The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-12-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

The establishments of the Daily
Evening Mail, Commercial Indicator,
and Holmes job Office, Rhodes and
Gaugh, bookbinders, Kansas City, were
destroyed by fire Sunday morning.
Loss about $4,000.
The st. Louis railroad bridge was sold
at auction, Friday, for $2,OO0,O0O. 1t was
bought by the bondholders, but will be
turned over to a new company compos-
ed of st. Louis and New York capital
lists.
The steamer Byzantia from Marseilles
for Constantinople, sunk in the Dardan-
Giles by collision with British steamer
Rivalo; most of the 80 passengers lost.
The Ameer has fled, leaving his son
Yakoab Kahn to fight the British.
Bayard Taylor's body will be brought
home for burial. He was sick but day.
Bismarck scowls over the rejection of
his proposed tobacco revenue tax.
200 students arrested at st. Petersburg
Two new iron clads, the Asia and Eu-
rope, built for Russia, left Philadelphia
Saturday, to be turned over to Russian
officers as soon as they were out of Amer
lean waters.
DIR. Hoyle, grave robber, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, is sentenced to one year in prison
and 5000 fine; Eaton, his accomplIce,
to four months and$1 600 fine.
Indianapolis savings bank suspended.
IOpofiuc nOnpalIxy will oap&aeE Il, N eoo
of w. d. Washburn, congressman elect
from Chicago, charging bribery, fraud,
&c.
A colOred mother at Louisville left her
two children in her house Saturday, and
found them burned along with the house
on her return.
A 100000 fire at Ludington, Mich,
and White &c Co.'s $4,000 planning mill,
Lanesboro, Wis, burned Saturday.
A. S. Williams, member of congress
from Detroit, Michigan, died in Wash.
ington Saturday.
Rarus trotted in 2:14 at Oakland Park
San Francisco, Saturday, and next heat
in 2:1411s.
In Leavenworth, Friday, Eugene
Chaplin, 10 years old, daughter of fire
marshal Chaplin, had her clothing ignit
ed by hot stove, and burned to death.
Coles -four mill, Rochester, MINI.
burned, loss $4,000.
Clay female seminary, Liberty, No.
burned on the 18th; loss 5000.
The Ameer has fled from Cabool to
Turkestan.
Emperor William is in fine health
again, and doing lots of work
The Canadian court will go into
mourning over princess Alice till Jan
uary Goth.
AT St. Joseph, Mo-, Michael Donahut
shot and killed Fred Tackle, his employ
er, for non-payment of wages.
Bayard Taylor's funeral took place al
Berlin Sunday, in the American chapel
with great ceremony. Tho emperor
and crown prince sent representatives.
The men who were burned to death in
Custer county, Nebraska, are named Lu
Their Mitchell and Ami Ketchum. They
AeN a&ANsS . ACANCAy anu IOOk
them from the sheriff, chained them
down to stakes, feet nearest the IRE, and
slowly burned them to death. The gov
ernor's reward is $500 for each of the
men who earned on the burning, and be
viii ask the legislature to appropriate
$4,000 for their detection and arrest.
O'Lary and Campana started Monday
on their great six-day walk in Gilmore's
Garden, New York.
Heaviest snow storm for years visited
Quebec Monday, and Montreal reports il
three feet on the level.
The Dpkeof Cumberland, and Princess
Thyra Of Denmark, were married with
great pomp at Copenhagen Saturday.
Coy. Anthony, of Kansas, is reported
in Washington.
100000 miners in North Derbyshirs
and South Yorkshire, England, propose
70 strike against the proposed reduction
Of 121f percent in their wages.