The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-03
ABOUT & ANS AS.

The Fort Scott sorghum sugar mills
have started up for the season.
The presence in that city OF Jack the
Hugger, the Hutchinson News says, is
breeding bee or cold lead seance.
Mrs. Ellen P. Allerton. the Kansas poet,
died at Padonia, Brown county. Friday
morning. Mrs. Allerton's poem. "The
Walls of Corn" made her famous.
The board of railroad assessors has made
the following dates for this week: Harper
county, Sept. 5; Sedgwick county, Sept. 6;
Clark county, Sept. Z; Marion county,
Sept s,
While there are no shafts at work at
Weir City yet except No. IS and the shafts
where the negroes work, still the strike is
practically over. The pay will be So cents
| for mine run coal.
a particularly bold and atrocious high
way robbery was that which bereft Mr..
James Fitzpatrick of Galena OF all the
clothes he wore aud his chewing tobacco
one night last week.
Out of ZIG banks in this state so far
heard from fifteen are in debt to New York
banks, the aggregate amount being S6S,
81. The New York banks are in debt
to these 216 Kansas banks in the sum of
S165, Ass IT,
Harry c. Ives, who was among the four.
teen persons killed at Chester, Mass, by
the falling of train through bridge,
was the assistant to the first vice president
of the Santa Fe road and was we'll known
in railroad circles throughout the west.
The city of Newton is in bad shape now
on account of their water supply giving
out. They have taken off the street sprin.
kler and shut down on the lawns, and as a
consequence Newton is a real dry town,
even during Democratic convention
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The paupers of Reno county fare more
sumptuously every day than the majority
of the people who pay the bills ever do
The Populist superintendent of the county
poor farm brings in as expenses the fol-
lowing bill of fare: Bananas, lemons,
chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, candy, salmon,
spring radshes and California grapes"
The independent colored company of
militia, of Leavenworth, have at last sur
rendered their arms to the state at the re-
quest of the adjutant general. The pos
contention ever since the late unpleasant
ness. as the company for some time refused
to surrender them under any conditions.
Fredonia gilds her saloons by termiug
them ''parlors" for the sale of hop tea. H.
was very inconsiderate for their sheriff to
walk right into these parlors and confis-
cate ali the good and bad liquor while the
county fair was in progress. The Law
renee Gazette loosely remarks that that
is as bad rs shutting off the Lawren ce
water works in August.
The Populisr and Democratic commit
tees of the Thirty-first district met in
Clearwater last Monday evening and de-
cided to call a convention of both parties
at Ashland, Sept. Z, and put fusion eau
didate in the field for judge. There are
three prominent candidates that want the
nomination-W. j. jackson and =. j. Mil
Ter of Comanche county and eX.County
Attorney Salvage of Meade county.
Topeka will have another diversion this
fall to help that dam project to entertain
the people. 1t isn't new one, but will
not lack diverting force on that account.
The Shawnee county commissioners have
ordered that vote be taken On the ever
present proposition to vote bonds to build
n new court house. The old "rookery" on
Kansas avenue used as a court house is
becoming more so every day, and faster.
Chancellor Shows weather report for
August shows the month to have been the
coolest August on record, except that OF
1884. There were on ~ siy days on which
the thermometer reached 90 degrees and
with one exception they occurred in the
rainless first third OF the month. The rain
fall was below the average amount
though the precipitation for the year so
far is considerably above the mean for the
same time in past years. The total run of
the wind was lower than has ever before
been noted for August at the university
station.