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FLOOD AT KANSAS CITY.

The Wort Rain Since 1SSS-Troost Park
Lake Overflows and Causes Much Dam
age.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, July 2o.-Saturday
afternoon and night Kansas City was
visited by the heaviest rainfall since
1888. Many sections of the city were
flooded and the damage amounted to
thousands of dollars. The greatest
damage was in the vicinity of Troost
park. The park lake was overhowed
and from it a volume of water poured
down Vine street which inundated
houses, tore away street crossings, de-
molished sidewalks and terrified
women and children. Members of the
fire department swan and struggled
in the raging torrents to rescue those
who were calling for help Fortu-
nately no lives were lost 1t is proba-
BILE that damage suits will be brought
against the park management
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A TERRIBLE ARRAY.

Two Brothers Fight a Duel with Knives
One MortaIly Wounded
HAzLEToN. Pa, July eO.-George and
Charles Goodwold. brothers, living at
Eckiey, who have been at variance for
some time over family affairs. met last
evening and agreed to settle their
differences by fighting it out Aiming
themselves with butcher knives they
went at each other desperately. Neigh
bors who witnessed the terrible ARRAY
tried to Sc parate them, but were forced
to desist for fear of being cut them
selves. The wife of one of the broth
ers finally rushed in and succeeded in
taking her husband out of the fight,
but not before one of the fingers on
her right hand was almost cut off.
The brothers were bleeding from
many wounds, and fell exhausted. A
physician was hurriedly summoned.
who pronounced both to be danger
ously wounded, one of them being in
such a precarious condition that his
recovery is dOu btful
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DISAPPOINTED GRAIN MEN.
Through Corn Rates Made to St. Louis In
stead of Flat Rates to Kansas CITY.

Through Corn Rates Made to St. Louis In
stead of Flat Rates to Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, No, July 20-The re-
duced rates on grain shipments to the
Gulf made by the Santa Fe and Mis-
souri, Pacific railways went into effect
Saturday The Union Pacific railway
which was expected to make a fiat
grain rate into Kansas City, announced
a through rate Saturday of l3 cents
per 100 pounds on corn from McPher-
son and Ellsworth, Kan. and interme-
date points to St Louis The new
rate is a good thing for St. Louis,
but is of no benefit to Kansas City.
What the grain men were looking for
and expected from the Union Pacific
was fiat rate to Kansas City of six
cents on wheat and proportionally on
corn. 1t was thought the Union Pa
cihc would cut locals to Kansas City
about so per cent Its action in ignor-
ing Kansas City, which is its eastern
terminus, by making through rate to
ST. Louis, has aroused the Indignation
of the grain men, as it is direct blow
at Kansas City.
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DEATH OF BISHOP COKE.

The PrelAte and EcclesiasticaI Controver-
sialist Succumbs to Nervousness
ROCHESTER,, N v, July 22.-Bishop
Arthur Cleveland Coke, of the western
New York Episcopal diocese, died yes
terday afternoon of nervous prostra-
ton as he was about to take train
from Clifton Springs sanitarium,
where he had been sojourning a few
DAYS, to his home in Buffalo.
Arthur Cleveland Coke a a well
known New York clergyman, Samuel Han
son Cox. the difference in the spelling being
the younger mans doing He born in
Mendham. n. J.. May 10. ISIS, and gradual
ed with distinction from the university of
the city of New York at the age of %. also
from the general Episcopal theological
seminary three Yeas later He was ordained
deacon in 1871 and priest the next year. The
bishopric of Texas he declined in 1856. but
afterward accepted that in New York. succeed
ing Bishop De Lancy- OF late years attention
was attracted to him by series of polemical
letters he wrote Mgr Satolli- in which he
commended that the latter represented all that
was offensive in Jesuitism and that the Jesuits
are band of secret conspirators against La
and
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MORE CROP FIGURES.
The Low Grain Rates May Leave No Mar
gin OF Profit to Railroads.

The Low Grain Rates May Leave No Mar
gin of Profit to Railroads.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 22--The eff
feet of the recent cut in grain rates
has been to cause the old corn to move
and all lines tapping the Kansas grain
belt are being taxed to their utmost to
handle the business. 1t is estimated
that there are still "a. 900, 900 bushels
of old corn within a radius of so miles
of Wichita. The early corn is made
and is three weeks early Late
corn will require but very lit
tie rain to assure an immense
crop. Conservative estimates by
the best informed grain men here
place this years corn crop at 400, O0O,-
900 bushels. There are also tremen-
dous apple, peach and vegetable crops
All the railroads are preparing to ham
die an immense amount of traffic this
summer and fall and their greatest
fear is that rates may go SO low as to
leave no margin of profit in moving
the crop.
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CASHIER IN JAIL.


EldoradO, Kan, Banker Charged with For
gerry and Embezzlement.
ELDoRADo, Kan, July 1S.-This COM
munity was startled by the arrest Of
S. g. Fleming, cashier of the Exchange
national bank here, on the charge of
forgery and embezzlement The off,
GERS of the bank had been thoroughly
aroused by some of the discounts, and,
knowing that something was wrong,
set about to discover it. Suspicion fell
on Cashier Fleming and he was
watched. Yesterday more was learned
and Mr.. Fleming was requested to re-
sign, and was then arrested and placed
in Jail 1t was discovered that he
forged four notes on prominent people
of this county for $40, 900, and obtained
the money from the bank The first
forgery occurred April 90 of this year,
and the last one on June 21-
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BANKERS TO THE RESCUE.
New York FinancIers Agree to Protect the
Gold Reserve


Gold Reserve
NEW YORK, July 22.-About two
o'clock yesterday afternoon, when the
stock market appeared to be shaping
for a bear panic. caused nominally by
the withdrawal of s., 600, 900 in gold
from the treasury for export, the an
nouncement was made that the banks
had ntered into an agreement to pro-
tect the reserve. Little information
could be obtained at that hour con-
corning the plans of the bank prcsi-
dents, but the news acted as tonic in
Wall street and checked the downward
tendency of prices. Later it was dis
covered that President Sherman, of
the National Bank of Commerce, and
President F. D. Tappen, of the Gallatin
national bank. had been in conference
with their associates and with J. Pier
pont Morgan. and that the basis of an
agreement had been reached, in pur-
suance of which the national banks
pledge their reserve fund to the sup
port of the government to the extent
of from SO, 900, 900 to S25. 900, 900 An
other conference is to be held to de-
eide upon a more definite line of con-
duct
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accept the nomination for president he
could not carry county in the state.

accept the nomination for president he
could not carry a county in the state.
MISSOURI AGAINST BRYAN.
ST LOUIS. July 22--The Missouri
delegation to the populist convention
yesterday emphasized its position
against w j. Bryan by the adoption
of the following resolution:
Resolved. That we. the delegates of the
state of Missouri to the national convention OF
the peoples party. are opposed TO the nomina :
ton or endorsements of W. J. Bryan for p resi-
dent. or any other democrat or republican
BREIDENTHAL's VICTORY.
ST LOUIS, July 22.-Chairman John
W. Breidenthal won a signal victory
in a caucus of the Kansas delegation
yesterday afternoon by his election to
mem bership on the populist national
committee. The delegation organized
permanently by the election of Jerry
Simpson, of Medicine Lodge, chair
man, and P E. Yearout, of Emporia,
secretary.
THE DIRECT LEGISLATIVE LEAGUE
ST LOUIS. July 22--'The Direct Leg
islative league, which seeks to engraft
the initiative and referendum system
upon the body polite, will be in ses-
sion here during the progress of the
pOpulist and silver conventions 1t
held its first session yesterday.
ONE NAME FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ST LOUIS. July 22.-F. Gerry Brown,
mem Der of the populist ma tional COM
mittee from Mississippi, will be pre-
sented as candidate of practically
the whole of the New England delega-
ton for vice president. They, it is
said, will not lend their aid to Mr..
Sewall
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A GIRLS CRIME.
Accused of Numbering a Whole Family
Near hunting ton. w. Va.

Accused of Numbering a Whole Family
Near Huntington, w. Va
HUNTINGTON, w. Va, July 2L-A- j.
Call and Nettie Call, his daughter,
were killed in shanty boat six miles
east of here yesterday morning Lot
tie Call will also die and several small
children are at the point of death.
Eta Robins is in Jail, accused of MUIR
dering all of them, using as a weapon
a double bit ak. Call and daughter,
who are dead, have their heads sew
cred, and all the children are slashed
in horrible manner. One woman
leaped into the river and saved her
life. Great excitement prevails. No
cause is assigned for the deed.
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CAMPAIGN MATTER.
Millions Of Documents to Be Scat
tered by the Republicans
THE HINT DEPARTMENT QUESTIONED
1t Is in Receipt of a Growing Mall from
All Sections of the Country
Financial Topics-New
Counterfeits.

WASHINGTON, July 22--As one result
of a conference between Chairman
Babcock, of the repu blican congress
sional committee, and Mark Hanna
and Maj. Mckinley last week, the con-
gressional committee, from this time
on, will perform more work and in diff
ferent fields than has ever devolved
upon any previous committee Mr.
Babcock's organization will take
charge of the literary feature of the
campaign entirely. In addition to
supplying the various congress
sional district committees with
literature, speeches and documents,
will also furnish the state central
committee in every state with cam
paign material. In the last campaign
the congressional committee confined
its labor to about 100 congressional
districts, but in this it will widen its
field of operations to take in every
place in the United States where there
is a chance for contest The mum Der
of campaign documents that will be
sent out between now and next No
vem Der by the congressional commit
tee will be in the millions From one
state alone an order has been received
for 700, 900 of these documents, and
there are a mum Der of orders for 4O0,-
OO0 The majority of these documents
| will bear upon the financial question
The congressional committee will get
out the campaign book this year and
is now at work pom it.
THE MINT DEPARTMENT QUESTIONED.
WAsHINGToN, July 22.-The mint
bureau of the treasury is in receipt of
a daily growing mail from all sections
of the country devoted to requests for
information on financial topics. The
questions cover every conceivable
phase of the currency question, and
inquirers are of all shades of political
| belief. Most of them want information
that can be easily furnished, such, for
| instance, as the total amount of
the coinage of the last fiscal year, the
amount of gold and silver in circula-
ton in the United States, the present
value of different coins, etc, but many
would tax the officials to answer them
properly. The bureau is doing all it
can to meet the demand upon it as an
educational institution, and Director
Preston says that he could easily dis
pose of 25, 600 copies of the last annual
report of his bureau if he had them
for distribution.
NEW COUNTER FEITS.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-Two new
counterfeits of United States silver
certificates have been discovered by
the treasury department. The first is
81 series of 1891, check letter c,
signed by ]. Fount Tillman, register,
and D. \. Morgan, treasurer. and hav-
| ing portrait of Stanton. The second
| is a SIS series of 1891, check letter B,
signed the same, and having a portrait
| Of Grant.
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DEATH DEALT BY SNAKES.
PennsyIvanfa Mother and Two Chfldfe
Have Fatal B-dfellows.

PennsyIvanfa Mother and Two Children
Have Fatal B~dfellows.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20-Two cop
perhead snakes crawled into Martin
Drury's house in Blair's Valley, Frank
lin county, last night Mrs Drury
and her two little children were sleep
ing in a room on the ground floor.
The deadly snakes crept into the chil-
dren's bed and bit both of them. Their
screams aroused the mother, who in
the darkness was bitten twice by the
snakes One child. aged three. has
died and the other child and the moth
er are dying.
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YELLOW FEVER in CUBA
1t Is Raging with Great Virulence OWN,
to the Marshy Ground.

1t Is Raging with Great Virulence Owing
to the Marshy Ground.
HAVANA, July 20-Reports from
Artemisa show that yellow fever of
virulence continues in that district,
both among the Cubans and Spaniards,
owing to the marshy character of the
ground. 1t prevails along the line of
the trocha, and Majs. Hidalgo, Pedro
and Baron are among those attacked.
Guanajay appeals for 200 beds for the
sick left by the columns of Coils Escarlo
and Fuentes. 1t is also raging at Villa
Clara. and the epidemic makes no dis
elimination in favor of native Cubans,
10 of whom were attacked yesterday,
and are seriously i'll.
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NO MORE FALSE TONES.


Mechanism Invented That Makes Plano
True q Violin.
CINCINNATI, July 20 DIR. S. A. Hage-
man, of this city, has applied for a
patent on an invention which promises
to create a sensation among musicians
It is mechanism to be applied to
the piano for the purpose of correct
ing the false tones of that instrument.
which have hitherto been regarded as
a necessary evil The invention makes
a piano as true as the violin, and it ac-
complishes the result by sort of me-
chanical lingering similar to the
human lingering on the violin Com
petent musicians say the problem has
been successfully solved.
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Flat Corn Rates Made.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, July a2.-The
Burlington railway came to the aid of
Kansas City grain men by announcing
fiat rates on corn into Kansas City
from points in Missouri and Iowa
north of St Joseph on the main branch
lines of the Kansas City, St Joseph s.
Council Bluffs. The new rates vary
from to s cents per 100 pounds and
are big reductions from the old rates
which ran from 10 to IA cents The
reduced rates will go into effect on
July %
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A Kansas City Judge DE cides the Act BE
Glass Legislation.

Glass Legislation.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 2O.-Under a
decision made by Judge Wofford, of
the criminal court, gam bling on horse
races run outside of the state may be
resumed in Kansas City. By virtue of
this decision pool rooms which closet
in 1891. when the Stone anti-pool room
law went into effect, will speedily re-
open. The judge held that the law,
which made it a felony to make book
or accept bets except on the course
where the race was run, was unconsti-
tutional because it was special legisla-
ton, which did not bear equally on all
citizens. and such special legislation is
prohi bited by the state constitution.
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CARDS LEAD TO MURDER.

The Auditor OF Florida Railroad Stays
His Assistant In = Quarrel.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, July Elm a
moment of passion, caused by dis
pute over a game of cards, w. w. Har-
Alison, auditor of the Jacksonville.
Tampa & Key West railroad, dealt a
death blow with a heavy chair to Fran
els NJ Ector, assistant auditor of the
same road, in the reading room of the
Arlington hotel, where the two men
boarded The two had been warm
friends, and nearly every evening
played cards in the reading room of
their hotel
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Higgins becomes an Editor.

TOPEKA. Kan. July 22-Ex-Secre-
tary of State William Higgins has pur-
chased an interest in the Western
Veteran and has assumed editorial
management of the paper. The Veter-
an is the recognized organ of the old
soldiers in Kansas and has large cir
culation among the veterans in Kansas,
Missouri, Illinois. Nebraska and other
western states 4. was established, in
1854 by o. H. Coulter, who is still its
ublisher and business manager.
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CABLE TO HAYTI.

New Telegraph Company Organized with
S1,SOO,OOO Capital
ALBANY, n. Y, July S.-The United
States and Hayti Cable Co. was in cor
porate yesterday with a capital of
81, 500, 900, the route and points to be
connected to be as follows: From
New York city to Coney island, thence
by submarine cable to the island of
Hayti, in the West Indies. and from
New York city through the states of
Connecticut. Rhode Island and Massa-
chusetts to Boston.
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JAPANESE AS BUTCHERS.

Said to He Killing the Chinese In the Island
of FormosA.
LONDON, July 2O.-A Hong Kong dis
patch says missionary writes to a
correspondent there, fully confirming
previous reports of Japanese atrocities
in the south of the Island of Formosa-
The Japanese, he adds, are fast exter-
mirating the Chinese in that locality.
Over 60 villages have been burned, and
thousands of persons have been killed,
with revolving brutalities-
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WASHINGTON, July Is. = Senator
Faulkner. chairman of the national
democratic congressional committee,
having been quoted as being in thor
ough sympathy with the Chicago plat
form and ticket" feels called upon to
issue a card in which he says the plat
form by no means expresses his views,
but that, being the product of the ma
jority of regular democratic conven-
ton it will have his support
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Poor Crop In Iowa.

Dies MONIES, Ia, July 22--The week.
" Iowa weather crop bulletin shows
the crop to be almost totally ruin ed
by rust Many of the fields are not
worth cutting and the total output
will be less shan one-third the yield of
last year.
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william q. whitney Bolt.

NEW YORK, July 19--William c.
Whitney has formally bolted the
ticket nominated at Chicago last week.
He says nothing could induce him to
vote for Bryan or to assist in any way
In his election Beyond that he is
silent, and while it is generally be-
lieved that he will cooperate with the
sound money men in putting third
ticket in the field, no positive state
ment on that point is now availa BILE.
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WILL BE in TOPEKA.
Mckinley and Bryan Have Promised to At
tend the SoldIers, Reunion.

tend the soldiers Reunion.
TOPEKA, Kan. July IS. = At last
nights meeting of the committee in
charge of arrangement for the old SOL
diers' reunion at Topeka next October,
Postmaster Arnold stated that he was
authorized to announce that w. J.
Bryan would attend and deliver an adj
dress Previous to the St. Louis con-
vention, Maj Mckinley accepted an
invitation to attend this reunion, and
the committee will use every means to
hold him to his agreement 1t is pro-
posed to have the rival candidates for
PRESIDENT here on different DAYS
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The President Attends Russell's Funeral.
BCZZARD-s BAY, Mass, July 2L-The
president attended the funeral services
yesterday of his personal friend,
the late William E Russell, in Cam
bridge. Joseph jefferson accompanied
him
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Triple Murder and Suicide.

ATTIcA, Mich, July 22-Gorman
Swain, farmer. one mile south of
this place, early this morning killed
three of his children with a butcher
knife. set fire to his house and then
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart
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North Kansas Editor. on . Jaur

DENVER, Col, July 22-The editors
of the North Kansas Editorial associa-
ton are out for a seven days trip to
Denver, Ogden and Salt Lake City,
having left Concordia Friday morning
over the Union Pacific. Seward Jones,
editor of the Concordia Daylight, is
president of the association, and has
charge of the excursion.
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CLICKS PENSION REPORT.

The United States Pension Agent Gives
Some Interesting Figures Concerning Hts
District-
TOPEKA, Kan, July Is--Ex-Gov.
Click, United States pension agent for
the district composed of Missouri,
Kansas, Colorado, Indian territory,
Oklahoma and New Mexico, yesterday
made his report for the year ended
June so. The numbe of pensioners on
the rolls at the close of the present
fiscal year, June 80, 1896, was los, O41-
The number on the rolls at the close
of the fiscal year in 1895 was 104, $50
This makes an increase of 4s3 in the
numb Der of pensioners during the year.
During the year 4,446 original allow
ances were added to the rolls There
were 2ST restored who had been
dropped. There were 5000 dropped
from the rolls for all causes. More
Missouri soldiers are paid from the To-
peka office than are paid in Kansas, the
total number being 1885, Colorado
has 4,56O; Oklahoma. $3.50; Indian
territory, 1850; New Mexico, 1,05L
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WIN Firnt for Sound money.

CHICAGO July 1s--The Railway Age
has announced that it will takes an
active part in the political campaign
this fall. 1t will labor in behalf OF
the gold standard and against the free
silver men.
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Killed by . Jealous Husband.

HARRoDsBURG, KY, July 2l--In the
Dixville district in this county Sun
day morning, while Philip Board was
on his way to church he was shot in
the back by Silas Bugg. They had
quarre1ed over Bugg's wife. Board
was instantly killed Bugg is in jail
here. Both were well known farmers.
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GouId's Inheritance Salary Not Ta1ed-

Gould's Inheritance Salary Not Taxed
NEW YORK, July 1S.-George j. Gould
has won his suit to prevent the coll
lection of an inheritance tax on So
600. 600, bequeathed to him by his
father, the late Jay Gould 1t was
claimed that the bequest was compen-
sation for services rendered, and this
contention was sustained by the court.