Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


Saline's city council has appropriated
800 for cyclone sufferers
The Scandinavian Evangelical synod
has been in session at Salina-
Four prisoners escaped from the
Atchison Jail the other morning.
Vegetables and fruit have been much
damaged by a hailstorm at Sterling.
According to report, all the Armour
packing house plants are to be consoli-
dated, with headquarters in Kansas
City.
The city attorney of Emporia gives
his opinion that the council cannot
legally donate public funds for cyclone
sufferers.
The state bank commissioner has
been informed that the Bank of Stat
ford has denationalized and become
state bank.
An effort has been made to compel
the return to Lawrence of the Marshall
Chemical CO. outfit, which was moved
to Kansas City, Mo.
Secretaries Mohler and Smith have
started out again on a worlds fair and
agricultural society tour. This time
they go into the northwest
: It is reported by a man who is up on
the fora and fauna of Kansas that
| many new grasses, flowers and birds
have appeared in the state this season.
The Presbyterian church at Galena,
after cavorting around for nearly
month on wheels, has finally settled
| down on the lot where it intends to re-
| main.
The Acme cement plaster factory at
Gypsum City, twelve miles from Salina,
| was destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
! mated at $50, 600, with partial insur-
ance.
Miss Daisy CLOSER, formerly from
Emporia, has been selected as one of
| the chorus in the Patti musical festival,
| held in Madison Square, New York
| Miss CLOSER has been studying music
for two years in New York under Schar-
| winski.
| Charles P. Woodbury., prominent
| banker of Ashland, was brutally as
saulted and almost murdered by George
| Hall, leading politician of Clark
county. Woodbury. holds mortgage
on Halls farm, and the quarrel grew
out of foreclosure proceedings.
Suicide, while temporarily insane"
| was the verdict Of the jury in the in
| quest held over the remains of Nettie
| Wichita from the effects of a bullet
wound inflicted by herself. Tornado
| talk had unbalanced her mind.
R. T. Jackson, superintendent of mail
carriers in Kansas City, has been sus-
pended by Postmaster Serviss- Jackson
refused to march in the Decoration day
parade because, so it is said, he object
| ed to co1ored men mingling in the COM
pany he was expected to march in.
A number of workmen engaged in
tearing down the old Downs elevator,
one of the old landmarks of Atchison,
found stock of clothing and dry goods
concealed in bin. The garments had
evidently been concealed there a long
time, as nearly all of them were rotten.
Mrs Joshua Rumble, wife of the
Bronson merchant who disappeared the
other day from Fort Scott, has received
letter from him dated at Denver, ask
| ing her to come to him at once. He
says he has no recollection of any of
| his doings or wanderings since he left
| home.
Bishop John 81. Vincent, of the
Methodist church, founder of the
| Chautauqua assembly, will move to To-
| peka in the fall to reside for the com
ing four years. Bishop w. x. Ninde of
| Topeka, will go to Detroit, where he
| was pastor of the First Methodist
! church for two years
Mai. Hudson is collecting quite a
| picture gallery at the Topeka Capital
| office. He has oil paintings of John
Brown, Jim Lane, Senator Plumb, John
| A. Martin, ex-senator ingalls, and of
| George T. Anthony. It will be observed
that, with probably one exception, the
| subjects of these portraits are all dead.
John w. Clark, Wabaunsee county
| stock raiser, filed suit in the district
| court against Peter Connolly, the Stock
| Yards bank, Irwin. Allen & Co., C. T.
| Morse, NJ. w. ST. Clair and w. C. Her
ricci to recover $50, 900 damages for ma
1icious prosecution. growing out of his
arrest for obtaining money under false
pretenses.
Gov. Humphrey has already sufh.
Gent number of votes pledged to him to
insure his nomination as candidate
for congress in the Third Kansas dis
trict; but kirkpatrick, the republican
who is running against him, is making
personal canvass among the delegates
and may succeed in winning some o.
them over.
The Atchison city council has decided
that it will not allow the claim of David
Maxfeld, who wants SO, 900 for injuries
received by falling into a sewer. w. 81
Snock, who was buried by the cavins
in of a sewer several weeks ago, will bt
offered a settlement. Maxfeld Will
bring suit against the city for the
amount Of damages claimed by him.
The executive committee of the State
Teachers association: City Superin
tendent j. E. Klock, Leavenworth; City
Superintendent s. M. Nees, 1ndepend
! ence; County Superintendent H. E
Bruce, Mcpherson; County Superin
tendent ". 81. Biddison. Marysville
and State Superintendent Georg
Winans, have met at Topeka to arrang'
the programme for next winter.
John Wilson and James Lewis, wht
were arrested twenty miles southwes
Of Atwood, charged with burglarizing
J. C. Arbuckle's store. pleaded guilty
and We're sentenced to five years in thu
penitentiary by Judge Bertram.
Chancellor Shows report of hi
chinch bug labors in Kansas is being
sent out over the state By number o
| state officers Chancellor Snow has N
| appropriation for distribution.
Godfrey Barber. young farmer. wa
. drowned in the Wakarusa near Sige