The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-06-20
STATE ITEMS.

One of the two "GOslings" who
have been running the Parsons Sun
has gone to studying law.
At Usage Mission last Friday a
drunken citizen named Wright as
saulted an emigrant named Owens,
and was stabbed to death. Owens
escaped.
Walker, of the Usage Mission
Transcript, was arrested at Fit. Scott
last week, in mistake, because he
looked so much like a St. Louis
sWindler. named Anthony. No
blame attached to the officers, who
had to iudge by appearances, of
course.
Bullene's dry goods store and the
Arlington House, at Lawrence,
were destroyed by fire last week.
Loss of Bullene & Co., $1,000; in
surance, $4,000. Loss of Arlington
House, $1,000; insurance, $4,000.
A Babcock engine would haye say
ed both.
Trains are passing over 4 tempo
rarp bridge at Ottawa. Tuesday a
new truss bridge arrived from Chi
cage. and Is about ready for busi-
ness.
1t is reported that Prof. Ranfeld
has resigned the management of the
LeaVenWOrth Normal school.
Two young men unmarried by
the way) in the city of Lesvenworth,
Carl Miller aud Frank Taylor, have
put their savings together and start
cd carpet factory. They have ten
looms in operation and are farming
out every day ingram carpets equal
in every particular and superior In
some respects to the very best east
ern manufacture.
A party of three, consisting of p
l.. Perkins, Rob Ridley and Robert
Williams launched a small boat on
the bosom of the Ksw, at Topeka,
on the 10th, and started for New
Orleans.
The Oswego Independent claims
that the Chetopa Advance got Sl,=
200 for publishing the delinquent
tax list, when the contract had been
let by the county commissioners to
the same paper for Sl77.6O. 1t
wants to know why they paid ST.
200.
The Episcopalians of Topeka held
grand Bazaar there last week, in
the Opera House. 1t was a minia-
ture worlds fair, aud cleared 5000.
J. II. McCann, a confederate adj
jutsnt from Texas, with an accom-
plice, endeavored to set fro TO and
rob Oswego last Wednesday night,
the 10th inst. They fired the city
in two places, but the citizens being
on the lookout, no damage of a
serious character resulted from their
1endish attempts. The Jail prison.
ers all escaped the same night, The
Independent says a reward of $500
has been offered for the ineendiaries.
In Junction City, last Thursday,
two colored men named Morrow
and Overbee, took up a children's
quarrel, and Morrow shot and kill
ed OYerbee.
At LeavenwOrth. Saturday, one
Kelly, an Irish deck hand of boat
assaulted German named Miller.
The latter struck back and Kelly
fell overheard aud was DROWNED.
Gen. Frank Blair CRATES at Usage
Mission, July 4th.
The Mound City cheese factory
uses 5000 pounds of milk per day.
Zenas King has purchased all the
stock of the Topeka bridge Works.
and viii run them as branch of his
works at Cleveland, Ohio.
The Parsons Sun says the "Psr-
sons & Memphis r. r." Is a sure
thing, and that the grading is to be
done at once for sixty miles south
east of Fredonia, through Altoona,
Thayer and Parsons. Ft. Scott aud |
Humboldt had better hurry up their |
9Th parallel.
Last Friday Col. Mayor d. II. |
of LeaVenworth, assault
ed book agent named M,Pherson,
and was getting handsomely thrash
ed when his friends parted the com.
batanis. The book agent is not
man to be iritied with.
Two carloads of silver ore from
he mines of Chihanhau, Mexico.
passed over the Al. X. & T. last
EesE, fer The government mint at
Philadelphia. The ore weighed
{, 200 pounds. +
The Fort Scott Monitor says that
he wheat crop is rapidly ripening,
nd the harvest will commence very
Don. The crop will be the nost I