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the QflAS. IS 9O0TT, pgwuiMh K)JL THE WORLD AT LARGE. Summary of the Dally News. TVASntNGTON NOTES. The Secretary of the Interior has authorized the Crow Indians of Southern Montana to lease for grazing purposes 2,600,000 acres of the land in the western end of their reservation.

W. CocnnAXB serts Postmaster Pearson, of New York, suppressed the former's campaign circulars and that he was thereby defrauded of several hundred dollars worth of postage stamps and the documents rendered useless. Tiie Bureau of Statistics report that the exports of this country ended May 31 were valued at $734,500,000, against in lb8W, and the imports and 589,000 respectively. Tiie Treasury Department has notified the customs officers at Louisville, Ky to take effective stcos to prevent undervaluations of iron and steel reported at that port. Tun President has recognized Robert Lchr, at vice consul at Baltimore for Portugal, mad Paul Franco Goumay as consular agent at Baltimore for France.

It is stated that Mrs. Cleveland will precede ttao President on his intended Western trip, going first to Madison, where ihe will visit the family of Postmaster-liencMl Vilas The President ill jorahis if there the second week in September nd together they will visit Detroit, Jack-on, Grand Rapids, Chicago, St. Louis aad Kansas City. THE BAST. The New York Hog Slaughtering Company has made arrangements for a factory to kill 2,000 hogs per day.

It has turned out that the man held at Salem, I1L, for the Rahway (N murder mystery is a lunatic. Arnold ct Co the New York coffee brokers who failed during the recent coffee panic, have instituted claims against creditors aggregating Caitai- Jack Husset, the famous life saver, who was shot by Policeman Hahn in a drunken row at New York, June 2, died on the 21st. The trial of Fire Chief Nevins, of Brooklyn, collapsed on the 21st, the court instructing the jury to acquit. Fouu hundred Chinese laundry employes in New York City have struck for an ad vancc in wages A. Parent, defaulting cashier of a Montreal bank, has been arrested in Buffalo and 20,000 of the $22,000 stolen reco-cred In the suit of William Leonard as receiver of James R.

Keene against E. A. Kent and Abraham Poole, formerly composing the firm of Kent Co for an accounting in the lard transactions of 1S7U in which defendants acted as Keene's brokers, Judge Truax, of the New York Superior Court, has decided that an accounting must be mado by Poole The Army of the Potomac closed its ro union at Saratoga, on the 22d The next meeting will be at Gettysburg, July 1, 1SSS. The board of trustees of Wells' Female College, at Aurora, recently voted that women should have a representation in the board, and Miss Helen Smith, the lady principal, and Mrs. President Cleve land, an alumnus, were unanimously chosen trustees.

Princeton College has conferred the degree of LL. on justice Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court. The steamer Providence of the Fall River line ran ashore the other day in Long Island sound The passengers were saved Five or six buildings on Lewis street. New York, i ere destroyed oy fire on the morning or the Sid Loss, 7220,000 A trotest against Dr McGlynn'ssuspen sion and threatened excommunication has been cabled'to Ronio by representatives of 300,100 Catholics In the Hazlcbrook ev iction cases that have been on trial at Wilkcsbarrc, bo-fore Alderman Donahue, judgment was en tercd in av or of evicted miners, six in number, in the sum of (300 each for damages sustained by reason of having their goods and chattels thrown into the roadway. A special from Ha erhill.

Mass of the 23d says that a gigantic lockout affecting bands in tho big shoe factories was about to be inaugurated Matthfw Gearne, a wealthy brick manufacturer of Haverstraw, died re ccntly after a week of great suffering from hydrophobia, the result of a bite by a favorite terrier some weeks ago. The race of the Eastern Yacht Club at Marblchcad, Mass on the 23d was won by the Mavllower 11 31 30, followed by the Iroquois, Galatea, Sachem, America, Stranger and Huron, in the order named "Brick" PoMERornas preferred charges to the Commissioners of Hospitals against the management of Gouverneur Hospital at New York alleging drunkenness, debauch-cry, cruelty to patients and incompetency The brig Aldwyth, reported at Baltimore by the steamer Lore as having been in collision with that vessel in a fog, arrived later at New York badly damaged. Six hundred employes of the Atlantic oil refinery, near Philadelphia, struck the other day against the employment of Hungarians in the works. The New York Chinese laundry strikers save been granted increased wages The Connollsville (Pa.) coke syndicate has again refused to give in to its men and to the iron manufacturers. Governor Hill has signedthe bill passed by the late New York Legislature extending local option throughout the State to the extent of permitting communities which have prohibited retail liquor selling to also prohibit its sale at wholesale.

Hot Freeman Clarke died in Rochester, N. on the 24th, after a very long illness, aged seventy-eight years. He was Representative in the Thirty eighth, Fortv-seoond and Forty-third Congresses, and was appointed in 1865 Comptroller of the Currency by President Lincoln. There was a semi panic on Wall street on the 24th, started by rumors of Jay Gould's death. Prices dropped rapidly, but recovered on news that the rumors were false.

A nrTitrcTivE fire at Leavenworth broke out on the 21st at Helmer Parmelee's barbers' supplies warehouse, Third and Delaware, burning down tbe block and cansmg a damage of about (300,000 Tmx annual convention of the Travelers' Protective Association opened in St Louis on tbe 21st, with a large number of delegates in attendance. M. McDonald, the gambler, whose brother was convicted in the boodle trial at Chicago, has decided to withdraw from politics. The steam barge R. W.

Walters, a 200-ton vessel, owned by John Homeguardner, of JSanduskv, was suak in a storm off Blacknver, on the 20th and eight lives were lost Colebow, sub-chief of the Utes and a noted renegade, who has been depredating in the Uncompahgre district for several years with sixty lites, and was the leader of the Meeker massacre, has been captured by the United States troops The fifth annual convention of the Master Plumbers' Association olthe United States began on the 21st Chicago, with ISO delegates present Reports from Otter Tall County, say that grasshoppers are devastating grain fields, and the farmers are threatened with the entire destruction of their frops. A steel stern post for the cruiser Charleston has been successfully cast in Be Francisco. LiECTEVAtr Governor Robertson, of Indiana, has been elected president of the Btate Board of Equalisation over Governor Gray. Nkwtort, one of the alleged Wyandotte train wreckers or trial at Paola, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the second degree. Frakcis B.

Looms has been, elected president of the Dayton, Fort Wayne Chicago railway. This road -will issue $5,500,000 bonds and be leased to the Cin cinnati. Hamilton JJayton. The Pacific coast branch of the American Shipping and Industrial League has adopted resolutions favoa-xjg bounties for reviving the merchant narine and calling, for coast defenses. L.

H. Pope, employed in the Chicago water department, hu embezzled between 15,000 and 16,000 and disappeared. The master plumbers in session in Chicago ha adopted -new rules for apprentices Seven of the Jggero ice buildings in Columbus, burned the other afternoon, with a loss on bniklings and stock of insurance, 4Z00 Tns National Gamo and Fish Protective Association htsli its annual meeting in Chicago on the 22d, delegates being present from Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Illinois It as decided to take active steps to secure protectUe legislation in the several States James and Thomas Kendall, two broth ers, were struck by lightning and Instantly killed at Huntingburg, Ind, during a storm the other evening The directors of the bt Paul 5 Duiutn railroad have declared a semiannual dividend of 2 per cent. Re Nicholas Matz has been appointed by the Pope as the coadjutor of the Bishop of Denver, Col An examination of the condition of the Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati on the 22d showed that the liabilities would reach the stupendous suit of Harper seemed to hae been guilty of the wildest speculations The assets of the bank wero unknown for certain, but were thought to be snialL Thb other morning five men boarded the 1-15 a. m.

Grand Trunk train, at Fort Gratiot, Mich and held up the passengers Several lost what money they bad and one man lost tlCO Three of the supposed robbers were arrested Nathax Davis, Probite Judge of Elk County, is reported missing with defalcations amounting to $3,000 Messrs. Whitlet, Fasler Kkllet, tho reaper manufacturers of Springfield, have failed. Assets and uaouiues unknown Fire in Wilmington, I1L, the other day destroyed the Chicago Alton depot and freight house, an elevator filled with grain, a warehouse and several houses and cars Loss, (30,000 Negotiations are said to be in progress for the remo al of the great works of the Uuitcd States Rolling Stock Company from Urbana, to Decatur, Ala. At the recent commencement at Buchtel College, Akron, John R. Buchtel, its founder, made an additional gift of $175,000 to the college.

WiLsniRE, the broker, has been placed under arrest for complicity in the Fidelity Bank frauds. The jury in the case of Cora Lee, charged with the murder of Mrs Sarah Graham at Springfield, Mo were unable to agree on a verdict and were discharged on the 23d. They stood eight for con iction and four for acquittal. The notorious murderer, Quinn Bohan-non, escaped from the jail at Nebraska City, Neb recently. The annual convention of the Order of Elks began in Detroit, on the 24th with 1,500 members present Fire in Watertown, Wj the other morning destroyed the Chicago, Milwaukco St, Paul rolling mills, causing a loss of $150,000 ATRAivon the Wabash mangled three men near Mexico, Mo recentlv They had stepped from the track of the Chicago Alton, which runs parallel, to avoid a train when the accident happened.

Locis Kennedy Co commission and grain merchants of Cincinnati, assigned on the to James Petti bone. The liabilities were said to bo $150,000, with assets of (14 030 Kennedy was reported to ba in the Chicago heat deal and was a hca indorscr of Fidelity Bank paper Benjamin Wheeler, the aged Clcvo land millionaire accused of wife murder, was acquitted Fire in Davton, W. recently destroyed (115,000 worth of property, including about a dozen stores TIIE SOUTH. In the suit of the Day Land and Cattle Company the State of Texas, to try the title to acres of land located by the company in what is known asGreor Coun-tv, the Supreme Court affirmed the finding of the lower court, holding that the certificates under which the land was located ere valid. The other morning Trulove, a prominent planter near Clarksv lllc, Ark was assassinated by John Evans Evans was arrested and confessed the murder.

Bt a railroad collision on the 21st near Havre de Grace, Alexander Grantom, of Washington, was instantly killed and ten or twelve other passengers terribly injured. Dr. M. A. Vernado, Justice of the Peace of Tangipahoa Parish, was shot and killed by L.

R. Draughn, a leading citizen, the other day, because of an indictment for carrying weapons. The Chicago express on the Baltimore Ohio was derailed near Oakland, Md re cently and an unknown tramp killed and six persons slightly injured. DcRCa a windstorm at Fair Play, Panola County, Tex recently a tree was blown down, crushing the residence of Mrs. Wat- kins and instantly killing her sister, Mrs.

Albert Tile, and her two small children. A destructive fire broke out in New Orleans on the 23d in the rear of 139 Canal street A tew days ago at Birmingham, Rev. John Maxwell shot and lolled John Rick- etts. The latter was attempting to outrage the former's wife at the time. At Wilmington, DeL, a furious wind storm prevailed on the 23d.

On the Brandy-wine a tree fell on a house, crushing it and killing two women and a boy. Craig Tollivek, his two brothers and an other desperado of Rowan County, Ky were killed on the 22d by a posse organized by the State authorities. Cate Toluver, a boy, escaped after being wounded. Three others of the gang were wounded and captured The sheriff's posse numbered 200 and besieged Craig Tollivcr and his gang in the Cottage Hotel at Moorehead. Forty masked men rode into Kosciusko, Miss the other morning and lynched James M.

Webb, white, in jail on the charge of poisoning his wife. In Van Zandt County, recently three negroes were shot while putting up a fence by a concealed assassin. The motive for tho crime was unknown. Jeftfrson Davis recently expressed his opinion that the Government was not justified in returning the captured battle flags. He thinks they belong to the States, the volunteers of which captured them in battle.

Two deaths from yellow fever were re ported at Key West, on the 23d. Georoe Shoaf, a noted Texas gambler. formerly a city marshal, has been arrested as the leader of the Texas train robbers. The Capital City Street railway at Montgomery, began operating its cars by the electric motor system on the 24th. The company has four lines, aggregating fifteen miles, much of it double track The speed attained is from ten to fifteen miles an hour, one motor pulling three loaded cars.

The Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn, was destroyed by lire on the 24th. Loss on building and apparatus. Tkk immense tobacco warehouse 'A Sawyer, Wallace at Ninth vtnd Main, Louisville, burned the oth at morning. Pktroleom was struck near Fort Worth, recently at a depth of 240 feet Thb awards in the Masonic celebration at Louisville, Ky on the 24th were as follows: The first prize, (2,000, the Montgomery Grays, second, (1,200, the Louisville Light Infantry; third, (750, the Montgomery True Blues. CKNKKai.

Larry Donovax, the jumper, was prevented bv the police from jumping off the Clifton (Eng suspension Driogo on we 21st Lorb Hartinotov, tho British Liberal-Unionist, is opposed to limiting the Crimes act to three years. Qceen Victoria's jubilee day, Juno si, passed off in London without any remarkable incident The scene at Westminster Abbey and the procession through the streets were very brilliant W. Kirkland, editor of tho Winnipeg Atjhngn, a weekly devoted to society news, was arrested recently at tho instance ol Hueh Macdonald. son of Sir John A Mac donald, Premier of Canada, on the charge of criminally libeling his wire. Or the persons charged with being im plicated in the murder of Colonel Soudekin, chief of the Russian police, who was assassinated in 1SS3, seven have been sentenced to death and fourteen to Siberia.

Rumors were recently current that King Milan, of Servia, was about to abdicate STErnEN Pcere, a shoemaker residing on tho Canadian side of the Niagara rivor, crossed the river at tho Suspension Bridge recently, walking upon a five-eighths inch wire cable The crops of Asia Minor arc in very bad condition, and a panic is threatened. The Saltan will take steps to give relict The Russian and French embassadors to Turkey hae addressed a threatening note to the Sultan against tbe Egyptian conven tion Anono tho jubilee presents received by Queen Victoria was ono of for a monument subscribed by women Her Majesty accepted this and graciously thanked the donors Advices from Vnncou cr, are that the British corvette Conquest will start for Honolulu, having received secret orders from the Foreign Office in London The British brigantine Aldwjth is reported missing She had previously been in collision with a steamer off Maryland Bt means of a counterfeit ticket tho Royal Havana Lottery was rtcently beaten out of (S5.O00 The elections in Bavaria have not materially enanged the status of parties The British Cabinet proposes to prorogue Parliament about August 15. Kino Otto of Bavaria has been officially declared insane. Further reports of political conspiracies were prevalent in Bulgaria oil the 23d A fireman and a girl were Killed ana much haoc created by an explosion at an extensh chemical works in Manchester, Eng.recentlj. Frank Hcgii O'Donnfll, formerly mem ber of Parliament for Dungarvon aud ex-ice-prcsidentof the Home Rule Confederation, has brought suit against the London Times for libeL By the wreckmgor atrainon the Han kes-bury railway in New South Wales, on the 23d, seven persons were killed and forty others injured The account was caused by the failure of the brakes to work nuo tna train was going down an incline The Afghan situation has improved, according to Simla reports, the road between Cabul and Candahar has been reopened, the rebels are dispirited, and there isovcry prospect that tho rebellion will soon collapse The Paris Journal d(t Ikbati denies that Franco and Russia have threatened Turkey with war if the Sultan signs the Egyptian convention.

In consequence of the action of the mayor of Cork in hoisting a black flag on the occa sion of the jubilee, and because of his having shown favor to Nationalists, Plunkett, the divisional magistrate, has superseded him and ordered that only the resident paid magistrate try prisoners At Valparaiso, Chili, to May 1, 8S9 cases of cholera had occurred. Of this number 62s died. In Quillote cases had occurred and 1,002 deaths Moif PERSicoand Guildi hae left Roma for Ireland on the mission entrusted them bv the Pope They are instructed to mako personal observations and report on tho political and social position of tho Irish people It is officially denied in the City of Mexico that a cabinet crisis exists or is to bo feared Business failures (Dun's report) during tho sc en days ended June 23 numbered for tho United States 171, for Canada, 2(, total, 197, as compared with 218 the previous week and 102 the corresponding week of last year. Joseph Brothers jewelers of Birmingham and Leeds England, and Canada, ha failed with (200,000 liabilities and small assets. TUB IJLTEST.

The Chicago Pacmng end Pro ision Company's premises were burned early on tho morning of the 26th. The loss was put at the immense sum of (2,000,000 One thou sand hands were thrown out of work. A fireman was killed during tho conflagration. Pope Leo was energetically denounced by the Ann Poverty Society for his threatened excommunication of Dr. McQlynn at New York on the 26th.

Focr In es were lost in a tenemont house fire in Oxford street, London, on the 2oth A DurATCH from Key West of the 26th, says: There have been four new cases of fever since yesterday, but no deaths. The record now stands Total cases to date, 49, total deaths, IS, sick now, 14, discharged, 10. The Archbishop of Cologne has excommunicated Baron Solcmacher for challenging Baron Schonemer to fight a duel. Clearing house returns for week ended June 25 showed an average increase of 7 4 compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the increase was 05.

EcRorEAN bourses during the week ended June 25 were weak and lower, excepting Frankfort where the market was firm and quiet There was a decided fall in American securities on the London Stock Exchange. General James Speed died at Washing ton on the 25th. Jefperson Davis denies emphatically that he wrote a letter on the flag question to Colonel Phocion Howard, of Illinois, and says the letter is a barefaced forgery. Several lives were lost bj a disastrous waterspout at Toulouse, France, recently A temporary flooring under the Concordia Church at Brockport, N. ga way during services recently, precipitating a large number of people to the cellar About twenty persons were injured, some of them seriously.

Diking a squall at Philadelphia recently a small sail-boat was capsized in the river and Edward Froher and John Schaeffer were drowned. There were se eral narrow escapes. The Maxwell land grant settlers in New Mexico threaten disturbances if attempts are made at their eviction under the recent decision of the United States court Fire at Jacksonville, totally destroyed a block at Bay and Clay streets. Three men who were trying to save goods were killed and six others were injured. The Mono County quarry, sixty miles from Carson, Nev, was completely destroyed by the recent earthquake, the marble being broken up in cubes not over a foot square.

The mine was valued at (1,000,000. Recent reports give particulars of atight between a sheriff's posse and a party of desperadoes in the Choctaw Nation. The latter numbered seven and had been pursued by the officers for nearly a week. Two of the outlaws were killed and three badly wounded. The others escaped.

HUGE P0BK FIRE. Destruction of Two Million Dollars Worth of Pork Property In Chicago. Live Hours Leap From the Wiudowa Phil Armour and Others Lose Heaily. Disasters to Firemen One Han Killed and Several Seriously Injured The Suffocating Smoke. CmcAro, Juno 27 Early yesterday morning ono of tho employes of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company of tho Union stockyards discovered a fire in the tank room, and in a few moments ono of the tanks exploded, scattering burning lard oor the adjacent buildings, and a dozen separate fires were soon competing with each other in tho destruction of tho immense establishment Though tho flro was struck out last evening rourteon and one-quarter hours after it started tho smoldering embers continued to laden the air ith the fumes or roast pork, and a the aero oen will remain on tho premises red hot for at least a couplo of dajs Tho Chicago Packing and Provision Company's works occupy about six acrc3 of ground, bnt tho fire was kept within the distaucc bounded Fortieth street, Center avenue, Fort second street and tho railroad tracks, a block west of Center avenue This territory contains four largo buildings Tho main building was 3O0x4 feet In it a portion of tho killing was dono and the hanging, cutting curing and othr work incidental to a slaughtering establishment, except the curing, in noroom in whioh were 19,030,000 pounds of short ribs Tho main building and its contents are a total loss The curing room, 100x150 feet ni1 four stories high, lost its roof, but stono fire walls sacd its contents, a portion of them iu a roasted condition Ou the cast side of tho main building was tho warehouse, 120x400 feet four stories and a basement The tw upper floors at the south end were used for killing purposes In the warehouse were 17,000 barrels of mess pork belonging to Armour Co Tbe building and much of the pork was wholly destroyed About 3,000 live hogs were in the building when tho fire started but the company's employes succeeded in getting most of them out Between GOO and 700 hogs were burned alhe m'tho building.

Back of the main building was tho fertilizing factorj 100 feet square and the engine house 50 by 05 feet Both structures were burned completely. 1 he fact that no wind was blowing when the lire started was probably the only circumstance that sa od the entire stock arda from destruction No person seems to know tho origin of the fire, but secral saw the blaze simultaneously as it went through the roof of tbe tank house The flames began to rapidly eat their way directly across the main building, and huge sweeping circles wero soon whirling upward with a roar that could be heard for Wocks Twenty engines and every reservoir in tho yards was soon brought into play, and all the efforts of tho firemen and hundreds of stockyards employes were bent toward keeping tho conflagration confined to the works of tho Chicago Company. It was at this juncture whilo ono little squad of firemen ere standing in a freight car playing on tho burning tank-room that the tank exploded A heavj beam smashed through the roof of tho car, breaking Pipo-man Baker ankle and knocking Lieutenant Elliott unconscious Soon afterward the walls of the warehouse tumbled to tho ground, disclosing great heaps of moss pork Armour immediately set 200 men at work removing the meat and charred barrels of it were rolled out and carried away. In tho dobi is were carcasses of hogs roasted hole. Tho chaired bodies shmclcd in shapolcss masses of cinders were mingled with piles of brick, blackened beams and incinerated barrels After the flames had consumed most of tho oodwork of tho buildings the flro still held a in the great mounds of burning meat A smoke thick with fumes of tons of roasting pork rolled over tho stock pens and droe into the ejes of the firemen, whilo falling walls filled tho air with particles of brick dust, blinding and suffocating the men They were at times compelled to lea their hose and plungo their heads into buckets of water.

Then the sat in turns with handkerchiefs dipped in water on their swollen eyelids or bathed their blistered cheeks ith dirt water Perhaps the most exciting scene of the day as presented when tho men who were attempting to dmo through the cohered runways the lie hogs in the upper stones ci forced by the flames to desist Below were scores of workmen rolling out barrels of pork, and dow on the crow pell mcll leaped dozens of affrighted animals that had jumped from the windows or sprang through the open hatchways. Tho men who had braved the flames fled from the falling hogs and at a distance watched for glimpses of tho squealing brutes that, crazed with pain, were rushing madly about in their tall prison of fire. About 200 barrels of pork were saved before the hogs commenced jumping During the afternoon the firemen gae their attention to saving the short-ribs in the curing room. hue a number ol the; men wpm inside the main buildinsr ono of the division walls fell, seriously injuring J. A.

SphiifTor. Thomas Mtirnhv. W. W. White, Captain Nichols and Thomas Elliott Mr Armour valued his 17,000 barrels of pork at He said that with tbe salvage and insurance he would come out even.

He was unable to give tbe amount of insurance. Ihe plant of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company was valued at 1300,000 and the stock at $700,000. A large portion of the stock in store bo-longed to other parties and the loss will be sustained by them. About half of the Chicago Packing and Provision Company's 2,000 employes will be thrown out of crk. Fireman Michael Murphy died last night President Henry K.

Botsford, of tho Packing and Provision Company, said he did not know whether tho company would begin at once to rebuild, but thought it would. All the losses in the fire, he said, were fully covered by insurance, but it would be impossible to give the details. Boston City Official "Any thing wrong with your money, mis?" Scboolmarm "Yes, you gave me a counterfeit fifty-cent piece when I got my salary yesterday." Boston Crty Official "Ah! I see; you want a better hdf." Schoolmarm "Well, I don't know; you'll have to ask pa." "Don't you think," said a lawyer to the judge, "that Jim Parsons is the greatest liar of a liwycr that you ever saw?" "I should be sorry to say that of my friend Mr. Parsons," replied tho judge, "but he is certainly more economical of the truth than any other lawyer on the circuit." "I walked the floor all night with the toothache," said he. To which hi3 unfeeling listener said.

"You didn't expect to walk the ceiling with it, did you?" Olaga Witness. i It sounds a little inconsistent for her to call it a "duck of a bonnet" and yet seem so terribly alarmed over tho possibility of its getting wet. A woman rarely pretends to ha angry, although she often appears pleasedjrhen she isn't. THE LOYAL LEGION. Annual Meeting of the Veterans or th Loral Itesloa at Fort Leaveawortu.

Tbe annual meeting of the Loyal Legion of the United States assembled at Fort Leavenworth on June 24. A mammoth tent had been pitched for tho accommodation of the members, which was handsomely dec- aratinl with Mam nnd other arrav emblems. Members of the legion wero present from svery portion of Kansas and from Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Letters were read regretting their inability to attend from the following named gentlemen: John Sher man, Roscoe Conkling, Secretory Endicott, Secretar Vilas, General Schoflcld, General Crook, General Mcrritt, General Drum, E. Merrill and Senator Mandcrson Ate'e-gramwas rcccicd from Governor Martin stating that the sickness of a child presented his attendance After a short business session in the evening, at which new members wero admitted, tho legion repaired to the banquet tent, hero doublo -ations awaited them.

After partaking of ho feast toasts were announced, and ExGoernor Anthony responded han-pil to the toast: Tho President" Tho sentiment "Tho Loval Legion" was re-i ponded to General Powell, of St Louis, ind Colonel Smith, of the Soldiers' Home, responded to Our Guests Tho next toast was "Kansas in tho War," and was re-ipondcd to by Captain Hallow ell, in tho absence of Governor John A Martin, who sad been expected to respond KANSAS' WAR RECORD Although Governor Martin as prevented from being present, his remarks which aad been prepared for the occasion gat )omo interesting Kansas renimiscense. The follow mg interesting statistic are taken from his remarks as prepared. In less than three decades the nien and iromen of Kansas have wiped a desert from the nip of America and replaced it with ft! 000 iquare miles of cultivated Held and fragrant ncidows, and towering forests have dotted the (rhole of this vast terrltorj with prosperous ittcs, towns and villages, have sent a loco notHc whistling through nearl) every county, iae planted school houses and churches in very township and have accumulated greater ind more equitably distributed wealth than possessed by any other equal number of people on the face of the globe Fairly but Tcry iricfly summarized, this is tho record of Kinsas ji peace In war the history of the young State iras no less eventful and distinguished The lash of the gun at Sumter was to the people of he county generally like a thunderbolt out of a lereno and cloudless sky, but in Kansas Its chocs fell upon the ears of a people ready for ihe contest The cad to arms was therefore responded to sy the people of Kansas with unparalleled unan mity and enthusiasm Lon before the Prcsi lent offlcial notification reached the Governor military companies had been organized in every ity, town and hamlat in the State, and the first two regiments sworn into the service of the United States were not recruited Three companies were selected out of enough offered to form half a dozen regiments From that day antil the close of tho rebellion the represents lives of the young State at Washington were kept bnsy importuning and begging the War Department to accept and muster in the rapidly forming uiliUrv organizations. The offlcial records of the war show that reducing the troops furnished to a year standard onlj one State in tho Union filled the quotas assigned It, ind that State was Kansas. The General Gov ernment called ou Kansas during the four years from lfCl to lflM for 13,931 men, and she furnished a total of J0G61, nearly double the number called for Reduced to three years standard Kansas furnished IS JOS men, or 5 775 in excess of the number called for The quotas assigned all the States were based on their population The census of lWt) gave Kansas a population of lOT.WG, and of this number only 59 178 were males and only S8097 between the ages of twenty and fifty years At in exciting election held in the fall of I860 the total vole of the State was less than 17 000 The young State therefore contributed to the Union army nearly more soldiers than it had votes in 1KG0 Such a record of devotion to a cause is, I venture to say, unexampled in the history or any other war that has ever occurred in any age or country Under the call of April 15, 1KG1, forTVOO throe-months men.no quota was assigned to Kansas, but she furnished (u0 Under the second call, thitot May 3, 1881, for WO coo three years men, the quota assigned to Kansas was 3,235 but she furnished 6.054 Under the call of July i 18b2, for 000 three years men Kansas' quota was 1,771, but she furnished 13G.

Under the calls of October 17, lV.J, and February 1, lWrl for 5O0J0 three years men, the quota of Kir.sas was 3A9, but she furnished 5 874. Under the cill of Mirch 14 18b4. for 290 000 three ear men Kansas quota was 1,409, but she furnished 504 Under the calls of July 18 and Decorrber 11, 18T.I the quota of Kansas was and the fur nished 1,234 The onlj call to which Kansas did not respond was that of August 4, lSuJ, for 000 nine months men The volunteers of Kinsas went In for three years. The only enlistments for i briefer period were those of the Second Kansas for three months under the President first call for troops and the greater part of this regl tnent immediately on its muster out rc-cnlistcd for three years A battalion of 441 men re cruited in the autumn of 1S64 for the 100 das' service, and iVii men furnished in December, IbOl for one ear Of the volunteers furnished by Kansas during the rebellion all except 1,713 enlisted for three years, or during the war These cold, offlcial records illustrate more eloquently than any language can describe the splendid enthu siasm with which the patriotic people of Kan sas rallied around the flag, but impressive and wonderfal as they are they do not tell the whole itory Kansas was called upon during the first year to furnish only 335 men, and is credited on the quotas of that year with 7,603, but she actually furnished nine full regiments and one battery before the close of the year 1MG1 During the second year of the war she was called upon fer 1,771 three years and 1,771 nine months men, and she responded with four full regiments and a battery for three years, none i'w nine months. During lftJS and 18G4 her i UUHK full regiments and a battery for three years, a battalion of nearly 50U men for 100 days, and over 600 men for a year Thus the young State furnished during the war nine regiments of infantry, nine of cavalry, three batteries and Qvo companies, and 1,309 of these men mainly of the First Seventh, Eighth and Tenth regiments re-enlisted in 1863 as veterans.

Thus every call mad upon Kansas was filled at once and during tha first two years 3f the war doubly filled by her eager, brave and patriotic sons. With what dauntless courage md unselfish devotion the soldiesi of Kansas followed the flag, with what confident faith and lublime self-sacrifice they marched and fought and suffered and died, the unexampled losses they sustained in battle will conclusively prove a January, 19C7, the Provost Marshal General if the army, General II Fry, made a report ihowing the portion of soldiers killed in battle per 1 CUM men from each State Kansas headed the list with 61 fll Vermont ranked second, and Massachusetts third. 47 70. "Why won't joa let mo have thit horse? He's a line-looking said a gentleman to a stable-keeper. "Well, sir, I must tell you thit sinic his itc died, seeiu' as how he'd il-wajsbeen used togoin' on the nigh side, he do shy a lcetle ith his off eje" "Oh, well, I don't mind that; it miy injure his eye, but I guess tho whiflletree will hold until he begins to shj with his body.

So hitch him up N. Y. Independent Boston is a great town. A resident says that, being caught out in a shower the other day, he asked a stranger to let him walk under his umbrella. The stranger not only consented, but when they came to part insisted that citizen No.

1 take the umbrella, as he, citizen No. 2, had but a step to walk. The narrator says that he returned the umbrella. N. 11 Sun.

Recent statistics go to show that there are probably as many men in tha world as there are women. In Europe the women are excess, but in India the preponderance is the other way. St. Lows Bepubhctm. COUNTY SEATS.

tile) Governor's Decision la the Rtaatoa Coeaty Case Cotternaa's Report As-raTMf The Law Governlac tha Takiajr of the Census. Topeka, Kan June 30 The Governor has banded down the following decision in the Stanton County scat cases. As it is the Ant case arising under the new law, the opUion wall be read with interest all over the State: Stats or Kansas, Bseccttvk Depart-kkdt, Topeka, Jnne 17 On April 3, 1537, there was presented to me a memorial, duly authenticated as reqoired by law, and signed by over 400 householders and legal electors of the unorganised county of Stanton, setting forth that there were ZfiJB bona fide Inhabitants la that county, 409 of whom were householders, and praying for the organlzatien of said county. On tho same day, iu compliance with authority vested in me by law, I appointed A. Oot-termsn, bona fide resident of the county of Osage, to take tbe census and ascr-Uin the umber of actual bona fide inhabitants or the norganlzed county of Sttnton and to discbarge such other duUes as are by law devolved upon the census takers appointed In snch eaves On April saldCottcrraan li'ed In the executit office his official oath as required by law and proceeded to the discharge of the duties of his office On June 7, 1887, said Cottermna made due return to the Goierner upon appropriate schedules in duplicate, ef the census enumeration, assessment ef real and personal property, and election of legal voters of said unorgui'zed county of Stanton for temporary county seat, such returns having attached thereto his aill davit, sworn to bt fore tbe c.erk of the Supreme Court of the State, that the census enumeration and assessment contained therein are lr-partUI and true, and that the choice set forth in said return of tbe legal electors of said county for the temporal) county seat, is the cho ce of each and eery elector as therein set forUe.

The returns made by said Cottcrman of the enumeration and assessment made by him. show that the total number of Inhabitants ot said unorganized county of Stanton is twenty eight hundred and sixty four (3.684) of whom eight hundred (800) are householders They further show that the assessed value of real estate in vUlcges Is 135 061, and In lands and that the assessed value of personal property, extrusive of legal exemptions, is 1117 935. mailing the total assessed value of the taxable property of tbe county, real and personal, US 740 Said returns further record the election of seven hundred and eighty two (T8J) legal voters for temporary county seat, of whom four hun drcd and thirty two (43S) elected the town of Johnson City, two hundred and eighty four CXI) elected Ufe town of Eli and sixty six (G6) elected tbe town ot est Haven. All other facts required law to be recorded in the re turns of the census taker are duly set down. The returns made by the census taker, in so far as they emumerate the inhabitants and tbe amount of property teund within the bounds ef said unorganized Count) of Stanton, are not challenged But the registry made by said census taker of tbe election of legal voters for temporary county seat was challenged by rep resentatives of the town of Eli, contestants al leging, ander oath, gross carelessness on the part of the census taker in failing to keep his record book constantly in his own possession, the changing of votes by the census taker after they were once recorded at the request of the voters themselves or ef persons claiming to have authority to request snch changes, the changing of otes by unauthorized persons, while the record book was not in possession of the census taker and without his knowledge, the striking of names from the record book by the census taker for the reason, as stated by him, that they were not legal voters, the cen sus taker relying in makiag these changes pen his memory, that the census record was made with a lead pencil and is marred, blurred, scratched and erased and that at least 104 votes were changed from Ell to Johason City by the oensus taker without any authority In law or fact.

The census taker, replying to these allegations, under oath denies that he was guilty ot carelessness in the custody of Us records. The field book, he asserts was nver out ot his pos session for any length of time, and no changes were made in it by any unauthorized person All the veeords embraced in it were made by himself, in his own handwriting, and are true records of the census enumeration, votes for the county seat and other facts as ascertained by him as the official census taker of Stanton County Mr Cotterman admits that a number of legal voters of Stanton County were permitted by him to change their votes for temporary county seat. He had designated no day as the day for the census and, in fact, the eicatlon was continuous until he c'oscd his books. The vote of Stanton County, as originally given by the expression of its voters, was, for Johcjun Citv 450, for tli, KS for ft est Ha en, 74. The vote after the chaniics receeJ-d at the request of voters were made stood For Johnson City, 2S1.

for West Haven He fur ther states Uiut the crcater number of these changes were Bade at the town of Eli on the 14th da) of Maj No votes were changed unless tbe voter appeared in per son, or sent him a written request, and less than twenty votes were changed on the written request of voters whodid not appear in person No pen-on except himself made such ehangt ou the reoord book AH names of vot ers that were stricken frcn the record book ere erased on the memoranda of age, resi dence, etc made himself on the book chow ing that the persons whose names were so erased were not legal voters Not one tenth ot the number of names alleged by contestants to have been so stricken off the books, were erased He denies that 104 votes were changed from Eli te Johnson City, and asserts thnt the change in votes, allowed to be made b) voters, were very largely la the interest of the town of Eli He alleges furUicr that until the 15th day ef May, when his work of census taker was practically completed, no person in Stanton County knew how the vote for county scat stood, nor did he himself know He had never, previous to thai day, counted the votes (or the competing tow ns, nor permitted any oae else to do so No complaints of unfairness or partiali ty wore made against him until after it was ascertained how tbe vote stood, aad a circular issued bj citizens ot the town of EL, only a few lays befere the close of the census, tavites aad arges citizens of Staunton County to assemble at Eli on If ay 14. when Mr. Cotterman would be present aad list all citizens who have not been listed, and change all who have made a choice for county scAt aad desire a change, or record all who have recorded themselves undecided." The law relating to the organization ot sew counties after definine tbe duty of the census enumerator, says "The census taker, shall register pon said duplicate schedules, opposite the name of each legal voter, his election for temporary location! county seat, which shall be taken by the Coventor as the definite expression or said voter, unless there be evidence before him that said list has been tampered with and The original field book of the oensus taker shows on Its face that many changes have been made in it. But no conclusive evidence was presented to establish the fact that such changes were made by nnanUiorlzed persons and the census taker affirms that all changes were mado by himself It can not, I think, be fairly assumed that the census taker had no right to change and perfect his original reoord. Made, as such a record must necessariy be, with inadequate faculties for clerical work, with entries frequently made la the open air, by the road side or on the praine.

answers to questions hastily given, pat down and then corrected br voters, excited partisans of contesting towns importuning and bad-poring voters while tho census taker recording their answers under such circumstances it would simply be Impossible to avoid making changes. Unquestionably, the census taker had a right to make any changes ia an original eatry that might be necessary to perfect the census record, and the fact that tho face of bis book shows that many changes have been made in original entries does not conviet the census taker of partiality, carelessness or fraud. The Attorney-General advises me concerning the language ot the law above queted. as foW lows- "It evidently means that it shall be taken by your Excellency as the definite expression of the voter, unless there is evidence before you showing that the list had been tampered with and changed so as not to give the choice of the voter for temporary county seat, that to say, that some one has designedly tampered witb aad changed tbe list, tor the puipoee of oaising the expression to show oa its face that the place other than the choice of the majority of the legal electors has received the highest number of votes for county seat, aad tbns illegally and fraudulently dereatths will of tbe people. It does not mean that the census taker, the legal custodian of the books.

has no right to make such changes as he may see proper to make in order to express the will ot the people. For instance, if the census taker in recording the vote of an Individual should misunderstand him in giving his choice for county seat, and it should be discovered that a mistake had beea nude, and the voter should desire thatacor tfotfea be made, there no doubt in the world hat what tha. ceasna taker has the right te take the change so, to express tho wish ot the voter. So alio if the census taker, ia writing the r.r.av or age ot a voter, or giving the date ol us arrival in the county, when the census was being Uken.sb.ould make a mistake, there ia ae reason why it could not be corrected! so as to show the fact. In short, it is clear tab my mind that the law intends that tho evidenect should be presented to your Excellency showing if other than authorized persons or the, legal custodian of the book, should illegally cr fraudalenUy make entries in said book, by-adding nasaes thereto, or changing tho nameai of some individuals who had voted, or make any other material alteration, or if the census taker should act fraudulently and corruptly and change the name and expression of the voter, or add thereto names of persons not entitled to vote, with view of perverting the expression of the people, then, in that ent, yea would not take the census returns, as turned by the census taker, as the definite expression of the people.

"In answer to year secevd proposition I wilt' say that I am of the opinion that the oensus taker may, upon tho authority of the voter bla-seir, change his expression for county scat upon the face of the o-iginal book where his choice was first recorded at a time prior to tbe final close ofhleuking of the census in the cojnty. Your third proposition I have answered ic tbet first. To your fourth proposition I will say that unless it should appear to Jour Excellency that the changes made upon the face of the return ol tho original book by some other person than the census taker, or made by the censas tikcr fraudulently and corruptly, or Br fraud jlent and corrupt purposes then it would not be sufficient to overthrow the return made by the-census taker. "In answer to your fifth proposition will, say that the census taker has proceeded to take the census of an unorganized county andi has fixed no date for the bams of his census bnt hat continued to take the census on until he fixes the dale oa which he will close his book3 and cease Tat take the census, then, in that event, changes made by him, by request of leg il voters who luive voted prior to the day he has, fixed for closing his record would be legal. In-other words, if no day is fixed by the census taker at the time he commences his work, the election is continuous until he doses the reoord.

Yours very respectfully, Bradford, Attorney-General. After a full and patient consideration of alC the evidence presented to me touching the woric of the census taker appointed fur Stanton County and of the returns made bw him of the census, and the election for temporary county seat, aad of the law governing the organiasMon of new counties, I am convinced that, while Mr Cotterman may be fairly charged with some errors ot judgment, none of these were materi tl and that, his duties were discharged with thorough diligence, impartiality and honesty, and with reasonable earefulns and skill. All contests over the location of a county seax. are attended with extreme excitement and bitterness, aad the defeated party Invariably rhatfee the successful contestant with the grossest irregnturities, fraud and corruption. These charges are.

in many instances, honestly nod and firmly believed by those making them. Bab the passions evoked by suoh contests are usually so intense that few of the parties engaged are rigidly scrupulous in the methods emplojed to rompecs their ends, and it may be accepted." as a hct that both, or Ml, the contesting point-. exbaast all mens, fair or unfair, to scura success. In this case no person interested in Staatoa County, either directly or indirectly, recommended Mr Cotterman appointment as census taker nor did he apply for an appointment in that county He is a well known citizen ot Osage County, has occupied several positions of trust and honor in that communit), and enjoys among his fellow-citizens an excellent reputation for honety and integrity He made oath before catering upon the duties of his position, that he was not interested in Stanton County, directly or indirectly, and would not become interested in said county during his official term. His returns are made under oath, and during a.

prolonged and exciting contest concerning them, beard before me in the presence of attorneys representing both parties in interest, his explanation of his report, of the changes made in it, and the reasons for such thanres. and his answers to aU questions put to bJsu wero remarkably frank, full and convincisg. It was evident that he had no disposit'on to-conceal any thing connected with his woric. nor-to deny such errors of judgment as he may have made, nor to shirk from tbe most rigid-scrutiny ef all his official arts. Supporting tbe census taker's return of the election by the legal voters of Stanton are the schedules of personal property There-are, en file in this oflloe, 750 snch schedules On 515 of these the preference of the persons making such returns 1 expressed on the location ot the county seat, and 407 are sworn to by the--voter Of the returns morn to SM express preference for Johnson City.

11 for Eli and 31 fo- est Haven, and of thoe not sworn Ai express a preference for Johnson City, 43 for Ell and 3 fortest Haven making a total of S4t fer Johnson Citj, 147 for Mil and ZT lor West-Hven In view of all these facts presented to me I am convinced that the returns made by the census taker should be accepted as the definite expression of tbe legal vote-s of Stanton County-for the location ef the temporary county neat. I do not believe that the cv idencc challenging the accuracy or intcrrity of this report is su ficient to justify a belief that it was either tampered with awl changed by an nnaathor ized person, nor that it wa tampered with nnd changed by the census taker, fniudulently or with a view of preventiig the fair-expression and choice of the legal voters ot btanton County The report of the census taker for Stanton. Coanty Is hereby approved, a-d proclamaHea ot" the organization of Stanton County, in accordance therewith, will be made John A. Marti', Governor. THE ASYLUM BRUTE.

A Case In Indiana of Extreme Cruelty to-Unfortunates. "Wabash, June 19 A sensition wa created yesterday by the arrest of bamnel Meyer, superintendent of the Miami County Asylum for the Poor, on the chargo of assaulting aad cruelly beating helpless female inmates of the institution. Constab'e Taggert appeared before the County Commissioners at Peru and made complaint against Meyers. An investigation was lav mcdiately ordered, resulting in the arrest. The principal complaining witness is Minerva Taggert, tbe feeble-minded sister of Constable Taggert, who has-been in the asylum for about nine yearn.

Miss Taggert alleges the most fearful, and inhuman treatment on the part of Meyers, aad ia evidence showed great welta her back and arras, where she Said she had been beaten by tbe superintendent. She-had barely escaped with her life The alleged brutal assaults made by Meyers have been wholly unprovoked, according to the testimony of others. Emboldened by the-story of the Taggert girl and the arrest of Meyers, several other helpless female inmates of tbe asylum have made sirzular-statements and exhibited their bruised and. blackened limbo as evidence of the treatment they have received. Meyers will be tried.

Jablle Service. KswYork, June 30 Several thousand! persons attended the choral services at Trinity Church yesterday to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the accession ol Queen Victoria to the throne of England-TNessler played tbe organ and Rev. Jossfh W. Hill conducted the services, assisied. by Rev.

Dr Daeosta, one of the chaplains of the St. George Society, Rev. Mr Turner, of Brooklyn, and Bishop Potter The feature of the service was the sermon of Rev. Dr. Morgraa, rector ot the Church of thei Heavenly Rest and chaplain of St.

George-and Bt. David's. Confederate Veterans. L-cxx, June 30 R. E.

Lee Camp: No. 1, Confederate Veterans, of Richmond, acoompaaied by John A. Andrew Post No-13, G. A of Boston, visited this citjf Saturday morning Most of the shoe faoV tories were closed honor of the visitor: and they were met at the depot by Psaf No 5, G. A R.

A parade and address qj welcome by the mayor followed and then banquet oa the common. The Southernecf-were loudly cheered. In the afternoon, thee, left for Nahaj-t in carriages, lntendm- $. return thenoe by boat to Boston. Marksman Dead.

Kansas Citt, June 20 F. Frederick-president of tho Kansas City Bun Club. died here Saturday afternoon. He was born at Lansing, Eng, October 30, lSla, aad was a celebrated marks min, having won much distinction ia England, an America. i I A r.

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