The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-20
THE NEWS.

The st. Clair (Ill.) coal strike
is over.
Emil Kahn, o Kansan, shot him
self in saloon in st. Louis Tues
day.
, The government will probably
distribute army clothing to the
sufferers.
Daniel n. Haskell, the veteran
editor of the Boston Transcript,
died on Friday last.
Down III Florida they have had
an excitement also; a mob COM
PEELED the canvassing board to
count as it wished.
The Longshoremen are on a
strike in New York, because the
steamship companies want to cut
down wages.
The American Express was rob-
bed of $4,000 at Cincinnati this
week. Persons connected with
the service of the company arrest
ed on suspicion.
II. Il. Brooks, late President of
The Merchants National bank, of
Petersburg, is on trial on the
charge of embezzling from $50, 900
$4,000.
In trot at New York, on Sat
urday, Copperbottom, under sad
die, defeated American Girl in
three straight heats. Time, o.
22!, 2:2Gt, and 2:254.
A forged seven thousand dollar
bond of the city of Pittsburg was
discovered in New York on Satnr-
day. 1t is reported that $4,000
of these bonds are afioat.
Ten thousand men and woman
III New York City are out of en-
ployment and are clamoring for
food. If it is thus at the beginning
of winter, what win it be at the
end?
Deaths in st. Louis Last week,
I3I; children under five years of
age, 60. OF this number "a were
caused by small pox, 10 by con-
sumption, and ten by pneumonia.
Sickening accounts still contin-
Tie to come to us from Nebraska
of suffering for the necessary food
to sustain life. Immediate assist
ance is required by many, or alb
solute starvation will Overtake
them.
Huxley hall, st. Joseph, was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday morning.
Loss, $4,000. About one hun
dred barrels of lubricating oil be-
longing to the Kansas City, st.
Joseph and Council Bluffs railroad,
stored in the cellar, it is supposed
was uninjured.
Thirty Chinese boys have just
arrived in Springfield, Mass, to
he thence sent to various schools
in that state and Connecticut for
education. They brought their
wardrobes and trInkets in great
bamboo chests.
Michael Hayes, principal wit.
ness in the safe burglary conspir-
acy case, arrested Friday on a
charge of purjury, and committed
to Jail in default of $1,000 bail,
was on Saturday released in So,
600, Columbus Alexander and
Horace s. Johnson going bond.
The Cheap Transportation as
sociation met in New York on
Saturday, and advocated the build
ing of double track railroad
freight line between New York
and Chicago, and also congratulate
ed the people on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroads refusal to enter the
trunk line combination.
A Chattanooga capitalist re-
Gently purchased for $4,000, a
bit of land on the side of Lookout
mountain, thirty miles long by one
wide, containing ineXhaustible
beds of the finest iron ore in the
world. For this tract an English
company has since offered him
81, 100000, which he refused.
The president has directed tel
egram to be sent to the governor of
Texas requesting him to delay the
execution of death sentence of
Satanta until it can be satisfac-
torily ascertained whether or not
he violated his parole, the presi-
dent believing the weight OF evil
dence thus far in Satanta's favor.
Saranta, the Kiowa chieftain
who was released from the Hunts
vile, Texas, penitentiary by Gov.
Davis at the time of the Fort Sill
council, about eighteen months
ago, on condition that he keep the
peace, has been remanded TO his
old quarters undera lifetime SEN
tence. The old chief played false
and lead his people on the war
path, and now he has been taken
from them forever.