The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY


preparations for postal salaries and rail-
way mail transportion. The members
of the national yellow fever commission
have completed their investigation at
Memphis. In their report they viii adj
vocate system of national quarantine |
under the direction of the United States |
government. Arrangements are be
ing made for commercial convention
at New Orleans, Dec. Sd. :. English |
dispatches say that parliament is likely |
to be convened at at early day. The
Edinburg high court has refused to adj
NIT to bail any more of the Glasgow
bank directors. E. p. Failures are reported |
in London of Tomas & Co., chemical |
manufacturers; Young, Lister & Co,
ship owners; Wethern & Co., China |
trade; all with large liabilities. :. "A
dispatch from Pesth says Count Schu-
valoff's mission marks a change in the
policy of Russia, who was previously
disposed to strain her rights under the
treaty. :. The three conservative can
didates, NJ. Oscar de Vallee, Count de
Housonville, and M. BarAchon, were to-
day elected to the French senate from
Paris, for life, by small majorities. A
fire at Bradford, Pa, destroyed fifty
buildings; loss $4,000. :. "A fire oc-
CURED in the Virginia penitentiary; loss
$500. Very close competition in pas
senger rates is reported on railroad lines
from Cincinnati east.
Nov. 16-The supreme court of Flor
ida has granted writ of mandamus
compelling the canvassing board of
Alachua county to count all the votes,
three precincts having been thrown out
-. "A few yellow fever deaths are still
reported from Greenville, New Orleans
and other points. The U. s. grand ju-
ry at Charleston, West Virginia, have
found 928 indictments against violators
of revenue laws, and strikers on the Kan
awha river government works. . "A To-
connective explosion at Mavoney city, Pa
killed persons and seriously injured
or 10 others. foundations IN Rome
continue. :. The Porte has appointed
commissioners under the presidency of
Carathordori Pasha, to apply the pro-
gramme of reforms in Eastern Roumelia
80. The political correspondence from
Vienna says the Macedonian insurrec-
ton is spreading towards Epirus and
Thessaly. The Porte has sent twenty
three battallions with five batteries to
subdue the instruction.
Nov. 18-At Naples, on Sunday, poor
cook named Geovinna Passanntes, tried
to stab King Humbert, of Italy, as the
latter passed in his carriage. The latter
defended himself with his sword, and
the cook was arrested. 1t is feared there
is plot to kill all the sovereigns in
Europe. Great freshet at Norwich,
England, and 1000 dwellings flooded
-. Destructive earthquake at Mani
zales and Antrogna, Central America
..... -Four Molly Maguires hung in
Pennsylvania, Dec. 49,. Two men
named Burke and Whalon examined in
New York police court on charge of
stealing A. T. Stewards body, and COM
mitted for trial. Statute prescribes only
one years Imprisonment and $3.50 fine
-. Geo. c. Heintzinjer, president of
Philadelphia coal company, sent to Jail
in default of 100000 bail, on charge of
embezzling $4,000. Severe shock of
earth quake at Memphis. :. Two volca-
noes in San Salvador, s. A, in terrible
eruption Archibald Steer and son club
bed farmer named Young, his hired
man, wife and daughter, until all were
nearly dead, on their farm, near Leba-
non, Ohio, and then disappeared.
Nov. 19-Joseph Gearing, contractor
and ex-alderman, Toronto, Canada, has
absconded with $4,000. :. "A Paris dis
patch reports that Manuel Perdu, ex-
president of Peru, has been assassinated
-. Notifications made by the interna-
tional Roumelian commission in the
Turkish project for organic reform has
been accepted by the party. >. "A dis
patch from Berlin says that Russia is
making great efforts to obtain an extern
sion of the terms of the occupation of
Turkey, but all the powers oppose it. .
Count SchouvalOff will be appointed
ambassador at Vienna, and M. Won Nav
ihoff, now ambassador there will be
transferred to London . Merchants
from Central Asia say no indications of
movement of the Russians towards AT
ghaniston are observable. -. 4. The Bucha-
rest government, it is said, has refused
Russia increased facilities of inter-com-
munication during the occupation OF
Bulgaria. /. .Passanante has informed
his examiners that his intention was to
finish King Humbert as preparatory to
forming a universal republic. Several
suspected accomplices have been arrest
ed. The Pope has sent to the King q
congratulatory telegram. The shock
Of an earthquake was felt slightly at St
Louis, distinctly at Little Rock. :. The
Howard Association of New Orleans
telegraphs Mayor Stokely, Philadelphia
that $4,000 will be necessary to enable
the association to pay its debts and close
its labors. Yellow fever deaths at New
Orleans, three. Gen. Gordon was al
most unanimously elected q. s. senator
from Georgia. The session of the
American Public Health association
! convened at Richmond, Va. The sec
rotary of war has received and referred
to Gen. Sherman letter from secretary
Shurz sharply replying to certain state
ments by Gen. Sheridan in the latter's
annual report. Edwards Pierrepont
ex-United States minister to England
has resumed the practice of law ia New
York city. In the Vanderbilt will
case Bishop McTyiere of the n. E
church south, was introduced as wit
ness to show the history of the donation
to the Nashville university. :. Repre-
sentatives of twenty-four railway lines
west of the Mississippi river, met il
Kansas City and organized western as
sociation of general passenger and tickle
agents. Reed WhippIe, secretary and
treasurer Union League Club, Philadel
phia, has absconded, leaving deficit il
his accounts of $35, 900.