The historic times. [volume] (Lawrence, Kansas) 1891-1891, 1891-10-03
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ton will meet in the hall of the house
of representatives at Topeka October
at three p. IN In the evening the
meeting will be open to the pubic ana
the music will be under the auspices OF
the Topeka Press club
c. A. johnson went to Mcpherson the
other day with a load of wheat and
late at night left for his home in the
country, after partaking too freely of
the prohibited beverage. lie drove
into neighbor's yard, upset the wagon
and next morning was found under II
dead.
Gypsy Jack" somewhat noted
| character at Emporia, was found the
other morning dead in an alley with
his neck broken. 1t is thought he was
killed by falling out of the hay loft OF
a barn where he was in the habit OF
| sleeping off his sprees. His proper
name was said to be John Overturf,
but he was never known to refer TO
any relatives.
Because she would not marry him,
Elijah Watts, drunken printer, shot
and mortally wounded Miss Kate Hal
loran at Topek the other morning, and
then blew out his own brains Miss
Halloran was printer engaged on the
Capital and at three o'clock in the
! morning started home, accompanied BY
another compositor in the office. when
she was waylaid by Watts and shot.
, The assassin then ran about a block
, when he shot and killed himself
! During the month of September the
, output of sorghum sugar reported by
the local inspectors to the government
laboratory in Fort Scott, which includes
the works at Medicine Lodge, Topeka
a and Fort Scott, reached nearly 500, 600
: pounds. All of the sugar so far re-
ported contains sucrose averaging %
per cent, and is therefore entitled to the
n bounty of two cents per pound award
ed by the general government 1t is
4 claimed that the sorghum sugar output
:, of the season will reach 5000. DOC
n pounds,
The other evening eight showmer
p travelling with Wallace's circus stopped
:. a Southern Kansas train at Dayton
a and covering the engineer and nremar
). with revolvers entered a coach, beat al
- officer so severely that he has since
a. died. and rescued a comrade who wa
under arrest They then escaped t.
Ia the strip. The sheriff of Cowley count,
- summoned a posse of fifty men, inter
n. cepted the circus train at Arkansas Clt
a and captured the manager of the SHOW
- and the whole outfit. The guilty PAL
>, ties we're picked out and marched off
Jail.
About midnight the other night as
- NJ. McCulley and w. ]. Neff, of Ogder
at were returning from Manhattan the
al were wavlaid and robbed Of $50 an
ID other valuables. A party was organize
nc and went in pursuit. James kint
IN. Thomas HAYES, John Murphy an
ar William II. Mccartney were arreste
tie and the stolen property found upo
,rs them. They were taken before tt
ny district court at Manhattan and wlth
II seventeen hours after the robbei
o.. sentenced to the penitentiary, Kin
40 Uaves. and Murphy for four years al
-as Mccartney three.
BY A charter for the National Woman
na Alliance was fled with the secretal
OF state recently. The incorporate
,er are the wife of Senator PETER, the WI
- of Congressman Otis, the wife Of Seer
red tarv ]. II. French. Of the State Far'
n1 ers' Alliance. Mrs Emma d. Pac
% editor of the Topeka Farmers WI
and Mrs Fannie Mccormick. wort
'oH foreman Of the Knights Of Labor. i
se' officers of the association are: NJ
r~l Fannie Mccormick. president; NJ
.wu / Emma u. Pack. secretary. and VI
sc. Birras A. Otis. treasurer. with VI
RAJ president from nearly every state.
IN, II j. said that there viii soon be sol
rel interesting developments under
and new banking law for some OF the Ct
: Germs which the superintendent OF
.til surance got after some time ago. a
3trs which were thought TO be deposit
tor s,i,utions and 50 amenable TO bank
vas laws. and are now fling stateme
49, with the bank commissioner and a
tie ing 10 have their bond-selliDg scneu
aud dirnified by law as banking busin'
To This Commissioner Johnson Is not
-. posed to DO. He informs them {
x. they must take out charters as oa
Il and be prepared TO do business accs
JAY fnr TO the specifications OF the first
So ton Of the banking act before nc
recognize them