The Dighton Herald from Dighton, Kansas • Page 2

CONGRESSIONAL. BUINED ARMEES. "fJlj States when there was MUEDEE: WILL OUT. Dighlon lit'sakl. 1 The greatest number of sponges grow in water from 500 to 1000 ath oms deep.

April 3. The Rousa revive I tha agitation of the question of Cuban belligerency connos-tion with tho con ferenca repjrt on ih Cuban resoltioaj It was not expe-tai that thrro would b3 much deb i to, but Mr Bontelle, by fcia vigorous opposition, prevsnted action, and reso ution wnt over uatll to-morrow, af tar an all day April 4 Tha Ilousa dovotcd. anotW day gratuitiously upon its yearly subscri-and evening sessioa to the consideration of tha Vv United greater demand for Republican statesmanship than there is now. Whether this Con-' gress will be able to achieve anything! do not know, but I do know that the! House of Representatives, with its great' Republican majority, ha3 already made impression upon the business of the; country." This is true. Whatever the present Congress shall be able to the people are confident that the Free-! Trade party in this country has reached the end of its power to work destruc-i tion to American industries.

The Gor-' man Tariff act may remain for the! present inviting ruinous competition to; American industries, but its doom is; sealed; the hours of its life of destruc-i tive work are becoming less and less. Montana for Protection. I am a firm believer in the policy of? Protection to American labor and! American Industries. A large majority! the people of Montana are devoted; this doctrine, and they have con-! sistently supported it, notwithstanding they are purchasers of Protected articles generally and only receive a meager direct benefit through the duties on lead and wool. Their adherence to the doctrine rests on broad, patriotic views of enlightened national policy.

Hon. Thomas H. Carter, U. S. of Montana.

Barley Suaar Suaar Eorlea 3X'2C IJCerth On January 1, the market price of No. 2 Milwaukee karley was 57 cents a bushel. Granulated sugar was quoted at 4 cents a pound the same day, therefore a bushel of barley was worth 14V2 pounds of sugar. Four years later, January 1, 1896, barley was worth Z2Yz cents and sugar 5 cents. The farmer's bushel of barley could be exchanged for only QY2 pounds of sugar.

Pennsylvania on Protection. Hon. JohnDalzell, M. of Pennsylvania, recently said: "What this country wants is more revenues through the custom houses, more men in the mines, more blazing furnaces, more factories, more mills, the music of more spindles, more and cheaper transportation facilities, a wider field for labor, an enlarged home market, more consumption to stimulate production, to increase wages and to decrease the hours of labor." These necessary and much desired conditions can only be brought about by a return to the policy of Protection to American industries, such as we enjoyed in 1891 and 1892, when our industries were protected and our treasury receipts were adequate to meet the requirements of the government. True Progress Possible.

True progress is only possible when the farmer finds the market for his produce in the neighboring towns, and the manufacturer a market for his goods among the surrounding farmers; hence the importance of such a policy to the Southern people as will result in the opening of our mines, the manu facturing of our timber and the utilization of the unsurpassed water power within our borders. Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard. U.

S. of North Carolina, Clothlnsj for Farmers and Artisans. How far local firms are justified in producing a showy but half-worthless cloth that will be sold to the American, retail buyers farmers, artisans and the like is another matter. The possibil- ity even a few years ago of manufacturing a cloth at Is. 6d.

per yard was scouted, but to-day there are makers to be found able to produce good-looking masses of the poorest shoddy, kept in form by low cotton warp, at from Is. 34. per yard. Manchester, Guardian ITow Revenue Works Bound. Wher the Protective Tariff raises revenue is serving the industries of the people.

While it puts money into the public treasury it furnishing employment to American labor. Hon. Wn. McKtnley. 13 SOj ojs 50 Oh1 His is- 9fbnnfe sv 30Cenls fiftkkPjsocgnte BaigJ A 20 Cents sitofa q'fWndt 20 CltlH I Munis H5 IS-VTIT r'y I 3ftxinih 10 Cents iR'ii1 to tofts -s gi jid s-: facKme I Gorman 5(t0MV ZS US.MWKtT I 1 I JpK THE SLAYERS OF J.

T. LAM-BORN CONFESS. Ills Son and Daughter Tell How Their Father Was Brutally Fat to Death by Thomas Davenport, the Girl's Lover The Children Were in the Conspiracy. Leatexwoktii, April 10. The foul murder of J.

T. Lamborn at his home near Fall Leaf, this county, is no longer shrouded in mystery. Every detail has been laid bare in a written confession by both the son and daughter of the murdered man, who were placed in jail here Tuesday night, together with Thomas Davenport, a lover of the young Lamborn girl, who was jailed at the same time on a similar charge. Smarting under the horror and disgrace of dingy prison bars, and har-rassed by the belief that one would "peach" on the other, both the boy and the girl made written statements, which verify one another. Calmly and deliberately they wrote of a prearranged plan to put their aged father out of the waj', and Thomas Davenport, the lover of the girl, was chosen to do the awful deed.

Charles Lamborn, the son of the murdered man, is about 22 years of age, and Annie Lamborn, the daughter, who bore such an active part in this awful tragedy, is about 24 years old. She is of frail physique, not weighing more than ninety pounds. Not all the details of the crime could be learned, but the following facts from the confessions have been made known. They stamp the crime as one of the foulest imaginable. According to these confessions, after mature deliberation on the part of Charles Lamborn, Annie Lamborn and Thomas Davenport, the night of Februarv 10, last, was c.iosen as the time that old man Lamborn was to be'killed.

The Lamborn house, which is in a secluded" place, fronts north on the public road, while there is another road running east and west about one-half a mile north of the Lamborn residence. Near this east and west road the young Lamborn girl and Davenport had a trysting place, as old man Lamborn did not allow young Davenport to visit his house or to keep company with his daughter. Uere at this trysting place on the evening of February 10, Charges and Annie Lamborn met Davenport, as the three were going to a dance. The brother and sister told Davenport that their father was all alone and it was agreed that the two should remain there while Davenport should go to the house and commit the murder. The plan was executed.

Davenport rode his horse around to Lamborn's, hitched in front of the house on the public thoroughfare, secured an ax, gained entrance to the house by repre senting himself to be Charles Lamborn and, without delay, proceeded, with the murderous ax, to chop his helDless victim to pieces. Quickly mounting his horse he re ported the fiendish act to the waiting son and daughter of the victim and then, accompanied by Charles Lamborn, Davenport returned to the Lamborn house, where they found and burned a will that had been made by the murdered man. Accomplishing this the two men returned to where they had left Annie Lamborn and telling her of what had been done, the three proceeded to the dance and enjoyed themselves as much, apparently, as any of the other guests. How they returned from the dance, went to bed in the house where their murdered father lay and did not "discover" the remains of their father until late the next morning, has already been told. The arrest of the two Lamborns and Davenport was brought about hy the young Lamborn girl confiding the secret of the murder to a woman in Lawrence, who often visited at the Lamborn house, as she was a borrower of money from old man Lamborn.

Annie Lamborn's love for Davenport, it seems, faded away in contemplating the awful crime to which she had been an accessory. Her horror stricken soul needed solace and she confided her teirible secret to this woman friend, under a promise of secrecy, soon after the crime was committed. Until very recently, however, this woman kept her own counsel, under the belief that the guilty parties, if known, would be hanged for the crime. later that there is no capital punishment in Kansas, she made a confidante in turn of Mrs. Charles Shaeffer, who is living temporarily at Kansas City.

Mrs. Shaeffer told her husband, and it was he who went to Fall Leaf, arrested the murderers and placed them in jail at this point Married to a Convict. Milax, April 10. A very romantic marriage occurred at Linneus last night. Dakl Iiobbirs who is in jail at Linneus with a fifteen year penitentiary sentence hnnging over his head, and Miss Ida Rooks were the contracting parties.

Miss Rooks furnished the money for a license and for the minister's fee. After the ceremony she left for home, leaving her newly wedded husband behind the bars. Ask Ihcir Pastor to Resign Wichita, April 10. Rev. Joseph Silberman, pastor of the German Lutheran church of this city, has been asked to resign and seek another field of religious work.

The Aid society of the church "gave a hard times ball at which beer was sold, and Mr. Silberman scored them hard about Electrocution in Ohio. CoLUiinus, Ohio, April lu. The State. of Ohio, on and after July will inflict capital punishment by electricity, the bill passing yesterday.

At the next fall election the peoplo are to vote upon the question of having a constitutional convention. Two More. McKinley Delegates. Falmouth, April 10. W.

McD. Shaw of Covington, and C. Valandmg-ham, of Williamstown, wre yesterday elected delegates from the Sixth district to the St- Louis convention and instructed for McKinlev. 2 The latest device of a Paris paper for attracting readers is the engagement of two eminent physicians to attead uaa. The contemplated new Union Station Summer street, Boston, will cost and have thirty-throe tracks.

will include the present New England station. An expert on curious calculations has figured that if a man could jump as far proportion to his size as a flea can, could stand on the Eade Bridge, and by a single bound, spring into the middle of Lake Michigan. There are 12 locomotive building companies in the United States. They turned out last year, 1,100 locomotives, against G95 in 1S94. Tho freight sars built in 1S93 were 31,803, as com pared with 17,029 in 1S94.

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Hold bT drMtriats. Wayraigia JT3 Jj Best LOSSES OF A BILLION AND HALF DOLLARS A YEAR. Democratic Destruction of the Value of Farm Crops and Lire Stock Disaster Wrought by Fret Trade Fanatics Lessen Consumption. "We hereby give a brief summary of the aggregate losses to farmers in the value of their principal crops, and In their live stock since 1892. Depreciation In Annual Farm Values.

-Value. 1891. 1805. -Cents. Total values.

1891. ia3. Com, bu 40.6 Wheat, Jlye.bu 51.8 Oats, bu 31.5 Cotton, lb 8.00 Hay, ton a8 39 Potatoes, Wool, lb 17.0 Barley, bu 54.0 4 Tobacco, 8.4 26 4 50.9 44.0 19.9 7.C0 8.35 2G6 9.0 33.7 45.2 S838.433.C58 $567,509,106 513.472.711 25,542.000 232.312.2'57 237,377,014 clIl.HO.COO i 3.475,000 40,500,010 6.948.03J 40,000,0:0 237.938,993 11.964,826 259,164.640 293,185,615 78,931,901 26,486,705 1.312.413 6 936,325 35,574,000 Totals $2,539,434,476 81,810.712,597 a Dollars. Cincinnati Price Current, Clapp's. nnual Loss on Crops In Four 5728,721,879 Depreciation In Live Stock Values.

-Value per head. Jan. 1, Jan. 1, Total values. 1892.

1896. Jan. 1,1892. Jan.1.1896. Sheep $2.50 S-wlne 4.60 Milch Cows.

21.40 Other cattle 15.16 Horses 66 01 Mules 76.55 $1.70 $116,121,270 65,167,735 4.35 241,031,415 186,529,715 22.55 863,955,545 15.80 57J.749.155 508,923,416 33 17 1,007.593,636 45.29 147,882,070 lt3.204.457 Total $1,77,926,084 Annual Loss on Live Stock in Four Years $733.829 504 Annual Loss on Crops in Four Years. 728 721,879 Total Annual Loss to Farmers $1,462,55 1,473 This stupendous loss of nearly a billion and a half dollars has fallen upon American farmers sines the Mc-Kinley tariff period of 1891 and 1892. It takes no account of the shrinkage In the value of the rice crop, of the crops of nurserymen, of seedsmen, or of the enormous supply of farm truck market gardeno, or ot our dairy products or hog productB. It is noteworthy that the aggregate annual shrinkage in ralues Is practically the same for live stock as for the staple farm crops. This is interesting because many were inclined to attrib ute the losses in the value of live stock to some extraneous causes, whereas the fact that both live stock and staple crops have suffered equally only tends to strengthen the belief in the ruinous Rays on Roads effect of the "deadly blight" of Democracy upon American farms.

Farmers are well aware of the disaster that has befallen them since 1892, and the cause of it. They have looked back with regret to the era of our greatest prosperity under the Protective tariff that bears the name of Hon. William McKinley. They have felt the effects of a lower tariff a Democratic tariff, with Its "touch" of free-trade upon our sheep and wool industries. They know that they need a restoration of the McKinley tariff rates upon their own products, and upon all other prod-, ucts and manufactures of the United States.

Nothing less than this will restore to the farmer the conditions of 1890 to 1892. They' demand; they insist upon; and they will vote for, next November, a restoration of a tariff policy that will not give less Protecr tion to American farmers than the McKinley tariff did, because they want, and are in need of, a return to the i McKinley protection period and its prosperity. They demand similar American statesmanship. Nothing less will satisfy them. llow Connectloat Feel.

I beg you to make no mistake about the temper of the American people; they propose to brirg about the return of that Protection -under which there was work for all. aiid comfort for all; that Protection that shall fill our National Treasury and the pockets ot our laborers; that Protection which shall keep our gold at home for the natural unforced redemption of our paper currency, and whatever policy puts itself In the way of such return will be smitten by the mighty hand of popular sentiment United States Senator O. H. Piatt of Connecticut. End of the Free Trade Rope.

Representative Grosvenor said, In speaking of the present condition of Rational political affairs; that "there ml I an of to PTOPTOV. Boston is to tae a flying machine contest. It call3 it competitory aeronautics. The Raines bill cannot be wholly bad. It has driven a professional politician to suicide.

It would be pleasanter living in the world If there were not so many fools In It, but more difficult to make a living. The Cubans will have to admit that this country has displayed the utmost liberality toward them in the matter of rhetoric. A heresy trial was finished In one, day in New Haven on Wednesday. The judges must have had experience as Yale rushers. Scientists may deny the existence ot the equinoctial storm, but they must admit that there is a very heavy de-l mand for umbrellas every spring and fall.

At the Youngstown (Ohio) ministers' banquet the brethren refused to eat Spanish onions. It was a strong grandstand play and Alphonso XIII. may well tremble in his crib. The French will probably allow the English to become as much entangled In the Soudan as they please, contenting themselves with giving sympathy and selling arms to the Arabs. Unrestricted immigration is said to be a menace to this country.

The least we can do in that case is to bar out the ready-made politicians and try to manufacture our own exclusively. The largest clock factory in Connecticut will run only four days in the week; hereafter. When a clock factory runs behind In this way it indicates that the, business pendulum needs shortening up. With the president frowniDg on bicycling for women, and Senator Hill complaining of the deleterious effect of pink teas, the way of society women in Washington seems to be beset with thorns. Chicago thieves stole a model tho other night which was to demonstrate the theory of perpetual motion.

If they don't run better than the model the chances of escaping punishment are against them. Congressman William Treloar. the music-teacher member of congress from Missouri, has been renominated. Missouri evidently intends to give him another chance to discover harmony in the national legislature. If Mark Twain is to lecture in Africa It will be necessary for him to have a few negro melodies with which to set off his entertainment.

"The Suwaneo River," rendered along the Congo, would fill the benches. Miss Kittle Smith of St. Paul has filed a claim against the estate of Alfred J. Hill, who died last June. Miss Smith was the fiancee of Hill, and bases her claims on that fact, demanding $200 for expenses incurred in preparation for marriage, $100 for resigning her position before marriage, and $2,000 said to have been promised her by Hill in consideration of the marriage.

Of course Kittle will get all she asks. Rev. Jesso Roseberry, who took a drink from a flask while attending a funeral on a cold day at Central City, W. and was arrested and locked up by the town marshal, has brought suit against the corporation for $10,000 damages. He was held till the mayor came, when the minister was fined $10, notwithstanding the fact that he had followed the doctor's instruction.

Meanwhile the mourners were waiting for the pastor in the cenieteiy, and were well-nigh frozen when he arrived. It is evidently a' very cold day in Central City when the marshal and the mayor get left. The same day that Theodore Woodruff was to lead pretty Miss Ward of La Fayette, to the altar, she asked him If he wouldn't just run around to the dress maker's and get her wedding dress and leave it at the house. Theodore was obedient, but when he called for the garment he was told that it not quite done, "and wouldn't he, kindly wait a few moments?" At this' he flew into a passion and came near' ending the life ot the innocent yet procrastinating dressmaker. Instead of leading Miss Ward to the altar he was led to the Jail, and as toon as the young lady heard what had happened she declared thai Theodore would not make a model husband, and at otfee broke the engagement.

Evidently Theodore knew little about the ways of dressmakers. The resolution of the Wisconsin National Guard association against permitting the use of the American flag for political or partisan purposes will fill with gloom the bosom of the spellbinder who has been expecting to recall the nation's glcries as soon as the nominations can be made. Herman Rossdeutcher, of Elgin, 111., a lad of an inquiring looked into the muzzle of a gun to see if it was loaded. It was. Both eyebrows and a big patch of skin are now missing, but Herman, thank heaven, is still wilh us.

Cuban hm. mont for a vota oa Monday as sooa as tha Ilousa I. Brodarick. of Kansn. w.i nivinjj, ll CtiJlUtJ- amonsr th3 spaakera for tha aloptioa ol the resolutions.

April 6 The Ilousa ad Wed the conference report oa the Cuban resolations a vote of 2W to 27. Eigrhteea Republicans and nine Democrats Toted against tha report After the most opposition of thos opposed to the- recofrnition or" tha insurgents in tho Senate and Housa, there wara bat ten more votes against the report than against ths oruiaal resolutions The former Tote was 251 to 17. By it3 actio i the Ilousa asroed to tha Sonata r33olutioas aa I dispos of tho Cuban question jr tho presnt. Tho Uou-e also passe I tie rife and irbor bill, under suspension of the rules, after a lively deba'e lasting forty minutes The vots wn3 6 to 4). Tha bill carries ia actual appropriations, S10.3SO." :0.

and authorise coatnsti fop thi'ty-two new projects, with a limit of cost of $31,721,10. Tha Senate spent the entira day on tho nost- office appropriat on bill, but did nit comdeta it. The bill served to bring out some sharp criticisms by benator Gorman on tho administration of tha departmrn, and by Senator Allen of Nebraska on allegel irregul r- liies resulting from tho civU service system Mr. Allen sensational chanros as to large monay contributions sail to havo boen made in tho interest of Mr. Cleveland and Mr.

Harrison. Tho charge that Mr. Wanamaker contributed toward Mr. llar ison's claction led to an emphatic denial from Mr. Haw ey Mr.

Allen alhided to tho Pi ident a "his majesty," and as the chief mugwump of the country. April 7. Tho postofllco appropriation bill, which has engrossed tho attention of tha ben-ata for almost a ek. was passed, lha entire day was devoted to debita anl voting upon the amendments proposed to tho bill, tho Wo'cott amendment for tho consolidation of smaller offices with larger one receiving the greater share of attention. Tho di cussion oa this proposition again toak 1 ho form of a de-bata uoon tha marita of civil sorvico reform.

Mr. Woicott criticised Socretiry Smith frr his participation in tho Georgia campaign, and was replied to by Mr. Hill. Tha amendment was defeatod by a decisive vota, receiving only seven votes in its support The Ilousa spnt the day donating a bill to fix the standard cf weights an i measures by tho adoption of the metric system on anl alter July i 1SD8, an a proposition that the government share with tha District of Columbia tho of creating and maintaining a publics library in the city of Washington Tho latter was defeated. 112-127.

and the fateof the metric bill still hangs in tho balance. On a risin? voto it was defeated, 61', but Mr. C. W. Stono.

of Pennsylvania, chairman of tho committeo on coinage, weights and measures, who has given tho subject much attention, an 1 who warmly supported it, secured tha ayo and nays, and, ponding the roll Jail, tha IIouso adjourned. April 8. Senator Turpie's Bpeech on Cuba was tho event of t'ie day in tho senate, and in many respects it was tho most pictur squo and vehement utterance heard on tho subject. While arguing for radicl action on Cuba, even to the extent of sending a fleet ti Cuban ters, much of Mr Turpia's speech was given to Barcasm and ridicula of the coursa of Mr. Sherman and Mr.

dga in managing the Cuban rosolut ons. Tha sena or oreatai mu amusement by hi portrayal of Sen 1 to- dgo as a warrior about to fight a da with Minister Dupuy da Lome Spain. Most of ha day was given to tho Indian appr priation bill, which was not comoletd Unanimous consent wn secured for taking up tha ro olution for a Sonata inquiry into rojent bond issues next Tuesday. The biil to adopt tha met-ic system of weights and moas-ires was sant back to tho committea on coinage, weights and moau-ej for further consideration. On tho first voto it had a majority of two but tho oppasitioa was aggressive and a sar.es of votas it was re-committel, Hi 59 April 9.

The Distr ct of Columbia appropriation bill, which was recommitt3d early in Marsh, alter a protracted light against aj propitiations for private and sectarian charitable institutions, was brought into tha House today with the ppoaifia appropriations stricken out an I containing in imtherof the appropriation of a lump sum far charities to bo expended under the direction of ie District commissioners, with tho proviso thatno part of tho appropriation sh- uld go institutions in or sectarian control. Tho feature of the debate was a vig rous attack on tho A. P. A. by Mr.

Fitzgerald, Democrat, of Massachusetts. Tho bill was passed as amendad. After being in retirament for some weaks, the tariff silver bill was brought forward in tho Senate to-day as a text for a speech by Mr. Mantle of Montana, cna of the five Republican Senaiors who voted against considering tha tariff. Mr Mantle defended the course of the silver Republican Senators, declaring that tha Dingley bill wa3 not framed ai a patriotic measure Ho urged that nnsectional protection should bi linked with bimetallism.

A sharp tariff colloquy followed betw am Senators Mills, Hoar. Ilawley end Mitchell as to the effect of tho Wilson bill on wool Tho calendar was cleared of all private bdls after an hur specially devoted to pensions. WOMEN AWAY BEHIND. Spring Hill, Snows Under the Tet-ticoat Ticket. Olatiie, April 8.

The municipal ticket at Spring Hill, this county, made up entirely of women caudi-dates, the second of the kind nomi nated here, was again defeated yesterday by a vote of three to one. Two years ago the women triumphed and gave the city an economical and business like administration, but last year they were defeated by a vote of two to one. Report of Crop Conditions. Washington, April 8. The Weather bureau has resumed weekly publication of crop conditions.

The bulletin issued yesterday says: Over the central and Northern portions of the country the season is generally from two to three weeks late, in consequence of which farm work has been correspondingly delayed. In the Southern States the season is also backward, but not so late as in the more Northern districts, while in Colorado, it is more advanced than usual. Proponed National Prison. Leavenworth, April S. A citizens' mass meeting last nig'ht passed resolutions calling on Congress to pass an appropriation of 5150,000 to erect a rnamrrioth federal peniten tiary on the Fort Leavenworth reservation, "just north of this city.

A ITarrard Graduate in Disgrace. Portland, Ore April 0. Frank J. Afleck, a Harvard 'graduate and this br ther of a "wealth y'member of the New York exchang-e who, after spending six months ago enlisted in a cavalry troop at Fort Boise and deserted recently, has been arrested in this city. Burglars Wreck Hank and Safe.

bTiLLMAN Valley, 111., April 7. The bank here was broken into last night. An attempt to plow open tho safe was a failure, but the vault and a portion of the building were wrecked. The robbers got only a small sum. in It In he is.