The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-21
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Condensed Summary of TeIegraphiC
Reports in the Daily Papers.
THURSDAY JAN. ID.

Gulf Hotel, in New Orleans
burned, loss $30000.-Alancay, PAN
anna, completely destroyd by an
acknowledgements inundated,
and $I,5OO,O00 of property destroy
ed.-Charles NJ. Johnston, of Jeffer-
son City Mo-, has emigrated, TO
avoid trial for perjury, forgery, and
incest.-Lapage the fiend, who
outraged and murdered Josie Long
maid, found guilty at Concord N.
H., and sentenced to be hanged Jan.
10Th, 1877.
FRIDAY JAN. IA,
Capt. Joeiah Riggs, of COxsackie
N. Y, was pushing his wife and
two children across the Hudson
river on hand sled, going home
from church, Sunday night, when
the ice broke and all were drowned.
Pullman house block, Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, burned, loss $4,000
St. Louis is to have geological
garden.-West st. Louis savings
bank failed.-Twelve republican
Senators met with the House in the
New Orleans legislature, to elect
John b. Eustis, Democratic candi-
date for u. S. Senator, but Gov.
Kellogg, regarding Pinchback as
holding the office, declined to issue
credentials TO Eustis.
SATURDAY IAN. 15.
Plymouth church has tailed to
get a satisfactory council of Con-
gregational churches, to try Mrs.
MouIton for complaining about
Beecher, and concluded toilet her go
to thunder, anyway.-Fires $55. 900
New York City; 100000 in Mo-
bile. Ala.-Feur burglars robbed
Mrs. Winters house near Pottsville,
Pa, of $2,I00, and as they went out
her son in law fired and killed one,
wounded another, and captured the
third, and found the money on him.
Only one got away.-On the night
of Dec Both the steamship Adriatic
ran into and sank the ship Harvest
Queen, of the Black Ball line, in the
English channel, and all on board
the ship, thirty people, were drown
ed.-Dickenson & Co., bankers,
New York, have failed.-Nearly
every whisky distiller in Chicago
has plead guilty to defraudiDg the
government by not paying the rev.
enue on that beverage.--Six more
distillers indicted in Milwaukee.
MONDAY JAN. II.
Heavy SHOWS in France.-Sprou-
les livery stable, in Louisville KY,
burned to death 10 horses and
mules, loss S40,00O.-Mrs- Collier,
New Orleans, aged % burned to
death by her clothes catching fire
from a grate.--Ex-state treasurer
of Kansas, Lappin, arrested in Chi
cage and taken to Topeka, on charge
of embezzling $3.50 from the State
treasury, and $2,975 from the coun-
ty treasurer of Nemahana county.
TUESDAY, JAN. Is.
The Democratic national commit
tee will meet at Washington Feb.
ed, to call the national convention,
which it is thought will be fixed al
Philadelphia, July 4th.-Sir Henry
Halford, the best English rifieman,
has arranged for match between
Great Baitain and the United States
at Philadelphia during the Centen-
nial.-Four negro murderers taken
from Jail at Frairs Point, Miss, and
shot to pieces.-Limnly & Simpsons
cotton mill at Ashley, England,
burned. Loss $2O3, 600 and 200
workmen out Of employment
The Kansas and Missouri associated
/ press meets at st. Louis on the 18th
The Tredgar iron works, Rich
mond, Va, failed and 600 work
men thrown out of employment
Gold, Sl13, and specie payment not
yet resumed.
WEDNESDAY JAM IL.
| Jas. L. Beck, democrat, elected u
S. Senator from kentucky, and
Lamar from Miss.-Gov. Hartranft.
of Pensyivania is inaugurted.-Car-
penter s. Cos. wooden mills' n. Y.
burned. Loss Sl75,000.-S2O 600
fire in st. Louis.-The Tredegar
! iron works liabilities are s., ) 300, 600