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KANSAS CROPS.
A Rather Favorable Report Of the Kansas
Farmer.

Topeka, Kan, Sept. 1.-The Masses
Farmer this week presents a very full t.
port of crops covering the entire State.
made up Of shOr letters from special cor
respondents. This shows that the Stat,
has not been in as good condition since
1SSf. unless it be in the nunber of hog.
which was reduced greatly last yeaI.
With the exception of half a dozen coun-
ties lying on and near the great bend OF
the Arkansas the State IS in good condition.
Corn III many parts is very heavv-ins some
parts the heaviest ever raised in the history
of Kansas. With all the shortages in GER
tain localities the crop for the State a. a
whole will probably prove to be tn
what injured by insects in places viii
average eighteen to twenty bushels PEE
acre n the quality is generally
good. Oats were a little short in some To-
calities, but with the greatly increased
acreage the crop was very large. No ac-
curate estimate of the yield can be made
because a great deaf is being fed without
threshing. Sorghum is good where ever
grown and the same is true of millet.
maize and kafiir corn. Broom corr. ha.
done very well in the western coonties.
Apples. pears and s:nall fruit nave yielded
well. Grass is growing we'll Yet and stotk
Is in first-class condition. The wheat
will be increased. In the western
part of the State seeding is now III progress
and the ground is in good condition. Kan
SaS crops, with the exceptions motel above,
are in prime condition.
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BATTLE OF THE Bags.
Looking to India For Help in Fighting ii
Bag%inx Trust.

AooAsnS 10 ahusa or E1eIp IN fiShtinS IRE
Bag%inx Trust.
GALVESTON, Tex. Sept. 4.-Under the
call of the president OF he Cotton En-
change, an informal meeting of cotton
factors vas held at the exchanSe :o-dSe
Over half of the Galveston factors fre
present. The meeting was for the purINse
of discussing the %agging trust. and pro-
viding, il possible. some relief to Texas
farmers in escaping its extortions. Ii was
decided TO relegate the matter to the direc-
tory OF the exchange, who will meet TO-
morrow to further consider the matter. Ir
is understood that in Galveston the move
ment will result in an effort to import bas-
ging frOla India and furnish il TO the
Texas tratie at cheaper prices than under
the present combination, providing assn
RANGES Can be lad tina the farmers wi!
properly protect a movement looking T."
their relief by guaranteeing a purchase OF
the stock thus provided. There was a tims
when American cotton OWE used Sndia
bagSing exclusively, and. while no; 50
good as that now manufactured in Amer
lea. its ~cheapness renders it al, available
lever for breaking up the present tagsing
combination.
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A FATAL VISIT.
a Wife Visits Her Husband After - >epara-
ton and Is killed-His suicide.

A Wife Visits Her Husband After u Separn-
ton and Is killed-HisS suicide.
EDNA, Mo-. Sept. 4.-Sunday Andy
Howerton, q farmer living Just over the
line in Shelby County, killed his wife BY
shooting her and then turned the revolver
on himself and sent a bullet through his
own head HowertOn and his wife, for
merry Miss Kennedy. daughter of a we'll
to-do farmer living in the south arto@ [,
county, were married only six MONTHS
but did not live happily together, and one
day last week Mrs. HOwerton left her hus-
ban and went home TO her father. where
she STAYED till Sunday, when. accompanied
by a brother, she went to the house of her
husband to secur her personal effects.
The husband was at home alone and fol-
lowed Fer up stairs, where she went in
search of her clothing. He endeavored to
effect q reconciliation, in which he failed,
she telling him that she was lone with him.
Then he drew 4 revolver and committed
the terrible deed.
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SENATOR CULL6M. of Illinois. has
determined to investigate the question
raised by the Canadan Government rs
to the position Of the St Clair flats
canal. Since the be1ligerent mania
reached Congress. several Canadian
papers have rushed fOrVard to claim
that the vessels Of the Dominion had a
right to navigate the Stellar fats
canal, as q part Of it was in. Canada.
Some color is lent to this claim by a
clause in the River and Harbor bill OF
1874. which made an appropriation
for improving the St. Clair. i.ass.
coupled with q statement that a portion
of it was within canadian territory.
In order to settle the question. Mr..
Cullbm offered "a resolution calling
upon The Secretary Of Var for a state
ment etthe exact location OF the ST.
Clair fats canal and the ground upon
which this claim is based:
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4 MEETING of cotton factors was
held in the parlOrs of the Cotton Com
press Company at st. Louis recently.
at which all the cotton agents and
1ealers OF the city We're present. Res
buttons We're adopted strongly urging
upon Congress the necessity of investi-
eating and crushing the jute bagging
trust in time to save to the planters
this seasons cotton crop. Scotch bur-
laps were also examined and recon-
mended as a substitute for lutte.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14

COLONEL GEORGE l.. PERKINS. for
fifty years treasurer Of the Norwich Il
Worcester railroad. died of old age at
the Fort Griswold House in GrOton.
Conn.,, recently, where he was spend
ing his annual vacation. He had been
failing for a week. but was conscious
until within an hour of his death. He
had voted for every President since
Madison; was paylnaster in the war
Of 1879. and organized the first Sunday
school in Norwich. He was aged one
hundred years and one month.
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TOLEDO, D., Sept. +-General Harrison
and party started for Indianapolis thl-
morning. The General left the Cummings
residence about nine O'Clock accompanied
Dy the Hon. William Cummings. Judge
Cummings and daughter and Mr.
John Borden A corNm;ttee of ff-
teen from Fort Wayne. headed by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Robertson and Col
onei w. h. Smith, arrived this morning toI
escort the General to that city. where bel
was to arrive at 1:O p. m. He will spend
three hours in Fort Wayne and make al
speech. The party will then proceed I'll
indianapolis by special train.
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DEPHECATING Il proposed change
which would admit from five to ten per
rent. of frosted wheat in No. l hard,
Albert Z. Clausen. State Inspector at
Minneapolis. Mimi. recently said: 1T
would be the most foolish thing imag-
Unable to have it go out that our grades
were broken here. or that we were
putting frosted wheat in our No. 1
hard. 1t should be remembered that
there Is often a little frosted wheat in
with the good and it has never been
the practice to reject a car of good
hard wheat because there was Il few
kernels OF frosted now and then scat
tered thrOugAit'.
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A DISPATCH to the Paris Temps from
Zanzibar says that the natives re-
sisted the landing of the German
COmpany's officers and the Sultan's
troops. Shots were exchanged and
two Germans we're wounded. A Ger
man man-Of-war afterwards bOmbarded
Tangai. The excitement was spread
ding and communication with the in
terror was interrupted. The Germans.
after effecting a landing. drove the
Arabs and natives into the bush.
Twenty Arabs were killed. The
trouble from the. procedure of
the German East Africa Company.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

RETURNS from lUJ towns of Vermont
give Dillingham;, Republican, $3.50
Schurtleff, Democrat. 9.Si9: Steele. Pro.
hibition, 6lj: scattering, 3. The SAM
towns in 1854 gave Pangree, Republican,
-, lG6: Redington. Democrat, 9,499: Stone
Prohibition, and scattering, AZ. The gains
over the vote Of 1884 are: Republican. =, 209;
Democratic. go; Prohibition, Isl: net Re.
publican gain over Democratic vote, 1853
over all, 2,.1S.
The President has nominated Charles e,
Boyle, of Pennsylvania, to be Chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court Of the Territory
of Washington.
JUDGE LCzEON Il. NORRIS, of New
Haven, has been nominated for Governor
BY the Connecticut Democrats.
THE Democrats of the First Iowa distric,
have nominated John J. Searley. of Bloom
ingtOn, for Congress.
THE House Committee on Appropriations
has adopted a resolution expressing regret
at the absence of Chairman Randall
through sickness.
THE Department of State has received
from General DENLY, United States Minis
ter to China, in response to IN inquiry
from Washington, a telegram to the effect
that he has no positive information in re-
gard to the action of the Chinese authOri-
ties respecting the treaty.
MASSACHUSETTS Democrats have nOmi-
mated W. +. Russell, Of Cambridge, for
Governor.
WISCONSIN Democrats nave nominated
James Morgan, of Milwaukee,, for Gov
ernOr.
JUDGE THURMAN was prevented from
AAAroScinr q. n.aotin~ NJ NoJsco, Snnoro
Garden. New York, on the night of the 9TH
by an attack of cholera morbus, which his
son said was not serious.
IT was hoped in Shanghai that the i'm
migration treaty with America would be
ratified in q moderate form. The discus
sion of the question caused great excite
ment, and there were several riOtOus
demonstrations. A mob incensed Mt the
American Minister'S action, attacked the
American official residence at Canton.
L. 7. ANDERSON and T. X. StOckdale
have been renOminated for Congress by
the Democrats Of the Fifth and Sixth Mis-
sissippi districts respectively.
JOHN LESTER WALLACE, the well known
theatrical man OF New York, died Of
apoplexy at Stamford. Conn.,, on tho
morning of the 9Th, aged sixty-eight.
The RepuOlicanS IN the Tenth Elrgln1s
district have renominated Jacob. YOst fOs
Congress. ~
NJ. LOMBARDOs. Grecian Minister of the
Interior, died in Athens recently.
The German. Catholic congress has
adopted resolutions in favor of the tenn
pOral power Of the Pope.
The President has approved the Naval
Appropriation bill.
RETURNS from all but nine counties Of
Arkansas give the Democratic State ticket
a majority of $4,000. The other counties
will not materially change this vote. Both
houses of the Legislature are Democratic.
THE President on the eth vetoed eight
private pension bills. principally upon the
ground that the death or disability of she
soldier was not connected with his militia
nv service. JEt L1'.sEr. r.. fsEs .aJ
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Charged With Forgery.

ST. LOUIS. Sept. a-Warrants were
issued yesterday afternoon for theSsrrest
of H. F. Ferris and d. r.. Beoxher, two well
known business men, on charges Of fo'g-
cry. They are the principal stockholders
and managers Of the VIM Boiler Com
pany and are alleged to have forged the
OF John p. BooSher, of the Wea:.
Boogher Dry-gOods Company. and OF
SIMON Boogher, of the Rainwater-Booghef
nat Company. to promissory notes
amounting TO about 500. Ferris has q
rather ~unSayory record and he has con-
fessed that the Endorsements on the notes
were forged, but declares hat his partner
Is equally guilty. ID. T.. Boogher admits
having indorsed his own name on tns
notes. .
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14
THE grave of Wendell Phillips at

THE grave of Wendell Phillips at
Milton. Mass. is unmarked. But a
Monument is soon to be erected Dy
Mrs. Green. sister Of the dead orator.
1t will be a rough. wcather-stained
granite bOwlder about five feet in
height. and in the front center will be
placed a sunken tablet bearin" an in
scriptiOn. The stone will be placed in
the rear of the lot and in view of the
nath-
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THE London Chronicie'S Rome cor
respondent says that King Leopold has
offered the Pope Il residence in Bel
gium. in the event Of the necessity
arising for him to leave Rome. The
Pope has had several audiences with
the Russian envoy and is completing a
concOrdat with the Gar. giving a
large share of religious liberty to
Polish and Russian Catholics.
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NJ. FERRY. in II recent speech. ad-
raitted that the next general election
would he a struggle between the
French Republicans and every thing
nti-Republican-mOharcby, empire
and dictatorship. He said he was in
favor of returning 20 the former
method of voting. but it depended
upon union among Republicans
To defeat BOulangerism.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14

Mrs. CARLISLE. who is keeping
house at Washington for the first time.
enjoys having guests at dinner. and
the Speaker has instructions to bring
friends home with him in the after.
noon from the House when hi, home
is not full of visitors.
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j. l.. PALMER. chairman Of the Ar
kansas Prohibition State Executive
Committee. claims that forty counties
Of Arkansas have gone against license.
and says that whisky had a great deal
to do with the raid on ballot boxes at
the State capital. The returns carried
away. he said. were from precincts
which gave Prohibition maiOrities.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14

PRESIDENT LINDE, of the Rock ISL
and & Peoria railway and a stOckhold-
er of the Chicago. Rock Island 4 Pa
cific road, died at Rock Island, ILL.,.
~rocantlv.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14
NEBRASKA A NEWS


- 1&1S1OuNe
The annual report of the Commissioner
Of Pensions just issued shows by counties
the number Of pensions paid in the vari-
Gus States and the mounts during the last
quarter Of the fiscal year ended June "a,
1SS. For Nebraska the showing is as fol-
lows:
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CURRENT COMMENT.

FROM 1877 to 1856 English incomes
between 500 and 5000 increased
1926 per cent, and incomes above
s. 5000 decreased 2.4O per cent.
The Red Cloud chief., 1888-09-14

OF the many railroad bridges in
the United States. that of the new
Poughkeepsie bridge over the Hudson
has the longest single ~span-54S feet.
The highest point reached BY a rail-
road within our domains is 1882 feet
more than two miles-at Marshall
Pass. on the Denver and Rio Grande
line. HOOsac tunnel. in Massachu-
sets, is the longest excavation OF tho
kind in America. extending a distance
of 4i miles. The highest bridge on the
continent is the Kinzua viaduct, OF the
Erie railroad, which is situated at an
altitude Of 500 fee:
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MHCELLANEOUA.

THE, Colorado Railway Association is
discussing the prospect OF low rates from
New York to Colorado to meet the. c0mpe.
titiOn Of the Ocean and Denver and Fort
Worth lines. Z
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Number Of pensions paid in Nebrassa
for same period last year, ESQ; a.ere-
gate amount, SIS, 461.
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

| ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES
THERE was a heated discussion between
Mitchell and Morgan in the Senate on the
10th over the Chinese bill. Many uncOm-
~plimentary terms were expressed. No
final action on the bill was taken. The
House adopted the conference reports on
the Army Appropriation and the FORTH
cations bill. The Sundry Civil conference
report was considered, but no action was
taken.
One man was killed and another fatally
injured by the fall of q treStle near New
port, KY, recently.
MUCH damage has been done ut Vistiz:a.
Greece, by two earthquakes. Many per-
sons are homeless and destitute.
The shortage of President William Swart,
of the bank of ROseland. ILL.,. who abb
seconded recently. is placed at SlO,5iO.
ADvICEs from Orizaba, Mexico, state
that the rivers and creeks have overlooked
their banks and houses been thrown Town
and several lives lost. The streams from
the City of Mexico to Vera Cruz are rising.
In the State of Hidalgo the rivers are over
flowing their banks and causing damage.
Railroad traffic has been suspended.
THE fourth section of the train No. =,
west bound ON the New York, Pennsyl-
vania & Ohio railroad. carrying veterans
from Youngstown and vicinity to the
National e~ncampment at Columbus, was
wrecked on the 10th at Rittman, a small
station three miles west of WadswOrth, D.
Six persons were killed and about twenty
injured.
ELECTIONS were held in Maine on the 10th
for Governor, congressman. legislators,
etc. The Republicans claimed the State
by over 10000 plurality.
THE treasury surplus is $103, 95o. 900. The
discrepancy between this amount and the
surplus as stated in the Presidents letter
of acceptance, S1:O, OOO. OOO, is probably due
to the fact that the President includes
about 3 900, 900 of fractional silver coin on
hand as part Of the surplus. while the
treasury officials do not.
The steamer Alps. recently arrived at
New York from Jacmel, reports that on
September 9. of Fortune Island, she en-
countered q hurricane with fearful seas,
during which she shipped lcrge quantities
Of water. r. Meadows, chief steward, a
native of England, was washed overheard
and lost.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE reached
home Hartford, CONN., ON the 10th, and
for the first time in several days she was
able to sleep peacefully. Her conditi0a
was critical but not hopeless.
FOREST fires due to the drought are rs-
ported north aud east of East Tavss.
Mich.
The Neae F:eie Presse publishes Queea
Natalies protest against q divorce from
King Milan. 1t is dated Versailles, Az
gust %, and defends her own conduct. It
says she will never submit to a separation,
which she holds to be sinful, and expresses
her intention to plead her OWE cause in
the coming trial. -.
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NEW YORK. Sept. 6@ack Wannop. o
England. and Jack Sheehy. OF Ontario
have signed to fight with twO-ounc
gloves ~Septenbera =, near MuskegOn. Mich
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ROMANCE OF A TYPE WRITER.
Her Employer Cherishes for Months Silent
But Unconquerable Love for Her.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2s.-Pretty Mary S. Dullere
told queer story about Frank W. Link dra-
matte agent. in Judge Lyons court, to-day.
She said that Link sent her out to join an
''Adamless Eden" company, but becoming dis
Rusted with her new associates, she returned and
was employed by the agent TO manipulate the
once type writing machine for $5 a week.
On Monday morning last" continued Miss
Dullere, Link called me into his private Office
and said was discharged; that he wouldn't al
low anv man to speak to me. and that he loved
me- Then he spread a newspaper on the floor
drew a razor, took hold of my cheek and forced
me on my knees. In his rawlings, and they were
awful, he declared that his was a silent love
which he had smothered for months. He made
me promise, with my hands on my heart that
from his wife. who is only twenty years
typewriter. He said / would never get up
alive until promised what he wanted.
after declaring that other should
ever love me he became quieter Then l told
him was hungry and would go ont and get a
lunch. He said he would bring the lunch He
then went ont and locked me in. / began to get
frightened again. and hunted for some way to
escape. First / stood on two chairs and tried to
get through the transom, but found it roo high.
Then found bunch Of keys in cigar box.
and much to my relief opened the door. When
was satisfied Link was not around ran to the
Street"
Link says he discharged Miss Dullere because
she receipted bill for 500 and failed to turn
the money over to him. He denies her story
and the case was continued.
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The Eclipse in Chicago.

A very confiing and young wife asked me
seriously to day if the eclIpse of the moon
which is underlined for some evening soon
would not be seen in all the divisions of the city
After some hesitation she explained that her
husband had been making preparations to GO
over on the north side aud see II when IL came
of. and had told her that che had better remain
home on that evening, as the affair might not
be just what she ought to see. The man who
may read this is politely requested to not regard
it attempt at humor. The poor little
woman saw nothing funny in what she said.
Some OF these nights that young husband of
hers will try TO get out of a clab-room by fire.
escape, and then his wife will begin TO realize
something of what the third-reader poet meant
when he stood beneath hollow tree, all hollow,
hollow, hollow.
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SAVED BY HIS DOG.
A Helpless Man Obtains Badly Needed Assist
ance by the Intelligent Work of Brute.

NEW YORK, Jan. 28.-George Heeg, a milk
man living at East Williamsburg, Long Island.
is an inmate of St. Catharine's Hospital, Brook
iyn waiting to have of his arms and leg
amputated in order to save his life During the
intensely cold weather. last Tuesday night, he
started to walk from Williamsburg to his home,
about three miles. When about a mile from
seized with an epileptic fit and fell
on the ice He became unconscious
and would have frozen to death but for
the timely assistance rendered by his
faithful dog. The animal found him PROSTATE
ON the ce. and attempted to resucitate his mas
self against his masters body and bowling dis
maily. No one seemed to hear or heed the dog;
but Mr.. Heeg recovered sufficiently 10 sit up
but could not regain his feet, one of his sides
was benumbed by the cold that one leg and
arm bad become useless. He managed to reach
his hat and held it out in front of the excited
dog. The intelligent creature understood the
started at full speed for Mr. Hee9's house.
Reaching the front door, he began barking
violently that he aroused oue of the workmen
employed on the place, and succeeded in making
HIM understand that assistance needed
The man procured help and followed the dog
over the ice for mile about o'clock in the
morning to where Heeg found. badly
frozen and unable to move. The men raised
him in their arms and carried him TO his home.
where medical aid was promptly summoned and
efforts successfully made to restore him. The
physicians said that il would be impossible to
save the mans life unless the frozen limbs were
amputated, and he WAS taken to the hospital
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The Sunday Newspaper.


:, Inc legitimate Sunday newspaper OF to- day liz
tne cleanest. freshest aud most entertaining and
instructive reading that be given TO the
family. In all the chief cities of the Union the
sunday Issues OF our great daily newspapers are
the best supplied and most carefully edited
Journals issued from their respective ..fiices and
they are now generally read not only by the
seu-respectne newspaper readers W ho rejected
tne uncleAn Sunday IssGes OF score of years
ace out they are largely read by the ministers
Ana reheionists. and are the most welcome of
VISITORS 10 nearly all the intelligent home circles
OF tne land. They are not only complete news
papers. out they ars magazines of the best,
BRIGHTEST and most eleyaiine litersture and are
profitable TO every condition and class.
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An Old Soldier, in Thomasville Times.
In the news of Yesterday / read an account of
q man OF good memory, eighty-six years
old. soldier in General Taylors army at the
battle of Buena Vista. That retired veteran
now lives in California whittier he took his ex-
slope. He states he very his COM
manding officer when General Taylor gave the
renowned order: "a little more grape, Captain
Bragg"
knew General Bragg intimately during
life as cadets at West Point and during his
after soiourn on earth. Shortly after the con-
quest of Mexico he dined at my table in New
York when the topic of conversation very nat
urally turned upon the recent unpleasantuess
with our sister republic. "Braxton," said /.
what is the truth about the little more grape
storyi' 1.-The story told" replied he lis not
true Old Zack told me, in his slight, STAN
mering way: 'G. e, give em h-ll, Captain
Braggr He did not mention the fruit of the
vine at all"