Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Ed Vau&6n, q hfteen-year-old son OF
j. Vaughn, fell into shaft los feet deep
at Galena the other afternoon, and was
SC badly mangled that he only lived
about two hours after being taken out
The Howell Lumber Co, of Atchison.
has failed. The company had connec-
tons at Chicago, Omaha, Jeffersonville.
Tex. and other places. The assets are
reported at 50. 00O, O0o Liabilities not
given
The preachers of Topeka recently
held a meeting In the interest of pro-
hibition and to adopt measures to sup
press the illegal sale of liquor by drug
stores. which they aver have taken the
places of saloons.
Joseph Heclklin, ten-year-old boy,
was killed the other night at a crossing
on the Missouri Pacific some distance
north of Wichita The boy and his
father were crossing the track with
reaper and were caught by train
Despite threatening anonymous let
tiers of death in twenty-four hours and
many other terrible things unless he
refused the Office, Thomas j. Irwin
took charge of the Office of secretary
of the board of education of Wichita,
and still lives.
Laura Bogard attempted to comm it
suicide at Kansas City, Kan, the other
day by letting herself down from the
Central avenue bridge into the Kansas
river, but was rescued by two men who
noticed her actions and watched her.
Inhuman treatment by her husband
the cause.
When the Missouri Pacific railway
- Ci<rv thA pifu
gave the company a bonus of $50, 900 in
bonds. Since then the city has refused
to paw the bonds. The other day suit
was begun in the United States court
by the holders of the bonds for $50, 600
and interest
The doors of the Firt National bank
of Kansas City, Kan, were closed the
other afternoon at 2:15 o'clock-the
hour for clearing. The bank was I'M
able to meet a large check drawn
against city deposits and therefore
closed. 1t was thought all liabilities
would be paid in full.
The trial of Rev. A. ii. Tevis, pastor
of the Washington Street Methodist
church of Kansas City, Kan, resulted
in the finding of the defendant guilty,
as charged, of falsehood and hypocrisy
and his suspension from the ministry.
The result was split in the church,
one of the oldest in the state. DIR.
Tevis is talking of organizing a new
church.
L. S. Cook, representing the Phoenix
Savings Investment Trust Co., Of Kan
sas City, Mo-, was recently arrested at
Ossawatomie on the charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses. He had
obtained advance fees from a number
of persons, aggregating several hum
dred dollars, under pretense of loaning
money at six per cent, and the money
was never Forthcoming.
Nelson George, a, highly connected
young fellow, who used to be deputy
postmaster at Wichita, and was more
recently head of the registered letter
department in the post Office at Ogden,
Utah, is under arrest charged with en-
bezzling SIS, 600 from the Ogden Office.
He appropriated a registered letter con-
tanning large sum of money.
The other morning as the Missouri
Pacific train from Kansas City started
west to Wichita and stopped at the Mis-
ssouri. Kansas & Texas crossing at the
city limits of Fort Scott. freight train
on the latter road struck the Missouri
Pacific chair car, knocked it off the rear
trucks and turned it on its side. The
locomotive of the freight train was de-
rallied and badly smashed Several pas
sengers were injured.
A call has been issued by the various
heads of reform organizations in Tope-
ka for cooperative convention in To-
peka, August % next it was formula
ted by Fred P. Bailey, of Wichita, gen
eral manager of the Mutual Protective
association, an organization for staying
executions under mortgage foreclosure.
Among the names signed to the call are
those of Senator PETER, w. f. Right
mire, secretary of the Citizens Alliance;
S. McLallin, editor of the Advocate; j.
B. French, secretary of the alliance,
and Fred p. Bailey.
President Frank McGrath, of the
Farmers Alliance, says that the esti-
mates of Secretary Mohler that the
wheat crop of Kansas would be about
81, OO0, 600 bushels are altogether too
high From reports received by
him from nearly every county in
the state he estimates that the
yield will not exceed 10, 600, 600 and pos
sibly not more than S5, 600. 900. The
counties which have heretofore pro-
duced the largest crop have, according
to him, suffered partial failure this
year. He believes, however, that the
corn crop will be unusually large.
The state supreme court has decided
against the petitioners in the case Of
the three insurance agents who were
trying to be released from custody at
Leavenworth on q writ of habeas
corpus. This is the case wherein three
insurance agents from Missouri formed
an organization called the ''Sunfiower
club" and went to Leavenworth to dis
cipline a local insurance agent named
James Graham, who they charged with
writing policies at cut rates Graham
did not take kindly to their eNtraordi-
nary efforts to regulate his business and
he had the three agents arrested on a
criminal charge for violating the Kan
sas insurance law by their trying to
keep up and regulate Insurance rates
In the decision the law has been virtu-
ally declared constitutional
It is now believed that Max Tuchman,
the old man whose body was lately
found floating in the Kansas river at To
peka, was murdered and robbed, and SO