The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-26
MONEY PACKAGES STOLEN.
The Annapolis POsIOdaee BurSIarized
IN The Midst of HOyVling storm.

in The Midst of a IOyVling Storm.
HALFAX, n. s., Jan. 25.-Yester-
days snow storm was one of the worst
known here for years. Railway travel
is again demoralized and the harbors of
the North Sidney, Digbys, Yarmouth
and Annapolis are frozen solid for the
first time in years. In the middle of
the bowling storm of Monday night the
postof1ice at Annapolis was en-
tered by burglars and the through
mail bags from Yarmouth for
Halifax from st. John were opened and
all the registered letters and many
packages stolen. AS large amounts of
money are sent through the mails by
the Halifax and Yarmouth banks,
sometimes as much as 600 in a
package, it is believed that
big haul was made. Post
Office Inspector Mcdonald start
ed to investigate the robbery
and is now showed up at Windsor. At
midnight, when the storm was at its
worst, the dwelling house of Alexan-
der D. Beaton, prominent resident OF
Boulanger, caught fire and in few
minutes was completely destroyed.
Mr.. Beaton's wife and grandchild were
burned to death. The other inmates
| barely escaped with their lives.
FOR SELLING OBSCENE PICTURES.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Jan. pa
| short time ago Anthony Comstock, as
chief special agent of the New York
Society for the Suppression of Vice,
came to this city and purchased from
| five different dealers in works of art
a number of pictures which
were alleged to be obscene. Mr..
Comstoek entered complaint against
the dealers and they were indicted
| by the grand jury. The trial of all the
cases was taken up to-day, and after
sides, in four of the cases Assistant
District-Attorney Ker declined to pro-
| coed further, saying he did
not believe the pictures obscene.
| The judge said it was not very easy TO
define exactly what the word lewd or
obscene meant. If that were so it
would include everything, and it would
include pictures of the most
sacred kind. Where there was
by the sale of indecent OF lewd pic
lures there ought to be severe punish
ment, but he did not think this was a
case of that kind. The visit of Mr..
Comstock to this city for the purpose
of prosecuting dealers in artists sup
plies was criticized by his honor. The
bills of Indictment in all the cases were
submitted to the jury, and the de-
PENDANTS acquitted.
THE CORA LEE CASE.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Jan. 24.-The
Cora Lee trial was resumed at $3.50
this morning. Court attorneys. Jury
and witnesses are all growing tired
yet the ground now being gone over is
fought inch by inch with the same
vigilance as OF the opening day of the
trial. The defendant, as from the be-
| 10 aff ava
throughout the day, calm. self-pos
sessed, wdtchful. What emotions are
awakened by the various stories com
ing from the witness stand is ii prob
lem for the key to which her counte
nance is studied in vain. 1t is generally
believed that she is confident of the
proof of her innocence, and has abid
ing faith in final verdict OF mot
guilty. Alfred Z. Crosby was the
printer at Washington. The testi
mony to-day was all for the defense
and was regarded as effective. The
general impression here tonight is
that the verdict will be an acquittal, OF
at most disagreement.
MUCHLY MARRIED MAN.
| ST. PAUL, Jan. 24.-Mrs. John VIII
kins TODAY filed suit for divorce
against her husband, alleging, that he
has, until lately, had five wives,
all living in st. Paul. He
married the complainant, an attractive
brunette, in Pennsylvania fifteen years
ago. They lived happily until they
came to St. Paul a year ago, but here
he began his pOlygamus exploits, mar
rying in rapid succession Emma Stet-
son, Kate Fox, Miss French and
Hattie BoueleS, each under
an assumed name. The strain
OF keeping five separate establishments
proved too much for HIM, and in Octo-
Der he took his Stetson wife and left
town.
WOULD RATHER REMAIN SILENT.
ST. PAUL, Jan. A.-An Albert Lee
correspondent of the Pioneer Press,
tells how Sanford Tanner, wealthy
bachelor of Freeborn county, was con-
fidenced out of S22, 600 by pretended
detective a few days ago. The conf
dence man first appeared to Tanner
disguised as a woman, claiming to
be looking for the person who robbed
Tanner out of 81 800 some months ago.
He succeeded so rapidly in gaining
Tanners confidence that upon the pre-
tence of wishing to buy farm he got
from him $780, 900 in security and 81
600 in cash. Tanner don't Ike to talk
about it.