Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

was recently run over and killed by an
engine in the Missouri Pacific yards at
Kansas City, Kan
Nineteen insane veterans were re-
Gently taken from the soldiers home
near Leavenworth to the government
insane asylum at Washington. All of
them had become insane within three
months.
During a storm before daylight the
other morning the power house of the
West Side railway at Kansas City,
Kan, was destroyed by fire. The loss
was $50. 900 or S25, 900; fully covered by
insurance. The building was sup
posed to have been struck by light
ming
Bank Commissioner BreidenthaI and
his deputies have settled with the state
and paid into the treasury all moneys
collected by them The state auditor
has refused to audit the claims of the
commissioner and his deputies for sal
airy and mandamus proceedings have
been instituted to compel him to do SO.
The state medical association, re-
Gently in session at Topeka, elected the
following officers: President. DR.. R. S.
Black, of Ottawa; first vice president,
DR.. M. NJ. Gardner, of Greenleaf; sec
ond vice president, DR.. Andrew Sabine,
of Gardner; secretary, DIR. G. A Wall,
of Topeka; treasurer, DIR. l. Reynolds,
of Holton.
Mrs 81. E Graybill and Miss Adele
Bacon, Christian scientists, who were
arrested at Atchison for refusing to
pay a license to the city, were dis
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court holding that they were not liable
for the payment of license under an
ordinance requiring all persons with
out a physicians diploma, who claim
to heal the sick, to pay S. a day into
the city treasury.
G. w. Peters, store6eeper at the PEN
itentiary, filed charges against Gov.
Morrill, before Justice Grover at To
peka, alleging that the governor had
received money under false pretenses
by signing vouchers for the pay of two
men who had been claimed as working
for the state, when, the complaint
alleged, they had been working for the
governor. The justice and county at
torney refused to issue an order for ar
rest.
The G. A. R. posts of Topeka, it is
said, have decided to have the bones OF
A. G. Hazlitt and A. D. Stevens, who
were executed at Harper's Ferry, Va,
with John Brown over thirty-fve years
ago, brought to Kansas and buried in
the soldiers burying ground at To-
pelza. This action is taken because of
the report that the cemetery in the
old Eagleswood grove at Perth A mboy,
n. Y, is to be abandoned and the re-
mains may be destroyed
Mrs. Mollie Nyberg, wife of Charles
Nyberg, a railroad man. and daughter
of Chief of Police ]. NJ Wilkerson,
of Topeka, fired three shots from re-
volver at her husband in that city the
other night Chief Wilkerson arrested
his daughter and placed her N the
county Jail, but she was released in a
little while, Nyberg having declared
that he would not file a complaint
against her. Mrs. Nyberg is only Is
years of age. The shooting was the
result Of quarrel
n P. Clifford, of Sherman county,
recently addressed long communica-
ton to Gov. Morrill, urging him to issue
a proclamation for day of fasting and
prayer. The writer of the letter views
with alarm the panicky condition of af-
fairs, and other threatening ills, all of
which he attributes to lack of proper
respect for the Supreme Ruler of the
universe. He says the people have for
gotten God and God has forgotten the
people. He, therefore, urges the gov
ernor to take official notice of the fact
by issuing a proclamation to bring
them to their senses.
| The Kansas Democratic Editorial as
ISOLATION, at its recent meeting in
| Leavenworth, elected the following
officers: President, B. J. Sheridan, OF
the Paola Spirit; vice president, Mrs.
S. B. Lynch, of the Leavenworth
Standard; secretary. j. II. Padgett, of
the Salina Herald; treasurer, j. E.
| Watrous, of the Burlington Independ-
ent. The following named were select
| ed as an executive committee: A. P.
Herald. Seneca Courier; Frank Web
ster, Lawrence Gazette; E. NJ. McIn-
| tyre, Arkansas City Democrat; w. E.
| Timmons, Chase County Courant; B.
| L. Strother, Abilene News; Jack Stew
art, Smith Center Bazoo; Timothy
| Morgan, Eureka Messenger. The next
| annual meeting will be at Salina-
The grand chapter of the Order of
| the Eastern Star, lately in session at
Wichita, elected the following Off
GERS: Grand matron, Mrs. Helen u.
Farnsworth, Topeka; grand patron,
j. F. Regne1l, Mcpherson; associated
grand matron, Mrs. Helen Kermer,
Eureka; associated grand patron, A
| Anderson, Wichita; grand treasurer,
Mrs Jesse Pearsall, Fort Scott; grand
secretary, Mrs. Myra Mottram, OF
tawa; grand conductress, Mrs Del
| La Bennett, Hutchinson; associate
grand conductress, Mrs. Libbie Young,
Kansas City, Kan; grand chaplain,
Eliza S. Wearner, Olathe; grand mar
shall, Mrs Belle HaiRes, Emporia;
| grand warden, Mrs. Emma Fulton,
Winfield; grand organist, Miss Emma
Stetis. Girard: grand Adah, Mrs. A.