White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

The man who shot Douglas in Buter county,
was named Cline. He has been arrested and is in
Jail at EldOradO.
Mrs. ANNIs WEBB, died at her residence in
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, on the 9Th of
September. in the s3d year of her age. She was
the mother of Hon. W. c. Webb, Superintendent
of Insurance, and Henry G. Webb, Judge of the
1lth district of Kansas Topeka Commonwealth.
WE learn from the Chetopa .idrance that the
tornado which swept across that county last week.
from northwest to southeast was the most des-
tructive one which has ever visited that section
II blew most violently over belt about six miles
in breadth, and was the most furious on the high
lands south of the blackberry. In riding over
the country one miles of fence leveled with
the ground, trees uprooted, barns and sheds scat
tered i'm fragments, houses demolished, moved in
some instances, several rods from their foundation
and in others turned cOrnerwise to the road.
The Neosho Falls Adrertiser says that Mr.. Jeffer-
son Sow arls residing Owl creek six miles south
east of Neosho Falls, accidentally shot and killed
his son, lad about eight years of age, ON the
morning of the 10Th inst Mr.. Sowar,ls took down
his gun from the wall passing ont of the door. the
hammer struck the casing, dscharging the gun,
the charge striking the boy in the center of the
forehead, tearing the skull off to the back of the
head and scattering his brains against the ceiling.
He lived about twenty minutes. The Distress of
the unfortunate father can better be imagined
than described.
Office, has furnished the Empire with the following
figures of the amount of land disposed Of through
the Office for the month Of August: Entered under
the homestead law, 74,025. Sold for cash. under
the homestead and presumption laws, 2,:sJ1 acres.
Final home entries, 749 acres. Prescriptions, 40,
0GO. Total, 116,4G acres. Number of pre-emp-
tion filings 252 Number of homestead entries,
ASS. Located with college scrip and warrants,
2,7ll acres.
The wife of B. Willcrson, of the Union Hotel
Lawrence, died on Wednesday morning. in giving
birth tn child weighing twenty pounds.
The Wamego Republican says:
We We're shown stalk the other day
which measured - feet from the root TO the top
The first of corn the stalk is AZ feet from
the ground and the next 16 feet. How is
that for corn raised in Pottawatomie county!
Mr. William wainwright an Englishman. com
mitted suicide in Greenwood county a few days
since by taking corrosive sublimate. He was
probably insane.
In the immediate vicinity of Girard. fifteen hum
dred tons of hay is being shipped to st. Louis and
New Orleans. n q good profit to the buyers. This
trade, at dull time of the year like the present.
gives quite an impetus to business, and furnishes
employment to every lille hand. converting the
wild prairies into a source of revenue.
Robert J. Miller banker at Junction City, has
suspended payment. and assigned his property,
for the benefit of his creditors to James Streeter,
$. VI. StTlckler and J. II. Mcclure. His assets are
said to he more than ample To pay all liabilities
within sixty or ninety days. His suspension is
attributed to the scarcity of money in that local
ity, and his failure to realize on cattle in which
he was largely interested.
The Seneca Courier saws that on Sunday evening
last, Charles King. grandson of X. Sherman,
Esq, living on Clear Creek, while attending to
some horses in the stable was kicked by one Of
them, which knocked him down, broke a rib. and
rendered him insensibe for about three hours
At last accounts he was in fair way to recover