Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-03
STATE NEWS.

Tonganoxie people got up an enter
tainmeut for the benefit of their public
library which netted $40.
Abilene is under boycott, declared by
the Dickinson county alliance, because a
city ordinance levies an occupation tax
on produce peddlers.
| A Sabetha girl, Miss Ida Rees, re-
ceived one of the seventy-two world
fair premiums awarded for drawn work
curtains There were 5000 pieces of
this kind of work exhibited.
Topeka Journal: John A. Murray
and his brother Ellery, left for the City
of Mexico to start coffee plantation
Ellery Murray will remain there per-
manently and superintend the work.
The HAGEN district, No. 116, in Sylvia
township, has the largest school library
in Reno county. It consists of lit
volumes. Six other country districts
in the county own upwards of sixty vol
umes.
Topeka Journal: A new stamping
machine, with capacity for cancelling
400 envelopes minute, or $4,000 an
hour, is being put up by an expert en-
gineer from Washington in the Topeka
postofice
A fire at Conway Springs, Sumner
county, destroyed half a block in the
center of the town. The fire started in
the Sumner County Bank building, up
stairs. The loss is about $4,000, with
no insurance except on the bank build
ing.
Mrs. NJ. R. Wickens, of Sabetha, for
merly at the head of the W. r. G. of
Kansas, and last year president of the
national organization of the order, has
been made superintendent of the reform
school for girls at Chicago, at good
salary.
Parsons Sun: A proposition has been
made to the city for the location of a
large shoe factory in Parsons, and the
board of directors of the Commercial
club met to consider the matter. The
board regards the proposition very
favorable one, and has appointed spe-
cial committee to further investigate the
matter.
The Atchison city council has granted
a franchise to B. p Waggener and 9th
ers for a new telephone company. It is
understood that Mr.. Waggener repre-
sents the Harrison International Tele-
phone company, which has secured priv
ileges in a number of neighboring
towns. The franchise provides that work
on the plant must be commenced within
sixty days.
Butler county claims to have young
man who is even more powerful than the
idol of New York, Sandow. Fred Stock
is the name of this Kansas Sampson. He
is twenty-three years of age and weighs
ITO pounds. He has often lifted as much
as 1900 pounds dead weight and the
people of Douglass will back him against
any strong man in the world, the great
Sandow not excepted.
Olathe special: The hardware store
of Keefer Bros, this city was broken
into and seven double barrel shotguns
and one Marlin repeating rife, all worth
over 5000 were stolen. Entrance was
affected by cutting througha large plate
glass in the front. W. G. Keefer, of the
firm, has been sleeping in the store I'M
til recently, but was at his home at the
time. Nothing else of value has been
missed SO far. A reward has been Of
fered for the guilty parties.
A man engaged in sinking a we'll
through rock on farm owned by Jacob |
Smith, near Edgerton, Kas., placed a |
stick of dynamite in cook stove to |
thaw out, going away and apparently |
forgetting where the dangerous explo- |
sive had been left. Mrs. Smith and |
daughter-in soon afterward went to |
work in the kitchen, unaware of their
peril. The dynamite soon thawed and |
blowing the stove into pieces,
wrecking a portion of the house and |
probably fatally injuring the two women.
From Ottawa: A smooth individual
is ''doing" neighboring towns on new
racket and the merchants of this city are
on the lookout for him. He carries a
nice line of samples and the prices he
places on bis goods are away below
those usually charged for the same class
of goods by other houses. When he
finds customer he informs him that
the rule of his house is to collect part of
the order in advance. This is usually
paid over by the unsuspecting merchant
and the agent vanishes.