Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-07-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cycle and makes IL uSelul III IIe PlOo0
cution of his avocation.
THE street corner meetings on finance
at Belle PLANE are so over-taXed that
night sessions are being held.
The heavy transforms of last week
are still playing havoc with the train
schedules of several of the roads.
A Kansas editor writes; "What
a snap it would be to be dead and have
your insides packed full of ice such
a day as this. "
The corn prospect is really alarming
The ears are going to be too big for
the cattle to eat and there will be no
nubbins for the hogs.
There is a great many Kansas Uni
versity students in Lawrence this sum-
mer making up back work. The great
est demand for tutors is in the line OF
mathematical work.
When Mr.. Ratekin, the new mana
ger of the Lawrence telephone, arrived
the people expected a reduction in
tolls, but the new manager says the
old rate kin go right along.
Lucinda Gayha has filed SUIT for
divorce against Bill Gayha in Column
bus county and alleges long series OF
causes, the principal one of which is
that Bill is entirely too gayha.
]. E. Hubbard, general merchant,
made an assignment Saturday evening
to Fred A. Stocks of the State Bank at
Blue Rapids. Dull trade and impossi-
bility to collect forced him to the wall.
ia Topeka man received large bunch
of seawead from an eastern friend the
other day. He had not intended taking
a vacation, but now declares he will
sell his bicycle and COW and spend the
rest of the summer at the seashore.
The notorious Lii Pier has common
ced divorce proceedings, at Topeka,
against the equally notorious Guy Pier
The latter has served term in the
penitentiary. Lii makes this one
ground for divorce and in addition adds
that Guy has beaten her.
Miss Emma Paxan, an Indian girl 90
years of age, arrived in Kansas City,
Kan, yesterday from Leayenworth,
and was soon lost to her friends who
were at the depot. The matter was
reported to the police and search
made for the girl.
When the groom, at recent Wilson
county wedding, was asked by the
school teacher, who was to play the
organ when the couple marched in to
take their stand before the preacher,
what piece he preferred he replied,
"Put Me in My Little Bed"
The editor of the Nortonville Herald
has discovered a new and original
cause for kick which he exploits as
follows: ut is unpleasant to sit in
church by lady who whips her fan
against her shirtwaist so vehemently
you can't hear what the preacher
says"
Among the women in Kansas it is
always considered good manners to go
around to the back door of a neigebor's
house when on borrowing errand, to
the side door when on an informal vi
sit and to the front door when making
a formal call.-Atchison Globe.
Fred II. Mann has sued the Armour
Packing company, of Kansas City, for
IS, 900 damages on the charge of false
Imprisonment. Mann was arrested De-
tober 5, 1895, on the charge of swind-
ling said company out of 500. His
case was continued from time to time
and was finally dismissed on motion of
the county attorney.
A washout upon the Missouri Pacific
tracks in Wichita county caused a pas
senger train to be derailed little after
midnight Wednesday. All the cars
were stripped of their trucks and other
wise damaged. Fireman David Roder-
lex was killed and Addie Wing and an
unknown woman hurt, but it is be-
lieved not seriously.
Benjamin Wilmington of Phillips
burg, had a preliminary hearing at
Girard yesterday and was bound over
to the district court charged with the
murder of the three McFadeen brothers
at Frontenac.
John Basome, a minor employed at
Arnott & Lanyon coal shaft near Pitts
burg, was injured by falling about 40
feet from an ascending cage. He was
found by shot frer at the bottom of
the shaft with fractured skull and
severe bruises on different parts of his
body. He died in the city hospital.
He leaves n widow but no children.
The Greer brothers new paper in
Kansas City, Kansas, will be an even
ing publication.
Achilles lives in Mcpherson county
instead of Greece.
A number of Kansas City, Kan, wo-