Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


postponed until next year.
veteran from the soldiers home
| named Barker was recently drowned
| TO Pennsylvania regiment during the
| war.
Lyon county's poultry show. which
was recently held at Emporia, is re-
ported to have been a fine exhibition
equal to that recently held in Kansas
City.
The discovery of grave robberies re-
| Gently caused stir at Topeka The
| bodies of two women that had been re-
moved by ghouls were traced to the
medical college.
The livery barn of T. w. Will
trout at Logan was burned the
| other night, together with eight
horses and other valuable property. A
lantern in the hay NOW the cause.
It is stated that the faculty and stu
dents of the Kansas medical college at
Topeka will be sued for heavy dam
ages by the families who were victim
lied by the late grave robberies at
that city.
A ear load of convicts from Texas ar
rived at the federal penitentiary at
Leavenworth few days ago. There
were "a of them and their sentences
ranged from one year for selling liquor
to life for murder.
Mrs. Nancy Thompson, IS years old,
was recently found dead in Cowley
county, having died of starvation and
neglect She lived in secluded place
with half-witted son. The latter was
found thin1y clad and almost frozen.
The man who was murdered by
tramps near Emporia and supposed to
have been J. c. Harris, a printer,
proved to be unknown. Mrs. Harris
viewed the remains and testified at the
| inquest that the body was not that of
her husband.
| Carrie Turner, the handsomely.
dressed woman who committed suicide
in hotel at Beatrice, Neb., about two
weeks ago, was the daughter of c. B.
Turner. of Atchison, who had just been
released from the Kansas penitentiary
for the killing of J. B. Gilgore.
The State Reform Press association
at it's late meeting in Lawrence elected
officers as follows: President, Abe
Steinberger. Girard World; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Laura E. Lowe, Mound City
Torch; secretary and treasurer, Ly-
man Naugle, Wellington Voice.
William White committed suicide at
Leavenworth few days ago by cutting
his throat. The suicide was the result
of trou BILE with the son of his wife by
former husband, in which the wife
took the part of the son and swore out
warrant for her husbands arrest.
~, n4f Mt khA
Osawatomie insane asylum, was prob
ably fatally injured few days ago by
Charles Mold, a lunatic from Fort
Scott. The two had some trouble and
when McCune's back was turned Mold
hit him on the head with water
pitcher, breaking his skull.
The Grimes will case, which attract
ed widespread attention in Kansas q
few years ago, has been decided in
favor of the plaintiff (the widow of
John T. Grimes, of Atchison), in the
supreme court and the property, which
consists of nearly 100000 worth of
Atchison real estate, will be divided
among seven heirs.
Notes given by farmers of western
Kansas for seed grain, in accordance
with law passed by the legislature
appropriating money for that purpose,
fell due on December /, and the state
treasurer has sent out demands upon
the several county treasurers for the
collection and remittance upon the
same. They amount to about $50, 600.
The dried and shriveled body of
Jacob Funk, Jr., was found hang
ing in a thicket in Atchison coun-
IL nd of E1.ar nh
Ridge, a teamster, was arrested at
Kansas City charged with the murder.
Funk and Ridge worked a farm in
and in April, 1894, Funk mysteriously
disappeared, and now Ridge will have
to explain matters or stand trial.
An epidemic of hog cholera is said
to be raging in Harper, Barber and
Sumner counties. It is estimated that
over 1000 hogs have died there during
the past three weeks and that there is
no hope for the abatement of the dis
ease. Several weeks ago car load OF
hogs was shipped into that section
from Nebraska, and it developed that
they were diseased Many farmers
have lost more than 100 head each.
Mrs. Emeline Davis, of Leavenworth,
recently swore out a warrant charging
David 81. Haynes with bigamy and
robbery. Haynes persuaded the woman
to marry him, then secured $500
she had saved up and skipped. 1t
was then she learned that he had
wife (perhaps three or FOUR, and she
resorted to the courts for relief Of
ficers went to Atchison for the runa-
way who was reported to be in hiding
| about that town.
The excitement at Topeka incident
to the discovery of recent grave
robberies quieted down somewhat
after the indignation at the ind
| ing of the bodies spent its fury in
threats to mob the medical college. and
the offer CT $500 reward for the rob-
bers by the governor. The faculty
denied all knowledge of or completely
| Tho fhraa bodies found