Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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WALTER L. KIER, engineer on q local
/ freight running between Brookville and
| Wamego, was horribly lnangled by being
| run over the other day while coupling cars
! in the Union Pacific yards at Abilene, and
! died two hours after. He was married
only three days previous TO Miss Kershner,
| of North Topeka
TEE State Grand Lodge A. o. q. w.,
| lately in session at Atchison, elected the
| following officers for the ensuing year:
Grand past master workman. ]. N. Miller,
Joe E. Riggs, of Lawrence; grand fore
man, O. j. Nichols, of Cherokee; grand
overseer, n. #. Hewitt. Of Glen Elder;
grand recorder, E. NJ. Forde. Of Emporia; :
grand receiver, J. B. Hibben, Of Topeka;
grand guide. d. 8. Cassel of Parsons;
grand Waterman, George p Hoster, Of
Topeka; grand medical director, C. C.
Green, Of Windfeld; grand medical direc-
tor, degree of honor), 81. A. Warmer, of
Meriden; trustee, E. s. Bertram, of Coun-
Gil Grove; supreme representatives, j. N.
Miller, Of Council Grove, John NJ Price, of
Atchison, and w. D. Gilbert. of Atchison.
HENRY RIDDER, q uarryman employed
in Eaton & Wheeler's quarry at Rosedale,
was instantly killed while blasting the
other morning.
The Congressional Committee for the
Second district recently met at Kansas
City (Kan.) and decided to hold the Con-
gressional nominating convention at Fort
Scott on May and the convention to select
delegates to the Chicago convention at
Kansas City, May II. -
GOVERNOR MARTIN recently pardoned,
John j. Long, sent up from Linn
County for three years for forgery; Fred
Cam, of Wellington, sent up for one year
for grand larceny, and Martin Bales, of
Cloud County, sent up for ten years for
rape These cases had been Investigated
and pardons recommended by the Board Of
Pardous.
THREE of the murderers Of Frank
Matson, whose body was found in the river
at junction City, have been taken to that
place from ST. Joseph, Mo.
The latest bulletin issued from the De-
partment at Washington indicated that
in Kansas the weather conditions have
been exceedingly favorable during the past
winter, the ground being reported in good
condition, the wheat acreage large and the
condition excellent.
PATeNTs issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended February 20: Plastering
machine, Dudley W. Miles, Glen Elder;
churn. John Amends, Monmouth; car
coupling, John B. McCreary. Corbin; wire
and picket fence machine, William Dixon,
Clay Center; veneer machine, John W.
Trout, Cherry Vale; harrow for listed
crops, Hugh A. Murphy, Elk City; veloci-
pede, Allen NJ. Stoner, Topeka; telegraph
repeater, Louis Russell, Cherokee.
MRS. j. N. HENRY, of North Topeka, was
preparing an alcoholic bath for her sister the
other morning, when the alcohol exploded
and Mrs. Henry's clothes taking fire she
was terribly burned.
TWENTY-NINE insurance companies that
were doing business III Kansas during the
insurance year that ended February %,
1888, are not doing business in the State in
the year that began March ], 1888. Four
teen of these were Kansas companies, and
of these companies six were livestock.
All OF the Kansas livestock companies are
dead, and no livestock company Of any
other State IS authorized to do business in
Kansas.
THE House on the 81 by almost uuani-
nous vote passed the bill introduced by
Congressman Anderson, OF the Fifth dis
trict, to bring uuder the operation oflaw
the provisions Of the act granting subsl-
dies to aid in the construction of railroa d
and telegraph line from the Missouri river
to the Pacific ocean which practically ab
rogates the lease of the Pacific railways
telegraph lines to the Western Union Com
pany and places these lines within the
jurisdiction OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The Leavenworth Coal Company shut
their mine for good on the I'd and all work
was suspended. The miners were directed
to get their tools from the mine, the mules
were brought from below and stabbed aud
notice gwen to all employees that there was
no further work for them to do. This
action was expedited by fear Of trouble
on the part of the mine owners and they
gave it out that they could not and would
not pay five cents per bushel for mining.
The miners were determined that they
could not and would not work for four
cents per bushel. The company has been
in operation eighteen years.
CHIEF CLERK o. Fl. Brown, of the claims |
of the A. I. & F. Railway, was |
assaulted in his Office at Topeka the other |
by Mike Hogan, voucher clerk |
in the same Office, and struck on the fore |
head terrible blow with paper weight, |
nearly fracturing his skull. Hogan was
Immediately arrested but released on bail. |
AT Mortimer, fourteen miles west Of |
Parsons, the other morning, John Geary |
was killed by Nate Parker, son of A. A. |
Parker. Of Parsons. Two days previous |
Benjamin Parker and Minnie Geary, daugh- |
ter of John Geary, eloped and were mar
ried and then went to the house Of an I'M |
Gle, George Mortimer, at Mortimer Station. |
Geary swore he would kill the young man |
on sight, and about twelve o'clock went to |
Mortimer's house armed with two revol- |
vers and demanded admittance. This was |
refused, and he tramped around the house |
until five o'clock, when he was shot by |
young Parker and instantly killed.
MRS. SUSAN DERRICK, widow who re-
sided alone near the boundary of Sedgwick |
and Harvey Counties, was found dead near
her home several days after the late cy- /
clone in that vicinity. Her residence and I
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