The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-23
READY FOR A ROPE
a Wife Driven from Home in 4
Blizzard.
A Famous Outlaw Discovered in the
Texas Train Robbers.
Gallant Conduct In Rescuing People
From the ]. NJ. White.
The Dow Liquor Tax Law Of Ohio
Decided Constitutional

BISMARCK, OAK, Dec. 16.-Ars. Val
entine, q vile and mother, was brought 20
the hospital in this city with both feet
frozen 50 that they will have 70 be amp0-
tated. She states that during the recent
blizzard her husband drove her from home
ana she WAS compelled 70 wander about
In the storm until found by q neighb0f.
She Was out In the storm over four hours,
during which time she returned once 20
the house and begged OF her husband 70
permit her 70 enter, but her peliuons were
of no avail, as the door was locked against
her. Her children begged OF their father
TO allow their mother 70 enter, but he
would not listen TO them, and threatened
to throw them out if they did not cease
their pleading. When found Mrs. Valen.
tine was unconscious, and II she RECEIVERS
it will be at the loss of both her feet VAL
entine is WE'LL do farmer, and has vile
Is q lady of intelligence The only Appa-
rent cause for his action is that Of 3
commonplace disagreement between
himself and wife. the neIghbors are
highly Insensed, and threats of violence
sgAinst Valentine are numerous.
A HEROIC SAILOR.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16-Fully forty
Eve passengers and crew of the lll-faLed
steamer, J. NJ. White are still missing.
OF these thirty are negro laborG who took
passage on the boat at q landing just above
the point where the accident occurred.
1t IL believed at least twenty Of them per-
ished. Sailor Persons conduct during
the confusion was most heroic. Pushing
his way through the crowd of shrieking
passengers At the steamers stern he Cut
the yawl loose from its fasteninRs
and after desperate struggle
lowered 1t to the water. -Four negroes
jumped into the boat but Sailor forced
them back and taking twenty human
beings into the yawl landed them safe on
shore. Then rowing quickly back he
saved twenty more. On the third trip he
rescused nine and on the fourth trip three.
By the time he reached the shore the last
trip all that remained of the steamer was
her hull. Captain Muse salo, last night,
that he did not think that more than five
Of the cabin passengers and ten of the
deck hands had persisted.
THE TEXAS TRAIN ROBBERY.
FORT WORTH, Dec. 15.-It has been
learned that the short man of the Fort
Worth S Denver train robbers Is Frank
Jackson, of the famous Sam Bass gang,
who robbed several trains on the Texas q
Pacific, between Fort Worth and Dallas, .
few years ago. Jackson il crippled in the
left arm by shot received at the Mesquite
robbery. when Conductor Jules Alvord
fought SO calamity. It is now also known
that two accomplices are citizens of Mon
tague county. Jackson 10 the man who
stopped at st. Joe. The reward tor the
capture OF the three men has been in
creased to $500, or 81 500 for each man.
Several New Orleans detectives are on the
trail of the robbers.
FATALLY INJURED
LEAVRNWORTH, Dec. 16.-This after
noon George K. Bailey Of McLOuth,
Kas., was standing by the Union depot
platform, partially intoxicated, and as
the 4 10 Missouri Pacific passenger train
pulled into the depot he staggered and
fell ecross the track. The train was rum
ming at sixteen miles an hour, and it was
save h m. The result was both legs
were cut OFF ald his head and arms
frjghtfuIly mangled. He is still alive,
huf NannOt ranOVoP