The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-03-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

4SAd AA1111crs is dead
The annual encampment of the G. A
r. is to be at Holton on May g.
Topeka teachers find that eight per
cent of boys IN the schools smoke cigar
cites
A bond vote for building a $4,000
school house comes up at the next cleo
ton in Chanute.
Incendiaries burned the $40, 900 resi-
dence Of J. G. Fox; the wholesale drug
gist Of Atchison-
The 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 u NJ. G
A library at Fort Scott.
Clayton Nichols who was employed
at d mill at Morris, was cut to
pieces by the circular saw.
Sheriff Simmons, of I<earney county,
mas married Miss india Harris, super
intendent of Hamilton county.
The largest COW in Kansas is owned
by Dick Clacl1, of GAYLORD. She weighs
1000 pounds and is six feet high
burglar secured from E J. Derges
house in Lebanon. "A 500 diamond, an
$50 gold brick and SO in money
spector general of Soldiers homes, is
officially present at Leavenvvorth.
Hays City lost a large frame elevator
by fire, together with grain and ma
chinery- The loss was about 50, 900.
Miss Anna A Mclaughlin. of Horton,
went alone to West Africa and married
DR. W. s Lehman after her arrival
there.
Rev DIR. Don 5. Colt, pastor of the
First NJ. L. church of Wichita. has re-
ceived a. call to the largest church in
Baltimore, Md.
Fort Scott viii build a Sc. 900 audi
torium and viii have it completed in
time for the Democratic and Populist
state conventions
The annual convention of Congre-
gational ministers of Eastern Kansas
and Western Missouri met at I.eaven-
worth with thirty pastors in attend
ance.
Miss Kate Rhea, of Yates Center is
dead She taught the first school there
and continued with it 90 years except
the four years when she served as
county superintendent.
John Colvin is dead. His home was
at Moline. In 1SSS he was the nominee
for vice president on the industrial re
in the Osavvatomie insane asylum.
z. H. Anderson, of Abilene has start
ed back to Alaska. While at home he
gave $4,000 to the Swedish hospital,
bought a farm for $4,000 cash and
fitted up a handsome place for his
parents.
Mr. Ressigue, now general superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe, was once
division superintendent at Wichita and
General Manager Harding of the Mis-
souri, Pacific was once division su per-
intendent of the same road at Wichita.
The department OF agriculture at
Washington reports the following
quantity of corn, wheat and cats in
the hands of Kansas farmers on March
!, 1000: Corn, oe.672,277 bushels;
wheat, 9, 4s1 ,691 bushels; oats, 1861.
764 bushels,
Aaron Dresser. of solomon, aged 81
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 sheriff at Fort Scott took a skel-
eton key from tramp and with it
unlocked the doors of the first ten
stores he came to.
changed hands in Cowley county with
in six months last past than in any
otherKansas county.
Judge Hook, of the federal district
court. in session in Wichita, declared
void $50. 900 worth of bonds of Fargo
township. Seward county.
Some one has figured it ont this way:
The United States mint at New Orleans
coins S5c a minute. or $4,000 in each
working day Working 800 days IN
the year this mint can coin just enough
money TO buy the Jewell county crops,
which last year footed up ST.o74, so5.
All the n1ints in the country cannot
coin the money represented in the crops
of fifteen Kansas counties
Mrs Annie L. Diggs. 81 ate librarian,
has gone to Indianapolis, Ind. to make
purchases OF books for the library.
The reading circle of the state
teachers association meets this weeL
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