The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-21

Oieu Oh hAcnuays at Lexington. NY,
of abscess of the liver.
O'Leary, of Chicago, is walking
500 miles in 156 hours.
Secretary BrisLow continues his
raid on the great whisky ring. A
$4,000 gallon snbterranian tank in
Milwaukee has just been discovered
at distillery there.
At GAINESVILLE, O., Monday, eight
persons in a skiff skipped over a
dam, and two women and two chill
dren were drowned. The two men
were drunk, but saved themselves
by abandoning their wives and chill
Glren.
And now a vast combination
called the "silk ring" to import
silks, etc., free of duty, has been I'M
earthed and bounced on by Secre-
tary Bristow. He is making things
very lively for government swind-
lers.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, May l4.-While
an engine attached to freight train
going to New York city was pass
ing through the arch at the Sing
Sing State prison, this morning,
four convicts jumped on the engine,
presenting revolVers at the eDgi-
neer and compelling him to get off.
They then cut the engine loose from
the train, and abandoned the engine
three miles north of TsrrytoWn,
where it was found with both cyl
inder-heads broken.
In New York city, on the 18th,
Judge Blatchford, of the u. S. dis
trict court, ON petition of Jay Gould,
ordered that the Northern Pacific
railroad, including all its land
grants, be sold ut auction on the
first Monday in August, to satisfy
the holders of its first mortgage
bonds. The road will be auctioned
off in New York, but the land must
be put up in the various states
where it is located. This ends the
great scheme to build a northern
Pacific railroad this century.
WASHINGTON, May 14.-The Post
master General to-day issued an Or
der forbidding the payment by the
postmaster at Cincinnati of postal
money orders drawn to the order
of L. d. Sine, who has been and is
still engaged in conducting n gift
enterprise. All registered letters
addressed to Sine are to be returned
to the Office from which they were
mailed.
Geo. T. Smith, of Minnesota, the
patentee of the ''new process" OF
making flour, has been arrested
for perjury in swearing to his pat
ent claim.
ST.. LOUIS, May 15.-The result of
the election to-day for Mayor, was,
Col. j. III. Britton, Democrat, 49,
GIL Henry Overstoltz, Independ-
ent, IL, 1914. Britton's majority, GIL.
Overstoltz contests.
At Chicago, on the 18th, Judge
Dillon decided that the Iowa rail-
road tariff law of March %, 1873,
was valid. The c. B. Sc Q. railroad
appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court.
If the decision is sustained there, it
will settle the question that legis-
lature can regulate railroad freights
and fares.
John Sinky, president of the coal
miners national association, and ac-
tive manager of the Pennsylvania
strikes, has been arrested on charge
of conspiracy.
The Adams Express Company has
given Geo. II. Price, the messenger
who recently killed a man who was
trying to rob the car which Price
had charge of on an Ohio railroad,
81 600 in gold.
The Nebraska constitutional Con-
vention organized on the 18th, at
Linco In.
The miller's national association
met in St. Louis on the 18th. Wis
consin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Kan
sas and Missouri. have formed state
associations, and were represented.
Subjects discussed were transport
tation, inspecting and grading flour
and grain, adulteration, insurance,
patent rights, mills and machinery,
The grand army of the republic
held its annual meeting in Chicago
on the 18th, with large attendance,
The confederate soldiers were not
ON hand. Gen. Devere, of Mass,
the grand commander, declined g
reelection, and Gen. Hartranft Of
Pa, was chosen.
Western 81 Gains $4,000 saw
mill, at Fort Madison, Iowa, burned
down Monday.
In st. Louis, Monday, Mr.. PisbacI
shot his wife dead and then him.