The Globe-republican., 1901-08-08


Three inches Of rain fell at Lawrence
during the last six days of July
kansas boomers took 1s4 of the first
1000 numbers drawn at Ell Reno
Harrington people have decided to
hold carnival September and g.
A natural gas well has been struck
on-the school house grounds at Erie
Governor Stanley has pardoned Car
RE nation out of the Shawnee county
Jail
The Kansas railroad commissioners
have asked for lower rates on forage
and feed.
Miss Helen Riley, of Empire City,
aged Is years, was drowned while
bathing
An elevator at smolan, Saline county,
bursted splitting 5000 bushels of wheat
on the ground
Randall Bundy, 1s years old,
oi1ing windmill at Ellsworth and fell
rs feet. He died.
The ringleaders of the threshing
gang which raised trouble at Colwich
have been arrested.
The Culver Touring mill at Salina
burned while it was closed for repairs
The loss is about Sc, 900.
Thieves ia the southern part of Sa-
line county kill cattle in pastures and
haul them away in wagons
Thaddeus Hyatt, early friend of
Kansas, died last week at Sandown,
| Isle of Wight, at the age o. Sc years
The creamery at Madison is burned;
building and contents Tt is thought
that the fire started from the gasoline
engine
Secretary Geo. W. Martin, of the his
torical society, addressed the best old
settlers meeting Hutchinson ever held,
August 1.
Kansas Agricultural college is inau-
gurating experiments in poultry feeding
to produce eggs: also judging school
to teach poultry judging and scoring
Vice President Roosevelt partially
promised to stop over at Hutchinson on
his return trip from Colorado and adj
dress the veterans at the state G. A r.
reunion
At livery stable fire in Wichita
eight horses We're burned. There We're
80 horses in the barn The vehicles
were all injured but most of them We're
| taken out.
An Atchison minister sued a man for
| his fee for marrying him a year ago.
! The minister concluded that as the man
was already married again he could
| afford to pay.
| DIR. Rafter, who was major surgeon
of the twentieth Kansas, has been re
! tired from the hospital service at Man
| liza and will return to Kansas, making
| his home at Holton.
A wealthy woman named brunswick
| in Chicago has left fortune to a girl
named Grace Brennan who worked in a
| Topeka Laundry about two years ago,
| but whose present location is now un-
| known
Mrs Tracey, of Brown county, has
sued DR. Swan, of the state board of
health, for So, 900 damages for locking
| up her daughter in pest house which
has but one room and that room
| with a man in it.
The city of Parsons owns in common
stock in the NJ. K. & T. road SO, 900.
| A proposition last spring to give this
to the railroad because of the many i'm
| provements it had made in the town
carried by a large majority. Now the
mayor refuses to transfer the stock IN
less he is Unidentified against legal
consequences. The city council has in
Identified him, but he still refuses to
make the deed.
The manager of the Harvey eating
house at Dodge City, has been arrested
charged with having prairie chickens
in b; possession out of season.
Miss Bea1s, the winner of second
prize in the Lawton district. denies the
story started by the Kansas City Jour
nal that she is engaged to a Kansas
City man.
The Stops at the Osawatornie asylum
amount to about seven barrels a day.
There was a spirited contest among
bidders to get it and it was sold for
four months ahead at $50 month
The annual reunion of the 21st Kan
sas volunteers has been changed from
Great Bend to Hutchinson, where ii
will occur August 1917; dates fixed
, for the state reunion of the G.. A. R
: ]. E. Fisher, of Edwards county, was
on the point, five years ago, of aban
f doning his farm because of dry climate
He and his sons now hold clear title te
: 9 quarter sections, have 100 cattle, 81