The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-17

ION John, aged ten, daughter Evaline,
,ly beaten end crushed by some blunt
The brains of Parks and
wife were scattered about the room.
They were lying in bed. Tho daugh-
ers were found sitting in the kitchen,
alive, but delirious and fatally hurt.
No clue to the murderers has yet been
obtained. Great excitement prevails
n the vicinity and should the villains
De discovered they would probably be
lynched.
An officer of the Senate, now with
he Southern Outrage Committee at
Atlanta, Ga, states that nearly one hun
1red witnesses have been examined,
and that over 1900 persons have been
driven in from the rural districts to
that city by the Ku-KIux, the proof of
which is in the hands OF the committee.
In as much as the issue between
Governor Palmer, Mayor Mason and
Lieut.. General Sheridan, in relation to
the military occupation of the city,
is exciting much discussion throughout
the country, the following proclama-
ton, under which Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan |
acted lie reproduced:
Proclamation: The preservation of |
good order and peace of the city is here |
by entrusted to Lieut.. General P. Fl. |
Sheridan, of the q. s. army. The po-
lice will act in conjunction with the
Lieutenant General in the preservation
of peace and quiet in the city, and the
superintendent of police will consult
him to that end; the intent thereof be-
ing to preserve the peace of the city
without interfering with the functions
of the city government.
Given under nay hand, this 11th day
of October, }671. r. B. MASON,
Mayor.
L. q. Reaves, who has acquired
considerable reputation as an active en-
ergetic advocate of the removal of the
national capital to the Mississippi val
ley, delivered an able and eloquent lee
ture at Merchantile Library Hall, st.
Louis, few evenings ago. Mr.. Rea-
YES will leave for Boston in a few days,
where he will deliver the lecture, and
probably repeat it at New York and
Philadelphia, after which he will visit
all state capitals and deliver it.
The Baltimore american, after care
fully looking oyer the results of the late
election, thinks Maryland can be carried
for Grant in 1872. Oh, don't. Save
something for the Democrats.
| Austin the republican candidate
for governor in Minnesota, is elected by
ten thousand majority.
The latest returns from New York
give the republican state ticket seven
teen thousand majority. The assembly
stands SO republican to 80 democrats.
Judge Williams, of Chicago, in
structed the Grand Jury to pay no at
tention to tho extra officious letters OF
Gov. Palmer advising indictment OF
Gen. Sheridan and others for the muir.
der of Col. Grosvenor. Sensible Judge
| Secretary Delano emphatically de.
MES being candidate for United States
Senator from Ohio.
i The Mohawk Indians have been de.
cided by the supreme court to be tres
passers on the lands occupied by then
on Long Island for many years. Thou
sands of acres have thus come into pos
session of speculating whites.
The democratic reform committed
of New York have evidence that 10,
600 fraudulent votes were counted OF
election day. They expect to punisl
the thirty-six repeaters who are already
under surveillance, and there is evidence
against the police.
The publishers of the Spectator, an
Insurance paper, have issued q table
showing the aggregate losses of compa
MES by states, the number suspended
and the number unaffected by the Chi
cago fire. Total companies in the Uni
ted States, 1876; aggregate capital, STA.
9S9, ZIG; total gross assets, $135, 42O, 426
total losses, 49,, S21 ,122; companies sus
pended, 81 number assessed %; numbl
not in the fire, 81. Losses of com.
panies by states: New York, 81, 6S7,
500; Ohio, $4,S1S,657; Massachusetts,
$4,38l $50; Pennsylvania, $2,OS2, 600
Illinois, $S3,87S,OOO; Connecticut, 49,,
1885, 900; Rhode Island, $2,072, 500; Cali
fornia, $2,95O,OOO; Missouri, $3.50
Maryland, 1898, 165; Wisconsin, $3.50,
600; Michigan, S12,175,OOO; Minnesota
100000; Maine, $4,000; Kentucky
$500; losses of foreign companies, So,
3d. 600.
Governor Campbell, of Wyoming
opposes the repeal of the female suGrag'
law.
"A woman named Margaret Muller
presented herself at the polling bootl
in Greenwich street. New York, or
Tuesday. The inspectors took the vote
, and she went on her way rejoicing
, amid the cheers of the crowd. Victo
, ria Woodruff and Tennie Claflin Offered
. votes, but were refused. Woodruff ha
i. protested in a lengthy card. 1t is sup.
: posed the card was written by Demos.
themes.
q "A cable dispatch says the Belgian
government has forwarded $4,000 t,
America for the relief of the Belgian
in Wisconsin who have suffered by thu
fires. The government has also opened
subscription for voluntary contribu
tions for the same object.
Cleveland is going to have 'Relie
Horse Races" for the benefit of Michi
gan and Wisconsin fire sufferers.
Louis Vanderveer, of Chicago,
passenger on the eastern bound trail
from Kansas City, on the Missouri Pa
i cific railroad, shot himself on Saturday
morning, inflicting fatal wound. HI
was left at Holden, Missouri, where ht
received medical attention. He hat
5 been playing three card monte on thu
l train and is supposed to have lost heav
lily.
| Judge Carter, ofthe supreme court
District of Columbia, decided that wo
| men do not have the right to vote
2 The plaintiffs were two women WIKI
+. were denied suffrage, and it is under.
stood that the case will be carried Il