The Globe-republican., 1900-03-08

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Kansas University had to close for a
few days for lack of coal
A cattle dipping plant is to be estab-
1ished at Garden City. The cattle men
are to do it.
The regimental band of the Twenty
third Kansas is forming a permanent
organization.
The mother of John J. ingalls, is said
to be still alive at the age of 100 years.
Her home is in Boston.
Atchison has Committee of Forty.
an organization designed to push the
business inter ests of the town.
Sandy Calhoun, a Twentieth Kansas
soldier, is charged with killing his
partner ia their saloon at Yale.
Four extra railway mail clerks will
be delegated to take care of the Shell
don issues of the Topeka Capital.
woman of Troy horsevhipped a
man for getting her husband drunk
and paid a fine of eleven dollars.
Something like seventy-five Kansas
towns have organized Improvement
societies during the past ninety days
The largest farm in Kansas is said to
belong to j. w. Robinson, of Eldorado
He has $500 acres under cultivation
Blue Rapids has new mill and eIe-
vatOr, built on the site of the one that
burned 1t is just now being finished.
The voters of Topeka will have
chance at the spring city election to
vote $50, 900 of bonds for park improv-
ments.
The mean temperature of February
at Kansas university, was seven de
grees below the average of the record
of the past.
Judge Guthrie who has been in To-
Pel1a for nearly forty years says that
the recent snow was the heaviest he
ever saw in the state.
Judge Hook has ordered the sale at
auction of the Kansas and Missouri
bridge, at Leavcnworth, in default of
payments due on bonds.
The Commercial Travellers of Kansas
meet in Atchison in May and the local
lodge at Atchison has been allowed
81, 500 for entertainment.
Firenen Haley and Meadows both of
whom were killed with their engines on
the Rock Island. within six months of
each other, married sisters.
Some one has made off with d SO
cornet belonging to the Clay Center
Presbyterian church. The local G. A
r. post also reports the loss of three
drums--two snare, and bass.
The seventy-fve insurance companies
doing business in Kansas report col
1ected in 1899, 81, s23., o95 in premiums,
and the amount of losses paid ont ST.
COS, 42S. Most of the companies show
a loss in the years business.
beginning March IL the Atchison
Champion proposes to run its daily issue
for one week the Devil would run
it.. 1t is to be under the exclusive
management of w. p. Campbell, with
DIR. G. r. Nunnalty as editor in chief.
Kansas University has about fifty
more accredited schools than has Mis-
souri, university Chancellor Snow has
received since the first of the year no
tees of quite a number of high schools
that have conformed to the require
ments.
An old man from Missouri, Ross by
name. killed himself at his home near
Moran He had recently bought half
section farm.
John NTusgrave, of Glen Elder,
delegate to the a. o. L w grand
lodge is in the hospital with a broken
leg. He fell the ice.
Waverley people arrested d drummer
for a liquor house. He was allowed to
go into the hotel for breakfast when
he lodged the constable and ran into
the country. y large crowd gave chase
but he got away.
J. II. clayton, wealthy celery grow
er of Santa Anna, California, was trav-
cling east with his family, when he
became deranged and jumped from a
car window He was found at Ford
City, twenty miles away, and it was a
difficult task to capture him.
The Iaror 1iSf=area
offered the Mutual company of Fort
Scott -. 500 per share of stock which
cost them S3,5oO. With the offer Is {;
guarantee that the mutual plant win
never be turned over to the Missouri
and Kansas company
Ben Mclean and W. i. Throclzmor-
ton, of Wichita, have organized the
Valley Pine Lumber company with
headquarters at Greenville. Ark. and
have put in big planning miu there
The capacity of the mill is 100. 600 feet
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