Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-10

/ the horses. They finally recovered but the
/ Doctors right arm was partially paralyzed.
( This is his second escape from death 10y
/ lightning, he having been similarly para.
! lyzed thirty years ago.
| WILLIAM II. CHAPMAN, aged thirty three
/ years, recently mysteriously disappeared
/ from Atchison. He was from Bethle.
hem, Pa, where his father, who
Is quite wealthy resides. He form
erly worked for his father and saved
/ 5000 with which he went on spree,
landing in Atchison four years ago PENN.
| less. He had formerly. obtained a salary
/ of -, 900 year. His father allowed him to
remain in Atchison and sent him n check
every two months for 800 which he used
for board and drink. For the past few
months the check had ceased coming and il
was thought he had drowned himself.
THE Secretary of the State Horticultural
! Society gives the fruit crop the following
average, 100 being the standard: Apples
81, peaches %, pears %, plumbs GO, cherries
~, blackberries ~, goosberries 81, currents
81, raspberries Is, Strawberries "a, grapes
| s..
a LATE storm in the southern part Of the
State frightened stock to that extent that
many were injured by barbcd wire fences
/ upon whichtheY ran in their fright.
THERE is a man in the penitentiary who
boasts of stealing ninety-three horses and
is anxious to get out so that he can make il
an even hundred. He has been there before
and the last time he was released he stole
the Deputy Warden's horse before he left
the grounds.
THE farmers of Stafford county are said
to be in such a prosperous condition that
If they do not get the price they ask for
their wheat they quietly store and leave
it until the price suits them.
| IT is reported that in consequence OF
frauds discovered under the Investigations
recently instituted by the General Lane
Office, n large number of homestead entries
in Southern Kansas will be cancelled Nc
bona fide settler, however, will be dis
turbcd.
Mr.. HIGGIYs, Sergeant-at-arms of the
Lower House of the Legislature, was
thrown from his horse the other evening OF
the encampment ground at Denver, an6
was quite seriously hurt. His left shoulder
was fractured and left arm broken in two
| places.
! THE State Fair at Topeka this fall is re
! ported TO be fixed fact. The citizens Of
/ Topeka have subscribed over s., 900 to helI
the enterprise along. The Association
only is waiting for the railroads to come
down half cent on their rates, which they
are likely tO do.
EDGAR the five-year-old son of the late
DIR. Stonicypher, of Labette County, was
bitten by mad dog several weeks ago
and died in great agony from hydrophobis
one day last week.
/ AT Edgerton, the other night, Lee Bray.
young man about eighteen years of age
was run over by freight train and both
his legs were badly crushed.
THREE Arizona stage robbers, named
Arthur Clifton, Billy Coleman and Johr
Briggs, passed through Topeka, recently, or
their way to The Michigan penitentiary al
! Detroit, where they have been sentenced tC
serve n term of five years each, after hav
| ing pleaded guilty to holding up and rob
bling a stage and its passengers severa
weeks ago near Clifton, Arizona. Coleman
said that he had been fourteen years a ban
dit, robbing every stage coach and individ
ual he could get hold of, and the party
| pleaded guilty this time for fear of a long
sentence if they went to trial, as some OF
his band was ready to turn States evi
dence.
THE large and handsome stone school
house at Florence, the pride of the town
was struck by lightning the other night,
and all of the building save the walls was
| consumed. It's cost wss in the neighborhood
ofSl00O0, and it was one of the handsomest
/ structures of its class in the State. The
rain was falling in torrents at the time OF
the fire, but it proved powerless to stay the
work of destruction. 1t is said that the
] property was not insured.
JAMES THoMPsoN'S stone livery and feed
stable, at Clay Center, burned the other
morning. The fire started in the hay NOW,
but what originated il was unknown. The
horses, harness and buggies were saved
The property destroyed was fully insured
LOOK out for big corn crop.
WHILE Mr.. Robert Forbes, prosperous
farmer at Shawnee County, was attending
court as a witness at Topeka last week, his
barn took fire and was totally destroyed
together with six head of mules, five horses.
$500 bushels of corn, quantity of wheat
5000 feet of lumber and agricultural
machinery. His loss was over $1,000. There
was an insurance of 81 800 on the barn, but
none on the other property.
MoLLIE BANKS a colored girl of Topeks
got mad because she saw her "fellow" with
another girl at a show. and procuring poison
attempted suicide. She was pumped out
and saved.
FARMER near Burton brags on his crop
OF oats which averages one hundred and
three bushels to the acre.
MRS. JAMES II. LANE, widow of Senator
James III. Lane, deceased, died at Colun.
bus, Ohio, July u. The remains were
taken to Lawrence for interment. The
Mayor of Lawrence called public meet
ing of citizens at which appropriate com.
mittees were appointed to take charge of
the body upon its arrival and attend 70 the
matter of a public funeral which was At.
tended by the people generally. Mrs. lane
was laid to rest by the side of her distin.
uished husband
WESTERN and central Kansas was visited
by good rain the 18th.
HEAVY and timely rains have gladdened
che people of the Southern portion of the
State the past week.
PoSroFFICE changes in Kansas dur;n0
the week ending July 2lst, 1888: Estab,
tished-McCoy, Seward County, Mrs. Eliza
A. Lemert, postmistress. Discontinued
Light, Smith County. Postmasters Ap-
pointed-Deep Hole. Ford County, ]. r.
POWELL; Minerva, Labette County, Russell
a Curray; Navon, Pratt County, William
w. Lewis Westphalia, Anderson County.
William E Palmer.
HI.DKBRAND's store in Leavenwortb was
lately burned. Loss, 81, 900; insurance - 800.
JFDGE WAGsTAFF has appointed Nathan
Cree, we'll known former Kansas news
paper man, Auditor of Wyandotte Comfy
he county having acquired the reouisite
population.