Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-04
KANSAS State NEWS

In the United States Senate on the Goth
Senator Jones, from the committee on In
dian Affairs, favorably reportod bill
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior
to revoke and cancel patents to certain
lands in johnson County, Kan, known a.
the Absentee Shawnee Indian lands, the
patents having been enormously issued to
George Sillambus and Lewis Hayes, of the
Shawnee tribe. He is also authorized to
issue patents for the lands to the settlers
located thereon. --------z
THE Kansas box and basket factory
in Kansas City, Kan. tWyandotte), was
completely destroyed by fire at five O'Clock
the other morning, involving loss OF
from $50, 600 to $40, 200. The building was
100 by 60 feet il size and three stories high,
all frame excepting the engine room. In
the upper story there were $4,000 worth of
egg cases and Is, 900 market and grape
baskets, which had been stored away,
while there was a large quantity of mate
rial and unfinished goods on the first and
second floors. G. W. E. Griffith, of Law
renee, is the principal owner. Sixty hands
were thrown out of employment.
Rock ISLAND yard men at Topeka
"walked out" the other morning because
the company discharged Yardmaster Fred
Morgan, -
WHILE Mrs. Hoyt, wife of q real estate
dealer of Wyandotte, was taking q nap
the other afternoon, she was awakened by
some one in her room. The intruder was q
negro man who was committing a robbery.
Springing up, the lady ordered the negro
away, when he seized and attempted to
force her to the bed, failing in which he
brutally beat her over the head with pis.
tol and escaped from the house.
PENSIONS gracted to Kansans on the
Goth: John w. Smith, of Harveyville;
William j. Burton, OF Fredonia; John d.
Collins, of Wellington; L. French Will
liams, of Mound City;. Norman II. Rey-
mold, of Topeka; John B. Ira, of Lyons {;
Benjamin II. Peck, of Minneapolis. Ma
thias Valemer, Of Myers Valley; Nathan
G.. Slower, of Oberlin; Friedrich Carpenter,
of Stockton; Timothy Armstrong, of Glib
son; Thomas Craig, of Stockton; Thomas
e. SewelI, of Abilene; John A. Watkins,
of Wernerton; Robert G. Ives, of Stock
ton; Levi Pritchard, of Millbrook; James
Manning, of the National Military Home !;
George Robson, of Emporia; Vernon n.
Rabbit, of Coronado; William Pettifer, of
Atwood; George w. Woodruff, of Lanners-
burg; Anderson w. Scott, Of Darlingto !;
Sarah Hultz, of Usage. City; Mary Sutton,
of Greeley, and Katie Costello, of Fort
Riley. 3.
WHILE Mrs. Matt Ryan, of Leavenworth,
was returning with two lady friends from
the Priests of Pallas ball at Kansas City
on the night Of the DIST, she was assaulted
by negro man who seized her and de-
manded her diamonds, accompanying his
demand with threats of death if the ladies
did not keep quiet. They yelled lustily,
however, and the thief fed.
Two professional burglars and cracks.
men and q forger escaped from the city
hall station in Wyandotte the other after
noon by tearing hole through q sixteen.
inch stone wall.
In quarrel at Greenleaf the other day
over pony trade between Gerge S. Ell
wood, prominent farmer and horse deal
er, and John ID. Wilson, former sheriff Of
the county, Elwood shot Wilson in the
face with a pistol, the ball entering the
mouth and infiicting severe wound.
SECRETARY MOHLER, OF the State Board
of Agriculture, has made arrangements
for the use of the agricultural exhibits at
the late State fair to be shown at the State
house while the National Grange and the
Farmers Congress are in session. The
displays of Bourbon, Allen, Shawnee.
Douglas and Brown Counties have been
secured and will remain in Agricultural
hall until removed to the State house.
The two meetings open on November Il:
one will be held in Representative Hall
and the other in the Senate Chamber.
WILLIAM WOOD, a Topeka colored man,
recently lost three children by diphtheria.
THE State fair, recently held at Topeka,
was great success. 1t was believed the
receipts were ample to pay all demands
and leave a surplus.
THOMAS GIACoMINE, proprietor Of the
Delmonico Hotel, one OF the best equ tipped
houses in Leavenworth, was fined 500 and
sentenced to thirty days in Jail recently by
Joined but still continued TO sell liquor.
Tho a11oOoA ha firad for
tempts
a CHICAGO drummer lately travelling
through the State is authority for the
statement that an eagle recently carried
: off and killed q two months babe in
Seward County, and that the father sue
ceeded in capturing the rapacious bird and
will sell it to q dime museum.
FRANK STALMERS recently purchased
and drank a glass OF "ginger ale" at a
Topeka stand and soon after was attacked
with dizzinsss, spasms and black vomit, and
subsequently died in great agony.
AN eighteen-months-ol child at Topeka
the other day got hold of box of concen-
trated I've, swallowed quantity of it and
died next day.
In a railroad accident on the Gulf road
at Galena, the other morning, q. young
man named Will Sherwin, OF Webb City,
Mo-, was instantly killed and Ira Moore,
of Opolis, Kan, had both legs cut of. Jack
Lyons, the roadmaSter, had an ankle
broken by an accident while assisting to
clear the wreck. The wreck was caused
by the locomotive coming in contact with
a COW. The engine and seven gravel
trains were derailed.
BRANCH houses of n. z. Fairbanks &c Co.,
lard refiners; P. L. Underwood & Co.,
Chicago pork packers, and Fowler Bros,
Chicago beef packers, have been finally
located at Hutchinson.
ABOUT sixty delegates met in the Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran Church, q. 4.
c., at Leavenworth the other day for the
purpose of making Kansas separate dis
trict, and branch of the synod comprising
Ohio, Missouri and other States. The
church has grown very strong in Kansas
and in every State where the number OF