Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Ella Williams, three years old, was
recently killed by train at Winfield
while crossing the tracks.
Edward Carroll, of Leavenworth, has
been nominated for congress by the
democrats of the Fifth district.
johnson & johnson, retail dry goods
merchants of Topeka, have made an as
Segment for the benefit OF creditors
The state prohibition convention NOM
mated three preachers for congress and
the majority of the state central COM
mittee are preachers.
A specimen Of -four ground by WON!
an mill owner at Quenemo from wheat
| grown by Trego county woman viii
be one of the Kansas exhibits at the
| worlds fair
At recent meeting of the republican
state central committee in Topeka, J.
NJ. Simpson, of Mcpherson, was chosen
chairman and Frank Brown. of Ander-
son county. secretary.
| Story Of a country town: The Atchi-
| son Globe has been sued by Mrs Rot
tenger, fortune teller. for SIS, 600 dam
! ages The offense charged is that the
paper misrepresented her in a police
| court item.
State Veterinarian W. 81. Going was
out to Neosho county recently to look
after some diseased cattle He found
them suffering from a contagious dis
order them killed.
A colored boy while lately fishing at
Leavenworth attempted to ''land'' a
| n Int HI 2a<13 -,
the water and would have been drowned
but for the timely appearance of a
| passer by who fished the boy out.
| The first car of new wheat from Kan
sas was received by a Kansas City COM
mission house on the 18th. It scaled
sixty-three full pounds to the bushel.
the heaviest carload received in Kansas
City in the memory of any of the old
| timers.
The Central Christian church, Kansas
| City, Kan, was struck by lightning at
an early hour the other morning. The
| spire and roof were slightly damaged,
while a considerable amount of plaster
ing was torn from the walls in the au-
| ditorium.
! David Richey has been nominated by
the peoples party judicial convention
| for the Four teenth district, composed
of Ellsworth, Lincoln and Russell
counties Judge Eastland was nomi-
mated for reelection at Russell by the
republicans.
The post Offices at Bonner Springs,
! Wyandotte county; Montrose, Jewell
| county; Roxbury, Mcpherson county:
Brewster, Thomas county; Goodrich,
Linn county; Cove, Cove county, and
Harris. Anderson county, have been
made money order Offices.
| The Kansas Methodist, edited by Rev.
| lanes Lawrence, has been removed
from Manhattan to Topeka, where it
will hereafter be published, the editor
| says, in the temporal, intellectual and
| spiritual interests of the SIS, 900 Method
! lists in the state of Kansas
! The board of county commi ssioners
of Saline county have made an appro-
priation covering their portion of funds
| for the Kansas exhibit at the Column
| bian exposition and sent in S546, being
| so per cent. of their allotment, to the
treasurer of the board of managers
| Neal Jackson, the man who murdered
! Alex Holden in Fort Scott about three
months ago, was caught, secreted in a
| closet in his mothers house, in that city
the other day and arrested. After the
murder jackson fed to Memphis, Tenn.
but could not remain away from home.
| DR.. Stemen, of Kansas City, Kan, a
brother Of the police surgeon of that
city, was the victim of a stroke OF
lightning during a late storm. He was
| sitting near a window at his residence
when lightning struck a house on an
adjoining lot, the stroke prostrating the
doctor and rendering him unconscious
| for some time.
| Secretary Mohler, of the state board
| of Agriculture, stated recently that in
| the majority of counties through the
! central wheat belt harvest hands were
| busy Sunday (the 10th) and that hands
| were changed and worked through the
night. ''The farmers could not have
asked for finer weather." said he, land
I don't feel alarmed about their ability
| to take care of the crops"
| Jesse GoodaIl was shot at Salina the
other day by Frank Croft and thought
| to be fatally wounded. He was Jealous
| of attentions which Croft had paid Mrs.
Goodan and learning that his wife was
! at Crofts house he went to the place
| and demanded admittance. He was re-
| fused at first, but after securing an ak
and threatening to break the door he
was admitted and began to attack
| Croft, when Croft shot him.
The governor has approved the recon.
| mendation of the board of pardons and
committed the sentence of o. L. Nc
Lain sent to the penitentiary for four
teen years, to five years McLain was
! a soldier in the Sixteenth Illinois cav
airy from 1862 to 1865, was in thirty
| battles, and was for several months a
prisoner at Richmond and Anderson.
vile. He finally escaped After the
war he located in Kansas and engaged
in the real estate business. Financial
| troubles caused him to commit for
gerry, which he repeated to avoid detec.
ton. When arrested he pleaded guilty
| and was sentenced on each count He
has served nearly four years. His par
don was recommended by the G. A. R.
host of friends and many prominent
men in the state, because of his previous
good record and the severity of the sen.
| tence.
Michael Roman, night foreman of the
sand house of the Missouri Pacific, was
run over by a car under the James street
viaduct, Kansas City, Kan, and killed.
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