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KANSAS STATE NEWS. State Republican League. The ninth annual convention of the state republican league has been called to meet at Topeka July 1. The official call has been issued by President Scott and Secretary Gault, and is tee by authority of the executive commitwhich met in Topeka last January. The to business of the convention will be to elect officers for the ensuing elect delegates to represent year; the state in the annual convention of the national republican league of the United States which will be held in Milwaukee, August 25-27, 1896, and to transact in other business. Each league the state will be entitled to be resented by its president and three repother delegates to be chosen by the club. Among other interesting features of the meeting will be an address by Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, of Ohio J. S. Helme, Miscellaneous. a merchant of Millerton, committed suicide the other day. He was 75 years old. The Western Deaf Mutes' association will have a grand celebration in Bismarck grove, near Lawrence, July 4. The First national bank at Salina has been forced to suspend after heavy run induced by a controversy a over the local water works. A meteorite weighing about 50 pounds fell on the Plumber farm, near Effingham, the other night. It was broken, and while the outside of it resembled a cinder, the inside was full of smooth pebbles. The populist judicial convention for nominating a candidate for judge of the court of appeals, eastern division, southern department, met at Chanute and named Manford Schoonover, of Garnett, for the office. The Chicago Western railway will soon build a mammoth grain elevator with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels on the site of its terminal recently purchased at Kansas City, Kan. The elevator will cost $150,000. At the 29th annual cammencement of the Kansas state agricultural college at Manhattan the graduating class was composed of 23 young women and 43 young men, the largest in the history of the institution. Four small boys," Dennisand Michael Desmond, 11 and 6 years old, and Daniel and Eugene Cummings, 7 and 5 years old, took refuge in a culvert during a recent storm at Leavenworth and were drowned by the sudden rise of the stream. The governor is trying to induce the Santa Fe railroad to renew its coal contract in Osage county. Since the Santa Fe quit buying Osage county coal the miners have had very little work to do and many are said to be in destitute circumstances. Samuel Dodsworth, formerly mayor of Leavenworth, who had been sick for some time in a hospital in St. Louis, committed suicide in that institution the been other day. He had for many years proprietor of a large printing and bookbinding worth. establishment in LeavenAt the twenty-fourth annual commencement of the state university at Lawrence degrees were conferred on 118 graduates, 56 from the school of arts, 8 from the school of engineering, 14 from the school of pharmacy, 35 from the school of law and 5 from the school of fine arts. The residence of Henry Munn, for merly a bookkeeper in an insurance office at Atchison, was discovered to be on fire the other morning and an in n vestigation divulged the fact that seven of the eight rooms were saturat ed with coal oil. Munn was arrested charged with arson. The house and furniture were well insured. The various railway companies, it is said, oppose the idea of making the full annual report required by the railroad commissioners, declaring i impossible, owing to the necessity o collecting special statistics and incur ring an enormous expense. The claim that the desired information i not in their possession and could hard ly be obtained. George D. Trimmer, of Wetmore while bathing in the Cottonwood rive at Emporia, the other day, was take e with cramps and drowned. He editor of the Republican at Filley wa e Neb., but was doing special work an attending commencement exercises a the state normal school, and at th time of his death was attending a pie nic of students. An even 100 graduates received d plomas at the late commencement da d exercises at the Kansas state norma school at Emporia, and each of thes diplomas is by law a life certificate 11 teach school in the state of Kansas, well as being a first-class recommend e tion anywhere in the civilized world he Nearly every county in the state Kansas was represented in this year class, and quite a number of neighbo ing states, Missouri and Illinois takin S precedence in number. ed State Superintendent of Public I ad struction two dink Stanley has recently receive
