Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-17
Miscellaneous.

CHARLES LAGRANGE, VINO was recent
~ arrested at Hutchinson for bigamy,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years. 1t is said
that he served term in the Arkansas
penitentiary for e similar offense.
JUDGE Humphrey and Ex-Governor
Anthony. of the Board of Railroad Com
missioners, recently went to Washing
ton to represent the State before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
the matter of the reduction of grain
rates in accordance with the findings of
that Commission as embodied in its re-
cent report made under a resolution of
the United States Senate.
THE livery stable of George Warren
at Topeka was burned by the incendi-
ary's torch the other night and ten val
liable horses persisted. This made the
fourteenth stable destroyed in the city
since March 81, all attributed to incendi-
airy origin.
JOHN MCPHATL, lawyer and news
paper writer, whose homo was at Linds-
borg, died in Kansas City (Mo.) saloon
the other day from the heat and excess
i've drinking.
Mis-. WEIGH living about four miles
north of Lawrence, had occasion to use
somc carbolic acid the other day, and
left the bottle in reach of her two-year-
old child. The little one overturned
the bottle. splitting the contents over
| her face and body. She died in short
| time
FOURTEEN families of colored people
recently returned from Oklahoma to
| Topeka. They said that every thing
was burning up down there, and that
| the settlers arc leaving as fast as they
can get away.
A PETITION signed by John Dunnell,
| of Providence, Kan, asking for PEN
| sion. was laid before the United States
Senate the other day. Dunnell says he
is eigh ty-fve years old, and applies for
a pension on the ground that he is the
| orphan of Revolutionary soldier. He
will take his pension in the shape of
| land in the Indian Territory any
| other com pensa ton Congress may see fit
| to allow him.
TIE two-year- son of Bon jamin
| Spriul, of Arkansas City, was burned to
death recently in a fire which destroyed
his fathers barn. Children playing
with matches arc supposed to have
| started the fire.
THE burglar who was shot recently
|
Pattee, at Usage City, died without re-
| vealing his identity. His partner. who
was shot at tho same time. has not been
captured
The Douglas County Farmers Alli-
ance will hold big meeting at Bis
marcl1 Grove August IL. Prominent
speakers from distance have been en-
gagged.
JOSEPH TREBLE was arrested at Wa
! thcna July 5 for the murder of Jerry
| Kincaid near there in Septem Der, 1861
The murder was the outgrowth of a diff
ference of opinion on the slavery queS-
ton.
PROF. S. f. Uarker, late principal of
the Columbus public schools, suicided
recently by taking morphine He was
supposed to have been insane at the
time, as diary left showed that insanity
was hereditary in the family. One of
his sisters several years ago cut off her
babes head under the delusion that she
was killing chicken
AT Girard the other day WON an
whose husband had been on protracted
| spree went into the original package
house and began demolishing packages
right and left She was elected by the
proprietor and fined one dollar and costs
in the police court which WAS promptly
paid by the spectators
FRANK MYERS. aged sixteen years,
was recently drowned while bathing in
Sugar Lake, near Atchison.
The Second Presby terrain church a;
Wichita was burned the other day by a
fire originate from fireworks
IN a runaway accident at Wichita the
other night Mrs John Baker was thrown
from j carriage and alighting on her
head received injuries which 1t was
thought would prove fatal.
THE Delaware mills at Lawrence were
recently burned
JAMES DENMAN was drowned in the
Arkansas river south of Wichita the
other day.