FOPULIST APPEAL. M'KINLEY NOTIFIED. KANSAS STATE NEWS. FIRST OF AERONAUTS. ONE HUNDRED DEAD.
NEWS OF THE WEEK THE PUBLIC RECORD. I L. AUtlCH, Editor. The Irish National Federation of American has issued a notice to its branches in this country of an Irish race convention to be held in Dublin on September L. An attempt was made upon the life of the shah at Teheran, Persia, on the 27th.
It was unsuccessful and the assassin was arrested on the spot. He proved to be a member of the Babi Mohammed secret society. The Tippecanoe club, of Cleveland, went to Canton, the home of Gov. McKinley, and inaugurated a big parade on the 27th to ratify his nomination for the presidency. Congressmen Taylor and Grosvenor were among the speakers and Gov.
McKinley responded by enunciating and defining republican principles. The secretary of the interior has is-Bued his requisition on the treasury for 513,325,000 to be used in the quarterly payment of pensions. Topeka, gets 200,000 of it A yacht containing a party of nine pleasure seekers was capsized in Shawnee lake, near Shawnee, and six of the party were drowned. Oscar Bakes killed a young man named Sbultz with a baseball bat at Clarksville, during a quarrel over the game. John Cunningham, a prisoner, who was serving a murder sentence in the reformatory at Pontiac, I1L, attacked a guard in an attempt to escape and was killed by the officer.
The boat race on the Hudson, near Poughkeepsie, N. on the 26th, between the Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania university crews, was won by Cornell. The official time was as follows: Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Columbia, 21:35. A triple hanging took place in the state penitentiary at Canon City, CoL, on the night of the 26th, the men being Thomas Holt, Albert Noble and Deonicio Romero, who killed Policeman John Solomon in Trinidad. Two bad freight wrecks occurred on the K.
T. recently in Texas. At Hearne 15 cars of cattle bound for St Louis were ditched and 100 head of stock was killed, while at Granger seven cars of merchandise were badly wrecked and Brakeman Banhan seriously injured. Five thousand women of Starke county, O. paid their respects to Maj.
McKinley, his wife and his mother at Canton on the 26th. Irwin Ford, colored, was hanged in the District of Columbia jail on the 26th for the murder of a white girL The crime was committed on May 4. Cabl Albrecht was hanged at Marshfield, on the 26th for the brutal murder of his wife last January. John R- Gentry paced a mile in 2:03 at Red Oak, making the fastest mile ever made in June. Fred Dexter, aged 16, was accidentally drowned while bathing near Clinton, la.
Louis Roseland, an employe of the Pullman Palace Car Co. at Chicago, gave his six-year-old daughter cyanide of potassium and then committed suicide by the same means. Domestic were the alleged cause. The British steamer Lucerne, while loading for an eastbound voyage was discovered to be on fire at midnight on the 26th at Liverpool and was scuttled and sunk to prevent total destruction. The fire was supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp.
Arthur Taylor, colored, was hanged at Mariana, on the 26th for the murder of his wife last October. Ben Brush easily won the Latonia derby at Cincinnati on the 24th. Miss Lansing Rowan, an actress, has challenged James J. Corbett to meet her in a sparring match. A Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul meat train, running 80 miles an hour down Hayesville hill, near Ottumwa, jumped the track, totally destroying 13 cars of Kansas City meat Ed Lindquiest was killed and Will Kauff-man fatally injured.
The trainmen were unhurt Negotiations were -being made at San Francisco on the 25th for a fight to a finish between James J. Corbett and Sharkey, the sailor who recently had a four-round go with Corbett which was declared a draw. The fight is to take place within six months for and. the largest purse offered by a club. The two tramps who murdered Sheriff Rogers were caught on the 25th in a swamp.
Two hundred and fifty men surrounded them. The tramps were taken to Glencoe, where they were locked in jaiL There was talk of lynching and a special train with company of the Second regiment of Minnesota militia, was sent to Glencoe to prevent any mob law. Peterson, foreman of a gang of laborers at the Carnegie steel mill at Pittsburgh, was killed by a molten mass of slag falling on his head, which was crushed like an egg shell. The flesh was also roasted oil of his body. The Topeka Advocate Crges Stlverltes tm Unite with the People's Party.
Topeka, June 25. United States Senator Peffer's paper, the Topeka Advocate, the leading populist newspaper of Kansas, as well as his own personal organ, to-day prints the following editorial in double leads, under the title, "The Situation is In all that is great and grand the United States has led the nations. Its history is thet model of the ages. It required one war to secure our independence, another to maintain our rights at sea, and still another to make sure that popular government is not a failure. We are now confronted with still greater and dangers.
The rule of the money ehangers has began. A great party, drunk with success, amid the shouts of ten thousand madmen, has just named as its candidate for the presidency of the republio man pledged to maintain the present gold standard, with all the consequent evils falling prices, loss of employment, debt and ruin. At last, after 40 years of unparalleled career, forgetting the glorious record of Its early achievements, false to its pledges, and basely betraying the country it saved, the republican party, by an eight to one vote, has declared its allegiance to a usurpation of men whose only interest in the country Is to rob it. The situation is perilous. If democrats onca undertook to destroy the government of the United States, they now have an opportunity to assist in saving it.
Do they see what is immediately in front of them? Do they comprehend its meaning? Can they rise to the level of the occasion? Is their party nearer and dearer to them than their country? Republican success means perpetual domination of class in this and the downfall of popular government. To prevent this dreadful end of free institutions the people's party of the United States was expressly formed. We are organized and ready for the conflict in every state and county. Our success means the rule of the people with peace, progress and plenty; it means the overthrow of class rnle and the perpetuity of constitutional authority. Will the silver democrats unite with us? If they will come silver republicans will follow.
Together success is in sight Divided we shall fritter away our votes and make it all the more difficult to rally in the future. Now is the time for union aud victory. Delay is dangerous. Let us work and vote together. AT TOPEKA, AUGUST II.
Place and Time for Holding; the Kansas Republican State onventlon. Topeka, June 26. The republican state central committee last night called tbe convention for the nomination of state officers to meet at Topeka on Tuesday, August 11, and fixed the representation at one delegate for each 200 votes cast for Secretary of State Edwards, or major fraction thereof, and one delegate-at-large from each county. Before adjourning, the committee unanimously signed a request to Maj. McKinley to place Cy Leland upon the executive committee of the republican national committee.
The basis of representation agreed upon gives a convention of 54 delegates, apportioned amon the counties about as follows: Allen, Anderson, 9: Atchison, 11; Barber, Barton, Bourbon, 14; Brown, 14: Butler, 13: Chase, 5: Chautauqua, Cherokee, 1: Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud. 10: Coffey, 10: Comanche. 2: Cowley, 16: Crawford, 17; Decatur, 4: Dickinson. 12; Doniphan, 12; Douglas, 16; Edwards, Elk, 7: Ellis, 3. Ellsworth, 6: Finney, Ford, 4: Franklin, 12.
Geary. Gove, Graham. Grant, 3: Gray, 2: Greeley, 10; Greenwood, Hamilton, Harper, 5: Harvey. 11: Haskell, Hodgman, Jackson, 11: Jefferson, 12; Jewell, 11: Johnson, 11: Kearney, Kingman, Kiowa, Labette, 15: Lane, 2: Leavenworth, 19: Lincoln, Linn, 11; Louan, 3. Lyon, 14: Marion, 11: Marshall, 14: McPherson, 12: Meade, 2 Miami, II; Mitchell, 8: Montgomery, 14; Morris, 8: Morton, Nemaha, 13: Neosho, 11: Ness, 3: Norton, 6: Osage, 14; Osborne, 7: Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, 11: Pratt, Rawlins, 4: Reno, 17: Republic, 11: Rice, Riley, 9.
Rooks, Rush, Russell, Saline, 10; Scott, Sedgwick, Zl: Seward, 2: Shawnee, 36; Sheridan, Sherman. Smith, 8 Stafford, 5: Stanton, Stevens, Sumner, 11; Thomas, 3: Trego, 2: Wabaunsee, 8: Wallace, 2: Washington, 12; Wichita, Wilson, 10; Woodson, Wyandotte. 28. A. B.
CAMPBELL, INSANE. The Once Noted Hansan Sent to an Asylum at Los Angeles, Cal. Topeka, June 25. A telegram from Los Angeles, CoL, says: Gen. A.
B. Campbell, the noted republican orator, formerly of Kansas, has become a raving maniac. He was a lawyer of high standing and strong attainments and a gifted orator. He came to this city from Kansas. Some months ago his wife died.
Her loss entailed great suffering upon him, and his constant brooding over, his condition superinduced brain fever. He was examined before the insanity commissioners yesterday and was committed to the Highlands asylum. RESTITUTION MADE. A. D.
Hubbard Tarns Over All His Property to Bis ISondsmen. Topeka, June 26. A. D. Hubbard has turned over all of his property to his bondsmen to secure them for the shortage in his accounts as receiver of the Snow-Hamilton printing plant.
The property consists of hia home and a lot of fine furniture and books which he bought since becoming receiver. Hubbard says there is more than enough to make the bondsmen good, but as yet the amount of his shortage is not known. ESKRIDGE WILL SUPPORT IT. The Emporia Republican Finally Indorses the Kepnblican National I'latform. Empoeia, June 26.
The Emporia Republican yesterday indorsed the republican national platform, gold basis and all. The editor, C. V. Esk-ridge, was one of the organizers of tha Republican Silver league, and the silver republicans in Kansas have been trying to get him to lead a bolt. Hia declaration for gold leaves the Wichita Eagle as the only republican paper in Kansas not now supporting the money plank of the St.
Louis con vention. yclone at res ton, la. Cbestox, June 26. A cyclone struck this city at 11 o'clock Wednesday night The high school building was damaged to the extent of SL000 and the Methodist church and other buildings suffered. Property loss amounts to about 10,000, and the streets are blocked with debris.
Ko lives were lost so far as known. Waller Now an Kditor. Kansas Citt, June 26. John L. Waller, ex-consul to Madagascar, the man with, many troubles, has accepted a position at the editorial helm of the American Citizen, an Afro-American newspaper published in this city.
BaHiog; Party Drowned. Minneapolis, June 26. At Annandale yesterday, while sailing in a stiff breeze, Miss Anna Putman, Miss Bessie Newhall and John U. Putman, all of Minneapolis, and a young man named Sherman, were drowned. The bodies have not yet been recovered.
All the young people were prominent here. CapW 6 baler Appointed. Topeka, June 26. Gov. Morrill appointed Capt.
Thomas Shuler, of Jewell county, to be member of the board of managers of the soldiers' home at Dodge City, vice J. H. Stewart, populist, term expired. Detroit Plans a Big Celebration. Detroit, June 26.
Detroit will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the evacuation of Detroit by the British July 11 in a manner befitting the historic character of the event The success of the eelebration was assured at a general meeting of all the committees assigned to prepare for the celebration. Gen. R. A. Alger presided.
In the Thirtieth Kansas senatorial district republican convention Royal Matthews was nominated for senator, defeating S. T. Danner, the present incumbent, after 177 ballots had been taken. Blanchard Sailed la Air Before Balloextr Were Made. Eighty-five years ago there died in Paris, Blanchard, the first man to gain celebrity as a balloonist He was born in 1738 and before the balloon was invented he had navitrated the air in ac atmospheric machine of his own invention, which was propelled with oars and which attained a height above 80 feet.
Blancharl made his first ascent in a balloon at Paris, March 2, 1784. On January 7, 17S5, he crossed the English channel in a balloon, accompanied by Dr. Jeffries. Under the circ*mstances it was a feat of great daring. The aeronauts had a fearful experience, and before the trip ended cast away everything but the basket under the balloon, and were about to cut it away when they were carried over the town of Calais and finally dropped in a forest Tha official of Calais gave Blanchard a dinner, presented to him papers of citizenship in a gold box, gave him $1,200 for his balloon and a pension of 5125 yearly.
The king of France also pensioned him. Blanchard boasted that he had risen 13,000 feet higher than any aeronaut of his time. He made 60 ascensions, the last one causing his death. His wife continued tbe business after him and was killed by a fall from a balloon in 1819. Albert of Saxony, a Dominican monk, is credited with haviDg formulated the fiist correct idea of building balloons early in the 14th century, but his ideas never took practical shape.
While the scientists were working on the question in 1783 tbe brothers Mont-golfier, paper makers, near Lyons, made and sent up the first balloon on June 5. This balloon was made of linen, waa 315 feet in circumference and rose 1,600 feet. It was filled with heated air. About three months later Prof. Charles sent up his balloon, called a "Char-liere." It traveled some miles from the starting point and fell in a village.
The peasants regarded it as a living monster, and fell upon it with pitchforks and flails and tore it to pieces, to the loss and disgust of its owner. The first living things to leave the earth in a balloon was a sheep, a hen and a duck. They landed safely and the sheep was found grazing. The first ascent in a hydrogen balloon was made by Prof. Charles in Paris, December 17S3.
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From the reception always accorded Black Rod by the commons, it would appear that he is not a very welcome visitor to the lower chamber. As he walks along the lobby that lies between the chamber of the lords and chamber of tbe commons his approach is heralded by an iron-throated usher shouting: "Black Rod! Way for Black Rod!" But the moment that stentorian cry reaches the ears of the sergeant-at-arms in the house of commons he springs from his chair, close to the main entrance to the chamber, and rushing to the open door behind him, closes it with a most inhospitable bang, right in tbe face of Black Rod, and securely locks and bolts it The sergeant-at-arms then peers out into the lobby through a grated peephole, with a wooded slot, fixed in the stout oak door. Presently three faint knocks are heard at the door. They are administered by Black Rod. The petitionary appeal of this soft humble "rat-a-tat-tat" no one could resist and so, at a nod from the speaker, the doors are flung open by the 9ergeant-at-artns, and in walks the royal messenger.
He is not a very formidable-looking personage. Arrayed in his official attire a black tunic, lavishly slashed with gold embroideries, knee breeches, silk stockings, and silver-buckled shoes he presents indeed, a rather picturesque appearance, and there ia not the slightest suggestion of aggressiveness notwithstanding the 6 word that dangles by his side and the short ebony rod, adorned with a gold knob, which he carries in his right hand, and from which he derives his curious name. Good Words. M. Moissan, the renowned French metallurgist, specially famous for having produced artificial diamonds in the electric furnace, has been appointed by the Paris sor bonne, or university, to represent it at the centennial at Princeton university this summer.
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HEART BUBH.YUCATAN, (DJS Pittston, the Scena of an Awful Mine Disaeter. Underground Workers Imprisoned and All Believed to Be Dead Scrne at the Mine Appalls stalwart Men and Women Overcome Ileard for Allies. Wilkesbaeris, June 29. While 99 miners were at work in the Red Ash vein of the Twin shaft at Pittston about three o'clock yesterday morning, the roof caved in and it is believed all of the men perished. Thirty Poland-ers and Huns were entombed, and it is thought the total number of bodies in the mine will reach 100.
More than two-thirds of the victims were married men. The concussion was so great that it was heard for miles around. The foundations of nearly every building in Pittston were shaken and windows and doors rattled as in a tornado. In the houses nearer to the mine, persons were thrown from their beds. The first thought was that a great earthquake had occurred, and the inhabitants rushed pell-mell from their houses.
The ringing of the fire bells and the shrieking of the big mine whistle told the story. Crowds of people gathered about the mouth of the shaft and numbered thousands by daybreak. Stalwart men stood appalled, and frantic women, who had husbands or sons in the doomed mine, waited in despair. When it was given out that there was little or no hope of rescuing the men alive, women and girls fainted and were borne away. The rescue work was promptly begun, but at two o'clock yesterday afternoon it became necessary to swear in extra policemen to control the crowd around the mouth of the shaft It had increased to fully 7,000.
The latest reports were that the situation at the ill-fated mine was unchanged. The rescuers were hard at work, but making little progress. There is danger thai in hurrying the work other lives may be lost THE TWO-THIRDS RULE. Speculation as to How It Will Work In tha Democratic National Convention. Chicago, June 29.
More than-three generations ago the two-thirds rule was established in a democratic national convention. It has prevailed and been in force ever since. It means that the support of two-thirds of all the delegates is required to nominate candidates for president and vice president As only a majority vote is needed to organize the convention, change the rules, adopt a platform and do everything except nominate the candidates, it is conceded the silver forces can wipe out the two-thirds rule if they act and vote together. On the basis oi 906 delegates, and taking for granted the unit rule will be observed in votes on all questions, the "silverites will have a clear majority of not less than 250. This is on the returns by states and territories, which give 573 silver delegates, against 328 gold or sound money men.
If the additional 24 dele gates from the territories are seated, they can safely be counted with the silver majority, thus increasing it to 274. It is asserted, however, that friends of some of the silver candidates, notably those of Mr. Bland, will unite with the gold men against dropping the rule. Bland's friends argue that he has a strong lead and that the abolition of the two-thirds rule would weaken his chances. SWIFT RETRIBUTION.
A Private at Fort Niobrara Kills a Sergeant and Is Immediately Executed. Valentine, June 29. Saturday, just before guard mount at Fort Niobrara, Private Weaver, of company who was waiting under arms to go on guard, sitting on the company's porch, suddenly drew his rifle, and after taking deliberate aim, shot and instantly killed First Sergt Livingston, of company who was passing along the roadway in front of company's C's quarters. When the sergeant dropped four men ran and picked him up, when Weaver fired four shots at them, forcing them to drop the sergeant and run for shelter. Weaver then fired several more shots, aiming at any one who happened to come within range of the rifle, but without effect First Lieut Clark, Twelfth infantry, who was in company's quarters, ordered Private Strine, company a member of the guard, to shoot Weaver, which he did, the ball striking Weaver's rifle near the butt, shattering ft and afterward entering his body, from which he died within an hour.
GERMANS FAVOR GOLD. The League Sets Forth Its Views In Let ter to Democratic Delegates. New June. 29. Written replies to the officers of the German-American Sound Money league from German editors all over this country show that of the 581 German-American newspapers in this country which discuss politics, 499 are in favor of the present gold standard, 39 are for bimetallism or free silver and 43 are doubtful and that 90 per cent of the German-American voters are in favor of the maintenance of the present gold standard and will support onlythat party which declares unequivocally for that standard and that presidential candidate who will pledge himself to stand bv that declaration.
Slay ask Pettigrew to Resign. Deadwood, S. June 29. It is the opinion of prominent republicans here that at the state convention to be held at Aberdeen July 8 Senator Pettigrew will be asked to resign. Republicans are very bitter over Pettigrew's action at St- Louis.
The Divorce Record ISroken. Log A hsfort, June 29. Mrs. Cad walader Saturday morning brought suit for a divorce from her husband, John Caliwalader. They separated at nine o'clock, the complaint was filed at 9:30, and appearance being waived, the divorce was granted at ten o'clock.
Two Killed by an Explosion. Lyons, June 29. At the home of William Costello, near Charlotte, this county, Lucy Hogan, a servant, aged 17, and Mat Costello, aged 1L went up stairs, carrying a lamp. In some manner a quantity of blasting powder ignited, and the explosion following killed both. Madge York's Slayer Convicted.
Philadelphia, June 29. The jury in the case of James B. Gentry, the actor, who on February 27, 1895, murdered Actress Madge York, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Sunday Sc Stool Jubilee. St.
Locus, June 29. Nearly every Protestant Sunday school in St Louis was represented Saturday in the great Sunday school jubilee Fully 23.000 children were in the Auditorium and their childish voices made sweet music. Gov. Stone and Mayor Walbridge were among the speakers. Press Seats at Chicago.
Chicago, Jane 29. The assignment of seats on the press platform at the democratic national convention will be made on Tuesday, June 30, and immediately thereafter the newspaper will be notifiedf tbjjiraignmeotA. Col. E. C.
Gifford, postmaster at Clay Center, died recently. Bertha Lane, 17 years old, recently committed suicide at Neodesha by tak-ingr rat poison. The republican state central committee has fixed upon August 11 and Topeka as the place for holding the state convention for the nomination of state officers. The regents of the state university have elected S. J.
Hunter, a graduate of 1893, as assistant in entomology in place of W. A. Snow, recently called to the university of Illinois. A recent Los Angeles (CaL) dispatch stated that Gen. A.
B. Campbell, who figured very conspicuously in Kansas a few years ago, had been declared insane and sent to an asylum. Gov. Morrill has appointed Capt Thomas Shuler, of Jewell county, to be a member of the board of managers for the soldiers' home at Dodge City, vice J. H.
Stewart, term expired. In the district court at Wichita, Mrs. Irene Leonard, who was convicted of killing her husband to secure his lie insurance, was sentenced by Judge Dale to 30 years in the penitentiary. Lum Hayes, who had been convicted of the murder of his brother-in-law in Buchanan county and escaped from jail, pending an appeal to the supreme court, was recently arrested at Scammon, in this state. Miss Daisy Barbee, of Atchison, was the only woman graduate from the law department of Washington university at St Louis at the recent commencement She captured the thesis prize over 38 competitors.
The republican convention at Newton to nominate an appellate court judge for the Second district of the southern division nominated J. Pollock, of Cowley county, on the 134th ballot There were seven candidates in the field. It is stated that the leading gold standard democrats of Kansas will attend the Chicago convention and use their influence against the adoption of a free coinage plank, notwithstanding the Kansas delegates are instructed for the white metal. The committee of fifteen, at Topeka, is preparing to entertain 1,000 volunteer firemen next fall. The second day of the reunion and festival week has been set aside for their use, and prizes aggregating $500 have been offered for the various tests of skill and speed.
Dr. G. Graham was convicted at Pittsburg the other night of brutal assault on Lizzie Shaughnessy. During the trial the girl's father stole behind the prisoner and made a lunge at him with a long-bladed knife, but the sheriff caught his arm and led him from the court room. The Topeka Democratic Flambeau club, 100 strong, will attend the national convention at Chicago, accompanied by a band.
The club has accepted invitations to join the clubs of Springfield and Kansas City, Denpr, Helena, Mont, and Ottumwa, in a grand parade in Chicago on the night of July 6. O. E. Hart, a farmer of Sedgwick county, shot and killed his wife, Ida Hart, at a boarding house, in Wichita the other day, where he had followed her from their home in Sunnydale, finding her in company with a man named Link Pitts. After killing his wife, Hart blew out his own brains with a revolver.
The board ol directors of the penitentiary decided to reject the bids submitted at the recent letting for the coal output and will readvertise. This action was said to have been taken because it was apparent that there was collusion between he two coal minirg companies at Leavenworth and at lest one of the bidders. Clyde Thdmpson and three other boys, of Chetopa, recently boarded a freight train on the K. Y. railway to go to the Indian territory to work in a hay field.
As they were "bumming" their way they got into trouble with the brakeman and Thompson fell from the train and was frightfully mangled. He died soon after. A. D. Hubbard, receiver of the Snow-Hamilton Printing at Topeka, is reported to be short in his accounts from $2,000 to $3,000.
A referee has been appointed to determine the exact amount. Hubbard was appointed receiver by the district court in 1895, when the stockholders got into a squabble with Snow about state printing contracts. Sam Houston, secretary of the Second Kansas Cavalry association, has issued a call for a reunion of that association to be held at Forest park in Ottawa, September 10, 17 and 18 next There are about 350 survivors of this regiment, and they have been' holding an annual reunion for several years. CoL W. F.
Cloud, of Kansas City, is president of the association. The attorney-general of Missouri has commenced suit in the federal court at Topeka in the name of Missouri for an injunction against the Leavenworth Coal of Leavenworth. It is claimed that the coal company has been mining coal east of the middle of the Missouri river in territory belonging to the state of Missouri. The value of the product is placed at $50,000. It is claimed that the coal company secretly began encroachment on Missouri territory as early as 1870.
Twenty miles west of Chanute a few-days ago T. J. Newman, 71 years of age, shot and fatally wounded his son-in-law, B. F. Worthing.
Family troubles the cause. Mrs. Nora Long, 30 years old, wife of Lloyd Long, a railroad employe, killed herself at Leavenworth the other day by taking poison. Domestic trouble the cause. They had been married one year.
Populists of the middle district of the southern division of the appellate court met in convention at Wichita recently and nomiuated Arthur W. Den-nison, the present incumbent, for judge. Wilber Avery, 15 years old, was recently drowned while bathing in Lake Chanute near Olathe. It is said that the women in Kansas whose mission is to labor for the enfranchisem*nt of their sex hope to induce the next legislature to resubmit the equal suffrage question to a vote of the people. The state board of railroad commissioners have so far heeded the protests of the various railroads doing business in Kansas as to postpone until 1897 the requirement of reports showing- in detail the business of all lines within the date.
The fine courthouse at Hoxie was recently burned by incendiaries. Many valuable papers were destroyed. Loss, $30,000. Gns Gash, a 16-year-old colored boy, was recently shot and mortally wounded by officers at Fort Scott while resisting arrest Minnie Sullivan, a girl only 14 years of age, was recently arrested at Kansas City, upon the charge of robbing private residences. The republican state central committee has joined in a request that Cyrus Lei and be appointed on the national executive copimittee, The Committee Id form 3 Him of Hifl Nomination for President.
The Nomine Says Protection and Reci procity Most Be Encouraged and Revenue Mast Sleet Expenses Tbe National Platform Approved. Canton, June 3a The members of the committee appointed by the republican national convention to notify McKinley of his nomination for the presidency arrived at the McKinley home yesterday. When. Mr. McKinley appeared on the porch cheep after cheer arose from the crowd.
Senator Thurston then stepped upon the porch and delivered the official notification. Mr. McKinley responded as follows: Senator Thurston and Gentlemen of thi Notification Committee of the Republican National Convention: To bo selected as their presidential candidate by a great party convention, representing so vast a number of tha people of the United States, Is a most distinguished honor, for which I would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust and my inability to bear them without the generous and constant support of my fellow countrymen. Great as is the honor conferred, equally arduous and Important is the duty imposed, and in accepting one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the people to the best Interests of our beloved country and the sustaining care and aid of Him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should the people ratif the choice of your great convention for which you speak, my only aim will be to promote the public good which, in America, Is always the good of the greatest number, the honor of our country and the welfare of the people.
The questions to be settled in the contest this year are as serious and as Important as any of the great governmental problems that have confronted us in the past quarter of a century. They command our sober judgment and a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial to ourselves and befitting the honor and grandeui of the republic. They touch every interest of our common country. Our industrial supremacy, our productive capacity, our business and commercial prosperity, our laboi and its rewards, our national credit and currency, our proud financial honor and our splendid free citizenship the birthright of every American are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately connected with theii proper settlement. Great are the issues involved In the coming election and eager and earnest the people foi their right determination.
Our domestic trade must be won back and and our idle working-men employed in gainful occupations at American wages. Our home market must bt restored to its proud rank of first in the world, and our foreign trade, so perceptibly cut off by adverse national legislation, reopened on fair and equitable terms for our surplus agricultural and manufacturing products. Protection and reciprocity, twin measures of a true American policy, should again command the earnest encouragement of the government at Washington. Public confidence must be resumed and the skill, the energy and tbe capital our country find ample employment at home, sustained, encouraged and defended against the unequal competition and serious disadvantages with which they are now contending. The government of the United States must raise enough money to meet both its current expenses and increasing needs.
Its revenues should be so raised as to protect the material interests of our people with the lightest possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civilization which has distinguished oui country for more than a century of its existence. The income of the government, I repeat, should equal its necessary proper expenditure. A failure to pursue this policy has compelled the government to borrow money in a time oi peace, to sustain Its credit and pay its daily expenses. This policy should be reversed and that, too, as speedily as possible The money of the United States and every kind or form of It, whether of paper, silver oi gold, must be as good as th3 best in the world. It must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial center of the globe.
The sagacious and lar-seeing policy of the great men who founded our government, the teachings and acts oi the wisest financiers at every stage in our history, the steadfast faith and splendid achievements of the great party to which we belong, and the genius and integrity cf our people, have always demanded this, and will ever maintain it. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage earner and the pensioner must continue forever equal in purchasing and debt paying power to the dollar paid to any government creditor. The platform adopted by the republican national convention has received my careful consideration and has my unqualified approval. It is a matter of gratification to me, as I am sure it must be to you, and to republicans everywhere, and to all our people, that tha expressions of its declaration of principles are so direct, clear and emphatic They are too plain and positive to leave any chance for donbt or question as to their purpose and meaning. But you will not expect me to discuss its provisions at length or in any detail at this time.
It will, however, be my duty and pleasure at some future time to make to you and through you to the great party you represent, a more formal acceptance of the nomination tendered me. No one could be more profoundly grateful than I for manifestations of public confidence of which you have so eloquently spoken. It shall be my aim to attest this appreciation by an nnsparing devotion to what I esteem the best interests of the people, and in this work I ask the counsel and support of you, gentl men, and of every other friend of the country The generous expressions with which you, sir, convey the official notice of my nomination, are hignly appreciated, and as fully reciprocated, and I thank you and your associates of the notification committee and the great party and convention at whose Instance you come for the high and exceptional distinction bestowed upon me. Following the formal speeches, H.H. Smith, secretary of the notification committee, presented a gavel made from a log taken from the cabin in which Lincoln lived.
Dashed to Death. Grand Rapids, June 30. Herman Cole, an aeronaut, was killed at North park yesterday afternoon, and a crowd of several thousand witnessed his death. As his balloon ascended the wind dashed it against a building. Cole tried to retain his grasp on the handle bars, but was Cilgain thrown heavily against the building.
He fell 50 feet, landing on his head, and died an hour later. Three Drowned in tbe MiKSoari. Tekamah, Neb. June 30. Miss Jessie Kelso, Miss Sadie Reese and John Samson, part of a picnic party, were drowned in the Missouri here yesterday.
The boat they occupied was swamped. But one member of the party was saved, he clinging to the boat Their bodies were swept away by the strong current Sixteen Prisoners Escape. Oklahoma Citt. June 30. The county jail of Pottawatomie county at Tec*mseh is reported to have been broken yesterday, and it is stated that 16 inmates escaped.
Wanted to Iicave Nothing. Hotter, June 30. Ashford Brothers' store at Homer was entered by burglars early Sunday morning, the safe blown open with giant powder and about $375 stolen. The store was also robbed Saturday morning and 140 and valuable papers taken. Socialists In Convention.
New Yoek, June 30. The first convention of the socialist and trade alliance of the United States and Canada was held to-day in the labor lyceum. Earnest liohren, secretary of the executive board and 63 delegates responded to the call of the rolL Deluded Gold II nnter stranded. Pokt Towxsesd, June 3a The schooner Norma, from Dodiak, arrived last night with 35 stranded miners aboard, who pronounced Cook's inlet mining boom a fizzle. Over 3,500 miners are at the inlet stranded, unable to obtain employment and supplies are going rapidly.
A Libl on Bis Profession. Little Rock, June 3a J. S. Burns, a temperance lecturer and candidate for the legislature in Conway county, was convicted of selling liquor without license and fined '100 and costs. Gleaned By Telegraph and MaiL personal and political.
Senator Peffer's paper, the Topeka Advocate, printed an editorial appealing to all silverite3 to unite with the people's party to save the country from the goldbugs. Another editorial criticised the booming of Senator Teller for the presidency by Mr. Taubeneck as being untimely, as the populists were not ready to make him their presidential candidate. Lyman Trumbull, ex-United States senator, died at Chicago on the 25th after a long illness, aged 83. Ssnator Tillmah, of South Carolina, made a speech at the Cooper union in New York for free silver on the 25th.
It was the first of an organized movement on behalf of the white metal in that city and the hall 4 had a vast audience. At the conclu sion of Tillman's speech free silver resolutions were adopted and William P. St John was delegated to go to the democratic and populist conventions and press them upon the delegates. The North Carolina democratic state convention met at Baleighon the 25th. The platform instructed the delegates to Chicago to advocate and vote as a unit for the restoration of silver and use all their efforts to abrogate the two-thirds rule, if necessary to secure the nomination of a candidate.
The Georgia democrats met in state convention at Macon aud nominated Y. Atkinson for governor. The platform declared for opening the mints for the coinage of silver at sixteen to one, condemned bond issues in time of peace, favored the speedy payment of the public debt and indirectly condemned the A. P. A.
The state silver convention was called to order at Denver, CoL, on the 25th. The platform called for a distinctly American system of finance, unalterably opposed to the single gold standard and for an immediate return to the unrestricted coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. It also indorsed Senator TeUer for president Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, has addressed an open letter on the silver question to William C. Whitney in response to the latter's communication of June 21, saying that, as Mr.
Whitney agreed that silver ought to be remonetized, our government should restore the rights of our people and not wait on other governments to do so. The Chicago Tribune said on the 26th: "A canvass of the delegates of every state and territory on the currency question shows that 578 delegates to the democratic national convention are either by instruction or personal preference for the and unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to one against 338 delegates instructed for or favoring the continuance of the present gold standard." Congeessman Habtman was given an ovation when he arrived at Butte, Mont, from St Louis. The horses were taken from his carriage and a rope attached and enthusiastic silver men pulled the vehicle through the streets. Mr. Hartman addressed an immense audience at night on the bolt at the St Louis convention.
William C. Whitney, in a recent interview at New York, said that if a free coinage candidate was nominated by the democrats at Chicago on a free coinage platform it would disrupt the democratic party, as no power on earth could persuade the New York sound money democrats to accept the free silver idea, and a compromise was impossible. A Washington dispatch stated that the A. P. A.
vote would be cast independently for president, but that the order would devote itself to congress and legislatures. The United States authorities have seized the steamer City of Richmond and taken her to Key West, Fla. Those on board were charged with filibustering and being engaged in a military expedition to Cuba against Spain. The preliminary federal election occurred on the 27th all over Mexico. The electors will meet July 5 and vote for the president and members of con- gress.
There is no doubt of the election of President Diaz. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, the famous temperance lecturer and equal suffrage agitator, was selected as the candidate of the broad gauge prohibitionists at Lafayette, Ind, for attorney-general. Democrats of Tennessee will push Gov.
Bob Taylor for president at Chicago. Written replies to the officers of the German-American Sound Money league at New York from German editors all over this country shw that of the 581 German-American newspapers in this country which discuss politics, 499 are in favor of the present gold standard, 39 are for bimetallism or free silver and 43 are doubtful and that 90 per cent of the German-American voters are in favor of the maintenance of the present gold standard. MISCELLANEOUS. At Pittston, the roof of the Red Ash vein of the Twin shaft gave way and 100 miners were buried alive. The mine was known to be unsafe and the men were sent down to brace it with timbers.
It will be days before the men can be reached and the belief was that all of them were crushed to death. Women and girls fainted at the mouth of the shaft when told that there was no hope for the miners buried. Three young children of Joseph Wise, a Cincinnati butcher, were fatally poisoned by chewing gum. Joseph co*cking, who was awaiting trial for "the murder of his wife and sister-in-law, was taken from the jail at La Plata, by a mob and hanged to a tree. The failures for the week ended June 26 (Dun's report) were 217 in the United States, against 256 last year, and 24 in Canada, against 22 last year.
The steamer Lancaster was burned to the water's edge at Golconda, 111., early the other morning. Mark Hanna's villa at Lakewood, was entered by a burglar at an early hour on the 26lh. The thief secured S300 worth of jewels and 70 in ma-etr. Tee big pottery of Richard O. Rename Son at Philadelphia was destroyed by fire and nearly 100 hands thrown out of work.
At Peters, on the 26th there was a dynamite explosion that cost one man his life and wiil be the death of at least two others. Three or four others were also badly injured. The large mill building in which the men were working was completely demolished. Mrs. Mary Paulson was talking to her child in her home at Sioux City, when a flash of lightning struck her and instantly killed her.
The child and room were hurt William Demund, of Kenosha, was recently tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a pola because it was charged he paid too much attention to another man's wife. Fire started in the millinery store of Annie Denton at Point Pleasant, W. recently, and spread to the Horf opera house and five or six other stores, all of which were totally consumsd. Loss, insurance small. Published Every Thursday.
ca*wkER CITY, KANSAS. CURRENT COMMENT. The women of three states, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, have a vote this year for president. It is said that there is not a day in the year on which there is not an earthquake in some parts of Japan. The Railroad Gazette says that 717 miles 01 new rauroau were omit in the United States during the first half of 1896.
Fbaxce has gone bicycle mad according to the report of Walter T. Griffin, United States commercial agent at Limoges. London's new census shows a population of 4,411,271 for inner London, acd of 1,756.421 for outer London, a total of 6,167,693. A shower of small toads recently fell In Chicago near Jackson park during a storm and for a time the streets looked like an Arkansas swamp. A community in which the working people are vastly in the majority seldom selects a workingman to fill a political position, says the Cincinnati Commercial.
Walter D. Weumas, a bookkeeper in the employ of a firm at San Francisco, has performed the remarkable feat of writing in Ion? hand 7,063 words on an ordinary postal card. A Chicago paper was recently published which weighed over 2i pounds and had 168 pages. Twelve pages were devoted to news, while the remaining 156 contained the delinquent tax list of Cook county. 111.
iliE Massachusetts legislature has appropriated $600,000 for good roads. The farmers of the state have watched the road building operations of the last two or three years and have concluded that there is money in going ahead with the work. Besides McKinley, the republican candidates for president who were nominated on the first ballot were Fremont at Philadelphia in 1856, Lincoln at Baltimore in 1864, Grant at Chicago in 1868 and again at Philadelphia in 1873, and Harrison at Minneapolis in 1893. Scientists say that the banana is a perfect food and will support life for an indefinite time. The people of the United States appear to have found out its merits, an enormous increase being reported in the importations, reaching last year an aggregate of bunches.
A patent has been granted to two Kansas citizens for a device to drench train robbers with scalding water. All the engineer will have to do will be to turn a lever, when jets from the boiler will be projected in all directions while a heretofore invisible shield will rise into place and protect the occupants of the cab from bullets. The wife of P. A. Olcier, of Brandon, left him without apparent cause three years ago, and since that time he has traveled 17,000 miles in search of her, twice making a trip across the ocean.
He finally located her at Grand Forks, N. D. She had been living there under the name of Mrs. Almee Osborn and giving music lessons. A.JIOKQ other social reforms which are being pressed with a good deal of vigor and ability in England just now is the restraint from marriage of those who by reason of disease, especially hereditary, or other mental or physical infirmities, would be likely to propagate and spread their ailments throughout the widening circle of their posterity.
The Brooklyn Eagle says: "A bicycle cavalry is by no means unlikely in the future. In a recent ride from Omaha to Chicago an armed lieutenant, surgeon, sergeant and corporal averaged 86 miles a day. Had they been on horseback they vvould not have covered anything like the amount of ground. Their bicycles were as fresh as ever next morning, too." Eoston has a new fad. It is hardly necessary to state that it is a literary fad.
Some of the leading cultured folks have reached the conclusion that one meal a day is all that cultured men and women should eat. The decision in due to the discovery made by a literary man" that light eating is conducive to the greatest literary effort The first thing to be struck off the daily bill of fare is the breakfast. A heavy stomach, it is asserted, is death to the nimble brain. The progress that has been made in the movement toward the creation of an international court of arbitration for the adjudication of questions in dispute between this country and England will be disclosed in the near future, according to the St James' Gazette of London, by the publication in both countries of the correspondence on the subject Every indication points to the success of this great enterprise, and if it is achieved it may be set down as the crowning triumph of civilization for the century. The republic of Gonst, which is the smallest republic in the world, is situated in the Lower Pyrenees.
It contains a population of about 60 persons, and maintains a standing army of five soldiers, the son-in-law of the president being the commander-in-chief. The republic's independence is recognized by both Spain and France, between which it lies. It elects a president five years and its revenues amount to 85,000. It is claiming outside attention now because of a threatened revolution owing to the publication of a newspaper without the executive sanction. The entire colored population of Atlantic City, N.
J. was recently plunged into the deepest gloora on account of the death of a dog who was accredited with supernatural powers and possessed all the qualities belonging to a successful mascot When the funeral of the animal took place there was hardly a descendant of Ham who did not attend. The body of the dog was placed in a casket, which was borne to the grave in a white hearse, followed by carriages and busses loaded with mourners. Pallbearers walked beside the Uearse and a headstone was erected over the grave. A Chicago doctor has come forward to make known to the world the virtues of the prune as an agency in accomplishing the moral reform of the world.
He was once connected with a reformatory. While engaged in rescuing incorrigible youth from the path of error the discovery was made. His plan was simple. When the youth began to rebel against the rules of the establishment, he prescribed a diet of prunes. One week's treatment, he says, brought them round as peaceable as lambs.
He claims that prunes acts directly on the nervous system, where the evil passions have their seat additional dispatches. A special from Havana to the New York Journal on the 29th stated that the revolutionists had formally notified the people at Havana that plans had been completed to' wipe out the city by means of dynamite this summer, if it be necessary, in order to drive the Spanish troops from Cuba. A quarrel over a live stock deal at San Antonio, between George and Morgan Brown, stock men, and Sam Johnson, a livery stable keeper, resulted in the killing of the Brown brothers by Johnson. Mrs. John McCullough was found brutally murdered near Riverdale, and her husband was arrested for the deed.
Fears were entertained that he might be lynched. Because Miss Mary Kane, at Aurelia, would not accept his attentions James Mahoney shot her three times. It was thought she could not recover. Mahoney was jailed. Two freight trains collided near Birmingham, and a tramp was killed.
Both engines were badly damaged and six cars demolished. The members of the notification committee appointed by the republican national convention went to Canton, on the 29th and formally notified Gov. McKinley of his nomination for the presidency. Senator Thurston making the speech. Gov.
McKinley responded by saying he unqualifiedly approved the national platform, that protection and reciprocity must be encouraged and sufficient revenue must be raised to meet the expenses of the government, and that the money of the United States, of whatever kind, must be as good as the best in the world. Four choir boys and the choirmaster of St John's Episcopal church of Charlestown, were drowned in Lake Matappan by their boat capsizing on the 29th. Sixteen prisoners broke out of jail at Tec*mseh, and escaped on the 29th. Three fleeing whisky peddlers captured a locomotive at Mikesukey, T-, and forced "a watchman to run them westward into Oklahoma. They then knocked the watchman on.
the head and turned the engine loose and after a mad run of 60 miles it stopped near Oklahoma City, Ok. The boiler in the office of the Evening age at Houston, exploded on the 29 th, killing three persons and badly injuring another. The explosion was caused by letting cold water into the empty boiler..
