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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-22
Bids OnRnRG-

Bids opened this morning on three story
6ricK and stone store building for NJ Half 4
Bro. Bids on the three stories and two
stories.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
An Attsmpt tn Rob.

Friday night about 10 o'clock w. II
Roberts was coming home from calling
on his father. and when nearing his
home, close to the Kansas Avenue
school, some one spoke to him, COM
handing him to hold up his hands.
He paid no attention to him until he
commanded again, "Hold up your
hands!'' Roberts intimated that no
body could make him do that. At this
the man made at him with a short
club. Will stood his ground, but in
the encounter was thrown to the
ground. The foot-pad was going to
Jump on him. but he made an attempt
to secure his knife, the only weapon he
had, and frightened the man away.
Roberts ran to his home. scarcely fifty
feet away. and got his revolver. When
he got into the street again the thief
was running down Market. VIII struck
after him. firing his revolver, but lost
sight of him on Dan Thomas lots on
South Commercial Mr.. Roberts has
been very i'll for about two weeks and
was not feeling very strong, SO he gave
up the chase A minute description of
the man was given the officers Sat
urday morning by Roberts.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

The following from the New York
Tribune is vouched for as faithful
description of the Keely Motor:
Some twenty years ago, more or less,
Mr.. Keely built his motor. There are
a number of pipes, wheels. pulleys
rods, belts, levers, cocks, cams and cogs
visible, besides, it is darkly limited, a
vastly greater number of the same
sort of thing under the floor and back
of the PAL tition. In front of the mot
or is Mr.. Keely's office, in which there
is large slot. The stockholders drop
their money in the slot, and Mr.. Keely
looks out and watches them walk
away. Naturally DR.. Keely is some
times called upon to explain the work
ingS of his motor by some doubling
stakeholder. On such occasions he is
ali smiles, and conducting the vic
tim into the presence of the machine,
he says: You see, my friend, the
way we operate the motor is this:
Taking hold of this lever we pull it
toward US. This causes the small flip
flap you see there to be withdrawn,
allowing the flibber-snatche-t to fall into
its place on the ramrod. AS soon as
this happens, it acts directly on the
hatchWay and the slam-bang, causing
them to make a half-reVolution and
start the get-up-and-get motion of the
fiunker-fOpper, which in turn commu-.
nlcates its energy to the buttOn-hook
and the Wrapper-cock. After these
things have run for about five minutes
they cause the jig-jag valve to turn,
and the asthmatic gas flows through the
pipe to the cylinder and gives the
wiggle-motion to the gflder-fluke.
That's the point we are striving after
the wiggle-motion of the glider-fuke.
Why, my dear sir, without the wiggle-
motion of the glider-fuke you
wouldn't think of putting your money
are-eh? another share? All right.
come into the Office AID I'll have it
made out for you inside OF minute. :"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
CONsTsTFNCV m Politics.

The Topeka Capital-C Commonwealth
takes the democrats TO task for being
inconsistent in fighting the senate tariff
bill. That question it claims was set
tied by the result of the election, and
intimates. although it does not say SO,
that if Cleveland had been reelected
that fact would have teen regarded as
an endorsement of the Mills bill.
Unless the democrats acknowledged
before the election that their defeat
would be held by them as a popular
condemnation of their tariff policy
there is no consistency visible or act
ual. 1t may be a question whether
such a promise was given or even
limited. No one has claimed such to be
| the case.
But if it Was what would it amount
to? What do politicians care for COLI
sistency? Il is jewel they trample
under foot daily. That political
leader would soon find himself in the
soup that would be candid and con-
sistent. lie would be laughed at
Expediency is the north star of his
political chart A fig for consistency!
What else is there for the democrats
to do but oppose the senate bill? What
other issue is left them on which tC
base an opposition? Does any one sup
pose that republicans, if defeated in
the late election, would throw up the
sponge, would say to the democrats
"You demolished US. Oar tariff pol
icy was all wrong, We see it now. YOr
were right. Go in, and cut the tariff
down to the bone, and we'll not say 4
word"
Who believes that republicans woulG
have made such asses II themselves
Yet that, it seems. is what the Cap.
Com. thinks democrats should do.
Consistency is a very good thing, but
little of it goes long way in politics
Too much of it would knock polItica
scheme into pi, as surely as bonl
would demolish glass house.
Democrats think that tariff reduc
ton is the road to power, and the!
seem determined to travel it, whethe
it be paved with consistency or govC
honest mud.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
DISTRICT COURT.

The following cases have been dis
posed of by the district court during the
last few days:
Adam Wenger VS.. Charles Shaver ct
al; trial by court; judgment by plain
tiff and decree as prayed for.
J. H. Burke VS.. Theodore Brinkman;
continued.
E. E. Watkins VS.. Samuel Burdette;
jury disagreed and were discharged.
They stood eight to four in favor of de-
PENDANT.
Mary Tolls VS.. James 4. Tolls: de-
cree of divorce granted.
w. [. Hines VS.. II. Dale s. Son; con-
tinued.
Mrs j. 7. Phelan ct al; judgment
and decree as prayed for by all parties
The Adams & West Lake Manufac-
turing company VS.. S. J. Smith; judg-
ment by consent for plaintiff as in court
below; plaintiff pays cost of appeal and
in this court.
E. E. Doane s. Co. VS.. Fred Balm:
settled.
w. A. Snoddy VS.. 1. E. Lambert; set
tied.
Robert Pollock vs.. S. R. Taylor ct al.
judgment for costs for plaintiff.
J. a. Heatherington VS.. T. P. Burns
& Co.; verdict for plaintiff for SLIGO.
Court adjourned last evening until
Wednesday morning, December &c.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
District Court.

Last Thursday an affidavit was filed
in the case of the state VS.. Hughbanks
ct al, of Usage City, asking for con-
tinuance until next term. The afida-
Wit sets fourth the fact that one T. L.
Marshal, cashier of the Usage City
bank is one of his important witnesses
and that he is at present, according to
the physicians certificate, which &C
companies the statement, unable to be
out and that he will not be sufficiently
recovered from his illness TO attend for
several days and therefore continu-
ance is prayed for. Defendant. Hugh
banks further gives in his sworn state
ment what the said Marshal will testi-
fy. A continuance was granted.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
ENcLANDm TnRsOUDAN.

Mr.. Gladstone calls the effort of Eng
land to conquer the Soudan las hope
less as to coerce nature
Others think the same. Hence the
desire for an effort at an understand
ing between the English and the Arabs.
This desire has received new impe-
tus since the news that EmIn and STAN
ley are prisoners of the Mahdi.
The latter holds them as hostages
whose lives are the price of English
evacuation-if he is not lying. The
Khedive's letter to Emin, entrusted to
Stanley's care confirms the opinion that
Emin at least is a prisoner. Later adj
vices do not tend to confirm the belief
in Stanley's capture.
The belief was based ON the fact of
the Snyder bullets which Osman sent
TO Suakin as corroborative proof of his
statements concerning the capture of
Emin and white traveller supposed to
be Stanley.
How Emin came into possession of
the Khedive's letter is only matter of
conjecture.
But, on the presumption of the cap
ture Of both men, the question of secur-
ing their release is urged both as a
matter of humanity and of policy.
The Salisbury ministry is in a close
place. The Soudan endorsed Glad
stone few years ago, and Is likely tC
play similar prank with his lordty
knobs, Minister Salisbury.
Ministerial talk about carrying the
blessings OF civilization and Christian:
lty to the heather is the old and stereo
typed pretext for English occupation
at Suakin,
The Germans are cloaking their col
oniZing efforts in Zanzibar with the
same gauzy verbal habiliments. Ev
eryone knows they are deeeitful shams
Bismark posing as a civilizer anC
Christianizer of the Arab and Zanzi
bari is a sight for the angels! NJ
more so, however, than Lord Sails
bury.
Think of regenerating a horde o
Arabs by firing the ten commandments
and the beatitudes into them at lonI
range with rifled cannon. That is civ
liking with vengeance.
Conquest is what these grape ant
canister Christianizers are after; NOR
territory and subjects, of whateve
sort. That is England's only motiv'
for her occupation of Egypt. For tn,
same reason she now attempts to Sc
cure control of the SOudan. when 10
the skeleton takes itsplace at the feast
and, as if providential, the bodies o
the intrepid explorers are flung across
her pathway, which she will have t.
crush under her chariot wheels if sh
wishes to go any further in her unhal
} lowed work of sanguinary civilization
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
Death of Mrs. Carl Newton.

This lady, who died Thursday at the
residence of MIR. Campbell. III Market
street, was a victim of consumption
whose last days on earth were singu-
larry unfortunate. Only a month ago,
when that dead disease from which
she had suffered for some time. had
well nigh run it's fatal course, and was
about to claim her as its own, she gave
birth to an infant, which. together with
one older, now survives her. Her hus-
band was poor. perhaps because he
could get nothing to do.
He will be remembered as an en-
pIoye of the EDporia steam laundry
for which he worked about four years.
His wife was Miss Girard whom he
married about three years ago, since
which time he lived in Wichita until
last October. when, finding no work
there, and having been idle for some
time, he moved his family to this city.
finding a home with his father, L. a.
Newton.
The father, as we are informed, has
never taken very kindly to his son 5
marriage. and for some reason yesIer-
day compelled him to remove
his wife from the parental
roof. she was taken to Mr..
CampbeIl's, in an almost dying
condition, where she soon breathed her
Iast-and no doubt found that peace
and rest her tired and wearied spirit
Ionged for SO expectantly. IL our in
formation he correct, it was case of
peculiar hardship on her art. and of
heartlessness in the father-in-law who
turned her out of his house when she
was on deaths threshold.
Friends have taken charge of the
funeral ceremonies. ana viii assist in
raising the necessary funeral expenses
and otherwise aiding the bereaYea hns-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

ROBERT ELsMERE'' is a result of
woman's logic, which, like her arith-
metic, scarcely falls within the cate
CORY of the exact sciences. although at
times the air of serenely judicial con-
viction with which she affixes the O.
Z. ID. 10 some conclusion temporarily
overwhelms the coarser fibred creature
called man until he applies the vulgar
test of two and two. ''Elsmere'' is as
abnormal mentally as 'iOuida's So regu-
lation hero is morally and physically,
and either is rs true to nature as a
composite photograph; in my humble
opinion there is no more ground for
comparison between the talent of Mrs.
Humphrey Ward and that of George
Eliot than there is between a music
box and musician. Had sRobert
Elsmere's'' author assumed mascu-
line nom-de-plume, the disguise would
have been so iudicrously transparent
= hat it is questionable whsthsr 81 the
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

WHETHER or not Foraker was I'M
waveringly loyal to sherman i'll the
Chicago convention makes no differ
ence now, thinks the Commentaries
zette, Halstead's paper. Neither of
them got or probably could get the NOM
nation, although Foraker, it confesses.
las the embodiment of the bloody
shirt" had a strong following in the
convention. The C.-G. knows very well
that Foraker had about made up his
mind and communicated the fact to a
Commercial correspondent, to 60 over
to Blaine. Hence the easy manner in
which the matter is pooh-pooed by Hal
stead
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE salt trust, which proposes to
buy up all the salt blocks at Hutchin-
son. and presumably stop their fur
ther working, will probably call away
the attention of Easily from the Okla
homa bill. The salt trust, if it can be
effected, viii be freighted with de-
struction 10 Hutchinson, a matter that
will call for some bitter comment from
the News.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE Arkansas City Traveller with
judicial gravity concludes that the peo-
pie of that municipality ''are under ev-
erlasting obligations" TO Congressman
Perkins for the speed with which he
introduced bill making an appropria-
ton for public building there. If a
little thing like that sunless to obligate
so everlastingly the voters in Arkansas
City, what servile slaves and vest
pocket property of Bishop Perkins
they must become if the bill becomes a
law,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
Ra WmPeolsa.

A widower married second time,
and his choice vas a wealthy lady
about fifty years of age. When the
bride and bridegroom returned home
from the wedding the husband. intro
ducing the wife to his children, said:
Me dear children. kiss this lady 8
hand. she is the new mother 1 prom
ised TO bring you.
After taking a square look AT the new
mot her. little Charlie said:
PA. YOU have been fooled he
amt new at aili''-Texas SiftIngs.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

IT is said that during his late visit
to General Harrison, the portfolio of
war was offered TO General Longstreet.
We would not quarrel with this state
ment, which is made 10y Georgia pa-
per. if it did not conflict with another
made by the News yesterday, that the
war Office was offered to Tom Plat OF
New York, who has not yet said wheth-
er or not he would accept. Therefore,
in the interest of truth and independ-
ent journalism, we question the truth
fulness of this statement about Gen
;. al Longstreet.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

You remember probably that the
equal rights party had ticket in the
field at the late election. The returns
have been canvassed and it was found
that Lockwood and Love, the candi-
dates for president and vice president,
got three votes. If they have the couF-
age to try it again four years hence
they may do better. Probably they
will get six or seven votes.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE French copper syndicate pay
the owners of the Anaconda Mon
tana) mine $500, 900 every month the
mine is shut Gown. There is no record
of what is paid the wOrkingmen who
are thrown out of employment in order
that wealthy capitalists may the more
easily corner the market and shove up
the prices They are allowed full
liberty to starve with Mortimer on the
barren mountains side.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

MARSH MURDOCH proposes Ito hit
the bastard" whenever opportunity Of
fers. The aforesaid bastard" is the
metropolitan police system which is a
terrible stencil in the Eagle EDITORS
nose, and ian Infamous thingr besides.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

AN interesting bit of gossip about
Mrs. Cleveland. At a public. gather
ing recently she discarded her hustle
and brushed back her bangs. a
double reform truly. Nothing was
said about making the shoulders the
base of support for her clothing, so we
presume she manages that according
to Hoyle.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE principal objection Senator
Riddleberger has to ingalls, is that if
water is poured on his head it rushes
in cataract over his nose. If ever
Ingalls, turns himself loose against the
Virginia Senator that Bachanal will
wish Niagara was rushing over his
head and down his nose.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

EMPEROR WILLIAMS eer-aehe hav-
ing subsidized, the European war cloud
is no longer visible. Boulanger's
divorce-if ne gets one-may restore the
cloud, however, in all its i0ky black
ness. War clouds are easily called up
in Europe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

If the White Caps would do some-
thing that would recommend them to
favor. let them turn themselves loose
against the gas people and the coal deal
ers. In suVDmer they could gain Uonsid-
cradle reputation by Regulating" the
ice men occasionally.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

WHAT fol de rol is this in the TOpe-
ka Journal about the Wahalak ne
groes resisting their oppressors and
defending themselves" with more in
similar vein. Why not be candid, or
rather honest, Just once. There was
no oppression, no necessity for
defending themselves" in this case.
1t was an unprovoked slaughter of a
posse attempting to arrest IA vicious
and dangerous negro who had dubbed
an unOffending white man nearly to
death. Is that what you call resisting
oppression?' Is that your idea of
defending ones self in legitimate,
or in any way? There is one way of
curing such editors of the species of
rabies affecting them, and that IS to be
once called to do duty on sheriff's
posse under such circumstances as
accompanied this Wahalak massacre.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

HENRY GEoEGE is home again after
a five weeks visit in England. lie
says the tories are very friendly to
General Harrison and the republicans,
while they have not much respect for
Cleveland or the democratic party.
This is very different story from
that we heard so much about in ante
election DAYS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

Pig Iron KELLY thinks that by vir-
tue of seniority he is of right entitled
to the speakership Of :he house, and no
doubt he is. His advanced age, how
ever, initiates against his hores in that
direction.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

IF the progress made yesterday in the
Nicaragua canal bill could be main
tanned, that measure would soon be-
come a law. Foolish amendments
were knocked on the head as soon as
offered
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

STICKNEY, president of the Chicago,
ST. Paul & Kansas City railroad must
be greater ''crank" than Charles
Francis Adams. That gentleman spoke
quite plainly about the low grade of
morals among the freight agents. Now
comes Mr.. Stickney, who goes much
further by declaring that not one road
in the association has been honest, OF
has complied with the interstate law.
that instead of trying to observe its re-
quirements they have conspired to VIC
late them by secret rebates, drawbacks
and other underhand means. All this
he denounces, and proposes to go him
self before the commission and as q
public prosecutor strive to bring the
guilty to justice. Mr.. Stickney is evil
IDENTIFY man of courage. and one who
believes that the interstate law suffices
to regulate railroad matters. He says
nothing about a clearing house or trust
as remedy for the cutting and slash
ing of rates so prevalent.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE good work of civilhing the
Arabs goes bravely on at Suakim, on
the Red Sea. English roops put a
quietus on about 400 of them yesterday
That is England's way of abolishing
barbarism, and very thorough and
practical way it is too.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE best thing we have read abou t
General Boulanger is that he is most
fllial in devotion To his mother. whom
he makes it IA point to see every Sun
day. Like Socrates he has the misfor-
time of being welded to a Xantippe
from whom he is now trying to get q
legal separation.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

EUREKA is to have "a Christmas
Cantata." IL wants sugar factory,
a creamery, cannery, soap factory,
and few other useful things which it
might have, if it possessed as much
business enterprise rs it does musical
talent struggling for recognition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE Hutchinson News, in "a double
headed editorial, assures its readers
in the most positive manner that Okla
homa will not be opened for settle
ment for two years. A dog in the man
ger policy is one that the News can
play with rare boldness and assurance.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

GovERNOR-ELECT HUMPHREY is
taking lessons from General Harrison,
1t seems, as he is rapidly developrue
alarming sphinX-like sentiments re-
specting his policy as governor. Take
each mans censure, but reserve thy
Judgment" is the Polonious-bred
maxim of the governor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

A BELGIUM Judge has refused to allow
an ambitious young woman to practice
law because it was incompatible with
her sex. Meantime another young lady
of brilliant attainments has been just
admitted to the practice of medicine,
somewhat reluctantly it must be said,
at Paris
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

SOMEBODY in Dakota holds a string
fastened to the late expected blizzard.
II is liable to break, however. Then
look out, ladies and gentlemen, friends
and countrymen, and lovers of Italian
breeZes
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

THE diligent reporter at Indianapo-
lis informs us that General Harrison
did the verv remarkable thing of going
out in the hallway to meet Matt Quay
and one or two other gentlemen when
they called on him yesterday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

advertising sermons which have
preached the book into what consid-
er undeserved circulation, would not
have proved poor investment for the
uublisher.-H. AIymer Coates.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27
HsEeaic

Annual election of officers of En-
pes.;l Lodge. Nc. u. a. F. a. n. last
evening resulted as follows: E. F.
sprague, W. NJ; R Lakin S. W.; w.
H. Harrison, J. w; S. r. Hall. Treas
urer; F. ~. Hirth, Secretary.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

EARLIER in the week it looked as if
Boreas had come to stay. But it was a
false alarm. Once more he has been
knocksd over the ropes and Sol is still
master of the field, the celestial John
L. Sullivan. as it were, of the universe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

WELL, Boss Quay has called on the
general according to promise. Did lie
secure a cabinet place for Wanamaker?
This interrogatOry is propounded to
the sprites that people the air about
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

He is there within easy reach of New
York city, Orange being a kind of sub
urb Of Gotham. Then, too, if the fates
50 orcain, residence in New Jersey may
procure him senatorship some day of
pleasant Cleveland weather.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

NJ. DE LEssEPs was affected to copi-
Gus tears in his interview with his
stockholders, and more water stood in
his eyes than win ever stand in his
Panama canal.-Chicago Herald.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

James O.Toole Thursday purchased
the 81 acre tract on East Sixth avenue,
of T. G.. Whitley for $500. Is Is
known as the Fraker property and was
until Ia.ely owned BY Mr.. Bennett.