The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
ADDITIONAL LOCAL MATTERS
CITY IN BRIET.

Colonel Weitzel is said to be seriously
Iii at his home.
]. C. Hammers Of Clearwater was in
town yesterday.
J. n. Hoover Of Wellington was In
town yesterday.
W. H. Belcher ard BERTHE Devine, both
of Wichita, were issued license to wed
yesterday.
Frank and Mrs. Rawson have return
ed from family reunion near Parsons,
in Labette county.
Work at the well has stopped for day
or two. until some necessary tools can
be obtained from Neodesha.
Robert Mounsey of Medicine Lodge and
Miss Ida Mitts of Wichita were granted
a license to wed yesterday
". r. Frazier left last night for
Washington City, where, it is rumored,
he will make his future residence.
The Lilac club meets at the residence
OF Miss Lizzie Dickinson, No. 321 North
Topeka avenue, for reorga nizaton
Several of the officers of the Wheel
mems association being absent from the
city, there will be no meeting tonight.
Charles S. Brown and Miss Maggie
day by Rt. Rev. John j. Hennessy, bish-
op of Wichita Their license was grant
ed by the probate court yesterday He
Is q years Of age and she is but 16.
Mrs. Fannie Serota brought suit for
divorce yesterday against her husband,
Isaac Serota They were married at Gal
weston, Texas, in 1894. She alleges that
he comes home all hours of the night,
gets intoxicated and fails to support the
family properly.
Thomas G.. Goddard of Boston has set
up a fine postal machine in the postoffice
That cancels and stamps letters with ex-
trordinary speed 1t can do as much
work in five minutes as could be done
formerly in an hour. 1t puts the out
lines of the American flag on every iet-
ter
Mrs. Elizabeth Weeks is now with
The cloak department of the New York
store, and If Cash Henderson does not
have boom in that department during
the next month, ii will be the fault of
the times. Mrs. Weeks is said to be one
of the best cloak salesladies in the
west.
Mrs. PerciIla Gaskel, living about
three miles northwest of the city, died
yesterday morning of typhoid fever.
Deceased was 81 years of age. Funeral
services will be conducted by Rev. Beach
this afternoon at 2 o'clock. after which
interment will be made in Maple Grove
cemetery.
Mr.. J. W. O'Neill, formerly superinten-
dent OF the Electric Light and Power
company, writes a personal letter to the
Eagle with several editorial from New
York and Boston papers enclosed. They
are criticisms of the action of Kansas
in returning Populists to the control OF
the state
Mr. Keuchenmeister, the florist, has an
exhibit on the west side of North Main
street near Dunbar's undertaking rooms
that is attracting great attention. The
display of chrysanthemums is very beau
tiful and provoked the admiration OF
every person who saw them. The dis
play viii last a few days yet
Officer A NJ. Sutton has Won a bet
with North Main street barber, where
by he is to receive a shave or hair cut
every time ne wants it, and this to con-
tinue for four years. If ne had lost, he
was to pay double price. He has fig
ured it out In the following manner:
Three shaves per week amounts TO 624
shaves, two hair-cuts a month amounts
TO Sc cuts in the cour years, at present
rates ii amounts to $500.
The Wichita soap factory on South
Fifth avenue yesterday passed into the
hands of new stock company. Robert
McKibben and P. r. Allen, both well
known former business men of Conway
Springs, hold the controlling interest.
Messrs. JcKibben and Allen are enter
prsing ard successful! business men, and
will endeavor to make the Wichita soap
factory one of the leading manufactur-
ing concerns q this city.
A young man came to police headquar-
tiers yesterday Afternoon and stated that
an old man who has occasional spells of
dementia had come over from Augusta
with him and had wandered away some>
where and could not be found His
name was Blackfar and his description
was Of an old man raher stout, grey mus
tache, dark clothes and wearing a soft
nat He was not found up to a late
hour last night. When last seen he was
going north on Fourth avenue, near
First street.