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KANSAS STATE NEWS. James A. Russell has been appointed postmaster at Rush Center, Rush county. The Stockton creamery is shipping at this time over 2,000 pounds of butter a week to eastern markets. Erie item.-The Neosho river has been out of its banks for almost a week. Wheat in the low bottoms has suffered considerably. The jockey who rode the winner in the great Derby at Chicago this seaEOD, George Covington, learned to ride and rode his first race at Gaylord, Kan. Abilene.-The farmers of Dickinson county have purchased 500 new selfbinders this season, and most of them are running in the wheat harvest now in prospect. A card has been received at the Topeka Y. M. C. A. headquarters from Sierre Leone saying that the Soudan missionary party that went from there are all well. They have started for the interior. Wichita.-Lightning struck the barn of John Werner, living six miles southwest of town, during the storm, and in the conflagration which followed two horses, three COWS and a lot of grain and harness and machinery were burned up. The badge to be worn by the Kansas teachers to the national educational convention at Toronto will be a silk ribbon with a sunflower and the word "Kansas" printed thereon. The design is pretty and will be very attractive. Leavenworth item: Under the recent law of congress, admitting Mexican war veterans to the National Soldiers' homes, there are now a dozen ex-confederate soldiers in the Leavenworth Soldiers' home, all of whom are drawing pensions from Uncle Sam. Arkansas City Traveler: The entire Indian commission arrived from Wellston, having given up the attempt to negotiate with the Kickapoos. The Indians were not disposed to accept any proposition, and could not be got even to discuss one. Manhattan Stewart, an officer in company D, Fourth regiment, National Guards, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the lake, by taking cramps. Three hours were spent in recovering his body. He leaves an aged, widowed mother, whose only support he was. Lawrence.-J. S. Crew & Co., wholesale and retail book and stationery, one of the oldest firms in Lawrence, was closed by the sheriff, under a chattel mortgage held by the Lawrence National bank. Liabilities and assets unknown, but it is thought that the firm will probably resume business. Arkansas City,- A terrific wind and hail storm has visited this section. In the city many windows and skylights were broken and great damage done to trees. East of the city a school house was demolished and other buildings damaged. North of here for miles farms were completely stripped of orchards and crops. Blakeman Register: Celia township is confronted with a surplus of several hundred dollars that she don't know what to do with. Logan has no debts and a bank account of one hundred and sixty big dollars. This is the region that was advertised as bankrupt and unable to take care of its poor only a few weeks ago. Independence Reporter: A delegation of Cherryvale citizens, headed by the mayor, has gone to St. Louis to try to interest some of the capitalists of that city in manufacturing enterprises to be located in Cherryvale. Cherryvale business men show a persistence of endeavor to build up their town that is commendable and is worthy of success. Mankato Monitor: Some three weeks ago Miss Nettie Hoskinson sent her mother a pair of Langshan fowls from Emporia. The first three days after their arrival the hen laid one egg each day and on the fourth day she laid two, and kept on laying one egg one day and two the next until Friday and Saturday last, when she laid two eggs each day. As remarkable as this may seem, there 18 not the slightest room for doubt, and the hen actually laid seventeen eggs in ten days. Topeka Capital: There will be from twenty-five to thirty Topeka and Shawnee county teachers who will go to Toronto to attend the National Educational association, which meets in July. Several will make a "side trip" to eastern points. County Superintendent Jordan is organizing a party for New England points. The party will go down the St. Lawrence to Montreal, from thence through the White mountains, etc., to Portland, Boston and other New England cities. Any person can join this party by applying to Superintendent Jordan. Wichita Eagle: The storm Sunday night was the wonder, admiration and terror, one or the other, for everybody. The heavens were in such a continual and perfect blaze that the inside of every home was lit up as if with an are burner. The thunder was terrific and the wind was not slow. The conductor of the Missouri Pacific from the west says that quite a little strip, probably a mile or two wide, near Sterling, was fearfully cut up by a tremendous fall of hail. He noticed two or three fields in which the corn was cut completely down, leaving but a few inches of the lower ends of the stalks sticking up like bare stakes. Newton.Newton is rejoicing over the fact that the Newton National bank, which closed its doors November 30, 1890, and has been in the hands of a receiver since December 8, will resume business to-morrow. A new capital of $100,000 has been paid in by the stockholders, and Receiver J. E. Howard has turned over the assets to the new management. The receiver has collected $20,000, which, with the $100,000 paid in. will give active capital of $120.
