The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-29

lean stget the Drop ON him. This affail
happened last week, and ali there il
strange about it is the ease with which
the leader of gang of horse thieves
got himself appointed at Wichita as q
deputy sheriff.
Capt. Davenport killed & centipede
last Friday about ten inches long. Its
body was about three-fourths of an
inch broad. He has Travelled over
the world considerably but never saw
a larger one.
/ Ifany person has seen 8 boy about
seventeen years old, light hair, blue
eyes, wearing Scotch cap, and riding
bay pony with white face and feet,
had colt following, no saddle, he will
confer great favor by giving imme-
diate information TO the p. n. at
Fame, Greenwood county, Kansas
Eureka Herald.
The storm which struck Marion Gen.
ter on the 18th, struck the south
of the Cottonwood and Little -.adar
creek in Chase County, about three
hours later, and did q good deal OF
damage. The Leader says:
The direction of the storm was south
east, and It's track, about q mile wide,
was plainly marked with devastation.
Houses, chimneys, trees, grain. hay
stack, fences and everything movable
and immOvable, were scattered before
It. Even the grass was cut down as
clean as If done with q machine. The
hail and rain were SO heavy thai it
was impossible to see a distance of =
hundred feet.
Mr.. Jackson's house, on South Fork,
pieces, and Largent's house southeast
of Jackson's, was turned half way
round.
Mrs. Crocker's and C. w. Rogler's
houses were next in the line and were
damaged to the extent of chimneys
and window glass. After passing
ROGERS the storm raised and did not
strike again until it reached Little
Cedar and south Fork, south of Mat
field Green, some three miles. The
new school house and G. II. Brewers
snug little residence, on Cedar, were
entirely demolished. A log house oc-
cupied by Mr.. Rector. on Henry
Brandley's farm, was unroOfed, and
over q mile of fence leveled TO the
ground. hr. Sam Mann's house was
moved OF its foundation some ten feet.
Bob Madden's wheat and fences were
so badly scattered as to be an almost
entire loss. Nearly every one on the
line OF the storm were damaged more
or less, and the destruction of glass Is
immense. The hail stones were as
large as hens eggs, and PERSONS caught
out In the storm were severely pound
ed, some seriously. Our informant
heard of no lives being lost, which is
remarkable. Mrs. Brewer, on the ap-
proach of the storm, took refuge in the
cellar with her child, and slthOugh the
house was blown to atoms, neither
received scratch.
The Cowley county republican con-
vention held at Winfield on the 18th,
is claimed to have virtually endorsed
&. Q. Manning for Senator, and that
candidate now expects to sweep the
district.
The jury in the trial of Mr.. Shinn,
the man who killed w. p. Gossard,
banker at EidoradO some time ago,
have failed to agree and have been
discharged. Ten jurors favored &C
quittal, one verdict of manslaughter
in the fourth degree, and one for muir
der In the second degree.-Wichita
Courier.
A farmer from Beaver township
suggests that the people have less fears
of the grasshoppers in his locality than
they have Of the cut-thrOat three per
cent. mortgages that are troubling
them.-Winf1eld Courier.
The principal prizes of the Kansas
City Times lottery fell to Kansas
people. K. Mcdonald, of Ottawa,
drew the first premium, a 5000 piano
Martin Nugent, of Leavenworth, the
$3.50 organ; John Guthrie. OF Topeka,
the $3.50 buggy; Rsmpandear & Han
sen, OF Lawrence, Kan, the 1925 sill
yer tea-set; r. Jacobs 6 Co., of Wich-
ita, Kan, the $S5 set of furniture; c.
V. Eskridge, of Emporia, silver cup.
The first prairie fire of the season ia
reported by the lola Register. Ie de-
strOyed considerable fencing and some
hay.
Kansas will ship $4,000 worth of
silk this year.
A rich tramp was recently run over
by the cars at Lawrence and killed.
He was within.a few hours of home
after long time spent in Texas. He
had something over 81 900 in cash and
drafts upbn his person.
The Wathena Reporter has received
9 call from q farmer who exhibited
corn of the Prolific variety, OF which
he has seven acres, which bears from
three to seven ears to the stalk. The
stalks left with the editor had each
four well-develOped ears. and were
thirteen feet high. It Is white. and
the grains are enormously large.
John Miller, of Atchison, is un-
fortunate. About a year ago his
house was burned to the ground, with
most of its contents. During the
storm Of August 10Th last, Mr.. Miller
was severely shocked by lightning.
and on the 18th of the present mouth,
coal oil lamp exploded, scattering its
burning contents over his person and
| setting his new home on fire, burned It
to the ground. Most of the Contents
were consumed.
Some two months ago A. North, of
Mound Valley, bought some forty
head OF cattle OF DIR. Fellows. Of this
city, the Doctor taking "a security q
chattle mortgage. Mr.. North took the
cattle home and fed them for market.
A few days ago he shipped them to
Kansas City, going himself by the A.
1. q s. +. DR.. Fellows hearing OF the
movement, and not having received
pay for them, instructed Sheriff Alb
Oott to look to his interests. Mr.. Alb
6Ott left few days since tor Kansas
City. Reaching there in advance of
Mr.. North he was ready to receive
him and the cattle. Sheriff Abbott
went Immediately to the stock yards
and when the cattle arrived entered
them as the property Of DR.. Fellows
Dy virtue OF the mortgage. When Mr..
Nortn arrived he was more than sur
Prised, and uttered some hard words.
The Sheriff then sold the cattle. real
izing something over $500, which was
turned over to the Doctor this morn
Iing.-Parscns Surprise.