The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-17
The Emporia News.
AROUND TOWN.

AOoub nail inc corn IN Lyon county
viii have TO be replanted.
Harry Hibben has received commits
sion as notary public from Gov. Click.
TIE NEWS returns thanks to F. Nc
Hardy for beautiful boquet Of flowers.
RI Roberts has sold TO John Nicho
las lot No. Cottonwood Place for $40.
DIR. ]. A. Young is painting and 9TH
.erwise improving his dental operating
room.
John Boreland finished plsstering the
county Jail Friday, and made a good
4 Job OF Il.
G. w. Squires is preparing plans for .
store and bank building for w. w.
Crook OF Howard.
Chas. Stebbins, of the firm of Tschudi
s. Stebbins, is painting the Catholic
church at Reading.
Tom Jones, the popular salesman At
Newman's sold $1,000 worth OF hogs TO
Greer & Way Friday.
F. McHardy shipped Galloway bull
Saturday to Greenwood county for
which he received $3.50.
Tschudi & Stebbins have just com
pleted very handsome signs for New
burger and Griffith & Ewing.
The contract for two cases for the
High school cabinet has been let by
Prof. Frank Kizer 10 L. +. Bailey.
n. v. Bundrem is preparing TO build
an addition to his saddlery of 25 feet.
tor which Heidrick is making plans.
J.Q. Patterson, of this city, has been
appointed guard at the penitentiary and
started Saturday TO assume that position.
F. NJ. Field broke ground Friday
for residence on the southeast corner
of Second avenue and Merchants street.
Henry G.. Everton vs. Anna Z. Eyerton
Is the title OF divorce suit filed in the
district court Thursday by J. Harvey
Firth.
Robert Milliken recently received
some rare plants from the botanical gar
dens at Washington, sent to him by Sen
ator Plumb.
The Rockford watch company has
brought suit in the district court against
]. Z. Jordan to recover judgment in the
sum OF $59S.3s.
The United Presbyterians have pur-
chased the lot at the northeast corner OF
Neosho street and Sixth avenue and will
build q church thereon.
Six handsome models of a mining ap-
pliance patented by John Gray, mayor
of Usage City, are being made at the
Emporia foundry by z. Adair.
The Chase County Leader says that
Gid Miller, who is we'll known In EN-
poFla, has fine stock farm of 5000
acres. That's what we call being fixed"
John Doering, of Evansville, Indiana,
has taken charge of chair at the barber
shop of G. A. Lovelace, and is said to be
very thorough artist In the tonsor ial
line.
b. Salisbury, who is going into the
commission business, has rented q por-
ton of Cooks meat market, at No. 1913
Commercial street and will open next
week.
Mrs. Rebecca Livingston died at her
home five miles east of the oity Sat
urday ut 8 o'clock, of dTopsy, at the
age of 81 years She was buried Sunday
at 10 O'Clock a. m.
We are Informed that there is q dead
steer lying in the Cottonwood river q
short distance above the water works.
The committee on water works should
see that it is removed.
L. Severy VS.. John Burris Is the title
of q forcible detaincr proceeding which
was heard in the court of Justice Payne
Thursday, and in which judgment wa
rendered for the plaintiff.
Harry Leibfried is about to embellish
his property at the corner of Seventh
avenue and Cottonwood street with q
deer park, the design for which is being
prepared by G. W. Squires.
The base ball match which was Il
have been played Saturday between
the Normals and the Chicago Mound
nine, near the NJ. p. depot, was declared
Off on account of the weather.
There is no doubt about the induenc'
of our genial friend Harry Norton will
Gov. Click. He has already succeeded
IN getting one man in the insane asy
lum and another in the penitentiary.
The Presbyterian ladies have purchas
cd new carpet for the church of @. w
Newman s. Co., which is being mad
and will be put down as soon as the re
pairs are completed at that place.
South Constitution street is improv
ing very rapidly this spring. A larg
number of tasty residences have latel.
commenced To go up on this delightful
thoroughfare south of Third avenue.
Rev. d. D. Shuey, the new pastor Q
the Reform church has purchased Of {
Z. Fuller the eligible suburban propert
at lot number 10 IN Normal. Mr.. Shue
and family will take possession at oncC
The sale was made by w. d. Brewer.
Rev. Henry Mackay informs us thu
on Friday morning, IN Trinity church
Lawrence, Kansas, the Rev. Mr.. Rankin
lately a clergyman in the Christia
church, was ordained presbyter in th
Episcopal church, by the Rr. Rev. Bisl
op Vail.
Complaints were filed Saturday b
Marshal Fleming against J. Dawson, fC
selling liquor at No. 100 Commerce.
street, and a party named Rees, who
charged with the Same offense, his plaC
ofbusiness being No. % Commercis
street.
Business is so brisk at the pop factor
of Francis 81 Newton that they hav
been compelled to order 100 new boxC
and ten gross of additional bottles. W
shouldn't wonder If this establishmer
would prove good thing for the caus
of prohibition in Emporia.
An interesting pool contest took plac
at the. billiard hall of Robinson s. Youn
last week in which Billy Gill wO
twenty-three games out of thirty, pool
citing about all the balls At which b
shot, besides handsome stake put u
by his competitor, New York trave
Ing man.
Commonwealth: The Santa Fe CON
pany had a gang OF men engaged in tn
exciting occupation of capturing hog
that had escaped from the cars in III
Carbondale wreck, Thursday. Tw
hundred and seventy squealing porkeI
were caught Sixiy-eight were killed |
the wreck.
An excursion of eastern people, prir
cipally from New York, numberin
about 100 persons; passed through En-
poria Thursday afternoon via the A I