The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
is abating at Severy,

WED AM 0AAAGa o.
Smallpox is abating at Severy,
The saloons at Parsons are all closed.
The pink-eye "boom" has reached
Wichita.
A beautiful cage and no birds-the
Harvey county Jail.
Neosho county is out of debt and has
money in the treasury. ....
Usage county talks of organizing q
horticultural society.
Chase county claims TO have the finest
short-horn cattle in the State.
Burlington people are now making
things lively for the whiskyites.
During the year 1881 Register of Deeds
Wood. OF Topeka, filed 1884 deeds
The county attorney of Marion county
offers $15 for testimony which will con-
vict in liquor cases.
Public sentiment in LeaVenworth,
says the Press, is strongly against licens-
ing gambling halls.
Mir. Shilling's store, at White City,
was burglarized few nights ago to the
amount of $1,000.
1t is predicted by those "who are in
the secret" that the fruit crop win be
light.the coming season.
The state grand lodge of the knights
of Pythias viii! hold its annual session
at LeaVenworth in May.
A disease known as worm in the
brain" is prevailing fatally among the
boys in and near La Cygne.
Fit. Scott has aZigzsg Club. We won
der If that town oughtn't TO be included
in the governors proclamation.
The saloons at Frankfort, Marshall
county, now number among the things
that we're. Their demise recently &C.
CURED.
The state fair association is sending
out beautiful diploma to every man
who was awarded a premium at the fair
last fall
The finishing touches are now being
made to the finest private residence in
Usage county. The owner is Mr..
Shepard.
The constancy of Kansas women
should never he traduced. Last week
a Mcpherson girl went TO Leadville,
Col, to marry her lover.
A stranger by the name of Charles
Morgan, died at the fremont hotel in
Newton last week. He was about sixty
years old and well educated.
The Usage coal field is doing but lit
tie business, and some of the shafts are
closed. This pleasant, spring-like
weather is what's the matter.
An old man by the name of Clark,
living near Columbus, and possessing
considerable money, was burned to death
last week. Foul play is suspicioned.
We are pleased TO see, by an exchange,
that Wichita is awakening to full sense
of the external needs of her citizens.
She now talks of starting a soap factory.
The Wichita railroad company offer
$500 for the apprehension of the parties
who attempted TO derail the passenger
train on the Wichita road the other day
Excitement reigns supreme in Bur-
lingame and vicinity over the pros
pective appearance OF "Dragoon" in
that city. It's the Dragon railroad,
however
Miss Farr, a teacher in the Wyandotte
county schools, is under arrest for cru
ely Furnishing an unruly boy The pa
rents Of the child are said to be poor,
and as a consequence the lads pants
were very thin.
The Wyandotte Gazette ventures the
prediction that the next governor of
Kansas will be Republican and pro-
hibitionist. 1t doesn't take much of q
prophet to toresee that.
On the Santa Fe train going west
Tuesday was man and his wife and
seventeen children, bound for southern
Kansas, If the parents are pleased with
their new location the balance of the
family will soon follow.
Burlington talks of establishing a pub
lie reading room. The prime movers in
the enterprise, are said to be married
men whose wives have ''tumbled'' to the
fact that the Masonic lodge does not
meet every night in the week.
We've got smallpox case" says the
Topeka Press. "and simpletOns enough
in the city to get up agood-sized panic"
Those of our readers who are acquainted
ct the capital will not be disposed to
question the accuracy of this observA-
ton.
A Leavenworth judge holds a small
boy TO answer to the charge of assault
with intent to kill for putting powder in
q stick Of wood. The case will likely
be dismissed, as ali of the thief who
stole the wood is not expected down in
time for the trial.
BuFlingame FEELS highly elaied on ac-
count of The recognition it has received
In being selected by the State Agricult-
ural College as the place for holding the
Usage County Farmers, Institute, which
will convene on the 9Th inst An in
teresting two days program has been
announced, and the attendance promises
to be large.
r. B. Tead, late express agent at Scran-
ton, for Wells. Fargo s Co. was arrested
in Topeka Tuesday charged with en-
bezzling $50. Tead was released with
out trial, and has gone east. The Jour
nal says Tead's wife had silk dress
sent her recently by express which was
lost. To get even Tead took $50 from
the company's drawer, which he pro-
poses not to return until the dress is
turned over to him.