Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Robert Ferguson, an eleven-year-old
boy, was recently overcome by heat
while going home from school at Kan
sas City, Kan He was found in q
bunch of weeds in an unconscious CO.
dition.
A general strike among the coal
miners at Leavenworth was inaugural
ed on the 18th. The strike wis for an
advance of half a cent per bushel for
mining coal Several hundred men
| were out
Mayor Glucl<. of Dodge City, was re-
Gently fined 500 in the district court
and busted from Office. being found
guilty of having personal knowledge of
saloon in his building and not taking
| any official action against it
There will be three sugar mills in
| operation in Kansas this fall, one at
Topeka, one at Fort Scott and one at
Medicine Lodge. The mill at Topeka
was burned last year and has been re-
built with improved machinery.
Mrs Harlan, of Nortonville, while
lately in Atchison stepped on banana
peeling and fell upon the stone side
walk. Her injuries were not believed
to be serious at first, but she grew
1
died.
The Kansas Woman's Press associa-
ton will meet in the hall of the house
of representatives at Topeka October 9
at three p. m. In the evening the
meeting will be open to the public and
the music will be under the auspices of
the Topeka Press club
| About twelve o'clock the other night
| Ho1o ;ofa
ist of Atchison, shot and wounded a
burglar who was trying to enter her
room. The man escaped, however,
with the assistance of friends. He was
tracked several blocks by the blood on
the sidewalk.
Miss Matte Freezing, of Leaven-
worth. recently committed suicide at
Kansas City, Mo-. by taking morphine.
She had gone to Kansas City to take a
position as clerk in u store. and the
morning after arriving was found dead
in bed. Mental derangemen is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Because she would not marry him,
Elijah Watts, drunken printer, shot
and MORALLY wounded Miss Kate Hal
loran at Topeka the other morning, and
then blew out his own brains Miss
Capital and at three o'clock in the
morning started home, accompanied by
another compositor in the Office when
she was waylaid by Watts and shot
| The assassin then ran about a block
when he shot and killed himself.
The United States savings bank of
Topeka, which failed March Is last and
reopened July 2, was again placed in
| the hands Of raoaivor tho nfhor
ing. William Sims, ex-state treasurer,
was appointed receiver by Judge Guth-
RE, upon complaint of a stakeholder.
The complaint was that the bank was
in no condition to stand the rigid exam
nations of the new banking law and
that certain failure would follow if
the bank should try to continue to do
| business.
The other evening eight showmen
travelling with Wallace's circus stopped
a Southern Kansas train at Dayton,
and covering the engineer and fireman
with revolvers entered a coach, beat an
officer SO severely that he has since
died, and rescued a comrade who was
under arrest They then escaped to
the strip. The sheriff of Cowley county
summoned a posse of fifty men, inter-
| copied the circus train at A rl<ansas City
| and captured the manager of the show
and the whole outfit. The guilty par
| ties were picked out and marched off to
Jail.
A charter for the National Woman's
Alliance was fled with the secretary
| of state recently. The incorporators
are the wife of Senator PETER, the wife
of Congressman Otis, the wife of Secre-
| tary j. Il. French, of the State Farm
ers' Alliance, Mrs Emma d. Pack.
editor of the Topeka Farmers Wife,
and Mrs. Fannie Mccormick, worthy
foreman of the Knights of Labor. The
officers of the association are: Mrs.
Fannie Mccormick, president; Mrs
Emma D. Pack. secretary. and Mrs.
Birras A. Otis, treasurer, with vice
president from nearly every state.
About fifteen months ago Samuel
Fisher, a merchant of Oswego, died
suddenly while no one was present but
his wife. Less than two months ago
his widow married j. NJ. Hart, stock
man residing near the town. Early
the other morning Hart was found
lying in bed with his brains oozing out
of bullet hole in his forehead. He
was unconscious and lived about an
hour Mrs Hart stated that she was
awakened by her husband throwing
his arm on her, that she then heard
him grooming and she found him in the
| condition stated. His revolver, with
one chamber empty, was lying beside
him.
1t is said that there will soon be some
interesting developments under the
new banking law for some of the con
Germs which the superintendent of in
surance got after some time ago. and
which were thought to be deposit in
situations and SO amenable to banking
laws, and are now filing statements
with the bank commissioner and ask
ing to have their bond-selliDg schemes
dignified by law as banking business.
This Commissioner johnson is not dis
posed to do. He informs them that
they must take out charters as banks
and be prepared to do business accord
ing to the specifications of the first sec
ton of the banking act before he car
recognize them.
AS w. L. Boswell, Shawnee county
farmer, was sitting on his porch with
his family the other night he saw
smoke apparently issuing from the