Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-09
miscellaneous.

| had been elected Bishop OF Nevada and
| Utah, was recently consecrated In Christ
! Church. St Louis, Bishop Vail officiating.
Twelve bishops took part in the cere
| monies
The following new post-offices have been
| established in Kansas: Kensington, Smith
/ County, Lewis NJ. UhL postmaster;
! Shields, Lane County, Ferdinand L. Lon.
ner, postmaster. The post-office at Cerro
Gordo, Jewett County, has been discontin-
| ued.
KANSAS postmasters confirmed by the
| Senate on the 26lh: l.. E. Humrichouse,
Dighton; w. w. Threlkelt, Scott; j. W.
! Brown, Ness City; A. G. Buchanan, Abb
| lene; c. F. Bushalter, Armourdale; j. E.
! Chapman, LaCygne; q. w. Farrelly, Cha.
mute; ]. N. Fike, Colby; D. s. Gardiner.
Downs; l. E. Johnson, Syracuse; J. B.
Kessler, Ottawa; c. S. Mace, st. John; A.
NJ Pherson, Galena; J. l.. Mattlngly, Sc
dan; J. Meehan, ST. Mary's; P. j. Morgan,
Solomon City; Anne Radcliffe, Cimarron
| L. 7. Reese, Smith Center; u. S. Selvidge,
| Meade Center; S. P. Sproule, Greens burg /;
! W. F. Troughton, Seneca; j. F. Baker,
| Ellsworth; F. S. Beades, Sterling; J. NJ.
| Lands, Oswego.
IRA PETERSON, of Newton, has a rat-terrier
| that killed thirty-seven rats one night re-
| Gently in an hour and half.
YOUNG MCCLINToCK, who lately carried
| off first honors i'll oratory at the State Nor
NAL won first Prize for an essay two years
ago.
| THE directors of the Grant monument
fund held meeting on the Goth at Fort
Leavenworth. A resolution was adopted
to ask Congress to appropriate s., COO i'll aid
of the project. The money an hand, private
contributions, amounts to about 81 0O0.
WILLIAM MYERS, aged sixty, while re.
Gently walking the track of the Fort
Scott road near the State line was run over
and killed.
SENATOR PLUMB has introduced bill in
which he proposes to dispose of the NO
Man's-Land' problem by attaching that
much disputed territory to the State of
Kansas.
The Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska rail-
road has fled with the Railroad Commits
sioners new distance tariff, meeting the
reduction recently made by the Missouri
Pacific. 1t is thought other roads will soon
follow.
A TRUCE has been declared in the Good
land-Eustis county seat war. The courts
will decide the contest.
z. b. HUBDARD prominent citizen Of
Garnett was recently thrown from the plat
form of a passenger car near Wellsvllle
and killed.
JOSIAH WHITE. for several years elm
ploye of the Fowler Packing Company,
Kansas City, Kan, met with shocking
death the other morning by falling into
huge tank of boiling lard. The man was
working in the refining rooms and in pass
ing one of the tanks he slipped and fell
backward into the boiling mass. Two men
standing near at once pulled him out, but
he died soon after. He was about forty
years old and leaves wife and three chill
dren.
THE Governor recently received q letter
from the chairman of the county commits
-i@ Of I'd hlf
there is no suffering in that county, and
the county needed no assistance from out
siders. A letter was also received from
the secretary OF the Meade Center board
of trade asking the Governor to forward TO
him any applications he had received from
Meade County for aid; that he was unable
to hear of any distress in that county, and
if there should be any they were abundant
~ able to take care OF them.
GEORGE BOWERS railroad agent at Pratt,
recently suicided by shooting himself at
the supper table.
IT is said that coal oil was recently dis
covered near Emporia; also four-foot
vein of coal.
THE charter was recently filed with the
Secretary of State of the Omaha, Horace &
Southwestern Railway Company, with a
capital stock of SO, 000,O CO., The incorpora-
tors arc mostly Kansas men. The road Is
$50 miles long, and the route is from point
on the north line of the State, running
thence southwestly to a point at or near
the thirty sixth parallel OF latitude.
AT Wyandotte the other day Edith Glorc,
aged three years, and her bother, aged two,
upset a can of kerosine oil while playing at
their home, and the girls hing was
saturated. Shortly afterward her dress
was ign1ie ed from fire in the stove and she
was burned so shockingly that death en-
sued in three hours.
Miss LILLE d. PRICHARD, of Millbrook,
daughter OF the postmaster of that city,
and proprietor and editress of the Graham
County Democrat recently committed sui
eide by hanging herself with a rope from
an upstairs Office window Cause is un-
known.
A FIRE at Fort Leavenworth on the 3lst
DESTROYED the stable of troop /, First Cav
airy, and thirtY-seven horses peris No
one seemed 10 know how the fire origi-
mated
SALIVA has a colony of fifty Italians.
The charter of the South and Central
American Emigration Association and
Equal Rights League of the United States
of America was recently filed with the
Secretary of State at Topeka The OBJ
ject is to induce colored people in the South
to emigrate to South and Central Amer
lea.
WHILE party of sixteen young people
were coasting on bob-sled at Leaven-
worth the other evening the sled was up
set, while going furiously down hill, and
only one of the number escaped unhurt
The injured included: Mr.. Medley, Miss
Florence Farrell, Miss Myra Atwood and
James Bell, dangerously.
CLAUDE BROOKS was recently arrested at
Wichita for a murder committed at Hess
vile, Ind, in December last