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Show ELUI'EJIKXr. A Hnsbinil Hint Loosra Ilotli II la Cash anil Ills Uirr. Wichita, Kans., Nov. 17 A profuuud sensation was created this morning iu Alalon, a small place in the southwest part of the bUte, when the discovery was made that Superintendent of City Schools Haulou aud Mrs. John 8. Weltzel had eloped, leaving the toWu by carriage about midnight last uight, and that during the ufaht Weltxd'a ifflte bad been robbed. Weltzel represents a laan compauy there, and had been on a lour of inspection, inspec-tion, reaching hoine only this morning. morn-ing. Ou his way from the depot he went to his office ai.d found everything every-thing lu diiOTden The safe bad been blown oien and tbe contents. Including several huudred dollars iuca-h, and notes and securities amounting to mauy thousand, were gone. Ou top of this shock came Ihe Information of the eloimeut, and the two naturally seem to have close connection. As soon a possible Weltzel and a dozen friends secured huisss aud started to rcour tho country in search of clews of the whereabouts of the runaways or thu bur,t,Iara,tut found none cx,-ept that two suspicious sus-picious characters were noticed iu thu neighborhood of the town late lt ulgnt. and have not been seen ;!d-, Uaulon, the schoolmaster, had only been In Akalou about six vttr.r, and cl limed la be from Cairo, 111. Mrs. Weltcel Is tfuite young aud pretty. |