The Globe-republican., 1902-04-10
KANSAS ITEMS oF INTEREST.

of a concert given in a salt mine there
1000 feet underground, by the Boston
Ideal opera company
Ex-Judge Vandivert. formerly of
Kinsley, was run over by heavy dray
in New York City not long since and
was seriously injured
The state dental board is gathering
evidence against persons who are doing
dental work without lawful authority
and will secure their arrest
The Rock Island Will probably short
it's line to the southwest from Omaha
by building new line from Herington,
Kansas to Fairbury, Nebraska
Four women prisoners broke out
from the Fort Scott Jail and We're re
captured about IL miles away. They
say that three male prisoners picked
the locks for them.
o. H. Coulter, of Topeka, has secured
a building in Wichita for a rug factory
and is fitting it up The business will
be conducted by Mr.. Lawrence, Capt.
Coulter's brother-in-law-
More than 100 Beloit people have
within a few years removed to Topeka.
Many of these have made the change
to accommodate their business engage
ments or their political appointments
Parties who sold the land to the
Bourbon county socialist colony, and
are members of the colony, have
brought suit for the purchase money
due and asked for the appointment of
n receiver
The Central Normal college of Great
Bend has been purchased, through
Bishop Hennessy, for the Catholic
church 1t is understood to be the in
tentiOn to esta blish a parochia1 school
and hospital in the building
Mayor Parker. of Topeka, was as
sau1ted with u horsewhip while in his
office by a Miss somebody, IS years old.
The Miss declared she would next at
tack Governor Stanley and may do so
if the insanity regulations are slow of
application to the case.
Mrs. j: w. Millspaugh died recently
near Winfield leaving her husband
with whom she has lived more than 60
years The story of her life is suf1i-
GENTLY expressed by this sentence in
the Courier: ''There is not road in
Vernon township that she has not tray
eled over at night on her way to bring
healing and help 70 some afflicted
neighbOr-
In crap shooting game at White
Cloud $40 bill was snatched and the
party getting 1T arrested for steal
ing. The defense put up that the
money was taken in unlawful game
and the county attorney dismissed the
case and announced the determination
of arresting che entire party under the
Cubbison anti-gambling law. Before
he had drawn up his papers the parties
skipped.
Mrs Mary E. Nichols, the oldest
resident of Central Kansas, died re-
Gently at Morrison, Ok. She was one
of series of five generations living,
composed of Mrs. Sophia Brown, aged
"a: her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Mich
OILS, aged ~ years; her granddaughter,
Mrs Susan Ball, aged 4s: her great
granddaughter, Mrs. Carina Olson,
aged "a, and her great great-grand-
daughter, aged ?, each being the
daughter of the one next higher. The
aggregate ages of the series was 24o
years
Ex-Mayor Finlay Ross has given to
the Wichita hospital x-ray machine
of the latest pattern, for the use of any
practicing physician in the city.
Attorneys for the Santa Fe have at
tackled the validity of city ordinance
of Emporia limiting trains to a speed
of six miles an hour within the city
limits
The drillers in new we'll at Chanute
which went up 100 feet into the air
This comes from the oil sand and the
company intends to drin deeper
DR. III. NJ. Carr, of Parsons, and Will
liam Cochran, of Sa1ina, We're both re-
Gently married in Havana, Cuba, to
Spanish ladies' Carr had been doing
newspaper work there for years.
Miss Lillian A. Wilson, a former
hair dresser of Emporia, from which
place she moved to California, and
lately died at Los Angeles, willed her
fortune to Preston B. Plumb Grand
Army Post of Emporia. Her husband
was a member of that post and for
years the post and the Woman's Relief
Corps cared for him.
The Wichita police have caught a
negro whom they believe is responsible
for most of the sneak thieving that
there has been SO much of all winter