The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-21
TELEGRAPHIC.

/ 4AA1AAOAN~AA 1880
| New YORK, Feb. 12-The extensive
COW stables at Blissville, on Long Island,
where pleuro pneumonia exists, are
! strictly quarantined by order of Gov.
Robinson. The milk of these and all
other cows distillery fed is destroyed by
the health officers wherever found. Some
vendors were fined to-day in the police
courts The legislature has voted $780,
0G0 to aid in detecting and stamping out
| pleuro-pneumonia.
CHICAGO, Feb. IA dairy fair will
be held here Nov. 16, in connection with
the fat stock exhibition.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 12.-The cpl
demic has entirely disappeared from AS
trachan. No cases for several days.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 12-TIade here is
quite paralyzed by the strike, which has
now extended to the casters and the whole
| body of carpenters, some of whom were
already on IA strike. The strike among the
sailors has become general, and great
difficulty is experienced in obtaining
! crews, save at increased rates. Yester-
| day several ships were awaiting crews,
| but the men were firm. 1t is stated that
there are thirty-tive grain-laden ships at
| Queenstown, and the owners do not know
| where to send them. Meanwhile the
| grain may be heating in the vessel and
rendered valuless.
NEW YORK, Feb. IA special from
| London says the Erie railroad company
has leased the Atlantic & Great Western
| railroad, the Erie road guaranteeing in
terest on $7,000,000 of Great Western
bonds, and making an equal division of
| the net earnings of the Atlantic s Great
| Western railroad. This gives the Erie a
| perfect connection with Chicago. The
| fire underwriters convention at Boston
| recommends an increase of 25 per cent.
on rates all over the country. The COM
mittee of the Brooklyn Presbytery hav-
| ing under charge the case of Rev. DIR.
Talmage will report Monday next.
NORWICH, Connecticut, Feb. 12.-The
| ice in the Shetucket and Yantic rivers
| broke today, and both streams overflow
ed their banks, inundating the country.
The tracks of the New London & North
ern railroad were buried for five miles
under huge cakes of ice. The wharves
and cellars of this city are flooded.
MONTREAL, Canada, Feb. 12.--Peter
Mulligan, messenger of the United States
postoffice department, was arrested for
bringing into Canada money stolen in
| foreign countries. Expressing his de-
sire for summary trial, and pleading
guilty, he was sentenced to five years in
the penItentiary, the lowest penalty.
| OHc JnOuStHu, i've
dollars, found with Mulligan, were re
turned to the agent of the postmaster
general of the United States.
BERLIN, February 12.-The German
| Reichstag was to-day opened by Emper-
or William in person. In his speech
from the throne, he said he thanked the
| members for assisting in the suppression
of the Socialistic agitation, and hoped
they would continue to support the gov
| eminent as far as it was necessary for the
cure of the SOcialistIc evil, and amour
ced the abolition of article five of the
treaty of Prague, and referred with pleas
ure to the friendly relations with Austria
| and the results of the Berlin congress.
He declared that the relations between
| Germany and all other powers are salts
| factory and that she would continue her
influence in behalf of European peace.
ROCHESTER,, n. Y, February 13.-The
| Stillheimer, Tone & Co. bank closed to-
day. Anticipating a run they decided to
suspend. They expect to pay in full.
GALVESTON, Feb. 13.-The American
Merchants Deputation to Mexico have
arrived here on their way home. They
say the Mexican people are unanimous
for closing commercial relations with
the United States.
DETROIT, Feb. 13-Hon. Zachariah
Chandler was unanimously nominated
| for L. S. Senator by the Republican eau
Gus at Lansing, this evening.
DEADwOOD, Feb. 13.-Last Monday a
band Of twenty-five Indians raided the
camp of three hunters on the Cheyenne
river, thirty miles east of Rapid City.
| The Indians captured one gun, horse
and all their provisions and blankets.
| The hunters say the Indians had a band
of one hundred horses and were making
northward.
New YORK, Feb. IA daring high
way robbery was perpetrated in broad
daylight this afternoon. The wife of
Adolphus DeBarry, a wealthy importer,
was walking on an avenue with a lady
friend, when an elegantly attIred man
darted behind Mrs. DeEarry, caught both
her diamond earrings and endeavored to
tear them from her ears. He succeeded
in tearing one out, decorating her ear,
and escaping.
New YORK, Feb. 14-At Ottawa, Can
ada, the thermometer was 81 degrees be-
low zero. Knight and Jackman, train
wreckers, were sentenced for life at Ter
| re Haute, Ind. The steamer G. Donnel-
| ly, was burned near Fort Jefferson, KY.
James Beck, a mail robber on the St.
Louis 81 Southern railway, was arrested,
tried, convicted and sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary in the space of
| four hours.
LONDON, Feb. 14-Official Journal of
Paris says that the latest reports from
the plague are reassuring. In Italy strin-
gent quarantine regulations have been
| adopted. French ports on the Mediter-
ranean are also in quarantine. Reports
that the plague has appeared in Turkey
are unfOunded. Rear Admiral Fouillav,
| of the Mediterranean squadron, is dead
The Vatican has just decided to create
certain new dioceses in the United States.
A London dispatch says it is rumored
that the impeachment of the present
French ministery is probable. The
lower house of the Prussian diet rejected
the resolution of the budget committee
expressing opposition to the purchase of
leading railways.