Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-30
KANSAS KOLLARY.

KANSAS KOLLARY.
Newton is up to her ears in mud.
The Kirmess at Newton is cooked ane
| primed.
The Normal items" have taken thei
departure at last.
An Allen county boy was killed re
Gently in a game of base ball.
A Topeka girl while ascending Pike:
Peak last week was struck by lightning
The Topeka restaurant keepers have
already begun to make sandwiches for
the fair week.
An old farmer down in Harper, after
six yeras trial comes to the conclusion
that government seeds won't grow.
There is telk of two new papers at
Hutchinson. 4 Democratic afternoon
paper and another of unknown politics
In the morning.
The Winfield people turned out en-
masse to see the new pillow take the mud
off the street car track. 1t was great
novelty.
The editor of one of the Concordia pa
pers has gone SO far as to brand" the
editor of a rival paper as liar and dare
him to take it up.
Kansas City Star: In eleven houses in
single square at Parsons there are fifty
children. There always was a good
deal of public spirit at Parsons.
The coal miners of Usage City publish
circular charging the mining com.
pany with intending to starve them out
next winter.
The Fort Scott sugar works are turn
ing out the sugar in great style. Every
thing is favorable, the quality of the
cane, the capacity of the machinery and
the crops.
A Newton colored man going home
the other night, met another man and
being lonesome asked, (which wayy'
The fellow took pistol out of his pocket
and took away piece of the gentleman's
leg.
On the side of the water tank at
Hutchinson they show a large
bloody sport spotted here and there
These are the remains of Nicodemus
Moriarity, descendent of the Cid, who
attempted to jump off passenger train
while in motion.
Marion Record: A Philadelphia court
has decided that mans legal residence
is where his washing is done. That may
be satisfactory law in Philadelphia,
but how could anyone tell by that sort
of test where Sam Wood lived, for in
stance.
Grindstone. the Indian who murdered
TNcarh CIV oil nd
Sky said he ate revolvers like Grind
stone carried, has surrendered to Flint,
an Indian policeman, and has been
locked up at Baxter Springs, Konsas.
A. C. Dispatch: Chas Wier was ar
rested this morning on state warrant
for being implicated in the s., 400 swim
die. He was put under $500 bonds and
his trial is set for Friday at 0 o'clock in
Kreamer's court. 1t is said that he is
the man who came along in a buggy
and took away Burress and kassabaum.
Cawker City Times: William Reaves,
living three mile north of town. voted
for William Henry Harrison in 1910.
This year, if his life be spared, he will
vote for Benjamin Harrison, and instead
of going to the poles alone as in 1910, his
three SONS and five sons-in-law will &C
company him, all voting for Harrison
and Morton. Hurrah for the Reaves
family.
A little 12-year old son of w. F. Grit
fey, prosperous farmer living near
became tired of this life Sun
day, and procuring piece of rope, tied
a slip knot, placed it over limb of q
tree in his fathers orchard, short dis
from, tho hnI1cn onH YlopIno his
neck in the moose, jumped from off the
limb and hung himself. He was found
in the evening by his parents, who had
stituted search.
Parsons Sun: Sherman Samuels was
arrested yesterday morning on warrant
issued from Justice Harris court charg-
ing him with beating his wife in an in
human manner. He was arraigned I'M
after his arrest and proceeded
to trial without delay. The testimony
showed that Mrs. Samuels smote her
husband with sick and he in return
knocked her down. The court decided
hat Samuels was justified in defending
himself under the circumstances and
acquitted him of the charge.
Mrs, Lizzie Foster, the divorced wife |
If Judge Foster, of the United States |
district court of Kansas, who Is now an
innate of the Atchison county poor
house, writes letter to the Globe of |
Atchison, stating that she is locked up |
n room in the building and not al |
owed the privileges she Is entitled to. |
She further states that she is compelled |
o sit at the table with paupers and sub |
ected to other indignities, and asks the |
,ditor of the paper 10 employ some good |
attorney in investigate her case. She |
las no money and was recently charged /
With insanity, but a jury failed TO sus-
ain the charge. She was once a women |
# considerable social Importance. but |
low appears TO be friendless.
Girard Press: Wednesday a colored |
nan named Jones. from Springfield,
TO-. went to the coal mines at Fronte-
lac, and through curiosity looked around
he shafts. He was told to be careful
nd keep away from the entrance, or
lie might get hurt. Finally he climbed
10 by the side of the guards around one
f the shafts aud he was looking over
oaI, struck MS head. crushing his skull
nd breaking his neck, SO that life was
xtinct in moment The engineer saw
i'm just before the cage struck HIM and
eyersed the engine, but too late to pre-
ent the accident. Nobody was to blame
kept the individual himself, as he had
cen warned of the danger, and no one
oriced him in time to save his life.
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