The Advocate and news., 1899-04-12

aid the coal miners on strike in the Indian
Territory.
Topeka is to have a new city hall, and the
local dailies are again trotting out the us
ual amount of greater Topeka" gush.
The women's clubs of Leavenworth will
run lottery on the Kansas City convention
hall plan to raise money for city library
building.
Kansas union miners celebrated April
as holiday in commemOration of the first
anniversary of the eight-hour workday in
their trade.
The citizens of Mound Valley are to vote
on proposition TO issue bonds amounting
to $4,000 for the purpose of prospecting for
natural gas.
The following postmasters have been ap-
pointed in Kansas j. II. Downing, Hays;
Joseph S. Stone, BurrtOn and Joseph H.
Long, Belleville.
Topeka retail clerks recently revived
their union, and as a result secured at least
two hours earlier closing of the principal
stores of the city,
Prof L. !. Blake, of the State University,
has been asked to take charge of the de-
partment of electrical engineering at the
University of Illinois.
Huron cemetery, the burying ground of
the Wyandotte Indians, is to be offered
as the site of the new government building
at Kansas City, Kans.
G.. G. Clemens says that he received the
cream of the votes for mayor of Topeka,
but that as usual there happened to be
more milk than cream.
G. j. Drew, who has just been elected
mayor of Topeka, was supported by the
church people and the iOintists. He is al
ready reaping the harvest.
G. j. Devlin, manager of the Mt. Carmel
Coal Company, has refused an offer of $780,
600 year to 60 to Chicago and manage
the affairs of the coal trust,
Professor Clark of the State University
has painted for Governor Roosevelt, por-
trait of Pollock, the Indian rough rider,
who died recently in the Indian Territory.
Receiver Morton Albaugh of the First
National Bank of EmpOria has sued the
Cross estates for 100000, claimed to have
been wrongfully taken from the banks
funds.
John W. Brewer was elected mayor of
Pittsburg. His Populist opponent was
Captain w. II. Morris, ex-auditor of state,
and Morris Cligget was the Democratic
nominee.
John Henry Collins is now convict No.
1888 in the Kansas State penitentiary. He
has che satisfaction of at least knowing
that the newspapers viii let him alone for
some time.
Mrs. Rebecca Hampton sister of eX
Governor Lewelling, has been married to
Samuel B. Chantry, of Casey, Iowa, fulfill
ing q marriage engagement made thirty
five years ago.
Topeka has new Republican mayor who
is strongly in favor of city ownership of
water works. but who wants the gas COM
pany to be allowed to charge Topekans an
outrageous price.
The Topeka federal building will be en-
larged and the pension Office and weather
bureau, which now have offices in private
buildings, will be accommodated in the
government building.
| HIS tOlCu tHc
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany, which was barred by Webb McNall
The company paid 1856 in fees and taxes in
order to get license.
: Independence citizens will erect mOnu
ment to the memory of Captain David s
Elliott and the other mebmers of G Com
/ pany of the Twentieth Kansas who have
hean killed i'm the Philippines
> The ninth annual meeting of the Kansa.
| Women's Press Association will be held il
4 Topeka tomorrow. Mrs. Olive I. Royce, o
Phillipsburg. is president, and Mrs. Bell,
: Harbaugh, of Erie is secretary.
. Mrs. Mary Wilson, of Augusta, commit
e ted suicide when she learned that her lover
Alva Dix, of the Twentieth Kansas, wa
= killed on the battlefield Of MalOlOs. The,
: We're to have been married in June.
7 Charles Dodge, of Abilene, who is will