The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-28

IhyenneS and sioux to join them IN l.
var against the whites, but thus far they
ave failed.
All three o'clock this morning an ex- !
1losion occurred in the small maya
line liz the Washington arsenal, which
IS used in the preparation of rocket
lights and shells for the signal corps.
The explosion was distinctly heard in
the northern part of the city and it was
alar4h from it, causing serious confla-
grafton il,Volying the destruction of at
least 81 O00. 600 worth Of government
property. The flames communicated
to q frame house near by, and thence was
carried to Whist is known as storehouse
number two, in which were stored ali
kinds of cavalry and artillery equip
ments, which area total loss. In this
building, too, was the model room or
museum, in which are stored all kinds
OF. models, ETC., of foreign arms and
equipments, and which is q serious J SIS
10 tie government from the mer> N
trinsic value of the articles destroyed.
There was not much powder kept stor-
ed in the magazine at the time the ex-
plosion took place, as the arsenalmakes
nc pyrotecnic or explosive articles e.
cept for the signal corps, upon spe- |
ciaI order in future. The buildings
to which the flames were commnnlca-
tedare totally destroyed, and several
small houses near the large building
were injured by tho flames.
CH1cAGo, July 22.-An enterprise is
on foot in this city of an extensive char
acter by capitalists with reference to Sc
curing the Immense cattle trade Of Tex
as. It is. the intention of the movers in
this enterprise that Chicago shall re-
mair as it has for many years, the great
cattle market Of the northwest.
A delegs ion of citizens of LeaVen-
worth and Atchison were in the city
|. Yesterday in conference with the direc-
| tors of the Chicago and Southwestern
Railroad, in relation TO the completion
| of the bridge over the Missouri river at
Leavenworth, and also the building of
[ the Atchison branch ofthe Southwest
larn road from Plattsburg to Atchison.
The bridge at Leavenworth will be
| completed this fall, and work on the
| Atchison branch will soon begin. The
main line of the Southwestern road is
! now completed except twenty miles in
Davies county, Missouri, which Will
be finished by September first, when
the whole line from Chicago, via Rock
Island will be opened.
New ORLEANS, July 25.-The city
council to-day, by a vote Olive to three,
Iadoptea q resolution removing from
lofficer Recorders Slacs, in the. second
district, and Dumont,- in the fifth dis
ltrict. Also, that the Governor be mott
i fed of the vacancies created in these
ofhces. No cause was assigned for the
removals, but it is said that Governor
Warner directed them, because he be-
lieved these persons were oppos to
his administration.
Il AddieF' shoe store, corner of Duman
and Chartres streets, was, last night
burglarized of goods to the value of So
TOO. The stock was taken OFF the prem
J Uses. Two Metropolitans on that beat
who did not see the deed, were sus
pended.
r OTTAWA, July 25.-The Times, . gov
ernment paper, states on authority tina
neither Sir John A. Mcdonald nor an!
member of the cabinet have any idea o
visiting England IT, reference to tn
Washington treaty.
o1 NEw YORK, July 25.-The Unite,
8 States steamer Congress sailed thi
J. morning for Baffns Bay; with supple
for Captain Halls Arctic expedition.
l. Henry E0ngstad, another one of tn
d rioters, diedlast night, making. the tc
: ai'number of victims thus far. fifty
tWO:-J
dj tThe.parents of Susan Ann Master
vi onswhOse disappearance and suppose
.skabduetion from home in williamsburg
bixyears ago, she being then twelV
n years .ofage, created such great excite
ment, received a. letter from the gil
=, herself. saying that she was almo!
D. heart broken and begging her friend
to come to her assistance.
. The letter was the first Intelligent
e the parents had received of her. at
Ie1 though she previously had writer nv
:. letters, and communications have Dee
had with the Baltimore police for til
D, recovery of the girl.
The foreign mails say that the Fol
IF ard cardinals have used all the infil
~ ence of the Roman church to Undue
!: DIR. nollinger to change or modify d
y,i Opposition to the papal infall1bilit
st doctrine, seeing how much sympath
ID he has created, and fearing dangero'
schism in the church.
err WAsHrNGToN,.J July 25.-RepOrts r
IN ceived at the Indian bureau state tn
the agent who was. dispatched to Mex
70 co in order to induce the return of Il
al Kiekapoos, says these Indians are ne
" Santa Rea in Coahuils, and mentions
a singular fact that the Me ican commi
sion had arrived at that place but o.
If week in advance of our agent and b
i'll party, and had been issuing cattle al
g. corn to the Kickapoos. The Mexica
III are anxious to retain the k1ckapoc
The object of our government in desi
III ing 70 retain this nation of Indians al
their location on the reservation, is
n. lgbreak up their depredations on t
!, Texan frontier, in which they are e
10 couraged by their Mexican friends.
4 General Parker to-day vacated /
as Office. as commissioner of Indian affai
re The clerks of the bureau took form
IT. leave of him.
Returns to the department Of ag
culture up to July. LIST, show the acrea
90 of sugar cane 70 be greater this ye
- than last, in the south. All the stat
~ except Mississippi, are in better conc
lie ton than last year. In the acreage
he tobacco, New York shows AZ per Gel
increase over last year ILL.,, 81 per Ger
Us Wis, 80; Conn. 16, while Kentucky !
re ports Is per cent. decrease in Va. 'ffv
Tenn: :seven other southern. states do n
vary much.
LITTLE Rock, July 25.-A gentlem
~ arrived at Fort Smith on the oath frC
he the lad: i country, and says that I
er Osagea were on the war path. { a t
I'm 18th party started on an an expedite
Il ostensib = for buffalo hunting, and !
u turned in couple of days after wi
or three white scalps. Their horses We
IS 6aded down with plumber. 1t is gu
ON posed that they attacked some train a
were successful In their raid.
ST.. Louis; July :25.-The u, s. 6
>" press messenger, ID. w. Sander, VIII
ut delivering money packages, was robb
oh about noon to-day of $500 in mont
4 and $500 in railroad bonds direct
ne to the Kansas Pacif .ailroad compa1
" The circumstances in the case are brie
ds as follows: One of the first packae
; the messenger undertook to deliver "
ur one pufportilg to contain seventy-f
o dollars addressed to Mrs. &Larkin, Il
,o,. ing IN AN alley between Fourth q
Fifth streets and Morgan streets q
Ike .FranklIn avenue. Arriving at t
ad1mOath: of the alley, Sander stopped
= kwagpa, took the, package and went
! tl1e alley, but discovered in 3 few N
no such person as Mrs. Lark
u Lived there. On returning to the str
70 he was astounded at finding the Wag
mel driYer,snd safe gone. he then retuI
an. ed to the Office and gave informatiC
In short time after this Policem
no Viehl arrested the driver of the wage
al Whose name is w. w. Kendall, VIII
III. coming down Spruce street, his mou
u