Altoona Advocate du lieu suivant : Altoona, Kansas • 1

1 00 $1.50 PER YEAR. ALTOONA, WILSON JULY 29, 1887. VOL. NO. 49.

LOCAL NOTES. GENERAL NEWS. Plums will soon le ripe. Ginghams at cost at Wii.kv's. Bracket mirrors at Miller's furni 'Glass and quecnssvare at Wiley's.

Sand 10 cents at S. A. Bnowx Co's. Gasoline tit A. P.

Richardson's. Pop and ice cream at Jackson's. The Wichita gas well has reached a depth of feet. The bal ance of those lawns at cost at, as P. Wii.kv's Use Legal Tender Flour.

For sale by Thurman Son. Mirrors of all styles and prices, nt Miller's FurnitureSiore. Black berries are almost thitttrsof ture store. Grapes are going to lie u. Morton, ot freaoiua.

was pmiiu- the past. a guest at the Central house, Satur ful this year. Argot i in has a female Susanna Suiter, aged 27. The grape crop of southern mayor, Kim- MisH 1 to 1 4 I1. IV uttuii.K,..

day. i wtiii i Kci iiici.iirfigru ai.om mo Nrm i un.ik OitoB. Shut reports a D-pound hoi weanier. nnmm is boy at ami Henry hnowls A calf belonging to W. It.

Hick ust. tins week. man was killed by the freight An ice cream supper wasiudulg. Dan Luse, fresh from the land of train Saturday last. ed in tit Thos.

Hall's last Thursday No is on the streets. Dun says W. V. Fihk, of Greenville, Ind. Ed.

Jones now occupies the M. E. parsonage; we are not yet inform, ed as to what circuit he has been assigned. II. ().

Graham was expected home from Lejfoy, where he has been since last Sunday, on yesterday even-ing's train. Ditto and daughter, Miss Dora, made a drive to Fredonia last Wednesday under the protect im evening. things are lively clown on the strip. is in the vicinity, visiting his broth Mr. ami Mc Kinney, of sas promises a large yield.

Kiowa county is moving for the erection of a court house. Frank Meyers, of Lawrence, was recently drowned while swinuning in the river. The people of Esk ridge have made a move towards organizing a fair association. Wichita claims to have the IJurton car work, employing men, as a "settled fact. ers, 11.

S. and K. M. 1 here is talk ot organizing an Neotlesha, were in the city, Wednes Odd Fellow's lodge a week from to- George Buel and wife, of Green day last. night, and all Ancient Odd Fellows rorest, are in the vicinity visit Money, per cent.

Ao commis are requested to be present. mg relatives and friends. sion note. Option. M.

E. Richard near in mind the fact that it care ot Iteorge. 1). Mason, we are informed, has jrone to Independence to accept a son Co. would improve the looks of the town EE.

and T. II. Pinney, position in the general cities of the A dance is announced by Ira Scott to be given at his place on the greatly if a spire was put on the Charles Towers, while liiintimr or rredoma, weie on our streets, ii. K. company at that place.

stone church. ednesdav. A f. I.I wv.ei.ing of August lid. As every one always has a nice time when the A new roreinan now uas Wanted: A dozen boys who Mr.

S. leaves the first section men in charge. It is hard to can run like deer to monkey aroum go to Ira Scott's there will doubtless Kansas, keep track of the boss of the gang, as of next week for western Dillon melon patch. The last be a crowd i they change off at least every new where ho will locate crowd there are under the doctor's vuite a large crowd gathered at I)V care Slight hopes Shawver's ford, last Friday after moon. A good time is reported A partyof gipsies camped on the those who attended the Union S.

S. near Parsons shot himself in the 'head. He died instantly. Albiene, Clay Center, Junction City, and Saline are soon to be connected by telephone. Scott county, two years ago, returned an assessed valuation of 000.

This year 0,000. The Marion band has issued a challenge to any band of sixteen pieces in the state to play against them. There is an apple orchard of noon, to participate in the "lish fry." a suosiannai sniewaik and new river a couple of nights this week picnic at Shoupp's g-ove last Wed- BWnjIlff ben erected in front or wnicn mention was made last week. of lousiness in the fortune telling line nesday. Uy the looks of things the next day the store occupied by Then 11 i tm was dull, however, and their stay- there had been olentv of fish.

ueo. I eacocK aim ins well ma was short. Mr. Zink has been the first to comply with the city's request chine are now in the regions of Cha We are informed that the grad Jo. Dreamer, who has been nine puncturing tne surrace.

ueor'e tor walks on both sides of Mam ing is done and the ties strung alomr left ves terday. away from town for over a year, re street. the six-mile gap between Independ -We understand that Mr. Tucker D. It.

Anthony, of the Leaven- turned last Friday, after a long and varied travel through the west and county. United ence anu L-aney, and that the stee will be put down as soon as it tir trees in Leavenworth It' is the largest in the States. The farmers of Nemaha southwest. has purchased about forty head of worth Times, got a sound horsewhip hogs from J. W.

Poe. Stock hogs ping, Wednesday, and the cashier rives. As the out put of Gould's The Sons of Veterans' ice cream conn iii i are a scarce article. mills is not much more than supply tne worth savings bank is are trying to organize a mutual fire supper at the stone church last now in Canada with $50,000 of the It is stated that the western ing the western demand, it is possible I Ml .1 I Thursday night was a success. A part of the state that the pastures people's money.

Poor Leaven worth. uiul mir roan win not oc laiu. tor month yet. large crowd attended and the re have dried up to such an extent that ceipts were good. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Truxel, of fanners have to resort to nrairie hav -We are requested to publish the I 111., are on a visit to relatives vjur prestfiu rauroa.ii agent, tor cattle rood. insurance company for their own pro-teelion. A malt joint at New Ion made a profit of $2,500 in three weeks for its iimpietor, who then emigrated to E.nporia. A Chinaman has been lecturing at fola for 5 a night, which lie declares following call: All Odd bellows and in this vicinity and Fredonia.

Mr. II. V. Butcher, of Fredonia, has a'l those Jelonging to the Ancient Skinner is rather roving in his uispo rt.i 1 sition. tie takes supper in indepen been engaged as principal by the Order are requested to meet at the and Mrs.

T. are parents of Thos. Truxel, and Mrs. Truxel is a sister of dence, snoozes in Yates Center, and school hoard, and Miss Uelle Cox, of mosoiiic nan, on rrmay evening, Mrs. A.

Gamble, of Chetona town- breakfasts and dines at Altoona. i this city, as assistant, for the comimr August 5th, to organize a at hip, and of S. Dauffinan. of is much belter than doll quart day A. Richardson played gallant terms of school.

this place. on laiJIoad. Mrs. Elizabeth Gamble, also of Mo- last, Wednesday afternoon and escort -II. Shinnefield has left forSedan 6 nuny complaints that ewell county paid bounty on ed his wife, Mrs.

fc.li Jones, where we understand he takes charge the engineers on several of the trains line, mother of A. (iambic, is also visiting him at present. of a hoarding house for the railroad f-'1" to whistle for a ma ioritv of the eighty-five wolf scalps at the 'July meeting of the county commissioners, Gardner, and Miss Ida Cunningham to Neodesha, All report a good company. I lie move was made the crossings, nese matters should at time, of course. amounting to ilT) 1.

hrst of the week. once he reported for Jives are often Pleasant Valley-George Iloughman has returned roiii the west and is now at home. Mrs. Stone has returned form Mis We are informed that Jas. Ham Uncle John Martin, of Smith conn.

-Gho. Smith Im lost through laziness of the man a ty, one, of the heroes of the Mexican lin contemplates a trip to the Pi corn 'that will out yield inaily pieces 1 i mi i i handle of 'I exas, in the near future. war, lias iust been awarded a pen on out ground, lie nature of the i nos. who lives near souri. We ha.ve not heard her mention her visit, but judging from her sion of a month.

Our informant also states that lie will soil is such that it has made a splen- the Cumberland Presbyterian church, did yield the first year. lt four horses by lightning last visit the, western portion of this The wheat crop of Kansas will he learty appearance it was a pleasant I mi i i -1 state, where he has considerable only 8,000,000 bushels. In 1877 it one. Anderson, the gentleman BS 1 7 wepe lnsurp(1 iand. Thomas Johnson, who lives near was Corn has largely the loss will not fall so heavilv who vas taken sick at Carver We have the information that taken the place in this state.

the Cedar Valley church, lost four Lightning has destroyed manv head and of whom a note was made last W. L. Zink has traded his stock of torses by lightning in a thunder of stock so far this season. John Cliesler a young man who week, is now at his home in Pleasant shower last week, and had another so goods, store building and stable to a was working for C. Clingham.

near The traveling public would ten Valley township, and is still very gentleman named Meade, of Fall badly crippled that it is useless. der a vote thanks as large as Dewees ow. Elk City, was struck aid instantly killed by lightning. Wednesday. liiver, Greenwood county, for laud.

le has the sympathy of the com JJros barn if the railroad conmanv Before school begins it would Mr. Meade will take posessiou about munity. Ravenna is now the county seat of be a pious idea to renovate the school would cut down the sunflowers that A little son of John Miller was the August 1st. Garfield county. This is the county bouse, treat it to a dose of paint, hx grow along the road bed.

1 hey are victim of quite a serious accident Mrs. Welch, nee Thayer, is on a the windows, fence it and make it at- rug" at some crossings that it visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. tractive. As it stands it is anything would be difficult to see an approach- on Friday last.

He was herding cattle in company with his brother and a Nelson Thayer, north of the city. out ornamental. train iweiuy yarns nistant. neighbor boy, the latter being on Mrs. VV.

lives in Coldwater, (Join Mrs. Dr. Nash, of Illinois, is on a Our typo, Wilber Stewart, torse back. Jloy-hke they got to anche county. It is expected that visit to her father, II.

V. Cay wood, of could stand it no longer and so hired laying, the one on the horse trying she will start for her western home North Cedar. N. states that mm a team and started for I hayer, which is said to contain 1,100 unmarried men and only 28 unmarried women. Cherokee Sentinel: Milt Bacon, son of Thomas Bacon, was killed in the flouring mills at Cato.

He got caught in the machinery and his body greatly mangled. He was about 7 years old. The cider factory at Lawrence, which furnished employment to a large number of men ami paid out sometime this week. in Illinois it is very drv fanners be-1 last Saturday evening. A nair of to run over the others, when in some way the younger Miller boy was -There will be a basket meeting ing compelled to "feed their cattle ey, rosy cheeks, and (we wont at East's grove next Sunday, Rev.

hay 0I1 account of the shortage of mention the color of the hau-) evi- nocked down and the horse stepped on his back, hurting him in such a Jierry, of the Cumberlanu I reshyte- m-ass. Evidently dry with a venge- dently were agreeable, as he return manner as to confine linn to bed a rian church at Cherry vale, addressing jn that portion of the continent, ed fortified for another soiourn of two i ay or two. the gathering before and after din Some good work has been nut weeks- A week or two ago a two-vear-old ner. The subject of the- discussion thousands of dollars annually to the on the hill iust south of Mr. Proven's A twelve-year old daughter of 1 0ot of John Ditto's was found suf- lr it i ii is the "Sunday" question.

As Mr. place, in Pleasant Valley township. ''lr- tleck, living east of Altoona, was It is said that hill in times past was interred in the Altoona cemetary, last Ft. has as fine a grove as there is in this part of the country there will be .1 .1 ml 1 l. trie woist in tne country, as we mipnuiuii.

mo cnnu nau farmers for apples, is preparing to remove to Kansas City. Meade County Democrat: Ben Kemp, the suspected murderer of the man found dead west of town, was given a hearing before Judge fering from a very largo leg, seemingly a dislocation of the hock joint. After trying for several days put it on the way to recovery it was killed, and the leg examined by John Ditto, Will Geiger, and Howard Metcalf, plenty or shade ana room, so go have had a little experience with it. nee" sick but a few days and its and take enough dinner for two and we have no reason to doubt the as- death was as unexpected as the shock listen sound logic on a difficult was severe to the parents. They sertion, but know it is hve hundred subject.

have the sympathy of a large circle per cent, better than formerly. all unhesitatingly pronounced it of friends. Naortesha Register: John Horniday.aresldent of Cedar townsnip, in oorapany with Dr. Som The Tola Register, last week, ers, of Altoona. and their wives started early The boys got into Dillon.s chronicled the dimensions of the lavn-est.

corn sta lk in the Nposhn Vnl last oamraay morning iuraetmn 10 aiiena an Advent camp meeting in progress at thatDolnt. water melon patch last Saturday A few miles south of this city and ate their breakfast. On resuming their lev as beinir 15 feet and 11 inches. "Ight, and well, Dillon got down they stopped Miller brought old gun and made a sneak, and snoniaer aisiooaveu. xub puny reiurnea to us a stalk that was to feet high, had UMl ftS were in tne mmst ot town, stopping at the residence of A.

M. Ma- i i son, where Dr. Somers with the assistance of two ears of corn, the first eight and tne 'thump act bang! bang! went shot. They found the ball had entered at the lower hock joint causing dislocation, and ranging upward passed out above the hock. The course of the bullet was followed without difficulty.

A basket meeting will be held at Geo. East's Grove, on Sunday, Aug. 31st. Dr. Berry, of Cherry vale, will preach at 11 a.

and again sometime in the afternoon. His subject is "Our Lord's Sabbath." Vbd Murphy. one of our city physicians set the shoulder, the second nine feet from the ground. ine K'jn aa tne nnysf Uhl JNone which had Become so pBinmi inai tney were Wilson county against the world. llvea ten the tale, but all bravely The Pacific Weekly Blade, pub- aeny 11 and 8ay ltsly ijyun anu uismissea ny county attorney for want of evidence.

Albien was visited by a heavy wind and hail storm Sunday evening, which resulted in considerable loss of property. The T. C. Henry barn, 52x200 feet and 60 hi gh, was totally demolished. A number of small houses blown to pieces 1 and others unroofed.

Trees all over the city were uprooted and broken down. No lives were lost. Osage Mission Journal: Hail did much damage to the crops west of the river and especially to Mr. Smith's corn crop just this side of Porter hill, during the rain last Tuesday Corn stalks were completely stripped and castor beans badly damaged. We have been unable to ascertain how far west the hail extended and the extent of the damage done.

hshed at Santa Ana, bearing J. J. W. Gander went to Nevada compelled to use ohlorotorm. I he party then returned home and gave up the trip for that time.

The above item is doubtless well intended but it takes the cake for mixness. It was Dr. Gaston instead of Dr. Somers "and their wives" who 11. Gulick name, written on the Clfton, and other points in Missouri, margin, has been received at last Monday.

He has a few days this office. ThecopTiv contained a lay off and exnects to visit his old If tr Legal Tender Flour of Son. accompanied him, and they were go- long poem on the Newport Tragedy "stamping ground" in that state be- j. j. i I it i "ijj io vaney uisieau or oeuan, anu it wnicn the conspicious characters tore settling down to hard work was a "tent meeting instead of a were Jones and Smith, a pencil mark Ho was much improved in health William Simpson, one of the sol 'camp meeting, and it was his says, from below Altoona.

Both diers who assisted in the capture of right shoulder instead of his left that those gentlemen were sent to the when last seen. We are greatly pleased to hear that Mr. G. will continue AS acrent hare and eTnontq tin ra. was dislocated.

The rest of the fttornal stars hu tha nnnnol linrr nnto. Jeff Davis, died last Sunday at his home, nine miles south of Great Bend. r- item is in the main correct. er of a mule's hinrl fpnt. nnrt fnr dntv in oKnnt ftoan A J.

main correct. er or a mule's hind feet..