The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-02-27


out of work 1t is said that Jennie's
father lives in Harrisburg. The dead
woman's sister lives in handsome four
story brown stone house in fashionable
locality in New York. Her husband
said Mrs. Collins was not recognized on
account of her marriage beneath her sta
ton. Mrs. Collins first cousin is IA
prominent city politician, and she was
also relative of a leading lawyer in
Wall street. Her brother is said to be in
a Baltimore college. Senator John W.
Stevenson is her cousin. Jennie Tyler
was born in Richmond, Virginia, in
1S49.
Bad Men.
Dies MONIES, Feb. 21.-Mrs. Sallie
Chase, arrested several days ago for in
human treatment of an adopted daughter
nine years old, at erosion, has been held
to appear before the grand jury in $ 1000
MARSHALL, Texas, Feb. 2i.-A negro
named Burt Rhodes attempted TO Stay
his wife with an AK, at their home, three
miles from here, but was frustrated from
effecting his purpose, although She was
terribly bruised. Information was given
to the county attorney, who had the de
mon arrested.
MERIDIAN, Texas, Feb. 2i.-Samuel
McGiIl, white man, went into restau-
rant kept by a negro named Charles la
ley and demanded something 10 eat. he
was without money and Haley refused
him, whereupon McGill seized a butcher
knife, and walking up 10 Haley, cut his
throat from ear to ear. McGih was ar
rested, but not without resistance
Cincinnati aud CHATTANOOGA.
CINcINNATI, O., Feb 21.--It is now
definitely arranged that the Cincinnati
Southern road will be opened through TO
Chattanooga for freight business. The
first train over the newly completed por-
ton of the line will leave Somerset at
. 80 Monday. It's proposed to celebrate
the event here on Monday by firing guns
and hanging out flags. \ battery from
DAYTON viii be brought down. Forty
cars were sent out tonight to 20 III the
first train, and the prospect is that = hun-
,lrcd car loads Of freight will be gathered
in time for the pioneer train. The sche-
tiule lime is fixed at twenty haur>
from Cincinnati 10 Chattanooga.
Very Bad Young Man.
WHEELING, Feb. 2l.-The facts con
nected with the inceBdiary at Claysvilie
respecting the particulars of the attempt
of young man to fire his fathers house
mentioned in the dispatches last evening
are augmented to-day by fuller reports
from the scene of the occurrence.
James NNarrell, the son and perpetra
| tor of the unnatural deed, was studying
| for the ministry, and few evenings be
| fore the fire led a prayer meeting. L
seems that his desire for money became
a mania with him. Some time preced
! ing the fire he stole several of his father;
! sheep and sold the pelts, and then limo
Gently helped his father search tor thi
| sheep. 4 short time after this the housl
! was robbed of several hundred dollars
| James claiming to loose two dollars 10y
/ the robbery to blind the folks to the fac
that the robbery was in reality commit
ted by him. It was stated that ont
sister and the father were locked mp il
the burning honse, but it is now Learned
that his five sisters were locked in thef
rooms, and that after the house was sc
on fire by james, one of his sisters es
capped and fled across the country t
warn the neighbors, who arrived IN tim
to rescue the rest of the family. 1t i
said young Warrell tried TO poison hi
family some time before the fire. Fh
Young man is said to have escaped I
Ohio, assisted in his flight by his father
who through all has tried to shield III
son from the Indignation of his neigl
bors The affair has created decide
sensation in Ciaysville, where tie famil
are known, and the facts were onl
learned by the most persistent inqGir
of the neighbors, who demanded TO kno'
tie name of the incendiary.
Unhappy Gar.
New York, Feb 2l.-A dispatc
from Paris says of the late attempts N
on The life of the Gar, that the police Q
. ficials are evidently affiliated with th
nihilists, for it IS affirmed that there
daily found black edged letter on III
table, threatening that lie should nev'
see the twenty-tifth anniversary OF b
accession To the throne unless he abolisi
ed his despotIc system OF government
| Although the officials were continual
, changed, the letter was always founi
! Several high officials have been place
under surveillance, and it is rumore
that lady Of the highest rank has bee
: arrested in St-Petersburg on suspiciC
| of being connected with the Winter Pa
ace conspiracy 1t is also said that Il
Gar and Czarovitch were INTERVENE
yesterday. The reports Of the CZar
: prospective abdicatioa are pronounce
false.
: The Broadway Fire.
New YORK, Feb. 2l.-Thc body
fireman Dougherty was taken from q
; ruins Of the Broadway iise TO Gay. II
> feet were gone, head, arms and lie
:, charred, and trunk comparatively uni
jured.
I Nihilist Captured.
;, PARIS, Feb. 21.-The Russian arrest
on the Champs Eleysees and charged wi
{ being connected with the Moscow E
i plosion. is named Karl, alias Marie
alias uortinaau, aud is believed to
+ the same man who rented and occupi
n the house in Moscow from which the {
plosion of the mine under the railw
operated. If the fact is established
the satisfaction of the French gogeI
ment he will be surrendered as a co
mon murderer, although there Is 10 {
II tradition
h Nevada Avalanche.
a RENO, Nevada, Feb. 2l.-Four m
It were buried by a snow slide near Fran
V ertown this morning. Vim. Fowl, +
). cued, is badly injured. Sam. Kennel
n Alex McLane and John Burney We
1t not found.
Kansas Manufactures.
re LAWRENCE. Ks Feb. 21.-The orga
cation of the Leis Chemical Manuf
re turing Company was perfected to-day l
der the incorporation act of tile sta
The business OF this organization is TO
lie the manufacture of chemical and PHI
maceutical preparations The CAPT
= stock of the company is $4,000. 1
officer elected are; President, j. p.
!. her; yice-pTesideHt, I. n. Van Hoese
secretary and manager. George lie
e treasurer, Ii. z. Benson; suPerintend'
of manufacture, w. j. Leis, Drs- j.
y, Bowersock. H. G. Smith, Eli Csmb'
C. z. WilmoiIl, of Lawrence, and w.
Il Hills, of 81. Louis, Missouri
a An Old Kansan Gone.
. SENECA. Kas., Feb. 21.-Capt Geo
~ Graham died at his home here tod
aged sixty-one years Mr. Graham ca
" to Kansas in 1857, served Us captain
{" of the local offices IN Nemaha coun
was delegate to the territorial legi:
III ture in 1859, ard state treasurer of IS
sas in 1S69-T0. lie was probate judge
Nemaha county az the time of his dea
Big Feat.
m LcxDoS, Feb. el--The six days GO
T. you please walking match closed
/, night. Blower Brown making the gr'
:, est walk on record, 553 miles in the
m days Hazeal made $50 and Day
&c Miserable Russia
- ST.. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2f.-News fr
- the interior of the empire is hearire
:. ing. Famine and diphtheTia are d
an mating the population Of the proyinc'
=. Saritof, which. while itannually expo
nj in ordinary times, enormous quantitie
- gram, has scarcely any crop this 81
= The people are aggravated hy the wan
- fodder for the cattle, and the peasa
= are forced to1eu them In Caucasus
~ famine is still greater, where the pee
-. are committing suicide and selling Q
r. children.