Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

dale.
THE other day Emil Berggrena, young
tailor, was assaulted by Mrs. j. Krieg OF
Main street at Newton and treated to quite
q coat of tar. The woman claimed to have
been insulted by Berggrena, and when she
met him on his way to work struck him
number of times with a broom loaded with
tar.
THE National House of Representatives
on the 25th adopted the joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of the Interior
to certify to the State of Kansas 7,632 acres
of public land in the State, the remainder
due Of the $4,000 acres apportioned to the
State Agricultural College for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts. The
1852 acres is the amount which was with
drawn by the Kansas Pacific railroad when
it was to be built from Fort Riley up the
Republican river. The route was changed,
and the order of withdrawal was revoked.
The land was restored at $3.50 an acre,
which was really only $1.25 land. Under
the bill the State will be allowed to select
that amount of land from the public do
main within the State at lbs an acre.
THE convention that nominated Hon. L.
u. Humphrey for Governor was called &c
order on his forty-fourth birthday.
BEN CATER, eighteen years old, whose
mother resides at Topeka, was recently
killed by a freight train near Mexico, Mo-
He was stealing a ride when he fell under
the wheels.
THE residence Of George NJ. Knox in
Potwin Place, Topeka, was entered by a
colored thief the other day during the alb
sence of the family and pillaged- The
| robber had prepared to burn the house
when Mrs. Knox returned and opened the
dooz She was knocked down and kicked
by the ruffian who made good his escape.
A FARMER of Gray County, named Nc
Cabe, was recently buried in a well. He
had dug forty feet when the sides caved in
on him. The neighbors dug him out as
soon as possible, but life was extinct.
CHARLES MATTHEW'S, a colored man for
| ty-five years old, recently lost leg at
Topeka by being run over by a Union Pa
| cific train.
HENRY MILLER, a partner in the COM
mission house of the Richardson Commits
sion Company at Leavenworth, was
| drowned at that city the other night while
bathing. He leaves a wife and two chill
! dren.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: Joint for railway rails, Isaac
G. Albaugh and j. c. Gillespie, Challa-
combe; wash boiler, William NJ. Coventry.
Longton; trap for fish or game, George H.
Kile, Mound Valley; stomach pump, Hor-
ace w. Parsons, Wamego; electrical gov
ernor, Horace w. Parsons and J. Hoduit,
! Wamego; machine for laying railway
| tracks, Marion Smith, Durham; tightener
for fence wires, George Tenny, Lincoln /;
safety device for elevators, Fenolon Ira
bue, Kinsley; boring machine, William D.
Trip, Augusta
MRS. BAXTER, aged fifty two years, sui
cided by hanging in her daughters barn
at Atchison the other morning. Her home
is In Canton, ILL.,, where two other daugh-
| IA
| SOME weeks ago q Mrs. White, living a
few miles Prom Topeka, was assaulted by
negro, who pulled her from her buggy,
and she was only saved from violence by
| the approach of friends. A few weeks
later her niece was brutality assaulted by a
| negro at the farm house of the victims
| father. The families believed that Ed.
Ramsey, a tough negro of Topeka, COM
| mitted both offenses, and felt certain he
| was the one who assaulted Mrs. White.
Recently the Whites, father and son, met
Ramsey on the street while in Topeka,
| when he denied his name and started to
run. Young White ordered him to halt,
which he failed to do, when White fired on
| him, the ball taking effect in the head.
| The Whites were arrested, and the negro
population very much excited.
Ex-GovERNoR THOMAS CARNEY, the sec
ond Governor of Kansas, died suddenly of
|
| the 18th, aged sixty-one years. His death
| is the first to occur in the line of Kansas
| Governors. All the others are still living.
| A SOMEWHAT sensational case of wife
| beating was tried at Emporia the other
day, the defendant being DR.. T. F. Miller,
who was convicted of the crime on three
different counts, and fined SIS on each
count and given thirty days in Jail, with
the further sentence to remain in Jail UNI
| til his fines were paid. The neighboring
women were the prosecuting witnesses.
PosT-oFFICEs were lately established at
Fox, Harper County, and Waring, Ness
| County.
AT a recent meeting of the committee of
the State League of Democratic Clubs in
| Lawrence it was decided to hold the con-
vention at Lawrence September 3, 1888.
WHILE going to his office the other day
Mayor Hackney, of Winfield, received a
sunstroke and was taken home uncon-
| scious.
JOE WILSON and A. Armstrong engaged
| in a vicious fight at Wilson's house at
Armourdale the other morning, in which
| the latter narrowly escaped with his life.
Armstrong boarded at Wilson's house and
the row was caused by family difficulty,
| the nature of which neither of the men
would divulge. Wilson attacked Arm
| strong, and after several knock-downs
Armstrong produced a razor and proceeded
to carve his antagonist, infiicting eight very
| serious wounds.
ISAAC PARKER, a colored constable of
| Kansas City (Kan.), was recently arrested
on a State warrant charging him with
taking "hush money" from the keeper of a
whisky joint.
! CHARTERS lately filed with the Secretary
| of State: The Forest City Band, of Ottawa,
capital stock, $1,000; Welcome Gaslight
Company, of Fort Scott, term of exist
| ence 200 years, capital stock, 500, 600; the
Ellsworth Commercial Club; Republican
Publishing Company, of Cherryvale,
| capital stock, $1,000; News Publishing
Company, of st. John, capital stock, Sc, 900;
| the Iarned and Great Rand Irr.ioa ting