The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-26
NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary OF TeIegraPhie
Reports in the Daily Papers.

Three hundred cases OF refined Pc
troleum were on board the City of
Waco, which accounts for her destruc-
ton by fire.-Burke's banks, at Little
Falls and Utica, n. Y, suspended
FerociOus dogs lacerated and killed
Mrs. Pagan, near Natchez, Miss.-l
President Grant is working day and |
night on his annual message.--At
Missouri City, Mo-, Joseph Keller, son
of Hon. John Keller, fatally stabbed j.
w. Donaghe, a railroad conductor and
was arrested.--The st. Louis City |
council begins to try the contested ma
yoralty case of OYerstoltz VS.. Britton.
Major Burns buys the st. Joseph
Daily GaZette.-High tides in the
Thames, 100000 damage, Wool
wich arsenal grounds were innundat-
ed.--Financial panic reported in Lon
don and Paris.--2,OOO troops leave
Madrid for Cuba, and the Spanish gov
eminent informs the u. s. that it will
persist in conqueriDg the island.-The
st. Louis revenue fraud whisky cases
enforced to trial. Col. Joyce pleads
guilty. and is sentenced to pay $4,000
and go to the penitentiary for 80
years. John Mcdonald, Ex-Su-
pervisor internal revenue in st. Louis,
now being tried.--Gold, Sll41a.
WEDNESDAY, Nov II.
The PriRce of Wales is at Bombay.
Everything peaceful in Europe
Guibord's heretical corpse buried in
the Catholic cemetery at Montreal, in
an immense bed of solid cement, mix
ed with old iron and tin scraps. 1t
will puzzle Gabriel to open that grave
on the day of resurrection.--Paul
Wright, commission merchant, st
Louis, shot himself dead.--TI;al OF Nc
Donald, for whisky revenue fraud, in
st. Louis, reveals damaging testimony.
Charges that FarwelI, the Chicago
dry goods man, was concerned in
whisky frauds, are base SANDER
Steamship Clyde and Morgan collided
at Galveston, and both badly damaged.
Richard Dockstader, clerk in the
Cleveland post Office for fifteen years,
arrested for robbing the mail. Eleven
stolen letters fouHd on him, Alabama
election adopted the new constitution,
I'm New Orleans, j. Bowling, being
put Off street car for refusing to pay
his fare, shot the driver dead.-Heavy
earthquake in San Francisco, but no
damage.--New York Court of App
peals refuse Tweed reduction of bail
or bill of particulars.-Heavy fall of
snow all along the Z. p. railroad
Fires as follows: 100000 at Salt Lake
City; $4,000 at Irwins, Pa; $4,000 in
New York.--Gold, STA 1-2-No, 2
wheat in st. Louis, sl.53; No. S1.2s;
corn, 43 lie; oats, 80 1-2c.-Cattlei
market quiet, and prices about the
same as for inoHtHpast. . : ,
THURSDAY, NOV. Is.
EX-supervisor McDouald's trial for
whisky revenue frauds continues in
st. Louis, and the testimony shows q
regular ring of official thieves to have
existed there.-Poe's monument I'M
| NC1tCO al bdlliLAOIC1 Will pECS6INC
ceremony House of Mrs. Lowder, at
Jackson, Ohio, found on fire, and just
outside of it lay the corpse of lodger,
Mrs. Mary Bruce, with her SIX all tract
ured, and her body badly burned.
Mrs. Lowder's son is the suspected
murderer.-At Carlton, on the st. Jo-
seph &c Denver railroad, farmer
jumped in froat of locomotive to save
his horses, and the train ran over and
cut him all to pieces.-Wm. Painter,
foreman on the st. 10. & G. B. railroad,
killed by a construction train striking
a hand car he was On.-Gold, e114ss.
FRIDAY, NOV. 10. -
The st. Louis Official ring was COM
posed OF Mcdonald, Joyce, Fitzroy,
Mckee of the Globe, Msgrue, New
comb, and Grosvener of the Democrat.
Nellie Wayatt, an actress at the
Metropolitan theatre, st. Joseph, being
charged bv her husband with improp-
err intercourse, committed suicide with
laudanum.-A train of empty cars ran
iuto and telescoped the regular C. c. &
A. passenger train about % miles from
Augusta, Georgia. One boy was killed,
one severely injured, and the editor of
. of the Baltimore Traveller severely
hurt.-Near Denison, Ohio, a eonstruc-
ton and freight train on the p. G. &
st. l.. railroad colItded, and two men
were killed and two seriously wound
ed.-Dennis Canni6gham's house at
Craig, Ontario, burned down, and him
self and wife escaped, but their four
children peTished in the flames.-The
reply of Spain to the u. S. demand for
compliance with the treaty of 1895, is
pacific, and the war with Spain Is
postponed.-G0,000 majority for the
new Alabama coustitution.-The ma
tiOnal grange in session at Louisville,
KY, decides to make that city its
headquarters.-St. Louis cattle market
getting stronger. Prices from $500 to
$G.25 per 100 lbs.
SATURDAY, NOy. 20.
The Philadelphia navy yard ordered
to pot the ironclads in readiness for
service.-The United States census Tor
1875 viii show that our population
has nos increased much since 1870
Chief Justice Waite, of the U. 5. Su-
preme Court, sustains Judge loves
decision in the case of Ann Eliza VS..
Brigham Young, and the patriarch is
restored to his numerous family and
relived from paying $500 to Ann
Eliza.-Wm. Green, a baker, foand
murdered ia Fort Scott.-in Kansas
City a drunken white man attempted
to outrage Mrs Farwarter, m1latto,
and 10 the struggle bit off one Of her
fingers, dislocated her arms and beat
her brutality, and then escaped.-While
the driver of an q. s. express wagon
in Chicago was delivering packages,
some one drove of In his wagon, and
when found night, 5000 of its con-
tents were missing-Snow feet deep
at Evanston, Wyoming.-At Chicsgo
} fire tie roof OF building fell on %
men who were trying to save furni-
ture, and seriously injured three
Grand fete at the Paris Institute, in