The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-07
AROUND TOWN.
Emporia is to have a dog pound.

The "June rise" comes early this yea
and promises to stay late.
The commissioners are still in session
as board of equalization.
Registered orders up to No. 200 will
be paid at the treasurer's Office.
The greenhouse of Jones s. Snyder Is
receiving a new coat of paint
The public telephone station at Ry-
der's drug store is in operation.
Wm. Pruitt was fined $25 and costs
this morning for violation of the liquor
law.
Mrs. Page has sold her property IN
slocum's addition 10 @. NJ. Ramsey for
5000.
A marriage license was issued to-day
to Jasper o'NeaI and Florida Nix, of
Emporia-
The extreme back@ardness of the
street railway is to be investigated by
the mayor.
THE News is indebted TO Miss Nellie
McClary for a beautiful boquet of ira.
grant roses.
Mrs. Robert Powell has our hearty
thanks for box of foe cherries-the
first of the season.
DIR. Armor IS putting purifier in his
city steam mill, which he received this
week from Chicago.
The Emporia Mercantile Association
received 700 putter tubs Monday by
way ofthe Santa Fe.
G. A. Leighton received by express
yesterday fine red Irish setter from
Henry Lardner, of Chicago.
ChiIdren's Day will be observed at the
n. E. and A. n. E. Sunday schools in
this city on next Sabbath.
Remember that the time prescribed by
law for paying taxes expires on the
Goth of the present month.
Mrs. r. r. Fulmer has purchased
lot No. 157, Rural street, of II. C. Cross.
The consideration was $175.
If this weather keeps up much longer
the bicyclists will be compelled TO at
tach rudders to their wheels.
Buck & Feighan received Saturday
night fifty new volumes to add to their
already extensive law library.
J.W. Tschudi, of this city, is engaged
upon fine piece of trescoe work at the
residence Of DR.. NJ. Bailey, Chanute.
The ladies of the NJ. E. church have
postponed the strawberry festival which
they had expected to have this week.
The central telephone Office is to be
moved in few day to the room at pres
emit occupied by P. P. Hlllerman and
John Allen.
F. III. Parker, assessor of Pike town.
ship returned 100000 worth of taxable
property this year, gain of $4,000
oyer last year.
AS will be seen by reference to the
proceedings of the school board meeting,
the new school house on Second avenue
is TO be of frame.
A complaint was filed IN the court oil
Justice Fletcher to-day against Emma
Groth, charging her with selling liquor
in violation of law.
Twenty new tracklayers from Kansas
City went to work Monday on the
K. G. s. E. railroad. This makes a total
of elghty-ihree men.
L. c. Wood, G. w. Bennett, and Al.
merln GIllet talk strongly of building
on their lots on Sixth avenue directly
east of the Savings bank.
| J. w. Thatcher received letter Tues
day from his brother s. b. Thatcher, an
nouncing the death of his wife at Hanni
bal, Missouri, on May Goth.
Cape Jas A. Wells, of Erie. Wilson
county, has secured a handsome sum il
the way of pension arrears through the
influence of Senator Plumb.
Walkup's resolution On the question
of requiring delinquent criminals Il
work out their fines on the streets o.
rock pile is to the point, and is goot
measure.
Frank Flenniken, the private secre
taTy of Senator Plumb, is sending out
vast number of agricultural reports ant
other public documents to different part
of the state.
The room at No. 1874 Commercial
+ street is being fitted up for a MILNE
store by Mrs. Fulmer who purchased
some months ago. 1t will make a yer
desirable stand.
In the Rickabaugh case the court Tue:
day awarded the custody of the daugt
/ ter aud the youngest son to the mother
? and allowed the two eldest childreI
) both boys, to choose between the fathe
1 aud the mother.
EmporIa is the only tGwn in the cour
try west of st. Louis which has a repre-
sentative ON the Higher Board of Edu
cation recently established at the Pre-:
byterian general assembly This is
very enviable distinction.
AS will be seen by reference To tn
district court proceedings Reuben Hal
ris, the party who was arrested som
months ago for stealing hogs from ].
j | McWhorter, has been sentenced to tn
: penitentiary for two years.
Y 4 report reaches here that the powdG
: magazine at Hutchinson was struck b
4 lightning Tuesday night and blew u
f with terrific force, breaking nearly ever
r window in town, but resulting in the loi
of no lives so far as could be learned.
W. G. Henderson is deIDg a splendi
job of grading on State street for Mayo
= Hood and T. J. Acheson. We undeI
stand that the property owners on thi
thoroughfare are going to put it IN frs
2 class shape tor driving and bicycl
d riding.
l. The corresponding secretary for Il
8 Home of the Friendless at Leavenwort
e in her annual report states that the
were received at that institution duriT
% the year ending May l. 1888, 81 adult
= SO children, 80 transient, making tot
of EOS.
:. Tho lads who were caught by Enl
neer Puffer attempting to break into d
:, drug store of TrImble s. Irwin on Su
- day afternoon, were arrested by PoliC
e man ROmaine Tuesday and the matt
10 was settled by the parents of the your
a offenders paying the costs attaching
r. their misdemeanOr.
=. Three boys were caught Sund
a afternoon by Engineer Puffer in Il
= act of breaking q window sash in 4
drug store of Trimble s. Irwin, wi
the evident intention of entering I
ed place to commit theft. They took
IN their heels when they found they we
o. discovered, but Mr.. Puffer says he C
Ct identify all of them when he sees the
81, The reason that the Washington Pa
f. lots were not sold by the council Nc