Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-23
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A SINGULAR disease called winter cholera
was recently reported prevailing at
Atchison. While not fatal it was regarded
as epidemic
AT an assemblage Of $50 of the Benedic-
tine order of monks at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently Right Rev. Innocent Wolf. of Atchi-
son, was elected as successor OF the late
Arch Abbot Wilmer. The election Will
have to be ratified at Rome.
JOHN BENNETT, of Elk Falls, has been
arrested and held for trial at Topeka for
sending obscene literature through the
mails.
A CONVENTION was held in Topeka on the
9th for the purpose Of organizing the Henry
George United Labor party in Kansas.
Delegates were present from all parts Of
the State. The platform adopted at the
Syracuse convention was adopted entire.
and it was decided to put a full ticket in
the field this year. The Legislature was
n2emorialized to pass an act that all claims
for labor take precedence OF all other
claims. A State Central Committee was
appointed, with Rev. w. R. Goodnow, of
Larned, chairman.
A RECENT dispatch from Minneapolis,
Mimi, says that two car loads of potatoes,
corn and food have been sent to the Kansas
sufferers from Pierre, Oak.
MIKE COLLINS. while on q protracted
spree, recently attempted suicide at Wy
andoLte by cutting his throat He only
succeeded in SOLDERING up.
KANSAS has 8, 1913 miles of railroad IN op-
GRAFTON within her borders.
COLONEL FRANK NJ. TRACY. a wellknown
newspaper man, died at Troy on the 18th.
He had been suffering for years and for
several months before his death had been
confined to his bed from the effects of a
wound received at Wilson's Creek during
ha lafo 10 har of nv
A, First Kansas volunteers. He was born
in Rails County, Mo-, in 1888.
In the State oratorical contest held at
Bald Twin City recently, the first place was
awarded to L. A. Stebbins, OF the State
University. His subject was '.Partisan-
ship" The second place was awarded 10
j. w. D. Anderson, of Baker University.
There were number of contestants. Mr..
Stebbins will represent Kansas in the In
ter-State contest.
THE recent appearance OF CHAMBERS at
several stables In Leavenworth created
much uneasiness among owners OF horses
at that place.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed to
Immediately push the Omaha, Kansas q
FL Paso railroad south from Kinsley.
The Lavener livery barn at Girard
burned at three o'clock the other morning,
together with ten head of hcrses, two
mules, all the buggies and other property.
The horses were insured for 81, 800 but
there was no insurance on the building.
THE bill to quiet the title to quarter
section of land in Usage County has passed
both houses of Congress. 1t renders per-
feet the title to the land upon which is
located the homes of nearly 1000 resi-
dents of Lyndon.
The hardware establishment of Fl. l..
Whitaker and the grocery house of c. F.
~ f2hf oil ,a,% 1Nf.. Il -
destroyed by fire the other morning. The
flames originated in Whitaker's store.
Whitaker's loss was so, 900, fully insured;
Kapper's loss, SIS 600; insured for 5000.
The loss on the building was IS, 600, fully
insured.
X. w. BROWN, colored, was recently ar
rested at Wyandotte, for fraudulently rep
swindling colored people. His scheme was
to obtain q fee from his victims and give
them a bogus order for back pensi ons.
GEORGE, the eighteen-year-o old son of
Judge F. G. Adams, Of the State Historical
Society," died suddenly at Topeka the other
day of heart disease.
JAMES BUNKER, son of one Of the Siam
csc twins, is in the Kansas penitentiary,
having been sent from Lane County upon
a conviction for perjury in divorce proceed
ings.
The Supreme Court has declared the
Metropolitan Police law constitutional.
FRANK FAIRCHILD. a brakeman on the
Central Branch road, recently lost leg
by being run over by a train at Atchison.
The injured man has an invalid wife and
three children.
KANSAS has $50, 600. 600 invested in manu-
features.
THE Kansas State Agricultural College
will receive $4,000 annually by the passage
of the Hatch Experimental Station bill.
AMOS HOSTETTER, section hand on the
Rock Island, was struck by train recent |
ly near Partridge and instantly killed. He
leaves six children.
JUDGE ]. P. USHER, of Lawrence, celebrated |
his seventy-second birthday anniversary on |
the 9th. With che exception of Simon Cam !
eron he is the only living member of Presi- |
dent Lincoln's Cabinet
For some time past affidavits have been |
rejecting upon the profess
sional integrity OF some of the attorneys
before the United States land |
office at Larned, in consequence of which ,
some of them have had their permits to !
practice suspended. One.of the attorneys /
has made complaint against Re- |
ceiver Bickel and Special Agent Rowe for !
to injure him, and another has
brought suit against Agent Rowe for $10,-
200 damages
JUNCTION CITY proposes to bore for coal .
ia the spring.
SARATOGA is to have a new bank.
A FEARFUL and singular fatality recently
befell the family OF John Clark, farmer
residing near Leavenworth. Within four
days seven of the family died, the father,
mother and five children, and three other
children were not expected 10 live. In
resignation led 10 the disclosure OF the
fact that some time last summer sixty head
IF hogs had died Of cholera but a short
from the well from which the
family obtained water, the water being con-
animated and literally poisoning the whole
family.
W. p. BRowSLEE, Register Of the land
,fice at Larned. has had his resignation
,alled for by Secretary Villas
THE Kansas State Musical Society will
,old its naxk ANIMAL Meeting at TonaIra or,