Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

probably fatally wounded Jack Mulhall ct |
Anthony.
TIE five-year-old SON Of W. waddsl,
while recently playing in the streets Of
Topeka. ran to q passing wagon loaded
with hay, and, with other children, com.
menced pulling at the hay when he fell
under the wheels and was instantly killed. |
In the Wyandotte district court the
other day Mrs. Deborah McClurken filed
suit against Tobias and Edward Hogan
for S. $50 for selling intoxicating liquors
to her husband She alleged in her psti-
ton that her husband earned good wages
and . good support for his family until he
became addicted to the use Of liquor and
that defendants sold it to him against her
protest. She 10 now destitute and asks fer
damages.
e. WHITE, an officer from Wilson County
recently decoyed DR.. Eberle, Kansas
City, Mo, specialist, across the line and
arrested him upon the charge OF fraud
ulentfy obtaining notes from farmers DR..
Eberle's attorney procured a writ Of habeas
corpus from the district judge Of Wyan-
dotte County. but Constable White failed
to take notice of it and was himself ar
rested and fined for contempt The court
refused to release DIR. Eberle and he was
taken to Wilson County to answer the
charge. He declared the prosecution to bo
malicious and that he would sue Richard.
son. the complaining party, for heavy
damages.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners recently rendered q decision in the
case of the citizens of Turon VS.. the Rock
Island and Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
panies in which they ordered connecting
track laid between the two roads.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: W. w. Davis, Lawrence, me-
chanical telephones; George w. Harrop
Manhattan, hame fastener; Fraucis A.
Hoover, Kimeo, door check; Samuel Huff
man, Matanzas, corn-planter; Thomas A.
Perry, Abilene, trough for watering stock;
John Thomas Kansas City, apparatus for
use in dressing hogs.
SOME seventy county treasurers from
various parts of the State assembled at
Topeka the other day for the purpose Of
considering needed legislation and devils
ing ways and means of preventing legis-
lation which shall cut down the emolu-
ments of the county treasurers or in any
wise affect their interests in q derogatory
manner.
IT is reported that an attempt was re-
Gently made to wreck the Union Pacific
east bound Colorado night express train
near Wilson. While running at high
rate of speed the train struck an obstacle
on the track which it fortunately knocked
aside and passed over safely. Investiga-
ton showed that lot of lumber had been
placed on the track. Train robbery was
supposed to be the motive.
THE father of Henry Dudley, the brake
man who was recently killed in the Mis-
souri, Pacific yards at Leavenworth, has
sued the company for damages:
PENSIONS granted to Kansas veterans
on the Goth: Original, invalid, David N.
Phelps, Memphis; James A. Proctor, Glen
Elder; Thomas Hickman, Elwood; Frank
lin j. r. Zol1er, Chsney; David Morrow,
Dodge City; Joseph T. Hale. Galena. In
crease, Lorenzo D. Durbin, Girard; Win
field Tufts, Maceville; Hemans G. Newhall,
Sycamore Spring; Timothy w. Hoag, Bird
| City. Original, widow, navy, Mary E,
| widow of Charles H. Beatty, Ashland,
Mexican survivor, Oliver NJ. Pugh, Clay
Center.
1T is stated that Rev. W. w. Mix, of To-
peka, and William Simcock, of Salina,
have perfected an invention which if
found practical in details will make quite
a change in the running of railroad trains
1t is an electric railway signal. and q
caveat for its patent has already been re-
ceived from Washington. The object of
the invention is to give due warning of the
approach Of every train on the road, which
uses it, by electric lamps put up at every
place of danger, and at proper distances.
Each train will, with very simple attach
ment, signal its own approach to any other
is declared that collision will be almost
if not quite impossible.
THE net receipts by subscription for the
inaugural ball at Topeka were 1852, which
amount the committee divided equally be-
tween Ingleside and Christ's Hospital
A RESOLUTION adopted by the Kansas
House of Representative was on the 2oth
laid before the United States Senate, in
| which, after recital of the fact that set
tiers railroad land grants have been
compelled to pay excessive prices for their
holdings and have been otherwise mis-.
treated, the Kansas Senators and Repre-.
sentatives in Congress are requested to
use their influence in Congress i'll behalf
of the settlers, and to secure the pass age
of the House bill relating to the rights of
settlers railroad lands. A resolution
of the Legislature of Kansas was also la d
before the Senate favoring the enactment
of law to prevent and punish trusts or
combinations of capital.
B. P. KNAwS, ex-county commits sioner
of Finney County, was recently arrested
on a charge of willful misconduct in
Office. Last spring the county undertook
to bore an experiments we'll and the COM
missioners appointed Knaws, who was
| then a member of the board. TO watch
! operations in the interest of the county.
| For his work he was allowed $1S7 which it
| is claimed he had no right to receive,
| being then county officer. The other
| members OF the board are also under in
| dictnent for misconduct in Office.
| THE citizens OF Hill City have decided
| to organize company for sugar making.
JOHN FARMER, aged nineteen, was re-
| Gently drowned near Augusta while skat-
| ing.
THERE are about four hundred children
| in Huskell Institute (the Indian schoo) at
Lawrence.
| q n hos ir,fro
| bill in Congress to divide Kansas into two
| judicial districts, to fix the terms of court
! and to provide for the appointment Of
iudpes and other officers.