Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-03
Miscellaneous.

". L. n. SADLER, or LeavenwOrth, As
sistant Engineer of the Missouri Valley
Bridge and Iron Works, while inspecting
the Government building at Topeka the
other day fell a distance of sixteen feet and
was injured to that extent that he was un
conscious for several hours.
THE June report of the State Board OF
Agriculture recently issued puts the wheat
area of the State at 100000 acres. The
yield for the State is 26,T01 ,439 bushels
With shipping wheat added the crop is 81,
956,555 bushels. The crop is about all har
vested. The corn area is 4 SOL ,042 acres, an
increase of four per cent over 1882. The
State as whole has as good a prospect for
corn crop as at this period last year, POS
sibly little better. Encouraging reports
come from all sections as to the appearance
OF the plant, its wonderful growth, the
superior stand and excellent color. The
oat crop is estimated at 2s, 265, 193 bushels
GERMAN farmer named Adam Rack
dizckel, aged about twenty-five years, who
resided on the farm of Allen Sells in
Shawnee County, recently shot and slightly
wounded neighboring farmer. He then
fortified the barn and fought the officers
who went to arrest him for several hours.
-AN was hholy SdDluIcus I1c was luOuBut
to be insane.
A FREIGHT train of the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railroad recently broke down
near Cummings, sixteen miles west OF
Atchison. Thomas Plunkett, brakeman
was sent back to flag the passenger train
He put torpedoes on the track, and with
his lantern beside him sat down on the end
OF a tie. He soon fell asleep with his arm
across the rail and the passenger train
coming up ran over his ann crushing il
horribly very near the shoulder. His arm
had to be amputated but he was so badly
injured it was thought he would die
Postoffice changes in Kansas during the
week ending July 18th, 1888: Established
-Squib, Chautauqua County, Jefferson
s. Ponyan, postmaster; Whitehall, Chero
kee County, John Q. Thomas, postmaster.
observation-disclosures, Leavenworth Coun
ty; Fairfax, Usage County; Hamburg,
Allen County; Wyckoff, Russell County
THE Union Pacific Railroad has made
the proposition to the Western National
Fair Association of one fare for the round
trip, which they accepted. The fair will
be held at Bismarck Grove as was the orig.
inal arrangement between the Sd and Sth
Of September next.
WHEAT harvest is about over.
A MAN and wife named Stocklasze, re.
siding in the Bohemian settlement near
Everest, in Atchison County, recently, had
terrible family fight upon his return from
Texas. She attempted to brain him with
an ak during the disgracefl fight which
followed the row, when he grasped club
lying near and struck her over the head,
which knocked her senseloss. Seeing that
he could not arouse her, he took his shot
gun and, placing the muzzle to his head,
blew out his brains. The woman will re
cover.
KANSAS sent large delegation of vete-
rams to the great Denver Encampment.
DR.. J. ]. BURTIs, proprietor of the New
Gordon House, Topeka, died in that city
the other day, aged seventy-two.
WALTER BRowN, representing Kansas
City capitalists, recently made the largest
entry of land ever made in Kansas. He
entered at the Larned Land Office 1000
acres at one dollar per acre, in the counties
of Clark and Comanche, known as the
Cherokee strip. 1t is fine land, well
watercd, and, it is said, will carry cattle
the year through without feed.
The depot at Halstead, q station on the
Santa Fe some miles west of Newton, in
Harvey County, was burned to the ground
at an early hour the other morning, with
al its contents.
SIX buildings were wrecked at Cimarron
by a recent tornado.
The President appointed James C. Nil
lard postmaster at Wakeeny.
THOMAS PLUNKETT, the brakeman of the
Santa Fe, who was run over while asleep
on the rails, in Atchison County last week,
died at his home in Topeka few days after
the accident.
WHEN Mr.. Lyman c. Gardner, proprie-
tor Of the Lawrence paper mills, arose to
give his testimony In Justice Towards
Court in that city the other pay, he was
seized with q at of apoplexy and fen to the
floor. He died that night.
THE other night Clark & Fosters iron and
brass foundry and machine shops at Wan
dotte were burned The loss ON building
and machinery was $ll 600. Insured Cor
1850 on the building.