Garnett Journal-Plaindealer from Garnett, Kansas • 2

KANSAS TOWN DELUGED. RELIANCE WON FIRST RACE. PRAISE FOR MILES. THE HORHOK GKOWS TRANSMISSISSIPPI CONGRESS. The Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting at Seattle Statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory Combined.

Before Marconi. An Egyptologist and an Assyriologist were disputing about the relutive advancement of the two ancient peoples whom they weffc tuciying. "Well, sir," said the Egyptologist, find remains of wires in Egypt which prove thev understood electricity!" answered the AssyriologiA "We don't find any wires in Assyria, andTt' that shows they knew wireless telegraphy." Youth's Companion. Idleness travels rery slowly, and poT-rty soon overtakesher. Hunter.

Sir Thooina Lipton'a Challenger No Match for the American Defender in International Race. New York, Aug. 24. In a splendid 32 to 15 knot breeze, over a windward and leeward course of 30 miles, the yacht Reliance Saturday beat Shamrock III. by exactly nine minutes actual time, or seven minutes and three seconds after deducting the one minute and 57 seconds which the defender concedes to Sir Thomas Lip-ton's third challenger on account of Reliance's larger sailing plan as at present measured.

It was a royal water fight for the ancient trophy which carries with it the yachting supremacy of the world. Second Race Monday. New York, Aug. 26. In a glorious whole-sail breeze, over a triangular course, ten miles to a leg, the, fleet-footed cup defender Reliance again -yesterday showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, taking the second race of the cup series of 1903 by the narrow margin of one minute and 19 seconds.

TAFT IN ROOT'S PLACE. Governor of Phllippinea Will Become Secretary of War Wright to Sncceed Taft. Oyster Bay, N. Aug. 26.

President Roosevelt yesterday authorized the following statement: "The president some months ago tendered the secretaryship of war to Judge Taft and at that time it was arranged that he would succeed Secretary Root. Secretary Root will get out of office some time in January and Judge Taft will assume the duties of the office shortly afterward." Gen. Luke E. Wright, of Memphis, will succeed Judge Taft as governor general of the Philippines when the latter becomes secretary of Mar next January. President Roosevelt yesterday evening authorized the Associated press to make the announcement that the post had been offered to Gen.

Wright and that he had accepted it. Gen. Wright is now a member of the Philippines commission and vice governor of the islands. He is a life-long democrat. National Fraternal Congress.

Milwaukee, Aug. 26. The annual convention of the National Fraternal congress met in the Masonic temple in this city yesterday, several hundred delegates attending. President Langfitt, in his annual report, stated that almost 20,000,000 of the best people of this or any other country are directly interested in the success and permanence of the fraternal system. The members are grouped in 166 societies and the present rate of distribution is considerably in excess of $1,000,000 per week.

Officer and Prisoner Eldorado, Aug. 23. A man selling soap in this county agreed to send a premium to each purchaser. Receiving no premium, an investor notified the company, who sent a Finkerton detective here to run down the imposter. The detective arrested his man at.

Kiowa and sent the city marshal to Medicine Lodge with the prisoner he came here to get out the necessary papers. Neither the marshal or the man have been heard of since. Over Steep Embankment. Fond du Lac, Aug. 25.

The Chicago Northwestern passenger train from Chicago was wrecked three miles south of here. George W. Zuhl-ke, of Fond du Lac, was killed. Conductor Moy of Chicago, and 30 passengers were injured. The entire train, express car, baggage car, two coaches and three sleepers were thrown down a 20-foot embankment.

Salisbury's Servants as Tall Hearers. Hatfield, Aug. 25. Lord Salisbury's coffin has been finally closed. The servants of the family will act as pallbearers at the funeral, which will be held at the end of the week, when Lord Edward Cecil, military secretary of the Egyptian army and fourth son of the deceased statesman, shall reach England from Egypt.

I'eiiRHy I vanla'M l'roiid Day. Philadelphia, Aug. 23. An occasion which will be memorable in the history of this 3tato transpired Saturday when the giant armored cruiser Pennsylvania, named by the daughter of the state's senior senator and political leader was launched at the yards of the William Cramp Ship Engine Building company. Mayor Johnson Favored for (Jovernor.

Columbus, Aug. 26. The preliminary meetings yesterday afternoon and evening of the democratic state convention resulted in favor of Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, in his contest with John L. Zimmerman, of Springfield, for the gubernatorial nomination.

Survivors of Uimntrell's Hand Meet. Kansas City, Aug. 24. The sixth annual reunion of the survivors of Quantrell's band was held at Independence, near here, Saturday, There were 20 of the survivors present from Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. YV a Deniirtineiit of KniiHim, Topeka, Aug.

25. Gen. Bell, in command at Fort Leavenworth, Is in Washington to urge the war department to create a Kansas department. At present the two forts in Kansas are in the department of the Missouri. An Klevator Hoy Killed.

Kansas City, Aug. 25. Harry Kenney, 23 years old, elevator boy at Emery, Bird, Thayer department more, was killed yesterday after- Cloadhnmt nt Maryxvllle Cuuaed River to nine Ki Feet VleiU Also Vnder Wilier. Mary's ville, Aug. 26 A storm last night deluged this town and vicinity with a rain that was almost a cloudburst.

The Big Blue rose 16 feet in five hours. The bottoms filled with water from 3 to 15 feet deep. Fifty houses were aftd are still filled with water. The river is still rising. The people in the bottoms, as the water rose, took refuge in the trees and on housetops.

Seventy-five were rescued in boats last night One of the rescuing parties was headed by Congressman Calderhead. It. is believed none was drowned. The business portion of Vleits, is also under water. The damage will leach $50,000 there, as all the stores and' about 25 residences are Inundated.

Grand Island Tracks Covered. Seneca, Aug. 26. The Grand Island tracks west of here are covered with water from a heavy rain which fell from 9:20 Monday night until 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Cornfields in the Nemaha valley are covered with water from five to seven feet.

Between here and Kelly the Northwestern track is out in places. The Grand Island bridge at Beattie and several culverts are out. AS IN FORMER YEARS. KehratiUa Democrats and Populists Fuse on State Ticket Currency Legislation Opposed. Grand Island, Aug.

26. The populist convention last night renominated John J. Sullivan, present chief justice of the supreme court, and named Prof. W. A.

Jones, of Adams county, and Dr. E. O. Weber, of Valparaiso, for regents of the state university. Fusion was easily accomplished and the ticket named was by acclamation, there being no opposition Sullivan is a democrat and the other nominees populists.

Democrats Name Fusion Ticket. Columbus, Aug. democratic state convention, which met here last night, named a fusion ticket, headed by Judge J. J. Sullivan, of thi3 city, for supreme justice, democrat, and William O.

Jones, of Adams county, and Dr. E. O. Weber, of Saunders, populists, for regents of the state university. The platform reaffirms the national platform adopted at Kansas City and arraigns the present national administration.

It also opposes asset currency legislation. Into a Well to Save Child. Sedalia, Aug. 26. The breaking of a board threw the three-year-old daughter of H.

C. Brown into a well 20 feet deep. Mr. Brown was absent, but Mrs. Brown and another woman overturned the wooden curbing and the mother plunged into tho water.

She rescued the chiW as it was sinking the second time. Mrs. Brown seized the chain in the well and held fast until a man arrived. She was drawn safely from the water to the ground. Missouri Pastor Assaults Layman.

Golden City, Aug. 23. Rev. Jefferson Denny and his son have been arrested on a charge of assault and disturbing the peace. The complaining witness is Frank Schmidt, also a resident of Golden City, who claims that the men assaulted him at an ice-cream social.

Schmidt is accused, on the other hand, of making the assertion that the funds realized from the social would not be devoted to church work. The men fought in the presence of a large concourse of church members. Bold Theft of Money. Kansas City, Aug. 24.

One of the boldest bank robberies that has come to light in recent years occurred at the First national bank in this city Saturday afternoon. Clarence H. Cheney, paying teller, was decoyed away from the window of the cage in which he was at work to answer a bogus telephone call and during his brief absence an unknown thief stole a package of bills amounting to $835, tho money being in denominations of $5 and $10. Monument to Hale duluiMuii. Newton, 111., Aug.

22 Prohibitionists of tho United States Friday unveiled here a magnificent monument of Barre granite to the memory of Hale Johnson, who was assassinated on election day last year. He was chairman of the prohibition sitate committee and national committeeman at the time and was the vice presidential candidate on the 'prohibition ticket in 189S. Many states were represented. Why Did McCoy Kesicn? Kansas City, Aug. 25.

A message from Washington says Joseph McCoy, of Kansas City, assistant United States attorney for the Western district, of the Indian territory, stationed at Muskogee, has resigned his position. Pliny L. Soper, United States attorney for the Northern district of the Indian territory, will reach Washington to-morrow, if he follows schedule. Rrlbery Cases Continued. Jefferson City, Aug.

25. In the circuit court yesterday Judge Graves continued the bribery cases of Senators Frank H. Farris and Charles II. Smith because of the present Illness of Senator Farris to November 2 and November 4, respectively. Senator Smith's case wa3 continued because Farris is wanted as a witness in the case.

Vauillver Out of the Knee. Cape Girardeau, Aug. 23. Congressman W. D.

Vandlver has withdrawn from the democratic race for governor. He says he will not oppose Circuit Attorney Folk. Turks Make War an Excuse to Kill Christians. In a umber of Macedonian Village Women and Children Have Been Murdered and Houses Destroyed hy the Toreh. Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug.

25. The Turks are reported to have massacred all the women and children in 22 villages of the districts of Fiorina and Monastir and afterward to have burned the villages. They are also alleged to have killed a number of prisoners. The streets of Krushevo are said to be strewn with dead and the survivors are afraid to bury the bodies, fearing to incur the suspiciion of the Turks. Following the proclamation of the revolution throughout the vilayet of AdVianople the insurgents cut all the telegraph lines connecting the city of Adrianople with the eastern parts of the vilayet.

There are unconfirmed rumors here that fighting and massacres are proceeding in the streets of Adrianople. At Monastir the churches were demolished, the houses sacked and the town is now in a heap of ashes. The populace fled to the hills, where they are in a starving condition. The Dnevnik also asserts that a general massacre has taken place in the whole vilayet of Monastir. Nearly all the villages have been destroyed.

The treacherous murder of 80 insurgent prisoners by their guards has made an especially bad impression here. The town of Bunar Hissar has been burned and a part of the Bulgarian population was massacred. The rest of the Bulgarians fled to the mountains. At Burgas Majura after 18 hours' fighting the garrison was killed by rebels, who also destroyed the garrisons of Silklihor and Kalovo. At Kaicunvo the insurgents killed 57 Turks, while 15 were killed at Kuko-libi, in the vilayet of Uskub.

New outbreaks are reported from the vicinity of Kresna, where serious fighting has occurred. Travelers vho arrived here yesterday evening from Adrianople state that a massacre of Christians occurred there Sunday morning. One version says the guns in one of the forts opened fire on an insurgent band which had attacked a military outpost. A panic followed inside the town and the Mahommetan population fell upon the Christians. Open Revolt Against Hill.

Saratoga, N. Aug. 26. Open revolt has been started against the leadership of David Bennett Hill within the democratic party of this state. The present plan is to prevent Hill from being sent to the next democratic convention.

He can go to the convention as the representative of his district, but that will not do for him. As the leader of the democrats of the state, of New York he must be one of the delegates-at-large. Is W. 3. Stone In Europe? Jefferson City, Aug.

26. Senator Williajn J. Stone is expected to return from Europe within the next few days, according to a member of his family. Very little information has been given out concerning the whereabouts of the senator, and the fact of his visit to England has not been generally known. At the time of his departure he announced that he was going to Colorado to rusticate.

Live Stock Prizes Over 89 50.0OO. St. Louis, Aug. 22. Chief Coburn, of the live stock division of the world's lair, says over $250,000 in prizes will be awarded in his department, apportioned as follows: Horses, ponies, jacks, jennets and mules includes 24 classes, getting $93,640 in cash prizes; 21 clasFes of cattle, sheep and goats, swine, poultry, pigeons, ostriches, Jiulso Gray Recommended for President.

Scranton, Aug. 26. The Lackawanna county democratic convention yesterday adopted a resolution on recommending Judge George Gray, of Delaware, for the presidency of the United Stales. Judge Gray was president of the coal strike commission, which brought to a settlement the great anthracite strike in this section. To Investigate Three.

Washington, Aug. 26. Special examiners of the department of justice will go to the Indian territory to investigate the charges against Pliny Soper, the United States attorney for the Northern district; his assistant, Mr. Huckleberry, and Benjamin F. Colbert, United States marshal for the Southern district.

Stabbed Because lie Kicked a Doit. Mansfield, Aug. 26. In an altercation between Willis Harbison, Sam Goss and John while returning from Lead Hill, Harbison was fatally stabbed in the throat by Goss. Harbison was accompanied by his girl and kicked Duran's dog out of the way.

This raised a three-cornered fight Work for Horace Speed. Washington, Aug. 24. Horace Speed, of Oklahoma, will begin this week the prosecution or- alleged frauds against the government by contractors in the Kiowa-Comanche country. Instructions from the federal government are to prosecute vigorously and save no offenders Trotted a Mile in Two Minutes.

Readvllla, Aug, 25. Before a great crowd of spectators at Readville yesterday, and with track and weather conditions perfect, Lou Dillon trotted a mile in two minutes, a new world's record. A. R. Veterans Do Not Forget Long Service of a Comrade.

lloxlon liosrit fur the Meet-iiiB Gen. John C. Iilnck, reunion CuiiiiniMKioiier Viuler Clvvt'-Innil, C'lioMen Commander. San Francisco, Aug. 22.

The Grand Army of the Republic selected Boston as the place in which the encampment of 1904 will be held and elected the following officers: Commander-in-chief, Gen. John C.31ack, of Illinois; senior vice commander, Col. C. Mason Keene, of California; junior vice commander, Col. Hary C.

Kessler, of Montana; surgeon-in-chief, George A. Harmon, of Ohio; chaplain-in-chief, Win-field Scott, of Arizona. A proposition to admit sons of veterans into the Grand Army posts was strongly sup- GEN. JOHN C. BLACK.

ported, but after an extended debate was defeated by a small majority. The encampment adopted a resolution requesting congress to pass a bill pensioning all veterans who have reached the age of G2 years. The Women's Relief corps elected the following officers: National president, Sarah Wi-nans, of Ohio; senior vice-commander, Ursula M. Mattison, of Washington. The report of Inspector General F.

A. Walsh contained the following figures: Number of posts, 6,711 a loss of members in good standing, a loss of aggregate of post relief funds, $380,809 an increase of aggregate expenditure by posts foi'relief $158,666 a decrease of $60,513. The post quartermasters and trustees have on hand $104,878. The value of the property owned by the posts is $1,815,108. Several IteHolntlons Adopted.

San Francisco, Aug 23. Before final adjournment the national G. A. R. encampment adopted a resolution offered by Capt.

Coney, of Kansas, eulogizing the 42 years' service of Lieut. Gen. Miles, retired! Other resolutions adopted included the following: For national soldiers' home in Florida and Oklahoma and at Fort Sherman, to provide for the perpetuation of Memorial day in the sonth; for a statue to Gen. Meade; for a service i pension law; against the discrimination of veterans in the civil service. PAN-AMERICAN RAILROAD.

A Company with Chartered to Construct a Line to IiuenoH Ay res. Guthrie, Aug. 25. The Pan-American Railroad company, with a capital stock of $250,000,000, was chartered here Monday. The purpose of the corporation is to build a line of railway extending from Port Nelson, Hudson British America, in a southerly direction, crossing the line of the Canadian Pacific near Winnipeg, thence through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian territory to Galveston, Tex.

From Galveston it will run through the Isthmus of Panama, thence through United States of Colombia tcr Ecuador, through the republic of Peru to Buenos Ayres, on the Atlantic ocean. A Danville Kloter Convicted. Danville, 111., Aug. 20. Winfield Baker, formerly of the mountains of Kentucky, was convicted yesterday in the circuit court of assault to murder Sheriff Whitlock.

He was 'sentenced to a term of from one to 14 years. This is the first conviction and trial of a member of the mob that attacked the Danville jail the latter part of July, after having lynched the negro James Metcalf and burned his body. She Lived in Three Centuriex. Mexico, Aug. 26.

Old Aunt Fannie George, colored, said to be 110 years old, died at her home fh this county yesterday. Before the war she was the lave of Oswald Crawford, of Young's Creek. Being born in 1793, she lived to see three centuries. No One Heard Chilli's Struggle. Wamego, Aug.

25. The two-year-old child of Nelson Taylor, of Wabaunsee, was drowned in a watering trough, having climbed up and become over-balanced. The family was close by but no struggle of the little one was heard. Kiinaufl Woman Chiirjreil with Arson. Seneca, Aug.

25. Mrs. Carrie A. Camp was arrested in Goffs and brought here, accused of arson for the purpose of dcfraiul.ug insurance companies. Tho fire was August when a business block In Goffs burned.

TroteHt Against Antl-Ciiurtnlilp Itiilcs. Newton, Aug. 25. -Harvey county school-teachers havo Jinistered their protests in a set of against the anti-courtship ntcadv'ons nAnon, ft. are beiiu: Kenerally adopted boards throughout the state.

if3f A lk4'r WW Seattle, Aug. 22. The Trans-mississippi congress adjourned yesterday after passing the following resolutions: Statehood for Oklahoma and the Indian territory combined; territorial government for Alaska; a memorial favoring an American merchant marine; international fish hatchery to be established on Frazer river; closer trade relations with Canada; placing the consular service under civil service; also resolutions relating to forestry, irrigation, public lands and the improvement of rivers and harbors; favoring an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland; roads and bridges in Alaska; recommending a Trans-mississippi man for the bureau of manufacturers, To Colonixe Segrocs at Evanston. Chicago, Aug. 25.

Aristocratic Evanston, the home of wealth, the seat of literature and art and the hub of all that is cultured, is to be the mecca of southern colored organizers. On the borders of the smart suburb Influential colored citizens are planning to establish a large colony of people of their race, who are to be brought from various states in the south. A town inhabited exclusively by negroes, with its own industries, stores, churches and resorts, will, it is predicted, soon spring up. within a stone's throw of the fashionable western residence section of the suburb. Unique School Exhibit.

Jefferson, City, Aug. 23. The photograph of every school-teacher grouped with the school children of the state about every school building in Missouri will be a feature of the stateeducational exhibit of the world's fair in St. Louis in 1904. Photographs of nearly 10,000 school buildings in the state, from the most unpretentious to the state university, will be made and mounted in such manner that, the 10,000 groups may be seen at St.

Louis. Every child in Missouri of school age may have his or her picture on exhibition at the fair unless absent on "Picture Dey." Fatal Wreck Near Brunswick, Mo. Brunswick, Aug. 25. One maa was scalded to death, four others were severely burned by escaping steam and six trick ponies were killed in the wreck of a circus train here yesterday.

The engine and ear containing the men and ponies were a total wreck, and the escaping steam scalded fiv of the men who were asleep in bunks over the ponies. One man had his eyes burned out and inhaled the steam, causing his death yesterday afternoon. The others were scalded on the arms, body and legs but will i ecover. Hiilh Bryan to Work for Poor. Chicago, Aug.

25. Mrs. W. J. Bryan and daughter, Miss Ruth Bryan, left last night for their home at Lincoln, after having spent several days in this city.

One of the objects of the trip was a visit to the Hull house settlement at Halstead and Polk streets, an institution supported by charities for the benefit or the" poorer classes Land conducted by Miss Jane Addams, the noted sociologist. It is the intention of Miss Bryan to take up the settlement vflrk, becoming a member of the Hull house staff early in the fall. Folk Is to See Roosevelt. Washington, Aug. 25.

If present plans do not miscarry President Roosevelt and Joseph W. Folk, the young attorney of St. Louis who has become such a terror to the boodlers and their abettors in Missouri, will soon have an interesting talk on the subject of negotiating with other nations' extradition treaties like that recently consummated with Mexico under the terms of which the official bribe-taker and bribe-giver who flee from his country to escape trial can be brought back home for prosecution. Race Riot at ISiitaviit, III. Chicago, Aug.

25. To prevent a possible lynching a Chicago colored man and woman were spirited away from a crowd surrounding the jail at Batavia, 111., last night and locked up in the county prison at Geneva. The prisoners had been arrested after a series of violent encounters between residents of the village and participants in the picnic of negroes of the Quinn and Bethel chapels. Woman Camper Killed Young Farmer. "3 Stafford, Aug.

25. Morris Haines, a young farmer from near Preston, was shot and almost instantly killed at a camp just east of here. The shooting was done by a woman who was an inmate of the camp. E3 A Mail Stage Held t'p. Spokane, Aug.

26. Post Of-i'ce Inspector Flavin has received advices that the mail stage between Canon City and Whitney, was held up Monday night on Dixie mountain and all the mail taken. Leper Scandals to Bo Investiitateil. San Juan, P. Aug, 25.

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