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The Yacht Race.

NEW YORK, Sept 1S-The yacht race
for the citizens cup In which the MayhoW.
er, Puritan and Galatea are entered Is the
event of the daV. There are four prizes,
one each for schOoners, for sloops and cut
ters of seventy-one feet and over; for
sloOps and cutters over fifty-ive feet and
under seventy-One feet; and for sloops and
schooners under ffty-hve feet. The rSce
will be sailed under the rules of the New
York yacht club. The course 10 tFIangu-
lar about forty five miles long. The fol-
lowing is 6 list OF competitors: Sch0on-
ers-GilAnAx, MOntauk, Sachem, Miranda ;
First clase sloops-Msyhower, GalAtea
and Puritan; second class sioOps-Bedou-
In, Stranger. Thetes; third class sloops-
Cinderella, Clara and Berthe.
The yachts crossed the line in the follow
ing order Clara, MIFAnds. Galstes, Theiis
and 6achem, 10:45. The MaVfloWer
crossed at 10 AZ; Galates, 10:82.10; Puri-
tan. 10 1919 The MAyf1ower was . half.
mile behind at the start.
4:30 p. m.-The yachts are now about
five miles from the light-ship. and COM
ing before the " ind. The MsyhoWer In
In the lead and to WindwaTd.
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a GRKAT WE IMPENDENG.

q
All thu Eows from abroad indicates the
near approach Of the greatest international
conflict known 70 history. The burning
eastern question is about 10 be Eecpened,
and Russia will again endeaVor 20 drive
the Turkish sublime poEts out Of Europe
and capture Conetantinople. This war If
It commences win probably involve every
continental power. So far Is can be fore
seen, Russia's only ally will be France.
while Germany, Austria, and England win
be united 70 beat back RussiA's advance on
Coustantlnople. England will haye her
hands full In guarding the frontiers Of
Hindoosten from the southern march Of
Muscovite soldiers. The conflict in Gen.
trAl Asia will open by the siege OF Hsrai
by Russia. For countless ages that fort
rsss has BEEN the objective point Of all she
military powers which aimed at invading
what are now the British East Indies. II
has been looked upon as the open door 70
the peninsula, the key Of the military stu
alton In Southern Asia. Should it fall, il
Will be ominous 20 the British power
In Asla. Russia has one id.
yAubbKO OVOL 0ACOS 41AAN9AA IL
dealing with alien races. It Is able to as,
simulate with and absorb conquered peo
pie. For nearly . thousand years the
Russian has been steadily pressing south
ward, and IS one race after another wa
subdued they have been incorporated intC
and made part of the Russian people
This is true Of recent conquests in centra
and southern Asis, as IL wa
when the Tartars and OossAckI
around the Caspian Ses submit
ted 70 the authority Of the car. Eng
lands policy has been different; it hal
conquered many nations in different part
OF the earth but has never intermarrieC
with or treated as an equal any sgve thos'
Of its own Caucasian race; hence the Eng
lishmAn in India Is isolated, and the Hin
docs look upon him a. an intruder and I
usuTper. This il what VIII give RusslI
| the advantage, when the fight takes plact
for the possession Of Indis.-Demorest'
| Monthly for October.
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TRAGEDY.
A Black Ravisher Hanged and Rid
died With Bullets.
Domestic InfsliCity Sends Pair to
Fiddlsr's Green.
Tilden's Relatives ouarreling Over
His Money.
a st. Louis Restaurant Keeper Jealous
Of His Pretty Girls.
RlddIea By bullets.

E8kO4AGG Dy DN-AAC41s
New YoRK, Sept. IA special from
Savannah, Georgia, says; Three weeks
ago during the absence of her husband
Mrs Thomas Willis was assaulted Ia her
house, in Rogers, on the Central railroad,
by negro. Mrs. Willis defended herself
with gun, which che used as club. but
was on the point of being ovcFpowered by
the negro when q colored girl armed with
an axe rushed to her assistance
dealing the assailant several blows on the
head and the two women after q desperate
struggle put the negro TO light. Last
Tuesday afternoon Edward e. Taye saw
negro who answered TO the description of
Mrs. Willis assallant and he was arrested
and sent 70 Milling for safe keeping. On
his arrival at the depot there he was recog-
nized by lad named Brinson
as the negro who had out
ragged his sister, aged IL years near Mill:
ing year ago. The Giri was sent for and
tell In fainting 1t. 1t was foregone con-
clusion that . lYnching would follow and
an extra strong guard was placed about the
| Jail last night 10 prevent 1t if possible.
The prisoner confessed his guilt IN the
Crimson affair, and this morning
J. Wilkerson was sent 10 be lodged in Jail
here as better precaution agaisnt lynch
| law AS Wilkerson was proceeding across
the country guarded by officers they we're
met by band Of fifty masked and well
armed men three miles from Milling who
having obtained possession of the prisoner
| hanged him to Q tree near the scene
of his crime and riddled his body with
bullets. eM
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PareOna and the Coon.

CHICAGO, Sept 18-Anarchist Parsons
has been interviewed several times recent
lY regarding statement made in . dis
patch from Waco, Texas, to the effect that
his wife was formerly the mistress of a
full blooded negro named Gathings,
whom she deserted for Parsons. A letter
which reached here from Waco reiterated
the charge made in the Telegram and q
picture of Gathlngs came with IL. Armed
with the letter and photograph reporter
called upon Mrs. Parsons and went with
her TO Jail upon the occasion of her
usual visit to her husband as she preferred
that the interview should take place In his
presence and to this request the reporter
assented. The letter was read within
hearing of them both.
Now, Mr.. Parsons, tell what you know
about this matter. Lets have it settled,
demanded his wife. Thus adjured Par
SONS said that he had lived with woman
who was known as Gathings wife, but that
he left her some time before meeting the
present Mrs. Parsons. In Austin, he said.
such affairs were very common and In
that Texas no one paid any attention 60
them In these days. This was positively
all there was to IL and his wife knew no
more of GAthings than q child unborn.
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labor Party.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1.-THE central COM
m'ttes Of the United Labor party, COM
posed Of members of the Knights OF Labor
and central labor union trades assembly has
issued call for . convention, TO be held
on October 7Ih, to nominate full city
ticket. Accompanying the call Is dec
laration Of principles and the aim OF The
party, which Il as follows: ITO secure to
labureFs the tulI enjoyment of the wealth
theY create and 20 make industrial moral
worth, and not wealth, the true standard
of individual national greatness. In or
der to secure this result the party demands
the establishment OF . bureau OF labor
statistics and the reservation
Of the public lands for actual Settlers the
abgogAGioB Of ali laws which do not bear
equally upon labor and capital, the en-
fOEcemEnt Of measures providing for health
and safety Of those engaged in mining,
manufacturing and building industries,
the recognition By incorporation OF labor
organisations, the eaactment Of laws CON.
pellIag coFpo1atlona 70 psy employees
weekly IN lawful money, the abolition Of
the contract system on national. state and
municipal work, the prohibiting Of the
employ ment Of children under fifteen
years Of age In work shops. mines and
factoTtee. prohibiting convict labor, the
assessment Of = grsduated income tax.
The party demands at the hands Of con-
Rress the establishment Of national mon
etaFy system, In which circulating me-
diam IN DecsesaRy quantities shall Issue
direct % the people without the interview
ton Of hanks and that the entire national
issue shall Be legal tender In payment Of
dsbes, public Or pftvates that the govern
mens shall not guarantee OF recognize
pgsVass banks, o. create banking corpora
aonst tAas interest bearing bonds ehatl
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theIr willy antagonists Ia parliamentary
tactics. Had IA. Morris insisted On ais
right TO vote. winch ne had . perfect right
20 do under the circumstances, OF had but
one member left the room. the measure
would have bean defeated. But the
friends OF the rights Of our citizens in the
excitement Of debate forgot this. and
wrong Srlumphed for moment.
But the end Is mot yet We understand
protest is being promulgated and signed
by all glasses, asking the board 20 call 9
meeting and either rescind its former &C.
ton. or see thai justice in some way is
done the people who have been thus
wronged.
Let these three extremely public spirit
ed gentlemen who pushed the matter
through, and who are 50 fond of new
books, see that the wrong Is righted, and,
If, a. Mr.. Fox seye, $500 Will pay the ex-
penses Of the entire change In readers. it
will be worth their while to pay such q
little sum out Of their own pockets to clear
Themselves In the eyes OF their neighbors.
But We surmlse that $500 Is bat a traction
Of the amount.
In another column we print q commun-
ication from Rev. Henry MackAy on the
same subject, which many be taken As a
fair outline of the public sentiment on the
subject.
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THOSE SCHOOL BOOKS.
More Light Thrown on a Rather Pc
cuIiar Transaction,
Which Was Rushed Through by
Three Members of the Board,
At an Adjourned Meeting, When Only
Six Were Present.
Mr.. FOx's Statements Commented
Upon and Corrected.
Citizens Protest Against the Unnec
essary Wrong Done Them.
A Petition to be Circulated Asking
for Redress of Some Kind.

The stand taken by Ihe NEWS yesterday
and the day previous is already bearing
fruit, and the people of EmporIa are be-
ginning to appreciate the fact that there
is daily paper In the city thai gets right
mp in meeting and speaks out Its mind
where great injustice or wrong is being
done. This has been one of the great faults
of our city journals in the past: No mat
ter wha. action might be taken by city Of
ficlsIs or others, and no matter how much
wrong might be done to the citizens gen.
orally, the newspapers were silent On the
subject, even when it was the current topic
of conversation on the streets and the
newspapers OF neighboring cities were dis
cussing the matter in their columns, mere
ly because they were afraid of hurting
some PERSONS feelings or stepping on
some business mans toes, and were either
fearful of losing advertising patronage or
the friendship of some one or two per-
sons.
But the EVENING NEWS takes the stand
that the interests of the people generally are
the interests that most need looking after,
and that the newspaper that does Its duty
to all must become the paper for ali, in
preference to the paper that attempts to
hush up such glaring outFages as this
present one done to every citizen of our
fair city who has a child that goes TO
school. When three members of q school
board composed of ten, take the whole
management of affairs IN their own
hands and force an obnoxious order on
three others in the absence of the other
four, sgainst their most urgent protests,
drought the agency Of parliamentary
technicalities in which they were better
versed than their opponents, at the ex-
pense of probably over thousand dollars
10 our citizens, 1t is time halt was called.
And the NEWS proposes to do its portion
to call halt, if possible.
In connection with this subject we re
produce Mr.. Fox's article from this morn
ing's Republican, as follows:
Editor Emporia DAILY Republican.
| EMPoRIA, Kas., Sept. 16.-Replying
to the articles of Tuesday and Wednes-
day in the News, please permit me to
STATE few facts regarding that business.
Our contract with the board OF education
obligated US as follows: To furnish the
new readers at any time during the C0m-
ing year as the GLASSES might advance
from one grade lower to the next grade
higher. Also TO donate any readers
needed for children whose parents were
not able to buy.
The following are the prices for the
new and the old readers:
RarnaaS Nau AODlatOn'a
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TeIephone Trouble

CHICAGO. Sept. 16-A suit is pending in
the United States circuit court in this city
in which the Bell Telephone Company,
ID complainant and the defendant Is the
American Cushmsn Telephone Company,
organized for the purpose Of mauufscsur-
ing telephones. This company ante
dates ali previous claimants to telephone
patents claiming that CIshmsa the in
ventor constructed and publicly operated .
telephone at Racine il 1851. The Cusbman
patent is claimed TO be identical with that
of Prof. Bell and that for three years
Cushmsn's telephone was IN public use In
Racine. In 1857 and SO Cushmau fully
explained IN public his method ss Lato-
MA Malvern, New Lisbon ana other
places ia tho state OF OHIO. In support Of
these claims the attorneys for the Cush-
man company have more than twenty five
afisisvIts by people who saw and talked
over Cushman's telephone in Racine.
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SENSIBLE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

The First Annual Convention of anti.
saloon republicans, which met in Chicago
yesterday, was evidently level headed
and sensible body OF men who knew ex-
actly what they wanted and also the best
manner Of getting what they wanted.
While declaring themselves unalterablY
opposed TO the use OF intoxicating LIQUOR
as . beverage, and sssertingtheir intention
of opposing the liquor traf1c In every legal
manner possible, they did not forget that
allegiance to the republican party was the
best method to forward their desires and
that the only successful measures thus far
taken against the rum 1iend had been tax.
en- by and with the aid Of this party.
A perussl Of the proceedings of the con-
ventloD, which will be found on our third
page. will make instructive aud, we think,
interesting reading for our friends who
are straying from the real prohibition fold
to affiliate with the third party bush
whackers, who are simply RuerriIIas In the
interests OF the democrats, with their chief.
st. John, admittedly q hlreling, under q
salary of $50 night for each lecture de-
lfvered In the Interests Of . party which
is the enemy OF the very doctrine pro-
fessed 20 Be the principle object Of the
third party movement
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MoNARcHs and hereditary rulers Of all
kinds live unnatural lives, which result
very cften in The development Of iunacy
and mental disorders unknown 70 the
average mass Of mankind. Professor
Haekel, the Well-known German scientist,
has Just been enforcing this moral, the
text being the death Of the late king of
Bavaria. Says the professor: "Bfental
diseases are remarkably frequent among
soverelngs. The proportion Of lunAtics In
reigning families a. compared with that Of
the population Of their country Is as sixty
20 one; that IL 70 say, that lunacy
occurs sixty times Is often in reignlng
families a. among ordinary mortals. If
similar statistics were taken &c 10 the fFe-
quency Of lunacy among the nobility, It
would at once appear that this class also
furnishes q much larger contingent Of
lunatics than non-aristocrstic humanity. -
This opinion has created quite iutter In
aristocratic circles In Europe; but facts
are stubborn things. and these cannot be
gainsaid. A king, or any one who con-
trolls his fellows, Is put in q false position
His pride is stimulated and his vanity
pulled out by being constantly deferred
to. To keep people perfectly sane they
should learn how to obey and follow, as
well as TO command and iesd.-Dem-
ofest's Monthly for October.
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In our announcement column to-day
wilfbe found the name of Col. A. N.
Flory as q candidate for the Office of coun-
ty attorney. Col. Flory is well known to
the citizens OF Lyon county, as he has
been resident OF EmporiA for several
years past, during which time he has
made for himself many friends, who will
remember HIM at the polls. He entered
the union army in 1861 as captain, and
served during the entire struggle, being
promoted several times. before being mus
tered out at its close in 1865. If elected
to the responsible position TO which he
aspires the colonel will no doubt make a
conscientious ana painstaking official,
and do all in his power to see that his du-
ties are carefully attended to.
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ST.. LoUIs, Sept. 17.-Three hundred
and eIghiy-fve ChihEshua IndIans-e3
men, 175 squaws and 147 cbildren-AS-
rived In this city this morning IL twelve
special carr, over the Atchison, Topeka
ARD Santa Fe railroad, In charge Of Col,
J. F. Wade, of the Tenth UuIted States
cavalry. These Indians, though not
actually engaged in GeronimO's late cam
paign, nevertheless. are suspected OF
furnishing the hostiies with provisions
and ammunition, and the government
thought best 10 remove them
from their reservation. They will proceed
from this city direct 20 Fort Marion near
Jacksonville, FLORIDA, and Will BE- given q
reservation somewhere Ia the etete.
Crowds of people gathered &C the railroad
station TO see real live Indians and were
rewarded by seeing them eat breakfast In
. modern restaurant, % which proceeding
they were evidently not accustomed.
Among the chiefs 10 the party were
Beco'hlay, Hoeo, Cheoo, Jose,
Sill, Chsto and Beshtmay.
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Ua.a m.n,s MONEY.

NEW YoRK, Sept. 1s.-For several days
statements have been published to the
effect that dissatisfaction exists among tia
leRatees of Samuel J. Tilden respecting
the provisions Of the deceased,s will. A
friend of the family said last night. "Tbe
question Of contesting the will has been
under consideration fos some time. ana
do not doubt but that there will be con-
test. The trouble is that the Tilden boys.
Samuel J. and George H., feel that they
have not received the full recognition ct
their uncle's hand that they had right 20
don't think that amounts TO anything.
Almost any competitent lawyer will tell
you thas viii not hold. A man cannot be
kept cut Of his rights because be tries 70
Se4 what he thinks he is entitled to.
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ST.. LOUIS, Sept. 15.-Saturday night,
Sept. 4, Mr.. E. b. Brown. local manager
Of the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, left the city without either notify
ing the telegraph officials or his family.
The Monday following he telegrAphed
Supt. s. @. Baker, from Windsor, Cana
da, saying he was i'll and asking for .
vacation. The peculiar manner Of his
departure caused Supt. Baker to
order an examination Of his books.
While no positive Information is furnish
ed by telegraph people, IL Ii int1mated
by Col. Baker that there Is shortage In
Mr. Browns accounts, but no statements
ss to the amounts. By reason Of the man
ner In which the business was con-
Quoted, the shortage, If any exists,
must Of necessity be small. Brown had
been In the employ Of the Western
Union fully twenty-five years, and has
been highly esteemed In business and
social way. His habits were so far as
known exemplary. he has q wife and
several children and owned neat little
home In this city.
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Appleton's
Barnes New
Totsl......$2 65

Totsl......$26 IS Total. 90 so
By this it will be seen that the new
series are more costly then the old,
whereas it was represented to the board
that they were cheaper, and in proof Of
said assertion the prices of!s fifth reader OF
the two series were given IS an illustra-
ton. Was this rightf
There are over 1900 scholars attending
the public schools, as we learn from Su-
perinteudent Klock. From other sour
ces we are informed that there are over
$500 school childrensln town. Every one
of them attending school must have q
reader. At en- averageicost OF forty cents
per child, this would amount TO quite g
little sum. And this would be for only
one term.
Mr. Fox says: s'Ws have done nothing
we are ashamed of, and from what we can
hear think the board feels the same way"
Mr.. Fox can rest assured the board do NOT
feel the same way. and if he win take the
trouble to read what the members said 60
our reporters. as published in yesterdays
NEWS he can learn better. There were
only three members who had anything 20
say favorable to the present change, e
being now made, and We venture to say
that they are now sick Of the job.
Let us ask Mr. Fox Why the matter Was
Los laid over until the next meeting, q
was so strongly urged by Messrs- Morris,
jay and Kynaston, if all think As be does
The reason then given by Dir. Fox Was
that he must go cast Immediately. and he
wanted q decision before he went. A
beautiful excuse, surely. why such "a ex-
pensiVe change should be made BY the
school board. With bare quorum Ia at
tendance, and half Of the quorum op-
posed 10 the change. bat unable 70 dsfeaa
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1S.-Ail arrangements
for the reception and entertainment OF the
Knights Templar who will attend the tri-
eunlal conclave in this city have been
completed. Quarters have been prepared
for all visiting commanderIes and knights
and will suffer no Inconvenience for want
of room unless many come who have not
notified the committee. 4 committee OF
fifty from various Communicates will 60
into camp near the Union depot, where
they Will be stationed until the last of the
visitors arrive, thus assuring Knights 3
pleasant reception and furnishing each
company with band which will escort
them 20 their headquarters. Yesterday
there left in . special car delegation from
Ivanhoe commandery and an invited dele.
cations for KsnsaslCity, where they will
meet Sir Knight Robert e. Withers, the
Right Eminent Grand Master of the United
States, and the California delegation 900
strong and escort them TO this city. arriv-
ing here tomorrow morning. The con-
clave opens Monday.
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Rolling stone.

PIrTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 16,-A Wheeling.
West Virgins. special says: A large rock,
called Bald Rock, which overhung On the
mountain side near the dwelling of Leslie
Cummings, in Jackson county, became de-
tsched last night and the stone, weighing
hundreds of tens, rolled down the noun
tain, crushing barn. killing four or five
horses and mules, then passing over the
stable It struck two story frame dwell
irg, crushing its largest timbers aud
killing Frank Cummins and Edward
jerks, a hired man. Mr.. Cummins and
wife, with two small children, were
thrown from bed and hurled thirty feet
to the right of the track of the stone and
badly injured. The children will prob
AbIv die from their fpiuries
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news From AIashs.

WAsHINeToN, d. O., Sept. 17.-SpeCial
Agent Tingle Of the treasury department
has returned to this city from the Seal
Island of Aleske. He lett Alaska shortly
after the seizure Of foreign sealerB had
been made by Captain Abbey. In the
case Of the British vessel OnivAro, Mr..
TEngle says thaE the master Of the vessel
admitted having killed his catch Of seals
along the shore Of the seal islands.
These predatory seslers, he says, made
q practice Of stealing ashore under cover
Of fogs and clubbing seals, which are
then tossed into boats and conveyed On
board the ship TO be skinned. A
large number Of seals ere
also shot on the sea and this practice =
particularly destructive, from the fact
that two out OF six animals would sink
and cannot be recovered. EotWithsta1ds
ing his losses the agent says the seal lie
Is increasing with great rapidly. The
agent was net inclined % discuss the l0-
gelIty Of the seizure already made, bus
stated that Law officer had bean ss1t
from San Francisco 70 Assist in the pres
ecution OF the cases before the Sitke
court.