The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-23
KANSAS ITRHs.


Tho population of Greenwood conn
ty is twenty five hundred. So Gays thu
! Eureka Herald.
A man named George G. Trory com
United suicide in Lawrence on Tuesday
} by taking arsenic. Domestic troubI.
, was the cause.
The Junction City Union announces
that the q. s. Assessors Office for thG
District of Kansas will be removed
from Lawrence TO that place.
A dispatch from Junction City ssyi
the Republican River Bridge Company
on Tuesday. sold at auction three thous
and five hundred acres of land in TN,
vicinity Of tlEst town, realizing about
one hundred and ffrecn thousand dol.
lars
HEAVY IMMIGRATION TO NoRTHERN
KANsAs.-A telegram from Atchison
dated Doth, says: Ono hundred and
fifty New Workers arrived at Water
vile Sunday night. They design TAX
ing lands in that vicinity, and are the
advance guard of two thousand faIni-
lies now making arrangements TO join
them.
A Danish colony has purchased a
large tract Of Kickapoo lands, costing
seventy thousand dollars and will be
here next week.
Agents of other large colonies are
now out locating lands. A vast num-
ba,. a ,f,r.a ~ a &c s~nacfod THE au. Il
next week.
The Lawrence Journal, speaking OF
/ the prospect of a peach crop, says those
-lIl,om the low lands have been entirely
Killed, while the trees upon the high
! prairie are blossoming, and will doubt
less yield some good fruit.
! About four o'clock last Monday aft
ernoOn u terrible explosion took place
ut the steam mill of Mr.. Smith, about
three miles east of the Sac & Fox
| Agency, in Kansas. The Lawrence
| Journal says the boiler, from some un-
! known cause, exploded, instantly kill
/ ing Mr.. Smith (the proprietor) and so
| terribly mutiiated an employee, a col
! ored man, as TO cause his death i'll a few
: hours. -Four other persons were also
/ seriously hurt. Mr.. Smith had the top
of his head, from the forehead back,
entirely carried away. Death was in
Simultaneous. The colored man was hor-
| ribly mamgled,- his leg broken short off,
and driven into the ground. lie sur
vived about three hours. The physi-
clan of the ueighbOrhOUd 1--WE did not
learn his namc) happened in the mill at
! the time of the accident, and was so Sc
/ vercly Injured as to render him unable
! TO render any assistance to his fellow
sufferers. Only one man belonging to
the mill escaped uninjured, and his es-
cape was owing to the fact of his tom
poraliIy leaving to go to his house near
! by, and thus escaped the fate of the
! others.
. THE LATE CAPTIvEs.-The two wom-
eli, Mrs. Morgan aid Miss White, re-
| Gently rescued from the Indians by Gen.
Custar, came down the road on Thurs
! day mornings train. Mrs. Morgan
stopped at Salina. Miss White came
down to Junction CITY, from which
place she started to her home OH the
I Republican river. The Union says
! Miss While was taken away from
! hcme on the l4ih Of last August, by six
! Indians, at which time her father was
| killed. She is about seventeen years
old. Her family live on a tributary OF
Buffalo creek, about ten miles west OF
Lake Sibley.
Col. Moonlight, Secretary of State.
met with quite Il inishap and disap-
pointment by the great fire in Topeka
| last Saturday night. He had prepared
the laws of last winter, and the copy
was in the hands of the printer, when
the fire swept them away. The stat
| utes never were ready before ScpteTn-
J l. md
! the whole State must regret that the
/ Colonel's iabors to expedite their issu-
ance has been made of no avail. He
expects vet to have them ready in adj
vance OF the usual time Usage ChTOn-
icle.
Tho Wtandottc Gazette says: Al
the meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the State Agricultural Society
at Topeka. on Tuesday. Alfred Gray
was elected Superintendent of the neXl
State Fair, and various assistants were
also chosen. a committee was appoint
ed to receive bids for the location OF
the fair. which is to be held on the 9TH
Sth and 9th days OF September.
The ST. Joseph Union says that Alb.
SALON. Kent, who resides near Troy, in
/ Doniphan county, Kansas, yesterday
delivered to 6. II. Daniels. in that city
fortv-two head of beef cattle, averaging
1850 pounds per head. They were i'm,
mediatciy shipped TO Chicago, via the
:! Hannibal & ST. Joseph railroad. We
understand that the purchase price was
S6.40 per cwt.
The farmers say there are no grass
hoppers in this portion of Kansas this
spring. 1t is reported that unaccountabl'
millions are appearing III portions o
Missouri and Iowa.-IrCinq Recorder