The Globe-republican., 1896-01-30

Three holdups occurred 1T Fort
Scctt in one dav recently.
! Billy Welch has gene to work 1er q
Kansas City printing house.
Lyons county has a girl named
Catherine who spells it ''Cathereyene "
It is stated that $1,000 worth OF
Stevens county bonds have been stolen
from bank at Lafayette. Ohio. A
reward of 81, 900 is offered for their re-
turn.
The annual meeting of the State
Temperance Union will be held at To-
peka March 3. Each church and tenn
perance society is entitled to three
votes.
The Ellis Review makes oath that a
stratum of seven inches of coal has
been discovered at depth of twenty
feet on the Smoky Hill, southeast of
town.
! Young men who are looking for
! wives should file sealed proposals for
the Horton young woman who has
1000 bushels of corn in the Glib wait
ing for the rise.
! Ewing Herbert, who has a nose for
everything. declares there is coal all
Brown county. and advises people to
go to digging right at home instead of
running off to Cripple Creek.
Bert Smith. worthy beerjerl.er of a
Robinson CLUB" has been compelled
to postpone his prospective marriage
while he does thirty days time in Jail
and rustles for S1cO to pay fine.
David Kelso, for many years i'm the
service of the Missouri Pacific law de-
! partment at AtchisOn, has formed
! partnership in the general practice at
Leavenworth with n. E. Van Tuyl.
Ibid you fall?- said an Atchison
| man, rushing to the rescue of woman
| who slipped on the icy pavement .'Oh
no. she said. IL just sat down to see
if could find any four-lcaf clovers.'
Kansas always to the fore. A Kan
sas newspaper has removed it's devil
and hired in his place young woman.
Lille Stapleton by name. and invest
ed her with the rank and title of s.dcv.
ilene"
Edwin L. Charlton of Lawrence will
try to recover his two children from
his runaway wife and bring to Justice
c. Albertus Rich, who ran away with
her. He is in San Francisco. where he
will prosecute the case.
Mrs Belle Worrell Ball. formerly
of Kansas is said to be the first wo-
man newspaper correspondent to re-
ceive the privileges of the press gal
lery of Congress Mrs Ball grew up
in Pawnee county, and has done con-
sidera bic newspaper work in Kansas
City.
The big business the railroad COM
panies expected to do in the corn trade
in Kansas. is not panning out-at least
not yet. Everybody is buying corn
but nobody is shipping out in notice
able quantities. But ten per cent of
the crop of 90 has been marketed.
The per capita water consumption
L.
for the last half of December shows
use of 7O3.3+O galians per day. The
railroads are responsible for this eN-
cessive use. The three systems alone
consume 4, 500. 900 per month.
The New York Life company last
week sold under a mortgage judgment
1.aS5 acres of land in Wilson county
belonging to one Eli Neff, the same
company buying it in at SIS. or
less than $3.50 an acre. 1t was the
place in the county.
The probate judge of Finney county
has left a lot of marriage licenses sign
ed in blank for his wife to issue while
some misfit marriages. The law pro-
vides for no deputy probate judge, and
it is the duty of the officer not only to
sign licenses. but also to decide wheth-
er applicants may marry.
The Usher Guards have decided to
hold public drill on Washington's
birthday at Lawrence. Sam Usher
who is sort of patron saint for the
company. has offered beautiful solid
gold medal that will be awarded to
the best drilled private or non-com-
missioned officer in the company. The
medal is now worn by the first SER
geant. 4. \. krauSe
\ tramp was arraigned IN the Otta-
wa police court and fined S5 and costs.
He became angered about it and called
the Judge a kangaroo and his court Il
kangaroo court. Thereupon the judge
added another So to the fine for con-
tempt of court. The tramp retorted
that it would be hard to he in contempt
of court like that and received anoth-
er s. fine. He then damned the court ,
and swOre he would not work for the
city and received an additional S. as
the police hurried him out through
the door.
\ Pennsylvania paper gives its read
ers this advice: The eastern half of
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