The historic times., 1891-10-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

livan, while crossing the railroad tracks
at Parsons the other night. was caught
by moving train and his left leg so
badly mashed that amputation was
necessary.
The Alcutt Packing Co, Kansas City,
Kan, has made an assignment Liz
abilities, Sl00, 900; assets about the
same. About 800 men were thrown out
of employment
Mrs Samuel Bunch. of Argentine.
met an agonizing death in southern
Missouri the other day. She was camp
ing with a party of friends near Butler
and while preparing dinner over n
campfire her dress took fire and she
was burned to death before assistance
reached her.
James Harrington. switchman, aged
twenty-five years, was recently killed
while switching cars at Armourdale.
The night before his sister-in-law
dreamed that he had been killed by
the cars and begged him not to go to
the yards but give up such work.
He laughed it off and went to his work
to be brought back a corpse.
Benson, under sentence of death at
Leavenworth for the murder of Mrs.
Mettman, was recently discovered stor-
ing away material for the purpose OF
cheating the gallows He had by some
means secured knife and was also ac-
cumulating poison by soaking the
heads of matches He will be hanged
| November unless the president inter
venes-
At the recent meeting of the grand
! lodge |. O. O. T. at Hutchinson officers
were elected as follows: Grand master,
DIR. NJ. b. Ward, of Topeka; deputy
grand master II. w. Pond, of Fort
Scott; grand warden, W. b. Patterson,
of Muscotah; grand secretary, John A.
Bright, of Abilene; grand treasurer, l.
c. Stine, of Ottawa; grand representa-
tive to the sovereign grand lodge, A. l..
Voorhis.
The attorney general has filed with
the supreme court an application and
affidavit for a mandamus in the case of
the state of Kansas against the Kansas
Central Railroad Co. and the Union Pa
cifc Railroad Co., defendants This is
the beginning of an action to compel
the Kansas Central road to relay its
track with steel rails, according to the
order of the railroad commissioners.
J. d. Brown, pension attorney, was
recently tried in the United States
court at Leavenworth upon the charge
of demanding excessive fees and found
guilty by the Jury. Sentence was de-
ferred. The evidence showed that in
one case he received from widow the
regular $40 allowed by law and after
wards present" of $40 when she re-
ceived her money, which Judge Philips
instructed the jury was violation of
the pension laws.
John Fowler, aged ninety-one years,
died at Emporia some days ago. lie
was born in North Carolina and came
to Kansas in 1855. He had sixteen chill
dren, ten boys and six girls, fourteen
of whom are living. Six of his sons
served in the union army. His chill
dren and progeny number 23S, of whom
1913 now reside in Kansas and most of
them in Lyon county. Five of these
are of the fifth generation, or great
great-grandchildren
The Baptist state convention, lately
in session at Atchison, elected the fol-
lowing officers: President Rev. K. w.
Atkinson, of Ottawa; vice-president
DIR. L. J. Warren, of Clay Center; sec
retary, L. H. Holt, Of Emporia; treas
urer, j. r. Mulvane, of Topeka The
following new members were elected
on the board of trustees of Ottawa uni
versity: NJ. S. Smalley, of Hiawatha;
Rev L. r. Crawford of Ottawa; Rev.
r. Il. Thomas, of Topeka, and X. f.
Waggener, of Atchison.
A late wreck on the Santa Fe road,
ten miles south of Wichita, resulted In
the instantaneous death of two men,
fatal injuries to another and the tract
uring and scalding of two more. The
men were on an engine sent down tc
the relief of q stock train dltched near
Derby and which jumped the track
The killed were Frank Mulvey, yard
master; Thomas Wade, fireman Ia
tally injured, Phil Reimer, engineer
, both legs fractured and terribly burned
Badly hurt, Frank Young, leg broken
and Jim Martin, fractured leg and ribs
All resided at Wichita.
Gov Humphrey has addressed let
ter to the attorney-general informing
him that the governor is unofiicially in
formed that the Missouri Kansas &
Texas railway has not yet obeyed tbs
order to remove their headquarter r
from Sedalia, Mo, to Kansas, in com
pliance with the Kansas law, which
requires corporations chartered In Kan
sas TO maintain headquarters In the
state. The governor directs the 81
torney-general TO ascertain IL his IN
formation is correct, and, If II Is 81
found to be, TO commence immediate
!, proceedings to revoke the railway
: compauy's charter
The democratic state central com
nittee met at Topeka on the 18Th A
resolution was passed indorsing the
action OF Chairman Jones and express
7. ing confidence in his judgm ment in re
gard TO the conduct Of the fall cam
pairn, and resolution was also adopt
!, ed that the committee deem j; unwis'
: and inexpedient To interfere with loca
. politics Of the different counties in ths
state. trusting that their own goos