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"'-wiiiii mi i icpB-jg-vyjy -LANFOU3 NEWS NOTES cmusTiE shot dead. MISC Col. Van II. Manning, un ex-meinbe HUGH CAUGHEY, KANSAS MATTERS. Tho stato InJiwrm n.shool for girls now has t'o inmate Vov slxtv-ont) day a Rice county thresher uveragud bushels a day TH2 NOTORIOU3 OUTLAW'S CAREER AT AN KND.

Driven Oat Of lilt Cabin bjr I lr and Vy nainlte and Mliui Down by Deputy MnmliHli On of Hit Toll Humeri tu Crli. And Builder's Material of congrcui from Mississippi is dead. Heavy shipments of Iron m-o continue to be the feature in that trade. Jane Elizabeth Kellogg, the molher of Clara Louis Kollogg.strakoscU died in New York of heart failure. Negotiations are in progress In St.

Louis for the consolidation of the four street car fuctorics. At Fordyce, an unknown assassin on Friday murdered Ephrain Pierce for his mouey. A Lawrcuceburg, man was bitten by a cut, und fearing hydrophobia, drunk two quarts of whisky und died. A project Is on foot at Pittsburg and Homestead, Pa to establish co-oper Everything to be found in II vst-Hus Lumber Yard. SOUTH MAIN STKEET.

horton KAs. Do You Want it Pure? ative steel works to be run by the Homestead strikers. Ilev. l'cter Hummer, of Walkerton, Ind aged 85, will wed Miss Julia Ann Mean O'Connor, aged 24. He is the patriarch of iMcthodism in Indiana.

YOUR A 730-aore farm lu ColTcy county was lutely sold to a Nebraska man for The nsno; hi ted charities of Lawrence expended g.Vl'.i.iiii in its work during past year. An Atchison young lady journalist has been offered a position iu a dra-amtic company. The demand for buildings in St. Francis exceeds the suppiy by about wvcntocn to one. Atchison is terribly set up because a Kansas City woman gets her dresses made in that town.

The excellent condition of the streets at Syracuse is only equaled by tho depravity of the sidewalk. The dog pound at Wichita needs investigating, lis management cutla for reform in stent irian tunes. It is proposed to make all of the Lawrence doctors honorary members of the S. V. foot-ball team.

The Kansas wheat will go i nto win-Icr quarters in splendid shape. It is getting ready to'break the record nest ciison. Tho Xatioual Union, one of the younger of ihu fraternal und beneficial orders, has a membership of about 500 in Topeka. There aro liuplists iu the state who own iWS churches. Hut it isn't probable they were all baptized iu the state.

Koine of the voung people of Chanute are preparing for the winter campaign by organizing a musical, and debating society. Oswego Is to have a roller flouring mill, the Pearl roller mills company having lately been incorporated with a capital of "sso.C'OO. There is in possession of a man in Wichita an old letter from Horace General Sumuel Wiley Crawford, who couimand.nl tho 1'cnusyivania Reserves at the battle of Gettysburg, died in Philadelphia, aged 55 years. Henry Guy Curleton, thepluywrigh', who has just gotten a divorce frou Ellin Shannon, is into trouble for uoi paying hs first wife alimony and for UIE oui.s hinctly pui pioiiml in tha city is handled by us. IT IS NOT OT FROM STAGNANT PONDS tilled with refuse and invaded by cattle, but om PUKE RUNNING Leave orders nt White's coal office, comer ront and High streets.

WHITE. marrying, both of which were antagonistic to the decree of court. Mrs. Susan Shcpard, 103 years old. of Brazil, was burned to her clothes catching tire from an open grate.

CITY COAL YARDS. A carload or cripples left Dubuque, for Canton. to be cured by the vision of the Virgin and child in the Catholic church window there. Tho relief fund for the Milwaukee fire sufferers has reached Slvo.OOa The disbursements thus far have been Tahi.kqhah, I. Nov.

7. Ned Christie, the notorious outlaw who killed Dan Maples, a United States officer, is dead, lie was surrounded, atiout duyliifht Thursday morning, by sixteen of tho bravest won under Colonel Yoo's command, who were led hy Dick llruno and A. (. White. Tho presence of tholU itj wus entirely unknown to Christie until about Htiurinn; when Arch Wolf, one of Christie's companions, came out of the cabin.

He wus ordered to surrender, but th? only reply he ffavo was a shower of bullets, none of which, how-took elVect The fire was returned and several bullets crushed through Lira, lie managed to jjet back into the houue, and thenbegau an all-day'n battle, in which neither side guttered any damage. Later in the evening the officers resorted to dynamite, and Hiie.eeded in blowing down part of the house oud sotting tire to the ruins. While the blase was ftt its fiercest Christie was aeon to emerge from under the floor and he started to run, but was ordered to halt. He did uot stop and was rjddled with bullets, mutilating him terribly and knocking him down. He tried to regain his feet, but another volley settled him, and the officers turned their attention lo the burning building and d'ypovered Charlie Hare trying to eaipe.

Ho was terribly burned, but wijf, able to run. He was arrested, 'i-he body of Wolf, who dad been wounded early in the morning, was Limied to a crisp in the building. The fight ww extremely tough one and lasted twenty-four hours. The females of the Christie family were allowed to retreat at the beginning of tho fight, during which a young son of, Christie was intercepted while lie was trying to take to his father two 'boxes of cartridges. The body of Christie was takea to Fort Smith.

There is some doubt about the rewards for Christie being paid, as tht-y wcio offered for him alive, though the friends of Maples will probably reward the brave men for the. risks llioy have taken. During Christie's career of lawlessness he has hilled one deputy marshal, three Cherokee Indians, and has wounded three other deputies and over a down law-abiding citizens. For tho last nix years he has rcinuiued at his fortified cabin, where he met his death, defying all attempts to capture him. He was about forty-tive years of age and was a perfect specimen of manhood.

He possessed more than tho ordinary amount of intelligence, and before becoming an outlaw wus an experienced gunsmith. KILLED ON A TRAIN. about $40,000. Another body has been recovered from the ruins. A petition for the pardon of Colonel Hernandez, the Mexican army officer.

We are prepaired to furnish you' from this time on, Joal, Wood, Lime, Plaster, Cement, Hair, and Kaw River Sand. OME IN AND SEE US. J. E. LONBERGER CORNER FRONT AND ARTHUR PTKEETS, TIIK WOULD IN BIUEF In Georgia a negro farmer nurtlercd his broi her and thou burned portions of Ills ileal).

Negotiations have been opened up looking t'i the of the I reck lands. General Ferdinand Vandcevcr of Hamilton, Ohio, a union major-general of the late war, is dead. The Chadron, Congregational academy was totally destroyed by urc. Ljss, 15 000; insurance The anniversary of the hanging of the Huymarket anarchist- was observed tuuulay at Chicago with a street parade. In the Pottawatomie country, in tho Indian territory, a woman und her babo were carried off and devoured by a panther.

Congressman MeDonahl, of the Fifth New Jersey district, died Katurday. He was a Democrat und candidate for re-election. The Archduke Francis of Austria expected to visit America next summer und mdulge in a hunt. W. W.

Taylor, Raid to bo one of the most famous bunko stcerer in tho world, was arrested at Om.iha. A strange forest growth in the shape of an i.iiaud has been sighted flouting in the Atlantic ocean. The death of M. Edouard Valley dressier, the distinguished statesman of Franco, is announced. Eduardo Valle.

hca I of the clearing house at Buenos Ay res, Argentine, has absconded with A. J. McPeak, ex-treasurer of Furnas county, Nebraska, has been fuund short in his accounts 10,010 03. Kcv. Charles Kolin, a Catholic priest of St.

Louis, has renounced Catholicism and embraced Methodism. James E. Franklin, postmaster at Clarksville, during President Tyler's administration, is dead. Army officer urge a better protection of the Texas border in viw of raids by Gat zn bands of brigands. Samuel Cone, treasurer of Warren, 0.

is missing, und it is hinted that considerable township mouey i. also gone. The criminal cases against Charles Knox and wife of Minneapolis, charged with fraud in Mexico, promise to international proceedings. licv. W.

Z. Stoval I of Groves county, Kentucky, deserted his wife, stole a brother pivujhcr's 10-ycar-old daughter, and with four of his children has disappeared. Thomas Hill, a cousin of the late General A. P. Hill of Confederate fame, died at New York from the effects of whisky.

His home was at Hillsborough, N. Herman Waldeck. clerk for J. Kahn of Francisco ha skipped out with at least Sl. ODt) an.

I perhaps more, accompanied by a youag wuiuau known as Anuc Smith. The Odessa correspondent of the Loudon Daily News says that during emigrated from Uussia to America, while in 18110 8 Russians emigrated thither. The supreme military council of Mexico has confirmed the death sentence passed upon Colonel Nievez Hernandez, charged with treason iu falling to capture Garza, the revolutionist. At a meeting of unemployed at Tower 11:11, London, resolutions were adopted demanding work of the government and declaring that families were starving iu the East End. The coroner's jury at Portland, returned a verdict of accidental death from t.n overdose of morphine in the case of Lieutenant Sehwatka, the Arctic explorer.

A cyclone visited Old Providence and San Andrea in the Caribbean sea October 9, prostrating houses and the whole cocoanut plantations. The loss under sentence of death for treason in failing to effect Garza's capture, is be (Jrecley which has never been read by ing circulated in Mexico, and, in view of the colonel's war record, Diaz may pardon hi in. A. W. Bennett, whose alleged negli gence in delivering an order caused a collision near Little Rock, Wednesday, in which a fireman and an engineer were killed, is reported to be roaming the woods a raving maniac.

W. R. IIONNELL, President. A. F.

Mooiie, Vice-Pres't G. S. Eovct, Cashiet The Pennsylvania university foot ball team defeated Princeton on Satur day for the first time in eighteen years oy score ot ti to 4. Oklahoma citizens are loikin? anx iously toward the openingof the Cher okee strip and regard that as more im portant to them now than statehood. THE BANK OF HORTON.

PEC1AL ATTENTION GIVEN TO SAVINGS DErAOTMEN. CAPITAL $50,000. Does a general banking business, makes loans and buys securities. DIRECTORS: no. W.

Bkowklee, W. Hoknei-l. M. Low, W. M.

Ham, A. F. MfH.KE. Osmon Digma, who has been re ported dead dozens of times, has reappeared in the Sioudan. Tho Binghumton trust company has been appointed receiver of the Iron Hull funds in New ork.

Chester A. Hitchcock, one of the best known business men of Uo Island, 111., was found dead in a bath any pcrsou in less than tnree Hours. Even vice has its bright side. The rock broken by the city prisoners at Lawrence is to be used to pave one juf the streets leading to the university. There are tHll school houses in Kansas and Initio teachers iu active service.

There is no use for the stars to try to get away from a stuta like that-- Leavenworth breeds lighting dogs for the Omaha market. That town is finally beginning to turn its link of harmony to financial account. K. C. The gavel used by the chairman at the dedication of the Kansas world's fair building wus a piece of corn btalk four feet long and two iuches iu diameter.

Four generations of the same family live house in North Atchison. Th speaks well fur the preservative a well as the fructifying quality of the Kansas climate. An Abilene bridegroom was so overjoyed by the approach of his marriage that he forgot to take outaihense until the time for the ceremony, which had to be postponed. Two Arkansas City young men recently made an election bet, und the party who loses is not to kiss his best girl itor a year. One of these fellows is a Winning chump.

An Atchison woman who has always experienced trouble in securhvj servant girls, recently had lwi applicants by advertising for a "kitchen lady." Atchisi. Globe. A Smith county man marketed thirty-six calves iu Kansas City last week for SM2 each. Tho succulent qua.ity of Kansas veal is appreciated by a.l discriminating epicures. People who go fooling arouud the Kansas State university ought to be advised, prohabtv, that a thoina COTTRELL FISr .1 tub.

The numerous reports recently of the Pope's ill health have been otlicial-ly denied. In a quarrel ia St Louis, Ida Boughius, colored, struck Gertie Lee with a soda water bottle, cutting her 9 jugular vein. January 2 every friend and admirer of the late Jefferson Davis in Miss issippi will be asked to make some contribution to the fund for a monu Caskets Burial Robes ment to Mr. D.ivis at ltichmond, Va. Editor Philip Diezgen of the Arkansas Staats-Zeitung was arrested, charged with sending obscene postal JL Deputy Marahitl Monlrel Hi Ah-' Kin In Turn Kilted.

I I. Nov. 7 A bloody 'tragedy occurred early yesterday morning on the Santa l'c patscnger train between here and (Inlnesviile, in which one deputy marshal and a negro, passengers on the train, were killed. The. tragedy took in- tho half of the combination smoking car which is reserved for negroes, tu that comportment of the car there wore traveling four negroes and three United deputy marshals named Smith, Armstrong and Hooker.

One of the negroes remarked, in an offensive manner, that that portion of the car'was reserved for negroes and(hc would like lo know what business white men had in it. Deputy Marshal Smith replied that while men could ride where they ploased, and supplemented his remark with an outh which an-jsvred the negroes. ISuiilU was riding in front of the negroes and he rose to go back to the other compartment of In Wirt Building, on North Main Street V. BAUER, is placed at 5100,000. The mayor of Little Rock has sus pended City Clerk 11.

Clay Jones for microtome has been added to the paraphernalia of that institution. The ground in the vicinity of the state normal school at L'iipoiais in cards through the mail. It is the latest episode in the newspaper religious war. A robber on a train near California Junction, beat a fellow-passenger into insensibility after shooting him twice and grabbing a valise containing 815,000 worth of diamonds, jumped off the train and The fair association of Mexico, has decided to pay off its indebtedness as soon as possible. George Jauke, the sexton of Trinity Catholic church of Milwaukee, hanged himself in tlto belfry.

It is reported that the Marquis of Lome, son-in-law of the queen, is a candidate for poet laureate of England. Anton M. Fouger, a patent lawyer drunkenness and neglect of official duty. He is the third city otlicial sus mm 1TLGT, CONTRACTOR, pended there recently. demand for residences notwithstanding tho fact that that institution has a brass band with twelve pieces.

Catherine Booth and Airs. Chbborn, It has been discovered by the Atchi AND BUILDER. daughters of General Booth of the Salvation army, have, beeu arrested in Geneva, Switzerland, and will be ex son Patriot that about one person in t)2 knows how to run tin amateur pelled from the canton. Estimates on all kinds of work on short notice. Good work guaranteed show.

Everybody ought to be triad Frank DeWitt Talmage, the only and rapidly ilnished. that the proportion is no larger. surviving ton ot too Kcv. 1. UeVWtt Talmage of Brooklyn, was married at ESTAm agent in Horton for the celebrated Kaw River building and plaster A butcher bought enough muslin of ing sand.

Shop west of Waprele's blacksmith shop. a Lawrence niorchant the ot her clay to cover eleven miles of sausage. And vet Sing Sing, iS. to Miss Gertrude Barlow, daughter of W. II.

Barlow. it is sometimes claimed tltatthe historic Dorsey Goodwin of Timmonsville, S. city possesses no commercial advan whipped his 7-ycar-old stepdaugh ALBERT -PET1R FREY. tages. ter with a strap tor 2a- minutes.

She of Chicago, quarreled with his closest friend, James Dalton, a piano maker, and was shot dead by him. Herbert Iloskins, aged 00 years, recently eloped with Carrie Pearson, his niece aged 16 years, from in den, and was married to her in Toronto, Ontario. A fierce blizzard is raging in Manitoba, making the streets of the town almost Impassable. Not for many years has as fierce a storm been expe The Y. M.

C. A. hath rooms at is dead, and the sheriff got Goodwin into jail just as a mob was forming. Marion are used by thirty or forty per FRGY BROTHERS, A microscopic inspection of the'lungs sons every Saturday night. This statement is vouched for by the dealer of tho Canadian cattle alleged to be who supplies the institution with 'Masonry suffering from contagions pleuro pneumonia 6hows that the disease is sapolio.

the car. I ho negro who had started the quarrel evidently thought the deputy was about to attack him. and drawing his revolver shot h'uu through the heart, hilling him Instantly. Immediately a general fight betweou the whites and blacks endued, in which a large number of shot were tired on both sides. When tho tnelea came to an end it was found that the negro who shot Deputy Smith had himself been shot and killed.

When the train arrived bore all those concerned in the affair were arrested. Nineteen Unad Buttkei Discovered. Sr. PKTiijsNiinnrt, Nov. 5.

While the polL-o wero searching the house of a suspected smuggler in the district of Tonjisky, Poland, they discovered the decomposed bodies of ninctccu. persons, men, women and children. It is not known whether these persons were murdered or whether the cellar in which they -were found had beeu used as a secret burial place. Fifty Thonanud Spinners on Strike. London, Nov.

7. All the efforts ttiat have been made to bring about a settlement of the strike in tho cotton industry have failed and the mills at AshUui-on-Tyno were closed Saturday. The long threatened crisis is on and by to-day operatives will bo idle unless something unforeseen should happen. An Inane Firebug. The women of a certain congrega broncho pneumonia, which is not Will give Estimates on any class of Stone Work, or furnish plans for rienced so early in the season.

The lead and zinc sales of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas last week aggregated Carterville lead with while Galma's sales The Stewart hotel, San Francisco, tion in Atchison have decided that inasmuch us they support the church they are entitled to run it, and have served notice to the preacher to come same. Our reputatun lor nrst-ciass worK at reasonable rates speaks tor itself. Will furnish any kind of Material and figure on any class cf work. See valued at $200,000, was destroyed by Are. amounted to $22, 363.

The zinc market The peanut crop this year is not ex us before letting your contaact. pected to ba more than half what it was stronger. Choctaw Council Adjourns. was last year. FREY East Delaware St.

The Boston furniture company of Paris, Nov. 7. -The Choctaw council adjourned at noon yesterday, oft the perch. Ilig agricultural products and stories are not the only things indigenous to the soil of Kansas. Tho right gntird of the Washburn college foot ball eleven weighs nearly 300 pounds and is growing yet.

One Emporia firm has shipped upward of SfaO.OOO worth of cabbage from that place in one week. One grower Boston has assigned. Liabilities about assets, after being in session a month. Everything was perfectly quiet at Tuska The six story household goods in stallment house of Smith. Farwell homa.

The proceedings were all or derly. No hiil of any great import THE PHCBNIS LOAN ASSOCIATION. sold worth from less than a quarter Co. of St. Paul had two stories gutted by tire.

Loss $30,000. The attempt of the evicted tenant commission to investigate evictions in Ire'and came to naught by the land ance was passed. Gov. Jones vetoed a number of bills. The troops left there a week ago.

No further trouble is ex oi an acre and had enough to last Ins family all winter beside. The Pythian sisters of Emporia pected over the gubernatorial question. Missouri Defcuti Iowa. cleared $.18.50 at a masquerade ball tho other night which will be used in the Columbia, Nov. 8.

The Iowa purchaso of paraphernalia. The women ot Kansas trot just as well in university's foot ball team was de lodge harness as the men. featcd here yesterday afternoon by the The address of Chief Justice llorton Missouri state university by a score of CAPITAL STOCK $4,000,000.00. ASSETS JULY 23, $1,044,340.94. at the dedication of the Kansas build- 34 to 0.

I'nrdouetl by the King. ng at the World's fair was the great lords refusing to testify. Patrick Egan, a car repairer, was killed in the Santa Fe yards at Wichita. He was caught bctwecu two cars and horribly mangled. Egan took the place of Charles Tracy, who was killed in just the same way a month ago.

Central Oflice Detective Carey of New York city was shot and killed by an ex-convict named La Blane in au endeavor to arrest him. Stanley 31. Austin, was sentenced in Cleveland, to serve seven and three years respectively in the penitentiary on two of the counts for embezzlement of to which he had pleaded est oratorical effort of his life. The hT. Josrimc, Nov.

8. XV. H. Mc-Clain, who is supposed to bo insane, made three attempts yesterday to set fire to factories and had his fires not been discovered in time he would have caused disastrous conflagrations. He was captured on his third attempt.

Fxleuslve Ilttur Farm Discovered. Sidney, N. S. Nov. 4.

-A great sensation ha been caused by the discovery of a baby farm at McDonald, a town south of this city. The bodies of seven infants have already been unearthed in the back garden of a house occupied by a family named Makin. The principal members of the family have been arrested. Copenhagen. Nov.

5. The king of Denmark has granted a pardon to tribute properly magnified the subject and that is saying a great deal. lien ry U. Ryder, the ex-American con A "horse ghost" has made its an sul, why was coovieted a few days ago of theft, fraud and perjury in con pearauco at Weberville. It would be a good thing-if the people who abuse beasts of burden in this world nection with the administration of testamentary estates and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.

The ould be haunted by the shades of the animals which they have mal pardon is granted on condition that Estimate time of maturity eighty-four months. Guaranteed not to rim over one hundred months. Loans made promptly and on a definite basis, absolute contract; money al va)s ready. Borrow your money from a company which is an atsured snccess. If you have a mortgage on your property or wish to build a house, the Phoenix will take care of your wants and allow you to re-pay them in small monthly payments, making the rate of interest almost equal to six per cent.

all on BAILEY FOX, Agents. Ryder leaves Denmark. Merrier Acquitted. TUauktglvlug Proclamation Issued. Quebec, Nov.7 The jury which has guilty.

A handsome tablet in memory of the late Clinton B. Fisk, Prohibition candidate for president in 1SS8, was presented by his widow and family to he Methodist church at Coldwater, Mich. One person was killed and aeventce-woundad by a wind storm in Texas. treated. Some of the boys of Abilene have organized what they call a "Young Dal ton Gang." They excavated a cave in the side of a creek bank and were intending to have nightly meetings and to make occasional raids on chicken roosts and pig pens.

been hearing the case against ex-Pre mier Mercier, charged with trying to Washington, Nov. f. The president to-day issued a proclamation setting part Thursday, the 24th, as a of r.z mi i defraud the government of 800,000, re turned a verdict of not.

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