The Kansas Patron from Olathe, Kansas • 2

A FIERY INAUGURAL. KANSAS STATE NEWS. A. P. Fuller, of Ottawa, has been com missioned as First Lieutenant of Company First Regiment, Kansas National uard Frank Shapter has been commissioned The Toledo, Cincinnati St.

Louis Rail- way was sold under foreclosure of mortgage at Indianapolis on the 30th, and was bought by Sylvester H. Kneeland, of New York. Silver has declined in value in the London market during the past three months from $1,000 to $1,038 per fine ounce, or a re- In a quarrel at New Orlaaus on the 29th Charles GafTaey shot John Frankie dead, Gaffuey claims that the shooting was accidental. Bath were car drivers. Alfred Painter, proprietor of the Hotel Winlsar, atTolei), who was shot through the abdoinan by Henry A.

Miller, died on tha 29th. Miller is in jail. 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 duction of over six cents. CURRENT TOPICS. The total number of hogs packed in tne Detroit, Begins the New Year With a 2,000,000 Fire Ferry's Immense Seec WarehuuMe, Whites Gruud Opera Houm and the Windsor Block Uurued A Fireman Killed by a Falling Wall The Looses Koughly Estimated. Detroit, January 2 Shortly after nine o'clock yesterday morning smoke was observed coming from M. Ferry Co's mammoth building on Brush street, between Croghan and Lafayette streets.

An alarm was quickly turned in, and second and third alarms following iD quick succession, there being promise ol a big conflagration in the heart of the business part of the city. The lire department turned out in force and soon surroun Regiment. The following have been commissioned as officers of the Plainville Guards, Reserve Kansas State Militia: Hi West from November 1st to December 30th was 4,030,000 against 3,605,000 for the same time last year. The Hews in Brief. Contributions are being soiicitea to am those dependent for support upon we ram 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, Potta miners entombed in the Nanticoke tra.) coal shaft'. On the 30th. 250 miners of the Third Pool returned to work in the mines of Keeting Fire at the Peacock coal mine, near Mineral Ridge, on the 2l.tu, destroyed all the buildings, causing a loss of $10,000 and throwing 100 mea out of employment. At midnight on the 29th fire broke out in the cargo of the steamship Ryerson, loaded with cotton, at New Orleans. The extent of the damage was not ascertained.

John Bone and Wm. Bindley, of Rush Run, became involved in a fight on the 29th over the ownership of a wagon-load of corn. Finally Bone seised a half a fence-rail and struck Bindley on the head, killing him almost instantly. Santa Taylor killed Edward Purdue on the 29th with a knife The parties lived on adjoining farms near Yankeetown, and are members of influential families. Purdue leaves a wife and child.

The murder is the result of a quarrel over stock. at the old rate, after having been out all summer and fall. The suspension is announced of the First PBKSONAl AND POMTICAU Ma. Pksductow, the United States Min ister, and Mrs. Pendleton gave their first reception in Berlin on the evening of the 29th.

Among the guests were a large nam ber of American residents, a fact which shows that the American colony there is increasing. Rkv. S. H. Kkllogo, D.

has resigned the professorship of didactic and polemic theology ia the Western Theological Bern inary in Allegheny City, on account of ill-health and in obedience to the imperative order of his physicians. He has start National Bank of Lake City, Minn. watomie 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 ThkP ope will hold a consistory for creat in Bishops at the end of the present month. The actual count of Vanderbilt's securi ties showed an aggregate of $305,000,000. ded the burning building with hose. The flames had started in the packing department on the coiner of Lafayette and Brush streets, and soon enveloped the whole building, which was a mere shell, having but one solid wall inside of the outer walls. Bravely and intelligen tly the firemen kept at their work, but all efforts seemed futile, the flames spreading rapidly, until at one time there seemed a probability that the whole district in which the Herring building is situated was doomed.

The buildings on the opposite side of Brush and Croghan streets caught a num ber of times, but the department managed to keep the flames from totally destroying them. Across the alley from D. M. Ferry buildings, in the same square, and facing on Randolph street, are White's Grand Theater and the Win-sor block, and a smaller building used Nine frame residences and stores burnea On the 1st. T.

D. Sullivan, the new Lord Mayor of Dublin, was installed with much ceremony and great enthusiam. England has ceded to China part of Up at Chattanooga, on the 29th, causing a loss of insurauce, $8,000. The losers are: R. D.

Peoples, Jonn uuy, J. r. McMillan, Sons and Daughters of Zion and 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 the 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 R. V. Brennan. Fire broke out in the store of John Rage- man at Juliustown, N.

on tne stna. The store, with its contents, were de stroyed, as were three dwelling-houses. It was found that much of the goods were missing, creating the impression that the per Burmah in order to make the Chinese and Indian frontiers contiguous. A religious sect at Palmyra, are. on the point of starvation in their belief that they will obtain "power" by fasting.

Efforts are being made to issue a loan of $175,000,000 in London, to provide China with arm ameuts and railways. The presents received during many years have been converted by the Pope into money and presented to the College of the Propaganda. The proclamation announcing the annexation of Burmah to the British Empire has reached Rangoon. store had been robbed and then set nre to. JohnH arrinoton, residing in New York 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 had a quarrel with his wife on the 29th. He seized a hatchet and struck Her in tne head, killing her on the spot. Harring ton was arrested. Ov thfl the rone of an elevator in a Bishop Han nington, engaged in mis- SI i 1 Una ed for the West Indies for rest and recuperation in that mild climate.

Thk Haytain Generals, La Conte and La Roche, have taken refuge at St. Thomas. Captain Pollkts, for a long time American Consul in Cuba, committed suicide recently at Barbadoes. John T. Morton, colored, of Arkansas, has been appointed to a $1,000 position in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General.

President Cleveland has intimated his desire to aid in the erection of the proposed monument to the late Vice-President Hendricks. On the 29th ex-United States Senator James Bailey died at his home in Clarks-ville, Tenn. Dr. Slade, the spiritualist, was arrested at Weston, on the 29th, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, in giving seances for pay. General Sheridan and Secretary Whitney issued orders to army and navy officers in Washington to assemble in full uniform New Year's Day to pay their respects to the President of the United States.

Hannah Keene and Josephine E. Ruet, two women arrested at Springfield, charged with disturbing a meeting of the Salvation Army, pleaded guilty in the Police Court, and were fined and paid $4.22 each. Speaker Carlisle has decided to eliminate from the House Committee list those on Pensions, Bounty and Back Pay, Public Health and the Tenth Census. store in Philadelphia, broke, precipi as a restaurant. ine names leaped across the alley and began to eat into the theater.

First the roof caught, and soon fcil in with a terrible crash, firing the whole interior of the building, after driving away the men who had been working on the Ferry block through the windows of the theater. The crashing window glass was the signal for increased fury of the flames, which seemed to laugh at the efforts of the lire-men. An immense crowd blocked the streets in every direction, and at times were in the way of the department. By ten o'clock the Ferry block was a mass of flames and the walls had commenced to fall, creating something of a panic among the throng of idle spectators. Numerous, narrow escapes occurred i tating Christian Stapleton, agea tuiriy- Bionary services in wui Ainca, ua been seized by King Mombasa, and will probably be put to death.

five. and Frederic Fisher, aged twenty two, to the basement and seriously injur Dodge City, $1,500 was netted in two nights. The average wages of coal miners at Burliiiganie is per month. Marion, the county seat of Marion County, wants a good, reliable nurseyman to locate there and start a nursery. The G.

A. R. fair held in Newton, Cowley County, recently netted the society about $700. Burlingame has an efficient fire department. The fire company consists of twenty-one active colored men.

It is intimated that the British government will oppose the revival of the bill for ing them. Frederick Foote killed Andrew Brink the construction of a tunnel under tue at Fenton, Mich. Justus Brown, a farmer near Wilson, N. was burned to death in his house. O.v the 30th Henry G.

Kemper, a small among the nremen, wno worweo tiusc to the flames, wrapped in repeatedly soaked but rapidly drying clothes. liy 10:30 grocer of Cincinnati, was found murdered in his store. A mulatto was suspected of the crime. The safe of the Ipswicn laiass.) ross- The people of Randolph, Riley County, want some one to go there and start a paper. There are 144 teachers actively engaged 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 build offlce was blown open the nignt ot ine 30th and $'J00 in stamps and some money stolen. This is the sixth time the same safe has been burglarized in eight years. English Channel, between England and Fiance. In the Riverside (Pa.) Penitentiary there are 330 idle convicts, the contracts in the iron, cigar and broom departments having expired.

The convicts employed in these departments will remain idle until they can be placed at rug-making or other industries the State may see fit to establish. On the 1st a meeting of leading merchants of Boston was held to take action relative to alleged undervaluation of imported goods by customs officers at New which importers at Boston and elsewhere are placed at a disadvantage, and a committee was appointed to aid the special committee of the United States Senate in its coming investigation into the subject. Emperor William of Germany has conferred upon Cardinal G. Jacobini the decoration of the Black Eagle, and upon Mon-aiirnnrn ftalimberti and Moceni, of the Rrv. Francis Harrison, rector of St.

Paul's Episcopal Church, at Troy, N. died on the 29th, aged forty-six. He was On the 30th a collision on the Michigan Central Road, near Carrollton, killed one man and fatally injured two others, all residents of Jackson, Mich. On the 30th the body of Alfred Thorn was found in a hay loft at Rocky River, near Cleveland, O. Thorn was fifty-one years old and it is thought was from Syracuse, N.

Y. Suicide was the manner of death. a very prominent churchman, and his name was a few years ago mentioned for White's Theater had been seized by the fire, and by eleven the tire-men were compelled to turn their attention more to saving the buildings on the opposite side of llandolph street, although still keeping numerous streams of water playing on the burning building. At eleven o'clock the men ol No. 3 Fire Company raised a ladder in frcHit of the theater to get a better chance at the flames.

Finding the rapidly advancing tire would prevent any effective work at that point, the men were descending the ladder, and had about reached the ground, when several feet of the cornice fell on the ladder-wagon. Captain Kichard Filbin was struck on the head by the bricks and instantly killed, and Fireman White was badly but not fatally injured. Soon after the flames spread to the Wesson block, on the corner of Randolph and Croghan streets, and that building was quickly enveloped in flames. Although the buildings across the street were threatened, and caught once or twice, the department managed to keep the lire within the square named, the then vacant Bishopric of Indiana. He was a member of the committee on revi ings.

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 8t. 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-rvsville, Marshall County, with Blue Rap sion of the book of common prayer. Thk Citv Council of Vincennos. has On the night of the 31st James Kinkade bounced the entire night police force, Eu was fatally shot by a burglar at Mahon- rene Crandall. Jacob Metzger, Gotlieb Pope's official household, the decoration of ingtown, Pa.

Vicke and Tom Shay, whom Mayor Wil the Red Eagle, in recognition of their val helm and the Committee on Police found uable services in connection with the settlement of the Carolines dispute. off duty one night recently between twelve and one o'clock. On the 1st 1,500 bales ol cotton were burned in the warehouse of J. S. Stewart Son at Macon, Ga.

On the 21st JohnTerwell threw a hatchet at his son in Chicago, and slightly wounded his daughter. Horrified at what he had done he attempted suicide by cutting his ids. Waterville, Frknkfort, Barrett, Uiglow Professor Edwin Sanborn, of Dart And Irvinir. all in Marshall County. The LATE NEWS ITEMS.

mouth College, died on the 29th, aged sev enty-seven years. He was a native of Gilmanton, N. was graduated from cost will be about $3,000. A half rate has been secured on the railroads from Topeka to Denver for those at throat with a razor. tending the National Teachers' Association next summer.

The round trip will Treasurer Jordan took charge ol uxe sub-treasury at New York on the 2d, against the protest of Mr. Acton. During January the commissions of over 100 Presidential Postmasters will ex- P1Oil has been discovered at Park Hill, Ontario. The 200 Eastern cigarmakers who are to take the places of Chinaman have arrived at San Fraucisco. On the 1st Denning Walsh's agricultural warehouse at Edinburg, was destroyed by fire.

Jim Reynolds was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Sidney, for the murder of James and John Pink-ston, of Fairville, Salem County, Mo. On the 1st Ferry's seed warehouse and White's Grand Opera-house, with adjacent trnntiirnR. in Detroit. burned, in and by twelve o'clock it was iuny umiei control. Last niu'ht the flames were still raging fiercely, but had been confined within the walls of the buildings already aientioned.

During the worst of the fire the wind nad been from the south, and the single building on the corner of Lafayette and Randolph streets was not seriously injured, but all the rest of the square was total loss. The burned district belonged to what is known as the Brush estate, having been the site of the old homestead. 1). M. Ferry Co.

built their mammoth establishment six years ago. White's Theater was originally built to accommodate the Peninsular Saenger- cost at this 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 $1,030, and present it to him. Dartmouth in the class of 1832.

He was identified with the college through the greater part of his life. He married a niece of Daniel Webster, and one of his children is Miss Kate Sanborn, the writer and lecturer. John Tkemer, the oarsman, is to visit Australia in the spring, where he will row with Beach. The Indiana State chess tournament was won by Dr. Leech, of Waveland.

Earl Cowper claims that rent, and not home rule, is the overshadowing Irish question. M. DeLessepb 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. On the 30th Lieutenant Jones of the Fourth United States Artillery committed volving a loss of nearly $2,000,000, with insurance of about $8 0. Captain R.

Fel-ban, a fireman, was crushed to death by a falling wall. On the 1st Miss Elizabeth B. Van Verst lost her life in New York by her clothing taking fire in an open grate. She was sixty -five years of age. C.

B. Maurer's flouring mill at Tall The Canadian Parliament Has Deen prorogued until February 13th. Captain Gerroci of the schooner Racer is under arrest at Boston, charged with scuttling the vessel. The penalty is death. AN old man named Nallen and his wife, of Perth, Ontario, were burned to death in their dwelling on the 2d.

A large number of persons in the vicinity of Spring Grove, are said to be afflicted with leprosy. bund, a Michigan off-shoot of the North American SaengcrbuiHt. ine company was organized in 1880, and this Music Hall was built at that time, being opened Randall, Jewell County, has bad a recent visitor who sold his farm in the East for $800 and expected to buy an improved farm of 100 acres in Jewell County for that sum. He has not yet found the farm. Washington County has organized a coal mining company with a ninety-nine with an annual feast August 30lh, 188U.

K-nrrk N. J. children who were M. Ferry building occupied half the square, being one ot tne largest treated in Paris by M'. Pasteur, sailed for home on the 2d.

thn citv. Their seed business was madge, was entirely destroyed by nre at an early hour on the 1st. The loss on the building and machinery is $30,000, and on stock $5,000 to $10,000. There is an insurance of $17,230 on the building and $2,000 on stock, distributed among a dozen or more companies. probably the largest in the United States.

A German family of five persons living the building nurneu iu-uuy near Pittsburgh, are suffering irom trichinosis from eating uncooked salt porK. suicide at Fort Adams, rather be court-martialed for overstaying his leave of absence. On the 31st James Elder, Postmaster at Richmond, dropped dead. M. Pasteur has concluded his treatment of the four children from Newark, N.J.

President Grevy has accepted the resignation of Premier Brisson and has summoned M. de Freycinet to form a Cabinet. people are usually employed, oe-sides 400 more employed on their old scheme has been revived France to connect Marseilles with the River Rhone by a canal. immense farms outside the city, it was providential that the fire occurred on a holiday, as otherwise the loss of life MI3CKLLAXCODS. The Postmaster-General has signed a convention to take effect January 1, 1886, for the exchange of money orders between the United States and the Leeward would have probably been very gicai.

Definite figures of losses can not be given, but the total will fall not far short Oliver Doud Byron was convicwu Cincinnati, on the 2d, of violating the law prohibiting theatrical performances on Suuday. He was not present to receive year charter and a capital stock or W.uuo. Their plan is to hire a steam boring machine and bore 1,000 feet deep at three different points in the county. Mr. Woolford 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. Louis, and was sold for $714. After paying the freight he realized a clear profit of $055 or nearly $22 per acre on his sod. Four years ago a man in Burdenville, Cowley County, 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 Islands, comprising the islands ot Antigua, St. Christopher, Neuvis, Dominica, of $2,000,000. TI1C SIOCN mouc iu M. Ferry is estimated to sentence.

Vvtm nnnivi rt numbers of jews are Monserratt and the Virgin Islands. have been worth Irom to $1,200,000, and their building On the 30th Indiana teachers began a going to England from Germany, Russia State convention at Indian apolis. and Roumania. was valued at $250,000. as io rue origin of the fire there are no well-de- The coal miners' convention neia at An eruption has occurred at the volcano On the 1st King Leopold of Belgium received Lieutenant Taunt, U.

8. who has been exploring the Congo region. Prof. C. C.

Georoeson, of Texas, has been appointed Professor in the State College at Tokio, Japan. United States Consul-general Waller gave a brilliant New Year's reception at the rooms of the St. George's Club at London. A great many notables were among the callers. On the 1st Fitzhugh Lee was inaugurated as Governor of Virginia with much pomp and ceremony.

at Colima, Mexico. fined theories. ome oi uic kuV hint at incendiarism, claiming that there Elizabeth, on the 2d decided by a two-thirds vote to return to work at the oper An immense slaughter-house is among were no fires in the part of the minding ators' terms. the projected industries to be established first attacked by the flames, and uiai some It ia Btated that English and American at Miles City, Mont. some stock and paid the bill, the receipt for outside agency must have been respon companies have secured extensive contracts The British had a skirmish recently which he handles now with much care.

sible for the fire. The oincers oi w.c company are completely at a loss to ac for steel rails with China. with the rebels in Egypt and came off Fred Ledser. a voung man about eigh mviKT. Oshorn.

arrested tor iorgerj, teen vears old. living near Wanneta, Chau count for thoAmgin oi ine me. near Columbus, on the 2d, was shot and Oranqemen and Catholics are engaged tauoua Countv. met with a fearful accident in active hostilities again at Conception i. ia nnt.

imntitKr racentlv. He had shot Bay, N. F. some auail in a hedge fence and was try A Dead Itobber Identified. Indian Aroi.is, January 1.

The remains of the robber killed by Luther Cline Wednesday night were brought to onfi identified as those killed by the Marshal while attempting fire at the latter, An agreement has been reached between Prince Alexander and Turkey concerning the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Rou-melia. ing to dislodge them with the butt' of his eun. when a twig caught the trigger, dis CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Floyd Hicks, a negro rousber, murderously assaulted the mate of the steamer Will S. Hays, near Natchez, on the 29th, and was shot dead by Captain Floyd.

Mrs. Wm. Macklin, wife of the inspector of orovisions at Quincy Market, Bos- A strike is threatened of locomotive engineers on the elevated roads at New York. On the evening of the 30th at a banquet given by the Boston (Mass.) Merchants' charging the gun, and a heavy load of shot struck the young man's leg near the thigh, tills eiiy ycotvAviv a nnmed Thompson, who had been hrAakimr the bones and tearing tne nesn A convention of steel manufacturers hmhaliLal Pittsburgh, on the 7th AiiidaiaiiiDm several "diitinraibnod Benn'J and muscles fearfully. ton, Masjnj Ihervhuubandtt! stopping at the Powell House this citv for the past Mvo weeks, nnd who had been under police surveillance since his arrival here.

On the limns of his hat were cqnsidar the, advisability of advancing tors 'arssenre! jrfflfi. he( Lindsborg, McPherson County, is a beau tiful citv of about 1,050 inhabitants sit invited guests. prices. The American Pasteur Institute has been ofilce oiVtfWtWW w(ff)(vvftWiDM1i MRS.ANNIErGASKf mnrdeWf her infant; at Phfladeltfhfa, was ...1 im ntni ill Hill. xvii the uated in the northern portion of McPher VltlltlO 'II'vm and it is Incorporated at New York, with the object tint Ktnvn.

Areola. iu. son County on the north bank of the great From reports received on the 30th, it seeiaiiilp'rababWiDtihat'itbei twduia 'be Jhtftfn, slight toQreWi)tafth8lMU debti irtuh tArfobnbW mLMtiJ 'awa-it Smokv Hill River, surrounded by a mag Of introducing; rasteur-s system i iu-Jaton for hydrophobia in this country. the action of District)' lAltwaiyU 'She nificent farming country, under a high thought that he came from that section. An hour after the shooti.ig, a nia tPPC at a farm house near the village Bioad Ripple, and inquired the way to his cl ty, and blood stains were found along his indicatins that no a claimed, JW6 5Vf state of cultivation and very fertile; the br eceinber V.

I 1 1 1 -Vat Inn. Jul" farmers are a fine class of men and they are prosperous and happy. The society is inleW min jth SoutUeM lAirnej and that Cline's excellent nnd all in all the city is a pleas Thompson's companion BWUtt'OS'VMUUri Amevimnlhttitutelbt on the Pasteup 1 tofet aBtabUiksdla overcome on'tu92thilanil feil'twettU ant place to live in. on the, 8d and one mnknown ledgtr ion nia bullet had taken effect upon him. ty-flve feet, striking ft life.

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