The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
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RICHMOND, Va, Feb Ex-United
States Senator John w. Johnston died
here to-day.
ZANZIBAR, Feb. 27.-The German
missionaries held captive by the Arabs
were liberated to-day.
PARIS. Feb. 81 1t is reported that
General Desbordes the French COM
mander has been murde red in lou
Quin.
ST. GATHERINGS, Ont. March L.
John Carroll, contractor, has failed.
His liabilities are S. 500. The amount
of his assets is not yet known.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Feb. 27.-J. Nj. Good
man, until last year cashier of the
Cook county treasurer's office, has
disappeared with So, 500 or 81 900 of the
county's fund.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Feb. 27.-Folls
& Griffiths, dealers in carpets etc., as
signed today. Liabilities are placed at
BOO. 900. and the assets will not
| amount to over S75, 600.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-The national
bankruptcy law convention to-day
| adopted resolutions endorsing the
Lowell bill as last passed by the senate
| as the best solution of the question.
Moss POINT, Miss, Feb. 27.-The
mill hands here have been on a strike
for some time. The negroes have re-
sorted to a regular bull-doZing scheme
| to prevent those who want to work
from doing SO.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, March Mrs.
| James Ledgett and her two sons were
drowned yesterday while trying to cross
| Wilson creek in a wagon sixteen miles
| southwest of here. None of the bodies
have been recovered.
! WENoNA, ILL.,, March 1.-The busl
ness portion of the village of Lastant,
| Illinois, was destroyed by fire yes.er-
day. Fourteen stores were burned.
The losses amount to S45, 600 and the
insurance IS very light.
DETROIT, March 1.-George Morley.
wholesale lumber dealer, has made an
assignment to Edmund Haugh, his at
.torney. The liabilities, it is said will
be considerably less than 500, 600. The
assets will inventory about 10000.
MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Feb, PA
Journal, Owautona. Mimi, special
says: The village of Blooming Prairie
was almost wiped out by fire this morn
ing. The post Office was among the
buildings burned. Total loss $50, 900,
insurance SIC, 600.
NEW YORK. March 1.-The filing of
the additional indictments yesterday
against Ives and Stayner seems to have
been a severe blow to the tinancierS.
The prison keepers are authority Tor
the statement that the prisoners passed
very restless night.
Boston, March 1.-The assignment
is announced of Henry a. Gould q Co.,
dye stuffs. Pearl street, of this city.
The liabilities. though not yet definite
" known, are estimated at nearly a
million. The assignee is Boston
lawyer named Cox.
ST. LOUIS, March IA special from
Chattanooga 70 the Post-Dispatch says
1000 employees at the furnaces OF the
Tennessee Coal, Iron Il Railroad com
pany, of South Pittsburg. strnck this
morning in consequence of reduction OF
10 per cent in their wages.
CHICAGO, H., March 1.-The grand
! jury which yesterday and to-day has
: been investigating the libel suits OF In.
spector Bonf1eld, Captain Setback and
Detective LoWenstein against the Chi
cago Times, has just finished their in
vestigation and found mo bills"
NEW YORK, Feb.27.-District Attor.
ney Fellows today decided to accept
the evidence of book keeper Woodruff
} against his employers Ives 4 Stay
. ner, and Woodruff will be
witness for the state. He hal
been promised immunity from punish
ment provided he tells the truth.
. BAsTRoP. La, Feb. 27.-An attemp'
, was made at Oak Ridge Monday night
/, to assassinate L. 2. Goldman as hi
! was going from his store to his home
He was fired upon by an unknown
> person. A hundred and fifty squire
2 shot and several larger shot entered
: his back INJECTING wounds which pro
e habiV will prove fatal.
= LINcoLN, Neb. Feb. 27.-Mr. Pat
: rick Egan has made public numbe
t of the letters on which Richard Pigot
founded the clever fOrgeries which b.
sold to the London Times and Whicl
formed the basis of the .'Parnellisn
l. and crime'' articles in that paper lead
+ ing to the Parnell-T Times commissio
= and the exposure Of the forgeries a
given in yesterdays associated pres
L dispatches from London.