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VOL,. V. NO. 128.
MUNSON I
123 and 125
WE OPEN
68 Cases of Dry
All Bought Under Regular Prices and Will
be Sold to Beat the Record on.
Low Prices.
MUNSON &
Opposite
Philadelphia Store
Corner Douglas av. and Market St.
SPEC
IAL
THIS WEEK.
200 Pair all "Wool
Scarlet Blankets at
3. SO
Worth Fully $5.
Fo
A
Ibis
S. W Corner Douglas Ave. and Market St.
McNAMARA.
Main Street.
This Tablet Kepresents -a Style of
"Wrap we are Making a Bun
on This "Week.
No.l.
Black English Astrachan,
AT $12.50.
ITo. 2 Black and Brovn of a Finer
Quality, at
$16.50.
$16.50.
We Have the Largest and Best
Cloak Dept. in the City.
We Open This "Week a Plain, All
"Wool Brown Flannel Eeady
Made Suit in all Sizes
AT $8.50.
THIS WEEK
McNAMARA.
Postoffice.
-.- SALE
Per Pair.
Week Only,
Goods
WICHITA, KANSAS, FKIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1886.
Sabine Pass, Texas, Swept Away
by a Terrific Gulf
Storm.
Fifty Persons Known to- Have
Been Drowned Only Two
Escape.
Scenes of Korror Enacted by
Doomed People as tliey Face
Certain Destruction.
the
The Anjrry Sea. Swcep3 Over
Fated Town Demolishing the
Houses and all Else.
the
Destructive Storms Ravage Northern
Illinois Chicago and Kanka-
lcee in their "Wake.
"Weather Report
Washington, Oct. 14, 10 a. rn. -The
storm central yesterday morning in the ex
treme northwest has moved to southeast
and has united with the storm lately cen-1
tral in the gulf of Mexico and is now cen-;
tral in northern Illinois. It is developing
great energy. It will move to the north
east, accompanied by high southeast winds,
shifting to northwest over the lower lakes
and coast of New England and middle
Atlantic states. High northern winds arc
indicated for lake Superior and Michigan.
Washington, Oct. 15, 1 a. in. Per
Missouri: Fair weather, northwesterly
winds; cooler, with a cold wave.
For Kansas: Fair weather, variable
winds becoming easterly; cooler.
FROLICSOME WINDS.
The Gulf Storm.
New York, Oct. 14, 10:30 a. m. The
"WcsternUnion officials report that the storm
which prevailed iu Texas and Louisiana
yesterday and day before, is now traveling
in a northeasterly drection and is cutting
oil telegraphic communication as it pro
grasses. .New Orleaiw lcpoxJa that it has
no wires west; that the whole coat terri
tory from New Orleans to Galveston is cut
oil as the storm is still raging in the south
west. It will be considerable time
before any details of the disaster
at Sabine" Pass can be obtained.
New Okleaxs, Oct. 14. A dispatch to
the Times-Democrat received eaily tlu
morning fiom Oiangc, Texas, says that the
storm did great damage at Sabine PdsS.
The Porter hotel, which contained a large
number of guests, was swept away, and a
boat containing a number of people over
turned iu the bay. All on boaid were
diowned. Eiehl lives are known to be
lost, and it is feared that the worst has not
been learned. A schooner picked up three
men in the bay in an exhausted condition.
New Okleaks, Oct. 14. A special to
the Picayune from Beaumont says: Sabine
Pass has been nearly destroyed. About 27
whites and 30 negroes were drowned.
Wires arc down. Searching parties have
gone out and will return tomorrow, until
which time nothing further can be ascer
tained. Galveston, Tex., Oct. 14. The town
of Sabine Pass at the mouth of Sabine
river, the dividing line between Louisiana
and Texas, is reported entirely washed
away by the territic storm Tuesday night.
Over fifty lives are reported lost out of a
total population of two hundred. All
telegraphic communication with the town
is cut olf.
Sabine Pass is CO miles up the coast
from Galveston aud 23 miles southeast of
Beaumont, the county seat of Jefferson
county. It is thought the bar in front of
the town will prevent tugs from laading
aud tug owners here regard it useless to
attempt to enter the treacherous channel
.since the storm.
The associated" press is making efforts to
secure full particulars of the disaster.
Telegraphic communications with all
points outside.of Texas were nearly sus
pended last night owing to the storms in
Louisiana. Arkansas and Indian Territory.
The following account of the great dis
aster at Sabine Pass ayiw telegraphed last
night to Houston:
Beaumont Our town is in a state o f in
tense excitement tonight at the news just
received from Sabine Pass of the terrible
loss of life and destruction of property in
that place from high Avater. "We have now
no telegraphic communication with the
Pass, all wires being down, but an engiuc
arrived here tonight over the East Texas
railway, that lett' there about G o'clock.
Two citizens Avho rowed iu a small boat
across an expanse of tossing Avaters, a dis
tance of several miles from the town Of
Sabine, to the track, came iu on an engine
and gie a heart-rending account of allairs
there
They say water began to invade the toAvn
from the gulf and lake together about 2
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and rose Avith
unprecedented "rapidity. The citizens of
the doomed place did not realize the immi
nent danger until it was too late to escape.
When safety by flight was recognized as
being out of the question, people who were
situated so they could do it betook them
selves to houses and resorts adjudged to be
safest. The water kept rising and between
3 aud 4 o'clock the smaller houses began to
yield to the resistless force of the Avaves and
not only mot ed from their foundations,
but turned on their sides and tops. A little
later larger houses began to give way and
death by drowning seemed in store for
every citizen of the place. With the yield
ing of smaller houses, seA-eral per.ons aa ho
hail remained in them Avcre droAvned, and
AA-hen residences and business places began
to crumble the fatality baan to double.
The following incomplete list of t!i
droned was obtai tied from the two gen
tlemen Avho came over on the engine:
Miss Mahala Chambe:
Jim Yanly and family of six.
The wife "of Otto BroVn and four ehiid
rtn. Homer Kin- Avife and child.
If r-. Parker and son.
3Irs. Konicrv and family of
live ehild-
rcn.
.Mrs. StCAvart, daughter aud pon.
A man by the name of Wilson.
Mrs. Arthur McReynoi&s.
Mrs. McDonald, daughter and
daughter.
Frank Mulligan and fan:ly.
grar.il-
Columbus. Martin and family raid about
twenty-live colored people Avhosc nai:
nes
could net jq civnn.
The aboA-e lUt comprises over fifty
human victims ot the storm, among them
some of the leading families of the place.
There are others and many of them doubt
less drowned without any one now living
knowing tnythimj of it." It is feared that
whole families in different parts of the
place have been swept away without leav
ing a person or vestige to indicate their ter
rible fate. It is said the situation during
the latter part of the afternoon beggars de
scrintion. Manifestations of terror and
agony by people looking face to face at
death and realizing there" was no escape;
the dying cries of women audible,
but rendered almost noiseless by the roar of
the mad sea; the hoarse voices of pallid
men trvine to save those dear to them, all
.combined and made the scene too horrible
to be described.
On receipt of this news, citizens of Beau
mont immediately began preparing for re
lief. The East Texas railway placed an
engine at their disposal, and a party of mm
have gone to Orange to carry the news
there and procure boats and start for the
scene.
The damage to property at Sabine has
been very great. The wharf property of
the town was owned by Ncav York capi
talists who also own adjoining lands, and
were aiming to make Sabine Pass an im
portant port of the Gulf coast.
New Orleans. Oct 14. A special from
Orange, Tex., to the Picayune says: De
tails of destruction by storm at Sabine Pass
and Johnson's Uavou come in slowly and
are yet indefinite, though all agree that
there has been grvat loss of life and pro
perty. Two brothers named Pomeroy Avere
picked up by the schooner Andrew Baden
in Sabine Lake. They had been in the
water thirty-six hours clinging to their
capsized yawl.
Their mother and sister and -lrs. uaptam
Junker, her son and a little girl of the
party Avcre lost. The Pomeroys report
lhat'fifty lives were lost at the Porter house
where the people had collected of the best
place of safety. It went to pieces at 9
o'clock. Many persons are missing. Still
greater, loss is reported from Johnson's
bayou." Whole families Avere swept aAvay
and not a house is left standing AAithin five
miles of the lake. Parties were organized
hist night and left on the steamers La
mar and Emily II with provisions and
b jdding. They arc expected tonight, when
further particulars will be obtained.
The Times-Democrat Lake Charles, La.,'
special, says: The loss of property along
the Cameron Parish, Gulf coast and for
some distance Avest of Sabine Pass by the
storm of Tuesday night was fearful. The
mail boat from" Cameron Parish reports
that the water at Colision Pass was eight
feet deep at the light house and that the
entire county east and west Avas submerged
Tuesday night, drowning thousands of
cattle and ruining crops. No lives lost at
Lcesliura or Colision Pass, but the folIoAV
inr arc reported lo3t at Johnson's Bayou,
La.:
The entire families of Alfred Lambert,
Marion Lukes, George Etriner, Chas.
Blanchet, Bradford Berry and two families
by the name of Farnsworth, besides many
others aa hose names lnivc not been ascer
tained. Slonn in Illinois.
Kankakee, 111.. Oct. 14. The water
works tOAver at this place Avhich Avas com
pleted last week blew oyer today, crushing
the barn of H. II. Johnson and a portion
of his residence. Joshua Aldrich and his
Avife in another part of the house at lime
Avere uninjured. T:ie tower was 123 feet
high and 29 feet across. It was of boiler
iron. It cost Slo.uOO. The Avind blew
down trees and chimneys' and tore off roofs.
No lives Avere lost.
Chicago, Oct. li. nigh wind accom
paned by drifting rain has been preA-ailing
here since early this morning. The storm
toic through the trees of Douglass, Gar
field and Humboldt paries with the fury of
a hurricane, Saplings were tAvisted off
close to their trunks and hurled oaxt the
tops of larger trees. Tavo real estate
agency buildings on Madison street near
Garfield park Avcre picked up by the wind
and ground to pieces on the prairie. Street
car conductors and drivers caught in the
teeth of the gale, say that it Avas only Avith
the greatest difficulty they saved them
selves from being throAvn from the cars.
All the streets in the Avestern and south
western portion of the city arc littered Avith
broken trees and shivered sign boards. The
wiud is blowing at the rate of thirty miles
an kour, and has attained a A'elocity of
from fifty to sixty miles on the kkc.
Chicago, Oct. 1 1. At the office of the
Western Union Telegraph company one of
the officers stated that this storm had given
the compauy more trouble than any storm
that thej liaA-c had for years. The com
pany has large gangs of men out repairing
lines as rapidly as possible. In this city
.several frame houses Avere blown down and
in one of them the inmates Avere severely
injured. On Madison street a large build
ing in proeos of erection felt in and
smashed the house adjoining. The parks
sutl'ercd severel.
Reports show that the storm extends
over a very Avide area but no particulars
can b obtained as telegraph wires are
doAvn in almost every direction.
A cyclone between Ypsilantt, Mich.,
and Elkhart, Ind., tore down all Avircs in
that neighborhood, and on the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railway the top of a
car was bloAvn off and carried against the
Arires Avith such force as to break them all.
A Gale in Indiana.
Ft. Vayxc, Ind., Oct. 14. A terrific
gale from the south passed OA'cr this city
this afternoon, and at 2 (clock rat;cd in
full force. Odd Fellows temple, Centliv
er's brcAvery, Hacke's bottling Avorks,
Adams express otlicc, together with some
cf the principal b.isiness buildings Avere un
roofed. At 10 o'clock lire broke out in
the outskirts of the city, and uve frame
dwellings are in ijames with the gale
spreading the conflagration.
A Severe Gale iu Michijjau.
DiTaoiT, Oct. li. Wires throughout
the itate are almost all down and it sterna
that it Avill be impossible to learn anything
about the extent of the storm in this
neighborhood. A gale preAai:ed all after
noun, the Avind reaenmg lifty-two miles an
hour. All river cralU Avere tied up.
Trues, roufs, plate glass and electric light
tOA-trs h.ive suffered corudderablj. Owing
to crowed Avires msuy of the electric lights
did not appear, and a Large portion of the
citv is in darkness.
A Elow in Missouri.
Korsis Citt, Oct. li. A Clinton, Mo.,
speeittl says: A heavy storm of Avind and
rain struck this city at 11.30 la?t night and
did considerable damage. Falkner &
Wooleys ppttcn-Ava3 nearly demolished;
the new colored Baptist chufch and several
snail houses were blown down. 2so one
hurt.
Storm in Ohio.
Toledo, O., Oct. 14. The storm today
struck Toleda about noon, and from that
hour until 3 o'clock the velocitv of the
Avirul wa about fifty-five milts per hour.
There was considerable damage done in a
small way, such ai blowing down chim
neys. 2ao casuaiities are reported. Re
ports from northwestern Ohio bring tidings
of similar damages. The court house at
Napoleon was iniurad to the extent of one
thousand dollars.
Wind Storm in Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky. Oct. 14. A hard wind
storm prevailed this moruing throughout
the state but po special damage is reported.
A Blow at Buffalo.
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 14. A terrible
gale accompanied by rain set in here this
afternoon and continues with increasing
fury. At midnight the wind is blowing
sixty miles per hour. Twenty-nine houses
have ben totally destroyed, and over one
hundred people'are homeless. The people
are moving their household effects to the
main land. Officers were sent to the re
lief of the Lambert familv. Charles
Lambert was saved but his wife" and daugh
ter Avere drowned. Several others are re
p jrted missing.
The roof of the Western Transportation
house was blown off, causing a blockade of
Lackawanna track. The streets are flood
ed seven hundred feet from the dock. O
street is completely flooded. All the lusi
ber yards on the islands are Avrecketl. The
damage to shipping is A'ery great. Barges
are floating over Evans' dock and a num
ber are reported smashed.
At 8 o'clock this evening the rear Avail of
the new music hall Aveut down with a
crash. No one AA-as iniurcd.
A Rate War Averted.
Chicago, Oct. 14. T. J. Potter, of the
Burlington, H. 11. Cable, of the Rock
Island, J. C. McMullen, of the Alton, and
A. A. Talmage, of the Wabash, met here
today and succeeded in reaching a com
promise Avhich will avert a Avar on South
western passenger busiuess. This Avas
done by agreeing to form a gross money
pool for three years on all business between
Chicago. St. Louis, Kansas City and other
competitive pomts. Any road dissatisfied
Avith the pool, by filing notice between Oct.
1st ana 10th, 1837, can have the privilege
of Avithdrawing on Jan. 1st, lSdS. The
only thing which has kept the roatls from
agreeing heretofore, has been the question
of how the business was to be divided, and
this was arranged as folloAvs:
The Wabash is to be allowed to take as a
basis its business for any one of the years
from 1883 to 1885, or the twelve months
from July 1st, 1885, to June 14th 1886.
The other roads take all of their business
for the years 1884, 1885 and 1886. and from
this an average is struck and the per cent
ages awarded on the result. The Burling
ton, which had interposed an objection.
agreca to report its local business west of
the river. This accomplished, the meet
ing adjourned till tomorrow when the re
port Aill be submitted to a- general meet
ing AA-hich will be called next Aveek to rati
fy the compromise.
Koad Masters and Slnsrgors.
St. Louis, Oct. 14. The Headmasters'
association completed its session today and
after electing the following officers, ad
journed: President, John W. Craig, of the
Chat lesion & Savannah railroad; first Aice
president, C. E. Jones, of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road; .second vice
piesidcnt, J. II. Preston, of the Chicago &
Rock Island road; secretary, I). II. Loav
ell, of Ravena, Pa.; treasurer, Thomas
Adamson, of Aurora, lnd. The next
meeting will be held in Cleveland on the
second Tuesday in next October.
The slugging match Avhich Avas to have
taken place here tonight between George
LaDIanchc and Dan Daily, was prohibited
by the police.
Armour's Men All Ordered Out.
Chicago, Oct. 14. At a meeting tonight
of District Assembly No. 57, K. of L., it
Avas decided to order out tomorrow all em
ployes in Armour it Co.'.s beef depart
ment. This movement will add several
thousand men to those already out. At
miduight members of District Assembly
57 were still in .session. Mr. T. II. Barry
will probably IcaA'c for Iliclnnond tomor
row night. lie says lie has arrived at the
conclusion that the packers are merely
playing for time. He broadly hinted that
his mission in Hichmond Avill be to insti
tute, if possible, a boycott against Armour,
who he is convinced is alone in the Avay of
au amicable settlement of the stock yard
trouble.
The SouthAvestern Exposition.
Gat:de.v Citv. Oct. 14. Today av.i? the
great day of the Kansas SoutlnA'csiern ex
position. Ten thousand visitors Avere on
the ground. Hotels, boarding houses, even
private houses arc crowded Avith people.
Fully 2o,000 people haA-c been here during
the week. The city is scarcely able to ac
commodate the croAvd. The display at
the exposition av.is trrcatly improved since
the opening day. The counties of Finney,
Scott, Lane, Mead, GrceVy, Hamilton, Ke
ward. Grant, Morton, StcAe;is and Xess
have handsome exhibits, ranging all the
Avay from cotton to a squash weighing one
hundred aud citrhty-three oumR
?.Iajor Wm. Sims, secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, Col. A. S. Johnson
and Hon. G. W. Wat&on of Topeka, acting
as a committee on county display, awarded
the prize banner to Ness county as having
the best display of agricultural products.
Ness county abo rcceiA-ed the cash prize of
one P'lndrbd and fifty dollar, MV-nl
count- was nAvardc-1 second prfce. The
exf cistive committee awarded Scott county
one hundred dollars in cash for having the
best display of sod crops. The most inter
esting eA'cnl to-day Avas the lassoing of a
buitalo by a lady, Miss I Initio Carter of
Hart land." This will be repeated to-morrow
and Saturday.
Spf-Jfll Dispatch to Uio P.1II7 TS-o
Guides Cirr, Kon.. Oct. 14. C. G.
Countant was presented with a handsome
diamond ling by the citiVeni of Garden
City in appreciation of his efforts in mak
ing the Southwestern Kansas exposition .1
gran(l,su?ce3.s. The presentation was made
at Steven's Optra hoe after the 3rst art of
the play. C.
Heavy Failures in Cincinnati.
Ctxci:jxatt. Oct. 11 Two heavy fail
ures occured here to-day on account of the
defalcation of one man. This nrat lirm aa-os
that of J.-vcob Wclier & Co., wholesale deal
ers in pfanuSs and pickles, corner of Water
and Vine sttect'. A rough estimate of
liabilities is $100,000, it is olaimcJ that the
asrtts nxirlv reach this amount. Cause of
failure at.ts the forserv br thcircontidcntisl
elerk. 11. 1L Dall. of manv thousand doi
I lars of warehouse receipt. Ball lias fkd
to Canada. Dail is 40 years ot age k&4
married, and the only cauo of the act U
probably that he lost money in ?p-oulalion.
Fourhoursistcrtbe announcenieni of tlu
failnre of Skants. EdAvards & Co.. snathcr
psanut conimwcn Snn at SSaad &" Water
srt. was made. They hritl about A3a.-
030 worth of Y,"clJer's pcpa". their he
Uii:t:e3 atiu proioiy ravza jj,vj. 1 uvj
hope to p&y in fnl!.
nartv to visit that citv. but lack of time pre-
-.-a .i.. trr. ..r,;.
KUWM "-- ""'" 0""-
promises of a violent Oue. Every letter there im&AL
, ........ . hi- Ven photographrtl al detodhrcs rp- TheTLIiole'lor
raSarasliwi offlciab drove arauad the ; plied with copto. A syxn of wpionap- ,,.,1 ., T d T 4 -Tec-lv
!-" . nn.1 1-ft 11,1 r.irn.n for Uras lhl mi nwa sosvxud rrirtic?. In WAni50T0, II. C .ICL II. I IMV
O L, l fence for St- Paul nd Cliicago. due time there AriH be another run don bu n.ting t4v g;11 "
Tteoald not a;tai: that their viat here There arc tolay in the ntr at lea ozfat mcmixTS exot fc-crt.ary
hadanv partlwhr significance. A com- men agait whom a case i practically Lnrydmcnt
mi f !! from Toneka inviud the complete, who cwiW.be arrel atany acting .& . .r-?lfcf . " :.!r.
The Schooner George If. Chase
Foundered on Lake Michi
gan in a Gale, .
Two Vessels Collide on Lake
Erie in a Fog and One
Goes Dovru
Two Heavy Business Failures in Cin
cinnati, the Result or One
Man's Defalcation.
A Wife-Murderer Taken from Jail in
Missouri and Given a Short
Shrift into Eternity.
A IS'egro Kavisher Shares a Similar
Tate at the Hands of nn Ex
asperated Tennessee M.ob.
A Schooner Foundered.
Pout Calhoun, Oct. 14. An unknown
schooner, suppose i to be a three master
vessel, foundered '.vhen about three miL's
off this port this afternoon. The tug boat
started immediately to try and pick up the
sailors. A heavy gale Avas blowing from
the southwest at the time.
Pout Calhou.v, Mich., Oct. 14. The
tug Booth has returned here and reports
the foundered A'essel as the sehooner.
George M. Chase, Captain Cook, grain
laden, bound from Chicago to Buffalo
When the Both reached the ill-fated ves
scl, she found the tug Wamamoro already
there, and together they saved four of the
crew whom they found clinging to the
spars which stuck up out of the Avater.
Captain Cook and one man never came up
after the vessel went down.
Collision of Inke Steamers.
Cleveland., O. Oct. li. A report Avas
received here this morning by M. A. Brad
ley & Co., owners of the propeller Selali
Chamberlain, stating that vessel Avas sunk
in collision Avhh a New York Central Hue
boat, six mile3 cast. of Sheboygan, Wis.,
last nighranu four deck hands and the sec
ond engineer, names unknown, lost.
The "Sclah Chamberlain is the property
of the Bradley estate and was valued at
$G0,000. The boat Avas built in this city in
187o and rebuilt in 'S3. She Avas of 1201
tons burthen aud of a class of second grade
propellers.
Milwaukee, Oct. 11. A special to the
Wisconsin from Shoboygm says Captain
Greenly, of the lost steam barg' Chamber
l.un, refuses to be interviewed concerning
the diwister and ha. forbidden the surviving
members of the crew from talking about it
He says he doesn't know the names of the
men av1io lost their li.'es. The unfortun
ate ones Avere the second engineer, fireman
aud throe deck hand-. The Chamberlain
was struck on the port bow and cut down
to below Avater line She immediately be
gan to sink. Captain Greenly ordered the
boats lowered. The men avIio AAtrc 1 t
jumped into one of the boats when th
davit broke and they wor duinpnl into
the lake and drowned. The Chamberlain
lies about two miles cabt of Sheboygan
point.
Captain John Pridgion, Jr., avIio arrived
here this morning gives but little informa
tion concerning the collision. He says the
boats came together during a deme log
and hea'y gales about nine and immediate
ly separated. He did not know the name
of the steamer lie collided with, nor did
he know anything concerning her fate
until lie arriA-ed here.
Wife Murderer Lynched.
Chicago, Oct. 3 i. A News Monticcllo,
Illinois, special says: At 1 o'clock this
morning about two hundred disguised men
overpowered the biicriff, broke into the jail,
and took therefrom Henry WiMman, the
wife murderer, and hanged him to a fmall
shade tree near the jail. After hanging
him they thru thot him eleven times to
make bure of their work. The mob v. as
Avell organized. The mob left the iKxly
hanging and it was not cut down until 0.
after the arriVal of the coroner. The men
seemed greatly enraged and Avere uitc
profui-c in the m-c of profanity. Wild
man's body Avill be interred tomorrow.
Wildman cut his Avife's throat on the third
of July last, near At wood, Ills. He has
been in jail here hince that time.
A Itavisher Strung Up.
Mkuimih. TVnn , Oct. It. Mn. Lvaeh,
a Avidow residing Iavo mile:? from Dyem
htir" Tenn.. AA'as raocd last night by a
negro named Matt Washington. avIio Avas
fchorJly jiftenvnrds raptured and h-Jged in
jail. "Thi morning at 1 0 o'clock a crowd
of 2.;0 unmasked men surrouded the jail,
took forcible possesion ot the ravlsher and
lynched him.
Suicide by Ilansln.
Nor.Tit Adams. Mass.. Oct. 11. The
body of Bayard Putnam, chief of the gov
ernment topographical survey, was found
hanging to a tree this morning a short dis
tance from the geological camp, where he
had beeii at work. He had lce.n mining
from carat) for a Aveek. No cause for his
suicide U known.
Threatened Vengeance.
Chicago. Oct. 14. The jurors in the an
archists trial arc not the only one con
nected with the case who arc threatened by
n'ltnero'M anonymous writers with thretj
of vene-awe for doing their duty. Infor
matiuni made public today UiHtJudgf
j Garry, State's At urney Grfnneil and Cap
Uin scnaacx, nave recti. j a ia.g'' numos
of threateainj; letters. Tit i latest reame
was addnwied to Jlr. laruwirti. ami is writ
ten in French in a graceful round haad. It
opened as fwll-s.
pr!p6 far- .. . . , ,
With much Rohctttaie for your zowl
health and that of your cttimalne fstnfly. I
wish to advi-u jou that a oar derUh is vvry
near. Birsvinu'to the ground ia homage of-
, you, I nzc Unit opportunity to forewarn
i von that I wll cut your tnroct at mr ami
conveaJcr.ee.
The missive went on at some length in a
Hinflnr pouSe sJvlc, and vtras gssI Heh
Spicne lrs. Gerry and Mr. Sciisr-k
have aiao been recipienlfi of hxten sa
nouncing to tlicm that thor hm&endt
would die Chibj. dirks, knives, pfertob,
dynamite bombs and other murderou weap
ons bavin j: been tnssili"ned a xaeaa to
!km!di the liA'es of tl? o3icaaa. iltmn
In'rsm. Walfccr and Furthmenn, anl de -
hour. There are nearly forty others fcboul
I hnm t. t&ila are Lein? ujniitcea.
I "
lective Jw. BoneneW, hw hrjther, the :n-1 jijor J-trenaore usa ayjft!fiy votrirmi
WHOLE NO. 754.
Bonds for the Midland,"
Special DLsptch to the Dally K;l.
Beloit, Kan., Oct 14. Bonds to the
amount of twenty-two thousand dollars m
aid of the Kansas Midland railway were
carried today in Beloit township, Mitchell
county, by a large majority.
Plum Creek, Mitchell county also voted
bonds in aid of tha Kansas Midland rail
road today by a handsome majority.
The Jolly Journalists.
Special Dupatch ts the Dally Eagle.
Uakpeu, Kan.. Oct. 14. An cditcnal
excursion, representing a large number of
the most influential agricultural paper in
this country, and led by J. C. Judd, of tht
Prairie Farmer, arrived here this afternoon
by special train from the cast. A largo
citizens' cummittea with carriages and the
Harper uras3 band received the distin
guished visitors at the depot, and this even
tug n reception ia Uu;ir honor Avill be given
at the opera house. U. L.
Enstport, Me., in Flames.
EvsTroivr, Me , Oct. 14, 4 p. m. A de
tructiA'c conflagration broke out thr after
noon in Cohen's Sardine factory, and is
njw sweeping though the busmen por
tion of the town. l'iv sardine fa.-tories.
Smith's saloon, Panic's large store, anvn
Brown's house, It. B. Clark's house, ami
other dwellings haA-e alreadv becu de
stroyed. The Tassarangue bolel has just
caught fire The Avind is blowiug from
the southeast aud there arc no Iioiks of
preventing the tire from sAvcepiug tha
whole of "Water street. The greatest excite
ment prevails. The merchants are nil
moving their goods out of the t-tons.
There is no fire apparatus in town except
two hand engines. Two years ago this
mouth the town Avas destroyed by tire.
The telegraph poles arc burned; the tele
graph oUiec has been abandoned on ac
count of the near approach of the tire, and
all telegraphic communication stopped for
the present.
Switchmen's Strike.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct, 14. The
MiUvaukee 8Aitchmcn joined the strikers
last night, but their places were filfed thi
morning by men imported froM Milwaukee,
and trains on that road are running ai
usual. A strong guard of detectives and
policemen is maintained in all yards. Tho
Manitoba men this morning made pergonal
demands for higher Avagcs. All freight ii
blockaded except on the Milwaukee rood.
Minneapolis. Oct. 14. All t'io old
switchmen of the .Milwaukee and fct Paul
road joined the strikers lust night and their
places were promptly filled thi1 morning.
Several conferences have been tu-ld between
the switchmen and railm:id manatrers thi
morning, but no compromise has bin
reached. The St. Paul switchmen havo
not accepted the invitation to j.-in tho
strike. They say if the Minneapolis nu n
are successful they will gain tha uuiiti rnhu
withiiUt a strike. The Milwaukee road
brought up from Milwaukee this morning
shout sixty switchmen and specwl police.
Merchants are haying considerable dirib ul
ty in handling their freight and biisiues.!
interests are enJTering.
Funeral Obsequies.
Cincinnati, O , Oct. 14. The special
train bearing the remains of Chief Jiittico
Chase, committees and othes avIio are to
attend the ceremonies here today, arrived
this morning at ! o'clock. The party wai
at the depot and a cortege formed to escort
the remains to Music hall ThercAvusa
respectful gathering of people about tho
Grand Central passenger .station platform.
Police prcA-enti'd encroachment upon tho
space required for the onh'rlv formation hi
the cortege. This Avas forWd Avith t!u
first carriage containing Gov. r)ml;r,
.Mayor Smith, Attorney General J A.
Ivoehler and Mural nuMcad. The se ml
carriage contained memln-rs of tin suprr-iuc
court of the state, Hon. T. F Wfw hall,
W. IX Polett, Sdwyn Owens and W T.
Spear. The third Avasoccupid by Hon.
Alphonso Taft, Hon. A K. Perry, Hon.
W. F. Force aud Ih.u. W. A. Gruisbeck.
The fouith. fifth and sixth carriages con-taiii'-d
representatives of the bar associa
tion and of the chamber of commerce of
Cincinnati.
liaptlst eneral Conference.
Maiuon, O., Oct. I l.Thc twenty hixth
general ronfrrenre of the Free will Baptist
church coir.vncd aa itlt a hire delegation
in Marion Thurvday at 10 oVlork and vtm
calkd to order bv Bev Ur. Steward, of
New Hampshire. Hev. O li. ill'. f
Michigan. AAaschowjrileiapontry chairman.
The election for moderator wjm inU renting
and resulted in the thoitvof D. L. Phil
lip, of Indiana, Aith Hev. Dr. Hull, of
Ituffalo, N. Y., and Bev. B. M. Porter, of
New Hampshire, for iiMstnnt moderator!.
The conference wrmon Aas preached by
Prof. J. A. Hoavc of Bate College, 3Ie.
The h'edgAvick Scandal.
Ciii'voo, Oct. M. A Tinier Dnllr.',
Tex.. fpecial iy J. M. Martin, nn
American, engaged in fmslnevi in the City
of Mexico, arrived here yesterday He it
a man of fino address, ajvpafntly of 1 bar
acttr and' veracity lie mis he was one of
the committee who cafleil on Special Agent
StdgAviekat the time of the Jockey t'lub
sttaridfll. 31artin hh that the mot cx
trcine account did ml exnegcrate the fiw U
of the scandul and that the Kcrretary of
Plate finds ii limited an amount of fpitl
among colociani! tl Sedgwick hfinself
The Art Without I'rcecdent.
Ottawa, Oft. 11, The cabinet cjuh'H
yedtenlay coaflrmed the $-W fine awit
tlic American schooner Marifn Grime
luit rwnorwl the extra r Jiiw ihit had
len impol. A ktter of Trr Ur,cg
censure will lw went to Captain Qull . I
the wbooner Terror, for hi nctkw in hi i"
inir do.vn the Amarirta Ilftc. Tic rua'il
j luui agretd that there no rwscwieat V r
uch action aal coadewncu 11 ia una at
I ( nwi.
'J Sank llobbery.
lUx.rfKrr.HK, Wis.. Oct. II A syrlal
to the Wtarofflrin fr m Ajdihuwl o two
men enteral Wilmarth's bank UuJ iQ
o'clocfe ai rtup?!iil Mr. WDmrh 1 1
drier the vault t t&e t& of jW-U
vriril m In lit vhuH the robtr-r
j rad &l,(ffl in crwh frow a waJ! i slid
tsude tbrfr escape i hx & je
of cHtznbx are uo trck of tlw :tAA3St
who took to u f .vsd.
Ilather tnJt Than Iotc.
Kjua Crrr, Mo.. Oct. 14. A Wb
fcqjtmi. D, C, defilch HhU that ib: rr-
rt'tsry of Vfr h oukmti tbrKrtJ -f
the 'SHmnurt river Ccnfsakitks hel
j mairter from lW iity to St. Jjwh.ztd.
Ovroauao cap.
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