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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-10-31
SFOE

EVANSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 26.-The
GAINESVILLE & Ohio railroad yesterday
sent a crew of men to Shawnee juno
tion where the Shawnee s. MuskiBgum
railroad connects with the GAINESVILLE s.
Ohio railroad. Soon after their arriY-
al a Shawnee & Muskingu N railroad
locomotive arrived from Shawnee and
run into the depot. No sooner had
this been done than the crew from
GAINESVILLE sprang on the engine, bound
and gagged the engineer and carried
him a mile il the woods. They then
mounted the engine and came with all
speed to this city, killed it and locked
it in the GAINESVILLE & Ohio round
house. After freeing himself
the engineer Immediately tele-
graphed the facts to the officials
of the road at this city.
These officials secured posse of police
men and went TO the GAINESVILLE s.
Ohio round house. but found that the
engine was disabled. When the police
started out of the round house they
found themselves prisoners. The
GAINESVILLE and Ohio employees had
locked them in and there they re-
manned for about an hour until the
chief of police came around and re-
leased them. The trouble arises from
the fact that the Shawnee & MuSkin-
gum road has been throwing its coal
business to the Toledo 8 Ohio Central,
and not to the GAINESVILLE s. Ohio. The
GAINESVILLE & Ohio people claim
that they furnished the money that
paid for the engine and are therefore
entitled to it. There is considerable
excitement and both roads have a
heavy force on guard.
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ordered 30 ehoW Hi. IsooEs.

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. Am alterna-
tive writ of mandamus has been issued
by the supreme court directing the
county treasurer of Riley county to
permit the county commissioners, and
the examiners designated by them. to
examine the funds and books in his
custody. provided by law. It is alleged
that Fortner has held the Office two
years and that he has always, during
that time, prevented an examination
of the books, records and cash accounts
of the Office; and that he has conducted
the office in neglectfuI, irregular and
unsatisfactory manner. 1t is further
alleged that he has not made annual
settlement with the board since he be-
came treasurer. No charge of misap-
preparation or loss of funds is made,
the only irregularity being the treas
urer's disposition to evade the exam
inatiOn.
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wants the D.voree Set Aside

KANSAS CITY, Oct. 24.-Last June
Judge Field of the circuit court granted
a divorce TO Ira Welch from his wife
Ida, on the ground of infidelity. Mrs.
WEIGH had not received notice of the
suit and the only evidence introduced
was the affidavits of WEIGH and others.
Mrs WEIGH now brings suit TO have
the divorce set aside, on the ground
that she did not receive notice and that
publication was not properly made.
She admits criminal intimacy with 7.
r Birch, general western manager of
the Phoenix Insurance company with
whom she lived for two years ar the
Palmer house in Chicago. She admits
also that she purchased a founding
after the Eva Hamilton method, and
attempted to palm it of on Birch as
their child for the purpose of black
mail and the attempt failed She also
admits criminal intimacy with Isaac
Warren. y capitalist Of Chicago and
several other prominent Chicago men
She alleges, however. that her husband
had full knowledge of her intimacy
with all these men and that her immOr-
alities were practiced with bis consent,
he receiving greater part of the
money that she extorted from her gem
tlemen acquaintance. The case goes
20 trial tomorrow.
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WINNIPEG, Oct. 25.-It is said here
that ''Stick American Gillette who
was incarcerated in the iron cage here
in which Burke, the Cronin suspect
was imprisoned, has told his LAWYER
that Burke admitted being in the Carl
son Cottage on the night of the MUIR
der of Dr. Cronin and said he witnessed
the commission of the crime though
not actually a participant The state
ment has been coFroborated in a meas
ure by what is said to have been told
by Heffor, another of Burke's cell
mates in Winnipeg, who was released
yesterday. This man, it is asserted,
told the police officials that Burke told
him who it was that proposed him as
member of Camp 20; who it was that
ordered the executions; who were pres
ent at the Carlson Cottage when the
crime was committed and how the body
was disposed of; who paid him money
to get out of Chicago. In fact every
thing connected with the murder. The
police 10 not place much reliance in
the stories but have notified the Chica-
go authorities.
The witnesses called for the pur-
pose of identifying the body were
Nicholas WalleDbern a friend of the
dead doctor. T. 7. Conklin, the man
in whose family Cronin had lived for
ten or twelve years. John F. Scaulon,
a member of the Clan-na-Gael and an
intimate friend and partisan of DR..
Cronin, Frank Scanlon, brother of
John F., and David p. Ahearn, mer-
chant tailor, who made the
doctors clothes. The Identification
was very perfect and positive. The
next matter taken up was the finding
of the body in the catch BASIN The
two sewer cleaners who discovered the
body and notified the police of the fact
and the policemen who were sent and
assisted in removing the body were
sworn as to this point and described the
proceedings.
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No DevsIopmen1s.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.-There are
no further developments this morning
in the case Of the man arrested at
Reading, Pennsylvania, yesterday and
brought TO answer 70 the charge of
passing forged checks and whom the
detectives believed to be Tascott, the
murderer of Millionaire Smell of Chi
cago. Up to IL o'clock this morning
Chief Detective Wood had received no
reply from the Chicago police authori-
ties to his telegram last night aDnouDc-
ing the arrest AMI stating that tue
prisoner answered minutely the de-
scription of the notosio ions murderer
Chief Wood said the pris ,ner would
probably be given a formal hearing
later in the day oe the charge Of for
gerry. Meantime the chief awaits adj
vices from the Chicago officials.
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lIIxunY AkD FAST IIIa

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Express Trains between Chicago and Council
6lufs.
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built expressly for this service with
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No noise. no dust. TO sWaying of
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land Route. This train also connects
at Omaha with the Overland Flyer, :"
going through to and from Chicago and
San Francisco, Portland, Oregon, and
Los Angeles, in 81 hours. Tickets and
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higher than are charged by lines hav-
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Resun,eo Gli. Adar...

LONDON, Oct. 25.-Mr. Michael Da-
witt resumed his address before the
Parnell commission to-day He said
the landlord system in Ireland
should be abolished and the land be
vested IL the state. Eight-tenths of
the money which came from America
for the support of the Irish cause. he
declared, came from Irish workingmen
and working women.
Mr. Davit5 denied that there was
any alliance between the league and
the revolutionary organization in Ire
land. He said that Mr.. Hanston, sec
rotary of tbeLoyal and Patriotic Union.
and his -accomplices knew that the let
tiers alleged to have been written by
Parnell which were printed in the Lon
don Times were forgeries before Pig
gott went into the witness box, and
that is was in his (Da-
Wits knowledge that Piggott
had confessed that fact prior
TO his testifying for the Times. Chief
Justice Harmon interrupted the sneak
er at this point. saying that the com
mission could not accept such a state
nent without the evidence being pro-
dueed to support it. Mr. Davitt did
net press this point, but stated that
the allegation would be again made
and proved later on. He said further
that the alleged secret circulars
produced by the Times TO show
that the league was a revolutionary
organization were forgeries.
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A SAD STORY.
A Horrible Story Told by
Two Seamen.
Bob Ford, the Ex-Outlaw, Heard
From Again.
A Terrible Freight Wreck at
KOkomo, Indiana.
Interesting News in Regard to
the Cronin Murder Trial.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 25.-Carl Graves.
Fireman, and Ludwig Loder. seaman
the two survivors of the crew of the
steamship Earnmoore, told last night
a story horrible in its details of the
way they sustained life by CanibaIism
for days. Loder said: 1.-THE only
food we had fer the first fifteen days
in the boat was flying fish and few
raw small sea birds divided among
eleven men. On the sixteenth day out
William Eayis. caught me by the
throat and made dash at my head
with knife. lie was told to kill me
by August Plagg, a fireman. When
Davis began to cut me. some of my
companions caught him, but others
shouted, Kill himl Kill him! We
want something to eat, We are
staryingp On the seventeenth day
William Robinson lay down to
sleep. When they tried to call him
they found him dead. 1t was determ-
ined to eat his flesh and William
Wright, the cook, was ordered to carve
the body. The first thing done was to
smash Robinson 8 skull and from the
fracture each one sucked the blood as
long as 1t would last. which was but
little while. Then the cook stripped the
flesh from the ribs. The next day this
flesh in strips was placed on top of the
Water-tight compartments and dried
in the sun. After taking out Robin
sons liver, heart and other parts which
would furnish blood to be sucked they
threw his mutilated body into tue sea.
Two days after Robinson's death.
Third Engineer Thomas Hunt died
and his body was also cut up for food.
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OUTLAWS ATTACKED
Fifty Men Armed With Win
chester Rifles, Made
An Assault on the Howard Force
Near Louisville, Ky.
LOngenecker's Opening Address
in the CrOnin Case.
Other Items OF Interest From
the Wire.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. Oct. PA spec
iai to the Courier Journal received ear
~ this morning gives the corrected
statement Of killed and wounded in the
factional fight near Harlan court hous
yesterday as follows: Two hours be-
fore daylight y, stelday morning the
law ami order party, hitherto STYLED
the turner faction OF Harlan county.
Fifty men ia al armed with Win
chester rifles and revoIvers under the
leadership OF County Judge Devils left
the court hot 8. and made AN assault
ON the Howard force, which was
IN camp at Towards house.
one mile from the town. Tne
engagement was short, sharp and ter
rihc, and not one of the attacking par
" was hurt, but one of Howard Is side.
Willard Dean, was instantly killed.
and six others were wounded. Among
the wounded are Bird Spurlock and
robert Napier who will probably die.
Bird SpuTlock was shot in the head,
Napier, a SON of Geo. Napier, received
Two bullet wounds. He will not. re-
cover. ben Mitchell and Geo. Cole
were shot in the legs. Thomas How
ard got flesh wound in the thf1h
There was a report that Wilson How
ard had been mortally wounded, but
later adyices are that he escaped un-
hurt, The foregoing list of casualties
may be relied on as absolutely correct,
II having been furnished by a gentle
man who left Harlan court house yes.
terday morning. The Howard gang
were badly demoralized by the attack
and its disastrous results and Saturday
night they changed camp to a point
about three miles from the court house.
~. NJ. Howard is a cousin of Wilson
Howard. and lives at the mouth OF
Poor Fork, one mile below the town.
= They have been making the house of
+. NJ Howard their headquarters.
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aWhsn You 60 south.

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want a statement From ParnelI.

CHICAGO, Oct. M.-W. II. Dunno,
who indirectly is connected with the
prosecution in the !Cronin trial, said
to-day that efferts had been made to-
day and were to be further pushed, to
attain, if possible from ParnelI. or his
counsel, Sir Charles Russell, categor-
zeal statement that Cronin's name was
not of the four handed in by the spy
LeCaron, as that of the men who were
Systematically betraying TO the Eng
lish government the secrets of the
Irish movements in America. Letters
to this end have been written. one at
least by Dunno to the Irish leader,
Matt Harris. It is now proposed to
forward to the other side. as formula
bly, signed petition as can be secured
demanding the desired information,
and taking the ground, if Cronin's
name was not on the list of spies. no
breach of trust will be made by break
ing silence in saying so.
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Continually On the strain. or Oyertaxed es IN
eervals, u far less desirable than ordinary
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pagiltsts and athletes fEely attain extreme
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By wise regard for sanitary Hy1ugs ana ZOE
the protection egainet disease which timely
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faiSoF uninferruDted mental strain, and fool
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muscular and nerve power. Hossetter's StoFns
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Incipienf ualaTi1 and rheumAtlsm arc Da1s
removed b It
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Shot at HIS DaughIe.ss Love-

TExARKANA, Tex, Oct. 25.-Ed
Mitchell of Lewisville, Arkansas,
which is twenty miles north of here,
against B. F. Avery s wishes has been
visiting the Iatter's daughter. The
Young couple defied the father by meet
ing ciandestiEely. Yesterday after
noon theg were surprised. while out
riding by meeting Colonel Avery. He
immeaiately opened fire on young
Mitchell, who took rrfuge in the
bushes near by, the shots barely miss
ing their mark. The young lady was
lett in the vehicle, and horse becoming
frightened at the pistol shots, ran
away, throwing the young lady out.
She is said to be badly bruised. but not
seriously injured. b. F. Avery is an
old and respected citizen. His daugt-
ter is aged about is.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-Judge Ar
thur 7. Reeve chief of the second div
isison in the agricultural department
who has been seriously i'll for some
time past. died at his residence No. 68I
Massachusetts northeast yesterday af-
ternoon. The funeral will take place
Monday, when the remains viii be ta-
ken to Hampton Iowa for inteFment.
Alexander S0meryille chief of the mon
ey order division OF the post 0flee de-
partment died yesterday evening az
bis home ia the foTtieth year OF his age
of consumption
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A Hon Pardone.I.

TOPEKA, Has. Oct. 24,-On recon-
mendation of the State Board of Par
dons Gov. Humphrey to-day granted
an unconditional pardon to John Sat
terwhite, of Douglas county, who, in
1885, was sentenced TO ten years i'm
prisonment for robbery. The crime
for which Satterwhite was convicted
was robbing young man of $50. He,
with two other boys, were stealing a
ride on freight train, and the young
man who was robbed was also stealing
a ride The pardon was recommended
by r. A. French, the prosecuting attor-
ney. and A. w. Benson, the presiding
Judge. Both parents OF the boy are
Lawrence, has consented to give the
young man home 9nd an education.
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GARNER I,,ddIe Cauxhe.

FoRT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 4.-Infor-
nation comes to-day from Brieetown
Ohio, few miles east of this city, on
the Nickel Plate railroad that Farmer
James Biddle who murdered Andrew
Fisher, a teamster, had been cap
tured in the woods near Bricetown by
a constable from that village, who
lodged him in the Jail at Paulding Cen
ter. The murder was the result of
Biddie's jealousy of Fisher, whom he
charged with criminal intimacy with
his wife, and, meeting him on Sunday
last, he plunged knife into his neck
and fed to the forest. The neighbor-
hood has been the scene of many hon.
ieides. and there areCthe usual threats
of lynching on the part of the wood
choppers in the forest.
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county, was shot and killed by Jesse
Brown. Freeman Harris, husband Of
the murdered woman, had retired, and
she was closing up the house prepara-
tory TO retiring when she heard noise
In the yard. She went to the door and
started across the yard, but before she
had taken half dozen steps was shot
dead. There had been some trouble
between Brown and the woman. Both
are colJred. There was immense ex-
element among the eolored people and
talk of lynching, but a deputy sheriff
went TO the place and arrested Brown,
and be Is now in the Craven county
jail The Coroner summoned a jury
and held an inquest over the BODY.
The vel dict was that the woman came
to her death by gunshot, the gun be-
ing in the hands of Jesse Brown. He
viii be held for murder.
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BURLINGTON RlnTE "
Noble DIsmtssss q PeaaIsn
Agent ana IEeare Some Raek TaIG

agent and Hears Some Back TaIG-
The following correspondence be-
tween Secretary Noble and q Maine
pension agent has just taken place:
Secretary Noble wrote under date Of
October %: Sir-I have received q let
ter addressed by you TO Hon. Hiram
Smith, Jr.. deputy commissioner Of
pensions. In this document you en-
deavor to resign, but inasmueh a. y6u
have not had the intelligence to direct
y6ar paper TO the only person wboic can
accept your resignation, and Is Is
handed to me by Mr.. Smith, i beg leave
to inform you that your intended res
ignatiOn is not accepted, but a. you are
thereby shown to be both 8 sIandefer
and one wholly unfit for the ssTvice Of
the United states, you are dismissed
and your services are no ibDger re-
CURED. Very respectfully.
JOHN w. NOBLE, Secretary.
Thompson gives the following as his
The Hon. John w. Nobleg secretary:
Your favor just received. Your letter
lacks dignity,,apd responsibility and ex
hibits the writer in his true character.
feel free to say You are puppet. per-
sOnally. and officially SycOphant ant
lickspittle. / dislike to use this Ian
guage to any person in official station
#A4Aalr
age and.time with pen. / shall send ali
your letters to me and an account OF
your dictatorial methods 10 the presf-
dent. and If he sustains you i shall b8
confirmed in the general opinion
of all good people that you mfsrepEs-
sent the men who made It possible Ter
Benjamin Harrison TO insult the Ea-
ton by putting you in place and pow
er. which neither your services ncF
character can Justify and your coutin-
uence in Office is a violence 70 every
sense Of preprietya Thers can be No
usefulness in your further service, ess-
tainly no benefit to the people win be
derived from your persistent Islander e
better men than you ever attempt 70
be OF ever have been. While disRfs-
sails are going on, you are most ccDspso-
uously worthy of notice. The pTesi-
dent would consult the public Welfars
before letting you return TO the 1bseu-
Fity in which he found you and %
which your talents best fit you VERY
respectfully your,
w. ". THoxrs0x.
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A AceIdent IN Osaee Casv.

osAGE Cry, Kan, Oct. 2S.-This
has been day of accidents in this
city. The first to occur was that of
the death of Lawson Sipes, who was
killed in coal shaft No. 4, of the Wes-
tern Fuel company, by being smoth-
cred to death, the roof of the room
in which ne was working falling in on
him.
Another accident was that of Jesse
Siusser. brakeman on the Santa Fe.
who while switching in the yards, here
was aught between two cars and he
was very seriously injured, internally.
He will recover.
The last one was aIunawaV on Mar
ket street. This team frightened two
other teams and the three started on
break neck speed. one of the teams
running into buggy. throwing "A LADY
ont and quite severely injnring her
The others were caught and outside
of broken vehicles no damage was
DONE
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. H.-Jinimy
Murphy of Australia and Jack Delany
of New York, light weights, met at the
rooms of the Occidental Athletic club
last night in a fight TO a finish for a
purse OF $3.50. Murphy forced the
fighting from start to finish and in the
fourth round split Delany's upper lip
which caused the blood TO flow freely.
In the eleventh round Delany was
knocked out by blow on the neck.
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a wreck.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. PA
north bound freight train, No. 90, on
the Lake Erie & Western railroad was
wrecked at Kokomo at o'clock this
morning. The engine struck an OBJ
structioh at the switch on the outskirts.
and with eight or ten cars was thrown
from the track. Twelve oil cars ex-
ploded in quick succession, SETTING fire
to the box cars attached Two cars of
merchandise and four of coal We're
consumed Engineer Nehl, Fireman
Edward Burnett and head brakeman.
John Spellman, were thrown beneath
the oil cars and burned to a crisp. The
accident was the work of wreckers,
this being the third attempt made in
that vicinity within the last two
months.