The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-11

New Hampshire, was taken nm at tb,
opening of the senate. Senator Hoa
argured in favor of admitting Mr.. Bell
saying there was an unbroken line O
precedents for so doing. Senator Voor
hees introduced bill to authorize thu
president to appoint James Shields, o.
Missouri, brigadier- general of the army
on the retired list. Senator Hereford
gave notice that on Monday he would
call up the resolution of Senator Hoar
condemnatory of the Democratic policy
IN order to express his views on it. AT
ter an executive session, the senate adj
ljourned till Monday.
The house continued to discuss the
army appropriation bill. President Hay
es, Secretary Thompson, Webb HAYES
and some friends, made trip down the
Potomac to-day on board the Tallaposa
which goes to sea this evening. The
secretary of the treasury has issued call
Tor the redemption of len million ) 80
ponds OF 1860, consolS of 1867.
| DANvILLE, Va, April "a severe tor.
nado passed over Brown Summit, North
Carolina, today. Small houses were
bloWn down. scattering the furniture
broadcast. One boy was killed and many
seriously injured by falling timbers.
Trees and fences were Frustrated, and
great damage done.
CHICAGO, April 3.-Scandal was occa-
stoned on the North Side some time ago
by the attention paid to Mrs. GeIderman
by DIR. Henry Meyer, the Improperly of
his addresses arising from the fact that
Mrs. Meyer and Mr.. Gelderman had
shortly before died, under circumstances
which, taken in connection with the sub
sequent conduct of the surviving ones,
daaTlan6 &
the deceased were therefore exhumed.
and after careful analysis, Just completed,
| large quantities of strychnine were found
in the system of MIR. Gelderman, and the
stomach of Mrs. Meyer was found i'm
pregnated with the deadly colchicina.
The corOner's jury to-day, after hearing
the testimony of the chemists, found a
verdict, recommending that DR. Never
and Mrs. Gelderman be held for murder.
KANSAS CITY, April 3.-Information
received from Salina, Kansas, saws that
| owing to the dry, warm weather. the
wheat is shooting up for jointing, while
nearly all the fields in that vicinity are,
for the most part, dead or dying. The
| roots are dead, with few exceptions, and
| the base of the plant withered so that
there can be little hope for one third
crop, even If rain should come at once,
of which there is little prospect.
NEW YORK, April 3.-Three feet OF
snow has fallen since Monday. around
North Troy, Vermont. The storm visit
ed the region of Lock Haven, Pennsyl-
vanla, this morning. Hereabouts it is
raining. A. Seligman's corset and shoe
| store, Broadway and Broom streets burn
ed; loss $4,000; insured. A Wash
| lngton dispatch gives a statement OF
| the secretary of the treasury, in which he
declares his belief that the remaining
| $1,000, 900 of $50 bonds will be replac-
ed with fonr per cents by the first of Ju-
ly; and he further says that when this
is done, refunding will proceed slowly
and on conditions much less favorable
than existing ones. The money market
| is not so stringent as yesterday, and no
loans are reported, even among stock
| brokers, above seven per cent. Time
loans are reported easier, and money for
| thirty days on ordinary stock exchange
collateral, is offered at six per cent; on
pledge of U. S. securities it is offered at
four sper cent. for thirty days, and at
three per cent. for ninety days.
TERRE HAUTE, April 3.-Walter Will
son was hung at Newport, Ind, to-day,
for the murder of Ezra Compton in Jan
uary last. The prisoner was accompani-
ed to scaffold by his young wife, who
took her leave of him weeping bitterly.
CLEVELAND, April "a coalition of
the Democratic and National parties of
this city was effected today.
Dies MONIES, April "A report from
Davis City, Decatur county, says the cit
liens, incensed by a long series of law
lessness and crime by gang of despera-
does, led by Irving Tucker and one Tar
ter, on Monday banded together, seized
Tucker and hung him. Tarter was also
captured, and said he was ready to swing
if he was allowed to kill Topeliff and
Frisbie, two citizens against whom he
had grudge, but he was taken from the
mob and placed in jail The mob then
visited the bagnio of Martha McLane,
tore down the house and destroyed its
contents. During the fray sympathizers
of Tucker and Tarter set the Common
cial priting office on fire. Much excite
ment prevailed, and more trouble is an
ticipated.
WASHINGTON, April 4-Prof Riley
has resigned as entomologist of the agri-
cultural department, because he was not
courteously treated. A hard freeze at
Charleston, S. c., last night, did $3.50
600 damages to early vegetables. Mad
anne Bonaparte died yesterday at Balti-
more, aged nearly 100 years.
ST. LOUIS, April A fire last night
burned several buildings on the corner
of North 9th and st. Charles streets, and
did about 100000 damage. Canton, H.
linois, had an $4,000 fire.
LONDON, April 4.-The Egyptian of
f1cer sent to break up slavery depots
at Bahrelgazal Kordafan, reports an en-
gagement with Suleiman, chief slave
trader and owner of twenty-five depots.
The Egyptian forces numbered 5000,
partially with improved rifles, and were
entrenched. Suleiman with II 900 Arabs,
made several assaults, but was complete
ly defeated, and fled in disorder, leaving
1857 dead. The Egyptians lost twenty
men.
Boston, April 4.-The United States
steamer Plymouth, from this port, March
Is, for cruise to the West Indies, has
returned, yellow fever having broken out
when three hundred miles southeast of
Bermuda. Eagan, boatswain, died of the
disease. The ship came from the West
Indies last autumn with yellow fever on
board, but it was thought that tumiga-
ton and the frosts of winter here had
destroyed all germs of the disease.