Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

81.
Humphrey and her little girl were chloro-
formed, a lamp Lit and the house thoroughly
ransacked, trunks. drawers, etc., being opened
In search OF valuables. A gold watch and
chain, valued at $50, were taken, and $57 i'm
money and $40 worth of jewelry. The pocket
book and jewel case, after being Gemptied Of
their contents, were left upon the front steps.
The burglarss also entered the house of Mr..
Singer and used chloroform there, searchirg
the house and getting $35. tf s. 1850
Aninteresting case win be tried In Leayen-
] worth In October. The facts are these: An
English soldier married in England. A child, q
| girl, was born, and the soldiers wife came to
this country under the name of Evans, bring
ing her child, Emma. Her husband followed
her, and enlisted in the army. Mrs. Evans
was for long time employed at Leavenworth.
Her husband was Protestant and she a
Catholic. They became separated, he going
back to England. There he found himself
the possessor of a large fortune. Before he
died he made a will, leaving it to the child
now six years old, the will stating that the
child shall be his heir in case she is reared in
the Protestant faith. The mother of the child
died In this country, and. being Catholic
gave her child to the Orphan Asylum at
Leavenworth. The Sisters refuse to give her
up without due process of law, they feel
ing that the personal gift of the dead mother
is more binding than the will. 4 ...f-,... -.
Postoffices changes Established.-Eaynest.
Rocks county, John L. Beames. postmaster.
Hardilee, Smith county, Isaac N. Depnen
postmaster; Hillside, Phillips county. Tbos''
u. Larkin, postmaster; Museum. Sheridan
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ner county, Pennick f. Graves, postmaster.
Belinda, Barbour county :
Boyer, Rawles county; Bray, Sherman county /:
Mount Roy, Brown county.
The atheletic young men who expect to par-
tcipate in the Regatta at Lawrence during the
fair, are putting on their war paint and EN-,
barking for the scene of trouble ads 81
The Topeka Opera House Company has
brought suit to forever enioin Lester M.
Crawford, proprietor Of another opera house.
from using the name Topeka Opera House. u
Over one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE land
buyers passed down the Fl. Scott & Gulf Road
one day last week.
| The premium list of the Bourbon COUNTY
Fair is now out. The fair will be held October
ID, 4th, 9Th and 9th, and promises to be
grand success ht iifii ii0 -A
Mennonite farmer, going home with the
price of his wheat, was robbed on the high
way near Mcpherson, by two mounted men. OF
$780, This is the third case in a week in that
neighborhood
1t is stated that Jim Chatham. a former we'll
known Kansas journalist, fought profes
sional Pug1list with hard gloves at Tombstone,
Arizona, few days ago.
The State Convention crop is harvested.
MIR. Frank L. Webster and VIM. Thache,
have assumed control of the Lawrence Dailu
Journal They intend charging it to six.
column quarto and add the full press tele-
graphic report.
The SUBJ on the Baxter Springs Ne,cs last
week, said: 1.-THE editor is absent this week
as delegate to the State Democratic Con-
vention. This will account forthe superiority
of the editorials and the pungency and wit of
the locals. The tone of the paper is also
much improved"
A firm in Baxter Springs last week shipped
thirteen cars of cattle to Kansas City, which
sold for about $4,000.
young farmer named Ed Fuller killed
himself in Mcpherson county lately by shoot
Ing the top of his head off,
John &. Umsted, of Bourbon county, met
with serious accident recently He left his
seat on mower to chase a rabbit, and In some
way caught his foot in the sickle, which nearly
severed the heel. te. 1890 ru s
Fort Scott has adopted the Perkins system
of water works.
Rev. G. A. Irwin, of Council Grove. for.
merly chaplain in the army, has received back
pension of $1,000
The Arkansas river was bank full last week.
Wyandotte is happy because banker in
that town has safe larger than any in Kansas
City.
AT Baxter Springs, movement is on foot
to organize Grand Army post.
Watermelons are'two large for comfort in
Southern Kansas rt
Baxter is ambitious to get up an Old Sol
diers' reunion some time early in October.
The contract has been let for new school
house at Lowell. f '
A large party of excursionists, mostly from
Ohio and Indiana, and consisting mainly of
farmers, visited Southern Kansas to examine
her fertile lands with view of buying.
Miles Sweeney, ten years of age, mystic
riously disappeared from his home in Atchison
few weeks since. 81 -l.5i H9.
The engines of the Central Branch road are
draped in mourning out of respect to engineer
Craft and fireman Keys, who were killed in
late bridge disaster.
A terrible tragedy occurred near White
Church, in Wyandotte county, lately, at which
time young farmer named Frank Evans, shot
and killed James Mills because the last named
wanted to marry his Evans') sister. Mills
hired as farm hand to the girls father, when
J an attachment sprung up between the young
hired man and the daughter, aged eighteen.
The girls brother, aged nineteen, ordered
Mills to leave, which the latter refused, de-
clarihg he intended to marry the girl where.
upon the young brother shot his sisters sutton
dead. a .H. slsft Use, Es.ss,. s
Rev. Harper, of the Wichita Baptist Church.
In a recent sermon, said: sit win be bad
day when the State prescribes man. religion.
or when the Church dictates the law which we
must obey, when preachers enter the role OF
politicians and the pulpit becomes the forum
of State-fed clergy s~ =" - -
A number of Kansas farmers are buying
hogs in Illinois and Iowa, to fatten on Kansas
corn. te fina53 fJElfe rss