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Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
The Senate Will Not Concur,

WASHINGTON, d. c.. May S.-A meeting of
at which the Morrill, disability and service
pension bill combined, substituted by the
house for the senate pension bill. was under
consideration. Formal action was postponed
until the next meeting of the committee. It
is understood, however, that opposition to
the house measure was practically unanimous
and that the committee will recommend the
senate to non-concur in the action of the
house.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
commencement Exercises.

MANHATTAN, KAN, May 1O.-The follow.
ing is the programme of commencement ex-
ercises at the State Agricultural college:
Saturday evening, June Z, address before
the literary societies by Rev. B. J. Radford
of Cincinnati, ''The Way and End of Cul-
ture."
Sunday evening, June 8, baccalaureate ser
mon by the president, Hon. George T. Fair.
child.
Monday afternoon. June 9, Glass Day. y
Monday evening, exhibition of the third yeal
class.
Tuesday evening, June 10, annual address,
by Dr.. E. E. White, of Cincinnati, 'sChar-
acter."
Wednesday, June IL, 10 a. M, commence
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Rv Sunlight.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 12.-An official
dispatch received at the signal Office from
General Greely, at Fort Bayard, N. NJ, was
transmitted from Fort Bayard to Prescott.
At, a distance of coo miles. by the Hello
c,rapb system of flashes of sunlight.
This system was used successfully by Gen
eral Miles in the Apache campaign, and it is
now in operation over line of 1 600 miles in
Arizona and New Mexico. 1t is used quite
extensively in the British army and by some
other foreign powers. Besides filling long
felt want in army movements on the plains,
it will probably be adopted for transmitting
election returns from back counties.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
The Slate Changed Some.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 10.-The presi-
dent has sent to the senate the following
nominations:
George W. Steele, of Indiana, to be gov
ernor of the territory of Oklahoma.
Robert Martin. of Oklahoma, secretary of
the territory of Oklahoma.
Supreme court officials of the territory of
Oklahoma.
Edward B. Green, of Illinois, chief justice.
Abraham J. Seay, of Missouri, and John
G. Clark, of Wisconsin, associate justices.
Warren S. Lurty, of Virginia, United States
marshal.
Horace Speed, of Oklahoma, United States
attorney.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Saven Pauners Burned.

, B1sGHAMroS, n. Y, May 10.-A special
fam Norwich states that the Chenango
county poor house burned, at II O'Clock at
night, and that the lives of seven inmates of
the institution we're lost. The fire started in
the insane department. All the departments
were crowded. and but for hard work on the
part of the keepers the loss of life would
have been terrible. The buildings and con-
tents destroyed were valued at 1900 and
were insured for 4OOO
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Morrill, Not Very Confident.

WAsHINGToN. d. c, May IZ.-Chalrman
Morrill,, of the house committee on invalid
pensions, says: "The senate committee is
considering our dependent pension bill,
which is, as it passed the house, essentially
different from and more liberal than the
senate bill. They will consider it week
longer and than probably ask for confer
ence committee. We will meet them more
than half way rather than not secure legisla-
ton of this nature. 1t is not likely the SOL
diers will get "a much as they want, or as
much as they think they should have, but we
will do our best to reach liberal conclusion
with the senate conferrees."
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Tit fOrTat.

New YORK, May 10.-Papers were served
on ex-Judge Henry Hilton in an action insti-
tuted against him by James F. Graham, city
editor of the New York Herald, for $50, 600
damages for libel. The complaint Is based
upon the letter written by ex-J Judge Hilton to
District Attorney Fellams, and on which the
grand jury found indictments against four
members of the Worlds staff for criminal
libel. Several sentences from the Hilton
letter are quoted to show that the plaintiff in
this case has been maliciously lbeled.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Bad Leavenworth Negro,

LEAvENwoRTH, KAN, May 1O.-The partic-
ulars have just been received of daring
robbery, whereby a German living few
miles across the river was robbed of$100 in
gold by negro who entered the house, bound
a 14-year-old girl in chair, and threatened
to kill her if she did not tell where the money
was. The girls parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Deuschter, were absent, and when they re-
turned they found their daughter bound and
half dead with fright, and the money gone.
The thief, Charles Lewis, has been captured
in this city.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
"oris,nal Package" Case,

WASHINGTON. D. c., May s.-Represena- g.
tive Boutell of Maine, has introduced in tho
house bill In the shape of section which it
is proposed to add to the interstate COM
merce act, and reads as follows: ''That
nothing contained in this &C. shall be con-
strued to authorize the sale or traffic in in
toxicating liquors in any state contrary to
the laws thereof"
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
FIRE! FIRE!
Minnesota and Wisconsin All
AblaZG.

Forest Fires Extensive ana De
structive-Great NILS In DanRer-
Small Towns in Danger from
Prairie Fires-A Hurricane Spreads
FIre-A Broom Factory Burns.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
Brought to TaW.

COLUMBUS, O., May 10.-Attorney General
Watson has brought suit in quo warranto In
the supreme court to take from the Standard
Oil company its charter, for violation OF the
laws in various ways.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
TURNER'S SUCCESSOR?
The Colby Convention Work.
ing in Harmony.

The Platform Favors Increase Of
Currency by Free Coinage Of Sill
yer; Contraction of Corporations.
Prevention of Trusts. Control OF
Railroads; Service Pension.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
And is il True?

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 10.-Congress-
man James G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, while
attending the funeral of Senator Beck, was
so drunk that he could not get on the train
which was to carry the funeral party to Ken
lucky.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15

ment orations; 2:45 p. M, military drill; p.
M, address before the society of alumni, by
NJ. E. Leasure, ESQ, of La Cygne, class of
1877: p. m, alumni banquet.
The graduating class this year numbers
twenty-seven, and attendance for the year
is $40.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
CorruptIon in Brazil.

BuEyos AYREs, May 9.-Grave peculations
have been discovered in the customs depart
ment here The revenue lost by the govern
ment by the embezzlement is estimated to
have reached the enormous sun of $10,OO,-
600 annually.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
KANSAS CITY'S LUCK.
The Santa Fe to Send Out an
Earlier Train West

Division Superintendents Manipu-
lating the String Board to Make
Room for Its California Through
Train to Leave Kansas City at a.
m.-Heavy Freight Business.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15
cIarkson VIII Resign.

PnTsBuRG.-AssistantP Postmaster Clark
son, while at the union station. on his way to
the sick bed of his father, said he had decided
difiEitely 70 leave the postal service July l.
Thomas County cat., 1890-05-15

The house continued the debate on the
Mckinley bill.
Mr.. Gear, of Iowa, said the bill had been
framed in harmony with the verdict OF the
people.
Mr.. Crisp. of Georgia, did not believe that
to the manufacturer protection had been a
beneficial system. As to the laborers IN
manufacturing and the farmers throughout
the land. he felt sure the system had been
injurious. The system drove out competi-
ton.
Mr.. Payne. of New York, argued in sup
port of the bill; and Mr.. Wheeler, of Ala
bama, spoke against it.
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Flood in the Little Wabash.

CAIRO, Ills. jan. Is Three hundred mar.
sons at Carmi, Ills, have baen compelled II
leave their homes by a sudden rise in tba
Little Wabash river. and it is feared that
still larger number will be forcad to absn.
don their dwellings and take refuge on biob
ground. The river is out of ils banks and
the northern part of the iowa is flooded 10
a depth of twenty feet in some places aid
from IS to a hundred houses are submerged
The houses have ali been vacated. the pa5.
pie seeking refuge in the spare rooms Of
their %ueighbors in the southern part Of the
town. Vast stretches of lo8!ard aod
meadow are under water, and g number Of
animals have been carried away or drown.
ed in the fields. Fence rails, boards and
other drift borne down the stream by The
raging waters indicate that the farmers
have suffered severely. Much hay on boz.
tom lands has been ruined. Il Is reported
that the worst is yet to come and that tn
people in towns along the Little Wabash are
preparing for the worst. A Corgiu it IA
expected that the river Will rise 10 feet high.
or. II this does happen the result sill he
appalling.
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Death of Walker Blaine

Walker Blaine, eldest son OF Secretary
Blaine, and examiner OF claims Of the State
Department, died in Washington last night
of pneumonia, auperinduced by the grippe.
On Thursday Mr.. Blaine attended a recep-
ton to Mrs. Gen, Grant. That evening he
was seized with pain and feverish depres-
sion and vent to his home. Ga the next
morning he went to the State Department,
but remained only a few minutes, and re-
turned to his home and went to bed. On
Tuesday the symptoms became aggravated
and pneumonia supervened, accompanied
by high fever and delirium, until death &C.
CURED. Walker Blaine was thirty.fVe
years Of sge and unmarried. His first ap-
pearance in public life was as Third Assist
ant Secretary of State when his father wss
in Gar6eld's cabinet. He was a young man
of attainmehts, tact and ability, and was
highly respected BIZ those who knew him.
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Tho IepOrts wore debated at length.
Wholesale Execution.

Fort EMITH, Ark, Jan. 16.-John Austin
John Dilley, Thos. Willis, Sam Coin, jim
Barris and Jefferson Jones, full blooded
Choctaws. convicted of murder In the first
degree, we're hanged here at 1912 2. N. to-
day.
Austin killed Thomas Elliott by shooting
him in the breast without q word of warn
ing. Elliott fell, when the murderer shot
him repeatedly, holding the pistol SO close
that the face of the murdered man was bad
Iy powder burned. John Dilley. Thos. Will
lis and Madison James were all full blooded
ChoctawH and were convicted OF the murder
OF a white man named A. B. Williams, by
whom they were accused of stealing some OF
his whisky. They then robbed and stripped
the body of every vcstige of clothing, Mad
lson Jsme5's sentence was committed to I'm
prisonment in the psnitentiary for 10 years.
Sam Coin and Jim Burris, full blooded
Choctaws, were convicted of the murder of
Houston Joyce, who stopped at the house OF
Jim Coin, an uncle of Sam, where he OK.
nosed his money. Ga leaving he was put
on 2 blind trail by Jim Burris, and after he
got out of eight was followed and killed.
Jefferson Jones, a full bloodad Choctaw, was
convicted of the foul and dastardly murder
of An old man. 65 years ofage, named Henry
Wilson.
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NEw YoRK, JanuIry 10.
Mr. Parke Found Guilty

LoND N, Jan. 16.-The trial of Mr.. Parke,
editor Of the North London Press, on The
charge criminal libel. preferred against him
by the Earl of Euston in connection with
the West End scandal, was concluded to-
day. Justice Hawkins, in summing up the
case. spoke of the great discrepancies in the
testimony of the witnesses called Oy Mr..
Parke's counsel to identify the Earl of Eus.
ton. Mr.. Parke was found guilty of libel
ing the Earl of Elston, and was sentenced
to one years imprisonment.
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SUPPRESSED LETTER There WAS an ex-
citing scene in the council chamber Of Pc.
tersburg last night during the meeting CT
the city council, called for the purpose Of
receiving reports from the council ind the
chamber of commerce., appointed to look
after the interest of the city in the Virginia
aud Carolina railroad. Mr.. William Il.
Mckinney, president OF the council, stated
that he had in his hand q letter addressed
to Mr.. Francis Il. Lassiter, city attorney,
from Colonel Guy, of Richmond, the con.
tents of which he would not read, as there
we're things in it concerning the railroad
which ought not to 20 in the papers, When
Mr.. Mckinney made this statement Mr..
William Cameron, a member OF the council,
said If there were any underband or side
issues in this matter let tba" come out.
Mr.. Mckinney became very much offended
at MIR. Cameron's language, anu Tor awhile
there was a war Of words between the two.
Later there were sharp words between
Councilman Osborne aud Councilman Cam.
erou. After the meeting adjourned Coun-
Gilman Cameron spologizad for any hard
things he may have said in heat of debate,
and was loudly spplauded.
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Arrested for Forgery.

TOLEDO. o, Jazz. l6.-Lamb. the express.
man, who negotiated the notes supposed TO
he forged, was, it is said, made the dupe Of
Madame de We're, a clairvoyaut, from
Cleveland. She admits that her real name
ia Florida G. Blythe. A queer compiler
tlon is that there appears TO be another Flor.
ida G.. Blythe, a lady of excellent reputa.
ton in Cleveland. Lamb and Madame De
We're we're arrested last night on 3 charge OF
forgery
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Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, who is travelling in Europe, has the
influenza.
Governor Leon Abtett's salary has been
raised by the New Jersey Legislature from
s., GOO to 5000
A slight but pronounced rttquake was
felt throughout the city of Columbia, 3. T.,
at GAO p. m. yesterday.
Em'n Pasha, the African explorer who
was injured by a fall, has had q relapse and
is in a critical condition.
The earnings and expenses OF the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad for December, 1889
are az follows: Earnings, 81, 1l6 2S3; ex
penses, 81 SAG. 56S net receipts, s779.7l5.
The bill sppropriating $50. 600 to refund
members their salaries lost by the Slicott
defalcation was defeated in the House OF
Representatives yesterday-yeas l26, nays
l42.
The gross postal receipts of the United
| States government during the quarter ended
December 81, 1889, were S6.27S. 61S, a gain
Of 1856 $50 over the corresponding quarter
OF 1888.
The boiler of the steam shovel used by the
| Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Ia excavating, at Fallston, Pa, exploded
! Yesterday killing che man and i%rjurlng thlr'
teen men, demolishing the shovel and break
ing all the windows 10 the neighborhood.
The Superior Court at Wilmington, Del,
! Yesterday delivered aD opinion recognizing
the right of a taxable to pay, and the duty
| of the collector to receive, the taxes prefer
ed by agents provided with bona fde pow
ers of attorney, but states that the court hai
no power to compel the collector to issue
tax receipts to any other than the taxable
In person.
A special to the st. Louis Post Dispatch
says that George Tobler and Charles Billiard
two Of the eight murderers who were sen
fenced to be hanged to-day at Fort Smith,
Ark, were reprieved By the President until
January 80. The men did not take very
kindly to the reprieve, saying if they are tc
be hanged at all they prefer to 60 with theil
companions in the grand event.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

DR.. s.. G. Gleaves, a prominent physician
of WytheVille, died Tuesday.
Mr.. Wm. i. Kerfoot. of Upperville, died
Tuesday evening of pneumonia.
Miss c. S. Haynes has been elected assist
J ant physician ct the Western Lunatic Asy
lum.
The Planters Bank at Amelia c. f., sus'
pended on last Tuesday and made an assign
ment.
Judge John H. McCue, a prominent law
yer of Stauntop, died yesterday, aged sixty
seven years.
The January term of the Circuit Court fol
Londoun, Judge Keith presiding, commences
next Monday.
James E. Slack aged 6S and Miss Eliza
Jane Nails, aged 60 years, were married al
Uppervllle on Thursday last.
DR.. Samuel G.. Gleaves, one Of the most
died Tuesday morning In Wytheville.
Judge John Lac Logan died at Lewiston,
Idaho, yesterday. He was admitted to the
bar at Salem, Va, when twenty one years
old.
Muscc, charged with murder, has been
sent from Charlottesville to L%ynchburg to
do away with the necessity of guarding the
jail.
Mr.. John Price, az old citizen of Loudoun
county, died at his home at Mnrrisonville on
Monday, January Oh, 10 the Stat year ofhis
age.
A raft containing $50. 900 feet of lumber,
that was being towed to Baltimore from
Portsmouth, went to pieces off Windmill
Point yesterday.
A company. embracing many of the lead
ing citizens of Winchester, bias been incorpo.
rated for the erection Of q cotton mill in
that city.
Luther, the interesting little son of Mrs.
N. Q. Sherman, of Fauquier county, was
burned one day last week, bnt il is thought
will recover.
Mrs. Nancy S. Hurt, mother of Hon. Jno.
L. Hurt, president of the Virginia Senate,
died at her home near Halifax Court House,
Monday. sged rs years.
On Wednesday the son of Mr.. J. s. Pitcher
at Bsstable Mill. Fauquier county, a very
bright little fellow, was caught in the cog
wheels of the mill and crushed to death.
Hon. John W. Daniel will deliver his adj
dress On the life of the late ex President
Jefferson Davis at Mozart Hall, Richmond,
on the evening of Saturday, January 25
A report by Railroad Commissioner Hill
shows that on the principal agricultural
products the charges of the Virginia rail-
roads are lower than those fixed by the
Georgia railroad commission.
The State Senate has adopted an amend
ment to the law defining the tenure of Office
of the commissioner of agriculture, 30 as to
require that at the time of his election that
officer shall be actually engaged in "tilling
the SOIL"
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Diseased Meat

ST. PAUL, MINI Jan. l6.-Ioformat!or
here yesterday is to the effect that a farmer
outside the city limits was Strengthening
hogs suffering from cholera, aad selling the
diseased meat for human food. IA inspect
or discovered in one pen G5 hogs infected
with cholera, and several carcasses that
were being dressed for market, Thirty
diseased carcasses had been disposed Of
The whole outfit was seiz.d aud the guilty
parties will be indicted by tho grand Jury.
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a Cold Wave.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. l6.-An exten.
sive cold wave now covers the Mississippi
valley from Lake Superior southwark to the
Gulf coast, the temperature having fallen
from 2O' to so, and Ia nov below freezing in
southern Texas and northern Louisiana.
This cold wave will be felt on the Atlantic
coast tonight, and during Friday and Satur
day the weather will be decidedly colder
and generally fair.
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Deaths from La Crime.

CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Tne reports received
at the health office yesterday we're not OF an
encouraging nature, IL Of the 81 death Ger
tiicates we're returned having the word
influenza" on the line after ths cause OF
death. The number of victims OF the grippe
was the same as that reported Tuesday but
the increase of deaths from other Diseases
was something alarming, it being larger by
II than the previous day.
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End of a Sensational Case.

LAPoRrE, lad Jan. ice la Wassel.
man, who created a sensation several months
ago, by making a murderous assault on Mira.
Minnie Leeds, died in the county jail yes
terday. She was born OF respectable parents
but had been living under an assumed name.
By her death one of the most sensational
and mysterious cas- IS is removed from court
ii at has ever been in this county, as it af-
fected one of the most prominent society
men of Michigan city.
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IF THE members of the Virginia legisla.
tuEe had not been so keen set upon passing
laws to repudiats the contract the State had
made with her creditors to receive the cou.
pons of hsr bonds in payment of taxes, they
would have had more time to consider the
seass of the Hog Island oyster beds, and
would not have subjected the State to large
p~ecuniary damages for breaking that con.
tract also.
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ANOTHER MAN GONE WRONG The

ANOTHER MAN GONE WRONG The
police of Richmond and Manchester ore
looking for j. T. Flournoy, of the latter city,
who has disappeared, taking with him sew.
eral hundred dollars of the money of two
benevolent orders of which he was financial
secretary. Flournoy has for many months
past been appropriating to his own use
money turned over to him by the lodges for
transmission to the supreme officers. Sus-
pecting that something was wrong, one of
the lodges last week sent their money
through another channel, and By return
mail the cash was returned, with q state
ment that the branch had been dropped
from the membership six months ago for not
sending Its assessments when called for.
Flournoy was in the habit of reading to his
brethren in meeting what %purported to be
receipts from the supreme treasurer. The
accused WAS last seen With a satchel and
overcoat going in the direction of a rail.
road depot.
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T,Ex A Ia, VA
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16.

A CONVENTION Of northern negroes as.
sembled at Chicago yesterday and declared
that their race had been robbed, murdered
and bulldozed, that hereafter if violence De
nsed towards them it will not be good lot
them to run away, and that they are ready
~ stab TO death any political party that
robs them of their votes and then asks them
what they are going to do about 1t. AS no
southern negroes were present, all this is a
nrstty bad showing for the protested espe
olal friends OF the negroes. the republicans
of the North.
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THE PHILADELPHIA american Gays
.sSith the republican organization confused
and dishearteued, and the protection demo
Gratis effsced, the result in 1892 does not
look attractive at this distance. This, sup
nlemeuted by similar remarks Of Congress
man Burrows and ex- editor D. G. Forney,
all rank republicans, BODIES no good to pro
longed republican rule, and should inouce
those now clothed with brief authority te
NAV as few fantastic tricks as possible, FOL
1he end cometh.
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A NEw YORK paper, with that lack OF
information concerning the South charac-
t~esistic of al northern newspapers, says;
White men can not do the work that COL
ored men now do in the South during the
hot months." This idea once obtained ever
10 the South; but it has long since been dis
pelleG, and experience has demonstrated
the fact that a white man can make more
cotton, rice and sugar than a negro.
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Foreign News.

LONDON, Jan. 16.-Col. Madison haa been
convicted Of publishing in the A~llahabad
India) Post a libel against Mr.. Herbert
Gladstone, son of the Right Hon. W. e.
Gladstone, and has been ordered to pay
81 900 damages.
LONDON, jap. 16-Mr. Alexander Craig
sellar, one of the most active liberalization
lists members OF the House Of Commons. is
0aad.
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Nothing to EQUAL it -

"IbsVe been ceiling Simmons Liver Reg.
ulator for the past six years. My customers
pronounce it the best ever used. One of my
customers whose health was in a wretched
condition from g very bad and stubborn case
OF Dyspepsia, used the Regulator and was
entirely cured. l an using it myself for
Torpid Liver, caused by close confinement.
I find uothing,to equal 1t and highly recon-
mend its use. Respectfully.
Sc. P. HIsEY, Druggist, Edinburg, Va"