Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-01-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Emporia. He had been married only six
months.
AT the solicitation of Congressman
Peters, an order was recently transmitted
to the President for his signature attach
ing the county of Ford and the west half
Of Hodgeman County to the Garden City
land office.
PosT-oFFIcE changes in Kansas during
the week ended December Is, 1888: Post
masters ppointed-Ashler, Chase County,
James ii. Wright; Chase, Rice County, F.
J. Griffith; Hollywood, Ellsworth County,
Frank Murray; Keimheld, Rush County,
5. w. Sutton; Shady Bend, Lincoln County,
Mrs. Emma r Cox; Slate, Rocks County,
John Ruby; Stilson, Cherokee County, Neil
Krous; Wakarusa, Shawnee County,
Lucius T. Franks.
GEORGE CARTER recently mysteriously
disappeared from Russell County, and his
friends are anxious TO know of his where
abouts.
AT the late special election in Topeka to
choose a successor to Mayor Wilson,
resigned, Bradford Miller was elected
by 492 majority over Sells.
RECENTLY two prisoners who had been
allowed to step out of the corridor of the
Jail, at Emporia. undertook to make their
escape, starting to run in different direc-
tons. The jailer started in pursuit of one
of them and commanded him to halt. He
refused to do so and the jailer fired on him,
the ball taking effect just behind the left
ear, and glancing downward lodged near
the large artery I'm the neck. The wound,
though serious, was not considered fatal.
The other prisoner was captured and re-
turned to the Jail without injury.
The President recently sent to the Senate
a message recommending such legislation
as would authorize the reconstruction of
the bridge over the Republican River near
Fort Riley. Accompanying the message
was a statement from the Secretary of War
to the effect that the former structure fell
into the river through the negligence Of the
company owning it. The question of its
replacement was one of great public i'm
portance, and more especially as effecting
the interests of the military service.
YOUNG woman going from Wichita Ia
Omaha was robbed on the Santa Fe road
the other morning. She had fallen asleep
after leaving Topeka, with her portman
teau, containing her watch and chain, sew
eral articles of jewelry, her ticket and six
dollars in money, on the seat beside her
On waking she found it gone, and imme-
diately made her loss known to other pas.
sengers, whs gave her a purse of six dol
lars with which to purchase a ticket tc
Omaha. She was much grieved over hel
loss, which she claimed was about 500.
JENNIE WHALEY was found dead in her
room at the Farmers and Drovers' Hotel
at Wichita the other night. She was dis
covered about nine o'clock, and had beer
dead two or three hours. She was on the
street during the day in apparently ordi
nary health. She was about twenty years
of age, bright and good looking. and had
evidently taken her own life with poison
GEORGE RAYsER, of Leavenworth, who
some months ago found his wife in a Kan
sas City bawdy house and killed her, and
who had been in Jail in that city since com
uniting the deed, was recently adjudgeC
insane and will be sent to an asylum
Should he recover he will be tried for the
murder.
q. w. BIoADHURST, young man TWEEN
ty-two years of age, engaged in the graiI
business at Kansas City, recently tool
S2,GO9 of the money of the arm and started
out into Kansas to purchase corn. He wal
cautioned not to take so much money will
linn but nevertheless did SO. He boarded thu
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train and weni
as far as Dc Soto at which point he left the
train. He reported that at that place.ht
started out in the morning for the country
on foot to buy corn, not being able to Sc
, A. ut hOr lie
lance east of De Soto he came to the bridg,
over Kill Greek, stopping there few min
utes TO look at the stream. AS he stood OF
the bridge looking down at the water TIVE
men, wearing masks over the lower portion
OF their faces, approached with drawn pis
tolls and ordered Mr.. Broadhurst to hole
up his hands. He said ne at once drew hi
revolver and confronted his assailantS
They succeeded, however, in disarminl
him, and took from his pocket a larg'
leather book containing 5000, also hi
watch, but rs il contained his initials they
handed it back. One of the men, he al
leges, then shot him in the leg below tn,
knee, inflicting a flesh wound. HereturneC
to De Soto and men started in pursuit o.
the robbers; then went to Kansas City
and had his wounds attended to.
ONE day recently young man by tn,
name of Hammer, while at work at a corn
shelter, in Labette County, accidentally
got his right hand between the cogs of thu
wheels, crushing all the fingers into jelly
REV. w. T. BOWEN, rector of the Episco
pal Church at Parsons, who has been af
fiicted with a malignant attack of asthml
for years, and who a few weeks ago at
tempted suicide, was adjudged insane re
Gently, and will be sent to the Asylum a
Topeka.
A PARTY of men at Leavenworth at
tempted to cross the river in n skill Il
catch a train, aud when they landed abou
four miles below, the train was about TWEEN
ty miles in an opposite direction.
The Secretary Of State, Hon. F. T. Ere
linghuysen, has written Governor Glicl
that the Postmaster-General says he ha
been informed by the German Postal Ad
ministrator that no regulations exist il
Germany excluding from the mails publ
cations representing the public lands o
this country.
JOSEPH BECK, young man from Ohio
but residing near Cherokee, was bitten by
n mad dog something over two months ago
Nothing was thought of IL at the time. A
few days ago, however, he was attacked
with hydrophobia and died in great agony
SURVIVING turkeys have been respited.
THE Railroad Commissioners recently
received the reports of the Union Pacifi,
Railroad Company and the Kansas Cen
trail Railroad and letter from the Auditol
of the Union Pacific, at Omaha, giving the
reason for the delay in making the report
as required by law. These reports wer,
also accompanied by copy OF the report
of the st. Joe & Western road.
THE police of Topeka recently raided tn,
gambling houses in that city and arrested
the gamblers and ''many prominent anC
respectable citizens" who were present
All were fined, except those who were sue
cessful in securing leg-bail.
AT Derby, Sedgwick County, Joe Krebl,
recently shot and killed a stranger at 4
husking.
The obsequies over the remains of Hon