The Globe-republican., 1895-08-29


inson reformatory want $50 car load
n of stone. There is pointer for Cow
ley county contractors.
+ family named D,inkwater wer
:. compelled to leave Dodge City an
go to Chicago an account of the scarc
d ty of drinking water in the former city
Dodgeites don't drink water unles
compelled to-
q 1t is said the daughter of ministe
who once lived in Atchison travele,
10000 miles to marry an Atchison man
all OF which shows that in spite of tn
, best training people sometimes displa,
the most Outlandish taste.
A Lawrence man told funny stor,
the other day and one of his nearer.
laughed so hard he died in few min
utes. The strange thing about it i.
that the victim was a man, for girl:
are alwaps dying a-laughing."
From Oskaloosa comes the word that
wild plums are more plentiful than TO,
!, years, wild grapes are loading the
vines everywhere, and hazelnuts are
bending the bushes low with their
weight. 1t is great fruit year.
A ten or twelve million bushel corn
crop in Reno county was necessary
this year to bring up the general aver
age. Just like Kansas-it finally
comes to the front with its unexam-
Piled resources and redeems itself.
A few days ago a lot of prisoners
confined in the county Jail at Law
renee made their escape. One who is
under indictment for murder ran three
blocks to notify the county attorney.
He ought to be given the badge of
trusty.
Hiawatha World: Rev. Mr. Honnell,
who was famous in this section in the
early days as missionary among the
Indians, is fatally i'll at the home of
his brother, L. c. Honnell, at Everest.
An operation was recently performed
on the sick man and he cannot recov-
er.
There is a new book coming. Major
o. 3. Gum, whe halls from somewhere
around the mouth of the Kaw. has
written an answer to ''Coin's Financial
School," and is having it printed.
The ma jor is late in the season and
will stand show of getting frost bit
ten.
The Troy Chief says if Shows chinch
bug remedy is a fixed fact, and sue
xvhVy 70
it? Every school boy in the state, to
say nothing of the older people. knows
OF the remedy, how to get it, how it is
produced and how to apply it.
Kansas Railroads will have to begin
piling freight cars into the state a
month before harvest time if they ex-
pect to move our great corn crop to
the drouth stricken states east of here
before it becomes necessary to start
papers for their relief.
A man rushed into the Clarion office
at Lacrosse the other day, gave Bro
Whiteman the granger's grip and with
tears in his eyes blubbered forth: s'Good
Lord, what shall do? l havn:t a nub-
bin on my farm. My corn has cared |
so large that even the steers can't eat |
1t. to say nothing of the calves. I've |
got to give up a whole lot of the crop
to get corn shelter. On such /,
country"
A Topeka physician this week made
the first test with that new remedy
for diphtheria, anti-toxine He claims
TO be the first in the state to give it Il
rial. He made the trial in family.
i've of whom were pretty bad with the
disease, but he did not make a success
IT it. He administered the anti-toxine
% but one of the five children and that
me died, but after a hard struggle,
he others recovered.
A chicken thief by the name of Poole
vas arrested early Wednesday morn
ng near Lecompton with nearly 800
chickens in his wagon, which he had
tolen from farmers. For two weeks
lie has been travelling through Shaw
lee and Douglass counties at night.
nd has stolen several thousand. Tues
~ PoSSC NdS 10 run |
i'm down, and when captured he was
n his way to Kansas City to dispose
+ his stolen plumber.
digging your own grave" is tru-
SIN that is very often applied to the
ctions of men. The saying has been
trangely illustrated in the Soldiers
lone at Leavenworth. In order to !.
e prepared for burials there, the au- ,
horities keep a number of graves in
took, to use mercantile phrase, that
) to say several graves are dug and
ept in waiting for the next who die.
hree men We're detailed to perform e.
MS duty of digging graves some time
go. Strange as it may appear these ;
4 me three men were the first to fill {
he graves they dug.
Wednesday night as w. H. Orvis
ent to get on the train at Severance.
e was approached from behind and l
it on the head with a sandbag and