Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

pointed postnistress at Baldwin City.
The state encampment G. A. r viii
be held at Pittsburg February 81, %
and %.
| c. A. Benson, in the Leavenworth
Jail under sentence of death for the
murder of Mrs. Mettman, stabbed his
| guard the other day and then killed
himself.
The Newton National bank has closed
its doors. The bank was closed No
vember 81, 1890, aud in July, 1891. it
was reopened under an agreement with
the old depositors-
John Speer, the well known Kansas
pioneer and newspaper man. will COM
plete his 18th year on the 27th of this
month. One-ha1f of his lifetime has
been spent in Kansas.
| A call has been issued by the chair
man of the state prohibition committee
to all friends of prohibition to meet for
| a temperance reunion at the court
house, Topeka, on December %, at
| p. m.
The populist committee at Topeka de-
cided to have no inaugural ball at the
| induction of Gov. Lewelling into office,
but there will be grand reception on
| January to which all the people of
| the state are invited.
| The ticket Office of the Missouri Pa
| cifc depot at Devon, Bourbon county,
on the Kansas, Nebraska & Dakota
division, was entered by tramp the
other morning during the absence of
the agent and robbed of all the money
| contained in the ticket department
A late Topeka dispatch stated that
definite charges are to be preferred
| against A. j. Smith, governor of the
soldiers home, near Leavenworth. For
| several weeks past the Western Veteran,
of Topeka, has been making war on
| Smith and charges against him have
been ella borated.
The Kansas Democratic Editorial as
ISOLATION met at Topeka on the 18th.
About fifty newspapers were repre-
sented. Resolutions on the death of
the late Frank Lynch, of the Leaven-
! worth Standard, were adopted. 1t was
decided to hold another meeting in To
peka, January Ia.
An old and distinguished citizen of
Leavenworth, John Burr, aged 90 years.
died at his home in that city the other
day. He located in the city in 1858,
where he has since resided and flied
many positions of trust. Mr.. Burr was
a great horticulturist and devoted much
attention to Strawberries and grapes.
w. c. Weight, a carpenter working
on the Ettenson building at Leavcn-
worth, was standing on scaffoid-
ing the other evening, when it
gave way and he fell twenty feet,
striking on some beams He re-
ceived internal injuries from which he
died next day. He leaves wife and
child poorly provided for.
Lizzie Williams, an eighteen-year-old
negro girl whose home is at Kansas
City, shot and killed Ed Parks, a negro
lad about the same age, at Coffeyvil1e,
recently. Parks was her sweetheart and
was visiting her at her boarding place
when the fatal shot was fired. The
shooting was accidental as they were
playing with a revolver and it was acci-
dentally discharged.
w. 81. Hussey, county clerk of Has
kel1 county, declared in a recent inter-
view that the mistake in transmitting
the returns for member of the legisla-
ture from his county, and which showed
that Stubs instead of Rosenthal was
elected, was the result of the hurry in
making them out, and that he will do
all in his power to remedy the wrong
done Mr.. Rosenthal, who is clearly en-
titled to the certificate.
The clerks of Wilson and Sedgwick
counties appeared before the state
board of canvassers on the 10th and
testified that the returns sent from
those counties which gave the name of
"Campbell'' instead of "Cabbell' for
presidential elector were improperly
certified through mistake and the board
issued a certificate to Cabbell, the
Weaver elector, and withdrew the GER
tifcate to Dewey. This gives the solid
electoral vote of Kansas to Weaver.
A. w. Stubs, the republican candi-
date to whom the state canvassing
board issued the certificate of election
as member from Haskell county, eX-
pressed his surprise at learning that
he had been awarded the. certificate of
election as representative from his
county, and declined to act in that ca
pacity. He says he believes Mr.. Rosen-
thai was elected, and he is ready and
willing to do him justice. He does not
believe the county clerk Intentionally
transposed the figures which brought
about such state of affairs
The supreme court has decided that it
is not necessary for county attorney
to be a lawyer as long as he is recog-
nized by the Judge of the district court
of his county the county attorney.
The decision is made in a case from OF
tawa county where E. A. Halderman
was elected county attorney and had
not been admitted to the bar. One
Smith was convicted of murder under
his prosecution and appealed to the
supreme court on the ground that the
county attorney, not having been a
regularly admitted attorney at the bar,
had no right to practice in the district
court The supreme court in deciding
the case says that where the county at
torney has been regularly elected to
that office by the people and is SO recog-
nized by the district court and has reg
ular legal assistance the supreme court
cannot but sustain the decision of the
lower court in cases appealed on that
ground.
Albert Burgess, farmer living near
Manchester, committed suicide the
other night He was last seen the
evening before when he borrowed re-
volver of a neighbor. He went to the
barn, wrapped himself in blanket,
and shot three holes in his head and
neck He was found dead the next