Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-11-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Neo., were recently overhauled at Larkin.
Kansas. Belmont was killed and Zimmerman
| arrested.
While driving over the railroad track ON
Second street at Topeka, few DAYS since,
John Kaney, colored, driver of brick wagon
was thrown from his seat and pitched headlone
to the ground, breaking his neck. The acct.
dent was caused by the sudden dropping of
the 'front.' wheels into broken culvert
New corn-husking machines are said to be
coming to the front this fall, and the Kansas
girls who have heretofore prided themselves
upon their skill in hunting out the red ears,
VIII change the character of their annual
gatherings to indignation meetings.
Judge Brewer, of the Supreme bench, deliy-
cred an elaborate opinion last week at Leaven.
worth, In the habeas corpus case of Emily
Evans, giving her into the custody of her
| grandparents. Thisis the case wherein the
father OF the child came to Leavenworth from
England, and in 1875 was married to Catharine
Murray, he being of Protestant, she of Catho-
lie faith. The couple returned to England,
where the child was born; then the father
died and the mother returned to Leavenworth,
where she died, being cared for in the last
hours by the Sisters there to whom she be-
queathed her child, and who has since cared
for her her. The childs grandfather died in
England, In 1879 and left large property, be-
sides widow and several children. He espe-
cially provided in his will that his grand
daughter, the child in dispute, should take
the place of her father and share in his prop
crty, but coupled with this provision the con-
dition that she be taken to England before
she attained the age of seven years, and not
reside abroad thereafter; that she should be
| brought up in the Protestant faith, and not
marry Roman Catholic. On application of
the relatives for the child it was refused, the
Sisters claiming the child as a sacred trust
from its dead mother. The proceedings then
commenced, with the result above mentioned.
The representatives Of the grandmother will
Immediately take the child to England.
James w. King, for selling mortgaged
property and thus obtaining money under
false pretense, was lately sentenced at To-
peka to the Penitentiary for eighteen months.
AT public meeting held at Larned recent
ly, $4,000 was subscribed for the capital stock
of the Pawnee Irrigation and Water Power
Company. The meeting adjourned amid en-
thusiasm, after appointing a committee for
soliciting subscriptions to the stock of the
company. 1t is thought that enough stock
through the county. The company intends
holding meetings in every county to Hutchi
son, the terminus of the canal, which, when
completed, will be lightweight miles in length
and irrigate 100000 acres of land.
George Monford was recently arrested at
Kansas City on charge of stealing horse
and gold watch from E. j. Umphrey, a
farmer living near Topeka. Up to several
lie ri
phrey's place, but disappeared between two
suns with the property mentioned.
AT the late term of the district Court for
Shawnee county, Frank NJ. Sutherland plead
guilty to stealing a horse and COW, and was
sentenced to the Penitentiary for three wears.
The same arty also plead guilty to stealing
cow and was given two years additional.
George Hossack, boy under sixteen, plead
guilty of horse stealing, and was sent to the
Reform School until he is twenty-one.
Mary Isabel Martin, on trial last week at
Emporia was found guilty by the jury of
murder In the first degree. The crime charged
was that in May last Mrs. Martin and her son
Mosoy, procured an insurance policy of $4,000
on the life of a Mrs. Keiger, in favor of Mosby.
Soon after Mrs. Keiger died suddenly. at the
residence of Mrs. Martin. The symptoms in
dlcated poison, and an analysis of the stomach
discovered strychnine, whereupon she was ar
rested and tried with the result named.
Land in Kingman County is being taken I'd
rapidly.
Nicholas Jesch, an old and respected farmer
of Atchison County, was recently returning
home on load of lumber, when the horses
TOOK fright, running away. He was found
with his left arm and skull fractured, and his
body frightfully mangled. He died shortly
afterwards.
Jordon Lands, the colored boy who robbed
wood " Anderson's hardware store in North
Topeka, recently, has been sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The Comptroller of the Currency has ex.
tended under the act of February IL, 1882. the
charter of the First National bank of Leayen
worth. Capital, 100000.
Ben Northrup, of the firm of Northrun &,
Bros, of the Riverside FIGURING Mills. of WV.
andotte, few days since accidentally fell down
the stairway of the mill, and striking on some
barrels broke one of his legs below the knee
The Commissioner General of the Land OF.
fee has appointed Fl. c. st. John, of Kansas.
Law Clerk of the General Land Office, to sue.
coed q. B. Edmunds, resigned He is son
of the Governor.
The State Fish Commissioner believes the
German carp to be the only foreign fish which
can be successfully propogated in Kansas
waters.
The flfteen-year-old son of Jackson Rowe.
living few miles south of Toronto. while
rounding up cattle, recently, met with fatal
accident When under full gallop the horse
stumbled, and fell upon the lad, the POM
mel of the saddle striking him on the temple
and killing him instantly.
new coal company has been organized in
Wyandotte for the purpose of boring for coal
In that county and just outside the city limits
of Wyandotte. The company starts out with
a capital of $4,000, with view of increasing
it to 100000.
United States prisoner named Thomas
Clancy made his escape from a Deputy
United States Marshal, in Topeka, recently.
while en- route to the Michigan Penitentiary
at Detroit, where he was sentenced for selling
liquor to Indians. He was heavily shackled
at the time.
Reports from different parts of Marshall
Couufv sav that corn lie still foo eofx