Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-02-28

" a. 49, WoS ASAN - N~NASASO VAAAo
week.
The sum of $50, Geo has been appro-
priated by the legislature for irriga-
ton.
The man who is thought to be the
one who attempted to rob the Rock Is
land at Whiting last October and kill
ed the agent has been arrested and
now awaits Identification at Holton.
A bill has been passed in the legis-
lature appropriatiDg $1,000 for the re-
lief of Mary Il. Thorpe and minor
the husband being killed
while on duty as state employee in
the penitentiary coal mine Ia July,
1898.
The safe In the Santa Fe depot at
BALDWIN was blown open last week.
The amount taken was not large as
Agent Van Keuron had RENTED the
day before, Suspicion points to
tramps who were lOa6ng around the
depot.
A man by the name of B. w. Hiatt
has been circulating through portions
of Missouri seeking aid for the poor in
Kansas, claiming the people are in
such destitute circumstances as to
compel them to eat horse flesh. He ia
an imposter.
w. F. Coulson, a prominent grain
buyer of Anthony fell from the veran.
da three feet high, at his residence
last Monday morning, breaking his
neck. He was well known throughout
the state and was q candidate for
state grain inspector.
w. p Hall, a travelling salesman for
the Hill Safe and Lock Co., of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, died at Hiawatha Thurs
day soon after eating hearty break
fest. He was taken i'll and died In q
few minutes. The coroner will inves-
tigate. Hall had family living in
Topeka.
The eastern bound Union Pacific
passenger train was thrown from the
track at Solomon, eight miles west Of
Abilene, by broken truck at noon
Thursday. The sleepers, diner and
one coach left the track but. did not
turn oyer. No one was injured and the
passengers went on in other coaches,
Mrs. Sarah Wilkins, noted widow
Of Atchison county, after hearing her
attorney plead q case in court in
which she was interested, discharged
him and conducted the case herself
Mrs. wilkins us an extensive farmer
very shrewd an rich. She once APP
peared in the supreme court OF the
state.
The second $4,000 damage suit of
Mrs Emma j. Phelps against Mayor
Cloyes, the late board of police COM
missioner and Ex-Governor Lewelling
on the ground that her husband was
able to secure liquor at the joints,
which were allowed to run in viola
ton of the prohibitory law was dis
missed by Judge Webb at Topeka last
week.
At o'clock Tuesday night Gottlieb
Huebner, aged 60 years. believed to be
a farmer of Platt county, Missouri,
was found unconscious at the bottom
of Three Mile creek just north of the
court house at Leavenworth. He had
fallen from the bridge, distance OF
forty feet, and the creek being prac-
tically dry, his body struck the hard
ground, and he was probably fatally
injured.
william Baker, twentY-four years
old, and the sole support of his aged
parents, was instantly killed at noon
Monday in a North Leavenwortn,
Kansas, coal mine by an electrical cur
rent of three hundred volts passing
through his body. He and three 9th
err men were operating the electrical
machinery for the mining company.
william Jenkins who was engineering
the machine received the same cur
rent, but was not seriously hurt.
While preparing for bed one night
last week, about 10 o'clock, Frank
Pfeiffer, of Fort Scott, aged 10 years,
dropped l spark from his pipe into q
sack containing three pounds of gum
powder in an open wash stand drawer.
By the explosion which followed The
roof was raised and the front and
sides of the building were forced out
by the conclusion. The young man
was horribly burned, his clothes
fire. He ran down stairs,
where his life was saved by his par
ents. A brother who slept in the
same room, was blown from his bed
against the wall, but was not serious
ly injured. The Pfeiffer house was
large one. The noise of the explo-
sion was heard mile distant.
Inspector johnson of st. Louis, Of
the Postofice service received more
than he usual number of reports FRI
day. Three of them covered cases Of
violation of the law prohibiting the
mailing of obscene literature. S. II.
Kaffelt was arrested at Fort Scott,
Kansas, Wednesday, for this offense,
and went to Jail after admitting his