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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21
Argonia. Kan, Bank Fails.

Topeka, Kan, May 1.-THE State
bank commissioner was yesterday
notified of the closing of the State
Bank at Argonia, Sumner county. to
avoid q run started by the failure of
the Sumner National Bank The cash
on hand is S7S7 and it has 81, 500 tied
up in the Wellington failure.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

HOPKINS. Mo-, May l4-At midnight
Charles Ulmer of this place shot and
instantly killed Leslie Suffer and IA
tally wounded his brother-in-law,
Bailey Davis, whose death is moment
arily expected. The trouble, it is said.
was jealousy on the part Of Ulmer.
whose wlfe was attempting to secure
a divorce. All of the parties are well
known. Ulmer made his escape.
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KANSAS TURN AGAIN.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED
BY ANOTHER TORNADO.
seneca and Oneida Victims OF the De.
vastating Elements-Two Hundred are
Homeless ut Frankf0rt-saboths Also
vfsfted-Several Other Towns Struck.

SENECA, Kan, May IA devastat-
ing tornado passed through this city
from the southwest to the northeast
hast evening at $50 o'clock. Every
thing in its path was completely
wrecked. Couriers from the country
report great damage to property and
probable loss of life. In this city
four were killed and a number in
jured.
The killed are a son and daughter
Of N. K. Comet, son of NJ. E. Vor-
bees and the l5-year-ol6 son of Peter
Assenmachers. The injured are NJ.
E. Voorhees,, John Belshaw and Alonzo
Hawley. The latter will rot recover.
The Grand opera house is completely
demolished. The roof and west side
of the $50, 900 court house IS blown off
and caved in. and the roof of the high
school building gone. The steeples
Of the new Methodist. Universalist
and Catholic churches were scattered
to the four winds. Twenty-Five res
licences were RACED to the ground and
buildings innumerable unroofed. At
Oneida, several buildings were de-
stroyed and three children of James
Sherrard killed The west half of the
village of Baileyville was swept away.
but no one killed. The damage In
this city is nver $500, 600.
Two Hundred Homeless at Frankfort.
FRANKFORT, Kan, May l8.-The
visited this section of the State struck
this city at about S o'clock yesterday
afternoon. The storm came from the
southwest and was preceded by q
heavy fall of rain and hail. The fun.
mel shaped cloud came from the OBJ
posite direction from the prevailing
wind, and travelled slowly, which gave
the people ample time to go into cell
lars and caves, which most of them
did.
Several farm houses were destroyed
before the storm reached the city, but
80 far as learned no one was killed.
Following is the list of injured: P.
Cudermore. hurt about the head; Mrs
Moran; Henry Kennedy, nose broken
and otherwise badly bruised. Mrs.
Arthur, colored, and two children;
Jack Rodgers, living in the country;
Captain j. b. Todd, flesh wounds.
Nearly 200 persons are homeless in
this city. About hundred buildings
in town and country are down.
Horses, cattle and hogs are dead on
every farm in the path of the storm.
The business portion of the town was
not struck by the wind and is all right.
The loss will foot up to probably from
$25, 600 to $50,
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May ls.-Judge
James Gibson has given to the press
of this city letter in which he posi-
lively withdraws his name as candi-
date for governor before the Missouri
Democratic convention. Personal rea-
sons caused the declination. He is
heartily for the Democratic nominees
and free silver
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

HAMILTON, Pa. May iS.-Six per-
sons were shot and a mum Der of 9th
ers seriously injured during riot 1T
MacAdoo, a town four miles from
here yesterday. A game of baseball
was in progress, when a gang OF
drunken Italians charged upon the
players with revolvers, clubs ana
stones
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CHICAGO, May ia.-The schooner
Mary D. Aver was sunk in collision
with the steemer Onoko, in Lake
Michigan. of Crosse Point. yesterday,
and i've members Of her crew were
drowned. two being saved.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

WASHINGTON. May 1a-Coming inn
oediately upon the severe drain Of re-
sources caused by the Cuban rebellion,
he Spanish people have now to face
he prospect of an almost total loss Of
Ne wheat crop. caused by drouth and
6oecta
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Col,ubl. Statesman seldL

COLUMBIA, Mo-, May lathe COL
umbia Statesman has been sold by
Will G. Barrett to Henry 7. Burk-
hardt and Luther Fl. Rice. The States
man has been, for more than fifty
years, one of the leading Democratic
Journals of Central Missouri
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Overmyer Turned Down

Topeka. Kan. May 1s.-The Demo-
Gratis of Shawnee county Endorsed
John Martin for deleeate-at-large to
the national convention. A resolution
to indorse David Overmyer was de-
feated by a vote of 46 to 16. Free
silver resolutions were adopted.
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BENTON, KY, MAY ia terrible
tornado passed over the Northwest
corner of this county yesterday morn
ing about l o'clock, doing damage to
everything in its path. At Elva it
tore down the house of Anderson
Jones and killed the entire family,
consisting of eight persons.
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OREGON, Mo-, May 1.-THE trial Of
Gertrude Taylor, charged with tho
murder of her father. Dillon B. Tay-
lor. was concluded last evening. and
the case given to the jury at $50 p
m. After being out two hours the
Jury returned = verdict of not guilty.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21
silver Men Against Adjournment

WASHINGTON. May 1s.-The impress
sion is growing about the capitol that
the silver men will soon take posi-
ton against final adjournment before
the National conventions. The move
ment embraces silver advocates in
both houses, and of all parties.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

Bank Failure at Meade. Kaa.
TOPEKA, Kan. May i4.-State Bank
Commissioner John w. Breidenthal
left yesterday for Meade. in response
to a telegram announcing the failure
of the Stock-Growers and Farm
ers' Bank of that place. The partic-
ulars are not given.
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BolIn Severely Punished.

OMAHA. Neb, May ls.-Henry Bolln,
ex-clty treasurer of Omaha, was SEN
fenced by Judge Baker to serve nine
teen years at hard labor in the State
penitentiary and 70 pay a fine OF
sell, 900.
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I've Knled ~ I.~h.,,..

HOLDEN. No, May ls-While fish
ing on Rear creek Charles Brought.
aged % years. and John Cook, aged
Il years. took refuge under . large
elm tree during . rain storm. The
tree was struck By lightning ard both
wer killed Instantly.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21
DELEGATES ALL CHOSEN.
Mckinley Has Enough to Nominate and
Some to Spare.

WASHINGTON, May lS. General
Grosvenor gives out his last weekly
statement covering the election of
delegates to the ST. Louis convention.
All the conventions have been held,
and the result is now before the peo-
pie. He. allows Mckinley So? dele
gates out of 9!S. He SAYS:
To-day the Mckinley deleg ates
elected are as follows:
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Ten Injured at Reserve.

HIAwArHA, Kan, May Is. - Six
surgeons and several helpers have
gone tn Reserve. where fully ten peo-
ple are known to be hurt and dozens
Of buildings are blown over. Two
farmers on hopeback brought the
word from Reserve. They say tho
damage is frightfuL
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JOPLIN, Mo-, May 1o-This town
was visited Saturday morning by an
extremely heavy rain, which swelled
Willow Branch, which crosses Main
street. into . torrent, flooding business
houses, some as deep as forty inches.
The damage is fully $4,000. Two
hundred feet of the Pittsburg & Gulf
railroad was was washed out south of
the depot. Many mines are iooaed
and hundreds of men will be out of
work for some time.
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The Cars Coronation.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 1s.-The Car
and Czarina, with their infant daugh-
ter, the Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaiev-
ana, accompanied by numerous
suite and by the whole of the imperial
household, took their departure last
evening for Moscow. The august cere-
mony of the coronation of the Car
and Czarina and the fetes, which pre-
cede and follow that event, will fill
up the time constantly from now until
June :, which is the date fixed upon
for the return of the imperial party
to St. Petersburg.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21
~o Hundred Africans Enled.

Brass, West Africa, Nay ia-An
explosisn 1t Bids, in the Nupe coun-
try. ON the Niger river, has Raced to
the ground the palace Of Emif 4elett
and has killed zoo people.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-21

CHocxER. Mo-, May IA. ii. Ross.
representative from Pulaski county,
Uas thrown from his horse near
Waynesvills yesterday. receiving in
)nrtes that viii result fatally.
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many injured.
In Howe, Texas.-Eight killed,
many injured.
SHERMAN, Texas, May 1S-A lorna
do swept over this section yesterday
afternoon, causing probably 14O
deaths, injuring hundreds of others
and doing damage estimated at $780,
O0O. In this city eighty-one persons
were killed and twenty are missing
and probably dead. while over 100
were injured. North of here at least
twelve were killed, and at other
points there were thirty or more
deaths.
The tornado made it's first appear
ance at Justin, in Denton county,
moro than hundred miles from here.
The work of ruin was quickly accom-
plished there. From there the storm
swept northeast through Gerald,
thence to Mingo. to Gribble Springs
and on to Mustard. A hundred miles
was travelled in an hour The small
settlements along the line of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad
north of Denton all suffered Elm
view was laid waste and then the viii
lage of Howe, southwest of Sherman,
received the full force of the storm.
which, while sweeping over Denton
county and a part of Grayson. seemed
TO have gathered new fury. In this
city the storm swept through a Sec
ton two blocks wide in the western
half of the city, travelling almost di-
rectly north.
When the tornado first appeared
here, the dark storm clouds parted at
the lower side and converged into a
perfect fundel-shape, while a mass of
vaporous clouds rapidly revolved in
the rift. Then came q deep rum
bling and then the air was filled with
trees and twigs and the downpour of
rain brought with it deluge of mud.
From the point where the storm
first descended in this city to where it
arose from the ground just north of
town. not house in its pathway es-
capped, not a tree or shrub was left
standing, fences were wrecked and
the iron bridge on Houston street was
completely blown away notwith-
standing its hundreds of thousands of
pounds of steel and material.
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elected are as follows:

Representative Aldrich has nothing
to give out for publication. He ap-
pears willing to let the matter go as
it is at present.
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TORNADO IN TEXAS.
OVER ONE HUNDRED AND
FORTY LIVES LOST.

Scores Of Others Injured appalling
Wreck and Ruin Ia the Wake Of .
Twister-Sherman Almost Wiped Out
Other Towns Much Damaged.
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Started in Clav County.

CONCORpIA, Kan, May is.-Another
tornado visited North Central Kansas
yesterday afternoon. 1t started in
the northern part of Clay county,
seven or eight miles south of the little
town of Palmer and passed in north
easterly direction through Riley
county and into Marshall. 1t crossed
the Blue river at the junction of the
Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific
railroads and passed near the town of
Axtell.
The little hamlet of Bodaville, in
Riley county, was entirely swept
away.
Many are reported injured and
several killed at Spring Valley, but
nothing can be learned definitely.
Some six miles south of Barnes, it
tore down q church in which $50 peo-
PIE were worshiping Many were
injured, the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Mason.
escaping with q broken leg. Medical
assistance was asked for from neigh.
boring towns
Later reports received over the Mis-
souri, Pacific wires are to the effect
that Baileyville, little town just east
was struck by the storm. Houses /. nd
stores were torn down. A large ele-
vator was completely wrecked. Box
ears were lifted from the track and
carried long distance. While several
were injured, no one was killed.
The popula ton of the towns visited
by the tornado is approximately as
follows: Seneca, 1000; Sabetha, /. $40;
Axtell, CSC; Baileyville, $50; Frank
fort, 1850; Oneida, 800.
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Two Fatally Hurt ut sab.th..

SABETHA, Kan, May 1s.-A very
destructive tornado struck Sabetha
about 7:3O o'clock last night from the
Southwest and tore an angry gap
through the business and residence
porto or of the city. The Grand Island
depot was RACED to the ground. 70
Gether with about dozen res licences
on the North side. There were Eve
persons in the depot at the time, but
all escaped with their lives, although
Mr.. Austin. the day operator, WAS
carried several blocks by the fury Of
the storm.
William Carry and wife and oldest
daughter Were badly injured, the girl,
It is thought, fatally. 5. p. Hays was
buried beneath the ruins and has his
jaw broken and Is injured internally.
ArA Elizabeth Murphy, colored, is
badly injured internally and is
thought will die.
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In Sherman. Texas. one
dead. twenty missing. over 100 injured.
About Sherman. Texas = Twelve
killed. about fifty injured.
In Gribble Springs, TexaS-Three
killed. thirty injured.
In Justin, Texas. killed, sew
enteen injured.
About Denton, Texas-Five killed,
many injured.
In Howe, Texas.-Eight killed,
many injured.
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capitol.
A convict who escaped from the
Missouri State penitentiary at Jeffer-
which Sheriff s. III. Some and Chief Of
Police Henderson had just brought
from Arkansas.
81. Joseph has q curfew ordinance.
The trial trip of the battleship Ore
gon was a world record breaker
Bicycle manufacturers spent mill
ion and three-quarters for advertising
during is9as
Natural gas was discovered while
boring for . well on j. S. Wheeler's
farD near ArdmOre. ]. T.
Seven houses were destroyed by a
tornado between Langston and Per-
kins. Okla. and Samuel Dennison
fatally injured.
Eugene c. Ackers Of New York was
robbed OF So. 900 worth of diamonds,
and John II. Reidell, his adopted son,
is under suspicion.
Thirteen tailor shop employees,
mostly girls. were imprisoned j. two
fourth story rooms of q burning build
ing, 6:2 Locust street, St Louis, until
the FIRE department arrived and put
ont the famea
National convention hall at st. Louis
will be completed by MAY 25 Seats
will BE- arranged for IL. GOO people and
the disposition of doorkeepers win
allow every ticket TO be examined and
every ticket holder seated inside Of
ten minuteA
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1896-01-17

Of NV rs IS T Is R5i. sw 1< e
seH & e1k Of swL Of so & nwL
al neA & neA Of nvL s 81 I
40 Z 80, containing 1850 acres.
$500; 600; Is
stock horses, Sl25; IL stock cat
tie, $12O; total value &6,845; gem
eral tar, S10052; ten DER cent.
SlO.95; advertising, g.; audit
or's certificate, $1.25; fetal taxSl23 y
Porch II H, Huntington
Poss title seI Of a & seL of
swA q swA Of seq & M Of SO
a 5 % L % r 55; nwL &e%
OF swA S 30 II % r SIS, WIZ Of
nwA s 10 T % r Sc, contain
ing GAO acres, $16O; improve
ments, 5000; 30 stock horses,
$500; 30 mich cows, $3.50; 81
stock cattle, 1920; l, wagon, S75;
total value, $1,805; general tax,
$2S 81; ten per cent, 81. S8; adj
verrising, 81; Auditors certifi-
cate, 81 Is; total tax. ,S35 OF
Unknown Owner, Mardis-
One ten stamp mill and ma
chinery situated in Mardis Min.
ing District on what is known
as Badger Creek, about 2 miles
from Bruneau river, and about
one and one-half miles below
the head of Badger creek, S.
600, total value, $780,; general
tax, $50; ten per cent, $500; ad-
vertis;ng, 81; Auditors certifi-
cote, $1.25; total tax. .S91 25
Notice is further given that ten per
cent on the amount of each item OF
original tax, together with S125 Aud
itor's fees, andS 2 cost OF advertising
for each item will be collected in adj
dition to the amount of original tax
IL each Of said cases Of dehnquency.
and il said original taxes, penalties
and Gusts be not sooner collected or
paid to me that will at II o'clock M.
on Monday, the Goth day of January,
1886, at the front door of the Court
house OF said county, at the town Of
Elko, therein, sell each and every par
Gel OF said described property for The
total amount of the original tax pen
atty ana costs set opposite to each
parcel thereof respectively, to the per-
son or persons who will paw the
amount OF the original tax, penalties
and costs for the smallest parcel of
the property described opposite there
to respectively, in each case of delin-
quency, and that all property sold at
such sale and each parcel thereof, is
, subject to redemption within six
months after the date of sale by pay
ment of all of said sums against the
same, or each parcel thereof respec-
lively, with 3 per cent per month
thereon, from the date of said sale
until paid. ......... ........
JOHN HENDERSON,
County Treasurer and ex -Officio Tax
Receiver. .--s..s
Elko, New, Dec. 10, 1895.
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SHERIFF,S SALE.

BY virtue of an execution No. i2, tss, issvsd
from the clerks office of tho Sixth District
Court. holden in the city OF Providence OH
the sth day Of June A. d. 1900. and returna
BILE 10 said cour. en- the 9Th day Of september
A. D., lSet. wherein Charles Baysbof Is PLAIN
tit and William G. sparry, Joseph sundin
alias John Doe and Supdin aIiss Jane Doe CO.
ps.tners as Sundip& hpsrry all OF said Provi-
dence are tie defendants. Will ho sold at
public auction on FRIDAY. the 18th day of
June A. ID. 1893, NJ o'clock y. m, in section
l., In the Providence Warehouse. Co.. Mason
street, Providence. 4. ], the following
described goods and ohatels of the defendants
sundin 81 sparry. which we're bv ms attached
on the original wris ON the ath day OF May.
A. d., 1t96. AT - o'clucx p. IN. IN which the
above named execution was obtained 10
show cases and contents, Oil cloth and limo
leum, prescription countes and shelving.
chairs. lounge, roll rop desk, 2 counters. back
counter with drawers aud shelving, oak ta-
bic, ker witch hazel, money drawer, 2pic'
tures and frames, mortars and psstal,<.O
gross corks 81 pint BOTTLES. glass stop, t014 b.
bottles wide mouth, IS small bottles, 80 Pint
bottles. 1914 lb.. bottles, lG1t III.
bottles Of erfS%' is ,,sey os bottles,
cans. ] prescription scale and weights,
common scale and weiphts, Is
jugs, 4 demi johns. / demijohn OF witch bszvl,
! OF amonia and ell and every other article
IN drug store At No. l72 Broad street in said
~ evidence.
Lev,ed on this sth day Of June, A. D., 1895,
Mt 10 as o'clock n. m. and will be sold TO sat
!sfy said execution II sufficient
CHARLES II. BROWN.
is-Ios Deputy sheriff.
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unseen perils which would harass her.
Noble rage was born in him. quiet anger
that made his soul glow. He knew
nothing. He surmised nothing.
But feeling would die within him,
and mad hope would be born. What
other woman ever woke in him such
emotion? Emotion dies early in this
prosaic age.
The boat slipped on and on in that
silent night. The myriads of glittering
stars were reflected by the river. Count
less little ripples danced suddenly out OF
the shade, and as suddenly vanished,
like dancing fairies with tiny electric
lights. Every one of these seemed to
Merrilees' excited Imagination TO light
up the future. An, he would make fu-
ture, compel circumstances, conquer all
obstacles. And this sweet, silent crea-
ture-why, somehow, she must 10
given to him as an inspiration.
The boat went by the slipping shores.
Lights began to appear here and there
on the hillside, like vagrant stars twink
ling up and down on high hills and in
deep hollows. These lights grew thick
er, ran up III rows "HeiS "PPeaiSu
struggling streets, crept down low
against the water, where boats waited.
Far ahead new stars, in arches and
lines, defined the spans of the bridges
which divided two great cities. The
stene was one of the most silent beauty.
He hoped she was feeling as he lid,
but he did not dare TO ask; he felt her
personality as something too sacred to
intrude upon
When they had passed under the first
Bridge she sat up. Her eyes were dark
and pathetic-her tumbled hair about
her shoulders. She shuddered little.
Help me to get fit to be seen," she
said, wearily.
He gathered up the hair, and, deftly
rs "a womon. rolled it up. and hained
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her pin il. Her rescued sailor hat was
she staggered up.
The carriage sent by Aston was at
the wharf. Merrilees jumped III also.
"Do not come" she said.
"Oh, nut / will!n he laughed She
looked at him helplessly. All, how
tired she looked. He would not bother
her with questions.
Soon the carriage stopped. She looked
at him once and said:
Goodbye, kind friend!" and fairly
ran into a small, dark yard. AS the
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after sheet was filled with the story.
At the time of the narration of the
stabbing of the two men, IL seemed
impossible for her TO collect her
thoughts. a horror OF IL overcame
her.
II cannot go on now." she faltered;
"it ocems TO be locked up in my brain"
lie threw down his pencil and came
around 10 her. This is not the time
TO fall down, you know. am here to
take care OF you. / ain here 80 guard
your business honor. They will say n
woman could not do such thing. Brace
up; rouse up, and let US finish this"