The Globe-republican., 1891-05-20
Miscellaneous.

| MISCELLANEOUS
Mrs VIM, of Coronado. was recently
killed BY the accidental discharge of a
gun while returning with party from
! pleasure trip in the mountains of
| Colorado.
Fred Fl. Thwing, president of the
American national bank, who was ar
rested recently at Arkansas City for
fraudulent transactions in buying a
patent of John II. Munson, of Chicago,
has been acquitted.
The old Planters house stable at
Leavenworth was entirely destroyed by
fire early the other morning, four
horses perishing in the flames and all
the carriages and buggies were de-
stroyed, some of them the property Of
private parties
Mrs S. A. Smith, an elderly woman,
recently assaulted George Groves, a
young attorney, upon the streets of
brella, because Groves made uncompli-
mentary remarks about her while argu-
ing a case in court.
In his recent report Prof. Snow, of
the university, said that cold rains
would kill out the young chinch bugs
that were appearing in the wheat
fields. According to the dispatches the
cold rain fell very freely on the night
of the 10th. The chinch bust must 60.
Not less than LOCO Sunday school
workers attended the late state Sunday
school convention at Emporia- The
convention passed resolution con-
demning our state department for the
effort made to enlarge our beer trade
in Mexico, Central America and South
America
The other evening Mrs. John Koph
and her daughter were held up by two
negro footpads on the streets of Leav-
enworth and robbed of a satchel con-
tanning four dollars. The same even
ing Mrs. Luther Chaplin was held up
and robbed of her satchel containing
two dollars.
Carbondale was considerably excited
recently over the attempt of young
negro named Frey to criminally assault
Mrs. Mitchell, widow living alone
near the town. The negro was arrested
and nothing but the utmost vigilance
on pdrC VI Tic S6NcO
him from being lynched.
A special agent of the American In
surance Co. of Philadelphia was re-
Gently arrested at Leavenworth on a
warrant sworn out by James G. Gra-
ham, an insurance agent of that city,
for a violation of a state law approved
March Q, 1889. prohibiting the existence
of trusts, and more especially boards of
underwriters.
The twenty fifth annual meeting of
the Kansas medical association, recent
ly held at Wichita, elected officers as
follows: DR.. j. E. Oldham, Wichita,
president; DR.. A. H. Corder. Mcpherson,
first vice-president: DIR: John T. Axtell,
Newton, second vice-president; Dr.. L.
A. Buck, Peabody, treasurer, and DR..
w. S. Lindsey, Topeka, secretary.
A deputy United States. marshal left
Topeka recently for Girard to arrest a
post Office thief. The officer went with
pistols and handouts, prepared to en-
counter a desperate, but what was his
surprise to discover that the supposed
desperate criminal was q barefoot boy
of only II years. His name Is Harry
Raymond and he stands accused of rob
bling the post Office of s76.
The other morning Miss Bertha Kopf,
of Leavenworth, arose from her bed
while under spell of somnambulism,
went to the we'll. which is sixty feet
deep, and let herself down by the chain.
On reaching the water the chill aroused
her SO that she screamed in a manner
to wake her parents and bring them to
her aid. Holding tightly to the well
chain she was drawn to land, when she
fell in fainting fit She had been suf-
fering from an attack of la grippe.
The Kansas Knights Templar, lately
in annual conclave at Parsons, elected
the following officers: Right eminent
grand commander. Winfield S. Corbett,
of Wichita: very eminent grand COM
mander, Edward S. Culp, of Salina:
eminent grand generalissimo, Clark
Gray, of Larned; eminent grand cap
tain general, Alexander G. Robb, of
McPherson: eminent grand prelate, T.
C. Upper, of Leavenworth; eminent
grand treasurer, Christian Beck, of
Leavenworth; eminent grand recorder,
John H. Brown, of Kansas City; emf
nent grand senior warden, Robert E.
Lorrington, of Wichita: eminent grand
junior warden, w. c. Holmes, of Par.
sons; eminent grand standard bearer,
George c. Kenyon, Of Abiline; eminent
grand sword bearer, Daniel w. Nellis,
of Topeka; eminent grand warden, Ed
Hayes, of Wellington. Newton was
chosen as the place for the next annual
conclave.
c. August Heggelund. president of
the Second National bank of McPher-
son, who was shot on March last in a
mysterious manner in the alley back Of
his house, was arrested the other morn.
ing ON the complaint of the represents
tives of the Dunkard college of Nc
Pherson- The charge is the embezzle-
ment of $1,000.
Judge C. G. Foster. of the United
States district court, who has been seri- |
ously i'll for several months, will go to
Germany to receive the benefits Of the |
Carlsbad springs water.
Charles Knettle, q farmer living