
liO4 Myers, the American runner, beat
"W. G. George, of England, in a 1,000 yards
race at Sydney, Australia, the other day
by six yards.
The Staynor-Ives party held a conference
with the Rice-Thomas party at New York
on the 29th in relation to the Baltimore He
phio purchase. The conference was said
to have been in relation to the Erie road
joining the system which was to operate
the Baltimore & Ohio when the control was
transferred, but no definite particulars
. could be obtained.
Joseph Sommers, who dislocated his neck
2ast October, died in Brooklyn on the 2'Jth.
His case was remarkable, the fact, of living
so long under the circumstances being un
paralleled. The dwelling house of Matthew Massick
at Ludlowville, ten miles from Ithaca, N. Y.,
burned early the other morning, and Mas
sick and his three children perished m the
flames.
At a meeting1 of the Boston Chamber of
- Commerce recently a committee was ap
pointed to confer ith the trunk line man
agers and, if necessary, to appeal to the In
terstate Commission in regard to unjust
discrimination against New England in
freight charges.
David Dicker,, owner of a number of
canal boats carrying coal- between New
York City and Elizabethport, N. Y., has
asked the United States Circuit Court to
enjoin the Baltimore & Ohio railway from
bridging the Arthur Kill.
John Maxwell's leather manufactory at
North Winchester, Mass., burned recently;
loss, $100,000.
The Pennsylvania railroad has been run?
Sling local passenger traffic between New
Brunswick, N. J., and Jersey City for the
past few days in cars heated by steam from
the locomotive.
Tns captain and mate of the schooner
Maria A.- Davis were rescued in mid-ocean
Ularch 24 and brought to New York by the
bark Scot's Bay. Four of the crew had
died of starvation.
General Roswell S. Ripley died
from apoplexy while at breakfast in New
JYork on the 2'Jth. He served in the Con
""federate army and was the officer who di
rected the fire on Fort Sumter.
The Atlantic Cigar Company of West
0 field, Mass., is accused of infringing the
union label used on cigar boxes by the Ci-
gar makers' Union and suit has been begun
TnE Connecticut Senate, by n vote of 20
tto 3, passed the Ten-hour law for women
ana cnuuren, already passed by the House.
It is the same as tho Massachusetts law.
An amendment -exempting mercantile es
tablishments was rejected by IS to 5.
An attempt was made the other night at
New York to poison Miss Agnes Herndon,
. the actress. A box of fruit was sent to the
lady and after she had partaken of a por
tion of it she became very sick. It is be
lieved to have been the work of a "crank'
admirer from whom she received a letter
threatening dire results in case she rejected
Ais suit.
At Buffalo, N. Y., recently Patrick
Walshof New York, adopted the Hebrew
faith, was circumcised and was married to
Lena Levi, a young Jewess, also of New
York.
Ax explosion of gas occurred in the Van
fStorck mine of the Delaware & Hudson
Canal Company at Scran ton. Pa., the other
morning. Eight men were injured, two
seriously.
The Western Window Glass Manufac-
turers Association met at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
on the 30th and reaffirmed the iron clad
rule regarding the price list. Trade was
reported bpisk, with the spring outlook
very encouraging. A small advance in
prices will probably be made shortly.
. A robber boarded an express car on the
"West Shore road just before reaching
Utica, N. Y on the night of the 30th. shoot
ing Messenger Lake in the shoulder and
then robbing the safe, afterward making
his escape. The a in taint taken was not
jtnown.
the UAE
Twin? a clam fishers, named John Ilea-
drick, Charles Hendrick and Harry Gold
epink, who went out at Norwalk, Conn., tho
other morning in a yawi, nave not oeea
heard from since. It was feared they were
lost in the gale.
A PREMATcaB blast at West Roxbury,
Mass., recently resulted in the death of
.Tnwr.h Holland. A. Ledeeman, ana tne
wounding of an assistant, Thomas Glynn.
One of the cables or tne commercial
r"owirt PnitinanT was damaered by ice re
cently. A repair steamship was sent out
from New x one.
Edward M. Newman, bookkeeper for
N. Levenson & Co., wholesale clothiers of
New York City, who failed recently, has
been arrested charged with the embezzle
ment of over $75,000.
The strike of the workmen on the great
Equitable building in New York City has
ended in a victory for the men, the non
union electric light workers being re
moved. At a meeting of the Grant monument
fund trustees in New York City it was re
ported thaj. tho fund amounted to $120,S45.
The New York Senate has passed the
High Liquor License bill, which was passed
by the Assembly a few days ago. The
measure has been a party one Republicans
for, Democrats against. The bill now goes
to the Governor, who, it was generally be
lieved, would almost certainly veto it.
The New Jersey Senate has passed the
bill giving women the right of suffrage in
school elections.
John Godfrey Saxe, the poet, died at
Albany, N. Y., on the 3lst. He wa born
at Highgate, Vt., June 2, 1S16.
The Stewart sale was concluded on the
31st, with the disposal of the library. The
aggregate receipts were about SOOOjOUO.
One man was killed and three" fatally in
jured by an explosion in the boiier works at
Erie, Pa., the other day.
New York ticket brokers pretend not to
be in the least apprehensive of the results
of tho agreement of the railroads not to pay
any more commissions.
TammaNy has passed resolutions con
demning the Crosby High License bill.
Resolution were also adopted condemning
Lord Salisbury's Irish policy and sympa
thizing with the Irish people.
THE ITEST.
E. S. Moon and William Walton, residents
of Warsaw, Ind., were duck hunting re
cently. Both raised their guns to fire, when
Walton's foot slipped, and in falling he was
struck in the head and neck by the load
from Moon's gun, killing him instantly.
The Government canal at Keokuk. Iowa,
was opened on the 28th for general naviga
tion. Alexander Goldenson, the artist who
killed the school girl, Mamie Kelly, at San
Francisco, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree.
Two sheep herders were killed and two
wounded by cowboys at a water hole near
Grant's Station, N. M., recently. One of
the cowboys was wounded.
Two hundred and fifty buildem of the
United States met in Chicago on the 20th
and organized the National Builders' Asso
ciation. "The ship C. B. Sutton has been chartered
by tho American sugar refinery, of San
Francisco, to load a full cargo of Hawaiian
sugar for New York. This is the first su
gar cargo ever chartered for New x ork.
News has been received at Albuquerque,
N. M., of a quarrel between Navajo and
Zuni Indians at Defiance. Settlers feared
a war between the tribes would result.
Hon. Thomas C. Hetnolds, ex-Lieuten
ant Governor of Missouri, committed sui
cide at the St. Louis custom house on the
80th by plunging down the elevator shaft
from the third floor. He fell a distance of
eighty feet and crushed in his skulL The
cause of the rash act was mental derange
ment, superinduced by malaria.
Sam Turner, the well known hotel clerk
and part proprietor of the Grand Pacific,
Chicago, died on the 30th. Mr. Turner was
one of tho oldest and most popular hotel
clerks in the country.
TnE trial of Dr. James Hodges, who ex
ploded a bomb in the Grand Opera House in
fcan trancisco on February 9, durmgPatti's
concert, took place on the 31st. Hodges tes
tified that he had gone to the opera with the
intention of ending his life while Patti was
singing, so that he could be her page in the
spirit land. The jury brought in a verdict
of guilty of the chargeof assault to murder.
The Nebraska Legislature adjourned sine
die March 31.
J. B. Bolin's residence at Cedarvi!le,CalM
was dest.ro.Ved by fire the other night, Mr.
Bonn was absent at the time. His wife,
three boys and two girls were asleep when
the fire began. The girls escaped, but the
three boys, aged seven, ten and fifteen,
were burned to death. Mrs. Bolin was seri
ously injured while trying to rescue the
children.
A dispatch was received in Kansas City
from Governor Marraaduke stating, in re
ply to a question concerning militia com
panies, that he was about to disband all the
companies of militia in the State.
TIIK SOUTH.
There was a novel contest at Nuttall.
Fayette County, W. Va., the other day,
witnessed by a very large crowd. .It was a
fight between a vicious mountain wildcat
and an English bulldog. After a hot fight
of several hours the dog won by killing the
cat.
A resolution was passed recently in tho
lower house of tho Texas Legislature, ap
pointing a committee to investigate the con
dition of tho female inmates of the State
Lunatic Asylum at Austin It is generally
believed the investigation will develop ab
horrent abuses that will shock the public.
Hiram Barijt, one. of Tennessee's oldest
printers and publishers, died at Knoxville
the other day, aged eighty-six.
A. P. Rachal, a stock dealer, has entered
a $30,000 damage suit at San Antonio, Tex.,
against Dun's Agency for circulating in
formation affecting his credit.
Dispatches received by Bradstreet's
state that the Gate City Company of At
lanta, Ga., of which the fugitive Walter E.
Lawton was the treasurer and secretary,
has been placed in the hands of a receiver.
Its capital stock was $200,000.
The Soddy Coal Company's property,
near Chattanooga, Tenn., has been pur
chased by Cincinnati capitalists for about
$500,000.
United States Senator John II. Rea
gan was thrown to the ground as he was
mounting a borse on his . farm near Pales
tine, Tex., recently and his spine was in
jured. Ho will be confined to his bed for
some time.
A special from Ackworth, Ga., of the
29th, states that a terrible hail storm ac
companied with wind, had struck that place.
Two dwellings were demolished and the
occupants had a narrow escape from death.
The West Point cotton mills, Columbus,
Ga., burned the other night together with
a grist mill adjoining. The pickers room
and warehouse, with 2,000 bales of cotton,
were saved. The mills were insured for
$200,000. They were the. best equ ipped duck
mills in the South.
Reports from Virginia indicate serious
damage to vegetables from the snow and
ice of the 29th.
The Southern Pacific railway is reported
to be discharging all its baggage masters
and imposing tho duties on express messen
gers to save expenses.
Tbb investigation ui .ao xiritish Admiral
ty scandal is reported involving savers
high naval officials.
Two British officers, while out hunting
recently in Egypt accidentally wounded
some passing Bedouins. A scuffle ensued,
in which one of the Bedouins was killed
and the officers badly hurt, narrowly escap
ing being hanged by the infuriated Arabs.
A riot occurred in Panama on the 27th,
owing to a military officer resisting arrest.
Three men were killed and several ,
wounded. I
An international exhibition of flour mill- j
ing machinery and apparatus connected
with bread making will be held in Milan,
Italv. in May and June. American ma
chines are wanted. .
Lon Mters. the American runner, beat
W. G. George, of England, in a 1,000 yards
race at Sydney, Australia, the other day by
six yards.
The Dauntless yacht arrived at Queens
town, Ireland, on the 23th. S.he wa3 some
what damaged by wtormy weather.
The members of tho extreme left in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies have passed
resolutions censuring the Government for
entering into alliance with Austria and
Germany.
Tennyson's jubilee ode was the subject
of general ridicule throughout England. It
was held to be a bad imitation of Walt
Whitman.
In the cases of ths slave ships recently
captured by the British sloop Dolphin a
court martial adjudged the vessels prizes
and gave them to their captor3. The crews
of the slavers were publicly flogged and
tho slaves were ordered liberated at the
British station on the Red Sea.
President Berg, of the Danish Folks
thing, has resigned for political reasons.
Small-pox has become epidemic in Sancti
Spiritus, Cuba.
The French Chamber of Deputies adopted
the supplementary credits by a vote of
300 to 204.
New South Wales has adopted stringent
rules against the introduction of foreign
criminals.
A Queenstown dispatch says: Captain
Samuels, of the Dauntless, attributes his
defeat by the Coronet to the interference
of Mr. Colt, owner of the Dauntless, who
was on board the vessel. Captain Samuels
and his New York crew" have left the
Dauntless.
A dispute which will undoubtedly result
in a duel took place recently in the corridor
of tho French Chamber of Deputies. The
disputants were Count Douvelle and M.
Sansloray, Deputy for Arilge. The Count
struck the Deputy.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Cunard Steamship Company at Liverpool
.recently the chairman announced that the
British Government granted the company
an annual subvention of $83,000 for five
years for carrying mails.
A mob of Greeks attacked with stones
the residence of the American missionaries
in Smyrna. The American legation has
asked the Porto to send a man of-war to
Sm3'rna to protect the missionaries.
A wholesale merchant of St. Petersburg,
worth millions, has been killed by a man to
whom he refused to give 80,0u0 roubles to
ward the nihilist fund. The murderer was
arrested.
Authentic information has been received
from St. Petersburg, that a fresh attempt
had been made upon the Czar's life at the
Gatschina palace on the 29:11. The Czar
was not injured.
An extensive plot involving over 109 Rus
sian officers has been unearthed in the Cau
casus. The British Cabinet' lira decided to aban
don the clause of the Irish Criminal Law
Amendment bill which provides for the
changing of the venue from Dublin to Lon
don in certain classes of criminal trials,
thus practically removing the greatest
cause of the Liberal Unionist opposition to
the bill.
The reported loss of the steamer Eagle
has been confirmed by the discovery of
wreckage on the Bonavista Bay shore,
Newfoundland. The "crew numbered 250
men, and there was nothing to show that
any were saved.
Police Inspector Somerville and Con
stable Garrett, found guilty by a coroner's
jury of murdering Hanlon at Youghal, Ire
land, have been released oa their, ovva
recognizances.
Cloture was voted by 301 to 2"3 in the
British Commons on the 1st and further de
bate on the. Coercion bill was shut off.
Martin V. Mont. omeuy, the retiring
Commissioner of Patents, has been ap
pointed Associate Judge of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, in place
of Judge McArther, resigned.
The jurv of inquest in the Richmond Ho
tel fire, Buffalo. N. Y., by which fifteen
persons lost their lives, returned a verdict
recently recommending that the electric
light wires, which wero found to interfere
with the work of the fire department, be
put under ground, and censuring the pro
prietors of the hotel for having only one
fire escape on the building.
The remarkable case of William Kissane,
who has been under indictment in New
York for thirty-four years lor fcrgery,
caused considerable comment. Kissane
fled to California and is reported to be ex
tremely wealthy at present under an as
sumed name.
President Strong of tho Atchison, To
peka & Santa Fe Railway Company denies
absolutely that his company has purchased
or has auy interest in the purchase of the
Chicago &; Eastern Illinois road, lie de
clares that he has do information as to the
alleged sale beyond the rumors coming
from the street.
Rev. James Cuhran, of New York, has
been ordered to do penance foi sustaining
Dr. Mc Glynn.
The Wabash line passed out of the hands
of Receivers Tutt and Humphreys on the
1st.
The decrease cf the public debt during
March amounted to $12,S0S,407.
President Diaz opened the Mexican
Congress on the 1st. Nothing of great im
portance was outlined in his message.
Advices from St. Petersburg fully con.
firm the report that another 'attempt has
been made upon the life of the Czar. Oa
March 29 while the Czar was exercising in
the park connected with Gatschina Palace
he was fired upon by an officer of the army,
the ball passing close to his person. Ths
officer was immediately seized by attend
ants and imprisoned.
M. Antoine, protester delegate to the
Reichstag from Metz, has been expelled by
the German Government from Alsace-Lorraine
and conducted to the frontier.
An elevator loaded with girls fell five
stories in Chicago the other day but nons
were hurt.
Herb Most has issued another manifesto
against the capitalists and police.
The Dauntless has left Queenstown for
Southampton, where she will be over
hauled, prior to going on a cruise along tl
coast of Norway. She will afterwards visit
the Azores and then return home.
Judge Wade, of Helena, M. T., rules that
no more licenses shall be issued to travel
ing men for non-resident firms.
The Stonec Jttersl Association of Cincin
nati, Covington and Newport has decided to
close all shops until the employes make
! some settlement regarding wages and hour
of wor
A NOTABLE SUICiud.
at-Gorno Reynolds Suicide at St. XjomlM
by Juunpinc Don an Klevator Shaft
Cause or the Act.
St. Louis, March 3L Hon. Thomas C
Reynolds committed suicide at the custom
house yesterday afternoon by plunging
down the elevator shaft from the third floor.
He fell a distance of eighty feet and crushed
in his skulL The cause of the rash act was
mental derangement,, superinduced by hal
lucinations that he was about to become in
sane. A few minutes before two o'clock
he entered the building and sauntered inte
tho United States court room. Several
persons met him in the building and he
appeared in his usual humor. He
was seen to leave the United States
Marshal's office and stepping into
the elevator gate passed out of view. A
few minute's later he was brought out of
sub-basement dead. In his pocket was
found a letter to his wife, stating that two
years ago he contracted malaria at Aspin
wall and had failed to recover, the disease
settling in his spine. Recently he had been
troubled with insomnia and frequent nerv
ousness. Visions invited him to join his
dear friends, and, fearing lest he should bo
a burden to his wife by becoming a lunatic.
and his estate of $25,000 being in order, un
impaired and productive, he determined to
end his life.
Thomas C. Reynolds was born in Charles
ton, S. C, in l&fl. He studied in the Uni
versity of Virginia and continued his edu
cation in Germany, graduating at Heidel
berg, in 18-12. He spent one j-ear in the
University of Paris, and was admitted to
the bar in Virginia, in 1S44. He was secre
tary of the United states Legation to Spain,
in 1S48 and 1S49. In 1S50 be located at St.
Louis, and from 1S53 to 1S57, was United
States District Attorney. In lSiW he was
elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri on
the same ticket with the famous Governor
Claib Jackson, and in the civil war sided
with the Confederacy. At the close of the
war he went to Mexico and became very in
timate with Maximiiiun. In 1S6S he returned
to St. Louis. He was a member or the com
mission sent to South America about two
years ago in the interest of commerce with
the United States. In 1S54 ue fought a duel
with B. Gratz Brown, with rifles, at thirty
paces, on the island opposite this city, over
a political discussion. Mr. Brown was hit
in the knee, but Mr. Reynolds was not
touched. It is believed that Governor Rey
nolds only intended to maim Mr. Brown.
Governor Reynolds was married twice and
leaves his second wife, whom he married
three years ago, all his property.
PARNELL'S APPEAL.
Fltecerald Receives an Appeal From ths
Irish Leader l'or SyiKpatliy and Sup
port. Lincoln, Neb., March 30. The following
cablegram was received by Hon. John Fitz
gerald yesterday and the following reply
sent to Mr. Parnell
To Hon. John Fitzgerald, Lincoln, Xtb.:
House of Commons?, London, March 28.
The Coercion bill proposed to-niyht in the
House of Commons is the eighty-seventh since
the act of union eighty-seven years ago. It ulo
ts the most strinpent, tyrannical and uncalled
for by the state of affairs in Ireland. Never be
fore has a Coercion bill been proposed when
crime was so rapidly decreasing as compared
with previous years. The measure is aimed
against all open agitation and appears to be ex
pressly .designed for driving discontent beneath
the surface. It places all public speakers, writ
ers and conductors of newspapers absolutely at
the mercy of stipendiary magistrates, hold
ing their office at the pleasure of the
crown. It condemns the Irish speaking peas
ant of rack-rented Kerry to the tender mercies
Of s packed jury of Orangemen or landlords, or
to a jury of Englishmen at the Old Bailey in
London. The Liberal party, headed by Olad
stone, stands ns one man aguins this iniquitous
measure, and will fight shoulder to shoulder
with us in opposing it to the bitter last. It
seems impossible to believe that even the pres
ent House of Commons will continue to follow
the Tory Government in their mad course, and
good judges consider the measure will break
and ruin the Cabinet. We mast, however, pre
pare for the worst; and I confidently appeal to
the American people for that sympathy and
support which they have never withheld from a
people struggling for liberty. Pakneijl.
REPLY.
To Hon. CliarU S. Purndl, M. P., House of
Common, London:
Lincoln. Neb . March 9. Cable received.
League will double its efforts. Ireland is sure
of American sympathy and support in the
coming crisis. The Nebraska Legislature to
day, by a unanimous vote, passed resolutions
of sympathy with Ireland and condemning the
Tory policy of coercion. This and similar man
ifestations throughout this free country give
the lie to the slanders of the English press that
true Americans do not sympathize with Ireland.
This Rreat liberty-loving people of the United
States are entirely in sympathy with Ireland's
struggle for home rule.
John Fitzgerald, President.
Another Eiir'M Itubberr.
Utica, N. Y.. March 31. '-Telegraph
Huyt at Albany that I have been shot and
robbed." These were the words uttered
by Express Messr-nger Lake, running on
train No. 50 on the West Shore Road, which
arrived in Utica at 11:10 last night, when
he was found in his car bleeding from a
wound in his shoulder. While the train
was making the run between Clark's Mills
and this city, which only occupies seven
minutes, a party of men boarded it, so
the first report said, between the baggage
and express cars, shot tho messenger
and attempted robbery, but with what
result, or how severely the man is injured,
could not be learned, as a stop of only three
minutes was made here and all was con
fusion. "When the train reached Frankfort,
nine miles cast of here, Lake was attended
by a physician. Later information is to
the effect that there was but one assailant.
He entered the car and ordered the mes
senger to throw up his hands. The latter
did not at once comprehend him, and the
robber shot him. He then bound and
gagged him and rifled tho safe, but the
amount secured is not known.
Blaine in St. Louis.
S. Louis, March 31. The train bearing
James G. Blaine and party was delayed
east of here and did not arrive until half
past nine last night. The party was met at
the depot by two or three personal friends,
and were immediately driven to the LindeLl
HoteL where Mr. Blane was met by a polit
ically mixed committee of the Merchants
Exchange, who invited him to visit the ex
change. He accepted the invitation, and
will probably make a brief address to the
members. Mr. Blaine will remain here
two days but will make no political
speeches, and will accept of no formal hos
pitalitieti or attention from party friends.
m
The Hooker .Exclusion.
New York, March 30. A newspaper pub
lishes ui account of Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker's exclusion from the
funeral of her brother, Henry AVard
Beecher, and an interview with a friend of
Mrs. Hooker made it appear that the lady
was a great admirer of her brother and had
been harshly treated by his family. When
asked about the matter to-day Major Henry
B. Beecher, looking over the article, said:
That is Mrs. Hooker's story of her side of
the case. I do not like to eater into a dis
cussion of family matters, but yon may
say she was denied admission to the house
by me, and I assume the entire responsi
bility. Mrs. Hooker was excluded for
reasons which were just as strong then as
now, and as they always will be.'
MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE.
Opinion of Attorney General Bradford In
Jteaard to Municipal Suffrage for Women
What Officers They Can Vote For.
In response to an inquiry, the Attorney
General has written the following letter
defining the scope of the Municipal Suffrage
Topeka. March 9, 18S7.
Hon. L. U. Humphrey, Independence, Kan.:
Dear enator: In answer to yotfr favor of
the 18th inst., permit me to say, after consider
ing ths statutes bearing on the subject. I am of
the opinion that all incorporated cities of this
State that elect Justices and constables separate
from the township In which they are ituatcd
sre constituted townships for the purpose of
electing Justices of the peace and constables.
(See sec. 4, ch. 19a, comp. laws 15, and sec. 48,
ch. 110, comp. laws 1883.) Therefore justices of
the peace and constables, whether elected in or
out of a city, are township officers and not
municipal officers.
Women are by the statute of Kansas made
eligible to vote for municipal ofT.cers alone and
not township officers. Justices of the peace be
ing constitutional officers, only constitutional
electors can vote for their election. Constables
are not constitutional omcers, and the Legisla
ture without any change in the organic law
could have qualified women as electors
therefor. The statute of ltfc7, however,
confers municipal suffrage only, and qualified
women to rote for municipal officers only.
As justices and constables are township of
ficers and not municipal officers, the rule is the
same with reference to each, and women are
not qualified electors for the purpose of electing
justices of the . peace and constables. These
offices are elected, however, at the usual city
elections in cities of the first and tecond class,
at which municipal officers proper are "elected,
and precaution should be taken to prevent
such complications as might arise if unqualified
persons are permitted to vole for justices and
constables.
The mayor and city council of each city have
general power to enact such ordinances not re
pugnant to the constitution and laws of the
State as they dem expedient for the good gov
ernment of the city and the preservation of
peace and good order. They have power in my
opinion to provide by ordinance separate ballot
boxes, poll books and tally sheets for the pur
pose of holding city elections, at which time
both justices of the peace and municipal of
ficers are elected, and they may also provide
for the use of the city two poll books and two
ballot boxes to be used by one and the same
election board. The returns from the board in
each ward in a city being made in the manner
provided in the general election law,' but sepa
rate from each other, they can provide separate
ballot boxes, poll books and tally sheets for the
municipal election proper, from the election in
the city as a township for township officers,
that is to say, in one ballot box shall be depos
ited the ballot upon which is written or printed
the name of the candidate for justice of the
peace and constable, in the other ballot box
may be deposited the ballot containing the
names, written or printed, of the candidates for
the several municipal officers to be elected.
If the mayor and council of the cities of the
first and second class shall fail or neglect to
enact such an ordinance, the women themselves
can avoid the difficulty in a practical manner
by voting for municipal officers only, striking
from the written or printed tickets the names
of officers for whom there is any doubt of their
right to vote.
It is the duty of all good citizens and nil city
governments to 6ee that the intention of the
Legislatures in enacting this wise and just law
is not nullified. All city councils should by
ordinance such as above suggested, make it im
possible for complications to arise such as can
be imagined if no action is taken.
Women now for the first time are invested
with this incalculable power for good in tho
purification of politics, and see to it If no ac
tion is taken by the present city governments,
that by no act of theirs shall the will of the
Legislature bo defeated.
It seems to rae there are good reasons outside
of the question of women voting for municipal
officers at the election for holding that the bal
lots for municipal officers and for justices of the
peace au.1 constables should bu cast in a
separate box other than the one for mu
nicipal officers is deposited. The poll
books and ballots cast for justices of the
peace and constables must necessarily be
canvassed by the county commissioners and
should be returned to the county cleric. The
poll books and ballots cast for the municipal of
ficers are canvassed by the city council, and the
result declared by them.
Hoping that this explanation is satisfactory, I
sin, yours most respectfully,
S. 11. UitADFOKD, Attorney General.
ADULTERATION.
Extent to Which Adulteration of Splcas
and Condiment 1'reva.ils.
Washington, March 31. Tho chemists
of the Department of Agricultureundcr the
direction of the commissioner have for a.
year or more been investigating the extent
and manner of food adulteration practiced
in this country, and a report covering sev
eral branches of the work is in process of
preparation. That portion relating to
spices and condiments, prepared by Clifford
Richardson, is already completed. The in
vestigations show that no other kinds of
human food are adulterated to such an ex
tent. Of twenty samples of ground cloves
examined only two were pure. The others
had suffered the extraction of their essen
tial oils and had been polluted by the
addition of clove stems, allspice
and husks of various kinds. Oi
eight samples of cayenne pepper oily
one was pure. Of ten samples of must.trd
none were pure, unchanged mustard,
though several had only suffered the loss
of their fixed oil. Others, however, con
tained quantities of wheat flour, the spuri
ous matter being in some cases two-thirds
of the compound. This made it ueees-ary
to add tumeric acid (harmless) to restore
the mustard color. Ten samples of all
spice were examined, eight of which were
pure, and four samples of cassia were all
pure. Of ten samples of ginger four were
pure, while only one out of thirteen sam
ples of black pepper was found
to bo what it purported to be.
A specimen sent from Baltimore
to a man who had an army contract was al
most entirely spurious. Cayenne pepper,
black pepper, busks and mustard hulls
were used to give flavor and pungency,
while "body" was supplied by ground
beans and rice and color by charcoal. Two
samples of mace out of five were pure and
of three samples of nutmeg examined all
were pure. Mr. Ilicharuson's experience
leads to the conclusion that the public
has the power in its own hands to
effect a reform in the matter of spice
adulteration. The quality of the article
is usually fixed by the retailer, who
names the price he is willing to pay. .The
grinder thereupon estimates the amount of
pure spice be can afford to put in, and fills
out the order with refuse. Mr. Richard
son incidentally mentions a New York
spice grinder who within a short
time worked off 5,000 pounds of cocoanut
husks.
Fatalities.
Ft. Eidweix, CaL, A pril 1. J. B. Bolins'
residence at Cedarville, this connty, was
destroyed by fire last night. Mr. Bolin wa3
absent at the time. His wife, three boys
and two girls were asleep when the fire be
gan. The girls escaped, bat the three boys,
aged seven, ten and fifteen, were burned to
death. Mrs. Bolin was seriously injured
while trying to rescue the children and is
in a precarious condition.
FATAL. EXPLOSION.
Eitic, Fa., April L One man was" Killed
and three fatally injured by an explosion in
the boiler works here yesterday. !
Jchn Godfrey Saxe, the poet, diea at
Albany, N. Y on the 31st..
PROMOTED.
Assistant Secretary Fairchild Appointed o 0
Mannlnra l'lace ' Maynard Succeeds
Fairchild.
IVAsnixGTOs, April L It was authorita
tively announced yesterday that the ap
pointment "of Charles 8. Fairchild, tho pres
ent assistant, as Secretary of the Treasury
would be made to-day, while tho new As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury would be
Isaac H. Maynard, of New York
Charles Stebbias Fairchild was born rft.
Cazenovia, N. Y., April 30, 1042, and his po
sition as a cabinet minister finds him in tho
prime of life and well fitted for the onerous-
jauors as neaa oi mo
Financial Department,
of the Government.
His father was for
niany years tho at.
torney for the New
York Central rail
road and is one of tho
eminent men of fiTew
York. The new Sec
retary of the Treas
ury received his early-oS
education at the"Meth
odist Seminary at
Cazenovia and en-
C. S. Fairchild. tered Harvard in 1S59,.
graduating from that institution with the
class of 1SG3. He theneutered the Harvard
law school and was admitted to tho bar ii
1SG5, and subsequently became one of the
firm of Hart, Hale, Schwartz Fairchild
one of the most successful legal combina
tions in New York. In 1S74 he was ap
pointed Deputy Attorney-General aud
in his first political position he so distin
guished himself that in the ensuing;
year he was nominated by the Dem
ocratic party for the Attorney Generalship
and was elected. He served in this capaci
ty for two years and they were eventful
ones for the people of New York because,
the canal ring was receiving the attention
of Governor, Tilden, and his Attorney
General cordially seconded his efforts to
rid the State of them and their methods.
Upon the expiration of his t&rtn asA.t-tornej'-General
Mr. Fairchild, in 157S visited.
Europe for the second time,. his first trip
having occurred in 1S71. While on the con
tinent the future Secretary made a careful
study of the monetary systems of the old
world, and when he returned to New
he had gained a valuable fund of informa- o
tion. From lSiv, when he returned from
Europe, up to the time ho was called to
Washington as Assistant Secretary" of tho e
Treasury Mr. Fairchild was practicing "Lis
profession in New York City. Tho
new secretary is a "very straightfor
ward man of business, easy .of ac
cess, for. it has been his boast sincfr
he came to Washington that his door has
always been open to callers, no inatter
what their business, and in this respect bo
has shown a marked difference from other
officials of the new administration. His
face is round and smoothly shaven, a.
closely clipped black mustache being con-
spicuous above the firm mouth, while in
stature he is slightly above the medium
height, compactly built and weighs about
ISO pounds. He is a firm believer in thg
efficiency of equestrian exercise, and every
evening at the close of business mounts his
smart bay roadster and rides at a canter
Ihrough the suburbs as on appetizer for
dinner. Socially he and his wife are very
popular and his hospitable mansion has al
ways been thronged during the gay season.
Mr. Maynard is the present Second Comp
troller of the Treasury, haviug been ap
pointed to that position by President Cleve
land on June 1, li&5. He made an excellent
record.
THE COMMISSION.
The Inter-State Commerce Coiriinlnxionrr
Meet autl Organize Juilge t'ooley Chair
man. Washington, April 1. Yesterday Messrs.
Cooley, Morrison, Schoonmaker aud Walk
er, four of the live members of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, called at t!u
White House and paid their respects to ther
President. Commissioner Bratfg did riot
arrive in the city in tirSe to go with them, 0
but called at tho Wfeite House shortly
afterward, and then joined his asso
ciates and au informal gather "h"g took
place. At three o'clock the commission
ers met by agreement at tho Interior
Department, where their commissions were
handed to them and the prescribed oath of
office administered. On motion of Colonef
Morrison Judgo Cooley was selected as
chairman of the commission. This action
was unanimous, aud was taken without
discussion, the members having all come
to the conclusion that Judge Cooley Was
best fitted for tho position. The coinmis-o
sion then proceeded to the temporary quar
ters selected for thein in the Jiooe building
on F 6treet just below "the Ebbitt House,.
and after an inspection of the rooms parted
with the understanding that another meet
ing should be held to-day for consulta
tion. No candidates for tho secretaryship
of the commission were proposed, and that
matter is still in abeyance. Frio to the se
lection of Judge. Cooley a chairntun,
Messrs. Morrison, Bragg and Schoon
maker, the three Democratic" mem
bers, held a conference, in which it,
was decided that in view of Judge
Cooley's long experience and eminence aS
a judge and in order to demonstrate to the
country that it was their object to promote
harmony and unanimity Colonel Morrison
should propose and Mr. Bragg sacoud Judge
Cooley's nomination. The first business
that will come before the board after Jls
organization will bo the fixing of the time
and place for the hearing of questions to bo
submitted by M. H. Smith,- vice president
of the Louisville & Nashville railroad, and
Virgil Powers, general commission jr of
pool rates for tho Southern ILaiUvay and
Steamship Company. These quc'stions re- 0
late to the long aud short haul provisioa3
of the Interstate Commerce act as it ap
plies to the railroads east of the Mississip
pi river, south of the Ohio and we3t of the-0
Potomac.
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Reducing the ffrovincet.
Berlin, March 3L Legislation for Al
sace-Lorraine is to be asrain delcgafed tothe
Reichstag. A bill will shortly be intro
duced to restore the status existing prior
tolSTy. The autonomous legislation of the
provincial committee and the secretaryship,
of state are to be abolished. If tfie provin
cial administration be modeled after the
Prussian provincial governorship the post
of stattholder will become doubtfuL While
Franco- discusses Germany's permanent- c
possession of Alsace-Lorraine Germany de
sires greater security against French ag
gression. Executions Suspended.
Berlin, April 1. Russian advices state
that the execution of the persons actually
concerned in the recent attempt" upon t he
Czar's life has been postponed in the hope
of obtaining further disclosures from them,
regarding the plot. The chief prisoners
are confined in the Sluesselbergfortfess
and the remainder in the St. Petersburgr
citadeL Quantities of explosives and nu
merous compromising papers have been
found in the house of a sister of oae of the-
prisoners. A General's wife and a doctor's .
wife, who were compromised in the inurder
of the late Czar, are implicated in the pres
ent plot. Some of the prisoners are stu
dents in female colleges, 'ihey -had a
quantity of money when arrested.
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