Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

membership of about 2, 500.
A state convention of Bryan clubs
will be held at Topeka, September Is.
| The Coffeyville Baseball club won
the Southern Kansas league pennant,
winning II out of IS games played
Republicans of Kansas City have
erected q wigwam that will seat S, 900
people, for use during the campaign.
Rev. August Lemkan, pastor of the
German M. E. church at Topeka, has
been suspended for '.imprudent" con-
duct.
Ex-senator John Martin declined to
ination for judge in the Topeka dis
trict.
Mrs Charles Kandt. wife of farmer
near Herington, died of blood poison
ing as the result of stepping on a
thistle.
Maj. Tom Anderson's famous Modoc
club will accompany the Kansas dele
CATION to the G. A. r. national en-
campment at St Paul
| Jasper Lasuer, a young farmer near
Olathe, was arrested for stealing II
head of cattle from a neighbor and
shipping them to Kansas City.
| Topeka wants military encamp-
ment during the reunion this month,
but State Auditor Cole says there is no
money in the treasury to pay for it.
| The 1000 or so of the veterans at the
Leavenworth soldiers home who draw
pension money have about $50, 900 di-
vided among them every three months.
At Leavenworth the other day James
Taylor, an old soldier. was killed by
Mrs. Collins, who struck Taylor on the
head during a quarrel over q small
board bill.
At Wauneta, Chautauqua county,
blacksmith named Walker murdered
his rival in business, Mr.. Byrnes, be-
cause the latter refused to take a
drink of whisky with him.
Luther 81. Vollmer, aged 10, an ex-
| student of Baker university and son
| of Rev. P. j. Vollmer, of Garnett, was
| sentenced to the reform school for
| forging the name of James S. Sprout,
of Topeka, to a check.
The receiver of the Wichita West
ern railway is collecting evidence to
su bmit to Federal Judge Caldwell to
| have 40 miles of the road abandoned.
The last ten years the road has been
operated at a loss of s., 900, 900.
William Taylor fell from the window
of his room at Wichita the other night,
lighting on the pavement with such
force CndC MS Ddck was DrOkeu IL
was thought he had gone to sleep
while sitting in the window for fresh
air.
Ex-Congressmau Ben Clover. of Cow
ley county, who Topped from the popu-
lists to the republicans in 1894 and was
given charge of the farm of the girls
reform school by Gov. Morrill,, has
thrown up his job and come out for
Bryan.
Rev. j. G. Dougherty, a leading
temperance worker of Kansas City,
predicts that the prohibition ques-
ton will be re-submitted at no distant
date. He thinks this action would be
preferable to a continuation of the
lawless condition .re1gning in some of
the larger cities of the state.
j. K. Fisher and wife. early settlers
in Atchison, celebrated their golden
wedding in Turner hall there the
other night in the company of a host
of friends. Old-time songs, one of
them sung by Mrs. John ]. ingalls,, and
a dancing programme of the old-tlme
uuadrilIes, ETC., were features of the
programme.
At Critzer, a small station in Linn
county, the home of Postmaster Kay,
an aged citizen, was discovered on fire.
Neighbors rushed in and took from
the flames the corpse of Mrs Kay, and
investigation showed that her skull
had been crushed. The old man Kay
acted suspiciously and he was arrested
for the crime.
A state meeting of the executive
committee of the railway employees of
Kansas was held at Kansas City the
other day. L. L. Bliler was chosen
president, C. Ell. Sheffield secretary and
James Gibbons treasurer. There are
the organization is for the purpose of
demanding legislation in their interest.
Ed Bussey, St Joseph travelling
man, enticed two young girls from
their home in Augusta, Butler county,
the other day and took them to Kan
sas City. They were followed and
Bussey was arrested. Officers could
not take him to Augusta because
angry citizens threatened to hang him
and he was placed in the Wichita Jail
Attorney Hurd, of the Santa Fe, de-
mics the published statement that the
railroads were refusing free passes to
icy of the road is and has been to treat
all parties alike. Mr.. Hurd says that
during the two years the populists
were in power in Kansas they asked
more and received more free passes
than any other political party, repub-
Gcan or democratic.
The penitentiary at present contains
but ss3 prisoners, 40 less than were
there June L During the entire
month of July but one has been re-