The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-02-18
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary Of Telegraphic
Reports in the Daily Papers.
THURSDAY FEB. 10,


Summary Of Telegraphic
Reports in the Daily Papers.
THURSDAY FEB. 10.
The Grow Prince of Prussia will
not visit the u. s. Centennial.-The
st. Louis CITY Council decided by
vote 10 for Brtion and Is for Over
stoltz, that the latter was elected
Mayor last spring, Britton, towev-
er, refuses to yield the Office. and
Overstoltz is also acting ss Mayor.
st. Louis has now q team. No
rows have occurred, but public
business is getting mixsd.-Three
coal firms in New York and Con-
necticut failed, for $SOO,OO0.-The
railroad ticket agents convention
in St. Louis decides to reduce
through tickets % per cent. during
the centennial.--The New York fire
caused 100000 loss. Two fire.
men were killed.
FRIDAY FEB. IL.
George &. Parker, a teller of The
bank of Commerce, New London,
CT, robbed the safe on the nigat of
the 9Th, of S2I,5OO. Burglars were
at first supposed to have committed
the robbery but the teller has con-
fessed, and returned the money
J. Z. Holman, president of the
farmers bank of Wooster, Ohio,
and County treasurer, is 8 defaulter
to the extent of $4,000 county
funds, and has Hlit out".-The 1-3
interest of Col. e. B. Wilkinson in
the St. Joseph Daily Herald Office,
was sold at auction for only 81, 100.
It is said there was some cloud on
the title.-The Hutchinson block al
Holyoke Mass, burned, Loss $75,
O0O.-Henry G. Bowen declines to
appear before Plymouth church
committee and furnish any proof &c
substantiate his "opinion".-Hon.
Reverdy johnson, the eminent
lawyer, found dead in q basement
stair of the Governors mansion at
Annapolis, Mo-, with, some gashes
on his head, his nose broken, come
fingers broken, and every evidence
that in a ct of apoplexy he had fall.
en- inseusible and died. He had
gone out into the grounds alone
after q visit to the legislature.
'fh.rc is .no doubt that his death
was purely accidental, and from
apoplexy.
SATURDAY FEB. II.
Fires: Flowering mill and P. G.
s. st. L. railroad depot in Pittsburg
Pa, loss $4,000. Manning's plan.
ing mills, Matabora, Mass.-Great
honors paid in Baltimore and
Washingt on to the memory of Rev.
erdy johnson, whose sad aud IN:
looked for death is generally re.
Observation-Disclosures of internal
revenue returns the present of a
gold headed cane to 9 revenue off
Ger who had sent it to him.
MONDAY EER. IA.
Rev. Fred Bell, the converted
prize fighter, now a minister, b al
been deposed from his pulpit n
Brooklyn, for improper proposals
to a sick lady member ofhis church,
George Smith, ex-president OF
the loan and trust company, and
treasurer of the STATE insurance
company, Chicago, arrested for
embezzling $4,000 of the compa.
MES funds.-Presidcnt Grant testi-
fy's in Washington before Chief
Justice Waite, in regard to Babcock
and his testimony will be forwarded
to st Louis.
THURSDAY, FEB. ).
Two men in q buggy drove on
the bridge at st. Louis, and tried
to throw colored girl over the
railing into the river, but she wa
rescued, and they drove off and es
capped. She says their names ar
Wilson and Holland, and that they
were the parties who lately robbed
the express car on the St. L. K. e,
s. N. railroad. They have been
living in st. Louis, but the detec.
tives could not discover them
Winslow the Boston forger, has
arrested in London.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. Is.
140 Congregational churches are
represented in the advisory council
which opened in Brooklyn on the
10th to Judge if Plymouth Church
is a fraud.-U. p. trains again
blocked by the heaviest snow
storms ever known ON the line
Winslow wants to come home, and
says he hasn't any money, and is
very miserable.-Gold lib 80. No.
2 wheat in St. Louis $1.52 NO
S1.37. Corn 80 cts. Oats IS cts.
Some Corrections by A. p.