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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-04-11
An Australian Lnrs.ROmanoc.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April s.
There sailed to-day on the steamer
Zelandia, for Sydney, young Bob Fra
ger and his bride, who are chief actors
in an exciting love romance. The girl,
a pretty blonde, named Nellie Arm
strong, was brought from Sydney to
Salt Lake six years ago by her mother,
who was an enthusiastic Mormon. The
old woman wanted to. get her away
from Bob, and to make her a Mormon,
but Nellie, who was plucky, managed
to correspond with her lover and to re-
sist her mothers plans. Recently, CO.
ercion was attempted. as prominent
saint lusted after Nellie, but the girl
notified Frazer of her peril, and he sent
her word to meet him at San Francisco
the first week in April. Frazer worked
his passage TO this port and met Nellie
here on Thursday. They were married
and departed to-day in high spirits for
| their Australian home.
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, April 8, 80.
Council met as per adjournment,
Mayor Weaver in the chair. Council
men present, Clarke, Sexton, White
hill, Tytherleigh, Phillips and MeIlin-
ger.
Minutes of last meeting read and ap-
proved.
Messrs. Mccain and Hoffer then
took their seats in the council.
On motion of Phillips the rules were
suspended and the council proceeded
with the business for which the ad-
journment was made.
Judge Evans on behalf of Mr.. Rich
put forth his claims in very modest
and torcible manner, and produced
from the statute laws of the state good
reasons why the council should proceed
to count the ballots, and thereby de-
termine who was the legally elected
councilman from the Second ward.
County Attorney Flory as the coun
sci for Mr.. Whitebill, replied with quite
lengthy argument against the council
being vested with the power to count
the ballots in case of contesting an
election and produced evidence from
the election laws of the state co sus-
tain his arguments.
Mr.. Tytherleigh seconded by
Phillips moved that the council adopt
the minutes as whole in re-
gard to the tellers' report of the can.
yass of the votes on last meeting night.
Mr.. Mccain offered as a substitute
that the action of the council in the
matter of the canvass of the vote al
last meeting be Feconsidered.
Upon the calling of the roll the ques.
ton arose as to the propriety or legal
ity of Mr.. Whitehill voting
upon this question. The mayor
decided that he could moi
vote. The roll call was then fin
ished with the following results: Yeas
Mccain, Clarke, Sexton. Hoffer anC
MeIlinger; nays. Tytherleigh anG
Phillips.
Mccain moved that the council pro
coed TO count the ballots cast in thu
second ward. Motion lost.
| Mr.. Tytherleigh moved to recon
slider the substitute offered by Mccain
Motion adopted.
| Mr.. Tytherleigh then moved t
adopt the minutes as whole. Nc
ton carried. Adjourned
H. s. ALEXANDER, City clerk
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The Manhattan Rifles is a company
Of fifteen young ladies, who have
been drilling in military tactics
under Lieutenant Morrison. The drill
has been for the express purpose of
physical development. The young
women are from the representative
families of Manhattan.
Twenty-seven AtchiSOn girls have
formed an anti-kissing society. A
sweet young thing of seventeen was in
tervieWed on the subject to-day by q
Globe reporter, and she frankly stated
that the girls were becoming tired of
kissing the boys and then hearing af-
forwards that the boys had told about
1t. A girl never tells such things, the
sweet young thing said, but the boys
rejoice in it; indeed, they keep list of
the girls that kiss, and show it to every
new fellow that comes along.-Atchl
son Globe.
Several localities in western and
southwestern Kansas are taking steps
to avail themselves of the privileges of
the new law empowering cities of the
second and third class to vote bonds to
the extent of S15, 900 each, and invest
the proceeds in sugar company stocks
and thus aid in erecting sugar tacto-
ries in their localities. In some in
stances city and one or two town
ships go together, and in enc instance
four townships propose to pool and take
stock in one central actofy.-
Conway Springs Star.
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Hyatt is released of his duties at the
New York sub-treaSury and probS
ably not until after the count Of the
moneys and securities at that Office
has been completed.
Assistant Secretary Roberts expects
to take charge of the New York sub
treasury next Monday and the count
will probably be completed in three
weeks, the Washington Office will then
be transferred. The examination of
the treasury vaults will occupy several
months owing to the immense Quanti-
ty of silver quarters and dollars to be
counted.
Secretary Rusk finds the roll of en-
plOyes of the agricultural department
80 largely in excess of the resources for
the current year that until after June
30 there will be far more dismissalS
than appointments. In the seed di-
vision alone eighty of the employees
have been dismissed and the force will
be still further reduced. Secretary
Rusk says he is determined there shall
be no deficiency in his department for
congress to provide for If he can help
it and he thinks he can.
The collection of wild animals at the
Smithsonian institution which forms a
nucleus of the aggregation to be dOmi-
cIled at the proposed national Zoologi-
cal park survived the winter in good
condition. Hon. w. F. Cody buffalo
Bill has again demonstrated his practi-
cal interest in the connection by donat-
ing outright three American elk which
have been on exhibition in the institu-
ton park since last autumn, and he
has promised to further assist them
in procuring representatives of native
wild species. The Angora goat gave
birth to a kid Saturday night, but by
reason of singular malformation de-
veloped in the mother, the baby could
not secure natural nourishment and
after twenty-four hours died despite
efforts of the keepers to sustain lite.
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HARTFORD SIFTlNGs.

The weather is fine and the farmers
are busy planting corn.
Oats are coming up nicely and a
large acreage has been sown.
Wheat is in excellent condition and
promises a large yield.
Lem Carr, who had the misfortune
of getting his hand and wrist caught
in the cog-wheels Of corn shelter a
short time since. causing amputation
is doing well and has passed the dan
ger period.
Judge Perry lately purchased the old
Catholic church grounds of Perkins &
Brogan and is building an addition to
his dwelling.
A. G.. Shepherd is uusy assessing the
personal property and real estate OF
the people in our township.
NV. O'Connor is looking after few
car loads of fat porkers.
@. II. Slead and James Billeadau are
of for Oklahoma, where they expect t6
find plenty of carpenter work at fan
prices.
W. II. Flickinger has been appointed
postmaster and VIII soon qualify and
enter upon the duties of said service.
o. M. F1ickinger of Topeka vislteC
his many Hartford friends Sunday last
L. NJ, Bernheisel has sold his stock o
| goods to his brother, s. Fl. Bernbeisel
| late of Pennsylvania.
| Mrs. L. Kell aad daughter. Miss BeS
sic, have opened up stock of miliiner,
goods In the east end of the Campbell
building.
C. H. Demoss has sold his pFopert
to George Dudlep and has moved hi
family to Empcria.
i S. g. johnson is visiting his dallgh
ter. Mrs. w. L. Milner, and Othe
friends in about our city. g. !. G.
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nnnfantinr Will.


NEW YORK, April S.-A warm con-
test will be waged over the $500. 900
estate of Thos. J.Monroe, the Harlem
Hermit, who lived in seclusion many
years up town. Mr.. Monroe's name
was originally Jacobs" His father
made fortune in the clothing bust
ness which was inherited by three sons,
William H. Jacobs, James II. Monroe
and Thomas j. Monroe. The Monroe's
acquired their present names by an
act Of the court of common pleas. On
January 1, 1880, the alleged will of
Thomas j: Monroe was offered for pro
bate. 1t bore the date Of March Y,
1888, and was apparently re-executed
June l. The subscribing witnesses
were Erastus f. Brown and Edward K.
Brown and the instrument seems to
have been written by the teacher
himself. 1t provided that three
fourths OF the income of his
estate should be given TO his wife and
o ne-fourth to George G. Grenell. the
Monroe died July l, 1888, while the tes-
tator did not die until January 10,
1889. The value of the estate is adj
mitted by Grenel to be $225 900. al
though some estimate 1t as high
as $500, 900. Mr.. Grenell is said
to be a stranger to the relatives
of Monroe. His name was originally
Larry Benson. Mr.. Jacobs says the
first intimation he had that his brother
was Ill was a call from Grenell's attor-
ney who Informed him of his brothers.
death. The contestants are VIM. III.
Jacobs, 256 West Thirty-fourth street,
and four children of James w. Mon
roe, Annie Maria Monroe and Jeanette
Brush, both of Elyria, Ohio; Charles
Monroe, of Nebraska and Susan Mon
roe and w. Page. of Boston; Hon.
Charles A. Flanner and Charles Il.
Beckett Earl, their attorneys. Undue
influence is the ground for contest.
The contest will be tried before Porter
V. Ransom, assistant to the surro-
rate
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Death Of Mrs. James Sanders.

Mrs. Lydia Sanders. aged twenty
three years. wife of James Sanders,
the respected pressman of the Empor-
ria NEWS died of consumption
Saturday at 4:1O p.m m. She had been
i'll for six or eight months but had not
been regarded as dangerously so for
only week or two past. Mrs. Sanders
was a native of Virginia and came to
this city about five years ago, She was
married November 18th, 1885 and
leaYss husband and a baby seven
months old besides a host of friends
to mourn her loss. Mr.. Sanders, who
enjoys the esteem of all our citizens,
has the profound sympathy of the en-
tire community, especially of the
NEWS Co. and employees, where he has
been constantly employed for the last
six years. The funeral services which
were largely attended, were conducted
at the Second Christian church and
the remains laid to rest in Maplewood
em0t0rV
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Tn. SAINT. p. Invs.tigatiug.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kans., April s.
The officials of the Santa Fe road were
busy yesterday investing the story that
the boomers concealed in the woods of
Oklahoma had banded together Cor the
purpose of destroying the railread
bridges on the night of April 2lst, in
order to obstruct the influx of home
steaders until the men concealed in
the country could make perfect their
claims. 1t appears that the boomers
in hiding are desperate. They have
selected and watched their claims for
years. and they now fear that the new
corners, with the assistance of rapid
transit, may get the best of them.
There was q meeting of these boomers
held in the timber near Oklahoma City
last Thursday, and they canvassed the
situation. After the meeting adj
journed the Santa Fe received notice
that the bridges would be burned
April 22nd, as the old boomers
did not propose to jeopardize their
chances by allowing flood of tender
feet to drop in on the land they had
picked out. Detectives have been sent
along the line through tie country
and every precautiOn will be taken to
prevent railway obstruction. There
are twice as many people now on the
borders as can be accommodated under
the homestead act in Oklahoma. About
3 O'Clock yesterday fully 800 passengers
arrived in this city. all bound for Okla
homa. Many of them represent colo
MES and are here AS the advance
agents. There are men here repre-
senting colonies from Washington.
California. Utah, Colorado, Nebraska,
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Ala
bama. The colonies number from
twenty to 500 persons. Last evening
twenty empty passenger coaches
pulled into this city on the Santa Fe
attached to the regular freight train
and we've RIM into the yards to await
the 22nd. A railroader said that the
Santa Fe company had 400 cars already
engaged by parties who desired house
hold goods removed to this point be-
fore the 2lst. The crowd had Increased
here to such preparations that persons
who get their mail at free deliver
window at the postoffice are compelled
to form into procession, and then it il
frequently five or six hours before the,
can get to callfor tfeir mail. AS
consequence of this large influx o
people here, real estate has com
menced changing hands. The sales O
Saturday amounted to $92, 600.
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FORT DODGE. Iowa, April S.-The
situation in the river land country
grows more serious from day to day
and every day of delay on the part of
the marshals makes what theYshaYe to
perform more difficult. All hopes of a
peaceable enforcement of the eviction
has been abandoned. Marshal HOl-
brook who organized posse in this
city to commence eviction Monday, has
sworn in fifteen men instead of six, as
he had last year and instead of being
armed with shotguns they are being
furnished with Winchesters. Yester-
day when the settlers who have pur-
chased their lands of the River Land
company and who are prosecuting the
settlers for conspiracy. when they
awoke they found warnings posted on
their doors. Strangers going into the
river land country are stopped by
armed men and compelled to state
their business before being allowed to
proceed on their way. Among those
stopped to-day was United States
Swamp Officer FOrsey, and it was diff
fcult for him to convince the settlers
that he was not on river land bust
ness.
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AMERICUS NEWS.

AMERICUs, April 5.-Albert Wallace
is again on the streets, although quite
poorly yet. He has been laid up with
infammatory rheumatism since the
middle of last December.
Cards are out announcing the APP
preaching nuptials of Samuel Bames-
berger of this place and Miss Bartells,
a former resident, but now residing
south of Emporia.
Quite lively horse race took place
up Main street yesterday.
Jake LeSh has sore hand and
scab on his nose. the result of over
loading a gun while he was shooting
trespassing birds.
The last Friday in this month will
be the close of the Americas Young
Peoples Literary society. A special
programme will be gotten up for the
occasion. Meantime, the regular
meetings will be held.
William Boetz has the new addition
to his dwelling enclosed and will soon
be ready for occupancy.
A little cool for corn planting this
morning. BURLoW.
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Arrested for Ri6iuO L,ettsYs.

WASHINGTON, April 8. : Postoffice
inspectors Smith, Pulsifer and Troy
to-day arrested Harry D. Darby. reg
istry clerk, in the postoffice in this city
for rifiing valuable registered letters.
hand which be had just taken from a
letter. The letter was mailed at Har-
pers Ferry, West Virginia, contained
S246 and addressed to the limited
States treasury" After removing the
$40 Darby was about to reseal it when
arrest. He is an old employee having
entered the Office as a carrier in 1880.
He was taken before United States
Commissioner Samuel G. Mills and held
in the sum of 81 900 to await examina-
ton tomorrow. When arrested he had
1852 on his person which it is thought
was taken from other registered letters.
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Pound 20 be Insane.

NEW YORK, April S.-This morning
for the first time under the new regu-
lation of the board of emigration COM
missiOners compelling a steamship
boarding officer to inspect and examine
first-class passengers, saloon traveller
was detained and placed in Castle Gar
den. The prisoner was Madame Albert
Springville, an educated and refined
woman of nearly 40 years, she occupied
one of the most costly state rooms on
the French steamer La Gascaigne.
She had sixteen large trunks filed with
property on board. The boarding Off
Ger found that she was insane and
caused her removal to Castle Garden.
The physician there said that her NAL
adv was incurable. Her maiden name,
Susan Kennedy, was marked on her
baggage. She said she was a widow,
her husband Albert L. Humme Spring
vile having died in Paris ten years ago.
She comes of an excellent Irish family.
Her brother Hugh Kennedy was for
many years British consul at Louis
vile, Kentucky, where her three nieces
whom she was on her way to visit, now
reside.
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An Interesting Relic .

GALENA, H., April San interest
ing and valuable relic Of the old Grant
leather store in this city, in the shape
of gavel made from a piece of the
currying bench used in the establish
ment at the time Capt. U. S. Grant
was employed therein before his entry
into the army during the rebellion,
has been sent from here to the G.. A.
r. Post at Dubuque, and is to be
presented to the presiding officer OF
the Iowa state encampment Of the
G.. a. R.. which opens at Burlington
on the 9th inst. The gavel is very
beautifully polished and mounted, the
wood being black walnut. The preSen-
tation speech is to be made by DR.. E.
A. Gullbert. of Dubuque, veteran
officer of the late waEand an intimate
acquaintance of theNold commander
during his lifetime
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An Inadsl's Burial.

RALEIGH, N. c., April S.-Gus M.
Setter died few days ago at China
Grove, Rowan county. He was pro-
nounced infidel, believing in neither
God nor future of any kind. Two
weeks before his death, knowing his
demise to be imminent, he went to a
tree near the yard, and under it
marked place for his grave, giving
instructions as to how it was to lie dug
and his mode of burial. He wanted a
layer of cedar brush at the bottom of
the grave to be filed up with dirt. lie
said that when decomposition set in,
the sap OF the tree would draw him up
the limbs, and he could perch on the
top of the tree and view the surround
ing scenery of ages to come. Setter
was perfectly rational to the last. He
was visited during his wasting illness
by several ministers, who endeavOred
to point to him the way of eternal life,
but in vain. His peculiar instructiOnS
were fully carried out, and he was
buried exactly as he directed He was
thirty years cid, and was a man OF
means.
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A WRECK.
The Disaster Caused by a Defective
Switch.
Many PeOpls Killed and Several
Wounded.
The Santa. Fs Investigating the
Boomers.
They Threaten to Burn Bridges and
Stop Trains.

CHICAGO, April S-A defective
switch derailed the four rear coaches
of an inwarj-bound Baltimore s. Ohio
passenger train between Colehour and
South Chicago yesterday morning.
The coaches were thrown with terrific
violence against several coal oil tank
cars standing on the side tracks and
broken to pieces. One man was killed
and a dozen others injured, two or
three Of them very severely. The train
was nearly two hours behind time and
was running fast, making up time.
just north of One Hundredth street
and parallel with the main tracks are
series OF side tracks and switches and
long strings of tank cars near the great
oil tanks. AS the train was crossing
the switches opposite one of these
tanks, the seventh coach was suddenly
wrehcned loose from its couplings and
shot digonally across the track to the
left. The day coach following just af-
ter it was thrown from the track, and
with awful force against the tank cars.
The right side of the car was riddled
and torn smashed into pile of twisted
iron, splintered wood work and
broken seats. The car was
full of men. women and children who
yelled and shrieked and cried as they
thrashed about, mangled and bruised
under the wreckage. The forward
end of the Pullman sleeper was stove
in while the rear car was derailed and
its passengers no more than shaken up.
The automatic au brakes meanwhile
stopped the forw ard section Of the
train. The uninjured passengers and
train men gathered around the wreck
and soon extricated from the wrecked
car. James Hanna, Smiths Basin, New
York was found with an iron rod
thrust through his head and died
shortly afterward. Henry Houk, q
farmer of AdamsVille, Iowa. Had a
leg broken in two places and received
internal injuries. Among, others Sc
verely bruised aud cut we're Frank
Shelton of Smiths Basin, New York;
John Ii. Mcdonald of Antidonish, No
va Scotia; B. o. Rambo. Shelby.
Ohio; II. Straley, Cleveland Ohio, John
Il. Wood. Cuba, New York; Mrs. John
+. Wood, Alexander Wood, Cuba,
New York and A. BercTig, Cleveland
Ohio. None of these are fatally in.
jured. Several other men we're slight
ly cut and shaken up but went away
without reporting. All those found to
be seriously injured were aent TO st
Lukes hospital.
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A Bold Robbery.

ST. JOE, Mo-, April 9.-As night
operator Osborne was sitting at his
instrument at Amazonia ten miles
north of here with a young man
named Purdy at 1870 last night an or
der to hold up their hands startled
them. A masked man with drawn
revolver in each hand made them
shell out their valuables. Purdy lost
nothing but Osborne gave up S22 and
a $50 watch in addition to which the
robber secured $50 belonging to the
company. After threatening against
giving an alarm the rObber escaped.
Annie Depp, the mulatto girl who
robbed the family of George H. Clarke
of Kansas City, of $500 worth of jew
elry and $500 worth of clothing last
Friday was arrested here to-day and
the goods recovered,
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Burned to Death.

MASON. Iowa, April 9.-Robert
Sheidler an his wife were driving to
town yesterday when spark from
Sheidler's pipe ignited the clothing
of his wife and as the wind was blow
ing stiff gale, she was enveloped in
flames in an instant, Terror stricken
she jumped from the buggy on one side
and her husband on the other.
He did all in his power to
quench the flames, but to no
avail. The took fire around them
and Mrs. Sheidler was completely en-
veloped in a fiery shroHd and
died before her husbands eyes. The
man hands were burned to the bone.
He was brought to town and his
wounds dressed, but it is feared his
hands will have to be amputated. He
is nearly crazy from the shock of his
wife's death and his own pain. and his
physicians say he may die. The FAM
lily is one of the oldest in the county,
having been here for forty years. Mrs.
SheidIer was siXty-five years old and
her husband seventy.