The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-03-12
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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SCOTT COUNTY has secured a Judgment
for S., 500 against johnson Bros. & Ser
vice, ex-bankers, for county funds held
by them at the time of their failure.
The barn of Henry Narrower, who 0ves
near Andale, fifteen miles northwest of
Wichita. was burned the other morning
shortly before daylight Five thousand
4, five hundred bushels of wheat burned.
Total loss, 5000. No insurance.
Some months ago an old man by the
name of Thomas Carey, stopped at Fort
Scott and put up at boarding house.
He was about eighty years Of age and
very misery in his habits, washing his
own clothes and subsisting on two meals
q day. The other day he died, when in
his room and upon his person was found
$4,000 in money and securities. One
citizen Of the city said he knew deceased
in Washington County, Iowa, thirty
years ago, but knew little Of his history
since.
AT recent meeting in Topeka of the
board of directors of the Kansas Alliance
of the Farmers Alliance, arrangements
for handling livestock were made with
the American Livestock Commission
Company, and Edwin Snyder, q member
OF the board, was elected to represent
the Exchange with said livestock COM
pany at the stock yards in Kansas City,
prepared to look after consignments Of
stock from members of the Kansas Alli-
ance Exchange Company.
In the district court at Scott City the
other day the criminal case of A. r.
Lasley, ex-county treasurer, who is a
defaulter to the amount Of 900, was
finally quashed on account of technical
tiles. Lasley was then held for embez-
clement on a complaint made before
justice of the peace.
The council of administra ton of the
G. A. R. recently held meeting at To-
peka and decided to hold two daylight
campfires at Concofdia and Wichita on
March "a and 25, at which time recep-
tons will be rendered General Alger,
commander-in-chief,w who will then pass
through the State on his way from Da-
kota to Arkansas. The date of the an
nual reunion to be held in Topeka was
fixed for October Z, 8, 9 and 10.
WILLIS MASON recently filed suit
against J. p. Berry at Topeka for
SANDER and malicious prosecution,
claiming damages in the sum of $40. COO.
Both plant # and defendant are colored.
The SANDER consisted in calling the
plaintiff ''a dirty, broken down soldier
deadbeat," and the malicious prosecu-
ton grew out of State case against
Mason wherein Berry was the prosecut-
ing witness.
THE Medicine Lodge Sugar Company
has sent to Germany for three tons of
beet seed.
COMMITTEES represen ting the State
organizations of the Farmers Alliance,
the Grange. the Farmers Mutual Bene-
fit Association and the Knights of Labor
met in Emporia recently and adopted
platform looking to the consolidation of
the different organizations for political
purposes.
The State Superintendent of Insur-
ance has received from all the fire in
surance companies doing business in
Kansas reports showing the business
transacted by them in the State during
1889. 1t shows that risks to the amount
of S., 142, 1872. 25 were written in 1889 by
Kansas mutual companies, as compared
with 81, 455, 520.25 for the previous year
The foreign companies of which there
are seventy-eight, wrote risks to the
amount of $l34, $50, 1892 last year, the
business for the previous year being
1929, 945, 032.0
THE other evening while the eleven
year-old son of Mr.. w. r. Mansfield, of
Winfield, was out riding, his horses ran
away and threw the boy just as he was
crossing the railway track. His head
struck on the rail, producing fatal in
juries.
A STRANGER, a passenger on the south
bound Santa Fe train. stopped at the
Arlington Hotel in Wellington the other
night and registered as Morgan Avery,
giving no address. The next morning
he was found dead in bed. No cause of
death was given.
SHAWNEE COUNTY claims to have
thirty organizations of the Farmers ALI
ance with 5000 or more members.
S. w. BERRY, a mail carrier between |
Lawrence and Clinton recently fooled"
with pistol and lost thumb and two
fingers.
A COLONY of Illinois farmers recently |
purchased 1.76O acres of land in Reno
County and will Immediately come to
Kansas to live.
THE residence of Mr.. Dunn, three
and one-half miles west of Salina, was
destroyed by fire the other day. Loss,
$500; partially insured.
AT Leavenworth the other night Pat
rick Coneth was shot by a drunken SOL
der for refusing to enter into converse
ton with and knocking the soldier
down. He may recover. The soldier
had not been captured.
THE safe in F. Watson's store at Stat |
ford was blown open by burglars the
other night and $3.50 secured. The
building was fred and destroyed.
THE three-story brick block at Wichita,
owned by c. R. Miller and A. C. Robin
son, was partially destroyed by fire the
other morning. The loss on building
was placed at 5000, covered by insur-