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

| states that on the night of the assault
| upon Sister Camille at Emporia John
| Murray, the man who was supposed to be
| her assailaut was in Terre Haute engaged
as q switchman on the Vandalia road and
had been for some time. He was un-
| able to understand why such q serious
| accusation had been Iuade.
THE United Brethren OF Lecompton are
| said to have become involved in a law
| suit concerning the property of the church
at that point. The trouble seems to arise
from the fact that there are conflicting de
visions of the church of the United Breth-
rem in Christ, one of them known as the
| radicals and the other as the liberals. Lee
| compton is largely inhabited by members
| of the church involved, and at the late an
nual conference of the radicals in that
place the liberals who owned the prop
| erty. refused permission for its use for the
session, and suit IS the result
SUIT has been commenced IN the United
| States court at Topeka by District Attor-
ney Perry against John Lamb, of Hays
| City for communicating the water of a
| creek leading from his farm to the mill
| tary reservation, by building hog pen
on the creek leading through his premises
| to the reservation. The suit is for an in
junction to prevent it. es
JOE WILLIS q molder employed in the
Walburn foundry at Fort Scott COM
mitted suicide the other morning. He
horribly mutilated himself with a razor.
gashing his limbs. body and throat, and
| finally ended his attempts at self de =
str uction by leaping from three-story
building.
ROBERT STAUoER, a farmer, fell out OF
his carriage at Wichita the other evening
between two ponies. The ponies kicked,
breaking four ribs and infiicting danger
GUS wounds on his head. Physicians said
he would not recover. t,
TINE flu neral of the late Ex-Governor
John A. Martin was largely attended at
Atchison on the 4th. "A special train from
Topeka took the State officers and many
other prominent people. In addition dis
tinguished persons were present from all
parts of the State. In Difference to the
wishes of Mrs. Martin the funeral services
were very simple, although so largely at
tended. Governor Martin leaves widow
and seven children.
MUCH Indignation was recently occa-
stoned at Garden City by the brutal treat
ment of an infant less than a year old by
parties in " hose charge it had been left.
1t is said to be the child of Jennie Stephens.
q variety actress at St Louis, who left it
with her mother, Mrs. NJ. J. Cadmus, in
the former city several weeks ago to be
cared for. The child was so shamefully
beaten and otherwise maltreated that
neighbors had the old W oman arrested for
felonious assault and took the child from
her. Later the woma ms husband and sew
eral other members of the family were ar
rested. ra3
The sixth annual reunion of the old SOL
diers of Kansas recently held at Ellsworth
was a great success in every respect. On
the Sd fully 10000 people were on the
grounds. Resolutions favoring a service
pension were unanimously adopted. Sem
ators Plumb and Ingalls, and other promi-
nent persons delivered addresses and al
together the old soldiers had decidedly
enjoyable time.
FRANK VICKERs, a stock buyer, was
dangerously wounded at Wichita the other
day by the accidental discharge of q re.
volver in his own pocket. He was reach
ing into a buggy when the pistol went
off. The bullet entered his right side, and
ranging upward lodged in his neck, where
it was extracted. The wound was not
necessarily fatal
II. +. MORGAN, a prominent stockman
and farmer living near Leon, was in stant-
ly killed the other night by runaway
team. He was thrown from a wagon and
his skull was crushed and his neck broken.
He leaves a wife and four children well
provided for
THE following are the Kansas members
of the Inter State Executive Committee
appointed by the Deep-water convention
recently held at Topeka: Howell Jones,
of Topeka; j. S. Emery, of Lawrence;
George w. Clements, of Wichita; j. n.
Rice, of Fort Scott, and James F. Legate
of Leavenworth. s--
2 PROF. MESERvE, of Massachusetts,, took
charge of the Indian school at Lawrence
on October L He is said to be tn oroughly
posted in Indian education and is an en-
thusiast in industrial and manual train
ing.
A Topeka man, after being married one
year and three days. concluded that in
his case marriage was a glazing failure
and he asks for divorce on account of
his wife's cruelty and before she poisons
him, as he declares she has threatened to
do '{
IT is said that coal can be taken from
the mines in Leavenworth to Kansas City
by barge for fifteen cents a ton. Coal at
Leavenworth is worth 81. so and at Kan
sas City So 80.
crossed by the Chicago, Kansas & Ne
braska railway, in the southern part of
the State, held meeting at Wichita re-
Gently to discuss some plan for protecting
their interests in the foreclosure suit
against y that railway. Twenty mine
counties have an interest having voted
s., 900 bonds. The meeting was adj
JOurneo TO meet at topeka october IL,
when a line of action would be adopted.
MRS. Polly BRUCE. aged eighty-five
years. the mother of ex-United States
Senator B. K. Bruce died at Leavenworth
the other night. She was a native of
Charlotte. Va, and a slave during her
earlier years.
A SOUTHERN KANSAS editor complains
that all the school teachers of the town
are marrying off and leaving the schools
unprovided for.
j. W. HITE quarter-blood Cherokee,
who Gains to be great medicine man
and pedd.es nostrums about from house
to house, was recently arrested at Wichi-
ia on a charge of having killed the infant
child of W. F. Graves. The infant had
been ill for few days when Hite called
at the house and in sisted that he could
cure it, and despite the objections of the
mother he admin istered some drug. In
three hours the child died.
The Hollis slaughter house at Armour
dale was destroyed by fire The other after
noon. Loss, about $15, 600.
The other morning a disastrous boiler
explosion occurred at the Wichita ice
factory, demolishing much Of the plant
and badly wrecking the building. The