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The advocate., 1896-07-01

DEAD.
A new bank has been organized at
Larned.
Washington county Republicans are
for Morrill,.
Mcpherson wants Sunday passenger
and mail service.
Valley Falls voted down q school
house proposition.
The new Santa Fe hospital at To-
peka cost $145,00O.
Cloud county Republicans Endorsed
Morrlll's administration.
Only FIVE members of the Republican
State committee favor silver.
Sam Bishops friends now want to
run him for Attorney General.
The Republican State convention
will be held at Topeka August II.
A zinc smelter to be operated by nat
ursl gas will soon be in operation at
lola.
Kansas sound money Democrats will
have headquarters at Chicago during
the convention.
J. B. Cook, Republican County
Treasurer of Stafford county, has
ioined the boilers.
Capt. J. A. Corbett Of Wellington,
who has always been Republican, has
joined the POpulists.
The State Chairman and Secretary
of the Prohibition party have resigned
and joined the Nationals.
Senator Milton Brown Rep.) Of Gar
den City has announced his candidacy
for Lieutenant Governor.
Chase county Populists are for Frank
Doster for Chief Justice and for John
Madden for Attorney General.
Jim Simpson says that of 259 dele
gates elected to the Republican State
convention 1856 are for Morrill,.
Thirteen of the ninety. two delegates
to the Populist National convention
from Kansas are newspaper men.
A resolution lndorslng Senator Baker
was adopted by very small majority
In the Shawnee Republican convention.
The committee appointed by Con.
gress to investigate the LesVenWorth
Soldiers Home will begin its work
soon.
Jackson and Montgomery county
delegates are instructed for Morrill,,
and those from Ottawa are favorable
to him.
Albert Griffin has decided to with
draw as candidate foI the POpulist
nomination for Congress In the Fifth
district.
A number of coal miners are leaving
Usage county and going to Mexico,
where they are assured good pay ard
plenty of work.
E. G. Little of Abilene will make q
free silver speech at Lawrence soon
under the auspices of the POpulist
County committee.
S. w. Baxter of Pittsburg is Chair
man and Abe Steinberger Of the Girsrd
World is Secretary of the Third district
Populist committee.
Royal Matthews, q Mcpherson
The advocate., 1896-07-01
Some News About Kansas.

fence"
An invitation to Senator Tillmsn to
speak at Cooper Union has been ex.
tended by about 200 New York bank
ers and business men.
The Republican State committee has
sent request to Mckinley for the sp-
pOintment of Cy Leland on the Ma
tlonsl Executive committee.
In twenty-one of the forty Senatorial
districts In Kansas the combined oppo-
sitlon polled more votes than the Re-
publlCsns in the 1894 election.
Judge Ray Of wellington, promi-
nent Republican, hes written a letter
In which he declines to support Nc
Kinley or the National platform.
Representative Beekmsn of Arksn-
sas City says he will not support the
Republican ticket because Of the gold
standard declaration in the platform.
Web Wilder, ex.Insursnce Commits
sioner and a Well-knoWn Republican,
says he don't like the St. Louis plat
form and will not vote for Mckinley.
Atchison county Republicans In
structed for Morrill,, Chief Justice
Martin and Ingalls,, and voted down q
motion to indorse the st. Louis plat.
form.
Barker of Douglas, Lobdell of Lane,
Eckstein of Sedgwlck and Lambert Of
Lyon are Republican candidates for
Speaker. They are in the field early
enough.
J,C. Pollock of Winfield was nomi-
mated by the Republicans of the CEN
trsl division of the southern depart
ment for Judge Of the Court of
Appeals.
Paul r. Nsgle Of Stafford has with
drawn as a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for State Senator. He
says he cannot stand on the psrty's
National platform.
j. R. F. Standard of Norton, who
has never voted any but the Republ.
can ticket and who has been
more or less prominent in that party,
has left 1t. He Is q silver man.
AT the recent meeting of the Repub-
lican State committee Editor Richards
of the Wellington Mail announced the
candidacy of s. r. Peters for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor.
E. R. Ridgeley Is making q very
pleasing impression on the minds of
the people of the Third district, His
canvas will be clean and honorable and
he should be q member of the next
Congress.
The National party (the boltlnR Pro'
hibitionists) has formed q State organ,
lzation In Kansas by the election of J,
w. Forrest of Thsyer as State Chair,
man and E. Morrison of Emporis as
Secretary.
The revolt among Kansas Republi-
cans is assuming such gigantic proper
tions that the Capital has begun
running "don't leave your-psrty. be-
fore-you, know where you are. going
editorials.
A. b. Campbell, who used to be a
prominent Kansas redeemer with a
i 4 "A
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
Suicide of q Veteran.

Washington, Oct. l4.-Department
clerks. on their way from Woodside,
Md, about ten miles from town, Tues
day discovered the body of Capt. Simon
Kane. former member OF the Seven
teenth Wisconsin volunteers, suspend
ed from limb OF a tree. Capt. Kane
had been living in the soldiers home
at Milwaukee, Wis.,, and at Marion, Ind.
practicing at both places as claim
agent. About q month ago he went to
New York. and his money giving out.
sought TO enter the home at Hampton,
Va. It is believed he feared his appli-
cation might not be successful, aud
therefore committed suicide.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
A DEADLY BLAST.
Explosion of dynamite IN Arkansas Kills
Six Men.

Explosion OF Dynamite IN Arkansas Kills
Six Men.
Van Buren,, Ark, Oct. 17.-Six men
were killed and one seriously hurt by
an explosion of dynamite at Kennedy's
camp, on the Kansas City, Pittsburgh
4 Gulf railroad early Friday morning.
The men were at work in cut, and
while tamping the blast it exploded,
hurting men high in the air and fright
fully mangling their remains. The
contractor, Kennedy, is the only man
who was in the cut at the time who ss-
capped alive. and he was buried beneath
Il mass of earth and stone. He is badly
injured, two ribs and left shoulder
fractured and collar bone broken. The
dead are: Jack Mcdonald, foreman:
Dennis Murphy, Pat Lacey, L. O. Nor
ris, J. Ryan and J. H. Leonard. All are
single except Leonard, who leaves a
widow and three small children.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
Bad Fire In Montreal.

Montreal, Que, Oct. l7.-The most
disastrous fire in this city for long
time occurred Friday afternoon, having
it's beginning in the building at 81 ST.
Feter street, occupied by Gilmore &
Co., importers of chemicals. AS re-
suit three firemen are dead and dozen
more or less seriously injured. The
dend are: Fireman Charpentier, Of Sta
ton No. /; King, Of Station No. 6, and
La Porte Of No. z. The injured are.
Capt. Guthrie, Of Station No. i Capt.
NORM, Of No. 3; Firemen Benoit and
Renolds, Of No. 8; Gordon. of No. S;
Miranlt and Carest. of No. IL.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
Robbed a Bank.

Webster City, Ia, Oct. H. The Bank
of Hardy was robbed Thursday of 500
and many valuable papers. Hardy IS
small town on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids g. Northern, north of here. The
bank is in a grocery store. At noon
stranger who arrived in town on bicy.
Gle, entered with a jug, asking for mo-
lasses. While the clerk was in the cell
lar filing the order the man robbed the
till of the bank. The robber escaped on
his wheel.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
LAT Err.

Snow fell at Langdon, n. D., the 10th.
The entire business portion of KAN
rar, To-, burned the 14th, causing loss
of $40, 600.
G. H. Hamilton. alias Walters, was
arrested at Kansas City, Mo-, for rob-
bling the mails. A mail sack cut open
was found in his room
Five outlaws appeared at the ranch
OF R. T. Brooke, near Tonkawa, Okla,
and demanded him to hold up his
hands. Brooke replied with bullets
from his revolver, killing two of his
visitors and wounding the third.
Nearly 200 Armenians arrived at
New York the 10Th and were trans
ferred to Ellis Island to await the &C.
ton of the authorities. Objections
were made to their landing on account
of their being paupers.
The Minneapolis wheat market was
wildly excited the 10Th. December
wheat opened SIC higher than it closed
Saturday. and heavy buying in the
local pit advanced the price ~ more
to 78Ac, cutting down the difference
between Minneapolis and Chicago to
1c. This difference widened later. A
liberal break followed the advance
caused by holders of wheat taking
profits.
Baron Fava, the italian am bassador.
has presented the president valuable
historical work upon the discovery of
America. 1t comprises fourteen vol
umes. and is the gift of the King of
Italy.
The roof of the rotunda of the Uni
versity of Virginia, at Charlottesville,
fell in the 10th, killing two carpenters,
Eugene Bunch and George Tucker.
The U. S. revenue cutter Window
went to sea the 10th under sealed or
ders. 1t is thought she is bound for
the Florida coast
The vault of3the Bank of Ecuador, at
Guayaquil, was opened the 18th for the
first time since the big fire. The books,
money and papers were found to be in
perfect condition.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
FORM a New Organization.

Chicago, Oct. l6.-Clalence j. Chanl-
Ter, of Chelsea, Mich, called to order the
new national organization known as tic
l,uttcr. Eggs and Poultry association.
at the Palmer house Thursday. The
meeting was called BY the officers Of
a number of local societies in Michigan,
Iowa, Ohio, Indiana and Nebraska. Only
shippers of less than carload lots o.
the above products arc eligible to menu
bership.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22

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A fire in Korbel's big wine factory Mt
Kobers Station. Cal, was extinguished
by throwing upon it 100000 gallons of
wine.
John Walsh, of Boston, was garroted
in indianapolis. Ind, and robbed of ST.
zoo. He was badly injured.
Fire in the Fowler paper box factory
in Los Angeles, CAL, caused loss OF
100000.
Twenty-Five freight cars with their
contents were destroyed in wreck on
the Big Four railroad near Wellington,
O., the loss being 100000.
Secretary Lamont estimates that the
appropriations required by the war de-
partment for the next fiscal year will
amount to $52,s75.63s.
At San Jose. Cal, G.. NJ. Smith broke
the worlds bicycle record for fivc-mile
road time. making the distance in 40.
Cashier j. ID. Walker, of the Port
Royal Is. CO. bank, absconded with
$4,000 in cash. His books show that
he is short in his accounts 100000.
Two sons of Tom Givens, aged IS and
IS years, were burned to death and
their sister fatally burned in d fire
which destroyed their home near Louis
vile, Ky.
Six unknown desperadoes rode into
Carney, O. T.. and held up the whole
town, robbing IL stores and the post
Office.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
SIX BURN TO DEATH.

Flames Destroy Farmhouse and Most
of Its L Tenants.
New Whatcom, Wash. Oct. 1G.-The
house of J. S. Miller, farmer living
four miles north of Linden. this county,
was destroyed by fire and six children
were burned to death. Another child
and man named Frank Boise wers
seriously burned. Miller and his wife
were away from home, having gone 70
New Whatcom to participate in politi.
cal parade, leaving their children home
in care of Boise, who was visiting them.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
A LONE HIGHWAYMAN. ]
One Robber, single-Handed, Holds Up .
Mall Train. H


one Robbcr, single-Handed, Holds Up
Mail Train.
Salt Lake City, Oct. 15.-The Union
Pacific fast mail train due here at 3:15
o'clock Wednesday morning was held
up short distance east Of Uintah, near
the mouth Of Weber canyon, and about
eight miles from Ogden. It appears
that the hold-up was the work of one
man, single handed and alone, who by
q clever coup cajoled the passengers
and train men into the belief that he
had ample assistance in the raid that
he was making. His method of opera
ton was as follows:
He first made his appearance by
climbing over the tender into the cab
Of the engine and peremptorily demand
ing the fireman and engineer to throw
up their hands, saying that he was
about to rob the train. The robber was
disguised in such way as to prevent
any possibility Of identification. hav-
ing his head inclosed in sack with eye
holes cut. The men Immediately COM
piled with the request of the robber
and were forced to disguise themselves
as he directed. furnishing them with
flour sacks to pull over their heads.
Over this mask they were required to
pull down their hats in manner that
would indicate to the passengers and
others that they, too. were robbers.
At this point he compelled the now
captive engineer and fireman to un.
couple the train leaving the express and
mail car attached to the engine.
After this was done he personally
mounted the engine, leaving the cnsi-
neer and fireman upon the ground.
pulled the throttle and ran part of the
train half mile down the canyon when
he stopped and began his efforts 10
blow open the safe. The express mes
sengcr and mail clerk IN the meantime
remained in their respective cars. The
robber commanded Express Messenger
Mccoy to maintain absolute silence,
an injunction which he unwillingly bit
implicitly obeyed. After this he spent
an Industrious but fruitless 50 minutes
10 bore into and blow open the safe with
dynamite. During the operations of
the robber the express messenger sat
quietly on Il box near by.
After failing to reach the inside of the
safe. and seeing that success in that
direction was impossible, he abandoned
his work and turned his attention to the
mail car, where he commanded the
clerk to throw out the registered pack
oGes and four mail bags were accord
ingiy thrown out. Taking out his knife
lie Immediately proceeded to cut open
the bags and rifle them of such matter
as suited his fancy. He secured DUN
Der of registered packages, but as to the
exact number and how much money
they contained there is no means Of
knowing at this time. At this point lie
robDer finished his business and es-
capped. The direction which he took
from this point is not known.
The passengers were not molested,
but were badly frightened. and being
led to believe that the train on each side
was lined with robbers ready to shoot
at the first head that appeared, kept
very quiet during the hour the bold rob-
Der was getting in his work. The four
mail pouches overhauied were through
pouches
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
A Journalist Dead

Milwaukee,, Oct. l9.-Horace Rublce,
editor Of the Milwaukee Sentinel, died
Sunday night. He had been suffering
for two years from humorous disease
developed from tuberculosis. and dur
ing the last month had rapidly wasted
in strength
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
Twenty Drown In n Wreck.

Lisbon, Oct. 9.-The Portuguese bark
Venus, Capt. Pine, hailing from this
port, which sailed from Cardiff on Octo-
Der for Lisbon, foundered in gale
on October off Skomer island. Twenty
persons were drowned.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22
Abbey Is Dead.

q New York. Oct. TO- Henry f. Abbey.
the operate and theatrical manager.
died suddenly Saturday morning at
his home in the Osborne Flat house.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-22

Peters church and parsonage were
burned to the ground,
Orrin D. Kinnie. aged 81, killed his
father, Daniel Kinnie, at Somerville,
N. =. and then ended his own life by
hanging. M,
Merritt Briggs. aged 4e. one Of viz
ginia's leading criminal lawyers.
dropped dead while pleading case in
the circuit court at Suffolk.
A fire in the Hanna Paint Manufac-
turing company's store in Columbus, o.,
caused loss Of 100000.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Thomas f. Watson has mailed to Sen.
ator Marion Butler, chairman Of the Ia
tional committee. q letter accepting the
Populist nomination for vice president
of the United States.
Silas g. Sherburne. one of the oldest
newspaper men in the northwest. died
Of heart failure at Superior. Wis.
Horace Rnblee, editor of the Sentinel
and minister to Switzerland during
Grants administration, died at his resi-
dence in Milwaukee after lingerin;.
illness, aged 60 years.
Henry r. Abbey, the widely known
theatrical manager, died in New York
of stomach trouble, aged SO years.
Abraham Sanford, aged 100 years and
months, was among the voters who
registered at Syracuse. N. Y.
William H. Rightor, the oldest lawyer
IL. New Jersey, died in Newark.
FOREIGN.
It is said that if Spain does not nut
down the insurrection in Cuba by March
l next it is the intention of the govern
ment to give up the struggle aud to let
the island go.
A railway train on the Saar-Eiffel
line in Germany conveying a large num-
Der of recruits was thrown from the
track and so persons were killed and
many injured.
The steamer Lord Erne. from Balti-
more for London, put in at Halifax,
N. S.. badly damaged by gales, aud los
head of cattle were washed overheard.
1t is said that it Spain does not end
the war in Cuba within three months
the insurgents will receive from the
president of the United States virtual
recognition of independence.
The sultan of Turkey has decided to
permit the departure for the United
States with safe conduct to the seaport
of all the native Armenian women and
children whose husbands and fathers
are in America.
Because of short crops in India =
serious famine is threatened in that
country.
The Portuguese bark Venus. Capt.
Pinto. hailing from Lisbon, foundered
in gale off Skomer island and 20 per-
sons were drowned.
The little mining town of Altata,
Mexico, was completely swept away b.
tornado.
The school atrolble in Manitoba has
been settled. Manitoba is to retain her
national Schools and where Roman
Catholic children predominant Roman
Catholic teachers will be employed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-14

the cab. but l got away and climbed ug
on the wood piled up on the tender. He
didn't follow, but turned at once to the
throttle and threw it wide open
knew what that meant with six coaches
full of people behind US and a bad track.
and the first thing l did was 70 try 70
knock him out with a stick OF wood.
missed my throw and he came after me
with a heavy iron bar, and went over
the rear of the tender on 20 the platform
OF the car next TO US. By this time We
were fairly jumping over the track, and
] was so ratified that didn't know what
TO do.
in a second, though, gathered my
self and uncoupled the train from the
locomotive, which was not so hard 20
do, as we were on down grade, and thu
engine was bouncing 90 that the coup
ling pin swung loose ~ intervals. Then
I slapped on the brake there and went
through the train as fast as 1 could,
telling brakemen and conductor to slow
CD. and do it quick Our part of the
train being stopped we got out 70 see
where the engine had gone, but we
could see nothing Putting a man with
a light on the track q mile behind Us tn
stop the next train, the conductor and
i went ahead TO find what had become
OF the runaway.
Two miles away, or two minutes at
the rate he was going, we found TIE
engine in the ditch and the engineer
buried under il. The engine had struck
soft place and spread the rails-any-
body knows what that means, and think
what the result would have been 10 a
train load OF passengers going after
that engine at 60 miles an hour. Il a.
most made my hair gray 70 think about
II. and when the people on the train
heard the story, they made up a purse
for me that almost made il curl, and
concluded that it was an III wind in
deed which blew no good.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-14
Frnlaln. Pr. p-partnen.

The little town 81 SaSso. IN Sweden
has feminine department. 80 strong.
il its FIRE brigade. The waterNorks %
the village consist simply q four gTea:
''hrsnea- 70 keep thee tul Ia case %
fire They staad ia TWO Continuous
lines from the tubs % the Lake. about
three streets away. one line passing tie
fuII buckets and the other sending thsn
bzrk
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-14
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
On a Locomotive Cab with a Vjo-
lently Insane Engineer.
How the Fireman Escaped from the Ma
MAC and Saved the Train-A Deed
Requiring Great Courage and
Presence of mind

Speaking OF experiences, remarked
an old engineer TO a Washington Star
reporter, have your permission to
narrate little one that happened 70 me
during my first year on an engine?
Not only my permission, responded
the generous reporter, but my impera-
tive command and an invitation 70 take
something while you are about it,
The preliminaries being satisfac
EoriIy arranged the engineer proceeded
with his story.
1T was % years ago" ne said, "and
was a fireman on a road in New York
state. The engineer fired for was, or
rather had been, one Of the best on the
road. but he had been turned ever and
steamed under a locomotive boiler in q
wreck and after that he was given q
less important train Not so much be-
cause he was any the less good as an
engineer, but because officials have an
idea that IL takes a mans nerve away
when a serious acciden. happens to
him. We had q run OF about IS miles,
each way, and on Sundays IN summer
we carried excursions.
we had never had any trouble, but
for a month before the experience am
telling M engineer had been N bad
temper and acted as ugly as the mis-
chief. I reported the matter 70 the d.
vision superintendent and he told me TO
stick it out for month or so longer, as
they proposed TO relieve the old man
and put him at work in the shops. Two
Sundays after that we were returning
in the evening about nine o'clock be
hind time, owing to delays occasioned
ny washouts causing rs 10 run SLOW and
cautious. We had 20 miles to go, and IL
was over the worst part Of the road, and
! was watching out of the cab, when AL
at once the engineer gave a shout and
made a grab At me. His eyes were biaz-
ing, and could see in a second that ne
was either drunk or crazy.
How l got away from him I don't
know, for he did his best TO throw me or