The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-17
TEIEGRAPHIC.
4 Balloon Found.


MILWAUKEE, Oct. ia balloon was
found last evening on the Green Bay
road, fifty miles north of Milwaukee. 1t
came in from northeast direction. Con-
siderable excitement has been caused
over the discovery, as it is supposed by
some to be the Pathfinder. The balloon
weighs 107 pounds; is 1917 inches across
the valve; cording 3 16 of an inch thick
canvas only one thickness. The basket
has been cut off close to the neck of the
balloon. The cording is mostly white
colored. There are no letters to be dis
covered on the canvas, although they
may have been effaced, as it in a rotten
condition. This can hardly be the Wise
balloon, as similar balloons have been
sent up in Wisconsin at county fairs,
and this is probably one of them. The
balloon would stand about forty feet in
height, and have carrying capacity of
two or three persons.
The Indian War.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.-Ralph Meeker,
son of n. G. Meeker, late Indian agent
of White River agency, has been appoint
ed special agent of the department of the
interior, for the purpose of visiting
White River agency at the earliest prac-
ticable day and recovering the bodies of
his father and such other persons as
may have been killed. Mr.. Meeker will
also gather up papers, ETC., of the agen-
cy. He starts tonight for Rawlins.
Another Kansas Railroad.
FORT SCOTT, Kansas, Oct. lion
Monday morning next, the Short creek
and Joplin branch of the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Gulf railroad, will be dedi-
Gated to the public by the running OF
through trains from Kansas City to Jop-
lin, via Fl Scott. This line runs through
the famous lead mines of Short creek
and opens up new line OF business to
Fit. Scott.
Wages Going Up.
CLEVELAND, Oct. IL. = The freight
house men of the Lake Shore, Cleveland
& Pittsburgh and the Cleveland, Column
bus 81 Cincinnati roads struck at noon
to-day for $1.25 per day. They now re-
ceive $1.10. The Atlantic g. Great
Western freight men worked until six
O'Clock, but gave notice that they would
not resume Monday unless the wages
were advanced. About eight hundred
men are engaged III the strike.
Not So Funny.
BERLIN, Oct. 1.-THE recent great
trial of Nihilists at st. Petersburg has
been completed. Mirski, General Dren-
-tulus' assailant, will be hanged, and Wei
mar, concerned with Saloieff, who at
tempted the life of the Car, will be ban
ished TO Siberia.
Our Best Citizens.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, October 11.-Judge
Henry Hayden, of the Wood county court,
a politician well known throughout the
state, and a candidate for attorney gen.
eral on the Greenback ticket two years
ago, was shot and killed at Centralia,
Wisconsin, last Thursday, by w. H.
Cochran, cashier of the First National
bank. The affair grew out of an alleged
intimacy on the part of Hayden with
COchran's wife, the scandal being one of
long standing.
The Georgia Tigers
NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-THE Herald's
Atlanta special says the Judge of Bald
win county and delegation of citizens
reached here this morning, to ask the
Governor for military force to suppress
the Georgia Tigers, a desperate organ
ization, who were fully described in
the columns of the Herald a year ago.
They hold possession of half the country
and deTy arrest. They killed two men
yesterday, (Tuesday) and burned several
houses.
They have killed in the past three years
twenty men and women. mostly negroes.
The Governor has sent an officer of his
staff and number of detectives down,
and will send the military if needed
Members of the legislature IN adjoining
counties have been telegraphed by their
families, and have gone home. The feel
ing Is intense The scene of disorder is
only one days ride from this city.