Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


n. +. MARTIN . brakeman, was recently
killed by tho cars at Cherokee
The four year-old SON Of David Meyers.
living q few miles south OF Hutchinson
the other day accidentally set lire to his
fathers barn and was burned to crisp
before aid could reach him.
THE annual convention Of the Episcopal
Church mot at Topeka on the 18th. Bishop
Vail in his annual address, stated that the
church in Kansas had had q substantial
growth during the past year, that many
new churches had been established and
that the membership was con family In
creasing. During the year churches were
opened at Arkansas City. Girard, Win.
field, Ottawa, Marysville and Clay Center,
and rectories built at For Scott, Al kansas
City, Manhattan and Dwight A guild
house costing $25 000 has been constructed
in Topeka.
A RECENT FIRE at Pratt destroyed two
restaurants, one hotel. one billiard hall,
butcher shop and q store building. Total
loss not estimated.
MRS. HELEN FIELDS, q wealthy young
widow, OF Wichita, recently became pos
sessed Of the hallucination that she had
been welded by Spiritualistic ceremony
to q young man by the name Of Windsor.
Hor actions became SO annoying to him
that the young man had her arrested on
the charge OF lunacy. The trial was quite
interesting, the young woman going on
the stand aud testifying that she believed
that she had been married by the epiritS,
but she was probably mistaken. On all
other subjects she seemed perfectly ra-
tional. The jury found that she was not
insane.
THERE are at present on the rolls Of the
8 ,ldiers' Home 8, 176 old soldiers, with 429
absent on leave.
The Supreme Court recently handed
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J. d. Randall, Of johnson County VS.. the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad,
holding that railroads must pay damages
caused by those working for them. The
court says the master is responsible for
the act of his empioye or servant when the
act is done in the prosecution OF the bust.
ness that the employee or servant was en-
gagged by the master to do. When. there
fore, the employee or servant while en-.
gagged in the prosecution of the masters
business deviates from his instructions, as
to the manner of doing it. this does not re-
lieve the master from liability for his acts.
PATRoLMAN HARTzELL was accidentally
shot by Everett L. Blood at Wichita tho
other morning. The two were examining
pistol when the weapon was discharged,
INJECTING probably fatal wound.
T. g. MOVER, brakeman on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, was killed the other after
noon while coupling cars at Everest. He
was twenty -four years old, and his parents
reside at Tecum -eh, Neb.
MABEL, the nineteen -months-old child
of w. II. Miller, of Topeka, took several
draughts of carbolic acid from a bottle
which she took from cupboard the other
morning, and was in terrible agony for
several hours. when she died.
BOSTON CORBEvT, the man who killed
10 II Wilkes Booth, aud who escaped sew.
oral months ago from the Topeka insane
asylum and mysteriou>ly disappeared, has
been heard from. He now makes his home
in Mexico. believing he is safer there than
within the United s ates.
FOURTEEN young men recently gave .
newly married couple a charavari in To-
peka, and in addition tore up the sidewalk
and did other damage. AS resu each
was fined in police court anu seven sent to
Jail.
HORRIBLE story was recently reported
from Kinyman County to the effect that
a masculine old negro woman, employed
in the family of Eugene Bartlett, a wealthy
cattleman. accused Mr.. Bartlett's young
daughter Jennie of bewitching her, and
Turing the absence of the family tied the
young girl to beam and slowly tortured
her to d sath by building a fire under her
feet. A member OF the family returned
and found tho girl bound and burning.
She lived only long enough to tell of the
cruelties inflicted upon her. The negro
woman had disappeared.
The grain elevator of j. c. Vanhorn, at
Lancaster. was destroyed by fire the
other evening. Loss. So, 700; insurance,
81, TOO. The fire was of incendiary origin.
SPECIALS dated at A gra and telling of the
outrageous deed of a body of mask ed men
st ling tn mselves the "Kansas Division
of VIII tecaps" are pronounced to be ''pure
fabrications and false in every part .cular."
/, is declared that such lawiess pro-
ceedings as those mentioned have taken
place.
SUIT was recently commenced in the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka
against Jay Gould and Russell Sage, trus-
tees, and the Union Pacific railway, to
compel them to execute e release upon 3d.
900 acres of land in Kansas, which hal
been conveyed by the Kansas Pacific Ra l.
way Company to Gould IL Sage, to secure
an indebtedness of $50, GOO, 900. The pur-
chasers OF these lands have made all their
payments upon the land :, but the rustees
refuse 10 convey to the purchasers legal
ii le.
ABOUT midnight the other night a sec.
ton hand on the Wichita & Western road
accidentally discovered that an outside
rail on a curve near q bridge. some four
teen miles west of Wichita, had been re-
moved. A passenger train was due in a
few minute but he hurried i'll the direc-
ton OF the approaching train and gave the
signal IN time 10 prevent an accident
LAST May the Pratt National Bank was
robbed of Il, o o at noon while several of
the officers were at dinner, and the rob.
berry was the sensation of the day and re.
manned a my stery to all but the Diet ctives
until the other day, when f. w. Scott,
local manager of the Kimball Lumber
Company and ice-president of the bank,
was arrested charged with the crime. 1h.s
complaint was sworn to by T. E. Simpson,
president of the bank, and created as grea.
a sensation the robbery did when com,
mitted. The accused had resided in the
town Stree its foundation and had won
the esteem and confidence of the people,