Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-08-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ately after the adjournment Of the State
convention and organized by electing A. i.
heddens OF Butler County, Chairman. ana
Wit walton, of Clay County, Secretary.
Inc COMMITTEES adopted the rules by which
II Is TO be governed, the most important OF
which was the one allowing members OF the
Committee to be represented at meetings
Dy proxies. No man shall hold more than
one proxy. The Executive Committee ap-
pointed consists Of A. Gillette, of Emporia'
Z. B. Purcell, of Manhattan, j. NJ. Beck.
OF Holton, and Geo. Barker, of Lawrence,
together with the Chairman and Secre.
tary.
AT meeting Of the Committee Of Thirty
Eight, at Topeka, in charge of the coming
Soldiers Reunion, Gen. Z. w. Blair, Of
Fort Scott, was made Grand Commander
in-Chief.
MRS. HUBER, her son of sixteen years,
her child. and a colored girl, were standing
on the porch Of their home in Kickapoo,
curing recent thunder storm, and the
Hgntning struck tree in front of the house.
ran down the trunk of the tree and along
projecting root to the porch. Young Huber
and the colored girl, who were at opposite
ends OF the porch, were instantly killed,
Mrs. Huber and the child were severely
stunned.
CENTRAILIA will build ass 900 school
house.
THE wife Of Britton Croft, the engineer
who was killed on the Central Branch Rail-
road, receives 5000 I'm insurance in the
Masonic and Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineer Lodges. and is provided with
neat cottage and homestead besides.
ROSSvILLE had quite amad dog scare re-
Gently. Some time ago mad dog appeared
in town and bit a dog, which in turn bit q
Mr.. Schaefer's dog before it was killed. Mr..
Schaefer tied up his dog to see what the
result would be, and it got loose and bit
two Of his daughters. The daughters were
taken to Kansas City to try the effects of a
maidstone.
THIRTY SEVEN divorce cases have been
filed for trial at the September term of the
District Court for Leavenworth County.
AT the commencement of the next term
at the State University new paper will be
published. 1t has an able corps of editors
and good business manager. 1t has al
ready enough advertisements to cover the
cost OF issuing. The paper is to be a semi
monthly.
A SHERIFF from Nebraska, with re-
QUESTION, went to the Kansas penitentiary
and took away George Grimes. The pris-
oner had served three and half years for
horse stealing, and goes to Nebraska to be
tried for similar offense.
SOME Peterson boys who have been dis
turbing religious meeting have been fined
heavily.
SOUTHEASTERN Kansas is remarkable for
its profusion Of water courses of different
sizes. A correspondent says spring brooks
abound everywhere and it is next to impos-
sible TO travel five miles in any given direc-
ton without coming to some kind of a run
ming stream.
SEDGwIcK claims, by official figures, to
lead the oldest and richest counties in
Kansas.
JNO. V. FARwELL, OF Chicago, has
ordered 100000 feet of lumber from the
Lawrence Straw Lumber company.
NELLIE FRAZIER, of Atchison, robbed
Council Bluffs man of $S5, for which she
was sent to the County Jail for four months
and fined 500 and costs.
GEO. MCKINNEY, switchman on A., T.
& S. F. road at Argentine, was shot and
killed by JnO. McMannus, the night watch
man, lately. The Waterman had received
orders to prohibit any one sleeping or
lounging in the depot and when he ordered
Mckinney away the latter assaulted Nc
Mannus and was shot.
Miss ALICE STEVENS, of Ottawa, and her
nine-year-old nephew, were recently Sc
riously injured by runaway horse.
The nine-year-old daughter of Council
man Krezdon, OF Leavenworth, was drowned
a few days since while playing on a boat
in the Missouri river.
MICHAEL LEONARD and Charles Will.
liams. switchmen OH the Santa Fe Road at
Atchison, got badly crushed while coupling
ears.
A MAN named johnson was recently fined
s. and costs by 8 Topeka Justice for hug
ging another mans wife. While engaged
in the pleasant pastime, some of the neigh.
bors came in and caught him. The woman
"squealed" and the man was fined.
THE Boys in Blue wish it to be understood
that their old foes, the Boys in Gray, will
be extended hearty welcome at the ap.
proaching Soldiers Reunion at Topeka and
will be provided for.
A MAN named O'Neill, was fined $50 In
the Leavenworth Police Court for shooting
at newspaper reporter. The reporter
wickedly remarked that had O'Neil been q
better marksman he would have gone
unpublished.
THE large Touring mill of Bliss & Woods,
at Winfield, was destroyed by fire. The
mill had but recently been fitted up with
new machiEery. Loss put at $4,000.
SIXTEEN years ago Thos. Casad, q we'll.
to- do farmer Of johnson County, killed
man named Jarboe in a dispute over piece
OF land. The murdered mans family spent
all they had in trying to secure his arrest
and punishment, and finally left the coun-
try and all traces of them were lost. Re-
Gently Casad WAS arrested In Texas and the
johnson County authorities notified. As
none Of the witnesses could be produced
the sheriff telegraphed the Texas officers
'tCasad not wanted.D
TINE SON of Mrs. Albert Lautch, of Leay.
enworth, was melting lead on the stove and
said that oil would make better lead. His
mother took the coal oil can and poured OF,
from Il into the lead. An explosion foiioved.