The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-13

have been burned in Geenwood county,
This season. $4,000 gone 10 smoke.
Alma has new papcr-the Home
w. w. Cone who was con
nected for some time with the Cspital-
Rev. w. K Marshall. Of the Methadist
rh11ch, well known Ia Kansas, has been
transferred from 81. Louis to st. Paul.
The name Of the post Office at Fort
Larned has been changed to Booth, We
suppose in honor of Billy Booth, one Of
the best men in Kansas.
There were twenty-aix ministers and |
twelve elders in attendance at Burlin-
game, upon the annual meeting of the
Emporia PresbyteFy, last week
The Leavenworth correspondent of
the Kansas City Times says there is a
prevalent desire to have Col. S. S. Prouty
purchase the Leayenworth Press.
Larned Chronoscope: Think of it,
100000 to be paid ont for the broom
corn crop of Pawnee county this fall.
This beats our wheat crop or any other.
City engineer Donnelly, of Kansas
City has sued the Journal for libel, and
that paper, in return is giving the irateI
engineer good deal of free advertising.
John s. McLain has resigned his po-
sition on the editorial staff of the Kan
sas City Journal, and will enter the pas
senger department of the Santa Fe rail-
road.
DR.. Neibarger, of Olathe, on the 18th,
shot and killed city marshal John Hea-
ton. Neibarger fired three shots. The
murderer was drunk and the marshal
had told him to keep quiet.
The Newton Republican, the regulat.
or of politics in this district, is bouncing
Tom Ryan mildly. If somebody will
nominate the editor of that paper for
congressman We will second the motion.
The Santa Fe is carrying great
many through emigfants and hasn't
enough emigrant cars to meet the de-
mand. A number of these cars, pro-
vided with sleeping berths, are being
built.
An attempt at horse stealing is the
latest sensation at Topeka. 1t seems
that the thieves with which that city
is infested having rifled the houses of all
that is worth carrying away, have now
betaken themselves to the stables.
A dispensation has been issued by
Grand Master Workman J. T. Bradley,
of Council Grove, permitting subordi-
nate lodges of the A. O.U. w. to receive
new members at total fee of So and to
reinstate suspended members at a total
fee of So.
VIM. Gordon, one of the Oldest gro
cerymen in Leavenworth, made an as.
signment on the 4th. He had been run.
ming three establishments in that city,
and was supposed to be prosperous
Liabilities $32,027.S5; assets supposed
to be about $4,000.
Winfield Telegram: A reliable far.
mer informs Us that COwley county will
have q hundred thousand tons of hay
to sell. Our ten years observation in
the county leads rs to remark that after
the fall prairie fires are over there won't
be so much.
Larned Chronoscope: There were 81
cars of wheat shipped from this station
last month, and II for the month of Au.
gust. Total for the two months 138cars
making over 10000 bushels of this
years crop which has gone already
There is over half the crop left.
The wife of Mr.. Sloppy, living at Ly
ons, Rice county has vamoosed the fam
lily domicil and left her husband to care
for three small children. 1t seems to be
asking a good deal of woman in this
aesthetic age to live with a man named
Sloppy.
Col. Prouty, president of the junction
City Musical Union, who has done Sc
much for that association, was present
ed, few days ago, at a meeting of the
union, with fine, heavy ebony cane
mounted in solid gold. The presenta
ton address was made by Judge Austin
and the present is fully appreciated by
the Colonel.
| Chetopa Advance: Chetopa is
not only the best wheat market
in Labette county but is one Of
the best in the country. Last Saturday
one lot of wheat was bought by Reamel
& Williams at $3.50. which was cent:
higher than the New York market fol
at day and cents higher than the st
Louis market. 1t ranges this week from
$1.35 to $3.50, and is rolling into oul
mill and elevator men by the wagon
load every hour of the day.
On the night of the 9th inst. two mer
rode up to the residence of John Morris
sey, farmer living about five miles
southwest of Burlingame and called HIM
out. Morrisey came out of the house
and noticed that the men were masked
and attempted to retreat, but one of the
men seized him and threw him down
while the other entered the house and
took $1,000. In the scuffle outside
Morrissey tore the mask from the face
of his assailant and says he recognized
a neighbor who knew he had sold his
cattle.
An old gentleman from Jewell county
was in Chicago the other day on his way
70 Wisconsin. Passing along the street
he fell in with very mice young man.
who was, of course, going to the same
place in Wisconsin the old gent was,
and who, after treating the old man to a
cigar, met freight AGENT with bill
against the mice young man." The 4.
y. m. of course borrowed all the money
the old gent had 'just till he got to the
depot and unlocked his 'chist,
which had $500 in it,. The q. y. m.
then stepped into q store, and ever since
that the old gent has been musing on
the subject of how easy it is to loan
money to a stranger. He proposes now
to read the papers.