White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-12-21

UNFoRrcNATE OCCURRENCE FROM rHE DIS
CHARGE or A SHOT-GUN.-The Pawnee City Tiib-
sne has received intelligence of sad accident in
q family by the name Of Riser, living near the
Kansas and Nebraska linc. It seems that Mrs.
kiser was sweeping room in which stood bed,
under which had been placed loaded shof-gnn.
On sweeping under the bed the broom struck the
gun in manner that caused it to 60 of, the con-
tents striking two Of her little children in the
lower limbs, causing the death of one and severe
~ inJnring the other. A physician was sent for,
who gave proper attention 70 the surviving suf-
ferer and at last accounts the little one was in a
fair way to recover.
The above is simply an evidence Of what lit
tie caralessness will d. and it does seem strangely
odd that people arc not moro particular who have
loaded firearms in the house. Better keep the
old adage continually in view-that "a gun is
dangerous without lock, stock or barrel"
We learn from the Troy Repsblican that the
house Of Mr.. John Kiley, IN Irishman living about
three and half miles southeast of Troy, near the
place of Mr.. J. A. Nixon, was consumed by fire on
last Sunday night the I'd inst, and his family of
seven or eight children turned ont, some of them
wirncut shoes or clothes to shield them from the
cold.
Col Anthony, Of LeavenwOrth, has sued Col
Jennison to recover printing bill. Col Jennison
has put in q counter claim for meals and sundries
furnished the former gentleman at his faro roOms
The Commerciai says the suit promises some queer
developments.
boose at Usage Mission, one day last week. He
was confined for stealing horse. Some persons
think his brother the guilty party. 1t is repor-
ted that the brother refused to assist the prisoner
in any way while confined
A young man named Llewellyn Bill was killed
near Manhattan, recently. While ridingOn load
Of wood, the wagon ran into mudhOle, and he
was thrown off. One wheel passed over his face.
His head struck rock and cnt an artery above
the nose. He lived only fifteen minutes. He was
brother of Miss Lou Bill, well known to many
of our citizens.
day night, near the Vermillion, in POttawatome
County.
The Troy Repsblicaa states that an old colored
lady, known an Aunt Maria, last Saturday night
fell into hole used last winter as an ice house,
and severely injured one of her arms. The elbow
ner.
The following convicts have escaped from the
Usage Mission jail: George Rice, sentenced for
horse stealing, five years, Charles Roberts, four
years, same Offense. Two other inmates of the
Jail, who are awaiting trial, stood their ground
like little men.
On the 1st of January the coloretl people of Dom
iphan county and st. Joseph, will have celcbra-
tion Mt ElwOOd in honor of the anniversary of the
day on which the emancipation proclamation was
issued.
The Watervllc Telegraph mentions the destruc-
flon OF dwelling house, owned by stephen Brad
the house accidentally discharged his gun. The
cnarge psssea .nIouga .ne ct'ling INTO an upper
Mnen1 .ne o"r"nS wa. ,Sni.eu s: s:lle eoni
:. A. e'e"
"as i'""' i'nPo''."'o ~ eA,"suisn II.
In Wyandotte last week, Mr. Hall, foreman IN
Biggers packing house, while assisting to load a
heavy box OH a car fell under the load, and had
MS lowet Ja" pa'hy cruS"e'''
The Salina Journal says that Louis Wllholm, a
Norwegian, porter at N. W. keith's hotel, Of that
place, came to his death by strychnine, selfadmn-
isfered, at the hotei, on saturday morning.
Wichita DOCTOR named Oatley, undertook to
cut tumor out of the throat Of young man
named Schweiter, and in doing 81 cut a cash three
eighths of an inch long in the patients windpipe
Two sober doctors were fortunately present, and
managed to save the boys life
Sunday, the 3d inst. was the coolest day known
since the settlement Of the Solomon Valley; the
thermometer ranged at from twenty to thirty
degrees below zero.
The Peace Societv,s AGENT f;r Kansas and Mis-
sour has been ADDRESSING to verv many clergr.
men. of different ;lenominations tbronsbout The
State. a rennest that they will. npon the SahhatS
precedinc CHRISTMAS. nreuch d;srmrse mon tha
aPeace Ref,r,n " or male in their nnIn;t MIME
trations sncb reference I'm IL as will; cali m. faxnr-
allie attention of their onrre~o tons tn tho admit
able work Of the socicfv-
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'nc s'e.',a H ~ =. W met WIN dnl,e Sc
fio"s acc'9eIt ." MoIas weeh ias.. ne had as
cended a ladder Ior inc purpose OF nxing some-
thing ABOUT the machinery, wnen ne lost MS equl-
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WIS iou,u snD. t ~ , ~ MI. MeieteI,
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sun ;I M ,J. f,r Int, m ',f.. ne Is
anu Will oe aoie '"r ou'y III 10" aass'
Kansas still seems to think that the stealing of
horses can be only afoned for by death. For this
crime Of appropriating other mems horses two
men were hung in Jewell County, Kansas, last
week. A murderer has good chance of trial
there, but the horse-fhief Is hunted down like n
Win DeasI. Can !. oe una: nopse T Us Oh more
WIPS s .nan n"'ii"" "c"s LII Aansas'--'e"
io'A cypress
stranger committed snicide by poison at the
residence Of Z. Disbrow, near Clinton, Douglas
County, ON Thursday night last. He said ne had
been IN the State year and had Travelled that day
from Buriingame. he was man OF about from
As to 81 wears Of B feet lO inches height. \