The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-15
STATE ITEMS.

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Corn 25cts at Topeka
Topeka has a bread riot. 20
loaves for 81.
Refreshing rains at Leavenworih
this week.
A Wilson county ram yielded thir-
ty one pounds and 2 ounces of
wool.
johnny Gilmore complains of the
scarcity of snakes at Fredonia. He
uesd to have lots of snake items at
Guilford.
The Barlingamc Chronicle one of
nearest and best papers in the State
is soon to be enlarged.
The town of Parker is moving to
Oswego, thirty miles distant. The
houses are taken apart in sections
and loaded on wagons.
A sharper, bearing the name of
Raymond. did one of the Topeka
banks out of $1,000. the other day,
on forged cneck.
Illinois man had a printing office
purchased for new paper at juno
ton City, but Farey s. Alvord got
ahead of him with their Tribune.
Great preparations are going
ahead for the Northern Kansas fair
at Atkinson on the 8th of Septem-
Der.
Mrs. Schultz at Leavenworth
started a fire in her stove Tuesday
evening with coal oil. She cannot
recover.
A.. E. Touzalin and Superinten-
dent Nettleton, of the A. L. & S. E.,
have gone to the mountains.
Sad German news, thisl A brew
cry was destroyed at Jacksonville,
N. Y, and $1,000 worth of beer
was totally lost.
The Wathena Reporter gives an
account of the suicide of woman
named Elliott, living near Geary
City on Tuesday evening last. No
cause is assigned the act, except that
she is a Spiritualist and believed
that she would come to her death
by hor own hand. She shot herself
in the head with pistol.
There is to be an exploration
made on the railroad addition at
Junction City, for coal. Upwards
of $4,000 have been subscribed for
the purpose.
The Spirituaiists of Kansas will
hold their next State convention at
Leavenworth one the 1st of October.
FAsT.-A fellow by the name of
Michael Hillgoss, In Neosho county,
got drunk, stole horse, was fol-
lowed and caught, taken before the
District court, tried, found guilty,
and sentepced to the peni;entiary
for Eve years. all inside of three
days.
! The Usage Chronicle thus notices
one ofthe institutions of Usage City :
SAYINGS BANK.-The Directors of
the Usage City Savings Bank are
composed of some Of the most sub
stautial men of the country, prnmi-
nenty among whom are Col. p. b.
Plumb of Emporia, John +. Dodds,
the father of Usage City, John @.
Kiser, very extensive stock raiser
residing on Elm creek, in Lyon
coonty, S. G. Herriott, of the Usage
City Manufacturing Co, John ID
Wetherell, heavy capitalist of
Usage City, and formerly of Phila-
delphia, II. b, Dinnan, q largo land
holder of this county and an extern
sive banker of Battle Creek, Michi-
gan, w. Z. Sodeu of Emporia, a
man of large means, B. Haywood
of Usage City, and L. Q. Maxwell,
the Cashier. These men represent
a combined capital of nearly a mil
lion of dollars. With such stock.
h olders, how can the Usage City
Savings Bank be anything but a
success?
The potato disease has appeared
in England.
The vine disease is spreading rap
idly in Portugal.
Rome Is reported to be very un-
healthy this summer.
Joseph Arch, the English labor
agitator is coming to this country.
An International Masonic con.
gress is 10 be held at Kingston, Can,
ada,
The Republican candidates fol-
Governor of Maine and Virgins
are successful editors.
1t is said that moro women are
arrested in San Francisco than in
any other city in the Union.
A man in Galesburg, illinois, has
been fined three dollars for I'puhliQ.
ly spanking his daughter"
A new use for petroleum is for
cleaning guns, which it is said il
eitectuaily protects from rust.
The nickel mines at Litchfleld.
Conn, have now 200 tons of the ore
! ready to be shipped to Germany.
| The colored folks OF Richmond,
Va, are subscribing money to build
q home for aged colored people.
Adyices from Savannah, Georgia,
Estate that the caterpillar has appear
cd on the sea islands, and is commit.
ting much damage in cotton.
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