The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

William 8. Brown, Q farm hand b
the employ of Luther Woodford. Of
Shawnee county. recently committed
e., suicide by taking laudanum. No cause
assigned
! A girl was born in Kansas City. Kan,
. few days ago whose mother is only
+, sixteen years old; tho grandmother,
who was present is thirty-two, and the
great-grandmother, who was also pres
ent is fiftv-two.
/ Bishop Fink. of Leavenworth, has,
: by direction of tho pope, removed his
episcopal residence to Kansas City.
Kan and the name Of the diocese has
been changed to Kansas City. A hand
some residence has been purchased for
! the bishop and a site for schools Sc.
cured
The reform press association recent
~ held meeting at Salina and elected
officers as follows: President A. C.
Pattee, Of the Salina Union; vice-presi-
dent w. S. Wait, of the Lincoln Beacon;
secretary. s. McLallin, of the Topeka
Advocate. Arrangements were made
for an excursion to the Rocky mount
alma
The state Farmers Alliance at Sa-
lima elected w. H. Biddle, of Butler
county, president; Mrs Fannie R.
Vickery, vice-president; J. B. French.
secretary; A. C. Easter, treasurer; s.
NJ. Scott, lecturer, and Mrs. Fannie
Mccormick. assistant lecturer. Frank
McGrath declined nomination for re-
election as president
Benson, under sentence of death at
Leavenworth for the murder of Mrs
Mettman. was recently discovered stor
ing away material for the purpose of
cheating the gallowS He had by some
means secured knife and was also &C
cumulating poison by soaking the
heads of matches. He will be hanged
November S unless the president inter
venes
The attorney-general has fled with
the supreme court an application and
affidavit for mandamus in the case of
the state of Kansas against the Kansas
Central Railroad Co. and the Union Pa
cific Railroad Co, defendants. This is
the beginning of au action to compel
the Kansas Central road to relay its
track with steel rails, according to the
order of the railroad commissioner.
President Cross, of the Missouri, Kan.
sas & Texas railroad, having said that
the offices would be removed to Par
sons at once in compliance with the
charter under which the road is oper-
ated. the sttorney-general said recent.
" that if the road is making these
statements in good faith the matter
will be dropped, but If they do not re-
move the Offices to some Kansas point
they may expect trouble.
Following are the names of tho
United States Senators who have
served from Kansas: James H. Lane,
1861 to 1865; Samuel C. Pomeroy, 1861
TO 1878; Edmund G. Ross. 1866 to 1871;
Alexander Caldwell, 1871 to 1874; Rob-
ert Crozier, 1873 to 1874; John j. Ingalls,,
1873 to 1891 James NJ. Harvey. 1874 to
1877; Preston b. Plumb. elected in 1877,
still in the senate; William A. PETER.
elected to serve from March 4, 1891,
takes his seat in December next
The Office of the Missouri river stone
company at Atchison was blown to
pieces the other morning with giant
powder. Twenty men working in a
quarry near by were covered with
debris. but no one was seriously hurt.
A part of the building was carried into
the river A magazine ten feet from
the Office, containing thirty kegs of
powder, did not explode. As no powder
was kept in the Office, the explosion
was thought to have been the work Of
discharged employees.
A late wreck on the Santa Fe road,
ten miles south of Wichita, resulted in
the instantaneous death of two men,
fatal injuries to another and the tract |
uring and scalding of two more. The
men were on an engine sent down to !
the relief of a stock train ditched near
Derby and which jumped the track. !,
The killed were Frank Mulvey. yard !
Thomas Wade, fireman. Fa- !
tally injured, Phil Reimer. engineer, !,
both legs fractured and terribly burned. |
Badly hurt, Frank Young, leg bro ken.
and Jim Martin. fractured leg and ribs
ALI resided ut Wichita
Gov. Humphrey has addressed let
ter to the attorney-general informing |
him that the governor is unofficially in.
formed that the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway has not yet obeyed the
order to remove their headquarters
from Sedalia, Mo-, to Kansas. in COM
pliance with the Kansas law, which
requires corporations chartered in Kan.
sas to maintain headquarters in the
state The governor directs the at
to ascertain if his in.
is correct, and. if it is SO
found to be, to commence immediate
proceedings to revoke the railway
charter.
At the seventh biennial conclave of
the grand legion Of Select Knights A.
U. w.. of Kansas, recently held at
the following officers were
chosen: Grand commander, Ed Wheel
Or, Colony; grand vice-commander. w.
T. Bancroft, Kansas City; grand lieu
D. S. Cassell, Belle
lille; grand recorder. E. NJ. Forde,
Emporia; grand treasurer, A. J. Hum
toon, Topeka; grand Standardized