The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-07
KANSAS noIEs.


Small pOx has broken out at Win
field.
The Windsor hotel at Hays City
burned Monday. Loss s13 600.
John Buck aged "a Of Eudora died
suddenly Tuesday Of heart disease.
A Penalosa man took dose Of cor
rosiye sublmate instead OF calomel,
and died.
The Lawrence Cyclones" to the
number Of rs started for Washington
Wednesday.
The Wellington city council has de-
creed the abolition OF all wooden avn
ings in the city.
A Salvation army ditty has it I'VE
will shoot them through the heart with
the gospel gum"
The Oldest man in Kansas, Barney
Rogers died at Washington last Satur-
day. He was born in I7S5.
F. Bromelsick a well-to-do farmer
| living near Baldwin city suicided Tues
day by baDging.himself in his barn.
Wichita has a ''Dew Drops club,
| organized perhaps, in honor of the fam
GUS sour mash brand of that name.
Arkansas city is still booming Okla
homa. Two male infants" says a To-
Cal paper, were born there day or two
ago.
a. G.. SutheFn manager of Wider
Bros coal yard at Arkansas City skip
ped leaving his employers in the hole
for 81 GOO.
| A negro is ssan applicant for the post
Office at Kingman. There are others
| wanting it, but he hopes to get there
on the dark horse racket.
An empIoye of the Sterling salt
works fell into some boiling lime a day
or two ago and was badly scalded
about the legs and body.
The Colored citizens of Topeka will
wine and dine representative Fairfax
tonight. Mr.. Fairfax is the only col
ored member of the legislature.
The Atchison delegation to the pres
idential Inauguration will scatter fold
I ers advertising Atehison from the
train as it speeds through the east.
Nelson the man who victimizeo the
business men of Topeka and Lawrence
lately by forging checks for small sums
has been arrested at Omaha, and viii
be brought back to Kansas to pay fol
his fun.
o. G. Heggelund, president of the
Secepd National bank of Mcpherson
and of the First National bank o.
! LindSbOrg, accidentally shot and killed
himself yesterday, while handling 9
newly purchased revolver. Deceased
was SIS years old and carried S45, 600 lifI
insurance.
tits altogether probable that Empor
Ia will prove her faith in the rightful
, ness and justice of female suffrage b.
a practical demonstration of it workings
The NEWS presents the name of q
prominent woman of the city for may
0T and a miYA6 tipkaE for the ciEV
council.-Wichita Eagle.
The greatest trouble with AtchisoI
as newspaper town, and the same il
true of every other town of its size, i
that so much of the news cannot Dt
printed. The reader will understand
+ why; perhaps he himself has gone tx
/ the newspapers, and requested that NJ
: mention be made of something tina
was really news.
There is a cob pipe factory at Sedal
which - doing rushing business
The factory pays at the rate of one ant
fourth cents for inch and a quartz
} cObs snd one and a half centsfor incl
and half cobS. Aman hauled LOAF
the other day of inch and half cob
= which brought him S64. The tim,
may yet come when people will rails
wheat for the chaff.-ButtS.
There are six girls. and no boys, il
J the graduating class of the Atchisol
: high school. Four CT the girls arr
> white, and two colored. The bright
I est white girl in the class cOnfesse
that she finds it difficult to keep III
q with the brightest colored girl. Con
| sidering the difference in the whit
and coloIed population, the blacks de
l cidedly have the best of it in the class
n -Atchison Globe.