Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1900-06-14

Atty. Gen. Bristow in Cuba
The Missouri Pacific is losing its men
to harvest fields, in southern Kansas.
Presbyterians of Parsons have dedi-
Gated their new $4,000 church free
from debt.
Victor Benson, New York vvaif
aged 10, was killed by lightning at
Fontana.
Prof. A. G. Garfield has resigned his
position as teacher of French at Kan
sas university.
Fifty-five convicts were received at
the Lansing penitentiary in May and
AZ were discharged
Miss Stella Conway, of Chase coun-
ty, won the piano contest at Liberty
(Mo) Ladies college.
Somebody has figured that the aver
age increase in Kansas towns has been
20 per cent this year.
Topeka has adopted the plan of
moulding the names of streets in the
sidewalks at each corner.
More than 800 men passed west and
south through Topeka, with harvest
hands tickets, in one day.
Bishop Hartzell, of Africa delivered
the baccalaureate sermon at the Kan
sas University commencement.
One of the three prohibition parties
of Kansas is to hold state nominating
convention in Topeka June 20.
Harry Tippy, of Casey, Ill, was
asleep on the railroad track near Hal
stead and was killed by a train.
Clay Center, by the last issue of the
bulletin of the battle, will deal another
hand in the insane asylum game.
The new Catholic church at Parsons
when finished, will be almost 200 feet
from foundatian to top of spire.
A large barn in Lawrence used for
baling and storing hay is burned, with
all the machinery and three horses
Andrew Patten, Topeka grocer, a
negro, was overcome by the heat while
riding his wheel and fell off it dead.
A nurse of Clyde is under arrest for
appropriating 81, 900 in money belong
ing to her charge, after the patient
| died.
| The Kansas Bankers association
asks repeal of the bankruptcy law
They favor deed of trust law similar
to that of Missouri.
A girl in Wichita attempted suicide
by shooting herself. The Eagle says
that her destroyer is young man well
up in social circles in that city.
A Spearville lad had the measles and
attended a school entertainment. At
the regulation time thereafter there
were about sixty cases of the disease
in and about the town.
At La Grease lives the man who used
to deliver meat to Mrs Admiral Dewey
at Fort Hays, and ate her pie at the
kitchen door of the barracks occupied
by General Hazen's family.
Secretary Coburn's bulletin of June
Z says: sit is doubtful if the sun ever
shone upon like area of wheat, in
any single state, more promising than
that in Kansas at the beginning in
June, 1907
The Santa Fe railroad has donated,
to be delivered free of charge, twenty
car loads of crushed rock for the walks
and driveways in Riverside park in
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fifteen cars of macadam free of charge.
The storm of last week did much
damage to crops, and some buildings
about Conway Springs, Sumner county,
and around the towns of Furley and
Kechi in Sedgwick county. At Con-
way Springs there was a very great
fall of hail.
The Kansas association of bankers
elected as officers, c. @. Chandler, Med
icine Lodge, president; Scott Hopkins,
Horton, vice president; Thurston Cooke,
Harrington, secretary; G. L. Brokaw,
Kansas City, treasurer.
Two feather renovators were arrest
ed for stealing feathers. They went
to Hartford with their machine and
took no feathers with them. When
they left they had 400 pounds of feath-
ers. Their customers began to inves-
tigate and found their beds spoiled by
substitution of other material
Greenwood county commissioners
are asked to begin a war on Canada
thistles.
j. R. Harrison, postofice inspector
in Kansas, has gone to Havana to help
Bristow.
Fireman w. T. Wilson, of Lawrence,
was severely hurt. While taking coal
and water he fell from the tender,
striking on his head.
The false representations sent out by
the Irvine trust about the quality of
the Kansas penitentiary Irvine is affect
ing the demand for the Irvine.
The conscience fund in the state
treasury has received since 1870, 81, 200;
the last item being a remittance from
Chicago of S24.s3, with no signature.
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