Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| WAAOA WOI0 SBOlou lTOm MIS-. W. -.
johnson, the Chicago bride, ON Rock
Island train few weeks ago, were found
in sewer in Topeka.
The Republican Congressional con-
vention for the Sixth district, recently
held at Colby, nominated Webb McNall
! for Congress on the SD ballot
THE other afternoon a man named
Frederick Shafer, who was trying to
beat his way out of Leavenworth, at
tempted to board q north-bound freight
train, and in doing so got his legs
| caught between the cars. crushing them
| in horrible manner. He died in q
| short time.
THE Senate has passed Mr.. Plumb's
bill to fix the times and places of holding
| Federal courts in Kansas. It divides
the State into two districts. to be known
as the First and Second division of the
district of Kansas. The terms of court
| in the First division are to be held at
the time and places now prescribed by
| law, and those of the Second division at
Wichita on the first Monday in March
and September in each year.
GEORGE w. CRANE & Co., printers and
| bookbinders of Topeka, recently made
an assignment for the benefit of their
creditors. Their liabilities are S120, 600.
| THE other morning an aged colored
man, Peyton Burleigh, was found dead
| in White Clay creek, near the Missouri
| Pacific shops at Atchison, with deep
| cash just above the left temple, evil
| IDENTIFY made with car coupling pin.
| He was seen with another negro man
the night before, with whom he had
been quarreling. but the man denied all
knowledge of the crime.
THE ladies who were recently elected
to the municipal offices of Edgerton have
resigned.
THE people of Hutchinson propose to
go into the manufacture of beet sugar
and expect to build a factory having a
capacity of 800 tons of beets per day.
A BOY named Hegmer, riding on the
side of freight car, had an arm cut off
by a switch target at Augusta the other
day.
JOHN HART, who is accused of swind-
ling the farmers Of Southern Kansas by
claiming to be a State livestock in
spector, has been arrested at Burton.
PROF. GEORGE B. PENNY, of Emporia,
has been elected dean of the music de-
partment of the State University, to
succeed Prof. Macdonald.
A BARN belonging to John r. Taylor,
in Shawnee County, was burned the
other morning. A trotting stallion
valued at 81, 500 and six other horses
were lost. Two boys, who were sleeping
in the barn, barely escaped. The fire
was supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary.
The Kansas Medical Society, recently
in session at Salina, elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
ident, ]. E. Minney, of Topeka; first
vice-president, w. A. Phillips, of Salina;
second vice-president, DIR. Peters, of
Mankato; secretary. DIR. Lindsey, of
Mcpherson; treasurer, DIR. Robertson, of
Hutchinson. Wichita was selected for
next years convention.
MRS. LUCY HENDERSON, an old resi-
dent of Atchison, committed suicide the
other morning by drowning herself in
cistern. She had been in poor health
for two years, and about three months
ago was taken with a severe attack of
la grippe, which left her mind in an I'M
balanced condition.
A GERMAN tailor named Bartholomew
Burger dropped dead while at work at
Emporia the other afternoon. His
former home was in Springfield, O.,
where he is said to have a family of
nine children, his wife being dead. He
had been at Emporia only few weeks.
THE livery stable of F. E. Fryer at
Runnymede, Harper County, was burned
the other day together with eleven
horses. Robert Walmouth, prominent
business man of the place, was in the
sta BILE and was burned to death.
PRESIDENT CLOVER, of the Farmers
Alliance, has issued a call for State
convention of the Alliance to be held
in Topeka, Thursday, June IL. The
only object stated in the call is to dis
cuss matters of importance to the Alli-
ance. 1t will be delegate convention
and the president urges each Alliance to
send representative.
THE State Temperance Union, recent
1y in session at Topeka, elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, James A.
Troutman, of Topeka; vice-president,
D. C. Miner, of Manhattan; secretary,
Thomas H. Balm. of Topeka; treasurer,
ii. w. Lewis, of Wichita; with an ex-
ecutive committee of fourteen members
WHILE recently trying to catch colt,
Leslie, the twelve-year-olds son of A. B.
Fleiner, of Atchison, was kicked on the
head and instantly killed.
In the District Court at Leavenworth
Judge Crozier recently declared part of
the State Prohibitory law unconstitunal.
The decision was rendered in a case
where the Assistant Acknowledgement
summoned the street commissioner and
others to give information under
oath as to violations of the Prohibitory
law. They refused to give testimony
and were committed to Jail for con-
tempt Habeas corpus proceedings to
secure their release were begun before
Judge Crozier, who handed down a long
decision ordering their discharge from
custody and declaring unconstitutional
the provisions of the law comforting
power upon the Attor9ey-General to
summon persons to testify as to viola
lions of the law.
The April report of the warden of the
penitentiary showed the aggregate ex-
penses for the month to have been
1898. and the total cash receipts
So, 5O1.51
A MEMBER of the soldiers home at
tempted suicide at Leavenworth the
other afternoon by lying down full
length on the tracks of the Leaven-
worth, Topeka & Southwestern railway