The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-23
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have been appointed.
kansas NOIES.

Thursday week will be decoration day.
A gang of burglars are working
Hutchinson.
Fred Krebs. cashier of the Bank of
Horton, dropped dead in the bank last
Friday from heart disease.
At the class day exercises of the
Lawrence High school, held last week,
the graduating class numbered forty
four.
Secretary of State Bill Higgins re-
turns from trip over part of the
state satisfied that the wheat crop is
going to break the record.
a Tonic Sofia concert has just been
successfully accomplished at Emporia,
and that is something that they have
never had. even at Lawrence. G.
Star.
Fred. Rose, aged twenty-four. and
connected with the Solomon Valley
Democrat, suicided last week by shoot
ing himself through the heart. Cause
not known.
The late rains have done eonsidera-
BILE damage in places to railroads, by
means Of washouts. The principal
sufferers are the Union Pacific and the
Missouri Pacific.
A ''twister" was seen to form in the
clouds few miles from Lebo few
udyS dHOs IL hlOl14l <SOO VI OOU
feet of the earth and moved away into
the upper air where it became lost.
Thirty-five people ran up to Emporia
from Cottonwood Falls to hear Clara
Louise Kellogg. EmpOria does quite a
nice little jobbing trade in high art
among the towns of the Cottonwood
Valley.-K. G. Star.
When the police Of Leavenworth
were in the hands of the mayor and
council the city received a revenue
from their work. Since the metropol-
itan police were appointed they have
cost the city $500 per month more than
what they have collected.-Sun.
The Bristol sisters, of Topeka, who
have been in the greenhouse business
for many years in Kansas, and a year
fornia. to go into the real estate bust
ness, are back again. engaged in the
old pursuits.
A month ago Captain E. F. Goodrich
of the Lawrence Cyclones was ap-
pointed postmaster. His bond was
filed, but Goodrich has failed to re-
ceiye his papers. Captain Goodrich
has appointed all his assistants and
carriers, many of whom haYe thrown
up other places. 1t is understood that
the defeated candidates have caused
various charges to be filed against
Captain Goodrich.
Jacob Miller is native of Switzer-
land who has the past year been the
raises his own silk worms and WeaveS
his own silk. Many of the ladies of
I the town wear dresses, the silk of
which was manufactured by him.
Handkerchief of various hues and
beautiful patterns are also the results
of his handiWork, and find a ready
sale at home.-Salina Gazette.
The men in the pumping station did
not realize that the bridge had gone
down until they discovered that the
mammouth pumps were taking air.
The works were: shut down, and the
score of men at the reservoir at Quin-
daro were ordered by telephone to cot
of the flow of water through the So
mates the damage sustained by the wa
ter company at $50, 600, with no insur-
ance.
at $50 Sunday morning a huge pile
of drift wood in the swift current of
the Kaw river struck the west pier of
the water company's bridge at Kaw
point. The bri0ge sWayed back and
forth for moment and then the mas
sive pile of stone crumbled and rolled
OtCI lubO tuo NdJcI. An 1USGauO ldDcE
the middle and west spans of the
bridge, each 80 feet in length, that had
been resting on the pier, went down
with a laundering noise. This was
followed by the roar Of rushing water
from the large 36-iHch main that had
been used to convey the city's water
supply from the big reservoir at Quin-
dar0, four miles above the pumping
station.
The Kansas City, Lawrence & Wich-
tia Railroad company filed its charter
with the secretary of state to-day. The
purpose of the company is to construct,
maintain and operate q railroad of
standard gauge extending from point
on the main line of the Kansas City,
Wvandotte & Northwestern railroad at
or near Tonganoxie. LeaYenworth
county. southWesterly through the
counties of Leavenworth, Douglas,
Shawnee, Usage, Lyon Chase, Green
wood Butler and SedgWiek to the city
of Wichita. The estimated length is
ISL miles. Capital stock, %. 000. $50.
Shares, 800. The directors ara: New
man Erb OF Memphis. Tennessee; A.
L. Applewhite, Kansas City. Kansas;
G. r. BrothertOB. Kansas City. Kan