The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-10-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ horse splashing water in her face.
Capt Fred Buehan, Of the Twentieth
| Kansas, has been placed in command
Of the Oregon troops at San Francisco.
While attempting to cross a bridge
/ in the Missouri Pacific yards at Fort
Scott J. K Dye, a wealthy stOekman
Of Metz, No, fell and was instantly
killed
At the annual meeting Of Kansas
Friends at Lawrence steps were taken
to centralize the work of their uni
versity at Wichita and to push an en-
dOwment
Over 200 delegates attended the an
nual meeting at Atchison Of the Cen
trail Protective association, an organ
ization to run horsethieves to earth
All the old officers were reelected.
The Fort Scott & Memphis railroad
had two freight wrecks in one day last
week-One near LaCygne and one near
Garland. About Is cars were derailed
and several cars OF merchandise were
destroyed.
After a search of two weeks detect
ives located Miss Mamie Norton, for
whom SIS, 600 in property was waiting
at Centralia, Kan Miss Norton was
employed as stenOgrapher in a Denver
commission house
DR.. l. D. Mckinley, Of Topeka, was
chosen superintendent Of the Topeka
insane asylum to succeed DR.. C. ii.
WetmOre, resigned DR.. Mckinley is
a democrat and has been physician at
the asylum for several months
The annual meeting Of the Southern
Kansas G. A r Reunion association
was held in Griswold park, Wichita
There were nearly 100 tents pitched in
the park, and liberal presentations
of veterans from every county in south
ern Kansas
a san Francisco telegram said the
Twentieth Kansas might be the first
Of the troops to embark for Manila
By sickness, death and discharges the
Kansas regiment has been reduced
from its full strength of 1, 267 men and
A officers to 1, 12I men and 43 officers
The state convention of the Chris
tian church denomination at Washing
ton last week, elected w. Chenault, of
Fort Scott, president, and Mrs Ora
Mcpherson, Of Topeka, secretary. Rev.
o. L Smith, of Wellington, was elect
ed superintendent Of Christian En-
deavOr work.
Ethel Brewster, 4 l6-year-Old Topeka
girl, took morphine with suicidal in
tent, but the prompt arrival Of a ply
stefan and a stomach pump saved her.
The girl was mixed mp in a runaway
escapade about week ago, and it is
Thought that ren-e= ov~r this affair
caused her to attempt her own life.
The congregation in the Christian
- s-n-s - L.
day night when their pastor announced
that a mortgage for 5000 which had
been hanging over the church for Is
years had been fully paid of. The
mortgage was burned on a silver plat
ter on the altar before the cOngrega-
ton.
Councilman A. Benson, Of the Sec
Ond ward in Topeka, complained to
the health officers that there was tar
in all the wells in Parkdale, a suburb
of Topeka How it came there he
does not explain, but more than 100
wells were reported to be so polluted
that water from them was unfit to
drink.
Marie a. Ems, a stenograPher,
brought suit in the court of common
pleas at Kansas City recently, through
her attorneys, Hale, Craig & Fife, to
recover SIS, 600 damages from Oliver NJ.
Schee for breach of promise. The de-
fendant is one Of the wealthiest and
best known IA, ners of WyandOtte
county.
The WOman's Relief Corps and
Ladies' Aid society at Solomon held a
reception in honor of the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas volunteers before they re-
turned TO Leavenworth. The guests
numbered over 800. An interesting
programme, consisting Of music and
recitatiOnS, was given, after which
there was banquet
After running his horse in the races
at Marvsville, Charles Birney had it
taken to a stall and rubbed down,
when Ed Delair threw a bucket of
cold water over the animal This so
enraged Birney that he assaulted De-
lair, who took out his pOckethnife and
cut Birney across the bowels and
breast inhicting fatal wounds
Dr.. A H Robinson, one Of Hutchin-
sons prominent dentists, fell down a
flight Of stairs the other night and
died from the effects Of the fall When
found his body was lying at the foot
Of the stairway Of his Office He was
taken 70 his home and doctors sum-
moned, but he never rallied except to
state that he fell. II is supposed,
from the symptoms of his suffering,
that IN the fall a blood vessel in the
head was ruptured- He was one Of
the early settlers Of Hutchinson
Loren Baker, a single man aged 80,
was found hanging to a tree on the
Davies farm near Auburn, Shawnee
county, where he had a week before
committed suicide. SpirituaIism was
the cause of Bakers suicide he was q
spiritualistic fanatic, and It had been
noticed that for some time his mind
appeared to be unbalanced. He had
expressed q desire to visit his spirit
friends at their place Of abode, and it
is thought that be decided to hang
himself to accomplish this result
The grand lodge I o. o. E. met in
Topeka the past week The order now
has q total membership Of %, 999 in
Kansas, an increase Of 6s5 over last
year
Bart Hunley. a farmer near Larned. /
was charged with an unnamable crime I
against his own daughter and his two
Etepdaughters- Officers went to arrest |
him but he had fed