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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-10-21

es appalling. People could only
cling 10 each other and pray
tor mercy and for the souls OF those
whose despaiTing shrieks rang in their
ears. For twelve hours the Storm ragged
over the settlements. Taen there came
lull. Hope soon revived as the waters
receded and the storm passed away ana
the SURVIVORS gathered on the most eleya-
ted points viewing the scene of desola-
tion around them. Houses thai had stood
the action of the storm were completely
Quilted. There was no food. nor drink,
the water having invaded everything.
Then 9 search for the dead began. Those
whose bodies lay pinioned by the ruins OF
houses were speedily recovered. From
out OF the marshes more corpses were Ia
ken and buried.
Yesterday morning the regular packet
stern wheel steamer Emily P. arrived Of
Johneon's Bayou and brought to Orange o
many as she could caTry-about sixty peo
pie. Not one Of them have anything bui
what they stood IN. Many were minus
hats, shoes, boots Ur dresses. Their wants
were promptly supplied by the good peo-
pie at this place and the refugees made
comfortable for the night This saturday
| morning Emily P. and the steamer Lsrk
will return and from Themes
make regular trips until al
are brought to q place of safety. All poo
pie save few who have large stock inter
/ ests say they have abandoned the plac'
| forever. They are descendants of rac'
of people who. in the past, made Johnson
Bayou 3 vast orange grove. Frost came
and ruined them; they turned to cottoI
| and sugar and stock raising only 70 NEE
the fate of their forefathers OF the 6, 100
head of stock which .once the bayol
boosted 5000 were drowned while the re
mainder will die Of thirst, as all water !
/ salt
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-10-21

TIE following comments from the New
York Tribune on the presidents July or
der regarding participation of office hold
ers In politics, is somewhat pointed, when
it is remembered that he asserted his de-
termination to make conspicuous exam
pies OF those who disObeyed his orders:
If the president be anxious TO make q
conspicuous example OF Offensive parti-
sanship-One that will leave a profound
impression upon the public mind-lei
him dismiss his private secretary and re-
buke the three members OF his cabinet
who we're in this city last week
laying pipe and pulling wires with ward
politicians and the bosses of the various
halls" and pertecting arrangements for
the municipal canvass. Secretary Man
nlnR, Secretary BsYard and Secretary
Whitney all had Their thumbs in the pc :
lltical pie when they were here, The
private secretary, who Is reputed to be the
presidents confidential adviser and per
sonal representative whenever political
diplomacy Is required, was most actively
employed in negotiating with the lead
ers of the warning factions IN this city.
Make an example Of them, Mr.. President
Let the country understand once for all
that offensive partIssnship must and shall
be suppressed.
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stock yards Str1Ike.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-Precsutions for
guarding the properly of the packers at
Packington, has been greatly increased.
In the town hall are score of seats on
which regular police sleep. Telegraph
wires lead 70 each of the packing houses
and night and day an operator is on duty,
and watchmen at the packing houses re-
port by signal to the telephone Office every
half hour and q patrol wagon and crew
are ready for duty at q moments notice.
Electric lights have been hung throughout
all alley ways and eliminates every
nook and corner. turning the darkest night
into brightest day. Lastly. In protective
measures, is the PinkertOn force. Their
barracks In the Washington butchers
packing house presents the appearance of
a military camp. The strikers have ex-
tended the boycott until now it is an abso
lutte imposIbiIity for Pinkerton tn pur-
chase anything IN the neiRhborhood.
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THE New York Star says that in vol
ume of criminal statistics which has re-
Gently been published in France, the chap
ter DEVOTED TO suicide is of particular in
terest The number OF suicides has been
steadily increasing in France, and is now
nearly twice as large rs it was at the be-
ginning of the second half of this century
Thus, for the ten suicides to every 100, 600
inhabitants in 1851, there were tweaty in
1884, and neither times of disaster to
France, such as the years Of 1870 and 1871,
nor periods of prosperity, when all indus
tries flourish, make any considerable diff
erence in the sinister records. This state
of things is accounted for in different ways
by the various organs, but the Francois
declares that it is all the fault of secular
education. Another ten years of atheist
teaching In our schools, and the number
of suicides will be ten times as large" is
its prediction, aud after all the Ffancals
may be right.
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DIRE VENGEANCE.
A Candidate for NOtoriety Wants to
Cut Mr.. Grlnnell's Throat.
Anonymous Letters Threatening Judge
Gary and Others.
A Fearful Storm Raging in Illinois
and Along the Gulf.
A Wife Murderer Hung and HIS hide
Punctured With Bullets.
rhIrsrIng for Revenge.

CHICAGO, Oct. 1.-THE jurors in the an
archisr trial are not the only ones con-
nected with that case who are threatened
by numerous anonymous letters with
dire vengeance for doing their duty. The
Information is made public to-day that
Judge Garry, States Attorney GrinneH and
Capt. Setback have received q Large num-
Der of threatening letters. The latest mes
sive was addressed to Mir. GFInnell, and
written in French, IN q graceful, round
hand. Il opened as follows: respected
Sir:-''With much soliciiudeitor your g cd
health and that OF your estlmabte
family wish to advise you
that your death Is very near. Bowling TO
the ground In homage OF you seize this
opportunity to forewarn you that will
cut your throat at my first convenience"
The missIYe went on at some length IN g
similar polite style and was signed Rob
Sphere. Mrs. Garry and Mrs. Setback
have also been the recipients of letters an
nounciug to them that their husbands
would die. Clubs, dirks, knives, dyns-
mite bombs and other murdefout
weapons having been mention
ed as means TO dispatch
the lives of the officials. Messrs. Ingham
Walker and Turthmsn and Detective Jas
Bonfield and his brother the inspector
| have also been given occasional promises
of violent fate. Every letter will b,
| photogr aphed and detectives supplied
with cCp es and sYetem of espionsg
be set upon the suspected parties and II
| due time another gang will be ruI
| down. There are today in the
city at least eight men agains
| whom a case is practically com
| plete, who could be arrested any hour
/ and there are nearly forty others abou
whom the tolls are being frightened.
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a NRW 00HRT H0UsR.


By reference to our local columns IL will
be seen that . mass meeting has been
called for tomorrow evening ct the court
house to consider the proposition now be
fore the voters OF Lyon county to build q
new court house. Every citizen Of the
county L. interested in this project, and q
large attendance should be the result Of
the call. II the proposition falls to carry
now It Is probable that never again will
there be the same advanta Zeous opportuni-
ties offered for the much needed change,
and at any time We may be forced to make
q change that WI cost the county thous-
ands of dollars more than II will If the
movement inaugur&ted Is now carried out
At any time, as has been proven by several
narrow escapes, the old rat trap now oc-
cupied is liable 20 be burned to the ground,
IN which case the entire accumulation Of
county records would be destroyed, a. It Is
. Well-knoWn fact that the vault contain
ing them is in such condition as TO az
ford only meagre protection, and that only
for part Of the documents that should be
kept only In . safe receptacle. Beside
this there are so many other reasons, any
one of which should be sufficient excuse
for change. that it behooves the people tc
act Immediately If they desire . change
Every person, 30 far as seen, who has bust
ness to transact at the court house IL I'M.
qualiaedly In favor Of q removal. The
question OF site seems to have been entire
" lost sight of In the general necessity
tor . change. This Is as 1t should be
Let all unite in an effort to pass the prop
osition, and when it is once passed tn,
county commissioners may choose tn,
site IN accordance with the wishes of tn,
majority Of those voting. as expressed b.
their ballots. Let all who possibly can at
tend the meeting Tomorrow evening at
/ o,clock
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TIE New York Independent, one of the
most widely circulated religious journals in
the country, is fully convinced that pollt-
ical prohibition is q posltive hIndrauce
and injury to the cause OF tempera. ce. II
says:
The election in Name settles the future
OF the third party. 1t is not TO be 8 seri-
GUS factor in American politics. It has
no future before It. The DO
lItIcal pfohibiIionist, If we can Judge
from his constant policy, actually prefers
the open hell OF the unrestricted saloon to
everything else except absolute prohibit
ton. He will not shut up one unless he
can shut up all. If he cannot make il
impossible TO open q saloon, he
will not give any help to make 1t hard OF
expensive. He will give no assistance &c
community which wishes local prohibit
ton. No county shall be helped TO assert
its option whether the saloon shall be sup.
pressed In It's limits. 1t must be the state
or nothing. We believe that 1t will be
found very difficult to get up q really vita
party for temperance, or honesty, or chas
tity, because such duties will appeal Il
honest men IN all parties. We believe
1t will be more than diff1cult-it will be
impossible-to put any vitality into THU
so-called prohibition party, not because
men love their old parties so much, bu
because the policy OF its leaders is unin
tellIgent and Is hostile to the cause It pur.
ports TO serve.
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BUFFALO, Oct. 15-The gale which Wis.
tied Buffalo last night did g vast amount
Of damage The wind reached 9 velocity
of seventy miles an hour on the lake front
and forty small houses were totally des-
troyed by wind and water aud their occu-
pants had to fly for their lives. Several
persons are known TO have persisted. The
bodies of two children were recovered this
morning and also two bodies which are
unknown ct present, On the Hamburg turn
pike near the city, twenty or thirty families
have been rendered destitute and an ap-
peal for aid has been issued. Throughout
the city many buildings were damaged.
The most serious damage was sustained by
the splendid new music hall IN the course
of construction. a large section Of the
rear wall being blown down and
the demage 10 buildings is e12 COO
Mrs. Roberts saloon and board.
ing house on the turnpike road was
carried about 500 feet and the family were
rescued from the building by the police.
Ohicers also found q family named
Quinn up In tree, their house hayInR
been demolished and their hired man
named John Edmunds, who could not
climb the tree, was drowned Another
house on the turnpike was carried awav
and the family are missing.
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BOSTON, Oct. ia Herald special
from DIgby, N 8 says: Yesterday aft
ernoon the steamer New Brunswick, Of
the International line, plying between
here and Boston, left for the latter place
at about p. m, with over one hundred
passengers, freight, etc. To-day the
lighthouse keeper here reported that the
steamer, when nearly twelve miles of
Trawl Cove, slowed up and remained al
most stationary until after dark. A little
after dark rockets were seen ascending
from the steamer, and then 1re burst out
from the place where the steamer was
supposed 70 be. The captains Of fishing
vessels saw the steamer and cofrob0rats
this report Of the lighthouse keeper. It
IL thought by some that the steamers
boiler must have burst, because II she
had taken fire her boats could have
reached the shore, a. the bay wes calm.
Evidently something has happened 20
the steamer. IS all sgree that before dark
she remained in the same place fog
hours. Many persons having friends on
board are almost Wild with suspense.
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EAsTPoRT. Maine, Oct. 15.-The fire
which broke cut yesterday afternoon
ragged furiously for ten hours, burning
two sardine factories, two hotels and
about thirty dwelling houses, the custom
house, post Office and every place OF
business where goods Of any description
were Aept for sale, except two small gro
Gerry stores The total loss will probably
amount to at least 800, 600, covered by
insurance. except on the sardine fac
tories. The factories gave employment
to at least !, 900 persons. Much suffer-
ing must ensue unless immediate aid ie
rendered. Contributions can be for
warded TO Hon. N. B Mutt, collector OF
customs. Telegraphic communication
was cut of yesterday and has just beer
reopeDed.
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strtkernR eInforced,

CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-The situation at the
stock yards is further complicated this
morning by the refusal OF 1900 beet
butchers employed by Armour to go to
work. knight OF Labor Barry, sent here
from Richmond to try and effect settle
ment says he is satisfied he can do no
good here, as the packers will not treat
with him az an association and he Will
leave for Richmond Immediately TO lay
the case before the knights of Labor con-
vention. Psckingtown, the scene OF the
great strike, was filled this morning with
crowds of men who stood idly about dis
cussing the situation. The order for beer
and sheep killers TO strike was confined To
Armour's establishment. The beef de-
partments of other houses are running as
usual. This is taken as indicating that
the fight by the Knights OF Labor Is being
directed solely against Armour. The Ar
| mour firm Is not attempting TO operate
either the beef or pork killing departments
this morning. The firm now has 600 men
| at work preparing goods for shipment, but
announces that it will start up all branches
| as soon as q sufficient number OF workmen
have been engaged and to this end Is offer
| ing large inducements to men to enter its
employ.
The opinion is gaining around that 9
long and bitter contest between packers
and the employees at the stock yards Is
inevitable One of the most prominent
ones said to q reporter: I'VE won't
submit to any system but that OF ten hours
| for Q days work at ten hours pay. In
other words, an unconditional surrender
or nothing. A gentleman said it had
been determined upon to hire new men.
aid said green hands could be easily
broken in In spite of the statement of the
strikers that their places could not be
filed. Armour and the Anglo
American, said he, will be running with 9
full force next week, and when these two
houses are running full handed the hghi
is practically won. Ten hours we will
have and we don't intend TO see any COM
mittee either. If the men wish to return
on that basis they can do so 60 individuals
After q meeting of District Assembly 81
had adjourned at an early hour this morn
ing Delegate Barry said, referring. TO thu
ordering out of Armour's beef men
"We have formally declared wal
on the big pork speculator and 1t will b
war to the knife and knife to the hilt.
shall go 10 Richmond now before the con
vention adiourns and you may depend
upon il that Armour's meats Throughout
the United States will be an unknown
quantity in less than three months. w
intend to fight an aggressive battle ant
Armour with his millions will either b
brought TO terms or be relegated 20 the pc
sition of q retired if not bankrupt pOrl
nackaP
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The Kansas Live stock Commission.

The Kansas Live Stock Commission.
TOPEKA, Kas., Oot. 1.-THE Kansas
1--we stock sanitary commission was in
session this afternoon and, after discuss
ing the pleuro-pneumonia question. de-
cided to take active measures at once.
and the following regulation was issued ::
To Whom it May Concern:
The rules and regulations governing
guarantees and the admission of cattle
into Kansas, Issued by the commission,
dated Topeka, Kas., May 1, 1885, are
hereby revoked from and after this date,
and until further notice all cattle coming
to Kansas from that portion Of New
York lying south of the northern line Of
the state OF Connections. all Of Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois
and the Dominion Of Canada, will be re-
quired to enter the state at Kansas City,
where they will oe held in quarantine at
the risk and expense of the owner, for q
period of ninety days, or until they ehall
receive q bill of health signed by the
state veterinarian of Kansas, and ali rail-
road, express and other transportation
companies, are forbidden to bring any
cattle into this state from the above men
toned qusrsntined districts, except in
compliance with the regoing rules and
regulations. By order of the board Of
the live stock sanitary commission.
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THE soldiers reunion at Emporia last
week was a signal success. Although the
gathering was Immtnse, yet we doubt If any
other town 10 the state outside OF Topeka,
could take care Of such gathering any
better, and the citizens deserve praise for
their efforts in that direction. Extortion
was unknown. No city In Kansas was
so deliberately or beautifully decorated. A
gorgeous arch containing two hundred
oolored glass balls SPAWNED Commercial
street, presenting at night a handsome
spectacle, the admiration OF ALL Chase
County Leader.
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The fact becoming known that John
Taylor, the fHther-ln-IAw of @. 81. BFans-
combe, whom the latter gentleman swim
died out of his fortune, was only sustain-
ing himself byIworkiDg for his bosrd and
and wearing the csst-off, wo. nout cloth
ing of g friend, TO day a number of bust
ness men. friends of Mr.. Taylor. quietly
passed around paper, and in 8 few mln-
utes raised forty dellars, which was sent to
the old gentlemen. Accompanying the
testimonial were many kind wishes, end
regrets that fate had given such a gentle.
man as Mr.. Taylor such an unhappy old
age and such a son-in-law-[ Lawrence
IT,, hnpa
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II was somewhat OF set back 20 the
bouFbons in Richmond, Va, when the
knights Of Labor made the colored
knight, who had been refused entertain
ment ct the hotel. their spokesman on the
same platform with Governor Lee. Frank
FeTral IL the name of the dark skinned
Knight of district No 80, New York.
After the governor had delivered the ad-
dress Of welcome, Ferral, in accordance
with previous arrangement, came to the
front and said:
"His Excellency, the Governor Of
Virginia. and Gentlemen of the conven-
ton: Il is with much pleasure and
qualification that introduce 20 you Mr..
T. v Powderly, Of the state Of Pennsyl-
Vsnia, who Will reply 70 the address of
welcome OF Governor Lee, of this state,
which Is one of the oldest states In the
arena of political influence OF our
country"
There would seem to have. been no spec
iAl necessity for this formal introd uction
Of President PoWdsrlY, but it was the on
ly place in the proceedings IN which the
colored knight could be brought face 10
face with the governor, aud speak as the
representative Of the order, and he was
placed right there. The snuAtion was
evidently invented to give emphasis to q
pointed rebuke to the chivSlrY Of the
mother Of Presidential
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smoke Arninat Polxrnmx-

CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-When the coDgrega
tlonal council was called to order to-day,
Prof. Benner. president of the Salt Lake
Academy, spoke against polygsmy. The
following was adopted:
Resolved, That we recognize with re-
spect the loyal and intelligent minority
residents in Utah, and we protest in ad-
vance against the admission of Utah as 9
state, at any time without the consent of
the loyal minority.
A short report on the new west educa.
ton commission was read, and churches
were urged to take more interest in assist
ing the work of education in the west.
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storm Sufferers.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 15.-Dr. B, L.
Calhoun, one of the relief committee,
say there are many persons il the vicin-
ity of Sabine Pass who are destitute,
being without clothing to cover their
nakedHess. DR.. Calhoun requests aid
Tor the destitute. He eays it makes no
d ffsTence what is sent, whether food,
ciothin e, medicine or money. They
need them all. DIR. Calhoun is mayor OF
Beaumont and he will distribute, through
committees, whatever is sent to him.
Err. N all tne eceounts gathered apguage
eouid Tot exaSgerate The state
of affairs at Sabine P ss.
OCT OF more than $50 houses in the
village less than six remain Standing and
the are ruined. Wives and children
were swept away and drowned in the
presence Of their husban Is and fathers,
who were poWerless TO save them. The
waves broke against the light house In
solid walls fifty feet high, tearing out
the windows at the very top OF the
structure. COrpses have been
picked up at distance
OF shirty miles from the scene of the dis
ester. Friends and relatives of the
drowned residents are coming into Or
aRge ond Beaumont by every train. The
steamer Lamar took on board cargo OF
food, blaske;s snd clothing, and also q
fresh relief committee, and at daylight
this mos ni1g started down the inches
river 20 suecor the unfortunate. She will
probably reach here On her return trip
abou; midnight.
The pecuniary damage at Sabine Pass.
including that to the g1verume n. works,
will apyTe0ate nearly $500 600 As MANY
Of the neiSnooring plantations sustained
serious ipjary. The latest list of those
known to have been
DROWNED IS AS FOLLOWS:
Mrs. JAnke.
Mrs. 3. T. McDonongh.
Miss AcDonoUgh.
Mrs. Columbus Matee and child.
Mrs. Palmer and three children.
Mrs. G. Pomery and child.
hrs. Muiiigan and four children.
Mrs. Van Quay and three children.
o 2. Brown.
Mrs. Chambers.
Hoover King, wife and child.
Two children CT VIM. Shaw.
A child Of Cspt. Stewart.
Mre. Whising.
John Wilson.
Beri Foley.
The foregoing names ara ell white per-
s0Rs The names Of fiftY-fVe co1ored
victims have not been asceFfAined.
GALVESTON, Oct. 10 The excitement
and interest over the dreadful catastrophe
at Sabine Pass Ia In no way Sb=tsd here.
The citizens are fakieg steps toward ex-
tending substantial relief to the surviving
victims. The government tug Pemrose,
which started for Sabine Pass yesterday
has net Jet returned hu. e expected this
morning
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FARGO, Dakota, Oct. 12.-PrAIFie fires
in the past few days swept over the great
er part OF Mcintosh county in the Mis-
souri, valley destroying nay, grain, houses
AMI barns, lesving scores OF settlers desti-
tute with nothing to carry them through
the ;ong winter. Prairie fires have been
unusually numerous and destructive IN
the Red River valley the past few weeks,
owing TO the luxuIiAnt vegetation and
long continued dry spell. II lie estimated
that $3.50 900 worth of property has ben
destroyed in three or four river counties.
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AN inquiry has been made for the
reasons Of change In our water works
system. Only q stranger could ask for
reasons. Let the doctors answer. A
reference to the EVENING News OF July
80, in which are interviews with almost
every doctor IN our city, will give ample
reasons, we think. They were practically
unite as 20 the necessity of q change 70
the reservoir system If We wished 70 save
our cily's health. 10 case of an epidemic
they stated thst the mortality would be Ter.
Tible, So