The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-09
STATE Items.

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The solomon City works ship salt to
Denver.
The Abilene school house has a
l ,Oeo popnd bell Z 1,
The expense OF the special session of
the legislature was about $4,000.
A $4,000 hospital win shortly be
erected at Fort Wallace.
About one hundred and fifty stu
dents at the State University.
Emerson Pitts, of olathe, aged Il,
died last week of hydrophobia.
The fair at Burlington realized $40
above expenses in spite of rainy wealth
er.
Cotton in Montgomery county has
yielded half bale to the acre this sea-
son.
Three hundred and fifteen pupils are
enrolled in the public schools OF Man
haitian.
The railroad bridge at Atchison will
be $50 feet long, and will rest on six
stone piers.
A great deal of hay put up in Saline
comfy has been damaged by the late
heavy rains.
Three passenger trains have been
taken off the Leayenworth, Lawrence
& Galveston railroad.
The Cawker City Tribune predicts
that Marshall county will not vote "re-
lief bonds"
The drouth has struck North Law
renee. Formerly it had six saloons,
now it has but one
"Left the county, debts and all, is"
the verdict in regard TO several parties
In Nemaha county.
The Columbus journal has changed
hands and politics. 1t has changed
from bogus reform to real reform.
The A, T. & s. F. Z. Il. took the
first prize at the Cincinnati EXPOSE
ton for the hest selection of minerals,
etc.
| VIM. E. Sutliff, a prominent business
man of Lawrence since 1857, died at
Fair Haven, Vermont, on the 30th ult.
The farmers of Russell county are
busy sowing fall grain, which is fur
nished by the Kansas Pacific railway
company.
1t is said that Secretary of State
SmallwOod is going into mercantile
business in Topeka, at the expiration
of Office.
Hon. Adm Spraguc Stevens, of At
tica, New York, died on the Goth ult-
He was the father OF r. S. Stevens, of
the NJ, X. & T.
The Mennonites don't speak very
good English, but it is impossible to
sell them any old mowers or worn-out
cider mills, for all that.
A child was born in Leavenworth
this week with full set of teeth. That
sort of children are always born in
years when there is nothing to eat.
There is so little farm work to be
done now, that Frank Doty, farmer
near Belleville, has been putting in his
leisure time manufacturing nickels.
A correspondent of the Woodson
County Post darkly says: ''Corn pick
ing has begun, but the man that rails
ed the corn don't always know where
it goes to.
Gov. Osborn has secured from the
general government two thousand OF
the latest improved carbines with fix
ed ammunition, to be used in the de-
Tense of the frontier.
Three companies of cavalry, COM
manded by Major Upham, will patrol
the southern border of our State from
I sApl{anSas City as far west as Barbour
county.
"LadY RUSSELL" mother of "Smug-
gler," and owned by Capt. Tough,
died at Leavenworth the other day,
aged % years.
The Lawrence journal says that late
peaches are as good this year as, per-
haps, any year previous. Trees are
loaded to their utmost capacity and a
large amount of canning has been
done. HN go
c. T. Richardson and j. w. Coulter,
of Montgomery county, took two mules
from relative 'just to spite him." and
Judge Perkins sent them to the peni-
tertiary for three years just to spite
them.
The Eureka Herald does not take
much stock in the low salary cry. 1t
says it would have saved Greenwood
county many thousand dollars, had it
been blessed with competent county
commissioners, even at $40 day.
The Fredonia Citizen says that a
great many whose property was sold
for taxes last spring are now walking
up to the county treasurer's office and
paying off their liabilities and getting
certificates of redemption issued.
The Topeka rolling mills are again in
operation, and now being worked I'M
der an arrangement made with the
Kansas Pacific railway company. The
mill is now under the immediate SUI
pervisior of Col. f. c. Smead, chief en-
| gineer of the X. p. road.
d. NJ. Davis being brought before a
Reform convention in Cherokee county
tor nomination, deposed and said that
he was not q suitable person, inasmuch
as he had never been drunk in his life,
and had lived with one wife for twenty
years.
Baker University has thirty-three
students. We don't know how many
professors.
A DOUBLE MURDER.-A telegram
from FIT. Scott gives the following par
ticulars of a double murder at 0swego,
Kansas:
John Ragby was confined in the Jail
charged with double murder at the
fair grounds at Oswego, on Saturday.
A difficulty occurred about a swing in
which Bagby was creating some dis
turbance. On an attempt being made
by policemen Hogsit and Westfall to
arrest him he plunged a knife into
Hogsit'S abdomen, cutting fearful
cash and completely disembowelIing
him. Westfall then attempted to ar
rest him, when he cut several severe
gashes in his abdomen, and when
Westfall turned to run away he struck
him twice with a knife in his back.
penetrating his lungs. Hogsit sxpired
Immediately and WestfalI is beyond
all possibility of recovery.
They are running lawsuit in Dom
inhan raa,nfx, q ho.f {, hasfa. x.,a,sk AVa
the costs in which amount now to