The Globe-republican., 1896-08-06

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Cowley county boasts of a peach tree
which is 25 years old and still bearing.
+ New hay is selling for 50 a ton in the
section known in the short grass
country.
The government has presented the
agricultural college at Manhattan with
S22, 900 for experiments this year.
Brigadier General Sully has babe
farewell to the Topeka Salvation army.
This ceremony is one of the regular
features of the work in Topeka
An Osteopathic doctor has struck
Lawrence and a lot of people have put
on their things, looked in the diction-
ary and posted off to be examined
John Selvage killed the 13-year-old
daughter of David Hoffman and then
killed himself near the little town of
Alton, ton miles southwest of Marys-
vile, Saturday night.
The Cawker City Pu bic Record has
an interesting description of the diff
ferent grasshopper machines. Coal
oil, asphaltum and sulphur smoke are
three effective destroyers given.
An interesting Kansas paper rises to
the question of persona privilege and
wants to know whether ma n who is
all full half the time is better than .
man who is half full all the time.
Ex-Governor George T. Anthony, who
is sick at Sheldon's hospital at Topeka,
sank very low early Wednesday even
ing, but later he rallied, and up to .
late hour he was doing nicely.
The house of ]. C. Meadows, in Law
renee, was entered by burglars Satur-
day night and he was robbed of 500
in 81 bills. The house was entered
through a second story window which
was reached by means of a ladder.
A Kansas man who likes to argue
the currency question has ordered q
folding chair which he proposes to
carry about with him on the streets so
that he can engage on debate on the
financial question without getting
tired.
Postmaster Fitzhugh of Kansas City,
Kans. has gone to Washington to urge
the Postoffice department to make an
extension of the free delivery service
across the line SO that it will include
Chelsea place and the Western part of
the city.
The jefferson county fair will be
held the first week in Septem Der, com
mencing on Tuesday, the first day of
the month. This is about month
earlier than usual, this time being Sc
lected to avoid conflict with dates of
other fairs and with the soldiers re-
union at Topeka.
Charles FOswick, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, was
arrested Saturday charged with having
robbed a drunken companion of SIS in
a saloon. Foswick had furlough of
five days and this was the last. He
was not able to return to his post, how
eyer.
Nemaha county has just voted down
the proposition to isfue $40, 900 in bonds
to replace the courthouse destroyed by
the recent cyclone. The citizens of
Seneca built the house which was des-
troyed aud the county at large is just
generous enough to expect them to re-
build it free of cost.
John Basome, a minor employed at
Arnott & Lanyon coal shaft near Pitts
burg, was injured by falling about 40
feet from an ascending cage. He was
found by a shot firer at the bottom of
the shaft with a fractured skull and
severe bruises on different parts of his
body. He died in the city hospital.
He leaves a widow but no children
The state live stock sanitary COM
mission yesterday investigated the di-
seased cattle in George Taylor's pas
ture south of Independence, which
were quarantined week or 50 ago.
The commission, consisting of three
men, were not able to decide what the
disease was and will send an expert
down and wait until he reports before
any action is taken. They ordered
the quarantine continued.
Small boys who had been playing
near an abandoned rock quarry on the
hills south of Toad-a-Loup yesterday
reported to the police at Kansas City,
Kars., that a crazy man was inhabit-
ing the quarry and that his actions
had led the people living in that vicin-
ity to fear for their safety. The police
went to the scene and found no crazy
man, but did find evidences of such an
individual, and they will keep a watch
with view to capturing him.