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8ee thircl Pe. '4 VOL. XV1L TOPEKA. KANSAS. WEDNESDAY EVENING.

OCTOBER 9. 1889. NO. 235. ALPINE LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.

DRILL DAY. YILLARD'S STAR. FIRE'S RUIN. PUSH NEEDED. The people of Topeka are getting very TALKING WITH EDISON.

The Great Inventor Tells of His Trip to Europe. Naw Yobk, October 9 Thomas A. Edison was given a most hearty welcome back to his native land when he and his wife arrived from Havre on the steamer La Champagne. His friends and all his employes bad chartered a steam yacht, and, with a band aboard, were awaiting to greet him. Among those who boarded the steamer to shake hands with the great inventor were J.

O. Henderson, 8. Levor, President Herriok of the produce exchange, W. 8. Perry, and Samuel Insull.

When the steamer reached the foot of Morton street, Mr. Edison and his wife boarded the yacht with their baggage and were conveyed to the Erie depot, on the Jersey side, where they caught the 9:40 train and proceeded to their beautiful home in Llewellyn park. A reporter saw Mr. Edison in his luxurious library. He said he could not tell how the mistake that he had been made a count was made.

'I come back decorated with the red ribbon of the of honor of France, though," said Mr. Edison. "I was made commander, the highest title they confer on a foreigner." 'The Paris exposition ia simply be-wildering. It is graird! Immense! If the Americans hope surpass it they will have to get to work and never loiter. By the way, how is our Columbus centennial affair progressing? Do you think they are really going to hold it here? They don't seem to be raising money fast It's a pity that our laws prevent raising money by the lottery system, as the French did.

There is no doubt that the exposition will be a success if the managers only go about it fast enough. I will fill every inch of space they are willing to give, and there are hundreds of those who have exhibits at the Paris exposition who will do the same." Every sort of electrical device was exhibited, he said, at the exposition, but there was really nothing that he oouid eay was new to this country. He had twenty-five phonographs talking, playing, and ringing constantly. They fairly set the French people wild with enthusiasm. Monet Sully, the French tragedian, was greatly pleased with the phonographs, and whenever he came around alwayB insisted on delivering soliloquies from "Hamlet," with different intonations, in order to hear them repeated.

'I did not, receive any valuable suggestions that I know of in electricity over there," said he. "I am studying on a device for a telephone so that you can see the man you are talking to I am almost sure I oan make it a scientific success, but I doubt if it will ever be a commercial one Anything that is not a commercial success, of course, I won't bother with. The scientific men abroad were greatly surprised tht I was not more of a scientist ia the higher sense of the phrase. They could not understand that I am between the scientific man and the public" FOOTING IT. A Railroad President Walks Over Ilia Road to Inspect It.

Centralis, 111., Ootober 9. President Mackey of the air line Louisville, Evans-ville and St Louis road is now making a personal investigation of the various roads now owned by him, making the tour on foot He left Mount Vernon last Friday to prospect the new connecting link now being built from that place to Belleville via. this city, and is expected here to-morrow. He will then go to St. Louis and from there return to Mount Vernon and make the jaunt on theEvane-ville.

This is something never known before in the history of railroads, and is Mackey's style, as he personally investigates tbt working of every branch of the Hne and is without doubt the hardest worker connected with any railroad. Barbarism in Kentucky. PiKEViLii, October 9. Samuel May ham, one of the Hatfield-McCoy men under the eentence of death here, is dying of consumption. He cannot sit up Beautiful Scene that Lay Before the Daring Climbers of the Alps.

The light that plays upon the Alps continually recreates them. They silently lift their faces heavenward in a repose which nothing disturbs; but it is a repose, not of death, but of a life too vast and high to be affected by the changes below it. Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn and the Jungfrau are wrapped in a solitude upon which it is perilous to intrude; but on those sublime heights the light glances and lingers as if there it found its home and disclosed all the miracle of Its revealing power. For in the light one finds the only revelation of the mountains; it is the light which discloses their infinite resources of strength and beauty. At Interlacken I saw not long ago a wonderful illustration of this power of revelation.

It was late in the evening when I arrived, and only the dark masses of the hills which hem in the little valley were visible; one would not have known that he was within a thousand miles of the Jungfrau. It was a clear, starlit evening, but between these great black hills it seemed strangely dark and solemn. There was to be a moon later, and we sat on one of the balconies of the hotel and waited for its coming. Presently the light about us were extinguished; one by one the houses became dark and the little town became silent. Then upon the solitude of the midnight a wonderful vision slowly, grew.

The sky to the east began to grow brighter, and through the mountain gorge directly In front the hills on either side remaining in dense shadow a mountain defined itself as in the sublime silence of the creative hour. The light fell on one snowy ridge after another, touched successively pinnacle after pinnacle, traced imperceptibly the great outline, until the Jungfrau stood revealed a brid indeed, remote, stainless, sublimely beautiful in a mood which seemed rather of the spirit than of the form. It was one of those revelations which leave an ineffaceable stamp on one's life. Who 6hall do justice to the shadows of the Alps? Not less marvelous are they than the light which they follow, and whose glory they exalt by relief and contrast. One may drive through the Lauter-brunnen or the Grundelwald or over one of the great passes in the morning, and returning toward evening find himself in a new country Co vast and transforming are the effects which the shadows produce.

Lingering or talking along the rushing torrent which finds its way through almost every Alpine valley, one watches with a sense of awe the deep shadows slowly engulfing the world about him. Above, the long' streams of light fall like silent cataracts over the edges of the hills, and still higher the Bnowy summits are warm and soft in unbroken light; but about one there is dense shadow, gathering darkness, the night becoming visible at the base of the very throne of day. Then the roaring mountain stream sings a wilder song to the mind which has come under a kindred spell; and the long lines of spray leaping noiselessly here and there down the precipitous rocks, the echo perhaps of a distant Alpine horn, the solitude and sublimity of those remote and awful heights are borne in upon the very soul, and one feels that among these hills he has found the true sanctuary, the inmost shrine of nature. Cor. Christian Union.

Effects of Smoking. The first impression made Ly the smoke of tobacco is through the blood, said a prominent physician to a reporter, and inasmuch as the whole volume of blood courses through the body in from three to five seconds, the indications of its effect are felt universally in the young smoker. After a 6hort time, as the blood becomes charged with the poisons, the organic nervous chain and the organs it supplies are powerfully impressed. For the young the habit of smoking causes impairment of growth and physical prostration. I do not believe that it is possible that any man can constantly smoke a foul pipe without being constantly a martyr to dyspepsia.

Cigars, if they are good, produce dyspepsia very for in smoking them nicotine is more rapidly absorbed. Smoking destroys appetite and enfeebles digestion: Consumption does the same, and one of the most common presages of consumption is indigestion. For these reasons I have made it a rule for years past to insist that every consumptive patient should abandon the pipe and cigar, and I have found a rigid obedience to this rule worth many a formal prescription. New York Star. Care of a Watch.

A watch, even of very good quality, can only give satisfaction if it is treated according to its subtle construction. Its possessor must prevent it from falling or being knocked about. A jump from a street car has more than once caused a good timepiece in the jumper's pocket to change its rate. A watch must be kept clean and in a clean place. Dust and small particles of the pocket lining gather continuously in the pockets, and even the best fitting case cannot protect the movement from dirt finding its way to the wheels and pivots of the movement.

Watch pockets should be turned inside out and cleaned at regular intervals. Jeweler's Weekly. FUNERAL OF MRS. TIPTON. The funeral of the late lira.

Elinor Hughs Tipton was held yesterday after-soon at the residence on Eighth avenue east. Bar. Dr. F. 8.

IlcOabe conducted an impressive funeral service which was witnessed by a large gathering of the friends of thadeceasM tired over the time consumed in sinking the coal hole. Three years have gone by and about 1500 feet reached. Alma, a few miles west of us. has struck an invaluable vein of the best coal almost five feet thick and 1900 feet down. xfc ia DBiievea mas xoneica naa tma smt coal at about the same denth.

Will va ever find out at the present rate of pro- grass The discovery of such coal here as Alma has found, would criva a vonderfnl impetus to manufactures and business 01 ail Kinds. Will the council give the coal hole project a dose of the elixir of life? A BIG EXCURSION. All west bound trains to-day were crowded to the guards with tourists who have taken advantage of the low rates offered by the last harvest excursion of the season. The rush of passengers was larger than had been anticipated and after doubling up all their trains and putting on "extras" of was compelled to leave four or five hundred passengers in Kansas City until mdre cars could be procured. The Santa Fe was more fortunate, having plenty of extra coaches.

The train last night went through in three sections, heavily loaded, and all trains to-day were doubled up to accommodate the extra number of passengers. Tne Union Paoifio has had a like experience, and this excursion gives evidence of being the most satisfactory of the season. The Festival Chorus under Prof. S. F.

Cravens will meet on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock, at Music hall. Books have already been ordered through Mr. Guild. Every emger in Topeka who can read plain chant musio at eight is invited. Tuition free.

Thirf v-fnnr firms in Tnrftfea havA mu tually agreed to cloee their meat markets' on Sunday, beginning next Sunday and continuing till May. Santa Fe Stook. New Yobk, Oct. 9. A.

T. 8. stook is quoted at 29 to-day. Inexorable. -Canvasser I have here a work Master of the House 1 can't read.

Canvasser But your children-Master of the House 1 have no children (triumphantly). Nothing but a cat. Canvasser But you want something, to throw at the cat. (He took it.) Life. The Borrower.

"But you are surely mad. How can you think of borrowing money on those terms and from people of that stamp!" "My dear fellow," replied Gontran, "better go to a scamp who' lends you money at l. per cent than to an honest man who refuses you at 5." Le Figaro. Monetary Advice. "But you are surely mid I How can you think of borrowing money on those terms, and from people of that stamp?" "My dear fellow," replied Gontran, "better go to a scamp who lends you money at 15 per cent, than to an honest man who refuses you at fivel" Le Figaro.

Impossible. Guest I judge from your talk that the season has not been a very profitable one for the summer hotels. Proprietor "Well, we might have done worse. Guest Not in the dining room. Judge.

Quite a Belief: Miss Jones How good of you, doctor, to come to talk with me! Doctor Oh, not at all. I have listened to so much clever talk this evening that it will be quite a rest to listen to you. Miss Jones, I assure you. Glasgow Citizen. TO-DAY'S MARKETS.

At Kansas City. Kansas Citt. October 9,1833. The Live Stock Indicator report: Cattle Keoeipts 6.800; Shipment. 4,100.

Market Strong. Common to choice corn fed, S3 004 30; stackers and feeders, $1 50g3 10; greasers. SI 602 65. Hogs Receipts, Shipments, 2,500. Market eay, 5 cent lower.

Good to home light, 13 05; heavy and mixed, S3 S03 90. hHMF Keceipts. 8,000. Shipments. 1,000.

Market eteady. Good to choioa muttons, t3 75 4 15; stockers and feeders $2 00i 10. Wbkat (Steady. No. 2 cash sales 65Xg63)s; October ea)es at October 23o bid, 23tf asked; November, 23o bid, 23 '4 asked.

Oats No. 2 cash sales 15ic. Bye No. 2 cash, bid, 82c asked; October, SlJe asked. Egos Weaker at 15c HAT-Higher.

Fancy $6 006 50 Bunxa -Creamery, 11 and 20c. At Chicago. Ckxcaoo. Oct. 9.

1831. Hoes Reeeipts. 19,000. Market fairly active, nnnto ing, $3 95 OU; mixed, $4 40; heavy packing and shipping, $4 85. CattZiS ttecei pta, 15.0UU.

Market dull, steady. Inferior to choice, $2 80 4 25; cows, $1 252 75; stockers and feeders. Si 902 90. Bheep Receipts, 14,000. Market irregular.

Inferior to good, 3 00; westerns $3 4 15; Texans, S3 504 00; lambs. S4 00S5 CO. Wheat Firmer. October. 81kc; liecember, S3fto; May, Cokh bteady.

October, SOftc; November, SflVc: Mar. 33 C. Oats Steady. October, November, 19c; lira Octooer 41tfc. Para Timothy $120.

Ilax Beed Cash, SI 30; May, SI 39, Poax Steady. Cash, 10 40: October, S10 25; Jan nary, $9 Z2. Bteady Cash, $9 80; October, $3 15; January, S5 2fc Bhost alas Cash, (5 50. BPTTKE Steady. At St.

Utvda. ST. Letna. Oot. 9, im CATTLE Receipts 1,500.

Market steady. Hoes EeeeipU, 2 500. Market steady. Fair to choice heavy, S3 04 25; packing, S3 75 64 10; light grades and yorkers, S4 104 Sheep Keceipts, 400. Karket steady.

Wheat Higher. Cash, 78Ko; December, 81K esiXc; May. S5Hc. CoaN Lower. Cash 28c; December, 27fcc; May 30c.

1 Oats Lower. Cash, 18c; May, 22c Pokk Jnbjag, SU 60. T70BTBA1 tOidh lots' in S. crtvwl Xfiunnn town, stock, lan mortgage. iPefc jpswty, live pjKanrtra ir k.

acke a colt. Tr, have TJCFiAtol CHACE-Do yod wisa torn ska your chance, will either sell irexchafl bnld be pleased to have yoa CHASC iavspTit.aaxesf, vr. y. Journal ocice. Hh Teka.

The Magnificent Studebaker Mansion at South Bend, Burned to the Ground With All Its Contents. The Loss Fully Three Hundred Thousand Dollars. Terrible Explosion at a Gas Well Exhibition. Totally Destroyed. South Bend, October 9.

The magnificent stone house of Mr. Clem. Studebaker which cost about was almost entirely destroyed by fire this morning. The residence was one of largest and costliest in the world. Studebaker is absent as a member of the international American congress and was to have entertained that body in the house on the 19th inst.

The rest of the family except Mrs. Studebaker and her grandchild were away from home. Mrs. Studebaker discovered the fire at 2 o'clock this morning in a closet opposite Mr. Studebaker'e "den" and under the rear stairway.

It was evidently caused by spontaneous combustion of some oil rags which painters had been using and throwing in there The family had a narrow escape and Mrs. Studebaker herself was found out on the terrace nearly insensible and dangerously burned and clasping her grand child in her arms Owing to the careful manner in whioh the structure was built, end its supposed security from fire, Mrs. Studebaker oar-ried but 0 insurance. Mr. Studebaker's house was only finished a few months ago.

September 13 Mr. and Mrs. Studebaker celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriage, and formally opened their magnificent residence, which was completed last February. The house in its proportions and appointments probably surpassed anything in Indiana. It was an embodiment of all that wealth and taste could suggest, and modern skill and invention devise.

Illinois Colored Men's Convention. Spbingfield, Oct 9 The state conference of colored men adjourned last evening, after issuing an address to the people of the state and nation, which sets forth the object of the organization of the etate league, being but to advance educational interests, the advancement of separate schools and to secure the employment of competent colored teachers, after reviewing the condition of the negroes in the south and of the ouiregea to which they are subjected and that it is not a party disgrace or state question, but one of national im portance. The league mates the xouow-incr aoDeal: "We appeal to the American people, to congress and to the executive head of our government, to men of all parties, to rise above partisan hate and bitter prejudice and bring to bear the majesty of the law to the end that the life and property of the negro may be as safe in Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia and Texas as in the northern states." The address also calls attention to the fact of the opening of the new states in the northwest, and advises the colored people of the south to secure homes there as one step toward overcoming the southern question. Terrible Accident at a Gas Well. KoKoifo, Oct.

9. A terrible accident occurred at a gas well fourteen miles east of Eokomo, Monday night, in which Chusa Monnan was instantly kill ed. John Hogue was probably fatally burned and Frank Larve and Hiram Overman sustained serious injuries. A large orowd had gathered at the well to witness a gas display. Sixty feet of pipe was laid from the well terminating in a vertical elbow four feet in height.

The man who applied the torches turned this elbow down and as the gas ignited the tremendous force flung the sixty feet of pipe around, burning everything within its reach. Morman was pinioned to a wire fence by the end of the flaming pipe and roasted, being almost consumed. Graders Anxious to Lynch. Laramie, October 9. Monday night on the Carbon cut-off road, now Doing built west of here, a work train carrying about fifteen graders, collided with a couple of care standing on the track.

A man named Diamond was instantly killed and Wm. Fenn fatally injured. The graders 6aid the accident was the result of the carelessness of the train men, and procuring a rope went after the train crew, with the intention of lynching them, but the latter escaped. Hospital Destroyed by Fire, St. Louis, Oct.

9. The Beaumont Medical College and Hospital, at northwest corner of Walnut and 16th street, was destroyed by fire late last night Lose about $20,000. Assistant Secretary of the fire department, Julius Piliman, and a member of hood and ladder No. 4, were somewhat injured by a falling wall. Another Landslide Feared.

Quebec, October 9. Great fears are entertained that another serious land slide from Cape Diamond will be precipitated; in fact, small portions of threatening rock have been falling at intervals during the last forty-eight hours. News from Bay St. Paul states that six inches of snow fell there yesterday. The Electrical Execution Law Constitutional.

Auburn, N. October 9. Judge Davy decided that the electrical execution law ia constitutional and remands Kemmler to the custody of the warden cf Auburn prison. The German-Dock Laborers. Bsslxn, Oot.

9. The strike of the dock laborers at Flensburg shows no signs of settlement. Soldiers from the garrison and a number of laborers who were brought from other places are unloading It Appears to Be in the Ascendant Again. A Great Plan to Consolidate Western Railroads. Henry Villard to Eeeome President of the Northern Pacific.

The Santa Fe to Go Into the Combination. Another Proposed Consolidation. Milwaukee, Oot. 9. A private letter written by President Colby, of the Wisconsin Central railroad, to the heads of the Northern Pacific system, reveals a gigantic railway consolidation that will oonneot the two roads and revolutionize the international railway traffic It was never intended that the letter should become public, as, it contains inside workings of a great soheme which is not yet entirely completed.

The consolidation of the Wisconsin Central, and the Northern Paoifio systems in amicable traffic agreement, was the first step and Henry Villard has secretly been at work to gain possession of a controlling interest in the Northern Pacific and formed an alliance with Charles and Joseph Colby, who have unlimited means. Through this alliance a majority of the Northern Pacific stock has been secured. Henry Villard will be restored to bis lost estate by being made president of the Northern Pacific system and one of the greatest railway consolidations in the world will be consummated. About all of the contraots have been signed wbereby the Baltimore and Ohio road is to enter into and work with the consolidated Wisconsin Central and the Northern Pacific line between the two oceans. The Atchison is also in the deal reaching upper and southern California.

Chicago will be made the center for operating these great lines and the Northern Pacific will be extended from Puget Sound and bnilt into Alaska, making a continuous line from New York city to Sitka. THE CTJS1 iMABT DENIAL. Baltimore, Oct. 9. In regard to the statement to the effect that there had been a combination of the Northern Paoific, Wisconsin Central and Baltimore Ohio roads, making a through route from ocean to ocean.

First Vice President Smith, of theB. says: "There ia nothing in it" Another Bis Reservation. St. Paul, MinnT, Ootober 9. The Minnesota Chippewa Indian commission has returned to St.

Paul, having nearly fin ished its work. The chairman, ex-United States Senator Ryan, said: "The Indians of Red Lake have oeded all their country, except a small reservation, to be given in allotment. The reservation ceded is about three million acres. The cession includes all the large pine forests. The Mille Lacs ceded all their land except such as will be allotted to them in severalty.

The tribal relations of all these Indians have now ceased, and under the negotiations completed they will be compelled to take lands in severalty. They are now full fledged citizens under the laws of the state. The lands are to be appraised and sold sold at not less than the appraised value. Per-bods conversant with the pine of that region, estimate that it is worth not less than $60,000,000. All the money received from sales, after deducting expenses, will be placed in the treasury of the United States and bear interest at 5 per cent.

A large proportion of this will be spent for schools for the Indians and to aid them in agricultural pursuits. All the Indians are very anxi ns for work and want to own their homes and live like white men." Jack Dempney in a Fight. San Fbanoisco, October 9. The California Athletic board of directors at a meeting held last night decided to match George LaBlauche against an unknown in January for a large purse, the amount of which has not been made public By many it is believed that the unknown is none other than aok Dempsey Jimmy Carroll is overjoyed at Myers acceptance of his defiance. Mexioo will in all probability be selected astbe battle ground.

Tommy Warren yesterday met Jack Dempsey in a ealoon, and asked, in an insolent way, if Dempsey had called him a coward and fakir Dempsey said "Yes." Thereupon Warren led with his right for the nonpariel'e face, but fell short. Dempsey sprang up and in half a dozen blows stretched Warren on the floor in a demoralized condition, so that his baokers had to carry him out of the saloon. New Stamp Distributor. Nrw Yobk, October 9. A London cable eays: lhe postmaster general has decided to give a trial to the new automatic ''nickel in the slot" distributor of stamps, and four hundred are to be' attached at once to the street letter boxes in different parts of the metropolis.

The machines have two slots which deal out penny and half penny stamps upon the necessary coin being inserted, while the machinery is bo adjusted that it is impossible to cheat the department by inserting other articles in lieu of the necessary coin The new device will be a boon to tens of thousands of people that live remote from the sub postoffices, and will be hailed with delight by the drug store clerks who get plenty of annoyance instead of commission for keeping stamps in stock. The widow of Gen. Custer owns a small rustic cottage and a few acres of land in a beautiful region near the Delaware water gap, and during the warm months of the year she devotes herself to literary work, and quietly entertains a few friends. An officer in the Russian army has been cashiered for saving the life of a peasant woman "and thereby lowering bis standard as a ceatleciapy' The Knights Templar Give the Triennial Exhibition. Some Wonderful Evolutions at Washington To-day.

The Pan-American Congress Visits Worcester. Illinois Colored Men Meet and Pass Resolutions. The Drill. Washington, October 9. The feature of the second day of the grand tri ennial conclave was the exhibition drill which was given at the grounds of the Washington baseball club.

The first organization to pat in its appearance within the whitewashed diamond was the Apollo Com-xnandery No. 15, of Troy, N. Y. The several intricate evolutions of the drill were executed with an exactness that elicited almost constant applause from the spectators. To the inspiring strains of "Dixie" the Domolay oommandery No.

12, of Louisville, paraded in company front before the grand stand amid the plaudits of the onlookers. Tnen the twenty -seven men forming the oommandery, advanced in that section front and saluted the commit ee. This organization executed its dnSl without musio and its evolutions were unequalled. The drilling was perfection itself and at the c'oee of their evolution they ranged in battalion front withdrawn swords and received through their officers a magnificent floaal tribute from the haucU of lady who was escorted by the grand commander of Kentucky. A sword drill followed, and the fencing was of the highest order.

Again ranks were formed, and the most attractive evolutions of drill were made. Again assuming battalion front the oommandery made the sword salute to the exhibition committee and retired, giving place to Louisville oommandery No. 1, of Louisville, Kentucky, whioh, marched into the field twenty minutes later preceded by its military band, playing "My Old Kentucky Home," and was greeted with generous applause. The Oommandery uhich had twenty-seven Knights iu line was dressed in the regulation uniform. The marching and counter marching of this body were particularly fine.

'1 he next oommandery to enter the field was Detroit, No. 1, of Detroit, Mich. There were 56 Knights in line, and as hey marched in battalion front across the grounds in front of the grand stand, they presented a truly magnificent appearance. Altogether the oommandery acquitted itself with great honor. Chicago Fire Anniversary.

Chicago, October 9. -This is the eighteenth anniversary of the great Chicago fire, and the event is being commamo-'rated in a manner that smacks suggestively of local patriotism. At high noon, in thousands of factories, shops, scores and offices, the male and female, assembled in mass meeting, to add their names to the list of World's fair stockholders. This idea originated with the Trade and Labor Assembly, and so heartily was it taken up by the working people themselves that up to last night the reports to the Worlds Fair committee showed that meetings would be held in no less than 16,000 places of business, and it is calculated that the subscriptions will aggregate not less than $300,000. ith this incentive the general committee will be prepared to go before congress and point proudly to the fact that on the 18th anniversary of the notable conflagration tens of thousands of Chicago's workingmea and working women meet at their places of occupation and subscribed money with which to grandly celebrate her marvelous career and proprees.

New Telephone Tariff. Nett Yobk, Ootober 9. A Paris cable "The new telephone tariff issued by the postal department went into effect today. In this city yearly subscriptions are reduced from $129 to $80, and in towns in which there is already an underground net work of wires, to $60. Eaoh eubscriber however, is expected to bear hi proportionate part of it being stipulated that such individual amount shall not exceed five dollars per year.

Jennie O'Xeil Potter Recovered. Minneapolis, Oct. 9 Jennie O'Neil Potter, the well known elocutionist and dramatio reader, who has been seriously ill for several months, and whose life was at one time despaired of, has recovered sufficiently to enable her to leave the Northwestern hospital, and has signed under the management of Major J. B. Pond, of New York, when strong enough to reappear upon the platform.

Congregatlonallsts in Council. Woboistkb, Oct 9. The annual convention of the National Congregational Council opened here to-day with a full attendance of olencal and lay del egates. The onening address was delivered bv Dr. R.

8 8torre, who took for his subject "The Foreign Field." The council will be in session for one week. Reports of the various officers will show a great increase of interest in the work and the membership of the denomination throughout the country. The Pan-American Congress Wobcestbb, October 9. The Pan-American party from Portland reached the union station here at 5 o'clock this morning. At 8 o'clock thereoeptfrn committee of the city council arrived.

By that time the visitors has! brakf asted and after introductions they were taken in carriages through some of the principal streets. They returned to the station at 10 o'clock and fifteen minutes later left for Willimantio. A Leavenworth Drug-gist Arrested. Kansas Citt, Oot. 9.

A special to the Stdt from Leavenworth, says: The first am at in this city of a druggist for an alleged violation of th prohibition law, occurred last night It is charged that six-- teen witnesses can testify that the accused, Ed. T. Fritzsch, Las been selling liquor unlawfully. and the jailor has taken mm to his owa home that he may die iu comfort A movement is on foot to lynch Mayham and it is said all the arrangements are completed, his enemies declaring he shall not die a natural death. This morning's issue of the local paper severely denounces the proposition aa a piece of barbarism and exhorts all decent people to see that Mayham, who cannot possibly live until the doy set for bis execution, is let alone.

There will be trouble of a serious nature it is feared MEMORIAL SERVICES. Held at Three Places, In Topeka and Philadelphia Simultaneously in Honor or Bishop Vail. At o'clock this afternoon a special memorial service was held at Graoe Cathedral guild house for the late Bishop T. H. Vail, who died in Philadelphia Sunday.

Rev. Percival Mclntire, canon of Grace Cathedral, conducted the service which was witnessed by a large gathering of the friends of the late bishop. Rev. Dr. F.

8. MoCabe, a life-long friend of the deceased snd author of his biography, made an ad Iress whioh was replete with expressions of praise and admiration of the noble man, benefactor of humanity and earnest advocate of the cause of education. At the same hour in Philadelphia a similar service was held. At Bethany College, one of the splendid institutions which owe their existence largely to Bishop Vail, a beautiful memorial service was conducted at the same hour by James W. Col well, chaplain and bead master of the institution.

The service here was opened with musio. The Episcopal burial servjoeand the beautiful burial anthem followed. All the students of the college were present, all school work having ceased for the day, and the scene was sad and impressive. LODGE NOTES. A few delegates did not arrive until last night Grand Secretary 8.

F. Burdette has been an Odd Fellow forty-eight years. The secretaries made out the mileage and perdiexn of the delegates last night, and the money, was paid out to-day. Battery fired a salute at 1 o'clock and a volley at 1:30, which was the signal to march. During the march the battery fired minute guns.

Board of managers of 'the Woman's Exchange will meet to-morrow at 2 p. to at the Exchaaga rooxast.