Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-28
A brand new piano now ornament
Wamego's high school.

| MONDAY night.
The young lady pupils of the Frank.
fort high school have organized base
ball club.
4 A detachment of the Salvation ARMY
has begun operations in Waterville,
Marshall county
Students of the Dickinson county
high school at Chapman have organ.
lied an athletic association.
Marshall's Military Band of Topeka
wants to give a concert in Lawrence
for the benefit of the foot ball coach
! fund.
The people of Nemaha county nav
taxes at the rate of $3.50 per capita.
almost half of which is for school pur.
! poses.
A Marshall county man lost nine
head OF horses last week from what
| he supposed was excessive consump.
tion of smut.
The high wind of last week is re.
ported to have done some ipiurv tc
wheat in some Southeastern Kansas
counties.
| The kangaroo court, time hon.
ored institution at the Leavenworth
county jail. has been abolished by or
der of the new sheriff.
! Lawrence has musical organiza.
| ton which is called The Fat Mans
| Quartette." The combined weight of
the members is 925 pounds.
Miss Kate Stephens, late of South
America, will deliver lecture on the
Legal Status of Women at tie law
school of the state university.
An ordinance prohibiting printing
houses from printing lottery tickets
and advertising matter, has been in.
troduced in the Kansas City council.
A harmless stranger almost created
a panic in Blackwell one dav last
week. Somebody pointed him out
and said he was one of the Dalton
gang.
A Harper county man insists by all
that is hoy that he made six porlsers
weigh 225 pounds each at six months
old by feeding them on nothing but
ground wheat.
Lew zimmerman and Joseph Schnei-
der, one 81 and the other l6 years OF
age. have been sentenced at Atchison
to six years each in the peniteniary
for burglary.
Merchants at Marysville have been
so ANNOYED by malicious mischief per.
! petrated by numerous young repro
bates that they have offered a reward
for arrests and convictions.
IL. {. Lowe of Lawrence has some
dogs entered in the big purse race OF
the st. Louis coursing association
which will come off March 81, q. and
2s, and expects to capture a slice OF
the money.
Scranton people are SO provokingly
healthy and so little inclined to take
the inevitable journey that the Gem
terry company has been constrained to
offer premium for hastened demise.
in the guise of threat that the price
of cemetery lots will be advanced So. sc
after June /.
small child of Mr. and Mrs Hem
ry Ward. of Greensburg. Kiowa coun-
ty. met its death through n horrible
accident last week. The father was
preparing to sca!d hogs and had bar
rel half full of boiling water. The
child fell head foremost into the bar
rel and was SO terribly burned that it
died in four hours.
William Blake of Eureka, aged Is |
years, was run over by Missouri |
Pacific passenger train at Toronto, |
Woodson county, Tuesday afternoon. |
and both of his legs were crushed iust |
below the body. Young Blake had |
been tramping and attempted to steal |
a ride. He had been put off the train |
by porter and then attempted to pet I
on the brake beam of the moving bag. I
gage car, but lost his hold and fell un.
der the wheels.
The farm house of w. A. Birch, iiv-
ing five miles northeast of Abilene. |
was destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. involving loss of $4,000. The tire
caught from defective flue and waS
first discovered about $40 n. IN. 10
was, as the family supposed. ey |
tinguished. but still lurked among the
timbers, and in the afternoon broke
out again. destroying the building
and its contents.
At a recent teachers meeting in
Washington county those present in.
dulged III spelling contest One
hundred words in every day use were
pronounced, of which the winner Of
the contest missed fourteen. The
teacher coming off second best missed
tweniy-seven.
\ Miss Coin, who lives at ,ilenwood |
Springs, Colo, recently telegraphed !
to brother at Hutchinson asking as /
TO his health. He wired back that he /
was IA pretty lively corpse" The |
telegram was garbled in transmission |
and the sister Immediately came on. |
expecting to find her brother a corpse. |
indeed. When she discovered her |
mistake she threatened to sue the |
telegraph company for her travelling
expenses from Colorado and back.
Rev. j. c. Mcpherson, pastor of the |
African Methodist church in Kansas. |
and Miss Nora Letcher, of Atchison.
were to have been married at the lat. |
ter place Wednesday night, but, tc !
the surprise of the BRIDE and the as
sembled guests, the groom did not put
in an appearance. The wedding was
fet for 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Yocum. who
was to have performed the ceremony.
arrived on time and remained With |
the guests two hours, thinking the
groom would arrive on q DELAYED
train. The supper was finally served
in spite of the disappointment. an6
the guests departed.
Professor Quayle of Baker Universi. |
ty lectured at Clifton March o.
A correspondent to the Topeka Cap |
ital from Delphos, Ottawa county |
Although this section has not had |
any rainfall for some time, wheat is |
green and never looked better at this |
season of the year. During the mild |
weather it grew perccptibly. The |
winter up to this time, has been ex- |
ceptionally favorable for feeding |
stock. Cattle and hogs have done |
we'll The farmers prospects are |
above the average for this season OF |
the year. There has been some trad |
ing in real estate. and altogether, |