Thomas County cat., 1890-09-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS

i KANSAS STATE NEWS
From Olathe: The congressional
convention of the democrats of the Sec
pnd district convened in this city and
nominated for congress Hon. j. II.
Chapman. editor of the Fort Scott
Tribune.
| Leayenworth Standard: Our coal
mines eight years ago produced 5,OOO
bushels of coal per day. They are now
mining $4,000, and if they can get the
men by October they will be mining
10000 per day.
Arkansas City Dispatch: Will Nc.
Lain has some gold and silver ore on
exhibition at Judge Bonsall's Office
which he says he found within three
miles of the city. Is it possible that
somebody has been sailing the hills
around town?
Concordia Daylight: The miners Of
Minersville are in wrangle over the
settling on price for mining this win
ter. 1t is presumed they will make the
price SO as to enable the operators to
sell this coal at $3.50 per ton.
Stafford Republican: An agent for
some California life insurance company
was working up quite business in this
| vicinity, and when some of our citizens
asked to see his state license he in
formed them that he needed no license,
and he was arrested forthwith and sent
down to our county attorney.
From Newton: Henry Burgener, a
farmer living five miles west of here,
yesterday went into yard where bull
was kept. The brute tossed and butted
him until his son drove it off. The bull
had recently been dehorned, to which
Mr.. Burgener likely owes his life. Three
ribs were broken and he was internally
injured.
Mount Hope Mentor: Wheat is being
marketed very slowly at this point.
Those farmers who are able, by shook
Nr crook" to ho'd their grain are doing
so. Only enough is sold by them to
obtain money to pay up such indebt-
edness as they are compelled to. Money
can be obtained at a fair rate of interest
by persons wishing to hold wheat, and
many who are needing money are get
ting it in this manner.
Leavenworth Times: There will be
a large celebration at Atchison Septem-
ber %, held by the colored people of
that city in honor of the emancipation
proclamation of President Lincoln. G..
T. Wenlock, D. w. Conway, Joseph
Fisher, and w. NJ. Smothers are man
aging the affair, and say that large del
egations from Leavenworth and sur
rounding cities will be present.
Capital: In the last week several
hundred mechanics have found employ
ment at the Santa Fe shops. Every
mechanic who applies is employed on
the spot, and Master Mechanic Smith
says the only trouble arises from the
fact that they do not come fast enough.
Large numbers are being brought here
from the east by employment agencies,
and work for skilled laborers will be
very plentiful for the next six months
at least.
Ness City Sentinel: The little Spang-
Ter child who swallowed a nail some
three months ago, died, and an autopsy
held by the doctors for the purpose of
locating the whereabouts of the nail
revealed the fact that it was in the
wiudpipe and right bronchial tube
Nothing abnormal was found. The
nail had entered the windpipe head first,
passed down and turned towards the
right lung, where it lodged, it being
too long to turn. Abcesses formed in
the lung and fastened his death.
The peoples party has seven con-
gressional candidates in the field, as
follows: First district. L. G. Clark, of
Brown county; Second district. A. F.
Allen, of Douglas county: Third dis
trict, B. H. Clover, of Cowley county;
Fourth district, J. G. Otis, of Shawnee
county; Fifth district, John Davis, OF
Geary county; Sixth district, William
Baker, of Lincoln county; Seventh
district, j. A. Simpson, of Barber
county.
From Oskaloosa: At his Office in this
place, John N. Insley, real estate
dealer and well-known citizen, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself with
forty four calibre revolver. Five balls
were sent through his chest, passing
entirely through the body and being
afterward picked up on the floor of his
room. Death ensued in few minutes.
Business cares had unsettled his mind
and he was temporarily insane. He
leaves wife and five children.
From Pleasant Ridge: During the
recent rain storm. the lightning struck
a pine tree in the yard of J. S. Van
winkle. Around the base of the tree
there were number of beehives. The
electricity ran down the tree until
within four feet of the ground, then
divided. Part of the charge struck of