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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. <br><br>New York; Jan 3. - Times - Washington: It is expected that Governor Emery, of Utah, will arrive in this city to-morrow [tomorrow], as he left Salt Lake Dec. 28?, and that the President will not appoint his successor until the Governor shall have had an opportunity to refute, among the charges, the serious one that he signed the repeal of the law punishing "offenses against chastity, morality and decency," the friends of Gov. Emery having denied that he had anything to do with the repeal of such law. <br><br>---- New York: Jan. 5. -Tribune's Washington: The President will probably decide early this week whether he will reappoint Governor Emery, of Utah, or send someone else there in his place. The Legislature of the Territory meets in its regular biennial session on the 11th of this month, and, if Emery is to be Governor of Utah for four years longer, he ought to be back and at his port at that time. Emery's administration was satisfactory to Grant, and has been so to the present administration. Governor Emery brings with him a complete answer to the assertion that the Gentiles lack confidence in him, and that he lacks the courage to act fearlessly and promptly in an emergency. 10 letters and petitions which he will present to the President, at least nine-tenths of the Gentile citizens of Utah of any prominence or influence, and representatives of a much larger proportion of Gentile capital invested there, have signed petitions, or have written letters to the President asking for his retention. <br><br>---- Chicago, Jan. 6 -Tribune's Washington: Ex-Gov. [Governor] Hunt, of Colorado, last night received a dispatch confirmatory of the story already darkly hinted at, that the females captured by the Utes were outraged by their Indian captors. The Pueblo (Col.) [Colorado] Chieftain, of New Year's day, contained a card signed by Mrs. Meeker, in which this crime is charged against the Utes. Governor Hunt said the reception of the dispatch made him sick at heart. He did not make it public last night, because he did not want to antagonize the policy of Mr. Schurz. He said the publication of a story of that kind here would at once arouse a sentiment as hostile to the savages as that which exists in the state of Colorado. "I do not believe it will be safe even to bring these wretches to Washington," said he; "if a relative of mine had suffered this unnamable indignity at the hands of one of these Indians, I would shoot him down in the streets of this city." <br><br>----Buffalo, Jan. 6. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to wreck a train on the New York Central Railroad between Niagara Falls and Towanda, by placing rails and ties on the track. The locomotive brushed aside one obstruction and the train was brought to a standstill and is reached the other. No arrests. <br><br>---- San Francisco, Jan. 6. - About 8 o'clock this morning, fire broke out in the two story frame dwelling on Union, between Powell and Mason streets, occupied by Daniel Hoskins, his wife and five children. Hoskins and his eldest son had gone to their work, and Mrs. Hoskins, after breakfast, went to her room on the second floor front, and lay down on the bed with Eddie, aged four. Her daughter Annie, aged nineteen, and her baby sister, were still sleeping in the back chamber. Thomas, the second son, who was in the lower part of the house, heard his mother cry "Help! Fire!" and running up stairs found the way barred by the flames. The alarm was instantly given, but before the engines arrived the house was almost entirely consumed, and the bodies of Mrs. Hoskins, Annie, Eddie, and of the infant were found in the ruins. The origin of the fire is unknown. ---- |