The McCune Leader from McCune, Kansas • 2

PEACE ON EARTH. THE Mc'OUNE LEADER. I GENERAL NEWS Inzze Bordon is awaiting quietly and with apparent confidence the verdict HELD RESPONSIBLE. BE WAS TOO NERVY, Infanta Eulalia 1' Chicago Thursday morning, going to Niagara Falls on a special train. 6 Kansas will be good for 40,000,000 bushels of wheat and the banner corn Btate this year.

Attorney General Little has been invited to deliver the Fourth of July address at Fort Scott. Thursday was German day at the fair and. one of the banner crowds of the season it proved to be; Mrs. Kate Kersch, living near Park-ersbdrg, W. while insane killed herself and her four small children.

A Southern Kansas man is going to walk from Sedan to Chicago and visit the world's fair. He will start June 20. KANSAS MATTERS. Items of Interest Condensed for Harried Reader. Wellington is to have a semi-professional baseball team.

A cigarmakers union has been organized at Independence. A lion is said to be prowling arounS in the brush hear Arkansas City. An attempt to burn the postoflice at Muscotah was made last Tuesday. John Hall, president of the Fulton bank, dropped dead with heart disease on Satnrday-. An "1-ther" and "ni-ther" summer girl has arrived in town, and the boys are all of her.

Kansas ought to warm tip td Prin cess Eulalia. She manifests a decided partiality for corn bread. Carefully Selected Newa of Current Tents. Eight hundred Russian Jews will soon sail from Bremen for New York. They are now talking' about placing' an immigration inspector in Kansas City.

The Krupp gun, the largest ever cast, measures fifty-seven feet from breech to muzzle. According to statistics, only one person in five in Sumner county belongs to a church. The Spanish building at the world's fair was opened Tuesday in a quiet and -unostentious manner. I has been decided that no matter what the fair proper does the Midway plaisance will be kept open on Sun- Prom the treasury standpoint there is a general improvement in the finan cial and business situation of the country. Infanta Eulalia paid her farewell visit to the fair Tuesday, and said that "she would carry away many pleasant memories.

The baseball people of Independence and Cherryvale don't think the same of each other as of old, on account of their baseball teams. The women's suffrage campaign will be opened in Kansas by the women of the state in a big meeting to be held in Kansas City, Sept. 1. The first crop of alfalfa is being' cut. but it will be short this year.

With plenty of rain from now on, two more crops can be cut before frost. Secretary Morton has made the as tounding statement that he considers the inspection of pork a fraud and that he is thinking of abandoning it. H. C. Lindsay has been appointed aid-de-camp on the governors' staff, with the title of lieutenant colonel.

This appointment completes the staff. The investigation into the Ford the ater Tuesday developed little beyond the fact that Colonel Ainsworth and Jacob Freech were greatly feared by all the men. There are still bushels of old wheat in Saline county, which was accused fifteen years ago of being a coun ty that would never be good for agri- nltural purposes. Three Italian war ships will sail for New York on June 22, to make a friendly demonstration. The new battleship Le Umberto will sail for New lork in July.

The conservative party of Cuba has started an agitation against adminis trative reforms, especially to the plan substituting one general council for the several provincial councils. W. J. Elliott, life prisoner in th? Ohio penitentiary, was attacked on last luesday by another convict, named arne3 who threw vitrol in his face. burning him in a terible manner.

Bandit Evans, of California, who. though badly wounded, made his es cape when isontag was caught, has been located and captured by the of ficers, not being able to make any re sist! nee. Fire broke out in a New York build ing Tuesday, in the part occupied by a number of "sweater" shops. There vas a panic among the emyloyees and several were killed in the rush to escape. Chicago doesn't seem to be spread ing it on much thicker than the Spanish visitors.

Yeragua is quoted as saying that the world's fair town is "the most wonderful city in the world." Mrs. Carrie Herring, widow of the lamented Luke Ilerring, assumes control of the Sumner County Standard as publisher. Frank 11. Gilmore in the future will have charge of the editorial columns. The statement which appeared in several Kansas papers last week to the effect that the Bank of Hope had been closed, was not exactly correct; it has simply been re-organized, and will hereafter be known as the Hope State bank.

H. S. Gamble, of New York, a dele-gat i to the international convention of the Typographical Union, which meets in Chicago this week, was drowned in Diamond lake. He was in a row boat and being seized with an epileptic fit, fell over into the wat er. Archbishop Alarcoa has presented to the National Museum a stone head of an idol which was being worshiped by the Indians of Xoxotla Tlacholoaya six leagues from the parish of Xochi-tepec, in the state of Morelos, Mexico.

he head was on a statue of great dimensions covered with a crocodile's hide- It is well carved, and presents an interesting study for archadogists. The four-masted iron frame British ship Elembank arrived from Hakodate, Japan, a week ago, was discovered on fire Monday. The cargo had all been removed except 2,400 tons of sulphur. it was nnally found impossible to save the remaining cargo, and the shin was pumped full of water. The fire is still burning and the caruro will be a total loss of about 800,000.

Win. G. Hutchins, a wealtbv farmer living near Crawfordsvill, was found Wednesday night beneath the wagon bed, which had unset off a bridge, throwing him in the ditch. When found he was pinioned in the slimy mire and cold in death. The month and windpipe were clotted with mi (i and sinne.

and the eyes ears, and ha.r were failed and matted, rendering the ight a most sickeninar one. The state board of agriculture is is suing circulars to the farmer's of the state asking for their best sneeimens of growing crops, which will be sent to Chicago and displayed in the Kan sas building. The board managers has asked Mr. Mohler to get these samples xogemer, ana tneir appearance will excite a great deal of interest, Some fault has been found that sher iffs riding on passes should still draw milage from the state or county, but in an opinion of the attorney general it is nelrt that they have a riirht to their milage, as that is their compensation for duty, and they can draw it just the same, whether they ride on a pass or pay tare. Hutch inson had a large buildinc to collapse Sunday night.

The building was a large warehouse used for the storage of salt; but that couldn't save it. Luckily no one was in the building at the time and only harm done was of a financial sort, and not very extensive. The first Baptist church organized in the state was Atchinson in the year 1854, which was about the time the et tte convention began its work since which time the convention has spent in the 6tate for missionary purposes 8300,000. There are now 028 churches with a membership of 37,000, of which 10,000 are colored. Two sons of Hiram Higley.

a farmer living near Atchison, 18 and 20 years old respectively, were d. owned in Stranger's creek, Sunday afternoon while seining. Cmlv one body was re covered. Another fearful warning to Sabbath desecrators. Dr.

C. E. Witham reports a curious accident that occurred during a storm in Kansas City, last Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. South wick who had been sick with rheumatism was instantly cured by a heavy shock of lightning and has not been troubled ejnoe Mcivinney was cured at JW l.mo of neuralgia and bead, Bow Two Women' Met Alter a Long Separation.

They met In the calm of a lovely day. Soft breezes whispered sweet messages to the budding trees, and even the salesman at the bargain counter wore a more charitable look. They met and greeted, says the Detroit Tribune. Oh, dear." exclaimed the lady in grenadine with gilt trimmings, "it's an age since I saw you." "Yes, indeed." cctsatically rejoined the lady in white organdie with pale blue flowers wrought in the fabric "It was getting almost insupportable" A pause of one-sixteenth of a second ensued. "Well.

I declare, if The lady in grenadine was gazing fixedly at the lady in organdie. "gray hair isn't positively becoming to you. Isn't it perfectly delightful? I am so glad; gray hair is such a trial to many." to be sure." There was another pause. "I'm so glad" The lady in orirandie was earnestly contemplating the lady in grenadine. "you are till to make your dresses lit in spite of your gcttin" fleshy.

Isn't it fortunate? Far Is such a thorn to most people." "Yes." There was a little more silence. "Well, goodbye." chirped the lady in grenadine. -Uyc," cooed the lady in organdie. "I hope it won't be so long till we meet again." Oh, my, yes. I couldn't stand it.

Really. The City TmH It. New York. June lrt. The Recorder will detail to-morrow the cure of sev eral consumptive patients at Ward's Island under the direction of the city authorities.

As only charity patients in the stajre of consumption are admitted there, the Recorder claim the cure, fur which it awarded Iir. W. R. Amick of Cincinnati has accomplished something almost miraculous. It says also that the Cincinnati doctor lias atrroed to keep the hospital supplied with medicines sufficient for all its consumptive cases at his own expense: as only third stage cases are taken there tio more severe test could be invitfd.

While it is now generally admitted that the Amick discovery fs a certain specific in the earlier stages of consumption. Amick has never heretofore claimed that it would cure inure than 2' per rent of third stajre consumptives. In this test just made by the city three out of four were I'ithcrcurcd or astonish ingly benefited. It is easy enough for any sufferers from the disease to test lie new discovery through their family physician for Amick sends medicines for the purpose free of cost, anil invites impartial test of it by the medical profession everywhere. NOT MARCO TWAIN.

An Amus np Incident of a Traveler's VUlt to Venice. The most striking feature of St. Mark's in Venice, is the profusion of mosaics, which are said to cover fifty thousand square feet, and are much like faded paintings in appearance. High up in the facade is t'i Lion of St Mark, which one sees repeated in every material and manner. The author of "College Tramps" gives an experience with a guide which suggests that Italians do not appreciate American humorists, says Youth's Companion.

We passed out, he says, into the square, glancing, as we went, at tha work of sewral artists who were busily putting upon their canvas tho imae of the gorgeous interior. While in the cathedral, our guide, who was pointing out and explaining the different objects of interest, waved his band toward the magnificent bronze altar, and whispered impassively, "(icntlemen, at ze bottom under zis grando altarc. repose ze great San Marco, zo patron of Vene-ziu. He is brought here from Alex-andreca, one thousand year." Ah," said -he is the gentleman who owned the lion. Is is he dead?" The guide's face grew livid, and his hand flew for his stiletto it may have been for his handlkr-hief.

his hand flew somewhere, anyway. Is you call Marco Twain asked "No," replied the trembling my name is not Mark Twain." The guide kindly refrained from further demonstrations, but muttered: "Zat Marco Twain have made one big fool of ze guide profession in Italia, and all ze guide have conjuratione to keel him. soon as he come once more." was his most patient auditor for the rest of the morning. Brightest Part of My Trip. A New York fashion -orresiondent of a Southern paper gives out the fol lowing A lady writes: I have read your letters for long time, and have often envied vou the opportunity vou enjoy of seeing the beautiful things vou describe.

I used lo think when 1 read of those charming dresses and parasols antl hats iit Lord Taylor's, that theirs must be one of those stores where a timid. nervous woman like myself, having but a few dollars to spare for a season's outfit, would be of so little account that slio would receive little attention; but when you said, in one of your letters a few months ago. that goods of the same quality were really cheaer there than elsewhere, because they Fold more goods in their two stores than any other firm in New York, and that because they sold more they bought more, and consequently liought cheaer, I deter mined, it I ever went to -ew icrK, 1 would go to Lord Taylor's. "That long-vuiteoIor time came in the early autumn, and I found myself standing before that great entrance, with those wonderful windows at either side. I summoned my courage and entered, as I suppose tens of thousauds of just such timid women as I have done belore.

My rears were gone in an instant. The agreeable attention put me at my ease at once, and I felt as much at home as though I were in the little countrv store where my people have traded for nearly a quarter of a century. "And now, as I wear the prettv things I purchased, or see them every day and find them all so satisfactor-, I think of my visit to this great store as the brightest part of my trip to New York." Perfectly Safe. Little Girl That's the second time your mamma has caLed you. Little Boy, busy playing I know.

"Won't she whip you if you don't "Xo. she's got company and she'll aay: 'He's been real deaf since he had the measles, poor little fellow. Street Smith's Good News. Nothing- to Feed On. "Cholly is down with bwaln fevah, don'tcherknow "You don't say! Bwaln lev ah, That's a fevah that aw takes tea day to wun." "Ya'as.

but in Cholly's rasa tb avs it will take only two hour. a4 fe "in hf all wif 11 o-BOOWirOTr." of the jury. President Cleveland has issued a bul letin assigning to duty as Indian agents, a large number of army offi cers. Fire is raging- in the Reading- coal storage yards at Buffalo, and all efforts to extinguish it have proved unavail ing. Gladstone is making slow progress witn the home rule bill, and he is now threatened with a revolt of the Irish members.

Neither Great Britain nor France has had a good rain for a long time and in both countries the situation is rapidly becoming alarming. At Eolla, N. a cowbov robbed the bank and killed the cashier, after which he was run down and killed by the indignant citizens. Four Choctaw Indians who participated in the recent trouble in the na tion have been convicted of murder and will be sentenced to be shot. Latest returns from the German election indicate that the reichstag will be very close, with the chances more favorable for the government.

The International Tyographical Union has decided to make public the facts brought out in the investigation into the management of the Childs-Drexel home. girls at Evanston, 111., have created consternation in the ranks of of the ladies of that tewn by boycotting all of those who went into the co-operative scheme. The United States judge at Seattle has made an important ruling to the effect that the government has no longer any control over land which has been allotted to Indians. President lliginbotham made a. blunder in appearing at breakfast with the Infanta in full dress if he will bring the railroads to time on rates the country will overlook his "break." The evidence brought out Saturday at the Ford theater inquest showed that both Contractor Dant and the government are much to blame for the manner in which the work was done.

3 Mary Levinsky, aged 20 years, was instantly killed near Perkiomen Junction. She was an employe of Lee's mill's, at Bridgeport, fler hat blew out of the car window and she jumped after it. 1 The first serious accident at the fair occurred Wednesday evening on Midway plaisance. One man mangled and dead and five men and women terribly injured, tells the tale of the last trip of a coasting train on the ice railway. Chief Justice Fuller Saturday dissolved the injunction restraining the world's fair from opening the gates, and remanded the matter back to the circuit court, which means that the fair will be open on Sundays in the future without opposition.

The biennial official directory of the officials of the state of Kansas, which is now being prepared by the secretary of state, will contain the names and postoflice address of every county officer in the state, together with the salary of his office. Roy Massingill stabbed Walter Sims at Clinton, Sunday night. The knife penetrated the heart and Sims ran about 100 yards and fell dead. Both boys are about 19 years old and fell out about a girl. Massingill was taking the girl home and Sims met him and a dispute followed with the above result.

An indiscreet Xortonville urchin ran away from home the other day and sought distinction by inaugurating the swimming season. On his return home his damp hair told the story of misconduct. His mother, in view of his affinity for wafer, took him to the woodshed on a whaling expedition. The expedition was considered very successfull the boy produced a satisfactory amount of blubber. The several newspaper editors, pro -prietois and reporters confined In Be-lem prison in the City of Mexico, were given clean and decent quarters a few days ago, but they have now been transfered to the worst "cells in the prison by order of the court, as thev continued despite their confinement to write articles for their respective news papers attacking the government.

The prisoners do not show any veidence of repentance. Last Sunday was a dry dav in Col' umbus, Ohio. Chief of Police. Patfels. issued an order to the police force that nerealter saloons must close at mid nigni on Saturday night and remain closed until 5 o'clock on Monday morn ing.

persons could be seen go ing Home with long bottles, labelled ink. lSilliard halls, gambling dens of all sorts are ordered out of town. i he most disastrous storm that has ever visited Mexico, is reported from the town of Pauchmetla. The entire town was destroyed, every house in the place being swept away by the ternffc wind. The town had a popu lation of about 2000 persons, all of whom Were made homeless.

About thirty persons were injured, but none fatally. Crops are all destroyed. 1 The church of Chudov monastery was recently roooeci or plate, money and geins valued at between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 rubles. All the monks be longing to the monastery were arrested. A search of their cells revealed that they had perpetrated the robbery.

All the stolen property was found in their cells. The police also discovered a number of women had been living secretly with the monks. They will all be banished to Siberia. The monastery is in St. Petersburg.

Dr. J. R. Walker, resident physician and overseer at the Leech Lake Indian reservation, aecidently shot an Indian and is repoted held a prisoner and in danger of his life. The marshall communicated with General Merritt.

commanding the department of Dakota. A company of Third United States troops was ordered to make ready to proceed as rapidly as possible to the reservation. The situation looks serious. The Indians were paid off recently and the trouble arises without doubt from their drinking. contraband whiskey.

A disastrous flre visited the town of Dundoff, on last Saturday and wiped out the best portion of it. Fifty convicts while returning from the quarries to Tourah prison in Egypt, overpowered the mounted guards and tried to escape. They constituted the last squad of a gang of 600. As the fifty convicts flew, eleven of the advance guards started in pursuit. The twenty-five guards with the other 5 0 convicts kept them quiet by firing repeatedly over thei heads.

Half a mile from the spot where the mutiny broke out, the eleven guards overtook the fugitives and ordered them to surrender. The convicts, who had arms, answered with a volley, which wounded two men and killed three horses. Thji return volleys fromthe guards killed thirty-nine convicts. Two suits for big damages were filed in the District Court of Wyandotte county. Monday against the Kansas City, Wyandotte and Northwestern Railroad.

The one begun by Mrs. Emma Popnil for $10,000 for the loss of her husband, an engineer on the road, who was recently killed in an accident. She alleges that the acci dent was caused by a defective roadbed and through gross carelessness of the railroad company. The other suit was instituted by John H. Gatchell.

a fireman, who demands 93,500 for Injuries sustained in the accident. Lftrepca has a school jpyuUlUii 8,572 M. F. SEARS, Publisher. Kansas.

People sojourning- within the cy clone belt should never write that they expect to leave a town on a cer tain day without inserting the pro viso. "Unless the town should mean while leave me." The New Jersey aeronaut who fell 1,000 feet and lost his life because the wings he depended on to supple ment his parachute wouldn't work ought to have read the story of Dar ius Green before he made the leap. Booth has long been recognized as the greatest of tragedians. But it has not been known, as well as it is now, that much of his own life has been a tragred v. He has been afflic ted with much of the moody melan choly that sometimes dominates men of great genius.

Uncle Sam has given a pension to I Mrs. O'Leary, who owned the famous cow that kicked the historic lamp that started the well-remembered conflagration that burned the city of Chicago. The pension was granted on account of the military services of Mr. Leary, and not on account of the cow. Two hundred words of the monkey dialect have been obtained by Professor Garner and he thinks that about thirty only remain uncaught.

The words for cane and cigarette should be given out at once, lor one is liable to meet a dude at any mo ment, and it is well to be civil to the poor creatures. Ihe bull in the china shop is antique as it were. A -Xew York horse rushed mto an ice cream saloon the other day, kicked over the counter and acted as the starter in a sprint race in which several young men and their best girls took part. It was a handicap race and the ice cream man got the worst of it. The hat pin has taken its place among the novel weapons of offense.

A New York man who was known as "Italian Mike" aroused the pang's of jealousy in the bosoms of two'foolish young women of Houston street. The green-eyed monster laughed when he saw one of the love-sick maidens jab her hat pin through the other girl's nose. The police of Birmingham have arrested a peculiar knave whose spec ial delight was to jab a darning needle into the person of any unsuspecting female that came his way. The women of the city are much relieved. They had long been afraid to venture out.

'-I'll be darned if I do" could properly have been an excuse in Birmingham. Postmasters have been instructod from Washington to look out for disease germs and prevent their passage. through the mails. What the postmaster who doesn't know a disease germ when he sees one is to do is not stated. It seems that careless people bad a habit of boxing up suspicious small fry and sending them to experts to find out what they were.

Some inquisitive person asks here does all the small change There- arc 119,000,000 old copper pennies somewhere. Nobody Knows where. Occasionally one turns up in change. Where are uieyr eu, tnere arc a few than numis matist in tins world. l'hey ve got enough pieces of money locked up as curiosities to start national banks in every state in the Union.

The inalienable right of a British subject to b3 drunk on the streets of his own town is evaded by the report of a commission which investigated drunkenness by order of parliament. If this report is adopted it will be possible to run in a boozer and send him to a reformatory for a year, where lie will have time to reform, and if he doesn't he will get back again in a short time for two years. Timio people should not get fright ened because there are several fugi tive murderers at large. Probably 4V. .4.1..

jie iii'jm iiarmiess man possioie is a fleeing murderer. There is nothing so fearful to him as the sight of a human face. Let us fear men with murder in their hearts, but which they have not yet committed; and have no fear of men whose murders are accomplished and who are fleein from justice. X.I.MKBOHY has had the kindness to estimate the bulk of the mass of ice that could be melted by the beat certain to he generated if this world were to crash into another world of its own sie. It is useful to know -r i i limits, nj course, ana.

people who have to work for a living should be grateful that there are large minds not afraid to soar above sordid tnings and grapple the grave prob lems of existence. But where is the ice coming from? Mass.u ju ste i may be overstocked with women but such is not the case in i lie country at large. A census bulletin shows that in the United States there are 1,. 000,000 more male than female persons. -now that so many housekeepers are beginning to stain their fingers picKing over berries, some of them may like to know that if they will dampen their hands and burn couple of matches "underneath, the brimstone fumes will take the stain all off.

The revolution in Nicaragua ended a few days ago and no new revolution has fitted itself into the aching void. Ihe machinery of have slipped a cog. would rather perish bv than to succumb to ennui. state must Nicaragua the sword iiiuniiu in.Ds iatner is no longer a British officeholder at La- X. II.

ji i ii we. jib uesignaieu me town, in his book, as "hell with the lid and very naturally the inhabitants proceeded to make it extremely hot ior riudyard sire. uxm loLsroi is coming over to Our world's fair. Wonder if he will still keep up his work as a cobbler. If he will open a cobbler's shop on the fair grounds, we will guarantee that he will have all the patronage he desires.

Japanese children are taught to write with both hands. A Jap would be a good sort of a fellow to have arounu a newspaper office when the 6ta3 was short-handed and the fore-' man was yelling down the tube for Verdict in the Pono theater HORROR, AINSWORTH AND DAN! BLAMED, Covert arid Sasae, tile Superintendent arid Engineer Respectively of He Building, Also Likely to Ba Held Coniutilulenta to jail to Be loaned for All the Fartiea Accused. Washixgtox, June 20. Coroner Patterson this morning declined to summon Colonel Ainsworth as a witness before the jury investigating the Ford's theater disaster. Four of the jury requested his presence and two were indifferent.

It is definitely stated that the jury in its verdict will hold Colonel Ainsworth and Contractor G. YV. Dant responsible for the disaster and probably include Covert and Sasse, superintendent and engineer respectively of the ruined building, in its findings. Coroner Patterson will not issue the commitments to jail of the parties accused until to-morrow. ACQUITTAL IS EXPECTED.

Final Argrnmente la the Famous Lizzie Borden Case Now on. New Bedford, June 2a Today the final arguments in the famous Lizzie Borden murder case were begun. At their close the case will go to the jury. It is the general opinion that the accused woman will be acquitted or that the jury will be hung. No one expects a verdict of conviction and it is agreed that the best the state can hope for is a hung jury.

The officers of Fall River are openly criticised for neglecting good clues in other directions in their mad eagerness to convict Lizzie liorden. HELD AT BAY FOR HOURS. A Fhiladelpia Burglar Defies lOO Slea I'ntll Disabled. CiiEswiCK, June 20l W. I.

Dis-ert, a Philadelphia burglar, held 100 armed men at bay all last night at this place, and only surrendered when fitty determined men burst in the doors of the building he was in and overpowered him. For ten hours a steady fire was kept up on bo tli sides and when captured one of the robber's eyes had been shot out and his left arm disabled by a bullet. Disert is supposed to have been implicated in fifty robberies in Western Pennsylvania during the past two Weeks. To Settle All Sioux City Debts. Sioix City, Iowa, June 20.

A committee consisting of President Stoldard of the Su Louis Third National bank, E. Hammill of the Corn Exchange bank of Chi cago, William Reynolds of Marble-head, Mass, James Donald of the Hanover National bank of New York, and I). S. Plutumer of the First National bank of Warsaw, has been appointed by a meeting of cred itors of the defunct Union Trust and Loan company and the allied institutions of this city to endeavor to arrange for a common trustee to develop all the interests instead of permitting them to depreciate by assignee's sale under court orders. Another Windfall for Chicago.

Chicago, June 20. The will of the late John Crerar of Chicago, disposing of an estate of 4,000,000, was sustained in all its provisions to day by the Illinois supreme court. Distant relatives livinff in Canada were the disputants. The bequests which were attacked and which will now stand are the Crerar free public library. monument to Lincoln, Presbyterian church and missions.

S.100,0uo; Chicago literary club, Saved by the Fireman. Joskph, Ma, June 20. Engine 200 of the ISethany branch of the Burlington road attached to several passenger cars was running at the rate of thirty miles an hour within a short distance of Darlington when a child years old was seen in the center of the track. The engineer reversed the lever but the child would have been ground to pieces if Fireman E. Messenger had not run out to the cowcatcher and seized the little one just in time.

Klctrle Road to the Mines. Weeb City, June 2o. The Southwest Missouri Electric ttreet Railway company started their elec tric cars yesterday. The people of Carterville greeted the first cars with applause. This line connects the principal mines and Joplin with Webb City.

Dismissed All the Republicans. Topeka, June 20. Postmaster Thomas of Topeka this morning dis charged the seventeen Republican letter carriers and gave their places to Democrats lhis action was taken in order to make the postoffice solidly Democratic before the civil service examination, set for July 1. takes place, after which time no removals will be permitted on political grounds- Arkansas Cityans Were Heady. Arkansas Cirv.Kan., June 20.

This citv was considerably excited over the arrival of five men heavily armed with revolvers and carbines, and l-elieved by some to be members of the Starr gang of bank robbers. The second and third stories oi ine ouuaing-s near the banks were occupied by citizens with guns ready for any emer gency. Failure at Topeka. Topeka, June 20. Abe Stein berg, a clothiDg dealer of this city, failed to-day, owinjr 535,000, of which is preferred.

The assets are not stated but it is said they will not pay the preferred creditors. FOUND IN LAKE MICHIGAN. Banker Hermann ShaflTner Committed Snlclde, as Was at First Supposed. Chicago, June 15 The body of Hermann Shaffner, the missing Chi cago banker, was found this afternoon in Lake near the Marine hospital. Papers in the pocketbook confirmed the identification of the corpse.

Mia finer was the largest private dealer of commercial paper in the west and his recent mysterious disappearance followed by the suspension of his bank and rumors of suicide caused a decided sensation. Yvell-Kpown Base Ball riayrr Dead. Peoria, I1L June 17. Darby O'Brien, ex-captain and left fielder of the Brooklyn base ball died at his home in this city yesterdav of con sumption. He had been ill since the close of the season of lS9i.

Oklahoma's Wheat Crop Harvested. Guthrie, June 17. The entire wheatcrop of Oklahoma has been har vested and much of (t threshed. The acreage was more than doable that of last year and the orop verajed VW bushels Vo the acra. A NORTH DAKOTA DESPERADO KILLED.

ROBBED 1 BANK AND SHOT A MAN. Determined Citizens of linnrith Rati Down arid Make Short Work of a l-on and Cnknown Cowlrur ho Was Attempting the I'offejrvllle-Dalton Act on Them A Terj Bold Outlaw. EoiXA, X. Dl, June 19 At Iun-seith, in the Western part of Kolett county, yesterday, an unknown cowboy entered the Turtle Mountain bank, held Tip Cashier Tucker and robbed the bank of Sl.ooo. The outlaw rode into the mountains here, but returned soon after, went to the store of Jacob Kotchevar and asked a clerk named James McKae for a watch.

McKae turned to get the watch and was shot in the back. By this time a nnmher of citizens gathered to capture the villain. Mayor Makee shot the fellow's horse and he was then run down and killed by determined citizens. AFTER MR. APES.

The Kiniii City rmtmittfr'i Removal Keeord to He Looked Into. Washisgtox, June 13. The civil service commission has snt to Kansas City, to investigate the doings of Frank Ma pes, postmaster at that, place. Examiner Buon. Charges of extreme partisanship and violation of civil service have been preferred against Postmaster Mapes.

He is accused of having made extensive removals of clerks and carriers in the local service without assigning-the reason therefor, or at least giving causes recognizable in civil servio principles. Complaint has leen made to the civil service commission and after consideration by the commiv-eioners of the facts set forth in the allegations, Examiner llunn of the commission was sent to look into the matter. Commisioner Lyman, who seems to have the investigation especially in charge, could not be s-en this morning, but there are excellent reasons for the statement that head will fall into the basket- The stalwarts here knew nothing of the purpose of the commission. Crouch, who i sick in bed with neuralgia, professed his great surprise, but it is certain that if the charges are sustained the president will lie asked to remove Mr. Mapes, ho was his rlrst appointed Kansas.

MARTIN'S FINANCIAL VIEWS. The Kansas Senator Answers Inquiries Miarplr. Torn a. June la. In reply to a telegram from the Xew York Times a-sking for his views in regard to the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law and the resulting prnspect of 4 flow of cheap money from London to America, rates in London being very low.

Senator Martin wired that paper 'last night as follows: I answer your telegram of Jun 3 First Vewr statement as to r-i'ame of Interest ia En-iand anil the L'niteJ s.iat.;s is not rue. Second I nave no rontioenee whalever in the opinion of votir They were nevr known to fr" ri-rht- Third The law not -ai-l present linun.iiil and it rejieal iil have no surh as thev tetm'. Fourth We neither waul need T3 Jp money from I-ndon or elsewhere. The Sherman law i ami as a iricSj an1 si heme to tieMrov si i-cr money anl shouid t- rer. Trovi3sl proi-r siHer le-i-iatiou Sixth I am in favor of a nirrncy of Filver anl treasury a.rr--ai.Je 4-ith demand-' of the temH-ratjr Seventh If the rp-T arv of ifce srea-jj-r firmly tbe of yoir rrnrR Miasii iers" atij their associate fzi K'irope ani ieirhere tiie rjt-i! Hurry will i-e liru ati'i hornless John Mtiv The Kana iclit Hour Law t.oes.

TorKKA. Kan June Attorney General Little to-day decided that the state board of public works could not lawfully issue a voucher on state contract work un'ess it was satisfied that Mich tvotk had lieen done on the eight hour system. The attorney general in the same decision held that city councils, if thev should t-hoose. miirht contract that all material or suppUos for city work should le manufactured in the: state of Kansas on the eight nr system. ol a striker.

NVaivo June It. Wmle. it striking miner living in this city, committed suicide yosterdjv iy himself. He rcmark.sl an hour l-efore that rather than starve t- death he would kill himself, lie left a voung ife. NEWS EREVITIES.

Peter Ilenfrovv. the escaped condemned murderer of shannon county, Mis-Miiiri. i reported to l-e hiding in a cive near his home and to lc strongly armed and well cared for. The executive committee-of the Kc-puh'ican National league, at its t'hicago. refused accept the? resignation Secretary Humphrey and he finally consented to serve An interesting legal fight is promised as an ouv-o-iie of the dispute as t-- what the inheritance ta enacted by the state of New York should lc on the es'ate of the late Gould.

Judge V. 1. Webb of the Second Kansas judicial district has rendered a decision on a case which involved the mortgage law adopted last winter by the Kansas legislature. He held that the law could not apply to mortgages executed lie fore the passage of the law. Application has lieen made to the Milwaukee criminal court to have the grand jury investigate the Milwaukee Master association, which is pari of the National I'ininliers' as-sociatioii.

i hich has Wen holding its convention in that city, lioyeotting ami cotispirac are charge 1. DON'T HAPPEN EVERY DAY, The pirls in Savannah take their hats off in the theater. While workmen were blasting at Xcrthport. Wah recently, they claim to have vc.v.i a petrified tree three feet in diameter six feet below the surface. As.

Mrs Margaret MeCreaJy. a nurse at the hospital for the in-ane at Weston. W. Va was placing a sVfait-jacket on Ellen Middleton. a patient from Taylor county, the latter hudden.y raised both feet and planted them in the nurse's stomach, killing her almost instantly.

A lad? who left Marietta, for lower Gcorg'a. over a year ago had consumption. Under advice the pine sawdust, -and it cured her of lung trouble, and she recently married and is doing welL A woman without arms has ler-n married at Christ church, Xew Ze-'and. The ring was place 1 up the fourth toe of her left foot- A similar marria.e to this was performed at SU Jamea churvh. Bury St.

Edmund in IS32. The ring was placed on one pf tb toes, between which grasped a pen a4 Ce4 iii rU.f feyUtve Fort Scott sugar factory will work up 1,500 acres of cane this fall, and make more sugar than ever before. The mine operators have submitted a final proposition to the striking miners which they have taken a week to consider. A Kansas cowboy Stevens is a participant named Jim in the great race from Chadron, Neb. to the world's fair.

The state board of public works has gone to Bcloit to look after the const uction of a new sewer for the girl's reform school. Five men were injured, one fatally, and twenty cars smashed in a wreck on the Nickel Tlate road, at Hamburg, hursday morning. At Keokuk, Wednesday, a brick business building suddenly caved in crushing and seriously injuring number of perons. It is expected that the Behring sea arbitration will be finished within tea days, and that a decision will be ren dered by August 1. Fire broke out in the transportation ouiiding at the world fair Wednes day and would have resulted seriously but lor prompt action.

Ihe men who robbed the Santa Fe at Cimarron have been chased into the Indian Territory with United States marshalls in hot pursuit. I Work at the Midland Rock Salt com pany's shaft was suspended last week and all the machinery ordered remov ed and the shaft abandoned. Id Jackson county only 840 worth of plate and jewelry was returned to the assesors and this was returned by two families living in the country. The courts have ruled that the in quest conducted on the Ford theatre tragedy is not a legal one, and it will have to be all done over again. lhesalaresof the clerks who were injured in the Washington tragedy will go on lor ninety days, at the expiration of which time they will be stop ped.

The Cunard steamer Servia ran down the American ship A. McCullum in mid-ocean and she sank at once. All but one of the crew were saved by the aervia. Farmers from the southeast part of Lyon county report considerable corn washed out of the ground by the recent rains. But it isn't too late to re plant it.

1 At Minneapolis, on Saturday. S. F. Bedman was killed and Rufus Weston fatally injured by the premature dis charge of a cannon they wee firing to produce rain. 0 orge Lopp, a well known citizen of Benton county, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter, for allowing a pauper in his care to freeze to death.

Prof. Hair, musical instructor at Baker university, was married Thurday evening to the daughter of Postmaster Nixon of Cbanute, and President Quayleperformed tbe ceremony. D. S. Hutchinson, of Russell county has sued the Union Pacific railroad company for 00 damage.

A spark from an engine set the pra rie on hie and burned Hutchinson so that he is a cripple for life. Attorney General Little is arranging for a conference between the Kansas City, board of trade and Gover nor Lewelling some day next week at which the grain inspection trouble will be considered. A Nemaha county man drove his cattle through Jackson county and re turned with them March 3, so that he could swear that he did not have any cattle In Nemaha county on the day the tax assessor came around. The first harvest of alfalfa hay is being cut by the farmers of western Kansas. On account of the dry weather it will not make more than a half crop.

There will probably be two more crops before frost comes. Alfalfa has proven itself to be one of the surest crops raised in Kansas. After one of the most protracted droughts ever known in the western part of this state, it is still furnishing adundant supplies of the very best of feed. The special election which was to have been held in Kansas City, Saturday, to vote on the proposition of issuing SI 00. 000 in school bonds for the purpose of building three new school houses and improving three of the old ones, was declared off.

A Leavenworth traveling man jokingly announced one day that he would marry the first girl who collected enough postage stamps to paper a room. All the school children assisted one of the applicants who happened to be a school teacher, "and the wedding occured at Hays City, June 3. The continued talk about removing the United States pension agency from Topeka to St. Louis causes a great deal of nervousness in the former place. Thirty Hungarians laborers, who struck at the Henry Clay furnace, at Reading; engaged in a riot Thursday.

They took forcible possession of the stack and stationed themselves on the top planform. The city officials were notified and a sergeant with a force of men was sent to the scene of the disturbance. A desperate battle ensued, in which two of the foreigners received crushed skulls and are likely to die. Edwin Booth, after making provision for his daughter, Mrs. Grossman, left the greater part of his estate valued, it is said, at not more than to the Players' Club.

The will will not be offered for probate for several days. A delegation of Osage county miners who called at the labor commissioner's office yesterday said that all the miners of that numbering nearly 2,000 were now out in sympathy for the striking miners of southeast Kansas and that they would probably remain out until the strike was settled. A gang of thieves connected with the show of Sells Renfrow, which is traveling over the state, who make a business of robbing the unsuspecting farmer. They did a big business at Cottonwood Falls this week. E.

Regie was robbed of 8848. Regie was taken in by their smooth talk and an offer of a job as bill poster at 8400 a month, whi'm he accepted, but had to first convince them of his financial standing, and showed them a certificate of deposit, but they had to seethe cash or they would look for some one else. when he went to the bank drew 8349 and handed to VPm to lumloA. Thoy at oace dlsapaared and Mr, jUlf. b7S "th? Art U9 HokV i There are some people lit McPherson Bo mean that they steal onions and radishes from the gardens.

The Hiawatha academy has been promised an endowment of 850,000, The institution is growing. John McCulloth, an ex-member of Parliament from Glascow, Scotland, is visiting his sister in Jewell county. ueorge n. recic win deliver the an nual address to the law class of the Wisconsin state university at Madison June 17. Mike Stephens, who stabbed Charles Schwarder at a picnic near Atchison Decoration day.

has been captured at -tannwood. The city of Conway Spaingshas been sued by Sackett for 84,000 damages for being arrested and put the calaboose ioriast driving. The Sumner county Doultrv raisers have perfected an organization for the purpose of encouraging the business of raising chickens. At Winfield, Saturday night, a Mis souri Pacific passenger and Santa Fe stock train came to gether at the junction, and several persons were in jjured. Judge Williams, of Topeka.

has de- ciuea mai ine heaven worth coal must pay royalty to the government on all coal mined under the military reservation. The plant of the Francis Whittaker Sons packing oompanv of ichita. has again been attached on a note for $50,000 now due. This Is the fourth attachment, all aggregating $175,000, irsteaa oi decorating the graves with nowers, some Ludora boys spent uecoration Day in Killing snakes in the cemetary, and when the day clos' ed there were twenty-one less reptiles than there were when the sun rose, There is no scarcity of school teach ers at JNIckerson. According to the Argosy there were twenty-four writ ten ana two verbal applications for the position of principal in the high, scnooi oi that town.

The mayor of Muscotah has called a meeting of the business men to devise ways and means for providing funds to pay for the services of a uniformed nigns marsnau or watchman pro jected the town from the depredations pi the lawless. Word has been received at Law- renc that James Gross, the colored man who is wanted there to answer to the charge of rape, has been visiting his father in Canada. He sent word that he would surrender himself and the sheriff has gone afler him. Lightning struck the resdence of August Loew at Wamego, Saturday, partially unroofing the house, tearing up carpets and furniture generally in every room. The family were out; had they been in doubtless some of them would have been injured, if not killed.

Beckwith, the dangerous crook who escaped from the Kansas "pen" Satur day is still at large. The pen officials have scouied the country in all directions for the fugitive but no trace of their man could be found. The officers are confident that Beckwltll's sister planned and executed his success ful break for Jlterty. A committee from the TTnitl Breth ren church is looking for a location at Bome point in Kansas for the foundation of a college for the use of the states of Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory. The committee visited Wellington and agreed to build the college there If the citizens would donate $100,000 and ten acres of land, but the Wellington peo pie think that is a little too steep, The Pleasanton Observer is working a scheme to send a couple of residents of that city to the world's fair at the expense of their friends and for the gain of the Observer.

The paper furnishes two tickets from that city to Chicago and return, the persons to receive them being decided by a vote, a pair of which costs 5 ceDts. Up to Thursday, 729 pairs of votes had been cast which at 5 cents each, amounts to 830.45, or $1.45 more than the tickets will cost at the prevailing rates. The order to reduce the working hours of the men employed in the blacksmith and machine shops of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company in this city went into effect Saturday morning. The men in the shops at Argentine have heretofore worked and been paid for ten hours, but it is said on account of the dull season and scarcity of w-ork the working time has been reduced to eight hours a day and eight hours' pa y. The force in the shops and mechanical departments has been reduced more than two-thirds and he main part of the shop work is now done at the Topeka shops, The Abilene Reflector says not many Kansas editors are at the world's fair yet, and gives as the reason that they are all waiting until the delin-qent tax list comes in to fill up the papers.

A royal elephant arrived in New York Thursday, with a record. When the rebellion in Burmah broke out, two years ago, this distinguished looking animal, named Rajah, and his mother were seized by the government. One hundred and eighty sacks of rice and baled hay formed Rajah's rations on the way. In Burmah this species of elephant are regarded as sacred by the people. Emporia is to have a steamboat excursion and balloon ascension on the Fourth.

With such inducements to outside visitors, Pory will have to provide oceans of entertainment or the crowd will be at sea. E. D. Stratford of El Dorado, Joshua Wheeler of Nortonville, Colonel A. P.

Forsyth of Montgomery county and W. D. Street of Oberlin, regents of the agricultural college at Manhattan, were at the state house yesteriay on their way home from the annual commencement exercises of the college. The regents say that the past year has been the most successful the college ever had. The farmers out west are not set back by the failure of the wheat crops they are putting the land to Kaffir cora and broom corn, both of which are reasonably certain crops, and the latter will grow a ton to three acres, worth from $65 to $80 per ton of brush.

Warden Chase, of the penitentiary, has made the following appointments of assistant keepers: F. Lewelen, E. P. Jones, is. H.

Jones, J. js, voorhees. Edgar Simpson, O. V. gfcubblefield, Tim Hary, J.

C. Atkwson. J. Gainas. George William Hunnewell, J.

T-. Andrew, Dlk, I W. Pratt, J. HWWura jm Jra.