The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-10-22

And Use Hancock's Letter as Subter- !
fuge for Change of Base.
The Railroad War Still Raging With |
Great Violence, and Extending.
The Work of Wind ana Waves.
Special to EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS.
CHICAGO, Oct. IS, - m.-The storm |
which began on Friday evening was one
of the most destructive ever known in
age done to shipping nn the lake is The
sinking of the schooner, David A. Wells,
with crew of ten men, all of which
were lost. Other steamers are reported
ashore. and the side-wheel steamer, Al
pima, with crew OF thirty is still miss
ing. Several vessels are reported sunk off
Milwaukee, and 1t is sickening even to
estimate the extent of the storms aw-
full havoc.
Tragedy at Fort Steele.
Special dispatch to EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS
FORT STEELE, Oct. 19.-Last night
Jack Pierce, a government teamster with
POwclls train shot wagon-master
james Hornbeck. At Rawlins
the crowd took Pierce from
Jail, and placed the rope around his neck
intending to lynch him. The citizens
protested and urged that the law be al
lowed to take its course, and the crowd
desisted. Pierce will probably be
| lynched yet.
Judge Lynch at Santa Fe.
| Special dispatch to EAPoRIA DAILY NEWS
SANTA FEE, n. NJ, Oct. ia negro
cattle-thief named Keyes was lodged in
Jail at this place yesterday, end at about
10 O'Clock gang of men broke into the
Jail, and in the melee which ensued
Reyes was shot dead.
Pugnacious Politicians.
| Special to EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS.
NEW YORK, Oct 1S.-The policical
pot Is boiling in little Delaware. In a
row at Wilmington on last Saturday
night, which arose out of differences on
the question of politics, seven men were
fatally injured.
The Pittsburg Disaster.
Special to EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS.
PITTsBURG, Oct. 1S.-There are several
additional deaths reported to-day, as the
result of the recent railroad accident, and
the entire number now reaches thirty.
one.
Kansas City Live Stock Market.
Special dispatch to EMPoRIA DAILY NEWS
~ KANSAS CITY, Oct. 90, 1 :25 p. IN.
CATTLE-Receipts light. Market &C
J tive on all grades and five to ten cents
higher.
Hods-S4 and $425 for good to choice
WHITE 81 HoLMEs,
Live stock commission merchants.
Business Call.
: CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 15.-An excur
sion party filling thirteen cars went tC
Mentor to-day under the auspices of the
, Cleveland Republican business mem:
: club, to congratulate Gen. Garfield or
! the result of the October elections. Geo
H. Ely, president of the club, made
: speech, to which
GEN. GARFIELD RESPONDED AS FOLLOWS
Mr.. Ely, and gentlemen of Cleveland
' This is IA new situation, and new sen
5 satIons and suggestions arise with it.
! should be altogether unworthy of THU
state and of my native county if l die
not feel deep sensibility at this expires
| SION III your CO1nhtuCC dIi IL
| this greater, more significant expression
0 of your understanding of what the grea
contest pending in this country means
, in its relation to our prosperity. You
are business men of Cleveland, and tina
7 means a great deal. You are citizens d
i Ohio, and that means more. You are
! citizens of the republic, and that mean!
great deal more, and in your three
Is fold capacity greet you and thank yOI
i for this demonstration of your conf
! dence. Let me speak a moment abou
y these three thoughts. You are bushes
men. Suppose, not that this yard full
/ alone, but all the business men o
o America were assembled together, wha
would they dor? or rather, what woult
they not do, if they got from the Eterna
Power an insurance policy that for fou
D years to come there should he no dis
v turbance in the great forces that pla'
r. upon the business prosperity of this PED
pie? The power that could underwritl
J. such policy to you would call from
you more sacrifice in mere bushes
sense than you ever made under any cir
cumstances of offer that cound be mad
to you. Now, no such guaranty will b
q given you by the supernal powers; bu
T while frosts and pestilence, tempests ant
: all the great accidents that come to u
without our power to prevent it, are be
8 yond our reach, yet there is a great DC
" litical organization in this country tina
can give you policy underwritten b.
t its faith and its own hand against all tn
It evils that can come to you from bad leg
S islatIon, and that reckless wickedness @
bad finance. For such business insuI
: ance the business men of Cleveland ant
/. the business men of America are mani
- testify willing to make some effort an
haar sacrifice and that tako 4
. the business meaning of this assembling
here to-day. Now, the second thought
= had was, you are citizens of Ohio, an
: you are living illustrations of the frs
:, children of the pioneers who piante'
" Ohio. When your fathers were Dor
Ohio was unknown except as a trackles
Il wilderness; and yet where the smok
e from not a dozen white mems cabin
d assembled to the sky in all this territory
e now 3,250,000 happy people, pro:
porous, honorable, and successful, az
% living and guiding the destinies Q
e people as great in numbers an
wealth as all who inhabited thirteen co
Dimes when our fathers won their indie
pendence. What q spectacle Is that
And all this prosperity was won by tn
l. simple plain, straightforward process c
downright hard work. That is what di
it. Labor first laid out on the raw ms
l. terials that God made, and then capits
D. which Is only another name for crystal
lied labor saved up, protected and save
L il by the strong arm of equaland Just an
% honest law. Now that is Ohio. Wei
nov, there is third and larger though
Proud as you are of what your haF
, been and what You have done for CelYi
4 land, for Ohio, yet your pride rises at
v little piece of bunting, dag with star
~ and stripes on il, that speaks of srea
continent with government that coYer
il from the lakes TO the Gulf, and tha
(. you as citizens of that republic have
, right 10 walk on every foot OF il a
!. the equal of any man that live
~ anywhere, aud that the score {
= black men that see here and there hay
e. just as good right as the wilitest Of Z
all. Now these are thoughts that CON
to me US look upon these Cuyahog
g faces. You are in The midst Of a gree
N contest, gentlemen. On that contest, O
the struggle of ii, on the issue OF il, on m
!. relation To it, | say nothing For til
IS time being am out OF politics, but III
If with you. And now. gentlemen, than
il you for coming here; ] thank you for theS
wise and earnest words of encourag
ment which your chairman has spokeI
r and / thank you for Your purpose {
a. standing by your faith Ia the end, let il lea
US wherever il will, and finally hope
have the pleasure of taking your hang
r. PrTTsBuRe, Pa Oct. 15.-R. u
ID Thompson, secretary OF the navy, arri'