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WICHITA, KANSAS. WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUARY 29. 1890.
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A passing car sent a spray of
mud spots over a nicely brown
ed, tray of -waffles at a corner
stand "By hokey, look at that!"
cried the distrusted nrnnrifitfir.
Then, instantly collecting his
wits, he cried to an apprentice
h'nd: "Sugar dem spots off
quick !"
Our January serial sale will
close with this week.
We will also take inventory of
stock next week and therefore
prices will ba forced down very
low during this week.
Come this week and get your
Embroideries and Laces, Mus In
Underwear, Novelty Dress Pat
terns, Broadcloths, Blankets and
Comtorts, Table Linens and Nap
kins, Handkerchiefs, Gloves and
Fancy Goods.
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Our sale of white goods win
continue during this week and
you don't want to miss the bar
gains being offered in this stock.
The advance guards in new
spring dress goods has reached
our dress goods counters. "We
are never behind hand when it
comes to placing before you the
advance styles from all over the
world. Tour money will have
the greatest purchasing power at
our store this week.
Bargains in new spring fabrics,
as well as in seasonable winter
goods.
We have just received the
choicest brands in bleached and
unoieacnea cottons ior your
spring sewing.
The (deter the Better
For Fox's stock of Dry Goods to be closed
out. So we cut still deper re
gardless of cost or Talue.
90c all wool German Serge, 44-inches
wide, will be closed out at 6Sc.
54-inch ladies' cloth, worth 75c, will be
closed at 44c.
2oc all linen table cloth will be closed
at 16c.
A lot of the best 25c towels ever brought
to Wichita will be closed out at 19c.
35c hose will be closed out at 20c.
50c underwear will be cloBed out at 25c.
35c Dress Flannels, 38 inches wide will
be closed out at 23c.
$1.00 Real German Henriettas, 48 inches
wide, black and colors, will be closed
out at 77c.
Come and See !
We Must Sell!
ROUTINE WOBl
OPENING OF THE STATE ENCAMP
MENT AT SALINA.
Official Reports, the Commander's
Address and Committees Ap
pointed the First Day.
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GREAT SLAUGHTER, Commencing
Saturday Morning, January 18!
Every Department made to Sutler a Loss.
Grasp the Bargains! They are Sure to Fly!
Lot 24163 Cas. Ulsters, formerly SI 2 00, now S8.
Lot 9972 Irish Frieze Ulsters, formerly 522 00. now $15 00.
Lot S881 Cas. Overcoats, formerly $14 00. now $9 00.
Lot 2054 Black Beaver Overcoats, formerly $1 2 00, now $8 00.
Lot 4667 Kersey Overcoats, extra size, formerly $15, now $10.
Lot 973 Kersey Overcoats, extra size, formerly $22, now $13.
Lot 9991 Blue "Wale Overcoats, worsted, formerly $22, now $15.
Lot 978-Black Worsted Overcoats, formerly $20, now $15.
Lot 3914 Brown English Kersey Overcoats, silk lined, formerly
$35, now $25.
Lot 4036 Black Wale Cheviot overcoats, formerly $18, now $12.
Lot 2232 Mixed Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly $20, now $11.
Lot 8991 Blue Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly $20, now $12.
Lot 21S4 Black Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly $22, now $15.
.Lot 1852 Blue Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly $20, now $14.
Lot 3979 Drab Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly $30, now $20.
Lot 2042 Dahlia Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly S30, now $20.
Lot 7927 Black Chinchilla, satin lined, formerly $30, now $20.
Lot 3969 Brown Chinchilla Overcoats, formerly S25, now $17.
All Children's Orercoate at One-Half Former Price!
We have selected out some suits, ranging in price from $18 to
$30, and placed them on a separate table, and will give you the
choice of the lot for $15.
This cut extends to all lines of winter goods.
Customers will Dlease bear in mind that we are not closing out a
stock of "cheap trash" or "old shop worn plunder," but strictly first
class goods new styles and at much lower figures than are asked
by dealers who make it a point to buy "job lots" of goods from three
to five years old and palm them off lor new goods.
These lines are not large and you will have to come early to get
the best bargains.
MILD WEATHEE AGAHi.
California Ready to Eeeume Business
When the Snow is Cleared Away.
San Francisco. Cal., Jan. 28. Typical
California weather prevailed throughout
the state yesterday, the sun shining bright
ly with clear skies, but the sitaatiou has
not materially improTed in the Sierra
Nevada mountains, where the Central
Pacific company is fighting to open its
lines. The track is now clear from San
Francisco to Reno, Nev., with the excep
tion of two miles near Cascade in the
Sierras where the snow is drifted to the
depth of thirty to fifty feet. Between
Truckee and Summit there is a stretch of
road coveied with ice which has to be
cleared out with pick and shovel, but the
company expects to finish this work by to
night and enable the overland trains at
Reno and Truckee to come through. The
Santa Fe road is the only line operating to
the east and is running trains on time.
Thirteen days' eastern mail is in the
mountains or at Reno, causing great in
couTemence and loss to business men. It
will take three or four days to open the
track with the most favorable circum
stances. It snowed last night. The biah
water in the northern part of the state is
last subsiding,
AN OHIO STEAMER BURNED.
Cincinnati. O., Jan. '2S. Close upon the
heels of the disaster of the steamer Ohio of
the Memphis and Cincinnati packet com
pany, which sank last night below the fall
at Louisyille, comes the news this morn
ing of the total loss of the steamer De Soto.
Tne news came in here in a brief dispatch
from Owensboro, Ky., to Captain R. W.
"Wise, general manager of the line, written
by Captain M. M. Deem, who was in com
maud. He givss no particulars, but sim
ply says: "Steamer De Soto burned at 2 a.
m., one mile below Owenboro; total loS's.
No lives lost." Captain Wise feels proud
of the bravery and efficiency of his oflicers.
Captain Deem. Clerk Harry Proctor,
and Mate Jeff Frampton. which is appar
ent from the fact that all the passengers
and crew were safely removed from a
uurning noat at i o clock in the morning.
The De Soto is one of the regular steamer
of the line rupning between Cincinnati
and Memphis and she was valued at Slo,
000. Insurance 510,000. Captain Wise
thinks she was carryiug about twenty-five
passengers.
A PBEMATUBE BLAST.
live Laborers Patally "Wounded While
Blasting Eock.
Eesolutions Urging the Passage of Senator
Ingalls Service Pension Eefer-
red to a Committee.
A Spirited Discussion Over the Advisa
bility of Thus Expressing their Senti
ments A Letter from General
Sherman Eead to the Vete
rans New Corporations
Chartered Western
Gossip Notes-
COLE & JONES,
The One Price Clothiers,
208. 210 and 212 DOUGLAS AVENUE. WICHITA, KANSAS.
AWAKE AT LAST.
Strange History of the Girl Whom Pire
frightened Into Sleep-
Kknsas Citt, Mo., Jan. 2S. Contrary to
the expectations of the attending physi
cian. Anna P.irker. the domestic in the
family of J. B. Carpenter, liviug six miles
south of Westport, rallied this forenoon,
and by 2 o'cltKik in the afternoon she had
so far recovered from her protracted sleep
as to be able to partake of solid food
"""nd chat glibly with her friends. Alto
,ietber she spent a trifle more than
ten days' time in slumber, and all
is a blank to her excepting the
slight remembrance of frightful dreams
ana the cmequent torture -lie endured,
being nkin to violent attacks of nitrht
mare. Peaceful slumber, which always
followed those nightmare attacks, served
to recruit the girl s system, and now,
while she coniplnins of a somewhat tired
feeling, her vigor is something remark
able. According to the girl's storv. she was
bom ou a farm near Galena. 111., twenty
vears ago. Her father and mother emi
grated to Sumner county, Kansas, when
bhe was but a babe, where her father pre
empted land. .Before Anna reached her
teeus, her father, with ome other early
tttt.ers while engaged in lighting
,--;,-,.. fir., thnt. HirpHteneJ. to sueeD
everjtuwe iu the vicinity, contracted a
severe cold that settled ou his lungs and
from the effects of which he died in live
daV time. The fright occasioned the girl
fro'm the prospects of a horrible death by
fire proved such :i severe shock to her
nervous tybtein that for two days therc-
Paxinos. Pa , Jan. 2S. While a gans of
laborers were blasting iu a railway cut
near here today a premature explosion of
powder occurred. Five of the number were
fatally injured. The men were not known
by their numbers but so near as can be
ascertained their names are Antonio Pas
cuiseio, a Pinlander known as
Xo. 57; a Fmlander Xo. 13:
a Findlander, number not known:
J. .N. burdon. Ten otners were badly in
jured. Three Italians are missing and it
is said they are under the debris. Search
is being made for their bodies.
TWO MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS.
PlTTsBUKG, Pa.. Jan. 2S. By an explo
sion of uitro-glycerine near Alton, Brad
ford county, about noon today, William
II. McHenry and Alex Connor, two well
known torpedo men, were blown to atoms.
The mm were unloading 125 quarts of
glycerine preparatory to shooting an oil
well when the explosion occurred. Both
men were married and leave large fami
lies. A DOUBLY FATAL ACCIDENT.
Toi'EKA, Kan., Jan. 2$. E. A. McCoy, a
carpenter, fell from the roof of Henson's
ice house today, breaking his back and
hip and causiug instant death. He was
working upon a scaffold which broke and
he fell thirty feet to the ground. Another
man who was working on the scaffold
with McCoy fell and bustained injuries
which will probably be fatal.
after she remained in a comatose $state.
Anna's mother sold the farm a few vears
later and they moved to Wlchifa, where
t1i mnnMT' w-i) lncf in tvl pcriri crunlM ' UamUS
tion. Her mother sickened and died two
years ago, and since then Anna has
travelled around a good deal. She had
been working as a dome-tic in the
neighborhood for six months and went
to the home of Mr. Carpenter five weeks
ago. This somnolent attack was no doubt
precipitated by her being terribly fright
ened a week ago last Wednesday evening
when she dropped a lighted lamp she had
oeen cleaning auu naa :i narrow escape
irom beinc burned to death by the flumes
which set fire to her clothes, and were only
extinguished by the presence of mind of
Mrs. Carpenter and her proximity to a
pail ot water. Soon after this occurrence,
Anna complained of feeling weak and
drowsy, and returned to her bed early.
From that time until yesterday she passed
in slumber.
MONTANA SEPUELICAN,
The Supreme Conrt Decides That Thomp
son is a Member of the Legh ature.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 'JS. The supreme
RANGE CATTLE ALL RIGHT.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Jan. 2$. Many in
quiries have been received regarding the
I condition of range cattle. Cattle gener
ally are in unusually good condition.
THE BROTHERHOOD BEATS WARD.
Xew York, Jan. 2$. Judge O'Brien has
decided thes-uit of the New York base ball
club vs. J. M. Ward in favor of the
brotherhood,
FIRE AT EMPORIA.
Emporia, Kan., Jan. 2S. The Puffer &
Morrow building occupied by J. M. Tcbie,
drucuist. was destroyed-by fire today.
Loss fcJ.OOO.
court today decided the Thompson man-
suit by granting a peremptory
order requiring the state auditor to allow
Thompson's bill at SST-cr diem. Thomp
son was a member of the legislature from
Silver Bow county, being one o the five
elected bv the throwing ont of the Tnnnel
pr- cmcf. The court goes into the question
of certificates and sustains the position of
the court that DOtitic.il canvassing boards
are the only prima facie evidence of mem
bership in the legislature. This decision
makes tne rtepuoiican noay tne legal
legislature.
Saltna, Kan., Jan. 28. Beautiful
weather attended the opening of the G. A.
R. encampment of the state of Kansas
here today.
At 2 p. m. the encampment was opened
by Commander Booth; the address of wel
come was delivered by Rev. J. H. Lock-
wood, of SalinA. The assistant adjutant
general then read the following letter
from -General Sherman to Lawrence Wil
son: 'I have received your very kind letter of
the 20th, and assure you that such expres
sions of affection are and always will be
most grateful. Of course I can not come
to Kansas now, it ever. My personal
friends must come to see me, and now I
may assure all my comrades that 'Uncle
Billy' will always be moet happy to see
his nephews, now scattered all over
the earth when they visit Xew York city.
With affectionate regards, I am as ever
yours, W. T. Sherman."
After rounds of applause the boys sang
"Marching Through Georgia."
Then followed the annual address of
Department Commander Booth, and the
annual reports of officers of the depart
ment. The committees on resolutions and
official reports were then appointed and
adjournment was then had until 8 o'clock
p. in.
General Griff, secretary .of state of In
diana, held a reception tonight in Sons of
Veterans headquarters.
A SERVICE PENSION MEETING.
A service pension meeting was held this
morning in Boud's opera house. In the
absence of E. B Parker, president of the
Service Pension association, A.H. Coulter,
publisher of the Western, of Topeka, pre
sided. Hon. C. A. Power, of Indiana, sec
retary of the National Service Pension as
sociation, addressed the assembled veter
ans at length upon the service pension bill
prepared tjy the G. A. R. committee and
nitioduced by Senator Iucalls in the
United States senate. He advised all the
old soldiers to assist in pushiug the pass
age of the bill by petitions, resolu
tions, etc. Strong resolutions were then
presented urging the passage of the servica
pension measure. This created consider
able spirited discussiou bv Colonel R W.
Blue, Captain Ira Collins, Judge Theo
Bodkins, of the Thirtv-second judicial dis
trict, and others. The point made was
that it would be folly to demand the
passage of the service pension measure and
oppose every otner one ana tnat it it was
impossible to secure the best get the next
best, viz: the dependent pension bill. The
whole matter was liually deferred by the
appointment of a committee on resolutions
which will report at a subsequent meeting.
NEW CORPORATIONS.
ToPEKA, Kan., Jan. 28. The following
new corporations wero granted charters by
the secretary of state:
The Foster-Conrad Lire Stock Commis
sion company, Kansas City, Kan.; capital
stock $3,000.
The Jamestown Farmers' Produce Ex
change com pan v of Cloud count-; capital
stock .',000.
The Alliance Aeency Co-operative As
sociation of Sterling; capital stock 5100,000.
THE EDITOR WILL EXPLAIN.
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 2i. A special from
Winfield, Kan., says: An article printed
in one of the newspapers of this county
charging that several oflicers of Arkansas
City, in this county, were taking money
Irom joints and violators of the prohibi
tory laus of Kansas, and iu consideration
thereof were refraining from arresting
such violators, was sent to Hon. M. G.
Troup, judge of this district court, and by
him read to the lawyers and others on
convening of the afternoon session of that
court here today. The court after reading
the article mentioned directed the county
attorney to investigate the matter and
summon the editor of the Fair Play be
fore the grand jury.
SEAMEN'S JUST CLAIMS IGNORED.
Chicago. HL. Jan. 2S. The lake sailors,
comprising Seamen's assembly Xo. 136, of
the Knights of Labor, to the number of
3,000, will today in convention desert Mr.
Powderly's standard. Delegates will be
present from Oswego, Buffalo, St. Cather
ine, Detroit. Cleveland, Toledo, Milwau
kee and Chicago. The grievance the
sailors have dates from last summer when
they spent some $600 in defending mem
bers of the order in cases arising out of
labor troubles at Oswego, X. Y. The
men were relieved but when the district
assembly asked tne general officers of the
knights for aid no attention was paid to
theappeaL When Mr. Powderly visited
Chicago in the fall a committee from the
sailors visited him and he aeain promised
to see about the reimbursement of the
f uuds thus expended. Just before the At
lanta convention when Mr. Powderly gave
his word that something would be done in
convention nothing was done ahd again
they made complaint to the general mas
ter workman. Mr. Powderly did not even
acknowledge the receipt of the letters.
A LIVELY BOYCOTT.
A Bank's Jewish Customers Eesent a Sim
on the Eace.
TI DIRECT TAX
A BILL TO BEFCND IT
THE SEXATE.
PASSES
Consideration ot the Resolutions to
Investigate the Fauncc
Outrage Continued.
Amendments Offered Asking Beports on
the Insults to Harrison in Indiana
and Cleveland in Kansas.
ALBANT, X. Y.. Jan. 28. At the Albany
county bank in this city yesterday after
noon the delegates met to elect a succes
sor to Cashier Templeton, deceased. It
was expected that David S. Mann, the tel
ler, who had been in the bank for nearly
twenty years would be promoted, but there
was a. hitch ia the program and during the
stormy session of that board one of the
directors is known as saying that they did
not "want any 'Sheeney' at the head of
their bank." When Mr. Mann heard this
he resigned at once and two of the direc
tors, of whom was Dudley Farlin, also
tendered their resignations, saying they
could not afford to be connected with an
institution where such ideas preyailed.
The directors then selected William X.
Sanders, a well known business man, as
cashier. Xo sooner was their action
known on the street and the alleged insult
to the race noised abroad than the Jewish
customers of the bank began to withdraw
their deposits. Within an hour a crowd of
angry men representine some of tho
largest houses in the city and the bank's
best customers filled the space in front of
the desks demanding that their accounts
be closed at once and it is said as much
as a half million was withdrawn. The
bank's officers say they can stand it and
are satisfied with their choice.
Sir. Anderson, of Kansas. Considers the
Passage of the National Banking Bill
Dangerons to the Nation The
Bepublicans Appealed to to
Stand Firmly Against It
Honse Proceedings,
Items, eta, etc.
ADAM FOREPAUGH'S WILL.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2& The last
will and testament of the late Adam Fore
paugh, the showman, was admitted to
probate iu the register of wills' office to
day. One-half of the property was be
queathed to the showman's widow, Mary
(j. Forepaugh, and the other half to the
executors, to be invested, the rentals and
profits to be turned oyer to Adam Fore
paugji. Jr., the legatee. Tise p. ronal es
tate is estimated at upward of 100,000 It
is believed the entire estate is valned at
?1,000,000.
DR. REILLEVS ACCOUNTS.
DETHOIT, Mich.. Jan. 2S. The auditing
committee of the national leasue recently
appointed to review the accounts of Dr.
Charles Reilley, arrived today. Dr. Keilley
has,all his bills and vouchers ready foe in
spection and he says the committee can
easily compass the task m one day. Pre
laeni riiietiuu m can me committee
together at the Russeli house tomorrow.
THE CUSTODY OF A CHILD.
JEFFERSON ClTr, Mo., Jan. 2s. The
state supreme court has handed down a
decision involving the custody of a child
of Kansas parents. The case is that of J.
W. and Fannie Weir vs. J. W. Marie'.
The court presents through Judge Brace a
lengthy and interesting opinion. This was
a proceeding by hahea- corpus to de
termine the right of custody of little
Louise Marle. The petitioners, residing
at Springfield, are the grand-parents of
the child, and the respondent, residing at
Ostego. Kan., is its father. The child's
motner died in 1SS3 when little Louise was
only 5 weeks old, and Dr. and Mrs.
Weir took the baby to their own home,
where it remained until lJ The father.
a banker at Osweco, married again, and,
having a happy home, asked his father-ia-law
for the return of the child, which was
refused. The court, alter con:derinir the
standing, disposition and temper of all the
pai ties, says-
"It is impossible to see from the evi
dence that the interest of the child will
be better promoted by awaraing its cu
today to the grand-parents tan it would
be if such custody was axvarded to the
father In such ca-e the prt-sumption of
the law must obtain that it is to the in
terest of the cniid to be in the custodv of
its father."
GLADSTONE'S -ANNUAL CIRCULAR.
London, Jan. 26. Mr. Gladstone's usual
circular to his supporters in the house of
commons just beture the opening of the
session of parliament was published toaay.
The wording of the circular is unusual
and is taken to indicate an extended di
cusion of the xiggo:t letters and other
matters of viuil importance to the liberal
and home rulers.
DEATH'S VICTIMS.
Several Persons of Minor Note Pas3 from
Earth-
Elk Falls, Kan., Jan. 23. Prudence
Crandall Philleo died here today of the
influenza. She was the lady who just be
fore the war attained noteriety by at
tempting to establish negro schools at
Canterbury, Conn. For this she was
threatened with violence and was finally
driven from the state by the persecutions
that followed. Since that time she has
lived in Kansas.
New York. Jim. 2S. Mrs. Sarah Bain
bridge Hays, the last surviving child of
Commodore Buinbridge, who commanded
the frigate Constitution in the hitter's
celebrated fight in the war of 1S12, died
early today at the residence of her son-in-law,
72 West Twenty-firststreet. She was
in her eighty-seventh year. Mrs. Hays
was born at the Charleston navy yard.
Independence. Ia., Jan. 2S. "Calamity"
Weller. of Nashua, well known in connec
tion with Iowa politics, has been seriously
ill for several weeks and is not expected to
recover.
Helena, Mont., Jan. 2S. The first case
this winter of death by freezing in Mon
tana i- leported from the Flathead valley
in Missoula, where the body of Thomas
Elliott, a wealthy farmer was found.
Chicago, ill., Jan. . Lonrau .eipp.
the well known brewer, died hero this af
ternoon. NOT WAGES, BUT ETHICS INVOLVED.
Birmingham, Ala , Jan. 2S. The em
ployes of tho Birmingham Holler Mill,
1,000 in number, went out on a strike yes
terday aTid the fight between the men and
the company promises to be a long and
bitter one. An effort o force the mill into
the Amalgamated association caused the
strike. For five years this mill has been
non-union The union scale has been
paid bnt both union and non-uuion men
have been employed. Saturday night the
men held a meeting and decided to organ
ize and force the mill into the association
when the new scale is signed in July. At
noon yesterday Manager Ward told the
men they could not organize for the pur
pose of torcing the mill into the associa
tion and the day men quit last evening.
The night men will follow at the end of
the night turn and over 1.000 men
will he involved. The weekly pay roll of
the mill is about ?2S,000.
NEBRASKA TRANSPORTATION RATES.
Lincoln, Xeb., Jan. 2$. An exceeding
ly interesting session of the state board of
transportation was held yesterday. Last
Wednesday a resolution was adopted by a
unanimous vote instructing the secreta
ries to prepare a schedule of rates for the
state based on the Iowa tariff. Yesterday
by a vote of 4 to 1 they rescinded that res
olution. Attornev General Leese voting in
the negative. The majority of the board
claim that they want immediate relief on
the corn rates which the roads had agreed
to grant, but which they would contest in
the courts if a general revision was in
sisted on.
L. & N. SECURITY CHANGES.
Xew York. Jan. 25. The directors of
the Louisville & Xashville railroad voted
today that they hae decided to is.su 123,-
OOO.fOO stock authorized at the last annual
Washington, Jan. 2S. Among the
memorials presented and referred was one
presented by Mr. Chandler for the estab
lishment for a republican form of govern
ment for the state of Mississippi.
Mr. Morrill in introducing the bill to
authorizing the issue of treasury notes ou
deposits of silver bullion and having it re
ferred to the committee ou finance said
that that committee had addressed a com
munication to the secretary of the treas
ury asking him to formulate a bill in ac
cordance with his recommendatious in
relation to silver. That bill had been re
ceived. Without committing himself or
any member of the committee to it ho
asked to have it printed aud referred.
Mr. Vest, of the committe on public
buildings and grounds, reported a bill ap
priating $2,500,000 for a public building at
Kansas City. Mo., and it was placed on
the calnedar.
Un motion of Mr. bherman the senate
bill to relieve the treasurer of the United
States from the amount now cbnred to
him and deposit with the several states
wan taken from the calendar and psed.
On motion of Mr. Morrill tne bill to
credit and pay to the several states and
territories and the district of Columbia all
monies collected under the direct tax of
lisOl was taken from the calendar.
Mr.Sherman stated the bill was the same
word for word, as that passed the lost con
gress, and as it had the unanimous vote of
the finance committee he hoped it would
be p.issed without dissent.
Mr. Vance offered as an amendment a
proposition to refund the cotton tax. Re
jected yeas 15, nay-. 5i
Tht bill was tnen passed yeas 54,
nays 7. The senators votiug in the uemt-
.tive were Messrs. B rry, B.air. Call, Coke,
Plumb, auce and est. Tbe bill appro
priates the nece'H.iry sum to reimburse
each state aud territory and the district of
Columbia to the amount of collections
made ou tax provided for in au act of
August o, IbCil.
The senate resumed consideration of Mr.
Chandler's resolution relating to the mal
treatment at Aberdeen, Miss., o' Henry J.
Faunce. Mr. George argued against the
rehomtion. He denied that the govern
ment had the right to inquire into an ac
tion that was a violation, uot of a United
States law, but of the law of an individual
state. During the course of his remarks
Mr. George pronounced a eulogy upou the
character of Jefferson Davis.
Mr. Spooner, of Wiscon-iu, in reply to
Mr. George, expressed his rejrret that the
senator from Mississippi bud felt oil If d
upon to pronounce a eulogy on JeflVrnon
Hiiriu in ti.t dimutA nli unk.. nf tlm Tr..t,..s! 1
.t.o au nuiunic .""""" -" J"iw J tiirir own, 0
ataies. il oum smite a narsu . JleHa btcauie
cuoru in i no oreasus 01 mimous 01 men an
through the north. The people had not
regained him, although the chief of the
confederacy, us falser to the uoion and to
its flag aud to his oath than thousands of
hi-, conferes, but the people had not bo-
lieved that Jefferson Davis had never be- j
trayeu a trust. ine people nelieveu on
the contrary that ne had sat in the seiirttu
chamber betraying daily ami hourly and
nightly the highest trust ever repo-it-d m
man. But it was uot for that tuut they
execrated his memory. It was becausti
they had held him responsible
for the atrocites. the unspeak
able, devilish, horrible cruelties visiw-d
on union prisoners at Libby prison. Belle
Isle, Salisbury and Andersouville. It whs
because they charged him with tie re
sponsibility of holding men prisoners of
war to starve them.
Mr. Gray, referring to the hangtnc in
efligy o Secretary Proctor, said it was not
so unprecedented an outrage and he re
ferred to the fact that quite receutly Presi
dent Harruon had been hung in efligy in
the state of Indiana.
.Mr Call offered an amendment calling
on the attoni'-y general for a report af ihe
hanging m effigy of President Harrison in
Indiana and of the then President Cleve
land in Kansas
Without action on the amendment the
resolution went over till tomorrow.
After an executive sedaion the senate
adjourned.
MILLITARY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE.
Washington. Jan. 28. At a meeting of
the house committee on military affair
today a favorable report of the bill niacins;
General John C Fremont on the retired
list of the army with the rank of major
general was ordered to be made to tha
house. Favorable reports were also order
ed on the bills appropriating 140,000 for
the opentnc of the new soldiers' home ac
Marion, Ind., and to authorize the sale of
the Fort Bliss milttary reservation, near
El Paso, Tex., aud the purchase of another
site.
A committee of citizens from Vlcks
burg. Miss., appeared before the commit
tee and requested a loau of army tents for
the reuuion there next May. Xo action
was taken on the request.
WESTERN MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL
Washington, Jan. 2$. The assistant
secretary of the interior has reversed tho
decision of the commissioner of the land
office m the appeal ot Edward Yates m
holding for cancellation bu Osage cash
entry for land in Independence land dis
trict! The decision is reversed so that the
entry of Yates can stand.
Hon. M. G. Reynolds, attorney for tha
Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians mado
argument in behalf of their title to terri
tory lands before the Cherokee commissiou
today. He i supported by ex-Governor
Crawford, of Kansas.
Two Kansas potmasters were appointed
ns follows: Hardlee, Smith county. Mat
tie Bedford, vice W. B. Cline, resigned;
Kuka. Smith county, A. P. Tnouiaa, vice
C. S. Hoover, resigned.
Pen-don granted were: Original invalid.
J. T. Wall ice. Mullinnville. Turner Ben
nett. Covert: Jacob Morrow, Holton; Wm.
H. Beck, Russell; David Van Gundy,
Neosha Rapids, James MacE. Lyons.
Royal D. Calkins. .Salina, Peter Gillispie,
National Military Home; Martin A. Jones.
Clay Center; John Rath. Humboldt; Win.
Walter cdeceasedi, Xickeraou. Jos. A.
Field. Portiss, Abel German. Glen Elder;
Charles Brown, alins Black. Lawreucr.
Reissue: Thos. A. Blasdel, Burton, John
Allen, Emporia. Reissue and increase:
James A Harrion, bandago. Original
widows, etc: Nancy A., widow of David
A. Wiley. Galeua. Matilda II.. widow of
Charles Teh row, Ellin wood. Rebecca E.,
mother of Win. M. Laferty, Lcbo; Re
becca, mother of Thomas M. Parish,
Mitry.sville. Restoration and Increase:
Nancy J. Burrows, former widow of Rich
ard Cunuincham, Fairmouut: Catherme,
widow of Wm. Walters, Nlckerson.
THE DRESSED BEEF INQUIRY.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S. The Vest com
mittee engaged in investigating questions
relahng to the dressed beef Industry, re
sinned its sessiou this morning and ex
amined a number of railroad men.
Johu B. Butcher, general live stock:
agent of the New York Central, testified
that the shrinkage of cattle in palace cars
was greater than in the ordinary stock
cars. His road never paid nil leu go
ou cattle cars. On dressed b'et earn
cent a mile a allowed en.
each cur. Vest thought Has was a rate ti
the dressed beef men and a dUcri initiation
against the cattlemen. To Senator Plumb
witness stated that the company uwnnl
no refrigerator cars and that dnsed beef
could not he tranferred from car to car
like cattlf, so that the relrlgrrator can
had to be run from the iuititU to the ter
minal point.
Johu Hartliff, traffic manager of tbe
Baltimore & O'llo ratiroud. testified that
the Baltimore A; Ohio road paid ?4 ceuti
mileage ou cattle cars coining from below
the Ohio river, but north of tho
river no mileage vvas allowed, tho
eastern territory being In theeaKteru trunk
line association, whicii had iuhiuited the
payment of in leaue.
HollisS. Ha3 ilcii, second vice president
of the New York Central, in explanation,
of the fact that mileage was still paid on
d rested beef cars slated that the dressed
beef biiiuiMgi marled year mo and ship
pers bliilt tlieir own enrh. fft railroads
had not much confidence in tbe industry
and tlierefore never built cars of
that when the bUai-
uesa Dtcume a iare one the
companiea had no cars. The railroads had
cattle cars, however, before cattle owner
bexnn shipping in their own earn, ho that
they uero able to tmunport all cutllo
offered
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, Jan. 35. Mr. Vandever,
of Cuhtoruia. introduced a bill lor the
establishment of an Indian industrial
school. Referred.
The house passed a bill providing that
in case of peusion claims of dependent
narenw, it shall be neceary not only to
show to tne pension oflicers that tbe
parents are without other means of Mip
ort thau manual labor.
Mr E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, called up thf
motion made jesterday to table the moUou
to reconsider the vote by which the house
meeting for the purpose of reducing; the C f p.,sd tbe hiU pending for the erection
per cent collateral trust bonus ami other
interest bearing estimates, and to offer the
new stock to tne snareholders'at S3 cents.
The success of the plan has been guarau
te-d by a syndicate of bakers in tltur 0B bt,k,ng and currency, prwut-i lb
BRAZILIAN ADVICES
Netv York. Jan 2$. Tne steamship La
Place which left Rio de Janeiro January 3
arrived this morning. The first mate said
there is no flag which is recognized
throughout the country The people of
each province have ai flag of their own.
On December 31 forty sailors employed on
a Brazilian man of n.ir went astore and
shouted "Viva emoeror" and nbenacntiv
1 had their throats cut for their enthusiasm.
city, London and Amsterdam
A RUMORED RESIGNATION.
Atchison, Kan , Jan. 2s. It is unoffi
cially stated that E. E. Culviu. superin
tendent of the central branch divfoion of
tne Missouri Pacific, with headquarters at
Concordia, wili shortly resign to accept a
better position with the Cotton Belt rail
road. Conductor C C Goodwin is strokec
of as Mr. Culvin's probable successor.
of three United stales prisons.
The motion to table was agreed to yea
162; navs 112.
Mr. Dorsy, chairman of the committee
national banking bill. It provides for the
i-ne of 2.3CO,OA in 2 per cent bonds, to
run fifty jear-, and to be n-d exclusively
NO DRAW BRIDGE FOR LEAVEN
WORTH WASHINGTON, Jau. 28. General Cih?Y.
chief engineer, has made a report adverwj
to the pasai:e of the senate bill to author
ize the substitution o( a pirot draw bridgo
across the Missouri river at Invenworlb,
in place of the present pontoon bridge.
THE RACE QUESTION DISCUSSED.
Washington, Jan. ' -Senntor Bruco
called upon the president today. Tho
race question in the south wa mentioned.
Mr. Bruce told the president that bo
thought the solvation of the south and tho
ugro-s would le retired by education.
The president expressed a warm interrrt
in the race question, which, he M, had
given him more trouble than Anything
elMj eince he became president. He- hoped
the trouble would be peaceably settled.
THE SNOW BLOCKADE,
No Progrf88 Made m Clariag tbe Tracks
Chti the Siorra Ifevadaz,
Washington, Jn. 'A Senator Stan
ford this morning received a long dispatch
from the general superintendent of th
Central Pacific railroad, at Sn Fraaciaco,
giving an account of the terrific now
blockade in tbe Sierra Nevada mountains.
The dispatch wiy the ltution has not
materially changed for the better and tt It
impossible to Urt any of the delayed
wet bound trains On both sides of tha
j mountains the nnow Is piled up until
it i Irom three to four feet higher than
the cabs of the engines on rach akle of thi
of the track, and ptwh plows and plunders
are of do service wbteTT, they cuu not
throw the snow out of the channel Tb
leps hare baa to be taken off the car to
prerent them dragging on the ice
Tbe dispaun state that a very heavy
snow and wind tlorm has prevailed in
eastern Svl and Utah ad Uat two
engineers tad tbrr- firemen were killed by
! engines becoming derailed W-at of
CHICAGO STOCK IN MEXICO.
CHIC .GO,HL, Jan. 2. A local paper
says: "Don Luis Hull ook, who Is known
throughout the country a.s the Vanderbilt
ot Mexico, hi made a proposition to sub
scribe for SIMUCm) worth of Cfiicago world
fair stock and to raie in Mexico H.GOi.OOJ,
if given the necessary time.
lOWA'S HOUSE CAUCUSES.
DES MotNEE. Ia., Jan. 2. Tne Republi
can caucus this morning nominated Sila
Wilron for speaker. J. A. Shelton for fin.;
assistant Cierk, and nut up candidates for
miuor offices. The Democrats nominated
J. L. Hamilton, of Lynn county, for
speaker anrt paawsd other nomination.
FAVOR WYOMING'S STATEHOOD.
CHETZNNE, Wya, Jas. 2$. At a meet
ing of tee tenltoriil Democratic com
mittee last night'a resolution waj unani
mously adopted favoring statehood, and
urging congress to take itnmcdlat actios
looking to this tad.
as a bnsta for national bnlc circulation
The proceeds from the s-de of tbe bonds
is to be appa-d to the redemption of bwudt
nowoutstandinE The bid lias ihe appro
val of isecretary Wmdom and Comptroller
Lacey
Mr. Bland, of Missouri, rjdwd the ques
tion of consideration airairnt th t 11
and tbe house determined rea 13, ' ,B thwn. a li uiIie, nave to b- curried
nars 110 to crinsw'r t .ji i by means of a cow ao- ervlce and at a
Mr. Bland said this rnut a coolest i efcorm expre IQ pUee w the lie
fcumm t the jmiow is piled upon th be.j
foom fifteen to twenty fet and great
danger is apprehended that the lmtneui
wdKht win crush them ia. The torm
has l-een the eeveret sine the rowl wa.a
constructed. Two tbotitaad n'i five ban
dred eztrn men bve Ws empleyrd ad
reat difficulty Is experienced in prorutuo-
brtween mtilic money nd the power of
in oat.ks o nominate the currency of the
country. If congress was loia.uc a flgut
for the people ithou!d aot Atreiiih-n ad
provide a mod by which tne bmks win
nave a Wronger bokl upon tne ccanneit of
circulation.
lr Anderson, of Kansas, rirarded the
bill as a proposition to remove on- of th
AAleguard provided against, t&s encroach,
meets of the national b.aiLs ixl
as a Republican be appealed
to the Republicans not to yield
a bair breadth to the national baxer,
but to retain every tafegnard whleft bad
bea placed round the national banking
law by it frsuners. lit was Dot txaau
cier but he cad horwe env encash Xo b
r-ady to oppo ABjihmz Ue ntieai
bankers wanted and to know UiAt he wa
then on the safe side.
Toe bill went over.
Mr. Peters, of Kanioa, introduced a bill
ttin apart certain lands Jn So Man's
land for the propagation Of bafflo
Adjourned,
of ttf Ceaim I'sctflc the snow yetjrdy
was TA t SX fee: d-j oo U of the saow
sbed ind U ) feared they will not with
stand tb" rlo Tbe now hss ter-n fall
ing from OgfJea u CIfn htnc: 1)-cemb-r
SS la many place ilq
trains ar coap4ejry lost 5ioL
BOWERS Kr.OCKED OUT
Sas Kjca3H1oo, Cal, Jo. 'A Lt
Blzht at tbe Oortdenul dnb room Jo
Bowers, of Iyjriwj. w knocked oat by
BHIysmi b, tbe AastralUe. in four roaud.
Wob men wrre la excellent co&dftiea.
Bowers weighed 1S5 pounds and iicilth
ICO.
f-n HISTORIC CHURCH GONE.
Bostos, 11av, Jaa. 3 The Coagrg
tioaatlonal church at Dsvllie Cedr
bcrsed this morning. Lo XZJfJL Tha
church la an historic one. being the uec
or to the ancient tracrr vrbtrt le
trul for witchcraft were tld.
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