Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-07-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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dence in the outskirts was the Art one
wrecked and a moment afterward tha fulI
fury Of a terrific tornado was vented ,,non
the town itself. In a few morar.s +he
business block on the east side of the main
street, containing fifteen houses. was To-
tally demolished. The air was Allied with
flying timbers, and as the terrible noise Of
the angry winds subsidized, the prosns ~
the wounded and dying rose upon the air.
Inc rain fell in torrents for time, but the
news of the disaster spread rapidly. and
all the inhabitants Of the town soon gath.
cred about the wrecks in the track Of the
tornado. 1t was late at night, but lanterns
were provided and search for the victims
commenced. The bodies of Mrs. Channel.
Mrs. Walters, Mrs. Owen and infant three
months old were taken out. The loss 10
property was estimated at between Sa5 .OOO
and $4,000.
j. ANDERSON, Department Commander
announces to the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic who wish To attend
the National Encampment at Denver. that
the Colorado pool lines have agreed to al.
low connecting lines by Kansas To use S15
for the Grand Army rate, basing the rate
for through tickets for posts belonging TO
Kansas. 1t has also been agreed that
Grand Army posts in Kansas travelling
west bound on a solid ticket can return
singly any time during the month of Au.
gust on the payment of Sl.5O extra, such
return ticket to be good only on the line over
which the passenger travelled westward.
This action on the part of the railroads re.
moves the last obstacle, and It is expected
the attendance from Kansas will be very
large.
Two CASES of paramount Importance to
the people of Kansas, and to the stockhold.
ers of the Kansas Pacific Railway Com.
pany were instituted by Attorney General
Johnston last week in the Supreme Court.
The cases are che quo warranto suits against
the Kansas Pacific and Union Pacific rail.
road companies, which were directed to be
brought by the last Legislature. Judge
Jere Black is retained by the State as asso-
ciate counsel with the Attorney General.
THE Board of Directors of the State Fair
Association met at Topeka last week and
passed a resolution that under ''the in.
creased rates for passengers on the rail.
roads, it is extremely doubtful if the State
Fair Association can hold a fair this fall
that shall be successful in financial way
without the efficient aid of Shawnee Coun.
| ty and the city of Topeka" Therefore the
people of Topeka and of Shawnee County
were earnestly requested to raise 5000
either by donation or stock to assist the en-.
terprise.
FRANK MARBLE, who lived at Rochester
in the northern part of Shawnee County.
was kicked by a mule one day last week
and died from the effects Of the same tbs
| following day. The deceased was twenty.
seven years old and unmarried.
MCPHERSON claims 5000 population and
is growing rapidly.
| The Wichita creamery is making about
| 600 pounds of butter per day.
In the Methodist Church at Wichita, re.
Gently, while Mrs. Lowry, the evangelist
was painting in glowing colors the wrath
! of God, and how he suddenly and without
warning had so often called persons into
his presence, a gentleman in the congrega.
ton tainted, which created an intensely
exciting scene among those present.
| FINDLEY A. BURKE, an aged gentleman.
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was seriously in.
! jured and had a narrow escape from death
/ by recently falling under the cars of a
| Santa Fe train at Topeka. He was dragged
from the track just as the car-trucks grazed
the top of his head. He was on his way tc
New Mexico to visit his son, William H.
Burke, who edits paper at Albuquerque.
William H. Burke is well known to the
newspaper fraternity of Kansas.
SPRING chickens sell for $3.50 per dozen
in Leavenworth.
GEORGE w. HOLMES, n brakeman on the
Missouri Pacific, was killed near Atchison
recently. His body was inferred in the
Catholic Cemetery at that city. He leaves
a wife and several children.
In Sedgwick County sixty-five thousand
acres of wheat have been harvested in fine
condition. and which will prove more than
an average yield. Oats, of which an i'm.
mense acreage was sown, are reported very
fine, the grain standing five feet high in
many fields. Sedgwick County reports
$4,000 acres of corn, which is now in tassel.
The late rain insured early maturity and q
big yield, probably no less than 5000, OOC
bushels for that county alone. Potatoes
and the field crops are also in very fine
condition.
THE following return to a writ was filed
in the Supreme Court recently: "The peti.
TONERS, Lewis and Glen weary of foul al.
leys and disguised with hot weather, and
confinement in our Jail, have kicked the
door open and walked away. think they
have gone to the mountains for their
health. am glad they are gone and hope
that they may never return"
A CHARTER was recently issued to the
Kansas and Idaho Land and Live Stock
Improvement Company, with a capital
stock of 100000. The company was organ.
oil NJ II III
the principal Office will be at Topeka.
A MANDATORY for files and edge tools
is soon to be built at Armourdale, Wyan.
dotte County.
A LATE fire at Miltonvale, station on
the Kansas Central road, twenty miles west
of Clay Center, destroyed four stores with
all their contents. The postoffice building
was also burned.
GEORGE 5. STANTER, a baker of Parsons.
recently attempted suicide by shooting
himself with a revolver, in the left breast,
the ball passing through the lung not far
above the heart. Sickness and despon.
dency were given as the cause.
THE taxable valuation of Lincoln County
has increased over 30 per cent. in the year
just closed.
NICKERsoN wants creamery.
q. NJ. ZEsTMAN, of Chetopa, was recently
arrested at Oswego, charged with firing
his meat market, the charge being that he
took his tools and furniture out and then
set fire to the building. The alleged cause
was over insurance. He was bailed.
THE Topeka Lime Company's warehouse
was lately burned, caused by water leaking
through on the lime which was so far
Stacked as to ignite the wood.
FARMERS are wondering where they will
get hogs to eat up all their corn.
WHEAT in Southern Kansas is threshinR
out from % to IS bushels to the acre, and
grades No. 3.
ONE day last week Willie Brown, son of
Mr.. Frank Brown, of Hallowell, was
drowned while bathing.
PosroFFIcE changes in Kansas during
the week ending July eth, 1898: Estab-
] Irck .nd