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The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05
MRS. LEASE REMOVED.

Gov. Lewelling Decapitates the Head of
the State Board of Charities.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec 29.-Gov. Level
ling has removed Mrs. Lease from the
state board of charities. This was done
after long conference with his asso-
slate state officers and other leaders of
the peoples party and was no doubt in
anticipation of war which Mrs. Lease
vas preparing to declare against the
state administration.
MRS LEASE OBJECTS.
TOPEKA, Kan, Dec. 30.-Mrs. Mary
E Lease, who was removed from the
state board of charities by Gov. Lew
elling, has sent to the governor by a
messenger boy the following letter:
70 Hon. L d. Lewelling. Governor of Kansas:
Dear Governor: Disclaiming any intention
u questioning your authority, the wisdom OF
FOUR scts. or the integrity Of your purpose I
beg leave to remind you that you have, as chief
executive of this state. tried and sentenced me
without according to me that which the laws OF
sur land accord to the vilest criminal-"ihe
light of defense"
Were I An employe of yours your right to per-
petrate this act Of injustice might depend upon
1our inclination As it is, recognize that
Nm an employe Of the state, accountable as
such to the people Of this state for my Official
.ecord. and FOR them as well "a for myself I de-
nand . statement and investigation of the
iharges preferred against me. that I may have
N opportunity to concede the manifest justice
u your decree or defend myself from the i'm
Sutation Of hireling polis clans
Most faithfully yours
MRa LEASE
President Board State Trustees Of State Char.
liable Institutions
Mrs Lease said to a reporter that
Notwithstanding Gov. dwellings sum-
mary action, she still considered her.
self member of the board and at the
egular meeting in January she pro-
posed to be present and take her usual
place
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WILL HANG.
Verdict in the Prendergast Murder
Trial.
The Assassin Of Mayor Harrison Declared
Guilty by the Jury-The Insanity
Dodge Did Not Work In
His Case.


CHICAGO. Dec. 3O-Patrick Eugene
John Prendergast was found guilty OF
the murder of Mayor Harrison on Octo-
Der 2S, and the penalty fixed at death
by hanging. The jury refused to be-
lieve that the assassin was insane at
the time he committed the crime.
When the jurors returned to the court
room, after being out one hour and
three minutes, the prisoner was not in
the room, having been previously re-
moved to the Jail. 1t was fully five
minutes before he could be brought
back. When he had reached his seat
Judge Brentano, addressing Foreman
Sutter. asked if the jury had reached a
verdict
"We have your honor" replied Mr.
Sutter.
"What is your verdict?" asked the
court.
Foreman Sutter then proceeded to
read in solemn voice the following ver-
dict: ''We. the jury, find the defend
ant, Patrick Eugene John Prender-
gast, guilty of murder in manner and
form as charged in the indictment and
In thc ptudlCy dC OcdIu
Prendergast, who was fear stricken
and trembling when brought back to
court, utterly collapsed when the an
nouncement was read. He sank back
in his chair, his chin dropped and he
seemed completely paralyzed. He
looked appealingly at the court
and at the jury. and tears glist-
ened in the eyes from which
heretofore only angry glances had been
shot. As soon as the verdict was an
nounced the bailiffs seized the miser-
able, trembling prisoner and started
to rush him back to his cell in murder
ers' row. They had nearly reached the
door when Judge Brentano ordered
them to stop. Let the prisoner re-
main while the jury is polled," he said.
Prendergast took his stand before the
chair in which he jerked and
squirmed around while the polling was
in progress.
When the last juror had made his an
swer Prendergast's knees shook, his chin
dropped down and he would have fall
len had not one of the attending bailiffs
lent a supporting arm He was half
led and half carried back to his cell.
Before the adjournment of court Mr.
Wade applied for a new trial and the
Judge announced that he would hear a
motion to that effect at future date.
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MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL.

Completion Of y Mammoth Work for the
Benefit of Commerce.
MANCHESTER, Jan. 2-The great ship
canal from Eastman to Manchester is
now an accomplished fact and the town
of Manchester, situated about forty
miles from the seaboard. can be reached
by sea from New York in about ten
hours after arriving at Liverpool On
December : steamer conveying the
directors of the canal made the entire
journey of the canal, but the formal
official opening did not take place until
yesterday.
In order to realize the full signifi-
canoe of this fact and all that it inn
plies. we have to consider the sudden
creation of a great port in direct COM
munication with all parts of the world,
close to and partly within the confines
of an immense commercial city and
surrounded by an Industrial population
of 8, $50, OOO
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Collision ut Sea.

ST. JOHNS, n. F., Jan. 2-The Dutch
tank steamer La Flandre, Capt
Schmick. seventeen days from Ant
werp, for New York in ballast, arrived
here yesterday. Her port bow was
crushed in and all her compartments
were flooded with water. Yesterday
she collided with the British steamer
Cyphrenes, Capt Kelly, from Savan-
nah for Liverpool, loaded with cotton.
The Cyphrenes has her bows driven
right into the foremast and the water
rushed in at a terrible rate. The ship
was so badly damaged that she
sank within three hours after the col
lision. The captain and crew of the
Cyphrenes at first made every effort to
save her, but found her injuries were
too great and launched the boats The
Cyphrenes' crew OF twenty-seven men
were all safe aboard the La Flandre
and the vessel made for port An in
vestigation as to the cause of the col
lision will be made.
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AFTER THE REDS.
French Police Make Raids on Anarchis,
Deus.

French Police Make Raids on Anarchist
Dens.
PARIS, Jan. 2.-The police raided an
archist quarters in many of the towns
in France yesterday, and seized the
forms and copy for the days edition of
the anarchist journal, Pere Peinard.
In this city they also searched the resi-
dence of Elise Reclus, brother of Paul
Reclus, who has been missing since the
throwing of the bomb in the chamber
of deputies
At Havre the police searched eleven
houses seized lot of correspondence
and recovered stolen bonds for 1,5OO
francs For the theft of these bonds
three anarchists weSe imprisoned some
months ago.
Five anarchists were arrested in raids
in various towns of the department of
the Seine-Inferieure, including the city
of Rouen.
Gensdarmes, with fixed bayonets,
surrounded the house of an anarchist
lecturer in the Rue Verge, Brest, and
arrested a well-known anarchist named
Menuier and three others, together
with three women companions. Men
uier had already suffered Imprisonment
for causing strikes
Five anarchists were arrested at Troy
and quantity of explosives were
seized, and five more anarchists were
arrested at Montincon.
Later particulars about the police
descent upon the anarchists are to the
effect the minister of the interior or
dered that the searches for anarchists
should be made simultaneously
throughout France. A charged bomb
was discovered at Grenoble and $50
cartridges were found at Allier Of
these cartridges sixty-three were
charged with dynamite and 273 with
grisentine. The remainder were gun
powder cartridges.
Fifteen militant Italian anarchists,
all with criminal records, were ex-
PEELED from Nice. Up to this writing
there has been twenty-four arr ests of
anarchists in Paris and its suburbs and
twenty-four at Lyons
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A KANSAS MYSTERY.
A Family Asphvxiated In Manner That
Aroused Grave Suspicious.

A Family Asphvxiated In Manner That
Aroused Grave Suspicious.
INDEPENDENCE, Kan, Jan. AT Q
o'clock yesterday morning the home of
George w. Read, manager of the Long
Bell Lumber Co., was broken into by
Al Brown, Mr.. Reads son-in-law, and
suspicious neighbors under the impress
sion that all was not right The dis
covery made was horrifying and in
wolves the greatest mystery known to
southern Kansas. Mr.. Read, clad only
in his night clothes, sat in a chair be-
fore hot stove fed by natural gas, his
body in an advanced stage Of decom-
position. Miss Edith Scott, a domestic
of the family, lay dead on the floor of
her room. Mrs. Read and her five-year-
old son were in bed, the boy in a dying
condition and the mother unconscious.
Mrs Read may recover.
Many theories are current as to the
cause, one being asphyxiation, another
accidental poisoning and another foul
play. The fact that two gas stoves in
the house were burning at full force
practically explodes the theory of as
phyAiation. and the fact that no bruises
were found on either person renders
the murder theory almost incredible,
leaving accidental poisoning as the
most probable cause.
None of the family were seen later
than Sunday evening. leaving no doubt
whatever that Mr.. Read and Miss Scott
had been dead thirty-six hours before
discovered. Every room in the house
was intensely hot, and there being no
ventilation, the fumes from the badly
decomposed body of Read were sti-
fling.
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Jan. l. Opened High'st Lows I Closing
Kansas City Produce.

KANSAS CITY. JAN L. Eggs Receipts
larger, rade very quiet and unchanged: strictly
fresh cand1ed l9c: ice house. l5c Butter-Re.
ceipts large. light demand, dull. weak: cream
cry fancy separator, &c fair TO choice. I'D
&c: dairy. fancy. i6ti7c; fresh roll dull.
14gl6c: packing steady. lac. Poultry-Lighs
receipts ROSTERS l5c: chickens. nrm,sc springA
SIC Turkeys-Lighter receipts scarce, feel
ing steady: 6,s 17lc per Id Ducks-Firm: 20
per lb Geese-Quiet nrm 5ts g6c per lh
Green Fruits Cranberries - Jersey, weak.
ed00: Cape Cod, weak, Nsl0aO per Dbl
Apples-Receipts light: quiet, weak, common,
o. =: choice, o. 50 per bu: ei5O9aaj per Dbl,
as to kind and quality. Grapes - Ffrmer:
Catawba. l7+12)e per 5-lb basket Vegetables
Cabbage plentiful. weak. 81 O13l = per cwt
Celery, Michigan. small 2s9aOc per bunch:
fancy 6lls1c per bunch Potatoes. plentiful.
weak 45c: northern, 5O955c, Colorado. 0O06sc
per bu: sweet red. 3IlS40c yellow. 50 ie00c per
bu Onions. weak 4lS6o per bu: white pick.
hngA SLsS0L5o Per bu; Spanish. >lS pes
eIatA
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FATAL FLAMES.
The New Year Makes . had Beginning
Several Persons Cremated ut Ba6alO-
B0stOn's Blaze.

The New Year Makes . Had Beginning
Several Persons Cremated ut Ba6alo-
Boston's Blaze.
BUFFALO. n. ". Jan. 2-Soon after
2 o'clock this morning fire was discov-
cred in the rear of a cheap restaurant
and lodging house, on the west side of
Washington street. just north of Swan
street In addition to the proprietress,
a notorious character known as Scotch
Liz" there were from twelve to eight
cen lodgers
At 3 o'clock six dead bodies had been
taken out of the ruins, and it is thought
that there are other bodies in the Gel
lar. The building was old and dry and
proved veritable tinder box.
Several of the inmates jumped from
the second story and received terrible
injuries Among those injured and
man, Charles r Edwards, John Neil,
George Matthews and George Ander-
son. The names of the dead cannot be
learned at this hour.
GREAT FIRE IN BOSTON
BOsToN, Jan AT 1:30 this morning
fire was discovered in the cloak room
of the Globe theater in this city and in
fifteen minutes the entire building was
in flames The first arrival of the fire
apparatus was wholly unable to COM
pete with the flames and a second, third,
fourth and finally general alarm was
sent out Even then the fighting ap-
paratus was insufficient ard the suburb
an fire apparatus was sent for. At g a.
m the theater was a seething mass of
flames and the surrounding property
was threatened.
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

MELBOURNE, Dec. 30.-Fifteen lives
we're lost through the wreck Of the
steamer Alert from Port Albert to Mel
oourne which went ashore off Jubilee
point during the gale which swept over
Port Philip last night Only one per
son was saved.
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DEFICIT GROWS.

Steady Decrease Of Treasury Receipts to
Continue.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30-From the dis
:ussions heard among politicians and
prominent men it is evident that some
thing in line with Secretary Carlisle's
bond issue recommendation will have
70 be done at once. The treasury state
nent was, in the eyes of those ac-
Iuainte6 with treasury records, deplor-
able. The treasury balance has fallen
again. The available balance, how
ever. had crept up 100000. The pros
pective deficit grows. Treasury Off
:ials are unwilling to furnish any esti-
mate of the probable deficit at the close
Of the present fiscal year.
There are no indications that the Gus
toms receipts will increase next month,
and internal revenue receipts show a
steady decrease. The receipts from
this source for November were almost
&. 600. 600 less than for November a year
ago The decrease in whisky taxes was
81, ,615, 900, in tobacco taxes sos, 600 and
in taxes on fermented liquors S164. 900.
The aggregate internal revenue collec-
tions for the first five months of the
present fiscal year amount to s61, OOO,-
300, or $1,710,O00 less than were made
for the corresponding period last year.
1t has been predicted, notwithstand-
ing Secretary Carlisle's report, that the
deficit will be 5000. .OOO. 600. This esti-
mate is based on the opinion that pub
lie works on which payments have
been suspended should be included in
such statement, it being understood
that work on many buildings has been
stopped on account of the treasury's
condition
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05
De MELLO WOUNDED.

said to Have Been Struck by . Shell While
the Aquidsban Was Running the Gaunt-
let.
NEW YORK, Jan 2-The Herald's
special dispatch from Montevideo says:
1t is reported in this city that the
Brazilian rebel, Adm De Mello. has
been seriously wounded and will come
here to have his injuries attended to-
1t is surmised that fragment of a
she'll must have struck him when the
Aquidaban was escaping some time
ago and had to run the gauntlet of the
loyal forts at the entrance of Rio har-
Dor.
Postmen just arrived from Bage say
that the siege of that town by the in
surgents still continues and that daily
combats occur between the besieged
and besiegers
De Mello's provisional government
in Desterro, Santa Catharina. has pub
lished a manifesto saying De Mello and
Da Cana are freely in accordance as to
the ends to be aimed at and that both
intend to maintain the constitution and
the republic
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

SAN DIEGO. Cal, Dec. 29.-Samuel
McCoon, father of Hosmer McCoon,
president of the San Diego chamber of
commerce, died at Fanita ranch, his
sons residence, this morning at the
age of 81. Deceased was at one time
in politics in New York and judge Of
the surrogate court He was a free
mason in 1928 and is supposed to have
been the oldest mason in the United
States
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05
Very Little Railway Build ng.

CHICAGO, Dec. aS.-The Railway Age
will, Tomorrow. publish its annual
statement of railway construction
which shows 1850 miles of new main
line track laid in the United States in
1898. This is less by about 1000 miles
than in either of the two preceding
years and is the smallest mileage
added in any wear since 1871
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In Place of Mrs. Lease.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 2-Gov. Level.
ling still further complicated the Mrs
Mary E. Lease situation by appointing
Sheriff J. w. Frieeborn, of Mcpherson
county, to the place on the board of
trustees of state charitable Institutions
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05
MARKET REPORTS.
Kansas CITY Live stock.

KANSAS CITY. Jan. L-Catte-Receipts,
s,i23; calves 54 shipped yesterday, l,7s7.
The market was active: good steers and cows,
l0c higher Gamers bulls. calves and Texas
cattle steady: stockers and feeders extremely
dull The following are representative sales:
DRESSED REEF AND RXPORr STEERS
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To Fight In the Morning.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. SO-At q
meeting of the Duval Athletic club this
afternoon it was decided to have the
Corbett-Mitchell fight take place at IL
o'clock in the morning, January 25, 1894.
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

Natives who have arrived at Bulua-
wayo since the last dispatch sent say
that they are positive that portion of
the Wilson party escaped in the direc-
ton Of Hartley hill
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

In Marseilles box of explosives was
found before the residence of baker
who had become unpopular during the
recent strike.
The Globe-republican., 1894-01-05

Sheep-Receipts, go. shipments Tho
market was active and strong To loc higher for
rood muttons and calves and others very dull
The following are representative sales:
SO NUT :. -. 93 So 35 I5s sSl..-.... SO y32S
40 s&l ....... 50 225 1917 goats. % 10
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TEXAS AND INDIAN STEERS
20 fed ......I SOB s3
TEXAS AND INDIAN cows.
12.......... 5%5 SD ST.. ..... 742 g. 10
hogs-Receipts. 5.lOs: shipped yesterday.
lQi. The market was fairly active and steady.
The top was s'l7H and bulk sales IS o. to
e5l5 against q. 20 top and bulk sales the same
as yesterday The following representa-
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Chicago Live stock.

CHICAGO. Jan Hogs - Receipts. 5000;
,ficial yesterday, 230ii: shipments yesterday,
Oslo receipts for the week, II3.0l8 shi ments
or the week. 5l,lOl: receipts for the cor.
responding week last year, 81. .097 shipments
or the corresponding week last year. 81, ,726:
Packing from October % to date 81. 900; pack.
ng 10 date last year, SOL 600 left over. about
.0JO quality good market active and prices
Iteady: nearly all sold Sales ranged st Is l0
l5D for light :49Ol5iO for rough packing:
s. lOGsa45 for mixed g. 3s IS Is for heavy pack
ng and shipping lots pigs. a. i56I5.0'
CattIe-Receipts, loo: oficfal yesterday,
q shipments yesterday LOIS; market quiet
md steady.
Sheep-Receipts, 1000; official yesterday,
,279: shipments yesterday, l,lJ2; market quiet
md steady.
st. Louis Live Stock.
ST. LOUIS, Jan 1-Cattle- Receipts so.
market strong Hogs-Rcceipts LIS o: market
sctive and lOc higher. top. $50 bulk, 6. 100
AZ No sheep
Chicago Grain and Provisions
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81 SHALL demonstrate the caws and ef-
feet, said the crow, as he followed the
farmer who was dropping corn.-Cleveland
IN OealeE.
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Perils Of q Fog.

AMSTERDAM Dec. S0-A terribly
thick fog prevailed here today. Owing
to the almost absolute darkness, seven
ty-nine persons fell into the river and
canals, and of this number twenty are
known to be drowned and number of
others are missing.
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Dean of Ely Dead.

LONDON. Dec 29.-Charles Merival,
dean of Ely, is dead He had been i'll
for some time. and became unconscious
on Tuesday night The earl of Derby
used to say that Dean Merivars Trans
lation of Homer's laid" was one of the
finest things in the English language.
The record-union., 1894-05-21

the contractors stand up to their bargain.
and put the water into the city pipes
speedily. The disposition has been sug-
gested on the part of the Board to reject
the water offered and break down the
contract. But the officials should think
twice or thrice before they expose the
city to the danger of any such proceed
ing. Behind it lie legal complications
and possible actions that may make it
sorry work for taxpayers.
The REcoRD-UNIoN insists in the name
of the people that the contract be carried
out; that the clear water be introduced;
that the public faith be kept, and that the
expressed direction of the people at the
polls be obeyed by their servants.
We have called for specification of the
charges of fraud and scheming made
against the water election result, against
the contract, or against any influence ad-
vocating the clear water supply; but those
who were so ready to prefer themi now
admit their inability to maintain such
charges. They co lcede that there Is only
chatter, "they says" and mean suspicion
on which to base their accusations. So
much for that-now let the contract be
enforced.
The record-union., 1894-05-21
CONSTABLE'S SALE.

TT H. JOHNSON VS.. G. j. CROSBY
II virtue of an execution issued out of the
Justices Court of the Township of Sacra-
mento, County of Sacramento, State OF Cali
fornia. In an action wherein II. II. Johnson is
plaintiff and q. j. Cross defendant, and upon
a Judgment rendered in said action on the 1st
day OF May. 1894, for the sum Of 800,
United States gold coin, besides costs, and in
terest and attorneys fees l have this day
levied upon all the right. title. claim and in
terest of said defendant G. j. Cross of, In and
TO the following described real estate, to wit:
The south 20 feet of the north so feet of the
east so feet of lot 8, in block bounded by l.,
NJ and Front and Second streets, of the City
of Sacramento, County of Sacramento, State
OF California; also, the east 80 feet of lot No.
4, in the block bounded by L., NJ. and Seventh
and Eighth streets, in the City OF Sacramento,
County of Sacramento, State of California.
Public notice is hereby given that will, on
the 18th day of june 1894. at 10 A. NJ. Of
said day, in front of the Justices Court of
said Township of Sacramento, at No. sos I
street. in said City OF Sacramento, State of
California, sell at public auction for United
States gold coin all the right title and interest
of said defendant q. j. Cross OF, in and to the
above described property or so much thereof
as shall be necessary to raise sufficient TO sat
isfy said judgment, with interest, costs, etc.,
10 the highest and best bidder.
ALFRED SPINKS,
Constable, Sacramento Township.
Dated May Fl. 1894. my21-3tM
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tered to quiet him, as the lying accounts
made the story run.
All these things were fabrications of
gossips and liars, and were added to by
imaginings on the part of the reporters of
sensationalism, salaried to try and con-
vict in advance in competition for prizes
offered by their masters for the best
liars and the most imaginative romancers.
But, we repeat, behind this whole
shameful business it looks very much as
if there resided a cold. calculating con-
spiracy to get George Decker out of the
way in order to deprive him of his prop
erty.
The record-union., 1894-05-21
THE WATER QUESTION.

The City Board of Health approves the
new water supply. It declares that the
objections raised against it are of no i'm
portanee; that it is true the new water is
somewhat harder than river water, but.
the Board adds, nevertheless it is soft
water, softer than most water supplied to
communities in the East and elsewhere
in our own State.
A correspondent in another column
points out that for washing purposes the
river water is not softer, nor so soft as the
well water. because in order to cleanse
linen in it, the river water has to be set
tied, and where alum is used-as is usu
ally the case-for that purpose. the water
is hardened. and more soap has to be used
than is required by the well water.
But this whole question of hardness or
softness and fitness is settled, and it be-
hooves the City Trustees now to affirm
the judgment Of the people and make the