The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-11
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killed.
MADRID, Aug. 4.-The official jour
nal promulgates law which recently
passed the Cortes, authorizing the
government to grant general amnes
ty for political offenses.
PARIS, Aug. At is reported thai
Theirs has accepted the principle thai
the State should indemnify the prov
inces for losses sustained from the Ger
man invasion. Negotiations are in
progress between the deputies of the
left centre and the right of the Assem-,
bly, in reference to the prolongation OF
the powers of Theirs as chief execu'
tive.
The Assembly is to be questioned
to-day concerning the alleged appoint.
ment of the Duke de Charities as an
officer in the Algerian army.
In the assembly to-day the commit
tee upon the subject made report
recommending that the State assume
the burthens of the provinces invaded
by the Germans. Theirs, TO the sur
prise of many deputies and causing
much excitement, spoke in terms OF
violent opposition to the report. he
said the amount of claims which it
would impose upon the public could
not possibly be less than one million
francs, sum which the treasury was
quite unable to pay. He could not
give assent to the plan of the commit
tee, and was only willing to afford re-
lief to the people that invaded the de-
partments who were actually in need.
LONDON, Aug. An the house of
commons this evening, Sir Charles
Bowger Adderly, member for north
Staffordshire, made a speech of some
length in denuneiation of the treaty of
Washington. He said that in that in
strument England had made vast con-
eessions in favor of peace. Upon the
questions of the fisheries and Alabama
claims England was clearly right in
the attitude she formerly held upon
those subjects, and yet that position
had been yielded and America indem-
niged. Sir Charles concluded by Wig
orously condemning the form of the
Sir Rounded Palmer, member for
Richmond, followed in defence of the
treaty.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 4.-The editor of
the journal, this morning, received the
communication from Hon. e.
II. Msnces, of Monticello, dated the ID.
The Journal says shocking as is the an
the authority is of char
acter that preclHdes doubt of the facts
stated: s --s --..-.- -.-r
"MoNTICELLo, Aug. |, 1871.
" Hon. James Brooks: ..--..-
There was an attempt made, last night,
to assass1nate Hon. E. A. Fulton by
John 4. Murray, colored, imported from
Chicago for that purpose--at least SO
believed there. Murray is now eonfin-
ed in the county jail, awaiting trial.
Fulton was shot in the back, the ball
passing through the left lung, and is
considered in a dangerous condition.
There is a warrant out now for the ar
rest of Hon. Herbert MARI, as an Access
sorry to the deed. Great excitement ex-
lists here on account of said crime among
all classes, both white and black.
Signed. &t5f"C. Fl. MANCES."
Fulton is a colored man and was a
member of the last legislature. Mari is
the same county, and at present is SUI
the tenth judicial district.
Additional particulars from Drew
county in reference to the assassination
of Z. A. Fulton, state that the men,
Murray and Fulton, had q personal al
tercation in the afternoon, in which the
former was badly worsted. Fulton gave
up, and was released on paying
his fine. Afterward Mari induced Muir
ray to sue out a warrant against Fulton
on a charge of assault with intent to
kill. Fulton was arrested, and while in
charge of the officer, proceeding across
the street, Murray stepped UP and shot
Fulton twice in the back. He is not ex-
pected to recover. The shooting was
done with pistol which belonged to
Mr.. Mari. and it is supposed that the
whole Transaction was instigated and
by him. Mari and Murray
have both been arrested and held for
SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 4.-Dr. William
Brock has recovered $4,000 damages
from the Connecticut River Railroad
Company for injury received by col
lision at Northampton, in june, 1870.
The doctor brought suit for $4,000.
BALTIMORE, Aug. A woman
named Susan Kelley, employed as a
servant in the house of Rev. C.. c..
Guild, who is at present in Europe,
has been arrested on charge of strang-
ling and burning her new born child.
The body was discovered in the kitch-
en- stove by some neighbors who were
entrusted with the supervision Of the
premises in the absence of Mr.. Guild.
The woman has confessed her crime
6 ST. LOUIS August 4.-The Montana
Herald of July. 81 contains an account
Of 3 Formidable IRdiaR raid into Gallatin
Valley. Two men named Jas. III. Nox-
on and George Shepard were killed, and
two and three hundred head of
stock were run off. Two companies of
cayalay, under Captain Ball and Cap
tain. Norton, from, Fort Ellis and some
fifty citizens startad in pursuit. Great
excitement prevailed. Citizens in all
parts of the valley ere,arTning and con-
centrating at Hamilton, where =berri-
cades were being thrown up. The In
dams are supposed to belong to band
Of Sioux under Sitting Bull, the main
body of which is caInped between Yell
and Powder rivers. They
are not treaty Indians, being on.no res
ervation, and war indiscriminateiy up
on other tribes and whites. They are
supposed to number about 100 lodges
and further trouble is expected from
them. tta
WAsnISGToN, Aug. 4.-The superin-
tendeut Of the general recruiting service
for the western division, has been or
dered to send one hundred recruits TO
Fort Shaw, Montana, and fifty 70 Fort
Bedford, DGCotah. ;asY ~. e.lf -
! Subscriptions to the new loan to-day
to $4,000.
Congress having appropriated $780,
coo TO build two iron clad torpedo boats,
Geo. A Cook, accompanied by a. X.
of the Board of Public Works
and a delegation of the territorial Iegis-
lature. waited on Secretary Robson to-
day and urged him TO build one of them
in the Washington navy yard The
secretary made an encouraging reply. -,
MADISON, Aug. 4.-Horaee Ward, q
Ifeh American, long asTesident of Eng
Ind, beqHeathed a large estate to the
various soldiers orphans homes in the
United States. Some $4,000 falls to
the soldiers orphans home of Wiscon-
san. A telegram to-day announces the
arrival of 100000 in bonds at Bath,
Maine. The money awarded to the
home here is expected in few days.
MILWAUKEE,, Aug. 4-The revenue
cutter. Andrew j Johnson, has gone to
Beaver Island to protect the United
States 1faEshals who waz resisted by the
sheriff and = mob in the, discharge of