Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


to Chicago from Sumner county on the
25th.
The wheat harvest in northern Kan
sas is reported as giving an extraor-
binary yield
Larned wants to be an experimental
station for producing rainfall by aerial
disturbances
The Capital Insurance Co. of Topeka
has, at the request of the officers, been
placed in the hands of receiver.
DR.. j. w. B. Hewitt, one Of the old
settlers of Lyon county and a promi-
nent allianceman, was killed by Santa
Fe engine the other day.
Belden, who was to have been hanged
at Wichita on the Goth for the murder
of Grant in Oklahoma, has been re-
spited by the president until July "a.
A neighborhood quarrel led to quar-
rel between Mrs Mary Ryan and her
husband at Leavenworth which re-
suited in Ryan shooting his wife twice,
probably fatally.
The governor has appointed William
NJ. Rice, of Fort Scott, director of the
penite ntiary to succeed W. 81. Mcbride,
appointed state insurance commission
er, and who will enter upon the duties
of his Office July 1.
Topeka grocery merchants have late
~ been suffering from the depredations
| of forgers who made a business OF pass
| ing forged checks for small purchases
| and receiving the change. The checks
were uniformly of the denomination of
50.
Spreading rails caused the ditching
of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
train near Thomas recently. The loco
motive turned over and Fireman John
Welsh was caught underneath and
killed. The engineer, Peter Newcomb b,
suffered bad injuries
| A poor widow with a large family
of children and pleasing appearance
has recently been working" the bust
ness men of Salina- When she left 1t
was learned that she had a comfortable
bank account and she adopts this
method of adding to it
C. w. Brown and Sol Williams. living
near johnson City, had an old feud to
settle and Williams threatened to whip
Brown and the other day attempted to
carry out the threat, when Brown
emptied a shotgun into his adversary's
body, killing him almost instantly.
Both the men have families.
The board of railroad commissioners
at late meeting granted the demand
of the people of Tisdale, Cowley county,
and ordered the Missouri Pacific road
| to construct and open a station house
of standard dimensions, with telegraph
and express Office, and to maintain q
competent agent in charge on or before
September 1.
Mrs. William Beeson attempted sui
eide at Topeka recently by taking
poison Timely discovery and medical
aid saved her life. She is a dress
maker and some time since fell anG
broke her arm. This prevented hel
working and it was thought had some
thing to do with her attempt at sui
eide She has a husband and three
children.
The other day Francis Titeler, aged
II years, was playing at the mouth OF
an abandoned coal shaft at Weir City,
when he was overcome by black damp
and fell to the bottom Of the shaft, {
distance of twenty-eight feet Hi.
father ran for the shaft and started
down the ladder, when he, too, wa:
overcome with the gas. Both were
taken out dead
Antonio Llama, the Mexican who Gu
boys throat with razor near Garde1
City June 10, was arraigned in the dis
trict court the other day and pleaded
guilty to the two charges of hors,
stealing and assault with intent to kill
For the former he received sentenc.
of nine years in the penitentiary ant
for the other twenty-one years. Thu
boy, though fearfully bruised an,
gashed by his assailant, will recover.
Mrs Claudia Keller, the young wifi
of the newly-instal1ed Baptist ministe
of Leavenworth, had a startling en-
counter with burglar at an early hou
the other morning, and came pear bein
: murdered. About four o'clock she aros
and went into an adjoining room to &c
glass of water when she discovere
some one crouching in the room. Sh
restrained strong impulse to screar
and turned to go back, as though ur
| aware of the presence of the burglar
| | when he struck her on the head, rel
dering her unconscious The villa
. | Immediately afterward fastened a sma
} rope around her neck with a loop an
= drew it up tight. She laid unconsciou
on the floor for over an hour, when he
husband awolse from hearing her heav
I | breathing and with much trouble n
, suscitated her. The burglar escaped.
( The senate committee appointed t
, investigate the state house constructio
has reported to the governor. tn
committee finds that the board of stat
p house commissioners having in charg
|, the erection of the main buildin
of the state house had given props
attention to their duties; had acte
with wisdom and discretion, and ha
, conducted the business with abs.
y lutte fairness and impartiality, guardin
y the interests of the state not only
the making of contracts, but what wa
of equal Importance. keeping watcf
< full eye that all contracts were faithful
: ly executed. Also that the materi;
used in the construction was of the be-
quality, and that the work on the mai
building was far superior to that c
S either of the wings The report
a signed by Senators IL B. Kelley, Berr.
d Richter, Murdoch and Howard
8 Hans Peterson, a Swede carpente
S was returning home to his wife and fly
children the other night from Denve
+ on the limited passenger, which do
d not stop at Weskan, the nearest static