Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-28
Miscellaneous. -

MISS MoLLIE MONDAY, u sales-girl of the
dry goods firm of Small, Ramsey & Voor-
bees, of Leavenworth, recently attempted
to commit suicide by taking three grains of
morphine. Her condition was discovered
in time, and medical aid was at once sum.
moned.
OVER one hundred and fifty thousand
people paid fees for admission to the late
State Fair at Topeka.
THE Democratic Convention of Leaven.
worth County nominated Colonel Thomas
Moonlight for Sheriff.
PosToFFICE changes in Kansas for the
two weeks ending September s: Estab-
lished-Bodock, Butler County, George
Sherar, postmaster; Stockrange, Ellis
County, William H. Deserve, postmaster.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Republic County;
To Die, Jewell County; Oregon, jefferson
County; Smithfield, Graham County.
Name changed-Nffany, Cove County, to
Mahan.
DR.. j. II. OYSTER, CT Paola, announces
that it is his intention to publish acomplete
Flora of Kansas just SIS soon as the botani-
cal survey of the State can be completed.
He wishes to include nothing without its
identity has been determined beyond a
| doubt. He will give the general distribu.
ton, and therefore will have to depend up
on the cooperation of the botanists in the
different parts of the State to a great e1-
tent. He desires list of every species in
each county, and would be glad to have
persons interested in botany send him
specimens, say from three to six of each
variety, where found, the time of Towering
etc. DIR. Oyster also desires the names and
postoffice address of all botanists IN the
State.
UPON complaint of United States Attor.
ney Hallowell, warrants were issued at
Wichita for the arrest of Captain ID. l..
Payne, of Oklahoma fame, and the officers
of his colony, and they were taken into
custody. Payne says that he will now
have an opportunity Of testing the entire
matter in the courts.
HEAVY rains in the Neosho Valley.
DAVID READ, of wyandotte. whose house
was wrecked by the cyclone last spring
and his wife killed, while recently digging
a well was overcome by gas, vein of
which he struck. physician pronounced
his case hopeless.
FoRrT-FIvE men laying gas mains at
Parsons recently struck for an advance of
/
got thirty-five men laying water pipes to
| join them.
A wELL-DREssED commercial traveller.
whose name could not be learned, commit
ted suicide by swallowing laudanum in a
glass Of whisky at Armourdale last week.
The charter for the Beverly Mining Com.
pany, Dodge City, was lately filed with the
Secretary of State.
Rev. JOHN BUTLER, colored, of wyan.
dotte, on Sunday, the 18th, went into his
pulpit 1.-THE Baptist) in usual health, took
for his text, BLESSED are the dead who die
in the Lord" and when speaking in an ex-
cited manner, just as he closed q sentence
with the words, dispatched to Heaven
quickly" he suddenly ceased speaking,
leaned forward on the pulpit and expired
in an instant
THE State Fish Commissioner saws there
is no State in the Union that has as many
miles Of streams habitable for fish within
its borders as Kansas.
TIE Commissioners Of Ellis County have
decided to tax the telegraph wires running
through that county at SIS per mile.
The hfteen-year-old son of Mr. Penning
ton, living near Salem, was killed by 9
runaway team recently. He was riding on
n load Of hay, when the horses becams
frightened and he fell between the horses
and the wagon and was dragged and bruised
in such q manner that he died in about
Fifteen minutes after he was found.
MCPHERSON has just built water.works
.or protection against fire, 1T q cost OF
$4,000.
CHEToPA will soon have a new $4,000
opera house.
JULIUS Hermann, q former business man
OF Atchison, and later travelling salesman
mas been detected In issuing iarre MUM
Der Of fraudulent drafts and oeffiso fheu,
Sashed. He has left for parts unknowu.