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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-19
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PITTsBURG, April 1s.-Fire broka
out in p. Walters store, at Nurt
Braddock, Pennsylvania, at $3.50 oscIoet
this morning, and before the aasnee
could be controlled twelve stores eIlI7
dwellings were destroyed. The loss s
estimated at 10000. Fifty peo13s
were rendered homeless by the dls..
which spread SO rapidly that the oca.zz.
pants of the dwellings barely escaois'zl
with their lives.
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Shot Rtrlker.

AURORA, H., April IF. G. Perry,
one of the Burlington engineers, was
set upon by a crowd of roughs last
night. He drew arevolyer and fired,
seriously wounding Chris Hester, one
of the strikers. Perry was arrest ed.
The Burlington company complains
that sufficient police protection is not
given it's men here.
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AnEmbezzIer hun Down.

CHICAGO, April lotto Austenat.
late cashier Of the passenger and
freight department of the Atchision,
Topeka s. Santa Fe railroad at
Nickerson, Kansas, has been arrested
at Bremen, Illinois. He embeZZled
some of the company's funds and fed
on March End. since which time he has
led the officers quite q chase.
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ONE 80 Anrn u ,sas

81 LOUIE No, april Is, KS.
CATTEE-Recefpfs, roo head; steady
Hoos-Reeeipts, 400 head; lower; choice
heavy ana butchers, s5i99545; packing,
8. fGfb&25; light grades, 8 OOG523
SHEEP--Reeeipfs, LOO: steady.
WHKAT-Easier: No. red, cash, S4tsc;
Nay, S6cs July, 6154c: December, SIC
CoRs-Lower; cash, sic; May, 6lsl; !. July,
6zTs-LOwer; cash. sae; Nay. axe: june
Foax-Jobbing, sl45s.
LkRz-1Ta5
WHDRY-4i09s
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Earthquake in a Box Car

MONTGOMERY, Ala, April IA
box car containing 100 kegs of powder
in the Louisville s. Nashville yards
here blew up to-day. shaking the whole
town. Windows were blown half a
mile away and plastering was shaken
down a greater distance. A negro car
coupler standing near was blown to
pieces. Sparks from passing engine
gnited the car.
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WAsHnEGToN, April 1.-THE state
department, at the hour of closing last
night. had received no information in
regard to the hosting of the British
flag over Christmas, Tanning and PEN
rhyn islands. The United States lays
claim to but one island in the Pacific
ocean, which We hold by right of dis
coyery. is stated, therefore, that
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Wounded bv strav shots,

LAS CRUCES, n. NJ, April 17.-While
two Indian policemen attempted to ar
rest Sacti. Mescaleoro Apache Indi-
an, and his son who were drunk and
causing trouble in camp fight ensued
in which one policeman was killed,
Sacati's son was fatally and three Wo-
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Too Much forHer.

First Young Lady (confidentiallyl-
That Mr.. De Sweet is perfectly awful.
He caught me along the hall last even
ing and gave me an awful hug.
Second Young Lady-Isn't he,
though? He did the same thing to me.
what? To your"
"Yes; guess it was right after he
caught you.
"I'll have the fellow arrested this
very day."
About twenty mule teams, under
charge of nearly as many men, passed
through to-day, going from near Wich-
tia to Wyandotte, where they expect
to grade new railroad.
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and conveyed to the membe es of the
royal family, it being intishated to
them that the emperor requir the ut
most care, though, for the cement,
there is no immediate danger. The
empress has postponed her proposed
visit on Thursday to Luneborg and
WitteuberQ.
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Solid for Blaine.

STOCKTON, Kan, April 14.-The
representative county convention that
met to-day and elected delegates to
Oberlin, Wichita and Russell, passed
resolutions instructing delegates to
vote for no one who will not support
James G. Blaine for president.
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PITTsBURG, Pa, April 14.-Ensign
Ryan it is stated will not marry Miss
Parsons, and his friends claim he will
contest the case in court if need be.
Minnie herself wants to remain with
an opera company in New York, and
is herself inclined to drop the suit,
but her parents refuse to do so.
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The BarIingson Crippled.

Kansas CITY, April 1s.-An Bur-
Iington switchmen in the yards here
quit work at seven O'Clock last even
ing and the road is badly crippled in
handling freight here. The cause of
the strike was the refusal of the COM
pany to reinstate switehman whom
they had discharged for assaulting the
vorffu aSfpF
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RUIeI1 nv RUrVIor.

TOLEDO, Ohio, April 16.-The store
and dwelling house of Henry Dickman
was entered by burglars yesterday
morning. Dickman and his son were
awakened and grappled with the in
truders. The latter fired and young
Dickman was fatally shot. The burg
lars then made their escape.
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The Purchase OFGOvernment Bonds.

WASHINGTON, April I7,-SecretaTy
Fairchild gave notice this afternoon
that on Monday, April %, and daily
thereafter at noon until further notice,
proposals will be received in the Office
of the secretary of the
treasury for the sale of the
government of the United States bonds
of the acts of July IA, 1870, and Janu-
airy 20, 1871. Proposals should state
the specific character of the bonds Of
fered whether coupon or registered, and
must be for sale of the bonds with &C
crued interest to. and including. the
day OF sale. The right is reserved to
reject any and all proposals for the
sale of bonds if it is thought to be for
the interest of the government to dc
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ADepaf RIoWnUn.

WABASH. Ind. April 1s.-The depot
of the Cincinngti, Wabash s. Michigan
Railroad company at this place was
blown up with dynamite early yester-
day morning, presumably by citizens,
though Just who were implicated in
the act is not known. The destruction
of the depot is the outcome of a
SsrYIdQe
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Dreaded Die.

CARRoLL, Iowa, April lev. A.
Overmeyer, of Templeton, who has
been feeling respondent for some
time over business troubles, killed
himself in the presence of his wife,
brother and two friends yesterday.
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England wins the First Heat.

LONDON. April 1.-THE first of the
three bicycle races to be contested by
William A. Rome, of America, and
Richard Howell, of England, fol- the
championship of the world and
$40, 900, took place to-day at Leicester.
The distance was Eve miles. Howell
won the race by five yards in 10 30 II.
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AGrand Meer

LONDON April 14.-Queen Victoria
has invited the king and queen of Italy
to visit Windsor castle in June, and
they have accepted the invitation, pro-
vided the situation of affairs at the
time will hermit
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Kflaea IN hfs Own Door

MEXICO, No., April 1S.-SamueI
2. Apgar, aged sixty, an invalid and
veteran of the Mexican and civil wars
was called to his door at two O'Clock
yesterday morning and assassinated.
Suspicion points to q relative as his
murderer.
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Favorable 20 a $780, 600 Building Al

WASHINGTON, April 16.-The senate
committee on public buildings and
grounds passed favorably upon a bill
for public building at Wichita, Kan
sas, costing 100000.
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Democratic Convention.

JUNCTION CITY, Kas., April 1.-THE
democratic central committee of the
fifth congressional district met here to-
day and agreed upon a nomination con-
vention to be held at Clay Center
August 1st. Eight counties were repre-
SnOtAd
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Isit Free sneechesl

DUBLIN, April 14.-Mr. VIM.
O'Brien, I'm. p, was arrested on arriv-
ing at Kingston to-day in consequence
of his st eech at the meeting at Lang
hrea laps Monday. He was taken to
the Langhrea Jail.
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Children Burned o beam.

ST. LOUIS, April 17.-By the burning
of the house of A. Hoffman near Jack
son, Missouri, Saturday three of his
children lost their lives. Hoffman and
three otherschildren were badly burned.
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EIGH7Y-SIX TO EIGHT.
The New York Assembly Votes to Sub
stitate Electricity for Hanging.
Louisvills's Base Bal Club Sign the
Murphy Pledge.
Grover. the Great. vetoss Another
Private Pension Bill.
The EmperOr's Physicians Agree on
the last Stage of the Malady.

ALBANY, n. Y, April II. The assem-
bly, to-day passed by vote of eighty
six to eight, the bill which substitutes
electricity for hanging.
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WEATHERFoRD, Texas, April I6.-
j. L. Aston hanged himself in the
county jail Friday night. Aston MUIR
dered his daughter, Mrs. G. A. Turpin.
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only 10000 NIaiority.

NEW ORLEANS, April 1S.-As re-
ported last night, Nechalls and the
rest of the democratic state ticket was
elected by from 10000 to $4,000 ma
ioritv
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result every member of the nine signed
the pledge. This includes the great
UNIFORMED left-handed Ramsey, and
the club managers regard their nine as
sure winners now.
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LOuIsVlIs's Nine DOns the Blue Rib-

LOUISVILLE, KY, April l7.-Francis
Murphy, who has been expounding
temperance for week past before i'm
mense crowds in the Moody taberna-
Gle, yesterday morning undertook a
special mission. He took the
Louisville base ball club and as a
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Let Her Rain.

CLARKsvLLE, Ga, April l6.-Wil-
liam Hopkins, who, with bis brother
Joe, murdered William Thomas in Ru-
ban county one Sunday because he
wore store clothes, viii be hanged May
IL. His only sorrow is that his brother,
who was sent to the penitentiary, is not
to be hanged with him. His father
called on him yesterday and when about
to leave the murderer asked: Papa,
old man, looking at the passing clouds
replied: %'Well, if it's too wet foI
plowin', reckon will.''
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if the British have taken possession of
the above mentioned islands, this gov
eminent Gould no moEe than protest
even if occupation was worth this eff
fort
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but the definite amount is not vet
known. It is supposed that Menneap-
oils is his destination.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29
SOMEWHAT RANK.


The Billings Gazette in its weekly edi.
tion, which has supplantei the daily,
comes to us this week with the most
astounding statement that we have seen
for some time, III p"bhc print. 1t Is moth
ing less than an affidavit signed by Geo
Reed DAVIS, IN which he calls to ques-
ton the honesty O! Mr., Walter Cooper,
of Bozeman. George Reed Davis will
be recognized from one end of the Vel.
lowstone to the other as a worthless
squaw man, who is privileged to reside
on the Crow reservation by reason of
his wiie's being an Indian. Crow Davis
has no more regard FOR the truth than
Hottentot, and Is everywhere regarded
asa fool OF whom even the Indians make
sport. A few months ago the good citi.
zens OF Billings had an immense amount
OF fun with him by initiating HIM into
secret order organized for his especial
benefit. An ailidavit IRON such source
shows very plainly that the projectors of
the railroad which has been organized
IN opposition to the Rocky Fork " Cooke
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29


Not every lover of the oyster knows
that the size and plumpness which are 30
highly priced in the American bivalve,
and which are 80 attractive in specimens
on the half shell or in the stew as to lead
the average man to pay considerable
extra price for extra size, are not entirely
natural, and even those who do know
that the majority of the oysters in the
market are artifcially swollen by intro
ducing water into the tissues are not all
aware that the process by which this is
done is closely analogous to- that by
which the food in our own bodies is con-
veyed through the walls of the stomach
and other parts Of the digestive apparatus
and poured into the blood and lymph to
do its work of nourishment.
Psychologists are, believe, agreed that
the passage of the digested food through
the walls Of the alimentary canal in man
and other animals is in large part due to
osmose or dialysis, and that the operation
of this physical law is very common
one in the animal body. But the quanti-
tative study Of the chemical changes in
volved is generally rendered difficult or
impossible by the very fact of their TAX
ing place in living animals where the ap-
plication of chemical analysis is impossi-
bic. An opportunity is, however, offered
by the oyster, which, since it lives in
water and has body SO constituted as to
readily permit the inflow and outflow Of
water and solutions of salt, may be easily
used for experiments. The results Of the
experiments have practical as well as
scientific interest, since they confirm the
common explanation of the increase In
bulk of oysters by "f1oating," and show
that it is essentially process of watering
in which the bulk is increased without
any corresponding increase, but rather
il anything, a loss of nutritive material
Professor W. o. Atwater in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29

A cyclone in February was an unheard
of phenomenon until last week-the 10th
when one suddenly swooped down up
on the town of Mt. Vernon, in Illinois,
and In few minutes destroyed the town
and killed a large number OF its inhabit.
ants. These destructive turnadoes which
now appear in the east with fearful
frequency invariably occur in daylight,
indeed it is asserted by scientists thatthey
cannot come at night. 1t now becomes
apparent that the towns in Illinois, which
is the fourth of the list of western tor
nado states, must have at each town, an
intelligent persen whose duty it shall be
to observe the weather and warn the
people ofthe approach of these destruc-
tive agencies. The path of the tornado
is usually narrow and after the alarm is
sounded there would be ample time for
the citizens to seek places of safety. In
Montana there is no danger whatever of
these tornadoes which have confined
themselves to the level countries such as
Missouri, which is first on the list of tor.
nalo states, and Illinois, which will soon
| be the first.
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ment. The Judge did not disguise the
fact that he was dlsgustel with this dis
trict, consequently there were none to
regret his departure for the Butte dis
irict which, il no" s'cm@, he secured
meryl, for the rrrr So Of showing those
opposed TO lis COMM. what he could do.
Another cause for he Judges disap
ppintment At Montana was Il transaction
which caused the rcn Nal of District
Clerk Norton, an affair that will prob
ably never he brought !. the light of the
public gaze.
Now that there seems To be no uncer-
tainity of the Jr,lgr's resignation, the
question uf what il To- bee, of Judge
DeWol.c Of this ii>tLiyt naturally arises.
1t Is more than H~cly that lirWolie will
be given the Butt, district, EEr which he
has decided pre-, rr:t,'e; while the new
judge, whoever he may j", will b. sent
to this district, as it is publicly known
that Judge Bach, wia u,uij, come here
by reason of senir,iy, la, no wish to dc
so, aud it is not possible that the su'
premc Court will further Oppose the
wish of tlte people by rcdistticting the
Territory solely to accommodate them
selves.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29
EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

We are in receipt of the Hatch bill
empowering the government to estab-
lish agricultural experiment stations.
In transmitting the law to us, Mr.. Toole
asks if Montana has done anything to
secure the benefits of the act. There
has been nothing done to our knowledge
but the Gallatin valley should at once
take steps to secure the establishment Of
this station here, where it unquestion.
ably belongs, as is proven by the CaRoN-
IcLE's crop reports of last year, whicl,
were not only unequalled in the terri
tory, but in the United States as well
81 $40 per annum is appropriated for the
maintenance of each of these expert.
mental stations.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29

The latest novel charity in London,
that town which beats all the rest Of the
world in the multiplicity and magnitude
Of both its charities and its poverties, is
the Home of Rest for Horses, which has
been recently established in the Victoria
buildings. The scheme is to take the
horses Of the poor when they are well
nigh broken down from too much work
and too little food, and give them plenty
of food and nothing to do till they are
ready to start out On their labors once
more.
That is very well for the people, but it
is piteously hard on the horses. About
the most painful object in the world is
the underfed, overworked city horse, and
the most cheering thought connected
with him is of his death. To systemat-
ically prolong his misery is cruel, and L
1t must be done the "Home Of Rest
people ought to make arrangements to
themselves kill off in some merciful way
the hopeless horses. They owe them
some atonement for having helped them
to live.-New York Graphic.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29
THE PEABODY LETTER.

The publication few days since OF the
fac-simile of President Peabody's letter is
still the subject of much comment.
1t used to be considered a question of pro-
priety to say kind word of the result Of
treatment other than that prescribed by
regular practitioner and the time was when
man using an advertised remedy did so
more or less surreptitiously. However, this
has happily given away to broader and
more liberal view of things, typihed in MIR:
feabody's frank expression that he knows ot
no valid reason why commendation should
not be equally rs hearty in one instance as in
the other.
Certainly this would appear fair in the face
OF the facts. He was assured that the injury
would confine him to the house for three
weeks or more, yet in three days use ofthe Oil
he was out and about his duties as if nothing
Ind happened. Surely remedy that will SO
practically demonstrate its efficacy and that
has stood foremost, as has st. Jacobs oil,
upward OF ten years as unapproachable for
the eradication Of pain, Is justly entitled to
rank IS standard.
That many physicians prescribe 1t Is as
true as that many physicians use 1t, and 1t is
only those Of the very old school who, true to
ancient doctrines, can see no good in It, be-
cause it is made known to the world. Not
long since one Of these dropped confidential
note to friend requesting three bottles be
sent for his personal use Immediately, as
without II his hands were simply no hands
at oil, but" continued he, for Heavens
sake don't say said so." This is literally
true.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29

There is curious disease of the nerv-
GUS system which is produced by con-
tnually using the fingers in the same
way and for many hours at time. 1t is
called, according to the occupation of the
sufferer, "writers' cramp," 'iiddlers'
cramp," "engravers' cramp," "tele-
graphers' cramp," "typewriters'
cramp," and 80 on. The most remarka-
BILE feature about the disorder is that,
though the subject of it cannot execute
the movements necessary to his profess
sion and which occasion the affection, he
can do anything else with his fingers.
Thus the bookkeeper affected with the
"writers' cramp," though seized with a
spasm Of the fingers the moment he be-
gins to write, and which prevents the
slightest movement Of his pen towards
forming letter, cnn use the same fingers
in playing the violin, setting type, work
ing the telegraph key, or, in fact. execut-
ing even the most complicated move
ment, without the slightest difficulty,
provided, of course, that he possesses the
requisite technical skill. The nerves are
simply exhausted for the particular work
which he has been carrying on for years.
They have got, into iut, as it were, and
cannot get out until rest and change Of
occupation have permitted them to accu.
mulate the special kind of force needed
for writing. DIR. William A. Hammond.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29

1t is announced that the eminent
scientist, Professor Huxley, Of England,
Is making inquiries into the phenomena
Of spiritualism, with view to elucidate
all there is in 1t, II anything can be
found. 1t is well that philosophers and
experimenters in the material turn aside
occasionally to investigate and test what
purports to be immaterial, or so.obscurely
connected with the material that thus far
no point Of connection has been discov-
cred. Is the human nervous organism,
like an electrical apparatus, machine
Tor tho play Of natural forces, or Is there
something outside and beyond that vi.
brates the ..harp of a thousand stringsF'
Professor Huxley, from long study, habit
and thought, is well adapted to settle this
question by all methods heretofore en-
ployed, or any other that may be gug-
gested, or that he may himself conceive.
Milwaukee journal.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-02-29

The Montana militia are somewhat
anxious TO hear something favorable from
Washington regarding the bill which Mr..
Toole has in hand asking for an appro-
pria,lon sufficient to place the National
Guard of Montana on its feet. A mum.
Der of companies were organized last
summer, and the insufficient appropria-
ton coming to this territory will not
equip one company. Fully equipped the
territorial appropriation together with
what comes from the government, about
$1,000 a yeai, will be sufficient to MAIN
tain an efficient force Of mili,iamen. A
enthusiastic interest is now being taken
in the militia all over the territory and
it is to be hoped that the general gov
ernment will extend its aid by giving
Montana loan from the funds of some
ofthe old states with thousands in their
treasures.