The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-12-18
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Wichita wants . Ladiss' BerevOlent
association.
Changers are talking OF cooperative
store ct Usage City.
LeaVenWorth il said to have the finest
skating rink IN the west.
There are twenty-four prisoners in the
county jail at Lawrence.
The Santa Fe is constructing an So
OG0 coal chute at Dodge City.
The Burlington opera house was for
mAlly opened on Thanksgiving day.
An AtchIson undertaken claims TO
have buried $500 persons In the last six
teen years.
Abilene shipped over one hundred
barrels Of dressed poultry 70 Denver the
past week.
In North Topeks there are i've Bap-
list churches OF color within a radius OF
half mile.
The loss 70 Sheridan county through
prairie fires is estimated by the Sentinel
at $4,000.
There are 104 inmates at the Topeka
Reform school. and 100 applications on
file for admission.
The Kingman Leader is q newsy. six.
page eightcolumn paper. just started BY
Bion 3. Hutchins.
Last Monday, December Is, was the
twentieth anniversary of the consecra.
ton of Bishop Vail.
Mrs. Springer. of Osborne county, has
been bound over on a charge of attempt
ing to poison her husband.
The Severy Liberal Is the latest news
paper venture. 1t is edited by the prin.
cipal of the Severy schools.
Fifteen persons have died violent
deaths in Sumner county In the past five
months. Most of them were shot.
The city officers have been raIding the
gambling places in Newton, and fines t.
the amount of $3.50 have been placed il
the city treasury.
Yates Center had a night wstchmar
who ran away with another mans wife,
he leaving q sick wife and she two small
children behind.
CLAW Center has a lecture course which
includes Thomas Mast, Bob. Burdette
Joseph Cook, joaquin Miller and Gil
bert De La MatYr.
The meaning of the word Neosho, II
the Usage dialect, is water sack, OF
water pocket. me" means water
"OshO" sack or pocket.i
The sheriff of Marion county raideC
the saloon men of Florence last week
and that evening took nine of them tC
the Marion county jail.
Kenneth expects the Bull City branch
OF the Central Branch railroad TO be ex-
tended to that place in the spring, anC
thence to Pueblo, Colorado.
Gov. Click has offered a reward o
$3.50 for the arrest and convection o
George Bucket, who killed Andrew
Briggs at Galena, Kas.. November 30.
The Burlington Patriot says that no
less than fifty able bodied applicant
have already filed claim tor the PROUD
position of stamp Ticker from that vii
lsge.
A fight at Moran, Allen county. be
tween Sam Engle and w. W. Smith
partners IN the broom factory at tina
place, resulted in the death of Mr.
Engle.
A Congregational association OF min
listers and Isymen of the Kansas Vale!
met in response to call from ReY. DR.
Cordley, and organized at Kansas Cit
last week.
The Bronson Pilot. published on tn
line of Bourbon and Allen counties, say
the disease among cattle still RACES wit
undated fatality in that vicinity.
Ottawa Republican: There have BEEF
sixty new house built in the Third ware
built in the third ward during the pas
. season, the second has equaled this in
crease and the first has exceeded it.
The young ladies of Usage City haV
club whose monogram Is III. U. G.
, The Young men have organized an aux
! Hilary denominsted ~. s." 1t is sal
they sometimes meet In JOINT session.