The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-02
OVER THE STATE

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OVER THE STATE
The Topeka insane asylum has 1913 in
mates.
Measles are SO bad in Ogden that the
public schools had to be suspended.
A couple Of druggists at Delphos have
been sued for selling liquor without Ii
cense
An electric light company has been or
ganized in Topeka with capital of
$4,000
Miss Amanda Way tried to register as
ii voter at Lawrence, but the city clerk
could not see it.
The peach crop in the vicinity of
Wamego, Kansas, is reported killed, but |
other fruit is safe.
Bishop Vail is endeayoring to raise an
endowment fund of $4,000 for the bene-
fit of the college of the Sisters of Beth
any, at Topeka.
C. E Faulkner, assignee of John Gels
s Co, at Salina, will pay dividend of
25 per cent. on and after April LIST, to
creditors of the bank.
John A. Halderman, of Leavenworth,
has been appointed Z. S. consul to Ban
kok, Siam, in the northern part of Asia;
salary $1,000 per annum.
A dispatch from Wamego, Kansas, to
| the Kansas City Times, says that the
rains of the last week were the first that
had fallen since last October.
Henry Coppack has sold his farm of
800 acres in johnson county, to Mr.. Mil
burn, of Wisconsin, of Milburn wagon
notoriety, for $4,000, or $50 per acre.
The Commonwealth says that about
twenty refugees left Topeka on Thurs
day, via the A, T. & S. F. road, for Kan
sas City, headed for their old home in
Mississippi.
The costs involved in a law suit about
calf valued at $40. which has lust been
decided at Leavenworth, amounted 10
5000. The property at issue, it appears,
was not the only calf connected with the
proceeding.
Inc EQCu hCAA
consisting of 5000 acres, has been pur
chased by w. L. Hardison, of Mexican
county, Pennsylvania. 1t sold for $37,
, O43.S4. 1t is to be stocked with bloOded
a cattle and Norman horses.
: Judge Beebe and Joel Maltby, of ga
r line county, recently sent $35 to Sar
/ Francisco for alfalfa seed. The money
/ purchased something over three hundred
a pounds. The seed was sent by express
s to Salina and the express charges cam'
to 5000.
The Commonwealth says that tin
number of persons subpenaed in Tope
: ka, to appear at Washington before tn
senate exodus committee, is sufficient,
great to warrant general ticket agen
e Ford, of the Vandalia route, to com
It there and give them special rates over hi
II line.
Frank Skinner, the city marshal @
t, Cawker City, while trying to arrest Ley
,r Putner TOR misdemeanor, last Sunday
Is struck Putner's wife with a club, brok
into Putner's house, struck him on til
SC head, knocking him senseless, and she
Amos Decker in the leg while Decke
u was trying to get pistol from him.
" On Tuesday, which is "cmigrant day
in New York city, there were sent
ne Burlington, Kansas, under the ausplct
n of Mr. Whitelaw Reid, seventy-nine chi
" dren and sixteen adults. These childre
IL are all to find homes in Kansas. Tho'
IT. sent ut former times have been receive
into the families of prosperous farlne
or apprenticed to tradesmen, and ha'
~ done well, almost without exception
- Commonwealth.
of A man who has been engaged Il
. some years past in selling lightnir
rods, has been arrested in the weste
er, part of the state for horse stealing al
les will doubtless spend portion of his
b. ture days in the penitentiary. This
its fords another mournful illustration
M the inevitable ruin which awaits the u
happy man who deliberately enters up
zee a career of vice.
nj WINFIELD, March 25.--At one O'clo
He this morning, IA small cyclone pass
)ut over this place, blowing down sever
ok small buildings, and seriously lnjuri
In Mrs. Spach, Mrs. Biggs, and Mrs. Cam
bell, who were each in Il dwelling viii
~ was blown down.
" Libby's barn and smaller buildi
lie, were carried away this morning by
90, cyclone, and neither have been -four
md not even a fragment, after ten hoi
., search.
,ed The superintendent of the blind a
lum, at Wyandotte, has received an
voice of the gem puzzle, the figures
0 ON ing raised SO that those who cannot
;t1y can feel the numbers. The donor is c
on IDENTIFY some Jealous advocate of pub
hey economy, who is opposed to mainta
nus ing two benevolent institutions out
red the general fund, and has conceived
Il crafty measure for effecting consoli
ton of the blind and insane asylums
'me Kansas.
nty Mr.. Arbucklc and his daughter, kno
,ka to our people as popular and effect
ives temperance evangelists, have tackled
1me peka and are making some headN
unC against the tide of evil which eman;
fred from the multifarious saloons of
ring city. Now, if their earnest efforts co
for only be promptly supplemented by
in invasion of the Salvation Army,
the capital might still have some show
WIS its white alley in the great and mott
be day of the Lord.
: by A section of land in one body y
lect- three miles east of Salina has been
aine to cooperative society frem New Y
poll consisting of eight families. The
is to be worked and the proceeds div
equally; when not engaged in wori
on the farm each family will work
e to itself and be entitled to all the procc
ing; This Is an experiment and If success
; the other colonies will be founded on
same plan. The land belonged TO E
thai beth Thomson; the colony is know
the "Thompson Colony" They viii
oun- gin work at once by erecting build
rio'e and breaking prar;e.
and The following exodus notes, CLIP
over from the Capital of Saturday, will
lnue interest to our readers:
vo,as The report of the Freedmen's r
association, which makes over an
bred manuscript pages, is to be pub
ed in pamphlet form and is now all
ready for the printer.
-o.es There is some talk, we are inforl
of moving the exodus headquarters
:. a., | where than Topeka but the place We