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Another Kansas CycIone.

One Of the most fatal cyclones ever known
in Kansas struck the southwestern Counties OF
the State on the night of June % AS result
of the visitation scores Of homes, whole forests,
and acres OF crops have been destroyed. About
25 unfortunate people were killed, and in many
instances their bodies were torn to pieces by
the awful force of the wind. Many other
people were SO seriously injured that their
death is only question Of few hours.
Several hundred head of cattle and horses
were also killed. The full details of the horror
are not yet complete, owing to the damage
done to telegraph wires.
The storm first struck Williamstown, in JEFF
ferson County, at o'clock in the evening 1t
was travelling at the rate of 80 miles an hour,
and was upon the village before the people
knew what had happened. A pail of black
ness overspread the town. and with an awful
roar the wind tore into the dwellings. When
daylight returned, Is minutes later, every
house and building was in ruins.
After the storm passed the people of Perry
and Lawrence were summoned to the scene.
The demolition was awful, and the hunt with
lanterns over the wind-swept spot for the dead
and dying commenced. All night long this
work was in progress. corps of physicians
from the two towns WAS quartered at Perry,
TWO miles distant, administering 10 the wants
of the crippled and MANNED, while citizens
from the towns were gathering the dead and
dying from the prairie and laying them out
in large building provided for that pur-
nose
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NAV Rerefva Their MONEY!.

New York mon may secure their substitute
money with interest The New York men
who got out of going to the war when they
were drafted are in fair way to get back the
$500 they paid for substitutes. together with
the interest on the sum from the time it was
paid until now. By special act last year the
New York State Legislature made this possible.
The drafted men are taking advantage Of the
law to greater extent than any one expected
they would.
The law provides that each County in the
State may vote on the proposition of repsying
the drafted men within its borders. A State
organization has been perfected and the COM
mittee is making an effort to have the Counties
throughout the State return them the money,
which, with interest would amount to several
thousand dollars for each man. Petitions ask
ing the Boards of Supervisors in the various
Counties to authorize vote on the matter are
being circulated, and wherever the signatures
of two-thirds of the taxpayers of County are
secured, the question of repaying the men will
be voted upon. Much opposition to the scheme
ia develoDinV.
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End Of the Borden Case.

Lizzie Borden, charged with the murder Of
her father and mother. was acquitted. the jury
returning verdict of not guilty Since her
release she has remained at her home in Fall
River, Mass, and is in receipt Of thousands oil
letters from all parts of the country congratu-
lating her on her acquittal, coming principally
from members OF the Womens' Christian Tenn
perance Union and the various Christian En-
deavor Societies.
Marshal Hilliard and Mayor Coughlin, her
prosecuting attorneys, are receiving some as
tonishIng letters. most of them being of the
dirtiest and most vilifying character. One letter
received from Lowell would cost the writer a
sound thrashing if the Marshal could lay hands
on him. Among the curiosites he has received
is large leather medal from New York State
Judge Baisdell is in receipt of a communica-
ton from crank which is postmarked Ames-
bury. The writer censures the Judge for his
connection with the Borden case, and advises
him to go back to shoemakng.
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prevailed. Ireland is now o nation. In that
| new character 1 hail her, and bowling to her
| august presence l say este perpetual"
Flood was more restrained in his imagery
| and passion but he was q closer reasoner and
probably stronger man than Grattan. Both
! Flood and Grattan sat in the Imperial House
| of Commons after the union, and both were
failures. HE was too old an oak. said Grattan,
| generously, of his rival to bear transplant
| ing" But style of speaking which man OF
! genius can make impressive becomes ridiculous
| in the minor orators, and the specimens of
| bombastic rubbish which have come down to
| US show what this style was at its worst
| The old building still stands, and doubtless,
| if an Irish Parliament were to be re-estab-
| lished, an attempt would be made to recover it
| from the Bank of Ireland, which has made it
| its home for nearly century. The House of
Lords, converted into directors room, re-
mains practically unchanged. the benches and
the throne only being removed. What would
be the fate of the two tapestries which cover
the walls2 Surely patriotic" Upper Cham
Der, elected by f20-householders, would never
sit in peace or comfort under these cunningly-
wrought representations of the battle of the
Boyne and the siege OF Derry. King William
and Governor Walker would not be the gods
of their idolatry
But although the building is not much al
tered. the city in which it stands and tho
country of which that city is the Capital, have
undergone vital change since an Irish Parlia-
mept sat for the last time and voted away it's
existence. Violence, bloodshed, turbulence,
rebellion-those were the normal incidents of
Irish life in the last decade of the last CEN
fury.
The Ireland of 1893. judged by every stan
dard of civilized existence is UNNECESSARILY in
advance of the Ireland of 1893. What the
future has in store for the most interesting
and the most perplexing country in Western
Europe he would be rash man who would
foil
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SENATOR STANFORD DEAD.
One OF California's Greatest and Richest
Men Passes Away.

HaeH IaSS6& AWAys
United States Senator Leland Stanford died
June co. at his residence in Palo Alto, Cal. He
was discovered dead in his bed about midnight.
The Senator had been silng for some time, his
symptoms being apopleetic, and he had been
under heroic treatment for about six weeks.
Leland Stanford was born in Watervliet,
N. Y, March 9, 1894 In iS49 he was practic-
ing law at Port Washington. Wis. He lost his
law library by fire, and then followed his three
brothers to California. With them he engaged
in placer mining at Michigan Bluff. 1t was in
1856 that, having made considerable money. he
removed TO San Francisco, and entered into
mercantile pursuits on an extensive scale.
He thus laid the foundation of an enormous
fortune, which has been estimated as high
as $75, 100000. All this time he had been
acquiring great local reputation and in6u-
ence, and in 1860 he appeared at Chicago
as delegate to tho convention which NOM
mated Lincoln for President. The next year
he was nominated and afterwards elected as
Governor of California and it was greatly due
to his efforts that California was kept in the
Union column.
His greatest achievement was the building
of the Central Pacific road. He had from the
first been an ardent exponent OF the needs of
the Pacific coast for railroad communication
with the East, and in 1861, when the company
was organized, he was made its President For
eight years he laborcd unremittingly, and on
May TO- 1869, he drove the last spike at Prom
ontory Point, Utah.
He first took his seat as Senator on March A,
1886. He early acquired respect and influence
in National politics on the Republican side,
and on the com petion of his term, in 1892,
was again elected. His featy was always to
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an olive wreath, as If about to place it on the
head of a soldier. In the left hand the Victory
holds garland of flowers and pole crowned
with iberty-cap. On her breast is a star, and
around her waist belt with the motto " Ex-
celsior." The pedestal is of granite, and is so
feet in hight. Its base is square, and bears
four bronze tablets inscribed with the names
of the New York soldiers killed and wounded
in the fight.
From this base rises round column So feet
high, with ford composite cap. Around the
lower part of the column is belt of bronze,
relieves. They form more or less continuous
series, but portray especially four different
scenes of the battle. One of these shows Gen.
Hancock badly wounded and being helped
from his horse; another Gen. Reynolds dying
on the field he had helped to win; the third,
Gen. Sickles wounded and falling from his
horse, and being caught by Gen. J. b. Carr, and
the fourth, Gen. Slocum surrounded by his
staff. All the figures are lifelike and easily
recognizable.
The statue was designed by Casper Buberl, a
Bohemian artist, who has been resident of
this country for about 80 years. He has de-
signed many battle monuments, the most re-
cent being the Confederate Memorial at Char
lottesyille. He spent over year on this
| statue. The actual work of casting was begun
in February by the Henry Bonnard Bronze
Company, No. A30 West Sixteenth street. The
statue weighs $500 pounds and cost $12, 600.
The cost of the whole structure, including the
pedestal and column, was $4,000. Its site will
mark the position of the New York troops in
the battle
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AT THE PENSION OFFICE.
Doings i'm That Bureau of Interest to Vet
Grams.


Secretary Hoke Smith last week dispensed
with the services of % Special Examiners in
the Pension Bureau. This class of employees,
of whom there are 80, are paid 81 300 year and
a per diem allowance of So day. The law
provides tenure of Office of one year, when
they may be dropped or reappointed. The
purpose of the Commissioner is 10 detail clerks
to fill the duties of these examiners hereafter.
Th ose dropped were:
Joseph f. Allison, Illinois; J. A. Buchanan,
Illinois; Martin L. Bundy, jr., Indiana; John
J. Burman, Rhode Island Cornelius +. BORON,
Connecticut; VIM. b. Benham, New York
Jacob Corlies, New Jersey Newton I. Colby,
Pennsylvania; Andrew Downing, Iowa; Albert
II. Davis, Indiana; Joseph NJ. Dufour. Indiana
J. Ii. Elliot, j. Don Farden, Alabama; Geo. w.
Fernald, New York; Sam'l Trace, Indiana;
Michael A. Gelwick, Indiana; Benton Halstead,
Ohio; Charles T. Hill, New York; Nathaniel
A. Lowry, Iowa; S. w. McEldery, Iowa; James
Z. Matthews, Maryland; William r. Page,
Ohio Homer Riggs, New York Charles b.
Robbins, Indiana; Charles d. Sloan, Now
York; Horace 6. Slower. Missouri; Oliver c.
Terry, Indiana, and Samuel Woods, Pennsyl-
vania.
The foregoing are ali Republicans, it is said,
and many were Union veterans OF the Spe-
cial Examiners remaining in the service two
thirds are Republicans and one-third Demo.
Gratis.
There will be no pension deficiency for the
year which ends June 30. The figures put
forth by the Treasury Department show that
the appropriations for pensions were: For the
fiscal year 1892 93, STAG, 737, $50; deficiency for
the year 1893 and prior years, $14,144, 984
total, $50, s82 234; expended for pensions for
II months ended May 81. STAT, 800
for June, up to the 22d, $10,3S0000; esti-
mate for next eight days of June 81, 100000;
total, $I59, 1896, 366 This will leave a surplus
of about $l.000,000, which will be turned into
the Treasury.
Capt. James Kearney. Special Examiner, now
at Pittsburg, Pa, recently spoke of the work
of the members Of the new Board of Revision
Every member Of the Board is thoroughly
familiar with the work and has the law at his
finger ends / expect this Board will refuse
at least 100000 pensions, including those i'm
properly on the pay roll aud those now apply
ing. Applications are still going in at the rate
of nearly 500 month"
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Congressman VIM. Mutchler dropped dead
from heart disease at his home in Easton, Pa,
juno %, at the age of 81. He was the Demo
cratic member of Congress from the Eighth
Pennsylvsnia District, and he leaves a widow
and one son.
William Mutchler was born in Northampton
County, Dec. 81, 1881. He was lawyer By
profession. In 1867 President Johnson APP
pointed him Assessor of Internal Revenue,
which Office he held for two years. He was
Chairman of the Democratic State Committee,
1e69'70, and was a member of the 44th, 47th,
48th, 51st and SD Congresses. He was re-
elected to the SD Congress last Autumn.
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Letter Carriers I'm the service.

There are now 1880 letter-carTiers in the
service of the PostOfiice Department. This
information is given in an official statement
which has beer prepared, showing the number
of carriers in the service on June 80. 1884. and
those appointed monthly since that time. in
cluding the appointments made at newly estab-
lished Offices until July /, 1898. This num-
Der is 7,740.
The number in the service throughout the
country, on the 30th Of each June. from and
including 1884, is as follows: 1850 in 1884
4.355 in 1885, 4s41 in 1856, 500 in 1857, .346
1888 5,257 in 1889, 9066 in 1890, 10, 100 in 1891
1879 in 1892. and on July /, of this year,
there will be II $50.
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cident There was at any rate no fuss about
! constituents or local committees. If a man
sold himself TO the Government that was his
business.
The style and. eloquence that prevailed on
II the Green" was not such as would be consid-
cred worthy Of admiration in these colder and
more measured times. Indeed, it is doubtful
whether IL would ever have been successful at
Westminster; but it was undoubtedly very
fine of its sort. Flood and Grattan were Gar
fists in orstory. Every phrase, every gesture,
every tone was studied and rshearsed, and the re-
sult-sententious, lsbored artificial as we should
regard 1t nowadays-wss a stately piece of decls-
nation. What could be finer than Grattan's
| invocation at the opening of free Parliament
! just Ill years ago. 81 found Ireland OIL her
knees; watched over her with paternal sOlici.
tude; have traced her progress from injuries
to arms. and from arms to liberty. Spirit of
Swift! Spirit of Molyneux! your genius has
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Aprcr o HE HOUSE or LORDS WIFE STATUE OF Nv

those of which everybody thinks when the
Irish Parliament is spoken Of Very strange
and turbulent were the sittings in those years,
into which so much history was crowded. 1t
is an assembly about which strong things have
been said on both sides, and it is probable that
both are right.
That the group of leading men who passed
through it produced as many examples of high
character. great abilities and brilliant elOquence
as ever adorned any Parliament in the world s
history is true enough. but on the other hand,
no one can deny that its decisions were influ-
enced. not by patriotism or elOquence, but by
patronage that votes were bought and sold
as openly, as unblushingly as shares on the
Stock Exchange. And in a sense this was in
evitable.
In the first place. here you had an age OF
what we now call corruption on both sides
of the Channel. Members bought their way
into the House, or were presented TO a seat
By its lordiy owner" as a matter of course.
BorOughs had their price, which varied with
the number Of years for which the seat was
likely 10 be held. They could be bought out
right or for a Parliament. When Grattan
wished to return 20 College Green after his
long retirement. TO speak for the last time
against the union, be bought a seat as a natu-
raj and normal business transaction. And
when a member had paid for an article he
naturally wanted some return for his money.
What made the matter worse in Ireland of
course, was that there was 10 natural outlet
for the ability OF members. The cold shades of
opposition forever, or Office at the cost of
principles; that was tho only choice. There
was absolutely no public opinion to work
ulon, or 10 check venality. When members
came down, like Hedda Gabler's hero, flushed
and fearless, with vine leaves in their hair"
they occasionally told the truth about each
other. When Grattan referred to Flood as
l..
his mouth aud bride in his pocket" or when
another member expressed his candid opinion
about the family of an opponent, from the
pensened placeman on the foor of the House
TO the painted Jezebel grinring in the gallery"
there was of course, an unpleasantness'
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TIE IRISH PARLIAMENT HOUSE IN ITS ORIGINAL CONDITION.

sat under the Cloth of Estate. being himself ap-
psreed in princely robes Of crimson velvet.
doubled or laced with ermins and then aud
there the Lord Chancellor made most eloquent
speech, declaring what the law was, after which
he concluded with an exhOrtstion 10 dutifulness
and obedience when the court adjourned until
the goth of January"
Not very fruitful or effective sitting of Par
lament, judged from our present-time stand
point, but in the spacious days" of the
good Queen "dutifulness and obedience" were
doubtless the safest cards TO play, even in Ire
land
Early hours were the rule in the Irish Par
lament of that date. for. although they had
"9 o'clock sittines" the hour was 8 in the
morning and not in the evening and business
was generally over in time for the House To ad-
tourn for I2-O'clock dinner The members
were paid. County members receiving mark
day while the House sat, Borough mem bers
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Columbian Liberty Bell Cast.

The Columbian Liberty Bell was cast at the
Clinton II. Meneely Bell Foundry, Troy, n. Y,
June %, in tue presence of large number of
people. The time for the casting was set at 4
o'clock in the afternoon, but owing to the
damp atmosphere the furnace did not draw
well, and it was 8:25 when the bell was cast 1t
was originally intended that Mrs. Cleveland
would touch the button at Gray Gables where
by electrical apparatus at the Foundry would
be set IN motion releasing the metal from the
furnace, but Mrs Cleveland could not venture
out in the northeast gale which prevailed at
Buzzard's Bay. At Bis the molten metal
started from the furnace, and seven minutes
later dubbed up from the mouth of the mold
and the casting was over. The bell weighs 49,
600 pounds, and will be rung for the first time
at Chicago July A.
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ANOTHER MONUMENT.

Description of the Statue Erected by New
York at Gettysburg in Honor of Her Sol
diers.
The statue in honor of the soldiers from New
York who were killed or wounded at Gettys-
burg will be dedicated on the anniversary OF
the battle or on what has been termed New
York Day" The Legislature of the State made
appropriations for it two years ago, and now
the monument has been shipped to the battle
field and prepared for the dedicatory cere-
monies.
The statue is bronze female figure repre-
senting Victory. 1t is Is feet eight inches in
hight, and holds in the outstretched right hand
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being put off with beggarly 10 shillings. The
sessions, however, were not long nor were the
meetings frequent, so that neither knight nor
Burgess was likely. on the strength of IS
shillings four pence, or of the 10 shillings, to
be tempted to take to politics as profession.
There seems to be no record either in England
or in Ireland of how the change came about
from payment of members for their services TO
payment by members for the privilege of sit
ting. However it happened, the change is in
disputable for by the end of the 18th century the
market price for Borough had risen to $4,000.
Perhaps the preparation OF jobs and the giving
away of snecures and other Offices had some
thing to do with it. The history of Paria-
ments from this point of view has still to be
written.
But the Is years, from 1882 to the union, are
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Removing the Prussian Dead.

The Prussan Guard who fell at Stall, just
over the French border, in 1870. were removed
recently to German soil. detachment of the
Prussian Guard and a company of infantry
crossed the frontier were received courteously
by the French troops and were given the collins
in which were encased the remains of the dead
The bodies were buried at the foot of monu
ment near Gravelotte. The firing of three
volleys over the graves ended the ceremony
All the German officers who were at Stall praise
the courtesy and generosity of the French
troops in rendering military honors to the
dead Prussian soldiers.
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nance wherewith to enhance the short-lived
glories of Grattan's Parliament"
Representative institutions, like other Irish
grievances, were of course, of English impor-
tation. The settlers in the Pale " naturally
brought their territorial ideas with them, and
the Barons and citizens met from time to time
at various places to present their grievances to
the King or the Lord Deputy, just as they had
been used to do at home.
Accordingly. we hear of Magma Charta being
confirmed. and of Parliaments being held at
Iismore, Trim, Kilkenny, and other places as
well as at Dublin. The Irish enemy" were, il
Qeed not be said, entirely unrepresented and
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Jumped from the BROOKLYN Bridge,

John j. Haggerty, a plumber, lesped from
the Brooklyn Bridge recently on the wager for
pint of beer. He was discovered but too late
TO prevent his leap Immediately after strik-
ing the water he appeared and began to swim,
refusing an offer of assistance. When he
reached the wharf two policemen were there
ready to arrest him. He was taken TO the
station, carefully examined, pronounced I'M
hurt, and lock ed up.
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prjucess EuIalie Leaves.

The Princess Eulalie, with her husband and
suite, sailed from New York June "a, on the
steamer La Touraine for Spain, by the way OF
Havre. After returning home the Princess
will 60 to London, where she will represent
Spain at the marriage of Prince George and
Princess MAY of Teck.
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The Statue to Gen. Cooke.

The next big event in Richmond will be the
dedication of the statue which will be erected
In memory of Gen. John r. Cooke The cere.
monies will occur sometime in November, on
the grounds of Lee Camp Soldiers Home. The
statue is to be placed on a pedestal, and will
represent Gen. Cooke with an animated ex-
preston. 1t will be seven feet nine inches tall.
The general style is after the A. p. Hill and
w. &. Wick ham monuments
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uneonsidered at these gatherings which were
purely and solely Parliaments Of the Pale.
POynings's act destroyed any shadow of indie
pendence or authority which this body might
have possessed, and for generations the Irish
Parliament" cODtented itself with registering
the DEGREES of the English Cabinet It's place
ofmeeting when it assembled in Dublin was as
unsettled as its Constitution. The Castle, the
Custom House the market house, or other con-
Venient buildings. served the purpose till the
latter end Of the 18th century. when Chichester
House was set apart for its special accomnoda-
tion, and Chichester House in time gave place
70 the present House, built on the same site.
Here is glimpse Of the Irish Parliament as
IL looked in Queen Elizabeth's time, when Sir
Philip Sidney ruled in Dublin. The writer is
one Hooker, who was member for Athenry,
now a collection OF tumbedoWn novels in Gal
way, but at one time its name denotes the
abode OF one of the numerous Kings" with
whom the Island was afflicted. Sidney evil
IDENTIFY wanted 10 introduce some Of that glory
Of color which made Elizabeth's reign so pictur-
esqne.
ION the first day" says Hooker. "tbe Lord
Deputy was conducted and attended in most
honorable manner 70 Christ Church, and from
thence unto the Parliament House, where he