People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

Frank Knox. aged years, was
drowned in Soldier creek, near Tope-
Ia. Kan.
Western counties Of the state want
the real estate assessment .educed.
Marshall county has a mutual fire
and lightning insurance company.
The old settlers of Ellis county held
reunion and a basket picnic last
Thursday.
Henry Martin, of Topeka, has been
appointed as Waterman at the pension
Office.
With its issue Of July 10 the Frank
fort Review completed the first year of
its existence.
A Leavenworth woman who has
been married forty. four years is suing
for divorce.
Wa-Keeney levies a tax of half a
mill each year for the maintenance of
a school library.
The Sun notes that the demand for
bologna has about doubled in Parsons,
owing to the hard times.
Wheat on au upland farm near Ar.
kansas City threshed an average
of thirty-six bushels to the acre.
A CawIer City man has an apple tree
that is blooming, although il is loaded
with apples the size of walnut,
Garden City is so good a town that
1t has been found possible to dispense
with the services of day marshal.
The new irrIgating ditch in Rocks
county is full of water and farmers
depending upon it for crop moisture
are as happy as though it rained every
night.
At the weekly shoot of the Leaven.
worth Gun Club Friday afternoon, NJ.
Przvbylowicz, jr., won the first medal.
Probably he loaded the gun with all
the letters in his name and couldn't
miss.
John Cunningham and Tom Owens,
both colored. became involved in a
quarrel at the Santa Fe depot in
Hutchinson the other day and Cum
bingham stabbed Owens in the side.
The injured man will recover.
j. d. F. Casey, Wichita attorney, is
suing for divorce from his wife on
the grounds of extreme cruelty. He
alleges that she bastes him over the
head with club two and q half feet
long. ..a o.- -...
Ellinwood is the distributing point
for liquor IN that part of the state.
The goods are shipped to Ellinwood
by the car load and hauled from there
by wagons to other towns. Hoising-
ton Dispatch.
A steamer will tow several large
loads of machinery from the Missouri
Valley Bridge and Iron Works of
Leavenworth to Millville, La. a short
distance from Baton Rouge, this week,
where new bridge is to be built by
the Leavenworth company.
TT. Scott citizens Toasted on ba-
nanas over Sunday. Two car loads
that had been refused by the parties
to whom they were consigned were
sold at auction. There were l,5OO
punches in the two cars and they sold
from twenty-five to fifty cents a
bunch.
The completion of Leavenworth's
electric street railway system was
celebrated Wednesday in. grand style.
Major Morrill,, Marshal Neeley, Ed.
Carroll. b. X. Bruce and others spoke
original pieces. A last golden spike
viii be driven and there will be two.
steer barbecue.
4 painful accident occurred at Kan
Opolis last Monday. George Rathburn
of Reno county and family were visit
ing there. In the evening their little
boy who was playing with a loaded
gun, managed in some way to dis
charge it, the load striking his sister
some three years old, in the leg, below
the knee, cutting it entirely off.
John Pratt, long time resident OF
Chase county; who sold his farm to
one c. 5. Palmer, of Goshen, Indiana,
PERSISTED in moving some of the ar
ticles which were included in the bill
Of sale, This resulted in a fight in
which Palmer was struck on the head
by Pratt's hired man and died Satur-
day. Previous TO Palmer's death his
assailant was arrested and tried FOR
assault and battery, which it is claim
ed, stops further prosecution.
meeting of the Topeka presbytery
of which the first Presbyterian church
of Kansas City, is member, has been
called to be held at Leave 9TH Fri
day. The meeting il consider the
recent trouble between the Rev. Frank
p. Berry and the congregation. Berry
resigned, by request, but preached 70
a practically seeding wing Of his
former congregation in a court room
last Sunday. The prospect is that he
will attempt to establish seperate
church.
The boarding hall Of Southwest Kan
sas college at Winfield was burned one
day last week, entailing a loss OF
$4,000 which the istitutiOn can i'll