Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Oeheral ueVenue 1und 10 meet IL. In at
tempting to provide for meeting this and
current expenses the Mayor and Council
seem not to agree, and as there are no funds
in the Treasury and the police and other
officers have not been paid for some time.
the Mayor, the other day, undertook to solve
the problem by discharging the City Mar.
shall and all the policemen except three
also the Street Commissioner and his men
and assuming the duties of Marshal him.
self. These reductions he claimed would
reduce the expenses ofthe city sixty dollars
per day. He also further retrenched INV
cutting down the fire department and shut
ting on the gas, water and electric light
As consequence the Capitol City is tempo
rarily without money or police and is CROP
ing its way in darkness.
The old soldiers will have a reunion and
7 celebration at Baxter Springs, October 4tb
to 9th, 1t being the twentieth anniyer.
sary of the battle at that place, and
I 1t promises to be large gathering
/ General c. w. Blair has been appointed to
command, he having been in command of
the district twenty years ago. number
I OF the survivors Of that battle have signi-
( fed their desire to attend. Preparations
/ will be made on a large scale and manv
I prominent persons are expected to be pres.
ent, among them a large delegation from
/ Wisconsin headed by the Governor, General
J. NJ. Burke, and Department Comman.
der Phillip Check, jr.
JUDGE JOHN III. WATSON died recently M
Emporia, after n lingering illness of some
two weeks, at the advanced age of seventy.
nine years. He was twice elected Judge of his
J. rf Al.
zens of this State and was held in the high
est esteem by all who knew him.
The handsome stone residence of Captain
I A. {. Pierce, near Junction City, was
totally destroyed by fire the other after
noon. No insurance. The Captain was
absent in the country at the time. The fire
originated by a servant girl spilling some
gasoline.
The remains of man were found one
day last week along the track of the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad near Port Williams,
between Leavenworth and Atchison. The
body was torn to pieces so that il was
scarcely recognized as that of human be-
ing. The head was gone and could not be
found. 1t was supposed that the man was
tramp stealing ride on the early morn.
ing freight and fell Off the trucks, where he
was riding.
CHARTERS were issued last week to the
First Congregational Church, of Longton,
Elk County: the Baptist Church, of Green
leaf, Butler County; the Church of the
United Brethren, of Constant, Cowley
County; also to the Peach Grove Cemetery
Association of Peach Grove township,
Riley County.
Az aggravated case of child beating re.
Gently occurred in Wyandotte. 4 Mrs.
Murray, of that place, went to Kansas
City, leaving her little girl, seven years of
age. at home. For some reason a colored
woman caught the child and beat it so bad.
| ~ that it was unable to walk. \ neighbor
took the child into the house and sent for a
physician, who found the child in a critical
condition. The negro woman was arrested.
A YOUNG man, name unknown, recently
went to the Atchison saloons got drunk and
wandered off and went to sleep on the
railroad track. His body was found next
morning cut i'm two by passing train.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Ottawa,
Usage City & Council Grove Railroad were
filed in the office of the Secretary of State
recently.
AN officer from Harvey County recently
for Frank Murray, a notorious horse thief
held by the authorities at Lincoln, Neb.,
and who is wanted at Newton for stealing
pony near that place not long ago. Muir.
ray sold the animal for small considera.
tion at Abiline.
The other morning, while Chauncey
Winans, a well known young man of Gar.
nett, was handling loaded revolver, il
was accidentally discharged and a young
man named Cattle from Linn County, was
instantly killed.
JAMES TALBOT has commenced a suit in
the District Court of Shawnee County
against the A. T. & S. F. Railway for false
imprisonment, laying his damages at $50,
900. The petitioner alleges that OIL the 18Th
day of last October he went to Topeka al
the invitation of the general officers of said
company, having been in negotiation with
them to enter the services of that corpuI a.
ton, and that on his arrival at the depot in
Topeka he was seized and ironed by the
detectives of the company and throWu into
Jail, where he remained three days; that on
October 30 he was released from Jail, but
was kept under an armed guard until No
vember 3, when he was taken back, still in
custody, to his home in Colorado where he
was finally released. The suit is attracting
considerable attention, being the outgrowth
of the section boss frauds on that road last
fall.
DURING storm one day last week the
residence of Mrs. Wood in Topeka was
struck by lightning and badly damaged
Mrs. Wood became frightened at the storm
and left her bed room only a moment be
fore the lightning struck, which tore up the
room badly, and had she not left when she
did the result might have been fatal to her
FOUR horse thieves recently stole a mum
Der of horses in Southern Kansas and es
capped into the Indian Territory. Three oil
the thieves were supposed to be convicts
who recently escaped from the Leaven-
worth Penitentiary.
MAX LEVY who was detailed by the Agri
cultural Department of Prussia to visit the
capital of each State and consult with the
officials of the various departments of agri
culture, recently called on the Secretary oi
the State Board of Agriculture Of Kansas
He expressed himself well pleased with the
outlook in Kansas, and in the manner OF
conducting agricultural operations.
"MAKE hay while the sun Shines"
AT Waterloo recently, a man named Der
an attorney from Missouri, was terribly
wounded by Charles Davis. Der was cut
in the abdomen by heavy pocket knife in
the hands of Davis. About twelve feet OF
his entrails protruded from the wound, and
he was without medical aid for five hours
Davis was arrested and Jailed at Kingmar
to await the result of Der's wounds.
Miss ABBIE CANFIELD, who formerly
lived in Kansas with her father, Rev. T
II. Garfield, is the Greenback nominee fol
State Superintendent of Public instruction
in Iowa. Miss Garfield is a type-setter
and while in Kansas worked at the case,
REGULAR mail service has been estab
lished on the Leavenworth, Topeka & South.
western Railroam from Leavenworth West
ABOUT eleven o'clock the other night
Sedgwick County was visited by a terrific
wind and electrical storm, accompanied by