The Globe-republican., 1891-07-08

KANSAS STATE NEWS
Fred Stewart was recently drowned
while bathing in the lake near Man
haitian.
Peavey 4 Co.. of Chicago. have leased
the Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The
elevator has q capacity Of LIS. 900 BUSH
els
The United States savings bank at
Topeka, which suspended some time
ago. has resumed business with ample
cash to pay all depositors
Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-old son
of j. D. Jones. q prominent cattleman
of Kiowa, was struck and instantly
killed by lightning the other morning.
Gus Grassage, . man in charge of
load of Mexican cattle, was knocked
from an early morning train by low
bridge at Emporia the other day and
fatally injured.
Mrs Rautzahn is having hard work
securing bonds at Leavenworth. The
feeling is said to be strongly against
her, as she is believed to be guilty with
Benson in the killing of her mother,
Mrs Mettman.
The close Of the fiscal year shows IN
Kansas 1,S11 post Offices. During the
year forty were established and sixty
seven discontinued This year Kansas
loses twenty.seven offices, while last
year the state gained twenty-three.
The sheriff at Dodge City has in
formed shippers of cattle from New
Mexico and Arizona that he has estab-
lished a quarantine against their cattle
and will not permit them to be fed or
unloaded at Dodge City. The cattle
men, it is said, will appeal to the gov
ernor.
A destructive storm burst upon Ar
kansas City and vicinity at an early
hour on the morning of the Goth. Hail
broke hundreds of windows. knocked
fruit from trees and riddled garden truck
and melons The wind leveled thousands
of acres of grain and corn to the
ground.
John Spence, Is years old, premature
~ attempted to celebrate the Fourth on
the first of July at Kansas City Kan
by firing a toy cannon. A package of
powder exploded badly burning his
hands and eyes and rendering him un-
conscious. He will probably lose both
eyes
Charles Lease, the sixteen-year-old
son of Mrs. NJ. E. Lease, the alliance
lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita
on the charge of stealing check and
gold watch, the property of an insur-
ance man named NJ. E. Corn. The
youth was q student in the county at
! torney's Office.
A colored man named Wilson, whose
home is in Topeka, met with bad ac-
cident at the Santa Fe depot in Leaven-
worth the other day. He attempted to
jump off car while a flying switch
was being made and got one foot on
the track, which was crushed from the
knee down in frightful manner. The
J leg had to be amputated
A fearful accident occurred in Ar
mour's Touring mill at Emporia the
other day. S. NJ. Summers. the miller,
undertook to crawl over huge wheel
| while it was in motion, when his cloth
ing caught and he was spun rapidly
round a few times and finally dashed
with great force against an upright
shaft Both legs were broken and his
body made mass of bruises. Strange
to say hopes were entertained of his re.
covery.
Senator Plumb, while lately in Tope-
ka, was asked in regard to the prospect
of the passage of free silver coinage
act by the next congress. and replied
that the matter was problematical II
was hard to foreteu what could be done
by the champions of the white metal
He said that the hard money advocates
were so very hard that they appeared
unwilling to listen to a compromise
and the free silver men were not as yet
strong enough to ''knock down anG
drag out"
The executive committee Of the Farm
ers' Alliance, with the state officers and
the congressional lecturers, met recent
" at Topeka to perfect an organization
The state will be divided into congress
| S1Oual> COuuty anu W" AAoAAP AVS ASA0Ss'S
councils, of which the lecturer in charge
of the district will be chairman The
township chairman will report to thu
county chairman, the latter to the con
gressional chairman and the congress
sional chairman to the state lecturer
Van b Prather, who will be subject Il
the national council
Two Shawnee county farmers lately
had a lawsuit over the ownership of I
dog. One finally proposed to the othe
that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kil
rain style, which was agreed to. A
the appointed hour and place friends o
the two were gathered to see the fight
The battle was for blood, and at tn
end of thirty minutes it was declared
draw. One man lost a finger and tw
teeth, the other lost part of an ear ant
received a black eye. The principal
then took the train for Topeka to b.