Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20

picked last Saturday night. losing sl,,50.
| The shameless thief who got it ought to
! return 1t.
Emporia Neus: Mira. D. s. Avery, re-
turned last night from California, where
she has been on six months trip for her
health. She had pleasant trip, and is
much improved in health, having game
twenty eight pounds.
Atchison Champion: Mrs. Peter Kuhn.
of Mt. Pleasant township, dropped dead
/ at her house recently. She had laid her
baby on the bed, and noticing l. roll
toward the edge imagined it was about
to fall to the floor, and when running to
save 1t, fell dead. She bad been COM
planning of heart affection for several
days, and it is supposed that the violent
motion Of the body and the sudden
fright which she received acted imme
diately upon the heart, causing instant
death.
The Valley Center correspondent to
the Sedgwick Photographer says girl
about sixteen years OF age got Oft the
Frisco passenger the other evening in
quiring TOR q man she said was her hus-
band. He had been here a few days
previous, but at that time was gone. She
was in very feeble health and had to be
carried from the depot to the hotel, where
Drs. Richardson andMekumson attended
her wants Saturday money was raised
to pay her fare for her return home, as
the missing husband had not yet put in
an appearance.
Harper Sentinel: We learn of family
in the west part Of town by the name Of
Clough, who are at present at the point
of starvation, having neither clothes nor
fuel to warm them, and all they have to
eat is what the neighbors take them.
The lady states that for come months
her husband has been very low with
lung disease, and she has worked hard,
washing for the neighbore and doing
other work that she could get odo, in
order to support the family But now
she has no work and her children are
suffering from hunger and cold, which
she couldn't stand, as no mother can,
and at last takes this method Of appeal
ing to the citizens for aid.
Carrie Summers, aged eleven years, &C
cideptally fell in a we'll about forty feet
deep. in which there was twenty feet of
water, in Bloomfield township, Nemaha
county, few days ago. A brother, a
child of not more than seven years OF
aye, was at the we'll with her, and quick
ly noting that the rope with which they
drew water was slipping into the well,
put bis foot upon it, and called for an
other brother, who was working in a
field near by, who came and found the
girl floating on the water. Calling to
her to take hold of the rope, she did 80,
and chung to it till the boy pulled her
out. She was in the water for ten min |
utes, but was uninjured.
Fort Scott Monitor: Mrs. Elizabeth |
Young, one of the oldest and most es-
teemed of early settlers here, died at the
home of her son, w. c. Young, corner of
Hickory and Lowman streets. The de-
ceased was over eighty-three years old |
and leaves several sons and daughters, |
and numerous other relatives 10 this
county. One Of her sons, Rev. Wesley |
Young, is pastor of the NJ. E. church,
Brooklyn, n. Y. The funeral will take
place from the residence to-day. The
remains will be laid to rest in the family |
burial lot in Zion cemetery by the side
of her husband, Rev. VIM. Young, who
has preceded her about eighteen