The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-09-27

Galveston.
Rev ]. W. Mckenzie, Methodist pas
tor at Howard, is dead.
Normal students at Emporia gave
500 to the Galveston fund
General Miles returned to Washing
ton direct from Fort Riley.
The new Christian church at Ravens
viii be dedicated October a.
A Sunday fire at Sabetha destroyed
a half block of business houses.
The lodge of Scottish Rite Masons of
Fort Scott has wired 500 to Galveston
The Wichita high school opened with
AS pupils; more than there is room for.
Ellsworth county is agitating for
high school to be located at Ellsworth.
T. L. Cumbrow, a former mail car
rier of Salina, was Galveston victim.
Emancipation day, September %,
was quite generally celebrated by the
co1ored people
The Rock Island is carrying dona-
tions to Galveston free and will do so
until October 81.
All Rock Island freight equipments
are to be constructed at their shops in
Horton hereafter.
The state entomologist says that the
san oCSC scale mas hOC De0h seen III
Kansas this season.
Another homeseelers' excursion
passed through Kansas September 10,
bound for Oklahoma
The Santa Fe shop employees in To-
peka raised $3O6 for the relief of rail
road men in Galveston.
Legislative districts of Kansas are
due to be reapportioned at the 1901
session of the Legislature
The soap and carpet grafters seem to
have reached Kansas. They reaped a
good harvest farther south
The Mcpherson commercial club
proposes to raise SIS, 900 to bore, ho-
ping to find coal, gas or salt.
Railroad men estimate that not more
than 35 per cent of the wheat crop has
come out to the railroads thus far.
About 80 of the inmates of the State
Soldiers home at Dodge City, drove to
Meade to attend the reunion there.
The Rock Island has put low rate
of fare from all points in Illinois to all
points in Kansas along the Rock Island
lines.
The Missouri Pacific's business at its
station at Osborne was SO, $50 during
August; an increase of over 81, 600 over
last year.
Elmer c. Million, a boy raised in
Bur1ingame, has been nominated as a
candidate for judge of the Washington
supreme court.
union meeting of citizens of Lyons
adopted resolutions decrying the street
fair. and Sunday openings Consider
able feeling was aroused.
A Russell county crew threshed from
fields of wheat in one day 5000 bush
els. One field turned out So bushels to
the acre and the other fifty
The board of regents of Kansas
Agricultural college have elected Prof
C. E. Goodel1 of Franklin, Indiana to
the chair of history and economics.
Jacob Hoffman, of Wichita, a des-
cendant of William Penn, has come
into possession of an heirloom in the
family. It is an old secretary which
contains deeds which have been handed
down in the family for over 200 years.
The State Historical society will re-
| ceive a large picture of Captain E. A
B1ake1ey, who commanded company F.
First regiment, K. n. G., during the
! great railroad strike in 1883. The com
| pany held mob of 5000 in check al
/ Parsons with empty guns.
Rev. II. c. Durham, the first pastor
| of the New Jeru salem church of Tope
| lza, lost his entire family iH the Calves
| ton disaster. He was located there
but was absent at the time of tbs
/ storm.
Tt is said that where Kansas farmer.
| planted corn in fields which had beer
in alfalfa years, their best crop
| were realized
As rule political meetings do no
| have as large an attendance the,
| have been won't to command; but tn
| campaign will get warmer.
italian miners of Chicopee, Cherokee,
county, raised $40 for the widow of tn
assassin of King Humbert.
Four hundred citizens of Mcpherson
made mp S295 and it was te1egraphes
| to Galveston.
6. n. Marley, foreman in the offic
| of the Osawatomie Graphic, committe,
suicide with morphine He was in ba.