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THE WOELD AT LARGE,
Summary of the Bally News
WASHINGTON XOTES.
Otrnra to the numerous inquiries
coming for fractional silver coin, the
United States treasury has prepared
Sot transmission to all banks and other
financial institutions, and to the princi
pal post offices, stating in substance
that new halves and dimes will be fur
nished in sums of $200 or more by ex
press free of charges, or by registered
mail, in sums of multiples of $50, regis
tration charges.
Skxoii Mareso has laid a letter be
fore the president stating that Great
Britain was scheming to possess the
Sandwich islands. He was referred to
the state department.
REroiESEXTATrvF McKexxa. of Cali
fornia, had a short !k v ith the presi
dent about the vawncies on the Cali
fornia judiciary. He suggested the
bmw, of ex-Representative Morrow
And Judge Van Fleet, of California.
X oez.boa.tion of prominent citizens
of Augusta, Ga., called on the presi
dent to invite him to visit their ex
position in November.
The president has appointed Francis
Hendricks collector of customs for the
port of New York to succeed J. S. Fas
nett, resigned.
The president issued his proclama
tion opening Indian lands in Oklahoma
on the 18 tli, setting the time for the
22d. Great excitement occurred on the
border, boomers everywhere preparing
for the rusk
The first cabinet meeting since the
president's return was held on the ISth.
Secretaries Iilaino and Proctor were
present.
ArronxKY-GENERAi, Miller directed
the United States district attorney at
San Diego, Cat, to dismiss the second
libel against the Itata, and she was re
leased and free to resume traffic
Col. Fred Grant, minister to Vienna,
says: "I have great hopes that Amer
ican products will soon be admitted
into Austria-Hungary, but no definite
action can be taken until parliament
meets later in the season. There has
been much official correspondence on
the subject resulting in a position
which leads the United States to ex
pect an early and satisfactory answer
to the question."
The government is not satisfied with
the title of the site for the new public
building at Kansas City, Ma
THE KABT.
Suit has been commenced by the
state against the publishers of the
Philadelphia Press, Inquirer, News,
German Northern American and Even
ing Bulletin to recover the sums ol
money alleged to have been paid as re
bates to persons who procured for them
the advertisement of the mercantile
appraisers' list
Sherman Cummin-, a proof-reader,
who was supposed to have been one of
the victims of the I'ark place disaster,
has turned up in Halifax, N. S. While
on a spree he shipped on a schooner.
The man's wife was quite sure he was
dead, and identified as his a headless
body, which was buried at the expense
of his union. She also collected 51,000.
TnE reports of a deal between the
Santa Fe and the Denver & Rio Grande
roads are confirmed by the Santa Fe
officials at New York, who state that
an alliance has been formed between
the two systems, but that no lease or
consolidation will be made because
both arc prohibited by the laws of Col
orado. Fire destroyed the buildings and
stocks in Baker & Co.'s lumberyard on
Manchester street, Worcester, Mass.
Two locomotive on the Boston & Maine
railroad adjoining were also burned.
The loss is roughly estimated at $100,
000. The fire was incendiary.
Lieut.-Gov. Jones, of New York, has
bolted the democratic ticket.
Commander A. G. Kellogo, of the
United States navy, has been removed
to St Elizabeth's asylum, suffering
from brain trouble.
Two charred bodies were found in
the ruins of the Commercial-Advertiser
building. New York.
The James Vick seed corporation,
Rochester, N. Y., has made an assign
ment In replv to the inquiries made by the
Boston Globe among the delegates to
the republican state convention as to
their preferences for president in 1893
43lansncrs were received. Of these
372 favored Blaine, 47 Harrison, while
Alger bad 4 supporters, ex-Speaker
Reed 2, McKinley 2, Lodge 1 and Fas
sett L
Gen. Isaac F. Quinbt, a classmate of
Gen. Grant at West Point, died at
Rochester, N. Y., recently.
Wing Lee, the Chinese laundryman
who eloped with Lizzie Sprowl, of
Camden, N. J., some months ago and
who was arrested for abduction, plead
ed guilty in the court of general ses
sions in New York and was remanded
for sentence. The maximum penalty
is five years' imprisonment
Gen. Joseph KNArr, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., of
New York, Is dead
EX-CONORESSMAN WlLLIAM L. SCOTT,
of Erie, Fa., died at Newport, R. L,
whither he had been taken for his
health. His estate was estimated at
820,000,000.
The sixth annual convention of the
Switchmen's nnion commenced at Phil
adelphia on the 21st
Charles Howard, the would-be train
wrecker of Crown Point Pa, has been
sentenced to ten years' imprisonment
Three Slavs and two Poles were
drowned near Newburgh, N. Y., recent
ly by the upsetting of a rowboat
The German Catholic congress met
at Buffalo, N. Y., on the 2 1st At night
there was an immense demonstration,
with fireworks, banners, etc. Much
bitter feeling was provoked owing to
the Cahensley question, or Priestex
Verein, which was evidently popular
with the panders.
Sadie and Mary Cullen, two chil
dren, were burned to death at Boston.
They had been locked in a room while
their parents went to church.
Lieut. -Gov. Jones, of New York,
has refused to run on an independent
ticket for governor.
At the annual meeting of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad
Co. the present officers and director!
were re-elected.
slight shock of earthquake was
experienced in Oregon on the 18th.
Thi closing scene of the national
hooting contest was witnessed at Fort
Sheridan when Maj.-Gen. Miles, accom
panied by a brilliantly uniformed staff,
sted toe winners with m finals.
, etc., m the presence of the Fif-
sth regiment and a large number of
l xroas Chicago.
A special dispatch from St Paul says
that rumors of a gigantic railroad com
bination are current there. These
rumors point to a combination in one
system of the Great Northern, the Can
adian Pacific and the Soo roads.
The Times of Los Angeles, CaX,
prints an interview with Do Berth
Shorb, who has just returned from Chi
cago, in which he states that the man
agement of the world's fair is rotten to
the core, and he will take steps to have
an investigation at Washington unless
Davis is removed as a director-general,
on the ground of his unfitness for the
place.
Nebraska democrats met at Grand
Island on the 17th and nominated
Judge J. H. Brody for member of the
supreme court and E. A. Brogan and S.
F. Heneker for regents of the uni
versity. Seven business houses at Camargo,
I1L, were destroyed by fire. Loss, 850,
000. The threatened destruction of Thorpe,
Wis., was averted. Only the lumber
mill was destroyed
In the Michigan Methodist confer
ence a vote was taken on the matter of
admitting women as lay delegates.
After a full discussion the conference
decided in favor of the ladies by a vote
of 149 to 73.
During a quarrel over some tres
passing stock near Keystone, Cherokee
strip, Amos Chapman, the Indian scout
of Camp Supply, shot and killed twe
cowboys, Bert Mason and Short
Baron Nordenskiold, of Sweden,
has been arrested for vandalism. He
was given permission to visit the cliff
dwellings on the Ute reservation in
Colorado on condition that he would
not injure anything, when he started
In a work of destruction, gathering up
many boxes of relics which he shipped
to New York.
The tenement house, 549 and 551
Sedgwick street Chicago, was burned
on the morning of the 19th. Five lives
were lost
Rabbi Samuel Freuder, of Daven
port, la, has formally renounced
Judaism.
Chicago police believe that Vera Ays
is the notorious Diss Debar.
One of the Dalton boys was over
taken, wounded and captured seventy
five miles west of Muskogee, L T.
A fire at 178 and 175 Monroe street,
Chicago, destroyed much printing ma
terial of Jamioson & Monroe, including
forms of text books to be used by the
schools of Missouri.
The stallion Nelson trotted a mile in
2:10 on the track at Grand Rapids, Mich.
The report of the seal experts sent to
Alaska is that the taking of seals on
the open sea must be stopped or the
species will become extinct
Great prairie fires have been sweep
ing through Stutsman and Eddy coun
ties N. D.
Five persons were killed, four being
Indians, by a disastrous wreck on the
Union Pacific near Pocatello, Idaho.
Two men were burned to death while
fighting prairie fires in Emmons coun
ty, N. I).
Rain has checked tho fire that seemed
likely to devastate all the cranberry
marshes north and east of Valley June
tion, Wis. Great damage has, however,
been done.
Vera Ava's first lecture at Chicago
developed nothing of consequence.
TnREE men were buried by a caving
mine at Marquette, Mich. It will take
two weeks to recover their bodies.
The seventy-second conclave of the
sovereign grand lodge of the world, I.
O. O. F., commenced at St Louis on the
21st The usual review of Odd Fellows
occurred in the afternoon.
the so era.
Frank Brown, the democratic candi
date for governor of Maryland, will ac
cept the challenge of CoL Van Nort,
the republican candidate, to a plowing
roti.cli. I.rown is confident that he can
best his opponent, although he has not
touched a plow for ten years.
TnE Memphis theater the oldest play
house in Memphis, Tenn., was destroyed
by fire. Loss, So0,000.
Capt. A. J. Simpson's mill at Layao
creek, Tex., was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50,000.
Albert Morea, the negro of Savan
nah, Ga., who killed his two wives by
cutting their throats with razors, was
hanged.
R. H. Duncan was executed at Eagle
Pass, Tex., for the murder of the Wil
liamson family in San Saba county,
February, 18S9.
The town of Sheffield. Ala, was
swept by fire the other night Loss,
S110.000.
A freight train on the 'Frisco road
wax wrecked in a long tunnel at the
top of Boston mountain, twenty-five
miles north of Fort Smith, Ark., caused
by the tunnel caving in. The engine
and several cars were badly damaged.
The Baltimore Sun says that Secre
tary Blaine still ei-pccts to acquire
Mole St Nicholas as a coaling station.
Tmc extra session of the Tennessee
legislature adjourned without acting
on the convict lease system or much of
anything else.
William IL Cambron, bookkeeper
for Kleinhaus & Simonson, clothiers of
Louisville, Ky., has been arrested,
charged with having embezzled $3,000.
TnE phosphate workers of Florida
propose to form a phosphate exchange
in Ocala for mutual advantage.
The city council of San Antonio,
Tex., has passed an ordiance forbidding
street car companies from working
their employes more than twelve hours
per day under heavy penalties.
Fire destroyed the Ellis house and
Darlington & Montgomery's produce
house at Fort Worth, Tex. The hotel
was crowded with guests. There were
several narrow escapes.
Ex-Cong ressuax W. C Whitthobne,
of the Seventh Tennessee district died
at Columbia, Tenn., recently, aged 66
years. Mr. Whitthorne had been in
bad health for several years.
GENERAL.
Emi-eror William's speech at Erfurt,
as reported in the Berlin Post caused a
heavy decline in all Imperial and Prus
sian stocks. The official version of the
speech as published in the Reichsan
zeiger modifies the Post's phrasing.
According to this version the emperor
said: "Corsican conqueror," instead of
"Corsiean parvenne."
A German syndicate has been formed
to construct abbatoirs in Chicago to
kill hogs for exportation to Germany.
Sib John Steel, B. & A., sculptor
to her majesty of Scotland, is dead. He
was born in Aberdeen in 1804. In 1872
Sir John executed in bronze a f nil-size
copy of his colossal statue of Sir Walter
Scott for Central park. New York. He
also executed the colossal statue of the
Scotch poet Robert Barns, which is
erected in the same place.
The Elgin and Waltham watch com
panies have combined against the Dee
ber company and have cut prices oa
certain movements 90 per cent.
Mexican independence day was cele
brated at Tia Juana by a fight between
a wild bull and a bear tied to a stake.
In their struggles they broke the ropes
and the bear climbed out of the arena
among the spectators. A panic ensued
and women and children were trampled
on and bruised.
President Cabnot and his ministers
of state at Villy-Le-Francois reviewed
the French army, consisting of 110,000
men, which since September 10 have
been maneuvering in the east under
Gen. Saussicr.
Among the miracles asserted to be
authentic as resulting from the exhibi
tion of the holy coat at Treves are the
curing of tho withered arm of an ab
bess, the restoring of the sight of blind
persons and the curing of cripples.
The pope's health Is said to be better
than for a long time.
The press of Paris without exception
attacks tho emperor of Germany for his
Erfurt speech on Napoleon I.
Dispatches from Zanzibar state that
Lieut Tettenborn and sixty-five sur
vivors of the Zalewskl expedition have
arrived at Bagamoyo.
The Mexican government has de
clared the concession granted to Messrs.
Ellis and Ferguson for the colonization
of negroes in Mexico forfeited on ac
count of non-compliance with the con
tract An acute crisis prevails in Quebec
over the government scandals. Tho
guilty parties being maiuly French
Canadians has been the cause of in
flaming race passions with English
Canadians, causing bitter animosity.
The Chinese government it is an
nounced, is not aware of the threatened
naval demonstration by the combined
fleets of the powers.
Business failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended September 17
numbered 230, compared with 214 the
previous week and 190 the correspond
ing week of last year.
The statement that supreme officers
of the Catholic Knights of America had
hypothecated $150,000 is denied. The
order is declared to be entirely solvent
A man was killed in a fierce fight be
tween Parnellites and anti-ParnelUtes
atNenagh, Ireland.
The insurgents in Yemen, Arabia,
have captured Sana, the capital of the
province. The grand vizier intends to
send to Yemen the troops nowstationed
at Hedjaz, where cholera Is raging. It
Is rumored that Kurds are murdering
many Christians in Armenia
Clearing house returns for the week
ended September 19 showed an average
decrease of 6.2 compared with the cor
responding week of last year. In New
York the decrease was 1L4.
Reports of Balmaceda's escape
proved to bo erroneous. He was se
creted all the time in the rooms of the
Argentine legation at Santiago, which
fact was not discovered until ho ended
his tragic career by shooting himself
through the head. Great rejoicing fol
lowed the death of the tyrant
Sib George Grey, ex-premier of New
Zealand, has made a proposition that a
new upper chamber be formed in tho
government of New Zealand, that this
new legislative body be composed en
tirely of women and that it replace the
present upper chamber.
The insurrection in Tamaulipas, Mex
ico, was snuffed out by the capture of
the leader Garcia, who was shot and
then hanged.
Turret was the first nation to float
its flag at the world's fair.
The international congress of work-
Ingmen, called to discuss accidents to
laboring men, is in session at Berne,
Switzerland.
It is said that Tascott, the supposed
slayer of Snell in Chicago, is living with
the Turtle mountain Indians in the
Canadian northwest
The rumored assassination of Presi
dent Bogran, of Honduras, proved to be
false.
A hurricane did much damage off
the coasts of Great Britain on the 21st
The United States will act with
European powers in coercing China
into respect for the lives and property
of foreigners.
The new British postmaster-general
is Sir James Ferguson, late secretary of
the foreign oilicc
Hanlan was defeated by McLean in
a recent sculling match on tho Frazier
river, B. C.
THE LATK.NT.
Gutorie, Ok., Sen. 22. "The land is
yours." That is what every timepiece on
the border of the lands op -n to settlement
to-day proclaimed when its hands pointed
to the hour of noon. Simultaneously with
the arrival of that hour homeseeker cath
ered on the border, made a headlong rush
over the line into the coveted country ami
onto quarter sections upon which they had
feasted their eyes for days, weeks and
months. The rush w as a mad one, made
to by the fact that the homescekers greatly
outnumbered quarter sections available
for settlement
There was room for about 5,000 settlers
and there were fully 15,000 persons wait
ing on the border at the hour of noon. In
this case the race was invariable to the
iwift There was the cowboy and more
effemina e counter clerk, gambler and
preacher, bonafide settler and speculator,
"bootlegger'' and froutiernibsionary, bus
iness man and tramp, man who had lelt
his country fur his country's good, and
the man who was no honor to his locality,
man in his carriage and man in prairie
schooner, all intent on one object that
of securing a piece of land.
One of the unique sights at Tohee was a
company ot sonuu ladies from Guthrie,
who had formed a colonization compan
to proceed to the new lands and settle on
adjoining claims. They were mounted on
Texas ponies and attired as near as might
be in cowboy costume, armed with revol
vers and equipi-cd for camping out They
made the race in a body.
At a point five miles below Tohee quite
a number of Loonier were gathered to
make the race. Among them was one wo
man, whose name could not be learned,
whose impatience got the better of her dis
cretion. She crossed the line before the
appointed time and one of the deputy mar
shals arrested her and forced her back
over the line. Soot afterwards she again
crossed the line prematurely, and when
the deputy a second time ordered her back
she drew a revolver from her dress pocket
and opened fire upon him. The marshal
returned the fire and shot her in the left
leg, just below the knee, shattering the
limb and disabling her so that she was un
able to make the race. When noon ar
rived the boomers left her oa this side of
the border, stretched under a tree and un
able to . move. A humane backman
brought the unfertunate woman to this
place, where she u being cared for.
All arrivals from Langston confirm the
report that two negroes were killed in the
lands south of the negro colony; bat no
one seems to know how they met their
death. Some say they shot each other in
a quarrel over a claim; others that they
were thrown .from their horses and killed
in the stamrtede. while others sai thev
were shot by cowboys. Two negro wo
men secured quarter sections immediately
adjoining Langston. The rash is evident
ly over for the present
DODGE CITY, KANSAS, FR:
THE GRAIN SHORTAGE. n
A Leading- Agricultural Journal Give
Some Interesting Figure Europe la
Desperate Straits Demand For And
ean llreadstaa.
New York; Sept 2t An exhaustive
study of the world's food supply, in the
forthcoming number of the American
Agriculturist declares that the half has
not yet been told about the European
shortage in breadstuff s, which not even
a bountiful crop this year would have
relieved.
Continental powers, especially in
Russia, suppress the facts as far as pos
sible. In many Russian provinces the
scarcity of food became pronounced as
far back as February last In the
Konstantinovka district many families
have not cooked a meal since Easter,
but subsisted on bread, soaked rye,
grain, eta, bestowed in charity.
The prohibition of rye ex
ports is followed by a ukase forbid
ding the shipment of bran and other
cereal cattle foods. The astounding
shortage in Russia's yield of rye, an
nounced a month since by the ministry
of finance, proves even greater than the
most extravagant estimates and effect
ually obliterates all possibility of Rus
sia exporting any of her scant wheat
crop.
That eastern Germany is in practic
ally the same plight admits of no doubt
The European reserves that have
heretofore eked out insufficient harv
ests arc everywhere exhausted. The
parade made by Russia of the existence
of stores in the Baltic provinces is done
for effect to convoy the impression
that military stores are abundant
Such reserves arc of small importance.
Indeed, the danger of famine is des
tined to spare Europe the horrors of
war for fully a twelve month hence.
Accepting the largest estimates of
production, both home and abroad, and
even assuming that the United States
and Canada export 225,000,000 bushels
there is a deficit in the world's food
supply of at least 200,000,000 bushels of
wheat and rye, with a possibility of the
shortage being twice as great
Added to this is the almost total fail
ure of the potato crop In Ireland and a
serioutt curtailment in the yield of po
tatoes in the continent Even with the
utmost economy of distribution and an
unheard of consumption of American
maize, grave distress is before tho
masses of Europe.
The enormous exports of wheat and
flour from the United States in August
prove that Europe regards the situation
as worse than it has yet been painted
Otherwise why should she buy in a
single month close upon the harvest
nearly half as much wheat as she took
from tho United States during the en
tire first eight months of the year fol
lowing one of the largest wheat crops
and a period of bed rock prices. Au
gust wheat exports were almost treble
those of the same month of last year,
and over four times as much as the
average exports at this season last
year.
For the first time in years wheat,
bran and middlings are being exported
to Europe thus early in the season.
These circumstances are accepted as
the strongest possible reason for be
lieving that prices of wheat are un
naturally low. It looks for a sharp
advance in all cereals as soon as the
demand realizes the limited extent of
the world's actual supply. Every
bushel of high grade wheat h worth
fully SI on the farm where it grew.
One of the most marked features of
the prosperity that is already upon
American agriculture, noted by the
same magazine, is the extent to which
farmers are planning to unite in co
operative buying and selling.
END OF BALMACEOA.
The Defeated and Discnced Ex-frealdent
of Chili Commit! Suicide.
New York, Sept 2L Tho Herald's
Valparaiso cablegram states that ex-
President Balmaccda, of Chili, shot
himself through the temple in his room
at the Argentine legation in Santiago
Saturday morning. The story became
known in Valparaiso in the afternoon
and created the greatest excitement
In the evening the city was brilliantly
illuminated and on every hand was
beard the sounds of rejoicing.
It now seems that the story that Bal
maccda escaped from Valparaiso in the
United States steamer San Francisco
was erroneous. Instead he left Santi
ago on August 29 in hope of escaping
from the country, but finding every
avenue closed returned to the city Sep
tember 2 and went direct to the Argen
tine legation. Since then he was in an
extremely nervous condition. No one
save the minister of the Argentine re
public and one other man devoted to
Balmaccda was permitted to see him.
About 8 o'clock Saturday morning
Senor Urriburia heard a pistol shot in
Balmaceda's bed room and rushing
there found that the ex-president had
put a bullet Into his brain. The body
was undressed and lay on the bed. The
revolver was still grasped in his right
hand. The junta was notified and a
committee Immediately went to the
house and viewed the body.
As the news spread about Santiago
great crowds of people gathered around
the Argentine legation. They cheered,
hooted and went into a frenzy over the
death of their chief enemy. Above all the
discordant shouts were heard cries con
gratulating the unfortunate Balmaceda
that in taking his own life he had es
caped a worse fate.
Balmaceda's body has been removed
to the general cemetery. It was ac?
companied by the members ot the fam
ily and friends.
Ks-Coacraauaaa Scott Dead.
Newport, R. L, Sept 3L Ex-Con-man
W. L. Scott, of Pennsylvania, died
suddenly before midnight Saturday
night He was brought here about two
weeks ago from his home in Erie, suf
fering with acute gastric intestinal ca
tarrh. A slight throat trouble occurred
Thursday. Friday and Saturday after
noon he had an attack of the heart fail
ure. Another attack occurred at 11
o'clock, from which he could not be re
vived, and death came soon.
Mr. Scott waa born in Washington
July 3, 1823 and waa said to be worth
20,000.000.
Five Persons Killed and Others Berleaalr
Injured on the Union I-netBc
Pocatello, Idaho, Sept. 20. A dis
astrous wreck occurred yesterday on
the Union Pacific near Pocatello. Pas
sengers Noa 1 and 3 collided, killing
fire persona and seriously injuring sev
eral others. The killed are L. Weid
mier, mail clerk, and four Indiana
The injured are Charles Hoyt. en
gineer; Chris HacKenrie, P. P. Gander
son, Mail Clerk Lyoaa two tramps and
a squaw.
Before the eoUisioa, the engineers
and firemen of both trains jumped, all
eeeepiar. uninjured except Hoyt,
AY, SEPTEMBER 25,-1891.
LANDS OPENED.
: President Imocs Hla Proclamation
Yawning; Lands In Oklahoma to Settle-
Washington, Sept 19. The pres
ident yesterday issued his proclamation
opening ap the eastern part of the ter
ritory of Oklahoma to public settle
ment at noon, or after, Tuesday, Sep
tember 22.
The proclamation recites the agree
ment made on June 12, 1S90, with the
Sac and Fox Indians; that made on
May 20, 1890. with the Iowas; that
made on June 25, 1S90, with the Patta
watomies, and that made June 20, 1890,
with the Absentee Shawnees, and the
various acts of congress ratifying the
same and making allotments to the In
diana The proclamation also cites the
proviso that each settler on said lands
shall before making final proof and re
ceiving a certificate of entry pay to the
United States for the land so taken by
him, in addition to the fees provided by
law and within five years from the date
of the first original entry, the sum of
81.50 per acre, one-half of which shall
be paid within two years; but the rights
of honorably discharged union soldiers
and sailors, as provided by law, shall
not be abridged, and continues:
Now, tberfore. I. Benjamin Harrison, pres
ident of the United States, by virtuu ot the
power In me vested by the statutes herein
before mentioned, also an act ot congress
entitled "An act making appropriations for
the current and contingent exnenscs ot
the Indian department and fulfilling the
other stipulations witu various In
dian tribes for tho year ending June 30,
1S90, and for other purposes approved March
2. 1859, and by other laws of the United
States and by said several agreements do
hereby declare and make known that ail ot
the lands acquired from the Sac and Fox na
tion of Indians, the Iowa tribe ot Indians,
rueonucp I -O
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the citizen band of Pottawatomie Indians
and the absentee Shawnee Indians by the
four several agreements and the said acts ot
congress ratifying the sanio nnd other, the
laws relating thereto will at and alter 12
o'clock noon (central standard time) Tues
day, the 22d day of this, the present month
of September, and not before, bo opened to
settlement under the term? ot ami subject
to all conditions, reservations and restric
tions contained In said agreements, the
statutes above specified and the laws of the
United States applicable thereto
Tho proclamation concludes: Notice Is
hereby given that It Is by law enacted that
until said lands are opened to settlement by
proclamation no person fchall be permitted
to enter upon and occupy the same, nnd no
person violating this provision shall be per
mitted to enter nny ot said lands or acquire
any right thereto. The officers of the United
States will be required to enforce this pro
vision. And further notice is hereby given
that It has been duly ordered that the lands
In the territory ot Oklahoma mentioned and
Included In this proclamation be nnd the
same are attached to the eastern and Okla
homa districts in said territory, severally, as
follows:
First All that portion of tho territory of
Oklahoma commencing at tho southwest
corner of township 11 north, range 1 east,
thence east on town line between townships
13 and 14 to the west boundary of the Crcik
country, thenco north on said boundary line
to tho middle of main channel on tho Cimar
ron river, thenca up the Cimarron river fol
lowing the main channel thereof to the In
dian meridlnn. thence south on said merid
ian line to the place of beginning, is attached
to the eastern land district In Oklahoma ter
ritory, the office of which is now located at
Guthrie.
Second All that portion of said territory
commencing at tho northwest corner of
township li north, range 1 east, thence south
on Indian meridian to the north fork of the
Canadian river, thence west up said river to
the west boundary of the Pottawatomie In
dian reservation according to Morrill's sur
vey, thenco south, following the line as ran
y O. T. Morrill, under his contract ot Sep
tember 8, lS7i, to the middle of the main
channel ot the Canadian river, thence east
down the main channel of said river to the
west boundary of the Seminole Indian
reservation, thence north with said west
boundary to the north fork of the Canadian
river, thence east down said north fork to
the west boundary of the Creek nation,
thence north with said west boundary to Its
Intersection with tho line of townships U
and 14 north to the Indian base, thence west
on town line between townships 13 and 14
north to the place ot beginning. Is attacbei
to the Oklahoma land district in said ter
ritory, the office of which is now located at
Oklahoma City.
Kentucky Miners to Act.
LotnsvnxE, Ky., Sept 19. Gov.
Buchanan, of Tennessee, wired Gov.
Brown,of Kentncky.thathe had reliable
information that Kentucky miners were
preparing to release the convicts in the
mines at Briceville, Tenn. He says the
same men have before invaded Tennes
see and released convicts and asks Gov.
Brown to repress the lawlessness.
TesMsneat House Horror.
Chru.80, Sept 19. One of the most
disastrous ares that has visited the city
for some time occured at about 1:30 this
morning in a four-story tenement house
at 549 and 551 Sedgwick street Al
though the blaze lasted but fifty min
utes fire people are dead and another
will undoubtedly die. The basement
and lower floor of the building was
used by William Kafitz for a
bakery and it was in the rear of
his oven room that the fire originated.
When discovered the flames had al
ready gained considerable headway.
The alarm was at once given, quickly
followed by a second.
Ia2To Condition to Do Boalneae.
Topkka, Kan., Sept 19. The United
States savings bank of this city, which
failed Ifarch ISth last ad suspended
July 2d, was again placed in the hands
of a receiver this morning. Wil
liam Sims, ex-state treasurer,
was appointed receiver by Judge
Guthrie, upon the complaint
of H. C Safford. one of the stockhold
ers. The petition simply sets forth
that the bank is in no condition to stand
the rigid examinations of the new
banking; law and that certain failure
would follow if the bank should try to
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GERMAN CATHOLICS.
Secret Clerical- sesetea -at, Bofatfo A Key
markable Street Pageant.
Bvrrxuo, V. Y., Sept 22. Behind
closed doors yesterday afternoon there
went into session in this city twelve
apostles of the much-talked-of "Priest
er Verein," or German-American cler
ical 'union. It was the -first of the
series of meetings of the congress of
the German-American Catholics.
Vicar-General Von. Muhlsiepen, of
St Louis, president of the Verein,
called the meeting to order. The busi
ness was the scrutiny of documents,
resolutions and motions which there
was an intention on the part of any
one to bring up in the proceed
ings of the various sections of
the congress. The dozen men to
whom this task was committed
were, without exception, priests, and
all members of the clerical union sbr
officers and others of the union at
large, including President Von Muhl
siepen and Secretary Foeber, the latter
also a clergyman.
Piercing the sky like pillars of flame
the spires of tho ten exclusively German-American
Catholic churches in
liuffalo shone down last nisrht on one
of the most remarkable pageants ever
witnessed in the United States. It was
an illuminated procession of the organ
ized societies connected with those ten
churches and their neighbors from ad
jacent cities in honor of the congress of
their fellow religionists of similar na
tionality. Main street was jammed
with people from the houses to the
street car tracks as far as tho eye could
reach, while the windows and other
points of vantage were so thick with
spectators that only their heads seemed
anywhere visible. Continuous streams
of rockets and Roman candles made
the street an arch of fire, beneath which
swung myriads of Chinese lanterns in
festoons.
On foot and horseback and in carri
ages the parade advanced with thou
sands of torches till it appeared unend
ing. Some of the organizations strag
gled badly, but others marched with a
precision and military bearing unsur
passed by crack militia or the choicest
regiments of the regular army. The
line included hundreds of Catholic
knights with their polished swords,
hundreds more unarmed but uniformed
members of the Catholic legion, cadets
and parish devotional literary and
benevolent societies innumerable.
A careful estimate placed the actual
number in line at little short of 15.000.
To this Pittsburgh and Rochester, as
weli as Tonawanda, Lancaster. Lock
port and Dunkirk contributed largely.
PENSION PAYMENTS.
Crowing Feeling In the Grand Army to
Reform the List.
Washisotox, Sept 2L Feeling Is
growing stronger among the better ele
ments of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic against the excessive pension legis
lation and the numerous frauds perpe
trated under it There is an unwritten
chapter of history in connection with
the last Grand Army reunion at De
troit That meeting was not charac
terized by the demands for more lib
eral pensions which were mado at
previous meetings. The explana
tion is interesting. Notice was quietly
served that if the attempt was made to
commit the Grand Army to any more
extravagant pension measures the issue
would be raised and a split would oc
cur. Some of the best men in the
Grand Army were prepared to leave the
organization if it went any further in
pension extravagance and to raise the
banner of pension reform. Some steps
have been taken toward an organiza
tion of veterans for the purpose of pen
sion reform. Tho idea of the pro
moters is twofold They desire to check
general pension legislation, and they al
to propose to weed out the fraudu
lent pensioners. It is hoped that this
movement will acquire such hoadway
by the time of the reunion in Washing
ton next year that the Grand Army may
be committed to the work. A revolu
tion in sentiment among the honest
veterans is progressing with consider
able rapidity. It is claimed tint there
are being carried on the rolls thousands
of pensioners who are not entitled tc
bo there.
AMERICA ECLIPSED.
England Comes to the Front With a Hold
Bunk Bobbery Over One Mi'lion Dollar
Stolen From a Ixjndon Hank.
Loxdox, Sept 22. The banking
world of this city has just been
startled by the announcement that a
sensational bank robbery in which be
tween $750,000 and 1,250,000 was
stolen, had taken place in the city.
The Institution that suffered is the
London and Westminster bank (limit
ed), 41 Lothbnry, E. C, an important
establishment having over fifteen
branches in the city.
The money stolen, it would appear,
consisted of a large parcel of bills re
mitted from the country banks.
The thief or thieves must have clever
ly watched for the opportunity to ac
complish the robbery and to have
gained access to an apartment near the
main entrance of the bank. This was
easy of access from the street, and the
parcel of bills is supposed to have been
stolen while the bank officials were
busily engaged in another apartment
in going over the accounts of last week's
settlements.
The bank officers, the city police au
thorities and the criminal investigation
department of Scotland yard are put
ting forth their utmost exertions in or
der to effect the capture of the thievea
A Talaabto BeHe of Handel.
Losdox, 'Sept 22. The musical
world of London is excited over the
discovery by Prof. Edward Dowden,
L.L.D., in an old book shop in Dublin
of a copy of the original book of words
of Handel's "Messiah," printed for
the first performance in Dublin in 1742,
of which not a single copy was
hitherto known to have survived. It
shows the story that the "Hallelujah
chorus was written at the end of the
work and placed in its present position
because Handel found the work was
dranrinar to be unfounded. It changes
several of the fixed ideas as to the proper
allotment ax the various numoera
An Eloping Olrl Taken tlome.
Sedaua, Ma, Sept 82. Birdie Minor,
a seventeen-year-old girl of Boonville,
came to this dry Saturday to meet hex
affianced lover, Joe SchreibeL a cutter
in a tailor shop, but he waa not at the
train and she went to the house of a
friend. Yesterday her brother John.apo
liceman of Boonville, came for her. In
the meantime her lover had ascertained
her whereabouts and gone for a minis
ter, la his absence the brother and
sister went to the depot They were
followed by the discomfited lover. An
angry seeae ensued, hut ao harm ws
done. Her brother- took her home.
I. a O. F.
Meeting at the Sovereign Grand Lodge at
St. tonU-A Grand Parade-Large in
crease of Membership and Prosperity otrruaaVKansas"Ttt,:
the Order.
St. Lotjis, Sept 23. The first day of
tho seventy-second conclave of the Sov
ereign Grand Lodge, L O. 0. F., opened
with a heavy mist enveloping the city.
As the hours went by a pleasant breeze
sprang up and scattered the mist, re
vealing a heavy bank of black clouds
which obscured the rays of the sun and
relieved in a great measure the op
prcsive heat which had prevailed for
several days.
The reception committee were at the
Union depot early this morning and the
large delegations arriving were prompt
ly escorted to assigned quarters. Many
of the railroads ran special trains,
bringing in cantons and lodges from
towns within 100 to 200 miles of St
Louis. A delegation from Springfield,
THOMAS WILDEV, FATIIElt OF ODD-FEI.-I.OW9HII'
IX AMERICA.
I1L, outnumbered all others, tho rail
roads having made a SI fare for the
round trip.
It is estimated that over 50,000 Odd
Fellows and their families are in the
city, besides many other thousands.
The streets presented a lively spectacle.
At 2 o'clock the great parade began
to move from Lucas place and Jeffer
son avenue. The parade was in ten
divisions and was memorable for its
steadiness, length and general appear
ance. The seventy-second grand encamp
ment was opened by Deputy Grand
Sire Dr. C T. Campbell in Masonic halt
Grand Chaplain J. W. Vcnable, of New
York, opened the proceedings with
prayer.
The report of the committee on
credentials was presented and adopted,
after which the deputy grand siro made
his report, which was received with
tumultuous applause. Tho report re
ferred to the sad accident that had be
fallen the grand sire of the order,
Charles M. Busby, of Kentucky, and to
the circumstances that surrounded his
own temporary accession to that posi
tion. Dead silence reigned when Past Grand
Sire John C. Underwood nrose to speak.
Ho referred tonchingly to the sickness
of Grand Sire Bnsby and introduced a
resolution of condolence. The motion
was carried amid cheers. The past
year, the grand siro said, had been one
of grace and blessing to Odd Fellow
ship. Friendship, love and truth had
been, If possible, more closely recog
nized and the close of the year found
the star of Odd Fellowship in the as
cendant The standing committees were then
appointed and after these were con
cluded. Grand Secretary Theodore A.
Boss presented his annual report
Grand Treasurer Isaac A. Sheppard,
of Philadelphia, reported tho financial
status of the order and commenting up
on the figures said that they showed an
increase in receipts. The number of
initiations last year was shown to be
SS.00O. The net increase in the United
States and Canada during the past
twclvo months was 87,000. The total
membership at present was 072,230.
The revenue for 1690-91 fa S7.244.227.
The pecuniary benevolence distribu
tions wcreS4.000.000. New grand lodges
had been formed in Indian tetritory,
Cuba and Japan. He also referred to
the growing popularity of the degree
of Kebckah, which now numbered VTZ,
000 ladies.
POSTAL REFORMS.
Wumukrr Outlines a Plan For Improv
ing the Servire.
Philadelphia, Sept 22. At the reg
ular meeting last evening of the manu
facturers' club Postmaster-General
Wanamaker delivered an address. He
would like, he said, to see the pneu
matic system introduced in the large
cities, to have the mails taken off
ships at Sandy Hook and thus save
an hour or two in delivery, and
other improvements made. He would
also, he said, like to see a system of
free delivery through the whole coun
try. One of the interesting things
which he had tried was to take forty
one little villages in about thirty differ
ent states, and arrange to givo them
one and two deliveries daily. Out of
the forty-one, thirty-four had produced
sufficient increase of business to pay
the whole cost and leaving quite a
profit beside, amounting perhaps to 25
per cent If that could be spread
throughout the country in the same
ratio it would cost the government
nothing and the people would get the
mails carried to their doors A man now
without a newspaper would receive it
if it was carried to him and he would
be in touch with what was going on in
the country. His business, be said, was
to reach the masses.
The Rainmakers.
El Paso, Tex., Sept 22. The rain
makers have finished their work in El
Paso and will leave in the morning with
all their apparatus and instruments for
Corpus ChrUti, where the next series of
experiments will be performed. From
the standpoint of the farmer and ranch
man the experiments here have been a
failure, so far as the immediate
results are concerned, for only .07 of
an inch of rain have fallen since the
bombardment was begun. However,
there were good reasons beyond the
control of the experimenters why rain
should not follow.
fo Town Site Company Action.
Washisotox. Sept 23. Secretary
Noble has received a telegram from
Gov. Steele, of Oklahoma, stating
that townsite companies bad been
organized for the purpose of enter
ing the two new county seats as
townsites to the exclusion of single
entry-sen. The secretary in response
directed the governor to see that this
purpose of the townsite companies waa
not consummated. No such entries
will be permitted and single entrymen
will he fully sustained. Tfak action ia
taken after consultation with the law
omeera of the department
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At the recent convention'faf "BswrtteH,
Ing officers were elected- vPresident,
Calvin Hood, Emporia; secretary, Joha
A. Swcnson, Linsborg; treasurer, a H.
Lanyon. PittsburgT assistant secretary,
IL F. BaU. Topeka; vice-presidents, B.
H. Crosby, Valley Falls; H. J. Smith,
Ottawa; Alexander Warner, Baxter
Springs; J. A. Lamar, Mankato; S. A.
Fulton, Maryaville; E. L. Meyer, Hutch
inson: Edward, Carroll, Leavenworth;
W. Hetherington, Atchinson; H. H.
Gardner. Eldorado; B. Morey, Scandla;
J. W. Rush, Lamed; C. W. Trickett,
Kansas City, Kanr M-W. Loy, Wichita;
P. O. Noel, Topeka; G P. Drake, Fort
Scott John B. Mulvane, of Topeka,
was selected as the association's repre
sentative to the American Bankers' as
sociation convention to be held at New
Orleans in November.
Mysterlova rotsoalag
lira Juvenal, wife of J. M. Juvenal,
of Armourdale, died recently from the
effects of poison that had(beeaiput Into
the water cooler and famllygroceriea
Juvenal and several other members of
the household were also poisoned, but
saved by prompt medical aid. Mr." and
Mrs. Juvenal had been married only a
little over three months. Their wedded
life had not been a quiet oaa 'Juvenal
had been divorced from his first "wife
only ten days when he married hla sec
ond wife. One night several weeks ago
an attempt was mode to blow up the
Juvenal home by dynamite, and a young
woman, who, it is alleged, Juvenal had
declined to marry, was placed under
bonds to answer for the deed. Alto
gether it was a mixed and mysterious
affair.
The World Fair.
The world's fair stockholders recently
had a meeting at Topeka and elected a
board of managers of nine members to
take charge of the world's fair and ar
range for the Kansas display. About
S50.000 is in sight, making the display
an assured fact The managers elected
are as follows: At large, A. W. Smith,
of McPherson, and Fred Willhouse, of
Fairmount First district CoL W. A.
Harris, of Linwood. Second district;
Capt B. W. Sparr. of Lawrence. Third
district, CoL E. IL Brown, of Girard.
Fourth district CoL A. 3. Johnson, of
Topeka Fifth district W. IL Smith,
of Marysville. Sixth district, William
Simpson, of Norton. Seventh district,
O. E. Hildreth, of Newton.
Temperance Omeera.
At the late meeting of the state
temperance union at Topeka the fol
lowing officers were chosen for the
coming yean President, James A.
Troutman, of Topeka; vice-president,
D. C Milner, of Manhattan; secretary,
F. O. Popenoe, of Topeka; treasurer,
Samuel T. Howe. Executive commit
tee, Samuel T. Howe, A. IL Vance, B.
Kelly and Mrs. D. A. Thurston, of To
peka; W. U. Stout, of Fort Scott;
Samuel Detwiler, of Hiawatha; A. S.
Embree, of Leavenworth; S. B. Flem
ing and IL W. Lewis of Wichita;
Charles W. Dewolf. of Garnett; L. A.
Davis, of Newton, and Miss Aruada, of
Pleasanton.
Kansas Mortgages.
Statistics gathered at Topeka show
that the total number of mortgages
recorded in fifty-four counties for the
four months preceding September 1 ag
gregated S4,S83,80S; released, SU.270,270;
excess of releases, SL688,405, or 26
percent At the same ratio the gain
would be in excess of 55,000,000 for tho
year and for the seventy-four counties
east of the 100 th meridian it would be
67,000,000.
Suing Hoycotters.
J. M. KnighthasbroughtsuitforSlOO,
000 damages in the circuit court at To
peka against the Kansas undertakers
trust which has, through its system of
boycotting, kept him from doing busi
ness. Knight opened business in Topeka
hut has been unable to buy a hearse or
undertakers' supplies because other es
tablishments notified dealers that if
they sold to him they would do no busi
ness in Kansas. The constitution of
the undertakers' association limits tho
number of undertakers in the state to
one to each 10,000 inhabitants, and no
more are permitted to engage in the
business.
Fanner Killed.
Joseph England, one of tho wealth
iest farmers in Shawnee county, fell
into a cistern on his homestead near
Tecumseh, the other morning and was
killed. It is supposed that while draw
ing water from the cistern he was over
come by dizziness, to which he was sub
ject He owned three or four farms in
the county. He was forty-nine years
old and leaves a wife and three chil
dren. Texas Fever.
A strange disease has broken" out
among the cows in Leavenworth and
the country adjoining. The disease
takes the form of a malignant fever,
and it seems to spread rapidly. A num
ber of cows have already died with it
One milkman lost six animals. The
state veterinarian pronounced it Texas
fever.
Minor State Note.
The Union Pacific railway has gath
ered up reliable statistics from the
thirty-six counties in Kansas through
which it runs. From these statistics it
is estimated that the total acreage- of
the corn crop of the state is 5,200,860
acres. The general average yield is
placed at thirty-two bushels- per acre,
which makes the total crop 16,401,W0
bushels.
Three of the stables on the Topeka
fair grounds were recently burned. All
of the horses were recovered with the
exception of a stallion owned by Mack;
Hardy St Davis, of Emporia, which per
ished in the flames. The horse when
a yearling sold for 31,200, and was con
sidered worth SL800. The buildings
were valued at $6,000. Insured.
The trial of James Brennau for the
killing of Col. S. N. Wood has been
postponed until November 4, when the
case will come up for trial at Hugotoa.
C L. Barton, a brakeman, had hie
foot horribly crashed while recently
coupling cars at Hiawatha.
Capt J. J. Bell, an old settler of
Douglas county, was recently gored by
a vicious bull at his home near Bald
win City. He was not expected to.Uve.
Campbell Perry, a fana hand, waa
recently shot and ittataatiy killed near
Mt. Pleasant Atchison eouaty, by Mike
lacArdle, his employer. The troable
grew out ot a disputed aeeeaat
At the baby show of the state fair at
Topeka six pairs of twhas were eatered
aa contestants for the 'prise hairy ear
riage. ,.
Incendiary barn humeri
eently caused the destruction of
stable a -vwO neka.
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