Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

liz runaway accident at Wichita the
other morning Robert McNair and
Frank Storey were probably fatally
hurt A passing train frightened their
horse, the buggy was upset and both
men thrown under the animals heels
and badly trampled on.
CHARLES EvERsoN and a friend, of
Lindsborg, were recently fooling with
a revolver which neither thought was
loaded. when it was discharged into
Everson's right lung.
JUDGE BENSON, in the district court
of Douglas County, has decided that the
city ordinance of Lawrence prohibiting
the sale of cider by the glass is valid.
The other afternoon Rev. j. f.
Rhoades, pastor of the NJ. E. Church at
Girard, with his wife started for the
country in a one-horse buggy to perform
a wedding ceremony. While crossing an
iron bridge, spanning Lightning creek,
the horse became unmanageable and
backed off the abutment, about twenty
feet. The horse fell upon Mr.. Rhoades,
who was so seriously injured that he
died in few hours. Mrs. Rhoades
jumped out of the buggy before it went
over the embankment and was not hurt
The horse escaped without injury.
DIR. j. j. MEDLICoTT, who was charged
with poisoning /. M. Ruth at Lawrence
in 1871, tried and sentenced to be
hanged, but upon appeal to the Supreme
Court got a new trial and was released,
died recently at Beaver Falls. Pa.
IDA d. BENNETT recently shot herself
with a revolver at the residence of ID.
81. Stone, in Emporia, where she had
been rooming. Miss Bennett was teach
ing in the art department of the Presby-
terian College the past year and failed
of reappOintment She claimed that
the revolver was accidentally discharged
while she was alone packing her trunk
preparatory for a trip to Chicago, butitis
generally thought the act was inten-
tiona1. The doctors said she could not
live, the ball having entered the left
breast near the heart
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany has refused to put a passenger
train on the Leroy & Caney Valley
branch, as ordered by the Railroad Com
missioners. The matter will probably
be tested in the courts.
THE petitioners of Riley County for
the removal of the county seat from
Manhattan could not secure within 200
names of the necessary number to Sc
cure an election.
SEVENTEEN years ago the graduating
class of the State University numbered
four students At the recent COM
mencement sixty-three young ladies
and gentlemen, representing the acad-
emic and pharmaceutical departments,
received their diplomas. The number
of graduates this year exceeded the to-
tai enrolment of students in the first
university year.
FRANK LA FAvER, of Rosedale, re-
Gently shot his wife and then shot him.
self Neither received a fatal wound.
The cause of the act was the infidelity
of the woman.
THE State Normal School at Emporia
has closed very successful year. The
number enrolled in the normal depart
| ment was 90S, and in the model school
| 212, limited number only being ad-
| mitted to the model school. Over 400
students held teachers certificates on
entering. Seventy-five held first grade
and 200 second grade on entering. More
| than 800 are over twenty-one years of
age, 1OS being over twenty-five years of
age. The graduating class this year
numbered fifty-three. The average age
of the class is twenty-five years. the
youngest being seventeen, the oldest
thirty-five.
FREEMAN BRAMBAUGH, contractor OF
Wichita, recently took laudanum be-
cause of domestic troubles, and may
| die.
EIGHTY-FoUR delegates met in con-
vention at Representative Hall in Tope-
ka on the 12th and organized 1.-The Peo-
pies party" Its convention to nominate
a State ticket will be called not later
than August and straight ticket will
be placed in the field in each of the
seven Congressional districts. The del
egates present represented the Farmers
Alliance, Knights of Labor, Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association, Patrons of
Husbandry and Single Tax clubs.
WHEN the case of Major j. X. Hud-
son, of the Topeka Capital, was recently
called in the United States Circuit Court
at Leavenworth, in which he was in
dicted for embezz1ement in making
overcharges for publishing legal notices
of the United States District Court, it
was thrown out of court
PROF. Snow was recently installed as
Chancellor of the State University with
| appropriate ceremonies. The trustees
of Princeton College have unanimously
conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws
upon Chancellor Snow.
| F. F. HOPKINS was awarded So, 500 in
the United States court at Leavenworth
the other day against the ST Louis &
San Francisco railway for injuries re-
ceived at lebanon, Mo-, while riding
| in caboose on pass.
THE total assessed valuation of Kansas
railroads this yearis $57, 1863, 557.
The acreage put to corn in Kansas
this year is estimated at about 1000, 600.
SECRETARY WINDOW recently sent a
communication to the House recon-
mending an appropriation of IS, 900 for
the heating apparatus and elevator and
for the completion of the public build
ing at Wichita.
A. J. DIcKER. proprietor of two large
general merchandise stores in North
Lawrence, assigned recently. Liabil-
tiles, S23, 600; assets, $4,000. He had
been in business at Lawrence for about
twenty years
AN addition has been made to the
number of educational institutions in
Topeka by the location there of the
University of Topeka, established by