Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-04-28

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dry goods store.
The latest reports from Medicine Lodg
put the number Of people who lost thci
lives by the flood at nineteen.
Tom Flanagan challenges ant man il
Wichita TO throw stone from twelve e
sixteen pounds foE a wager Of S25.
The man who seduced girl at Gardel
Plain some time age, was arrested at tn
Fort Scott depot in this city yesterday.
Police Officer Dan Parks returned ycster
day evening from his hunting expedition
with enough game 10 pay him for the trip.
Hank Brasier, the old fearless policeman
who VIII do his duty regardless of persons
wears the star Of the city police once more
Charles Richmond, brother Of J. E, oul
boss wagOnmaker, len for Barber county
yesterday to attend 60 some worE an hi
claim.
j. b. Rutledge has opened dry goodt
and grocery store in the Rouse building
lately vacated ny the Neely sisters in West
Wichita
AG- \. ZONES said yesterday that he re-
ceived letter from Louise Sylvester. from
New Orleans, saying she had arrived there
safe and sound.
Prof. Black Will, at the Christian church
tonight, discuss the importau; and interest
ing subjec; of The Sovereignty of God and
the Freedom of Man" All invited
The body of McDaniel-, the Inflated en-
gineer of the Fort Scott road, was found
about eight miles below the bridge, lodged
against a tree fifty fee; from the rivers edge.
No inquest was held here.
Mrs. \. J. Ryan and Mrs. s. W. Head. of
Topeka, the mother and sister Of Mrs. J. W.
Hartzell, are paying visit to Mrs. H., and
will remain till after the return OF the colo
mel, who is enjoying Il trip through the
south.
Mr.. and Mrs. White attended the we'd
ding of Mr.. Reeves, late of Indiana, and
Mrs. Belle Anderson, who resides near
Greenwich, this county, last Sunday. Rev.
Mr.. Wallace, Presbyterian minister of
Greenwich, ofliciated.
Councilman y. a English, who is a d.
rector in the Fort Scott & Wichita, left last
night after the adjournment of the council
on special for Fort Scott, where the board
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the necessary quorum could not be had.
II. f Friend and y. f. Osborne arrived
from Englewood Sunday and report the
young CITY progressing beyond their most
sanguine expectations. While at Dodge
City Mr. Friend bought nineteen quarter
sections of school land for the firm Of which
he is member.
Yates Center News: The EAGLE man is
all cut up over the result Of the recent
election in the city OF Wichita and is now
turning his attention 20 theology, so long
neglected by him, and 10 Sunday musings.
Murdoch was certainly intended by the
Creator for preacher.
Senator Smith, Of Marshall county. who
has been in the making of Kansas for a
good many years, of and on, mustered up
courage 10 make the metropolis of the great
Arkansas valley visit. He arrived in town
Sunday evening and spent the day taking
in the town, leaving by last nights Santa Fe.
Thus one by one the prominent men of
Northern Kansas are dropping down TO YER
ify all the EAGLE has been telling them for
dozen years and more.
Hon. James W. McDill, o; lows. sue
eessor to GOV. kirkwcod in the United
States senate. is in the city and a guest of
NJ. l.. D. Skinner, of the Kansas State
bank. The honorable gentleman had been
down to Medicine Lodge. he having made
flying trip in great anxiety. as he hiss
daughter living there. snd there being no
telegraph line to that point over which he
would learn the particulars of the late food.
Prot. Joseph Cook, who has travelled the
physical world over for wonders and the
sciences through for amphobias viii be in
this city Thursday night TO lecture in behalf
of the W. c. T. L. Few readers IN Amer
lea there sre who do not know something Of
this man who dclvcd after the origin Of life
and species in way that challenged the ad-
mrstion OF the world. His lecture will be
worth more than will be charged q dozen
times over and no cultured persGa in Wieh-
its should fail Of hearing him.
G. NJ. Goldsmith, Of Burton, one of ,he
Oldest residents Of the valley, was in the city
yesterday in search OF stolen mare which
was taken from the stable in February. She
is light gray seven years old The man
supposed to have stolen her Is in jail at New
ton, awaiting his trial. He is light COM
plectsd man, with light, curly hair. hazel
,l1,xs g. hall So,