Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-10-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

THE other evening John Morrison, while
Intoxicated, fell down q stairway at To-
peka, and was killed. He left two little
children, his wife having died several
months since.
C. H. GROVER, Of Leavenworth, has been
mic Agency.
LEAvESwoRrH by a large majority re-
Gently voted $4,000 additional aid to the
Leavenworth, Northern & Southern rail.
road.
The new library and ladies' hall Of
Washburn College at Topeka were dsdi'
Gated recently with appropriate ceremu.
mics. The Boswell Memorial Library
building is a handsome stone structure,
built after the antique English style, and
costing over $50 Coo In was named in the
memory OF the late Hon. Charles Boswell,
of Hartford, Conn.,, who contributed over
half the cost Of the building Halbrook
| Hall: for young ladies, is a three and one.
half story building erected at a cost of
over SIC, 900, and takes its name from Mrs.
Mary Halbrook, of Massachusetts,, who gave
5000 towards its construction.
The Santa Fe officials have formally no.
titled the Railroad Commissioners that the
passenger train will again be placed on
the Leavcnworth. Topeka & Southwestern
railroad on November
Major SIMS, Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, gives the following
| synopsis of the forthcoming crop report
of Kansas for 1856: Wheat-winter and
Spring-Product, IA, SO 093 bushels, against
III, ~, ISL last year, or five years aver.
| age Of 2001l ,416 bushels. Corn-Product,
139, 5G9, 1872 bushels, against III, 1856, 100 in
| 1855, or an average for five years of 49,
8l4.435 bushels. Oats-Probable product
% ,Oo5 bushels, the largest ever grown
in the State. Last years harvest gave 3D..
SCI. 400 bushels, while the averaged annual
yield for five years has been "a, 696, 40 BUSH
els Information as to other crops indi.
Gates no material change. The gem
eral condition ranges from ~ to so, with
a slight falling off in the area of FAX,
hemp and tobacco, and an increase in
other crops, broom corn showing the great
est.
PENSIONS lately granted Kansas veter-
ans: Henry r. Crawford, Of junction
City; William r. Lattimer Of Wabauusee;
George W. May, of Fawn Creek; Zacha.
riah Kramer, of Runnymede; Martin j.
| Reynolds, of Girard; Thomas j. Owens, Of
| Blue Mound; Samuel Henry, of Whining
ton; Ben. M. Tahler, of Wichita; John
| Frank, of Armourdale; Robert B. kirk
patrick, Of Woodbury.; Mary B. Brown,
| of Longton; Hannah B. Thomson of Ma.
rion; David A. Endslee, of Coyvil!e; Al
bert W. Thompson, of Marion; John H.
Gaurdon, of Delphos; Samuel Pierce, of
| Sedan; David Lake, of Clay Center; Ben.
F. Devrick. of Larned; George p. Eddy,
of Zenith; William Gummell, of Council
Grove; Swan Olson, of Wunnersburg;
Henry Squires, of Prospect; William A.
Duncan, of Lucerne; Daniel s. Snyder. of
Ellsworth; Enoch G. Adams. of Leaven-
worth, and Oscar Van Valkenberg, of Re.
public City.
POsT-OFFICE changes in Kansas for the
week ended October 16: Established,
Golden, Hamilton County, Jacob A. Har-
man, postmaster; Kalvestra, Hodgeman
County, Jabez Appellee postmaster; La
Blanches, Sherman County, Miss Lilly b.
Clapper, postmaster. Postmasters APP
pointed, Hunneweli, Sumner County, j. !.
Brewster Maize. Sedgwick County.
Charles Mccullough.
A MAN named Jack Adams was recently
arrested at Topeka upon suspicion of steal
ing pair of pautaloons, and before the
charge was investigated a telegram was
received from st. Louis charging him with
kidnapping child and requesting his ar
rest. He and a woman who passed for his
wife were arrested and the child found in
their possession. They were held to await
the arrival Of st. Louis officers. Adams at
one time ran bucket shop in Topeka.
He left his wife and ran away with the
woman who is now claiming to be his wife
about three years ago.
PERRIN MCADAM, boy aged eleven, of
Blue Stem, Russell County, while recent
bathing in pond, was bitten on the large
vein of the leg by an adder snake. He
mounted his horse and rode furiously for
rome, but when near the house fell from
his horse and died in short time.
The Kansas Home Missionary Society
filcd its charter with the Secretary of State
recently. The expressed object of the or
ganization is to aid in the organization of
Congregational Churches in Kansas, and
to cooperate with the American Home
Missionary Society. Headquarters, To-
peka.
IT is stated that under the new marriage
law the probate judge will hereafter re-
quire of every applicant for a marriage
certificate an affidavit that the parties to
be married are not, to each other, parent
and child, or grand parent and grand-child
Of any degree, or brother and sister of
either the whole or half blood, nor uncle |
and niece, nor aunt and nephew, nor first |
cousins.
In the United States circuit court at To. |
peka suit was instituted by the Michigan |
Stove Company, Of Detroit Mich, asking |
an Injunction restraining the Great West |
ern Stove Company, of Leavenworth, from |
manufacturing what is known as the |
Standard stove, claiming that the latter |
company in making said stove infringes
on the rights of the Michigan company.
AT the late meeting of the Women's
Board of Missions of the Congregational
Church at Topeka the following officers
were chosen: President, Mrs. 8. e. Tun-
nell, vice-president, Mrs. o. B. Brace; Sec
rotary, Mrs. F. P. Hoybin; treasurer, Mrs.
A. L. Slosson. The following delegates
were appointed to attend the Missouri an
nual meeting: Mrs. c. B. Brace, Mrs. Ida
B. Cole, Mrs. A. L. Slosson, Mrs. Boylan,
Mrs. Storrs.
CT LAFERTY, a negro teamster of Leaven-
worth, recently attempted to murder his
wife by knocking her senseless and then
pouring coal. oil on her and firing it. The
brute escaped.
FINE rains the past week.
AN insane woman confined in the base-
ment of the court house at Emporia re-
Gently attempted to set fire to the building
BY raking the fire out of her stove on the
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