The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-22
NEWTON HAS $500 900 FIRE
Flames Destroy Entire Block of Bust
ness Buildings Near the Santa
Fe Depot.

Fire that broke out in the Newton
| auditorium at o'clock in the morning
, wiped out an entire business block in
the heart of Newton and caused a loss
of 100000. Probably $500, 900 in in
surance was carried on the property
which burned.
The principal business houses
| burned were: McManus cOmpany's
dry goods and furnishing store; New
ton Gas and Electric Company's Of
flee; Will Mays shoe store; Duff &
Sons, furniture and undertaking; New
ton Lumber Company's yards; Herold
Book and Publishing Plant; First Ma
tional bank; several rooming houses,
restaurants, shoe shops and small con-
fectionery stores.
The Wichita fire department went
to Newton on a special train and as
sisted the Newton department. Mayor
Duff, whose place of business was
burned, personally led in the fight
against the fire.
Hail Destroys Apple crop.-Hail
completely destroyed a 5,0O0-bushel
apple crop on the 8O-acre orchard of
Wichita. It is the third time in four
years that the orchard has been dam
aged by hail. Other orchards in the
same vicinity were not damaged.
To Join German Army.-Fred Nolte
and William Herman and Emil H.
Doering, all students of the Western
Theological seminary at Atchison. will
go to Germany to become soldiers.
Martin Schroeder, another student, al
ready has started for Germany.
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Veteran Fire Chief Dies.-Noah
| Shaffer, who for thirty years was chief
of the Muncie, Ind, fire department,
| is dead at his home in lola. He was
| IS years old.
! Leopard Dined on Boys Arm
| When Lester Harmon, II years old,
thrust his arm through a door in the
| bottom of leopards cage at the Bar
mum & Bailey circus here Friday night
| he couldn't draw it back The leo
pard seized it, and before attendants
could drive it away, ate part of the
| flesh on the arm and hand The boys
|
mediately after the accident, and the
management had to put up a surety
| bond for that amount before the
| sheriff would allow the big produc-
! ton to leave town. Doctors say the
/ boy will not lose his arm unless blood
poisoning results.
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Enjoins Sunday Show Men.-There
| -
| burg theaters on Sunday A move by
A. B. Keller, county attorney, and Ben
S. Gaitskill, attorney for the anti-Sun-
day leaders. accomplished what two
trials and many arrests have failed
to do. The prosecutors applied to
Judge Curran in district court for an
| Injunction against the theater men.
alleging that they were persistently
violating the law. Judge Curran is
sued a temporary injunction
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Some Colt This.-"Green' Berry. a
farmer living east of Atchfson, exhib-
tied a colt there recently which it is
believed holds the northeastern Kan
sas record for size. The animal is
only 10 months old and stands 151z
hands high and weighs 1926 pounds
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Banks Remove Restrictions.-AH
the Wichita banks have removed the
cash payment restrictions established
on the declaration of war. There is
plenty of cash now in the Wichita
banks to pay all demands of deposit
tors.
Educator Missing. The where
abouts of Professor F. L. Black of
the Latin department of the EN-
poria normal is causing some anxiety
to his friends at Emporia When last
heard from in July Professor Black
had left Rome on a journey retracing
Caesars route through Europe in the
Baltic wars. He is known to have
been in Switzerland.
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Fall Kills Fireman.-George H.
Roles, fireman at the state normal,
who fell out of third story window.
is dead at Emporia from his injuries