The Iola register., 1891-05-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

jamestown elected woman mayor.
There will be a G. A. r. fair at Leay,
enworth on May 7th and 9Th.
Grass is ahead of time in this state
and 1t already makes good pastursge.
The mayor and council of Pittsbure
have ordered the board awning to go.
Atchison has an extra Justice of the
peace and doesn't know what to do with
him.
Trego county is shipping large auan-
titles of chalk and yellow ochre to
Chicago.
Farmers around Lawrence complain
that much rain has retarded spring
planting.
Ten cows belonging to one man were
killed by lightning in Brown county one
day last week.
Hog cholera has killed hundreds of
swine recently in Chautauqua county,
and is still raging.
All Hee, a Topeka laundryman, has
gone to Canton, China, to convert his
heather countrymen.
Henry Kirchoff, aged 20, fell head
and crushed his skull.
A. I. Mitchell and A. Schwager have
been appointed postmasters at Fremont
and Odin, respectively.
Charles Scott, a colored boy OF
Atchison, tried to pull a gun out of a
boat by the muzzle and was shot and
killed.
Durkee & Stout. grain dealers and
shippers at Fort Scott, have made, it is
reported, $4,000 in corn during tho
past year.
Ex-Congressman Peters has been
nominated for governor by the King.
man Courier and indorsed by the
Hutchinson News.
The old residence of Jim Lane at Law
renee was destroyed by fire on Saturday
last. 1t was one of the historic land
marks of that historic city.
Over 100 farmers in Saline county
will cultivate an eighth of an acre OF
sugar beets this season under the in
s;ruction of DR.. Scheidtweilder.
According TO the Hutchinson News
Mrs. Mary A. Humphrey of Junction
City, author of "The Squatter Sover-
eign," is engaged in writing another
novel.
Burt Beck, a school teacher from
Sprague, Neb., was arrested at Topeka,
KS. With him was school girl with |
whom he had elGped, leaving wife and |
three children.
A big revival meeting attended
nightly by 600 to 700 people. is being |
held at Emporia under the leadership |
OF Evangelist Frame and wife, assisted |
by all the ministers of the city.
:. A drowned team of horses belonging
TO Andrew Brainerd of Eureka, have
been found in Otter creek, ten miles
from that town and it is believed that
MIR. Brainerd: too, has been drowned.
Professor A. r. Marsh, who formerly
occupied the chair of English literature
1t the Kansas state university, and who
has been in Europe for two years, will
De present at the annual commence
nent OF the university at Lawrence in
june.
Thomas Johnson and Mrs. Waddle,
both married and living in the same |
in Leavenworth, eloped
rom there, but were discovered ten
hey were living as man and wife, and
Irrested.
Topeka Lance: The state papers that
lave been blaming the women of Tope.
IA for electing democratic mayor.
will have to drop the charge. On the
emale vote in Topeka, Judge Quinton,
he republican nominee, received ma
Ority of PIG.
The Bandana club of Leavenworth
Tas visited by Congressman Crisp of
ieorgia, Breckenridge of Arkansas, :
,erry of Arkansas, Bryan OF Nebraska,
Ion. John G. Tarsney and wife, Mr..
nd Mrs. S. p. Griffith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ohm Sullivan, Mrs. Ball of Kansas
'ity and Colonel A. C. Dawes of ST.
oseph, who had been in attendance at
he commercial congress at Kansas
'ity. They were first rendered re-
option at the opera house by the peo- I
lie, where speeches were made, after
'hich a banquet was given by the club
t the National hotel.