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Sickness in the Country.

Reports from the country indicate
that there is at this time more than
the usual amount of sickness prevail
ing. Most of these troubles seem to
arise from an impure condition OF the
blood caused by an excessive secretion
of bile. This causes fevers of a bill
lious character, and we regret to say
in some places it has proved very fatal
We therefore offer this gratuitOus ad.
vice to those not yet afflicted: Keep
your liver in healthy condition, and
your blood rich and pure. Good blood
means good health, whilst bad blood
means bad health. Harris Blood and
Liver Pills are entirely vegetable and
are just the pills needed at this season
OF the year.
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HOW DO YOU DO i?

Your eye to this column and your
ear to our words for moment or two
while we talk of things of interest and
of business too.
We are having fresh additions to our
stock of goods every few days, and we
want you to come round on this side
OF town and inspect for yourself.
SO come one, come all,
The low and the tall.
The great and the small
Yourself, wife and all
and see our goods and prices.
HIGHEST CASH PRICE PAID FOR
WHEAT.
Don't let any one deceive you; we
are prepared to pay the top, and we
want you to remember.
COUNTRY BACON ANDLARD.
We are offering goods at very low
figures, and it will be to your interest
to come and see us.
DEAR SGR,-lf you have been owing
us long time will you please come
and see us and square that little ac-
count. We have waited patiently and
we need it.
Country Hams,
Country Lard,
Country Flour,
Country Side Bacon,
TobogganS and Tom O'Shanters.
Still selling Boots and Shoes as low
as the lowest.
Fine stock of Cassimeres and Jeans
Big stock Cotton Paids.
Towels and Tides.
Stocking Yarn.
Cotton Bats; we sell the best the
best is none too good, and that's what
you ought to buy.
Big drive in Oil Table Cloths. Take
them while they are offered, for such
bargains are not lying loose OH the
streets every day,
Laundry and Toilet Soaps, and lots
and lots of other things.
THE DIAMOND SHIRT
outshines ill others.
~ Cash paid for Wheat at highest
market price.
Country Lard, Bacon and Flour.
Sell us your Eggs and Butter and
secure the highest prices.
Buy your goods of us, and get the
lowest prices
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Attention Farmers.

You can buy Oliver Chilled and
South Bend PlowS and repairs at
G. K.Lide & Co.
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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,

GROVER CLEVELAND OFNEW YORK.
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FOR NlCE-PRESlDENT
ALLEN &. THURMAN OF OHIO.
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THE COMET.

Johnson City. Teun.. Oct. A, 1885,
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FOR GOVERNOR,
FOR ELECTORS,

ROBT. l.. TAYLOR OF WASHINGTON
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
AnInf.rnal Manhina

HAVANA, Dec. 6.-Another out
rageOus crime has caused conster-
nation among the people of Havana.
and the victim is one of Havana's
most distinguished ladies' About p.
IN. Tuesday there appeared at the
residence of Don Domingo Olivia,
criminal judge for the district of La
Cathedral, at No. IA Havana street
negro bearing small writing desk
richly adorned with red and blue satin
ribbons and with tiny ley attached.
1t was addressed to Domingo Olivia.
Handing the package to a servant the
negro requested that it be delivered to
Senior Olivia, then he disappeared.
The package was set on parlor table
where q few moments later Mrs.
Clothilde Olivia, the judges wife and
their II year old daughter Gabrielle,
found it and began to admire its
beauty. The young lady tried to open
the desk with the little. key
mentioned above hut she had
SO little success that she handed the
key over TO her mother requesting heE
to try her skill, Mrs. Olivia accordingly
drew the chair in which she Was sitting
up to the table and tried to open the
desk which seemed jammed in some
! way. Al last she violently turned the
! kew to the right when an explosion sim.
| liar to the roar of q cannon took place
| and Mrs. Olivia found herself bathed il
| blood. The desk contained an internal
machine. intended without doubt Il
murder Olivia. Mrs. Olivia received al
ugly wound but the doctors hope FOL
| her recovery. There is 10 clue to the
/ perpetrators of the outrage,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
a4n.ahnnd Cnnuantinn

JAMESTOWN, Oak, Dec. 6.-At the
statehood convention last evening the
following resolutions. we're unanimous
ly adopted.
Resolved by the people of North
Dakota in convention assembled:
First-That we favor the division of
Dakota territory, on the seventh
standard parallel. and the Immediate
admission of the northern portion into
the union of the states.
Second-That we are emphatlcally
in favor of the name of North Dakota
for the proposed new state:
Third-1hat the fiftieth congress
should provide for the adm lsSlon OF
North Dakota.
Fourth-That in case the fiftieth con
gresS fails to provide for the admission
of North Dakota as a state we earnest
ly request the president-elect to call a
speciaISesSion of the fifty-first congress
for that purpose.
Fifth-That the eighteenth legisla-
| tive assembly of Dakota territory is
urged to provide at the earliest practi-
cable moment after meeting January,
| 1889, for a CONSTITUTE nal convention
for North Dakota.
Sixth-That South Dakota, Montana
and Washington are respectfully iu-
vited to cooperate with North Dakota
| in this movement for admission.
Letters indorsing the movement and
expressing sympathy and advice were
read to the convention from Governor
Church. Delegate Clifford, Delegate
elect Matthews, Representative elect
| Dunnell, Sneider and Comstoek of Mlu-
nesota, and other prominent people.
Before final adjournment committees
were appointed to memorable con
gress and the president-elect for an ex.
ira session to prepare bill for con.
stitutional convention to be submitted
to the territorial legislature and com
mittee to arrange for the inter-terri
t0rial convention which will probably
be called for Helena. Montana, some
| time in the near future.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Ludea Lynch viii Preside.

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. w. J..
Vannice, a prominent and highly re-
spected resident of this city, was MUIR
dered early yesterday morning. While
all of the family except the children
were absent, tramp entered MIR. Van
nice's house aud stole some articles of
jewelry and a purse, Immediately aft
erwards starting towards Fort Lara
mic. Mr.. Vannice started m pursuit
and captured the man at a ranch five
miles from town. He started to town
with the tramp in buggy. Late last
evening the team was found on the
prairie by cowboys, with the body of
Mr.. Vannice in the bottom of the bug
gy. The body indicated that terrible
struggle had taken place. 1t is sur
missed that the tramp seized him, Sc
cured his revolver and killed him. A
posse of citizens is after the murderer,
and if captured he will he lynched.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Passenger War Very Probable.

PITTsBURG. Pa, Dec. S.-Another
big fight among the railroads is likely
to develop owing to the paying of COM
missions on tickets, a meeting of the
passenger department of the Central
Traffic association is to be held III Chi
cago next Tuesday and the most impOr
tant business to come before the meet
ing is the paying of commissions.
There have been various rumorS afioat
about commissions for months past and
there will be an investigation. Orig
inally the traffic association decided
that none of its members should pay
commissions. nor sell tickets over con-
Meeting western lines that did so. This
resulted in the well remembered so
called boycott of the western lines
about two years ago, in
which the Pennsylvania COM
pany was said to be the prime
mover. though the officials of that COM
pany explain that they were doing no
more than what many other members
of the traffic association were expected
TO do. Since then a number of roads,
it is said, have broken the agreement,
and at the next meeting an effort will
be made to enforce it. In speaking of
the matter to-day prominent railroad
official said the matter would proba-
bly, he referred to the executive officers
of the different roads, and after that
to the passenger department OF the
traffic association, which will probably
outline what course its members shall
pursue.
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Iess something happens in the mean

less something happens in the mean
time 20 render 1t unnecessary.
Secretary Endicott had an interview
with Secretary Whitney this morning
and the former stated that it had been
decided to send a number or troops to
Hayti to assist the naval forces, but it
was subsequently ascertaineS! that
there was no foundation for the re-
port.
It is learned this afternoon that the
action of Secretary Whitney in order
ing feet of vessels to prepare for a
trip to Hayti, is due not SO much to
hostility to the request for release of
the American vessel Haytien Republic,
as to dilatory tactics adopted by the
Haytien authorities in dealing with the
question. The position taken by this
government is understood to be that as
the GHaytieH authorities referred the
arbitration of the case to this govern
ment they are virtually bound by its
decision and that whern informed
by this government that they had no
legal right to seize and detain the Hay
ten Republic they should have accept
ed the situation and released the vessel
While they have not refused to do this
they are, it is said, acting in such a
procrastinating way as to indicate a
| strong disinclination to accept the judg-
ment against them.
BOSTON, Dec. 7.-OrderS having
been received from Washington for ali
the naval recruits at the Charleston
navy yard to proceed at once to New
York. l42 left for New York this
| afternoon.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Rumor that eouIo Has the Santa re.

New YORK. Dec. 6.-At the down
town exchanges to-day it was rumored
that Mr.. Jay Gould had acquired con-
troll of the Atchison. I Topeka & Santa
Fee railroad. Mr.. George Gould was
seen, but would neither verify nor de-
ny the rumor, saying that he never in
terfered in his fathers business. Mr..
Jay Gould WAS too hnsy to be seen.
NO FOUNDATION FOR THE RUMOR.
BoSTON, Dec. Con- inquiry at the
headquarters of the AtchisoD, Topeka
& Santa Fe railroad company concern
ing the rumor that Mr.. Gould has
gained control of the company, Road
Secretary Manchester stated positively
that nothing whatever was known of
! the matter to the Atchison people here
and that various rumors to this effect
were known to have been floating
| about. but those who were in posi-
tion to know, say that, though consid-
cradle stock has been recently pur-
chased i'll New York, there is nothing
| whatever to show that Jay Gould or
any one in his interest was a purchaser
and there was no foundation for the
| IJIO1nT
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Claims hs Shot Himself.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Son Tues
day evening Frank Root called to see
his wife, Julia, with whom he had not
been living lately. because of a disa-
greement. She was at the residence
of William Peters. No. 1901 South
Broad street. Shortly after an inter
view had begun between Mr.. and Mrs.
Root the conversation was interrupted
by the report of a pistol shot in the
room. Mr.. Peters ran into the room
and found Root lying on the floor bad
~ wounded in the breast. He was
carried to the hospital at once. It is
hardly possible that he will survive, SC
yesterday he made his ante-mortem
statement of the shooting. The strange
part of the occurrence is that the hus-
band and wife disagree as to who in
fiicted the wound. Mrs. Root says
that she shot her husband, but he
states he had shot himself.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Ship Yards Burned.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. S.-Three-
quarters of the large iron ship building
plant of the Globe Iron works on West
River street in this city was destroyed
by fire this morning. The burned Por-
ton of the ship yard is 700 feet in length
and $50 feet in width, and it contained
800, 600 worth of valuable machinery.
Besides the shop buildings and stock
consumed by the flames the Office was
Quilted of valuable models and draw
ings, and the accumulation of years
were ruined. Four large steel vessels
in process of construction were upon
the stocks within a few feet of the
burning buildings, but the ships were
proximately fixed at 5000, 900 and it is
probably covered by insurance.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
A White CAP Warning.

GEORGETOWN, Ohio, Dec. s.-P. B.
Long has received White Cap warn
ing, addressed to the citizens of George
town. AS usual, it is written in red
ink, with picture of whips drawn at
the top of the letter. The warning
reads as follows:
ITO the Citizens of Georgetown-We
want TO say now that if they do not
quit making threats as to what they
will do if we come to their town, we
will burn every house i'll the place.
The exhibition of the night of the 3rd
court house fire. is not to be thought
of in comparison with what we will do,
for we must succeed at any coss. So
take warning, and you will have less
| use for your engines.
tSigned) WHITE CAPS.
The letter is dated at Mount Oreb,
which is believed to be the center of
the White Cap operations, and it is OF
a nature similar to that of the other
letters received here. 1t is believed
this is done because of the recent con-
ference at Cincinnati, and the an
nouncement of an expressed determin'
alton of the people to take hand in
| quieting the trouble.
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unols Sam Maana Rnsin. y

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-Acti0n has
been taken by Secretary Whitney which
leaves no doubt as to the policy of the
government with regard to the case of
the American steamer Haytien Repub-
lie, recently seized at Port au Prince,
Hayti. The release of the vessel has
been demanded through the proper di-
plomatic channels. and if the demand
is not complied with within a reasona-
BILE period of time steps will be taken
to enforce it., With this end in view
Secretary Whitney yesterday sent tele-
graphic instructions to Rear Admiral
Ghordi, cemmandant of the New York
navy yard to have the ships Richmond,
Galena and Yantic prepared for sea AZ
rapidly as possible. It was expected
that these vessels would be completed
in about two weeks. The idea now is
to have them ready so that they can
sail direct for HayGi early next week.
Orders have also been issued for Rear
Admiral Luce, commanding the North
Atlantic station TO transfer his flag
from the GaleDa TO the Rich
mond and to use that vessels as
the flagship o. the >expedition.
The officials of The state department
are as usual reticent on the subjert
and will not admit even that the re-
lease of the Haytien Republic has been
demanded. Secretary Whitney is
more ontspoken, and when asked by
an Associated Press reporter this
morning about the affair, he admitted
frankly that he had ordered the three
naval vessels at New York to be gotten
ready as so0n as possible and start for
Hayti. He added: There is a local
disturbance there you know and
it Is always a good plan to
have naval vessels near at hand on such
occasions. You remember that the
Haytien authorities referred the case
of the seized steamer 10 this govern
ment. Well. We have rendered decis-
ion and that is a report that they have
got to give her up. IL s unfortunate
that the yellow fever broke out on the
Boston while she was at Port au Prince
and compelled her TO leave that climate,
otherwise the matter might have been
settled before now and If il was not
considered somewhat unsafe we would
send the Boston back To Hayti to aid
| the other vessels IN case Of necessity.
That's all there is to it. We do not
think the seizure of the vessel justified
and are therefore determined that she
must be delivered up to US.
! Orders were issued this afternoon to
/ the cOmmandant of the Norfolk navy
yard to prepare the United States ship
1 OssiPee for service as soon as possible.
twill take little longer to do this
than will be necessary with the three
vessels at New York. but il is Thought
that she can he fully prepared to fol
low them to Hayti within q few days.
Size VIII be ssut 20 Port au Ffinee I'M
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-At the meeting
of the joint committee of the Trunk
lines to-day the following resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas.-It is asserted and be-
Heved that certain lines in the terri
tory of the joint committee have re-
suIned the payment of. commissions
for the sale Of passenger tickets con-
trary TO the agreement of these lines
with their competitors. and
Whereas,-I6 is believed that unless
these lines can be induced to stop the
payment Of commission. other lines
competing with them will for theiI
own protection feel Obliged to resume
the practice, thus bringing back upon
the railroads of the country all the
evils of the commission system from
which a large number of them nav,
wholly or in part freed them
selves.
ResOlved-That the matter lie pre-
scented TO the executive commits witt
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
A WALL OF FIRE.
A Transfer Boat With a Passenger
Train Burned.
Tourists Narrow Escape in Very
Scanty Attire.
White Caps Threaten Georgetown,
o., if lnterferred With.
A Large Ship Building Plant Burned
at Cleveland. Ohio.

NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Interviews
with railroad men and others who were
passengers on the Washington eX-
press, which WAS destroyed on the
Maryland last night may be
briefly condensed as follows:
The fire broke out in the kitchen of
the boat, which was on the upper or
saloon deck and the burning timbers,
etc. Immediately began to fall upon the
roofs of the ears below, setting them
on fire. AS is usual upon the arrival
of the Maryland the rear brakeman,
who was to accompany the train to
Hartford when the boat was made fast
to the dock went to the last car to take
off the tail lamps" As he passed
along he noticed nothing unusual, but
after he had secured the lamps and
turned to go back he was confronted
by solid wall of flame. The heat
| immediately forced him to the rear of
| the boat where he was Immediately
surrounded by passengers from the
sleepers in various stages of dishab-
| lille and as he explains lit got pretty
/ hot before a tug came UP and took us
off,
| An employe in the baggage car said
| the first intimation he had of the lire
was when the roof of the car began to
shower down sparks. The train hands
generously contributed hats, coats, ETC.,
to cover the half-dreSSed passengers.
There were twenty-four passengers
on board, eighteen of whom were in
the sleeperS. Four were women. Col.
A. l.. CoDger of Akron, Ohio, a mem
Der of the national republican commit
tee, was passenger. One woman,
Mrs. Jennings of New Orleans, was
fast asleep. She was dragged from
her berth by a deck hand, who is I'M
known, aud escaped in her night-dress.
J The baggage car, with all the baggage,
and the coach. sank with the boat.
The two sleeping cars were run off on
the dock and burned there. The flames
did not extend beyond the boat itself.
The passengers lost all but the
clothes they had on at the time. Mrs.
Jennings is forty-iive years old, but
took the situation very cody.
Col. Conger said that the scene was
indescribable and the panic terrible.
, He was in the sleeping car and with
! difficulty made his escape. The men
prayed and swore alternately and
climbed over each other, scrambling
like wild beasts in their efforts to get
out. One man had only his shirt on
and carried his clothes in his hands.
Col. Cunger lost all but the clothes he
wore. The roaring flames advanced sc
rapidly that they scorched the paSsen-
gers as they jumped to the transfer
boat and tug. At 3 a. m. a new train
was made up to take the passengers Oh
their way to Boston. The loss is eSti-
mated at 100000.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13

LITTLE Rock, Dec. S.-Advices from
the Indian Territory say that the in
terror department has notified the
Cherokees that the Cherokee, Strip is
the property of the United States, and
that the indians have no right to lease
it. The strip contains s 900. 900 acres
of grazing land. On Thursday the
Cherokee Legislative sitting at Table
quah passed a bill leasing the strip to
stock syndicate at $500 900 yearly.
for five years. Principal Chief Mays
has not yet signed the biz. The mat.
ter has caused a sensation, but the
Cherokees VIII lease the land and a
delegation viii next week be sent to
Washington to prove to the interior
department that the land belongs to
the Cherokee Nation in fee simple.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
A $50. 600 smash-up

CHICAGO. Dec. IA collision which
occurred this morning on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago road, near
Fiftieth street, resulted in a loss to the
company of about $50, 1000. A side
track with the main line forms a sharp
curve from Stewart avenue on SiXtieth
street and Wentworth avenue. A long
freight train drawn by three engines
and northbouHd was rounding this
curve when a southbouDd switch en-
before ANYTHING could be done to
check the momentum OF the engines.
The engineers and firemen had just
time enough TO jump from their cabs
and save their lives when the crash
came. The four engines were thrown
from the track and are all badly
smashed. together with a number of
box cars, which were loaded with
freight.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
Pnzzlipg Maladv.


ST. LOUIS. Dec. S.-Willie Maiers,
the thirteen year old son of widow
lady, is suffering from a malady that
puzzles st. Louis physicians. The boy
was one of large crowd of urchins
who were following a dog catcher's
wagon, and one of the men on the
wagon becoming exasperated, wired
him and put him into the dog cage.
He was carried several blocks and then
thrown roughly TO the side walk. The
boy is now a groveling imbecile, sub
ject, to frequent spasms, during which
he barks, whines and acts in every
advised that ne be sent to an insane
asylum. The police have taken hold
of the matter and will endeavor to ar.
rest the perpetrators of the act which
has robbed the boy of his reason.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
A Wnman,s Discovery.

Another wonderful discovery has
been made and that too by a lady in
in this country Disease fastened its
clutches upon her and for seven years
she withstood its severest test, but
her vital organs were undetermined and
death seemed imminent. For three
months she coughed necessarily and
could not sleep. She bought of us a
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption and was so much re-
lieved on taking first dose that she
slept all night and with one bottle has
been miraculously cured. Her name
is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus writes
w. G. Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, N. c.
Get free trial bottle at Ben Wheel
don's Drug Store.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-13
lie Verdict Unanimous /.

w. D. Suit, Druggist, Bippus, Ind,
testjfies: II can recommend Electric
Bitters as the very best remedy. Every
bottle sold has given relief in every
case. One man took six bottles. and
was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years
standing. Abraham Hare. druggist,
BellivilIe, Ohio, affirms: THE best
selling medicine / have ever handled
in my 20 years experience, is Electric
Bitters." Thousands of others have
added their testimony, so that the
verdict is unanimous that Electric Bit
ters do cure all diseases of the Liver
Kidneys or Blood. Only half dollar
bottle at Ben Wheldon's Drug Store