Western cyclone., 1886-12-23
KANSAS NEWS.

,ohn McKenney, at Wichita, Kans ;
'Ona naaDrtenced to forty years in the pen
was ~ far The murder Of bis father IN
=" - dow named Pemberton. residing
4 w ,iIes north Of Russell, Kan, was
four u!1antally n shot and killed Thursday
asSlu astarnoon by her son, aged sixteen: q
ase ~ i "didn't know it was loaded.
case shode i Clements, the mailman who
nao aorsd Samuel Gordon 10 the western
nuiu - Jackson county, Kansas Tues
par n;aht. I was Friday adjudged insane
%! rsnorted that two more men e
nS ~ crazv in that neighborhoo@, the
sv sss.uIt Of the religious excitement pre-
no men named Hungerford and
n..Ioa Rickle, were arrested st Holten,
Tans' vanl bT government detectives Friday
The .bs charge of making counterfeit
y .av j. IN their house dies and other
mvTt irrIsments and 1853 counterfeit half
ao,sr. was found. The metal WAS found
i bed where the wife Of one OF the men
was lying i'll
ii, Sharrock, Of Scott City, Kans.,
=. : arrested by the Sheriff Of Finney
aouDtv j" last week and taken to Garden
City C On charge Of sending obscene liter
.trre through the mails.
Alma. Kans., will not sell any more
vhiskv On the "application" plan. The
1rugpists' permits have all been revoked
/ decision was rendered by the Uni
IA States supreme court at Washing
ton III Monday, in the bond csse Of Moses r.
Crow against The township Of
Oxford Sumner county, Kansas. This
va suit to recover the
.mo,pt due on coupons issued
br the township Of Oxford in the con
,rruction Of bridge across the Arkan-
,u river, The same bends have alIeedy
hseu before this court in the case Of Nc
fyure against the township Of Oxford
NL q. S.429). The court then held
That the bonds, if issued under special
at Of the legislature Of Kansas, APPROX
ID March /, 1872, were invalid. On the
pr.ssnt suit an attempt is made to sus-
tain the validity Of the bonds by alleging
that they were issued under the author
ityof 4 general act Of the legislature Of
Kansas, passed March 2, 1879. The
court holds that the bonds on their face
excluded the possibility Of their having
been issued under the latter act, the pub
lie records show that the proceedings
were not taken under that act, and the
auditor had no tight to decide, as mat
ter Of law, they were not. The decision
Of the court below IN favor Of the town
ship is affirmed. Opinion by Justice
Blatchf0rd.
In the district court at Lawrence,
Kan, Friday, County Attorney French
entered a noIIs prOsSquS in the trial Of
Arthur Dunbar, charged with the murder
Of colored man named Tenny, twenty
Eve years ago. The evidence showed
that Tenny had attempted to rape Dun
bars sister, and it was evident that he
could not be convicted. The action was
approved by Judge Benson, and the de-
ttlisnt discharged.
The supreme court in Atchison, Kan,
fled an opinion Tuesday, in the celebra-
ted Baldwin murder case, refusing new
trial and affirming The sentence Of death
passed BY the Atchison district court q
rear ago. The decision gives general
sTtsfactiCn in the community where the
crime was committed. Baldwln's crime
vas the murder Of his sister Mary, by
chloroform on the night Of July z, 1885.
Although be is under sentence Of death,
Mssentence, under the peculiar laws Of
kansas, amounts simply to life impris
Onnent' He isnot yet twenty four years
0ic,and has young wife and baby liv-
ng, the child having been born since Its
istherS Imprisonment.
Inc Rev. Alexander Mackay Smith Of
NeV York City Friday was elected as
nsIant Bishop Of the diocese of Kansas
Episcopal Church by the Diocesan Con.
,entlOn Of the Eplscobal Church q
Kansas.