The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-05-02
OvER rnE STATE.

Abilene claims population of 900.
Lawrence has mandatory for wood
en- ware.
Winter wheat is looking splendidly
throughout northwestern Kansas
Twenty-eight persons Joined the Luth-
eran church in Salina one day last week
The iron fence factory at Lawrence re-
Gently turned out wire for $4,000 rods of
fence in one day.
The gristmill at CarbondaIe was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst, involv-
ing loss of S., 900.
Five hundred families of Dunkards
from Franklin county, Pa, will locate in
Douglas county this year.
1t is said that the Atchison pork pack
ing house cleared one million one hun
dred thousand dollars last year.
A Lawrence widow has been robbed of
$35 pension money. recently drawn, upon
which she was dependent for support
Two wives recently deserted their hus-
bands in Norton county and fed to parts
unknown. The wives were sisters and
the husbands brothers
John Thomas, a wealthy man living
near Highland, Doniphan county, was
murdered by one Of his hired men, last
Saturday evening, for his money.
The officers of the twelve militia CON-
panies of Kansas are to meet at Topeka
on the 1st of May to elect officers and or
ganize the First Kansas regiment.
Land sales by the Kansas Pacific rail-
way department, at Salina, during the
month of March, amounted to 15,457
acres, at an average price of $4.75 per
acre.
A. w. Saxton, of Atchison, has been
paid $4,000 by the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railroad company, for personal
damages inflicted by the rolling stock of
that company. ..ta
The Kansas Pacific has a surveying
party at work locating line for a road
between Lindsburg and Mcpherson Cen
tel, and it is believed that the branch
contemplated from Salina to Lindsburg
will be built to Mcpherson Center with
out delay.
j. G. Mohler, of Salina, has Joined the
Temperance" and says: my sympa-
thies are fully enlisted in the cause.
Temperance, both in theory and practice,
is right. only wonder that 1 did not
years ago take the stand 1 now occupy"
A large portion of the south wall sup
porting Vim. Smiths Touring mill, at
Solomon City fell with a crash Thurs
day morning, carrying with it part of
the lower floor of the mill and injuring
the machinery to a considerable extent.
The amount of damage was $500.
KANSAS STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY,"
The next annual meeting of the society
will be held at Atchison, Tuesday, May
Ii, 1879, at 7:30 p. m. The G. B. U. p,
and A. & N. r. R., will return for one
fifth fare. A, T. & s. F. will return for
One-fourth fare. The st. Joe & D. will
return free. The K. c., F. s. 81 g., and
K. c., L. & S. R. R., will give round trip
rates at three cents per mile from any
point where there are five wishing to at
tend. The hotels will entertain members
at reduced rates. Important business
will come before the meeting.
Post-Off1ce changes in Kansas during
the week ending April &c, 1879, furnish
ed by VIM. VanVleck of the post-office
department:
ESTABLISHED
Deanville, Barton county, VIM. w.
Tucker P. NJ; Happy Hollow, Graham
county, Nathaniel Crank, P. NJ; Inman,
Pratt county, Mrs. Mary Ann McMillen,
P. NJ; KeOta, Pratt county, William NJ.
Ayers, P. NJ; Md Lothian, Harper coun-
tY, Benjamin Freeman, P. M; Nero,
Pratt county, Horace NJ. Green, p. M.
Tower Spring, Lincoln county, John w.
McReynolds, P. NJ.
DISCONTINUED.
Bellegarde, POtawotomie county; Heb
ron, Clay county; Birch, Sedgwick Co.
POsTMAsTERs APPOINTED.
Elizabethtown, Anderson county, NJ
r. Day; lakewood, Linn county, VIM. B.
Scott; Reiter, Washington county, L. A.
Kingsbnry; Sheridan, Sheridan county,
w. H. Beard; West Point, Rush county,
Daniel Settles.
NAME CHANGED.
Brownsville, Cherokee county, to Mes
ser.