The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-07-03
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SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

Died Of Hiccoushs.-Afte suffering
twenty-seven days with hiccoughs,
which superinduced appendicitis, Reu'
ben Sparks, Jr., 25 years of age, died
in hospital at Ellsworth following
an operation.
Kansas Gets Good BERTHA. A.
Stewart of Joplin, Mo-, who was for
| six years at the head of the Kansas
Deaf and Dumb school, has been Sc
i lected by the regents of the Oklahoma
School for the Deaf as superintendent
Of that school.
Kansas Postmasters to Meet.-Thc
date of the meeting of the Kansas
| Postmasters' Association has been
changed to July 20 and 81, at Cha
nuate, Kan. The change was made
on account of floods and bad railroad
connections.
Kansas Soldier Kills Himself.-Pri'
vate M. Magyar of company D, Fifth
artillery, committed suicide at Fort
Leavenworth by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver. He
had just been released from the hos
pital, where he was being held for
observation as he was believed to
have some mental arrangement. Ma
gar was 10 years old and his home
was at Fort Dodge, Kan.
Orphan Girl Committed Suicide
May Cooper, aged about 20 years,
committed suicide at Garnett by TAX
ing carbolic acid She was an orphan
and for some years vas an inmate of
the Masonic home at Wichita, but
| recently had made her home with her
grandparents, B. F. Walker and wife,
of Garnett. Dependency and i'll
health prompted the act, as she left
a note to her friends in explanation. 5
Lost Diamonds in PulIman-W. H.
Foreman of Parsons, conductor on
the NJ, X. & r. railroad, was given
q Judgment in the district court for
$3.50 against the Pullman Palace Car
Company in q suit brought by Fore
man for the recovery of the value of
diamond stud which was taken
from Foreman's nightshirt while oc-
cupying a berth in a sleeper between
Kansas City and Aurora, Neb. An
appeal has been taken to the supreme
court.
Charged He Sold Mortgaged Cattle.
7 vuhn homo q n
southern part of Republic county. was
taken to the county Jail at Concordia
after trial in Justice of the Peace
Johns court in Meredith township,
charged with larceny by the sale of
mortgaged property. 1t seems he hal
mortgaged a bunch of cattle to DR..
Newton to secure a doctors bill, and
then sold a part of the cattle. In de-
fault of bond for his appearance at
the next term of the district court he
was committed to the county Jail.
Fugitive for IL Years.-Sheriff w.
S, Beatty of Howard, brought G. V
O'Hare, alias Moore, and alias several
other things, from Glen Pool, Okla,
and lodged him in the Elk county
Jail, from whence he had made his
escape January 2, 1896, more than
twelve years ago. He had then just
been convicted of cattle stealing and
was waiting in Jail the arguing of a
motion for a new trial. S. H. Pat
terson was sheriff at the time and
keenan, Hurst was jailer. The fugi-
tive has eluded the officers ever since,
but a short time ago Sheriff Beatty
heard that one of the O'Hare boys
was arrested for some crime at
Cleveland, Okla, and he judged the
old man was not far away. Beatty
soon got on the track of him and
gathered him in, and now has him
again safely Jailed. This is quite a
big feather for Mr.. Beatty, for the
prisoner is a hardened criminal of
long standing, and is a desperate
man.
To Mourn Thirty Days.-Governor
Hoch has issued a proclamation order
ing the flags on the state house half
masted for thirty days in honor of
the memory of the late Grover Cleve-
land.
Nose Bleed Causes Death.-Mrs.
Lucretia Clafiin, 70 years old, died at
Salina, after an illness of six weeks
of nosebleed She was the widow of
a banker of early days in Salina, and
as she had no heirs, she spent her
money literally for charity and pub
lie institutions. She furnished the
chime bells and the pipe organ for
Christ cathedral there, and also built
the Chautauqua auditorium in Oak
dale park.
Three Prisoners Escape.-The sec
ond jail delivery at Parsons within
thirty days took place when three
prisoners broke the lock to the city
Jail and escaped. One of these is
Fred Smith. a negro, caught robbing
the box office of the Parker Carnival
Company; another was negro boy
awaiting transfer to the reform