The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-01-10
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funds to relieve Bishop Purcell's finan
cial troubles. The citizens having raised
$105, 900 for exposition buildings, Reub-
en- Springer's offer of $4,000 additional
is now secured, and work will begin ear
" in the season.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-One hundred
and eighty deaths here last week, from
scarlet fever, being 80 more than the pre-
vious week. Madame Anderson has now
walked half her 400 quarter miles, and
is still at it. The Erie railway opens to-
morrow as a standard gauge road, the
track having been narrowed and the new
locomotives and cars being ready. The
Bryant commemOratiOn exercises at the
ACadamy of Music were largely attended
and very impressive. George W. Curtis
delivered the Grafton. President Hayes
and his cabinet, who were present, were
afterwards given grand reception at F.
X. Depeyter's residence.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Central hotel at
Fort Howard, was burned; loss 81 600.
The Bohemians here are excited over
the robbery of body from their grave
yard.
ST. LOUIS, Dec 30.-At Curtisvillc,
Mercer county. KY, on the 28th, Mrs.
Dickinson took handful of blasting
powder from = keg and threw il on the
fire to aid the coal to burn. The keg it.
self exploded, burning her and her two
children fatally.
ST. LOUIS, Dec 31-General Trevins,
of the Mexican regular army, and staff,
are ON q visit to Gen. Ord, at San Anto-
MO, and were received with all the hon
ors. Louisiana will default on her JAN
uary interest coupons. The grand jury
finds no evidence to implicate James B.
Eads in the old bank of Missouri swim
die. The Potter committee is in session
at New Orleans.
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-The grand jury
of Brooklyn has indicted commissioners
of city works John w. Flaherty and Geo.
c. Bennett, and two subordinate officers
for conspiring to defraud the city out of
$50, 900, through fraudulent claims. At
South Byfleld, Mass, last night, John
H. Caldwell, aged As, while kneeling at
prayer, was instantly killed by his in
sane wife, who crept up and split his
head open with an Ak. The trial of Kate
NJ. Cobb and Wesley Bishop at Norwich,
and Mrs. Bishop, began to-day. Madam
Anderson has begun her 1,451st quarter
mile.
CINCINNATI, Dec 3I.-Wallace Evans,
u fraud, has been arrested at GAINESVILLE
for swindling Methodists on pretense he
was agent of the Methodist book concern.
Chas. DOty, superintendent of gas works
at Columbus, is under arrest on charge
of Outraging Flora Covid, aged seven
years.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The steamship
City of Washington left New York on
for Havana, anne made the trip
in days and 1715 hours. A SIX days
pedestrian contest has been arranged be-
npT ooru anh HarriD1an of MaSSu
for $4,000.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. Choppers brick
block, Paris, Mo-, burned Monday; loss
$4,000. Diphtheria is raging in Nor
ris, Illinois, at an alarming rate and it
seems there is nothing can be done which
prevents the disease from becoming more
widely spread than it now exists. With
in the last four days over seventeen chill
dren have died and a number of new cases
are reported to-day. The loss by the
fire at ScholtiH's gallery on Olive street,
is $4,000. All the negatives were saved.
PAXTON, ILL.,, Dec. 31.-The store room
of Luman Brown & son, of this place,
was entered by burglars last night and
over 81 100 in goods and money stolen.
Entrance was effected through a coal bin,
where the burglars made their way TO
the stOre-roOm through the cellar.
ROCKFORD, Ills, Jan. About three
years ago young man named Charles
z. Baker, son OF wealthy stock raiser
and farmer living nine miles from this
city, wenttO Chicago with large amount
of stock After selling the same, he alb
seconded with the proceeds of the sale,
amounting to over $4,000 No one knew
where he went, but for long time de
tectives were engaged in working up the
case, the father fearing that his son had
been made the victim of foul play. What
was the surprise of every one when on
turned suddenly home after three years
absence. He asked his fathers forgive
ness, paid back the $4,000 with 10 per
cent interest and had good many thous-
ands left. Baker had been living in Col
oradO and had made quite a fortune in
the stock and mining business.
BUFFALO, Jan. 2.-Trains on the Buff
alO, New York s. Philadelphia railway
are again stalled At EbeneZer, and on the
Buffalo & Southwestern at Elmira- The
passengers are taking refuge from the in.
tense cold in farm houses in the Vjcin.
lty. Trains ape reported abandoned on
the Lake Shore road east of Cleveland.
1t is growing very cold, now only 4 de-
grees above zero.
ST LOUIS, Jan. 2.-To-day is the cold
from six to ten degrees below aero, and
still sinking tonight. Dispatches from
western Missouri, Kansas, and central
and southern Illinois, note extremely
cold weather, the mercury everywhere in
the region named being several degrees
below zero. In some places it fell to
more than twenty degrees below, and
two or three deaths by freezing are re-
ported,
OswEeo. N. Y. Jan. s.-The storm
which commenced today has increased
in violence, and all railroads leading to
the city are again blocked. No attempt
is being made tonight to start the trains.
NEW YORK, midnight, Jan. 2.-The
mercury has fallen twenty-five degrees
since 5 O'Clock, and is still declining. 1t
IS now five degrees above zero.
WATERFOWL, n. Y, Jan. 2-AnOther
great snow and high wind prevailed
all day along nearly the entire length of
the Rome, WATERFOWL s. Ogdensburg
road. Eighteen inches of snow now.
Railroad cuts full, and trains all aban-
doned.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Jan. 2.-The mer-
curry this morning at Z O'Clock marked
20 degrees below zero.
YANKToN, D. T., Jan. 2.-The mercury
went down TO 25 degrees below zero last
night, the coolest since 1862.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Various thermome.
tiers registered 19 to % degrees below ze-
no hast night The weather began grow
ing cold last night and the mercury rap
idly dropped until early this morning,
and continued steadily during the day,
but tonight seems to. moderate trifie!
Points west, north and south of Chicago
seem to have experience even a greater
severity Of temperature.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 2.-Weather very
cold; at 6 O'Clock it was degrees below
zero. There was driving snow storm
in the afternoon. The night Is clear and
cold. All railroads clear of snow, The
passenger trains were from one to five
hours late A passenger train due here
at p. m. left Buffalo five hours late.
The Lake Shore have abandoned all
freights east Of here. Three trains of
stock were sent to GAINESVILLE to unload
and wait until the yards are clear at Buff
falo.
MONTREAL, Jan. "A terrible snow
storm has prevailed here all day, and
trains from all points are delayed
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 2-The weather
has again become very cold, thermome-
ter at 10 O'Clock being IS below zero and
steadily falling Trains in the northern
and western part of the state badly de-
layed on account of snow drifts.
SAN FRANCIsco, Jan. "A cyclone de.
stroFed q number of buildings yesterday
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