The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-10-31
STATE NEWS.

IDe negro Colony lu OklsuOtun
continues 10 grow.
Wichita has registered 1900 voters
for the coming election.
Topeka has q dancing club Of $50
members. All hands round.
EllInwoOd has o beet field that
yields $500 bushels TO the acre.
A little Topeka coon has been ar
rested for using prOfEne language.
The Kansas AntI-horse thief $3.50
citation meets I'm Mcpherson to-day.
J. p. Hope, city marshal OF Lee
compton, VAS run over and killed by
the ears.
A Missouri Pacific brakeman
named Higgins was run over and
killed At wsde.
NInety-seven men and seven wo-
men underwent q civil service ex-
animation nj Topeka.
Fire In the opera house block 1t
Stockton damaged the building 10
the amount Of 5000.
John Coulter, q daIryman at
Derby, Sedgwick county, was fatally
gored by q bull on Saturday.
w. A. Hymes has been arrested
at Lawrence charged with forgery
and embezLlement At Sioux City, Ia.
A switch engine ran into an cleo
trio line ear at Wichita. Two young
ladies received slight injuries.
George Littlefield, . prominent
farmer near COlwich, Sedgwick
county, 10 mysterlOusly missing
from his home.
The Lawrence Journal says: A
Topeka woman IL going to the Ma
tlOnAl Woman's convention; her son
10 going 10 the devil.
General &. w. Babcock, one Of the
early and prominent settlers Of Kan
sAs, died at st. Louis from the effects
Of . surgical operation.
Gov. Humphrey has appointed J..
8. West Of Fort Scott judge OF the
Sixth judicial district TO succeed
Judge French, resigned.
X. w. Sellers, q printer, sent TO
the Kansas penitentlary in 1884 for
eight years for burglary, has been
PardOned by the governor.
Gov. Humphrey has pardoned r.
w. Sellers, who was sent up for
eight years In 1854 for burglariZlng q
car on the Fort Scott road.
John eatterwhite, who has served
four years Of ten years penitentl-
airy sentence for robbery, has been
pGrdOned by the governor.
Governor Humphrey has appoint
ed James 8. Grsybill, OF Leaven-
worth, regent Of the state normal
school, vice West, resigned.
Six members Of the Union Labor
party held q county convention NJ
Hlawatha aud three of the six men
present were nominated for Office.
Unknown persons placed a heavy
piece Of timber on the Rock Island
near Mcfarland Saturday night. A
passenger train narrowly escaped
being wrecked.
George G. Wilton began suit for
$4,000 damages I'm the district court
ut Topeka against the AtchIsOn, To-
peka 4 Santa Fe railway, for lnjur-
les received In the shops by the fore
mans carelessness.
EmpOria IL bothered by q crowd Of
tOuRhs who gather about her opera
house doors at night and make
comments about the ladies, and
when demonstrated with throw q
handful of mud at the gentlemen
aud then skip.
Topeka State journal: The young
ladies OF bethany college are rails
Ing q fund Of $50 TO purchase q me
mortal communion service for
ChrIst's hospital, one Of the institu-
tons maintained largely by the
efforts Of the late Bishop Vail.
The state Y. NJ. Z. A. convention
met In Topeka last week aud formed
Q permanent organization with
MaufOrd SchOsnOver. Of Garnett,
chairman. The secretary's report
showed . membership OF 5000, an
increase over last year Of 900.
At Topeka Judge Guthrie over.
ruled the motion for q new trial In
the case of Joseph SPendlOve, the
murderer of Gustav Werner, ~ d
sentenced the prisoner TO twenty.
one years In the peullentiary.
Spendlove's attorney will appeal %
the supreme court.
Emporia Republican: Colonel
Tomiinson has returned home and
announced that he would rather
live among the cool, calculating bus
lness Yankees than In fanatirAl
preacher-ridden Kansas" The col
onel should by all means yield TO his
desire. IL there IL any string tied
TO him Kansas will eheerfully furn-
lsh the knife to cut IL.