The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-02

LONDON, March 26.-The war denart.
ment at Chatham has been ordered To
ship to India all the Martini. Henry
rifles available. The government is plac.
ing large orders for rifles and ammunition
for war with the manufacturers The
mep-of-War Mercury, stationed ST Col.
lossus, and ct Bacchufe are beng rapIdlv
prepared for sea. Notwithstanding ihese
war preparations prominent financiers
Judge from the siuatlon that hostilitles
will be averted. The stock market re.
spends to their news. Consols and Rus
sian securities are fraction higher.
WAR PREPARATIONS.
At Aldershsl orders have bean re-
ceiYed providing for raising ID. OOO trooDs
for India. One battery of horse artillery
proceeds from Woolwlch to India I'M
mediately. The government Of Bur-
NAH Is sending thousand camels to In
dia 70 be employed in the transport sar-
vice on the frontier of AfghanIstan.
Orders have likewise been sent to
armories throughout the kingdom to re-
turn Immediately to the Tower of
London all Martini Henry rifles which
they have in stock. The object Is that
they be inspected and dispatched to
India. Fourteen thousand rifles now at
Portsmouth will be forwarded to India
tomorrow. Orders have been received
at Portsmouth directing that the CON-
posite sloop Cormorant be made ready
for sea.
The queen has just sent q message to
the house of commons calling out the
reserve militia for permanent service
The advIces received by the anthori-
ty here show that the Indians at Edmon-
ton are remaining quietly on their re-
serves, notwithstanding runners have
been trying to incite them TO Join Rel
The mounted police in and around the
region of which the fertilization is the
center, are distributed as follows: One
hundred at Fl. Carlton, with q seven
teen pound gun and forty armed
civilians. twenty mounted police sixty
miles east, fifty police and one company
of volunteers and 100 spare rifles one
hundred miles west of Carlton. ninety
mounted police are on the way, and by
this time have reached the South Task
| atchewan to effect junction with the
Carleton force. AS dispatches have
| been carried by horsomen eighty
| miles to the Humboldt telegraph office,
full information respecting the men
on the road will not be received before
tonight. Further precautIon will be
taken and 100 men dispatched from
winnipeg to Queappelle to await orders.
! Riel is said to have seized whites and to
be holding them captive in Roman
Catholic churches. This is all the in
formation in the possession of the gov
| eminent.
ARMY RESERVES CALLED OUT.
In accordance with the queens mes
sage the war Office has called out the
| army reserves and militia.
| GLADsTONE's STATEMENT.
| Gladstone stated il the house o. COM
mons this afternoon that the Russians
had advanced no nearer to Penjdeh thar
Pukhalum, which he said IS eighty
miles distant from PeDJ6sh. Genera
Alkahsnoff, Gladstone added, has es
tablished post of Turcomans at Pull
kaptum.
LOOKS LIKE WAR.
The order issued by the war Office IL
accordance with the queens messag
calls for 5000 reserves and 1900
militia.
WILL PERHAPS REMAIN IN INDIA.
BOMBAY, March 26.-The Duke c
Connaught has obtsined leave to renal
in India in the event of the failure of tn
Anglo-RussIan negotiations concernln
Afghanistan.