The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-16
LATE NEWS NOTES.

Lorillard has bought the horse Aranza
for $4,000.
Researches in London proved that
Mother Symptoms prophesies were a
hoax, and it IS now discovered that the
dame never existed.
The Secretary of War has prohibited
the use Of tobacco by the cadets at West
Point. The order has created great dis
satisfaction, as fouI-fiGths of the cadets
are tobacco users.
A complimentary dinner was given in
New York to Lawrence Barrett, who
sails for Europe i'll few days. NOAH
Brooks of the New York Times pre-
sided.
The president Of the London under
ground railway has accepted the manage
ment of the projected line under North
Chicago to Lake forest, and cables the in
formation that the necessary funds have
been subscribed.
y dynamite mine was discovered un-
der the metals close to the Galchina rail-
way station, Russia, connected with a
battery in the railway telegraph Office.
All telegraph officials have been arrest
| ed.
The board of health at New York re-
ports that at the end of last week there
were 124 smallpox patients and sixty
four tYphus fever patients in the hOspI-
tai new cases of smallpox in the week,
firty-one; typhus, thirty-two.
Maj. Francis dc Gross signed Tuesday
an important contract tor railroad from
Laredo to Mexico, skirting the Gulf and
extending to the Pacific. This conces-
sion, like Frisby's, is completed by au
thoriiy granted by Congress, requiring
no further action by that body.
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has sent
a notice to proprietors of hill top re
sorts that he shall consider the holding
of picnics at their places on Sunday suf
flcient cause for revoking the license
and that he has notified the police tC
not permit picnics to be held within th'
city limits on that day.
Considerable damage has been dOn'
in the Pennsylvania districts by tel
days almost continuous rain, which wa
very heavy Tuesday morning. TIT
streams are much swollen. The boon
at Williamsport is broken through, an,
thousands of logs are coming down.
The executive council of the American
Bankers association have made preIim
mary arrangements for a bankers con
, venIion Mt Niagara Falls ON the 10th o
August. In addition To representative
from 6,OO0 bankers in the United States
several Canadian and European banker
, and capitalists are expected.
, An attempt is being made to intro
duce English pheasants among tn
/, Rocky mountains, and Lord Morla
) has lately dispatched number of fin
: healthy birds to a friend who is settlet
: in that region. 1t is now suggeste
: that American turkeys could be intrC
) duccd into England. The prairie biz
a might also be accIlmatizcd there wit
Z advantage.
e A Mexican at Las Vegas, New Me-
$ leo, tied his wife firmly to bOarC
: leaned her thus helplessly against fenc,
r took position fifty feet away, and use
:. her as a target for rifle practice. II
e did not hit her, his object being I
: brighten her by embedding the bulle
| in the board close 10 her head and bod,
9 She tainted under the frightful ordeal.
A special election in the second col
gressional district of South Carolina, I
fill the vacancy caused by the death I
S Congressman O'Connor, passed off quie
q lY. Samuel Dilable DemOcraD W,
e elected without opposition, the Repul
n licans abstaining from voting, holdin
a Mackey, OAConnor's opponent, was rea
5 ~ elected last fall, and that, therefor
" there was no vacancy.
Havcrly's new theater in Chicago
r. to have a peculiar feature. which Il
q owner thus describes: al have co
II structed two fashion boxes, which are
n novelty, and which l think will tai
II we'll. These are one on either side
n. the Stage. built level, with the floor, Al
N so arranged that the ladies oecupyiI
a them may be seen entirely. By tn
e means they are enabled to display the
Al toilets. This is the purpose of the fas
" ion boxes"