Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-30
Miscellaneous.


will reach them and that they will be held
amenable for any violation of it.
Miscellaneous.
THE other morning before daylight Mrs.
Isaac Speckter, wife of a Kansas City
(Kan.) Hebrew clothing dealer, was up
and attending to a sick child when she
imagined burglars were in their store-in
the front part of the building-and she
called her husband, who was asleep, tell
ing her suspicious. He jumped out of his
bed in half-dazed condition and Selling
his pistol fired at random. The ball shat
tered the lamp and extinguished the light.
Seeing figure in the dark he fired again,
when a scream made him aware that he
had shot his wife. The ball took effect in
the hip and was not dangerous. The man
was frightened nearly out of his wits.
The semi-annual apportionment of
school funds has been completed by the
superintendent of Public Instruction. The
total fund for apportioning was $25S, 099. &c,
and the total number of school children
in the State being 526, 734, the amount per
capita is 40 cents. Shawnee County leads
with 1925 children and receives $7,474.95;
Sedgwick comes second with 14,240 chill
dren and gets $6,977.6O, while Wyandotte
makes close third with 1858 children,
for which it receives $6,650.77. Grant
County has the smallest number of chill
dren, PIG, and receives $105.84.
THE bill authorizing the construction of
a bridge over the Missouri river at or near
Kansas City, Kan, and not over ten miles
above the Hannibal & st. Joseph railway
bridge at Kansas City, Mo-, has been re-
ported favorably in the Senate.
JUDGE ABBOTT, of the district court, re-
Gently issued an alias for H. A. w. Car
field and w. j. Price, commissioners, and
Clerk Waterman, of Kearney County, who
had been lodging q writ of mandamus is
sued, compelling them to count the vote
of July 81, on the county seat election.
WHILE working at the capitol at Topeka
the other day George Vetters was knocked
insensihle by brick which fell from the
dome, distance of eighty feet, and struck
him a glancing blow upon the head. 1t
was feared he was fatally injured.
THE other afternoon Henry Westfall, a
farmer, living on Eagle creek, fifteen miles
southwest of Emporia, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. He leaves
wife and five children.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas in
ventors: Freub B. Duffey, Mound Valley,
apparatus for moving houses; John F.
Gurley, w. T. Winney and j. F. Hetzler,
Lawrence, corn drill; Eli P. Newhaubs
and j. Shrivlar, Beloit, wire fence stay
binder; Edward F. Shelder, Kepler, a
truck; James w. Steele, assignor of one
half to A. McNalley, Chicago, ILL.,, railway
bridge danger signal 1.-TWO patents); Idalia
Weed, Leavenworth, corset: David A.
Winney, assignor of one-third to NJ. E.
Held, Anthony, windmill.
SECRETARY MOHLER, of the State Board
of Agriculture, in his monthly statement,
says that from the reports already made
to hin he is able to state that the crops of
wheat, oats and corn will each be double.
in bushels, the amount of last year. There
are counties where there was almost to-
tai failure, while other sections have been
particularly fortunate. The State will
lose considerable portion of the popula-
ton of some of the newer counties, owing
to the repeated failures. These will be
those counties where the soil is sandy, and
where the drought has been felt to greater
degree than in other counties, while the
State at large shows favorably when COM
pared with other States.
A CHARTER was recently filed with the
Secretary of State for the st. Louis, Baxter
Springs & Oklahoma railway. The object
is to build and operate railway, telegraph
and telephone line from st. Louis to some
point in Jasper County, Mo-, thence west
through Cherokee County, Kan, to point
on the south line of Kansas, at or near
Coffeyville; thence in southwesterly di-
rection through the Indian Territory and
Oklahoma to Texas, with numerous
branches. Estimated length OF line, LOW
miles; capital stock, SIC, 000,0 900.
E. H. FLEMING, Hutchison minister Of
the gospel, eloped the other day with one
of his congregation, Mrs. Fryreat. The
hayward preacher leaves a wife and six
children and his mother in destitute cir
cumstances. The woman is said to have
twice before eloped.
THE post office at Chaord, Neosho County,
is to be discontinued.
JUSTICE MILLER, of the United States
Supreme Court, has granted a writ Of error
in the case of William Baldwin, who is
now in the penitentiary under sentence OF
death for the murder Of his sister at Atchi
son. It is claimed by his attorneys that they
have evidence that other parties are guilty
of the murder.
TOPEKA is troubled with fre-bugs.
THE State Democratic Central Commit
tee met recently at Topeka. The secretary
was instructed to confer with the Repub-
ucan Central committee with view to
ranging q joint canvass of the State by
the opposing candidates for Governor in
which they shall discuss the issues that
divide the two parties. He was also en-
powered to make such Arrangements as
may be necessary.
1T is stated that the Attorney-General
has began proceedings to GUST Sheriff
Churchill, of Leavenworth, from Office 1t
is charged that the sheriff has been luke
warm in enforcing or neglects to enforce
the Prohibition law.
FRED Cook was recently drowned in the
Cottonwood river, near Stafford, willis IN
swimming with party of friends.