Columbus Courier du lieu suivant : Columbus, Kansas • 6

PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A WEDDING MARRED. Oil has been discovered a Park Hill, Ontario. The 200 Eastern cigarmakers who are to take the places of Chinaman have arrived at San Francisco. i The Canadian Parliament has been pro She (CoIumljHis onmx 11 Every Thur columbus Kansas.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. rogued until February 13th. Captain Gerroci of the schooner Racer is under arrest at Boston, charged with scuttling the vessel. The penalty is death.

The Brtds-to-Be a Presbjtertaallfarsoa Asphysclated by Gas on the Eve of tbm Proposed XapUals, and HerUfe lUnf Ing in the New York an uary 4 The Rev. Andrew Grey, pastor of the illllertor (N. Y0 Presbyterian Church, arrived in New York Thursday, expecting to meet affianced bride, Miss Rachel A. Nicholson, of Fox Harbor, Nova to whom he was to be married immediately upon her arrival. The plan was-to spend a few days in the city 'and return to Millcrton Tuesday Fate ordained otherwise, however.

Mis Nicholson is to-day lyinr between llfe-and death in the New York Hosnltai An old man named alien and his wife, of Perth, Ontario, were burned to death in their dwelling on the 2d. A large number of persons in the vicin ity of Spring Grove, are said to be afflicted with leprosy. The Newark (N. children who were treated in Paris by M. Pasteur, sailed, for home on the 2d.

An old scheme has been revived in France to connect Marseilles with the River Rhone by a canal. Oliver Doud Byron was convicted at Kahi. Cowpsr claims tliat rent, and not home rule, is the overshadowing Irish question. Treasurer Jordan took charge of the sub-treasury at New York on the 2d, against the protest of Mr. Acton.

President Grevy has accepted the resignation of Premier Brisson and has summoned M. de Freycinet to form a Cabinet. A German family of five' persons living near Pittsburgh, are suffering from trichinosis from eating uncooked salt pork. The Irish Nationalists in the British Parliament are said to be solid for Gladstone and home rule. There are eighty-six of them.

Cincinnati, on the 2d, of violating the law prohibiting theatrical performances on Sunday. He Was not present to receive sentence. Extraordinary numbers of Jews are going to England from Germany, Russia and Roumania. Daniel Osborn, arrested for forgery, near Columbus, on the 2d, was shot and killed by the Marshal while attempting tc An agreement has been reached between Prince Alexander and Turkey concerning the union of Bulgaria and Eastern fire at the latter. A convention of steel manufacturers will be held at Pittsburgh, on the 7tt to consider the advisability of advancing prices.

Thomas W. Keens, the actor, was stricken with paralysis at Kansas City. on the 3d. The Southern Hotel, NewOrleansburned on the and one unknown lodger lost his life. with slim chances in her favor.

At; the Thirtieth Street Police Station, whither he had gone to explain the case-to Captain Williams, and invoke what aid" it was in the power of the police to give, Mr. Grey told, the reporter his story "Miss Nicholson is twenty-six he said, 4(and, like myself, a native of Nova Scotia. We have known each other for four or five years, and were en-gaged to be married. I came here to wait for her on Thursday, and yesterday Miss Nicholson arrived by the New York express: from Boston, according to arrangement. She was very tired, and I took her ovcr-to the Hotel Abbotsford, where I had remained myself the previous night.

She was to rest there until to-day, when we intended to get probably by Cuyler. My room was the only large one vacant in the hotel, and I gave it opto her, taking om on the lower floor myself. We chatted together and we re-happy until eleven o'clock, when she retired. had promised to-call her at nine o'clock this morning. She-did not answer when I knocked, and I became alarmed and called the clerk.

We opened the transom and found the room full of gas. Then we burst open the door-Miss Nicholson was lying in her senseless. She had. been smothered in her sleep. One of the burners was probably turned on.

I did not notice in my distress and bewilderment, but I suppose she either blew out the gas or accidentally turned it partly on again after having turned it off. We called doctors, and by their advice she was at once removed to the New York hospital in an ambulance, and everything is now being done to save-her life. Miss Nicholson is the daughter of a farmer at Fox. Harbor. Both her parents arc dead." The Uev.

Mr. Grey was exceedingly The funeral of the Fenian Buckley at Wreckage from the missing schooner Orphan Boy has drifted ashore at Grand Point Sable Station, and all hope nas been abandoned. The coal miners' convention held at "West Elizabeth, on the 2d decided by a two-thirds vote to return to work at the operators' terms. General Sheridan furnishes a long statement explanatory of the recommendations in his last annual report in regard to the Indian question. President Grevv has received congratulatory dispatches from all the European powers, on his re-election to the Presidency of France.

Silver has declined in value in the London market during the past three months from $1,099 to $1,038 per fine ounce, or a reduction of over six cents. Frederick Foote killed Andrew Brink at Fenton, Mich. railway train, with three engines and a snow-plow, was reported on the 00th imbedded in snow-in The Indiana State chess tournament was won by Dr. Leech, of Waveland. An immense slaughter-house is among the projected industries to be established at Miles City, Montr" The British had a skirmish recently with the rebels in Egypt and came off victorious.

Orangeuex and Catholics are engaged in active hostilities again at Conception Bay, N. F. A strike is threatened of locomotive engineers on the elevated roads at New York. Henry G. Kemper, a small grocer of Cincinnati, was found murdered in his store on the morning of the 30th.

A mulatto was suspected of the crime. The safe of the Ipswich (Mass.) Post-office was blown open the night of the 30th in stamps and some money stolen. This is the sixth time the same safe has been burglarized in eight years Justus Brown, a farmer near Wilson, was burned to death in his house. From reports received on the 30th, it seemed probable that there would be shown a slight increase in the public debt for December. The Ohio Central Railroad, recently sold, will be known hereafter as the Kanawha Ohio.

A collision on the Michigan Central Road on the 3Jth, near Carrollton, killed -one 'man and fatally injured two others, all residents of Jackson, Mich. The Toledo, Cincinnati St. Louis Railroad was sold under foreclosure of mortgage at Indianapolis on tfee 30th, and was bought by Sylvester H. Kneeland, of New York. The body of Alfred Thorn was found in a hay loft at Rocky River, near Cleveland, on the 30th.

Thorn was fifty-one years old and it is thought was from Syracuse. N. Y. Suicide was the manner of death. Contributions are being solited to aid those dependent for support upon the miners entombed in the Nanticoke (Pa.) coal shaft.

M. DeLesseps has been assured that a majority of the French Senate and Chamber of Deputies will vote in favor -of his lottery scheme in aid of the Panama Canal. The total number of hogs packed in the West from November 1st to December 30th was 4,030,000 against for the same time last year. Jahes Elder, Postmaster at Richmond, dropped dead on the 31st. Pasteur has concluded his treatment of the four children from Newark, N.

J. Jaues Kinkade was fatally shot by a burglar at Mahoningtown, on the night of the 31st. The suspension is announced of the First National Bank of Lake City, Minn. A consistory for creating Bishops will be held by the Pope at the end of January, The actual count of Vanderbilt's securities showed an aggregate of "$305,000,000. Kino Leopold of Belgium received Lieutenant Taunt, U.

S. on the 1st, who has been exploring the Congo region. An American Institute of Hydrophobia, on the Pasteur plan, is to be established in New York. T. D.

Sullivan, the new Lord Mayor of Dublin, was installed on the 1st with much ceremony and great 'enthusiasm. Fifteen hundred bales oC cotton were burned in the warehouse of J. S. Stewart Son at Macon, on the 1st. England cedes to China part of Upper Burmah in order to make the Chinese and Indian frontiers contiguous.

Prof. C. C. Georgeson, of Texas, has been appointed Professor in the State College at Tokio, Japan. A religious sect at Palmyra, are on the point of starvation in their belief that they will obtain "power" by fasting.

Efforts will be made to issue a loan of $175,000,000 in London, to provide China with armaments and railways. The proclamation announcing the annexation of Burmah to the British Empire has reached Rangoon. 4 John Terwell threw a hatchet at his Cork, Ireland, on the 3d, was made the occasion for a great political demonstration. Bismarck has withdrawn his oppositiot to the marriage of Prince Alexander ol Bulgaria with the daughter of Crown-Prince Frederick William of Germany. A desperate attempt was made on the 3d to burn the town of Tarentutn, Pa.

In the recent fight with the British near Koshey, in the Soudan, the Arabs lost GOO men. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession of Emperor William to the throne of Prussia was observed quietly at. Berlin on the 3d. Fresh trouble has broken out among tht naval cadets at Annapolis, and a court-martial is probable. Gustave and Herman Knoch have bees arrested at Detroit, charged with the murder of their mother.

Several West Virginia farmers have been swindled recently by accepting worthless checks from itinerant dealers in pay for stock. Frederick Fishel, of New York, whe stole $75,000 from his employers, went tc Canada, was captured, taken back and is now lodged in prison for it. The body of George A. Cooper was found in the woods near Columbus, on the 3d, with the head badly beaten, ona eye and part of the nose gone and several bullet holes in the body. Evan Fox, suspected of the murder, is under arrest.

nervous, ana seemea aazea oy tne snock he had sustained. He is a young man. At the hospital it was said that there was-some hope of Miss Nicholson's recovery. THE SEVENTH DEATH. It is said that Prince Alexander has requested the Czar to allow Russian officers who resigned from the Bulgarian army to resume their commands.

Captain Hooper with the revenue steamer Rush has been ordered from San Francisco to Bearing's Sea to search for the missing whaler Amethyst. The American Pasteur Institute has been incorporated at New York, with the object of introducing Pasteur's system of inoculation for hydrophobia in this country. Two hundred and fifty miners of the Third Pool returned to work, in the mines of Keeting on the 30th at the old rate, after having been out all summer and fall. Lieutenant Jones, of the Fourth United States Artillery, committed suicide at Fort Adams on the 30th, rather than be court-martialed for overstaying his leave of absence. It is now reported that Gladstone has decided to await the production of the Conservative local government measure in relation to Ireland before revealing his own scheme.

KANSAS STATE NEWS A. P. Fuller, of Ottawa, has been commissioned as First Lieutenant of Company First Regiment, Kansas National Guard Frank Shapter has been commissioned Captain in the same regiment; J. Werth-ner, Surgeon with the rank of Major, and H. L.

Wells, Assistant Surgeon, -with the rank of First Lieutenant of the Second Regiment. The following have been commissioned as officers of the Plain ville Guards, Reserve Kansas State Militia: Hiram Keas, Captain; C. C. Thompson, First Lieutenant, and S. B.

White, Second Lieutenant. Among the recent Post-office changes in the State are the following: Name changed Zamora, Hamilton County, to Kendall. Discontinued Hanson, Pottawatomie County; Johnsonville, Jewell County. The Radical Reform Christian Association has been incorporated. The purposes of the association' are to aid in the triumph of Christ's kingdom by abstaining from the use of distilled and fermented liquors.

The chief office of the association is located at Lincoln, Lincoln County, and is organized for State purposes. An effort is being made to effect an organization of ex-Pennsylvania veteran soldiers now residing within the State, and such are requested to communicate with T. F. Dornblaser, Topeka. There will be a meeting of the architects of the State at Topeka on January 25th for tlie purpose of organizing a Kansas State Association of Architects, whose object shall be to work in harmony with the Western Association of Architects, for the purpose of raising the standard, and advancing the interests of the' profession.

Arkansas City will soon have a. good system of water works. At the Catholic fair recently held in Dodge City, $1,500 was netted in two nights. The average wages of coal miners at Burlinganie is $50 per month. Maridn, the county seat of Marion County, wants a reliable nursey man to locate there and start a nursery.

The G. A. R. fair held in Newton, Cowley Countyi recently netted the society about $700. Burlingame has an efficient fire department.

The fire company consists of twenty-one active colored men. The people of Randolph, Riley County, want some one to go there and start a paper. There are 144 teachers actively engage in the district schools of Cowley County. Oronoque, Norton County, is growing very rapidly. It is said that there are seventy-five men at work putting up buildings.

A wolf hunt was indulged in last week by the citizens of Washington, and eighteen wolf scalps were the result of the day's sport. George S. Wheatly, editor of the St. Marys Star, is a lineal descendant of Patrick Henry. His mother is a great granddaughter of that hero.

The farmers in the vicinity of Chanute, Neosho County, have already shipped from that town over 10,000 bushels of apples, and have more than that amount on hand to keep until spring. A telephone line will soon connect Ma-rysville, Marshall County, with Blue Rapids, Waterville, Frankfort, Barrett, Biglow and Irving, all in Marshall County. The cost will be about $3,000. A half rate has been secured on the railroads from Topeka to Denver for those attending the National Teachers' Association next summer. The round trip will cost at thi i rate but $21.

Governor Martin has issued a proclamation appointing Alfred Pratt, a citizen of Hamilton County, to ascertain the number of bona fide inhabitants of said Hamilton County for the purpose of organizing it into a county. Colonel Prouty, one of the old Kansas veterans, has had two printing offices burned within two months, and a movement is on foot among the newspaper men to buy an outfit worth $1,000, and present it to him. Randall, Jewell County, has had are-cent visitor who sold his farm in the East for $800 and expected, to buy an improved farm of 1C0 acres in Jewell County for that sum. He has not yet found the farm. Washington County has organized a coalmining company with a ninety-nine year charter and a capital stock of $20,000.

Their plan is to hire a steam boring machine and bore 1,000 feet deep at three different points in the county. Mri Woolf ord who lives about' four miles northeast of Harper, planted thirty acres' of sod in broom corn last spring. His crop, was shipped in one car to St. was sold for $714.: After paying the freight he realized a clear profit of $655 nearly $22 per acre on his sod. Four years ago a man in Bur den ville, Cowley Countyi took a beef hide to a butcher in that city and asked the price.

He was told the regular price, also the dock for cuts in the hide. The butcher counted up the holes, made the deduction and brought our friend out in debt thirty cents. He hadn't the money just then, but sold some stock and paid the bill, the receipt for which he handles now with much care. Fred Ledger, a young man about eighteen years old, living near Wanneta, Chautauqua County, met with a fearful accid ent while out He had shot some quail in a hedge fence and I was trying to dislodge them with the butt of his gun, when a twig caught the trigger, dis-Charging the gun, and a heavy load of shot struck the young man's leg near the breaking the bones and tearing the flesh and muscles fearfnlly. Lindsborg, McPherson County, is a beautiful city of about 1,050 inhabitants situated in the northern portion of McPher-' son County on the north bank of the great Smoky Hill River, surrounded'by a magnificent farming country, under a high state of cultivation and very.

fertile the farmers are a fine class of men and they are prosperous and happy. The society is excellent and all 'in all the city is a pleas-' ant place to live inV 'V 7 CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The Ill-Fated Knoch Family and the Mo-lent Deaths of Seven of Their Number The Last Victim, Evidently Killed to-Keep Her Mouth Closed A Son Suspected of the Crime. Detroit, January 8. The Knoch murder case has been brought into prominence again by the sudden death of Mrs.

Elizabeth Knoch, the mother of the ill-fated family. She had been sick only a few days, and Thursday sent for the officers for the purpose, it is said of making a statement about the recent case of arson and murder. Before they arrived at her bedside she had relapsed into a comatose condition from which she did not rally. She died Friday. In the opinion of a doctor who had accompanied the officers to her home, Mrs.

Knoch was affected with heart and lung trouble, but there were symptoms of poisoning. A post-mortem, was held yesterday, when, to the surprise of the physicians, it was found that her skull was fractured by a heavy blow, which had left no mark. It was suspected that she and a son, Gustave, had had some connection with the former murder, and the officers had been expecting an ante-mortem' statement from the mother, who has been confined at home with nervous prostration, It is said, ever since she was oh the stand on the inquest on the remains of the late tragedy. This is the seventh suspicious death in this family. The fatiier, Christian, was found dead" in the barn some years ago with cuts in his head, said to have been made by the kick of a horse.

A brother, Ho floor 1 conr-ini rfwl two vpara a rn tha A report is current in London that a number of Mahdist fanatics entered the town of Suakim, and that a number of English were killed or wounded in the fight that followed. Lord Randolph Churchill has submitted to the Cabinet a proposition for the government of Ireland which involves the abolition of the Vice-Royalty and the Castle executive. Ax a banquet 4 given by the Bo3ton Mo3s.) Merchants'. Association on the evening of the 30th, several distinguished' Senators and Representatives were among the invited guests. Baron de Courcel, the French Ambassador at Berlin, and Count Herbert Bismarck, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, have signed a protocol Ing the boundary of the French and German territories in West Africa.

son in Chicago on the 31st, and slightly winter and his body was found in the river the next spring, with marks of violence and a chain about the body from an unused pump on the Knoch homestead, and last month another son, Frank, was killed, with his wife and two babies, and the house burned with the dead bodies in it. Suspicion has turned toward Gustave, and it is now strengthened by the murder of the mother, though as yet no convincing evidence has been discovered. Another brother, is a half-witted fellow, who has been once confined in an insane and an" uncle, Joe, has. "Senator Miller, of California, continues in ill-health at Washington. The Ohio Legislature met at Columbus on the 4th and organized in both houses.

M. De Freycinet has concluded to form a new French Cabinet. Several of the old Ministers will accept portfolios. Fresh cases of pleuro-pneumonia have been discovered on the farm of A. S.

Frye, near Masonville, Pa. Small-pox has broken out at Laredo and other points along the Texas-Mexican border. The British expeditionary force in Burmah has reached Bhamo, 150 miles north of Mandalay. Five prisoners, four of them murderers, escaped from the jail at Charleston, W. on the th by overpowering the guards.

A vigorous protest has been sent to the powers by the Greek Government, against the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Rou-melia. Mrs. Lucht, aged sixty-seven, is suffering from a well-developed case of hydrophobia at Milwaukee, Wis. Work was generally resumed in the river coal mines of Pennsylvania on the 4th at a reduced rate. It is' estimated that the 7,000 strikers have lost $2,000,000 in wages.

It now proves to be the British steamer Shillingham, and not the Anchor Line steamer Sidonian, that was sunk in colli sion recently off the Scilly Islands. Christian Ritter, a furniture dealer at Milwaukee, has been arrested charged by a rival dealer with criminal libel. During a storm at Dawson, Pa.i, on the 4th, a school-house was blown down' ind two children were seriously injured. Thos. W.

Keeke, the actor, who was stricken with paralysis at Kansas City, on the 3d, was, at last accounts, slowly improving. A gang of dhne novel boy-burglars robbed the residence "of Theodore Wolf, Just outside the city limits of Cincinnati, on the night of the 3d. They nearly.scared Mrs. Wolf out of her wits. The injunction restraining the Musical Protective Union of New York from enforcf ing its bylaws so as to expel Theodore Thomas has' been "continued.

Investigation shows that Mrs. Knoch, the Detroit woman, died ot pneumonia, and -that the fracture of the skull was caused by the doctor who made the postmortem. J. W. McCarthy, Clerk of the Supreme Court, at San Francisco, sailed on the steamer St.

Paul on the 2d for Honolulu, without mentioning his intended departure. State Controller Dean, who has been investigatins: his office accounts since Mr. Pendleton, the United States Minister, and Mrs, Pendleton gave their first reception in Berlin on. the evening of the 29th. Among the guests were a large number of American residents, a fact which shows that the American colony there is increasing.

a Ferry's seed, warehouse and White's Grand Opera House, with adjacent structures, in Detroit, burned on the 1st, involving a loss of nearly $2,000000 with nsurance of abou $800000. Captain R. Fel-ban, a fireman, was Crushed to death by a falling wall. been tor years a mild lunatic, though he has never been considered SHE'S A "DAISY. The Dolphin Demonstrates Her Seaworthiness Under Severe Conditions and In the Teeth of a Seventy Mile Gate.

1 Washington, T. January 3. Captain' Meade, commander of the Dolphin, who is in the cityHcalled at the Navy Department yesterday to make a report tc the Secretary of the trial trip of the Dolphin at sea. Nothing official as to the behavior of the vessel is given out, but it- wounded his daughter. Horrified at what he had done he attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.

The presents of many years have been converted by the. Pope into money and presented to the College of the Propaganda. Denning Walsh's agricultural warehouse at Edinburg, burned on the 1st. Bishop Hannington, engaged in missionary services in Central Africa, has been seized by King Mombasa, and will probably be put to death. United States Counsel-General Waller gave a brilliant New Year's re ception at the rooms of; the St.

George's Club at London. A great many notables were among the callers. At Sidney, Jim Reynolds was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the murder of James and John Pink-ston, of Fairville, Salem County, Mo. i It is intimated that the British Government will oppose the revival of the bill for the" construction of a tunnel under the English Channel, between England and France. Fitzhugh Lee was inaugurated oh the 1st as Governor of Virginia with much pomp and ceremony.

Miss Elizabeth B. Van Vent, lost her life in New York on the by her clothing taking fire at an open grate. She was sixty-five years of age. 'f C. Maurer's flouring mill at Tall'-madge, was entirely destroyed'Jby fire at an early hour on the 1st." The loss on the building and machinery is.

$30,000, and on stock $3,000 to $10000 There is an insurance of the building," and among a dozen or morecbrnpanies. i IDurihck" January the. 'cohunissiong of oyqxUqo Presidential Postmasters twQ; -t ir. The Postmaster-General has signed a convention to take effect January 1, 1836, for the exchange of money oders between the United States and the Leeward Islands, comprising the islands of Antigua, St. Neuvis, Dominica, Mon- yis learned she made a remarkably serratc and the Virgin Islands.

good record. The run from Newport to-the Capes was made at an average of fourteen or fifteen knots an hour. From the-Capes the vessel proceeded to Cape -Ilat-teras and there met a gale blowing seventy miles an. She was placed in some very trying positions and many of the Officers and men were made seasick. The sea broke over the vessel continually, but she averaged twelve knots an hour nevertheless.

She arrived at. Fortress Monroe Friday. Many ofilcers report this trip as proving beyond doubt, the seaworthiness of the vessel, but say she is not the kind of a want, and will -never be For her kind, however, fthe is regarded as first-class. 1 Texs supplemental crop report of the Georgia Agricultural Department indicates for the cotton, crop a total yield for the State of 902,000 bales of 450 pounds each. The corn production exceeds an average crop by one pelr cent.

The total -production for the State is about 39,000,000 bushels. The creditors King of Bavaria havounited in a petition for a distraint of the goods and property the royal hold. Prince Leopold, uncle "of the. King, and General-in-chief of the army, has forbidden the bailiffs of the State to take-any actjon to carry out the objects of the cred his finds, a deficit of pver $L2, i -fi 3k--i.