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5VT.V: wTpr- sf" jt jj v-jk iti i' fSOC iL-s 1 11? 6r i.Y V. Pai KfT V. r- 3L" LATEST NEWS. Condensed for the Convenience of Hurried headers. The $50,000 residence of General A- P.

Dodge, at Danville, burned down while the house, was filled with 175 guests, dancing. The war sb'p Boston has been ordered to Hayti to relieve another one there. This is acting on the policy to not leave a vessel long exposed to yellow fever. The Union Pacific and Bock Island trains Were delayed by washouts, caused by a waterspout, which fell between Lawrence and Kansas City on the night of the 23d. A story comes from "Wichita about the abduction of a Mrs.

Bhinehart, who said she was from Cincinnati. Another story says that Bhinehart is not her true name. 3 Hutchinson, has given one man a twenty-five years franchise for telephone, electric light and gas works. The following appointments have been made in the interior department: Geo. L.

Wilkinson, of Missouri, and Edwin S. Henry, of Kansas, fourth assistant examiners in the patent office. England has sent a war ship to Behring Sea. As it looks now the old contest of 1829 between Bussia and England, over dominion in those waters, will have to be again adjucated. The president has appointed B.

F. of Pennsylvania, to be second comptroller of treasury; S. B. Holliday, of Pennsylvania, to be commissioner of customs, treasury department. Ten thousand dollars damage was done to fruit farms at Mount Vernon, by a hailstorm, which lasted nearly an hour.

Hail fell as large as hen's eggs and one drift was eighteen inches deep, seven hours after the storm. Word has been received from I1L, that the miners at that place are parading the streets with arms, threatening to burn the mines and hoot all who go to work under price. The sheriff left for Biaidwood with a posse. The greatest monetary prize of the spring lacing season, the great American stokes, rworth $20,000 to the winner, was decided at Gravesend, and St. Carlo, tho crack two-year-old, owned by August Belmont, was the winner.

A family living near Wichita, and also two 6teers and two horses, belonging to the head of the family, have been poisoned. The stock died. The people may die. It is believed that the well has been poisoned, but no one knows how. At West Superior, the mayor has closed all the saloons in the city antici- Eation of trouble between the striking coal eavers and the new men imported to take their places.

Tho new men are working under a strong police protection. Fred Byan. son of the American minister Mexico, who was in jail at Los Angeles, has been released, and has shipped as a cadet on a U. S. man-of-war, for a three years cruise.

Mr. Byan made good the $225, which Fred had got by tho Bristol Sisters endorsement. Atchison sends out the news of two mur ders, one drown'ng and a business failure in one day. W. F.

Proctor, a bachelor farmer, was found murdered; Sylvester Gifford lost a son by drowning: a negro is killed with a knife, and Salinger, the cigar man, gave heavy chattel mortgages. The report of foreign missions made to the Presbyterian general assembly shows fthe total number of missionaries, male and female, to be 502. The total receipts of the aboard for tho year amounted to $847,492, which is less than for the previous year. Tho east bound passenger train on the Texas Pacific was robbed by masked men in the outskirts of the city of Dallas. The robbers beat th3 express messenger until he was unconscious, took bis kej and got from the safe, pjlied the bell cord, and when the train slowed up, escaped.

Tho latest about the Cronin murder is that Sullivan, the ice man, to whose place Dr. Cronin was decoyed to see an employe, said to be hurt, on the night he was killed, Jhas made a confession. The report says ihat Sullivan has told every detail of the plot and of tho killing, implicating several per-isons. "There is only one way to get satisfaction of a public office," said President Harrison to a friend not long ago, "and that is to please yourself while you are in it. You cannot possibly ghe satisfaction to the rest the people; no matter how you try and tho more you try the less success you will have." The southern terminus of the Housatonic road, at Wilson Point, burned with a quarter of mile new wharf, tho freiaht buildings, coal bins, passenger aepot and a large num-jber of freight and passenger cars were fourned.

The New England Terminal company expended $300,000 and the Housatonic company $300,000 in improvements there. At the Stato Sunday School convention at McPherson the state executive elected are: Dr. J. W. Bedden, Topeka; J.

F. Drake, Emporia: E. F. Dublazer, Emporia; T. B.

Sweet, Topeka: E. F. Stauffer, Abilene: J. W. Knight, Cottonwood Falls: J.

G. Haskell, Topeka; M. S. Smaller, Hiawatha: B. C.

and J. H. Foucht, Topeka. Nearly $5 000 of the $6,000 recommended to bo raised was raised. Better Than Oklahoma.

1,200 acres of the choicest land in the San Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado, all under fence, water-rights secured and ditches 'ready for use. It will be sold as a whole or in quantities to suit the purchaser. It is the land in the valley, and is adapted to either farming or stock-raising, For price, terms, etc, address Hicnby. A. Butters, Alamosa, Colorado.

GENERAL MARKETS. Kansas Cut, May 29. CA CELE Shipping steers $3 45 80 Bange ateeis none offered 3JOG8 3ood to choice 4 10 4 15- BHEEP Good mnttonB 3 GO 6 3 75 WHEAT No. 2 red no olds No. 2 soft.

no bids CORN No. 2 on bids OATS No. 2 no bids RYE No.2 no bids OURPatente, per sack 2 00 6 210 HAY Baled 8 50 4 00 BACON Ham POULTRY Hens 3 00 3 23 Roosters 2 25 Turkeys. 7 POTATOES Homo 20 25 CHICAGO. 3 00 3 40 HOOB Mixed ir a i BHEEP-Natrvw I 50 2 4 03 rapUR-Winter wheat 4 00 I 75 WHEAT No.

2 red OATS-No. 2 22V BYE No. 2 an BUTTER-Choice 15 EuiiD fresh itu PORK- 1170 61175 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE Native steers 3 60 fi 4 40 Fair to good 3 10 3 go HOGS 4 25 4 40 WEEP Fair to choice 3 00 4 60 FLOUR Patent 4 35 4 60 WHEAT No.

2 red 77Jti 78 CORN No. 2 SI 31J OATS-No. 2 25H 40K HAY Rated 7 5C 8 50 BUTTER-Creameiy 1 15 fGGB-Fresh 10 PORK-Jobbinc 7 DOCTOR CR01OT. The Celebrated Irish-American's Body Found. Having- Been Missing For Two Wenka iha Rodv is Found In a Sewer Naked and With Many Ghastly Wounds, But Is Fully Identified.

Chicago, III. May 24. The dead body of Dr. P. H.

Cronin, the Irish-American, who strangely disappeared from his home in Chicago two weeks ago, was found some distance north of the city in a sewer on Ev-anston avenue. A bloody towel was wrapped about the head. The rest of the body was stark naked. A Catholic emblem which the doctoral-ways wore next his skin suspended about his neck was untouched. On the dead man's head were a dozen deep cuts which had severed the scalp and indented the skull.

It is the op nion of the police that Cronin was foully murdered and by some man who could not bring himself to disturb a Catholic trinket. Much excitement was shown at detective headquarters when doubt as to the identity of the body was finally removed by definite message from Lake View. It was evident from the expressions of the officials that one of the first objects of the police will be to nave a number or suspicious assertions explained; assertions.made by supposed friends of Cronin. Lieutenant Elliott will have these people at the inquest and demand an explanation in full. The detectives claim that they have been handicapped from the stirt by a lack of assistance from those who claimed to know all concerning the doctor's disappearance.

Lieutenant Elliott said' soon after the finding of the body: "I will have this information now or there will be some arrests." Wholly accidental circumstances brought the corpse to light. A gang of laborers in the employ of the Lake View suburban government had been cleaning the ditches along Evanston avenue during the week. Foreman Boach and two men were working norh of the east side of Evanston avenue, towards Fifty-ninth street. As they neared the catch basin at the corner they noticed a strong smell of putrefying fiesb, and Boach pulled off the top of the catch basin with his snade and uncovered the body of Dr. Cronin.

It had apparently been hastily pitched into the bsin. for the head was un derneath and the feet and legs were up in tne opening, xne place where the corpse was discovered is about 300 yards from the Argyle park station of the Chicago Evanston branch of the Chicago, Milwaukee an. Jf aui railway. The man Woodruff, or Black, who, after arrested a fortnight ago, confessed to having helped carry off a trunk containing a corpse of a woman, from a barn in the city the night of Cromn's disappearance, was interviewed in jail. He manifested no surprise or discomposure when told the body of Dr.

Cronin had been found north of where the trunk was discovered, but while ho apparently talked freely about the matter he seemed careful not to go outside the story ho had originally told. He repeatedly said that if he had not been locked up in jail he could and would have cleared up the trunk mystery before this time. A BOSTON CRANK. A Boston Preacher Says Newspapers are Controlled by the Jesu-ites. Boston, May 25.

Prof. Luther Townsend, of Boston University, has created a sensation at the meeting of the Con-gregatioaal ministers by a savage onslaught upon the press of this country. Dr. Town-send has been active during the last winter in the crusade against Catholics that has been prosecuted in certain quarters here, and now he turns upon the American newspapers and charges them with being under Fapal domination. Said he: "The editorial rooms of America and Great Britian are servilely bound to ths Boman Catholic church.

In Boston reports of Protestant meetings are suppressed and those of Catholic meetings daunted bef 01 the public. There is not one of the large newspapers of tho city that has not been working almost constantly in the interests of Romanism during the several months of the late Protes-tant-Jesuit3 controversy. This conspiracy of the press of Boston to cheat the public of news ana lacts to winch it is entitled, is a reproach, to our civilization and deserves the derision and scorn of all honest men. Those enslaved publications claim to be newspapers. Why endure their nonsense any longer, do you ask? Be patient." The speaker went on to claim that a Jesuite inquisitor sits at tne elbow of the reporter and a Jesuit inquisitor stands at the elbow of the editor metaphorically or really The press is gagged.

"But," said the professor, "the sword has been drawn, the scabbard has been flung to the winds, the bridges have been torn down, and the controversy cannot come to an end until the hand of this foreign power no longer shall bo felt pressing with its withering touch upon journalism and all the free institutions of this country, which are a3 dear as life itself to every true American citizen. Mr. O'Brien Indignant. London, May 25. Mr.

Gladstone was presented at the session of the Parnell commission. The cross examination of Mr. William O'Brien was continued by Attorney General Webster. Mr. O'Brien declared that United Ireland his paper, worked according to constitutional methods, and advocated nothing but peaceful means to attain the end sought by the Iri-h parliamentary party.

He admitted writing an article which had been printed in United Ireland, in which it was stated that Queen Victoria was only known in Ireland by ber scarcely decently disguised hatred of ireiana, ana by ner inordinate salary. He also admitted having written another article declaring that Earl Spencer would be the last strong Englishman who would attempt to rule Ireland by barbarism, paid perjury, butchery and the use of the rope. He admitted the authorship also of an article declaring that the chairman of the committee selected to receive the Prince of Wales, on the occasion of his visit to Ireland, would be hunted from public life. At this point Mr. O'Brien became excited and vehemently exclaimed: "He has been, rnd rather than to allow Englishmen to be deceived by a show of sham loyalty I am resolved to tell them th truth." Continuing, Mr.

O'Brien said he personally had never spoken disrespectfully or offensively about the Prince of Wales. No people, he declared, ever suffered more for loyalty than Irishmen and none profited more by'their pretensions of loyalty than the people who oppressed them. If it was clear that England would not satisfy the aspirations of Ireland and if there was any rational chance of success, an attempt should be made to rebel. The Flax Industry. Washington, D.

May 25. In the recent publication in these dispatches of the letter received by Prof. Willet, assistant secretary of agriculture, respecting the existence of a machine that will take the flax fibre from the stalk without wetting. The department has been burdened with letters on the subject, showing a national interest. A lettr was received from a manufacturer in the northwest who has invested nearly 1200.000 in the business of flax making which has produced a deep impression at UIA rutnuvfrnArtf TTa aero Iia haa maA 4wv the department.

He says he has made two! trips to irance and Belgium and haa seen the operations ottbe.xriachines referred to in the original 'letters and he confirms all that is claimed. He farther agrees with the original writer that the country is on the Tergeof a great revolutionJnihe production and manufacture of flax. Considerable interest is shown in the correspondence in the success, and the expenrent of growing flax more abundantly as a solution of the difficulties and burdens which it is said are forced upon the farmers of the northwest by the twine trust. The letter says that the price of twine has been increased by the trust until it costs the farmer a bushel of oats for every pound of twine and they are clamoring for relief. In Michigan the legislature appointed a committee to investigate and report on the expedience of introducing a manufacture of twine in the prisons as a means of relief, but their inquiry developed the fact.

Prof. Willet says, that the corner of the trust extend to the raw material itself, and the department is considering in connection with the flax question the whole subject of the growth of fibrous plants, ramie, hemp and jute. KANSAS WANTS THEM. Some of Kansas City's Grain Men May Cross the Kaw. Kansas Cm.

May 24. The war of factions among the Kansas City grain men has taken another turn and it now looks as though the elevator men will retreat across the Kansas border and thus escane the nro- visions of the proposed inspection law. K. w. milliter, president to the Kansas City, board of trade, and a large dele-egation called upon several of the grain men, members of the Kansas City Board of Trad and invited them to come over to Kansas.

A meeting will be held to determine what shall be done. The feeling among the elevator men is that the law will spoil their business, and that Kansas is the next best move to make. Those on the other side of the house declare that the governor cannot do a better thing for the grain business of Kansas City tnan to sign the bilL A Vigorous Protest. Jkffebson Cut, May 24. When the Postlewaifc grain inspection bill was taken up to be signed by the president of the senate, Senators McGrath, McGinnis, Kerwin, Miller and Headlee joined in a sworn protest against the signing of the bill, on the grounds that tne bill was not, as provided in section 26, article 4, of the constitution, read on three different days, nor read at any time or day in the senate; that the bill contains more than one subject, and that the subject of the bill is not clearly expressed in the title." The bill was signed, all the same, and sent to tho governor for his signature.

This action on the part of the opponents of the bill is looked upon as an indication that the grain men in the cities intend to fight the law in the courts if the governor signs it. The Object of the League. London, May 25. William O'Brien continued his testimony before the Parnell commission. The league, he said, was founded chiefly to oppose secret landlord combinations.

The landlords had formed a combination having a nominal capital of $5,000,000 for the purpose of carying out evictions by the wholesale, and replacing the evicted tenants with colonies of tenants from other countries. He had been a me ber of the ccmimttee of the league since its organization, and had never heard a suggestion to encourage outrage. The witness did not consider boycotting unconstitutional. It was simply Irish for black-balling. The Knights at Leavenworth.

Leavewobth, May 25. At the meeting of the Kn'ghts of Pythias, Topeka was unanimously chosen as the next place of meeting, and the general feeling among the visiting knights and local lodges is that Topeka should be made the permanent place of meeting, though all are unstinted in their praise of Leavenworth's reception and entertainment of their guests. There being but one entry for the band contest, the prize offered was forfeited, but it was decided Marshall's Military band, of Topeka as entitled to scmething and $100 was voted to them. Trophies From the North Pole. New Yobk, May 25.

Lord and Lady Lonsdale sailed on the steamer Celtic of the White Star line, for England, his lord-Bhip being compelled to rejoin his regiment on June 11. Packed down in the hold were cases containing over five hundred specimens of birdB and skeletons of animals that the explorer had collected in hi northern tour. During the voyage he will occupy himself with the j.reperation "of a report to be presented at the next meeting of the Royal Geographical society. Rain and Wind in Eastern New York. Tbot, N.

May 25. Tho most disastrous May storm and freshet that has occurred in many years was experienced at Stillwater. The canal overflowed, and the crops on the lowlands were ruined. Four inches of water fell at Comstock, Washington' county, and the crops were badly damaged. A furious storm of wind, rain and hail fell at Sandy Hill and vicinity.

Considerable damage was done to crop3 by the storm. The Hudson river has raised, about three feet at Troy owing to the rains. Reunion of Logan's 103. Springfield, May 24. Sunday last was the fourth anniversary of the memorable struggle which resulted in the election of General John A.

Logan to the United States senate, and in commemoration of the fact the members of the society of the Logan 103 are holding their annual reunion. Only twenty of that famous 103 are in the present legislature, twelve in the senate and eight in the house. There will be a banquet at the Leland over which Senator Bogardus will preside. A Waterloo Uuca, N. May 25.

Martin Yagens, of Little Falls, who will soon celebrate his hundredth birthday, was a soldier of Wellington's army and fought under him at Waterloo. He has vivid remembrances of thejrreat battle and his mind is remarkably clear. He came to this country in 1830. A Democrat Elected. Csktraua, May 25.

The returns so far received from tho congressional election in the Nineteenth district indicates ths election of J. B. Williams, tho democratic candidate, over'Kidgeway, republican. The election was to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Townshend. The Old Officers Elected.

New Yobk, May 25. The directors of the St. Louis San Francisco railway elected at the annual- meeting of the stockholders in St. Loui on May 8, met in this city and organized by the re-election of the old officers. Sent Back to England.

New Yokxv May 25 The ex-convic's who arrivedhere from England last weekend claimed that they had been assisted out here bjthe Prisoners' Aid society of London, were sent back by the order of Collector Erhardt. Papal Prstest. London, May 25. It is said that the pope will protest against the erection of the pro- TJOSed mosmmenfc in hnniw nf fiifwiflnniBft Bruno, the Italian phUoeopber, who wa boined a a heretic in 1600. GUTHRIE TO TO LOTS.

Startling News From Oklahoma, Via Chicago. Soldiers Take Action toStopaRlot Caused by the Enforcement of Orders of the City Council to Put Certain Claimants In Possession of Lots Claimed. Chicago, May 27. A dispatch from uth-ae, Ok, says: The soldiers were called oat for the first time since the opening of Oklahoma and for several hours the city of Guthrie was practically under martial law. The meetings held every mght for a week by the men who lost their lots through contest and by the openhur of streets culminated in 8 riot.

One of the best lots in Guthrie was awarded by the board of arbitration to a man named Driscoll, of Chicago. An old man by the name of Diemer, of Kansas, occupied the front of the same lot with a tent. Driscoll erected a building on rollers ready to shove it to the front as soon as Diemer should vacate. Recently the council passed an ordinance empowenng the marshal to eject every person whose claim for a lot had been rejected by the arbitration board. This proceeding would affact over a tbousand persons.

The city government made a test case of the Driscoll-Diemer contest. The marshal proceeded to remove Diemer and his tent. Immediately a mob of 1,200 men collected and drove the marshal away. The mob was about to attack the city hall when Captain Cavanaugh arrived upon the scene and dispersed them, after the city authorities reiumed the work of ejecting Diemer. Diemer fought like a tiger and had to be dragged from his tent to the street.

Dris- colTs building was rolled forward. The mob attempted to tear the house to pieces, but this time the authorities were able to repulse the angry men without the aid of soldiers. Last night soldiers guarded the principal streets and mora trouble is anticipated when the work of ejection is begun. THE SHERIFF ALARMED. Tne Peace Officer" at Braidwood.

Illinois, Fears Violence by Striking Miners. Joltet, May 28. The exp3cted trouble at the Braidwood mines did not occur as none of the men attempted to go to work. Some of the strikers threw a couple of dynamite bombs upon the property of the Wilmington coal association, which exploded with a loud noise and which startled the Braidwood people considerably. It was thought an effort was being made by the strikers to destroy the mines.

The men who are willing to go to work at the price offered are afraid that if they attempt to enter the mines, the desperate Italians will carry out their threats of setting fire to the mines. -Sheriff Huston has tele-granhed Governor Fifer that the mayor of Braidwood had called upon him to protect property and that he had been to Braidwood and found the situation most critical and was fearful that he could not preserve the pea-o and protect the property and lives without the aid of the militia. The governor telegraphed the sheriff that he must preserve the peace and protect the lives and property of the miners and operators at all hazards even to the calling out of the militia. It is thought that no attempt will be made to resume work in the mines before Monday. Princeton, May 28.

Sheriff Anderson has been on guard the last two weeks at the Slaton mine, a mining town east of here. The city marshal has left with reinforcements. A riot is anticipated, as the striking members of Lasellc anl Streator have threatened to close the mines by force. The coal mines at Slatonville are the only ones in operation in the northern part of the state. Indianapolis, May 28.

Two miners who compose a committee of the Clay county miners are here soliciting aid. They state that the miners are suffering from want and that the destitution in many of the families is terrible. Of the 1,800 miners who have qu work rather than submit to the 15 per cent, reduct.on, hardly one-tenth have any means to hve upon. Many are leaving the country, but those having families are powerless to get away. A Big Wreck on the "Frisco," St.

Louis, May 27. A west bound train on the St. Louis San Francisco railroad, was wrecked at a point three miles west of Sullivan, which is sixty-eight miles west of bt. Louis. a passenger escaped unnurt, and forty-five are known to have been seriously injured, though no deaths are yet reported.

The train was running at a high rate of speed when suddenly, and without warning, the track gavo way and ti.e locomotive and baggage car, and five coaches, went over the embankment. The train men and those who were only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent the additional horror of a fire in which they succeeded, and turned their attention to the more unfortunate injured and in a very short tim3 forty-fie passenger, ail badly nurt, nad been released Irom the debris. A temporary hospital was improvised at Sullivan, and the most seriously injured were taken there, while others w.ro brought to St. Louis on the relief train, which was hurried to the scene of the disaster. The wounded are under the care of Dr.

chief surgeon of the road. Who removed W3 spixes and plates are not known, but the supposition is that the work was done by train robbers who wanted to hold up the train. Still no robbers put in appearance, and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened or thrown the wrong train and were not prepared to do their work at the time. The road officials claim it was a clear case of train wrecking. Irfthe same train was a large body of physicians returning from Springfield, where the State Medical convention is being held, and rendered valuable assistance in caring for the injured.

In the list of injured there are no Kansas names. General Manager Morrill has offered a reward of $1,000 for information which will lead to the detection of the party or parties who removed the bolts from the fish plates and thus caused the wreck. The family of P'Days, whose ntmes appear in the lis; of injured, were New Yorkers en route to Springfield, Mo. where they expected to lo cate, xney are relatives ot John JJay, first vice presid.nt of the "Frisco." Commander Warner and the Railroads. Milwaukee, May 22.

William Warner commander-in-chief G. A. arrived here with part of his staff to consult with reference to securing a 1 cent rate to the encampment in August. It was decided to send the following letter to the chairman of the several passenger associations in the United States: Headquaktebs Grand Abktofthe Be-fcblic, Kansas City, Mo. Sir: As the time approaches for the Greeting of the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Bepublic at Milwaukee there is a great and growing dissatisfaction in all the departments of this order at the failure of your association to fix what is deemed a reasonable fare to and from the encampment.

When Milwaukee was selected as the place of our next meeting, assurance wae siren that the rate of fare to that city aboukl not exceed that given to and from Columbus by the various railroads last Anas promise Has not been kept. If this result had been anticipated the encamp-1 ment would not have been located a Mit waakMorany other eky vwitkoc fper guarantees. This failure is thought to be and I am assured from reuAble information received from comrade throughout the United States, will greatly diminish the attendance. I ask therefore that your association at an early day fix a rate fo the coming national encampment of 1 cent a mile. This I feel warranted in saying will prove satisfactory to the old comrades.

This request I make in the name and on behalf of 400,000 old veterans whose request I feel sure will receive favorable consideration st your hands. Pension Payments. WASBOfaxoN, D. May 27. The pension appropriation act for the current fiscal year appropriated $80,400,000 for the payment of pensions and $8,000,000 was also appropriated for the same purpose to meet a threatened deficiency, making the total appropriations $88,400,000.

This whole amount will be necessary to meet the demands of pensioners, and it may 3 that there will be a deficiency, but it is said at the Densioa office that there is no truth in the statement that will be expended for pensions during the fiscal year. MrH. C. BelL chief of the agentsr division of the pension office, who is intrusted with the duty of seeing to the expenditure of pension appropriations, says that it is true that the $88,400,000 appropriated for pensions has all been drawn from the treasury, but that more than $16,000,000 of the amount drawn out is in the hands of the sixteen United States pension agents with which to meet quarterly payments of pensions which fall due on the 4th of next month. It is thought that this amount wdl nearlv suffice until July 1, when the appropriation for the next fiscal year will become available, though, it is said that some of the agents may run out before that time.

Mr. Bell says that the appropriation for tho next fiscal year. is too small and that there will be a deficiency of about $15,000,000. Ex-Commissioner Black, he says, did not ask for enough money to prevent a deficiency even on the basis of expenditure then existing. Tin pension list at the time the appropriation was made was, and it is still constantly increasing, so that it is evident that if we expend $88,400,000 this year, for the next year will be wholly inadequate.

A Pension Hearing1. Washington, D. May 28. Coramis-' sioner of Pensions Tanner accorded, a hearing to a representative of a class of pansion-ers who lost both an arm and a leg in the service one or both near the body. The present rating for such disability varies from $6 to $50 per month, according to the degree of disability incurred, and the pensioners of this class, of whom there are said to be about twenty, insisted that they should be rated at $72 1 er month.

Pension Attorney Bigelow made the principal argument and General Lew Wallace, Colonel McLean, deputy commissioner of psnsions, and others who were present. narticiDated in the discussion of ihe question following the argument. Tho commissioner, in rendering his decision, held that the just and fair construction of the statute justified the payment of $72 per month to pensioners whose disability is such as above indicated. Guthrie's Tribulations. Washington, D.

May 27. Inspector Pickler's report to the interior department shows the situation at Guthrie as far from harmonious. Tho neople charge the city government with favoring those who were on the ground illegally; before the hour set bylaw and the proclamation of the This council was named by a committee of seven appointed at a mass meeting. There is now a demand that a new city government be immediately elected by ballot. The present council, the inspector reports, has created offices with out stint, with large pay; it is levying and collecting occupation taxes of $5 a month, and squandering the money, giving no account -of collections or expenditures.

An ele.tion will likely result in a few days. Pensions to Kansans. Washington, D. May 18. The following pensions have been granted to Kansans: Original Invalid Calvin Haycraft, John W.

Lesh, Henry F. Claflin, Timothy Mc-Asey, Gabriel Sellers. Wm. W. Litell, Dr.

H. Boark, (deceased), Jas. B. Messenger, Richard Caldwell, Francis M. Hancock, Geo.

W. Dickenson. Increase Samuel Weston, Severs Banks, John W. Fowler. Orig nal Widows, etc.

Anna, mother of Anderson W. Campbell, Martha, widow of George W. Bromley. Skeletons of the Mound Builders. Watebloo, May 27.

Prof. Webster, of Charles City, who investigated the ancient mounds near this place a few weeks ago, has just finished opening five mounds near Brad ford in Chickasaw county. Ho found in them thiiteen fairly well preserved skeletons. The skulls of all of them showed the same characteristic of low develop nent that were shown by the skeleto near Floyd. From his investigations, Prof.

Webstar is' of the opinion that there was quite a population in the upper Cedar val'oy in prehistoric times. An Express Driver Fined and 'Jailed. Leavenwobth, May 28. In the police court Max Schmeckei was fined $100 and sentenced to thirty days in jail by Judge Pierc3 for selling intoxicating liquor. Schmeckei is a driver of an exoress wagon, and hauled the liquor from East Leavenworth and delivered it in this city.

The judge held that the sale was not completed until they were delivered, as prior to that time the goods were the property of the seller. The case was appealed to the district court. Where the Money Goes. London, May 27. It is stated on authority that it has been arranged thac Sir Charles nussseu snau receive a fee of ten thousand guineajLequal to $52, 00 in American monies for his piwfess.onal labors in the Parnell commission in behalf of the Jrish party.

It is also given cut that another appeal to the Irish Land league of America for finaniftl support will shortly be issued. In legal circles tna iee in question is considered enormous. The Fireman's Tournament. Junction Citt, May 28. The executive committee of the Kansas State Volunteer Firemans' association has selected September 17, 18 and 19 as the date for the state tournament of 1889, to be held at Ottawa.

It is desired that every fire department in the state be enrolled with the state organization. All are asked to correspond with the secretary at Junction City. Sunday In Cincinnati. Cincinnati, May 28. The police commissioners last week is ued an order to police lieutenants to arrest all violators of the Sunday law.

They were also instructed to stop base ball. There ia much excitement among thesa'oon-keepers whoareat a loss what to do. The Cincinnati base ball club has reg ular games scheduled for Sundays. California Dioceses. San Francisco, May 28.

At the session of the Episcopal convention for California it was formally decided to divide the tab which has heretofore formed one diocese, into iwu. isub wiu comprise toe northern portion of the stats and the other the south ern portion. Presbyterian Preachers. Pmnceton, N. May SB.

The general assembly of the Presbyterian church, fining fifteen cars, were guests here. There were speeches of welcom by "President Psttom aad lesnonse bv Moderat Rnlwrf. The afternoon was devoted to inepaetka. BEHKING SEA. Secretary Blaine Wants What we Bought of Russia.

nland Has Sent War Ships to the Tf North Alaska Coast to Protso British Thieves in Stealing Unci Sam's SealsAmerican War Strips Gone to Keep -em Company. New Yoke, May 23. Wasbimgtot special to the Herald savs: The Madias the English flag ship. Swiftsure, and Um 2 Ampmon, to bitka with orders to cruise in Behring sea, has caused quite a str is official circles here. The treasury depart.

ment has tims and again called the attention of the government to the fact that ships flying the English flag are engaged in illieU sealing in Behring Sea. In most cases these vessels are well armed and our revenue cuti ters, which only carry howitzers, are xto match for them. The government has decided that its mterests in Alaska shal be protected. The United States steamer Adams which was under sailing orders lor Honolulu, expected to leave on Tuesday, but a telegram has been sent to the commandant of the Mare Island navy yard to detain ber. She will go north in company with the Iroquois, and both vessels will leave early in the week for Sitka.

The state department has decided that Behring sea is a mare clausium and intends to assert dc minion over the whole north Pacific within the limits defined by our treaty with Bussia. What constitutes tho waters of Alaska, has long besn a complicated quee-tim and if as appears, the English government is sending war ships to protect Cana-, dian vessels engaged in taking seals north; of the Aleutian islands our government wult be confronted with an international question of the gravest importance. The revenue cutters Bush and Bear, and the war ships, Thetis and Iroquois will be on hand to eni force the law of the country as defined by the treasury department so far as depredations of the seal fishing is concerned. Our government takes the ground' that when we acquired Alaska bv; purchase in 1867 we also acquired all of its; vested rights, one of which was Behring This question was settled in 1829 when Eng- land attempted the same tactics she is nowj engaged in. Bussia showed fight and sent! a large fleet to these waters to uphold her, position.

The question was finally settled! by arbitration against England. Secretary Blaine is determined in this matter. He that wo have exclusive dominion over that portion of tin Pacific ocean known as Behring sea, excepting such as lies east of the treaty line bordering on the Siberian coast. The matter ha been discussed in the cabinet and the determination of the cabinet is to enforce all our rights in thet matter. If England presists in sending ships of war to protect the Canadian vessels! in taking these young seals, this govern-, ment will take vigorous measures to stop it.1 The first conflict of authority wtthm this! imti ense area ot water claimol and owed by United States may mean war.

It is, believed that England seeing that this! government is determined to enforce its) rights even if recourse to force is will withdraw and submit the question to arbitration as was done with Bussia in1 1829. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN Of the Kansas Weather Service, In Co-Operatlon With the U. S. Slgnall Service, for the Week Ending May 25.1889. PRECIPITATION.

The average rainfall for tho state this week was one inch and clevcn-hundredths. (1.U). The heaviest occurred in Wyandotte and southern part of Leaven-' worth, next in Miami and Lynn, and the' next heaviest in Rawlins, Decatur and Sbcr- idan. The least occurred in Sumner, Har-j per and the extreme southwest counties.) Hail on the 23d in many counties, being very heavy in Bawlins, Decatur, Coffey, Johnson' and Wyandotte. tempesatube and sunshine.

In the eentral and western counties the temperature has rauged at and above the nominal, reaching. 100 degrees on the 22nd and 23d in the southwest. In the eastern counties it has rangsd below, the greatest? deficiency occurring ou the 20th and 24th. Over the stato there has been a large per cent, of sunshine. besults.

The seeming damago to wheat and oats by the severe winds ot tne 4tn, tm and bin in Harvey and Butler is about all repaired bv seasonable rains and cenerally favorable weather since. Over the state generally the crops are reported in a flourishing condition. The very favorable weather of the past week has brought all vegetation well forward except in the extreme west and southwest, in which sections rain is much needed. The heavy rams caused washouts on somej of the railroads, delaying trains. In John-! son, near Morse, one inch and of rain fell in ten minutes.

Inj Clay, on the river the water re-j mamed for several days, thus necessitating" stones cut much 'corn, bruised wheat badlyl in narrow belts and damaged gardens; inj Coffey the hailstones measured from one to-two inches in diameter. Chinch bugs -are doing much damage in Woodson, while in Coffey and Lyon the rains have checked the young brood. In Nemaha cut worms are at' work. T. B.

Jennings, Assistant Signal Corps Director. America at Paris. Waxib, May 29. The American machinery! exhibit occupies one-third of the entire! space in this building and is, in all respectsj but ene, more imposing than the exhibit at! any previous international exhibition. Thoi exception is in agricultural machinery, in.

which we do not show progress correspond-; ing to that manifested in other lines. Wof are, indeed, at a double disidvantago in' this, for, besides exib.tmg noth ng- notably 1 new. Enrocean nations have been success- follv nvertjririnj? us in the production of ouri own machines. This is especially true ofj Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria! and Switzerland, in wis respe-i, as mi others of equal importance, wc have supplied Europe with ideas. It will be remembered that Cyrus McCormick failed to se-t cure in the United States the adopt'on of his agricultural machinery until its cjhibi-tion in London in 1851.

Thnt international, exhibition inaugurated a new era in ma-' chinery. In 18S7 Thomas B. Pickering, en-! gineer and inventor, who has been superintendent of machinery for the United StateSj at the successive exhibitions at Vienna, Philadelphia, Melbourni and New! Orleans brought about the exhibition of onej fifty-horse power Corliss engine in this city. This engine was sold to a Frenchman. To-I day, if no Amcrcan machinery occupied, the space alloted to the United States, the entire area could be filled with the modifications of the Corlu-s engine manuf acturedl by Europeans.

Two-thirds of the steam engines exhibited are of tha Corliss pattern Hlllmon Alive and Caught, IiAWBENcs, May 29. A telegram wa received here giving the news of the arrest atTombstone, of John W. Hdl-moo who disappeared nine years ago. -Hdl-mon's life was insured for $40,000 and after long htigatian his wife was awarded S-lTj. -00O.

Thedead body of a man was brought) to Lawrence from the Indian territory several years ago and was identified byanumbes of persons asHillmon. Mrs. Hillmon had! the body interred as that of her husband. but the insurance company ooaauuwi wh Hillmon was still alive. Tinman arrested will be brought to Lawrence and the.oas is2- s.

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