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KANSAS STATE NEWS. PATENTS lately granted to Kansas inventors: John P. Anderson, Olesburg, snap hook; George McAllister, Sterling, wheat steaming and heating machine; Andrew Rowan, Buffalo, vehicle wheel; Albert C. Sims, Winona, weather strip; Heinrich Sommerfeld, Canton, car coupling. THE other morning John Bobzine, and Ross Hawley, living seven and a half miles north of Coffeyville on adjoining farms, quarreled and fought, when Hawley struck Bobzine on the head with a fence rail, killing him instantly. Bobzine was an old settler, having located 6981 up his uo PROF. ROBERT HAY has been down the shaft and personally measured the first 1001 460 to call Allma JO veΔΎu working and found it twenty inches in thickness. He says that they undoubtedly have semi-anthracite at the lower depth to which the shaft is being sunk. THE Governor has offered a reward of $350 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty of the murder of Mrs. Teressa Mettman, at Leaven88 Marroh uo '43.10M ROBERT FISCHER, aged forty, recently took morphine at Leavenworth and died soon after. He left a wife and four children. He had used some of the funds of the Cigar Maker's Union. which he was unable to make good and so ended his troubles with morphine. FOR some time previous to the death of Governor Nehemiah Green, the sword worn by him during his service in the Union army in the war of the rebellion had been in the keeping of Manhattan lodge No. 17, I. O. O. F. The lodge recently presented the sword to the State Historical Society, accompanied by a handsome silver plate bearing an appropriate inscription. THE women of Edgerton. after a warm campaign at the late municipal election, succeeded in electing their ticket as follows: Mayor, Mrs. W. H. Kelly; police judge. Mrs. Thomas Greer; Council, Mrs. S. E. Ewart, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Nat Ross. Mrs. Brown. 8 JO Π»Π΅ΠΈΠΌΠΎ Lackson, ΡΠ΅ΡΠ΅ΠΈ NVR V sheep and cattle ranch fifteen miles southeast of Liberal, was lately fightexectte os because pus ere pretrie U But that his neighbors induced him to mount his horse to ride home, but his animal threw him just as he started, he fell against a wire fence and a barb stuck into his temple. He got up and declared. laughingly, that he was not hurt, but spasms set in and continued for several hours when he died. He leaves a wife and two children. FORMAL complaint has been made against John Mettman, the husband, and Mrs. Routzahn. the daughter, charging them with the murder of Mrs. Metiman. who was recently found dead and so horribly mutilated at Leavenworth. The accusation and arrest completely prostrated Mrs. Routzahn, and pus Physically eq 01 a SBM eqs mentally in a critical condition. THE other night Officers Wilson and Wellman went to arrest William Haddock, a young Topeka negro, for grand larceny. Wellman produced a warrant for his arrest and Haddock immediately raised a musket and said: "The first man that offers to cross this door is a dead man." No sooner had he said this than Wellman fired, the ball entering the negro's left breast, coming out at the back and producing a fatal wound. THE Larned State Bank, which recently failed, has been reorganized and again resumed business. MRS. CYNTHIA MILLER, an old settler of Wichita, died the other day at the years. jo ese THERE was a biter contest formember of the school board from the Fourth ward in Leavenworth, at the late election, and when the City Council met to canvass the vote it was discovered that the returns from the first precinct of the ward were missing, which completely changed the result. The returns had been stolen, but had not been traced up. A LATE meeting of the board of directors of the Hutchinson, Oklahoma & Gulf railway in Chicago has resulted in pushing forward the construction of the road through Harper and Kingman Counties. uo sujuuns trains have 04 pesodord sp +1 the new road June 1. It is reported that the road will be operated by the Union Pacific, which has long desired to control a line penetrating Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory. THE old soldiers and citizens of Barton County at the campfire of Pap Thomas post G. A. R. in Great Bend the other day, passed resolutions favoring the more liberal issue of pensions and demanding the immediate passage of the Ingalls-Cheadle Service Pension bill without alteration or amendment. AT a coal shaft, one mile north of Weir City, a difficulty recently occurred between Dick McIlhany, weighman, and George Barnard, trimmer, which resulted in McIlhany shooting Barnard twice-once in the right thigh, causing only a flesh wound, and the other time qΒ΅ forting the jo e.g. the 78 1sn[