The Globe-republican., 1901-10-31

The Portland cement company has
struck another big gusher oil well at
lola
A Mcpherson county steer recently
slaughtered at Kansas City weighed
2,e1o pounds
The short corn crop has served to I'LL
up the schools The boys are not need
ed to huslz corn
Ed Riley, switchman at F'rontenac,
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 a spring wagon while enroute from
Leon to Ell Dorado.
A Second wooden mill at Topeka is
completed and starts to work this week
with 125 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 a Kansas pro-
duct 1t weighed $50 pounds
Mrs Allie Meyers, cashier of the
Katy eating station at Parsons, dropped
dead without a moments warming
The Masons of Topeka own four val
liable lots which cost SIS, 900 in 1888.
There is now u movement to build a
SIS, 900 Masonic temple these lots.
Andrew Green, a merchant and min
lister of Jewell county, aged so years,
has been arrested, charged with incest
He had scruples against selling tobac-
John ates, Cow1ey county stock
man of wealth, found dead near
Warrensburg, Mo. Deeds, money and
deposit check for So, 900 were found
in his pockets
A fire at Burlington destroyed doc
tors Office, grocery store and the
Courier printing office. A jewelry store
jured by water.
John Herrick, a Troy jointist, was
sentenced to pay fine and serve a 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, a farmers daughter of
Sedgwicle county, has p1owed, narrowed
and drilled Is acres OF wheat, which is
now in finecondition. She did all the
work herself. during the mornings and
evenings. getting up before the sun.
A stranger went to a 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 800. 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 a rail for speak
ing disrespectful1y of President McKin-
ley when the news of his being shot
came, and he wants So, 900. William
Grubbs, of Freeport, was warned to
leave for a like offense and wants So
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
fiuence, has just won a suit involving
the title to 900 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. Stubbs
has a contract for work the Santa
Fe extension in Oklahoma which will
require several hundred teams ali next
summer. The work will commence as
soon as possible.
The largest jack in Kansas is owned
| by W. b. and NJ Hawk, of Beattie.
1t is four years old and weighs 2,e1o
| pounds
j. N Parish, a prominent stockman
of Pawnee county, Kas-, is sued by his
brothers widow for SIS, 900 in a breach
| of promise case.
Rev Daniel Frantz and wife, of Fair
| view, Kansas, Were killed at Cedarvi1le,
Illinois, by being crushed by falling
| tree Three others were injured.
Business men of Wellington decided
/ to build frame tabernacle so by 1Go
feet for the revival meetings to be held
/ there The meetings will begin No
| vember TO-
More than twenty cattle have died at
| Corning. NeInaha county, from black
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