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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-11-01
UNION PACIFIC MATTERS.

Reduction Of the Debt IN Pour Years, Increase
Mileage bat no Dividends IN Sight.
Boston, Oct, 25.-At the Union Pa
cific directors meeting yesterday VIM.
H. Holcomb was chosen director vice
Mr.. Colgate resigned. Subsequently
Mr.. Holcomb was chosen vice president
to succeed the late Thos. ]. Potter as
chief executive officer of the Union Pa
cidc system, resident at Omaha. L. 7.
Kimbali was appointed general mana
ger and G. s. Miller assistant general
manager. The president stated that
no changes in the organization of the
Union Pacific were contemplated. Mr..
Holcomb Is the present general mana
ger Of the Oregon Railway 81 Naviga-
ton company, to which position he was
appointed on the recommendation Of
the late Thos. j. Potter. He had pre-
go, Burlington g. Quincy road and later
with the Chicago, burlington g. North
ern.
The question of paying a dividend
was not raised nor was there any dis
cusSion as to the resumption of divi-
dends by the company, either now or
hereafter. The matter was in no way
alluded to. The company now has u
floating debt for which provision in
cash has been made. Funds (S3, 900, 0OO)
have also been provided to pay for u
large amount Of new equipment re-
Gently ordered, only portion of which
has yet been delivered. The company
has no work of construction now going
on. The extension of the Salina, Lin
coin & Western road to Colby, about
l75 miles was completed on the 10th
for this work has been provided. Dur
ing the four years. between June 80,
1884, and June 80, 1888, the surplus in
come OF the system to the amount Of
S13 500 900 has been put into the prop
erty. About S5 900 tons of steel have
also, during the period named, been
put into the tracks of the system in
place of iron.
A table showing the condition of the
funded and floating debt OF the com
pany, its mileage and its debt per mile,
accompanies the statement. From
this 1t appears that the entire funded
aud floating debt has been reduced
since June so, 1884. from SI55, Az, $3.50
| to 14S ,626, 1859, including all accrued in
| terest to the government, and that in
this same time the mileage has been
increased from 4,419 to 4,794. The
debt per mile stands at $3l ,191, as
/ against S35, ITO. There has been slight
1 increase in the debt since December
1887. The increase amounts to 81 ,436,
e87. The result of the financial opera
ton of the whole Union Pacific sys
tenn for the twelve months ended june
so, 1888, is: Gross earnings of the en-
tire system, S29, 029, 453; surplus earn
ings, Sill ,l59 1886; total income, S12,
259 ,4S2; total expenses, 81 500. 103; sur
plus less United States requirement.
(approximate). 90, 1856, 579.
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korteaee swindIs Unea-thss.

CHICAGO, Oct. 27.-The fact has just
transpired that Gustave Fake, "a native
of Sweden, was arrested here on Thurs
day charged with being a confederate
in q gigantic mortgage swindle where
by the Guaranty association of Stock
holm, Sweden, is the loser to an enor-
NOUS amount. a little less than q
week ago the Swedish vice consul at
Chicago received word from Washing
ton that the authorities at Stockholm
had sent broadcast a circular deScrib-
ing Fake who was wanted for forgery.
He communicated the fact to the police
authorities with the result above given.
Fake turned over to the officers the
keys to an apartment in the National
Safety deposit vaults where they found
$2,114 in bank notes. He also sur
chain which lie had purchased
with the proceeds of his forgery and
made written confession. In his
sworn statement he reveals gigantic
conspiracy to commit fraud in which
he himself is but an insignificant
factor. He says that in Stockholm
there exists gang of mortgage for
gers and confidence operators who
have swindled the banks for years.
That they are extremely Secretive
and only communicate with each other
by mail. He gave the names of his
companions and on this information
the CONSUL Immediately cabled the
authorities at Stockholm to cause
their arrest. Fake is about forty-five
years of age, has q wife and family liv-
ing in Sweden and although he has a
German name, is native of Scanda-
navia. He says that his share of the
forgeries amounted to 81, 500 and he
cannot tell what the others received,
because each negotiated the sale of the
| forged mortgages and kept
the proceeds. The exact manner in
which the fraud was perpetrated is
not known Fake will be held for ex-
| tradition.
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Eel PAso, Texas, Oct. 26.-The task
of enforcing the Chinese exclusion act
proves to be no easy one along the Mex
lean frontier. Ell PasO, Texas, and
PasO del Norte, Mexico, are separated
only by the Rio Grande, which is at
present practically dry and is fordable
for ten months of the year. There are
two or three hundred Cinnamon N the
two cities. Heretofore they have
crossed freely from one to the other.
Collector Magoffin is enforcing the laws
as fully as the small force of inspectors
permits, but it is an easy matter for
the Chinse to violate them, moreover.
the Chinemen can easily come up the
Mexican Central railroad, or across
the country from Guaymas or other
Pacific points, and slip across the line
into the United States.
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sabvIouiau Expedition Wrecked

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-The Baby.
lonian expedition of the university of
Pennsylvania which left this city for
shipwrecked in the Mediterranean
Sea. The expedition was to have
reached Palestine about the beginning
of October and would have proceeded
thence directly to site of Babylon,
Nineveh, the ancient capital OF Assy-
ria in order to begin archaeological
excavations. Instead of being at the
present time engaged in digging up
and hginging to light the remains of
bygone civilization, the members of
the expedition are themselves outcasts
on an island in the Mediterranean Sea
with most of their baggage and scien-
tito apparatus lost, or seriously dam
aged, with little prospect of being con-
Veyed to the point of destination.
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IN HOT WATER.
LO;d sackville's Case to be Laid Be-
fore the British Authorities.
President Cleveland Reviews a Big
Democratic Parade.
A Mortgage Forgery Gang Exposed
by One Of the Principals.
A Michigan Banker in Europe Wants
to Dizzy His Stealings.

LONDON. Oct. 26.-The Sackville let
ter incident has caused considerable
stir in diplomatic circles. Mr.. Phelps,
the United States minister, has gone to
Hatfield house, Lord Salisbury's coun-
try seat in HertfOrdshire, to see Lord
Salisbury. He called first at the for
eign Office, and finding the prime min
lister gone, he immediately followed
him to his country seat. It's said that
Lord Salisbury favors the retirement
of Lord Sackville.
The officials at the United States le-
CATION are extremely reticent on the
subject of the Sackville affair. The
first secretary of the legation, when
questioned about the matter, refused
to talk.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-In reply to
an inquiry as to what steps have been
taken by this government in regard to
the letter of the British minister, Sec
rotary Bayard said to-day: I'VE SIM
ply LAID the facts at once, and as mat
ter of course. before our minister at
the court of st. James, to be commune
Gated by him to her majesty's govern
ment." In regard to the cable dis
patch of this morning, stating that q
report is current in Londen that Lord
Salisbury favors the recall of Lord
Sackville, the secretary said: THAT is
merely a London rumor, of which
know nothing"
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COncsrning 4 Real Bstate Transfer.


CHICAGO, Oct. PA special dis
patch 70 the Evening Journal from
Detroit says:
Lawyer William 4. Walsh told the
Journal correspondent this afternoon
the real status of Nathan COrwith's
transfer of his Chicago real estate.
Late Saturday afternoon an old man
notlceably nervous and somewhat eX
cited accompanied by his elderly wife,
called at the Russell House and asked
for q room. He did not request their
names to be written on the register,
but the visitors were Nathan Corwith
and wife, OF New York. In a few
moments after he had gone to his room
he returned and called for a lawyer
Walsh. He then explained his errand,
stating that the instrument
must be signed tonight, consequently
Walsh did the work using VIM. LOots
notarial seal, but scratching out the
name and placing his own in its place,
a thing frequently done. Mr.. Corwith
said to meet him at the Russell house
at IL O'Clock that night and his son
Nathan COrwith, Jr., would be there
be continued. About 11:30 O'Clock
Walsh went to the hotel and at Has
went to Corwith's room to witness the
transfer of the property to Glare ce F.
Birdsye, of Brooklyn, New York. for
800 and certain and valuable pro-
perty." They talked some time and
discussed matters and it is certain that
the papers were not completed until
Sunday morning and this brings up
the question of the validity of the
deeds and the attorney who did the
work says that he stopped his ears so as
not to hear the city hall clock strike II
o'clock. The papers were signed and
sealed by Mr.. and Mrs. Corwlth in the
presence of Fred Z. Guenther and
certain preferred, creditors. Mr.. Cor
with and wife left Detroit Sunday
morning.
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Crntnn on In tha Bonn.

WABASH, Ind, Oct. 26.-The mem
bers of the German Baptist Church in
this and Huntington counties are
greatly excited over an outrage COM
mitted at church in the Mishler
neighborhoOd, Huntington county.
Several days ago communion service
was celebrated there, which includes
serving soup and washing feet. Some
scoundrels managed to dose the soup
with q quantity of croton Oil. The
cooks discovered the substance and
SKINNED some of it off. AS it was,
about one-quarter of the congregation
were taken violently i'll with severe
crampings, and several have not yet
recovered. An effort is being made
to learn who committed the dastardly
act.
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A Trusts.

MEMPHIS, Oct. 26.-The grand jury
of the criminal court of Shelby county
to-day returned an Indictment against
Benjamin GrotZ, Anderson GrotZ.
T. E. Jones, Joel Wood and Mr.. War
rem the members of the firm of
Warren, Jones & Croft, of st. Louis,
manipulators of the bagging trust,
pool or combination. The indictment
charges them with unlawfully agree
ing and conspiring TO buy up all the
bagging in the markets and the out
puts of mills for several months and
advanced the prices double what they
were before.
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wolves Killino shooO aad colt..

HELENA, Mont, Oct. 25.-WolYes
and coyotes are doing great damage In
northern Montana, having killed in the
last few days many hundreds of sheep
and colts, besides attacking travellers.
&. w. jackson, merchant Of Helena,
barely escaped with his life few weeks
ago. It is reported Charles Adams was
compelled to ny from the beasts in
Chonteau county Monday night, when
they destroyed eighty of his thorough
bred bucks. Tuesday night 100 sheep
were killed In one flock, also thirty
colts, belonging to another ranchman.
The bounty law was repealed at the
last session of the legislature and the
wolves and coyotes have increased to
An alarming extent
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An Iowa Land Contest.

FIT. DODGE, Iowa, Oct. 25.-The
United States marshals have within the
Last week evicted five settlers from the
so-called Des Moines river lands. Yes
terdsY something of a sensation was
caused by b. Z. Boynton, president of
the Settlers Union organization, which
has been fighting the River Land COM
pany's title for five years, buying the
company's title, thus retiring person
ally from the controversy. Several
uty marshal who was executing q writ
Of ejectment. Since then more vigor-
GUS measures have been pursued
against them. No less than five prom
inent settlers have given in this week
and bought the company's title.
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Kansas SYNOD.
The Twenty-Pirst Annual Convention Election Of
0ficsrs and 2eports-

The Twenty-First Annual CsnveEtion-Ele0tion Of
0ffcsrs and 2eports.
LAWRENCE, Kas., Oct. 25.-After the
usual devotional exercises led by Rev.
j. A. Lowe, of Hutchinson, Kansas.
the twenty-frst annual convention OF
the Kansas Synod was called to order
by the president, Rev. j. M. Dreamer.
of Kansas City. The president as the
retiring officer then read the report OF
his official acts during the year. The
report showed a number of designations
as well as installations, the laying OF
corner stones and the dedication OF
churches and number Of charges va
cant with no one in view to fill them.
The election of officers followed which
resulted in the choice of Rev. w. Ri.
Spar, president; Rev. @. D. Gotwald,
secretary; A. L. Selig, treasurer.
The newly elected officers were prop
eriy instructed into their respective Of
tices. Rev. Stirreo, the agent of the
American Bible society, was introduced
and proceeded to address the synod
upon the Importance of regulating the
! work of God. In the afternoon the
president announced his special COM
mittees and the clerical members of the
synod read their parochial reports.
These reports were encouraging in the
main. The general benevolence Of the
synod exceed the apportionment by 81 y
| 400.17.
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Progtrated b. an old Wound.

DUBUQUE, Iowa, Oct. s26.-Four
months ago George Lucas shot him
self in the head with revolver. The
ball entered the frontal lobe of the
brain Just above the center OF the fore
head. Contrary to all expectations he
recovered after several weeks prostra-
around apparently well, mentally and
physically as he ever was. The wound
discharged matter some time and fin
ally healed up. Yesterday while walk
ing on the streets he fell in q fit which
was followed by a comatose condition.
When aroused from this he had re-
neWal of commissions.
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ordar 81 Yidatten ii Tsxan.

FORT WORTH, Tex, Oct. 24.-The
Gazette tomorrow will print he ritual
and bylaws of secret military polit-
ical oESer that has been formed in
Texas and which is a branch of the
National Order of Videttes. The
National Order of Videttes was
organized first in Jack county, Texas,
in 1886, and the first state organization
was perfected in Fort Worth the same
year. The organization is q secret po-
htical wheel which works within the
Knights of Labor, the State Grange,
the Farmers Alliance and county po-
litical organizations. 1t aims to ma
nipulate local politics for the good Of
the labOring classes. In Kansas it
fights republicans, while in Texas it
fights democrats, always in IL local aud
aacraf NvaN
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A PhilanthrOpIst Donates q hi lion
for the Education Of Blacks.
A tennessee Treasurer Missing and
Also $4,000 Of the Funds.
Texas vidsttss Exposed by the Publ
cation Of Their Ritual.
A. Conflict Likely to Occur at the
Canadian Pacific Crossing.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 25-Dan-
Tel Hand, an aged and wealthy resi-
dent Of Guilford, near this city, has
given one million dollars to the Amer
lean Missionary society of New York
city, to be held in trust by the associa-
ton and the interest to be devoted to
the education of cOlOred people in the
old slave states Of the south. The as
ISOLATION Is to have unrestricted charge
Of the expenditure Of the interest.
except that 1t must be devoted to the
education of such colored people as are
needy and INDECENT and such as by
their health, strength and viRor of
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A Return to Duty.

This is always desirable, and the speedier IL
takes place the better. Doubly welcome Is it in
the case of those usually industrious little
organs, the kidneys, which, when they go on
strlke-so to speak-and drop work, seriously I'M
peril health in more than one way. First and
foremost their inaction begets their disease,
which is hydra healed, including such danger
GUS maladIes as Brighps disease and diabetes.
Next, when inactive they fail TO assist in remoV-
motism, govt and dropsy. Third, their inaction
Weakens the bladder. All this is preventable
and remediable by the pleasant promoter of or
ganic action, HOstetteFs stomach Bitterss At
once tonic and a regulator. This gently but
effectually impels the kidneys to return TO duty,
and strengthens them and the bladder. Upon
the bowels stomach and liver it likewise exefts q
regulating and invigor ating influence, and tt
strengthens the system, and averts and remedies
malaria and rheumatism.
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been made tosolve the mysteryof these
four bloody crimes. The terror OF the
negroes is increased by their natural
superstition. They insist that all
these crimes have been committed by
some mysterious yoodo man or Wom-
an. A short time before the flrst MUIR
der was committed two horses belong
ing TO negro woman named Sarah
clared they had been YoodOOed and had
q doctor examine the stomachs Of the
dead animals. In the stomach of one
was found q small snake. while that of
the other contained q lizard. This the
negroes firmly believe was the work of
a yoodc.
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Waldrou Weakens.

HILLsDALE, Mich, Oct.27-CharleS
w. Waldron, the banker who recently
fed. leaving E. C. Koon, his partner,
badly in the lurch, had by means of
the firms notes, etc., which he floated
placed Mr.. KOon in a condition to
lose about $4,000. Mr.. Koon has
already paid about $50, 900 out of his
private funds. Now Waldron in a let
ter offers to pay the 600 now out
standing if Unsatisfactory arrangement
can be made, one which will not make
Waldron law breaker. In order to
make this arrangement Colonel John
Atkinson and Henry G. Thurber OF
Detroit will leave for Europe to-day.
Atkinson is Waldron's attorney and
Thurber goes in the interests of MI
KOOn
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A Street Cav Riot.

CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-AbOut 1890
O'Clock this morning, as Clark street
grip car was going north between Gar
field and Webster avenue, a gang of
men got on the car. When the car got
into Lakeview the gang assaulted Geo.
the conductor, new men. The conduc-
ter and driver were struck several
times, after which Conductor Ashford
drew a revolver fired two shots which
took effect in H. BoWman's head, in
hcting serious though not fatal wound
The Lakeview police were quickly on
hand and arrested several of the gang
and locked them up.
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An Oid Mau suicidss,

CINCINNATI, Oct. GA janitor at
the exposition building this morning
found, lying on the steps near the sec
retary's Office, the dead body of man
who had deliberately committed suicide
with a razor, being the third case Of
the kind that week. His shirt collar
was marked p. Hartman, and in his
pocket was an envelope marked Wash
IngtOn Park hotel. There it was as
certained that he had registered there
October 10 from Hopkinsville, Ken
tucky.1 He was about sixty years old
wore light mustache and thin whisk.
ers. He was suffering from an ulcer
which may have been the impelline
cause of his suicide.
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at mass meeting In Winnipeg strong
resolutions were passed. At the IN
stance Of the Canadian Pacific ofhcia1s
the local militia corps has been ordered
TO the scene Of action and are now en-
route to be ready for an emergency.
For the purpose arming the govern
ment's special constables large num-
Der OF revolvers were purchased last
night. The second injunction procured
by the Canadian Pacific will be argued
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PARIS, KY, Oct. ga north bound
train on the Kentucky Censral railroad
yesterday afternoon left the track of
the Richmond extension near here.
Engineer Robert Black jumped but was
atallylnJured- Elmore BrVon, passen-
form and was fatally injured. John
Ryan. brakeman, was severely injured;
also j. j. Allen, engineer of the Chesa-
peake q Ohio road, who was passen-
ger
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sinnr Indiana Reinforced.

PIERCE, Dakota, Oct. 26.-About
200 Sioux Indians under White Ghost
from lower Brule agency, passed up
Babe river yesterday to reinforce
the Standing Rock Indians in the ru-
mored coming fight with the Crow In
dams. 1t is expected that Charger
with about 800 Indians will join them
at Cheyenne. The Crows are out in
force and were expected to strike the
blow while the Sioux chiefs were at
Washington, but they are late, as the
latter have returned.
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Bucklen's Arnica Sslve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum.
fever sores. letter. chapped hands,
ehilblains, corns, and all skin erup-
tions, and positively cures piles, or nc
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund.
de. Price 25 cents per box. For sale
by B. WheldOn.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-Caleb w.
West, governor of Utah. in his annual
report TO the secretary of the interior,
estimates the population of the terrific
ry at 210 600, an increase of about ct, goo
since 1890. The assessed taxable valu-
alton is stated to be $40 $40, 073, an in
crease of about 81 900 during the year.
Owing to the unusually light rain fall
during the growing season dry farming
has not been suceess.but, irrigated
land has Toduced abundantly.
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A Weman'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 DIR. 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. C. Hamrick s. Co., of Shelby, n. G.
Get free trial bottle at Ben WHEEL
don'S Drug Store.
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REVENGE.
Chinese Enforolng the Boycott Agains
American Articles.
Merchants Notified to Cease Purchss-
ing for Chinese Markets.
MOngOIians Find Easy Access to This
Country from Mexico.
The Members of the Baeging Trust
Indicted at Memphis.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-The following
Chinese circular has just been received
by the Chinese merchants of New
York, from their home Offices in Hong
Kong and Shanghai: Gentlemen
You are hereby notified that you are
to Immediately discontinue the pur-
chase of the following articles from
American sources for the markets
here, as they are being severely boy
cotted kin maid) by members OF the
trades unions and other citizens. These
are the articles now prescribed:
Petroleum.
White sheeting.
All kinds of American calico.
Watches.
American firearms.
Ginseng root.
Flour.
With the exception of a few firms in
New York the above circular will have
no effect, but MANY San Francisco
firms will feel it more severely, as sew
eral of them are heavy dealers in
American -four, petroleum and cotton
goods.