The Globe-republican., 1896-12-03

The ottawa county jail Ii empty On
& ought not be.
The ''cold snap" has resulted in nu
merous wedding notices
Leavenworth keeps the y. NJ c. A
going and also twenty-four saloons
| The Oxford Register calls upon it
farmer readers to try coffee culture
As soon as the river freezes over the
social season will begin at Chanute
The legislature begins to make .
new senator for Kansas on January
Goth.
Dan Anthony's paper has the best
editorials on foreign affairs in the
state.
An eastern dispatch says there are
in Topeka four hundred deserted
| wives.
thinks the Arkansas can be made navi-
| gable.
Four of Uncle Dave Heflebower's six
pretty daughters are married. That's
different.
! One of the bellies of Ell Dorado is re.
| puted to clean the salt cellar with a
hairpin,
There will be recount" of the
vote of Barton county which may save
something.
Governor Morrill, received 10000
more votes this year than he did two
years before.
An Emporia horse has sold for 81. 900.
The demonstration of the horse is not
yet complete.
Kepford, prohibition candidate for
governor, lost his own county, Bour-
bon by $500.
The Marion Record thinks town
hall is needed more than constitu-
tional convention.
The advance of prosperity has reach
ed Oberlin where a new skating pond
has been opened.
The Nile Of America, the Arkansas
river, drains Q, 400 square miles of ter
ritory in Kansas
Will Whites ''The Real Issue" is
bound in yellow. Did the Chicago pub
fishers do it a purpose?
There are 400 deserted wives in To-
peko. Most of them are doubtless in
luck if they only knew it
Leedy will begin next month to point
out the reasons to the people why he
should be a one-term man.
Down in Labette county a man of 70
married a woman of 6s. We suppose
their parents made no objection.
A club has been formed at Agra
known as the 'Sinful Six" Respect
fully referred to the paragraphers
Marion county," says the Florence
Bulletin, 'has more candidates and
gets less than any other county IN the
state"
The Wichita board of county COM
missioners is solidly Republican for
the first time since the organization of
the county.
The Lacrosse Clarion has a man
scared to death by threatening to pub
lish his record in western Kansas in
side of twelve months.
The Wells-Fargo company in the
Wichita division gave its employees
each a turkey. One hundred Butler
county birds were doled out Thanks
giving day.
Despite McKinley's election the an
nual autumn procession of schooners
back to the wives folks in Kansas can
be seen in Oklahoma again.
A Topeka mans idea of a really hi
larious time, is to buy 'possum, pre-
sent it to colored man, one Of the old
down southers, and watch his appre-
citation.
There is preacher in Lawrence
named Testament. The only time he
was ever read was when a few parish
toner's endeavored to read him out of
the church.
A young man at Burden tried the
scheme of seeing how near he could |
drow sharp knife to his toes and not
finch. The result is that he is carry
ing his foot around in a sling.
1t is strangely suspected that the
Herr Richter now running for the
reichstag in Germany used to live in
Morris county, Kansas. At any rate,
that is Harvey Jennings guess in the
Kansas City Journal.
Two tramps in a ncighboring town
hit upon novel plan to get some
whislSey. They went into u saloon