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CURRENT COMMENT.

It is reported from Berne. Switzer-land, that Germany has revoked therecognition of Swiss neutrality.

Fkost visited the low grounds aboutGalena, I1L, on the morning of the 1stand damaged growing vegetation.

Ikforjiatiox from Vienna is to theeffect that a secret treaty has beenagreed to between Russia and Den-

mark.

King Humbert suddenly closed theItalian Chamber on the 2d. This actwas believed to be the prelude to ageneral election.

Articles of incorporation for a newair line road from Fort Wayne, Ind.,to Chicago have been filed with theIndianapolis Secretary of State.

The Royal Grants bill has passedthe committee stage in the BritishHouse of Commons, all amendmentsbeing rejected by large majorities.

The lead mines in Nuevo Leon,Mexico, are shutting down, owing tothe imposition by the United StatesGovernment of duties on lead ores.

Ax order has been issued makingmen forty years old ineligible as lettercarriers in towns.This limit does not apply to warveterans.

The President has turned over thepapers applying for a pardon for E. L.Harper, who wrecked the FidelityBank, of Cincinnati, to the Attorne--Genera- l

for examination.

Two children belonging to the wifeof one of the locked-o- ut miners diedat Spring Valley, 111., the other day.The physician who attended them pro-

nounced it a clear case of starvation.

It is reported that a syndicate ofwealthy men, most of them Chicago-an- s,

are making preparations to pipenatural gas from Indiana, where theyhave secured 60,000 acres of land, toChicago.

The customs authorities at Mont-rea- l.

Can., have placed a seizure onthe painting, "Jerusalem on the Dayof the Crucifixion." on exhibition atthe Cyclorama. The picture is valuedat $25,000.

The British Columbia River GoldDredging Company has been registeredin London with a capital of 40,000 inorder to purchase Gibson's right todredge for gold in forty-fiv- e miles ofFrazer river.

An American company is preparingto open extensive iron mines in theisland of Cuba and is certain that theywill be a grand success. The schemeincludes a harbor and a breakwaternear the mines.

The Bancroft mills at Media. Pa.,whose product was handled by LewisBros. & Co., the bankrupt dry goodsmerchants of Philadelphia, have beenseized by the sheriff and advertised tobe sold at auction.

The work of tearing down the oldState House at New Haven, Conn.,commenced recently. About 5,000 per-sons witnessed the demolition, manyof whom expressed regrets at the dis-

appearance of so interesting a land-mark.

Consul-Gexer- al Card-well-, of

Cairo, Egypt, warns the State Depart-ment that an extensive trade in Egyp-tian rags with the United States isrendered particularly dangerous bythe prevalence of small-po- x in LowerEgypt.

Sexeca Sevalix, who caused Mrs.Clara Belle McDonald's divorce fromher husband, the son of the presidentof the Pacific Bank of San Francisco,and then robbed her of $20,000, hasbeen sent to the California peniten-tiary for ten years.

The report that Queen Victoria wasconsidering a trip to America hasneither been denied nor affirmed. Thefact that the Queen now is inclinedtoward visiting Ireland and that therumored trip to America has not beendenied, is creating much talk through-out the Kingdom. However, nothinghas been yet announced.

There were two peculiar runawayweddings celebrated at Chattanooga,Tenn., the other day. One of themwas the marriage of William Lecroix,aged seventy-si- x years, and LouisaBluck, only fourteen years old. Inthe other case the couple were JacksonSlevins, aged sixty-fiv- e, and EmmaHaynes, sixteen years of age. Theyhad never met until the day previous.All the parties wero members of wellknown and highly respected families.

The State Department is in receiptof an exhaustive report on Russianagriculture and the cereal trade fromCharlton H. Way, United States ral

at St-- Petersburg. Hesays the export of cereals from Russia

'in the past two years shows an ab-

normal increase, due to three causesfirst, the enormous crop gathered fromboth the black lands and arableprairies; second, the depreciation ofthe paper rouble; and, third, thefoolish practice of systems of "cor-ners" in the United States.

The Boston Herald devotes nearlyfour columns to an account of thecareer in Boston of the man known inNew York as A. Bentley Worthington,who was taken by Mrs. Plunkett, theChristian scientist, as her so-call- ed

husband. It says that while pretend-!'In- g

to practice as a lawyer in Boston,he swindled many persons, and a re-

ward for his arrest has been outstand-ing for four years. He is wanted forforgery, larceny and other offenses.He had for aliases the names of Wood,Walton, Bouver, Barrington, Wardand others.

NEWSOP THEWEEK.

Gleaned "by Telegraph and Mail

PERSOXAI. AXD POLITICAL.The Commissioner of Indian Affairs

has received a report from Malacbi Krebs,a special agent of the Interior Depart-ment to allot lands in severalty to the In-

dians upon the Devil's late reservation inNorthern Dakota, announcing the refusalof the Indians to receive the allotmentsas contemplated in the General Allotmentact of 18S7.

Governor Francis, of St Louis, re-

cently denied emphatically that he wentto New York for the purpose of sellingthe Merchants' bridge to Jay Gould.

The President has designated GeneralMcFeely to act as Secretary of War dur-ing the absence of Secretary Proctor.

General Schofield has directed thecommander of the division of the Pacificto take such action as may be necessaryto protect settlers near Callspeld, "Wash-

ington Territory, from the Indian out-

break threatened there.Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania,

has honored the requisition of the Gov-

ernor of South Carolina for Rev. E. F.Flemon, the colored preacher accused of amurder in 1884.

Sullivan, the pugilist, was arrested atNew York on the 31st on a requisitionfrom the Governor of Mississippi, ap-

proved by the Governor of New York.Secretary Tracy has cabled Admiral

Gherardi at St. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, torescue three American sailors left on anuninhabited guano island called ArenasKey.

Captain L. Duvarge, who shot Con-

sular Agent V. F. M. Stanwood at Ana-kad- e,

Madagascar, last November, hasbeen found guilty of manslaughter andsentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

The remains of General Lazare Carnot,grandfather of the President of theFrench Republic, have been exhumed atMagdeburg, Germany, where they wereburied. They will be reinterred in theParis Pantheon. The body was found ina wonderful state of preservation.

The United States Senate Committee onIrrigation of Arid Lands in the "Westcommenced its labors at St. Paul, Minn.,on the 1st Those present were SenatorsStewart, of Nevada, and Reagan, ofTexas; Colonel Hinton, of the geologicalsurvey, and Major Powell.

Evaristo Carazo, President of Nica-ragua, is dead.

The island of Crete is reported to be ina state of anarchy as the result of thopresent uprising.

The Emperor of Germany arrived atDover, England, on tho 1st.

Lieutenant Tappenbeck, the Africanexplorer, has fallen a victim to fever.

In the "Washington Territory Constitu-tional convention the clause forbiddingcounties to grant subsidies for any pur-pose whatever was adopted.

The Shah of Persia visited Buffalo Bill's"Wild "West show In Paris and was muchinterested in the performance.

Colonel Canaday, sergeant-at-arm- s ofthe United States Senate, who bad beenin Alaska with a Senate committee, is ly-

ing quite ill in Montana.The President returned to "Washington

on the 1st.The Puyallup Indians, of "Washington

Territory, a tribe well advanced in educa-tion and intelligence, have senta memorialto the Senate Committee on Indian Affairsasking for severalty.

In a ukase the Czar of Russia has ap-

proved the late Count Tolstoi's reformpolicy.

England has annexed the Union andPhoenix groups of islands in the Pacificocean.

MISCELLANEOUS."William Schick and Mrs. Hannah

Becker were killed and Henry Pfistnerwas fatally injured in Louisville, Ky., re-

cently while trying to cross a track infront of a train.

McKean&Appleton, shoe manufactur-ers at Salem, Mass., have made an assign-ment with $75,000 liabilities.

Twenty-fiv- e seamen of the bark LittleOhio, of New Bedford, Mass., perishedwhen that vessel was wrecked in theBehring sea, October 3, last year. Theremaining eight survivors were broughtto Alaska by the Thetis.

Advices from Assouan state that theadvance of the dervishes is continuous,though slow. A skirmish had occurredbetween Egyptian patrols and dervishoutposts, during which sixty dervisheswere killed.

Heavy rains were reported in Pennsyl-vania and Virginia on the 30th and 31stOverflowing rivers and creeks caused thestoppage of many mills and the derange-ment of railroad travel.

The will of the late Charlemagne Towerhas been admitted to probate at Philadel-phia. He leaves all his estate in trust forbis family. His estate is said to be worthmany millions of dollars.

Cholera is reported as prevailing atBessarabia.

The Indians at Mille Lac, Minn., re-ceived fresh consignments of firewaterfrom Mora and Little Falls last week, andthe result was a big drunk. Three werereported dead.

The Journeymen Plumbers. Gas andSteam Fitters' Laborers' Union has de-

cided to sever its connection with theKnights of Labor. This means the deser-tion of about 15,000 men from the ranks ofthat organization.

A double execution took place at Louis-ville, Ky., on the 31st. Charles Dilgerwas hanged for the murder of two police-men and Harry Smart for the murder of aman and woman while going down theriver in a boat Dilger's execution wasbungled, the noose slipping, necessitatinghis being dropped twice through the trap.

Seven shipwrecked Norwegian sailorshave beeu picked ud by the steamer Niag-ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico.

The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Daytonpassenger train was wrecked at Oxford,O., on the night of the 31st Twelve orfourteen persons were killed and injured.

The Spanish Government has advisedthe Pope that in case he finds it necessaryto leave Rome he should find asylum inPortugal. It is understood that the sameadvice has been given to the Pope byAustria.

A harmless earthquake shock was feltin California on the morning of the 31st

Dr. G. M. Cantrell, physician of theArkansas penitentiary, assert that JimBurrows, the Genoa train robber, died inthe prison hospital October 5, 1833, oftypho-malari- al fever.

Lack of water caused a boiler explosioneast of Fairfield. III., the other day. Oneman was killed and two fatally injured.

The Sierras and Milton stage wasstopped by two highwaymen near Cooper-oli- s,

CaL "Wells, Fargo & Ca's safe wasblown open, but found to contain nothing.Seventy-fiv- e dollars taken from the pas-sengers was all the robbers secured.

The memorial commemorating the land-ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated atPlymouth, Mass., on the 1st.

The July sanitary reports to the MarineHospital Service from Philadelphia andChicago show that the latter leads theformer in popoulation and is the secondcity in the Union. The population isplaced as follows: Chicago, 1,100,000;Philadelphia, 1,040.245.

The Richmond (Va.) railroad stableswere struck by lightning the other dayand burned. Sixty mules and horses andseven street cars wero consumed.

The New York Graphic is again introuble. Reporters and clerks are clamor-ing for salaries. A syndicate, headed bySteve B. Elkins, was supposed to own it

The public debt statement, issuedAugust L showed an increase during Julyof $1,Q17,313.5L Tho cause of the increasewas due principally to pension payments.

The "National Bureau of Engraving."of Philadelphia, a large lithographicprinting establishment, is hopelessly in-

volved. Its material has been orderedfor sale.

There was a cloudburst at "WatkinsGlen, N. Y., on the 1st

The Algerian, a merchant vessel, sunkat Aulrsville, Ont, the other day. Thecrew and passengers were saved.

The rainfall in the Pennsylvania coalregions was very heavy recently and anumber of collieries were compelled toshut down. The strpams were greatlyswollen and the majority of the collieriesin the Mahoning valley were drowned out

Five hundred striking Italian railroadlaborers near Pittsburgh, Pa., recentlyengaged in a riot Two were killed.

Snow storms and icy rains prevailthroughout Switzerland and the streamsare beyond their banks.

Kansas City won a ball game at Balti-more on the 1st

The Chicago world's fair committeeheld a meeting recently and electedMayor Cregier president Two hundredrepresentative men were present and anexecutive committee was appointed.

TqE Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company hasvoluntarily increased the wages of itspuddlers fifty-fiv- e cents a day.

The treasure, footing up about $200,000,lost on the steamer Granada off the west-ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered.

It is reported that cattle are dying atthe rate of forty or fifty a day fromsplenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle.

"W. J. Johnson & Co., leather dealers ofBoston, have assigned with 555,000 directand $170,000 contingent liabilities. Theassets are said to be ample.

Abraham Finkbone, aged twenty-si- x,

accused of arson, hanged himself in thejail at Reading, Fa., the other night

The latest effort of Ives and Staynor,the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail-road manipulators, to secure release fromthe New York jail has failed.

Eleven business houses in Fennville,Mich., were destroyed by fire the othernight causing 35,000 loss. A tramp'scarelessness was the cause.

Two cases of giant powder exploded inpit No. 6 at Marquette, Mich., recently.Two men and three boys were killed.

"Workmen succeeded in opening the gateof the Feltvillo dam near Plaiufield N. J.,which had been closed for years withweeds, etc., and the threatened danger ofa break of the embankment was passed.

A passenger train left the rails on theSouth Park (Col.) railroad and fell downan embankment The engineer was killedand the fireman was seriously hurt. Sev-eral passenger were injured.

A cloubburst on the 1st did consider-able damage at "Watkins G!en. N. Y.

A railroad deal was reported by theChicago Times by which the Chicago &Alton would purchase or lease the oldKansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. It wasnot thought likely, however, by the gen-eral public that the Union Pacific wouldlose control of its terminal at KansasCity.

Mandan, Dak., was devastated by fireon the afternoon of the 2d.

Treasurer Coleman, recently default-ing in "Warren County, O., is 63,000 short.

Rev. Sam Sharpe, a colored preacher,of Lebanon, Ky., ha-- : boon killed for liv-ing with another man's wife.

A quarrel over a hog worth 2 hascaused an armed feud between the Smithsand Slushers near Pineville, Ky.

Business failures (Dun's report) for thosoven days ended August 1 numbered 210,compared with 216 the previous week and216 the corresponding week of last year.

About a third of the coke workers oftho Connellsville region in Pennsylvaniaare on a strike for higher wages.

The miners of Durham, Eng., havevoted by a majority of one to accept the10 per cent advance offered by the mineowners.

News from Gunnison, Col., recently wasthat the Utes wero off their reservationand were intimidating settlors.

The price of "The Angelus" 5S0,650francs has been paid to the French Min-ister of Fine Arts, and Millet's picturewill soon be brought to America. SeveralEuropean artists expressed the opinionthat the picture was any thing but thegrand work of art as generally thought.

A south-boun- d train on the Delaware& Hudson went through nn open switchat Kenwood Junction, N. Y , recently.Thomas Conniff, a passenger, was killedand five persons were more or less injured.

Solicitor Scott, of the Pennsylvan.aroad, denies that the company has insti-tuted pioceedings against the South ForkFishing dub, of Pittsburgh, for damagescaused by the Conemaugh floods.

C M. Hull, editor of the Bolivar Coun-ty Democrat atRosedale, Miss., was killedthe other day by L. A. "Weissinger, editorof the Bolivar County Review, at thatplace. The Review was lately establishedand the two editors had engaged in a bit-ter personal warfare in their respectivecolumns.

ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.Genliial Guenfell with hi Egyptian

forces met the invading dervishes atToski on the 01, killing and wounding1,500. including the chief, capturing 1,000and driving theremainder into the desert

Felix Piatt, the famous French Com-munist, died at Paris on the 4th.

The Black Diamond sealer, recentlyseizid in the Behring sea, arrived at Vic-

toria, B. C. on the 3d. The commanderof the Rush put on a seaman with ordersto take her to Sitka, but the captain of theBlack Diamond took no notice of his au-thority mid made for a British port.

TnE United States cruiser Boston, oneof the finest of the new ships, was runupon a rock neir Newport, R L, recentlyand a hole knocked in her bottom. Shewas kept afloat bx her watsr-tig- ht com-partments.

Fred Allen and Marcus Howe, two ofa pleasure boating party, were drownedthe other afternoon near Pembroke, Mass.

Henry Beight was cut to pieces by areaper near Fort "Wayne, Ind., recently.

AN explosion occurred on tho GrandTrunk railroad near Montreal on the nightof the 3d. James Rogers, an expressagent, was killed and a train or passen-gers narrowly escaped destruction. Manyrumors existed that the explosion was thework of dynamiters bent upon destroyingthe Victoria bridge.

John L. Sullivan arrived at Jackson,Miss., on the 4th, where he received anovation. Governor Lowry was indignantat the way in which the pugilist was re-

ceived.Clearing house returns for the week end-

ed August 3 showed a decrease comparedwith the corresponding week of last year.In New York the decrease was 3.L

At the Post-offi- ce Department it islearned that since March 4 last of 55 000

fourth class postmasters in the UnitedStates nearly 13.000 changes have beenmade, and of this number 9,000 were re-

movals of Democratic officials and ap-pointment of successors. Thedaily changes now average about 100.

A collision on the Virginia Midland atBurleys caused the death of Fireman FredA. Fox and serious injury of three others.Two other trainmen were missing, sup-posed to be under the wreck.

The Emperor of Germany has conferredupon Queen Victoria the command of theFirst dragoon guards of Berlin and uponthe Duke of Cambridge the honorarycolonelcy of a regiment of infantry.

Prices were firm on the London StockExchange during the week ended August3. American railroad securities werequiet and firm. At Berlin business wasactive and steady. The Paris Bpurse wasquiet, Panama shares not being quoted.

The Connellsville coke strike continuedto spread. Fifty-fiv- e out of fifty-sev- en

plants were banked. Nearly all of McCInre& Ca's works were idle. The Standardand Moorewood men, 1,500, were also out,as were the 500 of Leisenaing. The num-ber of strikers was pat at 11 000.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A company has been formed to reclaimseveral hundred acres of Ian 1 stolen bythe Missouri river at "Wyandotte withinthe past twenty-fiv-e years. The land isvalued at millions of dollars, but there isa hitch in getting Kansas City, Kan., torelinquish her riparian rights.

The Atchison Merchants' Exchange hada meeting the other night at which a com-mittee report was adopted recommendingthat steps be taken to invite' delegatesfrom Missouri river points to meet in thatcity August 14 to discuss the freight dis-crimination question.

A horrible accident occurred at Kan-sas City (Wyandotle) about nine o'clockon the morning of July 9. Hon. RussellB. Armstrong, the former publisher andeditor of the Kansas City, Kan., Gazette,attempted to board an east-boun- d "L"train which h'ad gained considerablespeed alter starting from the station atOakland avenue. He missed his foothold I

and fell with his legs on the rails. ,p

fr. .!. i. i auuui huccj ui ijjo uui;k Ha&uu uvc; uiiu.crushed the left leg below the knee. Hisright leg was caught between the brakebeam and the rim of the wheel and twist- - 'ed. In this position he was dragged aboutseventy-fiv-e vards and it was three- - !

quarters of an hour before he could beextricated. "When taken home it was

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found necessary to amputate both legsbelow the knees. Mr. Armstrong is forty-si- x

years old and has a lurge family. Hehas represented "Wyandotte in the Legislature and been prominently identified

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with the interests of the county all hislife. I

The Live-Stoc- k Sanitary Board hasbeen considering the question of quaran- -flninn ;...- - ,, Tnrli.n T.mltii.wand Texas in consequence of the reported i

outbreak of pleuro-pneumon- ia and feveramong cattle in the extreme southwest j

part of the State.James Bodkin, a farm hand, work'ng i

for John Frame, a wealthy farmer, ten '

miles west of "Wichita, disappeared verymysteriously the other night He was '

sleeping alone in a hous two hundredfeet from the main residence, and in themoriins all his clothes were found in hisroom, but he was missing. Frame owedhim for two months' labor, and some daysprevious offered to pay him. when Bodkinreplied that he did not want it yet Herecently toid an acquaintance that hefeared he would be fol.owed up and killed,not giving reaons for such miscivmg. Itwas helieved he had boen murdered. J

InE Lawrence canning factorv employeL200 hands.

Joe Woods and Calvin Sanders, colored, ,

engaged in a quarrel at Leavenworth the !

other morning over the ownership of c.

handkerchief. Both claimed the uandker- - '

fhlfr ivhiph wnc n trnmlv ciltr nns nnnthe dispute ended in a fight in which I

lVnnc Ar.... i,:r ..,! ,.l,l,.J a.nJ...in the neck, cutting the jugular vein, from !

-which he almost bled to death at the time, i

and from the effects of which he would '

not recover. Woods fl"d.During a t storm at Olathe St.

Paul's Church (Catholic) was struck bylightning and took tire, but the flameswere speedily extinguished.

A C. Seldkn. chief clerk in the generaloffice of the Missouri Pacific road at Wich-ita, was recently missing from his d'sk.He was said to bo a defaulter for a largeamount A warraut was issued for hisarrest charging him with forging a com-pany draft for $4,iO0.

It is officially asserted that there is nota case of pleuro-pneumon- ia among cattlein the State. j

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The Governor recently pardoned CharlesSweny. of "Wilson County, who was on""ebruarv 22, 1SS9. convicted of embezzle (

ment and sentenced to one year in thepenitentiary, on condition that he abstain ',

from intoxicating drink for two years,j

Sweney is neaily seventy years old and)collected $31) tor a Kansas City firm which i

he failed to pny over. Liquor was the jI

cause of his trouble.Brdmm Bros., dry goods nierebnnts at j

Junction City, lost $5,030 by a fire theoilier night

Four prisoners broke jnil at Newton theother night. All were under sentence.They were Mi chell, Brown, Wilson andW. E. Moore. All were rctakau exceptMoore, who is under sentence to threeyears in the penitentiary for horse steal-ing. He is a desperate man and an oldoffender.

The police of Kansas City, Kan., raidedthree gambling houses located near theState line the other night and capturedthree proprietors and seventy patrons.Each proprietor put up $100 for himselfand $10 for each "customer," which sumswere "confiscated" by the police judgenext day as ''fines."

Governor Humphrey has pardonedYancy Gans, who was convicted in thedistrict court of Johnson County, June 17,USS, of assault with Intent to kill and sen-tenced to five years' imprisonment. Ganswas a boy of eighteen whose home was inTopeka, but his mother beine widowed hewent away to work and so got to JohnsonCounty. There he bad a dispute with hisemployer and knocked the latter down.He was fined a small sum, and beng una-ble to pay the constable started to takehim from Wilder to Hoi lid ay. In a lonelyplace he knocked tho rfficer senseless andescaped. He was subequontIy arrested,pleaded guilty and was sent up for fiveyears. The constable he knocked downwas one of the applicants for pardon, notbelieving there was any malice in thecase.

It is stated that English capitalists intheir search for profitable business invest-ments in this country bnve found that thecoal mines at Leavenworth do a large andpaying uusines, ana mey are iryiug ioget control of them. Failing to securethe minrs in operation the syndicate hadreal estate agents quielly buy up tho coalrights on 1 COO acres of land two milessouth of the city. Ev-r- y 'thing havingbeen secured necessary for the sinking ofa sbait a new companv was organizedunder the name of the Boston Coal Com-pany with a paid up capital of $103,000.

It is suggested that if 'all the railroadcompanies which have ever filed articlesof incorporation in the office of the Sec-retary of State had carried out theirplans, thi railroad mileage of Kansas to-

day would be equal to that of the entireUnited States, and even now there areseveral charters filed every month.

M. E. Larkin. a prominent Atchisonstock dealer, recently made an assign-ment Liabilities about $19,000.

The sheriff of Geary County recentlyarrested a Fort Riley deserter at Topeka,whither he had fled with a borrowed teamand a woman.

Ihe colored people of the State cele-brated Emancipation day (August 1) atBismarck grove, Lawrence, with a grandpicnic and other exercise?. Excursiontrains were run from various points ofMissouri and Kansas and 8,000 personswere estimated as being prosent

Mrs. SNODGRASsand two childred, acednine and six years, said to be from Kan-sas, were recentlv drowned while attempt-ing to cross the White river in Arkansas.

A recent fire at Wichita burned thebuildings occupied by the Cannon FruitCommission Company, and the three-sto- ry

block adjoining occupied by theWichita Wholesale Grocery Company.Two cars standing on the switch, contain-ing $7,090 worth of sugar, were also de-

stroyed. The total loss was estimated at$170,000, and the total insurance about$75,000.

Andrew C Drumm. who had full chargeof the cattle commission business of A.Drumm & Co. at the stock yards in Kan-sas City, Kan., recently disappeared andan investigation showed bis accounts short$15,000, and possibly double that sum. Heis 1 uepbew of the senior member of thefirA

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TKAIN JROBBEES.

Masked Men Hold Up the FortWorth & Denver Matt.

They Are Foiled in Obtaining Mncli BootyTwo Hold Men Rob a Train

Near KansasCity.

Fort "Worth. Tex., Aug. 5. At twoo'clock yesterday morning six maskedmen stopped the Fort "Worth & Denvermail and express, southbound, betweenCheyenne water tank and Tascosa andthree men got on the locomotive and com-pelled tho engineer to pull away from thepassenger coaches, which had been de-

tached by the robbers and left underguard of the other three.

After going half a mile the robbers com- -pel'ed the engineer to get off the locomo--a: l i t -, .moauuuiiuKa hick 10 lurco open tue. - ..

oi we express car..Express Messenger Marsh, seeing what

w.as .P- - c osed the A.00s f h,s cr andP1 f UP tr?.nk" a.g"nst them an? en!- - b- - " - -

secreted all the express packaces butthree.

The robbers coming to the car orderedMarsh to open it and fired into it Theengineer hammered away with his pickuntil he got the door partly opened, whena torch was pushed into the opening anda "volver poked in and pointed at Mar sb,

IX 3 J a t" "Pku aim wiree packages werestoien. Dut tne racinc Express companypeoplo say that very little money was secured.

The robbers then went to the mail carand compelled Route Agent Wolcott toopen hi car. He had hidden all his regis-tered matter, but one letter, under a sackand turned his lights out The robbersgot the one package and then opened mailpouches and scattered the contents overtho floor. All the robbers were masked.After doing the work they ordered the en-gineer to put out the torch and pull outwhen they left.

The authorities in the several neighbor-ing counties were notified and are in pur-suit. It is said Unit the total amountstolen is less than The robbers firedtwenty or twenty-fiv- e shots into the mailand express cars. Tho passengers weregreatly frightened, but not ono of themwas molested in any way, though moneyand jewelry rpre hid in short order.Cheyenne is 3Tj miles northwest fromFort "Worth.

TRAIN ROBDERS NEAR KANSAS CITY.Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 5. Two men

who wore red and white handkerchiefsov.e.r xeir facos as maks held up andiuui.ua passu:i;;er iraiu .xu. on me a- -

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ral waF our..

ra.lles ?? of ?.ar,em atvi v niAinn t Mri n w 'frj .aU'" u uuiuai lUSUl. J.UOV c- -cured 5175 and two gold watches andwould have secured a great deal more butihey were frightoned lrom the train by aneivy conductor before they succeeded intheir operations. The men were mediumsizad and both wore dark clothing andslouch hats. They were between twenty-tw- o

and tweniy-fiv- e years of age, andwere loud and profane in their demandsfor money.

W. H. Bonnell, special agent of the road,sat in tho smoking car of the train andwas notified by Conductor James Reachthat the rear coach had been gone throughby robbers. He at once cut tho engineloose and returned as far as Harlem wherehe notified Deputy Sheriff Tomlinson andthey began a search for the men but werenot successful in getting Mght of them.

The train pulled out from this city at8:20 o'clock and registered its time atHar--'

lem at 8:35 o'clock. Two men boarded therear coch at the Harlem bridge and assoon nsHirlem was passed awoke passon-ger- s

with the demand. "Throw up yourhands." It took them nbout ten minutesto "invoice" the nine passengers whowere in the coach.

Ihey left the rear coach to raid the nextone front and met Conductor Reach on thefiont platform.

"Throw up your hauds" they command-ed. The conductor thought that theywere railway acquaintances and laughingat them started to pass on. They com-manded again, and taking in tho situationho struck one of them with his lantern.The other robber shot twice at Reach andboth then jumped from the train. Reachthrew his lantern after them and aboutthis time one of the passengers pulled thebell-cor- d and the train was stopped.

Special Agent Bonnell detached the en-

gine from the train and started back tothis city. In company with Deputy Sher-iff Tomlinson, of Clay County, he keptwatch at the Hannibal bridge and scouredthe country about Harlem until threeo'clock yesterday morning, when he re-

ported the robbery to the Central policestation and left a description of the twomen.

The train consisted of a baggage car,two through sleepers on the Iowa Cen-tral, coaches which are switched off atMoberly, and the car sleeper that wasrobbed.

When the men left the train they tookto a wagon road and disappeared in thedarkness. Nothing has since beeu heard ofthsm.

Starved to Death.Spring Valley, 111., Aug. 4. The wife

of one of the locked-ou- t miners here wasordered by the physician in attendanceon her twins, who were slowly starvingto death, to eat a sufficiency of the rightkind of food so that she could nourish heroffspring, but being in the poorest cir-cumstances and living off such charity aswas given by the relief committee here,he was unable to get the proper food and

the babies died. That such a thingshouldoccur in the midst of this beautiful, fertileregion, teeming with an abundant har-vest, is hard to believe. And yet thefather of these twins was only striking toprevent the mine owners from cutting hiswages almost to the starvation point

oItazft and Small-Po- x.

Washington, Aug. 4. Consul-Gener- al

Card we II. of Cairo, Egypt, warns iheState Department that an extensive tradein Egyptian rags with the United Statesis rendered particularly dangerous by theprevalence of small-po- x in Lower Egypt

Georgia bos the biggest watermelonpatch in the world. Think of a lane twomiles long with melons on each side asfar as the eye can reach. It is an inter-esting sight when the laborers go out atdaybreak to gather the melons. Squadsof them are moving the vines aside tomake room for the wagons to go through.Others are thumping and cutting off themelons from the vines, while others fol-

low, gathering the fruit into the wagons.The largest melons will average fortypounds, and there will be lots of sixty-pounde- rs.

There will be cars of 1 200melons with hardly a melon under thirty-fiv- e

or forty pounds. The Phillips MelonCompany, which owns this immensemelon patch of 800 acres, willmake a big thing out of it Theirprofit will not be less than $150 acarload, and they will ship 400 cars. Sixtythousand dollars on 800 acres will beatotton. Without disaster they will make

such a success that the farmers who arewatching them will plant an immenseacreage in that section next year. Howdid they do it? By business methods.They went to work with enough cash inbank to carry out their plans ona grand scale, and they fertilized andworked the crop to the best advantage ineverv wav. The thine is business fromone end to the other. Why, they have halftheir cran already sold at fancy price I

200 cars in Boston. Their estimate of 400 J

carsforSOOacresisaveryconservativeone. j

It will go over that Atlanta Constitution.

SORGHUM SUGAR:

How the Diffusion Process Is ProgreulagIn Kansas.

Topeka. Kan., Aug. 2 The interestmanifested in the sorghum sugar makinggrows entirely out of the acknowledged fit-

ness of climate and soil for sorghum canegrowing. No Slate in the Union producescaue with so large a percentage of sugarin the juice, nor with so much of the latterto the ton of cane. The question has been,can this juice be utilized so as to make it

i a commerc.al success? So far this question has not been satisfactorily answered.The Fort Scott, Conway Springs and To-

peka works have operated successfully sofar as sugar making is concerned, but theyhays not beon financially successful. AtTopeka the works ran but about half theseason Inst year, and part of that timewith defective m ichinery. although thnrewas an abundant supply of cane. ? heoperating oxp-n- se wore more than uetby the receipts, although money was 'ostafter the interest on borrowed money waspaid. This statement was made by one ofthe principal stockholders.

The Conway Springs works was sup-plied with poor water for u;ar making,coming out of a pypsum deposit. LateIn the season pure water was obtainedand. the results were better. Accordingto Mr. Deming's report to the Govern-ment, while the last reason showed thepracticability of sugar making from sor-ghum, it did not prove commerciallyprofitable. T.ie stockholders, however,with added experience, are giving a morethorough test this year under more favor-able conditions.

A" Fort Scott good sugar was made andin print quantities, hut from the fact thatthe Government has ordered its machineryremoved from that place to Attica it is ev-

ident that a 1 was not satisfactory there.In fact. Mr. Hie?, who has made the pro-duction of sorghum sugar a study, pro-nounces this industry an exper.ment,which would lead one to believe that thesuccess attending the third year was notsatisfactory.

At Attica may now be found tho largestsugar works in the State, in which havebeen placed the Government machineryfrom Fort Scott, and machinoiy fromIllinois, in addition to new and improvedmach nery manufactured expressly forthis company. From Mr. Clark, secretaryof the company, it is learned that theseworks will be under the personal super-vision of Mr. Deming, who built andoperated the Conway Springs works, anawho is considered an expert, having hadeight years' experience in sorghum sugarmaking. The cost of this plant is $102,700,the assets of the company being $122,030.The cane growing and owned bythe company, the farmers about thatptaco and by the General Govern-ment at its experimental station,will more than keep these works runningtho full sugar making season. The resultof all experiments have been seized, andit is believed there will bo a large profitarising from the heavy investment made.But in order that this might be placedamong the solid business enterprises ofthe State, the company has investigatedthoroughly the alt works of New York,and find that they can use this same ma-

chinery the remaining portion of the year,producing 1,00) barreU of salt a day at anexpense of only seven cents a barrel.

Mr. Clark condemns the hasty voting oftownship bonds in aid of incomplete plantsand wildcat schemes by sorghum sugarspeculators. "While believing absolutelyin the profitableness of complete works, hewould not have township or municipal in-

debtedness incurred in aid of the littleplants that are necessarily incomplete,and which must stand idle the greaterportion of the year. He does not considersorghum sugar making any longer an

says when his works startup. August 15. this will . bo c

Being one of a com-

pany of careful, prudent men, hefeels satisfied that the profits of theAttica works will cause this industry tobecome the leading industry of Kansas.There have been cases of mismanagementin the past incomplete knowledge, and,sometimes, unseemly haste. These draw-backs hnvo been avoided at the Atticawork, where chemically pure water isobtained, and the services of Mr. Demingsecured, as well as the time and knowl-edge of two Government chemists. Heplaces the profits of the Attica works at56S.0C0 for the year 1SS9.

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A CLEAN BILL.

The Kansas Sanitary Live-Stoc- k BoardSatUiled That Xo Disease Exists In theState.Topeka. Kan., Aug. 2. The Live-Stoc- k

Sanitary Board consisting of Hon. J. T.White, of Ada, Hon. Charles Collins, ofHutchinson, and K. Hurst, of Howard, andS. H. Pierce, of Washington, D. C, and J.A. Walrath of Kansas City, representingthe United States Bureau of Animal In-

dustry, held a meeting Wednesday even-

ing and at noon yesterday made a reportin substance as follows: "A careful in-

vestigation at the Kanas City stock yard?shows that the order of the boardrelating to separate yards at Argentinefor Southern cattle which might b9 sub-

ject to infectious diseases is being fullycomplied with. The special pens are usedfor no other purpose and are separatedfrom the main yards by the Kansas river.The yards are in excellent sanitary con-

dition. Le-- s danger of infection fromTexas fever exists than in former years,and while a few cases have been reportedthis season, investigation show that thoyhad contracted the disease before ship-ment in the yards. There was noevidence to show that these cattle wouldtransm'tthe fever it being well under-stood that native or half-bree- d cattle donot convey the diseas. As an additionalprotection to the native cattle, however,the board recommended tothes'ock yardscompany that all of that part of the yardeast of the State line known as the Altonside be set apart for their exclusive use,from which all the Texas cattle should beexcluded."

Resolutions were adopted acquaintingthe Governor of Nebraska wilh the abovefacts, declaring that no good reasons ex-

isted for quarantine against th stockyards of Nebraska and respectfully asking the modification of the quarantineorder and permitting the shipment of allcattle into Nebraska except Southerncattle held in quarantine at Argentina

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A Milwaukee Move.Milwaukee, WI., Aug. 2.-- At a meet-

ing of the executivo council of tho Na-

tional Grand Army encampment a com-

mittee of twenty citizens outside of .hecouncil was appointed to waiton President Miller, .of the Chi-

cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway and maKe a nnai appeal 10 mmfor a one cent a mile rate to the encamp-ment This move was prompt&d by theeight department commanders at ChicagoTuesday discouraging attendance at theencampment because of the refusal of therailroads to grant a one cent rate. Suchaction was entirely unlooked for, andcreated a sensation at encampment head-quarters.

Domestic Tragedy.Utica. N. Y., Aug. 2. In Carthage last

night Fred Farr, an engineer, shot andkilled his wife and then committed sui-cide. Farr's wife was at her father'shome. Her husband went there, and whenshe came to the door he put bis armaround ier, placed a revolver against herbreast and fired. He then went to hisfather's home and sitting down in a rock-

ing chair shot himself. Mrs. Fair hadnot been living with her husband for twoor throe weeks owing to trouble regardingthe deeding of some property. An othcerwas In the house at the time of the shoot- -jng with a warrant for Farr'j arrest astrouble was anticipated.

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AT STANDING. ROCK.KoU 3for Signatures Opened General.

Crook "Warns the Obdurate.Standing Rock Agency, Dak , Aug. 2--

At the council Wednesday the Indianswere informed that no more meetings forthe explanation of the treaty would beheld. John Grass repeated his objections-t- o

the treaty, chief among which is the-pric-

offered for the lands.Major Warner replied to Grass. He mefr

every objection ana explained the provi-sions of the treaty of 1S69: which the Gov-ernment is charged with violating.

Eut the speech of the conference andonethat will never be forgotten by the In-

dians, was made by Goneral Crook, whosaid, among other things: "I have al-

ready intimated that, unless you exceptthe treaty, this land may be taken frontyou anyway. My reasons for thinking 30are as follows: Dakota, Montana andWashington Territory have only onerepresentative each in Congress, anddo not have a vote. Thus, iu thepast, the cries of Dakotans forthe opening of this reservation have hadlittle weight, Lut after October next theywill be States with an appropriate repre-sentation, and then when they ask thatthese reservations be opened, the redman's voice will be small and he will becrowded to one side. I assure you that youare getting the best terms that will everbe offered you, and uuless you accept youwill not get more than you were offered ayear aco. The Great Father doesnot want to deal with the chiefs alone; hewants every Indian on the reservation toexpress bis desires that they may begratified. You are the equals of thewhites mentally and physically, andthere is no reason why you should not beplaced on an equal footing if you contin-ue to progress. You must do more in thefuture. You love your families and youwant to know what will become ofthem when you are dead. If you acceptthis treaty and take your land like thewhites it can never be taken from youand will be your children's when you die.You will see that the Government is yourfriend."

The roll for signatures was opeuod yes-terday.

JOHNSTOWN RELIEF.A Huge Balance of Money Left In the

Hands of the Committee.Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 2. The relief

commission at the close of yesterday'ssession made public a report on the finan-cial part of its work. It is in substanceas follows: Received by the Governor,$091,414 4C; received from Mayor Grant,$100,000; received from the New Yorkcommittee, $400,000; received from thePhiladelphia committee, $500,000; receiv-- dfrom the Pittsburgh committee, $400,000;grand total receipt', $2,334,414 4C Thecommittee expended in Johnstown. In-

cluding the ?5U0. 000 distributed,and in other parts of the State $157,22(3.27.This amount, taken from the total re-ceipts, leaves $1,554,077.60. There wasappropriated in other parts of the Stateand yet unpaid, $93,026 S2. Tho contractsand hills in hand for Johnstown amountto$C6.1S9.22. The commission's estimatefor 2 JO houses ordered is 452,000,making a total of $211,216.04 necessaryfor outstanding items. Tnis would leavea balance on hand of $L.3i2,S0L S2, but thecommission figures on getting $13'),000from the Philndelnhia committee, and$130,000 from the Pittsburgh committee,making in all $l.l'42,S01 S2.

DIRTY TEA.The Treasury Uojmrtinent Notified of the

Exportation to This Country of InferiorTea.Washington. Aug. 2. The Secretary of

the Treasury has received a letter fromtho Secretary of State inclosing a copy ofa dispatch received from the UnitedStates Consul at Amoy calling attentionto the inferior quality of much of theAmoy Oolong tea exported to tho UnitedStntes, and Assistant Secretary Tichenorhas issued a circular letter to customs of-

ficers on the subject in which he says:"The statement of the Consul and the doc-uments incl sed in his communication in-

dicate that it is a well recognized factamong dealers in China that Amoy Oo-

longs are generally dirty, adulterated,carelessly picked or poorly cured, andthat their reputation is so vile that allmarkets save those of the United Statesare now closed to them. A circular letterissued by Messrs. Russell & Co., of Amoy,speaks of these teas as the decayed veg-

etable matter of China, and states that itis difficult to understand how, under the-existin-

inspection regulations, they canbe dealt in." The Consul strongly recom-mends that no invoices of Amoy Oolong?should be admitted to entry in the UnitedStates without first being rigidly in-spected.

ROOSEVELT'S WRATH.The Civil-Servi- ce Coininlloner Sharply

Replies to Adverse Criticism.Washington. Aug. 2. Mr. Roosevelt In

reply to an editorial in the Post said;"Any statement that I used any but legit-imate and honorable means in the mayor-alty contest in New York or that I was

to any deal of the kind or that anysuch deal was made with my knowledgeor connivance is a falsehood. Any state-ment that the Civil-Servi- ce law has beenrepeatedly violated with the knowledgeand consent of the Commissioners is afalsehood. Any statement that I havereceived any money from the Governmentexcept from my salary and for my legiti-mate traveling expenses while engagedon Government business, is a falsehood.To be exact I should use a still strongerand shorter word than falsehood. I willengdge in no controversy with any writerwho falsifies the truth. Hereafter I shallmake no response whatever to any state-ment or accusation in the Post. Takinginto account the relative quality of harmdone by spoils hunters and by prize fight-ers and their associates, I am by no meanscertain that the editor of the WashingtonPost should have his feelings so laceratedoy my coupling his journal with the Po-lice Gazette."

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Ilronek Attempts Suicide.Joliet, I1L, Aug. 2. John Hronek, one

of the Chicago Anaecbists confined here,severed the arteries in his arm with asaddle knife. He is serving a twelveyears' sentence for making dynamitebombs for Anarchists.

eRecords Broken.

Cleveland, O., Aug. . At the Grandcircuit races yesterday two records werebroken.

Axtell, the wonderful three-year-ol- d,

went a mile for $2,500 to beat bis ownrecord of 2:15i made at Minneapolis.He trotted the mile with a running matewithout a skip in 2:14?, the time byquarters being: 33,' 1:07, 1:4L 2:UX.

Guy went ap exhibition mile for a capto beat his own record of 2:12. There wasgreat difficulty in getting him started, butonce he was off he moved like clockwork,covering the last quarter within one-nnar- ter

of a second as fast a the firstThe time by quarters was :32tf, 1:05,1:33, 2:10,V.

Back to Washington.Washington, Aug. 2. The President

drove to Mountain Lake Park yesterdaymorning at eight o'clock with SecretaryWindom and Mr. Halford and took thetrain there for Washington. He was givenquite an ovation by the Grand Army menwho represented all tho posts fromMartinsburg to Wheeling. At DeerPark a crowd waited to see thePresident pass through. He steppedoff the train a moment and bade Mrs,Harrison, Dr. Scott, Mrs. McKee and thebabies good bye and then stood on therear platform bowing acknowledgmentsto the cheering crowd. The Presidar t airived here at :06 o'clock.

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