Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-01-24
STATE NEWS.

From Fort Scott: Mrs. A. NJ. Ware,
mother of Hon. Eugene Ware, died Sun
. day. She was in her seventy eighth
year.
Topeka Capital: A representative
of the Burlingame Knitting company
was in the city looking up location
for factory. The company aims to
take advantage of the cheap power
which our dam will afford.
From Lawrence: At a meeting of
the county alliance, the agent for the
sale of produce for the alliance of this
county, L. Il. Corse, was exonerated
from any blame for the loss on ship
ment of potatoes made recently.
Ralph Ingalls,, the second son of the
senator, will finish his course of study
at the Columbia law school next spring,
and will go into the Office of William
Evarts, in New York city. Ellsworth,
the eldest son, who is also a lawyer,
prefers to remain in Kansas.
From Mcpherson: VIM. Crowley,
under arrest at this place upon the
charge of robbing jewelry store at
Mound Ridge in this county, in an ef-
fort to escape from Deputy Sheriff
Bratanno was shot fatally, the ball en-
tering the lower part of the body.
From Ottawa: Mrs. Schilling, the
wife of a prominent farmer in Ohio
township, while attending services in a
school house northeast of Princeton, on
Monday last, was taken suddenly i'll
and died without a struggle. Her hus-
band was in the school room and saw
her head fall back, but before he could
reach her she was dead.
Russell Record: The scheme of get
ting out stone and piling them at the
railroad stations to be sold by the
county as opportunity offers is being
discussed by the county commissioners.
The object is to provide work for the
unemployed. It is a good scheme and
would be no loss to the county, but
probably result in profit.
Almena Plaindealer: Fire was dis
covered in the Office of the county clerk
at Phillipsburg. The partition between
that Office and the one occupied by the
county treasurer was neariy destroyed
before the fire could be extinguished.
The waterworks were turned on and
made short work of the flames. The
damage to the records will amount to
several hundred dollars. Various ru-
mors are out as to the origin of the fire,
but nothing certain is known.
Kansas City Gazette: It is a fact
not generally known that very large
proportion of the celery handled by
commission men in Kansas City is the
product of Kansas. A Gazette reporter
was told yesterday by one of the lead
ing commission men that his house
was being supplied with celery from
Leavenworth county. He considered
the Kansas product far superior TO the
Michigan celery, and says the celery
trade throughout the southwest is
enormous.
At Atchison there is a movement on
on foot to have the legislature divide
the county high school district and
leave the city out. 1t is a scheme of
the citizens of Atehison to get out of
paying their proportion of the cost of
maintaining the new county high school
recently erected at Effingham. The city
maintains high school of its own and
will not be benefited by the county
high school. The law, however, makes
the city equally liable for the support
of the county institution.
At Kansas City W. T. Mock, who re-
sides at 526 South Sixth street, received
a telegram conveying the agree.
able news that he had fallen heir
to $4,000, and that the money would
be forthcoming as soon as the necessary
legal form had been complied with. The
comes from the Fischer estate in
Germany, aud is a great surprise to
Mr.. Mock, who is highly elated over
this unexpected stroke of good fortune.
Mock is a laboribg man and is employed
at Swift's packing house.
From Greeuleaf: T. n. Wheeler,
prominent business man of Greenleaf,
was found dead in bed. He had died of
apoplexy. He died alone, evidently
some time before. His wife was out of |
town and he had been alone in the |
house for some days. The attention
of the nesghbors was attracted by the
continued neighing of the horses IN the
stable. They found them without food |
or water and in a starving condition. |
Breaking open the house they found
dead.
Olathe Mirror: A hoop-pole factory
is a new industry started in Olathe in
the Mead building, just east Of Patti
sons grocery store on Park street. The
poles in the rough are purchased from
parties living on the Blue in the east
part of the county, and are manufac-
tured into hoops ready for use on bar
rels at the shop here. when they are
sold by the wagon load to the packing
houses in Kansas City. 1t is the inten-
ton of the company to work several
hands in the business as soon as suff-
Gent stock can be secured.
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