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THE FIGHT OPENED.

Missouri Anti-Silver Democrats Meet In ST.
Louis and Form an Organization.
ST. LOUIS, March 2.-AA the result of
a call issued several days ago, 500
prominent Missouri democrats who are
opposed to the free coinage of silver at
the ratio of sixteen to one, Assem- bled
here Saturday to protest" as they
term it, against being ''read out of the
party" A lengthy address to the
democrats of Missouri was adopted
unanimously. It starts out by declar-
ing that the unprecedented action of
calling the state convention to
meet in Sedalia, on April Is, to
elect delegates to the national con-
vention, three months in advance of
the convention, was done with the
avowed purpose Of influencing the
party in other states and committing
the national democracy to the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at ratio
of sixteen to one of gold, regardless of
the relative commercial value of the
two metals and regardless of the &C.
tion of the other commercial nations
of the world. A committee on organ
ization composed of two delegates from
each congressional district was appoint
ed, with ex-Gov. Francis as chairman.
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surroundings. He was eating from a
bread-board laid over flour barrel.
his implements being the ten servants
that wait on man-his fingers.
1T was my first night in the station
house." he continued, alphabetically.
81 had money of my own until last
week-enough to buy lodgings. 1t be-
ing the holidays, it's hard to get work.
Have you any work can do to pay for
my breakfast 90
She wanted to test him and prove
that he was lazy and worthless, SO that
her conscience might never reproach
her Judgment, and she babe him carry
large pacIdng-trunl1, on one end of
which he was seated, to the attic, a
distance of three flights of stairs.
Il couldn't do it, ma'am."
She noticed that he didn't say '1ady,"
rs professional tramps do.
81 am too weak for want of regular
food to lift or carry anything heavy,
but could do light chores. ] can carry
coal in, or empty ashes, or clean-the
silver"
There was a sparkle of caustic mirth
it could hardly be called impudence
in his lack-luster eyes. and his hos
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ANGRY sPANIARDs.
They Take Ofense at the United States
Cuban Resolution.

Cuban Resolution.
MADRID, March 2.-If one may Judge
by the things that have been said and
some of the things that have been
done yesterday the Spanish people are
enthusiastically determined to go to
war forthwith with the United States
and to speedily avenge the insult
which, it is fancied, has been offered
to the naughty pride of Spain by the
United States senate in determining
to recognize the Cuban provisional gov
eminent as belligerent power and to
ask the president to use his good of
fees with Spain to obtain recognition
of Cuban independence. Some of the
organs of public opinion declare that
the bankruptcy OF the Spanish govern
ment would not prevent the Span
ish people from taking up the
quarrel on their own Hccount
and fitting up expeditions and
maintaining themselves at their own
expense while com batting the inso-
lence of the assertions of the United
States. The day has been character
lied by many manifestations of public
wrath and excitement, and in BARGE
Iona the Spaniards have gone to the
consulate of the United States and
stoning it. The excited crowd gathered
before the consulate and shouted,
''Long Live Spain," and Down with
the Yankees These verbal missiles
did not long satisfy the passions of the
mob, and in a short time stones began
flying from the crowd. The force of
police which had been sent to protect
the consulate waited for no further
manifestation, but charged the crowd
and roughly dispersed them, wounding
several. So far as learned there were
no fatal results.
In view of the excited state of the
public mind the United States legation
in this city has been placed under the
special surveillance of the police.
The student class seems to form a
| large proportion of the infammato
element which is making SO much
noise. The students of the city are
busily at work to organize a great
demonstration Of protest against the
vote of the United States senate. At
| Alvincia yesterday all the students of
the university paraded the streets and
then gathered before the United States
consulate shouting death to Uncle
SAM" give Spain" and Long live the
army"
The Impartial says on the crisis:
''If things reach the goal which Amer
leans desire, the whole of Spain will
rise against the United States. Neither
in the Mediterranean, whose entrance
we command, nor in the Atlantic, will
an American merchantmen be safe,
for we shall organize privateers on a
great scale. We conquered Napoleon
by guerrilla warfare, and we shall en-
ploy system of privateers to over
come trading nation"
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KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March &c. a.
Titus, of Dwight, Morris county, Kan,
had in load of hogs at the stock yards
that caused considerable comment.
Thirty-three head filed car, as they
averaged 516 pounds. They were so
fat that it was very hard to drive
them. They wer 20 months old and
have been fed seven months on rye,
corn and dry pasture. The Armour
Packing Co. paid So. so per 100 pounds
for them. The company will slaughtee
and scrape the hogs by hand, as tha
machines are not large enough to run
them through without readjustment.
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MARION AsBELL CONVICTED.
The Oswego. Kan, Wife Murderer Given
the EMIL PanaltN Il tho Law.

The Oswego, Kan, Wife Murderer Given
the Full Penalty 4 the Law.
OswEGo, Kan, March 2.-The jury
in the Marion Asbell case brought in a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree, after being out IL hours The
victim was Mrs. Maria A. Asbell, sec
ond wife of the convicted man, and
mother of his ten-mon ths-old babe. The
crime was committed January % last,
and was the outgrowth of criminal rela-
tions between Asbell and Maggie White
house, aged II, daughter of his wife
by former marriage. Upon the dis
covery of these relations, Mrs. Asbell
expostulated, and then threatened to
resort to the law. This enraged As
bell, and he planned and accomplished
her death, shooting her after he had
sent the older children away from
home on errands.
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RECONCILED.

she came when, walked by May-time
weather,
The first rosebud It's leaves unfurled.
And JOY and Hope and Love together.
Went singing round the happy world.
And as she Powered and expanded
To perfect grace on every side,
We lived as in a land enchanted,
Wherein all things seem glorihed.
We never dreamed God had but sent her
Into the world, this wonder-child,
TO teach our hearts to be more tender,
And show us beauty undef1led;
And when-her Heavenly mission ended
God called her spirit back to Him,
Our hearts with agony were rended,
Our eyes with bitter tears were dim;
And as with faltering feet we bore her
To her last earthly resting place,
And saw the turf heaped darkly DER her,
Hiding the glory of her face,
We turned away with stony faces.
Refusing to be comforted;
-'God is not Love, and he misplaces
His trust who rhinketh So" we said.
But now-all past our foolish Gliding,
All hushed our wailing, vain and wild.
And, as of old, in God confding,
Our will with His is reconciled.
All. had she lived. our hearts dear treas.
ure,
Who knows what pain, what grief, what
tears,
What loss no human gauge can measure
Might have been hers in after years?
Now, safe from Time, the rude Despoiler
From sorrow saved, and sin, and strife
Yea, safe from aught whose touch coull
soil her!
Her soul has won immortal life!
But still, in her diviner essence
TJnbrOken SDeech with us hOIEa
And with the glory of her Presence,
Dispels the darkness of our souls.
So radiant with celestial splendor,
How can we think of her as dead?
So loving still, so pure, so tender,
Why should we not be comforted?
Charles w. Hubner, in Atlanta Con
Stitution.
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FOR DIVORCED PEOPLE.

The New York Journal Calls Attention tn a
Decision of the Federal Supreme Court
New YORK, March 3.-The Journal,
of this city, stated yesterday morning
that the supreme court of the United
States had handed down a decision
which apparently esta blishes a uni
form divorce law affecting the whole
country. The writer of this article
also makes the astounding assertion
that it is declared by the highest judi
cial authority in the land, on the face
Of the decision, that persons under the
ban of divorce in one state. who have
married in another state, are criminals
and can be arrested for bigamy, and
that the decision illegitimatizes chill
dren born of such unions He con-
tinues:
decree prohibiting guilty husband or
wife from remarrying during the lifetime Of
the other party will hereafter hold good as q
prohibition in all the states. II a second mar
riage is unlawful in the state where the divorce
is granted, 1t is unlawful in every other state.
Marriages so contracted are bigamouS and all
court to be illegitimate This decision, which
has been handed down by the supreme court in
the case of Laing vs. Rigney, places it within
the power OF many men and women to punish
by Imprisonment those from whom they were
divorced and who have remarked in defiance
Of the decree by taking up temporary resi-
dence in another state. It will have the effect
OF making all divorces, wherever granted,
more rigid and las ting. In every state di-
vorce decree usually prohibits one Of the
parties from remarrying. and this new ruling
would seem to give vitality to this provision
everywhere. At the least, it makes remarri2ge
by person under the ban extremely danger
Gus under any circumstances by introducing a
new factor into the divorce problem
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KANSAS FOR M'KINLEx.
rwenty-NIne Counties Hold Conventions
and InstrucE for the Ohio Man.


rwenty-NIne Counties Hold Conventions
and InstrucE for the Ohio Man.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 2-Twenty-
nine Kansas counties held primaries
Saturday for the selection of delegates
70 meet in county convention, and In
turn choose delegates to the repub-
lican state convention, which will meet
at Wichita, March 10, to name the del
egation that will represent the state
in the repu blican national convention
in St Louis. Every convention in
structed its delegates for Mckinley.
Cowley and Mcpherson counties in
structed against Cy Leland for
delegate at large. The other
81 counties are practically solid
for the Doniphan county man.
Previous to yesterday ten counties
had selected delegates, all of whom
were for Leland and Mckinley. AT
Wichita Col. Murdoch secured an in
dorsement for his candidacy for dele
Tate-at-large. j. B. Johnson, who has
posed as an antagonist of Cy Leland
and candidate for national commit
teeman as well, met Waterloo at
Topeka. T. j. Anderson secured the
delegation by an overwhelming vote.
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THE SPANISH FUSS.
What Il Thought Of the Senate's Action by
the Foreign Press


LONDON, March SIN commenting
upon the Cuban situation the Globe
says: American common sense is
again beginning to chill American
Chauvinism. Under its refrigerating
influence there has been a tardy per-
ception Of the possibility of war when
any nation declines to submit to the
bullying of the American jingo. But
less heroic methods than resorting to
arms are apt to be brought into play.
There is no question that the Spanish
people are resolved co fight to the
death sooner than quit their hold of
Cuba at American bidding. Nor would
they be blameworthy if, in such an un-
equal contest. they resorted to pri-
watering to destroy American ocean
borne commerce.
GERMAN OPINION.
BERLIN, March 3.-The intentions of
the American government toward the
rebellion in Cuba, as indicated by the
action of the United States congress,
awakens profound interest and wide.
spread discussion here, not only in the
press and official circles, but in all
classes of society. The American ac-
ton on the Cuban question is regarded
as an event of the first Importance to
the European world. AS to the opin-
ion held of it here, it must be said that
Germany and Austria stand amazed,
and neither statesmen nor the pub.
lie know how to regard what they
consider as recent frequent evil
dences that the United States
has formed a new determination to
take an active part hereafter in the
worlds politics. It is not believed in
Berlin that Spain will brook any inter.
ference with her course in Cuba such
as is contemplated by the concurrent
resolution of the senate, and the opin-
ion is generally held by well-informed
politicians in the reichstag and in gov
eminent circles that the Spanish gov.
eminent will find an ally against the
United States in Europe should she
find herself compelled to fight against
the United States.
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barrassing, too, to eat with the mistress
of the house watching him. 1t was
more embarrassing to have her sud-
denly ask:
why are you tramp"
II cannot get work, ma am"
Have you tried?"
''Yes'm. Look at my hands!"
She started back; for being versed i'll
the social fad of palmistry she read in
the palms he showed her the story of
failure and defeat, and saw lifeline
broken rudely ere it had reached half
its natural limit.
where did you sleep last night?'
I'm the station in the town beyond"
Again she thought of the silver, and
nalf closed the door which she held as
barrier between her and this alien
of his kind, who was making a paper
napkin from torn sheet lying near.
1t struck the young hostess forcibly
that her guest was consistent with his
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MISS ovERMAN.s CONFESSION.
She Continues Her story In an Effort to
Save Rev, DIR. Brown.

She Continues Her story In an Effort to
Save Rev. DIR. Brown.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 29.-Rev. DIR.
Brown, after two months silence, has
given his defense to the public. The
story is the most startling which has
yet been told in the scandal. It was
related as a confession to the ecclesi-
astical court last night by Miss Martha
Overman, who is the first in the sensa-
tional case to confess herself black
mailer. Miss Overman's manner was
striking. The woman spoke deliber-
ately, weaving a remarka BILE story, log
ically and clearly. She confessed that
she was blackmailer and tried to be
thief, and she gave the information
with a smile. She confessed that she
plotted the destruction of the man whose
hospitality she now enjoys. She de-
clared that to save herself from work
and the possible hardships of pow
erty she conspired with Mrs. Mary A.
Davidson to ruin the character of
Rev. DR.. Brown and to blacken her
own. She asserted that she ap-
preached the representatives of a
morning newspaper with a hope OF
tempting them to blackmail the ac-
cused pastor. She drew her recital to
dramatic climax by asserting, with
the smile which never left her face,
that she wrote the letters which pic
ture her own moral and physical ruin
and place the cause of her deep dis
tress at the door Of Rev. DIR. Brown.
Asserting all this, she denied that
there had ever been the slightest i'm.
propriety in her relations with the
man against whom she plotted sc
RhraWdlv
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Oklahoma Farmer Killed.

PERRY, Ok, March 3-John P. Jones,
a young farmer living II miles west of
here, was robbed Sunday night of
$500 and many valuables. Mr.. Jones
and his wife were retiring when four
masked men burst open the door and
bound and gagged both Jones and wife,
robbed them of all their money and
then went through their trunks and
took everything of value. Then one of
the gang insulted the young wife in
the presence of her husband. who was
helpless and speeches. The robbers
made their escape. Friends discovered
Jones and wife yesterday morning and
they were liberated.
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ANOTHER BRUTE LYNcHED.

A South Carolina Mob Takes Summary
Vengeance on q Negro RavIsher.
BLACKvILLE, s. c., March 2.-Mel.
vile Kennedy, colored, was lynched by
a mob of 30 men at Windsor, near here.
Eight months ago Kennedy and an.
other negro named Wade forcibly car
ried Miss Sallie Webb to the home of a
colored woman and assaulted her.
They forced her to keep the matter
quiet by threats of death, and the
young woman kept the secret until
yesterday. The mob is now securing
the country for Wade, and he will be
lYnched if caught.
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SYMPATHY FOR CUBA.
Resolutions Passed by the United States
70

Resolutions Passed by the United States
s WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-By the over
whelming vote of "a to the senate
yesterday adopted a concurrent reso-
luton favorable to Cuban belligerency
and independence. The resolu tions
adopted are as follows:
Resolved by the senate, the house Of repre-
sentatives concurring, that in the opinion of
congress a condition of public war exists be-
tween the government of Spain and the gov
eminent proclaimed and for some time main
tanned by force of arms by the people Of Cuba,
and that the United States of America should
maintain strict neutrality between the con-
tending powers, according to each all the
rights of belligerentS in the ports and terrific
ry of the United States.
Resolved, That the friendly offices Of the
United States should be offered by the presi-
dent to the Spanish government for the recog-
milton of the independence of Cuba.
The senators who voted against the
resolution were: Gallery, Chiffon,
George, Hale. Morrill, and Wetmore.
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NO FORMAL DWELLING.
Threats to Deface Father Marqustte'G
Statue Change the Plans.

Threats to Deface Father marquorCO'0
Statue Change the Plans.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-To avert
any trouble over the unwilling of the
Marquette statue in the capitol, which
has aroused antagonism from the A.
P. A., the covering was removed from
the statue and will not be replaced.
Judge J. w. Losey, of Wisconsin, and
Signor Trentanove, the sculptor, went
to the capitol and took the wrappings
from the statue. No arrangements
for formal unwilling had been
made, and Judge Losey, who rep
resents the state of Wisconsin, which
is the donor, concluded that the eere-
mony might be dispensed with. After
the demonstration by crank who
was arrested Saturday, it was feared
that a public gathering about the
statue might be attended by some un-
pleasant incident.
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A BOLD DESPERATE.
After Numbering n Man He Successfully
Eludes His Pursuers.

After Numbering n Man He Successfully
Eludes His Pursuers.
JEFFERSON, Wis, Feb. 29.-Lewis
Smith, secretary and treasurer of the
Wisconsin Manufacturing Co., was shot
and probably fatally wounded by an
unknown man in the company's factory
yesterday evening. The shooting
caused considerable excitement and
the employees and citizens attracted by
the shooting pursued the assail-
ant into the garnet of the factory.
Here he held the men at bay with
his revolver for two hours. firing sew
eral times at those who came near
enough. Finally the desperate set fire
to the factory and in the confusion es-
capped. The fire in the factory was ex-
tin1uished without much damage.
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CUBANS WOULD RETALIATE.
An Uprising In Key West, Fla. to Sack tho
Spanish Consulate.

An Uprising In Key West, Fla, to sack tho
Spanish Consulate.
KEY WEST, Fla, March 3.-There
was an uprising of several thousand
Cubans here last night to sack the
Spanish consulate and destroy the
picture of King Alfonzo. The move.
ment was melted by Americans, who
were indignant over the stoning of
the United States consulate in Bar
celona. . Mayor Waddell and the
county officials massed large
force of police around the con-
suIate and notified the militia to hold
themselves in readiness. The mayor
made a speech to the mob, explaining
that their contem plated action would
only harm the Cuban cause and hurt
America. The argument was needed,
and instead of storming the consulate,
the crowds formed a torchlight pro-
cession and paraded the streets with
bands, cheering the action of congress.
The Cubans all carried American flags
Onlv
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KANSAS DEMOCRATS.

The State Conventions VIII Be Held at
Topeka and Hutchinson, June and Au-
gust f.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. 2o.-The conven-
ton to elect delegates to the demo-
cratic national convention will be held
in Topeka June 3, and the convention
to nominate candidates for state off,
GERS will be held in Hutchinson August
4. The basis of representation to these
conventions will be one delegate-at-
large in each county and one delegate
for every IS votes and major portion
thereof cast for E. J. Herney for Sec
rotary of state in 1894. This will give
each convention 473 delegates.
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COLLISION AT TROY, KAN.
Three Persons Fatally Injured In = Rock
Island Train Wreck.

Three Persons Fatally Injured In = Rock
Island Train Wreck.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March Am east
bound Rock Island passenger ran into
the rear end of a freight west of Troy,
Kan, Saturday night and fatally in
jured three persons. The freight train
stopped at a water tank and the con-
ductor neglected to send back a flag
man. The injured are M. A. Alexan-
der, Troy; w. w. O'Brien, Chicago
travelling man; A. Westeen, ST. Joseph,
fireman on passenger train; Mrs. j. d.
Williams, Troy, limbs crushed Six
freight cars and two passenger coaches
were deraiIed. 1t took IL hours to
clear the track.
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CONFESSED ITS INSOLVENCY.
The Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Unable to
Meet It's Pressing obligations.

The Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad unable e0
Meet It's Pressing obligations.
BALTIMORE, Md, March. 2.-The Bal
timore & Ohio Railroad Co., one of the
oldest and most extensive transporta-
ton systems in the United States, and
until recently one of the most profit
able, has confessed its insolvency and
goes into the hands of receivers. John
z. Cowen, it's president, and Oscar G.
Murray, it's third vice president, will
hereafter operate it for the benefit of
the creditors and bondholders under
the direction of the United States court.
This action was taken Saturday night
after prolonged struggle against the
inevitable, and was the immediate re-
suit of the failure of the directors to
negotiate loans to provide for interest
and other payments, due and about to
become due. For several years, how
ever, the road has been losing money
and while the collapse, coming at this
time, was surprise to many, but few
believed that it could be averted much
longer