The Globe-republican., 1891-03-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Frank MckOon, aged Is years, VINO
lived at Fontana, was run over and
killed by freight engine on the Gulf
road at that place the other day.
The United States Savings bank at
Topeka has made an assignment for
! the benefit of its creditors The presi-
dent w. c. Knox, is son of John D.
Knox, who also failed some time since.
| The Kansas delegation to the third
party conference to be held in Cincin-
natl May 90 will leave Topeka May II.
Two Pullman cars have been engaged
for the accommodation of those who
will attend from this state.
William B. Munson, agent in Kansas
City. Kan, of the Royal Insurance Co.
of Liverpool, the Northern of London
and the Hamburg Bremen of Germany,
has been arrested charged with the en-
bezzling of 81, 400 belonging to the vari-
Gus companies. The money was lost in
gambling.
Reports received at the agricultural
department from 80 of the 1O6 counties
in the state bring encouraging news re-
garding the wheat outlook. In four
ffths of the counties reporting the crop
is better than ever before reported in
the history of the state.
A careful examination of the condi-
ton of the wheat in Clay county showed
it to be unsurpassed in the history Of
was % cent. more than that of any pre-
ceding year, and, coupled with the ex-
cellent condition of the plant. makes
the prospect for a heavy crop most en-
couraging.
The receipts of live stock at the Kan
sas City, Kan, stock yards for the week
ended March is, were 1850 cattle, 263
calves, Att hogs, 6,26l sheep and 657
horses and mules. Twenty head Of
choice beef cattle from Leavenworth
county, weighing on an average 1000
for many months.
Marshall I. Frame, prominent law
yer of Atchison, died the other night
from the effects of injuries received in
| runaway accident about week pre-
vious. The accident was caused by an
unknown farmer, who refused to give
part of the road and crowded Mr..
Frames buggy into a narrow place,
! where a collision resulted and the horse
took fright.
While the session of the legislature
large number of general laws passed,
yet great many local measures passed
that body. OF these there were more
than twice as many as any previous ses-
sion enacted The number Of bills in
troduced during the session was 1874.
of which S54 originated in the house and
400 in the senate. Less than one-fifth
of the bills introduced became laws.
:. Ben Grant. a Top ,ka negro, shot and
instantly killed his white wife the other
afternoon. The only witness was the
woman's little daughter four years Of
age, the child of former marriage.
The report to the police was not made
until an hour after the killing occurred
and by that time Grant had made his
escape. Jealousy was unquestionably
the cause of the murder. Grant is rep
resented as being a desperate negro.
He speaks Spanish and it is though will
attempt to reach Mexico, where he
lived once.
Tie two-year-old daughter of Samuel
Sells, of Lawrence, was fatally burned
the other day. The father had made a
bonfire of rubbish and leaves in the
yard and had gone to the barn, when
the little child wandered out of the
louse and fell into the fire. Its cries
called the mother to the rescue, but
the little one was one sheet of flame.
The mother tore the burning garments
from the child and finally succeeded ia
extinguishing the flames, but not until
it had been horribly burned. The
mother was terribly burned also.
Murder in the second degree was the
verdict recently returned by the jury
at Wichita, after being ont all night,
in the case of the Mexican tomala man,
Camello Lopes. The murder was com
mitted in January. A colored woman,
into whose room Lopes had broken and
whom he attempted to assault, escaped
and sought protection with a neighbor
named Dobbs and his wife. Lopes fol-
lowed and with butcher knife at
tackled all three unfortunately, kill
ing Dobbs on the spot and horribly
mutilating the two women. Much in
dignation was expressed at the verdict
Pensions were granted the following
Kausans on the 18th: Elias Reever,
William H. Low, Barney Mills. Leander
Porter, Seneca Tyler, Daniel Mckinley,
John NJ. Wolf, George Daum. Hiram
Wing, John c. Milton, Jonathan E.
Jones, David ]. Kelley, Clark Randall,
John Larney, John c. Cooper, John b.
Hess. Law Hellawell, Louis G. Com
paret, Frank L. Pound, George w.
Cory, Robert Reynolds, Silas Cooper.
Adam Fries, Samuel A. Dillman,
Christian Raft. William ]. Davis,
Daniel 3. Wright, John Brown,
William Hogan, Spencer John
Dyer, Joseph Berry. Elijah
Hale, William F. Benson, William Dem
nible. Richard Shivers, George W.
Kiser, Barney J. Robson, Charles D.
Cowan, William B. Hutchinson, John Il.
Johnston, Charles n. Ella, Theodore
| Cessna, William Ross, Benjamin F.
Pottorff, William L. Millen, William
Martin, Ransom H. Gle, Samuel Nc
Chung, Emanuel Linsea, James Shearn,
| Amos C. d. BRIGGS Thomas BetteS