Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-03
Miscellaneous.


A thief held up a street car at Wich-
tia in broad daylight and in the pres
ence of at least fifty passengers the
other day and at the muzzle of pistol
robbed passenger of $40 and the con-
ductor of a watch and what change he
had collected.
Three men were killed by lightning
during a recent storm in Ellsworth
county. They were Eli McHenry,
Frank Brown and William Grimes
They were sleeping on the floor of the
kitchen of McHenry's house when the
bolt descended.
State Treasurer Atherton has re-
ceived from the secretary of the treas
ury at Washington check for So, 200,
which is the seventh payment on the
special appropriation placed at the dis
posal of the agricultural colleges by
act of congress.
It has been practically settled that
the conservation of the recently elected
bishop of Kansas, Rev. Frank r. Mills
paugh, will take place in Topeka early
in Septem Der. The bishop and stand
ing committees of the Episcopal church
in TIE United States have ratified his
election.
Department Commander Harris, of
the G. A. R., has recently been on an
extensive visit attending campfires and
reunions, and his observations lead him
to believe that at least 500 Kansas
veterans and their families will attend
the national encampment at Louis
vile, KY, in September.
Within the past few weeks Topeka
has had an epidemic of suicides The
latest was that of an unknown tele-
graph operator, supposed to be named
Rogers, who wrote a note stating that
he saw no use of longer struggling
against fate and then killed himself.
This made the ninth suicide in sixty
days.
Miss Alma Buesche, youngest daugh-
ter of e. L. Buesche, a retired mer-
chant of Kansas City, Kan, committed
suicide the other day by jumping into
a pond near the family residence. She
left note stating that her head had
been troubling her for some time and
fears of insanity led her to prefer
death
The governor has appointed Hon. S.
r. Peters, of Newton; Judge NJ. g. Mich
olson, of Council Grove, and Hon. I. J.
O'Neil, of Usage City, members of the
board Of directors of the Hutchinson
reformatory. Senator Edwin Taylor.
of Wyandotte county, was offered the
place as the populist mem Der Of the
board but declined to accept it.
1t is announced that the executive
committee of the state temperance
union has decided to make a prohibit
ton campaign in the state and to that
end will put speakers in the field, pay
ing each a salary of 500 a month and
expenses. Their work will be supple
mented by the distribution of temper
ance and prohibition literature.
David Overmyer, special master in
the somewhat celebrated Black Bob
land case, has fled his report in the fed
eral court. Many of these lands have
for wears been occupied by settlers in
johnson county. According to the re-
port the settlers will have to pay for
this land (which is worth on the aver
age $50 per acre) prices ranging from
SIS to $40 per acre.
The Kansas State Mil1ers' association
was recently in session at Hutchinson.
The report made by the various mem
bers present shows a shortage in wheat
all over the state, and as consequence
one of the leading topics for discussion
was how and where will the Kansas
miller obtain wheat for the coming
year. Committees were appointed to
secure wheat from the northwest and
also from Russia. It is estimated that
:. 600. 900 bushels will have to be i'm.
ported to meet the demands of the
merchant mills.
The compilation of the states fourth
decennial census is now in full prog
ress at the Office of the state board of
agriculture. Secretary Cobura being
himself an old soldier has seen to it
that in the selection of his assistants
the old soldiers and their families were
remembered and has eleven members
of such families employed. The APP
preparation for this work is consider
ably less than it actually cost in 1855
when there were but eighty-five coun-
ties to handle as against 105 now, but
Mr.. Coburn intends to do the work
with the money available.
John Knox. recently employed in
Kansas City hotel, fell from the top of
Santa Fe passenger car. west of
LdrH0O Tile OCnCT ddy ohA was hAAACA'
Prof u. H. Robinson, who for TWEEN
ty-six years had occupied the chair of
Latin language and literature in the
state university, died at Lawrence the
other daT of typhoid fever.
Recently the 2-year-old son of Ports
| Prentis, of Atchison, drank concen-
trated I've and died next day.
Lee Morgan. proprietor of a small
restaurant at Fort Scott, shot and
probably fatally wounded Albert Shir-
| lev, a baker. the other day. The quar-
rel was over board bill of s.