The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-12-04
THE NEWS

Nieu IN OL. LOUIS on N on
DAY, aged sixty-eight years.
The boiler at the portable saw
mill near Cambridge, o., exploded
on Thursday, killing two men and
wounding two others.
The New York Evening Post
says authoritatively that James
Russell Lowell has been offered
and has declined the Russian mis-
sion.
The Citizens oil refinery of Pitts
burg, Pa, suspended pay, and |
their liabilities are about 100000. |
Their assets cannot yet be given. |
A frightful mountain disaster is |
reported at Great st. Bernard pass.
Eleven persons were buried in tie
snow, and it is supposed all per
ished.
Geo. F. Wolff, of Wolff d Levi,
Of New Orleans, who failed last
spring, has been arrested on the
charge of cOnceaIing the assets of
the estate TO the amount of $4O,-
600.
DIR j. B. Eddy was murdered on
Wednesday night in st. Louis, by
a conductor of a car on the Fifth
street line. He was pushed of
the car and fell in such 8 way that
the car passed over him and was
fatally injured.
Judge Poland left for Washing
ton Tuesday evening. Judge
Ward of the committee remains.
1t was reported at Little Rock,
that Judge Poland was summon
ed to Washington by the attorney
general.
The President has appointed
VIM. Strickney, Of the District of
Columbia, Indian commissioner
under the forty-sixth section of
the act making appropriations for
the expenses of the Indian depart
; ment.
The venerable Noyes Marshall
died in the post Office at Sedalia
on Friday last. He had
, just asked for his mail,
= turned and was about to purchase
newspaper at the news stand
= when he fell to the floor. He was
afflicted with heart disease.
The st. John Globe says that
the heir of the Jamison estate, in
3 Scotland, worth from f7OO,OOO to
fl,OOO,OO0, was found there in
, the person of w. b. Jamison, Q
4 young man in poor circumstances
recently employed in peddling sta
= tionery.
Dispatches from different points
in Central Illinois state that there
was the heaviest fall of snow OIL
( Friday night that has occurred fol
a several years. The snow is from
r twelve to fifteen inches deep, anC
3 has blockaded the railroads, an(
delayed trains on some roads.
While train of fiat-cars, on thu
Dayton and Michigan railroad
! was backing up near Perrysburg
4 o.. on Monday, it ran over a steer
t and one car was overturned, anG
e three employees of the road, who
were standing on the car, were
r crushed beneath. Two were kill
b ed and the other fatally Injured.
. The auction sale of the LicE
7 property, donated to public uses
e took place at San Francisco, Tues
4 day, aggregating one million, nine
e hundred and fifty-nine thousand
4 nine hundred and twenty-five dol
r lars. Lick's house sold for ninC
: hundred and twenty thousand dol
3 lars. The sale of Island Catalina
was postponed two months.
The statement made by the
! Navajo Indians, now on their way
: to Washington, that three OF theil
number were killed last summer
q by Mormons, is contradicted OF
!. good Salt Lake authority. Two
I Indians were killed in Grass val
ley. Utah, last winter, by cattle
herders from Nevada, the Indians
o themselves having been the ag
gressOrs.
3 The war department has begun
: the publication of monthly vol
ume, quartO size, containing each
of the daily weather maps and the
! tables, with synopsis and broba
, bilities as made morning, after
noon and night. Following each
of these is a statement of facts re.
/ garding the weather for the time
; covered by probabilities. These
/ comparisons show at 4 glance the
degree of accuracy attained in
: weather predictions. The first
volume of the kind, Just from the
press, is for October and makes a
most creditable showing for signal
service prophecies.