Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-11
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THE Senate unanimously confirmed David
+. Brewer as Judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit Court.
The report of the Agricultural Depart.
ment at Washington, received at the office
Of the Secretary of the State Agriculture!
Society gives Kansas the first place as b
rorn-producing State. In table giving
the amount of merchantshle corn, Kansas
is credited with 1896, S2S bushels, al
thirty-fve cents per bushel, amounting 10
Sl5,f4l 500. Understandable corn, IL. S24,-
Oh bushels at twenty cents, S3,456,uIS
This Is twice the amount in bushels, of any
State IL the Union. Missouri is next with
eG $4,000 bushels of M rchlu:able corn, and
Illinois third with 63,36},14) bushels of
merchan' able corn.
HoN. JOHN B. SCRoGGs found a colored
man secreted under bed in his residence
In Wyan1Otte, the other night. Mr..
Scroggs corraled him with a shot gun and
marched him down the street until he en-.
countered the police who had been notified
OF the affair, and were on the way to his
house. The man was taken 10 the station
where he gave the name of Blake but re-
fused TO talk.
TIE Postmaster General declines to es-
tablish post-office at Tempe, Wyandotte
County, Kansas.
AMEETING of the State Democratic Cen.
t-al Committee was held at Topeka on the
2Gth, W. c. Perry, of Fort Scott, in the
chair. May 18th was the date set for the
StIte Convention to elect delegates to the
Chicago Democratic National Convention
to be held July s h. The basis of repre-.
sentation was made one delegate for each
239 votes cast for Governor Click Mt the last
election and one delegate for each fraction
of l21 votes. This basis gives about $50
d, lie gates in the State Convention.
ABOUT one o'clock on the morning-o of the
18th, while Charles Stratton and Mrs. Min.
erette McCohn were returning from q
dance near Carbondale, they were both
thrown from the buggy. Stratton fell
clear, but the lady became entangled, and
was dragged for some distance. She died
In about two hours after being brought into
town from injuries received.
PROCEEDINGS have been commenced I'm
the Supreme Court to GUST the Mayor and
Common Council of the city of Atchison
forever from the exercise of certain
usurped corporate powers"-that is.
THE examination of applicants for cIerk.
ships in the Government Departments at
Washington will be held by the United
States Civil Service Commission at Topeka
and one or two other places in Kansas the
latter part of May. All persons desiring
to be examined will receive the necessary
blanks and copies Of the rules and regula.
tions by writing to the Civil Service Com.
mission, Washington, ID. c. All applica.
tions for the departmental service must be
sent TO the commission at Washington
RECENTLY, a man named Herald opened
saloon at Canton, Mcpherson County. In
a row with consta bic he was shot, and
while lying upstairs in bed wounded, some
women raided his saloon and dumped the
contents into the street.
KANSAS is far ahead in corn.
The Kansas City & Southwestern Rail.
road Company, of Kansas City, Kansas,
has fled charter with the Secretary of
State. In this charter it is proposed to
construct line of railroad and telegraph
from Kansas City in a southwest srly di.
reciion through the counties of Wyandotte,
Johnson, Miami, Franklin, Linn, Coffey,
Anderson, Woodson, Greenwood, Butler,
CONVEY and Sumner, to point on the State
line i'm Sumner County. Its place Of bust.
ness is to be Kansas City, Kansas, and
Winfield, Cowley County. The amount of
capital stock is placed at five million
dollars.
A NEW post-ofiice has been established at
Brett, Norton County, Kas., with s. s.
Howell as postmaster.
WILLIAM Fox, a brakeman on che Ham
nibal & st. Joseph road, lost his arm while
in The employ Of that company some
months ago. He sued the company for
$1,000 in the District Court at Atcbison,
ard Obtained Judgment for that sum. The
Sheriff, to satisfy judgment, seized and
detained a train and advertised the road
for sale. A settlement was, however ar
rived'at, the railroad company paying the
damages and costs, amounting to ST, 900.
THREE young white men of Leavenworth
have been arrested for raviShing a colored
girl.
VERY heavy rain was reported las.
week in Western Kansas.
FREDERICK BARTEL, who lived on farm
four miles south of Topeka, injured his
hand two or three weeks ago with a hedge.
thorn Erysipelas supervened, and after
considerable suffering he died, leaving q
wife and six children.
The Post Office Department has sent a
special agent to Armstrong to examine into
the business necessities of that place with
view OF disseminating the money order
branch Of the post-office located there. 1t
is not improbable that the entire Office will
be abolished.
CoSGREssMAS PETERS has sent an order
to Mr.. Cowgirl for three hundred and
swenty-nve sample boxes of sugar manu-
factured by the Kansas Sugar Company.
to be given to the members Of Congress-