The Globe-republican., 1896-11-19

Sterling is to have ladies' minstrel
show.
I Wichita wants . branch normal
school
! Frank Crowell received the biggest
majority given in Atchison county.
The wires are already being laid for
the rost-office positions in Kansas.
4! 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 We specimens he pro-
| cured in Alaska.
A Newton family went to church
Sunday and the house was robbed dur
i inor thar hconro
An southern Kansas editor gives this
sage, short advice to his readers: lex
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 Garrett girl decided to propose TO
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 a 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 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 il
supposed to he insane.
thing creeping about his hay NOW 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 a 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
passengers 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 chunk of coal. This was
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 penitentiary, |
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