The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-10-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF oterling 1nJ1rlng two persons
Phiuipsburg has struck vein of
water which seems to be inexhaustibIe-
Ed O'Brien. of Florence, won the
medal at the Peabody gun club shoot
Emancipation day. September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
colored people
Atchison has new fire engine which
cost 81. $50 1t has pumping capacity
of 500 gallons a minute.
Two Montgomery county boys. about
10 years old, have been arrested for rob
bling several farm houses.
flames Richie, of Augusta. has been
appointed to position in the treasury
department at Washington.
A strong artesian well has been
struck near Muscotah in the swamp
lands of the Delaware valley
Mrs Mary Griffin. of Lawrence. Wis
iting in Japan, received invitation
to a ball given by the NIil1ado.
Rev. DR. w w Ayers. Episcopal rec
tor at Lawrence. has accepted. a call to
church at Canon City, Colorado
p c. Bonner, under arrest in Iowa
for forging deeds and mortgages, is
wanted il. Wichita for a like crime
Plans maturing to provide Xyich-
series of lectures to provide the funds
Tramps have a new shibboleth now;
they have lost everything in Galveston;
and there are plenty of them in Kan
Eas-
VIM Ehart, of Leavenworth county,
was fatally injured by young bull
while he was walking through the
pasture
:, f.;
meet, which commenced on the 25th.
There were 10 hounds to catch $50
rabbits
Portions of Fort Scott were under
water on September % People in the
north part of the city were compelled
to move.
The first prize at the NHoodmen's
drill at Harper was taken by Yelling
ton, Sos; the second by the Kingman
team, $35.
Political and campaign matter crowds
ordinary news and makes it scarce.
Kansas is now thinking and talking
but little outside of politics, reunions
street fairs and the like.
A small tornado visited Neodesha
September %, wreclling two houses,
three barns and damaging others
Mrs John Ford and her little son were
injured, the first seriously
The lights in the dome of the new
Topeka auditorium are in the shape of
sunflower, formed of 40 incandescent
lights, set in a brown center and sur
rounded by yellow petals three feet
long.
Parsons was dcluged last week. The
dam of the waterworlxs company eon
Labette creek, broke and the lower
portion of the city was flooded. Houses
were emptied and there was damage
to property and live stock.
Near Tonganoxie man prepared
four blasts in a mineral prospect hole
As he was being hauled out in a tub,
one of the blasts went off prernaturely.
In spite of the danger the man at the
windlass hung on until he was at the
top and saved.
Rev. James Shaw, aged 90, is dead
at AtchisOn. He had been a Metho-
dist preacher Go years and had been
preaching in Kansas since 1857.
President A Monroe, of the Mer-
chants National bank of Lawrence
has given $3.50 to Kansas university
for special scientific researches in the
department of physics and physical
chemistry.
The Kansas conference of the United
Brethren church was held at Abilene.
Floyd, of Indiana presiding.
There was. last week, only four
houses in Norway without a case of
typhoid fever Only one death has
occurred.
The odd Fellows lodge at Dighton
borrowed money of other lodges in
1898 to furnish members with seed
wheat. The last OF the borrowed
money is now repaid
Engineer Fred Chick. who pulls the
Santa Fe passenger train between
Kansas City and independence. has
been constantly employed as engineer
since November. 1869.
The old buffalo grass sign would in
dictate the approach of a severe winter
The seed on the buffalo grass is report
ed to be very thick
The Santa Fe's Panhandle division
is furnished with special officers en-