Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-07
Miscellaneous.

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Miscellaneous.
The printing establishment of George
w. Crane & Co., at Topeka, the largest
printing and publishing house in the State.
was destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 22d. The loss in stock, material,
presses, ETC., was put at $225,000. Insur-
ance, $4,000. The loss on the building
the property of Wilson Keith, was $40. 600;
insurance, $24. 600. In the vault on the
first floor were stored the electro plates of
the Supreme Court reports and other legal
publications, which were valued at SO. 600.
1t could not be learned the extent of the
damage to these until the rubbish could
be cleared away.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ors: Water or liquid elevator, David C..
Battery, Florence; metallic roofing,
Samuel C. Frederick, Arcadia; wood en-
craving machine, Willis w. Krutsch, Fort
Scott; perpetual calendar, Thomas A. Nc
Kee. Beloit; coal drilling machine, Sumner
& Pullen, Scammonville.
o. G. HIGaELUND president of the Sec
ond National Bank of Mcpherson and
prominently connected with several other
business en- prises. was instantly killed
the other day by the accidental discharge
of pistol which he was handling in his
bank. He was fifty-tive years of age and
carried life assurances to the amount Of
$40, 600.
S. w. CASE, delegate in the Legislature
from Scott County. died at Topeka on the
23d.
ANOTHER fire at Topeka on the night of
the 22d destroyed the bui ding occupied by
Phelps Bros wholesale dealers in produce.
Loss above insurance about Sill 00O.
JOHN HoGLAN recently fell between the
cars at Robinson and was killed.
The large Touring mill of Kelley & Lyle,
at Leavenw orth, was destroyed by fire
about one O'Clock the other morning Over
10. 600 barrels of -four were consumed. The
total loss was estimated at 5000, 900 with
$50. 600 insurance.
A CARBON of acid expl oded at the glu-
cose works in Leavenw orth the other
morning, the contents fiving over a work
man named Rosenthal, who was fearfuIly
burned about the face and hands and his
clothing destroyed.
NAN giving his name as e. g. Wood
has been selling to the citizens in the vi
entity of Eudora territorial rights for $25
each, giving the purchasers right to con-
vass for book in certain districts. By
false representation he succeeded in OBJ
tanning about $3.50. A party of indignant
farmers went TO Lawrence to interview
the book agent but he had taken his de-
parture to pastures more green.
THE Superintendent of Insurance has re-
voked the authority OK the Kansas Home
Insurance Company and the Topeka In
surance Company for non compliance with
the laws of Kansas, and those companies
have raised quite breeze at the capital.
THE Topeka Sugar Works Company re-
Gently ma ie a proposition to the farmers
opposite the works that if the farmers will
agree to furnish the company with SEQ
acres of sorghum at $3.50 per ton they will
build bridge across the river. The pro-
position was accepted.
On the 26th Governor Humphrey sent
to the Senate the nomination Of George H.
Case. of Jewell County. as warden of the
penitentiary, to succeed Warden Smith
w. n. Mcbride, Of Osborn, and D. e. Cor
nell, of Kansas City. were nomina ted as
directors to succeed Richter and Nc
Dowell. terms expired, and William Mar
tindale, of Emporia, to succeed Hiatt re.
signed.
TIE President has approved the act #
Congress for bridge across the Missouri
river at Leavenworth.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Established, Grinter. Wyandotte County,
Charles III. Perkins, post master; Lisbon,
Cove County, Jacob Woodcock, posfmas-
ter; Parker. Linn County. Mamie Y. Sea-
man, postmistress; Shorey, Shawnee Coun-
ty. Frank T. Payton, postmaster. Dis
continued, Oursler. Marion County; Vol
taire, Thomas County.
JENNIE DAVIS, q white woman with
negro lover, committed suicide at Wichita
the other night by taking morphine.
In the United States Senate on the 18th
Senator Plumb offered an amendment to
the Deficiency bill to pay the State of Kan.
sas $43 100. on account of the five per cent
fund, arising from the sale Of public lands.
TIE Pre- ident has issued an executive
order, disseminating the United States
land. Offices at Wichita, independence
and Concordia and annexing their re.
spective districts to the Topeka district
THE 18th was celebrated by the Knights
Of Pythias throughout the State as th
twenty fifth. anniversary Of the estab-
lishment Of the order.
MRS R H. SKEKREsr, of Pratt, who was
very low with consumption, recently
started for her childhood home in Indiana
to die, but only reached Kansas City
where she died in the Union depot
a1HE Windsor Hotel at Hays City was
totally destroyed by fro at an early hoar
on tho morning Of the 18th. Loss, 1000:
insurance Sc 500