The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-08-06

Democratic ticket. Reports at the Dem
the interior of the state, leave no doubt
of Alabama polling heavy Democratic
vote.
Atchison's Pride.
ATCHIsoN, Kas.. Aug. 3.-The new
union depot at this city is so far com
pleted that trains now arrive at and de-
part from it. The building is the largest
and most elegant in the west. It ex-
tends from Second TO Third street, ana
fronts on Main street. 1t will be fully
completed before the last of the month.
and the formal celebration of its compile
ton will occur on the eth of September
next. This will be during the exposi-
ton week, the AtchIson industrial ard
agricultural exposition, opening on the
9th of September.
Iron and Steel Artisans.
PfTTsBURG. Aug. 3-The Amalgama-
ted Association of Iron and Steel Work
ers of the United States assembled in
convention ut the lyceum this morning,
over two hundred delegates being pres
ent. President JerTItt delivered an ad
dress OF welcome and appointed u COM
mIttee on credentials, after which the
convention adjourned until . O'Clock.
The convention will last about one
week.
SITTING Bull.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-Maior Walsh, of
the northwestern mounted police, Is in
town, and says that out of Sitting Bulls
original band of five hundred and sixty
lodges, only two hundred remains, the
others having quietly gone into differ
ept Sioux City agencies. Sitting Bull
himself is anxious tor peace.
The Heat in New York.
New YORK, Aug. 2.-The increased
of health to day Is attributed to the re-
turn of hot weather. Ex-senator Dorsey,
secretary of the Republican national
committee, was overcome to-day by heat
and obliged 10 take to bed
The Population of Kansas.
ATCHIsoN, July 31.-The United States
census shows u population, in round
numbers, of 100000 in the first congress
sional district, $4,000 in the second and
100000 in the third, making the total
| population of Kansas 100000.
Held Without Bail.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 3.-Shroeder
who killed DIR. Lefever, in Oakland, wa:
| to-day held TO answer. without bail
| Counsel gave notice of application to th'
| supreme court for a writ of hGbeds cor
pus.
General News Briefs
Premier Gladstone's illness cause
considerable anxiety in England.
The coinage at the minis during tn
month of July amounted to 1876, 800.
The work of removing Cleopatra
Needle from the ship was began on tn
end
The Kentucky elections passed OF
with light vote and general Democrat
victories.
The debt statement shows n decreas
in the public debt during the month G
July of $5,57O,O53.
The population of Des Moines unde
the late census is 1850, an increas
since 1870 of 1861.
The City of Chester from Liverpool
brought $685., 900 of foreign gold coin
our shores on the LIST.
Secretary Sherman left Washington t
attend conference of the leading RI
: publicans of New York.
Mrs. John G. SAKE, wife of the poe
died at her home at Brooklyn on the 81!
at the age of sixty years.
Major John E. Simpson, gener;
manager of the Vandalia road, died .
st. Louis on the morning of the I'd.
There were fifty deaths from yello
fever and thirteen from smallpox in H
, vana during the week ending July 30.
There is a great scarcity of bricl
: layers in Chicago, and a master mason
r and builders association has been O
ganiZed to devise means to supply Il
S lack of labor.
: 1t has been discovered, upon an exam
' inatiOn of their accounts, that Merr;C
+ county, Indiana, has been swindled Of
: of $2S,000 in the construction of thr,
D bridges by the commissioners.
/ VIM. F. Reynolds, former president
the indianapolis & Lafayette railroa
" and until recently president of Il
= Louisville, Northern & Chicago IA
= road, died at Lafayette on the end.