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The leader., 1897-02-03
TO SHUT OUT COxEY.
Populist Editors VIII Hold a Meeting
Kansas City-The Object.

Populist Editors VIII Hold Meeting in
Kansas City-The Object.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 30.-Rumors of still
further split in the ranks of the popu-
list party were verified last night when
A. Rozelle, secretary and treasurer of
the National Reform Press association,
issued numerously signed call for
meeting at Kansas City, Mo-, Febru-
airy %. This meeting will be in direct
opposition to one which President Van
dervoort has called for the same date
at Memphis, Tenn. Following the call
is statement that the present Nation
al Reform Press association has dimin-
ished in membership until it has ceased
to be representative body and is
run by men who have been repudi-
ated by the party. This last is taken
to be side shot at CoXey, and it is
limited that the main purpose of the
Kansas City meeting is to shut out the
Massillon reformer. When Coxey was
here some weeks ago with his trump
convention" he adjourned it to meet
again in Memphis, February %. The
Rozelle party claims following of 90
per cent. of the populist editors and in
sinuates that if Coxey goes to Memphis
he will meet another frost.
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Goff and the Cabinet.
BRADSTREET'S REPORT.
A Falling OFF in General Trade Owing to
the Gold " Observation-Disclosures.

Falling or in General Trade Owing to
the Cold Observation-Disclosures.
New YORK, Jan. 30.-Bradstreet's
report says to-day:
There has been q falling off in general trade,
owing to the heavy fall of snow and cold
weather. There is moderate increase in the
distribution of heavy winter goods but COM
mercial travellers very generally report buyers
as even more conservative than earlier in the
month, and that wholesale trading in January,
except in the lines specified, is smaller than for
years Mercantile collections are interrupted,
and the improvement looked for in iron and
steel is not in sight.
The most favorable feature of the business
week is the sudden and sharp falling off in the
total number of business failures in the United
States, the aggregate being 326 as compared
with 429 last week, a decrease of lC2. When
compared with the corresponding week of 1895
this weeks falling off is e., but there is an in
1895. Contrasted with the like period in 1894,
there have been IA fewer failures this week
than three years ago.
There have been increased sales of hides and
leather; in some instances of shoes, of coal fer
tilizers and southern pig iron for export
The downward movement of prices for some
of the more important staples continues con-
spicuous, notably for -four, wheat, oats, lard,
coffee, petroleum, turpentine and tin plate.
Quotations for Indian corn, pork, sugar, cotton
and print cloths are practically unchanged
Concessions have been made in prices for iron
and steel, yet quotations are nomina1y un-
changed
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m THE STATED

Horace have become SO cheap 4, N
parts Of Missouri that a two-ve.,s,
colt Of good pedigree sold at auction =.
Rich Hill for SEE. ~
The keen political discriminatior -.
Q Todd county (Ky.) turkey vo.
learned after its death when a McK,n,s,.
button was found in its crop.
Pending the adoption of plan 70 Az.
pose of impounded and unredeemsd
dogs at Macon. Ga, by electricity an.
experiment has been made upon r.ts
II was successful.
Pumpkin pie for the season Is assured
In Mercer county, Ky, where 64-pound
pumpkin was grown. Its circumfer.
ence was Eve feet and eight inches.
For stealing from a deaf mute car.
pcnter some of the tools of his trade
another deaf mute, against whom threa
others of the silent people testified
has been sent to jail at Kansas City.
Instead of his usual Sunday 'eveninr
sermons, a clergyman of Chapman
Kan, is reading to his congregation a
continued story, entitled: Jake, tho
Merchant" which he wrote himself.
After a long and luxurious yawn ono
morning q westwood (Mich.) man
couldn't close HRS mouth. His law had
been dislocated. He was so frightened
that since 1t was set he doesn't dare
even to smile broadly.
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EUROPEAN elMETALusrs.
French, German and English Experts on
the Outlook.

French, German and English Experts on
the Outlook.
LONDON, Jan. so.-The February
number of the National Review will
contain an important review of the BIZ
metallic situation in Europe by the
leaders of the movement In England,
France and Germany, and arranged
especially in view of the visit to Europe
Of Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, who
is now in Paris. Edmund dArters,
secretary of the French Bimetallic
league, contributes a careful article on
the situation and the steady growth of
Nle movement in France. In it he de-
clares that there is no doubt that the
French government and a great major
ity of the French parliament are in
favor of bimetallism.
DIR. Otto Arendt, member of the
reichstag and of the Prussian diet,
honorary secretary of the German BIZ
metallic league, declares that only En-
gland blocks the way. Germany, he
adds, will participate in a conference
called by any other power.
Lord Alderman, who is a director of
the Bank of England, thinks that the
month of March will enable Mr.. Nc
Kinley to carry out the st. Louis pro-
gramme in regard to bimetallism and
concludes with remarking: There is
no doubt that France and the United
States, by agreeing together, could
themselves maintain bimetallic law,
but for greater certainty and con-
fidence it would be reasonable that they
should ask for English and German CO
nnarafin y
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CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

ITALIAN laborers will take the place
of negroes on the Texarkana & Fort
Smith railroad.
On the night of the 30th snow fell all
over north, east and west Texas, vary
ing in depth from three to twelve inches.
Two fires occurred in Hoboken, n. j.,
on the 31st which resulted in the loss Of
seven lives.
BAILEY Edison and Lowell White
sides had fight in Franklin, KY, on
the 31st and Edison will die. White
sides is dead
SENATOR LODGE expects to secure con-
sideration of the conference report on
the immigration bill during the week.
AN English syndicate is reported to
have bought out number OF Cincinnati
breweries.
WABAsEKA, a small town on the Cot
ton Belt railroad, near Pine Bluff, was
destroyed by fire on the 3lst.
BANK clearings for the United States
last week were 10 per cent greater than
the same week last year.
THE Nevada prize-fght law has been
signed and Messrs. Corbett and Fitzsim-
mons will settle their differences there.
DRINK and step-daughter caused
VIM. Cotton of Cleveland, O., to murder
his wife and killed himself on the S0th.
GEORGE f. TURNER, free silver Re-
publican, has been nominated for sena-
tor from Washington.
c. X. RASH, a religious enthusiast,
murdered his wife and children at
Wayne, Neb., on the 3Oth.
LYMAN GAGE has formerly announced
that he will be President McKinley's
secretary of the treasury.
FAILURES the past week have been 3Sl
in the United States. against 404 last
year, and 81 in Canada, against 20 last
year.
WALTER WINTERS and Doc Smith,
who, with six other section men, we're
on handcar near Balls. w. Va, on the
Roanoke division of the Norfolk g.
Western road, were instantly killed by
collision with a passenger train, on
the 9th, which suddenly appeared
around curve.
The house committee on labor on the
27th authorized a favorable report on .
bill to prohibit the employment of
prison labor on government buildings.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.


THE Kansas City Live Stock exchange
adopted a resolution on the Goth
strongly urging Secretary Coburn, of
the Kansas state board of agriculture,
for secretary of agriculture in Presi-
dent McKinley's cabinet.
PREsTDENT-ELEcr MCKINLEY has writ
ten letter to the committee having
charge of the arrangements for the
inaugural ball deprecating the expen-
diture of $50, 900 on the affair in the
face of the hard times and suggesting
that SIS, 900 of the amount be devoted
to alleviating the wretchedness in the
great cities of the United States. sf5.-
600 to relieve the horrors of the plague
and famine in India and $40, 900 to pro-
vide food and shelter for the prosecuted
Armenians.
THE National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation had a heated debate at their
convention in Des Moines, Ia, on the
2sth about a proposition for a plan of
work. At the afternoon session the
following officers were reelected:
President, Susan b. Anthony; vice
president-at-large Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw, Philadelphia; corresponding sec
rotary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, Phil
adelphia.
HENRY HETTFELD, was on the 2Sth
elected United States senator at Boise,
Ida, to succeed Senator Dubois. The
vote stood: Heitfeld, SO; Dubois, 30; T.
+. Nelson, 1. Heitfeld was born in st.
Louis and lived at Seneca, Kan, from
1870 to 1882.
| CnNfDrpnrr TT e he f,ao
department, on the 2sth gave his views
upon the financial condition of the
country to the house committee on
banking and currency, several bills
introduced by members of the house
having been referred to him for his
Judgment.
LYMAN j. GAGE, of Chicago, visited
Maj. Mckinley at Canton, o., on the
2sth. Mr.. Gage was rendered the port
| folio of the treasury department at
Washington and accepted it.
THE semi-centennial of the New York
Academy of Medicine was celebrated
on the Goth, President Cleveland MAX
ing the principal address.
| A DISPATCH to the New York Sun on
the Goth stated that the Cuban insur-
gents were fighting near Havana, an
engagement having taken place few
days ago at Managua in which they de-
feated the Spanish troops and captured
a great quantity of guns and ammuni-
ton.
GEN RUSSELL A. ALGER visited Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley at Canton, o., on
the Goth and was formally offered the
secretaryship of war in the incoming
administration and he accepted it.
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THEY USED DYNAMITE.
A Train in Oregon Held Up and the Express
Car Looted and Burned.


PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 30.-The north
bound overland train, which left San
Francisco Wednesday and was due
here yesterday, was held up two
miles west of Roseburg, Ore, early
yesterday morning. Fireman Hendricks
slipped from the engine and ran to
Roseburg and gave the alarm. Then,
arming himself, he started back to the
scene of the trouble. superintendent
Fields, of the Southern Pacific road, who
was at Roseburg, quickly gathered
posse of dozen armed men and
started for the scene on an engine.
Heavy explosions of dynamite or pow
der were distinctly heard at Roseburg
during the progress of the hold-up.
When the officers arrived it was found
that the express car had been looted
and burned. No one was hurt and the
highwaymen succeeded in making their
escape. The explosions set fire to the
express car, and when the robbers left
it was mass of flames.
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Chief Justice Calhoun,

Chief Justice Thomas II. Woods is
still too i'll to leave his room, and there
is no prospect that he will be able at
any time soon to take part in the DELHI
erations Of the court On this account
Gov. McLaurin has appointed Judge S.
S. Calhoun to take his place on the
bench till he RECEIVERS. There are sew
eral cases pending before the court
which it is important should be dis
posed of as speedily as possible. Judge
Calhoon is one of the ablest lawyers of
the State and his appointment will give
universal satisfaction,
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EXCITED GOOD FEELING.
The Effect of Speech by President Cleve'
land to New York Doctors.

The Effect of Speech by President Cleve-
land to New York Doctors.
New YORK, Jan. 30.-The occasion of
the celebration of the semi-centennial
of the New York Academy of Medicine
at Carnegie hall last night was made
suspicious by the presence of Presi-
dent Cleveland. The president was in
vited to attend the celebration by DR..
Joseph ID. Bryant, who is president of
the academy, and also Mr.. Cleveland's
private physician. Carnegie hall was
taxed beyond its capacity by the
doctors and their guests long
before the exercises of the evening were
begun. On the stage and in the audi
ence We're many leading physicians
from all over the United States. The
feature of the entertainment of the
evening was, of course, the address of
President Cleveland, which excited con-
siderable merriment and good feeling.
The leader., 1897-02-03
No-To-Rac for FIFTY Cents.

lT always takes girl an awfully long
time to learn to ride bicycle when some
handsome young man is teaching her.
The leader., 1897-02-03
MeIt0n VIII Re Freed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3O.-The prisoners
of the Competitor, who have been Ian
gushing in Cuban prisons, are to be
Internationally released, by order of
the Spanish government. Aside from
the general interest attaching to this
information, it possesses a decidedly
local flavor for Kansas people, as one
of the prisoners, Owen Melton, halls
from the Sunhower state.
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Gov. Sadier Signed the Bill.

CARSON, New, Jan. 30.-Gov. Sadler
signed the glove contest bill yesterday
afternoon, thus insuring the Fitzsim-
mons-Corbett fight for Nevada. Carson
and Reno are now bidding for selec-
son and, it is safe to say, nearly the
whole western portion of Nevada, is
all excitement, and all one can hear on
the streets is talk of the proba bilities
of Corbett and Fitzsimmons coming to
Nevada to settle the worlds champion
ship,
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MARKED progress has been made In
the framing of the new tariff law. An
effort will be made to report the bill
to the house within a very few days
after the meeting of the special ses-
sion. Excessive foreign importations
in advance of the increase of duties
will be checked so far as possible by
two devices. One will provide that
goods in warehouse when the new
bill takes effect shall become immedi-
ately subject to the duties then in force.
The other device for limiting importa-
tions is to get the bill upon the statute
book as quickly as possible.
The leader., 1897-02-03
Independence or Death.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Referring to the
report that Spain was about to eoncede
home rule measure to the Cuban in
surgents, Thomas Estrada Palma, of
the Cuban junta, said yesterday: I'm
conditional and absolute independence
is all that Cuba will ever accept from
Spain. If she cannot have it she pre-
fers determination. 1t is scarcely
worth while to discuss home rule
proposition. 1t has not been made,
and if it should be it will receive no
consideration at our hands"
The leader., 1897-02-03

GEORGIA is the banner state of the
blacks, having colored population of
s5s, 1896 to a white population of 97S, 35T;
Mississippi is second, with a colored
population of 744, 749 and 544, 1851 whites;
South Carolina is third, with $50, 141
colored people and 462, 00s whites; Ala
bama, fourth, with colored population
of 679, 800 and 1884, whites, and Vir-
ginia fifth, with 6S5, s5s colored people
and /. O20. 122 whites.
The leader., 1897-02-03

The moon rotates on its axis in ex-
actly the same period that it revslves
around the earth.
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BUYING UP MINES.
The Rothschilds Said to Be Investing Hea
lily in Western Mining Property.

lily in Western Mining Property.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The 'Tomboy"
mine, of Colorado, was formally bought
yesterday by the Rothschilds, of Lon
don. The price given was $1,000, 900.
The purchasing agent was the Explora-
ton Co., of London, which is the name
of the mining branch of the Roths-
childs investment bureau. Within two
years that same buyer has invested
nearly $50, 900, 600 in American mining
property. A conspicuous purchase was
that of the Anaconda copper mine, of
which the first quarter was taken at
81, 800, 900. Then came another quarter
interest at $4,000, 900, and finally the
entire issue of 100000 was secured for
a total of So. 900 600
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TWO REPORTERS KILLED..
Two Steamships on the Mississippi Collide
with Disastrous Results.


with Disastrous Results.
New ORLEANS, Jan. cat 1896
o'clock yesterday morning collision
occurred in the river about II miles
above the quarantine station, between
the steam yacht Argo and the fruit
steamship Albert Dumois, in which the
yacht had her bow stove in and sank
within very few minutes after the
accident. How the accident occurred
and who was to blame for it the courts
will most probably be called upon to
decide. Messrs. Hester and Blassini
are missing and their fate is doubtless
sealed. They were well known and
popular reporters on the Picayune.
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Capital Seeking Investment.

Gov. McLaurin has received the fol-
lowing letter from Albert L. Rice, New
York City: mo doubt you are in
terested in the development of your
State. l can furnish you one-half OF
the capital necessary to build long lines
of railroads, where itcan be shown that
they would BIO good paying roads. When
companies can raise one-half of the
money can furnish the other half"
The leader., 1897-02-03
McComb city to Have an Ice Factory

Arrangements have been made to
build an ice factory at McComb City
with a capacity of twenty-five tons
daily. 1t is expected to be in working
order by March Is. This factory is
being put in to supply the trade along
the Illinois Central Railroad fifty miles
above and below McComb City at tho
very lowest prices.
The leader., 1897-02-03
FACTS AND FIGURES.

In Italy there are more theaters in
proportion to the population than in
any other country.
Insurance companies claim that
bicycling is more dangerous than trav-
cling either by rail or ship.
OF the gold coins now in circulation
in England only very small proper
tion bear date earlier than 1879.
Russia has the most rapidly increas-
ing population of any country on earth.
The growth of the last 100 years has
been a fraction less than 100000 an
nually.
The largest orchard in Great Britain is
at Tottington, in the county of Glouces-
ter. 1t is 500 acres in extent, and
some seasons it yields its owner, Lord
Sudiey. profit of $4,000. Apples and
plums are raised there chiefly.
OF the 274,9lo Hungarian gypsies
enumerated in the last census 243, 432
arc. described as sedentary, 90, 406 as
semisedentary and only s .93s as nomadic,
while 2, 164 are either soldiers or in jail.
All profess some form of Christianity
and 1900 are professional musicians.
The moon rotates on its axis in ex-
actly the same period that it revelves
around the earth.
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THE aggregate amount of money
given by private individuals to Amer
lean educational and religious institu-
tions, to charities, libraries, hospitals,
museums, etc, during 1896 was S33, CO.,
1870. This shows gain of $4,000, 900
over 1895, and $4,000, 900 over 1894.
This showing only tells a part OF the
whole story of the giving of the year,
for it takes no account of the gifts less
than 81, 900. Colleges received one-half
of the whole sum, or $40, 900, 900, and
the charities came next, receiving $10,-
z ann nm
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Prof1ting by Experience.

We feel satisfied that the farmers of
this county have profited by experience
they have had in the past four years,
and will follow the safo plan of plant
ing plenty of corn, potatoes and other
food crops, which will make themrprac-
tically independent of the variable con-
ditions of the cotton market. Farmers
should now realize that in case there
should be a large cotton crop made tn
year that prices must necessarily be
lower than at present, and it is within
the range of possibilities that cotton
will fail to have market value
Meadyille Advocate.
The leader., 1897-02-03

THE most expensive work that ever
was published in the world is the Off
cial history of the civil war, which is
now issued by the government of the
United States at cost up to date Of
81, 1874, s2s 1t will take three years
longer and an appropriation of per-
haps $780, 200 to complete the work, SO
that the total cost undou btedly will
reach S3, 900, 900. 1t will consist of liz
volumes, including an index and atlas,
containing 17s plates and maps, illus
trating the important battles of the
war, campaigns, routes of march, plans
of forts and photographs of scenes and
rarsonS
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800 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura-
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure
Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j. CHENEY Il Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 15c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
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GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER.
The Michigan Man Win Be McKin-
ley's Secretary of War.
The Announcement Made After Confer
ence mt Canton-He Was = Noted Gener-
al, Governor of His state and Candi-
date for PresIcient-Brief sketch.

CANTON, o., Jan. so.-'1 have been
rendered and have accepted the war
portfolio" Thus spoke Gen. Russell A.
Algcr, of Michigan, to the Associated
press representative yesterday after
noon. The general had just emerged
from the south parlor, which is the
conference room while Mrs. Mckinley
is out of the city. He and Maj. Me-
Kinley had just completed the inter-
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Daughter Dead and Mother III

ATcHIsoN, Kan, Jan. 30.-Miss Cora
Badger died at Mnscotah, Atchison
county, yesterday of blood poisoning.
Mrs w. p. Badger contracted blood
poisoning while waiting en- her
daughter, and is not expected TO live.
The family is widely known in this
section
The leader., 1897-02-03
Columbus Lighted by Electricity.

For the first time in her history Co.
lumbus was lighted by electricity last
week, and simultaneously there flashed
from the forty arc lamps which had been
placed throughout the city light which
cannot be surpassed in brilliancy and
quality by any city in the South.
The leader., 1897-02-03

THERE are going to be some remark
able features of the big inauguration
parade in Washington March A, and
one OF them will be the appearance in
line of the Allegheny County Six-Foot-
ers' club of Pittsburgh, Pa. Every one
of the 100 members of this organization
is at least six feet tall, and some of
them are veritable giants. They will
be equipped with full dress uniforms.
The leader., 1897-02-03

A FEATURE of the inaugural parade
Mt Washington will be a band of In
dams in their full regalia. The idea,
which was first suggested by the civic
committee, has received the approval
of Grand Marshal Porter. The feature
is expected to be extremely interesting
and picturesque, as the Indians will
march in their own distinctive dress,
with all the paint and ornaments they
wear on gala occasions.
The leader., 1897-02-03

STATISTICS recently published by the
Spanish government show that out of
100000 inhabitants s,727,51 persons
are not engaged in any business.
Many of this class have been supported
by the enormous taxation levied on the
colonies. The number employed in ag-
riculture is but 4,033, 491, of whom $780,
600 are women. There are 9, 104, 470 illit-
crates in Spain and 81, 227 mendicants.
The leader., 1897-02-03

In his report to the Smithsonian
regents Secretary Langley claims to
have practically solved the problem of
aerial navigation. He says he has
reached measure of success which
justifies him in stating that mechanical
flight has now been attained. On May
Is last mechanism, built chiefly of
steel and driven by steam engine
made two flights of over half mile.
Since that time this result has been
nearly doubled. In each case there
was no support from gas. The ma
chine was 1000 or more times heavier
than the air in which it WIS made to
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