Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


enworth soldiers home, was killed by
the cars while recently walking on the
track near Nashville. No.
The alliance store at Bonner Springs.
managed by w. Hahn. is in the hands
of receiver. The failure was caused
by the disappearance of Hahn. He left
q letter to his wife which led many to
believe that he meditated suicide.
About midnight recently the express
car on the Central Branch road was
robbed while the messenger was assist
ing in switching the cars at Lenora-
The safe was carried off and rihed Of
about g.. 900 No clew to the robbers.
Ex-President McGrath. of the Farm
ers' Alliance. declares the published in:
terview, in which he was quoted as
saying that the alliance had fallen off
in one year from 1000 to less than
go. 600 members. to be ''unauthentic and
false in fact
One cottage and four six-room dwell
ings located at Fifteenth street and
Stewart avenue, Kansas City, Kan,
were burned to the ground at two
o'clock the other morning under cir
cumstances that led to the belief that
a frebug did the work.
On the 14th of October w. c. Phipps
and Theodore Gardner We're convicted
at Oswego of violating the Kansas trust
law. Recently motion was made for
a new trial, but was overruled by the
court, the judge ining each of them
500 and costs They will take an ap-
peal
Topeka had the most serious fire on
the night of the 25th that had visited
that city for over a year. The fire
burned two livery stables, lumber
yard and ex-Gov. Crawford's fve-story
building. Thirteen horses persisted in
the fire and $4,000 worth of property
was destroyed Partially insured.
The Kansas worlds fair board of
managers have decided to incorporate
at once. They have prepared an add
dress to the people appealing fo-
money. A. w. Smith, w. Fl. Smith
and Col A. S. Johnson have been
appointed a committee to go to Chicago
at once and select site for the Kansas
building.
A second attempt was made the other
night to hold up the conductor of a
street car at the terminus of the electric
road on the Quindaro boulevard, Kan
sas City, Kan, but the conductor (Bas-
sett) drew his pistol and commenced
firing at the two masked men, when
they beat hasty retreat
While two men were recently shoot
ing craps in livery stable at Hamlin,
Brown county. one of them dropped a
match into the hay, setting it on fire.
The flames spread at once and the
stable, ten head of horses and other
!. property destroyed The loss was
heavy add insurance light
While w. R. Sharp and wife were
| driving recently across the Santa Fe
tracks at Pittsburgh, they were struck
by switch engine, which destroyed
the buggy and threw the old couple
out Mrs. Sharp was pitched on to the
ends of the cross ties and her skull
fractured, her right shoulder broken
and other internal injuries inflicted.
MICHAEL WILKINS. one of the oldest
and wealthiest farmers in the county,
! was killed by Santa Fe train mile
west of Atchison the other afternoon.
He and his wife had been trading in
Atchison and in returning home at
tempted to drive across the railroad
tracks when the wagon was struck by
an engine. He was reported to be
worth So 900.
Fire at Lenexa the other night de-
stroyed the large store building occu-
pied by F. L. Swift & Co., dealers in
general merchandise, with the entire
contents, also Giliett's blacksmith shop
and contents and a vacant building adj
joining. Swift & Co. IS loss was 81, 900 to
$4,000. with $4,000 insurance. The
loss to Gillett would reach 1000 to
s., 900, with no insurance.
The Farmers Alliance completed the
election of officers at Salina by select
ing II. Bowman Burton insurance COM
missioner, to have charge of all bust
ness under the cooperative system. A
judiciary committee was also elected.
The resolutions adopted recommended
the reelection of j. f. Willis as ma
tional alliance lecture; advised liberal
appropriations for making irrigation
tests in western Kansas, and insisted
that all necessary means be taken to
preserve the purity of the ballot.
A gentleman who recently returned
from the western part of the state to
Atchison reported that 'unthreshed
wheat in that section is damaged from
25 to SO per cent on account OF wet
weather and poor stacking. The grain
has already commenced to grow, and
many of the stacks are green A good
zeal OIL WAcdG SClA ISuudAAS Ah C'Ao
shock This is ruined. Farmers are
busily engaged in threshing the crops,
but will not get through before the
first of the year. The acreage of wheat
put in this fall will not be as large as
last fall"
Rudolph Muller, an old bachelor. was
found dead in bed in his house at Wicn-
tia the other evening. It was supposed
to be case of suicide by poison In
| the bed was found a note to the effect
| that the writer was old and unable
! longer to earn living and he was bet
ter dead A post norton examination
revealed arsenic in the stomach. but
| nothing could be found about the room
| which had contained arsenic The
note also bore evidence of being a
forgery and there was strong suspicion
f, that the old German had been muir
dered for money supposed to be secreted
about the premises
A citizen of Kansas City Kan was
awakened the other night and saw a
/ man standing by his bedside He
called out to the intruder and the fell
, low walked deliberately out of the
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