Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


William S. Brown, a farm hand in
the employ of Luther Woodford. of
Shawnee county, recently committed
suicide by taking laudanum- No cause
assigned
A girl was born in Kansas City, Kan,
q few days ago whose mother is only
sixteen years old; the grandmother,
who was present is thirty-two. and the
great-grandmother,w who was also pres
ent, is ffty-two.
Bishop Fink. of Leavenworth, has,
by direction of the 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 site for schools Sc.
cured
The reform press association recent
~ held a 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
aims
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.
M. Scott, lecturer, and Mrs. Fannie
Mccormick. assistant lecturer. Frank
McGrath declined a 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 ac-
cumulating poison by soaking the
heads of matches He will be hanged
Novemb Der unless the president inter
venes-
The Encouragement has fled with
the supreme court an application and
affidavit for a 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 an 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 attorney-general said recent
ly 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 II. Lane,
1861 to 1866; Samuel c. Pomeroy, 1861
to 1878; Edmund G. Ross, 1866 to 1871;
Alexander Caldwell, 1871 to 1874; Rob-
ert Crozier, 1878 to 1874; John j. Ingalls,,
1878 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
de bris, 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 stock train ditched near
Derby and which jumped the track.
The killed were Frank Mulvey. yard
master; 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.
All resided at 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
SCaCe. L ne governor uiTcCCS GuC at
torney-general to ascertain if his in
formation is correct, and, if it is sc
found to be, to commence immediate
proceedings to revoke the railway
company's charter.
At the seventh biennial conclave OF
the grand legion Of Select Knights A.
o. q. W., of Kansas, recently held at
Armourdale, the following officers were
| chosen: Grand commander, Ed Wheel
| er, Colony; grand vice-commander. w.
T. Bancroft, Kansas City; grand lieu
tenant-commander.D d. S Cassell, Belle
| vile; grand recorder. E. NJ. Forde.
Emporia; grand treasurer. A. j. Hun
toon. Topeka; grand standard bearer;
Henry Wolf, Parsons; grand senior
| workman, H. v. Nelson, Mcpherson;
grand junior workman. S. 81. McCon.
nell, Williamsburg; grand guard. L. p.
Shelly, Kingman; grand medical direct
or. j. B. Hibbin, Topeka; grand trustee,
G. E. Gilmore. Independence; supreme
| representatives, J. A. Regnen, McPher
son; George w. Reed, Topeka, and E
NJ. Forde. Emporia-
A Rock Island freight train parted q
| few miles east Of Lawrence the Other