The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-28
TELEGRAPHIC.

a few minutes before 4 O'Clock this morn
ing. The funeral services will be held
in this city Friday, after which his re-
mains viii be taken to Baltimore -5it
LISBON, Feb. 19.-The United States
frigate Constitution, Capt. Badger, from
Havre, by way of Portsmouth, England,
where she was repaired after being ashore
been tOwed in here, with her rudder DAM
aged, by two tugs. One of the tugs claims
So 600 salvage.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Dist Highland
ers and the Sd battalion of the Goth rifles,
sailed to-day for the cape of Good Hope,
amid great popular enthusiasm. Sever
al other ships will sail with troops in q
few days. Mill masters, of Ashton-un-
er-Tyne, decided to begin a general
lockout Saturday, if the strike is not set
tied. The strikers are estimated at TO-
600.
LONDON, Feb. 19.-The Royal College
of physicians ask the government to ap-
point royal commission of statesmen,
physicians and specialists, to investigate
the plague in Russia and st. Petersburg
A commission is forming under General
Helfreich, specially to watch over the
sanitary condition of the troops.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-Sec'y Sher-
man has ordered the revenue cutter, VOL
colt, now at Port Townsend, to Sitka to
preserve the peace. The British man-of-
war Osprey, left Victoria yesterday for
Sitka, at the earnest request of the citi-
Zens, who represented that they feared an
indiscriminate massacre by the Indians.
The secretary of the treasury and secre-
tary OF state have to-day considered the
necessary enlargement of the powers of
the treasury department, SO as to pre-
vent the ChInn1Qnf of Aiaao sod oafflo from
American ports, and bill for that pur-
pose will be sent to the proper commit
tee of congress to-day or tomorrow.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 19-The ferry
boats Ell Captain and Almeda collided
yesterday, the former sinking. No lives
lost so far as known.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The Potter
committee to-day examined L. s. Mar
shall Wharton, of Louisiana. The senate
committee on railroads favors 1.-THE ap-
pointment of commission to inquire
into the relations of the Western Union
telegraph company with the press and
people, and report to the next congress.
Senator elect Logan, of Illinois, was met
at the depot, upon his arrival here this
evening, by large concOurse of friends,
who, amid great enthusiasm, escorted
him to his hotel, where speeches of wei
come were made, to which Gen. Logan
responded.
New YORK, Feb. 2O.-Daniel Robin
son, treasurer OF the Troy & Boston rail-
road, has been jointly indicted with d.
Thomas Vail, president of the Merchants
and Mechanics bank, for conspiracy to
defraud the creditors of the bank.
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 20.-The Rhode Is
land senate protests unanimously against
the law restricting Chinese immigration.
PITTsBURG. Feb. 20-Considerable ex-
element and uneasiness exists at Browns
vile and other towns along the upper
Monongahela, owing to the recent out
breaks and threatened violence by the
striking coal miners in that vicinity.
Sheriff Work, with $50 deputies, is guard
ing the mines and made many arrests.
Mrs. Marion West of Indianapolis,
was arrested at Washington court house
Ohio, yesterday, for forgery, having
raised check for $50 to two thousand
dollars. The check was given by farm
er whom the woman had in her tolls.
The state prohibition convention met at
| Columbus, Ohio, today, about one hun
dred persons being in attendance. A
state ticket was nominated and platform
adopted.
A shooting match is now in progress
between the Cincinnati life club and the
Colorado club, the shooting being done
by each at their respective localities.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-The Khedive of
Egypt was shot at, on Tuesday, at Carlo.
There is much trouble and insubordi-
nation in the Egyptian army. The
strikers at Bolton are kept quiet by the
| troops. The Sheffield scissors manu-
facturers have reduced wages 6 to 10 per
cent. THERE'S much embarrassment in
the China tea trade.
A number of young citizens of Munich
have started for Georgia, United States,
where it is proposed to establish Swiss
colony under the auspices of the work
mems society. Others will follow. The
Mercy dock and harbor trade has de-
cided to expend $175, 900 in erecting
slaughter houses for the American cattle
| trade.
CALCUTTA, Feb. Ca report from
Mandalay asserts that the King of Bur.
NAH murdered all the royal princes and
entire families, and replaced new minis
tiers with those formerly in office, thus
restoring despotic government.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 20.-A dispatch
from Newark, Ohio, says that there is q
considerable commotion in that place on
account of the publication by order of
the city council of the names of former
members of the council, with the dates
and amounts Illegally taken from the
city treasury, under different pretexts.
aggregating $4,000 in money. The re-
cipients are among the most prominent
citizens.