Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

THE wife and two daughters of
prominent business man of Wichita were
recently arrested in dry goods estab-
Eshment for shoplifting. They were
found to have some stolen articles on
their persons.
LAST winter j. S. Frazer and W. 81.
Gibson took lot of Texas cattle TO
Chautauqua County, which engendered
bitter feeling against them. Some
weeks ago Gibson was found dead in bed
near Sedan. and his death was a great
mystery. Some time ago Texas fever
broke out among the cattle and the bad
feeling was revived The other day
Sedan having been waylaid and stabbed
prominent cattlemen in the county.
AS w. 81. Hammel, a real estate dealer
of Hutchinson, was lighting gasoline
stove the other morning. the lock on
the tank gave way and the tank fell
over with an explosion that saturated
the clothing of Mr.. and Mrs Hammel
and they were instantly on fire. Mrs.
Hammel was burned from head to feet
and died at one o'clock and Mr.. Hammel
died at three o'clock. They left two
1AAoIOA-Ou0 UOy 1OuI CCCh years VA0
and the other babe.
C. w. KRAUsE, a member of troop M,
Fifth cavalry, was drowned the other
night in the large fish pond just south
of the post at Fort Leavenworth. He
was bathing with other comrades, but
was not missed until the latter had par
TALLY dressed themselves and found tn
clothing of Krause and he nowhere to
be seen. He was evidently taken with
cramps and drawn to the bottom. He
was twenty years of age and had served
but three months. His parents reside in
Michigan.
IT is said that Atchison's lady enumer-
her co-laborers
dollars will be spent this year in i'm
proving the grounds and erecting cot
tages on the State G. A. r. reunion
ground at Ellsworth.
THE census supervisor gives out the
population of Kansas City (Kan.) to be
in round mum bers 40, 600; Topeka, 81, 900.
Leavenworth will show population of
.bout 90, 600.
A HUTCHINSON paper remarks that it
is not the unknown dead but the I'M
counted living for whom the Nation
weeps to-day. The census enumerator
will not appreciate this joke.
E. e. MARSHALL who was fined and i'm
prisoned at Lawrence for selling original
packages, and sued out writ of habeas
corpus before Judge Foster of the
United States Court at Topeka, was
released by the latter court.
THE other night Nathaniel Smith
drank poisonous iniment in private
asylum in Atchison, where he was con-
fined, and died next day.
Two farmers in Comanche County,
Paul Morgan and Thomas O'Neal, got
into a shooting scrape the other day and
and the latter fatally wounded. The
OF a business matter.
UNDER the recent adjustment Of the
salaries of Presidential post-offices in
Kansas, fifteen towns showed an in
crease and thirty-nine decrease.
PROF. Snow, of the State University,
in his weather report, records the past
month as the hottest June on his twenty
three years. record, except June, 1881,
which surpassed it by only 0.23 degree
of mean temperature. The rainfall was
uOhSAOAO, OOAAS 1893 UndA udll Gu0 aver
age amount and the smallest June pre-
cipitation on his record since June.
1872
A BURGLAR entered the residence of
Mr.. Cannon, Topeka plasterer, the other
night while he was absent and no one
in the house except his wife and child.
Mrs. Cannon heard the intruder and
selling shot gun awaited his appear
ance. Soon the form of large man
darkened her door when she fired and
he beat hasty retreat He was tracked
some distance by blood but not over
taken.
ISAAC RoTHENBEEG, of Rothenberg &
Schloss, the largest jobbers of cigars
and tobaccos in Kansas, was found dead
in bed at Leavenworth, the other morn
ing.
LA GRANGE. the alleged theatrical
man, who is in Jail at Hutchinson for
bigamy, has been identified as having
served two years in the Arkansas peni-
Tertiary for the same offenSe.
A WICHITA man is engaged in the
work of collecting statistics concerning
silk worms and silk culture in Kansas,
which has never before been attempted.
WHEAT of this seasons crop was mar
keted at Leavenworth about two weeks
ago.
THE Republican Resubmission State
Central Committee met at Wichita on
the Sd and called State convention to
be held at Wichita September 9. the
basis of representation to be one dele
gate for every 400 votes cast for Eugene
Ware for Presidential Elector
FIRE lately destroyed Ex-Governor
Eskridge's old store at Emporia, causing
loss of 81, $780,
THE other afternoon George Austin,
aged twenty years, committed suicide
at Strong City. No cause could be given
for the act except that of temporary in
sanity caused by i'll health. He was
member of the freshman class in the
State University at the beginning of
last year and was recognized as prom
Using young man, and one of great
ability.
A BOY named Free1and, sixteen years
old, was badly injured at Robinson the
other day by the explosion of dyna-
mi tie cartridge.
THE revenue collections for the dis
trict of Kansas the past month were