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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
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Well, the cat Is out OF the bag at
LeavenWorth, where, under the adj
vice, control and direction of Col. d.
r. Anthony, the metropolitan police
agencies, supplied by law for the full
and complete execution of the prohibi-
ton law, should be employed in the
most energetic manner to close the
joints and make that city an example
for the balance Of the state. Now
what do we fndP That according to
sworn testimony in the district court,
the city marshal, acting under orders
from the chief Of the metropolitan po-
lice, visited the joints Of that city last
October prior to the election, and no
titled them that if they would agree to
put up 500 month, as a fine, they
would be allowed to run unmolested.
They accepted the offer and put up.
The compact was carried ont on both
sides until after the election, when it
was found that the Republican ticket
was badly showed under. Then the
wrath Of the police commissioners and
the police against the jointists was let
loose, and one after another was
pulled and dragged before Judge Gro
zier. After hearing all the testimony
the judge decided that as the jointists
had already paid fine of 800 to the
police, they should not be punished a
second time for the same offence. The
court failed to trace by direct testi-
mony the instigation OF the contract
with the jointists to the police COM
misSioneTs. Yet. who will say that the
police acted without the authority of
their master, expressed or implied?
If they acted without authority would
not the commissioners expel them at
once from the force, and put honest
men IN their placesp
Talk about debauching morals and
making a mOckery of law, what
can be more Infamous, more de-
moralizing and hypocritIcal than
that the whole legal machinery
designed for the suppression CT
the liquor traffic should be basely pros.
tituted by its guardians to the licens.
ing of the most disreputabIe dives anG
joints for political purposes. AND
then think Of the perfidy of these same
guardians who when they had failed t
gain the political ends sought in sucl
a disreputable manner, added PREACHER,
to infamy by breaking their contract
and dragging their chaTacterless dupe
before Judge Crozier that the majest,
OF the law may be INDICATED, and tina
he may wash their dirty linen even ii
the hallowed precincts of justice itself
he promptly refused and turned tn
jointists loose. Such is sample o
the working Of the metropolitan polio
law at Leavenworth under the geneI
alship Of the local Berserker Col. An
thony. We do not say that he or nj
associate commissioners expressly au
thorized such infamous proceedings
for it was not so proven in court, Blu
could they not have prevented it, or
not, could they rot have espresso
their condemnation of it by expelIin
the chief of police? But what is tn
use to argue matter so base AM
abominable, that bears it's characte
on its face, so palpable and plain tina
ne who runs may read.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Dom Pedro and Party Arrive
at Lisbon.
Messages of Coincidence to JefE
Davis Widow.
A Freight Wreck,--FaiIed to
Obey Orders.
An Opium Eaters WOrk---Hon
RathbOne is Dying.

LISBON, Dec. THE steamer Ala
goas, with ex-Emperor Dom Pedro and
party on board, and flying the old Bra
lillian flag, arrived in the Tagus at
1915 O'Clock this morning. She an
chored OF Belem, suburb of Lisbon,
opposite the LazarettO. The party
landed at the naval arsenal, anu lie
moment the patty left the steamer
they were met by King Carlos, who ex-
tended warm welcome to the ex en-
perOr. Dom Pedro is in excellent
spirits and appears not to have suf-
fered by the recent events in Brazil.
1t is said that he intends to issue a
manifesto to the Brazilian people.
Baron lie LaretO. who was the last
minister of the interior under Dom
Pedro, was also aboard of the AlagOas.
1t IS learned from interviews with
members Of Dom Pedroi6 party that he
and his family were at his summer res
idence at PetropOlis near RIO Janerio
where the revolution occurred. Upon
learning of what had happened he at
once returned to Rio Janeriu and held
meeting of his ministers and coun-
cillurS of state. He tried to furm u
new ministry with Senior Sorawa at it's
head, but to this General DaE'onseca
objected, saying. that a republic had
the military, that the presence of the
imperial family in Brazil was incom-
patible with the existing state of affairs
and they must soon leave the country
the emperor after consulting with his
| friends decided to agree to the demands
Of the republicans. No communica-
ton was allowed to pass between Dom
Pedro and the foreign representatives.
| AT z O'Clock the following morning
Major Tompofsi with detachment Of
soldiers went to the palace and placed
the members of the imperial family un-
der arrest while they were still in bed
He bore written orders from General
Da Eonseca that the emperor and his
family should depart forthwith. The
government would not allow them tC
wait until daylight, as they feared that
yor OF Dom Pedro might result IL
bloodshed. The measure was consid
cred dOubly necessary by Metropolitan
leaders as the students in the CITY
we're well supplied with arms and wera
greatly excited. Count D'Eu and hi,
wife. Princess Isabella, the emperor
daughter, and their children, wer'
compelled to leave the palace at
o'clock in the morning and walk to tn,
quay; Dom Pedro and the empress fol
lowed them Immediately in a carriage
under escort of body of troops. Thu
imperial party embarked on steau
: launch and were taken to a mar-Of
war, which Immediately prOct eded Il
La Grande, an island six miles frou
Rio Janeiro, where the party were
kept as prisoners until the afternoon
, when they were transferred to the Ala
goas. The latter vessel at once sale,
for Lisbon. The ironclad Riachuel
accompanied the AlagoaS, to proven
the landing of the royal prisoners a
Bahia or any other Brazilian port.
J Dom Pedro positively declines t.
, discuss the recent even In Brazil. IL
will probably remain in Lisbon for
few days. and then proceed to Paris.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE reading public which has fol-
lowed Senator Farwell to the white
house in his vain attempts to induce
the president to bounce democratic
federal officers in Chicago, can appre-
cate and grin at his outburst that
''the civil service system is fraud of
the worst kind, a cheat; delusion, a
hulnbug; in fact, you cannot say any
thing too mean of it, When a sena-
tors term is almost at an end, and it
is time to set up the pins for re-elec-
ton, he is not inclined to hold civil
service reform in high esteem. Mr..
Farwell is not unhappy without cause.
*. G.. Star. 7r.g
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

MCKINLEY is chairman of the ways
and means committee. Public opinion
granted him that place lorg ago. The
appointment is the best that could be
made. He is, perhaps, the ablest
leader on the republican side, and will
without doubt give entire satisfaction
to hts party as head of the most impor-
tant committee in the house. His
fealty to the tariff and mastery of the
subject qualities him admirably to deal
with that important matter in the
lines OF the republican platform which
he himself laid down.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

It's a funny thing that state which
has to build as many corn cribs as Kan
Alex Butts. $40 ne
And IT'S just as funny that in a
state where people have To buy clothes
fer their children they would keep on
having babies. Aleck, stick to your
forte and don't NEEDLE with questions
of political economy.-Troy Chief.
Now, that conceit about the babies
is stunning retOrt, and an unanswer-
able argument in favor of tariff on
lumber. Since babies will not thrive
without clothing, neither will the
farmer get ahead without tariff on
lumber. Great argument that, and a
great head that invented It'll
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

JoHNsToWN, Pa, Dec. 1.-THE OF
era house horror here last night was
fully as shocking as first reports made
it. The number OF dead positively
known is ten, and fiva.of the Injured
are reported TO have died this morning
at their homes in various sections of
the town. The number of injured is
about eighty. None OF those now sur
viying are seriously injured, being
merely bruised and shocked. IT g doe
tots say that the most remarkable
feature u the accident is that not a
single bone was broken. either of those
killed or Of those injured. The follow
ing is a list OF the killed:
Geo. Shoemaker, Miss Lizzie Clay
comb, John Miller (colored), Isaac FO-
Ter, Mrs. Wesley Burns, Miss Cl ia
Burns, George Horner, aged eleven
jumped from the top gallery, thirty
feet, down to the parQuet, and broke
his neck; Mrs. John ". Nestor, Eddie
Bugler.
There were 800 people in the house.
The cause of death in every instance
was the crushing at the doorway lead
ing to the street, in the frantic efforts
of the people to get out of the building.
The cry or hre was sounded from the
top gallery when the last act of the
play. Uncle Toms Cabin" was witt
in few minutes of completion. In
srantly, upon the cry being raised the
audience made a break aud a plunge
for the narrow exit. Those in front
We're thrown forward and upon them
the whole mass of people tumbled
beadlong, climbing over them and
| causing a jam right at the street door.
The scene at this time was simply MOI =
rIble. a great crowd at once gathered
in the street and pushed up so close Y
against the theatre entrance that Il
police could not keap them back. In Oh
der to drive them away it was found
necessary to turn q stream of water
| upon them from a Gre hose. All this
time the yells and cries OF both those
Inside and out of the theatre. were ter.
| ribie to hear and were heard fol
squares. The cause of the fire alarm
was smoke issuing from the chimney
in kitchen in the rear of a residence
several blocks away from the theatre
| A coroner'S inquest has been sum
money and will take testimony thii
evening. The street door leading t.
the theatre stairway is four feet sever
inches wide in the clear. This is thre,
or four feet from the foot of the stat
way On the second step is a doubl
SWING door. This opening is exactl
four feet wide. The stairway leadiu
seven inches in ascent. The stairwa
leading to the f. st gallery is three fee
wide; that to the second gallery is thre
feet wide at the foot and two feet min
inches wide at the first landing above
The the theatre, owing to its construi
ton, has always been regarded as
trap.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

IT was perhaps proper that the war
department should be notified officially
OF JEFF Davis death, at one time secre-
tary of that department. 1t was also
proper that Secretary Proctor should
decline to take any official notice of the
fact, and to so inform the friends of
the dead confederate chief in an an
nouncement disavowing any intention
to wound their feelings or add to their
sorrows. To have done more than
that would be productive of far more
harm than good. The secretary dis
posed of the matter in a very COM
mendable manner.
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Telegrams of Coincidence.

MONTGOMERY, Ala Dec. IA
meeting of the COME 1erate Survivors
association was held last night to
make arrangements for memorial SER
vices oil the day of the funeral. Gov
ernor Seay who has returned to the
city sent a telegram to Mrs Jefferson
Davis saying: sit is the wish of our
people that his grave may be made be-
meath the monument to the confeder-
ate dead on the Capitol Hill at Mont
gomerV erected to the memory of ev-
AIRY soldier of the confederacy.
RICHMOND, Va. Dec. 6.-GoYernor
Lee has sent the following telegram
of coincidence to Mrs. Jefferson Davis:
New Orleans.-The sympathetic
chords of the hearts of our people are
deeply touched at the loss of one we
have ever regarded with the greatest
affection and the memory Of whose
valor and-virtue we will ever hold sa-
cred.' -
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE editor of the Hutchinson News
speaks up at last, and declares that be
hasn't drank three glasses Of beer OF
a tablespoonful of whisky in twelve
months, and that nobody but fool OF
skunk would intimate that he had. d
Well now, which is the more intempeg-
ate and unbecoming, the drinking OF a
glass, or three glass of beer, or the
reckless calling of such names ''fool'i
or ''skunkD
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
Business Failure.

NEW York, Dec. 1.-THE rumor OF
the failure of Alpeers s. Swarthout was
circulated yesterday afternoon, aud
thelamount of their liabilities was va
HousIy estimated. The best authuri-
ties place tue figures at $500 900. 70 a
reporter Mr.. Swarthour said that his
partner, Mr.. AIpeets, left lie office
Thursday last, aud had not been there
since. As Dir. Aipeers alone had the
continuation of the tfe. and AS all he
books and accounts had been locked up
ever since, there was no means OF
knowing the state of The firms Affairs.
No assignment nas-aS vet been nade
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

Q The candidate for mayor of Omaha
on the republican ticket was beaten
out of his boots last week because he
tried to straddle the liquor question.
He was asked to say squarely whether
he would close the saloons on Sunday
or allow them to run wide open, but
the only reply he could be induced to
make was: liam republican. The
people rechristened him and now his
name is Dennis.-St. Joseph News.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
shot hr a Cnlnred Polieeman.

MARSHALL, Mo-, Dec. "a colored
deputy policeman by the name of Vim
egar. while under the influence of liq.
uor, caused a scene of terror in HiR.
ginsville, thirty miles west of this city.
Saturday night by firing his revolver
into a crowd of white people, while
they were leaving the opera house after
a performance. A young man. was shot
through the head and moTtally wound
ed and others were more or less injured.
Vinegar escaped and has not yet been
captured. although posse of men is
securing the country in search of him.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

If subsidized steamships will build
up trade between the United States
and South America, will some one ex-
plain why it is that railway commune
cation between the United Statet and
Mexico does not accomplish that endf
What virtue or power is there in a sub
sidized steamship line to overcome the
hindrances to trade occasioned by the
tariff, that an International railway
does not possessp
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
His Neck Broken.

CHIcveo, Dec. 9.-Last night Lizzie
Jacobs, a girl of about fifteen years,
left the house, and SOON afterwards
her brother John went out and found
her walking " it'll John WisseI and Paul
Stockhart. He call d to her to 90
home, and scuffie eHsued .betW cen
the boys. Jacobs WAS pushed against
a fence violently and sank TO the
ground gasping, his neck being broken.
He died in few moments. No arrests
have as yet been made. Jacobs was
very fond of his sister, and her com
panions were undesirable.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
Stahhed to neath.

CTNCINNATI. Dec. 9.-Last night
Bridget Byrne, market woman, was
stabbed and cut to death. Before she
died she gave the name Of her assail-
ant AS John Smith. John or "Brnkey''
Smith was arrested in bed. He denied
all knowledge of the crime, and when
his attention was called To blood on
h s shirt aud undel shirt, said it came
I ON fight with his brother. Later
The officer fO~ nd the bloody knife sup
p"sed to have been the weapon he
used. Mrs Brine WAS 20 years old lived
alone and it WAS known that she had
saved money and bought bonds which
she kept in the house.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THERE is general approval OF the
message by the republican papers.
The rumored disaftection in the repub-
lican ranks does not make it's appear
anee in the party organs, There are
differences among republicans on
some questions Of public policy, but
there is determination to stand unit
eddy by the president and give him a
fair show.-Leavenworth Times.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
RobbedaRa Railroad

KANSAS CITY, Lee. GA special
to the Star from LeavenWorth says
that two months since there was stolen
from the ticket Office of the Z. C. W.
q n railroad, a cash box containing
valuable papers and $500 in money.
This morning two trustees from the
penitentiary found the box with the
papers intact in the base bail park but
the money vas gone.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

SPEAKER REED has done in a week,
says The Republican, what it took Mr..
Carlisle two months to do. Too fast, as
usual.Mr. Reed has adopted the plan of
reporting to the house each committee
as it is made up, whereas the custom
has been to report none until the COM
mittees were all filed. Mr.. Reeds
plan appears to be very good one.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

HUNGRY well rather. Stanley and
his men did not endure such pangs OF
hunger while traversing the African
forest as do the crowds of place hunt
rs which the Topeka Capital Wash
ington correspondent says daily inun.
date the Kansas congressman with
tender and piteous plants calling fol
one thing or another.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

The Emporia Republican became
the organ of the Farmers Alliance
Just at the right moment. A cardinal
doctrine of the national alliance is
that 1.-THE tariff be removed from the
necessaries and imposed on the luxu-
ries Of life" We congratulate our ever
esteemed contemporary on its recent
creditable flop.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

TsE early Sunday morning papers
sent out from Kansas City are all very
well il they would only spare us the
usual Monday morning blazoury and
chanticleer growing over their little
spuEt of enterprise. The columns de-
voted to self-laudation is very tire
some, even disgusting.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
Fatally wounded by a Prisoner.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. "a special to
the Star from Leavenworth, Kansas
says: This morning MOllie Brown, a
prisoner in the woman's ward at the
penitentiary, struck p. S. Hanks one
of the guards, on the head with the
sharp edge of a Ratchet, inflicting a
was unruly and had driven the mat
rons out of the ward. Hanks entered
tie ward TO subdue the woman and a
struggle ensued during which she
caught up a hstchet and drove the
edge into his skull.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

ONE of Washington's brand, new
senators, Squire, split the country
wide open by travelling to the nations
capitol in a special car. The next
thing We shall hear of this great man
is tie fabulous price he pays for his
undarwaar
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

ANOTHER Wichita husband suicided
by hanging himself in his barn. The
fellow evidently preferred that fate to
living longer. and taking the chances
of becoming lunatic and tramping
about the country. He seemed to
have forgotten that he might have re.
moved to EmPoria and lived happily tc
q green old age.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

The senate committee has procured
evidence at Washington proving con-
clusively that the Chicago packers toll
crate no opposition, and when it arises
promptly smashes 1t. The grinding
and plunderiDg character of these plu-
tOcrats is being fully and completely
established. 1880 90 {
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

POOR old Eminl He had held his
own for a decade OF more against the
plots and conspiracies of the baI bar
lans and savageS of the equatorial
provinces, but one hour of civilization
and German brandy was too much for
him. 1t is gratifying to know that his
injuries are less serious than at first
reported.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12
Shot HImself-Crooked Accounts the Cause.

Shot Himself-CFooked Accounts the Cause.
MILLwATKEE. Wis. Dec. 7.-Augus
SciottenbeIg. secretary of the school
hoard. shot himself this morning at
his residence at Reservoir avenue, be-
cause of the discovery of crookedness
in his aero nts. He kil6-d himself
rather than face the consequences. H.
was a reckless poker PLAYER and il is
believed he has lost thousands of dol
lars OF the school money. He leaves a
wife and several children.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

1T may yet turn out that the burn
ing OF the Tribune building at Mime
apolis was the work of young man
employ ed therein, whose populations
and entertainments suggested that
mode of destroying the evidences of
his guilt.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

WILLIAM CoTTNaHAM of Canton,
Kansas, aged Sc, married, the other
day, Miss Jennie Gruber, aged 20. The
trihing discrepancy in their ages was
more than compensated by the fairness
of her gay old LOtEorio's purse. What
a delightful old time Jennie will have
in frying the fat'' out of her gener-
Gus old spouse.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

1T WAS Mt. LincOln's wish that
Davis and the other confederate lead
ers should escape from the country at
the close Of the war. Leave the door
open and let them co." he SAID; .sWe
don't want to be bothered with them
in getting the government to nun
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

THE self-contained and considerate
manner in which the Kansas press has,
as rule, treated jeff Davis is a mat.
ter of public comment. AS Senator
ingalls, said not long ago, ''in the
democracy of the grave all men are
equal" So the press considers, and
says nothing.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

BRAZIL offers rare opportunities to
ambitious statesmen at the present
time. As places can not be found for
all who want them in this state, why
might not few Of our Kansas states
men, such as Burton and some others,
migrate to Brazil and grow up with
the new republic?
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

SAYS the Lawrence Journal, 1.-The
Missouri, Kansas s. Texas railroad is
TO he reorganized. Cross and Eddy as
receivers under Judge Brewer have
done wonders with the involved prop
erty. There ia a likelihood of the road
being taken out from the hands OF the
receivers soon. To pay presidents
salaries to two men seems to the stock
holders superfluOus.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

MATHEW STANLEY QUAY got hot at
the president and said that he would
be known in history as "the grandson
OF William Henry Harrison and the
grand father of Baby Mckee" But
Mathew Stanley will alter that some
what after he has had two or three
twenty cent 'smiles" at the '.Shore-
hamn Flats.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

COLORADO White Caps took couple
of lawyers out at night, stripped and
dashed them in most vigorous man
ner. The multitude of witnesses that
have had to submit to the hectoring
and brow beating of full stomached
lawyers will feel like blessing the Col
orado regulators.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-12-12

JUDGE KEY, postmaster general un-
der Hayes and resident of East Ten
nessee, where the Republican major
ity is overwhelming, says that negro
mas no more show for an Office there
than he has in Mississippi or Louisi-
ana. So it seems that voters in both
parties are very much alike on this
question.