Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

tOrlum and free bath house at once
Two deserters from the regular army
were recently captured at Lawrence.
The reunion of ex-soldiers of the
Fifth district will be held at Abilene
September 6, z and s. The state fire
mems tournament will also be held at
the same time and place.
Col. E. C. Smead, chief engineer of
the Union Pacific road, who was well
known to the people of Kansas when he
resided in Lawrence SOME years ago,
died recently at health resort near
Philadelphia
A party of Leavenworth excursion
lists returning from Kansas City was
detained five hours on the road the
other night by derailed caboose. Re
ports do not agree as to the mental con-
dition and moral tone of expression of
the delayed excursionists.
Bids were recently opened by the SUI
pervising architect of the treasury for
repairing the stone work of the public
building at Topeka The bidders were
Tweedale, Topeka, So, rs; Henry Hunter
& Son, Topeka. "a, TIA; Cuthbert & Sar-
gent, Topeka, So, 100, and f. A. Beck
ston, Topeka, s., 235.
John Dooley, farmer living few
miles from Leavenworth, committed
suicide the other day by shooting him
self through the head with a pistol. He
is supposed to have committed the act
through worry over the loss of his wife.
who died about year ago, and because
of his drinking since then.
Senator Perkins was robbed of 500
on a sleeping car between Washington
and New York the other night. When
he retired he had his pocl1et-book in one
pocket of his pantaloons. When
awakening the next morning the pocket
book was in another pocket, but 500
lighter, the dollars having been trans
ferred to still another pocket-that of
some thief.
The regular eastbound St Louis &
San Francisco passenger train was
robbed a few miles east of Augusta the
other night by four Butler county farm
ers. The robbers were soon captured
and all of the stolen money except a
few dollars recovered. The names of
the parties arrested are Fred Living
ston, Ezra Carter, A. A Barley and
Rollin Moffatt.
The encampment of the G. A. R. at
Wichita closed with sham battle on
the 10Th and blaze of fire works in
the evening. The whole affair was pro-
nounced by all grand success. In the
afternoon Department Commander
Green presented Joe Hooker post,
offered for the post having the most
uniformed men in the parade.
The three-year-o1d daughter of
Charles Mona, a farmer living near Re
serve, some ten miles from Horton,
strayed from the house and went down
to the hog pen, where she was attacked
by vicious boar. The cries of the lit
tie one brought the father to her res
cue, but not until she had been fatally
bitten did he succeed in getting the
child away from the brute. The child
died about two hours later.
Harry Brown, who was wanted at
Auburn, Shawnee county, for criminal
assault. and who suddenly disappeared
from Topeka in September, 1886, as
suddenly returned home the other day
and put in an appearance for trial. The
finding of his valiSe and clothing in a
pool of blood at the time of his disap-
pearance led TO the theory that he had
been murdered. Since he left the girl
who was the complaining witness
against him has married.
Pensions granted Kansas veterans on
the 25th: Original-William Tannehill,
Jesse S. Moore, Andrew j. Anderson,
George w. Jordan, Jasper Lee, Thomas
johnson, Edward Arnes, Hugh r. Ma
gill, Albion II. Whitcomb, Elias Tenn
pleton, William H 81. McTim, Lewis
A III L
Shcarer, Asa NJ. Sadler, Franklin Batch,
Henry D. Beck, Marcus Moore, Harvey
Aument. Jacob M. Clay, William r.
Watson, William NJ. Brown.
AT the regular meeting of the board
of regents of the state normal school.
recently held at Ernporia, the matter of
a normal exhibit was discussed in d
general way and the board decided that
an exhibit should be made at the world s
fair. The details will be completed at
later meeting. The normal begun its
summer session on Monday, August 90
Over thousand are already enrolled
and the outlook is that the institution
will be crowded beyond it's capacity.
R. 7. Webb, president, and T. C.
Malloy, cashier of the defunct National
bank Of Cherryvale, have been arrested
on the charge OF embezzlement- It is
alleged that they made illegal and
fraudulent assessments against the
stockholders of the bank, which caused
its failure some time ago. Their arrest
was ordered by United States District
Attorney J. w. Ady after careful ex-
animation of the affairs of the bank
They gave bonds for their appearance
The grand lodge of colored Masons,
recently in session ut Kansas City, Kan
elected officers as follows: NJ. w. G..
NJ, Rev. ]. b. Gibbs, of Kansas City,
Kan; r. w. d. G. NJ, John f. Reddy,
Ottawa; r. w. 6. S W., Oscar Hoskins,
of junction City; r. W. G. ]. W., John
Wilson, of Carbondale: R. w. G. T.,
Rolly Crouch, of Lawrence; r. w. G. s.,
". D. Kelley, of Leavenworth; R. w.
4. CT. s., Paul Jones, of Kansas City,
Kan: r. w. G. c., Rev. S. II. Barker,
OF Lawrence; R. ". 6. S B.. Shelly
O'Bannon, of Kansas City, Kan; r W..
G. T., Abram Wood. of Parsons.
The three Cinnamon IN Emporia were
recently greatly agitatcd by the arrival
OF an agent of the highbinders named
Lee Kee, who halls from New York,
and delivered message to Wuong Lee,
commanding him to leave that town
immediately or -,repare to die