Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-08-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| CHARLES BURNSIDE, colored, who escaped
| from the penitentiary at Leavenworth last
May, was recently captured at Kansas City.
He was well provided with stolen goods.
THE Leavenworth canning factory has
| put up this season 100000 cans of string
beans and 10, 600 cans of peas.
| THE accommodation train on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway, left the track two
miles south of Newton the other evening,
| and completely wrecked four freight cars.
| No lives were lost
THE monthly crop report recently issued
| by Secretary Mohler, of the State Board Of
| Agriculture, says: The wheat generally
is well filled and plump in the berry, and
| where threshing has been done the yield
| is better than was expected. The total
| acreage in corn last year was 6,53O, 592
acres. An increase acreage of ten per
| cent. is reported for this year, making an
| estimated acreage of something over 7,000,-
| 600 acres. Since the weather has become
warm and rains abundant it has made an
unusually rapid growth, No damage from
| chinch bugs is reported except in a few
! cases where wheat or oats fields were near
! the corn. The total area in oats last year
| was LOTT, 076 acres. An increased acreage
of five per cent. is reported this year, max
! ing an estimated acreage of ,650,92o acres.
| HON. ALFRED TAYLOR. we'll known in
| Kansas politics some years ago, and who
I
| Congress in the Second district, died sud-
denly the other day near Williamsburg,
where he was visiting. For number Of
years past he had been residing at Biz
mingham, Ala, engaged in newspaper
work.
| PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ors: Wood cutter, Gustavus Hanschtld,
Topeka; grain drill, William Hollinger
and ]. w. Gillette, Woodbine; medicated
| u rirba
City; lamp shade, Louis Michael, Leaven-
worth; stove-pipe thimble and cap, Anvil
la Williams, Saratoga.
| AN explosion occurred the other night
In the large Touring mill of Kelly & Lysle,
| at Leavenw orth, which aroused the entire
neighborhood and shook the ground for
several blocks. A half section of the
! twenty inch cylinder of the engine was
| torn away and the head of the cylinder
was sent crashing through the building.
1t was estimated that the damage sus-
tanned would reach 5000.
ALvERN BROWN, a young farmer OF
| Kearney County, was recently killed by
lightning. The horse he was riding was
also killed.
BY the burning of the shanty in which
| he resided in Kansas City, Kan, the other
: day st. John Wilson, colored man nine
! ty-fve years old, was burned to death.
His wife, eighty years old, escaped by
crawling through a small window.
GEORGE SMITH, a twelve-year-oldb boy In
charge of the Copeland House elevator, at
Topeka. was killed the other day by hav-
inc his head crushed between the elevator
and wall.
PROF GooDSow. of Manhattan, recently
presented the State Historical Society seven
boxes containing pamphlets, magazines,
newspaper files, maps, ETC., the accumuIa-
tons of thirty-three years.
IN recent difficulty in the streets OF
Atchison between William Slater and Nate
Johnson, colored, Slater was stabbed and
fatally wounded. Johnson escaped.
INSTEAD of appearing in Justice Searle's
court at Topeka on the 23d to answer to
the charge of adultery, Henry w. Moore,
the eloping ST. Louis editor, forfeited his
bond of $500. Mrs. Norton also failed to
appear and her case was continued. 1t
was thought at Topeka that Moore had
sailed for Europe, while a telegram stated
that both Moore and Mrs. Norton had been
seen in Colorado.
IT is stated that one firm in Hutchinson
has sold %, 900 bushels of wheat and 10000
of oats of the new crop.
THE corn crop in Kansas this year will
bring into the State between Sj0,0O0,0o0
and SEC, OO0, 600, the wheat crop about S25,-
O.OO0, oats about $10,G00,000, and the re-
mainder OF Kansas products about S2O,-
00O. 900 more. Mortgages will melt away
under such conditions.
THE Senate has passed the bill providing
for holding a term of the United States
district court at Salina.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has ap-
proved the selection of the following re-
serve agents for National banks in Kan
sas: For the First of Hays City, the First
he Man far TN Of
Leavenworth, the Hanover of New York
CITY and the American of Kansas City;
for the First of Leoti, the German Ameri-
can of Kansas City.
AT the Democratic Congressional con-
vention of the Fourth district, recently
held at Emporia, Hon. David Overmeyer,
of Topeka, unanimously chosen as
candidate for Congress.
THE House has passed the bill authoriZ-
ing the sale of certain lands in Southwest
ern Kansas to the Methodist College Asso-
citation and also the bill authorizing the
certification of lands to the State of Kansas
for agricultural purposes.
THE dwelling house of William Huegle.
of Douglas County, burned the other morn
ing. Mrs. Huegle and ten children barely
escaped. Mr.. Huegle had arisen early
and after making fire in the stove had
gone out to work. While he was a bsent
and before the rest of the family were up
the house caught fire from a defective fue
and made considerable Roadway before
discovered. The loss was about 81 900.
PENSIONS were granted the follow Kan
sans on the 9th: Fielder p. Stetson, Con-
cordia; David A. Moore, Of Marquette;
Lawson S. Hagle, of Emporia; Hugh
Hagan, of Wellmanville; John H. Camp
| bell of Ontario; D. Clinton Stubs, of
Wellington; George Peyton, Jr., of Mound
Valley; James d. Briggs, Of Council
Grove; William Homan, of the National
Military Home; James F. Spencer, of
Arrnourdale; Landrin N. Eggers, of Co
lusa: johnson Chalfant, of Wendell; Well