The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-07

rested on an ordsr from Coy. Allen,
Of Ohio, for defraudiRg western
and shippers 10 the extent
of $4,000. - Green & Crsnston,
r. L, failed, for $780,
600. Also. Goldsmith & Co., naval |
stores, Boston, for Sl23,O0O.-l
Cole -1l32<.
TUESDAY, DEC. %.
The battle of Trenton, N. j., in
l775, was celebrated to-day at that
place to-day by q grand sham fight,
in which the Britishers got whip
ped; nobody hurt.-At Lebanon,
KY, the marshal killed g desperate
named NOrthcrafts, and the latter's
friends then shot and killed the
marshal, whose name was Chandler.
The steamer Minneola, from Gin
cinnasi, struck q snag near Memphis
and turned oyer and sunk in five
minutes. No live lOst.-Plymouth
church, while refusing to try Mr..
Beecher on Mrs. Moulton's COM
plant, has agreed TO appoint COM
mittee of CongregatiOnalists to try
Mrs. MOuIton for complaining of
Beecher.-A severe storm aud food
did great damage Monday in Clark
county, Ohio, and wrecked q new
Methodist church at Catswba: loss
$3,00O-At Providence, r. l., cor
Oner's jury has indicted g liquor
seller for murder, because the man
who got drunk went home and
kicked his own child to death, while
in lite mothers arms. The murder
ing parent, Phillip Gallagher, is also
under arrest for the murder.-2O0
Indiana editors and their wives are
to visit the Philadelphia Centennial
grounds January 18th. Con-
gresham VIM. A. Richardson, of
Illinois, died on the 9th; aged 81
yesrs.--The Hudson river sugar re-
finery at Hastings, N. Y, burned /;
loss $500, 600, and $50 men thrown
out Of emplOYment.-Deebold, Nor
ris & Co., safe makers at Canton. o.,
failed, and make an assignment
Statute of Napoleon Bonaparte re-
placed on the column Vendolne,
Paris, without armory.-While the
people of Hillikon, Canton Argon,
Switzerland, were celebrating Christ
mas in q school house, the floor fell,
killing so and wounding 80 people.
Gold down to 1928.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. %.
Cincinnati resolved to have q
grand midnight welcome to The Gen.
tennial year.-Earthquskes at South
Washington and GordOnsville, Va
The Bingham manufacturing Co..
Boston, failed, for $4,000, and nc
assets. Also, Brugger s. Son, stock
ing factory, Manchester, N. Y, for
500, OO0.-Gen. JoVellar, the Span
ish minister of war, appointed cap.
tain general of Cuba, and to 60
there at once and crush the insur.
rectiOn.-Tie killed by the dynam.
lite explosion at Bremenhaven were
l28, wounded So. The killed leave
90 widows and 135 orphans, and il
IL proposed to raise $4,000 fund
for thom.-The Catholic bishop OIL
Philadelphia has accommodated
the "Molly Mcguire" miners.-The
Providence, r. l., tool company has
suspended. Its 1900 employees of.
fer 10 donate their wages for Dec.
ember, 100000, if the works will
resume.-2,OOO tons of prairie hay
burned near Chicago.-More raids
into Texas from Mexico.-Geo. L.
Hamilton, a railroad clerk at Gin
cinnati, shot himself dead because
a young lady refused to marry him.
Gold 1l21l.
| THURSDAY, DEC. 80.
A Vienna telegram says all the
European governments, except
Spain, have agreed to approve OF
American Intervention in behalf Of
Cuba.-Queen Isabella is to return
to Spain.-ReV. Henry Benin, the
oldest Methodist preacher in the
United States, aged 100 years last
June, died Monday, at his daught-
er's residence near Richmond, Stat.
en- Island, N. Y.-At Rising Sun
Indiana, Mrs. Rachel Gordon and
her three children were burned to
death in their dwelling which, wa1
also destroyed.-A Boston mer.
chant, named Nathaniel Cana,
while examining q box containing
$50 900 in bonds, in a bank, had his
attention engaged by q stranger
and the latter's confederate stole
the box.-The Livingston tenement
block, East st. Louis, burned. Loss,
$35, OcO-Eight liquor establish.
men,s in Chicago seized for whisky
revenue frauds.-At Las Angeles,
CAL, E. G. Foster and Celia Toole
were married, and next morning
found dead in each others arms in
the street, having taken strychnine,
because another man claimed Celia
az his wife.-The German press
having claimed that Thomasson
the dynamite explosive fiend, was q
representative monster of America,
the American citizens in Berlin held
an indignation meeting, and the
Germans agreed that Thomassou
represented the entire world and nc
nation iO.particular. He is q native
of Weslphalia, and has lived in
Germany since 1857.
FRIDAY, DEC. 81.
A House committee at Washing.
ton having reported that the Will
owski and Fort Sngg claims were
frauds, and had been approved by
the controller and third auditor,
those officers and their clerks have