Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-29
miscellaneous.

JOHN EDMCNDsoN, prosperous farmer
living six miles west or Sterling, was sit
ting in the front room of his house
the other day cleaning and loading his
repeating rife when the weapon was
accidentally discharged, the bullet pas
sing upward through the ceiling. A
heavy fall in the upper room was heard
a second later and Edmundson rushed to
the second story and pushing open door
was almost craZed to find his wife lying on
the floor dead with bullet hole in her
right temple. She was supposed to be
leaning over and busting a chair at the
time the fatal shot was fireI.
THE Republican State Central Committee
met at Topeka on the 14th and fixed the
date of holding the State Convention for
selecting four delegates to the National
Convention and two Presidential Electors
for May at Wichita, and the convention
for nominating State officers for July % at
Topeka. The basis of representation for
both conventions decided upon was one del
egate and one alternate for every 400 voters
or major fraction thereof cast for limo
thy Mccarthy for State Auditor in 1885,
provided each county should have at least
one delegate.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 18th: Invalid, Benjamin futile, Wa
mego; Luellan Fleming, Minneapolis; John
Davis, Leavenworth. Increase, John c.
Lumford, Lcgrand; John Stevens, Vim land;
Solomon c. Cole, Winfield; James Wade,
Alexander; Benjamin B. Paul, Wilson. Re
issue and increase, Ira F. Powers, Dele.
ware. Original, Ann, mother of Willard
Baker, Richmond. Mexican survivors,
Israel n. Jennings, Monmouth; William
keethly, Pomona.
THE other night John Sheridan, an en-
ploye on the II ssouri and Kansas bridge at
Leavenworth, while crossing, stepped of
the edge and fell sixty feet to the water
below which is very shallow. When he re-
covered consciousness he found that his
left arm was broken below the elbow. He
managed TO crawl to he bank, where he
remained all night and was found next
morning. His injuries were not fatal.
j. II. MORSE has resigned as a member
of the Board of Silk Commissioners, hav-
ing determined to remove to Brooklyn, n.
Y. Governor Martin appointed Colonel j.
H. {. Brewer, Il prominent merchant OF
Peabody, to succeed Mr.. Morse. The retir-
ing commissioners resignation was accom-
panied by n brief report of the work OF the
commission. He shows that the total ex-
pendtures of the institution have been
Sl3.476.2S. The product of the station.
nearly $50 pounds, have been sold to Belden
Bros. & Co., of Brooklyn. for S9GGGS-
HERMAN BEYER attempted suicide at
Leavenworth the other afternoon with
volver. Boyer is 4 man of family and the
cause was said TO be domestic trouble and
liquor. Without telling any BODY what he
was going to do, he took the weapon and
entered the barn in the rear Of the prem
ises. A moment later three pistol shots
were heard aad Officer Gooddell, who was
summoned, found Boyer lying on his back
on the floor Of the barn groanIng with a
pistol wound IN the region of the stomach.
CITIZENS of Columbus recently tele-
graphed Mayor Hewitt, OF New York, as
follows: Dakota may send sympathy, but
sunny Southern Kansas, below the biz
gard line, feels compassion for the blizzard
sufferers of our snow-bound coast, nor
have we forgotten the warmth OF your old
clothes during grasshopper season. We
are busy making garden and planting
corn, but we have to spare old clothes or
corn. Command u.s."
THE blue birds are here.
a LARGE meeting of representative citi-
gems of Southwestern Kansas was recently
held at Wichita, at which resolutions were
PASSED approving OF the Springer bill for
organizing the Territory OF Oklahoma and
favoring its passage and the opening Of the
Territory as being IN the interest of ciylilZa-
ton, the destruction of barbarism and out
lawry and TO the advantage of adjacent
States.
THE Prohibitionists of the First Congress
sional district have nominated Rev. II.
Shurnaker for Congress, and DR.. H B. Cal
lahan, of Leayenworth, and DR.. F. n
Davis, OF Holton, delegates to the National
Convention.
Ex-UNITED STATES SENATOR BRUCE, of
Mississippi, recently visited his mother IL
Atchison. She is now ninety-six years old