The Globe-republican., 1900-06-28


Ricevi1le, Cherokee county, a mining
camp. is destroyed by fire
The Southern Kansas Lyceum League
will meet in Wichita July 6.
The NJ. Z. & T. took $50 cars of cat
tie through Parsons in one night last
week.
MCPHERSON county claims to have the
best school libraries in the Seventh
district
Miss ~ l. Stevenson. a missionary
from Topeka. is reported to have been
killed in Tien Tsin-
Colonel Massey, a Miami county
farmer. lost half of his 1850 chickens
in one night, by theft.
The Arkansas Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold its session at Island
Park, Winfield, July III.
j. D. BowersocIz, of Lawrence is ne
gotiating for the planting of a cotton
hosiery factory in that city.
The Rock Islands Horton shops are
at work upon order of 500 box cars,
to be turned out by August L.
Fort Scott's convention hall has its
roof on now. Between 800 and 1900
people is its seating capacity.
Four hundred families of Russians,
direct from Russia, will settle in the
northern part of Morris comfy.
a Winfield woman had gasoline
fire to fight single handed. She threw
-four on it; the surest eztinguisher.
Receipts at the Katy depot at Coun-
ell Grove are much larger than last
year In May they were 81 900 larger.
Senator Edwin Taylor, the potato
king, says that the Kaw valley will
ship fully II 200 car loads of this crop
w. D. Farrar, of Usage county died
and his funeral was held in grove on
the claim he took in 1857, and which
he planted.
Charles Ra1ston, of Miami county,
was drawing water for his team when
the well caved in and crushed him to
death.
Judge John Pipher, one of the ear
lest settlers in Riley county, and first
mayor and first postmaster of Manhat-
tan, is dead.
DR. Hunter Corbett, who was sent
by the First Presbyterian church of
Wichita, is stationed at Foo Chow,
China, in the midst of danger.
former Effinghan, Kas., woman is
drawing $40 week for keeping her
employer, society woman of New
York, from drinking whisky.
Miss Mary Butler. of Sedgwiclz coun-
ty. goes to San Francisco and will
probably be sent to Manila. she having
passed examination nurse
Mr. and Mrs. William Cludas, of Nc
Pherson, have been appointed Superin-
tendent and matron of the Biclzerdyl1e
home and hospital at Ellsworth
Edward Heeney, of Atchison county,
is 1o2 years old, he has good teeth,
plenty of hair and is not decrepit. He
has used liquor and tobacco all his life.
The Neosho County Fruit Growers
| association has shipped from Chanute
81, 1868 worth of strawberries without
loss of a crate or of payment for the
berries.
| Miss Matty Rush. of Ness county,
feeds, harnesses and works four horses
/ to gang pillow, harrow drill, and has
p1owed and drilled $50 acres of cattle
feed this season
The accountants and bookkeepers OF
Kansas met at Emporia and selected
officers They will petition the next
| Legislature for the creation of the office
of certified public accountant.
Sumner county, Kansas, will this
year produce more wheat than either
of the states of Ohio, Indiana or Ne
braska. The wheat crop of five Kan
sas counties will this year exceed il
value the total output of the Alaskan
mines in 1899.
The coroner's jury found that EN-
ployes of both the railroad and stree
cars are b1ameless concerning the los
of life of three women and the injurie
received by others. in the collision of
freight train and a crowded street ca
in Hutchinson.
Captain Stewart of Allen county /
still living on land he first occupied il
1854. and E. c. Gilbert of that count
still owns the land he took up in sec
August Luck, of Solomon, was O.
top of thirty-foot windmill. TIL
. fans hit him and knocked him off Hi
clothes caught on a nail and saved hi
life.
It took four trains each way on
recent Sunday to carry the people VIII
: wanted to go to Geuda SPRINGS Owe