Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-29
KANSAS TOPICS.

KANSAS TOPICS.
The Wichita Eagle declares that some
day John ]. ingalls, will become governor
of Kansas through spontaneous upris-
ing of the people.
Colonel Tom Doran of Topeka who COM
plains that a bottle of wine was his only
Christmas present. appears to have over
looked the headache.
The marriage of Miss Hub at Atchison
suggests the hilarious thought that when
she stood up for her felloe and the preach
er spoke. one wheel or matrimony was
ready to turn-at least until it was tired.
A boom has been started for Sam Peters
for that new United States judgeship in
Southern Kansas. but it will never make
much headway until the Hon. Sam explains
the true inwardness of his remarkable can
didacy for governor last fall.
THE wife of a prominent Newton city
official" says the Kansan, used to be the
sweetheart of Noble L. Prentis when they
were young together. Noble was so ugly
she says, that L was ashamed to go out
with him during the daytime. He was so
good natured and jolly, however. that the
girls couldn't help liking him.
The Wichita Eagle says the report that
Mrs. Lease has permanently located in
New York city is authentic. 1t does not
relate, however, what the good woman will
do for living besides raising less corn.
Mrs. James Lee is the name of an Atchf-
son woman to whom the glad Christmas
season brings nothing but sadness. Dur
ing the past five years she has buried her
husband and four children and each of
them died during the holidays.
Mrs. Nancy Nolan is the name of re-
fined and intelligent woman who was last
week conveyed to the insane asylum from
Pleasanton. OF all the deluSions ever born
in the brain of insanity she possesses one
of the most horrible. She believes that she
has the heart and liver of her husband In
a glass jar and that all of her neighbors
are conspiring to take them from her.
1t is claimed by the friends of Sam Carey
that he has a dead cinch on the postmas-
tership at Hoisington. He was the bunk
mate of Major Mckinley during the early
days of the war and knows him well
enough to call him Bill.
The Lawrence paper which relates that
a prairie dog escaped from a box and ate
up a goose should tell its story to Natural
ist Dyche, at the state university. Hereto
fore the prairie dog has borne the reputa-
ton of being a graminivorous and graniv-
| erous sort of an animal.
Rev. Miss Brant, of Crawford county, has
made application for the position of chap
lain of the Hutchinson reform school. She
| is an ordained minister of the Universalist
church, though she started out in life as
an artist. She will represent to the board
| of directors that woman's influence is
needed and that she believes she can do
world of good to the young men inmates
In evidence of the good health which
prevails among the children in the Soldiers
| Orphans home at Atchison, the Globe re-
| lates that six years ago Superintendent
| Faulkner set apart building for hos
| pital and placed kindling In the stove ready
| to be lighted when a patient should be re-
ceived. The kindling is still there and has
| never been lighted.
A brief notice in one of the Kansas City
papers on last Friday morning announced
the marriage of A. B. Leggett, of Lancast-
er, Pa, and Miss Clara Beechum, of Kan
sas City, but it failed to disclose the ro-
mantle circumstances which led up to this
happy event. Something like a year ago
Rev. George Feeser, of Pleasanton, Kas,
was visiting relative in Kansas City
| and at her house met Miss Beechum, who
had dropped in for an afternoon visit. In
the course of the conversation the young
lady in a jocular manner inquired of the
preacher If he did not know nice young
man at his old home in Pennsylvania with
whom she might correspond. Mr.. Feeser
knew precisely such a man and at once
wrote Miss Beechum a letter of introduc-
ton to Mr.. Leggett, whom he described as
wealthy young merchant and a gentle
man all around. Some weeks later Miss
Beechum bethought herself of the letter of
introduction and forwarded it to Mr.. Leg
gett with n demure little epistle on her
own account. He answered and a regular
correspondence followed, including an ex-
change of pictures and life's history. The
development of the courtship may be i'm
agined, and it is only necessary to add
| that last week Monday Rev. Feeser was
very much surprised to receive an invita-
ton to come to Kansas City and officiate
at the marriage of the young people he
had fetched together in joke. The bride
and groom met for the first time on Thurs
day morning.
Two well known Kansans were added to
the great majority last week. One was
Hon. Charles Puffer, of Coffey county, and
the other DIR. ]. s. O'Donnell, of Rocks
county. Mr.. Puffer was a member of the
Kansas legislature in 1871 and later served
| two terms upon the state board of public
works. 1t was in 1871 that Alexander Cald-
well was elected to the United States SEN
ate and when Mr.. Puffer changed his vote
from Sam Crawfold to Caldwell his name
became connected with the bribery scam
dals which resulted in Caldwelrs retire.
ment, but he was innocent and had no diff
ficulty in entirely clearing his skirts. DR..
O'Donnell lived for many years at Stock
ton, where he pursued the business of a
banker. During the war he served as sur
geon with the rank of colonel, and at its
close was elected mayor of Harper's Fer
ry for several terms. He was buried by
the Beloit commandery with the honors be-
fitting a high rank Mason.
The marriage of Mr. Spatz at Lyons will
| no doubt be followed by some of those lit
tie ones, which are the natural consequence
| of every matrimonial alliance, no matter
how peaceful 1t may be.
You can't keep Kansas out of it, no mat
| ter how hard you may try. At the IA
| nous Frantz murder trial, just finished in
| Ohio, one of the witnesses for the defense
was DR.. ]. H. McCasey, notorious as su-
| perintendent of the Topeka insane asylum
| during Governor dwellings, administra-
| ton. 1t appears that John Studebaker,
| grandfather of Frantz on his mothers
| side, was once an inmate of the Kansas
asylum, and DR.. McCasey was wanted to
testify that his insanity was in homicidal
| form and that therefore young Frantz in
herited the mania which led him to kill
Bessie Little, his sweetheart. DR.. McCasey
is now practicing in Dayton, o., and is said
| ha