The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-07
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Suez Canal is filling up with sand and
the Porte has advised its purchase
from the company, but the Khedive re-
| fuses TO do it.
The work of renoVating Paris is pro-
| crossing, sixty thousand masons are en-
gagged, and the city is being thoroughly
disinfected. The circular of Rouher to
the electors affirms that he is a defender
of the principles of free trade.
LONDON, June 2S.-The Gazette an
nounce that the ratification of the treaty
of Washington was exchanged on the
18th, and that commissioners will short
| ly be named to carry the stipulatiOns
into effect. All British subjects having
claims against the United States are re-
quested to present them within six
months from the first meeting of the
Commission.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The follow
| ing was received at the Navy Depart
| ment this p. m:
CoREA, June %, IS7I.-To the Secre-
| tary of the Navy: The Coreans not
apologizing for their treacherous as
| sault on the 10th, we landed on Kang
| Noe, took and destroyed the lower fort
and all the munitions. On the 1lth
we took and destroyed another fort
and then stormed and captured the
stronghold. Five forts have been Ia
ken. The troops which defended them
are reported to number eleven thous-
| and. There was desperate hand to
| hand fighting in the citadel. The ordi-
ance was all destroyed and four hum
dred and eighty-one pieces, principally
| small brass guns and many small arms
| together with fifty flags were taken.
We counted 243 dead Coreans around
the citadel. We had three killed
hnn hn Z SaVr
Mckee, who was the first inside the cit
adel. Nine men were wounded. They
are all out of danger and doing well.
ISigned.) JNo. RODGERS,
Commodore u. S. N.
MEMPHIS, June 28.-The first import
ant case under the enforcement of the
ku klux bill is on trial in the u. S.
District court at Oxford. Twenty eight
names were figured in the Indictment,
all being residents for many years of
Monroe county, ranging in years from
Is to 60. The indictment charges the
defendants while in disguise, with fore
IDLY taking negro named Alexander
Page from his house near Aberdeen at
midnight on the 9th of March and
hanging him till dead. A large num-
Der of witnesses were examined. De-
Tense rely chiefly on alibis and previous
good character. They present respect
able appearances, and are guarded to
and from the court, which is presided
over by Judge Rahill, and by detach-
ment of 18th U. S. Infantry sent from
Nashville, which mounts guard at the
court house door all day. The trial ex-
cites the greatest interest and will prob
ably last several days. The wife of
one of the defendants was admitted to
testify in behalf of her husband to-day.
BosToN, june 2S.-Geo. Woodruff, the
oldest trainer and driver of trotting
m. by being struck by locomotive as
he was crossing the railroad track near
Beacon Course.
NEW YORK, June 29.-The Tnbune's
Washington correspondent telegraphs
that there is a rumor current that the
President informed both Boutwell, and
Pleasanton that he will not interfere be-
tween them, but they must settle their
difficulties between themselves. Anoth-
er report is that the whole matter
has been referred to the Attorney Gen
eral and that his decision is to be final.
A cable dispatch from st. Peters
burg states that notice appeared yes
terday in the official columns of the
Journal DE st. Petersburg stating that
| when the Grand Duke Alexis returns
| with the Empeor he at will at once re-
pair to Cronstadt to superintend in
person, the proposition being made at
| the Imperial Navy Yard for assVoyage
to America. The Grand Duke has
| stated that he intends to carry to Amer
| lea, one of the most perfect Naval
| SquadrOns that ever left European wa
ters. In st. Petersburg the Grand
Dukes voyage is the principle topic at
| the United Service Clubs, and those
| who have influence in court are exert
ing it to their utmost to secure assign
ment to his Highness' suit. Prince
Gortschakotf states that the Grand Duke
| will certainly embark in Cronstadt the
last of August for America.
| MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 30.-The Ava
lanche, Oxford, Miss, special tonight
says: The trial of the alleged KuKlux
continues to excite the greatest interest
and the court house is crowded to its
utmost capacity. Evidence in behalf of
the Government opened, which prom
ises to give developments regarding Ku
| kluXism in general, and the hanging of
Alex. Page, colored, in particular, on
29th of March, near Aberdeen. John
| Wolf, colored, testified that he worked
on he same plantation as Page, and on
the night specified band of disguised
marauders surrounded his house and
told him to keep quiet, placing guard
around him, they went into Pages
house. He recognized young planter
named David Stoddart by his voice.
The wife of the murdered man testi-
fed that a band of men dressed in
white and masks came to her house at
midnight and burst in the door with
axes, and ordered her husband to come
out from under the bed, where he had
fled for shelter, and tied his hands, piu-
Toned his arms and led him forth to die.
She Unidentified them by their voices
and by having seen their faces, as being
present in her house when her husband
| was carried of, Andrew Crosby, Jasper
| Webb, Thos. Malone, David Stoddart,
John Stoddart and Whitecled Pope, all
planters and merchants, of Monroe
county, and Jackson Davis, Henry
Hatch, Major Foncher andBen Lump
kin.
The body was proven to have been
found the following day buried in the
woods about four miles from Pages
house, only eight inches below the sur
face, by John Wolf, who scFaped away
the leaves and dirt, land in doing 80 ac-
cidently got his hands entangied in the
dead mans Whiskers, who he said gave
a groan and made a noise, when Wolf,
dreadfully scared, ran of and did not
return for a week. When he came back
with the coroner the body was partially
exhumed rope was found around his
neck and the skull fractured by blow
from an axe. Gov. Alcorn was here
to-day taking great interest in the trial
which will probably continue the whole
of next week.
NEW YORK, June 30.-The decision
in favor of Mrs Constant in a suit
against the Rector Warden, and Vestry
of st. Adams church, to obtain $1,000
advanced to them for q fair for the
church, creates much satisfaction
among her friends who have been great
ly excited by the conduct of the defen.
dants. This suit has made serious de-
, lection in the church and many of it,
most fashionable members are reported
to have quilted it.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The Health
Board inspectors apprehends spread Of
the small pox, now prevalent In some
: parts of this city, during the summer il
/ measures are not taken by physicians
, and citizens to supplement the sanitary
precautions of the board. More thai
800 cases of this disease have been dis
covered by the health officers, during
the past six months, and they believe Al
a many more have not been reported by
physicians and friends afflicted for feal
of official interference in case Datlenti