The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-08-20
NEWS ny TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary of TeEe
graphic Reports In the
Daily Papers.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. IL.

got $4,000 in Chicago, and not
heard from since.-Ex-Gov. VIM. A.
Graham, of North Carolina, died at
SaratOga.-Yellow fever at TT. Bar
rancas, Fla, ceased.-Funeral of
Hon. Christen Andersen, the child
ren's story-writer, in Copenhagen,
and all Denmark in mourning
Cattle train and special train on the
North Missouri railroad collided,
and Supt. Lee, of the III. s. St. j.,
had left arm and collar bone broken.
r. S. Stevens and other railroad
men bruised.-Terriblc tornado 400
feet wide swept through northwest
ern part of Philadelphia, unroofing
dozen houses, and doing great
damage.-An immense rock in the
Big Bend tunnel, on the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad fell on passing To-
connective, killing the fireman and
injuring the engineer.-$I5,0 900 fire
at La Cross, Wis, and heavy fire
raging in San Francisco.-Gold ia.
No. wheat in st. Louis 1.5215.-
THURSDAY, AUG. II.
Both parties in Oregon declare
for specie elbow fever
broke out bad at Pascaogula, Miss
DR.. Bradford, q leading physician,
and several other people. died the
first day.-S6O,O0 fire at Sacrament
to.-The Northern Pacific railroad
sold to it's own bondholders for
$IO0,O00.-R. T.. Van Horn, editor
of the Kansas City Journal, appoint
ed collector of internal revenue for
the 9th Mo. district.-Mill river,
Mass, got loose again, and people
ned from the valley to the hills till
the flood had passed. - a heavy
storm in the Orange valley, N. j.,
did $4,000 damage, and in Passaic
| county $4,000. - Snow storm at
Pixies Peak.-Tilton sues the Brook
Iyn Eagle for 100000 for libel
The discovery made that 100000 of
Duncan, Sherman 81 Co.'s paper, is
in the shape of drafts drawn upon
them by a confidential clerk in their
own office, and accepted by them,
and then sold through bankers o
various banks, which are swim died
to that eXtent.-J. Manley Snider,
cashier of the Chillicothe, o., First
| National bank, has been using the
bank balances for 8 years, in Wall
street speculations, and has abscOnd-
ed.-A sailor named Greenwood
confessed that two years ago two
sisters named Sutherland sailed on
the schooner Mary E. Jones, from
ShelbauLsee county, Nova Scatia. TO
Boston, Mass, and were out
ragged by the captain and crew. and
and then killed and thrown over
board. The captains name was
Shaw, and is now EN- route for New
Brunswick, where he will be arrest
ed.-Gold 1135s.-No. , wheat in
ST. Louis Sl.50.
FRIDAY, AUG. Is.
Liabilities of Duncan, Sherman &
Co. $4,S72, 72S, of which 1921. 975 il
due to European travellers. Bona
fide assets $2,112,74O. One fatal
case of yellow fever in New Or
Webb, the English sw i'm
mer, tried to swim from Dover to
Calias without any apparatus, and
got half way, unfatigued, but a
storm came on and he wrs picked
up No general overflow of The
Mississippi so far.-James S. Wheel
F an. of La, sues Gen. Sheridan fol-
} S35S, 7SS, value of sugar cOnfiscated
by the latter during the war.-Chi.
F cago Inter-Ocean had reports from
$50 points in the Northwest, show.
ing that in Indiana, Michigan, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebras-
r ka, Iowa and Dacota, the whea
. crop of 1875 will be in the aggre-
gate Is per cent, oats 70 per cent.
and corn 81 per cent. of an average
crop. In the flooded sections there
will be half crop.-Nrs. Richard
/ Dodge, Middleton, VT, and hel
brother-in-law, had a dispute abou
property, which she ended by shoot
= ing his jaw Off.--Cutle s. Berdley
, doing business as the N. Y. Tea Co.
D failed, and absconded to Europe
with $60.00O.-Euglish parliamen
3 adjourned to Oct. 29.-Spain says i
. is going to send 10000 more troop
to Cuba.-Gold 1131<.-No. , whea
t in st. Louis $1.531a.
e SATURDAY, AUG. If.
c. a. Church, manager of rubbe
c department in E. S. Jeffray & CO.
s dry goods store, New York. alb
e seconded with S4O,OO0.-Moodey an,
and Sankey, the revivalists, arrive,
0 at New York.-All quiet on tn
r Riogrande. = Western UGion anC
: Atlantic s. Pacific telegraph com
s panies put up rates east p pc
s cent. = $4,000 fire at Toledo
s Great trotting race at Rochester
e n. Y, between Goldsmith Maid
e Lulu, aud American Girl, won b.
: Lulu. Msid took. first heat in 2 10 =
t Lulu took next three in :161k, 2:
s las, 2 :l7, the three fastest consecu
!, tive heats ever trotted.-Jaeob Har
e cher, Louisville shoemaker, dis
o appointed in love, stood on
c bridge, anil shot his head off, an,
8 then fell into the river and browne,
Y himself-Severe storm and grea
h damage near New York city.-His
h sissippi came TO stand point a
e Memphis, and much rejoicing that