Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-04-26

Sterling is talking of becoming city
of the second class.
A hardware store is burned at Logan
with a loss of $500.
G. 7. Mead, of Spivey was killed by
his team running away.
A big pipe organ is being built in the
Baptist church in Winfield.
John James, Sr., hung himself with
a strap, i'll his barn near Aida.
= S. w. Hough and his wife, of Column
bus, were poisoned by canned corn.
The Fifth district w. c. T. U. met in
annual session at Abilene last week
Shoughnassee, the famous Pottawat-
omie chief, is dead. He was 90 years
old.
The Kansas state Sunday school con-
vention will be held in Atchison, May
to 10.
There are sixty-two women in the
graduating class of Kansas University
this year.
Some Kingman county farmers held
a meeting and decided to establish a
creamery.
] Len Granville, of Hutchinson has
fallen heir to a valuable estate near
Utica, n. Y.
Secretary Barnes of the state horti-
cultural society says that fruit pros
poets are good.
During March the Kansas peniten-
tiary received 81 convicts and only 81
were discharged.
Montgomery county has more money
on hand than the law allows to be de-
posted in banks.
There were seventy-one volunteers
for the Spanish war who were Kansas
University men.
Labor Commissioner Lee johnson is
who fail to observe the eight hour labor
law.
James Harris, now one of the literary
lions of London, in 1873 took special
course in oratory and literature in
Kansas University.
The output of berries in Doniphan
county is a big item in the production
and this year berry growers report the
right kind of prospects.
Robbers tried to blow up the Mis-
souri, Pacific safe at FL Dorado, but
failed. They then cut open and rified
the mail sacks in the depot
At Miltonville two of the Heald boys
married two of the Comfort sisters, and
at the same time two of the Comfort
boys married two of the Head sisters
The waterworks system owned by
the city of Coffeyville cleared $1,O75.59
from January 1 to April 1. The receipts
were S2,1oO and the expenses about
81 900.
George Helwig, an old resident of
Labette county, died and the coroner's
jury said his death was from arsenic
poisoning. The evidence is kept Sc
cret.
The officers of the Leavenworth Light
& Heating company have information
of frau dulent issue of 40 bonds for
81 ZOO each, now in circulation and
offered for sale in Chicago
H. L. McNurney and Ethel Bacon, of
Butler county, were to be married, and
on the same day, while riding, the
horses ran away breaking the bride
groom's collar bone and bruising the
bride severely. They were married on
schedule time
Frank w. Elliott of the Troy Times
recently convicted of libel was SEN
fenced to 100 days in jail AID to pay
500 fine and costs. After being in Jail
two hours he was liberated on an ap-
peal bond, on order of Judge Wells of
the appellate court.
E. Haworth, professor of geology at
Kansas University, says he knows of
at least hundred assays of ore taken
from different mines around Galena
and there has never been any trace of
gold and very slight indications of sill
yer found.
Governor Stanley has named Mrs. J.
X. Hudson of Topeka, and Mrs. S. R.
Peters of Newton, to be members of
the women's board of managers of the
Pan-American exposition to be held in
Buffalo, N. Y, from May 1 to Novem-
Der 1, 1901.
VIM. Reynolds came to Stafford coun-
ty twenty years ago with but little
capital. He is now building fine res
idence in st. John, besides which he
owns several farms.
The board of regents of the state
normal elected officers as follows: F.
s. Laribee. of Stafford, pres ident; C. A.
Ross, Burr Oak, vice president; s. H.
Dodge, Beloit, treasurer; John Madden,
secretary. A contract for the erection
of gymnasium was given at Sits.
An additional So, 200 is to be expended
in equipment.
The .Hoffmans of Enterprise, propose
to plant $4,000 catalpa trees in the
Smoky Hill bottoms. They will plant