Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
st.te Kspubltc.n League.

state republican league has been |
called to meet at Topeka July 1. The |
Official call has been issued by Presi- |
dent Scott and Secretary Gault, and is
by authority of the executive commit
tee which met in Topeka last January.
The business of the convention will be
to elect officers for the ensuing year;
to elect delegates to represent the
state in the annual convention of the
national repu blican league of the
United States which will be held in
Milwaukee, August 1927, 1896, and to
transact other business Each league
in the state will be entitled to be rep
resented by its president and three
other delegates to be chosen by the
club. Among other interesting fea-
lures of the meeting will be an address
by Gen c. H Grosvenor, of Ohio
miscellaneous
J. s. Helme, a merchant OF Miller
ton, committed suicide the other day.
He was IS years old
The Western Deaf Mutes' association
will have a grand celebration in Bis
marck grove. near Lawrence, July f.
The First national bank at Salina
has been forced to suspend after
heavy run induced by a controversy
over the local water works
pounds fell on the Plumber farm, near
bingham, the other night 1t was
broken, and while the outside of 1t
resembled a cinder, the inside was full
of smooth pebbles
The populist judicial convention for
nominating candidate for judge OF
the court of appeals. eastern division,
southern department., met at Chanute
and named Manford Schoonover. OF
Garnett, for the office
The Chicago Western railway will
soon build mammoth grain elevator
with a capacity of 1,OOo, 900 bushels on
the site of its terminal recently pur-
chased at Kansas City. Kan. The ele-
vator will cost $50, 600
At the 29th annual commencement
of the Kansas state agricultural col
| lepe at Manhattan the graduating
class was composed of % young women
and 43 young men. the largest in the
| history of the institution
Four small boys Dennis and Michael
Desmond, IL and years old, and Dan
iel and Eugene Cummings, and
wears old, took refuge in a culvert dur
| ing a recent storm at Leavenworth and
were drowned by the sudden rise OF
| the stream
| The governor is trying to induce the
Santa Fe railroad to renew its Goa
contract in Usage county Since ths
Santa Fe quit buying Usage county
coal the miners have had very little
work to do and many are said to be IL
destitute circumstances
Samuel Dodsworth, formerly mayo
| of Leavenworth, who had been slcl
for some time in a hospital in St Louis
committed suicide in that institution
the other day. He had for many year
been proprietor of a large printing ant
book binding establishment in Leaven
| worth.
At the twenty-fourth annual com
mencement of the state university a
Lawrence degrees were conferred OF
lis graduates, Sc from the school O
arts, from the school of engineering
IA from the school of pharmacy, 3
from the school of law and from tn
school of fine arts
The residence of Henry Mum, fol
merly a bookkeeper in an insuranc
off, e at Atchison, was discovered to b
on fire the other morning and an II
vestigation divulged the fact tina
seven of the eight rooms were saturaI
ed with coal oil. Mum was arrested
charged with arson The house an
furniture were well insured
The various railway companies, 1t
said. oppose the idea of making tn
full annual report required by tn
railroad commissioners, declaring
impossible, owing to the necessity {
collecting special statistics and incu
ring an enormous expense line
| claim that the desired information
not in their possession and could har
" be obtained
George d. Trimmer, of Wetmor
while bathing in the Cottonwood xiv
at Emporia, the other day, was taks
with cramps and drowned He w
editor of the Republican at File
Neb., but was doing special work al
attending commencement exercises
the state normal school. and at t
time of his death was attending p
mic of students
An even 100 graduates received I
plomas at the late commencement d
exercises at the Kansas state norm
school at Emporia, and each of the
diplomas is by law life certificate
, teach school in the state of Kansas,
we'll as being frst-class recommend
ton anywhere in the civilized wor
Nearly every county in the state
Kansas was represented in this yea
. class. and quite a number of height
ing states, Missouri and Illinois taxi
= precedence in number
State Superintendent of Public
y struction Stanley has recently receiv
two diplomas and two medals from
worlds fair management ut Chicago
awards upon different sections of
, Kansas display. One is first premi'