The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-07


regular quarterly session at the eour
house Monday.
eRandolph & Randolph sold lively,
head of bioo,ied hogs yesterday for $50
To Maxim Brothers Of Florence
The Welsh Presbyterian Sunday schoo
of Emporia will meet with the DIR
Greek Sunday school on next Sabbath.
Mr.. Soden says that the gathering a
his grove On the Fourth was the mos
orderly he ever saw assembled at tina
place.
We trust Emporia has had sufiicien
experience with kerosene and toy pistols
within the past week 10 last for several
years to come.
Hartford had big celebration yester
day, nearly 1000 people being present
The crowd was addressed by Judge Kel
logg and Esquire Culver
Bertha, six-year old daughter of DO
seph Taylor, died at the family resi-
dence on Sixth avenue Monday noon
of diphtheria. and was buried Tuesday.
Tom Flynn, employed for some year
past as messenger boy for the. Western
Union Telegraph compAny at this place
has been promoted tO,thes position o
might operator at Reading.
The address Of. Mr.. E. Nj. Forde. a
Lambert's ford on the Fourth is Spoken
of in the most fiatteriAg terms by, al
who heard it. 1t is said there wer'
nearly 1900 people present. 5
John H. Brown. Esq, of. Wyandalte
Eminent Recorder of the Grand Com
mandery, accompanied the remains of ]
C. BENNETT to this city Monday and at
tended the funeral Tuesday.
MARRIED-At the ST. Albany hotel
Emporia, Kan, July 3. 1884,, by Rev
Allen Buckner, Mr.. Frank T. Kincaid
and Miss Isabel Main, both of jackson
township, Lyon county Kan.
) There will be basket meeting in the
grove near COlumbia ford on Sunday
July ;17th. Elders Rankin and Lot
will conduct the services at IL and 8
O'Clock. Everybody is invited.
A horse belonging TO Dave Jones, tile
grocer, ran. away Tuesday with the
delivery wagon to which he was at
taclicd, injuring the vehicle and inflict
ing a wound on the horses hind leg.
James Fisher, of Usage City. who is
visiting the MilIers. who recently pur.
chased the Armor farm on the Neosho
fell out Of a wagon aslhe was coming "a
town last eveaiag, and broke his arm.
SOLDIERS REUNIoN.-The committee
will have their first meeting at Judge
CuIger's Office Wednesday, the 26th inst
at p. M. We earnestly desire full
attendance.
'f'- A. BuCKNEIt, Chairman.
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IA grand prize drawing. came off at
suppe's 90 cent store on Tuesday, The
following is list of the lucky numbers
and prizes drawn: 1st--7.S51, organ
2nd-s,G24. tea set; 3rd-0.OO3, vases
4th-T,977, toy piano.
4 hlack-snakc between two and three
feet long found its way into the parlol
of j. d. Hinklc last Sunday, where il
made itself quite at home until deposed
and killed by Doc WHMte, WHO was
summoned to the place BY the terror
stricken Misses Hinklc who first dis
covered It,
HEAVY CATTLE SALE.-On Tuesday
Major Hood sold by wire, for the firm Of
Hood & Holmsiy $S5,379 worth of cat
tie which are now at Red Ford Ranch
The Major started west this morning by
the Santa Fc train to superintend the de
livery of the cattle.
q Saturday evening as Misses May
Haines, Maud Kelley and Maud Gun
ningham were out riding, the horse was
frightened by the beating of q drum,
and the girls were all thrown out of the
buggy, and more or less bruised, but
sustained no serious injuries The
vehicle was considerably damaged.
Monday Professor Fowler happened
to have occasion to step into the labora-
tory at the State Normal for a book,
when he discovered one of the tables 10
be on fire. Upon investigation he found
that bottle containing PHOSPHORUS,
which had been placed in a pan. had
broken and that the contents had eaten
through the tinand ignited the wood.
The funeral of ]. C. Bennett, conduct
ed by the Masonic fraternity and Knights
of Honor, of this city, took place Tuesday
at o'clock a. m. The cortege, which
was one of the largest and most impos
ing ever seen in Emporia, was headed
by the K. T. Band, which played beau
tiful dirge in respect to the memory o.
one who In life was ever their devoted
and faithful patron.
The celebration exercises were opened
Monday by a first-class runaway
The water-wagon team was standing OF
Commercial street when a boy threw ,
bunch of ire crackers. under the horses
This frightened tAemA and ,they ran ant
turned into Fifth Avenue and brough
up on Merchants street, where the Wagon
arrived minus two-wheels, and sustain
ing other damages.
FkE4sll2e haze faceisea . lotor on,
of the neatest and handiest little map
Of Kansas ever published. 1t is onl!
three by five inches in size, but is printeC
in colors, shows every county in Til
state, the county seats, railroads and wa
ter courses. WeigiEe this free to ever.
subscriber, whether new or old, 10 eithe
the, DAILY OR WEEKLY NEWS. Ali w
ask of the subscriber is that he call a
the Office for the map, or send a sEamI
and We will mail it free.
HEART-RENDINGi
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One boy Shoots and kills Anoshsr WITT
Toy Pistol.
About half past 8 O'clDdk Aonadg
most heart-rendering aceiaens tcc.irrsI
on Commercial street, discetly in tfeA
Of the court house A nnmber of hoy
were gathered togcther shootiag llEt
works and firing off the dangerous 10,
pistols, so common on the street. IN th