Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-09-09
Miscellaneous.

Frontier, and the army of the Potomac.
Miscellaneous.
THE seven-year-old daughter of Mr.. Par.
sons residing about ten miles northeast of
Garden City, while recently playing near
the well, which is So feet in depth, lost her
balance and fell headlong to the bottom.
Her absence was noticed and search was
Immediately made. Her mother and a man
who happened to be at the house went to
the well and called her. She was hanging
to the rope and answered, telling them to
pull her up. She did not seem to be at all
frightened and gave a correct account Of
how she happened to fall in, and also gave
the depth of the water.
THE Autobiography convention, lately in
session at Topeka, selected the following
| State Central Committee: First district
Jacob A. Haruff, Atchson; A. j. Smith,
| Jefferson. Second, P. P. Elder, Franklin;
Elias Lee, johnson. Third, A. N. Fellows,
Parsons; NJ. E. Barr, Neosho. Fourth, j.
s. Sharp, Council Grove; p B. Maxsen,
Emporia. Fifth. j. NJ. Limbocker, Manhat-
tan; w. H. T. Wakefield, Enterprise.
Sixth s. A. Hart, Stockton; c. j. Lamb,
Kirwin. Seventh, Richard Styler, WITCH.
tia; E. N. Clark. Finney County. Dele
gates to the National Convention to be held
at indianapolis: John Heaton, of Council
Grove; E. H. Snow, of Ottawa; L. N. Linn
booker, of Manhattan; Dugald Johns, Of
Newton.
Miss IDA HARR, the daughter of one of the
most respected citizens of Auburn, Shaw.
nee County, took fatal dose of strychnine
the other night after going to bed. The
cause of the suicide was not definitely
known, but it was thought to be case of
disappointment in a love affair. She had
heen engaged to be married to a young
man and the engagement was broken off,
since which time she had been very de-
spondent. 1t was said that about two
years ago brother was killed while prac-
ticing ON trapeze. He fell off, striking on
his head, and never spoke afterwards.
The executive committee of the State
Teachers Association recently held meet.
ing in the office of the superintendent at
Topeka. The annual meeting will be held
December %, % and 80. Sectional meet
ings will be hold similar to last year. There
will be five sections, the high school and
normal college, common and graded school,
county superintendent sections. These
section meetings will occur in the forenoon.
In the afternoon union meetings will be
held.
THE Wood-Price kidnapping affair contin.
ued at last reports to be fruitful topic.
Colonel Woods fate seemed to be still a
mystery, and a letter received by a friend
at Topeka indicated that he had been run
off to mo Mans Land" The trouble is all
over the county seat contest in Stephens
County, the organization of which Colonel
Wood declared to be fraudulent.
EARLY in July Frank Byron, cashier for
Taft & McCurdy, of Topeka, was married
to the daughter of prominent contractor
and Immediately started East on a we'd
ding tour, taking in all the principal cities.
Reaching Boston he ran out of funds, and
then he commenced to victimize business
men by raising money upon forged deeds
to Western real estate. He was finally or.
rested and held for forgery. It was then
learned that he is wanted at Topeka for
forgery and bigamy. He is said to have a
wife and child in New Haven, Conn. By
ron is an oily-.ongued Canadian, and has
been leading a crooked life for some time.
airy of the Woman's Baptist Society of
Home and Foreign Missions among the
colored people of Topeka for more than
two years, has been elected a teacher in
Roger Williams Institute, Nashville, Tenn.
CROP reports to the Kansas Fermer show
the corn crop dwarfed 50 per cent, but
owing to increased acreage the harvest
will be 60 per cent. of that of last year.
have operated extensively on
millet and corn. A great deal of hay is |
being made aud more corn fodder saved |
than ever before.
Hon. j. A. ANDERSON has accepted the |
for Congress in the Fifth dis
trict.
s. N. WoOD has been rescued.
THE original manuscript of the report of |
the Kansas Congressional Committee of |
1856, has como into the collection of tho |
State Historical Society. 1t was sent by |
Senator John Sherman. The committee
was appointed by Speaker BanIs of the |
House of Representatives under q resolu- |
ton adopted March 10, 1856, which directed |
the committee to inquire into the troubles |
then agitating the people OF the Territory |
Of Kansas. The manuscript is partly in |
the handwriting of Senator Sherman, who
was a member of the committee, and is q |
valuable acquisition to the collection of
the State Historical Society.
WAxD's drug store at Topeka was re-
Gently burglarized.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
DTS: B. W. Gaddis, Kingston, respirator;
W. A. Laidlaw, Cherokee, device for press
ing hay; s. E. Foreman h f. T. Walls,
churn; A. J. Hindmarsh 4 W. e.
swim, Centralia, thill coupling; Carl
schubert, Alma, pump; II. W. Farrzr, FL
Dorado, nut lock.
TiE School Fund Commissioners hold
meeting recently and purchased $4,000
worth of school district bonds in different
of the State. The commissioners
ire Superintendent Lawhead, Secretary
Allen and Attorney General Bradford.
Tue price Of bottle Of bssF came near
sing the eause og rvsillstse epcountnv
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