Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

thirty years old, was recently arrested at
Topeka upon q telegram from New York
City charging him with forgery. Later
officers arrived and he was taken back
some prominence In New York, and his
father q substantial business man. The
younger Schwartz had married and then
commenced q systematic forgery of his
father-in-law's name, upon whose COM
plant he was pursued and arrested.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREY has granted q
pardon to D. I. Crowder, who was con-
victed at the September term Of the dis.
trict court of Kingman County, Of ate
tempting to bribe witness and sentenced
to thirty days. imprisonthent in the county
Jail and to pay fine of $50. The balance
of the imprisonment and hne are RENTED
and full pardon granted
In a case recently appealed to the Su.
preme Court, where q case for damages
was given to the jury in the lower court
on Saturday and the jury brought in .
verdict for plaintiff on Sunday afternoon
and the Judge received the verdict, dis
charged the Jury and rendered Judgment,
the Supreme Court held II to be well-set-
tied that the verdict of q jury may be re-
ceived on Sunday, the acceptance not be-
ing equivalent to q Judgment but the rem
dition Of a Judgment on Sunday is a ju-
ment was therefore reversed.
THE other day six young mon went up
the river at Lawrence in steamboat
fourteen feet long. Three miles from town
the boiler exploded, demolishing the boat
and injuring Luther Doane, Carl Graiber
and Byron Allen. Doane's jaw was
smashed and his injuries were fatal. The
boiler and engine were built by the mem
bers of the party, Allen being an engineer
and Doane plumber.
FRANK SHAFFER, of Ottawa. ILL.,, and W.
n. Milispaugh, of Ypsilanti, Mich. who
had been travelling together selling mil
croscopes and other trinkets, recently op-
Grated for some time at Fort Scott. The
other day they took a stroll outside the
city and when returning Shaffer called
Millspaugh's attention to a specimen he
had found, and while he was examining it
Shaffer drew pistol and shot his COM
panion in the head. After making several
attempts to again discharge the pistol he
threw it away and attacked his victim
with his fists, striking him in the face and
kicking him in the stomach. He then fed,
but was subsequently arrested. Mills
paugh wandered around until found and
cared for. His injuries were fatal
THE Governor of. Nebraska recently
made a demand of Governor Humphrey
that he issue requisition papers for the
taking OF John M. Langen to Nebraska on
the charge of selling mortgaged property.
The latter refused the demand, claiming g
that the mortgage was a Kansas mort
gage, between Kansas parties.
CHAREs BROWN. an employe of the
Wells-Fargo Express Company at EN-
poria, was recently bound over to court ON
circumstantial evidence charged with
stealing $130 from the express office. The
money was found hid in q coal house.
TIE story telegraphed from Albuquerque
that man who had shielded there was
Unidentified as Edward Waterbury, a
lawyer of Emporia, who had been dis
barred for crookedness, was a false, re-
port. Waterbury is still a lawyer in good
standing at Emporia and denies ever hav-
ing been at Albuquerque or ever having
killed himself for croOkedness he never
was engaged in.
JOHN THOKNTON who was shot fourteen
| times during the Quantrel raid on Law
| renee in 1863, but who finally recovered
| and has been q helpless cripple ever since,
died recently in that city.
FARMERS in Kansas are resolving that
they will use no twine for binding
unless it is sold a. low as it has been in
| previous years. Such action on the part
of farmers, not only of Kansas but other
States, is the result of the late formation
| the price of binding twine to almost double
the price at which it was sold one yeal
ago.
| HON. D. w. WILDER, Superintendent o1
Insurance, recently asked the opinion o
Attorney-General Kellogg on the bill
| pas sed by the late session of the Legisla.
ture. declaring trusts and combinations un-
lawful, and the latter submitted the fol
lowing: "In my judgment the act il
/ ny>f~ Ill \ & - l.
| insurance companies agreeing with them.
selves that the rate of insurance shall bt
| at a certain standard, and any insurance
| companies or their officers entering int
such an agreement are liable under sale
act"
| ARBoR DAY was celebrated at Manhat.
tad by the closing Of all business house,
and the planting Of ], 600 trees in the parl
by 150 citizens.
THE Republican convention of the Fourth
! district to nominate q candidate for tn,
place made vacant by the resignation o.
| Congressman Ryan has been called K
meet at Emporia May l. at five O'Clock.
THE Goodlander & Ambrose furniture
factory at Fort Scott burned recently
Loss. $40 900; insurance. 5000.
In an old frame farm-house near Bra
man Hill, In Wyandotte County, the bodie
| of Mrs. Wilmatha Seidrich and Jacol
Schat6r were found the other day in al
| advanced stage of decomposition. Tn,
farm was owned by the woman, who wa
fifty five years old, and Schaler had beel
living with her for several years having
charge of the farm. She lay partly on
bed with two bullet holes in the body, an,
Schaler lay on q lounge with bullet hol
in his neck and revolver by his side. H
| was about forty-five years old and bot
had evidently been dead several days
| The only theory advanced was that tn
| man and woman had had some disagree
| ment which resulted in his killing her an,
committing suicide. The woman and tn
first husband, August Miller, came fror
Germany twenty five years ago, and afte
purchasing the farm and living on it sew
eral years, it is stated. Miller hanged him
| self. The widow afterward married Seid
rich, who also died mystesiously. It i
also stated that the same house was tn
scene OF . similar tragedy about twenty
one years ago II is said that a famil
moved into the house when it was firs
built and after living there about a yea
the neighbors discovered the dead bodie
of the man and his wife.
The building committee Of the Atchi
son Union Depot Company met recently
Topeka and let the contract for the ne,
union depot to James Nesbit, Of Atchiso1
for SEQ, 900. Ths building viii be cen
| menced at once