Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-03-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The United States Savings bank at |
Topeka has made an assignment for |
the benefit of its creditors. The presi- |
dent w. C. Knox, is a sea OF John d.
Knox, who also failed some time Since.
The Kansas delegation TO ire third
party conference 10 he held in Cincin-
nal May 90 win leave Topeka May II.
Two Pullman cars have been engaged
Tor the accommodation of those who
will attend from this state.
William d. Munson, agent in Kansas
City, Kan, OF the Royal Insurance Co.
of Liverpool, the Northern of London
| and the Hamburg-Bremene Of Germany,
has been arrested charged with the en-
bezzling of 81, ACE belonging to the vari-
GUS companies. The money was lost in
gambling.
Reports received at the agricultural
department from 80 of the 100 counties
in the state bring encouraging news re-
garding the wheat outlook. In four
fifths of the counties reporting the crop
| is better than ever before reported in
the history of the state.
| A careful examination of the condi-
ton OF the wheat in Clay county showed
| it to be unsurpassed in the history of
the county. The acreage of last fall
was 25 cent. more than that of any pre-
ceding year, and, coupled with the ex-
cellent condition of the plant, makes
the prospect for heavy crop most en-
couraging.
The receipts of live stock at the Kan
sas City, Kan, stock yards for the week
ended March Is, were 1850 cattle, 263
calves, 47,777 hogs, 6,261 sheep and 657
horses and mules. Twenty head of
choice beef cattle from Leavenworth
| county, weighing on an average 1000
| pounds, were sold at SIS. 40, the highest
for many months.
Marshall T. Frame, prominent law
yer of Atchison, died the other night
from the effects of injuries received in
a runaway accident about week pre-
vious. The accident was caused by an
unknown farmer, who refused to give
part of the road and crowded Mr..
Frames buggy into narrow place,
where collision resulted and the horse
took fright
/ While the session of the legislature
just closed was not remarkable for the
large number of general laws passed,
yet a great many local measures passed
that body. Of these there were more
than twice as many as any previous ses-
sion enacted. The number of bills in
troduced during the session was 1874,
of which S5+ originated in the house and
420 in the senate. Less than one-fifth
of the bills introduced became laws
: Ben Grant, a Top ,lka negro, shot and
instantly killed his white wife the other
, afternoon. The only witness was the
woman's little daughter four years of
age, the child Of former marriage.
The report to the police was not made
| until an hour after the killing occurred
, and by that time Grant had made his
, escape. Jealousy was unquestionably
? the cause Of the murder. Grant is rep
r resented as being desperate negro.
: He speaks Spanish and it is though will
: attempt to reach Mexico, where he
! lived once.
I'll 9 two-year-old daughter of Samuel
a Sells, of Lawrence, was fatally burned
the other day. The father had made a
p bonfire of rubbish and leaves in the
: yard and had gone to the barn, when
= the little child wandered out of the
house and fell into the fire. It's cries
called the mother to the rescue, but
the little one was one sheet of flame
h The mother tore the burning garments
from the child and finally succeeded in
: eXtinguishing the flames, but not until
it had been horribly burned. The
mother was terribly burned also.
;, Murder in the second degree was the
verdict recently returned by the jury
r at Wichita, after being out all night
in the case of the Mexican tomala man.
Camello Lopes. The murder was com
mitted in January. A colored woman
:, into whose room Lopes had broken anG
;, whom he attempted to assault, escaped
and sought protection with neigh boz
named Dobbs and his wife. Lopes fol
lowed and with a butcher knife at
tackled all three indiscriminately, kill
- ing Dobbs on the spot and horribly
: mutilating the two women. Much in
q dignation was expressed at the verdict
II Pensions were granted the following
n KanSanS on the nth: Elias Reever
II William Fl. Low, Barney Mills, Leandel
=, Porter, Seneca Tyler, Daniel Mckinley
% John M. Wolf, George Daum, Hiram
'e Wing, John c. Milton, Jonathan E
~ Jones, David ]. Kelley, Clark Randall
John Larney, John c. Cooper, john b
Hess, Law Hellawell, Louis G. Com
paret, Frank L. Pound, George w
g Cory, Robert Reynolds, Silas Cooper
Adam Fries, Samuel A. DilIman
- Christian Raft, William j. Davis
Daniel e. Wright, John Brown
William Hogan, Spencer JOIN
Dyer, Joseph Berry, EIiial
= Hale, William F. Benson, William Den
nible, Richard Shivers, George W
Kiser, Barney J. Robson, Charles D
Cowan, William B. Hutchinson, John II
Johnston, Charles n. Ella, Theodor
IN Cessna, William Ross, Benjamin +
Pottorff, William L. Millen, William
er Martin, Ransom Fl. Gle, Samuel Nc
to Chung, Emanuel Linsea, James Shearn
lr Amos C. d. Briggs, Thomas Bettes
er Stephen Jex. Sampson p. Harget,
O. Joseph Beavers. Reuben S. Rogers
re William j. Afford, Andrew j. Lewis
James III. Hiatt, John Dickson, Jane
IL Holt, John L. Brady, William C. Crair
n Elizabeth Allen, Mary Kable and Joe
Id Blakeley.
be The board of five managers appointe
e. by the house of representatives to cor
at duct the prosecution of Judge .Theode
id sius Botl<in before the senate will NEE
nv at Topeka April 10, ten days prior to tn
I'd date fixed by the senate for beginnin
is the trial. The board has engaged as il
n. attorney R. NJ. Mackey, formerly apar