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The record-union., 1895-12-03

vOr1te prescription.
I had been bed-fast most of the time for almost
two years. After taking several bottles OF the
Favorite Prescription and following the direc-
tions strictly, I now enjoy better health than
ever before in my life 1 only weighed a little
over one hundred pounds and now weigh I67
pounds
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MORE LANDS OPEN.
Kickapoo Reservation is to be
Opened May %.
The School Lands Are to be
Settled.
ARE $1,000 ACRES.
There Are 5000 People Wait
ing to Get Them.

WASHINGTON, May 20.-The expected
proclamation opening the lands of the
Kickapoo Indian reservation in Okla
homa was signed by the president Sat
urday afternoon. The time set at
which settlers may enter the lands is
Thursday noon, May %. The presi-
dents proclamation opening the reser-
walton to settlement next Thursday
was kept as secret as possible, even the
date being inserted at the very moment
when the president affixed his sigma
ture. This has been done in order to
prevent as much as possible any more
people gathering about the borders to
make the grand rush at noon on Thurs
day. There are only 531 claims to be
taken and it is estimated there are al
ready 49, OOOpeople waiting to get them.
The proclamation is of great length
and recites all the laws enacted by
congress, under which the reservation
is to be opened.
No soldiers are to be provided to
keep out the boomers before the hour
of noon on Thursday, but particular
attention is called by the president to
the fact that laws already enacted pro-
vide that any one who shall step with
in the border of the reservation before
that time is forever barred from taxi
ing up any land therein. It is supposed,
of course, that any sooner will be inn
mediately disclosed by his less for
tunate fellows, who will testify against
him and prevent him from acquiring
title. An endless amount of litigation
is sure to follow, however, and this of
course is anticipated.
Settlers will be requested to pay
ST. so an acre, so cents of which doubt
less will be required for deposit on
original entry. All necessary prepar-
atoms have been made by land office
officials for carrying the provisions of
the proclamation into effect. The re-
servation consists of 216,O 900 acres, but
49, 600 of this has been withheld for
allotments of the Indians and for
school indemnity purposes, leaving
IS, 600 acres to be taken up. The lands
are subject to ordinary honest cad
entry at the price of 81. so per acre.
THE SCHOOL LANDS TO BE OPENED.
GUTHRIE, Ok, May 2O.-The news of
the presidents proclamation opening
the Kickapoo Indian country to set
Element created great excitement in
this section. Although everybody was
expecting the news, its sudden coming
fever and excitement in the towns sur
rounding the new Eldorado and every
thing, from a bicycle to a horse, is be-
ing got in readiness for a handicap
race, which bids fair to equal the great
rush to the Cherokee strip.
One hundred and thirty two thousand
acres will be thrown open to settlement
next Thursday at noon. Eighty-three
thousand acres have been reserved for
school land purposes, but Gov. Rem
frow gave out word yesterday that he
will Immediately throw open the school
lands. This fact will help hundreds of
people who fail to get in at Thursdays
race. All trains are bringing in
hundreds of prospective settlers al
ready and Wednesday night it is esti-
mated that $4,000 will be lining the
| borders of the KickaDOO.
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NEW PENSION RULINGS.

Assistant Secretary Reynolds Decides
Several Points of Interest to Appn-
cants
WASHINGTON, May Assistant Sec
rotary Reynolds, of the interior depart
ment, has decided that when an attor-
ney neglects to explain his clients fail
ure to appear for medical examination
on his application for pension, the at
torney forfeits all claims; also that
declaration not executed before some
person entitled to administer oaths in
pension cases is void. If a later valid
declaration is made it does not entitle
the claimant to receive a pension
dating back to the fling of the void
application. Secretary Reynolds has
decided that where pension has been
granted to several minor children, the
pension of each is chargeable with a
proportionate amount of the fee to the
attorney by whom the claim was prose-
cuted. If a pension to one of the
minors should be withheld, there is no
fund available for the payment of that
portion of the fee.
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THEY ARE DIVIDED.
Presbyterian Assembly by No Means
Unit as Regards Seminary Control.

Presbyterian Assembly by No Means a
Unit Regards Seminary Control.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May Assembly
control of the seminaries has posses
sion of the Presbyterian general as
sembly, even if the ass embly has not
the possession of the seminaries, which
it desires. At the close of the Satur-
day morning session adjournment was
taken until this morning. at which
time the debate on the proposed plan
of gathering in the seminaries into
close and guarded fold was resumed.
The net result thus far attained has
been to divide the assembly into two
clearly marked parties, and it is judged
that the line of cleavage is near the
numerical center of the body. 1t
seems probable the vote of to that
was recorded last year will be wiped
out in large part, and the dispropor-
ton greatly reduced.
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CARLISLE STARTS.

The Secretary of the Treasury Goes to the
South to Speak on the Monetary Ques-
ton.
WASHINGTON, May Secretary of
the Treasury Carlisle and party left
Washington Sunday for the south,
where the secretary is to make several
addresses in support of the sound mon
ey policy. The party will reach Coving-
ton, KY, this morning and in the even
ing Secretary Carlisle will speak at the
rink. Thursday afternoon he will
speak at the convention of sound
moneyites at Memphis. The following
Saturday afternoon he will make an
address at Bowling Green, Ky, and
will then go direct to Louisville. He
will speak at Louisville on the follow
ing Tuesday. His return to Washing
ton will be made the Wednesday after
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FLAYED,THEN BURNED.
Dreadful Torture of Three Flor
ida Negroes by a Mob.
They Were Skinned Alive and
Afterward Burned.
A REVOLVING CRIME.
The Negroes Assaulted and
Killed Young Woman.

ELLAvLLE, Fla, May 2O.-Three
negroes were 1ynched Saturday night in
a dense swamp on the Suanee river by
white men for assaulting a white girl
It is reported that they were hayed
alive and then burned, after being sub
iected to frightful fortunes. The crime
for which the negroes were so horribly
put to death was one of the most ter
rible in the history of this section of
Florida. The scene of the crime and
retribution was in Lafayette, the ad-
joining county to Madison on the
south.
Miss Mamie Armstrong, the beauti-
full daughter of prominent Lafayette
county farmer, left her home five days
ago to spend the night with neighbOr
who lived 2 miles distant. The next
day Miss Armstrong; father went to
the house to bring her home and was
alarmed to hear that nothing had been
seen of her. Mr.. Armstrong alarmed
the neigh bors and a search was made.
The woods were secured and the
Suanee river dragged. Finally, about
midway between the home of Mr..
Armstrong and the neighbours house
the handkerchief of the girl was found
clinging to a bush, and all around
were evidences of desperate struggle.
The searchers folio we'd the trail thus
indicated, finding that the girl had
been dragged into the woods. After
proceeding for mile the corpse of Miss
Armstrong was found m a thick clump
of bushes. The body of the girl was in
a horrible condition. Every shred of
clothing had been torn from it and she
had been assaulted. The lower linn BIS
had been torn apart, her head crushed
and her throat cut. 1t was evident
that the girl had made a desperate
fight, for under her nails were found
pieces of black cuticle, which she had
torn from her assailants.
Sam Echols was suspected and
threatened with instant death unless
he confessed. He did SO, and impli-
Gated Sim Crowley and John Brooks.
Echols said they kept the girl for
twenty-four hours before killing her,
forcing her in the meanwhile to sub
nit to the most horrible indignities.
The greater part of the time, the negro
said, Miss Armstrong was uncon-
scious.
Having secured the negroes imp1i-
Gated by Echols, the white men proceed
ed with the three fends to a dense
swamp on the Suanee river, where they
were made to suffer torture similar to
that they had inflicted on the girl. The
white people are terribly aroused and
swear they will exterminate the ne
groes if these outrages are continued.
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The Momentous Question.

"My heart pleads for you, Horace" she
said unsteadily, "but do you realize the
anguish, the misery, the remorse, that
would follow union hastily entered into
by two persons not wholly suited to each
other?''
"Eyadne, " impetuously cried the young
man, ''if two persons are deeply, sincere
ly, devotedly attached to each other, ara
they not wholly suited? What more is nee
essary? Does the loving heart stop to rea-
son coldly when, with every passionate
throb, it,
''Is it not possible, Horace she gently
interposed, ''tO mistake a transient i'm
pulse for an abiding love? Must there not
be at the basis of all true affection a mu-
tual respect, forbearance, liberation, that
will endure when
"There is only one question, Evadne
Winchester. Do you''-
Horace Huckstep, " she exclaimed wild
", "there is more than one question The
mOmentous consequences Of a fatal mis-
take must not
''Evadne, hear me-
Horace, I confess I have no other
attachment, and that I cannot regard you
with Indifference
my DEAR
"Stop''
"Don't torture me, dearest. Listen to
the voice of your own heart and''-
With trembling lips she interrupted him
again.
Horace you are keeping something
back from me-
Before heaven, 7 am notr'
"Then tell me, Horace Huckstep,' she
said convulsively, chow you stand on the
question of the free coinage of siIver?''-
Chicago Tribune.
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NEWS NOTES.

Bonds to the amount of $11, 600, 900
are being sold to build an electric rail-
way from st. Louis to Chicago.
Fort Smith, Ark, offers the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf bonus of $780,
600 on condition that the main line,
now under construction, be built
through that city.
An agent of the United States land
Office, who was sent to investigate pine
land thefts in the Ashland, Wis, dis
trict, has made discoveries of thefts
that are said to be astounding.
In St. Louis the city millers have
gobbled up every bushel of cash wheat
on sale, and it may be necessary to go
to California to get wheat to supply
the milling demand in that city.
Secretary of Agriculture Morton, in
a letter to the National Provisioner,
says he will advocate placing beef
absolutely on the free list if investiga-
ton proves the existence of combine.
These post Office appointments were
made Saturday: In Missouri, at Hoover,
Platte county, M. Snoderly; in Okla
bona, at Otter, Kingfsher county, F.
Hibbeard, and at Parvin, Kingfsher
county, M. Clark.
An earthquake shock occurred at
Florence, Italy, on the 18th and many
people spent the night in the streets,
a second shock increasing the first
alarm. Mum bers of houses were badly
cracked. At surrounding villages
many deaths were reported, at Gras-
sina forty houses being wrecked and
at San Martino the church was demol-
ished, crushing many people in the
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WORLDS OUTPUT OF IRON.
Some Very Interesting Figures Presented
ON the subject by Mr.. Berkenhine.

Some Very Interesting Figures Presented
on the Subject by Mr.. Berkenbine.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Mr. John Ber-
kenbine, the iron ore expert of Phila-
delphia, has prepared for the division
of mineral resources of the United
States geological survey an exhaustive
report of the iron ore resources of the
world, in which the iron ore in 1893 is
estimated at about SO. 500, 600 long tons.
The portion of this report relating to
the United States shows the total pro-
duction of iron ore in this country in
1894 was 11,s7s,6 79 long tons, of 2, 24O
pounds as compared with 1857, 629
long tons in 1898.
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A BIG STRIKE.


The Union Miners In the Pittsburgh Dis
triet Called Out.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 20.-A reso1u-
ton ordering general suspension. of
work in all the mines in the Pitts
burgh district was adopted at the
miners convention here Thursday. It
was also decided to establish camps at
all the pits working below the rate.
The convention was one of the largest
ever held and the sentiment of the
men was for calling out all the miners.
whether working for the 69-cent rate
or for the 6O-cent rate. MANY of the
delegates favored demanding 70 cents,
but it was finally decided to demand
the old wages. The delegates spent
the evening with their various lodges,
and when they reassembled yester-
day reported that the miners
of the district seemed to be almost
unanimous in favor of keeping up the
war to the end. The conventions first
work yesterday was to pass resolu-
ton declaring for general suspension
of work throughout the district until
the demand for 60 cents should be
granted. The shutdown will begin
to-day, and all the union men now at
work at union rates will be called out
It is estimated that between 5000 and
5000 miners are now at work in this
district at the 69-cent rate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-20
OMAHA'S DESTITUTE.
Unique Plan to Furnish Employment to
Those Who Desire 1t.

Unique Plan to Furnish Employment to
Those Who Desire 1t.
OMAHA, Neb., May 2o.-The plan to
relieve the destitute families in Omaha
by furnishing them ground and seed
for garden has worked successfully.
The agricultural commission has under
it's care 447 garden plots, that being
the number of heads of families sup
piled with seed potatoes and garden
seed. In addition a number of
men have been furnished seed pota-
toes for several acres each, on coDdi-
ton that one-fourth of the crop be re-
turned to the commission for distribu-
ton among the poor next winter. The
associated charities expects to raise
over 10000 bushels of potatoes, which
will be distributed by it and throug
the different charita BILE institutions.
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the idol of the south. He was born in
Epson county, Ga, February 6, 1882.
At the beginning of the war he entered
the confederate army as cap tain of in
fantry and occupied the positions of
major, lieutenant-colouel, colonel,
brigadier-general and major-general,
respectively. He was eight times
wounded in battle. In 1868 and 1872
he was a mem Der of the national dem
ocratie convention and a presidential
elector for the state at large. He was
elected United States senator in 1872
and in 1879, was governor of Georgia
from 1866 to 1890, and in 1890 was again
elected to the United States senate.
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WADEHAMPTON ON REBELS
He Makes q Speech Dear to the Southern
Heart at Charleston.

he Makes q Speech Dear to the Soutnern
Heart at Charleston.
CHARLESTON, May 2O.-This town has
just concluded another feast of rebel
memories. There is nothing that Charles
ton loves SO much as to haunt Confed-
country that she isn't reconstructed. The
occasion was the address of Wade Hamp-
ton given at the invitation of the Daugh-
ters- of the Confederacy. When General
Hampton arrived, Confederate flags were
hung out and thousands of people lined
the sidewalks and cheered. In his adj
dress Hampton said:
"Others may say to you that the cause
for which so many of our brave sons
gave their lives was submitted to the
stern arbitrament of the sword, and as
the verdict, against which no appeal
lies, was rendered against US, the cause
for which we fought must necessarily
have been wrong. Do not allow your
selves, my friends, to be misled by that
false doctrine-false to your faith, to
your state and to your God-which tells
you that because of the failure of our
cause there was no truth or justice In 1t.
ANY human undertaking. however
just it may be, may fail, but the everlast-
ing principles of right and justice can
never be blotted out. A great truth,
like the God-hea whence it emanates,
is eternal and it will live till the last
syllable of recorded time If we admit
that as our cause went down in disaster
we were only rebels, we shall brand our
heroic dead. as we'll as the living. as
traitors. covering all alike with deserved
infamy. VIII the living soldiers who
followed the starry cross on hundreds OF
battlefelds ever consent to denounce
their dead comrades as traitors?"
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RAILWAY Employees, Club.

ATcHIsoN, Kan, May 2O.-The fourth
annual convention of the Railway En-
ployes' club, of Kansas, met at Apollo
hall, in this city, Saturday, with full
quota of delegates present. At the
afternoon session the officers for the
ensuing year were elected, as follows:
President L. L. Bigler, of Newton; sec
rotary, c. Fl. Sheffield, of Topeka;
treasurer, Dan Sweeney, of Belleville;
executive committee, Leroy Currier,
of Topeka, chairman; II. E. Jockey,
and A. S. McAllister, of Herington.
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AsTOR TRAMP IS INSANE.

The Man Whom Aston Wanted So
Severely Punished Is Crazy.
NEW YORK, May 2O-John Garvey,
the tramp who won fame and a cell in
the Toombs by going to sleep in Astor's
mansion, is hopelessly insane.
Garvey has been examined by DR.. Rob-
ert Stafford Newton, chief examiner in
lunacy for the district attorneys Office,
and Drs. Chetwood and Coffey, the
Toombs physicians. and all agree that he
is insane. Garvey was being prosecuted
by John Jacob Astor, and his case was
set down on the calendar for Monday.
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Nelson Sentenced to Hang.

HANNIBAL, Mo-, May 2o.-Judge Roy
convened the special term of the
Marion county circuit court at Palmyra
at p. m. Saturday to pass upon the
motion for new trial in the Nelson
murder case. The motion and a
motion in arrest of judgment were
overruled, and Judge Roy sentenced
Nelson to be hanged July IL. A mo-
ton for an appeal to the supreme court
was Granted
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THE CONFEDERATE REUNION.

The Veterans OF the Lost Cause and Their
Commander-in-Chief.
MACON, Ga, May 9o-Gen. John B.
Gordon is commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, who will
hold their grand reunion in Houston.
Tex, May %, %, "a. It will be one of
the most notable events in the history
of the organization. Gen. Gordon, ex-
Northumberland of the confederate
army, United States senator from
Georgia for over half score of years,
and twice governor of that state, is
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Death from a Billiard Cue.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 2O-Ernest
Bailey, printer, 10 years old, of 2O44
Penn street, died at o'clock last night
from the effect of two blows on the
head with billiard cue in the hands
of Alden L. Colbert, an ex-hack driver
and notorious ruffian Colbert is
locked in a cell at Central police sta
ton on the charge of murder Freda
Lee, Colbert's reputed mistress, is also
being held by the police. She is want
ed Tor investigation.
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MISSOURI EDITORS.
Officers Elected for the Ensuing Year
Next Meeting at Windsor.

MOUNTAIN GROVE, Mo, May 2O.-The
Southwest Missouri Press association
closed its two days annual convention
Saturday, after one of it's largest and
most successful meetings The follow
ing officers were elected for the ensu
ing year: President, Gus Leftwich,
Miami News; vice presidents, w. J.
Powell, Rolla New Era; H. T. Burck-
hardt, Windsor Review, and W. A. Mar
tin, Liberal Enterprise; corresponding
secretary, Omar D. Gray, Sturgeon
Leader; treasurer, G. Roach, Carthage
Democrat. The association decided to
hold the 1896 meeting at Windsor.
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Their Lives Crushed out.

SPOKANE, Wash, May 2O.-Hamilton
Dean and wife, wealthy old couple,
living few miles out of the city, met
with horrible death yesterday even
ing. They were riding into the city in
their carriage, and, as they were pass
ing along the road, 3 miles from the
city, at point where graders were
telling trees, huge tree fell directly
upon the aged couple; crushing the
lie out of them INSTANTLY
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Sunday school Convention.

MARSHALL, Mo-, May 2O.-The an
nual convention of the state Sunday
schools of the Christian church will be
held at this place June 1913, inclusive.
This convention is expected to be the
largest UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday school
convention ever held in Missouri.
Each Sunday school will send a num-
Der of delegates from both teachers
and scholars, in proportion to it's size.
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Fire at Higbee. Mo.

MoBERLY, Mo, May 2o-At an early
hour yesterday morning the town of
Higbee, 10 miles south of Moberly, in
Randolph county, at the crossing of
the NJ, K. & T. and the Chicago & AL
ton railroads, was visited by the most
disastrous fire in its history. The
finest block in the city was destroyed,
causing a loss of $35, 900, with about
SIS, 900 insurance.
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Kansas Coal Mining Scale

PITTsBURG, Kan, May 2O.-The coal
operators have at last established a
uniform price in the district for the
mining of coal, all of them, it is said,
agreeing to pay the scale. 1t is to be
s71{ cents in summer and 95 cents in
winter for screened lump and so cents
for mine run the year around.
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AL DRUGGISTS.
BAD FOR THE PEOPLE.

Effect of the Gold Standard in India Told
by a Missionary.
DENVER, May 20.-The Rev. ]. Cool
ing and wife are in Denver on their way
to England from their missionary station
at Madras, India. DIR. Cooling said that
the closing of the India minis against
silver was good thing for the mission.
because it permitted the gold received
for its support from Eng land to do much
more than it would formerly. But the
same thing was bad for the people.
"Times became very hard in India" be
said, ''after the change in policy of the
government, and, because it takes mora
rupees to buy thing than it did before
the mints were closed to silver, it follows,
as a matter of course, that the industrial
classes and the poorer people are com
PEELED to go without much that they were
enabled to enjoy under the financial
system which prevailed prior to the
action of the mints"
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Commencement at Columbia.

COLUMBIA, No, May 20. During the
next two weeks the five institutions of
learning situated here will hold their
commencement exercises The exer-
cises in Christian female college begig
Saturday.
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Bugs and Flies in the wheat.

WARRENsBURG, Mo-, May 2o-John-
son county farmers report great dam
age to the wheat crop from the chinch
bug and the Hessian fly. Agentleman
who has just returned from trip over
the county says the acreage is much
reduced and the average wheat crop
will be about ten bushels to the acre.
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China,a Admiraltv Dissolved.

LONDON, May 2O.-By command of
the emperor the Chinese admiralty was
dissolved March "a, owing to the abject
incompetence of its officials and de-
felt of over $50, 900, 900. There is no
prospect that the department will be
re-esta blished, or that China will buy
any more warships broad