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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04

supt. Cochran of the Poor Farm was
In town sGonday. He says three of
the poor were sent 70 Ohio. the ether
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-04

his preferment now. 1t may be, how
ever, that little roasting VIII not be
hurtfuI, and that, after a season Of
suspense and imaginary penanee, he
may go through yet.-Cap. Com.
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On two different occasions previous
to the successful act of suicide Tues
day and since the ugly affair in which
he figured at Usage in January last.
Gen. II. K. Mcconnell had made at
tempts at taking his own life.
Some time ago an attempt with a
razor WAS frustrated. Later, the
timely use of ii stomach pump saved
his life from the effects of dose of
poison which he had taken with sui
cidal intent.
His determination to kill him self
seems to have been fixed and unaltera-
bic. He came to Kansas from Ohio.
where he had been for some time a
preacher. lie served as county super
intendent Of Usage county few years
ago, and afterwards became a member
of the law firm OF Mcconnell & Hay,
enjoying an extensive practice. He
served in the war of the rebellion and
was prominent in the G.. y. r. circles.
Three grown daughters and one mar
ried son survive him. Prior to the
January scandal he was highly re-
spected on all sides. Tince then, he
avoided his old friends and the public
as much as possible and cared only for
death, which he finally succeeded IN
wooing with AN English.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
Anril 1900

Council met i'll regular session with
Mayor Weaver in the chair. Council
men present: Mccain, Clarke, McCown,
Sexton, Tytherleigh, Hotter, Wells and
Phillips.
Minutes of meetings held March 18th
and 10Th read and approved.
Report of street commissioner for
March was presented. and on motion
referred to committee on streets and
alleys.
Report of city weighmaster for March
was presented and referred to commit
tee on ways and means.
Report of city treasurer for the quar-
ter ending March 25th, was read and
on motion referred to committee on
ways and means.
Report of superintendent of water
works was presented and on motion re-
fered to committee on water works.
A petition from numerous merchants
and citizens of the city requesting
the council to pass an ordi-
nance fixing license tax on
parties bringing fire sale goods into
the city for sale was presented and on
motion referred to the city attorney to
report as to the legality of the powers
of the council to enact such an ordin-
ance.
A petition to have water main ex-
tended on Highland place street as far
as Judge Graves residence was pre-
scented and on motion referred to the
committee on waterworks to report at
next meeting.
Mr.. Mccain moved that when the
council did adjourn that it be until
next Friday evening at 8 O'Clock. Mo-
Jion adopted.
On motion of Mr.. Hoffer the matter
of right of way to the old waterwcrks
station was referred to the city attOr-
ney to investigate and report at the
next regular meeting.
On motion of Mccain the city
attorney was instructed to have the
mortgage on lot No. l South Neosho
street released and ordinance to
prohibit the throwing of handbills and
other printed matter upon CONNER
cial street and sidewalk aud upon GER
tain avenues and sidewalks was intro
duced, considered by section and
adopted by a unanimous vote.
An ordinance satisfying the follow
ing claims was introduced, considered
by section under suspension of the
rules and adopted by unanimous vote:
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Robinson Funk IS in frem OIpe
Monday
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The WEEKLY NEWS

THURSDAY APRIL 4, 1889. Q
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Mr.. GLADSTONE, on the 9th, requested
that the Album of Views subscribed by
the English and American colonies at
Rome as a gift to the ex-Premier, be sent
to him in London, instead Of being pre-
sented to him personally.
DAVID KIMBALI., aged sixty-three, n
wealthy and highly respected citizen of
Omaha, Neb., while attempting to board a
Union Pacific train, on the 9th, at the
transfer station at Council Bluffs, Ia,
slipped on the ice, fell under the train and
was instantly killed.
R. K Fox received a telegram from
Charley Mitchell, on the 26th, announcing
his safe arrival at Liverpool, and stating
that he would surely return in March.
THE Central Stock Yard Company's hog
abattoir, on the west bank of the Hacken-
sack river, near Jersey City, N. j., was
burned on the 26th. Loss, 100000; most
ly covered by insurance. Over 1000 live
hogs were in the building when the fire
broke out, and only few of them es-
capped.
Mrs. WILLIAM JAMES, mother of ex-
Postmaster General Thomas l.. James,
died at her home in Utica, N. Y, on the
9th, aged eighty two.
ABAD collision occurred, on the Goth.
on the New York, Pennsylvania q ONO
road near Ontario, o., between hight
engine and double headed freight tram.
The three engines were badly demolished,
causing a blockade OF the track for SIX
hours. 1t is reported that Engineer Buck
lev was killed and q fireman seriously in
jured.
THE fact that the Mills Tariff bill, with
the Senate substitute, was, on the 2oth,
sent to the ways and means committee,
has revived, in Republican circles at
least, the talk of au extra session. the
Republicans accept the reference as an
assurance that no tariff legislation VIII
be had this Congress.
CHARLES HENRY HURD, formerly super
intendent of the Michigan Central rail-
road. and proprietor of the well-known
Hurd farm near Concord, n. H., died, on
the 26th. aged seventy years.
cABLEGRAM to the New York Catholic
News. on the 2Sth, announced the post
nonement of the consistory, in which 1t
had been expected the vacant sees OF
Richmond and Natchez were to have been
filled.
SECRETARY WHITNEY, on the 2Sth, is
sued the advertisements for proposals for
the machinery of the armored battle-ship
Texas" ito be built at Norfolk, Va BIDS
will be opened on the Sd of April at the
Navy Department.
A DISPATCH received at the Navy De-
partment, on the 18th, announced the ar
rival Of the United States steamer Ossipee
at Aspinwall.
CHEF GRAVES Of the Hnresr Of EngTav-
ing and Printing appeared before the Sea-
ate committee on faancs, on the 2Sth, cad
made an argument in favor Of retaining
the steam presses used In the bureau.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
The NEW NAVY.
Easy Enough to Build Ships But Hard to
Obtain Heavy Guns.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-In its report
upon the Naval Appropriation bill the
House Committee on Naval Affairs sum-
marizes the present condition and future
prospects Of the navy of this country,
saying: with regard to a new navy.
Congress seems to have settled upon a
poAcy OF appropriating toward it's con-
structlon about &c. 600 600 per annum
our committee believe that this will
build up navy as fast as prudence die
tates. Our Navy Department and our
ship building are utilizing, as far as may
be, by every means in their power, the
knowledge acquired from the costly ex-
perlence of other nations, but they must
acquire experience of their own. Too great
haste on the part of the Government would
inevitably result in confusion and
waste and most probably in combina
tion instead of competition among ship
builders. Besides it would be an easy
matter in this country to build ships more
rapidly than we could supply than with
armament of domestic manufacture. Even
in England, with all their facilities, there
is loud complaint that the Government
and all their contractors are unable to sup
ply guns as they are wanted. The manu-
facture of a modern high power gun is not
only an expensive but slow and tedious
process"
The committee says that the appropria-
tion of S625, 009 for extending the gun plant
at the Washington navy yard. which has
proved to be insufficient, will, taken in
connection with other aims, be al that is
necessary to put three different navy yards
IN condition to build the hulls OF the finest
modern vessels, armored and unarmored,
as we'll as for the complete equipment of q
great plant for the assembly Of heavy ord
nance. Satisfactory progress is being
made by the private contractors for sup
plying heavy gun and armor plate for
guns and for rapid firs machinery guns.
The committee closes: at will be seen
that Congress by the passage of the bill
we report will have taken the last step
necessary to render the Government ab-
soluteiy independent of the world in the
matter of the building and equipping a
navy. It has been the constant aim of the
committee and OF the departments to pro-
vide for ships the best of their classes
guns equal to any in the world. There is
ample competition among bidders for the
construction of engines and machinery,
and in this matter American enterprise
and ingenuity seem likely to lead the
world. To get from a vessel Of the type
Of the Vesuvius a speed of twenty knots
an hour seemed, when Congress made it an
absoluts requirement a difficult task, but
it was undertaken and that vessel on its
recent trip showed the wonderful speed of
81 GA knots
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
LATE NEWS ITEMS

| ['WO CARLOADS of darkies, 1a9 in number',
eassed through Jackson. Miss, on the 29la
from South Carolina bound for Kazoo
county, where they have been engaged a.
farm laborers.
| THE electo raj vote of the State CT
Florida not having been received, mes
.enger from the State Department has been
sent in quest of it.
| JOSEPH A. MOORE, the $500, ,0G0 embezzler
Of Indianapolis, has skipped after all and
| is now safe in Canada. He went away
very quietly Sunday night, it is supposed
| Hon. JOHN NJ. Clayton was instantly
killed at Plummerville, Ark, about0 O'Clock
on the night of the 10Th, at the house in
which he was boarding, by an unknown
person.
JUICE GREENE, Of the Birmingham, Ala. ,
| Criminal Court, on the 10Th rendered de-
rision refusing the petition of Richard R..
Haws for change of venue. The Judge
held that the evidence showed that
the prisoner could get fair and impartial
trial at Birmingham.
FATAL accident happened on the z7th
TO Mrs. NJ. e. Flippen, an aged and most
Miss. She was kneeling Ibofore vhe fire
with her back toward it engaged in her
| evening devotions when her clothing be-
came ignited and soon enveloped her per-
| son in flames. Before assistance reached
| her she was fatally burned.
| Wa. TATE, a wealthy farmer of Hamblen
| county, Tenn, has given $4,000 out of his
| private fortune to be distributed among
disabled Confederate soldiers of the First
and Second Congressional districts. He
was private in the Confederate army.
| SEVERAL Alliances in Mississippi have
resolved to raise their own tobacco.
| STEPS are being taken to establish cot
ton seed mill at Forrest City, Ark.
| TIE contract for fireworks to he used at
| Washington on the night of inauguration
day. has been awarded. The cost will be
$11 eco.
| A BILLS being prepared by the Senate
Committee on Epidemic Diseases, provid-
ing for the establishment Of National
| Board of Health in connection with the
| Treasury Department.
| REPUBLICAN members are a unit in their
opposition to an extra session of Congress.
| Democrats, too, think there will not be
any, and say that the reason for it will be
| not from any exigencies for it.
THE little town Of Newport. county seat
of Cooke county, Tenn, is all excited over
the discovery that Ben Proflitt. ex- trustee
of the county, is short from $4,000 to
$4,000.
| The Southern Construction and Quarry
Company, Of Nashville, Tenn, was on the
| e6th awarded the contract for building the
Custom House wharf at Charleston, 8. Cp
for SI52, 600.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
Cherokee Citizenship.

WASHINGTON, Jaa. 26-The Secretary
of the Interior has received from the A.
torney-General an opinion in which ii is
held that North Carolina Cherokee Indians
who have been admitted to Cherokee
citizenship by the Chief Justice Of the
Cherokee Supreme Court, under the law
of the Cherokee Nation, Indian Terri
tory, are ctiz rs Of that Nation and are
entitled to all the rights and privileges Of
such citizenship, notwithstanding subse-
qucnt adverse action by the Cherokee
Council. The Attorney General holds that
the Council has no lawful right to super
wise the act OF their Chief Justice in this
matter. 1t is said that there are 2 large
number OF Cherokees, some of thera very
wealthy, living in the Nation, whom the
Council refuse to recognize as citizens and
have sought to dispossess them of their
property.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
Texas Electoral College Meats.

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan 26.-The rejection of
the Presidential Electoral return of Texas
by Mr.. Ingalls,, President pro tenn. OF the
Senate, created a eomnotion here. The
opinion as voiced by State Elector Wood,
is that the action of Senator ingalls,
in refusing the returns was absolute
ly unauth orized by any law found
in the revised statutes OF the United
States, and that his object was to de-
Law the count as evidenced by Mr.. Hoar's
resolution introduced in the Senate, be-
cause one or two Republican States were
behind with their returns. The action was
without any grounds of law or sense and
an outrage on the rights Of the States and
Texas in particular. The Electoral Col
lege, however, met and corrected the re-
turn, putting it in full legal shape and
Colonel Robertson, the messenger, left
Austin for Washington Thursday night
and barring accident will reach that city
Sunday morning.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
DUN'S REPORT.
The Usual Weekly Review of the State OF
Trade I'm the Country.

Trade I'm the Country.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-R. G.. Dun & Co.'s
weekly review of trade says. ''The state
of trade is unusually perplexing, for, with
general complaint of the dullness, there
are evidences that the volume OF trans
actions is large. The payments through
banks last week were 25 per cent. larger
than for the corresponding week last year
at New York and 16 per cent. larger at all
other cities. Railroad earnings also show
that traffic is large. The demand for
money is sufficiently active at nearly all
interior points, moreover, to indicate that
large business is in progress. Yet it is
undeniable that the prevailing temper is
one of disappointment at the result of
business since the new year began, and
this IS not wholly explained by the steadily
declining prices of products. At Southern
points, after some depression, trade ap-
pears to be improving. In the Northwest
trade is fully equal to that Of last
year, and at the same points clearly
larger. The supply of money seems to be
everywhere ample for legitimate demand.
There are no indications of general un-
soundness or over -straining OF commercial
credits. In the great iron industry con-
sumption for all other than railroad pur-
poses appears to be larger than ever; but
there is serious disturbance. In conse-
quence the Iron Age reports general
weakening which there is no use in blink
ing at" and holds that furnaces which can
not face without loss a decline of
fully II from present prices may wisely
suspend production. At Western points
Southern iron is offered at prices equiv
aent to So at Birmingham, which is con-
sidered equal to SIT for Pennsylvania iron !;
| and large sales are reported at prices be-
low published quotations. A decline in
the price of coke is considered probable,
and the anthracite coal market continues
| weak
The decline in wheat continues, the price
having fallen 2x cents for the week As
the prices reached this week We're 931z to
937s cents there has been some buying for
export, though not as yet for Great
Britain. Corn has fallen l cent and oats
are lower. Pork products have also de-
clined, mess about so cents per barrel !:
lard 20 and hogs ID cents per 100 poun5 is.
Cotton is a shade lower, with sales of 421, :
600 bales. and coffee q cents higher, with
sales of 233, 600 bags. The market for cop
per has been dull, and tin is lower at 81 u
cents; lead is also weak at $3.50, but
spelter is quoted at 3 cents. There is little
activity in groceries. but the sugar market
favors holders. The general average of
prices has fallen g of l per cent. for the
week. @
The supply of money here increases
both by remittances from the interior and
by excess of treasury disbur sements over
receipts, which reached $1 1000 for the
week. The exports of merchandise from
New York show gain-of II per cent. for
| three weeks. The stock market is never
theless so firmly sustained that the aver
age decline in prices has been only 81 cents
per S1G0 for the week
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
MEssRs. IVES AND SrAYNop we're taken

MEssRs. IVES AND STAYNoR were taken
| TO the Ludlow Street Jail, New York City,
on the 2sth, having failed to secure bonds
men.
POLICE CAPTAIN RYAN, Of New York
City, received notice, on the 2sth, signed
Jack, the Ripper" that the streets Of his
precinct will soon be filled with murdered
women.
MRS. BARROW, Of Philadelphia, who
pleaded guilty to numbering her hus band,
was, on the 2Sth, sentenced by Judge Hare
to be hanged.
PREMIER FLOQUET, on the 2Sth, rendered
| the designations of the entire French Cab
met to President Carnot, but the latter
| declined t0sreceive them.
THERE was a light fall Of snow at Biloxi,
Miss, on the 2Sth.
A SERIOUS surgical operation was sue
cessfully performed on Senator Vance on
the eSth. One Of his eyes, which has
caused him a great deal of trouble, was
removed. Three physicians were in at
tendance, and the operation was per-
formed in few moments.
Snow fell at Pensacola, Fla, on the
2Sth, for the second time in twenty four
years.
THE Secre tary Of the Treasury sent to
the Senate, on the 2Sth, as requested by
resolution adopted some time ago, the re-
port of Special Agent Tingle on the con-
dition of Alaska.
A. L. EMERY was arrested at Lewis
| ton, Me-, on the 2Sth, charged with de-
falcation amounting to 81, 600 as secretary
| of an Odd-Fellows' lodge.
In the House, on the 2Sth, Mr.. Stone, Of
Kentucky, offered joint resolution pro-
New York City on April 49, 1889, on which
occasion the centennial of the organiza-
tion of constitutional government in thi S
country will be celebrated.
THE establishment of C.. p Hutchings
d Sons, a car-roofing concern in West
Detroit, Mich, with premises covering
three acres of ground, was burned COM
| pletely on the 2Sth. Loss, $4,000. The
firm furnished goods to nearly all car
| builders in the country.
RUSSELL HARRISON is in Helena, Mont,
| with Press Association news franchise,
| for the purpose of starting daily paper,
| which will be General Harrison's official
| organ in Montana.
| ABOUT forty wooden buildings in Dutch
Flat, Cal, comprising the Chinatown of
tn at place, were destroyed by fire on the
9th. Loss, $780, 900; no insurance.
| THE Sheldon Axle Works at Wilkes
b ARE, Pa, the largest plant in the coun-
| try, suspended temporarily on the 2Sth.
| I welve hundred men are thrown out of
work.
A TIE-UP Of all the surface roads in
| New York and Brooklyn took place early
on the morning of the 29th.
| THE Maine Legisla ture in joint conven-
ton, on the 2Sth, elected Geo. l.. Beal, of
N orway, State Treasurer by vote of 1l2
| to 3.
| GOVERNOR GREEN Of New Jersey, on
| the 28th, signed the bill repeating the law
, which required ballot boxes to be closed
at sunset.
THE Speaker laid before the House, on
the 2Sth, the report of General W. B.
| Franklin, president of the board of man
ayers of the National Homes for Disabled
| Volunteer Soldiers. The report is elabo-
rate. The general management of the
| homes throughout the country is COM
| rnap6ad
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
DIPLOMATIC STATE DINNER.
Foreign Representatives Dine With tn
President Of the United States.

Foreign Representatives Dine With the
President Of the United States.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-A state dinner
to the diplomatic corps took place Thurs
day evening. President Cleveland
escorted Nine. Romero, wife of the
Mexican Minister, to dinner, and Mrs.
Cleveland followed on the arm of the
Italian Minister. The other guests We're:
Mrs. Carter and the Mexican Minister,
Countess Leopoldin Won Arco- Valley and
Senator Sherman, Baroness Rosen and
the M.nister of Austria Hungary, Miss
Bayard and the German Minister,
Mrs. Sherman and the Turkish h
Minister, Countess de Sponne ok
and the Argentine Minister, Madame
dc Hurlado and the Minister Of
France, Mrs. Laughton and the japanese
Minister, Mrs. Herbert and the Chinese
Minister, Madame De Varras and the
Netherlands Minister, Madame De Guz-
man and the Secretary of State, Madame
.De Perez Zeldon and the Hawaiian Minis
ter, Madame Mutzua and the Spanish
Minister, Countess D'Arschot and the
Minister from Costa Rica, Mrs. McCreary
and the Persian Minister, the Peruvian
Minister, the Danish Minister, the Charge
d'Affaires of Belgium, the ChiIian Minis
ter, the Charge d'Affaires Of Brazil, Mr..
McCreary, the Minister of Nicaragua, the
Charge d'ATares OF Corea, the Charge
d'Afaires of Sweden and Norway, the
Minister of Switzerland, the Charge
d'Afaires OF Great Britain, the Charge
d'ATaires Of Russia, the Minister of Co.
IOlnbia.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
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tannel NJ. Ealfnn Deal.

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 26.-Samuel L.. Eel
ton, president of the Pennsylvania Steel
Company and ex-president of the Phila-
delphia & Baltimore Railroad Company.
died last night at his residence in this city,
aged seventy mine years. To Mr. FELTON,
the credit is given OF enabling President
Lincoln to pass through Baltimore on bis
way to his Inauguration unrecogniZed. IL
was due to his foresight and zeal also that
the route to Wash ngton by way Of An
napnlis was opened when Baltimore was
closed by the riot of April. 1861.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON
The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle SamaIelxites to Take Their
Departure.

The Expelled Boomers Patiently Waiting
For the Uncle SamaIekites to Take Their
Departure.
GAINESVILLE, Tex, Jan. 26-Reports
state that the soldiers sent from Fort Sill
for the purpose of clearing Oklahoma of
boomers have about completed the work
and that the expelled boomers are now en-
camped along the southern boundary of
the territory from which they have Just
been driven.
The numb of boomers that were en-
camped in the Oklahoma country prior to
the arrival of the soldiers on Wednesday
is estimated variously at from 5000 to
5000, and some place the number as high
as 1000 They came from all parts of the
country and so confident were some Of
them that they would not be disturbed in
their occupancy Of the country on account
of the prohabili y that the Springer bill
would soon bect me law, that they went
to work at once to build for themselves
comfortable homes.
The expelled boomers are many of them
in poor circumstances, but they are re-
ported to be quite cheerful and bear pa
tien!ly their vexations and disappoint-
ments in the hope that The days are num-
bered till they will be allowed to enter
again and enjoy in peace the coveted land.
Some of the expelled boomers now en-
camped near Purcell have Threatened to
re-enter Oklahoma as soon as the soldiers
have left but they viii probably not have
the opportunity soon TO carry this threat
into execution, for the soldiers are now
guarding the southern boundary of Okla
bona, and will continue to do so for some
time. 1t is also reported that United
States soldiers are also guarding the
northern boundary TO keep back tn boom
ers that would otherwise come on that
side,
Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
Another NIassa ere.

ZANZIBAR, Jan. 2G.-An English mis-
sionar-y named Brooks and sixt .en Of his
followers were murdered on Saturday
near Saadani by members Of the coast
tribes and natives of Zanzibar. These
murders indicate the extent of the hatred
to whites the Germans have aroused.
Saadani fer many years has bean the
starting point OF European missions, the
natives welcoming the III ssionaries and
assisting them, especially the e. lGush.