The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-06-21

were 20 to 1 against the Wichita
horse.
Two boys, James Ramsey and
George Bostic, aged respectively ls
and II years, have been arrested on
the charge Of robbirg the house OF
William Delaney, near Salina. 1t is
alleged that they broke into Delaney's
house ana got away with $50 worth OF
property.
After being out IS hours, the jury
in the Matson murder case at Topeka,
was discharged. eleven of the jurors
stood for the conviction of Frank A.
Novels, the colorcd man charged with
the crime. whilo one colored juror
saved Novels from o term in the peni
Tertiary by resolutely insisting he was
innocent. There is great indignation
expressed at the action of colored
Juror Jordan.
Elmer Muhllck Rasmussen, Son of
Jacob Rasmussen OF Lincoln, is at
tracing consider. BILE attention in and
about Chicago as a bicyclist and
marksman. He is a member of the
Second regiment of Illinois national
guards. a leader of the bicycle club,
and also member of the Overland BIZ
cycle club of Chicago.
n. Hulpieu, six miles north of Gar
den City, reports pumping up gold in
the well water on his place. 1t was
collected on flannel cloths and . sam.
pie sent to an expert who pronounced
it pure gold. A jcwcler at Garden
City has offered $50 an ounce for it. 1t
comes from q 12-foot vein Of sand and
water.
In preliminary contest of 20 in the
American conservatory of music, Chi
cago, Miss katherine Edwards, daugh-
ter of j. j. Edwards Of Emporia. vas
chosen to represent that conservatory
Ia 4 contest with representatives sim
ilarly chosen from three other conser.
vatories. The final contest came OF
last Saturday. Miss Edwards was
again wirner and will on the 18th of
this month receive an elegant gold
medal
Miss Higgins, q music teacher of To-
pcka, sold some furniture to . second
hand dealer, and after he had taken
il away she remembered that her dia-
mond breastpin and earrings, valued
at $3.50, were under the top OF a
marblc-top center table. When she
went to the second hand store, she
found that the owner had gone to
Kansas City for the purpose of selling
the diamonds. The police are after
him.
Miss Ida B. Wells, tho noted col
ored lecturer on anti lynching, lee
tured in Topeka Monday night. She
Is highly educated young woman,
and has travelled all over the United
States and England, speaking against
the lynchin- of colorcd men in the
South, which she claims is, in too
many cases, entirely unwarranted.
Miss Wells will, on June %. be mar
ried TO Ferdinand L. Barnett, ! well
known colored attorney of Chicago.
The constant cutting away Of the
land by the river will soon render the
bridge over the Missouri river at Atcb-
ison practically valccless. The Sant.s
Fc, Burlington, Missouri Pacific, Rock
Island and ST. Joe & Grand Islansl,
the roads making use OF this bridge.
will, some time this year, it is said.
rebuild the old St Joe & Topeka line,
constructed many years ago from Ell
wood, opposite st. Joe, on the Kansas
side, TO Atchison, and which was used
be fore the bridge ut Atchison was
built
Thursday morning a patient Of the
Topeka insane asylum, Blose Melon
aid, aged so years, from Brown eoun-
ty, hanged himself with three-foot
window cord 20 a tree in front of one
of the buildings, from which he and
two other patients, Jacob Schaffer OF
Lincoln county and Schuyler Dressler
of Ellsworth county, had escaped by
taking out window. They were all
known as quiet. harmless patients.
M:Donald having oeen allowed to go
into town quite often alone. 1t is
supposed that he obtained the screw
driver, while on one of these trips,
with which they took out the window.
War is to be made on the Russian
thistle in the vicinity of Logan. The
obnoxious weed is gaining such foot
hold as to greatly alarm the people of
that section. The city council of Lo-
gan has announced that all who will
como to town and go after the tnis-
ties with hoes mex: Saturday will be
furnished with free dinner.
The success of the State Fair at
Wichita as regards good races is as
sured beyond doubt, as prominent
horsemen are interested, and the best
horses of the Nest have been entered
and more are coming every day. All
premiums we're paid last year, and
this inspired faith in horsencn as
to the Wichita speed ring being a good
place to bring their flyers" Secre-
tary Hewey reports 100 horses entered
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