Hutchinson gazette., 1901-10-31

Inc hnort corn crop mas served 10 nll
up the schools, The boys are not need
ed to huslS corn,
Ed Riley, switchman at Frontenac,
was decapitated and manglod by the
switch engine
A grading gang commenced work at
Westville on the line OF the Ozark &,
Cherokee railway,
Chancellor Snow is getting well Of
his nervous disease and all Kansas Ia
rejoicing with him,
Mrs George Hammer died suddenly
in spring wagon while cnroute from
Leon TO I'll Dorado,
A Second woolen mill at Topeka Is
completed and starts 10 worl, this week
with 1875 operatives
Many calves have recently died from
blackleg in the southern parts Of Cow
ley and Sumner counties.
The heaviest hog ever received at the
Denver stockyards was Kansas pro-
duct, II weighed $50 pounds.
Mrs, Allie Meyers, cashier OF the
Katy eating station at Parsons, dropped
dead without n moments warning.
The Masons Of Topeka own four val
uablc lots which cost $4,000 in 1885,
There Is now movement TO build n
S7j, 600 Masonic temple on these lots.
Andrew Green, merchant and min
lister Of Jewell county, aged 90 years,
has been arrested, charged with incest
lie had scruples against selling tobac-
co.
John Yates, Cowlcy county stock.
man of wealth, was found dead near
Wanensburg, Mo, Deeds, money and
n deposit check for $1,000 were found
in his pockets.
A fire at Burlington destroyed a doc
tors office, u grocery store and the
Courier printing Office, A iewclry store
and millinery establishment were in
jured by water,
John lIcrriclS, Troy jontist, was
sentenced to pay u fine and serve n Jail
sentence. After paying the fine he was
allowed TO go to Oklahoma. lie went
but returned and applied for admission
to the Jail
Miss Martin, u farmers daughter Of
SedgwicS county, has plowcd, narrowed
and drilled IL acres of wheat, which is
now in fine condition. She did all the
work herself, during the mornings and
evenings, getting up before the sun
A stranger went TO n Wichita lumber
yard and said he wanted some lumber.
His list was figured up and the stranger
scarcely spoke while 1t was being done.
The bill amounted TO 500. The man
quietly counted out twenty double
eagles in gold
Two Harper county men have brought
suits for damages. A. T.. Patterson, of
Attica was ridden on n rail for speak
ing disrespectfully of President McKiu-
ley when the news of his being shot
came, and he wants $1,000. William
Grubbs, of Freeport, was warned to
leave for like offcnse and wants So.
OO0
Anderson Gray, of Sumner county,
Kansas, who was in 1892 given life
sentence for compelling another man
to commit murder through hypnotic in
tiuence, has just won suit involving
the title to 060 acres of land which he
alleges was taken from him by fraud
while he was in the penitentiary. The
jury awarded him in addition TO the
land 81 $50 as damages.
A Lawrence contractor, w. Il. Stubbs,
has contract for work on the Santa
Fe extension in Oklahoma which will
require several hundred teams all next
summer. The work will commence as
soon as possible,
The largest jack in Kansas is owned
by W, B. and NJ. Hawk, of Beattic.
1t Is four years old and weighs o,6IO
pounds.
j, n Parish, prominent stockman
of Pawnee county, Kas., is sued by his
brothers widow for 81, 900 in breach
of promise case,
Rev. Daniel Frantz and wife, of Fair.
view, Kansas, were killed at Cedarville,
Illinois, by being crushed by u falling
tree. Three others were injured.
Business men of Wellington decided |
to build frame tabernacle so by 100
feet for the revival meetings to be held |
there. The meetings will begin No |
vember 10,
More than twenty cattle have died at
Corning, Nemaha county, from black
tongue within week. Corning is on
II high prairie. The state sanitary
board is making Investigations.
II. r. Brown, of Parsons, is dead at
the age of "a years lie is the oldest of |
tho ElkE hnvinr ininn1 tbn E1lyo "a ,,no,