The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-18

hich weighed ten and one quarter D
1unds. Two more in the load q
eigbed respectively nine and three
uarters and eight and one-hal pounds.
or early cabbage this is hard to beat.
Every circumstance of fast life is to v
e found in Oklahoma, not emitting q
ace track even, located near Oklahoma
'ity. G
Judge Joel Holt of Topeka who was s
ately honored by Dartmouth college
With the degree of L. L. D., has just
Inherited s1O0, 900 from a California
,rother, lately deceased.
The recent rains in the northwest
las had considerable effect on the Cot
onwood river. On last Wednesday
rose over eighteen inches. but has re
,eeded to its former level
The man who cooIs his coffee with
angle foot, III Emporia is sure of a
perth in the quay. at least so it
seems from the way the fellows have
been brought up for the past few days.
1t would be next to impos-
sible to enumerate the various kinds
Of Office seekers who are making a |
social call'' on Senator Plumb. these |
days. These ''social calls" often bring |
wonderful results indeed.
Ex-Governor Click returned to his
,ov,,o IN A foh;co,, FINbuVC6ou OF noon Of
teran interview with political friends in
Emporia. Mr.. Click has many warm
friends in Lyon county, who are ever
ready to welcome him in our city.
Emotional insanity was the plea al
legged in defence of DIR. Stewart, tried
for killing Wellington at Clay Center.
The plea was a mere formality. If it
had been emotional or honorable in
dignation, instead, the verdict would
have been the same.
A gentleman who has been travelling
over the county for several days past,
assured us that the oat crop was much
lighter than many supposed it would
be. The rust has damaged it badly in
a number of AeighbOrhoods, though
some few fields are uninjured and will
yield heavy crop.
John e. EIston the man employed to
transfer the mail at Lawrence between
the depot and the post Office was ar
rested Yesterday by a deputy United
States marshal, charged with stealing
parcels from the mail pouches. He
waved preliminary examination when
taken before Commissioner Wilson.
All the farmers who can muster
the cold nerve, are cutting hay and
bringing it to town. 1t will not cure
now in a week, and only weighs about
three times as much as if cut at the
right time. There is no real danger
of a financial panic among the far
mers, when they can sell green grass
at baled hay prices.
Mrs. G. w. Dawson, living seven
miles north of town, died at her home
last night of cancer of the stomach.
Mrs. Dawson came from Cowley county
three years ago and was forty
years of age. The funeral will be
observed at o'clock tomorrow after
noon. The remains will be laid at rest
in MaplewoOd cemetery.
Emporia wants sewerage and it,
council is about to begin battling witt
the question. There are good man!
things to be learned in connection will
the putting-in of a sewer system anC
Wichita is getting her share of the ex
perience just now. AS soon as we ar
done with it, we will give Empori
some valuable ointers.-Wichit
Journal.
The John NJ. Brown nominate
Monday by the republican county cor
vention for county clerk of Shawne
county is the colored ma
| who had scheme yea
or so ago for colonizing negroe
; in South America. He has bette
' thing now if they don't beat him at tn
: polls and elect a democrat, as they di
: in the case of the colOred man who IA
for police judge of Topeka last fall.
n fellow answering to the name {
McKeon got on a little Jag tn
morning, for which he was prompt
/ pulled and lodged in the bastile. II
WAS well heeled as far as money
b concerned, as he had over one hundre
s and City dollars with him at the tim
II of his arrest. AS we go to press he
not in shape for trial, but perhaps wi
be before night, when he will be a
lowed his freedom if his fine is pal
e promptly.
,. A mule is a mule, no matter no
: pleasant his surroundings may be {
Q how delightful his work, the sam
II spirit of cussedness is always uppe
: most. The LATEST mule on the stree
! car line, one that is never known
{ move out OF walk OIL ordinary occas
e sions, undertook to run away Thursda
g morning when he had the driver fOu
;; Finding that he was not to have b
= own way in the matter of running, b
t baked, and would not bulge peg ii
t the spirit moved him.
AT an early hour yesterday morning
a tramp entered the residence of Mrs
n II. S. Withers, situated in a lonely paI
d of Wichita, and demanded food. tn
: lady did not like the looks of the MAJ
and shut the door in his face. III
. ruffian then threw himself against
and burst it open. Mrs. Withers trie
:, to escape by a back door, but wa
seized by the throat and dragged on
bed. In the struggle which ensue