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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17
The Pension Bill

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Representa-
tive Warner reported from the commit
tee on pensions, bounty and back pay a
bill providing that every person specif-
ed IN the pension laws who served for a
period OF three months or more, who
has an honorable discharge and is not
receiving a pension or greater pension
than that provided by the bill, and who
is now disabled by reason OF q wotind,
injury or disease, which there is reason
to believe originated in the service,
shall be entitled to receive a pension
during the continuance of the disabIli-
ty at the rate proportionate to the degree
thereof. The bill further provided that
dependent parents shall only show by
competent evidence that they are with
out other present means of support than
their own manual labor or contributions
of others not legally bound for their
support.
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PSALMS.
EnnHrnr.n j

Hear this, ali ye people, and give ear
all Ye invalIds of the world, Hop Bit
tiers will make you well and to rejoice
2. Il shall cure all the people and
put sickness and suffering under. foot.
g. Be thou not afraid when your
family is sick, or you have Brghrs
disease or Liver Compliant, tor Hop
Bitters will cure you.
4. Both low AID high rich and poor
know the value of Hop BItters for bill
ious, nervous Ebd Rheumatic com
plants.
5. G-anse me with Hep Bitters and
/ shall have robust and blooming health.
6. Add disease upon diseases and
let the worst come, | en- safe if l use
Hop BItters.
Z For all my life have l been
plagued with sickness and with sores,
and not until year ago was cured, by
Hop Bitters.
8. He that keepeth his bones from
aching from rheumatism and Neural gia,
with Hop BItters, doeth wisely
9. Though thou hast sores, pimples,
freckles, salt rheum, erysipelas, blood
poisoning, yet Hop Bitters will remove
them all.
10. What woman is there, feeble and
sick from female complaints, who de-
elT0tH not nCdllu Anu uSebn mop b1tCtTS
and Is made we'll
II. Let lot neglect to use Hop Bit
ters bring on serious Kidney and Liver
complaints.
IL. Keep thy tongue from being fur
red. thy blood pure, and thy stomach
from indigestion by using Hop Bitters.
10. All my pains aud aches and dis
ease go like chaff before the wind when
use Hop Bitters.
II Mark the man who was nearly
dead and given up by the doctors after
using Hop Bitters and becometh we'll.
10. Cease from worrying about ner-
vousness, general debility. and urininary
trouble, for Hop Bitters will restore
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17
Threatened ReTolation.

GALVESTON, April 1.-THE News
Laredo special says: For several days
rumors have been rife of a threatened
revolution throughout Mexico, which
are about Stunning a tangible shape, TO
interrupt the state of quietude that has
prevailed during the past four years.
The causes are the large moneyed con-
cessions granite the American railroads,
the action of the government on the
nickel question In ordering the base coin
funded and then repudiating the certifl-
Gates of deposit or return of the nick
els, the passage of the stamp act requir-
ing q twelye-cent stamp on all articles
offered for sale, i1otwfthBtandingt the pre-
vious expectation and custom house tax |;
the failure to pay the soldiers of the
regular army, resulting in a thorough
Decentralization. the troops at Monterey
throwing down their arms and deserving
in squads because they were starving,
together with charges of corruption
openly brought against the present pres
ident, now worth $4,000,00O. although
poor when he went into Office four years
ago. Gen. Travens, the idol of northern
Mexico, was waited on at the Laredo
tonight by large delegation of leading
citizens of Monterey on his return from
Europe three months in advance of the
political bargain made between him and
President Diaz, the present candidate
for the presidency at the approaching
June election. The Significance placed
on the premature return at the critical
moment is that while he will not coun-
tenance a revolution he is prepared to
enter The field as q candidate for the
presidency.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17
OVER THE STATE

The papers in all parts of the state
speak well of the wheat prospects.
Nine applications have reached DR..
Holcombe, asking HIM to visit different
parts of the state to treat glaRdered
horses.
Ourgood friend Sheldon, of the Wal
nut Valley Times, has put in steam
engine and added other Improvements
to his Office. The Times" is never out
of joint.
The Courier says the buildings just
finished and now gong upin Winfield
will number 300. The city has water
works and is putting in gas works. Next
the Daily Courier, Ell?
At the late meeting of the Kansas
medical society, held at Topeka, several
members of the association spoke in
favor of cremation. There is one thing
certain. If that method OF disposing
of the dead ever becomes popular in
this country Kansas will start it.
Commonwealth: Warden Jones, OF
the state penitentiarY, appeared at head
quarters Friday and made to the state
his report for the month of March. His
statement shows expenses for that period
to the amount of $7.497.61. The re-
ceipts were $s.16412, leaving a balance
of $667.52, which was turned into the
treasury.
A very popular and successful lumber
merchant, residing at Florence, in this
state, recently invested in a 'jack" and
fifteen mare mules, which he placed,
with roseate expectations of future in
crease, on a ranch near that place. This
circumstance tends to demonstrate the
fact that a man may be thoroughly we'll
equipped for the satisfactory prosecution
of commercial pursuits and at the same
time be comparative novice in the SCI
ence of stIrpicu'ture.
We we're rather afraid to say just what
we honestly thought of the Hiawatha
Worlds new head when it first came
out, because we supposed it was the re-
suit of big effort on the part of Wilder
and his partners to do something IN
usual in that line. 1t was according to
theiT notion and tasts-snd notions are
sometimes sacred things, not to be
punched unceremoniously. There is no
accounting for the tastes of good printers.
Several of the boys have since spoken
out boldly on the head, and we may as
we'll say what we want 10 now, and that
is that we hope the World boys will
throw it out OF the back window before
they run eff the next outside of their
! paper.
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SIrpREHE .IunGE

Valley Falls New Era: OF the nu-
merous candidates now being mentioned
IN connection with the supreme judge
ship, we know of no one better fitted to
occupy the position than Judge j. Jay
Buck, of EmpUria. OF course Coy
Click will appoint man from his own
party to fill out the unexpired term OF
Judge Brewer, who has beer elevated to
a United States judgeship, but a sue
cessor will have to be elected in Novem-
Der, and Judge Bnck is just the
man for the position. We are per-
sonallY acquainted with him, and know
him to be a man of undoubted integrity,
fine scholarship, splendid executive abil-
ity and in every particular emlnently
fitted to occupy seat on the supreme
bench of our state.
Judge Buck possesses ajudicial cast of
mind that would assist HIM and his as
sociates in ARRIVING at just and honora-
BILE conlusions even in the most complI-
Gated cases. He is a man of remarka-
BILE continuity, and can come
about as near bringing per-
feet order out of utter confusion in q
legal transaction as any man we have
the honor of being acquainted with in
Kansas We have noted in our own
mind number of tlmes since our ac-
Quaintance with him the marked ability
which he has shown IN the management
of important cases at the bar, and the
years of active practice of which he can
boast would fit him all the better for the
proper discharge of his judicial duties
Judge Buck, while an ardent sup.
porter of the Republican party and its
princi pies, is not a partisan in the objec-
tionable sense OF the term. AS above
stated, he has done yeoman service for
his party, and it cannot more fittinglY
reward him than by nominating him for
the Office of supreme judge, to which
position he would be elected by big
majority. We are first, last and ali the
time fer Judge Buck.
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- ne.aIr aira pau.p.

EI1zABErH, Pa, April 14.-Shortly
afser 5 O'Clock this morning an sxplo-
sion of FIRE damp occurred in the coal
mine OF John A. Wood 8 Sons, near
here, killing two men Instantly and m
Turing seytrai others. The dead bodies
of James Paintes and james Stevenson
have Just been brought out of the mine,
horribly burned ana blackened. They
went to work at O'Clock, and had just
reached The point where they work when
the explosion occurred, the IRE
damp igniring from their lamps.
At first 1t was thought many
others were IN that part of the mine.
and had persisted, but it is now certain
that they were the only ones killed.
VIM. Kent, who was 500 yards from the
explosion, was severely injured by being
violently thrown down. Workman Sim
mons, who was q mile sway, was struck
on the head by flying pick and sus-
tanned serious injury. A number of
others were bruised and cut by the flying
debris. Willing workers were at the seine
this morning but their labors were inter-
fered with by foul gases and they bad
only succeeded at noon In reaching the
bodies. Both victims were young men
of family. Some boys playing in the
mine yesterday are supposed to have left
the trap door open which allowed the
collection of fatal gas. The explosion
fortunately occurred when but few men
had gone to work, else the loss of life
must have been great.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

From the edition of Messrs. Geo. p.
Rowell s. Cos. American Newspaper
Directory, now in press, II appears that
the newspapers and periodicals of all
kinds at present issued IN the United
States and Canada reach grand total of
13.402. This is a net gain of pre- cisely
1000 during the last twelve months, and
exhibits an increase of 5.6lS oyer the
total number published Just ten
years since. The increasa IN 1874
over the total for 1878 was 493. Dur
ing the past year the dalies have
increased from 1.135 to /, 254; the week
lies from 9,O62 to hoops, and The month
lies from 1901 to 400. The greatest
increase Is in the western states. I'LL
nois, for instance now shows 1909 pa
pers IN place of last years total of 004,
while Missouri issues 604 instead of the
523 reported in 1888. Other leading
western states also exhibit great per-
centage Of increase. The total number
Of papers In New York state is ,523.
against ] $50 In 1888 Canada has shared
IN The genersl Increase.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

Tew York Tribune: The Hon. p. B.
Maxson of Emporis Kansas, In writing
to Mr.. George II. Babcock, of the Bah
cock & Wilcox company, says: u want
you to take few of these apples to the
New York Tribune, TO snow them
apples from the great American desert
of former times. / read the Tribune
twenty-three years during Horace Gree
ley's time, in which he exhorted the
young man To go west and grow up
with the country. l went west and have
grown up with Kansas, aud have grown
up big orchard, too, and would like
the Tribune editor to see number one
sample of what comes from it." The
sample was number one,"-the apples
being of the "Ben Davis" variety, large,
firm and OF good flavor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

New York Tribune: Mr.. Robert B.
Roosevelt in letter to the Rochester
Post Express declares that "there is only
one way for the Democracy TO win 1.-THE
presidency and that Is to climb into
power over the shoulders and upon the
back of John Kelly" Why cert'nly.
But once at mass meeting TO show the
rats how they could circumvent the cat,
a speaker-he was lusiy dock rat--ex.
planned that his own and his brethren's
aim would be accomplished just as soon
as they succeeded In bellIng the cat.
Then some one SAID to the speaker,
eyes, but who's going to bell him W
The dock rat was unable to answer, and
deep gloom fell upon the meeting
which was not lifted when our paper
went TO press. Does Mr.. Roosevelt hap
pen TO know the name aud address of
the metropolitan Democrat who will
take the contract TO bell John Kellye
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

II is semi-oficially announced that
the Mexican government has come to
terms with the merchants who have pro-
tested against the stamp tax on certain
classes of merchandise. The mer-
chants seem not to have sufficient con
fidence in Gonzales, and maintain def
ant attitude. which Gonzales is disposed
TO regard as revolutionary. The objec-
tionable tax ranges from l to 10 per cent.
ad valorem upon liquors, chinaware,
jewelry, hardware. boots and shoes, hats
and caps, medicines, etc. and was to be
paid the 18th inst. The merchants OBJ
jected to the tax as burdensome, and
argued that 1t was calculated TO interfere
with the operation Of the proposed re-
ciprOcitY treaty with the United States.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

Kansas Chief: 1t is significant OF
popular feeling that whenever ballot
box Is set up at Republican primary
for voters to express their presidential
preferences, whether II be in New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ILL
nois, Iowa or Kansas, the vote almost in
varlablY stands 600 to 1900 for Blame,
and about rs scattered among all the
other candidates; and yet it is said that
the delegates Will not be for Blaine, be-
cause he could not be elected. By what
system are delegates chosen in such
places, any way? If man whom nine
tenths of the Republican voters want
cannot be elected, how can a man be
whom none of them want?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

The Richmond Wing puts the tariff
question In very plain aud practical
way. Nlne-tenths of the people of Vir-
ginia, it says, do not spend over $50 a
year per capita for supplies from
abroad, the bulk of all they need being
produced within the state by that con-
siderable body of citizens engaged in
the business of manufacturing. The
removal of the tariff might posi-
bly, save a few dollars per annum
to each individual purchasing SEQ
worth Of foreign goods but at the same
time 1t would throw the home manu-
featuring population out of employment
and reduce the value of farm products by
destroying the home market which now
absorbs all the surplus at good prices.
As q simple business proposition, there
fore. the Wing suggests that Virginia can
poorly afford to assist in breaking down
the tariff; and the same reasoning ap-
plies with still more force to states with
larger manufacturing interests.
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Poor Fellow.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1.-THE
Attorney General has ordered the trans
fer of the convict, L. Redmond, from the
state penitentiary at Auburn, New York.
to the South Carolina penitentiarY, at
Columbia. This was done
at the request of Senator Butler and tn e
district attorney. Redmond was a no.
torious moonshiner, and killed seven
men who attempted to arrest
him. He was finally
surrounded by the posse and literally
shot to pieces. He is crippled and una
BILE to work and carries seven bullets in
his body. His general health is rapidly
failing in the cold climate of Auburn
and he will be removed to the south
where the climate is warmer and he can
be cared for by friends.
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The Butler County Corn Sold.

CINCINNATI, April 12.-The sale OF
the Butler county, kansas, corn contrl-
button to the flood sufferers, took place
on change to-day. Prices ranged from
two to three cents above the market
rates, and the aggregate realized was
about $1,000.
The relief committee will Immediately
after the distribution of the result of this
sale close up Its business, and will de-
cline hereafter to receive any further
contributions for distribution At
a large meeting of persons on
the guaranty fund for the dra-
matte festival this afternoon
most determined spirit was shown to
make the enterprise successful. Indig-
nation was expressed that any rumors OF
postponement should become current.
and the feeling was unanimous that
such a course was entirely uncalled for,
and the guarantees adopted resolution
to use redoubled personal efforts to DEM
onstrate the wisdom of their position.
They declare that the city is in condi.
ton of profound peace, and they expect
to prove it by crowded audiences at
Music hall during the coming dramatic
festival.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-17

What an industry the manufacture of
barbed WIRE has suddenly become. 1t
is thought that the manufacture of this
material for fencing will this year reach
10000 tons. Since the barbed wire
first made its appearance over I've hun
dred patents have been Issued in this
couatrY for the various improvements
and alterations which have been made
in its construction. There is more than
$5,000,O00 invested in real estate and
machinery for its production, and it re-
quires working capital of $4,000, 900
per snnum TO carry on its manu-
facture.
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IN THE INTEREST or FAIR
KE9R

NESS.
DR.. Holcombe, the state COW doctor,
has returned from Neosho Fslls and re,
ports that the excitement over the
cattle disease is subsldingn The first
duty Of this expensive officer seems 10
be toreport that he hiss nothing TO do
AtchIson Champion.
We do not suppose that the Champion
intends TO be unfair, and yet the above
paragraph is unfair to a very worthy
gentleman. We know that DIR. Hol-
combe has been busy every day since
his appointment, and that he has more
demands upon him az an officer than he
can attend to. We believe that this OFF,
Ger viii prove to be In time one Of the
most useful to the material interests Of
the state. We believe DIR. HOlcombe
will prove to be ''the right man in the
right place" He Is not only thorough
gentleman, but an exceedingly
well posted and intelligent man
on current questions, and in
his profession thoroughly educated. He
studied the diseases of animals for five
years, and taught in veterinary colleges
four years. He served as chief veterinary
surgeon of New JERSEY, being appoint
ed by Governor Mcclellan, having
charge of the work of suppressIng con-
tagious pleuro pneumonia in that state.
He is the author of veterinary manual,
was some years ago made an honorary
member of the British national congress,
the only honor of the kind that has
ever been conferred on an American
graduate. He stands in government
circles as one of our best veterinary sur
geons, and in 1880 he resigned his chair
manshIp in the American Veterinary col
lege to accept the position
of inspecting veterinary sur
geon in the United States army. thereby
becoming department veterinary sur
geon to the military department of the
Missouri. This place he has since held
and was holding when appointed state
veterinary surgeon. He may have made
a mistake in calling the recent outbreak
OF disease in this and Coffey and Wood
son counties the foot and mouth disease.
We know that he hopes he is mistaken.
but he does not believe he Is. Other
eminent veterinary surgeons do not be-
lieve he ID. If he is he would be
simply repeating mistakes that are made
every day by the best practitioners IN
their diagnoses of diseases. The most
thorough investigations are now being
made by him. 1t is but justice TO DIR.
Holcombe to say that he did not seek
the position he now holds il the state,
and that the Office he left TO accept it
pali him better than the one he now
fills. We have no more interest IN DIR.
Holcombe than the Champion or any 9TH
er paper has, but We believe he Is a very
man, engaged in a very use
full profession, We also believe that
the creation of this Office, and the
enactment of law to control contagious
among animals, is one of the
wIsest things the legislature of Kansas
ever did. We believe there Is hardly
state in the west, or territory either that
has not adopted such law and created
a like officer, and we haYe been at the
mercy of cattle diseases and unprinci-
pied cattle dealers long enough.
We have $I50OO0,000 invested In this
business and it is time 1t had some
protection.
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Spite Work.

WICHITA, Kans., April 14.-Quite an
exciting case has lately been on trial in
the district court ofthis county. Richard
HansIng, a well-known German farmer
was placed on trial charged with per-
jury by Fred Stackman, another we'll
known citizen of this city. In the
trial Mr.. Hansing was acquitted. Sat
urday his attorneys began suit for
him in the district court IN this
city, against Fred. Stackman for $50, 1000
damages for malicious prosecution. Mr.
Stackman is at present absent from
home in California. Attachment pro-
ceedings were also begun, and large
amount OF Stackman's property in this
city attached. lansing says that he
will fight the matter to the bitter end.
Public sentiment is in favor of HaDsing-
District court adjourned on Saturday.
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CubanAMairs.

WASHINGTON, D. C, April 11.-Intor-
nation has been received here. of the
arrest by United States authorities at
Key West of a Cuban named Aurelio
Mayello, who arrived at that port yes
terday. The arrest was based on tele-
gram from the governor general of Can
ada to the Spanish consul at Key West,
say ing that Mayello was coming TO
America to kill HIM.
A cablegram has been received by the
secretary OF state from Badeau, tender
ing his resignation as consul general at
Havana
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When Mr.. Carlisle was elected speak
er, we were assured by those who were
supposed TO know all about such things
that the tariff was to be reformed"
right away, without any foolishness.
Nearly four months have since elapsed,
and now Mr.. Carlisle writes that an ''ef-
fort Will be made during the present ses-
sion TO inaugurate the policy of tariff
reform" A few months hence we shall
probably be told that, taking everything
into consideration, it has been decided
best to let the matter slide until the peo-
pie get through with their quadrennial
bother about the presidency.
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A Cruel Woman.

CHICAGO. April 12.-In the trial of
Mrs. Anna Shock for cruelty t. chill
dren as manager Of the Home for the
Friendless, an institution located at La
Grange, Iii, the jury this morning re-
turned a verdict of guilty as to those
counts In the indictment relating to
eight of the children, alleging that she
permitted the children to be placed IN
such situation where their health
might be endangered and injured. This
convicts her on the lesser charge only.
Sentence is deferred, awaiting the argu-
ment of a motion for new trial.
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Troy Chief: Some opponent Of Blaine,
searching for omens. announces the I'm.
portant Historical fact that speaker
Of the house was never elected to the
presidency, which is supposed to finish
Blaine. We were always under the I'M
preston that Polk had been speaker of
of the house; and, If II will make the
omen moro ominous, we Will add that
his name was James.
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Foot and Month

WASHINGTON, April 14.-In the house
to-day Reed offered a preamble and res.
olution recitiug the allegation that foot
and mouth disease had been introduced
into Name through the fault or oyer.
sight of the United States officers charged
with the duty OF inspecting and qHaran-
timing importations of cattle and direct.
ing the commissioner of aricul-
ture to make investigation
into the matter with authority to report
for consideration at any time such bill
as they deem proper to reimburse the
authorities and citizens of that state for
ind,cioTslv incnr-eS end nv hs IN.
CURED in suppIessing the disease
Adopted.