Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The population of Topeka, accord.
| ing to a late census, is 81, G12 Wichita
has 20, so2-
The board of police commissioners OF
| Wichita say thev will put a stop to
Sunday liquor selling there
A farmer at Al ION has contracted to
| ship 200 tons of broom corn to a manu-
featuring firm in Sidney, Australia
W. NJ. Bundy was run down and IA
| tally injured by a Union Pacific train
near Williamstown, Douglas county.
The Republican, published at Del
phos, has bolted the ST. Louis plat
form on account of the financial plank.
While swimming in the Cottonwood
river at Emporia the other day the ten
year-old son of j. A. Stout was
drowned.
Andrew Dixon fell from a portico
| to the ground at Garnett one night re-
Gently, breaking his neck and dying
instantly
John Vogel, an aged saloonzeeper,
| committed suicide in Leaven worth the
| other day because he could not raise
$50 to pay license.
Atchison was excited the other day
over a reported gold find near the SOL
| diers' orphans home on property be-
| longing to the state.
Two SlrlSs dReO . ana Ii, OaugnCerS
of farmers named Augustine and
Schuster. were drowned while bathing
| in Big creek near Ellis
Fire at Russell the other day de-
stroyed the First national bank, G. A.
r. hall and j. E. Smiths store. Loss,
S25, 600; insurance, SIS. 900.
Senator w. A. PETER, upon his re-
turn from Washington recently, re-
| sumed editorial work on his newspa-
per. the Topeka Advocate.
1t was reported that Webb McNal,
of Gaylord, heretofore prominent re-
pu blican politician of western Kansas,
had bolted the St Louis platform
William McBrown, of Fall River,
was nominated for state senator by the
republicans of the Twenty Fourth dis
trict at Emporia- He. is an Ingalls,
man.
Populists and democrats of the Sew
enth district will hold their congress
sional convention at Larned on the
same day, August g. Fusion is
talked of.
j. w. Moore, a prominent politician
of Marion county, says he will offer a
free silver resolution in the next re-
publican state ton in order to
put the delegates ION record
The agitation of curfew for Law
renee revealed the fact that the town
has had such an ordinance for 16 years,
but was not generally known. 1t was
said that it would now be enforced.
Prof. G. M. Light, professor in the
Kansas normal college at Fort Scott
and a prominent educator, has &C
cepted the presidency of the New Mex
leo territorial normal college at Silver
City.
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cattle and shipping them to market
had become so common in Greenwood
county that when a man missed steer
from his herd he Immediately took the
train for Kansas City.
The A teachers of the Fort Scott,
Kan, city schools have signed con-
| tracts to teach next year at salaries re-
duced i've per cent from what was paid
last year. The reduction includes the
superin tendent and all grade teachers
Chairman Leland has invited Senator
Thurston, of Nebraska, and ex-Con-
gresham w. E. Mason, of Chicago, to
open the repu blican campaign in Kan
sas- The meeting will be held at To
pelSa the night following the state
convention.
The Methodist Episcopal quarterly
conference at Fort Scott the other dav
missioners ]. J. Stewart and F. A.
Lyon, both mem ers of the Methodist
church, for failure to enforce the pro-
hibitory liquor law.
Ernest Williams and Rev. Venable,
bothfpegroes and presidents of rival
repu 6Iican clubs in Rosedale, became
engaged in a bitter quarrel the other
day, which resulted in Venabie draw
ing a revolver and shooting Williams,
infiicting fatal wounds
III. C. Orr who was well known by
nearly all Kansas travellers as the as
Instant passenger agent of the Bur-
resigned that position to accept the
general freight and passenger agency
of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf.
The appellate court convention of
the Eastern division, Northern depart
ment, which met in Kansas City, Kan,
recently, was a very exciting affair.
Cyrus Leland took a prominent part
and through his influence the anti
Trickett, or Buchan delegation from
Wyandotte county was seated
Nels Larson, crazy man, invaded
ST. Thomas Catholic church in Ar
mourdale on a recent Sunday night
while the church was crowded with
worshipers and made an attempt to de-
molish the affairs and hurled a statue
of the Virgin Mary to the floor. The
congregation was panic-stricken for
time, but Larson was seized and re-
moved and no one was injured
The 18th annual report of the state