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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11


An American hospital Tor American
residents has long been needed in the
City Of HexIco. and at last hopeful eff
fort to build one is being made. Mr.
Simon Lara, native OF New York, has
given the ground and handsome cash
subscripuon, which. together with othsT
subscriptions. will give sn svaiIabie
fund OF nearly $4,000 tor the building.
The American colony In the City OF Mex
leo is not wealthy, but so GREATS the de-
sire to have an American hospital that
The residents are ready 60 contIibute
even more than they can afford. TAs
Too Republics appeals TO the people Of
the United States to aid theE In then
pssisew1rthy efforts
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

The Rev. A c. Dunn of the church of
AtOnement in BROOKLYN, IN sermon
against the swearing habit last Sunday.
proposed the formation of an anti
swearing society. The suggestion is a
good one. Among the first re-
cruits TO such a society In this
town should be the car drivers
and truck drivers. II Is posi-.
BILE that these gentlemen do not swear
when alone, but when representatives OF
the two professions come into collision
on Sixth avenue an EXPLOSION of profan-
ity is pretty sure TO occur. I,
seems to be matter of Ell.
quette and professional conyenuonality.
Their profanity is purely formal, and so
could perhaps be more easily abandoned
than If an element ~f personal convic.
ton entered into il.
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II YOu AREaOIHa
To Florida. 10 the RorId,s Fair At Nsu

To Florida. 70 the worlds Fair At Nsu
Orlsans.
Or to any point south, and wish 10 have
9 pleasant trip, you Will need 20 Be in.
formed as 70 the best, quickest and
cheapest route. The Memphis Short
Route south, with its through buffet
sleeping cars Kansas City to New Or
leans, its free reclining chair cars Kan
sas City to Memphis land being over one
hundred miles the shortest line TO the
SOUTH, is practically the only line from
Kansas City, ihe west and northwest, %
all southern cities. No other lire Funs
through cars between Kensas City and
New Orleans. No other route can offer
but one change of cars from Kansas City
20 Jacksonville and other FLORIDA poinfs.
There is nc other good route between
the west and the south. Ask your ticket
agent for tickets wa the Memphis Short
Route. Write for large map. with time
tables, showing through connections.
NJ allied free J. s. LocxwoOD,
@. p & r. A.. Kansas City, Mo.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

The comet which w4s discOveIed by q
Pa 1siAn astronomer last December
seems destined TO cut quite q figure in
terrestrial circles. Professor Boss, of the
Dudley observatory, reports that IL is in
creasIng in brightness and '.promises 10
be . grand spectacle" BY the middle
Of April It will be visible 70 the naked
eye, and two weeks later, according to
the professor, it will probably
be as brilliant as the great
comet Of 1881. We take II
that Professor Boss regards this partic
uiar celestial 90 inclined 10 be sOcIable
with our planet, for be remarks tina;
when nearest The earth "she comet will
be only $4,000. 600 miles distant" Dis
lance, like everything else, "depends.'
II one was In hurry for an answer and
had 10 send the average district messen
ger boy 100000 miles with q note &c
her, With a chance of his Icitering or
the way to discuss base ball and roller.
skating news with one of his breth
reu-why, then, 100000 miles
would seem considerable Of yawnipG
gulf. But let heavenly body be u,
600 900 miles from the earth and astron-
omers remark that it is ''oDly" that IA
of, with an air of people abiding to /
stranger who while not exactly living II
town can be found IN the suburbs.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

Lord Randolph Churchill has sent a
complimentary letter TO Belfast on the
imposing demonstration. of which he
was the most cnnspicu, Us figure HIS
sincerity cannot now be called into cues
ton 81 l,Dg IS there was possibility
of obtaining SIR. Parneli's aid In upset.
ting the Liberal government or of
getting Irish vutes in doubtful
consutucnchs he refralned from
encouraging Orange ARitauor. But now
that Mr. Gladstone hiss played the high.
est trumpipg CIR IN the Irish game, the
Tory leader has watched for the frs,
chance OF changiOg the suit. de is As
sincere now ia turniOg the Orangrmsn's
agitsiinn TO account as be Gao be sb at
anything; but mat Is not saying very
much.
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GarfaeId and His seoretarv.


10 show you how dependent upon
their stenographers men can become. .
said stenoerapher, 81 will tell Won
that for thirteen years I was priya.s.
secretary to General Garfield, and 4
great deal Of the time he did not see
nine-tenths of his correspondence. !
would furnish him with blank sheets IF
paper and indicate where his si,ynat.Ir-,
should be written. would after.ya,sg1s
write his letters, and end them Al ne
signature, address and mail them. az
course had taken great deal of die
tation before was trusted 10 such an
extent, and ! knew just about what he
would want 20 say. was at Mentor ~
the time the New York Tribune teIe-
graphed TO General Garfield TO know r.
he was the author OF the Morey letter
and was awakened from q sound sIeer,
in the middle of the night by Gepera1
Garfield. he showed me the teIegraTn
and said, Did ever write that Iefterps
was able to pronounce it q forgery AZ
once knew / had never written ri
and was 50 familiar with the eeners,lss
style that was satisfied he never cor,id
have written il - Was5Ss1qto,1 SIR
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

Six women dentists were graduated at
the PhiladeiphIs college of dental sur
gerry last week. It.women are minister
ing angels on bstIlefelds and in hospi-
tails, they are more necessary, aud may
be more hopeful. in the much more
dreadful fields of dentistry. A liIlY-liv-
cred weakilng may blink into the can.
mons mouth from sheer fear of being
shot If he runs away; but who, save a
person OF tranquil and deliberate cour-
age. can face without fiinchipg the den-
lists grim little arsenal? And vet dent
lists are good fellows, and only do evil
that good may come.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

An Alabama Dlanter. in the first DAYS
af'er the war when there we're but few
gin houses, that had escaped the flames
of the conqueror, ordered his foreman, .
freedman, to take his cotton to certain
planter who would gin it for toll OF
one-eighIh. A short time aitei the dar.
key came to him triumptanilY waviDg
his Did ragged hat, exclalmine: II done
got ZEE cotton ginued cheaper'n = eight,
massai Massa Wh.pple, be done gin
ii for on'Y one fourth Yah yah yah ~
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

The action OF the proprietors OF the
Champion Reaper works at Springfield,
OhiO, In making wholesale discharge
Of their woskmen because Of their beinr
members OF the Knights Of Labor organ
iztiion appears TO be wholly unwarrant.
ed. Certainly the consolidation of Ia
boring men FIR the honorable purpose Of
mutual protecuon ana the advance ment
OF their interests can scarcely be
cOnsidered sufncient cause for the course
pursued BY the employers towsrds their
employcs. Il ought to be the unques-
tioned r'gh' Of our laboring men 10 or
gAnize Tor the odvaneemsnI OF their true
init r,sts sod tue 90. uer this facs is re-
cognlz. a the better u will be Tor al par.
ties concerned.
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The EIopemeat Tragedy.

ALBANY, N. Y, March Ga special
TO the Press d Knickerbocksr from
CobleskllI, N. Y, says: There was
great excitement here last nigh; on the
arrival Of the remains of Mrs. Rich, one
of the VIctims of the recent elopement
tragedy, from St Paul AN immense
crowd collected at the depot, and the
officers had orders to quell any disturb
ance that might occur. The people ap-
pear to be very indignant at MIR Smith,
and threats have been made against
MIN.
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The trade IN valentines has fallen off
20 wonderful extent. The makers of
Valentines, II Is suspt clcd, hive become
discouraged, The pictures in the illus
trated dsily papers being so very much
more audacIous than the .ValenlIne art
lists could ever conceive Of. The alleged
portrait of Judge j. Jay Buck in yester-
days Times Is sample of tue extent to
which this kind Of journalism IL carried
on. Whether the Judge WILL survive
the shock lie hot known.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

since the United States signal service
weather report was secured At Topeka
by the State JOarIdt, nearly every city
inihe state Is talking up the matter, and
The newspapers Of various local..
ties are making efforts to secure
q station at their respective towns. We
are receiving numerous letters of in
curry continually about the service
from various parts Of the state from
parties who desire to have their own
towns receive the benefits of the
weather warnInRs" We can say TO
tQem that if the citizens in their por-
lions of Kansas appreciate the service as
the people of the capital city
and Shawnee county appear
to, that the necessary ex-
pense and efforts TO secure the service
will amply repay q united effort on the
part of those interested to secure . signal
station. The flags have been displayed
from this office for oYsr q month and
the predictions for the weather sor the
ensuing "a hours from the time, q N
the flags are daily hoisted, have been re-
markedly accurate, the per csntage OF
error, considering the limited number Of
stations for this district, is small indeed
State Journal.
Emporia should accept the offer OF
Manager CleAver, and secure the bene-
fits to be derived from the weather sig
nails. Wac will be the first to take the
necessary steps,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

The Mormon elders who have been
making converts in Northern Alabama
have been firmly invited to leave the
state They universally decline to 60
The Alabama farmers refuse to make
martyrs Of them. but their chances OF
getting stripes and even tar and
feathers are excellent The south
Is still an old fashioned country,
and it has a prejudice against poIygamy
The Mormon preachers should yield TO
this prejudice before il takes the form
of hickory switches or something worse.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

The Milwaukee Knights OF Labor
have determined 20 have nothing 20 do
with the socialists, and the recent at
tempt OF the latter to control the organ
iEation made Il clear that they constitute
. very small minority. American
workingmen can have no sympathy with
msn who import foreign notions look
ing 10 the disqualification Of society. Il
u only In countries where the people do
not have their failure in their own hands
that the desperate propositions OF the
can ind a hearing
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Lvnohtng too Good for Him.

MILLIDGEvILLE, Ga, March Gin
an out-of-way part OF this county
Thursday night, Ellen Humphreys and
Carrie Payne, daughters OF respectable
farmers, accompanied by Frank Hum
phreys, uncle OF the woman fTst men
toned aud bfoiheT-in-law 20 Miss
Payne. started TO walk from tue house
Of Dlisha Humphreys t. that of their
,cort, distance OF four miles. When
half the dirtance had been tFaveEsed.
Humphreys outraged one of the women,
then killed both by Kidding them with
shot from q gun which he carried and
cutting their threats from ear to ear with
hunting knife. He was arrested, but
it ID not improbable that lybching Will
be attempted.
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channIon yyorka strike

SPRINaFIEID, ONO, March 6.-About
seventy. five employees of the Champion
Machine Company and Bar aud knife
Company were discharged last night for
refusing to work in the works of the
Champion Malleable Iron Company !.
The mea discharged were knights OF
Labor almost without exception, and the
men CLAIM the action was a scheme 70
get the knights out of the works The
men in the blacksmith shop of the New
Champion works. were ordered to go to
work in the mslleable iron works. and
positively refused They were PAID off
and discharged Only one blacksmith
of the number went TO work. and he
soon returned
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

A movement is on foot in Geneva, N
Y, to establish coffee house which
will b, an attractive place where young
men can cougregate, drink their coffee,
eas their lunches, enjoy the benefits of q
fine reading room, and the pleasures oil
billiards and pool, without the contain
mating II fiuences OF the saloon and
bar.room. The ReY. w. NJ. Hughes,
the president ot the local branch OF the
Church Temperance society, is at the
head OF the move ment.
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The press dispatches announce that
the recent gale at New York city and
vicinity ''for violence and endurance is
without precedent in the United States
Mount Warrington. or some other ell
evaied point. perhaps excepted" The
signal service officer is utterly unable
70 define IT." and has "never eeen any
thing to approach It." The direction OF
the wind was northwest, but Us It blew
out to sea the damsge to shipping was
not very great.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

An international baby show issoiR TO
be held at Paris, France. at which the
largest premium for the hDest baby will
be 1000 francs. C1nfOund it, II they
would only announce these baby shows
q year or TWO In advance We might stand
a chance Of competing Tor q prlZv.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-03-11

Evangelist Sam Jones has peculiar
ideas about cOurtship. Court your girls
mother. Father and sisters" he says,
sand find cut what they are" The
young man might not object u the sis
ters of nights, and might also be will
ing TO include the aunt in the country If
she was not too tough and decayed, but
hs would certainly draw the line at
the old folks-especIallY the male half
Of them. Sam Jones may give young
man poiats on sOul.savirg, but he can't
teach him any new modes In counting.
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FREIeS NEWS
THE FRENCH CRANK.

PARIS, March 6.-The name of the
man who fired of the revolver in the
Paris bouFse yesterday Is not PetroVich,
as 1T first reported, but Gallo. He is
native of Brittanis and has been out of
work for some time. He used to be
we'll known IN certain parts of the city
as frt quent speaker at public meetings.
In 1878 GBtlO was convicted of coming
and circulating counterfeit money.
ABoLIsHTEG DUTIES.
CONsTANTIHoPLE, March 6--Ron-
melis has agreed to abolish the duties
ON goods which have already paid Gus
toms on entering Turkey. The Office
ton to this Roumelian duty was the rea.
son assigned by France tor withholding
sdherance to the Turko Bulgarian treaty
appointing Prince Alexander military
ruler ofeestern RoumelIa.
A NEW HEIR.
DUBLIN, March ga sensation has
been caused at Kilkenny by an Ameri-
can bringing action at law to dispossesa
VIM. Flood from the possession of the
property known as the Kilkenny es-
tales The man who thus disput the
title snd seeks possession Is named
Frank Flood. He has just arrived from
America and claims to be lineaI de-
scenden and heir of the celebrated
7
suit to recover $500. 600 which pIaintlff
AYERS is the amount OF profit the defend
ant realized from the estate during the
period of possession.
A WAR CLOUD.
SOFIA, March 5-PTince Alexander
has issued decree ordering mobilizs-
ton OF the Bulgarian army.
An EXCITING TIME
PARIS, March 5 --Perouaier, the coll
dier who. by firing q revolver In the
chamber of deputies, forced the state TO
take of hIm and his grievances, already
has an imitator. While business was at
its heighth this afternoon on the Paris
bourse, strange man in the gallery
drew attention by making apparently
aimless demonstrations. Subsequently,
he threw q bottle containing an explosive
liquid among the brokers upon the a0or
OF the exchange, crying s'yiye an.
archie. The bottle struck no one
and remained intact He then
drew revolver and shot three times to-
wards the main floor, continuing to
brandish his revolver and yelling, aVlye
anArchie." Tremendous excitement
reigned for while in the exchange, and
business was suspended. The dIsturber
was soon seized and hurried from the
place, and none too soon, as the crowd,
when they recovered from their fright,
became furious and sought the offender
with cries Of. Lynch HIM PerounieT
Is q man belonging, evidently. 10 the
working class
THE STORM.
LONDON, March The snow storm
which has been raging for several days
across the northern part of Great Britain,
Is now ce2siDg. Suffering among the
passengers on the numerous trains has
been very great Some of the trans
have been Embedded IN snowdrijts for
forty eight hours. The loss of cattle In
transit has been enormous.
DE- LEesKPS
PANAMA, March an de Lesseps
and perry LEFT here yesterday and were
20 sail for Europe from Colon to-day.
FORTS TO BE DESTROYED.
PARIS. March 4.-Generai BoulangeF,
minister of war. has decided in favor of
destroying the forts of Paris.
RETRKNcHIEG.
AMSTERDAM, March The govern
meDt has decided % convert its 4 per
cent securities into 81 per cent stock.
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a. -. 8 raeltig sarike


LITTLE Rock, March 8. = Trouble
with the operatives of ,he Texas d Pa
cihc railroad extended 10 Little Rock
TO-DAY. All the workmen IN the s.
Louis & Iron Mountain railroad ma
chine shops, over 800, stopped work,
and business is at a staudsitll- All IS
quiet and orderly.
ST LOUIS, Mo-, Msrch Ga telegram
has bsen received from Sedalia his
morning stating that 100 employees q
the Missouri Pacific campa1Y at thAt
place have struck. TINS statement
c4used great arm, Is it is supposed 10
be the inaugural step OF a great strike
on the Gould system, Contemplated b.
the knights vi Labor.
SEpALIA, Mo, March g. fhe Mis-
souri, Pacific and M x & 4. shops
struck at 80 to-day. Ali is chsos,
and IL Is impossiole to Had out but lit
tie L. is supposed thai lhs order came
from the Tsx4s knights OF Labor Ii IS
reported that every man but ooe III tee
shOps here belong - the knights 81
Labor, and he TOO, went out with the
| balance.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 6-AH the
knights Of Labor employed al the rail-
road shops IN this city OF the Gould
south west system, struck this morning
in accordance with the order Issued by
assembly No. 101 of Knights of Labor.
| This action was taken as means 70 force
| the railroad to scceds TO the demands OF
| the strikers at Marshall, TeX-s, vino re-
Gently ceased WORK because, as they
state, oae of their number was dis
/ CHARGED without cause
GALVESTON, March 6.-Fhe Knights
of Labor at the Gull, Colorado y Santa
Fe railroad freight depot refused to
handle any Mallory freight. and were
displaced by colored laborers At the
| Missouri Pacific yard very few
| Knights observed the boycott, and none
were discharged Both companies have
q number of eoIored men selected with
a view to replacing the knights as fast
as they depart Such changes will be
permanent R1mors of an impending
| general strike OF the Knights throughout
| Texas are current here and elsewhere in
the state Indication point 90 an under
standing on the part OF the knights to
quit work generally on Monday morning
on the roads carrying Mallory freight
| There is considerable dissatisfaction
| in local Knights, especially those en-
plSyed in the great compress establish
ments. NJ sster Workman Golden of this
| C78th) district assembly of Knights oi
1 Labor, has been impeached for violation
| of the pledge tD abstain from iiquor,
ami is supported to-day by William
| FarWeil of NJ ineuia, Texas.
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KEMPHIs sHoRF ROUTE soUTs.

The sale OF Tourist tickets, wa thin
Short RDute, 60 Jacksonville, Szvannab,
Charleston, and other Southern winter
resorts, will begin on the 18th lost.
For the Exposition. rpund trip tickets
70 New Orleans good torty days. will be
placed on sale on November Isl, Ct rate
Of ga 50 from Kansas City. In addition.
We make rate Of $50 %, Kansas City 10
New Orleans and return, for ticket good
70 return until June LIST
With our through Buffet sieeping car,
Kansas City 70 Heu Orleans. daily. our
Free Reclining Chair car, Kansas City
60 Memphis; and with but cne change
Of cara. Kansas City 20 Jacksonville anf
other Florida points. this route offe-s
Southern travel from the West snt
Northwest. recommendations and faefFf
stea afforded by no other.
J. E. LOCKWOOD,
9sn1. Pass b Ticket Al.
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FoRrY-NIHrH coNGREss
GENATR

SENATE.
WAsHINGT0N, March 5 -Among ihe
petitions presented and referred was one
by Small, from the New Jersey stale
board of agriculture, praying that the
department of agriculture may be repre-
sented by cabinet officer.
HOUSE.
After the call on committees for re-
ports of private nature, the house
went into committee of the whole, G.
McCrearY of Kentucky, in the the chair,
on the urgent deficiency bill.
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Another meeting has been called in
Washington TO consider the project Of
= permanent national exposition in that
city in 1902 and thereafter. This coun-
try is weary of expoSitions, but perhaps
congress will never get weary OF throw
ing away good United States money on
that form of Entertainment
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A race Of hairless Americans Is threat
encd. l, has been estimated that al
resdy one-hslf The adult men OF Ameri-
can birth living IN our clues are bald
and badness 10 extremely liable to be
proraga.ed In the male line. aud TO sp-
pear little earlier in each successive
,ranaratinn
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The Toronto GLOBE thinks that the
United States has genuine pugilistic
renaIssAnce. II also notes the fact that
the American people like to rrad the
cold facts about pugilistIc encornters
unadcrned by any rhetorical shphem
isms The Globe appears to keep . close
watch on the riff raft and ruffiSns Of this
country.
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Gezmanyss proposed new ship canal
between che North Sea and the Baltic,
though . military enterprise, has COM
merctal importance. The bill introduced
into the Relchstag for ITS construction
eontemplAtes = canal nearly 900 feet
broad At the surface Of the water. and
deep enough for the largest existing
German war Ytssels. As Il VIII run
from the estuary OF the Elbe, shove
Brunsbutiel, to Kisl Bay at HoltenGu,
even with the Ten hours required for the
transit OF the long canal, tWentv-tWo
hours, u - claimed. would be saved by
steamers over the present SkaW route
from Londen for the Baltic,
nfteen from Hull and seven
from Newcastle. Sailing vessels from
London might save three days. The
avoidance Of the Sksw route Eould 81
low saving in pilotage and insurance
toward paying the canal tolls. The Ger
man government, however, is largely
looking 70 the advantage OF possessing
an outlet Of It's own TO the ocean, instead
Of depending wholly on the one lying
between London and Denmark Henct
the forty million dollars II is likely Il
cost, including two millions for fortify.
ing the exits. mayni be grudgt d, espec
tally a. commercial tolls will be ofIse
1 against the cost OF maintenance
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harmed n Death.

RIcHMoND. Va. March Airs. John
P. sampson and daughter Bertha, were
fatally burned yesterday at their resi-
dence IN Manchester. The young lady
was In her room dressing, when her
clothing caught fire from q stove, and
she was almost instantly enveloped in
flames. Her mother came 10 her assist
ance aud her clothing ignited, and she
was burned from head TO foot. Mrs.
Sampson died last night, and her daugh.
ter is in . critical condition.