Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth registered in round
| numbers $500 voters
Frank J. Case, of Atchison, has been
granted a patent for car coupling.
+! Topeka hackmen are complaining
that the combine" undertakers are
| threatening to boycott them if they at
| tend funerals conducted by ''anti-
| combine" undertalsers
At the soldiers home, near Leaven-
worth, there are now present 1878; on
extra duty, 429; sick, 1S4; in arrest, 2;
| absent with leave. ga; without leave,
| "A; temporarily at post awaiting admis-
sion, IS:
The attorney for c. A. Benson, of
Leavenworth, has presented to the
| United States supreme court petition
| for a new trial Benson will be re-
membered as the man convicted in the
| United States court at Leavenworth Of
| the murder of Mrs. Mettman-
| Gen. Weissart. of Indiana, commau der-
| in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re
! public, Department Commander Green
! and other prominent Grand Army men
were given public reception at Salina
on the evening of the Sd by the local
| post and citizens generally. Visiting
delegations were present from sur
rounding cities
A sensation was created at Wichita
| the other day by the arrest of Arthur
e. Allen, a prominent citizen, on a
charge of embezzling 81, 735 from the P.
c. Holmes estate, of which he was adj
ministrator until recently. Allen is
special agent Of the New York Life In
surance Co., and lives in handsome
| residence.
Leland j. Webb, ex-commander-in-
chief of the Sons OF Veterans, has been
declared insane in the probate court at
Topeka. Before being taken in charge
! he attempted to commit suicide and
succeeded in infiicting painful though
| not dangerous pistolshot wound in his
back. Webb had practiced law in To-
peka for several years.
An accident occurred on the Central
| Branch of the Missouri Pacific railroad
| at Pennington, the other night, killing
| Engineer Hall Wheeler and fatally in
juring his fireman, n. B. Graves, both
| of Atchison. The accident was caused
by the west bound freight leaving the
track on siding and running into an
east-bound freight train.
John Remley, locomotive engineer
of the Santa Fee, has commenced pro-
ceedings in the federal court at Topeka
for $50, 600 damages for the loss of an
eye. He lost his eye one year ago by
the bursting of a water gauge attached
to the boiler of his engine and he al
leges that the company was negligent
in not replacing the defective gauge
with a good one, which it promised to
/ do
! The other afternoon three masked
| robbers entered the town of Spearville,
seventeen miles east of Dodge City, and
| halted in front of the only bank in
town. Two of them went inside and,
presenting Winchester at Cashier
| Baird, who is a cripple, compelled him
to hand over all the cash on hand,
/ about $4,000. They then mounted
their horses, fired several shots in the
air and galloped out of town.
L. II. Driscoll, the balloonist of Hutch
| inson, made an ascension at the fair at
Harper the other afternoon. When the
balloon had reached a height of 400 or
500 feet it collapsed Driscoll cut his
parachute loose, but it had scarcely
| filled before it was struck by the fall
ing balloon, causing it to careen. and
the helpless aeronaut fell a distance of
! sixty or eighty feet. He struck on the
railroad track and was picked up in an
insensible condition. His injuries were
| thought to be fatal.
The October report of Chancellor
Snow, OF the state university, says the
! month has been warm October, sur
| passed in warmth by only five prered-
| ing Octobers, 1879. 1881. 1882, 1884 and
1886. The first white frost of the sea-
son occurred on the 9th, ten days later
than the average date. There was no
black frost, unpicked apples and tender
vegetation above the surface of the
ground being entirely unframed at the
end of the month. The rainfall was
more than SO per cent above the aver
age.
Mrs Clara Siegar, aged about 65 years
and almost blind, shot and killed her
four-year-old grandson, Frank Volckens,
at Kansas City, Kan, the other day
and then killed herself. The child was
the son of her daughter who resides in
New York, but had been adopted by
another daughter and her husband who
lived in Kansas City. Kan. The grand
mother was opposed to this and had
threatened to kill the child, which was
kept away from her. On the day OF
the tragedy, however, she succeeded in
|
she carried out her murderous threat
When found she and the child were
dead on her bed
William Sims, a young colored man,
has brought suit against the Kansas
medical college to recover S., 900 dam
ages because he was dismissed from the
school on account of race prejudice
Mr. Sims has located in Oklahoma and
prior to going to Topeka to enter col
lege was practicing medicine there on
certificate. He gave up bis practices
in order to obtain regular dip1ezns
from recognized medical college He
passed examination at Fisk university,
Nashville, Tenn, and Harvard univer
sity in Washington City, and also be
fore committee appointed for that
purpose when he applied for admission
to the Kansas college, but his admission
was refused on account of his color, anC
for this he asks damages.
Considerable wheat has been sovn {
second time in Reno county since ths
rain, the first and early sowing having
failed to come up well, owing to thu
dry weather prevailing at that time.
Il 0TrS II z XV;Ihar of RaPber county