The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-02

Atchison will celebrate the compile
ton of her bridge August 10Th.
Parsons had roasting ears from Tex
as last week; 2 1-2 cents an ear.
One day last week 5000 pounds of
Ysa1e9ll we're. shipped from Manhattan.
Douglas county has ten veterans OF
the war of 1872, each aged SO years.
The cheese factory at Paola has
raised the price of cows in that neigh
borhood.
Two women at Topeka recently sold
their own back hair for money to buy
seed corn.
Candidates for office In Marshall
county are already feeling their way
on soda water.
The Masonic Mutual Benefit Society
of Kansas is making vigorous efforts
to increase.
One night last week six horse thieves
were hung by vigilance committee
in Sumner county.
Ottawa has "mind reader'' He
has created quite a sensation by lind
ing stolen or hidden articles.
The Topeka Commonwealth ofTues-
day morning appeared reduced in size
one column to the page.
A Swede at Fort Leavenworth has
discovered that the Cheyenne Indian
language is similar to Swedish.
Columbus assessed a tax on the ex-
press company, and the company
moved their Office out of town.
The people of Montgomery county
propose to take some steps to get out
of about $4,000 railroad bonds.
Topeka merchants are giving each
other little tilt on prices. They are
unloading to the advantage of buyers.
A lot of drunken Shawnee Indians
killed farmer named John Francis
last week six miles from Chetopa.
Capt. w. F. Creitz, of Holton, abb
seconded recently, leaving liabili ties
amounting to eight or ten thousand
dollars.
A colored minister at Humboldt last
Sunday night made such II noise i'll his
services that the fire company turned
out.
The old Topeka Record printing MA
terial is tQs heA moved to Denver and
there used in the publication of DEM
ocratic daily Gewhilikens!
TheHounty officers of Linn county
won't move from Mound City to Pleas
anton, aud the court has issued man
damus to make them.
Perry, of the Paola Spirit, believes
in going around doing good. He has
started five newspapers in Kansas, and
been part owner in two others.
Mary Jane Brown, of Maine, offers
to fight any woman in America for
800 side, half the gate money to go
to the grasshOpper sufferers in Kan
sas.
In the recent Butler county storm, q
board three feet wide, eight and half
feet long, and an inch thick, was car
ried eighteen miles through the air.
The grangers are mad because at
the late commencement exercises at
the State University, the President in
vited lawyers to the front seat. 1t was
awful taste.
One day last week X. p. freight
train mashed a couple of drunken In
dams near WamegO. No better place
in the world to go to sleep than on a
railroad track.
Oswego township, Labette county
July Doth, will vote ON proposition to
aid to the amount of $500 in bonds
the Missouri and Western Railroad.
We thought that business had had its
run.
A lot of three card monte men at
Atchison, last week, got hold of q
Brown county preacher and proposed
to go snooks with him for the benefit
of the Sunday school, but he kept off
the ragged edge.
The only portion of Kansas afflicted
with grasshOppers this year, is the I'd
congressional district, and the Usage
Free Press presumes it is because the
voters of that district elected a demo-
cratic congressman.
Atchison is richer than she thought
she was. The Mayor in rumaging
about recently, discovered certificate
of $50, 900 stock in the Chicago & South
western Railroad.
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The Lawrence Journal says the Kansas
Pacific's railroad taxes amount to 76-10O
per cent. of its gross earnings, and the
taxes of the L. l.. Il G., road to II per
cent. of its gross earnings. Chance for
some equali cation there.
Lawrence, Kan, June 24.-Four
white prisoners surprised aud over
powered the Jail guard Sunday sf-
ternoon and made good their escape.
one on the Sheriff7s horse, another
on q horse forced from q citizen,
and two on foot. They are all des-
perate men. w. j. McDaniels,
AL1On II % OnC Va lE4C 0AunCtG
robbers, q noted character in South
west Missouri; was formerly q
member of the James gang, and is q
reckless, desperate man, and Mis-
souri, outlaw. VIM. Dunn, alias III.
f. Montgomery, q horse thief. He
is a desperate outlaw, whose life is
but record OF crime and deliltry.
He has served two terms in the PEN
itentiary, one in Missouri and one
in Kansas. Robt. Ingalls, was
awaiting trial for stealing from the
Kansas Pacific railroad at junction
City. He was captured at Kansas
City some two weeks ago by a de-
ieeiive. Elijah Ledford is q type of
Iugalis, whose offence and capture
are the same. They are thoI ghly
armed with rifles and pittols taken
from the jailor's Office.
One hundred citizens started in
pursuit this afternoon. McDaL1e.s
and Dunn were concealed in dense
wood, about seven miles from the