The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-06-27
OVER THE STATE.
arsons win celebrnte We An.

Larned is to have a new cornet band.
AtchisOn is to have public library at
last
"WindsOr House, is the name of a new
hotel in Hutchinson.
Nickerson county has organized an
anti-horse thief association.
T. Dwight Thatcher will deliver the
Grafton at Eureka on July 4th.
The knights OF Pythias of Wyandotte
will excurt to Atchison on the 4th.
Dodge City has voted 5000 bonds for
school house; 17S for, 81 against
The total value OF all taxable property
- In Harvey county, as certified to by the
county clerk, is 81, $50, 726.19.
The union depot at Atchison is now n
settled fact 1t will cost $91 900, and
will be completed about Dec. LIST.
The price raid auditing commissioners
composed of state officers will hold its
first meeting at Topeka, July nth.
, IA fire in Pleasant Valley township,
4 last week, destroyed the residence of r.
S. Stevens, together with some of the
contents
From alTquarters of the state come
taste of vigilance" law would rufle the
complacency of the chaps somewhat.
81 a. 'Lsbe,te county hiStoricai society held
its first annual meeting at the court
house, in Oswego, last Tuesday evening,
withINelson Case, president, in the char
The Ohio press excursion numbering
some 200 will arrive in St. Louis to-
night, where they will remain day or
two. proceeding thence 10 Kansas City
cnroute for Denver
Gen. John Eaton, United States COM
missioner of education, addressed the
state teachers association at Lawrence,
on Thursday. Gen. Eaton compliment
edLavrence Aighly.g y Is q
= , ThelPioneef says The prospect for
an abundant peach crop in Smith coun-
ty is very promising. II. X. Smith has
apeach tree in his garden, on one limb
of which there are seventeen ilne, healthy
looking peaches.
Mr. Joseph WOntz, in the employ of
Mr.. Chas Benzet, living on the Hobert
a y iarin, some ten miles west Of Chetopa,
was killed by lightning Saturday last
during the storm, while IN wheat field
behind a stack of wheat
80 The Clifton Review knows a man in
the southern part of Cloud county who
has been the father of 33 children, and
has been married three times. Also
Father Morgan. who has q son-in-faw
living IN Smith county, WHO'S II years
old and has just II grand children.
lola Register; There was quite n mad
dog scare north of NeOsllo Falls last
week Four men and a boy passed
through Geneva on their way to Paola to
test the virtues of "mad stone," as they
had all been bitten by a dog supposed to
have been mad When they returned
home they reported that the "mad stone"
failed 10 stick to the wounds
WOOdsOn county claims to he the ban
ner sheep county of the state. Its wool
clip, this year, will aggregate 10000 lbs.
The increase in the number Of sheep
in WoOdson county for 1S77-S according
10 reports official was 2,404 white in
Lyon county it was 8, 1O9, with proper
tionaet increase this year, we are prepared
To snatch the banner from the outer walls
of WOOdson-the above clip to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. g.. ,t
Burlingame Chronicle: An unstfccess
full attempt at burgarly was made in this
city on the night of the 18th inst, Mt the
store of Geo. Empie and Playford &
Son. panel in the rear door of Mr..
Empie's store was broken in, and an en-
trance effected, but the massive safe was
unframed and nothing disturbed. At the
store of PlayEOrd g. Son, panel of the
rear door was crushed, and the combina-
ton of the safe so injured by blows as TO
yield to a touch Of Mr.. Jesse Playford
in the morning. 1t is thought that DIR.
Browns arrival on a late train disturbed
the thieves, who decamped almost at the
moment of their success There was
1900 in the safe, and nothing was secured
by them.