Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-30
STATE NEWS.

From Hanover: During the month
a March, one firm alone in Hanover
shipped $4,000 worth of eggs.
The lady worlds fair commissioners
Of Kansas have organized Women's CO.
lumbar clubs in thirty counties.
The citizens of Pittsburg are making
extensive preparations to entertain the
Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias next
month.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
given orders for the establishment OF
. free delivery service at Parsons, COM
s mencing June L.
Prof. Snow says that out of 1,15O
experiments in Kansas, Colorado and
Missouri with his method of destroying
chinch bugs, 900 have been successful.
The regents of the state university
have appropriated money enough to en-
able Professor Dyche to exhibit his nat
ural history collection at the worlds
fair.
ElDorado Republican: Congressman
Otis sent Chairman Coggeshall a
check for 500 for the Towanda tor
nado sufferers, which will be accepted
with thanks
Captain George A. Smith died at Gar
nett April 10, aged 81 year. He was
commander, during the war, of the war
ship Dictator, the largest vessel then
carrying the stars and stripes.
Wichita. Alexander Walker, an old
man who recently moved here from
Columbia Mo-, and who has been living
alone, fell on stove, while in fit, and
before he was rescued suffered fatal in
juries.
Since last. November twelve new Odd
Fellows lodges have been organized in
Kansas. The women's auxiliaries have
increased nearly twice as fast, twenty
one lodges of Daughters of Rebecca
having been organized.
The Lyons salt shaft is seven by six
teen feet. It cost over 100000 to sink
it, It is double cased and filed with
hydraulic cement between the casing
to the depth of 305 feet. 1t is 1,O65
feet and goes through 265 feet of salt.
Atchison.-The Missouri river con-
tinues to cut away the island above
Atchison. Albert II. Horton, chief JUS
tice of the Kansas supreme court, who
owns nearly thousand acres at the up
yer end, has lost about sixty acres this
spring, and Glenn Rohr, who owns con-
siderable body lower down, has lost five
or ten acres. There are seven or eight |
tenants on the Horton end of the island,
and they are greatly alarmed.
Wichita Eagle: Sunday morning Rev.
o. s. Nusbaum presented the circum-
stances of Rev. E. B. Abbott, near Lo-
Iena, Kan, who was with his wife badly |
hurt in the cyclone over week ago,
and the congregation responded with a
collection which amounted to over $50. |
Rev. Mr.. Abbott and wife are elderly
people, and the cruel cyclone left them
without home, clothing, food or money.
They are being cared for at a neighbours |
home.
Weir Journal: Among the things to |
Be commended in the acts of our pres
emit council is the survey and plat Of the
various railroad switches in the city.
These have heretofore escaped the
municipal tax, but some time ago, G. L. |
McClung, by order of the council, made |
. survey and plat of these switches and
tracks, and the city have filed the same
with the board of railroad assessors, who |
will duly assess the municipal as well as
general tax.
Mcpherson Republican,: DR.. Match
cite was called to Inman to attend Mrs. |
Henry W. Janzon, who had been struck |
by lightning. She had been sitting in
Q hard bottomed chair when the bolt |
descended, striking and lacerating her
terribly, passing off down her limbs,
tearing the shoes from her feet. It took |
forty stitches to sew up the wounds.
She is in I vc--- ::--,c:r;o-s cc2G::t. oa. !
The doctor says in all his experience he
has never seen anything like it.
At meeting of Lone Star alliance at |
Hsysville, Kansas, held few days ago,
the following resolutions were passed:
Resolved, That we, the members of Lone
Star alliance, are opposed to the appro-
priation of any money belonging to
Sedgwick county by our commissioners
to be used at the worlds fair held in
Chicago in 1893. Furthermore, we de-
nounce the appropriation of any money
raised by taxation for the purpose of
advertising property held by eastern
capitalists.
Topeka Capital: In the county cir
Quit court the three infant children OF
Thomas McGrath, deceased, are suing
William M. Lyle, asking $1,000 dam
eyes for the alleged careless killing of
their father. McGrath's death occurred
ct Concordia, Mo-, in September, 1890.
He was assistant ticket man to the Full
ford 4 Co. circus, of which Lytle was q
partner. At noon Of the day OF the
Killing Lytle was in the ticket wagon
md McGrath was outside. In transfer
S3nr a revolver from one drawer to an