i .. i a ABILENE REFIECTOE -- PUBLISHED B- Y- REFLT.CTOS PUBLISHING COMPAHI CURRENT COMMENT. It is reported from Berne. Switzer- land, that Germany has revoked the recognition of Swiss neutrality. Fkost visited the low grounds about Galena, I1L, on the morning of the 1st and damaged growing vegetation. Ikforjiatiox from Vienna is to the effect that a secret treaty has been agreed to between Russia and Den- mark. King Humbert suddenly closed the Italian Chamber on the 2d. This act was believed to be the prelude to a general election. Articles of incorporation for a new air line road from Fort Wayne, Ind., to Chicago have been filed with the Indianapolis Secretary of State. The Royal Grants bill has passed the committee stage in the British House of Commons, all amendments being rejected by large majorities. The lead mines in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, are shutting down, owing to the imposition by the United States Government of duties on lead ores. Ax order has been issued making men forty years old ineligible as letter carriers in towns. This limit does not apply to war veterans. The President has turned over the papers applying for a pardon for E. L. Harper, who wrecked the Fidelity Bank, of Cincinnati, to the Attorne--Genera- l for examination. Two children belonging to the wife of one of the locked-o- ut miners died at Spring Valley, 111., the other day. The physician who attended them pro- nounced it a clear case of starvation. It is reported that a syndicate of wealthy men, most of them Chicago-an- s, are making preparations to pipe natural gas from Indiana, where they have secured 60,000 acres of land, to Chicago. The customs authorities at Mont-rea- l. Can., have placed a seizure on the painting, "Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifixion." on exhibition at the Cyclorama. The picture is valued at $25,000. The British Columbia River Gold Dredging Company has been registered in London with a capital of 40,000 in order to purchase Gibson's right to dredge for gold in forty-fiv- e miles of Frazer river. An American company is preparing to open extensive iron mines in the island of Cuba and is certain that they will be a grand success. The scheme includes a harbor and a breakwater near the mines. The Bancroft mills at Media. Pa., whose product was handled by Lewis Bros. & Co., the bankrupt dry goods merchants of Philadelphia, have been seized by the sheriff and advertised to be sold at auction. The work of tearing down the old State House at New Haven, Conn., commenced recently. About 5,000 per- sons witnessed the demolition, many of whom expressed regrets at the dis- appearance of so interesting a land- mark. Consul-Gexer- al Card-well- , of Cairo, Egypt, warns the State Depart- ment that an extensive trade in Egyp- tian rags with the United States is rendered particularly dangerous by the prevalence of small-po- x in Lower Egypt. Sexeca Sevalix, who caused Mrs. Clara Belle McDonald's divorce from her husband, the son of the president of the Pacific Bank of San Francisco, and then robbed her of $20,000, has been sent to the California peniten- tiary for ten years. The report that Queen Victoria was considering a trip to America has neither been denied nor affirmed. The fact that the Queen now is inclined toward visiting Ireland and that the rumored trip to America has not been denied, is creating much talk through- out the Kingdom. However, nothing has been yet announced. There were two peculiar runaway weddings celebrated at Chattanooga, Tenn., the other day. One of them was the marriage of William Lecroix, aged seventy-si- x years, and Louisa Bluck, only fourteen years old. In the other case the couple were Jackson Slevins, aged sixty-fiv- e, and Emma Haynes, sixteen years of age. They had never met until the day previous. All the parties wero members of well known and highly respected families. The State Department is in receipt of an exhaustive report on Russian agriculture and the cereal trade from Charlton H. Way, United States ral at St- - Petersburg. He says the export of cereals from Russia 'in the past two years shows an ab- normal increase, due to three causes first, the enormous crop gathered from both the black lands and arable prairies; second, the depreciation of the paper rouble; and, third, the foolish practice of systems of "cor- ners" in the United States. The Boston Herald devotes nearly four columns to an account of the career in Boston of the man known in New York as A. Bentley Worthington, who was taken by Mrs. Plunkett, the Christian scientist, as her so-call- ed husband. It says that while pretend-!'In- g to practice as a lawyer in Boston, he swindled many persons, and a re- ward for his arrest has been outstand- ing for four years. He is wanted for forgery, larceny and other offenses. He had for aliases the names of Wood, Walton, Bouver, Barrington, Ward and others. NEWSOP THEWEEK. Gleaned "by Telegraph and Mail PERSOXAI. AXD POLITICAL. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has received a report from Malacbi Krebs, a special agent of the Interior Depart- ment to allot lands in severalty to the In- dians upon the Devil's late reservation in Northern Dakota, announcing the refusal of the Indians to receive the allotments as contemplated in the General Allotment act of 18S7. Governor Francis, of St Louis, re- cently denied emphatically that he went to New York for the purpose of selling the Merchants' bridge to Jay Gould. The President has designated General McFeely to act as Secretary of War dur- ing the absence of Secretary Proctor. General Schofield has directed the commander of the division of the Pacific to take such action as may be necessary to protect settlers near Callspeld, "Wash- ington Territory, from the Indian out- break threatened there. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, has honored the requisition of the Gov- ernor of South Carolina for Rev. E. F. Flemon, the colored preacher accused of a murder in 1884. Sullivan, the pugilist, was arrested at New York on the 31st on a requisition from the Governor of Mississippi, ap- proved by the Governor of New York. Secretary Tracy has cabled Admiral Gherardi at St. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, to rescue three American sailors left on an uninhabited guano island called Arenas Key. Captain L. Duvarge, who shot Con- sular Agent V. F. M. Stanwood at Ana-kad- e, Madagascar, last November, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. The remains of General Lazare Carnot, grandfather of the President of the French Republic, have been exhumed at Magdeburg, Germany, where they were buried. They will be reinterred in the Paris Pantheon. The body was found in a wonderful state of preservation. The United States Senate Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands in the "West commenced its labors at St. Paul, Minn., on the 1st Those present were Senators Stewart, of Nevada, and Reagan, of Texas; Colonel Hinton, of the geological survey, and Major Powell. Evaristo Carazo, President of Nica- ragua, is dead. The island of Crete is reported to be in a state of anarchy as the result of tho present uprising. The Emperor of Germany arrived at Dover, England, on tho 1st. Lieutenant Tappenbeck, the African explorer, has fallen a victim to fever. In the "Washington Territory Constitu- tional convention the clause forbidding counties to grant subsidies for any pur- pose whatever was adopted. The Shah of Persia visited Buffalo Bill's "Wild "West show In Paris and was much interested in the performance. Colonel Canaday, sergeant-at-arm- s of the United States Senate, who bad been in Alaska with a Senate committee, is ly- ing quite ill in Montana. The President returned to "Washington on the 1st. The Puyallup Indians, of "Washington Territory, a tribe well advanced in educa- tion and intelligence, have senta memorial to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs asking for severalty. In a ukase the Czar of Russia has ap- proved the late Count Tolstoi's reform policy. England has annexed the Union and Phoenix groups of islands in the Pacific ocean. MISCELLANEOUS. "William Schick and Mrs. Hannah Becker were killed and Henry Pfistner was fatally injured in Louisville, Ky., re- cently while trying to cross a track in front of a train. McKean&Appleton, shoe manufactur- ers at Salem, Mass., have made an assign- ment with $75,000 liabilities. Twenty-fiv- e seamen of the bark Little Ohio, of New Bedford, Mass., perished when that vessel was wrecked in the Behring sea, October 3, last year. The remaining eight survivors were brought to Alaska by the Thetis. Advices from Assouan state that the advance of the dervishes is continuous, though slow. A skirmish had occurred between Egyptian patrols and dervish outposts, during which sixty dervishes were killed. Heavy rains were reported in Pennsyl- vania and Virginia on the 30th and 31st Overflowing rivers and creeks caused the stoppage of many mills and the derange- ment of railroad travel. The will of the late Charlemagne Tower has been admitted to probate at Philadel- phia. He leaves all his estate in trust for bis family. His estate is said to be worth many millions of dollars. Cholera is reported as prevailing at Bessarabia. The Indians at Mille Lac, Minn., re- ceived fresh consignments of firewater from Mora and Little Falls last week, and the result was a big drunk. Three were reported dead. The Journeymen Plumbers. Gas and Steam Fitters' Laborers' Union has de- cided to sever its connection with the Knights of Labor. This means the deser- tion of about 15,000 men from the ranks of that organization. A double execution took place at Louis- ville, Ky., on the 31st. Charles Dilger was hanged for the murder of two police- men and Harry Smart for the murder of a man and woman while going down the river in a boat Dilger's execution was bungled, the noose slipping, necessitating his being dropped twice through the trap. Seven shipwrecked Norwegian sailors have beeu picked ud by the steamer Niag- ara and landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico. The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passenger train was wrecked at Oxford, O., on the night of the 31st Twelve or fourteen persons were killed and injured. The Spanish Government has advised the Pope that in case he finds it necessary to leave Rome he should find asylum in Portugal. It is understood that the same advice has been given to the Pope by Austria. A harmless earthquake shock was felt in California on the morning of the 31st Dr. G. M. Cantrell, physician of the Arkansas penitentiary, assert that Jim Burrows, the Genoa train robber, died in the prison hospital October 5, 1833, of typho-malari- al fever. Lack of water caused a boiler explosion east of Fairfield. III., the other day. One man was killed and two fatally injured. The Sierras and Milton stage was stopped by two highwaymen near Cooper-oli- s, CaL "Wells, Fargo & Ca's safe was blown open, but found to contain nothing. Seventy-fiv- e dollars taken from the pas- sengers was all the robbers secured. The memorial commemorating the land- ing of the Pilgrims was dedicated at Plymouth, Mass., on the 1st. The July sanitary reports to the Marine Hospital Service from Philadelphia and Chicago show that the latter leads the former in popoulation and is the second city in the Union. The population is placed as follows: Chicago, 1,100,000; Philadelphia, 1,040.245. The Richmond (Va.) railroad stables were struck by lightning the other day and burned. Sixty mules and horses and seven street cars wero consumed. The New York Graphic is again in trouble. Reporters and clerks are clamor- ing for salaries. A syndicate, headed by Steve B. Elkins, was supposed to own it The public debt statement, issued August L showed an increase during July of $1,Q17,313.5L Tho cause of the increase was due principally to pension payments. The "National Bureau of Engraving." of Philadelphia, a large lithographic printing establishment, is hopelessly in- volved. Its material has been ordered for sale. There was a cloudburst at "Watkins Glen, N. Y., on the 1st The Algerian, a merchant vessel, sunk at Aulrsville, Ont, the other day. The crew and passengers were saved. The rainfall in the Pennsylvania coal regions was very heavy recently and a number of collieries were compelled to shut down. The strpams were greatly swollen and the majority of the collieries in the Mahoning valley were drowned out Five hundred striking Italian railroad laborers near Pittsburgh, Pa., recently engaged in a riot Two were killed. Snow storms and icy rains prevail throughout Switzerland and the streams are beyond their banks. Kansas City won a ball game at Balti- more on the 1st The Chicago world's fair committee held a meeting recently and elected Mayor Cregier president Two hundred representative men were present and an executive committee was appointed. TqE Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Company has voluntarily increased the wages of its puddlers fifty-fiv- e cents a day. The treasure, footing up about $200,000, lost on the steamer Granada off the west- ern coast of Mexico, has been recovered. It is reported that cattle are dying at the rate of forty or fifty a day from splenetic fever in the Texas Panhandle. "W. J. Johnson & Co., leather dealers of Boston, have assigned with 555,000 direct and $170,000 contingent liabilities. The assets are said to be ample. Abraham Finkbone, aged twenty-si- x, accused of arson, hanged himself in the jail at Reading, Fa., the other night The latest effort of Ives and Staynor, the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail- road manipulators, to secure release from the New York jail has failed. Eleven business houses in Fennville, Mich., were destroyed by fire the other night causing 35,000 loss. A tramp's carelessness was the cause. Two cases of giant powder exploded in pit No. 6 at Marquette, Mich., recently. Two men and three boys were killed. "Workmen succeeded in opening the gate of the Feltvillo dam near Plaiufield N. J., which had been closed for years with weeds, etc., and the threatened danger of a break of the embankment was passed. A passenger train left the rails on the South Park (Col.) railroad and fell down an embankment The engineer was killed and the fireman was seriously hurt. Sev- eral passenger were injured. A cloubburst on the 1st did consider- able damage at "Watkins G!en. N. Y. A railroad deal was reported by the Chicago Times by which the Chicago & Alton would purchase or lease the old Kansas Pacific track to Cheyenne. It was not thought likely, however, by the gen- eral public that the Union Pacific would lose control of its terminal at Kansas City. Mandan, Dak., was devastated by fire on the afternoon of the 2d. Treasurer Coleman, recently default- ing in "Warren County, O., is 63,000 short. Rev. Sam Sharpe, a colored preacher, of Lebanon, Ky., ha-- : boon killed for liv- ing with another man's wife. A quarrel over a hog worth 2 has caused an armed feud between the Smiths and Slushers near Pineville, Ky. Business failures (Dun's report) for tho soven days ended August 1 numbered 210, compared with 216 the previous week and 216 the corresponding week of last year. About a third of the coke workers of tho Connellsville region in Pennsylvania are on a strike for higher wages. The miners of Durham, Eng., have voted by a majority of one to accept the 10 per cent advance offered by the mine owners. News from Gunnison, Col., recently was that the Utes wero off their reservation and were intimidating settlors. The price of "The Angelus" 5S0,650 francs has been paid to the French Min- ister of Fine Arts, and Millet's picture will soon be brought to America. Several European artists expressed the opinion that the picture was any thing but the grand work of art as generally thought. A south-boun- d train on the Delaware & Hudson went through nn open switch at Kenwood Junction, N. Y , recently. Thomas Conniff, a passenger, was killed and five persons were more or less injured. Solicitor Scott, of the Pennsylvan.a road, denies that the company has insti- tuted pioceedings against the South Fork Fishing dub, of Pittsburgh, for damages caused by the Conemaugh floods. C M. Hull, editor of the Bolivar Coun- ty Democrat atRosedale, Miss., was killed the other day by L. A. "Weissinger, editor of the Bolivar County Review, at that place. The Review was lately established and the two editors had engaged in a bit- ter personal warfare in their respective columns. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES. Genliial Guenfell with hi Egyptian forces met the invading dervishes at Toski on the 01, killing and wounding 1,500. including the chief, capturing 1,000 and driving theremainder into the desert Felix Piatt, the famous French Com- munist, died at Paris on the 4th. The Black Diamond sealer, recently seizid in the Behring sea, arrived at Vic- toria, B. C. on the 3d. The commander of the Rush put on a seaman with orders to take her to Sitka, but the captain of the Black Diamond took no notice of his au- thority mid made for a British port. TnE United States cruiser Boston, one of the finest of the new ships, was run upon a rock neir Newport, R L, recently and a hole knocked in her bottom. She was kept afloat bx her watsr-tig- ht com- partments. Fred Allen and Marcus Howe, two of a pleasure boating party, were drowned the other afternoon near Pembroke, Mass. Henry Beight was cut to pieces by a reaper near Fort "Wayne, Ind., recently. AN explosion occurred on tho Grand Trunk railroad near Montreal on the night of the 3d. James Rogers, an express agent, was killed and a train or passen- gers narrowly escaped destruction. Many rumors existed that the explosion was the work of dynamiters bent upon destroying the Victoria bridge. John L. Sullivan arrived at Jackson, Miss., on the 4th, where he received an ovation. Governor Lowry was indignant at the way in which the pugilist was re- ceived. Clearing house returns for the week end- ed August 3 showed a decrease compared with the corresponding week of last year. In New York the decrease was 3.L At the Post-offi- ce Department it is learned that since March 4 last of 55 000 fourth class postmasters in the United States nearly 13.000 changes have been made, and of this number 9,000 were re- movals of Democratic officials and ap- pointment of successors. The daily changes now average about 100. A collision on the Virginia Midland at Burleys caused the death of Fireman Fred A. Fox and serious injury of three others. Two other trainmen were missing, sup- posed to be under the wreck. The Emperor of Germany has conferred upon Queen Victoria the command of the First dragoon guards of Berlin and upon the Duke of Cambridge the honorary colonelcy of a regiment of infantry. Prices were firm on the London Stock Exchange during the week ended August 3. American railroad securities were quiet and firm. At Berlin business was active and steady. The Paris Bpurse was quiet, Panama shares not being quoted. The Connellsville coke strike continued to spread. Fifty-fiv- e out of fifty-sev- en plants were banked. Nearly all of McCInre & Ca's works were idle. The Standard and Moorewood men, 1,500, were also out, as were the 500 of Leisenaing. The num- ber of strikers was pat at 11 000. KANSAS STATE NEWS. A company has been formed to reclaim several hundred acres of Ian 1 stolen by the Missouri river at "Wyandotte within the past twenty-fiv-e years. The land is valued at millions of dollars, but there is a hitch in getting Kansas City, Kan., to relinquish her riparian rights. The Atchison Merchants' Exchange had a meeting the other night at which a com- mittee report was adopted recommending that steps be taken to invite' delegates from Missouri river points to meet in that city August 14 to discuss the freight dis- crimination question. A horrible accident occurred at Kan- sas City (Wyandotle) about nine o'clock on the morning of July 9. Hon. Russell B. Armstrong, the former publisher and editor of the Kansas City, Kan., Gazette, attempted to board an east-boun- d "L" train which h'ad gained considerable speed alter starting from the station at Oakland avenue. He missed his foothold I and fell with his legs on the rails. ,p fr. .!. i. i a uuui huccj ui ijjo uui;k Ha&uu uvc; uiiu. crushed the left leg below the knee. His right leg was caught between the brake beam and the rim of the wheel and twist- - ' ed. In this position he was dragged about seventy-fiv- e vards and it was three- - ! quarters of an hour before he could be extricated. "When taken home it was I found necessary to amputate both legs below the knees. Mr. Armstrong is forty-si- x years old and has a lurge family. He has represented "Wyandotte in the Legis lature and been prominently identified ' with the interests of the county all his life. I The Live-Stoc- k Sanitary Board has been considering the question of quaran- - flninn ;...- - ,, Tnrli.n T.mltii.w and Texas in consequence of the reported i outbreak of pleuro-pneumon- ia and fever among cattle in the extreme southwest j part of the State. James Bodkin, a farm hand, work'ng i for John Frame, a wealthy farmer, ten ' miles west of "Wichita, disappeared very mysteriously the other night He was ' sleeping alone in a hous two hundred feet from the main residence, and in the moriins all his clothes were found in his room, but he was missing. Frame owed him for two months' labor, and some days previous offered to pay him. when Bodkin replied that he did not want it yet He recently toid an acquaintance that he feared he would be fol.owed up and killed, not giving reaons for such miscivmg. It was helieved he had boen murdered. J InE Lawrence canning factorv employe L200 hands. Joe Woods and Calvin Sanders, colored, , engaged in a quarrel at Leavenworth the ! other morning over the ownership of c. handkerchief. Both claimed the uandker- - ' fhlfr ivhiph wnc n trnmlv ciltr nns nnn the dispute ended in a fight in which I lVnnc Ar.... i,:r ..,! ,.l,l,.J a.nJ... in the neck, cutting the jugular vein, from ! - which he almost bled to death at the time, i and from the effects of which he would ' not recover. Woods fl"d. During a t storm at Olathe St. Paul's Church (Catholic) was struck by lightning and took tire, but the flames were speedily extinguished. A C. Seldkn. chief clerk in the general office of the Missouri Pacific road at Wich- ita, was recently missing from his d'sk. He was said to bo a defaulter for a large amount A warraut was issued for his arrest charging him with forging a com- pany draft for $4,iO0. It is officially asserted that there is not a case of pleuro-pneumon- ia among cattle in the State. j I The Governor recently pardoned Charles Sweny. of "Wilson County, who was on ""ebruarv 22, 1SS9. convicted of embezzle ( ment and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, on condition that he abstain ', from intoxicating drink for two years, j Sweney is neaily seventy years old and) collected $31) tor a Kansas City firm which i he failed to pny over. Liquor was the j I cause of his trouble. Brdmm Bros., dry goods nierebnnts at j Junction City, lost $5,030 by a fire the oilier night Four prisoners broke jnil at Newton the other night. All were under sentence. They were Mi chell, Brown, Wilson and W. E. Moore. All were rctakau except Moore, who is under sentence to three years in the penitentiary for horse steal- ing. He is a desperate man and an old offender. The police of Kansas City, Kan., raided three gambling houses located near the State line the other night and captured three proprietors and seventy patrons. Each proprietor put up $100 for himself and $10 for each "customer," which sums were "confiscated" by the police judge next day as ''fines." Governor Humphrey has pardoned Yancy Gans, who was convicted in the district court of Johnson County, June 17, USS, of assault with Intent to kill and sen- tenced to five years' imprisonment. Gans was a boy of eighteen whose home was in Topeka, but his mother beine widowed he went away to work and so got to Johnson County. There he bad a dispute with his employer and knocked the latter down. He was fined a small sum, and beng una- ble to pay the constable started to take him from Wilder to Hoi lid ay. In a lonely place he knocked tho rfficer senseless and escaped. He was subequontIy arrested, pleaded guilty and was sent up for five years. The constable he knocked down was one of the applicants for pardon, not believing there was any malice in the case. It is stated that English capitalists in their search for profitable business invest- ments in this country bnve found that the coal mines at Leavenworth do a large and paying uusines, ana mey are iryiug io get control of them. Failing to secure the minrs in operation the syndicate had real estate agents quielly buy up tho coal rights on 1 COO acres of land two miles south of the city. Ev-r- y 'thing having been secured necessary for the sinking of a sbait a new companv was organized under the name of the Boston Coal Com- pany with a paid up capital of $103,000. It is suggested that if 'all the railroad companies which have ever filed articles of incorporation in the office of the Sec- retary of State had carried out their plans, thi railroad mileage of Kansas to- day would be equal to that of the entire United States, and even now there are several charters filed every month. M. E. Larkin. a prominent Atchison stock dealer, recently made an assign- ment Liabilities about $19,000. The sheriff of Geary County recently arrested a Fort Riley deserter at Topeka, whither he had fled with a borrowed team and a woman. Ihe colored people of the State cele- brated Emancipation day (August 1) at Bismarck grove, Lawrence, with a grand picnic and other exercise?. Excursion trains were run from various points of Missouri and Kansas and 8,000 persons were estimated as being prosent Mrs. SNODGRASsand two childred, aced nine and six years, said to be from Kan- sas, were recentlv drowned while attempt- ing to cross the White river in Arkansas. A recent fire at Wichita burned the buildings occupied by the Cannon Fruit Commission Company, and the three-sto- ry block adjoining occupied by the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company. Two cars standing on the switch, contain- ing $7,090 worth of sugar, were also de- stroyed. The total loss was estimated at $170,000, and the total insurance about $75,000. Andrew C Drumm. who had full charge of the cattle commission business of A. Drumm & Co. at the stock yards in Kan- sas City, Kan., recently disappeared and an investigation showed bis accounts short $15,000, and possibly double that sum. He is 1 uepbew of the senior member of the firA -- . " TKAIN JROBBEES. Masked Men Hold Up the Fort Worth & Denver Matt. They Are Foiled in Obtaining Mncli Booty Two Hold Men Rob a Train Near Kansas City. Fort "Worth. Tex., Aug. 5. At two o'clock yesterday morning six masked men stopped the Fort "Worth & Denver mail and express, southbound, between Cheyenne water tank and Tascosa and three men got on the locomotive and com- pelled tho engineer to pull away from the passenger coaches, which had been de- tached by the robbers and left under guard of the other three. After going half a mile the robbers com- - pel'ed the engineer to get off the locomo-- a: l i t -, . moauuuiiuKa hick 10 lurco open tue . - .. oi we express car. . Express Messenger Marsh, seeing what w.as .P- - c osed the A.00s f h,s cr and P1 f UP tr?.nk" a.g"nst them an? en !- - b- - " - - secreted all the express packaces but three. The robbers coming to the car ordered Marsh to open it and fired into it The engineer hammered away with his pick until he got the door partly opened, when a torch was pushed into the opening and a "volver poked in and pointed at Mar sb, IX 3 J a t " "Pku aim wiree packages were stoien. Dut tne racinc Express company peoplo say that very little money was se cured. The robbers then went to the mail car and compelled Route Agent Wolcott to open hi car. He had hidden all his regis- tered matter, but one letter, under a sack and turned his lights out The robbers got the one package and then opened mail pouches and scattered the contents over tho floor. All the robbers were masked. After doing the work they ordered the en- gineer to put out the torch and pull out when they left. The authorities in the several neighbor- ing counties were notified and are in pur- suit. It is said Unit the total amount stolen is less than The robbers fired twenty or twenty-fiv- e shots into the mail and express cars. Tho passengers were greatly frightened, but not ono of them was molested in any way, though money and jewelry rpre hid in short order. Cheyenne is 3Tj miles northwest from Fort "Worth. TRAIN ROBDERS NEAR KANSAS CITY. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 5. Two men who wore red and white handkerchiefs ov.e.r xeir facos as maks held up and iuui.ua passu:i;;er iraiu .xu. on me a- - alb . ral waF our .. ra.lles ?? of ?.ar,em at vi v niAinn t Mri n w 'frj .a U'" u uuiuai lUSUl. J.UOV c- - cured 5175 and two gold watches and would have secured a great deal more but ihey were frightoned lrom the train by a neivy conductor before they succeeded in their operations. The men were medium sizad and both wore dark clothing and slouch hats. They were between twenty-tw- o and tweniy-fiv- e years of age, and were loud and profane in their demands for money. W. H. Bonnell, special agent of the road, sat in tho smoking car of the train and was notified by Conductor James Reach that the rear coach had been gone through by robbers. He at once cut tho engine loose and returned as far as Harlem where he notified Deputy Sheriff Tomlinson and they began a search for the men but were not successful in getting Mght of them. The train pulled out from this city at 8:20 o'clock and registered its time atHar- -' lem at 8:35 o'clock. Two men boarded the rear coch at the Harlem bridge and as soon nsHirlem was passed awoke passon-ger- s with the demand. "Throw up your hands." It took them nbout ten minutes to "invoice" the nine passengers who were in the coach. Ihey left the rear coach to raid the next one front and met Conductor Reach on the fiont platform. "Throw up your hauds" they command- ed. The conductor thought that they were railway acquaintances and laughing at them started to pass on. They com- manded again, and taking in tho situation ho struck one of them with his lantern. The other robber shot twice at Reach and both then jumped from the train. Reach threw his lantern after them and about this time one of the passengers pulled the bell-cor- d and the train was stopped. Special Agent Bonnell detached the en- gine from the train and started back to this city. In company with Deputy Sher- iff Tomlinson, of Clay County, he kept watch at the Hannibal bridge and scoured the country about Harlem until three o'clock yesterday morning, when he re- ported the robbery to the Central police station and left a description of the two men. The train consisted of a baggage car, two through sleepers on the Iowa Cen- tral, coaches which are switched off at Moberly, and the car sleeper that was robbed. When the men left the train they took to a wagon road and disappeared in the darkness. Nothing has since beeu heard of thsm. Starved to Death. Spring Valley, 111., Aug. 4. The wife of one of the locked-ou- t miners here was ordered by the physician in attendance on her twins, who were slowly starving to death, to eat a sufficiency of the right kind of food so that she could nourish her offspring, but being in the poorest cir- cumstances and living off such charity as was given by the relief committee here, he was unable to get the proper food and the babies died. That such a thingshould occur in the midst of this beautiful, fertile region, teeming with an abundant har- vest, is hard to believe. And yet the father of these twins was only striking to prevent the mine owners from cutting his wages almost to the starvation point o Itazft and Small-Po- x. Washington, Aug. 4. Consul-Gener- al Card we II. of Cairo, Egypt, warns ihe State Department that an extensive trade in Egyptian rags with the United States is rendered particularly dangerous by the prevalence of small-po- x in Lower Egypt Georgia bos the biggest watermelon patch in the world. Think of a lane two miles long with melons on each side as far as the eye can reach. It is an inter- esting sight when the laborers go out at daybreak to gather the melons. Squads of them are moving the vines aside to make room for the wagons to go through. Others are thumping and cutting off the melons from the vines, while others fol- low, gathering the fruit into the wagons. The largest melons will average forty pounds, and there will be lots of sixty-pounde- rs. There will be cars of 1 200 melons with hardly a melon under thirty-fiv- e or forty pounds. The Phillips Melon Company, which owns this immense melon patch of 800 acres, will make a big thing out of it Their profit will not be less than $150 a carload, and they will ship 400 cars. Sixty thousand dollars on 800 acres will beat otton. Without disaster they will make such a success that the farmers who are watching them will plant an immense acreage in that section next year. How did they do it? By business methods. They went to work with enough cash in bank to carry out their plans on a grand scale, and they fertilized and worked the crop to the best advantage in everv wav. The thine is business from one end to the other. Why, they have half their cran already sold at fancy price I 200 cars in Boston. Their estimate of 400 J carsforSOOacresisaveryconservativeone. j It will go over that Atlanta Constitution. SORGHUM SUGAR: How the Diffusion Process Is Progreulag In Kansas. Topeka. Kan., Aug. 2 The interest manifested in the sorghum sugar making grows entirely out of the acknowledged fit- ness of climate and soil for sorghum cane growing. No Slate in the Union produces caue with so large a percentage of sugar in the juice, nor with so much of the latter to the ton of cane. The question has been, can this juice be utilized so as to make it i a commerc.al success? So far this ques tion has not been satisfactorily answered. The Fort Scott, Conway Springs and To- peka works have operated successfully so far as sugar making is concerned, but they hays not beon financially successful. At Topeka the works ran but about half the season Inst year, and part of that time with defective m ichinery. although thnre was an abundant supply of cane. ? he operating oxp-n- se wore more than uet by the receipts, although money was 'ost after the interest on borrowed money was paid. This statement was made by one of the principal stockholders. The Conway Springs works was sup- plied with poor water for u;ar making, coming out of a pypsum deposit. Late In the season pure water was obtained and. the results were better. According to Mr. Deming's report to the Govern- ment, while the last reason showed the practicability of sugar making from sor- ghum, it did not prove commercially profitable. T.ie stockholders, however, with added experience, are giving a more thorough test this year under more favor- able conditions. A" Fort Scott good sugar was made and in print quantities, hut from the fact that the Government has ordered its machinery removed from that place to Attica it is ev- ident that a 1 was not satisfactory there. In fact. Mr. Hie?, who has made the pro- duction of sorghum sugar a study, pro- nounces this industry an exper.ment, which would lead one to believe that the success attending the third year was not satisfactory. At Attica may now be found tho largest sugar works in the State, in which have been placed the Government machinery from Fort Scott, and machinoiy from Illinois, in addition to new and improved mach nery manufactured expressly for this company. From Mr. Clark, secretary of the company, it is learned that these works will be under the personal super- vision of Mr. Deming, who built and operated the Conway Springs works, ana who is considered an expert, having had eight years' experience in sorghum sugar making. The cost of this plant is $102,700, the assets of the company being $122,030. The cane growing and owned by the company, the farmers about that ptaco and by the General Govern- ment at its experimental station, will more than keep these works running tho full sugar making season. The result of all experiments have been seized, and it is believed there will bo a large profit arising from the heavy investment made. But in order that this might be placed among the solid business enterprises of the State, the company has investigated thoroughly the alt works of New York, and find that they can use this same ma- chinery the remaining portion of the year, producing 1,00) barreU of salt a day at an expense of only seven cents a barrel. Mr. Clark condemns the hasty voting of township bonds in aid of incomplete plants and wildcat schemes by sorghum sugar speculators. "While believing absolutely in the profitableness of complete works, he would not have township or municipal in- debtedness incurred in aid of the little plants that are necessarily incomplete, and which must stand idle the greater portion of the year. He does not consider sorghum sugar making any longer an says when his works start up. August 15. this will . bo c Being one of a com- pany of careful, prudent men, he feels satisfied that the profits of the Attica works will cause this industry to become the leading industry of Kansas. There have been cases of mismanagement in the past incomplete knowledge, and, sometimes, unseemly haste. These draw- backs hnvo been avoided at the Attica work, where chemically pure water is obtained, and the services of Mr. Deming secured, as well as the time and knowl- edge of two Government chemists. He places the profits of the Attica works at 56S.0C0 for the year 1SS9. m A CLEAN BILL. The Kansas Sanitary Live-Stoc- k Board SatUiled That Xo Disease Exists In the State. Topeka. Kan., Aug. 2. The Live-Stoc- k Sanitary Board consisting of Hon. J. T. White, of Ada, Hon. Charles Collins, of Hutchinson, and K. Hurst, of Howard, and S. H. Pierce, of Washington, D. C, and J. A. Walrath of Kansas City, representing the United States Bureau of Animal In- dustry, held a meeting Wednesday even- ing and at noon yesterday made a report in substance as follows: "A careful in- vestigation at the Kanas City stock yard? shows that the order of the board relating to separate yards at Argentine for Southern cattle which might b9 sub- ject to infectious diseases is being fully complied with. The special pens are used for no other purpose and are separated from the main yards by the Kansas river. The yards are in excellent sanitary con- dition. Le-- s danger of infection from Texas fever exists than in former years, and while a few cases have been reported this season, investigation show that thoy had contracted the disease before ship- ment in the yards. There was no evidence to show that these cattle would transm'tthe fever it being well under- stood that native or half-bree- d cattle do not convey the diseas. As an additional protection to the native cattle, however, the board recommended tothes'ock yards company that all of that part of the yard east of the State line known as the Alton side be set apart for their exclusive use, from which all the Texas cattle should be excluded." Resolutions were adopted acquainting the Governor of Nebraska wilh the above facts, declaring that no good reasons ex- isted for quarantine against th stock yards of Nebraska and respectfully ask ing the modification of the quarantine order and permitting the shipment of all cattle into Nebraska except Southern cattle held in quarantine at Argentina m A Milwaukee Move. Milwaukee, WI., Aug. 2.-- At a meet- ing of the executivo council of tho Na- tional Grand Army encampment a com- mittee of twenty citizens outside of .he council was appointed to wait on President Miller, .of the Chi- cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail way and maKe a nnai appeal 10 mm for a one cent a mile rate to the encamp- ment This move was prompt&d by the eight department commanders at Chicago Tuesday discouraging attendance at the encampment because of the refusal of the railroads to grant a one cent rate. Such action was entirely unlooked for, and created a sensation at encampment head- quarters. Domestic Tragedy. Utica. N. Y., Aug. 2. In Carthage last night Fred Farr, an engineer, shot and killed his wife and then committed sui- cide. Farr's wife was at her father's home. Her husband went there, and when she came to the door he put bis arm around ier, placed a revolver against her breast and fired. He then went to his father's home and sitting down in a rock- ing chair shot himself. Mrs. Fair had not been living with her husband for two or throe weeks owing to trouble regarding the deeding of some property. An othcer was In the house at the time of the shoot- - jng with a warrant for Farr'j arrest as trouble was anticipated. "jit -- ; $rr; ?fTZJ AT STANDING. ROCK. KoU 3for Signatures Opened General. Crook "Warns the Obdurate. Standing Rock Agency, Dak , Aug. 2-- At the council Wednesday the Indians were informed that no more meetings for the explanation of the treaty would be held. John Grass repeated his objections-t- o the treaty, chief among which is the-pric- offered for the lands. Major Warner replied to Grass. He mefr every objection ana explained the provi- sions of the treaty of 1S69: which the Gov- ernment is charged with violating. Eut the speech of the conference andone that will never be forgotten by the In- dians, was made by Goneral Crook, who said, among other things: "I have al- ready intimated that, unless you except the treaty, this land may be taken front you anyway. My reasons for thinking 30 are as follows: Dakota, Montana and Washington Territory have only one representative each in Congress, and do not have a vote. Thus, iu the past, the cries of Dakotans for the opening of this reservation have had little weight, Lut after October next they will be States with an appropriate repre- sentation, and then when they ask that these reservations be opened, the red man's voice will be small and he will be crowded to one side. I assure you that you are getting the best terms that will ever be offered you, and uuless you accept you will not get more than you were offered a year aco. The Great Father does not want to deal with the chiefs alone; he wants every Indian on the reservation to express bis desires that they may be gratified. You are the equals of the whites mentally and physically, and there is no reason why you should not be placed on an equal footing if you contin- ue to progress. You must do more in the future. You love your families and you want to know what will become of them when you are dead. If you accept this treaty and take your land like the whites it can never be taken from you and will be your children's when you die. You will see that the Government is your friend." The roll for signatures was opeuod yes- terday. JOHNSTOWN RELIEF. A Huge Balance of Money Left In the Hands of the Committee. Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 2. The relief commission at the close of yesterday's session made public a report on the finan- cial part of its work. It is in substance as follows: Received by the Governor, $091,414 4C; received from Mayor Grant, $100,000; received from the New York committee, $400,000; received from the Philadelphia committee, $500,000; receiv-- d from the Pittsburgh committee, $400,000; grand total receipt', $2,334,414 4C The committee expended in Johnstown. In- cluding the ?5U0. 000 distributed, and in other parts of the State $157,22(3.27. This amount, taken from the total re- ceipts, leaves $1,554,077.60. There was appropriated in other parts of the State and yet unpaid, $93,026 S2. Tho contracts and hills in hand for Johnstown amount to$C6.1S9.22. The commission's estimate for 2 JO houses ordered is 452,000, making a total of $211,216.04 necessary for outstanding items. Tnis would leave a balance on hand of $L.3i2,S0L S2, but the commission figures on getting $13'),000 from the Philndelnhia committee, and $130,000 from the Pittsburgh committee, making in all $l.l'42,S01 S2. DIRTY TEA. The Treasury Uojmrtinent Notified of the Exportation to This Country of Inferior Tea. Washington. Aug. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury has received a letter from tho Secretary of State inclosing a copy of a dispatch received from the United States Consul at Amoy calling attention to the inferior quality of much of the Amoy Oolong tea exported to tho United Stntes, and Assistant Secretary Tichenor has issued a circular letter to customs of- ficers on the subject in which he says: "The statement of the Consul and the doc- uments incl sed in his communication in- dicate that it is a well recognized fact among dealers in China that Amoy Oo- longs are generally dirty, adulterated, carelessly picked or poorly cured, and that their reputation is so vile that all markets save those of the United States are now closed to them. A circular letter issued by Messrs. Russell & Co., of Amoy, speaks of these teas as the decayed veg- etable matter of China, and states that it is difficult to understand how, under the-existin- inspection regulations, they can be dealt in." The Consul strongly recom- mends that no invoices of Amoy Oolong? should be admitted to entry in the United States without first being rigidly in- spected. ROOSEVELT'S WRATH. The Civil-Servi- ce Coininlloner Sharply Replies to Adverse Criticism. Washington. Aug. 2. Mr. Roosevelt In reply to an editorial in the Post said; "Any statement that I used any but legit- imate and honorable means in the mayor- alty contest in New York or that I was to any deal of the kind or that any such deal was made with my knowledge or connivance is a falsehood. Any state- ment that the Civil-Servi- ce law has been repeatedly violated with the knowledge and consent of the Commissioners is a falsehood. Any statement that I have received any money from the Government except from my salary and for my legiti- mate traveling expenses while engaged on Government business, is a falsehood. To be exact I should use a still stronger and shorter word than falsehood. I will engdge in no controversy with any writer who falsifies the truth. Hereafter I shall make no response whatever to any state- ment or accusation in the Post. Taking into account the relative quality of harm done by spoils hunters and by prize fight- ers and their associates, I am by no means certain that the editor of the Washington Post should have his feelings so lacerated oy my coupling his journal with the Po- lice Gazette." m Ilronek Attempts Suicide. Joliet, I1L, Aug. 2. John Hronek, one of the Chicago Anaecbists confined here, severed the arteries in his arm with a saddle knife. He is serving a twelve years' sentence for making dynamite bombs for Anarchists. e Records Broken. Cleveland, O., Aug. . At the Grand circuit races yesterday two records were broken. Axtell, the wonderful three-year-ol- d, went a mile for $2,500 to beat bis own record of 2:15i made at Minneapolis. He trotted the mile with a running mate without a skip in 2:14?, the time by quarters being: 33,' 1:07, 1:4L 2:UX. Guy went ap exhibition mile for a cap to beat his own record of 2:12. There was great difficulty in getting him started, but once he was off he moved like clockwork, covering the last quarter within one-nnar- ter of a second as fast a the first The time by quarters was :32tf, 1:05, 1:33, 2:10,V. Back to Washington. Washington, Aug. 2. The President drove to Mountain Lake Park yesterday morning at eight o'clock with Secretary Windom and Mr. Halford and took the train there for Washington. He was given quite an ovation by the Grand Army men who represented all tho posts from Martinsburg to Wheeling. At Deer Park a crowd waited to see the President pass through. He stepped off the train a moment and bade Mrs, Harrison, Dr. Scott, Mrs. McKee and the babies good bye and then stood on the rear platform bowing acknowledgments to the cheering crowd. The Presidar t ai rived here at :06 o'clock. til V. f " it