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J. H. Marshall of Overbrook, Kas., died in a hospital in Topeka the other day as a result of injuries received when he was struck by a motor car on the highway. Marshall was inspecting damage to his car from a collision when a machine struck him.
The fight made against the re-election of Senator J. N. Dolley of Topeka as supreme president of the Fraternal Aid Union, the headquarters of which order are at Lawrence, Kas., failed and he was carried into office for another four years.
The dog population of Pittsburg has decreased rapidly in the last four months. March 1 the city opened warfare on dogs that wander. A police report showed that 297 canines have suffered the extreme penalty of the low in that period.
The State Bank at Harveyville in Wabaunsee County, has been closed. Recently there was small run on the bank, when payment was refused on checks for $9,000. He explained that the failure probably was due to expensive Litigation. The bank had sued J. H. Lee of Topeka, formerly leading stockholder, for $20,000, winning in the lower court, but the supreme court recently remanded the case for a new trial. The bank was capitalized at $25,000 and had deposits of $70,000. C. L. Youngman is president and C. H. Pearl cashier.
At the request of the railroad, the public service commission has dis missed the application of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad for authority to discontinue its line from White Cloud to Atchison. The line has been damaged by flood, but on protest of the cities against its removal the railroad withdrew its petition.
Five prisoners in the state penitentiary were paroled the other day by Governor Paulen. Vernon L. Al len, Sedgwick county, was released after serving slightly more than a year of a sentence of one to five years for violation of the banking laws.
Dr. E. M. Hoover, 70 years old. pioneer physician of Halstead, fell dead of apoplexy in his home recently. Dr. Hoover finished his fifth term as mayor of Halstead last spring.
By the will of the late Dr. Lawrence Reynolds of Horton the board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church, named as residuary beneficiary, will receive approximateLy $100,000. Dr. Reynolds' will gives $10,000 to the widow, now living in Manhattan, Kas.; $8,000 to each of his children, and the remainder to missionary work in which he and Mrs. Reynolds had been interested. The will left to the board of foreign missions more than twice the amount given the doctor's family.
The biggest oil well in the Braman field has been drilled by the Comar Oil Company on the Bechtel land as a north offset to the Discovery well of the Herbert Oil Company. The well, Community No. 1, is flowing at the rate of 8,000 barrels a day.
Fred Stauffer, vice-president of the state bank at Blue Rapids, Kas., and a prominent Mason and Democrat, was killed in a motor car accident in Yellowstone Park. He was about 45 years old, and is survived by his widow and three children.