The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-11-14
EMPORIA NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAIL.

New York had Asa deaths last
week.
Great Britain has 500 paper
mills; France 634, and Spain l39.
Peach and cherry trees in some
parts of Indiana are blossoming
over again.
Five hundred Chinese left San
Fancisco few days ago, for their
native land.
In London gas stock is said to
pay better than any other kind of
investment.
The total loss by the fire at Re
no, Nevada, is now set down at
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Three hundred men were dis
charged from the Planet Carpet
Mills of Brooklyn last week.
The Ames shovel works at North
Eastpn, Massa' .usetts, are run
ming four days in the week.
The segar factories of New York |
are almost at a stand-still. MI
merous employees have been dis |
missed.
There have been ], 300 railroad
accidents in this country within
the past twelve months, resulting
in 34l deaths and l ,4lO injuries.
A new monthly journal is an
nounced at Dublin, called The
Irish Independent Trade and La
hOr Journal.
a Frenchman has invented n
boot with wheels, which, he says,
will enable the wearer TO go con-
siderably faster than horse.
A very large number of Ameri-
can sewing machines have been
sold in Vienna, which were never
made here.
The paper mills of Taunton,
Mass, haye orders sufficient TO
keep them running for the remain
der of the year.
The United States steamer Wy
oming is at Aspinwall to protect
the interests of American citizens
from the revolutionists.
Mayor Levy, of Shreveport, has
telegraphed TO the North to
stop raising funds, as there are no
more cases of yellow fever.
Work on the Vermont Central
Railroad is to be done on nine
ha NF 10
employees reduced.
A large number Of workmen
were discharged from manufactur-
ing and other establishments in
Bangor, Me-, on Saturday.
At Ironton, Ohio, the largest
and most complete iron-Works in
the United States are being erect
ed, with O cash foundation of
100000.
The rise in the rate of discount
of the Bank OF France is caused
by the increase in the circulation
of notes, which last week reached
1906, 100000 francs.
The operatives of the AleXan-
dria, Va, cotton factory have sub
mitted to q reduction of twenty
five per cent, rather than have the
factory closed.
Three colored children were
burned to death at Washington,
ID. c., on Saturday. They had
been locked in q room by their
mother while on an Grand.
The Bricklayers' Union of the
District of Columbia demand $3.50
per day for a days work of eight
hours, and threaten q strike if the
demand is not complied with.
Some of the manufacturing es
Adjustments of Milwaukee are
turning Off their workmen and
closing their doors. The brew.
cries will run right along as here.
tofore, however.
Memorials to Congress, praying
for the protection of a free civil
government and the bringing OF
Utah Territory in harmony with
the Federal authority, are being
freely signed at Salt Lake City.
The woollen mills and manufac.
tories around Louisville have re,
duced the wages of employees from
ten to twenty per cent. Many OF
the discharged railroad hands OF
that vicinity have gone to Mem.
phis.
The Italian government has is.
sued q notice, declaring that as
the cattle disease has ceased in
France, oxen, sheep, hides, etc.,
can be imported from that country
by sea or land to Italy as in ordi-
nary times.
A Vermont professor, who re-
Gently tried to mesmerize u bull
by gazing fixedly at the ferocious
beast, has just recovered from the
effects OF his involuntary aerial
navigation, and has quite lost
faith in the power of the human
eye over brutes.
a private letter from Borneo,
dated August IL, says DIR. Living
stone is n prisoner in Central Afri-
ca. lie is held by q savage tribe
III Jlc luJcIlOI, anu Is unhDlo To
pay the heavy ransom demanded
for his release.
The commissioners of charities
Of New York city are taking po-
session of the unoccupicd houses
belonging to the municipality and
preparing them rs places of shell
ter for the homeless poor during
the approaching winter.
The Patrons of Husbandry, il
is stated, bind themselves never to
go to law, but to have all their
disputes settled by arbitration.
First the case comes on without
delay, and, each man telling his
story, a jury of picked neighbors
and mutual friends decide what is
right.
An inquiry into the kind and
quantity of destruction caused by
lightning has recently been made
in the interest of the insurance
companies of SaXony. AS might
have been anticipated, the result