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

There is talk of removing High
and University to Leayenworth.
Murrian or "black-leg'' is de-
'troying young cattle in Douglas
The great mill at Lawrence will
De in running operation by Janu-
airy lst.
Aman who cannot read or write
is in Jail at Troy, charged with |
forgery.
Competition with coal forced
wood down to $3.50 a cord in |
LeavenWorth the other day.
The cotton shipments from In
this season win foot
up 10000 pounds.
Eight mechanics have left Os-
kaloosa with in few weeks for
California and Nevada.
The Bender family are figuring
in a sensational story in the New
York Ledger.
Real estate spectators in Law
renee, are taking advantage of the
present low prices.
Track-laying is progressing on
the Midland r. r. between Desc
ia and Kansas City.
Two Thousand pounds of -four
have been distributed in two pre-
cints in Phillips county.
W. S. Tough and NJ. H. Insley
have started a subscription for a
soup house in Leavenworth.
Topeka is not so awful poor
but she can afford to buy 81, 900
worth of tickets in the Louisville
lottery.
The Girard Press says people
talk of hard times, yet three more
saloons have been opened in that
town.
The Tribune thinks Lawrence is
good for three thousand dollars
for the Kansas Central Commit
tees relief fund.
Miss Highly, of Labette county,
was reelected County Superin-
tendent by 1900 majority, over hel
male opponent.
A fifteen thousand dollar grist
mill has been built at Neufchatel,
Nemaha county, by the Swiss set,
tiers there.
The highway robbers who dc
business on the roads leading out
of Kansas City, are doing unusual
ly well this season.
During the year 1874 one humid
red and twenty liquor licenses
were issued in Leavenworth, bring
ing revenue OF over SIS, 700.
By an order recently issued
Fort Leavenworth is made the
general depot for the clothing sup
plies of the army west of the Mis-.
souri,.
Twenty insane persons are quar-
tered in various institutions in
Leavenworth because there is nc
room for them at the State Asy
lum.
Two little girls named German
whose parents were murdered by
the Indians, have been recovered
by the troops and are now at Fort
Leavenworth.
The National bank of Olatht
has surrendered its charter, be
cause the taxes imposed upon il
by the local authorities were great
er than it could stand.
The Fort Scott foundry has
made arrangements to manufac
ture harvesteTs, mowers, plows
and other agricultural implements
for the State Grange.
Rev. DIR. Marvin, and eminent
Methodist clergyman, and profes
sor of Allegany College, Meadville
Pa, has been elected Chancellor q
the Kansas State University.
The Beloit Gazette says it is in
Jewell county that the co-opera
tive Touring mill is to be built
that Mitchell county has already
seven mills with two more build
ing.
A little boy was killed at Fort
Scott few days ago, by falling
under an engine of the NJ. X. d. Z
road. He had been riding on il
In violation of the orders of the
yard master.
Another Fort Scott man, crazy
for fame, wants to bet that he can
eat thirty rabbits in thirty days
That man would be worth more
than a dog to keep around a young
apple orchard.
The State Central Relief Com.
mittee have information that the
people of Chill and Nation, Hin,
OILS, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and De
Pere and Virden, Indiana, are
preparing to send supplies to
Kansas.
Horny Sanderson, a Jefferson
county boy of eleven years, lately
saw an eagle light on goose, so
Henry lit on the eagle and captur-
ed him. The eagle measured
six and half feet from tip to
tip.
The feelings between the towns
of Fredonia and Neodesha must
be "pizen," or Johnny Gilmore
would not say: "Neodesha women
bore holes through peach stones,
put in brass wire and wear them
for ear ornaments"
Six freight cars loaded with
supplies for the destitute settlers
in the southwestern part CT the
State, passed through Leaven-
worth en- the oath. 1t is to be
hoped that they reached their des-
tination in time for Thanksgiving.
Mr.. Sam Sawyer, of Grasshop-
per, had some fellow put in jail for
stealing his hides, and then sent
word TO their confederates that he
had some more hides if they want
ed them. The invitation has
been accepted, and Mr.. Sawyer is
"short" just sixteen hides more.
$50 wagons for the Mcnnonites
passed over the A. I. IL S. F. r. r.
the other day. The wagons were
made by the Mennonites in Rus
sia; are claimed to be better than
our manufacture and the freight
from Russia to Atchison was
about 81 per wagon.
A FORTUNATE BAKER.-On an
evening in April last q baker en-