The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-06-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Burglars have recently been troubling
the people of Leavenworth.
The post office at Edwardsville was
recently r9bbcd of about SO worth of
stamps
William Bell 81 years old, wss
drowned while fishing in Pottawotamie
creek at Osawatomie the other day.
The regents of the state university, at
q recent meeting. elected Prof. F. w.
Blackmar to fill the chair made vacant
by the resignation of Prot Garfield
A charter was recently fled with the
secretary of state for the Broom Corn
Association of Kansas The purposes
are to build warehouses for the storing
of broom corn to be sold through their
agents Capital stock, $4,000.
Mrs D. NJ Smith was found dead in
her room at Topeka the other day. She
had been dead two days when found
She was about As years of age and her
only son is brakeman on the Santa
Fe. He was out on the road at the
time of his mothers death and she was
| alone.
The secretary of the state board of
agriculture estimates the winter wheat
crop of Kansas this year at IS, 0o0. 600
bushels The area is placed at 2 9O0,-
900 acres In addition to this there ar
10. 600 acres of spring wheat which vii
bring the total crop of the state up to
60. 600, 600 bushels
| In the United States court at Leaven-
worth on the 18th Judge Riner over.
ruled the motion for a new trial in the
case of c. A. Benson, found guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Mettnan, and sem
fenced Benson to be hanged November
s. 1t is now thought the case will 20
to the supreme court of the United
States
The post Office department has made
the following REIMBURSEMENT of salaries
of Kansas postmasters: Arkansas City,
from s., 400 to $4,000; Junction City,
$1,000 to So, 600; Kansas City. $1,000 to
81, 700; Lawrence, 81, 700 to 81 600; New
ton. 81, 200 to 81, 100; Parsons, 81. 100 to
50, 200: Pittsburgh. $1,000 to S2,1OO;
Wellington, 81, 100 to 81, 1000.
In the United States circuit court at
Leavenworth the other morning the de-
cree of foreclosure aud sale of the Kan
sas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
| railroad was entered on the record.
The sale will take place next December
in Topeka, and is to satisfy a claim of
S., $50. 600, exclusive of interest on the
unpaid coupons. by the Farmers Loan
& Trust Co.. of New York.
The State Millers' association, in ses-
sion at Newton, elected officers as fol-
lows: President George H. Hunter, of
Wellington; first vice president, William
Kelley, of Great Bend; second vice.
president w. F. Soden, of Emporia;
treasurer, E. A. Colburn. of McPher-
son; secretary, c. v. Toppin, of Enter
| prise. 1t was decided that the next
| meeting of the association be held at
Great Bend October :. Resolutions were
adopted favoring reciprocity with Mex
| leo.
The United States Savings bank at
Topeka, which failed some time ago,
| for the discharge of the receiver in Or
der that business might be resumed.
The bank claims to have received
enough subscriptions to its stock since
the failure to pay all of its indebted
ness. 1t is now asserted that it can re-
open with from Sl25. 900 to $4,000 in
cash in its vaults, nearly all the stock
holders having subscribed for 40 per
cent additional stock.
Rev. A. H. Tevis, pastor of the Wash
ington Avenue Methodist church. Kan
sas City, Kan. has brought suit against
Rev. E. w. Gill, presiding elder of the
Leavenworth conference, for SANDER,
claiming damage in the sum of $50. 600.
Rev. Tevis alleges that Rev. Gill, at
Washington (Kan.) conference. last
spring. slanderously circulated among
the bishops and elders present a mali
cious report that he (Tevis) was an
habitual user of choral and opium, and
this for the purpose of inducing the
conference to remove him from the
pastorate of the church.
Twenty years ago William B. Lingow,
until lately one of the leading farmers
of Sedgwick county, married Mary
Henry in Kansas City, Mo. The couple
took up a claim, where they have lived
ever since, and have had eleven chill
dren. For three years the husband
has made a practice of visiting Arkan-
sas periodically, ostensibly for his
health, and that is where he was re-
Gently when the sheriff of Sedgwick
county received a letter from the sher-
if of Crawford county. Ark, making
inquiry about Lingow and stating that
he was living in Van Buren, with a wife
he had deserted twenty-five years ago
and whom he had visited periodically
for three years Lingow is now under
arrest
Chancellor Snow, in letter to the
state board of agriculture regarding
the new wheat pest, says it is what is
known as the wheat straw worm,
which has done much injury to wheat
in Illinois, and did some damage to the
crop in Kansas in 1855 It seems to
flourish best in wet weather. 1t is a
pest almost as injurious as the Hessian
fly and nothing can be done to prevent
its depredations upon the present crop.