The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-05

NEWS IIY rELEGRAPEz.
Condensed summary or Tesegrapbic
Reports in the Daily Papers
TUESDAY, OCT. &c.
Virginia City, Nevada, almost en-
tireiy destroyed by fire, and 10000 peo-
pie made homeless. The famous Cali
fornia, Consolidated Virginia, Gould q
Curry, Ophir. and other mines on the II
ComstOck lode, suffered heavy DANA
ges by the burning of their costly
buildings, and machinery at their
shafts. There was panic in mining
stocks at San Francisco, and the Z. V.
stock dropped to 2l0 and the Ophir to
$50, but subsequently, ralIicd.-s50.-
900 fire in Austin, MIss.-Black Hawk
mills, at Aurora, H., burned; loss
$35, 000.-Valley cotton mill, at Stat
ford, Ct. burned; loss $25, 000.-$25,-
900 at Centreville, Ind.-The Sacred
Order of United Irishmen, New York,
have resolved that Thos. McGeachan
shall die for betraynig the sacred Sc
crets of that sacred order. on with
his head LANE, democrat, elected to
congress in Oregon.-Wm. Stewart,
liquor dealer of Ausable, Mich, found
dead on the street with his skull broken
by an axe.-Watchman of the Oxford,
n. j. Iron Co. found four burglars
breaking into the safe and shot one
dead. The rest escaped. = Lapage,
charged with the murder of Josie
Longmade, at Pembroke. n. J., indict-
ed by the grand jury.-Gibson, agent
of the Usage Indians, monopolizes the
store business, and then telegraphs to
Gen. Pope for troops.-The three Ital- !
ians who murdered their companions |
in Denver, arrested at Trinidad, Colo
RADIO, and one of them confessed Gold
l153s.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. q.
President Grant proclaims Thurs
day, Nov. %, as Thanksgiving day
Near Quincy, Mich. team of horses
passing Lake shore Z. Il. crossing,
baked on the crossing until struck by
the locomotive, and the occupants OF
the wagon, a young man named Nor
ton and his mother, were kiIled.-Ira
Beard, millinery dealer, N. Y, and
Lee s. Walker, music dealers, Phila-
delphia, failed, for $4,000 and $I7j,-
O00.-The housel' IS people of Virginia
City being rapidly relieved by contri-
buttons from San Francisco and other
places. The total loss is estimated at
81, 100000. The various mines are not
damaged beyond speedy repair.-D. Il.
Fogg, a st. Louis young man, having
! been forbidden Ia marry n girl Of six
teen. went t" ii..r ltard-inartc,! moth
( er's h"u-e au'! shot the girl, and then
fatally stai'i'e'i himself. III" gill will
reroFer, and marry "a ia; man aud iyr-
/ get all about FOgg.-Earthquake at
| Holly Springs, Miss, but no damage
Republicans carry two-thirils of tile
Ohio constitutional convention.-IIen
ry Fai arlington and Mrs. Rivers arrest
ed ut Ausable, Mich, for the murder of
Mr.. Stewart, a saloon keepe-, ahd rob-
ward college explode nitro glyeerine
and break 800 panes of glasses. Gold
1IG.
THURSDAY, oCT. IS.
1900 miners ont of employment in
Virginia City, Neb.-George Har-
mon, convicted in 1871 of murder, at
Louisville, KY, and who forfeited his
bail bond and escaped, visited Louis
vile last week and was recognized and
arrested.-$20, 900 fire at Salt Lake
City.-During display of fireworks
in 1.ont of Tammanny Hall, n. Y, a
bomb exploded in a group OF public
officers. One will lose his Leg, one his
eyes, and several Others were severely
iRjnred.-Gold 1861.
FRIb1y, oeE. %.
! A terrific hail storm at ROlla, Mo,
broke all the glass looking west.-Two
| inches OF snow at Omaha, and hal |
inch ut Des Moincs.-At Portland, Me. |
a man named Small sprung in front OF
a locomotive to rescue two little chIld- |
rem, who were playing on the track,
and was himself run over and killed.
Carriage wheel factory in Chicago
burned; loss 10000. AT Athens, Ky.
three small cOlOred children, left alone
in house, overturned q lamp and
were burned up with the heuse.-At
Unadilla, n. Y, four people, two OF
them just married, overturned in
small boat, and were drowned. The
Episcopal house of bishops has elected
Rev. 5. j. SpereSwesky as bishop OF
China, and DIR. VIM. j. Clarke bishop
of Atrica.-IIog disease very destruc-
tive at Canton, Mo. In Lewis county
one-half of all the hogs are dead.
Clarke and Marion counties are badly
affected. 1t is not cholera, but more
like q severe epizootic.-Sl yellow fe-
yer eases and 46 deaths in New Or
leans up to Oct. 23d.-Jones and Jen.
niDgs, managing editors of the New
York Times, arrested and held to
81 900 bail for alleged libel of j. L.
King, a politician.-SuiI of owner OF
Cardiff giant against the Boston Her
All ACSluSu IOE Henry
Fifeld, grain dealer, Montpelier, VT,
failed, for Sl0,000.-The hog disease
prevails at Gallatin, No., and is said to
come from Iowa hogs shipped In
Numerous discoveries of gold in Ma
con county, Mo.-Judge Foreman, at
Salt Lake City, orders Brigham Young
to be held under arrest until he pays
Ann Eliza Young $1,000 alimony.-
Seven prisoners escaped from the st.
Joseph, Mo-, Jail, one of them con-
victed murderer.-Gold 11615.
SATURDAY, OCT. so.
The Mississippi election to be peaca-
bfe this year.-The great 81, 200, 600
coal land suit of Derringer vs. Cox, at
Wilksbarre, Pa, decided for plaintiff.
j. II. Stevens, of Council Bluffs,
Iowa, awarded a government contract
for 2.O(f0 0lh1 hllSheIa nf old corn ar