Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-11-19

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majority given in Atchison county,
} The wires are already being laid for
the Eost-Offioe positions in Kansas.
A. NJ Harvey, the lieutenant-gov.
ernor elect, is to be married mex
month.
The Topeka papers have let up on
16 to 1 and taken up the hired CIR
question.
There are eight candidates for post.
master at Topeka and three precincts
to hear from.
1t is said that the Republicans car
ried every precinct and township in
Finney county.
The campaign buttons In Kansas
are now fading away like the smallest
stars at dawn.
Professor Dyche is still in California
taking care of the specimens he pro-
cured in Alaska.
A Newton family went to church
Sunday and the house was robbed dur
ing their absence
An southern Kansas editor gives this
sage, short advice TO his readers: ''Ex-
pand your horizon"
One of the state house clerks is SO
pretty that his friends are in constant
fear that he will be stolen.
A Garnett girl decided to propose 10
her young man if Mckinley was elect
ed. Cards will be out soon.
The American Volunteers will or
ganize a company at Wichita, and
fight the devil on his own ground.
The Emporia Gazette expert says the
legs in the Twelve Temptations are
better than those in the Devils Auc-
ton.
Corn and chicken fodder will be TAX
en- ON subscription by the Hoisington
Dispatch the same as gold, silver and
paper.
The young professors at the state
normal are getting married and the
young men students will have chance
with the girls.
Miss Margaret Kane was elected
treasurer of Kiowa county. She is said
to be the first woman elected county
treasurer in the state.
A two and half pound sweet potato
was "laid ON the table" of the editor of
the Sterling Bulletin. We suppose a
motion to take from the table is in or
der.
An Ellinwood young man who goes
to Great Bend three times a week says
it is to get his teeth fixed, but his
friends think it is to have his tongue
chewed.
A Shawnee county young man tried
to commit suicide twice last week, once
by taking carbolic acid and later by
cutting his throat with razor. He Is
supposed to be insane
A Lawrence man who heard some
thing creeping about his hay NOV hur.
riedly ran to the house and procuring
his revolver, charged up into the loft
to find that the creeping noise had
been made by lonely hen.
Friday evening little wreck occur.
red on the Santa Fe road between
Belle PLANE and Wellington. The
mixed train that started from Mulvane
was the victim. The trucks of one of
the freight cars gave way and smash
up was the result. There were nine
on the train and they were
all taken to Wellington an the engine,
giving some of them an exciting trip.
Nobody was injured and the damage to
the train was insignificant.
In country school house near Glen
dale last week Teacher Amy Allmon of
Carmi township called up a primary
class to recite, when one of the larger
pupils struck her with cindcr and an
other with a chunk of coal. This was
a signal for a general attack and the
young woman was beaten and some OF
her clothing torn from her. Better
disposed pupils defended her to the ex-
tent that she was able to seek safety
in fight, after which she resigned her
position.
Elliott, the young man who has just
been pardoned out of the penitentiar
was convicted of burglary at Ottawa
and sentenced under an assumed name.
His people live in Chicago. They are
in good circumstances, and his mother
knows nothing whatever of his dis
grace. Ever since his departure from
home five years ago, she has kept his
room for him, airing it daily. A year
ago his stepfather was informed of his
trouble. but he would not consent to
help him until he should be convinced
Of his innocence. Whether the young
fellow be guilty or innocent, he con-
fesses that il was by falling into bad |