White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-11-16
state News.

| George Graham -l
State News.
DEAD BODY FoUND-About two miles west Of
| Wild Horse, on the X. p. X. W., last "Wednesday,
evenings freight train No. going east picked up
the body of man lying On the track terribly mu-
tilated, having undoubtedly been run over and
killed by some preceding train. HIS head was
| completely severd from his body, and was found
some distance from il. Both legs and one arm
were also taken of, and the body otherwise horr-
| bly mangled. There was nothing about his body
from which any clue could be obtained as n his
identity and the remains were taken to Wild Hofse
| to await the Coroner.-Sa5isa Herald.
| LUxURIANr rGRowTH.-Rev. E. B. Rafensburger,
who has Just returned from the west, brought with
him a cane of Osage Orange, ten feet in length,
the growth of five months in 1871, from root two
wears old on the farm Of A. r. Whiting, Milford,
Riley county, Kansas; also some prairie grass
eight feet high, from the same farm Mr.. Raifens-
burger will present these to the Western Reserve
Historical Society.-CieUelaRd Herald.
A frightfnl accident occurred in Gardner, John
| son county, Kansas, ON Tuesday last, election day.
A young man named A. Havermail was standing
! in Clapps store i'm the midst of Others, talking
excitedly over election Matters and to emphasize
something he was saying, struck the butt OF the
gun he held in his hand on the floor with such
force that the load discharged into the side Of
his head. It carried away part Of the skull,
and some of the brains was scattered and some
Oozed ont before il could be bound mp. With all
this death did not Immediately occur, but the
| unfortunate young man was still alive ON Wednes-
day morning, though it is impossible for him to
live long. DIR. COons, of Spring Hill, was called
| to attend him. The sufferer was q farmer, and
SINGLE He lived short distance south of Gardner.
The Fort Scott MoHitor says that Mr.. Charles
Burgess blacksmith, of Fort Scott, while RETURN
ing from hunt was accidentally shot by q fellow
sportsman. A full charge of shot entered Mr..
Burgess breast. There is little hope of his re-
| covery.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Wm Dieirich, who had
been very i'll of brain fever, at Mr. Wehrley's,
corner of Second and Shawnee streets, wandered
from his couch, and was found by MIR. W. in an
insensible state and conveyed home, where he
died in a very short time.
The Ottawa Herald aays that on Monday eve
ming last a. Capt. A. w. Shaw was at work in his
ice house, he fell from the second story to the low
er floor breaking his breast bone. His injuries,
although painful, not Of dangerous character.
The Ottawa Herald states that few days ago
little girl about three years old daughter of Mr..
HazeltOn, living some three miles north of Ottawa,
fell through hole in the chamber floor, striking
upon her head in kettle Of hot water upon the
stove below. Her face and the upper part of her
body were terribly scalded, and after lingering in
agony for three days, death came to the relief of
the little sufferer.
and bOlters. They have been defeated in their
inoriinate scramble for Office in Dickinson, Shaw
nee, Douglas, and other cOnnties in Kansas. Their
efforts to ride into ONCE by destroying the Repub
lican organization have signally failed. Hereaf-
ter let them act with the DemOcracy-or, if they
prefer to return to the Republican party, may
they he received as prodigals on probation, until
by their good conduct they show themselves wOr-
thy of Republican confdence.-AbiIese Ckronicle
Alexander Baxter, of the Valley of Strathmore
1,oa oo6 Lon of lo.1 s,,
the Scottish settlement on Hollow Creek, south of
Solomon City, iDthis county. and with his family,
will settle on the same. "Old Scotia" is already
largely represented in Dickinson county. Let 'em
come, there is still room and plenty of rst-quality
land.-Ihd.
Immigration into Kansas is rapidly increasing
with each succeeding year; that for this year
greatly exceeding that of any other time in the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant. The Eastern
people have made the discovery that Kansas is
the Garden of the World. "C0me one, come ALL"
-Garnett Plaindealcr.
On the day of election the county clerks Office
was turned into o whiskey saloon, and free whis-
key was furnished without stint to all who could
be thus Influenced to vote for Mr.. Patrick. This
was an outrage upon the people of the county.
Public offices were not made to he turned into
dens of drunkenness, nor to be used for election
eering purposes. We think the like will never
again he seen in Jefferson County.-Oskaloosa Inde-
pendent.
farmer named Flanagan, living three miles
west Of Usage Mission, attempted to murder him.
self and family on the night Of the 9th inst. He
first administered chloroform to his wife and two
little girls while they were asleep and then drove
q nail into the head of each Of the two children. |
At this the childr n screamed and aroused the |
mother from the stupor, when she caught the mad
man, but he got away from her, seized axe and |
struck the children on the head with it. He then |
tried to kill himself with butcher knife, but his
wife again seized him, and succeeded in leading |
=: Il -
was bound. One of the girls was found to he
dead with hope Of saving the life Of the other.
The man had always lived happily with his family,
and as he deliberately made all preparations for
committing the murder, there can be no doubt
that he was insane. Recently he has had some
financial troubles, which weighed no seriously
upon his mind that he concluded to kill all of his
family hut little boy, about four years old.
When the neighbOrs witnessed the horror it was
with difficulty they could be restrained from
lynching the murderer.
The body IF . man, whose name appears to
have been Melanctl,ou Inman, formerly of Rod
man, Jefferson county, New York, was found ON
the right hank Of the Kansas river, on Saturday,
November 9Th, 1871, about four miles below wam-
ego, by N. B. Siebert. Near the body WAS found
small boat, gun, several steel traps and neces-
saries for camping, He appears to have rowed
alone in the boat from Leavenw0rth, and ffUm
papers in his trunk it appears that he was living
mp to the 11th Of October, and probably died
about that time.
The Salina Herald says that few DAYS ago, Mr..
Robert White, brother 0f Thomas White, who
was ont with party of buffalo hunters near Fort
Zsrah, accidentally shot himself while taking .
loaded rife from among some buffalo hides, in
dicting . mortal wound. His friends at once
started home with him, but he died before they
reached Ellsworth.
On Tuesday, about o'clock p. m, two prisoners
ronfined in the Riley County jail, from Davis
County, escaped by cutting off the bars and bolts
from one of the windows, and climbing the wall
One of them, named Robert Welch, 10 the horse-
Ehief shot in Wabaunsee by Charley Tyler, the
other was Herron, the man who entered Chapin's
iewclry stere. Il = supposed they went toward
CSfy Csies.
The Bsra~ 6est;as1 says: The colorsd citizens
Eenefally, voted the strsieht Republican ticket on
Tuesday last. That was night = it shows that
hey arc trnc to the party that has ut all times
been true to them.