The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-02-08

The Rock Island has ordered ooo
more new box cars.
An Enterprise photographer is adj
vertising eight views of the Nation
raid
Mrs. Catherine Jacobs, n widow, was
burned to death in her house in Pitts
burg.
The Lyons Roller Mills, at Lyons,
are burned, with loss of $4,000; in
surance s4, 500.
Senator Harris, it is reported has
sold his Linwood farm to Geo. Ii.
Adams, of Denver.
Another train load of horses was
shipped from Bismark Grove, enronte
to Africa, on Jan 20.
1t seems unlikely that the legislature
will repeal the law providing for a
new insane asylum.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gideon Ready, who
have lived in Topeka 80 years, have
been married II years.
Z. j. Eicholtz, a Hiawatha druggist,
has destroyed his stock of liquors His
stock was quite valuable.
Winfield Freeman, of Wyandotte
county, is being pushed for appoint
ment as consul at Dublin.
Secretary G. w. Martin proposes to
prepare a new Kansas history, in four
volumes of 600 pages each.
The Santa Fe has added to the Ii
braries provided for the reading rooms
for employees along the line.
Geo H. Tucker, of Eureka, respond
to the toast of honor, kansas, at the
Kansas Day banquet in Topeka.
Mark X. Powell, deaf mute, was
knocked from westbound track, inside
of Wichita, and seriously injured.
The Santa Fc has added tinware
department to it's Topeka shops and
will manufacture its own tinwae.
The snow of February 1st and End
was quite general over Kansas, and is
considered valuable for the wheat.
The officers of the Kansas National
Guard are asking the Legislature for
SIS, 900 for an encampment in 1902.
Fees collected in January by the
superintendent of insurance and turned
into the state treasury, amounted to
$17O45.
The legislature is not likely to re-
quire deposit of $4,000 by mutual
and assessment insurance companies
to insure the payment of policies.
The superintendent of the insane
asylum at Topeka turned in to the
state treasury on January 81, $S64.9o
received for the maintenance of private
patients
Abraham Whitehead and wife, Of
Lincoln county, were bern on the same
day in 1890. They lived together 80
years and both died on the same day
last week.
An oil tank wagon at Beloit caught
fire near the Standard Oil depot. The
team and wagon were destroyed and
the driver was badly burned. The
tank did not explode.
Andrew Carnegie is to buy pipe
organ for the Presbyterian church at
City as a memorial to ex-Con-
gresham Anderson, who was once the
pastor of that church.
A new elevator in Wichita between
the tracks of the Santa Fe and the
Rock Island, is totally destroyed by
fire. 1t had capacity of 10000 BUSH
els of grain and it was nearly full.
Half dozen people were injured in
a Salina barber shop by the explosion
Of a gasoline lamp. Rev. George Cald-
well, United Brethren minister, may
die. People who were passing we're
blown into the street and cut by flying
glass.
Wyandotte county has had negro
ravisher in Jail for some time. Hunt
Everitt knocked down and assaulted
a young lady when she was going home
from her work one evening last No
vember.
Miss Mary Mastellar was burned to
death in Ell Dorado. She was carrying
a lamp. She came from Philadelphia
to visit friends in Ell Dorado.
Jointkeepers and their friends raised
money to present Mrs. Meyer, who
pounded Mrs. Nation, with gold
broom in the form of breastpin.
A Missouri Pacific train went through
a burned bridge near McCracken. En-
gineer William Young was killed and
the fireman dangerously hurt. The
train tool fire but the passengers es-
capped unhurt
The father of the negro Alexander,
who was burne in Leavenworth, pro-
poses to sue the city and county for
damages.
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