Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

eion to Corporal Tanner, Commissioners Of
Pensions, upoa his recent visit to that
city. Several thousand old soldiers were
in attendance.
TIE University Of Michigan. Of which
he is . graduate. has conferred the degree
of Ii. d. upon Chief Justice A. H. Hor-
ton, of the State Supreme Court.
COLONEL BUcKNER. of Baldwin City, re-
Gently appointed superintendent of the
blind asylum at Kansas City, Kan, took
charge OF the institution July !.
THE grandest G. A. r. camp fire ever
enjoyed in Kansas was held the other
evening in the Chautauqua assembly tab
ernacle at Topeka. Tho opened
by the patriotic selectionof memories OF
the War" General Campbell presented
the sash worn by DR.. Wyman all during
the war to Lincoln post No. /. Corporal
Tanner was among the speakers.
A JURY in the district court at Topeka
the other day awarded s. 100 damages to
w. d. Boutwell, against ex-Mayor Metz
ger, ex-Policeman Carter and Policeman
Pat Wilson. Boutwell, was arrested year
ago for failing to divulge the names of
parties living in his house to the poll tax
collector. When taken to the city prison
he received cruel treatmtnt at the hand Of
the officers. He refused to work on the
rock pile and was fed on bread and water
pioneers of Kansas,
THE Missouri Pacific has fallen in line
on the Wichita rate question. If the OBJ
ject of tie commissioners in making the
ruling was to make general reduction of
rates, they were certainly successful The
Missouri Pacific has notified agents that
the rates will be applied to Hutchinson al
So Hutchinson was the first city to de-
mand that the commissioners extend the
A. HE:- u
cific has done what they asked for without
waiting for the decision of the commits
sioners.
THE twenty sixth annual catalogue of
the State Agricultural College shows a to-
tai enrolment of AS students, of whom
267 are gentlemen and 1T ladies. These
students represent fifty counties in
Kansas and twelve Cher States. The
graduating class numbered twenty five
students. One term each is required Of
all young men in Industrial duty. work.
ing one hour each day on the farm, the
orchards and gardens, and the wood and
iron shops; and the same time is required
of all young women in sewing, cooking
and the dairy. There is no charge for
tuition at the college. Students are ad-
mitted direct from the district schools Of
the State. and each is expected to take
three studies and one Industrial art.
JIM LEE, Chinaman who runs q lsun-
dry at Topeka, was arrested some weeks
ago on the charge of keeping an opium
joint, but was released for want of evil
dence after being locked up two days.
He has since commenced suit against the
police officers and police commissioners
for $40. 900 damages tor false imprison-
ment
A CASE of remarkable longevity was re.
Gently brought to light In St Johns Hos
pital in Lsavenworth. About six years
ago the sistsrs discOvsx5sn old, decrepit
worth. The old lady was in destitute cir
Gums tances. but she was taken in and has
been an inmate of the institution ever
since. The woman is now one hundred
and thirteen years old, and though feeble
is in wonderful health and spirits for one
SO old.
AT Wichita on the Fourth Robert Car.
michael, a messenger boy, had giant
firecracker in his pocket when some un-
known practical joker put q match to it
In an instant young Carmichael's neither
garments were in flames and then fol-
lowed the explosion. The boy was horribly
maneled and the doctors had no hope of
his recovery.
THE eighteen months -old child of Har-
rison Irwin, colored, was recently drowned
in a swill tub at Wichita
THOMAS ALsroN, q colored man of To-
peka. went to Kansas City to celebrate
the Fourth, got into fight with q colored
tough in q saloon and was cut to pieces.
AT the close of q picnic in Connor's
grove, near Argentine, on the Fourth,
James Pagan was stabbed to death by
Fred Ketchum. The row was over . mar.
ried woman whose husband had deserted
her.
TIE State Historical Society has been
presented with q copy of tho Freeman's
Champion Of August 81. 1857, a paper
printed at Prairie City, Douglas County,
that year by the late 8. g. Prouty.
A. J. RIEBER was recently arrested at
Lawrence charged with assault with in.
tent to kill G. II. Branscomb. The two be-
came involved in q quarrel and Rieber
struck Branscomb on the head with q po-
tato fork, knocking him down. Brans.
comb was quite seriously injured.
Hon. JACOB SrorLER, treasurer Of the
State Board of Charities. recently drew
from the State treasury warrants to pay
OF the claims against the charitable in.
stitutions for June. These claims weFe
for salaries and wsges, and care and
maintenance as follows: Insane asylum,
Topeka, SO, 796 "a; insane asylum, Osawa-
tonne, $1a 401. 10; blind institute. Kansas
City, s., ,262 IS; deaf and dumb institute,
S, ,86l 81; soldiers orphans home, Atch.
ison, s.. sos 81; imbecile school, Winfield,
81, 73468 girls Industrial school, Beloit,
$3.50. ID; total. $54, 25d.19.
WHILE . show was in progress at Fort
Scott on the night of the Fourth sky
rocket penetrated the tent and pierced the
skull of Mrs. John A. Nelson, killing her
instantly.
THE other evening Ora Remley, the
nine-year- nephew Of J. r Clerihan.
living five miles north of Cherokee, was
run over by a loaded wagon and instantly
killed. The little fellow was motherless
and had been making his home with his
uncle for some time.
Ross VENToN had his right hand torn
of by an explosion while celebrating the
Fourth at Oswego.
DR. d. s. GRAY, prominent physician
Of Sedan, committed suicide the other
night by taking morphine. Shortly after
taking the drug he informed his wife and
sister of the act and physicians were im-
mediately summoned, but their efforts
were futile. Family trouble it was sup
posed. prompted him.
JOHN JONES was recently fined $100 and
sent to Jail for thirty days at Rossville for
violating the Prohibitory law.