The Globe-republican., 1896-05-21

A Smith county man has sued his
wife for a divorce because she Wors
false hair.
The Topeka Journal admits that
open saloons will be in Topeka in .
short tine.
The annual spring baby crop is un-
usually large this year in southern
Kansas
1t is said that 80 per cent of the
Methodist Sunday school superintend-
ents in Kansas use Tobacco.
The Republicans in the Second dis
trict nominated a banker for congress.
The Pops in the third district will de-
the same thing.
Leavenworth CLAIMS to have increas-
ed in population during the past twelve
months, while most of the cities Of
Kansas have decreased.
The law requiring candidates to file
election expense accounts has gone
through the courts and pronounced
good, but it is repeatedly ignored all
over Kansas
People who are making long address
es to graduates this season in Kansas
should try to understand that the
graduates do not believe thing they
say.
Judge Norton of Lawrence, has re-
fused to shake hands with Nate Barnes
of Kansas City. He called Nate Barnes
a"damned liar"to his face, and Barnes
didn't do anything.
Bill White says that the biggest row
ever in Lyon county started twenty
years ago over one woman stealing an
other woman's hired girl The quarrel
has figured in three county elections.
Jim Hallowell is doing fine in Chica-
60 The first thing he done was to
find lawyer who was about to re-
tire. Jim took his business and now
has $50 cases pending in the various
courts.
An Atchison woman has just discov.
cred how to keep her husband home
of nights. She simply gets good
looking young lady to keep house and
the plan so far is a charming success
''What is home without a woman"
According to Fred Vandergrift, when
a Kansas man was told by his physi-
clan that he must die-that his con-
stitution was gone. the Kansan replied:
''Is that all? He'll, can live ten years
longer on the bylaws"
Holt Higgins, the 12-year-old son of
H. w. Higgins, a prominent buyer of
Thayer, Kau., was drowned yesterday
morning while bathing with compan-
ion in Nelson's pond. All efforts to
resuscitate the body proved futile.
Miss Nellie Mccormick, living at
Chapman, has run away from home.
She left note saying she should join
the Sisters of Mercy convent at Kansas
City, Kan. She is IS years old, and
no reason for her departure is given.
DIR. McElainey, of Dennis, is on trial
for practicing medicine without the
proper certificate. But the doctor
science in which no med,
icine is used and it looks as though
there would be two Dennises connect,
ed with the case.
A Barton county man was sent to
the penitentiary year ago for kiss,
ing a woman. On his return he kissed
another and she married him. Thus
has he been put in jeopardy twice for
the same offense, which is clearly un.
Mrs. Mahala Hoover, q wealthy
widow, died at Hiawatha. Kans, re.
Gently. In her will she bequeathed
over So, 900 to the Hiawatha academy,
an institution founded and maintained
by the citizens of Hiawatha without
regard to sect or color.
That man Sorrow, who is building
the distillery in Leavenworth is well
It will be sorrow from star
to finish. Sorrow through life ane
sorrow after life is done. Sorrow il
the heart and home of every one that
has anything to do with it. 1t is to be
a sorrowful institution all the way
through.
"a Kansas City corporation went in,
to court and asked permission to en-,
ter a suit under the pauper clause to
recover the price of a steamboat sunk |
in the Kaw river some years ago. The
boat foated against railroad pier
and the company is made defendant
in the case under the pauper clause.
The Judge said he would think about
II for while