The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-23


cutioner under the commune, was dis
covered and shot.
ST.. LOUIS, june l6.-The Democrat
New York special says letters from
Paris, 70 May Both, give additional de
tails Of the collapse of the Commune
} One letter says over forty thousand in
surgents have been killed, wounded o.
taken prisoners during the seven day
struggle, and probable more than ont
hundred thousand will be taken pris
oners in the end. An estimate of thu
losses are as follows: killed, 5000
wounded, 10000; burning Of property
in Paris, LOCO, 100000 francs; loss o
property outside, 1900, 0O0G@ francs
probation of credit, 1900, OO0,O0O francs
France has never seen such week a
the last one here. There has been ev
cry form of torture for every sge and
sex, Sickness or natural deEOPmity hal
kept none from the ruthless brutality
of q mad populace, and the saYagery Of
the uadiseipliled soldiery. At Lux.
emhoQrg, In the Rue Morrierau and In
the towns of st. paques, there are large
trenches filed to the brink with human
bodies, many Of them only half killed
and yet Wafm with life. Insurgents
men and women, with their hands tied
behind their backs, are taken to the
brink, there is Voliey of mnsketryi
the smoke clears away and the victims
are engulfed in the trenches. No ser.
cy has SO far been shown to women
wherever they have been caught, they
have been treated with all the cruelty
Imaginable, especially during the fra!
three days. Fourteen sewing girls
were sufEocated in q cellar, where
they sought refuge from shot
and shell, when the house was sci
on fire by the soldiers. On the Rue
Rogale was house whore women are
cared for during child birth, the insur-
gents set it on fire, aud twenty-five OF
these poor creatures perished In the
flames. Near the vicinity of Wash
burne's house, children, between 8 and
10 years of age, taken in the sct of set
ting fire to houses, were shot on the
spot, not by the mob, but by an officer
| of high rank.
| Another letter says there is much
evidence going to show that Bismark
cody contemplated and desired to
bring about the determination of every
red republican leader throughout Eu-
rape, who could be induced TO go to
Paris. Let them alone long enough,
said he, and every revolutiOnist ia
Europe will make his rendezvous in
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will shut the door and bag the whole
| of them," The Plan has worked we'll ;
the Germans kept the door open at st.
Denis to the very last moment, and any
one who wished TO enter Paris could do
| so up to Sunday morning before Yer
sailles troops made their entry. The
door was then shut to with bang, no
| one was allowed to come ont, aud now,
doubtless through his influence, Bel
GUM, Switzerland, Spain aud Italy are
ready to seize and send back to death,
any fugitive who may have escaped.
The Figaro to-day publishes list of the
names of the military and political
leaders of the Commune, and of this
list forty were foreigners. There
were of these u Poles, Italians, Ger
mans, and two or three each of Bel
gians, Wallachians, Hungarians, POr-
tnguese, Spaniards, and sol disant
Americans.
CINCINNATI, June l6.-A special from
Lebanon says: Clement L. Vallandig-
ham, one of the council for the defence
of ThOs. Nc Ghaw, accidently shot
himself tonight at O'Clock, at I4eba-
non. lie was In a room in company
with Gov. Mccartney, and while show
ing with pistol how Meyers, the muir
dered man, might have shot himself,
the pistol was discharged, the ball en-
tering the abdomen below the
ribs: What direction the ball took is
not known. Surgeons are now making
an examination.
The latest word Is that the bali did
not penetrate the intestines and the
wound is not mortal. The pistol used
was Smith IL WessOn. No one knows
how it came 10 be discharged. The ac-
| cident has caused intense excitement
CRY OF MEXICO, June THE Insnr-
gents at Tampico refuse to let fam
lilies leave their homes, and in
consequence great suffering is expert
enced. The American consul requested
the besiegers not to fire on the city, but
| the request was not granted. The
president has ordered General Roche to
do something towards saving women,
children and old men.
June S.-Last night truce of TWEEN
ty-four hours was arranged between
the rebels, of Tampico, and General
Roche, commanding the beseiging
force, to let families leave the city.
June 10.-General Roche states that
the Tampico rebels finally refused to
let families leave the city, and improved
the twenty-four hours truce by repair
| ing Notifications.
June ll.-Tampico was stormed this
morning, at O'Clock, and taken at the
point of the bayonet. ALI the Insur-
taken prisoner. sEAhe federal army is al
| right and well.
The yellow fever is raging at Vera
Cruz.
WAsHINGToN, June ia dispatch
from Admiral Rodgers, of which the
| following is the substance, was receiv-
ed at the Navy depot and dated at Bor-
see Island, Corea, June Sd, and sent
from Shanghai. Our minister and Co
rean ENJOYS exchanged professions Of
amicable intentions. The COreans
| their water. The Monocacy, the Palas
| and four steam launches, under Com
| mander BlOker, were sent, June first,
| to examine the river Sable. At point
where navigation was most difficult,
masked batteries, manned by several
thousand COreaHs, were unmasked, and
| without warning, opened fire on our
people. The French ships in advance
fought gallsntly. Our vessels bearing
up drove the enemy from the works.
The tide swept all boats past the bat
teries. They anchored and threw eight
| inch shells among the retreating enemy.
The MonOcacy was slightly injured by
knocking upon sunken rocks, but is
now temporarily repaired. The vessels
returning received no fire, the enemy
having been driven from the forts.
| Our people displayed great bravery,
and one or two were slightly hurt. A
| communication was received to-day,
which says that there have been no
operations, peaceful or otherwise.
Since the Coreans have met our over
lures of peace with unprovokedsf
our forces will land, destroy the f0ffs
and take such other measures as the
| interests Of civilization require.
| WASHINGTON, d. c., June lin
Vestigations into the defalcation of Nc
/ CartRey, of the post ottics department.
| developed the fact that Olmstead, Nc
Cartney's predecessor, hsd not been
prosecuted for his embezzlement,
amounting to $4,000, nor have his
bondsmen been required to pay the
amount for which they are responsible
Olmstead is not custody, and has moi
been molestad since he was bailed,
more than two years ago.
/ VERSAILLES, June 16.-In the assem-
bly, to-day q resolution appointing 9
1 COMMITTEES to revise the DEGREES Of the
government of national defence passed
u 70 second reading. n. II. Arago and
Simon, during the debate on the res0ln-
ton, urged q thorough investigati0E
aud protested against the calumnies
keApe1 upon that government. A reso.
luton for . committeet to enquire into tn
causes Of the late instruction in Paril
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