The Globe-republican., 1896-01-30

KANSAS ITEMS OE INTEREST,"
The Rocks county Record is Seven
teen years old.
'Fire-guards are being burnt on town
ship lines in many western counties.
Howard has blooded filly known
to turfmen as the ''Campbellite Mare.
. A thief in Kingfsher county stole q
two-gallon can of kerosene. He was
probably figuring on blowout.
The nearest railroad to Magnum
the county-seat of Greer county. is al
Quanah, Texas, fifty miles away.
Lawrence has eight whist clubs
She may be tritie short on culture
cards.
The city council at Ottawa has pas
sed an ordinance levying an Occupa
tion tax of $40 on each newspaper pub
ished there.
An EX. says that on account of the
coal oil inspection law the Kansas
merchants can undersell the OklahO-
ma merchants cents on the gallon.
The measure adopted by the Baxter
Springs News makes it's columns look
like contributions of spring poetry,
and swat it goes into the waste basket.
The Globe thinks there are too many
girls in Atchison of fifteen or sixteen
who should have their noses buried in
school books, who powder and curl
and dress and act like soubrettes.
News has just been received of the
finding of Oil and coal at Brazilton at
the depth of 175 feet. The well was
sunk on Mr.. Verden's farm and shows
bountiful Weld of both oil and gas.
That frisky young man, Hymen.
who has always been such a drawing
card with young people, and even
with old folks, sometimes, will now
settle down to life of staid sobriety
He was married at LeavenwOrth last
week.
A deputy sheriff came up from Ration
n. NJ, to Hartland and captured Fred
McCannOn and wife. who are charged
with numbering their infant child
about three weeks ago at Ration. They
are accused of burying their child
alive.
Lyons county has a man named
Skunk. If the compOsitor on one of
the papers in that county should hap
pen to get into the TX" box instead of
the ''h'' in setting that name up, the
chances are that MIR. Skunk would try
to whip an editor.
A young couple at Coffeyville went
driving last Sunday and about a mile
from town. their morse scared at some
thing at the roadside. The young man
got out to investigate the trouble and
run into polecat. He has since been
the object of much investigation him
self
Miss Florence Bell North of Leaven-
worth has begun suit in the district
court for personal damages in the sum
OF $1,000. Miss North alleges that by
the company's negligence in starting
the train without warning she was
thrown from the platform, receiving
severe injuries.
ID. p. Thomas, of the Fort Scott Hy-
draulic Cement works, north of Fort
Scott, has just closed a contract to fur
nish $1,000 barrels of cement for the
construction of the mammoth Liggett
& Myers building in st. Louis. This
is the largest contract eyer filed by
the factory, and will necessitate its
running ali winter.
Saturday morning tifty-two q. S.
prisoners were brought from Fl. Worth
Texas in charge of United States Mar
shal Tulley and placed in the govern
ment penitentiary at Leavenworth.
They were Il tough looking outfit.
One of them was Il negresS. All are
in for minor crimes. their sentences
running from one to five years.
When the first victim of the small
poX died in Lcavenworth in 1894. an
old colored man was hired by the un-
dertaker to wash the corpse, prepara-
tory to burial. no one thinking it was
a case of small poy at that time nor
until weeks afterward. But it was
and the old colorcd man got the dis
ease and died. His widow now comes
forward and sues the undertaken for
$4,000.
Ground is being broken for the erec-
tion of a cheese factory in the eastern
part of Brown county, near Hiawatha.
Wealthy men are interested in the
venture and large amount of pat
ronage is being pledged. At the start
300 pounds a day will be manufactured
and it is expected that higher prices
can be paid than the crcameries are
now giving for milk. An experienced
manager has been secured.
A slick swindler is working the law
yers in the eastern part of the state.
He approaches an attorney and tells
him that he has friend who has been
badly hurt while in the employ of a
railroad company, through the care
lessness of the company. This friend
desires to come to the attorney to en-
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