Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

twenty years old, and obeyed without official
order, 1 hereby recommend the observance,
Thursday, the tenth day OF April, as Arbor
Day for the year 1880.
LTMAN o. HuMpHREY, Governor.
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Miscellaneous.
ST. CLAIR PNKsroN, twenty years old,
stenographer in the Office of promi-
nent Kansas City, Kan, architect and .
regular attendant OF the Y. M. c. A.,
was recently arrested while on bum
number of articles from other young
men. Several counterfeit silver dollars
were found on his person, and q search
developed the fact that he was preparing
to 60 into counterfeiting on an extensive
scale. He was held for trial.
THE other night James M. Hughes,
proprietor of Topeka billiard hall, was
cut in the head by one Williams, des-
GUS condition, and his physician had lit
tie hope of his recovery. Williams was
intoxicated.
THE Governor recently made the
following appointments: D. E. Cornell,
of Kansas City, Kan, director of the
penitentiary for the term commencing
April 5, 1890; DR.. C. Jones, of Topeka,
DR.. 81. T. johnson, of Atchison, and DR..
]. Milton WEIGH, of La Cygne, members
of the State Board of Health for the
term commencing March %, 1890; James
T. Taylor, of Atchison, member of the
State Board of Pharmacy for the term
commencing March %, 1890; keenan, j.
Hurst, of Howard, member of the Live
Stock Sanitary Commission for the term
commencing March Is, 1890.
CHARLES WILLIAMS and his son, aged
twelve years, were found murdered in
their beds at Galena the other morning.
Williams was blind and had lost both
arms in an accident in the mines year
ago. Jerry Alipe, negro, was arrested
charged with the crime and the evidence
against him was very conclusive.
ABOUT ten o'clock the other night Rev.
David McGrew, pastor of the colored
Baptist Church at Armstrong, Mrs. Andy
Bigman and William jackson, members
of his congregation, were returning from
prayer meeting, and were walking on
the Union Pacific railroad tracks near
the bridge that spans the Kansas river,
when they were struck by an engine.
The first two were instantly killed and
the latter fatally injured. Three other
colored men in the party saved them
selves by jumping down an embakment.
THE Boston Cash Store at Hill City
was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss, $40, 900; no insurance.
The Grand Encampment I. o. o. F.,
recently in session at Kansas City, Kan,
elected the following officers: Grand
patriarch, d. M. Ferguson, of Paola;
grand high priest, F. 81. Betton, of Pom
eroy; grand senior warden, 81. E. Pyle,
of Mcpherson; grand junior warden, s.
H. Glenn, of Harper; grand scribe, Sam
uel F. Burdett, of Leavenworth; grand
treasurer, C. 81. Schaffer, of Council
Grove; grand representative, Thomas
Beattie, of Atchison. It was decided to
hold the next annual encampment at
Arkansas City on the second Tuesday in
March.
AT the late meeting in Lawrence of
the order of the Eastern Star, grand
chapter of Kansas, the following officers
were chosen: Grand matron, Lillian A.
Wigs. of Lawrence; grand patron, Will
liam A. Julien, of Olathe; associate
grand matron, Mrs. Lizzie Gabriel, of
Parsons; associate grand patron, Thomas
K. Mcfarland, of Parsons; grand treas
urer, Mrs Jessie M. Pearsall, of Fort
Scott; grand secretary, Kinda E. .Ches-
ney, of Topeka; grand conductress, Mrs.
Olive Clark, of Lyons; grand A. con-
ductress, Mrs. T. Hays, of Osborne;
grand Ada, Mollie Pratt, of Burlington;
grand Ruth, Virginia v. Carter, of jew
ell City; grand Esther, Mrs. Aida ].
Reed, of Carbondale; grand Martha,
Miss Abbie Gibson, of Emporia; grand
Electra, Mrs. Elizabeth Magee, of Pitts
burgh; grand warder, Ellen A. Kenner,
Of Eureka; grand sentinel, d. C.
Welch, of Mcpherson; grand marshal,
Mrs. Cassia A. Getty, of Ellsworth;
grand chaplain, Eudora E. Hall, of
Wichita; grand organist, Miss Amanda
Duele, of Galena.
A PRINTER named George Brown fell
dead at his case in the Office of the Demo
crat at Wichita the other evening.
The other day the two-year-old child
of John Blunt, a farmer living near
Stockton, Rocks County, found a bottle
of laudanum and drank a quantity of it.
The child died in a short time. The
next day the mother, who was crazed
by the loss of her child, drank the rest
of the contents of the bottle and it was
thought could not live.
"A. ID. HOwELLs, Rock Island agent at
Gladys, eight miles south of Wichita,
was assaulted the other night by Ed.
Shaw and received fatal injuries. Shaw
used butcher knife, cutting the agent
in the neck and abdomen. Shaw was
arrested. The trouble grew out of the
fact that Shaw was in the habit of steal
ing a ride to Wichita and back and How
els advised the conductors to watch
him.
A RECENT fire at Topeka damaged the
Kansas Newspaper Union to the extent
of several thousand dollars.
THERE are now !, ZOO Farmers ALI
ances in Kansas, with membership, in
round numbers, of 0,000.
GEORGE M. HUFF, farmer, was shot
and killed near Kirwin the other day by
his nephew, David HUFF. The murder
was the result of dispute over the di-
vision of crops, and committed in the
presence of the dead mans wife and
four children.
JOHN STUErz attended the Madison
Street Baptist Church at Topeka the
othet morning, and just as he was about
to take his seat fell dead. Heart dis
ease was the cause.