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

investigate st. Louis police commission
ers Ladd and Nidelet has taken testi-
mony to the effect that they have been
connected with gamblers ring, recelv-
ing money for protecting them from the
police. a difficulty occurred yesterday
at Johnsonyille, Miss, between Col. Hot-
man, DIR. Lorney, DIR. Walker and Mr..
Arnold. The fight was begun by Hol
man shooting Lorney. Arnold then shot
Holman, wOunding him; he then shot
and killed Walker, and was himself in
turn shot by Holman. Arnold and Lor-
ney have since died. Holman was ar.
rested An accident occurred at Dun
olives bridge, on the Salina, Rome and
Dalton railroad, killing three persons,
and severely injuring about twenty pas
sengers and employees. A loaded box
car with sixty bales of cotton. mail, bag
gage and express cars and ont coach, are
totally burned. The bridge is perfectly
rotten. The scene at the wreI;s is heart
rending. James McElroy was today
sentenced, at Hastings, Nebraska, by
Judge CASTOR, to be hanged May %, fol
the murder of Henry Sturtsman, Febru
airy 8.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 1S.-A fire tonight
burned building No 330, on Main street
occupied as stove and tinware manufac
| tory. The loss on the building is $40.
| 600; insurance, 5000; stock valued a
100000, is total loss: half insured.
New YORK, Feb. 1S.-Capt. Blair O
18th infantry, to-day brought his trial, OF
the charge of bigamy, to an abrupt term
inatiOn by pleading guilty. DR.. Thoma.
Lambert, ex-president of the defunct Pop
ular Life Insurance Co, and Presiden
Case of the defunct Security Life Insur
| anoa 10 both onnuictal M uariu,-xr how.
been granted new trials by the court o
appeals.
| CINCINNATI, Feb. 18.-A business blOcl
in Chillicothe, Ohio, burned this morn
ing. Total loss, $4,000. Fully insured
AT Newburg, S. C., fire destroyed on,
| block of business houses and DANA geo
five other blocks. The loss is estimated
at 10000; insured. At Evansville, Ind
a fire in the st. George hotel destroyed
portion of the rear part of the building
Loss about $4,000; insurance, $4,000
ST. PETERsBURGs Feb. 18.-Grant
Duke Nicholas, son of Grand Duke Con
slime, has been exlled to Orenburgh 70
communicating with the Berlin Nation
al Zeitung in regard to strategic rall
way. A strike has occurred in tw,
large cotton mills here for increased pay
diminution of hours and of labor ant
dismissal of the English foremen. 1t i
believed that the movement will spread
LONDON, Feb. 1S.-A Berlin CORE
spondent says that the result of debat
on the proposition to arrest and prose
cute Deputy Fritz Scheon, charged wit
violating the socialist law, but littl
doubt but that the bill will be rejects
by a considerable majority.
In the house of commons, Sir GeOrg
Campbell, member for the Kirkcald
district, will move, on Tuesday nexi
that the summary prohibition of the in
portation of cattle from the Unite
States, is calculated to destroy an in
pOrtant trade, and to deprive England c
the advantages of cheap meat. Sixtee
soldiers in barracks near the militar
school at Paris have died oftyhpus feve
within the past few days. COnstantiI
ople dispatches say that measures are b.
ing taken to occupy the territory eva
uated by Russia. The Russian arm
train was to begin moving from Adrian
ople towards BOurgas, to-day, Feb. 19.