Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

- KANSAS STATE. NEWS.
On "Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
December 26, q and Is, the annual meet
ing OF the State Teachers's Association
will be held in Topeka. -
PENSIONS recently granted to Kansans:
Joseph p. Parish, of Cimarron; Albert 3.
Edwards, of Delphos; Samuel p. Hutch
inson, of Loco; Evan Thornburgh. of Great
Bend; William N. Goodner, Of Larned;
Harvey w. .Stubbleaeld. Of Winfield;
Chloe M. Jones, of Iola;. Zacariah Mum
don, of Fort Scott; Corydon J. Farwell, OF
Simeon Summers, of Liberty; Frank Kit1-
miller, of Highland; William Ogle. OF
Mcpherson; Aareu II. Fuller, Of Latham;
Charles ]. Anderson, Of Topeka; Levi
'Kunkel, of Highland Station; Zacariah ].
Tate, Of Belleville; Samuel Dell, OF Bar
ton; Walter Reynolds, of Emporia; Fran
els NJ. Kinds, of Atchison, and Jonathan
Crouch, of Ashland.
MICHAEL LEARY, one Of the participants
IN the memorable strike on the Gould
Southwestern system, and who laid with
Hamilton, Lloyd, Fossen, Geers and New
port in the Wyandotte Jail for q period of
eighteen months, charged with the crime
Of wrecking Missouri Pacific train and
killing Carlisle and Horton, has filed suit
in the Wyandotte district court against
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company for
Sc, 600 damages.
ABOUT five O'Clock the other evening Sol
Brubaker, aged twenty three years, resid-
ing near Washington, killed his mother.
aged about ffty-fve years, by cutting her
throat with q razor, and then cut his
own throat, but in such a bungling manner
that he only succeeded in severing the
windpipe without cutting the juglar vein.
He had been i'll with typhoid fever and
was just able to be up and around. The
murderer acknowledged. the killing and
said that he had done it because his mother
would not go for doctor. The young
fellow is about half simple and the family
had had constant trouble with him.
The eighth semi-annual meeting Of the
Social Science Club of Kansas aud Vest
ern Missouri was held at Atchison Novem.
Der and 2.
THE following Kansas post-offices have
recently been discontinued: Banks, Os.
borne County; Calhoun, Cheyenne Coun-
ty; Crystal Plains, Smith County; Maui
VOC, Comanche County; Oklahoma, King
man County; Orwell, Hodgeman County;
plum Grove Butler County: Sheridan,
Sheridan County; Sigel, Douglas County.
CONDUCTOR ALEXANDER, in charge of a
passenger train on the Kansas City & Pa
'cific railroad, was recently killed while
switching his train at Cofeyville.
In a recent alteration at Horton be-
tween DIR. J. s.. johnson, veterinary sur
gepn, and James Belk, a plasterer, both
men were seriously wounded
ABOUT five O'Clock the other afternoon
George Henderson, nine years old, was
run over and killed by an ''L." road train
at Wyandotte. She had been to her IA
D IN
attempted to cross the track in front Of
the train when she was struck and in.
stantly killed.
THE boys Of Leavenworth, in playing
their tricks on Halloween night did more
mischief than they probably anticipated.
They upset and placed a piece of sidewalk
near the residence of Samuel Black in
such a position that a person steppin z
on it would fall. Miss Black, the
only daughter of the former, proved the
victim. and while crossing it she was
thrown violently to the ground and beside
producing conclusion of the brain she re-.
ceived other injuries that it was thought
would result ia the young lady's death.
MISS josie PORTER, of Kansas City
while going horae from the theater with q
lady friend at Topeka the other night, was
insulted by a gambler, who asked to &C.
company Miss Josie and her friend.
They attempted to move on, but the man
persisted in following them, when Miss
Porter turned and suddenly struck him a
blow in the face, staggering him, and fol-
lowed with another which laid him on the
sidewalk. By this time . policeman ap.
peared who took the fellow in charge.
A FEW days since Ben Nall, a bright and
intelligent young man aged nineteen
years, and James Marshall and John
1e
snworth. While looking after some rab-
bits Ben started in advance of the others
when the gun in the hands of one of the
others accidentally went OFF and the
charge struck Ben in the back and enter
Ing the heart killed him almost instantly.
AT Wyandotte the other day the three
Sear-old son of Daniel Young was play
Ing under the trestle work Of the North
western railroad, and climbed post with
one arm thrown across one of the rails.
when q switch engine came along and be :
fore the engineer could discover the child
under the trestle work the wheels of the
tender passed over the arm, cutting it OF
below the elbow.
peka on Halloween night made of sheets
and pillows an efigy Of a man and then
placed it in the bedroom of Miss Gwenn.
one or their p1aymates. When the girl
was preparing for bed, supposing herself
to be alone. she was suddenly startled by
the apparition of the effigy and fell upon
the hoor in fit. A physician was imme-
diateiy summoned and he did all that was
In his power for her relief. All the next
day. however, the girl vibrated between
sudden fits of nervous fright and of hys.
terics and sinking spells.
Posr-oFFIcEs have recently been estab.
hshed at Stranger. in Leavenworth Conn.
ty, and another at Whesler, In Cheyenne
County.