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COLD BLOODY 3IURDER WYOMING WHITES BLAMED FOR INDIAN TROUBLE. The United States District Attorney and Deputy Marshal Ileport the Result of ?helr Investigation Into the Matter to The Attorney General. Washixoto, Sept. 2. The depart meet of justice has recieved from the United States attorney and marshal of Wyoming the official reports of their Investigation Into tlie Bannock Indian troubles made by direction of the at torney general. The district attorney says: "I have no doubt whatever that the killing of the Indian Tanega on or about the 13th of July was an autrociousand cold blooded murder, and it was a murder porpetrated on the part of the con stable, Manning, and his deputies in pursuance of a scheme and conspiracy to prevent tne Indians from exercising a right and privilege which is, in my opinion, very clearly guaranteed to them by the treaty before mentioned. Should prosecution on the part of the United States be determined upon it would be useless to commence it be fore a commissioner. As the law is now, we are bound to bring prisoners before the United States commissioner nearest to the place of arrest, and in this case it would bo before Mr. Pet tigrew, the commissioner at Ma rys vale. 1 am informed that he is thor oughly in sympathy with the so-called settlers In that region and that he ad vised the constable, Manning, and his posse, that the provisions of tiie treaty under which the Indians claimed tho right to hunt upon the unoccupied lands of the United States had, for some reason, ceased to be operative. Eence, I think to cause the arrest of these men and take them for hearing before this commissioner would simply result in their discharge. The United States deputy marshal who Investigated the trouble s ays that after a careful investigation of the whole affair he finds that the reports cade by settlers charging the Indians with wholesale slaughter of game for antonness, or to becure the hides, have been very much exaggerated. "During my stay in Jackson's Hole," he continued, "I visited many portions of the district and saw no evidences of such slaughter. Lieutenants Gard ner, l'arker and Jackson of ihe Ninth United States cavalry, who conducted scouting parties of troops through all portion's of Jackson's Hole, also found ' this to bo the case. On August 13 I visited a camp of Bannock Indians who had been on a hnnt in Jackson's Hole. The women of the party were prepar ing the meat of seven or eight elk for winter use, and ever' part of tho ani mal, even to tho brains, entrails and sinews Was being utilized either for future food supply or possible source of profit. "In connection with the trouble be tween the Indians and the whites, I pent 6oino time inquiring into the causes for the unconcealed hostility of the Jackson's Hole people against ' the Indians. There was little or no ura plaint among the settlers of offensive manners on the part of the Indians. Except in rare instances, they have kept away from the houses of the set tlers and have not been in the habit of begging. In no instance has there ever been a well authenticated ease where a settler has been molested by an Indian. The killing of game by - Indians and by the increasing number of tourist hunters threatens to so de plete the region of big game, deer, elk, moose, etc., as to jeopardize the occupation of the professonal guides at Jackson's Hole. It was decided at the close of last reason to Veen tho Indians out of the region this year, and the events of this lummer are the results of carefully prepared plans. This was admitted by United States Commissioner l'ettigrew f Marysvale and Constable Manning said: 'Ws knew very well when we started in on this thing that we would bring matters to a head. Some one wasrjo'ng to be killed. perhaps some on both shies, and we decided the sooner it was done the better, so that we could get the matter before the courts.' If a full investigation of the trouble Should be held, the fact would be es tablished that when Constable Mann ing and his posse of twenty-six settlers arrested a party of Indians on July 13 and started with them for Marysvale, he and his men did ull they could to tempt tho Indians to try to escape In order that there might be a basis of justification for killing some of them." MINISTER TOO SEVERE. China Demands the Kecall of the Itrit Isb Representative at l'rkln. London, Sept 2. A special dispatch from Pekin says that the Tsung Li Vmen, or Chinese foreign office, has Instructed the Chinese minister in London to demand the recall of tho British ambassador at IVkin, N. R. O'Connor, owing to the letter's men acing attitude in connection with the demands made by Great Britain for the appointment of a commission to in quire into the Ku Cheng massacres. Minneapolis Honors It Namesake. Boston, Sept 1. A handsome solid silver service, a large picture of Min neapolis and an ugright piano of Min neapolis manufacture were presented to the cruiser Minneapolis at anchor in the Boston harbor to-day at noon by a committee of leading citizens of that city. The plate consists of eight pieces of solid silver, made according to special design. All are covered with engravings which typify the in dustries and resource of the city of Minneapolis and nautical emblems. The Hamburg-American company has ordered of Uarland Wolff of Bel fast a twin screw, 20.0'JO ton steamship which will be the largest in the world. It will be chiefly employed as a freight steamship, but w ill accommodate :'00 eabin passengers and J,50o steerage passengers. Her delivery to her own ers is to be made in ten months. At Cairo, 111., Jacob Kline, a wealthy brick manufacturer, was killed by a hot kiln of brick caving in on him. The fire department was called out and cooled down the b-lek so that the body was reached and taken out a shapeless mass of charred flesh and bo.B' WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Improvement In Market! Continue at m Marvelous Gait New Yokk, Sept. 2. It. G. Pun fc Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Improvements in markets and prices continues, and whereas a few months ago everybody was nursing the faint est hopes of recovery it has now some to be the only question in which branches, if any, the rise in prices and the increase of business may go too far. A 6trong conservative feeling ia finding expression, not as yet control ling the markets or industries, but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in prices clearly checks future business. But encouraging features have great power. Exports of gold continue, but are met by syndicate deposits and ex peoted to cease soon. Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinder Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved during the week. Important steps toward reorganiza tion of great-railroads gives hope to investors. Labor troubles are for the present less threatening and some of importance have already been settled. The industries are not only doing bet ter than anybody expected, but are counting on a great business for the rest of the year. The advance in prices of iron and. its products has added about J a ton more in a single week to the prices of Bessemer iron at Tittsburg and yet the great steel com panies are buying wherever they can, while tho air is full of reports that this or that fiuished product will still further advance. Lead is still $3.52, though the pro duction in the first half of 18'J5 was 10T,970 tons, with increasing stocks from 3,158 tons in January to 8,511 tons in July. Coke is demoralized with sales at Si. 10 per ton. Wool has been speculatively hoisted, so that sales have fallen below last year's, in August 22,V0tt,400 pounds, of which 10,902,1100 were foreign, against 25,748,850 last year, of which only 4,53f 1:00 were foreign. Tne prospect for wheat has hardly improved this week, although the price has fallen one-fourth of a cent. ' t orn is coming forward more freely, nnd the September prices have declined a quarter of a cent with tho promise of a great crop; pork and lard are a shade lower. AN INDIAN CENERAL DEAD Samuel l'arker. a Full lllood of Re noun. No More. EiuroErouT, Conn., Sept 2. Gen eral Ely Samuel Parker died suddenly last night at the house in Fairfield of Arthur Brown, where he came from New York yesterday. He was 75 years of age and was a full blooded Indian. He was born on the Towanda reserva tion in New York and was chief of the Seneca tribe. His Indian name was Do-ne-hoh-ga-wa, which means "Keeper of the West ern gate." lie was educated at Elli cottsville, N. Y., where lie studied the profession of civil engineering. He also studied law and was admitted to the New York bar, but never prac ticed. Early in life he became inter ested in Indian affairs and went to Washington, where he soon became known as the most earnest advocate of the Indian cause in the capital. He lived for a time in Galena, 111., where he was a friend of General Grant Mr. Parker received a commission as captain in the United States army from President Lincoln and joined General Grant at Vicksburg in 18(12, where he was made a member of the general's staff with the rank of colonel. lie served through the war and for some time acted as General Grant's private secretary. He wrote tho famous surrender of Lee at Appo mattox in 1805. He received the rank of brigadier general from Grant, and when the lat ter became president was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs, which he held until 1871. For several years past he had been superintendent and architect of police stations in New York. General Parker married Miss Minnie Sackett of Washington, D. C, in I8ti7. President Grant attended the marriage ceremony and gave the bride away. Ho was a Scottish Rite Mason, a mem ber of the Loyal Legion of the Army and Navy of Eno post, G. A. It., in New York city. He was an ardent Repub lican and an eloquent speaker. FHIImsteriiig Expedition Run Down. New Yokk, Sept. 2. Emissaries of the Spanish government went to New London, Conn,, last night on informa tion for which the consul general of Spain in this city paid SU'0, that a Cuban filibustering expedition was on the point of sailing from Gardiner's Bay, opposite New Loudon. The in formation implicated Captain Dillon, of renown in similar undertakings during revolutionary troubles in Ilayti, now commanding the steamer Commodore, of 170 tons burthen, which has hitherto been engaged in fishing. The "supplies" that the Com modore is taking on board are de clared to be arms and ammunition made up in packages to simulate or dinary merchandise. The ostensible purpose of the Commodore was given out as a fifhing expedition to South port, N. C. To-day the Commodore was seized by federal authorities. Another Expedition Seized. Washington, Sept, 2. The treasury department has received a telegram from Collector of Customs Cottrell at Cedar Keys, Fla., saying that at the re quest of the Spanish consul at Tampa he had seized at a point twenty miles from Cedar Keys, 150 Hemingto'n rifles, a quantity of cartridges and eleven kegs of powder, which were to have been shipped to Cuba. C S. Baker, coiored, of St Joseph, Mo., lias given a tract of land for a home for dependent ex-slaves, the house to be built of bricks given by the people of the United States. Re quests for one brick have been sent to the governors of every state in tho union and many of them have re sponded. Hundreds of people aia tending small sums, the price of brick. TT. II. Holmes probably will not be taken to Indianapolis for trial unless there is a failure to convict him in Philadelphia. ltetecUve Geyer and Garey have decided to recommend trial la Philadelphia STOPPED THE DEBATE. Shameless Conduct of a Kentucky Audi ence Toward .11 r. Itradley. Eminksck, Ky., Sept. 2. The sixth joint debate in the teries of twelve, which was to have taken place be tween Colonel W. O. Bradley and Gen eral P. XV. Hardin, at Eminence, yes terday, was called off on account of the noisy demonstration of the crowd. Colonel Bradley was to have opened and closed the debate. When he at tempted to begin the noise and dis turbance of tho crowd was so great that he was compelled to sit down. W. P. Thome, the Democratic chair man, arose and appealed to them for order, but tins crowd paid no attention to him. Colonel Bradley attempted again and again to speak, six times in all. bvt failed to get a hearing. See ing that any attempt to speak was in vain, he gave it up, saying that tho noise was more than he could stand, and refusing most positively to proceed farther. The colonel said: "I wish I had my voice a minute, so I could tell this crowd what utter contempt I hold them in." Then folding up his manu script he left the stand. The action of the auhienco is condemned by the chairman of the Democratic committee as well as the Republicans, who were present, and they declare it is an out rage and di'-ci'ii'-e to Henry county. AN ILLINOIS MOB FOILED. One Hundred Men Seek a Murderer, but the Sheriff Outwits Them. Jonf.hboho, III., Sept. 2. A mob of over 100 determined men came to the jail at I o'clock this morning and de manded that John Jones, who murder ed Mrs. Mendenhall at the Anna fair grounds yesterday by choaking her to death, be delivered to them. They carried a rope, but were quiet and orderly. Sheriff Day had heard of the plan to lynch Jones and sent him in charge of deputies, by carriage, ten miles to Dongola, where he was taken on the Illinois Central to Cairo and placed in jail. The mob only dis persed after being allowed to search the jail. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. A negro who wronged a white girl in Simpson county, Mississippi, was lynched. A receiver has been appointed to straighten the tangle of the estates of the Bcckwith brothers, who are both crazy at New York. Burnett Goldman committed suicido at New York because he could not buy his daughter a wedding trousseau. Police Commissioner Roosevelt has decided that women may ride horse back straddle in New York's Central park. Holmes has admitted that the body found at Indianapolis was that of Howard Pietzel, but says that he did not murder the boy. Southern pig iron was again ad vanced 50 cents a ton. Miners' wages have been increased Ul per cent since June 1 in Alabama. Zella Niehokuis has amended her complaint against George Gould and charges that he assaulted her in his office until her life was endangered. The convention at Wintersct, Iowa, to choose a 6tate senator, cast 4,000 ballots without a choice. An Indiana Republican fdose to ex President Harrison says that Senator Quay's victory in Pennsylvania has de termined Harrison not to allow his name to be pushed for the presidential nomination. Quay is said to be for McKinley. Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century, and Clark Davis of the Phila delphia Public Ledger are the latest candidates for the congressional libra rian ship. The citizens of Beaver, Pa, Quay's home, tendered him a royal welcome on his return home. M. I). Stewart, a young busines man of Smithion, Mo., and Miss D.iisv M. Mauser, aged 17, daughter of Rev Hauser of Lincoln, eloped to Windsor and were married. The curators of the Missouri state university have arranged a ten weeks course for the benefit of practical farmers beginning in January. Oscar Sherman, son of ex-Governor Sherman of Iowa, has mysteriously disappeared. Op the Southern Illinois fairgrounds at Anna. John Jones, keeper of a dining booth, choked and kicked to death Sarah Mendenhall in a o'.iarre. over wages. She was the mother of four children and the w ife of a farm er. Jones is an e.-cotivict Five men have, been killed as the re sult of a family feud on Straight creek, near the Bell and Hardin county lines, Kentucky. At Quincy, 111., Henry Boling and Rosa Swearinger were fatally shot by Dora Heilwagon while buggy riding. Boling had been paying attentions to both women. The Duke d'Arcos, Spanish minister to Mexico, and iMiss Virginia Wood bury Lowery of Washington were married at New London, Conn. At St. Joseph, Mo , Miss Lillie May Lansing has brought suit in the cir cuit court against Mary Dixie He.-s for $10,000 because Mrs. Hess slapped her. Mrs. Hess owns a large amount of real estate. Mr. Sparks, a prominent landed proprietor of Adelaide, South Aus tralia, tried to horsewhip C. C Kings ton, attorney general and premier of South Australia, in Victoria Square, Adelaide, in revenge for a personal at tack in a speech. Premier Kingston wrested the whip from his assailant and horsewhipped Sparks instead. The men are political enemies, Mr. Kingston representing tho labor in terests. Window Gland Worker' Wages Rained. PiTTsnuito, r.i., Sept 2. The win dow glass wage scale for the year, be ginning with September 1, was settled at a conference of manufacturers and workmen here this afternoon by the manufacturers conceding an advance over last years' scale of li per cent The settlement, which is a compromise, affects about 20,f00 men. Washington Dined OA Tenter. Two dozen pewter plates, which are claimed to have formed the camp service of General Washington, are in the possession of Mrs. Jamoi Grunt Wilson of New York. DR. FPiAKER FOILED, CAPTURED IN THE VOODS OF MINNESOTA. The Prisoner Acknowledge Hla Identify and Will lit) to Topeka Without lieql Itlon Papers How lie Perpetrated Hie Insurance Frauds. DtLCTit, Minn., Sept. 3. Dr. George W. Fraker of Excelsior Springs, Mo., the man who was supposed to have been drowned in the Missouri river two yeara ago, and to whose heirs the last of 858, 000 was recently paid in Kansas City, was captured in the woods near Tower, Minn., yesterday. It was always maintained by the companies that Fraker was alive, but his whereabouts were unknown. Recently it became known in some way that Fraker was near Tower, where he was known under the alias of Schnell, and Attorney Robert T. Herrick and Deputy Sheriff Wilkerson of Topeka came here and organized a party to search for him. .He was found in the woods and his capture was effected by strategy. He was brought to Duluth to-day and will be taken to Topeka at once, going with out a requisition. Fraker had been living near Tower for six months. He admitted his iden tity and said he did not leave home on purpose to defraud the companies, but that while he was near the Missouri river he fell in. He swam across the river and got on land. The next day he read in the papers that he had been drowned and concluded to carry out the deception and allow the heirs to collect the insurance. Herrick obtained a clue in the latter part of 1894, which he has patiently followed ever since until about a week ago, when he learned the whereabouts and assumed name of the doctor. Thursday night he arrived in Tower, together with John Wilkerson, chief of police of Topeka. Fraker went by the name of Schnell and lived with a young man in a woodman's hut fifty miles from Tower on the Itasca county road. A warrant was secured in Tower and Sunday morning accom panied by Deputy Sheriff Archie Phillips they started in a rough wagon over still rougher roads for the place, taking along provisions for live days, giving out that they were to look over some timber lands. About twelve miles from Tower Deputy Phillips, who was acquainted with Fraker under the alias of Schnell, saw the doctor's companion in a shanty near the wood, and, on inquiring where the doctor was, learned that they had just moved to the place, and that Fraker was hunting. On examin ing the shanty a trap door was found in the floor with a considerable exca vation underneath, looking rather sus picious. The young man was hand cuffed and guarded and Phillips pro ceeded on the road. About two miles further a man with a gun on his shoulder was met, who was instantly recognized as the supposed dead man, Fraker. Herrick engaged h im in conversa tion when sutderily Phillips seized his arms and Wilkerson put on handcuffs. Fraker thought he had been arrested for killing game out of season, as Phillips was also game warden. When the warrant was read to him he was thunderstruck, but admitted his iden tity. He was brought to town to gether with his companion, who hails from Wisconsin and seems to be an innocent party. In conversation Fraker stated that he had expected his relatives to get a portion of the insurance money and himself some also. He had been greatly benefited, he said, by the wa ters of a spring where he stopped and had abort made arrangements to buy the place, intending to make it a water cure resort He would have spent Sl'O.OOO, he said, improving the place. The prisoner is about five feet six inches tall, about 40 years old and has a short, dark beard. CHEERING UP DEBS. Cincinnati A. It. I. Organizations Bo cou ruffe Their Imprisoned Leader. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 3. Tho three unions of the A. R. U. yesterday met and wired the following to Eu gene V. Debs: Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept 1. To Eugene V. Debs, Woodstock, III Although you are a prisoner, de prived of your liberty by a rotten ad ministration of justice at the bidding of the railroads and their servants, the judges, the common people are to-day worshiping at your altar. The seeds you have sown will soon bear fruit. The time will soon come when labor will get its rights or will take them. You are to the laboring men an honest, fearless leader: you will yet pilot them to an harbor of safety just as the star guided the wise to the crib of our Lord at Bethlehem. Goi bless jou. SEARCHING FOfTaBRUTE. Two Band Near St. I ouls Determined to Lynch n Negro Wreteh. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 3. Two posses of over 100 men each are searching the region about Manchester, seven miles from here for John Wesley, the negro who brutally assaulted Mrs. Marraion Friday night One posse is led by Constable Schumaker and the other is composed wholly of citizens If Wesley falls into the h ands of either posse he may be lynched, but, if caught by the latter party of searchers he will certainly be hanged at once. The fugitive was seen yesterday by a woman four milef from Manchester. He is supposed to be hiding near Man chester, and the chase will not be abandoned until the criminal is found. Parade and Speeches at St. Louis. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 8. In this city, East St Louis and adjoining towns, Labor day was generally observed as a holiday. A parade marched through the business part of this city to Con cordia park, where speeches were de livered to a large concourse of people by prominent laborites. In the ten divisions composing the parade, every trade was represented. Deputy Marshal Lindscy says that i Deputy Marsbil Hockcr was murdered ! by one of the posse sent to capture the j Christian gang. j labor s national day. 1 Tolleri All Over America Parade the Streets A Fine Showing Made. New Yoisk, Sept. 3. All over Amer ica the strains of music and the tread of marching feet were heard to-day. Labor put on its holiday clothing and celebrated its national holiday. In every trade center where union labor holds a council its organizations ob served the day. For the first time iu many years the Central Labor union did not parade through the city's streets, an excur sion to Coney Island being deemed the better way to spend the day. To offset this, however, there were arranged the parade of the striking garment workers and the demonstra tion at Union square of the Knight of Labor, with whk;h organization the garment workers are affiliated. The New York letter carriers, headed by Postmaster Dayton and his staff. marched to the postoffice on their way to the Letter Carriers' association con vention in Philadelphia. The anarch ists went out to Mantzel's park, Staten Island, to see llerr Most and Claus Zimmerman wave the red shirt and talk of general destruction. Jerry Simpson at Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 3. Labor day was fittingly celebrated in Kansas City. The parade of the labor organ izations was the largest and best ever held here. Extensive preparations had been made, every detail was care fully planned and carried out. By actual count nearly 3,000 men repre senting almost all the trades as semblies, councils and other bodies of organized labor were in line The parade was over a mile in length, oc cupying an hour in passing. Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson was the chief orator of the day. Addresses were also made by Mayor Davis and others. Two r rati eg in Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 3. Two separate and distinct celebrations marked Labor day in Chicago. The labor congress, So cialistic in its tendencies, held a mass meeting and picnic preceded by a parade, the principal speakers being Kier Ilardie, Frank Smith and John Swinton. The building trades council gave a counter attraction in the way of a parade, picnic and mass meeting of its own. No attempt was made to carry the red flag iu the congress parade, Mayor Swift having issued strict orders against such action. EARTH QUAKE DOWN EAST Old Terra Iirma Shakes Over a Largo Territory. Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 3. Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt by the residents of Brooklyn about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. No dam age to life or property is reported from any section of the city. Thje district of East New York and South Brooklyn received the greatest shock, but the rumblings were distinctly felt in other sections of the city. Contradictory reports are given as to the severity of the shocks. The first shock, felt at 6 o'clock, was followed by a rumb ling noise, like distant thunder. This was followed by two other slighter shocks, which, according to most of the reports, died away in a low, grating tone. Philadelphia, Sept. 3. An earth quake shock lasting several seconds was felt in this city shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday morning. The dis turbance by mother earth of the quiet of the Sabbath morning was violent enough while it lasted to create a good deal of consternation and not a little damage. Buildings swayed percepti bly, windows clattered and banged and clocks and pictures toppled from their places. At the Zoological gardens the vibration was clearly perceptible, but the excitement which follovffd among the animals continued a good while after the seismic disturbances. Head keeper Manly asserts that the trumpet ing of the elephants, the roar of the lions and the screeching of the birds was simply terrific. The shock was perceptibly felt at Sandy Hook, Wilm ington, Del., and Chester, Pa. Jersey City, N. J., Sept. 3. New Jersey felt the force of the earthquake, the tremor extending throughout the northern part, whilo the southern sec tion appears to ha ve escaped the ex perience entirely. From all of the cities and villages in the northern sec tion the story received is the same. PROF. DYCHEON BOARD. The Noted liiinsn Scientist Joins the Tenry Relief Kxpedition. St. Johns, Newfoundland. Sept. 3. The first news from the Peary relief expedition since its departure was re ceived to-day from the American schooner John E. Mackenzie, which returned from the Greenland halibut fishery. The Mackenzie met the Kite with the expedition at Holsteinburg on July 15. j At Holsteinburg the Kite took j aboard Professor Dyche, one of the , expedition, and sailed again the same evening. Very little ice was reported south of Greenland waters. The crew 1 of the Mackenzie think the Kite will i have no difficulty in reaching Whales Bound, where Peary's headquarters are located. The return of he relief par ty is expected about the end of this month. Zella Mcolaus Quits the Stage. 1 Philadelphia, Sept 3 Zella Nico laus abruptly ended her theatrical en gagement at the Lyceum theater Sat urday night and returned to New York. From the beginning she bad made things uncomfortable around the theater by her demands. She ob jected to dressing with the other mem bers of the company. Carnegie Pleads for Ireland, i London, Sept. 3. Andrew Carnegie has a column letter in the Times this morning based upon the recent Irish convention in Pittsburg urging the Times to use its power and influence toward finding a solution of tSe Iris! ( lestion. - A Mayor Charged With Extortion. Ashland, Wis., Sept 3. Charges have been preferr.d against Mayor C M. E. McClintock and signed by A. E, Dixon, W. L. Winiora and J. t. fccott, charging him with extorting money from city employes. The city council bas ordered an investigation. VALUABLE BEQUESTS. Will of the Late M. I', rayne Churches and Colleges Remembered. Malvkkn, Iowa, Sept. a. The late M. U. Payne the famous Fremont county millionaire who died a few days ago, was a most interesting and original character. He w as a life-ionjr friend of Jefferson Davis, and when the latter was elected president of the Southern Confederacy he appointed Payne secretary of the interior, but he never served in that capacity. On the contrary he came north and settled in Fremont county, where he has since amassed a fortune estimated at from 81,000,000 to $.1,000,000. He owned land in every state in the union except one, though the most of his real estate w-as in Fremont county, where he had 10,000 acres. When Jefferson Davis died he owed Mr. Payne 5100,000, which ( ne Had forgotten to pay. W hen Davis i died, Payne was called'to his home in ! Mississippi to preach his funeral ser mon. Payne's will, just tiled for pro bate, shows his money bequests to be f J28.O00 aside from hi's real estate. lie-sides making liberal provision for his widow, children, relatives and ser vants, he bequeathed to Charles S. Ilantry, of the Firebrand. Shenan doah, and his school, S5,00i'; M. E. church, South, loan fund board of church extension, S20.000; M. E. church, South, on the home place, thirty acres, so long as used for church purposes; Central college, Fayette, Mo., endowment fund, $10,000; Park college, Parkville, Mo., scholarship fund, $10,000; Tabor college, Tabor, Iowa, endowment fund, $10,000; to the needy widows nnd orphans under 12 years, and spinsters over 40 years, and all preachers now living upon any land in Fremont county owned by said testator, or who may hereafter live upon any of said premises during the ownership of his heirs, $30,000. COMPETE WITH THE EAST. What the Keport of the Colorado Fue and Iron Company Demonstrates. Denver, Col., Sept. 3. The third annual report of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company for the fiscal year ending June 30, IS','5, just made public, shows that the gross earnings for the year were $5,007, is."!, as compared with ?i,375,47i for the preceding twelve months. The company earned all its fixed charges, paid a dividend of eight per cent on SL',000,000 preferred stock, and at the end of the year had a sur plus of $4,874. The net earnings were tSU4,'J:."j, an increase of $143,404 over the preceding year. The coal product showed an in crease of 141,04'J tons and the coke product increased (i5,!'j;; tons. The total product of coal was i.4S0.4i5 tons and of coke L'4'J,2G0 tons. The company produced upwards of 550,000 tons of manufactured iron. It has been shown that the Fuel andiron company can produce iron and steel at prices that compete successfully with tiie large eastern factories. CORPORATIONS AT WAR. The Western Union and the Southern I'aeifle at Outs. San Francisco, Sept. 3. A dispute has arisen between the Western Union, and the Southern Paciiic. The former leases all of the telegraph lines of the railroad and operates them, as part of its telegraph system. This arrange ment has been in force ever since 177. One of tiie provisions of the contract provides that the Western Union shall pay Mr. Huntington $loo, 000 annually. The payment for this year is now several months overdue, and the whole trouble is the outgrowth of negligence on the part of the West ern Union. The Western Union wishes a reduction of 33 per cent made in this yearly rental. Mr. Huntington nnd the Western Union people have had the matter tinder consideration for some time, and the former is said to have so far de clined to make anv reduction. FOR BEATING HIS WIFE. A Brutal Parmer of Auilri:in County, M Whipped hy His Neighbors. Mexico, Mo., Sept. 3. John La lin ing, who lives in the east end of Audrian, beat his young wife, who be came temporarily insane, unmercifully because she wandered from home to a corn field near by. The neighbors caught him, took him to the woods and applied the whip until his blood ran sufiicient ly- to expiate for his brutal crime. Launing has disap peared. His wife was sent to. the asylum at Fuiton to-day. They had only been married about one year. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. New York architects are condemn ing the erection of tall buildings. Boston spent (too on the Knights Templars and tool in half a million. The demand for Alabama coal and irou is in excess of the means to fill it. Chauncey M. Denew denies that he prohibited the sale of Coin's Financial School on Yandcrbilt lines. Some Washington lawyers still doubt the legality of Hansom's ap pointment to Mexico. China is making inquiries about American firms which manufacture ships, guns and armor. f Democrats were slighted in the se lection of orator for the opening ex ercifes of the Atlanta exposition. . Lamest Hargrove, the theosophist, has arrived iu this country to earn some American dollars by lecturing. George P. Allen, formerly an East St. Louis deputy sheriff, shot his wife and step-daughter near Decatur. 111. A Kentneky Negro Hanged by a Mob. Hick mas, Ky., Sept. 3. At 2 o'clock this morning William Butcher, a des perate negro, was taken from jail by a mob. His head was shot off and his body riddled with bullets. Masks of some of the mob were found near the negro's dead body. Ishtemino, Mich.. ,ept. Y. The She boygan company of the Fifth infantry, Michigan National Guard, is now at Marquette and will reach here with the companies from Ironwood, Calu met, Houghton and Marquette to-day. Shovel crews, numbering fifty men, are in Marquette. y