The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC.

LONDON, Feb 5.-The cattle trade is
trying to arrange for the slaughter of
cattle at the point of debarkation. At
the meeting of privy council notice was
read that permission TO land cattle at
the Liverpool docks will be withdrawn
after March 1st, unless provision is made
for their slaughter on the quay.
GLASGOW, Feb. 5.-The applications
for relief for the week ending Feb. LIST,
were three hundred less than for any pre-
ceding week. Many regular recipients
timating that they have found employ
ment About thirty thousand persons
are still supported by charity.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-Drury Lane theater
closed last night, the performers refusing
a reduction of wages.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. Son yesterday a
Topeka special said that w. j. Ferry had
sold the K. c. & Santa Fe r. R., and the
NJ. R., F. s. & G.. r. R., under a decree
of foreclosure. The former was bid in
for $120, 200, by Geo. II. Nettleton, and
the latter for $1,930,000, by Wallace
Pratt. Both purchases were made for
the bondholders of the respective roads.
ST. PAUL, Feb. ga special says that
the store of II. Beahke, at New Ulm,
was closed yesterday by the sheriff.
LloUlliIlcS, SOO,OOVs AAlS lhOIA1AS q
ware house in which his firm had twelve
thousand bushels of grain burned down.
Later in the morning he committed
suicide with strychnine.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-Near ShabOnier,
Ill. last night, Fred Malcho got drunk,
went to August Rubin's residence, shot
him dead, chased the family up stairs,
and fatally shot the oldest daughter and
fed. No known cause for the act. At
Wr1ghtville, Monday night, Chas. E.
McAuliffe, physician invited his wife
and brother Mr.. Heavener, into his drug
store, and, after drinking with him, shot
him dead with a shot gun. The doctor
then fed, but was found by the consta-
bles, but before they could get him to
Jail, an Infatuated mob of sixty persons
seized him and hung him to the limb of
tree.
TRIESTE, Feb. 6.-The authorities of
this city received Geographic dispatch
from the Austrian consul general at Sa-
lonica, stating that a disease has appear
ed near Xauthi, Thessaly, the diagnosis
of which show it is spotted fever, and in
one case presented symptoms of metasta-
sis bubonica. The sanitary board of
Trieste has declared that this disease is
very probably identical with the plague.
Precautionary measures have been order
ed against all vessels from Turkish ports
which have sailed since February 4, and
the next Austrian steamer will probably
be quarantined several days.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The Navy De
partment gives no credence to the Boston
rumor of the laundering of the United
States steamer Richmond, and believes
the vessel will reach Gibralter at the eX-
pected time.
game of the billiard tournament was
played tonight, and was most remark
able one, resulting in q victory for Jacob
Schaefer, who is now the champion of
the United States. George Slosson was
his competitor, and in his sixth inning
made AGA, placing score at $50 against 10
for Schaefer. The latter, in his sixth in
ming, made 2S3. Slosson made but IL in
his seventh inning, and Schaefer ended
the game with an unfinished run of 29S !;
score 600 to 571. The winners average
was 85 81, the largest on record; and
the losers average was 81 At, the second
greatest average. Slosson takes the sec
Ond prize, and Sexton and DAILY the third
and fourth respectively.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Feb. TAT Harrods-
burg, Kentucky, in quarrel which Oc-
CURED today, Oscar Freeman shot and
ed Freeman with undue familiarity with
his wife, and quarrel ensued, with the
above result.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 7.-As Howard
Holzellow, telegraph operator and rail
road ticket agent at Warrenton Junction,
Virginia, was returning home last night
from his Office, he was waylaid, murder
ed and robbed of a watch and chain and
some money. His body was found this
morning with a bullet hole in the fore
head. There is no clue to the murderers.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7th.- VIM. H. Heath,
who was Auditor of St. Louis County for
ten years prior to 1876, was convicted to-
day in the Criminal Court of embezzling
about $143, 900 of the county and town
ship school fund, of which he was col
lector and custodian. His sentence is
ten years in the penitentiary. This was
his second trial, and a motion will be
made for another.