Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-13

| Ar four O'Clock On the mornfng Of the
] 9Th R. 7. Rodgers, . pFomineAt merchant
Of Topeka, discovered . burglar IN his
room He grappled with the thief, 49,
sisted by Mrs. Rodgers. and . desperate
| struggle ensued The burglar fired thrss
or four times, wounding bo:k Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodgers and received . bullet himself He
then escaped, leaving q trail of blood be-
| hind him. Mr.. Rodgers died q few hO1rs
| after and his wife was fatally wounded
| TIE burglar was captured and gave his
name as Nat Oiiphaut, nineteen years
| old. A mob broke into his cell at the JaH
| and taking him out hanged him to an
electric light pole. He confessed his
| crime. a
| THE new Methodist Church at Lawrence
| is to cost $40 600. 1t is going up on the
| site selected by that denomination for an
edifice at the time Of the famous Ham
mond revival. The foundation Was then
laid and the SW@k abandonsd and for
nearly twenty years the lot has been ly-
| ing idle.
| TIE Board of Railway Commissioners
has rendered decision requiring the st.
Louis & San Francisco Railway Company
to erect q depot, stock yards and other
| station facilities at Tresham, Cowley
County. The railroad company had not
| considered it necessary to locate q depot
there owing to the near proximity Of Win.
| field and Arkansas City. The prayer OF
| ninety three petitioners to the board waa
effective.
E. NJ. BALDWIN of Kansas, is an applicant
| for the appointment as Consul at Sonne-
burg, Germany, g, 900 position now held
| by Edward C. Weilep, of Kansas. He has
| already made the tour of Germany on
bicycle.
e. s. WILLIS, superintendent Of the
Atchison Water Company, fears that his
| son Thomas was the ill-fated train
which was wrecked on the Grand Trunk
road at Hamilton, Canada, April q. His
son telegraphed him from Chicago, April
IS saying he was going East, and he has
heard nothing from him since and is un-
able to find any trace of him. He was
/ twenty mine years OF age.
E b CowGILL State Sugar Inspector,
and w. W. Cook, Government agent in
charge of experiments in sugar making in
| Kansas, say that the prospects of the
Kansas sugar industry this year are un-
usually bright. Nine sugar mills will be
in operation in August or September, one
each in Topeka, Fort. Scott, Conway
Springs, Attica. Medicine Lodge, Arkalon.
Meade, Liberal and Ness City. In order
| to supply these mills during the season
there should be between %, 900 and 80, OOe
| acres of sugar cane The acreage prom
ises to be sufficient, and the crop is matur-
ing rapidly. Some varieties of cane viii.
be ready to harvest in August
ABOUT ten O'Clock on the morning of the
9Th while General Manager Woods, of the
n. z. Fairbanks & Co. lard refinery, and
| George d. Lewis, superintendent of the
same company's refinery at St Louis,
were testing the heat of lard tank al
Hutchinson, the tank exploded with terri.
BILE effect so severely scaldi ng Messrs.
| Woods and Lewis and John Gavin, q
| steamfitter. that they died next day. They
| were standing directly over the vat when
it exploded and were thrown to the cell.
ing above and covered with the boiling
| hot lard.
AT a meeting of representative citi-
zens from Fort Scott Arkansas City,
Hutchinson, Emporia, Topeka, Ell Dorado
| and Salina, held at Topeka the other day,
| it was resolved to call a meeting to be
composed of delegations consisting of five
persons to each delegation, from all job
bing and manufacturing cities in the State,
to be held in Topeka, Wednesday, June
| 26. at four O'Clock p. M, for the purpose
protect and promote the manufacturing
and jobbing interests of such cities.
AT the late meeting of Regents Of the
State University, held at Lawrence, the
matter of choosing q chancellor to succeed
DR.. Lippincott- was postponed until the
September meeting.
NAT OLIPHANr the burglar who murdered
Mr.. Rodgers at Topeka and was lynched.
was thirty-two years old, instead Of nine.
teen as reported
| The April statement Of the Atchison,
Topeka 4 Santa Fe showed the following
figures: Gross earnings, 81. 642 S66 43;
operating expenses, s., 181, 349 80; net
earnings, $461 519 Is; net earnings in
April, 1855 $as5,s SO; increase, $ss2
13a So The latter figures include the
I Atchison lines leased, Jointly owned and
operated. The grand total of net earnings
for April was $55S 9e32L
C. L LONG. of Medicine Lodge. has been
nominated by the Republican convention
Of the Thirty eighth Senatorial district
| for the State Senate to succeed Senator
Francis C. Price, resigned
The graduating class OF the State Uni
versity made decided sensation in their
class day exercises on the 4th. The usual
programme was omitted. There was an
address to the under classes by Sherman
A. Hovey, a colored boy of Lawrence, and
some remarks ON ~relling the Truth" by
Prof. CandeId- Headed by q drum corps
the class then marched around to the va
rious buildings, bidding each farewell and
saluting it with the college yell Fare
well talks were made by Chancellor Lip
pincott and other members of the faculty.
THERE are six first-class cities in Kan
sa4 and sixty three second-clasA The
cities of the first class are those contain
ing over Is, 900 in ha abitants and those of the
second class contain less than II, 900 and
more than 9, 600 inhabitants. The cities OF
the first class are Kansas City. Topeka,
Wichita, Leavenworth, Atchison and Fort
Scott
THE Railroad Commissioners met repre-
sentatives of the railroads doing business
in Kansas, at Topeka, recently, to discuss
the soft coal schedule of rates promul-
gated last March. This was the fina
hearing, a number of adjournments hav.
ing been taken. After considerable tall
the railroad men requested that further
discussion of the matter with the board
be postponed until July in order that the
representatives of the different roads
might be able to reach an agreement
among themselves. The board declined
this proposition and notified those present
that if the arguments had ceased the
board would take the rate question under
advisement and render decision as soon
as possible.
PAT CLEARY, who murdered Jesse Turn.
er in 1888, was Iynched by a mob at Lin.
coin on the night Of the Sd. He had beer
Il Ii g.