The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-09-10

LAWRENCE. Kas, Sept. "a private |
dispatch from Philadelphia says JohnW. |
Forney and party will leave that CITY by |
q special train on the morning of the S.h |
arriving In this city on the 18th. The |
city council last evening appropriated |
s4OO to entertain the distinguished !,
guests.
The entries for the fair exceeded the |
expectations of the most sanguine |
Nearly all the space for horses has been |
taken. President Reeney goes TO Kan
sas City tonight to make arrangements |
for three hundred more stalls, to be |
erected before Saturday next
The Business Boom at st Louis
ST Louis, Sept. 6.-Interviews with
representatives of leading houses in q
dozen different branches of business
in this city show that the trade is not
only very lively but that its volume is
from 20 To 40 per cent. greater than last
year, that the increase is legitimate and
healthy, mat COLLECTIONS are prompt and
the outlook for large, prosperous and
profitable trade never was better
st. Louis Strikers.
ST.. LOUIS, Sept G.-The platform men
| in the freight yards of the Indiana & ST.
Louis and Chicago, Burlington s. Quin-
| cy Railways, at East ST. Louis, struck for
| an advance in wages today, and the men
in the Ohio & Mississippi yard will quit
| work tomorrow if their wages are not
raised. The demand is for $50 per
day, an advance oftwenty- five cents. The
]. s. st. L. yielded, but the c., B. s. @.
refused and hired new men.
General Grant,
| MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6.-The SentInel's
Madison special says Gen. Grant, Col.
Fred Grant and Gen. Rowley, of Galena,
arrived there today to attend the state
fair. They will be given steamboat
excursion tomorrow and reception at
the residence of Col. Villas in the even
ing Wednesday Gen. Grant and party
take trip to DEVILS lake, leaving for
Chicago in the evening.
No Negroes Need Apply.
| HAVANA, Sept. IA royal order has
been published, dated July 2lsti deElant
ing that Notwithstanding the existing
laws respecting foreigners, negroes Of
the African race, be they free or foreign
subjects, are forbidden to disembark on
the island, and those being foreign sub
jects who wish to land temporarily,
must give security as heretofore.
| The Vera Cruz Survivors.
| CHARLESTON, s. c., Sept 6.-Six OF
the crew of the City of Vera Cruz-Chas
Slith, second assistant engineer, Charles
Branderburg, quartermaster, James Kel-
", Mason Talbot, John Greenfield and
7. Drummond, seaman, together with O.
K. Owens,-surviviDg passengers, arriv
ed here this morning from Jacksonville
Florida. They leave tomorrow for New
Il York
Brought to Time.
n WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.-Attorney Gen
eral Devans has received telegram
from Marshal Osborn, at Montgomery
informing him of the arrest in CovingtOI
, county, Ala, of Penton and nine othel
. persons, who are charged with beating
and intimidating United States witnesses
: and destroying processes from the Uni
ted States courts.
Financial.
NEW YORK, Sept 6.-The Celtic, from
: Europe, brought 100000 of English golC
7 bars and cash.
d WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-During tn,
past week there were paid out from tn,
United States minis, $313. 492 in stand
ard silver dollars, against 500, 486 TO
: the corresponding week in 1879.
The DrOuth in the East
5 WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, Sept
:. "A fearful drouth prevails all over VeI
:. mont, and manufacturers have been com
{ PEELED to suspend work for want o
;
: The temperature for the last ten day
e has been equal to the hottest days il
i July.
4 To Be Exhumed.
i Los PINos AGENCY. Col, Sept. 5.-A
e the request of the Uncompaghre Utes
) the body of Chief Ouray will be ez
: humed and brought back from the south
= ern Ute agency for interment there
s. They also request that he be given
/, christian burial with appropriate cere
r mOny.
IS Gives Himself Up.
# ST. PAUL, Sept. GA special fror
=, Fort Keogh to the Pioneer Press says
1t The Sioux chief, Big Road, direct fror
y Sitting Bulls camp, came in and lsE
rendered to the authorities, With fou
followers. His party of 100 braves al
i expected to arrive in day or two.
st Arrested on a Criminal Warrant.
n MILWAUKEE, Sept. Ga Sentin,
d Fondulac special says that a crimins
D warrant was issued to day for the ARE
4 of Howard M. Ketchen, editor of tt
~ !, Daily Commonwealth, for charging Gel
a Bragg, member of congress. with selliu
=; eadetships.
ne AIIeger's Allegation -
IN NEW YORK, Sept. 6.EElijah Allege
D. arrested for dealing in stolen bonds
r. the Milwaukee 81 st. Paul railroad cor
n pany to-day identified Col. Chas. Bong
ed ton as the person who had given hi
ed securities to hypothecate.
es Moving MOrmons.
IN NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The steamer n
\ ne vada took out BAT Mormon recruit
ut They are mostly English, Scottish al
" WEIGH. Another company of Mormon
~, Ieave next month.
:" A Rich Vein OF Coal.
LAFAYETTE, Kan, Sept "A vein
v coal thirty three inches thick was strut
y to-day at depth of one hundred and t,
an feet. There is great enthusiasm over
lie General News Briefs.
m Milwaukee is agitated by labor trou
D. les.
oH The yellow fever is assuming an eI
on demic form in Cuba.
' ch a slight shock of earthquake was fl
he at Montreal on the It'll.
&C. st. Julien will be at the ST. Lou
lis races during the present month.
Is: Postal communication has been /
OK terrupted by heavy floods in Florida.
ie- Chicago had $4,000 fire on the ct
30 resulting in the loss of the Popularu
d. tannery.
AZ A whirlwind and heavy rain storm d
Nv great damage to Richmond, Virginia,
~ the 9th.
les The attendance, thus far at the st. j
rse exposition is the largest that has ev
been known.
The probable loss of the steamer 81
P. Salvador, with all on board, is report
he at New York.
ID A party of plcnickers at Geneva Lai
I'm Wisconsin, were recently poisoned
nc eating pressed beef
~; Senator a G. Thurman addressed
ne large Democratic meeting at Columb
Il on the evening of the Sd.
&c. Two negro jurors have been drawn
IDS the grand jury at Louisville for the iii
til time in the history of the city.
ar E. B. Hall, treasurer of Lucas coun
Sill Ohio, and elected on the national tick
Der Is defaulter to the sum of $47, 900.
yer The reunion of the old-time telegraE
IN ers at Cincinnati was attended by neal
~ a hundred of the Oldest operators in (
as country.
IL At ward election held. at Evansvil
tie Indiana, on the 4th, to fill q vaccine
there was q Republican gain oyer /,
springs vote of SO. f-foso igl
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Gu NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.
ed Many readers will remember the pull
ca less anxiety of the public IN the esI
oe days of October, 1854, when hope for {
ne safety of the steamship Artic fad
eT gradually out. On the night of 0ctel
ne 10, George NJ. Burns, survivor fro
al the lost ship, reached New York, a
m, went TO the Herald, knowing that pap