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prayed possession, but had found fault The Rangas City Times. VOL.XXXVI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, PAGES. NO. a theory to offer A8 the reason for the adecline, but it WAS generally believed that the Standard oil company had been unloading its holdings.

Nearly all the traders on the floor, as well 88 A good many outside speculatore. had boon loaded up and many of them. finding themselves unable to procure additional margin with which to protoct their accounte, throw their oil over on the break. One of the most prominent buyers on the recent advance, R. C.

Vilae, was the target for comment. About noon more margin was called upon his purchases of oil, but it was stated at his office that he was at home sick. The oil on which the margin was caned was then sold out under the rule, but he has until 11 o'clock to-morrow to make good the difference. Some of the Standard oil brokers appeared on the floor with supporting orders just before the close and steadied the market, but the feeling at the close was still very unsettled. less than a week the price has fallen over 12 cents a barrel.

PITTSBURG, A decline of 7 cents in the price of oil within the short space of about fifteen minutes unused an incipient panic at the exchange to-day, dealers tosing their heads completely large blocks of certificates being thrown on the market. There were no buyers, however, and the sales were very small. There were no failures here, but It is intimated that several small dealers will have considerable trouble in getting their sheets through the clearing house morrow. BLOOM CAUGHT NEATLY. The Little Hebrew Pork, Bull Unable to Unload-Wheat Lower, (Special to the Kansas City Times.) CHICAGO, Jan, Bloom all the forenoon vigorously declared that he did not own a pound of pork and his father, Moses, and his brother, Simon, earnestly seconded the statement, but as soon as the short session opened this' afternoon, Geddes and other brokers who were supposed to represent the little plunger and a Hebrew syndicate with headquarters in a Wall street office In New York began selling.

They operated quietly, but the boys soon got on to the game and Ream, Senger, Cudaby and Baldwin sailed in and in no time the market was sold right awAy from under the men who were trying to realize Leopold's product. Transactions swelled to enormous aggregate and great lots of property dumped on stop orders for country account. Pork fell nearly 70 cents in hour and closed weak. How much property the syndicate got rid of 18 a question, but It was said that Armour'e, brokers did some buying near the bottom. Wheat broke in sympathy with provisions.

All the morning the market appeared waterlogged and the decline this afternoon WAS 80 swift that but few trades were made. The bulls were hoping for a foreign war or some other favorable outside circumstance to offer itself in aid of an aggressive campaign on their side, while the bears were waiting for the burden of carrying charges to break the backs of their adversaries. There was belleved to be some selling to-day for St. Louis acoount and some for Now York but most of the trading was by local people and they were somewhat bullishly inclined. Hutchinson was buying moderately and scalpers were talking of the small visible supply.

Corn was dull but the market followed wheat and provisions downward. The light receipts, short orop and reported active consumptive demand seemed to be all offset by the unexpected increase of the visible supply. The cattle market was lower, there being an unexpectedly heavy run of stock, the arrivals including as many good and useful natives AB on any day last Week. There was also quite 8 showing of Texans and halfbreeds, the long- however, presenting a famished appearance. The bast offerings sold fairly, but common and medium stock ruled lower.

A Big Cattle Company Involved, CHEYENNE, W. Jan. application of the stockholders G. P. Goodell and P.

Voorhees were this evening appointed receivers by the court for the Union cattle company. The assets Are snid to be $2,000,000 and liabilities $2,250,000. Losses and shrinkage on value had produced such complications that to prevent sacrifice of the property by the hasty action of some creditore, it was thought best to have friendly receiver appointed and thus protect the interest of all concerned. Thomas Sturgis, president of the company, says the affairs will carried on as at present, and believes the company will very soon again resume charge of its business. BEYOND THE REACH OF LAW.

No-Man's-Land Not Subject Even to National Control. to the Kansas City Timon, LEAVENWORTH, Jan. of the internal revenue law in No-Man's-Land were reported to such an extent that Collector Acers determined to take measures to arrest the outlaws, but before so doing he concluded to himself that the law could be enforced and violators punished after arrests were made, and wrote to Washington. He has just been informed by Acting Commissioner Henderson that the punishment of crime in No-Man's-Land is beyond the reach of the criminal law of the United States, a decisisn from the attorney general as follows being inclosed: The President. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, WASHINGTON, D.

Nov. I received your note of the 4th inst. relating to the administration of the criminal law in that part of the public domain commonly called No- The land so designated is bounded on the north by the states of Kansas and Colorado: on the east by the Indian territory; on the south by Texas, and on the west by New Mexico. Its length north and south is about 35 miles; its breadth east and west is about 165 miles, The title to it became veeted in the United States by cession from the state of Texas, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress, September 9, 1850. (9, United States statutes 448.) By the same act a territorial government is provided for the territory of New Mexico.

By the act of May 30, 1854 (10 U. S. 277), the territory of Kansas was organized. By an act of February 28. 1861(12 U.S.

172). a territorial government was provided for Colorado. In the organization of these three territories the land referred to was exeluded from their boundaries. In the establishment of the courts of the United States for the states of Colorado, Kansas and Texas and the territory of New Mexico, the state and territorial lines limit the judicial districts, except that the United district courts for Kansas and for the Northern district of Texas, by the second and third sections of the act of January 6, 1883 (22 U. S.

400), are extended over portions of the Indian territory. The land referred to, then, is not embraced in any district established by law of the United States. The sixth article of the amendment to the constitution of the United States provides "in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. which district shall have been previously, ascertained by law." It therefore appears that, without legislative action ascertaining the district within which this public strip shall be embraced, the punishment of crime therein is beyond the reach of the criminal law of the United States. I am, very respectfully, A.

H. GARLAND, Attorney General. New Quarantines for Nebraska. to the Kansas Oitu LINCOLN, Jan. live stock sanitary commission to-day requested Governor Thayer to annul all existing qu rantine proclamations and estab'ish from February 1 a quarantine against New Jersey and Delaware, the counties of Westchester, Kings, Queens and Suffolk in New York, the county of Baltimore, Philadelphia in Howard, Pennsylvania, Carrollton the and counties Prince George in Maryland and the county of Cook in Illinois.

The governor was also requested to prohibit the shipment into or through the state of cattle that had been shipped from Texas, Arkansas. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee. North and South Carolina and the Indian territory during March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October. The governor will issue the proclamation immodiately. Keep was Really Burled.

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Jan. Robinson of this city last night granted the application of Mrs. Mary T. Keep to have the body of C.

D. Keep, the late proprietor of the Wall Street News, exhumed, and this morning the casket Was taken to a receiving vault. where, in the presence of Mrs. Keep and Coroner Robinson, it was opened. The features were n8 perfect almost as in life, and Mrs.

Keep immediately recognized the body 68 that of her deceased husband, She then requested that the body be kept in the receiving vauit until she could arrange for an inveatiration as to whether he was the victim of foul play or not, on KANSAS CITY IN. The American Association Acts. Excellent Ball Playing by Noted Teams Assured. The Terms of the Organization Accepted in Full. Two Clubs Sure to Play in This City Next Summer.

Mr. Menges Declares That His Western Association Nine Will Seen As Had Been Arranged -The Kilrain Fight Denounced as a Fixed Affair -The Great Cocking Main. CINCINNATI, Jan. American base ball association held a protracted meeting to-day, and shortly before 4 p.m. agreed to make Kansas City the eighth club.

The terms on which the Kansas City club was admitted to the association were that the club should give approved bond of 000 for the fulfillment of its part of the contract with the association, and that it should pay the fare of visiting clubs both ways between St. Louis and Kansas City. Mr. Whitfleld, acting on telegraphic instructions from Kansas City, accepted these terms and such others as were required. The association, in the way business, decided that season stoneral April 18 instead of April 21.

Messrs. Kames of the Athleties and Williams of Cleveland were appointed a committee to a plan of turnstile and report at the New York meeting. The association unanimously resolved to retain the franchise of the Metropolitans and to maintain an office of the same in New York, for which purpose Mr. Vonderhorst of Baltimore was elected president. MENGES NOT SURPRISED, No Change to Be Made in His Plans-Prospects of the Now Club.

The information that Kansas City had been admitted as the eighth club of the American association created a genuine sensation. Messrs. Heim and McKim were jubilant over the success of their efforts and were emphatic in their statements that the club will be established and carried through successfully. Whether Kansas City will support 50 cent ball on the basis of paying the fares of the other clubs from and to St. Louis remains to be seen and depends in great measure upon what kind of a team the new otub can get together.

If they are willing to spend money freely for the purchase of players who will make the team something more than a tailender they can make it go and in no other way. The only available material now is the remnant of the Metropolitan club, with some players of the Brooklyns, and it is out of these that the new club must, in a great measure be formed. When the matter assumes more definite shape and the terms of the franchise as secured are known fully the situation can be more intelligently discussed. When Mr. E.

E. Mengos of the Kansas City ball club was seen by a TIMES reporter last evening he did not seem at all disconcerted by the news that Kansas City had been admitted to the ranks of the American association. "What do you think of the news." he was asked. "I am not at all surprised. I have known for some time that they were endeavoring association to get in, and knowing the strait the is in their action is only what I expected." "Will it make any difference in your plans?" "Not a particle.

Iam in the Western association and expect to play ball in it this summer, regardless of what the American association may do." "Is not the action of the association a violation of the national agreement? "Yes, but only what the National leage did when they placed a club in St. "Do you think that an American association club will pay here on the terms which the franchise is granted?" "I hardly like to express an opinion on that I believe in the survival of the fittest think one season will be suflleient to show which club will pay the best." "So you expect to go right ahead then, just as before?" "That's the idea exactly. The contract for our grandstand has been let and work wilt be begun on it very soon and every preparation for the coming season just as though the American association did not exist." "Will there not be conflicting dates in the event of two clubs?" "I won't believe there will. We shall not make our schedule until after the National league and American association have completed theirs, and. as we have to arrange to avoid a conflict in St.

Louis. we can easily arrange to avoid it here." Mr. Menges did not seem to think that the establishment of another club here would damage h'm very much and seemed willing to let the people judge between the two clubs. THE COCKING MAIN OPENED. Kansas City Wins 6 Out of 11 Battles Fought Yesterday.

Two hundred enthusiastio sportsmen were gathered at Armourdale yesterday to witness the opening battles of the grand cocking main between St. Louis on one side and KanSAg City and Cincinnati on the other. The morning was consumed in arranging the cided to fight for $100 a battle, with on preliminaries of the main. It was finally dethe odd, the main to continue as long as the cocks fell into weight. As each side has over Afty cocks, there will probably be forty batfles in all.

There are 250 cocks now at the pit in Armourdale and they keep up an incessant crowing, seeming eager for the fray. It is an old saying that there is nothing as game as a game cock and a witness of some of the desperate struggles of yesterday would readily admit the truth of the adage. The cocks shown by both sides yesterday were splendid birds and by far the best fighters ever seen here. The St. Louis people seemed to think their cocks invincible.

while the Kansas City party had the same opinion of their's. Of the eleven battles fought yesterday, Kansas City won six after losing four out of the first five battles. The St. Louis sports bet their money as though it grew on bushes, and when their representative won the first battle at the first buekle their joy was unbounded, and their hilarity increased as the second and third fights were won by their birds in short order. Their ardor was somewhat dampened, however, when in the won sixth thirteen battle, battles their for best them.

cock, was one who killed had the Kansas City bird after a despera: struggle of thirty minutes, they losing more on this battlo than they had won on all the previous ones. Shortly after noon the first cocks wore weighed in and the main began. St. Louis showed a handsome red top Dominick, weighing 5 pounds and 13 ounces and Kansas City pitted a black red of equal weight. The St.

Louis men backed their cock freely at odds of 5 to 4. and he justifled their confidence by winning at the first fly, breaking the Kansas City bird's neck. Time, 1 minute. The betters had not yet got warmed up, and only about $100 changed hands on the result. For the second battle St.

Louis was represented by a beauty, a black red of the famous Warhorse strain, which are considered to be the best cocks in St. Louis, and against him Kansas City entered a dark red Cottonwood, both scaling at 5 pounds 12 ounces. The St. Louis cock was the favorite with the betters and again landed the money for St. Louis, rattling his antagonist at the second fly and winning in two minutes.

Kansas City dropped $200 on this battle. The third battle of the main was between a light red Dominick for St. Louis. weighing 5 pounds 15 ounces, and one of the celebrated thoroughbred race horse cocks from Cineinnati, a ginger red sealing 5 pounds 14 ounces. Both cocks were splendid fighters and the result Wis always in doubt, the St.

Louis bird finally scoring heir third successive victory, after 8 six minute battlo, by a lucky stroke in the head. St. Louis won $200 on the battle. Mutters were now looking desperate for Kansas City, St. Louis having won three battles right off the reel in easy fushion.

Kansas City, after some deliberation, pinned her faith on a handsome black-red racehorse from Cineinnati for the fourth battle and to this St. Louis opposed a black-grey. each cock weighing this 5 pounds and 8 ounces. Betting on fight was heavy, the Kansas City party being determined to recoup for their for the LONG OVERDUE. Fears for a Big Ocean Steamer.

The Fate of Nearly a Thousand Persons Uncertain. Nothing Heard of the Missing Vessel for a Month. Soldiers Threatened With Famine Because of a Fire. The Commissary Stores at Fort McKinney, Destroyed With Much Loss -A Chicago Street Car Struck by a Train -Broken Rails en Railroads Cause Rather Sad Accidents. NEW YORK, Jan.

are still no tidings of the missing steamer Britannia, bound for this port from Naples, with 850 Italian steernge passengers, and now long overdue. Terkulle, the general passenger in New York, said yesterday that his agent great fear was that the eteamer had been struck some of the logs great raft and was either lying at the bottom of the Atlantic, or had been totally disabled and was nOW drifting at the mercy of the winds and waves. The report of the steamship Venice shows that the logs have been seen even in midocenn. They are scattered far and wide, and in a storm would prove worse than battering rams if hurled at a vessel by an ocean billow. Terkulle said the Britannia, after leaving Gibraltar December 22, must have steered directly for and from there her course would be almost direct for New York.

Captain Parazol was an experienced seaman and a very careful navigator. CAUSED BY A BROKEN RAIL. A Passenger Train Wrecked -One Man Killed -Actors Badly Hurt. CLEVELAND, Jan. passenger train on the Lake Erie and Western railroad was wrecked this morning near Bluffton by 8 broken rail.

The locomotive and baggage car ran over the break all right, but the smoker and ladies' car turned over on their sides and were dragged nearly half a mile before the train was stoppod. Albert Gilbert, 8 traveling man from Fostoria, 0., jumped from the front platform of the smoker and the car toppled over on him, crushing him to death. The cars caught fire from the stoves, and it was only by herole exertions on the part of the trainmen that fearful loss of life was prevented. Frank Mayo's "Nordeck' company was on the train, and several of the actors were hurt. Those injured were F.

W. Redding of Findlay. Ohio, seeiously cut by glass; C. 8. Ways of Findlay, badly, hurt about the head; C.

Young of Findlay, badly cut on the legs; and the following members of the Mayo company: Miss Frances Graham, ankle dislocated and badly sprained; Edward Nolan, left hand crushed and afterward amputated; Neil Gray, cut on the head; Robert Neil, thrown through a window and badly bruised about the head and fa Lawrence Johnston, right arm broken; J. 0. Harver, badly cut with glass. This is the first accident in sixteen years on this road in which a passenger has been killed. THEIR STORES GONE.

The Troops at a Wyoming Post Threatened by Fire With Famine. (Special to the Kansas City Times.) FORT MCKINNEY, (VIA DOUGLASS, Wyo.) Jan. disastrous fire occurred this morning at 1 o'clock, the post commissary building being entirely consumed with its contente, The estimated loss is $100,000, with no insurance. The builling was stocked with commissary supplies to last until May next. The companies the post have a supply of rations to last ton days, not including the officers' families.

Tho blize originate! in some way from A fire kept in tho Luilding to keep the goos from freezing, supposed to be from a defective flue. The garrison has been ordered to half rations. Flour, pork and fresh bee! can be purchasod in the open market, but of AugAr, coffee and canned goods there are none in t1.0 country. Snow both ways north and south is drifted from five to ten feet deep, and it is almost impossil la to run goods into the country. Oring to the extreme cold weather, water could not be brought to the fire.

and for some time the headquarters buildings and quartermaster's storehouse were in great danger. There Was no wind at the time. or the post would have been entirely destroyed. The post trader's store and merchants in Buffalo have only a sm ll stock of groceries and canned goods and prospects are for a fu mine. The commanding offer of the post, General Bristin, has telegraphed to the department hea 'quarters for provisions to be forwarded by the fast freight from the nearest post, but owing to the extreme cold and the deep snow it is impossible to say when such supD les can get there.

The Wyoming telegraph and telephone wires were burned and prostrated. The thermometer at some places is 520 below. STRUCK BY A TRAIN. Lively Experience of the Passengers on a Chicago Street Car. CHICAGO, Jan.

mull train which crossed Thirty-first street like a flash on the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacifi: toabout 10 o'clock struck the forward part of a street car on Thirty and carried it down the track at lenot flit foot. The horses were thrown off on one side of the engine while the driver clinging to the lines landed on the cowcatcher and was afterward dragged off as the horses went rolling over and over. The pilot caught in the side of the car, but pulled out when the car fell on its side. Then the first mail car caught the street oar and dragged it along until the engineer could stop his engine.

None of the passengers on the stroet onr were killed, but several were badly bruised and had to be removed to their homes. It is stated the gates were up. The flag. man said the chains were out of order and could not lower or raise the gates. Why the CAr WAS allowed to proceed on the when the train was so near has not been satisfactorily explained.

St. Paul Grocers Burned Out. ST. PAUL, Jan. this afternoon fire broke out In the basement of the wholesale grocery of Beaupre, Keogh Davis at the corner of Third and Wacouta streets and gained such headway before it was discovered that both buildings occupied by the firm, together with its entire stock, were destroyed.

There was no wind and weather was mild, factors which assisted the fire department in preventing the Are in communic ting to the other whole houses, by which the Luilding was surrounded. The loss on stock 1s fully covered by ineurALCO. Robert 8. Rantoul owned one of the bu ldings burned. His loss is fully insured.

The other building was owned by Willins loss, fully insured. The Arm has rented another building. The Engineer's Dream Fulfilled, (Special to the Kansas City Times) BONHAM. Jan. cannonball train from the east on the Texas and Pacife Tailrop consisting of a baggage car.

two coaches and a sleeper, was running at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour over the trestle that spans the bottom two miles east of here, whon the rails spread and caused the engine, baggage car and one coach to leave the track. but, fortunately, thoy did not fall off the trestle, which was twenty feet high, and, outeite the fright, no one was seriously injured. Tho regular engineer, Dare Laser, on being called at Texarkana to take charge of his engine, refused to go out, giving as his renson that he dreamed that the cannonball would be wrecked between Texarkana and Bonham. Not One Badly Hurt. iRoectal to the Kansas City Jan.

The Wabash pasconger train due here at noon to- from Ottumwa was derailed near Coatesville, by a broken rail and thirteen people injured, the sloeper and two coaches rolling into the ditch over a fourteen foot embankment, throwing some of the passengers out of the windows. The wounded reached here this afternoon and Are comfortably cared for. Among those badly hurt were I. Williams, the porter of the Pullman car; George E. Harrison Higbee.

face badly cut; ExcelAlor Menus, right leg badly mashed, Senior W. Doddreti, of Brooklyn, N. severely bruised. None are fatally injured. A Mexican Bull Fighter Killed, CITY OF MEXICO, Jan.

fighter Saleri while jumping over a bull at Pueblo with the aid of a pole Sunday afternoon was caught on the bull's horns and impaled, dying in the presence of the spectators. A bull fighter here on the same afternoon Was gored seriously. The press generally condemns the revival of bull fighting, but is unable to make any impression on the publie, which contin1108 to flock to the arena on Sundays, bull fighting on other days being now forbidden. Nine Cars Were Wrecked. "Succial to the Kansas City Times.) EMPORIA, Jan.

9 o'clook this morning the accommodation train south on the Howard branch of the Santa Fe, whon but a few miles from this city, was wrecked by a broken raii, nine care being badly shattered. No one was hurt. The rond was blocked all day, passengers were traneferred afternoon. that wreck to points south late this Big Montreal Stores Burned. MONTREAL.

Jan. broke out this morning in J. Thompson's auction room and spread to Atkinson's Japanese store adjoining nnd through to Fortification lane. Atkinson's and Thompson's places were completely burnet out. The weather was 80 cold that all the ladders were frozen to the walls.

The loss was $150,000. Four Persons Burned to Death. MT. CARMEL, Jan. frame houses burned this morning.

Three men were burned to death and a woman and child are missing. THE FORCES COMPARED. Russia Far More Ready for Sudden War Than Germany. the reduction." Nearly a Thousand Arrests. BERLIN, Jan.

Militar Wochenblatt publishes with authority a reply to the Invalide Russe's late comparisons of frontier forces. It says authentio estimates of the peace effectives stationed in the frontier provinces of Austria, Russia and Germany show that Russia has 315,000 men and 160 field guns. It next compares the military situation the Russian side of the frontier with that on the German side, taking the forces within territories of equal area, shows that Russians within 119,311 square kilometers have 123,275 men. 24,198 horses and 2,711 guns of all kinds, while Germany, within 119,456 kilometer-, has only 81,714 men, 520 horses and 238 guns. garrison of Warsaw, of 20,000 men, 3,600 horses and five fleld guns, is contrasted with the garrison of Koenigsburg, consisting of 7.700 men, 1,400 horses and fifty field guns, and that of Breslau with 5.000 men, 1,160 horses and thirty-two fleid guns.

Keferring to the Invalide Russe's assertion that 4,850 kilometera of railway have been constructed in eastern Germany since 1878. the Wochesbialt states that railway extensions since 1978 amount only 10 1,865 kilometers. LONDON, JAN. dispatch from St. Petersburg says: "The alleged important reduction of the effective strength of the imperial guards turns out to be a very small natter, only 1,000 men unfit for service having been dismissed.

The various diplomatic representatives here have notified their respective governments of the real character of ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. Gresser, prefect of St. Petersburg, on the night of January 12 ordered that numerous houses in the city be eearched. The result was the arrest of 897 persons.

One house was set on fire by the occupants and several nihilist printing machines and a large number of revolutionary pamphlets were burned. The occupants themselves were unable to escape and were arrested. The Polish papers publish a manifesto Appealing to young men not to lend an ear to political agitators, whether the aid is sought for revolutionary movements or whether they are asked to take the side of either Russia or Austria in the event of war. Such a contest. the manifesto says, must in any case be calamity for Poland; therefore the greatest circumspection is necessary.

Cutting Open Dakota's Drifts. JAMESTOWN, Jen. fire dead engineers on the Jamestown and Northern road have been dug out and brought back. The grent rotary snow plow is at work opening up the road, which has been blocked for nearly three weeks. Last night it had made ten miles, having penetrated to Buchanan.

This plow is run by a stationary engine and each blade cute three inches. The plow is pushed by locomoties and can cut through a drift at the rate of ten miles per hour. M. Rochefort Sued for Libel. PARIS, Jan.

Ferry has brought an action for libel against Rochefort of the Intransigeantfor him of realizing 15.000,000 francs from dealings in Tunisian bonds through knowledge of state secrets imparted to him by Jules Ferry. The hearing has been fixed for January 25. Osman Digna Bobs Up Again. SUAKIM, Jan. Digna's force WAS attacked Sunday and dispersed by friendly tribes, but afterward rallied and compelled the friendly tribes to ratreat.

Colonel Kitchner and Major McMurdo were wounded and seventy natives killed and twenty wounded, the rebel loss was heavy. The Rev. Mr. Kelley Retracts. NASHVILLE, Jan.

chapter of the Abbott episode of last September was published to-day in the shape of a card from Dr. Kelley, missionary secretary of the board of missions of the Southern Methodist church, explaining the circumstances under which he presented the letter to the board in November which WAS deemed satisfactory, and saying that he had beon very much misunderstood, and that his letter has been attributed to compulsion on the part of the board, he would withdraw the paper accepted by the board and leave the full board to act upon the questions at issue. He adds: "If I could have offered the letter to the board of missions under date of November 25, to void loss of my off-fal position or to escape censure from the board, I would be unfit for a place of pecuniary trust in the church and totally untit for a place in the An Ohio Sherman League Formed, CINCINNATI, Jan. largely a'tended meeting WAS held to-night to take organize a Sherman league. General Thomas L.

Young, ex-congressman, was chosen to preside, but owing to hoarseness was unable to act and the Hon. Richard Smith of the Commercial- Gazette took his place. Among those who spoke were Gener I E. F. Noyes, Colonel L.

M. Dayton, General Lewis Seasongood, Colonel O. W. Root, Mayor Amor Smith, J. L.

Kerby and Attorney General Watson. A comm ttee of seven was named to present a plan of organization at the next meeting, which will be at the same place next Tuesday night. It was decided that the name of the organization should be the Republican Sherman league. Its object is manifestly to make Ohio solid for Sherman for president. Bishop Phelan's Statement, PITTSBURG, Jen.

17-Bishop Phelan of the Pittsburg diocese of the Roman Catholic church says there is no foundation for the statement that the Catholio church was trying to secure the property of the Ursuline sisters in this city. He felt constrained to depose Mother Superior Alphonse, as sho was only entitled to hold office for two years, and ever since the ostablishment of the institution there had been a continual controversy between her and himself in regard to the posttion in which the academy stood to the church, he holding that if the nuns desired the protection and influence of the church the power and ownership of the school property vested in them would have to be subjectto the diocese. This the nuns would not agree to and the matter was submitted to the propsganda at Rome and the bishop was sustained. Another effort is to be made in few days to secure the pardon of Milton Weston, the Chicago capitalist, in prison in Pennsylvania for aiding in the killing of a man in Westmoreland county, WORSE AND WORSE. New Details of the Storm's Havoc.

Nearly Forty Victims of the Blizzard in Nebraska. Sixteen Persons Frozen to Death Near Neligh Alone. Fifteen Inhabitants of Custer County Also Perish. Five Deaths Reported Near Custer-Many of the Victims School Children-The Terrible Lists in Dakota Still Growing -Much Suffering Ex. perienced in -A Brave School Teacher.

to the Kansas Citu Time. NELIGH, Jan. school teacher and eight children, names unknown, were lost in the storm in the northern part of Holt county. Five brothers named were frozen to a death six miles from here and an old man named Glose, also perished. A boy named Miller was frozen to death and his mother will loose both legs and an arm, They were returning from the funeral of a relative.

FOSTER, Jan. Louie Royce, teaching school near this place, attempted to go from the school house to a farm house twenty rods away, with three children but lost her way in the storm and all flaid down in the snow. The three children died during the night, but Miss Royce reached the house in the morning with both feet frozen, and they will have to amputated. Henry Keichhafer and his son also lost their lives while trying to find some cattle. Their bodies were found within ten rods of a farm house lying side by side.

O'NEILL, Jan. persons perished in last Thursday's storm in Custer county alone. The loss of stock is said to be enormous. Particulars are not obtainable. THE LATEST FROM DAKOTA.

ST. PAUL, Jan, of loss of life in last week's storm continue to come in and the lists up to to- night showed from 153 to 159 victims and it would seem probable that the final summary, if such can ever be made, will show quite 200 names. Saran Dolan, a school teacher of Goodwin, near Clear Lake, and Hugo Scheff, a farmer of Altamont, have been frozen to death, and so far four deaths have been reported in that section, but it is feared there were many more. News reached Jamestown. this afternoon of the freezing to death of M.

A. Ryan. 8 farmer living near Windsor where he had 8 claim. His body was found by a searching party near a hay stack, about eigbt miles from Windsor. He been in the hay stack and had unbuttoned his coat end laid down on top of a snow drift near the stack, His hands were in a position indicating that he had met death while praying.

His horse was found alive. He had matches in his pockets when found, and friends wonder why he did not set fire to the stack and warm up. Mrs. Ryan is nearly crazed. THIRTY-ONE CHILDREN MISSING.

At Alexandria, the frozen body of ing Hanly, about a ten countryman, rods from was his found home. this mornleft Alexandria at 5 o'clock last night to walk home, carrying forty pounds of provisions, and had stopped several times to rest and had at last fallen back upon the snow died. and He serve in company Seventh Minnesota. The death of Edwin Kylling, a farm boy of 17 years, has just been reportod from Canton, Dak. He went after hay and was caught by the blizzard.

It is reported that thirty- school are missing in Turner county. Three children of Mr. Heines, northwest of Lennox, perished while going home from school. The lady teacher pleaded with the scholars not to loave the school room and finally locked the doors, but they were too many for her and had their own way. One scholar, aged 17, WAS among the lost.

Mr. Heines wanted to kill the schoolmistress, but the explanation of the balance of the scholars exonerated her. This makes seven childron lost in the vicinity of Lennox. A team of horses, with a cow tied to the rear of the wagon, all frozen stiff, were found in the western part of the county. The driver probably perished.

LOST NEAR THRIR HOMES. SIOUX FALLS. Jan. eighth victim in the county of the great blizzard was discovered yesterday. It was Erio Ericsson, a farmer, six miles from the city.

He was but a short distance from his house when the storm struck, but was soon blinded by the snow and lost his way. He unharnessed the horses and unhitohed the front portion of the bob sled, but was probably then too much hausted to do anything further. The horses were found the next day, but his body can not be found. Henry V. Bliss, a farmer near Montrose, next county, went to the barn to do chores.

His wife put a light in the window to guide him back, but ho never came. James Kennedy, who passed the night in a hny stack. is but slightly frozen. His wife and son, who went out to find him, were both frozen and the boy's body has not been recovered. G.

Grandstrom's body was found last night. He was driving home from this city and being overtaken by the storm unhitched the horses and then abandoned them. He finally fell in the snow and perished within twenty-five yards of his house. A German farmer, name unknown, in Lincoln county, perished while attending to his cattle, Another farmer at Brandon and an unknown tramp were lost in the storm. It is estimated that over 5,000 head of cattle in this county alone perished in the storm.

Several railroad cuts were Alled with their frozen carcasses. In northern county, a farmer who started for a doctor found thirty-six hours after with his horse standing beside his dead bo ty. A man eix miles west of Millard left his house telling his wife that if the storm increased he would stay at the barn, He has not yet been found. SIXTEEN CHILDREN AND OTHERS LOST. A The report of the death of a school teacher a and sixteen children near Luke township in East Edmund county, at first discredited, is probably true.

Parties who came from Warner, to- night, state that the teacher and eix children have been found. H. of Minneapolis, supposed to nave been lost, arrived in Aberdeen to-night. Highmore, reports that Sister Willmeva of Stephen mission, twenty miles north of there, was caught by the blizzard on her of return from the home of the priest and when she was found by searchers, using a ropo to guide them, she was standing up and still alive, and was carried to her room where she died. The two Indian boys tent first to look for her were scarcely saved from freezing to death.

Mrs. Anthony Haby of twenty-five miles north is reported lost. Word comes from Wolsley, near Huron, of two more deaths, A boy of 16, Burdett Schofeld, left Wolsley just before the storm set in with a load of coal, going to his home, five miles south of town. He unfastened the team from the sled and went some distance, when the horses got into A snowdrift. There he left them.

His body WaS found five miles from the sleigh. The Druse family live on to farm nine miles southwest of Wolsley. Katharine Druse, with a sister, were at the barm. about sixty rods from the house, when the storm came up. She started for the house but lost her way.

The next morning her body was found forty rods from the house. Those reported most severely frozen are improving and may recover. YANKTON, Jan. two deaths are reported so far in Yankton county and two in Clay. In Bon Homme county nineteen deaths are reporter.

From south Dakota 104 deaths are reported, In Bon Homme county 200 head of frozen cattle were connted in one place And 140 at another. Dead cattle and hoga may be seen all a'ong the road from Yankton to Springfeld. The snow drifts are said to be thirty feet deep. Some persons missing are yet unaccounted for. BAD WEATHER IN TEXAS.

Several Persons Frozen and Great Numbers of Cattle Killed, GALVESTON, TEx. Jan. from different sections of Texas noto the cessation of the blizzard, but the temperature continues very cold for this latitude. The weather was the severest for many years and in many places it was unprecedented, both in respect to low thermometer and snow and sleet. Bonham reported a farmer named Henry Williams frozen to death while on his way home, and a good many cattle perished.

Claiburne reported Henry Corbin, a negro, and many cattle frozen. 1. At Corsicana the snow and sleet was unprecedented and travel is greatly impeded. An attempt fo drive a herd of cattle to Ennie, twenty miles distant, resulted in losing 250 of them. Stock froze to death standing in the streets, Sherman reporte that meager advices from the Panhandle are that many cattle have been frozen to death.

Torrell says there are 000 onttle on the pasteurs around that town and that many of them have died from the cold. Cattlemen have suffered soverely for two months past by bad weather. and have been at great expense feeding their stock, several failures having occurred fn consequence. Colorado, in the western part of the Atate, says cattle have drifted badly, and it is believed many have perished. The sheep on the prairies have suffered greatly, and it is feared human lives have been lost at the sheep camps.

Belton reports that many cattle on the range in that vielnity have died. At Austin the Colorado river, for the first time since the settlement of the country, wAS frozen over yesterday, the ice being from four inches to a foot thick. Reports from the stock ranges are meager, but stockmen fear the lose has been great on the plains and prairies. Stockmen from No- Man's- Land report cattle all right there, but they fear they are losing a great many on the plains of the Panhandle. Saturday Tom Jackeon and Bob Smith left Gainesville in A two-horse wagon for John Glenn's farm, sixteen miles west of there.

When within a mile of the place Jackson said he was nearly frozen and could not live much longer. Smith put him in the wagon and started for aseistance, but darkness coming on he lost his way. Finally Smith found the house of a farmer named Hitchcock and was cared for. Jackson was not found until the next morning, and was a corpse. Both of Smith's feet and his right hand were frozen.

Charles Jones, colored, living six les from Belleville, started to walk home Sunday night in the teeth of a blizzard. He was found frozen to death near his house yesterday morning. News comes from every part of northern Texas of unheard of suffering among the people and wholesale destruction among the catile, many of which were frozen to death under good shelter. The effects of this unprecedented cold weather will cripple the cattle interests in that part of the state for some time, and its effects upon the growing cereals and the flattering prospective fruit crop for this year will prove almost annibilating. The weather throughout Texas has greatly moderated within the past twenty-four hours.

Reports from western Texas tell of suffering and loss of live stock, but it is thought that the percentage of loss among cattle will not exceed that of other years. While the cold ANAD WAS the most severe ever known in Texas it was of short duration. and only the very poorest stock suceumbed. Hearne and several other points in central Texas report the thermometer as having touched from 30 to 50 below zero, which is several degrees colder than ever before I known in those local- ities. A.

NEBRASKA HEROINE. How Miss Minnie Freeman Saved the Pupils of Her School. to the Kansas City Times.r OMAHA, Jan. B. Ayer of Ord, one of the secretaries of the state board of transportation, said to-lay that when last Thursdar's blizzard came up Miss Minnie Freeman, a teacher, who is still in her teens, was at the little schoolhouse of Myrg Valley district in Volney county with fifteen pupils ranging in age from 6 to 15 reare, The storm tore the door from its hinges, and second later carried aWay the roof.

leaving the frightened little ones exposed to the elements. The brave teacher gathered her pupila together, and securing a coil of strong heavy twine, began with the largest one and tied them all together by the arms, three abreast, and taking the youngest in her arms, she tied the end of the twine around her own body, and with all the words of encouragement she could muster started out into the furious storm. Selecting her WAY carefully, she led her little charges through snowdrifte and the blinding blizzard, and after a wearisome journey of three-quarters of A mile the little band roached the threshold of a farm house and was taken In. The Worst Over in Montana. HELENA, Jan.

four days of severe weather during which the thermometer renehed as low as 453 below zero and never went higher than 20 below. last night the temperature began to rise. At 5 o'clock this morning it was 25 below zero and at noon it was but 4 -a rise of 300 since yesterday. In the sun about noon, it was even melting and the snow had begun to soften up perceptibly, Advices from other points tell of like change and indicate that the cold spell is fast abating and about over. No losses in cattle are reported either from northern or eastern Montana, where the storm was the most severe.

Reliable advices sAy that although cattle were pinched by cold, feed was plenty and uncovered no serious results are elther reported or feared, No Losses in Wyoming. RAWLINS, Jan. storm of last week had but little effect on cattle, as there was but little snow. The cattle entered the winter in better condition than for years and are fat and healthy. Ranchmen from all the ranges in this vicinity give good reports and have hopes for prosperous season next year.

Reports from the Platte valley are very satisfactory, The weather had been warm the entire season until the recent coll which had the effect of driving them to the 1oot hiils for a few days, but they are returning to the hil's, and there are no fears of great lose. The weather is bright and warm for this season of the year. Storms which may come between now and spring can not do much injury. Iowa Weather Moderating. DUBUQUE, Jan.

Reports from the northern part of Iowa give Sunday night as the coldest in the present decade, the temperature ranging all the way from 280 to 30 below. The weather is moderating, however, and the state is recovering from the paralysis placed upon business by the cold. The list of casualties has grown somewhat, and later reports, when the embargo upon travel in country districts is lifted, may swell the fatalities to a considerable degree. Sixty-Two Degrees Below, PAWPAW FALLS, Jan. past two nights were the coldest ever known in this region, Sunday at 8 o'clock in the morning spirit thermometers Indicated 50 below and at noon 22 below.

and this morning it ranged from 55 to 62 below. Trains are still irregular. The poor commissioners are besieged with appeals and the poorhouse is crowded. It was reported to-day that a sick woodman was frozen to death while being conveyed to this city. The First Death in Kansas.

to the Kansas City Times.) WICHITA, Jan. 9-year-old son of Lyman Pratt, living ten miles north of Attica, Sunday night, was sent about hall a mile to do an errand and did not return, and yesterday he was found dead 300 from the house, having been unable to roturn, owing to the excessive cold. The father was away from home that night and the mother spent the night hunting for him, and it is thought she will die from grief and exposure. OIL MUCH EXCITED. Heavy Deelines at -Both New York and Pittsburg--No Failures Yet.

NEW YORK, Jan. would have been called a panic in almost any other exchange occurred on the petroleum exchange to-day, when a de line in crude oil cortifleates carried the price down from to There was very little excitement, however, 88 th brokers seem lately to regard a movement of 4 or 5 cents in a day as simply natural. The trading was the largest for two years, the total sales being nearly 10,000,000 barrels. The oporators on the floor had A0 previous heavy losses and the Louis men being by no means backward. St.

Cincinnati bird was a racehorse indeed. The and carried winning a joy to the hearts of his backers by St. Louis cock good in fight the in pit. 5 minutes, killing the the ceptibly. spirits of the Kansas City people perThe victory raised For the Afth battle St.

Louis showed a bluered ger-red Grassmuck cock and Kansas City a ginCincinnati cock, each weighing 6 the pounds St. 2 Louis ounces. There was little betting, bird being a decided favorite. He proved to be a clipper and gaffed the Cintime, cinnati 30 cock through the brain at the first fly. seconds.

The sixth batte was the Louis longest pitting and a best contested of the day, St. 13 ounces, blue-red weighing 4 pounds whom they considered the pick of their Against lot, him being the victor in thirteen battles. Kansas City opposed a black-red Cottonwood, sealing 5 pounds, 14 ounces. The St. Louis men bet their money like water on this battle, offering any odds and Anding A hard good contests many takers.

The victor in so many was doomed to defeat, for after a game struggle of 30 minutes the Kansas City bird won. St. Louis dropped $600 on the battle. The seventh battle was short and St. Louis pitting a black-red warhorse weigh- sharp, ing 6 pounds, 3 ounces and Kansas City a Cincinnati ginger-red, weighing two ounces less.

The betting was in favor of the St. Louis cock. The Cincinnati bird was the best fighter shown yesterday and had things all his own way, killing the St. Louis cock at the third fly; time, 1 minute. The breasted eighth Oak Hill battle was between a black4 red, for St.

Louis, weighing tonwood pounds and 14 ounces, and a blue-red cotSt. Louis for won Kansas City, of the same weight, buckle: time, 30 seconds. For the ninth bat-1 easily, killing at the first' tie ginger-red Kansas and City produced Louis another Cincinnati red, each weighing 5 pounds, a 6 ounces. The St. black-breasted betting was even and the fight a good one, lasting for seven Kansas minutes and resulting in a vieTwo tory City, after a game struggle.

hundred and fifty dollars changed hands on the result. For the tenth battle St. Louis showed Irish gray, a handsome fellow, weighing an 5 legged pounds 13 ounces, and Kansas City a yellow blue-red, weighing 20 ounces less. Even money on the St. Louis bird went a begging.

much the The Kansas City cock proved to be best fighter, for although he lost one of his gaff. in the first he fought wickedly and gave the gray a death blow in the brain in the eighth round; time, 7 minutes. The resub of this battle mate honors easy, each having won five battles, and great deal of interest centered in the next and concluding battle of the day. For this St. Louis brought out a blue red and Kansas City a black red cottonwood, each weighing 5 pounds 8 ounces.

The Kansas City eock rattled his antagonist at the third round, Kansas and won the the battle in 9 minutes, giving City odd battle for day. The main will be continued and great sport is expected, as each party has some of their best cocks yet to fight. The Smith-Kilrain Fight Fixed, NEW YORK, Jan. Gordon, the editor in chief of Richard K. Fox's paper, Arthur Lumley, managing editor, Theodore Butler, superintendent of the art department, George McAvoy, artist, and thirteen engravers have left the paper.

Fox says he discharged them, but they say they resigned after various disagreements, mainly on account of differences of opinion over the Smith- Kilrain fight. Gordon said: "As editor of the paper. I wished to see the Smith-Kilrain fight fought to a finish and on its merits. Mr. Fox declined after the draw to insist on A Another fight, and gave up the stakes.

Ihare reason to believe he knew the fight was fake, or else he was badly handled. Charley Johnson, a friend of Mr. Lumley, and myself went over to see the battle, but, as the papers have stated, were not allowed to be present," Suing for Heavy Damages. NEW YORK, Jan. Laban, daughter of the late Commadore Vanderbilt, has begun suit for $100,000 damages against a morning paper of this oity for publishing a story that she was a victim of swindling spiritualistio mediums, OUR Green Letter Sale! 119 gb 09, r'8 20.

sale THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS -INOVERCOATS! -FORMen, Boys and Children. $25 Satin lined Overcoa's, marked and worth $25, and sold at that price all winter, now reduced $20 Montagnac in four colors, reduced for his sale $15 s'ers, cheap at that price, reduced and now selling $12 Ulsters now selling for Monday's sale at greatly raduced price $7.50 $10 sters at the remarkable cut price $5.00 These Overcoats are not old, shop worn goods, but new and fresh goods bought for our Fall and Winter trade. Boys' Overcoats, wort from $3 to $12, and marked at these prices, reduced for this sale and will be sold at $2 to $7.50. TO-DAY WE HAVE OUR Glove and Sealskin Cap Sale! Watch the Golden Eagle Green Letter Sale and note our prices. GOLDEN EAGLE Clothing House, 512 AND 514 MAIN ST.

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