The Globe-republican., 1895-09-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It was Kansas man who caught
Fraker.
Topeka had duck race, labor day
for the entertainment of the small boy.
A jointist at Weir City was fined
81 600 and sentenced to $50 days in
jail
Abilene will soon want another
grand jury; the last one only cost her
81 ,OOO
A Butler county contractor will
ship IA, 200 feet of Walnut timber to
Russia.
As usual, Kansas leads. The largest
apple orchard. 1857 acres, is located at
Paramount
Atchison claims girl who wears a
No. % shoe. That is pretty fair I'M
Outstanding.
Lawrence has citizen named Hen
~ Clay-but he doesn't claim to be
to be Kentuckian,
Fine Seeding peaches sell in Cha
mute for twenty cents a bushel. There
are no middle men in Chanute.
Every health resort has some draw
back or other. Mountain fever occa-
sionally takes hold in Garden City.
Prof. Draper says that the descend
ants of a single pair of wasps may num-
Der as high as O,OOO in one season.
The Short Creek mines last week
yielded LILO tons of zinc ore and $40, 600
pounds of lead ore Total value. $3S, ZOO.
Boston robbed the Kansas Sir
Knights of s., 900 for rooms for head
quarter for four days. That was the
way Boston took to make them astute
The Wesleyan Methodist yearly con-
ference which was held at Topeka
closed Sunday evening. Twenty-eight
delegates, consisting of elders and lay
men, from different portions of the
state were present.
President Jamison, of the Kansas
realestate association, says that there
Is now no doubt but that a Kansas
million club will be organized in Sep
TENDER, the object being to secure one
million more people to settle in Kan
vs.
During the severe thunderstorm
Wednesday night, lightning struck
and badly damaged the new school
house at Cherokee. A big hole was
torn in the roof and the structure is
otherwise damaged The building was
built to replace one burned last winter.
This is the fifth time the Inflated
building has caught fire.
There has been plenty of rain all
over Kansas and for the first time in
years stock water is plenty. Thresh-
ing and blowing is delayed by wet
weather. It has been a fine growing
week in the middle division and nearly
all the counties report good progress,
including those which have been suf-
fering from dry weather, while plow-
ing for wheat is being vigorously
pushed.
There is no use trying to Guido Kan
sas. An article recounting how man
who was divorced in Dakota was re-
married in just eight hours, brought
out the facts about man securing a
divorce at Fort Scott, before Judge
French, at IL o'clock in the morning
and was remarked before two that af-
out the belt, as well as others in
which Kansas may take any interest.
Miss Mana Medill of Leavenw orth,
commenced suit Thursday to break
the will of her father, James Medill,
who died last July leaving an estate
of 100000 The will was probated at
the time by Sherman Medill, a son,
who was made executor. Miss Medill
claims that her father was unduly in
fuenced in making the will, which
Disseminated against her, and she
asks for one-third of the property.
The annual convention of the prison
congress will meet in Denver the 14th
instant. The men who will represent
Kansas, by appointment of Governor
Morrill,, are: j. B. Lynch, warden of
the state penitentiary; j. c. o. Morse,
warden of the reformatory at Hutch
inson; Superintendent C. E. Faulkner,
of the Soldiers Orphans home, at
Atchison; Hon. w. C. Jones, of lola,
and Hon. John d. Milliken, of McPher-
Son.
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Judge James G. Strong, formerly
well known in political and railroad
circles, died at Blue Rapids on Septem-
Der 4th. He was born in Boone county
Indiana; located in Dwight, Ill, in
1859, and was later sent to the Illinois
Senate. In 1870 he introduced the first
bill for the appointment of Board of
Railroad Commissioners to regulate