The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-07-22
STATE NEWS.

LdTncd RePu0tsc0H.
STATE NEWS.
The Belleville Republic has been resur.
rected.
The Belleville cornet band has $500
band wagon.
Several brick buildings are being
erected in Independence.
A Hayes and Wheeler club has been
organized at Usage Mission.
Mr.. Angel Matthewson, of Parsons,
has sun dial made in 1649.
The ladies want the superintendency
of schools in Montgomery county.
Fifty to ninety cents is what new
wheat is bringing in Independence.
Mount Lebanon lodge of colored Ma.
sons has been organized at Parsons.
Mr.. Banks, of Newton, had five horses
stolen on the night of the 18th inst.
| A grand division of the Sons of TEN.
perance has been organized at Manhat
tan.
Elder D. P. Mitchell, of Fort Scott is
talked of for Governor, by the greenback
men.
Mr.. NJ. A. FELTON, proposes to fiat boat
pine lumber from Wichita to Arkansas
City. -...
Twenty-onc entries were made at the
land Office at Hays City in one day last
week.
The Paola cheese factory made one
shipment of hundred boxes of cheese
lately.
Mr.. Manning, of Marion county has
raised 600 bushels of barley from IA BUSH
els 0fseed.
The Fort Scott Pioneer hoists the name
of Cooper and Booth for President and
Vice. President. r
A stone containing feather in a state
of petrifactiOn was found near lndepend.
ence few days since.
The first boy born in Ottawa still sur
| wives under the burden Of the name of
Franklin Ottawa Smith.
The Wyandotte Herald says that the
Greenback men talk of nominating DIR.
]. p. Root for Governor.
Mr.. Crozier, of Silkville, Franklin
county, has orders from France for / 900
ounces of silkworm eggs.
Colonel T. 3. Eldridge appears to be
making vigorous campaign for the
Lieutenant GOvernorship. .-a.
About the first of this month over one
thousand MennOnites landed at New
York on their way to Kansas.
The history of Oxford, in the indie.
pendent says it is believed that Colonel
I.eavenworth is buried near Oxford.
Hog growers in johnson county say
that it is feeding too much corn in sum-
mer that kills hogs and not the cholera.
The Saline Valley Register trots GU,
Mr.. NJ. G. Springer of Lincoln county.
az a suitable candidate for Secretary of
State.
The grasshoppers visited Lincoln coun-
ty every summer from 1866 to 1870,
though not in sufficient numbers to do
much damage. rt. ".s
The first masonic communication held
in Kansas convened at the house of
Matthew r. Walker, in Wyandotte,
August II, 1854.
William Hicks, of Wilson county,
while "hacking hedge" lost one of his
eyes. The hedge plant sprung up and
thorn struck the eye-ball.
Mr.. John Merriam, of Chero kee, placed
on the speakers stand OH the Fourth a
CART worn by his great-grandfather at
sthe battle of Bunker Hill.
A colored youth suddenly left the
employ of John Campbell, near Thayer,
one day last week, taking with him q
mule belonging to Mr.. Campbell.
Church, of the Peabody Gazette is n
philosopher. He says: We assure the
one who stole the white handled knife
from this Office that if such is possible
the knife is meaner than he is.
The first result of the Fourth of July
we have noticed is the residence of Mr..
Charter, at Hope, Dickinson county.
Loss, 81 900. He was at the postOffice,
and left the children with the fire crack
ers alone.
T. c. Henry, the Kansas wheat king,
figures it out and says that a man can
take raw prairie land, hire it broken and
sown to wheat, and with an average yield
realize q profit of 156 per cent on his
investment.
A half bushel of fine peaches was
shipped from this place to friend in
Illinois this week, which will afford tan
gible evidence to the suckers that we are
raising some fruit this year in Kansas
ChGnute Times. as.
The Wyandotte Herald says that on
the morning of the 18th inst, q fisher
man dragged ashore the body of Mrs.
Kate Iedford, daughter of John Dono-
van, of Muncietown. The verdict OF the
coroner's jury was suicide. a
The lightning is more eccentric this
year than ever before. At Parsons .
family sat on one side of the stove and
dog lay asleep on the other. The light
ming came down the stove pipe and killed
the dog, leaving the family unhurt The
damage to the house was estimated at
$25. rr
The Oskaloosa ladepcndent has the fol-
lowing: "At the pic mic on the Fourth
three young ladies were seen sitting on
the grass surrounding single lone dish
of ice cream with three spoons, enjoying
the situation muchly. Their young
man had probably done the best he