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


A fire at Russell Wednesday burned
$40. 900 worth of property.
A convention of lawyers will be held
at Fort Scott December %.
Foot pads of the home talent species
have begun operations in Topeka.
lydia Thomps on and her famous
band of handsome blondes are in Kan
sas City.
The Lawrence barb wire factory has
a contract for quarter of d million
pounds of wire.
This is the season for membranouS
Group and diptheria. Mothers should
be watchful of their children.
His pupils very deservedly it seems
logged McConnelly a fresh school
teacher at Andale, Sedgwick county.
Cotton, sugar cane, pea nuts and the
castor bean are regarded as the COM
ing source of prosperity in Cowley
county.
Hard cider is knocking the eye out of
the Murray law, as well as infiaming
that organ in number of citizens at
Winfield.
A fifteen year old wife in Indiana
has just given birth to three infants of
three and one-half pounds each. An
other sample of republican enterprise.
Slonecker president of the Kansas
republican league wants the clubs
| throughout the state to keep up their
organization. For what purpose? To
| fight the White Cap?
Milo maize is forage plant spoken
| of by the Garden City Sentinel as
adapted to all sorts of soil and climate.
Three crops year can be cut from it.
and chinch bugs and drouth do not at
feet it.
w. &. Foust aged sixty-two, living
near Usage city was found last Mon
day living dead on the floor of his house
Being separated from his family he
lived alone. Cause of his death un'
known.
John Madden. the friend of Cover
nor Eskridge suffered some damage al
the hands of the latter gentleman. In
Lyon county he ran behind his ticket
2S votes and in Chase 8 votes. That
was all.
Sarah Allen, Leavenworth woman
who claims to have once lived in the
shadow of royalty as cook in Queer
Victoria's kitchen, has just preferred {
charge of assault against Judge Bradley
of Topeka.
The newspapers are roasting ''thC
goldfish ninnieS" at LeavenwOrth WhC
OStraciSed a young man IN the sigma
service because his rank was not re
garded as high enough to warrant his
membership in ''cotilliOn club"
Milt Renolds eff the Gueda Springs
Herald would like to be, or his friends
would like to see him made secretar!
of the new territory of Oklahoma
Better wait until Easily consents tt
let us have territory called OklahO
ma.
Sol Miller believes in giving the boy
a chance at the public crib. AS Sol i
one of the ''Old crowd" his honesty
and disinterestedness is a trif1e re
markable. But then he wants moth
ing himself. That makes slight differ
ance.
: Thurston, the man who shot at d
! r.. Anthony in LeavenWoTth in 1886
and was sent to the penitentiary TO
eighteen years was pardOned Wednes
day-He must have been an exception
f ally good prisoner to get ten years o
. his sentence cancelled.
A convention of representative me-
was held at Baxter Springs one da
this week in which it was decided t
memorabilia congress touching the ad
visibility of throwing open the entir
: Indian Territory to white settlement
, and abOlIshing the tribal relations @
the Indians, giving them land i'll seN
crafty.
An agent of proposed gigantic il
f ternational salt trust visited Hutch
= son one day this week to make term
with the salt manufacturers of tina
place by which they can become men
bers of the trust or-take the consC
g quences. Developments are awaite
/ with interested the two per cent
minute sort.
> At Barclay in Usage county "A yea
old boy came out of his fathers nous
with gun one day this week and fire
D the contents-bird shot-into Ross Pc
: lard a neighbor. who was driving b!
Pollard was well peppered, but NJ
dangerously hurt. The boy was SUI
posed to be INDUCING practical jokt
a sprightly and promising boy.