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

The railroad commissioners IN SeS-
sion this week at Topeka to hear the
complaints of railroad men against the
Wichita decision of the board reducing
freight rates to and from that point,
have reaffirmed that decision. In do
ing so, after full and complete hear
ing of the case as presented by both
sides to the controversy, the board eX-
planned fully the reasons for its decis-
ion. Wichita was Disseminated
against in the matter of rates. She
complained to the board and asked a
hearing. 1t was granted. Her COM
plant was found to be a justifiable
one. 1t similar relief was not granted
to other Kansas towns, it was because
they never asked for it. The board is
a judicial body, and can only take
judicial notice of cases pre-
sented to its consideration. The
inference follows as matter of course
that the board is ready at any time to
give hearing to any other town that
may choose to complain of unfair dis
elimination in freight rates.
In justifying its decision in the
Wichita case the board makes the
following defense of Its action:
1--WE cannot be blind to the fact thai
the manufacturing and commercial in.
terests of Kansas City, Missouri, de-
rive their principal benefit from this dis
elimination in freight rates We have
not been put in possession of any gooC
reason why the railroads built upoI
Kansas soil, in part with the money Of
hIepeople should be employed in such 3
manner as to repress development anC
enterprise within the state, and determ
inc the location OF capital and business
at point Immediately beyond her Dor
der. We are quite unable to imagine
and no one has revealed to us a single
reason founded in justice or good bus
mess policy, why Missourians living il
Kansas City, competing for the trade o.
Kansas with Kansans living in the int
rior of the state and pursuing the same
line of business, should be given TWEEN
ty per cent the advantage over the Kan
sas man in transportation rates owe
Kansas railroads. The logic of our de
cision in this case is, that the Ksnsa
man is entitled to be placed in this re
spect upon a condition of fair equalit,
. with the Missourian."
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
Queen vIctorie,s symua.hy.

WASHINGTON, June s.-Sir Julian
Pauncefote, the British minister,
called on the president this morning,
in company with Secretary Blaine, and
delivered a message from Queen Vic
toria. expressing her deep sympathy
for the sufferers by the recent floods in
Pennsylvania. The president said in
reply: "Mr. Minister-This message
of sympathy from her majesty. the
queen, will be accepted by our people
as another expression Of her own gen
erous character, as well as of the
+! friendlinesS and good will of
her people. The disasters which
have fallen upon several communities
in the state of Pennsylvania, which is
extreme aud full of the most tragic and
herrifying incidents, have fortunately
been limited in territorial extent. The
generosity of our citizens will promptly
lessen to these stricken people every
loss not wholly irretrIevable and these
the sympathy of the Queen of thu
English people will help to assuage
Will you, Mr.. Minister, be pleased t.
convey to the queen the sincere thank
of the American people.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
The kissing Habit,

The fact that the kissing habit fur
nishes an easy vehicle for the dissent
nation of disease germs is of itself q
sufficient reason for its abandonment.
Many instances have been cited to de-
monstrate its dangerous character in
this regard, and medical men have re-
peatedly sounded the warning against
its continuance. A little thought will
emphasize the point in the readers
mind. The woman who goes about
kissing all her women friends and ac-
quainEauces and their children, old or
young, sick or well, regardless of the
condition of their blood or lungs and
oblivious of the possibility that they
have recently been kissed by dozen
other persons respecting whose hygenic
conditions she has no knowledge, can
hardly plead that the practice is inno-
cent of danger. Fatal diseases NAV
be and sometimes are communicated
by the impact of the lips and the
mingling of their moisture and of the
breath, and disorders that are less i'm
mediate or direful in their effects, but
no less certainly to be dreaded, are
more easily and often propagated by
the kissing habit. The person Swhom
you kiss may be entirely free from any
disease or unhealthful condition, yet
her lips may carry poison recently
taken from those of another person.
You may be yourself the innocent
means of transmitting the disease germ
from one to another. Poisonous cos
metics and face-powders multiply and
compIicate the malignant consequences
of what is held to be an innocent ex-
preston of affectionate regard, though
1t must be admitted that, as usually
practiced, the social kiss is oftener the
cloak of hypocrisy. There have not
been wanting persons claiming to speak
with the authority of knowledge who
have controverted these arguments
and endeavored to discredit the facts
upon which they are based. But the
unchallenged admission that some
danger does exist has been sufficient
to practically substantiate the case
against the kissing habit, and the
warrant for its baniShment is being
signed and executed by the enlighten-
ed womanhood.
The kissing habit has been carried
to its greatest extreme among English
speaking people, and people of other
blood are often amazed and amused
by the universally and cheapness of
the kiss among the English nations.
It is not necessarily an argument In its
favor, however, that It is thus found to
be an accompaniment of the highest
civilization. for it may be promptly
retorted that vice and crime also in
crease with civilization, and that even
civilized and refined PEOPLES often
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

CLAY CENTRE, June S.-A terrific
hail storm visited the south part of
this county last night. 1t was pretty
severe in the neighborhood of Wake
field, but was SO limited in extent
that it will cut no figure in the aggre-
gate crops of the county, which will be
immense.
The Clay county bank, the Oldest in
the Republican valley, owned by John
Heginbotham of Topeka and managed
by his son, III. G, Heginbotham, closed
| its doors this morning, naming d. ii
Myers, president of the First Nationa
bank. Its assignee abilities amount
to something over s1G2, 900. Assets no
known. The failure was brought abou
maturing bank paper. Until this morn
ing it was considered one of the strong
est institutions in this part OF Kansas
and its suspension comes with grea
SuddenneSS,
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a GENTLEMAN just returned from
Salina and other points in the state
said that he never saw grander agri-
cultural prospect. Wheat everywhere
is as fine as rich soil and the most fav-
orable weather could make it. Oats is
heading out and is looking fully as
well, only lacking the richness of color
seen in the ripening wheat. With a
few days of dry weather, Kansas farm
ers will reap the greatest crop of wheat
ever harvested in the state. The oats
harvest equally as good, will follow in
in few days, and corn, flax and pota-
toes which have no hies on them to
hurt, will further along round out the
granger's felicity to the tariff
eh, governor?
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KANSAS NOTES.

Clay Center has sent $500 to the
Johnstown sufferers.
4 baby born at Woodsdaie lately
weighed only one pound.
Blind Boone, the colored pianist, is
awaking the echoes in Kansas.
Interest in cherry pie and the Fourth
Of July is picking up considerably.
There are said to be over one hun
dred applicants for superintendent of
the SaIina schools.
tits q matter of newspaper surprise
when a night passes at Atchison with
out an arrest being made.
n''Rebeoca's Triumph" by home tai
emit, triumphed over the citizens of
Larned Wednesday night.
Eleven business houses were destroy
ed by fire at Syracuse, Kansas, yester-
day morning. Loss S23, 900.
The Topeka J0urnal notes the fact
that every mandatory ever started
in Topeka with aid from that town,
has broken up.
Lewis, Gavin and Wood, the gentle
men scalded by boiling lard at the Fair
banks lard refinery at Hutchinson
Thursday, have since died.
Fort Scott WIZ celebrate the Fourth
in her new government building, which
is now receiving the finishing touches.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

RHODE ISLAND has tried high
license, and she has tried prohibition.
High license was in vogue there some
years ago. The advocates of prohibi-
bitiOn succeeded in persuading the peo-
pie that it was far from accomplishing
all the good possible, and that they
should 90 step further and adopt a
constitutional amendment prob biting
the manufacture and sale of intoxi-
Giants. Prohibition has prevailed in
that state for some two or three years,
and with what result? This, that by a
large majority, the people demand a
re-submissiOn, which was promptly
granted by the legislature. They will
vote on the question June 20, or two
days after Pennsylvania does. Pro-
hibitiOn will be rejected as it was in
Massachusetts, and high license will
be adopted in its stead. 1t is thus be-
coming more and more evident every
day in spite of all that is said by the
enthusiasts, that judicious restraint
Of the liquor traffic is the only prae-
tical solution of the probl I'm presented.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

GOVERNOR EsKRIDGE tells us this
morning with undisguised satisfaction
that he was an interested and-we
presume delighted spectator-at
the righteous" hanging of the Tope-
ka murderer night before last. We
note with some surprise that he does
not attribute the righteous work. to
the beneicent influence of the tariff OF
Of prohibition. Is it because he found
during his stay at the capital city that
the tariff-the Kansas City tariff-oI
prohibition, of the Kansas City sort
was leetle high?
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DaatardIK iced.

LAS CRUCES. n. M, June About
1 O'Clock this morning some miscreanI
went to the ranch house of the Detroit
s. Rio Grande Cattle company at To-
nuco, twenty-five miles from here,
gained an entrance through an open
window, and, with an ak picked up at
the wood-pile, struck the sleeping wife
of the foreman, Frank Wallace, on the
head, and then carried her out in the
corral. The others in the house heard
the noise, and the cowboys soon gave
chase. A negro cook, who was recent
ly discharged, was suspected, and was
finally found hiding in the brush neal
Dona Anna. He resisted arrest and was
shot dead
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

IT is thought that Sol. Miller will go
into connIptions when he hears that
Baby Mckee was baptised the other
day in the Blue ParlOr in the presence
of an august assemblage composed of
the cabinet and other dignitaries. We
regret to say that Sol. does not enter
tain the most friendly feeling possible
for the young lady in question. 1t is
therefore not difficult to imagine what
will be his disgust at reading about The
pomp and circumstances of the impor.
tant affair, which will be all the more
intensified at hearing that the water
used to sprinkle the brow of the little
lady was taken ten years ago from the
river Jordon.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
KANSAS PATENTS.

Granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending May %, 1899, reported
through the office of w. A. Redmond
solicitor of patents, 631 F street, N. w
Washington, D. G.
j. A. CARRIER, Hatton, sulky pillow.
&C. FIR Hurrel, HoltOn. pipe coupi
ing.
George Kimbail, Lawrence, wheeI
pillow.
L. H. Oldfeld. Newton, stovepip'
anchor and fiue cleaner.
F. B. Pettengill, Rosedale, steam
valve.
Governor l. a. Shaw, Kinsley, com
bination lock.
IA. NJ. Stoddard, Eureka. weathe
strips.
H. l.. Weber, Stafford, tree pro-
tectOr.
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KIlIed bY an Editor.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June ii. II.
Benjamin, editor of the Deland News,
shot and instantly killed Captain j w.
Douglass at New Smyrna last night.
Douglass is prominent citizen of Day
tona and a we'll known democratic pol
itician. The shooting was the result
of an old feud, renewed by recent at
tacks by Benjamin in the columns OF
his newspaper. Douglass assaulted
Benjamin, knocking him off the piel
into the marsh and jumping on him
choking him and holding his head I'M
der water. Benjamin managed to gel
hold, of his revolver, and, placing il
against Douglass body, fred, the bal
entering his heart and killing him al.
most Instantly. There is much excite
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
The Word Rather"

Robert Browning says apropos of
the phrase II would rather:
LAS regards my objection to the
slovenly 4 had for I'd instead of the
proper i would l shall not venture
to supplement what Lander has mag
isteriaIly spoken on the subject. An
adyerb adds to and does not, by its
omission. alter into nonsense the verb
it qualities. i would rather speak
than be silent, better criticise than
learn are forms structurally regular.
What meaning is in i had
speak, had criIicise ?"- american Notes
and OueI les.
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618 and $50
Commercial st.

keep alive barnarous practices. IN
herited from savage ancestry. The
kiss, in its proper function, has fine
significance. and may be made the
vehicle of the purest emotions, the
honest expression of legitimate feel
ing, greeting full of genuine, vOlun-
tary sympathy and love. the kissing
habit is an abuse and misuse. 1t has
brought the kiss into disgrace and
made it vulgar. cheap and hypocritical.
Be it the providence of this generation
of refinement and education To rescue
it from its degraded estate and restore
it to its natural elevated and eleyating
place and use in the social economy
Good Housekeeping.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
EDITORIAL BREVITIEa.

THEY are talking in Arkansas about
having Kansas put under a marshal
law.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER refuses
the consulate at Hong Kong. Virgin
ia whisky is preferable to China tea.
THE latest intelligence from Johns
town is that the number of victims of
the flood will be fully as great as the
highest estimates placed it.
IT is probable that the daughter of
John NJ. Clayton, assassinated last
fall in Arkansas, was to-day appointed
post master at Pine Bluff in that state
Ir is a rather hard thing to do. but
we find that few Kansas editors are
not unequal to the task of lying about
the enormous crops Kansas will pro-
duce this year.
| LEMON squeeze social" is now the
name for it at Strong City. The sqeeze
issnot assour as the name would suggest
from the fact that-well, that the lie.
mon is not the victim.
THIRTY thousand copies in pamph,
let form of Bishop Potter's centennial
sermon have been sold. What was it
Barnum said about the peoples delight
at being humbugged,
THE White Lead trust, Just formed
is the latest or one of the latest
as trusts are being formed every day
No day without its trust is the new
} reading of an old precept.
Mrs. GENERAL LOGAN having sine
: last October made tour of the princi
cipal cities of Europe in company witt
the two daughters of Geo. NJ. Pullman
is now in London, preparing to return
to the United States.
THE governor of Illinois has Jus
signed bill passed by the legislature
requiring all directors of banks organ
lied under the laws of the state, t
own at least ten shares of bank stoc
3 valued at 800 each.
!, ANY sort of plug will do for vice
roy of Ireland, or will have to do. sine
an ambitious fellow would not hav
the position. Consequently Earl Zet
land, Milford with ancestral acres.
handsome wife-of course-and a null
: let head, was given the place
THIS year of grace is fast becomin
an annus mirabilis. The,Johnstown vi
h speakable disaster, the Jacksonville am
Seattle fires, are proofs in point. VIVA
p chance is here presented in poeti
way, for another Dryden. What's tn
matter with the epic soul of T. Browe
Peacock?
' OF course newspapers elsewhere wi
a sheer at Topeka, holy Topeka, 70
2 lynching man on the most publ
thoroughfare in the city. But that i
! nothing. Perhaps she may go ahea,
and hang few more with profit t,
\ herself, if a way could be found to de
/ termine who is ripest for the rope.
7 JUSTICE GREY and Miss Matthew
are bound fast in the bonds of wedlocl
at last. The giddy young things wen
to Boston to spend the honeymoon
! At the end of the month they will sal
for Europe, going to Switzerland
where they will brace up by climbing
I Mont Blanc or the Matterhorn.
ANOTHER shooting affair at Topeka
An attempt at assassination this time
which failed only by the merest chance
If murder and kindred outrages in
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

POSTMASTER GENERAL WANASIA-
KEN is said to be gathering IA record
OF the work done in postofiices on Sun
day in order to learn how great the
necessity for keeping them open. There
can be no doubt about the evangelical
character of the present administra-
ton. 1t is looking out not only for ouI
temporal good, but for our spiritual sal
walton as well. And yet democrats
will persist in being dissatisfied.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
ATerrItorInl land DecisIOn

CHEYENNE, Wyo., June S.-The ter
ritorial supreme court has decided that
owners of land may fence the same in.
even if they in doing so inclose govern
ment or public land. For this alleged
offence Ex-Governor Blair was removed
by President Cleveland. Nearly 300
600 acres of the public domain have
been fenced by individuals and cor
poratlons in Wyoming. The case will
be carried to the supreme court of the
TTnifo6 States
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
Took MOrnhine

DUBURUE, Iowa, June IA young
woman was found this morning in a
lane at West Dubuque sitting under a
tree in dying condition. a physician
was summoned and pronounced it a
case of morphine poisoning. Every eff
fort was made to save her life, but she
died few hours later. A bottle that
had contained morphine was found
near her. 1t was evidently a case of
suicide. She was a stranger, was well
dressed and had $3.50 cents in her
purse. She was of medium height
with coarse black hair, was about Is
years old and quite good looking. There
is no clue to her identity.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

PENNSYLVANIA votes on prohibition
on the 18th. Two days
later, Rhode Island which now
has prohibition votes on a resubmis-
sion of the question. 1t will probably
follow New Hampshire, Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania. and vote for high
license.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
A High Recommendation.

An Oxford county parson tells as
this: A young Methodist minister had
made application TO the conference for
a license. He was highly recommends
ed by the presiding elder whom the
bishop asked about the applicants
preaching abilities mo. SIR" replied
the presiding elder, II have not heard
him, but he has heard me twice, and
he stood it like a hero The license
was granted. Paris (Me.) DemOcras.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

thrown against the ceiling and were
deluged with boiling lard. Mr.. Wood
in addition to several bad bruises. was
scalded from head to foot. Mr.. Lewis
was also badly sca1ded, sustaining a
compound fracture of an ankle. and
was severely cut about the head.
Gavin was badly scalded, but it it
thought that he is not otherwise ser
iously injured. Medical assistance
was summoned and the men were re-
moved to their hotel.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

YESTERDAY Kansas City had col
lected 1000 for the Pennsylvania suf-
ferers, We have not yet had any re-
turns from Wichita the proud and pre-
tentious. Prosperous AS she is, and
favored-by the railroad commission
ers-beyond every other town in the
state, we suppose that she will do
something handsome in the way of
charity.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

KANSAS CITY, June S.-A warrant
was sworn out before Recorder Boland
this morning against G. Y. Smith s.
Co., charging them with violating the
ordinance regarding weights and
measures. License Inspector Cayne
charges the firm with using short meas
ures in their extensive dry goods house.
Eleventh and Main streets. Upon
making his annual examination he
found forty-three measures short, and
when the firm refused to change them,
upon being advised that they we're
wrong, he swore out the warrant.
The penalty is a fine of from SO to
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

EARLY yesterday morning, Jackson
vile Florida the plague striker city
was visited by disastrous fire that de-
stroYed sixty buildings. Loss estim-
ated at 100000. 20 tickle the EN-
pOria Republican, we will say that this
additional misfortune is undoubtedly
the result of the tariff.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

The statement going the rounds that
President Harrison is ''tired of his
job" is probably a campaign lie, al
though man who has to listen daily
to the clamors of scores and scores of
hungry Office seekers may be pardoned
for such mild expression of disgust.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

HENRY CABOT LODGE, congressman
and litterateur of Massachusetts, is
talked Of in connection with the va
can't Russian mission, as a successor
to Mr.. Rice.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

AFFAIRS in Hayti have taken an
other turn. Legitime has been over
thrown by Hypolite, and new provis-
ional regime set up. This simply
means that one rogue has given place
TO another. The Haytians are a scurvy
set all around.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13
scaIdsd bT RoIling Lard.

HUTCHINSON, June IA terrible
accident occurred at the lard refinery
of N. K. Fairbank s. Co. this morning
by which three men were badly in
jured. These works are under the
general management of Jos. L. Woods
late of Omaha, and they were just pre-
pairing to draw off the first refined lard.
For some days past Mr.. George D,
Lewis, superintendent Of the Fair
bank Refinery at st. Louis. had been
here assisting in testing the machin-
Roadway. This morning these two
gentlemen, together with a steam fit
ter, named John Gavin, also from
Omaha, were testing the heat of a
lard tank when it exploded. The men
were directly over the tank, and were
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

GAIT. SCHAACK, chief Of the Chica-
go police, has been fired because OF
manifesting an evident purpose to
shield Alexander Sullivan in the inves-
tigation of the Cronin murder. We
may now look for other and more i'm
pOrtAnt Developments in that ugly case
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

A FARMER living near Chillicothe
who had never subscribed to news
paper was robbed the other day by
confidence men of 81 800. An Old story
That or something worse is the fate of
every man who neglects his duty
towards his best friend, the home
paper
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-06-13

THE NEWS acknowledges the receipt
of an invitation to the Kansas Chau-
tauqua assembly which will be held al
Oakland Park, Topeka, from June 25
to July 4, inclusive.
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Advice to Mothers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums. allays all pains, bes wind
clio. and is the best remedy for diar-
rhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.