The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-01

Condensed summary OF TsiegraPhie
Reports in the Daily Papers
TTTrsDAy sept. 81.

undatlOu caused Oy hurricane, ana
about 100 people drowned. Nearly
all the buildings, including the
churches and Masonic temple, were
destroyed.-AtE East Brunswick, N.
j., music dealer named James
Garland shot his wife three times,
aud supposing that he had killed
her, shot himself three times, cut
his throat and fractured his crazy
skull with hammer. His wife is
not fatally wounded. = Nebraska
State fair opened very successfully
at Omaha.-Carl Sehurz to speak
or the Republican ticket in Ohio
Sept. 27.-Mechanics' bank, of Nom
treai, suspended 1900 Spanish
soldier to go to Cubain November.
Charles s, son Of ex-U. S. District
Attorney Fisher, of Washington,
arrested for stealing valuable pa
pers relating to various suits before
the criminal court.-Alex. White,
of Ala, appointed to succeed Judge
Lowe as chief justice of Utah.-No.
, wheat in St. Louis $1.53: No. 3,
SIPS. Corn SIC. oats 35c.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. %.
Accounts from the Texas coast
confirm the reports of great loss of
life and property by the three days
tornado Observation-Disclosures dem
Ocratic State convention calls for
specie payment, denies the right of
secession, and re-nominated Gov.
CASTOR, at the head of the follow
ing ticket: Lit. governor, Gen, F.
Bartlett; Secretary state, Geo. II.
Monroe; Treasurer, Gen. Weston
Rowland Attorney general, Geo.
I. Very; Auditor, John G. Fitz-
gerald.-Maryland Republican State
convention adopted hard money
platform, combined with the citi-
zens' reform party, and nominated
the following ticket: Governor, ].
Nj. Harris: Attorney general, S. p.
Wallis; Comptroller, Edward Wei
kins.-Chicago House, st. James
restaurant and the union depot, all
old buildings in Kansas City, de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; in
suFance, SIS, 600, All the tickets In
the depot, representing SS,000,O00
worth, were burned.-The fast mail
trans to be run as far west as Oma-
ha and Kansas City; time from st.
Louis to Kansas City eight hours,
from New York TO Kansas City for
ty hours.-Large editorial excursion
from Illinois and other states de-
vastating misunderstanding ma
china boiler exploded near Defiance,
Ohio, killing the engineer, fireman
and another man, and injuriDg four
others. The boiler head went
through Reuben Potter's farm horse,
and the body of it through his barn.
Garland, the suicide, had his skull
mended aud his throat sewed up,
and may recover.-Liberal Repnb-
lican State convention of New
York endorsed the Democratic
platform and ticket.-No. 2 wheat
in st. Louis S1.55; No. 3 Sl.3O.
Corn SIC. oats 36c.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 24.
Of 300 buildings in Indianols,
Texas, only five are left by the in
undation Several small towns were
totally swept away, and the total
loss of life along the coast is put at
400. The devastation is complete
for many miles inland. New Or
leans, and other places, are sending
aid of all kinds. Boston, Mass,
sends $1,000 to Gslveston.-A Mr.
Schell, near Bellefontaine, Ohio, en-
ticed a young lady named Langhlin
to hunt plums with him, outraged
and murdered her. was taken ont OF
a Jail by mob and hung to a tree.
At bennington, VT, Jacob Lou
den stepped in front of a locomo-
tive and was killed. Poverty and
poor health was his excuse. He lef!
wife and four children, besides a
daughter who died that day and
was unburied.-Rebecca j. Allen,
sister of L. r. Allen, grand master
of the Missouri State grange, fell
from buggy into a ditch while go.
ing home at night, near Attention
not far from st. Louis, and was
found dead in the morning.-No.
wheat in st. Louis S1.57; No.
$1.27. Corn 53c. ~
FRIDAY, SEPT. "a.
$4,000 people attended the Cinein
natl exposition. James Wick, o
Rochester, N. ", took first pre-
MUM for greatest display of Gu
fiowers.-The San Francisco Bulle
tin and Call bring q bibel sui
against the Alta for 49,, OO0.-Th,
SON of the ex-Emperor Louis Ma
poleon is TO make tour of tn,
world, excepting Franee.-At tn,
Omaha fair the horse Lothair, O
Kansas City, won the $1,1OO purse
in 2 :2S14, 2 :2615, 2:33, and the run
ming horse Bellefiower broke his les
and was shot.-At Forest City, AR
kansas, one Strader shot at DearsoI
Mason, but missed him and killed
young man named Thomas Horton
Geo. w. Gage, a prominent old
citizen of Chicago, died.-The Hern
don Hotel, at Marshall, Michigan
burned, and Claude Avery, Mis-
Ella King, and two other people de
stroyed.--NO. 2 wheat in st. Louii
$l,60; No. 3 Sl.2S. Corn SIC.
oats S615.
SATURDAY, SEPT. %.
Bank of California reorganized
Senator Sharon elected as its presi-
dent, and promises to resume bust.
ness early in October. = Thomas
Stark, near Troy, n. Y, aged co
and his wife took laudanum, and
the latter died. No work for eight.