The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-02-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS

F. W. Murphy, lately employed as
bookkeeper BY l. II. Wood & Co., real
estate and insurance agents of Kansas
City, Kan. was recently brought back
from Milwaukee to answer the charge
of embezzling from the firm
Captain Jacob B. Chase, who was q
member of the party of four that select
ed the site for the city of Topeka in
November, 1854. died the other day at
his home in Newburyport. Mass The
other three died several years ago
Hubert Taylor, young man charged
with embezzlement of few hundred
dollars as station agent of the Missouri
Pacific road at Connor, and who fed to
Canada, was recently arrested in Mont
real aud returned by q Pnkerton de-
tective.
The Missouri Pacific repair shops and
round house in the Cypress yards at
Kansas City, Kan, together with
eighteen large locomotives, were de-
stroyed by fire the other night Tho
loss aggregated SITS, 200, principally on
the engines. Only one freight engine
was saved
The John D. Knox & Co. investment
banking house at Topeka has assigned.
The Liabilities will reach $500. 900 and
the assets are principally lands, eQ uities,
unpaid coupons, bills discounted, tax
sale certificates, etc. Mr.. Knox claims
that on fair valuation they will aggre-
gate s45o, 600.
Three young girls who had been ex-
| v,ol1o1 fxO,,, eoh4o1 o. yVioh;$o ooVl>o<nl
all their trinkets, which they converted
into cash, and the other day started on
q south-bound train for Texas with life
full of great expectations. They were
soon captured and sent home. They
had reached the mature age of Is years.
The House Committee appointed to
investigate the actions of the Board of
the State House Commissioners went to
work in the State Auditors office with
a force of clerks examining all the
vouchers and records pertaining to the
| State House construction from the
time of the commencement of the
building of the west wing until tho
present time-eleven years.
While making a speech to large
| audience in Representative Hall at
Topeka on the evening of the 10th. T. v.
Powderly, grand master workman of
the Knights of Labor, fell to the ros-
trum from heart failure. He soon re-
covered, however, and was escorted to
his hotel. He had been speaking for
three hours when he was attacked. He
has Cancelled all other Western engage
ments.
The House committe sent to Hutchin-
son to examine the reformatory report
ed in favor of temporarily changing the
institution into a lunatic asylum. It Is
the idea of the committee that the re-
formatory building should not not be
remodeled and should only be used as
an asylum until a new asylum can be
built. The committee advises building
a new asylum on the reformatory
grounds.
Secretary Mohler, of the State Board
of Agriculture, has received exceeding
" encouraging reports of the condition
of winter wheat. In fact, he says that
it looks much better now than It has at
any season for several years The
weather has been favorable, the ground
is we'll supplied with moisture and the
threatened damage from the Hessian fly
has been averted
When the bookkeeper of the bank Of
Eldorado entered the bank in that city
the other morning he fouSd Frank
Mills, the janitor of the building, dead
on the floor. with bullet in his brain.
Mills left his family the previous night,
after bidding them good-by. The coro-
ner returned a verdict of suicide FL
nancial troubles were assigned. Mills
was a young man and left family.
Five thousand veterans attended the
recent meeting of the G. A. R. at Ar
kansas City. Resolutions asking Con-
gress to open the Cherokee Strip were
passed. Eloquent addresses were de-
livered by General Mccarthy, Judge
Hanback, and Colonel Emmett Callahan.
As Callahan was speaking a telegram
announced the death of General Sher-
man and the speaker paid a warm
tribute to the memory of the departed
hero.
Frank woodward, respectable cob
ored farmer, who lived near Atchison,
was fatally shot late the other after
noon. He was out hunting with COM
panion, and coming to vacant house
in field opened the door, when both
barrels of shotgun were discharged
into his breast. The owner of the house
had it stored with corn, and having
been bothered by thieves, set the death
dealing trap.
The State Federation of Labor, at its
recent session in Topeka, elected the
following officers: l. i. Brown, Tope-
ka, president; Robert Tompkins. Atchi-
son, first vice-president: L. c. Spencer,
Emporia, second vice-president; P. S.
Cook, Topeka, secretary; n. S. johnson,
treasurer; c. A. Coffin, Topeka, ser
geant-at-arms; council, c. b. McElroy,
of Hutchinson; c. c. Bishop, of Kansas
City, Kan, and Henry Wolf, of Topeka.
Cora Sewell and Rosa Mcdonald, two
young seamstresses, came near losing
their lives by asphyxiation at Leaven-
worth the other night. They retired to
bed leaving the stove door open with a
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