Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-05-09

/ Il Oils Will Ut TcduO lot qeulcdVlOQ June
LIST.
The ninth annual musical jubilee to
be held in Hutchinson, is set for June
Al.
A jury at Norton acquitted a teacher
who was prosecuted for whipping a
pupil.
Buggy dealers everywhere report in
creased sales and most of them to farm
ers.
Mrs. VIM Roth. of North Ottawa.
was seriously burned by the explosion
of lamp.
Robbers entered the grange store at
Edgerton and found nothing but pen
MES in the till
Burglars blew open the safe in
lumber yard office at Norwich and
found about SEQ.
James +. Legate, the veteran poll
tician of Leavenworth and of Kansas,
is almost blind
Wichita gardener has eight acres
to take peas to market
Henry Munday, switchman on the
Missouri Pacific, was crushed to death
between cars at Wichita.
The extent of Webb MeNall's wheat
! field is reported at 400 acres for this
year; all in Smith county.
| The superintendent of the high
schools of Kansas hold a meeting at
Chapman to form a state organization.
Emporia reports over 100 new build
ings and additions going up, besides
its SIS, 900 court house and S35, 900 IL
brary.
The Topeka city engineers report
shows the amount on improvements
and city work during the past year to
be 1919, 1898.
The electric line between Leaven-
worth and Kansas City has cut the
business of the two railroads which it
parallels fully one-half
Atchison has a man employed on its
street paving who is deaf and dumb
and has lost both legs. yet makes
good living for his family.
Miss Alice A. Stebbins, of Atcbison.
has been appointed pastors assistant
to DIR. n. d. Hills. in Henry Ward
Beecher's church in Brooklyn.
Independence has voted 100000 for
two new IL room school houses. The
plan includes tearing down all of the
old school houses and selling one of
the sites.
There are 125 lumber yards within
the trade limits of Wichita which are
supplied with their stock by Wichita
lumbermen. One firm sends out an
average of 200 cars month.
The board of managers of the state
soldiers home have taken charge of the
Mother Bickerdyke home at Ellsworth,
which will be used for aged and infirm
soldiers and their wives and for widows
of veterans.
The postoffice of Ellinwood, which is
in the same room with iewelrv store.
was robbed of So of postoffice funds.
80 watches and much other jewelers.
stock. j. H. Anderson was arrested at
Great Bend on suspicion.
Bill Tackett, of sumner county. who
his served several terms in the peni-
tertiary and has been in Jail so MANY
times that he cannot tell their number.
is now writing book to tell of such
of his misdeeds as he can bring to
mind.
number of Harvey county Russian
and Herman farmers are planning a
trip to the old country, to be gone sig
months.
Nathan Browning. who was sent to
the penitentiary from Junction CITY.
was paroled but did not behave him
self and now goes back to serve %
months of his unfinished term.
Eureka has 300 cases of chiclxenpox.
Severy has two cases of scarlet fever.
and Madison just out of SMALLPOX omar.
antine has number of cases of chick
enpox All in Greenwood county.
During the first four months of 1901
two building permits were issued in
Topeka for buildings to cost over $40
900: they will cost S63. 900. For build |
ings to cost less than $4,000 there |
were ZIG permits issued which repre-
stint SlO7, 1856
crusade is on against the Jug trade |
from Kansas City. Jugs are expressed |
to any name with directions to the re- |
celvlng express agent to deliver to anv |
one who will pay the c. O. D. bill and |
charges. A case from Usage City has
been appealed to test the law.
David Nation, of Medicine Lodge. |
was visiting relatives at Marion. In
diana, and while there visited a dog
and pony show and wac robbed of s7s |
and his return ticket to Wichita.
Patrolman Hall, of Topeka. who |
broke the skull of George Head. is in
jail, as much for his own protection as
for criminal act Head was a Joint |
list and resisted arrest for disturbing a
religious meeting, when Hull strucil
the fatal blow. crowd of jointkeep-
ers and their friends have been organ
izing mob to lynch Hall.
5. V. Sprague has won out in the
contest for appointment as postmaster
at Olathe.
Two Russians aged 20 years each.
farmers of Ellis county, go to Russia
for brides.
Corn brings the same price in the
district tributary to Wichita that it
does in Central Illinois. On the same
day Sedgwick county farmer made a
large sale for 40 cents a bushel and