The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-11-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AANOhO O1A1G NGVO6
| John Burns, an inmate of the Leav.
] enworth soldiers home, was killed by
the cars while recently walking on the
| track near Nashville. Mo
! The alliance store at Bonner Springs
managed by w. Hahn, is in the hands
of q receiver. The failure was caused
by the disappearance of Hahn. He left
| q letter to his wife which led many &c
believe that he meditated suicide.
About midnight recently the express
EAR on the Central Branch road was
robbed while the messenger was assist
ing in switching the cars at Lenora-
The safe was carried OF and rified of
about g, 600 No clew to the robbers.
Ex-President McGrath, of the Farm
ers' Alliance, declares the published in.
terview, in which he was quoted as
saving that the alliance had fallen of
in one year from 140,O 900 to less than
60, 600 members. to be ''unauthentic and
false in fact"
One cottage and four six-room dwell
ings located at Fifteenth street and
Stewart avenue, Kansas City. Kan.
were burned to the ground at two
o'clock the other morning under cir
cumstances that led to the belief that
firebug did the work.
On the 14th of October w. C. Phipps
and Theodore Gardner were convicted
at Oswego of violating the Kansas trus,
law. Recently a motion was made for
new trial, but was overruled by the
court, the Judge fning each of them
500 and costs. They will take an ap-
peal
Topeka had the most serious fire on
the night of the 25th that had visited
that city for over year. The fire
burned two livery stables, q lumber
yard and ex-Gov. Crawfords fve-story
building. Thirteen horses persisted in
the fire and $40, 900 worth of property
was destroyed. Partially insured.
The Kansas worlds fair board of
managers have decided to incorporate
at once. They have prepared an ad-
dress to the people appealing fo-
money. A. w. Smith. w. II. Smith
and Col 4. S. johnson have been
appointed committee to go to Chicago
at once and select site for the Kansas
building.
A second attempt was made the other
night to hold up the conductor OF a
street car at the terminus of the electric
road on the Quindaro boulevard, Kan
sas City, Kan, but the conductor (Bas.
sett) drew his pistol and commenced
firing at the two masked men. when
they beat hasty retreat
While two men were recently shoot
ing craps in livery stable at Hamlin
Brown county, one of them dropped 6
match into the hay, setting it on fire.
The flames spread at once and the
stable. ten head of horses and Other
property destroyed The loss wa
heavy add insurance light
While w. r. Sharp and wife were
driving recently across the Santa Fe
; tracks at Pittsburgh, they were struck
by a switch engine, which destroyed
the buggy and threw the old couple
out Mrs. Sharp was pitched on to the
ends of the cross ties and her skull
fractured, her right shoulder broker
and other internal injuries inflicted
MICHAEL WILKINS, one of the oldest
; and wealthiest farmers in the county
was killed by a Santa Fe train mile
west of Atchison the other afternoon
He and his wife had been trading in
Atchison and in returning home at
tempted to drive across the railroad
tracks when the wagon was struck by
an engine. He was reported to be
worth S75, 900.
;, Fire at Lenexa the other night de
! stroyed the large store building occu
pied by F. l. Swift & Co.. dealers ii
general merchandise, with the entir
contents, also Gillett's blacksmith shol
and contents and Q vacant building ad
' 4 Joining. Swift & Co. 8 loss was 81, 600
SO, 600, with So, 600 insurance. TIL
loss to Gillett would reach $1,000 t
So, 600, with no insurance.
The Farmers Alliance completed tn
election of officers at Salina by select
, | ing II. Bowman Burton insurance cor
= missioner, to have charge of all busi
ness under the cooperative system. 4
' judiciary committee was also elected
The resolutions adopted recommends
the reelection of J. f. Willis as ma
> tional alliance Lecturer; advised liberia
: appropriations for making irrigation
tests in western Kansas, and insiste'
that all necessary means be taken t
? preserve the purity of the ballot
. A gentleman who recently returnet
: from the western part of the state t
Atchison reported that ''unthreshe
r wheat in that section is damaged from
25 to so per cent on account of we
8 weather and poor stacking: The graf
has already commenced to grow, an
, many of the stacks are green. A goo
4 deal of wheat still remains in tn
shock This is ruined. Farmers ar
q busily engaged in threshing the crops
o but will not get through before tn
q first of the year. The acreage of whea
put in this fall will not be as large a
. last fall"
E Rudolph Muller, an old bachelor: wa
found dead in bed in his house at WITCH
= tia the other evening. 1t was suppose
to be a case of suicide by poison. L;
|. the bed was found q note to the effec
that the writer was old and unabl