Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-01

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field, 1921; Ottawa, 7,047; Wellington,
Q. 367; Parsons, 6,O70; Pittsburgh. 3, 407; Ell
Dorado, 5,241; clay Center, 5.2l4; abb
lene, 5,1S7.
Miscellaneous.
MRS. HARDEN LUsK, living near Edo
Eado killed her baby the other morning
by severing its head from the body with
butcher knife. When her husband went
20 her room the wife said chicken had
bothered her during the night and she had
cut its head of. Upon turning down the
covers he was Mortified to discover the
headless corpse Of his child. The woman
still held the knife in her hand, which was
taken from her after . struggle. She was
insane.
Rev. PARDEE BUTLER, . historical char.
acter in Kansas, died at Farming ton,
Atchison County, on the Goth, from the
effect OF injuries received by being thrown
from his horse about month previous.
He located in Kansas in 1855 and was q
prominent figure in the early troubles. be.
ing an uncompromising Free State man and
active participant in the events Of the
stirring times incident to the pioneer days
Of the Territory. He was seventy-twC
years Of age.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued a procfa-
nation Offering a reward of $500 for the ar.
rest and conviction of Thomas J. Gooden,
fugitive from justice. charged with em.
bezzlement Of the public funds TO the
amount of $4,000.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in.
ventors: Charles Brown, Emporia, bar.
ber's dressing case; George p. Crehore,
Kansas City, cable railway carrying
pulley; Solomon G. Cross, Sedgewick, de.
vice for cutting corn; Enoch F. Drake and
A. G. Wait. Salina, thill coupling; Jesse
B. Ellis, Great Bend arch bridge; Charles
Fuller. Ludell, vehicle brake; Howard
Gamble, Lansing, nut lock; Warren d.
House, Kansas City, elevator guard;
Selden B. Lard, Waterville, water wheel;
Louis p. Sanity, Clements, fire escape;
Winfield s. Shanan, assignor to himself
force pump; Henry Sherman, assignor OF
one-half to J. Poppen and A. Vandrist,
Luctor, keeper for the loose ends of straps;
William T. Snedden, Wyandotte, operat.
ing mechanism for station indicators.
A BIG and systematic steal was discov.
cred the ether day in the dry goods store
OF G.. w. Newman & CO., of Emporia,
Hhe thief was George B. COUNSEL. q colored
man, who had been in the employ of the
firm for over seven years, and until lately
had been implicitly trusted. He was ar.
rested and his house searched, when about
$500 worth of goods of all kinds were found
stored away in all sorts Of places. It was
thought his stealings would run up into the
thousands.
THE Governor has offered reward OF
$500 for the arrest and conviction OF the
party guilty of the Coffeyville dynamite
outrage, and q further reward of $500 for
the arrest and conviction of each and every
party accessory to the crime.
THE Governor has appointed the follow
ing delegates to the Farmers Congress
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large, A. w. Smith, of Mcpherson; Matt
Edmonds, of McLouth. First Congress
sional district, B. F. Wallace; Second, L.
w. Breyfogle; Third, A. p. Sanders;
Fourth, Thomas NJ. Potter; Fifth. A. z.
Collins; Sixth, A. P. Balch, Seventh, r.
E. Lawrence. The National Grange will
meet on the same day, the Grange in Rep
Senate Chamber.
WHEN the Rock Island train from the
East reached Topeka the other day, it had
on board Robert Traver and his sister,
aged forty eight and forty respectively,
who were insane. The brother had left
Canada with his sister, who was in ill
health, to visit relatives in Kansas, hop
ing that she might recover. On the way
her disease developed into insanity, and
| the brother also became insane The man
imagined he was under arrest for some
crime. They were taken in charge by the
authorities.
THERE were recently several attempts
to wreck Topeka's rapid transit trains.
A NAN by the name of McVicker, forty
years old, recently eioped with a sixteen
year-old girl at Hutchinson. McVicker
was q stranger, and but little was known
of him. but it has since been stated that he
is a married man and has a family of
grown children, one of whom, daughter,
is older thar the one he took with him.
His wife lives in Jacksonville, Ind.
RALPH GROSS was recently arrested at
Topeka upon a telegram from Minneapolis,
Mimi, charging him with embezzlement.
He was regarded as honest and competent
by his employer at Topeka The amount
of the alleged embezzlement is small, and
he claimed that the arrest was piece of
righteousness, and he voluntarily returned
with the officer, declaring that he would
make it warm for his accuser.
THE registration of Kansas City (Kan.)
was 6, 400 voters, and now the city claims
a population of fully 1900, and also
claims to be the largest city in the State
Let other cities report.
TOPEKA claims $1,000 people.
RECENT post-office changes in Kansas:
Establi shed, Dresden, Decatur County;
High Bridge, Atchison County; Nell,
Wallace County; Oakland, Shawnee
County; Thurford, Thomas County.
Names changed, Penfeld, Usage County,
to Olivet Discontinued, Brookdale, Rush
County; Morrison, Ford County.
THE Chicago, Nebraska & Kansas rail-
road, owned by the Burlington line and
operated from Odell. Neb., to Concordia,
Kan, recently fled its annual report.
TIE company makes . very unfavorable
showing for the last year. Tn total earn
ings for the year were So 49,. f5 AID the
total expenses $1S2, 255 49.
THE twenty-firs annual convention of
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Iss bngaE at Lawrence On tie the 3D.