The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-10

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entitled to arrears, whose cases have not |
been settled. Settlements hereafter can
not be made as rapidly as heretofore, be
cause of the great number of cases in
which there Is no title to the arrear
which must be examined in search for |
those in which there is a title.
1t is stated for the information of all |
pensioners who believe themselves en-
titled to arrears, and who do not receive
notice of the settlement of their claims
either by allowance or rejection by
November list, that they can hasten a
settlement by writing letter to the
office giving again the number of their
pension certificates and their present
poStofiice addresses. 1t is almost GER
tain that the $3.50, 900 900 appropriated
will be sufficient to cover arrears which
were due upon pensions allowed previous
to January 18th, 1879.
The following is the coinage of the
United States minis for September: Gold,
133, 532 pieces, value $11 500, 100; silver,
1886 200 pieces. value, 1896, 092; min
ers, ! ,469, $50 pieces, value $14 ,694; total,
1895, 912 pieces; total value $4,219,9 06.
At meeting of the Washington Mon
ument Society to-day, letter was read
from Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
formally presenting the society with the
stones which he has sent to this country
to be placed in the monument
The Opinion of Carl Sehurz on the Utes.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 3.-Secretary Schurz
arrived here unexpectedly this forenoon,
and will hasten on to Washington to-
night to look after important matters
waiting his attention. 1t was intended
by number of German societies and
citizens generally to give him a formal
reception, but the necessity for his i'm
1.aeA 80 IL
PEELED the postponement of the compli-
ment until some future time.
When asked by a Post-Dispatch reporter
what he thought of the outbreak by the
Ute Indians in Colorado, he replied that
he knew nothing about it except what he
had seen in the newspapers, and when
asked if it was not by the failure of the
government TO pay them money past due,
he said, mo. Mr.. Mceker is agent for the
| Ute reservation, and we have the fullest
confidence in him. / believe he has been
entirely honest with the Indians under
his charge. | think the trouble arose
| from the encroachment of the white set
tiers and especially the miners, who
were prospecting for gold and silver
mines. The Indians saw they were
gradually losing their reservation and
they grew desperate about it. The ap-
pearance of the soldiers was the signal
for an outbreak, and the country knows
the result"
| When questioned as 10 what he thought
of the condition of the Indians generally,
he replied: 81 am well pleased. Many
of them are making considerable pro-
gress in civilization. l was especially
gratIfied at the Sioux agencies. The
only place where there is any trouble is
in the Ute country, and that arises from
the causes / mentioned and not from any
lack of good faith on the part of the
| government. "
NOTidings from the Lost BallOOnists.
ST. LOUIS, October st having been
announced that the balloon in which
Prof Wise and Mr. Burr left here last
Sunday was old, unsouud and perhaps rot
ten, and that in consequence of this it was
likely that some serious mishap may have
i occurred to the aernnauts, James +. Dow
ney, son-in-law of Mr. Wise, who resides
at Louisiana, Missouri, the home of the
Professor, denies these assertions and
states that the pathfinder was an en-
tirely new balloon and had never been
used before and was one of the best ever
made. Mr.. Downcy advances no theory
as to what has become of the Voyagers
but says if they are lost it is not because
the balloon was old or rotten or the net
ting weak, nor because there was no
enough gas in the globe.
The Globe Democrat correspondent Il
Bunker Hill. Ills, about thirty-two mile:
northeast from here, writes that he saw
Wise's balloon pass there about half-pas
six O'Clock, Sunday evening. From thi
/ point the balloon took a course almost di
rectly north, and was seen later in the eve
ming about ten miles away.
Between Bunker Hill and CarlInvill,
there is very wide and rugged region
) fifteen or twenty miles i'll extent, known
!. as Macoupin Creek Bottom, heavily tim
bered and almost uninhabited. Their
appears to he a bare possibility that thu
: balloon descended in this dense wilder
ness, and that the aeronauts may hav'
been SO seriously injured that they have
J not been able TO get out of il. An cNpc
} dition to explore this wild section u
: country may be organized.
Criminal Carelessness.
DETROIT, Mich, Oct. Am AdraiI
special to the Detroit Post gives the par
ticulars of an accident that occurred Il
the county fair at that city this afternoon
: About 1000 people had assembled in til,
! newly erected grand stand to witness til,
races, when it gave way with crash
The front part fell outward, and the bacl
, fell into the river, and precipitateC
the mass OF people among the ruins
/. | w Ofk WAS at once commenced 10 eAlfl
cate the dead and wounded, and the oper;
house was opened and many dead ant
wounded as fast ~ eXtricatcd were con
veyed there.
DETROIT, Oct. 3.-Further particular
from the terrible disaster which occurred
at the Adrain fair grounds yesterday
give the total number of deaths from thu
accident so far as sixteen. The seriously
injured number seventy-five, some o
whom the physicians say cannot live thu
day through.
The architect ofthe grand stand struct
ure is the person blamed for the occur
renee of this fatal causalily. The stanC
was built unusually high to admit of {
space for the exhibition of wagons anC
! carriages underneath, and the timber.
; were simply spiked together instead o
, being mortised and braced.
| rha anil glaa inf la. xyf1rNI IN.