The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-23
STATE news nnd Nores.


Everybody in Mitchell coanty is
fruit trees.
Accidents from careless handling
Of firearms are reporied from all
over the state.
An Atchison firm hand ed Is CSC
bushels of fax seed last ear.
Usage county expects TO receive
s40,0 for lis coal crop this month.
At the late election the lead min
ing town of Empire City poIIed
80 votes and Galsna 2s6:: q
A school teacher At Oswego has
been fined $31 for Inaltreating and
numerically whipping pupils.
Mrs. Poieks, living near Kirwin,
Phillips county, was burned to
death by prairie fire last Satur-
day. ss fas
Seventeen Thousand acres have
been sown 10 wheat In one town
ship in Shawnee couuty this fall.
Wakefield has a. circulating libra
~. si
Clay county has German immi-
grafton association.
The Oswego brewery has been
seized by the United States marshal
for eyading revenue payment.
W. j. Polly has just been re cleo
ted clerk of Dickinson county for
the fourth time. So e.
The Solomon raileoad company
are now surveying their line from
Solomon City 70 Bsloit. $50 =
Work on the Kansas City, Bur-
Iington and Santa Fe railroad, be-
tween Williamsburg and Burling-
ton, is progressing rapidly.
Thomas Douglas, 3 ceioreds man,
was elected justice of the peace in
Alma. He was the nominee of the
democrats.
al. Trazell, of Clay Center, while
intoxicated, fell from a wagon near
Clyde, on Tuesday last, and was
killed. i-r
From one hundred to one hund.
red and fifty wagon loads eff emf,
grants for Kansas have been cross.
ing the Missouri river at st. 10.
seph daily for month past.
The Kansas rolling mill company
at RosedaIe, are now making be.
tween ninety and one hundred tens
of rails every twenty -four hours
and between ten aud fifteen tons Of
fish plates. .
/ w. B. Strong, the new genera
manager of the Atchison, Topekl
8 Santa Fe road, will enter upol
his duties about the 1st of Decem
Der. He is to be paid S12, 600 yea
for three years. work, and bonus
of $4,000 beside. The public cal
foot the bill, of course.
The American Agriculturist say
that "jQst now the most profitable
wheat growing is in central Kan
sas, where many persons are large
ly cultivating this crop with con
siderable profit. There fall wheat
is considered . sure CROP"
i Among the bonds recently pur
chased by the state treasurer for tht
state normal school fund, is bont
issued to John j. Ingalls, on terri
toriaT warrant issued to him fol
services as q member of the Wyan
dotte constitutional convention il
July, 1859.
The mill of Mr.. Wiley, on tn
Marias des Cygne river, ten mile
east of PleasantoR, was torn tt
pieces last Saturday by the explo
} sion of the boiler. A son Of Mi
Wiley and q man named Dayton
were killed and several others in
jured.
An irate woman at Independence
drew q revolver on the editor of tn
Tribune one day last week, and de
handed retraction of his charg
that she was abont to establish q ga
, loon and dance-house in that place
? He denies having made any retrsC
f ton, and says he "still lives"
, A man in Riley county, one da
last week, bagged nine rabbits, kill
: ed tWenty-oneat skuHks, and tree
and caught wild cat.
The Record says that q great ms
ny of the citizens of .Belolt will b
compelled to use corr foe fuel thi
|, winter, owing to the scarcity q
wood. .74
q "A snake sixteen feet long, wit2
. body larger than-a stove pipe,
j frightening people in the neighbol
hood of st. Bridget, Marshal count.
8 Mary Forsythe, who was abdu,
: ted two years ago from her parent
at Clay Center and taken to Obi
. was returned to them one day lal
Q week. She Is q bright tsn-year oil
: girl.
u A lad aged about fourteen year
SON of l. B. Rand, near Wabaunse
had an arm shot OF Saturday
& last week, by the contents Of q -sh'
= gun, from his own earelessness.
i James Miller. . young man sgt
!. twenty-ones years, was killed ne
! Louisville, PottawstOmie count
r. one day last week by the accident
}. discharge of gun, which he W
# drawing towErd him with the mn
IL zle pointed at his breast.
% On Wednesday night of Ia
t. week as George Egsrt, while vel
drunk, was driving . team, It n
D away about four miles from Lo0i
n vile and threw Egart and g coz
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