Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| All central Kansas was OrcncncQ Dy
n heavy rain on the night of the 9th.
The independent American party is
the latest organized in Kansas. It is
for free silver.
Judge w. c. Webb, of Topeka, is
put for chief justice of the supreme
court, as populist
waterspout near Eldorado the other
night precipitated about inches of
water in forty minutes
Recently 127 insane women were re-
moved from the asylum at Topeka to
the women's ward at the Osawatomie
asylum.
Bert Hackett, of Olathe, won the
championship at the recent bicycle
contest at Topeka, riding a mile in
2:O6 Is.
During late storm at Eldorado the
standpipe of the water works was
blown down and broken. The loss was
about Sc, 600.
During recent storm at Arkansas
City ten buildings were struck by
lightning and yet only one person was
injured-a lady slightly.
At Pittsburgh several days ago a
telephone wire broke and fell over
trolley wire, one end striking team
of horses, instantly killing both.
At the recent meeting of the wheel
men of Kansas at Topeka, the pro-
| ceedings were inaugurated with pro-
cession in which 500 wheelmen were
in line.
It is stated that w. 81. Barnes, secre-
tary of the state horticultural society,
will make a tour of the state for the
purpose of reviving number of local
horticultural societies.
The coroner's jury at Eureka has
charged Mrs. Ella Amick with the
murder of her former husband, James
Amick. She has been arrested and
committed to Jail without bail to await
| trial.
The large sugar factory (old glucose
| plant at Leavenworth that had just
been fitted up with new machinery as
distillery was burned the other night.
Loss, about $11O, 900. Origin of the fire
not known.
William Barkus, bachelor farmer
residing near Atchison, was viciously
attacked by tramp the other night
and badly beaten. The object was
robbery. Barkus was found in an un-
conscious condition.
The other afternoon Jesse Mays
dropped dead IN grocery store at
Lawrence. He had just listened to
story and with hearty laugh at it's
close, fell back in his chair gasped
few times and fell over dead. He was
! about 20 years of age.
Judge Scion O. Thacher, who had
been a prominent citizen since the
early settlement of Kansas, died in
Lawrence on the 18th at the age of 65
years. He had filed many positions
of honor and trust, and was a state
senator at the time of his death.
The Mcpherson district Epworth
league convention, lately in session at
Larned, elected the following officers:
President, Miss Frances A. Wells;
Kinsley; vice president, F. H. Russell,
Great Bend; secretary, Frank Johnson,
Larned; treasurer, Isaac Runyon,
Marion.
John Guess, prisoner in the gov
eminent penitentiary at Fort Leaven-
worth, escaped the other day but was
soon after captured. He was sent up
from the Indian territory for selling
liquor to Indians. He had only few
weeks to serve and had just been made
''trusty.''
w. Mcclure, who had been for sew
eral years employed at Christ's hos
pital at Topeka, but had been dis
charged, committed suicide in the
woods north of the Rock Island tracks
in that city a day or two after his dis
charge The body was not found for
several days and was badly decom-
posed.
Pensions lately granted to Kansas
veterans: Original-William r. Thomp-
son, Red Bud; Michael Rogers, Bald
win; William II. Ayres, Farlinville;
Charles G. Moberg, Savonberg; Jacob
Arnold, Atchison. AUTHORIZATIONS
as j. Newport, Tudonia. Increase-H.
L. Smith, Stockton; John c. Northrup,
Lawrence. Reissue-David w. Til
ford, Winfield; Justin o. Hottenatein,
Humboldt. Original Widows, etc
Rose Fitzsimmons, Oskaloosa. Reissue
Mary l. Kerr, Kansas City.
The controversy over the current
university fund will, it is said, go to
the supreme court. The attorney-gen-
eral having held that it is the duty of
county clerks to compute the rate Of
taxation for levy, State Auditor Cole
sent out notices to the county clerks
that unless they make the rate and
place it upon the tax rolls, mandamus
proceedings will be commenced As
many of the county clerks have refused
to act in accord with the attorney-gen-
erals ruling, a suit is thought to be in
evitable One case will settle the con-
troversy.
A case involving the constitutional
ity of one section of the prohibitory
law has been fled in the supreme
court. It has been the custom of Kan
sas officers to enter any place which
they suspected of being joint and ar
rest the keeper without a warrant.
This was done in the case of sus-
pected Topeka jointkeeper, one day
recently, and his attorneys have taken
the matter TO the higher courts for