The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-10-10

What was apparently brutal muir
der was committed eight miles north
west of Axtell some time since Satur.
day night The body of Mrs. Fen
augherty, mother of John Fenaugher.
ty, prominent farmer, was found on
the floor of their house dead, with her
skull crushed in a most horrible man
ner. Robbery apparently lead to the
crime.
The county commissioners of Shaw,
nee county, have at last decided &c
build new bridge across the Kaw
river in Topeka. 1t is to be built or
Kansas Avenue and is to be a concrete
steel arch bridge and will cost $50, OOe
when completed. The thousands o!
people who have been crossing on the
old rattle-trap there will be glac
when they hear of this conclusion.
Lewis Humphrey is very much of a
fellow in Usage county, although he is
only a farmer. In the first place, he
pays the largest personal tax in the
county, $1,000. He has cornfeld OF
over l 200 acres. and fifty men are har
| vesting it for him, and he will pay
them over 81 600 for their work. The
crop will be about $4,000 bushels, and
| no mans fifteen cents bushel will
| touch it.
Wellhouse, the apple grower. has
1850 barrels of apples in cold storage
at Kansas City, on which he paid TWEEN
ty-five cents barrel freight and will
pay fifty cents barrel storage. Next
spring he will get So barrel for them.
He has scheme to erect a joint stock
cold storage plant in Topeka, and thus
save to the farmers that seventy-fivt
cents expense.
Highley we'll No. 3, in the oil fields
of Wilson county, was drilled in and
shot Thursday. A few seconds after
the explosion of the sixty-quart tube
of nitro-glycerine a solid column OF
petroleum shot up into the air fully
100 feet. This was repeated four
times in less than an hour and the we'll
has not yet subsidized. Guffey and
| Galley are the holders of the Highley
lease and this latest find is pronounced
the best yet made in this field.
BENJAMIN Crummet, the ''boy preach
err" who has been holding revival
meetings in the eastern part OF the
state, has been convicted, at Leaven-
worth, of criminal assault. Most of
the evidence, including the baby, was
on the side of the prosecution, the
mother testifying that she was but
fifteen years old. The defendant had
very little testimony to offer and was
doomed from the first. The girls tes-
timony alone was enough to secure
conviction.
During the past four days more
than 200 head Of cattle have died in
Western Kansas, poisoned by eating
second growth sorghum. The crop of
sorghum is very large in Western Kan
sas and the second growth exceeding
ly rank. Many farmers turned their
cattle into the fields to eat it down
and death has resulted in nearly ev-
cry case Tom Dinney of Ellis coun-
ty lost 16 head Sunday. Every ami
NAL died that ate the sorghum. In
Phillips county so head died from eat
inr this forage. Reports from other
counties state that the loss has been
heavy. In Stanton county a herd of
40 fat steers died within two hours
after eating sorghum forage.
Edward Davis of Leavenworth, a
married man with six children, was
arrested and placed in Jail Saturday
for making counterfeit money. In
his house were found a quantity OF
the counterfeit and dies for making
silver dollars, half dollars and quar-
tiers. The coins were made of old
silver, plated spoons, forks, sugar and
butter bowls, etc, a supply OF which
were found in his possession, and the
| coins were excellent limitations. VIM.
Workman, with Charles Mosher and
his two daughters, aged 16 and Is
years, were also arrested Saturday,
upon the charge of pussing counter
felt money, Upon being locked up,
they all broke down and acknowledged
they had received the counterfeits
from Davis and that they had seen
him manufacture them. Several hun
dred dollars of this spurious coin are
sa id to have been placed in circula-
ton in Leavenworth.
Judge Andrews at Ness City Satur-
day rendered decision holding that
the sugar bond law passed by the
Legislature several years ago for the
purpose of aiding sorghum sugar
mills is unconstitutional. Several
years ago Ness City and two town
ships in Ness county issued $4,000
bonds to aid in the construction of q
cane sugar mill at that place. The
mill bonds were issued under a spe.