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. Mr?'Dockery’s district. Bie, PE Ae REO IE aaN A Grave Offense. box, and introduced modera meth- City Times. ods for the setuement of accounts. Walter B. Stevens, tue Washing ton correspondent of the St. Louis to the people, safe fur the govern- Globe Democrat, is on» of the most) ment aud expeditious and economi- painstaking aud reliable newspaper eal. Itas for this honest, patriotic national capital. avd effective work of the Under date of November 7 he tele | prople that ‘these department clerks’ graphed his paper the scenes and Tl da co incidents It establishes a system the is ju-t reporters in the in bebalf ruption fuud and barded which occurred on the together in a couspiracy to defeat streets of Washington the day afcer | 41m Tor te the election. very body nterested in politics. It is a fact | Dockery has becu re elected, aud he the leading industry in that comma | Will resume the labor which was in- uity. The manner in which the peo- terrupted by the recess avd pursue election. But therr ef there ig forts have been disappointed. Mr ple received the news of the political | it until it is completed | But meantime the m: revolution is tuerefore a mutter of public concern. This extract from|Sumed a Mr. Stevens’ telegram some idea of the temper in which | third district of b affe from the character wit will give |more than the member Missouri Ev some features of the news was re-| Citizen of this broad land is meu | property and liberty, | ceived: jaced in his “Dockery concedes his defeat by | When a lot of plunderers, grown in 400,” was the wording of a bulletin solent in office, will combine to se eretly attack aud ins:diously oppose | j i posted on Pennsylvania avenue to aight. The news seemed to spread |# man by corrupt methods for no} like wildfire In the rejoicing |Other rexson than that he has been | among the department people which | faithful to his public obligations as’ followed there were revelations of a|@ Servant of the people. These men most sensational character Mr. |aud women have committed a grave Dockery, it will be remembered, | rime against the laws of the land,} pressed with great vigor a series of and the heads of the departments in| bills which effected numerous de | Which they are engaged should not partmental changes. ‘Tbe general only dismiss them from the position tendency was to dispense with rou they have prostituted, but turn them | tine and simplify business methods |0Ver tv the proper authorities for Many bureaus and divisions were | tim inel prosecution. abolished, and a hundred or two Dy Saveverta 1 ainily Cire aicl aot only. xe. clerks lost their places. Mr. Dock | ee cree ae teen fee eam | ery was in the midst of this work|Ple. Seld by HL Tucker. | when congress adjourned. He ex- F pected to carry it through all of the departments. There was great deal of feeling manifested toward him by department people. It develops now that these people organized in every department. They conducted ex tensive correspondence, they raised considerable sums of money, and they sent their representatives into Itis doubt ful if the candidates opposing Mr Dockery were informed of one tenth of the secret work which was being done against him through these agencies. The necessity as strict secrecy as to contributions and cor- respondence can do wéll understood. These department clerks worked vegardless of politics, and that en abled them to make their efforts tell. in the parade, Democratic officials took the lead which was headed by a negro. brass and the republicans in office were} ing prompt in supporting them. It was considered a campaign for self pres ervation. If Dockery is defeated by a few hundreds it is largely the re- sult of this movement. Women clerks were among the most willing contributors, and the most earnest yst Fruits of Victory. Louisvilie, Ky., Nov. 14 —A spe | cial to the Times from Elizabeth | town, Ky, suys: The first fruit of | the republican victory in this con gressional district was the murder of Blake Robertson, the 15 sear old Thos. A. Robertson, formerly congressman from this dis- trict. Last night was the tine for the republican about white men part of the There whether the whites or blacks should march first a resuit all of the decent white republicans deelined to march son of Hou. ratificatian and 200 negroes and a few gathered in the lower town to form a procession was a dispute as to and us bebind and only ove white man, Jobu Kerr, joined The negroes had been vau tioned to use biauk cartridges, but instead had their shells loaded. Mar shal Neighvors started to make au investigation and as he advanced on the crowd, George Wilson fired at) him, the load of shot tearing « hole in his coat and passing through correspondents. Every women in lodged in the stomach of youug office who could reach directly, or Robertsov. Neighbors then shot through mutual friends some family | 4), negro in the arm. Robertson in Mr. Dockery's district besought help to defeat the reformer. No abuse in the public service is more reprehensible than that which Mr. Dockery set out to reform. It entailed the expense of employing} = — —— several hundred clerks beyond the the broken down ajstem.- Zany cares mental needs of efficient service, at au ex- eecneer acces ofmen. Sold by H. L. pense of half a million dollars in the treasury department alone. In the - ae — issue of the Times of Sunday, De- : Kan., Nov. 15— be] cember 24, 1893, the details of this|Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial tortuous process were published as Union of Kansas will hold its sev. written by a staff correspondent, enth annual convention at Trades who had made the examination for Assembly hall in this city on Decem | A aera: ber 5. President Hanna and Sec that purpose. This exhibit disclosed retary French are here making the fact that an ordinary claim! srrangements for the meeting. An against the government might have | effort will be made to have a larger been required to pass through the | attendance than usual in order that hands of thirty clerks before it the plans for reorganization may N tte he discussed in a manner satisfac reached a settlement. o matter’ tory to the order. The membership how just the claim. It made no dif-| of the Farmers’ Alliance and indus ference how urgent the necessity | trial union has decreased more than for prompt settlement. There was|50 per cent in the last four years, the tedious and tortuous circumlocu- |@0d the leaders feel that prompt 9 . |eteps are necessary to save the life tion to go through before the obli | (rth, concern. The leaders admit | gation was discharged. The object | that politics caused the decrease. was not to protect the treasury from;The order was once strong and careless payments. Nothing of that | prosperous in Kansas, but the Popu- kind was accomplished. The claim |/ist party came along and swallowed A it. Now it is seldom heard of. The was simply passed from one sine-| - corvative members favor reorgan- cure to another, where a guts ization on a non partisan basis. | ite tardy progress was made. e So | ecco plain. It was to afford See ! Joplin, Mo., Nov. 16.—This worn- places for the hundreds of oe ing the boiler that supplies the | officials and put hundreds of hands) jte4: that runs the pump on the| into the vaults to take out unearned | Merstolf shaft, at Spring City, ex- ealaries every month. ploded and fatally injured Charles | The reforms which Mr. Dockery | and George Bailey and D. Reed. Parts of the boiler were blown 100 undertook, and has almost complet- yards and the enginehouse was torn dispenses with the circumlocu-| in, kindling wood. tion. It reduces the treasury sys-| Several persons were injured by tem of keeping accounts to the busi. | the flying debrie. died before 8 o'clock this morning. Marshal Neighbors tried to kill Wil- son, but was prever.ted from doing so. Wilson isin jail and the une- groes are greatly excited. Want it Reorganized. Topeka, ter has as | /20 years. ec nS EE A Deacon Bros. & Co. a ! RIDDLED WITH EPUCKSHOT Chancellor Aion of Nashville Killed by His Clerk- Nashville. the many Hardware and Iron, Cutlery and Guns, Buggies and lnplemer Stoves and Tinware, gelies Nashville bas experienced. the most appal ps perpetrated today. Chancery court Barney & Berry's New York odrew Club Skates Andrew All j : of the court house He fired both ] 1 took effect in the breast and side of Select your skates now, and you willhaveno| the chancellor, Jein getting Remember the ein this respect died. Only one man Joseph H * a Acklen, saw the tragedy Ee | Ne LY. ee & his court a the steps Whitworth who was in ‘to him, and as he did so he heard two shots behind bim with a pistol After the first firing }room into the hall and saw Whit worth shoot himself for the first | time. jed away from him, preparing to Wrencues a ¢ Razoe |} A i j ond shot taking effect in the left 2 : re , breast | Whitworth was perfectly cool and shoot himselfagain. West grappled AN APPROPRIATE SIGN for our buSiness, yet we would not jcollected duri the shooting and Our/| also after the , and expressed reputation on the other hand, is so|no regrets, but desired to know if adopt it, because it’s too shary. jSauare. that no other house ia Hard-| he had killed his man, stating that no ware irs been able to compete aoe 8 | man who had treated him as Allison We've grown from small b | rinning : : like the boy unholding the sign. But|484 done could live in the same The body of the the principles we stood on then, are | Country with him. ours still, Customers can always re-|dead chancellor was taken to his ly not only on our prices, but on the | home and Whitworth was taken to strength and durability of our wares, | pis. CHASE & NBORN’'S SPECIAL COFFEES The coroner's verdict was in accordance with the above facts. |sactions between the two it is learn- 20 pounds Grapnlated Sugar $1 00] Sipounie Lighiisrown Sacks... iw (ed that the cause of the tragedy was Loaded shells, all sizes, per box . w/the failure of Allison to secure a a | large sum of money due from bim to Dezcon Bros. & CO.) Viiworth for money loaned, said }to be about $25,000. Whitworth, , who sbot himself in the breast twice | with a pistol, is still alive but sink jing rapidly, and his death is expect Low Pric> Hardware and Grocery House lal Waves Washington, Nov. 14- over the Congressionall directories for the Forty third and Forty-fourth Congresses shows that the political, between the years 1872) and 1874 was almost as -A glance ed before morning Unseen Farm Profits. revulsion T. B. Terry thinks that farmers reat us that overlook a great deal of the profits between the years 1592 and 1894 jou the farm because they do not The Liberal-Republican & movement) realize the Jessened cost of living as Horace Greely for President aud the | city. indorsewent of that nomination by | own the Democratic party Mr. Terry is estiwating his | unseen expenses, counts his But at the | house at $30 per month; fruit garden election which followed Grant ear | during its season, $2 per day; a cow ried all but six of the then 37 States. | for cream and milk, $60 per year; The House of Representatives,which | lightt and fuel. fram $3 to $5 per was chosen at the same time, con | year on the farm and from $8 to $12 tained 94 Democrats and Liberal-| a month in the city. Then he says Republicans and 198 Republicans, | free pure water, fresh meat, horse the Republieaus thus having more | and carriage ete., are all to be reck- than two-thirds of the whole number. | oned among the advantages of the Two years later, when the Forty.) farm. fourth Congress was chosen, the yegetables, fruit, flour and wheat, Republicans carried only about a jand his clothing does not have to be dozen States and the House of Re-/ very expensive, aud his taxes are presentatives contained a 104 Repub !only about one half those of his city licans and 188 Democrats, Conser-! brother. vatives and Anti Monopolists. conditions were thus almost exactly i It is true that the profits on the farm seais and securing a two thirds | whenitis considered that agriculture was composed of 282 members; now | it numbers 356 last week \in a town or city for one year. will tieth New York District:L. Danford | irst New York District. Mr. 8. B. Elkins was the delegate tion that he is an unmarried man. ceed J. M. Camden as Senator from The cause of the explosion is un You will kno’ ti - ou a a a the robber haeds out of the strong | esc. coldn'L Tucker. "®t z was said nothing ab shot and killed imstautly Chancellor eating stale ity today quent bo who fell near the! he had better ec stairway, gasped ouce or twice and | exchan id left the room, entered the hall and was about to deseend Sewve the hall, said: “O Judge,” and as he! /turned fired at him. Acklen rushed} Turning hej saw Whitworth had shot himself) Deputy Clerk West ran out from his | | ef . 5 \ | From men familiar with the tran- of 18702 led to the selection of compaaed with living in a town or/| A farmer has his own garden | The; This isa matter worth considering. | majority. At that time the House jis the industry on which all other was as great as the one experienced | jieve that any farmer who has livea | Among the members elected i care to exchange the net profits of| Congress in 1874 were David T. \the farm for the net earnings of the! | Wilber, Republican. from the Twen- | average city dweller. Some people on the farm think a RESAIEA) cacten aa Republican, from the Sixteenth Ohio salary of $30, $40 or $50 beats farm- eae c Pi ag a District, and Riahard McCormick, ling all to pieces, but by the time one eng ea ae 2? epee en i = Republican Delegate from Arizona. | pays $20 or $25 a month for board wi “4 t) sean veen inside the city Each of these men have been re | pays for his laundry, street car fare ent Coun Y joe Dice sues thaw aay elected in 1894 after an absence of | clothing, etc., and an occasional yisit Mr. McCormick comes | home, it would be found that only a| back as the Representative of the | small part if any of his salary would | from New Mexico in the Forty-fourth | If be is a married man with a family e ; Congress. He is expected to suc-| ¥¢ three or four children he will re-| 27% she says it saved her lite. thing else in proportion, clothes for the family, books and street car fare for the children of schoo! the bill will positively alarm Lim unless (his salary is mueb above the aver- uu. Nov. 14.—Of ace. In the ab the at resluess ce between falnes taht vegetables nd antage in maby other features ¢ aded with the couctry not found in the erty. 2of the shot r but is dis- ts of the farm If a man hkes f. satisfied with the 7 well before g farm in the city in the hope of betterir Jour | dition tiuaucially The chancellor bad just adjourved | culture. Experi not improve Dr cause it radically int and kidney |The United States S Affirms the Pennitentiary Sentence of Five Years. Washington, D. C, November 13. |—The supreme court of the United | States sustaius the verdict of five He called to him and Whit-| years in the Penitentiary given Hor- worth told him to stand off and back- jace G Allis, the Little Rock banker, | formerly a bigh official ou the Cot ton Belt Railway. Allis was indict- {with him, but too late, and the see-|ed under the statute which says: Every president o who makes any fal ntry in any book of the association with intent ssociation j |to injure or defraud the association or any other company, body politic jor corporate, or any individual per | sive any offiicer of the j association. or any agent appointed sop. or to deee to examine the affairs of any such association, shall be deemed guilty ate, The particular charge againt Allis } was that February 1892 while presi jdent of the First National Bank of Little Rock, he made an entry on bis books of $50,000 to the credit of bis individual account. The case aud the decision are of great interest to all bankers and to people general ly. Try abotieof Dr Sawyer’s Family Cure and you will be convinced that it will cure al} stomach, Jiver, kiduey and powel dificulty H. L. Tucker | How the Vote Stood m Kansas - | | Topeka, Kan., Nov 15.—Complete jreturns ut the headquarters of the |republican state central committe- \show that the total vote cast at the {late election was 293,324 The vote | for governor was as follows: Morrill, jrepublican, 146,295; Lewelling, pop hist, 115,421: Overmeyer, democrat, 8,992; Picrkermg, prohibstionist, 4.615. Morrill’s plurality over Lewelling was 30,875. The official count may make a slight change in these figures. Zano invigorates mental power aad tones broken down nervous system resultmg from lost manhood. Zano cures nervous aad sexual debility of men. Sold by H L Tucker. Atchison, Kan., Nov. 15.—While |J. J. Ingalls said recently that he was not a candidate for the United States Senate many of his Atchison friends believe that the fondest wish of his life would beto return. They believe also that he should be a can- didate for Senator Martin's seat in stead of waiting for the expiration of Peffer’s term im 1896. Web Wilder is a prominent Re- publican, and is of the same opinion and recently made a statement to this effect in Atchison. Ingalls was the big card in the Republican state reversed, the Democrats gaining 94 jare not as large as they should be (Pane Cane ino Sinaia Bad ate paign, and there was clamoring for him everywhere. There is no doubt that his friends will make an effort inds of business and even the very jin his behalf in the coming fight, Relatively. there | existence of the human family de- unless he positively refuses to allow : ee a j = this name to be used. fore, the overturning 20 years ago| pend Nevertheless we do not be- Do not suffer with pain on top of the head and in the back when l’r Sawyer’s stilles wil absolutely and positively cure you. Sold by it L Tucker. “French Jobn™ Gipford, a Joplin shoemaker, has humbly achieved greatness. Of him it is said he bas shoes, drank one man in the county. Two Lives Saved. 5 Mrs Phoebe Thomas, of Junction City ‘be left. 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