The Atchison Daily Champion from Atchison, Kansas • Page 1

6. ATC CHAME FORTV-SECOND YEAR. ATCHISON. KANSAS, FRIDAF, APRIL 10. 1896.

NO 8ft DAILY 'ION SK! NO LONGER A MYSTERY. HUNG BY HIS OWN SHIRT POSSIBILITIES. A PENSION KULING ST. LOUIS MEN PROTEST. Missouri Senators Asked to Oppose the Hirer and Harbor Rill.

Hi xlx FOR FUSION. He Predicts a I nilk-ation of Populist and Free Silver Forces. Tope April 9. John W. Breidenthal and ex-Oov.

Lewelling have cone to St Louis to select quarters for the Kansas delegates to the populist national convention and make arrangements for the accommodation of about 1.000 Kansas men and women who expect to attend the convention as spectators. "It will be the bisest political convention of the 3-ear," said Breidenthal, "and our people are going from Kansas in great Speaking of the proposition to gather the silver conference into the populist fold, Breidenthal said: "It is my opinion that the silver conference and the populists will agree upon some one who will be satisfactory to both, and that he will be nominated by both conventions. The conventions will be held separately, of course, and separate platforms adopted, and then we will probably get together on a candidate. I do not believe the populists will insist on the candidate subscribing to all the populist principles, but I am not in favor of abandoning them. But if a man be selected who will not take the piace for the sake of spoils and who is known to be honest and upright, I believe he would be satisfactory to the populists even though he should not fill all the requirements of a populist" FORCED TO A LIFK OK SHAME.

St. Louis, April 9. The St Louis Merchants' Exchange has wired a protest to Senators Cockrell and Vest against the passage of the river and harbor appropriation bill in its pres ent form. The protest states that this section of the country has received no practical benefit to the navigable chan nel of the river after an expenditure of for the general improvement of the river, and insists that appropriations should be so specifically applied as to promise early useful results to navigation. WHERE IS BAKER? Question Answered Struck by Lightning and Other Items.

Raker, Kas April 9 For the benefit of seme of The Champion readers who may not know the whereabouts of our burg, I will eay that Baker is Bituated en the Missouri Pacific railrtad twelve miles north of Everest and eight miles souh of Hiawatha. inhabitants number about 300 human beings atd a goodly number of the lower animals, incluciag an ample complement of dogs. All branches of business are well represented, the different houses in this line being one dry goods and grocery, one grocery, one drug store, one haidsate store, two blacksmith shops, two hotels, one livery birn, one barber shop, two grain buyers, one lumberyard, two carpenter shops, one windmill and pump heme. ir meat market recently closed for want of ice, and there is a good opening here for some enterprising butcher, who can bring a car load of ice with him. A good shop wi ice house, refrgerator and tools will be rented cheap to the right man.

The heaviest rain for two years fell here yesterday aftirnooD, and farmers are wearing a more cheerful expression ou their faces. Lightning struck the residence of A. D. Felts, one mile east of town, during the storm Wednesday, demolishing the roof and tearing out a small portion of the foundation. Mr.

Felts and family, who were in the house, escaped without injury. Without some unusual disas'er the peach crop will be bountiful this year. A few cases of lung fever are reported among the children of the community. VERMILLION. Notes from a Thriving Town of Marshall County.

This section of the country was visited by a good soakiDg rain 1eb5 Weinesdsy, doing much goid in general. Mr. F. 8. Nilson, who was formerly bookkeeper for the Layson Lumber Co.

ie spending a few days in the city this week as the guest of L. A. Field. Verrer, went to Conccrdia last Sunday on a short visit. A female sex was seen on the roof of one of our higo buildings last Saturday.

It is supposed she was viewing sights. School will close in taite weeks. Rhetorical exercises will be carried out in the picnic grove if the weather permits. The schools in Vermillion this year have been a grand success. Prof.

hvans has put forth his beet (sorts lor this causet O. J. Kelly, of Oketo is visiting rela tives in Vermillion this week. F. H.

Horth and W. Shoemaker, of Centralis, were in town a short time last Sunday. Bicycle "ctsze" has just struck Vermillion. All of the fair damsels, now ride a wheel. Mrs.

Lucy Gralle returned from St Joe, last week where she has been visit ing her relatives. L. Parapel wa3 over to Centralis Mon day. D. N.

Kelley the popular cigar maker of Frankfort spent a few hours in the town last Wednesday. Vermillion is rspidiy coming to the front as one of the best shipping points in this section of the country, aid also is doing her portion of the business. Friday O. il. Granger, one or tne leading merchants, took in 1250 dczn of eggs.

Marcus Leonard is a "hustler" from way back, as a blacksmith he can't be beaten. Wheat in th-s neighborhood is looking fine and the present i. utlook Is a large wheat crop. Vermillion communicates with her farmers by telegraph. A line several miles long extends into the Swede settle njent iiorth of Vermillion.

The band concert which was to have taken place last Tuesday vining was postponed on account of tte inclement weather. Geo. Smith left last Tuesday for the western part of the state to look after his firm. F. L.

Cannon anticipates an abundant apple crop the coming season. Katnsr Kestiess In Spain. Madrid, April 8. Affairs look so serious again that American tourists are hurrying away. Every place on the Sud express which left for Paris to-day was taken by Americans.

A guard is still maintained at the Amer ican legation, but it has not been in creased. The feeling is prevalent that a crisis is near and that trouble may break out at any moment. Is Cecil Rhodes Dead? London, April 9. There were rumors on the stock exchange to-day that Cecil Rhodes, formerly premier of Cape Colony, who has been suffering from fever in Matabeleland, is dead. This rumor caused a decline in the company's securities.

The officials of the British Chartered company ac credit the rumor. St. Louis Silverites Want Bland Nominated for the Presidency. M'KIXLEY AND THE A. P.

A. The Secret Order Said Not to Favor the Ohio Mao-The Linton Loom la Illinois Foreshadows a Bolt. St. Lons, April 9. Hen.

Richard P. Bland, the champion of the free silver wing of the democratic party of Missouri, spoke to two audiences in this city last night lioth meeting's were well attended. In the Twenty-Sixth ward he said that the fifrht that was now on in the democratic party was not an individual fight nor a personal fipht, but was for a great principle. The perservation of the democratic party depends upon the outcome of the strife within its ranks. The speaker told his hearers that there was something radically wronr with the country somewhere, because it was not as prosperous as it should be.

The farmers, he said, were painfully aware of this, and had spoken in no uncertain tones. They are determined to secure a change in the financial policy, as they attribute their present deplorable situation to the present monetary policy, lie urged his hearers to send a delegation to Chicago that would demand a platform suitable to the interests of the people of the west, of the country and of the democratic party a free silver platform. At the conclusion of Mr. Bland's speech a resolution was introduced declaring that the voters of the Twenty-Sixth ward were devoted the to cause of free silver and asking that the Missouri delegation to Chicago be instructed to insist on a free silver platform and to nominate as their presidential condidate Richard P. Island.

The resolution was carried. McKintey and the A. F. A. Boston, April 9.

At the recent session in New York of the council of the American Protective association much work was done regarding the presidential campaign. "She leaders in the association are carrying on an extended correspondence all over the country, and the members are taking an active part in the campaign, though they are more secretive this year than ever before. Members of both the political parties were present at the recent meeting, and they came from even California. They are accumulating all possible evidence regarding the position of the public men who may be presidential nominees, and it is certain that the organization is not in favor of the nomination of McKinley. One of the leading members here predicts that McKinley will not be nominated.

The Missouri manager of McKinley is a man who tried to have the New York convention denounce the American Protective association. Other men who are working actively for McKinley have incurred the condemnation of the order, and there is evident a disposition to defeat McKinley In any event. The Llntoa lioom In Illinois. Springfield, 111., April 9. A Richmond appears to have entered the field of national republican politics in the person of Hon.

W. S. Linton, congressman from Michigan. A gentleman who resides in this city, who has charge of the Linton presidential boom in Illinois, stated in an interview yesterday afternoon that in most of the counties of the state during the next 20 daj's there will be numerous and large Linton clubs organized, and an order was placed to-day with the manufacturers for 50,000 Linton buttons, to be worn by the members of these clubs. He further states that the same movement is beiner simultaneously started in every northern and many southern states.

The effect this movement will have in the presidential canvass cannot be estimated or conjectured. Boles Foreshadows a Bolt. St. Joseph, April 9. Ex-Gov.

Horace Boies, of Waterloo, who passed through the city recently, said that in case the Chicago convention did not nominate a bimetallist for president, in all probability a second convention would be held by democrats to nominate a man who was favorable to silver. He said he thought neither Cleveland nor Carlisle would be nominated at the national democratic convention. A CONFIDENCE GAME. A Dashing Young Widow Victimizes Congressmen and Senators. Washington, April 9.

A pretty young woman who speaks with a foreign accent, wears mourning and represents herself as the widow of a Cuban patriot recently killed while fighting with Gomez, has been receiving donations from certain senators and representatives who are in sympathy with the Cuban cause. A New York member who gave her S10 subsequently discovered that she was Kate Gray, a notorious female sharper of Philadelphia. The victimized congressmen banter each other a good deal, but each denies that he contributed anything Kev. Dr. farker Morgan, a prominent New York divine and the Vander-bilt preacher, has confessed that he used the Easter discourse of another and then had it printed in the newspapers.

The exposure and subsequent confession has created a great sensation in religious circles. Secret as to Farmer Laiuborn's Awful Mar der FnUy Cleared I n. Leavenworth, Aoril 9. On the morning of February 19 last the body of ,1. T.

Lamborn, an aged farmer, residing near Fall Leaf, this countv, was found murdered in the kitchen of his own house and the body most brutally hacked to pieces. The body was cut and bruised in many places. The limbs were broken and the chest crushed in as if by a blow from a trip hammer. Last Tuesday Charles Lamborn, a son, Annie L. Lamborn.

the daughter, and Thomas Davenport, the latter's sweetheart, were arrested, charged with the awful crime, and locked up in the county jaiL Last night Annie L. Lamborn signed a statement in the presence of her brother, Alfred C. Lamborn, who resides in this city, and the detective employed on the case, charging Thomas Davenport, her sweetheart, with the terrible crime. The arrest of the two Lamborns and Davenport was brought about by the young Lamborn girl confiding the secret of the murder to a woman in Lawrence, who often visited the Lamborn house, as she was a borrower of money from old man Lamborn. Annie Lam- bora's love for Davenport, it seems, faded away in contemplating the awful crime to which she had been an accessory.

Her horror-stricken soul needed solace and she confided her terrible secret to this woman friend, under a promise of secrecy, soon after the crime was committed. L'ntil very recently, however, this woman kept her own counsel, under the belief that the guilty parties, if known, would be hanged for the crime. Learniug later that there is no capital punishment in Kan sas, she made a confidante in turn of Mrs. Charles Shaelfer. Mrs.

ShaetTer told her husband, and it was he who went to Fall Leaf, arrested the mur derers and placed them in jail at this point. BOIES AND BRYAN. Two Prominent Western Men Jointly Ad vocate Feee Silver's Cause. Kansas City, April 9. The Ninth Street opera house was comfortably filled last night with democrats, who gathered to listen to addresses on free silver by ex-Gov.

Horace Boies, of Iowa, and Hon. V. J. Bryan, of Omaha, who came to Kansas City expressly in behalf of the free silver cause. Gov.

Boies made the principal speech of the evening, and he delivered an able and exhaustive address on the subject. Mr. Bryan did not attempt a set speech, but confined his remarks chielly to an exhortation to the free silver democrats to carry the primaries iu behalf of a free silver delegation to the county convention. RATES FOR KANSAS EVENTS. Authorized by the Chairman of the Western Passenger Association.

Tope April 9. Chairman Caldwell, of the Western Passenger association, has issued the following notification of reduced rates to Kansas meetings, the rate being fixed at one fare and a third: Lawrence, April 1.1-18, grand lodge F. aJ.A,M. and the annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science. Wichita, April 24, Southern Kansas Mardi Gras carnival.

Topeka, May 1, annual interstate oratorical eontest. Salina, May 8 and 9, grand council of the United Commercial Travelers of America. Topeka, May 13 and annual meeting of the Kansas Medical society. Fort Scott, May 2tj-2S, annual meeting of the Kansas State Pharmaceutical association. WHOLE FAMILY CREMATED.

Jackson Martin and Bin Wife and Child Burned to Heath. Wheeling, W. April 9. Word has just reached this city from Whetstone, Marshall county, that an entire family was cremated in a fire, which destroyed the dwelling house of Martin. The dead are: Jackson Martin, his wife and child.

Some neighbors returning fron church saw the roasting bodies in the fire, but were too late to give any relief. It is supposed that Martin woke up and that the smoke being so dense prevented him from finding the door, and he had torn a plank off the wall, as his body was found in this opening he ha 1 made. CLARK BY ACCLAMATION. Republicans of the First Missouri District Renominate tbe Present ougressman. Canton.

April 9. The republican congressional convention of the First district of Missouri was held here yesterday and C. X. Clark was nominated by acclamation for congress. Iviward Robinson, of Clark county, and Park, of Macon, were selected as delegates to the national convention.

Resolutions declaring for protection and reciprocity and for gold, silver and paper as money on a pasity were adopted. Touble Crime at Chetopa. Ciietofa, April 9 Last night some one knocked a woman named Maggie Gray senseless and soon after filled the head and face of Frank Rupert with shot, putting out both his eyes and, it is thought, fatally injuring him. The doctor thin'is the woman will die also. George Lloyd was arrested on suspicion.

Another Armenian Massacre Feared. London, April 9. The Chronicle says: According to private advices from Constantinople, the palace party is thwarting the pledges which the porte has given to Sir Philip Currie, the British ambassador, and to Mr. J. V.

Riddle, the United States charge d'affaires. "It is feared another organized massacre will occur in the Cilician provinces. At Hot Springs, on the night of the 8th Jack McAuuiffe got the best of Harry Pigeon in four-round contest. Unknown parties trapd to assassinate Editor Brown, of the Leader at Dayton, Tenn. A Va'uabla Prescription.

Editor Morrison of Worthington, "Sun," wiites. "You have a viluabla prescription in Bittereand I can cheerfully recommend it for constipation and sick headache, and as a general system tonic it 6a3 no equal." MrB. Annie Btehl, 2G25 Cottage Grove Chicago, was all run down, could not eat nor digest food, had a backache which never left her and felt tired and weary, but fix bit-ties of Electric Bitterg restored her health and renewed her strength. Prices 50 cents and $1 00. Get a bottle at Geo.

Bartoa's drug store. 6 Children Cry for Pitcher's Csstorla. Pt I'-'-V roir.MONsXi UkdBi GOOD FOR EVERYBODY Almost everybody takes some laxatii medicine to cleanse the svstem and keep fit blood pure, i'hose who take il.U01 Livlr Regulator liiqinj or powjrr; get all the benems of a mild and laxative and tonic that puril'ies the No. and strengthens the whole svstem. Amj more than this: Sl.U.WONS I ivtk RhGU.

LATOR recui tes the Liver, keeps it activa and healthv, and when the iver is good you tinj yourself free fro Malaria, Biliousness, Indigestion, SkK- Headache and Constipation, and rid jt that worn out -and debilitated feeling These are all caused by a skgish Live, Good digestion and treedom from stoma. 4 I troubles will only be had hen the is properly at work. If troubled with at, of these complaints, trv Sl.W.MON'S LlVt Regulator. The King of 1 iver Meo cines, and Better than 1'illr IMCKAOK Has tin- y. Stamp in Toil on 1 XI.

'V IV A PATTISOX BOOH. Chairman Supports the ex Governor for President ('LBN DESERTS BALLINGTOX E00T1I. The First ICptrult of the Volunteers turn to the ttion Army Ohio's I-aw InrreaAetl A. r. L.

Me her lil p. Cincinnati, April 0 The Com mereial Gazette printed to-day a ciui'-munication from lion. V. llarritv, chairman of the democratic national executive committee, in support of ex-Gov. Hubert l'attison, of IVni-sylvania, as democratic candidate for the presidency.

Mr. Uarrity says: 'Tiie democratic candidate must be man of broad views, undoubted integrity and with an in flexible purpos i to meet the highest demands of the position. In Mr. Taltisou will be found all the ualifieat ions of such a leader. Nothing in his private life or official career has callc I for explanation or equivocation, though his every Ret has been closely by hoi-tile and desperate political interests ia more than one exciting canvass." tll.KNN HKSKIUS IIAI.I.IM! ION IHHITIL Nkw Yokk, Anril 11.

The Worl i says: Lieut-Col. IVter Glenn, who hm been lialiingtnn ltooth's rijrht han i man, and tirst recruit in the volunteer movement, sent in his resignation yesterday, tot-ether with that of his wifn. At the sami! time they notified Coi.i-missioner Ilooth-Tucker of their action and requested to lie reinstated in tha Salvation army in any capacity. Ia their letter to Ilooth-Tucker tho Glenns state that they have concluded that Itallinfrton liooth took a wror jr step in himself from the army. Ueinjrof this opinion, they desired to undo the wronir they had done the army in leavino- by beinsr permitted to re-enter it and labor for it as before.

Ohio's hinh law. Coi.i April Representative Smith's anti-lynchiriLf bill became a law yesterday. It provides that the heirs of any person su fferin" death at the hands of a mob may have an action for damages against the county where the lynching occurs and may recover INI.IiKASK IN A. F. IA i.timokk, April I'resident Samuel Gompers, of the American Fe 1-eration of Labor, addressed a meetirir here last nijrht, sa3'inr, anions other thing-s, that the reports of the different secretaries of the Federation shosr an increase of 2 per cent, in membership.

MUST PAY OR WALK. No Free Trannportsition to Members off th National K'lucatlonftl Society. Kansas City, April 'J. TI-8 chairman of the Western Passenger association has cautioned all the roads in that association against granting any free transportation to members ol the National Educational association for the annual meeting of that body at Buffalo next July. It is claimed that several members of the educational association have put up a little job to secure this transportation by appointing- assistant managers in the various sections, and demanding- free transportation for them.

The chairman h.is warned all the roads that the prantirif of requests for this transportation will be a distinct violation of the ajrre ment and it must not be done under any circumstances. PATRIARCHS OF AMERICA. The Grand Lodge of Kansas Chooses Of Cf rs fox the Knsalne Year. Pittsbi'ko, April 9. The sef-ond day's session of the grand lodge of Patriarchs of America was taken if principally with the election of officer with the following result: L.

C. Weldy, of Galena, past supreme patriarch; V. W. Morgan, Monmouth, vice supremo patriarch; II. F.

Iieid, Parsons, supreme secretary; .1. J. Pierson, Pa sons, supreme treasurer; P. C. Loir-laur-h, Coffeyville, supreme guid Kate Dreman, Arkansas City, snprem priest; C.

F. Aubrey, Galena, suprem-s guard; J. M. Parmele, Pittsburg, an preme protector; Dr. G.

H. Chanute, supreme medical director; lr. W. Findlay, Independence, trustee, ext meeting will be held at Chetopa Divorced lo I.e Than a Minute. 1 Wichita, April 9.

This monn ing the divorce case of Jennie Hender son vs. Xelson Henderson was caile I before Judge Dale, and in exactly 4 seconds the divorce was granted. Thei were just 23 words spoken. JudL'-t Milton was the attorney for the plaii tiff and he never said a word. Judg i Dale asked two questions and grante 1 tbe divorce.

Belief In Six Hoars. Distressing kidney nd bladder diseft relieved in hours by tie "New Gre-1 South American Kidney remedy ii a great eurprii i on account its exceeding promptn a In relievit pain in the bladder, kidneyi, back an I every part of the nrinay passages in nn'-i or female. It relieve retention of wat and pin in passing it almost immediately. If yon want quick relief and eun this la your remedy. Bold bv J.W.Aliea A 0a, druggist, Atchison, Sao, 1 A Queer and Mysterious Sui cide Near Soldier.

Sieclal to Tax Dailt Chahi'iok. lORXiNG, Kas, Apr.l 9. The latest sensation which his reicicd Corning i3 that of a tuppoied suicids that happened yesterday about one mile from Soldier, where a joung man whose identity is not kLOtn, was found suspended in midair, hanging by fragments cf his own ehirc. The whole affair, as yet, is a mybtsiy, as nothing is known of the causa. The man is a total stranger, of medium heigh', rather fleshy, weighing proDaoiy lb) pounds, and rather dark complexion.

HAPPY COURTLAND. The Crop Prospects Dally Rains-Other News Item 3. Courtlakd, Kg April 9 C. A. Bovd killed two great blue herons on the marsh.

They will be mouoted by the txmruana taxidermists. Several members of Courtlaad lodge No. 218, Knighu of Pythiap, visited their sister lodge at Belleviile Thursday eight. lhey report a good time. Wm.

Bateman has Bold about five thou eand bushels of seed oats are planted in this locality. The ground being in gocd chape a big yield is looked for. At the school examination it is predicted about twenty echolara will paep. The farmeis predict the petchfs and plums unhurt eo far on acccuat of the previous dry either. Miss May Liwtha, who has been visiting friends here, left for her home Sat urday.

The business etreeton Saturday closely resembled a Fourth of July ceiebration at thiB place. We noticed a great many strange faces among the crowds. The in dications are that our merchants are up to the standard for business. Seme tlx or eght new families have moved here in the last week and vacant Louses are baing something of the past. It would be well for one with capital to erect some gocd dwellings as they will always command a good rent.

The fall wheat is looking better than it ever aid at this time of the year and a big crop will be harvested unlets some-thing nnusual happens. Mr. Shever, our genial night operator for the Keck Island, Sundayed with hie parents at White Reck. George BrB.deb.aw, the once leading merchant of this place, but now in the mercantile business at Hardy, Nebraska, visited his old friends here on Tuesday. Everybody smokes since the election and the new officer is sized up by the quality of the cigar.

Mr. snd Mrs. Eochk and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vincent took an overland trip to Superior, Neb Wednesday.

Dr. W. W. Stuart rides an up-to date new whrel. Mr.

Eliiott will vacate the But'er house in a few days and id now making improvements on another building, where his many patrons will be likely to follow him. Mr. Elliott a No. 1 hotel man and everybody regrets to see him leave the hotel. We received a light rain on Easter morning and a light rain every day since.

CORNING-'aXPPY. i Glorious Rains A Building Boom and Much Other News. Special to Thk Daily Champion. Cokxino, April 9. The heaviest rain of the season commenced failing heie about 4 o'clock yesterday afternorn It did not continue for forty dajs nor forty tut fur a short the whole surface of the earth rouLd about was deluged to the apparent of two or three inches.

The storm cgtn-menctd with a heavy thunder storm and numerous small hail, but no serious damage Is reported. Farmers are feelirg happy, as the rain was just what was needed for the oats and corn ground, and the quantity is sufficient to last, if mces-eary, till corn is all planted. Dr. O. H.

Loyd, has taken a junior partner the youDg man arrived March 20 and weighed ten pounds. Coming is enjoying a genuine real boom; as many as one drzan good, substantial dwelling bouses are now either utder coitructioa or just completed. Also business houses, prominent of which is the large lumber yaid building owned and manned by Logan Friend. The buildiog do ere dit to any town or city in Kansas. The Urge McNiel building, juBt finished, is a fine structure and now occupied first floor by Julius Aero-baugh, with a fifteen thousand dollar stock, acd the second flxr by the Corning Gszstte, the newsieet village paper on the Branch.

C. Jackson is pushing to completion his elevator of ten to fifteen thousand bushels capacity. Besides these there are several smsl er business such as the city drug Btore, H. F. Stahue barber shop, acd last but not least, we have as a solid foundation a community well worthy acd able to support all these things.

The city well is now to a depth of 425 feet, w.h a good prospect of artesian water. Now in conclusion, we htve no gold mine nor presidential nominee to report, but lying about twelve miles southeast of Corning is a gypsum quarry, which, we believe, if properly managed would yield the proper man a goodly income. GOT ONLY 45 CENTS- Whltlrg Robbery Election Social and Other Items. Whiting, April 6. The Central Branch depot and the store building cf Shedd Marshall was broken into Tuesday morning about 1 o'clock.

The robbers only got 45 cents. The citizens are determined to have a night watchman. Mr. and Mrs. Shambough returned to their home in New Lancaster Wednesday.

They have been viaiticg MrB. Sham-bough's parents and friends here. Mies Lelia Dye was pleasantly surprised last Saturday evening by a number of friends. City election was held Monday. No great excitement, as there was but one ticket in the field.

W.H. Hevner, mayor; B. A. Ehrenfeld, P. 8.

Snider. C. A. Lentz, J. Binks and C.

L. Eastman, councilmen and W. B. Allen police judge. A new girl baby at Henry Bomhoff's.

Rainy weather makes everybody think of gardens. Several of Brown Hedge's friends surprised hiai on his fifteenth birthday, Wednesday evening. Although the weather was disagreeable, yet those who went had a nice time. Mr. F.

M. Green has been having la grippe the past week. Ninety Per Cent Of all the people need to take a course cf Hood's Sarsaparilla at this season to prevent that rundown and debilitated condition which invites disease. The money invested in half a dozen bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla will come bacc with large returns in tho health and vigor of body and strength of nerves. Hood's Pills are easy to bay, easy to take, easy to operate.

Cure all liver ills. 25 cents. All Veterans Charged with Desertion to Be Dropped from the Rolls. PENSIONS FOR MAIL MEN. The Aldrich Bill Well Favored Want Only Citizens Employed on lolled States Work Congressional Proceedings Small National Banks.

April 9. Assistant Secretary Reynolds notified the pen 6ion office yesterday of a ruling about to be promulgated which will raise a storm of indignation among the old soldiers. It will have a particularly sweeping effect in the border states, where there was much enlisting and re-enlisting without regard to all of the forms and regulations. Thou sands of soldiers went into the army without completing their terms of enlistment with the first organizations they joined. They be came dissatisfied with their officers, or for other reasons left their commands, re-enlisted in other organizations, served out their terms there and re ceived honorable discharges.

Hereto fore it has been held that when a sol dier's last service was continued until he was honorably discharged irregu larities in the previous service did not affect his pensionable status. There are thousands of pensioners on the rolls who were listed as deserters be fore they entered the service which con tinued until they were honorably discharged. The order which the assistant secretary of the interior is about to issue will drop from the rolls all pensioners who at some period in their service were charged with desertion. Pensions for the Mall Men. Washington', April 9.

A careful canvass of the house committee on post offices and post roads has dis closed a majority in favor, so far as it applies to letter carriers, of the Aldrich bill, under which two per cent, of the salary received by regular letter carriers each year will be deducted and turned into a fund for the benefit of the men. The bill provides that car riers permanently injured or disabled mentally or physically while engaged in the discharge of their duties shall receive annually from S400 to S500, according to grade, while widows and chil dren of carriers killed in the service or dying from injuries received while at work, shall receive Si, 000 insurance. Carriers who grow old in the service and have been constantly employed for 20 years or more are to be retired when incapacitated for further service upon a pension equal to the amount of accident insurance they would have received had they been permanently injured. The bill as now drawn permits a carrier who resigns or is discharged to receive in full all the money that has been withheld from the salary. Congressional Proceedings.

April 9. In the senate Mr. Mantle spoke in favor of a resolution heretofore offered by his colleague, Carter, to recommit to the finance committee the house tariff bill passed in the early days of the session. The naval appropriation bill was re ported from the committee. The four sea going- battleships authorized in the house bill are left untouched.

Amendments have been made, however, in the provisions for torpedo boats. Instead of five capable of obtaining a speed of 20 knots, as provided by the house, the senate has substituted three torpedo boats, which will in reality be torpedo boat catchers, with a maximum speed of not less than 30 knots an hour. The house upon meeting resumed consideration of the bill to abolish the compulsory pilotage system so far as it relates to strong vessels engaged in the coastwise trade. For Fmpioyment of Citizens Only. Washington, April 9.

The house committee on labor yesterday heard Mr. Corliss, of Michigan, who advocated the passage of his bill providing that all persons employed by the United States or by contractor or subcontractor doing work for the United States, or District of Columbia, must be full citizens of the United States. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, said that as the several branches of his organization had not expressed an opinion on Mr. Corliss' bill, he would say nothing in regard to it He favored Representative Phillips' bill to enforce the eight-hour law in connection with government work of all kind. He expressed a hope that the bill appointing a labor commission, which has been favorably reported by the committee, would become a law.

Small National Banks Proposed. Washington-, April 9. Representative Van Voorhis, of Ohio, has reported from the house banking and currency committee a bill to permit the organization of national banks with a capital of not less than 520,000 in cities of 4,000 inhabitants. Under the existing law the minimum capital stock required for the organization of a national bank is "0,000. In some sections of the country, says an accompanying report, there has been a growing need for bank issues as well as for other banking accommodations in small towns in which S50.000 cannot readily be raised for banking purposes.

Favorably Reported. Washington, April Several bills were yesterday considered by the committee on military affairs of the house and ordered to be favorably reported. The military telegraph operators' bill, which recently passed the senate, and a bill providing penalties for trespassers on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga military park, broadened to apply to all national military parks, were reported. New Mexico Statehood. Washington, April 9.

The house committee on territories to-day by a vote of six to four, ordered favorably reported the bill admitting the territory of New Mexico to the union as a state. The Baptist missionary and educational convention of central Missouri met at Mexico on the 9th for a two days' session. Not to be Trifled With. (Frcm Cincinnati Gazette.) Will people never learn that a "cold" is an accident to be dreaded, and that when it occurs treatment should be promptly applied There is no knowing where the trouble will end; and while complete recovery is the rule, the exceptions are terribly frequent, and thousands npon thousands of fatal illnesses occur every year ushered in by a little injudicious expoenre and seemingly trifling symptoms. Beyond this, there are today countlss invalids who can trace their complaints to "colds," which at the time of occurrence gave no concern, and were therefore neglected.

When troubled with a cold use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is prompt and effectual. 25 and 90 cant bottlss tor sale by druggists Gladness Comes With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills, which vanish lx-fore proper efforts pontic efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. Tin-re is comfort in tile knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, hut simply to a constipated condition of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrupof promptly removes. That is why it is the only remedy wit millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so higl'ily by all who value pood health.

Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its beneficial effects, to note when you purchase, that you have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only and 6old by all reputable druggists. If iii the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives 01 other remedies are then not needed. I.

afflicted with any actual disease, on' may be commended to the most skillfu physicians, but if in need of a laxative one should have the best, and with tht well-informed everywhere, Syrup o. Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. A DOUBLE CMME. A Man Shoots a Woman and Then Commits Suicide. AN ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT The Former fuhlw of a Kansas limnk Arrested Murder Through Jealousy Ire In a Cloak Factory A Ship Turns Over.

Salem, April 9. When those ho responded to an alarm of fire, given for a slight blaze in the room of Josephine Manning, a dressmaker, burst in this morning1, the dead body of the woman was found on the bed, while across Its foot Charles Flynn, who had been keeping" company with her for some time, was dying from a bullet wound. The lodgers in the house state that they heard the reports of a pistol at about four o'clock this morning, but did not investigate. This is thought by the police to confirm the theory that Flynn shot the woman and then killed himself. Au Alleged FmbezzemenC Kansas Citv, April 9.

Sheriff "VV. E. Sherman county.Kan., came to Kansas City to-day with a warrant and refjuistion from the governor of Kansas and arrested S. T. Harlow on a chaage of embezzlement.

Harlow was formally cashier of the Goodland state bank of Goodland, Kan. It is charged that he embezzled $1,000 from a man who trusted him and loaned him the money. A Murder Through Jealousy. Chicago, April 9. William Smith, a painter, was shot and instantly killed while asleep in a room at 1409 State street, by William Cummings, at four o'clock this morning.

Cummings was arrested. Jealousy, it is believed, was the cause of the murder. Smith having supplanted Cummings in the affections of Mrs. Maggie Connors, with whom Smith was living when he was shot. A Fire In a Cloak Factory.

Chicago, April 9. The four-story building at Madison street was badly damaged by fire of unknown origin at 5:30 this morning. A. Ellinger cloak manufacturers, occupying the three upper floors, were the heaviest losers. The total loss is estimated at fully covered by insurance.

A Ship at Anchor Turns Over. San Fkaxcisco, April 9. The British ship Hlairmore, at anchor In Mission bay in the southern part of the city, capsized this morning, turning completely over. The first officer and four of the crew were drowned. MIST BRISK ALONE.

Antl-Treatlnft- mil Receives the Neeessary Votes to fast the Ohio Legislature. Columbus, April 9. After considerable discussion in the house the senate resolution providing for adjournment April 10 was defeated and April 27 substituted. The house signalized the approaching adjournment by passing the mest radical temperance legislation of the session. This was the passage of Representative Norris' anti-treating- bill.

The bill makes it a misdemeanor for any person to treat or offer to treat another persou to an intoxicating drink, or to give or offer to give another person an intoxicating drink in any place where liquor is sold. The bill received the necessary 57 votes, with but seven in opposition, Mr. Fosdick, of theater hat fame, being among the latter. WERE OF NO AVAIL. IngersoU Says Prayers Offered In Bit Behalf Were Not Answered.

Cleveland, April 9. Col. Robert G. IngersoU is in the city for the first time since the Christian Endeavor and Salvation army made him the object of their prayers. CoL IngersoU was surprised to learn that fully 1,500 prayers had been offered for him, and declared that from the effect produced he believed most of them had fallen short from lack of postage.

Col. IngersoU said: The prayers did not, so far as know, do me the least injury or the least good. lam glad to see that the Christians are getting civilized. A few years ago they would have burned me. Now they pray for me.

That is better, and I am very thankful for the change, but I do not believe that a prayer was ever answered. AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. A Texas Maa Kills His Daughter and Bar Lover and Than Meets a Horrible Death. Been ham, April 9. Early this morning, on the depot platform at Millican, a man.

named John Brooks shot and killed his daughter Mollle, and also shot her sweetheart, A. Worrels, just as they were about to board the northbound passenger train for Bryan, where they were going- to be married. After the shooting Brooks went to the rook quarry near Millican and sat down on a box of dynamite, which he exploded and blew himself to atoms. Nothing but his legs and feet wore, found. The Daily State Journal, McKinnoa Jk Canup publishers, has made its an abearance at South McAlester, 1,1, Deplorable Condition of Workwomen In Sweat Shops in Germany.

Washington, April 9. Max Judd, United States consul-general at Vienna says that after 11 years of careful consideration and patient investigation, the German government has been able to accomplish nothing towards the amelioration of the condition of the victims of the sweating system in the great German cities. Berlin is the greatest center for the manufacture of cloaks, no less than being employed in their production, and they are miserably paid. A fair operator earns SI. 44 per week, subject to loss of time through being laid off during the dull seasons.

Beginners are getting no pay, and these people receive no sick benefits, being too poor to contribute to the society funds. The government has vainly sought to do something to carry out the direction of the reichstag to better the condition of these poor women and it is no wonder, the consul says, that many drift into lives of shame. annihilated hy an explosion. Vicious Chinese Soldiers Mntiny and Meet an Awfnl Death. Vancouver, B.

April 9. The steamer Empress of Japan, which has just arrived from the Orient, reports that at Kiang Gin two regiments of Chinese soldiers revolted and, at a signal from their leader, seized the guns of the forts and proceeded to kill all of the officers and a new regiment of soldiers recently arrived. In the midst of the massacre a magazine exploded and all were blown to pieces. Tw battalions must have been wipd out of existence, as not a soldier lived to tell whether the magazine went off by accident or designedly. All withla 100 yards of the magazine were kilifeu ty shells.

Besides an immense quaiftity of shells, 19,000 pounds of powder were stored in the powder room. One company fighting near the building literally disappeared from the face of the earth, not a trace of any of them being found. STATE CONURESS MEETING. Delegates Meet in Topeba to Form a Cooperative Association. ToPEKA, April 9.

About 50 men and women met here to-day to organize a state co-operative congress, the meeting was presided over by Joel Reece, of Pratt county, state lecturer of the Kansas Farmers' alliance. Alonzo Wardell, of Topeka, stated the aim and object of the meeting, after which there were five minute talks, the most interesting by N. O. Nelson, of St Louis, who gave an account of a world's co-operative congress which he attended in London last year. In the afternoon the most interesting incident was the reading of a paper prepared by Prof.

Edward W. Bemis, of Chicago, entitled "Progress of Co-Operation in America" C. S. Uar-tough, of Leavenworth, discussed "Building and Loan Associations." Car Famine In Texas. St.

Louis, April 9. There is just now a very heavy movement of cattle to the Indian territory, larger than for manv years past, and there is a cattle car famine on nearly every road in Texas. The Southern Pacific is send ing out three trains a day from the western division. The car famine will interfere considerably with the spring shipments of cattle to northern markets, which will begin in a few weeks. Nearly Wiped Oat by Fire.

Campbeli.sville, April 9. Every building except on four squares in the central part of the city was destroyed by afireof supposed incendiary origin. The total loss is placed at 38,000. There is 522,000 insurance on the buildings and property involved. Seven Miners are Dead.

Butte, Mont, April 9. Dispatches from Basin are to the effect that the fire in the Hope mine has been extinguished, but that the seven imprisoned miners are dead without doubt, as nothing could be heard from them. SPECIFIC For Scrofula. "Since childhood, I have been afflicted with scrofulous boils arid sores, which caused me terrible suffering. Physicians were unable to help me, and I only grew worse under their care.

At length, 1 began to take AYER'S Sarsaparilla, and very soon grew bet ter. After using half a dozen bottles I was cured. si that I have not had a lil or pimple on any part of my body for the last twelve years. I can cordially recommend Ayer's Sarsaparilla as the very best blood-purifier in existence." G. T.

Rein-hart, Myersville, Texas. SZ 05LY WGULD'S FAIS 'Sarsaparilla flier's Cberrj Pectoral cam Coughs and Colds KING MENELEK OF ABYSSINIA. Who Is now Conducting a Campaign Against the Italian Army in Africa..