Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-24
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Headers.

Major Hood has some extra fine
Hereford cattle on his ranch near
Reading, Lyon county.
Miss Fannie r. Rastall, eX-president
Of the Kansas w c. 7. T., is lecturing
in a mum Der Of Kansas towns.
Hanover rejected all the bids for
building its $1,000 water works and
will build the plant without contract.
The latest report of superintendent
kendriclI shows an enrolment IN the
public schools of Junction city of
LOLA.
Chief Justice A. II. Horton of the
Kansas Supreme Court resigned
David Martin of Atchlson takes his
place.
A special convention of the Episco-
pal diocese of Kansas has been called
to meet in Topeka May 2s to elect 4
new bishop
]. II. Snyder, farmer living near
! lIiawatha, took his life Thursday,
cutting himself with an ak and shoot
ing himself with gun.
James Stickler, who is credited with
! being the first farmer in Kansas to
plant fruit orchard, died at his farm
West of Atchison Wednesday, aged 80
years.
a combination of janitor and car
/ penter at one of the Manhattan schools
receives higher salary than any of
the teachers in the city with, one eX-
ception.
Walter II. Eagles, lad aged Is
years, lost his right foot while attem pit
ing to jump on an electric car at
Leavenworth. The foot had to be
amputated.
Joseph Hayden, one of the oldest
residents of Coffeyville, Kansas, and
leading member of the q. A. r., fell
dead in Il restaurant there of heart
disease Wednesday night
Perry Rice while burning some rub
bish on his farm just North of Glen
Elder, left it and went to dinner,
thinking it could do no damage. He
came back and found his house burn
cd to the ground.
The report of Paymaster Mapes, of
Kansas City. Kans., for the year end
( ing March !. shows the receipts to
/ have been SAL, 957.44, which is an in
/ crease 81, 661. II over the previous year.
/ The total expenses amounted to SAL
/ 1899, leaving net profit of &c.,
/ 793, 45.
A mine report from Galena for last
week says: There was total of l.,
$50, 900 pounds of zinc ore sold. The
price renamed the same as the week
prior, $40 for the top and an average
of S17 per ton. Value S14,43O. There
was n total of $50, 900 pounds of lead
sold at $l6 per thousand. Total value
of sales, $40, O3O."
Miss Lucy Reugseggcr, of the Ever
/ est school at Beloit was conducting a
rehearsal for school entertainment,
in which one of the boys was to snap
a pistol. He snapped the pistol sup
pc ing it was empty, but it was load
ed, and the ball just grazed Miss
Reugseggcr and barely missed little
| girls head and buried itself in the
! wall.
In his irrigation lectures to the Law
renee y. NJ. c, A., Judge Emery stated
! that 10 per cent. of the families of this
| country live in tenemcnts. There are
10000 more tenant farmers in Kansas
to-day than ten years ago. Only per
cent of the population are owners to
any considerable extent. He urged
. CT IN, 1ifo 70 ho
come home owners; to be indepcnde
buy small piece of land while it's
price is steadily advancing.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas State editorial association held
meeting at Topeka and decided to ac-
cept the invitation extended to the
Kansas editors to attend the Atlanta
exposition next October.
Department Commander Harris re-
ceived Cincinnati paper which con-
tains an interview with Governor Nc
| Kinlcy in regard to his Western trip,
IN which the Governor says: "The
only trip that l will make this year
that know of at the present Will be
at Ottawa, Kansas, to participate in a
gathering of eX.union veterans. The
Western trip which has been so kindly
announced for me will not be made. :"
Governor Mckinley will be at Ottawa
june 90.
The next annual session of the DEM
ocratic editorial fraternity of Kansas
will be held at Lcavenworth on Sat-
urday, May II, commencing at 10
o'clock a. IN. The meeting was called
for Saturday. but it had to be post
poned on account of the illness of
Mrs. Frank T. Lynch, of the Leaven-
worth Standard. Mrs. Lynch is vice
president of the fraternity. Barney
J. Sheridan of the Paola Spirit, is the
president.
The Fort Scott public library COM
mittee has received check from En-.
gene L. Ware, for 500 to be used in
the magazine department.
James Hume Garfield has been elect
ed president of the Ohio State Univer-
sity at Columbu to succeed DIR. Scott
who resigned to accept the professor
ship of philosophy.
Although the Missouri river has been
flowing into the canal through the is
land above Atchison over a week, tile
current has cut no channel, but on the
contrary the canal is filing up with
sand. 1t cost Sl5, 1000
Mr. II. P. Hoods farm residence on
his ranch West of Americas was total
~ destroyed by fire Thursday after
noon. The place was occupied ny
Charles Fiddler and family all of
whom were away from the house at
the time the fire started and the ORR
| gin is unknown. The building was
worth about $4,000 and was insured
for ST.
DIR. W. A. Spencer of Philadelphia
says one hundred Methodist church