The southern argus., 1891-10-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ROBERT Ferguson, an eleven-year-oid |
Ooy, was recently overcome by heat
"mle going home from school at Kan
saS Clty, Kan. He was found In
bunch of weeds in an unconscious CO.
dition.
A general strike among the coal
miners at Leavenworth was inaugural
ed on the 18th The strike was for an
advance of half cent per bushel for
mining coal Several hundred men
were out
Mayor Gluck, of Dodge City, was re-
Gently fined SlOO in the district court
and ousted from Office, being found
guilty of having personal knowledge OF
a saloon in his building and not taxing
any official action against it
There will be three sugar mills IN
operation in Kansas this fall, one at
Topeka, one at Fort Scott and one at
Medicine Lodge. The mill at Topeka
was burned last year and has been re-
built with improved machinery.
Mrs. Harlan, of Nortonville, while
lately in Atchison stepped on banana
peeling and fell upon the stone side
walk. Her injuries were not believed
to be serious at first, but she grew
worse after being taken home and
died.
The Kansas Woman's Press associa-
ton will meet in the hall of the house
Of representatives at Topeka October
at three p. m. In the evening the
meeting will be open to the public and
the music will be under the auspices OF
the Topeka Press club.
About twelve o'clock the other night
Miss Helen Tiefenbrun, a popular plan
ist of Atchison, shot and wounded Il
burglar who was trying to enter her
room. The man escaped, however,
with the assistance of friends. He was
tracked several blocks by the blood on
the sidewalk.
Miss Matte Freezing, of Leaven-
worth, recently committed suicide at
Kansas City, Mo-, by taking morphine.
She had gone to Kansas City to take a
position as clerk in a store, and the
morning after arriving was found dead
in bed Mental arrangement is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Because she would not marry him,
Elijah Watts, drunken printer, shot
and mortally wounded Miss Kate Hal
loran at Topeka the other morning, and
then blew out his own brains. Miss
Halloran was a printer engaged on the
Capital and at three o'clock in the
morning started home, accompanied by
another compositor in the Office. when
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The assassin then ran about a block
when he shot and killed himself.
The United States savings bank of
| Topeka, which failed March 1S last and
reopened July 2, was again placed in
the hands of receiver the other morn
ing. William Sims, eX-state treasurer,
was appointed receiver by Judge Guth-
RE. upon complaint of stockholder
The complaint was that the bank was
in no condition to stand the rigid exam
nations of the new banking law and
that certain failure would follow if
the bank should try to continue to do
business.
The other evening eight showmen
travelling with Wallace's circus stopped
Southern Kansas train at Dayton,
| and covering the engineer and fireman
| with revolvers entered coach, beat an
officer so severely that he has since
| died, and rescued a comrade who was
under arrest. They then escaped to
! the strip. The sheriff of Cowley county
| summoned posse of fifty men, inter
| cepted the circus train at Arkansas City
| aDd captured the manager of the show
and the whole outfit. The guilty par
| ties were picked out and marched off to
! Jail.
A charter for the National Woman's
| Alliance was filed with the secretary
| of state recently. The incorporators
are the wife of Senator PETER, the wife
| of Congressman Otis, the wife of Score
tary J. Il. French, of the State Farm
| ers' Alliance, Mrs Emma ID. Pack,
editor of the Topeka Farmers Wife,
and Mrs. Fannie Mccormick, worthy
| foreman of the Knights of Labor. The
| officers of the association are: Mrs.
Fannie Mccormick, president; Mrs.
| Emma d. Pack, secretary, and Mrs.
| Birras A. Otis treasurer. with vice.
president from nearly every state.
! About fifteen months ago Samuel
| Fisher q merchant of Oswego, died
suddenly while no one was present but
| his wife. Less than two months age
| his widow married j. NJ. Hart, a stock
man residing near the town. Early
| the other morning Hart was found
| lying in bed with his brains oozing out
! of a bullet hole in his forehead. He
! was unconscious and lived about an
| hour. Mrs. Hart stated that she was
| awakened by her husband throwing
| his arm on her. that she then heard
| him grooming and she found him in the
| condition stated. His revolver, with
one chamber empty, was lying beside
| him.
! 1t is said that there will soon be some
interesting developments under the
| new banking law for some of the con
Germs which the superintendent of in,
/ surance got after some time ago, and
/ which were thought to be deposit In
/ situations and so amenable to banking
| laws, and are now filing statements
/ with the bank commissioner and ask
/ ing 10 have their bond-selliug schemes