The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1874.
STATE NEWS.
The Rural Kansan has suspend
ed. Sorry to hear IL

The Rural Kansan has suspend
ed. Sorry to hear it.
The paper mill building at Blu,
Rapids is nearly completed.
The Presbyterians of Clay Cen
ter are going to build a parsonage
Gov. Osborn is one of the own
ers of the Adams House in Man
haitian.
The Kansas bee-keepers swarm
ed in convention at Leavenwortt
last week.
The late Commodore Durfee, Of
Leavenworth, leaves an estate val
ued at $4,000.
The Hays City Sentinel says
that 100 men are employed in the
X. p. shops at Ellis.
Col. Thurston, of Humboldt,
lately sold a pair OF horses for $500
to go to Long Branch.
The "Reform" party in Law
renee is divided into the ''Regu-
lars" and "After-claps."
They had a fight at Neosho
Fails the other day, just to give
u new Justice of the Peace Job.
Smuggler, Capt. Tough's race
horse, has won the five thousand
dollar race Mt Medford, Mass.
Mr.. NJ. b. Lyon, of Lenape, has
corn that will yield one hundI ed
bushels to the acre.
Baker University opened on the
10th instant, with an enrolment
of thirty-three students.
The State. Treasurer reports to
the Legislature that there is in the
treasury $27o,653.5s in money.
Ex-senator Ross and his two
sons are now connected with the
mechanical department of the
Lawrence Journal.
Mr.. John Z. Mitchell complains
in the Eureka Herald that his
wife had him arrested for trespass
on his own land.
The Changers of CofIey county
will hive Il grand pic mic at Bur-
lington tomorrow, Saturday. All
the oranges in the county will at
tend in uniform.
The Parsons Eclipse man has
tramped around through the coun-
try considerably of late, and he
finds that corn is flrst-rate.
Geo. A. Huron, editor of the
GrasshOpper ut GrasshOpper Falls,
has bought the New Era Office and
the two papers will hereafter be
one. That is sensible.
The Ellsworth Reporter is in
formed that tire are more people
proving up and paying for their
homesteads and new entries under
the timber act this fall, than there
were in the spring.
The board of Equalization of
taxes, has added 100000 to the
taxable value of the Kansas Pa
cillc Railway Company's property
in Saline county, making it $3l5,-
900 instead of $4,000 as per the
local assessment.
In teachers institute, held re-
Gently at Marion Center, Mr.. Dol
goruki took part. The time is
coming when the editor of the
Marion County Record will break
every pen in his office writing Pol
ish and Russian names. Menon-
ties.
Mrs. Phillip Reade, formerly
Miss Minnie Beals, of Topeka, is
in ItIly and beats the Italians
singing in their own language.
Why do we send Mrs. Rcade to
Italy, while Italy keeps sending
those confounded hand organs
over here?
The names of Mitchell and
Cloud counties were named for
tw" brave colonies of the Second
Kansas cavalry. Jewell county
was named in honor of Lieutenant
Colonel Jewell, of the Sixth Kan
;sas cavalry, noble officer, who
was killed Mt Cane Hill, Arkansas,
an 1868.
EXrLosIoN.-The boiler in the
steam saw-mill of ii. Mcmahon,
near Strawn, in Cofry county, ex-
plodcd with terrible report on the
9Th inst. There were six or eight
men in and about the mill, all o
whom were knocked down, and
three severly injured. One had an
arm broken and was otherwise in
jared. Fortunately no ono was
killed. The boiler was thrown a
distance of sixty yards, and the
building was completely demol-
ished. The boiler had been exam
ined in the morning by the proprie-
tor and found all right, and the ac-
cident cannot be accounted for.
All of which we learn from the