The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

The annual meeting of the State {
Temperance Union takes place at Ut
lava June 20. Railroads viii sell tick i
sts at one fare for round trip. is
Hon. w. C. Spangier, of Lawrence. '
was chosen by the regents to act as | {
vice Chancellor of the University dur J
ing the summer. or until a chancellor
is chosen. II
To make more room at the 1iunhan
revival at Atchison' the women are
exhorted to leave off their buStles.
Bustles at religious awakening are
evidences of sinful folly anyway.
What's the matter with the girls at
Marion? The Record says there are
own and the community's good, to the
reform school for girls at Beloit.
All those who have ponds or run
ming streams which they wish to stock
with hsh can be supplied with all the
varieties adapted to this latitude II /
they will apply to the state fish COM
missioner.
A tramp called at house in McPher-
son who refused to take anything 70
eat unless permitted to pay for 1t IN
work. AS there was no work for him,
he moved on to another house. he
is too good to be wholesome.
Commencement exercises closed at
the State University Thursday. There
were nineteen graduateS-SeVen OF
them young ladies-in the collegiate
department, seventeen in law, seven IN
pharmacy and one, gentleman, IN
music.
State Senator Mohler saws the lynch
ing of Cleary at Lincoln last Tuesday
was case of foul murder perpetrated,
not by indignant citizens, but by
/ n q M hn an Turner
he killed in January, 1888. Mohler was
Cleary's attorney.
Lightning struck a Wichita girls
corset and young mans arm simulta-
neously. This strange freak can be
accounted for only by the theory that
corsets are good conductors of some
thing more than lightning. young
mems arms for instance.
Carl Hornaman, substantial far
4 mer living near Pittsburg, Kansas,
= quarrelled with his wife Wednesday
+ night, and ended it by choking her to
death with half-inch rope, and then
q hanging himself in the barn loft.
Sumner county machine stores have
T disposed of five hundred Self-binders
t | within the past month. That county
h has one hundred and forty Thousand
:. acres of wheat to har vest and it is one
of the best crops they have ever raised
= Lawrence Tribune.
An event of no small Importance if
l. the quarter centennial commencement
o of the State Normal school at En-
poria, which begins next Saturday
9 The exercises will be worthy of the
Y history of one of Kansas most Vdlua
% BILE Observation-Disclosures Capital.
It The first crop of fifteen acres of Al
~ falfa near Garden City made Yield OF
3 fifty tons of hay. a notable boom fol
u that species of grass, which in 1T
-e growth, resembles the republican par
a ing majorities.
Instead of parchment diplomas, tn
IL graduates of the Salina high schOO
II were given each a role of ordinar
foolscap paper containing grade averal
es. Some members of the board say tina
le the work done by the class merited n
n, higher honor. There is ruction Il
le consequence.
= Mary Clinkerman, the Swedish SCI
want girl in the Rogers family at TC
10 peka. who aided so bravely in over
rs coming the murderer Oliphant las
g, Tuesday morning, was presented wit
in a gold watch and chain and purs
- containing handsome sumo of money
d the gift of citizens who admired he
n pluck and bravery.
y Gov. Riddle, who is grand maste
IN of the Kansas Odd Fellows, has Gale
in upon the order for contribution for tn
- Odd Fellows of JohnstoWn. All tn
is lodges in the state will meet and sen
We drafts to Samuel F. Burdette, LeaN
OF enworth, who is given the authorit
f. to forward the money.
n The burglar who killed the TopeE
merchant Rogers and shot his wife
u their bed room early Tuesday mOrnini
a and whose name was OGphant and N
It's Oliver as the first accounts gave it, w;
ra 80 years old and a Hoosier by brit
His parents, he said, live in st. Al
% drews. Florida. a brother, Fred, liv
i'll at Newton and another. Thomas,
on Pueblo.
by The damage to the Topeka ia
nf caused by the mob who broke it
pursuit of Oliphant. the burglar ar
IN murderer, is estimated at $500. Tn
gle the lyncherS claim, is no more than Il
ac- villains trial would have cost the sta
~, if the law had been allowed to take i
course.
Mrs. DIR. Prentiss of LawrenC
Kansas, prominent lady IN tne stal
was on one of the trains that we
es- swept away in the Conemaugh vale
he Her many friends in the state W
'n0 learn with SORROW of this estimat
'ue lady'S fearful fate.
ing The quarter centennial commend
MT, ment of the EmpOria Normal schC
do begins next Saturday. The Norm
-, school is one of the institutions of t
al state in which every Kansan takes
9th just pride. 1t has done and is doing
eX- great work in the education of t
,is- teachers of the state, and is the bt
- school of its kind in the west.-La
Ceu renee Tribune.
0n0 More devilment in Topeka. A you
u negro tough Is now in Jail there
,m- waylaying young man on the strt
.bIe Wednesday night, as he was returni
tod from a visit to a young lady friend, a
"0u without provocatiOn whipping out a
use vOlver and blazing away at him,
d is bullet taking effect in his hand.
axe The friends of Noble Prentis will
,re- glad to leard that the jury in his C;
~ against the Republican company
ho Newton, has decided in his fav
Irse awarding him 81 900, the amount sp
to flied in his contract with the compal
hat in case the company should fail to c
a. ry out its agreement. The verdict '
ois- righteous one beyond the shad
of doubt.-State Journal.
A Territorial Land Decision.