Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-07
an-slaughtor by the grand jury at Mays
vile. They are held in $4,000 bail each.

packing mouse, IN E9SG AtcnISOn, WAb eJruCk
by lightning and destroyed. The loss is
estimated at $4,000 partially insured. 1t
as unoccupied.
Joseph Baker, the cook who has been miss
ing from William DIVERS restaurant on
State street, Chicago, since the murder Of
his employer, was arrested yesterday in
Michigan City, Ind, and confessed to kill
ing Dryer.
John Osborne, nOn-UniOn tanner, was
assaulted by strikers while being escorted
home by the police. A riot ensued, in which
several policemen were wounded with
stones and boy shot ard seriously
wounded.
The Baptists of Boston sent Rev. Or. Gal
usba Anderson to Chicago to ask aid for
missionary work in the Congo state Of South
Africa. where $150,000 has been spent at
seven stations.
Carl Galloup, tho son of az Baptist clergy
man at Ithaca, New York, went to sleep in
the carriage in the barn, and in attempting
to climb out during the night met with soma
accident, and strangled to death.
In the Dakota democratic convention, H.
NJ. Day was nominated delegate to congress.
A resolution favoring the admission of Da-
kota as a whole was voted down and one
favoring the division on the seventh stan
dard parallel adopted
The trouble with Secretary Manning is
undoubtedly blood poisoning from sewer
gas. Plumbers at work III his private Office
in the treasury department, found four
inch pipe, without any cap, leading directly
in from the sewer.
The firm of G. W. Ludlow & Co., whole
sale manufacturers of shoes, corner of Mich
igan avenue and Randolph streets, Chicago,
was burned out. Loss $60,000; insurance
$4,000. The building was only slightly in
jured.
Sixty delegates from New York to the gen
eral assembly of Knights of Labor at Rich
mond, including one colored man, were un-
able to secure accommodations together at
a hotel, whereupon they all engaged board
in colored families.
The Hon. Fred 7. Dubois, who was re-
moved from the marshaship of Idaho, by
President Cleveland at the instance of the
MormOns, has been nominated for congress
by he republicans of Idaho. his election
will be bitter pill to the Mormons.
A disastrous fire in the business portion
Of Council Grove, under stiff breeze spread
to other buildings and several blocks were
destroyed before any telling resistance could
be made on the flames. Late in the even
ing the fire was gotten under control. The
loss is roughly estimated at $15OOOO.
DIR. Buttermore, of Fayette county, Penn
sylvania, the representative convicted OF
an attempt 10 defraud the state of 800
for a bogus hospital at Connellsville, was
sentenced to pay a fine of $0C0 aIIf costs Of
prosecution, and be imprisoned in the coun-
ty jail for sixty days.
There are 365, 1888 names on the pension
rolls. including $50 survivors of the war of
1912. The amount of money disbursed
during the past year was 1858, 797, 83l. There
are nine Thousand soldiers in the poor
houses throughout the country, IL per cent.
of whom are pensioners.
A dispatch from Akron, Ohio, says that
pleuro pneumonia has been discovered on
farm in Norton township, Summit county.
Thirteen cattle have already died. The
disease is believed to have been imported
from Iowa. Precautions have been taken to
prevent its spread.
An analysis of the water left in their coils
shows that the three prisoners who were
taken suddenly sick in the Columbus, O.,
prison, were poisoned. One of them, John
Francis, is still very sick. The others were
not badly affected. All are important wit
nesses in the pending investigation of the
abuses at the prison.
The boiler of the engine attached TO the
Baltimore and Ohio train, burst about a mile
outside of Baltimore, Md. The engine was
completely wrecked and the baggage and
smoking cars telescoped. Fireman Charles
Lizer was scelded fatally and Engineer
jeremiah Morningstar was badly injured,
w. T. Owens, president and manager of
the Granger Business association, at Rose
burg, Oregon, committed suicide by blow
ing out his brains. He had been specializing
in wheat and WOOL and became involved,
and his creditors attached his property.
Owens was a prominent democratic politi-
clan, and stood we'll socially and in business
circles.
A man by the name of Connolly, mem-
Der of the firm of Connolly & Co., con-
tractors on the Rock Island, near Topeka
became violently insane on the work and
endeavored to kill several of his men with
out the slightest provocation, and 1t was
found necessary to bind him, he was taken
before Judge Harvey of Topeka, and pro
nounced insane.
The largest pension ever paid in the
United States was paid at the United States
pension Office, in Louisville, KY, by Pension
Agent Buell. to Marcus d. Richardson, an
aged soldier living at Milton, Ky. The cause
for granting the pension IS total blindness.
brought on by an injury to the eyes received
in the war in 1863. The pension dated back
to that year and amounted to 81, 6CO.
James Lamb and Albert y Dell were con-
victed at Fort Smith. Ark, of numbering
Edward Pollard in the Chickasaw nation.
The murder occurred in December last, but
the body was not found until about two
months later. The murdered man was
farmer and the murderers were boarding
with him, and killed him that one of them
might marry his widow
News has been received from Belle Isle,
n F., indicating that large ocean steam
ship has probably been wrecked or has had
her decks swept in s. very heavy gale of
wind. Much wreckage has washed ashore
in the straits. A number of dead cattle
have also been thrown up by the sea, but
nothing has yet bsen found by which to dis
cover the identity of the wrecked vessel
Mr.. Pierre Loriilard, the owner of the
finest stud farm in America, and probably
in the world, has concluded to sell out. he
stud is composed of eighty our stations and
brood mares, among them the famous stall
lions are Iriquois and Mortimer. Some par
ticular friends of Mr.. Lorillard claim that
the reason of his abandonment of the turf