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DISASTROUS FIRE.
Quarter of a Million Dollar Loss at
Paris, Il exaS.

PARIS (Tex), April 2S-A disastrous
fire, involving loss of life and $3.50. 600
worth Of property, broke out in the
three-story building of J. K. Bywalters,
on South Main street. early this morn
ing. In a short time flames spread to
the warehouse of Allen & Co., the Glenn
ents building and Hotel Peterson. The
fire ragged with desperate fury until Z
o'clock, when the fremen succeeded in
getting it under control.
John Saulsman, a tie inspector from
Wister, Indian Territory, who was occu
pying room in the Bywalters building,
was suffocated and burned to death.
There is a suspicion that he was mur-
dered and the building set on fire to con-
ceal the crime. Officers are investiGat-
ing.
AT 1890 this morning, while the fire
men were playing on the flames, a will
fell, crushing S. H. Ramsey and Louis
Roache, the former fatally and the lat
ter seriously.
The record-union., 1896-04-29

Bile livestock was killed, but no lives
are thought to be lost.
LINCOLN (Neb.), April 2S.-Lincoln
apparently got the tail end of the North
Dakota cyclone. A furious storm of
wind, accompanied by vivid lightning,
swept over the city at an early hour
this morning. At Lincoln Park the hign
fences We're leveled, and in North Lin
coin several barns were destroyed by
lightning. Lightning struck one dwell
ing house, damaging it, but the in
mates We're not seriously injured. Some
livestock was killed, evidently being
struck by lightning. There was heavy
fall of rain.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
THE EASTERN CYCLONE
Does a Great Amount of Damage in
South Dakota.

SIOUX FALLS Is. d., April oS-A
Montrose, S. D., dispatch says cy-
clone passed about two miles west of
that place last evening, demolishing
houses and barns of Frank Malloy,
Conrad kirschner, P. Flannery and
Michael Mannion, leaving nothing but
mass of splinters. All of the live
stock on these farms were killed
The family of Michael Mannion. in
cluding himself. wife and five children,
were picked up unconscious, but their
injuries are pronounced fatal
At Madison there was a severe storm
OF wind, hail and rain. Some half a
dozen buildings were blown down and
much other damage done. Considera-
The record-union., 1896-04-29
STEAMER SUNK.
Al! the Passengers and Crew Were
Saved

NORFOLK, April 2S.-The old Do
minion steamer Wyanoke, when maxi
ing for Newport News pier this morn
Ing, struck the Prov of the United
states steamer Columbia, lying at an
chor she had a hole cut in the for
ward part of her starboard side and
sank in sixty feet of water. All the
Wyanoke's passengers and crew were
saved, but the baggage and probab bly,
the cargo will be lost. Two firemen
were badly scalded.
The Columbia was anchored near the
pier and was not seen from the WAN
oke on account of the brilliancy of the
electric lights on the pier.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
Appeal to Save Hammond.

WASHIGTNON, April Ex-senator
Perkins tonight received a telegram
from President A1vord of the Bank of
California, President Crocker of the
Crocker- Woolworth Bank and many
other prominent citizens of San Fran
cisco, requesting the California delega-
ton to call on President Cleveland to-
morrow in body in the interests of
John Hays Hammond. Mr.. Perkins
said that if it was found on investiga
tion that the communication of Mr.. Ham
mond's sentence was not true that the
California delegation would call upon
Mr.. Cleveland in the morning.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
Several People Badly Injured.

ALEXANDRIA Is. d., April 2S.-
A cyclone stole upon this section last
night. The home of John Petris was
completely demolished, but the fam
lily escaped. Epiphany was next Wis
tied by the cyclone, where it demolished
the new Catholic church and injured the
priest. Several houses were unroofed
and several people slightly injured. The
storm then Travelled to Fairview, where
it unroofed several houses, but no one
was injured.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
A Murderer Hanged.

COLUMBUS tO), April 29-William
Paul was hung at the State Prison at
l2:30 a. m. He claimed innocence to
the last, and met death bravely. Paul
murdered his father-in-law, Jacob VOC
key, near Georgetown, in 1891, because
he believed he had seduced his GPaurs)
SiSter-in-law
The record-union., 1896-04-29
Mexican Mine Disaster.

CHIHUAHUA CMexico), April Is
Already over twenty dead bodies have
been taken from the mine which col
lapsed here last week, and there are
forty persons still entombed. The res
cuing party can hear the voices OF
those entombed, who are trying to work
their way out toward the rescuing
party.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
HELP ON THE UAv

LISBON. April 2S--The British Gov
ernment recently asked the Portuguese
Government for permission to trans
port arms and ammunition from Beira,
on the Indian Ocean, through Portu-
guese territory to British South Af-
rica. The Government has granted the
request. Beira lies some 100 miles to
the eastward Of Matabeleland. and by
using this route the British will be able
TO get supplies to that country much
more rapidly than sending them by way
of Natal
The record-union., 1896-04-29
MATABELE WAR.
BuIuwaya Attacked by a Band of
SayapeS

CAPE TOWN, April 2S-A dispatch
has been received from Buluwayo dated
Monday afternoon and telling of an
other engagement with the natives.
The Natabeles completely surrounded
the town during the morning. In the
fight that ensued the natives were de-
feated and were driven back with great
The record-union., 1896-04-29
Turkish Troops RepuIsed.

ATHENS. April 2S.-Advices received
here from the island of Crete say that
the .retan Reform Committee have re-
pulsed the Turkish troops at Selia, kill
ing twenty Of them
The record-union., 1896-04-29
THE VENEZUELAN BOUNDARY
Still in Doubt as to How the Question
Will be Finally Decided.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Misinfor-
nation as to the Venezuelan Commits
sion multiplies on both sides of the
Atlantic. The latest developed idea
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ABUSE AND missTATEMsNT..
How tho 0oiiitcs Dcmonstrato Their sns
capacity to suppurt Their Cintnps.

How tho Goiiitcs Demonstrsto Their sns
capacity To suppurt Their Cintnns.
IL is generally considered one of tho.
esscntiais OF fair and honorable debate
to state your advcrsGiy's position and
to meet II candidly with such argu
iments and facts as beor upon your side
OF the case, To do otherwise Is to dom
onstrnte either ones incaPncity or dis
honesty. The financial question cannot.
be settled by ridiculc, by tcnunciatlon
and by misstatement. When the ndvo-
cntes OF gold monomctaliism assert that
their position Is inpregnnblc and the
free silyeritea call for the proof, how are.
they answered? They are answered
first with prophecy. They are told
that there will be o panic II free silver
goes into effect. OF course. tho mao
who predicts panic can no more be re-.
fiIted tbnn the man who, stands on tho
street corner and predicts n rain. The
future can only be surinised from tho
pnst, and can never be accurately fore,
told. That is left to Deity. The gold
monomctallist asserts that the proposed
change In standard would produce a
panic, but though standards have been
changed many times In the past he can
not out single change which hns
caused panic. The dump of silver"
qnothcr prophecy which has smQl. basis
TO go upon. The silver money OF France
and Germany Ia circulating in those
countries Mt par, although the metallic
value bns fallen nearly half. There
would be neither rhyme nor reason In
dumping this silver upon us. The
probabilities nre entirely against such
nm assumption ns that the silver of the
world would flow in.upon ,,s. -Mcniphis
ConmcrciulsAppea
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a FALSE ASSUMPTION.
America Docs Not Wnnt Monetary sy
tenn la Accord Will, I,uoluna.s

America Docs Not Wnnt u Monetary Sys-
TEN Ia Accord with Enginnd's
Our interest. nrc directly the reverse
of those of England. She In the great .
est creditor milton In the world We
nrc the greatest debtor. IL "dollnrs"
can bc doubled In value q. O.. purchns-
Ing powcr) she collects twice ns much.
If dollars" be doubled In yuluc. we pny
twice ns much. Tint is the difference
in nutshell.
England In u creditor to The extent
Of Sl0.cc0,0 0,000.000. We nrc II debtor to
the extent OF $4,000, 100000. This |. i.
about the amount OF our foreign debt.
INT the render must not infer that for
cigncrs have sent Ss,Oo0.000,0OQ over
here and invested II. Not Mt nil. As
shown by Gen. Warner In his Monograph
on our debt abroad, In 1869 our totnl
foreign debt amounted to only si,eOo.-
CC0000,
Since then we have exported $GOG.-
9"l,720 more gold and silver ihnn we
have Imported, and Si,7io.1a5,a3l more
merchandise than we hnvc imported.
This makes II totul balance IN our favor
of S2,35G,oo0.000. And yet our foreign
debt hns risen from about Si,2G0 co.,
600 to $4,000, ,O0O, 900.
How hns this startling condition
arisen? Simply by the rinvcsimcnt
Of profits. The foreign creditor hns
drawn out such sums ns he needed.
while the remainder has been rcinvcstcd
or course each rcinycstmcnt means IN
additional burden OF interest, which the
American producer must annually pay
to the foreign creditor. Thus In u grcn.
measure the tremendous productive ca.
pncity of the United States has been
used to increase our debt. and ndd to
the tribute we must annually pay 10
Europe, lnrgc Eortion of which goes
to England. The more profitable these
rcinvestmcnts, the greater the debt he
comes. but when the rcnvestIneDts
ccnse to be profitable, they cease TO
I've made. and the European creditor
takes n larger nnd larger proportion of
his American income abroad.
Then away Rocs our gold. MS fnst rs
"ocenn grcyhounds can carry IT,"
One more fact OF the most moIncn-
tous Significance.
To pay our present foreign debt OF
N.0GO. 100000 on IL gold Lnsls would
take as irany OF cur great stnplcs ns
In 1859 or 1874 would have paid debt
of $l2.o00.0 ,000--tbe prices having
fallen onc-balf. SO that without hav-
ing rcceived-nn additional dollar from
abroad, and nfter having exported 81
2aG, 100000 more os gold. silver and ner
chandisc than we have imported, our
foreign debt has in effect ipcrcascd
from sl,2oo.oco,oc0 to Just about ter
times that sum.
And yet we 'rc seriously told that
we must lie in accord with the financial
policy of England, and continue to pay
our debts ut the rate OF two !tlolInrs for
one. in order to be "honcsi." i."-Nationa
Bimctnlllst.
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realized from their farms ipeasIretl in
groceries and m,inufacturca articles AT
present prices,
Now, take the stnte OF Kansns with
it's SlSO,O0oN00 Ground humhcrs) an
nnnl fnrm products; at prevailing prices,
md apply the foregoing argument to
the farmers of that state An increase
cf GO per cent in prices of turin products
t,cans Si00, 0,000.0 900 that the Kansas farm
ers would have to spend annually, which
they do not have TO spenI at all. Now,
apply the GO per cent rise to- sugar,
coffee, farming implements and OTHER
manufactures, and we find tint this rep
resents quantity OF those articles that
II would take $6o, ,00o. 900 10 buy ut pres
ent prices. Would not this give a vast
humber OF new hands employment In
oI@n factories? Would not the trans
portation of this vnst quantity OF roosls
largely increase the incomes of the rnil-
roads running from the east into the
state of Kansas? Considcr these queries
fairly and impartially. and without
Prejudice.
If you nre inclined to follow this
thread of argument further, take the
wheat and cotton crops of the United
States for the year lSO5. md then con-
slider what an enormous tonnnge of
manufactured articles, at prcscut pre-
NnilIng prices, is represented by two
iifths of the combined value of these
two crops for 1898. And vet that Ia
Just what the farmers could buy, in
excess of what they are now nhlc to
buy, if prices were raised 10 per cent. as
the result of the free coinage of silver.
End all the goldbugs concctc that such
rise in price would take place. but they
fril to realize that IL would l>c an ubso-
i"'c addition to the farmers rurchns-
INK ability.
Mr. Mckinley should revise his cpl
gram so MS to make II read: "1hc wny
TO open tho mills of America 10 Amcri-
can worlmcn and snvc our railway sys-
tens from disastrous bankruptcy rs to
onrn the mints of America 10 the silver
OF the world."--Gcorgc c. Ward, in Kun
rms City World,
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a eommoA fALI4ox.
a riteie clear rh,nking and nioxe eiacts
ness In Statement Needed

ness In Statement Needed.
Advocates OF the gold standard are
constantly referring to the silver dollar
now authorized by law as 5O-cent dol
lar. 1t is part of the legal currcucy;
II is legal tehder; ho man to-day can
refuse to take il lunlcss he has prude ~
gold contract bcforehand) as a full dol
lar in payment for merchandise or any
debt.
To be sure, IL contains silver bullion
worth at present market price. mems
urcd by gold, 50 cents only. The silver
pnrty does not propose to further re-.
ducc this amount of silver to make sit.
ver bullion worth less than SO cents.
=. What the silver ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing honest money men OF oil parties
proposes is to make that silver dollar
worth 100 ccnta--to restore our silyey
dollar to the position and ynlue il hhd
in 1873.
Is u dishonest to make The silver dol,
lar which every wnge-earner 5 now
compelled to take and use fully equal Ia
the miscr's or the bankers gold dol
lar? Under the present law contracts
can he mndc and nrc made by capital,
lists. by railroad companies and bankers
requiring payments in gold and so dis.
ercditinIAeahc silver dollar. The gov
crnment itself tliscrimlnntca ngninst
silver by paying It's own coin obliga,
tions In gold only. In this way silver "
Appreciated
Al the same time the double duty put
upon gold has forced gold bullion up IN
the markets. Of the world. Here ngnin
Is another phase of the fullncy COZ.
cred up In the expression 50-cent dollar.
ny what, measure? lW the gold mcna,
Urea distorted ,stapdard. n shortened
ynrdstick, n weighted scales. Maks, yorr
measure honest and deal honestly by
your own historic silver dollar. and II
will not bc In any sense s0-cent dol
lar.
1t Is the money lender of Europe and
America who has mndc and Is attempt
Ing to pcrpctuatc II dishonest dollar.
The new sllvcP"movcmon IN cxposinp
this dishonesty and will restorr thu
honest dollar of our fnihcrs-worth.i .i01
cents. both for purchasing and debt
paying. II hns started u movement
which VIII steadily roll around. tho
worf' TO bring gold bnek to Its. normal
position ms measure of values and re,
store silver ms. II universally -nceeptesi
coin OF ultimate r"lcmption. A little
clrnr thinking and cxnctncss IN stnte-
ment Will Rwccn nwnY the fnllnclpa
hhont the s0-ccnt dollar md disclose
where the dishonesty lies. - Western
Rural
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GRAY HAIR MADE DARK.

1 saw in your paper statement that Zu-
In Vulier would restore any head of hair
color to natural III three weeks. AS was
very gray sent for sample package, and
in less Than three weoks my hair was per
fectly restored to natural color. My wife's
hair was li3ht red, aud by using Zulu
vulier, her hair is now beautiful auburn.
Any one can get a sample package of Zulu
vulier by Sending 81 two-cent st,mps to
Wilson & Co., New Concord, Ohio, and
if it does not restore Z he hair to natural
color in three weeks they will return Your
stamps; isnot only restores tho hair to
natural color, but will stop the hair fai.
ling oii' immediately and is one Of the best
hair tonics made, aud yon take the risk.
and if it does NOT satisfy you perfectly
they will return your stamps.
A READER.
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wRoNa AGAIN.
Senator sherman Misquoted tho statIstins
Tho Mint Directors Figures

Senator sherman Misquotcd tho Statlstins
Tho Mint Directors Figures.
in his Columbus speech Senator Shcr-
man said that in the act of 1853 THE
silver dollar was not mentioned and
practically was excluded from coinnge
hnd circulation" and that ,"the drop
ping of the standard silver dollar In the
act of 1879. was precisely rs was doihie;'
in 1853"
Now either John Sherman's assertion
or the report of the director of the mint
10 wrong. One fatty contrndicts the
other aid most people will think that
the director ought 10 know more about
this matter than John Sherman.
According TO the directors report
There was but One year from 1859 ta
1873 In which silver dollars were not
coined. the exception being 1857. m,
1871 there were 1.117,l36 dollars coined
and In 1873 1.1is,6Oo. In 1873 the mint
had turned out 100000 when operations
were suddenly stopped by the passage.
of the act of February ~, which dropped
the dollar from the list of coins an,l'
prohibited its further coinage, From,
the passage of the act of 1879 until the;
passage of the. ,Bland-Allison act Of
1878. not a dollar was coined, the sill;
YER work at the mints being confined
to subsidiary coins. So itappears John,
Sherman Is wrong; wrong again, but.
that, Is nothing unusual for Johni he is
used to being wrong.-Aibany Tines,
Union
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In recent letter to the Manu-.
facturers MIR. w. E. Benjamin, editor
OF the Spectator, Rushlord, n. Y,
says: ut may be pleasure to you
to know the high esteem in which
Chamberlain's medicines arc hold by
the people of your own state, where
they must be best known. An aunt
OF mine, who resides ut Dexter, Iowa,
was about to visit me n few years
since, and before leaving homo wrote
me, asking me if they were sold here,
stating if they were not she would
bring n quantity with her, us she did
not like to be without them.' The
medicines referred to are Chamber.
lain's Cough Remedy, famous for it's
cures OF colds and Group; Chamber
lains Pain Balm for rheumatism, lame
back, pains in the side and chest, and
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Di.
arrhoea Remedy for bowel complaint
These medicines have been in con.
stane use in Iowa tor almost quar-
ter OF century! The people have
learned that they are articles of great
worth and merit, and uncqualed by
ary other. They are for sale here by
A.. f. Hafgrave Druggist.
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poN'f srop TOBACCO.
How TO CURE YOURSELF
WHILE USING Iif.

Tho tobacco habit grows Oh n man un
tii his nervous system Is seriously affected
impairing health; Comfort and happi' ess
10 quit suddenly is too severe shock to
the system, RS tobacco TO an inveternte
Gser becomes siimulnnt that his system
scientihc c1re for the tobacco habit. in all
Its formS, carefuliy t8mpbthded after the
formula of Hin eminent Berlin physician
who has used il in his private practice
Since 1879; without failure. II is purely
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money with 10 per cent. interest. ''Baco
cure, that chfes withott the aid of will
power aud with no Inconvenience. 1t
leaves the system rs pure and free from
nicotine rs the dnS yo8 took your first
chew or smoke.
CURED BY BACO-CURO AND GAINED
THIRTY POUNDS:
From tuhateds of testimonials. the
originals Of Which are on file and open to
Inspection, the following Is presented:
Clayton, Nevada Co., Arb. Jan. 2a, 1895.
Eureka Chenital & Mfg. Co, In Crosse.
Wis Gentlemen: For forty ycdrs used
tobacco in all its forms. For twenty five
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Foe fifteen years 1 tried to quit, but
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bacco Ahtidoto," Double Chloride of
Gold" ETC.. etc, but none of them did me
ahe least bit of good. Finally, however,
purchased box of youf ''Buco- euro"
and It has entirely, CURED ihe of the habit
IN all its form. and have increased thirty
bouhds in weight and am relieved from
all the numerous aches aid pans of body
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hpon MY chahBed feelings and condition
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An Air-pump Argument.

Every attempt to rcsorc. silver. every
appeal pointing out tho awful effects
which have followed decentralization
has been met and fought bnck. The old
cry has been time md timc again raised:
"lf yon try 1t. all the gold will drift
away; IL you try II, there will be n
panic" which is precisely ns though
some people lad n mnn in on air-cRam-
Der, and had exhausted nearly all the
air and stood with one hand hold OF the
pump handle. saying to him: IF you
dare to kick, we will give you two or
three strokes and take away what air
you hnve."-Salt Lake City Tribune.
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ONE or pALMsR's ORDERS.
Sought to Dishanchise An
Former Confederate Soldiers.


Frankfort, Ky, September g.
General Palmer, The National Demo,
cratic nominee for President, was
military governor of Kentucky in
1865. just before the August elec.
ton of that year he issued an order,
which, if it could have been enforced,
would have practically disfranchisep
nearly every Democrat or Southern
|sympathizer in tho State. Divested
of preamble it reads:
''First-All rebel soldiers. wheth
er paroled or not. aud without re,
gard to the fact that they have OF
have not taken any of tha oaths pre-.
scribed by law, or executive, or mill
tary orders, or have registered un
der orders from the headquarters oil
the Department of Kentucky.
"Second-All guerillas and others
who, without belonging to the regu.
lar rebel military organization, have
taken up arms aguinst the govern
ment or people of Kenturky, OF any
other State or Territory.
"Third-All persons who, by act
or word, directly or indirectly, gave
aid, comfort or encouragement to
persons in rebellion. This applies
to all persons who have voluntarily
acted as scouts or spies for rebel or
guerilla forces, who have volunta'ily
furnished rebel with food or clothing.
horse or arms or money, or have
hnrbored, concealed or otherwise
aided or encouraged them.
"Fourth-All persons who were
or have been directly or indirectly
engaged i'll the civil service of the
late so-call:d provisional govern
ment of Kentucky, or who have in
any way submitted to either of said
pretended governments are disquali-
fed from voting.
"All persons of the cInsses afore-
said are required to abstain from all
interference with elections, and will
if they shall in any manner intefere
therein by voting or by appearing at
the polls, will be at once arrested
aud he'll for military trial,
"Aid will be given tocivil nuthori
ties to enforce the laws and to pro
serve the peace.
"By command of MI ior. General,
JOHN nj. PALMER,
"E b. Harlan, captain and A. A. G
Official, Ben w. Sullivan, lieuten
and acting A. A. g..
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a victorian FlnnneioIf for siivor.

The opposition to the free coinage of
silver 10 crime-7d' miserable. crazy no
ton. If | had the doing of IT, there
would be no room for goldbug in this
country. The gold. standard would ruin
the couniry-positively ruin it. have
seen in my time silver superior in value
10 gold. dnd its depreciation has been
caused by it's decentralization. The sl-
vcr dollar was the unit Of value until
1873, when there was, three per cent
premium on the metal. AT that time the
value Of silver was three per cent. moro
than that OF gold. Jay Cooke.