The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-04
NEWS SUMMARY.


ported from yellow fever at Memphis.
There is general feeling among physi-
clans there that the worst is passed. At
New Orleans, deaths 81; cases reported,
122. The commission to investigate
yellow fever is being organized, Prof D.
NJ. Bemiss, NJ. D., of New Orleans, is
chairman 1t is said that limitations
have been made to England of Russia's
intention to Immediately recall her mis-
sion from Cabul. The Roumanian
Chambers met in special session at Blu
charest. :. a dispatch from Vienna says
that, according to the latest news, 3d.
OO0 insurgents have concentrated in the
neighborhood of Vicehegrad. a Ber-
lin dispatch announces that General
Won Moltke has recovered from his i'll
ness d. l.. The Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road round-house and the Missouri Car
and Foundry Works in East st. Louis
were destroyed by fire. ;. .Harland, Til
denis Michigan attorney, was held in
$4,000 bail to appear October 9Th for
examination. A Deadwood mail coach
was stopped by road agents and robbed
of $4,000. Two of the passengers were
killed.
SEPT. 2S.-The Chinese Embassy at
Washington was formally received by
the President. :. The steamboat, Adel-
phia, plying between New York and
South Norwalk, blew up and twenty
II Ia1 tn
funeral procession crossing railroad at
Brooklyn was struck by a locomotive
and three persons were killed and sever
al injured. The st. Louis Greenback
Labor party have nominated full city
ticket. An explosion in the foundry
of the state prison at Saltwater, Mime
sofa, injured six men. "A Constantine
pie dispatch says that the Russians con-
tinue to retire on Kirk Kilissia and Ad-
rianople, where they expect to arrive
about the Sd of October. Leona, anoth-
er Bosnian stronghold has surrendered
to the Austrians. =. d. There is but little
change in the situation in yellow fever
districts. Money, provisions, ETC., are
SEPT. ga movement is on foot to
charter a steamboat and load with sup
plies at st. Louis for the relief of the
smaller towns of Mississippi. 80. The
fever is abating at Memphis, but only
for want of material. Total deaths there
to date 2,64O; at New Orleans, 2,91O. 49,.
A large number of physicians have been
stricken down. .Advices from India
leave little room for hope that Afghanis-
tan affairs will be settled peaceably. 80.
Hungarian radicals held mass meeting
at Peseth and protested against the oc-
cupation of Bosnia. d. d. On Saturday Klo-
buk, the last refuge of the Herzegovinian
insurgents surrendered after brave de-
tense. Sir Charles Wetham, alderman
of Bridgeward, was chosen Lord Mayor
of London. &. The International Peace
Congress at Paris passed resolutions
recommending the settlements ofdisputes
between nations by arbitration, and de-
claring war to be brigandage. DR..
August Heinrich Peterman, the well
known geographer, died from apOplexy
at London. E. . The King of Netherlands
has been bethrothed to the Princess EN-
ma, of Waldeck, Pyrmont. -. Condor
and Melody, the released Fenians, ar
rived in New York, and were warmly
welcomed by their fellow countrymen.
-. On and after October 1st the regis
tratiOn of third class mail begins in the
TOnSfa1 6arorfT1nonf
Logan spoke at Burlington, Iowa, Secre-
tary Shurz at Cincinnati. =. The Ne
braska Democratic convention at Lin
coin adopted soft money platform, and
nominated state ticket, endorsing four
of the Greenback nominees.
SEPT. 30.-Dispatches from Memphis
state that there is no perceptible abate-
ments in,deaths from yellow fever there,
and the disease is still raging terribly
in the small towns of louisiana. . . Gov
ernOr Shepherd, president of the National
Relief COmmitte has arrived at ST. Louis
to superintend the river expedition.
There is great difficulty in transporting
the mails in the fever districts. E. . Daniel
O'Leary and John Hughes are engaged
in six days pedestrian contest at New
York. The Greenback and Democrat
ic tickets in Iowa have been consolidat-
ed. Troops are leaving England for
India. The Indian government is max
ing great preparations for war. The
Ameer of Afghanistan has sent an envoy
on secret mission to the Sultan of
Turkey. "A cabinet crisis in Hungary
is said to be growing out of Bosnian oc-
cupation. .Kuo Sung Tao, the Chinese
Minister to London and Paris, will
shortly retire. =. 1t is stated that Lord
Beaconsfield is suffering from an acute
attack of govt.