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BREAD CAST ON THE WATERS,
Returning After Many Days-Grateful
kansans Send of their Abundance to Their
Flood-Impoverished Bre,heren of the
Ohio Valiey-The Grasshopper Train.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 20.
A freight train consisting of thirty-one
cars, heavily laden with corn, the gener-
Gus donation of Sedgewick County, Kas.,
to the Ohio flood sufferers, reached st.
Louis over the Chicago & Alton Line this
afternoon, and will remain at Clark ave-
nue. ard Eighteenth street until morning.
In the way of contribution this is the
most novel thing seen in this country,
and its progress from Wichita, Kas, has
been marked by demonstrations all along
the route, at Lawrence, kas there being
5000 people out to see it pass through,
while at Mexico, Mo-, it was hon
ored with u torchlight reception. Each
car has an immense canvas cartoon on
each side, painted in colorS, representing
grasShopperS in all sizes and manners
of performances, the most attractive
being pair of hoppers astride a
huge ear OF corn on wagon driving four
of the insects, while in front is sign
board with the inscription, ''To the Ohio
Valley" 1t all illustrative of the grati-
tude felt by that section of Kansas for the
generosity shown by the people now suf-
fering from the floods, when Kansas
was prostrated by the grasshopper
scourge in 1874. This plan of recip-
rocating the kindness took form March
|, and by the 18th the entire train
had been loaded; but contributions
were so numerous that the surplus
was sold for $500, and an imperative stop
put to any further donations, as they
could not be handled The train
has been given free transportation over
the Santa Fe, Chicago & Alton and Ohio
& Mississippi Roads, and it is expected
will reach Cincinnati Saturday night and
be delivered to the Board OF Trade on
Monday. 1t is thought the sale of the
corn will realize about $4,000. Those
who are attending the train are Mayor
Grffenstein, of Wichita; W. S. White,
Beacon; Major w. T. levitt, represent
ing the farmers; Prof Norvall, decorator
of the A., I. & S. f.; T. j. Shelton,
Wichita Times
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CONDENSED TELEaRAMS.

The Senate was not in session on the
22d..-.In the House several bills were re.
ported and resolution of inquiry as to ac-
tion in relation to the Venezuela claims
was adopted. The House then went
into committee on the bonded extern
sion bill and a score of speeches were
made considering the subject from
business, moral, constitutional, economic,
temperance and other stand-points. The
committee then rose and the pension ap.
preparation bill was reported and referred
to the committee of the whole. A resolu-
tion was adopted calling for information
whether or not the provisions of Yellow
stone Park leases to prevent wanton de-
struction of game and fish were being com.
piled with. Mr.. Dockery presented the re-
port of the committee on accounts on the
removal of employees of the House by
Speaker Keifer. The report recommends
an extra months pay to present employees.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE has lost
his voice.
AN outbreak of the Navajo Indians is
threatened
PHILADELPHIA will send a cricket
team to England this season.
A THROUGH train for Chicago left the
City of Mexico on the 22d.
THE Carpenter murder trial at Peters
burg, Ill.,, resulted in an acquittal.
SALVATION army parades have been
prohibited at Kingston, Canada.
A MESSENGER was robbed of S2,700
in a bank at Augusta, Ca, on the I'D.
The Kansas corn train for relief of
the flood sufferers reached Cincinnati on
the 22i.
THE Swiss Federal Council has voted
10 expel four Anarchists from the country
THE Kansas cattle disease is now said
to be simply poisoning by ergot in the hay.
Two men were killed by an explosion
in the Carson Colliery near Shamokin, Pa,
on the 22d.
EMPEROR WnLIAM's birthday was
celebrated with great festivities at Berlin
ON the 22d.
A STOCK of fireworks blew up in Gin
cinnati, on the 22d, fatally injuring several
men.
Iris proposed to flood the burning
mine at Pocahontas, Va, in order to put
out the fire.
FRENCH merchants protest against
continuance of the present state of affairs
in Madagascar.
FOREIGN ambassadors at Constanti-
nople have entered protests against the
system of police visitations to houses of
foreigners.
The Republican National Committee
has decided to hold the convention in the
auditorium to be constructed for the musi.
cal festival in the Exposition building,
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Mr.. George Venable, of Lexington,
exhibits valuable relic of olden times. 1t
is n powder-horn which was owned by
VIM. Anderson, Sr., and was used b. him
in the war with Great Britain, in General
Washington's Army in Virginia, from 1873
to lI7S. 1t was given to his son, Wm. An
derson, Jr., by him brought to La Fa-
yette County in 1886. 1t is now the prop
erty of Mr.. Venable, he having received it
from his grandfather, Mr.. VIM. Anderson,
Jr. 1t is long gourd, with wooden stop
per, and holds about half a gallon. Mr..
Anderson, Jr. was about eighty years old
when he died. He, with William Spratt,
James Aull, George Houx and j. H. Gra-
ham, were the Commissioners who laid
out Lexington, what is now known as "Old
Town" General Graham is the only one
of those Commissioners alive to-day, and it
is fifty-eight years since he took up his
residence here. in a few days the Old
Mems Club, to which he belongs, will cele-
brate his eighty-sixth birthday.
THE Centenary NJ. f. Church at St
Louis enjoyed an exciting time a rew nj, hts
ago, bling the jubilee celebration over the
son revival commenced. The big organ
pealed out with all its power and the con-
gregation of fully two thousand people
joined with the greatest fervor in singing
the Doxology ten times repeated, fairly
shaking the immense building.
Robert PAYNE WAS acquitted of the
murder OF Dau Dillon at st. Joseph.
Kansas City is worked up over elect
ing Mayor, and the papers are taking
about "conspiracies."
Mrs. Christian Mahn, one of the old
est res. dents OF L-xing -on, died few days
lgo.
Lexington will have canning works.
Governor Crittenden has granted
pardon to George N. Bowen, who was con-
yicted of forgery at the November term,
1880, of the Jackson County Circuit Court
and sentenced TO the Penitentiary fo, five
years. His pardon was recommended by
the Warden and Judge j. z. White, of
Kansas City. He had been acting as book.
keeper, under the supervision OF K. d.
Willis, for several years, and is known to
almost every person in Jefferson City.
The remains of Matt Lewis. the r..
Gently executed murderer, We're taken to
Jefferson City and quietly interrei.
The st. Louis Pedag ogical Society IA
vors compulsory edurauon.
A few days ago Constable Deyors OF
st. Joseph arrested two men--Franll how
ard and Thomas Barlow-charged with
stealing horses. They came from Sever
ance, kas., and sold the animals to Mead.
ows & Elleringer, st. Joseph.
Mr.. Amos Bargdol has the Oldest
heating stove in Livingstone County, and
probably the first one ever used in Chilli
cothe. 1t was taken there in 1912 by Mr..
James Darlington. 1t is an old-fashioned
box stove of enormous size and would heat
up the present City Hall. Mr.. Bargdoll
traded fine gun of his own making for it
nearly forty years ago.
The frost has all disappeared.
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TIE MT. PULASKI TRAGEDY.


ooTy EviuehCo VI tHS AFIPfc shbSiore CDH~
cealed for Two Years, Brought to Light to
Aid In Unrsveiing the Mystery-The Arti.
eIes Identified ms Having belonged to Ono
of the Parties Now In Custody.
BLooMsGrOS. ILL.,, March q.
Detective Press Butler, of Bloom
ington, divulged TO your correspondent
most important clew to the perpetrator
OF the horrible murder OF Mcmahon,
Matheny and CaAlock at Mt. Pulaski in
August, 1889. Soon after the triple
tragedy, farmer, living not far from the
scene, discovered in the hedge upon his
farm shirt and Overalls of peculiar
checked pattern, which were mass OF
gore. The pants were thoroughly sat
uratcd with blood from the krees down,
and splashed with stains in other parts,
as we'll also as the shirt. The farmer,
whose name for prudential reasons the
detective will not divulgc, had
his attention directed TO the
bloody garment by his dog, which
scented the gore and nosed out the spot.
The farmer took the clothing home and
laid it away, and has said nothing aboH
the matter, fearing to become suspected
by dangerous and murdcrous men. Butler,
1t was, who caused the arrest of WIN.
Hoagin, now in the Lincoln jail, and who
accuses that man and his brother Eugene,
still uncaptured, of the Mt. Pulaski mur-
ders At the time OF the murder, VIM
HoagliI worked for neighbOr of the
man who found the bloody garments, and
TO 90 home from the scene of the murder
must have passed the hedge. He has
ci, trprl-aI for tho ttb rr11In fItis,
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OsCULATIyG TON.
Governor Critfenden Of Missouri ExpIsinsr
the True Inwardness Of That "Patti Kiss''
-"Better Than Home. sweet Home.'"-

Governor Crftfenden of Missouri Explains
the True eInwardnesso of That "Patti Kiss''
-"Better Than Home. Sweet Homer
JEFFERSON CfTY. Mo-. March q.
The st. Louis Post -Dispatch will
this afternoon publish the closing par
agraph to an article explaining Governor
Crittenden's Pattiklss: "Come, Gov
ernor, tell the truth; how did it all hap
pen?' 81 will tell you," he replied, after
a look Of hesitation aud a visible little in
ward struggle, "but you must not let il
30 further until am out OF the way. /
had heard Patti sing Home, Sweet
Home;' was in st. Louis, and
in common with almost the entire
audience was much affected by the
Incompatible pathos Of her rendition of
that pathetic song. / called next day in
company with some friends, and as ap-
preached PATHS room met, in the cor
ridor of the hotel, party of young girls
who said TO me that they had Just been
given that which should never haye-a
kiss from Patti. After the Introduction
to the lady repeated what those happy
Young creatures bad said, to which she
laughingly replied that she did not see
why that should never be. No sooner
was this said than had my kiss. / then
remarked that this was better than even
Home, Sweet Home The joke OF IL all
is that in telling on me afterwards the
friends with whom / had gone in declared
that had said the kiss was better than
anything at hOme.'"
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Baek at His Old Trade.

COLUMBUS, u. March II.
Colonel j. ID. Watson on Thurs
day completed his term in the
Penitentiary for offering bribes to-
members of the Legislature two years
the passage of his old bill, known as the
union scheme for the Belt Railroad on the
canal at Cincinnati. He finds the same
opponents lobbying for other bills to ap-
propriate the same property. He blames
them for sending him up, ard threatens
to disclose startling things If they back
cap him.
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Over a Game of mDrnx.n

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Marth 10.
Dispatches report the occurrence of d
fearful tragedy at Big Bottom, near Hats
burg, Tenn, last night, the most bloody
that has startled this community since the
war. j. E. Gossett, w. G. Crockett, and
man who called himself s'Hammer.
head" were playing draw poker. The
stakes were very heavy and all the men
were slightly intoxicated. Hammer
head" was raising his opponents out Of
the game, and when accused of cheating
he drew revolver and shot Gossett and
Crockett dead. He was arrested by
Captain Curemach and is now in jail.
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A REGULATING PARSOy.
A Rev rend Drug Dispenser Endeavors to
Increase his woiIily Wealth by Robbing
Coniiding Friends-Bis Penchant :or 0ui-
nine Leads to His Detection.

Coniidint Friends-His Penchant sor Oui-
nine Leads to His Detection.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March21.
4 sensation was created here yesterday
by the arrest of j. Il. Johnson at the in
stance of Sam J. Smith 6 Co., wholesale
druggists. johnson was for four years
connected with the house as salesman
and year or two ago went to ColcSado
and opened drug store Of his own. He
has two drug stores in that State. He
spends his summers in Colorado and his
winters at his home in this city. He
makes the hoNse of Smith & Co. his head
quarters and sells to country merchants
when they come to town. He is q
Christian preacher, young, very devou5
and apparently as spoticss as 4 babe.
Owing to his good name, he was given
the privilege of the store. 4 few days
ago they began to think that certain ar
ticles of drugs, such as quinine, NOR
phinc, and other valuable goods, were
disappearing too fast. One clerk sus-
pected Johnson. A detective was put or
his track, and Wednesday, this detective
declares, he saw him put some quinine In
his pocket and leave the store. He was
followed, and went to secluded room,
where he remained d short time, after
which he emerged and went to his home.
In the morning his private room was WIS.,
tied, and over 800 worth of the firms
quinine found concealed. A memoran-
dun showed that he had shipped over
$4,000 worth of goods from that room
to his Colorado stores. He was arrested
and offered to give the firm $4,000 to
hush the matter up. He is at liberty
and the firm is considering what to do.
He acknowledges $4,000. and they fear
this Is not the half. He has young
family, living in the eastern part of the
city in style, and the family moves in the
best circles. He is superintendent of the
Christian Sunday School, and no man in
the city stood higher or was more
trusted. He is pretty well-to-do. The
robbery has been kept as quiet as posi-.
BILE, but it has leaked out.
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Cattle Disease.

WAsHISGToS, ID. C.. March -,
Adelegation of Chicago cattle men arrived
here yesterday, and are actively at work
in opposition to the House Cattle bill
now pending in the Senate. They claim
that if passed it would seriously iniure
the cattle trade. They insist that the
alarm over pleuro-pneumonia is greatly
exaggerated. They recommend that the
Government should confine its work to
prohibiting the importation of diseased
cattle, and assert that with such prohibi-
tion the stock owners of the United
States would have very little trouble in
extirpatinS disease among American
cattle
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MiSSEAPoLIS, MINI. March 20.
A meeting of the prominent business
men of Brainerd was held last night to
project railroad from Brainerd to Mile
Lacs Lake. The plan is to cooperate
with the enterprise of the State road
from Leech Lake to Mile Laos via
Brainerd, now building, using the sam.
right of way from here to the Lake, and
if possible, joining with the st. Paul,
Brainerd & Grand Forks system. The
movement is hastened by the discovery
that st. Louis syndicate, under the
management of B. Gratz Brown, has
secured right of way for the same pur-
pose.
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THE TALE OF SEVEN CITIES.
Relating to Their ManpuIation of "The
American Hog " During the Packing Sea
son just CIosei-A Somewhat Diminished
Total in the Entire Tale.
CiNCfNNATT, o., March q.

CfSCGNSArI, o., March 81.
In its issue OF the goth The CiaciaRati
Price Current published q full statement OF
hog g-packing operations at leading cities,
for the winter, ending March /, preliminary
to full report for the entire West, etc,
which will appear next week. 1t
says that the total packing at the seven
lsrgc cities, which represent about
20 per cent. of the entire Western pack
ing, aggregates 3,S6S,485 hogs the past
winter, compared with (, $50, $40 last year,
Il decrease of $50, ,455. OF this falling of,
Chicago represents 54G, ,i39 hogs. st.
Louis shows an increase of 55,2l5 hogs,
Louisville 1882, aud indianapolis ,022;
Cincinnati decrease of 59,9i9, Milwau-
kee 5,0t3, Kansas City 1922.
The decrease in number of hogs packed
ut these seven cities is IL per cent. The
aggregate Of the six cities exclusive of
Chicago falls below last year 31,0lG hogs,
or less than per cent.
In the average gross weight of hogs
there was an increase of one pound at
Kansas City, and decrease at the other
points of l0ll at st. Louis, 1853 at Gin
cinnati, 1890 at Chicago, 27.2 at Indiana
wa,ikee, the general average being 250.G3
pounds, compared with 29G.05 last year,
or a decrease of 1897 pounds, or G.3 per
cent The variation at the different cities
seem to reflect pretty closely the relative
quality of the corn crop in the different
localities; in Kansas City, where hogs
were drawn from sections having good
corn, the weight was maintained, not
withstanding the drawback of the Sc
we're winter. At st. Louis the reduction
is less marked than further east. The
large falling-off in average weight of
hogs has been due to the inferior quality
of the corn crop in most sections of the
West, and the prevalence of cold weather
decidedly adverse to fattening tendencies
of stock.
The variation in production of lard
has followed closely that of the average
weight. The general average yield is
1881 pounds per hog, compared with
35.T last year. 4 decrease of 2.40 pounds,
or 67 per cent. The average percentage
yield of lard this season at these points
is 1881 per cent. of the average gross
weight of hogs, compared with 3.29 per
cent. last year. Chicago, st. Louis, In
danapolis and Kansas City show IN in
crease.
The aggregate production of lard at
the seven cities is 129,072,245 pounds,
or 39l ,l25 tierces, compared with 159,-
229, ,551 pounds, or 4S2, ,5l4 tierccs, last
year.
The production of barreled pork has
shown considerable falling off at these
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A For.gone Conclusion.

CHICAGO, ILL, Ma 'ch 10.
A special from Salt Lake City says: An
drew Petersons, a Mormon cX-Congress.
man indicted in 1882 under the Edmunds
law for voting, is on trial to-day. Seven
polysamist Mormons are on the jury with
consent of Chief Justice Hunter. One
has three wives. All seven swore they
believed the divine law superior to the
laws OF Congress, and believed polygaG;
right and revealed from Heaven. Defend
ant admits his marriage, according to
Mormon law, but says it was proxy for
eternity and rot for time.
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CHAs. LANGHEDIER, who became fa-
mous through Dickens reference TO him in
his american Notes." died on the 10Th in
'she Penitentiary at Philadelphia, and was
buried in the potter's field, his relatives re-
fnsing 10 receive him. He was seventy-six
years old, of which thirty-two had been
spent In the Fenitentiary.
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"Never, Since the Days of BoIinsbroke."

The Daily Ners, discussing the
probable dissolution of Parliament
and urging the Liberals to be
ready to take action at a moments
notice, says: "Never since the
days OF Bolingbroke has England seen a
great party so unscrupulous and unpa-
trlotic as the opposition, which take every
advantage of the difficulties of the Gov.
ernment and allies itself with any cause
or party which promises to embarrass the
Cabinet. Sir Stafford Northcote is not
the originator of these tactics. but he
Winks Ut them.''
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SPRiNGFIELD. ILL, March 20
A dispatch was received yesterday from
Che Chief Veterinarian of the Agricultural
Department at Washington, as follows:
KINsLEY, KAs., March 10, 1854.
To DIR. JOIN II. RAUCH, Secretary Hi
hois State Board of Hcalth-Foot and
mouth disease at NeoSho Falls not
spreading: no contagious disease among
cattle in counties further west
ID. Z. SALMON.
This is the first authoritative intima-
ton that true foot and mouth disease ex-
lists anywhere in this country west of
Maine, where it was introduced direct
from England. There is certainly none
in Illinois, and in the hope that DR..
Salmon's dispatch may have been injudi-
ciously worded, Governor Hamilton has
caused the following categorical ques-
tions to be telcgraphed him: "Have you
found veritable foot and mouth disease
anywhere? II so, to what extent: In
what localitieS?''
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A CALL was issued in Chicago on the
18th for National Convention of Anti
Monopolists, TO be held there May II, to
nominate Presidential ticket. The quota
of representation is to be four dele
gates and four alternates from each
Congressional District, four from each Ter
ritory, and four from the District of Co
lumhia
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E}4.lgl

The average annual production of bar
relied pork at these places for ten years
has been $50, 900 barrels-last year being
the largest during this period, and lSSO-Sl
the smallest previous to this year, 81 ,G35
barrels.
The meat product of packing at these
cities was 552, 100000 pounds the past
season, of which 3,4sO,0oO pounds was
put into barrels, leaving 4S9, 100000
pounds of other meats. Last year the
meat product was 6S2, 800, 900 pounds, of
which TO-, ,4G2, 900 pounds was barreled,
leaving 575, 900 pounds of other
meats.
The average cost of hogs packed at the
seven cities was S5.22 per 100 pounds
gross, compared with S6.39 last year-a
reduction OF Sl.l7, or 1873 per cent. The
aggregate cost was $50, ,5l9, ,03l, compared
with SIC, ,GO3, l26 last year.
Stocks of provisions reported held at
the seven cities on March /, compare for
three wears as follows:
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A sHIr-LoAD of refugees, bound from
Cuba to Maine, has been intercepted by Il
revenue cutter on account of representa-
lions by the Spanish authorities that the
escaping persons, mostly women and chill
dren, are bandits.
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BISHOP II. II. KAvANAUGH, of An
chorage, KY, died on the 10Th at Columbus,
Miss. He was eighty-three years of age.
had been a clergyman for over sixty years,
and was one of the oldest Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
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THE further advance of the British
into the Soudan is imminent. General
Graham is in favor of continuing the cam
paign. He thinks the rebellion not yet
crushed. The situation of General Gordon
is considered critical.
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THE bill passed by the New York
Legislature giving the Mayor of New York
City the power TO make appointments with
out the approval of the Council has been
signed by Governor Cleveland.
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MERCEDES, the celebrated Holstein
cow, having the best milk and butter record
in the world, died with her calf on the 18th
in the neighborhood of Iowa City, la. The
pair were valued at $4,000.
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LIEUTENANT COLONEL GODFREY
wErTzEL, United States sngincer corps, is
dead.
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4 Summary Of Important Events.

MINISTER LOWELL presided on the
18th at the unvciling OF statue in London.
Eng.
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THE bill making it mandatory upon
cities having 10000 population and upward
to adopt civil service rules passed the New
York Assembly on the 18th.
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THE Pittsburgh Pa) Chamber of
Commerce asks Congress to 90 slow in the
matter of altering the patent laws.
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EXPERTS declare that the cattle dis
ease near WapeIlo, Ia, is foot rot, and not
foot and mouth disease.