Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

playing in . deserted barn in the suburbs
of Wichita when they removed some hay
that had not been disturbed for over q
year and were Mortified to discover the
remains of woman. which had evident
ly been there for five or six months.
The body was too badly decomposed to
be identified, and even the clothing had
nearly all decayed and had to be care
fully handled.
WHEN west-bound Rock Island train
reached Topeka the other day there was
on board Mr.. p. A. Thomas, wife and
seven children, of Pueblo, Col, all of
whom except one were suffering from
poison. Physicians who were summoned
pronounced the trouble to be meat
poisoning from the eating of chicken
which had become unfit for food.
A UNION PACIFIC freight train was
wrecked at Bismarck Grove, near Law
renee, the other night by several cars
jumping the track. No one was hurt.
QUITE an excitement was recently
caused at Lawrence by the appearance
Of mad dog upon the streets. Before
being killed the dog bit two horses and
a colored boy.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Established, Clarence, Stevens County,
Clarence A. Younggren, postmaster;
Esther, Shawnee County, John Doane.
| postmaster; Keysville, Pawnee County,
Herbert E. Miller, postmaster; Leoran-
da, Graham County, Peter Hanselman,
postmaster. Discontinued, Dillwyn,
Stafford County; Oasis, Logan County;
Won. Comanche County.
| On the Goth Kansas Odd Fellows gen.
orally celebrated the seventy-irst an
niversary of the establishment of the
order.
THE right leg of the murdered Mrs.
Mettman was found the other day on the
| bank of the Missouri river, near the
Planters House at Leavenworth, by a
number of boys who were walking along
the shore.
w. B. BALDWIN, agent of the Santa
Fe at Lovelle, absconded the other day
with $1,000 belonging to the road.
| Through some means it became known
to the officials of the road in Topeka and
they Immediately telegraphed their
agent at Denver to have him arrested.
Just before the message was received
| Baldwin entered the general offices
| of the Santa Fe at Denver and
asked for employment as telegraph
| operator. While he was in the office
| the message asking that the absconder
be arrested began to come in over the
wire. He quickly detected the purport
| of the message, and clearing the railing
| about the telegraph desk made his es-
cape.
JOHN LANE, farm hand, returned
from Kansas City to Edwardsville the
| other evening under the influence of
| liquor, and after chasing the family out
| of the house with knife and shotgun,
| he swallowed half a box of rat poison
and ran to pond of water short dis
lance from the house, laid down and
drank all the water he could swallow.
Medical aid was secured but his recovery
| was doubtful.
| AT the late Interstate oratorical con-
test at Lincoln, Neb., S. w. Naylor, of
Washburn, College, Topeka, won first
place, and A. c. Douglass, also Kansas
man, second place.
THE Bailroad Commissioners have re-
ceived petitions signed by 1900 farmers
of Central Kansas, asking for lower
rates to the Missouri river on farm
products.
THE livery stable of w. M. Eng1e, at
Kingman, was burned the other morn
| ing. Besides carriages, buggies, ETC.,
| twelve valuable horses were burned.
| The horses belonged mostly to persons
in the city. The loss was $4,000, with
| $3, 900 insurance.
A PRACTICAL Joker in Leavenworth
| tied the hands and feet of a boy and
gave him coat of black ink. The
amusement cost him five dollars in the
shape of fine.
w. T. MAGEE was recently held for
trial at Hays City on the charge of de-
| frauding farmers by obtaining promis-
| sorry notes under false pretenses. The
evidence showed that he had been
| working extensively among the Rus
| sian farmers, appointing them as agents
for the sale of patent fence and hav-
| ing them sign certificates to show them
| that they were agents. These certifi-
Gates in each case proved to be plain
| promissory notes, the negotiation OF
| which caused his detection.
The population of Leavenworth, as
shown by the recently finished census
| of the city assessor, is 2O,57S, a falling
| off of 22S in the last year.
| A FARMER near Bala recently found a
casket of diamonds, pearls and other
| precious stones near the Rock Island
railway track. The gems were identi-
| fed as those stolen from Mrs. johnson.
| Chicago bride, en- route to Denver on
her wedding tour a week previous.
A RECEPTION was given to General
| Merritt and staff at Fort Leavenworth
upon the occasion of their departure for
ST. Louis.
THE old soldiers belonging to Bren-
nan Post at the soldiers home recently
passed resolutions declaring the charges
made against the management of the
home and cruelty to soldiers as false in
every particular. There are LOO old
veterans at the home at present, and
nearly all of them belong to Brennan
post of the G. A. r:
In the United States Court at Topeka
the jury in the case of the Government
VS.. Woodruff, charged with embezzling
S., 600 while acting as deputy postmaster
at Lawrence, failed to agree, standing
six for conviction and six for acquittal.
AT Coldwater the other night DR.. G..
w. Prichard and S. M. Miles, an attor-
ney, met on muddy crossing and quar-.
| relied as to who should give the road. A