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

Vice President Wilson is very i'll,
form overwork in the late campaign
and congressional session.
The public sale of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, TO satisfy an 49,
100000 mortgage to the State, has
been postponed five weeks, to enable
Judge Dillon to decide upon an in
iuction.
The Persian Shah has arrived at
London, England, with his $1,000
600 coat On.
Two colered men, named Brown
and Taylor, living at Springfield, ILL.,,
quarreled on Saturday and Taylor
was logged. Taylor then went
home and got a double-barrelled
shot gun and returned and shot
Browt twice, killing him. And
when pursued by officers, shot him
self.
Chill, South America, is to have
worlds fair.
The Great Eastern is laying 4
Atlantic cable between Valencin
bay, Ireland, and Sidney, Cape Brit
ton. 17G miles are down.
In Rutherford couHty, Tennessee,
three weeks ago, q negro named
Joe Woods outraged a widow lady
and then applied an axe to her head.
Saturday last she died, and that
night thirty citizens took Woods
out of Jail and hung him.
The government is fitting up a
vessel to search for Capt. Halls
ship, the POlaris.
Near Belfast, Maine, Monday,
John L. Gordon killed his brothers,
wife and child and set their house on
fire. Dispute about some property
was tho cause of his emotion.
One of the worst counterfsiters
in the country, named Merrill, was
arrested at Springfield, Ill.,, Monday.
In New York, Monday, James
Curtin got drunk and quarrelled
with his wife, when the latter's
brother axed him TO snbside, by
splitting his skull open.
In Brooklyn, last Friday, Jane
McArdle's husband disciplined her
with bed slat, until her skull crack
ed. She won't need another whip
ping.
The Columbia bank, at Gotham,
New York, has failed, swindling
nearly every citizen thereabouts.
j. II. Horton, an eastcru flnancier,
has ingeniously swindled New Y ork
and Philadelphia banking houses
out of $4,000. He deposited bogus
drafts in Philadelphia banks, got
letters of credit to go into Wall
Street speculatioHs, got his letter of
credit cashed, and disappeared.
Horton now ought to do the fair
thing, and compromise on ( basis.
Wm. Smith, mail agent between
Jackson, Miss, and Humboldt, was
arrested Tuesday for robbing the
mails. A number of letters were
found on him when arrested.
The Ohio country editors have
resolved that they can't afford to
| nay postage on news papers. Who
asked them TOP
Ubassy, the French biIlardist has
Vanquished Bessinger, Chicago's
champion, and now goes to conquer
New York.
in case at Pittsburg, the other
day, a woman swore thGt che was
only thirty years of age, while she
had a son in the court room whose
age was twenty-five. The Judge
thought there must have been some
mistake, but she would not admit
it.
The new silVered mica locomo-
tive lamp reaectors enable the On
gineer to distinguish a mans fea-
lures 400 yards away.
A water spout near Fort McPher-
son, Nebraska, on the 10th, struck
q military camp, and drowned six
men and % horses.
The three mile foot race for 81 600
side and the championship of
America, has been arranged be-
tween JAS. Kelly of Chicago, and
VIM. f. Harding, of New York in
j uly.
An earthquake in VALPARAISO, May
18th, did some damage and killed a
few sinners.
Last Saturdays fires were at Cres-
co, Iowa; Sank Center, Mimi. Key
ports n. "; Maxwell, Ontario and
Chicago. Losses about 100000,
The Prince Georges regiment
band, OF Saxony, is enroute for
New York, TO makra concert tour
of the United States. 1t has co
members.