Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-09

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NJ NJ MURDOCH & BROTHER. Ptoprie,crs.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS
The grand jury will be in session for eight
or ten days.
Sells Brothers advertising car No. came
ia last night over the Santa Fe.
The millinery stock of Mrs Klentz was
moved yesterday to the Dorsey building.
Wheat is still declining. From 35 to 81
cents was paid by local buyers on Monday.
The Wichita museum has been opened by
Mr.. Ed Wood on the corner of Douglas and
Topeka avenues.
The net profits of the late Catholic picnic
was about $3.50, which will be applied to the
church building fund.
The fruit stand in the Zmmcrly building,
near theRcesc block. has been moved out
and saloon viii take its place.
Mr.. Isaac Humble of the postoffice, is of
for n rest this week, leaving for st. Louis
Sunday morning by the Frisco.
The heat on Sunday and Monday was the
principal subject of conversation. The
mercury rose to J02 on Sunday, and to SO
on Monday.
Dr. McDonahugh, a prominent druggist,
physician and surgeon, of Harper, bought a
new Conover patent right piano of Ion Ar
mold a CO., last week.
The Kansas Furniture House of Moffett Il
Hartzell have turned out on the street in
connection with their trade handsome de-
livery furniture wagon.
The stringencv in money matters among
the farmers consequent upon the low price
of grain is having "a depressing effect on the
Wichita live stock market.
A. c. Robinson will sell at Garden Plain,
Tuesday, Sept. IL, about 100 head of cattle,
consisting of cows, heifers and calves, inclu-
ding some fine mich cows.
A good wide sidewalk was laid Yesterday
from the corner of Topeka and Douglas
avenue to the alley by the livery stable. A
long suffering public is now thankful.
Rev. &. NJ. Kelley preached an eloquent
sermon Sunday evening in the Catholic
church, on the passage of scripture which
says, mo man can serve two masters
We wonder what George Gregg meant by
saying that Ed Dorsey and the commission
ere of Sedgwick county could not buy him
for twelve hundred dollars "A wear.
The new wholesale dry goods firm of W.
w. johnson q Go. received seven carloads
of dry goods on Saturday over the Frisco
road. The shipment weighed over 10000
pounds.
Yesterday while Robert Arthur was sit
ting in his buggy talking TO friend, an ex-
press wagon WAS driven so near his buggy
that the wheels locked and one of the buggy
wheels was taken Off
Mr.. Dwight Beach, of Valley Center. was
around yesterday insisting that we hadn't
had square view of the presidential situa
ton, hut we We're compelled to decline any
further light on the subject.
Arrangements are being perfected for the
establishment of a bank at Valley Center.
That town has always handled n great
amount of grain, lumber, hogs, cattle and so
forth, and a regular banking institution will
prove Il great convenience.
Rev. c. w. Blake, who occupied the pull
pit of the Presbyterian church last Sunday,
is a nephew of james II. Todd, OF this city.
He is a graduate of Park college, Park Hill,
Mo-. Mr.. Blake and his mother have spent
a week here visiting Mr.. Todd. They left
yesterday morning for Usage City.
Mr.. LaGrath. of 1t. Louis, who is extern
sively interested in Colorado mines, and a
warm friend of William Mathewson, spent
Sunday and Monday in the city. Mr. La
Grath said he expected to find prairie town
but on the contrary he found ore of the
densest forest cities he ever saw.
In conversation with our reporter yester-
day, Major Powell remarked that he had
control of enough money to extend the
street railway in any direction that the bus
mess of the city may warrant. Just which
way and how far the road will be extended
Mr.. Powell is i.e,t now prepared to say.
Some brute of the man persuasion came
to the Kennedy house on Fourth avenue
Saturday night, mcandered around TO the
kitchen and insulted the domestics. Mrs.
Kennedy fred him out. Mr.. Kennedy came
in soon after and learning the particulars
went out TO find the fellow. He soon dis
covered him on tho corner of Douglas ave-
nue., walked up and knocked him out of
time in one round, Marquis of Quecnbury
rules. Bully for John,
AT the city council chamber last night,
some one in discussing the water works
question asserted that the editor of the EA-
GLE. who lives beyond the city limits, had
used his influence to get a hydrant placed
hear his home. That is an entire mistake
We did no such thing. We never even
spoke TO the water works company, its man
ager or superintendent, on the question.
Don't kick before you are pricked.
From Mr.. iii Brown we learn that Ger
man farmer named Rau. living one mile
south of Germania WAS killed by the scci-
dental d ischarge of shotgun on Friday. II
seems that he was loading hay in the field
with his boy, when the latter handed the
shotgun up--which the former took hold Of
by The muzzle. As he pulled it towards him
the lock caught in the hay or on the wagon
rack, discharging the gun. the contents pass
ing entirely through his chest, or brcas,
coming out al the back. The poor man man
aged TO reach his home but fell dead in .the
doorway.
Mr.. ID. I. Baker. "A workman in the black
smith shop of Mount 4 TAYLOR, on east