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# STATE NEWS. The average wages paid to Atchison teachers are $40 a month. Reno county will vote on the proposition to establish a county high school. Cowley county institute at Winfield started with 201 teachers, more coming in later. The scheme of the senior class of Kansas university to raise a fund for the assistance of poor students has materialized to the extent of $510. Canton, McPherson county, has a chinch bug station for the distribution of Prof. Snow's deadly infection. It is located at the Republican office. J. Ralph Burton recited "Shainus O'Brien" at the Topeka Club the other evening in such a way that Barney Lantry exclaimed: "I lay tin dollars that the ilegant gintleman has Irish blude in his veins." The principal of the Lawrence high school receives $100 per month. Eight of the other teachers receive $60 or more; fifteen receive $45 or more; and fifteen others receive amounts ranging from $32.50 to $45. North Topeka item: Mrs. Will Woodward, who lives near Elmont, was in the act of moving a shot gun from a corner, when it exploded, the full charge striking her in the left arm, tearing the flesh from the wrist to the elbow. Paola Republican: Amey Reeves, the 14-year-old son of M. D. Reeves, is probably the banner boy of Miami county. He attended school at the seminary building in Paola the past three years, and in that time has been neither absent nor tardy. From Abilene: The county treasurer has received for payment forged school district bonds of this county which are being presented at the county's New York agency for payment. The districts on which they are written have no indebtedness. The bonds appeared genuine. Oberlin Opinion: Probably the biggest land deal and the most successful from every standpoint was made by the Oberlin National bank recently. The bank had in eight land buyers from Illinois and sold to seven out of the eight, and to one man 800 acres. The total sales amounted to something over 4,000 acres. Belleville Telescope: A final settlement of the defunct Cuba state bank's affairs was held before the district court and the result was that every depositor or other creditor was paid 100 cents on the dollar, a small dividend remainded for the stockholders, and Mr. Perry, the receiver, was discharged from further duty. The board of regents of Kansas university has elected Judge James Humphrey, of Junction City, as lecturer of the law department, with special assignment to the subject of constitutional law. The lectures are to be given at such times as will not interfere with his duties as judge of the district court of Geary county. The colored miners who left Pittsburg some time since to work in the Indian Territory, are coming back, being greatly dissatisfied there. They are being given their old places and are very happy thereat. There is active demand for miners at Pittsburg, the calls for coal making all the shafts, work to their full capacity. Greely County Republican: Greeley county is now free of all bounty payments. The fund from the last levy has been exhausted and last Saturday was the last day of the scalp business in Tribune. There are a great many advocates of the bounty tax who are anxious to have more of it, but a majority of the board decided against it. At Lawrence fire broke out in the basement of the gent's furnishing store of Wm. Bromelsick. The clerks had been showing goods in the cellar and are supposed to have dropped a lighted match among some papers which set the boxes of goods on fire. The building and contents above the first floor were saved, but he loss in the store rooms from water and smoke, as well as fire, cannot be determined. It is, however, heavy and partially insured. At Baldwin, at the meeting of the board of trustees of Baker university, Hon. R. N. Allen, of Chanute, was elected chairman, vice Rev. G. S. Dearborn, D. D., resigned. Several changes were made in the faculty, the most important being that of Miss Ida A. Ahlborn having resigned the chair of English and history, Prof. S. A. Lough was elected her successor. Prof. Markham returns after a year's leave of absence to assume the duties of the Latin department. A new question resulting from the Kansas prohibitory law was raised by J. T. Allensworth, who filed a suit in behalf of Emma J. Phelps against the city and county of Atchison, claiming $10,000 damages for the sale of liquor to her husband, B. H. Phelps, during the past five years. It is charged in the petition that by reason of such sales of liquor she has been deprived of support she otherwise would have been receiving, and that such sales of liquor have been with the knowledge and authority of the city and the county in consideration of sums of money received from liquor dealers and that the city and county are therefore liable to the plaintiff. Letter from the Leavenworth soldiers' home: We have an old Mexican war veteran here in the person of Joseph Benweis, company J, Fourth Illinois infantry. He is 96 years old. Friday morning he applied for a discharge, saying that the home would do for old