Free press., 1901-11-02

The short corn crop has served to ill
up the schools. The boys are NOT heed
ed to husk corn.
Ed Riley. switchman at Frontenac,
was decapitated and mangled 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 is
rejoicing with him.
Mrs. George Hammer died suddenly
in spring wagon while enroute from
Leon to El Dorado.
A Second woolen mill at Topeka is
completed and starts to work this week
with 125 operatives.
Many calves have recently died from
blackfeg in the southern parts Of Cow
ley and Sumner counties.
The heaviest hog ever received at the
Denver stockyards was a Kansas pro-
duct. It weighed $50 pounds.
Mrs. Allie Meyers. cashier of the
Katy eating station at Parsons, dropped
dead without moments warning.
The Masons of Topeka own four val
liable lots which cost SIS, 900 in 1885,
There is now movement to build a
SIS, 200 Masonic temple on these lots.
Andrew Green, a merchant and min
lister of Jewell county, aged go years,
has been arrested, charged with incest.
He had scruples against selling tobac-
co.
John Yates, a Cowley county stock
! man of wealth, was found dead near
Warrensburg, Mo. Deeds, money and
a deposit check for s., 900 were found
in his pockets.
A fire at Burlington destroyed doc
tors Office, a grocery store and the
| Courier printing office. A jewelry store
| and millinery establishment were in
jured by water.
John Herrick, Troy jointist, was
sentenced to pay fine and serve Jail
| sentence. After paying the fine he was
allowed to go to Oklahoma. He went
but returned and applied for admission
to the Jail
Miss Martin, farmers daughter of
Sedgwick county. has plowed, narrowed
and drilled Is acres of wheat, which is
| now in fine condition. She did all the
! work herself, during the mornings and
ornffiT1cr hot 4E,a
A stranger went to Wichita lumber
yard and said he wanted some lumber
| His list was figured up and the stranger
scarcely spoke while it was being done.
The bill amounted to S4OO. The man
quietly counted out twenty double
eagles in gold.
Two Harper county men have brought
suits for damages. A. E. Patterson, of
Attica was ridden on a rail for speak
| ing disrespectfully of President McKin-
| ley when the news of his being shot
came, and he wants S., 900. William
| Grubbs, of Freeport, was warned to
leave for a like offense and wants S1O,-
| 600.
Anderson Gray, of Sumner county,
Kansas, who was in 1892 given a life
sentence for compelling another man
to commit murder through hypnotic in
iuence. has just won a suit involving
the title to $50 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. R. Stubs,
has a 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 Reattie
1t is four years old and weighs 2,6IC
pounds.
]. n. Parish, prominent stockman
of Pawnee county, Kas., is sued by his
brothers widow for s., 900 in a breach
of promise case.
Rev. Daniel Frantz and wife, of Fair
view, Kansas, were killed at Cedarville
Illinois, by being crushed by a falling
tree. Three others were injured
Business men of Wellington decided
to build frame tabernacle so by 1Oi
feet for the revival meetings to be held
there. The meetings will begin No
vember 10.
More than twenty cattle have died al
Corning, Nemaha county, from blacl
tongue within a week. Corning is OF
, a high prairie. The state sanitary
board is making Investigations.
II. B. Brown, of Parsons, is dead a
the age of "a years. He is the oldest o
, the Elks, having joined the Ells yea
ago. Until about week before hi
death he was going about everywher,
attending to his business.
: There is rumor in Rock Islam,
| circles that 9O-mile cut off will b.
built from Belleville through Salina t.
f Mcpherson to make connections Will
: the new Rock Island extension to Lib
D eral. This cut off would considerabl,
reduce the length of the through lin
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