The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Call, died in that city the other day OF
smallpox.
The Kansas wheat acreage this year
is estimated at 3, 200, 600 acres as against
Alta, 900 last year.
The wife of Albert Bigelow Paine,
the Fort Scott poet and author, has
brought suit for divorce.
The state school fund commissioners
have decided to invest the S2OS, 900 cash
on hand in government bonds
The jury in the fifth trial of the
famous Hillmon insurance case, after
being out 70 hours, failed to agree.
The law passed by the legislature in
1893, providing for the weekly pay.
ment of wages has been declared I'M
constitutional by Judge Alden in the
district court of Wyandotte county.
The monthly report of the state
treasurer shows the total bonded in
debtedness of the state to be S752, 900,
of which S4s7, 600 is held by the perma'
nent school fund. Only S256, 900 of the
bonds of Kansas are owned outside OF
! the state.
The Northwest Kansas conference
elected W. H. Sweet, of Salina, and E.
w. Allen, of Mankato, ministerial del
egates to the general conference at
| Cleveland, o. On the admission OF
women to the general conference the
! vote was almost unanimous in the af-
tirmative.
w. w. Huddleston, a farmer and
stock raiser residing near Douglass, re.
Gently visited at Wichita and failing
to return search was instituted. Sew
eral days later his body was found in
! the Walnut river with bullet hole in
his head. He had probably been
robbed and murdered.
Mrs. George Carnegie and her daugh-
ter were recently standing in the door
of her residence at Wichita watching
a funeral procession passing the house
when Mrs. Carnegie exclaimed: poor
man, wonder who will be next" and
throwing up her hands, fell forward,
and died Immediately.
DIR. A. G. Abdelal, of Lawrence, has
brought a suit for $4,000 against the
general council of the Fraternal Aid
association, alleging that he was
wrongfully charged with trying to
poison Frank Coffman, who became
very sick soon after being initiated
into Athens council No. 3, Fraternal
Aid association.
Charles Conwel was recently arrest
ed at Lawrence upon complaint of the
police of Peoria, Ill, for forgery. Con-
well is lawyer and was United States
district attorney for Wyoming under
\ HAYES. He has a brother who is
! leading lawyer in Chicago, and brother
/ in-law a member of congress He at
tributes his downfall to drink.
Samuel Cooper, d Pottawatomie
county farmer, died recently at the
age of 50 years. He was followed to
the grave h 90 blood relatives. He
was the father of II children, seven of
whom are married and living in Potta-
watomie county. He had 60 grand
children and 30 great-grandchildren.
He had lived in Kansas since 1857.
The monthly examination of the
state treasury for March showed ST.
172, 524. "a cash on hand belonging to
all accounts, of which 1872, $50 "A was
in the banks of Topeka and the re-
mainder in the vaults of the treasury.
Of the cash on hand the largest item
was $3.50, 500 76 belonging to the gen.
eral revenue fund. Another big item
was Sos, 214O9 belonging to the per-
manent school fund.
George Austin, of Kingman county,
was killed in a peculiar manner the
other day. He had rushed to the home
of his neigh Dor, which was on fire, to
assist in saving the household effects.
The heat was too intense to enter, and
as Austin stood looking at the burning
building a double barreled shotgun,
hanging on rack in the house, was
discharged by the heat, the contents
of both barrels entering his head and
body.
At a recent meeting of the Central
Kansas Live Stock association at En-
poria with over 100 members present,
, resolutions were adopted condemning
unjust and discriminating rates by
railroads and asking for radical re-
adjustment and reduction. The meet
ing also decided that the railroad COM
missioners have permitted unnecessary
, delay in adjustment of these rates,
, and demanded that a prompt hearing
be granted them, and fair decision
rendered.
The state superintendent of insur-
ance has addressed letter TO the pres
idents of all the insurance companies
} doing business in Kansas, in which he
informs them that he proposes to keep
a record in his office for the use of the
public, showing which companies pay
up their losses promptly, and which
ones delay and harass the insured by
lawsuits and compromises Mr.. An
thony says the policy of many COM
, panies seems to be to resist paying
losses and it is proper for the public to
know who they are.
Mrs. Foster, divorced wife of Hon. c.
g. Foster, United States district judge
for the district of Kansas, died in the
poor house in Atchison county the
other day, where she had been an in
mate for eight years. She at one time
was one of the reigning society and
literary leaders in Atchison and was