Kansas City Journal from Kansas City, Missouri • Page 6

6 THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1898. SIX FIREMEN KILLED. cmm: i mier falling w.ii,i,s OK A imilbing. THREE OTHERS BADLY INJURED. Tin: Hiti: -was ix a five story n.iit; ix hoston.

Firemen Were Carrying Ilns(. On Ladder When tlic Willis Fell Drill! Include District Chief, Cnptiiiti tiud Lieutenant. Boston. Feb. 5.

Six flremcjn. Including a d.strlet chii a captain and a lieutenant, were ltillrd at a lire litre this. morning, which burned out th interior of a five-story building on Merrimnc street. occupied by C. W.

Bent manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc. Tile dead are: Distil, Chief John F. Esau. captain Jane's Victory. Lieutenant Gotw.ild.

Hoscman Patrick li. Diskeu. Fireman John J. Mulhern. Hoscman V.

J. Four other firemen were liuried in tlic ruins hut they escaped with more or less serious injuries. They are: nptnln Joseph 11. Garrlty. Hoseman Thomas E.

Conway. T. J. Douglitery. Hose-man Edward shea.

Lieutenant John MeCarty. of Protrrtive 1 was slightly bruised by falling bricks. The alarm was sounded at The building was filled with the most It was joined on the east by a three story tenement ami on th" west was separated by a narrow alley from a similar struct me, while In the rear of the tenement house on South Margin street. Is a narrow light well. So quickly did the ilames spread to the fourth and fifth stories that within a few minutes the three upper stories rear and the third story front were a seething furnace of tliimes.

and tiieie was no prospect that the firemen would be able to save anything above the second storj The lisht was made at tin- start by mean's of tile stairways, but soon the Iiremen were driven back by hoi nir e-xploslous and a. suffocating smoke, and wete to light from the other side. Two ladders were raised on the front, as were nNo several of the longest extension ladders, while streams were carried through the South Margin street tenements, from the back windows of which Hoods were poured into the. fiery furnace. The tire was nearly inder control at the time of the accident.

The men of engine 7 were on the fourth floor, and of engines SS and 3D on til" second lloor. when the rear section of the roof collapsed, carrying down portions of all the lloors through the basement and burying the Iiremen beneath a ureal mass of debris. A hasty canvass of the members of the department showed that ten men were missing. The first man to be taken out was Ed-ward Shea, who was found about forty feet from the front or the building, on the extreme westerly end, pinned between the timber about midway between the first and second floors, having fallen from the tilth floor. As he was taken out he said to those who were removing him: "Don't bother about me: get the other fellows that are In there." Captan Garrlty was found within a few feet of Shea, pinned under some heavy timbers, and was brought out in a semiconscious condition.

Tom Conroy was pinned under some timbers which held his JessMn such a manner that timbers had to be sawed through before he could be released. Next Phil Doherty. of Engine 7, was taken out. He was apparently the worst injured of the lot. His left leg was utterly useless.

Lieutenant McCarthy, of Protective I. was struck In the leg by falling bricks when the floors fell. TWO STEAMSHIPS AGROUND. Knlser Wlllielm nnd T.n Ilretngne Itun llllo the Mail nil Their Way Ont to Sen. New Tork, Feb.

5. The steamships Kaiser "Wllhelm of the North German, Lloyd line, and La Bretagne. of the French line, ran around to-day on their way out to sea, and La Bretagne is still sticking In the mud. In an easy position, the German vessel having leen pulled out. They steamed down the bay in thick weather this morning almost togethi r.

and captains and pilots on tho bridges were feeling their way gingerly down the narrow channel when the accident occurred. Moth ships chose Gedney's channel, and when they reached the b-ir they were In unwelcome proximity to each other. They were running at low speed, and their fog whistles were tooting dismally. Down by the Dry Homer, the bigger steamer tried to get around the other. There was si little too much maneuvering for the narrow channel, and then came a sudden scraping, crunching sound.

Although the shock was slight, there was considerable excitement and a confusion of bells on the bridges, and then, with a mighty churning of the water, tile big steamers sought to beat their way off the muddy lied Into which their noses had been driven. Late in tue afiertioon the tug Lewis Pul-vcr came up the channel and otTered as-i-M-urcc to the Frenchman, which was refused Then he threw a line to the Kaiser V.llhrlm II. In a few minutes the powerful Pulver was straining with giant strength to move the German liner. The tug lo.t had almost got her off once, but she floated tlown closer to the Frenchman and for si time It seemed as though a collision vus certain. The two vessels wire not more than 0 feet apart when the Kmer Wllhelm went on the mud a second time.

Tl.cn another attempt wns made, and the Kaiser was drawn away from the ship she threatened and safely anchored in deep water. Her captain, however, refused to ploeeed until he had made a surety of hi? ship and found If she had sustained any actual damage. By this time the tide was falling and the La Bretagne was still aground. Several other tugs had come to her assistance, but without avail. It may be that the Frenchman will have, to 1 lightened before she car lie pulled off.

She is In easy position, however, anil Is In no immediate danger unless a storm comes tip. TRAIN STRJKFSA SLEIGH. Tito Women nnd Vnn Killed mill Another Woman Itndly Hurt nt SntrlnniV. Saginaw. Fb.

Just before 5 n'ciotk this evening, a Michigan Central passenger train from Detroit ran down a sleigh containing a man and three women nt the Sheridan av- nue crossing. The man nnd two of the women were killed, and the tbiid woman badly Injured. The dead: Thomas Stewart, groceryman. of tiiis city. jirerhi hrrk broken and skull crushed.

Mrs Mathias Mosner. npe.rCi. a widow, re-sld'ng mar FratiKeninuth. this county: found on the et.w.at.her when tf.e Irani stopped Mi-s Kirlmra Mosn-r. nged S3, daughter of the widow: neck brok'-n.

The Injured are: Mrs. William Moncke. ani-ther daughter of Mrs. Momici. who retries heie.

intern-tl injuries: not neces-saui fal I. There whs no gate or flagman at the ctossing Stewart saw the train, but was Unable to cros liefore being caught. MEN BURNEEJTlN A JAIL. Fonr rrlioni-rii Their I.I vex in A Ictor nt Creek. Col.

Cripple Creek. Feb. 5. Thtce men were burned to death and another received fatal Injuries In a fire which burned the Victor Jail e-irly to-day. The dead are: Thomas yulnn.

railroad grader, of Philadelphia. Itailroad grader known only as "Shorty James Fonners. The injured man is named ablin. The four men were ai rested during the Jilght for disturbance. Their scream for lieip were heard by hundreds of people who were powerless to aid them.

Ximv Tort Tenement New York. Feb. K. The four storvw tenement at 1M Fast Houston street was" destroyed by tire to-night. Seven r.vmilles lost everything they owned, and two ehil- were uuincu io tieatn.

rhev were In- children of Fillippo Spoincll. a. boot- Jjl.K'lC Allirmj. IiuL, on Fire. Owensboiii, Ky Feb.

5. Warehouses ard m'erial of the Marsdan Cellulose Company, at Martdan, burned at 11 o'clock to-night. Twenty thousand tons of cornstalks were destroved, together with a large quantity of partially manufactured cellulose. The los is estimated at JiO.OcO. DALLAS CHIEFJJF PflLICE DEAD.

Accidentally Shot While on Hunting Expedition Willi Rev. W. Trultt. Dallas. Feb.

5. J. C. Arnold, who has been chief of police for nineteen years and a member of the Dallas police force for twenty-three years, died to-night as the result of an accident. Yesterday Chief Arnold anil Rev.

Mr. W. Trultt. pastor of the Fir-t Baptist clitirt li of this city, went to Johnson county on a hunting expedition. Mr.

Truitt's gun was accidentally discharged, and Mr. Arnold's right Jo Just above the ankle received the whole load, tearing away the Ib-sh and shattering tile bones. He died before medical attendance could be summoned. Captain Arnold was known all over the West as a determined, fearless otlicer. who.

under all in the most trvlng times, did his lull duty. COW WRECKS A TRAIN. Engineer mid Fireman Killed In Wreck mi Iron Mountain Southern llutliny. St. Louis.

Feb. A tow derailed the northbound Texas special on the St. Louis. Iron Mountain Ac Southern railway, part of the Missouri Pacific system, at Hematite thirty-six miles south of St. Louis, at aii early hour to-day.

resulting in the death of the engineer am! fireman and the slight injury of two passengers, whose names are unknown. The killed are: Engineer W. .1. Franey and Fireman Philip Cliilds. both of St.

Louis. Lost Ills Feet by Freezing. Ku.S" --(Special.) John Waldclich. a 'lopeka oung man. had both his led Irozen so badly during the recent told snap that he had to hac them amputated to-day.

A. It. Hull Horned. Oklahoma City, O. Feb.

(Special This morning the G. A. hall at Council Grove, eight miles west of here, burned down; loss, Incendiarism is su--ic. t-cd. Fire In a Cellulose Far lory.

Muncle. Feb. 3. At midnight, tho town of Albany is on fire and i threatened with total destruction. The loss will bo hea-y.

WIRES MUSTBE BURIED. 3Inyor Hnrrlfton Ihniicn an L'lltiniitum lo Chicago Telephone ami Telrarniih Companion. Chicago. Fb. n.

Fuur thou-and overhead wires belonging to the telegraph, telephone and other companies in the downtown district will be cut down by the city unless are taken to put them underground before March 1. This ultimatum was sent yesterday to the Western Fnion Telegraph Company, the Postal Telegraph Cable Company, the Chicago Telephone Company, the Chicago Klectric Deteetivo Company and the Mercurial Fire Alarm Company. Fdward 1:. jwncuii. cniei oi the new- electrical department, notified the companies at the request of Mayor Harrison, who i determined to bury every wire and cable that stretches from the buildings.

in the downtown district. The district in which the wires are to plated underground is bounded on the north by the river, on the south bv Twelfth street and on the west bv the river. The ultimatum will produce a revolution In the downtown district when the companies liegin lo take down their vres. The vast network Will present a dlii-TiIt problem to untangle. Had weather will not be accepted as an excuse for delay.

Kach company has an underground franchise. Mr. Klllcott says conduits are already laid which must be leased to anv eompanv, according to the terms of the ordinance. He declares all the companies have conduits, so that snow will not hinder the work, nor will they be compelled to tear up the streets In order to get underground. Wherever they have no conduits the chief electrician says they can lease them In order lo get the wires out of sight within the limits of the time set by the city.

BOTH ON RETIREDllST. Fnlher mill Son Have Served Iunt the Akp Limit in I'nlted Slllln Xnvy. Washington. Feb. 3.

Adimral Selfridge. who has just relinquished the command of the European station, went upon the retired list of the navy with tho close of to-day. having reiiched the age lixed by law. The event is entirely peculiar in our naval history. In that there will then be presented the spectacle of a father and son both on the retired list on account of age, after having reached the highest grade in the navy.

The father. Thomas O. Selfridge, Is now living in Washington. D. C.

having retired in 1W, after thlity-slx nnd a hulf years' service, and his name now heads the naval retired list. The son. likewise named Thomas O. Selfridge. had forty-five vears' service to his credit when he retired and sailed for the Fnited States from France to-day.

15y his retirement Commodore Francis M. IStince, commandant of the New York navy yard, will become a rear admiral, and Captain Wlntleld Schley, the chairman of the lighthouse board, becomes a commodore. Captain Sllaa Casey, in command of the League Island navy yard, goes till to the grade of commodore as the result of to-day's retirement and that of Admiral lieardslee. a few days ago. FOR A TEMPERANCE DAY.

Xulionnl W. C. T. Alio for Co-op- eratlnli In Celebrating vnl Dimv'm Ilirthdny. New York.

Feb. The C. T. today issued the following appeal: "The National Women's Christian Temperance Fnion earnestly asks the co-operation of Christian churches, the Chris-tiai. Endeavor Society, the F.pworth league, the liaptlst Young People's Social Villon, th" National Temperance Society, lh- Good Templars, the Prohibition party iin.I all other tempeiance, religions anil phPanthropic societies, who are willing to help in the celebrating of the hlrthdav of General Neal Dow.

March "0. for the purpose of strengthening the public sentiment that seeks the protection of the home by the prohibition of the liquor tt.illle In our own anil in every land. "FKANCKS K. WILLAUD. President.

"KATIIKitlNK I.F.NT STHVENS. Sec." WIFE ACCUSEDOF MURDER. Mr. TmulllliiM Arrested In Kcntncky for Complicity in Killing of Her lluiliiittd. Karlington.

Feb. i Mrs. Trotiillius, wife of Cuprlon Tronllllus. who was assassinated at Nebo. this county, on the night of July f.

lv'T. was arrested here to-day by tho sheriff and taken to Madisonvllle. charged with being implicated with others in her husband's murder. She was indicted by the last grand jury. TromUiiw was assassinated winle eating supper, being shot in the head with a shotgun.

Kphrhim ltrinkiey. a neighbor, was hanged bv a mob on the night of July 21. 1V-7. for the murder. Mis.

Trotiillius was questioned by the mob before the hanging of ltrinkiey. The trial of the wile will be a long and sensational one. and startling developments are looked for. UNION LABEL UPHELD. Mn.HHiiclitiHeMM Supreme Court Snyi the Stntulen Protect It From Cnitiilltorfre il I'nc.

Boston. Feb. ,1. The supreme court to-day gave a decision in the case of Thcmas F. I aey.

Iee president of the Clgarmakers' International Union of America, vs. Joseph Haker. ordering a decree for the plaintiff. The suit was brought under the law forbidding the fraudulent use of trades union labels. The court holds that the statute protects such trades unions, as well as merchants, and that manufacturers must Mop un.iuthoilzed ue of the union label as well as counterfeits of it.

1 ST Cloneil lllne to llenumr. yioughton. Feb. Swanzev ir.ine which closed down three vears ago Mil start up at once with as miners as Can bo worked continuously. Arthur Trnnj.on Critically III.

Ixindon. Feb. Tennvson. brother of the late Lord Tennyson, is critically BAILEY'S STORY. SAYS CIVIL SHIlVICi: COMMISSION VIOLATES THE LAW.

GROSS FAVORITISM SHOWN. DCCI.AItnS 1'ltOCTOIt TIllHU TO j.vmimATi; imi. Warneil Uini lo Xit'fer lo Kerortl.s for Wrifirution II if I'arls Clialrmau Proctor Drnlt" All of Clerk Washington, Feb. j. The senate committee on tivil service to-day heaid the testimony of clerks in the civil service commission, bcslnnine; with W.

11. thief clerk of the certification division, whose testimony related to details of office administration. lie was followed by Mr. U. D.

IJailey. Mr. Uailey said he had been requested not to refer to the records of the olllte for vciillcaliuli of his facts; thai Commissioner Proctor had told him that subordinates ovvtd some deference lo their in tile otlice. and said, in substance, that his place in the service depended upon liis observance of this fact. Mr.

liailey Instanced many cases ot what he teimed evasions ol the rules of Ihe Service. He also charged violation of tho law requiting applicants to secure certification of residence of county clerks, giving a i use trom South Caiollna. He said this vio.ation wvs not of general importance, but lie had iv it because It lilted in with the Kcn-ral tendency of the commission to violate laws and Its own legula-lions. Mr. Kalley said that a large majoiity of appointments were tiist made upon special examinations, which reduced compt titlou to the minimum, and the chances lor the applicant materially were inci eased.

He thought the practice had come to be too common in the departments to call for appointments requiring to which tho existing did not apply, and thus sei lire appointee? on the special examination. He charged a growing laxity in the examinations, which, he said, had beccme especially jiroiioum td within the past two yars. He charged the application of tho home rule principles in an Ohio ca-e. at the instance of a I'niicd States senator, which was. he said, in violation of Ihe commission's regulations.

Mr. liailey asserted that appointments hail been made without examination. He said that during the past two years there had been many appointments- made in casts in which no prior examination had been held. I'nder pressure from Mr. Proctor to state whether he thought the commission had been influenced its course by political considerations, Mr.

liailey -aid ho thought tnat the commission had shown a leaning, whether for political reasons or not. toward perrons from a particular section of the country. Mr. Proctor, chairman of the commission, was recalled and replied to Mr. IJailey.

He said he was glad that all who had grievances given an oppoituinty to air thi m. lie s-iid Mr. llailey's access to the tiles was such as to have Riven him the amplest opportunity to attack the work of the commission. He would, he said, furnish the data In each particular case. He was sure that the action upon each occasion had been in compliance with the i law.

and that If it had not bi en, the com- mission was responsible lo tho president, who could take such action as lie might think pioper. He said that the statement that he had denied Mr. liailey access to the tiles was i false, but that lie had told him that ha must not interfere wit.h the other clerks when at work. He denied that this had i been done for the purpose of intimidating Mr. liailey.

MORMONS INCONFERENCE. Eastern Latter liny SnlntN Are Ilolil- liiK a Tivo DnyK Hally in Brooklyn. New York. Feb. 3.

The first session of the conference of Latter Day Saints began in Grand Union hall to-day in Brooklyn. The missionaries in the Eastern states present-eel their reports of the work done since tho last meeting. Edward P. Kesler. in charge of the Eastern district, speaking about Hie spread of Mormonism in this section of the country, said: "I've been here abotti one year, and In that time I think I can say that great things have been accomplished.

We have built up quite a following all along the Eastern coast. We are linking converts and friends eveiy month, and soon we will overshadow some of the old and well tried religious bodies in the East." A feature of to-morrow's sermon will be the singing by the delegation from this Mormon tabernacle In Salt 1-ike City. Congressman King, of I'tali. and Apostles Lyman and Cowlc-s, of Salt Lake City, are to explain the dictrines of the Mormon church. BLACKLISTING UPHELD.

Chienso Says Employer, na Well an Employe, May Combine for Protection. Chicago, Feb. 5 Judge Diown. of the circuit court, to-day sustained a demurrer to the declaration in the case of William F. McDonald, a switchman, who sued the Illinois Central Itailroad Company and tho Chicago fi Northwestern Itnilway Company for alleged blacklisting.

The case is one of thirty-four which were begun against the railroad companies June. W-fi, and is similar in its general details to the Ketcii-tun case, in which it verdict for S20.CKXI was set aside a few weeks ago. Judge Drown held that the declaration did not show anv Illegal ait. and took the position that the railroad company could make rules for its own protection just as much as the men had the tight to band together. The case was appealed.

STILL ANOTHER EXPOSITION. mil for Itltt International Fair on Centennial Annlvcrnnry of the I.oiil-ilnnn Purchnie. Washington. Feb. 5.

Representative) Bartholdt, of Mifsouri. to-day Introduced a bill for an international exposition to be held at St. Louis In 1903. the centennial year of the LotiMana. purchase, to be known as the Mississippi Valley International exposition.

The bill gives government encouragement to the exposition, provides for a government building to cost $73,000, and a government exhibit under the direction of a commission to be named by the president. is made to the purpose that the government i not to be committed to anv ot the expenses of the exposition beyond those for the government exhibit. EARTKCUAKEJN VIRGINIA. DlMfluet Shock Felt in it uni1ier of Towns, lint Unmnsre AVn Hone. Lynchburg.

Feb. a. A distinct earthquake shoe was felt here to-day about 3 o'clock. Telegtams to the News show the disturbance was fell through Southwest Virginia. Bedford Citv reporting that a sound as if of an explosion, different from the usual rumbling, preceded the shock.

Ki-hmond. Feb. Ean Radford. Wytheville. Bedford Citv.

Salem and various other points in Southern Virginia report having experienced an earthquake -hO'k this afternoon. The duration was about three seconds and the time a few minutes after o'clock. No damage is reported. Creek Pit; iiieut to llt'Kiu Soon. Muskogee.

I. Feb. 3. (Special.) Fnited States Indian Agent Wisdom, of this place received notice to-day that he had been appointed by the secretary of the Interior to pay off the JiM.Ouu of valid Creek warrants. The payment will be made at this place, and will begin as soon as Agent Wisdom's bond is filed with the secretary of the interior.

Sir Robert Peel a Bankrupt. London. Feb. 5. An injunction has been granted restraining Sir Robert Peel from removing pictures from Drayton manor which the trustees claim are heirlooms' It is said that Torty-five bankruptcy notices are put against Sir Robert and in execution in Drayton manor.

New- HIkIi Mark Benched. New York. Feb. 5. Standard Oil certificates reached their highest mark tn-dav being the price.

In the outside market' ahlf a point higher was bid. CHIEF D. WJ5USHYHEAD. The Xoted Cherokee Who Died Friday Wns a Fninlllnr FlKnre 111 Washington Washington. Feb.

5. Chief P.ushyhead. who died February 4 at Tahlequah, I. was a familiar personage about the capital, where he had lieen coming for the last thirty years on business matters connected with the affairs of the. Cherokee nation.

He was 75 years old and was one of the most prominent Indians of the live civilized tribes, having been twice elected chief and twice treasurer of the Cherokee nation. He was al-o a member of the Cherokee delegation which was appointed to treat with the Dawes commission, and was one of the few Indians who favored the allotment of lauds- and the aliolltioii ot tribal governments. Mr. Hushyhead was for a Miwww CHIEF D. W.

ISL'SHYIIEAD. long time a resident of California, and while there a term In the legislatuie of that state. He was connected bv marriage with ex-Senator Morgan C. liutler. having married a niece of the famous Soulh Carolinian.

In his early days chief Hushyhead was dtt-'i'ted In South Carolina, where he resided rutil he left lor California during the gold fi vtr of lSIH. Ills elevation to the highest offices In the Rill of his tribe, although only a quarter-blood Cherokee, was the strongest evidence of the esteem in which he was hi id by these Indians. Every Important piece of legislation enacted by congress in the interest of the Cherokee? since the 'CTs has borne the imprint of Chief Hushyhead, who never lost an opportunity to be of benefit to his people, anil in every manner justified their confidence in him. At the interior department and about the capitol Chief liushy-lie-ad was always welcome, for he knew what he wanted and was a perfect mine of information on matters pertaining to the rlUlized trilx-s of ted men In this country. HOTEL F0RW0MEN Flrnt-c-lnNs IlnKtelry in Xevr York From Whlclt licit Are lo Hi Itnrred.

New York, Feb. S. Several artists and men and women of wealth are forming the "Woman's Hotel Company," llioir object being to put up a lirst-ciass hotel for self-supporting women only. Charles D. Kel-Icgg.

chairman of the Charity Organization Society, issiieel tho preliminary prospectus to-elay and opened subscription bcoks. The capital will be $1,000,000 in 10.000 sbaies of 3100 each and tho corporation is to he formed with one-half of the amount shall have been subscribed. It is intended that the first hotel shall be especially for artists, writers, teachers, clerks and students. It is to have all the medern coinenieuces of a superior hotel and a capacity of 97.1 to l.f"i guests. Sunshine and ventilation are special features of the plans, and it is proposed to use the roof for studios, isolated music rooms, a sun parlor and promenade.

The plan of finance has been approved by four leading hotel proprietors or New York, mid by one each of Chicago and Philadelphia. The estimated income is on the basis of Ml guestrooms, rented at from to per. week, according to the size: thirty studios and inu-ic rooms, at per week: restaurant at $3 each guest per wek, estimated expenses are a year, showing an apparent surplus of In addition to a manager there will be a "houe mother." a sort of chaperon or counselor. There will be 219 servants. Among thoee promoting the enterprise are J.

17. Brown. Thomas W. Wood. F.

S. Church, of tlv National Academy of Design, Edwin llov.iand Blashfield. Mrs. J. Fierpont Morgan.

Bishop Potter. Miss Crace IT. Dodge. Rev. Mr.

Henry Van Dvke. Mrs. John S. Kennedy, the Rev. Dr.

Charles II. Parkhurst. William M. Cha-e. Anton Seidl.

Frank Damrosrh. Emiljo Agramonte, the Rev. Dr. David IT. Green.

Mrs. Morris K. Jessup. George Alexander. Mrs.

W. W. Newell, president of the Wolf Art Students' Club, and Roderick Terry. SINGLE GOLD STANDARD. Chlcano Hcpiibllcnn.1 Mlncc No Words in Drclnrius; Their Financial PrlllcinlPN.

Chicago, Feb. 5. Congressman Henry S. Boutelle. of the Sixth district, who was elected to fill the unexpired term of Congressman Edward Cook, deceased, was tonight nominated by the Republicans of his district to succeed himself.

W. K. Ackermnn, formerly president ot the Illinois Central railroad, and city comptroller under the Democratic administration of Mayor Hopkins, was nominated by the Republicans for assessor of the North town. Mr. Aekerman was a sold Democrat.

The convention adopted these resolutions: "The Republicans of the Sixth congressional district of Illinois, in convention assembled, congratulate the country upon the restoration of business confidence through public faith In an administration pledged to protect the national credit. We indorse the administration of President McKinley, and commend to the favor of a patriotic and enlightened citizenship his recent public address, in which he declared that the country's obligations must be paid In the beg money on enrth. We congratulate the country upon the vindication of the national honor by the popular branch of congress, under the leadership of Speaker Reed, in its defeat of the Teller resolution. We reaffirm our steadfast adherence to the principles enunciated in the platform adopted at St. Louis, and declare ourselves unequivocally and unreservedly in favor of the maintenance of the single gold stand-aril.

"We heartily sympathize with our German-American and Scandinavian citizens In their oppo-dlion to the Lodge immigration bill, believing that Its restrictions are unnecessary, and that it would operate to exclude desirable immigrants who contribute sturdy and stalwart elements to our citizenship." INTEREST WELL PAID UP. Hut Nineteen Dcliuqtifncici Among; LoiinH. AKKregatlitfir Five Million Dollar. Topeka, Feb. 5.

(Special.) As a further evid nee of the return of prosperity to Kansas a statement from T. E. Bowman of this city, shows that out of about in loans, with the exception of a few foreclosures started several years ago. there are only nineteen loans out of the hundreds en their books where there is any delinquent interest, and these delinquencies extend over a period of only from one to three months. Mr M.

Morrlam said to-dav: "Never in tho history of our business has the interest been paid with such promptness, and there Is a wonderful change in sentiment in the Las I toward Western Investments. While there has never been a time we have not sold a considerable number of loans each month in the East, yet just now there seems to be a greater demand among the savings banks and larger Institutions, and if the present conditions continue. It will he harder to procure safe investments than It will to dispose of them." LADUE EN ROUTE TO KLONDIKE. Founder or DaiTiDii City I.cnvc Chi. cngo for the Yukon in Private Cur.

Chicago. Feb. 3. Joseph Ladue. the founder of Dawson City, left Chicago tonight In a private car over the Chicago, Milwaukee St.

Paul, en route to the Klondike. He was accompanied by his wife. E. F. Betsford and wife, of New a' Captain A.

E. Miller, of New Thc arrived irom the East this arternoon. and were met bv Howard L. Laing of the St. Paul road.

'They will sail for Alaska next week. BEBLINCABLE LETTER FIIU1T DECREE A IIII1 FOR VOTES FOR THE NAVAL WAS A SOP TO THE AGRARIANS. TOTAL R.XCLUSIOX OF CATTLE AND IIOUS TALKED OF. liovcriiineiit Han Concluded Something: MiikI lie Done to Satisfy the Cliiinor for Itctiilintlou Nuvnl 11111 Likely lo Push the Berlin, Feb. 5.

(Copyilght. 1S9S. by the Associated Press.) The fieedom which the rcichstag and the Prussian diet conceded this week to the agrarians, who formulated numerous wishes and complaints, is significant. The minister of agriculture. Baron Von Hammerstein-Lexten.

promised the government woulel grant as many of their demands as possible. At the moment he was making this declaration, measures were preparing to stop the Imports or American fruit and the decree in that connection had already been issued. The entire Liberal press openly disapproves of the policy, anil asserts it was a iiovernmcnt trick to obtain the vote of the agrarians for Emperor William's naval bill. Tho leading-commercial journals point to the Ill-will and indignation such measures are bound to produce In America and to the futility of prohibiting the importation of an article Germany does not produce with sufficiency. Tho newspapers claim the only result will be that fruit will be Imported from the South of Euiope at a high- test than is now being paid for American fruits.

Dr. Frederick Von Kucger, of the agricultural high school, upon whose report the uuthotltles here are understood to have acted, has been making an extensive series of experiments and examinations of the American plants and fruits supposed to be infected by the San Jose bug. After many fallures. be finally discovered the bug in three specimens of peaches and pears. Dr.

Helnrich Doihru, president of the Entomological Society of Siettin. writes that the San Jose bug has long been known ill Germany as the bliit-laus, and has devastated orchards in various parts of the country, especially In the neighborhood of Frankfort and Stettin. He 'adds: "The present scare Is as unjustified as the late Colorado bug scare." Several of tho newspapers express the opinion that the decrte will not be permanent, and that it was only intended as a temporary act of retaliation for Anieri-ican treatment of German sugar. Inquiry made at the foreign office and at the Prussian agricultural department, however, shows the steps taken to be only forerunners of others ot more Importance; the government having concluded that something must be done to gratify the agrarian demand for retaliation on the United State-. There was an exemplification in the reich-slag on Tuesday, when Dr.

Hnhr. a friend ot Prince Bismarck, demanded the prohibition of American horses, claiming the imports had Increased in 1M-7 to marks, and that something must be done "to show these overbearing Americans that an energetic German government exists." The views of the Prussian cabinet are gauge-able bv a declaration made yesterday by the minister of agriculture. Baron Von Hammorsteln-Lexten. in the diet, who declared that American horses developed influenza after importation, adding: "If the Inqiortations Increase, we shall certainly be forced to adopt a suitable quarantine In order to protect ourselves." The total exclusion of till living cattle and hegs is also under consideration. The sugar producers have petitioned the imperial chancellor, demanding that no tariff agreement shall be accepted unless the Fnited States tariff on German sugar Is reduced 20 per cent from the present scale and an assurance given that no other country will be more favorably treated.

It Is the government's present Intention that the quinqulennial elections of lsns.if.i.'i should occur in July, and that the Prussian diet elections should take place in October, although the programme may lie changed should the reichstag reject the naval bill, which, however, is now quite unlikely. Election agitation Is already pronounced, especially in the provinces, where the agrarians are sweeping the field. The socialists and conservatives are having a hot preliminary campaign, and both parties expect to make large gains from the National Liberals and other middle parties. The Prussian cabinet lias adopteel Emperor William's plan to remove the Berlin university. Royal library and other scientific institutions, which are now in the center of the citv.

to the Charlottenburg. The buildings vacated will become the residence of royalties, and the government offices will be centralized. The plan is bound to arouse great opposition when published. The present years's imperial army maneuvers will be between the array corps of the Relchsland and Wurtemburg: but they will not he as extensive as those of 1197. Probably no more than 30.000 troops will bo engaged.

The government Is disagreeably disappointed at the considerable diminution of the imports duties and taxes of the last six months of Wu. In December alone they fell off 7.000.000 marks. This will be cited against thc large appropriations asked for in the naval hill. Only three American ladies. Mrs.

Frank Wibonr, Mrs. Allen mee Dora Johnstone), of Chicago, and Mi--s Rutter were presented at the court reception on Tuesday. After the reception, the secretary of the United States embassy. Mr. J.

I. Jackson, gave a ball which was attended largely by court society. During the reception. Emperor William conversed at length with the United States ambassador, Mr. Andrew D.

White, inquiring particularly regarding the conditions of university boat races in tho United States and the hygienic precautions taken to prevent youths from being injured thereby. Mrs. Cadwallaeler Guild, the American sculptress, is exhibiting her latest work. including a oust oi me violinist joacnim. The emperor and empress visited the exhibition and congratulated the sculptress upon her success.

The Prussian agricultural council opened its sessions on Thursday and the emperor was in attendance on Friday and participated in the discussion of the question of extending a network of river canals in Prussia. The proposal Is to connect the Elbe, Rhine, Oder and Weser for shipping. A meeting of the Berlin produce dealers who have been on strike since, the Introduction of the new Boerse law has passed a resolution reaffirming the association's determination not to return to the produce exchange as long as the existing regulations remain in froce. NEW POPULIST SCHEME. National Conference Called for the Purpose of Going: Over lo the Democracy.

Birmingham, Feb. a. A conference of a score or more leading Populists of this countv. held here to-day. issued a call for a general conference of all tho Populists of the county February to consider a system of returning to thc Democratic party and participating in Democratic primaries.

The leaders of the movement sav the Democrats adopted the Popuh'stie principles at the Chicago convention, and that the best thing for the Populists to do Is to return to Democracy, act as a faction cf the party and, by united action, wield a strong influence on the party primaries and conventions. It Is said similar efforts will lie made in various counties. Jerry Fountain, former Populist countv chairman I the leader of the movement, which is now opposed by the state Populist organization. Nevr IlellgioiiK Paper nt Col uiuliia. Columbia.

Feb. 3. (Special Thc Christian Harbinger is a new religious journal In Columbia. The first Issue appeared to-day. It is idlted by Elder G.

A. Hoffman, with Eld- rs C. H. Winder Blalsdell and Ernest Thornquest as' associate editors and Rlcluud Burkhnrt and II. Morton Gregory as business managers It Is Issued for the benefit of the Missouri Bible college and Christian Female college.

Nunacn on HIn American Trip. Liverpool. Feh. 5. In an Interview on his return here from the I'nlted State.

Dr. Nansen. the Arctic explorer. Is quoted as saying that lecturing in America Is as had as exploring. that when not lecturing he Is traveling and the American style of travelins Is not to his taste.

3 1 yfa Is tho basis of good health, Klc steady nerves, mental, lEalnftff PhJ'3'cal nnJ- d'scstivo strength. If you are nervous, enrich end purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. If you nro weak, have no appetite and desire to bo healthy and vigorous, take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which will tone your stomach, create an appetite and build you up. H-nnrnrlV Sarsa" 0l parilla The Tiest-ln fact the One True Blood Purifier. i.

r-k-tt cure iimn-a. indigestion, liOOCl I-'llJS biliousness. Price NEW TEST 0FHYPM0TISM. Condemned Murderer to Be Il pno- tlxi-il Before lie Is llropiM-tl to Hit llentb. St.

Paul. Feb. the authorl-tleo will permit it. John Moshik. a murderer, who is to be hanged in Minneapolis next month, will be hcpnotiz.d as he stands on the gallows.

Dr. Edward II. Haas, a skillful hypnotist of St. Paul. Is anxious to try tho experiment.

Acting upon the suggestion that he Is to stiffen all hi- muscles. Moshik may drop through the trap as rigid as any uf the hepnotiztd subjects so often exhibited with head upon one chair and foct upon another. Thus the metallic mu-cles of his neck may prevent the rope from compressing- his windpipe and from him to strangle. The same muscular remittance may keep the shock of his fall from wier.chlng apart the vertebrae of his upper spinal column. Or.

If he ready die. his death may be spiritually serene. Speaking of his desire to make a practical test of the strange experiment. Dr. Haas says: "The test would be most interesting, as It has never been attempted before.

Its chief object would be to ascertain whether hypnotic suggestion might not. despite the ncrcous tension, take the place of the usual alcoholic or medical stimulant given to men or, the point of being hanged. "Everything would depend on what kind of a subject Modiik should prove to be. If he declined to be hypnotized, or If he dm not try to assist me. success would be out of the question.

But I should try to show him that, if entirely willing, he would escape entirely, perhaps, the customary horrors of tho scafTold. I might suggest pleasant things to him. if lie turned out to be very timid, or. having him In I might tell him franklv Mint he was to shew- himself a brave man. and that he was not going to suffer the least pain.

"I might also tell him to stiffen all his muscles when he got on the trap. That would at least keep him calm. It might-yes, that's so it might prevent his strangling. That a man can be made in that way as stiff as iron everybodv knows who has seen public hypnotism. Of course, if the experiment were tri.

d. Moshik would receive spiritual consolation before he was hypnotized. But then I don't know even that the authorities would allow such an experiment. Yet. when I think of ome hangings I've heard about.

I must sav it's as decorous to die hypnotized as to die drunk." URGE USE OF OLD ROADBED. CItlu-iiN Along; Route Think Illinois Central Mlclit Utilize Missouri and Grade. Macon. Feb. Z.

(Special.) The Mercantile Association, of Macon, is interesting itself in the project of getting the Illinois Central railway to construct Its proposed Kansas City line from Keokuk to Macon, using the old Missouri At Mississippi roadbed, passing through the towns of Kahoka. Clark county, and Edina. Knox county. The business men of Edina are also stirring themselves to secure this line and urging its advantage on the powerful grounds of economy in construction having a ready-made roadbed. M.

O. Bigger-staff, secretary of the Business Men's Association, or Edina. In a letter referring to this ohl roadbed, says: "There was at one- time, as you know, a railroad partly built from Keokuk. to the Missouri river, known as the Missouri Ai Mississippi railroad. This road was graded from Keokuk to a distance of seventy-five by way of the towns of Kahoka and Edina.

There are yet remains of this grade in Knox county, enough to make it of great advantage to any road that could use it. and I have no doubt the same grade Is. in a general way. In as good a state of preservation through the balanco of the Iowa and Missouri counties. Lee county, Clarke anil Macon counties.

Mo. It would give Macon another outlet for its immense coal fields and result in a S-reatly increased development of that ln-ustry. This is an Item of more than ordinary importance in railroad construction. There is a great opening for any company tlmt will investigate the prospects, and I assure you that Edina will be ready to help In any way she can." The Missouri Mississippi Is the name of a company that undertook the construction of a railroad thiough the counties mentioned in ISin. All the counties subscribed liberally and hael more or less trouble in settling with the bondholders for tiieir public-spiritedness.

The roael was never completed, though the roadbed and bridges were constructed before the company failed, which event occurred during tho panic of As Mr. Biggerstaff says, the work undertaken at a great cost so many years ag-i to-day capable of being restored and utilized for railroad purposes at a comparatively small outlay, and that some Chicago and Kansas City line has not taken advantage of this opportunity sooner Is a matter of surprise. IS AN 0YSTERAFISH OR NOT? Thin "Weighty Question In Causing Dispute liclvtccii Virginia anil MnrylaiiiL Annapolis. Feb. 5.

The eiuestion of whether oysters and crabs are lish has arisen in the complicated contention between Maryland and Virginia over the dividing line in the Potomac liver. To-mor-I0W committees of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures will inspect the disputed section. Senator Dryden states that a new point will be raised by the Marvlanders. The citizens cf Maryland and Virginia have enjoyed equal rights of fishing, oystering. and crabbing.

The compact states that the right of fishing shall he mutually enjoyed. The point now is: Can oystering and crabbing he included in the term Scientists to whom the question has been submitt-d agree that oysters and crabs nre not fish. In all the laws passed in Maryland oysters and lish have been separately trea-ed. The biological 1( partnu nt of Johns Hopkins diversity has informed the leg-Islatots that soologii ally the oyster is not a fish. Leading have nnlned that legallv the oyster is a fi-h.

and Cardinal Gibbons says that from the Catholic church nnlnt of ovsters and crabs have always been regarded as fish in the Lenten BRIBERY INQUIRY. Represeiitnliie Rogers Say He Was Offered SSIIO lo Work for (isorclto Illll. Nashville. Feb. 5.

The joint committee of both houses of the legislature engaged in investigating a charge of attempted Lribe-y of a member of the lower hou-e. after examining -omo wit-nescs to-day. neljourncd until February 11. Mr. Roger-, a r.

pn sci.tt'tlve. Is said to have testified thit he was olfercd J.V.-J to introduce and advocate a bill repealing the law. In the legislature to-dav. Mr. Rogi rs.

in a spec. h. said Mr. Fuller, conn-el for the American Tobacco Company, drifted a bill repealing the anii-ciqarette law. and that Frederick S.

Gibbs. of the Republican, executive committee of New York, had written him asking ins support of the bill beeause its promoter. were the largest contributor. to Thomas C. Piatt's campaign fund.

Mr. Roger also paid the i ounsel for th company In Knoxvillc hid approached him on Ihe subject In an effort to have rigarette selling made a pilvilrge. Ti.e invest igatior. I causing mu-'li comment, i.nd it I understood Fuller will appear before th" committee. WRONGED HUSBAND'S CRIME.

I'll. ds Man Willi Ills Wife mid Kills Them Both Gives lliiu-nelf I I. Charleston. W. Feb.

George I'. Tucker, a coalminer at Crescent. Fayette county, on going home at noon found hi wife with Willm McAllister. He fired four shots, killed bcth his wife and McAllister instantly. He then walkei; two miles to Montgomery and gave himself up to the officers.

Mrs. Tucker was the mother of three grown children. She was II years of age. McAllister was ZU LILLIAN WINS ODT. DR.

tllST PAY HER FOR Ills FICKLENESS. SUPREME COURT DECIDES IT. HOW THE llOCTOIt SOI GUT TO footing Tin: hill. Set l'p Thnt Breach of Promlxe AVns Fraud, and That a licit Aetioii Would Not Lit Mysterious, Death of Hails. Topeka.

Feb. (Special.) Tho state supreme court to-day handed down a large number of opinion, several of them of general interest. In the hracn of prom-'se case of Lillian Wolfersbcrger against Dr. George A. MeElree.

appealed from Harvey county, the deei-Ion of thc lower court was affirmed. McEltree was engaged to Miss Wolfersbcrger while both lived in Philadelphia. The doctor got her to withdraw from her church and join his. He then came to Kansas, ami as soon as he found a suitable location lie was to go back anil get her. He settled at Newton and built up a good practlte.

but he never went back after his first love. On tha other hand, he shook her and married a charming Kansas girl. The Philadelphia girl with a long name got mad and sued for breach cf promise. She got judgment against him for J3.1M.30. of which Jl.ccu was for humiliation, another SI.l") for mental inguish and the balance actual damages.

The doctor appealed the case. He claimed lint that she had sore eyes and was not tit to take care of his household, and that ho could not afford to marry her and then hire a nurse and domestic to run the house. He also claimeel that the amount of the judgment was excessive, as he would not command so high a price in the open matrimonial market. He further contended that, by breaking the contract, he was guilty of violating the statutes of frauds, and, therefore, a civil process against him could not lie. The supreme court, however, took sides with the woman and allirmed the decision of the lower court.

The case of Eva Davis against the Travelers" Insurance Company, ar. appeal from Bourbon county, was reversed and remanded for trial. Mrs. Davis' husband. Jonathan Davis, carried an accident policy in tha Travelers and he shutlled off one day.

the exact cause being somewhat In doubt. The company refused to pay the claim and the woman sued. The company won thc cas and she appealed. The company's contention was that Davis died from the effects ot Injuries receiveel before he took out the policy. The records show that, during a brief space of time.

Davis was jammed up In a railroad wreck, was thrown out of a buggy In a runaway anil badly hurt, was kicked by a mule, and was almost asphyxiated by gas In a Fort Scott hotel, by blowing out the gas. It seems that if his death was due to the wreck or the runaway, tho companj cannot bo held, but if the mule kick or the gas experience caused it. then the company is liable. It all depended upon this point. An expert witness at the I rial, after hearing of the many accidents in which Davis got tangleel up.

gave it as his opinion, under oath, that Davis died of apoplexy. In a cattle case appealed from Sumner county the court reversed the lower court becauso It refused to let the attorneys argue a motion for a new trial. That was In the? case of the Consolidated Cattle Company against the Santa Fe. Judgment was rendered against the road, and it tiled a motion for a new- trial. The district judge refused to let Its attorneys argue the motion and promptly overruled it.

The supreme court sat own on that sort of business by reversing the judge and sending the case back for trial. Other opinions handed down follow: By Chief Justice Doster John V. Farwcll Co. vs. W.

C. Lyklns; error from Cherokee ccnuty: allirmed: Doster.C. dissenting. Allen. concurring.

Cornelia W. Matthew-sou vs. Clinton L. Caldwell, assignee, error from Labette county; reversed. By Justice Johnston William H.

Brown vs. Chicago. Rock Island Ai Pacific Railway Company: error from Leavenworth county: allirmed. E. J.

Vickers vs. Beard of Commissioners of Cloud county; error from Cloud county: reversed. Ira G. Balcom vs. A.

S. Peacock; error from Trego county: allirmed. By Justice Allen The Union Pacific Railway Company et at vs. Fred Smith: error fiom Leavenworth county: judgment modified. Henry S.

treton vs. Brlget Ireton; error from Cowley county; reversed. Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe Railroad Company vs. Consolidated Cattle Company: error from Sumner county: reversed.

AI-dace F. Walker et al vs. L. C. Brantner; error from Crawford county: reversed.

I'er Curiim The Consolidated Chelsea Park Railway Compnay vs. Wyatt. error from Wyandotte county, reversed: Vincent Cattle Company et al vs. American National bank of Kansas City, error from Reno county, dismissed: Phoenix Mutual Life- Insurance Compnay vs. J.

Bond, error from Woodson county, dismissed. S. E. D. Coutlett.

administratrix, vs. Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe Railroad Compnay. error from Allen county, allirmed: J. S.

Gill vs. II. Jones, error from Harper county, dismissed; F. W. Dunn vs.

Laura Dunn, error from Riley county, affirmed; Cherokee Lumber Company vs. F. C. Moses, error from Montgomery countv. affirmed.

Islah Driver vs. Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe Railway Company, error from Iteno county: affirmed: Jessie Davis vs. James Byers. error from Wyandotte county, dismissed: Frank Linn.

vs. M. Krumm. error from Johnson counts. dimissed; S.

S. II. Clark et al vs. A. N.

Scott, error from Marshall county, a'trmcel: W. II. Lowe et al vs. commissioners Flnney coitntv. error from Flnnev countv.

dismissed: S. Nation et al. H. IL Littler et al. error from I.vnn county, affinr-ed.

Mary E. Sipple et al vs. city of Parsons, error from Labette county, dismissed: Joshua Musgrave vs. John F. Barclay, error from Trego county, reversed: Mar II.

Locke vs. Margaret Rcelmond. error from court of appeals, affirmed. Certified to court of appeals .1. C.

Douglass vs. R. W. Muse et al: Laura Sims Thomas vs. Richard Arthur.

tt ai. S. S. H. Clark et al vs.

J. II. TrouL administrator, etc. ED HOCH'S SUGGESTION. He AViinlil Have All Reiiulilleitn County Colientlons Held on Ihe Same liny.

Topeka. Feb. ial.) Ed Hoch. of Marion, makes a suggestion, or rather renews his biennial suggestion, that all Republican rountv conventions for the election of delegates to the state conven-tioi) be held the same day. "I have- frequently made this suggestion." be "in the interest- of fair play and bar tnony.

but for some reason it has not been heeded by tin power-- that be. But thii year, when v-ry true Republican feels the necessity of su' rrilinating personal interests to party good. I feel that the proposition will receive better treatment. Ne ue denying the fart that the old system has been ti-s-d by manipulators for personal ends. They have managed to thrtr 1 1, unties where their candidate- was the strongest hold their conventions earlv.

to start and swell the boom for hun. We want no such scheming and manipulating this yir. Let all the convention.1 be- held th-same so there will b. no cause f- i-t-mplaint. such as has existed in the past.

This plan I followed In reference to rotinty r.nminalions. The township delegates re elected the same day. and. in counties, where wise council prevail a rlo-o as posible lo the day of tho general convention, so as to give the manipulators as-little time as possible to Interview delegate. AVhy not adopt the same wie pol-i- In reference to state conventions? It will help mightily to win thc confidence of tho people." Coiicressliiiinl Committer to "if---t.

It Is understood that Chairman Harrison, of the Republican committee of the Second K.m.is district, has isued a call for a meeting of the committee to be held In the Allmon hotel. Kansas City. Saturday. February 12. Tho meeting is to d' Me upon the date and place for the holding of the convention to pominate a congreeltin'il candidate.

An aoportionment of ilel.gates will also be made. The ratio will likely he one deb-gate to every zw or ve-tes cast for W. Edwards fee secretary of state at the last election. The Sect nd elistrict 1 composed of Wyandotte. Johnson.

An-e'erson. Bourbon. Linn. Miami. Douglass.

Allen and Franklin eountie. Bv the capsizing of a navy launch Kiel yesterday, nine German sailors and three workmen were drowned..