The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-14

SA~ 81 NAlCCu Has bSlSA LIE III
terest in the Kansas City Times TO
the remaining prOprietOrs, NJ. and
j. T.. Mumford- 1t Is said that the
Times has SINK money at the rate
Of $4,000 per year, so far. Also
that it pays, and is worth $4,000
free OF debt.
A national convention of bankers
is called to assemble at Saratoga
Springs, n. Y, July %.
The second championship game of
base ball between the st. Louis
Brown StockiDgs aud tie Chicago
White Stockings was played at
ST. Louis Saturday and won by the
former club by score of four to
three, the latter making its three in
its last inning. Tuesday tho VIII ties
beat the Reds, too.
Old Bender, it appears, escaped
in some mysterious way from the
hands of his keeper, John IIorris, of
Florence, Arizona, the day before
Harris was going to start with him
for Kansas. He left his shackles
as 3 memento, was traced TO Sonora,
and the trail lost was the Chihuaba
mountains of Mexico.
HoRNELsrlLLE, N. Y, May o.
The Portage bridge, on the Erie
Railroad, said to be the largest
wooden bridge in the world, and
which spanned the Genesse river,
was burned last night.
Robert Bonner has given 500, 600
to Rev. John Halls new church.
1t is announced that the MARQUIS
of Lorne and his wife, the Princess
Louise, will make an extended
tour through the United States this
summer.
CINcINNATl, May, AT , this
morning as the train was going
from Lima to Forest, Ohio, a man
got through the express car door
and ordered Mr.. Price, the agent,
to surrender. Mr. Price refused
and the man shot him in the shout
der and cheek. He then ahot his
assailant dead. The robber proved
to be discharged conductor from
the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne rail-
road.
The steamer Polynesia, from Liv-
erpool for New York, with 1900
people on board, is feared to have
been lost at sea.
A coal colliery near Shamokin,
Pa, was burned on the 5th by in.
cendiaries. Loss 100000, and 200
men thrown out of work. At Mil
esbnrg, Centre, same date and state,
were Destroyed foundery and ma
chine shop. loss $4,000.
ST.. LOUIS, May 7.-W. j. Kin.
card, q farmer near Keysyille, Mo-,
was murdered last Wednesday by q
negro employe named Stark. They
qusrrelled. and Kincard took q
pitchfork, when Stark crushed his
skull with a stake and fed.
New York, May 7.-Early this
morning, a fire at Tompkinsville
destroyed i've houses. Loss about
$4,000. Partly insured.
Ex-Internsl Revenue Commits
sioner Douglas is to have another
Office to console him.
The late fire at Oshkosh, Wis,
burned fifty manufacturing estab-
lishments, four hotels and four
churches. The total loss of the in
surance companies is seven hum
dred and 1ifty-nine thousand dol
lars. There will be slight reduce
ton from salvage. Three thousand
people were burnt out. Three hun-
dred families are destitute, and two
thousand persons are out of employ
ment.
Buffalo, May THE blacksmith
shop and bolt factory in PratE's
rolling mills, at Black Rock, was
burned this morning. Loss $4,000.
Fully insured.
Omaha, May 7.-Red Cloud.
Spotted Tail and fifteen othet Indian
chiefs passed through here to-day
for Washington.
Rev. FL. FL. Mills, young and eio-
quent Baptist minister, lately arriv-
ed at Lansing, Michigan, with
splendid recommendations from his
previous location. He preached
well, and was engaged, and also
had arranged to preach every alter
nate Sabbath at De Soto. The
church began to prosper, but last
Sunday he astonished his congrega-
ton by coming into the pulpit roar
ing drunk, and passed the rest of
the day carousing in the saloons.
The st. Louis democrats have
nominated Col. Jas. II. Brit,on,
President of the National Bank of
the State of Missouri, and an old
aud prominent citizen, for Mayor.
Toledo, May 10. - tornado
passed over the village of Green
sprigs, yesterday afternoon, blow
ing down three houses, killing two
children and demolishlng every
chimney in the place. The storm
passed northward. Several houses
and barns between Greensprings
and Clyde were blown down, and |
trees and fences destroyed. at
Clyde the Nicholas House was par
TALLY unroofed and considerably
damaged stores and residences, be-
tween Clyde and BellevilIe, were
also destroyed. Along the line oil
the Lake Shore railroad SCARCELY 3 |
building escaped uniniured. The
course of the storm was from the
south TO the North, and its track |
ahont two miles wide.
STATE NEWS.
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