Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

JACOB SoLrsKIK. German who was
employed in the Santa Fe car shops at
Topeka, was fatally injured the other
day by having.a screw-driver driven into
| him. Soltseik was at work with a
screw-driver near a shafting, when the
tool was caught in the machinery. and
in some way forced between his ribs
j. K SPENDLovE, convicted at Topeka
| about year ago of the murder of
Gustav Werner and sentenced to life
imprisonment was released the other
day on bonds to await the action of the
Supreme Court, to which he has taken
an appeal. Under the law passed by
| the last Legislature he is entitled to
this privilege. and it was granted to him
several weeks ago but he did not find
bonds until recently.
| The other morning Peter Letter was
found dead in his chair in his room, al
most a howell, at Kansas City, Kan,
with bullet hole in his head. He had
been dead several days and a note left
! by him showed that he had committed
the deed himself. He was seventy years
old and one of the oldest residents of
the city. He was miser and seldom
was seen in company. He had kept
small store for years and was only
known ''Old Pete" In the note
written just before he committed the
deed he told where a pot of gold con-
tanning 1920 could be found by digging
under the floor, which the coroner found
as stated He left will bequeathing
| 81, 600 in Government bonds to each of
four relatives in Germany and $500 to
friend to take charge of his estate. The
coroner also found his bank book show
ing a good amount to his credit and
$1,000 in Government bonds. The old
miser bequeathed all of his property,
except left as above stated, to the Y.
M. c. A.
DURING the storm at Leavenworth on
the evening of the Sd the residence of a
Mrs Borgerser was struck by lightning
and considerably damaged. A large
| barn on the premises of John Berry, a
market gardener near the city. was
struck and entirely consumed, with its
| contents.
AT the little mining town of Brighton,
about six miles southwest of Leaven-
worth, Tim Isam, popular and well-to-
do colored man, was lately found dead in
bed by Paul Hitter, his nephew, and
neighbor. His two children were sleep
ing quietly on each side of him. He had
been murdered with an axe. Young
Hitter was arrested on suspicion. The
boy implicated the parents of Isam's de-
ceased wife in the crime.
The Republicans of the Second dis
trict met in convention at Chelsea Park
| (Kansas City, Kan, on the 5th and re-
nominated Hon. E. II. Funst ton for Con-
gress by reclamation
COMMANDER COLLINS has issued gen.
eral order announcing that the State re-
union of the G. A. r. will be held at To-
| peka October Z, g. 9 and 10, and meet
| ing of the Council of Administration is
called for September 2. at 1880 p NJ, at
the Copeland Hotel, Topeka, for the
purpose of making arrangements for the
| reunion and the transaction of other
| business.
THE bonded debt of Kansas in 1880
was ST. Isl ,975; in 1890 it is SOL, 600.
| There was no floating debt either in
| 1880 or in 1890. The cash and funds on
| hand in 1880 were So, 465, SIS; in 1890,
SIS, 1872, 572 The excess of assets over
| debts in 1850 was 81. 2s3. 533; in 1890,
| 81, 92i,5 72.
In 1861 Thomas F. Williams of Atchi-
son County, entered the army as a
Second Lieutenant in Kansas cavalry
regiment, and At the battle of Wilson's
creek received wound disabling him
for life, for which he receives pension
| of S72 a month. By some oversight he
| was not mustered out until about one
year ago. He put in a claim for SER
vices, but there was no law to cover his
case. A special act, however, has been
passed, and the other day he received
information from the Treasury Depart
ment that a draft for $50, 5O3 would be
forwarded in few days.
B. II. CLOVER, president of the Farm
ers' Alliance, has been nominated for
Congress in the Third district.
THE other afternoon about four o'clock
q tramp appeared at the residence of
Ezekiel Cooper, a farmer of Clay Coun-
| ty, and committed an assault on his
nineteen-year old daughter at the point
of revolver. He then departed, telling
the young lady that he would take her
life if she informed any one of the
direction he took. No one was in the
house at the time excepting the young
lady.
ALL of the original package houses in
Topeka closed their doors at midnight
on the Sth. The passage of the Wilson
bill found number of the agents with
a supply of beer and whisky on hand,
but as it would become law the mo-
ment the President attached his sig
nature the agents were afraid to do any
| business
THE Governor has appointed William
Fairchild a police commissioner of
Leavenworth to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of ]. L. Abe rnathy y.
w. w. ROACH and his ten-year-old
daughter were recently killed by light
ming while standing under a tree at the
family residence in Pomona
PENSIONS were granted on the sth to
| the following Kansas veterans: Emily
T. Potter, of Hays City; John P. Kirby,
| of Auburn; Benjamin Thomas, of Lyons;
John Stadlish, of Chalkmound; Samuel
/ r. Stillman, of Council Grove; Jere-
miah Simkins, of Reading; Luther M.
| Summers, of Armourdale; David w.
Tate, of Kincaid; Jesse 7. Underwood,
of Florence; Mary W. Roberts, of King
man, and Mary w. Quinby, of Formosa-
Two boys who had run away from
F., home in the central part of the State