The Globe-republican., 1890-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| THE WeStr0Ound passenger train ran
into the switch engine in the Santa Fe
yards at Dodge City the other morning,
smashing up both engines Fireman
Joseph Attys. Of the passenger, was
killed and both engineers were hurt,
but not seriously. A young man, brother
of the fireman on the passenger train,
who was riding on the pla torn of the
baggage car, was killed.
THE Kansas State Millers' Associa-
tion met at Newton recently to consider
the rates of transportat ton charged by
railroad lines. Resolutions were adopted
demanding that the Interstate Com
merce Commission establish the same
rates on wheat and its products as on
corn and its produc is, the rates to be
made permanent, as frequent changing
results in demoralizing trade.
Hot winds on the 18th and 14th did
great damage TO the early corn in many
parts of Kansas, but refreshing showers
few days later materially improved
the condition of crops.
1T is stated that Government Indian
School Inspector Reynolds has made his
report of the investigation of the charges
against Superintendent Meserve, of Has
kell Institute, exonerating him from
blame and commencing his administra-
| ton.
A WOMAN was recently arrested at
Leavenworth for pounding up glass and
sprinkling it on the sidewalk in front Of
her house to keep the neighborhood
children of, several of whom were Sc
verely cut by the glass.
THE supervisor of the census for the
Third district gives the following esti-
mated populations: Salina, 6,552; abb
lene, 8, 521: Concordia, 3,O9S; Clay Gen.
ter, 1924; Beloit. 1000; Minneapolis,
1.742; Washington, 1.6O9, and Norton,
LOTS. The population OF the district,
comprising twenty-nine counties, is
about 500, 600.
WILLIAM MONROE was recently fined
5000 and sentenced to Jail at Lawrence
! for violating the Prohibitory law. He
opened an original package house and
| claimed to be agent for Kansas City
! firm, but the evidence showed that he
purchased and paid for the packages
and the justice held that he was not
protected by the Supreme Court decision.
j. w. BrGGERsTAFF, a well digger,
was overcome by choke damp in we'll
| in Topeka the other day, and William
Quinn, who tried to rescue him, barely
escaped alive.
| In recent interview, Hon. Martin
Mohler, Secretary of the State Board OF
Agriculture. said ''There has been a
great deal of exaggeration about the
condition OF the crop in this State.
There were only few localities where
the drought had hurt corn much. Those
were so limited that feel justified in
| saying that the rain has made the corn
| of the whole State. My best informa-
tion is that the downfall covered the
greater part of the State and that it was
heaviest in the sections needing it the
| worst the southern and northeastern
portions"
The street pavement layers at Wichi-
ia recently struck for an advance of
fifty cents per day.
The other day ten young men went
into DR.. Roundtree's drug store at Lin
| wood and asked for drinks as there was
a report in circulation that the druggist
sold original packages. Trouble ensued,
and the crowd began to smash things.
Roundtree drew revolver and told the
men to keep back. One of them, Ed.
Ford, stepped forward and the druggist
raised and cooked the revolver. AS he
pulled the trigger Henry Herald, an
, other of the party, jumped between
them and received the bullet in his
right breast, inf1icting what was thought
to be a fatal wound.
THE Farmers Alliance OF the Second
district has nominated Albert F. Allen,
of Douglas County, for Congress.
RALPH COOKINGHAM aged twelve
years, accidentally shot and killed him
self with a revolver at Dodge City the
other day.
IN a late collision on the Southern
Kansas road near Wellsville. Engineer
Arthur Rose, Of Argentine, was killed.
He was twenty-eight years of age and
leaves a wife and two children.
CHARLES FLEECE a German tailor
about fifty years of age, recently swal-
lowed dose of laudanum with suicidal
intent, at Leavenworth, and died next
day. Dependency because he could
not get work was supposed to have been
the cause.
Two propositions to amend the Con-
stitution will be submitted to the peo-
pie at the ensuing fall election. One is
TO change the time of meeting of the
Legislature to the first Tuesday in De-
cember and limiting the sessions to
ninety days and the other provides for
increasing the number of Supreme
Court judges to seven and making their
term of Office six years.
FRANK BIDDLECOMB, thirty years old,
was recently killed by the cars at New
ton. He had been at work only about
twenty minutes when the accident hap
pened. He leaves wife and one child.
A LADY died at Atchison the otherday
of what physicians pronounced genuine
cholera.
Four small boys, ranging in age from
seven to eleven years, were recently ar
rested at Topeka charged with being
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