The Globe-republican., 1892-05-16
STATE NEWS.

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rumor that 1900 colored people from
Tennessee will settle in Phillips county.
Lawrence.--The storm did considera-
bic damage north of the city. A num-
Der of barns and outhouses were blown
down and the fence at Bismarck grove
was carried some distance away.
The Indian girls of Haskell institute
attended the circus in Lawrence in a
BODY. They made very pretty ap-
pearance as they marched up Massachu-
sets street in their blue costumes.
From Cawker City: A. L. Smith, of
Blossburg. Pa, has purchased the Great
Spirit Springs, at auction, his bid being
$500, which includes quarter section
of land on which the springs are located.
From Clifton: Mrs. G. N. Adams
and another lady were struck by Rock
Island passenger train while crossing
the railroad in buggy. and fatally in
jured. A little child escaped injury.
They were thrown thirty feet.
A train loaded with wheat from the
counties of Sedgwick, Harper, Sumner
and Cowley, has started from south
western Kansas for Galveston. A stop
will be made at every town on the route
and advertising matter will be distrib-
uted. In addition to this, a carload,
or such matter, of wheat will be put
into small sacks for free distribution
among the farmers of the south, who
will be requested to plant it and mark
the spot, thus proving the superiority of
the Kansas article.
Hoisington Dispatch: One pleasing
feature in regard to the buildings being
erected in town is that they are being
paid for as fast as erected, and very few
persons are going in debt to make i'm
provements. This is very unlike the
boom period of the state when cities
were built almost entirely on borrowed
capital, and when the reaction came
sad state of affairs was the result. Our
foundation is secure and we are build.
ing on that solid basis.
The new city hall at Wichita was
opened with appropriate ceremonies. It
is the finest building of its character in
the state, being built of fine quality
of stone, and fire proof throughout, its
principal tower standing 1876 feet above
the basement. The entire cost, includ-
ing furniture, was upward of 100000,
surprising the government building,
which stands on an opposite corner,
costing 100000 Excepting the coun-
ty court house, the city hall is the most
imposing building in the city.
Topeka Journal: The pupils of Clay
school celebrated the advent of May
day by perpetrating flower shower on
the principal. All the pupils of the first
four grades, loaded with flowers, marched
to the room of the principal, which was
vacated. When the pupils were arranged
around the room, Miss Woods was
brought in. After hearty applause,
Katie WEIGH came forward and, in ap-
propriate words, crowned the principal
May Queen. After Rotations by Mas
tor Tillotson and Ruby Gage, the pupils
marched to music through the rooms of
the higher grades. Returning, they de-
posted their boquets Of flowers over
the room, and SO great was the number
that it looked like a flower garden.
From Beloit: The funeral of Judge
Joel Holt, late commissioner of the SUI
preme court of Kansas, and for many
years Judge Of this, the Fifteenth judi
cial district, occurred here. Long be-
fore the funeral hour the First Presby-
terian church, of which the deceased
jurist had long been an active and con-
sistent member, was crowded to suffoca-
ton, the citizens of this city turning
out almost en- masse to witness the last
sad rites over the remains of their much
loved and highly respected townsman,
who in strange land had suddenly and
unexpectedly to them, entered the dark
valley of the shadow of death. Among
those who came from a distance to at
tend the obsequies were Chief Justice
A. II. Horton and Justices Valentine
and johnson of the supreme court, who
for many years were intimately asso-
ciated with Judge Holt. The funeral
discourse was delivered by Rev. Lewis
By request, Chief Justice Horton also
delivered an address which was eloquent
and touching in the extreme.
Kansas City, Mo-, journal: Professor
Lucien I. Blake, of the Kansas state
university, who has just completed his
course of lectures in electricity before
the Kansas City Society of University
Extension, has been petitioned by 1872
persons to repeat the course this fall.
He has received an urgent and very ad-
vantageous offer from the University CT
California, offering him $1,000 more per
year than he had previously been get
ting at Lawrence. The regents Of the
Kansas university, however, have raised
his salary $500. but whether this will
keep him remains to be seen. Professor
Blake has been appointed a member Of
the electricians congress, which meets
at the worlds fair, and to which will be
referred the electrical problems in con-
nection with the great exposition. This
congress will be composed Of forty of