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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-19
rho DeadIocII In Congreas.

The conduct of the National House
of Representatives for the past week
has bordered very closely upon the
farcical. The legislative day of
Wednesday, 4th inst, is still going on ;,
there having been no formal adjourn
ment but only ''recesses" taken. In
order to carry out filibustering tactics,
members have absented themselves
with the view of preventing quorum,
and other members have prevented an
adjournment by calling for the yeas
and nays upon every motion TO adj
journ. On Tuesday not even a recess
was permitted, and the House re-
manned in session all night and until
the next evening. Occasionally,
during the long tedium of
the night, some member would make a
motion to adjourn, and in an instant
dozens of Representative who were
slumbering peacefully in their seats
would be upon their feet clamoring
vociferously for the yeas and nays.
At times the widest confusion reign
ed, and it required energetic work upon
the part or the sergeant at arms and
his assistants to restore order. The
most absurd and ridiculous motions
were made, and frequently sustained
by the speaker, such as that members
be excused from voting without Their
consent. Upon an unexpected roll cal
on some motion, Mr. E. Anderson, OF
Kansas, rushed into the hall with &
BARRIERS towel about his neck and hi;
face covered with lather, in time t,
answer to his name.
The measure under consideration an,
: which gave rise to all this filibusteT
: ing is bill to refund to the States tn
direct war tax collected from them, b
1 the Government. In 1851 Congress
4 levied direct tax of $40, OOO, 600 an
: apportioned the same among the dii
: ferent States. Most all of this amour
t was paid by the loyal States. the State
8 in rebellion paying none until after tn
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An Excifing Race.

CHICAGO, April 13.-There was an
exciting race between two locomotives
on the Burlington tracks last evening,
which almost eliminated in bloodshed.
A vollev of stones were thrown and a
pistol shot was fired, but no one was
very badly hurt. The trouble began at
the Chicago s. Alton crossing, Brighton
Park. Burlington engine 1856 was pull
ing train of freight cars from the
stock yards to Western avenue. En-
CINE 500 of the St. Paul was hauling a
light train in the same direction. At
the crossing both crews claimed the
right of way. In less than a minute
stones and pins were flying in all di-
rections. Switchman Benton, of the
80" train, was struck in the face with
a lump of coal. Immediately he drew
a revolver and fired it into the cab of
the st. Paul engine. Nobody was shot.
but when the bullet Whistled by the
st. Paul engineer he put on full
steam and made for home. The 60"
engineer tried to overtake the flying
tween the Chicago & Alton crossing
and the bridge, lost considerable
ground. At last the crew cut the en-
CINE loose from the train and went
laundering up the track. Neither en-
CINE seemed to be gaining ground I'M
til the bridge was reached. At that
point the 60" engine made squirt
and it ran down the 'EY'' into the
Western avenue yards some distance
| ahead of its rival. The 60" men
wished to head the engine off at the
Western avenue target and have its
crew arrested, but the target was held
against them and the st. Paul engine
disappeared UP the track, going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour.
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Denien rha Charge.

EAsToN, Pa, April 13.-The trial of
DR.. Henry NJ. Cox, of Port Murray,
N. j.. who is charged with having per
formed criminal operation upon
Miss Jennie Osborn. which resulted in
her death, commenced here yesterday
and was continued to-day. Miss Os-
borne came from Newark, N. j., and
died at the Hotel Franklin in this city
last February. Four men are now I'M
der Indictment besides DR.. Cox. The
principal witness to-day was Geo. B.
Evans, of Jersey City, one of the ac-
cused. He testified to having made ar
rangements with DR.. Cox to per-
form the operation and to DR..
Cox fixing his price at $50.
DIR. Cox went on the stand this after
noon and testified that he had never
met Evans and did not perform the
operation referred to.
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Arrested for Abduction

PrFTsBURe, April 11.-Last evening
Detective Perkins arrested Ensign
Ryan, of the United States navy, de-
tailed here to inspect armor plate at
Carnegie's works for the govern
ment, and j. Fl. Mead, president
of the Attic Ice company on
a charge before Alderman Cassidy
of abducting the 17-year-old daughter
of w. A. Parsons, a prominent citizen
of Allegheny. The daughter, Rosa
Parsons, is leading soprano OF the
North NJ. Z. Church choir, one of the
most fashionable churches here. The
claims to have discovered through de-
tectives that her daughter was in
duced to go to New York on a promise
that she would be secured position
in an operate troupe and supplied
with costumes. She went to Trenton,
n. J., stopped several days there at
the Windsor hotel, under the name of
Mrs. Marshal. and was Joined by RYAN
and taken to New York, where she is
Broadway. The double arrests
have created a profound social sensa-
ton. The daughter has been missing
for ten weeks. and the mother has
been searching for her everywhere
and the most prominent citizens here
as well as pastors of churches have
been interested in the hunt. The par
ties were committed for hearing.
Ensign Ryan made statement this
afternoon in which he denied that he
had been in any way responsible for
Miss Parsons disappearance. He was
well acquainted with the girl, having
frequently met her at the church.
Shortly before she left home she told
him she was going on the stage, and
asked HIM for information con-
corning certain professional people
in New York. Later he received
a letter from her at Baltimore
in which she detailed her experience.
She went to New York and is now
stopping at 50 Clinton Place. Ryan
claims he tried to dissuade her from go
ing on the stage, but she persisted. She
assured him that her parents would
not object to her engaging in that en-
ployment, and said her mother had
| taught her elocutiOn.
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The House Aajourns AFTER Mine ma
Deadlock.

The House AGJOuRns After . Mine DeyI
DeaA.Hl0ek.
WASHINGTON. d. c., April l2.-The
house met at II:45 this morning in con-
tinuatiOn of the session of Wednesday
the fourth of April. Mr.. Reed. Of
Maine instantly demanded regular
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania asked
the unanimous consent to make state
ment but was interrupted by shouts for
the regular order from the Republican
adjourn.
AZ the demand Of Mr.. Reed. the yeas
and nays were ordered on this motion.
The house by vote of $50 to 1873 has
refused to adjourn and legislative day
of Wednesday, April 4th, still contin-
ues. The amendment was received
with loud cheers by the republicans
For a moment the democrats were
taken aback. but Mr.. McMillin of Ten
nessee soon moved call of the house
to compel the attendance of absentees.
order against the motion, but the
speaker decided against him. On a
viva voce vote the demand for call
was defeated and on the stand
ing vote, the democrats sud-
denly changed tactics and voted against
their own motion in order to allow
another vote on adjournment which
was moved by Mr.. Cox in the hope
that stragglers enough had come in to
the house since the first vote to
change the result.
The motion for call of the house was
withdrawn and unanimously the ayes
and nayes were ordered on motion by
Mr.. Cox that the house adjourn.
The motion prevailed by vote of
I48 to 1877, so the house was declared
adjourned. The democrats in their
turn made the echoes in the hall ring
with their applause to celebrate the
breaking of the great deadlock in its
ninth day. Adjourned until tomorrow.
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youth of the offender he would have
been lynched
CHAMPIoN GUNNERS.

BOgardus and w. +. Irwin or Kansas
shoot = Tie at Abilene.
ARLENE, Kans., April 13.-Yester-
day afternoon at one o'clock, at the
grounds Of the Abilene Gun club in
this city, occurred the much talked of
shooting match between Captain Bo-
gardus. the champion wing shot of the
world, and w. T. Irwin, the Abilene
Gazette tramp" and champion wing
shot of Kansas. The weather was
bright and clear and an immense
crowd of spectators, including large
percentage of prominent sportsmen,
and all the conditions were favorable
to an exciting contest, just which it
proved to be. The match was for $500
side, at one hundred live birds for
each man. Distance, thirty yards rise.
with use of both barrels; English rules
to govern. When fifty birds had been
shot Irwin led by seven birds; before
sixty had been reached. however,
he missed five straight, the score
standing at sixty, Irwin fortY-nine,
BagarduS forty-Seven. From that I'M
til the finish the contest was close and
exciting. In the seventy-eighth round
Irwin missed and Bogardus killed,
tieing the score, which stood sixty
G1kCO O1IOo CtCIl 1IWlu IloH Sl0dNllSu
down killing twelve straight birds
while Bogardus lost two; the score
standing ninety birds, Irwin seventy
five and Bogardus seventy-three.- In
the last ten Irwin and Bogardus both
missed their first birds, then both
killed, then Irwin missed and
Bogardus scored This made the
score seventy-siX and seventy-five.
The next two birds were killed and
the next naiSSR6 On his hundrath
bird Irwin missed, Bogardus killed,
and the match was announced a tie,
each contestant having killed eighty
birds
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me WhOIe yital machiner,

Depends for the fuel, which is the
origin of its propulsory force, upon the
stomach. In that hidden alembic the
food undergoes the chemical changes
which transmute it into blood, from
which the system draws the material
that reimburses it for its daily losses of
tissue. These, of course, are greatly
augmented in disease. If the stom-
ach, therefore, is weakened or disor-
dered, the system is deprived of sus-
,tenance. HOstetter's Stomach BitteTs
can be relied upon to facilitate and re-
new digestion when that function has
been interrupted by weakness of the
stomach. Biliousness, or a diversion
of the bile from its proper channel,
which causes constipation, is also rem
edied by it. Heartburn, wind on
the stomach, sick headache. fur upon
the tongue, and other symptoms OF
stomach and liver disorder. it speedily
removes. Malarial complaints of eVerj
sort. kidney and bladder troubles, con
stipation, rheumatism and neuralgis
yield when it is used regularly anC
persistently,
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General DaImage by Ihe Flood.

81. PAUL, April 1l.-frOm MaQnaCO
it is reported that the Minnesota river
is rapidly subsiding. Zumbrasta river
is rising rapidly. The dam at Holbert's
mill went out yesterday afternoon,
taking the flume with it and letting
one corner of the mill down a few
inches. making a loss of about S15, 900.
The bridges opposite the town on the
turnpike have gone out.
The communication by wire or rail is
entirely cut off between Zumbrasta
and Wabash. The dam at OronocO
went out yesterday afternoon.
The Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers
are up to the eight foot mark and still
rising. About ,OOO, 900 feet of lumber,
worth at least SIC, 600. 600, the property
of the Mississippi Valley Log Co., was
swept away at Eau Claire this after
noon.
Hastings reports that the water
in the Vermillion river is
higher than ever known before, taking
out over half dozen bridges.
No trains have arrived at Lacrosse
from the west over the Milwaukee
road since Thursday, because several
miles of track are under water in the
valley of the Root river. 1t will take
ten days to get the track into condi-
ton after the water subsidies. The
bridges are all gone, and there is much
distress at some points.
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ALVEY Scrlmmage.

CHICAGO, April IA crew of
Burlington switchnlen went to the
Western avenue yards of the st. Paul
road late yesterday afternoon with a
train and thirty cars. Upon their ar
arrival there some st. Paul switchmen
and lot of out siders commenced to
pull the coupling pins and threw them
away as fast as the Burlington switch
men replaced them. The police at
tempted to protect the 20" men and
made some arrests. BY this time a
crowd of about one hundred gathered
and they did not propose to see any
body taken to the station. They res
cued the prisoners as fast as they were
arrested. y lively scrimmage ensued.
Finally call was turned in, which was
responded to by eight additional Of
ficers. Three st. Paul switchmen were
arrested and are now locked up at the
Chicago avenue station. During the
fight good many rocks were thrown.
No one was hurt.
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Engineers Strike.

ST.. LOUIS, April 13.-The engineers
on the st. Louis s. San Francisco rail-
road late Wednesday night made de-
mand on the company for an adjust
ment of differences and the grievance
committee met General Superintend-
emit Nichols and General Manager
Morrill, at Springfield yesterday. The
men demanded four and one-half cents
a mile and the complication system
abolished thus securing the same pay
to the new engineers as was paid
old men. A special from
Springfield says the railroad
officers were favorable to change, but
when contracts drawn up declared un-
der such arrangement they would en-
ploy only the best engineers, and that
promotions from fremen to engineers
would only be made after frenfen had
proven themselves thoroughly capable,
the grievance committee declined to
sign contracts until they had seen Chief
Arthur. The conference accordingly
closed, and the committee started
to have a consultation with Chief
Arthur. General Manager Morrill,
was seen to-day and said the confer
ence was entirely amicable. Modifi.
cations wanted would make the Frisco
line like the Santa Fe and the Gull
roads.
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Worth Knowing.


Mr.. w. H. Morgan, merchant, LAX
City, Fla, was taken with severe
Cold. attended with distressing
Cough, and running into Consumption
in its first stages. he tried many So
called popular cough remedies and
steadily grew worse. Was reduced in
flesh, had difficulty in breathing and
was unable to sleep. Finally tried DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consumption
and found immediate relief, and after
using about half dozen bottles found
himself well and has had no return of
the disease. No other remedy can
show so grand a record of cures, as
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption Guaranteed to do just what
is claimed for it.-TriaI bottle free at
B. Wheldon's Drug Store.
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HAPPY BOB HANGED
For the Murder Of Frank Roy. His
Swsethearts Brother.
The Doomed Man Spends His Last
Night in Prayer.
Miss Roy Makes an Intellectual APP.
peal for Executive Clsmenoy.
Jerry Smith Lynchsd for Assault on
a White Girl.

WARSAW, N. Y, April 13.-Robert
Van Brunt, Happy Bob" was hanged
in the Warsaw jail yard this morning.
Van Brunt did not go to sleep until
after three o'clock this morning and
awakened shortly before six. He
spent much of. the night in prayer and
reading his bible. Eva Ray I'M
expectedly arrived from Albany this
morning at six o'clock and called at the
Jail, but was refused admittance.
The reading of the death warrant was
omitted and few minutes after ten
o'clock Van Brunt walked firmly to
the scaffold, the moose was placed
around his neck and when all was
ready the drop fell. The body was cut
down in fourteen minutes.
Happy Bob was member of the Sal
walton Army, and the crime for which
he paid the penalty with his life was
the murder of Frank Roy. Bob was
counting Eva Roy. Franks sister.
Frank objected and in a quarrel which
ensued Bob shot and killed his sweet
hearts brother. An unusual scene
was enacted in the governors room at
Albany yesterday in connection with
this case. Miss Roy arrived there the
evening before and yesterday morning
made an impassioned appeal to Gov
ernor Hill to commute Van Bruent's
sentence to imprisonment for life.
The governor received her kindly, lis
tened to her appeal, went over the
points in the case and tried to show
her how, as he saw it, there was no
ground on which executive clemency
could be extended, and concluded by
saying that the law must take its
course. Miss Roy grew deathly pale,
at these words, and her head dropped
and she fell in a faint. a physician
was summoned and restoratives ap-
piled. It was half an hour before she
recovered. Looking about her in a
dazed sort of way she cried Poor Bobi
poor Bob!'' and sank back on the sofa
in another swoon. at last. finding
that she recovered consciousness only
to relapse into Inconsistencies, it was
decided to send her to a hospital.
which was done. The girl is COM
pletely broken down and there is no
end of pity for her. The belief is gen.
eral that she is still in love with Van
Bruent, although she denies it and de-
PIaroa 4ho hafo0 him
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COLOSSAL COSTS.
ReOapituIatiOn of Losses Caused by
the Late strike.
The Costs to the Strikers Amounts to
a Total of 1901, $50,
While the @" Shortage FOOts up
Over 100000.
John Vice. d Poor Soldier. Receives q
Pension Of $4,000.

CHICAGO, April IA local paper,
in calculating the cost of the great
railroad strike which began ON the
Burlington road forty-fiVe days ago,
makes the following reorganization of
the losses sustained to date by the en-
gineers and firemen's brotherhoods and
the striking switchmen: The loss of
wages on the 80" road was $500, 135;
pay roll of the brotherhood, S159, $50;
grievance committees loss of wages,
$50, $40; grievance committees expense
account, SO, $50; non-union men sub
sidized. $40. 900; expenses of headquar-
tiers, So, 1875; Santa Fe and other strikes,
S24, 200; cost of switchmen's strike,
S25, 900; miscellaneous, $4,000; total,
S601 $50. OF the cost to the Burlington
company the following estimates are
made: Loss in traffic receipts, 81 $780,
600; special police protection, $3.50. 600;
cost of engaging new men, 1000;
damage to property, $50. goo; miscel-
laneoUs, $40, 900; total. 2, 100, 900.
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The Rserless peerless.

ST. LOUIS, April ia special from
Topeka, Kas., to the Post-Dispatch
says: ''The decree in the Siebold and
Angelin brewery case, in which the
United States supreme court recently
sustained the constitutionality of the
prohiSition law of Kansas, was to-day
signed by Judge Brewer, of the United
States circuit court; the exceptions of
the defendants that the decision of the
supreme court did not prohibit them
from manufacturing beer to be sold in
other states, was oyerruled, and the
United States marshal was to-day or
dered to close up their brewery al
Atchison as nuisance. This was the
last of the Kansas brewers to hold out
against the prohibitory law, and Kan
SaS Is now very dry.'
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RaiIrOad nTanagers, Meeting.

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE general
railroad time convention was held here
yesterday. About $50 delegates were
present. These were the superintend-
ents and general managers of various
railroads throughout the country. The
chairman was empowered to appoint q
permanent committee on train rules.
May Is was fixed for the date of chang
ing the rules. The following officers
were elected: President, H. S. Harris
of the Savannah, Florida & Western;
first vice president, j NJ. Roucey, New
York Central; second vice president,
d. ]. Chase of the Atchison, Topeka s.
Santa Fe; secretary, w. F. Allen of
the official railroad guide. Executive
committee-H. B. Stone, G. B. s. O.;
J. z. Thomas. Nashville, Chattanooga
& st. Louis; Jas. McCrea, Pennsyl-
vania railroad; C. B. Bradley, West
Shore; Z. T. d. Myers, Richmond,
Fredericksburg s. Potomac railroad,
and John Adams, Fitchburg railroad.
The convention then adjourned until
October next.
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Renews Her Youth

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remark
able story, the truth of which is
vouched for by the residents of the
town: 81 am 70 years old, have been
troubled with kidney complaint and
lameness for many years; could not
dress myself without help. Now am
free from all pain and soreness, and am
able to do all my own Homework. I
owe my thanks to Electric Bitters for
having renewed my youth, and removed
completely all disease and pain" Try
bottle. SOC. and 81. at Ben Wheldon's
Drug Store.
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war when some Of them paid small
par of it. The bill to refund originated
in the Senate and was passed by that
body. In the House it met the opposi-
ton of the ex-rebel brigadiers, who.
under the leadership of Oates, of
Alabama, have been attempting
to kill the measure by making it
include the cotton taxa tax
also levied for war purposes. amount
ing to some $40, 100000. The south
claims that this tax was unconstitu-
tional and arbitrarily collected at the
point of the bayonet. The cotton tax
receipts were many years ago bought
up by spectators for trifie, and are
now held by syndicates in Europe and
America, so that if Congress should
order the tax refunded it would not
benefit the planters who paid it, but
only the sharpers and spectators who
gave aid and comfort to the rebellion.
1t is not expected that the bill would
pass with this addition;no one supposes
the Senate would accept the amend
ment, even if the House should. 1t is
used simply as as a sinker to bear
down and defeat the original bill.
Were the Senate, like the House,
Democratic, it might and probably
would be urged in good faith and with
success, but at present it is only used
for purposes of obstruction.
1t is by such indirect and cowardly
methods as this that the Democrats in
Congress seek to defeat all meritorious
legislation upon matters growing out
of the war. They do not wish to APP
pear hostile to such legislation, and
hence screen their opposition behind
pretexts and subterfuges. Their course
upon this bill is in line with their
scheme to empty the treasury by free
trade legislation in order that there
may be no money with which to pay
pensions. But nobody is deceived.
The real purpose is seen and under
stood, and the Democratic party will
be held responsible for all such
work.-Republican.
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Knights ofHonor.

MARION, Kas., April 1.-THE grand
lodge of Knights of Honor convened
here this morning. Fifty delegates
are in attendance, among whom are
all the grand officers. Supreme Re
porter Nelson will arrive from st. Louis
are are elected: S. B. Riggs LC Of Enpori a.
grand dictator; George T. Copeland, of
Halstead, grand vice dictator; A. L.
Barnes, of junction City. grand assist
ant dictator; NJ. o. Frost, of Topeka,
grand reporter; r. E. Torrington, of
Emporia, grand treasurer; J. n. Han
naford, of Marion, state medical ex-
aminer; j. A. Wells, of Erie, d. A.
Marshall, of Halstead, and William
Small, of Leavenworth, grand trustees.
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The Result OF Drunken CarousaI.

HAMFoRD. Conn, April IA num-
Der of oyster men, last night visited
the house of Jasper Mills, colored at
Riverside, two miles from here. In a
fight that occurred later, Mrs. Mills was
shot and killed and Mills was stabbed
and cut twenty-five times. Mills, who
was formerly a gardener for Boss
Tweed of New York says that when he
came home last night he found his wife
and daughter drinking and carOusing
with the men who set upon him and
inflicted the injuries received and that
when he returned to consciousness he
found his wife dead and the house de-
serted servant girl says that Mills
was jealous of his wife and they had a
fight which ended by Mills snatchinG
up gun and shooting his wife.