Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


been reappointed to her old position,
Pack.
Rev. w. G. Todd, superintendent of
the Kansas institute for the education
Of the blind, is urging the state board
of charities to establish a kindergarten
department at the institute in Kansas
City, Kan.
w. E Don, well known in Topeka as
the head of a collecting agency, was
recently arrested IN Chicago by a
Kansas officer and taken back to the
Kansas capital to answer a charge of
swindling.
Because he held a personal judgment
against Maj. Hudson, John E. Baker,
of st. Louis, recently applied to the
United States court at Topeka for the
appointment of receiver for the Cap
zeal Printing Co.
Labor Commissioner Bird says that
the present needs of the destitute coal
miners at Scranton have been provided
for, but that further aid will be neces-
sary unless work be found for the
heads of suffering families
Senator William Rogers, the deposed
regent of the state university, has
served a written demand upon Gov.
Morrill, to be reinstated in his office.
This is preliminary to a mandamus
pending in the supreme court.
The people of Lawrence unveiled a
handsome monument to the memory of
the Quantrel raid victims on Decora-
ton day, and Topeka dedicated a
monument to the members of the
Shawnee county regiment who fell at
the battle of the Blue during the Price
raid.
An order was received a few DAYS
ago pardoning twelve military prison
ers at the Fort Leavenworth prison,
and later thirteen others were dis
charged. It is thought but few pris-
oners will be left in the prison July
/ when it is transferred to the war de-
partment.
The jury in the case against Rogers,
charged with burning the Harvey
county records, at Newton, and re-
Gently tried at Hutchinson upon a
change of venue, returned verdict of
guilty. Rogers was recently para
lyzed, and when the case was called
for trial had to be taken to the court
room upon a cot.
President Charles F. Scott, of the
Kansas State Republican league, has
added the following names to the ex-
ecutive committee, selected at the re-
cent convention: E. c. Little, B. &.
Bruce, P. P. Campbell, c. H. Tucker.
Charles S. Elliott, j. l.. Bristow, w. Y.
Morgan, B. H. Tracey, James 81. Reed
err and Webb McNall
John johnson, of Springfield, Mo-,
was found at the point of death on an
island in the Arkansas river at Wichita
the other night. He was slugged and
robbed three nights previous, then
taken to the island, where he had laid
without food or water. He was robbed
of $40 and was able to describe the
two colored men that did it.
Capt. J. P. Harris, department COM
mander of the Grand Army, says that
a large delegation of Kansas veterans
will attend the national encampment
at Louisville, KY, next fall, many be-
ing particularly anxious to go because
of the opportunity to visit the battle
fields of the Cum berland and Tennes-
see. Very reasonable transportation
rates will be secured.
A shooting scrape took place at Ba-
varia the other night in which George
| Bingham fired double barreled shot
gun at Louis Roberts, filling his face
and breast with shot Roberts was
taken to Salina and the shot picked
out. His injuries were not fatal 1t
was alleged that the trouble was caused
by jealousy on the part of Bingham
because Roberts had danced with his
wife at a party few nights previous.
The state accountant has made his
report to the governor of his examina-
ton of the books, accounts and bust
ness methods of the state penitentiary.
He began with the coal output and
shipments, and says that in view of
the many reports made by former en-
ployes, that coal had been stolen by
the officials, he looked into every pos
sible loophole to discover the alleged
thefts, but he is convinced that such
reports are untrue.
At the late Christian Endeavor con-
vention at Wichita, Miss Shelton, the
secretary, reported 9s1 societies in the
state-a gain of 3S in the past year.
| The Christian church leads in mum
berS, having 1877 active societies; the
Presbyterians come next with 139 So
cieties; the Congregationalist church
reported III societies. The entire mem.
bership in the state is $1,000. The
Junior Endeavor societies have a mem
bership of 5000 and gave Sc, 900 to mis-
sions during the past year.
A convention composed of clerical
| and Law delepateS of the Protestant
Episcopal church met at Topeka May
% to elect a successor to the late
Bishop Thomas. Upon the fifth ballot
Rev. Frank R. Millspaugh, dean OF
Grace cathedral, Topeka, was chosen
bishop. Five candidates were voted
for: Rev. F. R. Mjllspaugh, of Topeka
Rev. Won Herlich, of Wichita; Rev
Hewitt, of Hutchinson; Bishop Leon
ard, of Utah and Nevada, and Dear
Gardner, of Omaha The final ballot