Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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dered the re-establishment of the free
delivery mail service at Newton.
John G. Haskell, of Topeka, has been
chosen to superintend the construction
of all buildings for the state board of
charities.
Charles Dunl1lin, 10 years old, went
swimming in the Kaw river at Topeka
while recently attending a picnic and
was drowned.
By the falling of the grand stand
during recent game of a baseball at
Coffeyville number of persons were
seriously injured.
The governor has refused to sign the
death warrant of Taylor Cook, the
wife murderer in the penitentiary who
made the request.
The elevator at Putnam, Harvey
county, was recently burned, together
with $4,000 bushels of wheat. Loss.
$4,000, with small insurance.
The attorney for Senator Rogers has
fled suit in the supreme court to GUST
0. L. Moore. who was appointed regent
of the state university to succeed
Rogers.
c. c. Tincher, 10 years old, whose
parents reside at Topeka, went to Kan
sas City the other day and committed
suicide by jumping into the Missouri
river from the Hannibal railroad
bridge.
In the district court at Hutchinson
the other day Eph Bane was sentenced
to SO days in jail and to pay fine of
81, roo for selling whisky. Bane was
convicted at the April term of court.
He appealed.
Warden Lynch, of the penitentiary,
who succeeds Chase, has appointed D.
w. NALL deputy warden, Albert Schil
ling chief clerk, John Prescott store
keeper and John Price chief transpor-
tation messenger.
Tom Butterwicl1, 10 years of age,
and his brother George, aged Is, sons
of we'll known Wyandotte county
farmer. were struck by lightning and
killed while at work in field on their
fathers farm the other afternoon.
It is not thought likely that state
fair will be held at Topeka this fall.
The old fair association has gone to
pieces and the grounds made famous
by state expositions in the Yeas gone
by have been leased to local korsemen.
Irving Black, treasurer of school dis
trict %, Ellsworth county, was arrested
for embezziing 81, 400 from the district.
He was bound over in $500 bonds. This
is another case growing out of the
Treasurer Dick defalcation of last Oc-
tober.
The chinch bug station at Fort Scott
has been recently sending out num-
bers of boxes of inoculated bugs to
farmers Reports from the localities
where bugs have been sent are very
encouraging and the experiment in the
county is said to be a success.
Frank Williams, Cheyenne county
farmer, recently shot his wife, Mr..
Smith and Miss Smith, but not fatally.
He then Drained his two little children
with a Ratchet and killed himself. The
woman was his second wife and the
children were by his first wife.
Doctor Philip Gillette, for over thirty
seven years superintendent of the in.
stitution for the deaf and dumb at
Jacksonville, ILL.,, the largest of the
kind in the world, has been rendered
the superintendencv Of the state insti-
tute for the deaf and dumb at Olathe.
The superintendent of insurance has
revoked the authority of the Mutual
Reserve Fund Life association, of New
York, and the Covenant Mutual Benefit
association, of Galesburg, ILL.,, to do
business in Kansas, because of nom
compliance with the state insurance
law.
1t is stated that State Senator Rog-
ers, who recently commenced an ac-
ton in the supreme court to compel
Gov. Morrill, to reinstate him to mem
bership on the board of regents of the
state university, has decided to drop
the suit. He will, however, institute
proceedings to GUST o. L. Moore, who
was appointed to succeed him.
E. Fl. Snow has opened up the state
printer fight by applying to the dis
trict court of Shawnee county for an
injunction to prevent the secretary of
recognizing Maj. Hudson as state
printer by giving work to him. He
also asked that Maj. Hudson be re-
strained from exercising the functions
of the Office.
In the federal court at Fort Scott
Judge Williams recently decided that
chapter PAP of the Kansas session laws
of 1889, permitting townships and cities
to vote bonds for sugar works, is un-
constitutional. The point was decided
in the case of Wilson T. Dodge against
the Topeka Sugar Co. and Mission
township in Shawnee county. Several
townships in other counties have voted
similar bonds.
The silver convention recently in ses
sion at Topeka organized branch Oh
the Bimetallic League of America
with r. w. Spar, of Lawrence, as
president; F. B. Johnson, of Topeka
secretary, and c. K. Holiday, Jr., Of
Topeka, treasurer. A committee was
chosen consisting of three member:
from each congressional district tc
manage the work, the chairmen o.
| district committees to constitute the
executive committee.