The southern argus., 1891-07-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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25th. ., ron-
.os i reported as giving an extraor-
dinary yield.
T.rned wants to be an experimental
.1+;an 20 n for producing rainfall By aerial
disturbances.
The Capital Insurance Co. of Topeks
has at the request of the officers, been
nlaced in the hands of receiver.
DIR. !. ". Is. Hewitt, one of the old
settlers of Lyon county and proml-
nent allianceman, was killed by Santa
lie engine the other day
Beldcn, who was to have been hanged
at Wichita on the Goth for the murder
of Grant in Oklahoma, has been re-
spited BY the president until July u
A neighborhood quarrel led to quar-
tel between Mrs. Mary Ryan and her
husband at Leavenworth when re-
suited in Ryan shooting his wife Twice.
probably fatally.
The governor has appointed Nllilam
NJ. Rice, of Fort Scott, director OF tne
penitcntiary to succeed W. Ill. Mchrloe'
appointed state insurance commission
er. and who will enter upon the duties
of his office July l.
Topeka grocery merchants have late-
" been suffering from the depredatlons
of forgers who made u business OF pass
ing forged checks for small purchases
and receiving the change. The checks
were uniformly of the denomination OF
So
Spreading rails caused the ditchlng
of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
train near Thomas recently. The loco
motive turned over and Fireman John
Welsh was caught underneath ana
killed. The engineer, Peter Newcomo'
suffered bad injuries.
A "poor widow with large family
of children" and pleasing appearance
has recently been working the ousl-
ness men of Salina When she left 1t
was learned that she had a comforta bic
bank account and she adopts this
method of adding to 1t.
C. w. Brown and Sol Williams, living
near Johnson City, had an old feud to
settle and Williams threatened to whip
Brown and the other day attempted to
carry out the threat, when Brown
emptied shotgun into his adversary's
body, killing him almost instantly.
Both the men have families.
The board of railroad commissioners
at late meeting granted the demand
of the people of Tisdalc, Cowley county,
and ordered the Missouri Pacific ROAD
to construct and open n station house
of standard dimensions, with telegraph
and express office, and to maintain .
competent agent in charge on or before
September /.
Mrs. William Becson attempted sui
eide at Topeka recently by taking
poison. Timely discovery and medical
aid saved her life. She is dress
maker and some time since fell and
broke her arm. This prevented her
working and it was thought had some
thing to do with her attempt at sui
eide. She has husband and three
children.
The other day Francis Titeler, aged
II years, was playing at the mouth Of
an abandoned coal shaft at Weir City,
when he was overcome by black damp
and fell to the bottom of the shaft. a
distance of twcnty-eight feet. His
father ran for the shaft and started
down the ladder, when he, too, was
overcome with the gas. Both were
taken out dead.
Antonio Llama, the Mexican who cut
boys throat with n razor near Garden
City June 10, was arraigned in the dis
trict court the other dav and pleaded
guilty to the two charges OF horse
stealing and assault with intent to kill.
For the former he received a sentence
of nine years in the penitcntiary and
for the other twenty-one years. The
boy, though fearfully bruised and
gashed by his assailant, will recover
Mrs Claudia Keller, the young wife
of the ncwly-installed Baptist minister
of Leavenworth, had a startling en-
counter with burglar at an early hour
the other morning. and came near being
murdered. About four o'clock she arose
and went into an adjoining room to get
glass of water when she discovered
some one crouching in the room She
restrained a strong impulse to scream
and turned to go back, as though un-
aware of the presence of the burglar,
when he struck her on the head, rem
dering her unconscious The william
Immediately afterward fastened a small
rope around her neck with a loop and
drew it up tight. She laid unconscious
on the floor for over an hour. when her
husband awol<e from hearing her heavy
breathing and with much trouble re-
suscitated her. The burglar ESCAPED.
The senate committee appointed to
investigate the state house construction
has reported To the governor. The
committee finds that the board Of state
house commissioners having in charge
the erection If the main buiIdinr,
Of the state house had given prope-
attention to their duties: had acted
with wisdom and discretion, and had
conducted the business with ab,o-
Lutte fairness and impartiality. guarding