The Globe-republican., 1895-03-22

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Winfield paws its school teachers and
! ianitors 81, $50 month.
The Galena mines produce an aver.
oge value of $4,000 week.
There are SIT Indian puri)s enrolled
| at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, and
about 500 in attendance
Minors under Is years of age are pro.
hibited from using cigarettes in Winfield
and dealers arc charged license fee Of
$500.
Many cities Of tho second Glass are
beginning to agitate the matter OF mu-
nicipal erection and ownership Of water
aud light plants.
In Scott City the court house park
which is supplied with water. is leased to
a couple of gardeners, who pay at the
rate of $S2 an aero reat for it.
The work OF drilling the Neosho Falls
test oil we'll has been resumed. The oil
taken from the we'll is OF fine quality.
The only trouble about it is there is not
enough OF it.
There is about $500 loft in the treas
ury of the Lawrence G. A. r encamp-
ment committee after all the expenses
have been paid and it has been proposed
that it be used to erect a monument
over the G. A. r. burial plat in Oak
Hill cemetery.
Willie Sells, the circus man who
makes Topeka his home has gone to
Denver with sixty head of horses. which
will be added to the equipment OF bis
circus, which wintered there. After
making the California circuit he will
take his show to Australia.
From Wellington: A number of W.
G. T. q. ladies accompanied by some
young men, went to every joint in the
city Offering short prayer for the sup
preston of the liquor traffic in each
place. There was no opposition and the
ladies were received politely at every
place.
Baxter Spring special: The proprie-
tors of the Baxter Springs normal col
lege has just ordered telescope and
apparatus from the famous Alvin Clark
establishment. 1t will be the largest
telescope in the state of Kansas. This
college started last September and has
now about 126 students on the rolls.
North Topeka item: Ferris Rudy,
the 9-year-old son of E. H. Rudy who
has been paralyzed and unable to move
since last Christmas, through taking CO.
caine in having tooth extracted, is still
lying helpness and speechless in bed, but
has exhibited the power lately ia stir his
fingers slightly.
Mrs. E. G. Murphy, from Wichita,
twice attempted to commit suicide at
Shorey, suburb of North Topeka. She
threw herself before Rock Island
passenger train which was Just moving
out, but a bystander dragged her away
before the locomotive reached her. Next
day she attempted to crawl between the
wheels of moving box car at the same
place, but a brakeman caught her by
the heels and drew her out inst in time
She il a we'll dressed woman OF As wears
and says she came to Topeka to see her
son who is in the reform school. When
questioned she said she wanted to di,
and get rid Of her troubles. She was
held by the probate court on tho charge
Of insanity.
The annual catalogue Of Kansas uni
versity shows number of interesting
things about the school. In the cata-
logue for last year the total number OF |
students was 691. Five years ago. when !
Chancellor F. II. Snow took charge.
there were AT. The enrolment this |
year rs 879. and it will probably reach
900 before tho close Of the term. The |
seniors number al. Last year there
were ia to whom degrees were given.
and this number included several mas
ter degrees that were given. The num-
Der graduating yearly from the school
has increased from less than thirty- i've
years ago to almost $50 this year There
u a much largsa per cent. OF the stu
dents this year from Kansas than in
past years. Tho faculty has been in
creased slightlv, and now numbers fiftv-
two The library has been increased
over 2, 600 volumes, and there have been
advances in other lines The catalogue
also shows the work in university ex-
tensiou and embgaoes considerable 9TH
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