Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


county district court at Topeka. OF
these lis divorces were granted and a
dismissed.
Since his appointment last March.
M. c. Kelley, state oil inspector, has
turned into the state treasury So, S66. 81,
as the surplus for the first nine months
of his term.
The supreme court has handed down
an opinion in the Snow-Hudson state
partnership contest, giving the Office
to J. Z. Hudson. Associate Justice
Allen delivered the opinion.
Gov. Morrill, has offered reward of
$500 for the apprehension of the per.
son or persons who burned to death
Robert, John, William and Archie Nc
Fadden in their home at Frontenac,
December 80.
It was lately discovered that the
body of Mrs. A. M. Roll, wife of a
prominent member of Eggleston post,
G. A. R., at Wichita, had been stolen
from it's grave in Highland cemetery,
that city. Old soldiers were making
investigation of the matter.
c. F. Hutchings, the Kansas City,
Kan, attorney who was reported as
having been cited to appear before the
United States district court at Topeka
for contempt, with other attorneys, at
tended as counsel for the defendants
instead of as one of the defendants.
c. A Rich and Mrs. E. J. Charlton,
who lately eloped from Lawrence, were
later arrested in San Francisco. Mrs.
Charlton vowed that she would not
live with her husband again under
any circumstances. It was stated that
Rich would be brought back to answer
the charge of abduction.
The Kansas Medical society has sent
out announcements of its annual meet
ing, to be held in Topeka, May ID. A
facetious addenda is attached, which
says: 1--WE expect by May to have the
Gothen berg system in vogue, SO that
you can take refreshments in the base
ment of the capitol"
Masked men the other night held up
and robbed the night agent of the M,
K. & T. road and two other men who
were waiting for a train at Fort Scott.
The robbers secured gold watch and
small sums of money from the men
and $34 from the company's safe.
There were two of the robbers who es-
capped without being identified.
The State Bar association, recently
in session at Topeka, was one of I'M
usual interest. The annual address
was delivered by Judge Henry, Of Mis-
souri,, and many interesting papers were
read. A resolution was adopted in
favor of a constitutional convention
for the purpose of providing amend
~ IT, h 41o1
article of the constitution.
Fire at Leavenworth the other day
destroyed the brick cottage on the
Latta estate with all it's contents. In
the house was stored nearly every
article of furnature, statuary and bric-
a-brac belonging to Mrs. Sallie E. Will
son, who is the oldest daughter of Gen.
John A. Halderman, eX-United States
minister to Siam. The goods were
valued at $40, 900 and were insured for
So, 500. Mrs. Wilson is in Europe
The supreme court of has denied
rehearing of the case of Jonathan
Banks, newsdealer at Leavenworth,
who, after being placed in jail for vio-
lating the law concerning the making
and distri but ton of scandalous publ
cations, sought release by habeas
corpus proceedings in the supreme
court The writ applied for was de-
MED and the law upheld in an opinion
written by Associate Justice Allen.
A late Topeka dispatch is authority
for the statement that everybody in
Kansas is buying corn. Bankers, spec
ulators, grain buyers, merchants,
farmers, editors and others who can
scrape together a few dollars are put
ting it into a pot with their neighbors
and buying corn with it. It is esti-
mated that of the 200. 600, 900 bushels of
corn raised in Kansas last year no
more than ten per cent. has been
shipped out of the state.
Several days ago Mrs. Charles Dean,
of Topeka, left her two small children
in room to themselves while she ran
over to neigh bors." Upon returning
she found that some one had removed
the clothing from her 14-months-old
babe. seated it upon the top of a hot
stove and fled. The flesh of the child
was cooked to the bone, and it died in
a few days. The miscreant who per-
formed the fiendish deed had not been
arrested.
Mrs. Joseph Hildebrandt, wife of a
farmer living near Marysville, gave
poison to her eight children, ranging
in age from two to il years, the
other morning and then hanged her
self in the barn. The mother and
seven children were dead when found
and the eighth child could not recover.
Her husband was in hospital in Kan
sas City suffering from cancer. 1t was
supposed that her struggles with pow
erty and want had driven the woman
insane.
At the recent meeting of the State
bar association at Topeka, officers
for the ensuing year were chosen
as follows: President Chief Justice
David Martin, of the supreme
court; vice president, Judge William
Thompson. of Burlingame; secretary,
C. ]. Brown, of Topeka; treasurer,
Howell Jones, of Topeka; executive
council, A. A. Goddard, of Topeka,