Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
| A ToCGH-LooKING individual giving
his name as William Bennett was ar
rested at the union depot at Atchison
the other day, ON the charge of attempt
ing to pick the pocket of Ex-Governor
George w. Click. the thief being caught
in the act by Mr.. Click and another
gentleman.
WHILE attempting to arrest two inso-
lent negroes out OF a half drunken mob
of about a dozen at Kansas City, Kan,
the other night Policemen c. c. Ed
munds and c. c. Hedrick received
dangerous cuts Charles Hughes and
William Gray were arrested for the cut
| ting.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows began its sessions at Topeka on
the 18th Governor Humphrey deliv-
cred the address of welcome on behalf of
the State, Mayor Cofran on behalf
of the city of Topeka, and p. G. NJ. John
M. Price on behalf of the grand lodge of
Kansas.
Mrs. IDA c. MARTIN, widow of the
late Ex-Governor John A. Martin, will
be presented, upon the occasion of the
annual encampment Of the G. A. r. of
| Kansas at Topeka next month, with a
gold medal bearing the inscription and
design of the badge of the Fourth Army
Corps, that having been the corps to
which Colonel Martins regiment the
Eighth Kansas, was attached during the
war. The medal will be of costly man
ufacture and will be the gift of the G.
A. r. of Kansas.
THE Democratic convention of the
Fourth Congressional district recently
| met at Emporia and adjourned without
| nominating a candidate for Congress.
| This leaves the contest between the
Alliance candidate, j. 6. Otis of To-
peha, and the present incumbent, Har-
| rison Kelly.
| The Woman's Press Associat ton of
! Kansas was recently organized at Tope-
ka. All women who are actively en-
gagged in journalism, and those who
have written books, are entitled to
membership. The officers elected are:
Mrs Emma B. Alrich, president; Mrs.
Mary A Humphrey, vice-president; Mrs
Anna Diggs, secretary; Mrs Augusta
Wilson, treasurer; Mrs. Minnie D. Nor
gan, delegate to National convention.
NEILs ECKBERG, native of Sweden,
who had been employed as a section
hand by the Santa Fe railroad at Argen-
tine, was struck by passenger train
the other day and instantly killed.
Eckberg was twenty-nine years old and
leaves wife and two children in Kan
sas City. Mo.
SUIT has been filed in the district
court at Lawrence by Linton j. Usher,
son of the late Judge Usher, against o.
E. Learnard, proprietor of the Tribune
Journal, for $50. 600 damages for libel.
The paper reprinted with comments an
item from the Omaha Bee in which it
was stated that Usher was accessory to
robbing woman named Florita Russell
and also to the killing of his (Usher's)
clerk some time previous.
AT the annual meeting of the Kansas
Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION. lately held at Topeka, the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent E. d. King, Burlington; vice-pres-
ident George Plumb. Badger Creek;
secretary and treasurer. II. A. Heath,
Topeka Executive committee, w. G.
McCandleSS, Cottonwood Falls: Samuel
Jewett, Lawrence, and G. H Wads-
| worth, Larned. The executive commit
tee was appointed committee on need
ed legislation to secure dog law and a
uniform wolf bounty law from the next
Legislature.
RICHARD SwICHER, a wealthy farmer,
fell dead from heart disease while driv-
ing along a street of Harper the other
day.
THE Kansas Swine Breeders Associa-
ton met recently at Topeka and elected
| the following officers: President, NJ.
Stewart, of Wichita; e-presideRt G.
w. Berry, of Berrytown; secretary, O.
B. Stauffer, of Alden; treasurer, NJ. B.
Keagy, of Wellington. Executive COM
mittee. w. S. Hanna. Ottawa; w. E.
Gresham, Burton, and E. NJ. Flemming.
Scandia. Examining committee, w. S.
Hanna. Ottawa; R b. Griffith, Kansas
City; NJ. B. Keagy, Wellington, and DR..
F. L. Watkins. Harper.
RENA WASHINGTON. a colored woman
in the Lawrence Jail, was recently given
a mans clothes to mend. and she put
them on and escaped. She was over
hauled at Topeka
Miss MARY MCGEE was recently so Sc
verely burned by the explosion of a
gasoline stove at Quindaro that she died
next day.
Mrs. HESTER A. HANBACK,. wife of
ex-Congressman Hanback,, has been APP
pointed one of the lady commissioners
from Kansas to the Worlds Fair.
BURGLARS recently broke open two
safes at Emporia, but only secured $50.
IT is stated that c. A. Benson, who is
thought to be implicated in the murder
of Mrs. Mettman at Leavenworth last
March, has been located in Colorado
and will soon be brought back for trial
THE locomotive of the northbound
Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwest
ern passenger train was struck by light
ming the other night, three miles below
Lansing. The shock was so great that
the passengers on the train thought it
had jumped the track. Although the
engineer, fireman and express messen-
ger were roughly shaken up they es-
capped unframed.
FIRE-BUGs with coal oil and shavings
fired the residences of Mrs Murray and
Mrs. Plaeger, widows, at Leavenworth.
the other morning at three o'clock.
Neighbors discovered the blaze in each