The Globe-republican., 1901-03-21
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

panIes; the second having been given a |
franchise.
Senator Baker resumes the practice i
of law in Leavenworth with his son as
his partner.
w B. Bird, of Topeka, succeeds w |
l. Ho1conb as clerk of the State Labor |
commissioner.
Fort Riley day is one of the drawing
cards for the c. y. r. encampment at
Junction City.
Daniel Jones. of Preston, was frozen
TO death the prairie during the re-
cent blizzard.
E a. Runyan has been acquitted CT
the charge of wrecizing the state bank
of Yates Center.
Many students at the state normal
school have smallpox. There are fifty
cases in Lyon county
=. D. Wilmington, of Kincaid, wss
recently killed by lightning. He left
$50, 900 life insurance.
Judge Smart fined and committed
Garnett witness in a liquor trial be
cause he couldn't remember
Dnring the coal famine which pre-
vailed a short time in Western Kansas
COW chips were at premium
The joints. schools and churches
at Weir City We're ordered closed until
April 1 account of smallpox
President StillrvelI, of the Orient
railway, is going to Europe to place
securities of his railway system
Mrs. Carry Liscomb, of Flint, Mich,
is visiting towns in Kansas instituting
lodges of the Sisters of the Maccabees-
Pat Coney is at his home in Topeka
and is almost blind from the effects of
an explosion in his zinc mine in Mis-
souri,.
Complaint Is made that fishermen are
sweeping Kansas streams of their fish,
regardless of the new law which pro-
hibit is seining.
William Wyi<es, n prominent citizen
living near Caldwell. is dead. He was
an Englishman but had lived in Kan
sas 80 years.
6The anti-fusion election law is not in
force until published in the statute
books, and therefore does not apply to
spring elections.
Ellsworth Kelly. county school SUI
perintendent of Woodson county,
writes stories for the Youths Compan-
ion and McCIure's.
Under new law city city clerks can
not refuse to allow registration books
to be copied by represe natives of po-
liticAI organizations.
y party of women have destroyed
one of the finest furnished saloons in
Armourdale. Guards quickly in
front of the other saloons
A passenger train on the Leaven-
worth. Kansas & Western was ditched
near Soldier and eleven passengers
were INJURED; Leo Chadwick, superin-
tendent of bridges and buildings, being
the most seriously hurt. The express
car caught fire
General j. Is. Hudson gave the in
d11strial institute a library of $50 vol
umes 1t is an institution planned
and organized by William r. Carter, q
negro, for the benefit of his race
General Hudson has felt kindly to col
ored people since his service as major
in Il cO1Ored regiment in the civil war
The trial of Miss Jessie Morrison i:
continued until the June term of the
district court in Ell Dorado upon re
quest of the state, for the reason tina
there would not be sufficient time TO
the trial at this term. which is Limited
to four weeks.
a visitor to Nortonville one day wa
surprised to see the people of the tow
engaged in cleaning the park near tn
Santa Fe depot. Everybody was work
ing with enthusiasm This tn
result of newspaper work for unity O
effort to beautify the town.
Twenty-Five men are employed in tn
freight department of the Wichita San
ia Fe depot for the sole purpose Q
loading and unloading cars
The disappearance of Cashier Johr
son. of the bank at Niles, Mich. VIII
was Il stakeholder in the Farmers Stat
bank of Arkansas City, and whose note
that bank held. caused excitement a
Arkansas City which eliminated in tn
withdrawal of deposits The deposit
ors were met coolly, funds having bee
provided for such emergency, an
all of their demands We're net.
Postmaster William Drumpiller,
Logan, was killed in railroad vvree
between Washington and New Yorl
He had been to the inauguration an
also to visit his neighl9or, Congressma
Recder.