The Globe-republican., 1896-03-19

The farmers of Southern Kansas re-
joice over the prospect of the largest
yield of wheat in many years.
When the Westmoreland Record. is
shy of editorial matter, it explains
that it was done to ''ecOnomize time. .
This month has five Sundays. five
Mondays and five Tuesdays. Some
thing had to happen when it came in,
SO big snow storm is with us.
The title to $50 acre farm in Atch-
ison county was quoted in court re-
Gently. The lawyers received go acres
of the land and S1OO in cash as their
fees.
A Doniphan county man will plant
forty acres to sassafras this spring
and make the leaves up into cigarettes
for the cure of the tobacco smoking
habit
Goddard viii esta blish sanitarium
for the treatment of consumptives.
The altitude is said to be just right,
and DR.. F. II. Smith has got the hang
On the Edison cure.
Sol Miller asks what has become of
the rid fashioned boy that used to
swap knives sight unseen" He is
still on deck, but he does business
'side and unseen"
The average salary paid the minis
tiers of the Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church is S725 a
year. The average salary in the
Atchison district, the best paid in the
conference, is Ss37, or about $40 q
month.
Cornelius Driscoll. an old resident OF
Cloud county, residing ten miles south
west of Concordia. was found dead
in an old cornfeld near his home. He
had driven his cattle into the field and
was watching them feed. when it is
supposed he had sudden attack of
heart trouble
\ gang of street men were employed
to clean up and flush the cutters at
Leavenworth Monday. Water was
turned on from two-inch hose. a
large number of min uows, the kind
used by fisherman to lure croppie and
bass. passed through the nozzle, swan
along the cutters and finally dropped
into the sewers and out of sight.
j. L. Longs Kentucky emigrant car
has arrived in Lane Monday. bringing
seventy people from the blue grass
state. They will farm the lands of
Mr.. Long. For the past five years Mr..
Long has been inducing men in West
Virginia and Kentucky to invest in
Kansas soil, and each year he has in
creased the number of cmigrants to
that place.
The council chamber was crowded at
the last meeting of the commercial
club at Coffeyvillc. The committee to
secure cash and grain subscriptions
for the new mill have been well re-
ceivcd and there is no question but
what the required amount will be
raised. A charter has been applied
for and new members are being taken
in daily. The mill is sure go.
A Galcna woman asked Colonel Wei
dy to write 4 mice piece for her on
her birthday. and this is what he
wrote Whatever may be said of
mental strength or moral
she is an Industrious woman
having worked hard all her life. and
by strict economy has secured IL little
home in which she celebrates this
AID. we hope, may enjoy
many others.
\ middle aged wOman giving the
name of Mrs. Mary Watson, was dis
covered in a sealed box car on the
road at Fort Scott Friday morning.
She had been locked in the car "a day
and a night and had lived without
food and water. She said she got in
the car at Ash Grove, Mo-, intending
to ride to Kansas City. not sIspecting
the car would be delayed. When
found, she was faint for want of food.
Russell Smith met with horrible &C.
cident at Wellsville. near Ottawa, on
Wednesday. resulting in the loss of
several fingers. He was engaged in
operating a corn crusher and in Il mo-
ment of inadvertence got one hand
too far into the jaws of the machine,
and it was caught by the rollers. Re-
alizing his danger, as the arm was
drawn in by the resistless gear he
braced himself and by desperate eff
fort wrenched his hand from the teeth,
terribly lacerated. One finger was
torn off at the knucklc and part of an
other was left in the machine The
cords of the missing finger were drawn
out with it, breaking some distance up
in the arm.
The alcohol distillery enterprise is
assured at Leavenworth. The SIS 900
bonus will be raised within few weeks
The proposed distillery tfor alcohol
Only) would consume 5000 bushels of
corn daily and give steady employment
to from $50 to 200 men. 1t would run
at full capacity for at least ten or elev-
en- months in The wear The nrOyno-