The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-26

1-N 4 AANSASCO. 1ldfC1 SV---1n the
police court this morning agitator Gan
non was sentenced to six months i'm.
prisonment and to pay fine of five
thousand dollars. 4 motion for new
trial was made.
The police judge denied Gannon's
motion for a new trial, and in default of
5000 bail pending the appeal he was at
noon sent to the house of correction.
There are numerous other arrests to be
made.
This afternoon the counsel for Cannon
filed notice of appeal and furnished
bond Ter 5000. An order was issued
Tor Gannon's release from the house Of
correction.
Bound for Liberia.
MEMPHIS, March aO.-One hundred
and fifty negroes, men, women and chill
dren, Were passengers on the Golden
Ruie, which passed mp tonight for Gin
cinnati. They are the advance of a large
number to follow from the vicinity 6f
Helena, Arkansas, and are en- route to
Liberia The party were under charge
of Richard Newton, agent of the Libe-
rIan colonization company They sail
from New York April 18th, in the
steamer Monrovia.
Pork Packers.
ST. Louis, March 20.-George II. Nor
gan, secretary of the merchants ex-
change, furnishes the following statistics
OF the pork packing of ST Louis from
November LIST 20 March LIST. Number of
hogs packed, 577,793; average gross
weight, shade over 25S pounds; cost
per hundred pounds, $4.05; yield of
lard, a shade over SO pounds This
amount of pork made 1851 barrels.
Sinking the Revenue.
gNn
factory of Julius Hammerslag, 343 West
Madison street, was seized yesterday for
making undue entries in the government
book and removing from his factory CT
gars without paying the tax thereon.
The factory contained $4,000 pounds raw
material, etc, all valued at 5000.
Stamp Mills.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 2O.-The Alta
says contracts were today signed for the
building Of eighty stamp mills for the
Central Arizona Mining Company, of
New York, to be put up at the Vulture
Mine, near Wickenburg, Arizona The
iron for l415 miles of pipe to carry the
water to the mine was purchased at
Pittsburg.
Canadian Concession.
OTTAWA, Canada, March cot is
now understood that very Important
concession has been obtained from the
British government, that American cat
tie will bc permitted the privilege of
transit through Canada from one Ameri-
can port to another with the privilege of
also stopping for rest and other accom-
modatiOns at the same place in Canada
Narrow Nutmegs.
HARTFORD, Conn, March. 2O.-The
senate has rejected the bill providing for
wonlan's suffrage on the license question.
Loss Of the Ship Reform in the Gulf of
Mexico.
CHICAGO, March 22-The Times has
| the following special from Galveston: :
A strong gale accompanied by rain has
prevailed on the coast here during the
last Is hours. Shipping in the outer
rows of the harbor has, in some instances,
met serious disaster The Norwegian
| ship Reform" loaded with 5000 bales
OF cotton for Havre, parted her cable and
went to pieces. The crew, together with
| fifteen stevcdorcs and two pilots, are lost
The U. 5. revenue cutter Mclean went
To the rescue, but was compelled To re-
turn. The yawl boat from the shipcame
| ashore on the gulf side of the city to-
| night, but no tidings OF the missing men
and cargo valued at S175,000 The
| night is dark, the wind high and sea
rough, with no probability of the abate-
ment of the storm. At present fears are
entertained for the steamer City of Mexi-
co, with General Grant and party on
board. She was due this afternoon, but
thus far pilots are unable to detect the
steamer in sight. 1t is surmiscd that
the steamer will change its course TO
New Orleans, as the gale is from the
northeast, and it is impossible to enter
this port during the present high wind.
If II is possible for her to leave her
anchorage, the United States cutter Nc
Leon VIII go out on n cruise tomorrow
| morning in search of the Mexico, and
the coast bark Reform, viii also go in
| search.
General Ord and staff arrived on a
special train from San Antonio tonight,
to meet Gen. Grant
New YORK, March GA dispatch
from Washington says il is rumored
there that the vessel on which General
Grant was passenger, has been lost in
the Gulf of Mexico.
GALVESTON, March 22.-The steamer
with Gen. Grant aboard is not due here
until to-day. A Norwegian bark is
ashore Off the port
Unconstitutional.
SAN Francisco, March 22.-The Uni
ted states circuit court, this morning, in
the Parrot hdbedS corpus case, involving
the validity of the law recently enacted
forblddlng the employment of Chinese
by corporations, decided that the law is
unconstitutional. The case will proba-
bly, be taken to the United States supreme
court, Ben Butler having announced his
Willingness TO manage the case there for
the people.
Wichita Wickedness.
WICHITA, March 22.-Andrcw Naugh-
ton, cook at the Douglass Avenue
house, in this city, in quarrel this
evening with Felix, a colored man who
Is employed in the stables, was shot by
the latter. One ball went through the
neck of Naughton, lodging against the
spinal column, paralyZing his whole
body. The colored man Immediately
fled, and has not at this hour been
caught. The doctors say that Naughton
can live but an hour or SO. He is un-
married, and about twenty-three years
old. Felix was formerly of San Anto-
Mo, Texas.
The DevOuring Element.
PHILADELPHIA, March 23.-The Union
passenger railway depot, corner Thomp-
son and Ash streets, is burning.
The depot and stables were destroyed
ant several adjacent dwellings damaged.
The horses were saved
DEiAOlIS D1ICiIgan, marCn So.-J uSt
before noon a fire broke out on the mill
premises of j. H. Pearson s. Son, Sage
nav City, and burned the store, com
pany ship, drill house and quantity of
stores. The loss will approximate $780,
OOO, mostly covered by insurance The
fire is under control.
Won't Work.
ST. Louis, March ga report has
just came up from Carondolet, six miles
from the center of the city, that the car
Penters in the st. Louis, Iron Mountain
z Southern railroad had made demand
for an increase of wages, and pending a
reply from the company they had stop
ped work. Also that some of the car re-
paIrers and machinests are not at work.
1t IS also reported that the switchmen in
the Missouri Pacific yard at CarondoIct,
have struck, but this is not verified.
The New York Strikers.
NEW YORK, March 23-Seyen piano
firms today re-opened
negotiations TO the locked out worllmen.
None of Hermen's striking cabinet max
ers resumed work this morning, notwith
standing the liberal offers of money to
those returning first. The board of aler-
men suggest an arbitration committee.
composed of the employers and work
men, for the solution of the difficulty
How II Stands.
ATcHIsON, Kas., March 23.-Osage,
Phillips, Lincoln and Rocks counties
elect Blaine delegates to the state con-
yentioD. The Champion has reports
from fifty-one counties of the state show
ing the election of one hundred and
thirty nine'delegates favorable to Blaine,
and ninety favorable to Grant
Hawk and Buzzard.
DENSIsos, Texas, March 23.-Two !
parties of Indians had battle near Alto |
k3. BllIriycr county. Several were kill |
ed and wounded on both sides.
He Always Makes the Landing.
GALVESTON, Texas, March 23.-The |
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