The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-28
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary of Telegraphic
Reports in the Daily Papers.

Condensed Summary OF TeIegraphic
Reports In the Daily Papers.
THURSDAY JAN. 20.
The Davis block, Clinton, Iowa,
and five houses burned Loss S4O,-I
OOO.-Tbe small town of Apollo,
Pa, destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
The Cubnn republic has elected
John B. Shourns as its President
FRIDAY JAN. q.
The boy at st. Adams who claim
ed to be Charley Ross, turned out
to be a humbug.-Col. Sam Gill, q
well known railroad man, died in
Cincinnati from inssnity.-Texas
looks green, having had plenty of
rain.-Boiler of sawmill exploded
at La Grange, Indiana, killing three
and scalding two persons.-Ware
house in Buffalo, N. Y, on Prince
street, burned, and 1900 barrels of
-four spoiled. Loss S30.OOO.-H. C.
Kibbee, defaulting secretary of
the New Workers mining com.
psny, shot himself dead at San
Francisco.-Penn. DEM, state con-
vention is to be held at Lancaster
March 22.-Columbus, Ohio, looms
up as candidate for the branch
mint--John R. Hooler, book bind
ers, New York, failed, 100000
SATURDAY JAN. %.
Heavy SHOWS in Wyoming Ter
ritOry, and q. P. trains much hind
cred by drifts.-The only son of
Ex-senator Harlan of Iowa, died
Friday in San Francisco, his par
ents arriving few hours before
his death.-The American bridge
company of Chicago, which built
the Atchison bridge, has contracted
to buile the $4,5OO,OOO bridge over
the Hudson river at Poughkeesie.-
The Merchants Exchange building,
st. Louis, 123 by 81 feet, is offered
to the government for the q. S.
branch mint for $l00,0OO.-The
Mckee whisky trial progressing in
st. Louis.-rhe body of Elizabeth
Grombecker. German girl aged Ia
years, found in a thicket near the
road three miles from Youngstown,
Ohio; she had been outraged and
choked to death. A tramp named
Charles Sterling is under arrest as
the fiend.-Mrs. johnson, wife OF
the Ex- President, died near Green
Vile, Tenn.
MONDAY JAN. "A.
At Barboursville, West Virginia,
the body of Charles f. MuIing was
found in a stable with its throat
cut, and Mrs. Muling and a para
mour named Williams, are under
arrest as the murderers.--The wife
of Sir Hugh Mckenzie, of Montreal,
Canada, with her two infant child
rem, eloped Saturday, with Fred II.
Bridges, son of the General Super
intendant of the Grand Trunk rail-
road of Canada, but were arrested
in New York, and Mrs. Mckenzie
ana her infants returned home
Fires: Buck Condee & Co.'S saw
mill and the Peters hotel at Osh-
kosh, Wis, burned, loss 10000
Ex-Gov. Fransis Thomas, OF Mary
land, late Minister to Peru, while
walking on the track of the Balti-
more u Ohio railroad near his
home, at Frankville, Garrett coun-
ty, was struck by the bumper of An
engine and killed.-Saml. Hopkins.
a bridge contractor, was arrested
in Toronto, on a charge of brutally
numbering his wife.-A freigha
train on the Marietta & Cincinnati
railroad while crossing. double
track bridge oyer Spring Grove
Avenue, Cincinnati, broke the
bridge down, on account of five
cars being overloaded with shelled
corn, and tue engineer, fireman and
breakman were killed and two
men driving past severely injured.
The bridge and the train are a total
wreck.--A dispatch from London.
England, says: The collision of the
Scotch Express with a mineral
train on the Great Northern Rail-
way, near Huntington, resulted in
the killing of two persons and
wounding several others. Before
the wreck could be cleared away
the express from London dashed in
to the debris. A special train
conveying doctors has left London
for the scene. Eleven persons
were killed by the collisions which
took place during a binding snow
storm.-Ths Braidwood Coal Com
pany has gone into bankruptcy.
One claim against the company is
for S3SO,OOO.
TUESDAY, JAN. %.
o. P. trains showed in at Wells
station, Utah.-The new iron steam
er Carondelet, sunk Is miles below
ST. Louis, but will be raised. Loss
on cargo, $1O0,O0O.-Residence of
Jas. IngersOll, at South Norwalk,
Ct. burned, Loss, 100000. In
gersoll was one of the Tweed ring.
rush of miners to the Black
Hills, and lively digging, unmolest-
ed by troops or Indians.-The trial
of Mckee at ST nn,iu Tnn mh;oi-u