The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-13

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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
cOmd enSed sunni mary Of TeIe.
graphic Reports En GIIe
Daily Papers.
TELEGRANs OF THURSDAY, AUGUST 4.
Water spout deluged Kern, Rhe-
nish Prussia, sweeping away bridges
and houses, and drowning Is peo-
ple.-ReserVoir at Salina, Ohio,
burst, and did great damage to
farms. One farmer, J ohm Thomas,
drowned.-On a farm in Maury
county, Tennessee, boiler of steam
thresher exploded, killing three men
and wounding seven, and then the
thresher and wheat crop burned up.
Cause, letting cold water into the
hot boiler Construction train on
Marietta railroad ran into the Hook
ing river II miles east of Athens,
Ohio, killing 2 and injuring 8 men.
$4,000 fire at Mount Pleasant,
Michigan, including the Enterprise
newspaper. - Ex-Siate Treasurer
Parker, of S. c., indicted for steal
ing $4,000, escaped from jail.-COl-
mans saw mill at La Crosse, Wis,
burned, $30,00O.-Three days cele-
bration Of Daniel O'Connel's cente-
nary begun in Dublin, with great
catholic ceremonies.-Buff horse
races and Toledo boat races very
successful. May Queen trotted in
: :2l13 ana took the $1,000 purse
Chicago won the four-oared boat
race. Three miles in 10 :f0.-Letters
from Paris say over one thousand
holders of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
letters of credit have been heard
from i'll Germany alone. Many are
utterly destitute, and have been
compelled to apply for relief 10 the
local authorities or American con-
suls.-20,O0O majority in Alabama
for constitutional conventiOn.-Gold
l.133s.
TELEGRAMs OF SATURDAY, AUGUST Z.
Mr.. Beecher holds morning pray
ers at the hotel he honors with his
distinguished presence, in the White
mountains. = Northampton, Mass,
Anchor tape and webbing company,
failed, for 100000 Cardinal Nc
Closky sailed for Rome, 10 get his
red hat.-l00, 900 Texas cattle driven
this year into Nebraska, and will be
shipped along the line of the u. p.
road-Democrat carried Kentucky,
for fact; also North Carolina
Railroads in Indiana aud Ohio run
ming again, and floods subsiding.-
Jury in the case of the Mountain
Meadows fiend, disagree, 8 for ae-
qnittal, 3 for conviction, and was
discharged.--At Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, Colds NTH Maid trotted in 3 rs,
2 49,, 9 10. American Girl took
the first heat in 2 :1734, but the Maid
took the others.-Omaha dispatch
saws: Reports from along the line
of the Union Pacific to-day, say that
the wind has been blowing hard fol
three DAYS from the north. Immense
clouds of grasshoppers have been
flying south along the line from Elm
creek, as far east as Silver creek
with few clean streaks. At Willow
island they have commenced OF
corn, having already done consider.
able damage. AT most points bu
few have alighted and but little
damage was dOne.-Rocks falling il
the Hoosac tunnel and block trains
"A Cincinnati broker left hi
wife and daughter in charge of hi
Office, and while they aired them
selves on the sidewalk, thief enter
ed the rear door and made off will
$4,000 worth of jewelry.- Foul
young men-in Cincinnati believed
to nave been murdered, robbed anC
thrown into the river.-ExplosiOI
at Frankfort, Pa, arsenal, killed on,
boy and wounded % Reople.-A
ElkhOrn, Nebraska, two men, Nc
hoy and Kane, fired shot guns int
a crowd of innocent people, TO xii
one James Baldwin, and then fed
A hotel keeper named Deermond
, his son, and Baldwin not dangerous
ly wounded. Men in pursuit of tn
assassins.-Cholera raging at Dam
ascus, Asia. 400 new cases ever,
: day.-Wasbington printers uniol
acceded to demand of employers t,
set type at fifty cents per 1000 ems
and is ended.-Three men arreste,
on charge of stealing the $500
=, package from the treasury depart
2 ment at Washington. One, Brown, i
an ex.pOstoffice clerk, and another
Halleck, assistant shipping teller il
cash room. The third, Altman,
4 Browns landlord.-Cholera bad a
f Antioch.-Goid / 1888.
= MONDAY, AUGUST 8.
! Parker, ex-stste treasurer of 5. e.
captured w. p. Ross re-electe
n chief of the Cherokee nation.-N
e Carolina constitutional convention
= claimed by the democrsts.-Abra
4 ham Parvina, son of q Cincinnati
r pawn-broker. arrested for robbini
!. his fathers Office. = Indianapoli
s Sentinel printers strike. because of
: reduction of wages.-Omaha dis
o patches from the west say that tn
e grasshoppers are very numerous q