The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


turned into the state treasury 50, s66 81,
as the surplus for the first nine months
| of his term.
The supreme court has handed down
IN opinion in the Snow Hudson state
Partnership contest, giving the office
to j. K. 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. NJ Roll, wife of a
prominent member of Eggleston post,
G. A. R., at Wichita, had been stolen
from its grave in Highland cemetery,
that city. Old soldiers were making
investigation of the matter.
C. F. Hutchings, the Kansas City,
Kan, attorney 70 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 asAone 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. 1t 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 l3. A
facetious addenda is attached, which
says: 1--WE expect by May to have the
Gothenberg 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 NJ,
X. & 7. road and two other men who
were waiting for train at Fort Scott.
The robbers secured gold watch and
small sums of money from the men
and S34 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 un.
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 constitutional convention
for the purpose of providing amend
ments and changes in the judicial
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 brio
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 SO, 900 and were insured for
$500. Mrs. Wilson is in Europe.
The supreme court of has denied
rehearing of the case of Jonathan
Banks, a newsdealer at Lsavenworth,
who, after being placed in Jail for vio-
lating the law concerning the making
and distribution of scandalous pubIi-
cations, sought release by habeas
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 few dollars are put
ting it into pot with their neigh bors
and buying corn with it. 1t is esti-
mated that of the 200. 900, 900 bushels of |
corn raised in Kansas last year no
more than ten per cent. has been |
shi ped out of the state. ~ F-s
Several days ago Mrs. Charles Dean,
of Topeka, left her two small children
in a room to themselves while she ran
over to neighbors." Upon returning |
she found that some one had removed |
the clothing from her 14-months-old |
babe. seated it upon the top ofa 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 ia 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. j. Brown, of Topeka; treasurer,
Howell Jones, of Topeka: executive !
council, A. A. Goddard, of Topeka.
chairman; T. b Wall, of Wichita. NJ.
b Nicholson, of Council Grove; w. r.
Smith, of Kansas City. and John ".
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