The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-01
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

WICHITA, Kas., Feb. 23.-In a suit
heard yesterday before Justice Berry at
Oatville, Attorneys R. Fleming and E.
Callahan of this city, engaged in a hot
discussion over some point of law.
Growing warmer, Fleming attacked
Callahan with his fists, and in the gen.
eral excitement several of the jury
jumped into the scrimmage, using any
loose furniture they could pick up. The
scene of blood proved too much for the
justice, who, calling out, Contempt of
court, B" heaved his chair into the midst
OF the contestants, utterly routing the
gang. When order had been restored
the justice declared the suit dismissed.
TORN BY DYNAMITE.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 24.-John
O'Brien, one of the laborers employ ed
by Bernard Corrigan in excavating for
sewer at the corner of Seventeenth
and Madison avenue, was badly in
jured yesterday. He was preparing to
light fuse in the excavation to set off
blast. Near him was box of dyna-
mite caps which were being used in the
blasting. In some manner the box was
upset, and the caps exploded. AS soon
as the excitement OccasiOned by the
exposition died away O'Brien was found
lying in the excavation badly wounded.
His clothes were almost entirely torn
from bis body, his left arm was wound
ed and badly burned and there were
severe cuts over the left eye and on the
jaw. His head and shoulders were
covered with blood and his fellow la
borers could scarcely recognize him. He
was taken to his home and his wounds
properly dressed.
DRAINED WITH A BASEBALL BAT.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb. pa
terrible tragedy took place on the base
ball grounds of Chattanooga Univer-
sity yesterday afternoon while a game
| of ball was in progress between the
students. j. G. johnson, of Soddy,
Tenn, a spectator and also student,
took exception to a ruling of Umpire
Ben Magill. who resides on Half Moon
Island, Tenn, when Magill picked up
a baseball bat and hit johnson a ter
rible blow on the left of the head,
fracturing his skull from the temple to
the back part of the head. johnson is
barely alive, but the doctors say he
will die before midnight. The affair
has caused the most intense excite
ment, and Deputy Sheriff Razor imme-
diately started in pursuit for Magill,
| who fled to Georgia, which is only four
miles distant from this city.
ISSUED REGULAR ORDERS.
CINCINNATI. Feb. 24.-Frank NJ.
Riegel was arrested late last night, and
his bond, was kept in the station house
| until this morning, when he gave bond.
The charge against him grows out of
| the disappearance of eight 81 600
orders upon him as treasurer of
the Acme Building association, which
were said to have been irregulary
issued to make a loan to D. L. Gooch.
The loan was refused upon the dis
cOvery that Gooch's property was en-
/ m
amount. The orders were then ordered
cancelled, and it is now said they are
in the hands of an innocent purchaser.
The president of the association says
that the orders never received his sig
nature, and that if they are signed,
they are forgeries.
STOLE HER HAIR.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, Feb. 23.-The
police are working on mySteriou S case
reported to them yerterday, and on
which they can give no intelligent the
DRY. The only witness in the case is a
| bright thirteen-year-old girl. a domes-
| tic in family living in the heart of the
city. She states that at o'clock,
when alone in the house, a stranger
called, chloroformed her and cut heI
fine hair of close to her head. She re-
members the stranger handing her q
note, and for more than an hour from
that time she was unconscious. When
she regained her senses she found her
self on the floor in q bedroom at the end
Of the hall, with her hair gone. Nc
violence was attempted.
REFINING EXPLOSION.
BUFFAFo. Feb. PA still at the
Atlas oil refinery in this city contain.
ing 8 500 barrels of oil exploded about
10 o'clock this morning doing damage
to the extent of s., 500 and instantly
killed an employe named Charles
Swanson. Superintendent McGradJ
was also severly injured by the shock
TOLEDO BLADE DAMAGED.
TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. PA fire ear
~ this morning destroyed the fourth
floor of the building occupied by thu
, Blade Printing and Paper company
: The loss on the building is s., 900
: and on the stock. chiefly from water
J sc, 600; fully insured.
WREN GOES TO THE PEN.
I'll CHICAGO. Feb. 24.-Daniel Wren
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