Evening Herald from Fort Scott, Kansas • 1

Tl iALB, VOL. II. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1SS4. NO. 1S3.

her with the implements at hand, and OUR YMSHINCTON SPECIAL. BID ilE GOOD-BY. just as a party started for longer lad ders an explosion, accompanied by a heavy volume of smoke flame, either AUTHOR AFTER BLAINE. they set to work searching the country about Baco. After driving thirty miles tbey found the young man at the house of his father, a respectable farmer in Scarboro.

After close examination he said he went to Saco on Saturday and dranfc a pint of whiskey between 6 7 o'clock in the evening. He then drove toUiddeford. He did blew her from her resting place or so frightened her that she let go her hold and falling a distance of fifty feet, struch the ice covered steps below. the Fort Riley man named Ray, who bid the claim 01 a neighbor named Smith, at the land sales, was shot by Smith, the outraged man, a few days afterwards. The shot was not a fatal one, and Ray is recovering.

Smith, we believe, las not len arrested. I.a$t Saturday right, Gen. Harney and staff arrived. The command came in on Sunday morning. It numbers about 1S0 men.

The officers are Brigadier-General Harney, Jones, A. Lieut. Armstrong, Aid; Lieut. Tidball, A. A.

Q. Switt and Brewer, Surgeons; Lieut. Mull ins, it Dra A Congressman Tells Oar Correspondent a Startling Tale About Arthur's Tactics to Capture iJlaine. Tl 1 xne good-by No sweeter salutatioa Can friendship claim; ror yet can any Lartroae, any nation. A sweeter Iraiae.

It is not final; it forbodet no sorrow, As some declare. Who. born to frettin, are so prone to borrow To-morrow's share. Gcxl-by i but a prayer, a benediction From lip tincere; An 1 breathed by thine it bring a sweet cm vitirtU That God win bear. She was picked up unconscious.

A party of men carried her to the Or not know what occurred until after 10 lished to the people. Send them out, and if any one attempts to corner you, call en me." NOTES. The wife of General Rosecrans, who died Christmas morning, was for a long time a great invalid. The cause of her death was hemorrhage of the brain. Senator Cameron, who is now in Paris, writes that he will not resume his seat in the Senate until spring.

The lawyer, E. C. Ingersoll, who died here last week, was not related to Col. Robert G. Ingersoll.

The holidays in Washington were not very brilliant, the social entertainments being limited and private. W. W. Corcoran, the philanthropist of this city, celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday on the 27th of December with a quiet family gathering. He is yet quite hale and hearty.

phan Asylum, and every attention o'clock, when he found himself lying was paid her, but she is numbered with the dead. A great many are suffering from burns and broken limbs in a door yard on a strange street, with blood flowiDg from wounds in his face and nose. He crawled into his sleigh, standing in the street, and drove in the direction of Saco, as he thought. He Goodby! yes, "Gcd be with you prayer caused by jumping from the burning In wanlest nhrasei Alike cur need and His dear cars confesnnf 111 au our ways. However rare or rcouent ba our meeting However irnrh goons; Capt.

Barry and lieuts. Fry, Batcger, Sullivan and Terry of the artillery. The lami sales on the 3d passed ctf without a iingle jar. Only 14 So acre tracts were disposed of, at prices ranging from $1.25 to $5.50 per acre. The attendance was very large; in fact we believe a larger crowd was never assembled in Fort Scott.

Our worthy mayor kept the saloons closed during the greater part of the day, and thus to a Special the IIeeald.J Washington', January 7. "Do you know, sir, that an event occurred in this city on Christmas day, the facts of which would make a splendid New Year's morsel for the people of the United States The above interrogatory was addressed to mc by a well known Congressman who has a national reputation as the best informed politician in Washington, and the secret mono tone in which the words were uttered Indicated that startling information was in possession of this omnipotent honorable hence, I endeavored to creep into his confidence, and sallied forth with the blandishments of astonishment and curiosity. The last, parting or the endless greetlcr, BiJiuecoodbvl building, but at this late hour it is impossible to ascertain the names or the extent of their injuries. A forge number are missing. Twenty-five or thirty are unaccounted for, among them the Sister Superior, who, when last seen, was in the burning building.

The little daughter of Mr. Heinzel-man, of the prominent carriage firm of Heinzelman missing aud no traces of her can be found. Hu FURIOUS FLAMES! At Pittsburg, Kansas. Special Dispatch to the Evening IIekali. was bewildered, got lost and inquired at a house the way to Saco and the Buxton road.

After being directed he started for home, met a man on Main etreet and repeated the questions, took him Into the sleigh and carried him to Saco. He thru drove home and remained until Friday, being too ill to get out. The young man begged the Marshal not to disclose his name, and under the circumstances the latter declines to make his name public. He had not drank before for five years. The young man is engaged to marry the daughter of one of the most prominent men in York county.

This is believed to be the solution of the mystery. If so. it disproves the fccusation- Pittsburer. January 7. Our city was visited last night with a most mors of all sorts are rife regarding the "Is it possible Was it in the political disastrous conflagration.

At 10:30 o'clock fire, was seen issuing from the number who perished in the flames. Some who are well acquainted with great extant prevented drinking, a fruitful source of rows and riots. The lands were all offered by 12 o'clock and the people went home satisfied that their claims were safe for another year. Gen. Frost's brigade of Missouri militia arrived at the State line, about five miles from this place, last Monday.

The General and his staff came to town to consult with Gen. Harney and Gov. Medary. He expressed his determination to have this question settled permanently lcfore leaving the ccunlry. the buildins and the number and the Blue Front drug store, owned by the Stryker Bros.

The flames quickly disposition of the inmates place it as licked up the entire building and con high as fifteen or twenty. The truth can only be learned to tents, including the stock and tools of On Wednesday he moved his command up al story by Dr. (iratton, as well a9 the many rumors and theories. Who the man's assailants were will probably never bo known. the line to a point opposite Mound City.

morrow when the ruio3 are searched. The convent building proper was put up in 1850. The two wings were added in '67. It was a substantial brick building, five stories high, a frontage of 150 feet and depth of 75. Loss on building and furnishing is estimated at from $100,000 to $12 which is but partially insured.

In his anxiety to visit the seat of war.Ward Burhngime, ot the Iavenworth IfrraU, George W. Killam, jeweler, who occupied the same buildiugl Reaching out in its fury it enveloped the building occupied by Joe York, barber, hurrying on to Orville Hughes' drug store, then another barber shop, the flames being stayed by a two-story brick block which escaped the fury of the flames, thereby preventing the destruction of the entire town. The wind blew a gale, and the cold was intense. Our citizens worked heroically to subdue the flsme3, but their ef McCoid's Claims for McCrary's Seat arena?" "Certainly; and a high toned arena it was. You remember that President Arthur dined with Secretary Frelinghuysen Christmas "Yes, but there is nothing startling that." "Don't be impatient, young man.

Of course the people know that Arthur dined with his Secretary of State, but they don't know that thereby hangs a tale. Not a half dozen people in Washington are cognizant of what happened in Frelinghuysen's private parlor that day. I will give you the facts if I may depend upon your honor that my name be not given as your informant." "Mr. Blank, here's my honor. May this talc be given to the thirsting public as positively reliable." "If it ever comes to a denial, you may pub hcly call on me for the necessary substantiation." "Very well give us the tale." "Yoa may say that shortly after Arthur and planned, and last Monday undertook, a jour- THE PATENT CAB-COUPLEB.

Ilou- an mad laveaUr ttausulne Came to JLoe llltlatcrrst In I he rat arc. HVtroit Krco IYess. There will never coruo a tima when tfca hid martens oflie of a railroad lino will not receive at least ono visit per week from tb man a patent car-coupler. During tb la-t fifurn yiars bo has called about far tiiua wak, and that averago in being maintained in a way to wear out liall car-At. astasias manufacturers can desire.

The car-cuuplors are not at all alike, but tho in-ventors are. Tho programme Is as regular at if it had Iwn adapted by a large tuajoritj. Tiie iaventor u-ks for tho president vt tU road au 1 is slum to tho ofHcc: mk1 morning-. Is tli president Inf Xt sir; he won't be ia until after dinner. Anything fpct'Lilf -Will, rather ivcial 1 have invented "Ah! A intent car-coupler! You ma4.

go to the geiH ral ivrintcndenL -lfs the bijet thinj of tho kinl rer heard of.w -Yc-s, I know, iMit you'll And him four tUvrs down the lialL Tho Inventor opens rartU door and a clrk inquire: "What i your business "UV.L I had a lame foot last summer and couldn't much of any work, and so I wet nliout it and "Invented a car-coupler, of course! Tb general riutendeut is not iu. Tl tlint dour to the li ft for the assistant, Tho third door opens to reveal an attendant ready to inquire wlat Ls wanted: "Well, Uing I bad got to come, to town to buy mytrlf toiiie hickory whirling, i thought I illicit as well briu along" "Your latent car-coupler. wrr expect ing yo'X. Go down to he yard-master." "Kveryliody in our town say this is the btecw-t thin? ever invented, and I reckon1 5. Washington, D.

January ney to Montgomery head quarters. 1 company with Jack White, he had proceeded oa While Colorado and Nebraska statesmen have been talking considerably to the effect that they would settle the his trip some five or six miles, when their horse, probably thinking he had gone far A Heroic Woman Defends nller Honor With a Rifle. candidacy for the vacant Judgeship in I enough in that direction, was snJdenly taken with an elevation of the heels smashed Monroe, January 5. Three hole through the dashloard of the buggy and sharp reports of a rifle, accompanied came near doing ditto by the occupants heads by the shrieks of a woman, aroused forts would have proved futile had not the brick building intervened. The losses as near as can be ascertained are as follows and by a series of kicks and throes, soon the quiet citizens of Centreville.

The managed to disengage himself from the vehi reports came from the residence of cle and made tracks for town, leaving Jack Stryker entire loss on stock and the editor in undisputed possession of the no insurance. dilapidated "rig." A walk back to the Frt Dr. E. Hillis, Dennis Htryker and Dr. C.

A. Fisher, loss on building the Eighth Judicial District, It appears that a good of quiet work is being doue for a gentleman whose name has been mentioned in public, the lion. Moses A. McCoid, of Iowa, at present a member of Congress It is understood that he will have very strong backing for the place. His friends point to his record lor twenty yeare before the Iowa bar in proof of his fitness for the place, and to the fact that he did good service for four years as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Iowa Senate, that he has beeu regarded as a sound law3er upon the Judiciary Committee of the House, served to complete Ward's digut at item seeking on the prairie.

82,000 insured for $1,800. December 15. Gen. Harney and staff left John A. Coe, Carthage, loss on Mrs.

Whitley. Peopla who rushed there were horrified to find the dead body of a man lying across the threshold, the top of bis head completely blown off, while his flesh was still quivering with the last spark of life. Blood was flowing in great streams around his shoulders, while some distance away lay the upper half of the dead man's head. Inside the house Mrs. Whitley, wild and frantic, wa9 building 8000.

on Tuesday morning for Gen. Frost's camp. We understand he intends to proceed thence to St. Ixmis. Companies and 2d Dra goons, are stationed ecre under the command and Is no serving Ids third term in Frelinghuysen had concluded their Christmas dinner, a close carriage drove up before the Secretary's residence; from the carriage alighted James G.

Blaine, who hastily disappeared into his successor's abode. It had all been pre-arranged, and they met there in conclave for a purpose." The Congressman stopped here and tanta-lizingly began to puff at a cigar. Very seldom does a newspaper man lose control of a serene equanimity when information is being imparted to him, but this much of the Congressman's story excited my intense anxiety to know the balance, and I impetuously said: "See here. Don't vex my inquisitiveness with that Jtobacco smoke. Why did Blaine condescend to call on Arthur and his Secretary "You shall know, young man, and I want the public to know for reasons that you may surmise.

I am not a Blaine or an Arthur man, and I want to see Arthur's plan nipped in the bud. It is a well known fact that Arthur, Blaine and Logan are now the leading candidates for the nomination at Chicago in "lugUt tb way to go down to tho yard-master's oflire. Tho yard tnator isii't in. Tho train dispatcher wont lUen, The has 110 time, Tho depot policeman may look at the invention fome other day. When be entered tho d-pot with that patent coupler under his arm his mind was made up to let the Michigan Central or Ivika Shore ut it on their cars for fSO.OW cah down.

Two hours liavo done the business for hint, and mi he starts up town tha coupler is recklessly thrown utt'ler a scat iu the waiting-room an 1 the inventor hones from the ton of hi bKt of Captains Steele and I We were visited by a real bona fide snow storm last Thursday morning, two inches Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of this week, Signor Italian "Ole Bull," assisted by Mr. Pea body, one of the best banjo performers in the country, gave musical performances at Williams hall: December 22. The sale of the western division of the New York Lands came off last Monday. The settlers in the different neigh Congress. The resignation of Judge McCrary was received by the President to-day.

As it does not take effect before March 1 it is not likely that his successor will be appointed for some time. Dr. McKay, loss 011 building, $600. Drug store occupied by Orville Hughes and a barber, loss $1,500. George W.

Killam, jeweler, loss 8400; insurance $300. When the alarm was lirst sounded it sent a thrili through the hearts of the entire community. Men rushed to the scene of danger regardless of the intense cold. When the fiery element lit up the surrounding country, man gave np all hopes of staying its fury The suffering of the brave men who fought the fiend without adequate means was intense, and many a prayer of thanks went up when evidence of suppressing the fiery fiend was visible. that KinM-body will ttil it tffore be grt lack.

calkins' hill. Washington, January Congressman Calkins proposes Monday, or the first chance he has, to introduce a bill to arbitraily prohibit the importation Ilcatn the Invincible Hand at loker. llVtn.it News. 1 "The Kcutuckiau listened to my story borhoods had agents appointed to attend to their interests and hand in their second filings. But one quarter section was Some scalawag has stolen the editor's turkey Peter Shell, one of the party ho went to Tike's Teak from this place last spring.has returned home We learn that Dr.

Osbun, Dr. Miller and J. M. Iiggctt, the committee ol French wines and brandies so long quietly and composedly, and upon its completion as quietly and composedly opened the as the prohibition upon the American rotoriM booir, eountol out ton of tbe 1 1,000 just leveling her gun for another shot, when one of the neighbors jumped to her side and knocked the weapon downward in time to send its messenger through the floor, exclaiming, "My God, what is the matter?" "Unhand me," she cried wildly, "I will never submit." He clinched her firmly in his grasp, and soon convinced her that she was in the nands of friends, when the story of the tragedy. The man was John W.

Diall, a young man of high character, whose standing in the community was of the best. While Mrs. Whitlev was engaged in household duties Diall came in and placed his arm around her waist. She repulsed him with a slap on the face. He grasped her again, when by a vigorous effort she loosed herself from him and ran out and around the building three times, closely pursued by her assailant.

Sbe then ran into the bouse and seized a rifle which had been left her by her last husband. She brought it to bear aud fired jugt as her pursuer had reached the door. As the sharp report rang out she loaded, and in her wild despair she was hog is allowed to stand in France. He notes ana baulca Uiem to me, saying: 'litre, my boy: 1 am rich and you are hard nn. thinks that Congress will be forced to Take this trifle as a loan, payable without In 1S84.

You will remember it was reported that Blaine and Logan had agreed that their supporters in the convention should sing a joint chorus against Arthur. The President became alarmed at this alleged combination and sent lor Blaine. Blaine, not averse to Big Fire. Belleville, 111., January 5. The most destructive of fires resulting in the known loss of life ot two, and in badly, if not fatally injuring of many, terest, hen you are able, whether it Is tht year or fifty years Ienee.

occurred here to-night. At 10:45 the alarm was given at Engine House No. for this township, have sent teams to Atchison for provisions for the destitute. Messrs. Kiggins and Baker have given up part of their warehouse to be used as a depot.

Tkrcc teams have been sent to Kansas City for aid subscribed by the citizens of that Signor Ferrcllo has been engaged to remain in Fort Scott a few weeks and conduct a dancing school A meeting was held on Thursday, and a committee appointed to take 1 that the convent and boarding school of the sisters of Notre Dame take peremptory measures to remedy the injustice done to one of the chief products of American export. He thiuks Congress unquestionably has the power to regulate imports in spite of treaties, especially where the initiative discrimination was taken on the other side. In "other words, he believes Congress has the right to retaliate for the benefit of our commercial relations with any other country in the world. was burning, calling on the fire de partment to do its utmost. The en gines reached the scene in about fif the necessary steps to procure a supply of teen minutes, but it was seen at a seed grain for destitute farmers.

glance, do what they would, their ef entering any new compact that will increase his chances for the ambition of his life, called on Arthur as I have said. know, is incited to make a formidable effort for the nomination, because three or four Eastern States seem to prefer his candidacy. He is aware that Blaine will hold a large delegation, the largest possibly of any one candidate, and he made overtures to him that smack of the republican rule of Napoleon in France." A few more whiffs at his cigar, and the Congressman contiuued: "Arthur intimated to Blaine that if the latter was not nominated on the nrst ballot, and the vote disclosed lhat Arthur's delegates numbered respectably with either Logan's or Blaine's, and the Logan delegation exceeded forts could not be effectual. The January 5, iSor. We learn that the Fort Scott Lodge, I.

O. S. is in a flourishing firing wildly at her imaginary foe. fire started in the rear of the third floor, aud when discovered was in full condition. It is intended to have a public 'I did not hesitate but took the money, thanked the tock-rair, and thai night was landed in Ilttsburj, the owner of a tmall fortune.

Whicli, I supiwe, remarked a demure gentleman," laid the foundation of your present "Nothing t.f the kind, I assure resumed the narrator. 'l never realized est iota ofT that money. The first evening I wu in l'ituburg I hunted upeome old friends and was induced to accompany a party tf. to a church festival, wbers I blew in every tin-le, solitary nickel of xny windfall. lluw was that possible in one evening, at a church fe-ti val inquired a doubting odi Ur.

"How The. easiest thing iatbe world. Ureas wiH; Metals or ILimb! ult cf lr.iHalf! "cm up for the whole Louw and a 10 Mil lU'borca; a thousand cLanncs in a caue to the nrai jicpular parson; thane) iu lvlpjU: luU'piets tinned in your coat by pr-tty girl at 10 apiece and never any change hiber you pay with a r)or a bilL I could have blown tw ice tho amount with equal facility, for church fotival beats the invincible band at poker for raking in a fc-llow 41e. Either one ml! capture all be ba be it much little.1 celebration of the teas of Olives next month Lieut. Merrill, of the 2dDragoons, arriv An Ugly Case.

Elmira, N. January fi. There is great excitement oer the discovery of the body of a young, well woman frozen solid in the ice of a stream in the suburbs. There Is an ugly gash ou the woman's right blaze. Au attempt was made by the sisters to extinguish the flames, but seeing it was beyond their feeble ef- orts they turned their attention to the ed last The hearts of our poor were gladdened by the reception last Monday of the donations ubscribed by the liberal and benevolent citizens of Kansas City.

This is the first dollar's worth of all that has been saving of the inmates. This was net very successfully done. Order was a thing unknown, and all systematic attempts at the rescue were disregarded. FOUT SOTES OF EAISLY DAYS IX SCOTT. sent to Kansas that has found its way to this part of the county.

The county relief society The community is loud in its praises of the brave woman's defense of her virtue. Assaults upon women in this country have been unusually frequent of late. The first there wa3 that by Taylor Bryant, who had just served one sentence for indecent assault only to commit two more of a heinous character on the same night, for which he was hanged a few weeks ago. Then there was another night of horror on the Gwlnnet county line, wherein four young desperadoes assaulted women at several houses, running off the men by the use of firearms. Other cases of liKe character might be mentioned, hence the conduct of Mrs.

Whitley fits the occasion. In 1he Year lSG0-(il. was re-organized at other day, by the election of Dr. A. G.

Osbun as chair-man. Mr. W. R. Griffith has been delegated May Campbell, formerlv an inmate, but lately a district teacher, in attempting to escape down the stairway was met by a wall of flame which barred her passage.

She turned back to her room and in an agony of fear By K. A. Smith. to go ivast ana solicit aid. A long letter from Ceo.

A. Reynolds Ca, calls attention to the state of actual want prevailing ia quar jumped from the third story window lers leasi suspected, The dram upon the firm has become so great that they can no the latter's (in which case report says that Blaine is to throw his forces to Logan then if Blaine would transfer his support to Arthur, thereby nominating him, Arthur would place at Blaine's disposal the Secretary of Stateship, and the naming of a man for any other bureau in the Cabinet Mr. Frelinghuysen endorsed this proposition by assuring Mr. Blaine that he was very willing to retire from the Cabinet at the end of this term, and hoped that such amicable relations could be established between Mr. Blaine and the President as would lead to the consummation of a mutual understanding." "Did Blaine agree to the proposition?" "No, sir.

He rejected it, declaring that he is not a candidate for the nomination, but you and I know that Mr. Blaine wants to be President of the United States, and that he has little confidence in Arthur's strength before the convention. The matter is resting in that pose at present, bu.t Arthur is not done longer bear up under it. A note from Ceo. jxeynoias ana a.

says: We to the hard cold stone pavement below. Life was almost extinct when the rescuing party reached her. She was taken to the hospital near by and all that mortal power cauld do was done for her, but death had claimed have determined to set apart one-fourth cf our individual salaries from this date untd Solution of the Biddeford Mystery. Biddeford, January 5. The pool of blood mystery is solved.

A youug man, with his eye badly bruised chapter XIX. December S. A neighborhood quarrel which had existed for some time on the strip between the Neutral Land and the Quapaw reservation, culminated on the 24th tilt, in a fight; in which three men lost their lives. The quarrel was in regard to a claim sold by a daughter of John G. Baxter to a Mr.

Rogers. Baxter, with a party of his friends, approached Rogers' house when the latter fired killing Baxter instantly. Baxter's party retarned the fire kiliing Rogers son and a man named Thursday morning a large body of troops, accompanied by Capt. Blair's company of volunteers, left this place for Mound City, where they expect to meet A Trick in ft Tunnel. Chicago Tribune.

An annoyin; practical joke wu flayed oa a bashful younj; man who was accompanying a you lady on a journey. While tolp through a tunnel a frienl knocked off tha bashful you 11 man's bat, forced bis Haters through bis hair, kiwi the back of Us fritnl, and then idarped his own face violently. Every cue in the car looked ia that direction when the liht came, and the friend was apparently the roost surprised cf alb Tho mussel-up appearance acd confusion of the astonished victim convinced the spectators that bo had tried to steal a kvt and bad been The youc lady drtood the situation and blushed painfully. The friend g't off at the same station, a roiih-and tumble followed, and the practical joki-r was whipped. the lit of July next for the relief of the titute, and to this amount the suffering may and his nose covered with stripes of To Ic Continued, court plaster, came to Dr.

B. Whiting yesterday afternoon after a prescription. He said ho got hurt by her for his own. Auother whose name could not be ascertained was seen to climb out of a third floor window onto a portico, and her piteous cries for help while clinging to this frail support were enough to move -a heart of stone; but it was impossible to reach Dr. R.

D. Messier, the Dentist, can now running agaicst a door. Dr. Whiting be found at his rooms over Miller's bakery, reported the matter to the police, and with Mr. Blaine unless these facts are pub Mi WE if fit.