The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-25

The newest railroad company in Kan
sas is the Memphis & Ellsworth, to run
q road from near the mouth of Cow |;
creek, Cherokee county, to Ellsworth,
on the Kansas Pacific. Let it run, by
all means.
Mr.. Giles, of Topeka, says that Eng
fish sparrows should be procured late
in the fall, or next March. They are
for sale in St. Louis, Indianapolis and
Chicago, and a cage fun can be sent
without danger to them, if supplied
with food and water.
The Oregon state board of emigra-
ton is going to establish an agency in
Topeka.
1t is stated that C. c. Hutchinson and
Mr.. Kelsey, formerly forester of the
Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fee railroad,
have gone to North Carolina and are
building up a new town in that State.
Rev. John Bakewell, of the Episco-
pal church, has remove from Topeka
to Pittsburg, Pa.
The worst used man in Kansas lives |
in Jefferson county. just as he had |
Matched legions of chickens, ex-
pecting to feed them on grasshoppers,
the hoppers all got up and left the
county. And now his chickens are
starving.
J. +. Ruth and George w. Sweesy |
are members of the Halstead base ball |
club. While both were running to |
catch a ball, their intelligent heads |
eollided. Ruth had one eye blaeked |
and cheek bruised rather severely, |
while Sweesy had his nose broken and |
smashed very badly, his upper jaw
broken in two places, and one shoulder !
badly injured. Parties who have seen |
Sweesy say he is the worst used up base
BALI ever saw-in fact he looks |
more as if he had been having a round |
with some prize fighter. He has had
to subsist on soup ever since the occur |
ence.
Dudley Lee, the former pastor of the
Second Baptist church of Lawrence,
was deposed by council of ministers
June 18th, at Ileavenworth, by request
of his church.
The executive committee of the state
agricultural society, will meet in To-
peka on Tuesday, July 9th. 1879, at
one o'clock, P. 81, to decide whether to
hold q fair or not.
Friday last the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad express train left
Leavenworth, and at Plattsburg, No.,
ran over thirty feet bank into creek,
the rain having washed away the
bridge. The sleeping car did not go
over. Conductor Summers hands were
badly crushed, Thomas Hilton, engin-
eer, scalded fatally, and the fireman,
Thomas Austin, killed instantly; Mr..
Curtis, passenger, killed; Joseph r.
win, expressman, badly hurt; Bob Fry,
baggageman, badly hurt.
The City Attorney, Kimball, of Par
sons, is in trouble. A young man nam
ed Babcock came there lately with $3.50
and was arrested on a false charge of
burglary. Kimball offered for 500 to
have him released without trial. Bah
cock refused, and was locked up. Kim
ball persuaded him to put the $3.50 dol
lars in his (Kimball's) hands for safe
keeping, and then Babcock was releas-
ed, but meantime Kimball had been
"robbed" of the money. BabcOck has
sued the city for damages, and KIM
ball has been requested to resign. Now
this is the story SO far, but probably
Kimball has another version of it.
On the 18th, A. z. Morris, a we'll
known farmer OF Linn county, and an
other man, were driving team to La
Cygne in q storm, when a stroke of
lightning killed Morris and the horses.
Wyandotte has saiaried its mayor
800 year, and each councilman $50
per year.
| A letter was received i'm Topeka q
| few days ago, from C.. b. Schmidt, En-
ropean agent of the A., 7. g S. +. r.
R., dated Brussels, May 22d, in which
the writer says he will arrive in Kan
sas about the middle of June. He brings
a ship load of Mennonites, and says an
avalanche of foreigners will pour into
Kansas this and next year.
In Judge Cheney's court at Fit. Scott,
on the 10Th, lawyer Greeley said that
County Attorney Binford had sworn
falsely, whereupon Binford knocked
Greeley down. Both then took chairs
and banged at each other, while the
Judge took refuge under table. Bin
ford finally retreated, and order was
restored, the court resumed his seat,
and fined Binford one dollar.
Jacob Tressler, a German of INDIE
pendence, aged about fifty-five years,
lately commenced suicide by drowning
himself in the Verdigris. When the
BOBBY was recovered, tightly grasped
in Tressler's left hand was q pocket
book containing six hundred and nine
dollars, and in another, in his pocket,
was twelve dollars and seventy cents.
The Cherokee Index is informed by
the farmers that the wheat on the
stems from which the grasshOppers
stripped the blades but left the stalks
is vet going to make good crop. No
difference can be discovered as to the
approximate yield between the strip
ped stalk and that not molested by the
hoppers.
The Lawrence Journal says one hum
dred and seventy farmers have been
furnished with seed potatoes and buck
wheat by the citizens relief club OF
that city.
Long Branch, n. j., June 19.-The
President has notified Secretary Bris-
tow that Collector Anthony is not to
be removed. Bristcw also sustains
Anthony very cordially, and so wrote
to the President.
A very heavy rain fell on Sunday
evening along the line of the Kansas
Pacific railroad, between Lawrence
and Kansas City. The water fell in
torrents and the whole country was
flooded. The track of the X. p. was
washed away near Edwardsville.
Peter Moriarty, editor Of the Council
Grove Republican, died very suddenly.
Tuesday the 18th. He was buried
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