The Globe-republican., 1890-01-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

L
hat firm, is wanted at Wichita upon the
charge of having misappropriated s90(
Of the firms money.
A FARMERS Alliance of Riley County
is receiving bids from different stores
Of the vicinity and proposes to give the
entire patronage of its membership to
the store making the most favorable
proposition.
PENSIONS lately granted to Kansas
veterans: Original invalid, Samuel H.
McClay. National Military Home: John
A. Larkins. Garden City: E. Ames, St
Mary's; Thomas Hindman, Grainfield
William Grubb, Haviland: Reuben A.
Burgess, Alpha; James Chithero, Mil.
tonvale: Charles Miller, Huntsville;
Levi Gray, National Military Home.
Increase: Francis NJ. Cunningham. Fall
River; William NJ. Smith, Highland;
Hiram Reynolds, Wilsey; jackson Per
rim, Wyandotte; Andrew j. Humphrey,
Nicola; Charles X. Ford, Arcadia; Will
lam H. Folsom, Emporia; Lewis Parks,
Junction City. Original widows, Lydia
A., widow of C. D. Lint, Hiawatha.
THE coroner's jury at Atchison, which
investigated the cause of the death of
Henry SchOen, who. while crazy, ran
naked into the storm the other night and
persisted with cold, returned a verdict
laying the blame upon the manufact-
do business in New York City. Sheen
had been troubled with throat affec-
ton which local physicians could not
cure and he sent for patent r,edicine
which he saw advertised. This he used
according to directions and he imme-
diately began to show sigas of insanity.
finally becoming maniac.
SPURLOCK & DRAKE, hardware mer-
chants of Long Island, have been closed
up by their creditors. Their liabilities
are placed at $4,000.
Ar late meeting of the executive
committee of the Republican State
| league it was decided to call cOnven-
ton of the Republican leagues of Kan
sas, to be held at Topeka February 20, to
elect delegates to the National conven-
ton at Nashville.
WILLIAM RANDALL, proprietor of the
ArmOurdale Hotel at Fifth street and
Kansas avenue, Kansas City, Kan, was
arrested late the other night on the
charge of grand larceny. The alleged
Offense was committed at Seattle,
WASH, and Randall was taken back to
that city a prisoner. 1t is alleged that
he was given $3.50 last August to pay
of gang of railroad hands under his
charge, but instead of paying the men
skipped with the funds.
A MEETING of the State Board of Edu-
the State Superintendent in Topeka.
President Taylor, of the State Normal;
President George T. Fairchild, of the
State Agricultural College, and State
Superintendent Winans were present.
Renewals of State certificates were
granted to Miss Phoebe j. Clark, Mime
apolis; Miss Mary Bell Parker, Law
renee, and A. d. Chambers, North To-
peka. Eighty institute conductors and
about $50 instructors certificates were
granted.
WILLIAM HETHERINGTON, president Of
the Exchange National Bank at Atchi-
son, died the other day. He was one Of
the pioneers of Kansas.
j. NJ. FoRTNER, the defaulting treas
urer of Riley County, was recently ar
rested in Texas and taking to the Jail at
Manhattan.
FORMER, the defaulting Riley County
treasurer, it is said, has determined to
kill himself, and as all other means of
accomplishing his purpose are denied
him in Jail, he has. it is stated, deter
mined to starve himself to death, and to
this end refuses either food or drink.
THE other morning about $50 o'clock
Thomas Carey, Joint keeper of Kan
sas City, Kan, shot and killed John
Kinney in the yard of the latter's lodg-
ing house, on Wood street. The men
had been drinking all night, but just
how the killing was brought about is
not publicly known.
j. w. HAMILTON, State Treasurer, has
handed his resignation to the Governor
to take effect when his successor is ap-
pointed.
THE resignation of J. R. Clogston as
Supreme Court Commissioner has been
accepted by Governor Humphrey.
DANIEL E. HEGBIN. of Fleetwood, has
begun suit in the United States District
Court at Topeka, against the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
for SIS. $50. which he claims as a royalty
on cattle chutes used by the company
on the entire system, and which he
claims is his patent.
SAMUEL ID. CHAIGMIRE, an old resident.
was instantly killed by a Santa Fe pas
senger train at Lawrence the other
morning. He was standing on trestle
work watching the ice cutting and did
not hear the train. He was seventy
years of age and a carpenter by trade.
p. T. THORNTON. assistant miller at
Baden's Touring mills in Winfield. was
caught in the machinery the other day,
and before the power could be shut off
every vestige of clothing was torn from
his body. bones in both arms broken in
a numb Der of places. the breast and sides ,
crushed and the body fearfully bruised. |
When his clothing caught he braced
himself against a boiling chest and en-
deavored to get free, but was drawn into |
the cog wheels and whirled around. This |
was his third serious accident within |
the last three months in the same mill. |
1T is stated that a case was tried at |