The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-04-18

the body fell, and life was soon extinct
DETROIT, April 10.-The Democrats
admit the election of Campbell, for
| judge of the state supreme court. by
$500 majority, and the Republicans
claim 5000 majority. The Turkish bath
at Lake City, Minnesota, blew up there
to-day, tearing the quarters to pieces and
fatally scalding DR.. Vel, proprietor
| HASTINGS. Neb., April 1O--The trial
of Oliver and Fisher, for numbering and
burning Mitchell and Ketchum, in Gus
ter county, last December, is in progress,
and the defendants are using every means
which their wealth will secure, for ac-
quittal. The testimony today was chief.
ly as to identity.
NEW YORK, April 1O.-At meeting
OF the colored citizens tonight appropri-
ate resolutions were adopted and a sub
scription taken up, for the relief of south
ern refugees. By the breaking of rope
OF the elevator at the Gramercy Park no.
tel the engineer was killed.
BOSTON, April 10.-The house rejected
the bill to secure women the right to vote
in municipal affairs, in cities and towns.
The bill to give women the right to vote
Tor members Of school committees was
passed.
HASTINGS, Neb., April lin the tri-
al of Olive, Fisher and others, for muir
der1ng and burning two men, Byron
Brown, young man employed by Olive
as herder, turned states evidence, and
detailed the proceedings of the murder,
but asserted that the burning was acct
dental. The prosecution has closed. A
rumor of an intended attempt to rescue
Olive on the part of the COW boys has
brought squad of soldiers here.
SZEGEDIN, Hungary, April 11.-The
water in the lower parts of the town is
still from six to twelve feet deep, and
cannot be pumped out in less than one
hundred days. Total loss of life by the
lnundation is represented now not ex-
ceeding seventy-seven.
WASHINGTON, April 11,-In the senate
today the army appropriation bill was
taken up, and Senator Withers explained
Its provisions. No amendments were
adopted, the committee on approprla-
lions having agreed to resist all amend
ments, and the majority of the senate
secondlng them; the reason assigned by
Senator Withers for such course, was, the
amendments would delay the passage of
the Dill. The clerk read the sixth sec
ton, which prohibits the presence of
troops at election places, etc, when the
senate adjourned till Monday-yeas, %;
nays, %.
HoNG KONG, March 1.-THE passage
of the anti-Chinese bill and subsequent
veto attracts great attention from the ma
tive vernacular newspapers of Hong
Kong and Shanghai, especially the for
mer, which are extremely bitter against
the proposed measure, and claim that
protection is guaranteed by treaty.
SAN Francisco, April 1.-The fol-
lowing card is furnished for publication:
.'The Chinese Six Companies are daily
in receipt of applications for laborers to
go to the southern states, notably Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, to take the place
of negro laborers now emigrating. The
officers of these companies wish 1t ex-
pressly understood that they have no con-
troll over their peoples labor; have new
er brought, or coused to be brought, one
of their countrymen here; never con-
tracted their labor, or collected their wa
ges in any manner whatsoever, the press
of California to the contrary notwith-
standing.
(Signed), CHINESE SIX COMPANIES.