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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-12
Reducing Erairhf

Commercial Agent w. ii. Reed of
the Wabash Western, received tele-
graphic notice of important reductions
in certain classes of freight by that
road yesterday. The reductions are as
follows:
Taking effect yesterday, the rate on
castiron water pipe is reduced from Is
cents to 10 cents per hundred weight
from East st. Louis or st. Louis to
Kansas City.
Taking effect OH January 8, Il reduc-
ton to Is cents per hundred weight on
classes c, ID and + (heavy freight) from
Chicago to Kansas City, will be made.
The former rates were 20, III and Is
cents per hundred weight. On the
same classes of freight from East st.
Louis and st. Louis to Kansas city the
present rates, which are 10, 12t and II
cents per hundred weight, will be re-
duced to 10 cents per hundred weight.
Hard coal rates will also be reduced
from the last named places to Kansas
City to 10 cents per hundred weight.
The former rates were ID cents.
Iron OF steel rails, fastenings and
Jokes for steel cable railways will be
reduced to 10 cents per hundred weight
from East st. Louis to this point. The
present rates are Is and l29 cents.
The freight agent of the Chicago q
Alton stated that reductions on classes
C., d and + from Chicago would on
January 8, be reduced to Is cents, the
same as the Wabash reductions, and
from st. Louis to 10 cents per hundred.
1t is thought probable that on that
date the Chicago & Alton will give
notice of reductions on the other classes
of freight mentioned in the reduced
list of the Wabash.
The Missouri Pacific so far has re-
nniryaI int inn NJ 70 R.Q6nnn frQi0hf
rates from the above points to Kansas
City, but in order to keep its share of
business, it will of necessity make the
reductions. 1t is the opinion of local
freight agent that the rates will go no
lower, and that those going into effect
on January 0 will hold for some time.
Commercial Agent Reed could give
no reason for the rather big reduction
in rates by the Wabash Western, other
than it meant to keep in the line with
the reduction made in Illinois.-Kansas
CITY Star
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Rounced Both orThelr,

BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 7.--Miss Mamie
Mcclure is the only daughter of a
wealthy North End grocer. For som
time past George Brown, a barber, and
Tony Thompson, dry goods clerk,
have been rival suitors for her hand
and her fathers fortune. Thompson,
who is always stylishly dressed, had
got q lap ahead of the knight of the
razor until about two weeks ago. He
had a quarrel with the girl, and for a
few days Brown was oftenest seen in
Miss McGuire's company. Brown pro-
fessed to be a warm friend of ThOmp-
son and told him confidentially the
other day that Miss Mcclure
was telling how she got rid
of him. He advised Thompson to
send the girl a note discarding all pre-
tensions to her hand and denOuncing
her condHct. This Thompson did and
Brown delivered the note. This settled
the whole business. Brown had the
field to himself and he made the most
of his opportunities.
Thompson soon learned that his pro-
fessed friends statements were false
and he challenged him TO a ring con.
contest under the Marquis of Queens
berry rules. The challenge was &C
cepted and the rivals met in sixteen
| foot ring last evening. Neil Doherty
a well known local light weight pugi
list, was chosen referee. The mel
| fought ten savage rounds, in which
each was badly punished, and thu
referee declared it a draw. Later il
in the evening when Miss McGuir,
| heard of the fight she sent a note Il
each, denouncing their action and re
| fusing to have anything further TO d.
/ with either of them.
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wed, the marriage was postponed By
mutual consent from year to year.
Matters went along in this way for
nearly five years, when Henry Evans
began paying attentions to the young
woman, and two years later she for
sock Don Carlos for Evans. The Tilted
lover swore vengeance and Evans was
killed July 10, 1887. Don Carlos was
at once accused of being the murderer
and search was begun for him, but he
could not be found.
\ gentleman from Arkansas. who
was in Wichita in October, met Don
Carlos on the street and recognized
him. He was changed greatly, but not
sufficiently to conceal his identity.
The man returned to Arkansas and,
being well acquainted with the crime,
gave information and a detective was
sent here. Don Carlos was finally
found working as boss on the Kansas
Midland. When placed under arrest
and told what he was wanted for, he
broke down and wept like a child. He
acknowledged that his name was Don
Carlos, but not that he had killed Ev-
ans. While in this city he was known
as George Brown
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Red Tape Dinners.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 5.-The first of
the annual series of presidential state
dinners was given at the white house
tonight to the members of the cabinet.
Covers were laid for thirty. The Pres
ident escorted Miss Bayard, and the
secretary of state escorted Mrs. Cleve-
land. The other guests were Mrs.
Endicott and the secretary of the treas
ury, Mrs Fairchilds and the secretary
of war, Mrs. Ingalls, and the secretary
of the navy, Mrs. Carlisle
and the secretary of the interior; Mrs.
Whitney and the postmaster-gene
Mrs. Sheridan and the president of the
senate; Mrs. Hawley and the speaker
of the house; Mrs. Hearst and General
Sheridan; Mrs. Condert and Admiral
Porter; Mrs. Berry and Governor jack
son; Mrs. Pruyn and Mr.. Condert;
Mrs. Jackson and Senator Hurst; Miss
Nelson and Senator HaWley.
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STICKING STRIKERS
The indications that They are light
sning their Hold.
Coal Shipments Steadily Decreasing
Over the Road.
New Hands BOycOttsd by Hotel Keep
ers and Others.
They are Being Chartered in Cd Cars
and Shops About the City.

READING, Pa, Jan. THE coal
shipments over the Reading railroad
since the opening of the week have de-
creased steadily, day by day and this
morning the company's tally sheet at
the Office in this city showed that hard
ly six hundred cars had come down the
road from shutdown last evening until
today. This is regarded by conserva-
tive parties as an indication that
the strikers are Tightening their
hold. OF these six hundred about one
hundred and twenty-five cars contained
soft coal from the bituminous regions.
Nearly all the anthracite now shipped
comes from the individual collieries.
The company is reserving a small sup
ply mined at its colieries for its own
use. All the individual collieries now in
operation, however, are not on the line
of the Reading railroad. Some are on
the line of the Pennsylvania road and
others on the Lehigh Valley and the
products of these are shipped over those
roads. The railroad hands who took
the places of the strikers are being boy
cotted everywhere. Hotel keepers refuse
to keep them. except at exorbitant
rates, and many of them and the
Pinkerton detectives are being quar-
tered in old passenger cars specially
fitted up in the shops in this city with
bunkS stoves etc
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No euRsrinrW ha1e1e,


WICHITA, Kas., Jan. 5.-The board
of trade desires to make the following
announcement:
To the Public
We have heard with much regret
and with much solicitude the numer-
GUS reports of suffering from cold and
starvation in some of the counties of
southwestern Kansas, and have in
stltuted searching inquiries in regard
to the truthfulneSs Of such reports.
From sources that are absolutely re-
liable we find that such reports are
without foundation and are false.
We are unable to learn of any
person. who has been frozenl to death
or died Of starvation during the late
cold weather in Kansas. Nor have any
buildings been used for fuel to protect
freezing families as the reports have
stated. These reports that have been
circulated so extensively in the east are
not only false, but are cruel, malicious
and unjust, and the author of them de-
serves the condemnation of the friends
of Kansas and punishment that
is not in our power to mete
out. We desire to say to the
friends of Kansas in the east. that
while we remember with profound
gratitude their kindly sympathy and
substantial aid in the years of our dis
tress in the early history of the state,
yet we are now happy to say that the
great prosperity of our state resulting
from its wonderful resources has
placed us in a position to care for our
poor and unfortunate without call
ing for aid outside of
our own people, and we
trust the reports referred to will cause
no further anxiety on the part of our
friends outside of the state. With its
large family Of f1ourishing cities,
southern Kansas will not allow the
surrounding country to suffer.
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rEverything IN Good shape.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6.-Responses
to the notice of General Secretary
Litchman for the payment by the local
assemblies of knights of Labor of the
January tax, are pouring into the sew
eral offices of the order. 1.-The show
ing thus made by our organization. p"
said Mr.. Litchman to-day, sis an ex-
cellent one, and furnishes a complete
answer to the people who are contin-
ually shouting over the financial dis
Indignation of the order. That is all
nonsense. We are in as good, if not
better, condition to-day than we
ever were, and these responses
show it. Where there has been
a falling off in one direction there has
been steady growth in another. An
assembly that don't pay their dues are
of course cut off. OF the 10000 as
semblies suspended for this cause last
July, l 200 have been reinstated by the
settlement of their dues. We have
nearly SOC, 900 members now, and all
in good standing. Now, these are
facts, and the talk of men opposed to
us won't alter them. We are ready for
a new year under the very brightest OF
DrOSDectSn
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LiGuOr Permits REFUSED.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Jan. There
has been much interest manifested here
to know what action the board of
supervisors would take in the matter
of granting permits to wholesale liquor
dealers for the ensuing year. Besides
three regularly established wholesale
houses which have done a business of
thousands of dollars year there were
applications fled by number of par
ties who eventually contemplated going
into business solely to evade the pro-
hibitory law. Two of these were ex-
saloon keepers whose retail places
have been closed by the
prohibitory law. Another was proprIe-
tor of a gambling house and another
was r. Seller, proprietor of brewery,
who asked permission of the board to
manufacture and sell for lawful pur-
poses. Numerous circumstances
against the granting of all permits have
been filed, and last night in caucus the
board decided, by vote of three to
two, not to issue any permits during
the ensuing wear
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SAVANNAH, Ca, Jan. Judge
Emory Speer in charging the grand
jury of the district court of the United
States Wednesday called attention to
conflict between the legislature of
the United States and the liquor laws
of the state of Georgia. Under the
state laws the sale of liquor is pro-
hibited in certain counties of
the states and yet the internal
revenue department of the United
States issues licenses for the liquor
traffic in these same counties. Judge
Speer suggested.to the grand jury that
they address the representatives OF
Georgia in congress with a view OF OBJ,
tanning a mobilization of the United
States laws which authorizes such
licenses without reference to state leg
islation which holders of license in
tend to violate.
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stamping out the Doggerias.

Chicago, January 3.-City Collector
O'Nahan, in a letter to the mayor and
city council regarding the operation of
the Chicago high license system, says
while it has not greatly reduced the
number of saloons. it has
certainly prevented an Overwhelming
increase, but for it he
thinks, we would have upwards of
{. 900 instead of less than 1000 saloons.
He suggests remedies for defects in
the law, notably cancellation of the
provision allowing the payment of the
$500 license installment, which, in a
measure defeats the prime objects of
the law. He thinks an insistance on
payments in advance would reduce by
several hundred the present num-
beI of saloons. Mr.. O'Naaan
further says that at present
upwards of three-quarters of all bonds,
or for 5000 saloons, are signed by
brewers, who likewise pay more than
one-half the license.
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Railroad Record .

CHICAGO, Jan. 5.-The Railway age
will publish its record of foreclosure
sales and receiverships in the United
States. showing that no less than
thirty-one different railways, aggregat-
ing 5,478 miles, and representing an
apparent capital invested of 1928 900, :
600, were sold in bankruptcy during
1887.
The Age says: 1T is remarkable
that while by far the greater part OF
the railway building has been carried
in the wild and presumably reckless
west, the old, conservative and wealthy
eastern states of New York and Penn
sylvania, furnished nearly one-third OF
the roads that had to be closed out
during the year, while none of the
states in the west or south make such
showing of reckless or unfortunate
management
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EIIandinC SYmnnIhY-

Philadelphia, January ga mass
meeting under the auspices of the
National Fishery Association adopted
resolutions of sympathy with the
fishers of New England in the
existing fishery troubles, de-
claring that Canadian vessels
would be denied in our ports
any right which Canada denies to our
fishermen, calling upon the President
to call the measures invested in him by
the forty-ninth congress protest
ing against any re-establishment
of the One-sided reciprocity with Can
ada such as existed in the years 1854,
1857, and against the proposal 20 admit
the Canadian fisher other products
free of duty, declaring that
fish should be raised to
at least two cents per pound and on
fresh fish at least 4 cent per pound.
Copies were ordered sent to the presi-
dent, house and senate, governors of
all the states, senators and representa-
tives of Pennsylvania in congress.
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FOR EIGN.
$4,000. 900 FRANC FAILURE.

I0,UUU.UUU FRANC FAII URE.
PARIS, Jan. Sit is reported that
the failure said to have occurred this
morning, was that of NJ. Caltenboth,
extensive Spectator in Rio Tinto min
ing shares, whose liabilities are said to
be Is, 0O0, 600 francs.
REPORTS \ WRECK.
LONDON, Jan. 5.-The American
bark Eureka, which was supposed to
have been lost off Waterford, has ar
rived at Queenstown. She reports
having had terrible passage.
CHOLERA RAGING.
LIMA, Jan. GA newspaper of this
city stated last evening that according
to private dispatch from Valparaiso,
cholera has increased at that point to
an alarming extent, the number Of
cases daily reaching 100. of which so to
30 prove fatal
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Becoming Alarmed .

HELENA, Mont, Jan. mining
men of Montana are becoming alarmed
over the fact that vast majority of
public land in the territory is
being leased by United States
Surveyors as agents, thus al
lowing it to be claimed by the
Northern Pacific railroad under their
grant. Concerted action is being
taken to apprise the general land Office
of the real facts in the case. The
Helena board of trade has sent = COM
munication to the secretary of the in
terror reciting the facts and praying
that the patents to the Northern Pa
cific railroads for lands in the Noun
famous districts of Montana be with
held for sixty days.
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Going East for treatment.

WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 6.-Col. NJ. NJ
Murdoch returned to his home in this
city to-day from Ell Dorado, where he
had been for day or two in attend
ance upon his brother, Hon. T. B.
Murdoch, who was stricken with
blindness ten days ago. He reports
his brother as still in total darkness,
though not without hopes for the res
tomorrow will start with his brother
for New York to place him under
treatment of the most skillful optician
and surgeon in the country.
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Injured Fire.

SHERMAN, Texas, Jan. Fire yes.
terday destroyed the Southern hotel
and two private residences. The fol.
lowing persons were injured:
A. a. Leard, proprietor of the hotel
badly burned about the face, arms
and body.
Lee Rollins, badly burned and
bruised.
Mrs. Leard, severely injured by
jumping from second story balcony.
Lon Lowe, fireman jumped from the
second story, cut and bruised.
A. L. Meredith, fremen, hands
arms, face and head badly burned.
insurance about Sc, 600.
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SDeeIaI Rates 60 S0cie.tes.

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 5.-A meeting of
the passenger agents of Kansas roads
was held in the Union Pacific building
yesterday evening at which requests
for reduced rates to special meetings
were considered. The following re-
quests were granted: One fare to the
G. A. r. encampment at Winfield in
March; one fare to the 1. o. o. F. en-
campment at Fort Scott in March; one
fare to the Kansas Medical association
meeting at Topeka in April, and one
fare from points within a radius of 200
miles of Ottawa for the Sunday school
assembly next summer.
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of Wisconsin; Bowen, of Virginia
Wickham, of Ohio; Gest. of Illinois
| Smith, of Arizona; James, of Ala
| bama: wilkins, of Ohio; Rice, of Min
nesota; Warner, of Missouri; Arnold
of Rhode Island; Delano. Of New
Expenditures in Postofiee Depart
msnE-Dockery, of Missouri, Chair
man man; G0T1es, OF IF North Mort y Car
Anderson, Of Mississippi; Brown, OF
Ohio; Shaw, Of Illinois; Mofitt, Of New
York.
Expenditures in the Interior De.
partment-Hudd. of Wisconsin, chair.
man; Bliss, Of New York; O'Neill, OF
Missouri; Washington, of Tennessee;
Brumm, of Pennsylvania; West, Of
New York; Brown, Of Virginia.
Expenditures on Public Buildings
T. ]. Campbell, of New York, chairman;
Dougherty, of Florida; Barry, of Mis-
sissippi; Walker, Of Missouri; Milllken,
Of Maine; Yardley, Of Pennsylvania;
Reform in the Civil Service-Clem-
ents, Of Georgia, chairman; Dorgan, of
South Carolina; Stone. of Missouri;
Of Maryland; Pheian, Of Tennessee ee:
Abbott, of Texas: Anderson, of Lou
isiana; Bayne, of Pennsylvania: Hop
kins, of Illinois; Spooner, of Rhode
Island; Fitch, of New York; Thomas,
of Kentucky.
The election of President and Vice
Observation-Disclosures. Of Pennsyl-
vania, chairman; Grain, of Texas; Peel,
OF Arkansas; Cummings, Of New York;
Logan, of Louisiana, LAWYER, of Hi
nois; Cothren, of South Carolina; Row
land, of North Carolina; Baker, of Hi
nois; Osborn, of Pennsylvania; Brown,
of Ohio; Baker, of New York; Kenna,
of New Jersey.
Eleventh Census-Cox, of New York,
chairman; Biount, of Georgia;
Holman, Of Indiana; ClaFdy,
Taulbee, of Kentucky; Perry, of South
Kenna, of California; j. D. Taylor, of
Ohio; Hopkins, of Virginia; Maffett,
of Pennsylvania; Sherman, of New
York.
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic.. E..
Campbell, of Ohio, chairman; Bland,
of Missouri; Merriman, Of New York;
McRoe, of Arkansas; Anderson, of
Illinois; McClammy, of North Carolina;
Hunter, of Kentucky; Cheadle. of In
diana; Moffett, of New York; Yost, of
Virginia.
SHERIDAN INVITED TO SHEAk.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-An of the
protection members of the Massa-
chusetts congressional delegation, ac-
companied by Mr.. Herbert Radielyffe,
of the Home Market Club, of Boston,
called upon Senator Sherman
to-day in body for the
purpose of urging him to accept
an invitation to be present and to
speak at q complimentary banquet
which the Home Market Club proposes
to give him in Boston some time this
month or early in February. The
club is a protection organization.
and is devoted particularly to
the interest of wool growers.
Senator Sherman accepted the invita-
tion, and viii probably be accompanied
ley, of Ohio, and Golf, of West Vir-
ginia. The date of the banquet will
be fixed in a few DAYS.
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Murdered rorLoxe.

WICHITA, Jan. 6.-Percy Don Carlos
was arrested to-day charged with
numbering Henry Evans at Tulip.
Dallas county. Ark, January 10, 1887.
His parents were wealthy and in
fiuentiaI citizens before the war and
owned a vast plantation and many
slaves in Dallas county. Percy was
the only son and was about IA years of
age when the war broke out, and the
family were much impoverished and the
son became reckless and worthless.
When about q years old he fell in love
with q handsome young woman, the
daughter of q neighhOr, but as his
finances were IN no shape for him 70
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E4na Not Reen PaDhanaIed,

TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. Ex-Governor
Martin states that he has received no
appeals for relief from southwestern
Kansas, where the people are said to
be suffering. There is individual suf-
fering there incidental to all new set
Elements. but the accounts of COM
munities being frozen to death and
starving, are simply the widest sort of
exaggeration.
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rae Antls' RIOvemenfs.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 6.-The pro-
visionai committee of the anti admins
tration Knights Of Labor has at last
decided upon plan by which its OBJ
ject is to be attained, and the general
Offices Of the Knights condemned or ex-
onerated as the issue Of the case may
result: 1t has been decided to begin a
suit in equity against the general
ofices of the order for an
accounting of the fund. and
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natural Gas ExpIoslOn.

PTTrsBURG, Pa, Jan. 7.-Annie Bue-
cher, a young lady living with her pa
rents on South Thirtieth street, went
into the cellar this morning with a
lighted lamp. An explosion of natural
gas followed which partly wrecked the
house and damaged a number of dwell
ings in the vicinity. Miss Buecher was
thrown to the ground and fatally
burned. A younger brother attempted
to rescue her and was painfully burned
on the hands and face. The explosion
was caused by leak in main. which
filed the cellar with gas. The loss was
or nnIl
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BECK RenoInInatala

LOUISVILLE, KY, Jan. 5.-Senator
Beck, who was renominated by the
Democratic caucus at Frankfort last
to the election, will be elected next
Wednesday. The nomination was
made by reclamation, there being nc
opposition. This viii be Senator Beck'e
third term in the senate, his second
expiring March 4. 1887,
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Confess Election Cases.

WASHINGTON. Jan. THE COM
mittee on elections after brief session
to-day postponed the Theobe- Carlisle
contested election case until next
Saturday in order to give Mr.. Carlisle
an opportunity to make formal reply
if he chose to the affidavits submitted
by the contestant. The committee has
notified the various counsel in other
contested cases to appear on Friday
next, so that days may be named for
the consideration of cases.
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RaIa.nr fha LIcenae

Nevada, Mo-, January, AT a re-
cent meeting of the city council, the
saloon license was raised from $500 to
81 200. which went into effect to-day,
the present license expiring at Il
O'Clock last right. All the saloons in
the city, twelve in number, closed their
doors and the city is practically local
option place at this time