Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Congressman Curtis, of Topeka, de-
MES that he will bolt the St. Louis
platform.
NJ E. Flynn, a machinist of Enter
prise, was arrested for passing counter
felt money.
The new Methodist Protestant uni
versity at Kansas City will be opened
for work September "a
Little Freddie Rogers was drowned
in pond near Atchison the other day
by the upsetting of a boat
John A Shuher, one of the oldest
residents of Reno county. was killed
by lightning few days ago.
While attending a funeral service at
Wakefield Fred 81. Avery, a wealthy
citizen of that town was taken with
apoplexy and died in the church.
Ex-Gov. Humphrey. of Independence,
declares false the report telegraphed
from Chicago that he would bolt the
ST. Louis platform and nominees
Repu blicans of the Thirty-Second
senatorial district met at Bellevil1e
recently and after taking l. O53 ballots
nominated Maj Gulick for senator.
Mrs Mahala Starne died at Fort
Scott recently, aged 90. She and her
husband, who survives her, were
married " years ago in New York
state.
DIR. Moses S. Thomas, one of the old
est and most widely known physicians
in Kansas, died at Leavenworth on the
9th, where he had resided since 1856
During the war he was a surgeon in
the confederate army.
Frank Starnpf1i and John Holton
were buried under six feet of earth
while digging a trench in Kansas City,
Kan, one day recently. When taken
out Stampfii was dead and Holton was
thought to be fatally injured.
At Hiawatha the other day Mrs
Welcome and her daughter. Mrs Fair
child, took strychnine by mistake,
thinking it quinine. Mrs. Welcome
died soon after taking it, and Mrs.
Fairchild was in critical condition.
At Armourdale the other day Clar-
ence Webster, aged eight. fell from the
top floor of the Rock Island elevator
to the ground, a distance of GO 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 A tough
The $40, 900 libel suit brought at To-
peka by Ben III. Henderson against ex-
other day. The suit was brought in
1894, and was the outcome of a bitter
quarrel between the two men over pol
itics, although both were populists-
A man giving his name as A. j. Sib-
lev in to a at
renee the other day and attempted to
cash forged check. He was arrested,
and it was soon learned that he was a
lunatic who had several weeks ago es-
capped from the state insane asylum at
st. Joseph, Mo.
Roy Hoover, ten years old, living
with his parents on the Pottawatomie
reservation in Jackson county. went
out riding on his pony one day recent
ly and is minutes later both boy and
pony We're found dead, without mark
to indicate the cause The affair is
shrouded in mystery.
The board of penitentiary directors
held a business session at Leavenworth
the other day and closed up its work
for the fiscal year. There was not
deficiency in any department and the
board turned back into the treasury
SIS, 499.71 of the appropriation made
by the last legislature.
One of the boilers in the Rex mill in
Kansas City, Kan, exploded the other
day, completely demolishing the en-
CINE room and seriously injuring
Charles Hollis, fireman. The force
of the explosion was terrific, and parts
of the boiler were found in the Kaw
river, 100 yards from the mill
In district court at Topeka the other
day Mrs. Eva Blackman, who sprang
to fame as the first and only woman
police commissioner Kansas ever had,
secured divorce from her husband.
Mrs. Blackman was appointed on the
police board at Leaven worth by Gov.
and after her term of office
moved to Topeka.
Gold standard repu blicans in the
Sixth congressional district were re-
ported as organizing opposition to A
81. Ellis. nominee for congress, because
of his well-known leaning toward sill
yer. Business men of Topeka We're
trying the same ''disciplining'' process
on Congressman Curtis. who had an
nounced his opposition to the st. Louis
plank
At Topeka one morning recently
Robert C. Hutchinson, who had been
but three weeks, com mitted
suicide by taking strychnine- He left
a note saying his extreme bashfulness
would be source of never-ending an
noyance to his wife, and that he would
relieve her of it by dying. Hutchinson
had good farm of 24O acres and plenty
of ready cash
August Meter, a young German of
Pa0la went tn Wichita the other dav