The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-17
VOL. %.
TELEGRAPHIC.

NEW YORK, Jan. AT the fire in the
Barring building, Jersey street, Monday
one fireman was killed and Chief Rowe
and five others badly injured by a falling
: wall. Elizabeth Schroeder, of the KEEL
Ilogg opera troupe, and her little sister
were smothered TO death last night by
gas from the coal stove in their room.
CHICAGO, Jan. This evening two
men drove to GOldsmith's pawnbroker's
office in a cutter, and one locked the door
while the other broke into the glass show
case and took out two trays of diamonds
. worth 81 900, and both then jumped into
the sleigh and was off before policemen
could be found. Wissel's block, st. Louis
Mich, burned loss, 500, 900. George II
Holiday, alias s. W. Hall, who embez-
Zled $4,000 from Macoupin county, ILL.,,
in 1872, was arrested yesterday at Olym-
pia, w. T., on a requisition from Illinois.
y CHEYENNE, Wy, Jan. THE particu-
lars of the arrest of the men who recent
ly burned two men alive in Nebraska,
are as follows: Ex-sheriff Gillian, of
Custer county, Nebraska, was arrested at
Ogalla, Neb., and ]. p. Olive and four
others were arrested at Plum creek, Neb.,
yesterday, and taken to Kearney juno
ton, all charged with being concerned
in the burning of Ketchum and Mitchell
"A few weeks ago. Ketchum and Mitch
ell were in custody of sheriff Gillian,
lcharged with killing man named Ste
vens, who, IL is claimed, was brother of
Olive under an assumed name. 1t is al
LEGGED that Gillian turned the prisoners
over to Oliver and his friends, by whom
they were burned to death. After this
affair Gillian resigned, and has refused to
attend before the corOner's jury. Oliver
and party also declined to attend the in
quest and defied the law. Yesterday
four officers, two of whom are brothers
TO Ketchum, with state warrants for the
arrest, stationed themselves in the post
Office at Plum creek. When Oliver and
the other !aen wanted came for their
mail they were covered by the revOlvers
| of the officers and secured without chance
of resisting.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. II. Stephens,
of Georgia, is very sick. Gen. James
Longstreet has been appointed pOstmast-
er at Gainesville, Georgia. Congress met
to-day.
| CINCINNATI, O., Jan. THE public
schools at Mitchell, Indiana, have been
closed on account of scarlet fever AT
Barnesville, Ohio. Sunday, Sarah Clark, "A
widow, gave birth to a child, and being
alone and without fire, the babe was
frozen to death before any aid reached
them.
LONDON, Jan. THE King of Hol-
land was married today to Princess En-
ron, of Waldeck PyrmOnt. The plague
at Astrakan is very serious, and the Rus
sian government has proclaimed quar-
antine. Lord Baconsfleld's health is so
poor that his retirement from office is
looked for.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-Representative
| Hartridge, of Georgia, died this morning,
of pneumonia. Subscriptions to the 4
per cent. loan to-day amounted to 81, 49,
600. The house committee on counting
the electoral vote will report adversely
on the senate bill, and call for the action
of the house on the Southland bill. The
treasury to-day purchased four hundred
thousand ounces of silver at a price
slightly below the London rates.
New ORLEANS, Jan. S.-The yellow
fever commission concluded its labors
here to-day. Messrs. Lamar, Gibson and
Hooker, and the members of the board of
! experts, left for Washington this after
noon.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. S.-The legislature con-
vened, and Governor Phelps delivered
his annual message.
ATCHIsoN, Jan. S.-The managers of
all the railroads at this point met here
to-day and agreed to build union depot,
and subscribed 800, 900 for that purpose.
New YORK, Jan. S.-Capt. Bogardus
began this forenoon to shoot 5000 glass
balls out of $500, and at p. IN. had shot
the first 5000 without making single
miss. DIR. Carver was present. Bogardus
will try to shoot the other 5000 tO-mor-
row. Mr.. Abe Kleinman, of Chicago,
then began to break 800 balls out of 900,
and broke the first 400, missing six. The
first through mail train from the west
since last Thursday arrived to-day. Mad
am Anderson has made 2,213 of her g 200
quarter miles, and feels lively. 100000
fire at Baltimore, Md.
NEW YORK, Jan. Capt. BOgardus
resumed shooting this morning, with
thumb and foretinger badly blistered by
the heating of his gun, At 2:10 he had
added another 1000 balls to his score
without miss, and at night had added
another 1,6S0, making in all $3.50 balls
shot in succession without a miss. His
hand and shoulder were then so sore and
lame that he began to miss, and missed
13 balls by the time he finished, making
in all 6,O13 balls shot at and only IL
missed. Kleinman of Chicago then fin
ished his attempt to shoot 1000 balls,
and missed seven out of his remaining
400, making in all just ID misses in 900, |
which by the terms of agreement, left
the shooting match a tie. Madam An
derson has completed 1880 quarter miles.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.-MOrton Nc |
Michael's funeral to-day was very i'm
pressive. Horace Taylor, WiliiamspOrt,
banker, arrested for embezzling $4,000
deposited with him, has been dIscharg-
ed, the court ruling that the deposits be
| came his money and he could not en-
bczZle them. 4 fire at Emelenton, in the
oil regions. burned the pOstoffice and
contents; loss $4,000. A terrible eX-
plosion took place today at the Penn
sylvania company's coal mine, Pittston,
killing several men. 1t will take two
months to- repair the shaft.
HARTFORD, JANUARY, 9.-The Con-
necticut Legislature met in joint con-
ventiOn to-day, and elected the Repub-
lican State ticket At halfpast O'Clock,
Governor Andrews was escorted to the
Capitol, and installed as Governor.
ALBANY, JANUARY, Ex-Governor Rob-
inson, in his message, pays attention to
the new capital, which he says was TO
cost no more than four million dollars,
but which has already cost over nine
millions, and is yet far from completion.
| To finish il on the present plan would
cost eight or ten millions more. He
urges that all appropriations for the
building be stopped for the present, IN
| til il is ascertained whether its compile
ton cannot be secured in some less ex-
travagant and Ostentatious style.
CINCINNATI, Jan. o. Stones lard oil
| factory burned; loss $3,OOO. EX.Sec De
lano Is seriously i'll at Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Non-eXplosive lamp and wooden ware
factory at Cleveland burned loss So 600.
Miners are on strike at GAINESVILLE, O.,
and rs men are coming from the east to
take their places trouble is feared.
CHICAGO, Jan. 9th.-The Chicago &
Northwestern railroad has inaugurated
a system of Geographic weather reports
TO all stations. An Ohio & Mississippi
railroad train was thrown from the track
near Altamont, by broken rail to-day,
and eight passengers injured.
| LONDON, Jan. "a novel court mar
tial Is called to meet at Berlin to investi-
gate the cause of the collision between
the German iron clads, Grosser Kurfurst
and Koenig Wilhelm, in the English
Channel May 81, 1878. The British
steamer Bayard, S64 tons, which sailed
Dec. 4, from New Orleans for Rouen,
France, foundered at sea Dec. 10, and ali
but . of the crew were drowned The H.
abilities of the Cornish bank are only
65S, 900 pounds. Gen. Grant goes to Par
is to-day. Gen. Roberts telegraphs he
has routed the Hasteb tribe and killed
800 of them. The Ameer is en- route to
St Petersburg The COnsett Iron Works
Co., the largest makers of ship plates in
England, employing six or seven thous-
| and hands and owning nina coIl;a-;o