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tracts for threshing 50,000 bushels of wheat in Cowley county this month. 3 Five young men and ten young ladies were confirmed in the Jewish syn agogue at Leavenworth last Sunday. Clay Center has already purchased $400 worth of i!eworks and will shoot them off at the Fourth of July cele. bration. A model school of five rooms is be. ing conducted in connection with the Riley county normal institute at Manhattan. A merry-go-round at Wichita disturbed a W. C. T. U. meeting just across the street and was abated as a nuisance. Adam Yeager, of Lawrence, was struck by lightning and instantly kill ed in his yard during a thunder storm Saturday afternoon. Commencement exercises of the public schools of Douglass county were held last Saturday at Bismarck grove. There were fifty graduates. The scheme of the senior class of the State 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 in the Republican office. At a recent election in Comanche county, it was decided to let the herd law stand as it was. This will put a quietous to the free range question. An eleven year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones of Kansas City, Kans., was struck by lightning and almost instantly killed Saturday night. The famous Hilman insurance cases have been set by Judge Thomas for the second Tuesday in January, 1895. Judge Thomas will try them at Leavenworth. Good rains are reported all over the state on Saturday and Sunday. Corn is greatly benefitted and with another good rain in 20 days, it will make a fair crop. Lawrence has sixty miles of sidewalks and a damage suit for $10.000 for a fall sustained Ly a lady on a portion of them which was alleged to be defective. Judge Albion W. Tourgee, of New York, authorof "A Fool's Errand' and "Bricks Without Straw," will deliver an address at the Winfield Chautuaqua assemblv There is some talk to the effect that the State National Bank of Wichita, which failed recently will resume. If there is no resumption a receiver will probably be appointed. The board of education of the Ottawa city schools has elected teachers for the ensuing year. Superintendent F. P. Smith, with nearly the whole corps of old teachers, have been retained. The Bank of Oberlin was closed Saturday by Commissioner Breidenthall, caused by the failure of Steele & Walker, of St. Joe, the latter being president of the bank. There was $14,000 of county funds on deposit. Assets and liabilities unknown. The Missouri river has been steadily raising for severa days and at noon on Monday was in four feet of the danger line at Omaha. Above and below the city the current is doing considerdamage to farm lands. A terrific rain fell all over Northeastern Nebraska Tuesday. Lane county has 41,981 acres of wheat to harvest this year, which at 8 bushels per acre will yield 33,500 bushels of wheat. Deducting 3,150 bushels for seed and 2,000 bushels for bread leaves 28,450 bushels, which at 40 cents cents per bushel means $113,800 for Lane county's wheat fields. C. O. Beardsly, Ben Verbryck and Sam Davis escaped from the city jail at El Dorado one night last week. They removed the bolts from the lower hinge of the iron door, sprung it out, wedged it the bottom and crawled out. Beardsley was serving a sentence of 1,050 and Davis 150 days for violating the prohibitory liquor law. Verbryck was convicted of assaulting an officer and was held for payment of fine and costs. They are still at large. The 6 year old daughter of George Firstenberger was horribly burned at Seneca Saturday morning. It seems that she was playing with some other children in a child's playhouse, and accidentally lighted a match, setting fire to some hay which they had spread around. Her clothes immediately caught fire, and before help could reach her, that she died soon after. A boy probably 16 years of age, giving his name as Louis Kirk. applied to Chief of Police White Tuesday for money with which to buy a ticket to his home in Alexander, Neb,, says the Atchison Champion. Kirk who is a typical country boy. went to Kansas City some time ago to visit his married s'ster. einformed Chief White that e liked Kansas City and would have remained there but for the fact that his sister had taken on too many city airs to suit Rim. Everything went all right until meal time, when young Kirk wanted to eat his potatoes with a spoon, which his sister refused to stand. The country brother insisted on eating potatoes in the good old fashioned way. So much objection was raised to this that life was a bur den, and he decided to run off. He had enough money to buy a ticket to Atchison, but ran short of funds here. He telegraphed his father for money, which was sent to him, and the young man continued his journey There are 285 persons enrolled in the Cowley county Normal institute.
