White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-11-09
State News.

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were voluntarily helping to erect the frame. cne
Of the cruss tinbers broke of, falling and taking
with it two sets Of heavey rafters and nearly ID
! the staging. c. 9. Cummings fell to the cellar,
the underpinning. He was taken up for dead
His head was shOckingly mangled but il 10 hoped
he will rocOvcr. A. w. Manchester sprzined m
ankle and Robert Gibbons was badly bruised.
The Fort Scott Monitor contains an account Of
the killing of Mr. Charles H. Gibson, late of Bour-
bon county, Kss., on his farm near Roscoe, Mo.
| He was shot down by three men, who fired a
| double volley of buckshot at him while he was
near his stable. No cause is assigned for the act,
and NO clue has yet been obtained tO the assassns
| The Kansas editors say they are on an excursion.
It's more like an "incursion." When Sherman
invaded Georgia, we'll bet more pOvender was left
| in the wake Of his "bummers" than there will be
| when these ink-slingers complete their "swing
| around the circle" Poor fellows! they don't get
many square meals-Only when they go out on
their "Grand Annual Grub Hunt."-For Scott
| Occasional.
The body of an unknown man was found float
| ing near the shore Mill creek, Wabaunsee
| county, one day last week. He had evidently
been murdered, as two bullet holes were discover
ed in his head, and his pocket book found ON his
person showed signs of having been rified. There
were no marks about him by which he could be
identified, save the initials at. s. w." in India
| ink, on his right arm.
The Salina Herald learns that ON Wednesday
last, an old man about sevcnty-twO years old,
named Jacob Betiowner, living about eight miles
wagon, and dislOcated his neck, killing him in
stantly.
Says the Humboldt Caioa: Sumner county one
year ago had net . hundred inhabitants. BY the
vote pOled in that county few days ago, its pop
ulatiGn il reasonably estimated to benot less than
for Sumner county, one of the hest in the State.
Newton, tho "wickedest town in Kansas" and
but four months old, cent four loads of cattle
to the Chicago sufferers.
Mr.. r. w. Terwilliger informs the Council
Grove Democrat that . party from Wabaunsee
and Osage counties, having in charge q drove Of
cattle purchased ON Turkey creek, camped at his
rancho last Wednesday, and allowed the prairie
tO take fire, damaging him to the the extent of
81 900. They burned up over one hundred tons
Of hay besides considerable portion of his cOora
He now has about seventy-five head of horses
together with other stock, and nothing for them
to subsst ON. He has taken legal steps to recover
damages.
The Girarl Press mentions the death of w. W.
Jones of Crawfnrdvile from injuries inflicted by
horse hoof; also Of Marcellus Parish of the same
place having his leg broken by jumping from
wagon attached to q runaway Ox-team.
Butler county claims pumpkin vine 3513 feet
in length. This growth is not all vine either, as
fifty-six pumpkins have been gathered from it.
In Oskaloosa, on "Wednesday evening, party
of men and boys grew qurrrelsOme from the ef-
fects of forty-rod, and John Mitchell discharged a
shotgun ut Elihu Maconibcr, who seized shovel
and struck Mitchell two blows over the head
with it, fracturing his skull. The injuries are not
considered fatal.
Mr.. Lester j. Virgins, an EmpOria book keeper,
dropped dead in that city Sunday evening
The deceased had been sufferer for some time
from attacks Of hemorrhage Of the lungs, and Oh
the evening mentioned, while walking with q
q n srrp md fhanf fall
He was taken mp by bystanders, but expired be-
fore he reached hOme He leaves a wife.
The Fort Scott Monitor complains that fatal
accidents occur at the ford in the MarIuitOn River
when the current is swollen, aud suggests that
lanterns be hung on each bank, with the warning
unsafe" On Wednesday morning Mr.. Nixon
saved a man from being drowned and rescued one
of his hOrses-the other was drowned. The water
was ten feet deep, and the night dark. The cries
of the imperiled man brought this hero to his
rescue.
One prairie fire in southern Kansas was reck-
oned twelve miles in width, and ran distance of
twenty-five miles, destroying everything in the
way.
The Lawrence 7ribx~c says that Joseph Hughes,
the man who was recently shot by Thomas Top
ping, is slowly recovering.
The Leavenworth Call says that a man named
night back of the Russell building, near the cor
ner of Seventh and Dacotah streets, and was
drowned. He leaves wife and five children.
The Ssneca Co.r;er savs that tb. l;ttla l.,,h,.-
orr Nelson wbo.s arm ~.. hroLs,, IN ,s'.',..
last fell on Thnrnday and r.broke the limb With
careful nnrsin0 she h doinv we'll -
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s Uf... Sonoe W T re man nalneu Ed. rnrier, az
aa,..Ss ISl. ss.., "" anS - n.sns lns'. botn were
0',u'''' w u'e"' a "o"a" WIS '"e canse.
met With an accident m Ws,,nes;1.v A. Pc
willie. nv cettnc his foot smashed nv n;ie-dr;v:r
II was 40 badly crushei as to render amnntat;on
necessary. which Was performeil Inv In. RarI,er
m. I.-.., -. -. g.
e,Iia. ~" e'n.'. ;..o a. oule y oa:.ay
o.' Ra.stIr th.o a." a''.,' h.n. S =. io.:oung :
in the ,onthwestern n,,rt;on of the c;tv m. If
these cows belonged 10 Mr.. II. Wbittsnbr;nE. .
valuable animal which he s.va m. worth +.
hundred dollars to him.
E.F. Smith. leadin~ attorney of paol. died
on Saturday. 28th nit.
Tn. 49,. r.u.
,;rn fW NJ. %hr;.t,.n Z. rn,, .n1, 'ne awel
.a,t,, % j..sroya' ~. a., " ",,1'o..; s:, ~ AZ
was soon rnised for the noor woman.
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Wm y. hnsn was intrnsted Eith eleven hum
dred dollars belonging to his employer, Mr.. An
drew blnkiey: hvmg near Rockville, Miami
County. pr. nnsh nas not eeen seen SINCE, and 1t
is supposed ne mas rushed on to the Indian Ter