Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


min II. HARRISON, 5; Chauncey NJ Depew,
8; P. B. Plumb. 3; Joseph R Hawley, 2;
J. b. Foraker, 2; W. NJ. Eyarts, 1. Total,
3J1.
Mrs. BURNER. who was convicted at To
peka of procuring young girls for immoral
purposes, was sentenced TO two years In
the penitentiary.
The other morning John Macky, pris-
oner confined in the city Jail al Leaven-
worth, serving out fifty days sentence
for vagrancy, attempted suicide by butting
his brains out against the iron door of his
cell.
THE chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee has modified the call
for the State convention by striking out
that part which requires delegates TO be
elected not later than May 5, and leaving
the election of delegates TO county conven-
lions to the discretion of county committees
under such rules and regulations as may be
by them prescribed.
A DETECTIVE recently arrested John
Curry at Wichita, charged with being con-
nected with the incendIary work going on
in Coffey County for some time. Curry
ad mitied that he was guilty and gave the
name of an accomplice.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished-Bellaire, Smith County; Bent
ley, Sedgwick County; Charlott, Sherman
County; Liverpool Stanton County Neville,
Cheyenne County; Noble, Rice County;
Shiloh, Hamilton County Discontinued
Reynod, Kiowa County; Soudan, KIngman
County.
The pork packing house of Joseph Aczer-
man & Co. at Wichita caught fire the other
evening about eight o'clock and was totally
destroyed. The loss was placed at $50, 600,
with $50, 600 insurance. There had been no
fire in the plant for two months, and how
it caught was a mystery.
The Kansas Bankers Association held
their annual meeting at Topeka on the Goth.
Interesting papers were read and COM
mittee appointed to confer with the Kan
sas City clearing house upon the propriety
of charging a reasonable sum for collecting
all checks RENTED in payment of CONNER
cial obligations. The bankers We're BAN
Quoted at the close of the meeting.
MRS. &. S. PETERS, wife of farmer liv
ing near Hays City, was fatally burned
recently by gasoline catching fire while
she was handling 1t. The fire jumped from
g. stove to tie oil in an open pan ten feet
away.
PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors
for the week ended March 80: Com
pined step-ladder and ironing board,
Wealthy j. Andrews, of Winfield; revers-
ible bevel shaper, saw and boring machine,
Henry D. Branton. of Fort Scott; spectacle
case, William F. Cloud, of Topeka; mail
bag, Edwin f. Davis, OF Seneca; car heat
err and lamp extinguishing apparatus, An
drew c. Smith. E. E. Weir F. R. Carson
and F. H. Weir, of Kingman; harness pad
back, Lambrick W. Vandenburg, of Amer
icus: pipe wrench, Archibald Il. Wygle, of
Kingman.
IL Seward County ''Shorty' Booth and
Ed Coulter were rival claimants to quar-
ter section OF land. Recently they met,
quarreled and fred several shots at each
other. A day or two after Booth saw
Coulter about two hundred yards distant
and fired at him with Winchester rifle,
killing him instantly.
A TICKET composed Of a woman for
mayor and women for the council was
elected at the late city election at Oska-
loosa by siXty-six majority.
A Two-YEAR-oLD child of Mr.. Williams,
proprietor OF the Farmers Hotel at Scott
City, recently got hold of can of concen-
trated lye and drank some of the fluid. 1t
was not expected to live.
IN the Prospect gas we'll at Leaven-
worth, some days ago, the drill struck
cavity at the depth of ], 500 feet and raised
no more dirt. 1t has since been discovered
that the drill had penetrated a wide under
ground river, which carried away the
loose earth. The water proved to be shall
low, and the drill was later working in the
sandstone bed of the stream.
MISS JENNIE BROOKS, daughter of Martin
NJ. Brooks, living nine miles southeast of
Parsons, committed suicide the other day
by shooting herself through the heart with
a revolver. She was about twenty years
of age and the tragedy was the result of
the pertidy of young man.
THE four-yea -old son OF James Beck,
colored, was recently drowned in the Kan
sas river at Wamego. The same day the
son of E. S. Fell was drowned in Rock
creek, three miles north of Wamego.
AT Leavenworth on Easter Sunday,
James King, white miner, shot and killed
Harrison Young, and wounded Ben. Easton
and Sam Hedspath, two other negroes. The
negroes became furious and pursued King
determined to lynch HIM, but he was res
cued by a company of cavalry from the
Fort. Young had the repu tation OF being
desperate and the evidence at the coroner's
inquest showed that he was the aggressor
and that King acted in self defense in
shooting Young and Hedspath, but he was
held for shooting Easton.
ELMER PYATT, aged twenty-four, had his
head almost cut of and was instantly killed
recently at Parsons, Kan, by the breaking
OF an emery wheel
TERRY KAUFMAN. a farmer residing
near Granville, recently visited Topeka,
having with him large sum of money. He
made the acquaintance of a colored damsel
who robbed him OF his money and when he
accused her of it she slashed him fearfully
with razor. The woman was taken TO jail
and the farmer to a doctors shop. A large
portion of the money was found scattered
on the street where the vicious assault was
made.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has pardoned Theo-
dore st. Peter, who was convicted at Abb
lene March II of robbery and sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year. The robbery
consisted in St Peter, a hard-working,
honest man, compelling one Shife, for
whom he had done some work and who
refused to pay for it, to pay the money at
the muzzle of revolver.
POLICE JUDGE REED, Of Topeka, has
entered suit against Frank P. MacLennan,
of the Topeka Journal, for libel. asking
1900 damages
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