The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS,

The post office at Wilder was robbed
the other night of $50 in money and
stamps WilLer is on the Santa Fe
road about twenty miles west of Kan
sas City.
The grand lodge ]. o. O. F. met al
Hutchinson on the 18th with large
attendance. When the procession moved
more than ZOO Odd Fellows were in
line. while the Daughters of Rebekah
followed in carriages
The Keystone iron works at Kansas
City, Kan, wers recently closed down
by attachments, the largest being a
claim by Carnegie, Phipps & Co. Of
Pittsburgh. Pa, for over sec, 1000. A
large number of men were thrown out
of work.
Leavenworth society circles were
considerably worked up the other day
by the fling of q petition for divorce
by Mrs Halderman against her hus-
band, Judge j. A. Halderman, formerly
minister to Siam. Mrs Halderman and
her daughter have just started on a trip
to Paris and Judge Halderman is re-
ported to be travelling on the Continent.
At Fort Scott the other afternoon
Smith Barker and his brother Sam got
into an alteration with their brother
in-law, Mark Scott of Carthage, Mo.
when one Of the Barker boys threw q
stone, striking Scott on the head.
smashing in his skull and killing him
almost instantly. All the parties are
colored. The Barker boys fled and have
not been captured.
The supreme court has decided that
the eight-hour law enacted by the last
legislature does not apply to the officers
and employees of state institutions. Had
the law been decided to apply to state
institutions it would have been neces-
sary to call an extra session of the
legislature. as enough additional en-
ployes would be required to have made
increased appropriations imperative.
At the recent meeting of the grand
lodge !. o. O. F. at Hutchinson officers
were elected as follows: Grand master.
DR.. NJ. B. Ward. of Topeka; deputy
grand master, H. w. Pond, of Fort
Scott; grand warden, w. B. Patterson,
of Muscotah; grand secretary. John A.
Bright, of Abilene: grand treasurer, L.
C. Slime, of Ottawa; grand representa-
tive to the sovereign grand lodge, A. l..
Voorhis.
j. d. Brown, pension attorney, was
recently tried in the United States
court at Leavenworth upon the charge
of demanding excessive fees and found
guilty by the Jury. Sentence was de-
ferred. The evidence showed that in
one case he received from a widow the
regular $40 allowed by law and after
wards present" Of S110 when she re-
ceived her money, which Judge Philips
instructed the jury was violation of
the pension laws.
The Baptist state convention, lately
In session at Atchison, elected the fol-
lowing officers: President Rev. R. w.
Atkinson, of Ottawa; vice-president,
DR.. L. j. Warren, of Clay Center; Sec
rotary, L. Fl. Holt, of Emporia; treas
urer, J. r. Mulvane. of Topeka. The
following new members were elected
on the board of trustees of Ottawa uni
versity: NJ. S. Smalley, of Hiawatha;
Rev. L. r. Crawford, of Ottawa; Rev.
T. b Thomas, of Topeka, and b. p.
Waggener, of Atchison.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the district court in the
Spendlove murder case and the defend
ant will be compelled to serve his sem
tence of sixteen years in the peniten-
tiary. In 1889 Joseph C. Spendlove
shot and killed Gustave Warner at To-
peka. He was tried, found guilty and
sentenced to twenty-one years inn
prisonment An appeal was taken to
the supreme court and a new trial
granted. He was again found guilty
aud given sixteen years and again APP
pealed
About eleven o'clock the other morn
ing the dead body of Herbert O. Wild
enor, collector for the Wyandotte Coal
Co.. was found in the road north Of
Kansas City, Kan. He was on his way
to collect a few bills from people who
lived in the country. was riding in q
buggy and carried his breech loading
shotgun with him. In some unknown
manner the gun was discharged, tho
load entering the victims body jest
below the heart, producing instant
death. He was twenty-three years old
and married.
Judge L. D. Bailey died at Lawrence
on the 18th at the age of seventy-threc
years. He came to Kansas in 1857 from
New Hampshire and located at Law.
renee. He was elected one of the
judges of the supreme court at the first
election under the state constitution in
1850. together with Judge S. A. King
man and Thomas Ewing, and his death
makes the first break in that historic
judicial trio. For a number of years
past he resided at Garden City. He
leaves wife, but no children. Judge
Bailey has been a noted character in
Kansas history, and his death removes
another of the landmarks of pioneer
days.
The democr attic state central COM
mittee met at Topeka on the 10th A
resolution was passed indorsing the
action Of Chairman Jones and express
ing confidence in his judgment in re-
gard to the conduct of the fall cam
paign, and a resolution was also adopt |
ed that the committee deem it unwise |