Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-03
KANSAS NEWS.

Halstead, Harvey county, now has q
library.
LIE Grand is the name of new town
in Finney county.
The city of Lawrence has cash CAPT
tai Of $500 on hand.
The puplic schools of Newton opened
with an enrolment of 900 pupils.
A chautauqua literary and scientific
circle has been organised at Ellsworth.
The uncollected taxes for the year
1884 in Davis county amount to $687 20.
1t is thought that coal in paying guam
titles can be mined in Montgomery
county.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Brazier
was burned at Emporia the other day.
Loss 81 500.
Hamilton is the name of q new town
which has recently been established in
Cove county.
An Atchison citizen has invented q
new water cooler which he is going to
have patented.
Emporia had 81, 200 fire the other
day. 1t lie thought that it was the work
of an incendiary.
The ice house of George Nolan wac
burned at Larned, Pawnee county, last
week. Loss $500.
The first railroad train which ever
entered the city of Norton, Norton
county, pulled in there last week.
The little son of man named Miner
was instantly killed by bolt of light
ming in Anderson county last week.
There are 800 men employed in con-
structing the waterworks at Ellsworth
which town has voted $4,000 bonds for
that purpose.
Sugar cane is proving to be a very prof
table crop in Marion county. A large
product was raised this year and it is
now being cut.
Miss Dottie Bloomfield, Is year old
young girl, of Leavenworth, is missing
from her home having in some way mys-
teriously disappeared.
A thief entered the house of Mr..
Leethoof in Davis county last week,
knocked down his wife and then scar :h-
ed the house securing $3.50 booty.
The proposition to vote bonds to the
amount of SAC, coo to the Omaha, Abilene
and Wichita railroad carried in the city
of Wi.hita by sS2 majority the other
day.
Citizens are seriously talking of orga
nizing a vigilance committee to notify
the loafers, dead beats and rascals who
live in Wichita, and who have no visi-
pie means of support, to vacate.
H. w. Walton. the express agent a
Sterling, Rice county, while on bis way
home recently was knocked down and
robbed of a gold watch and 81 100 in
money. No trace of the robber has been
discovered.
The other day Thomas Gerard, a
freight brakeman, was accidentally
at Dodge City. The citizens and TWEEN
ty boys of that place raised purse of
$l76, or thirty-six pound sterling and
sent it to his wife in London, Eng.
Not single first grade certificate was
granted in Jewell county at the close of
the normal last month. But sixteen
second grades were given and thirty-one,
third grades. The rest failed entirely.
There were about 125 attended the nor
NAL.
Leon Quill: Last week S. r. Hanna's !
boy babe was tied in a rocking chair
while the mother was out for q few
minutes. Her horror was almost un-
bearable when she returned to find the |
lifeless form of her babe hanging by the |
neck to an arm Of the chair. He was
beautiful, hearty child some five months
old, and had slipped forward, his head
catching under the arm of the chair.
The Smith Center Bulletin claims that
Prof. ]. J. Falkenstine is the youngest
boy that ever enlisted in the late war.
This discharges the claim of Col. R. A.
Frederick, of Topeka, who hitherto was
considered the youngest man ever en-
listed Prof. Falkenstine enlisted in Co.
&C." 3rd regiment of Phb. Maryland Inf; |
enrolled on September 10, 1861; born |
July 20, 1852: honorably discharged on
March Is, 1865, at Buchanan, w. Va.
His brother, Louis F., also enlisted at the
same time, as did also their father.
Burlington Independent: As sample
of what man can do if he firmly makes
up his mind to anything is fully illustrat-
ed by case in this city. Mr.. Reynolds,
1--WE have forgotten his first name), who
lives in the west part of the city, and is
about 70years old, has been addicted to
the use of tobacco since childhood, COW
ering something like 60 years, made up
his mind few months ago to do away
with the filthy habit entirely. He threw
away his tobacco and has not taken a
chew since. Although great struggle
at first he says he has now no desire for
it whatever.
A respectable family of Salem, Jewell
county, were surprised one day last week
when upon opening tteir doors in the
morning they beheld upon the door step
a young girl baby. On it was found q
note asking that it be brought up in a
decent manner. Nothing further is |
known as to it's parentage. The child |
will be cared for by its new friends prob
ably better than it would have been by
the mother itself. Certainly mother
who would thus desert her offspring !
must be cruel and inhuman. A terrible |
combination of circumstances must exist
ed to force her to do it.
A dispatch from Mt. Hope this state
says: A gasoline explosion occurred in
the rear of Randall's hardware store
canaino a seriOns Sre and lOes fl q num.