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CUSTOM TAILORS.

One Kansas Man Among Them.
CHICAGO, July 19.-The Custom Fore
mems TaiIors association of Amer,ca filed
the big club room of the Grand Pacific hotel
upou the occasion of their annual conven.
ton. Among the prominent faces in the
front rows were Dan Desmond, Milwaukee;
o. J. Devennah, Whitewater, Wis; W. h.
Shepard, Des Moines; D. Foo]ey, and F.
Finnegan, Detroit; w. II. Sharr, Abilene,
San Diego, Cal; and George s. Evans.
Ohio. The proceedings were opened with
a lecture by Chairman Charles J. Stone ON
practical work, after which Tailor Burns,
of Lafayette, Ind, undertook to show how
a badly cut sleeve would kill a coat, and
Allison, of Urbana, Ohio, showed how he
saved material in getting out a cutsway
frock fall overcoat. The convention Will
remain in session for three days.
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Kansas Lead and Zinc.

ArcH1soN, KAN. July 2.-Johu NJ. Price
of Atchison has fled a petition in the district
court of Cherokee county, Kan, asking for
a receiver for the South Side Mining and
Manufacturing company, lead and zinc
mining enterprise of Galena, Kan.
The suit is brought against w. B. Stone,
j. S. Holman and w. E. Stice, of Galena,
and Howard Cove and Graham Robinson,
shareholders with the plaintiff. Stone and
Cove are made principal defendants, and
the other defendants being included SIM
ply because they own small amounts of
stock.
Cove, the petition states, does not own
any stock at present, having sold his shares
to Stone In 1886, but he is included in the
case because Price demands an accounting
dating back to 1881, when Cove was inter-
ested in the company, and shared in the
management of Its affairs. The plaintiff
makes charges of mismanagement and
waste on the part of the defendant, Stone,
and in his prayer demands $4,000 dam
ages.
The petition was filed at Columbus, the
county seat of Cherokee county, and the
plaintiff and his attorneys, Miles & White
of Wyandotte, and L. p. Cunningham of
Kansas City, are now on the ground and
Will at once begin taking evidence prelim-
mary to the appointment of receiver.
The SUIT viii attract widespread attention
IN southeastern Kansas and southwestern
Missouri, as well as in st. Louis and Kansas
City, where the pig lead and ores of the
company have been marketed for the past
ten or twelve years.
The south side company is famous in this
country as Q lead and Enc producer, and
five or six years ago its lands yielded nearly
three fourths of all the lead known as the
aft Mieaor1ri ora nrodurod IN Nho T1n;xad
States. The property involved in the suit is
variously estimated at being worth nom
500, 900 to $4,000 The parties in the suit
are prominent, socially, politically and
financially in Kansas, and the result of the
trial will be watched with unusual interest.
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ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.

ELEVEN MILLION DOLLARS
That Is the Amount Of Capital Rep
resented in the North American
Salt Comanpy.
ALBANY, N. Y, July 23.-The North
American Salt company fled articles of in
corporation in the secretary of states Office.
Franklin Woodruff, Horace K. Thurber, w.
A. hazard and Charles F. Burger are the
incorporators, with q capital of $11, 00O, 900,
divided into 275, 600 shares of $50 each. They
state that they are to manufacture and sell
salt and productions in their various rami-
6catious. The principal part of their bus
mess will be located in Warsaw, n. Y, but
they will also carry on their business in the
following places: Meigs and Tuscarawas
counties, Ohio; Mason county, West Yir-
ginia; Reno and Rice counties, Kansas; Hi
dalgo county, Texas; ST. Clair, Huron, Sag
NAV, Bay and Iosco counties, Michigan.
The following thirteen trustees, who shall
manage the concerns of the company for
the first year, are named: Wellington Burt,
Franklin Woodruff, 81. Z. Thurber, Will
liam A. Hazard, John Garfield. William s.
Conklin, Albert Boardman, Jay Morton,
Richard L. Wilson, Henry w. Cannon,
Charles F. Burger, the Right Hon. Lord
Thuriow and Joseph Verdin.
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II. Cavtpn il hare 10 confer With senatoF
Quay, Hon. John 8. Garrison and other
members Of tie national republican com
mittee now in the CITY regarding ths night
of Clifton R. Brec6nEidge, Of Second Ar.
kansas district, to seat in the next house.
Il viii be remembered that Powell Clayton's
brother. John NJ. Clayton, was the repubi-
can candidate for congress against Breck-
inridee. He was fairly elected, but the
democrats counted out enough votes to re-
turn the election certificate to the demo-
cratic candidate. Mr.. Clayton, after giving
notice of CONTEST began taking testimony,
and, while 90 engaged, was sssassinated.
The democrats thus hoped to end the con-
test. and 70 secure the seat in congress for
their candidate. Hon. Powell Clayton il
here to consult with republican leaders and
arrangements will be made to fully investi-
gate the murder and to contest Mr.. Breck-
inridge's seat. It Is believed that sufficient
evidence can be secured to prevent Brechn-
ridge from taking the seat in congress which
nghtfuIly belonged to Clayton.
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Vessel Burned 1t Sea.

New BEDyoRD. Mass, July A.-The whal-
ing schooner franklin arrived here with tho
crew of the Lorenzo A. Baker, from Js-
maica for Boston with fruit. The steamer
was burned 1t sea.
Captain Wiley reports: 1--WE had six
cabin passengers, - follows: Mn. Elzabeth
Simms, of Dundee. Scotland; Joseph Dbl
lon, OF Iowa; Lorenzo d. Baxter. il, Of
Wellheet, Mass.; Josiah OCallaghan, and
Jeremiah C. O'CaIaghan, of Boston, uncle
md nephew, and Ernest B. Thyng. of Lynn.
we're working their passage. Besides
these there were fifteen o63cerS and CROW.
All were saved except two 6remen; Hugh
Wyle, Of Liverpool and Ralph Robinson,
Of 8o0fou,
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The Ohio Canal Overflows.

The Ohio Canal OverfloWs.
CINCINNATI, July pa heavy rain storm
came upon the city from the north, accom-
panied by very severe thunder and light
ming. The rain fell in such torrents that all
the hillside streets were flowing with angry
streams. The banks of the Ohio canal at
Yorktown was overhowed. The water
poured from the canal In q great flood. The
cellars and first floors of several dwellings
at that point were filed with water and q
stream Of several feet deep ran down York
street and Central avenue. The occupants
on first floors in some houses were rescued
with difficulty.
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Asksng.Relief Early.

LAKorA, DAK., July 22.-In view of the
almost total failure of crops by drouth in
Nelson county, call was signed by the
leading business men of the county for q
massmeeting to devise ways and means to
bridge over the necessities of the farmers
for the winter. The meeting appointed q
central committee to solicit aid tor the des-
titute farmers, also appointing the super
visors of each town board of distribution
to see that the aid sent is properly applied.
There is no Disgusting the fact that with the
frost Last year and the drought this, most
settlers will need help to enable them to
make another crop.
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The West Virginia Disaster,

The West Virginia Disaster,
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, July 2a-An esti-
mate can hardly yet be formed of the great
calamity that has swept over the little Kama
wha valley, but enough is known to make
it one of the most destructive of life and
property ever occurring in West Virginia.
The scene of obstruction In Pond Creek,
Jackson county and Tucker creek, Writ
county, show that Pond creek rose twenty
feet and swept all before it. Four men took
refuge in Thomas mill. The mill was
washed away and Edward Ross was drowned.
Thomas Plack and his newly welded wife
were washed from their home and persisted.
Thomas Hughes, his wife and four children
fled from their home, but the water overlook
them and none escaped but Hughes. On
the other creek seven lives are reported lost,
but no definite information can be obtained.
The loss to property is immense and will run
up in the millions.
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WONDERFUL PROJECT.
A Consolidation of all the Grea
Railroads Proposed.

A Consolidation of all the Great
Railroads Proposed.
HARTFORD, July 20.-The text for a bill
which is to be introduced at the opening
session of congress, in December, involving
the most gigantic scheme for railroad con.
solidation ever candidly discussed in thi:
country, is now being put into type in this
city, and Chicago firm is engaged in pub
fishing pamphlet bearing on the CONSOLE.
dalton.
The fundamental idea is to make Boston
the metropolis of the continent. While the
interstate commission and business men
of New England are discussing the prob
lens to be solved on account of low freight
rates offered on the Canadian Pacific road,
the consolidation is concentrating plans for
the absorption of the Canadian rival with the
American system and the establishment OF
the greatest railroad power in the world.
The Willard system is the only one not
embraced in the conception. The Union
and Northern Pacific roads and the Cana
dian Pacific are the ones to be consolidated.
The system extending from the Santa Fe
through the southwestern states then by
way of the Pennsylvania coal regions, and
across the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie.
taking in the Hartford and Connecticut
western line with the new road from Tariff
vile to Springfield is also included in this
unparalleled scheme for consolidation. From
Boston the originators of the plan propose
TO run steamship line to Europe, furnish
ing the amplest accommodations for freight
and passenger traffic from the Pacific slope
to the largest ports on the European CONT
nent.
The details of the bill cannot be ascer-
tanned at present, but its projectors state
that members of the senate are familiar
with the scheme and are enthusiastic for its
prosecution.
The capitalization asked for will not be
less than 500, ,OO0. In the main the con-
solidation will secure the through lines by
purchase or lease. English capitalists will
join hands in the enterprise, effecting q
commercial union at present and ultimately
political one with the Canadian territory.
American capitalists will be interested
equally with the English in developing the
continent. The consolidation also contem-
plates the ownership of new ocean cable
joining Boston with the German empire.
European as the plans may seem at first
they have been skiIlfully formulated and
will have to be discussed by an intelligent
public within the next four months. The
snm of $4,000 has been expended in pro-
curing surveys for the maps which generally
are publishing for the originators of consol-
idation. Several of the surveys were begun
in 1881 and the plans which are now about
to be disclosed have been under considera-
tiOn since then
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Honors For Can't cid.

NASHVILLE TENN, July 2O.-Professor
James a. Garfield of the University of
Kansas, completed his third year of con-
tinuous service as secretary of the National
Educational association, with the same
hearty approval that he secured from the
first.
sets named him for the presidency of the
organization, and Florida and Oregon, fol-
lowed by more than half the other states,
claimed the privilege of seconding the NOM
ination in highly eulogistic speeches. This
committee representing every state and ter
ritory, without mentioning any other name,
chose him amid enthusiastic cheers by q
unanimous rising vote.
The convention has ratified the actlon of
the committee by such rounds of applause
as never before greeted the election of q
president.
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GUTHRIE, Ok, July A-DurinR fhe Last
week Register Ollie and Receiver Barnes
have been taking the evidence and arm.
ments in the first claim contest tried in Oh q
homa.
The case concerned the night Of three
claimants to quarter section of lana lyi z
just across the Santa Fe track from OKLA.
homa City.
The evidence in the case shows that entryL
man Ewers White was deputy United States
marshal. and that on April ed he was ON thu
Santa Fe right of way near the land in ques-
lion, acting as marshal
At 120ek O'Clock he left the right of way
and stuck stick ON the disputed claim.
CD. Blanchard, the contestant, left Kan
'as April Is, and, as an employee of tho
SAINT Fe, he managed to be near the claim
exactly at II and stuck q stake ON this same
claim.
Vestal Cook, the cross complainant, was
N Chickasaw nation April q, but had pro
viously made arrangements to have relays
of horses every five miles between the line
and disputed claim. BE was then enabled
20 make the distance, sixteen miles, in ono
All three have made Improvements ON tho
and, each one intending to stay with il to
The last, as it is valuable claim now being
partly covered by Oklahoma City.
After three days hearing the case closed,
and the gentlemen gave their decision asI
follows: 1--WE conclude that contestant
Charles j. Blanchard, contestee, Ewers
White and cross contestant Vestal 8. Cook.
Zach violated the act of congress of March,
;. 1883, and the proclamation of the press
dent issued in pursuance thereof, and
hereby forfeit all right to take and(
aold homestead in this territory. Il isl
therefore recommended that homestead
entry No. 6, made by Ewers White, onI
he I'D day of April. 1889, upon the south4
vest quarter of section q, township north,t
:ange west, be cancelled and: his rightsj
thereto forfeited, and that the tract covered
hereby be restored to the public domain,
md that contestant c. j. Blanchard and!
ross contestant T. s. Cook, be denied tho
night to enter the same.
Thirty days is allowed for an appeal
rom this decision to the honorable commis1
ZION of the general land office.
'lSignedI JOHN I. Ollie, Register.
&C. NJ. BARNES, Receiver"
This is considered by the citizens to be q
est case, and they are not expecting any
mercy to be shown to settlers who come be-
fore the 22d of April.
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Rolling Molten Metal.

CHICAGO, July IA firm in the city en-
gagged in the manufacture of tin cans and
Japaned ware has patented device which
will revolutionize the iron and steel indus
try of the world. It is s press by which
molten metal can be rolled into any desired
shape, thus saving all intermediate pro-
cesses. II was invented originally to roll
molten solder into thin plates, but the pro-
cess is pronounced BY experts to be equally
applicable to iron and steel in its various
forms of plates, structural iron and rails.
It is believed that the cost of manufacturing
steel rails can be reduced to the extent of
SO per ton. and that their iron plates for
timing can be made much below the cost
of production of tin plates IN Wales, thus
making new industry in this country. The
molten metal is passed between rollers which
is chilled as it passes, the rollers being kept
cold by stream of water which passes
through them. Another advantage is that
iron and steel so rolled will be much more
even and closer in texture than that made
by present methods.
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GOULD GETS 1T.

The Chioago and Alton Sold to the
Missouri Pacific.
NEW YoRK, July 20.-Wan street 10 kept
busy with reports of conferences of railroad
officials aud bankers, and after the close of
the exchange it was asserted that the sale of
the Chicago 4 Alton to the Missouri Pacific
had been completed, and the first deposit of
the purchase money, to the amount of 81,
100000, had already been made.
The rumors carried additional weight,
from the fact that Vice Presidsnt McMu1len
was already in the city and that Chairman
Walker of the interstate association and
General Manager Clarke of the Missouri
Pacific are expected every hour.
Neither kidder. Peabody d Co, nor
Drexel, Morgan d Co, would admit that they
had any >ee of deal, but in spite
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A Bad Gang Broken Up.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, July 23.-Two horse
and cattle thieves and the dead body of the
leader of the gang passed through here to
Socorro. They had stolen several horses
from Dedrick's ranch and four from ranch
near Gallup, this county. They were des-
perate and defied arrest. Deputy Sheriff
Dawson, of Apache county, organised q
posse and soon came upon the thieves. A
general battle took place and the leader of
the gang q desperate MEXICAN was shot
serious wound. The other two surrendered.
This breaks up bad gang of horse and
cattle thieves.
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lrrigating Methods Under Investi-
cation.
DODGE CRY, KAN, July 20.-A committee
appointed by the board of regents of the
agricultural college of Manhattan, Kan,
consisting of President George F. Fairchild,
Professor E. NJ. Shelton and Hon. NJ. Car
away, of Great Bend, one of the regents of the
college, who were appointed to inspect the
system of irrigation and the result attained
thereby in the western portion of Kansas,
visited this section and inspected the Eureka
irrigating canal and the system of irriga-
ton al, is now being employed for this Sec
ton. They were highly pleased with what
they saw, and from here they 60 to Garden
City and points west of here.
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WEATHER CROP BULLETIN

Of the Kansas Weather Service. In
Co-Operation With the u. .. SlrnaI
Service. for the Week Ending July
20. 1859.
PRECIPITATION.
The rainfall this week has been above the
normal in the northern and southern coun-,
lies, but below in the central counties west.
Of Usage and Cohey, and in the southeastern
counties. The heaviest rainfall reported
was five inches in Pottowatomie, followed
BY two and half in Sumner, two and a
quarter in Rawiins. two and upwards in
Grant, Manhattan and Cowley. The def
:iency in the central counties of the western
division continues and has extended into the
vest central counties of the middle division.
THHPKRATURE AND suNsH1NE.
The temperature has ranged from about
aOrmal in the eastern counties to considera-
ole of an excess in the western. reaching 1Ok
degrees in Stanton, 107 in Haskell, 1O1 in
Cowley, 50 in COffey, 1OS in Edwards. lib in
Cove, and ia in Trego.
There has been q deficiency in sunshine
IN Ford, Comanche, Pottowatom mic and Mem
lha, but over the state generally there has
oeen an excess.
The effect of the weather conditions has
las been to bring the corn, hay and potatoe
:rops well forward this week in the eastern
and middle divisions, and the northern
counties of the western. The hot winds OF
the 18th, 18th and 18th injured the corn ana
cane crops in the southwestern and west
srn counties, but did not effect the young
millet, nor the pumpkin, squash or the melon
Aines. The rain of the 18th will revive the
cane and it is believed the corn also, bus
farther north, in Scott, Lane, Ness, Treao,
Cove and Logan more rain il needed.
Wheat ana oat threshing il in general pro-
in Stanton and Grant, while chinch bugs.
are at work in Coffey and Woodson.
]. B. JENNINGS.
Signal CORDS, Assistant Director.
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Cattle Must Go.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 0-Secretary
Noble has issued peremptory order to the
agent at the Quappawa Indian agency in
the northeastern part of the Indian territory
to Immediately remove from the res
ervation all cattle unlawfully herded there
on.
Members of the Cherokee Indian COM
mission will meet in st. Louis on the list of
the present month and with a. little delay as
possible, proceed to the Indian territory.
They are expected to arrive at Talequah the
capital of the Cherokee nation, on or about
july O.
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Burke Still on British Soil.
OTTAWA, ONT., July 2O.-The papers in
the Burke extradition matter have been re-
received at the department of justice from
Winnipeg lapse of time being provided
for by law and an order of extraditlon can
not issue until the 18th inst. and in the
meantime the minister of justice will have
an opportunity Of considering the merits of
the case.
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Jumped the Track,

INDIANAPOLIS, md July 19.-The Journal
learns from Vincennes that the Cairo & Vim
CHIMES north bound passenger No. 2 met
miles south of Mount Carmel hi. in WHICH
twelve to fifteen passengers were seriously
injured. It was rushing along at q speed of
about thirty-6ve miles per hour. The for
ward car jumped the track and threw the
train into the ditch and down a ten foot en-
bankment. The passengers were thrown
around in every direction and q perfect
pandemonium ensued. Most of the passen-
gers were extricated only by cutting into the
coach with axes
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An International Exposltion.

An international Exposition.
New YORK, July 19.-Mayor Grant sent q
request to half a thousand of the most
prominent men in this part of this country,
representing 81 500, 600. 600, asking them to
be present at q conference of representative
citizens to consider the advisability of hold
ing an International exposition in this city
in 1892, and to arrange for the preliminary
work, If deemed advisable.
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tenants, Defense League.

Tenants Defense League.
LONDON, July 24.-The Parnellite menu
bers of parliament met to discuss the sub
iect of the Tenants Defence league. A res
olution was adopted declaring that the OBJ
hat are formed for the purpose of extorting
Unjust rents and arrears, imposing ineqmt-
able terms of purchase, stimulating evic-
ions and destroying the security of tenants
N their holdings.
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Harvest Excursion Rates.

Harvest Excursion Rates.
CHICAGO, July 23.-Chairman Abbott of
the Western States passenger association,
has made ruling on point that has been
raised in regard to harvest excursion rates.
Il was agreed that these rates should be for
the round trip equal to the lowest first class
fare one way. Since the date of the action
the regular rate has been cut by one road SO
that the first class fare to Colorado and in
termediate points is lower than when the
agreement was made. The chairman rules
that cut rate can't be used for basing pur-
poses and that the round trip fare must be
made on the basis of the normal rate in ex-
istence at the time of the agreement.
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Lives Lost by Flood.

UvALDE, Tex, July 20.-Reports continue
to come from the surrounding country re-
garding thu high water. Lives are known
to be lost Information comes from the
drowning of boy at Leaky. Two men at
tempted to cross Dry FRO and were drowned
Saturday. Both of the Frios are niger than
ever before and the destruction to property
is great,
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The Flour Output

The Flour Output.
MINNEAPOLIS, July 19.-The Northwestern
Millers says: Last weeks average daily out
put was again raised to nearly Is, 900 barrels.
Sales have fallen off good deal and mil
lers are accepting orders they would not
consider q week ago. What demand there
is, is for immediate shipment, the jobbers
crowding millers to have filed in rush all
orders that are booked. The direct exports
of -four last week were 3l,SOO barrels,
against 1890 barrels for the preceding
week. The wheat outlook has improved
and the quality will be good and the yield
will be moderate.