The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-10
KANSAS NOTES.

The Rev. F. ?. Hammond is do
ing up religion in Ottawa fOp three
days and nights for $500 cash.
Col. T. j. Peter is going to run an
excursion train from AtcbisOn to
Wichita on the 10th of May That
sounds good.
The wife and son of Wesley Lat
tin, pastor of the NJ. E. church at
Fit, Scott, were returning from Qs-
awatomIe to Paola, on Friday last.
and in attempting to cross the Ma
rails des Cygne river in their buggy
both were drowned. The young
man was about twenty years of age,
and both he aud his mother were
estimable people.
An old gentleman named c.. W.
Beckley was shot and Immediately
killed by some unknown person,
just after dark, few days ago,
near 0sawatomie No rea-
son is given for the ooWardly assas-
sins act, nor no clue had been OBJ
taiued of the murderer.
d. Cross s. Son, of the Burlington
mills, have ground, since the 7th
Of July last, a0,QQ0 bushels of
wheat.
A man named William Hender-
son was murdered Oh Senator Cald.
wells farm in Wyandotte county,
last Thursday. Whiskey is the
cause.
The house of Mr.. DAVIS, three or
four miles from Troy, was blown
down one day last week. Mrs.
DAVIS was killed, and all the chill
dren ofthe family. FIVE in number,
we're more or less injured.
The Ioala Register chronicles a
severe wind storm ia that locality
last Monday. On Elm creek, about
SIX miles east of town, several bull
dings were blown down, among the
number Mr.. Mcrrifield's house, also
the house of Ed. Church, Mrs.
Church was In the house and quite
badly injured by falling timbess, but
not seriously.
During a severe storm in Linn
county on Monday eff last week,
Earn belonging to Mr.. Whittemore
who lives on a branch of the Big
Sugar, in Liberty township, was
struck by lightning and burned to
the ground. A fine roam horse was
burned to death, and all of Mr. We
stock of corn, meat and potatoes
consumed, as well as about nine
tons of hay and three hundred feet
of lumber.
All our Kansas exchanges speak
well of the flattering prospects for
q large fruit crop.
There ia one consistent man in
Kansas. He is a merchant of Erie,
by the name of libby, who is so OPP
posed to the use OF tobacco that he
refuses to keep 1t for sale in his
store.
The bonded Indebtedness of coun-
ties in the State of Kansas for rail-
roads already amounts to the enor-
nous sum of over sixty millions of
dollars.
w. II. Slavens, of the NeoshO
Falls Advertiser, was maj ried at
that place on the 2Sth ult., 10 Miss
Mollie Jones. We wish opr young
friend SlaVens and his wife a very
and pleasant welded
life.
The Transcript says coai-oii has
bsen found in that city at distance
Of ninety feet.
The Spring Hill Enterprise is for
because he stayed all night
in that town in 1858. That is about
the best reason we have heard CIV
en- for supporting the sold man."
Five hundred miles of hedge
plants will be set out in Dickinson
this season.
The city of Burlingame has built |
It an expense of SIS, goo, a three sto-
" stone building, complete in all
tie parts tincludiug q forty horse
power steam engine and boiler)
which property the said city pro-
poses to donate to any responsible
PARTIES who will fill 1t with suitable
machinery for wooden manufac-
DRY.
The old and well-known railroad
st, Tom Dorwin, has been appoint
d general ticket agent Of the H.,
(. & T., with headquarters at St.
louis.