The Globe-republican., 1896-03-12

A Riley county man trapped Two
American eagles recently.
| Farmer A. w. Smith will deliver the
( memorial address at Osborne.
/ In Reno county this year corn will
be assessed at cents Il bushei.
/ Robberies of Kansas postoffices are
becoming altogether too numerous.
! The Fort Scott water works will be
! sold on mortgage for fifty thousand
dollars.
! Strong City citizens are preparing to
open up the earth to see if there is
anything in it.
The music of frogs is heard this sea-
son in Finney county for the first
! time in three years.
there is such a thing as joking the
| ground hog too much.
| Among the things taken by bur
! giar at Clay Center was "a blue feath-
err fam" That was cool.
. c. Il. Hart of Beatrice. Nebra ska,
! has become general manager OF the
Hutchinson and Southern.
1t cost a Kansas postmaster S. to
'.cuss- the administration at Wash
ington through the pOstotiice depart
ment.
! Governor Morrill, has issued quar-
antine proclamation. fixing the line in
! accordance with the last order of Sec
rotary Morton.
! Sixty people from Kentucky. passed
through st. Louis, Tuesday night on
their way to Kansas. They were to
locate in Franklin county.
! Prof. WillistOn. of the state univer-
! sity. has been invited to accompany
an expedition of scientific men through
| Asiatic, Asrilan and Pacific waters.
\ Kansas City man, Wednesday, run
! up the American flag and by the side
of it flung out the new Cuban banner
| to take full breath of fresh. free air.
Close observation, reveals that as a
terror-crcator the loss of the county
printing is getting farther and farth-
| err away from the Kansas editor every
year.
Judge Hazen doesn't like the new
courthouse at Topeka. He says it is
magnificent building for show and has
some fine halls. but that is not what is
required.
Colony Weldy and his Short Creek
Republican may well be proud of
Cherokee county. which. last week,
put out 1859 cars of mineral. valued
at So, 900.
The university faculty has expelled
convicted of stealing university law
books. Lucas will fight both court
and faculty action.
A Topeka man recently advertised
answers he received were letters from
over nineteen hundred husbands, say
ing he could have theirs.
A Clay Center man was fined S35 for
So for whipping his wife. There has
something gone wrong with the new
woman up in Clay Center or these con-
ditiOns would not exist.
a HOlton woman ordered fish from
the market When then came she dis
covered they were still alive. She was
kind-hearted and someone told her the
easiest way to kill them was to drown
them. She tried it but they still swim
J. Il. Parks of Washington county
drove across the line into Nebraska
after a load of corn. He also loaded
up with corn Juice. and on the way
home. being unable to manage his
team. was thrown from his wagon and
killed.
Kansas court has ruled that "a
man who calls upon a woman regular
ly and takes her to entertainments
occasionally. is legally engaged to
been rendered by courts in other
states, also.
The city and township assessors of
WyandOtte county. at their meeting
agreed to assess both real and person.
al property at its real value. That is
a business like plan. 1t will make
more favorable showing Of both prop
erty and taxes to a stranger.
John S. Long is a prosperous Young
farmer living near Oskaloosa and has
a pretty, young wife. A few days
ago she went to- town and wrote
check against Johns bank account for
5000. She insists that the money be-
longs to her but John is mad and has
had her arrested.
Coffeyville has taken the prelimin-
airy steps towards secur ring CONNER
cial club. \ large number of citizens
met in the council rooms Saturday
night and were called to order by
Mayor Wilcox. \ special committee
of three were appointed to assist the
present committee in securing tho