The American Citizen

Oldest and Best Weekly paper devoted to the Race in this section of the County The Negroes Aroused At Loot, VOL. 15. NO.. 13 Oldest and The Good People of K POLICY SHOP The Negroes Are A DETERM1 The Men's Sunday Forum one of the strongest and most potent Negro organization in the city, destined to be in the West. Have taken up the Policy question one of the most damnable of vices to the Negro that can exist. We are with them and we shall lend every effort to see that if law is law these desh shall be established. We appeal to all the bet- THE NEGRO MR. DRURY SCORES A SUCCESS. A Fashionable Audience Greet His Production of "Faust" Gounod's opera. "Faust," was presented by the Theodore Dury Opera Company, on last Monday night, May 5, at Lexington Opera House. The singing of the leading characters, the chorus, the orchestra, scenery and in fact the general ensemble was the best production yet given by Mr. Theodore Drury. Miss Corrine Roveit, as Mar guerite, captivated the entire audience by the sweetness of her voice, which was particularly effective in the garden scene and won for her rounds of merited applause. Mr. George L. Ruffin, as Valentine, Mr. Frederic Shieldon, as Mepistopheles, and Mr. Theodore Drury, as Faust, acted and sang their pars superbly, and were obiged to respond to encores. Miss Anna Fields, as Martha, and Miss Alfrieda Wagner, as Siebel, sang finely. Mr. Barbara was Wagner. The singing of the chorus was spendid and th soldiers chorus was exceptionally well rendered. The gathering that greeted the ar- s is was possibly one of the finest, and most representative that ever came together in New York. Every seat in the house was occupied. It was forti- nate that the new law as regards the theatre was in effect, forded the aisles were clear which afforded the opportu- nity of observing the many beautiful and costly costumes that were in all section of the theatre. All the artists received beautiful real gifts, and Mr. Brury was given a large wreath tied with red, white and blue ribbon. Mr. Felix Jasper was conductor; Mr. Rudolph Duering, stage manager; Mr. Troodore Pankey, assistant stage man- ager, and Mr. Melvin Charlton, pianist and organist. After the opera dancing was indulged in by many of the audience. POLLETT IS CONVICTED. Sego Preacher Is Guilty of Man- slaughter in the Second Degree, the Jury Found. EMPORIA, KAS. May 14—The Rev. W. H. Pollett, the negro preacher, was found guilty this morning at 11:46 o'clock of manslaughter in the second degree. Pollett received the verdict coolly and seemed greatly pleased that it was not more severe. The case went to the jury at 9:20 last night. The voe e at 10:20 when they stopped considering the case for the night was six to six. They began again this morning and in a few hours reached the viridict, K.C.—Journal WARREN BURG MQ. - LTE 4S Miss Maggie L. Robinson of 1715 Woodland ave. Kansas City, is the guest of Mr. & Mrs. Little of this City week. She quite a number of friends here and all were glad to have her in our midst. A grand reception was tendered ben at the residence of Mrs. Little Friday evening May 31st and quite an enjoyable time witnessed by all. Those present were-Misses Maggie L. Robin on Mary Hurdle, Ella Williams, Prof. Otis Shackelford, Mr. George Keiby Mr & Mrs James Ewing, Mr & Mrs George Robinson, Mr & Mrs Frank Hicks, Mr & Mrs John Hyder, Mr & Ms Levi Simms and Mr & Mrs Root Woods. Delicious refreshments were served and at a late hour all retired for home; mush elated over the Evenings entertainment. We welcome Miss Robinson to our city, again in the near future. She will spend a short time in Holden Mo., where she was formerly assist teacher in the Public School on her return home, as she has many friends there also. let every Christian man and woman raise their voices against the damnable vice existing in our city. Wake up to your duty—you that have sons and daughters that are endeavoring to make o make decent man and woman of them. THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. ter class of Negro citizens and those of any other race that believe in law and order to register their most forcible kicks against the same. We appeal to every minister in the city, every public school teacher, every prominent citizen ns The battle is on and let as see the reason why policy cannot be stopped in this city. IN OPERA Miss Victoria E. Overall In "Caprice", A Success While the colored populace of New York city indulged in the delightful pleasures of witnessing a colored company of artists presenting a standard play Kansas City, Mo. and surburban cities witnessed at the Century Theatre in Kansas City Mo. the production of a beautiful Romatic play "Caprice" in four acts Thursday and Friday nights of last week. A more fashionable and cultured audience seldom ever come to gather in a play house. It is a most progressive signs of the times when one can witness a high class performance by colored performers. The lamentable features about colored productions is that the Negro as a rule does not show the proper appreciation to one another, as they should and the lack of patronage is the greatest barrier to the higher class production by Negro talent. There was an audience that greeted the rise of the curtains on the first night of the play that was at once encouraging of the players much can be said Mr. Richardson B. Harrison of Chicago Ill. in the leading roll as Jack Henderson give a true touch of real earnest acting and can be placed upon the roll of any company traveling or now before the public. His recital of Paul Lawrence Dunbar poems "When Melindy Sings" and "A Party" evoked unlimited applause and praises from all sides. Miss Victoria E. Overall, the leading lady as "Mercy" Baxter acquitted her part with much credit and her Spanish dance between acts was a rare treat. The other characters did themselves credit. The play is one through which runs a thread of realism and depicted much of everyday occurrence in active life. In every particular the affair was a success except financially. The chorus singing might have been improved upon but nevertheless credit is due all for their earnest acting. All friends of Education are hereby invited to attend the closing exercises at Western University-beginning May 16, and ending May 21st, 1902. The following exercises will be open to the public: Friday May 16, at 8 p. m. - closings Programme of the James A. Handy Literary Society. Sunday May 18, at 2:30 p.m. Baccalaureate Sermon Bp.C.T.Shaffer. M.D.D.D. Monday May 19, at 8 p.m. Address to Literary Societies by Prof.G.N. Grisham A. M. Prin, of Lincoln High School. Kansas City, Missouri. Tuesday May 20th, at 2:30 p.m. Class Day Exercises followed by the meeting of the Alumni Association. Tuesday May 20th, at 8 p.m. Address to Religious Societies by Rev. O. J. W. Scott, D. D. Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday May 21st, at 2 p.m. Commencement Exercises. All these exercises the address to the graduates of the class of 1902 will be delivered by his Excellency, Hon. W. E. Stanley, Gov. of the State of Kansas. All are invited to attend. The paper read at the Minnesota Forum last Sunday was an able production of thought and was well read by the Hon. J. G. Gloves of Edwardsville the paper was discussed. Rev. W. L. Grant D.J.S. Edwards, C. Patterson, I. B. Miss Fannie Garner J. A. Wilson Allen Garman Prof. W. G. Wood and Rev. E. A. Wilson. The new dressmaking parlor at 440 Minnesota ave is meeting with much success Madam S oval and Miss Harris are demonstrating their abilities at dresscutting and diting. Those who have work along their lines should encourage them by giving their patronage The World's Pearl Supply. The World's Pearl Supply. A jeweler says: "Since 1890 the price of pearls has doubled. In the past three years it has increased fully 33 per cent. The number of oysters brought to the surface of the waters of the world averages 36,000 daily, more than were ever taken out before, and still the supply of pearls decreases. When I say supply, I mean the pearls offered for sale to the public. Personally, I believe the jewels are being bought up by investors, and that the bulk of them never get into the market." KANSAS CITY, KANSAS FRIDAY MORNING, They Say No more Lawrence for him. Iee now takes the place of coal. Ha! who is the guess up to now? Youmight have known Who dined—we did. Worder where the Lawrence girls were. We were the hottest outfit that went on the excursion. Holvay & Reed is the New Real Estate firm. Wonder wheu the next Stag party: Wonderland wend the next stag party. Bad land was very popular with som Summer days have come again since she has returned. He that denies he goes to a certain store for any thing else but groceries. They killed it in sleepsy old Lawr ence. His dinner cost him 40 cents and it consisted of one bottle of beer and three sandwiches—you will have to give it Lawrence. Have you ever been to Lawrance? Do you want to go again. He is up against the real thing for once. When she said—All in free—he hopped in He called her hand and she sruex back wonder what now? The preacher scored them about Policy playing and somebody said Amen Did it hit you brother? The latest is the "Rareback" barber shop on Minsu... ave. There are a good many people guessing—About what? well the guess is up to you. Did you go down to the Speak Easy places in Lawrence. Lawrence is a sure prohibition town except for the keep it quiet and Speak Easy places. Wonder where M. B. was when somebody took an automobile ride. Fales of Two Cities. A good shave and hair cut yee—H. R. Stine does things up brown at 849 Minn ave. If it is good work you want just drop in. A new band is in the course of ganization in Kansas City, Kansas with temporary headquarters at the Tonsora' parlor of H. R. Stine. The A. C. L. grocery Department offers rare inducements in the grocery line. Gee. Thomas M. W. D Master of the U. B. F's and S. M. T.'s took a run to Parson Kansas last Sabbath. Rev. G. McNeal of Pleasant Green Baptist church held Baptismal services on the banks of the Kaw river last Sabbath and at the conclusion immersed 29 beleivers in the Lord and Saviour. Mrs. M. G. Battie of Atchison spent last Sunday in the city the guest of Mrs Geo. Fairfax of 417 Minnesota ave. William Williams of 210 Greeily ave. who has been very sick for seven weeks is improving. Miss Cordia Young who has spent several months in Springfield Mo. with her father has returned to this city. Rev. W. L. Grant pastor of 1st Baptist church went to Emporia this week to attend the trial of the Rev. W. H. Pollett. E. L. Gayden Jr. arrived at Mr. and Mrs. Gaydens Wednesday at 3:45 p. m. found mother and baby doing well. Mr. Allen Garner went to altons this week to see his sister Mrs. May Wilson who was thought to be dying. Miss Minnie L. Gilmore Matron of Mitchell Hospital at Leavenworth spent a few days in the city the guest of Mrs. Alice Bailly of 411 Nebraska ave. Mrs. Celia Wilson of Burlington Kans. is in the city, the guest of her daughter Mrs. I. Waist of 935 Minn ave. she will return home Saturday. Eleven little girls called on and spent apart of the day last Sunday with little Leela Thomas One little four year wanted to borrow her for the afternoon In brief let us say that Mr. J. G. Groves address at the Sunday Forum was a real good one. Subject "Leave the City and Take to Farming". Sunday 8:30, May 35th programme will be in charge of the ladies, headed by Miss Ethel Stafford. & Mrs. E. A Wilson and others. Go out on time and enjoy yourself.The Forum's President and his Cabinet say the Forum must boom at all hazards Mrs Jerry B. Palmer of Chicago will arrived in the city to-morrow and will spend some time here the guest of sister Mrs. M. Stakes of 411 Nebraska ave. The A. C. L. Grocery Company of 433 Minn ave., are making special prices in good groceries. Call and see them. Its your advantage. Rev. W. M. Johnson has just returned from Wire City, Pittsburg and other points in Kansas and reports that his nite Missionary cause was quite a success. The A. M.E. Zion Church has Purchase a church of the Central Presbyterian denation at 5th and Belmount ave. at a cost of two Thousand and Five Hundered Dollar and paid One Thousand and Ca h. Last Saturday Mrs. I. F. Bradley entertained at her beautiful home 4th and Haskell the L. W. C. of Kansas City, Mo. the Olympion Whist Club of K. C. K. these, together with many of her friends crowded her house and lawn till midnight. Mrs. Bradley's admirable gift as entertainer is too well known for comment—Whist and recitations by Mr. Richard B. Harrison, of Chicago made merry the 100 gues s. at eleven P. M. Mrs Bradley served an elegant lanceau, and caery one present wished for many such pleasant occasions. The excursion of the Oddfellows and Household of Ruth last Sabbath to Lawrence Ks. marked a new era in Negro excursion. Seven coaches pulled out from the Union Depot loaded with one of the most peaceable crowds that ever went on an excursion. Seldom has one ever set in a more orderly crowd composed of as many classes and types of humanity. An excellent time was had in Lawrenby the major portions of the big excursions. A grand street parade headed by the Midland band of Kansas City and members of the Oddfellows from the two Kansas Cities, Lawrence and Topeka. Annual Sermon was preached by Rev. at the A. M. E. Church The Santa Fee officials showed courtesy to the orders and a nice little sum was netted for distribution between the numbers in Kansas City Kansas. Lawrence lives close to the probition law, has no street cars of any kind, but has a few automobiles. ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE State of Kansas. ) ss. County of Wyandotte. } In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the Estate of James H. Martin deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned, on the Estate of James H. Martin late of said County, deceased by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 15th day of April, 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate are herby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. HENRY P. EWING. Administrator of the Estate of James H. Martin, deceased. In witness whereof the, undersigned Probate judge in and for the County of Wyandotte, State Kansas, have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court this 15 day of April, A. D. 1902. K. P. Snyder, Probate Judge. Coming Events. All diseases start in the bowels keep them open or you will be sick, cascarets ct like nature Keep liver and bowels activewithout a sickening gripping feeling. six million people take and recommend cascarets. Try a 10c. box. All druggists. NOTICE. The Kansas City Embalming and Casket Company will hold a business meeting on the evening of May 19th to the purpose of electing officers for the ensuring year. tock holders govern themselves accordingly. WANTED. Woman as cook, and Laundress add. Mrs. A. W Solomon Employment agt. Office 115 E. 5th St. Leadville Colorado ANNOUNCEMENTS. I hereby announce myself as Candidate, for Representative of the Tenth District, First, Second and Third Wards of Kansas City, Kas.—Subject to the Republican Primary. CHARLES. S. WITWER I hereby announce my self as candidate for Clerk of the District Court of Wyandotte County, Kansas.—Subject to the Republican primaries. William Needles. 3 Nice Furnished rooms to let an 2 nice fresh cows with calves for Sale heap at 409 Armstrong ave. Mr E.F. Henderson Sit Down on Republican Organized Gangism The Forum passed a resolution condemning policy shops and dance halls & appointed a committee to look after the surpression of them. Rev. D. E. Over at the Metropolitan Sunday will discuss churches and funerals. Judge I. F. Bradley went down to Independence Mo. last Wednesday to attend court. The real business man in town is the ex-deputy sanitary sargent he is oun late and early attending to his business of American Citizen when he calls he either wants an add new subscribers or collect on an old dept. Dont detain him Chas Anderson is the oldest policeman on the force in years. The Fretful Baby in an Omnibus. A correspondent of the London Pall Mall Gazette vouchers for this incident: A young woman with a frettful baby in a full omnibus (aloud): "Poor little nipple, I suppose I shall end by 'aving to take 'im to the 'orspital.'" (Raising the child's veil and looking around for sympathy.) "Don't get no rest. 'E is sufferin' so with smallpox." Woman Sells Her Teeth. A Chandler (O. T.) paper says that a Kansas City woman visiting in Chandler noticed the fine teeth possessed by one of the local belies. She offered the belle $100 for two of the teeth, besides all her expenses in coming to Kansas City to have them extracted, Asphalt Pavements. About twenty-five years ago government engineers decided to pave Pennsylvania avenue in Washington with asphalt. That was the beginning of the general use of the scientific mystery for street pavements. To-day over 234,000,000 square feet of street pavements in the United States and Canada are covered with asphalt. This asphalt pavement would make a boulevard twenty-six feet wide over 1,750 miles long and would reach from New York to New Orleans, and then have several miles for side streets. "Chair-House" Lodging. Known as "the chair house," a New York institution's title is derived from the fact that human beings so poor they can not buy a lodging at the cheapest Bowery resorts put up five cents for a chance to occupy a chair for the night. By 11 o'clock the night's contingent is fast asleep in the chairs, the usual number being twenty-five or thirty men, of all kinds and degrees of degress poverty. Publication Notice. In the District Court of Wyandotte County Kansas. Allen, Smith. Defendant. Alen Smith, Defendant. To the above named defendant you are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, and unless you appear and answer, on or before the 1st day of July 1902 the petition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against you the nature of which will be a decree dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant and divorcing plaintiff from defendant and for cost of suit. I. F. Bradley, Attorney Mary Smith. It is an easy matter to sit down in an office with paste pot and scissors and "edit" a newspaper than it is to go into a school room, under present conditions and teach, some editors to the contrary notwithstanding. 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The Archon war, stretched over well-nigh thirty years, is having a period of recrudescence that will sadly try Dutch resources. The Jambi war has also kept the Hollanders busy, Strange to say, in both districts the Dutch troops are doing what the Dutch condemn in South Africa—burning farms. They are even destroying whole villages. Henrik Ibben's Early Life Henrik Tosef's Lairy life Henrik Ibsen fifty years ago was serving behind the counter of a country drug store. The dispensing of medicines, however, did not suit tastes of the celebrated Norwegian, and during his apprenticeship he was hard at work reading for the profession of a doctor. In order to eke out a very small salary he took to writing, with what result the whole world knows. --- Fortunate Child. In the town of Manzanares, in Spain, the birth of the first year of this century was curiously honored by the municipality. Having recognized the claims of the expiring year by paying the funeral expenses of the last inhabitant of the town to die in it, the local authority undertook to bear the cost of the education of the first child born in the new year. Lakes in Arid Australia: Subterranean lakes have recently been discovered in the Euclia district, Australia. They lie about thirty feet below the surface and contain an abundance of water. This discovery is of the greatest practical importance to this especially arid district. It is of scientific value also, as it affords an explanation of the disappearance of certain rivers. Kobbery by Wholesale. A remarkable robbery has been committed at Birds' Island, near Toulon. There was on the island a bed containing 100,000 two-year-old oysters. They were safe at a recent date, but on the proprietor visiting the place again seven days later the whole stock had been cleared without any clue to the robbers being discoverable. Flying Not a New Idea. Flying is not a twentieth century idea. As far back as 1273 Friar Bacon predicted that flying would "shortly" become a general practice and Bishop Wilkins in 1652 said: "it will yet be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going on a journey as it is now to hear him call for his boots." Honor for Italian Literary Man: Prof. Rodolfo Lanciana has just received the greatest prize a literary man can hope for in Italy. The Academia Reale della Science of Turin has awarded him the triennial prize of 12,000 fire, called the Premio Bressa, from the name of its founder, for his recent scientific work. Home of the Cholera. The marshy ground of the Ganges delta, with its vast masses o. vegetation, decaying under a tropical sun, is the native home of the cholera. In that pestilential region the cholera and plague are found every year and all the year round. Swedes in United States. The total emigration of Swedes to America during the last fifty years has exceeded 850,000, while about 150,000 Swedes have gone to other countries. Of the emigrants to the United States only 5 per cent have returned to their native country. Four Meals a Day. Washington hotels are said to be the only ones in the country that serve four regular meals every twenty-four hours—breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper—the latter being served in some cases as late as midnight. Sullivan's Final Crop: John L. Sullivan says he will quit the stage and engage in farming. If he should prove as successful in raising crops as he has been in raising hellaballoon he may in time become a harrisseed aristocrat. Famous Frescoes Ruined In the work of restoring the Ara Coeli church at Rome, the famous mural frescoes of Pinturicchio have been completely ruined, several large nails having been driven into them. Picture of Computer. Commutation tickets between Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del., according to a late order of the railway company, must have photographs of the holders affixed. Ugly Father Knickerbocker. Boston is at last getting even. President Ellot says New York is American Citizen Publishing and Printing Co. W. C. Martin Editor Entered at the post office at Kansas City Kansas $cccccc class matter. Read The Citizen. Artificial clay, according to German papers, is receiving increased attention abroad. The ceramic novelty, which is used for the manufacture of artificial stone, tiles, gutters, etc., is composed of sand, chalk, cement, liquid glue and petroleum. The substances are mixed in certain quantities and a claylike mass results, which can be formed at pleasure and acquires an excellent degree of hardness by being subjected to heat. Has Siberlan Mammoth Russian savants are looking forward with interest to the return to St. Petersburg of Prof. Herz, with a great Siberian mammoth. He is bringing the skeleton and part of the skin and flesh, including most of the interior organs, and about a hundredweight of food found in the stomach of the monster. The parts kept weigh over a ton and much of the flesh was given to dogs. Farmer O'Neal's Hard-Wood Teeth. Farmer O'Neal's Hard-Wood Teeth. Farmer O'leay O'Neal is using a set of false teeth he made himself out of a piece of seasoned apple tree root with no other tool than his pocket knife. The teeth are of perfect shape and regularity, and the plate, which is of the same piece of wood, fits his-mouth as well as if fashioned by a plaster impression. He ctn crack corn with these teeth—Chicago Inter Ocean. Curious London Advertisement The following curious advertisement recently appeared in a London paper: "Gentleman wants board-residence Real good home, in small family. No other boarders. Being over-stout, therefore subject to many annoying remarks, advertiser prefers very stout people's company. No others need write. References exchanged. Address," etc. Long's Poor Penmanship. When Secretary of the Navy Long entered the department of which he was the head, he was obliged to have John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, stamped on the corner of all his stationery. Otherwise, it is said by those familiar with his handwriting, his correspondents could not have read the name signed to his letters. German Teachers Poorly Paid Germany is undoubtedly the best-educated nation of Europe, yet its teachers in many parts of the country are very poorly paid. Recently several men teachers in Frankfurt applied for situations as policemen, owing to their remuneration being smaller than that of the average police officer. Glacier Will Deluge the Earth Leon Lewis, ef Winsted, Conn., author of "Telluria" and a writer of some considerable repute on scientific subjects, says a glacier at the South Pole three thousand miles in diameter and correspondingly thick, will some day break and melt, deluging the earth, beginning with South Africa. The Thirty-two Caliber Revolver The revolver with which President McKinley was shot was a 32-caliber, and since that time dealers have not noticed an increase in the number of calls for weapons of that caliber, and, it is said, of the particular make used by the assassin. Bells of the Revolution John M. Buttrick, who recently died in Lowell, Mass., was a great grandson of Major John Buttrick, who began the fight at Concord bridge, and the gun which fired the first shot in the revolution is still preserved in the family. John Wesley's Birthday. The trustees of Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn., the oldest Methodist college in the country, have given their official sanction to a bicentennial celebration of the birth of John Wesley, to be held in June, 1903. State Examination of Doctors But eight states do not now require examination by a state board of those who wish to practice medicine. They are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Tennessee. Extent of Detroit River. The Detroit river is the outlet of the greatest bodies of fresh water in the world, aggregating 82,000 square miles of lake surface, which, in turn, drain 125,000 square miles of land. Empress and Her Tent. The tent in which the Dowager Empress of China travels is made of yellow silk, copiously embroidered in silver and gold with great dragons and blazing suns. The Sane Idea. The preponderance of public opinion is manifestly against the theory of a Detroit physician that everybody will be crazy within the next three centuries. Warwick castle is held by many to be the most beautiful seat in England. The large baronial hall is a magnificent room. It is decorated with the most perfect specimens of armor, furnished in a luxurious manner, and masses of flowers and large palms abound on every side. of 308 S. 8th St, left for Topka this week to attend the sick bed-side of relatives. Baptizing at King Solemons Baptist Church Sunday. HERE YOU ARE The best place in town to have your boots and shoes received repaired. Mr. D. A. Wynne the old reliable boot and shoe maker, has re-opened at 1110 N. 5th St. where he invites all his old customers and new ones as well. His reputation is so well established that he needs no elaborate introduction. When wanting anything done in his line don't fail to forgive him a call. Publication Notice To Isaac Hatton, Jr. You are hereby notified that the will of Isaac Hatton Sr. has been filled in the Probate Court of Wyandotte County Kansas, for the purpose of probating the same, and that the hearing on the same will be had on the 6th day of May 1802, at 9 o'clock a.m. you will take due notice thereof and govern yourself accordingly and be present to represent and protect any interest you may claim under the said will. Respt. Yours Iretta Hatton Baker. A Hard Get to Win. In 1893 three Irishmen agreed to undertake a journey around the earth on foot for a jackpot of $150,000. Each one of the party deposited one-third of this sum in the Bank of Dublin, and it was agreed that whoever survived the trip and returned should receive the whole amount. In case all died a Dublin hospital was to become the beneficiary. On Dec. 24, 1895, they started east across Europe and Asia Minor to Egypt, where they took passage for Australia. Their wanderings through the inner wastes of Australia proved the hardest trials of the journey, and the severity of this trip resulted in the death of two of the travelers. The third, Capt. Trevelyan, completed the voyage and won the money, New York Press. Tauric Acid on Metals Gold, silver, steel, aluminium and lead, when immersed in tauric acid, a new chemical discovery, becomes pliable and ductile as putty. Tons of Gold In Use The amount of gold coin in actual circulation in the world is estimated to be about 865 tons. CANDY CATHARTIC THEY WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP All Drugs 10c. $5c. $6c. Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold in bulk. Eware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." State of Kansas, } ss. Wyandotte County, } In the Probate Court in and for said County. In the matter of the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge, deceased. Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administration have been granted to the undersigned on the estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge late of said County, deceased, by the Honorable, the Probate Court of the County and State aforesaid, dated the 8th day of February A. D. 1902. Now, all persons having claims against the said Estate, are hereby notified that they must present the same to the undersigned for allowance within one year from the date of said Letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of such Estate; and that if such claims be not exhibited within three years after the date of said Letters, they shall be forever barred. PETER YOUNG, Administrator of the Estate of Clara Williams, Alias Clara Slurdge. Soldiers' Appetites Good: It does not appear that the transference of the American soldier to a tropical climate has injured his appetite. He eats no less than he did at home, he needs as hearty a diet, and he is teaching the Filipino to eat more. Gen. 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Full Directions with every treatment. Send Your Sons And Daughters To Western University A great school terests, Negroes should here train their child DEPART Theological Department to p demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing and giving a higher training to those desiring Preparatory Fitting students for the Normal; department those deprived of such in childhood. MUSICAL DE For Furnishing an opportunity for of fine art STATE INDUS A great school for our youth; now a part of our State's interests. Negroes should here train their children for the Work of life and its duties. Theological Department to prepare for the ministry, desiring to fulfill the demands in our pulpits today Normal Department PreParing for the work of teaching in the public school and giving a higher training to those desiring the same. Preparatory Department Fitting students for the Normal; department and giving an opportunity for education those deprived of such in childhood. For Furnishing an opportunity for Proficiency, in that Finest of the arts-music. Department It is the intention of this department to work of life in the industrial world. We are labor unions and stern demands nothing will compete with any in the world of skilled labor the future of his children or the future of his Courses.—Architectural or Mechanical newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business plain sewing. FACULTY The faculty is composed of graduates from Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best school following is the faculty, Rev. William Tecumseh in Philosophy and Logic. Charles S. Bowman and Carpentry; John Charles-Wood, instructor force, instructor in business course and st teacher of tailoring; E.J. Vernon, B. S. of Moore of Fiske, professor of language and lit. Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. lecturers of various topics have been secured. OPPORTION The constantly labor for the betterment of the young helping hand to the same. No student is made tells. The most deserving are given credit for Expenses—Board per month, $1. It is not necessary the encouraged here; students are advised to bring apparel is not needed by one struggling for arrangements for entrance can be made by will send one of the latest complete catalogue. Write at once for information or catalogue to William this department to give our youth training, in real world. We are opinioned that in this day nothing stands will so aid the Negro as to world of skilled labor. With such training no future of his race. ural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Print keeping, Business Course and Stenography. LITY. graduates from Lincoln, Willis; the best schools of the country; maintain v. William Tecmsch Vernon, B. S. D. A. Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in wood; instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson's course and stenography; James T.E.D. Vernon, B. S. of Wilberforce professor in language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher in music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science have been secured. PORTUNITIES These teachers are attement of the young people under their care. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty are given credit for the same. per month, $5.50; tuition per month, $1; in necessary that Extravagant are advised to bring strong substantial cloth we struggling for an education. School open can be made by writing Pres. W.4T. Vernon complete catalogues given full information on or-catalogue to William T. Vernon. It is the intention of this department to give our youth training, fitting them for the work of life in the industrial world. We are opinioned that in this day of competition and labor unions and stern demands nothing will so aid the Negro as to prepare his child compete with any in the world of skilled labor. With such training no man need fear for the future of his children or the future of his race. Courses.—Architectural or Mechanical drawing Carpentry, Printing, nothjob, newspaper, Tailoring, Bookkeeping, Business Course and Stenography Dressmaking and plain sewing. FACILTY. Fiske, Tuskegee and Hampton; the best schools of the country maintained by our people Following is the faculty, Rev. William Tecumseh Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Pres. Lecturer in Hilkosophy-and Logic, Charles S. Bowman, Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing and Carpentry; John Charles-Wood, instructor in printing; Joseph Nelson Garret of Wilberforce, instructor in business course and stenography; James T.Edwards of Hampton teacher of tailoring; E.J. Vernon, B. S., of Wilberforce professor mathematics A. F. Moore of Fiske, professor of language and literature; S. L. Gross, teacher of dressmaking Mrs. Lulu Cunningham, piano music; Mrs. L. H. Moore, teacher of science. In addition lecturers of various topics have been secured. constantly labor for the betterment of the young people under their care and gladly lend helping hand to the same. No student is made to feel the sting of poverty, but merit allows tells. The most deserving are given credit for the same. Expenses—Board per month, $5.50; tuition per month $1; room rent per month $1; incidental fee on trance, $1. encouraged here; students are advised to bring strong substantial clothing, but expanse apparel is not needed by one struggling for an education. School opened Sept. 9, 1993. All arrangements for entrance can be made by writing Free. W.J.T. Vernon, Quindarek Kas. He will send one of the latest complete catalogues given full information regarding the same. From the London Globe: An informing story is being told of Mr. Kruger. Returning home from one of his journeys to England, he brought with him a pair of pajamas, and his appearance at night in this clothing nearly frightened the life out of the good Tante, his wife. "What's that?" she demanded. "Sleeping clothes from England," said Mr. Kruger, with misgiving. "Then take them off," responded Tante, "and come to bed in your veldtshoen (shoes)." Can it be Mr. Kruger's habit to go to bed in his boots? --- Quindaro, Kansas, Com Paul's Pajamas. give our youth training, fitting them for the inspired that in this day of competition and so aid the Negro to prepare his children. With such training no man need fear for race. drawing Carpentry, Printing, nothjob in Course and Stenography, Dressmaking and Lincoln, Wilberforce, of the country maintained by our people sherr Vernon, B. S. D., A. M., Pres, Lecture T. Tuskegee, instructor in Mechanical drawing in printing; Joseph Nelson Garrer of Wilberforce nography; James T. 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Mr. Lowe, a district minister, to come and attempt to smooth over matters. A sermon was preached and the congregation dismissed. The two ministers were the last to leave. As they stepped out of the church they were met by a volley of eggs. They ran down the street, but the eggs came thicker and faster. For two solid blocks the ministers were followed and smeared with overripe eggs. The attacking party then turned its attention to the church, which they also spattered. No arrests have been made. THE TRAIN BAN INTO A WIRE A Switchman Stood on the Engine and Was Badly Hurt. PITTSEBURG.—(Special.) Switchman Murphy of the Frisco switch crew was the victim of an accident Wednesday. Several days ago the Frisco section gang removed a cattle guard on the coal branch near Swan's shaft. A farmer had stock in an adjoining pasture and when the section men removed the cattle guard he stretched a barbed wire across the railroad track to keep his cattle in. He neglected to tell the switch crew that he had blocked the track and the switch engine backed down and ran into the wire. Conductor Brutin Switchmen Murphy and Allen were all standing on the footboard and saw the wire just as the engine was about to strike it. Brutin and Allen jumped and were not injured, but Murphy, who was in the middle, did not have time to clear and the wire caught him, cutting a gash as it was ripped over his hip. BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH. Demented Woman Adopts Unusual Method of Selfdestruction. KANSAS CITY—(Special) Mrs. Elizabeth Hessler, demented, living at 504 Miami avenue, Kansas City, Kas. adopted unusual means to end her life Monday morning. She secured a blanket and saturated it with coal oil. Then she wrapped the blanket around her body and set fire to it. Her two children, Charley, aged 4 years and Everett, 7 years, witnessed the act. When the flames enveloped their mother's body the children screamed for help. E. K. Lyons, a neighbor, ran to the house and succeeded in smothering the flames, but the woman was so badly burned that she died. Mrs. Hessler had been slightly demented for several months. Her husband, William Hessler, is a laborer. She was 32 old cars and had lived in Kansas City, Kas., for many years. BIG FIRE AT CARBONDALE, KANSAS Osage County Coal Town Almost Wiped Out of Existence. TOPEKA.—(Special.) Carbondale, a small town, fifteen miles south of here, was almost entirely destroyed by fire Munday morning. The damage will be fully $30,000. All the best wells in town were pumped dry in an ineffectual effort to subdue the flames. The telephone exchange was among the buildings burned. The fire originated in Frank O'Donnell's store. Among the principal losers were Frank O'Donnell, general merchandise; the McColm Hardware Company; Nora Lewis, Hillinery; the Barry Harness Company; Sutherland hall and Sutherland hotel and R. R. McClair Hardware Company. The cause of the fire is unknown. Deaf and Dumb Graduates. OLATHE.—(Special.) The commencement exercises at the deaf and dumb institution in this city were held last Wednesday night and Thursday the school closed, being a month earlier than usual on account of the heavy expense in furnishing water through the winter. There were seven graduates tis year. To Investigate a Woman's L To Investigate a Woman's Death. SALINA—(Special). The authorities at Denver are going to investigate the death of Mrs. Frank Trickle, the daughter of J. G. Mohler, of this city, who died there last summer. It is thought that she was poisoned by a now in jail there, charged now in jail there, charged with killing her husband Fifty Women and Girls Strike. Fifty Women and Girls Strike, COFFEYVILLE.-(Special.) About fifty women and girls employed in the paper mill here went out on a strike Friday. They demanded an increase of wages, which the company declined to pay. Convicted of Murder. LAWRENCE. — (Special.) After thirty-five minutes of deliberation, the jury in the case of Captain J. B. Shane, charged with the murder of Edward Catherman, on February 25, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The defense tried to prove that Shane was mentally unbalanced at the time of the killing, but failed. In his instructions to the jury Judge Smart the insanity phase of the case with special care. No instructions were given except for first and second degree murder. Holton to Have an Ice Factory HOLTON—(Special.) The people of Holton will enjoy the luxury of home made ice this summer. Steve Perkins, a prominent dealer of this city, has almost completed an ice and cold storage plant to cost $12,000 in this city. It is a stone and brick structure and will be in operation in a couple of weeks. Workmen are now placing the machinery in position. The plant will have a capacity of fifteen tons daily. Now for de drinks. ILLINOIS ORATOR WON. Annual Interstate Normal Oratorical Conference Holds in Kawartha, Toronto, Night. test Held in Emporia Tuesday Night. EMPORIA—(Special.) In the annual interstate oratorical contest held here Thursday night between the state normals of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, W. R. Moffet, of DeKalb, Ill., won first place. His subject was "Peter Ableand." James W. Woodford, of Burlington, Kas., for the Emporia normal, received second on "American Diplomacy." Msis Charlotte Day, of Oshkosh, Wis. third. Her subject was "A Plea for Shylock." Edward Vogel, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., was awarded fourth, and Miss Nora Norman, of Warrenburg, Mo., fifth. Their subjects were respectively "Savonarola," and "The Supremacy of American Commerce." The contest was held in Albert Taylor hall, of the normal, and was the greatest contest in the history of that institution. All standing room was taken and there was the wildest enthusiasm. Each school represented had a good delegation. The "Minnesingers," of Cedar Falls, Ia., won great favor and were enclosed six times. After the contest an elaborate banquet was given to some of the visitors from other states in the gymnasium. There were over 300 plates. Professor Hill, of the Kansas normal, was toastmaster, and each state responded. SHE COULDN'T SAY THE PRAYER. A Kansas Judge Offered to Subtract a Year if She Would Repeat It. FORT SCOTT. — (Special.) Had she known the Lord's prayer and been able to repeat it in court Bird McCarty, a professional female horse thief, would have had her sentence reduced from five years in prison to four. In answer to inquiries she told the court that she was taught to go to church and that she knew the Lord's prayer. After passing sentence the court offered to reduce it a year if she could repeat the prayer. She hung her head but could not recall the first line. The sentence stood. She has served a term in the Missouri penitentiary, having been sent up from Bates county for perjury. Here she stole a horse and buggy and with a man accomplice got to Baxter Springs before she was caught. THEY STOLE FROM THE PRISONERS Employees of the State Penitentiary Rob Convicts' Fund of $1,200. TOPEKA.—(Special.) When Warden Jewett took charge of the penitentiary, he found that some of the old sugrordinate employees had been pifering from the prisoners' fund. The stealings' aggregated about $1,200. This fund is made up of money taken from prisoners when they are brought to prison to serve their terms. Thus, while the prisoners were serving time for committing crime, they were being robbed by some subordinates in the prison. Ex-Warden Joseph Tomlinson, under whose administration the funds were stolen, paid the shortage out of his own pocket, but whether he has been reimbursed by those who stole it is not known. Pittsburg to Seek Oil. PITTSBURG.—(Special.) The directors of the Pittsburgh Gas and Oil Company have elected O. K. Dean president of the Commercial club president; Dr. A. O. Blair, vice president; Senator E. F. Porter, secretary; J. A. Nuttman, treasurer, and W. J. Gregg, attorney. The directors formulated plans for aggressive work, and they will commence at once to secure leases on all sides of the city. As soon as stock can be sold and a franchise secured, contracts will be let and prospecting will be begun to ascertain whether or not there is any gas or oil under Pittsburgh. Wants Drinking Clubs Closed. TOPEKA.—(Special.) Rev. J. D. M. Buckner, of the M. E. church, of Olathe, was here Thursday to urge the attorney general to take a hand in suppressing drinking clubs at Olathe. He says there are three there—the Owl, the Social, and the Washington—and he wants them closed. He says all of them have government licenses but nona are chartered. Traveling Man Dies Suddenly THORNING MAIN DIE STUDENT FORT SCOTT.—(Special.) Frank G. Sommers, traveling representative of Parke Davis & Co., wholesale druggists at Detroit, was found dead in bed in his room at Goodlander hotel here Thursday morning. He retired the night before in apparently good health. Heart disease was assigned as the cause. --- Emporia—(Special). Haynes Bros., a local shipping firm, here have received a gold medal as a reward for the finest display of corn at the Paris exposition of 1900. The corn was raised in Lyon county. $50,000 Sult Settled for $300 MARYVILLE.—(Special.) The $50,000 suit of Louis M. Knight, of Fairbury, Neb., against Oscar C. Pusch, of this city, which was to have been tried in the district court here this week and in which many sensational developments were expected, has been brought to a sudden close by a compromise. The defendant pays plaintiff $300 and costs. When a dog growls over his food he likes it; but with a man it is different. For Trying to Kill His Wife. OTTAWA.—Special.) George Gossage, the an who attempted to kill his wife and later on take his own life by cutting his throat on the night of April 11, was before justice Friday charged with shooting with intent to kill. The charge was brought by his wife. Gossage has been in jail since the shooting. He was bound over to the district court under a bond of $1,000. He went to jail. The girl who plays the violin may be sure of having at least one beau. Stops the Cough and Works Off the Cold Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 25c. A match factory—a matrimonial agency. THE BEST RESULTS IN STARCHING can be obtained only by using Defiance Starch, besides getting 4 oz more for same money—no cocking required. A golden opportunity doesn't always glitter. We promise that should you use PUTNAM FADELESS DYES and be disaffirmed from any cause whatever, to refund 10c. for every package. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Mo. Pawnshops are filling up with overcoats. 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STOP is the nervous system when to stop as it takes to ruin your health, sping the filthy weed. A three boxes for $2.50 STOP TOBACCO The nervous system to do so. Use BACO-CURC to stop as it takes away the desire for tobacco in your health, spoil your digestion and poison filthy weed. A guarantee in each box. Price boxes for $2.50, with guarantee to cure or kill. COAL OPERATNRS ANTICIPATE ACTION OF THEIR EHMLOYES. TIED UP UNTIL CONVENTION MEETS There Will be No Mining Until After That Time—Bishop Hoban Asks His Congregation to Pray That "the Miners Be Given Light to Do What Is Best—Strike Is Already Felt. HAZELTON, PA.—(Special.) Anticipating the action of their employees, two of the individual coal companies in this region have practically locked out their men. This step was taken when Coxe Bros. & Co., operating the Beaver colliery, and Calvin Pardee, Sons & Co., owners of the Lattimer mines, notified their employees that they need not report for work until ordered to do so. This order does not apply to engineers, freemen and pump runners, whose services are necessary to keep the mine sfire from water. These companies, it is believed, expect a long struggle, and this belief is strengthened by the fact that at Lattimer work has been suspended on the rebuilding of a fanhouse that was burned last wee kand whose reconstruction was necessary to prevent the accumulation of gases in one part of the stope. The Lehigh Valley Coal Company announces that it will give employment to all men who report for work at once. Meetings of the United Mine Workers locals were held in most of the mining villages in the Hazleton district and delegates were elected to the convention which meets here soon for the purpose of deciding whether or not to make permanent the strike. It is impossible to ascertain the attitude of the locals on the strike question. The meetings were secret and the delegates were ordered not to divulge their instructions until they get into the convention. The district headquarters of the United Mine Workers here are closed, and the leaders, who have just arrived home from Scranton, are out among the men explaining the exact condition of affairs. Seventy five per cent of teh men employed in the various collieries in this (the Lehigh) valley are organized and operations throughout the region will be tied up for some time. It is reported that an effort will be made to start up the Cranberry breaker, operated by Pardee & Co., with non-union stripping, so that all the coal that was not sent to the surface may be prepared for market. A poll of the stripping men, however, would indicate that this would be difficult to do if attempted. These men say that they will continue at work at the steam shovels, but under no conditions would they take the places of strikers at the mines. Samuel Nedrey, a representative of the American Federation of Labor, said the federation would render all possible aid to the miners in their struggle. Bishop Hoban has ordered his congregation to pray for the miners. THEY DIED TOGETHER Wealthy Physician and 19-Year-old Girl Commit Suicide in Hotel. ORO FINO, ID.—(Special). Dr. F. J. Leadbrooke, a prominent physician, and Miss Winnie Booth, the 19-year-old daughter of Rev. G. M. Booth, pastor of the Methodist church at Moscow, Id., arrived at Oro Fino Saturday and spent the night at the hotel. On Saturday evening they attended an Epworth League meeting and then retired to the hotel. They did not appear fro breakfast Monday morning and at noon when the door of their room was opene, the girl was found dead on the bed. Beside her Leadbrooke in a dying condition and he died at 3 o'clock. The couple had taken morphine by hypodermic injection. Leadbrooke was a married man and wealthy. Miss Booth was a school teacher and was employed near Kendrick. Leadbrooke came to Moscow about a year ago from Minnesota and became acquainted with Miss Booth in church work. He was also the physician of the Booth family. Destructive Fire in Perry, O. T. Destructive Fire in Ferry, O. T. PERRY, O. T. (Special.) About 1:30 o'clock Friday morning fire was discovered in the rear of J. A. Shanafelt's book store. An alarm was turned in and the fire department quickly responded, but, despite their efforts, the flames spread with great rapidity, consuming the entire structure. The buildings adjoining, occupied by R. E. Wade, furniture, and B. J. Woodruff, general merchandise, were damaged to a considerable extent by smoke and water. The loss is estimated at about $7,500, which was covered by insurance to the amount of $4,800. The fire is supposed to have originated from the exploding of a gasoline lamp, as no persons had been about the building for several hours. His Widow is Arrested DENVER. COLO.—(Special.) The coronor's jury in the case of Albert Gabrin, member of the Colorado legislature, who died last January, has returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his death from arsenical poisoning at the hands of a person or persons unknown. A warrant was issued on complaint of Chief of Police Armstrong against Mrs. Nellie Gabrin, widow of the dead man, charging her with murder and she was at once arrested at her home by Detectives Carbrey and Sanders. Chicago Packing House Fire. CHICAGO.—(Special.) The plant of the German Provision Company, in the stock yards, was damaged by fire Friday night to the extent of $100,000. For a time it was thought that the that the fire would consume the entire plant, and the fire department of the stock yards district was compelled to send calls for help. hTe flames were fanned by a wind blowing thirty miles an hour, and it was only after a hard fight that the fire was placed under control. PASSED WITHOUT A RECORD VOTE The Only Amendment Was One Againa Poligamy. WASHINGTON—(Special.) The opposition in the house to the statehood bill went all to pieces in the final roundup and the formality of taking a record vote. The Overstreet amendment providing for the union of Arizona and New Mexico as one state, was rather warmly debated for an ohur, and some alarm was experienced less the opposition might carry the house with it. The committee on territories, headed by Chairman Knox, was unanimous against any such proposition, however. The friends of statehood were rallied when the time came to take the vote and the opposition was routed by a vote of 28 to 166. The opposition then went to pieces and there were only a few feeble voices heard to vote "no" when the bill was reported from the committee of the whole house and placed on its passage. In effect, the bill passed by the unanimous vote of the house. hTe only amendment made to the bill prohibits polygamy in the new state, which is a perfunctory amendment, and was not antagonized by anybody. The measure now goes to the senate. There is very little chance for its passage there at this session. It will probably not be taken up until the short session, beginning next December. The delegates profess to be well satisfied with the prospects opening up for the bill at the other end of the capitol. A majority of the senate is for the measure, and the bill will doubtless pass, if consideration of it can be obtained. The bill as passed by the house provides enabling acts, with the exception that the constitutional convention of New Mexico is impowered to designate the name by which the new state shall enter the Union, and in the case of Oklahoma the convention, by irrevocable ordinance, shall express the consent of that state that congress at any future time may attach all or any part of Indian Territory to it. The enabling acts differ from each other chiefly in reference to the public lands appropriated for educational and public purposes. IOWA STATE SCHOOL BURNS Main Building of Institution for Deaf and Dumb Totally Destroyed. Mid Dumb Robby Destroyed. COUNCIL, BLUFFS, IA.—(Special. Fire that started at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon destroyed the main building and the chapel of the Iowa School for the Deaf, causing a loss estimated at $250,000. The buildings were uninsured, the state carry its own risks. was twice overcome by the heat and his hands were badly burned. One woman narrowly escaped being crushed under falling walls and the faces of three firemen were severely burned. There were 260 pupils and sixty-three teachers, officers and employees in the building when the fire broke out. All of them escaped. The entire main building, having ground area of 300x75 feet and four stories high, and the chapel, 125x75 feet, and the contents were burned little of anything being saved beyond the personal effects of the pupils. Superintendent H. W. Rothert, whose office was in the center of the building, lost a valuable library and other effects valued at $1,000. The fire broke out in the floor between the kitchen and the chapel, immediately overhead, and its origin is unknown. The institution is located beyond the fire limits of the city and depends on an independent plant for fire protection. This plant was utilized, but the water pressure was insufficient, and when the city department reached the buildings the chapel they swept north etaoinool the flames were beyond control. From the chapel they swept north to the elevator shaft of the main building, both wings of which were soon in flames. The fire department was helpless, there being no engine, and the pumpingstation lacked power to force the water through the line of hose laid by the firemen. YOUNG BOY KILLS HIMSELE. Accidently Shot a Playmate, Then Took Took His Own Life. SOMERSET, PA.—(Special.) Mark D. Melvaine, aged 11 years, a son of one of the most prominent families of Someset, lies dead at his home and another boy named Bricker, aged 15, is seriously injured as the result of a tragedy which occurred here Sunday. The two boys were out with a Flobert rifle shooting at birds and other objects. Melvaine had the gun and in some way it was accidentally discharged, the bullet striking young Bricker in the mouth, plowing its way clear through the neck and coming out at the back of the neck. Melvaine seeing this, ran to his home. He hastened up stairs with the gun, placed the muzzle to his forehead and discharged the weapon. He was found lying on the floor, the gun beside him. Physicians were quickly summoned, but he died in a short time. While Bricker's wound is serious, it will probably not prove fatal. PITSBURG, PA.—(Special.) Mrs. Catherine Soffel, the wife of Warden Peter Soffel, of the Allegheny county jail, who oriented a plea of guilty of releasing Edward and John Biddle, the burglars and murderers of Grocer Kahney and Detective Fitzgerald, has been sentenced by Judge Frazier, to two years in the Western penitentiary. Mrs. Soffel received the sentence calmly and with no show of emotion. Walter Gorman, the member of the Biddle gang who turned state's evidence, will be sentenced to life imprisonment. TRUCKEE, CAL.—(Special.) The Buckeye Lumber Company's office, box factory warehouse, dry boxes and 2,000,000 feet of lumber were destroyed by fire early Sunday morning. The loss will exceed $200,000. A trainload o fears, standing on a sidetrack by the factory, burned before they could be removed. EASTON, PA.—(Special) The five buildings of the C. K. Williams Paint Company, of this city, were destroyed by fire Sunday morning. Loss, $100,000; insurance small. 2,000 KILLED LA SOUFRIERE DEALING OUT DEATH IN ST. VINCENT. IT MAY YET DESTROY KINGSTOWN One Survivor at St. Pierre—Slow Progress With Burial of Dead—Fort-de France Filled With Refugees in Urgent Need of Food and Clothing—Supplies Are Inadequate. FT. DE FRANCE. MARTINIQUE. (Special.) The United States government tug, Potomac, left Wednesday night for the Island of St. Vincent, south of here, where conditions are reported to be worse. La Sourière, on St. Vincent, was in full eruption. A stream of stone and mud half a mile wide was then issuing from the volcano. Stones two inches in diameter fell twelve miles away. At Kingstown, the capital of the island, the ashes were two inches deep. It is estimated that the total number of deaths in St. Vincent already reaches 2,000. Most of the seven estates on the island have been burned to ashes and it is authentically reported that two earthquakes occurred there. It is believed the submarine cables in St. Vincent have been broken by the disturbances. The present volcanic eruption of St. Vincent is the first since 1812. There is great alarm at Kingstown. That city would not suffer seriously from a simple eruption, but if the Soufriere should "blow her head off" as Mont Pelee did, there might be almost a duplication in a small way of the St. Pierre disaster. The population of the island of St. Vincent being about 42,200. Only 2,700 of these are whites, the others being negroes and Carib Indians. The crater of Soufriere is three miles in circumference and 500 feet deep. St. Vincent is much smaller than Martinique, being only eighteen miles long and eleven wide. SWITCH WAS DEFECTIVE. Several Injured in a Burlington Head End Collision in Nebraska GREENWOOD, NEB. — (Special.) Passenger trains Nos. 1 and 6, westbound and eastbound, on the Burlington road, collided head-on early Wednesday as the result of a switch failing to work properly. Eight persons were more or less injured, but none fatally. The injured are as follows: A. Hazy, New York, traveling man, wrist hurt, not serious; Hubert Marshall, Cincinnati, shoulder sprained; T. M. Moore, cook, dining car, Quincy, Ill., head and back hurt; — McEdwards, Denver, head and spine injured, serious, taken to Omaha hospital; W. C. Harrawalt, Berry Station, Pa. back and shoulders injured; Miss Julia Kunn, Milwaukee, not serious; J. M. Rice, Peoria, head and neck hurt; sleeping car carrier named Mennaetar, not serious. A number of others were adly shaken up, but none of them received serious injuries. All were able to resume their journey, except Mr. Edwards, who resides at 516 Eighteenth avenue, Denver. The west bound train failed to take the switch and the track being slippery the engineer was unable to stop in time to avert a collision with No. 6, which coming slowly up the main line. Both engines were badly battered up, and one engine was thrown from the track. Both trains were delayed three hours. MEXICAN VOLCANO ACTIVE. Shows Indications of an Eruption and People and Flags for Safety People are Fleeing for Safety. GUADALAJARA, MEX.—(Special.) The Colima volcano shows strong indications of a great eruption, and the inhabitants living in the valley at its base are moving to a safe distance from the peak, from which smoke and puffs of flame have been belching for several days. Mount Colima has threatened renewed activity for several weeks, this condition causing the work of construction on the Mexican Central to Manzanilla, passing near the base of the mountain, to cease temporarily. The route of the extension will probably be changed in order to avoid any possible disaster that an eruption might bring. Negress is Protected. GUTHRIE, O. T.—(Special.) Acting on the complaint of white citizens of Pottawatomie county, United States Attorney Speed has commenced action for the arrest and prosecution of several white residents of that section charged with attempting to dispossess Helen Bonner, colored, of her homestead in Cleveland county. It is claimed they threatened to kill her unless she reliquished the claim and left the country. As she has received her homestead entry she is entitled to federal protection. The possession of the claim was contested by her against white men before the interior department and she won the homestead. YOUNG WOMEN WEDDING BUTTER KRUE DES MOINES—(Special.) Following a quarrel between Louis Wade and a young woman named Thomas in a kitchen of the restaurant in which they were employed at Newton Monday night. Miss Thomas plenged a butcherknife into the abdomen of Wade. She alleges it was accidental. Wade will die. The self-made man is never apologetic. In the game of baseball diamonds are trumps. Fruit Is Hurt in New York HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y.—(Special) The cold weather of the past week having continued, with its accompanying frost, much damage has been done to fruit trees. Farmers think the cherry crop has been ruined. In Eastern New York and Western Massachusetts, young trees in general suffered, but many buds were not far enough advanced to be blasted. In the latter part of April all roads lead to the storage warehouse. CANNOT LEASE LANDS. Assistant Attorney General decides That Indians Haxe not That Right VINITA, I. T.—(Special). Judge Springer, attorney for the Cherokee, has been instructed by Chief Buffington to appeal from the decision of the supre emcourt of the District of Columbia, by which the power of the secretary of the Interior to lease Cherokee oil lands is sustained. The case involves the leases on 12,000 acres of oil lands held by Cherokee Oil and Gas company, alleged to be a branch of the Standard Oil Company. ARDMORE, I. T.—(Special.) Willis Vandeventor, assistant attorney general of the United States, has rendered a decision in the Cree kland lease cases that is of the greatest importance to people of the entire Indian Territory, the gist of the opinion is that an Indian has no title to his land until such time as he receives a patient from federal government. The assistant attorney general holds that so long as the lands are not deeded to individuals the secretary of the interior has power to approve leases and the individual cannot resist any such leases. The title to the individual is good only after he has received his deed to his land and no matter if he has filed on the land and designated it as his selection as an allotment, and the selection has been approved, he still has no individual right, the right of lease or contract remaining with the government. MUTILATED HIS VICTIM. Murderer Cut off Nose and Ears, Gouged Out Eyes and Danced on Body BRIDGEPORT, CONN.—(Special.) Lawrence Bressano, a fireman in the Atlantic hotel, crept into the meat room Sunday morning and split the skull of Michael Tornish, the chef, with a meat cleaver. He then took a large butcher knife and slashed the body, cutting off the nosed ears, gouging out the eyes and then cutting strip after strip of flesh from the face of the victim. When the upper part of the body was unrecognizable, Bressano jumped on it and danced from the head to the feet until the arrival of the police, who were attracted by the frenzied yells of the murderer. Bressano then turned his attention to his would-be capturers and was not subdue dunil one policeman broke a clu bover his head and another knocked him senseless to the ground with the brass buckle of a belt. Bressano at police headquarters acknowledged the murder and said he felt better for having committed it. It is believed that trouble over a woman led him to kill his fellow workman. He will be given a preliminary trial. KILLED DURING A CAROUSAL. Wife of Dissipated Son of Wealthy Dis CINCINNATI, O.—(Special.) Mrs. George W. Herget was killed Friday during a carousel at her home in Dayton, Ky. Her husband, William Thornton, Frank Kent, Thomas Shields and William Murray, alias Ford Mattox, have been arrested on the charge of murder. Herget is the son of a wealthy distiller who died at Pekin, Ill., two years ago. Owing to the habits of George his inheritance was left in trust. When his monthly remittance came, Thornton, Kent, Shields and Murray were accustomed to visit the Herget home. One of these occasions continued during the night. At 1 o'clock in the morning the officers were attracted by screaming and found Mrs. Herget lying prostrate in her yard, badly stabbed. She died soon after reaching the hospital without being able to make any statement. The five men were taken out of the house afterward in such condition that none of them was able to talk. The dead woman's maiden name was Mary Sellinger, of Clyde, Ohio. They had no children. MURDER AND SUICIDE Commercial Traveler Kills Young Woman And Then Himself. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—(Special.) J. W. Veight, a commercial traveler representing the Milwaukee Harvester Company, Tuesday evening shot May Welch in the head and then fired a bullet through his own brain. His death was immediate and the young woman died on the way to the hospital. Voight leaves a widow and family at Chaska, Minn. and his parents live at Belle Plain, Minn. The young woman, who was 24 years old, is supposed to have come here from Verdaile. The tragedy was enacted at the Parker house, a second class hotel, whither Miss Welch went after her arrival in the city Monday night and where Voight found her Tuesday even- According to her roommate, May Welch had been here before and had received attentions from Voight, accepting gifts and nfancial aid as well. It is supposed that she had decided to decline any further attentions from him. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS Bret Harte left sufficient literary material for the publication of a new volume of condensed novels. If a small boy is chasing a bumblebee and you hear him yell, it is a sign that he has caught it. Two hundred houses at Bartfelt, the famous hungarian health resort, have been destroyed by fire. Several persons were injured. A little skin-deep beauty is preferred by some females above all else on this dizzy old terrestrial ball. The secretary of war has forwarded to the senate Philippine committee a list of over 250 officers and enlisted men who have been tried in the Philippines by court-martial for offenses against the natives and also a long list of cases of natives tried by military commission. The remains of General W. S. Rosecrans have been taken from the vault at Rosedale cemetery at Los Angeles, and shipped to Washington, D. C., over the Santa Fe route. Without the sense of humor no man can enjoy life right up to the limit DEATH BY FIRE A SCORE ARE DEAD AND ABOUT 200 TERRIBLY BURNED A TRAIN LOAD OF NAPTHA EXPLODES First Explosion Drew Crowd, Then Three Cars Blew Up—Most of the Injured Will Die—Burning Naptha Ran a Mile and a Half Down a Stream and Causes Another Explosion. PITTSBURG, PA.—(Special.) The Sheraden yards of the Panhandle railroad was the scene Tuesday of the most disastrous explosion and fire known in this section for many years. A score of lives were lost and about 200 persons were so badly burned that, according to the pudgment of physicians in attendance, 75 per cent of them will die from the effects of their injuries. The cause of the catastrophe was the explosion of a train of naphtha cars which were being switched at the yard. In the switching, the rear car telescoped from a switch light, causing an explosion which threw the flames fifty feet high. Much of the escaping naphtha run through Cork's run to Espenborough, a distance of one and one-half miles, and caused another explosion, blowing to atoms the Seymour hotel and the Collins house, on River road, and badly wrecking a frame building nearby, in which were congregated 200 or more men from Pittsburg and vicinity, betting on the races and baseball games. Few of the occupants of this building escaped injury, many being badly hurt. Mrs. Seymour and her daughter, of the Sheraden hotel, were seriously, and it is feared, fatally injured. The first car of naphtha exploded about 4:14 o'clock and the spectacle soon attracted a large crowd on streets lining the hills on both sides of and parallel to the railroad. The second car exploded about 5 o'clock, but it was 6:15 o'clock when three more cars of the deadly stuff went up with a roar that could be heard for miles, that the work of destruction really began. A torrent of flame belched forth on each side of the track, sweeping back the terrified spectators like a charge of artillery and sending showers of flame over their heads, resumbling Mont Pelée on a small scale. The scene that followed was beyond description. The successive explosions had heated the air to such an extent that, before the third explosion, many were rendered unconscious by the extreme heat and the gaseous fumes and were being carried away when the torrent of flame swept over the excited crowd. There was an awful hush for a moment, then followed a scene of frenzy. Men and women, their clothing ablaze, their faces scorched and blistered and their hair burned off their heads, ran wildly shrieking, hither and thither, only intent on escape from that awful furnace of fire. Some gave vent to frenzied appeals to kill them and put them out of their misery, and little children, with their curly locks and light summer clothing small pillars of fire, cried piteously as they were swept along by the tide of burning humanity. The townpeople did all in their power for the stricken victim, and all the Pittsburg ambulances were immediately dispatched to the scene, with a corps of physicians. Many of those not seriously burned were removed to their homes in Sheraden, while others were sent to the various Pittsburg hospitals and the dead removed to undertaking establishments in Sheraden and vicinity and to the Pittsburg morgue. TREASURE SHIP SINKS. Goes Down Off Coast of Chile With $1,500,000 in Gold Aboard. VALPAIRASO, CHILE.—(Special.) The German steamer Sakkarah, Captain Pliening, has become a total loss at Huamalin island, off the coast of Chile. The fate of the Sakkarah's crew and passengers is not known. The cargo of the vessel included $1,500,000 in gold specie which was being remitted by the Chilean government. The Sakkarah left here April 24, for Hamburg. The Sakkarah belongs to the Ossmoss line of Hamburg. She was last reported at Valpariso, March 26. She was a vessel of 2,965 tons and was built at Newcastle, England, in 1897. Her dimensions were: Length, 375 feet; breadth, 46.5 feet and depth, 27 feet. Accused of Stealing $40,000. PHILADELPHIA—(Special). H. C. Dell, who until March 29 last, was receiving teller of the Riverside National bank of New York, was arrested here Tuesday on a fugitive warrant, charging him with the larceny of bank funds to the extent of $40,000. According to the detectives, his method was to enter deposits in the books of depositors but fail to do so in the books of the bank. Failed to Ratify It. COPENHAGEN.—(Special.) The indications are that the conference committee of the Danish parliament, which is considering the Danish West Indies treaty, is now hopelessly deadlocked, the opposition refusing the utmost concessions which it is possible for the ministry to offer. The matter now goes over until September. This will necessitate an extension of the ratification time limit, which expires July 24. Considerable public indignation has been aroused by the obstructive tactics of the landsthing. Drouth and Frost in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG—(Special.) Advices received here from the Baltic provinces show that the drouth and frosts have greatly damaged the winter sowings. Thus far there is no trace of grass and the peasants are reduced to feeding their stock on rotten straw taken from the roofts of the cottages. Enormous crowds of starving peasants are flocking to Moscow from the central provinces in search of means of existence. Augusta's town marshal, a man of stern regard for his oath as a peace officer and of unquestioned valor, arrested his 6-year-old stepson last week. A funny damage suit has been brought in Topeka. A man who owes one of the national banks $2,000 has sued the bank for $40,000 for "defamation of character." It makes no difference to the Kaw valley farmer who is raising thirty-two acres of cucumbers whether it rains or not. He is confronted by a pretty pickle whichever way it goes. A Salina bicyclist has it all framed up to win fame for himself and rewn for a particular brand of wheel by coasting down Pike's peak this summer. Some Topeka men who have faith that there is gold in Trego county shale have subscribed $30,000 to erect a mill for the Fahrig process of extraction. The company is to be chartered under the laws of West Virginia. Those who subscribed are: H. P. Dillon, F. W. Freeman, Eugene Hagan, W. H. Rossington, C. J. Lantry, B. M. Davis, W. J. Black, D. W. Mulvane, C. K. Holliday, T. T. Kelly, W. W. Manspeaker, Charles Blood Smith and W. A. L. Thompson. A man has started an establishment for the bottling of soda pop and ginger all in Neodesha. An ambition to marry a rich widow is usually accepted as evidence of wisdom, but a man in Fort Scott was declared insane for it. C. K. Prentice has been elected city marshal of Lawrence for the thirty-ninth consecutive year. He is getting ready to celebrate his golden wedding to the job. The sunshine which the Mercantile club of Kansas City, Kas, is scattering throughout Kansas, is considerably more welcome this week than it would have been before the rain. If all the whiskey bottles which are shipped into Burrton each year were gathered up and worked over into plate glass two inches thick they would be sufficient, according to a local authority, to pave the city. The text book law of 1897, under which the text book commission is letting contracts, requires that all meetings shall be secret. William Allen White writes back from California that the author of "Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight" used to live in Kansas. She is Rose Hartwick Thorpe, and she called on him out there. In 1860, when she was 10 years old, she lived in Wilmington, Wabaunsee county. The annual meeting of the Missouri Bar association at Columbia, May 30 and 31, will not have anything to do with the sand bars in the Missouri river or with beautiful mahogany bars of Boone county. "F. Henry and three wives" registered at the National hotel in Leavenworth a few days ago. He had the three women with him all right, and they attracted more notice than museum freaks, although the entry on the register turned out to be a joke. When the Oto Floto show reached Atchison a man with sporting blood in his veins offered to put up money that his bull pup could whip anything in the menagerie, barring the elephants. Associate Justice Brewer delivered the address to the graduating class at Gallaudet, the national college for the deaf and dumb. The students listened to a good address, whether they heard it or not. Two sawmills are busy near Concordia cutting cottonwood trees into lumber. Their appearance recalls the story of the old timer who offered to make affidavit that he saw a twelve-inch cottonwood board shrink at the rate of one inch in width each year for thirteen years. He then lost track of it, but is firmly of the opinion that it is still shrinking. Among the features of this week's Chautauqua assembly in Lindsborg two lectures by the Rev. Prof. J. Emil Floren, Ph. D., on the timely subject: "Overskiat of Svenska Literatur." Another attractive feature is the following: "KI 4. Svensk andaktssund kyrkan. Ledes af Pastor Johannes Nyvall." Last month a creamery near Abilene bought $42,000 worth of milk. It "employs" 15,000 cows. The police judge in Beloit is glad he is on a salary. During the month of April not a case was tried before him. A lot of girls and no boys compose the clas of '02 in Chetopa. Some faceted tramps robbed Lough Bros.' shoe store in Altamont, Labette county, a few nights ago. They left the following not for the proprietor: "We see your cines all over the country that Sels shoes makes youre f爷et, rock ballet on the track make our cere sore, we will try them, will pa you in the sweete By and By." Anyway, minister's fees to get married don't cost as much as lawyer's fees to get unmarried. Leavenworth has just bought a $600 city ambulance. Clyde Blair, the University of Chicago student who made the 1001yard dash in nine and four-fifths seconds, lives in Fort Scott. By special act Congress has raised the salary of Thomas Ryan of Kansas, assistant secretary of the interior, from $4,500 to $6,000 a year, "so long as the present incumbent shall occupy the office." Mr. Ryan has been doing a lot of extra work and Congress showed its appreciation by adding $1,500 to his salary. Kansas has a delegation of comparatively young men in Congress. Senator Harris, the oldest member of the delegation, is 61. Scott, Curtis, Long and Jackson were all born in 1860. The Wellsville Choral society has given it leader a metronome. For fear the public may think it a new fangled card of cards, or a diamond sunburst, or something of that kind, the local paper explains that a metronome is an instrument designed to beat time for the musicians. The oyster is yearning for his vacation In 1837 Mr. Thomas Savett brought an action against Mise Celine Newton, who had been a out of his nose for his having to kiss her by way of a joke. The defendant was acquitted, and the judge laid down that "when a man kisses a woman against her will she is entitled to bite his nose, if she pleases."—The Kiss and its History Coaling Ships at Sea Some interesting experiments have just been carried out in midcoastal of the British navy. The result is thoroughly successful, and it has been found that battle ships can be coaled while traveling at the rate of ten knots. The Trafalgar and the Express of India were the vessels experimented on. Japan's Mills Run Day and Night. All mills in Japan run day and night and change hands at noon and midnight. The vast majority of workers are children, who work hours at low wages. In one mill, Okaa 2,600 workers are under 20 years of age, and operate only 300 spindles. In America 300 persons operate the same number. Rheumatism Cured at Last. Lake Sarah, Minn., May 12th. The sands will read with pleasure that a cure for Rheumatism has at last been found. 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