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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13
your, poor, heartbroken mother

your, poor, heartbroken mother.
Johnny made no response except 10
groan.
THE COFFIN WAS PLACED UPON CHAIRS
in the yard and the lid open Mrs Sam
uels came out, sobbing: my heart is
broke, my heart is broke; broke broke
brokei Oh, my heart is broke. They
have killed my sainted son. She was
followed by Mrs. James, who amid her
sobs and with tears streaming down her
| cheeks, called on God to avenge the
death of her good, kind husband, who
was slain by a coVardiy murderer for
money. She chung to the coffin, bowling
her head upon the glass, declaring that
she would not let him go. Like Mrs. Sam
uels, size repeated over and over the ex-
pressions: "He has gone to God. He is
in heaven. God will condemn and pun
ish all who had hand in murdeIing
him for money" etc. Raising her voice
and standing erect, she exclaimed: THE
governor offered $4,000 to have them
killed. he was killed for money, and
may God punish them for it," She
asked: "Why did they kill him? Why
did they take him from me and my chill.
dren? He would not harm them" The
climax was reached when Mrs Samuels,
standing at one end of the coffin, looked
Sheriff Timberlake in the face, and
pointing her finger at him, SAID "Yes.
they killed him for money-for gold
and greenbacks; for money for money
tisi ct them take their money, their
goId and their greenbacks. It will do
them no good. The officers of the law
have done this. They have hired muir
derers to do it. God will judge them
for it. l have no money. / want no
money. l shall not judge them. 1 will
leave that to God. If he can forgive
them can"
Sheriff Timberlake, although sur
rounded BY men who were known to
have been intimate friends of Jesse
James, never f1inched Last week, she
continued, he was at my house. He said
to me when he was going away: Moth
er, you may never see me again, but /
am not as bad as they would make me
out to be. This was said sobbingly. BY
this time several women were weeping
over the coffin, and not a few male eyes
were moist. Becoming calm, both Mrs.
Samuels and Mrs. James wanted the
glass lid removed. At first Mrs. James
pretended that she wanted lock of
Jesse's hair, but it was finally developed
That she had come to the conclusion
that his arms and legs had been taken
OF and wax ones substituted instead
Sheriff Timberlake, having no screw
driver large enough to turn the screws
offered to go to farm house and Dor
row one, but the women we're finally sat
isfied, and the body was committed to
the grave in the yard while they stood
and watched the fresh earth thrown
upon the board box, seemingly incon-
SOlable
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13
INGALLS, ON THE TARIFF.

The following interview with Ingalls,
on the subject OF the tariff is reported to
the Topeka Commonwealth by its cor
respondent at the national capital:
YES" said the Senator, tout ii my
own town of Alchison, Kansas, they
are consuming potatoes brought from
Scotland. Here is an instance where the
heresy of free trade seems To find room
to take root. But upon general princi-
Piles the high sounding and captivating
theory that one should buy where one
can buy the cheapest, and sell where
they can sell the dearest, is a delu,ion,
fiction, fancy and Pigment OF the i'm
aginatIOu. twenty-five years ago, when
/ went To Kansas, / noticed all alOn e
the Missouri river great fields of hemp
growing Those rich alluvial bottoms
along tue Missouri and the Mississippi
and their tributaries, are specially
adapted 10 the development of
this industry. Those great farm
houses and big barns and i'm
mense plantations on the Platte purchase
are largely the result and product of the
growing of hemp. 1t was immensely
remunerative. The soil, the climate,
the conditions of labor were specially
stimulatiye IN tue growth OF this branch
of production. That industry is now IA
thing of the past. II has NO eXisiance.
Had an impenetrabie and overwhelm-
ing cloud of insects settled down upon
that vast region, and remained there day
and night summer and winter; had
tornado swept over that vast scope of
country each successive season and de-
stroyed every product each year; had
blight rested upon all the land and
blasted every effort of human energy,
more completely perfect, and absolute
desolaLiOn and death To the hemp grow
ing interests would not have ensued.
And what do you suppose was the
cause of this destruction to an impOr-
Iant and growing interest?
Just at that fraction OF second a
ready response TO the senator's conun-
drum did not suggest itself 10 my mind,
and the senator said:
"Why, few years ago it was suggest
ed to somebody by some one as smart
thing to reduce the duty on jute butts
a coarse fibrous article grown in India
on ten-cents- per-day labOr-from $50 TO
So per ton. From that moment hemp
growing in the west-and il Is princi-
pally remunerative in the great and rich
valleys OF our western and soathern
rIvers-was doomed. The juie butts
are brought over as ballast for a trifle;
it is grown for next to nothing by pau
per labor IN India aad the east, and, OF
course, our American hemp growers can
not compete in its production against
such Odds
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AT THE GRAVE.
The Mother of Jesse James Calls Down
Vengeance ON His Slayer.


KEARNEY, Mo, April 7.-During
Jesse James the women were all visiblY
affected. The mother moaned and
groaned aloud. From the church the
procession, composed of firty or sixty
persons in buggies, wagons and horse
back, moved out over the country to
the Samuels farm, which lies about four
miles nearly northeast of Kearney. Il
is rough road, through wales, over
hills and across streams, and, in the
neighborhood of the family residence, is
heavily timbered and covered with
thick growth of "brush-" Adjoining
the Samuels farm is the farm owned By
Askew, with whose untimely taking OFF
the dead Jesse was charged. The
"bush," as it is called, which consisted
mostly of large growth trees, on the
Kearney side of the farm, has within
the past two years been mostly cut down.
Arrived at the house, the coffin was tax
en- into the room where the wounded
son, John Samuels, lay in bed. Il was
turned on edge and he was raised up 50
that he could see the features of his dead
brother. He wept bitterly and cried !:
"Oh, oh, God oh, jesse, that ever ]
should see you brought home this way"
The mother approached the bedside
and assuming q dramatic position, rails
ed her only hand aloft and said In loud
tone of voice:
Johnny, my boy look upon your saint
ed brother Jesse, your murdered brother
Jessei Look upon him and then look
upon your poor. Northumberland, shat
tered mother. He is dead; they have
killed him-your poor brother Jesse.
He is in heaven He has gone to God
and God will judge him. He is taken
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

Ex-Governor Hendricks 10 a speech
at indianapolis last week took decided
ground against the submission of a pro-
hibitory amendment to the people of
Indiana He argued that the temper
ance question had not been an issue in
the canvass when the present Legisla-
ture was elected, and said that the Dem
ocratic party would vigorously oppose
the amendment. Some of the Democrat
ic organs have already strongly objected
to the party taking an anti-prohibition
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When asked what the boys did be
tween their exploits for an occupation,
Mr.. Mimms said they farmed and raised
stock. 1t was not true that they were
idle. 1t was necessary for them to have
an occupation in order to allay suspi-
cion, and the boys were good farmers.
Jesse had dealt some in thoroughbred
horses, and Franks favorite lines were
pigs and poultry.
The subject of Jesse's reputed rancho
in Texas was mentioned, but Mr..
Mimms only smiled at the idea, say
ing nothing of the kind had been in
existence.
Shepherds story about Frank living
in magnificence in New York and
dining detectives and police officers was
ridiculed by Mr.. Mimms. He said
Frank never lived there and was very
far from counting the friendship of de-
tectives. The story that Frank was
worth $1O0, GOO was also discredited, the
opinion being given that Frank did not
have over g, 0O0 at present.
Mr.. Mimms was then asked when he
had heard from Frank last He said he
saw Frank about two years ago at the
house of q friend in Clay county. He
did not know where he had been since
that time, but did not believe he had
stopped in this vicinity. The story of a
morning contemporary that Frank and
his wife had stopped at the st. James
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Terrible Wind storm.

CHICAGO, April IAN Evening Jour.
nails special says: "a terrific tornado
swept through the township of Kalamo,
Eaton county, last night. It did i'm.
meDse damage to houses and barns, and
killed a large number of live stock.
Several persons are reported killed and
a large number injured. This place is
remote from the telegraph. Later par.
ticulars say that in Oakland county, La
fayette Crandall, his sister and little
boy. and Mrs. Henry Tyler were killed,
and his little girls arm so badly
crushed as to require amputation.
Miss Ora Ward was also injured. The
debris looks like an explosion, every
thing being ground to atoms One
horse was blown out of & barn and
found in a distant field covered with
mud. An idiot sister of Horace Sher-
man, Of Kalamo, was killed, and another
sisters leg broken. His wife's jaw was
dislocated, and the whole family car
Tied fifty rods. thrown into a swamp
and badly bruised.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The romancer of the Chicago Herald
exhausts his resources in the following
item: "a wagon load of misery excited
pity at Ottawa, Kansas. 1t was hand
cuffed thief on his way to prison; his
insane wife, who was being taken to an
asylum; two children going TO the poor
house, and dead baby bound for a
graveyard. The object in taking them
all in one vehicle was 10 manage the wo
man easily, as she refused TO be parted
from the rest
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The term ''gerrymander" originated
in a pun. Gov. Elbridge Gerry. OF Mas
sachusetts, was the reputed author of a
districIing plan, which political an
tagonist described as "salamander. !"
A friend interposed, "say rather, Ger
rymander" Hence the term applied to
districting plans that are not pleasing
to the opposition AS historical fact,
Gov. Gerry disapproved the plan, but
being adopted under his administration,
and caustic wit having given it name,
1t adhered. 1t illustrates the adhesive
ness of lie when yoked with the truth.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

CONSUMPTION CURED.-An old physi-
clan, retired from active practice, hav.
ing had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of a sim
pie vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of consumption,
bronchitis, catarrh, ssthma and all throat
and lung affections, also positive and
radical cure for genera debility and all
nervous complaints, after having thor
Oughly tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, feels it his
duty to make il known to his suffering
fellows. The recipe, with full particu
lars. directions for preparation and use,
and all necessary advice and instructions
for successful treatment at your own
home will be received by you by return
mail, free of charge. by addressing with
stamp or stamped self addressed en-
velope to DIR. NJ E BELL,
16I N. Calvert St Baltimore Rid
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13
rha HurrIcaneinInua

KEoKUK. Ia, April IA Keokuk
Constitution special from Keosauqua.
the county seat of Van Buren, county,
states that the hurricane of yester.
day morning wrecked q great
deal Of property and played much
havoc throughout the lower Dies Moines
valley. At Keossuqua large new house
in which a locomotive was Kept, was de-
molished; fireman was badly
injured; two or three houses
partly demolished and sections of
sidewalks were torn up and borne away
by the wind. The glass front of Mar
tln's new store house was ruined. The
wind tore up trees and blew down
fences in all direct ons.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

One would think that an unmarried
maiden like Miss Phoebe CoZzens
would feel somewhat delicate about so
liclting a position among a lot of men
to investigate The nastiness of Mormon
polygamy. But there's no accounting
for tastes. Phoebe is probably one of
those women about whom her mother
cried when she was born because she
was not boy, and has been aspiring 10
that honor to assuage her mothers
grief.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The New York Herald makes the fol-
lowing pertinent comment upon the
difficulties presented by our polyglot i'm
migration: There are Jews coming TO
the United States from Russia, Irishmen
from Munster and Ulster, cordially de-
testing one another; Republicans and
Bonapartists from France, German So
cialist. and Imperialists; Italians, some
of whom believe that the Pope has been
cruelty wronge6, and others that he
should be driven from Italy. To assim-
llate all these and blend them into q
harmonious homogeneous political soci-
ETY. is task which no other country in
the world could successfully undertake. -
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

1t is said that 16O names of congress
men appear on the memorandum lying
on Speaker Keifer's table who desire TO
speak on the tariff commission bill.
The next congressional record will
therefore be unusually bulky, and it is
doubtful whether the country will be
much wiser. This kind of literary
lumber is increasing in quantity every
year.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

Mrs. Mackey, of bonanza fame, denies
that her daughter is to marry Prince
Philippe de Bourbon, and in the denial
shows contempt for fortune-hunting
bachelors. Her notion seems 10 be
that every man should scratch gravel
for his own fortune, the same as her
husband did. The woman is right.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

Twelve mining companies have al
ready, this year. declared dividends of
100000 and upwards; Calumet and
Hecla, 100000; Quincy, $4,000; Horn
Silver, $500, 900; Evening Star, $s50,OOO;
Ontario, $225, 600; Standard, $225, 200;
Tombstone, $4,000; Jocuistia, $780,
600; Richmond, $135,OOO; Copper
Queen, 1925 600; Iron Silver, 100000
Osceola, 100000. Total, $2,5SO,O0O.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13
PrenIdantiaI nomlnatinn.

WAsHIEeToE, D. c., April 6.-The
president nominated Henry II. Teller,
of Colorado, secretary Of the interior
VIM. E. Chandler, of New Hampshire,
secretary of the navy; VIM. Fl. Hunt, of
Louisiana, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Russia; Rol-
and Worthington, collector of customs,
Boston Adm B. Underwood, surveyor
Of customs, Boston; Daniel Hall, naval
officer of customs, Boston; Jno. ]. Knox,
reEcY.
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NoRTHERN zEPHYRs.
a Fearful Tornado, with Accompanying
Loss of Life and Property.


CHICAGO, April IA special from
Clyde station. Michigan, reports a ter.
rlble hurricane near Highland station,
on the Flint and Pere Marquette road
south of Holly station, last night The
extent of damage is unknown, as the
telegraph line is blown down and the
railroad agent walked 60 Clyde to send
what he knew. The dwelling of man
named CTandall was blown down. Gran.
dali and one child were killed and a
daughter severely injured. A guest,
Mrs. Taylor, of Pontiac, was also
killed and several other persons injured.
The hurricane covered an area of less
than half mile wide. but Ieveled ev-
erything in its path. There are reports
also of q high and destructive wind and
heavy rains in the vicinity of Keokuk
and along the Wabash and Rock Island
roads in Iowa, and at Keosauquad and
Humeston, Iowa, and Kahoka and Ash
ton, Missouri. At these four places the
damage was very severe. Full particu-
lars are wanting because telegraphic
communications are shut Of.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13
Louisville Courier Journal

Louisville Courier Journal Mr.
Jesse Glass, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, a
director of the bank of Shelbyville, aud
one of the most reputable Of that high
toned towns citizens, was we'll acauaint-
ed with Zerelda Cole, now the famous
Mrs. Samuels, when she was country
girl living near Stamping Ground, in
Scott county, the seat of odd Dick"
JOhnson's Indian school He has often
talked TO the writer of the bouYant and
beautiful "Tomboy" girl whose remcm-
brauce of him was perpetuated in the
Christian name of her robEer boy who
now lies dead in ST. Joe, Missouri. He
represented her as a buxom country lass,
with no over nice sense of delicacv.
trimming full of fun, daring horse
woman, good dancer, and not afraid of
the devil himself 1t is not strange
that the piuus preacher whom she took
for husband, found the Missouri hoshe
too warm for HIM, and sought peace by
sloping to the Pacific slope.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The Pennsylvania company has issued
orders TO all ticket agents to refuse to
sell tickets to persons who are intoxi-
Gated, and all gatemen are instructed to
pass no one who is under the influence
of liquor. The company proposes by
this means to project itself against suits
of damage from persons injured on the
road while they are under the influence
OF drink
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

In 1881 Great Britain expended for in
toxicating liquors, 1854, 372 800. The
consumption of beer was nearly hun
drcd million gallons, or twice the man
ufacture of the same liquor in the Uni
ted States in the same year. The total
expenditure In the kingdom for liq-
uOr for the past decade was s., 1SO, 600.
600, nearly twice the amount of the
national debt.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The Louisville Courier-J ournal thinks
the appointment of Gen. Rosecrans as
chairman of the Democratic congress
ional committee was n mistake. Does
Watterson want the old party to go
square back on its splendid record for
making plumbers
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

John Samuels. the halfbrother of
Jesse James, now lies at the point of
death at the old homestead IN Clay
county, having been shot through the
lungs ON drunken spree last January.
The mortality in this family can not be
too great for the welfare Of the state IN
which they reside.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

According to the statistician of the
Atchison Champion there are eight
daily journals and over fifty weekly pa
pers IN Kansas who are opposed to the
next governor of Kansas painting his
mustache with nitrate of silver. 1t may
be proper to add that the Topeka Com
monwealth is included in this list.
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severe Han storm.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. April IA severe
hail and wind storm visited this region
yesterday afternoon. At Kindall, on the
South Haven road, there was q regular
cyclone Mr.. Wilde's house was blown
down. He was killed and his wife and
friends injured. Other buildings were
unroOfed. The cyclone moved east across
the northern part of this county, unroof.
ing barns and doing other damage. 1t
Is T1mored that man was killed in
Cooper township.
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washino,on dispatcb saws

A Washington dispatch says of
GuIteau that despite his confinement,
he is in perfect health and spirits, has
gained twenty pounds, and is as fat and
plump as spring chicken" This is
probably thrown out as pointer for the
benefit OF the man who makes the rope
to be used at a ceremonial which will
take place in the Jail at Washington on
the Both day of June.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

la the body of Il chattel mortgage re-
Gently recorded in Wilson county, the
following description of properly APP
peared: "Thirty.six head of hogs of
both sects of dark complications and varI
Gus shades of cOuntenances."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

1t is said that the religious revival in
Kentucky has been SO thorough and
general that the fashionable young
women of that state use note paper bear
ing the legend Praise the Lord" If
this item is authentic we would not
mind betting the soda water that "Old
Kentuck" swings over 10 the Republi-
can pyramid at the next general cleo
ton
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

During the past year no less than
seventeen papers have ''come TO stay" at
Topeka, all but one or two of which
have climbed the galden stair, leaving
the journals which they started out to
demolish in full possession of the field.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The president, it is said, is nearly
bored TO death by the tender attentions
of susceptible females DESTROYS of max
ing "mash" on his excellency. This
must certainly lie annoying, but a man
could scarcely expect to enjoy immunity
from "a mother -in-law and at the same
time successfully evade all the other ills
of life to which flesh is heir
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-13

The public debt decreased nearly six.
teen and One-haif million dollars during
the month of March. One of the fruits
of Republican administration. And now
will the members of the Iroquis Club
sit down and figure ont just how many
Andrew Jackson dinner speeches on
Capitalization it takes to make as good
u campaign document as that?