davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
SULLIVAN BAILED.

Alexander Sullivan was Yesterday
admitted to bail by Judge Tuley of
Chicago in the sum of $4,000. In re-
viewing the case and justifying his de-
cision the judge said that the evidence
before the coroner's jury duplicating
Sullivan as a conspirator in the death
of Cronin was mere heaTsay, and not
such as to warrant a denial of bail.
The judge may be correct in the main,
but the evidence that Sullivan cher
ished a fierce hatred for Cronin, and
feared him; that the latter frequently
expressed the belief that Sullivan
would compass his destruction; that
the cause of war between the two was
of such a nature as to involve the ex-
posture and disgrace of Sullivan as a
scoundreI, fraud and an embezZler,
or the removal of CrOnin
was beyond question. One of these
alternatives was inevitable for some
time. Cronin knew and felt it. Hence
the pTesentiment of his own destruc-
ton. No other hypothesis is advanced
by even the friends of Sullivan to ac-
count for his murder. The evidence
before the coroner's jury proving Sui
livan to be an embezzler of large suns
of moneyientrusted to his care was not
of the highest order, as the bank books
were not there examined. But it was
strong enough to warrant his incarcer-
ceration.
There is but very, little doubt that if
Sullivan got his deserts, he would be-
fore long dangle at the end of rope.
That he is the most despicable form of
the professional patriot is we'll known.
That he murdered in cold blood some
years ago the superintendent of the
Chicago schools, is notorious. That he
burned his store in Detroit for the in
surance which he never got, is now a
known fact. That he made stake in
standing in with smugglers while col
| lector of the port at Ell PaSo, Texas,
few years ago, for which he was kicked
out of Office is also known. That he is
wonderfully skilled in ways that are
dark, and an adept at intrigue, plot
and conspiracy, is clear to all. In short
Sullivan is bad man, a dangerous
man, because of his ability, and there
fore one that ought to be put to some
good use, such as stretching hemp OF
something of that sort. TO grant hin
bail was merely to give him an oppor
tunity to foil his pursuers and throw
them off the track. to doctor books and
accounts, and otherwise hedge against
danger. Judge Tuley's decision bear:
the imprint of politics on its face. Il
reads like the argument of an attorney
and shows that Sullivan has power
full political pull in Chicago.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
LOYAL LEGION.
A Grand Banquet at Kansas CITY To
Night.

A Grand Banquet at Kansas City To-
Night.
KANSAS CITY, June 15.-The annual
banquet of the Missouri and Kansas
Communicates of the military order of
the Loyal Legion of the United States
will be held at the Midland tonight.
Ex-President Hayes, COMMANDMENT
chief Of the order, was expected to be
present and preparations were being
made to receive him in a royal man
ner, but word was received from him
yesterday that he would not be able to
come. Among the distinguished men
who will probably be present are:
Generals Alexander D. McCoOk, Noble,
Hayes, Merritt, Ex-Governor Fletcher.
OF Missouri and John A. Martin and
GeorgeT. Anthony of Kansas, Colonel
Z. A. Smith, recorder of the Kansas
commandery, the Hon. D. p. Dyer of
Missouri, Major ChristiansOn of Kan
sas, and General Phelps. General
Sherman can not come, as Re has pre-
vious engagement to go to Denver in
July and is not able to make two such
long trips so near together.
Covers for 200 will be laid at the BAN
quet tonight, and after the
menu has been discussed there will be
a programme of music and toasts as
follow:
1. Music, ''America," by the sing
ing school of the Missouri comman-
derry.
2. The Army of the United States
i'm peace, the pioneer of the nation,
in the grandest feats of engineering,
physics and exploration; IN war, the
bulwark of the country's defense and
the rallying line for her citizen sol
diery GENERAL A. ID. MCCOOK.
3. The Grand Army of the Repub-
lie and the Sons of Veterans-The for
mer the nations well-tried defenders
in the past, the latter its sure reliance
for protection in the future.
COLONEL Z. A. SMITH.
4. The Loyal Legion-The loving
perpetuator of the best memories and
noblest lessons of the great war for the
union. COLONEL ID. p. DYER.
4. Historic Kansas = The fierce
fame of the battle for principle.
though kind1ed upon her soil in 1854
and fed by the lives of her best citizens
until extinguIshed at Appomattox in
1865, only made her attractions more
to freedom-loving men, so
that in 1889 union veterans people her
every hill and dale.
Ex-GovERNOR JOHN A. MARTIN
6. Missouri and her loyal men of
I651-The blood of the martyrs the
seed OF the church.
COLONEL r. T. VAN HORN.
Z. The Ladies-tIn War and in
Peace"
CAPTAIN EUGENE f. WARE.
8. The Long Roll
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

SHOOTING AFFRAY.I
A Bloody Fight Occurs in a JUS
tees Office.
Many of the People K lied and Sew
eral Wounded.
A Sensational Sequel to the Sup
posed Attempt at Suicide.
Smallpox and Yellow Fever Raging
in Brazil.

BAsTRoP, Texas, June, 15.-There
are conflicting reports about the cause
of the bloody shooting affray which oc-
CURED about eighteen miles south of
this place Thursday in which one
white man and five negroes were
killed and many others were wounded.
From one version it appears that in
the neighbOrhoOd where the trouble
occurred colOred justice of the peace
Orange Wicks and and a coIored con-
stable, Isaac Wilson, were recently
elected. The justice had issued
warrant for one A. d. Litten
(wbitel and it was put into the hands
of Wilson. Soon after he met Litten
and told him he had warrant for
his arrest and proceeded to read it.
Litten remarked that it was no use to
read the warrant for he would not be
arrested by a id Niger" Quite
crowd had gathered and Wilson's
friends advised that he place the war
rant in the hands of a white constable.
This he did and Litten was arrested,
but declared he would not be tried be-
fore colored justice. Notwithstand-
ing his protest, he was carried before
Justice WickeS whose court was in ses-
sion. The room was crowded with
blacks and whites. In the court room
Litten was very abusive and finally
words grew to blows then to the use of
six shooters snd Winchesters. Justice
WickeS was riddled with bullets and
instantly killed. The colored consta-
BILE was killed and two spectators were
filed with lead and died soon after.
Houston Moore, a colored boy. was also
killed by STRAY bullet. Alexander
Nolan and George SchOf, both white
men, were shot down and instantly
killed, as was another white man whose
name could not be learned. Litten
was also killed. The affair created in
tense excitement in the neighborhood.
1t is SAID that at least 100 armed men
gathered on the ground ready to renew
the fight, but all is quiet so far as
known here. Sheriff White of this city
sent a strong force down to the scene
of the trouble yesterday, and he antici-
pates 40 further fighting.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

Mrs. Matte Brown, an insane wo-
man, will be brought to the Topeka
asylum from LeavenwOrth, where she
was declared of unsound mind by a
jury in Judge Hawn's court. She went
to the Planters hotel in that city last
Saturday and registered from En-
poria. Her malady was at once appar-
emit to guests. She claims that her
children live in Leavenworth and that
some person is trying to keep them
away from her. One OF the ladies in
the 1rouse alluded to murder in her
presence, whereupon she became
alarmed and very wild. She has money
and good clothes and gave the name of
a prominent lawyer in Emporia as her
counsel. She said her name was Mrs.
Matte Brown and she is about fifty
years OF age, i've feet high, weight
about $50 pounds, light hair. blue eyes,
and = very high forehead. Topeka
Journal.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
ReY. Rernard KelIy.

The telegraph tells us that "a
citizen of EmpOria has beeu highly
honOred. Rev. Bernard Kelly has
received from the Illinois Wesleyan
university at Bloomington the degree
of doctor of divinity. Hehimself was
out of town to-day, but NEWS re-
porter saw Mrs. Kelly and cleaned
from her the following facts of her
husbands career,
He was born near Petersburg, Vir-
ginia-the date she did not know.
His parents both came from Ireland.
Endorsing for friends retrieve his
father, who was wealthy, to ordinary
circumstances. To renew his fortunes
he went to California, where he died.
His mother with her six children, re-
moved to Piqua, Ohio, where Bernard
learned the art of carriage ironing
While earning living there, he took
the advice of friends and joined the
Central Illinois conference. In the
second year of his probation, or i'll
1861, he joined the 1O3rd Illinois reg
iment, and while in camp was
made lieutenant. In four months
thereafter he was commissioned
captain. His regiment was a part of
the Fifteenth army corps, LOgan's. He
was in a great many battles, and re-
| ceived several wounds, the last being
one in the thigh received at Dallas,
| Georgia, on the march to the sea. In
consequence of this wound he was sent
home to Piqua. Ohio. He still carrie
that bullet in his thigh.
In June, 1865, he was married at
Piqua, and in 1866 entered the Cincin-
natl conference. where he remained I'M
til 1870, when he was transferred to
the Kansas conference. He came to
Emporia, where he was pastor three
years. He was next pastor at Ottawa
two years, two years at Fort Scott,
and four years presiding elder of the
Fort Scott district. After that he spent
three years as pastor at Wichita, and
two years at Winfield. He then be-
came presiding elder of the Emporia
district, which position ne has held in
the church for four years. He was
twice member of the general confer
ence. and a member of the executive
committee of the missionary and
church extension board.
The comforting of the degree of doc
tor of divinity on him was a complete
surprise, and is due, Mrs. Kelly thinks
to the intervention of friends in the
/ church.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20


SAYS the Wichita Eagle, replying to
some comments in the NEWS of a
recent date:
While the Eagle believes in temper
Ance. We cannot deny the fact, nor can
the News, that under the laws of Kan
sas for selling a keg of beer, a man
can be sentenced to a longer term of
confinement and to q greater punish
ment, than he can for manslau0hter
in any Of the degrees. That has been
done and right in this town.
Very we'll, If that be true, is not the
law permitting or sanctioning such
injustice faulty? If it be SO, why do
you uphold it with one hand, and
drag 1t down with the other? Why do
you, in general terms, approve it, and
inparticular instances condemn it?
Why say that as a law, it should be
faithfully Obeyed, while you another
time sneer contemptuously at it as
"Namby-p2mby, Miss Nancy" Le0is-
lation intended to make saints of us
all. That is the point of consistency
we make. If the law is a good one, it
deserves obedience and respect. If
not, say so and sneer at it as much as
much as you like. But quit trying to do
both. Quit barking with the hounds
and RUNNING with the hare.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
618 and 800
Commercial st.

''Our hair it caused to stand on end,
cold sweat it brought to brow;
Oh, may We hear it never more, may
peace e'er reign as now.''
Ex-Governor Thomas c. Fletcher.
8. Coffee, quinine and the army
mule-three indispensable factors in
suppressing the rebellion.
Col. j. II. GILLPATRICK.
There are sixty members of the
Loyal Legion in Kansas City, part of
whom belong to the Missouri and part
to the Kansas commandery. Colonel
Theodore s. Case is junior vice COM
mander of the Missouri cOmmandery,
While the G. A. r. admits to member
ship any honorably discharged soldier
of the civil war, only commissioned
officers and men distinguished fol
their consistent and active loyalty dur
ing the war, all possessing good moral
characters are eligible to membership
in the Loyal Legion, and this member
ship on the 30th of last april was 5,781
There will be no business meetings
whatever connected with this banquet
as it is purely social reunion of the
two Communicates and not an annual
convention.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

A CHICAGO paper, the Inter- Ocean,
discussing certain features of the
Cronin inquest, says of the fallen
power Of the Clan-na-Gael over its
member8. or those of them called to the
witness stand: mo human being now
has cause to fear the hatred of the evil
men who conspired and caused the
death of DR.. Cronin. They are impo-
tent as Is the dead body of their victim.
Their wickedly gained power and as
cendancy have departed to return no
more. Most of the witnesses have
spoken more plainly than was expected
or them; those who have prevaricated
or evaded have done so from natural
sympathy with evil methods rather
than from fear OF evil consequences to
themselves. And the evidence of
many of the witnesses has gone far to
dispel suspicion that any considerable
number of the members of the Clan
na-Gael are men who patriot for a
living Mistaken in their connections
OF the adequacy of Revolutionary means
to constitutional end they may be,
but that many, indeed most, of the
clan hate and despise and are ready to
purge the order of the presence OF pro-
fessional patriots to whom embezzle-
ment Is venial sin and murder an ep-
isode Of politics, is no longer debat-
able"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
ADexree for evBernard Kelly

BLOOMINGTON. ILL.,, June 1.-THE
college of letters and science of the III
inois Weslesan University, of this city,
held its commencement Thursday.
The address to the alumni was deliv-
cred by the Hon. Mark Fullenwider OF
EIdorado, Kansas. Among those up
on whom the university conferred de-
grees were the Rev. Bernard Kelly, OF
Emporia, Kansas; Rev. J.. Oliver
Wilson, of Philadelphia, and Right
Rev. Bishop P. f. Stevens, of Charles
ton, S. c.. all of whom were made doc
tors of divinity.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

The selection of Colonel Brice as
chairman of the democratic national
committee proves the confidence re-
posed in him by gentlemenin a position
to be able to judge him as a party
general. 1t is also proof that success
is not always sure and safe measure
Of ability.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
AMERiCUS NEWS.

AMERICU5, Kan, June u.
Mr.. j. D. Gibson is very much worse
this evening. so much so, in fact, that
a physician from EmpOria has been
called in for consultation.
Mr.. Fithian of Parsons, Kan, is
visiting his wife at this place. He will
return to Parsons Saturday.
Mr.. William Boris is having his farm
residence painted. Since building his
addition ne has a very commodious
home.
One of the city councilmen let his
COW run at large the other night and
paid the penalty of the law" $50 cents)
same as other folks.
Farmers are busy now in their corn
fields trying TO dispose of the weeds.
Corn is growing very fast now
since the last few warm-daYs.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
To-Day,s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

The president made the following
appointments to-day: Wakefield G..
Frye of Maine, to be consul general to
Halifax; John A. Leonard of Mime
sofa, to be consul general of the United
States at COnstantlnople; Oliver H.
Dockery of North Carolina, to be con-
sui general of the United States at Rio
de Janeiro; Oliver III. Simons of Col
orado, to be consul general of the
United States at st. Petersburg;
George w. Roosevelt of Pennsylvania,
to be consul general of the United
States at Brussels; Levi w. Browne of
Ohio, to be consul of the United States
at Glasgow.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

A LAWRENCE man has invented a
device to make horses step wide be-
tween the legs and prevent interior
Ing." A similar device applied to men
up there would prevent their occasion
al interference with lamp posts and the
like. There or at Topeka, which is
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

The pair fed to Kansas City where
they we're married.
The Wichita city council has been
petItIoned to abate the Salvation army
nuisance, or restrict their Gathering
parade to certain hours in the day
when least mischief can be done.
Manhattan sends three car loads of
corn, 4, 800 bushels, to the PennSylva-
MIA sufferers. The Union Pacific and
the Chicago. Burlington s. Quincy
roads carry the corn to Chicago, where
it VIII be sold and the proceeds sent to
JohnstOWn.
Edward SyIer and his hired man
were arrested this week, charged with
the murder of the Atchison farmer,
Proctor. found dead in his house with
his throat cut from ear to ear. Syler
is wealthy neighbor of his, between
whom and himself a long standing en-
nifty had existed.
W. C. Davis, of Mcfarland, Wau-
baunsee county, was found one day
this week in Sedgwick county, where
he had been roaming around a raving
maniac for some time, frightening
women and children, and was brought
before the probate court at Wichita
which adjudged him insane.
An Atchison woman has introduced
the La Tosca staff in that city. 1t is a
long cane and is carried on the street
| by women. It is the latest fad in Kan
Sas City and st. Louis, where it was
introduced by Fanny Davenport in the
play which bears its name.
Mr.. C. E. Snyder of Emporia is the
latest addition to Marion,s tonsorial
force. He holds chair with Sherman
& Bond, under the First National bank
manipulates the razor with great skill,
and ornaments the shop besid9s.-Mar-
ion record.
A largely attended mass meeting,
presided over by Mayor Lebold. was
held at Abilene Wednesday evening to
secure for abilene equally favorable
freight rates with Wichita. Business
men present demanded as good rates
for Abilene as are granted other Kan
sas cities.
II, arrested w. Z. Howard, alias S. E
Hardin. at Leavenworth Yesterday
charged with bIgamy. The has wife in
Marshall, Missouri and is said to have
two other wives, one at Gentry and
the other in one of the eastern states
The prisoner was taken to Marshal
Missouri.
There were sos students in the state
university during the past year, Of
whom 44S were from Kansas, repre-
senting ffty-nine counties. Douglas
county furnishes 172. Thirteen states
three territories, the District of Co
lumbia and Germany we're also repre-
sented-two students coming from TIT
German capital, Berlin. NineteeI
came from Missouri, six from Ne
braska and six from Iowa.
Yesterday afternoon, Colonel II. G
Whitley, a prominent citizen of En-
poria, and several members of the cit!
council, arrived in our city for tn
purpose of viewing the perfect system
of sewerage adopted by our city. Thu
gentlemen were taken in charge of b.
a number of our citizens and commit
tee of the city council and escorte'
over the principal streets and show
the advantage of our sewer system
The gentlemen pronounced the system
adopted here as first class and worth.
of such an important city as Fort Scott
The city of Emporia stands in need o
a perfect system of sewerage and cal
find no better than the one our city ha
adopted.-F Scott Monitor.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

THERE were no reservoirs back
Of them but the multitude
Of damns that have broken
loose since the firing on Of those
speeches by General Kelly and Gener-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

The News begs George Martin of
the Kansas City Gazette, and all other
Kansas editors, to be careful about
crediting to it editorials appearing in
the Emporia Republican. We have no
desire to rob that paper of the credit
due to the semi-occasional good things
that appear in it, and stOutly object
against fathering any part of the silly
napdoOdle found in every daily issue
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
AbiI enc GO Ne heard

ABILENE KAN. June IA mass
meeting was held this evening to at
tempt TO secure as favorable freight
rates for this point as the Railroad
Commissioners desire TO grant Wichita.
Committees were appointed aud prep
erations made for strong fight on the
question.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

IT is feared that Colonel Elliott
Sheppard, the pious and slightly imbe-
cile editor Of the New York Mail and
Express, will be appointed to the Rus
sian mission. If Sheppard had not
married a Vanderbilt, he would not be
available as a candidate for consul at
Upernavik, Greenland.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

A COMMITTEE OF gospel ministers
visited the Kansas City hospital and
reported that it is an ugly and dis
graceful place, swarming with rats
and all manner of Vermin. The pa
tients are not separated, and those of
different diseases are compelled to lie
next to each other. A fine common
tary that on HogtoWp.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
SmalADOXs

New ORLEANS, La, June 15.-News
has just been brought in by a gentle
man from Brazil who says that small
pox and yellow fever are raging in a
virulent form. Not alone in Rio ia
metro, but through all the states within
for three days at Santos was seventy
per cent. and people who could do SO,
were leaving in drOves.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

THE common fate of the masher had
another illustration at Clay Center
Tuesday, in the killing of Wellington,
but If anyone suppOses that that will
put an end to MASKING in Clay Center
even, that one is at subject for the
Rsylum for imbeciles.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20
GOVERNOR MARTIN saws of the l.,

GOVERNOR MARTIN says of the To-
peka Lynching:
ut was about time for such an out
burst OF popular rage, and so far as we
are concerned we shall shed no tears,
express no regrets. nor think that the
state has been disgraced If half q dozen
other midnight thieves are lynched in
half q dozen other Kansas towns
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

TIE Lawrence Tribune asks to be ire
formed whether or not anything was
said shout prohibition in the pamphlet
prepared by Emile Firmin for distri-
button at the Paris exposition. II Mr..
Ftrmin exercised the cheapest grade of
common serse in setting forth in his
pamphlet the many Inducements and
advantages which Kansas offers to the
Immigrant, he did not include amongst
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

THE thing that puzzles the admins
tration- mora than all others is to find
man to I'LL the vacant place on the
Cherokee commission. Increase the
pay and the problem will be instantly
aolvad
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-20

The Atchison Patriot says lone of
the ablest journalists in the state never
went to school three months in his
lifo." We don't believe it. Name
him, and tell us something about him.
IL what you say is true, a short sketch
OF his life and methods of self-culture
would be not only highly interesting,
but useful as an example of encour-
agement to others. Let US know who
h0 Ia