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The record-union., 1896-09-17
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TEVENS-LOGAN-At Oak Park, at the
home of the bride. September 18th, by
Rev. A. c. Herrick. Joseph @. Stevens
q sacramento TO Lulu May Logan OF
Oak Park
WEIGH NURPHY-In Salt Lake. Sep
temher 18th, Frank G. Welch of Sacra-
mento to Mary x. Murphy Of Salt Lake
city, by Bishop Leonard of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church
The record-union., 1896-09-17

We are constantly adding new pat
terms to our special value Ten-wire
Tapestry Carpets. WHY PAY
MORE when you can get a reliable
Carpet like this for roc, sewed and
laid?
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-02-19
A Trip to the Garden Spots Of the South.

A Trip to the Garden Spots of the South.
On January %, Ferrary II and March 10
tickets will be sold from principal cities,
towns and villages Of the North, to all
points on the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida and a portion of Kentucky, at one
single fare for the round trip. Tickets will
be good to return within thirty days and
south-bound trip. Ask your ticket agent
about it, and II he cannot sell you excursion
tickets write to G. P. Atmore, General
Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky, or
George B. HOrner, d. p. A., St. Louis, No.
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-02-19
Some News About Kansas.

built at Wichita.
A bicycle factory is q new institu-
zion st Pittsburg.
There are 1856 miles of railroad op-
Grated In Kansas.
John Speer's "Life of Jim Lane" is
to be issued In a few days.
The Valley State bank of Hutchin.
son, capital 100000, has failed.
Lightning-rod sWindlers have been
working Butler county farmers.
Wichita will make en- effort to get
the Democratic State convention.
Samuel T. Howe has been elected to
succeed himself as Railroad Commits.
sioner.
Constance Ingalls,, daughter of the
ex-senator, has made her debut az q
lecturer.
The amount Of the school fund in.
terest to be distributed this year is
8225,OOO.
March 3 and are the dates for the
meeting Of the State Temperance Union
at Topeka.
The Republican convention In the
First district will be held at LesVen-
worth March 8.
Only two of the twenty.six roads op-
Grating in Kansas report having paid
dividend last year.
The Chsnute Blade (Dem.) nomi-
mates II. P. Fsrrelly for Congress in
the Third district.
The spportionment of the interest
on the school fund is AZ cents for each
person Of school age.
Nine Kansas bidders got $4,000 Of
the late bond issue, Of which al but
$4,000 went to banks.
Cheyenne county has school board
association which discusses matters Of
interest to school affairs.
The POpulist salary bill for Cloud
county has resulted in a saving In less
than three years of $2,525.
WiChlta's police force cost 81, 24S in
January, and the revenues collected
BY the force amounted to S7S.
The Kansas City (KsS) Sun (Pop.)
10 publishing a roster Of the living
members Of the Sixth Kansas.
Arthur CSpper has bought Mergen.
thsler linotype (type.setting machine)
for use in'the Topeka Mail office.
The committee In charge has set
May %, q and % as the date for the
Hutchinson musical jubilee this year.
Webb McNsll Is going to Cripple
Greek to practice law. He is con.
neCted with q mining enterprise also.
L. G. and Charles Uhl, the veteran
Democrats of Smith Center, are rela-
tlves Of the new Minister to Germany.
Bill Hackney, formerly Of Cowley
county, now draws a $4,000 salary as
an attorney for the Standard OIL Com.
pany.
A Lawrence man died recently from
the effects of swallowing q penny,
which had eaten the membrane of his
stomach.
A windmill is to be substituted for
the gasoline engine for pumping pur.
a l. -
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-02-19

The railroads of Kansas employed
1854 persons last year, paying in
wages $40, 448, 600, a decrease of 81, 1885,.
600 compared with the previous year,
George w. Finch, a prominent Re-
publican of Harper, is making speeches
in favor of the free and unlimited coin,
age of silver in southwestern Kansas.
There are forty eight persons in the
Kansas Penitentiary under sentence
to hang, but they will stay there until
some Governor approves their death
warrants.
Capt. Tilton, of the Osborne Farmer,
has sold out to G. W. Lands, his part
ner. He will probably be candidate
before the Republican convention for
Congress.
The Kansas City Gazette (Rep.) is in
doubt as to whether the failure to re-
nominate Dawes would strengthen the
ticket more than the failure to nomi-
nate Morrill,.
A State grand lodge of the Catholic
Mutual Benefit Association was organ
lied at Lesvenworth February u, and
Peter G. Baker, Of that city, was
elected President.
s. G. Isetr, of Chsnute, who ran for
Lieutenant Governor on the ticket
with Charles Robinson in 1890, would
not object to being the Democratic
nominee for Governor.
There are 10000 insurance agents
licenses issued in Kansas, There are
not that many agents, however, as one
person is often the representative of
q number of companies.
Col. Tomlinson, of the Topeka DEM
ocrat, would like to see the Populists
and silver Democrats get together and
nominate q common ticket under a
new name In this State this year.
Kansas City has a grave robbing
scandal. In one case the body seems
to have been sold by the undertaken,
and to have never been buried, al
though relations paid for the burial.
Stanton, Haskell and Seward cOun-
ties have not spent single dollar for
the care of the poor yet this winter.
Finney has only spent $23.75. Pretty
good showing our western friends
make.
Usage City, has paid off $4,000 of
bonds which were not yet due, paying
q premium of $3.50, but the interest
saved is @696.5O. This indicates that
that city Is In excellent financial con-
dition.
Dave Nsylor, of Topeka, has been
appointed as Superintendent Of State
House grounds. The promise to sp.
point the Yankee landscape gardener
was, like many other such promises
disregsrded.
Col. Holiday, Of Topeka, roOmed
with Senator Allison at the Allegheny
college at MesdVille, Pa, when they
were boys. They were not very
wealthy then and they cooked their
own meals.
Kansas City World: 'Many Repub,
liCsn papers are kicking at the early
convention fixed by Boss Leland, and
brand It as a job in his interest, just
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-02-19


The individual who answered MI
Stanley's examination questions in his
tory in the last Western School Joug7aG.
evidently relies on newspapers rather
than government reports for informS
ton as to the income from our present
tariff laws. decrease in government
revenues caused by changes in tariff
laws" is given as one of the causes of
economic or social disturbances" In
the last five years.
Rev. j. G.. Dougherty, who made
charge Of dishonesty and connivance
with the whisky crowd against Lew.
cling because the prohibitOry law was
not strictly enforced in Kansas City,
now admits that Morriil's Commits
sioners are doing no better; but in this
case, in Dougherty's mind, it is not
dishonesty and connivsnce, but it is
due to the fact that the Metropolitan
Police law is failure. Dougherty, to
be consistent, ought to lay the blame
on Morrill,.
The Kansas bond bidders who were
successful are as follows, the amount
and price following each name: Bank
of Commerce, Chsnute, $1,000, l15;
Eugene Davis, Spring Hill, 800, 1889;
Thomas Torpey, LesVenWorth, &c..
600, 1880; First National bank, Man
haitian, $4,000, liz; L. o. Abbey,
Ness City, $1,000, 1l2; Francis L.
Faris, Kansas City, $500, 1925; Mary
E. Barker, Kansas City, $1,000, 1925;
Guilford Dudley, Topeka, $4,000,
11l.50; Kansas National bank, Wichita,
$4,000, 1l1.53.
Emporia's fight for the Popullst State
convention was made before the com.
mittee by the following gentlemen who
were appointed by mass meeting of
citizens: P. F. Yesrout, Col. Whitley,
Charles Harris, M. A. Coppock, Char
lie Calkins, Justin SOden, M. @. Starr,
S. M. Scott and Judge W. A. Ran
dolph. They were assisted by the fol-
lowing committee of Populists: A. B.
Chsffee, Lee Wright, John Madden,
Van r. Holmes, V. K. Stanley, p. B.
MaXon, G. w. Thornton, M. j. Roth,
J. V. Randolph, Ed S. NeWlin, B.
Cronkhite, Charles F. Hill and w. E.
LOOMS.
Lawrence Journal (Rep.): "When
Congressman are in the House they
have to 60 to the Speaker and plead
and beg to be recognized in order that
they may say dozen words. When
they get home they talk as though they
run things up at Washington AS
matter of fact, a Congressman with
out a national reputation amounts to
about as much when he gets up there
as fly on church steeple." This IL
fine condition Of things. Kansas,
with 100000 people, is unrepresented
in Congress because none of her Con.
gressmen have a national reputation,
nor do they stand In with the Speaker;
but 30 far as that is concerned, 1t is
perhaps best for the State, as with the
exception of Congressman Baker none
of them represent the best interests of
the State. The Speaker is properly
called 3 Car.
The advocate. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1894-1897, 1896-02-19

| bM4uR 6DOuJ buSe0 E6Ue6HuGE uoWbphp6E
fights Is that they say publicly Of each
other what the public thinks privately.
The Lskin IndeU thinks that an ap-
propriate inscription on the coat of
arms Of the new immigration sssocia-
ton, whose object is said to be to tell
the truth about Kansas, would be "I'm
something Of liar myself"
The Emporis Republican got out q
very Creditsble edition February Is
which contained a large amount of
matter, together with numerous illus
trstions, showing that Emporis and
Lyon county were strictly all right.
Stock raisers and shippers have
formed an organization in Chase
county, of which j. G. Thompson is
President and w. S. Romigh Secretary.
Resolutions were passed denouncing
the recent raise in freight rates on
grain.
Emporis Times: at is said that
Morrill, and Leland are opposed to the
new Roentgen process Of photography
for fear some kodsker will get them
unaWsres and give the people an op.
portunity to see the wheels in their
heads"
Greeley county is preparing to fight
the payment of interest and principal
on $42,500 issue of bonds. They
were issued to take up gopher scalp
warrants and other warrants of a gen.
eral character issued by county officers
without vote of the people.
Farmer" Smith now wants to be
nominated for Representstiye-not in
copeland" county, but out in Nc
Pherson. He will have opposition and
plenty of it. 1t is not stated whether
he is objected to on the ground that he
Is resident Of Copeland county.
Albert Griffin, we'll known all over
Kansas, has recently published q good
work on the money question entitled
"The Keynote Substitute Honest
Money for Fictitious Credit" His
address is Topeka, and he is making
dates to lecture anywhere In the State.
Maj. Hudson has been appointed
State Printer by Governor Morrill,. AS
the court held that Shows appoint.
ment neither strengthened nor weak
ened his title to the Office, it is difficult
to determine why time and stationery
is wasted in an appointment for Hud-
son now.
A bill has been reported faVorsbly by
the House Committee on Pensions to
grant q pension Of 800 per month to
Gen. Joseph A. Cooper, of st. John,
who was a Major General of volunteers
in the Civil war. He served in the
Mexican war and Is now in needy cir
cumstances and physical wreck.
Kansas City Gazette (Rep.): "The
Burlington Republican affects to smash
q new man by inquiring, who in
thunder is Potter?' Well, take his
thirty-6ve years of public life in Kan.
sss, point us out something of impor-
lance besides figuring interest, and
who in thunder is E. N. MORRILL,"
The calling of the First district Re-
publican convention for the day before
the State convention 10 black eye for
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
Bodies Washed Ashore.
I WORD FROM j. j. CoRBETT.
A Commodity in Which He Is Fond OF
Dealing.

New York, December 11.-James j.
Corbett was asked today If he had seen
Dan Stuart, who short time ago
offered a sl5,O00 purse for finish fight
between the sx-ohampion and Fitzsim-
mons. 81 have not heard anything from
Dan Stuart as yet. said he. 81 suppose
he will see me before "a hours have
passed"
"What do you think of Stuart's offer
OF ST. 600 purse for fight between Fitz-
simmons and you2''
"Well, you see, " replied Corbett, "we
have received an offer of Sl5, 600 purse
to box fifteen rounds in San francisco,
either In a month or two and l have ac-
cspted it. don't see why Fitzsimmons
don't. We are sure of our money out
Of fouur or six weeks. If we accept
Stuarts offer, we will have to go down
south and might possibly be CHASED all
around the country for several weeks and
not fight after all. If Fitz will only ac-
cept that offer of S15, COO in San Francisco
will agree to stop him in 15 rounds. II
should fail will turn over the entire
purse to him."
"But suppose he won't fight you q
limited mum Ter of rouuds?" "Then l
will have to fight him to tinish,' re-
piled Corbett. II think the San Fran
cisco offer is excellent. II Fitz will only
accept / will pack up my trunk im.ne-
diately and start west. | shall consider
Stuart's offer and will give him de-
cided answer in a few days.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
OPERATORS AND MINERS CONFER
Difficult to Reach an Agreement on Prices
For Work.

Pittsburg, Pa, December 11.-Imme-
diately after the joint conference OF the
operators and miners of tina Pittsburg
district convened this morning, the re-
port of the special wage committee was
submitted. In it the miners asked for "a
cents from January 1 to March /, and
70 cents for the balance of the year. The
operators offered 60 cents and 65 ceats for
the same periods. A stormy debate
amounting almost to uproar followed.
President Dolan denounced the decep-
tion practicedsand the false promises OF
the operators and appealed to the miners
to stand together against them and strike
until their demands were recognized.
Operator Robbins made short pacific
speech in reply and asked if a permanent
rate could not be established, tnat price
for January should be fixed upon. After
further discussion, a committee to name
a price for mining for the month Of Jan
uary was appointed. The conference ad-
iourned to give the committee time to
consider the question. When q special
committee returned to the hall President
Pepna stated, that the operators had
offered 60 CENTS a ton for mining during
January with a proportionate advance.
The miners did not agree to it and Presi-
dent Penna suggested that the oonven-
tion adjourn. This was done and the
miners went into secret session to fur
ther discuss the proposition and forlnu.
late their plans. At q. 80 this afternoon
the miners voted by small majority to
refer the question back to the looal Or
oanizatfons The Indications are the
offer of the operators will ba rejected.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12

dam, AMI pumps were used day and
night SO that the workmen could work
unmolested by the rising of the tide
waters. The bottom Of the foundations
is ~ feet below the base Of rail, and TN
derlying abutments and wing walls.
The abutments are 70 feet long, 9 feet 10
inches high, and the wings from S5 to
4S feet in length, rising S5 feet and s
inches to top of the parapet walls.
The parapst walls are II fest, z inches
high, and the arch is 70 feet In length.
1t is 40 feet between the abutments
which have 10 foot spring. The face
work is made of two foot courses backed
up with rubble concrete laid in cement.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
NO IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.
Holiday specialties OnlyMerchandise That
Is Booming.

New York, Decem Der 11.-Braad-
streets tomorrow will say: There has
been no improvement in general trade
this week, except in holiday specialties.
The unreasonable weather again delayed
the demand for winter goods and the
approach Of the period for stock taking
will prolong the season Of dullness well
into next month. The tendency of prices
is more conspicuously downward.
Many who have been extremely bullish
as to wheat prices regard the reaction as
likely, notwithstanding the outlook for
greater firmneas and higher quotations
during the latter than the first half of
the current cereal year The collapse or
the impending dissolution OF iron and
steel pools or combinations encourages
the belief that prices for those meta Is
will range lower. This causes the buyers
to withhold orders. The demand for
leather and Morocco has fallen off and a
number of factories have been closed.
Dry goods are depressed by the large
stocks of print cloths in the hands of the
manufacturers, although some New
England woolen mills are well supplied
with orders.
There is no revival in wooden manu-
faotures. Some makers are waiting for
goods market to start up. The exports OF
wheat (fiour included as wheat) from
both coasts of the United States this
week show marked increase compared
with the preceding weeks and the CORES
pondipg weeks in preceding years.
amonntine to 1922, ia bushels Soon
trasted with 9, s5S, 900 in the correspond.
ing week last year. The exports OF
Indian corn this week are also heavy,
amounting to 8, 514, 28S bushels, twice MS
m uch as the preceding week and nearly
80 per cent more than the corresponding
week last year. The bank clearings show
the expected falling of, amounting to
81, 065, 700, 600 or Is per cent less than the
preceding week, 6 per cent less than
the second week of December. 1895.
There are 381 failures reportsd in the
United States this week, another increase
compared with the average in recent
weeks. The November gross railroad
earnings. as expected, are the poorest for
over two years. The falling of is heav-
lest in the granger and central western
roads and lightest in the southwestern
group. Only one-nfth of all the roads
reporting show gains.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The despatch sent from Yuma yester,
day morning stating that number of
men were killed and injured by an exA
plosion In mine proves without foun-
dation.
Adyices have reached Paris from
Lehu, West Africa, to the effect that
early in November a deserter who had
been captured, wilfully exploded a
cargo of gun powders on French launch
and 20 persons were killed and four others
escaped. The launch sank.
j. R. Kendrick, vice president of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
road, died Friday afternoon on the way
from the station in Boston to his home.
Tho cause of his death was rheumatism
of the heart.
Clarence Days store at Days mills,
Kennebunkport, was entered by burg
lars Thursday night and clothing and
shoes valued at mole than 500 stolen.
Chairman Bynum states that ne will
20 to New York next week to find suita.
Dle quarters for the headquarters of the
national committee of gold Democracy.
He will remove his family to New York
with the intention of making that city
his permanent home. He will follow the
practice of law in conjunction with his
work as national chairman.
A Philadelphia paper publishes long
story to the effect that 500 men TO fight
in Cuba are being raised in Boston,
Washington and Philadelphia. The men
are to receive $25 month pay, and must
be mericans of good reputation.
d Mrs. VIM. Mckinley. wife Of the Presi-
dent-elect, arrived in Chicago Friday
morning from Canton with her cousins
Mrs Lafayette MoWilliams and Mr.. Nc
Williams. whose guest she will be during
her stay in Chicago.
The supreme court of Missouri has
made the important ruling that tele-
graph company is liable for mistakes
made in the Transmission of the message.
The British government is said to have
seized Clarion island, OF the coast Of
Mexico, for ooaling station.
An unknown man. aged about 30 years.
was run over and killed on the Boston
& Maine at Madbury. N. H., Thursday.
Ii is thought that the mau's name was
Bellefuer and that he belonged in Haver-
hill, Mass.
The sudden recall of Minister An
drade to Caracas, gave rise to the rumor
that the Venezuelan treaty may be re-
pudiated. Neither Secretary Olney nor
the British ambassador anticipated any
serious embarrassment in the negotia-
tions arising from the delay In Minister
Andrade's return and the somewhat
venomous attack upon the proposed treaty
oy Senior Thomas Miohelena.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
Sad Blow to the Populists.

Massilon, Ohio, December Ill. S.
Coxey has issued an open letter to Sen.
ator Marion Butler, denouEcinR the dis.
graoed Peoples party which sold out to
an tissue so Insignificant IS silver. y
He adds: 81 decline to help chase the
rainbows of election frauds in Ohio. but
hereby announce my resignation rs q
member of she national committee.
once left the Democratic party and now
find that in order to be OUT Of it for sure,
I must leave the once grand, but now dis
graced peoples party. This is done in
deep sorrow and with hops to join q
party to which the repu blic must look
for aid from it's finan cial distresses. [
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12
Civil Service Reform League.

Philadelphia, Deoember 1.-THE civil
service reform bagun this afternoon
defeated the report Of the committee on
resolutions. The report criticizes the
platform of the Democratic party and
refers to the RESULT of the election as an
ignominious defeat for that party. 1t
makes reference to the annuallySinoreas-
ing number of classified positions under
the civil service annd expresses the hope
that the incoming administration will
adopt the plan Of appointing persons to
office according TO their fitness and in ao-
cordancs with civil service
The report further states that the
league hopes no fourth class postmasters
will be removed, except for cause and
recommends the adoption of these saluta-
tory measures at the beginning OF the
n ew administration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-12

Present Conditions Do Not ustify the Oid
Observation-Disclosures Against Protect
ing Sugar-Woolen Schedule Will Be
Made Satisfactory to Manufacturers.
4 Washington, December lie modef-
ate measure" Ia the Characterization
which leading Republicans OF the douse
give to the new tariff bill it is purposed
to frame this winter in anticipation OF
the extra session Of Congress. 1t Is ex-
planned that what is desired is Dill
which will provide sufficient revenue to
cover the deficit now existing, furnishing
proper protection to home industries. 1t
is pointed out that the conditions have
considerably changed since the MCKINLEY
bill became law and that the rates of
duties that were justified then are un-
necessary at present.
1t is stated for example that the tin
plate industry. which was enormously
stimulated by the duty of two cents a
pound imposed in the Mckinley law, is
now so well established that return to
the former rate is unnecessary.
The sugar schedule promises to cause
more embarrassment than any other in
the bill. Some of the Republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee
say that three states which produce
sugar Louisiana, Texas and Nebraska,
gavs their vote last month to Mr.. Bryan
and this, in connection with the position
the members of Congress. from Louisiana
and Texas have always taken with re-
spect to the taliff will be, it is asserted,
a strong influence against protecting this
industry any further than the necessi-
ties of the case require.
The agricultural schedule will proba-
bly, be fixed at the former rates of duty.
The wooden schedule it Is said, will re-
oeive sufficient protection to justify
the manufacturers. The cotton, steel and
iron schedules are not likely to be
changed. Ths present advallorem sys-
tenn will be changed TO system of speci-
ic duties. The bill. it is said, will con-
tain provision that goods in bonds,
shall when taken out. pay the rate of
duty in force and not the lower rate ut
which they were originally brought to
this country. Arrangement will be made
whereby date Will be assigned to
certain interests to be heard, Sc there
may be some systematic method Of CIV
ing the hearings without embarrass-
menf.