The southern argus., 1891-06-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Prof Garfield, OF the university Oh
Kansas, has been elected chancellor oil
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-
cell.
Patents lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Running gear, C. L. Lanks,
Fredonia; dough kneader, Lydia Stock
well, Atchison-
The city assessor of Topeka gives the
population of the city rs 33,247, 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 Lcaven-
worth Charles A. Benson was found
guilty 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 Septcm-
| ber
The president has appointed Hon
Henry c. Sluss, of Wichita, enc 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 Il few days later killed by the
cars some distance west of that city.
lie was German, unmarried and quite
well Off
The returns of the assessor of Atchi-
son gives the city a population of 49,
97S. This is considerably short of the
figures of the government cnumerators,
which were also complained of aud
recount demanded.
Sam Tolle shot and fatally wounded
John Davis the other night near Rox-
bury, small place about five miles |
from Lindsborg They were quarrel
ing when Davis seized q 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, Ncb., some time since to
sec 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
oil al, l.
s. w. Busbec, 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 a
passing train and his arm almost torn
from his body. lie lived only two hours
Frank Luce, an employe 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
Tell under the engine, which instantly |
tore him TO pieces He leaves wife |
and five children.
Ahe charter of the Western Irrigation
md Land Co. was filed the other dav
|
quarters OF this company are at Topeka I
ma Lakln, kearney county. The cap
tai stock is $3.50, 600, and the objects of :
he company are the construction and :
maintenance of dams and canals for ir- {
1gation purposes south of the Arkansas q
liver.
While temporarily insane Mrs An +
lie Tudors the other night attempted z
burn up her two-weeks-old babe at {,
Wichita. Her husband, who was sleep a
ng IN an adj lining roOm was awak- I
ned by the mother and entering the a
Dom saw her leaning over the babe. :,
ghtcd match in hand Near by was n
oal oil can and on picking up the child N
S wraplngs were found to be saturated
18th the OIL II
In the United States circuit court h
Lcavcnworth the other dav Mr. u
ustlcc Brewer presiding, an order u
as entered In the case of the Mercan- ,u
ie trust TO. against the Missouri, Kan u
Is d Texas Railway Co. and others. Sc
ltstylng the decree of foreclosure here tf
'fore entered in that case and direct ~
Z the receivers to turn over the rail
ay and property of the Missouri. Kan m
IS X Texas system to the Missouri m
ansas 4 Texas Railway Co. onJulv / dc
At Centralia, on the Central Branch "a
ad, the other day. an Arkansas Sber;g sh
'arded an east-bound train inst as {, an
as pulling out of the station. To arreS, ar ar
Jorge ;. Elwood, a well-known stool, Ca
aier of Greenleaf, on charce ~ wi
mmltt'ng fraud to the extent of tn
900 on cattle bill of lading. EIvood I'd,
w the officer while the train was a..
oFlng at the rate of fifteen miles an pr
ur and jumped off. The officer also in
nped and chased his man 10 the pl,
'odS, mile away, where he captured oT
n. a.,
nc nine-year-old son of Lewis Gar. ret
u was herding cattle about ten miles on,
II OF Garden City recently when n ira
xlcan tramp came along and de. lea
'nded the horse he was riding. The act act
refused t. give up the horse. and :,
wretch at once seized the bov sec