The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1872-10-17
State News.

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DEATH OF HovEY +. LowMAN.-Nr. Hovey
E. Lowman died in waverly, N. T., on the 9th
ult Mr.. Lowman was at one time connected
With the press of this city, being one Of the edi-
tors and lrOprietOrs Of the State JowTnat AT
the time of the Quantrell raid. Shortly after
that occurrence he removed East, engaging In bus
iness in Saginaw. He returned to Kansas about
eighteen months since, and was for . short t'me
connected with the Leavenworth 1snes, and af-
terward with the Lawrence Tribune. He was
not fortunate in his associations, and soon left
the State again.
Mr.. LOwman left a wife and several children.-
LarreRce Journal.
The oldest person in Kansas was buried at june
tion City last Sunday. 1t was . colOred woman
named Mrs. Bumber. She was between 1O3 and
10i years of age. Her son who lives in Junction
she was upward Of 103, though he cannot tell the
exact month in which occurred her birthday.
She was good, pious old lady, having been =
member Of the Baptist church for half = century.
S. F. Burdett, of Leavenworth, has been elected
Grand Secretary Of the Grand Lodge Of Odd Eel
lows for the eleventh time. The aone-term prin-
ciple" don't work worth cent in his case.
A colored man in Allen County has raised two
thousand pounds of tobacco ON two acres Of land.
The tobacco is of good quality and will clear him
$3.50 an acre.
The Fort Scott Echo has taken down the Greeley
ticket, and now supports the national and local
Republican candidates.
A colony of twenty five families are on the way
from Pennsylvania to Usage City. They will
settle near Lyndon.
The Ellsworth Reporter says: About one
o'clock Sunday morning fire was discovered in
Sanderson & Whites livery stable. 1t spread
rapidly, and wrapped the building in flames.
few saddles wers thrown out, and some harness,
but not ALL Five horses were burned to death,
was got ont of the fire that il had to lie killed.
Two Of the horses only belonged to Sandcrson &
White, the others to different parties.
We learn from the Walnut Valley Times Of the
4th inst, that ON the Wednesday afternoon pre-
vious man by the name of John Bradshaw, re-
siding on Whitewater, near TOwanda, without
inst cansc or provOcation, drew his revolver and
shot Thomas Griffith four times-Onee through
the shoulder and three times through the lower
parts Of the body and thighs. ThOs. Griffith came
to this State from Victor, Iowa, (whcre he has a
wife and four children,) last May, and had but
slight acquaintance with Bradshaw. The shoot
ing occurred at TOwansla. Bradshaw escaped,
and is not vet captured. Griffith was alive on
the night of the 3rd inst, with fair prospects Of
recovery.
Mr. W. W. Strong moved to Thayer last week,
rented u house, and on Thursday was preparing
it for occupancy. While moving q cupboard ont
of the corner, an old shotgun lying on top was
jOsfed of and discharged, the contents entering
Mr. Browns face on the right side scvering his
juglar vein and killing him instantly.
The Burlington Patriot gives the particulars of
hsart-rending accident that occurred last Sat
ur'lay to party of immigrants between the Yer
digris river and Willow creek, CIR. enwOOd County.
There were sOne three or four teams and wagons
in company, Ell route to southwestern Kansas,
with two men on horseback. The wagon IN the
leaa was 9Iawn py Pa'r o. lnu'cS anu conta'nfs
"'a' ana h,S i;''".x' c""S'S.i"S vi "'s VIE anu
one on sihai ch'a. Inc waSon was pretty wen
niieu WIN inrni.ure' ah" tue ewS "'en "n hoTse
"ack "ere JUST III ao' 'anco Vi 'nS wagon. Che
Oh .nrm saw ch'ekeh near oy' anu s"daeniy nreu
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\ man py tne name oi N'ni. wright, VINO nved
near Mihhela' eonnii.tea suicide NJ that place
liSt Sni'"ay ni2n'' ny taxing ia""a""m'
colony OF ab"ut .OO families IS preparing to
settle in the vicinity Of Coon creek, which is on
the A., l. 4. s. +. X X, about hf;y miles west of
Great Bend.
Many cattle in Miami Cnnnty are dying of "mad
itch" c.usrd by feeding hogs and cattle together
i'm the same lot with green corn.
One of the bellies of Leayrpwortb said to n
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