The Globe-republican., 1895-11-21
KANSAS

The Rice county broom corn produc
:his year is about $50 tons.
F. W. Arnold. an old timer in North
.rn Kansas, has bought the Alton En-
pire.
A real sweet K. U. boy is said t.
lake a powder rag to parties for hi
OWN use.
George II. Closson of Pratt count,
las be en- appointed guard at the stat
,eformatory.
w. H. T. Wakefield has moved hi
printing office from Lawrence to
Mound City.
A spinster nearly a hundIed year.
old has just died at Ottawa. Sh'
couldn't wait any longer.
John Speer, who has been neglected
by the papers lately, is getting hi:
Jim Lane book in type.
Columbus Borin ought to De asham
ed with that bald head of his to call
himself a son of veteran.
Charley Lobdeirs herds have in
creased to such numbers that he has
begun to market his fat steers.
Goodland ships irrigation grown
celery, and the Republic pronounces
it to be equal to the Michigan article.
The Fort Scott Lantern lighted the
way for Charley Love, whoever he
may be, to be elected, and it calls up
on its rooster to crow.
Smut in the corn kills cattle in Sum-
ner county. Farmers know this, but
they persist in turning their animals
into the stalk fields.
The Central Branch country has
furnished three-fourths of the wives
Missouri travelling men have married
in the last twenty years.
Frank FARRELL has been m arried six
months, but he still shaves every
morning, puts on a clean shirt as often
and wears pa tent leather shoes.
Kissing games have been banis he'd
from Atchison, which makes society
somewhat dull in the town, except in
whist and six o'clock dinner circles.
Mr. Honey, went to Clyde with a
sack full of type and hand press, al
ready has driven the Sunflower out of
the field. The latter will try to bloom
at Holton.
n. p Wilson who in the early days
thought no more of starting" paper
than of leading in prayer at class
meeting, has gone to Colorado with
types, cases and a press.
The morning star sheds such light
out on the Colorado border that Rock
Island engineer sounded for brakes, as
he caught sight of it above the hori-
zon one mo rning last week.
Colean, the bank thief, declares that
he will wreak vengeance upon those
who put him in Jail. 1t is too bad.
Colean should be released and the
men and women he robbed put in Jail.
The high school boys at Abilene
have been put to debating which ex
celled as poet, Keats or Bret Harte
and the contest between 1.-The Grecian
Urn" and The Heather Chinee" wakes
furious.
A car containing $50 barrelso o choice
apples left Leavenworth Saturday ev-
ening for Chicago. All these apples
1< 1,o IL
the day following the meeting that is
to be addressed by ex-senator Ingalls,,
Governor Morrill, and j. r. Burton.
Emil Daenzer, who settled in Rice
county fifteen years ago without a
dollar, now owns, free of debt, half
section of land well improved and
stocked and has spare money in the
bank to warrant visit to Germany
where his mother and other kindred
live.
Haste Brannaman, who recently set
tied an ancient grudge by killing his
enemy on the Atchison bridge, used to
get his name in the Atchison papers so
regularly that outsiders regarded him
as leading, moral citizen. Possibly
the reporters were afraid of his ready
gun.
The first time Peary went north he
was accompanied by Evelyn b. Bald
win of Oswego, and on his last tour he
had the assistance of Prof. L. L. Dyche
OF Lawrence; it takes a much colder
and longer day than ever happens on
the other side of the arctic circle to
exclude Kansas from the midst of
things that happen.
Major John NJ. Laing, wealthy cap
italist of Leavenworth. Monday after
noon was shot and dangerously wound
ed by Crawford Moore, a mechanic in
the railroad shops. 1t was the resnlt
of Laing's attentions to Mrs. Moore.
Moore fired three shots. He gave
himself up.
An employee of the Armour Packing
company at Kansas City, William
Croft. in a fit of anger, threw a bucket
full of boiling water on a lad working
in the same room. The little fellow
Was almost son 1dod n 6ooth o~I <ho