The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-27

wood county, containing thirty
which has no school
house, and refuses to keep school.
It's residents wish to save the tax.
A Paola minister having remarked
"there would be a nave in the new
edifice the society was erecting"
an old lady said "she knew the per-
son to whom he referred"
One day last week twenty -eight
flrst-class ponies were SHIPPED from
the livery barn of Miller & Riley,
of Usage Mission, to Meadville, Pa.
A boy about eleven years old.
son of Mr.. Raeberg, living near
the mouth of Sand Creek, Ottawa
county, was killed by an OK a few
days since while herding cattle.
DR.. Marshall writes from Holton,
Jackson county, that in many in
stances the owners ofpeach trees are
propping them up to keep them
from breaking down, so full do they
hang with fruit.
The Osksloosa Independent says:
We hear it stated that the Atch-
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company have purchased, or had
given to them, the st. Joseph &
Denver road from st. Joe to Don
iphan, and have agreed to build the
six miles of road from Doniphan
to Atchison, and thus run their
trains into st. Joseph as the eastern
terminus.
Is not the A, T. & S. F. alarmed
at the st. Joseph, Kansas & Texas
railroad project, and so trying to
throw out a bait to st. Joseph
until the bonds voted for that rival
line are out of date?
= Ottawa complains that because it
has ouly one railroad, it has to pay
very exorbant freights and fares.
Well, it might have had seveaal
roads, but it wouldn't.
The colored people will hold a
grand emancipation jubilee at To-
peka. August 1st.
The NJ, X. & T. r. r. has raised
SO per car in freights from Fort
Scott to st. Louis. This is to help
the farmers to keep their corn at
home.
Humboldt rejoices in the arrival
of HOO sheep from Missouri, who
have come to grow wool in Kansas.
1t is reported that a mad dog has
bitten the teacher and eight schola' 8
at Fouts' school house, in Franklin
county. There will be a lively
school there some day.
In North Topeka, Friday last,
while large derrick was hosting
heavy timber with three men ON it
for the new rolling mills, and had
raised it 40 feet high, the spokes
of wheel gave way, and the tim
Der fell. One man, Harris Jones,
instantly jumped of, fell on pile of
stones, and was killed, His wife
was so shocked by the news, that
she is expected TO die. The other
men jumped off just before the tim
Der reGched the ground, and were
not much hurt.
The bones of a very large masta-
dom have been discovered in Marion
county, on the line of the A, T. &
S. F. road, and a whole skeleton
intact, lies hidden in Pawnee county
on the same road. The bones APP
pear larger and of a somewhat diff
ferent shape to any previously dis
covered.
Judge ]. A, Wakefield, one of the
early pioneers of Kansas, and a very
prominent Free Sts ta man during
the border troubles, died last week
at his home In Lawrence. He set
tied in the State in 1854.
Eureka will cele brate the 4th in
the very highest style. Greenwood
county is to be on hand in full force.
A man named G. II. Fitzgerald
was killed by lightning on Monday
night near Charleston. He was a
young man about twenty-three
years of age, had a wagon loaded
with farming implements, &C., three
yoke of oxen and three horses. Mr..
Kirkland was on horseback riding
near him when he was struck. He
took the body to his house and call
ing in the neighbors searched it.
They found 1897 GO in money and
one letter from friend in Illinois.
Mr.. 4. II. Willis who came from
Labette county with Mr.. Fitzgerald
informs MS that he was from Edgar
county, Illinois. The horse Mr..
Fitzgerald was riding was also
killed. His friends will please adj
dress T. II. Willis, Twin Falls, Kan
cas-, for further infoFmation.-Eu-
reka Herald.
j. A. Wells, Deputy United States
Marshal, was arrested at Usage Mis-
sion last week on a charge of grand
larceny, He waR in charge of the
bankrupt stock of goods of T. I'll.
Butler, a merchant of that city, and
was detected packing up fine goods
in carpet sack, and arrested in the |
vicinity of the railroad depot. The
goods found in his sachel and on |
his person amount to about S4G0. |
The affair has created great excite
meEt there, and the parties interest. |
ed in the stock of goods say that
there are others implicated In the
spiriting away of goods, and that
there has been about $1,000 worth
of goods taken out since the store
was closed.
The Fredonia Citizen says of the
Memphis s. Northwestern Railroad
which is mapped from Memphis via
Parsons and Fredonia to Eureka:
Work on this railroad project is
at most hopeful rate
in this county. Six or seven squads
of laborers are employed, compris-
one hundred and sixty teams and
two hundred and fifty penzso we
are informed. The route of the
road is across the north side of the
Fredonis towpsite. From here
eastward working parties aye In
view, and dark ribbon of earth
begins TO sweep toward the Verdi
iris