The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-16

give majority against the new cOnsti
tuition of 1915. The returns from the
interior confirm previous advices, and
| the instrument is adopted by a majority
| of from six to ten thousand. The farm
ers seem to have voted almost solidly fol
| it. The result has caused much bitter
feeling in business circles, where it is
looked upon as an attack upon city in
terests by the interior.
BUCHAREST, May S.-Private accounts
from Russia represent the situation all
over the country as beyond description,
| and that the tendency of the so-called re.
pressive measures is towards revolution
rather than peace, as the present annoy
ances and outrageous apprehension of all
classes of the population are rapidly
spreading feeling that anything is pre-
ferable to the existing state of affairs. 1t
is asserted that the government is really
playing the game of the Nihilists, in
stead of crushing out the spirit of dis
content in the Empire.
LONDON, May SIN the house of COM
mons today, Lord Geo. HI. Hamilton,
yice-president of the council, stated that
the swine from Philadelphia, Pa, hav-
ing been discovered suffering from tri-
china worm, an order would be issued
enacting that swine from the United
States must be slaughtered at the port of
landing. The order will take effect the
1st of June
SIMLA, May 8.-The Ameer of Afghan
istan arrived at Gundamuk to-day. He
was met at the frontier by Major Cavag-
mari and detachment of the tenth HUI
Ears and Grenadiers. British troops of
all arms lined the route to the camp, two
and onehalf miles. Gen. Browne and
staff received the Amer at the end of
fhQ limo and a c0Ia1fa Of
was fired. The Ameer has announced
his arrival to the victory of India, and
expressed desire for the establishment
of friendly relations between India and
Afghanistan.
BUFFALO, n. Y, May S.-WalIace l..
Darbe, former agent of the society for
the prevention of cruelty to children.
has been sentenced to twelve years in
the Auburn prison for rape.
CHICAGO, May 8.-About IL 80 last
night, as the elevator in the fremont
house was leaving the second story and
descending, Mrs. Henry Lightner. of Pc
oria, who had just left it, by some unac-
countable means slipped and fell, and
her head coming between the floor and
the descending arch of the elevator, was
crushed so terribly that the lady died in
few minutes thereafter. Mr. Lightner
was with his wife at the time, but unable
to do anything, so quickly was the acct
dent over.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 9.-Gov. Col
lum to-day forwarded to President Hay-
es long letter, urging the veto of the
pending bill to prevent military inter
ference with elections.
LONDON, May 9-What Lord George
Hamilton, vice president of the council.
did say in the house of commons yester-
day, was that he had not heard of tri
china in American swine The order of
the council requiridg that swine from
the United States shall be slaughtered
at the port of landing after the LIST of
June, is in consequence of typus.
LONDON, May 9.-The Metropolitan
board of works, after a recent expert
ment on the Thames embankment, find
that electricity costs two and four pence
an hour per lamp more than the best gas
giving equal light. The report declares
the defects connected with electric
lightning must prevent its general adop-
ton.
WASHINGTON, May, 9.-The senate
took up the House bill to prohibit mill
tary interference at elections, and after de
bate by Edmunds, Blaine and Chandler,
passed the bill in the precise form that
1t came from the Housewives 80, nays
bill making appropriations for the legis-
lative, executive and judicial depart
ments of the government, and then adj
jOurned.
CoHAssET NARRows, Mass, May o.
The Advent minister, Charles Brown, is
announced to address the Cohasset Ad-
ventists, Sunday. The people threaten
to tar and feather him and ride him on a
rail. Davis, another Advent preacher,
met two young men in the road near his
house Yesterday, drew a knife, cut up
their nets, and forbade them to 90 near
his house. The people are excited.
TORONTO, May "a fire last night at
the Oshona Cabinet Co.'S warehouse, de-
stroyed the stock and considerably dam
aged the building. Loss $25, 900.
HUDSON, N. Y, May 9-The Knicker-
booker Co.'S Ice house, near Athens, was
burned by an incendiary. Loss, $25, 900.
BUFFALO, May 9.-The house of DIR.
Delas w. SOuthworth, at Angola burned
this morning. The doctor persisted the
flames, and his wife is probably fatally
burned.