The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-29
ABOUT KANSAS

| Topeka has club that takes its name,
| "All-ot-it," from It's leading characteristic:
| there is never anything left after its eat
| and-irink seances.
Past Grand Commander Port Of the
Knights Templars of Kansas died at bis
home III B-loit Friday. Funeral services
will be held today, Sunday.
| A Carmi Democrat remarked, in the
| Preston Plain Dealer office the other day.
| that Cleveland was pledged to maintain
disparity of metals. and you bet he viii"
! Henry Moelring. aged A. years, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to fence
post about nine miles southwest OF Hoxie
on the night Of the 2lst inst. His only rel
| alive in this country is brother, in the
| same county.
Vox Studentum is the name of a paper
| published in the interest of the Southwest
Kansas college at Winfield. II the Stu
dentum will conduct itself so as not to ap-
pear vox ct praeterea nihil il may some
day yox populi.
James Kelly. recently publisher Of the
Hutchinson Patriot, has purchased the
plant aud good will Of tine Newton Week
ly kansan and will continue the publica-
ton of the paper. Mr. Kelly bought the
outfit from J. Ii. Waggoner of Portage,
Wis.
Charles Walden of South Haven, for
| merly one of the most prominent stock
men OF Summer county, who became in
sane few months ago and was sent to
the asylum at Osawatomie, died at the
asylum last week.
William H. Van Doren. formerly OF
Abilene, and recently resident of Okla
homa where ne had charge of large lum-
Der yard died Wednesday morning at
Henressey after brief illness with pneu-
monia, aged 81 His remains were taken
to Abilene for interment.
Dr.. II. A. Block. u Topeka man, has dis
covered IA process by which wood can be
rlade non-combustible. non-ignitable, nom
inhammable, non-rotibie and non-destroy-
able. He has put his discovery to num-
Der of severe tests, the success OF which
would indicate that it was possessed of
considerable merit. He has applied for u
patent on it.
When the Equal Suffrage association of
Topeka opened room for the benefit OF
the woman voters OF the city Il special
effort was mpde TO get the colored women
TO go and take lessons, but, the journal
says, not a single one improved the oppor-
tunity of iustructiug themselves upon the
new ballot law.
An old veteran who went to the strip at
the opening and was taken sick while
there, had so far recovered as to be able to
start for his home in Colorado and got as
f.- ~,
about seven miles south Of Preston, when
he was taken with relapse and died there
last Monday. His,name was not given.
Elitor Bolton Intimates in his last
weeks Greensburg Signal that "a ring" ia
that place are trying to fire him out of the
Republican party. Il is suggested that
when the ring gets ready to jerk the lam
yard they don't want to stand behind the
piecs: loaded az heavy as it will DE, the re-
coil is liable TO catch aud crush 'e;n.
Ell Rousell. general secretary of the Fra
ternal Aid association for Kansas, made u
narrow escape from death near Lawrence
a day or two ago. He WAS up tree. 20
feet from the ground; the limb on whca
he rested broke and he fell, striking on his
back. The fall paralyzed him for a time.
The man with Il skeleton key is doing
Topeka al libitum, aud to the great an
noyance and sacrifice of many Of the most
prominent residents. His favorite places
Of research are the closets, but he carefully
avoids disturbing the skeletons hidden
therein.
The work goes bravely on. Company A,
First regiment, Kansas National guard,
OF Olathe, was mustered out, Friday, by
Adjutant General ArtZ. Captain Hes
turned over to Artz all the property of the
company, and it was boxed up and ship
ped to Topeka.
A second crop of blossoms is common
freak for Kansas fruit trees, and OCCASION
ally an apple tree goes so far as to develop
second crop OF fruit. Now comes Edwin
Martin of Sumner county with sample of
a second crop of peaches vel. matured,
though small. and ripe.