The Globe-republican., 1895-09-12

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DR.. McLallin. who has been known
to go home to dinner bareheaded,
says Sol Miller is absent-minded.
A car loaded with $4,000 chickens,
valued at s1,4OO was shipped from
Claw Center to San Francisco recently.
The Morrill, News says the estimate
of the Kansas corn crop is 4 million
bushels, but admits that estimates are
sometimes little ''fighty."
The Rev. T. P. Jolly is the most aus
tere clergyman in Reno county. 1t is
said that he would not know joke
if he were to meet it in the big road.
The Missouri Pacific on Wednesday
hauled out of the Central Branch
country for one firm forty-eight cars
of corn. or 1920, 900 pounds. The firm
was three days loading it. 1t was
corn the farmers had held. in store
from the crops of 1898 and 1894.
Governor Morrill, has gone to his
home at Hiawatha for few days rest.
The governors trouble which kept him
from speaking at Kansas City on Labor
day, and confined him to his bed while
at the State encampment is chronic.
His health demands that he take the
very best care of himself.
There is rumor that the wooden
mill is to be bought by company
which has been quietly organized in
Topeka, and who will put in machin-
cry and operate it as a wooden mill.
The mill building is advertised to be
sold next Monday, and it is said that
the company will buy it if possible.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
Company and the Western Electrical
Company of Chicago on Monday insti-
tuted proceedings against the Anthony
Telephone Company of Cincinnati, O.,
and the Peoples Telephone Company
of Leavenworth to recover heavy dam
ages for infringement on four separate
patents.
Don't talk about your apple trees
this season. A Sumner county man
says that he has an apple tree in his
ward which is now in bloom for the
sixth time this season. He also says
the tree has yielded one full crop of
this year and the prospects seem to be
good for another.
Mayor Fellows of Topeka was in
Chicago recently laboring in the inter
est of the deep harbor conference to be
held at Topeka, Oct, 1, 2 and 3. The
conference was called by Gov. Morrill,
of Kansas at the request of Gov. Gull
berson of Texas. All of the states and
territories west of the Mississippi have
been invited to send delegates
Judge Foster allowed a writ of error
in the case of Josey Wallace, sentenced
to be hung in Fort Scott September %
for the murder of his father-in-law,
Alexander Sears, in the Nation, and
ordered the hanging deferred until the
case can be heard in the United States
supreme court. It is thought this will
give Wallace a lease of life of one year.
He is in the Federal prison at Leaven-
worth.
Marysville had fearful rainstorm
Saturday. The floods tore up the
streets, sidewalks and railway tracks
and flooded nearly every basement in
the city. The citizens were very much
alarmed lest many of the largest and
best buildings would tumble down.
An excursion to Fort Riley next morn
ing had to be declared off on account
of the numerous washouts in the
neighborhood.
J. H. Carney and son, with their out
fit, pulled in Saturday from Baxter
Springs with 800 head of 2, 3, and f.
year-old steers now grazing in the pas
ture. II. O. LISTERS cattle were ship
ped home two weeks ago, to be put on
feed, to be marketed on or before the
holidays. Two hundred of them are
200 pound cattle now, the other 1919
weighing 1,O3O-natives of course.
Mr.. Carney has big steam power feed
cutter, with gasoline engine for pow
err and will soon have an apparatus at
work that will be worth the while of
the people to see in operation.
The county seat of Reno county has
abandoned her street railway.
Perry McNeal, charged with viola
ting the prohibitorylaw, and Jap NJ.
Apple. and Charles Mcdonald, charged
with highway robbery, broke Jail in
Lynn county county's seat Thursday
night. They sawed off a steel bar,
letting them into the corridor and
when Deputy Sheriff Thurman ap-
peared they overpowered him, took the
KEYS away from him and locked him in
one of the cells. A reward has been
offered for the recapture of the escaped
prisoners.
Mr.. r. ". Eckert, one of the direc-
tors of the penitentiary, who was in
Topeka Wednesday on his way to Lam
sing, to attend meeting of the direc-
tors, had in his grip large flag which