Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

W. W. CLKMxNsoN, one of the Oldest
residents Of Topeka, committed suicide
the other morning by shooting himself
At one time he owned valuable property
in that city and was one of the foremost
business M. n, but during the past sixteen
years he has met with many misfortunes
and lost every thing hs had. For the past
six months he had been un der the care OF
q guardian at his residence but while the
guardian was temporarily absent he took
q revolver from his daughters room. and,
going to the porch. fired two bullets into
his breast. causing instant death
j. c. MILES, whose family resides In
Leavenworth, and who had been a lawyer
in California, a real estate dealer in Leav.
enworth, at which he failed. recently took
morphine in Jail at Gainesville. Tex
with fatal effect He, with another man,
had been arrested in the Indian Territory
for selling liquor and while being con-
veyed to Paris was put in prison at night
and found dead next morning. He was
about fifty years old and told his fellow
prisoner that he held a life policy for
So. 600, and that his family would be in a
better condition after his death. Several
pleading and affectionate letters were
found from his wife, praying him to change
his business to something legitimate and
return home.
THE Leavenworth Stan dard declares
tu6b -luo IuSS WHICH Is D6lug maze over
the Leavenworth census is absurd. The
last census is about near right as the
one of a year ago. Then it was too high
and now it is too low. Leavenworth has
about q, 600 people and they are all happy,
prosperous and contented."
SWIFT & Co.'s packing house at Kansas
City, Kan. was recently partially burned,
together with a large amount of pork,
lard, oil and other material The loss was
r q To-
of the establishment, fell from the fourth
story during the progress Of the fire and
was killed. He leaves a wife and several
small children. The company had an in
surance of about SST, 600
A TWO-sToRY frame building at Sixth
and Water streets. Kansas City, Kan, the
| lower floor of which was occupied as q
feed store and the upper story as a resi-
dence by Gilbert M. Randall, was de-
stroyed by fire the other night. Randalps
eight-year-old son and four horses per-
ished in the flames Randall and his wife
lett the evening before for the Milwaukee
encampment and left the children in
charge of a relative.
THE large furniture house of Absrnathy
& Doughty, of Leavenworth, recently
failed with liabilities of about $50, 600.
FRED FISHER, a section hand, residing
| at Gladys, a Rock Island station south of
w lChites IeCeutiy lay ulRuG ny Iuo
track with both feet cut off. He had been
to Wichita on a hand-car and upon his re-
turn trip discovered freight train in the
rear. He attempted to get his car off the
track and was struck by the freight Next
morning Fisher was found in pitiable
condition. The mangled stumps of his
legs were amputated and there was a
slight hope that he might recover.
AL. D. KREBs R B. Elliott and g. w.
Krebs were recently arrested near King
man on the charge of counterfeiting and
taken to Topeka for examination. A lot
of plaster paris molds and dies for coming
five and ten-dollar gold coin and different
denominations of silver money were found
Also bottle of gold dust and pieces of
other metals. The other necessary tools
| and appliances which had been used
in making spurious coins were also found
d. B. RUSSELL. JR., a school district
treasurer of Kearney County, recently
sold school district bonds to the amount of
$15, 900. since which time he and the funds
have been missing. He is believed to have
located in Canada
FRANK MCGIFFEN, of Topeka, who mys-
teriously disappeared from Buffalo July
20. has turned up all right in Detroit.
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