The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
OVER THE STATE.

OVER THE STATE.
GAO convicts in the penitentiary.
Wichita and Winfield are to connect
by a telephone.
Coal is sold from wagons in Fort scott
at from six to ten cents per bushel.'
The Lawrence Tribune has changed
hands and is hereafter to be a stalwart
Republican.
Hays City has been made post Office
of the third class and the post masters
salary fixed at $1,000.
John S. Gilmore, of the Fredonia Cit
izen, has been elected secretary of the
Wilson county bank.
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. W. E. Griffith was celebrated at Law
renee on the 10Th inst.
Ex-Governor Geo. T. Anthony has been
doing business for the Atchison, Topeka
s. Santa Fe railroad.
An agent of some drive well owners,
who attempted to collect royalty, was
egged in Hutchinson, the other day.
The site for the state reform school, as
agreed upon by the state board of chart
ties, Is three miles north of the state
house.
NJ. L. Sargent, general freight agent OF
the Central branch railroad, thinks that
road will be pushed through to Denver
next year.
The railway offices of the Smoky Hill
division are all to be removed from
Ellis to Wallace, where the company is
building residences for the employees.
Resolutions have passed the Topeka
city council asking the mayor to submit
proposition to vote $32,00 10 build
school houses, at the November election
Two hundred and nineteen wagons
loaded with castor beans were unloaded
at Ottawa, Saturday. 1t is with some
difficulty that cars can be obtained &c
carry them off as fast as delivered.
Hon. Henry NJ Green, of Lecompton
one of the state senators from Douglas
county, has accepted a call from the
Presbyterian church at La Cygne, Lynn
county, and will make that place hi.
home hereafter.
The Fort Scott Monitor says that thu
recent advance in lead has just set bus
mess booming in the lead mines snutI
of there, and extensive arrangements ar,
being made for u number of new en-
/. terprises in that section
TOPEKA Recommendations J. Ken
needy, a switchman on the 4. T. 81 S. +
road at Topeka, met terrible dealt
there on Thursday. While walking aheaC
of some moving cars, to couple them
his foot caught in the frog of Il switch
and the cars knocked him down ant
crushed him to death. He was unmaI
ried. The previous day. Charles Clark
a telegraph operator on the K. p. road
found crushed railway torpedo in hi
box, and dropped big stone on it to Sc
if was "alive" yet. 1t was and he got
blow on the head from fragment of tn
explosive that rendered him insensibl
for awhile.
Ex-Mayor James Hope, of Wichita
has purchased the Leland hotel, in Kan
sas City, from Col. W. S. Jenkins, 70
F $4,000.
The Salina Herald lifts up its voic
and walls little, and says:
''The Presbyterian synod has come an,
gone, and never a shadow of colleg
did they leave behind. But not to b
behind in college matters, they apprc
priated $25, 900 to the Highland college
The various towns that have been worl
ing for the location of the proposed co
lege were all represented, and placed bt
fore the committee their various propC
; sitions, but the amounts not meeting tn
e desires of the synodical committee, tn
1 whole matter was postponed for on
year."
| The secretary of the Kansas State Sur
: day School Convention reports as 70
y lows:
! SImhc' Of counties which maintained
corresp0tidence 49,. 800
d Total number OF sunday Schools 81!
Total uaml'cr of officers and teachers. so.T,
Total number of attendants -. -. 1861;
e One third of this number are adult
/ Less than one-half of our schools col