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c April 2, 1896. THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT. 3 5 BATTLESHIPS BEIKG MADE READY IN GREAT HASTE. SERIOUS OUTLOOK AHEADt Y Demonstration Against Great Britain Believed to Be Meditated Shore leaves for Naval Office rt EToked Ambassador De Coureel' Early Recall Expected Other Foreign News. Pabis, April i. That the feeling of the government against Great Bri tain and her Egyptian campaign haa grown more threatening is not to be doubted and serious trouble is being predicted in the near future. At the dockyards and arsenals, at Toulon, orders have been received to prepare . number of warships for active ser vice, stores and ammunition are being overhauled and sent on board the ves sels to be prepared for commission, and all naval officers on furlough have been telegraphed to rejoin their ships immediately. The French Mediter ranean squadron is to be strength ened and the second class cruiser, Ce oille, 6,7oti tons, eight 5-ton guns and ten 3-ton guns, having a 6 peed of 19 knots, has sailed on a special mission to the African coast. ' The Matin savs that the resignation of Baron DeCourcel, the French am bassador at London, is merely post poned until the approaching debate in the chamber of deputies. CUBAN REBELS TORTURED. Five Men Condemned to Death by the Oarrote Bangllngly Killed. Havana, April 1. Five Cuban rebels caputred by the Spaniards were condemned to death by the garrote as "murderers, violators and incendi aries," and to-day the sentences were carried out. Troops were drawn up in hollow square and in the middle were placed the chair and post. The condemned men having received the offices of the church, were brought into the square. One of them confessed his guilt and affirmed the innocence of all t he others, who all protested that they were guilt less. The first man to die took his seat in the chair calmly. The iron collar was fixed about his neck and the cap drawn over his face. Then the deputy exe cutioner undertook to apply the screw, but was so excited that ,his hand re peatedly slipped and the victim died ' by slow strangulation, emitting cries . almost to the end. When the second man was brous-ht ud. the derjutv was Valmost on the verge of a collapse as he BUPglingly performed his work. The protests of the officers and the priests forced Ruiz to undertake the carrying out of the third sentence, but he did little better than his assistant had done. The fourth victim was likewise tortured a,nd then Ruiz fled from his nost. leaving his assistants ta put to death the fifth man, who es caped none of the experiences that - h&d attended the deaths of his fel lows. BRADLEY'S BOOM BROKEN. McKinley's Managers Claim to be Sore of a Majority in Kentucky. Lexington, Ky., April 1. McKin ley's managers have heard from the nineteen counties in this state which have so for bald conventions, and late last night gave out the following com pilation: For Bradley, straight Adair, 14; Campbell, 47; Mercer, 14: Taylor, 8 delegates. ' For Bradley first choice and McKinley second choice Kenton, 39; Breckinridge, 19; Jessamine J 1 2. Uninstructed Bourbon, 20; Owen, 10; Oldham, 4; Shelby, 15. . McKinley, straight Barren, 14; Calloway, 5; Carlisle, 3; McCracken, 16; Muhlenburg, 18; Pen dleton, 13; Trigg, H; Morgan, 8. The totals are: Eight counties, McKinley straight, 88; four counties, Bradley straight, 83; three counties, Bradley first choice, McKinley, second, 80; four counties uninstructed, 49. The Brad ley men have been , claiming Bourbon eounty, with her 20 votes, Shelby, With her '5, and Oldham, with her 4. McKinley's manager states here posi tively that these counties were not m- itructed for Bradley. He says that he 'is more than gratified at the showing made by the nineteen counties, and he believes that McKinley will get a majority of the Kentucky delegation to St. Louis. Mrs. Stockton Expelled From Church. San Francisco, April 1. Mrs. M. A. Stockton, one of the principal fig ures in the recent scandal involving the Rev. C. O. Brown of the First Congregational church, has been ex pelled from the church. She wrote a caustic letter of resignation to the deacons of the church after the ver dict in the Brown trial, but the com mittee expelled her without heeding the letter. ( An 'Octogenarian' Rapid Courtship. ' Muncie, Ind., April l. Sunday evening "Shady" Childers, aged 82, met the Widow Winters of Green county, aged 46, and made her an offer of marriage, which she accepted. The ceremony was performed last night. A Free-for-All Election. Excelsior Sfbuigs, Mo., April L The people here decided some days ago not to have any politics in the municipal election next Tuesday. No convention will be held but the race is left open to all so that whosoever may wish to run may do so by simply aking his own announcement There nine officers to be elected and so there have been twenty-one vol- Ateer candidates. f Senator Sherman compares McKin ley 's condition to that of Cleveland in 1 1892, i. e., the politicians don't want h'm, but the people do. OPPOSED TO FREE SILVER Philadelphia Manufacturers Fut Them selves on Kecord. Philapelphia, April 1. The Man ufacturers' Clnb of this city, held a special meeting last night, at which strong resolutions were adopted op posing the free and unlimited coinage of silver. The meeting was, perhaps, the largest in point of attendance the club has ever held. No sooner had the president's gavel rapped than Mr. John Converse offered a resolution to limit speeches to five minutes. This caused considerable excitement, and, after some discussion, an amendment to increase it to ten minutes was adopted. Rudolph Blankenburg, in a most impassioned address, presented these resolutions, which were the ones subsequently adopted: "Resolved, That the Manufacturers' Club, speaking for its members, em phatically denounces as false the statement made by the friends of free silver and echoed by those of free trade that out Philadelphia manufac turers are willing to barter with the silver Senators for the free'coinage of silver in exchange for additional pro tection. "Resolved, That the question of bi metallism can be permanently settled only through an international agree ment, and the Manufacturers' Club declares its unalterable opposition to the free coinage of silver by the United States alone, firmly believing that such a policy would result in dis aster at home and dishonor abroad, and would only operate to place this country upon the basis of silver mono metallism," , He had no sooner finished when a dozen men were on their feet clamor ing to be heard. Of these, Wharton Barker was recognized. He presented an amendment to the resolutions. It favored the "free and unlimited coin age of silver at the ratio of 15 to 1 by the independent action of the United States." This precipitated intense excite ment, and cries of "No, no," came from all parts of the hall. The chair man had difficulty in maintaining order. Once restored, however, James Dobson obtained the floor and said; "While I was in Washington I dared to express my convictions. If we can not have international bimetallism, let us go it alone." He then offered a substitute to the effect that the club accept the declaration of the Minne apolis platform of 1892 and reaffirm it, at the same time expressing'an opinion that international co-operation is nec essary. A further substitute was offered that the club wait until the St. Louis convention announces its platform before any stand be taken. Both substitutes and amendments were overwhelmingly defeated and the Blankenburg resolutions were adopted. THE BIG STRIKE BEGUN. . Chicago Carpenters Quit Work to Hasten the Eight Hour Day. Chicago, April I. -r What- may de velop into a strike that will paralyze the building industry in Chicago for a long period was begun yesterday. So far, about 300 carpenters are out, but the trouble is expected to spread until every one of the 13,000 carpenters in this city will have ceased work. The trouble is about an eight hour day agreement between bosses and the carpenters. Lltye Wonder He Awakened. Ardmore, L T., April L George Cole, a farmer living on Mud Creek, twenty miles west of here, was sud denly awakened last Friday night by some one cutting his throat from ear to ear with a razor. The assassin im mediately fled. The jugular vein is exposed by a horrible, gaping wound, but luckily was not severed. Cole ac cuses J. L. Coffee, his hired man, with committing the deed, and says Coffee and his wife have been criminally in timate. . Neighbors corroborate this statement of his wife's unfaithful ness. Coffee was arrested. Poet's Wife .Seeks Divorce. Fort Scott, Kan., April 1. Mrs. Minnie F. Paine has filed suit in the Bourbon County District court for a divorce from her husband, Albert Bigelow Paine, the well known Kan sas author and poet. The filing of the suit was the first intimation the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Paine had that there were any domestic difficulties between the two. Mrs. Paine's alle gations are very sensational, her grounds for action being gross neg lect of duty, extreme cruelty and adultery. Farmer Shoots His Tenant. Milan, Mo., April 1. Hum phreys, a town sixteen miles west of this city, was thrown into great ex citement at noon yesterday, when the ( word was received that John Tunnel, ' a prosperous farmer near there, had shot and mortally wounded Ed B. Sims, his tenant. It is said that un due intimacy existed between Sims and Mrs. Tunnel, and that Tunnel had repeatedly ordered Sims to va cate his premises, which Sims refused to do. I . Fast Mail Subsidies Refused. Washington, April 1. The Sen ate committee on appropriations took up the question of subsidies to pro posed fast mail routes yesterday. It was discovered that there were about ! twenty subsidies called for, and the , j 3 . . general aemanu woma snow a grand total of cash which the committee did not care to spend at this time.no mat ter how much the service would im prove the mail facilities of the coun try. It was accordingly decided to reject alL , A Governor Assaulted. Phoenix, Ariz., April 1. Governor L. G Hughes was assaulted on the street yesterday by P. J. Clark, cor respondent at Phoenix of the Denver ' Times. Clark struck the governor in the face, the blow breaking the gov ernor's spectacles and causing several face wounds of small importance. Clark is now in the city prison await ing trial. He was formerly agent here of the Rocky Mountain News.and was dismissed by the paper, so Clark as serts, at the governor's instigation, for sending telegrams reflecting upon the executive. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE DELEGATION UNPLEDGED. - EITHER REED OR M'KINLEY While They Recognise Reed as New Eng land's Most Illustrious Son They Have No Particular Choice list ween Hlaa and the Buckeye States- Either Would Salt Thau Very Well. Concobd, N. H., April 3. The NewIIampshireRepablicans held their State convention here to-day to elect delegates to the National Republican convention at St Louis. United States Senator William E. Chandler presided, and was greeted enthusiastically when he arose to speak. He bitterly as saHed the Wilson tariff bill, and con trasted the financial showings of the administrations of Presidents Harri son and Cleveland. Be declared that there would be a great reaction in No vember against the Democracy, and he hoped it would be under the lead ership of Thomas B. Reed. Only one ticket for delegates-at-large was named. Stephen S. Jewett of Laoonia, General Frank S. Streeter of Concord, Charles T. Means of Man chester and Colonel James A. Wood of Aeworth. These four were elected by acclamation. George A. C. Clark of Manchester, Stephen A. Gale of Exe ter, Oscar Hatch of Littleton and Dexter Richards of Newport were chosen as alternates. Colonel Frank Rollins of Concord offered a substitute financial plank, identical with that adopted by the Massachusetts convention last week as an amendment to the resolutions, but Chairman Putney, Senator Gal linger and others opposed the proposi tion and the amendment was lost by au overwhelming viva voce vote and the adoption of the platform as pre sented by the committee was made unanimous, it opens with denuncia tion of the Democracy and calls for the enactment of currency laws that will provide a circulating medium in gold, silver and paper which will always be interchangeable at its face value because each and every dollar of it is of the same purchasing power as a gold dollar; demands liberal appropriations for an adequate navy and coast and harbor defenses, and internal hr provements, a fair and generous treatment of Union veter ans, a foreign policy characterized by sturdy Americanism, and closes: "We recognize as most conspicuous among the candidates, New England's noble and illustrious son, the lion. Thomas B, Reed of Maine, and that pure and able statesman and champion of pro tection, the Hon. Wm. McKinley of Ohio. We will give the electoral vote of New Hampshire to any nominee who worthily represents the party, but we prefer one of these because either is in himself a platform." FOUR OPINIONS. Carter Booms Cameron, Clarkson Allison, Hahn McKinley and Manley Reed. St. Louis, Mo., April 1. United States Senator Thomas Carter, chair man of the Republican National com mittee, asked last night: "Is it true that you have discerned the premoni tory rumbling of a boom for Don Cameron, in the Northwest?" replied: "It is more than a premonitory rum ble. It is roaring. I believe we will get the votes not only of Montana, and other Northwestern States, bnt that the votes of the West generally will come to him naturally." "Then you apprehend some trouble over the silver question in the con vention?" . "Now that is an entirely different matter, and one about which I will say nothing." Colonel William Hahn of Ohio, the McKinley leader, professed to be una ble to see how the opposition could head off McKinley. , Secretary Joseph H. Manley was more reticent. When his attention was called to the latest estimate of McKinley's strength made at Wash ington by General Grosvenor in which the Ohioan was given 255 votes on the first ballot, out of the total of 372 del egates elected up to Saturday night, he studied the figures closely for a long while, and then said: "This only shows that they are still claim ing. They can claim all they want. What we want.and what we are going to have, are votes." D"The situation in a nutshell is this: Nobody will enter the convention with votes enough by ab'it 100 or 150 to nominate him on the nest, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth or tenth ballot. The nominee, therefore, will be a second choice man. McKinley leads to-day in the matter of instructions, and will hold the lead. Allison is the strongest second choice, and will gain in strength right along. I therefore pre dict Allison's nomination," said James S. Clarkson of Iowa. A Republican Straw From California. San Francisco, April 1. As the result of a canvass made by the Exam iner to ascertain the presidential pref erences of the leading Republicans of California, it is announced that Mc Kinley heads the list with 181 votes. Fifty-two men expressed themselves as in favor of Allison and 28 in favor of Reed. A Noted Singer Stricken Blind. Louis vii.LE, Ky., March 31. Mme. Duret Berthel, leading contralto of Louisville, one ' of the best known vocalists of the South, has been stricken blind, and the probabilities are that her affliction will be perma nent. Twins Marry Twins. Cleveland, Ohio, March 31. At Burbank, Wayne county, this State, Sunday night, Irene V. and Irena V. Repp, twin sisters, and Vernon R. and Vertol R. Stair, twin brothers, were married by the Rev. Nathaniel Lewis. GOOD WORDS FOR CUBANS. The Epaalards Kept on the Defensive by the Rebels. New York, April i. Among the passengers on the steamer Yucatan, which has just arrived here, was El bert Rappelye, the newspaper corre spondent, who after three months' stay in Cuba, was banished from the island by a decree of Captain General Weyler. He said: "I unhesitatingly state that within three months the in surgent cause in Cuba will be tri umphant if the United States govern ment will grant belligerent rights and give to the Cubans anything resem bling a fighting opportunity. The Spaniards are now on the de fensive. Every battle fought in Cuba in the last three days haa ben invited by the rebels. The Cubans now practically hold the island of Cuba. The troops of Spain have been, as they are now, entirely on the defensive. When General Maceo started on his western cam paign one-third of his men, 5,000 in number, were unarmed. His forces have engaged in battle with but three cartridges each, depending entirely on the capture of the enemy's train for the ammunition to continue the fight These men fight like tigers, and with the supply of arms and am munition supplied by the Bermuda are again marching toward Havana. If the Cubans had enough arms they could put 100,000 men in the field. The insurgent troops are well officered and as perfectly organized as the Spanish. The Cubans have been so near Havana that the burning planta tations could be seen from the house tops, and the Cubans have captured places only a few miles from the capital." Big Telephone Profits. Boston, Apiil 1. The stockhold ers of the American Bell Telephone Company to-day reelected the old board of directors and voted to in crease the capital stock ten per cent to $33,650,000. The statement for the year ending December 31, shows: Gross earnings, $5,124,955; increase, 8276,708; total expenses, $1,911,193; in crease, $186,733; net earnings, $3,213, 759; increase, $89,974; surplus, $2,151,. 011. The net earnings are about six teen per cent on the capital stock. Runaway Team Demolishes a Saloon, St. Joseph, Mo., April 1. The front of Frank Haffenbrandt's saloon was demolished yesterday afternoon by a runaway team. Frank Riding, the driver, was perhaps fatally in jured, and one of the horses was mu tilated so badly that it had to be killed. As a result of the demolition of the saloon front, whisky, beer and other ardent spirits flowed in rivulets along the sidewalks. Sues Snodgrase for Damages. Chattanooga, Tenn., April 1. Colonel John R. Beasley has entered suit in the Circuit court of this county against Chief Justice Snodgrass for $10,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the pistol shot inflicted on the person of the former by the latter in a personal difficulty growing out of an offensive publica tion, in which Beasley charged the Chief Justice with improper conduct on the bench. Ruined by Strong Driuk. Lawrence, Kan., April 1. Last night, on information from A lton, I1L, Charles Conwell, United States attor ney of Wyoming in 1878, was arrested for forgery. He had stolen some clothing at Eudora, which led to his capture. He made a full confession. His wife lives in Kansas City. Drink caused his downfall. Cyrus Leland for Chairman. Topeka, Kan., April 1. Cyrus Le land, member of the National Execu tive Republican committee from Kan sas, is a candidate for chairman of the National committee, and it is political talk here that in case McKinley is nominated for President he will ask the committee to make Leland chair man. A Cannibal Queen Seeks Annexation. San Francisco, April i. The cap tain of the Tropic Bird, a barke ntine now here, claims that Mamea, the cannibal queen of the Society islands, wants her dominions, which include the fertile islands of Kalatea and Huahine, annexed to the United . States. On Ills Way to Be Married. Indianapolis, Ind., April 1. Gen eral Harrison, h is private secretary and Dan Ramsdell, ex-marshal of the District of Columbia, left this after noon for New York, where General Harrison will be married next Monday to Mrs. Dimmiek. For Defamation of Character. Fort Scott, Kan., April 1. F. D. Mayrick, a wealthy farmer of Lynn county, Kansas, was to-day sued in the district court of Bourbon county by John Schmitz, a farmer of Bourbon county, for $5,000 for alleged defama tion of character. NEWS IN BRIEF. Four steamers landed 3,484 immi grants at New York. The Illinois Supreme court declares the coal-weighing law unconstitu tional. Mrs. John Martin of San Francisco shot her husband because he neglected her. Ex-Governor Thomas Seay of Ala bama, a prominent Democratic states man, is dead. William Royce pleaded guilty in a Sioux City court . to the murder of Nellie Patten. The secretary of the Texas Populist committee says that there will be no fusion with the Republicans. Newberger, Frankel &Co., and Levi, Newberger & Co. , of Louisville, Ky., assigned. Charles E. Clark of Omaha has been appointed superintendent of , the Childs-Drexel Printers' Home. ' It has been discovered that Oklaho ma is entitled to but two votes in the Republican convention. Six delegates have been elected. THE TAYLORS MUST HANG SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT THEIR CONVICTION WAS JUST. TO BE EXECUTED APRIL 30. The Missouri Supreme Court Overrules All of the Allegation of Error In the Famous Case and Affirms the Judgment of the Trial Conrt The Evidence Was Overwhelming Jefferson Citt, Mo., April 1. The State Supreme court has affirmed the convictions of murder in the first degree of William P. and George E. Taylor, the notorious murderers of the Meeks family, and sentenced the brothers to be hanged April 30. The opinion, which consists of forty typewritten pages, opens: "It appears that the defendants were intimate as sociates of Gus Meeks; that Bill Taylor and Gus Meeks had, prior to May 10, 1894, been jointly indicted by the grand jury of Sullivan county for Btealing cattle. To this charge Meeks pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the penitentiary; but at the same term Bill Taylor's case was continued. Meanwhile Bill Taylor had been charged with the crime of arson and was indicted, and before his departure for Jefferson City Meeks was taken to Linneus and testified against Bill Tay lor in the arson case. Meeks arrived at Milan on the 7th of April. Shortly after, Bill Taylor, cognizant of the object of that return, made threats against Meeks. He was asked what he intended to do with Meeks. Said he; 'Will have to get Gus out of the way. I'll shoot him if I have to.' He had at other times made frequent threats against Meeks." After detailing the story of the crime as told by the witnesses, the opinion first takes up the assumed error in the action of the court in de nying the motion of defendants for a rule on certain attorneys to show by what authority they appeared on be half of the prosecution. It is held that this motion having been made and denied is purely a matter of ex-1 ception and an exception taken atone term but not preserved, cannot be galvanized into life by incorporating it into a line of exceptions taken at a subsequent time. In regard to the challenges of the panel of forty veniremen, it is held that the array must be in writing, and this is the case where the common law has not been abrogated by stat ute, and if challenges be made first to the polls, they cannot be made after ward to the array. Among the thirty-one assignments in the motion for a new trial, the court says, the seventeenth states that the evidence is not sufficient to sup port the verdict, but this argument seems to have been abandoned of late. Certainly more cogent evidence of guilt is rarely presented in a criminal cause than the record herein furnished. "The objections presented by the defendants' counsel that both were not present is not warranted by the instructions. Each of them required the presence of each of them in order for the conviction of both. The law required the prosecution to prove the defendants' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.but it did not require it to prove an alabi beyond a reasonable doubt." In closing the opinion says: "At one time one of the jury sent for twenty-five cents' worth of beer, and it was consumed by five or six of the jurors. In the absence of proof that the jurors were intoxicated byit.noth ing occurred which would constitute a reversible error. The game of cards played by the jury was not considered a serious affair. Having fully consid ered all the objection and discovering no substantial error lu the record, we affirm the judgment and direct the sentence to be pronounced. The day of execution is set for April 30." The opinion was written by Judge Sherwood. A MOTHER'S MAD CRIME Mrs. Demos of San Francisco Kills Her Three Children and Herself. San Francisco, April 1. The asphyxiated bodies of Mrs. Olga Deusa and her three little children were found this morning by her husband, a prosperous jeweler. Deuss said that he had been to the lodge last night, returning about daylight to-day. Mrs. Deuss left a note to her hus band, indicating her intention to com mit suicide, and declaring that her children must die with her. The mar tial relations of the pair had lat'ly been unhappy. "! , Murdered for Money. 1 Wichita, Kan., April I. W. W. Huddlestone, a Douglas stock raiser, came to Wichita last Wednesday on business, but failed to return. A search was begun and yesterday morn ing the Rev. Mr. Moore and his sons found a hat which proved to be Hud dleston's, in some brush on the bank of the Walnut river. In the roots of the brush, which were submerged, Huddleston's body was found and an inquest revealed bullet holes. There is no doubt Huddleston was murdered, and while he had enemies it is thought the deed was done for bis money. A School History's Removal Asked. Chelsea, Mass., April 1. The board of aldermen, by a vote of 11 to 4, has requested the school commission to remove. 'from the public schools Montgomery's history of the United States. This is the result of agitation started two months ago by members af the G. A. R. The Missouri delegation in Congress appeared before the River and Harbor committee and made a plea for money to improve the Missouri and Missis sippi rivers. . CONVENTION TICKETS Ton Must Get "r,hm From Kergeaat-at-Arms Byrne. St. Louis, Mo., April 1. The sub committee of the Republican National committee met at the Southern hotel yesterday for the transaction of busi ness in connection with the National convention to be held here next June. It was decided that the distribution of presrtiekets to the convention will be made by the press committee ap pointed by the citizens' committee of St. Louis. All applications for press tickets should be directed to Mr. T. E. Byrnes, sergeant-at-arms, Minneap olis, Minn. All applications for seats to be distributed to distinguished guests throughout the country should also be made to Mr. Byrnes, at Minneapolis. Each delegate "will receive three tick ets, Including his own, and the people from each state and territory desiring admission to the convenrion will have to apply outside of the tickets hereto fore spoken of, to the delegates to the convention from their, respective states for tickets. The tickets for members of the Grand Army of the Republic will be given to the national council of administration, , and dis tributed by their direction. All tick ets to the convention will be issued on Monday, June 15, by the sergeant-at-arms, at the convention building. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Henry Hilt, Hotel Porter ghoots Down His Wife and Commit Suicide. Kahsas Citt, Mo., April 1. Wife murder and suicide were the crimes Harry Hill, a colored man, committed in his rooms at 612 Cottage Lane at 3:55 yesterday afternoon. Just a week ago yesterday morning, Hill, accompanied by his wife', Bettie, arrived in Kansas City from Carroll ton, Mo. Hill secured a place as scrub man at the Auditorium hotel and everything seemed bright and happy. Hill seemed to be of an exacting dispo sition and jealous of his wife's good name. She, since coming to Kansas City, had formed the acquaintance of Millie Washington, and her husband objected to the association. Yester day the Washington woman and Mrs. Hill started down town. Hill ran after them, brought his wife back to his home, killed her and then com mitted suicide. Flynn by Acclamation. KiNGFlsnER, Okla., April 1. The Oklahoma Republican congressional convention met here yesterday and nominated Hon. Dennis T. Flynn for Congress for his third term. The con vention was fully attended and very harmonious. Missing Mlssourlan Located. . ' Dexter, Mo., April 1. Judge E. W. Thompson, Probate judge of Stod dard county, who so mysteriously dis appeared from Cairo a few days ago, has notified his friends here that he is at Paducah, Ky., without money. He had $1,200 when he disappeared, and it is presumed he was robbed. , Worst In Its History. Buffalo, N. Y., April L Western New York is having its annual floods and they are the worst in its history. In East Buffalo the flooded district covered an area of over four square miles and much damage was done. THE MARKETS. Kansas Cm, Mo April 1 There wa fair demand for the few samples of wheat offered to-dny. There was no change in prices. Some inquiry for wheat out of store was reported. Hard Wheat-No. 2, 6lc; No. 8, 43o; No. 4, 40 4c; rejeotod, 35i$34c; no grade, 30Jo. Soft Wheat No. 2, 7ao. No. 3 05a, No. 4 tO5Sc; re jected, 48o. Spring Wheat No. 2, 6 c i No. 3, 61o; rejected. 4iu3o; white spriiig -wlioot 43&6JO. Corn-No. 2, 23c; No. 8, 25e: No. 4, 2c white corn. No. 2, ilo; No. 8. iio. Oats No. 2 16 t 4o: No. 3, IS Mo; No. 4. Mot llHo! no grade, lie; No. 3 white, 196) No. 8 white, lfSWc. r Rye No. 2,33?3o; No. 3, 8'a Bran 41 4;lo in lOJ-lb sacks: bulk, fle lesa Hay Timothy, choice, Sllttll.Wi No. 1, WS0 dlO 5); No. 2, $78.50 No. 3, $l. i.S0; choice prairie, $4.5Jg7.50; No. 1, $3.50$7.25; No. 2, J45 !5.25jNo. 3, $.1.50 44.26; No. , $3; straw $3.5ii4. Eggs Strictly fresh, S5io dozen. . Poultry Hons, 6v,c; springs, IJcj broilers, 2 to i'.'t pouaJi. from $3.0 )3.U dona; roosters, l.ro ; young, 17'4c Turkeys Hens, lie; gob bler, lOe; old, bo. Ducks 049 4e. Geese, tat, iGxa. Pigoous, 9c$4$l per dozen. Butter Creamery, extra fancy separator,18o; first, I8c dairy, fancy, 10c; fair, 12c; store packed, fresh, lOjllc; packing stock, 7o; country roll, fancy, 14c; clioi je, 11 J 12a Applos Single barrels sell as high as $3.50. Fanoy stand. Wine Bap and Willow Twi, in a small way, $"; 5. M; fair to gool, $i5 '3.7i per barrel; lien Davis, $1 for fancy etock in a mall way; inferior stock soil as low as $2, per barrel. Potatoes Home grown. 22 23o in a small w.iy ; choice So par bushel in ear lots; fancy, 21a per bushel. " Chicago Board of Trade. CirroAoo, April 1. The roiiowiar it ths range of prioej of ths gr uu and prorUion mar ket on the board of tra le : High Low. Close. Close, Mar.OT, Mar. 21. Wheat March..., ... Way... July IX) I'M March May beptomber. . Oais March....... May J'iy POKK March May July Labd March May July Bhort Ribs March May.... July , 62 63 S8V4 20 iUX 18M 1 IDS I 880 8 09 S 10 ft 26 4 60 4 65 4 75 (S3 63 63 1, 28 i9H 31 2H ay, ID 8 224 8 62 s 00 & OS 5 20 4 52 4 57H 4 67H 8 61) 8 32H 8 77d 8 5 I2V4 b Zi 07 B at 4 65 4 75 4 57 a Live Stock. Kansas Cm, Ma. April 1 Cattle Be coipt. 6,543; caWes, 467; shipped yesterday, 1.618 cattle, 169 calves, The market was doll and steady to 10c lower. Drossod beef and export steers $3.25(34.00 Texas and Indian steers ....$2. 'i$3.5 Covrs and heifers $1.50 0,3.65 Blockers and feeders $3 00 1 8.85 CaWei $7.50 4 10.50 Hogs Receipts, 11,759; shipped yesterday. 876. The market was 5 to 10 cents lower. The top sals was $3.75 and the balk of sales from $3. W to $3.7. Sheep Keoeipts, 7,337: shipped ye terday 550. The market was to to 15 lower and dulL . Following are to-day's sales: 4 spg lbs, 6ft... ...................8 00 131 lambs, C 4 05 12 lambs, 65. ,..4 0$ HIKa. sheep, 78... 3 1. 14 sheep, 8 1