The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-02-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| N <AIVS$AS - ~ NEWS.
The Newton free library drew 1897. 81
from the county treasury during the
year.
Topeka Capital: Private Secretar,
Close received a painful fall from an
electric car and is walking with q cane
Two hundred bushels of potatoes
were baked in q disastrous fire in North
Lawrence. G. L. Johnson's $4,000
residence burned to tho ground and the
potatoes in tho cellar were ruined. The
house was insured.
From Lyons: Otis Wade, q brake
man on the Frisco railroad, while coup
ling cars at Taxman lost his balance
and fell, the trucks passing over his
lower limbs, crushing them very badly.
He died at 6 o'clock.
The Spring Avenue hotel at Conway
Springs has burned the second time
within six months, the building now de-
stroyed having been erected recently
on the site of the former fire. The
loss is about $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Atchison Champion: The weather 10
mighty cold when it freezes an Atchison
street car horses ears. A horse on q
Main street car had both ears frozen
stiff, and when he was being led int
the barn he struck one ear against a
post, breaking it of-the, ear, We
mean.
Topeka Capital: There is an article
going the rounds of the eastern press
that family named Smith all froze to
death during the late zero weather
The article says there were four in tho
family and they lived near Topeka.
There is no truth whatever in the re- |
port.
Atchison Champion: The messenger
boys employed at the Office of the
Western Union Telegraph company
went out on strike. They wanted sis |
q month; they were getting SO. Their
demands were not complied with and
other boys were hired to take their
places.
Joseph McCrum died in Atchson last
week of acute pneumonia. The deceased
has resided in Atchson and Doniphan
since 1856, and was widely
known in this section of the state. He
was an extensive land owner in Dcni-
phan, Atchison and Ness counties in
his state
The Students Journal. a weekly
paper published by students of Kansas
prints what it claims to be
conclusive evidence that the Grafton of
Will Hall Riddle at tho oratorical con-
est, in which Riddle secured first place,
s plagarized from pamphlet published
n 1889. Riddle is Lawrence student
# K. s. q.
Jewell City Republican: John Elliot,
lear Randall, kept 200 hens during the
'ast year, and from them sold "a, 900
ggs and raised LOO chickens, without
n Incubator. His eggs and chickens
old brought him $500. He will start /,
q this year with 700 hens on his new
arm near Burr Oak, which he will fit :
lp especially for the poultry business. :
lis chickens are principally brown :
Ieghorns. There is money in the
hicken business, but it does not fall
nto mans lap. Lazy men better get il
ich some other way.
Columbus letter: The people of this :.
lace are greatly excited over the rapid =
pread of new religion. of which John =
nd David Deems, of this place are the 7
nunders and the chief expounders. T
he basis of the religion is the govern :.
lent of personal conduct according to )
ne teachings Ut the new Testament, :,
terally interpreted. John Deems de- .
otes himself to the material and David :"
the spiritual phase of the new reli- =
ion. John claims divine healing power,
by simply laying on of his :.
ands, and if the testimony of his con-
erts is to be believed his power is in -"
BED wonderful. Ruth Moore, girl of :,
5 years, living here, was cross-eyed. -
he says John Deems placed his hands "
her and her eyes were Strengthened.
[ary Olds was thrown out Of q car
age and received injuries to her spine
hlch resulted in the total paralysis of IN
'r limbs. She says John Deems babe a.
'r to arise and walk and she at once d
covered the use OF her limbs. Kittie ~
had been sufferer from hin -.
sease and Mary Speyton was dying Of F.
ncer; John Deems administered to =.
en- and both are cured. David III
GEMS does the preaching for the new "
ligion. The burden of his discourses
Is been, 'Leave all and follow me-" M
any have accepted the new religion tn
d several have deserted their families pc
follow the Deems. Homes were co
oxen up and families disrupted. until tn
" the civil authorities, backed by the en-
ntiment of orthodox people of the &C
wn, have determined to break up the ha
It. John and Charles Waits, two of tn
most fervent of the new converts, in,
ve been adjudged insane by the pro- w
to court and sent to the STATE asylum. rec
Forts will be made in few days to de-
Ve the Deems brothers adjudged in dir
Re. in the hope that their removal firs
l.