Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
TIE English Lutheran synod Of Kansas.
recently in session In Atchison, voted ia
| begin setting aside . fund Of so, 900 to en-
| dow . chair In Midland College 1t Atchi.
SON. to be known a. tho 'sKansas Synod
| Chair" The Nebraska synod will also
enooW chair with q like sum. The synod
SO voted to support six young men at
| the college who have undertaken the study
of the ministry.
CARRIE HILL q young woman clerklne
In the dry goods house of HOLMAN 4 Co..
North Topeka, IL fairly entitled to Be
called 'Queen of the Thieves" She had
for several months been engaged in tap
ping the till an d stealing to such an ex-
tent that when arrested and her house
searched, three cart loads of goods valued
| at over 81. 600 were found. How much
money she took win probably never be
known. Her friends claim that she il
crazy. Her taste seemed to run to hoil.
day goods, which had been packed away,
but she did not overlook silks and other
| fine goods.
AFTER trial lasting two weeks Joseph
j. Spendlove was recently convicted at
| Topeka of murder in the second degree.
Last spring Spendlove and a man named
Werner had some difficulty regarding q
lease Shots were heard in their place OF
business drawing a crowd OF people
almost Immediately. Werner was found
dead with bullet hole in the back of his
head, while Spendlove was bleeding pro-
fusely from q wound in the neck. The
trial brought out the fact that Spendlove
first attacked his victim and after firing
the fatal bullet he was shot by his own
pistol during scu file with Werner for its
possession. After being taken back to
Jail the prisoner took poison and came
near dying before being relieved
GOVERNOR 6. w. CLICK. the retiring
pension agent has summed up the busI-
ness done in his Office since January !.
1886, the day he took possession. He has
paid in pensions $24. 92S. 173. 70, to disburse
which amount he signed SO BOT checks
and ID. GOO letters. The work of the Office
has been increasing yearly.
AT the late annual session of the Grand
Lodge L O. o. F., held at Topeka, the fol.
lowing officers were elected: Grand mas
ter, A. l. Voorhis of Minneapolis; deputy
grand master, William Matherson. of
Wichita; grand warden, NJ. B. Ward, OF
Topeka; grand secretary, s. F. Burdette,
of Leavenworth; treasurer. L. c. Slime. of
Ottawa; grand representative. w. A. Cor.
many. of Fort Scott; medical examiner,
J. NJ. Mccoy. of 1uka.
The other day the three-year old son of
w. A. Doyle, of Emporia. swallowed
about three drachms of carbolic acid which
its mother had placed on the mantelpiece
supposing it to be out of its reach. The
following day the child died in great
agony.
TIE yearly meeting of the Friends for
the West was held at Lawrence, com.
mencing on the 10th, with about 200 dele
gates in attendance.
AT Wichita the other day Harry Hill. Of
n g.
Morgan, a horseman, as the result of a
dispute over a business matter, when
Morgan hit Hill on the side of the head
with a weight Hill's physicians said his
recovery was doubtful.
GEORGE II. EVANS & Co., contractors
for the construction of the State House,
applied to the Supreme Court the other
day for a writ of mandamus compelling
State Auditor Mccarthy to issue warrants
amounting to $2S 600 for work which has
been accepted by the proper officials.
Mccarthy refused to issue the warrants
because the State House fund is exhausted
and there will be moth ing to draw upon
until the 1859 levy is received
The remains of the late Bishop Vail ar.
rived from the East on the IL b. The
funeral on the 14th was largely attended
by clergymen from all parts of the State
and generally by the people of Topeka.
THE annual report of the Grand Secre-
tary of the /. O. o. F. showed that the to-
tai funds raised by the order in Kansas
for the Johnstown sufferers was 81, 40 7S.
The receipts of subordinate lodges for the
year ended June &c. 1889, have been 1872.
065 IS, decrease of 81. s22.1L Their dis.
bursements have been as follows: Ex-
penses. 500. 159 IT; sick and funeral bene-
fits, $40. 7S494. The total assets of
subordinate lodges amount to 1854, 1872 II.
The amount paid for relief was $50. 406.5 SO.
to which shou'd bs added the irregular
relief" S., 37S 81
APPLICATION has been made to the Board
of Pardons for the pardon of Willie Bald.
win, now in the penitentiary under sem
tence of death for the murder of his sister
in Atchison several years ago.
MUCH anxiety is felt by friends over the |
disappearance of Alex T. Cob, North |
Topeka undertaken, who left for Kansas
City September "a to buy goods and has
not since been heard from.
TIE dead body of a man was found the |
other night on the Missouri Pacific tracks |
at Kansas City, Mo, which was identified
as that of c. w. Morris, of Oswego, Kan. |
Both legs and one arm were cut off and
the head was horribly mashe1. Mr..
Morris was a cattle dealer and was on his
way to Chicago with a load of cattle. 1t
is supposed he fell between the cars while |
passing from one to another.
The President has appointed Cyrus
Anderson register of the land office at
Oberlin.
In late quarrel over gambling debt
at Hutchison, Frank Burbag. coIored. |
stabbed and very seriously cut Marvin
Oswald. Oswald is a gambler and his
wound was thought to be fatal
The county attorneys and commission.
ers of q number of interested counties
met in convention at Topeka the other day |
to devise ways and means of fighting the
mortgage foreclosure by the Metropolitan |
Trust Company Of New York against the
Rock Island on its Kansas lines. There
are twenty .seven counties interested in
the matter to the extent of s3. 600. 600 in
bonds, and the determination was arrived |
at to appoint q committee of five to or.
ganize the counties and assess them pro.
portionally to raise the sum OF SIS 600 to |
commence as interested parties and con.
tinue the fight even at a cost OF $50. coo. 1t |
is believed that these Kansas municipali.
ties own a majority of the paid up stock,
that other stockholders have paid only |
nominal sums and that il they paid up in
full there would be plenty Of money to
nav defaulted iuterest couDOna