Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-08-15
STATE NEWS.

Sabetha Herald: Corn advanced
four cents and wheat three cents last
Monday. The prospects for large
corn crop are getting poorer every day.
It is very seldom that Kansas complains
of cool weather, but the heat is not
enough for corn this year.
Fredonia.-The fifteenth annual aes-
sion of the Wilson county normal closed
with an attendance of 40. Though the
number present was not up to former
occasions, much good work has been &C.
complished. Fully one-fourth of the old
teachers have chosen other vocations.
Wilson county has lob districts.
Washington, d. C.-The resignation
of ]. G. Sloneker. of Topeka, as mem-
Der of the Pyramid lake Indian commits
sion was accepted, and w. Il. Morgan,
of Cottonwood Falls, was appointed.
The commission will commence work
about the middle of August, and will
probably be engaged four months. Re-
Enumeration, SO per day and expenses.
Jennings-C. koehn went to his pas
ture to drive home the cattle, when he
was attacked by his bull and terribly
mangled. The bull left him on the
ground unconscious and returned q
second time and gored and paved him.
He managed to crawl to the house after
while. He died twenty hours after
the accident. He leaves a large fam
lily.
Norton Champion: Nellie Bride
groom. with her own money, purchased
fourteen bushels of wheat and furnished
it to A. E. Kidder, farmer living nine
miles south of town, who sowed it for
half the crop. Now that amount of
wheat will yield 800 bushels of wheat,
of this $50 bushels being her share.
This speculation for thirteen year old
girl is sample of the coming thrift of
the age.
Olathe Patron: Rev. D. r. Moore,
pastor of the NJ. E. church, received
sixty -four persons into full member
ship last Sabbath and baptised twenty
eight, of whom eighteen were immersed.
During the past sixteen months 116 full
members have been added to this church
from probation and by letter, and sixty
five probationers still remain on the
list, many of whom will be received into
full membership soon.
Atchison Champion: There is a stu
dent at Midland college who should
succeed if energy and absence of false
pride count. His name is Paul Consing,
and he is working his way through col
lege. During vacation he does the chores
around the building for his board, sup
plementing the same by doing any odd
jobs that he can secure. During harvest
he outstripped good farmers in the
amount of work he did.
Topeka Capital: McFlinn's circus,
which is portion of railroad show.
that has been exhibiting in the south,
and which started from Burlington, Ia,
some two years ago, arrived in town
from Denver and is stopping at the
Union Pacific stock yards. 1t is alleged
that the show is brought here for the
purpose of selling it to the Sells family
or consolidating the same with Willie
Sells show. Among the collection are
two elephants, two camels, lot of
trained horses and few smaller animals.
Topeka Journal: The Knights of Tabor
chartered special car from the Santa Fe
to go to Kansas City to attend the eman-
cipation exercises in that city. The
contract called for sixty persons to be
hor s,, Ln ,ok>
came through he found eighty colored
people all damned in one Car. He refused
to haul the extra twenty and the car was
side tracked at Lawrence. They finally
took up a collection among themselves
and had the car attached to the next
train and they sped on to Kansas City.
Olathe.-The Olathe canning factory,
owned and operated by DR.. W. Fl.
Lemon and R. A. A. Pitcher, located in
the south part of this city, was entirely
consumed by fire at 10 o'clock at night,
entailing an aggregate loss of about
$4,000. The canning factory had in
connection with it meal and chop mill
and had been in operation but three
years, canning $4,000 worth of goods
annually and employing during the
canning season about 100 boys and
girls and giving ready market for
early corn and fruit of every variety.
The loss will therefore be felt by this
entire community. But 81, 800 insurance
was carried on building and $4,000 on
stock.
Marion-John Dumbell, Bohemian,
who lived three miles east of Youngs-
town, this county, with his wife, both
aged about IS, and one daughter, q
young woman, while at dinner, became
enraged at his wife over trivial re-
mark, and, siezing her by the throat,
choked her to insensibilitv, then tied
her hands and feet and kicked and beat
her most brutally, even jumping on her
chest. Dumbell was arrested and placed
IN Jail. To-day at 10 o'clock he was
told by some boys that his wife was
dead, and he took strap from around
his waist and hanged himself on the Jail
door, Before assistance reached him he