The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-26
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"Gov." Legste is non est He
may be in Texas.
Rev. F. Ii. Bhrris, of Abilene, is
writing history OF KaIisaa-
Solomon City wants TO supply |
Kansas City annually with several |
thousand tons of gypsum.
Parsons aspires to be coanty seat
of Labette county. So says the
Chetppa Advance.
Leavenworth is blessed or cursed
with new evening paper. 1t is
an Appeal for existence.
Two lads were playing with a
revolver at Usage Mission last Sun
day, and One of them was accident
ally shot.
a sal we'll has been discovered
at Elk City. 1t is one hundred and
twenty-six feet deep, aud one gallon
of water is said to yield one pound
of pure salt.
A young man named Barrett
stabbed and killed another young
man near Osaga, one day last week.
Barrett was arrested and lodged in
the Fort Scott jail.
/ DIR. Ashmore, who brutally MUIR
dered his wife in North Topeka
last winter and afterwards escaped
from jail, has been recaptured in
Texas and is on his way back. Z,
BAD STRoKE.-During a fearful
storm which ragged at Wichita last
Friday afternoon,the new residence,
just enclosed, of NJ. NJ. Murdock
was struck by lightning and iniur.
ed to the amount of about $500
This was All unlucky hit for Marsh
and we extend oar sympathies.
w. Ii. Hornor is somewhat indig
nant at the way his name has beer
used with the Harper county bonds
lie processes to know very littl,
: about ''ssid bonds,Y or "said board,
or ''said funds" or s'said" anything
else. The 'Esaid" Hornor ought Il
beacquitted of blame, he thinks.
A DIR. Mottram, of Lawrence, ha
been arrested under the charge o
n exhuming a body from Oak Hi
d cemetery. lie claimed the bod
n which was found in his room ha
le been purchased from the authorl
70 ties of Adrian, Mich, for scientifi
Of purposes.
Rev. f. A. Graham, o. Longtoi
Of writes: A little boy ten years oil
b was playing with his fathers pisto
y and shot his brother, twelve yeal
y. old, in the head. The little fello,
u will certainly die. The first name
at had fallen from a tree few day
20 prior to the shooting and had h
~ arm broken"
Eleven conductors on the NJ,
b. e Il. II. Il. have been cashiered fl
e. collecting fare by the way sid
es Their places are being filled /
IN new conductors from other road
lie, -Oswego Independent.
CT In the year 1866, the residence
u Mrs. Mary A. Walker of Wyal
"a dotte, was broken into, and q Iarl
quantity of silver-ware stolen, al
g although every search was made r
VI gardIng the same, and rewards o
fered, nothing was heard of it mt
Sunday, when a colored ms
! named Davis, while hunting h
10 cow, suddenly discovered som
nc thing shining sticking out of Il
20 ground. On picking it up he sa
nS it was part of a silver spoon wi
h name engraved on the handl
'aT and on showing it to some partis
"a il was soon discovered to be Nj
Walkers property. Justin Walk
armed with hoe, vent to q
ground aud soon brought to Zig
nearly all the balance of the silVe
". although it had mostly been bro
he en- up and partially melted. AS
who took them, or how they g
there, is still shrouded in a my
of tery.-Kansas City Journal.
Maj. Geo. 3. Jenness has resig
lc- ed his position on the Ottawa Jou
nal to take charge of q paper
ire Missouri. Ben. is q lively newsp
per man, and knows how to Wri
editorials and locals.