The Globe-republican., 1900-02-08

Burlington has two companies or
gained to bore for gas.
Galena has an ordinance prohibiting
tie giving of premium stamps by ner-
chants
Deputy o. s, marshal rrigg caught
a silver dollar counterfeiter in Smith
county
baggage car on the Frisco was
burned while the train crew were out
to dinner.
Arrangements are about completed
for an electric car line from Olathe to
Kansas City
The Strong City Citizens band OF
eighteen members is preparing for cam
Paign year
Lead is said to have been discovered
in Sumner county A company has
been formed to sink a shaft
The Rock Island has received 1e new
and elegant coaches The seats are
said to be exceptionally comfortable
workmen are fitting up new room
in the west wing of the state house for
the plants collected by the Academy of
Science.
The Hackney block, which cost Hon
Bill Hackney 1925, 600 to build, is de-
stroyed by fire 1t is quite a loss to
Winfield.
The city council of Pao1a has placed
a penalty OF $50 parents who do not
have their children who attend school
vaccinated.
Charles Bailey of Ottawa received a
plum pudding from England which
came in good condition although "a
days on the way
During 1899 the Edgerton creamery
paid for milk, $50, so7. 6s, an average
price per hundred pounds of a little in
excess of 79 cents
Len Cooper is at the Leavenworth
federal I,enitentiary from Oklahoma
His parents Travelled there in a wagon
to make him visit.
Colonel E N o. C1ough, of Leaven-
worth is dead He was rs years old.
He was a veteran of the Mexican war
and OF the civil war
On February there We're in the To-
pela post office 1891 January money
orders which had not yet been pre-
sented for payment
Miami county road overseers held a
mass meeting in Paola and were well
entertained by the citizens. 1t was
one of Barney Sheridan's schemes for
good roads
1Hs poor COMMISSIONER Oh w yS1oOCG0
county has arranged work for able
bodied parties who apply for county
aid. He expects this to lessen the
number applying
DR.. J. Frank Davis was shot and in
stantly killed at Halls Summit, by
Fred Denhart. Davis, Denhart and s.
o. Hill were at Denhart's house, drink
ing whisky and singing
The Wichita Carnival and Fall Festi-
val association have invited the people
of Kansas and Oklahoma to submit
designs for souvenir button for the
Street Fair and Carnival in October
next.
Mrs Laura Ramsey, an aged widow,
at Sabetha, was murdered in her home.
There have been no arrests. The
officers have no clue to work upon.
The motive of the crime was probably
robbery.
Miss Blanche Stradtner. of Enter
prise, lies in a precarious condition, the
result of a joke. While coming home
from church in the night few days
since a man jumped in front of her and
yelled Boo She tainted and had
Mysteries, resulting in nervous pros
tration and a serious condition which
is alarming her family
A stock company with a capital of
about $1,000, has been organized at
Williamsburg, for the purpose of Dor
ing for gas or oil. Williamsburg is en-
thusiastic over the prospect
There are now building at the Santa
Fe shops in Topeka ten new all steel
ballast cars of 80, 600 pounds oa.,- c.tvv
These cars will Is of standard size,
which means a length of 40 feet These
cars will be the first steel cars to be
built at the Topeka shops and their
completion is naturally looked forward
to with much interest.
Leavenworth has about given up get
ting the $500. 900 appropria ton for build
ing cell houses at the new federal peni-
! tertiary site.
Governor Stanley Will establish a
home finding department. at the reform
school and state reformatory- Every
time q home is found for a boy he viii
be given a conditional pardon.