The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-02-17
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Havana dispatches claim that the Gu
ban rebellion is being steadily wiped
out.
New York Germans will hold a grand
parade and festival when peace is declar-
ed in France.
The frigate Congress has started out
from Havana to hunt up the San Do
mingo commission.
Great activity prevails in the mining
regions near Salt Lake, and rich discov-
cries are being made.
The river at Fulton Ferry, New York,
is blocked with ice so that people go to
and from Brooklyn on foot.
The French relief committee in New
York has received S4S, 170, and expects
100000 from the city treasury.
The shoe manufacturers of New York
are doing very little business, on ac-
count of the strike by their workmen.
Only 9S lives were lost on the French
transport wrecked on the coast of France
the other day, instead of $50 as report
ed.
Brooklyn is threatened with water
famine. The only relief is to let the
Illicit whisky distilleries run right
along.
A. b. Gibson, an old and respected
citizen of Hennepin county, Mimi, has
committed large forgeries and disap-
peared.
Secreta, Boutwell, says the new loan
is a success, and that all kinds of gov
eminent bonds will soon increase in
market value.
General Sickles telegraphs from Ma
drid that he has successfully treated for
mixed commission to adjust American
claims against Spain.
Signor Bagioli, who introduced the
Italian opera into this country, and was
the f. or of Mrs. General Sickles, died
in n York Saturday, aged n.
On Diagrams to-day give various
interes ing schemes by which France is
to su ,nder, territory to Germany
withoI acknowledging the corn"
The United States Supreme Court
has decided a bank cashier has the
right to certify checks, and that fol
such check the bank is responsible.
Good thing. The money contributed
by the New York produce exchange
for a monument of George Peabody
has been given to the childrens' aid so
ciety.
The Senate has confirmed President
Grants commission to settle the Ala
bama claims, etc. The English commits
sioners will soon leave London fol
Washington.
On Friday, Herman Bergman tried
to cross Loreau creek, near Jefferson
City, NO., but his wagon overturned
and his wife and two children were
drowned.
A telegram from Bombay says tn,
steamer General Outram, from Cochin
China for Bombay, recently foundereC
in n cyclone in the Indian Ocean, ant
SO lives were lost.
The Detroit Custom House block, Of
the dock, burned down Saturday. Trow
bridge and Wilcox, ship chambers, los
$4,000 worth of sails, etc. Entire loss
$4,000; insurance $4,000.
G.. A. Crawford, of Kansas, and r.
Ross, of Mo-, have been elected vic,
presidents of the wooden manufacturers
association, which holds its next nation
al fair at st. Louis, October 81, 1871.
Those "Fenian exiles" now propos
TO become the grand head centers O
all the Fenian organizations, and han
they are rich enough to retire from &C
tive life.
Thursday, an explosion occurred il
Richie & Co.'s asphaltum coal mines
about 10 miles from Cairo. Thre
miners were killed and several other
covered up, who have not since beer
heard from.
Brigham Young has been spendin!
the winter in Southern Utah, and Oh
Friday returned to Salt Lake City, es
corted by Mormon body guard. IL
is hard at ..ork embracing the variou
Mrs. Youngs.
Sir John Rose, of Canada, declines t
act on the commission to adjust the Al
ALBANIA claims, etc. The Duke of AT
gyle or of Devonshire will probabl
take his place. How immensely i'm
portant these titles are.
The best rules have their exceptions
Az Z,n~y;lla Tannaaoaa CoturJox No
JOIN lxter obtained n verdict of SGT
600 lst tho Wing and Register, 70
libel. IIessrs Saunders and Clark ar
the III Hcky publishers.
The ,nnessee, with the San Domin
go con. ission is reported to have bee
seen in Il heavy gale January 10Th, tire
days after she started out-and that
the last news of her SO far. The mo:
intense anxiety is now felt in regard t
her safety.
The main building of the Howe SEWN
machine works at Indianapolis was de
stroyed by fire Friday. Loss over S75,
600; insurance 10000. John Gun
mings and L. Loveland were burned
death, and several others badly injure
by jumping from high windows.
The Vice Admiralty judge at S
John, N. b., has decided that the cal
ture of the American fishing schoone
White Fawn was hasty and illegal, an
the vessel is therefore released. 1t be
gins to look as if all the fish in tn
ocean did not belong to John Bull.
A delegation of Kansas men, frol
Baxter Springs, are at st. Louis, askin
the board of trade and merchants eS
change to help the projected railroa
from the former place to Dayton, O
the line of the Atlantic and Pacific roat
The st. Louis men promise to do a
they can.
Secretary of Navy Robson publishe
his opinion that the Tennessee with til
San Domingo commission is quite SAT
Though the Secretary knows as muc
about marine matters as about tn
moon, yet his letter, prepared of cours
by some naval officer, will do much I
quiet apprehensions for week or so.
The province of Ontario, (formerl
lower Canada) has voted $4,000 to ell