Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Gilbert WILEY. a brakeman, was
killed by switch engine near Argen-
tine the other day.
Seymour Thomas, of Kansas City,
Kan. an engineer on the Rock Island
road, was killed by late wreck of his
train at Allerton, Iowa
John Murphy, a Santa Fe brakeman.
was killed in the Newton yards at two
o'clock the other morning. He leaves
a widow and three children.
The president of the Kansas fedora
ton OF labor says a vigorous campaign
will be inaugurated against the vio-
lators OF the eight-hour law.
o. V. Cook. switchman in the Santa
Fee yard at Topeka, was killed the
other night while uncoupling cars He
was ffty-two years old and leaves q
wife and two children.
The executive committee of the peo-
pies party state central com mittee re-
Gently met at Topeka and decided to
establish permanent political head
quarters at Topeka ,eefls
David Evans, a colored boy, was re-
Gently playing in yard at Leayen-
worth where some horses were run
ming loose, when one of them kicked
him, inficting fatal injuries. htA
At its late meeting at Topeka the
peoples party central committee re-
fused to accept the resignation of Chair
man Dumbauld, but put the work into
the hands of an executive committee
headed by s. w. Chase.
The two-year-old son of J. Higgins,
an expressman of Marysville, was re-
Gently burned to death by a patent
lighter. The oil became detached from
the handle and in trying to extinguish
the blaze the clothes of the child took
fire.
On the night of the 27th Wichita had
three incendiary fires in as many barns
The fires were in different quarters of
the city. In the first three horses were
lost and another horse was destroyed
in the second. The loss aggregated
about So, 500.
81. NJ Northrup, leading banker
and business man of Kansas City,
Kan, was recently stricken with
paralysis and was in a critical condi-
ton He is passed seventy-three years
of age and one of the pioneers of the
western frontier.
Lem johnson. colored, was shot the
other day while helping a neighbor
butcher hog, at Atchison. The gun
with which the killing was to be done
was accidentally discharged while in
the hands of a man named Highbaugh,
and the load entered Johnson's fore
head. He could not recover.
S. F. Burdette, grand scribe of the
grand encampment 1. o. o. F., aud who
for twenty-seven years held the Office
of grand secretary, died at Leaven-
worth on the 27th from the effect of a
paralytic stroke received about a week
previous He was about seventy three
years of age.
Reuben Marshall, railroad engineer,
and his fireman left Fort Scott the
other day for hunt They had not
been gone long before the gun of the
fireman was accidentally discharged
and the contents lodged in Marshalls
breast and arms The injury was
thought not to be fatal.
A poor woman with three small chill
dren lately reached Fort Scott in search
of the husband, who had deserted his
family. His name is j. r Stanley, a
carpenter. The deserted wife found
that he was living with another woman
who he had married. When Stanley
discovered that his deserted wife was
after him he jumped on a train just
leaving and escaped
Valentine Wentz, an assistant press
man of the Leavenworth Times, was
recently killed by shock of electricity.
He was about to adjust lamp over a
press when his hand came in contact
with a wire that was partially dead"
the current having been turned off on
account of fire in the city. Suddenly
full current was turned on that
passed through Vents body. He gave
one loud scream and fell to the floor
1ifeless
Reports received at Topeka from
the registers of deeds in fifty coun-
ties of eastern and central Kansas
show a reduction for October in farm
and city mortgage Indebtedness of
1851. 600, of which 1907, 600 was on farm
lands. The same reports show a net
reduction of 50. 800. 600 in farm mort
gage Indebtedness for a period Of five
aud one-half months, and an excess OF
IS per cent of farm mortgages released
over those recorded. It is also shown
that in the majority of cases where the
farmers remortgage it is for a reduced
amount, but since land sales are becom-
ing more active the number of pur-
chase money mortgages is increasing
from month to month.
The last legislature enacted a law
providing that no legal notice. adver-
tisement or publication of any kind re-
quired or provided by any of the laws
of the state of Kansas to be published
in a newspaper shall have any effect as
such unless the same be published in a
newspaper of the county having gen.
era1 circulation therein, and which
said newspaper has been continuously
and uninterruptedly published in said
county during the perion of ffty-two
consecutive weeks prior to the first
publication of the notice or advertise
ment. The omission of publishers, in
making affidavit, to state that the
paper had been published for ifty-two
consecutive weeks in the county has
knocked OUT number of cases in
court lately.
Miss Palmer, who was recently cut
ting a wide swath at Topeka in the silk
worm business and who induced Frank
McClelland, capitalist to invest in
the enterprise, has been held to answer
the charge of obtaining money by false
pretense. The sacred silk worms of
India " IL is said were nothing but