The Globe-republican., 1900-08-16

William Smith was badly injured by
the explosion of a threshing engine
near Caldwell.
Germans for 200 miles around will
gather for a picnic day at Marysvil1e,
September 1912
The state board of charities will soon
advertise for bids for building the new
asylum at Parsons
The Katy announces 40 cents per 100
pounds rate for Kav Valley potatoes to
Texas common points
St Francis hospital, Wichita. is to
have $40, 900 addition. It is already
very large building.
Eight hundred Saline and McPher-
son county people, by special train, pic
niclzed at Fort Riley last week.
Rev. Mr.. Perry Round, Baptist min
lister at Elwood, was drowned while
bathing in the Missouri river.
The 12-year-old daughter of O. E.
Carlson, of Assaria. Saline county, lost
her life by starting a fire in the kitchen
stove with gasoline.
Commissioner Briedenthal has de-
c1ared the Mutual Building and Loan
association of Topeka inso1vent and
has taken charge of it.
Samuel Isaacs, a Rock Island brake
man, was crushed to death between
cars, at Valencia He was single and
was from Duquoin, Illinois.
Emporia owns her own electric light
plant lineman fell with a rotten
pole the other day and now he is suing
the city for $40, 900 damages
A crowd of 40, 900 people is predicted
for August %, at the meeting in To-
Pel1a for notifying Mr. Bryan of his
nomination at the Sioux Falls conven-
ton.
Jacob Miller, of Sumner county,
planted so acres of new wheat called
E'Oregon May" which has threshed out
1895 bushels; almost 45 bushels to the
acre
A crowd of St. Joseph. Mo, moneyed
men is organizing with a capital of
half a million dollars, to buy a large
tract of country in western Kansas for
the purpose of raising cattle.
Up to about '93 a quarter of fresh
buffalo hung up anywhere the
prairies of Western Kansas would not
faint but dry out. 1t is not so now,
which shows how the climate has
changed
About 300 people, who had gathered
in Wichita from over the Seventh dis
trict, took train there for the editorial
excursion at Eureka Springs, Arkan-
sas- At Beaumont the Oklahoma
special was put into the same train
Many students who desire advanced
standing, they come from other col
1eges and universities, are correspond
ing with Kansas university. There is
every prospect for the largest enroll
ment ever made, for the coming year.
One robber was killed in the weeds
and another burned in dugout, near
Goodland- They are believed to be of
| the gang which held up a train near
Hugo, Colo. Two citizens were shot
in the fight, but they will probably re-
| cover.
J. NJ. Neville, of Douglas county,
! took 20 steers to the Kansas City mar
| let which averaged 1,473 pounds and
| brought SIS. IS hundred. They Were
| bought as feeders so days before and
averaged a gain of pounds a day
| each.
The application for writ of habeus
| corpus in the case of Miss Jessie Nor
rison, of Ell Dorado, was refused, and
and the sheriff was enjoined from re-
moving her to the Wichita Jail. She
remains in the Butler county Jail with
out bail
shipment of supplies received at
the Leavenworth Soldiers home
weighed 10000 pounds, consisting of
hats, caps. shirts, drawers, socks, pants
coats, b1ouses, shoes, suspenders and
| stationery The total membership of
| the home is now !, $40.
A company has been formed which
has bought so acres of land in Saline
county to establish plant to burn
gumbo ballast and will employ 55 men
| at the start.
One Kansas dealer alone shipped
| goo, 900 bushels of hard winter wheat
| to Minneapolis and he said that he was
| one of the dealers who handled a com
| paratively small amount of wheat
Kansas hard winter wheat is going to
| the Minneapolis mills to be ground up
and sold Minneapolis spring wheat
| flour
The $1,000 Indebtedness upon the