Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Charges Against Morrill. [ARTICLE]

Charges Against Morrill.

S. W. Chase, warden of the Kansas penitentiary, Monday swore out a warrant for the arrest of Gov. E. N. Morrill, charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. Mr. Chase charges that from Dec. 15, 1894, to Jan. 14, the date of his inauguration. Gov. Morrill maintained a suite of private rooms and kept three clerks busy, sorting over the applications -of -office seeke r s and .answering .private correspondence, and that after he became Governor he signed vouchers for these expenses and paid them out of the executive contingent fund. The April salaries of the three clerks have been withheld to replace the amount so drawn, but that does not remove the- cause of complaint, and Warden Chase and his attorneys say they will push the matter. The arrest of Gov. Morrill is by many considered spite work on the part of Warden Chase, who is under investigation now. Unprecedented May Day. In the twenty years' meteorological history' of Chicago there are but seven years in which the temperature rose as high in any time in May as it did Friday. In the quarter of a cv-situry no similar date ever equaled the day in heat. The maximum temperaturewas.Bß,andthea veragefor the twenty-four hours 73. One case of prostration by heat \tas reported.