The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-08
NEWS SUMMARY

OCTOBER 27-The obsequies of the
late Cardinal Cullen took place at Dub
lin . About 14O Mormons arrived at
New York from Europe. Miss Grace
H Burnett, daughter of Gen. Burnett,
of New York, was married at Paris to
Baron Victor Oertzen, of the Prussian
army Violent gales prevailed along the
Welsh and British coast. =. D.. England has
demanded explanation at St. Petersburg
of Russian movements in Roumelia. -.
Baron CagnOdodo has rendered the Aus
trian emperor his resignation of the task
of forming cabinet. AT the last meet
ing of the British cabinet, Lord Beacons-
field had an apoplectic fit, and great un-
easiness is felt over his serious illness.
-. The cOroner's investigation of the
late railway disaster at Pontypridd, Eng
land, resulted in a verdict of manslanght-
er against the signalman. Weston, the
American pedestrian, has gone into
bankruptcy. Liabilities, 5000. The
Spanish police found eighteen bottles of
dynamite in Chambes, near Madrid.
AhACS SllCSICO PoAlASo navy DNSh e-ASSN-
ed. "A Berlin dispatch reports that the
Russian general, Lonakine, has started
from the eastern shore of the Caspian
Sea toward the northern frontier of At
ghanistan. The trial of MOncasi, the
would-be assassin of King Alfonso, has
commenced. :. Lord Dufferin has reach
ed Londonderry, where he was warmly
welcomed. =. Secretary Evarts has adj
dressed letter to John Welsh, our min
lister to England, on the subject of the
Halifax award, in which he says our
f1shinf fleets ''must and shall have pro-
tection.". :. Affairs are reported more
peaceable on the Mexican border. The
Cincinnati literary club held a grand re-
union at the White house under invita-
ton of President and Mrs. Hayes. -.
The king of Dahomey is holding a num-
Der of Portuguese soldiers as prisoners.
He has slaughtered 500 persons as hu-
man sacrifices during the last month.
80. All trains southwark are loaded with
people returning to their homes. . . The
relief steamer Chambers has arrived at
st. Louis.
OCT. 30.-The officials of the Glasgow
bank have been committed for trial on a
charge of theft; bail has been offered
but refused. :. The British cabinet has
decided to send an embassy to the Amer
with a proposition as an ultimatum, be-
fore further proceedings. The Ameri-
can Missionary Association is in session
at TauiitOn, Mass; 600 delegates are
present. In the city of Mexico, Lieut..
Col. F. Garcia has been tried by court
martial and found guilty of violating the
neutrality laws, he having pursued body
of revolutionists into the territory of the
| United States In New Orleans deaths
from other causes exceed those from yell
low fever; but there is no abatement of
the disease at Meridian, Mississippi. go.
A convention has been ratified between
the United States, most of the South
American states, and all the Eul opean
countries except Great Britain, provid-
ing for the establishment and mainten-
ance at Paris of an international bureau
of weights and measures. The income
case of the United States against S. ].
Tilden, was reached in the U. S. circuit
court at Pittsburg. The army of the
Tennessee reunion is in progress at In
dianapOlis. Fire at Wilmington, Della
ware; loss $4,000.
Dor. 31.-The German American ma
tional bank, and the savings bank of the
same name at Washington, D. c., have
both suspended. e. The merchants and
mechanics state bank of Troy, N. Y,
closed. . Gen. H. E. Payne, of Wiscon-
sin, has been appointed by the President
us commissioner of patents. The
President has issued his thanksgiving
proclamation for Thursday, Nov. 28th
-. The United States consul at Tangier
has transmitted dispatch to the state
department giving an account of fearful
ravages of the cholera in the interior OF
Morocco. The banking house of Jos
A. Hermann 81 Co., Cincinnati, closed its
doors. Liabilities, 100000 49, There
seems tie be great probability of con-
fiict between England and Russia, grow
ing out of the Afghanistan trouble.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has re-
commenced with great activity.