Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-07-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| Democrats of the Sixth district have
| nominated Duane Freeman for con-
| gress-
| Miss Eugene Calico has been elected
assistant in French Ia the Kansas state
university.
Sidney G. Cooke has been nominated
for congress by the democrats of the
Fifth district
| John Ryan, fireman OF Missouri Pa
| cific freight train, was overcome by the
/ heat a few miles south OF Atchison the
other day and died soon after.
| Miles Walker was shot on the streets
of Kansas City, Kan, the other night
| by footpads, who attempted to hold
| him up and rob him. Young Walkers
wound was considered of fatal char
acter.
| Charles Patour and Henry Wolf were
! drowned in each others arms while
| bathing in the Kaw river at Argentine
| the other morning. Charles DeKuM
| had narrow escape from the same
! fate. Both men were from Belgium
| and worked in the smelter.
| An eleven-year-old boy was recently
/! arrested at Kansas City. Kan, for MAX
ing repeated threats to kill his mother.
| The mother swore out the warrant for
| the arrest of her incorrigible offspring.
| The kid will be sent to the reform
school as a stepping stone to the peni-
| tertiary.
| Michael Fleischmap, a Kansas City,
| Kan, baker, committed suicide the
! other night by hanging himself in his
stable. Dependency over financial and
| domestic matters, and drink, are as
| signed as the cause. He was about 40
years of age and leaves a wife and four
children.
A bloody fight occurred in the smelt-
| ing works at Argentine the other after
noon, in which Bill Southern, colored
man, was probably fatally carved with
a razor in the hands of Jesse Williams,
a young negro with whom he was
working. The men quarreled over a
trivial matter. Williams fed.
| Robert Kane, while intoxicated, re-
Gently called on his brother-in-law,
| Martin Killilalay, at Leavenworth, and
raised a row. He was pushed out into
| the street, when he threw stone into
| the house which struck his little niece,
Jennie Killalay, on the head and in
! fiicted a wound from which she died.
At a revival meeting in the colored
| Baptist church at Lawrence the other
night Samuel Johnson got religion and
| commenced to shout. Some friends took
him outside where he threw himself
violently upon the steps, striking his
| head in such manner as to cause con-
cussion of the brain, He was in a pre-
| carious condition.
| Peter Leidholm, an old gentleman of
Salina, was attacked by tramps the
other afternoon and very seriously in
jured. He was walking along the rail-
road track near the city when three
| tramps began to abuse him. Finally
one of them hit the old man blow
with sharp stone, infiicting danger
Gus wound. The tramps were subse-
| quently captured.
! No trace of r. c. Meade, the missing
| Atchison insurance agent, has been
| found. He is short about $4,000 with
the insurance companies, but there is
due him on outstanding policies 81, 600,
making the loss about that much, which
the bondsmen will have to pay. Claims
for money intrusted to Meade's keep
| ing, aggregating S15, 900, have been re-
| ported. The victims are mostly women.
A horrible cutting ARRAY took place
at Salina the other day. While a crowd
was enjoying the delights of a merry
|
| of Alex. Robertson slapped a colored
| man. Three or four colored fellows
crowded around Robertson, and before
any one could interfere one of the ne
groes had cut him across the side and
back with a razor, laying open his side
and infiicting q terrible wound from
| which it was thought he would die.
A fendish crime was perpetrated at
| Kansas City, Kan, about ten o'clock
the other morning in a populous por-
ton of the city. Mrs. Minnie Hover, a
widow, is a copying clerk in the Office
of the register of deeds of Wyandotte
| county and on that morning went to
her work, leaving her ffteen-year-old
daughter Pearl at the house. While
the young girl was engaged in her
| household duties a negro man sudden
ly entered, seized, bound and gagged
and criminally assaulted her. In this
condition he left her and the outrage
was not revealed until the mother re-
turned for dinner when She found her
daughter lying upon the floor uncon-
scious. Whe-. the girl was released she
was enabled to give a correct descrip-
ton of her assailant.
A most novel and interesting conven-
ton was recently in session at Wichita.
| LII was dn dSSOcldC1OH Oh etOu1G Qcd1-
mutes, numbering about thirty, resi-
dents of that section of the state They
are known as the southern Kansas
Deaf-nute association and have been in
existence some three years. Mr..
Charles L. Fooshee is the president and
Miss Kate Far1ow the secretary. The
society meets in Wichita about four
times year when they have certain
exercises of their own consisting of both
social and a religious nature. The
services of Superintendent S. T. Walk
er, who has for number of years been
at the head of the state school for the
deaf at Olathe, are usually secured to
interpret into the ''sign language" SER
mons, lectures, etc, thereby securing
for the deaf-mute many of the advant-
ages of the hearing. The organization
is unique and has thus far proved a sue
cess.
The office of r. C. Meade, an insur-
ance agent of Atchison, has been at
tached for claim of 1000 to satisfy
one of his bondsmen. Meade is presi-
dent of the board of education of the
city, and was absent when the attach
ment was fled. His friends claimed
that he world 6v everythinO nm when