The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-09-19

:Kearney county reports s.o2s acre
planted in alfalfa.
|. Topeka is having row over th
change in school books.
Atchison people will burn cos
mined at home this winter.
Peru is rushing her oil interest,
Several new wells are going down.
Lightning started quite destruct
i've fire at Wellsville Friday night.
: Kansas City will soon have a pape
mill that will give employment t
fifty men.
The inmates of the state reformato
ty are required to study three hour
, each day.
Rats ate up S75 worth of postag'
stamps for the Athens postmaster tn,
other night.
"How Tom went to He'll from Eure
ka" was the subject of a minister a
that place Eureka) last week and ev
cry body in town went out to hear thu
sermon.
Topeka is calling for original design.
for municipal flag. How would a
camel knee-deep in an oasis of milk
and honey do, with the words "Keep a
Humpin'" at the bottom?
w. s. Allen, a son of Hon. A. F. AL.
len, fell from load of hay which he
had hauled to his fathers house at
Vinland, and broke his neck and
crushed his skull He was dead when
found.
Prof j. s. Whitman brought into
the Herald Office in Lynn county q Gu
riosity in the way of vegetation. He
has pear tree that is now growing
its third crop of pears this season. Mr..
Whitman brought in one large full
grown peas, branch containing three
about half grown and twig contain
ing a number of blooms and buds.
Ewing Herbert claims that Brown
county ranked last year as the best
crop county in Kansas, the total value
of the field crops being 81, 400, 900.
Among the products of the county last
year were over 5000 gallons of wine,
manufactured, it is presumed, for
strictly medicinal and scientific pur-
poses.
A Cowley Co. farmer who has had
much experience with Kaffir corn, says
it must be ground to get the best re-
suits from it. The small, round grains
are very slow to digest, much of it
is never digested and is therefore lost.
It should be ground to get the best re-
suits. The same may be said of other
corn, particularly when it is fed to
cattle.
Tuesday evening Major Sully, Of the
Salvation army, performed the mar
rage ceremony at Topeka, for . cup
lie and then discovered that tho groom
had neglected to secure . license.
The major, with great solemnity, in
formed the newly welded couple that
they must remain single until tho next
day, when the license could be Pro-
cnred.
The crop reports from Rawlins
county are very discouraging. A lead
ing farmer from that county says that
the crops have all proven a total fail
ure this year and as this is the third
year of successive crop failures, the
settlers are in very destitute circum-
stances. All who can get away will
leave the county before cold weather
sets in.
The preliminary examination of Or
vile Webb, accused of the attempted
burning of the Savary residence in
Clyde on the night of August Goth,
was held in Concordia Monday. The
officers took up the trail of Bill Sven
son, the one who made his escape on
the night of the attempted arson, and
after several days chase he was ap-
pretended in cellar near Republic
City. Both were bound over and are
pow in jail at Concordia.
John N. Reynolds died at the Ossa-
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He had been violently insane two
years. Reynolds came to Kansas ten
years ago as q preacher from Iowa,
where he had been in the penitentiary
for rape. From evangelistic work he
drifted into fraudulent livestock in
surance company and bank in Atchison.
He was finally sent to the penitentiary
for using the mails to defraud. He
later ran for state senator, receiving a
good many votes, but was not elected.
On his release he travelled over the
country selling his book called ''The
Twin Hel1s," referring to his peniten-
tiary experience.
The news that comes from tho Yves
tern part of Cofey county in regard to
the destruction Of property by the
storm on Sunday and Monday contin-
ues to be very bad. Not less than 800
residences, barns and school houses in
the line Of the storm were blown down
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