Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-21
miscellaneous.

The Board of Railroad Commissioners
recently rendered decision which is
one of the most important that has yet
been made. The decision orders that
all railroads in Kansas reduce the local
distance rates, and new schedule was
epared which makes an average re-
duction throughout the State of 80 per
cent. on wheat, flour, corn. oats, etc,
and 10 per cent. on merchandise, cattle,
coal, lumber, salt etc. The railroads
are ordered to put this new schedule
into effect on September 1.
THE great picnic of the Farmers AL
lance and Labor Unions of Douglas and
adjoining counties, held at Bismarck
Grove on the 18th, was the largest as
sem blage of farmers ever held in the
State. There were over 1000 vehicles
in line in the procession to the grove.
About 10, 600 people were in the grove.
A half dozen brass bands furnished
music and addresses were delivered by
several speakers.
WHEN Mrs ]. p Stotts, living at the
town of haywood, went to the cistern
about noon the other day she discov-
cred what she supposed was a bunch of
clothing lying in the water. She called
her husband. who went down into the
cistern and brought out an infant male
child, perhaps two days old, which had
been strangled to death by means of a
ope wound around its neck.
The star postal service between Pres
colt and GAINESVILLE will be discontin-
ued after August %.
On the afternoon of the 18th Henry
Daniels, a well-to-do farmer living seven
miles southeast of Manhattan, commit
ted suicide by hanging himself to tree.
For year past he had been practically
crazed over Spiritualism and of late he
had been worried over his financial af-
fairs He was one of ex-County Treas
urer FORMERS bondsmen and was one of
the few who had a disposition to pay the
county the amount of FORMERS embez-
Element. He was an old resident and a
man of sterling qualities.
THE total tax levy made by the State
Board of Equalization is 81, $50. 952. 40,
being One-twentieth of mill more than
last year. The levy for the general rev.
enue fund is three and fourteenth mills;
for the State-hoHSe, four tenthS of a
mill; for the interest fund, two-tenths
of a mill; current university fund, one
fourth of mill.
A PARTY of young missionary workers
left Topeka last June to operate in the
Soudan- They were Charles Helmick.
Mrs Rebecca Kingman and Miss Jennie
Dick, of Topeka, and Warren j. Harris,
of Augusta, Me. and Frank Gates, of
St Paul. Upon reaching Freetown.
West Africa they were stricken with
African fever and all died except Hell
mick and Miss Dick. Miss Dick is the
daughter of George Dick, prominent
physician of Topeka.
TIE population of Kansas City, Kan,
is officially stated to be 3s. ITO. an in
crease of %, s21. or sos % per cent-the
largest per cent of any city in the
Union
JAMES HIGGINs, a printer, who had
been drinking excessively, recently
committed suicide at Leavenworth by
jumping into the Missouri river.
THE Farmers Alliance Peoples party,
of the Fourth district recently met in
convention at Emporia and nominated
John G. Otis, of Topeka, for Congress
A TRAMP named August Brock was re-
Gently killed at Wichita in jumping
from swiftly moving train
The body of colored man was re-
Gently found near the railroad yards at
North Topeka He had evidently been
riding on the trucks of freight train
and had fallen beneath the wheels.