The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-06

IAuy III waiting Vi the queen ana Princess
Beatrice and The mistress of robes will
occupy state eqnipage, escorted by the
yoemen of the guard and a detachment
of household cavalry The Queen aud
Princess Beatrice will return to Osborne
Friday. The Queen is expected to take
up her residence at Windsor about the
Goth
Cribbing Corn.
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-A Des Moines dis
patch states that Bows g. Co have forty
three agents in Iowa buying corn to
hold, and that they have now over three
million bushels in cribs.
Brazcn Faced Liar
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Rcv. Edward
COwley to-day entered a plea of not gull
ty to twenty-five indictments, charging
him with starving and lli-treating the
children under his. care, in the "Shep-
herds Fold" The trial was set down
for Monday next peremptorily, and Cow
ley was sent back to prison.
Inter-Oceanic Canal
PANAMA, Jan. 23.-M. De Lcsseps has
eight working parties of over 1870 men
surveying the Istbmus, for the Inter
Oceanic canal. As the parties are con-
tiguous TO railway and telegraph, their
provisioning and supply, as well as their
general direction from Panama or Aspin-
wall, is easily managed
RepIbIieanism in Russia.
BERLIN, Feb. 2.-The following in.
telligence has been received from ST.
Petersburg: Although the police seized
many copies of The viii of the PEG,
pie" III the house where Deutchc shot
himself, the same issue of the paper had
already been circulated in St Peters
burg. 1t contains the programme of the
executive committe, stating that the only
way 10 gain the reforms they seek, is 10
overthrow the government by forcible
revolution or conspiracy. The socialists
would then transfer the government to
the assembly elected by all the Russians
irrespective Of class. This is the general
policy of the socialists by which they cast
their lot with all oppressed Russians
but when the ASSEMBLY is elected, the
socialists will recommend programme
in favor of popular representation
with full power over all general state
questions.
Bloody Murder in Asia.
LONDON, Feb. "A Times dispatcl
from Candahar says: Terrible accounts
have reached here from within the Brit
ish lines. Ii is reported that nearly tw,
hundred families have been exterminatel
by the GhiliZias, and that seven village
OF the latter were afterwards captured b'
the Hazaras, and every soul i'll then
slain.
France BulIdoZed.
A Berlin dispatch SAYS that the grea
reserve with which Il majority of tn
| French press received the news OF til,
| bill before the German Bundesrath 70
an increase of the German army. ha
caused great satisfaction here TIL
| German press, likewise, in discussin,
the bill, avoided any inimical ton
against France.
Queen NictOFIa's Generosity.
New YORK, Feb. I'm reference +
the statement made recently by Parnell
that Queen Victoria contributed nolhin.
in 1871 to the Irish famine DENIAL o
which statement from lord Randolph
Churchill was cabled here, Parncll la
addressed letter to the New York Hel
arid, in which lie says:
In reference to lord Randolph Church
| ills contradiction of my statement tina
| Queen Victoria gave nothing to reliev
the famine in 1S47, might have gon
still further and said with perfect &C
curacy that not only did she give moth
ing, but that she actually intercepted ST
thousand pounds of donations which Ia
sultan of Turkey desired to contribute 4
the famine fund. In 1917 the Sultan hat
offered Il donation OF ten thOusanI
pounds, but the English ambassador Il
| COnstantinOple was directed by I'll
| queen To inform him that her donation
| was TO be limited to two thousan
| pounds, and that the sultan should not il
| good faith give any more than her maj
esty; hence the result to the famine funi
by the queens actions was the loss o
six thousand pounds.
| Perlice, Perlice.
| ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2-The Ru.
| sian police have proved so very ineffic
lent in the prolonged struggle with tn
| Nihilists that "a large number of Gel
man police have been summoned from
the Baltic provinces of the Empire.
| Burned to Death.
Boston, Feb. 2.-Early Sunday morn
| ing John ID. Gardner and wife wer
burned to death, with their house.
MIDDLETON, n. Y, Feb. 2.-Lindi
| Young was burned to death to-day while
| lighting fire in the high school. He
mother, in endeavoring to extingush Tho
flames, is probably fatally burned.
No Staryaticn'at all.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-The Duchess O
Marlborough's Irish relief fund commit
| tee yesterday investigated the reported
cases OF starvation in the neighborhooC
| of ParsOntown, and found that the re
ports are untrue. There has been NJ
cases of starvation there, and no coro
ner's verdicts rendered of death from
starvation, such as recently referred to.
Actual Starvation in ireland.
! DUBLIN Feb. Sat Il meeting of tn
/ Mansion hnnCa "a nrslt
or referred to the reports that three in
quests had been held IN the neighboI
| hood of Parsontown, wherein verdict
were rendered of death from restitution
and stated that no application for relic
| had been received from that district
Let Boston Help.
Parsons, Kan, Feb. 3.-The emigra
| ton of colored refugees from Texas
| which was very large by rail durin!
| October, November and December, i
now being supplemented by droves il
| wagons, which come overland through
the Indian Territory. Many are suffer
| ing and their condition appeals loudl,
to the charitable. Farmers in southern
Kansas are bus:ly engaged in ploughin!
for their spring crops.
Bound to Die.
AUGUSTA, Me, Feb. Isaac Boothly
cashier of the first national bank, sho
himself fatally to-day, after jumpin
into a cistern on the banks premise:
with weights attached to his feet Tn
| directors say his accounts are probabl
all right.
Eastern Weather.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 3-The snow storI
which began shortly alter midnight las
night, was the most severe storm of til
| winter thus far. Although but three o
four inches of snow tsil on the leyel
the wind drifie1 il from roofs of house
and from exposed cross streets, and il
many places the snow was packed foe
or more deep. The snow was so fin
| and fell so fast that navigation on TIA
rivers was very difficult, the veil of snoN
forming as great a barrier as a heav
| fog. The storm increased in violenc
and the wind rose 10 a perfect gale.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. at bega
showing at 10 a. m. and still continue.
1t is now eight TO ten inches deep-th
heaviest for years.
| Fires.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 3.-The Milwaukee
| County Hospital, located Oh the count
farm in the town of Wauwatosa, was dt
stroyed by fire carly this morning, til
account books being burned. The exac
| number of inmates is not known, bu
supposed to be sixty. Thirty were cal
ried out and others made their own e.
cape The walls partly fell in, and it i
thought there are several bodies We
among the ruins. Loss about $25 ,00t
The origin of the fire is supposed I
have been from defective fiue.
HAYS Cry, Kansas, Feb, "a fire q
| Wa-Keeny, last night, destroyed tn