The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-08-15
Labor Troubles.

QUEBEC, August S.-The labor troub-
les have assumed the appearance OF a
war of races. Last night prominent Eng
ilsh speaking people in the streets and
on the Little river road were threatened
by the French Canadians. To-day they
asked protection from the civil author
| tiles.
NASHVILLE, August 8-The returns
| indicate that the proposition to settle
debt at so cents on the dollar and 4
per cent interest, will be rejected by not
less than $4,000 majority Party lines
were not drawn in the contest. Many
of both parties voted for rejection on the
ground that the proposition was mod
flied form of Republication
Spotted Tail Wants to Farm it.
WASHINGTON, August S.-The Secre-
tary OF the Interior has a letter from
Spotted-Tail, who says he and his people
want to be like the whites. We've q
good country, and we have ourselves to
work it." The letter ends thus:
l want to tell you these words. Ihave
had enough of the military; want my
people to work / want no more scouting
l have had my belly full; want to 90
and work the ground; l never laughed
but once; that was when the agent Of the
Lower Brules said kept his people
here when they visited US, and fed them,
and my people gave them $50 head of
horses and sent them all home to their
agents. Since we have been here my
people have had no whisky. Whenever
the military are here there Is always
whisky, and that makes trouble. Iwant
you to come here and stay month and
see how 1t is. My friends, this is all
have to tell you. SPOTTED TAIL.
HisXMark.
Louis Richard, interpreter for Secre-
tary Schurz, has replied to Spotted Tail,
thanking him for his expression of good
will, and promising to visit him on the
3Oth Of August, and spend several days
on the reservation.
Specializing With AnOther's Funds.
FALL RIVER, Mass, August 8.-The
property of Geo. B. Durfee and Fidelia
Durttee, his mother, has been attached by
the Merchants and Mechanics Bank;
the attachments aggregate over $75, 900.
This is the outgrowth of Durfee's spec.
ulations with the funds of the mill of
which he was treasurer
Party Division.
BOSTON, August 9.-Abbott Democrats
refuse to unite with the Butler Demo
Gratis in calling state convention.
Declines the Nomination.
BOSTON, August cit is stated tonight
very positively that governor Talbot Will
decline the denomination.
Remarkably Strange.
DETROIT, August 9-It is stated that
W. L. Gibson, late cashier of the Citi
Zens' National bank at Flint, is short
$4,000 in his accounts.
The Denver and South Park R.. R.
DENVER, August 9.-The Denver and
South Park railroad has reached Red
He'll, only twenty-three miles from Lead.
vile, via Mesquite Pass.
Death of VIM. W. Leland.
SARATOGA, August 9.-Maior VIM. w.
Leland, formerly one of the proprietors
OF the Grand Union hotel, died TODAY.
He was one of Gen. Grants staff in the
war.
Vanderbilt Makes a Gift.
NASHVILLE, August 9.-Wm. H. Van
derbllt has just given, for gymnasium
and the erection of civil engineering
and scientific hall on the grounds of the
Vanderbilt University, the handsome
sum of 100000.
A Fraud on the MasOns.
COLUMBUS. Ohio, August "a spec
ial to the Dispatch from Newark SAYS
that man giving the name of robert E.
Stewart was arrested last night for at
tempting to obtain money from the Ma
sons. He had letters from prominent
Masons in the east, supposed to be for
geries, by which he victlmized Masons
IN several towns in the vicinity.