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WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
Corn Making Great Hcadway Under the
Impulse OF Fine Weather.

Corn Making Great Hcadway Under the
Impulse OF Fine Weather.
TOPEKA, Kan. June 20.-The Kansas
weather crop bulletin says:
The rainfall las: week was gool generally In
the western division. Through The central
counties of the eastern division and in McPher-
son Kingman and Cowley counties 1t was light
generally in the middle vision.
The growing crops in the eastern division Of
the state in good condition Throughout
the western and central divisions the wheat
prospect is poor.
In the southern part Of the middle division
wheat straw is short, but the heads, although
short, are well filled AMI plump Barber coun-
ty reports onc-thirI of n crop. Sedgewick
county reports yield of fifteen bushels to the
acre. Harvesting will commence in Reno,
Harvey and Mcpherson counties next week.
Recent rains have wonderfully improved
the prospect in these counties In Ottawa
county in the Solomon valley some
wheat will be harvested next week but not
many fields will pay to harvest BIrton coun-
ty reports wheat sufficient for seed aad. bread
Mitchell and Cloud report improved conditions
Chinch bugs have been reported in some coun-
ties. They have been found as far rs the CEN
trail counties Of the state which is the first
year in The history Of Kansas that they ha gc
reached that far west They have done some
damage TO. wheat and are now passing into
Corn is in very good condition generally. ven
as far as the Colorado line. The pastures are
thin and dry in the western part OF the state.
In the eastern counties cor has been growing
at the rate Of two inches q dav the past week.
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OFFICIALS DISMISSED.
The Government Believed They Connive<
at the Smuggling In of Cinnamon an,
nrsv

The Government Believed They Connived
at the Smuggling In of Cinnamon and
Opium.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-The. official
heads of Patrick II. Winston, United
States attorney; Thomas Il. Brown,
United States marshall; Andrew Ws.;-
son, United States collector at Port
Townsend; c. J. Mulkey, United States
special agent, and six special inspectors
of customs in the Puget Sound district,
all in the state of Washington, have
fallen into. the official hopper as the
result of reports made to Secretary Car
Isle by Special Treasury Agents Wood
and Lewis. These are numerous and
circumstantial as to details and tell the
story of one of the most extensive and
successful conspiracies ever formed to
smuggle Chinese and opium into the
United States across the far northwest
ern boundary.
There has been hardly day for the
past two months that reports have not
been received at the treasury depart
ment from Wood and Lewis and on
these reports officials of the treasury
department have been summarily dis
missed. The first dismissals of customs
inspectors were made Saturday, but
Secretary Carlisle thinks the ends of JUS
tice may be defeated by making public
their names. They, it is charged by
the reports received, had been doing a
wholesale business in connection with
private parties in Victoria, Il. c., in
smuggling in Chinese by means of
fraudulent certificates, and in permit
ting opium smuggling either by con-
nivance or otherwise.
Scandals for the past decade have at
tached more or less to the officials in
Puget Sound district, and more than
two months ago Agents Wood and
Lewis, new men from the east, were
detailed to secretly investigate these
alleged frauds. Uninf1uenced by local
surroundings or affiliations, they went
to work and unearthed what is re-
garded here as one of the greatest con-
spiracies in which government officials
were ever implicated.
Not defeat the continuance of the
investigation, all the prominent gov
ernment officials named were removed
by the president and their successors
appointed without the usual announce
ments being made. The purpose was to
keep the public in ignorance that other
implicated persons might not become
suspicious. Those appointed were James
Saunders, collector at Port Townsend;
James +. Drake, United States mar
shall; John Ii. Brinker, United States
attorney.
The matter in due course of time will
End its way into the courts.
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DEFICIT IN WHEAT,
Half Way between the Extremes Flaccs
the Deficit at Ono Hundred Rnc Fifty.
Million Vuxhcys

Hail Way between the Extremes Places.
the Deficit at Ono Hundred gne Fifty.
Million Bushels.
While the price of wheat in Chicago
II at its lowest point in thirty years
and farmers are correspondingly de-
pressed. it is interesting to note that
the best authorities estimate that for
the world at large there will be q big
deficit in the wheat crop. this year.
The report of the department of aS-
rlculture for May renders it reasonably
certain that the American wheat crop
will be below the average of the years
of lSs0-?O, or less than $50, 900, ,eO6
bushels. This will be true even should
the remainder of the season be SO fav-
orable as to insure yield of spring
wheat quite up to the average. The
winter wheat has received irreparable
injury and will afford very meager
harvest in the more important states.
The New York Sun has printed an ex-
haustivc review of the crop prospects
of the world and the estimateddemands
forwhcat, based upon the most reliable
data. and concludes that existing con-
ditions indicate that the following is
the most optimistic view of the situa-
tiun permissible:
European requirements, !, 400, ,00o, 900;
product of average European harvest,
l, ,230. .OO0, 900; possible American export,
12G, 900, 900; possible Indian export. 40.-
00o, 900. total, 1896, ZOO, 900 bushels.
Deficit, $4,000. 900 bushels
A .pessimistic prognostication, based
upon estimates of a minimum European
crop or an American crop no greater
than that of 1855, or 3o7, 900, 900 bushels
would be this:
European requirements, 100000, 900;
minimum European harvest, 1,147,00
600; American exports, 10000, 900; Ipdian
exports, 4O,OOO.OOO; total. 1,237, ZOO, 900
bushels. Pessimistic deficit, 23S, ZOO, 600
bushels.
Those inclined neither to optimism
nor the opposite might find a safe posi-
tion midway between these extremes.
Mystic Ia.) Breeze
Note the fact that India, for the
year 1864, will be able to export 40,-
900, 900 bushels. For the year 1S9O-91
India exported SO, 100000 bushels, and
she exported ~, ,l3a. 900 bushels in 1891
o.. Cheap silver is performing won
ders for India.
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Shot Down by the Police.

VIENNA, June Clone thousand
miners struck near Dux, Bohemia, and
held a meeting on the outskirts of the
city to decide upon their future course
of action. A company of police tried
to break up the meeting. The miners
repulsed them and the police then be-
gan firing. After several strikers had
fallen, severely wounded, the strikers
dispersed.
Later in the afternoon they surround
ed the carriage of Count von-Thun,
governor of the district, and tried to
drag to the ground the count and Herr
Gattner, chief mining commissioner in
the Teplitz district. Police fired upon
the crowd. One man fell dead; another
was mortally wounded The rioters
did not yield, however, until a company
of soldiers, who had been summoned,
charged with fixed bayonets.
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A REMARKABLE CASE.
A Man With a Broken Back Believes He
Will Get Well,

NEW YORK, June 21.-Henry Hoffman,
a sailor, 3G years old, is lying in the
Eastern District hospital, Williamsburg,
with fractured vertebra. On April 5
last. while he was working in the hold
of the steamship Silver Craig, at the
foot of South Second street, a heavy
block fell upon him. Hospital sur
geons decided that he would die
from the injuries. They put a
plaster east around his body to
make him as comfortable as possible
for the few days they supposed he
would live. House Surgeon Thomas +.
McCleary removed the cast yesterday.
Hoffman has every appearance of being
well. He is growing fat from his
waist up His lower extremities are
numb. A pin may be stuck into his
leg without his knowledge. When a
reporter called at the hospfta BILE yes
terday Hoffman was reading "A maga-
zine, lying on a water bag. He is con-
fdent that he will soon be able to go
to sea again, but the doctors say that
though he may live for many years he
will always be helpless cripple. His
case is considered remarka BILE.
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A PENSION ORDER.

Commissioner LOchren Makes q Change
Governing the Preparation of Testi-
mony.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-An order was
issued by Commissioner Lochren from
the pension bureau and approved by
Secretary Smith with view of pre-
venting fraud in making applications
for pensions. Following is the order:
In the preparation of testimony in support of
claims in pension cases, all statements affecting
the particular case and merely formal must be
written, or prepared to be typewriter. in the
presence OF the witness, and from his oral decla-
tions then made to the person who then reduces
the testimony ts writing, or then prepares the
same to be typewritten- Such testimony must
embody a statement by the witness that
such testimony was written or prepared
for typewriting. as the case may be, in his
presence, and only from his oral statements
then made, stating also the time, place and
person, when, where and to whom he made
such oral statements, and that in making the
same he did not use and was not aided or
prompted by any written or printed state
mcnts or recital prepared Or dictated by any
other person and not attached as an exhibit to
his testimony ANY needless delay in the
preparation OF such tes siimony or such oral
sta tt ment by the witness or forwarding the
same to this bureau and any material altera-
tion or erasure will be cause for rejecting such
testimony.
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Accommodating a Gold.

WASHINGTON, June 2O,-Grad Ially,
and in the absence of export, the gold
in the treasury is increasing. 1t is now
s93, 7l9, $40, an increase since Satur
day of more than $1,000 and a gain
of nearly s5,OOo.Ooo during the past
three weeks. The fact that. Ameri.
can grain is now finding foreign mar
ket is given as the reason for the cessa-
tion of gold exports and the fact that
the west is receiving large quantities
of money from the cast, accounts in a
large measure for the building up of
the treasury gold, as gold is being de-
posted in New York in exchange for
currency delivered by the government
at western points
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A RELIC OF. BARBARlSM.
The Idea That Money Must Necessari
Possess Intrinsic Value.

The Idea That Money Must Necessarily
Possess Intrinsic Value
Why do people insist on believing
the old barbarous idea that only metal
can be made real money? Did you ever
have paper dollar that your creditor
would not gladly accept at face value?
We can easily see why the plutocrats
want to perpctuate that idea, for by it
they intend to enslavc the world; but
why common, everyday people should
cling to it, we cannot see. The miner
labors all day and at night receives
a coin dollar. He has received The pay
for his work. and further than
that his labor is lost lie has
dug dollar out of the
ground, but he has paid for
it with his labor and the country is no
wealthier. If he had labored day on
public improvements and the govern
ment had made a paper dollar to pay
him, he would be as well off, and the
people would be II days work richer.
The government also makes. slight
distinction in favor of paper money.
When worn out specie dollar is re-
turned to the United States mint it is
received at its weight and the last marf
handling loses the loss by wear. When
a worn out paper dollar is returned t9
the treasury new one is issued in its
place without loss to the last holder.
Still the people cling to their ometal
god.-Mount Vernon, IN Progressive
Earmar
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TRYING TO SAVE THEM.
Both England and america Making Enorts
to Save the Condemned Armenians.

Both England and America Making Efforts
to Save the Condemned Armenians.
LONDON, June 20.-The question OF
the ArmenianS who We're sentenced to
death at Angora by the Turkish author
tiles, on the charge of having been con-
cerned in the rioting at Cesarea and
Marsovan last spring, came up in the
house of commons. The government
was questioned in regard to the mat
ter, and Sir Edwin Grey, parliament
airy secretary of the foreign office,
replied TINT the sentences of death
imposed upon Prof. Thoumsin, Prof.
Kayavan and fifteen other Ar
mcnians were subject to review by the
Turkish court of cessation. Sir Ed
ward added that the English charge
d'affaires at Constantinople had been
instructed by the government to use
every effort to prevent the sentences
being carried out pending a full con-
sideration of all the circums tances in
volved.
INTEREST IN AMERICA.
New YORK, June 2O.-At the Ameri-
can Board of Foreign Missions in this
city it was learned that the outcome Of
the Armenians who were charged with
rioting in Cesarea and Marsovan last
spring has greatly surprised the board.
Rev. Dr. c. Ii. Daniels, the district Sec
retary of the board, said:
"All these prisoners are natives. Tho
two professors who have been sem
fenced to death, MIR. Thoumain, tho
senior professor of the college, and
Prof. Kayayan are innocent. They
We're arrested and imprisoned ON Janu-
AIRY IS, and every request to see them
or give bail for them was refused. Rev.
DR.. c. c. Tracy, the president Of
the college, who has just arrived
here, has stated that there was no evil
dence connecting them with the issu
ing of seditious placards. Merely be-
cause the manifestoes were written
with a cyclostyle it was affirmed that
they must have issued from the col
lege, and thus the charge was made to
furnish basis for an attack upon the
college. On the night of February 1,
the building which was being erected
for the girls school was set on fire. 1t
was at once charged by the Turkish
officers that the Armenians started
the fire to conceal the fact that arms
and ammunition were stored in
the building. The investigation, how
ever, definitely fastened the RESPONSE
bility upon the late officials in Marso-
van, and the college was cleared of all
charges against it of completely in rev.
olutionary plans. Yet the two native
professors were not released. If they
have now been declared guilty, it must
have been done by the forgery of al
legged documents and by perjured wit
nesscs."
A Washington special says: Secre-
tary Gresham was shown Il cable dis
patch from Constantinople, published
in the morning newspapers, stating the
sentences imposed on the Armenians
whose trials for sedition have just been
concluded at Angora.
This is the first news have received
of the result of the trials said the
secretary. mo official information on
the subject has as yet come to me, and
l am therefore unprepared to say what,
if anything will be done about it by
our government"
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ANOTHER BOMB.
An Explosion that shook All Madrid and
Killed "A Dyna miter,

nm G-XPaushOu tnat SHOOK All Maria ana
Killed n Dynamiter.
MADRID, June 2l.-A large dynamite
bomb was exploded at midnight few
feet from the house of Canovas del Cas-
rillo. ex-premier. The explosion was
heard throughout the city. The imme-
date district was shaken as if by an
earthquake. Three policemen ran to
the spot They found the dismembered
body of a man in the street and caught
a man crawling down the street on his
hands and knees.
When arrested the man refused to
say what he knew of the explosion, but
complained that he was severely
wounded. One of his legs was broken.
cred with blood. He was taken to a
police station and was there identified
by a servant employed in a house oppo-
site the eX-premier's as one of three
men whom she had seen standing on
the other side of the street just before
the explosion.
After the explosion, she said she
heard a man run away. A surgeon
was called and the prisoners wounds
were dressed. Many houses in the
neighborhood where the explosion oc-
CURED were badly damaged. Windows
were shattered and walls were sprung,
but none of the occupants were injured.
While the police were looking over
the ground just after the explosion
Canovas opened the door and began
questioning them. He ordered out all
his servants to help search for the
limbs of the man blown to pieces by
the bomb. One leg, the head and a
hand were found seventy feet from the
place where the bomb was set. News
of the explosion was spread throughout
the city before o'clock. All the cab
met ministers and conspicuous deputies
called upon Canovas at once to con-
pratulate him on his eScaDe
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A NEW TURF KING.
A Rank Outsider Wins the Suburban Hand.
leap Turfmen Astonished.

Rank Outsider Wins the Suburban Hand
leap Turfmen Astonished.
New YORK, June 21.-The Suburban
handicap of 1898, the tenth in the his
tory of the event, was a most grievous
disappointment to the turf-loving pub
lie. Lamplighter, their idol, who was
looked upon as sure victor in the
great race, was made to fall from the
high pedestal upon which he had been
placed and the halo of victory which
had gathered about him because of his
numerous successes was completely dis
PEELED. He was vanquished strictly on
his merits, as the race was fairly run
from beginning to end.
There was no crowding or jost-
ling, as was the case in the Brook
lyn handicap. The field was COM
parativcly small, and every jockey
rode to win in as fair a manner as pos
sible. Lowlander, by Lowland Chief,
dam Restless, a horse that has had an
erratic career, won the race from end
to end. He went out at the fall of the
flag, set the pace to suit himself, and
won almost as he pleased, in
the fast time of 2:O6si. Terri
fer, Father Bill Daly's candi-
date, was second, three-auarters of
length away, while Lamplighter,
the even-money favorite that shrewd
turfmen said could not lose, was third,
four lengths back. Lowlander was at
ten to one against him in the betting,
and all kind of fancy prices could be
obtained about the chances of Tcrritier.
The race was worth s1S,O to the win
ner, $1,000 to the second horse, and
81, 900 to the third. The winner is owned
by Bookmaker Lowe, and besides the
rich stake, he netted many thousands
of dollars in bets by the victory of his
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Parity.


When a hundred-dolfar coin note is
presented for reacmptionit would be
maintaining the parity between gold
and silver as legal tender coin tn pay
out. $50, in silver and $50 in gold. 1t
would be maintaining the parity of the
metals in another way to assert the po-
tency of silver as hwful money of final
account by paying it put to check the
raidsfon the gold reserve. But these
thinge are not done because it is de-
sired to avoid recognizing silver as
standard money of final account on a
par with gold for use jim all settlements
The law says it shall be so recognized,
but the spirit of the law is nullified.
and silver is degraded to a mere coun-
ter, not considered fit at the treasury
to be paid out on silver bullion notes.
NO. not even at the rate of zone silver
dollar in the nfnety-nine Of gold
Louis Republic.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

IEIkSONhA AM
. IT is expected that the Behring sea
| arbitration will be finished within a
few days and that a decision will be
rendered by August 1.
GEN. A. w. CAMPBELL died at Jack
lon, Tenn, aged 65. He was n briga-
der general in the Confederate army,
was a member of the constitutional
convention of 1870, and prominent
candidate for governor on several occa-
siOns.
DARBY OBRIEN, late captain of the
Brooklyn baseball team. died recently
ct Peoria, Ill, of consumption.
MATAAFA, who was deposed and ex-
lied from Samoa, has returned and
started a revolution to regain his throne.
The German elections passed off qui-
etly on the 18th. Nothing was certain
about the result except that the social
lists had made large gains.
The peoples party of Pennsylvania
nominated j. II. Stevenson, of ALE
gheny, for supreme judge.
THE Typothet@ of Chicago has for
wardcd letter to President Cleveland
urging him to ignore the protest of the
international Typographical union in
the selection of public printer.
The condition of President Carnot, of
France, was believed to be serious and
much anxiety was felt as to his recov-
cry.
LATER returns from the German cleo
tion show that the government has
made some gain, but not enough to
pass the army bill
Ttrr Rr;tich - H..
adopted unanimously a resolution for
international arbitration.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the actor, was
suddenly taken i'll while on his way to
Buzzard's bay and is reported to be in
feeble condition. -- ~
Bishop WILLIAM TAYLOR has written
to Secretary Gresham making a plea
for American protection for Liberia
against the encroachment of European
nations.
FRANK B. ANDERSON has been ap-
pointed chief of the law division of the
pension office.
THE republican national league head
quarters will hereafter be at Chicago
instead of New York. Humphrey was
retained as secretary.
ldS IL Gildt L L.
consul-general to Mexico, has been
rendered the appointment as minister
to Hawaii to succeed Blount
IT is asserted that there will not be a
midsummer session of congress.
THE Irish home rule bill has entered
an acute phase, a number of nationalist
members threatening to withdraw their
support.
COMPLETE official returns of Chinese
registration under the. Geary act have
been received by Internal Revenue
Commissioner Miller They show that
out of 10000 Chinese in the United
States, 13, 179 are registered.
WALTER BEsANT has arrived in
America from ENGLAND
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LIZZIE ACQUITTED.

The Jury Declares Miss Borden Not Guilty
OF the Murder of Her Father and Step
mother.
New BEDFORD. Mass, June 21.-The
Lizzie Borden case was given to the
jury yesterday afternoon, and after be-
ing out little more than an hour a
verdict of not guilty was returned.
When court convened in the after
noon the chief justice addressed Miss
Borden by name, telling her that
she now had a voice and could say to
the jury what she chose to say. She
arose somewhat agitated, and said to
the jury: 81 am innocent, but / will
leave my case in your hands and in the
hands of my counsel"
Judge Dewey then charged the jury.
He read his charge rapidly, and among
other things embodied therein was the
caution to make decision only upon
the law and the evidence given. The
court defined the degrees of murder and
said the degree is to be determined by
the jury.
At the conclusion of the charge, the
attorneys consulted a few moments.
The jury was allowed to retire and
counsel agreed upon what exhibits
were to be put into the case, after
which they were brought in again, the
oath administered by the clerk of the
court, and the jury took the case.
1t was just 4:30 o'clock when the
spectators, who had kept their seats
patiently during the retirement of the
jury, noticed a movement indicating
their return. A moment later the
twelve men filed into their seats and
We're polled.
Miss Borden was asked to stand up
and the foreman was asked to return
the verdict, which he announced-'Not
guilty" -
Then all the dignity and decorum of
the court room vanished. A cheer went
up which might have been heard half a
mile away through the open windows
and there was no attempt to check it.