The Kansas blackman., 1894-06-22
The Blacknan.
wv. ID. DRIVER,
Editor and Publisher,
TOPEKA, KANSAS
TOPEKA,

The new $4,000 building Of the IerrlIo-
rial Agricultural college at Saltwater " ~
was dedicated June Is, ex-Chie1 Justlce m
B. Green delivering the address
The house has agreed to an amendment
to the Indian appropriation bllI; apPIoplI-
ating S5 900 for artesan wells az flne hiuse'
Rosebud and Standing Rock agencies
The MassiIlon, Ohio, district have agreed
for several local mines to be started On t1e
basis of IS cents per ton. Inls VIII enaols
fhe great factories which have been 5ioseo
to resume.
Az Tecumseh, 3. T.. J. G. Dean was found
guilty of attempting to brbe United states
grand jurer and sentenced to pay nne q
$500 and six months Ia jail. Dean was ~
erly Kansas lawyer.
al Perry, o. T., grand stand broke down
with 800 people on it, during pal! gains
Many we're injured and one little girl tatally'
The frst car Of new wheat Of the season
vas inspected by tine official state gram IN
spector at Kansas City, Kansas, June Ao' -
was from Oklahoma.
The river ia now cutting in the business
norton Of East Atchison, and the several
buildings north of the tracks are belnR
moved to place Of safety and brick school
house is now being torn down.
OF the 364 members Of the Sanders gang
Who were taken to Leavenworth only II re-
NAMED to be sentenced. as the others nad
escaped singly and in squads during tne stay
Of the gang in the prison camp.
Speaker Crisp has been confined to hls
room for some time by sickness, MT. Baliey
performing the duties Of speaker pro tem'
The final struggle in the senate on free
wool has been postponed until the tariff Pill
shall be reported to the senate for final ac-
ton.
Giants, village Of 200 people in Sherman
county, Oregon. has been swept away by
foods. Among the buildings destroyed W as
new distillery which cost about S'o'UoU.
Representative Curtis, Of Kansas, has in.
troduced bill to allow the Sac and Fox In
dians who have lands in Kansas, to sell the
same or dispose of them in any way thai
they may individually see fit.
Mrs. Anna Diggs worked too hard at the
two state conventions, and other meetings
which she attended during convention times
and was laid up by it. She was reported TO
be seriously i'll on the 14th and later.
A young scamp calling himself the son Of
III. r. Nickerson, late general superintendent
of the Santa Fe, is under arrest in California
for embezzlement. HI. R. Nickerson has
but one son and he is wiliI his father.
The Kansas City Journal says that Ben
nett. Cannon and Artz have all deserted
their gang Of wealers in camp at Kansas
City, and that the growing discomfort in the
camp is likely to result in disbandlng the
''army."
In the deficiency bill the department Of JUS
tice receives $708, ,278 ostly for fees of United
States courts. The largest appropriation is
$2,314, ,522, for the postotfice department. Vt
this $1,54O,174 goes for mail transportation
by railroads.
Major Moses Neal, aIlotting agent for the
Kickapoo Indians. has gone to Washington
with his report, having completed all allot-
ments. The balance of the land in the res
ervation can now be thrown open to settle
ment at the pleasure of the secretary of the
interior.
The pump house at the Alverton coke
plant Of Mcclure q Co., at Greensburg, Pa,
has been blown up with dynamite. The ex,
ploslon was terrific and the building was
completely wrecked. The strikers are held
responsible for the outrage, and the perpe-
traitors are said to be known.
Miners at Mount Olive, ILL.,, forcibly pre-
vented coal cars to be moved, and when
deputies arrested few of them forcibly re-
leased them. Upon statement Of the case
by the sheriff to the governor the Seventh
regiment of militia left Chicago on spe-
<tNA sAAA4 - bAS h'6 ANf " VoSA0e eAAV ohOAAAs
Senator PETER has introduced and the
senate has passed a resolution directing the
secretary of agriculture to inform the senate
as to the amount of wheat supply, visible
and invisible, the estimated crop of this
year, the amount necessary for export, and
such other information as may be available.
Laf1in q Rand's powder mill, one mile
from Platteville, Wis, containing more
Ahor Lan,c 1f avnIaIoI ~ %ho
evening just after the employees had left the
premises, and no one. SO far as known, was
hurt. The roof was carried a quarter of
mile and left in sections in the tops Of trees.
Captain Jack Crawford, familliarly known
as the 'Poet Scout" will sail for Scotland
ahcat July is on mission which may result
IN proving him to be one Of the principal
heirs to the great Wallace estate. now held
by the state of New York and New York
city, and estimated to be worth $20.O0O,0OO.
John Ingalls, has received lucrative Of
fers to take charge of an important metro
politan newspaper as editor-in- chief and
has left for New York to confer with the
managers. He expects, however, to actively
participate in the campaign this fall under
the direction of the republican state central
committee.
The North Enid, o. T., Town company
offers South Enid, the government townsite,
TO remove the entire town to North Enid, to
occupy as many lots as they now do, and
give full title to the lots. if the South Enid
people will unite with them in building up
one good city. The offer covers the deposit
of $4,000 as security.
The arrival Of the Elks at jamestown, n.
r., from all sections of the country exceeds
any attendance of the events Of a grand
lodge meeting that ever has been known in
the history of the order. There were about
10 lodges represented on tbs ground the
first day, and over twenty states. -Four hun
dred lodges are expected.
Special trains will be run from Boston,
New York, Philadelphia. Baltimore, Pitts
burg. Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago,
Milwaukee. Minneapolis, Nashville. Kansas
City. St. Louis, Omah1 and DIS MoiRes to
the Denver meeting Of republican leagues.
which meets June 26 Secretary Humphrey
estimates the attendance from 3,OD to 5,OO0
GENERAL MARKErA