The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-07-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS

T Congressman Curtis, of Topeka. de.
MES that he viii bolt the St Louis
platform.
John a. ShulsC, one Of the oldest
residents Of Reno county, was killed
BY lightning few days ago.
Ex-senator John Martin viii be 8
candidate for PETERS seat 10 case tbs
democrats aud populists agree on ''the
combination"
Russell was plunged Ia great dis
tress over visitation of an epidemic
resembling black diphtherie- Several
desths occurred among children.
/ While attending s funeral service at
Wakefield Fred d. Avery, a wealthy
! citizen of that town was taken with
apoplexy and diedi in the church,
Ex-GOy. Humphrey, Of Independence,
declares false the report telegraphsd
from Chicago that he would bolt tbs
st. Louis platform and nominees
Rev. &. Mueller, pastor Of 6 German
church at Newton, was committed to
Jail on a charge Of embezEling a mort
gage upon the ehurch's property.
During the first six months of this
year Kansas shipped 1879 horses aad
mules to the Kansas City market, q
gain of 9,547 over the same period last
year
John Gruss, who murdered Patrick
Kildare. an inmate of the soldiers
home, at Leavenworth several days
ago, and then fed, was captured at
East St. Louis and brought back for
trial
Railroads have made a one fare rate
for the republican state convention at
Topeka August and 10; also & IL
fare rate for the Missionary Baptist as
ISOLATION at Hutchinson August 10
to II.
Three men wers buried by a cave-in
while digging a trench at Indepsnd-
ence. Two were taken out all right,
but the third was badly crushed and
was taken out unconscious His re-
covery was regarded doubtful.
At Lawrence the other day the can
J non "Old Sacramento" captured from
the border rufians during the war, ex-
pioded while being fred with the hope
, of raising the bodies of four peopls
who had been drowned in the Ksw
river
At Armourdale the other day Clsr-
ence Webster, aged eight, fell from the
! top floor of the Rock Island elevator
to the ground, a distance of 60 feet
His leg was broken and his back badly
sprained, and his injuries were thought
to be fatal
, At Alden, Rice county, one day re-
Gently, Harvey Mills stabbed William
Vincent to the heart killing him In
stantly Both men were under 81
The murderer was captured, he
lived at Edmund, Ok, and was regard
ed as tough"
J The board of penitentisFy directors
held 4 business session at LeavenwoFth
the other day and closed up its work
for the fiscal year. There was not g
deficiency in any department and tins
board turned back into the treasury
, SIS, 1871 of the appropriation made
= by the last legislature.
Gold Smith, prosperous young mer.
2 chant of Hutchinson, dropped dead
j from his bicycle one evening recently
after having made a 17-mile run. With
: his companions he had attended ball
game at Partridge, and the crowd was
? seeing how quick they could make the
run back to Hutchinson
2 In district court at Topeka the other
day Mrs. Eva Blackman, who sprang
TO fame as the first and only woman
u police commissioner Kansas ever had,
secured a divorce from Der husband.
Mrs. Blaekmsn was appointed on the
Z police board at Leavenworth by Gov
Lewelling, and after her term of Office
moved to Topeka.
The Southern department Of the sp-
f pellate court, sitting at Fort Scott, de-
clared unconstitutional the old statute
which permitted the arrest and impFis-
onment Of an insolvent debtor merely
upon the affidavit of judgment cred
t itor The court declared the law IN
valid in that it deprived a man Of his
liberty without the process Of law
The Kansas court Of appeals, South.
[ srn department, sitting at Fort Scott,
T rendered q decision recently which
will practically put a stop to che d.
vorce business in Kansas until after
the next meeting Of the legislature.
The court held that a husband and
t wife cannot testify against each other
. in a suit for alimOny or an actioH for
divorce.
At Topeka one morning recently
Robert C Hutchinson, who hsd been
married but three weeks, committed
suicide By taking strychnine. he left
q note saying his extreme bashfulnes5
would be a source Of neYeT-ending an
noyauce to his wife, and that he would
relieve her Of it by dying. Hutchinson
had a good farm of 240 acres and plenty
Of ready cash.
Charles a. Faris, one Of the pioneers
of Kansas, died at his hons Ia Kansas
City, Kan, recently. For nearly 20
years he had been engaged in news
paper work. he was connected With
the Lawrence Journal st the time e
was founded and later with the KAN
SIS City Times. For nearly IS years
prior to bis death ne was connected
i4h tbo od;korfeI dornrfuaout OF Cha