Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-19
miscellaneous.

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to fill the vacancy.
miscellaneous.
THE ten-year- old son of ex-Councilman
Mcconnell, of Kansas City, Kan, was
killed by a switch engine at Armour'G
packing house the other day.
ALL accounts agree that crop prospects
are good.
DIR. SPRINGFIELD, formerly resident of
Topeka, and who ''the boys" had lots of
fun out Of by bringing him out for Cover
nor some years ago, was recently arrested
at Chicago upon the complaint of a young
woman that he attempted a criminal as
sault upon her when she visited his Office
for professional treatment.
THE name of the post-office at Beeler-
vile, Ness County, has been changed to
Beeler.
POLLY TAYLOR, the twelve-year-
daughter of Hon. G. H. Taylor, the Cher
okee Indian lawyer, while on her way to
Coffeyville the other afternoon. was
thrown from the pony she was riding and
dragged to death.
| PATRICK MCDONALD, son of q Sedgwick
County farmer, was recently killed by
! lightning.
| HENRY w. MOORE, managing editor of
| the ST. Louis Post Dispatch, who recently
eloped with the wife of John w. Norton, of
that city, and took along large sum of
money belonging to Norton, was subse-
quently traced to Topeka and arrested.
A. LOWELL, the station agent of the
Union Pacific railway at Armstrong, was
recently arrested on charge of embezZle
ment. Lowell had not been agent at Arm
strong long, but for some time past he had
been suspected of crookedness. A watch
was kept on him and the suspicious became
/ cd An 1ati ir1&O hiS re
showed a deficit of 1888.
| THE friends and neighbors of Judge
Martin called upon him in force upon his
| return home at Topeka and congratulated
him upon his unanimous nomination for
| Governor by the State Democratic Conven-
| ton.
| GOVERNOR MARTIN has been chosen tc
! fill one of the vacancies the board of
managers of the National Soldiers Homes.
| EMIL CRUsELL, young Swede, was re-
Gently drowned in the Republican river at
Junction City.
MRS. JACOB RAPP, aged about fifty years,
| died at her home at Wildwood, Leaven
worth County, the other night. Owing to
| the loss of a great deal of property some
! time ago, her mind had become unsettled
| by vexation, and about three weeks previ-
| Gus to her death she stopped eating and
| refused to take food up to the time of her
| demise. Sno Claimed UnaU OBNOXIOUS
| things were put i'll her victuals. She lit
! orally starved herself to death.
| SUITS were recently commenced in the
| Supreme Court at Topeka to eject 300 set
| tiers in Allen County from their farms
| The controversy relates to about 10000
| acres of land in that county. 1t affects the
| rights of about 800 settlers who have been
! living on these lands for a great many
years, and who, if they lose these suits,
will lose their all. The trouble grows out
of a land grant made by Congress in 1862
| to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad
THE other day the body of Charles Wick
ham, fourteen years old and son of prom
| inent farmer was found in the road near
| Wichita. There was bullet hole just over
his eye, and from this wound he evidently
/ died The shooting was supposed to be ac-
| cidental.
| GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued procla
nation organizing the county of Greeley,
| This completes the organization of all the
| counties of the State, making total of lO6.
During the past three years and half
Governor Martin has organized twenty
| three counties, having an aggregate area
| of 1858 square miles, a territory larger
| than that included within the boundaries
| of the three States of Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire and Rhode Island.
| ALVIN HRNT, little girl, committed sui
| eide at EudOra the other day by taxing
| Trough on Rats" Her father is in Idaho
and her mother in an insane asylum. The
| girl had violent temper and at times it
! is thought gave evidence of being tainted
| with her mothers Affections. She had
good home, but had often threatened self
destruction because las she alleged) none
of her family seemed to care for her.
SCoTT CITY has a new bank.
| A LATE circular issued by the secretary
| of the State Board of Agriculture says: OF
the acreage of wheat harvested the aver
age yield per acre of the State is estimated
| at Tx bushels, being 2K bushels higher
| than estimated a month ago, indicat-
! ing total wheat product of the State of
| II, 500, 900 bushels. Since the weather has
| become warm and rain abundant corn has
made an unusually rapid growth, and, with
| the exception of some damage by bugs en-
| tering from adjacent wheat fields, the crop
| is free from insect depreciation The oats
| crop in a good many counties was cut short
! by chinch bugs, but generally throughout
| the State it is reported good
THE post-offices at Little Valley, Nc
Pherson County, and Sidney Ness County,
have been discontinue ed.