The Globe-republican., 1900-03-15


Greenwood county
J. r. Baden. the well known Win
| field miller, is dead
| f D. Ccburn. secretary of agriculture,
came to Kansas on foot
Phillips county is to have a fair, cap
itaIized at 81, 900; all of which is sub
scribed-
Postmaster Grice. of Gage, is under
| postage stamps
Lumber dealers have been stocking
up their yards everywhere; evidently
expecting a big trade
George Day, a coIored man of Mont
| gomery county, realized S93- 20 from
three acres of cotton.
! Fire destroyed six store buildings in
! Waverly. The Waver1y Gazette was
| located in one of them.
n1The state board of Education meets
! this week to revise the course of study
/ in the common schools
Miss Helen Gould has made her
| second donation of $500 to the Y. NJ. C.
a library at Fort Scott.
The men of the Santa Fe at Emporia
are enjoying their coy reading room,
prepared by the company.
Howard offers $500 reward for the
capture of the parties who fired the
Metropolitan hotel there.
Dr. A. s Chouteau, an old practitioner
Of Dodge City, dropped dead while at
tending one of his patients
Sheriff Simmons, Of F<earney county,
has married Miss india Harris, super
intendent of Hamilton county
A burglar secured from E. J. Derge's
house in Lebanon. a 500 diamond, an
$50 gold brick and $40 in money.
The reading circle of the State
teachers association meets this week
to'select books to be read the coming
year
Miss Anna A Mclaughlin, of Horton,
went alone to West Africa and married
Or. ". s. Lehman after her arrival
there.
The house occupied by Lewis Hadley,
in Paola, and its contents are destroyed
by fire and P1 ofessor Hodges was badly
burned
The sheriff at Fort Scott took a slze1-
eton key from d tramp and with it
unlocked the doors of the first ten
stores he came to.
The Kansas river was full of floating
ice last week, and it damaged the work
OF new bridge to the amount of $500;
just east of Topeka.
j. J. SCHNEIDER, a Topeka society
young man, was doing fancy step in
a calzewa1L when he struck slippery
place IN the floor. He fell and broke
his colarbone.
The 10000 sheep which have been
fed all winter at Solomon City, have
made a scarcity of feed there and a
train load has been shipped to the,
eastern part of the state.
Aaron Dresser. of solomon, aged o.
years. the oldest Mason in Kansas, is
dead after brief illness. He had been
faithful to Masonry since young man
hood and was widely known in Central
Kansas
The Santa Fe has refused to grant
the demands of the Order of Railway
Telegram pliers for an increase in wages.
The advance would have cost the com
pany $4,000 a year The demand that
the chairman OF the general grievance
committee be allowed to dictate all
promotions of operators was also re
fused The Santa Fe people say that
the maj rity of operators on their road
are better paid than other Western
lines.
J. !. Meconey dropped dead in the
audience at Lewis academy. Heart
cause was laughing at Il joke
The Jensen Creamery company cap
tured honors at the National Butter
makers convention 1t produced the
best tub of butter out of 60 from Kan
sas and received $50 cup Only nine
better tubs appeared in exhibit Of
s24 tubs.
At the instigation of the w G. T. U,
the sheriff of Mcpherson county recent
ly went clear to Illinois after jointist-
Jimmy Common, the Lawrence and
Hays City boy who got rich through
specializing in Cripple Creek mines, is
off with his wife for tour of the
world. Mr. Connor is the man who
purchased Robert Louis Stevenson-s
villa on one of the Samoan islands.
Colonel Ed Little and Mayor Hul1ecl1
We're appointed a committee by the
Abilene city council to receive the
soldier dead of Germany L soon TO he.