Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

manager off, the Champion, and .
brother of the late Gov. Martin. died ut
Atchison the other day.
The Friends College association OF
Kansas, which proposes to build a col
Iege in the state. was Incorporated the
other day. The officers are: President.
E. Stanley, Lawrence; secretary, john
Kirby, Tonganoxie; treasurer, John D.
Mills, Lawrence. ...--,...
In accordance with the decision of the
last convention of the Kansas state
federation of labor the next meeting
of the federation will be held at Hutch
inson Monday, January 4, 1892. All
railroads will give holiday rate-one
fare for the round trip
At the Kansas City, Kan, opera
house the other night during a per-
Torrance pistol dropped from the
pocket of Deputy Sheriff Bowling,
Lizzie Burdette, colored woman, in
the hip, which resulted in her death
two days later.
After a week of excruciating pain
and suffering j. n. Deering. a we'll
known resident of Bourbon county,
died the other day. Mr.. Deering DELHI
erately poisoned himself by taking a
dose of laudanum and followed it up
with dose of morphine. No cause for
the act could be assigned He left a
wife and ten children.
Mrs. Frank Cigrand, of Argentine.
went out a few days before Christmas
to do some holiday shopping, leaving
several children in the house. During
her absence the children set fire to the
house by some means and her four
year-old child was burned to death.
Charlie Booker, an eight-year-old boy,
| was also badly burned
The Second Regiment Kansas Ma
tional Guard Columbia association,
| which proposes to accumulate funds
| for use and maintenance to attend the
| Columbian exposition at Chicago, has
been incorporated The capital stock
is placed at S1a,5OO and the incorpor-
| ators are the officers of the various
companies Of the regiment.
The large frame dwelling house be-
| longing to the estate of the late Hon.
! d. G.. Campbell, of Merriam. was
burned to the ground the other
| night with most of it's contents Ten
| barrels of fine cider were stored in the
basement of a portion of the house.
| The loss will reach several thousand
dollars with but 81, 600 insurance.
While recently clearing some timber
on the farm of James Dougan, in the
southern part of Atchison county,
James Saunders found a petrifed hui
man body, which the successive rains
had evidently unearthed. The petri-
faction is almost perfect in form, one
| hand alone being missing. Old settlers
say it is the body of ''Willow Twig, p" a
notorious Kickapoo Indian. who made
his home with a Frenchman named
Pensinau, and who was minus hand.
The following Kansas banks went
into voluntary liquidation during the
past year: First national of Hill City,
| First national of Frankfort, West Side
national of Wichita, Anthony national
of Anthony. National bank of Ell Do
RADIO, Citizens national of Medicine
| Lodge, United States national of Atchi-
son, First national OF Ashland and
First national of Burr Oak. Four Kan
sas banks obtained an extension of their
corporate existence during the year.
| At Augusta the other day w. A.
Rhoades shot his divorced wife and
| then sent a bullet through his brain,
killing him instantly. Mrs. Rhoades re-
ceived bullet in the neck, and may
| recover. Last summer Rhodes secured a
| divorce in Nevada His wife brought suit
| against his mother in the district court
| for alternating his affection and had just
received a verdict of 81. 900 damages.
o. the morning of the shooting Rhoades
| asked his divorced wife to remarry him
and the tragedy followed her refusal
| The Kansas Poultry association, al
it's late session in Topeka, elected the
following officers: President, s. P.
Robinson; vice-presidents, John G.
Hewitt. j. w. Werner and G. C.
Wilkins: secretary, ]. p. Lucas, of To.
peka; assistant secretary, Mrs ]. P.
Lucas, of Topeka; treasurer, c. II.
Rhodes, of North Topeka 1t was de.
cided that the association be incor-
porated under the state laws of Kan
sas, and that the next annual show be
held in Topeka the same week as the
| Fine Stock association, in January
1893
The following Kansas veterans were
made happy the day before Christm as
by having their pensions granted
Richard A. Hoffman, Thomas Cotter
Michael Zoller, Eugene NJ. Eldred, Al
bert Coles, Mobiles II. Heaton, John
Trezise, Daniel q. Hahn, James H
Trimb BILE. Jacob Fl. Brown, Jacob r
| NOnemaker, warren chapman. Alex
ander Nj. Staley, William w. Savage
George Evinger, John j. Townsend
August Schultz. Willis CHM, Henry A
Glenn, Craven S. Turner. Philip R. Os
born, Eben S. WEIGH, John May
David Smith, Amenzo Brown, A
Calvert, William A. Atha. Lu
cinda Washburn Julia A. Cobb, Rob
ert s. Strother, Bertrand S. Green
Joseph A. Shink, Henry w. Rayburn
John VAIL, John Bird, Nathaniel Y
Buck, Milton C. Snort, Richard Russell
Allen Bennett John w. Reed, Davic
Lathrop. Henry Jones, Thomas b. Ross
Alfred w. Kivett, John McLees, JOSEPH
Lines, Edward A. Pointer. Fredericl
Martin, Abner T. Simerl, Jay A. Pol
ley, Clarence Lyman, Eli w. Campbell
Walter s. Gleason, Barbara Meyer
Elizabeth Coon. Mary Monahan, Luc,
Edwards and the minor children O.
Henry Nevill.
John ]. Rust, aged seventy-thre'
years, died at his home in Lancaste,
the other day. He came to Kansa:
from Ohio in 1857 and was one of tn,
best known of the early settlers. HI
kept the first tavern in Atchisou coun
| o,,&e;Ia 0f ho oifv Ho hoe bald .