Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
KANSAS NEWS.

Clyde wants butter and cheese fac.
tory.
The new bank at Burlington Is now
in full blast.
Dunlap. Morris county, is spripht.
ly little town.
Lyons anticipates building boom
in the near future. :.
The water works at Abilene will
soon be completed.
1t is announced that there is a min.
eral well in Wabaunsee county.
The prospects for boom at Olathe
the present season are highly encour-
aging.
Rossville, Shawnee county, wants a
new hool.house-the present build
ing being inadequate.
The Masons throughout the state
are experiencing an immense revival of
work In the chapters and comman-
deries. This is probably owing to an
ticipations of the pilgrimage to San
Francisco l. 1883.
At Atchison, a curious phenomenon
was observed Sunday afternoon during
w
tered steadily shower of pebbles rang
ing in size from pea to a hickory
nut fell almost over the entire city.
They were round, rs having been worn
by water.
The Winfield Courant laments the
fate of McCune doctors as follows:
The first to locate there committed sui
, eide; the second was killed by his
brother-in-law; the third borrowed all
, the money he could and jumped the
, town; and the fourth has also come to
f tragic end.
) The Wellingtonian says that little
r girl got her fingers in a can of concen-
: trated I've, and a good portion of the
I I've in her mouth, before she was dis
3 covered. Her mouth was burned ter
] ribly, and it is feared that some of the
+ I've got down her throat into the stom-
r ach. She may recover.
The La Cygne Journal says that a
4 little boy and girl of Mr. G. Ross, be-
ing left alone at home, got hold of a
gun. The little daughter discharged
8 the gun, the load cutting off one finger,
5 nearly severing another from the hand.
and passing through her hip, near the
: top of the hip bone. The charge, after
:, injuring the girl, entered the leg of her
y brother, near the knee joint, producing
J. a severe wound.
Il The Topeka Commonwealth says
8 that draft for $S9,61276, from the
!, United States treasury depal tment,
"a was received Saturday last at the state
g treasurer's office, being five per cent on
u sales of lands in old Indian reserva-
y tiOns. An old ordnance claim, amount
ing to 81, 952.57, has passed the Third
y Auditors and the Second Comptroller
. office at Washington, and will be al
, lowed during this term of congress.
u This is claim for arms turned into
= the United States government, by state
troops when mustered into the vOlun-
: teer service.
The Independent Sentinel, published
at Minneapolis, Ottawa county, says
= GA sad picture was presented few
4 days ago, on the road west of the city.
). A wagon on its way to the insane asy-
, lum contained woman of unsOund
q mind. In her arms, pressed to her
bosom, was the lifeless form of an in.
FAINT. Three other little ones, whose
destiny was the poor-house, were
crouched in the wagon, shivering and
cold. BY the wOman's side sat her
husband, his head bowed in sorrow.
n A pair of handouts were locked around
N his wrists. The family of six was to
e be rudely separated, perhaps forever
n Their destinations were the asylum,
70 the poor house, the Jail and the grave
8 The mother, it is understood. would
not consent to her removal unless she
q could take her dead child along. The
lt fathers crime was not found out"