The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-26
HUDSONIS IS BETTER
Still Dangerously Sick at Home
on Fillmore Street.
One of Well Known Characters
in Kansas.

General J. K. Hudson is seriously sick
at his home at Twelfth and Fillmore
streets with peritonitis, but the an
nouncement is made today that his con-
dition seems to be better than il was
Tuesday. General Hudson is attended
by DR.. W. S. Lindsay and Dr. D. K.
Longshore.
General Hudson's sickness commend
ed last Wednesday at Versailles, Mo-,
and was thought to be an attack of
Indigestion. He came to his home in
this city, where he has since BEEN COR
fined to his bed. The doctors this morn
ing were unable to make a statement
as to whether General Hudson is cut
of danger.
For many years General Hudson has
been one of the prominent men Of the
state He has an honorable record IS
an officer in the Civil and Spanish wars,
but is best known in Kansas as a
newspaper man, having been editCr Cf
the Topeka Capital for many years. He
was prominent in state politics, and
through the columns of his paper con-
Quoted many historic editorial cam
paigns. His attacks upon United States
Judge Cassius G. Foster and his Let
ters to Governor Lewelling'' are among
the things which gave Gen. Hudson
a wide reputation as a powerful and
VitriOlic writer
General Hudson's full name is JOS
eph Kennedy Hudson. He was born in
Carroll county, Ohio, May A. 1910.
He was of English Dutch parents but
it was at Salem, the Western Reserve
stronghold of abolitionism, that he
learned the printers trade, and at the
same time imbibed the principles of the
Western Anti-Slavery Bugle, which his
father published
Before Fort Sumter fell Mr. Hudson
had joined the John Brown League
and at the first call for troops went to
Kansas to join General Lanes brigade
At Fort Leavenworth he enlisted In the
Third regiment Kansas Volunteers. was
Immediately made orderly sergeant and
successfully promoted to second and
first lieutenants-
lie served as assistant adjutant gen
eral of the Second brigade, and later as
the same of the First division army of
the frontier He was on the staff of
General Davies a Rolla, Mo, and aide
de-camp to Major General Schoheld
He was promoted to major of the
First Missouri colored infantry and
served with his regiment during the
campaign of 1864 on the lower Missis-
sippi and in Texas and was mustered
out in 1865 after more than four years
of hard and honorable service. At the
close of the war he went to Wyandotte |
county, Kansas, where he bought a /
tract of land and engaged extensively !
in stock raising and farming. He thus |
became acquainted with the needs of |
the farming population of the state |
Both as farmer and journalist he has |
given sympathetic aid to the farms in
dustries.
He was a member of the Kansas
in 1871 and received twen-
-y-four votes for United States sena-
or He was an Independent candidate
sor congress and candidate for United |
States senator in 1874. He founded t
he Topeka Capital in 1879 and has
oeen editor of the Topeka Herald
.ince July, 1901. He was state printer
If Kansas from 1895 to 1897. He is a
member of the Loyal Legion.
At the opening of the war with
Spain, he was appointed brigadier
general of volunteers, and while he
Jaw no active service. was in the army
or over a year. General Hudson is
he father of Paul Hudson, editor of
he Mexican Herald in the City Of
Mexico
OF late years. General Hudson has
pent most of his time at Versailles.
No.. where he is largely interested in
and and mining investments.