The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-11-19

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of about 100000. of which 500, 600 was
on a building owned by VIM. Blair. with
an insurance of 81, 600. Dwight Bros,
dealers in paper, occupied the first floor;
loss nearly $50, 600; insured for $2j, 600.
Summons, Clark s. Co., who occupied
three floors with their picture frame es-
Establishment, lost about $4,000. The up
per floors were occupied by dodgers, all
of whom escaped with some difficulty.
The management of the Brigg House,
which adjoins II, was superb, and all
panic or accident thereby prevented
The fire department also did excellent
work to prevent the spread of the flames,
as high wind made it most dangerous
for the firemen. The cause of the fire IS
unknown.
A Gloomy Picture OF Russia
WASHINGTON, Nov 10.-The minister
of the United States at ST. Petersburgh,
in recent dispatch, draws gloomy pic
ture of the present economic and social
condition of Russia. The grain crop of
the past season, he states, has proved
failure, and American wheat is imported
now even at st. Petersburgh. It is also
entering at Odessa and other Russian
ports. But large market for this Amer
lean wheat cannot be predicted as very
little bread made of wheat is used in
Russla-the mass of the people must
heve cheaper and coarser article, such
as rye or Indian corn. The scarcity of
grain in the Empire is so great that it
was currently reported and generally be-
lieved that the imperial government was
considering the propriety of prohibiting
the expectation of rye There will be
| much suffering among the poor classes.
Mr.. Foster, the minister, in his dispatch
quotes the Golos of St. Petersburgh as
| follows: From all sides comes news
of the harvest being below the average;
of want and hunger, from which will
spring disease and very likely death.
Beetles, worms and locusts are eating
up the corn; the diminntion of cattle
surpasses all belief; diphther1a is taking
off the coming generation; breadstuffs
have already reached 3 kopecks per
pound Every one feels that Russia
does not subsist by the produce of its
own land, but IS wasting its capital on
cutting wood, selling surplus cattle,
pulling straw from its thatched roofs
and depriving itself of its very clothes
| and shoes.
And Now they Protest.
SYRACUSE. N. Y, Nov. 10.-The
CORTLAND county board of canvassers is
counting the Republican electoral bal
| lots on the ground of double headings,
and the board voted TO canvass the vote
and send the protest with the canvass to
| the state canvassers.
RoNDoUT, N. Y, Nov. 10.-The chair
man of the Ulster county Democratic
committee has served upon the board of
canvassers of Ulster county a protest
| against counting the Republican cleo
tOral ballots, claiming that said ballots
do not conform to the requirements of
| the statutes, in that they contain both
| caption and Endorsement, and that the
names OF several candidates are not
| printed in plain type with letters of uni
form size. Ulster county was hereto
| fore largely Democratic, and on the I'd
inst. gave Garfield 100 majority.
HUDSON, n. Y, Nov. 10.-The chair
| man and secretary of the Democratic
county committee served upon the board
of canvassers of Columbia county pro-
tests against counting the Republicans
electoral, congressional, assembly and
county ticket, on the ground that such
ballots were illegally endorsed, and the
protests were ordered placed on file, and
the board adjourned till Thursday to
take legal advice on the question. The
board comprises twelve Republicans and
| ten Democrats
Mexico Wants Railroad.
| NEW YORK, Nov. lathe World re-
| ports that Romero, formerly minister of
Mexico in the United States, last night
entertained at dinner at Delmonico's,
General Grant together with number
of leading railway men of the United
States, including Gould, General Pal
! mer; Coolidge, of Boston, Huntington,
Samuel Sloan, Woershoffer, Rus
sell, Sage and others, and laid before
them the question of railway communi-
cation with Mexico in long and elabor-
ate speech, in which he urged American
capitalists TO come to the assistance of
Mexico in developing her means of COM
munication.
General Grant being called upon by
| Mr.. Romero to express his views, made
a lengthy speech, urging the cultivation
of friendly commercial relations with
Mexico, and saying that with the build
ing of railroads and telegraps there
need be no more apprehension for the
safety of capital invested there than in
our own country. The general tenor of
his speech was IN accordance with the
views set forth in his address at Boston
upon the same subject.
Terrible Casualty
BRADFoRD, Pa, Nov. IA special
to the Era says: A terrible casualty hap
pened last evening near Browns saw
mill, at Bardell City, twelve miles from
here. A number of men were in their
boarding houses, sitting around the fire,
and four others had gone to bed up
stairs; as the fire began to burn low in
the stove one of the men dipped cup
full of oil from bucket near at hand
and poured il on the Goals; the oil re-
manning in the cup caught fire and the
l In hi
, mass away and it fell into the bucket
An explosion Immediately followed, and
the burning fluid scattered all around
; the room, deluging the clothing of the
; men with the oil. The men rushed out
enveloped in sheet of fire, and writhed
| on the ground in agony. Meanwhile
the house burned rapidly, and in the
: ruins were found the charred bodies OF
: the four who we're up stairs. Their names
: were Elliott, Brown, Staley and Hide
of those down stairs, Joe Damock
} Henry Monroe, Frank Welsh and an
other, name unknown, are dead, anC
, the fifth - net expected to recover.
The North Pacific
ToKoNTo, Nov. 11.-The evening Tel
. egram has double-leaded editorial OF
!. the Pacific railroad. supposed to com,
: from the highest authority. 1t says
. The government gives the syndicate $25
600, 600 in cash, and 25,000,000 acres o
| land finishes the portions Of the road a
\ present being constructed, and hand
: them over, with the portions alread,
r ! constructed, to the company when fin
!. ished. The value of the pol
2 items of the line constructed AM
handled by the government is roughl
n estimated at $30,000,000, The compan,,
, gives 81 ,0o0, 600 and certain portions G
tho fond nc eac1r1fv for IzyraTky in linz
4 When the line has been worked for pt
\ Rod deemed sufficient to insure its cor
q tinuance, the security, lands and none
! will be returned to the company with il
q terest, estimating the land at 50 pc
h acre. The gross subsidy, with the con
! pIeted section, represents the sum {
3 $105, 100000. The government pays tn
e syndicate for constructing the road.
. Brewers Meeting.
y ST. LOUIS, Nov. 12-At the meetin
]; of brewers held here today TO take a
u ton against the passage of the bill no
pending before congress TO increase til
=. duty on barley malt imported from CaI
u ada from 20 per cent. adj yalorem TO til
o spacific duty of % cents per bushel, th
z report of the committee appointed o
{: the subject was adopted, protestin
y against the passage of the bill, Stain
. that it would noLIncrease the revenue {
u the country, bat was prohibitory tar
that it would crush out all competitio
; in malt, and would offer direct tempt
= tion to use poorhr articles as substitute
in the manufacture of beer; would il
J; crease the price of beer, and would il
y crease the expenses of the poor hous,
"a throughout the land: and effect our n
], tional welfare.
e The petition to congress protestin
Us AGAINST the dnfY on mai was SIGNED I