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I THE INDIAN CHIEFTAIN. BcTeted to the Interests el the Cherokee. Choctaw, Chlckasaws, ScralRelcs, Creek, and all Other IndlaBu ef the Iadlait Territory. CHIEFTAIN PUBLISHING CO. VINITA, INDIAN TERRITORY, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1890.

VOL. VIII. NO. 41. lf CURRENT COMMENT.

Tax faiunns of Catalonia, Spain, hare not nude a success of their efforts to cultivate American grape tines. Ex-Kxxo Milax, o( Servia, has been Invited, to spend a few years In Enssia io work tor the cause. Tine Sultan of Morocco has riven the German Minister a monopoly or the busi-ikw of exporting wheat and barley tor three years. The Canadian Government is preparing to establish, a tart Atlantic steamship service. Bids for the vessels have been asked for.

Coxgbess has been asked to appropriate for aMifcioBal clerks, copyists aad saeaoenycrs aad additional room fcx the General Land-office. NEWS OF THE "WEEK Ax epidemic of suicide prevails in Vienna. Six persons endeavored to take their lives in este day. Three women secceeded aad three men failed. Editor Tcixt of the Herald of Ros-eosnasa, Ireland.

Kas -heea sentenced to three months la prises for publishing aa article denouncing land grabber. The Mexican anthoritics refuse Io allow Aaneriean stockmen to drive back cattle which have strayed across the line. Thousands of head have been seised. Gleaned By Telegraph and XsJL COXGRTKS. The censte on the loth referred tbs House Silver LIU to the Finance Committee.

When the Senate Stiver Mil was taken np unanl-moui consent was given that after three o'clock Friday debate should be limited to five minutes to any Senatoron any question. Senator Teller then addressed the enate In favor of silver, followed by Senator Call, also la favor of Ires coinage. Alter an executive session tbe Senate transacting unimportant business the House, went Into Committee of the Whole on the Post-office Appropriation bill. There beins so opposition to the bill It was speedily reported to the Home and passed. Adjourned.

TBZ Silver bill went over In the Senate on the 11th and several public buildings bills passed. The Senate bill to prohibit monopoly In the transportation of cattle to foreign countries was taken np and passed, also the bill for the inspection of live cattle and beef produ tslntend-dfor foreign export. Seventy five pension bills were then passed and the Senate adjourned. House adopted the conference report on the Dependent Pension bill after a Ions; talk. No other business of importance was transacted.

THE enate on the 12th bad silver under consideration. Senator Evarts spoke In favor of silver and Senator Vance addressed the Senate la fivor of unlimited coinage. Fending remarks In favor of free coinage by Senator Morgan tbe Senate adjourned. TTbrn the House met Mr. Mills (Texas) tendered bis resignation as a member of the Committee on Rules to which he bad been appointed tbe day before, and Mr McMillan (Tests.) was appointed.

The conference report on the Antt-Tmst bill was disagreed to. An Urgency Deficiency bill, appropriating 53.704, 000 for the payment of pensions and 11,075, Tbk iadictsneats against John Keenan aad Heary L. Sayles for bribery in con-1 an for the census, was presented and passed. section with the raitroaa franchise la New York City hare been dismissed. It was reported in Berlin that the 'German War Minister was about to resign hooaasc, his estimates for war re-quiresseate were repudiated by Chan-eeUor-rea Caprivi.

A further conference was ordered on tbe Pension Appropriation hUL After consideration In Committee of tbe TTbole the Agricultural Appropriation bill was passed. An evening session was held for the considers tloa of bills reported from the Committee on Comirerce. TThzx the Senate met on the Uth Senator Morgan continued hla remarks on the Hirer bill, arguing mainly In favor of free coinage. Senator Aldrich also addressed the Senate on tbe subject. It was finally agreed that the Senate bill should be laid on tbe table, the House bill as amended by the Finance Tbk ftpoeta that "Mexico is overrun by Chinese ate declared to be nonsense.

There -are net Chinamen on tho Committee substituted and that general de- entire coast. Jsostof the arrivals art. "steaded to three clock Monday i assa sj sr IJUtnivu susu sue a7sa4.s sa ob their way to the United States. A sessatjoxal Chicago story about a sosta being buried alive aad -sndeavor-fag to eeespe-fjoai the being found horribly distorted in the was seoa exploded when sifted down. Tux first deposit or 500,090 for the sale of the city or Baltimore's 32,000 shares ofBaMmoro A Ohio stock at par has been nude.

The deal most be closed aad all the aoaey by July. Stbo36 efforts are being made to rec-occile the dferesooa between the old "Czechs aad Germans ia the Bohemian Diet Easpever Francis -Joseph Is exerting himself to the utmost to secure that end. FHn.TmtXBlA Bewspapers contain many aad. extensive advertisements of Cape May property for sale and rent. -The htssss Is the outgrowth of tho Presi dent's faasHyastiagnp their residence there for tMs debate until adjournment The llouse, Committee of the ITbole.

had nnder consideration during tho day the Sundry Civil Appropriation bliL It appropriates C.0XJ, 000. Privale pension bills were considered at the evening session. Tnx Senate on the Hlh was engaged clearing up the calendar, many bills being dls posed of. among them thirty private pen ion bills. Morrill addressed the renate In advocacy of tbe bill to establish an el ucatkmil fund and apply the prc-e-eds of public lands and the receipts from certain land grant railroads to the more complete endowment and support of colleges for the advancement of scientific and Indus Isi education-.

Soon after assembling the House went Into Committee of tbe Whole for tbe consideration of tbe Sundry Civil Appropriation bllL The committee soon rose and public business was sus pended fortbeputposeof paying tr-bute tJ tbe late Representative Randall, of Pennsylvania. Many members delivered eulogies, alter wblch tbe House adjourned. The Xatteanl convention of mutual life aad aeddent underwriters, in session la Xew Tork City, elected IL J. Beiaonad, of Xew York, president and W. K.

Fwolliager. or Galesbnrg-, 11L. secretary. Commissioner Wilder, of Kansas, came in for severe condemnation. It is stated that Scary M.

Stanley will sail for Xew Tork with his wife on October ML Mr. Stanley has concluded arraafsanata to deliver fifty lectures in the United States during the fall and wiajer. For the lectures delivered in Xew Tork he Is to receive 3,000, and for each lectare thereafter is the various dties he is to receive 300. BraaaaiaKms vote the Chicago City Council has agreed to petition Governor Fifertoeall an extra sessjou of the State xjegtosaaare to consider aa Amendment permitting the city of Ckfasgo a bonded iMetHtacM to he increased personal at roLrricAx-Hox. W.

W. Dickeesox. of Grant County, Ivy-was nominated forCongress to succeed Senator Carlisle on the 207th ballot William O'Buiex. the Irish National- irt, has been married to Mile. Raffelo-vitm.

The President recently received a committee from tbe Chamber of Commerce of Xew York, beaded by Mr. Cornelius S. Bliss, to urge the Improvement of the Mississippi river, and Mr. Arthur Sewall, of Maine, with a committee representing the shipping interests of the country. Tite freedom of the city of Edlnburg.

Scotland, has been presented, to Henry 2S. Stanley. The Department of State is informed that by decree of Mayes, Portau Prince, HayU, was relieved from martial law under which it was placed on Slay 24, 1SSS. JosErn Joxassos, the young man arrested In Berlin charged with maligning Emperor William, is twenty-seven years old. lie was born in San Francis co, CaL He is traveling in Europe with his brother Henry.

lie is a first Ilea- pese of promoting the success of the World'! Fair. Xfforts to increase the a aspect so as provide for other municipil aadertakiags were defeated. to he increased $5,880, The seat named Is for the pur- tenant in the Twelfth regiment, 2tew loric state national uuarc The President has vetoed the bill for a public building at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Ms. Mart Jaitjl, aged scvwity-five.

the last of the XIpuck tribe of Indians, died at Webster, Mass, recently. Thk House committee investigating reform in tho civil-service censured Commissioner Lyman for laxity of dis cipline. Mirsocki Democrats have nominated Gantt of Henry County, forSu- Tnc protracted negotiations between the Senate aad House respecting the differences arising from conflicting amenmeats to the Pension bill have been brought to a successful conclusion bv the final scrreeiaent of the conferees. By tbe terms of the agreement the T. J.

Hecate recedes from itsnsistence upon the dependent pension feature, and the House agrees to drop the service i pension provision, leaving the biU a i Disability Pension bilL Ix Slsworth, Kcu, the other night eae of Bobbins' circus men was set upon a araag of roughs and a general fight followed. Shortly afterward another dress man and Miss Wardell, his wife, were attacked and the woman was knocked down and kicked, probably fatally. The whole circus crowd then marched into the village and proceeded to whip the whole town. Xo pcrform-MK-e was given aad the circus got away safely. Ellsworth is tbe home of Senator Hale.

prcme Jndgc; L. E. Wolfe, of Randolph County, for School Superintendent, and IL X. Hickman, of Stoddard County, for Railroad Commissioner. UovEnxon has called a special World's Fair session of the Illinois Legislature to meet July 22.

The first Canadian woman's suffrage convention was in session at Toronto, Out, ou the 13th. The Czarcwitch of Russia will start on a tour of the world August 1, returning by way of the United States. no. Fiiascis Hill, of Exeter, Democratic candidate for Governor of Maine, died unexpectedly on tho 15th. Toifxr Scttox.

after living without solid food for ninety-six days, died re- i ceatly at Dubuque, Iowa. During all his fast his only sustenance was soda water. Previous to the death of the boy a council of physicians was held and all merators not to take numbers instead united In pronouncing It a case of paral- ot names lor Italian ana Hungarian ta rsia of the stomach and bowels. Some i borers. XlSCKIXAXEOt-S.

The House Committee on Labor has agreed to report a bill that hereafter no employe of the Government, except females and boys under eighteen, shall receive less than $3 per day. SCTEiaMLADExr PonTjui has issued orders to the Pennsylvania census enu years ago the lad suffered a fall and was never in nerfect health thereafter. XIaety-six: days prer-ous to his death A Catholic nun perished in a fire which broke out in the Mercy Hospital, Davenport, Iowa, the other morning. his stomach refused all solid foods and I Tho patients were all rescued by the soda water was the only liquid he could heroism of tho other sisters. retain.

His sufferings were intense and he bore them -uncomplainingly until death came to his relief. The Irish Catholic, or Dublin, states that the Pope in replying to tho congratulations of visitors at the Vatican, expressed himself as strongly of the belief that great punishment was impending en society for disregard of and Indifference to the Church. 'The lVord." he said, "wiJl come no longer with a sweet and peaceful face, but with an angry one to strike and purify the -Church. I am neither a prophet cor tho son of a prophet but I feel in my heart tbe presentiment A sea of evil isabout to b-at against the rock on which tho Church is founded, and will leave nothing to be seen on tbe horizon biit the threat of tbe anger of God. Prayer will net sufflce to appease the Almighty.

Two hundred persons were hurled from a broken footbridge In Byerle'a park, Cleveland, on tbe 15th. hilo witnessing a man jump from a cablo Into the lake. Twenty-five persons ware sari sly hurt, some probably I- The Instant closing of the flood door alone prevented the-City of Rome sinking when she recently struck Fastnet rock off Quecnstown. Ireland. The tornado at Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa, was quite serious.

Though no lives were lost many per sons were hurt and innumerable buildings wern destroyed. Ax incendiary in Frankstown, destroyed ten frame buildings. During the fire bevcral dwellings were robbed. Soatoakeks have formed a combine Kathei: Otholic priest, is said to have remarkable success in curing sick people at Allegheny City, Pa. The striking coal miners in Beaver County, have won their battle for an advance in wages after a six weeks contest Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended June 12 nui 212, compared with 205 the week and 250 tho corrcsponi of last year.

The American nflemon to pi in tbe German contests ne. hare arrived at Brcmcrbavcn ffivcn a grand reception. Eight men belonging to the American fishing schooner Fannie A. Spur-ling are missing. Tho vessel arrived at North Sydney, X.

SL and Captain Doro reported that the men were out in four dories off Cape North. A strong tido was running and tho men were unable to reach the schooner. JtrrtcE SmitAS, of the United States District Court at Sioux City, Iowa, has decided tho O'Brien County ejectment cases in favor of the farmers who had occupied their lands for years. Tiir street railway strike at Columbus, ended in a compromise brought abont by tho citizens' committee. Ttte attitude of tho Cheyenne Indians of Montana coatinuos to bo menacing.

Work on the cattlo ranches has been completely stopped. Salvationists tried to enter a town in Prussia the other day in procession and were attacked by the people. The police defended the Salvationists and a fierce fight ensued in which several persons were injured. Ex-Preridext Garcia, ot Mexico, has been excommunicated by Archbishop Labastides for insisting that the people i do not profess the true Roman Catholio religion, but an Idolatrous. Three masked highwaymen robbed the post-office at Joshua, the other night after holding up tho people present They got three gold watches and S20Q.

A Cleveland, Canton Southern passenger train collided with a freight at the Jones avenue crossing, Cleveland, Ot, recently. The cause of the collision was a mistake in signals. At Bull's creek, six miles above MaysviUe, a cloudburst washed out the railway culvert causing a train wreck and the killing of several persons. In addition more lives were lost by the flood sweeping away dwellings. Tbe Sac and Fox Nation have signed an agreement with the Government Commissioners.

They will choose lands in severalty and take SL23 per acre for the surplus. The Passenger department of the Trans-Missouri Association has collapsed. There was a cloudburst In the vicinity of Bingham ton. X. on the night of the 12th.

The damage was estimated atsmooo. SinLKY, losra, was struck by a tornado recently. Half a dozen persons were In.ured. Clearing house returns for tbe week ended June 14 showed an average in crease of 10.9 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In Xew York the increase was S.4.

Between sunrise and sunset on the 15th seven bodies of unknown dead were taken out of the river aiong the city front at Xew York. Five tons of nltro-glycerine exploded st Casterline Jk Co.s factory. Flndlay, O. Xo lives were lost but buildings in the T.dnity were utterly wrecked. Asiatic cholera is virulent at Puebla de Rngat Spain.

Prof. Ed Hrrrcnissox, a parachutist. Cell from his balloon seventy-five feet from the ground at Knoxville, on the 15th and splintered his spinal cotumn. Dr. Calvix B.

Gardner and a son of E. M. Tull were drowned by thecollapse of a windlass cable ferry, an invention of the doctor's, at Spokane Falls, Wasb. General Caset, chief of engineers in the War Department in a report submitted to the t-enate states that It will cost SO 10,000 to complete the Washington aqueduct Over 52,000,000 has already been expended. A rrokex truck wrecked a train on the Richmond Danville road, near Marshall, X.

C. recently. A 'Mrs. Van Buiolew, or Hickory, X. was fatally hurt Ex-Sheriff Buawlet, of Ellis County, Tex has been arrested for complicity in the train robbery on the Cotton Beit railroad on the night of Juno 10.

Two or three prominent residents of Texarkana, have also been ar rested on the same charge, damaging evidence, such as masks, etc, being found in their possession. BrsiXEss was depressed on the London Stock Exchange during the week ended Juno 14. American securities were lower. Business was qulot and stocks weak oa the Continental bourses. Sugar was firm at Havana, though with large stocks on hand.

DEADLY FIRE-DAMP. A Pennsylvania Coal Mine Horror Reported. The Victims Cat OA By Wall or name-Some Few ttescned stricken Wires and Mothers Walrh the Month of the nt. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES, Nati kh oi Mozambique arc hostile to British influences on the Zambezi river, Africa. Oxe or the peais of Mount Shasta, California, is said to have slipped out of sight Hexrt M.

Sta-clky has lieen appointed Governor of tho Congo Free State and has accepted. He will commence his duties at the beginning of 1S91. Mil Balfoub says it will lie impossible to secure the passage of the Irish Land Purchase bill this season. A oexerai. strike of switchmen on roads cnterin? at Cleveland, has been inaugurated.

The Czar's palace at Gatschina was found to be undermined by conspirators, whirh accoHnts for his recent hurried flight to safer regions. JflM.K TrwcY has a temporary order restraining a sale of tho stock of tho Union Stock Yards Jfc Transit Company. Chicago. The K. A T.

passenger train was run Into by a special while stopping for breakfast at Xacona, on the 10th. Two persons were fatally injured. The west bound passenger train on the Burlington was wrecked ten miles east ot Council Bluffs, Iowa, on tbe loth. About twelve persons were hurt Rotten ties spread out and tho train was de railed. Geokge Swapee, colored memlier of the Louisiana Legislature, was lynched recently in East Feliciana Parish.

He as thought to be a dangerous charac ter, he was hanged. Ix response to complaints from stirwtr- visors that it would be impossible to complete the census in the allotted timo Superintendent Porter has granted an extension in certain cases. V. MKlintt.L, general manager of the Kansas City. Jovph Council Itluffs, has been appointed general manager of the Burlington system to succeed Mr.

E. P. Ripley, who resigned to become general manager of tbe Chi cago, Milwaukee A St Paul operating department Three hundred Soudanese and three hundred Indian troops commanded by English officers, will go from Zanzibar to Mombassa to enter tbe services of the British East African Company. Ax ug'y riot between two bodies of whites and negroes 100 strong each, oc curred at Brooksidc, the other day. One was killed and several wounded.

TllESexaie on the 10th passed the DtrxnAR, June 17. Yesterday morning at 11:10 o'clock a sullen roar shook the miners' dwelisingon the Hill farm, in Fayetto County, near this place, and hundreds of affrighted persons ho knew tho sound well, feared another mine disaster and they reasoned far too well. In a moment tho news had spread that tho Hill farm mines owned by Philadelphia parties had exploded. A rush was mado to the mouth of tbe pit, but ingress was Impossible as smoko in dense volumes was issuing forth. Fifty miners were in tho slope when the explosion occurred.

Of these fifty eighteen were In the left heading and thirty-two in tho ght Thoso in the left got out ail right but tbo retreat of tha others was cut off and not one escaped. The men wero at work about 510 feet from tbo mouth of the slope when tho explosion occurred. Near tho point at which tbe heading started an air hole had been drilled and gas and water bad accumulated in it Patrick Kcrwin penetrated this air hole with his pick, whereupon a strong stream of water gushed out Kcrwin, alarmed, sounded tho danger signal, and his assistant Patrick Hayes started hurriedly lor the main entrance and had scarcely moved when the roul gas was ignited Trom his lamp. The explosion that followed was terrific. What littlo air then? was in the place drifted to the right of the main entrance.

Tho fire followed swiftly and before the men could be alarmed all hope ot escape was cut off by the flames. Following is a list of the missing miners: E. Joseph Brigner, married; Richard Brigner; Milt Ferney, married; Barney Moss: Peter Eagan, forty-four years Robert McGuilL single; Martin Cavaner; John Cone, married, and Andy Cope, his son; Pat Devlin, married; John Debanney, married; John Joy, married; John Debanney, son; Delvin Davis married; Thomas Davis son Pat Cahill, married William Cahill. single; Pat Courtney, married: John Courtney, his son; Jack Mitchell, married Dan South, married; James Sbearn, single; David Hayes: William Hayes (son); James McCloary, married; Thomas Mo-Cleary, married: Elmer Dewey, single; Joseph Bigler, aged thirty, wifo and three children: Barney Manst Emanuel Maust (brothers); John Mitchell, married. At a point near where the explosion occurred the bodies of Daniel Sbearn, fire boss and David Hayes were found.

They had evidently attempted to escape through the flames. At seven o'clock the gang turned In at the mines the smaller (rang drilling off to tho left while the largerr some" thirty-five in -number, went to the right and descended some S8S feet from the surface. When the water was tapped, young David Hayes, who had seen the affair. leaped forward at the call and turned down the left drift in a deluge of water to warn bis endangered comrades below. Just as he passed the air shaft that had been broken into the rush oi waters had changed to the ngly roar of a flood.

Then as young Hayes swung by tbe shaft a flash of blazing light slid tnrough tho shaft from end to end it st-emed. The daring youth carried an open burning miner's lamp in his band and he had hardly taken a step beyond tho roaring shaft when the sparks ignited a reservoir of the deadly fluid, fire damp, that had already accumulated and ho sank a corpse ten feet toward the men whom he had certainly doomed. In an instant an unquenchable fire sprang up In the nine foot vein Just between tho main entrance and on tbe rightdrift forever shutting in tbo thirty-two men imprisoned there. David Hayes driven mad by the fate of his son. dashed into the sulphurous smoke and strangling fire damp, only to fall blindly beside his son and to be drawn out an hour later with James Shearn, both recognized only by their wives Tbe fire, fanned by air from the main drift and from the fatnl shaft itself, soon sprung Into an awful conflagration.

Pat Kelly, who was driving a mine car near the place at tho time, says the explosion seemed nothing, but tbo blinding, strangling smoke and gas followed him like a fiend to tbo very door of the shaftand poured out after him. The miners from tho left drift escaped blackened and bruised, but safe, and they tell a fearful story of the sight Just beyond tho blazing coal on tbo right where halt imagination and half fact showed tbcm a score of terrible fares walled In by a flamo no man could pass and lire. The explosion was one of tho most disastrous and deadly in the history of tbo cuke regions In tho Leiscuring disaster of 18S3 twenty-three men lost their lives. Thousands of people gathered at the mouth of the mine yesterday afternoon. Among them were the parents, wives children and sweethearts of tbe unfor tunates and a strong guard of police was necessary to prevent any of them, mad with anguish, from rushing into the deadly hole.

ARMY REFORM. Important Rill For the Tteneflt af Frlrste Soldiers. Foirr Leavenworth, 14. An important bill, about which nothing has been said in the dispatches from Washington, passed tho United States Senate last Saturday, having previously passed tho House on April 7, and now only awaits tho approval oi tbo President to become a law. It is ono of tbo most important and far-reaching measures affecting tho army that has been enacted by Congress for a number of years Tbe provisions of tho bill are these: That on and after July 1, 1S00, tho sum of S4 per month out of the regular monthly pay of all enlisted men in the army shall be retained for tho first year of their enlistment which sum shall not be paid until their discharge from tho service, and which shall be forfeited unless they serve honestly and faithfully to tho timo of their discharge.

That the Secretary of War shall determine what misconduct shall constitute a failure to render honest and faithful service within tho strict meaning of this act Bufho soldier who has deserted at any time during tho term ot his enlistment shall be deemed to havo rendered good and faithful service. Tiia, tbo money so retained from tho monthly pay of tho soldier shall bo treated as deposits upon which interest shall be paid as provided for by certain sections of the regulations That enlistments shall continue to be mado for five years as now provided by law, but at the end of three years from date or enlistment every soldier whose antecedent service shall havo been faithful, shall be entitled to receive a furlough for three months and his discharge at the expiration thereof, if he apply for it That tho President may in his discretion, and under such conditions as ho shall prescribe, permit an enlisted man to purchase bis discharge from tho army. J. ha; the army ration now provided oy taw be iL-creased by the addition thereto of a pound of vegetables the proportion to be fixed by tho Secretary of War. That United States marshals sheriffs constables and police officers of towns and cities are authorized to apprehend, arrest and receive the surrender of any deserter trom the army for the purpose of delivering him.

to any person in the military service authorized to receive him. This bill makes radical changes in the laws and regulations governing en listed men in the regular army as it practically reduces the term of enlistment from five to three years and it makes very liberal provisions for tbe jrivale soldier in other ways It has been passed by Congress main ly to prevent desertions and If men desert after it goes into effect they will be deserving of very little sympathy should they become inmates of the United States military prison at this place. SIGNED BY THE SACS. A MURDEROUS PRISONER. He Murders the Sheriff or Boonrttle, TVhll Receiving Ills Sapper.

BoosviLLE, Ma, Juno 16. Sheriff T. Cranmer was dangerously shot at 7:50 Saturday evening by William West, who was in jail awaiting trial for shooting at a Missouri Pacific brakeman near Ottcrvllle. Cranmer was standing talking to him when 'est pulled a large pistol and shot Cranmer, the ball pissing through tho left wrist, and entirely through tho left side. West mado his escape, but wa.

captured by W. W. Taliaferro, city marshal, and posse before he reached the city limits. Sheriff Cranmer died Sunday morning at seven o'clock from the effects of tbe bullet During tho excitement consequent upon the shooting the othor prisoners in the jail attempted to escape, but the sheriff, although shot through the body, kept them back and locked them in their cells Cranmer was a bravo and popular ofi-cer. One thousand dollars was raised in a very short time for his family.

Tho Sheriff was taking the prisoner this supper when the deed was com mitted, and an oxcitcd crowd soon gathered and threatened tr- lynch the prisoner who confessed that the pistol bad been taken fc him by outside accomplices several days before when the cscapo was planned. Only the absence ol some one to take tho lead saved him from lynching. Tho citizens who got West's story from him in the jail at once sent a body or men to the Otlcrville tank, where tbe signal West named was triven. Two tough characters made their appearance in answer, not having heard ol West's bungle, and they wero at onco placed under arrest and brought to this city, where tbey will be held as accomplices to the murderof Sheriff Cramer. Ate By Hm Fuses, Xwefc.

Is His sBsvciea ot tiArernmeat Sacaxd Fox Agency, L. June H. The National Council of the Sac and Fox Nation agreed oa all tbe terms of the contract with tho United States Com- PACKAGE VENDORS. Judce Caldwell, In the United State District Court at Iearenworth, Discharges Orle-Inal Packace" Vendors. Leavenworth, June I Judge Caldwell, in the United States Circuit Court, Saturday afternoon rendered his decision in the noted habeas corpus "original package" cases from Shawnee County.

Xine of the cases decided wero from Topeka. the other being from Sallna, and grew out of the recent decision by tbe United States Supremo Court in the matter of tbe sale ot intoxicants in the original packages in which tboy are shipped. Judge Caldwell's decision is in line with the Supremo Court decision, and the petitioners for a habeas corpus writ were ordered discharged from custody. Their names' are as follows: W. W.

Heine, Carl Jorkheck, Christian Schmidt J. R. Deisher, J. B. Zinn, W.

IL Copp, L. Yout Jacob II. Slcher, Bernard Touchman, A. Rahre, George Bell. Judge Caldwell In an elaborate opinion held thai the decision of the United States Supreme Court was final and blading on all cearss'of the country un-tilOnjfins should and that "as ENCOURAGING PROSPECT.

Legitimate Raslaess Continues to Expand A Confident Tone. Xew YoitK. June 14. R. G.

Dnni Co. say: Speculation has been neif large in volumo nor enthusiastic in U-ns during the past week, but the legitimate business of the country continues unprecedented In volume for the season and highly encouraging in prospects There has been quite a decline In exports from Xew York for two weeks past, the value having been 14 per cent below that or tho same weeks last year, while in Imports hero a moderate increase continues last week 5 per cent But the flow ot currency to this center supplies demands and makes the market easy. Interior cities report rather more demand for xnonoy and at Boston rates are rising, at Chicago and St Louis steady, and at Philadelphia dull, not much commercial paper offering, but at most points the demand Is fair, with a sufficient supply. Crop prospects begin to rule all mar kets at this season and these are distinctly improving. Wheat hae declined IX cents oats 1 cent three-eighths of a.

cent Coffee is unchanged. Hogs, lard and pork havo scarcely changed in prico and the rise of cents in oil ia purely speculative. A better demand for refined sugar is alleged as a reason for an advance of three-eighths of a cent in price, but other reports indicate that dealers are not buying freely at the high prices now asked. The general level of prices is but a shado higher than a week ago and tbe prevailing tendency seems at present to be toward a lower range ot quotations for a time. The capacity of iron furnaces in blast June 1 was tons against 180,009 May and a year The tono of the market is fairly confident Eastern makers are said to have checked the incipient advance in prices in order not to establish a market for Southern and Western producers to unload on.

The demand for various forms of manufactured iron and steel Is still good, and prices steady. The wool market has been dull. Philadelph a and Chicago reports indicate that growers are holding for higher prices But no improvement is seen in woolen goods though dress goods are in fair request here and stocks of light weight cloths are smalt The reports from other cities show a healthy state ot trade with clear signs ol improvement where better crop prospects have immediate influence. Chicago grain receipts are heavy and hides larger, but wool receipts fall 60 per cent below last year's with good collections but there is little present activity in clothing, though bright prospects for fall trade. St Louis notes strong trade in nearly all lines Pittsburgh continued activity in iron and flint glass and the Northwestern and Southern cities generally report better trade with brighter crop outlook.

BURSTIN. CLOUDS. Trrrlhle KSects of a Cloodburst In KentuckyAbout Doira Persons Reported Drnwnrd. LoeisviLLE, Ky.rrJaae 14. At BaH lies afeeie may be lawtally sold by tbe im porter, or hM agent in a Prohibition Ctsitn 4liA sstsraSa a-sf tlin sasj as tr s.

ina, fat siil mlssloners yesterday afternoon. They much consequence. Whether tho sizeof cirfTifsn inn ttsiiit titiii a inn ti-iiih racJtaggs otilquor In any fornri slzo jay-night two iirk clo4 met JT signed the treaty and closed the trade. At the conclusion the Council rose and Chief Keokuk delivered a prayer in the Indian tongue. Tho Commissioners are elated over tho result and consider paying Sl-23 for their lands a better bargain than tbey would hare bad it tbey paid the Chero-kees SI an aero for the Strip.

The Indians agreed to hare their allotments taken within four months after the al-loting agent arrives at tho agency. This will probably have the country ready for opening next spring. This reservation is thirty-five miles long by eighteen miles wide, tho longer line extending north and south. Tbe Cimarron river bounds it on the north and the North Fork on the south. Tho western lino is eighteen miles cast of the eastern boundary of Oklahoma.

After the Indians tako their allot ments there will be 443,000 acres of land Tor homesteaders Tbe Deep Fork separates tho reservation nearly Into halves tho northern part containing the poorer land. This has a sandy soil and a red clay subsoil, and is nearly all covered with small oak trees which are evenly but sparsely distributed over the land, and will never bo worth any thing except lor fuel and fence posts South of Deep Fork tho land is very mu-h better, containing much more prairie, and equalling the but parts of Oklahoma. This is the part of the reservation where nearly all the Indians will take their allotments Clippings. Miss Millio Bunnell, aged ninety-seven years and six months died at Kearney, tbe other day. She was in good health up to a fewdavs before berdeath.

She took the first premium at tho county fair last fall on fancy needle work, which sho mado without the aid ot glasses Sh was thought to be tho oldest person in Nebraska. On tbe west coast of Africa there am now 200 churches 53,000 converts, adherents schools and 30.000 pupils itollgtous books have been translated into thirty-five dialects ot the section. David Ely, the three-year-old son ol John Ely. or Freehold. N.

lately met his death in a peculiar manner. In the morning the father dug a pnst bole at tho back of his residence, and the little fellow, in playing around fell in. The child's orics attracted h.s father's attention, but when he rushed out the cries had ceased, as the child was dead. The quicksand had sucked him down out of sight Annie Jenness Miller Is an advocate Pension Statistics, WAsnixoTox, Juno 14. In the course of some remarks on tho conference report on tho Urgency Deficiency Pension Appropriation bill.

Representative Hen derson, of Iowa, in tbe House made tbe following statement of the appropriations mado by tbe present House for the benefit of tbe soldiers: Regular pension bills urgent deficiency, soldiers home (deficiency), 009: artificial limbs (deficiency), StiO.ooo; pay and bounty claims 51,123,029: soldiers homes aid for State homes artificial limits pay and bounty claims SCO. 000; expenses of the pension office. Si, 439, 150; records and pension division wardepart-ment SS37.270; act for total 000; general pension act (passed Thursday), urgent deficiency, total. S1C7.419.73L the package be large or small the prac tical effect will be to seriously Impair the efficiency ot all laws Intended to protect society from tbe liquor traffic. A FALLING BRIDGE.

Two Hundred People Precipitated Into a CSnlrh tVhlle tTatrhlne; a Foolish Man's Antics. Clevelaxh, Juno lrt. Two hundred people Hero hurled from a broken foot-bridge In Byerles park at six o'clock last nigbt and piled in a struggling mass on tbo sloping sides of a gully or precipitated into the bed of the stream sixty feet below. Twenty-five persons received more or less severe cuts and contusions some or which may fatal. The crowd had been drawn to tho park by the announcement that a man named Bellarwould jump from a cable stretched from the cliffs to the artificial lake nearly a hundred feet below.

One or tho best points or observation was from a foot bridge across a gully sixty feet high. This frail structure, some seventy feet in length, was racked with men, notr.en and children. The jumper made the descent at about 6:30 o'clock. He struck the water near the shore and tho people on the bridge mado a rcsh for tbo place and nearly all ot them wero massed on a thirty-foot span adjoining the bluff when tho structure fell with a crash, going down in the middle. Tho foot paths under the bridge were crowded with peopio and upon these tho timlicrs fell, while those on tbo bridge were thrown in a heap in the center of the span, where it struck tho ground.

At least twenty-five persons were Injured more or less seriously, but only eight were hurt so badly that they bad to go to tho hospital. Deficiency Appropriation bills for pen-1 or complete rest and part or each week sions and tho census and took up the rives her bodr and mind as nearly noth- HfSTtSA Cllvnai Villi Tkai TTrsvsaa wssal I committee on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bilL ing to as ispossible. She can afford to do this Her physical culture fad pays A Lady in a tVelL CniLUConiE. Ma, Juno It Mrs Moore, wUo or Prof. Allen Moore, president of tbo Chillicotho Normal School, fell into tbe well In her yard about midnight and remained thereat least two hours Her husband was away at Stan-berry, Ma, and sho was alone with liei two children, ono an infanta month old.

Sho says sho went to tho well to Jraw homo water and foil in accidentally, but tt is liellevert she was dreaming and went to the well while asleep and fell in. Tho well is thirty-six feetdeep and contained fifteen feet of water and she supported herself by clinging to the walls A llnitsl onicer. Bf.rm.v, June II. During a fire at the Potsdam barracks a workingman was arrested for some slight offenso during the excitement He escaped, but the policeman pursued and overtook his prisoner, whom bo assaulted with a knife, ripping open his body. The brutal officer would have l-en lynched by the populace if ho had not Itecn locked up instantly.

He tVas Not Insane. New Yoiik, Juno 1 M. Slorrs son of Emory A. Stor-, who escaped from the Poughkeepsie Asylum for tbe Insane on Thursday last and was recaptured In this city, was re-comnitted to tho asylum by Juhtiro Ford. When arraigned in court Storrs said he was not insine and that all bis trouble had been caused by domestic infelicities He talk and acted in a rational manner and presented no appearance of insanity.

l-ierre Storm. Cixcixxati. une IC At 12:30 yestcr day a thunderstorm set in and imprisoned people in churches for an hour. Ono and a half inches or rain fell in less than an hour. Cellars nerc flooded, streets on tho hillsides coered with mud and debris and side walkfc in places Here torn up.

One house was struck by lighUiing without loss ot life, rire bells wero kept constantly ringing and 3,700 fire alarm and telephone wires were melted or otherwise killed. Edward Lescnham was washed into a sower and drowned and for two hours one ot the cable roads was stopped. Typographical t'nton. Atlaxta. Juno IS.

The next convention of tho Typographical Union will bo held in Boston. B. W. Houston, of Lynn, Mass, and W. P.

White, or New Orleans were elected delegates to tho American Federation ot Labor. Seven trustees were elected tor the Childs-Drcxel homo as folioms: James G. Woodward, ot Atlanta; Amos J. Cummings or Now York; William Lam- Kxainrerated. bert ol Austin.

William Wilson. Cttt or Mexico. June 14. The re- or Nashville: John D. Vaurhn.

or Den- burst. Thoot its nar row banks and swept away several dwelling houses sad their frightened occupants The stone culvert on tho Chesapeake Ohio railroad was washed out into the river and about twelve o'clock Thursday night while the was at its height tbe west bound freight train ran into tho washout The engine and nine cars were piled one upon top of the other almost out oi sight in tbo creek bottom. Engineer E. 0. Roadcrap, or Green County, Fireman Morris Honaker, of Lewis County and Brakeman Charles Eaton were hurled beneath tbo wreck.

Dr. L. W. Watts and Boatman Love jumped from the rear car and escaped unhurt Tbo train was mado up of thirty-two cars. Nineteen car loads of shoes and boo's for Louisville went down in tho wreck.

They are broken into kindling wood. Tho engine is now out of sight in quicksand. A littlo later an east bound mixed passenger train would havo passed over the fatal culvert, when the loss ot life would havo been appalling. James Irwin bad a portable saw mill located several hundred yards up Bull creek above tho Tbe clouds suddenly bursting caused a rapid rise in the creek, already badly swollen by tho storm. Farmers say tho creek rose two feet per minute and the water looked like a wall twenty-fivo feet high when it got to the railroad AIL The saw mill was lifted from its fastenings and with over a hundred big lofs hurled violently against tho railroad stono euircrt This is probably what caused it to givo way.

Huge stones weighing several tons wero carried by the creek long distances Tho creek rose two feet higher than It has been In forty years Tho fury of tho storm caused manr persons on Bull creek to abandon beir homes and take to the hills else the loss of lifo would havo been greater. Tbe storm did much damage tc buildings fences and crops in that portion ot tho country. A barn on the farm of Dick Dawson (colored) was struck bv lightning and burned, as was also Tom Williams dwelling, bis family barely escaping. About a dozen persons living on tbe banks of Bull creek are reported drowned. Tho following dead bodies bavc been found: John O.

Ruggles a well known fisherman; Lucy Pestler, a widow, and her two daughters Bottle and Jennie, and two sons Rescued Ily the Nnns. DAVEXroRT. Iowa, Juno 14. By the prompt and heroic work of thirty nuns in the Catholic Mercy Hospital here yesterday morning the forty helpless patients who were in tho institution wero saved from a horrible death. Before it was light ono of tho sisters who was sleeping on the basement floor of the main building, was awakened by smoko and discovered a fire in theclosnt of her room.

A general alarm was sounded and the work of removing tbo helpless patients was begun and successfully accomplished. One nun. called Sister Mary Irene and whoso name was Ellen Murray, perished. PLEUROPNEUMONIA. A Warning Trem Great Britain Iaaftels Mm Axrlcnltural Deswrtsaeat to KzttrpaSc) the Disease.

New York, June 11 The stringent measures adopted by the Secretary ol Agriculture to stamp out the virulent disease of pleuro-pneumonia In cattle from its last stronghold in the counties ot Kings and Queens on Long Island has created, tremendous excitement and roused the dairymen into aa attitude of armed rebellion. It is understood that Secretary Bosk recently received private Intimation that unless this disease should be effectively extirpated a severe quanta-t ne would be proclaimed by England against the importation ot American cattle. This would paralyse one of the most Important branches ot American industry for the time being and result ia incalculable loss to Western cattle raisers. Last week Secretary Rusk spent two days In Xew York And energetically impressed upon his subordinate officers Hr. W.

Judsoa Smith, Government agent for Use Eastern "States aad Dr. A. K. Behertson, chiet rinspector for tho State ofXew -York. me urgent necessity oi gathering ta mm killing all cattle diseased or exposed.

-I. A great raid was therefore orgsaiaed and executed by the two at the head of a large posse of the bureau employes Dairymen were found prepares, fstvrig-orotts resistance. Thoy launched paving stones brickbats and other missiles upon tho invaders, hand to hand encoaaters took place and in some Instances pistols were drawn. Some of the herds were so strongly defended that the bureau forces were unable to capture them. Next day the headquarters of the bureau in Brooklyn were in a state of siege.

Dairymen and dairyworsea joined in a chorts of execration aad denunciation. Some had obtained writs ot replevin which were practically useless because all the captured cattle had been immediately slaughtered. Meantime Dr. Robertson and Special Agent Smith had sought peace and immunity in Xew York City and only returned Wednesday morning. It Is understood that there will be other raids and that Secretary Rusk will not modify tbe stringency of his measures until this last lurking place of pleuropneumonia be effectually conquered and cleansed.

THE CROSS MURDER. Evidence) (Joins; to Show the Guilt of that Accused on Trial at Parts, Texaa. Paris, Ter June 11 When court met yesterday morning the cross-examination ot Herbert Tonney. the principal witness for the Government in the Cross murder case, was begun, and for four hours he was subjected to the most searching questions, but to little purpose; his statement remained substantially unchanged. Keen Hawes was then placed on the stand.

He was one of the haymakers camped at Wild Horse lake. Cross and party arrived there about nine o'clock on the night of July 25, 185S. They tied their horses and lay down to rest In- twKaurto WBsfa saaatj aalllsW AfSer sdUtr -while lw wSAlaW assnasTL aTss (ast-haaj. awakened: out Stat KohisMna aad a were there and teWCrsec ad Mi men to walk out In a line. They did so, when they were told to hold up their hands Cross only partially raised his when Robinson told him to raise them higher.

He then told Hubbard he had to die and shot him. There was a stampede and one man ran to tho lake and one to the tent A party of Robinson's men followed the man to the lake, the meantime Tonney was shot Witness did not see -Sheriff Cross when he vas shot Wilcox was brought oat of io tent and shot Xone ot tbe Cross party shot unless it was Eaton tue man who went to the lake. There were fourteen In the attacking party. He identified O. G.

Cook, J. B. Chamberlain, Sam Robinson, C' Cook, John Jackson. Cyrus Freex, George Thomas Sam Miller, John Lawrence and William Smith. The others in the party he did not know.

X. Donald, James Wricley, J. W. Cilrert, John Bitter, William O'Connor and Smith Grubbs wero not there. Dr.

R. F. Furness who dressed TOn-ney's wounds the next day, said he could not probe his wound, which was in tho shoulder, until his arm was raised and gavo it as his opinion that his arm vras raised when he was shot A PEOPLE'S PARTY. Delegates Meet at Topeka and Resolve Cp-oo Calllnr a State Convention. TorEKA, June 11 Eighty-four delegates met in convention at Representative Hall yesterday and organized "tho People's party." Its convention to nominate a State ticket will bo called not later than August 1 and a straight ticket will be placed in the field in each of the seven Congressional districts Every Independent party in tho State with tho exception ot the two old parties was represented.

There were thirty-six delegates from tho Farmers Alliance, twenty-six from tho Knights ot Labor, fourteen from the Farmers Mutual Benefit Association and three from tho Patrons ot Husbandry. In addition to this list there were three delegates from the single tax clubs ports that Mex.co is overrun by Chinese are nonsense. There are not 1,000 Chinamen on the entire cust ve; G. Morgan, of Beilingham 1-ay, Washington, and II. Pare, of Toronto.

Killed IIU Wife. Kaxsar Crrr. Mo, Juno 14. In Argentine last evening Jeff Mercer, colored, shot and killed hi wifo Mlttie Mercer. Tho deed was committed at the gateway of her mother's house, Louise Moxie, on Argentine street After calmly shooting his wife three times the murderer fled south and Is still at large.

Ilrivlnc Across the Track. Bin Sruixns XeU, Juno Fueston and hLs wife, while (Living across tho railroad track here, were struck by a I nlon Pac fie train and in-I stantiy killed. Fueston was a 'armor Canadian Crop Prospects Good. Toroxto, Ont, June 11 Crop reports from every section of the country are most encouraging. Tbe outlook in Ontario is generally a bright one, but much depends upon the weather during the next few weeks Tte Austrian strikers.

Lc-xdox, June 11 The weavers who are on a strike at Bennisch. Austrian Silesia, continue their excesses which are increasing In violence. They bavo repeatedly attacked the factories and shops destroying machinery and plundering steles Buildings have been wrecked and burned. The police are powerless In many ol the encounters between the mob and tho police the latter have been pelted with stones and other missiles and in some cases driven from the field or battle. Tho owners may concede the demands or the men in order to save their remaining property from destruction.

A Settlement With Germany. Loxrtox, June 11 The St James Gazette, in an article on the negotiations now being carried on by England and Germany relative to territory in Africa, says it is probable that a settle-zr-nt will bo reached by means of which th- Germans will eracnato Witu and abandon their claims to the territory behind it The Gazette further says that a line will be drawn across the Victoria Nyanza. ono degrco south ot the equator to the eastern boundary ot the Congo State. All the disputed territory north of this line will bo British and all south of it German. sSbTP atWsT.