Hutchinson gazette., 1900-06-14
STATE NEWS PARAGRAPHED.

gymnasium at Baker university, Bald
win,
Arthur G. Garfield has resigned the
chair of French In Kansas univer-
sity,
The NJ. r. Sunday school at Ottawa
will excursion to Kansas City, Mo,
June 27,
Oats in southern Kansas were badly
blown down and many fields Will have
TO be- cut with II cradle,
The state board of education has de-
chled 10 include the science of hgri-
culture in the public schools of Kan
sns,
John W. Bredenthal wants Con"
gressmnn Ridgley for chairman OF the
popnlist committee and Il, II. Semple
secretary
j, @. A. Norton, who has been pro-
bate Judge of Douglas county 20
years, was recently turned down for
nomination,
Overcome by heat the other day,
Andrew Patten, u Topeka grocer, fell
from his bicycle in the street and ex'
pired instantly
Justice Fellows, known as the
"father of Fredonin," died there re-
Gently in his ninetieth year. He came
to Kansas in 1887
A Paola dispatch said deputy mar
shnl was there looking for Senator
w. b. Crossan, who was charged with
embczzling insurance funds. Crossan
had gone to Texas
A tramp sleeping in John swanson's
barn east OF Ottawa started fire
which consumed the barn and con-
tents.-also the tramp.
Coal miners and operators In the
southeast Kansas district have agreed
on scale Of wages and there will be
no strikes there, II is said
II. Williams chairman Of the two
prohibition parties in Kansas, has
called u state convention for Topeka,
June 20, TO name u state ticket
Rev. William Bishop, who died at
Salina recently, founded the first
Presbyterian church in that city. He
came to Kansas in the early sos
Victor Benson, n 13-year-old New
York waif living with Alfred Folks,
near Fontana, was killed by lightning
while standing in the barn door.
II. c. Rising, government post of
flee agent, will establish 100 free ru-
raj mail routes in Kansas this year.
He has located Mt Topeka for con-
venicmce,
Mrs. Mary j. Kirkbride, an aged
woman of Kansas City, was found
dead in a shallow pond of water
She committed suicide because of her
physical ailments.
Ex-Gov. John w, Leedy recently APP
piled for admission to the bar of
Douglas county before Judge Riggs
He has been devoting his spare time
to the study of law for two years.
Rev. William b. Poinsett, eX-chap-
lain of the Kansas penitentiory and
former well-known Methodist
preacher of the South Kansas confer
ence, died in Kansas City from the eff
fects of an operation.
The completion OF the first stone
arch bridge in Greenwood county was
celebrated at Eureka by big picnic
and speeches by prominent men. The
bridge consists of four arches and Is
beautiful and substantial.
Residents of Strong City and Cot
tonwood Falls want the new railroad
projected by A, T.. Stilwell and his
associates, to nun through these two
cities in the heart of the great stone
quarries Of central Kansas,
At Atchison last Sunday II labor
dispute and keg of beer resulted in
the killing of Cal Oathout and james
Burtchctt by William Rainer, Al
were common lHborcrS. RNiner fled
but was captured in Missouri about
ten miles northeast Of Atchison.
Probably one of the largest wheat
growers in the United States is VIII
liam German, of Russell county, H'
has 1000 acres of wheat this year
and II will yield at least 100000 bush
els, If present prospects continue Il
may 90 as high us 100000 bushels.
While Mrs, j. Z, Conner, wife Of
farmer IL miles east of Paola, wal
sittiug at the dinner table holding
her young babe, pot of boiling cot
fee was accidentally upset on the in
FAINT, cooking the flesh from the hip
down and causing almost instan
death
The railroads have granted Il hal
rate for the democratic and populis
state conventions at Fort Scott o.
July "a The Kansas City, Fort Scot
& Memphis road is not member o
r the Western Passenger association
, but il has joined the association road
in granting the rate,
The board Of regents Of the Uniyel
= sity of Kansas broke away from pre-
, edent last week and elected Miss El
genia Calico to the chair of Frencl
;. made vacant by the resignation
y Prof. A. G. Garfield. Miss Calico
the first woman to occupy full pr
fessorship at the institution.
. Gov. Stanley last week issued n cit
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