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(RONTON. - - - -MISSOURI.
Ax increase in the Russian duty on
cotton imports has been approved by
the imperial council in order to protect
native planters.
Eugene Kelly, the well-known
millionaire banker of New York, died,
on the 19th, at his home in that city.
He was 80 years old.
Judge Carpenter, in the United
States circuit court at Boston, on the
18th, decreed that the telephone patent
1,633,609, issued November 17, 1801, to
Emile Beliner, be declared void and
delivered up to be canceled.
The barbette ship Magnificent, the
largest British battleship afloat, was
launched at Chatham, England, on
the 19th. The length of the ship
over all is 420 feet, and her displace
men 15,000 tons. The cost of her hull
vas 627,500.
Both houses of congress devoted
much time, on the 20th, to speeches
eulogistic of Gen. Stark and Daniel
"Webster, whose statues in marble, the
Rift of the state of New Hampshire to
the nation, were on that day received
and placed in Statuary hall in the cap
itoL On January 3 the secretary of agri
culture will open proposals for the pur
chase of the government beet-sugar
factory at Medicine Lodge, Kas. This
experimental station was established
"by the government several years ago
to test as a sugar-producer the Kansas
beet.
Rephesentattve Bland, of Missouri,
will move to strike out all after the
enacting clause in the Carlisle cur
rency bill now before the house of
representatives and substitute there
for, a measure he has prepared for a
currency system based on coin and
coin notes.
Commander Newell of the United
States cruiser Detroit returned from
Borne to Naples on the 20th. The Vat
ican exhibits on board the Detroit will
be forwarded to the pope by rail from
Naples. The delay in their delivery
has been due to the peculiar customs
regulations.
In welcoming the Farmers' institute
to Terre Haute, Ind., on the 17th, Rev.
W. H. Hickman, pastor of the First
Methodist church, said: "We have the
finest saloons, the best fitted-up gam
bling dens, the fastest horses, the best
race track and the poorest churches in
this country."
News received from Tokio, Japan, on
the 20th, indicated that practically the
war between China and Japan had ended-
Details were not given, but it was
assumed in diplomatic quarters that
the concessions demanded by Japan
had met the acquiescence of the reign
ing powers of China. -
An imperial decree has been issued
in China ordering Li Hung Chang to
arrest Kung, the taoti of Port Arthur,
and the four Chinese generals who
were in command at Port Arthur, and
to send them to Pekin for trial and
punishment for the loss of that impor
tant dock yard and fortress.
Mr. Fletcher, of Illinois, offered in
the house of representatives, on the
19th, a bill appropriating 8500,000 for
the construction of buildings at Fort
Snelling, Minn., so that the post will
he suitable for a garrison of one regi
ment of infantry, four troops of cav
alry and a battery of artillery.
George M. Barbocr, who was sup
posed to have been murdered near
Pana, 111., turned up alive and well at
his home in Chicago, on the 19th. when
his father was making preparations
for the burial of his supposed remains,
which were afterwards identified as
those of Arthur L. Binnion, of Vernon,
111.
Thk employes of the Lake Erie &
Western railway main shops in Lima,
O., on the 19th, demanded an increase
in working hours. They claim they
can not make living wages in eight
hours, and want nine hours' work.
The demand was made in writing, and
a failure to comply, it was thought,
might cause a strike.
Capt. J. M. Brunsow and his wife,
the Baroness Ida Von Barnekow, who
inherited her title from her father, are
on their way from their home in San
Francisco to Berlin to claim the $270,
000 estate left by the father of the
baroness, who owned the island of
Huegan. The baroness, who is the
only child, is IS years of age.
The jury in the case of Rose Reimer
and Catherine Reimer, mother and
daughter, of Dal ton, O., charged with
arson in firing their home and causing
a disastrous conflagration at Dalton,
after an all-night session, returned a
verdict, on the3th, of not guilty. The
verdict was applauded and a contribu
tion for Miss Reimer was taken in the
court room.
Undoubtedly the strongest flow of
gas ever discovered in Kansas was
btruck, on the ISth. at a depth of 1,200
feet, on J. E. Greer's place, about 2
miles west of Independence. The roar
was deafening, and the flow of gas so
strong that the drill was blown out of
the well, and could not be lowered into
it again. The drill penetrated SO feet
into the gas-bearing sand.
The Cologne Gazette urges the pow
ers not to place any reliance upon the
promises of Turkey in regard to the
situation in Armenia, and says it is
plain that the sultan's government is
putting every obstacle possible in the
way of the commission until the set
ting in of the rigorous Armenian win
ter, which can be depended upon to
impede the investigation.
United States Minister Taylor at
Madrid, on the 17th, had an important
conference with Senor Griozard, min
ister of foreign affairs, relative to the
imposition of excessive duties upon im
ports into Cuba from the United States.
He informed the senor that he had
been directed by his government to in
form the ' government of Spain that if
it persisted in exacting these discrim
inating duties the action would be re
garded by the president as inviting
the exercise by him of the power of re
taliation conferred by the act of 1890.
This threat caused commotion in min
isterial circles.
NEWS AO NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
v Second Session.!
In the senate, on the 17th, the debate on the
Nicaraguan canal bill occupied almost the en
tire session. Messrs. Peffer (Kan.) and Squires
Wash.) speaking in advocacy of the bill, and
Mr. Turpie (Ind.), -while declaring himself In
favor of an Isthmian canal, opposing the pres
ent bill as of doubtful constitutionality and
certain to lead to failure In the house the
bill to protect public forest reserTations was
passed, as was the army appropriation bill car
rying a total of S23.2S9.808.O3, and an urgency
deficiency bill of $100,000 to continue the opera
tions of the government printing office. The
Carlisle bill, providing a new system of cur
rency, was reported with notice that it would
be called up for general debate on the 18th.
In the senate, on the 18th, house bill for the
forfeiture of railroad lands in cases where the
road was not built within the time fixed by the
grant, although subsequently completed and
accepted by the government, was reported back
adversely from the committee on public lands,
and placed on the calendar. A resolution in
favor of political union with Canada was re
ferred to the committee on foreign relations.
Mr. Hill spoke in favor of his proposed cloture
rule, and Mr. Turpie continued his attack upon
the Nicaragua canal bill In the house de
bate upon the currency plan proposed in the
Carlisle bill, reported from the committee on
banking and currency, was begun without any
agreement as to limitation of time of debate.
In the senate, on the 19th, the debate on the
Nicaragua canal bill was continued, occupying
over four hours of the sitting. Mr. Turpie
(Ind.) resumed and finished his speech against
the bill, concluding by offering a substitute pro
viding for a board of three civil engineers to
make a survey and estimate, which he declared
was as far as the senate should go at this ses
sion. Speeches in favor of the bill were made
by Mr. Cullom (111.) and Mr. Perkins (Cal.).
In the house the debate on the currency
bill occupied the hours. Mr. Warner (V. Y.)
advocated, and Messrs. Johnson (Ind.) and El
lis (Ky.) opposed the bill. Mr. Bland (Mo.)
gave notice that he would move to amend by
substituting for the bill his free-coinage-of-silver-and-coin-note
scheme.
IN the senate, on the 20th, the entire time of
the session was devoted to the exercises in
connection with the acceptance and placing in
Statuary hall of the capitol of the marble
statues of Gen. John Stark and Daniel Web
ster, presented to the nation by the state of
New Hampshire. The eulogies consisted of
four speeches upon Stark and ten upon Web
ster In the house the Carlisle currency
and banking bill was under discussion for
three hours. An urgent deficiency bill was
passed appropriating $300,000 to carry on the
work of closing up the eleventh census, and
100,000 to pay jurors and witnesses in United
States courts. Senate bill granting a pension
of 8100 per month to the widow of Gen. Banks
was passed. The remainder of the session was
devoted to the ceremonies connected with the
reception of the gift of the state of New Hamp
shire of statues of Gen. Stark and Daniel Web
ster. PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The New York Sun, on the 18th,
said: "We are enabled on the highest
authority to state that Joseph II.
Choate and Clarence A. Seward regard
the new income tax as unconstitu
tional, and that these eminent law
yers will represent a large body of
public-spirited New York merchants
and business men who propose to test
the constitutionality of the law in the
courts."
John Cronin was hanged at 1:01
o'clock on the morning of the 18th, at
the Connecticut state prison in
Weatherfield, and was pronounced
dead nine minutes after. The auto
matic gallows worked perfectly.
The post office department has is
sued "fraud orders" against Sears,
Robeck & Co., the Alva Manufactur
ing Co. and A. Curtis & Co., operated
by W. S. Abbott and Fred Eli, at Min
neapolis and Chicago, denying them
the use of the United States mails.
Abbott claims to have cleared $20,000
out of the swindles within the last
six months.
On the 17th Ambrose Daugherty and
George Huffman, farmers, living 3
miles south of Eldon, la., engaged in
an extempore duel with pistols, and as
a consequence both were fatally
wounded. Both insisted on driving
first over the same bridge.
The contest over the will of the late
Daniel B. Fayerweather, of New York,
was decided, on the 17th, in favor of
the plaintiffs.and Dartmouth, Amherst,
Williams, Hamilton and fifteen other
colleges and the university of Roches
ter will probably get big slices of the
estate, estimated to be worth between
SG,0O0,000 and $7,000,000. The case will
be appealed by the executors.
An examination of the book of the
Central national bank of Rome, N. Y.,
by National Bank Examiner Van
Vrankin, on the ISth, disclosed the
fact that the cashier of the bank, John
E. Bielby, is a defaulter to the amount
of $27,000, of which sum he has $8,000
to his credit in New York, which he
will return to the bank, leaving a net
shortage of $19,000, secured by a $20,
000 bond. The money was lost by dab
bling in stocks.
The athletic association of the Kan
sas Wesleyan university has adopted
rules discontinuing football under the
existing rules. In their last game four
men were seriously injured.
John Boston, a well-digger living
near Waukomis, Okla., was instantly
killed, on the ISth, by falling into a 30
foot well. He was riding in a bucket,
and when near the top the rope broke
and he fell to the bottom. His neck
was broken.
Gov. Ti'RNEY of Tennessee, on the
ISth, commuted to life imprisonment
the sentence of John Davis, who was
convicted of murder in the first degree
in Hamblen county and sentenced to
be hanged. The supreme court aairmed
the verdict and Davis was to be hanged
at Morristown Christmas eve.
An incendiary fire, at an early hour
on the morning of the ISth, completely
destroyed the stock of dry goods of J
F. McBride, and the notion goods store
of Felt Bros., at Elkhart, Ind., causing
a total loss estimated at $30,000. The
insurance will reach $15,000.
Speaker Crisp and house leaders
reached a tacit agreement, on the ISth,
by which the adjournment for the holi-
dav recess would be taken at the close
of the session, on the 22d, and the re
assembling at noon, January 3.
D. D. Guest, of Princeton, Ky., has
sold to President Cleveland a pai;: of
fine young horses of a deep bay color.
15J hands high. They are perfect spe
cimens of Kentucky horseflesh.
M. Henri Brisson (radical) was,, on
the 18th, elected president of the
French chamber of deputies by a vote
of 249 to 213.
Mrs. Fannie R. Vickey was granted
a divorce from Horace N. Vickey at
Emporia, Kas. Mrs. Vickey is a well
known populist orator, and at present
is matron at the asylum for the insane
at Ossawatomie. She is a niece of
Judge W. A. Randolph, who granted
her divorce. The plea was abandon
ment and failure to support her.
Services in memory of the late Sir
John Thompson, premier, were held in
the basilica at Ottawa, Ont, on the
the 20th. All the government offices
were closed in order to give employes
an oppoi tunity to attend the services.
John Cos attempted kill his wife
at Gray's, Ky., on the 18th. Cox was
drunk, and fired two shots at his wife,
but missed her. Seizing an ax, he
threw it at her head, but missed her.
The woman picked up the ax and at
tacked her husband, almost chopping
his head from his body.
In the United States district court at
Denver, Col., on the 18th, Judge Hallet
imposed a fine of $100 and one-twentieth
of the costs on each of the four
men convicted of retarding the United
States mail at Trinidad during the
strike last July.
The committee of the Indiana State
League of Tin and Iron Workers
adopted a resolution, on the 19th, con
demning Judge Woods for sentencing
Debs and denying him a trial by jury.
Half a million dollars in gold was
withdrawn from the subtreasury at
New York, on the 19th, leaving the
gold reserve at $90,910,000.
Manager Powers of the Star thea
ter in Buffalo, N. Y., formerly of De
troit, Mich., dropped dead in the lobby
of the theater on the 19th.
E. F. Beadle, publisher of Beadle's
dime novels, died in New York city, on
the 19th, aged 74 years.
John Schuster, a farmer, living in
Macomb county, Mich., was burned to
death, on the night of the 19th, while
trying to rescue cattle from a burning
barn. It is supposed he was overcome
by the smoke.
Dr. Wekerle, premier of Hungary,
arrived in Vienna on the 20th. It was
understood that Emperor Franeis Jo
seph would choose a liberal cabinet
for Hungary, in which Dr. Wekerle
and MM. Sczilagyi and Hieronimy
would have no place.
The friends of Judge Ricks, of Ohio,
who had been a little nervous over the
attempt to impeach him, have con
cluded that there is little probability
of definite action being taken against
him.
Prof. E. L. G. Morse, principal of
the Phil Sheridan public school in Chi
cago, was arrested, on the 20th, on a
warrant sworn out by the mother of
Alexander Beckerman, an 8-year-old
pupil, charging him with assault in
whipping the boy. The rules prohibit
corporal punishment.
M. dk Guerre ville, a veteran war
correspondent, who has served the New
York Herald on a number of battle
fields, and is familiar with warfare in
all its multitudinous phases, takes the
view that the slaughter of the Chinese
by the Japanese soldiers at Port Ar
thur was fully justified, in view of the
barbarous atrocities committed by the
Chinese upon captured Japanese scout
ing parties, whose mutilated remains
were in full view of the Japanese sol
diers as they marched into Port Ar
thur. On the 20th Senator Quay introduced
a bill authorizing the secretary of the
treasury to purchase the land contained
in block 29, of Columbia Heights, a sub
urb of Washington, as a site for a resi
dence of the president of the United
States. The bill limits the price tc
three dollars a square foot, and the
total appropriation to $1,000,000.
There is little chance in the senate
for the defeat of the ratification of the
new Japanese treaty on account of any
of the recent war happenings. There
has been an undoubted exercise of Chi
nese influence in this country to defeat
the treaty, which even before the pres
ent hostilities was a bitter pill for Chi
nese mouths.
The New York World printed a dis
patch from Minister Dmby at Pekin,
on the 20th, saying that there was no
truth in the report recently printed
that Yo-Ho-La-Na, the young wife of
the emperor of China, had committed,
suicide.
ARcHhishop CorrIgAN, at the quar
terly meeting of the trustees of the
diocese of New York, on the 20th, an
nounced the interdiction by the pope
on the recommendation of the Ameri
can bishops of the Odd Fellows, the
Knights of Pythias and the Sons of
Temperance.
The smallest child on record was
born of Norwegian parents at West
Creek, Ind., on the 19th. The child is
a male, is perfectly formed as a babe
could be, and at its birth weighed only
nine ounces.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The senate was not in session on the
21st In the house Mr. Springer
presented and read for information
the substitute for the Carlisle cur
rency and banking bill, of which he
had given previous notice. The dis
cussion of the measure occupied most
of the afternoon. Bills were passed
admitting contract laborers and arti
cles for exhibition at Atlanta, Ga., and
Portland, Ore., expositions duty free.
A concurrent resolution was agreed to
providing for the holiday recess of con
gress extending from the 22d to Jan
uary 3.
Attorney A. S. Trcde has been se
lected by the Kerr police commission
to act as counsel in the proposed
"Lexow" investigation in Chicago.
The money for the necessary expenses
had not been collected up to the 21st,
but, it was said, had been pledged by
members of the civic federation.
Count Botho Eulexhkkg, ex-Dresi-dent
of the Prussian couneil of minis
ters, was the guest of the emperor at
the royal hunt at Koenigswasterhousen
on the Ust. Some of the other guests
surmised that the ex-premier of Prus
sia would before long succeed Prince
Hohenlohe as chancellor.
Edward P. Farrington, of Brewer,
Me., treasurer of the Brewer savings
bank, committed suicide, on the 21st.
by shooting himself through the tem
ple. He had been a prominent mer
chant and business man for many years.
He was 55 years old. There was no
shortage in his accounts.
Thk post oflice department has re
scinded its fraud order against Sears,
Roebeck fc Co., A. Curtis & Co. and the
Alvah Manufacturing Co., of Chicago
and Minneapolis, the promoters hav
ing agreed to abandon their scheme.
Jaoor Clark, a well-known civil en
gineer and a surveyor of Elizabeth, N.
J., was, on the 21st, struck aud fatally
injured by a locomotive while at work
surveying the tracks of the Central
railroad of New Jersey.
A dispatch from Tien-Tsin under
date of December 20 says: The em
peror has granted plenipotentiary pow
ers to Chang Yen Knaw, vice-president
of the Tsung Li Yamen, to make peace
with Japan.
The failures in the United States
for the week ended on the 21st were
349, against 344 for the corresponding
week last year. For Canada the fail
ures were 36, against 37 last year.
Jam&s Bullock, secretary of the
Montreal Hunt club, shot and killed
himself in his office in Montreal, Can.,
on the 21st.
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
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The State University.
The board of curators of the state
university met at Columbia?
The board realized that the near approach of
the thirty-eighth general assembly of the state
enforced upon them immediate'd action, and it
is significant that the first resolutions passed
were for a medical building and a gymnasium.
The erection of a medical building is an abso
lute ; necessity, it is claimed, for the present
structure in, the northwest corner of the campus
Is no . longer .adequate for the purposes for
which, .It - has been used. The board has
fixed the' bast of the proposed medical build
ing at J65.0Q0, and this sum will be asked of the
legislature. The students need a gymnasium,
and the curators, after deliberation, think
that $50,000 will about equip sucn .1 building,
and will ask ior the necessary appropriation.
The board's decision was unanimous in regard
to these two additions to the university.
Early in January the board will present to
the legislature its bi-annual report in printed
Torm, setting forth the needs of the institution.
The Fraker Insurance Case.
The jury in the Fraker case on trial
in Kansas City returned a verdict
against the insurance companies.
This case is one of the celebrated insurance
cases of the country. Dr. H. C. Fraker was a
physician with a moderate practice at Ex
celsior Springs, Ma July 10, 1893. while on a
fishing trip in Missouri, he slipped from the
bank and was drowned. Not the least trace of
him could be found, and his complete disap
pearance being so exceptional several of the
insurance companies refused to pay the
policies held by him. It was asserted it was
a conspiracy to defraud, and that the doctor
swam the river and escaped in the garb of a
woman. To strengthen this theory, the de
fense introduced testimony to show the doctor
changed his sex every seven years, and had
awaited such a transition to practice the de
ception. The doctor held policies aggregating
S44.655. The benefactors named ia the policies
are two sisters of the deceased doctor, and six
orphan nephews and nieces.
The State Geological Survey.
The board of managers of the state
geological survey met in the governor's
office, Jefferson City.
The members present were: Dr. John H.
Butts. Clinton; W. O. L. Jewett, Shelbina,
Prof. W H. Seaman, Rolla, and Prof. Shepard,
Springfield. The board had not met since last
April, and considerable routine business was
transacted. State Geologist Keys submitted
a report showing the progress of the survey
since he assumed charge of the work. Reports
on paleontology and lead and zinc deposits have
been completed, and the four volumes they
form were laid before the board. A report has
also been collected of the elevation of all points
in the state, and will soon be printed in the re
port. Prof. Keys also reported that in accord
ance with instructions of the board a collection
of specimens is being prepared for the museum
of the state university.
A Mother's Awful Deed.
Mrs. Maggie Jones, who lived a few
miles north of Seligman, Barry county,
procured atrazor and cut the throats of
her two children, Roy, aged 9, and
Lulu, aged 8 years. Both children died
immediately. In trying to ward off the
blow from the razor in the mother's
hand. Lulu was severely cut on the
hand and arm. Mrs. Jones then drew
the razor across her own throat and in
flicted a wound which caused almost
instant death. Her husband was ab
sent from the home at the time, and
says his wife was despondent over being
separated from her relatives and
friends in northern Missouri.
St. James Academy vs. the Mininters.
Judge Burgess of Division No. 2,
Missouri supreme court, handed down
an interesting decision a few days ago.
It was in the case of the St. James Military
Academy vs. the Ministers' Alliance of Macon
City. This case is the result of the war be
tween the school and the preachers some years
ago, which grew out of the opposition of the
latter to dancing being taught the students of
the academy. The ministers-published a set of
resolutions attacking the school, aud the mana
gers then instituted the suit for libel. The
case is reversed and remanded by Judge Bur
gess on account of errors in its trial in the
lower court, but the opinfon says that the lan
guage of the resolutions justifies action under
the law, so it is a victory for the academy.
The Sequel.
A sequel to an elopement took place
at Independence the other day in the
marriage of Samuel Janes, a young St.
Louis mechanic, to Miss Norvel Myr
tle, of Lee's Summit. Several weeks
ago Janes and Miss Norvel undertook
to overcome parental opposition by an
elonement. Janes was overhauled nd
jailed. Miss Norvel's parents finally
consentea to ner marriage.
Darragh Jury Disagrees.
The jury in the Darragh trial at Kan
sas City announced their inability to
come to an agreement and was dis
charged. The standing of the jury was
seven for acquittal and five for convic
tion. The case had been on trial five
weeks. . Darragh was charged with re
ceiving deposits after he knew the
Kansas City Deposit and Savings bank
was insolvent.
Robbed the Parsonage.
While Rev. Neil Pugsley, pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
of Warrensburg, was conducting prayer-meeting,
a burglar entered the par
sonage and stole S100 worth of cloth
ing. Goes to Jerlco.
Rev. R. II. Love has resigned the
pastorate of the Christian church at
Eldorado Springs and accepted the
pastorate of the Christian church afr
Jerico, Cedar county.
Attempted Post Office Robbery.
The Iluntsville post oflice was en
tered hy burglars the other night, the
safe drilled and badly damaged by
powder explosion, but not opened.
From Carthage to Fierce City.
A railway track ma3T be laid from
Carthage to Pierce City, along the river
bottom lands, reaching mills, stone
quarries, and other industries.
He Knows Something About Contests.
A Washington dispatch says that
Congressman Joy, of Missouri, will
probably be chairman of the committee
on elections in the new house.
Given Three Tears.
Edward St. George Courtney was
sentenced at St. Louis to three years
in the penitentiary for attempting to
murder Miss Minnie Schilling.
Cause of Their Complaint.
Young ladies who will be graduated
from the St. Louis high school in Jan
uary complain because they will not be
allowed to enter the normal.
A Church Split.
The congregation of the Christian
church at Leesville, Henry county, is
split in twain. A woman was the cause,
it is alleged, of the trouble.
Called to a Prominent t'hnrcn.
Rev. William Wirt King, of Lafayette,
Ind., has accepted a call to the pas
torate of the Lindell Avenue M. E.
church, St. Louis. He is 33.
Flooring Mill Knrned.
Fire destroyed a flouring mill owned
by Patterson & Gentry at Smithville,
Clay county. The loss is $15,000; no
insurance.
Of Typhoid Fever.
Emmet Gordon, son of County Clerk
W. F. Gordon of Vernon county, died
of typhoid fever the other night, aged
il years.
MISSOURI CULLINGS.
Twenty-two prisoners are in jail at
Poplar Bluff awaiting action of the
grand jury and in default of payment
of fines in misdemeanor cases.
. John Salmon, of 2320 Division street,
St. Louis, has been admitted to the
city hospital, suffering from cancer of
the lip, caused by a scratch inflicted by
his pet cat.
At a meeting of the St. Louis Busi
ness Men's league it was decided to
make an effort to secure both the dem
ocratic and republican national conven
tions for St. Louis, o
The board of curators of the state
university, Columbia, has invited the
state officials and the members of the
Thirty-eighth general assembly to visit
the university during the first week in
January.
The Ministers' alliance of Kansas
City will make a canvass of the church
members of the city. Those that in
dorse the scheme and will push it say
it will have a tendency to bring the
entire city under Gospel influence.
Dr. Hicks, of the faculty of the state
university, has been granted a leave of
absence, to extend from June, 1895, un
til September, 1897, during which time
he will investigate German philosophy
and economics in the schools of Berlin.
Some tough, for amusement, shot a
9-year-old colored girl in Kansas City
the other day. She lay on the ground
half an hour before some kind Samari
tan came that way. She was shot in
the hip, the bullet coming out near the
knee.
The Fort Scott road is furnishing the
bulk of the corn receipts at Kansas
City. Corn specialists in Kansas City
believe that when the "pockets" in
western Missouri and eastern Kansas
are exhausted receipts will dwindle
sharply.
William Lozier, a miner, was caught
beneath two tons of soapstone in a
coal mine 2 miles east of Keytesville,
and crushed to death. Not returning
home to supper, his wife went in
search of him, investigation resulting
in the finding of his dead body in the
mine.
Measles in a virulent form has broken
out among the negro population of
Paris, Monroe county, and there have
been several deaths. The colored pop
ulation of Paris is about 500, and much
fear is expressed over the spread of the
disease. They are poorly housed and
clothed.
The Kansas City poultry show was
the biggest thing of the kind ever held
in the world. All kinds of domestic
fowls from all over the United States
and Canada were on exhibition. There
was more crowing and cock-a-doo-del-dooing
in that town than at any time
since the great boom.
Diphtheria is spreading in Kansas
City. Health Officer Waring has been
using serum, obtained from the Pas
teur institute. This is the new reme-i
dy for diphtheria. It has been tried
in St. Louis, and it is claimed with
success. A St. Louis physician claims
that he has discovered a better remedy.
The failure of the Stock bank of Sla
ter has caused the following who had
indorsed for it, to make assignments:
Joseph Field, 1,100 acres of land, val
ued at ?50,000; W. B. Storts, 400 acres
of land, valued at 520,000; Joe Baker,
Jr., real estate and personal property,
120,000. J. Baker, Jr.. made a general
assignment, with William Field and
William I. Garnett as trustees. They
have given a bond of $200,000.
In addition to the medical building
and the gymnasium, the board of cura
tors of the state university has decided
to ask the legislature for $40,000 with
which to erect a new clubhouse, and
for $25,000 which is to be expended in
building a greenhouse and improving
the horticultural gardens. The board
considers both of the appropriations
necessary, and incorporated them in the
report to be presented to the legisla
ture without hesitation. ;
Many Missouri stock raisers are
visiting Kansas City and investing in
feeding steers. J. D. Baker, of Clinton
county, sold his hogs in that market)
and invested in steers, which he ship-
ped home to be fed. J. J. Robinson, of
Saline county, sold his sheep, which
averaged 129 pounds, for $3.40 per hun
dred, and also invested in feeders.
Among the other feeder buyers were
Frank E. Mitchell and James Mc
Laughlin, of Bates county.
Attorney H. N. Phillips, of Maiden,
has filed with the Butler county court
a bill for $10,358.63, attorney's fees for
legal services rendered Butler county
in the case of the F. G. Oxley Stave
Co. vs. Butler County. The case was
recently decided in the county's favor
by the supreme court. One hundred
thousand acres of swamp land was
involved, and the decision vested the
title to the same in the county. The
bill was not allowed, but will be taken
up at the adjourned term.
The feeding of cattle in Missouri on
cotton seed appears to be carried on
more extensively than generally sup
posed. It can be bought in Texas and
other southern states for $10 a ton, and
laid down at Missouri stations at a
total cost of $15 a ton. The seed, it is
claimed by some, answers the purpose
better when fed with bran. Four hun
dred car loads were recently shipped
to a Nebraska feeder through a Kansas
City house, and there is also a good de
mand in Kansas. A. E. Wyatt, of Rock
port, Mo., is said to be feeding it,
Nevertheless it would be well to study
effects before going into the matter
extensively.
The largest owner of real estate in
St. Louis is the St. Louis Brewing as
sociation, whose property is assessed
for $1,557,830. The second largest as
sessment is that of the St. Louis Trust
Co. The total number of owners as
sessed at $100,000 or more is 272, of
whom 174 are individuals and 98 are
corporations. The assessments amount
ing to $250,000 and over are 81, of which
37 are of individuals and 44 corpora
tions. Twenty-eight owners are listed
at $500,000 and upwards, of whom 10
are individuals and 18 are corpora
tions. There are 7 assessments which
exceed $1,000,000, and one which ex
ceeds $1,500,000, all corporation!.
John Trindle: of Hardin, Ray coun
ty, put up at a Kansas City hotel,
locked the door of his room, blew out
the gas and went to bed. A colored
porter by the name of Allen endeav
ored to arouse the snoring guest, and
not being able to do so, and failing to
unlock the door, crawled through the
transom and awakened the sleeping
man. Instead of thanking Allen,
Trimble pulled a big gun from under
his pillow and scared the porter nearly
to death. Trindle is deaf, and all ef
forts at explanation were unavailing
until he amelled the gas, and then he
put on his (run.
UNDER THE PAPAL BAN.
Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Good
Tempiars May Not Be Children of the
Church The Clergy Not Hied by Mgr. Sa
tolli that the Long-Pending Question Ma
Been Settled The Penalty of Disobed
ience. St. Louis, Dec 21. The Republic
publishes the following:
In a drawer or strong box in the
archiepiscopal residence on Lindell
boulevard there lies a letter whose
promulgation will create throughout
the length and breadth of the country
profound interest and not a little ex
citement; a letter which may give rise
to a controversy of world-wide impor
ano and which is sure to carry in its
train far-reaching consequences.
It is a letter to Archbishop Kain from
Mgr. Satolli, and in it the papal able
gate announces the decision of his holi
ness. Pope Leo XIII., in the long-pending
dispute over the right of Catholics
to hold membership -in certain secret
societies without forfeiture their priv
ileges as communicants of the church.
The pope through Mgr. Satolli,
places the three societies known as the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the
Independent Order of Good Templars,
or Sons of Temperance, and the
Knights of Pythias, under the ecclesi
astical ban. He prohibits Catholics
from becoming or remaining members
of those orders, or any one of them,
and declares that to such as disobey
this mandate no priest shall adminis
ter any of the sacraments. They shall
be considered as belonging outside the
fold, and as unworthy of admission to
it until they have forsworn allegiance
to the society.
There are in St. Louis alone hun
dreds of Catholic Knights of Pythias,
odd fellows and sons of tem
perance. Under the papal ruling
every one of them must forth
with decide between his society and
his church. He must abandon one of
thpm. The pope will permit no divided
allegiance.
And what is true of St. Louis is true
of the whole country. There is hard
ly a hamlet so remote that lodges of
one or all of the denounced societies
have not been established there.
FOUND MURDERED.
One of the Best-Known Women of Topeka,
Kas., Outraged, Murdered and Robbed in
Her Own Home.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 21. The dead
body of Mrs. A. D. Matson, one of the
best-known women in Topeka, was
found in her home yesterday after
noon, where she had evidently been
outraged and murdered ten days ago.
A boy who had been delivering milk
to her for a long time noted the fact
that the cans which he left on her
back porch had not been disturbed by
her for nearly two weeks, and yester
day he thought it worthy of giving
notice to the police. He reported to
headquarters. An investigation fol
lowed, and the woman's body was
found in a back room, covered with
old clothes and rags and several bush
els of potates piled upon her head.
The head had been crushed with an
ax, which stood near by.
Most of the immediate neighbors
were colored people with whom Mrs.
Matson did not associate, and her ab
sence from home for several days not
being an unusual occurrence, they
thought nothing of not having seen
her about the neighborhood.
After she had been outraged and
murdered the house was rifled of
nearly everything of value. There is
no clew to the perpetrator of the
crime.
Mrs. Matson was for several years a
member of the city board of education
from the fifth ward, and took an ac
tive interest in the city schools. She
was at one time a city teacher and
was as well known' as any woman in
the city. She was generally supposed
to have considerable money and
owned five or six houses on the east
side. Her husband left her four or
five years ago and took up a home
stead in California, where he has since
lived. Mrs. Matson was a member of
the Topeka Equal Suffrage associa
tion and a prominent suffrage worker.
A Clew Famished by a Colored Deaf Mute.
Topeka, Kan., Dec. 21. George
Knight, a deaf and dumb colored man,
appeared at police headquarters last
night and, writing upon a slate, said
that on the night of December 11 he
saw two white men enter Mrs. Mat
son's house. It is believed that these
men were the murderers, but the de
scription given of them by Knight will
prove of little aid to the officers in es
tablishing their identity.
TO CARE FOR THEIR ORPHANS
The Junior Order of American Mechanics
Will Erect a National Orphan's Home
&t a Location Vet to Be Determend Up
on. Columbus, O., Dec. 21. The Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
have concluded to erect a national or
phans' home, and the committee on
location will meet in Pittsburgh in Jan
uary. Springfield, O., will make a deter
mined effort to have the new institu
tion located there, and will stand a
good show if the home is built in this
state.
Each member of the order is to be
assessed fifty-five cents, and if Ohio
is victorious, each of her members has
agreed to give one dollar additional.
The home is to be composed of cot
tages, one for each state in the Union
in which the order is represented.
ITS AGAINST THE RULES.
A Chicago Teacher Arrested for Whip
ping a Boy.
Chicago, Dec 21. Prof. E. L. G.
Morse, principal of the Phil Sheridan
public school, was arrested here yes
terday on a warrant sworn out by the
mother of Alexander Beckerman, an
8-year-old pupil, chafing him with as
sault in whipping; the boy. The prin
cipal was released on bond. The boy
was struck several times over the hand
for the alleged of stealing two books.
The rules prohibit corporal punish
ment. A BRUTAL PRACTICE
To be Prevented by Legislative Enact-
.ment if Possible.
St. Louis, Dec 21. At the meeting
of the Vehicle Owners' association at
Nies'hall Wednesday night Mr. T. J.
Bnrk was in the chair and Daniel C
Donovan acted as secretary. A resolu
tion was adopted condemning the
practice of docking horses' tails, and
the cruelty and brutality of the opera
' ion was discussed. 1 1 was resolved to
present a bill to the legislature mak
ing the offense punishable, as it is now
in several of the eastern state-
THE CARLISLE PLAN,
As Modified by the Banking- nd Currency
Committee, Presented by Chalrmem
Springer Points of. Difference Between
the Measure as Formulated by Secretary
Carlisle and the Amendments- Proposed
by the Committee.
Washington, Dec 22. Mr. Springer,
of Illinois, at a late hour yesterday af
ternoon, laid before the house a sub
stitute for the pending currency bilL
It consists of the amendments which
have been agreed upon by the de
cratic members of the committ
that were suggested by Secretary Car
lisle, the author of the bul that has
been under consideration ail the week,
as well as certain features of the Car-
lisle bill which it has been deemed ad
visable to retain. After laying the
substitute before the house, Mr.
Springer briefly explained the impor
tant changes made in the Carlisle bill
and their effect as follows:
First Permitting the deposit of cur
rency certificates issued under section
5193 of the revised statutes, to secure
circulation as well as the deposits of"
legal tender notes and treasury notes.
These certificates represent legal ten
der notes actually held in the treasury,
and the effect of depositing certifi
cates is. therefore, the same precisely
as to require the deposit of notes.
Second So amending the present
law as to permit state banks to de
posit legal tender notes and procure
these currency certificates in the same
manner that national banks are now
permitted to do so.
Third Dispensing with the pro
visions which authorize an assessment
upon the national banks to replenish
the safety fund tor the redemption of
the notes of failed banks, and, in place
of this provision, inserting one provid
ing that the collection of the one
fourth of a cent tax for each-half year
shall be resumed when the safety fund
is impaired, and continued until the
safety fund is restored.
Fourth Authorizing the comptroller
of the currency instead of the banks
themselves, to designate the agencies
at which national bank notes shall be
redeemed. The effect of this will be
to secure the redemption not only at
the office of the bank, but at other
places accessible to noteholders.
Fifth Dispense with the provisions
compelling existing national banks to
withdraw their bonds now on deposit
and take out circulation under the
new system, and in lieu of that pro
vision insert one permitting the banks
to withdraw their bonds, if they see
proper to do so, by depositing lawful
money as now provided by law, and
then to take out circulation under the
new system if they choose to do so.
Sixth Providing that the notes of
failed national banks, which are not
redeemed on demand at the office
of the treasurer of the United States
or an assistant treasurer of the United
States, shall bear interest at the rate .
of 6 per cent, per annum from the date
of the suspension of the bank until
thirty days after public notice has
been given that funds are on hand for
their redemption.
This imposes no obligation upon the
part of the United States to use its
own funds lor the redemptions, the
safety fund is in the hands of the
treasurer, and he will redeem notes out
of that fund.
It is not necessary to repeat the re
pealing clause in section 7 as recon
structed, because section 1, as pro
posed to be amended, repeals all bond
requirements as to banks taking out
circulation under the proposed bill;
nor is it necessary in section 7 to set
out how the notes of existing banks
shall be redeemed, when lawful money
has been deposited, because the pres
ent law provides for all that.
In regard to the provision making
the notes of failed banks bear inter
est, it is absolutely necessary to re
quire their presentation at some place
before they begin to bear Interest, oth
erwise it is impossible to frame a
clause which would not make all of
these notes bear interest from the
date of suspension, even though there
might be funds on hand to pay them.
There are ten subtreasuries in the
United States, and there will be no
difficulty in presenting the notes if the
holder of them has any doubt about
their immediate redemption, and thus
make them bear interest.
CROOKED APPOINTMENTS
On the New York Police Force Referred
to the Civil. Service Supervisory Board
for Their Action.
New Yokk, Dec 22. At the meeting
of the police board yesterday after
noon President Martin offered the fol
lowing resolution, which was at ouce
adopted:
Resolved, That the testimony taken by the
board of police as to the legality of the appoint
ments of John Dowllng, Edgar F. Douglass,
Dennis Keating, John Flat ley, John R. Kru
shtnski, Herman F. Ludwlg, Itlchard Hurnk,
Adolphus W. Rehange. Solomon Cohen and Jo
seph Devlin, as members of the police force ot
the city of New York, be referred to the civil
service supervisory board for its Information,
and for such action as may be necessary.
These are the policemen who, it ia-
claimed, obtained their appointments
on the force through fraudulent civil-
service examinations. The action of
the board in referring the testimony
taken before it at the investigation to'
the civil-service board would indicate-
that the commissioners are in doubt as
to their power to dismiss the accused
men from the force. The police com
missioners decided to begin the trials
of all accused members of the depart
ment immediately after the beginning,
of the new year.
THE INFERENCE OF GUILT
Is Strongly Against, But His Uray llalra
May Save Him.
Cleveland, O., Dec. 22. The crim
inal court jury, in whose hands rests
the fate of Horace Steele, the Paines
ville bank wrecker, had made no re
port up to 5 o'clock yesterday after
noon, having been out twenty-seven
hours. Mr. Hadden, who conducted
the prosecution, said: "A disagree
ment seems probable. The inference
of guilt against Steele is irrcsistable,
but Steele's gray hairs and his 74 years
are having their effect on tho jury."
Threats to Blow Up a frort- Wayne
Srhoolhouae with Dynamite.
Fort Wayse, Ind., Dec 22. Late
yesterday afternoon the police ar
rested a strange-looking man, dressed
in anarchical style, who had earlier in
the day called at the Jefferson-street
school, and on being refused admis
sion threatened to blow up the- build
ing with dynamite. He says his name
Is William Ray, and before he was sent
to the insane asylam at Poughkecp&ie
he was the janitor of two school build
ings at Saratoga, N Y. He acts very
strangely now, although he says h
has been discharged, as eared- j