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A NOVELIST IN TROUBLE, Judge Albion W. Tourgee'i Wife Ordered to for Contempt of Court, Buffalo, Sort, a Mrs. Emma K. Tonr-gee, wife of ex-Judge Albion W. Tourgee, the novelist, has been committed to jail for contempt of court by Special County Judge Butts, of Chautauqua county, but thus far she has evaded execution of the writ, and the novelist's financial affairs were ventilated here this afternoon in the Supreme Court on a motion to set aside the order.

Mrs. Tourgee had failed to appear before a reforee in Jamestown to answer as to the financial relations existing between her husband and herself. The suit in which she was ordered to testify was brought by Ezekiel Fleming to recover claimed to be owed him, in which a judgment was obtained and remained unsatisfied. Mr. Tourgee was several times examined on "sups'1 before a roferee as to bis property, but the prosecutors failed to discover any available funds.

They charge that Mr. Tourgee has been in the habit of turning all his money over to his wife, including receipts for the sale of his books. "Bricks Without Straw." A Fool's Errand," and other literary work, besides the receipts from his lectures and magazine articles, receipts from the latter of which, they charge, aggregate at least $.0 a week. Mrs. Tourgee swears in the opposing affidavits that she has bad none of hu husband' money since I860, and that too was not regularly subpoenaed to appear before the referee.

Her attorney, Adelbert Moot, also set forth a claim that Jndgo Butts did not have jurisdiction on the case. Mrs. Tourgee expressed a willingness to pav the expense of an examination at Mayville. Opposing counsel said that an excuse that Judga Tourgeo was sick was made af a time when ho was able to travel to New York and deliver a lecture there. The decision was reserved.

Searching for 1 11. Fa ted Miners. Scottdale, Sept. 3. Considerable progress was made to-day in the work of entering the ill-fated Hill Farm mine at Dunbar, Pa.

Inspector Keighlev, mine boss Doran and superintendents Hill and Lang, the exploring party, have got in a distance of two or three thousand feet, and have, met with but little trouble so far. The immense fan which is in operation tends to subdue the Haines, but whether tho tire has been entirely extinguished is not yot known. The party will make a thorough investigation, and if there ia any way by which the place where the twenty-iiino miners met their deaths can be reached, a largo gang of workmen will be set to work. Excitement is still very high. Suicide from Fear of Becoming a Drunkard.

Baltimork, Sept. 3. Wm. M. Butts, of the firm of iintts Robinson, publishers of the Protector, tho official organ of the united workmen for the jurisdiction of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware aud New Jersey, c'ied to-day from the etlects of morphias, which he took last night to kill himself.

Mr. Butts said to the physicians this morning that he took the drug owing to hi fcr that he might eventually become a confirmed drunkard, a he was in the Jhabit of frequently drinking to excess. .50 Inri IT cooler. POPULATION AND HATS. BEN And everything in Surgical Instruments and Appliances.

WM. II. ARMSTRONG' A Surgical Instrument House, U2 boutn Iilinola at. iiRS. WHITEHEAD DISCHARGED.

The State Preferred to Let Her Go Rather than Expose Its Evidence Against Pettit Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette. Sept. 3. The celebrated murder case of Mrs.

Elma C. Whitehead, who was jointly indicted with Rev. William F. Pettit, for poisoning the tatter's wife, came up in the Circuit Court this forenoon. The witnesses, nearly a hundred in number, and as many more jurors and talesmen, were in attendance, when the State hied the following: Comes now George p.

Haywood, prosecuting attorney in and for the Twenty-third judicial circuit of the Btatc cf Indiana, and moves the court to enter a nolle prosequi in tho causo of the State of Indiana vs. Elma Whitehead, as to tho defendant Klina C. Whitehead, for tho reason that there Is not sufficient evidence now attainable to secure a conviction In said cause, as he believes, owing to the inability of witnesses who reside out of the State to attend the court at this time of trial, to the absenco from the State of witnesses whose permanent residence is in the State, and who cannot now be reached by subpoenas, nor could have been reached by subpoenas for the last several weeks, and the time of whoso return to this State ia unknown to said Srosecutor, end the inability of the officers serv-lg subtxenas to llbd some witnesses whose present residence is unknown. The testimony of said absent witnesses being important, and, in the opinion of said prosecutor, necessary to secure conviction in said cause, it is therefore deemed, by him, useless to proceed to trial in the absence of such testimony. Geo.

P. Haywood, Prosecuting Attorney. The attorneys for Mrs. Whitehead announced that they were ready for trial, and that the defendant demanded a trial, as she had been doing every term of court since November last. Judge Rabb, of Warren county, who had been called to try the case, said it was presumed the State's attorney was acting in good faith, and as he stated that he had not sumcient evidence Attainable to cause a conviction, the conrt ould dismiss the case from the docket.

The defense demanded that the record ehonld show that Mrs. Whitehead was ready for trial, and the court said he would make such entry. At the outset of these cases the State announced that it would eleot to try Pettit first, and for six or seven months the legal battle has been to determine which one of the defendants should be first tried. Pettit took a change of venne, and thus went from the jurisdiction of this court. His case was set at Crawfordsville for Oct, 8, and it will now come off first Mrs.

Whitehead can be reindicted, if the State sees proper, later on. Pettit Only Smiled. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Crawfordsville, Sept 3. When Mr.

Pettit was informed of the fact of the case against Mrs. Whitehead being dismissed he made no remark, but smiled. DEADLY BOLT. FROM A CLEAR SKI. Peter Peterson Instantly Killed bj Lightning While Standing on a Straw-Stack.

Doland, 8. Sept. a Last night, at 5 o'clock, at Riggs'a farm, sixteen miles south of Doland, while on the 6traw-stack at the threshing-machine, Peter Peterson was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning from an a lniost clear sky. The stack was about fifteen feet high. As the bolt struck the stack flame ascended six feet and left a hole from the top to the bottom of the stack the size of a barrel, with sides as smooth as a wall.

Peterson was found dead on the stack with his clothing all torn off. The deadly fluid apparently struck the top and back of his head, tore the hair and skin from his head, ran down his body, tore oil tho skin and left the body bleeding all ovor, with several holes torn out of the flesh. His clothing was ripped off and lay by his side, burning. Stranger still, the straw-stack apparently did not burn. Long Absent Father Heard From.

Lowell, Sept 3. William S. Davis recently received a letter from California, containing the information that his father, who left his mother and little children at Pittslield, in was living, but very ill, at Oakland, Cal. It was signed Unknown Friend," who proved to be the postmaster. William Davis, the father, who is now eighty years of age, left bis home with the gold-seekers of 1849, telling his wife that he would return rich.

She heard nothing of him attorward. About twenty-fivy years ago she heard he was killed by Indians, and then she married a man named Plummer. with whom she still lives at Pittslield. The father is anxious to see some of his friends from the East Colored Woman Murdered and Darned. Liberty, Sept.

3. At a farm-house four miles west of Kearney, on Monday, Elvira Owensb3', a colored womau seventy years of age, was murdered by some unknown person, two bullets being lired through the head. The body was dragged to a brush thicket about a hundred yards from the houso, and her clothes set on tire to cover up the trace of the crime. The aged woman was left at home alone, while the family of Jhn Gritliu. with whom 6he was living, camo to this city.

Lewis Griffin, tho son of the farmer, is suspected of having committed the crimo, and is under arrest. Burglars Overlook a Casket Worth 8G0.000. Boston, 8ept. a The dwelling of Charles Van Brunt, tho grandson of Commander Van Brunt, on Brush Hill, Milton, was entered by burglars Mouday night They carried oil' a quantity of clothing, and a number of watches and diamonds. The stolen property is valued at Si.000.

In a drawer of a bureau was a casket containing tho family diamonds and heirlooms. These the burglars overlooked. They aro valued at $00,000. supporters; SENATE REBUKED SAVAGELY Its Action on the Federal Election Bill Denounced Congressman Kennedy. Great Display of Invective in Which the Speaker's Views on Senatorial Courtesy and Other Hatter Were Plainly Shown.

Debate in tlie Ilouse on tho Clayton-Breckinridge Contested Election Case. How the Bankruptcy Bill Has Been Changed- in the Senate Congress Not Likely to Adjourn Before the 1st cf October. SENATORS DENOUNCED. Rebuked by Congressman Kennedy for Their Course on the Election IS11L Washington, Sept. a During consideration of the Clayton-Breckinridgo contested election case in the House, to-day, Mr.

Kennedy of Ohio made a remarkable bpeech. He first drew from details of the case the conclusion that a federal election law should be enacted, and then he reflected severely upon the Senators who have been opposed to the Lodge bill. For himself, confident in the doctrines of tho Republican party, aud fully committed to the principles of that party, he must forever dissent from the cowardly surrender which hauls down tho flag and strikes the colors of tho Republican party to a defeated foo. Continuing, he said: "Speaking for myself, I shall nail the banner of the Republican party to the masthead, with doctrine which has become inseparable from tho. history of its existence, and which demands the protection of tho humblest citizen in the right to an honest ballot and the protection of life and property, and stand ready to defend that doctrine to the last That the election bill has been killed by Republicans, or pretended Republicans, is true.

Without fair treatment, the bill, which the House of Representatives said was imperatively demanded for the preservation of its own honor, and for its safety and stability, and for the protection of the whole country against outrage, and intimidation, and violence, is deliberately put aside without hearing and without opportunity of consideration. When before in all tho past history of legislation has one house of Congress deliberately put upon the other the mark of derision and con-temptf The consideration of this matter was demanded by every sense of decency and honor. It was demanded by the House of Representatives that its floor might be Surged of those who aro enabled to enter reasons of violence and murder. "The Senate of the United States -will learn that there is a bar of public opinion, and that at that bar is now being tried. To have been a Senator in the days of Webster, and Clay, and Calhoun was to have been part of a body that won and had tho admiration of the people, North aud South.

To have been a Senatorin the days of Wade, and Fessenden, and Crittenden was to have been associated with men whose sense of honor would have scorned the purchase of a seat, and would have denied companionship to one whose name was tarnished over by even a mispie1ori'of infamy 4 or corruption. If the Roman toga had been bedraggled in the filth and the mire of the centuries surely the cloak of senatorial courtesy has been used to hido the infamy and corruption which has dishonored and disgraced a body which was once proudest in tho land. The cloak of 'senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a by-word in the mouths of all honest citizens of tho land. It makes a cloak behind which ignorant and arrogant wealth can purchase its way to power and then hide its cowardly head behind the shameless protection of 'senatorial silence.7 It means a cloak which shall cover up from the publio gaze of an outraged people the infamies which demand investigation and which merit the punishment of broken laws and violated statutes. It means a cloak behind which petty party bickerings may barter away a party's principles and play the demagogue in the face of the people.

It means a cloak behind which pretended fairness hides its dishonest head, while in secret it is trading and trafficking in the rights and liberties of the people. It means a cloak under which not only the timid but cowardly politician can cover ud his tracks, and be either foul or fair as the necessity demauds. The hour for senatorial courtesy has passed. The ox team of senatorial progress must give way to the motor of a more enlightened, and progressive, and determined age. Let the old and threadbare cloak of senatorial courtesy be hung up with the sickle and the flail of a bygone day." MODERN JUDAS ISCARIOTS.

Referring to the betrayal of Christ by Judas, Mr. Kennedy said: "It was meet and fitting that Judas should be paid the SO pieces of silver; it was still a part of the eternal fitness of things that, having been guilty of the basest crime of all tho centuries, he should go out and hang himself. History is repeatingitself. The great party of tho Republic, having lived for thirty-live years, has never yet assisted in riveting the shackles on a human being, and now, when it was to be expected that it would redeem its pledges and be faithful to its history, it is about to provo false and its repeated promises are not to be redeemed. It comes victorious from every Held, and if it falls now it finds in its own party those who are faithless to the trust reposed in them.

If it is to be crucified, it is only because its chosen leaders have bartered away its principles for the tricks and petty schemes of politicians. The Judas Iscariotof two thousand years ago is to find a counterpart in the Judaslscariot of to-day. Tho Judas who took the thirty pieces of silver and went and banged himself, has left an example for tho Mat Quays that is well worthy of their imitation. "Some time since I stood in my placo on this floor and denounced a Senator lrom my native Stato because, when charged with corruption and branded with infamy, he did not arise' in his seat and demand an investigation and inquiry that should establish tho purity of his actions aud his personal honor. One other occupying high place in tho counsels of tho party to which 1 belong has suffered himself, month in and month out, to be charged with crimes and misdemeanors, for which, if guilty, he should have been condemned under the laws of his State, and have had meted out to him the fullest measure of punishment This man is a Republican.

Shall I now remain silent? Is it just and honest to remain in my seat silent because onewho is accused of crimes aud refuses to seek for vindication is a Republican, and that Republican the recognized leader of my partyf Neither decency nor honor would permit me to do so. I do not know whether the charges made against tho chairman of the national Republican committee are true or false, but I do know that they have been made by journals of character and standing again aud again, and I know that, in tho face of these charjes. Mat Quay has remained silent and has neither sought nor attempted to seek op portunity to vindicate himself from them. 1 do know, as a great Republican leader, ho owed it to the great party at whose head he was, either to brand them as infamies or to provo their falsity, or he owed it to that party to stand asido from its leadership, lie has not done either, and this I denounce him. The Republican Earty cannot afford to follow the lead of a randed criminal.

He has failed to justify himself, and though opportunity and ample time havebeen given hira be remains silent His sileuce, under such circumstances, is the confession of guilt. An honorable man doc not long dally when his honor is as sailed. He has delayed too long to justify the belief in his innocence; and he stands a convicted criminal before the bar of publio opinion. Under such circumstances he should be driven from the head of a party wnose very life his presence imperils. The Republican party has done enough for its protended leader.

Let him be relegated to the rear. It is no longer a question of his vindication; it is now a question of the lifo of the party itself." ssas THE BRECKINRIDGE CASE. Remarks of Messrs. Bergen and Crisp for and Against the Sitting Member, Washington, Sept 8. Consideration of the Clayton-Breckinridgo caso was resumed in the House to-day.

Mr. Bergen of Ncvr Jersey argued in favor of the unseating of Breckinridge. After depicting the assassination of Clayton, he criticised Breckinridge for not resigning his seat and thereby disowning the advantage he had gained from murder. He had not done so, but had stood by those who had stood by him at the death. Was Mr.

Breokinridge a party to the conspiracy which ended in tho tragedy! He trusted not He was almost ready to say that he believed not Ho would feel very sad to make any statement on tbla floor that would be as terrible as that it had been in Breckinridge's power to save the life of Clayton. Had he done it! It was said he had. He Bergen trusted that he had, but the gentlemen evaded saying ro. Mr. Crisp of Georgia eaid the whole majority report was founded upon "suspicion," aud not upon "proof." He quoted, as the "milk in the cocoanut," the following extract: "The necessity for tho enactment of some laws which will prevent ballot-box stealing and murder from conferring a prima facie title to a seat in Congress is evident from the result in this contest-Had such laws been in force as would have prevented the contestee from takinghisseat with such a title no one would nave attempted to confer such title by stealing the There had been one ballot-box stolen, but, giving to Clayton every voto contained therein, there would have been no change in the prima facie case.

The certificate had been given to Breckinridge long before the sad assassination of Clayton. Whether Clayton were dead or alivo would not have interfered with the organization of the House. The certificate had been issued by the lawful authorities before the death of Clayton, and if that gentleman had liyed he would have been here simply as a contestant. Mr. Crisp gave notice that he would at the proper time move to recommit the pending resolutions with instructions to the committee on elections to ascertain whether Mr.

Breckinridgo on Mr. Clayton received a majority of the votes cast in the eleotion. Mr. Lacey of Iowa replied to Mr. Crisp and criticised the minority report.

Mr. Onthwaite of Ohio argued in support of the sitting member retaining his seat, and Mr. Kelley of Kansas spoke in favor of tbo majority report After Mr. Kennedy of Ohio had delivered a speech, in denunciation of the course of the Senate on the election bill, a synopsis of which is printed elsewhere, the Breckinridge caso went over and the House adjourned. I THE BANKRUPTCY RILL.

Sir. Hoar Itecltes the Amendments Proposed by the Senate Committee. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Sept 3. Senator Hoar, chairman of the sub-committee that had under consideration the Torrey bankruptcy bill, reported to the Senate a day or two ago, said to your correspondent that tho bill had been reported with a substitute, merely for convenience and expedition in considering it in tho Senate.

"The committee, he said, "substituted one section for the two on appeals in the House bilL A new section was inserted providing for the transfer of cases from one district- court to another under very careful restrictions. The section on liens was amplified, and the provision as to the payment of wages to workmen as a preference was amended go that the limitation as to amount was omitted. Wages for six months preceding bankruptcy are to be paid in full, irrespective of the amounts. There are other amendments of more or less importance, bnt most of them are only verbal. Tho bill is shorter, and, on the whole, is a better act than the Lowell bill, as passed by the Senate.

The question of when the Senate will consider the bill is in doubt. We will secure a hearing as soon as possible." ADJOURNMENT TALK. No likelihood That Congress Will Close Before the First Week in October. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Sept 3.

Several Eastern paperi have contained predictions within the past few days to the effect that adjournment of Congress will be reached by the latter part of this month. One of them to-day said that a conference of leaders had been held at which it was decided that the session could be brought to a closo by the 18th or 20th of September. Such a conference may hae been held, bnt the leaders who lead are of opinion as expressed to your correspondent to-day that adjournment is scarcely possible before the 1st of October, and probably not until the 5th. In tho first placo, although there is a nominal agreement to begin voting on tho amendments to the tariff' bill on the 8th, aud indulge in six hours' debate before taking the finalvote, the Democrats expect that the time for debate will bo extended. "In fact," said one of them to-day, "tho understanding was that the time should bo extended if necessary.

The legislative features of the bill have not been touched, and cannot be under the present arrangement. The bill will not get to the House before tho 15th of September, in my opinion. Then there are many rough edges between the two houses to be smoothed out that will require some days to accomplish, so that with the best that can be done 1 cannot to-day see any possibility of adjournment before the 1st of October." GRIEVANCES OP MR. COWLES. He Will Prosecnte His Assailant, and Wants 200,000 from the Bale Family.

Montreal, Sept a Eugene H. Cowles, who arrived here last spring, followed by his wife and brother-in-law, C. C. Hale, and was shot by the latter, is again in this city, preparatory to tho opening of the trial of Hale on a charge of attempted murder, which will begin on Thursday next. Cowles is not now as inclined to let Hale go free as he was whin he voluntarily surrendered his child.

He claims that his wife agreed, when she received the child, to remain in Montreal until he recovered, bnt, under pressure from her father, immediately broke that promise and left tho city. Upon his recovery Cowles attempted to reopen correspondence with his wife, but without success, all his letters being referred to her legal advisors. Thus failing in his object, he determined to turn the tables upon Mrs. Cowles and her family, and at once entered action against his father-in-law, Hale, and his brother-in-law, Willis Hale, claiming damages of 8100,000 from each for conspiracy to break up his family, ruin his reputation and cause his death. He has been asked to refrain from prosecuting C.

C. Hale, his assailant, bnt, as he puts it, he ICowles must proceed with the caso as a vindication of his character and a refutation of the charges brought against him. He believes himself to be tho real person on trial in the as upon it will depend the truth of tho charges brought against him at the time of the shooting. Mrs. Cowles and her friends charged him with infidelity, failure to support ber and her child, and various other direliction of duty.

These Cowles answers by letters from Messrs. Hale, sonior and junior, written prior to the 1st of January last, afte; which time he did not see his wife until tho day of the shooting, but ho regards the statement of his mother, Mrs. i. cowles, widow of the lato editor of the Cleveland Leader, as sufficiently answering these assertions. The statement donies that hois dissipated, a violent man, or that his character was such as to render it impossible to live with him.

He affirms that his wife refused to live with him: that she never visited him in his various illnesses; that she formed an intimacy with a Miss Rathburn, which was a matter of creat concern to her Vfamily. Ho justifies his abduction of the child on tho grounds of ill faith on the part of his wife. Cowles also produces a letter from his sister, Mrs. C. Chase, denying reports that appeared in a New York newspaper of June 4.

alleging that her brother had clone her violence. He says he is armed with all documents necessary for the prosecution of his suits, and has also a statement which, if neoessarv, he will serve upon his wife, making her defendant in a suit for divorce. Cowles looks none the worse for his shooting, but a further operation will have to be performed to remove a piece of decaying bone. SINGLE-TAX TBE0EI8TS, Their Yiewa Expressed in a Platform Digcus-ison on Women George and McGlynn. New York, Sept S.

The single-tax delegates were promptly on hand at 10 o'clock in Cooper Union. A discussion took place as to whether women should ho elected honorary members. William Lloyd Garrison, of Boston, thought no discrimination should be made, that women should he admitted just the same as men, without any discrimination. Some of the delegates held that it was impossiblo to admit them on the same grounds. The discussion was rather irregular.

Henry George then read the platform which had been prepared. The main points were that all men were created alike, with certain inalienable rights. No one shall bo permitted to hold property without a fair return. There shall be no tax on products of labor, and all revenues for national. State and municipal purposes shall he raised by a single tax upon land values, irrespective of improvements.

The platform was loudly applauded. After the conference Chairman Louis F. Post made a statement to the reporters which indicated that the feeling between Henry George and Dr. McGlynn is not cordial as was supposed by the delegates on Tuesday night when they applauded Dr. McGlynn' appearance at the meeting.

He eaid: "A delegate from Ohio, whose name I don't wish to give, informed me on Monday, as chairman of the conference, that Dr. Houghton, who. is manager of Dr. Mo-Glynn's lecturing arrangements, told him that he Dr. Houghton, with Dr.

McGlynn and a few more of his friends, would come iuto the convention in a body. The intimation was clear that they wished to stampede the meeting. TOPICS OP BANKERS. Questions Discussed at the Annual Convention of the National Association. Saratoga, N.

Y. Sept. S. The annual convention of tho American Bankers' Association began shortly before noon in the Town Hall auditorium. A large number of the representative financial men of the United States are present After the opening exercises the president, Charles Parsons, president of the State Bank of St.

Louis, delivered his annual address. He treated of all the financial questions of importance, particularly of the silver On-this latter question ho Argued that as Congress had already passed a law lor its solution that law should be given a chance to show how it worked. Agitating the question at present would only result in harm to the country. The reports of committees and the annual reports of the treasurer and tho secretary were then read, and showed a flourishing condition of atiairs. Prof.

Edmund J. James, Ph. director of public finances and administration at the University of Pennsylvania, was introduced, and read a paper on "Schools of Finance and Economy." It. M. Nelson, of Selma, introduced the subject of banking in the South.

He showed the relations to the general subject of State and national taxation, savings banks, national and State banking reserve funds, trust companies, farm mortgages and trusts, and how and when the scarcity of currency is felt. William E. Breeze, of Asheville, N. also spoke on the subject. An adjournment was taken after the appointment of a nominating committee.

ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHER Banged to a Bridge and Bis Body Riddled with Bullets Sear Poplar Bluffs, Mo. Poplar Bluffs, Sept S. An altercation, yesterdoy, between Mr. Albright, proprietor of the Gi fiord House, and Thos. Smith, a negro, ended in Smith throwing a rock at Albright and his skull was fractured.

This morning Smith's body was found hanging to the bridge across Black river, riddled with bullets. After the trouble of yesterday. Smith was arrested and placed in jail. At half after 1 o'clock this morning a masked mob broke down the outer door of the jail, battered the steel door to the prisoners cage, and. in spito of the man's plea for mercy, took him across the river aud lynched him.

The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by strangulation at tho hands of unknown parties. Mr. Albright's condition is very critical, and he will probably die. Refused to Enforce Trust Contract St. Louis.

Sept. 5. United States Judge Thayer passed upon an important caso in chambers. The American Preserves Company, tho successor of the American Preservers' Trust, is trying to discipline the Taylor Manufacturing Company of this city. The Taylor company is alleged to be making preserves, jellies, fruit-butters, in violation of an agreement of co-operation with the trust, aud the latter has sued for an injunction in the United States Circuit Court.

Several weeks ago an application was made to Judge Thayer while he was on his vacation in Jamestown, N. by C. H. Crum. of this city, and Leo Weil, of Pittsburg, the promoter of the trust, for a temporary injunction.

The Judge overruled the motion, and the temporary injunction is refused. The case is extraordinary, being the flrst case in which a trust has sought to compel its members to live up to an agreement by appealing to the courts. The Judge decided against the trust, refusing to enforce a contract made by it a Drank Poison at Her Husband's Grave. Kansas City, Sept 3. Late this afternoon the sexton of Elmwood Cemetery discovered the body of an aged woman writhing in agony upon the grave of the late John S.

Brown. An empty two-ounce phial labeled "laudanum" was found by her side. The woman was the widow of John S. Brown, and she had attempted to commit suicide over the grave of her dead husband. Sho poor and despondent, and dreadod spending her last days in the poor-house.

Sue was taken to the City Hospital, where the physicians say she recover. Two similar cases of suicide havo occurred in this same cemetery, one that of police Captain Ditsch and the other that of Mrs. John Murphy. Ban a Mile with Ills Throat Cat St, Charles. Sept.

3. Early yesterday morning, in "Africa," a suburb of this place, during a dance, a dispute arose about the entrance fee, when Ed Garnett whipped out a razor and slashed Dick Mosby aud Levi Craig across the throats. Craig followed his opponent ten blocks to Fifth street, when he fell, and died in a pool of blood, having gone the entire distance with his throat cut from ear to ear. Mosby is also likely to die. Several other negroes bear long gashes about the face.

Garnett is in jail. DEMOCRATS AND THE SURPLUS Speaker Keed Points Out the Inconsistency of Bourbon Acts and Claims, Not a Dollar of the Public Finances Appropri ated by Republicans Without Its Necessity BeiDff Made Plainly Apparent. Review of the Great Work Accomplished in tho Ilouse of Representatives. Repnhlican League Clubs to Meet in Cincinnati Next April State Conventions in Kansas and Texas New Party, SrEECn BY SPEAKER REED, Work of Congress Briefly Ileviewed, with Few Sharp Tbrusts at Democracy. Boston, Sept 3.

Speaker Thomas B. Heed, of the national House of Kepresent-atives, who is on his way to Maine to participate in the political campaign in that State, addressed a large audience to-night at Fanouil Halh Hon. Jonathan A. Lane, president of tho Boston Merchants' Association, presided. Mr.

Keed said: "All progress is over the ruins of old institutions. Men are intrenched behind the use and wont of their lives, and fight des- Eerately against any one who carries the reastworks, and if you look at some of the newspaper headlines you will fee what tho feelings were of some gentlemen. whose in-trenchinents were being carried. It is amazing to notice the history of the House of Kepreseutatives aud of Congress, to see how, in detail, is carried out this priucipie that when things are to be dono the Ko-publican party does them. "The great struggle which has been made by the Democratic House of KepreRenta-tives for years has been not to be economical in the expenditure of the government, but to cut down the sum total of appropriations.

They have been striving in every way to pile up the surplus, not merely by taxation, but by parsimony in their action in the expenditures of money. So long as they conld point to the clogging of business, which results from the storing of money in the treasury, they seemed to be happy, but now they aro busily engaged in showing that the surplus has disappeared. They are unable to be contented, either with a surplus or without one. There is no doubt bnt what the expenditures of tho government are about to approach its receipts, but any man would make a mistake if he believed that it was in any way a result of extravagance or carelessness with tho publio money; that a dollar has been appropriated by either house which does not carry upon it the stamp cf the necessities of the government; and nobody who does not carefully consider this matter can over realize the righteous action of the Republican party in both House andSenate.aud how much it has cost them to bo economical in a- true and proper sense. There has teen advertisement broadcast of this surplus, and every human need and want has been set together to try to get money out of the treasury for other than public purposes, but not one of these schemes has been successful.

All tho expenditures have been legitimate, just and proper. We shall expend nearly our income. We shall also reduce taxation to the extent of $50,000,000 in addition thereto. "One great element of expenditure is pension legislation, which is not understood in New England, and the character of it is not fully appreciated. With us the soldier is comparatively content with what he has received and with what is promised him in the near future But in the West there exists a diflerent feeling.

These stories about a vast surplus have set men wild with the idea of a service pension which would bring emolument to every man in the service. We have had to meet not merely tho contention of those who are parsimonious, and not willing to do what was fair to the soldier, but those who wished to do such things as, with the present revenues of tho government, are impossible without bankruptcy and ruin. It is with those that the Republican party grapples with tho question, and solves it with that measure of justice which is satisfactory to the whole people of tho country. So have we met all such questions. We have given to the Postoilice Department its due meed of increase.

Wherever the necessities of tho government require any addition we propose to givo it to the people. Such is the maguiticent growth of the country wc can do this safely. We have met all questions in this spirit. Heie was that question of currency, with widely uiverso ideas. On the Pacific coast and in tho silver States there was a wild demand that the mints should bo open to the freo coinage of all the silver in the world.

On the other hand there was a reasonable fear on tho part of men living in other parts of the country lest we should do something which in some way would drive gold out of tho country and cause monometallihin on a lower plane. The result has been, very much owing to the good action of a member of Congress from the State of Massachusetts, that righteous judgment has been reached wbich seems to be sending silver safely to par, to the great advantagoof thiscountrr. The loss of bank circulation will be made up. and the circulation of the couutry be adapted to its vast and growing needs. This population grows at the rate of two and a half millions in a year, and ita circulation increases in a still greater ratio.

"I did not come here to outline the policy of the Republican party, but stopped merely to greet you and give you tho thanks of the Republican party for the help which Massachusetts has given to tho party during the past year." Hon. II. C. Lodge spoke briefly after Mr. Reed closed.

LEAGUE OF KEPUIJLICAN CLUUS. Their Next National Convention to Be Held at Cincinnati, April 21. Saratoga, Sept 3. Tho executive committee of the National League of Republican Clubs met this morning in secret session. The subcommittee met just before aud adjourned until to-morrow without doing auy business.

Most of the business doneby-4ho executive committee was of a nature not revealed, but they flxed the dato of the next National League convention for April 21, next, at Cincinnati. The president, Jndgo Thurston; i Secretary Humphrey, of New York, and Horace Deal, of Ohio, were appointed a special committee to co-operato with the Ohio Republican League and the clubs of Cincinnati in arranging all the details of tho convention. The executive committee has received very cordial invitations from the Republican clubs of Cincinnati, and they are making special efforts already to make it the greatest convention of its kind ever held. The plan adopted last year for the representation in the national convention at Nashville will be the one also in vogue for the next convention, namely, two delegates at largo from each State and two from each congressional district containing Republican league clubs. Tho vice-president and tho executive member of the national league from each State, and tho president and secretary of each State league are also delegates to the national convention.

The members of tho executive committee all report that their States will send full delegations to Cincinnati. OTHER POLlTICAL NEV.S. Candidates for State dices Nominated by Kansas Republicans. Topkka, Sept a The Republicaa State convention met here to-day tc put a full State ticket in the field. The convention is a remarkable one.

in that it composed of the largest number of delegates ever before assembled at k-political convention in tho State.