The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-03-19

perance and the tree Of progress, and here
they grow with the greatest vigor-symboh
OF health, purity and .vancement
In obed ence to a custom now nearly
twenty years old. and obeyed without official
order, hereby re Ommend the observance
Thursday, the tenth day of April, as ArbOl
Day for the year 1897.
LYMAN U. HUMPHREY, Governor.
Miscellaneous.
ST. CLAIR PINKsTON, twenty years old,
stenographer in the Office of q promi.
nent Kansas City, Kan, architect and
regular attendant of the Y. NJ. C. A.,
was recently arrested while on bum
across the State line. He had stolen a
number of articles from other young
men. Several counterfeit silver dollars
were found on his person, and a search
developed the fact that he was preparing
to go into counterfeiting on an extensive
scale. He was held for trial.
THE other night James NJ. Hughes,
proprietor of Topeka billiard hall. was
cut in the head by one Williams, des-
perado. Hughes was in most precari-
Gus condition, and his physician had lit
tie hope of his recovery. Williams was
intoxicated.
The Governor recently made the
following appointments: d. E. Cornell,
of Kansas City, Kan, director of the
penitentiary for the term commencing
April 5. 1890; DIR. C. Jones, of Topeka,
DIR. II. T. johnson, of Atchison, and DIR.
j. Milton WEIGH, of La Cygne, members
of the State Board of Health for the
term commencing March %, 1890; James
T. Taylor, of Atchison, member of the
State Board of Pharmacy for the term
commencing March 90, 1890: keenan, J.
Hurst, of Howard, member of the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission for the term
commencing March 25, 1890.
CHARLES WILLIAMS and his son, aged
twelve years, were found murdered in
their beds at Galena the other morning.
Williams was blind and had lost both
arms in an accident in the mines year
ago. Jerry Alipe, negro, was arrested
charged with the crime and the evidence
against him was very conclusive.
ABOUT ten o'clock the other night Rev.
David McGrew, pastor of the cOlored
Baptist Church at Armstrong, Mrs. Andy
Bigman and William Jackson, members
ofhis congregation. were returning from
a prayer meeting, and were walking on
the Union Pacific railroad tracks near
the bridge that spans the Kansas river,
when they were struck by an engine.
The first two were instantly killed and
the latter fatally injured. Three other
colored men in the party saved them
selves by jumping down an embakment
THE Boston Cash Store at Hill City
was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss. $40, 900; no insurance.
THE Grand Encampment I. o. O. F.,
in session at Kansas City, Kan.
elected the following officers: Grand
patriarch, D. NJ. Ferguson, of Paola;
grand high priest, F. H. Betton, of Pom
eroy; grand senior warden, H. E. Pyle,
of MCPHERSON: grand junior warden, s.
II. Glenn, of Harper; grand scribe, Sam
uel F. Burdett, of Leavenworth; grand
C. H. Schaffer, of Council
Grove; grand representative, Thomas
Beattie, of Atchison. 1t was decided to
hold the next annual encampment at
Arkansas City on the second Tuesday in
March.
AT the late meeting in Lawrence of
the order of the Eastern Star, grand
chapter of Kansas, the following officers
we're chosen: Grand matron, Lillian A.
Wigs. of Lawrence; grand patron, Will
liam A. Julien, of Olathe; associate
grand matron, Mrs. Lizzie Gabriel, of
associate grand patron, Thomas
K. Mcfarland, of Parsons; grand treas
urer, Mrs. Jessie NJ. Pearsall, of Fort
Scott; grand secretary, Kinda E. Ches-
ney, of Topeka; grand conductress, Mrs.
Olive Clark, of Lyons; grand A. con-
ductress, Mrs. T. Hays, of Osborne;
grand Ada Mollie Pratt, of Burlington;
grand Ruth, Virginia V. Carter, of Jew
ell City; grand Esther, Mrs. Aida ].
Reed, of Carbondale; grand Martha,
Miss Abbie Gibson, of Emporia; grand
Electra, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee, of Pitts
burgh; grand warder, Ellen A. Kenner,
Of Eureka: grand sentinel, d. C.
WEIGH. of Mcpherson; grand marshal,
Mrs. Cassia A. Getty. of Ellsworth;
grand chaplain, Eudora E. Hall, of
grand organist, Miss Amanda
Duele, Of Galena.
A PRINTER named George Brown fell !
lead at his case in the Office of the Demo- |
rat at Wichita the other evening.
The other day the two-year-old child |
IF John Blunt, . farmer living near |
Rocks County, found bottle |
Of laudanum and drank a quantity of it.
The child died in a short time. The |
next day the mother, who was crazed
Dy the loss of her child, drank the rest |
If the contents of the bottle and it was
could not live.
A. D. HOwELLs, Rock Island agent At
Gladys, eight miles south of Wichita,
vas assaulted the other night by Ed.
Shaw and received fatal injuries Shaw
,sed butcher knife, cutting the agent
n the neck and abdomen. Shaw was
arrested. The trouble grew out of the
act that Shaw was in the habit of steal
ng a ride to Wichita and back and How
Ills advised the conductors to watch
him.
A RECENT fire at Topeka damaged the