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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

boat there have been many failures, one
craft promptly seeking the bottom Of Long
Island sound, and others being abandoned
as unsattfAcIorY. The Peacemaker has
shown many spectators that sheS0 n go q
mile under water, and stay there half an
hour with engines working, compressed
air being slowed in pipes TOR the lungs of
the. crew. No doubt these distances and
periods Of submersioo Will be increased in
future trials, with the use of additional Rp-
planes suggested by experience.
Submarine navigation has also been
pushed 70 great lengths in European
countries within the last two years. In
the trials OF the Nordenfeldt boat al
Salamis, by the Royal Commission, four
persons were shut up in her, Theoretically
sealed, for six hours, without experiencing
any inconvenience But we judge from
the account that the engine was not work
ing during this period, Andesf course that
made difference In the heat. Il was also
proved that the boat could descend to q
greater depth than thirty feet. On the
fourth day the boat ran ten miles. driven
solely by the steam stored in her reser-
voirs, the smoke stack and furnace doors
being closed, and the boat Theoretically
closed and partly submerged. On the
9th and and concluding day OF the trials
the commission decided that the boat
had reached the speed contracted tor.
There are difficulties still in the use of
submarine boats. Only stOred-up steam
can be used when the boat Is entirely
submerged, since then steam cannot be
generated, and stored pressure grows COM
! stantly less while heat passes from the
surface OF the reservoirs. With compressed
air as q motor high speed is sacrificed at
the outset Electricity or other forces may,
perhaps, one day come to the rescue, and
IN that case the dangers from bursting
steam apparatus will also disappear.
But with all its existing advantages, and
in spite of its low speed, the submarine
boat has at last conquered a respectful
consideration. The ordinary surface tor
pede boat finds a deadly toe in the Hotch-
kiss revolving armor and other like de-
vices. which can hail shot and shell on il
| the moment 1t is detected. and which can
| be depressed or detected almost with the
quickness of soldiers rifle TO suit the
boats rapid running and attempts to
dodge the fire. Wien It nears the iron-
clad the torpedo which the boat discharges
may be bsffi id by the steel wire netting
which the vessel has dropped. But q
little boat which moves beneath the sur
face, and below nettingN, and FIXING its
| torpedoes to the bottoms of the unsus-
pectIng vessels, must be a terrible oppon-
ent. Hence every step forward in sub
| marine navigation will be watched
with interest.
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K. OF |. KICK.
Seventy-Five K. Of L. Assemblies
Suspended for Refusing
To Contribute to the Home Club
Building Fund.
English War Vessels Along the Coast
Ordered to Halifax.
Trouble Among she KnIghts.

AAAAOAk S11S u
NEW York, Sept. 3.-SIembers Of the
home club assert positively that they have
purchased PythAgoIss hall on Canal street
for district assembly No. 40, Knights OF
Labor. At meeting of the district e.
sembly Monday night the home club no
uf1ed each master workman that every
member must pay 81 toward the building
fund. This would bring In 100000 IN
short order. But seventy five OF the fouE
hundred local assemblies held meetings on
Tuesday night and positively refused 70
contri butte and said the home club might
buy its own hall. District Master Work
man Mcclure promptly suspended the
seventy five local assemblies Wednesday
morning. 1t was said yesterday that men,
bers of 125 local assemblies altogether will
kick. The members are willing 70 do al
most anything tor the home club, some of
the Knights said, but their generosity
stopped short at buying q $4,000 home
for the home club.
THE AssAssIN'S PLOT.
PlTTsBURG, Penn, Sept. 3.-R d. Lay
ton, ex-grand secretary of the Knights Of
Labor, was interviewed yesterday on the
subject of the alleged plot to assassinAto
General Master Workman PoWderly. He
said: have been charged with being the
originator of the PowderlY story which
has created such 9 sensation, but such 10
not the case. Now that / have been
blamed with giving the thing away, may
as well let the people know what has been
talked OF in select Knights OF Labor cir
cles for months. l know that an alleged
attempt on Powderly has been the subject
of correspondence between the east and
west for quite while. saw through the
inception of the home club and during
my term of Office did all could to crush
the conspiracy The trouble grew nut of .
difficulty between Assembly No. 1869 ana
the Duryea Starch company prior TO the
meeting of the general assembly in New
York in 1882. received half bushel OF
letters bearing skulls and cross bones and
threatening me with death if ] appeared
at the assembly. knew the conspirators
intended to sand bag me in New York, but
l went among them unattended and fear
ing no injury, because kept by face to
them all the time. It Ia now claimed that
the home club has been abandoned but the
organization is still kept up tor Its original
purpose and will have to be completely
rooted out if the Knights are TO live. At
the Richmond meeting Fred Turner will
be defeated, the home club will be routed,
Powderly Will be sustained and the gen
eral office will be removed to PIttsburg
m GhfraOn
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Highway Robbery.

ST. LOUIS, Sep. S.-TwO highway rob-
berries occurred last evening on the Man
chester road, by which farmer boys re-
turning from the city were victimized.
The first robbery occurred about quar-
ter of mile east Of Rock Hill postoffice.
Fred Vennerman, living at Kirksville,
was riding home on his hay wagon at
nine O'Clock and was stopped by two
men who so badly frightened him that
he could give no description Of them:
They pointed shot guns at his head and
relieved him of % and some
small change. About fifteen minutes
walk east Of this point Of robbery, VIM.
Lamb, q Rock Hill farmer boy, was
stopped by the same couple whom he
says wore masks. He had stopped half
Q mile back at BartoD's grove, and had
left all of his money with Edward Bar.
told, so the robbers got nothing Of him.
The two incidents created some excite
ment in the communities along the Man.
chester road, being the first highway
robberies attempted on that thorough
fare for years.
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JuaIio0.

MEMPHIS, Sept. 3.-James Simpson
and Patterson Bell were hanged to-day
at Marion. Crittenden county, Arkansas,
twelve miles northwest Of Memphis.
About 2,O00 people, mostly coIored, wit
messed the execution. There were the
usual exercises, which consisted Of read
ing 9 chapter from the Bible, singing .
hymn and prayer, by two colored minis
ters. They both declared their limo
cence, although they had previously con-
fessed. The drop was sprung Ct II m,
aud in twelve minutes both were
pronounced dead THAR necks having been
broken. They were executed for the
murder OF Lee Goldsmith, at st. Thomas
landing, twenty-five miles north Of here,
on the night Of Jan. 2. Goldsmith WAS
clerkIng for Peter Ball and the two ne
groes had entered the store, ostenB4oIy
for the purpose OF buying goods. One
engaged him In conversation while the
other struck him from behind on the
head with an axe, crushing his skull and
killing him instantly. They then robbed
the store.
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COY. MARTIN'S RBGINEN1

The Democratic papers are making
much of the military record of Col. Moon
light, and are attempting to beliItle that
of Gov. Martin by comparison. The fact
of the matter is, that-whIle We do not
wish to say one word of disp fragment of
his or any other regiment that saw service
Moonlight did about all his soldering
on the borders with guerillas and Indians,
while Martins regiment was in the fore
front of the battle in all sections ot the
union.
The following extract from the Military
History of Kansas throws some light on
the subject:
Few regiments in the army embraced in
their operations SO vast aud varied scope
of country as the Eighth Kansas ;cone were
actors in a drama more exciting and TO-
mantle than that which crowded its whole
career with thrilling interest. The CLEAN
of its bsYonets was seen from FortLaramie,
Nebraska, TO the North Carolina line; the
crack of its rifles startled the echoes in the
valley of the Platte and along the hillside
OF the Tennessee and the ChattahOOche,
and the tramp of ITS soldiers Tesounded in
the dusty highways of twelve different
states. II studied geo graphY
the surveyors do, by personal in
spection of country. IL learned military
engineering by practical experience
in bridging rivers, constructing roads oyer
mountain ran ges and through impossible
swamps, and erecting eaTthworks under
the enemy's fire. 1t marched bare foot
over frozen roads 10 winter, and bareheaded
beneath burning sun in summer. 1t shot
antelope and buffalo on the plains and ALI
gators IN the swamps of Texas. 1t hunted
guerillas in Missouri, combatted Long
streets Virginia veterans at Cnicamauga,
stormed the blazing heights of Mission
Ridge, fought a continuous battle
from Kenesaw mountain to Atlanta
and broke through Hoods lines at the
battle which annihllated the rebel
army of the West. at Nashville it did
duty IREFhite gloves, at Knoxville it was
shIrtless, shoeless, hatless and in rags. It
knew how TO garrison post or charge a
line of intrenchments. At Fit. LsaVen =
worth 1t Wed with the Oldest and best
trained soldiers of the regular army in the
perfection of its diclpline and drill, and
in Georgia it tlived on the country" with
Sherman's bummers. 1t conveyed trains
over mountains and across rivers through
| a country swarming with foes; 1t built rail-
roads and destroyed them; it slept without
tents In the SHOWS of winter and the rains
of springtIme; II bore hunger without
murmuriug, il faced pestilence without
blanching, and 1t braved bullets without
fear.
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Dangerous Ground.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. A gen.
teIemsn who visits Bermuda yearly says
Charleston is not the only place over
which anxiety may be felt. That island Is
of coral formation, built on the top of 9
volcanic mountain of great attitude and
steepness and some OF the soundIngs In
that vicinity equal in depth any in the
world. The base of this submarine noun
tain is not much wider than the top, and
the existence of great caves through
which water finds its way to the interior
of the island shows its unsubstantial con-
structlon. The island is only fifteen miles
long by two or three broad and nowhere Is
the altitude over three hundred feet. A
single severe convulsion might throw this
little mass of rock into the sea as 8 tidal
wave sweep over 1t and 1t would never
more be heard Of
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

THE charter of the Memphis, Garden
City Il Colorado railroad company was
filed In the Office of the secretary Of State
yesterday. The object of this corporation
is to build and operate railroad and tele,
graph line from near Arkansas City
through the counties of Cowley, Sumner
Sedgwick, KingmaD, Harper, Barber,
Pratt, Comnsnche, Kiowa, CLARK. Ford
way of Garden City, Kansas The shops
aud headquarters of the road are to be To-
Gated at Garden City. Directors: A N.
McLachlin, Washington, d. O.; K. NJ.
Painter. Meade Center; F. @. DelamAter,
Garden City; G. j. Jones and E. G.. Lanch
OF Garden City. Capital stock. $780,
900.
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sUBHARINE N4YIG4TION,

Another important improvement In
naval vessels has been made, one that
will undoubtedly revolutiOniZe all previ-
GUS methods of warfare, has at last reached
such point as promises to become a sue
cess. AS, during the late rebellion, the
inventlon-Of the monitor changed the en-.
tire naval system of all civilized nations,
so will probably this method do. As, in
the case of the monitor, America is the
first to make it an assured success. The
New York sun has the following on the
subject:
The public trials just made Of the new
submarine boat Peacemaker, in the Hud-
son river, have demonstrated that the little
craft can be submerged, moved long dis
lance under water by steam power, and
brought to the surface again, at the will
of her captalAs
This is 8 yrrTV'ical solution OF the first
great step lEt4le problem of submarine
nAvlgation, whose chief uses for the pres
ent are its applicability to torpedo war
fare. With this step secured, the rest may
fairly be considered a matter of detail i.
The speed under water. tor example, thus
far obtained by the Peacemaker, although
she has powerful machinery. taking up all
oNoAAoOAO oEHSC, o-AA 10 ACtoCA4 OAly OO ACCt
in length by 81 in breadth and 715 in
dt pth, IS very small. But If as much i'm
provement is made in this craft as has
been made IN locomotive land engines
since their Introduction, there will be no
complaint on the score OF speed. The
great success is in escaping those drawback
that in pest years were fatal to most
navigation OF this character.
Submarine boats have been tried during
the last thirty ElVaFaN countries
and have been sometimes padded about
slowly under the surface But the condition
FOR practical use include the ability to rise
and sink rapidly, the attaining of good
degree OF speed under water, and the abil
ity Co remain long enough concealed 10 ap
proach and do the torpedo work required
of them. These conditions imply sir for
the crew and the preservation of an even
keel, lest the boat should be driven against
the bottom or go 20 q depth in which its
framework would be crushed. In recent
American efforts to produce q submarine
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Ala For the SUFFERING.

BALTIMORE, Md Sept. 2.-The Amer.
lean opened subscriptions for the relief Oi
sufferers by the Charleston disaster and
headed it with $500. 4 telegram wal
sent 20 the mayor of that city assuring
him of the substantial sympathy Of the
north. Manager Ford, OF the Grand
g mammoth benefit for the same cause.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

HARRISON II. OLIVER of Bolton, Texas,
is noted Tor having 101 bullet wounds on
his body. When he was a boy q friend
thought he was deer and fred thirty
seven buckshot into him; he was shot all
to pieces in the war, and in 1873 a Bolton
dentist took HIM for an enemy and put
ffty-one duckshot into his back. perfora-
ting his liver and kidneys. Sixty bullets,
ranging in size from a duckshot to an
ounce ball, remain in his body.
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The democratic platforms in this state
30 far as we can learn, with the exception
OF the fourth congressional, are outspoken
in their opposition to prohibition, and 10
this case they merely lodged the issue.
The republicans, on the contrary, are just
as outspoken In advocary~of prohibition.
And yet third party men, claiming to have
been lifelong prohibinonists, boast Of the
injury they will do the republicans.
Verify politics do make strange fellow
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DURING the national encampment OF
the Grand Army at San Francisco Dr.J.
@. Tucker, of Oakland. who was elected
surgeon general at Portland, last year, was
expelled from the order on the sufficient
ground that he never was a soldier. 1t is
not explained how he obtained admission
1t lie a condition of membership-that one
shall present his honorable discharge from
the armv
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HONEY made of glucose is largely ex-
ported from this country TO England
Since the action of Congress taxing oleo
margarine as counterfeit butter, the bee
keepers in England are raising a clamor
about American glucose honey and claim
that it should be dealt with under the
Collaboration of foods act"
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ST. LOUIS, Sep. 3.-The Eighth dis
trict democratic convention nominated
JnO. J. o'Neill, the present incumbent,
this afteIpoon.
MEMPAIs, Sept. 3.-The democrats Of
the Fifth district, At Torrent, Miss, to-
day nominated @. r. Anderson on the
nineteenth ballot, for congress, to sue
coed o. Il. Singleton.
MANHATTAN, Kan, Sep. 3.-The fol-
lowing nominations were made YeSter-
day IS the Riley county republican con-
vention: Representative, VIM. TFyho4er (;
county attorney, Judge HungeFsord |;
probate judge, George G. WeldeT; dis
trfct CLERK r j. Harper.
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LKAVENwoRTE, Sept. 3--The barbed
wire fence erected upon the north
OsplAnde Was destroyed sgsin last night
by parties unknown. This IL the second
fme il has been cDt, and undoubtedly q
ence Of that kind win never be allow ed
o stand, IS Il Il dangerous and obnox-
Gus 70 the residents Of that portion OF the
tfY.
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The only paper, between Topeka and
WichIts, that gave an account of the de-
struction of Charleston yesterday was the
EMroRIA EVENING News, which pub
lIshed afull account from twelve to twenty.
four hours in advance of any other paper
In this city
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WAR in Europe seems inevitable. With
Austria, Servia and Turkey arrayed against
her, Russia will have her hands full, and
the struggle promises to be a long and
bloody one. Germany has little to say
and takes no part so far, while England
believes that war m ust ensue.
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THE sea serpent has again made his ap.
pearance. This time off Cape Ann, on the
New England coast. II there is really no
such rover of the seas, the amount of fabu.
lous testimony given by sailors and scit n.
lists to prove his existence, is lmmeasura-
hle
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War ShIps ordered TO Canada.

OTTAWA, Ont, Sept. 4.-As result of
correspondence between the Canadian and
imperial authorities, orders have been
issued to commanders of all English war
vessels now along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts to resort at once 20 Halifax for
duty, and will be used to assist Canadian
cruisers in protecting fisheries and also to
look after the protection of the NewfouDd-
land f1sherV
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PARENTS ofchildren who intend sending
them to school during the coming term
will do well to carefully scan our adver-
Using columns before buying school books
or clothing
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The Solid South Democratic organs are
displeased with that plank IN the Ohio
platform which demands that pensions be
granted to disabled Union soldiers. This
Is purely Democratic objection.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

NEW eight-page paper, the Avalanche,
has been started in Atlanta, Ga, the mis-.
sion of which is 10 show that prohibition
Is destroying the prosperity of the city.
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DEMOCRATIC papers that are so fond of
suggesting the pbysIognomy of hayes as
stamp for oleomargarine, instead of that
of Tilden, as suggestive OF fraud, should
remember the CIPHER disp Atches. Let the
dead rest.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-09

A CHICAGO girl is reported to have gone
to New York 10 jump from the Brooklyn
bridge. Envious critics of Chicago will
say that if she lands on her feet she will
splash all the water out of the river.
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EMPoRIA is better advertised throughout
the state than she ever was before. Every
paper IN the state is giving our reunion a
helping hand
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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Associate Justice.
u M valentine ...-.- Franklin county.
For GoVerLCr.
John a. MARTIN ......... .AtchisOn county,
For Lieutenant Governor.
A. p. Riddle .....,......,,. Ottawa countv-
For Secretary Of State.
Z. u. Allen -SedKWick county.
For State Treasurer.
For Auditor OF State.
Timothy Mccarthy .Pawnee county
For Attorney General.
For superintendent OF Public Instruction.
j. II. Lawhead ................B Bourbon county
For Congressman-Fourth District
HON. THOMAS Ryan. Shawnee county
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The EVENING News was the only paper
In Emporia yesterday that gave an account
OF the destruction of Charleston, SouM
Carolina
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SUBSCRIPTION lists are being opened
throughout the Union to aid Charleston,
and are pretty generally being signed.
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Do not forget the Board OF Trade meet.
lag this evening.
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THE American Farmer, a sixteen page
paper devoted to agriculture, and the
WEEKLY NEWS for $125.
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GERONIMO Is at last In the hancs of the
military. He should be hanged. and the
sooner the better.
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Sam WOOD has been found. and his cap
tors have been caught.
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Washington Notes.

WAsHINeToN, Sept. 3.-Col. B. Il.
B4scheldeT, deputy quGrtermAster, has
been ordered to Charleston to issue and
distribute tents and render SUCH aid g it
may be within the power Of the depart
Eent 70 render.
The following dispatch was received
by cable to-day from Qaee1 Victoria:
BALMoRAL, Sept. 3.-Tofthe president
Of the United States: l desire 90 ex.
press my profound sympathy with the
sufferers by the late earthquake and
await with anxiety further inteIligesce,
which, hope, may show that the effects
are less disastrous than IT frat reported.
ISEgued.1 The QUEEH.
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ST. LOUIS Is ahead. Kansas City has
had no earthquakes yet.
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Scientists say that no specific for sleep.
lessness has been discovered. What's the
m utter with prosy preaching?
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INDIANAP0LIs. Sept. 8 The journals
Of South Bend, Ind, report that Mra.
Emma AAlloy, well known al over the
country Is regivalist and temperance
lecturer, attempted to commit suicide
this afternoon by drowning. She Wes
rescued with great difficulty. as she Wa
son, Frank, was recently drowned af La
Porte and ever since that she has said her
lie Was not worth living. This a1bernooD
she was suffering from severe attack Of
eIck headAche and had taken 8 quantity
Of ether. Suddenly she ran from the
house 70 the river near By snd jumpedi in
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HAM was the first man in history who
was boycotted.
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THE WEEKLY NEWS for 81.
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THE festive oyster is now ripe.