The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Grant claims North Carolina by
5000 majority.
Gov. Brown will stump the State
of New Jersey in September.
Fred Douglas has gone to North
Carolina on an electioneering tour.
The cight-hour movement in New
York appears to have totally col
lapsed.
Recent heavy rains in Illinois
have not damaged crops to any
great extent.
Mexican rcvolutionists captured
the town of Haunce, near Tampico,
and shot its commander.
Senator Schurz is en- route to
North Carolina to stump that State
for Greeley and Brown.
Monday Senator Schurz delivered
his first speech of the campaign to
an immense audience at st. Louis.
Every white settler at tho Forks
of Skina, British Columbia, has
met death at the hands of the fiend-
ish red skins.
A force of 800 State MALTA men
put an end to all hostile demonstra-
lions of the strikers in Williams
port Pa.
The question of Jesuit expulsion
from England under the Roman
Catholic relief act of 1929 is being
agitated.
BY the caving in of an unused
mine near Scranton, Pa, a dwelling
house was swallowed up and two
little girls sufrocated.
Marble cutters in New York have
entered upon the ninth week of
their strike with little or no hope of
ultimate success.
Summers letter, in which he pro-
nounced unequiVOcally for Greeley
and Brown, was addressed TO Hon.
Gardner Bremen, of Boston.
1t is believe ed tina. the attempted
assassination of King Amadeus of
Spain was participated in by the
same parties that assassinated& Gen.
Prim. -
Agent Adams, of the Los Pinos
Agency in Colorado, denies the re-
port that the Indians there arc pre-
pairing for hostilities.
The lease of the Missouri Pacific
to the Atlantic 81 Pacific coYers a
period of ninety-nine years. Mr..
Brown continues as President, and
will also be magaging director.
Jacob Thompson's report OF his
operations along the line of the
northern frontier in 1864 is soon
to be published, being now in the
hands of the printer.
The falling of hosting machine
in McNeal s. Urban's safe factory
at Cincinnati, resulted in the instant
death of Julius Urban and serious
injuries to three others.
Sumner is preparing an open let
ter to the colored people, advising
their support of Greeley. He has
publicly declared the opinion that
Grant will not carry more than four
States.
josie Mansfield testified at the
Barnard trial that the Judge had
visited her house several times, that
Fisk presented Barnard's son 81 600
and that she also knew of another
present of $4,000.
Three of the would-bc assassins
of the King of Spain, and twenty
two alleged accomplices, have been
One of the horses attach
ed to the royal coach at the time of
the attempted assassination, was
with several pistol shots.
The strike of mill hands at Will
Transport, Pa, has assumed most |
threatning aspect. Already several
fierce fights have taken place and
the strikers appear to have every
thing pretty much their own way.
McGarrahan, about whom SO
much talk was INDUCED in last
fall, has again put in public appear
ance and win renew his suit for the
recovery of the New Iberia mine,
for which it is claimed patent has
never been executed.
The famous Blake Divorce trial in
Chicago came 10 an abrupt finale by
The counsel for the defense making
The proposition that the case be sub
nitted without argument on the
evidence. The jury was ont but q
short time, when they returned q
Tcrdict for the defendant, finding
her innocent of all charges made
against her by her husband.
1t is reported that the Geneva
Council has rejected the claims of
he Boston, Sailie, JEFF Davis, JOY
md Music; overruled the demurrer
If Great Britain concerning other
Fessels. and awarded $1,000, eco ,
Iamages in the cases of the Florida.
{ is thought that the Alabama !
laims have created disruption in
he Council, as almost immediately ,