The Globe-republican., 1896-08-06

! Western passenger trains ara trying
to minimize the running of Sunday
executions.
Smith Center people had nice time
staying up ali night to see the circus
pass through.
The empty Jail at Hugoton Is used
as boarding house for teachers ut
| tending the county institute.
| State Sunday school headquarters
have been located at Abilene so az to
be near the enemy's forces.
The Kansas Free Thought assoe:a-
; ton is to hold a three weeks session
at Ottawa commencing August 2.
Over production item: Rush county
with seventy-three schools has go
teachers attending the institute.
The ''sky parlor" of the Santa Fe
general office building at Topeka, is
the coolest Office in the building.
Walter Roth, aged IS years, was
drowned Wednesday afternoon at At
Gibson while bathing in the Missouri
river.
A stranger in Topeka who walked
across the Kansas avenue bridge yes
terday was almost frightened to death
for fear it would go down with him.
The boom in the oil fields of south
eartern Kansas is surprising the great
eastern Kansas is surprising the great
est expectations of the people of that
section.
Sheriff Bob Kepley and farmers
posse captured a chicken thief gang
early Sunday morning southeast of To-
peka after hard chase of twenty-One
miles.
A young married Kansas man who
took his wife's advice for cleaning his
straw hat will buy a new one. The
tival carnival night.
The most common typographical err
ror occurs on the word truth" 1t IS
a word Kansas editors use great deal
and the typo about half the time gets
it .'turth and the mistake is hard to
detect in the proof.
NJ B. Tom bin, former president of
the defunct Sherman County bank,
who has been on trial at GOOdlin for
the past ten days for receiving money
after the bank was in a failing condi
ton, was convicted on four counts in
the district court.
Charles Hutchinson. st. Louis col
ored man, was assaulted in Kansas
City, Kans, and received a razor cash
hide inches long, beginning at the
nose and extending around to the
middle of the back of the neck. The
flesh on the cut was laid open to the
bone
A New York man in the New York
Evening Post warns Kansas editors
against Dragging Oh Kansas. He says
that Kansas is in very bad shape and
the newspapers here should say SO.
The East would then grant Kansas
some relief.
w. J. Cattell of Barber county asked
the probate court to let him sell IL
quors for mechanical. medicinal and
scientific purposes last week but the
court wouldn't let him do it. The
court suspected that there was plenty
of medicine, science and mechanics
around as it was.
A tramp told woman in Lawrence
that woman's scorn had driven him
to his present plight. After he had re-
goled himself with milk and honey he
informed the woman that he had writ
ten a proposal to Helen Gould and she
had refused to answer the letter.
A Reno county minister in a recent
sermon said that. "Should God damn
forever all sinners. there would still
be others who would persist in SIN
cling" The local newspaper in report
ing the sermon said: SHOULD c. d.
forever all sinners, there would still,
etc"
St Mary's Journal offers $50 for Ell
dence that will convict the parties who
| broke into their office June 3.
Rees Lumley. aged about IS years.
was drowned in the Marias des Cygnes:
river, near Usage. He. in company
| with two others. was on a fishing trip,
! and while arranging their net the boat
| capsized. His companions swan t.
/ the shore. but Lumley returned for the
oars, which had been lost when tie
boat overturned, and got beyond MS