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liililliffl - ' . 1 ' ' - " OFFICIAL PAPER OP BARTON COUNTY. - ; VOLUME VI. GREAT BEND, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1889. j NUMBER 6. V5 THE WOBLD AT LARGE. Nummary of the Daily News. TTASniNGTON NOTES. The treasury accountants bare com rpleted an estimate of the cash value of the currency, coin and securities turned over to Treasurer Huston by ex-Treasurer JHyatr, and find the total amount to be -$722, 000. (XX). The United States Senators who are in vestigating trade relations with Canada 'tave goue to Sitka, Alaska, to study the ;-seal question. The Chicago & Alton road, through .Manager ChappelL has given notice to "Chairman Walker, of the Inter-State Rail way Association, that itraust have a more equitable proportion of the live-stock and -grain traffic from the Missouri river to Chicago or it will at once take the matter into its. own hands and drop rates low -enough to secure business. . The Navy Department has completed .and soon will issue advertisements calling or proposals for the construction of the new cruisers slightly larger than the "Yorktown, and ot 2,000 tons burden. The limit of cost fixed in the appropriation -act is $750,000 for each vessel. The United States cruiser Boston has 'been ordered to Hay ti on a secret mission. Assistant Secretary Tichekor has af , -firmed the decision of the collector at New. "York in assessing so-called vinegar as -wine. The importers claimed that the liquid, when shipped, was vinegar and -tinust have changed to wine during the voyage. The Treasury Department has decided "that knife sharpeners made of wood, steel .tand emery are dutiable as manufactures . in part of metal, and not as whetstones or -.manufactures of steel. The President has appointed B. F. Gil ' kersou, of .Pennsylvania, to be Second 'Comptroller of the Treasury; S. H. Holli--lay, -of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner of Customs of the Treasury Department, . and J3avil Martin to be Collector of Iu rternal Revenue for tbe Philadelphia dis trict Also Charles S. Zane, of Utah, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of HJtah. The' celebrated Twiggs swords which have been in the custody of the Govern ment since 1802, have been delivered by Secretary Windomto A. C-Myer, executor of tbe Twiggs estate. This is in accord -anc with the provisions of an act passed by the last Congress and the decision of tthe 'Court of Claims establishing the ownership of the swords. Louis ADiirr has been appointed pri vate secretary to Secretary Blaine, vice Thomas IL Sherman, appointed Consul to X.!verpooL , THE EAST. Heavy rains caused the upper reservoir of the Littleton (N. H.) Water and Elec tric Light Company, situated 850 feet --above the village, to burst the other night. "The reservoir covered about eight acres, -and the great body of water cams tearing down , Palmer brook, gullying it into a large river bed, uprooting trees and doing -considerable damage. m" TSKi kttcair6r wtAJS? boot andishoemantr-- xacturers of WestbOro, Mass., have failed -wfth $80,000 liabibilities and $30,000 nomi nal assets. They had attempted to do too '.targe a business for their capital. A general reduction of ten per cent, in wages has been made by the Shenango valley (Pa.) furnace operators. The cut affects 2,000 men. The annual examination of the Govern ment Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., took place on the 22d. The graduating class consisted of fourteen Indian pupils. Sec retary Noble, Senator Colquitt and Gov ernor Beaver spoke and Secretary Noble presented the diplomas. A disastrous rainstorm and freshet oc curred recently about Stillwater, N. Y., causing the canal to overflow and doing great damage to the crops. The Bourne mills corporation. Fall River, Mass., has decided after July 1 to -adopt a plan of profit-sharing .with their employes. The grand council of the Reformed Episcopal 'Church met at Boston on the 22d. The granite works at South Riegate, "Vt., have gone into a receiver's hands. The liabilities are $56,000 and the asset3 $10,000. . The ex-convicts who arrived at New York recently from England, and claimed that they bad been assisted out by the Prisoners' Aid Society, of London, were sent back by the order of Collector Erhardt. The sarsh and door factory of George P. Cushman & Co., of New York, was burned the other night. Loss, $50,000.. Three firemen" were injured during the fire. The trustees of the Hartford (Conn.) Theological Seminaay have voted to open icoursee of the institution to women on the -same terms as to men. The molders who returned to work at -Rathbone, Sard & Cc'a shops, at Albany, -N, Y., pending arbitration ot their dim culty, a proposed reduction of ten per cent, have quit work again because the 'firm' wanted to withhold the ten per cent. reduction from the men's wages, pending 'the decision of the arbitrators. A New York dispatch says that Henry W. Moore, the newspaper man who eloped "with Mrs. Norton from St. Long some Hime ago, deserting his family, has sepa rated from the woman. Edward E. Rice, the theatrical man- -ager, was recently incarcerated in Ludlow street jail. New York, for debt. He 'blamed the Inter-State Commerce law for , -his financial difficulties. . ueorge -jessup, cashier of the City -33a nx, ocranton, ra, has been arrested, -charged with embezzling $135,000. A HOT journal caused a wreck on the -jRrie railway near Binghampton. N. Y. -Fifteen freight cars were damaged and four tramps, who were riding in a box car, badly uurt Two young men were drowned recently off spectacle lsiana, noston Harbor, by the upsetting of a small canoe. THE WEST, Two men were drowned in the Milwan ifree river recently by the capsizing of the boat in which they were fish in jr. A disease, supposed to be hydrophobia! is epidemic in Trim Belle, Wis. School has been closed in the district and the children care strictly forbidden to leave home. Men have been engaged to kill all the stray -oogs in town. Joh.t Neai. was instantly killed and "Timothy Reardon fatally injured in a -stone quarry near "Shelbyville, Ind., the -other evening. In drilling holes for a blast the men struck an unexploded dynamite -cartridge. J. R. Williams, Democrat, has been elected Congressman in' the Nineteenth Illinois district, to succeed the late Mr. "Townshend. . T. S. Ridgeway was the Re - ipublican candidate. The Indians held big council at Stand ing Rock, Dak., recently and all agreed not to sign the treaty unless paid $11, 000, OQO for their land. - The body of Dr. Cronln, whose sensa tlonal disappearance at Chicago was at tended with so much mystery, has been found in a sewer at Lakeview. The head showed terrible wounds and tbe body was naked with the exception of a religions charm banging to his neck. News from San Francisco is to the ef fect that while there is reason to believe that the new cruiser Charleston will ulti mately succeed in fulfilling the contract requirements, much remains to be done upon the vessel, and probably at the Gov ernment's expense before this expecta tion is realized. Ice formed in pools and tbe ground was frozen stiff in the interior of Wisconsin tbe other night by a cold snap. The straw berry crop, which promised to be very large, is ruined. The celebrated Carter divorce case end ed at Chicago in favor of the husband, the wife being adjudged guilty of unfaithful ness. The National Association of Veterans of the Vicksbnrg campaign held it3 first meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., on the 22 d, Governor Hovey presiding. The Governor of Michigan has issued a proclamation quarantining against South ern cattle until November. Frank. L. and Howard G. Loom! a, and Edwin S. Jewell, officers of the Century Book and Paper Company, of Chicago, have been indicted by the grand jury for conspiracy to defraud. A man and a toy were instantly killed at Dundee, IIL, recently by the collapse of a barn which they were moving. The special meeting of the Transmis souri Association, which had been in ses sion in Chicago for two days, resulted in a disagreement as to what the relative rates on bullion should be from Colorado and Wyoming. The matter was referred to arbitration. Gifford & Sermon's shoe factory and Mowers & Co.'a wholesale creamery sup plies factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, were destroyed by fire the other day. Loss, $60,000. Large numbers of Mormons from Utah and Idaho are emigrating to British Columbia, where they have purchased several thousand acres of land. The west bound train on the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, which left St. Louis on the night of the 231, was wrecked three miles west of Sullivan, Mo., sixty eight miles west of St. Louis. Not a pas senger escaped unhurt and forty-five were seriously injured, though no deaths were reported. Investigation showed that the train had been maliciously wrecked, spikes and fish-plates being removed from a rail. A mob threatened a serious riot at Guth rie, L T., recently because of the eviction of a squatter in accordancs with a decision of tbe board of arbitration. The presence of the military alone saved tbe city hall from attack. The Tanglade stage was robbed of the United States mails near Shawang, Wis., recently. Great damage has been done tbe corn and pitta ti crops in the vicinity of Wabash. Ind., by freezing weather. A son and daughter of John Bolter, of Fort Atkinson, Wis., were drowned re cently while returning from a fishing ex cursion. George Ctrrueu and his team -of horses were killed by lightning near Murdock, IIL, the other day. One of the Milwaukee Chinamen ac cused of outraging little girls and whose arrest led to rioting has been found guilty and will be sent to the penitentiary for thirty-five years. The sheriff of San Miguel County, N. M., arrived at Trinidad, CoL, the other day with six prisoners who had stolen 500 horses from ranches in San Miguel Coun ty. Three hundred and fifty of the stolen animals were found in their possession being driven toward Montana. A post-office has been established at a point nine miles north of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, and twenty-four miles north of Purcell to be called Moore. Albert M. Pettit has been appointed postmaster. Terrible destitution is said to exist among tbe striking miners in Clay Coun ty, Ind., and Indianapolis has, been ap pealed to for aid. TUE SOUt3? Great damage was done in Harrison County. W. Va., the other day by a terrific hailstorm. A wreck occurred on the Missouri, Kan sas & Texas the other night eight miles north of , Temple, Tex. The engineer, whose name was Davis, from Denison, was killed and two brakemen were fatally wounded. Seventeen cars were piled in a mass. No cause was known for the wreck. Forest fires are doing considerable damage among the fine timber about Plaquemine, La. The centennial celebration of the estab lishment of the Catholio Church of the United States was begun on the 23d in the Carroll memorial church at Hyattsville, Prince George's County, Md., by a memo rial mass in honor of Archbishop Carroll, the first Roman Catholic prelate of the American hierarchy. The residence of Rev. F. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, in Princess Anne County, Va., was burned the other night and he, his two daughters, next to the oldest son and a niece visiting him were consumed by the flames. His wife. Miss Ella Bid good, tbe governess, and two small chil dren escaped. Dick Hawks, charged with the murder of his wife and child at Birmingham, Ala., has been sentenced to be hanged July 12. Rev. Henry Greenfield Schorr, as sistant rector of St Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Md., com mitted tuicide recently by blowing his brains out with a pistol. He was twenty nine years of age and had ben in his present position since last October. A love affair was supposed to have deranged his mind. The east-bound Texas & Pacific express was robbed by two men recently, who took $15,000 from the express car. The drowning of Revs. John and J. R. Moxley, father and son, is reported. They were fishing in a lake some miles from Batesville, Ark. Both were well known Baptist ministers. GEXEBAL. A collision occurred on the river near Montreal recently between the royal mail steamer Polynesian of the Allan line and the steamer Cynthia of the Donaldson line, resulting in the sinking of the latter vessel and the loss of eight of her crew. Yellow fever has broken out with ter rific virulence in Vera Cruz, Mexico. The bark Lizzie Williams, with a cargo worth $150,000, was wrecked off British Columbia April 22 and six Chinamen and two seamen were drowned. Right Rev. Pierce Power, Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Waterford and Lismore, Ireland, died recently. The trial of General Boulanger by tbe French Senate has been postponed until August. v The women employed in the rice fields at Medina, Italy, struck recently. They pillaged a number of baker shops. Troops were ordered to the scene. . The Spanish steamer Emellano, loaded with cotton, arrived at Liverpool, Eng., the other day with her cargo on fire. The flames were extinguished only alter a hard fight. A Pan-Sxrvian plot has been discov ered in Bosnia; and numerous Russian in triguers have been arrested. . Fifty-kins miners at Merthyr-TydvIL Wales, were entombed by the caving in of the roof of th-j colliery recently, but only one was killed. The trial of Baussere, the chemist; for poisoning fourteen persons, was begun at Havre, France, on the 23d. It is stated that the Pope will protest against the ; erection of the proposed monument in honor of Giordonano Bruno, the Italian philosopher, who was burned as a heretic in 1600. The late John Bright, the noted English leader, left his estate, valued at 86. 184. . to his children. No public bequests were made. The deepening of the harbor of Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, has been com pleted and the largest vessels can now enter the port. Two men in Salvador recently stripped a coffee tree of its branches, sharpened its apex and then impaled on it an unfortu nate woman, who died shortly afterward. John D. Washburn, the new American Minister to Switzerland, presented his credentials to the President of the Alpine Republic. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended May 23 numbered 229, compared with 252 the previous week and 225 tbe corresponding week of last year. Because of tbe adverse vote on the proposition to increase tbe tax on cereals from other countries, the Queen Regent of Spain has dissolved tbe Cortes. The German Reichstag has adjourned. The work of evicting tenants was con tinued on the Olpihert estate, Ireland, on the 24th. The evictors met with a desper ate resistance, and during the struggle Inspector Duff was badly wounded. The Lord Mayor of London has pre sented Captain Murrell and the officers and crew of tbe Missouri, which rescued the lost Danmark's people, with many testimonials and a laudatory letter from Prince Bismarck. The sessions of the American, British and German diplomats engaged in the ef fort to straighten the Samoan troubles in Berlin have ud to this time assumed the appearance of a veritable love feast. There are reports, however, that this serenity is not likely to continue. It is rumored In diplomatic circles in London that there is a serious hitch in the nego tiations. The house of one of the jurymen in the trial of tbe alleged Socialists at Mods, Belgium, was damaged by tbe explosion of a dynamite cartridge. It is supposed that it was placed in the house by some one who wished to intimidate the jury man. The Atlas line steamer Alvena sailed from New York for Greytown, Nicaragua, on the 25th, carrying the first batch of men and machinery, for the construction of the interoceanic canal. At Greytown the engineers of tbe surveying expedition of 18S7-8, who have remained in Nicara gua in tbe service of the construction com pany will meet the Alvena passengers and supervise the labor. . Tbe Canadian Government announces that an order in council has been passed reducing the clearance fees charged on American vessels entering and leaving Caeadian ports on the' great lakes to 5C cents for vessels of any tonnage. Clearing house returns for the week ended May 25 showed an average increase of 23.4 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the in crease was 29.5i Several warehouses at Lubeck, Ger many, burned, tbe other day. The fire raged furiously and defied all efforts to put it out. The-loss was estimated to be two million marks. Minister Lincoln presented his cre dentials to Queen Victoria on the 25th. The British man-of-war Surprise was run ashore at Syracuse the other day after colliding with and sinking the steamer Vesta. The man-of-war was full of water. TIU5 LATEST. Dallas, Tex., May 2& Last night an east-bound passenger train on the Texas & Pacific road was robbed of $1,500. When the train was a few-miles beyond the city limits two men masked, with drawn revol vers and knives, rushed into the express car, beat Messenger Wray insensible, took his keys and rifled the safe. They then pulled the bell cord, stopping the train and escaped. One of the robbers is be lieved to be the "Lone Highwayman" who has been robbing trains in Louisiana. A posse is in pursuit. Toronto, Ont., May 26. Edward Stowe, of New Orleans, one of the members of the Haverly-Cleveland minstrel troupe play ing at the Grand, discharged ;a pistol at Cleveland, the manager, last evening dur ing the performance of the third act. He claimed that tbe latter owed him money which Cleveland denied. Stowe was locked up. Cleveland was not hurt, but there, was a good deal of excitement in the theater for a time. Boston, May 26. Samuel T. Greene, aged thirty-nine, was stabbed last night by' his wife, Sarah, and is thought to be dying. The woman claims that during a quarrel over a trivial matter her husband attacked her and that being unable to es cape she use the knife in self defense. She was locked up. Chicago, May 27. Yesterday while John Mitchell was passing tbe Tacoma building on Madison street, corner of La Salle, a piece of iron weighing about five pounds fell from the roof of the building, which is fourteen stories high, striking him on the right side of the head, inflict ing a wound laying bare the skull. The doctors pronounce the wound not fatal, although the skull was fractured. Boston, May 27. About nine o'clock yesterday morning the small canoe Dude was capsized oft Spectacle island, Boston harbor, and her occupants, two young men, were drowned while attempting to reach tbe shorewhich was not more than 400 yards distant. Wheeling. W. Va.. May 27. Saturday the top of Baker Bros.' lime kiln, near Martinsburg, caved in, carrying with it Richard Jackson, a stone breaker. Jack son's body caught about the shoulders, where be was held in tbe fiery mass until he was slowly burned to death. London, May 27. The British man-of-war Surprise was run ashore at Syracuse yesterday afternoon after colliding with and sinking the steamer Vesta. The man-of-war is full of water. St. - Petersburg, May 27. Two enor mous bombs have been found in Odessa beneath streets, along which royal visi tors usually pass on their way. It is sup- posea nai'tue oomus oau laiu huius yeai s in the positions in which they were found. Lisbon. May 26. A dynamite bomb was exploded at the door of the Civil Commis sioner's house at Oporto yesterday, smash ing the windows of the building. Loxdon, May 26. General Boulanger's supporters have decided to contest all the elections in France. . - : KANSAS STATE NEWS. The waterworks bridge across the Kaw river at Kansas City, Kan., was washed away by the sudden rise on the 19th. The loss was estimated at $20,0001 The State of Kansas through Governor Humphrey received recently an exquisite souvenir of the New York centennial. The gift is a plate of delicate china deco rated with unique symbols. In the center is the monogram "M. W.," radiating from which is a golden halo reaching to an endless chain, the links of which enclose the names of the States in the Union in 1789. The souvenir is otherwise embel lished with, appropriate inscriptions and designs. Pension Agent Glick has . had placed to his credit $950,000, which, added to the $275,000 on hand, will be used for the pay ment of pensions June 1. The appropria tion is $25,000 short of the amount needed, so that while $1,250,000 will be drawn upon, tbe pensioners newly added to the list will by order of Commissioner Tanner be compelled to wait until tbe July pay ment for their money. Over two hundred delegates attended the meeting of the Kansas Travelers' As sociation recently held at - Hutchison. The officers elected were: -President, J. F. Kimball, Salina; first vice-president, C F. Byrens, Emporia; second vice-president, Fred Warden burg, Atchison; secre tary R. J. Hans, Emporia; treasurer, Harry Devlin, Leavenworth. It is the verdict of all that Kansas never before at this season had such splendid crop prospects. Fruit of all kinds promise a mammoth yield. A late fire at Fort Scott destroyed the furniture warobouse of the Stout Furni ture Company and the stock of A. W. Benjamin. The total loss was estimated at $25,000, and the total insurance about $18,000. The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, met at Leavenworth on the 21st with 180 lodges represented and 600 Knights pres ent. The following officers were elected': Grand chancellor, Morgan Caraway, of Great Band; grand vice-chancellor, N. L. Hallowell, of Kingman; grand prelate, W. T. Walker, of Wellington; grand mas ter of the exchequer, George Link, of Leavenworth; grand keeper of records and seal. G. J. Neubert, of Kansas City, Kan. ; grand master at arms, F. P. Craig; grand inner guard, Joseph Mayrath, of Linwood. While Willie Sheeban, eighteen years old, and his ten-year-old brother were on the Union Pacific railroad bridge at Kan sas City, Kan., the other afternoon, the elder boy lost his balance, fell into the river and was drowned. Topeka has discovered that she has no city ordinances forbidding opium joints,, and a number of Chinamen are running dens in that city. The defect is to be cured by proper legislation. The other day Thomas H. Fahs. a brake man on the Denver, Memphis & Atlantic railroad, was badly smashed 'while mak ing a coupling at Olcate, a station a few miles east of Larned. The drawheads passed each other, catching his head and body between the cars. Levi A, Doane. an old citizen and promTnehtreal estate dealer of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery in the district court of Douglas County tbe other day and was sentenced by Judge Benson to two years in the penitentiary. He appropriated funds left him to loan and gave his client forge! paper, ex pecting to take it up before it became due. During a recent storm three horses be longing to Thomas Highly, of Douglas County, were struck by lightning and in stantly killed. The assessors' returns show that Sum ner County this year has in cultivation 96,433 acres of wheat, 61,392 acres of oats, and 147,614 acres of corn. In March there were yet in farmers' hands 76. 73 J bushels of wheat and 853 386 bushels of corn. A JURY in the district court of Shawnee County recently awarded $250 damages tc James Halloran, who sued F. P. Baker, late owner of the Topeka Commonwealth, for $10,000 for libel. The Commonwealth and State Journal charged that Halloran belonged to a gang of toughs who stole from the Santa Fe at Lawrence. Halloran sued the State Journal last fall and was awarded $1 damages. Baker has filed a motion for a new trial. Matilda Powell, a colored woman fifty years old, dropped dead in front of her door in Kansas City, Kan., the other day. The Kansas Christian Sunday School Association closed it3 annual convention at Manhattan on the 23d. Two hundred delegates were in attendance. Over $1,100 were raised for the State work and $17,000 toward the endowment of Garfield Uni versity.' Leavenworth celebrated the opening o( her new coal mine the other day with, a trades display that astonished the na tives. Samuel F. Tafpan, wio was prominent In Kansas in the early days of tbe anti slavery agitation, has been appointed United States storekeeper at Baltimore, Md. Returns from the eleven counties com prising the Fourth Congressional district showed that General Harrison Kelley was elected to Congress by a majority of about 8,000. The total opposition tote was only about 1,500. I Miles Kirk, a wealthy farmer living nine miles north of Newton, went to his barnyard to quiet an infuriated Jersey cow the other night, when the animal sprang at him, caught him on her horns, threw him to the-ground and gored him horribly, laying bare his lungs, breaking his arms and tearing his stomach. It was feared his injuries were fatal. It was stated that the heavy rain of the 23d assumed the nature of a water-spout in tha vicinity of Lawrence and that much damage was done. The damage by hail was also reported to be considerable. For the week ended May 21 the stock yards at Kansas Citv, Kan., received: Cattle, 13,965; hogs. 49,053; sheep, 4,967; hcrses, 640. Tbe shipments were 7,622 cattle, 13,448 hogs,' 2,371 sheep and 401 horses. The storm of the 23d was particularly severe at Newton. Lightning struck a number of houses and tbe residence of Dr. Seater was completely wiecked and the occupants injured, but no one was killed. Andy Tiptak. a young man nineteen years old and a packing house employe, was recently drowned by the capsizing oi his boat in the Kaw river at Kansas City, Kan. A companion in tbe boat had a nar row escape from a like fate. Frank Krebs, cashier ot tne bank oi Horton, fell dead in the bank at that place tbe other morning. Death was caused by congestion of the heart Da. Stanton, eighty-seven years old, was recently killed by the cars at Ottawa. Two negroes, William Stamps and Win field Slatterly, recently got into a quarrel at Wichita because the former's chickens raided the latter garden, when Starnes drew a pistol and shot Slatterly three times, with fatal ejgect. . L HUGE SWINDLE. Connecticut Bank Officers ' Embexxl m X-arc Sam. New Haven, Conn May 25. John C. Bradley, cashier of the Merchants Na tional Bank, is said to have been under the surveillance of officers of the law at his residence in Falrhaven. He is charged with embezzlement, the shortage being discovered bv Sank Examiner Coolav in his examination Friday. The bank offi cers decliLad to give any information. Prosecuting Attorney Dailey is now in consultation with the officers of the bank, and it is rumored that Bradley will be ar rested. The loss to the bank may reach $100,000. It is said that 'Bradley and Charles W. Palmer discounted notes with out the knowledge of the directors, and it has covered a space of several years. Palmer has been arrested also. The card was issued yesterday after noon by ex-Governor Bigelow, president of the Merchants' National Bank: . To the Public: Certain irregularities have been found in the bank involving the cashier and assistant teller. There will probably be a considerable loss to the bank, which will not, however. Impair its capital. It is not yet ascertained whether those officials have been the beneficiaries of these irregularities, but notes have been dis counted which were not presented to the board of directors for their approval, and the loss on this kind of paper can not at this moment be stated. Mr. Bigelow subsequently said: I do not think that the entire surplus ($100,000) will be lost, and hope that it will not ex ceed half that amount." Teller Palmer has made a full confes sion of all the transactions. Palmer is interested in the manufacture of patent medicine, and one story current is to the effect that he borrowed considerable money to extend his business, and, being unable to meet his payments, tided over by discount notes for the parties of whom he had borrowed money. This practice, it is stated, was discovered by Cashier Bradley, but Palmer induced him to keep it quiet, promising to take up the notes as fast as they became due. Failing to do this other notes were discounted until the cashier and teller be came deeply involved and were compelled to keep quiet for their own safety. The general opinion last night was that the affair was much worse than the bank offi cials care to admit. Cashier Bradley spent last night in the sheriff's office and Palmer was at his own home, in charge of a deputy. Bradley is about fifty years of age and is very popular. He was prominent in church circles and was also prominent in military circles. Palmer is about forty years old and has been with the bank nearly twenty years. A GUTHRIE RIOT. The Settlement of Town tot Contests Treads to a Blot The Troops Called On. Guthrie, L T., May 25. The soldiers were Thursday called out for the first time since the opening of Oklahoma, and for several hours Guthrie was practically under martial law. The meetings, bed every night for a week j tbe men who lost their lots through contests and by the opening of streets, culminated in a riot. One- of the .best .. lots in Guthrie - was awarded by the board of arbitration to a man named Driscoll, of Chicago. An old man named Diemer, of Kansas, occupied the front of the same lot with a tent. Driscoll erected a building on rollers, ready to shove it to the front as soon as Diemer should va cate. Recently the Council passed an ordinance empowering the marshal to eject every person whose claim for a lot had been rejected by the arbitration board. This proceeding would affect over 1,000 persons. The city government made a test case of the Driscoll-Diemer contest. The marshal attempted to re move Diemer and his tent. Immediately a mob of 1,200 men collected and drove the marshal away. The mob was about to attack tbe city ball, when Captain Cavanaugh arrived and dispersed them, after which the city authorities resumed the work of ejecting Diemer. Diemer fought like a tiger and had to be dragged from his tent to the street. Driscoll's building was rolled forward. Tbe mob attempted to tear the house to pieces, but this time the authorities were able to re pulse the angry men without the aid of the soldiers. At night soldiers guarded the principal streets and more trouble is anticipated when the work of ejectment is again begun. FILED BY JUDGE BREWER. Decisions In the United States Circuit Court at LeaTeoworth. Leavenworth, Kan.. May 25. Judge D. J. Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court, has filed the following as his opin ion in the action of the Union Trust Com pany of New York vs. the Missouri, Kan sas & Texas railway: "The plea by de fendant to complainant's bill is overruled and leave given to answer by the July rules." This was on a question of juris diction of the United States Court to en tertain the Union Trust Company's suit. The petition for payment of interest on Boonville bridge bonds was sustained. The receivers of the road were directed to complete the Dallas & Waco road to Waxahachie and a committee of three was appointed, consisting of J. Waldo, traffic manager, G. J. Pollock, auditor, and James Hageman, attorney, to report a just and equitable basis of adjustment between the north and south division as to earnings and expenses. The World on Dr. Cronln. New York, May 25. From the World: "The excitement in this city over the mur der of Dr. Cronin still remains at its high est pitch and may possibly develop into something serious. It may be remembered that in this fight in the Clan-na-Gael Society last fall Dr. Cronin was supported by several well known men of this city. Dr. Cronin was openly threatened with death and he has now met his fate. Is was well understood at the time that some men had evil designs against Cronin's backers in the East, one of the strongest of whom lives in this city, and for whose safety his friends are daily warring. His Clan-na-Gael fight was a long and complicated one, and Dr. Cronin. succeeded in making the bitterest enemies of his life during it," Effect of Jealousy. Pittsburgh, Pa.. May 25. Frank Comp ton killed his wife, Cora, at West Pitts ton with a butcher knife and then cut his own throat, dying two hours later. Thetragedy took place in the bedroom where they slept, and is believed to be the outcome of a quarrel between the couple, Compton charging his wife with receiving the at tentions of other men. After killing his wife and cutting his own throat the man walked down stairs and with his bloody fingers wrote the word "Jealousy" upon the sittingroom walL He also left on a slate a message which read: "Give my watch to my. brother. I am going to fTanven ." He then went upstairs and fell 'beside his wife's body, where ha died. A TRAIN WRECKED. V Train Wrecked en the St. Ixmls M 8mm Vreeelsee Boss end All tne Paesengers In J ared Reward jTor tne IVreekera. St. Louis, May 25. The west bound train on the 8b Louis & San Francisco railroad, which left St. Louis Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock, was wrecked three miles west of Sullivan, Mo., sixty-eight miles west of St. Louis. Not a passenger escaped unhurt and forty-five were seri ously injured, though no deaths ' are yet reported. The train was running at a high rate of speed when suddenly and without warn bag the track gave way and the locomotive, baggage car and five coaches went over the embankment. The trainmen and those only slightly Injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror of fire, in which they succeeded and turned their attention to the more unfortunate injured, and In a very short time forty -five passengers, all badly, hurt, had been released from the debris. A' temporary hospital was im provised at Sullivan and the most seriously Injured were taken there, while others were brought to St." Louis on the relief train, which was hurried to tbe scene of the disaster. The women are under the care of Dr. Mclntyre, chief surgeonof the road. It was 11:25 p. m. when the accident oc curred. . The train was traveling at a high rate of speed and most of the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the few remaining awake were about to do so. There is a curve in the road about three miles west of Sullivan and when this curve was reached a sudden jolt and jar was felt all over the train. Everybody felt it and the people In the rear cars could bear the forward coaches rattling and rumbling over the ties and the crushing noises of cars being demolished. A creek Is crossed by the road at that point and there is a steep embankment thirty feet high. Most of the passengers thought the train was going through a bridge and a feeling of horror chilled their blood. In an instant all the coaches except the two sleeping cars had been thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions and some of them were thrown from the coaches and down the embankment. Walter Davidson, who travels for the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, was thrown right out of a win dow on the opposite side of the coach from which he was sitting and sent rolling down the embankment to the edge of the creek. His feet were in the 'water. The explanation given by the trainmen and passengers was that the spikes and fish-plates had been removed from the rail at the curve thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward portion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumped the track and was thrown part of the way down an embank ment. It would probably have gone the en tire distance had not the forward end held it up. Who removed the spikes and plates is not known, but the supposition is the work was done by train robbers who want ed to hold up the train. Still no robbers put in an appearance, and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened in their purpose or have thrown the wrong train and were not prepared to do their work at that time. Tbe road offi cials claim it as a clear case of train wrecking. In the same train were several physi cians returning from Springfield, where the State medical convention was being held, and they also rendered valuable as sistance in caring for the injured. Among tbe latter was Dr. Russell, who received very serious hurts, having both ears taken off and being otherwise injured so badly that he could not be brought home and is now at Sullivan. The following is a list of the injured: D. S. Weikert; Wentzville, Ma, both legs broken four inches above the ankle, may lose one of them; George S. Simpson, Hancock Countv, IIL, shock and cut on face; Patrick O'Day, seven years, fracture of skull, will probably die; Mrs. Kate O'Day, bruised about head, neck and side and injured internally; Martin O'Day, cut and bruised on the face, also cut in right foot and bruised about the chest; William Doherty, left hand cut and bruised; Mrs. Mary Griffith, Fair Creek, IIL, injured in forehead and right elbow broken ; John O. Oatley, Rolla, Ma, right shoulder injured and thumb dislo cated; John XL Holloway. Cuba, Ma, lower portion right side bruised and cut in fore bead; Mrs. Mary EL Nash, Bloomington, Ind.. bruised on' left side and severely hocked; C W. Phillips, Springdale, Ark fracture of arm and cut on shoulder; Dr. Ed S. Russell, Tuscarawas, Q., flesh wound, ear torn off and cut in head, se vere shock but rallying nicely, his wife also cut in tbe head; B. H. Newman, Cuba, Ma, cut in the mouth ; D. Railey. New York, arm and leg broken ; D. S Graves, Marsbfieid, arm, leg and back bruised; John Kendrick, Fort Smith. Ark., slight ly bruised on forehead; Joe E. Harlin, Cuba, Ma, cut on head, bruised on chert, cut on arm and shoulder bruised; Walter Davidson, St Louis, cut on head and slightly cut on arm, hip bruised; J. B. Sally, Rolla, Ma, bruised on right leg and arm; B. B. Mcintosh, St. Louis, bruised on shoulder and side ; J. O. Mor rison. Richmond, Ma, cut on head slight ly; Emma Pattonson, Decatur, IIL, face bruised; Mrs. W. J. Wright, Decatur, IIL, cheek bruised ;M. Lipo,8t. Louis, bruised on shoulder, side and back; Mary O'Day, wrist cut slightly; E. F. Shaw, Durango, CoL. bruised on shoulder and slight cut on forehead; Anton Marx, St. Louis, slight cut and bruised on side; J. J. Brinton, Sparta, Ma, cut on head, right nand and left leg; J. C Hovel e, Litchfield, 111., cut and bruised on head, bruised on shoulder and hip; Croel Cres ler, Galveston, Ind., bruised on foot and arm; T. L. Cone, Brest, Ma. cut on bead and back and shoulder; Hattie Shank, St. Louis, light cut on head; C J. Wright, baggageman, . bruised on knee and right side, cut on face; Paul Horn, Mount Pulspfci, IIL, cut on head, bruised on shoulder; Mrs. W. J. Wayne, Decatur, IIL. slightly bruised. No deaths have as yet resulted from the effects of injuries received by the passen gers, though several of the injured are in a precarious condition. General Manager Morrill has offered a reward of $1,00 J for information which will lead to tbe detection of tbe party or parties who removed the bolts from the fish-plates and thus caused tbe wreck. A Valiant Doctor. Charlotte, N. C, May 25. Dr. John Allen was robbed on a country road. Tues day night, by highwaymen, of $30. The doctor was furious, and when the robbers released him pelted them with sticks and stones. The robbers again overpowered him and hanged him to a limb of a tree. The noose did not work well and the doctor did not strangle to death. He was cut down in half an hour, and the robbers left him for dead. But the doctor was not dead by a large majority. He went home. He says he pretended to be strangled by the rope, struggling for a few minutes and then becoming quieU Donald Chanvis has been jailed on suspicion, of being ont It the gang.-- - ARRESTING, SUSPECTS. tbe ChJeage Authorities Maklag For tne Cronln Murder The rnneral. . Chicago, May 21 Investigations were made yesterday regarding iceman P. O Sullivan's connection with a secret society if which Dr. Cronln, J ustice Mahoney and ne Stephen . Coakley were members. Coakley, in answer to questions by the police, admitted that he was a member of. the Washington Literary Society, which is at 501 IJncoln avenue. The organisa tion U really a camp of the Clan-na-Gael. At one meeting of this literary society Coakley says Cronln greeted the iceman as an old comrade, and as the meeting; was held in March it would appear that the iceman and Cronln were acquainted much earlier . than the former will acknowledge. The iceman admitted that he was a mem ber of the literary society but refusetf to say any thing further in that direction. It was reported later that P. O. Sullivan, the iceman, had been arrested. Peter McGeehan, of Philadelphia, was arrested at fonr o'clock yesterday morn ing at McCoy's HoteL McGeehan is charged with participating in the murder of Dr. Cronin and is being held at the Harrison street station separate from the other prisoners. An extraordinary chain of circum stances was brought to light last evening. Miss Murphy who declared she saw Dr. Cronin coming down town several hour after he left home never to return, is the daughter of a saloonkeeper In whose place an attempt was once made, it is said, to arrest Cronin for connection with an al leged woman scrape. She is also reported to be a relative of Detective Whalen, the partner of the suspected Officer Coughlin, -but this latter statement she denies. The street car conductor Dwyer, who corroborated the story that Cronin was seen coming down town and presumably . took a train out of the city, is said to have since resigned and disappeared. An ex street car man named Tie man, whose whereabouts could not be learned, had re cently been in the employ of iceman P. OL -Sullivan. It was one of the business cards of this iceman that played such a part ' in luring Cronln to death, The man King, described by the prisoner Woodruff, alias Black, as the person wbe hired him to steal a horse out of Dean's barn the night of Dr. Cronin's disappear ance, was captured at two o'clock yester day morning in a house of ill-fame. The arrest was made by detectives from the Central station who acted under order from Chief Hubbard. The capture was made with all possible secrecy, and King was taken to the Central station by a clr- -cuitous route. The officers walked beside him in an easy and natural manner, and succeeded in getting him into the station without attracting any attention. - In s number of particulars he answers the de scription given of him by Woodruff. When Woodruff, alias Black, first told his story he gave all the since oft-repeated particulars as to how he met King and was engaged by him to take part in the tragedy of the trunk. It is a mystery that King has not been arrested before, though at no time has he apparently manifested . any desire to leave the city. The arrest " C 1 has been kept- secret, as it is desired to -confront Woodruff with .King. Wses" brought face to face the men may indulge in mutual accusations that may be of value." King was the husband of a courtesan who died not long ago. The mayor and Chief Hubbard, accom panied by Attorney Hynes, who is assist ing in the pursuit of the assassins of Dr Cronin, went to tbe Chicago police station at eleven o'clock last night and held a long conference with Captain Schaak re garding Dan Coughlin's connection with the crime. In discussing the case the point was made in favor of Coughlin thai had he wanted the rig for any improper purposes he would not have said MAny rig will do," but would have been ver -particular as to the kind to be used fox such purpose. On the other hand thr point was made against Coughlin that hi story given in explanation was ridicu lous. The mayor and the chief held that be might as well have given tbe name of "John Doe" or any one else as Thomas Smith." In summing it all up they de cided to hold Coughlin as a witness. After the consultation it was under stood that Detective Whalen was prompt ly suspended to await further investiga tion. The funeral of Dr. Cronin yesterday was attended by an immense procession, vast numbers also being drawn to the line of route by curiosity and the sensational circumstances attending the case. At the head of the procession was Lake Dillon, of Philadelphia, and Edwsnl O'Meagher Condon and John Devoy. oi New York, and Thomas P. Tuite, of De troit. The first three are well knowi. -Irish Nationalists and the latter a scboc mate of the doctor. Following then came Frank T. Scan I an. H. T. MeGarry. Charles' Barry, Michael Kelly, Danie Sullivan. Thomas McEnnery, Dudley Solon. John T. Golden, Maurice Morris. Dr. J ohn Guerin, ex-Alderman McAuIey. John P. Ryan, John F. Scanlan and W. P". Rend, of Chicaga They represented the friends of the dead man and societies tc which he belonged. The services took place at the Cathedral of the Holy Name -and the interment took place at Calvary. . RICE IN JAIL. The Theatrical Manager Goes Down TJn- - der a Borden of Debt. New Yore, May 2d Edward E. Rice, the theatrical manager, who was formerly. Adonis Dixey's partner, has landed in the. Ludlow street jail through financial dlffl-. cutties. He says: "The bas of tbe trou ble has been the Inter-State Commerce, law. The heavy expenses for the trans portation of baggage have absorbed all the profits of the enterprises I have been engaged in. Almost every manager in America bas protested against tbe high rates. A meeting to discuss the subject has already been called for May 27, at the Madison Square-Theater. Colo nel Inzer soil and ex-Judge Dittenboeffer have been engaged to look after the inter ests of the managers at Washington. I" expect to give bail this afternoon. A. M. Palmer and T. IL French have volunteered, to go on my bond." Rotten Rope. WrLKESBARRE, pa May SSL The rope conveying an iron bncket and two tons of -rock broke at Pittibone shaft huct ' evening and the bncket and its contents - leU down the shaft 1,130 feet, enkshins ten men who were working at the bo t tons. , Ed James was killed, and Sam GouLan. . John Coyla, Cornelius Camm, Georg Ptea.1 ana Ueorge Crosby were fatally .in-, jured. - - ; , A Bomb In Porteeal. - rLlSBOX, May 26. A dynamite bomb wit exploded at the door of tbe Civil Commis sioner's house at Oporto yesterday, smsUi ing the windowsothe building' - : i -1 4 !