Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-28
Miscellaneous.

TWO years ago Alexander McCIar0Y,
farmer living near ingalls,. had q misun-
Outstanding with Allen HUFF, since which
time the two had not met until the other
nor ming. when Huff appeared at McCiar-
dy's house and at once opened fire upon the
unarmed farmer with revolver. The
latter fell dead at the first shot After
ward the murd srer attempted to destroy
all traces Of his crime by burning his VIC
TINS body, but was frustrated by the
neighbors, who Immediately placed him
In custody.
On the afternoon Of the 18th seven
prisoners escaped from the Wyandotte
County jail They were Samuel Thomas,
colored, held for wife murder; Red Quinn,
under sentence for burglary; Henry
Hardy, colored, horse stealing; Andy
Rafferty,, colored, grand larceny; Mike
Mccain. Fred Dawson and William Baum,
professional burglars. Their escape was
effected by cutting a hole through the
wall with q harchet supposed to have been
given to them by crazv woman.
TIE other evening Marco Hellman, q
young man connected with a California
wine house, gave a champagne supper at
the Copeland Hotel in Topeka to seventeen
young men, whose acquaintance he had
formed during a short stay in the city.
Thirty-six bottles of champagne were
disposed of, as we'll as numerous bottles OF
California wines. Hellman went to Kansas
City soon after the banquet, but the mat
ter was brought to the attention of the
grand jury and as q result q number of
the young men were taken before the
grand jury and requisition papers issued
for Hellman.
DEPARTMENT CoMMANDER BOOTH has an.
nounced in an official order that he has
located the permanent headquarters of the
department Of Kansas g. A. R at Topeka.
Heretofore the headquarters have been
temporarily located in the city in which
the Commander residsd.
THE other day as Miss Myrtle We or,
the sixteen-year-o daughter OF w. C.
Weber, q stonemason, was attempting to
cross the railroad track at Winfield by
means Of the platform Of the caboose of q
freight train which blocked the street, it
started backwards and she was thrown
under the wheels and drag ged about fifty
yards before the train could be stopped.
Jack-screws had to be applied and the
wheels raised before the body could be ex-
tricated. She received frightful injuries
and one leg had to be amputated near the
body.
THERE are 455 posts of the G.. A. R. in the
State, a loss of four during the past year.
but there had been q gain in membership
up to d .cember 81 of I425. m aking the
total membership 10 1927, aud the Adjutant-
General thinks the acquisitions since Ds-
cember wilr bring the total membership
up to 10, 500. There has been over $4,000
expended in charity during the past year.
A SINGULAR divorce suit was recently
filed in the district court at Atchison.
Frances N. Goldsmith asked to be di-
vorced from her husband, c. E. Gold
smith. She sues by her next friend
Emma Joseph, and alleges in her petition
that in August, 1884. at the age of eleven
wears and nine months she was married
to the defendant he also being a minor
She further alleges that she married
young Goldsmith, who is her aunt's step
son, in order that she might escape the
custody of her father, who was an i'm
provident man. A condition OF the mar
rage was that she was not to live with
her husband, but that she was to be sent
to school, and when she would arrive at
the age OF eighteen she was to be divorced
without question. In accordance with
this agreement she was sent to school
She says that she has never lived with
her husband; that she has no knowledge
of his whereabouts, and he has never
claimed marriage rights. She therefore
asks that the marriage be set aside
BOYD ASHER, aged thirteen years, and
his sister Bertha. aged fifteen, were
drowned in the Verdigris river at Inde-
pendence the other day. They had gone
the y
down q steep bank and found when it was
too late that the river was high. The
team was carried down stream and both
Young people and the mules were drowned.
TIN recent rains throughout the State
have added materially to the crop pros-
poets.
IT ia estimated that It costs the people
of Kansas annually 100000 for school
books.
TIE officials Of the glass station ut Gar
den City are very sanguine that good re-
suits will be obtained there this year in
the propagation OF grass peculiarly
adapted to tho plains Of Western Kansas
FRANK RoBERTs, notorious criminal in
tho custody Of an officer. while being taken
to the penitentiary, jumped from the win
dow OF train near Topeka the other
night, which was moviag It the rate Of
thirty miles an hour. He was handcu6eo
hit succeeded In makiag his escaDa