The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1873-10-16
State News.

John Russell, of Arkansas City. borrowed J. C.
Topliffs rifle, drew il toward himself by the noz-
zl-, aud suddenly lost two fingers, aud had his
arm badly injured.
The Cawker City Tribase says that joel Holt,
in obtaining the nomination fo- Judge, over
Judge Bsnta, illustrates the maxim, 1T is the
still pig that gets the swill."
The Leavenwarth Commercial says that boy
named John kinney, about seventeen years of
age playing in the cupola of the new court house.
last Sunday, slipped and fell a distance OF sixty
feet. He had no bones broken anu did not seem
to lie seriously hurt.
John Phillips, son of jesse Phillips, who re-
rides in OTTAWA county, while feeding sorghum
mill at Mr.. Richards in this comfy, one day
last week had his hand caaght betweeu the roll
lers and three fingers and the lower part OF the
hand entirely torn away. Had not his father
been there to stop the horse bis whole fore arm
would have been torn away.
White City, Morris county, was recently the
| scene of some high handed business cumulative
of the days of Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin, Six
| teen-String Jack, etc. Two men rode up To a
store, and quietly helping themselves to what
| they wanted, waltzed of. But the proprietor,
Mr.. Dunbar not liking this style of doing things,
gave chase and compelled the knayes to fork
over.
Jewel City has story, told by the Diamond, to
| to the effect that Robert j. Spencer, has been
arrested for attempting an elOpement with au
orphan girl whom he had raised in his family.
! He had taken q claim hundred miles west of
this place whittier he had made arrangements to
go and cast his lot in company with the girl,
| leaving wife with two or three childIen. This
| he unfOlded to his wife, and inportuned her to
keep still, saying that the matter would be hush
| ed mp by his taking that step, bnt the neighLnrs
didn't It in that light aud had him arrested.
He was bound over in the sum of $780,
A LOAD OF STONE FALLS on MAN-HIs
DEATH PROBABLk.-Ou Friday last painful
accident happened at Hanover, by which Peter
Baker will probably lose his life. He vas en-
gagged in repairing well, while an assistant at
the top was letting stone down to him by means
of tub. Through some mishap the rope slip
ped and let the rope down on the unfortunate
man, and 50 injured him that his recovery is
considered doubtful. He leaves wife and two
children to survive him.
Judge F. G. Adams, in his Homestead Guide
states that "Aldersons Grove" six miles west of
this city, can be seen from three counties. He
might have said eight counties, two in Missouri
and six in Kansas, as follows: Platte, Buchanan,
Atchison, D0niphan. Brown, jackson, Jefferson,
and Leayenwor,h. IL may be seen from Whiting
distance Of twenty five miles. Pretty good for
grove planted out fourteen years ago-AtchisOR
Patriot.
TERRIBLE FATALITY BY LIGIITNING.-Tbe Blue
Rapids, Times contains the following account:
The quintriple death below given to family
residing Oh Swede creek, week ago last Tues
day evening and mentioned in the Times of last
week, proved incorrect only respects the
name 1t was not Augustus Lawson, Us stated,
hut Mr.. Nolegnist. At the time the storm
came up he, with his wife, two children and
father were in his new stone house. The wind
disturbed the roof, entirely removing it, we be-
lieye, when the whole party took shelter in the
barn. This struck by lightning ard the
father, husband, wife and two children were
instantly killed. span of horses and a COW in
the barp were also killed. A neal neighbour
Charles Lawson, passing from his house to his
barn after the crash to see if any damage had
been done, observed the fire bursting from Mole
uuiis.' Barn. On arrivinG TIRE =, was bnabis
10 remove the bodies, which became partially
consumed by the flames. The sad catastrophe
occurred on the south fork OF the orsek near the
Randolph road, and in southeast direction from
town about ten miles.
We clip the following from the Baxter Springs
Republican of Oct, I'd: "On Sunday last, about
IL o'clock, while Mr.. Samuel Waller, chief of the
Qnapaw Indians, living three miles south of Bax-
ter, was going about his farm, he was bitten on
the toe of one foot by large tarantula. He i'm
mediat;ly started for the house, but short dis
tance, and by the time he reached it the pain
from the bite was 50 severe that he unable
to sit up and threw himself across the bed. The
insect had crawied up his clothing, and soon af-
ter he lay down il gave-him the second bite in
the region of the small Of the back. This with
the other bite charged his system with the poison
almost as quick as if by electricity. Medical aid
was Immediately summoned, bnt before it reach
eel him he was too near gone for it to do him any
good. And in the most intense agony he linger-
ed until about 10 o'clock that night, when death
relieved him of his suffcrings.
We learn from the Kansas City Times that ON
last Saturday night man named Flemming,
comparative stranger, became intoxicated in
Paola, and started out of town. apparently mis-
taking the railroad for the highway He finally
made his bed upon the track, and the first pas
sing train ground and crushed him to shapeiess,
horrible mass. The engineer saw him but was
pOwerless to save him.