Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-01
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items of Interest CONDENSED for Hurried
Keadcra.


held in P.ttsburg.
Ande son county's election booths
are being manufactured at Garnett.
Lyons will have a lecture course tn S
winter for the public school library.
The River brethren will dedicate O
new church in South Dickinson coun-
ty to-day.
The Kingman high school has So
pupils enrolled. The total enrolment
n the city schools is 625.
The jointists and prohibitionists are
bo.h writing anonymous letters to the
city officers at Mcpherson.
Osawatomie is fast assuming metro
politan ways. The city is already in
row with the Gas company.
The southwestern Kansas district
convention of the Christian church
was held at Scott City last week.
A Mcpherson business man says he
has done a credit business of $3.50. 600
In that town and only lost 500.
The men who have the best opin-
ion of Kansas right now are the men
OF somewhere trying to find better
place.
The cruiser Marblehead, sister ship
of the Montgomery and Detroit, is to
have her preliminary trial trips dur
ing the week.
Spaniards have as yet made no
move to attack the Moors at Melilla,
who are at work constantly on their
entrenchments.
Nortonville News; Nine pounds of
sausage was an item of provisions ac-
companying a visitor to the fair from
here this week.
At Dannemara, N. Y, Sunday
morning, Martin Joy, Jr., the MUIR
derer of Henrietta Wilson, was execu-
ted by electricity.
. A Reno county man who has long
had trouble with hens tearing up the
garden is now trying to teach them to
dig his potatoes.
The Osawatomie library board has
reorganized. o. T. Besson was elected
president, Mrs. Policy vice president
and j. Fl. Bell, secretary,
Charles Plowman, of Jewell CITY
had 120 chickens shut up to take to
market, and some thieves came dur
ing the night and stole them.
During the past year Wabaunsee
county has expended $l,6S4 in aiding
the poor, $447 for keeping the insane.
and paid $26s in bounties for scalps.
The fact that Missouri hogs took
the premium at the worlds fair over
the Kansas product is no surprise
Kansas ships all of her hogs to Mis-
souri,.
Rev. B. M. Southgate, formerly
principal of the Sterling schools, has
been ordained pastor of the Congrega-
tional church at South Lake, Linden,
Mich.
The enterprising Presbyterian la
dies of Manhattan netted $40 from a
baby show and fair last week. 'Pen-
ny for your thoughts" socials are also
in vogue there.
You don't hear as much about it as
| the football eleven, but the state uni
versity Y. NJ. C. A. has now sixty ac-
tive members and the number is con-
stantly increasing.
| has done better by the worlds fair
than any other city or town in Kansas.
| Over sixty eccursionists went from
| that place within a week.
A press dispatch from Tacoma.
Wash, says: II. D. Cans of this city
was killed by runaway horse at
Kamloops, Tuesday. He was probate
judge of Cowley county for twelve
years.
Seneca Tribune: Buyers are very
readily paying 25 cents bushel for
new corn. There is some selling at
that price in various points of the
county, but sellers as a rule are hold
ing for better prices.
) Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
telegraphed from Meade that the
statement of the Stockgrowers and
Farmers bank at that place is salts
factory, and that it will resume busi-
ness Immediately.
Railroad Detective Hanie, OF the
Richmond & Danville railway, shot
and killed Jim Batson at Greenville,
N. c. Batson was drunk and fred
first at the detective. Hanie surren-
dered himself and is now in Jail.
The president of the Rice county
Cemetery association in his call for a
meeting says: LET every one that
has the interest of the cemetery at
heart come out and try and make the
home of the dead an honor to our
city"
At Atchtson Professor WYNN Is Ia
boring for the elevation of the human
race in Midland college. At Holtop,
Professor Wynn is at the fair grounds
with a balloon laboring for the same
purpose. Both depend for success
upon the same element.
The lodges of Odd Fellow, Modern
Woodmen, and Knights of Honor. to
which George Klockson belonged at
Ft. Scott have offered joint reward
of $3.50 for his body. He disappeared
at Kansas City on the 2sth, ult., and
they believe he was murdered and
robbed.
Owing to the scarcity of ministers
in the Lutheran church the old custom
of circuit riding will be resorted to
again. This plan was adopted by the
Lutheran synod at Kansas city on the
suggestion of DIR. Clutz. of the Mid
land college. There are eleven
charges in Kansas without pastors.
The supreme court has issued a
peremptory writ of mandamus COM
manding the secretary of state, or his
assistant, to issue certificate of nom
ination in the case of William Thom-
son, the nominee of the miners and
laboring mems party for Judge. in
Usage county, the Twenty-ffth dis
trict.
The burglars have started the fall
| campaign at Emporia. Tie Fort Scott
Monitor says that is safo place for
them to practice on, as out of the hun
dreds OF burglaries there in the past
few years none of the burgulars have
ever been caught.
The Champion declares that "Atch.
ison is on the eve of the greatest pros
perity in her history" All right be.
low: let her don