The Globe-republican., 1906-08-02

son, who has been assistant secretary
OF state since 1885, resigned to look
after his gold mining interests in
Southern California. He will be sue
ceeded by e. A, Cornell, who has been
chief clerk in the Office for two years,
and W. J. 5tagg, Of Topeka, will be
appointed temporarily to succeed Mr.
Cornell. Mr.. Wilson has been resi-
dent Of Kansas for forty years and
for years lived at Hays City.
Killed With a Pocket Knife.--Wil.
ltm Merritt is charged with killing
John Volger in a fight by cutting his
jugular vein with pocket knife. The
parties belonged to a threshing ma
chine gang twenty miles south Of Kin
sley, and were at supper when the
trouble occurred. Merritt was cap
tured after several miles chase and
is now in jail at Kinsley Volger's
relatives are said to live at Louis
vile, KY. Merritt says his home is
in Pueblo.
Wanted in Kansas. "A requisition
was issued from the office Of Gov.
Hoch for the return from Austin,
Tex, to Lincoln county, in this state,
of Fletcher B. Williams, who is want
ed on charge of embezzlement and
arson. Williams formerly was agent
for the Union Pacific and is charged
with embezzling 5000 from that COM
pany and s16S from the Pacific Ex-
press Company while he was agent
at Vesper. 1t is charged that the
crime was committed in 1905.
viii Leave One Day Later.-P. Fl.
Coney, commander of the Kansas de-
partment Of the G.. A. R., has changed
the date Of departure of the G. A. X.
special train from Topeka for the ma
tional encampment Of the order to be
held in Minneapolis from August III
to August IL. The train will arrive
in Minneapolis on Monday and Is ex-
pected will bear a large delegation OF
Kansans who will use their influence
to elect Coney commander of the ma
tional department of the order
Died During Fit Of Coughing. =
Joseph thinner, known as 40" Tuck
err. died during a fit of coughing in the
wash room of the Mahan hotel in
Wichita. Death was due to exhaus-
ton. A letter was found on the body
dated at Cincinnati, March II, and
addressed to "My Dear Brother,
Joseph" The letter was signed
Caroline thinner" thinner came to
Wichita from Kansas City two years
ago. He was a pastry cook He was
60 years of age.
Accused Man Out on Bail. - Ohio
Bacus, who was arrested and held
in Jail charged with the killing OF
John Mills at Harper several weeks
ago. has been released on $4,000 bond.
AT first the court refused to admit
bail, but the matter was taken up to
the supreme court and he was admit
ted to bail. Mills, the young man who
was killed in a shed back Of livery
barn at Harper. where he worked,
was so we'll liked that subscription
paper has been started there to Sc
cure money with which to erect a
monument.
X. U. Hospital Is Opened. - The
first building, the medical pavilion, OF
the Eleanor Taylor Bell Memorial hos
pital group in Rosedale, for the Kan
sas State university, has been OPEN
cd. Twenty.four beds were installed
and six nurses and a superintendent
were placed in charge. 1t will prob
ably be two weeks before the nurses
will have all in readiness for receiv-
ing patients. All non-operative pa
tients are to be cared for in this hos
pital. A building, in which surgical
operations are to be performed, will
be finished in October.
Can't Get Laborers. - Mr.. Sher-
wood, foreman of the Union Pacific
round house at Junction City, wants
a large number Of men to work in the
U. P. yards, unloading coal. He has
several months work for them at con-
tract prices that insure good wages,
Inside of the next few months the
Union Pacific will unload about 10000
tons of coal in the yards there. II
has no place to store the coal SO 1t
will be dumped onto the ground
There are 40 carloads Of coal In the
yards at present ready to be unloaded
and the shipments will be received
every day from now on.
Goes Mad From Cat Bite. - Seth
Day. a farmer living seven miles
southeast of Topeka, was taken to the
county jail a victim Of a cat bite re-
ceived sixteen years ago. He is rav
ing maniac and has been locked in the
padded cell of the Jail. Physicians
saw that he has every indication Of
hydrophobia. Sixteen years ago Day
found in his barn cat which seemed
to be having a fit. Mr.. Day picked II
IN by the tail to throw 1t out of the
barn when it bit him on the wrist. His