The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-09
KANSAS NOTES.
grave.

Geneseo is to have a So, 900 pottery.
Goforth is the name of Dighton
citizen who is a real home body
and whose name therefore seems to be
a misnomer.
A local paragraph in Sundays Tope-
ka Capital says David Overmeyer will
run against Harrison Kelly on an in
dependant ticket.
HIS friends in Topeka will banquet
the Hon. Thomas Ryan Friday night
in the senate chamber. One hundred
tickets at So each will be issued.
The May session of the supreme
court begins tomorrow with a very
light docket, cases being assigned for
only the first two days of the session.
Thomas G.. Sherman, one of New
York's ablest lawyers, lectures in To
peka May II on FSingle tax on land
values, - the Henry George theory on
taxation,
A pair of young folks at AtchisoH
managed to conceal their marriage
during a whole year. The wonder is
that it did not expose itielf in less time
than that.
The south wall of the congregation
al church at Topeka, now under con-
struction, fell before the wind Monday
doing considerable damage, and delay
ing the completion of the building.
President Strong and the managers
and directors of the Santa Fe are all in
Topeka ready for the meeting that
takes place there tomorrow. 1t is
thought that no change will be made
in the president,
Postmaster King of Topeka exam
ined yesterday fifteen young men ap-
plicants for places on the railway
mail service. The examination COW
cred the common branches such as ar
ithmetie geographyssand penmanship.
Adam Grogger, who had an iron rod
driven through his skull some time ago
in an accident at Solomon, has recov-
cred sufficiently to go to work again.
His recovery is one Of the most won
derful on record.
Mrs. Edwards. wife of the man who
was whipped by the Atchison White
Caps last week, thinks the affair very
| funny. A reporter who called on her
this morning found her laughing, and
she laughed SO heartily that she could
hardly tell about the affair. One man
who witnessed the outrage from dis
tance believes that some of the whip
perS were women dressed in men s
clothes.-Atchison Globe.
DIR. Buck, state silk commissioner.
showed us few days ago fine lot of
silk worm eggs sent to the station at
this city from Washington, d. G. The
doctor informs us that he is having
frequent application for eggs, not only
from our own people in this county,
but from Butler, Mcpherson, King
man, Wabaunsee and Washington
counties, and that quite number of
farmers IN different localities are tax
ing hold of the enterprise. He has
succeeded in securing the services of
Miss Kroeger, an experienced reeler,
and one who understands seri-culture,
and she IS now at works the station.
Peabody Gazette.
Medora E. Burchard instituted Iega
proceedings at Topeka yesterday to
recover $40, 900 from Thomas j, Rag
land, by whom, she alleges, under
promises of marriage, she was seduced
In April, 1888, and that the issue is a
son, born in January last The plain
tiff alleges that prior to April, 1888,
the defendant and herself had been
friends for some time and that the de-
PENDANT called as sutton for her hand
at the home of her parents In the city
of Topeka. She further alleges that
In Decembar, 1888. the defendant
turned his property, amounting to-
% 900 over 70 his relatives and thai ne
left the city and his whereabouts 70
her have not since been knoWR- She