The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-12-24

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Tie American Moments Suffrage
Association continued is session to-
day.
Encouraging reports were received
| from seventeen stale societies.
Resolutions were adopted urging can5
cressional action, and asking that stale
! legislatures grant suffrage ~ women al
presidential elections, under the pFOvis-
| ions of article two, sts;tIon two, of The
federal constitution.
4 resolution was also adopted for com
memoFative services on the death of
Lucretia Mott, Lydia Maria Child and
Nathaniel White.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Dr. Mary L. Thomas.
of Indiana. president Lucy Stone, chair
man of the executive committee.
Adjourned.
War on Rates
New YORK, Dec. T7-President
Green, OF the Western Union telegraph
company, gave the following informal
ton this afternoon: Yesterday our trus
tees reduced rates to all competing points
with the American Union company
numbering in all about 400. The aver
age reduction is fifteen per cent, al
though to some points il is forty per
cent, and to others no reduction at all is
necessary, the rates being equal in both
companies. The sum of il all is that
the Western Union intends 10 do bust
ness as cheaply as the American Union,
come what may.
When asked regarding consolidation
of the two companies. the director said:
81 don't know as to that. Whenever
Mr.. Gould finds it to his interest to have
the companies come To an understand
ing something in the way of a COM
promise may be effected. Certainly
sensible corporations are not going to
carry on war forever, because it Will be
to- the interest of both to work peace
ably"
Another Case of Trichinae
CAICAGo, Dec. 15.-Another revolving
case of illness from eating raw ham in
tested with tTichin9, came to public no
tice in this city to-day. FL. C.. Hanson,
contractor, living at Gas North Ash
land ayenue, purchased a smoked and
sugar cured ham, and Sunday evening,
November %, he and his family con-
sisting of wife and three children, ate
quantity of it thinly sliced with bread
and butter. The parents ate from two
to four ounces, and the children less
quantity. The next day the parents felt
pains in the stomach. and on the fifth
day were unable to leave their beds.
They have grown gradually worse and
now have little hopes of recovery The
children as yet have not shown any dan
gerous signs. A piece of the ham,
they ate was examined under the micro.
scope and in one ounce 1900 trichlnn
were discovered.
A Site for the Worlds Fair
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-The executive
committee of the Worlds Fair commits
sion, accompanied by number of prom
inent railroad men and others, visited
Inwood to-day, and inspected the site
adopted for the Worlds Fair. After two
hours spent in viewing the site, the rail-
road men agreed with the commission
that as Central Park could not be Sc
cured, this site was almost as good as
could have been chosen. The general
opinion of the railroad men is that there
will be no lack of railroad communica-
ton with the site. At a meeting of the
executive committee held this afternoon,
the committee was appointed to visit va
rIoTs boards of trade in this city and ask
their assistance in raising the necessary
subscriptions.
POlygamy In Idaho.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, Dee. 1T.-Gov-
ernor Neil. of Idaho, in his message to
the legislature, says:
Polygamy has been rapidly introduc
ed from Utah. The statutes are defec
tive, as it is found impossible to prove
the ceremony. The Territory is in dan
ger of becoming second edition to Utah. |
He expresses the hope that the leglsla-
ture will adopt measures TO crush out the |
practice. He also advises the punish |
ment of those who advise and preach the |
doctrine of pulYgamy, and recommends |
that congress be memorialized to amend
the act OF 1862 so as to make pelygamous
Capitalization after marriage in the Terri |
tory an offense.
Poor Vest
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Vest,
of Missouri, who seldom arises in the
senate to do credit 10 himself or to the
state, to-day, being stirred up by senator
ingalls, explanation of the bill settling
the old claim for eodifylng certain Kansas
laws, rose, and, with undignified manner
3nd threatening talk, said he was tired
of hearing of John Brown, who was u
great scamp and ought to have been
hung, and was hung. To this senator
ingalls, retorted that the flag which John
Brown dropped at Harper's Ferry was
taken later and carried to Appomattox
At this all laughed at Mr. Vest, who took
his hands out of his pockets and sub
sided.
0ae Hundred Years Old
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 17-Levi Pitti-
bone celebrated his one hundredth
birthday here to-day, at the residence
of his son-in.Iaw, Capt. Frank Burnett,
of New Jersey, inspector of steam YES
sells. The old gentlemen is in good
health, and received calls from his many
friends with much pleasure Mr. Petit
bone Was born in Norfork, Connecticut,
and emmigrated TO Missouri in 1917,
coming down the Allegheny and Ohio
rivers with Henry r. SchooIcraft, the
author, in lSl9,and went TO Pike county,
where he resided until three years ago,
and where he was treasurer of the coun-
~ and probate judge for many years.
Cars Ditehed.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 15-It has lust trans
pired that at half past ten O'Clock last
night, the TWO rear coaches of the Kansas
City express train, which left here about
O'Clock, were ditched two miles this
SIDE OF Eureka, twenty-nine miles out,
ana several passengers were injured
The railroad people have kept the mat
ter still, and no particulars of the acct
dent can be obtained. They admit, how
ever, that three persons whose names are
not known were injured and taken to the
company's hospital at Washington, six
ty miles from here. Rumor saws that
twelve persons were hurt.
chicago City Loan,
CHICAGO. Dec. 16.-The books for
subscription to the tour per cent city
loan, with which it is proposed to take
up 1924 GOO of six per cent. bonds, were
| opened yesterday and up to this even
| ing $3OO.OO0 worth of bonds have been
subscribed for at par. So great was. the
| rush, and SO evident was it that the
capitalists and bankers would secure the
whole loan and thus keep il out of the
hands of the people, that many restric-
tions were placed on the subscriptions,
| which will, it is hoped, result in the
poorer people investing in these securi-.
| ties.
He Didn't Mean What He Said
CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. Ex-senator
Hampton, in reply to letter from Rt.
Rev. DR.. Howe, Protestant Episcopal
bishop of South Carolina, touching upon
the recent correspondence with Secretary
Sherman, says:
You were entirely right in the con-
struction you placed upon my note to
Mr.. Sherman that was written as I pass
| ed through Charlottesville, and natural
ly gave my proper address. It never oc-
Cured to me for a moment that any one
would construe my language as giving
or inviting challenge.
St Louis as Grain Market
ST.. LOUIS. Dec 15.-The books of
Geo. Fl. Morgan. secretary of the 8Ier-
chants exchange, show that during the
past year there have been sold at regu-
lar call on change, over eighteen and
halt million bushels of cash grain, and
trifie less than eighty-five millions of
bushels for the future The future sales.or
option deals, made on the door of the ex-
change, outside of the sales at call. will
aggregate fully FIVE hundred million
| bushels during the same period.
Sehurz VIII Write Book.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec I5-The Post Dis
match states ediforiaIlv that c.,..af[,-,