The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

for frost. The Howard Association a
Memphis sends out daily relief trains I
points along the roads connecting at Mem
phis. 81 new cases are reported at Browns
vile. The death roll at New Orleans +
date is 3,4OO. The national relief steame
from st. Louis is at Vicksburg. TIL
New York 7. M. G. A. has addressed
circular with regard to aid for yellow fe
yer sufferers to other associations. Arch
bishop Lynch, of Toronto, Canada, ha
instructed the clergy of his jurisdiction
to appoint a Sunday in this month for tn
collection to aid the fever suffererers.
The President and the cabinet were occu
pied in discussing the estimates for tn,
support of the government during the fis
cal year, and the illicit distillery trouble
in Arkansas. The Right Rev. Thoma
Galberry, Catholic Bishop of Hartford
died at New York. The Merchants
bank, Prince Edwards Island, failed will
large liabilities. .Heugh, Balfour & Co
OF Manchester, England, have failed; liza
bilities estimated at between one million
| and two millions sterling . The cashie
of the Bank of Commerce, at Odessa
Russia, is defaulter to the amount O
SIG, 900. d. . Russia insists on retainine
Adrianople, because she maintains that
state of war exists until supplementary
treaty is signed. A London correspond
ent states that negotiations for an Anglo
Turkish treaty for the suppression O.
slavery have failed. :. General Sir Fred
erick Paul Haines, commander-in-chie
of the British forces in India, will assume
command at Peshwur, where $4,000
troops are already concentrated. .Thfr
ty-seven persons were. suffocated during
panic in Liverpool theatre.
OCTOBER 12.-Advices from New Cal
edonia state that the instruction is
spreading, and further massacre OF
whites by the natives had occurred
Seventeen persons have been drowned al
Cortemigha and Milesimo, in northern
Italy, by the overflow of the Bormida
river. 10000 employees of Clyde ship
builders have had reduction of IL pei
cent. on wages. :. Bishop Dupanloup
of Orleans, and member of the French
senate, died suddenly. :. . About 1875 In
dams made their appearance in Redwa-
ter Valley, thirty miles from Deadwood
and burned several stacks of hay
From dispatch received at the war de
partment it appears probable that the
army has abandoned the chase of the
Cheyenne warriors. The congressional
committee appointed to investigate the
ACCESSIBILITY and practicability of moving
the Indian affairs into the hands of the
war department are now in session in
Omaha. The ex-cashier of the Au-
burn, Ind, bank has been arrested for
embezzlement. Yellow fever reports
indicate nine new cases at Brownsville,
Tenn, three at Cairo, with light frost,
five at Grand Junction, Tenn, and ten
new cases at Greenville, Miss. A heavy
frost is reported at Louisville, KY.
OCTOBER ia Constantinople dis
patch says the Porte has received infor-
nation that the Russians have recon-
menced marching on Adrianople. /. . The
Russians claim that the territory be-
tween Constantinople and Adrianople is
not affected by the treaty of Berlin
Herr Won Tisso and Baron Won Wenck-
helm are to act Professionally as minis
tiers of finance and the interior in Hun
gary. . . A Simla dispatch says that an
immediate advance through the Khyber
Pass is rumored. The .Khybers report
the Afghans in the pass suffering from
fever. :. The volcanic activity of Vesu-
vius has greatly increased. Minister
Noyes had, up to Friday, received 60,
600 francs for the reliefo of the fever-strick-
en- people of the United States. Two
companies of marines and two men of
war have been ordered to New Caledonia
from Cochin, China. Two hundred
and twenty-five buildings were destroyed
by fire at Edinburgh, Pa. The loss is
estimated at 100000. Eugene A Gro
min, of Oregon, noted for his connection
with the Presidential count, died at
Portland, Oregon. Capt. John J. Peck,
a prominent politician, was murdered at
Waterproof, Miss, by negroes. .. The
most severe storm known for fifteen
years prevailed along the Atlantic coast.
IA fire occurred at Dayton, Ohio; loss
Sis, 900. The horse Hopeful at Chica-
go, made :161k and 2:17 to wagon, the
best time ever made to wagon. Alarm
exists at Springfield, Ill, on account of
yellow fever refugees coming there from
Cairo. The outlook is more hopeful at
Memphis. Another light frost is report
ed at Cairo, and but one death at Vicks-
burg, though the fever is still spreading
through the outlying country. At New
Orleans, deaths so; nine new cases at
Chattanooga.
OCTOBER 14-Eighty thousand Aus
trian troops are to be Withdrawn from
Bosnia The Porte will not submit to
the powers the final treaty which is now
being negotiated with Russia. Con
stantinople is to be fortified. . !. Some of
the tribes near Bagdad revolted and cap
tured the town of Demnam. The Turk
ish authorities telegraphed for reinforce
ments. T. d. Finley & Co., East India
merchants, Glasgow, have suspended.
Liabilities. 81 ,OOO, 900. The Reichstag
has thrown out clause six of the social
lst bill prohibiting socialist meetings.
=. 1t is feared that president Gonzales
and % of his followers, on board the
steamer Jordan L. Mott, persisted In a
severe hurricane off Santo Domingo.
st. Louis Democrats nominated city
ticket. Jesse R. Oakley, defaulting
cashier ofthe Merchants Exchange bank,
n. Y, was sentenced in the q. S. court
to I'VE years, hard labor in the Albany
penitensiary.-.. Lieut.. Benners, in COM
mand of the relief boat Chambers, is
down with the yellow fever. 200 eases
in all at Chattanooga, Tenn. rs new