Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Kansas City, Kan, made disparaging re-
marks about the mother of CharlesMeade
when the latter cut Brooks head open
with an axe. It was thought he would
die.
DR. r. NJ. BARNES, of Greensburg,
was found dead in his Office the other
day with bullet-hole in his left breast
No revolver could be found, which evil
dences that it was not case of suicide.
The theory was that he had been assas-
sinated the night before by some enemy
who had followed him from Michigan,
from which State he came about four
years ago and where it was reported he
had had trouble and left for the West
as matter of safety.
Two burglars entered the residence of
L. B. Pe1lee, at Usage City, the other
night and when they reached the bed
room of Mr.. and Mrs Pellee the lady
awoke, and, shaking her husband, ex-
claimed: ''There is a man in the house;
shoots" The burglars commenced to
shoot, when Mr.. Pellee returned their
shots and they fed. In few minutes one
of them was found short distance of
with bullet through his body and dying.
He gave the name of Irwin Curtis and
said that he was an outcaSt
PRESIDENT TRoUTMAN, of the State
Temperance Union, has issued a call for
State convention of Prohibitionists to
meet at Topeka July 16, for the purpose
of declaring their loyalty to prohibition
and take action concerning the attempt
to sell liquor in original packages. The
basis of representation will be as fol-
lows: Each county shall be entitled to
one delegate at large for every 1000 Of
its population, to be appointed in any
manner that the localities may find
most convenient. Every church, Sun
day school, temperance society or other
organ cation in sympathy with the pur-
pose of the convention is invited to elect
three delegates. Delegates should be
appointed and reported Immediately.
All friends of the cause will be well
coined whether accredited delegates OF
not
THE remains of an unknown tramp,
who had been killed by the cars, were
found on the railroad track near Hum.
boldt the other day.
o. C. FURMAN, a mail carrier al
Hutchinson, was recently arrested fol
taking magazines from the mails to
read.
THE Santa Fe Railroad Company has
subscribed $500 and the Rock Island
$500 toward the expense of the Kansas
delegation to the National Grand Army
Encampment in Boston.
Two frame stores in Emporia, owned
by ]. c. Hood and John Eskridge, were
recently destroyed by fire with their
contents. Loss, $1,000.
M
Topeka Coal Company, has skipped the
town short SIS, 900 in his accounts. He
had held his position for the last three
years. His shortage covers period OF
more than year. He left his wife in
CHARLES LA GRANGE appears to be do.
ing a wholesale marriage business il
Southern Kansas. June 8 he was wed.
ded to Miss Emma Haun, of Sedgwick,
and on the 18th to Miss Melissa Thomas,
of Hutchinson. He is also said to have
a wife and family in the East.
A MEETING was recently held at To
peka for the purpose of organizing
State society to perpetuate the memo
ries of the war of National Independ-
ence and to cultivate an interest in the
study of the events of the Revolution.
airy struggle. It is proposed that the
society shall be composed of persons
who are descendants of Revolutionary
soldiers.
HASKELL INSTITUTE, at Lawrence,
graduated a class of nine this year.
Mrs. JOHN LANGAN and her six-year-
old daughter were frightfully burned
by gasoline stove at Topeka the other
day. The mother had left can of gas
oline on the stove after lighting it,
which the child overturned. and it in
stantly blazed up and ignited her
clothes. In extinguishing the flames
the mothers arms and hands were ter
ribly burned.
ABOUT one o'clock the other morning
a meteor fell with terrific explosion
on farm near Washington, scattering
rock in every direction. One piece
nearly a ton embedded itself
in the ground to depth of several feet
The rock was of grayish color and
was intensely hot. The shock of the
explosion was felt for miles around,
many persons thinking it an earthquake.
L P. MILLER Missouri Pacific con-
ductor was recently shot and perhaps
fatally wounded at Osawatomie by an
iAGOA1CdCCo udh WHO mlSGOOk u1m 1OE
another man against whom he had.
grudge.
L. B. MYERS, while intoxicated, went
to the house of BENJAMIN Van Horn, in
Kansas City, Kan, the other evening
about seven o'clock and demanded to
see his wife, who had left him on ac-
count of his abuse and taken refuge at
the house of Van Horn, her uncle. He
made an assault upon her with pistol
and when Van Horn interfered Myers
shot him and then going up stairs met
Miss Carrie Van Horn, the seventeen
year-old daughter, and he shot her also.
Myers. then fed pursued by an officer
and several others when he fred upon
his pursuers and wounded a young man
named Censor. He was finally cap
tured. It was thought that the wounds
Of Van Horn and his daughter would
prove fatal.
Two children of Henry Wiedmeyer,
Of Quindaro, aged four and two years,
ate quantity of green apples
and died the following day.
THREE children of John Lober, a well
known farmer ten miles south of Wichita,
we're burned to death the other after
noon. Lober and his wife left them
locked up in their house while they
went visiting neighbors. During their
absence the house took fire and the