The Globe-republican., 1891-06-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Kansas, has been elected chancellor of
the Nebraska state university.
A wreck on the Kansas Central road
near Havenville the other day. resulted
in the death of the fireman, G. W. Pur-
sell
Patents lately issued to Kansas in
vents'rs: Running gear, c. l. Lanks,
Fredonia; dough kneader, Lydia Stock
well. Atchison
The city assessor Of Topeka gives tho
population of the city as 1921, an in
crease of 2,247 over the United States
census of last year.
The teachers in the state institution
for the blind at Kansas City (Kan.)
have been removed and new instructors
put in their places
In the United States court at Leaven-
worth Charles A. Benson was found
Utility of the murder of Mrs. Mettman
The penalty is hanging.
Prof. Garfield has resigned his chair
in the state university to accept the
chancellorship of the Nebraska univer-
sity to which he was recently elected.
The trial of Mrs Rautzahn, who is
charged with being an accessory to the
murder of Mrs. Mettman at Leaven-
worth, has been postponed to Septem-
ber
The president has appointed Hon.
| Henry c. Sluss, of Wichita, one of the
! judges of the new court for the settle
ment of Spanish and Mexican land
claims.
Lewis Locker. who recently escaped
from private insane asylum at Atchi-
son, was few days later killed by the
cars some distance west of that city.
He was German, unmarried and quite
we'll Off
The returns of the assessor of Atchi-
, son gives the city population of 49,
97S. This is considerably short of the
! figures of the government enumerators,
which were also complained Of and
recount demanded.
Sam Tolle shot and fatally wounded
John Davis the other night near Rox-
bury, a small place about five miles
from Lindsborg. They We're quarrel
ing when Davis seized a stick to strike
Tolle, but Tolle got out his pistol and
fired three shots at Davis at only few
feet range.
Mrs. James Curtis, of Atch ison, went
to Lincoln. Neb., some time since to
see sick brother. Upon her return to
Atchison she found neither home nor
husband. In her absence he had sold
everything and skipped, leaving his wife
with four small children to care for.
S. w. Busbee, of Lockwood, Mo-,
while passing through Fort Scott the
other night with train load of stock
on the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis railroad. was caught by
passing train and his arm almost torn
from his body. He lived only two hours.
Frank Luce, an employee in the Santa
Fe shops at Emporia, attempted to pass
around an engine just as it started to
back out of the roundhouse in that town
the other night when he slipped and
fell under the engine, which instantly
tore him to pieces. He leaves wife
and five children.
The charter of the Western Irrigation
and Land Co. was fled the other day
with the secretary of state. The head
quarters of this company are at Topeka
and Lakin, kearney county. The cap
ital stock is $3.50, 600. and the objects of
the company are the construction and
maintenance of dams and canals for ir-
rigation purposes south of the Arkansas
river.
While temporarily insane Mrs An
ME Tudors the other night attempted
to burn up her two-weeks-old babe at
Wichita. Her husband, who was sleop-
ing in an adjoining room, was awak-
ened by the mother and entering the
room saw her leaning over the babe,
lighted match in hand. Near by was a
coal oil can and On picking up the child
its wrapings were found to be saturated
with the oil
In the United States circuit court
at Leavenworth the other day, Mr..
Justice Brewer presiding, an order
was entered in the case of the Mercan-
tile Trust Co. against the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas Railway Co. and others,
satisfyin ing the decree Of foreclosure here
tofcre entered in that case and direct
ing the receivers to turn over the rail-
way and property of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas system to the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railway Co. on July 1.
At Centralia, on the Central Branch
road. the other day, an Arkansas Sheriff
boarded an east-bound train just as it
was pulling out of the station, to arrest
George S. Elwood, well-known stock
dealer of Greenleaf, on a charge of
committing fraud to the extent of
$4,000 on cattle bill of laaing. Elwood
saw the officer while the train was
moving at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour and jumped off. The officer also
jumped and chased his man to the
woods, mile away, where he captured
him.
The nine-year-old son of Lewis Gar
nett was herding cattle about ten miles
west of Garden City recently when
Mexican tramp came along and de-
manded the horse he was riding. The
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