Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1901-02-07

more new box cars.
An Enterprise photographer is ad-
vertising eight views of the Nation
raid.
Mrs. Catherine Jacobs, widow, was
burned to death in her house in Pitts
burg.
The Lyons Roller Mills, at Lyons,
are burned, with loss of $1,000; in
surance $4,000.
Senator Harris, it is reported. has
sold his Linwood farm to Geo. FL.
Adams, of Denver.
Another train load of horses was
shipped from Bismark Grove. enronte
to Africa, on Jan &c.
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.
E. J. Eicholtz, 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 Fe has added tinware
department to its Topeka shops and
will manufacture its own tinware.
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
S15, 900 for an encampment in 1902.
Fees collected in January by the
superintendent of insurance and turned
into the state treasury, amounted to
S17O.45.
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, 1854. 90
received for the maintenance of private
patients.
Abraham Whitehead and wife, of
Lincoln county, were born on the same
day in 1880. They lived together SO
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 a pipe
organ for the Presbyterian church at
Junction 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 gasoline lamp. Rev. George Cald.
well, United Brethren minister, may
die. People who were passing were
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 lass No
| vember.
Miss Mary Mastellar was burned tc
death in Ell Dorado. She was carrying
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 a golt
broom in the form of breastpin.
A Missouri Pacific train went through
burned bridge near McCraclken. En-
gineer William Young was killed anG
the fireman dangerously hurt. The
train took fire but the passengers es
capped unhurt.
The father of the negro Alexander
who was burned in Leavenworth, pro
poses to sue the city and county fol
damages.
Three hundred miners went out on
strike at Leavenworth because of the
presence of thirty non-union men il
the shaft.
Admission is denied at the Leaven
worth soldiers home on account of the
crowded condition and because O.
smallpox at places from which applica
tions come. There are 2,sOO veteran.
there now.
Col. Ben Deering says that Mrs. Ma
ton was Miss Moore, whose mother
died in an insane asylum in Missouri
She was afflicted with hallucination.
which are characteristic in the family
She thought herself Queen Victoria
Wiley Moore, of the Kansas City stocl
yards, is Mrs. Nations brother.
Captain Thomas Bickerton, the noted
artillery man in the early Kansas war.