The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-03-28
OVER THE STATE.

Beloit has three banks.
Geo. w. Click is talked of for mayor
of Atchison.
Francis Murphy didn't "draw" well
in Leavenworth.
Maggie Mitchell is coming to Kansas
with "PinafOre"
Three churches and an opera house are
being erected at Russell.
Baxter Springs has compromised $780,
900 of her debt for $4,000.
John II. Putnam, lawyer at Topeka,
died last Tuesday of PULMONARY consump-
ton.
Capt. Terry has sold the Topeka ON
nibus line to ]. W. Hartzell & Bro, of the
Tefft house.
Judge John p. Usher has been nomi-
mated for mayor of Lawrence by a citi-
zens' meeting.
1t is estimated that about 100000 of
the pension arrears will be paid to citi-
zens of Kansas.
Hon. W. W. Guthrie, of Atchlson, state
senator, is building one of the costliest
residences in that city.
The Tefft house, Topeka, will change
hands April LIST. 1t Will look sort %
queer not to see 'old Mac" there.
An old gentleman aged go years, one
of the oldest citizens of Linn county, took
his first ride on the cars, the other day.
F.P. Baker has gone to Washington
to make his final report to the state de-
partment as commissioner to the Paris
exposition.
The widow of the late Col. Jas. Mont
gomery, who lives in CowleY county,
Will receive $4,000 for arrearages under
the new pension law.
John Finley, a liveryman of Colum-
bus, was shot and killed in Dick Steps
saloon, at Galena, by Joe livery, the bar
keeper, last Tuesday, in a gambling quar-
rel.
Lawrence wants to run Judge j. P
Usher, formely of Lincoln's cabinet, fol
some years resident of that city, fol
mayor. We should say he would make
good one.
A man named Terry committed sui
eide in Harper county one day last week
by cutting his throat with pen knife
because his wife, whom he had recently
married, didn't love him.
Curtis Cornell, a young man aged 81
years, living near 0skaloosa, made ar
unsuccessful attempt at suicide by taking
strychnine, one day last week, because
his sweetheart didn't "luv" him.
1t has been determined by the execu
tive committee of the Kansas Temper
ance association to open the next nation
al temperance meeting at Bismarck
grove on Thursday, August 14th.
The thieves had arranged to strip con
gresham Haskell's house, at Lawrence
of its furniture, during the absence o
the family at Washington. They wer'
caught before executing their plans.
d. o. McCray is about to start pspe
at Douglass, Butler county. He is
tramping jour founder of Journalistic
enterprises, having already establishes
three or four papers in little over a year
The merchants of Osborne, Bull City
and other Solomon valley towns, hav
freight laid down at the Russell depo
for twenty cents per hundred, while tn
people of Russell pay $1.1S. Compel
ton is truly the life of trade.
A terrific prairie fire swept over pc
tions of Cloud and Republic countie
last Thursday week, destroying $40
600 worth of property. Alady was burr
. ed to death. 1t was probably the wor:
prairie fire that ever occurred IN Kansa
A Dakota man found in Atchison, th
: other day, his wife who had eloped frol
5 him several years ago while living i
? Massachusetts, taking with her the
3 three small children. She was marie
to and living with the man with whol
she eloped. Upon the demand of Il
= first husband for the children she So
3 rendered them, and he has taken them
1 his Dakota home.
g Topeka is threatened with being owe
8 run with destitute colored people. The
> are leaving the south by the hundre
, Arriving at St. Louis they are furnlshs
e with cheap transportation and rushed {
# their way to Kansas. Two hundred 9
II rived Tuesday at the capitol. What
/, to be done with the poor deluded ere
t lures is hard to tell. The people Of Ia
II sas cannot take care Of 30 many Of theE