The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-02-16

100 feet away, it happened that there
were very few passengers on either of
the trains. Those in the train stand
ing still saw the car which had slipped
come flying down the grade, managed
to get out of the way before the crash
occurred. Ward Russell, an employe
of the road was not so fortunate, and
was caught between the bumpers of
the middle train and fatally mangled.
H. F. Goode suffered a brok-
en- leg. Brakeman Boffman al
SO on the first train, also
had his right arm broken and Albert
Sharp, passenger, slightly injured.
Sharp is passenger conductor on the
Hannibal & st. Joe road, and had ar
rived Just half an hour before.
The other persons who were injured
were all passengers, and the most OF
them were on the train which be-
came unmanageable. They were ali
men and all stayed on until the
platform was reached and as
result none were very seriously
injured. The following is a list Of
the injured in addition to those above
mentioned: T. A. Carte, of Marion,
KS. ankle sprained; T. II. Hill, head
bruised; 1. ID. Peters, Emporia, KS,
head bruised and internal injuries;
Peter Stromberg, Emporia, Ks, travel
ing man, ankle spTained; Mr.. Foster,
of this city, cut about the head; F. II.
miraculous that out of the ten, only
one was fatally hurt. The shank
which broke is supposed to have been
defective, but nothing positive is known
as to that vet. The injured were all
given excellent attention, and all are
in good condition excepting Russell.
FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY.
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Feb. IA special
to the Herald from Stewartsyille says:
a frightful tragedy was committed on
the stock farm of j. G. Evart, six miles
south of this CITY today. William Bull
an employee, shooting and killing Miss
Ella Evart, daughter of the proprietor,
and then killing himself. Bull
asked Miss Evart to marry him,
and she refused to do SO. He then re-
quested a private interview, which
was refused. Bull then shot her in
the head, killing her instantly, and
then shot himself, dying in few
minutes. Miss EYart was 20 years of
age, and the belle of the neighbOrhoOd.
Bull was about %, and had been a
persistent sutton for some time.
OPIUM sEUGGLERS RIM.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10.-A special
treasury agent has been here investi-
eating the report of opium smuggling,
and has discovered that the old ring
which formerly imported opium by the
ton, had been reconstructed and is
more powerful than ever. Two of the
members of the old ring are in prison,
although $4,000 was spent by their
confederates to obtain their release.
The smugglers still at large, it is
haun fOrDnoH 0Oro hi afiOT1
with influential officers of the custom
house, and are not only importing OPT
um once more in large quantities, but
also Chinese silks. Formerly all the
smuggling was done on the large
steamships plying between San Fran
cisco and China. The methods of the
smugglers became SO well known that
this system was abandoned and the
smugglers have feet of their own,
consisting of staunch schooners, that
run in and out of San Francisco under
the guise of seal-hunting schoOners,
without being noticed by the custom
house officers.
ONLY 200 LIVES LOST.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 8.-The Pioneer
Press has received from YanktOn,
Oak, a statement signed by the presi-
dent of the Yankton board of trade,
6. R. Scongal, and attested by Mayor
anu oONCIdl OOLICi
ficials in contradiction of the stories
concerning the blizzard of January
18th, sent out by Agent Kinney and
others, to the effect that 1000 lives
were lost and the facts suppressed. In
reality not more than us lives in a II
was lost, or at the outside 200.
ACQUITTED.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Feb. S.-The
Journals Highmore, OAK, special says
Homer James, the Hyde county treas
urer, who is $4,000 short in his &C
counts, has been discharged after
thorough and earnest prosecution.
The cause of this action was that
James was strictly honest and had not
profted personally by the shortage.
He had simply been good natured and
loaned county money to any friend who
asked him taking neither note nor re-
ceipt.
HUNTING THE MURDERER.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-The hunt in the
dark for clews to the murderer of
Amos j. Smell is being energetically
kept up by the police department.
Every officer is on the look out for suS-
piciouS characters, and fully twenty
persons who can not give good and sat
isfactory account of themselves are
now locked up at the armory. AS an
incentive to encourage the search Mr..
Albert ]. Smell has offered reward of
SIC, 900 for the arrest, or information
leading to the arrest of the murderer
or murderers of his father.
"a. VaIenvinesa Dav.