Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The synod of the Presbyterian church
Of Kansas will meet at Kansas City
(Kan.) October 9, and be in session
three days It is expected that about
s75 delegates will be in attendance.
Gov. Humphrey has offered a reward
of $500 for the apprehension of William
Woford, alias William Logwood, coll
ored, who killed William Norris, coll
ored. of Leavenworth county, ON Au-
gust 20.
Mas Clara DeRussey. Of Fort Leav-
enworth, q student in Bethany college
at Topeka, committed suicide the other
day by taking strychnine. She was
twenty years old. Hard study had I'M
balanced her mind.
E. c. Prather recently informed the
Oakley Graphic that he had a field of
alfalfa. three years old. from which he
had already this year cut three crops of
about three tons to the acre each, and
that it was then ready to cut again.
Two large ice houses belonging to
Charles Pullen. at Atchison. were re-
Gently destroyed by fire. causing a loss
of $4,000. Partially insured Two
barns in the same block also burned
with horse and buggy in one of them.
A wealthy Wyandotte county man
celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of
his marriage by knocking his wife
down and otherwise abusing her, and
she has sued him for divorce, alimony
and the custody of their minor children.
The other afternoon Mrs A. NJ
Coyne, while out riding at Clay Center,
was thrown from her buggy and -seri-
ously injured. Her horse broke from
her control and she was thrown out,
breaking a leg, thigh, arm and other
wise injuring her
The other night Rock Island freight
and Union Pacific construction train
collided near Muncie, and although
there were forty men on the construc-
ton train and a dozen cars were
ditched nobody was hurt. The loss to
the railroads was heavy.
Everett Ray, the twelve-year-olds son
of Martin Ray, head bricklayer for the
Armour Packing Co., was run over by
a Northwestern freight train at Kansas
City. Kan, the other day and killed
He attempted to jump on the moving
train and fell under the wheels.
Miss Stella Covert, seventeen years
old; was drowned while recently bath
ing at Claassen's mill, near Newton.
She was good swimmer, but the water
| was quite cold and she remained in too
long. A young man who was with the
party had nearly succeeded in saving
her, when she caught him by the arms
and pulled him under. He succeeded
in freeing himself, but she sank and he
could not find her.
The body of Miss Flora Roberts, a
young woman who lately disappeared
from her home at Armourdale, was re-
Gently found in the Missouri river,
| several miles below Kansas City, Mo.
| She was eighteen years old and after
| dark one evening left home to visit a
| neighbor and was never seen alive
| again by the family. The supposition
was that she had been assaulted and
| then thrown into the river.
The state board of railroad commits
| sioners recently received a complaint
| from the miners at Pittsburgh against
the st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Co., claiming that the company will not
accept shipments of coal to the interior
| towns upon the schedule issued in No
vember. 1889. The company charges
| in addition to the regular rates switch
|
claimed is a violation of the long and
| short haul clause of the law governing
freight rates.
The mandamus case against State
| Treasurer Slower to compel him to
| honor warrants drawn by the board of
regents against the normal interest
| fund. was argued in the supreme court
| at Topeka on the 1st. 1t has been the
Of ~
warrants without question for years,
but Attorney General Ives recently
rendered an opinion that no fund in the
hands of the state treasurer could be
drawn upon except under a special act
of the legislature. A decision will not
! be rendered before October.
The driver of a hotel bus at Gueda
| Springs was shot by Edward CLANCY, a
cowboy, the other day. Clancy was
stopping at hotel and wanted to leave
on the evening train, but was slow in
getting ready, and as it was train time
| the driver started off without him.
| Clancy drew his revolver and shot at
the omnibus three times The first
| shot wounded the driver badly. There
| were several women and children in
the bus. and the indignant citizens
| >>S
| was hustled off to jail
At the close of the western confer
ence of the NJ. E Church South. lately
held at Hillsdale, Miami county. the
following Kansas appointments were
made by Bishop Hargrave: Atchison
district, j. w. Payne. presiding elder;
| Atchison station, W. Il. Conner; Efng-
ham. J. T. Smith; Holton. j. Tillery;
Waterville, w. 81. Kincaid; Leaven-
worth, II. L Miller; Kickapoo, to be
supplied; Oskaloosa, A. H. Moore;
Wyandotte, r. A. Parker; Kansas City
station. Frank Siler; Shawneetown, Fl.
D. Hogan; Hillsdale, A. ]. Notes.-The;
Bucyrus and Stillwell, T. c. Downs.
Council Grove district, ]. w. Faubion,
presiding elder; Council Grove station.
F. A. White; Council Grove circuit, j.
D. Austin; Strong City. to be supplied;
Labette, to be supplied; Bronson, j. E.
| Wick; Winfield, s. B. Graves; Yelling
ton. w. R Owen; Mount Hope, to be
supplied; Kinsley, to be supplied; Ha-
zleton. w. E. Broadhurst
| Three colored girls held no and