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to a 51 cL 80 de de de by a to THE KANSAS CITY STAR. O'CLOCK SIX VOL. 20, NO 4. KANSAS CITY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1899-THURSDAY, TWELVE PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS LOOKS BRIGHT FOR STILWELL P.

G. BONDHOLDERS FAVOR A COMPLETE REORGANIZATION. E. L. Martin Is Notiflod That the Majority of Stock Has Been Deposited for Foreclosure Sale of the toad-Martin May Be President Again.

A. E. Stilwell has wired to E. L. Martin of this city that he has again secured control of the Kansas City, Pittsburg Gulf railroad.

The telegram received by Mr. Martin comes from Philadelphia and reads: "Majority of bonds deposited. We have wot. The plan of reorganization will be declared operative at Mr. Martin, who was formerly president of the road, said to-day that It would not long now till the road would pass out be of the hands of the receivers and into the hands of Mr.

Stilwell and the other men who built the road. The plan of reorganization 15 as follows: October I the second default in the payment of Interest on the bonds of the road will be made, The bondholders will then ask for and secure forceclosure sale the property. At this sale the road will be bought in by the bondholders themselves, and as a majority of these bondholders are favorable to Mr. Sulwell and his plan, they will acquire the road and take it out of the receivers' hands and place Mr. Stilwell It 18 understood that Mr.

again in control. Martin will be made president of the road and Mr. Sulwell chairman of the executive committee, which will manage the financial interests of the road. About 7 million of the bonds the of road held in Europe, chiefly in Holland. At are meeting held there last week million a of these bonds were pledged to the Stilwell plan of reorganization.

The Philadelphia which has charge of the Stilcommittee, of reorganization, has 16 million well plan of the road's bonds pledged to Stilwell's of reorganization. The total amount plan of bonds Is 24 million. THE P. BOYCOTT. Is Hearing Arguments in the Judge Thayer Jujunction at St.

Louis To -Day. St. Louis, Sept. 21. -Decision in the insuit of the Kansas City, Pittsburg junction Gulf Railroad company against fifteen in which the allegation is made other roads, defendants are parties to an that to boycott plaintiff by refusing to acment cept Its business, will not be rendered today.

The hearing this began morning beJudge Thayer in the United States cirfore cuit court. The hearing will probably 1 require two or three days. A temporary restraining order compelling the defendants to accept the business of the Pittsburg de Gulf was granted by Judge Thayer two weeks ago. The present ing 18 on the application of the Pittsburg Gulf have the restraining order made permanent. KANSAS CITY AS OTHERS SEE IT.

A New York Man Compliments Its Progress and Enterprise. "To see Kansas City to-day, after seeing it years ago 18 quite a said Henry Selby Fulton, a New York newspaper man of note, who is at the Midland in advance of "In Arizona." of the finest sensations I ever experienced was to see the smoking wrecks of Cervera'8 squadron. It Wis the completeness of destruction. When 1 made my way up town and saw a great, new city, a type of its own, the thought came to me that I had seen how the Amercan destroy and how they can build. The Kansas City of to-day in place of the Kansas City a few years ago represents the power of Amerloa-the forces of progress.

like the hills. The city already posseRges picturesqueness that will improve with time. Kansas City is unlike the conventional American town. Except for the hills it would not have an appearance peculiar to itself. I feel sorry for the Kansas City men who have been unable to enjoy the sensation of seeing their own town as others see That seeing Kansas City would give a sensation to a man who used to do the assignments to overcome impossibilities on the New York Journal staff, and who would discuss armed rescue of Dreyfus without surprise, 18 the finest compliment Kan628 City has had this week.

NO NIGHT SCHOOLS THIS YEAR. They Were a Failure Last Season and Will Be Abandoned. The board of education has made no provision this year for night schools and will probably make none, as the night schools last winter were acknowledged to be fallure. When night schools opened last November la the Lincoln High school, the Sumner, the Page, Washington, Switzer and Benton schools, the enrollment on the first night was nearly 500. But the attendance decreased gradually until in all of the night schools fewer than 100 pupils attended.

In the Page and Sumner schools, both negro, the attendance was confined at last to the janitors and the teachers. So the board has decided that there is very little demand in Kansas City for night schools. Superintendent Greenwood said this morning two or three night classes may be formed in the high schools this winter for those who wish to make special preparation to enter those schools. HE WON'T STEAL FOR AWHILE. A Chronic Thief Goes to the Penitentiary for Fifteen Years.

Harry Welford, a negro habitual criminal, who escaped the penitentiary many because he was too young to be sent there, reached a "penitentiary age' a year ago and soon thereafter robbed a man and was arrested. Yesterday he was found guilty in the criminal court and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary. Thomas Matthews, a negro, was given six months in jail for killing Eli Cobb. Cobb had a diseased brain and when Matthews struck him with his fist he fell dead. W.

B. Montgall, for shooting at a man, was given a year in ja4 WANT A LABOR TEMPLE SITE. The Unions Will Erect the Building If the Lot Is Furnished, If Kansas City will subscribe $50,000 to buy the ground at the southwest corner of Baltimore avenue and Tenth street for organized labor, the Labor Temple Building association believes the way will be clear for the erection of an $85,000 central labor bullding. The association's board of directors has issued a call for subscriptions, guaranteeing that organized labor will itself raise the $85,000 for the building if the $50.000 corner is bought for It. Already a considerable sum has been pledged by business men.

The canvass will begin anew and the officers hope to have the $50,000 before it is over. THE DIVORCE DOCKET GROWS. An Unusnal Number Apply for a Severance of Matrimonial Bonds. The new divorce suits filed in the circuit court are: Mildred against Rufus E. Wedge, cruelty; Henry G.

against Alice Belle Gerling, desertion: W. G. against Mary Knapper, jealousy and abuse; John D. against Cora D. Locke, desertion; Ewald against Ernestine Luther, desertion; Rachel against John Hunt, desertion: Prue against Howard Parks, desertion: Julia C.

against J. S. Hammick, cruelty. Preparing to Sell Property for Taxes. J.

Scott Harrison, city treasurer, is preparing a list of properties 011 which taxes are delinquent. All real estate on which the tax for 1899 has not been paid by October 31 will be sold in November for taxes. There is not as much delinquent taxes this last, but many owners who could year 88 pay penalties are still to in arrears if and will have heavy easily their pay they wait to redeem property after the tax sale. The great success of Hotel Baltimore Cafe is due to the high quality of its daily menu and the excellence of its service. A BLUNDER'S AWFUL RESULT.

'Frisco Officials Say the Swope Park Wreck Was Due to Carelessness. Another name was added yesterday afternoon to the list of killed in 1 the collision between passenger train 66 and an extra freight on the St. Louts San Francisco railway half a mile beyond Swope park yesterday morning. Fred W. Laker, engineer of the passenger train, died at the University hospital late yesterday afternoon.

The surgeons never any hope of his recovery, as his left leg was crushed off, his throat cut and his skull fractured. The bodies of B. F. Reddick, engineer of the freight train; Charles Rider, fireman of the passenger train, and F. W.

Laker were sent to Springfield, last night for burial. The body of William Harelson. the freight brakeman, was Sent to Clinton, his home. L. P.

Alteck, the postal clerk; Fred A. Smith. Apressman, and J. W. Halslett, freight dreman, are Improving rapidly.

Mr. Smut was sent to him home in Springtield last night. The body found in the ashes after the wreck had burned WAS a corpse being shipped from Galena, to It was the body of Michael Palmer, and it will be held here until the wishes of relatives can be learned: A. O'Hare, division superintendent; Special Agent Allender and General Claim Agent Spaulding of the St. Louts San Francisco arrived in Kansas City this morning to investigate the wreck.

Charles Brownell, the freight conductor whose Watch was behind time, went to Springfield last night to explain why he did not enter the switch at Swope park and wait for the passenger train. Officials of the road say the crew of the freight train can give no excuse for not getting out of the way of the passenger. The engineer and conductor knew that the passenger had right or way and that it was running on time, When Conductor Brownell got back to the city his watch was fourteen minutes behind railroad time, but officlals of the road say that Engineer Reddick's watch must have been right and that the accident must have been due to a disregard for orders. It is considered little short of a miracle that the passenger coaches were not smashed to pieces and many passengers killed. WANTS ALL PAUPER BODIES.

The Anatomical Society Fights the Pauper Burial Ordinance in the Courts. The medical colleges of Missouri wish to secure for dissection the bodies of all the pauper dead in Kansas City. These colleges have combined to make a legal fight against the elty ordinance which provides that the pauper dead, whose kindred are too poor to bury them, shall be buried at the expense of the city. This ordinance already gives to the medical colleges the unclaimed dead but that is not enough for the medical colleges. They wish all the pauper dead for dissection.

There are two bodies now in the morgue. The board of distribution of human bodies applied to the circuit court to-day for a writ of mandamus commanding the board of health to deliver these bodies for dissection in medical colleges. The applicalion for the writ also asks the court to adjudge the elty ordinance null and void. The state board of distribution of human bodies, which demands these bodles, is composed of the professors and demonstrators of anatomy in all the medical colleges in the state, The state laws created them into a board for the purpose of getting bodies for dissection in the colleges and provided that they might demand the bodies of pauper dead. A short time ago the city passed an ordinance providing that the city bury the pauper dead.

The state board, in its application to-day, demands all the bodies not burted by and at the expense of kindred. The writ of mandamus directed against the board of health. The medical colleges whose professors of anatomy compose the board are: Enseworth college, St. Joseph: Barnes college, St. Louts, Kansas City Medical college, University Medical college, Kansas City; Central college of St.

Joseph; AmerIcan college, St. Louls: Homeopathic of St. Louts, Columbian school, Kirksville: St. Louls college, of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of the State universiay, Women's Medical college, Kansas City; Columbian college: Kansas City; Kansas City Homeopathic Medical college, St. Louis, and Missouri Medical college, Medico-Chururgical college, Kansas City.

COAL PRICES REMAIN STEADY. Dealers Do Not Look for an Advance at Present. The coal companies announce that there is no change in the retail price of coal this year, although the wholesale price is from twenty-flve to fifty cents 8 ton higher. Fancy anthracite coal is $9 a ton; standard anthracite is Arkansas anthracite, Arkansas semi-anthracite, Cherokee or Weir City lump, Cherokee or Weir City nut, Lexington lump, Panama lump, Rich Hill lump, $3. These were the prices when consumers ceased buying last spring, and coal dealers say that there is now no Immediate prospect of an increase.

The semi-anthracite mines of Arkansas, which were shut down last winter by a strike, are in operation now and are producing about three-fourths of the amount mined last winter. If. there is to be any shortage It will be, so the dealers say, in the semi-anthracite product. The labor troubles in Southeastern Kansas and in Arkansas have made an uncertainty in the coal market, but stability is said to be restored. A considerable quantity of coal is sold to consumers this month.

Coal wagons begin to carry their freight to the dwellings of the city, for the chilly nights for a week have made grate fires a necessity for October is the bustest month for coal melt. It always leads in the sale of coal. November is second: December is third and September fourth. THE NEW BLUE RIDGE ROAD. Surveyor Callahan Says It May Be Builded for 87,000 a Mile.

The new macadam road proposed by the county court to follow the crest of the ridge east of the Blue river from the Fairmount park road south to Leeds has been roughly surveyed by T. F. Callahan, the county surveyor. He has figured that a roadway sixty-gix feet wide, with a rocked driveway thirty-six feet wide and a space each side of the drive fifteen feet wide would cost only $7,000 a mile for grading, stone and all. Mr.

Callahan has a plan to build a viaduct across the Blue river bottoms at the north terminus of the road, and thus connect it with the entire boulevard and park system of Kansas City. A. A. WHIPPLE HOME AGAIN. A Slip on the Steamer Coming Over Sends Him on Crutches.

A. A. Whipple returned this morning from a six weeks' business trip In London and New York. Although Mr. Whipple refused to discuss the nature of his business while away, It is generally understood that his chief object was to raise money for enterprises which he is promoting.

Mr. Whipple returned a cripple. While at. sea last Thursday he stepped on steamer mat, which slipped under his weight, severely spraining his left ankle. Mr.

Whipple may be on crutches for several weeks. DIDN'T READ HIS OWN FUTURE. A Fortune Teller With a High-Sounding Name Fined for Fraud. "Senor" Don Carlos de Avandras, the clairvoyant arrested Tuesday by Detective Keshlear, returned the money he had taken from victims since being in Kansas City and this morning he was fined $25 in Justice Spitz's court. He promptly paid the fine and left the court room in company with George Duboise, the man who acted as his servant.

While in Kansas City he collected $77 from poor women who went to him to have their fortunes told. County Taxes Are Due. The payment of county taxes for this year began to-day and will continue till January 1. It will be best for taxpayers to go this month or next to the collector's office and pay their taxes, because in November and December there is always a rush of taxpayers and a long line of people in front of the cashier's window. are both specialties.

Binding contracts RanGe binding magazines RUMORS OF MORE FRAUDS. UPPER FLOORS OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING BEING EXAMINED. Richard Fourchey, the New Superintendent of Construction, Declares That All Work Not According to Contract Must Be Promptly Corrected. As a preliminary step to the correction of the fraud in the construction of the floors of the new federal building, Richard Fourchey, superintendent, has prepared a sample of what the construction should be to accord with the government's specifications. The concrete base of this sample will be "set' by to-morrow morning.

and then the floors of the building will be torn up and the bad work replaced by material like that which Mr. Fourchey has prepared. In the meantime, the second, third and attic floors of the building will be thoroughly swept and cleaned out, that no rubbish will Interfore with the examination of the work. The first floor of the building will be Inspected in the same way, W. P.

Wright, a concrete workman, discharged IL week 850 by Leach Son, told Mr. Fourchey that fraud had been practiced in the construction of this floor as well a8 the others. This work was done after the expose made by W. H. Justice.

Wright said that screenings of cinders and other rubbish were used where only screened cinders should have been. Wright gave the names of three other workmen who, he sald, would tentity to the same statement of facts. Charles Larson, the foreman in charge of the concrete gang which did the work in the bullding, has been taken from the work in the federal building Leach Son. Mr. Pourchey says that the Improper plastering will be attended to when the floors have been reconstructed.

Plasterers had threatened to strike because Superintendent Fourchey made the statement in The Star that some of the plastering was out of line. "Let them strike." said the superintendent this morning. "We had twelve strikes while WAR in charge of the appraisers' warehouse in New York city, but we finished the building within seven months. None of the strikes lasted more than about two hours. If the walls, in the first place, were improperly constructed so that plastering could not be put on according to speciticaLions, it' was the plasterers' duty to build out the walls with brick or fire proofing to the dimensions required.

Where this has not been done plaster five inches thick has been put on instead. The work must come off, and be done over Mr. Fourchey spends nearly all of his time In the new building, inspecting all parts of it. HIS VISIT TO THE MAYOR. The Champion Bootblack of Kansas City Calls in Stunning Array.

"Boss, ah wants a permit to ca'ay EL gun." He said this to 15. Mont Relly, private secretary to the mayor, Reily turned around and beheld a marvel in paste diamonds and long coat, with 8 veat the like of which never was seen before in the mayor's office, and probably never will be again. The visitor said his name was William Galtor and added: "I done shined younh shoes many times, He was short, black, and between 30 and 40 years olu. Nobody could guess his age much nearer. He had a star as big as a policeman's, but it was gold or gold washed.

It said, Galtor, Champion Bootblack of K. His coat WAR an old fashioned cutaway, Intended for a man just a foot taller than Galtor. His vest was knit and the pattern must have been designed from the description of Joseph's coat of many colors. The woman who made it secured as many different colors of yarn a9 she could find and used them without regard to harmony of color. But it was the diamonds that puzzled Relly, He wore two diamond studs the size of pebbles.

On one hand were five rings and on the other three. The rings Were big enough to have been made by a blacksmith. Diamonds glistened in each ring, A heavy cane with a bone handle and -blood shoes, also very large, completed his make-up. Gaitor explained that while he was walking peaceably on Woodland avenue "a niggah' had stopped him and flashed a knife, indicating an intention to "cahve" him. He had raised his.

cane and with one blow knocked his assallant "unsensible. He was afraid something similar might happen again and wanted to carry a revolver. "He must have been after your diamonds. have $1,000 worth of diamonds on, Relly suggested. "Ah wish dey was wuth a thousand; I'd be in some other business." Relly kept on talking diamonds until the negro confessed they were only imitation stones.

"But dey do glisten at night," he said, grinning. It turned out that it was not a highwayman, but a negro with whom he had quarreled about a woman that had waylaid the champion bootblack of Kansas City. Gaitor will not carry a revolver on any authority given him by the mayor's office, ODD FELLOWS' PRIZE DRILLS. Canton's Contest for $2,000 An Indian Resolution Postponed. Detroit, Sept.

21. -The prize drills of the Patriarchs Militant in the convention of the Odd Fellows, were held to-day. The contests were held upon the Detroit Athlette club's field. The prizes drilled for aggregate $2,000. The contestants were divided Into three classes.

Class A was composed of cantons numbering twenty-four men and three officers each. The following cantons entered: Muncie, of Muncie, McKeen of Terre Haute, Lincoln of Syracuse, N. Lucas of Toledo. Class comprised cantons composed of eighteen men and three officers. The following drilled in their classs: Oswego, Oswego, N.

Victoria, St. Thomas, Ontario; Akron, Akron, Erte, Buffalo; Colonel Fenton, Flint, Mich. Class cantons composed of twelve men and three officers, the following entries: Syracuse, Syracuse, N. Hamilton, Hamilton, Newbauer, Hartford City, Ind. The sovereign grand lodge to-day indefinitely postponed a resolution permitting members of the five civilized Indian tribes in Indian territory to become Odd Fellows, provided they had no taint of African blood.

A resolution providing that at the next session of the sovereign grand lodges, representatives be paid only actual traveling expenses instead of ten and twelve cents per mile met a similar fate. OPPOSED TO HALF DAY SCHOOLS Patrons of the Lowell School Are Protesting Against Short Hours. In addition to the schools named In The Star yesterday half day sessions will be held in four of the rooms of the Yeager school, Nineteenth street and Indiana avenue, until the four room addition to that school is finished. Two rooms in a vacant building near the schoolhouse have been rented for pupils who cannot be accommodated in the building itself. The board 07 education at its meeting to-night will consider measures for immediate relief in the crowded schools.

Those who send their children to the Lowell school are much exercised over the crowded condition there. They held a meeting and will ask the board to give rollef at once. They are opposed to halt day sessions, which is the first expedient. TRIED TO ROB THE PAY TRAIN. A Day of Ill Luck for Three Desperadoes in Ohio, Toledo, 0., Sept.

Merrill and George Baker of Chicago and a man named Fisher attempted to assault a woman at Wauseon yesterday afternoon. They escaped on a Lake Shore freight train, comIng east. On the way the train broke in two and Fisher was thrown off. The others compelled the engineer to back up and get Fisher, who was dangerously Injured. Just then a train with the pay car came along and they tried to flag it, but the engineer would not stop.

The three men were arrested when the train reached Toledo. B. P. -Best Paint Sold-stands for progress in paint making. AN UNGRATEFUL EMPLOYEE.He Stole From the Firm That Gave Him Work When He Came Out of Prison.

M. J. Edminston. salesman for the Schinelzer Arms company, made a written and signed confession yesterday that he had stolen goods from his employers to the amount of $58.27. He was locked in a cell at the police station and was charged with grand larceny.

His method of stealing WaS to load his sample trunk with shotguns, rifles and revolvers and take them with him on his trips. He would dispose of his stolen porperty in the country towns. He formerly worked for the Schmelzer company and was discharged for stealing. Later he served a term in prison for forgery, Upon his release from prison the firm gave him employment again on his promise to reform. Now Schmelzer Co.

will prosecute him. KILLED WHILE HE SLEPT. Jeff Crabtree, 16 Years Old, Run Over by Train. The body of the boy who was killed by train near Little Blue station early Wednesday morning was identified to-day as that of Jeff Crabtree, 16 years old. His mother is Mre.

Hattie Pyle, 1415 East Fifth street. Young Crabtree, after an unsuccessful attempt to get work near Little Blue, had started home to Kansas but upon meeting three young men encamped for the night near the Little Blue he joined them. He slept with his head against the rail of the track. At 3:30 Wednesday morning he heard a train, but upon rising WIN struck in the forchead by the piston rod and WaS killed. RAPIDS OF THE RAW RIVER.

Low Stage of the Water Gives That Hitherto Peaceful Stream a New haracter. The Kaw river is lower than it has been for many years and in many places along its course It can be forded with safety. The Missouri river is lower than the Kaw, however, and for this reason A series of rapids have been started in the Kaw. They became apparent near the mouth several days ago and on account of the soft character of the river bed have been eating backward until now they have passed the Ohio avenue bridge. The bed of the river is thus accommodating itself to the level of the Missouri river.

It 1s presumed the rapids will continue to fall back as the channel is cleared below until the Lawrence dam is reached. DEMOCRATS NAME R. T. PAINE, JR. The Philanthropist's Son Nominated for Governor of Massachuset S.

Foston, Sept. 21.0 -The Democratic state convention nominated Robert Treat Paine. of Boston, for governor by acclamaticn John H. Mack of North Adams was rominated for lleutenant governor. Mr.

Paine is the great great grandson of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. His father is the Boston philanthropist, organizer of Workingmen's clubs and president of the associated charities of Boston. The elder Paine was a free silver Republican until 1884 when he became a Democrat. HE WAS WITH SHAFTER. Lieutenant Colonel Ducat to Be in Temporary Command of the New 49th.

A. C. Ducat, lieutenant colonel of the Forty -ninth United States volunteer regiment, which 1s forming at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, passed through the city this morning to take charge of the regiment in the absence of the colonel, William Beck, who Is at present in Santiago, Cuba. Lieutenant Colonel Ducat was aide-decamp on General Shafter's staff at San Francisco when he was appointed to the Forty-ninth.

He held a captain's commission in the Twenty-fourth regular infantry, The Forty-ninth will be sent to the Philippines, Only about 100 men have been enlisted 60 far. ACCUSED OF STEALING CATTLE. John Robb Arrested at the Stock Yards on A Serious Charge. L. B.

Green, chief police officer of the stock yards force, arrested John Robb this afternoon on the charge of stealing cattle. M. Howard, a farmer, living near Lansing, reported that five were taken from his place last night. Shortly after Officer Green met Robb at the gate driving in fourteen cattle. Robb was locked up in the James street police station, in Kansas City, Kas.

He was arrested on the Kansas side and when taken across the line on the way to the station he protested against going back to Kansas, The offleers finally prevailed on the prisoner to cross over. GERMANS UNDER A FRENCHMAN. Old Foes Fought as Allies Against the African Tribesmen. Paris, Sept. 21.

-The governor of Dahomey cables that the Franco-German commission which is deciding the Togoland boundary is being resisted by natives. The commission had to fight several engagements, defeating the natives and Inflicting considerable loss upon them, while losing only one native trooper. The French and Germans co-operated with the greatest cordiality, under the command of the French commander. Togoland Is just west of Dahomey. Both countries are on the Atlantic coast.

east of Liberia, west of the mouth of the Niger and south of the Sahara. The Municipality Leagne's President. Syracuse, N. Sept. 21.

-Henry V. Johnson, mayor of Denver, was elected president of the League of American Municipalities by a vote of twenty-one cities to eighteen for Mayor Maybury of Detroit. NEWS NOTES. John Herget, a wealthy distiller, died today at Pekin, Ill. The Rev.

J. W. Buckner will lead the meeting at the Roberts mission to-night. Bishop Millspaugh of Kansas consecrated the new Episcopalian church at Medicine Lodge, yesterday. John Samsel, a Nebraska farmer, was killed In a runaway near Wymore, last night.

He was thrown from his buggy. A reception and entertainment will begin by the King's Daughters of the Dundee M. E. church, Fifteenth and Troost avenue, this evening. The directors of the Anaconda Mining company have declared a dividend of per cent and an extra dividend of per cent, payable November 1.

Lieutenant Collin Ball of Sedan. and Congressman Ridgley addressed the G. A. R. reunion of the Twentieth Kansas senatorial district at Grenola yesterday.

A two days' and reunion of the Twenty-seventh infantry the Seventh cavalry, Missouri state militia, veterans of the civil war, began at Pertle Springs, to-day. Captain Lamb, formerly of Company Third regiment, has called former members of his company to meet at Parlor Midland hotel, this evening, for reorganization. General Brooke has informed the War department of the death of Private William M. Dawson, hospital corps, which occurred at Santa Clara, Cuba, September 19, from typhoid fever. Samuel L.

Clemens (Mark Twain), who, a short time ago, wrote to the Princeton Inn tor a suite of rooms for the winter season. has canceled the arrangements and will spend the winter in London. The attendance at the Sedgwick county, G. A. reunion at Wichita, this afternoon, 1s estimated at 8,000.

Congressman Long and Colonel E. A. Fink of Winfield addressed the meeting to-day. Charlestown, 8. was selected by the vote of nineteen cities as the place of holding the next annual convention of the League of American Municipalities, which has been in session at Syracuse, N.

Y. Deputy Marshal E. A. Prescott has gone to Belleville, who to arrest Thomas Willis, a negro, is charged with having robbed the Scandia postoftice. Willis will complete to-day a sentence in the county jail for burglary.

Beerbohm successful Tree, the actor-manager, produced a revival of "King John' in London, last night, before a crowded and enthusiastic audience. including Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Wolseley and Lord Beresford. Art Wall Paper, largest stock Interior decorating. Geo. P.

Potvin, 1010 Walnut. TO THECOASTS AND THE GULF A UNION OF VANDERBILT. HUNTINGTON AND ROCKEFELLER LINES. From New York to Kansas City, and From Here to the Gulf by the K. Union and Southern Pacifies to the West.

New York, Sept. the death of Corneltus Vanderbilt may temporarily delay the consummation of the big Vanderbilt deal for a transcontinental line, it is not belleved that railway and financial circles will much longer be kept in the dark concerning these plans. The entrance of William Rockefeller Into the directory of the New York Central, which was made possible by the death of Mr. Vanderbilt, It is believed, will further the deal. From reports now current, the projected combination of roads in many cases may be simply in the way of trattie agreements and contracts, and will means be composed exclusively of bilt properties.

At the present time the deal, which is more comprehensive, than any heretofore brought about in American railway properties, representing nearly a billion dollars in capital stock. includes Huntington, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt roads. Not only will A NEW CANDIDATE IN NEBRASKA. The Nomination for Supreme Judge May Go to M. B.

Reese. Omaha, Sept. Republican state convention will meet the auditorium at the exposition grounds at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Since last night EL complete change has taken place in the situation 50 far as the candidate for the head of the ticket is concerned. The state offices to be elected this year are one supreme judge and two regents of the State untversity.

For supreme judge up to this morning' ex-Governor Crounse WaS supposed to have the best chance for the nomination. The Lincoln delegation this morhIng proposed the name or M. B. Reese, former member of the supreme court, and announced that he would accept the seeond nomination. The Indications are that he will be accorded the nomination practically unanimously.

ROOMS SCARCE IN NEW FORK. Visitors to the Dewey Celebration Will Tax the Hotels' Capacity. New York, Sept. Is a big demand for hotel rooms for visitors to the Dewey. celebration.

In nearly all of the hotels cots will be put up in the halls and other places for the use of the many who, it 1s expected, will be glad of an opportunity to avail themselves of even such poor accommodations, In the matter of supplying food to the visiting thousands, the outlok is much! THE FRENCH ARMY'S PRAYER GALLIFET OFFICIALLY SAYS THE DREYFUS CASE IS "CLOSED INCIDENT." The Minister of War's Note to Be Read to All the Soldiers, but Dreyfus Says He Will Continue to Seek Reparation. Paris, Sept. minister of war, General De Gullifet, has addressed this order to the corps commanders: incident 15 closed. The military Judges, enjoying the respect of all, have rendered their verdict with complete Independence. We all, without harboring alterthought, bend to their decision.

We shall in the same manner accept the action that aL feeling of profound pity dictated to the president of the republic. There can be 110 further question of reprisals of any kind. Hence, I repeat it. the incident is closed. ask you, and, if it were necessary, I would command you, to forget the past in order that you can think solely of the future.

With you and all my comrades I procialm Vive which belongs no party, but to France The order will be read to the troops throughout the French army. The Aurore publishes the following den- 6 Bet LAND Short Shore N- Union CHICAGO N. Y. Con New Pacific KANSAS CITY Omahas 8 CHA Sr. LOUIS Pacific V.

Par, NEW ORLEANS TON THE PROPOSED VANDERBILT-HUNTINGTON-ROCKEFELLER SYSTEM. there be a thorough mid-continent line from New York to Puget sound, but there will also be Southern transcontinental line. The Chicago Alton will figure in the deal as a connecting link between the New York Central-Lake Shore al Chicago, and the Missouri, Kansas Texas at St. Louts and Kansas City. The Southern Pacific will be reached by the Missouri, Kansas Texas, giving a through line to Southern California, which 19 a much nearer point to the Philippines for shipping than any port on Puget sound.

Mr. Rockefeller, as a director in the New Haven road, and an Important factor in the Boston Albany, will throw to the New York Central the control of the New England roads. He 1s also an important factor with the Vanderbilts in the Chicago Northwestern and Union Pacific, which will be combined for the most direct transcontinental line, practically under one management. This will be the northern arm of the gigantic railway system, to include the Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway and Navigation, which have, in fact, been already taken over by the Union Pacifle. Mr.

Rockefeller controls the Missouri, Kansas Texas and is largely interested in the Chicago Alton. A CHICAGO GRAIN FAILURE. Barrett Farnum of the Board of Trade Forced to Quit Business. Chicago, Sept. 21.

-Barrett, Farnum a well known board of trade firm, failed to-day. All trades with the firm were ordered closed. Mr. Barrett did not appear at the office and Mr. Farnum said no explanation or estimate of losses could be made yet.

Both members of the firm have been well known for years and were big traders. The immediate cause of the fallure apparently was heavy sales of December wheat around Monday and Tuesday, Barrett sold about 5 million bushels. It was supposed to be for some big of the firm and there has been customer deal of mystery about the sale, EL great but it seems now that Barrett sold it in final effort to break the market, make a a big turn and recoup losses, The effort succeed. The sales, though made did not dull market, had almost no effect at OIL a all on prices. To-day, when the firm ordered deals closed December wheat advanced rapidly back to to 73c, 12c and and a almost little as quick- under, closing higher than yesterday.

ly dropped covered some of his short sales Barrett yesterday and some, before more the this announcement morning, through brokers, of the fallure was made, but he evidently get out of his entire line of found that to wheat would involve greater losses short than he could stand, so the firm quit. A. H. Farnum was formerly a partner of George F. Baldwin.

Baldwin made a forout of the stock market last year, tune from business and has started on withdrew trip around the world with his a leisurely family. READY TO HANG, AFTER ALL. NOT The Kansas Life Convict Has Changed His Mind About Wanting to Die. Topeka, Sept. 21.

-Taylor Cook, a prisoner has written to Governor Stanat Lansing, asking that a death warley repeatedly signed for him. The governor 110- rant Cook to secure the recommendation tiffed judge who sentenced him and the of the attorney as well, said prosecuting the governor, "I will consider your applifor the death warrant." To-day the cation received from Cook a letter in governor which he says, the influence of Deputy Warden Thompson has caused him to bethat lite is worth living. He concludes lieve by saying: "What can't be cured must be endured." OTIS A CATHOLIC CONVERT. Paulist Fathers Publish the General's Name in Their List. New York, Sept.

connection with the charges of vandalism in Catholic churches in the Philippines by American soldiers, a correspondent of the New York Times calls attention to the fact that in a recently published book, issued by a Paulist father, is given a list of "American converts from Protestantism," In which appears the name of "Colonel E. S. Otis, United States army." Although Otis holds the rank of brigadier general in the regular service, having been promoted from colonel in 1893, the Paulist fathers no doubt refer to the officer in command at Manila, as there is no other E. S. Otis in the army.

Jerey Simpson hreatens to Talk Politics. Topeka, Sept. 21- -Jerry Simpson has sent word to his Topeka friends that he will deliver an anti-expansion speech at the reunion, here next week. The Republican speakers are preparing to reply to Simpson should he talk politics. Captain Crozier Is Lack From Europe, New York, Sept.

William Crozler, the military member of United States delegation to the late International disarmament congress at The Hague, reached this city to-day on board the steamef Saale, from Southampton, more favorable. The many restaurants of New York make the problem of feeding the throng a much simpler one than that of providing them with places to sleep. The hundreds of boarding houses in Greater New York will, of course, take care of Itors, but it la to be expected that many persons will make 110 arrangements for 80- commodations in advance of reaching the city. That they may suffer is to be expected. At the Waldorf- not a room or cot 19 te be had, every available accommodation having been engaged weeks ago.

Several other hotels ofter rooms at from $3 to $10ra day on condition that they are engaged at once and paid for to October 1. Boarding house rates range from $1 to 36 a day, and all necessary information as to the location of these stopping places can be obtained at the bureaus estanished by the local newspapers, which confront the visitor everywhere he goes. FOUGHT A LEOPARD IN A CAGE. A Woman Trainer Subdued the Animal With a Pitchfork. Philadelphia, Sept.

French woman tamer of leopards, Mlle. Maurel, had a fight with one of the animals in a locked cage at noon yesterday. The people who saw the fight were unable to get into the cage to help her. Apparently no one had IL revolver. Mile.

Maurel had locked hergelf an the big exhibition cage with three leopards and a jaguar in order to have a rehearsal, A young leopard named Rapier wits ugly anu would not obey. He persisted in leaping about and snapping. Mile. Maurel, atter whipping him tor hifteen minutes, gou him in EL corner and struck him in the face. Rapier jumped on the woman and bucted his teeth in the left arm and his paw tore her dress from the neck down to her waist, the claws leaving a bloody trail.

Both fell to the floor, and the trainer's revolver dropped under the animal. Tne girl pounded the beast with the butt of her whip until an attendant threw her a pitchfork. As she secured this weapon the leopard made a tremendous jump and was received upon the prongs vi the fork. As the animal tell back wounded, the trainer followed him. Three times around the cage she chased him, prooding and beaung him over the head, altnough she was badly soratched.

Within hve minutes the leopard gave up the night and lay motionless with Dis tongue hanging out. After unlocking the cage the woman fainting into the arms of an otticer. A score of hands lifted her into an ambulance and she was hurried to the hospital. SPAIN DIDN'T KNOW DEWEY. Montejo's Trial shows the Ignorance Madrid Officers About the Americans.

New York, Sept. dispatch to the New York Journal from Madrid says: The court-martial of Admiral Montojo, commander of the fleet destroyed by Dewey at Manila, was continued yesterday. Counsel for the defense charged that the main cause of the defeat of the Spanish fleet and the army was the thoroughly bad defensive condition under which the fleet and army fought. The responsibility, he asserted, rested only with the Spanish government. The accused, he said, should be the accusers.

Telegrams produced In behalf of Montojo proved that the government had no conception of the strength of the American attack, but declared that it had no fears about the result of Dewey's operations, and saw no reason why the Spanish forces ought to be re-entorced. Montojo, it was shown, had sufficiently warned Madrid regarding the probable issue of a contest, and his counsel, theretore, demanded the moral and 1 official renabilitation or the accused. tte asserted that, with the resources at his command, Aumiral Montojo had made a heroic defense and ought to be acquitted. (Murmurs of ap- proval.) SUED THE GOVERNOR FOR LIBEL. The First Missouri's Colonel Thinks self injured to the Extent of $50,000.

St. Louis, Sept. Edwin Batdorf the First Missouri regiment filed a suit this afternoon for libel against Lon V. Stephens for $50,000. The suit is based on the published interviews with Governor Stephens, in which he reflected severely upon the military reputation of the colonel and impugned character as a citizen.

It grows out of the trouble which followed the appolntment of adjutants and majors for the regiment when it was organized fo for the war. A MISSOURI COLLEGE FIRE. Burning of a $75,000 Building at Lebanon 10-Day, Lebanon, Sept. The CulpepperShannon college building that was built at a cost of $75,000 burned to-day. The fire caught from a defective flue.

Both Prestdent Culpepper and Vice President Shannon are away from the city. The loss is said to be total. Riverside Oaks and baseburners, none better: much heat, little fuel. Redheffer Company, 544 Main street. laration from former Captain Dreyfus: government of the republic has given me my liberty.

But liberty is nothing to me without honor. From to-day I shall continue to seek reparation for the frightful judicial error of which I remain the victiin. wish France to know by a definitive judgment that I am innocent. My heart will only be at rest when there remains not a single Frenchman who imputes to me the abominable crime perpetrated by NEARING THE RIVIERA. Carpenteras, Department Vaucluse, France, Sept.

21-Dreyfus arrived here this morning and went to the home of M. Valabregue, a relative. This town is about 100 miles from Nice and it is believed that Dreyfus's ultimate destination is the RiViera. Nantes, Sept. arrived here yesterday morning from Rennes, accom panied by his brother, Matthieu Dreyfus; the chief of the secret police, M.

Viguler, and one policeman. The party traveled as ordinary passengers. The Dreyfus brothers alighted on the platform first, followed by M. Viguier, who Inquired ir they could have a private room. A waiter replying in the affirmative the brothers entered a room and ordered two glasses of milk, while M.

Viguier and the policeman remained outside in the public bar. Inquiry was then made concerning the Bordeaux train, which, they were informed, jeft at 8:58 o'clock. All four then entered a first class compartment in which there were already other passengers. It was tended, by thus retraining from any attempt to secure privacy, to avoid exciting curiosity and this apparently succeeded. M.

Viguler and the policeman only went 85 far as the first stop, Vertou, whence they returned to Nantes, leaving the brothers to continue their journey alone. LUGGAGE MARKED FOR AMERICA, London Sept. London Times publishes the following dispatch from Liverpool: quantity of luggage has arrived here from Havre and Poikestone addressed to Madam Dreyfus, and rooms have also been taken at 3 local hotel. The luggage 1s marked for New York and it is supposed that Dreyfus is going to The Paris correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says: "Dreyfus 18 SO ill that he can live only 8 few months. The government has promised to watch over and protect him and has recommended that he live on the Riviera.

It is not unlikely that he will accept the villa offered him during the trial by the Prince of Monte Cario," SAID HE KNEW HE WOULD HANG. A Boy Dime Novel Reader Pleads Guilty to Murder in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 21. -Richard Hoeneck, who in pursuit of a preconceived design and without apparent reason recently murdered Walter Koeller, in Chicago, pleaded guilty to-day.

"Do you know you can be hanged on your plea? asked the Judge. do," replied Hoeneck; "I am guilty." Herman Hundhausen, implicated with Hoeneck, entered a piea of not guilty. Hueneck is 20 and Hundnausen is 18 years old. The older boy stabbed Koeller, who was sick in his room, here, September 4. Both boys had sachels full of weapons and expected to leave the country.

They had known Koeller at school and claimed they kited him for revenge. It was found that they had been reading sensational novels which nad suggested toe murder to them. DEAD IN A BURNED HOSPITAL. Four Perished in the St. Vincent de Paul Building at Nortoik.

Norfolk, Sept. The hospital of St. Vincent Paul was aimost totally burned between 2 and 3 clock this moraing. Firemen at work upon the fourth floor discovered the body of a woman, beHieved to be that of Mrs. McCune, an aged demented patient, Two other unidentied bodies were found this afternoon and Fireman Barrett has died from his injuries.

The property loss, it 19 belteved, will reach with comparatively little insurance. The policies covering the burned main building will not aggregate over vUv. Two ntemen were injured but are expected to recover. St. Vincent's nospital was four stories hign exclusive of the basement, constructed of pressed brick with stone trimmings, and was one of the best equipped institutions of its kind in the South.

Diaz Gets Leave to Go to Chicago, City of Mexico, Sept. 21. -The senate and chamber of deputies in joint session by 4 unanimous vote granted to President Diaz twenty-ore days' leave of obsence to visit Chicago. line of Riverside Oaks and baseburners." Redheffer 04 Main street..