The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-12-27

below the surface is reported as being
found near Howard.
William McCuIly, desperate, was
captured at Caldwell last Friday and
safely lodged in Jail.
Sterling has salt works that will turn
out three or four hundred barrels adaY.
or somebody is lying.
1.-THE Drummer Boy and Spy will
hold the boards at Hartford tonight,
tomorrow and Friday night.
A scratch on the finger from a brass
pin is causing Parsons lady a great
deal Of pain in a much swollen arm.
There are patriotic souls in Kansas
who want to build q mansion for the
governor and increase his salary to
IS 900.
A creamery craze is now travelling
through Kansas. In the rustic mag
ination the creamery is panacea for
every agricultural i'll.
Postmaster Fulton of ElDorado
caught a festive drummer in too close
intimacy with his wife last Thursday
and now he asks for q divorce.
General Bradford is for making
every first class city in the state adopt
the metropolitan police system. Brad
fOrd's time is nearly up and he can
say what he pleases.
+. NJ. Scott, vice president of the
Pratt County National bank, arrested
few days ago on charge of robbing
the bank, was triumptantly acquitted
at the preliminary hearing.
Mrs. Longshore- Potts. of hyphenated
fame and English birth. is at present
lecturing in Kansas in costume of
black velvet en- traine, with Irish point
stOmacher and Marie Stuart cap.
The Coffey County Fair association
had a meeting last week and made the
discovery that it is in financially
sound condition, having from four to
five hundred dollars in the treasury and
not owing cent.
Fred Cruise, bartender at the Line
House, a place of resort near Fort
Scott, was killed Friday night by a
blow on the head from an lrou bar.
The assassin is unknown. The mo-
tive, robbery. About $40 and several
gallons of whiskey were crrried away.
1t is related that Judge Hutchinson,
desiring to take a rest, let the bench
in Washington county in the midst of
the trial of Elwood, and went home.
The lawyers, however, not willing co
saw off that way, placed Andy Wilson
on the wool sack to finish the case.
Elwood was acquitted, as were two or
proceeded to grant few divorces, aft
er which Joe Lowe assembled the ros-
trum and finished up the Docket
Atchison Globe.
A white woman fifty-three years old
passed through Atchison on foot
Wednesday last, having on her person
SAC, 900 In money. She IS the owner of
gold mine at Blackhawk. Colorado
where she went with her her husband
in 1854. They struck gold in 1856
after working on silver for five years.
Two weeks after their good luck hel
husband died, and within the next six
weeks her two children died. She con-
tinued to work the claim until October
80 last, when she started to walk
to Omaha. She reached the Missouri
river on the 18th of this month. Tues
day night she slept at G.. A. Griffith S
farm south of town.-AtchisOn Globe.
b. F. Allen, the farmer living near
Strawn, in Coffey county. who had a
| shooting match couple of weeks age
with DIR. Dumbauld, whom he accused
of criminal relations with his wife,
| published last week in the Hartford
Call card generating the doctor and
acquitting his wife of any "act that
her character.
| MI. MgeLG OI new OIk WAS
| guest Monday night at the Shepard
house. He arrived Monday Afternoon
in a two-horse carriage from the ives;
and had come overland from San Fran
cisco, California. He left San Fran
cisco on the fifteenth day of last Au
gust and made the entire journey with
no other companions than his horse:
and dog. He carried no firearms Of
any description and during the long
drive had no sort of an adventure. NJ
wild game was seen ON the trip, moi
even an antelope or jack rabbit. Mr.
Myett is a we'll dressed modest appear
ing gentleman and about sixty or six
ty- five years of age. He left Tuesday
for Kansas City, at which place he ha:
son. with whom he expects to spend
the winter. -Burlingame Chronicle.