The Globe-republican., 1899-11-23

nlOltlOn ticket received 81 votes.
The Melvern bank has been dyna-
mited and its cash carried away.
Congressman Ridgely has bought a
| 200 acre farm, paying $50 an acre for
it.
The Rock Islands taxes in Shawnee
county, just paid, amounted to s., 294.-
80.
Twenty thousand sheep will be fat1
tened in Dickinson county this win
ter.
Archie Keech, Gray county farmer,
rounded up $500 last week in a cat
tie deal.
Burlington estimates that Halloween
cost the town about 500 in broken
sidewalks.
A large natural cave was found on
the farm of Joh:i J. Ingalls,, near Atch,
ison, this week.
Heavy shipments at Liberal continue
and the record of the year are likely to
beat the record.
The University of Colorado has chal-
lenged the Kansas State University to
a joint debate.
Frankfort is said to number among
her citizens an unusually large number
of retired farmers.
Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattle
are dying off with something which
resembles black-leg.
The Topeka dailies now reach Wich.
tia one whole day later than they did
up to few days ago.
The Southern Kansas Teachers asso.
citation will hold a convention in WITCH.
tia December 1 and ..
A Silver Lake man is selling many
frogs to Topeka hotels. He gets &C
cents dozen for them
Ex-Congressman Ben Clover fell out
of a wagon in Butler county the other
day and broke his collar bone.
Up to date only eight members OF
the Twentieth Kansas have applied for
labor through the State labor bureau.
The Woodmen of the World have
erected a monument at Wynnewood in
honor of Oliver G. Cable, a deceased
sovereign.
The stamp department of the inter.
nal revenue Office at Leavenworth dur.
ing twelve days of this month received
16,575.94 for stamps.
The Kansas river is lower than it has
been at this season for many years.
Irrigation schemes in western Kansas
and Colorado are said to be the cause.
The Rock Island depot at Wellsford,
Kansas. was entered by thieves and
about three dollars in money secured.
They effected entrance by prying up
an office window
Governor Stanley urges superin-
tendents of State institutions to be
carefully saving of coal. The prison
coal shaft is being repaired and but
little coal can be mined.
Governor Stanley appointed the
Court of Visitation on the first Monday
in April, 1899. in compliance with a
law enacted by the extra session in
I,,k -:
been placed on the court docket.
Kansas State banks hold more than
Sl3.0oO.O00 in cash more than the 20
per cent required to be held as reserve.
In the national banks in this state it
is about the same, though % per cent
reserve is required. John Briedenthal
says New York bankers may send on
their callateral
The Kansas State Horticultural So
ciety will hold its thirty-third annual
meeting in the rooms of the society in
the State house in Topeka Dec 81, %,
and 90. One fare for the round trip.
Everybody is invited to attend.
The recent fire at Troy destroyed
Cy Leland's opera house building in
which were the Doniphan county State
bank and the post Office. His building
occupied as a hardware store was
burned and his two story brick general
store, on the corner was badly dam
aged.
The two steeples of the new German
Catholic church in Topeka are nearing
completion. They are probably the
tallest steeples in town.
Two sons of Captain Means, of Sedg,
wick county, put in, cultivated and
gathered 10 acres of corn, without any
outside help. This alone is worthy of
mention, because it could not have
been done anywhere else in the world
outside of Kansas. When they had
finished cribbing they found that the