The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-04-24
State News

SuICIDE.-The Lawrence Journal Informs M
that Mrs. Coop, wife Of the ferrymsn Mt Eud"ra
committed snicide on Friday evening last abnut
& oclsck. Her husband left her . week or ter
days ago, and said he was going to st. Louis and
wouid not live with her any longer. On last
Friday she went mp to Eudora aud seemed very
| cheerful, laughing and chatting with tb"ss she
saw. She went into Pilas drug store and bough,
FIVE cents worth of strychninc II kill rats }" a
she said. The clerk put it up in piece Of tissne
paper and mark-dit ''poison." She went home
and OH getting to the house, was refused admis
sion by her step son, young fellow just married
and occupying the house with her. She then
started for the h.use of neighbor, distant about
half mile, and on arriving there fell dead on
the steps. No inquest held, and she was
buried ON Sunday. 1t is supposed she. took the
poison the way from her house to the neigh.
boris.
The family was . wretched one.
A FATAL DUEL AT SALlNA BETWEEN Two
You've MES.-On Wednesday last, says the Kan
says City Journal, two gentlemen left train on
the Kansas Pecific ruad at station near Salina,
for the purpose If settling some difficulty by re-
course to tho duello.
One of them was Mr. Frank Triplest, q COM
mhrcial traveller from New York; the other was
Mr.. 8. T. Bates, large cattle trader from Col
orado. Both were young gentlemen Of geNi FAM
lily. and with every prospect Of long and happy
lives before them. At the second lire Triplctt
fell dead, shot through the heart, and lived but
. moment. Bates was shot through. the shoulder
the first fire, and through the lungs the second,
aud cannot possibly recover. Tfiplett was .
young man Of unusual promise, being something
of poet, an artist, and, We believe was . grad
nate of law and medicine. Thus arc two young
lives cut off to satisfy point of honor. May
they rest in peace.
Two CHILDREN BURNED TO DEArH.-A most
distressing accident occurred near Corning, Ne
maba County, on Monday afternoon. Mr.. Snod-
grass and his wife were away from home, the
latter having gone to neighbor's on an errand.
While they were gene the three children were
playing at the stsbIe, s.stfucture made of poles
aud STRAW. The oldest child, aged seven years,
had some patches, and while playing with theiu
they ignifed aud set the straw on file. The two
younger children, aged five and three years, were
farthest from the door, aud were unable to es-
cape. Their Bodies were found afterward, burned
to 8 crisp. 80
. On Friday, about o'clock D. u.ttha dead bsdy
Of Mr. Godfrey Graft was found, in Soldier Town
ship, three miles north of North Topeka No
evidence of violence or poison was fonnd, and his
death is presumed to have been.osuscd by an old
hernia having become strSngulated. In his en-
feeblcd condition he could neither 90 home nor
call any to his assistance, and mRst have lais
there about forty hours before being discovered.
Mr., Mccullough. horse thief was reported
"l'st" BY party Of gentlemen who weso tray
cling with him to Hutchinson. This was . mis-
take. He arrived at his Destination, and wes
electnd by . unanemoas vote Of twelve 0f his
countrymcn 70 sesseva~ yoazs in the Pesi-
tentisry.
The Paols RepsbIicas says that the cerebro spi-
nal mengenitis or spotted fever 10 raging In some
parts of Miami County, and that almdst every
case bas proven fatal. Mr.. T. Z. Rowland. near
hillsdale died on Thursday with this disease.
A little boy belongiuxto family named Kru-
ger. living near Wyandotte, went with sOrne other
children, Sunday morning, intO . corn crib n
hnnt eggs. While there he fell, breaking his arm
in several places and dislocating it at the elbow
Amputation will probably be necessary, and even
with that 1t is feared the injury may prove fatal.
A little child Of Mr.. Renscb. ef Wichita, acci-
dentally got hold of can Of concentrated lys.
one day last week, and swallowed portion Of il,
eausing its death.
Mrs. Phil. ONeal, Of Osborne City, gave her
baby dose of laudanna from bottle the party
who cold her the medicine had neglected to label,
causing the child's immediate death.
The horss thief who was wounded and captured
on GrVuse creek, was taken from the wagon near
Elgin and hung. The remaining three thieves,
at last accounts, were hotly pursued. This 10 the
party that killed Deputy o. s. Narrhal Parker.
W. C. Kinney. Of Tisdale, wss snffocsted in .
well IN the 10th inst. He had blasted it, and
went down before the gas had escaped, and died
before it was found out.
On rhnrsday last, man by the name Of Ton
gle; whs lives on the Saline river, accidentally
discharged his shot-gu the charge entering and
fearfally mutilsting his hand.