Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The state :air will be held at Topeka,
commencing September IA
The farmers elevator company, of
Hiawatha, has fled charter with the
secretary of state, with capital stock
| of s., 600.
=! Ex-senator Ingalls, has not sailed for
| Europe, as has been reported He is at
home, and has no intention of going
abroad this year.
The Leavenworth mutual sick relief
association has been chartered for the
purpose of relieving sick members by
the payments of fixed weekly benefits.
| Newell S. Pond, of Arkansas City.
having recently discovered plan of his
wife to e1ope with George Pile, went
home and accused her and then broke
! or cut up every article of furniture and
clothing in the house and threatened to
take his wife's life, but finally allowed
her to escape. He then left the city.
Pile is married.
| A petition, signed by large number
of citizens of Stevens county, has been
received by Gov. Humphrey, asking
him to cause an investigation into the
financial affairs of the county. The
petition sets forth the fact that the in
debtedness of the county is SIS, 600, one
half of which was incurred in fraudu-
lent way by the county officers.
The survivors of the Quantren raid
recently held a meeting at Lawrence
and effected an organization with the
following officers: President F. w.
Read; vice-Presidents, G. Grovenor,
| Samuel Kihball, c. T. K. Prentice;
secretary, C. w. Smith; corresponding
4 ID w Il.
L. Bullene; executive committee. r.
w. Spar, ]. C. Watts, ]. G. Sands, j.
81. Simmons, E. w. Wood.
The grand lodge of colored Masons,
lately in session at Fort Scott, elected
officers as follows: G. w. Smith, OF
Topeka, grand master; G. A. Dudley, of
Kansas City. deputy grand warden; j.
w. Steward, senior grand warden; j. S.
Brashear, of Topeka, grand treasurer;
II. II. Curtis, of Baxter Springs, grand
secretary. The reports of the various
grand officers show the order to be in a
fourishing condition and full of cheer
| ing and consoling news to the craft
throughout the entire jurisdiction.
The new school law for cities of the
frst-class, passed by the last legisla-
ture, it has been discovered will work
a delay in opening the schools of sew
eral cities from early in September, the
usual time, to January, 1892. The
cities that will suffer are Kansas City
| and Atchison, the school boards of both
being in debt and the new levy not be-
ing available until January next Kan
sas City (Kan.) proposes to open the
schools and maintain them until Janu-
airy by means of private subscriptions
and charging small tuition fee.
The Kansas association of Pennsyl-
vania settlers recently held an annual
reunion at Emporia, which ended with
| picnic which was attended by over
5000 people. Nearly everyr county in
| the state had representatives present.
The following were elected officers:
President, Rev. d. B. Shuley, of Empo-
ria; treasurer, D. C. Lake. of Usage
City; secretary, c. H. Bollman. of To-
| peka- Lyon county has over l. 600
Pennsylvanians and not less than 600
others were present Topeka was
chosen as the place for the next reunion.
E. w. Deming, of New Orleans. who
| owns large sugar mill at Attica, is in
Kansas to push the work of manufact-
uring sugar from sorghum. He has
great faith in the sugar industry in
Kansas and believes that Kansas sor-
ghum can be made as productive of
sugar as southern cane. Atpresent the
| best plantations in the south get 200
| pounds of sugar IRON a ton of cane,
| while Kansas sorghum yields but 100
| pounds. Kansas sorghum contains
more glucose than southern cane, and
| this is serious diffiu1ty in the way of
making sugar.
| Special Policeman Grigsby, on duty
at Chelsea park, Kansas City, Kan,
during the recent heavy storm. attempt
ed to remove telephone wire which
had been blown down. He grabbed it
with both hands and in a moment real
| lied that he had hold of live wire.
| The man was unable to release his
hands and he writhed around in great
agony By the time assistance arrived
smoke from his burning flesh was aris-
| ing and he was in most terrible agony.
It took several moments for the people
who came to his assistance to comprc-
bend the situation, but Grigsby,\ al
though undergoing awful torture.
shouted to them to cut the wire. This
was quickly done and the policeman
| was enabled to drop the wire. The
palms of both hands were quite badly
burned
| Fred Cook, a Hneman employed by
the Western Union telegraph company,
recently had marvellous escape from
| death while at work on the corner of
| Sixth street and Minnesota avenue in
Kansas City, Kan. Smith was engaged
| in repairing a wire at the top of a tele-
graph pole when it accidently came in
contact with live" electric light wire.
In an instant he was jerked from the
pole and his body was dangling in the
air. When the current struck him he
gave one loud shrek. A scene of wild
excitement followed, as the crowd ex-
| pected to see Cook fall to the pavement
and be dashed to death. Cooks face
| turned black from the effects of the
~heavy shock, but he recovered his
senses long enough to shout: ''For
| Gods sake cut the wire.'' The deadly
current again rendered him uncon-
| scious Another lineman rushed to his
rescue and cut the wire. Cooks hands
were terribly burned
| The total assessed valuation of prop
| erty in Kansas in 1880 was S160, S91, $50.
In 1890 it was 500, 593, I'll; increase.
s129, ZOE, 9e2. The population in 1850
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