Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

a small illustrated monthly published ut
Mcpherson. It's pages contain a variety OF
entertaining pictures, puzzles stories etc.
inst suited 10 the tastes OF little readers
The subscription price is fifty cents a year.
WALTER L. KIER, engineer on n local
freight running between Brookville and
Wamego. was horribly Inangled by being
run over the other day while coupling cars
in the Union Pacific yards at Abilene, and
died two hours after. He was married
only three days previous 10 MISS kershner,
OF North Topeka
lately in session at Atchson, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Grand past master workman. j. ID. Miller,
of Council Grove; grand master workman,
Joe z Riggs. of Lawrence; grand fore
man, o. J. Nichols, OF Cherokee; grand
overseer, n. F. Hewitt. If Glen Elder;
grand recorder, Z. NJ. Forde. OF Emporia;
grand receiver, j. B. Hibben, of Topeka;
grand guide ID. s. CasselL Of Parsons;
grand Waterman, George P. Hoster, OF
Topeka; grand medical director, c. {.
Green, of Windfield; grand medical direc-
tor. degree OF honor), H A Warner, or
Meriden; trustee, E s. Bertram, OF Coun-
Gil Grove: supreme representatives, j. III.
Miller, or Council Grove, John ii. Price, or
Atchison, and w. D. Gilbert. or Atchison.
HENRY RIDDER, uarryman employed
in Eaton q Wheeler's quarry at Rosedale,
was instantly killed while blasting the
other morning.
THE Congressional Committee for the
Second district recently met at Kansas
City (Kan.) and decided to hold the Con-
gressional nominating convention at Fort
Scott on May and the convention to select
delegates to the Chicago convention at
Kansas City, May II
GOVERNOR MARTIN recently pardoned
john J. Long, sent up from Linn
COunfv for fhraa for fOFQ6rV. Fred
Cam, Of Wellington, sent up for one year
for grand larceny, and Martin Bales, OF
Cloud County, sent up for ten years for
rape. These cases had been investlgate ed
aud pardons recommended by the Board at
Pardons.
TIRES of the -murderers of Fraax
Matson, whose body was found in the river
at junction City, have been taken to that
place from St. Joseph, Mo.
The latest bullet issued from the De-
partment at Washington indicated that
in Kansas the weather conditions have
been exceedingly favorH BILE during the past
winter, the ground being reported in good
condition, the wheat acreage large and the
condition excellent.
PATeNTs issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended February 90: Plastering
machine, Dudley w. Miles, Glen Elder;
churn. John Ahrends, Monmouth; car
coupling. John B. McCreary. Corbin; wire
and picket fence machine, William Dixon,
Clay Center; veneer machine, John w.
Trout, Cherry Vale; harrow for listed
crops, Hugh A. Murphy, Elk City; veloci-
pede, Allen NJ. Stoner, Topeka; telegraph
repeater, Louis Russell, Cherokee.
MRS. j. N. HENRY, of North Topeka, was
preparing an alcoholic bath for her sister the
other morning, when the alcohol exploded
and Mrs. Henry's clothes taking fire shc
was terribly burned.
TwENTY-NINE insurance companies that
were doing business III Kansas during The
insurance year that ended February 20,
1888, are not doing business in the State IN
the year that began March ], 1883. Four
teen of these were Kansas companies, and
of these companies six were livestock.
All of the Kansas livestock companies are
dead, and no livestock company of any
other State Is authorized TO do business in
Kansas.
The House on the 81 by almost a unani-
nous vote passed the bill introduced by
Congressman Anderson, of the Fifth dis
trict, to bring under the operation OF law
the provisions of the act granting subsl'
dies to aid in the construction OF a rallroa
and telegraph line from the Missouri river
to the Pacific ocean which practically ab
rogates the lease of the Pacific railways
telegraph lines to the Western Union Com
pany and places these lines within tho
Jurisdiction OF the Interstate Commerce.
Commission.
The Leavenworth Coal Company shut
their mine for good ON the I'd and all work
! was suspended. The miners were directed
to get their tools from the mine, the mules
were brought from below and stabbed and
notice given to all employees that there was
no further work for them to do. This
| action was expedited by a fear of trouble
! on the part of the mine owners and they
| gave it out that they could not and would
hr1ch alf n~ mir iT1or
The miners were determined that they
! could not and would not work for four
| cents per bushel. The company has been
| in operation eighteen years.
CHIEF CLERK o. II. BROWN, OF the claims
| department of the A. T. & F. Railway, was
! assaulted in his office at Topeka the other
| morning by Mike Hogan, a voucher clerk
in the same Office, and struck on the fore
! head a terrible blow with a paper weight,
nearly fracturing his skull. Hogan was
| imm edlately arrested but released on Dali
AT Mortimer, fourteen miles west OF
| Parsons, the other morning, John Geary
! was killed by Nate Parker, son OF A. A.
| Parker of Parsons. Two days previous
BENJAMIN Parker and Minnie Geary, daugh-
| ter of John Geary, eloped and were mar
ried and then went TO the house of an I'M
| Gle, George Mortimer. at Mortimer Station
| Geary swore he would kill the young man
on sight. and about twelve O'Clock went TO
OOrtlmer'S EOuSe arIneu Will Two roNOi-
yers and demanded admittance. This was
refused, and he tramped around the house
| until five O'Clock, when he was shot by
Young Parker and instantly killed
Mas. SUSAN DERRICK, a widow who re-
| sided alone near the boundary of Sedgwick
and Harvey Counties. was found dead near
| her home several days after the late cy-
| clone in that vicinity. Her residence and
! outhouses had been destroyed and she was
| found covered with tim bers.
| WILLIAM KELLEY, mulatto was shot
| and instantly killed at Millbrook the other
night by tough named Jeff Steward, the
ball entering the left side near the heart.
MRS E. SHORT. wife OF the Marshal OF
| Woodsdale, who had been married only ten