The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-12-03
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary of Telegraphic
Reports In the Daily Papers.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. "a.

road convention at st. Louis, very
largely attended, and plan agreed
upon which is to be urged upon Con-
gress. 1t is substantially for the gov
eminent to guarantee the payment of
the interest for so years upon the
bonds of the road, and take mortgage
as its secnrity.-The trial of VIM. o.
Avery, chief clerk of the internal rev.
enue department at Washington, be-
gun in st. Louis. He is supposed to
be the official who was in collision
with the st. Louis whisky ring, and
kept it posted as to what the govern
ment was doing.-FulI arrangements
made for Vice President Wilson's flu
neral ceremonies. The body to lie in
state at Washington, Philadelphia, and
Boston, and then be buried at the de-
ceased statesman's home, Natick, Mass.
THURSDAY, NOV. %.
Lake and canal navigation about
closed by ice. = LOCO employees in
sterdam, N. Y, struck against sec
ond ten per cent. reduction of wages
Fires: Fishers flour mill, Chicago,
5000; Sellers grain warehouse and
Riots lumber yard, Chebause, Illinois,
$4,000; five buildings at McKeesport,
Pa, $73, 000.-James Fl. Ford, and two
Othrr conVicts, escaped from the Jefier-
son City, Mo-, penitentiary. Fore kill
ed his brother-in-iaw, Beach, and tried
to kill his wife, in st. Louis, two years
ago.-Five burglars seized and gagged
the Waterman of the Monroe, Mich,
First National Bank, and then blew
open the vault doors and pried open
the inner safe, and waltzed away with
SIT ,452.-Prlnce of Wales leaves Bonn
bay for Ceylon.-Wm. B. Aston, the
wealthy real estate monopolist of New
York City, died, and a small space of
earth will satisfy him now.-Gold 114114.
No daily exchanges on Friday, it be-
ing the day after Thanksgiving.
SATURDAY, NoY. "a.
Six vessels wrecked off Magdalen is
land, on the Canadian coast, and 45
lives lost. - The schooner Sunshine
found bottom up at the mouth of Col
umbia river, Oregon. Her thirty pas
sengers and crew of ten were all lost.
AS party OF hunters from Lincoln
county. Mo-, were passing TIN Ough JEFF
ferson City, one of them, Martin
Spyres, fell dead with hemorrhage of
the lungs, and his comrades handed the
body to constable, and went on home.
Spyres leaves wife and six children
1t is reported that Spain has refused
to accede to the demand of the United
States, to adhere to the treaty of 1895.
The cold weather is so severe in the
Black Hills that the military have evac-
uated, and gone into winter quarters
at Fit. Laramie, and miners are throng-
ing back to the Hills.-Work begun to
extend the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road track from Pueblo to Trinidad
Runs in New York City on the Peo-
pies Third Avenue, and Security, saw
ings bank, and the Peoples took adj
vantage of the sixty days notiee.-The
committee appointed by the st. Louis
railroad convention, to prepare a mem
orial for Congress and the public, elect
Col. Broadhead, of st. Louis, chairman,
and proceed to work.-The funeral GER
emonies of Vice President Wilson held
in the Senate chamber, at Washington,
with great solemnity, President Grant,
the cabinet and the supreme court, be-
ing in attendance. The streets were
crowded, though it rained, and when
the cortege reached Baltimore the
streets of that city were crowded for
hours in pouring rain.-Gold ia 3.
MONDAY, NOV. 20.
Sec. Bristow writes scathiDg letter,
inviting any one who charges. him with
being interested in any whisky or 9TH
er frauds, to come on with some proof.
Total vote on the new constitution
of Missouri: 1O4, 1862; majority for, &c.
2SS. 1t went into effect Nov. 3d.
The Union Pacific railroad having
hired 100 Chinese to mine coal at Car
bon and Rock Springs, Wyoming, the
SbA NOA1 0hG hOW
Chinese will be brought to do all the
work.-The Cherokee national council
canvassed the recent vote in the Indian
Territory, and declared Chas. Thomp-
son elected chief, and David Rae as
sistant chief, and both swore In and
took their offices without the anticipa-
ted resistance Of the Ross party.-The
governor of Connecticut apI oints Ex-
Governor English U. S. Senator to fill
out Mr.. Ferry's term.-Suit begun
against the engineer and water COM
missioners of Brooklyn, to recover
100000 public money from their pock-
ete.-Sec. Chandler discharged Com
missioner Smith and all the old chief
clerks of the various departments of
the bureau of Indian affairs. He pro-
poses to get rid of corruption by max
ing clean sweep.-Edward s. Tobey,
of Boston, appointed to succeed Smith.
Freight train ran into a passenger
train at West Bernardo, Texas, and kill
ed Henry Roberts, OF st. Louis.-Col.
Des Angeas, appraisement officer in
the New York custom house, convicted
of smuggling, and fined $4,000 and
sent to the penitentiary for two years.
Residence at st. Charles, Iowa, of E.
S. Chaplin, manager of the Davenport
Gazette, destroyed by incendiary fire;
loss GA, O0G.--Several stores burned at
Beardstown, Illinois; loss $4,000
Gold 11411S.--Grain and cattle markets
easy.
TUESDAY, NOV. 80.
Vice-President Wilson'S remains ia
ken with great ceremony through
Philadelphia, New York and Boston,
on Monday, and on Tuesday received
q great ovation in Boston. They were
then escorted to Natick, Mass, for
burial in the family lot in the Gene
terry. The funeral honors have not
been exceeded by those paid to any
mans memory in the United States
Ex-commissioner Douglass put on the
witness stand in the st. Louis whisky
revenue fraud cases, and some unpleas-
ant testimony elected against Gen.