Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


| county has collected quantity of -four
to send to the Homestead pa strikers.
At Emporia the other afternoon two
colored men. Robert Burrus and VIII
James, quarreled and the latter hit
Burrus over the head with shovel,
from the effects of which he died. The
murderer escaped.
Peter Wedell, an engineer on Mis-
souri, Pacific passenger train, was re-
Gently struck on the head by stand
pipe in the yards at Atchison and had
his skull fractured. His residence was
Kansas City, Kan.
The recent breeze at Topeka which
upset telegraph and telephone poles,
electric lights and buggies without re-
enthusiastically exclaim: Topeka has
jewel iu her fire chief and she is proud
to own it. ;"
The calling into use of all availa bic
engines in the passenger service of the
| various roads to haul passengers during
the Denver conclave caused serious de-
lay in the shipment of Kansas grain to
market. All stations were overloaded
with wheat awaiting transit.
Kansas headed the twelfth division
yer, led by her famous Marshalrs band
of ffty-three pieces, the largest band in
line. Eighteen Kansas Communicates
marched in the line, the most prominent
of which were Topeka No. and Mount
Olivet No. IL, of Wichita.
Frank Kershner, a freight brake
man on the Santa Fe, was injured at
De Soto the other morning, by a blow
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leaning from the steps of the caboose
when the iron hook struck him, frac-
| turing the skull very badly. He was
taken to his home at Topeka, where
physicians pronounced his injuries
fatal.
Sam Werner, who runs the City hotel
in Niclzerson, shot and instantly killed
! r. T. Spear in the hotel the other even
ing. Spear lived in Sterling and
travelled for the International mills Of
that city. Werner. shot his victim with
a shotgun at close range the charge
entering his breast No reason has
been given for the deed. Werner was
arrested.
a committee representing the African
colonization club of Lawrence has been
in correspondence with Gov. Humphrey
portation for a number of colonists
who are anxious to emigrate to Liberia.
The governor wrote in reply to the first
communication that no provision was
made by the state for furnishing such
transportation.
Mrs. George Williams, colored, her
sister and three little children he'd a
narrow escape from cremati at Kan
' fu MI
were asleep in their house which was
fred oy an incendiary. Twoyoung col
ored men discovered the FIRE, and broke
open the door when they found Mrs.
Williams AID her sister unconscious
! and dragged them from the house,
which was Consumed in a few minutes.
The one-year-old son OF Mr.. aud Mrs
John Kirtle, of Kansas City Kan. was
recently killed from inhaling gasoline
The child was playing IN the yard at
the family residence when he spied a
can standing near the kitchen contain
Eng gasoline. The little fellow un-
screwed the top and placing his mouth
over the nozze1 began inhaling the
deadly fumes. lie had only drawn his
breath few times when he fell to
the ground and in a few minutes ex-
pred.
The cat product OF the state for the
year 1892 is estimated by Secretary
! Mohlcr tazbe &c, 921, 511 bushels. Chinch
| bugs are reported ia all parts Of the
state. In some places they are nuner-
Gus, but up to the present time no great
damage has Deen done. Corn adjacent
to wheat fields has suffered most. Many
| farmers of the state are testing Prof.
| by artifcially Spreading q fatal disease
among them, and generally the expert
ment is pronounced a success.
| A late gale of wind, accompanied by
rain, did considerable damage at To-
pel1a. 4 barn on the premises of John
! Ward, at Oakland. was blown over ana
| fell on Mr. Wards son, Il boy of 13,
| crushing nis skull and causing death.
| Several ladies were injured one OR two
| seriously. by the wind overturning and
wreci1ing the vehicles in which they
were riding. Driver Groendyioe, of the
city street railway, whose car was over
| turned on the Kansas river bridge and
unroofed, was crushed seriously Only
| the iron rods prevented the car and its
| passengers from being hurled into the
| river. It was the nearest approach 20
! d cyclone that Topeka ever had
| The Atchisou, Topeka & Santa Fe
| has issued figures OF gross and net earn
! ings for. June and the fiscal year. Ga
the Atchison itself there is gain for
| June or 500, CSC in gross and OF $50, OF
| in net, and this is further added to by
an increase of s14,5 in gross and SO,
3G5 in net on the St. Louis & San Fran
cisco. For the twelve months the
Atchison has enlarged its gross S2.1174.-
473 and its net s1,6JG. 700. while the S.
Louis 6 San Francisco has enlarged
| gross S3111, 121 and net S403. ~, making
a total addition for the year OF g, 1z6.
| 1914 in gross and s., Ole, 100 in net The
gross earnings for the Atchison system
for July (approxirnated), including St
Louis Sc San Francisco system, Were
S.. Sol. 9ol; increase, s137, S02-
Patents lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Attachments for cuitivators
Summers & Bolinger, Eureka; churn
dasher F. L. Mccoy. Eskridge; ca-
coupling, W. A Lee. Winfield; corn
harvester, j. Kipp, PiQua: elbow foE
stove pieces. O. g. Cranston. kincade;
coffee pot, R. G. Brown. Kansas City.
As all signs fail in dry weather tho
Kansas rainrnakers have certainly
failed to produce rain when mostly