Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

F. w. Murphy, lately employed as
bookkeeper by L. a. Wood & Co, real
estate and insurance agents of Kansas
City. Kan, was recently brought back
from Milwaukee to answer the charge
of embezzling from the firm
Captain Jacob B. Chase, who was
member of the party of four that select
ed the site for the city of Topeka IN
November, 1854, died the other day at
his home in Newburyport, Mass The
other three died several years ago.
Hubert Taylor, young man charged
with embezzlement of a few hundred
dollars as station agent of the Missouri
Pacific road at Common, and who fed to
Canada, was recently arrested in Mont
real and returned by a Pinkerton de-
tective.
The Missouri Pacific repair shops and
round house in the Cypress yards at
Kansas City, Kan. together with
eighteen large locomotives, were de-
stroyed by fire the other night The
loss aggregated S175, 900. principally on
the engines Only one freight engine
was saved
The John d. Knox & Co. investment
banking house at Topeka has assigned
The liabilities will reach $500, 900 and
the assets are principally lands. equities,
unpaid coupons, bills discounted. tax
sale certificates, etc Mr.. Knox claims
that on fair valuation they will aggre-
gate $3.50, 600.
Three young girls who had been ex-
PEELED from school at Wichita, collected
all their trinkets, which they converted
into cash, and the other day started on
a south-bound train for Texas with life
full of great expectations They were
soon captured and sent home. They
had reached the mature age of Is years
The House Committee appointed to
investigate the actions of the Board of
the State House Commissioners went to
work in the State Auditors office with
a force of clerks examining all the
vouchers and records pertaining to the
State House construction from the
time of the commencement of the
building of the west wing until the
present time-eleven years.
While making a speech to a 1argr,
audience in Representative Hall at
Topeka on the evening of the 10th, T. v.
Powderly, grand master workman Of
| the knights of Labor, fell to the ros-
trum from heart failure. He soon re-
| covered, however, and was escorted to
! his hotel. He had been speaking for
| three hours when he was attacked. He
! has Cancelled all other Western engage
mentS.
The House committe sent to HutchiE-
| son to examine the reformatory report
! ed in favor of temporarily changing the
institution into lunatic asylum. 1t is
| the idea of the committee that the re-
| formatory building should not not be
remodeled and should only be used as
an asylum until a new asylum can be
| built The committee advises building
a new asylum on the reformatory
| grounds.
| Secretary Mohler, of the State Board
OF Agriculture, has received exceeding
" encouraging reports of the condition
of winter wheat. In fact, he says that
it looks much better now than it has at
any season for several years The
| weather has been favorab BILE, the ground
is we'll supplied with moisture and the
threatened damage from the Hessian fly
has been averted
When the booklSeeper of the bank OF
Eldorado entered the bank in that city
| the other morning he found Franli
Mills, the janitor of the building, dead
on the floor. with bullet in his Lrain
Mills left his family the previous night
after bidding them good-by- The coro
ner returned a verdict of suicide. FL
nancial troubles were assigned. Mills
was a young man and left family.
Five thousand veterans attended ths
recent meeting of the G. A. r. at AR
kansas City. Resolutions asking Con
gress to open the Cherokee Strip wer,
passed. Eloquent addresses were de
livered by General Mccarthy, Judg.
Hanback, and Colonel Emmett Callahan
As Callahan was speaking a Telegram
announced the death of General Sher
man and the speaker paid a warn
tribute to the memory of the departed
| hero.
Frank woodward. a respectable col
ored farmer, who lived near Atchison
was fatally shot late the other after
noon. He was out hunting with a com
panion, and coming to a vacant hous,
in a field opened the door, when boil
barrels of a shotgun were discharge
into his breast. The owner of the hous'
had it stored with corn, and having
been bothered by thieves, set the death
dealing trap.
The State Federation of Labor, at It
recent session in Topeka, elected tn
following officers: 1. b. Brown, Tope
ka, president; Robert Tomp1ins, Atchi
son, first vice-president; U. c. Spencer
Emporia, second vice-president; P.
Cook, Topeka, secretary; n. S. johnson
treasurer; c. A. Coffin, Topeka, ser
geant-at-arms; council, c. B. McElroy
, of Hutchinson; c. c. Bishop, of Kansa
. City, Kan, and Henry Wolf, of Topeka
Cora Sewen and Rosa Mcdonald, tw
, young seamstresses, came near 1osin
their lives by asphyxiation at Leaver
worth the other night They retired t
bed leaving the stove door open with
smouldering fire of soft coal in it, whic
caused the room to fill with gas durin
the night. Upon getting up next morn
ing Miss Mcdonald was overcome b.
the gas and fell to the floor unconscious
: Miss Sewen attempted to resuscitate he
1 when she was also overcome with StupOl
: but not before she gave an alarm an
: aroused persons in the house. whe
| fresh air was admitted to the room.
E. ]. Sims, Comanche County stock
man, was killed at Wichita the othe
day by singular accident He wa
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