Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-23
Miscellaneous.

Miscellaneous.
A LETTER recently received by Attorney
General Bradford from Simpson Flynn,
the new treasurer of Rawlins County,
stated that Goodwin, the defaulting treas
erer, stole SIG, TO.
THE other night Mrs. G. N. Ernel dis
| covered burglar concealed in her house
| at Topeka, but kept quiet until she secured
a revolver, and then going on the porch
| called one of the neighbors. The thief
made break to escape and rushed by her,
when she fired and he fell, but soon re-
| covered and made his escape. He was
| tracked some distance by blood from
wound caused by the plucky woman's shot.
| e. E. FAULKNER, for a number of years
| secretary of the State Board of Charities,
has resigned, and the Governor has ap-
! pointed ]. F. Rhodes, of Marshall County,
i as his successor.
THE United States Senate has passed a
| bill to authorize and direct the Secretary
| of War to place on file in the War Depart
| ment the names of the officers and MEM
! bers of the Frontier Guards mustered into
the volunteer military service of the
United States under Captain James H.
| Lane, of Kansas, and issue discharges to
| them. The bill allows no pay allowance,
bounty or pension. This was a company
made up of Kansans in Washin gton at the
commencement of the war who offered
| their services to President Lincoln to pro-
| tect the capital until troops should arrive.
| OF the candidates on the Republican
, State ticket, one, Mr.. Felt, lives in the
Fifth Congressional district; one, Gov
ernor Humphrey, in the Third district;
two, Higgins and Kellogg, in the Fourth
district; two, johnson and Winans, in the
Fifth district, and two, Mccarthy and
Hamilton, in the Seventh district.
QUoNG LEE has become a citizen of Fin
ney County.
WILL RANSOM, a colored hod-carrier,
fell from the fourth story of the capitol at
Topeka the other day, distance of seven
tY-two feet, to the cellar and struck upon
pile of rocks. His Mortified companions
rushed to his assistance and instead of
finding mangled mass of flesh were as
tonished to find him climbing ladders to
get back, with the remark, II guess I'll go
back to work" He was only slightly hurt.
ROBERT FORD, nine years old, was
drowned in the river at Junction City the
other day.
ALL the leading railroads of the State
have agreed to give a rate of one cent per
mile to the Grand Army reunion at Column
! bus, o., next month.
THE twenty seventh anniversary of the
| battle of Wilson's Greek was celebrated by
the survivors of the First and Second Kan
| sas, and First Iowa regiments at Atchison
worth and other points in Kansas were
present. The following are the officers
| elected by the First Kansas Association of
| Veterans: Charles Frank, Leavenworth,
president; J. B. Kurth, Atchison, vice
president; Ed Reilly, Leavenworth, secre-
tary. The next reunion will be held at
Leavenworth in 1890. 60
THE total assessment of railroad prop
erty in the State is So, S29, 1874 80 and the
average value per mile is Sc, $50 %. The
| increase in number of miles of road dur
! ing the year is 2,O99.66 miles. and the in
crease in taxable value is 81 ,2T5, 04S.48.
KANSAS CITY (Kan.) has S,0S4 white and
| 1874 colored school children, making a
total of 1858.
ANNETTE. youngest daughter of Colonel
D. r. Anthony, of Leavenworth, died sud-
denly in Michigan the other day. whittier
she had gone a few days previous on
visit with her mother.
AT Topeka the other day DIR. A. E. Det-
Ter, a well known veterinary surgeon, was
mixing some sulphur, nitrate of potash
and glycerine in an iron mortar when the
compound exploded, tearing off the doc
tors left hand at the wrist and three fin
gers of the right hand, necessitating its
amputation. Pieces of the mortar pene-
trated his abdomen, his breast was terribly
lacerated and wound was inflicted on his
thigh by piece of the broken mortar.
The Office was demolished.
a STRANGER, supposed to be foreigner,
shot himself on the streets of Topeka the
other day and died in few hours, leaving
no clue to his identity nor cause for the
act. The deceased was a we'll dressed man
and in his pockets were found a rubber
stamp with the name civilian B. Clan
ney" on it, a silver hypodernic syringe,
three bottles containing morphine, a gold
watch and chain, $325.70 in gold and bills
and railroad ticket to Kansas City. Ev-
erything went to show that the unfortu-
nate man had been comfortably fixed in
life. He was evidently victim Of the
morphine habit
THE annual "mad dog scare" has arrived.
PENSION AGENT CLICK has completed
his report of disbursements for July. The
totals are as follows: Amount paid to in
valids, S141, 619.42; paid to widows, $685.
171-16; paid to minors, S17,2S3.14; paid to
dependent relatives, 81, 1926; paid to
widows war 1872, $3,446.01; paid to sur
vivors Mexican war, $2317.S3; paid to
widows Mexican war, 8, 1880. Total,
S214, 095.37.
WHILE recently riding in a road cart
eight miles east of Newton, George Dyker-
hof accidentally shot and killed himself.
He had a gun in his hands when the horse
gave a sudden start causing the gun to
etrflke the cart with the above fatal result.
MU5H damage was done to the fruit crop
in Wyandotte County by a recent hail
storm.