The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-27
!. Towns About
Arkansas Ctr.
From the Daily Traveller.

saturday night a Jim MANNERS across
Some scrappers have been hanging
around TIE city and a crowd decided t
pull off little setto between Spot
and Bennett, two colcred youths. Prob
ably two hundred people were in az
tendance and they made UP purse fol
a five-round mill. At II 80 the mill be
gan. 4 ring was made and the crowd
got around. The fight was with big
gloves. During the day the county at.
tJrney and the officers mad heard OF the
fight ana they decided TO take a hand
during the evening Marshal Callahan
Policemen Kitchen and WilliamSna i
and Constables Francy and Gray went
out 70 the battle ground and hid in the
weeds near the ring. After two rounds
had been fought the third had been COM
me-ced the officers crawled out of the
weeds, pulled their billies, walked into
the ring and arrested the two negro
fighters. The officers were in the ring
before the crowd realized the situation.
Then some one made break and the
crowd followed suit with but very few
exceptions. The scene was very
l2ughable one. So mucn scrambling to
get away was never witnessed before.
The spectators ran in every direction.
Nearly all say that they weren't afraid;
just running 10 catch their horses to
prevent them breaking loose and tear
ing up their buggies. The officers say
some took to the woods. some 10 the
river. some fell in the cutters some in
IL nd nd ~ -
Nancy Hanks gait The fighters were
brought TO the city and put in jail. Their
bond was fixed at $500 each. which Meth
er could give. This afternoon the fight
e"s We're taken into Judge Dunn's court
for trial The county attorney took a
continuance until Wednesday morning
Wellington.
From the Daily Journal
Belle PLANE and Riverdale played ball
Saturday, resulting in score Of % to II
In favor Of Belle PLANE VIII Nixon
Riverdale's pitcher, was knocked out Of
the box and fifteen scores run in on him
in the third inning. The Riverdale boys
clam thai work in the harvest field has
temporarily incapacitated them from
playing ball.
The temperance element at MuIvane
Is brewing trouble. 4 mass meeting was
neld last week and stout protest made
against The licensing Of joints. The pro-
hibitory law is and always has been
more openly violated in Mulvane than
any other town in the county, with the
possible exception OF Caldwell
The 10-year-old boy Of Bill Lindsay
received painful injury yesterday af-
ternoon while playing with the Hedrick
incorrigible on West Harvey avenue.
Young Hedrick accidentally struck the
Lindsay boy on the back OF the head
with brick.
Richard Bxby and son, Harry. will
leave In a few days for an extensive
trip through the east They will visit in
New York and Ohio. Mrs Bixby and
daughter, Miss Laura, will visit the
summer resorts in Colorado during their
absence
The editor Of the Argonta Clipper IN
vites a serenading party which seren-
aded him one night last week to come
again and render something nice.
a Sunday school picnic in Caldwell
township was closed with nocturnal
OF the Chikaskia river.
Winfield.
From the Daily Courier
John ". Mann, ex-city marshal Of
Winfield, is now lying in room at the
Arlington hotel in a dying condition,
the result OF a gunshot wound at the
hands Of his brother-in-law. Pete Al
len. The story of the causes leading
up TO the crime is one OF deplorable
domestic trouble aggravated and made
worse by the demon whisky Mann was
arrested Saturday afternoon al his pres
ent home in Dexter by Under Sheriff
Rothrock on complaint OF AIann's wife.
charging him with assault and battery,
which was the outcome OF the trouble
a Dexter as told in Fridays Courier.
He was brought 10 this city and arriv-
ed mere about IL O'Clock Saturday night
Mrs. II. NJ. Allen. Mrs. Mann's mother,
was also at Dexter trying TO effect a
reconciliation between the parted man
and wife. She and Mr.. Mann's little
son, who was taken to Dexter Friday
by his father. were brought TO Winfield
by Joe Church both buggies arriving
here about the same time II seems
tAat her efforts toward reconciliation
had been partly successful at least, and
when ne go; to town, Mann requested
10 be taken 10 his wife The request
was granted and Mr. Rothrock took him /
70 the Allen home, where his wife was
Stopping. Mrs Mann came out, climb |
ed up into the buggy and got into her |
husbands lap. where she rerla med some |
Time. and il appears she and her hus-
band came 10 an understandings. He
was TO come 10 town. pay his fine and !
they were TO return 70 Dexter together. |
After she got out Of the buggy Mann re- |
quesied his wife 10 come 10 town with !
him while he was getting the case ad-
5usted and securing his release. About /
this time it seems tnat Mrs. Allen made |
some remark rejecting on Mann's sin /
ceri;y. which apparently angered HIN |
ard he said If they could not trust him
he would take his boy with him and
started toward the house as If to get
him. Pete Allen who was standing
near remarked: Don't go In there. II +
Yea do 1 will shoot you" shooting him |
almost simultaneously. He then threw |
the gun away and il has not yet been !
found by the officers. Mr. Rothrock.
who was an eye witness 10 the affair. /
says Mann and Allen had not exchanged |!
a word prior o;he shooting.
Reasons Why Chamberiaiu's Collie, Chol-
era and DIarrhoea Remedy
Is The Best
L Because II affords almost instan.
relief in case of pain in the stomach,