Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-10-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Kanopolis has foundry and wagon
shop.
The Harper county fair was a fnan-
cial success.
Freeport, Harper county, is to have a
new Masonic society.
Topeka has a machine shop that manu-
features locomotives.
The Incandescent system will illumi-
nate Leavenworth.
Winfield has let the contract for a
$40, 900 opera house.
Adam Kuntz, an old soldier and Odd
Fellow, died at Newton.
Columbus is trying to organize a fruit
ano vegetable canning factory.
n. G. Ashbaugh, of the Newton Kan
san, has started daily paper.
John Kropt prominent farmer resid-
ing near Marion died last week.
Atchison boasts of woman 100 years
old who is as clipper as cricket.
Many Kansas towns and cities are
organizing improvement companies.
The Anderson county fair did not pay,
the receipts being less than $1,000.
Emigration is pouring into Kansas at
the rate of several hundred every day.
Mrs. Della Mcdaniel one of the oldest
settlers, of Barton county died recently.
An Atchison man recently cleared
30,000in a Kansas City real estate
deal.
Topeka will probably procure branch
OF the barbed wire works from De Kalb,
Illinois.
Eight jointists were put in Jail at
Wichita, for violating the prohibitory
amendment.
The old settlers of Lynn county, will
hold their first annual reunion at En-
poria, October 2.
DR.. Thomas, of Arkansas City, an old
and highly esteemed physician has been
adjudged insane.
John Box, who lives near Jewell City,
sa.ot himself in the groin with revolver
while playing with it.
The Bismarck fair was not a success
financially. The fair increased its in
debtedness about $4,000.
An Atchison firm have lately estab
jshed over twenty banks in the north
western portion Of the state.
Greeley Tribune John Gragg had a
mule bitten by a rattlesnake last week.
The mule died in few hours.
Twenty five dollars and cost is what
they assess the disturbers of the peace
OF the opera house at Leavenworth.
The Garfield university at Wichita
will cost 100000 and the Roman Catho-
lie See there will expend 100000.
Mr.. Jake Strauss and Miss Title
Hahn were married last week in the par
lors of the Copeland house, Topeka.
The Leavenworth street railway has
been sold at auction. A man from New
Hampshire bid the road in at $4,000.
The agents Herald, published at
Philadelphia, by l.. Lum Smith, has been
denouncing Kanopolis, Ellis county as a
fraud.
George Shepard, aged sixteen, was
drowned in the Walnut river, near Win
field. He was swimming and took a
cramp.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Irwin, died in JEFF
ferson county at the age OF 50. She
was an old settler, having come to Kan
sas in 1868, from Ohio.
W. II. Smith, OF Chetopa, has been ar
rested and bound over to court on a
charge of hiring man to fire buildings
in that city on the 22nd Of August.
The house of John Rumold, who lives
nsar Abilene, was totally destroyed by
fire. Defective fue the cause. Loss
about $4,000.
John Wan, OF Abilene, young man
OF eighteen, Died from the effect OF
cancer that was removed from his
shoulder some months ago.
The largest number OF prisoners con-
fined in the penetentiary since it wf7
established was reached the other day,
when there were 900 convicts there.
Miss Minnie Strait of Cottonwood
Falls, eloped with a young man named
Minrod Dsub They went to Indepen-
dence, Missouri, and were married.
A little son of Henry Orme, OF Salins.
was playing on the joists OF the third
story of an unfinished building and fell
through to the first floor He died OF
the injury.
The militia encampment at Junction
City, in camp Phil Sheridan, was such
decided success that ii viii attempted