The Globe-republican., 1895-10-03

The Ottawa Republican THINKS nan
sas needs many things worse than
boom. Yes, and the very things Kan
sas needs would give her a great biz
| boom.
| The Mastins of Kansas City viii
this year make net profit of S75,OO'
out of piece of lead and zinc iant
southwest of Galena, for which they
paid $500.
The people of southern Kansa.
learned with profound sorrow of the
death of Asa Thompson, of the How
last Sunday moring.
r. C. Meade, who was formerly su
perintendent of schools at Lawrence
and later moved to Atchison and then
skipped out with a lot of somebody
else's money, was caught last Friday
and lodged in Jail at AtchisOn,
Great is Kansas. still we believe the
Kansas City Star imparts an unhealthy
infection to the truth when 1T Says
that western Kansas will raise
twenty-five tons of broom corn to the
acre this year.
Kansas City is said to have a ben
eficiary order entirely new in its aims
and accomplishments. The benefits
depend on the amount of premium
paid in but natures the day the mem
Der is married and is limited to s., 500.
Ed Bennett is said to be the only
Kansas man who can mix in the crowd
on State street, Chicago, without be-
ing detected. A Kansas man may
bear himself with credit in New York
or in st. Louis, but in Chicago he is a
jay.
Fire consumed the Gazette Office,
also the livery barn occupied by Hol-
supple & Turvey at Scranton Monday.
Holsupple and Turvey's loss amounts
to about 500, with no insurance. The
Gazette's loss was about $12O, insured
The buildings were insured for $500,
A big anti-chinchbug meeting was
held at Mulvane few days ago. 1t
was learned that the chinchbug does
not chew his quid but takes nourish-
ment in more approved manner. He
sucks his nourishment through tube,
like girl does her lemonade through
a straw.
Ed Howe thinks for real generosity,
of the kind that doesn't draw the line
at peanuts and circus lemonade, a
country boy is the honey boy to smile
on. A country boy doesn't have the
opportunity to treat his girl every day,
but when he does he takes in all the
side shows.
The public schools of Lawrence have
been closed for ten days on account of
diphtheria. The disease has not as
sumed a malignant form and the
closing of school is largely precau-
tionary measure. There have been
but few deaths yet and there are only
a score of cases in the city.
The interment of the remains of Mrs.
F. Connor took place Monday at Law
renee. Mr. and Mrs. Connor came to
Lawrence in the SOS. Mrs. Conner
had been in failing health for some
time, and was at the time of her death
staying with son at Omaha. Mr..
Connor is a storekeeper for the Union
Pacific railroad.
Mr.. Stanley, living a short distance
of Circleville, hearing a com
motion among his chickens, went out
and found one in the possession of
weasel. At his attempt to rescue it,
the animal attacked him, biting him
through the middle finger and hold
ing on with such tenacity that he cut
its head off and then had to force its
jaws open to get his finger loose.
Harry Dunlap and Ralph hiffer,
two boys aged about seventeen, have
just been fined $50 and costs each for
robbing the corner stone of the Bap-
fist church at Sabetha. The papers
which the box in the corner stone con-
tanned were found in an old elevator
and the box under the mill-steps.'
The box con tanned SLIP in pen
MES and nickles, but the boys sup
posed the sum much larger.
A box of matches was left on dres-
ser in an Ottawa home. A bracket
was suspended by string. The
string broke, the bracket fell on the
box of matches and a blaze followed
at once. 1t occurred about midnight
and but for the timely awakening of
the good housewife, the home would
have been destroyed and possibly the
family cremated.
Topeka reports tw enty-two cases of
diphtheria.
A serious cutting occurred Friday
near st. Marys. Fl. H. Hammond,
who has been working for the Patter-
son brothers, farmers, was attacked
by them. One of them struck him on
the back of the head with knife and
the other knocked him down with .
club He says they had no other res
son for assaulting him than because
- l:1 81 r~chocl- Tho horses when he