The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-04

express car on the way from Chi
cage to Toledo. The car contained
$3.50 in greenbacks and S125,O00
in gold. The plan of the robbery
has been revealed by sn accomplish
or it would probably have suecee-
ded.-Jonathan Earle, treasurer of
Norfolk &c Newbrunswick hosiery
company, New Jersey, having let
his cousin in New York use blank
checks, signed by said treasurer,
the latter used $I25. 600 to speculate
with in Wall street, and thus made
his cousin Jonathan q defaulter.
The latter has made over enough
property TO cover the loss, and re-
signed.
SATURDAY Jan, %.
Heavy snow storms in Minnesota.
Six burglars entered and captur-
ed NJ. Whittlesey and family, OF
seven persons at Northampton,
Mrss. on the night of the 26Ih, and
bound and gagged them, and hav
ing forced NJ. w. to tell them the
combination of the bank lock, -four
of the robbers proceeded 10 ths
bank and robbed the vault of near
ly one million dollars, mostly in u
S. bonds, railroad mortgages, sc
The bank loses only $4,000, the
rest of the loss being suffered By
specisl depositors, who kept thei
valuable documents in its vault TO
safety" A reward of $4,000 i
offered for the capture of the rob
bers. No clue of them SO far
Gen. Gardner Granger's funera
took place at Lexington KY
Bandbox factory, Foxboro, Mass
burned; loss S4O,OOO.-The severes
storm for years on the Pacific coas
took place Jan. %, and it is feare,
that the British ship Prince Al
: bert, bound from San Francisco t
Portland, foundered at sea.
MONDAY, JAN. 81.
The wife of Peter Nelson,
Swede near Rapids City, Ill
killed him with her little hatcht
and then cut his throat So he coul
, not come to life again. She is
! jail.-Smith N. Heaves, city treas
7 urer of Covingion KY, is a default
. er to the amount of nearly $16,OOI
300 cans of dynamite, each holt
e ing 25 lbs, exploded in Baltiomor
j keeping up a terrific Volley for ha
S an hour.-A freight train on Il
P1LsJ .vInis Central railroad, Wi
d robbed Saturday ofgoods for Yves
ern Observation-Disclosures Gratlar
and wife found frozen to death G
u their farm five miles from Rockfor
4 LII. They got home dead drum
= and never knew what hurt 'em.
8 Il. y. Windsor arrested at Detro
on charge of robbing the mail
+ years ago.-The head of w. \
If Simmons,of Brooklyn N. Y. fouu
g wrapped up in d newspaper in
= lumber yard, and his body st
a missing. The police are huntil
v for his body anu murderers.-TI
s. publisher of the Boston Pilot faile
o liabilities $30O,OOO.-The India
are going to kill the Black III
?. miners as soon as the grass &c
1t green.-Speaker Kerr declines
n enter the presidential race.-Jol
4 + Fl. Jockey, Leominster, Mass, ia
= ed, $l5,OO0.-Three buildings
n Worcester, Mass, burned, loss $4E
n OOO--Capt. Boyton swims frc
Alton to ST. Louis, % miles, in |
# life preserving apparatus.-T
i. Denver italian murderers indicte
al Missouri river full of floating ice.
[. TUESDAY FEB. l.
The Simmons murder case,
ts Brooklyn, New York, turnes out
e, be a first class horror. The bo
a was found at the house of Andre
:, Fuchs, alias Victor Kretz, ace
q man butcher. 1t was chopped il
V. small pieces aud packed in pc
in kettles and chest. Fuchs clair
l. that Simmons went Thursd
70 night, Jan. 9th, to see Mrs. Fucl
10 and the two got drunk on beer, a
sent Fuchs out for some more
er the beverage. When he return
c. he fonnd them criminally intima
=. and calling his little girl as W
Te ness, took Ratchet and chopp
I'd Simmons head off, and spent t
at rest of the night in hashing up {
body. Some of the pieces WI
q. pickeled, and if Fuchs had not be
In arrested it may be that he woI
I'd have sold The flesh in a few wee
u to his customers as first class corn
il beef, and worked up a good ira
id He is in jail.-Fires: nine buildiI
lie in River Falls Wis.,, $4,000: bu
Us ness part of Montezuma, Ind, So
q coo: residence of w. w. Skidmo
to Long Island, N. Y. Simmo
ns and Mr.. and Mrs. Titus, and
IN Weeks, house servants, all perish
ar in the flames. 1t is believed th
tv were murdered and robbed, q
the house was then set fret
TX Scottish rifle association has acce
ed the American challenge for [
championship of the world.-Gr
activity in the navy yards, and m
,,o signs of trouble with Spain.
WEDNESDAY,, FEB. 2.
Mcguire plead guilty in st. LoI