Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-08

their kegs and jugs from the seven won
ders and talked of the bounteous harvest
of wheat now ripening into golden grain.
In whatever line it may happen TO be.
Kansas unexceptionally is always to be
seen in the front line. For example. an
exchange announces that Henry Clay
Whitney whom the dispatches an
nounced as shot in court room In Chi
cage by Mrs. Rawson was formerly a
lawyer and journalist of Lawren &c
Kansas,
At the Memorial day exercises at Ce-
darvale, Chatauqua county, the Meth
odist minister who delivered the opening
prayer, rose during progress OF Hon. A.
l.. Green's Grafton and confessed that he
had served in the Confederate ranks
during the war, but that he had ac-
cepted the results of the war and was
now sincere convert to the new order
of things.
A sensation was created yesterday
when it became generally known that
Robert Wetzel had mysteriously disap-
peared from home He arose early Mon
day morning; and put on the same clothes
that he had worn Sunday. His wife ask
ed him why he was getting up so early,
and he replied that he had important
business to attend to, and must go down
town. He left home about daylight, and
no trace of him, after that time, can be
discovered. Champion.
Andrew Watson, of Kansas, has been
appointed to a $1,000 clerkship in the
office of the Surgeon General, War De-
partment, and the latest thing out par
takes of the literary line. and the facts
in the case center around the little city
of Newton. 1t is the invention of a
''poetical machine with capacity of
three thousand words per day, and the
Republican states, the most stately her
ole lines. or vers de societe are ground
out with utmost ease. Inspiration unac-
counted for.
During heavy rainstorm at Cherry
vale last Wednesday evening. Charles
Milestone, young man who had been
visiting the family of Mrs. Cramer. IN
the northwestern part of the city, had
arisen to take leave when a member OF
the family remarked that he had better
wait until after the storm. as he might be
struck by lightning. He rejoined, If it
is the Lords will, am willing to go"
and the next instant was struck by
lightning and died in few minutes.
Mrs. Cramer is dangerously i'll from the
shock and her recovery is doubtful.
State Journal: John t. Bradley COM
menced action in the district court this
morning against United States Marshal
Jones and Deputy Marshal Noglesong.
The action is brought to recover $95
which the plaintiff alleges was wrong
fully and fraudulently taken from w. l..
Edwards by the defendants. Edwards
was arrested some time ago. charged
with robbing the mails. Plaintiff alleges
that he had S75 in his possession which
was taken away from him by the officers
and placed in the keeping of Deputy
Marshal Voglesong. He was afterwards
cleared and set at liberty, but alleges that
the deputy marshal refused to refund his
money.
Fort Scott Monitor: The waiting rooms
and the front porch at Kramers elegant
bathing house reminds one, on Sunday,
of the descriptions of the ancient Roman
public baths, where citizens gathered to
discuss the issues of the day and enjoy
the delights of the ablution. Last Srn-
day the place was fairly overrun, and as
fast as one batch came out another went
in until late III the evening. The Fort
Scott mineral water is becoming more
widely and favorably known every day,
and certainly from the remarkable cures
of headache, rheumatism, general debil-
ity, ETC., it deserves even more extended
notoriety. The newspaper editors who
were here week ago were all favarably
impressed with this water, and many of
them have given the bath favorable
notice